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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 193G
Supreme Court rules In favor
of the Tennessee Valley Authority,
which perhaps will result in
the usual amount of criticism of
the high tribunal. The future
expressions of disfavor may be
expected to be different in that
they will likely come from a different
side of the fence.
Those who ordinarily persist
in making moonshine whiskey
in this part of the country have
been forced to desist from the
practice during the rigorous
winter, says Sheriff Howell, he
having been unable to effect the j
capture of a single distillery dur- i
ing the past several weeks. According
to the Sheriff, who has
created for himself an outstanding
record in the breaking up of
illicit manufacture, the moon- j
shiners just can't take the sort
of weather which has been visi-!
ted upon this area. Besides un- j
derstanding is that a certain de- j
gree of warmth must be maintained
in order to get the sugar
solution ready for the boilers, j
This can't be done in the out- j
doors, 't is said, and a nice large |
credit should be marked up on j
the weather man's balance
sheet.
JAMES I 1V1VK1 PI?
The community may be said
to have suffered an unusually j
serious loss in the death of j
James L. Winkler; prosperous;
farmer and leading citizen, who j
paramounts his orderly schedule;
of living with an intense zeal;
for the spiritual status of his
people. He was a churchman of
unquestioned sincerity of purpose
and in this scope of high
usefulness, one characteristic
stands out preeminently?his inherent
love for little children.
For more than forty years Mr.
Winkler conducted the class for
the little tots and in simple and
gentle manner taught the chil- j
dren the fundamentals of the!
story of the Christ, directing'
their tiny feet into the path;
which would provide earthly I
contentment and celestial treas-'
ure. The writer's own chubby,
baby hands have closed about
many a "Sunday School card"
tendered by "Mr. Jim." and the
Biblical illustration was mentally
photographed as the teacher '
made clear the words of the Gol- ;
den text, and the lesson from
which it came. i
Many of us can never forget
the ringing of the boll in a little 1
wooden church on Main Street <
many years ago, and the crowd j1
of children assembled just a bit'1
3 <* ' '
rtnt-au 01 time, as Mr. Winkler j
brought his open surry to a stop 11
in front of the simple temple of
God. The spirit of the Nazarene j
radiated from that tiny assem-;
bly hall, and no matter how far we
may have strayed from the j
straight and narrow. Mr. Jim
Winkler did a mighty fii.e job
of dispensing the sort of training
from which we are not so likely
to depart as we grow older.
The Family Doctor
By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES
FOODS AND COLD WEATHER
At this season of the year, foods
improperly stored, vegetables left In
corners or cellars, open milk contain
era and such like, may become disease
carriers unsuspected. In cold
weather stale vegetables, "specked"
fruits from stores, and other impurities
do not make their imperfections
known quickly. It behooves our citizens
and housekeepers to look well to
the sanitation of homes from every
angle, and to enforce the strictest
cleanliness of premises occupied, as
well as of foods and water consumed.
Cold weather is preservative to
many of the most dangerous bacteria.
It is not known just long typhoid and
para-typhoid germs will live and remain
virulent in cold, but it is a long
time. Once within the human system
! they develop rapidly into the very
; serious cold weather diseases named
for them. It is of the utmost impor j
tance that your ice-box be watched.
It is not always Sanitary because you
! notice no impure odor from the jar
j of cream that spilled last week and
i which left a greasy smear on two or
| three of the shelves for several days.
You may have a pretty fair culture
t of mixed bacteria that live at low
i temperature
We should bo more careful in win}
ter than in summer to have pure food
i and water. Inspections of city water
| should be doubled, by the most vigij
lant. capable officials. You have a
j right to demand cleanliness from daiI
rymen who peddle mill; in bottles,
i Cold weather epidemics are among
j the most fatal known. Be vigilant and
I save trouble.
Bruce Barton
5?av s ? ? ?
I I
; Still Changes Ahead
A man has just been in to worry |
me about the children. He points out j
that taxes are getting' worse and Ij
am getting older, and that if I set up |
annuities and insurance trusts and;
establish a residence in Florida, where
there is no state inheritance tax. and
do a lot of other things, my children
may perhaps be better off.
As far as insurance is concerned, j
I have been a booster for it all my (
iife. My father, who was a preacher j
with a large family, and a small sa- j
lary, used to remark that he had I
"kept himself poor paying insurance!
premiums." But the instance preni-1
iains enabled him to sleep peaceful- j
ly at night and. having seen us all |
through college, he proceeded to cash j
in his insurance and ho and Mother |
had a good time on it during their j
last years.
How completely they might have j
spoiled their days and nights if they!
could have looked forward into the1
future. Suppose they had known, in|
1900. that this country was going to j
do a nose dive in 1929 which would!
be followed by the worst, depression |
in history.
Weil,, they couldn't have done any-'
thing about it. And, as things have;
turned out, we are still eating regu- j
lariy; we have a dry place to sleep.
ajia so tar nave neither appjjed for,1
a dole or sought admission to a nudist
camp.
The changes that arc going to
come in these United States are beyond
the imagination of any one to
forecast. Our children and grandchildren
will have to meet them, as we
have had to meet the problems in our i
own lives. What we can do for then; I
beyond health and education is not
much. Having tried to take rare of
these two requisites, and now heing
an old man, I propose to save up the
hours hitherto devoted to conferences
with insurance men and devote those i
hours to golf.
Heaven, or, Bargain 1'rlces
Recently I wrote a piece about J.
Thomson Willing, an elderly man
without much money but rich in
friendships because all his life he lias
encouraged young artists Today I
should like to preach my brief sermon
to those members of the congregation
who occupy safe and influential
positons in business. Now that
times are getting better, I should
like to lay upon their consciences a
sense of special obligation toward the
young.
I stepped out of college into a depression.
One morning on the streets
of Chicago I met the captain of our
football team. After beating the pavement
for weeks, he had succeeded.
through pull, in getting a job collecting
uncollectable bills, on commission.
His earnings were about three dollars
a week. The president of our
class spent his first six months at
manual labor. My own aroblton was
to get into the publishing business,
rhe nearest I could come to it was
i job as time-keeper in a construction
camp in Montana.
The jobs we got were very poor,
but we did our jobs. For many of the
youngsters who have come out of (
colleges since 1932 there have been j
no jobs at all. Employment always i
lags when business begins to pick
up. But the time comes eventually
when there are more jobs?and that
time is almost here.
So T ask the Brass Hats of busi- j
ness to take as much time as possible
from their balance sheets and invest
in helpful conversation with and
generous efforts for young people. By
SO dointr -
_ 0 .. --l 11 y i?jr Liiemselves
treasure III' Heaven. If Keaven
seems too far away as a depository
of treasure, I might point out that
they also will be buying some highly
trained talent at bargain prices.
Free Wheeling Prayers
In some old Chinese temples there
are prayer wheels inscribed with a
series of prayers down the sides of
the wheel which are suitable for any
occasion. The very devout oriental
selects a prayer, turns the wheel to
it, and the prayer is as good as prayed.
Speed record for tractor driving is
64.28 miles an hour, held by Barney
Oldfleld.
Erosion moves the hriiik of Niagara
Falls back at the rate of two to
four feet a year. 1
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SAYS CORN NOT SHELLED
Mr. Editor:
May I reply to Mr. N. M. Greene's j
inquii\ as to whether or not my
corn was shelled Mr Greene, I guess ;
you will have to drive on." I have j
not shelled ail the corn But if you 1
will figure with me I will tell you j
how I measured it. I have a basket j
which full cf ears will shell S gallons, i
1 had 125 oasketfuiis which makes j
1.000 gil'ons or 100 Iv.c'v 's of shell
e<l corn
We owe God and our fellowmanj
debts tliat cannot be paid with money.
But as to the financial side of the j
question, you must buy only what '
you want and learn not to want more :
than you can pay for.
L>. L WELLBORN.
Stony Fork. X C
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ABOrT BIRDS
! Editor Democrat:
| For several summers I have r.otic- |
! ed the great number of birds, many
of which I have never seen before, j
In the beautiful valley extending
southward from Boone and have won- 1
i acred why there were so few birds j
I in Blowing; Rock nearby. We finally
| concluded that a plentiful supply of
! grair and, the quiet of the sheltered
' vailcy attracted them but during
weather such as we have had this
winter, with the ground covered for j
weeks with snow. I am told by a
member of the Audubon society they j
arc dying by the hundreds of thou- |
sands all over the East and particu
larlv in the Alleghanics Ii may in- j
tcrest your leaders to know that j
birds experience the biological desire j~
to migrate for only a short time each
year. If there is a plentiful supply of
food they may linger in a D.ace until
this period passes, and then they stay
and starve when the cold overtakes
the ml Your people are more fortun- j
ate than many of them realize to j
have a variety of songbirds there
and I hope you will urge that, they
be .fed. Great numbers of them have
already been lost but many ean still I""
l>e saved if fed.
Sincerely, j m
LOUISE N. WHEELRIGHT. ;
Philadelphia, Feb. 5. 1:1
b<
(Enclosure! !
Birds and Humans
What the poor birds suffer during i U]
cold weather we ean not imagine ! |
Those which do no v. actually die bf l;
j hunger and cold are in a constant j
i state of semi-starvation throughout
the winter. For their and for human!-; tc
ty's sake feed the birds. It is a plea b<
sure as well as a duty. There is no j oi
better way to teach children lessons j tti
in kindness, pleasantly learned and St
never forgotten. So don't let the birds ju
starve to death thus winter but keep tc
them alive for their usefulness nest j ti
summer.
I n<
IS ROOSEVELT WORTH IT? j m
Dear Editor: j a!
I wonder if you would publish the j
enclosed which has been clipped from ! ^
the Tampa Tribune. Thanhs I al
A READER. | w
(Enclosure) n<
The Philadelphia Record, which is w
not a partisan, but a fair and out- tc
spoken newspaper, calls attention to A
the fact that the national debt, in ,r
the last three years of Hoover in. A1
creased $6,236,000,000, and, in the'
first three years of Roosevelt, in-1
creased $7,409,000,000?in other words !
that Roosevelt has cost the country i ''
$1,173,000,000 more than Hoover. "Is S,J
Roosevelt worth it?" asks the Record,
which proceeds to elucidate:
Many an intelligent America will
be shocked when he examines these .
figures. "J
He has been hearing so much about j
"Roosevelt, the spender," "billions j
for boondoggling," "irresponsible <:
waste of national credit," ' burdening !.
the future generat.ons," that a false
Impression has been carefully built
up in his mind.
It Is time the American people 18
went off their diet of elephant baloney.
E
It is time the American people j J"
stopped being guinea pigs for Re-1
publican press agents. !
Roosevelt, the "spender," has in-' ?
creased the national debt a billion j13
more than did Hoove* the economi-1 01
eal IW
Has it been worth it? j w
Marriner Eccles, Governor of the |tc
Federal Reserve Board, find9 that the t:
national income has increased more In
than 15 billions a year during Roosevelt's
adminstration as compared with
Hoover's.
In a period of 30 months the national
income has increased 37% bil- C(
lions over what it would have been
had the Hoover level continued.
A horse that pays 37 for one is a j
good horse on any track. '
For that billion-dollar smaller debt 1
under Hoover we were getting a one- ?
way trip downhill. w
Conditons were never so black as ic
they were after Hoover had rung up si
his six-bllion debt .ncrease
Business hasn't been as good in it
five years as it is today after Roosevelt
has run up his seven-billion debt o
increase. D
And recall that Hoover's deficts
were mounting year by year, while j?
Roosevelt's are decreasing. F
The real waster was Hoover. He oi
CRY THURSDAY?BOONE^N
A Voice Froi
jn?
The Week in
Washington
A RESUME OF GOVERNMENMENTAL
HAPPENINGS IN
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Tne boys on Capitol Hill hav
ado up their minds to get througl
go home by May l. Whether tha
ic.'ins anything or not remains t
; seen. It is not likely, however, tha
ic President will throw any new leg
islative proposals in at the las
linute. He is just as anxious to hav
ongress go home as the boys ar
get back and look after their poli
cal fences.
Congress has quite a few thing
do, however, before it quits. Th
>ys have to put through some kin
a farm aid bill, devise some ne>
lx schemes which won't have to
^rious politcal repercussions an<
ist before they leave, they will hav
make another big relief appropris
on.
One tiling that they probably wi
it bother about is fixing up a jjei
anent neutrality law. The reactio
gainst tlie idea of Senator Nye an
is committee has convinced most c
le members of both houses that an
temp: to prescribe in advance jui
hat the United States may or ma
>t do in case of another general wt
ould be as futile as most attempl
i peer into the undisclosed futur
Iso it might get us into the ver
ouble which it would attempt t
:ert.
Pensions and Economy
Another tiling that is apparent!
f the cards is old age pensions a 1
awnsend. This looked like a live ii
le in December, but the attitude no<
to let it lie until after electioi
rith the old age assistance plan i
le Social Security Act, it is figure
at the states will have no troubl
taking care of the really need
d folks, and that is as far as thi
ingress or the administration is it
ined to go.
Congress and the administrate
ive been hearing so much critician
iring the last few weeks, on th
bject of free spending, that ther
now a considerable degree of hai
ony between the Legislative an
xecutive branches of the Goverr
ont in the matter of appropriation;
ne effect of the reaction again:
lending was the announcement th
her day by the President that h
not going to use the last billio
so which had been voted for th
forks PrOPTAftH ArimiTrietvatirvr. T3
ill have to come back to Congrei
>r a further relief appropriation f<
le ptriod beginning July 1. and th
ay run to 2 billions.
Farm Aid Views
The farm aid bill 03 passed by tl
enate combines in one measure se'
al diverse elements. It provides f<
>ntrol of soil erosion, of which e1
ryiiody is in favor. It also provid<
>r the replenishing of worn-out sc
y the planting of grasses and l
umes. Everybody is for that. It pri
ides bounty payments to farmers f<
asted the nation's manpower :
lleness, its banks; its homes, i
tops, its business, its income, I
save money." And Uieu didn't aa.i
We have not seen a more forcefu
onvincing statement of the Ne
eal vs. Old Deal case.
This should afford a fertile sul
ict for future "potlaches" of tl
libberty League and its favoril
rator
. c.
m Long Ago??fe^?8JJ
rf\tN\^tV*. N\->N(MS> . . - -
; \"=> v^oT Evjtftsont >MO teytSwvw5^%
v WJXWfcB., fcRfc \NOQ.TVN O^ VviciovVtjf
a. -?UE Dt^tCLMvwG- w*y &v>wuvi^i'
doing these tilings.
It seems to be a settled policy, j (
which both major parties will un-!
dcubtedly indorse at their June con-1
ventions, that farming should he re- 5 f<
garded as a preferred occupation, en- i s<
titled tt; a largo measure of Gov- C(
ernment aid. Therefore, there is no [ ^
serious objection to paying farm j p
bounties for the purpose just men-1 7
tienod. i \*
Where th. fight will come will be 1
over me provison 01 tne Dili wmca r
' undertakes to continue control over ?
1 crop production Exception is token o
? ; to this by members of both parties r
I on tlie ground that it is an attempt $
! to evade the Supreme Court's ruling s
' | mat the control of agriculture is not r.
' ! within the powers of the Federal f
j Cover;,meat, and also because it is 1
regarded as an effort to curtail pro- i
i duction, whereas the erosion and soil- f
s ! replenishment features would tend 3
e to increase production. v
d New Farm Plan c
v The newest farm plan which is be- L
o | ing given a good deal of considera- 1
J. | tion here is sponsored hy the Natione
ni Co-operative Council, a federation v
l- of farmers' co-operatives. The plan >
is to set up one or more corporations. 1
II in which the Government will parti- '
cipate, to manage the distribution 1
n and sale of surplus farm products '
d both for export and the home mar>f
kets. Whether this will come to a
y head at the present Congress is still
it a question. It may, however, become 1
y a part of one or both party plat- ?
ir forms. 1
is The repeal of the Bankhead Cot- '
e. ton Control Act, the Tobacco Control
y Act and the Potato Control Act, at '
o j the request of the President, was ex- '
peeted after the Supreme Court's 1
decison on the AAA. '
y It begins to look as if there would '
a | he no important new tax legislation '
J- j at this seas!on except possibly some
.v | form of a tax on processors to pro- 1
"5. 1 viflp filTirlo frtr fVw/w o If- 1 6
AV> iaiv agk iivuuuiai pro- _
n gram. Strong oppositon from within '
<1 the Democratic ranks is shaping up
ie to this particular form of tax. Sena- 1
y ! tor Walsh of Massachusetts i3 the v
is spearhead of a new movement for a c
i- general manufacturer's sales tax. 2
which will, of course, be opposed by f
n the members from the Western farm 1
l, regions. 1
e The Borah Tactics 1
e In the realm of party politics, those 1
- observers who make it their business 1
d to try to figure out what Senator 1
i- Borah is aiming at, seem to be cons.
vinccd that his declaration in Ohio i
it as a primary candidate for the Pres- '
ie idency is an effort to block the "fa- 1
ie i vorite son" tactics which have so '
,n often resulted in throwing the nomi- '
ie nation into the hands of the party <
[e bosses. If Mr. Borah can get a good
is sized handful of instructed delegates,
>r he can us* ti.em as a club over the
is come: lion, but how he would use ?
tha1 club is sti'l somewhat in doubt, i
His main objective, it is believed, is I
ie to prevent Mr. Hoover and his friends "
v- in the Old Guard from controlling the 1
jr Republican Convention.
1- There is only one other Republi?s
can of whom it can be said with ceriil
tainty that he will have a group of
2- instructed delegates at Cleveland 1
j. That is Governor Handon of Kansas. '
>r He and Senator Borah are now away '
_ out in front. '
in
[3 They Pester Him c
fQ An Irishman was out gunning for i
dunks with a friend who noticed that *
although Mike aimed his gun several 1
j times, he did not shoot it off. At last '
^ he said, ''Mike, why didn't you shoot 1
that time? The whole flock were l
(j. right in front of you."
1C "Oi know," said Mike, "hut every c
-e time Oi aimed me gun at a duck, an- r
other wan come right between us,"
FEBRUARY 20, 1936
? by A. B. Chapin S
|
AKI'U KNCE ON REUGF
ITndcr the X>onic, Raleigh News and
Observer.)
"Fortune," a magazine that sells
ir SI a copy and consequently it not
j widely read, in its February issue
onsiders the case of Steve Hatalla.
typical relief client, and his fami.
of live. According to the magaine,
the ERA paid Steve $1P.2S a
eek (in orders, not cash.)
Steve is a city-dweller in the
forth. The average family of six in
forth Carolina during the first week
f December, the last week of ERA
eiiof in this state. received onlv
5.41, said Mrs. Thomas O'Bcrry.
Late relief administrator. That would
lot have been enough for Steve's
ood bill of $7.75. The average for all
forth Carolina relief families (rangng
from one person to 12) in that
irsl week of December, was only
14.78. One reason that the average
vas low was that the ERA had many
asos in which it only supplementid
the scant earnings of relief famiies.
Still, Steve's pittance in Pennsylvania
would be considered affluence
n North Carolina. The amount of reief
he received in one week is more
han the lowest paid WFA worker in
forth Carolina gets in one month,
119.
U. S. OWNS MUCH GOLJ>
More than 10,000 million dollars in
irigh t and shiny goid bars are locked
lecurely In government vaults?the
argest hoard of the precious metal
n history.
Despite this evidence of mounting
vealth treasury officials were woried.
The steady flow of the yellow
netal into this country is depleting
oreign monetary reserves, and it
vas feared a possible r.ew foreign
nonetary crisis might result.
For months officials have been dissatisfied
.with the increasing gold
itocks, but were powerless to halt
he inflow.
The Federal Reserve Board reports
hn f mnnni-o .?? ~?1.4 I.t
ntwuifMMj' gvivi
vere valued at 10,000 million dollars
ir nearly half the world's stock of
11,825 million miliars. The American
fold, estimated to weigh akout 10,000
ons was cached largely in treasury
aults in New York, Philadelphia,
ind Denver. A large part of it is
waiting transfer to a new and safer
/suit now being built in the Kentucky
hills.
The gradual increase In American
fold holdings began shortly after the
nauguration of President Roosevelt.
3y nationalizing all gold money, the
rcasury holdings reached 4,045 milion
867,781 dollars in February, 1934,
>n the basis of the then price of $2067
per ounce.
There is a growing realization for
soil conservation and more careful
banning by farmers of Wayne coun:y,
reports the county agent.
VOTICE OF APPLICATION TO OPERATE
MOTOR VEHICLE CARRIER
AND DATE OF
HEARING THEREON
As required by Section 3, Cltapter
.36, Public Laws of 1927, notice is
lereby given that application has
ieen made by ET & WNC Motor
Transportation Company for a fran:hlse
Certificate, authorizing the op:ration
of motor vehicles for trans>orting
passengers over N. C. Highway
194 Elk Park to Vilaa. and over
C. Highway 60. with closed doors
rom Vilas to Boone, and that the
Jtilltles Commission will hold a hearng
on the said application in State
departments Bldg. at Raleigh. X :rth
Carolina, on Friday, the 28 cn of Fcbuary,
1936, at 12 o'clock, Noon.
ltc.