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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Skin, N. C. Thursday, November 28, 1940 Entered at the post office at Klkin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. S. POSTER- Jmldent H. F. LAFFOON ......Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER TEAR In the State, $1.50 Oat of the State, $2.00 NATIONAL €DITORIAL_ IIMIIW ASSOCIATION Member North Carolina Press Association Our Christmas Edition You are thumbing through another an nual Christmas Edition of The Tribune. We think it is a very creditable issue, don't you ? Creditable because of its smart typography, but particularly creditable in the alertness of our merchants who are making it possi ble for all of us to do our Christmas shop ping early by sending special messages freighted with bargain opportunities. Let's co-operate with them for once by not leav ing until the last minute the Christmas choosing that can so much better be made early in the holiday season. Friday is the date of the formal opening of the Christmas season and our merchants are all set for this occasion. They invite you to visit their stores, whether you are in a buying mood or not. You will find them attractively arranged and experience a friendly welcome. The street decorations add to the Christmas spirit, and in them selves are worth the time our rural friends will spend coming to have a look. In this issue of The Tribune Elkin mer chants in special messages have set forth what, to us, seem ample reasons why the people of this community should give them their business. They have made this paper their show window for a day; have listed some of the values they offer, and have jointly indicated that you can get here about anything you want, and at prices that will compare favorably with those of merchants anywhere in the State. It follows then that they should be given preference. They ask nothing more than the opportunity to serve. If they cannot meet your needs then they will have no oause to complain. But they do deserve your first consideration, by all the arguments that can be advanced for buying at home. By all means read these advertisements carefully, study them and go about your buying intelligently, using this paper as your guide. You will find your Christmas shopping romantic instead of drudgery. But first resolve that for once you will, "do your Christmas shopping early" and stick to that resolve. Thanksgiving The double Thanksgiving dates have tended to confuse and in the confusion some of the public interest, some of the sacred ness of the occasion, may have resulted. There may be better reason than we think why North Carolina should be observing one day and the nation as a whole another, but on its face it looks more like official stub bornness and slavery to custom than any thing else. It is a fact, we think, that those states which have caught step with the President and which observed Thanksgiving last Thursday are satisfied with the change. For a week now, their merchants have been able to turn their attention to Christmas, and so have their customers and the advantage to both has been obvious, while the objections and disadvantages have been nil. We hope Governor Broughton will fall in line with the nation. But none of this should interfere with the purpose of the people of this State to pause in their hurry to recount their bless .ings and give thanks for them to the source from whence they came. * Our Thanksgiving is symbolic of Peace —and peace is what this world needs this day and what its people crave, more than anything else. Those who must fight want no war. They ask only to pursue the way of peace, and most of them want only the simple privilege of living in whatever mea sure of comfort they can which their own minds and muscle provide for themselves. But because ambitious hellions have so warped their minds and engendered hate, they have not this privilege, but misery and suffering instead. But that is not the case with America, for here we can celebrate Thanksgiving in fact and in spirit. And that in itself is something to be thankful for, along with the innumerable material and physical blessings that are ours. Let's not fail to pause to give praise to God that we are still a free people, and pray that He will help us remain so. But in our prayers could we not well pour out our hearts in one great concert of supplication to Him to take a hand in this world gone mad, and where men have proven them selves so weak? And in the fullness of our peace and thankfulness, let's not forget the orphan ages which are so wonderfully administer ing unto "the least of these"—in the demo cratic way. Wouldn't Adjourn Enough Democrats joined with all the Republicans in Congress to vote down the proposal to adjourn the Seventy-Sixth Con gress, and to the surprise of certain legisla tive leaders who thought it would turn out the other way. That was a matter for the solons to de cide for themselves. Mr. Roosevelt said it didn't matter, one way or the other to him, because he had no pressing business to hand them to mull over. And it won't matter much to the public, either. Likewise, it's not expected to matter much to the legisla tors, for the first thing they did after voting down adjournment was to recess until after Thanksgiving, and if there is a quorum at other times it will be because there is a good football game or other outside attraction in Washington. And of course the lads will knock off for Christmas. There is the little matter of the roof over the House and Senate chambers which ar chitects claim won't stand the strain of a heavy snow. They wanted a chance to brace and mend it. But not even this danger would halt the members in their duty. As much as anything else this refusal to adjourn was a friendly gesture to Mr. Will kie, who from his vacationing in Florida de clared that Congress should remain in ses sion and keep an eye on war conditions. The Republicans followed his leadership and it is probable that some of his friends in the Democratic camp wanted to reward him for his good sportsmanship as a loser. But there is just one other matter that may have been back of this reluctance to adjourn: The Walter-Logan bill, described as a measure "to facilitate court review" of the actions of various government agencies. Sounds innocent enough, as the lawyers who wrote it for the American Bar Association intended it should. It was passed on to Con gress under that label and found favor there among some who probably never read be yond those innocent looking words. But the Walter-Logan bill goes beyond facilitating court review, for it gives to the courts powers they have never had before— the power to kill off all of the reform agen cies so laboriously created during the past eight years. And so if the desire to drag out this piece of legislation is back of the re fusal to adjourn Congress, you can put it down that all this talk about co-operation and national unity, was only lip-service, and that the wrecking crew is headed west again. Governor Broughton Rings True Addressing a group of several hundred sportsmen at Charlotte last week, Governor elect J. M. Broughton said: "My policy for the next four years will be that of absolute co-operation with the men and women of North Carolina who are interested in hunt ing and fishing." And that statement will be applauded by those interested all over the state, even as it was applauded by his Char lotte audience composed of sportsmen from every section of the State. Governor Broughton said further: "The game and fish belong to no governor, to no department of conservation and develop ment, to no chosen few, but to all the peo ple ... I am interested not only in 'deluxe' and high-powered hunting and fishing, but in reasonably good hunting and fishing for every man, right in his home county." We are glad Mr. Broughton used that word "deluxe" and differentiated thusly among the sportsmen. For all too long reference to "sportsmen" has been accepted as meaning the deluxe variety. But these are in the decided minority. A sportsman is one who is interested in the propagation and conservation of wildlife, whether he ever shoulders a gun or rod and takes to field or stream or not; he is a sportsman if he subscribes to and adheres to the rules of good sportsmanship when he takes to field and stream, and when he insists that these rules be followed by others when he doesn't hunt or fish himself. And so you are one of the sportsmen Governor Broughton is talking about even if your interest is limit ed to seeing that your children and your neighbor's children are assured of this wholesome recreation in the future, and you should be proud to hear him talking in terms of co-operation. It has been obvious that the important matter of game propagation and conserva tion has not had the sympathetic interest of past and present Governors who have look ed upon it as a hobby of the few so-called sportsmen who represented no important bloc of votes, and therefore to be ignored. Not since Cam Morrison has there been a man in the Governor's mansion at Raleigh who understood and sympathized with that great group of our citizenry, who have been deeply interested, but who have not been adequately organized to be heard. Governor Broughton's interest inspires the hope that during the next four years no one will undertake to pilfer the dollars ac cumulated by hunters and fishermen, through State license, and try to use them for other purposes. Maybe, too, there is basis for the hope that the game depart ment will be made a separate State agency, to the end that those who hunt and fish—re gardless of how they vote—may see their dollars go to the sole purpose for which they are intended—the improvement of wildlife conditions to the point hunting and fishing will be a definite asset to North Carolina and a wholesome pleasure to our people. The difference between an election in this country and in Mexico is that in the latter they never know who is going to be named president until all the guns are counted. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA Washington, Nov. 25 Scruti nizing the election returns and applying the conclusions drawn from them to the probabilities of the future, the best qualified ob servers in Washington are fore casting that the two most vital topics which will engage the at tention of the 77th Congress will be Labor and Agriculture. The election of November 5 was carried by the Labor vote. The electoral votes obtained by the Republican candidate came chief ly from Agriculture. The situa tion thus created puts it up to the Administration to try to find new ways of bringing the farmers of the Middle West back into Democratic fold and holding them there, and it gives the Re publicans and the anti-New Deal Democrats a definite target to shoot at, in trying to convince or ganized Labor that all Republi cans are not enemies of the work ing man. Warning to New Deal The loss to the Democrats of the solid block of mid-westem agricultural states, from the Can adian border down to Oklahoma, taking in Colorado on the west and lowa on the east, is consid ered here as a definite warning to the New Deal that its agricul tural policies have not been sat isfactory to the great bulk of the farm population. There is little doubt that stren uous efforts will be made to rem edy that situation by amending the AAA, and the thought is ris ing in Republican minds of the possibility that Senator McNary's farm program, which was highly favored in the pre-Roosevelt days, may again come into its own. Though defeated for the Vice- Presidency, Mr. McNary retains his seat in the Senate, with in creased prestige; also, there are four more Republican votes in the Senate than there were in the 76th Congress. Whatever the Administration and its Congressional supporters undertake to do to appease the farmers, therefore, probably will have to be done with Republican assistance, and if the Republicans play smart enough politics they may come out with the greater share of credit. In the matter of the Labor is sue, the Job before the Republi cans, as Washington sees it, is to take an advanced position in matters of Labor legislation and also in regard to exemptions from taxation of important industries. The Republican ticket, analysts declare, was defeated by the votes of the workers in the great in dustrial centers. Interests Opposed? Members of organized labor groups had been sold on the idea that their interests and those of the Republicans were diametri cally opposed. Therefore, while Willkie carried almost all the rural districts and smaller com munities outside of the Solid South, he carried only one city of more than four hundred thousand population. That was Cincin nati, the only industrial center in which the workers are not thor oughly organized. It is also one of the tightest strongholds of Re publicanism in America. Perhaps the best illustration of the way in which the Presidential vote was distributed between ur ban and rural areas was in New York State. Out of its sixty-two counties Mr. Willkie carried fifty five; but the other seven includ ed three of the most populous boroughs of New York City and the four great industrial cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Schenectady and Troy. And in those counties the reports of all observers are that it was the labor vote alone which carried them for the Pres ident. The Labor strategy of the "Loyal Opposition" as Mr. Willkie has designated the coalition of Republicans and Independents, has not yet been clarified. For that matter, the attitude of the Republican members of Congress toward any kind of a program in which they would not take the leadership is still somewhat sus picious. They don't know how to figure the political "amateurs" who played such a large part in the Willkie campaign, and who seem to be figuring on taking a strong hand in the new opposi tion movement. Amateurs Helped Congressional pride does not incline members to cooperate with any outside groups, and party regularity balks at making political bedfellows out of citi zens who were Democrats, or goodness-knows-whats before this last campaign. To which the ob vious answer is that the regular Republican Organization under Congressional leadership didn't get very far politically until the amateurs stepped In. The suggestion has been made that Republican Chairman Joe Martin, who was safely reelected to Congress, has the chance of a lifetime to bring amateurs and professionals together Ho form a United front in preparation for the Congressional elections of 1942 and the next Presidential campaign. That this can be done without any commitment to Mr. Willkie as the 1944 candidate is the belief of the shrewdest politi cal observers in Washington, who are the newspaper correspondents who traveled on the Willkie train. OFFICIAL TREE, BIRD AND FLOWER NAMED Cooperating with the Yadkin Valley Garden club, the city fathers at their meeting last week named the official tree, bird and flower for the town, at the sug gestion of Mrs. E. G. Click, presi dent of the club. The native dogwood was selected as the of ficial tree, the thrush as the bird and the daffodil as the flower. Solved Mother Tommy, the canary has disappeared. Tommy—That's funny. It was there just now when I tried to clean it with the vacuum cleaner. WANTS One vacancy in the Lineberry Apartments: four rooms, pri vate bath, heat, hot and cold water furnished. Call 365. ltc Piano Bargain Fine Baldwin Baby Grand, case slightly mar red in shipping. Will give good discount to anyone interested in possessing the world's finest Grand, The Great Baldwin. Garwood Piano Co., Wilkesboro, N. C. 12-12 c We buy scrap iron and metal*. Double Eagle Service Co., Elk in, N. C. tfc Large assortment used phono graph records, 10c each. The Nite Spot. Open all night, tfc For rent—three-room apartment with private bath and private entrance. Good residential dis trict. Phone 327-J. tfc For Sale—Good farm 7 miles northwest of Elkin, good to bacco land. See Emma Stan ley. ltp For rent: 6-room western bunga low, refinished throughout. Dr. W. R. Wellborn. tfc For sale or trade: almost new oil range, with hot water coil. Also Coleman gas heater. Real bar gain for quick sale. The Ren dezvous. tfc IT WILL BE THE MOST GLORIOUS SURPRISE YOU COULD POSSIBLY THINK OF! Visit Our Showroom Today and See the New Plymouths. We'll Give You a Liberal Trade on Your Present Car! • WE'LL ARRANGE FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY! Yadkin Auto Sales / DODGE AND PLYMOUTH / For sale—Store wood, tawed any length. Pine, oak, and some hickory. L. 0. Weaver, Phone 314-R. 12-120 Lost—sso.oo contained In billfold somewhere in Klkin last Friday or Saturday. Identification card in billfold gave Winston-Salem address. Liberal reward if re turned to Miss Namoi Wooten, care of Tribune. ltc Wanted: Good poplar, gum and sycamore veneer blocks, 42, 52 and 62 inches long; 15 inches and up in diameter. Apply Box 1224, Statesville, N. C. 12-12p Piano Bargain: Small studio piano used six months, like brand new. Will sell to re sponsible party who will as sume small payments of $2.00 weekly. For details write Gar wood Piano Co., Wilkesboro, N. C. 12-5 c Wanted: Eggs, hams, batter, chickens, all kinds of country produce. For best cash prices see Ear lie Combs, South Bridge street, Elkin, N. C., Phone 308. tfc 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 CHRISTMAS Permanent Waves Are Ideal As Christmas Gifts $3.75 Up All Other Types of Beauty Treatments Give Helena Rubenstein Cosmetics for Christmas! We Have the Complete Line 50c Up Lucy Gray's Beauty Shoppe TELEPHONE 380 Thursday, November 28. 1940 Wanted: Fireworks dealer for Klkin. Net profit last year $400.00. Brown'a Wholesale Fireworks. C. R. Brown. Char lotte, N. C. 12-5 c Automatic phonographs and music machines for rent for parties, clubs or dances. Edski Amusements. Telephone 333-J. tfc Kill destructive insects with proven insecticides. Arsenate lead, magnesium anenate, Paris green. Turner Drug Co., unirin, N. C. tfc Wanted to repair radio*. On expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfo Lost, strayed or stolen, pointer dog, liver and white. Answers to name of "Jack." Liberal re ward for return to W. F. Stan ley, Jonesville, N. C. ltp For rent: Steam heat ed 3-room apart ment; newly finish ed, private en trance, private bath, continuous hot wa ter, garage. Tele phone 126-M. ltc
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