Thursday, December 7, 1933
WTVINOFP . . Russian Visitor
Maxim Litvinoff, the Foreign
Minister of the Soviet government,
who has come to America at Pres
ident Roosevelt's invitation to talk
orer the recognition of Russia, the
Russian debts to America and other
things, is one of the world's re
markable. A Polish Jew (his name
used to be Finkelstein) he lived for
years in England, employed as a
traveling salesman, and married an
English girl, Ivy Low, daughter of a
Reading London lawyer.
He was one of the earliest lead
ers of the Russian Revolution. He
speaks four languages, is afraid of
nobody, and has made a great im
pression in every international con
ference he has attended.
Litvinoff plays the game of diplo
macy frankly and in the open. He
has no use for diplomats who beat
around the bush and wait for in
structions from home before they
agree to anything.
I have a hunch that this visitor
from Russia and President Roose
velt will hit it off together.
ENTHUSIASM . . and dollars
It is the easiest thing in the
world to get everybody all stirred
up emotionally over almost any new
thing. It is the hardest thing in the
world to get them to back up their
enthusiasm with their dollars.
I have seen a dozen national
"movements" started with a great
hurrah, but the only ones I recall
that went over with a bang we're
when we were being stirred up to i
go to war. Prohibition—and its re- 1
peal—took years of education and
underground political work. i
What made me think of that was
seeing a big NRA banner on Fifth I
Avenue, left over from the decora-
tions for the big parade a few
weeks ago. Everybody in town (
was all stirred up that day, but it 1
is hard to hear a kind word spoken f
for the NRA today. i
It will take years for this revolu
tionary doctrine to become gener- 1
ally accepted and-liked, if at all.
TOBAOCO .... as money
In the early Colonial days tobac
co was money in Virginia and
Maryland. It was the chief com-
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m/vtrm Santa is going to be »*ra
TOYS! TOYS! Kirsri% Gifts for
o'clock and he want* AMH
to see each and every- nljIV U ff]%
Dolls, wagons, tricycles, air friends. So make It a
MOTHER \\ m l
rifles, balls, doll furniture, P°, ,nt l ? be here and . . JK'
' . , . ' bring along your fath- ffm
trams, tool sets, trunks, pi- s,«. chinaware, scarfs, hand
anos, erector sets, games, for them too becaUße kerchiefs, pictures, candy, fIS
carriages, stoves, footballs, this year we have clocks, baskets, shaving iflfc
trucks, drums, dressers, SXSJJ'rt 't°he famUy f- ets ' bags, gloves, ties, sta
tinker sets, phones, blocks, at prices that will tionery, hosiery, books, pjm i
tea sets, watches, skates, Chrlßtn ? aß •' TTv raz T blades ' M '
, , ' happier than ever be- sewing baskets, glassware. *53
tractors harps, horns and for. Our, .flashlights and many oth- J5
many others. *,, Simr = " d
Graham & Click Co. S & 10c Store 1
ELKIN, N. C. M
Herewith are presented the men who now
~ head the Treasury Department at Washington, ®IS ' ''a
.fj a realignment brought about when Secretary }■
R Woodin was granted leave of absence in an
£n attempt to regain his health. No. 1, Herman
Oliphant, consul to the secretary; No. H
2, Acting Secretary Henry Morgenthau M
NO. 3, Earle Bailie, charge of fiscal affairs, W
A No. 4, Wm. H. Me Reynolds, Administrative
Assistant; 3, Herbert E. Gaston,
JJGJ P..hi if Relation* FTBB relation, No. 6, Roswell Magill, adviser on JH
V7IMM taxation. Taxation fl
modity exported to England, as
beaver skins were New England's
principal item in foreign trade; and
like beaver akins, tobacco waß the
measure of all valuea. There was
no gold or silver, no other easily
concentrated transmissible form of
wealth.
The Colony of Maryland built a
State House at St. Mary's City* in
1634 and paid for it, of course, with
tobacco. It took 300,000 pounds to
put up the structure 259 years ago.
Now the State of Maryland is going
to rebuild the old State House from
the original plans; the old building
has vanished but plans and draw
ings of it remain. It will cost $25,-
000. And that works out at only
166,666 2-3 pounds of tobacco at
the current price for the Maryland
crop, of 15 cents a pound.
If Maryland had remained on the
tobacco standard everybody would
be saying that money was too high
and there would be a demand for
inflation of the currencyl
LEISURE . . . made profitable
Commercialized entertainment has
given most of the young people to
day a false idea of what to do with
leisure time. Going to the movies
or driving around in automobiles
are the principal means of amuee
TWF FXKTN TRIMTNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
ment among a. large percentage.
They do not understand how any
one can spend their leisure time
happily without also spending mon
ey. Yet the happiest people I know
are those who spend their leisure
in things that cost them nothing.
I know one boy who has spent
his spare time for more than a year
in the American Museum of Natural
History; another who devotes every
spare daylight hour and some
nights to finding out all he can
about the animals, birds, trees and*
plants within a mile of his home.
The happiest man I know is so
interested in his job that he spends
all of his own time trying to learn
about the business in which he is
employed. It takgs most of us a
long time, though, to learn that
happiness can't be bought. It has
to be pursued.
PAIR .... again next year
It is good news that the Century
of Progress Exposition in Chicago
is to be reopened in the Spring for
another season. It has been the
greatest success ever achieved by
any World's Pair. More people have
entered its gates than ever paid ad
mission to anything before.
That is really amazing, and proof
that everybody is not quite as hard
up' as one might Imagine merely
from reading the newspaper ac
counts of distress and suffering.
And with times getting better, an
other 25,000,000 Americans ought
to go to Chicago next year and see
what they missed in 1933.
I know several persons who have
told me they intended to go again
and take their families. I have no
doubt that next year's attendance
will exceed this year's. For I havu
yet to meet anyone who saw the
Century of Progress this year who
did not praise it.
Tobacco Campaign
Gets Under Way
With the arrival at State College
lof the first batch of tobacco con
tracts, plans for getting the acreage
adjustment campaign under way at
once are now going forward rapi'dly.
During the past week, the pub
lications office at State College has
mailed to county farm agents in the
57 counties growing flue-cured to
bacco over one million blanks, forms
and other printed supplies to be
used in connection with the cam
paign. Dean I. O. Schaub, director of
Extension Service at State College,
had the agents come to the College
on Monday, December 4, for further
study of the contract and to secure
additional supplies and instructions
needed for. the conduct o£ the cam
paign.
The agents are expected to have
i.' their hands all necessary copies
o\ the contract by the close of this
week and growers are asked to be
gin immediately to change their old
agreements, signed in September,
into legal contracts with the Sec
retary of Agriculture.
At the same time, growers are
also urged to secure the necessary
data showing the amount and price
of tobacco sold before the market
ing holiday and after the holiday and
before the agreement made with
the big buying companies on Octob
er 7. Those who secure this in
formation, with proof of its correct
ness, will get a compensation pay
ment for such tobacco sold. This
compensation payment will be 20 per
cent of the value of the tobacco sold
before the holiday and 10 per cent
of the value of that sold between
the holiday and the signing of the
marketing agreement. Only those
who «ign adjustment contracts, how
ever, will get this compensation
payment.
Mr. Schaub urges all tobacco
growers to co-operate with the coun
ty agents in getting the new con
tracts signed. The quicker this is
donfe, the quicker will the rental
payments be made and the whole
program put in\o effect.
Fram Wheat to Bread
About 286 one-pound loaves of bread
are made from one barrel of flour.
Millers require 4.0 bushels of wheat to
make one barrel of flour.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified aa administra
tor of the estate of Elizabeth (Bet
tie) King Pyron, deceased, late of
Surry County, North Carolina, this
ia to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said de
ceased to exhibit them to the un
dersigned at Elkin, N. C., on or be
fore October 26, 1934, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make imme
diate payment.
This the 26th day of October,
1933.
RUOHS PYRON,
Administrator of Elizabeth (Bettie)
King Pyron, deceased.
W. M. Allen, Atty for Admr. 11-23
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DRC.E. NICKS
VETERINARY SURGEON
Phone 240
Church St. Elkin, N. C.
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- & 1934 rolls around. fll
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§» LADIE DRESSES AND "
1 ifet" GREATLY REDUCED I
Hmn These Coats and Dresses represent real
values. New materials—styles—colors, Js*
hui they were bargains before we slashed fink
Iff tod f" ces ' me * n an * see them
W CHILDREN'S COATS %
mf Choose a fine gift for the little Miss from
this fine assortment of Children's coats at Jg
very much reduced prices! fiffl
W HP HERE'S A GIFT BUY! &
W • Ladies' full fashion pure thread _
JBSg s 111/ silk hose. At this price they Pft Ju
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Sg Ladies' hats from 48c to $1.19 "jS
New line men's suits $9.50 to $16.50 fflk
Jy Good fast color Pepperell prints, while &|
TO it lasts, yard __ 17 C j£*
Underwear for all the family 39c to 79c jS
gL Overalls, good weight denim 48c to 97c
Jf Sweaters make ideal gifts. Coat style Jm
% and slip-overs 25c to $2.25
One lot boys' good heavy overcoats to close out at a jy
g bargain! A good gift buy! #JI
2r Men's dress socks, pair ... 10c to 15c fSt
2$ Good heavy work pants, pair 98c to $1.98 A
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