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Truth, Honesty of Purpose and Untiring Fidelity To Our Country and Our Flag Is Our Aim and Our Purpose . m ,T __^^—^~aa—=s=r^===================a===g————-’^— YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932 VOL. XXXVIII No. 38 I LONGEVITY . . of newspapers For 50,000 consecutive days, ex clusive of Sundays, the London Morning Post has never failed to ap pear since it was founded in 1772. This is the oldest daily newspaper in the world that has been a daily since it was founded. There are one or two newspapers in America which are older, but they were weeklies for many years before they became dailies. I know of nothing that is harder to kill ^than a good newspaper. I have had occasion to make a list of * American newspapers more than one hundred years old and was amazed to find that there are nearly two * hundred of them. That is probably more survivors than there are in any other line of business. Without exact figures at hand, I venture the . guess that there are nowhere near two hundred businesses or industries In the United States that have siir - vived a century of Uninterrupted activity. 8AXAPHONES . . . long with us ^ Almost a hundred years ago a Bel t gian named Adplphe Sax invented a new kind of musical instrument and named it for himself, the saxaphone. It speedily became a standard in strument for military bands in France. P. T. Barnum, the greatest showman the world has ever known, heard the saxaphone played when he was in Europe in the 1840’s and brought a band of saxaphone play \ ers over to give concerts in his museum on lower Broadway, long * before he ever started in the circus business. The saxaphone is today the most popular of all musical instruments. Its re-discovery in America dates from about the time of the great war. One reason for its popularity is that it is easy to learn to play. A great many people dislike saxaphone music but something like a hundred . thousand of these instruments are turned out every year by American factories and shipped all over the world. SCOTCH ... . buy our bonds I dined the other night with the European representative of an im portant American financial institu tion, over here on a vacation. He told me that it was the canny Scotch man who are responsible for the present activity ia the bond and stock market in the United States. Edinburg is the headquarters of a large number of British investment trusts. Along in the early part of the summer the managers of these trusts, looking for sound invest ments observed that conditions seemed to be improving in the Uni 4 ted States, that there was no longer any fear of our monetary stability, that some commodity prices were be ginning to rise and that broad plans for the rehabilitation of the finan cial situation were, beginning to operate. At tne same time they noted that American securities, particularly bonds, were selling at ridiculously low prices, so they began to buy them. They bought and they kept buying, and in a month or so their buying began to affect the Wall Street securities market and Ameri can investors began to follow their example. So my friend told me. POWER .... inside the earth Some day we will get a large part of our heat and power without using any fuel at all. In Italy more than 12,000 kilowatts of energy are gen erated by the heat obtained by drill ing holes into volcanic mountains. In Sonoma. California, the steam from geysers is utilized to produce almost as much energy. The late Sir Herbert Parsons, in venter of the steam turbine, worked out a plan for boring a hole for twenty miles or more into the hot interior of the earth and proved to the satisfaction of many engineers that its cost would be more than re paid by the continuous supply of heat and power which would thus be obtained. We haven’t as yet begun to more than scratch the surface of this old ^earth’s possible sources of wealth. PIGEONS . . extinct passengers Every little while-some sports man or naturalist reports having seen a live passenger pigeon. On investigation, however, it always turns out that the bird was a mourning dove, which is a smaller bird. One hundred years ago, in 1832, YADKIN GROUP PLAN OWN POWER PLANT Electricity For Brooks Cross Roads is Pos sibility • People of the Brooks Cross Roads section of Yadkin county, according to information garnered in that vicinity for the past several weeks, are going to be in position to attain electric power for themselves within ‘the near future. It is said that three prominent residents of Hamptonvjlle are pro posing the establishment of a power plant at Longtown, one mile ^orth of Brooks. Enough power can be generated at the proposed site of a dam which will be thrown across Longtown creek, it is said, to furn ish an adequate amount of current for all who are interested. The three men who are primarily interested in the power project are Dr. H. J. Weaver, M. F. Shore and Joe Brooks, the latter having al ready made overtures to the owner of the proposed site, but no terms have been arranged upon as yet. C. Y. DUNNAGAN PASSES AWAY Cecil Y. Dunnagan, died at 6 o’clock Tuesday morning in the U. S. Government Hospital at Ports mouth, Va. He was 38 years old. Death followed a cranial operation performed more than a week ago. Although partial paralysis followed the operation, for a while there seemed a reasonable chance of his recover^. For the past several years Mr. Dunnagan has represented the Wm. Wrigley Company in this district of North Carolina. Until two years ago, when he removed to his old home in Yadkinville, he was a resi dent of Winston-Salem. Since his removal to the govern ment hospital at Portsmouth, Mr. Dunnagan has been constantly at tended by his wife—formerly Miss Claylee Martin, of Fort Worth, Texas. Surviving him, in addition to the widow, are two sons, Grant, 8, and Pat, 4; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Dunnagan, of Yadkinville, and five brothers, C. V. Dunnagan, Thomas F. Dunnagan, J. Leslie Dun nagan, and R. Claude Dunnagan, of Winston-Salem, and Rush Dunna gan, of Raleigh. Funeral services will be conducted from the home of his father, C. F. Dunnagan, Thursday afternoon, at 2:30, conducted by Rev. T. A. Plyler and Rev. M. H. Vestal. [ Pallbearers will be J. C. Pass, M. A. Royall Jr., Richard Eaton, John D. Holcomb, Raymond Cleary and Nelson Dobbins. Yadkin County Fair Is Progressing Nicely N. G. Hutchens, secretary of the Yadkin County Fair, which is to be held at East Bend, October 11 to 14, states that plans are going forward for the fair and that prospects are good for a big fair. He also calls attention to the fact that the baby contest will be held on Wednesday afternoon, Octobfer 12th, and the Beauty contest Thurs day afternoon, Oct. 13. Mr. Hutchens also calls attention to the fact that all married ladies will be admitted free on the opening day, Tuesday. Alexander Wilson, a famous natur alist, say at Frankfort, Kentucky, a flock of passenger pigeons a mile wide and so long that it took four hours to cross the town, flying at the rate of a mile a minute. He* estimated that there were more than two million birds in this one flock. A hundred years earlier an observer in Pennsylvania reported that the passenger pigeons alighted in such numbers on trees as to break the branches off. The last known individual passen ger pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoological Park in 1914. The ex tinction of this bird is supposed to be due to their wholesale slaughter by hunters. In 1879 passenger pi geons sold at retail in the Chicago markets for sixty cents a dozen and a boy with a shotgun could make $10 a day by killing them, even at that price. This is only one of the forms of native wild life which, like the buf falo, have utterly vanished from the American scene because of un checked slaughter. Fortunately most states now have well-enforced game laws to protect such wild crea tures as we have left. If MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN (An Editorial) For the first time in the memory of this writer has a newspaper or news agency, for any reason, gone into the private affairs of a peaceful and law abiding citizenry to the extent of publishing their private affairs and especially a wholesale list of the private debts of those people. We have arrived at a sorry turn in the road of our destination when man’s inhumanity to jnan reaches out of the bonds of reason and the ties that bind all humanity together so far that a newspaper that has been taught the ethics of the profession and the Golden Rule reaches out into the prifate lives of its supporters for: petty political gain. In the Monday morning issue of the Winston-Salem Journal was a news dispatch from Raleigh, which purported to quote certain State officials in regard to the financial af fairs of Yadkin county arid intimating that due diligence had not been used in making loans from the sinking funds ac cumulated to meet outstanding bonds of the county. This was followed by a very cunning editorial in the issue of Tues day morning. It is obvious that the entire handling of the matter through this paper has been systematically outlined by political leaders to deceive the voters of Yadkin county and to sway them to vote the Democratic ticket in the com ing election. Be that as it may let us say here and now that the entire matter will be explained to the voters of this county with the facts and figures before election. This paper has not had the opportunity to check up on the list of loans ex cept in Yadkin county. As we have said before in this article we would consider it the height of impropriety to publish a list of those who have loans, but it is a fact that these loans have been made to Democrats and Republicans alike, and as to those loans checked on in this county we find that the amount loaned to our citizens is $69,821.83. The firms and individuals receiving these loans list property for taxation in Yadkin county to the amount of $166,814.00, or two and a half times more than the loans. Many of these people also own considerable property outside the county. The news article was again unfair because it listed only those, loans deemed to be of political value. For instance a loan is listed in the name of R. L. Dinkins, son of the Chair man of the Board of County Commissioners, and the dis patch stated that no collateral was listed. This loan was originally $3,500.00 but has been paid down to $2,475.00 and interest paid to Jan. 1, 1932. It is secured by a deed of trust on 86 acres of fine lands on which more than $5,000.00 in improvements has been made in the past two years. We have said it before and now say it again that Yad kin county is in better financial shape than any county in this section in every way and when the people trust their af fairs with such men as the present Board of County Com missioners and.Mr. W. M. Hall of the Bank of Yadkin, which is the county Treasurer, their tax money will be as safe as it can be made humanely possible. Space forbids^more detail of this matter but we assert that there will be very little, if any, loss in present invest ments although we have passed through the most trying times of recent years, and since the Winston-Salem Journal has become the Guardian Angel of its neighboring counties we beseech them to look into other adjoining counties and report their findings and if any one of them are found in better shape than Yadkin then we make our bow to them. This is only fair to Yadkin county officials since they have started the matter. I •u)rites of ASTER EXECUTIVE' Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy burdened who win tmd every human trial paralleled .mhe experiences of “The Man Nobody Knowv' THE OUTDOOR MAN The air was filthy with the smell of animals and human beings herded together. Men and women trampled one another, crying aloud their im precations. At one side of the court were the pens of the cattle; the <Jove cages at the other. In the foreground hard-faced priests and money chang ers sat. behind long tables, exacting the utmost farthing from those who came to buy. One would never imagine that this was a place of worship. Yet it was the Temple— the center of the religious life of the nation. And the crowds who jam med its courts, the spectacle seemed perfectly normal. That was the tragedy of it. Standing a little apart from the rest, Jesus, the young man from Naz areth watched in amazement which deepened gradually into anger. It was no familiar sight to him. He had not been in the Temple since his Iwelfth year, when Jobeph and Mary took him up to be legally en rolled as a son of the law. His chief memory of that previous visit was of a long conversation with certain old men in a quiet room. He had not witnessed the turmoil in the outer courts, or, if he had, it made small impression on his youth ful mind. But this day was differ ent. For weeks he had looked for ward to the visit to the Temple*. To be sure some of the'older ones mutjtered about the extortions of the money-changers ht the Temple/ A woman told how the lamb which she had-- raised with so much devotion the previous year, had been scorn fully rejected by the priests, who directed her to buy from the dealers. An old man related his experience. Today Jesus faced the sordid real ity, his cheeks flushed. A woman’s shrill tones pierced his revery like a knife; he turned to see a peasant mother protesting vainly against a ruthless exaction. And suddenly, without a word of warning, he strode to the table where the fat money-changer sat, and hurled it violently across the court. The startled robber lurched forward, grasping at his gains, lost his balance and fell sprawling on the ground. Another step and a second table was over-turned, and another, and another. The crowd which had melted back at the start began to catch a glimmering of what was up, and surging forward around the young man. He strode on, looking neither to right nor left. He reached the counters where the dove cages stood; with quick sure movements the cages were opened and the occupants released. Brush ing aside the group dealers who had taken their stand in front of the cattle pens, he threw down the bars and drove the bellowing animals out into the streets. The whole thing happened so quickly that the priests were swept off their feet. Now, however, they collected themselves and bore down upon him in a body. Who was he that dared this act of defiance? Where had he come from? By what authority did he presume to inter rupt their business? "This is my authority,” he cried. "It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations,’ but ye have made it a den of robbers.” CASTEVENS OPENS HARDWARE STORE Will Be Operated With Much Larger Stock; Sale Confirmed The Elkin Hardware company, which was purchased at public auc tion a short time ago by 0. D. Cas tevens, of Cycle, was opened for business Wednesday morning fol lowing confirmation of the sale Tuesday evening. Mr. CasteVens, who will operate the store, was in Charlotte Wednes day for the purchase of a large stock of hardware,- which will be added to the regular stock. Clyde Woodruff, who was con nected with the store when it was operated by E. F. McNeer, is again associated with the firm under the new ownership. Gray Castevens, % j son of the owner, is also associated | with the business. LATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM NATIONAL NEWS CAtJSED TEN DEATHS Portland, Ore., Sept. 27.—The Oregonian tomorrow will carry a .signed statement by Paul M. Cal Hcotte, well known Portland man, in which he declares his' belief that he is the man who placed the suitcase bomb in the Sari Francis co preparedness day parade July 22, 1016, which cost 10 lives ami sent Tom Mooney and Warren K. Killings to prison for life. MAY CAUSE SCANDAL Chicago, Sept. 27.—Reverber ations from the exploded Insull investment enterprises, which cost security holders an estimated three billion dollars resounded from political arenas, the state legislature, and civic meeting places today as federal and state investigators pored over the vol uminous records of the defunct concern. 200 DEAD IN STORM San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sept. 27.—A hurricane swirled through Puerto Rico today and lumbered on, leaving a death toll that pro bably will mount into hundreds, and property damages that will finally be calculated in the many millions of dollars. tiov. James R. Beverley tonight 200 and the injured at 1,000. FOUR ARE DEAD Havana, Sept- 27.—Havana was placed under military rule to night after an outburst of political violence had resulted in the as sassination of Clemente Vazquez Bello, president of the Cuban sen ate, and of three prominent mem T>ers of the opposition to the ad ministration of President Macha do. TOBACCO PRICES BETTER Prices superior to those com manded last year were paid on the opening of the old Worth Caro lina bright leaf tobacco belt Tues day and farmers appeared to be pleased. Sales were only moder ately heavy but offerings appeared to be superior to those on last year's opening “break.” ASHEVILLE MAN SLAIN Asheville, Sept. 27.—Officers of half a dozen western North Caro lina counties were engaged in the search tonight for a bandit who shot, and fatally wounded I. (». Russell at a filling station here about 0:30 o’clock tonight. Mrs. John H. Eaton Passes Thursday Mrs. Gertrude Eaton, 51 years old, wife of John H. Eaton, of Route 2, died Thursday night at 11 o’clock following an illness of several days. Mrs. Eaton is survived by her hus band, two brothers, C. P. and Frank Mackie, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Eddleman and Mrs. Delia Dixon. The funeral was held at Forbush Baptist church Friday afternoon at two o’clock, and was in charge of Rev. V. M. Swaim and Rev. S. F. Morton. Mrs. Eaton had been a valued member of the church for many years. MINE WAR FLAMES A sanguinary street riot in which a police officer was killed and a score or more other persons injured, two critically, brought the smoulder ing Illinois mine war to a new phase of hostilities Sunday. OUTSTANDING NEWS EVENTS —of the— " PAST WEEK FIND MURDERED MAN Chatham county authorities are working to establish the ^Tdentity and clear- up the circumstances sur rounding the apparent murder of an unknown white man whose badly decomposed body was found in & clump of woods about 75 yards from the Liberty-Pittsboro road, near Si ler City, Friday. NEWELL MAKES DENIAL Denying charges that he took the stump for liquor interests in 1908 and worked against the enactment of prohibition laws in North Caro lina, Jake F. Newell, senatorial nominee of the Republican party, declared Friday night that “I didn’t do any such thing and I didn’t get a penny .from any liquor organiza tions.” FAVOR 5-DAY WEEK Approyal of the 40-hour week in industry and- opposition to payment of the soldiers’ bonus before maturi ty in 1945 werp voted Friday by the directors of the chamber of com merce of the Urfjted States at Wash ington. • < SIMS QUITS LEGION Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. N., retired,.,. commander of the American naval forces overseas dur ing the world war, Friday made pub lic a letter in which he resigned his honorary membership in the Ameri can Legion as a protest against the legion’s stand on the bonus ques tion. *'• » BURGLARIZE COLLEGE OFFICE Breaking the lock on the safe in the treasurer’s office at North Caro lina State College at Raleigh early Sunday morning, robbers made away with approximately $8,000 in registration funds and receipts from Saturday night’s football game be tween State and Appalachian State Teachers college. MILLS NOT TO OPEN W. B. Cole, president of the Han nah .Pickett Manufacturing com pany, and George P. Entwistle, pres ident of the Entwistle Maunfactur ing company, announced Sunday night at Rockingham that they would make no effort to open their mills, shut down several weeks by a strike. GANDHI WARNS PEOPLE Mahatma Gandhi warned the peo ple of India Sunday that he w'ould suspend his “fast unto death” only if the compromise electoral plan ac cepted by untouchables and caste Hindus, is approved by Prime Min ister Ramsey MacDonald. BACKING ROOSEVELT Richard Washburn Child, who was ambassador to Italy under Presi dents Harding and Coolidge, an nounced Sunday he would support Franklin .D. Roosevelt for president and would head an organization to be known as the Republicans for Roosevelt League. MRS. BORAH BETTER Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of the Idaho senator, was somewhat improved Monday, and apparently winning her fight against the dread ed malady known commonly as par rot fever. ROOSEVELT’S STAND Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was described Monday as opposed to immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus in a letter made pub lic by W. W. Woolley, former inter-, state commerce commissioner and member of the 1916 and 1924 Dem ocratic national compaign commit tees. FEAR FOR JAP FLIERS Fear that the three Japanese fliers who set out Saturday morning on a good will flight to the United States had been lost in a week-end storm over the North Pacific, grew Mon day as no word was received from the plane’s radio and the time limit of its gasoline supply was long over run. MIDDLE BELT OPENS North Carolina middle belt mar kets of'the old bright leaf tobacco belts opened Wednesday for the 193 2 season. HIT BY OWN CAR Paul Harris, 21, is in a Hickory hospital guttering from a concussion of the brttin as a result of being run over by bis own automobile as bft was cranking it Monday morning.
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