THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935
Emtered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., M
second-class matter.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER TEAR
la the State siM> Out of the State, fa.oo
A reform fir is a person who wants you to let
his conscience be your guide.
Explanation: You see we spent all the mon
ey for the radio broadcast, so we have to get the
newspapers to print it free.
As we understand it North Carolina is ex
pected to wait awhile on that two miHion from
the Reynolds inheritance, in the hope that when
it comes, it will be less.
If and when Huey Long decides to come to
this State, weighted down with the responsibility
of telling us whom we shall elect to the United
States Senate, then Senator Bailey should volun
tarily contribute to the Kingfish's traveling ex
penses.
Says the Greensboro News: "As an example
of brotherly comity commend us to the Wake
county coroner who, sitting as a magistrate, fined
a Brunswick county ditto $4.75 for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct while stopping over in
Wake on his way to the Duke crematory with a
corpse in a trailer."
When Farmer Bob Doughton leaves his desk
in Washington long enough to run down home
and rest for the week-end, Raleigh political pro
phets see in the visit something to do with the
governorship. Maybe the longer Congressman
Doughton mingles with the boys in Congress the
more pleasure he gets in communing with his
cows.
Discouraging the Criminal
If the governor of New Jersey is successful
in negotiations now under way between that and
neighbor states, persons who flee from one to
another of these states, either to escape arrest
or to avoid testifying in a criminal case, will not
be so lucky as heretofore. Fugitives who have
been able to hide behind legal technicalities, will
have the barricade cut away, and the heretofore
divided purposes which impede or delay the
forces of justice, will be welded into a more con
sistent and co-operative plan.
The national government in its campaign
against crime has repeatedly felt the need of such
co-operation. While Congress has extended fed
eral authority looking to a more effective coordi
nation in the campaign against criminals, there
still remain circumstances in which only the
states can meet the demands of justice.
Congress has empowered states to enter in
to regional agreements for crime control, and the
Governor of New Jersey seeks to form such a
group embracing his own State, New York,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. If the
Governor's idea works out, it will serve as a pre
cedent for other state groups to follow.
In the main it can hardly be said that there
has not been co-operation heretofore among the
officials of the various states, but voluntary co
operation is not enough. Means should be pro
vided for mandatory, direct action, if the criminal
is not to be shielded by existing technicalities,
against his prompt return to the scene of his
crime.
This proposed coalition, along with other
methods looking to crime control, indicates more
and more that the criminal's path will become
thorny and anything but romantic.
High Financing
The government, in its efforts to sustain
the $3,089,900 assessment placed on former Sec
retary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon's 1931
income, is throwing the spotlight on the former
secretary's financial wizardry in such a way as
to make it easy to understand how come Mr. Mel
lon is a multi-millionaire.
The greatest Secretary of the Treasury since
Alexander Hamilton knows his financial onions,
and is familiar with the subtle secret of remov
ing the odor from his dollars by juggling them
in his hat, in a manner practiced by myriad oth
ers before his day and since.
, The government is digging into the records
of sales between the father and his daughter's
Ascalot company, her personal holding concern,
and contends that both Ascalot and Mr. Mellon
established "losses" for income tax deductions
through "shadow sales" claiming that many oth
er sales by him were not real sales, but simply
transfers to provide an intricate smoke-screen
fcgainst the government tax-collecting hounds.
The layman is not able to follow the maze
of figures involved in stock sales or transfers or
whatever the big fellows like to call them, but
he does understand that Mr. Mellon along with
hundreds of his apostles, managed somehow to
show a "loss" when income tax returns were be
ing made out, while he, the layman, was com
pelled to ante up.
The more these methods of the immensely
rich are brought out into public view, the easier
it is for Huey Long to find fertile soil for his
dangerous doctrine embraced in his "share-the
wealth" program.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
We Deserve It
The news columns of this paper last week
told of the completion of the survey looking to
ward the erection of a new federal building in
this city. This will be pleasing news to patrons
of the postal service in Elkin. We have waited
a long time for our government to get around to
us; waited patiently and somewhat enviously as
neighboring towns have been favored with ac
commodations no more deserved than we.
Aside from the fact that the construction of
federal buildings is one sure way of furnishing
employment to communities that need it, there
is actual need for better postal facilities for this
little city. The record covering the postal re
ceipts at the local office will show that the vol
ume of business is far above that of many towns
that long ago moved the postoffice from rented
buildings into a home of its own.
Government red tape, of course, will tend to
prolong the dream. We may not expect to wake
up some morning next week and find a placard on
the doors of the present quarters directing us to
another location where we are to get our mail.
But a start has been made, and right considerable
start at that.
With a friendly representative in Congress,
and with the citizens of this city united in the
purpose, we should see ground broken for a new
federal building before many moons, providing
the present Congress doesn't prolong its personal
squabbling.
Having made this start it behooves our civic
leaders to jot down advance dates in their diaries
when the matter should not be allowed to lag.
Everything comes to him who waits, but some
times it is well to break the monotony of the si
lence. Let's not let Washington forget that we
want, need and deserve a new postal building.
Commendation
Carl Goerch, editor of The State, published
at Raleigh, admits that' he doesn't agree "with
many of the recommendations which have been
suggested under the McDonald-Lumpkin plan,"
but gives these gentlemen credit for absolute sin
cerity in the things they are advocating, adding
that "in a lot of respects they are talking through
their respective hats."
Inasmuch as the McDonald-Lumpkin bill
strikes at the vitals of Editor Goerch's befoved
general sales tax, it is not expected that the
Raleigh man would see much in the measure
worthy of commendation.
But what interests us most is Goerch's in
terest in getting Dr. McDonald a job. This from
The State:
"He has a most pleasing personality, and is one
of the most likeable fellows you'd want to meet.
If any business corporation—or anyone else, for
that matter—wants the services of a man who is
thorough-going, conscientious, sincere and a hard
worker, we recommend Dr. McDonald without any
equivocation or reservation. He's really a mighty
fine man, and is thoroughly popular with everyone
in the legislature—despite the fact that the ma
jority of the members might disagree with him
about many of the things which he is advocating."
Bully! The State with a fairly large circu
lation in North Carolina ought to be able to land
Dr. McDonald in a profitable place. Heads of
corporations read the magazine, we presume, with
a great deal of interest, and heads of corpora
tions, as we recollect, were instrumental in sever
ing his connection with another institution be
cause of his views on tax matters. In their big
ness of soul they will want to do something to
make amends—especially after this splendid tri
bute by The State.
And corporations have a habit that way. You
can count a number of prominent legislators, who
were members of the last General Assembly, now
drawing good pay from corporations, and one of
them at least was among those who in the closing
days of last session, succumbed to the "inevita
bility" of the sales tax.
Wish Carl could see something in us worthy
of commendation. It would help a lot.
Stupid Neglect
Two footless negro men will thump their
way about the state, living monuments to the cal
lousness, neglect and stupidity of prison camp
officials, whose inhumanity has cast a blot upon
North Carolina, and upon other like officials who
take their duties more seriously.
Whatever may have been the contributing
causes that led to the necessity for amputating
the feet of the two Mecklenburg prisoners, the
fact stands out plain and simple, that this would
not have become a necessity if the negroes liad
had the medical attention that any human de
serves, no matter how onery and mean he might
be.
Their refusal to work and cursing the guards,
required discipline; placing them in chains in up
right position for ten hours at a clip, may have
been justified by their offense, but it should have
been somebody's business to heed their cry of
aching feet, before these limbs became "cold and
dead" as the amputating surgeon declared them
to have been for a long time:
But these two negroes, footless as they will
remain through life, may serve North Carolina
better than if they had been able to wiggle their
toes the rest of their days, if by the loss of them
the spotlight of public interest is thrown on a
faulty system to its correction.
Prison camps are not expected to be run ac
cording to the rules of an old ladies' knitting
party, but camp officials should be selected on the
basis of their fitness for their job which should
include a bit of sympathetic human understand
ing, along with the necessary sternness, and the
doctor who ministers to their physical needs,
should know something of the fundamentals of
diagnosis, before he is allowed to sign the pay
check.
And does it necessarily follow that homely
wit is that which the old man tries out on his
wife and kids before telling it to the Kiwanis.
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George Practically
Has Famous Babies
On His Hands
Calender, Ont., March 12.—King
George practically had a teething
baby on his hands tonight in the
person of little Annette Dionne, first
of the famous quintuplets to cut a
tooth.
The event took place early this
morning, the tooth breaking through
the lower front gum and being dis
covered by nurses during the usual
morning inspection. It caused more
excitement at the Dafoe Hospital,
home of the world-famous babies,
than the legal battle being waged
over their guardianship.
A bill making them "wards of the
king" and under the care of the
welfare department until they are
18 years old seemed assured today
of passage at Toronto, where It re
quired but one more reading.
"The other babies will be follow
ing Annette's example within a few
days," said Dr. Dafoe, who had been
awaiting the event since the quin
tuplets became six months old. An
nette and her sisters wlil be one year
old on May 28.
"Their teeth should be along any
time now. It is probably that Marie
will be a little tardy due to her
comparatively poor Start in life, but
the others should follow Annette's
example very soon."
Marie, smallest of the five, has
shown few signs of teething. The
others have swollen gums. When
they were measured a month ago,
Annette, Yvonne and Cecile each
were 26 inches tall, Emilie trailed
them by an inch and Marie was 24
inches.
Cycle News
Farmers in this section are busy
preparing wood for curing tobacco.
Old fashioned community choppings
are being held.
The Royal string band furnished
entertainment for a crowd of young
people at the home of Mrs. Vic
Nicks Saturday night.
Mrs. H. G. Nicks is quite sick we
are sorry to note.
The Sunday school at Mountain
View is progressing nicely, with an
average attendance of more than
one hundred during the past win
ter.
The new home of Walter Johnson,
near Marler, is about ready for oc
cupancy. Henry Brown and sons are
erecting the home. .
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Pinnix and
daughter, Eloise, visited Mr. Pinnix's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pinnix,
Sunday.
The ladies of the community are
enjoying quiltings. There were six
last week.
Miss Opal Johnson and Roy Shore
slipped away to Virginia last Wed-*
nesday and were married. Mr.
Shore is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. O. Johnson, and was in her se
cond year of high school at Yadkin
ville. Mr. Shore is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Adolphus Shore, highly
respected citizens of the Brook's
Cross Roads community.
The Filipinos, it is said, have their
plans for the future. So have the
Japs.
Benefits Paid to
Farmers Is Reported
Washington, D. C., March 11.—
North Carolina's share of the $690,-
728,712 which has been paid out in
rental ancj benefit payments to
farmers all over the country from
the inception of the AAA in May,
1933, through January 31, 1935, has
been $13,804,400.82.
The greatest portion of this went
to cotton farmers in the state, who
received $7,695,672.92. Tobacco pro
ducers got $5,669,965.28; corn-hog
farmers $365,676.37, and wheat
farmers $73,086.25.
Amounts by counties in this sec
tion follows:
Surry: Wheat, $1,044.43; tobacco,
$82,322.13; corn-hogs, $1,828.50.
Wilkes: Wheat, $1,293.30; tobac
co, $4,698.75; corn-hogs, $6,881.74.
Yadkin: Cotton, $1,931.88; wheat
$5,205.80; tobacco, $54,684; corn
hogs, $2,698.80.
Henry Wooten, 79,
Claimed By Death
Funeral services for John Henry
Wooten, 79, were held at Oak Ridge
Baptist church Monday afternoon at
two o'clock, the services being in
charge of Rev. R. L. Speer.
Mr. Wooten was born at Yadkin
ville November 12, 1855 and had
spent his life in Yadkin county. He
was married 55 years ago to Miss
Elizabeth Johnson, who survives him,
together with the following child
ren: Mrs. Dora Cain, Mrs. Delia
Hutchens and Mrs. Sylvia Freeman,
all of Winston-Salem; Walter and
Spencer Wooten, of Yadkinville. Two
brothers, George W. Wooten, of
Winston-Salem and Joseph Wooten,
of Yadkinville; one sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Graves, of Yadkinville, also
survives.
Mr. Wooten died Sunday morning
at 8 o'clock after a short illness with
pneumonia. Interment was made in
the Oak Ridge church cemetery.
Cool Springs News
Rev. I. W. Vestal filled his regu
lar appointment here Saturday af
ternoon and Sunday. His subject
Sunday was "Come and go with us
and we will go thee good 1." His ap
peal to the young people to travel
the high road toward a noble and
worthwhile life, was well delivered.
Rev. Carl Cockerham, a visiting
minister, filled the pulpit Saturday
afternoon.
L. M. Hinshaw gave a very inter
esting talk Sunday morning on
"Obedience", and stressed the Bibli
cal fact that "to obey is better than
sacrifice."
The Young Peoples Bible Class
gave a short memorial service in
honor of a recently departed mem
ber, Mrs. Ada Key Burcham. Sev
eral members of the famil/ were
present for the service.
Rev. and Mrs. Carl Cockerham
and daughter, Miss Ruby, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hol
brook Sunday.
Misses Vetra and Irene Hanes. of
State Road, were the week-end
guests of their grandmother, Mrs.
C. P. Fields.
Mrs. Jewette Jefferson, of Union
Hill, is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Haire this week.
J. Major Lyons will deliver the
Sunday school address next Sunday.
Disciples of Dr. Coue may begin
chanting "winter is gone."
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Thursday. March 14, 1935
TIMELY FARM
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED AT
STATE COLLEGE
Question: How can broodiness bt
eliminated from a flock of Barred
Plymouth Rocks?
Answer: Broodiness is an inherited
trait and can be elimnated by care
ful breeding. Start now and remove
all broody birds from the breeding
flock. These birds should be sold or
used at home as foods. If they are
kept and placed in the laying flocks
a band should be placed on the legs
for identification. No bird showing
a band should be carried into the
next year either for laying or breed
ing. This is the only way to elimi
nate broodiness in any breed and
several years of careful work are
necessary to get the desired results.
Question: When should lespedeza
be sown on small grain?
Answer: This legume should be
seeded on small grain either in
February or March. Where the
Korean variety is used the seeding
can be made late due to the early
germination of the seed. This variety
will germinate in about two weeks
while the other varieties require
from four to five weeks for germi
nation. When this is considered
and the seed put in ON THE DATES
MENTIONED the germination will
be late enough to avoid late freezes
but early enough for the young
plants to be well established before
the hot, dry weather.
Question: How much tobacco can
the small grower with two or three
acres plant this year?
Answer: Where the base tobacco
acreage is 3.2 acres or less the grow
er may plant the base acreage of
the farm or three acres, whichever
is smaller, and may sell his base pro
duction allotment not to exceed 2,-
400 pounds. To plant this acreage,
however, the grower must agree that
no rental or adjustment payments,
including any payment for deficiency
in sales shall be made under the
1935 contract. To secure these pay
ments the grower must reduce his
acreage and poundage according to
the terms of the contract.
Spainhour's Opens
"Yarn Shop" Today
The Sydnor-Spainhour company
of this city, in keeping with their
policy to offer every advantage to
their customers, announces the open
ing today (Thursday) of a "Yarn
Shop", wool department on the se
cond floor of their store. A beautiful
array of yarn has been assembled for
the opening, in addition to the new
colored cotton threads, so much in
demand for dresses and sweaters. An
experienced advisor will be in charge
of the department to aid and direct
inexperienced knitters in the art.
String Band to Play
at Jonesville School
The Jenkins family string band,
radio entertainers, will present a
program of music, singing and danc
ing at the Jonesville school auditor
ium Thursday evening, March 14, at
7.30. The proceeds of the entertain
ment will go to the school. The
public Is cordially Invited to attend.