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Six Mm^s .76
9oar Months 50
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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1940
Food And Health
There is a great shortage of milk cows
in Wilkes county. Dr. A. J. Filler, county
health officer, said a few days ago while
discussing public health problems as they
affect Wilkes people.
Dr Eller is in position to know what he
is talking about. His work carries him in
to every community and he knows much
about public health problems in the coun
ty.
There are far too many rural homes, he
explained, which do not even have a milk
supply. He can see no logical reason why
a person living in the rural communities
and rearing children should not have at
least one milk cow.
If many of the heads of homes where
there are no cows really made earnest ef
forts the situation could be remedied, was
the opinion e.xpressed by the health offi
cial. In other words, he can see no rea
sonable excuse for little children having
to do without milk.
Milk is the one complete food that has
all the elemenits necessary to sustain life
and provide for physical growth and de
velopment. It is not only a complete food
but as such is also a disease preventative
in that it builds up resistance to disease.
Granting that there are .some few homes
so poverty stricken that the parents are
unable to keep a cow, we must say that
there are hundreds where the fault lies
with the parents in that they do not make
the necessary efforts to provide milk or
labor under the idea that keeping a milk
cow is too costly. As a matter of fact,
milk could replace other foods to such an
extent that a saving would be brought
about by keeping a cow.
Parents who can provide milk for their
children and who do not are criminally
negligent. _
This Land We Survey
What are people thinking about these
days?
We’re not inlcre.sted at the moment in
the movies about which they're enthusia.^-
tic, or their current opinon of the next-
door neighbors. We have a more general
and a more importartt question in mind:
What are people—.Americans’ we mean
—thinking about this America of ours?
To those who seek an answer, two re
cent magazine surveys make fascinating
reading. One was concerned with the
opinions of Americans in general, of all
t'-ues and -'asses. The other dealt with a
’’on will be so important
'•outh oif the nation.
•V of the findings
JOUlQf AL-n^df ilM Bot
aMOMBF aay,'i«9ou^|nit7 for
articles pfiiXeia vhto thli
haoffliiig, an;l nettfaer eadbroM
nor cmdenuM then. Plene be
M brief M possible.
Frevette Explains Veterans
Case In United States Court
To
CAMPAIGN MAN^GIplS
(Oxford Public
One of the first things to be done by a
candidate for a majoii stete office is to
choose a manager for his campaign.
A campaigner naturally wante a man
ager with some political experience and
sagacity; someone who has influence and
who has the ability to forsee and avoid
pitfalls. He wants a manager who can
keep his ear to the ground, his eyes on 100
counties, his fingers on the public pulse,
his nose on the grind-stone and juggle be
neath! his feet a campaign platform.
The campaign manager, with an assist
ant who may be in charge of women, is
charged with keeping the campaign grow
ing through a spreading state-wide organ
ization that will funnel the ballots, proper
ly marked, into the boxes on election day.
It is not an easy job to do well, and it is
not always easy for a campaigner to obtain
the manager he most prefers.
It is interesting to note the choices of
the candidates for Governor who have, to
date, announced their managers. Lieu
tenant Governor Horton chose a home
town attorney, Judge Daniel Bell of Pitts-
boro, who headed the campaign that won
his present office for Mr. Horton. Bidd
ing for the Legion influence. Commis
sioner Maxwell secured Burgin Pennell of
Asheville, former Department commander
of the Legion and no new-comer to poli
tics. Crayon C. Flfird of Albemarle, a for
mer president of the North Carolina Truck
Owners Association with whom he served
in the State Legislature will manage the
Gravely campaign. E. B. Denny, former
Gastonia Mayor and politician of experi
ence, is the Broughton helmsman. Grady
and Cooper have not named their mana
gers.
In hands of these men and their advi
sors lie, in part, the success and the future
of those candidates they are assisting.
They will use every expedient method to
win the voting strength of the state for
their candidartes. Thousands of letters will
go but, columns of news, statements will _
will be issued, claims and counter claims'an administrator to pay same and
will be made and denied prepared. Lit- '
erature will be circulated, hands clasped
and backs slapped, babies admired, sons
and daughters congratulated.
The task is made, the race is set—
thev’re off I
my many friends in Wilkes
and Ashe Counties:
To those who are familiar with
all the facts about the indictment
in the Federal Court against me
there need 'be no explanation hut
there are a few, who pretending
themselves to be all virtue, will
intentionally misrepresent the
matter rather than agree with
the Department of Justice, that
after finding I was wrong, I sac
rificed to do the right and my
action was approved by U. S. Dis
trict Judge, The Honorable E.
Yates Webb, who heard the case
in Greensboro on March I'Sth.
On June lOt.i 1931, a veteran,
John A. Klndley, came to my of
fice in Salisbury and employed
me to assist him 'by suit to collect
his Old War JUsk Insurance on a
fee basis of 10 per cent of amount
ecovered. My files show that
over 100 letters were written and
that he visited the office 10 to 15
times.
The Veteran died in December,
1934, and on April 18th, 1935,
the Veterans Bureau agreed to
pay and did pay to a duly quali
fied administrator of Cattarrus
county the insurance claim that
I had filed in 1931. The adminis
trator of his estate paid me the
10 per cent and expenses or the
sum of $572.00. It had long been
recognized by the legal profession
that this was a reasonable charge
and that the Probate Courts of
this state had the right through
^ -to mt-ftrial
iBf iHbikti from AdliA «n4 WiSlk
Bnd 'if
tlt» to riat c(r want to buy
1 will a^pfeciate your f hualneas
and try to render prompt'and ef
ficient service.
Respectfully sU'bmltted,
JOSEPH M. PRBVBTTB.
Prize Fish Story
Abner Roe, a prominent Izaak
Waltonlan of Washington, D. C.,
has verification for the prise fish
story of the year . . . bass cast
ing on the Potomac River, Roe
was frequently annoyed because
bis line was snubbing on subsur
face roots and other obstrneUoBS
. one especially vigorous cast
placed the plug close to shore
. as Roe attempted to reel in,
the line grew taut ... he had
hooked a redhead duck through
the fleshy part of the wing . . .
the .bird had been crippled and
was unable to fly . . . next season.
Roe says lie's going to take his
rod and reel with him when he
goes duck hunting . . . “If I can’t
shoot 'em, I can hook ’em,” he
'believes.
WHO PAY THE TAXES
(Charlotte Observer)
Although 3,500,000 Americans will pay
income taxes this year, according to pres
ent estimates, there has been and will con
tinue to be agitation in Congress to get
more of the people included within this
levy.
This number, as you can deduce, repre-
.sents only about one in every 38 men, wo
men and children of the population, or
about one for every penson 15 years of age
and older.
The exemption has never been less than
$1,000 loi- single and since 1920 it has
never been le.ss than $2,500 for married
individuals.
It is admitted that any benefit to ac
crue from making more people pay an in
come tax will be largely moral instead of
financial.
Senator La Follette, the outstanding ad
vocate in Congress off lower exemptions,
has estimated that lowering the levels to
.$800 for single and $2,000 for married
would produce 1,400,000 more taxpayers
but only $110,000,000 more revenue an
nually. Most of the additional revenue
would come, not from the new taxpayers,
but from those who pay at present,
through the smaller deductions granted
them.
Broadening the base of this levy and the
inclusion of another million and a half of
our people within the .scope of the tax
' ould have the effect of increasing the
'ume of tax-consciousness on the part of
>ublic.
1 only those who are acutely tax-con-
-who "have beedme jthat way be-
'y pay directly from their earn-
likely to develop any great
opposition to increased political
T, is far from the truth, those
ailed upon to go to the City
ouse or .state or Federal of-
\s, and have no direct ob-
govemment of this kind
"heir heads that they are
invasion and that it is
who have to under-
ires of government,
ore, their tax consci-
ute nor vocal. They
icerned as to what
,ce the music of hav-
stead of indirectly,
hidden tax process
V, too, would no
' protestants when
s are authorized
•om Birmingham
ig, with barrage
my positions.—
mses to build
taxpayers are
af these days.
that this was no violation of the
U. S. Laws.
The United States Supreme
Court under the same facts as in
my case held in the Stien Case de
cided ill April, 1938. that such
was no violation, however. Justice
Hugo Black in a case construing
another section held that in no
event was a lawyer entitled to a
greater fee than $10.00 no matier
how valuable services were ren
dered unless the case actually
went to trial and the judgment
provided the 10 per cent fee, this
case was decided Nov. 1938.
After studying the law careful
ly and advising with a Special
Asst, of the Attorney General of
the Department of Justice J de
cided that while I had really earn
ed the tee I was technically guilty
and entered a plea of Nolo Con
tendere which means that I neith
er admitted or denied guilt. This
plea was accepted iby the United
States and by sacrificing my 200
N. C. Reports for $175. and sacri
ficing other personal properly 1
was able to pay the $272.00 after
being allowed a fee of $10 ami
$li..'iO for expenses and was al
lowed 122 months to pay balance
of $:UI0.. giving my note seeiired
hy a first mortgage on my re-
maiiitrg law lilirary.
Hcf(,re entering the plea of
Xolo ('ontenderc I ascertained
from the '.‘^tate Bar that such a
plea would in no way affeet my
riglit to continue to practice, law.
1 have definitely decided to
open a Real Estate office in North
Wilkesltoro and have rented of
fices formerly occupied by J. I.
FREEZES
Severe freezes killed up to 50
per cent of the early cabbage
plants in Dare County, reports C.
W. Overman, farm agent of the
State College Extension Service.
NOTICE OF APPLICA’nON TO
OPERATE MOTOR VEHICLE
CARRIER AND DATE OF
HEARING THEREON
As required by Section 3, Chap
ter 136, Public Laws of. 1927, no
tice is hereby given that applica
tion has been made by C. & S. Mo
tor Express Company, for a Fran
chise Certificate, authorizing the
operation of motor vehicles for
transportating freight over the
route No. 268 from North "Wilkea-
boro to Elkin via Roaring River
and Ronda, and that the Utilities
Commission will hold a hearing on
thei said application in State De-
pts. Bldg., at Raleigh, m Tuesday,
19th March, 1940, at 10:00 a. m
o’clock.
N. C. Utilities Commission
By R. 0. Self, Chief Clerk.
11-14-18.
lifOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
By virtue of the power of sale
contained in a certain deed of trust
executed on the 13th day of
March, 1939, by James R. Pearson
and wife. Nellie Pearson, to the
under.siehed trustee, said deed of
trust being to secure the payment!
of a certain note, which note is
past due and unpaid, and request
having been made upon me by the
holder of said note, the undersign-1
ed trustee will expose .to sale atj
public auction at the courthouse'
door in Wilkesboro, North Caro-1
lina, on the 25th day of March,'
1940, at twelve o’clock, noon, to I
the highest bidder for cash the
following described tract of land, I
said sale being made to satisfy,
said note and deed of trust, and |
said land lying and beii^ in Wilkes j
county, and more particularly de
scribe and defined as follows:
BEGINNING on a black gum,
John Barnes’ comer; thence runn-
^ to Bat^’linef tli£i wtt
Aum' Um to the bM^Bn^^ caiu
tabmig' 100 acres, more or Ims. "'. '
TtoiM 6^18-4c
Reddy
Rnse Yoor
It has long been an established fact that
ELECTRIC HEAT is the MOST PRAC’H-
CAL, SAFE and SURE way to incubate
eggs—a job requiring the most precise,
dependable and automatic heat that
Reddy is called upon to supply. AFTER
THE CHICKS HATCH THEY MUST
CONTINUE TO HAVE PROPER HEAT
TO SURVIVE.
Reddy Says:
Brooding chicks is a cinch compared to
hatching them. Besides the sa'vings in
time and labor, the electric brooder in
duces earlier feathering, sturdier consti
tution suid a bird less susceptible to tem
perature changes.
You will be interested in a
BROODER DISPLAY
In our windotw furnished by the
CHAMPION POULTRY FARM
Our agricultural engineer will be glad to
advise you on the application of ELEC
TRICITY to any FARM PROBLEM.
POWER COMPANY
“Electricity Is Cheap—Use It Adequately”
Phone 420 North Wilkesboro, N. C.
ole who are
say he will
says that he
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