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The Alleghany News
AND STAB-TIMES
The NEWS established February 18, 1940—
The TIMES, 19*5 and The STAR, 18*9.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
_At Sparta, N. C.___
THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1947
BO M. ANDERSON--—Publisher
MRS. ED M. ANDERSON-Aaodate
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Entered as second-class matter at the post
office at Sparta, North Carolina, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
“If the choice were left to me whether to
have a free press or a free government, I
would chbose a free press.”—Thomas Jef
ferson.
Let’s Keep The School
Lunchroom Going
Through the Federal Aid program,
school children throughout the nation
have had the advantage of hot lunches at
a minimum cost. The program has been
popular and satisfying and as a matter of
fact its popularity is causing its curtail
ment, since the funds are becoming ex
hausted.
In North Carolina the participation has
so increased beyond the predictions made
at the beginning of the school year that the
Federal funds are now almost gone. At
the present time there are in this state
1233 schools in the program with an aver
age of 289,520 pupils participating daily.
This is an increase of 77,911 pupils per
day over last year’s number. With this
increase, coupled with the increase in the
cost of food, is it any surprise?
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Schools of Alleghany county as well as
those eleswhere are confronted with the
problem of continuing their lunchroom
operations/ throughout\ the year. There
have been several suggestions made among
Which is a slight increase in the cost of
the lunch and cutting down on the number
of free lunches served. In some places
schools plan to have some events to sup
plement their lunchroom funds. In other
{daces, children who Jive in the county and
cannot pay cash for their lunches arc
bringing in produce such as potatoes, cab
bage and beans. ^
We hope that all the schools in the
county now operating lunchrooms will
make some kind of plans to continue them
throughout the year.
Statistics show that children find the
lunch program more satisfactory, so do the
teachers and the parents. From the stand
point of health, better student activities and
economy it has proven its worth.
We believe that the school leaders will
find a way to continue this worthwhile
program. It has proven its worth. Let’s
prove that we can carry it on when neces
sary, without Federal aid.
-—oOo
Hope Of Profits
The serious farmer who wants to in
crease output will often go to no little
expense to use better fertilizer and pest
controls or to get better equipment. He
is doing with his farm just what the busi
ness m$n has to do with his factory—put
ting more money into the .business to im
prove it.
Some persons do not seem to under
stand the role profits play as the source or
stimulant of the capital invested in our
economic enterprises. Albert Bradley, ex
ecutive vice president of General Motors,
put his finger on this point in a recent ad
dress when he said, “Profits are not a
luxury; nor do they benefit only those who
own stock.” He showed, for example, that
the assumption that output per worker in
creases annually and automatically—that
it ,is a natural growth somewhat like the
steady accumulation of rings on a tree—
is a false assumption. False too is the as
sumption that the worker is primarily re
sponsible for his increased productivity.
The fact is increases in productivity
result ffrom improved tools, new process
es, new inventions. And Mr. Bradley points
out that these come about because some
one is willing to put up the money for their
development—in the hope of making a
profit. It’s a strong incentive. Between
1849 and 1939 investment in industry per
worker increased from $500 to $6,000. In
1939 a worker was aided by five times
as much power ipachinery as he had to help
him produce back in 1877. This invest
ment in tools arose out of profits or from
the hope of profits.
Our big job today is to increase pro
ductivity. It has gone up little in recent
years, chiefly because of the war. But if
industrial productivity does increase fur
ther it will not be because millions of
workers develop stronger muscles or sharp
ened wits—it will be because management
has devised more effective methods of pro
duction and has been able to obtain invest
ment money for the purpose of providing
the necessary tools.
Farmers Make Plans
The 1947 AAA program offers Alle
ghany county farmers $52,000 for improved
farm practices. This is a program every
farmer should take part in, but in order
to do this plans must be made and signed
before March 8. This is something that
should not be put off.
All progressive farmers are on the alert
to improve practices at all tinVes, but un
der this program when they are paid for
improved practices, they should surely
take advantage of them.
The 12 practices adopted by the count
ty AAA committeemen include liming ma
terial, phosphate, potash, winter cover
crops, tile drainage, permanent pastures,
mowing pastures, contour strip cropping,
forest planting, open ditch drainage, plow
ing under red clover, and hay crops. All of
these will not appeal to all farmers but
among them are several all farmers can
carry out to a good advantage. See your
community committeeman and sign your
plans before it is too late.
-oOo
An Indictment
(Editor’s note: Since members
of the State legislature are now dis
posing of problems of public welfare,
the following editorial, which won
secondplace in the 1946 press awards ;
among non-daily newspapers in
North Carolina is reprinted here to
again focus attention on the crim
inal treatment of children:)
In this crucial period when youth con
servation is being stressed it is ironical
that more than half of the counties iir North
Carolina are committing crimes against
children by confining them within the com
mon jails. <*
Figures released by the State Beard of
Public Welfare reveal that for the fiscal
year ending June 30, a totpl of 327 children
under sixteen years of age were held ih
jail in 58 of the State’s 100 counties, re
gardless of the fact the statute expressly
provides that it is unlawful for any offi
cial to place a child where he can come
in contact with hardened and confirmed
criminals. It furthermore provides that
children between 14 and 16 years of age
may be jailed only if charged with an of
fense of felonious nature; but in no case
may a child under 14 be placed in jail.
Yet a breakdown of the figures shows that
of the total of the 327 children jailed, 10
were under 10 years of age or younger;
six were 11 years old; 19 were 12 years
old, while there were 92 who were 14. The
remainder, 171 children, were 15 years of
age. Of the total there were 158 white and
124 Negro boys as to 26 white and 19 Negro
girls.
The offenses listed on jail records as
reasons for holding these children range
all the way from “investigation” to the
most serious crimes.
How should the serious crime which
officials are committing by placing chil-,
dren in jail be listed? What are the rea
sons given? And for these official crimes
who will pay the bill of cost? The State
of North Carolina pays in its most valu
able asset, good citizenship. This State
has a wonderful program of soil conserva
tion, reforestation and others implemented
to conserve natural resources; but ahead of
all these should come youth conservation.
Hie number of children placed in jails is
not merely a violation of the law itself,
but is a serious indictment against our
times, a charge to which each, county
should answer guilty or not guilty. lit
judgment is to be suspended on good be
havior, then every community should be
gin this now; for the sooner, the less the
bill of cost. (The Sky land Post).
(Continued from Page 1)
cial responsibility by motor ve
hicle drivers involved in acci
dents. Proponents at a lengthy
hearing said the bill’s enactment
would promote safer driving, in
that it would remove many ir
responsible drivers from the
highways.
Senate passage of the anti-fire
works bill, outlawing their manu
facture, sale, possession or trans
portation, emfn for wut<«rf-state»
sale, was rapid. Senator Penny of
Guilford, a supporter of the fire
works ban, asked that the vote
go over until tomorrow to permit
additional discussion, but he was
quickly beaten down and he, too,
joined in the bill’s passage.
Opponents of the separation bill
told the conservation and devel
opment committees that the
state’s wildlife and fish program
is one of the best in the South
and should not be disturbed.
Dr. Hayman Is Speaker
Among the speakers—the pro
ponents previously had presented
their case—were Dr.. Donald Hay
man, University of North Caro
lina professor who was employed
by the general education board
of the Rockefeller foundation to
study natural resources of this
state; Dr. C. F. Korstian of Duke
university, representing the North
Carolina Forestry association; C.
W. Watson, regional inspector of
the federal fish and wildlife serv
ice; conservation and develop
ment hoard members Eric Rogers
of Scotland Neck, J. Wilbur Bunn
of Raleigh and Roy Hampton of
Plymouth; Senator John W. Cole
of Richmond, and Shields Alex
ander of Scotland Neck.
In spite of what others have
said (the bill’s proponents), the
present game and fish program
has made progress, Dr. Hayman
said, adding that it was his be
lief that the majority of sports
men in the state think Commis
sioner John D. Findlay is doing a
good job. He said that of 32
states in the eastern part of the
nation, only three have programs
such as that proposed by the
North Carolina Wildlife federa
tion, sponsor of the sepaartion
move.
FORMER COUNTY MAN
ACTIVE IN SENATE
(Continued from Page 1)
The state senate voted to create
this committee in order that the
members of the senate might be
more fully informed on %gricul
ural questions of the state, and
thereby legislate more intelligent
ly in regard to expenditure of
funds for agricultural purposes.
In a recent editorial from The
Northwest Farm News, of Bel
lingham, Wash., Mr. Roupe and
his committee were praised for
their work. It stated that “the
committee was extremely well
selected on merit, background and
ability and without any play on
politics.”
Mr. Roup, who has been active
in Kashington state affairs for a
number of years, is the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Roup,
of Sparta. He was born and reap
ed in Afieghahy"county.
He is married to the former
Miss Lula Hash, of Piney Creek.
He is the brother of Mrs. Mack
L. Hash, of Piney Creek and Mrs.
Luther Halsey, of Sparta.
Alleghany is proud that one of
its native sons is playing an im
portant part in the affairs of
Washington state.
$52,000 ALLOTTED IN
COUNTY’S AAA PROGRAM
(Continued from Page 1)
Wagoner.
Blevins X Roads — Chairman.
W. C. Evans; vice-chairman.
Kemper Jarvis; regular member,
Gwyn Truitt.
Cherry Lane—Chairman, Les
ter Woodruff; vice-chairman.
Burt Crouse; regular member, H
J. Spicer.
Cranberry—Chairman, Roberl
Joines; vice-chairman, Charlie
Roberts, regular member, Majoi
Mabe.
New Hope — Chairman, D. J.
Jones; vice-chairman, F. G. Weav
er; regular member, E. K. Tem
pleton.
Piney Creek—Chairman, John
R. Halsey; vice-chairman, Ray H.
Hash; regular member, Ray Par
lier.
Sparta — Chairman, Champ
Duncan; vice-chairman, Arol C.
Choate; regular member, Parley
Truitt
Stratford — Chairman, George
Finney; vice-chairman, C. E.' Ed
wards; regular member, C. G
Mitchell.
Turkey Knob—Chairman, R, X
Landreth; vice-chairman, Hairy
Young; regular member, Fred H.
Brown.
Twin Oaks—Chairman, G. C.
Reeves; vice-chairman, C. G. Fen
der; regular member, L. C. Hamp
ton.
Whitehead — Chairman, Ralph
Joines, vice-chairman, Lonnie
Edwards; regular member, Mack
C. Edwards.
Of Such Stuff are Dream Made
As the 80th congress neared the
end of its fourth week with the
Republican majority in complete
control, action had slowed down
to a walk and the course of lead
ership has veered, gee and haw,
on the two important subjects
. . . labor legislation and taxes.
Facing a rebellion within its
ranks, the GOP steering commit
tee now is giving its announced
policy of a 20 per cent tax cut
across the board the “brush-off”
and instead is approaching the
tax question in a more common
sense attitude to determine first
the amount of the budget and the
amount of debt retirement, and
then cutting the appropriation
cloth to fit the pattern. This is
as provided in the new congres
sional reorganization law.
On the labor question there
now seems to be no doubt but that
the congressional leadership is
ducking away from any so-called
punitive legislation and that some
measure which tallies up with the
provisions of the Case bill may
be the sum total of labor legisla
tion. And the Case bill as now
written is radically different from
the same measure which passed
the last congress-and was vetoed
by the President.
Congressman Case says he has
removed the features which
broadened his measure and has
President Truman found objec
tionable, mainly that the former
bill left the door open for injunc
tions against labor by private
employers. It no longer does that
In connection with the labor
question, those interested here are
full of conjecture on the meta
morphosis which has taken place
in the thinking * of Senator Ball
of Minnesota. He came down
here, a former newspaper writer,
as a liberal and a disciple of for
mer Gov. Harold Stassen of Min
nesota. He was considered a
champion of labor. He now is
fostering the most radical of all
punitive labor measures to out
law the closed shop, to provide
for compulsory limitation in in
dustry wide bargaining and other
features distasteful to labor. And
he is being continually needled
on the floor of the senate by the
liberal bloc, headed by Senators
Pepper of Florida and Morse of
Oregon.
The outlook for early farm leg
islation is more or less confused
and the prospect now is that any
farm legislation may. be postponed
until late in the summer. There
is even some likelihood that it
may even go over until next year.
There are several reasons for this
picture of the agricultural situa
tion. One is that the farm groups
themselves are not united on just
what they want on production
control and support prices, and
although Secy. Clinton Anderson
recently appeared before both
senate and house agricultural
committees to urge action now,
his plea fell on deaf ears. The
agricultural secretary wants early
action because he feels the farm
ers should know now what they
Wolf Branch—CJh airman, El
mer Edwards; regular member,
Robert Taylor, C. N. Crouse.
can expect in price support for
next year’s crop and in produc
tion control for the reason that
much of the 1948 crop will not be
marketed until, after present price
support expires on January 1,
1949.
He further wanted congression
al authority, specific authority,
for his current production con
trol operations which he does not
now have. But the Republicans
are leaving it up to the secretary
to provide his own stop-gap pro
gram until new legislation comes
along. They claim that to open
discussions on a new program at
this time might be disturbing to
farmers in the current year’s
planning and might cause some
curtailment in production on the
outside chance that price controls
will be cut. And then there are
the 1948 elections, which plav a
role in this as in every other piece
of legislation which comes before
this congress. -,7
With the situation as it is- today,
in good shape, and likely to last
the rest of tbe:year, the Repub
licans, according to well inform
ed sources, believe that thp farm
situation in 1948 .may gn# mote
serious and that legislative relief
provided closer to the date of
elections will have more effect on
the Vote question.
As a matter of fact, compartive
ly few agricultural bills have been
introduced. One, HR 996 by Con
gressman Harold Hagen, Minn.,
to promote markets for agricul
tural produces . . . one by Con
gressman George Gillie, Ind., to
provide for research on eradica
tion of the cattle grub . . . one
by Congressman Stephen Pace,
Ga., and a companion measure by
Sen. Richard Russell, Ga., to pro
vide support for basic agricul
tural policies . . . One by Pace
to include farm labor costs in par
ity price formula . . . one by
Congressman William Lemke, N.
D., to establish a minimum price
for agricultural commodities bas
ed on cost of production . . . one
by Congressman Gerald Landh,
Ind., to support farm prices at^O
per cent of parity.
When not in use, keep the sew
ing machine covered to protect it
from dust. Letting the presser
foot down on a scrap of cloth
helps the tension to stay at prop
er adjustment and also'takes up
any excess oil that may run down
the bar. If the machine is left
idle for a considerable time, oc
casional oiling keeps the oil in
the machine from drying and be
coming gummy, ■y
Almost any weljj-made sewiisf
machine can be made to run easily
and sew perfectly. Parts may •
need replacing in time, but sew
ing machines last two or three
generations if periodically oiled,
cleaned and adjusted. Even a
misused machine often can be put
into good working-order again.
Franklin County grows mare
acres of corn than any dm*r
crop.
FOB SALE
3 stacks of timothy clover on
my farm on Ftney Creek high
way. Also new Holland MB
’FOE KENT
>/l» acres of tehaeeo land to
J. S. LANDRETH
Thorpe, W. Va.
Stated elsewhere in paper
encorrecly as V. B. Land
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