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Thursday, August 5, 1937 SECTION A PAGE 2 THE MOCKSVILLE ENTERPRl MOCKSVILLE, N. C. The Mocksville Enterprise jpubliahed Every Thursday at Mocksville North Carolina A. C. Hxmeycutt .. Editor and Publisher 4WMMCIATKA Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year; 6 Months 75 centg : Strictly in Advance Entered at the post office at Mocksville, rr. C, a second-class matter under the act of March 1879. NOTICE TO GENERAL PUBLIC This newspaper charges regular ad vernaring rates for cards of thanks, resolution notices, Obituaries, etc., and will not accept any thing less than 35 cents cash with copy unless you have regular monthly accounts with us. We do not mean to be hard on any eie, but small items of this nature force us to demand the cash with copy. All such received by us in the future with out the cash or stair ps will not be published Mocksville, N. C, Thursday, August 5, 1937 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowfned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9. -o- THE WORST BONEHEAD YET The holding up of the starting of a six million water power development on the Yadkin River at Tuckertown on the part of the Federal Power Commission, pending a study as to the possibility of the proposed dam interfering with navigation, is the h-ig-gest bonehead yet pulled by new dealers. Be it said to the credit of the Commission, that body did not hear the petition on the part of the Tallassee Power Company, but the hearing was before -a Master sitting for the Commission. We do not know his name, but he was evidently some young lawyer, doubtless either inexcusably ignorant, or de termined to put off the final hearing for some reason. However, it does seem that one considered by the Federal Power Commission as capable of acting as a Master to represent that body in an important matter like that, -would have - had pride enough to have looked into the matter of the navagability &f the ' Yadkin River at the point where the proposed dam was intended to have been built. Surely he had the means before him to learn, if he did not already know, that,, below the site are al ready four dams. And surely he could have found from a common school geography that the Yadkin is not, never has and never will be navagable at Tuckertown. " It looks to us like an inexcusable holdup of a piece of work which would give employ ment to hundreds of laborers and turned lose seyeral million dollars in this section of the state. Purely the starting of this big de velopment will not be long held up on such a flimsy excuse. -o ; . .--. C ANA BOY PROVES IT CAN BE DONE Foresight, vision and earnest application. That was the case with Walter Etchison. In 1930 he started out to bjecome an aeronautic cai engineer. He thought he saw a great future in that line of work. He had fore sight and a vision of the future. He applied himself o his work. When the big Pan American Clipper III was getting ready to start on her initial flight from America to Europe, its motors and other mechanism were passed upon as in first class shape for the -trip, by Walter Etchison, an old Davie County boy. He was also on the big ship as it swept ever the Atlantic from Botwood, New foundland to Foynes, England. And it was not a mere happen so that seven years after finishing Mocksville High School this res ponsible position was given to Walter Etchi son. It was the result of vision and hard work. j The example of this Cana bjoy should be a source of inspiration for other young men in this section. No youth should ever -get it into his head that all the big things have been done and that all the worthwhile positions are filled. There are plenty of things fust waiting to be done by the young man of vision and industry and perseverance. Aviation is still in its infancy and for the young man of vision and daring the field of aeronautics is a promising one. 0- . BAILEY A NATIONAL CHARACTER Senator J. W. Bailey, by his able fight against, the court reform measure, succeeded in - making himself a national figure which few!, senators ever succeed in doing. The NewvYork Times puts the Senior North Caro lina senator as second in-the -class of ...sena tors -who have made real history for which the. "future historian will give -honor." . We have known all along . that Senator -Bailey is an able, safe and sound statesman and one who has the courage with which to back up his opinions. This publication con gratulates North Carolina upon having such a man represent her in the upper house of Congress. TOO MUCH POWER The Gastonia Gazette is of the opinion that the 'administration's wage and hour bill iis about as full of dynamite as was the Supreme Court bill, and with that this publication is in accord, and especially when one considers the amendment which got tacked onto it. Already Senator Bailey of this state has registered his opposition, stating that the bill if passed would put too much power into the hands of five men. But back to the Gazette's position. Says that publication: "There will be lodged in the hands of five men power over all industry "in the United ; States. This is too much. They will be able to set the wages and hours of work for men in the cotton mills of the South, in the steel mills of the North, in the flour and grain mills, in hosiery and knitUng plants, in furniture factories, and elsewhere, without much knowledge of local conditions that govern each case. "Isn't this a case of granting too much power to five men? Senator Bailey has the right idea about the thing. He says that the five man board will have too much power. There is no great rush in passing this labor bill. Industry is getting along fairly well and a few more months of the present regime will not hurt any one. Why the big idea in rushing it through congress with little time for study and debate? Why try to ram it down our throats as in the case of the Supreme Court bill? The power lodged in this five-man board is too broad and sweeping. For instance, un der the terms of the latest provision, a wage of 70 cents an hour could be specified by this board in any industry and no one could do anything about it. They could alsS shorten the work week to 35 hours. How would that suit the cotton mill or the furniture industry? How would the farmers of the country like to compete against legislation of that sort. What would be their feelings as they work 14 and 16 hours a day at some, seasons of the year at wages far less than 70 cents an hour? Let's have more debate on this bill before it is passed. , Senator Vandenburg, Republican," of Michi gan, says that the bill would give the adminis tration board "life or death" authority over industry. Warning colleagues that "The American system of industry may be at stake", Vanden berg said the bill involves "power over price fixing x x x power over the very creation and existence of jobs". The legislation, he contended, might place industry in a "straitjacket", when its pressing need is for "a period of adjustment" to the Wagner labor law. "There is such a thinr as economic indigest ion", he declared. "There is also such a thing as economic suicide". 0 : : FARMERS AND TOWNS-PEOPLE, - i ; ' REAIVTHIS - We wonder sometimes whether or not the average person realizes the service possibili ties of their home town newspaper. Here's what we mean. A few days ago a farmer dropped into the office and wanted' to sell some fine dry wood. His price was low enough, but we did not need any dry pine wood, nor did we know of any one who did. In about an hour we started to lunch. On the way we met a man, a local man, who ask ed. "Do you know where I can get several cords of good dry pine wood?" Now there you are. For 35 cents that farmer could have run a "want ad", or a "for sale ad" in the local paper and thereby he could have im mediately found a ready purchaser for what he had for sale. Or the man who wanted to buy wood could have handed the local news paper for publication only 35 cents, this : "Wanted : To bjuy several cords of good dry pine wood. Willing to pay cash". If inter ested see me", and signed his name, and he would shortly have gotten in direct touch with the farmer who had wood for sale. COURT MEASURE KILLED So the President's so called Supreme Court reform measure has died the death which it should have died. The President held out to the end, however, but public sentiment was so overwhelmingly against his measure that for once he failed to dominate Congress. The senate committee in making an unfavor able report on the bill stated that it shuld be so overwhelmingly defeated as to become an example that such another measure would never be attempted on the part of a chief executive of this nation, or words to that effect. And so constitutional government has again been saved to the people of the United States. A WARNING TO PARENTS Parents should be slow in allowing their email children, to play with air rifles. They may seem, harmless, but" they are anything else than harmless. The loss of an eye on the part of Mary Ann Johnson, of Farmington last week as the result of an air rifle shot, shows that those supposed to be harmless toys can inflict serious injuries. And the average boy under 12, and many over 12, are entirely too thoughtless and careless "to be entrusted with an air rifle. - O The opinion is advanced by -Mussolini that the World war debts .will never be collected by. the United States. He is perhaps right in this observation but if these "bad loans" will only serve to keep the United States out i of further foreign ? entangienients- we will all ; doubtless feel that weg0t, our m0ney's worth and more. The Chaxlotte observer. ncte Jim Saijs 0 ercropping 1 beyond market demnd makes for price-depress ing mrpluses, mines -the soil of its irtility, and exposes land to ero: on. It's good business to diWsify and grow more . oil conferving crops on which agri- culhral conservation payments - . - -- arejnade. . )RT COURSE SETS ATTENDANCE RECORD ; Attracting a record-smashing enrollment, the 4-H Shor Course held last week at Stat College was, in the opinion of exten sion (Officials, one of the most successful ever staged. Girls and boys from practically every county in North Carolina Hook possession of the campus I Monday, August 26, and reigned - until the following Saturday. The heavy ' registration of 950 taxed State College dormitories o capacity. v Heavy rains on the first two I delegates. Scoring considerably higher than their competitors, n. -Ousley of Harnett County, and Pearl Simpson, of Cumberland County, were selected as King onH oAPn of Health. Both are from the same district, th two counties adjoining. Young vut- ey made a score of 98.6 ana mis Simnson scored 98. niii-iTio- the morninK vuU, fh riAlPo-ates heard prominent " . . j, North Carolinians, watcnea us-m demonstrations, and attenaea classes: Courses in practical farming and homemaking wera taught by specialists of the State College Extension service auu i the School of Agriculture. Afternoons were turned over to demonstrations, sight-seeing, and recreation. The night programs were featured by plays, dress re oq vpsnsr services, community singing, pageants, and informal talks. ' One of the most " impressive events of the Short Course was the "candle lighting cermony whiVh Wrought the week to a close. On Saturday morning, most v, HoWates had returned Ul I11C to their homes. DR. R. P. ANDERSON DENTIST Anderson Building, Mocksville, N. C. Phone 50, Res. 37 J. B. Hutson, head of the agri- rnltural conservation program for' the . East Central Region, in which North Carolina is located will discuss the 1938 farm pro gram on Wednesday, August 4. during Farm and Home Week at State College. Be sure to attend the Masonic (lays of the meeting slowed up. Picnic, which will oe neia at proceedings but failed to. dampen ' Clement Grove, Mocksville, x. the spirit and enthusiasm of the C, Thursday, August 12, 1937. STOP IT WITH Alka-Seltzer Does Headache slow you down?" You are a rare ex ception it it does not. One or two tablets of ALKA- SELTZER in a glass of water makes a pleasant alkalizing solution that usually brings relief in just a few minutes. 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