THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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Elkin, N. C.
Thursday, July 11, 1940
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Evidently our continual reference to the
Monroe Doctrine has given Japan an idea.
Whatever Joe Stalin is up to it won't be
held against him over here if he keeps chug
ging along at his present pace.
In the light of recent events, a fellow
can better understand why Nero would be
content to fiddle while Rome burned.
"An apple a day, keeps the doctor away,"
any orchardist will tell you. But we know
a surer plan: Fail to pay what you've been
owing him since the first baby was born.
If the American and Japanese fleets,
cruising around for their health, should
happen to meet in the Pacific, we reckon
they'd give a none-too-hearty salute and let
it go at that.
The federal government is about the
business of finger-printing all foreigners.
But what's to hinder them from pulling a
rubber nipple over their trigger-finger ?
Anyhow you've got to call Hitler smart
for carrying out his blitzkrieg while we are
in the midst of a national campaign and
can't drop it to come to anybody's aid.
Mussolini continues to follow the Hitler
lead. When Adolf managed to rub General
von Fritsch, Benito began to take note of
how popular Italy's air ace Balbo had be
come. And dictators can't afford to have
popular personalities around.
A Generous Gesture
Those cash bonus checks, totaling $35,-
000, handed the employees of the Chatham
Manufacturing Company last week was a
fine gesture, to be sure, but the letter ac
companying each check from Thurmond
Chatham, the firm's president, is as impor
tant as the dollars. For this money soon
will be spent, and the thrill of unexpected
reward soon dulled, but the words of that
letter which certainly must have welled up
from a heart that was full, should not and
ttill not lose their significance.
We are certain that Mr. Chatham meant
what he said when he declared that "We are
trying our level best to divide with you
when our business prospers"—for the
bonus check was ample evidence of that.
And we are just as certain that he was not
prompted by any selfish motive when he
made his plea "to work more and produce
more than ever before" for he spoke in
terms of "we" and that meant that he and
the entire management personnel would
bend more earnestly to the same task.
We have long felt that so-called Big Bus
iness should take this attitude toward its
workers. For each is dependent on the
other. The trouble is that industry cannot
ask labor to share its adversity, to bear a
part of the losses in lean years. And so it
remains for only a few big-hearted, humane
employers, when success comes in the form
of a favorable balance, to turn a reasonable
part of the earnings back to those who have
helped to make dividends possible.
But above all, at this time when the cap
italistic system is being tested, it is refresh
ing to hear men like Thurmond Chatham
saying: "I pledge myself to work for a
strong nation—to work harder than ever be
fore," and to remind that here in America
we are fortunate in our freedom: that we
have, the right to work where we please, the
right to say what we want, the right to wor
ship as we see fit. If those facts could find
lodgment in the minds and hearts of the
workers of this nation, there would be no
need to fear Hitler's "fifth-columnists" or
the most subtle propaganda that his Goeb
bels can spread over this nation. But these
are precious rights that will cease to exist
when a unified purpose is not the order.
"We have stormy days ahead," says Mr.
Chatham. And he is right about that. And
they may be stormier than some of us real
ize. For not all industrialists are as mag
nanimous as he, and not all workers as for
tunate as his. And there is where disunity
sprouts—and disunity is the only thing that
can prize us loose from our ideals and our
freedom, and make us slaves to a system
that does not know the meaning of the word
—bonus.
May As Well Face It
Perhaps you're saying that the small
"country" newspaper should reserve its ed
itorial comment for matters that have to do
with local concern or interest and leave the
decisions and conclusions on Europe's war
to the big dailies who obviously are more
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able to make appraisal because of informa
tion facilities and specialized study. 1
But, believe it or not, it is no longer Eu
rope's war alone, and being in it up to our
hips, it is right and proper that the Ameri
can people be aroused to what they are
facing, and for a certain sector of them, this
arousing is a function of the so called "coun
try press." If we didn't believe that we are
jam up against the red light, and consider
ably confused in our thinking, we'd certain
ly be writing about something more plea
sant.
For a long time we have livfcd under the
protection of a "balance of power" in Europe
—for so long that it is hard to realize we no
longer are guarded from a Europe dominat
ed by one man who has gone wild with his
successes and resulting power. For in the
past Britain has helped to stabilize Europe,
and we have been the beneficiaries of that
stabilization. That must be admitted. As
it looks from here, Britain will not be able
to continue that role. Which brings up a
horse of another color, and the American
people will be serving their interests best if
they—look him over.
Do you remember how Adolf Hitler
squealed that "Benes must go," and how
Benes went and Czechoslovakia went with
him? Remember how he warned England
that Eden and Churchill must not be given
high place in the British government, and
how they were kept in the closet—until too
late? Well, a Hitler spokesman in Berlin
has just warned that if Uncle Sam tries to
curb Nazi economic penetration of Latin
America, Germany will consider herself
"forced to secure and organize" Latin
America, and this warning is accompanied
by the assertion that President Roosevelt
has "succeeded in making essentially worse
American relations with Germany, Japan,
Italy and the Soviet Union." So Mr. Roose
velt is to be the Hitler villain who "must go"
in this newest German adventure.
The German Foreign Office spokesman
who made that pronouncement probably
didn't know the caliber of Wendell Willkie,
or he would have taken pains to warn that
he must not be accepted either. But he did
know that Senator Wheeler and a few of his
buddies are afflicted with that same "peace
at any price" disease that made Mr. Cham
berlain putty in Hitler's hands.
Hitler is not only telling us who we
should elect as our President, but is about
the business of "securing and organizing"
Latin America. You would think that he has
his hands full right now, but his economic
storm troopers are in Brazil and other South
American republics trying to head off that
proposed cartel arrangement whereby the
Americas would pool their products. And
they are heading it off, too, else why would
Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay be
unrepresented at that meeting on July 20?
And why should Mexico be constantly called
upon to pester with Nazi agents?
Make no mistake about it. The push is
on. Hitler is not even bothering to change
his pace, and reveals what he has in store
for us, when he hints that President Roose
velt must go. We may as well get ready for
the push and in bigger doses. We are living
under a new order—the Hitler era.
An Achievement
It has been announced that work is ex
pected to start soon on the REA sponsored
electric power project for the counties of
Surry, Yadkin and Stokes, the project al
ready having been approved by authorities
at Washington. It is to be hoped that
nothing will interfere with or discourage
this undertaking, for any plan, govern
mental or private, that can manage to bring
electricity into 1,500 homes on a basis that
will not tax their ability to pay for it de
serves the green light.
The convenience and economy of elec
tricity is no longer a dream for a large and
increasing portion of the farm families of
North Carolina. A recent report of the State
REA tells that electric service is being
furnished to 115,000 customers in this
State, practically all of whom are new users,
and in most cases involve territories con
sidered too "thin" to interest private power
concerns, or individual investment for
profit.
Add to these 115,000 new homes now en
joying the convenience of electric current,
the new customers on new lines established
by private power companies and you have a
total that deserves to be called an achieve
ment. For these private concerns have con
tributed immensely to the materialization of
this dream for North Carolina, and they
should have full credit for their share in
this healthy progress.
Much has been said for and against fed
eral activities in the electric power field, but
the fact remains that these federal efforts
have served to stimulate private business
and to convince that mass use of electric
power at a small profit, will earn as many
dollars as curtailed use at a higher price,
with the difference that more souls are
made happy by the wider spread.
There was a time when private utilities
established new service lines only when as
sured of profits from the start, or should we
say imposed conditions, which, while rea
sonable from their practical viewpoint,
either Worked a hardship on the customers,
or made it impossible for them to engage
this service. Part of this changed attitude
has come about by the prodding of REA
competition and partly because of improved
methods of transmission and lowered in
stallation and operation costs. But that
doesn't matter a great deal. The main con
sideration is that here is evidence of pro
gress in this State, and there is plenty of
glory in the achievement to go around.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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Washington, July 9—The nom
ination of Wendell Willkle as the
Republican candidate for the
Presidency has strengthened the
belief of political observers here
that President Roosevelt will be
the nominee of the Democratic
convention.
There is general agreement, not
only among Republicans but also
among Democrats, that Mr. Will
kie is the best possible man, from
the viewpoint of practical poli
tics, whom the Opposition could
have named. That, as the shrewd
lookers-on in Washington see it,
makes it incumbent upon the
Democrats to name their best
possible man. And that man, all
agree, is the President himself.
Nobody but bred-in-the-bone
partisans of one, party or the
other is making any positive pre
dictions about the outcome of the
election. Too many things may
happen between now and Novem
ber to make soothsaying safe.
But as matters standi now the
smartest and most experienced
political observers are inclined to
give the two parties at least an
even break, even if Mr. Roosevelt
decides to rim against Mr. Will
kie.
Several factors enter into that
line of figuring. There is the
nation-wide trend against the
New Deal, which has been appar
ent for two years or more and
which seems to be still growing.
No other Republican who could
have been nominated at Philadel
phia is in a better position to
capitalize on that discontent than
Mr. Willkie; for he is in the
unique position of a man who was
a Democrat up to two or three
years ago and is now the leader
of the Republican party. The
best opinion here is that such an
outstanding example of the
breakdown of party lines is bound
to influence some millions of
voters.
Personal Magnetism
There is much more than that
behind the feeling that Mr. Will
kie has a good chance even
against such a doughty opponent
as Mr. Roosevelt himself. In his
brief campaign for the nomina
tion, which he personally did not
begin to take seriously until early
May this year, he has demon
strated that he has a magnetic
appeal to the public, what the
movie folks call "oomph." Of the
other leading contenders in his
party, only Tom Dewey has any
thing approaching that sort of
personal magnetism.
But ability as a campaigner is
not the only requisite. * Wendell
Willkie really won the nomina
tion because the great, uncount
able mass of voters had become
convinced that he was not only
honest, sincere and a fearless
fighter but that he stood for the
things in which the people be
lieved, and not for the kind of
facing-both-ways which they were
accustomed to hearing from po
litical candidates.
' Washington, which has seen
and listened to every sort of pol
itician from the beginning, has
become a good judge of political
bunk. The old-time experienced
observers here have been express
ing themselves freely. Their gen
eral belief is that a candidate for
the Presidency who says what he
honestly believes, regardless of
whether his hearers like it or not,
will be at least a refreshing nov
elty.
Platform a Patchwork
The Republican platform is.
looked upon by most as being a
patchwork of efforts to please
everyone, as party platforms gen
erally are. It is the work of pol
iticians. Mr. Willkie, not being a
politician in the common sense
of the term, is expected to make
his own platform. The belief
here is that he will come a great
deal closer to advocating assist
ance to the British Empire than
the convention's declaration went.
He has been called an "Inter
ventionist" by some of the same
politicos who have been accusing
Mr. Roosevelt of trying to draw
this country into the European
war. It seems clear that he has
no enthusiasm for the "peace-at
any-price" policy which was urg
ed upon the resolutions commit
tee by many Republicans. It is
Washington's, belief that in the
matter of adequate provision for
national defense and of aid with
in legal limits for those who are
fighting democracy's war it will
develop that Mr. Willkie and Mr.
Roosevelt are not very far apart
in their principles, though per
haps in their ideas of the proper
methods.
War Not An Issue
If that surmise is correet, then
the "war issue" will be substan
tially eliminated from the Presi
dential campaign. And with that
out of the way, the battle of the
parties will be fought on the fun
damental issue which drove Mr.
Willkie out of the Democratic
Party and into the Republican.
Nightmare In Chicago
That is the issue between Gov
ernment control of business and
industry, and free enterprise.
All of the other differences be
tween the parties, all of the ac
cusations levelled at the Admin
istration, hang in some degree
upon the basic question of how
far the Federal government is
warranted in laying down rules
for human conduct and how ef
fective its efforts in that respect
hkve been toward promoting the
general welfare.
That, of course, is the precise
point at which Mr. Willkie split
with the party of his former al
legiance. It was his fight, as a
business man, against the Gov
ernment's restrictions upon the
very large enterprise of which he
was the head, which brought him
first into the public eye. It was
his continued denunciation of
the policy under which his own
and other businesses have been
subjected to Governmental con
trol which forced a somewhat be
wildered Republican convention
to pick him as the fighting leader
whom they could not find within
the ranks of their own politicians.
BURCH
Rev. A. B. Hayes, of Mountain
View, will begin a revival meet
ing at Little Richmond Baptist
church Sunday, July 14, at 7:30.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
C. C. Humphries and children
spent several days last week at
Westfield, visiting relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carter, of
Winston-Salem, were the Sunday
guests of Mr. Carter's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Carter.
Mrs. Delia Chappell, Roy Chap
pell, Miss Lucille Marion and Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Chappell and lit
tle daughter, Bonnie, spent Sun
day at Harmony, the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Shore.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Flincham
and children spent Sunday with
friends in Pilot Mountain.
N. J. Martin is a patient in the
Mount Airy hospital, his friends
will regret to know.
Misses Lucille and Bobbie Mar
ion are visiting relatives in Ra
leigh.
Mrs. Morgan Gentry entertain
ed at a birthday party Saturday
to honor her granddaughter. Miss
Rachel Gentry. Outdoor games
were enjoyed and delicious re
freshments were served during
the afternoon.
W. A. Brown, of Jonesville,
spent several days last week the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. W. H.
Isneed.
POPLAR SPRING
The many friends of Mr. W. H.
Hayes will be sorry to knbw that
he is seriously ill at this time.
Mr. Roy Gough, of East Bend,
visited his uncle, Mr. R. M.
Gough, and Mrs. Gough, and Mr.
W. H. Hayes Monday.
We are sorry to note that Mr.
Jim Eldridge has not improved
since the last writing.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Mooney
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have as their guests this week
and the latter part of last week,
Mr. Mooney's mother, Mrs. Yan
cey Mooney, and his nephew,
Thurmond Mooney, of High
Point.
Mrs. Elizabeth Willcox, of Mt.
Airy, is spending some time here
with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Hayes.
Mrs. Noah Darnell and daugh
ter, Betty Jean, of Elkin, and Mrs.
W. S. White, «f Rusk, spent last
Wednesday visiting Mrs. Celia
Williams and daughter and Mr.
and Mrs. R. S. Guyer.
The Poplar Spring nine de
feated the Dobson ball team last
Thursday in two games with
scores of 3-4 and 2-3.
Mrs. D. E. Hinson and children
and Mr. and Mrs. Gwyn Eldridge
visited Mr. and Mrs. Paul Collins,
of Elkin, Sunday.
ST. PAUL
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wood, of
Valdese, spent the week-end vis
iting his father, H. H. Wood.
Miss Dicy Myers, of New Hope,
spent Saturday night visiting her
sister, Mrs. Beveredge Reavis.
Miss Edith Walker visited her
mother, Mrs. Sina Walker, over
the week-end.
Mrs. Raymond Henderson spent
last week near Harmony visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Critz, of
Houstonville, spent a short while
last Sunday visiting her brother,
Reuben Allred, and Mrs. Allred.
Mr. Hugh Walker spent the
week-end near Hamptonville vis
iting his nephew, Willard Swaim.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Myers, of
Yadkinville, spent the week-end
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Reu
ben Allred.
Mr. H. H. Wood and daughter,
Eva Mae, spent last Sunday near
Longtown visiting their son and
brother, Calvin Wood.
ARE REMODELING
EAT QUICK LUNCH
The Eat Quick Lunch, operated
here on East Main street by Tom
Shugart, is now in process of re
modeling and enlargement, with
the re-opening date set for
either Friday or Saturday morn
ing.
Workmen have been busy for
several days widening the cafe so
that much more space will be
available.
Policemen are popularity sup
posed to be mostly Irish, but only
about 8 per cent, of the police of
New York City are Irish by birth.
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Phone 83 Elkin, N. C.
Thursday, July 11. 1346
Out of a thousand youngsters
at the age of ten, 145 will live to
be eighty years of age and at
least eight will live to be ninety.
WANTS
For sale—a few white Plymouth
Rock cockerels, good type, six.
shape and color that will make
high class breeders. O. P.
Walls, Tel. 22P11. ltp
For rent: two small apnrtmemts
and one 4-room apartment at
Will Willard home on Gwyn
Avenue. ltp
Lost—black and white spatted
bird puppy. Black head, big
black spot on side. Reward for
return to J. S. Bumgarner,
Elkin, N. C. ltp
Wanted: Good tenant with stock.
tools and force to tend a good
farm on Yadkin river. Com,
wheat and tobacco land. C. A.
Dimmette, Ronda, N. C. 7-25 c
'39 Small Bulck Sedan, radio, low
mileage, excellent condition.
Priced to sell. C. V. Henkel,
Jr., Statesville, N. C. 7-25 c
For rent: 6-room house in West
Elkin. Reich and Hunt, Real
tors. tfc
Kill destructive insects with
proven insecticides. Arsenate
lead, magnesium arsenate, Paris
green. Turner Drug Co., Elkin,
N. C. tfc
For sale: one 8-foot electric re
frigerator. Dutch Castle. tfc
Do 70a want plenty of egg* from
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamln. We
have it. Abernethy's, A Good
Drug Store. Elkin, N. C. tfn
We buy scrap iron and metak
Double Eagle Service Co., Elk
in, N. C. tfc
Wanted! Refined girls for Beavty
Culture Training. A complete
course for only $50.00. State
accredited. Mae's School of
Beauty Culture, North Wilkes
boro, N. C. Mrs. Jake Church,
Prop. tfc
Wanted to repair radios. Our
expert thoroughly knows hla
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., ElUn. N. C. tfc
For Rent—Three rooms, furnish
ed or unfurnished, will accom
modate five young men. Show
er, hot water, heat. New home.
Available June Ist. Dr. Seth
M. Beale, Elkin, N. C. tfc