North Carolina Newspapers

Qttf* Hadltin ftfptil* w. E. RUTLEDGE Editor and Publisher W. E. RUTLEDGE, JR. Associate Editor Published Every Thursday Entered at the Postoffice at Yadklnville, as second class mail matter., Established 1892 Subscription Rates: 1 Year ___$1.00 6 Months _ .80 Payable in Advance A Shame According to information heard on every comer here and in all sections of the county the Demo cratic party in Yadkin county is charged with shameful acts, in connection with the election of delegates to the county agricul tural meeting, which delegates ap pointed or elected the county AAA committee of six to administer the 1941 soil programs. It is stated that leaders of that party covered the county in their effort to carry the matter as they wanted it—and then failed in every instance. Only one Demo crat was elected on the committee and he is out of line with the county organization, it is said. It is said that in one township (Fall Creek) loads of colored people, of all ages, were carried out and voted. It is not believed that Henry Wallace, the partisan that he is, ever intended for his farm pro grams to be treated with such petty politics as was said to occur in the county last week, and what the people of this section think of it cannot be printed in these columns. As the committee stands now six good men, committeemen, will have charge of the 1941 program in the county, but they were elected in spite of the Democratic party in the county and against their will. What they wanted were politicians—no matter what else. The Ripple has absolute faith in every committeeman elected and we beleive they will administer the program and serve the best interests of the farmers of Yad kin county—and if they don’t then they will hear something through these columns. Politics in Draft? When it was announced that the draft boards were to be select ed by the Clerk of court, the sup erintendants of schools and chair man of board of elections, it sounded like the draft business was already in politics because those three officers in each coun ty afe distinctly political. However in Yadkin county a board has been selected of good men, and men we believe will ad minister the draft honestly and to the best of their ability. Each member of the board is a veteran of the world war and knows what war is like; they are good citizens and they will do their best to carry out the provisions of the act, although it is bitter business, fair and honestly with every person. And we certainly hope our opin ion of these three men—Lawrence Hudspeth, Loyd Craver and Shelly Sills— will not dissapoint us in our opinion as expressed here. An Appeal to Frank lin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States: I appeal to ypu to grant me the privilege of growing some tobac co on my farm without paying a penalty for selling it. The fol lowing will fully explain why I make the request. In my boy hood days, after passing school, I worked for a merchant and con tractor as clerk and handy boy, at $7.00 per month. I worked myself up to fifty cents per day. At odd times and at night, I read law, medicine and the Bible. I studied hard to obtain an educa tion. I had high hopes and as pirations. As the years passed by on fleeting wings, my hopes grew brighter, until my highly esteemed friend and benefactor, and my beloved father and mother passed on through the Valley and across the river of death,'to that bourne from whence no mortal being has ever returned. Thpn dark and gloomy clouds began to overshad ow me and darken my hopes. I gave up all hope of a professional career. I bought a small farm and home and went to farming. At odd times I worked at the car penter trade, at one dollar per day, often walking six miles to and from my work each day. I used my own judgment in farming and all I asked of my fellowman was friendship, broth erly love and kindness, and of the government to be let alone. The farmers, the producers of bread and meat, the necessities of life, and the producers of wealth, have through their persevering and indomitable will against all opposition, since the landing of Columbus near four hundred and fifty years ago, made this the greatest and richest nation on earth. This has been accomplish ed without the intervention or advice of high salaried agricul tural agents. But now, behold the changed scene! The Farm Bureau Commission, Boards, re duction contracts, opened up a new avenue for graft. Through the promise of a handsome rent al check to the signer, a burden some tax attached to the non signer, for reducing acres and pounds, some tobacco growers signed the contract—others did not sign. I heard one farmer say, “I have never raised over 30 bams of tobacco on my farm.” He signed the reduction contract and the year following he raised, cured and sold, I am reliably in formed, 89 bams of tobacco. He paid no penalty for selling the overplus. The government hand ed this man a check for $1,000 for REDUCING. I know of other growers that worked on the same principle. While the non-signer was forced to pay to the govern ment thirty dollars out of one hundred dollars, or thirty per cent of all he sold. The Farm Bureau promised the hog growers three dollars for each pig and fifteen dollars for each and every hog killed and destroy ed. The hog growers and a few men, regardless of principle, signed the contract to kill and destroy pigs and hogs. I know of one man that signed the contract who had at odd times in past years raised and sold a few pigs. He looked up his ,old account book and went to each person he had sold a pig and persauded them to sign an order to the government to pay him fifteen dollars each for the hogs he kill ed and destroyed. This man re ceivea checks from the govern ment for over twenty-five hun dred dollars for killing and de stroying hogs that he never killed and destroyed. Many others worked the same racket. This graft and the flow of money from the government into the hands of the grafters was kept in full blast until the “Nine Old Men,” God bless them, put a stop to it. A new Farm Control Board is now in operation. It is the same old board in disguise, having all the earmarks and platitudes transacing business under new plans with a few more tenacles attached. When the day comes to vote for or against control, the special few, the renter with a large family living off relief, and the high salaried officers (and they are many) all go and take their families and vote for con trol regardless of age, while I and thousands of others, many of them depending on the farm for their support, are not allowed to vote nor a voice in the matter. I am not a tobacco grower. I never raised a plant. But I am a native bom American citizen, a | tax payer, well along in years. I cannot work like I one time could. 11 find it is impossible to rent my farm unless I am allowed to grow some tobacco without paying a penalty of ten cents on the pound to sell it. I applied to the local office for a permit to raise tobacco. I was turned down. I renewed my request and was treated with silent contempt. If you, Mr. President, had put into force and execution the promises you made prior to your first election and spent a million or more dollars to free the Uni ted States of the foreign secret agents that are here working se cretly and insidiously day and night to destroy our form of government, instead of establish ing many more worthless and costly commissions and filling them with high salaried officers, killing pigs and hogs, burning and destroying wheat and com, plowing up cotton and tobacco, paying out thousands of dollars for building dog kennels, and tens of thousands to build swimming pools on on the top of high mountains with no water within five or six miles, and paying hands from three to four dollars per day to carry stones from two and one-half to three miles in buckets, squandering millions of dollars on other foolish and worthless, progress and levying prodigious taxes upon everything visible and invisible, the Amer ican people would be immensely better off today and living con tented and haDDv. Respectfully submitted, / A. A. WILLARD. Boonville, N. C., Sept. 7, 1940. THE ANSWER The answer to the above is described by Mr. Willard as fol lows: Sept. 7, 1940 The White House answer to the above letter of request under date of Sept. 23, 1940, per E. A. Johnson, Senior Agricultural Economist of Washington, D. C., is very unreasonable and pre varicating. In fact it is not an answer. It is, to say the least, a bluffing subterfuge. Oct. 5, 1940. A. A. WILLARD THROUGH T H El KEYHOLE By BILL KUTLEDGE The book came to our desk to gether with the rest of the morn ing mail—A pretty, blue-backed copy attractively covered with heavy culloise and in a neat fold er. Its name was “Smoke Screen,” a book written by form er Congressman Samuel B. Pet tingill, Democrat, of Indiana. When we turned the last page several days later, we found that the inside was not as pretty as the outside. It is an amazing disclosure of the inside of our government today. “Smoke Screen” strips the veneer of “laudable objectives” from the unguaranteed political promises of the “more abundant life.” * • * Here are a few things that the book discloses: That the secretary of the Navy has proposed that the President be given power in peace times to seize factories and railroads and fix prices and wages and regi ment labor—the same exact quantity and quality of power which Chancellor Adolf Hitler exercises to run the Nazi Navy. That a United States Senator has proposed that government “annuities” be sold—a clever and falsely labelled “humanitarian” device by which a spendthrift government would take over the assets of insurance companies and undermine the security of some 64,000,000 thrifty people. That a bill is actually pending to give the Secretary of the In terior power to manage the pe troleum industry. * * • That another measure is before Congress to “socialize” the prac tice of medicine and thus destroy a great profession while lowering our health*standards. * * * That the United States per capita public debt in 1938 was $432.65—greater than the per capita debt of Germany or Italy, where desperate peoples have turned to National Socialism. That the Securities and Ex change Commission has warned a great utility company that it can’t sell bonds, but must sell stock, thus taking the manage ment away from those who own it—precisely as Hitler does across the sea. * * * That the Temporary National Economic Committee is reported to be preparing a “blast against American business beyond com parison with anything in history” i—its thesis being that private en I terprise is a failure; life insur 'ance a blood-sucker; private j banking outmoded—and that Na tional socialism is the hope of | the world. * * * Under the title, “A Time-Table of Dictatorship,” the author lists the following steps taken by Prance, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United states: Extrava gant public works . . . Concen trate power in executives . . . Undermine independent judiciary . . . Excessive subsidies . . . Gov ernment by decree . , . Encourage subversive forces . . . Impose con fiscatory taxes . . . Restrict pri vate investments . . . Unbalance budget . . . Destroy morale of in dustry . . . Excessive borrowing Hugh national debt . . . National ize industry, and regiment labor. Under each of the foreign coun tries, “Dictatorship” is placed under the list. Under the United States’ list, which corresponds exactly with the others, is a question mark. * * * It is later than we think! An Illinois farmer found a po tato plant with three of its tu bers growing above the ground. INSURANCE • HAIL • FIRE • AUTO • TORNADO Be Safe—Insure M. W. MAIM Yadkin ville, N. C. At The Fair J rti>ove is a section of the Davis & Parrott Shows coming to the Yadkin County Fair at East Bend next week. BOONVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Rovey Shaw and son, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Shaw, of Boonville, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Swaim, of Jonesville, visit ed relatives in Speedwell, Va., ; and other points in Virginia Sun I day. ! Miss Mary Speer, a member of the Jamestown school faculty in Guilford county, spent the past week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Speer. | Rev. and Mrs. Raymond E. Connell and Mrs. W. E. Brooks attended the W. M. U. meeting at [North Wilkesboro Tuesday. Mrs. Jettie Matthews spent the ' week-end here with her sister, Mrs. R. M. Fletcher. Mrs. Matth ews is a member of Davidson county school system. Mrs. Clyde Baker left Tuesday ] for Wagam where she will spend several days with her parents. Business Specials Come to the Boonville Fair Fri day and Saturday of this week and wear your trading clothes, as I have some of those good mares, mules, automobiles, Nis sen wagons, and plenty of that good grain fertilizer to trade or sell you. R. M. Fletcher, Boon ville, N. C. P. S. Don’t, forget to bring me a little payment on that note or mortgage. Thank you. I will sell my household and j kitchen furniture Oct. 19 at 1 o’clock. One mule for sale or trade for milk cow; one good Majestic range; one chiffonier; few farming tools and cooking utensils. J. H. White, Rt. 1, Yadkinville. 10-17p For Sale: A No. 1 plug mule, cheap for quick' sale. Dick Wells, Yadkinville. 10-10p ! Wanted: Eggs, hams, butter, chickens, all kinds of country produce. For best cash prices see Earlie Combs, South Bridge street, Elkin, N. C., Phone 308. tfc Wanted! Refined girls for Beauty Culture Training. A complete course for only $50.00. State accredited. Mae’s School of Beauty Culture, North Wilkes boro. N. C. Mrs. Jake Church, Prop. 5-9tfn For sale, beautiful 60 acre farm, 4 and 7 room houses with out buildings, tobacco and feed 1 barns, 30 acres clear and 30 in heavy timber. $80.00 per acre, one-third to one half cash. R. E. Bencini, Route 2 High Point, N. C. ll-21p Notice—To get the highest price for your property let us sell it at auction. We furnish refer ences. See W. R. Weir Auction Co., 218 First National Bank Building, or write P. O. Box 1954, Winston-Salem, N. C. __ 10-17C Keep Warm With A South Wind Gasoline Car Heater This Winter LOYD DIXON SERVICE STA. Phone 12-M Yadkinville WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL and SENTIN& MMMXNO BTKNINa FIRST NEWS PICTURES— , FEATURES— , ; A'0>. > Later she and Mr. Baker will go to Fredericksburg, Va., where Mr. Baker will help build a bridge across the Rappahannock river. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have been living here during the past sev Take No Chances With Beauty Work! Come here for expert facials, hair dying, waving, and man icuring. Experience assures of only the most careful treat ment at our shop. Permanents $1.50 to $8.50 Ask for Appointment Libby s Beauty Shoppe Yadkinville eral months while Mr. Baker was engaged In helping build the Crutchfield bridge. He was fore man of carpentry work. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Martin at tended the Wake Forest-Furman football game at Wake Forest last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Arlle Steelman and children visited at Mountain Park Sunday. The Boonville high school foot ball team won.its first game of the season at Flat Rock last Fri day afternoon by the score of 6 to 0. Paul Brown, Boonville fullback, carried the ball over on a line plunge for the only score of the game. Boonville and Cope land will play here Friday after noon as a Friday feature of the fair. Rev. and Mrs. Connell, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Chlpman and Mr. W. W. Woodruff made a trip to Low Gap Sunday afternoon. Mr. Connell filled an appointment in the Low Gap Baptist church. Grady Spainhour, son of Mr. Miss Ruby Winkler spent the past week-end with her parents at Boone. and Mrs. S. A. Spainhour, of Boonville, left Monday for Parris Island, S. C., where he will be come a member of the U. S. Ma rine Corps. Mrs. Lucy Watkins has return ed to her home at Charleston, 8. C., after spending several months visiting her brother, Mr. Joe Reece. Mrs. Robert Gaither visited her husband at Cool Springs. Dr. Finney Moves Offices The medical office of Dr. J. R. Finney, of Boonville, has been moved from his home on the south side of Boonville to the building occupied by Boonville Drug company on the Main street of Boonville. Dr. Finney will re tain offices in this building in the future. He states that his office hours will be from 10 to 12 in the morning and from 6 to 8 p.m. W. E. Brooks and G. H. Hudler, co-owners of the Boonville Gro cery company, formally opened Boonville’s first drug store last Saturday. For several years res idents of this town have felt a need for a store of this type, and Messrs. Hudler and Brooks have at last served that need. BOONVILLE FAIR Oct. 10-11-12 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Thursday, P. M. Yadkin County High School Track Meet Friday, P. M. FOOTBALL GAME Boonville vs. Copeland PLAYS rriaay Attemoon “That Heller Family” By Shelton-Amos Players Friday Night “Borrowed Husbands” By Shelton-Amos Players SATURDAY Live stock show including Draft Horses, Mules, Dairy Cattle, Swine and Dogs. Saddle Horse show to be Sat urday afternoon. Saturday Night “Lena Rivers” by Boonville High School Amusement Rides by A. B. & B. Amusement Co., Inc. FIREWORKS SATURDAY NIGHT IF YOU! LOOK FOR LOOKS IF # 1/ “F/lilF/ TW1A TkTJW*** ' ★ THRILLING NEW BIGNESS In All Ma|or Dimensions * NEW LONGER WHEELBASE ★ LONGER, LARGER, WIDER FISHER BODIES With No Draft Ventilation ★ DE LUXE KNEE-ACTION ON ALL MODELS With Balanced Springing Front and Rear, and Im proved Shockproof Steering ★ 904U>. 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