ADVERTISE in The Skyland Post, the only news paper that’s printed in Ashe county, and the newspaper with by far the best sub scription list of any paper circulated in the county. VOLUME V, NUMBER 11 Soil Erosion Project for Ashe County Seems Within Reach Greensbo.”'/ Speaker Explains Possi u-« -billties t* Representative Crowd of Yocal Citizens That a soil erosion project for this section of the state, located in this county, is a possibility that might prove, a reality* was the hope held out by Mr. Maurier, of Greensboro and - representative of the United States Department of Soil Erosion, in an address before a representative crowd of Ashe citizens in the courthouse Friday night. No Project in Mountain Counties There are three such project in the state but there are none in the moun tain sections. Nor has any county but Ashe made any definite move so far toward getting one established, ac cording to Mr. Maurier. $150,000 has been allotted each pro ject and around 90,000 acres of land is usually included in each working area. The projects extend over five year periods and are worked in co operation with the federal govern ment and the land owned. The land owner furnishes the greater part of the local labor and the government furnishes the fertilizer, the lime, the seed, etc. The government arranges to have several workers in different fields to help with the projects such as ex perts in crops, terracing, etc. Erosion Project Might Bring C. C. Camp It is entirely possible, Mr. Maurier continued, that such a project would also bring the establishment of a C. C. Camp 4nto the county since the C. C. C. boys would be given the job of reforesting land that is too poor or too steep to be rejuvenated. Definite Steps to Be Taken The establishment of .further ero sion projects rests on the passage of the 4-billion-dollar work relief bill which is still in the Senate, but defi nite steps are being taken now to get in line for it. A committee of three from the Citizens’ Club, two from the two Jeffersons, and one man from each township are being appointed to make the necessary moves. Prof. Wade E. Eller was elected chairman of the organization at the Friday meeting, and E. C. Frances, secretary. Application must be made through the High Point office and the alloca tion of the project will be made from Washington. Enthusiasm Running High Both Miss Reeves and Mr. Hash, who were instrumental in getting Mr. Maurier to the county, are pleased with the interest shown in the meet ing, and the crowd that attended. The committee officials are plan ning to leave no stone unturned in making a colossal effort to get an erosion project in the county. COMMITTEE VOTES TO SUBMIT VINSON BONUS BILL TO HOUSE • Doughton Maintains Neutral Position on Vinson and Patman Rival Measures The House Ways and Means Com mittee, on Thursday, voted 23 to 1 . to submit the Vinson bonus measure • to the floor of the house. The meas ure asks for the payment of $2,000,- 000,000 in cash to World War vet erans. Representative Doughton, chairman of the committee, stated that he was not committed to any particular bon ,us bill, and, when the matter comes before the house, he will be guided entirely by the wishes of President Roosevelt. Doughton opposes the Patman bon us bill, which calls for payment with a new issue of currency. He said the Tydings bill appealed to him quite a bit, but that he was waiting to get definite information from President Roosevelt as to his views before mak ing any definite announcement about the bonus. The ways and means committee chairman has received many mess ages of congratulations on his speech x last week in commending President W Roosevelt’s efforts to revive world trade by reciprocal tariff agreements. w Post DR. CLAUDE S. BECK ■ -4" ■Lx" Ha m BL Medical history was made at Lake side hospital, Cleveland, with the per formance of the first operation in the history of the world for the relief of angina pectoris, a heart ailment which in the past has been regarded as in curable and eventually fatal. The op eratlon was performed by Dr. Claude S. Beck, a surgeon at Lakeside hos pital. It may mean as much to the world as the discovery of a cure foi cancer. 115 NEW BOOKS TO BE ADDED TO LIBRARY 115 new books are being sent the county library this week by the State Library commission. This will bring the total number of volumes in the library to a figure well over 200 . Interest in the new library grows each day and the public is invited to avail itself of the use of the books and magazines now on hand. LOCAL SCHOOL BUILDING IS READY FOR GRADED SCHOOL Work Is Not Complete bdt Graded School Moved from Dormitory Last of Week The local high school building, which has been under construction since the CWA started Superinten dent Hash and his teachers lying awake at night thinking how they could use federal aid to the best ad vantage in re-modling their out-dated buildings, has at last been completed to the extent of allowing the graded school to be moved into it. For the past several sessions, the grammar grades of the local high school have been in the building at the foot of the school hill which was once used for a dormitory. To raise money to help finish the school pro ject, the dormitory was sold during the winter to Robert and Russell Barr, of this city. The graded school vacated the dormitory last Friday and Saturday. It is thought that the entire building will be completed at an early date. Other schools throughout the county are nearing completion of their pro jects. ASHE COUNTY SENDS HIGH PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS TO COLLEGE AT BOONE Ashe Ranks Fourth in Number of Students Attending Watauga School; 1000 Enrolled Out of the 68 counties in the state who have a student representation at A. S. T. C., at Boone, Ashe county sends 38 students in comparison with 38 from Catawba, 44 from Cleveland, 40 from Forsyth, and 48 from Lin coln. This does not include the num ber enrolled from Watauga itself since that county has 135 on the lists. All other counties, except those men tioned, have less than an enrollment of 28, each. The total enrollment at Boone this year is 1009. Thirteen other states are represented and one student is enrolled from Baghdad, in Asia. The spring term will close on May 3, and the summer term will begin on June 4th. THURSDAY, MARCH 14 1935 WEST JEFFERSON, N.C. Doughton Explains Position on Tariff Delivers Informative Address on Tariff-Bargaining; Sponsors Bill in House Washington, March 9. —Distribu- tion of 100,000 copies of the tariff bargaining speech delivered by Con gressman Robert L. Doughton in the House this week is planned by Demo cratic leaders in the near future. Political leaders declare it to be one of the best on the subject delivered in the House in many years. Summing up the situation, Mr. Doughton asserted: “It is a common impression that the United States produces nearly everything that it re quires and is thus very largely self sufficient. Those opposed to the re ciprocal tariff act are making much of this point. They are going to con siderable pains to stress the self-con tainment doctrine—a defensive alibi for legislation the Republicans spon sored which has almost destroyed American foreign trade. They take the position that we have largely lost our export trade and that it was nev er important—not worth the attempt to regain through any method of tariff bargaining. “The fallacy of this doctrine is obvious to anyone who is capable of analyzing it. Those who take this position of self-sufficiency do not un derstand the fundamentals of trade between different regions, areas, sec tions, States, or nations. These bases of trade are the factors underlying the law of comparative costs—an eco nomic lav, which the reciprocal tariff act takes into consideration, a law which the Republicans either cannot or will not understand”. These elemental reasons for trade may be roughly divided into the three following categories: 1. Differences in racial characteris tics. 2. Differences in industrial develop ments. 3. Difference in natural resources. Continuing, Mr. Doughton stated: “In 1929, for example, nearly 55 percent of our cotton, more than 40 percent of our tobacco, 33 percent of our lard, and about 18 percent of our wheat were exported. These relatively large percentages are not limited to agricultural products. More than 40 percent of the typewriters, 29 per cent of the printing machinery, 28 percent of the sewing machines, 23 percent of the agricultural machin ery, 21 percent of the locomotives, and 14 percent of the passenger auto mobiles were sent abroad in the same year. “The export figures do not tell the whole story about the interrelation of industries. For example, the con ditions of the automobile industry are reflected in a number of other industries whose materials it pur chases in large quantities. This indus try consumes in its production, to mention only a few, 19 percent of the steel of the United States, and has largely accounted for the recent ac tivity of that industry. The automo bile industry uses about 68 percent of the alloy steel and varying per centages of other steel products, 55 percent of the malleable iron, 23.5 percent of the aluminum, 15 percent of the copper, 33 percent of the lead, 7 percent of the zinc, 11 percent of the tin, 23 percent of the nickel, about 7 percent of the cotton, 54 percent of the upholstery leather, 14 percent of the hardwood lumber, 40 percent of the plate glass, 73 percent of the rubber, and 85 percent of the gaso line produced in the United States”. Mr. Doughton’s speech was in reply to statements ma