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AGRICULTURE . transportation The "ffeMU problem" in the united States to as old as the na tion Itself. How to get their pro ducts to market and get a fair price for them has bothered.the farmers of America for 150 years. And politics has always played a part. The first farmers who settled the lands west of the Alleghanies found they could raise grain easi ly enough, but with no highways they couldn't ship it to market before it Spoiled. They solved the problem by distilling it into whiskey, which would keep indef initely and could be shipped on flatboats down the Susquehanna, the Potomac and the Ohio, to seaports. They were doing well until i 6 Utdftsc&d no*/ You wouldn't expect your car to run months without oil or serv ice of any kind . . . Actually your watch 'W under greater •traia, proportionately, than your auto... Don't be unfair to your timepiece! ... An inspection may disclose some minor "ill" that prevents accuracy ... No Charge for expert inspection and estimate... Bring in your watch NOW—and while you 'ate here, let us show you our Stylish atw Gruaa watches. W. M. WALL JpwpJpr Phone 56 Elkin, N. C. JJCerlai^ My Blankets Fresh and And all the rest of the family, too, will have a luxurious abundance of clean laundry. With a three-fold economy saving time, money and health a UNIVERSAL Washer brings the joy of a new found luxury into your home. tThe latest mechanical features and finest construction, perfect styling for beauty and convenience all contribute to UNIVERSAL'S long reputation among the housewives and mothers of the country. $39.95 UP 1 w Easy Terms ! EAGLE FURMJRE CO. Elkin, N. C. m llUlMlalgfciMllKf 1794, when politics stepped in. The new Federal Government imposed a tax of 25 cents a gal lon on whiskey, not so much for revenue as because Alexander Hamilton wanted to show the people the power of the new na tion. The farmers rose In rebel lion. They tarred and feathered the tax collectors. President Washington sent a detachment of troops to preserve order. Nobody was killed, the ringleader of the insurrection escaped down the river to New Orleans, and that was the end of that farm prob lem. MARGARINE taxes There's a farm problem today that has some resemblance to that of 1794. That is the multi plication of state taxes on oleo margarine. Many people use oleo margarine instead of butter be cause they like it; many more because it costs less. The dairy farmers naturally want to pro mote the use of butter. TTie pro ducers of cotton-seed oil, peanut oil, and soy-bean oil, the chief fats used in making margarine, want their products used without restriction. The Federal government taxes all oleomargarine. Now nine states are taxing oleomargarine 15 cents a pound, three others tax it if it's made from oils not pro duced in their states, and several other states tax dealers in mar garine, up to as high as SI,OOO a year. There's an insurrection brew ing, not only in the matter of margarine, but against the grow ing practice of states to set up barriers against trade with other states. The Federal Constitution forbids any state to Impose tar iffs on goods from other states, m late years many states have found ways to evade that by devious tax methods. We have got where we are largely because we are the largest free trade area in the world. We're heading for trouble this way. DISTRIBUTION . . . restricted If there were any simple an swer to the present-day farm problem there wouldn't be so many individuals and organiza tions trying to find it, nor so many politicians making capital out of ready-made solutions. The American Farm Bureau Federa tion, in its program submitted to both national political conven tions, seems to take as broad and sane a view of the complex prob lem as I have seen. Its major point is that there THE BLKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, CAROLINA E | Sut/t-flfHrnvaj QkamjOMj 3aNog* us. farmers have enough grains I in 1940 including f§S|ft| reserves, to produce of for WMyone of the 132,000,000 people in the or more than J each person ate in V * are too many obstacles between the producer and the consumer. It demands freedom of farm products from artificial *r e straints, such as interstate trade barriers and restrictions upon ec onomical marketing. One point in which I agree heartily is that chain stores and other mass dis tributors should not be penalized. I know that my farmer friends regard the food chains as their best cash customers, and that my wife and her friends buy by pref erence from the chain stores and super markets because they save money and get better quality. I'm strong, too, for the Farm Bureau's opposition to taxes which fall heaviest on consumers, and for its demand for the res toration of international trade. WAR complicating There's no doubt whatever that the present war, unless it ends sooner than I'm afraid it will, is going to further complicate the American farm problem by shut ting off export markets. Pew people realize how much of our agriculture is dependent upon sales overseas. Cotton is one ma jor export item which has been losing to foreign comptition for a good many years. Tobacco is an other. I saw some figures the other day on the exports of soy-beans from the United States last year. The total of this one commodity we shipped abroad was 627 mil lion pounds, of which two-thirds went to the Netherlands. Now that great market is shut off. i Many other farm commodities | are in the same fix. We need a number or agricul tural products which we can't grow in this country. Rubber is one of them. Camphor is an other. Fortunately American chemists have found how to make acceptable substitutes for those and other exotic products. But that doesn't help the American fanner much. INDUSTRY . . . conversion The ultimate answer to the farm problem, as I see it, will be the conversion of things grown on the land into things useful in in dustry. The farm problem, after all, is not one of raising sweet po tatoes, or cattle, or watermelons or any other particular commod ity. It is a problem of getting a living off the land. If that can be done without raising what no body wants, but by raising some thing that can be used to make airplanes or whatever it is the world wants, the problem is solved. The National Farm Chemurgic Council has been working along that line for several years, au amazing number of industrial uses have been found for farm products which only require the cooperation of the farmer to make them available. I have just seen a list of 72 industrial pro ducts made from corn alone, for example. MOUNTAIN VIEW Rev. Arvil Alexander, of Elkln, filled Rev. J. L. Powers' regular appointment at Mountain View Sunday. Rev. Alexander deliver ed a wonderful sermon at the 11 o'clock hour and night service, to a fine audience. Mr. Lee Mathis returned from the Elkin hospital Monday where he was carried the past week with a fractured skull and other in juries sustained in an auto wreck. He seems to be improving nicely, his friends will be glad to learn. Mr. and Mrs. Winford Stanley moved to Jonesville this past week. Little Bobbie and Lester Gray, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gray, of Wilkes, spent the past week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Pinnix. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adams had as their Sunday dinner guests Mr. Adams' father and brother, Mr. Tom Adams and Mr. Arthur Adams, and daughter, Miss Eva Adams, all of Nebo. Rev. Arvil Alexander was the Sunday dinner guest of Mr. aud Mrs. C. R. Shore. Mr. and Mrs. Tildon Byrd, of High Point, were the week-end guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Van Hoy. Funeral Is Held For Clemm Ladd Leander Clemm Ladd, 85, died Friday morning at the home of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tempa McKnight Ladd, Yadkinvllle, route 2, following a week's illness. He suffered a stroke of paralysis a week ago. Mr. Ladd had been blind for many years. He was born Oct. 29, 1854. His wife, Linda Nicholson Ladd, died several years ago. Survivors in clude a son, John Ladd, and a brother, Charlie Ladd, and two grandsons, Lester and Henry Ladd. Funeral services were held at Deep Creek Baptist church at 11 o'clock Saturday, with Rev. J. G. Allgood and Rev. Isaac Willard in charge. Burial was in the church cemetery. HK"^■MY CHILDREN WILL START B BACK TO SCHOOL WITHIN A FEW DAYS. MY WIFE AND I ARE EXTREMELY HAPPY AND PROUD OF THEM, BUT OUR HOPES WILL COME TO NAUGHT IF ■K YOU DON'T HELP. YOUR PART WILL BE TO BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU SEE SCHOOL CHILDREN. OUR —M-FII BOY AND GIRL ARE GRAND M I RLR AND LOVE TO LIVE, WOULD ■BKX YOU NOT HATE TO HURT IUM^H I AN INNOCENT CHILD? I WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING, PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND LOOK OUT FOR MY CHIL DREN. I WILL DO AS MUCH FOR MFWM A FATHER You'll Find Expert Repair Service at Any of the Following Garages: F-W CHEVROLET COMPANY EKIN MOTOR CAR CO. Phone 255 Chevrolet Sales and Service Phone 25 Ford and Mercury Sales and Service YADKIN AUTO SALES REECE BAKER GARAGE Phone 32 Dodge-Plymouth Sales and Service Phone 197 Genera] Auto Repairing HUB'S PLACE Auto Repairing - Radiator Work - Phone 211 Jonesville, N. Conditional Order Signed In Dam Case Judge Allen H. Gwyn, of Relds ville, Thursday signed a judgment modifying the restraining order against the city of High Point in sofar as to allow the city and Yadkin county to complete their agreement over the purchase of the county property for $75,000 under conditions. However, this judgment is con tingent upon a modification of the restraining order in the Mc- Quinn case now pending in Guil ford superior court at Greensboro. Judge Zeb V. Nettles said he would sign a judgment in this case September 3. Both Yadkin county and the city of High Point as well as other parties to the action here in Yadkin county gave notice of appeal to the supreme court from the judgment signed by Judge Gwyn. August 17 in a hearing at Greensboro, Judge Nettles said it was his opinion that the city of High Point has complied with all. the court provisions as set down in the supreme court opinion. The city has repudiated its federal power certificate and complied with the revenue act, it was pointed out. Judge Nettles also let it be known that he would probably sign an order which would not modify the restraining order as he felt that he did not have the power to do this and also felt that the city was complying with all provisions of the supreme court opinion. In the event Judge Nettles fails to modify the order, the city of High Point will appear to su preme court, It was stated after the hearing last week. The decision of Judge Gwyn here Thursday hinges on the or der issued by Judge Nettles. All parties involved in the suit gave notice of appeal to the su preme court. ARLINGTON Everyone is cordially invited to attend the revival meeting start ing at the Arlington Baptist church Sunday, September 1, with Rev. Grady Burgiss, of Greensboro, formerly of Elkin, assisting the pastor, Rev. T. S. Draughn. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hittle and son, Wilbur, of Indianapolis, Ihd., were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Swaim in Arlington. Mrs. Hittle is Mr. Swaim's niece. We are sorry to note that Mrs. Fannie Carter is ill at this time. The many friends of Mrs. Charlie Long are sorry to note that she is now in the Statesville hospital. Mrs. Lillie Duenkel, of Char i lotte, spent the week-end with LOST IN FLOOD A number of poster panels (billboards) were lost In the flood at North Wilkesboro. These panels when intact are 12 by 25 feet in size, made up of five sections of sheetiron, size five by 12 feet, which may have been separated. Also several sections of wooden lattice, three feet high and 12 and 25 feet long, painted green, along: with several hundred feet of eight inch moulding, painted green. This material is almost worthless to anybody but us. We will pay for information leading to recovery of this material. Call us collect or write. RUTLEDGE POSTER ADV. CO. Yadkinville, N. C. 1 Thursday, August 29. 1940 M her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M Swaim. I Mr. N. W. Reece, of Boonvillel was the guest last week of hil son, Mr. w. M. Reece, and Mrs! Reece. True to WPA WPA Executive: "If we don't figure out a way to spend one hundred and twenty million dol lars, we lose our Jobs." Secretary: "How about a bridge over the Mississippi length-, fill IDONT LOOK OLDER THAW YOUR *GB CHECK YOUR EYES MOW—HAVE A SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION MAM Wt DR. W. B. REEVES . 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