Thursday,, February 28, 1933
■JOftAYand
DICTATOR . . Europe's Third
Adolf Hitler, leader of the "Nazi"
movement in Germany, has become
Chancellor of the German Republic,
and head of the Government. This
makes the third European nation to
come under the control of a virtual
dictator. Stalin in Russia, Musso
lini in Italy and now Hitler in Ger
many are manifestations of the
failure of the peoples of those
countries to manage their own af
fairs successfully.
I hear a great deal of loose talk
to the effect that "what America
needs is a dictator." I don't think
we need anything of the kind, and
don't think that the vast majority
of Americans want to be organized,
disciplined and controlled in the
way that people living under a dic
tator have to submit to.
We have never failed yet in
America to work our way out of our
troubles, and I think we are on the
way out now. ,
SOCIALISM . • Are we headed?
We are much more lik-ely in
America to come to some mild form
of socialism than we are to arrive
at either communism or a dictator
ship. But we are not likely to call
it socialism any more than England
calls her present system of govern
ment socialistic —which it practi
cally is.
All the signs of the time are
pointing to increasing government
al control, if not ownership and op
eration of public utilities, natural
resources, means of transportation
and communication. It would not
surprise me, if I were here to ESC It,
to find the United States twenty
years from now owning all of the
mines, oil wells, railroad, telegraph
and telephone lines, radio broad
casting systems, electric light and
power plants, steamship lines, and
other enterprises which are essen
tially monopolistic in their nature.
And. incidentally, if any more
people stop paying taxes it won't be
long before the nation or its gov
ernmental sub-divisions own all the
land.
COOPERATION . In a new way
A group of sixty-three unem
ployed New York business men are
opening up a cooperative store with
the aid of manufacturers and Job
bers of merchandise of all kinds.
They are getting their rent on a
percentage basis of sales, and their
merchandise on consignment.
This is only one of hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of cooperative
efforts at self help which are being
WANTS
For Sale—Six-room house, out
buildings and four acres of good
land in Arlington. See or call W.
C. Edwards at Carolina Ice & Fuel
Company, Elkin, N. C. tfc
Real Estate safest investment.——See
J. S. Atkinson, Telephone build
ing. lt-p.
Be sure to attend Elkin's Half-Dol
lar Days, Friday and Saturday,
February 24th and 26th.
Follow the crowds to Elkin Friday
and Saturday.
Tell your friends about Elkin's Big
Day Event!
50c will do what a I>ollar formerly
did during Elkin's Big Half-Dol
lar Event. Be Here!
FOB BENT —My home on Gwyn Ave
nue. See Mrs. Jennie Chatham,
Elkin, N. C., or write W. E.
Nichols, Morganton, N. C. 2-16 c
We have for sale In your community
a piano partially paid for. You may
have same by paying the unpaid
balance. If interested write im
mediately. V. J. McCombs Credit
Department, Box 479, Salisbury,
N. C. 2-23
FOB BEN T —6-room house on Owyn
Avenue. Apply at Tribune office,
pd.
Chattel Mortgages, Warrant
Deeds, Deeds of Trust ani
Land Posters for sale at The
Tribune office. tfc
REAL ESTATE
For Sale—! 12 acre farm, Hmall
house, good barn, two tobacco
barns and a large pack house and
casing basement. About 150,000
feet of timber, splendid tobacco,
wheat and corn land. Eight acres
in pasture, 5 acres of good bot
tom land. Te nmiles from Elkin,
8 miles hard surfaced. Price $lO
per acre, one-third cash, 10 years
on balance.
Some real bargains in town property
in Elkin, Jonesville and Arling
ton; also farms.
MARTIN'S. Inc.
BKB D. O. MARTIN
made In all parts of the United
States. Some will succeed and some
will not, but out of them may grow
some valuable lesßons which can be
applied when good times come
again, and which will make it eas
ier, because of this experience, to
meet the next economic crisis.
1 heard from an English friend
the other day that the members of
the great British cooperative society
arq getting through the depression
much easier than the general run of
the people. •
T.he hardest thing for most Amer
icans to learn is teamwork.
TREASURE . . hidden away
If all the money that has ever
been buried and its whereabouts
forgotten could be dug up and put
into circulation, ther e might be
enough to ease the depression ma
terially.
I learned the other day from a
Russian friend that he knew ■ the
exact spot where ten million dol
lars was buried just before the Bol
shevik army arrived, and if there
were any possible way of getting the
money out of Russia he could lead
me to the spot. I declined the of
fer, but I was reminded of it when
I heard from down on the Eastern
shores of Maryland that a young
man who had bought an abandoned
graveyard as a site for a filling sta
tion had found an iron pot contain
ing thirty thousand dollars in old
coins buried in the ground. And
from out in Arkansas comes the
report that workers for the Amer
ican Red Cross have turned up near
ly six thousand dollars that was
hidden by an ancient hermit who
committed suicide a few weeks ago,
after writing instructions to the
Red Cross workers how to find his
(Juried treasure.
Adventurers are still searching for
pirate gold on various islands of the
West Indies, and dredging the deep
seas for sunken treasure ships. It is
the most fascinating fame imagin
able, but those who play it seldom
win.
SECURITY . . In old age pension
My friends of the American Asso
ciation for Old Age Security report
that efforts are being made by poli
ticians in several states to abolish
their old age pension systems, on the
plea of economy, and go back to the
horrors of the town and county poor
houses. It seems to me that this is
about the last place to practice
economy. Of course the poorhouses
made jobs for politicians and pro
fits for local tradesmen supplying
bad food at high prices. The ex
perience has always been that alms
house support of the indigent poor
costs twice as much as providing the
small pension of five or six dollars
a week to every needy person of
advanced years.
Twenty Legislatures have old age
pension bills up for consideration
now. I hope and believe that the
time will come soon when every
American can look forward to have
at least enough to live on after
reaching the age of sixty-five or per
haps seventy.
If this be socialism make the most
of it.
S. P. U. FEATURING
NEW OVEN COOKER
Will Do Work of Regu
lar Oven At Very
Small Cost
A "stored heat" electric cooker,
said to be the latest thing in eco
nomical electric cookery, is now on
display at the local office of the
Southern Public Utilities company.
According to S. P. U. salesmen,
the new cooker does everything an
oven will do. It roasts and bakes
brown, stews, boils, steams and
fricassees enough food for an aver
age family meal. It is said to cook
largely by stored heat and uses less
current than an electric iron.
The new cooker operates from any
electrical outlet.
Another feature of the cooker is
that dinner may be prepared in it
or in a regular stove oven, and then
served hot at picnics, etc., merely
by placing it in the cooker and car
rying it along.
The time required to cook a meal
in the cooker is one and one-half
hours at an electrical current ex
pense of only one and seven-tenths
cents.
An advertisement in this issue of
The Tribune gives further details.
DECLINES CABINET POST
Senator Carter Glass Monday
night formally notified President
elect Roosevelt that he will not ac
cept appointment as secretary of the
treasury. A senator who is regarded
as Glass' closest friend in the senate
stated that the Virginia senator
reached his decision on the face of
a nation-wide avalanche o! «ppp»l"
from business leaders to consider
and accept the post.
JAP VETS DENOUNCE LEAGUE
Twenty thousand persons, most of
them former Japanese soldiers, at
tended two mass meetings in Tokio
Monday and adopted resolutions
urging Japan's immediate resigna
tion from the League of Nations.
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