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THURSDAY APRIL 17, IMO T he Elkin Tribune AND RENFRO RROORD r«.bMsh°rt Every Thursday by K».lv PRINTING COMPANY, Inc , Kl I .ii», N. V, Entered at the po«t office at Elkin. N C., as second claaa matter FRANK UN HI I JDKBR AX D, Publisher THURSDAY APRIL 17, I»:1Q Subscription Hates, per year In the State, $l5O Ont of the State $2.00 THOUGHTS Every good gift Is from above ami cometh from the Father of Light—Jamos 1-17 I owe all my success In to having been always a quarter of an hour beforehand —Ijord Nelson. POEMS Build thee more stately mansions. O my soul! As the swift season roll! Leave they low valted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length are free, leaving thine own outgrown shell by life's un resting sea —• Holmes ' What Surry needs is to put the '"axe" in taxes. Evidently the $75,000 Surry, school bond Issue is "not germane." —o Women's minds may' be cleaner than men's because they change more often. Love Parade modern thought, savs headline, You're wrong, it is as old as the race. Naval conference agrees to pare armaments y building new war ships. When Cal said, "I do not choose to run" he was not getting a dollar a word. o It may not he unlucky to postpone a wedding if you keep on doing it. Cal says he's through with office. But that's just one worry off Hoover's miud. o ' The 19 28 election is over and A 1 Smith is given a rest but Raskob is still being raked over the coals. o Simmon's forces plan broadside against Bailey and the Republicans just, smile and smile and smile. Hoover says we will get into the World Court. Careful "The (loblin's 'll get you ef you don't watch out." —o —— The state of Washington leads the nation in pple production and Washington City turns it into ."applesauce." o When Juge Parker said he didn't want a negro vote, he wasn't speaking for national con sumption. "Hring us in your farm notes" pleads news paper. Even that fails to get a rise out of most banks. o Headline says Illinois campaign expenses ill be probed. If you have too much money you can't run and if you havn't much, you can't either. ♦ LET'S LOOK AT FACTS Facts presented in different news stories in the Tribune this week should cause everyone to take stock in himself and shake off the straw man spectre of "Hoover prosperity" and hard times. Elkin now has the biggest pay roll in its history. It is even 20% higher than last year when the biggest payroll in llie memory of the town was reached. 1200 persons are being reg ularly employed. Added to this, the town as a poultry shipping center, is taking first rank and around $5,000 was paid farmers last week for poultry alone. We are fortunate bu don't know it. Too many people in Elkin have heard the calamity howl of "hard times" and "Hoover prosperity" and have lifted up their voices to bay at the moon in the general wail of woe whtth has reached from the' Atlantic to the Pacific. Money conditions here been stringent mostly because people from the highest to the lowest have been afraid of their shadows and have been like the man in the parable who "hid "his talent" instead of using his ten talents "until ••they grew to riches." Farmers have more money now than usual but they are afraid to spend it because they hear the wall of woe croaked by about nine out of ten persons they meet on the Elkin streets. Thus business slows up when it ought to be liquid and smoothly flowing. Let's look at things as they are. Give the Trnockcr a kick. Wo are better off than we ever were on the face of every available statistic. Business is here if we create it and go after it pstead of scaring it away like a smallpox epe demic would do. Business may be horrible over the country in general but if It is bad here, that Is the fault of those who have lifted up their vices with a wall of Job. ARK VILLAGES PASSING? The first census facts released tend to in dicate that the American village and hamlet is passing. Figures from eight states show 20 per cent of the 161 villages counted near the center : of the United States population, showed losses in the 1930 enumeration. Even those showing in creases have added homes, frequently less than the norma! birth rate. The village may be passing and may not. Many factors enter into the complex statistical implications. The villages and hamlets may not have grown, yet the population has not necess arily decreased or moved to far-away fields. Since the 19 20 census thousands and thou sands of miles of paved roads have been laid; the radio has come and electricity has been brought to the farm. Ten years ago the country was wor ried about an exodus from the farm to the city but now the pendulum seems to have swung the other way. -i Take this community tor instance. An agri cultural survey indicates that there' Is a marked tendency of people moving back to the farms and away from the small hamlets and villages and even cities. They have moved back, not to farm extensively, but to enjoy the benefits or the rural life and yet have the advantages ofthe city. Few have not cars and paved or improved highways honey-comb the country-side. They may ,ve cheaply in the country. ralce chickens, a cow and pigs and garden produce and yet work in the mills of the tow.ns while the automobile and paved road afford quick transportation to and from. work. ( The radio has brought every kind of enter »inment they may desire and it is hut a few miles over good roads in a car that will average forty miles an hour to the town markets where any thing they may desire may be bought. Then also, there is a tendency to build out ide the city limits to escape the burden of tax ation. It is not a chivalrous thing to' do, but it is being done and up-tfl-date no device has been found to prevent a man from living where he de sires. Yes, the census figures are right. The vil lage settlement is passing because it has outlived its usefulness but the people have merely scat tered out but yet live, even in greater numbers! within a few mile radius of the old community, i The automobile and the good roads have j cut the cross roads store out of business. That business is done inthe larger communities where the stored are serving a far greater clientelle than twenty or even tenyears ago. It is one of the strange shifting of our national lite. THE COST OF WAR We are accustomed to think of war only in terms of the loss or life and of property while the conriict is still raging. But there are other costs which continue for generations after the fighting is over. One ofthese is the cost of caring for the in jured und disabled veterans andtheir dependents. The policy of the United States has always been a liberal one, and doubtless always will continue to be. It constitutes a burden upon the people, however, which is actually greater than any other single item of public expenditure. Another post-war item which runs on for years istbe interest on the public debt created by tar, the repayment of the principal of the money borrowed tor war purposes., And after every war there is always, in evitably such continuence ofthe military spirit that the Army and Navy never get back to the same size and cost as before the war. The present cost of running the United States, counting Federal expenditures alone is $3,976,141,051 a year. These are the figures for the fiscal year which ends on June 30 this year More than two-thirds ofthis stupendous total is covered by three post-war items or war costs numerated above. Principal and interest on the public debt cost us $1,279,894,100; car« or vet erans ot tormer wars ran to $^57,044,485; mili tary and naval expenditures totalled $692,399,804 Those make a grand total of $2,729,338,389. That is what the last war is still costing us a year, nearly twelve years after it was finished! mly a small portion of these annual charges are on account of previous wars. "The American people should understand that current expenditures on strictly military ac tivities of the Army and Navy constitue the larg est military budget of any nation in the world to day, and at the time when there is less real dan ger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any time in more than half a century." The wordß are President Hoover's. Is it any wonder that other nations, viewing these tremendous expenditures for war in time of peace, laugh up their aleeves at us when we protest that we are a peace-loving people? It costs each man, woman, and child in the tnited States about $31.66 a year to pay for run ning the National government. That is an aver ge of.about $l6B a year per family. Out of thiß 112.50 is to pay for war. That is-why every effort to agree with other nat Tons to reduce navies to Important to every American citizen. That Is why we cannot Bpend as much money as we should on new roads, im provement of waterways, the development of our i national resources generally. THR ELKIN TRIBUNE ELKIN Ni SURRY FARMERS TO COMPETE FOR COUNTY PRIZES ADVISORY BOARD TO AWARD PREMIUMS KOTt CROP BETTERMENT by V. C. Taylor farm agent The Surry County Farm Ad visory Board at a recent meeting decided to promote among the farmers two contests. First a contest in Improvement of the farm, this will be worked out. a score card and prizes will be nounced later. Grading or scor ment done on the farm the yeai 1 of 1930. Included in ing will be baaed on the improve the improvement of the farm willbe considered the amount of clover sown, other legumes sown, pasture sown, soil improve ment crops turned under, farm buildings repaired, remodeled, or built, terraces made,and any other improvemnt made on the farm. The second contest to be pro moted is a contest among farmer and boys to increase the yield of corn per acre, and reduce the cost per bushel of production. Score card andprizes will be an nounced later. Factors that will be considered in this contest will be yield per acre, cost per bushel and records kept on the corn. The score card will give relative weight given to each of these factors. Anyone wishing to enter this contest should send their name to me at once, all entrants should be made by May 15. Substantial prizes will be given but we are not ready to announ ce these. Fertilizer recommendation for corn will be determined by the condition of the land, the more fertile the land, the more humus in the soil, the more fertilizer may be used profitably. On good land from 200 to 300 lbs. of acid phosphate. A small amount of high grade commercial fertili zer may be used at planting, but the amount should not be over 100 lbs per acre. A liberal use of nitrate used at planting will make too much stalk. Corn should be top dressed with some kind of nitrogen when approximately knee-high. This may be in the Nitrate. The amounts touse will' form of Nitrate of Soda. Sulfate of Amonia or any quick acting be determined by the kind of land. I would not use leas than 100 lbs Der acre and on very good land it may* be profitable to use acre. If for any reason you do as much as 200 to 250 lbs per not care touse the above recortT mendations. 200 to 300 lbs of 10-4-4 fertilizer may be used. WAR VETERANS HEAR W. M GRAVES ON LEGION WORK \VI\NTO\-NXI,KH ATT >RNKY TALKS OF LOANS AVAIL. A BUS TO KX-SEBVHTE MEN Elkin Legionaires heard a highly instructive talk last Fri day night when the war veter ans met for their regular month lysession. Attorney William Gra ves, 6f Winston-Salem, son of Solictor Porter Graves and a de scendant of Governor Jesse Franklin, made the address of ing them. ■ The speaker pointed out that the evening and gave the veter ans comprehensive information relative to the things concern- Legionaires and war veterans should take advantage ofthe new law whereby they are entitled to borrow from the state sums up to $3,000 to pay for homes or build new ones. Mr. Graves pointed out that under this fund the war veterans may have twen ty years to repay the loan which is made at a straight six percent interest rate. The speaker point ed out that the state was simply lending its credit to the ex- ser vice men, s othey could own their own homes and advised should take advantage of the new law creating tjiis loan depart ment. Mr. Graves also told the Le gionaires the government had made provisipn to pay for emer gency operations and illnesses at governmental hospital bases for the veterans of the World War. The meeting which was held in the Tribune office, was well attended and was in charge of Joe Bivens. Commander George Royall brought up the proposi tion of poppy sales on Memorial Day this year an dthe Legion aires were heartily in favor of it. While Elkin had no active post the North Wilkesboro auxilatry came here and sold the popies. Italy's first juvenile court was recently established ia Rome. CAROLINA STORMY SCENES AT JONNESVILLE'S G.O. P. SESSION BRYANT FACTION LOSES GRIP AS opposition slate IS PICKED At the regular Republican township Primary held in Jonesj ville last Saturday for selection! of delegates to the County. Soli-{ citorial. State and Judicial Con ventions and perfecting township organizations, the faction headed by Dr. C. G. Bryant went down in deffeat at the hand of the fac tion headed by D. A. V#stal, J. Mayberry and Ward Swaim. It was the puropse of Dr. Bryant to elect the chairman of his faction, but his motion was defeated and S. M. Vestal was made permanent chairman of the convention, and Ward Swaim secretary. After the election of the delegates to the County, State Judicial and Senatorial Conventions, the biggest squab ble of the day arose overj the' election of the township comm-| ittee. Some as to the precedure of the convention was introduc ed by Dr. Bryantand M. R. Hay nes, and the Yadkin Ripple was referred to for the proper pro cedure. Mr. Hay lies said that he did a'ot trust the procedure given in'the Riplpe. Again, when S. M. Vestal was put in nomination as County Committeeman. Mr. Haynefe again arose and said tllat the chairman could not hold the chair while in nomination. Whereupon D. A. Vestal was cal-, led to the chair. Then Dr. Bryant arose and made a motion to adjourn, but the chair ruled that there was unfinished business and that the motion was out of order. After much argument. Dr. Bryant was again defeated by vote and S. M. Vestal was elected as County Committeeman. The Vestal. Mayberry and Swaim faction defeated Dr. Bry- r CAROLINIANS—Know Your State! ®4. L COPYRICH r 1930 BY BOYCfc. & RANKIN J MQPftRH GOTTEN MUJU rJ \TORTH CAROUNA has mora cotton mill* (579) than any StU« fa &• o»jj IN and second only to Massachusetts fa ta*tila produotlo'h. It* textile mar consumed J,590,909 balas of raw cotton fa 1917 or about jfO than was grown fa the Stat# during that year. Ths total approaches I hall a billion dollars. The lir|ki -f" 4rJV factory fa the world ar# fa North f^dJk* WWI BPj and underwaar factory 20 thf Suited Statst, The n balitTfii if y&i %- «Ir jzm 3 «**%£ pUA* *Au/Ljh> fr*. fir ***9^ ~ f4C( -&U. COV% 0H- ffo. O/tCiotiA of HrtL4j /ICU^UMO. J$Q I I I cUf. (t ur**. /uu**~yl «*u ttfjtg Ak^u *6 tft &tl&et7 tfU 4uMlt Una. Ur+ttA. M fZ&e/tJi A LADY JA/P TO w ILUE /H*y cstrf /rt tftt to ar*M,- a&i+4*\ ***■■ ur+JttM.lloJbd& *>t?y haughty bov,mow6o 'wy* W %OfaJ *, 4+h*L. ' (?a*r & +**« W- 7W &»> o*/ W * ow «° Jt A4*A,"IM&, f**~- com- - a**Jt 4 I * A D HE ' I a V~ _ &jC//ft;.J t ;. iy ****** wiL* - »*Kf • IJB ant every time and following delegates were elected. Town ship Committee, J. S. Mayberry, Chairman, D. A. Vestal and Ward Swalm; County Committee S. M. Vestal; delegates to Coun ty convention at Yadklnville on April 14, at 2:00 P. M., the fol lowing: J. S. Mayberry, Ward Swaini, D. A. Vestal and S. M. Vestal. Forthe State' Convention at Charlotte: S. M. Vestal. Sen sorial Convention: Jeter Hay nes. Judicial Convention: John Eller. LAD KILLED WHEN TRACTOR UPSETS WHILE IN FIELD HARMON CUM MINOS MEETS DKATH BENEATH WHEELS NEAR KLKIN LATE WEDNESDAY TODAY BIRTHDAY Was To Celebrate Kvent and Cake HIMI Jieen linked For Occasion Harmon Cummings, 22 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Izaac Cwmmings of Cummings Mill community fourand one half miles north of Elkin about 3:30 wheji a Fordaon trac tor he was driving to the fields,! turned over on an old sawmill road, and crushed the boy so badly that he was dead when aid arrived. The lad was thrown beneath, the wheels which passed over his neck and chest. Coroner Lee Snow was called and pronounced death due to accidental causes.'. The tragedy was made doubly sad because today would been his twenty-second birthday and it is said that the mothe* had prepared a birthday cakes aftd a special meal for the' occas ion. Although funeral arrange ments had not been made Wed nesday evening, it was probable ! that the funeral would be held 'on the dead boy's birthday. PARADE FEATURE AL. F. WHEELER'S NEW MODEL SHOW Another glorious page will be written In the amusement his tory of Elkin. when the A 1 Wheeler's New Model Shows Kive their spectacular exhibitions on Tuesday April 22. This all new and different cir cus is now bigger and better than ever. Al. F. Wheler com bined his owns shows with those of Jethro Almond and Tiger Bills wild west show, uniting Belmont Wonderful and Wild Amfcpal Arena, also Chief Runnlngjwk's Indian Village, making one im mense bis ciiyus under the Al F. Wheeler banner. It is now the greatest show of this modern motor-age. -4^, REYNOLDS IS G. O. P. CHOICE CONGRESS State Senator John P. Rey nolds. of Went worth, was nom inated by the Republicans of this district for congress at the cqngressional convention of the party held Wednesday at Greens boro. f 'Mjt Junius Harden, who was fthe ■ party candidate two years &l|o, ; issued a statement in which he| «aid he could not run this yeac. R. E. Shore of Winston-Salem acted as temporary chairman of the convention. All-metal airplanes will be em ployed by the Canadian govern ment for fightire forest fires. Portable talkinc machines are being developed by the Weeting house company as ah aid to sales men. The "high hat hen" owned, by Mrs. J. I. Liscomb, of Srath Portland. Me., raised a terrtble row until she was admitted to the bedroom of her mistress' home where she lays her eggs on the bed.
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