THE NEWS-RECORD
The paper that tells what the
people in the country as well
as those in town are doing.
ADISON COUNTY RECORD
Established June 28, 1901.
FRENCH BROAD NEWS
Established May 16, 1907.
Comolidatad Nov. 2, 1911
Published TWICE A WEEK Tuesdays and Fridays
THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER OF MADISON COUNTY
yoL. xxix
MARSHALL, JM.C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930
S Pages This Issue
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J. J. KEYES HURT
BY TRUCK WRECK
McKINLEY SMITH AND MAJOR
WILSON ALSO INJURED
Mr. J. J. Keyes, well known dairy
man about Marshall, is in an Ashe
ville hospital, and Mr. McKinley
Smith and Major Wilson also injur
ed,, as a result of a wreck of the
truck which they were driving: Wed
nesday night, or rather about three
o'clock Thursday morning. Some
five or Bix men were on Mr. Keyes'
truck when it went off the road this
side of Laurel River bridge, turning
over several times. Mr. Keyes was
injured about the chest, so much so
that Dr. Moore, who rendered first
aid, advised that he be taken at once
to a hospital. McKinley Smith suf
fered broken ribs and a mashed left
hip. The truck was said to be a
complete wreck. We were . unaible
to learn the extent of Mr. Wilson's
injuries.
'What Can
Government Do?
We Americans are inclined to
expect too much from govern-
ment. When a business de-
pression and a period of hard
times sets in, we immediately
ask: "Can't the government do
something aDbut this?"
Experiences in various pans
of the world in recent yeirs
dictate The ariswer: "There is
little that the government can
A few years ago the British
rubber growers felc that they
and immediately an attempt at
artificial price fixing took place.
At one time thereafter rubber
reached the price of $1.40 per
pound. Now it has fallen to
as low as 13 cents per pound.
This artificially forced price
with government backing, stim-
ulated rubbeij production to areas
not under British control. A
glutted market followed. Gov-
ernment in this case failed to
show any supremacy or control
over economic law.
Brazil recently attempted to
control the coffee market, pro-
ducinir as she did over 70 per
cent of the coffee production of
the world. Through banking
control and government sup-
port of efforts to withhold the
product from the market, pric-
es, as we all remember, reach-
ed a high point. But again cof-
fee production was greatly stim-
ulated thereby in areas not un-
der control of the Brazilian mo-
nopoly. Housewives took a
hand in the situation also, and
k consumption declined while
nmHnrtinn increased. The re-
suit is a demoralized coffee mar- 1 a
ket with many growers in Bra-
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zil facing financial ruin.
There aTe many other exam-
1 t Wn aQTVIA ROT"t..
i
Monopoly operating under gov-
ernment protection may lor a
time influence prices, but soon
er or later the end desired will
be defeated, and the industry
that was once the beneficiary
of such "unsound economic
practices becomes the victim
of an attempt to flout economic
laws.
It is therefore dangerous to
expect government to regulate
prices and control the market-
-in nf anv nroduct. When our
farmers and citizens in general
come to realize this, they will
b able to approach their prob-
' lams in a more intelligent' man-
ner, and seek through organi-
cation to deal with economic
facts rather .than to endeavor
to override them. "
Forest City Courier.
What business needs is
more
profits and leas prophets.
v , - The Pathfinder.
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AN AGE OF' WONDERS
In spite of all its seeming evils,
the age in which we liv ij the
most wonderful the worlj has ever
witnessed. Happy are those, par
ticularly the young, who can grasp
its significance. Astounding as the
advancement of the last half cen
tury has been, it is only a begin
ning of greater progress yet to
come.
Thoughtful persons are (ioing
a service by pointing out lo the
younger generation the ever ex
panding opportunities which await
their eager brains and hands.
What unexplored resources and
unknown forces of nature still lie
concealed, wanting only t!" " keys
which the human mind must sup
ply to unlock their secrets!
.Dr. G. W. Truett of Dallas some
jtime ago said: "I had ather, live
'and nave 'my strength' an(f my wits
about me for the nex twenty-five
years than any other five hundred
years the world has ever seen."
Dr. Edward Mims of Vanderbilt
University expressad the same idea
in an address to an assemblage
of teachers, saying: "I had rather
be a teacher for the next twenty
five years than to be anything else
at any time in all the history of
the world."
While this wonderful age and
the still more wonderful years to
follow present great opportunities
they also involve equally great re
sponsibilities. Are the youth of
today making adequate prepara
tions to meet them? This ques
tion should engage the serious at
Vrtkn of every ..c.mg ;ei:on. as
well as that of tiiose who are
charged with their training and
development-Rural Press Service.
Well, How About This?
The consumption of gaso
line in recent months has fall
en off considerably according
to a recent official statement at
Washington. This is one of
the few instances that indicate
decrease in pleasure move
ments. Of course there are
plenty of statistics which show
how necessities have been cur
tailed. But with our fun
that's different.
Sir Chandrasckhara Venkata Ra
man, Hindu physicist, who has been
awarded the $45,000 Nobel Prize in
giyxo tor his ttsearca in light .
Great Scientist
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GIVE RELIGION
A CHANCE
Business and Politics have
failed to solve the most serious
of all post-war problems, now
give Religion a chance, urges
Doctor Henry A. Atkinson.
T-A "J i it
rui prosperity up to t n e
churches.
Doctor Atkinson is the Gen-
eral Secretary and organizer
Or thp VnrlH PnTlfol-onoo fninV.I ,.,U 1 l l ii
I " v,'"v. v-uv. lui
International Peace throup-h
.1
r u i. i .
fteilJ?lun' wnicn, m iNovember,
I1932' wfI1 brin t0ether in
Washington leaders of all thejsive study of the buying habits
major religions to consider. of the American housewife.
i.wyy v-iiujlii pcupie ui me
world Christians, Jews, Mo
hammedans, Buddhists and
all the other great sects can
! best cooperate to prevent war.
economic conditions will un-
dergo no permanent improve-
ment, he believes, until the
world has better assurance of
a peaceful future. In a report
to his executive committee,
which includes such leaders as
Doctor S. Parkes Cadman,
Doctor Einstein of Germany,
Doctor Tagore of India, and
the Lord Bishop of Liverpool,
England, Doctor Atkinsori
says:
"Wherever one turns one
finds cynicism in the face of
existing conditions and skep
ticism regarding any possibil
ity of a peaceful future. Ec
onomic conditions are bad the
world over. At a time when
the industries of the world
should be taxed to their ut
most capacity to build up what
was destroyed during the
years of war, we
find the
wheels slowing down, or that
they have come to a complete
Well Get Him Back
ADVERTISING
GOOD GOODS
The American ftousewife,
who is really the purchasing
agent of the American people,
knows that when she buys na
tionally advertised merchan
dise sne is buying intelligent-
fly, said Joseph Wilshire, pres
ident of Standard Brand In
corporated, recently. Mr. Wil-
iouuc wiik naa iiau more man
!t.hirtv
I 1 1""liu
jfactunng and marketing food
products, has made an inten-
newspapers ana maga
zines are directing the pur-!
chasing practices of the house
wife," continued Mr. Wilshire, i
"To illustrate : The American1
housewife was informed about j
j dated coffee through the me
dium of newspapers and mag
azines. Now the housewifel,
a shrewd buyer of coffee and a
skilled maker of coffee, knows I
that to get good coffee you;
must have fresh coffee. So she
welcomed the marketing of
dafed coffee and sales of a par-
stoffc- The religions of the'
world have at their command
the force for helping human
ity at this juncture of world
affairs. If the combined re
ligions, moral and spiritual re
sources of mankind coordinat
ed and brought to bear upon
these problems cannot help,
then there is no help pos
sible." Plans for the Washington
Conference thus take on a
new significance. Can Relig-
ion succeed where Business
and Po'litics have falied?
When ITtf F.zy
New Army Head
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Major General Douglas MacArthur,
who lias just taken over the job of
Chief of Staff, the youngest man ever
to hold that highest Army pust. He
is 50.
ticular brand of cofTee in
creased at once.
"When the housewife turn-
I
ed to dated coffee she turned
t o a nationally advertised
WHEN ONE 15 OLD
We nre ve(Kv.t("Uv tcld that,
youth and age are not measured
by y?sr" r-.'oii'. Some are ohl fo
rks at 30; others have 'he spirit
of youth at 80. Hoiv is this?
An article in a recent issue of
an educational journal expresses
the idea of youth and aie better
than we could express it. so we
quote it in part:
"Youth is not a time of life;
it is a state of miml. It is a tem
per of the will, a qua'ity of the
imagination, a v'gor of the emo
tions; Youtlr" means s predom
inance of courage over timidity,
of the appetite of adventure over
the love of ease. This often ex
ists in a man of fifty more than in
a boy of twenty. Nobody grows
old by merely living a number of
years. People grow old by desert
ing their ideals."
John D. Rockefeller, for exam
ple, plays golf with zest at the age
of 91. Thomas A. Edison is in
venting and planning at the age
of 83. John R. Voorhis is active
as president of the board of elec
tions of New York City at the age
of 101.
These and hundreds of others
are extremely old in yea's hut
ycung in spirit. Thus setting a
good example for the re?t of us.
Rural Press Service.
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AGENTS GONE
NEXT WEEK
Mr. Brintnall And Mis Crafton To
Be In Raleigh
There will be no meetings of the
Home Demonstration Clubs next
week as the Home and Farm Demon
stration Agents will attend the an
nual Conference at State College,
Raleigh, N. C.
product and so she made a
change in her coffee buying
habits with enthusiasm.
"National advertising callls
I for large sums of money. To
j warrant spending such sums
products must possess superi
or quality and the prices must
ibe right. The housewife
knows this and so what she
, reads in her local newspaper
jand in the magazines which
come into her home guides her
in her household buying.
"Winning the implicit con
fidencp of the housewife is to
the tremendous credit of ad
vertising." DISTRICT :
JAILS :
proposed:
Mrs. W. T. Bost, state com
missioner of public welfare, an
nounces that the 1931 general
assembly will be asked to pass
an enabling act to permit cer
tain counties to build a district
jail and prison farm with the i
dea of providing better care for
prisoners at reduced cost. A
Raleigh dispatch quotes Mrs.
Bost as saying that five eastern
counties, Perquimans, Camden,
Chowan, Currituck and Pasquo-
tank are seriously considering
the establishment of a district
jail and prison farm. In addi-
tion to these eastern counties,
Mrs. Bost says, some of the
counties in the westren part of
the state are also seriously con-
sidering the consolidation idea.
Greensboro Record.
: MAXWELL'S :
program:
If I were a Mussolini in North '
Carolina, the first thing I should '
do would be to remove every '
board and commission in each '
of the 100 counties in North "
Carolina and appoint one board '
of three members for each "
county.
I should give that board all
the powers now exercised by all
the boards combined and should
put every county officer under
that board. In the smaller
counties, I should put the chair-
man on a full-time basis with an
adequate salary and in the large
counties I should require full-
time service of all three mem-
bers and then pay them for it.
I believe that in that way
there could be some real effl-
ciency in county government.
Now it is most difficult to get
good men to run for county
commissioner and if one gets in
he finds that there is very little
he - can do. One board is run-
ning for health problem, an-
other board the schools, another
board the roads, the sheriff is
looking after tax collections,
and so forth. A. J Maxwell,
' State Commissioner of Revenue
in News and Observer Oct 19,
1930. , -..