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flaiikfn SUupl* W. E. RUTLEDGE Editor Mid Publisher W. E. RUTLEDGE, JR. Associate Editor' Published Evcjry Thursday Entered at the Postoffice at Yadkinville, as second class mail matter. ' ^ •kil.l ■ :■ j j.j » Established 1892 ' ' • /.'U.: v<Ot Subscription. Rates: 1 Year _-$1.00 6 Months _ .50 Payable in Advance Republican Ticket For President WENDELL L. WILLKIE For Vice-President CHARLES L. McNARY For Governor ROBERT MCNEILL For Congress F. D. B. HARDING For State Senate * MILES F. SHORE For Representative HOVEY NORMAN For Surveyor L. A. SHORE County Commissioners C. G. MATHIS J. W. GARNER RAY T. MOORE i HARRISON DINKINS D. A. SMITHERMAN (Each conimisssioner 1 Us1 • vbted on only in his district!) ' -——. ■’ ;rr- > One thing seems certain-rthis election will eliminate Franklin D. Roosevelt or John L. Lewis one from public life, accdrding to present plans. ' 1 ‘ Whoever heard of a Republican throwing a rotten egg, a ripe to mato, or burning signboards in election campaigns i, They don’t do like that. That is not the American way. Many a shaky finger moved down the lottery numbers of the draft figures yesterday morning fearing the next number would be his. This is one time most of them wanted to be last. A Clarifying Statement In the Ripple last \tfeek we re ferred to the recently passed fed eral law known as the Hatch act and stated in that article certain people who were affected by the act. In the last paragrah of the edi torial these words were used: “Solicitor Avalon E. Hall has serv ed public notice on all persons that no crooked actions by elec tion officials will be tolerated—” Although it appeared that Mr. Hall intended to exercise his of fice to prosecute under the Hatch act, no such was intended, as the Hatch act is purely a federal law, and Mr. Hall’s power^ only reach the criminal laws of the State of North Carolina. We say this in justice to Mr. Hall and to all em ployees referred to as well. A member of the State Highway forces here has a letter from the Attorney General of the state in which he states they do not come under the provisions of the Hatch act and advises them they can do certain work on election day. This is a matter for them to work out as The Ripple is not versed in the intricate details of the laws of the country. Where Is the County Exhibit? For over forty years under the rule of Republican government in Yadkin county it has been the custom, as required by law, to publish a county exhibit imme diately after the close of the coun ty’s fiscal year at the end of November. This shows the amount of money received from the tax payers and the amount spent, for what purpose spent and to whom paid. The publication of this exhibit is required by law to be made after the close of busniess in Nov ember of each year, ) by the Board of County Commissiofiers. ’ Democratic county commission ers took charge of the affairs of Yadkin county on the first Mon day in December, 1938, but no county exhibit has been'published of their receipts or expenditures of public funds since that time and the taxpayers of Yadkin county do not know whether they had a surplus at the end of the year or a deficit. They do not know how much money was re ceived from tax sources. They do not know to whom this money was paid or what it was spent for. They do not know if the county has a surplus of funds or if they are in debt. ' ' ■ Why do the present board of commissioners defy the law refuse to publish the expenditure of the taxpayers money? Why should they withhold this infer ■nation, which it so vital to every person who most dir down in his pockets for his tax money or have his property sold. Ht is en titled to this information and the law specifically requires it be given him. The law also requires the coun ty commissioners to publish, each year, their estimate of the county budget for the coming year, when it is made up about June each yjear. This should show, in detail, the amount alloted to each de partment of the county govern ment and should show the source of the money so to be spent, which would be the levy on taxable pro perty. These Democratic county com missioners have failed to publish this information for the tax-pay ers of Yadkin county. They announced the tax rate a few cents less for this year, but the taxpayers have-no knowledge of how it was done, or where ex tra money, if any, was derived to make this reduction. Many rum ors are current of switching funds and other methods to make this reduction, but the taxpayers are left in the dark. Why should they be? It is their money. Next Tuesday the people will go to the polls and vote for a set of county commissioners. They will have a chance to vote for com missioners who will handle the [taxpayers money openly and a bove board, tell them where it I was spent and what spent for, ;or for commissioners who take their money and fail to explain its expenditure and conceal from , them the present condition of the county government or give them an estimate of its future plans. We believe they will vote to re turn the county government back j to those who pay the' taxes and j who are entitled to know what went with the money. A vote for the Democratic can- j didates is a vote for the bosses; a vote for the Republican candi dates is a vote to return the coun ty government back to the people who support it. I Those Woodhouse Promises Again Editor the Ripple: ! I see that others are writing letters in the Ripple about their friends and conditions here and there, so I think a word from South Liberty would be appropri ate just now. Two years ago Frank Woodhouse went up and down the breath of the land from Courtney to Hunts ville and promised that he would have us a new road built in place j of the bumpy dirt road we now have. He said it would be one of the first things he would do when he got to Raleigh, and many people thought he was sincere. I don’t know what his first act was when he got to Raleigh nor his last one while he was there, but I do know that none of his acts were in regard to improving the road from Courtney to Hunts ville. He had his own road from Boonville to Crutchfield worked j and so far as I can learn this is the only one out of many prom- j ised. Now that electiofo is drawing | near Mr. Woodhouse has begun promising the same thing again j for his beloved Courtney-Hunts- j ville road, but this time his prom- I ises are taken with a grain of salt, nay, a spoonfull of salt. To be short he didn’t even try to fullfill his promise before and this time we don’t believe him. I suppose the same conditions prevail over other sections of the county—and the people left with a bag full of unfilled promises. Instead of trying to do some thing worthwhile down there it seems he devoted his time to tear ing down things and disturbing conditions generally and passing laws for spite. We in South Liberty don’t be lieve in such things and we pro pose to vote for Hovey Norman for the legislature and Ray Moore for County Commissioner and feel like our county is in the hands of the people instead of the bosses. “SOUTH LIBERTY TAX-PAYER” Courtney, N. C., October 29, 1940. LONGTOWN Miss Ilia Holland, of Winston Salem, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. Clarence Hall, here. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hobson visited relatives in Taylorsville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gorrell Swaim and Mr. and Mrs. Olen Swaim, of Winston-Salem, visited relatives here Sunday. Mrs. Mamie Seagraves, of Win ston-Salem, is spending a few days here with her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Shore. Miss Billy Sue Reinhardt is ill at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Long, of Yadkinville, were Sunday guests of Mrs. Jane Long. Misses Magdalene Long and Lillian Reinhardt, of Winston Salem, spent the week-end with their parents'here. THROUGH KEYHOLE By BILL RUTLEDGE MEMOS OF A COLUMNIST’S GIRL FRIDAY Dear Scoop: Grady Pass, ol Yadkinville and Chicago, was married again in the big city last month . . . Pauline Hoots, the Winston-Salem girl whose Yad kinville boy friend was marriqpl two weeks ago, is wearing a sparkler on the third finger, left hand . . . The Roosevelt banner swinging across main street was put up at 1:15 Tuesday morning by Jim Bray, Prank Mackie and Julius Williams ... By the way, have you heard the one about the man who walked into a store and asked to buy a pair of suspend ers? The clerk showed him a pair of those newfangled ones with red, white and blue stripes with FDR’s name printed on them. “Not for me,” said the man. “If Roosevelt is re-elected I won’t have any pants to hold up” . . . Your friend Russell Bui> cham, of Elkin, is taking the big step on the 9th in Raleigh. The girl is Jane Womble . . .The Sam Clement’s are cheek-to-cheeking again—in Elkin. * * * Don’t miss Bob Hope and Paul ette Goddard in “The Ghost Breakers” at the theatre here Monday and Tuesday. Good en tertainment . . . How about a na ture column sometime before it turns cold? You know—the na ture-swings - her - paint - brush angle: “Semi-circular slopes sur mounted with woodland, robed with colors beyond the conception of any artist. The reds, yellows, russets, greens and browns blend into perfect symmetry of line and form. Nearby is a towering hick ory, pure gold in the sunlight. Reluctantly the gold gives way to a brown tinge, a deep brown that later seems soft and warm as if to encourage the woodland crea tures to seek shelter beneath its form when fallen. Down deep canons, pine filled at the foot, the evergreen is a dark path be tween flaming ridges rising to meet the sun, and in the distance, at some deep blue lake, the ridges meet in one great burst of fiery grandeur against the dark blue ol the placid water.” Pretty good huh? Maybe I should write it myself. Your draft number is 1974. It was not in the first five thou sand drawn from the bowl in the drawing Tuesday, so you will be around for awhile yet . . . Dock Wooten is the only person in town who was anyway near the first drawn. He comes 22nd, but he expected it, as his classifica tion number is 1300 . . . Here is a good poem I clipped in regard tc the draft, named “Soldier’s Chorus”: “My boss must give me back my job When I turn in my pack; But who will make that other guy Give me my old girl back?” The 1941 license tags will be reversed from this year’s. A wine background with white letters . . Perfume prices will be higher than usual this Christmas be cause so many factories have been destroyed -in France and Europe in the war . . . Maybe I don’t know about such things, but why don’t automobile manu facturers change models only once every four or five years and save the money it costs to change machinery each year and reduce the costs of cars? It must cost millions every year to change casts, dies, molds, etc. * * * Remember writing in August about the funny papers should be changed and check up on some of their luridness and exciting ness, etc., and effect on children? Liberty Magazine ran a story on the same thing in last month’s issue . . . Following is a list of the types of love which you might use: Self-love: Not the best variety, but better than nothing if it’s all you can get. Brotherly love: Also known as fraternal, or lodge-brother love. Not much good in a pinch, but it has given the world some of the most flowery rhetorical passages on record. Root-of-all-evil love: vulgarly known as the love of money. You don’t see much of it any more, on account of you don’t see much money any more. Love of publicity: practically obsolete. Especially distasteful to politicians, actors, luncheon club officers, doctors, lawyers, circus press-agents, and newspa per columnists. * * * Love of nature: frequently con fused with love of the outdoors, which isn’t the same thing at all. If it’s the real McCoy, love of na ture has got to include love of tornadoes, blizzards, dust storms, gnats, mosquitoes, and spinach. Love of a man for his dog: The kind a man’s wife wishes he would bestow upon her some time. Puppy love: seems to thrive best on giggles minor neckings, interminable telephone conversa tions about nothing, and use of the old man’s car. Mad love: the kind that de ludes its victims into believing two can live as cheaply as one. A lot of Yadkinville couples have recently started on this one. YOUR GIRL FRIDAY Business Specials Cabbage Plants—I have plenty of good, sturdy cabbage plants for sale at my home near Courtney at 20c per hundred or $1.50 per 1,000. A. J. Crater, Rt. 2, Yad kinville, near Courtney. 10-31 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 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 For Sale, lot of two acres in Cen ter with three room house. Price reasonable, terms, cash. Good location for store. If interested apply at The Ripple office. 11-7 Lost At Boonville Fair—Lady’s yellow gold Elgin wrist watch. Name “Sadie” engraved on back. Reward for return to Miss Sadie Hobson, Boonville, N. C. 10-31 and paying for this ad. J. C. Park er, Rt. 2, Boonville. 10-31p For sale, one woodsaw, complete and ready for use. Also one Redbone female dog, two years, good for rabbit or possum. Oscar Hobson, Route 1, Yadkinville. 10-31 NOTICE! Yadkin County Taxpayers Notice is hereby given that begin ning Nov. 1,1 will advertise prop erty for sale for 1939 taxes, which sale will be held the First Monday in December. 70c costs will be added after Nov. 1. Please pay your taxes before that time and avoid additional costs. Individual statements will not be mailed this year A. L. Inscore Sheriff of Yadkin County Cvou cm sA\fB^cHerjcom K /m?OX YBAKS TO COMS gr tPYW Model SVS 6 Only $11475 Full 6 cu. ft. model with all these features • Meter-Miser Mechanism, never needs oiling • Large Frozen Storage Com partment • • 4 Big Ice Trays with Auto matic Tray Release • Fast-Action Super-Freezer • Exclusive F-114 Refrigerant • One-Piece, All-Steel Cabinet • Automatic Interior Light : • Automatic Reset Defroster • Unimatic Cold Control • 5-Year Protection Plan • Stainless Porcelain in Food Compartment • Satin-Smooth Dulux Exterior ... and many other Frigidaire features. , Come id/ see this big bargain — Buy now and save l PIONEER CHEVROLET CO. Phone 54-M _ Yadkin ville, N. C. Ripple Advertising Gets Results! «FIRST BECAUSE ITS FINEST! 99 Featuring so aU who ride will have space and space to spare! nnuiNG N(w BlGNt" ” HONRS o"^»' ,n»ntlonz *{sag --SS55 *"wine pawn6"1*1 VACUUM f. Even three couples AREN’T a crowd in this big, roomy, wide-seated Chevrolet for 1941! All sedans are sized for six, widened out to give “3-couple roominess.’’ ... All models, regardless of type, have big, generous, oversize capacity. . . . And all of them are styled, tailored and appointed to bring you the modern maximum in luxurious motoring— at the lowest cost! That’s why we’re convinced you’ll say Chevrolet’s “first because it’s finest!**' Better eye it, try it, buy it—today! k* CHEVROLET'S the LEADER "J"' Pioneer Chevrolet Company Yadkinville, N. C. Phone 54-M ■m cab/ %
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