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SKILL .... still an asset Throughout the depression, a friend tells me, his industry, which is the largest of its kind, has kept all Its skilled workers on full pay. "We can't afford to let them go," he said. "There are far too few men who can work accurately in terms of a thousandth of an inch, and modern industry needs more and more of them." Henry Ford has to train boys in his own great Industrial school, to have a large supply of highly-skilled technicians, capable of building the automatic machines which enable the unskilled to produce accurately machined automobile parts. For every really skilled hand worker out of a job there are, I venture, a hundred college men looking for work. And when in dustry picks up again it will be the Black-Draught Clears Up Sluggish Feeling "I have used Thedford's Black- Draught for constipation for a lon* time," writes Mrs. Frank Cham pion, of Wynne, Ark. "If I get up In the morning feeling dull and sluggish, a dose of Black- Draught taken three times a day will cause the feeling to pass away, and In a day or two I feel like a new person. After many years of use we would not exchange Black-Draught for any medicine." p. S. —lf you have CHILDREN, ffive them the neu>, pleaeant-taeting MYRUP of Thedford't Black-Draught. I . » When You Buy I I ■ New Tires You I May As Well Have I THE BEST I 6 AND T "PLIES FISHER AND THAT MEANS IIP GOODYEARS ■ that's what we call them. as low as __ I "4 55 V ■ • BACH . V ■■ In Fair* V ■ Many other tires seU at higher VP I price*. But the Goodyoar Pathfinder give* such fine performance that it haa b#come When you go to buy new tires it is poor I ONE OF THE 5 judgment to be satisfied with anything I I . LARGEST SELLING less than the best. And that is why you TIRES in Hie ytottel should buy Goody ears. Goodyear puts more value into its tires because Goodyear manufactures millions more. And it is simple logic that Good- I years would not lead in sales by millions I Don't be satisfied with just any tire. Equip with Goodyears. They cost no I more an choice tires. I IEFORE STARTING THAT TRIP 111 I TR ADE IN YOUR I Drive by and let us check your car. Expert I I OLD TIRESI I greasing, washing and polishing. Courteous ser- Slipperv driving days ahead. vice that leaVeS nothing overlooked. B Better be ready. . , £ VALUE I Shell Gas and Oil Exide Batteries Because Goodyear builds tha Ignition Parts Fan Belts most tires by millions (the j "ss BRIDGE STREET PHONE 16 I give the most value. You get | the benefit here PLUS OUR I 9 EXPERT TIRE SERVICE. | ■ Double Eagle Service Co. I I Elkin, N. C. I - " ' ' ■■■ggaSSSSBEHSEHHSSSSSSSSHSS skilled mechanics who will be put to work tirßt. Nine high school graduates out of ten, iprobably 95 out of every hundred, would be better off and have happier, more productive lives if they were apprenticed to one of the trades that require a combina tion of intelligence and manual skill, instead of going to college. PRICES ... on farm products There is only one way in which prices of farm products can be kept at levels which will enable the farm er to earfc a surplus above his bare living. That is for farmers to com bine and sell ,their produce only through their own marketing agen cies, fixing the price themselves. Farmers are the only class of people who are permitted to com bine to maintain price under the anti-trust laws. The whole purpose of the Co-operative Marketing Act, under which the Farm Board was created, is to help farmers to do Just that. If politicians would keep their hands off and not try to feather their own nests at the expense of the farmer the plan would work. Common sense and business methods are all the farmers of the United States need. FOOTBALL . . . then and now At Rutgers University the ojther day I saw a tablet in the gymna sium recording the fact that on that spot, in 1869, was played the first intercollegiate football game, be tween Rutgers and Princeton. There were 25 men in each team and the game, recently imported from Eng land, was more like soccer than like the 'varsity game of today. It was a good many years after that before anybody thought of charging admission to college foot ball games. As Soon as that cus tom became established the game ceased to be a sport and became a commercial enterprise, which has no more proper place in education affairs than horse racing has. But THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA [G. A. R. Greeted at Lincoln's Home Town iii.' Seventy-five thousand people crowded into Springfield, 111., home town of Abraham I jnrnln, to witness 800 members of the Grand Army of the Republic in parade and annual convention. Photos show the "thin blue line" on parade, and insert, Win. P. Wrigfai, Chicago, newly elected National Commander for 1932. * # probably more young men go to a particular college because of its reputation in football than are at tracted by the quality of its teach ing staff. _______ EXCHANGE . . how It works I met a friend wearing a new hat the other day, and admired the headpiece. "The New York store which han dles this make of hats wanted sl2 for one like this," he told me. "I sent to London and got it for SB, including the duty. With English money more than 30 percent lower than ours, they can sell their goods to us at a profit, but we can't sell to them, because we have to get our pay in' money at the full gold value." Another friend told me that Ja pan has captured the rubber over shoe business of the United States. The Japanese yen is down to about half of its par value in gold. That makes no difference to the Japa nese workman, whose pay will buy just as much food and clothing as before except for imported com modities. It also enables the Japa nese manufacturer, paying his help in depreciated money, to sell his goods here below our cost of pro duction. The problem of how to equalize money between the nations is more important than any amount of tar iff discussion. There isn't enough gold available for the world's trade purposes. The proposal to restore silver to its former position as money is gaining adherents every where. SHIPS their speed When we read that Gar Wood has run his Miss America speedboat at the rate of 120 miles an hour it is natural to wonder why it takes the fastest passenger ship afloat nearly five days to cover the 3600 miles between New York and Cherbuorg, France. Doubtless a ship could be built which couid cross the ocean at a speed around 100 miles an hour, provided nothing broke, but it wouldn't be worth while. To gain such speeds practically every avail able space inside the hull would have to be crowded with machin ery. The new Italian liner. Rex, larg est ship to be built since the war, is about as fast as it pays to make ocean liners; she can.keep up a continuous speed of 27 knots, or about 31 land miles per hour, and in her 880 feet of length can find room for more "pay load" in pas sengers and cargo than any other ship afloat, although two or three are larger. When the time comes, as it will, when people can afford to do some more expensive experimenting with huge flying boats and dirigibles, the speed route across the Atlantic will be through the air, and passengers will be found who will pay enough for a quick passage to Europe to make Buch ventures profitable. P PEOPLES' COLUMN The Tribune does not necessar ily endorse any article under this heading bat welcomes at all times communications of interest to its readers and the general public. —— 1 READER URGES THAT WE GET BACK TO GOD To the Editor: Please give me space in your Peo ples' column for a few words: The people of the United States are just now in a turmoil over the question of strong drink and politics. Very few of us know that we are in the making of history. If the people could read and understand we are about on par with the Egyptians 500 years before Christ.. They worship ped cats and dogs and held them as sacred animals. History tells us that Camlyses won a great victory over Egypt by marching a gang of cats and dogs in front of his army. This was about lOOO.years after the life of Joseph. We are just border ing on the same sort of supersti tion, some women now think as much or more of a poodle dog as they do of a baby and the men are already worshiping fine cows and hogs. It is a very common thing to hear of a cow selling for $1,600 or $2 t OOO and one man sold a dog for SI,OOO not long ago. About seven years after Egypt's Idolatry the world had reached a high standard of intelligence. When Paul con tended with the Greeks at Athens they worshiped all kinds of gods and even had an inscription to the unknown god. Pretty soon after wards we went into what is known as the dark ages and for some 800 years the Romans played hav.oc with the people who did not adhere to their religion. This was known at the days of Christian martyrdom. About the 15th century the bonds of Romanism were broken and the light of Christianity shown and the world received it gladly and men carried the good news of salvation everywhere. About seventy-five years ago Sa tan, it seems, got among us and we began to commercialize the gospel and now it is costing a lot of money to hear it preached. The common people have little say so in what kind of gospel it is and none in the matter of books that are taught in the schools. All of our different de nominations have programs they are trying to put over, and when it is put over, in most cases, it is just getting over a~ fence. Even the good women are striving hard to help in the work, thinking that it is the work of the Lord. We have about reached the point where we have no God, only in name. Our hearts are not in the work. It looks like the more we learn the further away from Cod we get. So let us all turn back to the ways of the Lord and let man made ways go and not go on until we get into another war where blood will be shed as it was in the days of ancient Rome and Greece. Get your mind off of fine cars, fine homes, fine cows, fine hogs and many of the thingn we are worshiping and fix them on right- Eyes Examined , Office: Glasses Fitted El kin National Bank Bid*. DRS. GREEN and DEANS OPTOMETRISTS Office open daily for optical repairs and adjustments of all kinds. Examinations on Tuesdays Fridays 1 to 5, 7 to 8:80 P. M. J { -V, Pay your electrict ■ of each month and M SOUTHERN 1 | LAST TIME TODAY— I SHORT SUBJECTS I wm FRIDAY AND SATURfI BUCK JONES Final Chapter "THM Admisfl show ; and QobVlfc I MONTGOMERY ADMISSION ■ \tyio 10°! A Paramount Pieturm MAtfE A POINT TO SEE IT! ■i Thursday, October 2o| eousness so the world can nBH We are standing in our ov^| Just now. - ■ —SUBSCH S nHB Cycle, N. C., Oct. 17, 1932. Wage-earning women spend more) than $8,500,000 annually In the United States, according to Govern ment figures. ■ . U—U —M . A C. G. ARMFIELD Notary Public W. M. ALLEN LAW BUILDING j EXraRT^VATCH a S. E. SHUMATE Jeweler Elkln, N. O.
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