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The Elkin Tribune AND RENFRO RECORD Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as secoud-class matter. FRANKLIN HILDERRAND, Publisher THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6, l»30 Subscription Rates, per year In the State, $1.50 Out of the State $2.00 THOUGHTS Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ. 4-18-14. Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.—Tennyson. POEMS As the old year sinks down in Time's ocean, Stand ready to launch with the new, And waste no regrets, no emotions, As the masts and the spars pass from view Weep not if some treasures go under, And sinks in the rotten ship's hold. That blithe bonny barque sailing yonder. May bring you more wealth than the old. —Wilcox. You don't have to listen to the lawnmower j in winter, but the radio makes up for it. A Chicago man got a divorce because his wife slid down he banister. Just letting things slide An old fashioned winter can be overdone end is. New York's 3 2.000 "speakeasies" seem to be using a stage whisper. Congress reduced the income tax and so did Wall street for some people. An authority says this is going to be a good year for those who do not over-expect. When we get through disarming the nations maybe we can get at our gunmen. No matter about the stock market, the coun try produced over five million new cars last year.. Your alcohol ig your own responsibility if you drink It. l)o as much walking as possible if you want to live long says a medical advisor, but stay on the same side of the street. Secretary Mellon becomes enthused in - tell ing congress dry law enforcement should not be in his department. Writer says jazz at night clubs takes the edge off the diner's apetites. Maybe the price has something to do with it also. It was a semi white Christmas, but it wasn't until January that father's pocketbook got snowed under. By the way France and Italy balk at sink ing ships we may presume both scent an early njeed for those boats. Each of the five nations at the naval parley Is enthusiastic to reduce on it s own terms of reducing. A San Francisco waitress was robbed of jew els valued at $1250. That must be a profession that pays. Harvard's president vants only one footbah game a year for each school. It might help to enforce prohibition. Now Hoover wants a cooling system install ed in the White House. W© might suggest that Cal never needed one. TAFT AND HUGHES The serious illness of Chief Justice Taft strikes a sympathetic chord over the whole nation. From latest reports the former President and Chief Justice of the United States is near the end ef his days suffering from a complication of dis eases. Mr. Taft is a man who has given the best part of his life to the public service of his coun try. A brilliant lawyer, he could have command ed retainer fees in important cases probably ten times what his official annual salaries have been. Starting on the bench over forty years ago, he ha 8 held some of the most exalted positions In both the executive and Judicial branches of the nation and is th& only man in our history who has been both president and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. , When Mr. Taft saw that he could no longer continue hi sarduous duties as head of the su preme court he resigned the place and the presi dent a t once appointed Charles Evans Hughes of New York. . The appointment is a wise one, for Mr. Hughes is perhaps the greatest lawyer of the na tion and in accepting the place on the supreme bench he does so at a great financial sacrifice for the salary there is but $20,500 per year while it is said his foees as an attorney since resigning the cabinet portfolio have amounted to over a quarter of ft million dollars a year. It will be recalled that Mr. Hughes resigned as Secretary of State in 1925 because he said he must go back to the practice of law to recoup the funds he had lost while serving In the cabinet^ The statement is taken to mean that high officials cannot live on the salaries paid at Wash ington. If thlß ie true, it is refreshing to know that men of the high calibre of Mr. Taft and Mr. Hughes are willing to sacrifice fortune to serve their country at salaries trifling compared to what they could earn in private life at far less effort and nervous exhaustion. It is interesting to recall that Mr. Taft is the second man In our history who has resigned the Chief Justicehip, the other being John Jay, who served in that capacity when the constitution was first adopted. It is also interesting to nota that Mr. Hughes served as an Associate Justice from 1910 to 1916 and resigned to accept the republican presidential nomination. He was ap pointed by Mr. Taft who was then president and now succeeds the man who recommended him as a member of the highest court in the land. PRISONERS AND HANGINGS Alber M. Stewart, awaiting execution in the death house at Folsom Prison for his part in the killing of guards during the prison mutiny in 1927 has asked that appeal for a new trial be dropped and that he be hanged at once. Stewart from his cell, has heard the clink of the spring that sent five of hi 9 associates to death on the gallows just outside the death house. Now he wants to end the "petrliied rigors of aoubt and dread." He says he would ratner die at once than live on in suspense and stifled hope. Capital punishment must be rather terrible to bring forth such a plea from a hardened crim inal, yet there is Prof. Snook, the professor of veterinary surgery at Ohio State University who killed his sweetheart on a rifle range near the campus over a year ago. Snook was found guilty shortly after pretty Theora Hix's body was found. His attorneys picked flaws in the testimony and appealed and the appeals were overruled and Snook ordered to be hanged last fall. He then appealed to the state supreme court and a stay of judgment was order ed pending appeul and the state supreme court in the meantime overruled his plea whereupon ha appealed to the United States Supreme court and his hanging was put off again to January 31, but the supreme court could not reach the case, he has again been given a stay of execution. Peculiar how men, who know they must die, stave off death Probably Snook and his lawyers know full well there is not a flaw in the whole proceeding of the lower courts and that the ap peals they take are merely to gain a few more day s and weeks of life. They all know that In the end the hangman will take his toll but they are going to postpone the fateful moment as long as possible no mat ter how much money they may use up or how much time they consume from the high court's busy days. Snook has taken a life and he took it with an ease and unconcern almost unprecedented but when it comes to paying for the cost of that life he tights to the last dich and will probably make a farewell statement that he was given a rank injustice. WOMEN WORKERS Some startling facts develop from the latest bulletin from the United Staes Women's Bureau relative to women working and those who opine that woman's place is in the home may consider some rather astonishing statistics. This bullitin points out that women in in creasing numbers are called on to support fami lies and out of 30,000 families investigated, 27 per cent were supported entirely by women wage and salary earners. Of 17,000 unmarried women studied, one out five was supporting a family unaided. An enor mous proportion of city families depend all or in part on the money earned by wive 8 and daught ers. In some countries 65 per cent of the women employes were married. Evidently the woman who marries for eco nomic security stands upon thin Ice because the same statistics show that one out of every thir teen males in the United States is constantly out of a job. THE MODERN "MAN ON HORSEBACK" At a dangerous street corner In New York City where two street-car lines cros 8 at an angle in front of a Subway station and heavy crosstown traffic complicates an already difficult situation, stands a large sign in the shape of a tombstone. It reads ''Sacred to the Memory of 1,846 persons killed by automobiles In the city this year *' The number is changed every day. It never grows smaller; the dead do not come back to life. Ohio for some years marked the scene of every fatal accident on a State Highway with a white cross. It is reported that the state has abandoned thig practice; the crosses became too thlcß in some spots. This is a step in the wrong direction. Warnings like that may be disregard ed and usually are by most motorists, but enough drivers will be shockeed into at least temporary caution to be more careful at that partc:lar spot It is not merely for the protection of drivers and their passengers that such warnings are needed. The man on foot still has first rights on the highway, and lii 8 life Is as valuable as that of the man who rides. Out of all the immense toll of motor deaths in 1929, nearly a third were of pedestrians struck by automobiles. In the old feudal days in Europe the man on horseback felt that he was superior being, and the poor people who had no horses had to-agre© with him or be ridden down. One of the things fathers came to America for waß to change all that It would almost selm as if we were losing ground. There is something about driving a car which makes many persons utterly reckless of the rights ot others. That these reckless ones are not always very young and are not necessarily, intoxicated only makes the situation all the worse. THE KLKIN TRIBUNE, X. C. GAME The crack Elkin All-Stars won an interesting cage game over the Taylorsville All-St&rs here Monday night by Bcore of 20-10. The Elkin team flashed in fine form in the last half to take the game. The Taylorsville team fought like demons in the first half and held Elkin to a 10 to 9 lead at the end of the half. The Elkin quint then flashed out in the final half tr run up the score. Reich and Shugart did the heavy work for the Elkin te«m while -Carson was the leading scorer for the visitors. Lineup and summary: Taylorsville (10) (20) Klkln Pos. Thomas (1) (8) Shugart F Burgess (2) (2) EUer F (3) (10) Reich C Carson (4) ($) Transou G Matheson Holcomb G Substitutes: Taylorsvile: Price for Burgess, C. Thomas for Watts Elkin: Bowes for Eller. Referee, Whitaker (North Carolina). CYCLE NEWS • The farmers are beginning to sow plant beds for another crop of tobacco. They are cutting down on acreage this year and will try to improve the quality by growing the best grades. Sheriff Moxley was in our town collecting taxes Monday. Mr. Roy Sale and Thomas Sparks are erecting large feed barns on their farms east of Cy cle. The school suspended one day on account of the snow last week. The rural mail also failed to make a trip for several days on account of the bad roads. LAUGHTER AND TK.4HK BLEND IN JOLMON'S "SAY IT WITH SONGS" Friends of the Lyris Theatre of Elkin will get another ''big thrill'' next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, for that is the show dates for A 1 Jolson's "Say it with Songs." The worlds greatest entertain ers say that it is "the best pic ture ever made." The story of "Say it wi'h Songs" leads natur ally to many-sided characteriza tions. In the role of song writer Auction Sale! 36 Head Horses - Mules I will sell at Auction Saturday February Bth, 1 P. M. The lot consists of 26 mules and 11 Horses. Age from 4 to 20 years. Weight from 800 to 1200 pounds. These mules and horses are all broke and ready for the harness. I think this is one of the greatest oppor tunities the farmer has ever been offered in Elkht. As there will be no Buy-Bidders and will be sold for cash or gilt-edge note. 5% add ed to notes. If sale goes over I will give one horse FREE. Everybody has a chance at the horse ex cept my- employees. Be here and save money, and buy at your own price. Sale Will Be Held At My Stables Under McNeer's Warehouse ELKIN. N C. C. A. Boles and radio entertainer, the one and only one At, has h chance to which make him the beloved A 1 do many of the clever things Jolson. Don't forget the dates of his greatest Vitaphone picture, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day, Febrauray 10, 11, and 12th. WANTS LOST—2 twenty dollar bills in one of three stores while mak ing change in Clkin Monday, Feb. 3; Finder pleases return to F. A. Brendle & Son store, Elkin, N. C. or M. A. Johnson, 5 miles east of Elkin. 2-6 It WANTED—To trade a car for good milk cow. See me if you are interested Jim Green wood. WANTED—To rent farm. Ren ter must be a good tobacco farmer. See me at once- Jim We need not go out of our way to do good if we do all the good whidh comes our way PAUL GWYN INSURANCE All Lines— Security—Service Phone 258 Elkin, N. C. Greenwood. ___ IEN WANTED IMMEDIATELY —By giant international in dustry; over 7000 already started; some doing annual business |13,000; no expe rience or capital required; everything sufcplied; realize success, independence Rew leigh's way; retail food prod ucts, soap, toilet preparations, stock, poultry supplies; your own business supported by big American, Canadian. Austral ian industries; resources over SI 7.000,000; established 40 years; get our proposition; all say it's great! Rawleigh Company, Dept, NC-71-J, Rich mond, Va. 4t-p. WE HAVE several phonographs for sale cheap. Terms if de sired. Harris Burgles Elect. Co. - LOST—One small suit case last Saturday evening between J. C. Martins and Elkin Valley Church. Finder return to Miss Tiney Cave, Elkin, N. C., and receive reward, or notify this office. ltp—tf WANTED —At once several re liable and energetic men. with cars, who understand farming to canvass (arm trade, book ing orders for Spring ship ment on Fall terms of pay ment. No investment or previous experience necessary. Splendid opportunity and steady per manent Income. Exclusive ter ritory rights and drawing ac count. TJie Lennix Paint Com pany, Cleveland, Ohio. Feb. 6-13 MARTIN'S INC. Tin* Banker and His Farm Tenant The tenant of the banker worked one year and went into the bank for settlement, but had failed to keep a record of the time that he had worked; so aft er the following questions were asked by the banker he was LYRIC Theatre THIS WEEK THURSDAY—FRIDAY: CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD in "SO LONG LETTY" ALL TALKING AND SINGING with GRANT WITHERS, PATSY RUTH MILLER, BERT ROACH, CLAUDE GILL INGWATER SATURDAY: MONTE BLUE in "CONQUEST" with H. B. WARNER and LOUIS WILSON Also An All Talking Comedy NEXT WEEK 3 Big Days, MON. TUES. and WEDNESDAY: AL JOLSON "SAY IT WITH SONGS" ALL TALKING AND SINGING "WOMAN TO WOMAN" With Betty Compson—Thursday and Friday, Feb. 20 and 21 \ 'FLIGHT' ~ * With Jack Holt—Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 24 and 25 "DYNAMITE" A Cecil B. Demille production—Monday and Tuesday, March 3 and 4 "BROADWAY SCANDAL" A special—Thursday and Friday, March 6 & 7 "GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY" A special, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, "SHOWS OF SHOWS" Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 17, 18 and 19 THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8, ready to settle with his tenant: How many hours do you you sleep? Ans about 9 hours, eq- ' s ,ualing 136 days How many hours doy you spend in gardening, wood cutting, milking, etc? . Ans. About 6 hours 91 days Did you work Suudays? v*, Ans No, being 52 sun day 8 i 5 2 days Did you work Saturday evenings? Ans- No, 1-2 day for 52 / Saturdays 26iday* How many day 8 did you go hunting? Ans. 9 days 9 JOi How many days did you go to fairs? Ans. Five days 5. days How many days were you sick? Ans. Twelve days 12 days How many days did it rain? Ans. Thirty, I think.... 30 days How many holiday,, off Ai»s. Four 4days Total 365 days After the tenant and banker checked over the figures closely he was convinced of their accu racy and admitted there time left that he could hare worked Convinced of the accu racy; but not that he did not work. The way Martin's, Incor porated figure it for you. If you are paying $4.00 per week rent for a five room house, you pay exactly the same $4.00 per week with $1.94 interest for 333 week 8 and we will give you a warranty deed free from all in cumbrances for 4 lots and a five room house in "Arlington Heights." So with your regular rents Plus interest of $646.02 you can-stop paying any more rentß or interest. For anything in Real Estate. see- MARTIN'S INC.
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