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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday, October 3, 1940 Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C, as second-class matter. 0. S. FOSTER 1 -President BU F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION BATES, PEE YEAR . In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, 92-00 NAT ONAL€DITORIAL_ ASSOCIATION Bill Member North Carolina Press Association _i But if Mussolini takes over Egypt it will be enough to make the Sphinx talk back. But how would Wendell Willkie feel if he won the whole world and yet lost Maine and Vermont ? If it's fog the British crave, there's plenty and to spare in Washington these days—the political kind. Another ship we'd be glad to see tor pedoed for keeps is the marital craft of the Barrymore's. ; Our forefathers up and fought a war with Britain to escape excess taxation. Now look what we've done for our ownself. 1 "And believe it or not, Hitler has done it all without the advice of a single column ist."—Robert Quillen. " ! Mr. Willkie must admit one Roosevelt superiority: The president knows better wjien not to get out on a limb. ' A large crop of sweet potatoes will be harvested this year. But our scouts haven't rejported on the 'possum crop. That three-day conference in Rome indi cates that Adolf and Benito are planning their rabbit stew without first catching the rabbit. Remember back yonder when we spent a lot of time and pawed up the earth, trying to build a neutrality act that would be neu tral. Now lookit! While about the business of protective strategic points over here, our military offi cials should not overlook the Florida ship canal. Noting how contented potato bugs seem to be, we imagine they would be powerful unhappy to have to live in Germany under Hitler's rule. The pen is no longer mightier than the sword, else the government wouldn't need to employ the draft —it could simply regiment the columnists. National Newspaper Week We are in the midst of National News paper Week—October 1-B—and by heck we mean to observe it, even if it bumps into some other kind of "week." And why not? Haven't the newspapers given freely of themselves for every other cause, some of them less worthy of national applause? The American press is free not so much because of the eternal vigilance and perse verance and crusading on the part of pub lishers, but because of the friendly attitude of the public and its tolerance in hearing all sides of all questions, and this "newspaper week" affords an opportunity for stock taking, shop-talk and a more sympathetic understanding by both factors in this in tensely important American relationship. It should be understood that the newspaper, big or little, is not only a vital part of ev eryone's life, but that the readers are a part of the newspaper. i 1 The man who first contended for a week toll be set aside for consideration of the newspaper as a part of our way of life, H. R. Helsby, editor of a New York State news paper, who also may be credited with fathering the program, writes: "After all, the American newspaper is one of the bulwarks of American democracy—one pf the safeguards of Americanism as we know it. And It is not only a safeguard, it is a safe guard which belongs to the people themseves ... A newspaper is controlled, primarily by its subscribers who like it well enough to buy it. If they don't like it well enough to buy it, there simply isn't any newspaper." That is a simple statement full of truth, aiiid refutes the more than occasional charge that this and that newspaper is controlled by this or that interest. The records show tMt when a newspaper undertakes to serve a special interest that is in conflict with the interest of its readers, soon its influence is undermined and it is relegated to the scrap heap. * Because the newspaper is in the mail box on a certain day in the week, or on the doorstep every morning or evening when expe&ed, the subscriber takes it pretty much for granted. They only know how important it is to them—how lost they are without it—when it doesn't turn up as ex pected. And perhaps never before has the Amer ican newspaper better justified its existence than in recent months and now, as it serves to catalog and interpret national and inter national events while recording local hap penings, and while the public has leaned so heavily on the press for dependable in , formation. If National Newspaper Week helps to deepen the friendship between press and public, it will have served a commendable purpose. Mr. Lucas Passes The death of John Paul Lucas, merchan dising manager of the Duke Power Com pany, and one of the State's best known citi zens, at his home in Charlotte last week, will bring genuine sadness to many in North Carolina. We counted him as one of this paper's faithful friends, as indeed he was the friend of everybody. Those who may have thought they had reason to be unfriends could not help but admire the man, because he disarmed them with his frankness and honest interest in every per son as a human being deserving the respect of his fellows. We knew John Paul Lucas in the days when as a cub reporter on the Charlotte Ob server he worked for a meager wage—but he worked just as hard and as loyally to his paper as he worked for the great utilities concern he served at the time of his death. And from that sort of application to his duties, he managed to climb to higher place, first in the newspaper field and then with the Duke Company. And we would make this observation: No matter how invaluable he made himself in any of his several capacities by virtue of special technical training for his job, his greatest value was his ability to make friends for himself and his concern. Be cause he first made friends with those who worked under him, he was better able to make friends with the public. And most important of all, Paul Lucas, with all his fine successes, never got "uppity." The Johns and Bills he met and knew in his climb, can never complain that he purpose ly overlooked them later, or fail to grasp their hand in all sincerity and call them by their first names. John Paul Lucas was known to many Elkin citizens. He has been among us many times in connection with the Duke mer chandising department, and he had a gen uine interest in the progress of this com munity. We all have reason to regret his passing. The Willkie Campaign The nomination of Wendell Willkie as the standard-bearer of the Republican party was one of the spectacular events in the long history of that party. His ascendancy had all of the ear-marks of springing from the grass roots and Main streets of Amer ica, in spite of the charge that the utilities concerns underwrote a vigorous and aggres sive campaign iji his favor. But we've a notion that the newspaper columnists had as much to do with pushing him to the head of the class as any other group, and while they could be numbered on the fingers of your two hands their daily praise of Mr. Willkie was read by millions throughout the land. They wrote interest ingly and convincingly, and we believe sin cerely. Some of them had strung along with the administration in much of the New Deal program, while others had fought Mr. Roosevelt through thick and thin. But it was alarming to Democratic leaders that so many of them had found comfortable seats on the Willkie bandwagon, and appeared to be ready to go places and do things. Came the long wait between the conven tion and Mr. Willkie's acceptance speech which was supposed to set him squarely be fore the people on all national issues. That speech while meritorious and appealing in many respects, was definitely disappoint ing in others. Then came another pause with the expectation that when Mr. Willkie really started his swing around the country, he would hit his stride, and unbothered by manuscript, would present his cause in a statesmanlike manner. We believe a close canvass of the inde pendent voters who were inclined to follow Mr. Willkie would reveal that many of them were disappointed with the manner of his approach to the greatest office in the world. He made statements which had to be smoothed over by others, and while he agreed with the administration on some of its fundamental policies, it seemed at times that he soft-pedaled when there was the possibility of gaining votes. For instance out in the cattle country where it was pop ular to denounce the importation of Argen tine beef he made pronouncements, which if actually made a White House policy, would just about' destroy all the good that Cordell Hull has done with his good neighbor pol icy. And certainly a canvass of the column ist? would reveal their disappointment: some are making excuses for Mr. Willkie; others are simply writing about other things, while still others are listing their grievances. Raymond Clapper is one of the latter and registers this conclusion: "If the Willkie administration in the White House functioned with no more unity, co-ordina tion and effectiveness than the Willkie ad ministration in the campaign, then the gov ernment would be almost paralyzed." Clap per is referring to Mr. Willkie's determina tion to run his own campaign, with head quarters under his hat—which may be a fatal procedure, but its independence is re freshing to say the least. All of which adds up to the conclusion that we are likely to have four years more of Roosevelt, whether we like it or not. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA Washington, Oct. I—As the 76th Congress of the United States finishes its labors its members will go back home to mend their personal political fences and take a few long breaths. Unless some tremendous vital emergency comes up to war rant their being called back into session, their work will be done. A new Congress, the 77th, will meet in Washington on January 3, 1941. Seventeen days later, on January 20, the next President of the United States will be sworn in. Until that day in January, Mr. Roosevelt will still be President, but whether he will be on his way back for a third term or Mr. Willkie will be making his prep arations to move into the White House, nobody will know for sure until the day after election, which is only a few weeks ahead now. Almost anything can happen between now and election; al most anything can happen after election and before the new Ad ministration and Congress are in their seats. Events have moved with such rapidity in the past four months, and have taken such unexpected turns, that no body in Washington is willing to make an unqualified prediction of what will happen at the polls on November 5, or in national affairs thereafter. Ready to Adjourn Early in June the 76th Con gress was about ready to adjourn. In fact, the date of adjournment had been decided upon, June 20th, just before the Republican National Convention date. When newspaper men asked President Roosevelt what he thought about adjournment he replied that he saw no reason why Senators and Representatives should remain in session any longer unless they wanted to make speeches. Yet the four months since early June have been the most dramatic, one might say the most momentous, in recent American history. The Republican party nominated for President a man who had never held public office and who had been a Democrat up to three years ago. They picked Mr. Willkie in response to an overwhelming popular demand for the strongest possible man they could choose to head their party. Mr. Roosevelt decided that a situation had arisen which called for all of the experience he had gained in the Presidency and sought and gained a renom ination. And Congress, instead of adjourning, not only remained in session but enacted more por tentous and far-reaching laws than had ever before been put on the statute books and appropriat ed more money than any single session had ever before appro priated. All of that in four months, practically out of a clear sky. One man alone was responsi ble. His name is Adolf Hitler. Unanimous Belief Up to the middle of May, the American people—and the Amer ican Congress—had held an al most unanimous belief that the war in Europe was none of our business. It couldn't possibly touch us. France, with its im pregnable Maginot Line and the finest army in the world; Britain with the world's most invincible navy—they would hold Hitler if he tried to advance toward the Atlantic. And even if he did gain the Atlantic coast, the ocean stood between us and anything he could do. Why should we worry? The State Department and the President may have known, probably did know, more than they told the public about the way things were moving in Eu rope. It came to the American people out of a clear sky—the conquest of Denmark, of Holland, then of Belgiiim, then the utter collapse of Prance, "stabbed in the back" by Italy, as the Presi dent said in his speech at Char lottsville on June 11. England was left alone with her back to the wall, and for the first time the people of the United States realized that if England went, and England's navy, nothing stood between us and the Nazi powers but an ocean for which we had not fighting ships enough to prevent Hitler from crossing and estab lishing his air bases at our front doors. The President went to Con gress and laid the picture before the Senators and Representa tives. They saw it clearly. The people had already seen it clear ly. The press had risen to the imminence of the - unexpected threat from overseas. Events followed fast. The President asked for and received almost wartime authority. He asked, and got, nearly 15 billion dollars to build a two-ocean navy, to en ; large and modernize the nation's land forces, to begin a program of building 50,000 fighting air planes. Overnight Realization Overnight the realization that we were on the verge of the war submerged all other considera tions in Washington. Congress enacted the first peace-time con scription measure in our history. It enacted tax measures which, though inadequate, are the most far-reacMng since our last par ticipation in a war. It authoriz ed the re-establishment of the Council on National Defense. And it accepted without resent ment the President's personal and unauthorized agreements with Britain and Canada, for mutual defense and for the ex change of fifty of our fighting ships for naval and air bases off our Atlantic coast. Four months ago the shrewdest forecaster could not have ven tured to predict the revolution ary economic, political and social upsets that have occurred since the first of June. It would be silly for any prophet to under take to say what is going to hap pen in the next few weeks. NOTICE OF RE-SALE Under and by virtue of an or der of re-sale of the Superior Court of Surry County, made in the special proceeding entitled "Woodrov- Park and wife, Mar varenne x-ark vs. Mrs. Gertha Park Hatcher and husband, J. O. Hatcher, et als," the undersigned Commissioner will on Saturday, the 19th day of October, 1940, at 12:00 o'clock M., at the Court House door of Surry County, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, or terms approved by the Clerk, cer tain tracts of land lying and be ing in Surry County, described as follows: TRACT No. 1. Beginning at a point in the center of the Elkin- Mt. Airy highway and running north 33 degrees west 9.10 chains to a red oak stump; thence south 89 degrees west 6 chains to a poplar stump; thence south 33 degrees east 19 chains to a rock or pine; thence south 3 de grees ease 2 chains to a point in the center of the Elkin-Mt. Airy highway; thence running with the center of said highway north 6 degrees east 3.70 chains; thence north 10 degrees west 7.5 chains; thence north 2 degrees east 2.50 chains more or less to the point of beginning. Containing 8 acres more or les& and being Tract No. 1 as shown/on the map of the J. A. Park property as surveyed by E. L. Wolfe, August 20, 1940. TRACT No. 2. Beginning at a point in the center of the Elkin- Mt. Airy highway and running south 3 degrees east 10.90 chains to an S. O. stump; thence south 43 degrees east 6 chains to a stake; thence north 85 degrees east 31.16 chains to a post oak; thence north 51 degrees west 15.90 chains to a Spanish oak; thence north 18 degrees west 18.35 chains to a post obk; thence north 26 degrees west 6.25 chains to a persimmon grove; thence south 59 degrees west 15.50 chains to a white oak; thence north 33 degrees west 4.30 chains to a point in the center of the Elkin-Mt. Airy highway; thence running with the center of said highway south 2 degrees west 2.50 chains; thence south 10 de grees east 7.5 chains; thence south 6 degrees west 3.70 chains more or less to the point of be- ! ginning and containing 63.5 acres 1 more or less and being Tract No. 2 as shown on the map of the J. A. Park property, as surveyed by E. L. Wolfe, August 20, 1940. [ This tract is subject to railroad right of way. TRACT No. 3. Beginning at a ' stake, being the southwest corner of Tract No. 2 of the J. A. Park property and running thence south 16 degrees east 6 chains to a stake or sourwood; thence south 4 degrees east 4.80 chains to a stake; thence south 35 de grees east 3 chains to a stake; thence south 56 degrees east 3.50 chains to a stake; thence south 30 degrees east 5.50 chains to a ! pine; thence south 4 degrees west 9 chains to a post oak; thence south 76 degrees east 4 chains to a pine; thence south 1 1-2 degrees east 21.25 chains to a box elder on the Yadkin river; thence along the Yadkin river north 69 degrees east 30.50 chains; thence north 33 degrees west 12.40 chains to a stake; thence north 45 degrees west 21.50 chains to a spring; thence north 16.17 chains to a stake on the south line of Tract No. 2; thence south 85 degrees west 17.16 chains to the point of be ginning, containing 67.7 acres, more or less and being Tract No. 3 as shown on the map of the J. A. Park property, as surveyed by E. L. Wolfe, August 20, 1940. This tract is subject to rail road right of way. TRACT No. 4. Beginning at a point on the bank of the Yadkin river and running north 35 de grees west 9.50 chains to a wil low; thence north 28 degrees east 2.75 chains to a walnut; thence north 31 degrees west 27.50 chains to a post oak, the south eastern corner of Tract No. 2; thence south 85 degrees west 14 chains to a stake, the northeast corner of Tract No. 3; thence south 16.17 chains to a spring; thence south 45 degrees east 21.50 chains to a stake; thence south 33 degrees east 12.40 chains to a point on the bank of the Yadkin river; thence with river north 69 degrees east 1.80 chains; thence north 64 degrees east 11 chains to the point of beginning, containing 70.1 acres more or less and being Tract No. 4 as shown on the map of the J. A. Park property, as surveyed by E. L. Wolfe, August 20, 1940. The above property will be sold in four tracts as described and as a whole. This the Ist day of October, 1940. WOODROW PARK, 10-10 Commissioner. WANTS For sale: 8-weeks Poland China- Berkshire pigs. Lombardy Farm, State Road, N. C. Tele phone 12-F-21. ltc For sale: 1936 standard 4-door Chevrolet sedan, Perfect con dition, very low mileage. Very reasonably priced. Mrs. Will Willard, Gwyn avenue. 10-10 c Wanted 2 or three room furnished apartment, close in. Write Box 560, Elkin, N. C. We bay scrap Iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co., Elk in, y. C. tfc For rent: 6-room western bunga low on North Bridge street. Dr. I W. Hi Wellborn. tfo Thursday, October 3. 1940 Unexpected Vacancy In Surry County. Rawleigh Products well known. North Carolina dealers doing fine. Splendid opportunity for man with car between 25 and 50 to get estab lished in a profitable business. Write at once Rawleigh's, Dept. NCJ-64-201, Richmond, Va. 11-21p For sale: dining room suite, solid maple. Perfect condition. Mrs. Will Willard, Gwyn avenue. 10-lOc Free! If excess 'acid causes you pains of Stomach Ulers, Indi gestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, Gas Pains, get free Sample, Udga, at Turner Drug Co. 12-5p For sale—pair matched mares, seven and eight years old, 1 mule colt, 1 wheat drilling disk harrow. A. C. Phillips, Thur mond, N. C. 10-17p For sale: large Heatrola, in good condition. Call Elkin Roller Mill, telephone 20. ltc For rent: good tobacco farm near Brooks Cross Roads. For in formation see Fred Myers at Basketeria Store, Elkin. 10-10p For rent: 2-room downstairs apartment, available at once. Mrs. Will Willard, Gwyn ave nue. 10-lOc Half-dozen used battery radios in cabinet or table models for sale. Price it and take it I Home Furniture Co., Elkin. ltc Do yon want plenty of from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamln. We have It. Abernethy's, A Good Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfn For Sale —Movable one-car gar age. • I. C. Yates, Church street. tfc Kill destructive insects with proven insecticides. Arsenate magnesium arsenate, Paris green. Turner Drug Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc Wanted! Befined girls for Beauty 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 his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc For rent, Oct. Ist, old time lor house, 5 rooms, with bath and lights, In West Elkin. Phone 119-W. S. E. Newman. 10-3p Good Opportunity for white man with qualifications to open up and write industrial life insur ance in and around Elkin. Mar ried man preferred. Apply Southern-Dixie Life Ins. Co., First National Bank Building, Winston-Salem, N. C. 10-10 c For sale: young man with mule colt. See L. S. Weaver, Jones ville, N. C. 10-3-40 C Wanted: to furnish board and room for eight people. large home, modern conveniences. Mrs. Hester Lovelace, Jones ville. 10-3P For sale or trade, good 4-room house and large lot in State Road. Empty now. Can move day you buy. Phone 119-W. 8. E. Newman. 10-3p