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THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPEH OF MA DISON COUNTY
PRICE $1.00 A YEAR
MitfRSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1935
VOL. 34
8 Pages
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BEECH GLEN DEFEA ITS MARS HILL
FOR MADISON ALL-STAR TITLE
SURVEY
i
8 TEAMS PARTICIPATE
TOURNAMENT
IN
The annual Madison County All
Star basketball tournament, which
started last Wednesday night at the
Walnut high school court, ended Sat
urday night in the final game, when
Beech Glen proved too strong for
the Mars Hil quint, winning 44-17.
Eight teams took part in the tourna
ment and almost all the games were
interesting. The tournament open
ed Wednesday night with the Mar
shall All-Stars meeting the Walnut
Presbyterians. Marshall eliminated
the Presbyterians 28-21. Dillard
and Redmon starred for Marshall,
while Ramsey shot 9 points for the
losers. In the second game the
White Rock All-Stars were easily e
liminated by Beech Glen, 38-11.
Robinson of Beech Glen, led the scor
ers with 18 points. Thursday night,
the Walnut All-Stars were eliminat-
of her daughter, Lillian, and her son,
Hubert. Those enjoying the occasion
were Miss Lela Cook, Mr. and Mrs.
William Worley, and daughters. Pan
sy and Hazel. Mr. and Mrs. John
Roberson and son, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
White and son, and Mr. and Mrs. B.
J. Morton and children.
CARNIVALS
IN MADISON
Representative Sprinkle Would Re
peal Law Prohibiting CarniYalt To
Exhibit In Madison
Possibly very few people know that
it has been against the law for car
nivals to exhibit in Madison County.
Representative Sprinkle tells us that
such has been the case since 1923.
He has introduced a bill in the pres
ent legislature which would repeal
that law. Mr. Sprinkle's bill follows:
A BILL TO BE ENITTLED AN ACT
TO REPEAL CHAPTER 253. PUBLIC-LOCAL
LAWS 1923, RELAT
Ila TO EXHIBITION OP CARNI
VALS 1JN MAU1SUJN UUUJNTX
eH hv the Mars Hill All-Stars, 23-19, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
and Tweed's JNjk in akiUl.iin A uu ,inai:
in a thrilling game,
store of Marshall defeated the Bar
nardsville CCC quint 19-13. In the
semi-finals, played Friday night, both
Mai shall teams were eliminated, the
Marshall All-Stars by Beech Glen,
34-21, and Tweed's store by Mars
Hill, 28-20. The final game, played
Saturday night, was expected to be
the most thrilling game of the tour
nament, but Beech Glen "put on
steam" and subdued Mars Hill, 44-17.
Hill, Robinson and A. Tomberlin were
outstanding for Beech Glen.
Large crowds attending the tourna
ment proved it a success. Winners
were presented the new basbetball
used in the tournament. The line
ups were:
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
SECTION 1. That chapter two
hundred and fifty-three, Public-Local
Laws, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-three, be and the same is i
hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. That this act shall be in
full force and effect from and after
its ratification.
FERTILIZER COST
TO BE REDUCED
Down in South Carolina an un
dertaking has been begun bv the
federal government that ranks
with leaf-raking and a few othe
projects of the late CWA regime
when it comes to downright use
lessness. It is the traffic survey
that is underway on some of the
highways of the state.
Here are the questions that
those engaged in the survey are
supposed to answer: (1) how
many vehicles are using a par
ticular stretch of road? (2) what
sort of vehicles they are? (3)
upon what part of the road they
are driving? (4) what is their
average speed? (5) whether men
or women are operating them?
(6) how many passengers they
contain?
When this great undertaking is.
completed and the staff of statis
ticians finish compiling their data
suppose it is found that 999 ve
hicles are using a particular part
of the road, that most of them
are Plymlets, that near all of
them are being driven on the'
right-hand side of the highway,
that their average speed is 40
miles an hour, that 80 per cent''
of them are operated bv men,
and that they contain an average
of three passengers, then what?
Charlotte News.
.DEAD: 986
Marshall (28)
Redmon (9
Dillard (9)
Ramsey (4)
Teague (2)
Roberts (1)
Pos.
v
F
C
G
G
(21) Walnut
The Editor:
The cost of fertilizer is being re
duced, and it will probably eventual
ly sell for about half of what was
paid for it, a few years back. The
TVA is making experiments in ferti
lizer at a cost of several million dol
lars, but I have little hope of the de
termination of the TVA making
cheap fertilizer, no matter how much
it costs, amounting to anything1.
!But nitrogen is the most expensive
4i.XaU.hm Iwjgfn ertHTW '" tit Jt of irmmonia
(4) Chandler j has been cut from about 30 to about
(o) Ramsev ' 5- cents a pound; at the factory, by
Subs:
Dalton.
Marshall, W.
(2) Rector i
(2) Anz
Dalton (3), J.
me naoer process wnicn gees tne ni
trogen out of the air. The United
States now has some good potash
mines, also Spain and Russia have,
and the old German monopoly is gone
and prices of potash are much lower.
It is possible that the cost of fer
tilizer mav be cut to a third. This
means a great deal to farmers around
here, for this reason. Iowa corn,
makes the price of corn, beef and
bacon. Iowa has-no fertilizer cost
and they can't save anything; besides
their land is getting less fertile. It
just means a new advantage here
more profit in corn, cattle and hogs.
Another matter which may mean a
great deal: The seasons have not been
on the whole, as good for the past 2t
years. Manv people claim the sea
sons work in cycls of from 35 to 150
or more years and better seasons are
predicted for this region for the ne&
20 years. j.-?
There have been a group of seriqifs;
discouragement hjch hnve'ldMtfOftrj;
aged "farm efforts and making im
provements, Hke good hog-tight
fences. It is always a good idea not
to wait until after a thing has hap
pened, and then see it. Anybody can
do that.
A. G. BETTS
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White R'k (11)
Ray (2)
McDevitt (4)
Sheiton (3)
Roberts
Stanton (2)
Subs: Beech
Pos. (38) Beech G'
F (4) Howell
F Hill
C (2) Jarvis
G (0) A. Tomberlin
G (18) Robinson
Glen, C. Tomberlin,
MADISON BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
TO BEGIN AT WALNUT FEBRUARY 21
jt Slaughtered on the highways
North Carolina last year were
persons. The death toll the
,"yer before was 853.
fcIn and out of hospitals were
jrthe'vJ,273 persons injured in
highway accidents last year. The
;. year before the injury toll was
4,975. V
I, Growing progressively bloodi
iet the highways yielded their
heaviest, toll in December 117
fdeadV.o Eleven fatal accidents
Mere , 'charged to drunken driv
ers. - Speeding drivers slew 23,
njtired 55. Drivers of seven
eath cars did not stop to offer '
id to their victims.
;The. General Assembly re
entry received the commit
tee bill providing for the licens
ing of every driver in the State.
.. Sunday's News & Observer .
WHY WE SHOULD USE TERM, "WAR BE
TWEEN THE STATES," NOT "CIVIL WAR"
An English class was given the task By MRS. JOHN HUSKE ANDERSON"
Historian General, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, 1931-1934
of writing four lines of dramatic po
etry. One boy wrote:
"A boy was walking down the track.
The train was coming fast.
The (boy stepped off the railroad track
To let the train go past."
The teacher said it lacked drama,
so the boy submitted the following:
! A war was waged from 1861 to '65
between the UNITED STATES OP
AMERICA and the CONFEDERATE
STATES OF AMERICA. These were
the official titles of the contending
parties.
I It was the WAR BETWEEN THE
A boy was walking down the track. STATES because twenty non-seced-The
train was coming fast. ing States made war upon the eleven
The train jumped off the railroad th UNI0N of states. it was a
track war between TWO ORGANIZED
To let the boy go past." j GOVERINMEINTS, the Southern
The Christian World. , States fighting to repel invasion, to
.protect their rights as granted by the
. 'Constitution of the United States of
Once upon a time there was a wise America to each State which ratified
husband who bought his wife such that Constitution.
fine china that she wouldn't trust him
to wash and dry the dishes. Ex.
G, Teague, 2; White Rock, Cantrell.
THURSDAY
NIGHT
(23) Mars
Hill
Walnut (19) Pos.
Chandler (4) F (2) Higgins
Allen (2) F Fleetwood
Reece (10) C (5) Wall
Roiberts G (8) Clarke
Davis G (7) Carter
Subs: Walnut, Swann, 1, Thomas,
All-Stars,
2, McDevitt;
1.
Mars Hill
Tweed Store (19) Pos. B'ville CCC
Collins (10) F (7) Flynn
,Redmon (D F (2) Hamilton
Brooks C (2) Allen
Young (4) G Deal
Tweed (4) G (2) Gragg
Subs: Tweed Store, Storey, Boone,
Roberts.
I The Madison County School
, Masters Club met Thursday
evening, Feb. 13, and adopted
th following schedule:
i FEBRUARY 21:
3 P. M. Marshall girls vs.
Hot Springs.
4 P. M. White Rock boys
vs. Beech Glen.
5 P. M. White Rock girls
vs. Walnut.
7 P. M. Hot Springs boys
vs. Mars Hill.
8 P. M. Beech Glen girls vs.
Spring Creek.
9 P. M. Marshall boys vs.
Spring Creek.
Semi-finals will be played
Feb. 22, at 7
Beech
FRIDAY NIGHT
G'n (34) Pot. (21)
Tomberlin (7)
Howell (S)
Hill (18)
Robinson (2)
Teague
Subsr Beech
Tomberlin, 2;
Roberts, 2.
F
F
G
G
Glen,
Marshall
(2) Redmon
(6) Wilde
(4) Ramsey
(2) M- Dalton j
W. Dalton
Jarvis, 2, C.
Friday evening,
P. M. and 8 P. M.
The finals will be played
Feb. 23 at 7 :30 and 8 :30 P. M.
Mrs. Marvin McCIure
Remains 111
Mrs. L. C. Reed was in Marshall
Tuesday morning returning from As
ton Park hospital in Asheville, where
she had spent the night attending her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Marvin McCIure,
of Walnut. At the hospital Mrs. Mc
CIure has as nurses Miss Revis and
Miss Deaver, while her condition re
mains serious. Mrs. Reed is hopeful
of her recovery.
PAYABLE IN GOLD
By ROBERT H. HEMPHILL
In Baltimore News and Post
The chief arguments presented to the Supreme Court
and exploited generally in the daily press, on the right of
e Government to abrogate the provision for payment ot
obligations in gold, apparently centers upon the Consti-
utional right of Congress to regulate the value of our mon-
y and the supreme right of the Government to combat e-
ergencies.
Before considering these legal questions, however, the
Supreme Court will, no doubt, inquire whether, under all
the circumstances, there is, in fact, any abrogation
whether the parties to the bond contract, or either of
them, ever intended to demand or to tender a specific
quantity of gold in payment, regardless of the value of the
ffnlft
: This inquiry removes the question from the legal field
f to that of economics.
tf" ... A-,. ... 'V.
nff-v VALUE OF PAPER MONEY
4I V P''ef money has no value in itself, but REPRESENTS
4 tid similarly, the important value of gold as mon
r '"e it REPRESENTS, " : n S
-M ..tlofn!eidt hrtbis-paperr go Weight Tnrve
been demonetized since the date these obligations were is
sued, in which case it would lose its representative value
and soon fall to its value to the arts and sciences its com
modity value, which very, likely would be less than five
dollars per ounce.
Certainly the holders of bonds would then very prop
erly decline to accept gold. Such payment would not be
payment in GOLD DOLLARS of the weight and fineness of
the standard of the date of issue.
GOLD'S REAL WORTH
Payment in gold either at $5.00 per ounce or at $35.00
per ounce was clearly not contemplated by the seller or
purchaser of the bonds.
In any event, payment cannot now be made physically
in gold money, and the problem is, therefore, to determine
the equivalent the REPRESENTATIVE value of the gold
dollar of the weight and fineness of the date these bonds
were sold.
The representative value of o u r present dollar is
slightly in excess of the representative value of the gold
dollar of the period of issue of our Liberty bonds.
Very few, if any, domestic holders of Government
bonds were influenced to purchase them because of the
gold clause.
A large majority did not know until recently that the
bonds contained such a clause.
The public market has never distinguished in price
between bonds containing this standard gold clause and
similar bonds which omitted it.
Economically the conclusion appears inescapable that
payment at par in lawful money constitutes no damaging
abrogation to anyone.
03
Marshall, Dillard, 5,
MaV Hill (28) Pos. (20) Tweed's S.
Wall (11) F Tweed
Higgins (5) F (6) Collins
Clarke (9) , C (9) Bunion
Carter (3) (G (6) Young
Ramsey G Brooks
. Subs: Tweed's Store, Redmond.
HILL
STARTED LAST FRIDAY AT MARS
at J. F. AMMONS STORE
is going over in a BIG WAY land will continue until
- SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 23
SATURDAY NIGHT
Beock G'a (44) Pea. (17) Mara Hill
A. Tomberlin (10) P
Howell (6) F
Robinson (11) ' C .
Hill (12) ;-- ,; G
C. ToraWlin (4) G
Subs: Beech Glen, Teague, 1; Mars
Hijl, Fleetwood. ..-.';
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY LUrfCHEON
(3) Wall
(1) Higgins
(8) Clark
(1) Ramsey
, (4") Carter
- Sunday, Feb. 10th. Mrs. William
Worley entertained wjth a delightful
surprise birthday luncheon in honor
SEE THE $65.00 FORESTER RANGE
(COOK STOVE)
TO BE fillEn AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE
AT 2:30 P; PJ. FEBRUARY; 23
J Don't fail to avail yourself of the oDDortunity to buy QUALITY ;
! MERCHANDISE at exceedinirly low nrices AND WIN THE STOVE:
When We
Say Sale
We Mean
SALE
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MARS HILL, N. C
IJIlO Yearsl
It was not a CIVIL WAR, as it wii
not fought between two parties with
in the SAME government, as was the
case of the Civil War in t-ngiana.
It was not a WAR OF SECESSION,
for the Southern States seceded with
out a thought of war. The right of
I a State to secede had never been
IquesRioned. In 1833 John Quincy
I Adams of Massachusetts spoke of se
cession, which had been threatened
I by some Northern as well as other
(States, in the following words:
"Whenever the time comes for seced
ing it were better for the people of
these DIS-UNITED States to part in
friendship from each other than to be
held together by restraint. '
It was not a WAR OF REBELLION",
for Sovereign, Independent States,
j co-equal, cannot rebel against each
I other. When the eleven cotton States
'fji-eded they set up an independent
'government of their own. with no
declaration or intent of war. They
did not fiht to overthrow the Fed
eral government, but to set up a gov
ernment of their own.
The principles for which the South
ern States were standing had been
; definitely declared in the Constitu
tional Convention that framed the U
nited States Constitution. J u d x e
Wflftarrf-ftawte tf'rfe-nnJsy!vaniaT one
of America's most able authorities
on the Constitution, had defined his
"views of the U. S. Constitution,"
; which text book was studied at West
Point. We quote partly: "If the
j States are interfered with, they may
'wholly withdraw from the Union, and
their secession depends on the will
'of their people. The Union was form
ed by voluntary agreement of States,
land the Federal government would
have no means of maintaining its
claim again.'-t secession, ei'her by
force or bv light." Manv authori
ties might be given to show the right
of a State to decide its own destiny.
.However, by the arbitrament of the
sword and superior force, after the
j Surrender of 18115, Secession wtas
decided to be unconstitutional,
j From that learned Historian and
IConfedeia.te. soldier, ('apt. S. A.
jA-he of North Carolina, we find a
.war time reference to the conflict of
'l8Gl to '65, in a case of the Supreme
Court of the United States, Vol. 67,
'Page 673. The Cou.t says: "We
i have shown that a war such as is now
being waged between NORTHERN
AND SOUTHERN STATES is prop
erly conducted." It goes on to state
that "several of these States have
combined to form a new Confed
eracy." So here the highest tribunal
of the United States refers (during
this war itself) to it as "a war be
tween the States." The very term
which should be continued in use,
as historically correct. In England's
declaration of neutrality she recog
nized that this war was being fought
between two governments, not be
tween two parties of the same State.
Every loyal member of the United
Dairhters of the Confederacy should
be on the alert to tactfully and cour
teously endeavor to have "War Be
tween the States" used instead of
j "Civil War," for its correctness is ab-
.. . solutely important to a truthful pre-
Simultaneous mass meetings will sentation of history. Many writers
be held in each courthouse in the and historians of note are now recog-
eighteen counties of Western North nizing the truth of this term and a-
Carolina by a large corps of Town- tinf " thf thinking public is
' ' 6 . , , brought face to f.ce with the facts,
send Speakers, to organize local the correct name wouW be Ken.
Townsend Clubs and elect officers, at erally used.
two-thirty P. M. next Sunday. j Only recently Radio announcers of
Mrs. M. H. Harris, State Manager national system have expressed
i their willingness to cooperate with
of the Townsend Plan has been per- the tj. D. c. in this effort to "keep
sonally assured by Dr. Townsend that history straight."
he will appear at an early date to In the words of Miss Rutherford:
oi riA. IU mat tut i menus irom me rxonn ao nuu
IN MARSHALL NEXT
SUNDAY P. E
address a
Mrs. Harris has set up State Head
auarters in Asheville in Room 28 A-
object to the truth of history, provid
ed we are fair and JUST. "Whatev
er is done, let it be done in the spirit
merkan- National Bank Building, of truth and peace and love and good
Rha U beine-assisted in the State i11- Todaj we stand, and .desire to
work by W. Bruce Fisher of An-!
drews. and J. M. Windham of South-
em Pine's.
The Reverend J. S. Adams, State
Chairman of .speaking arrangements,
announces that a large number of
speakers in all parts of the state are
enlisting to speak on the Townsend
Plan. The Reverend Mr. Adams cays
tha the ministry "and the press and
public officials are' particularly invit
ed to attend the speaking nearest
them on Sunday to hear , the Town- i
... - m - rr - 1 m. ; ; I,
sena siae oi ut ivwwuu ru.
stand, a reunited people, all sections
AT PEACE AND UNITED." This
sentiment finds an echo in the heart
of every true Daughter of the Con
federacy. .
Compliments of The Asheville Chapi
ter, V. D. C
Asheville. N. C
February, 1935.
Jos. Raymond Bly, State Director .
of iPublicity says: "Anyone who be
lieves in God 'and loves his neighbor -
believes in the Townsend Plan whetl r
er he knows it or not."