THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1937~
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
second-class matter.
C. S. FOSTER Prc*klent
H. F, LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR
In the Stale, $1.50 Ont of the State, *2.00
Could it be that even before she mar
ried John, Elaine had in mind to abdicate in
favor of high-bracket alimony ?
When you go to trade in your old fliv
ver you will realize who is paying for this
automobile strike.
Shucks! This "sit-down" strike business
is nothing new. We know a coupla fellows
who have been doing it for a long time.
When a fellow concludes that he must
have an assistant on his job, he's planning
to do a little loafing on his own hook.
You may think ever so hard, but you
won't remember a guy suffering with bone
felon who doesn't believe in hell.
"War is always the sum of all the mis
takes everybody makes from the last peace
treaty to the next ultimatum.
One fellow who is supposed to know
says: "The honeymoon is over when hubby
quits opening the car door for her to get
out."
If only some way could he found to
pump some of that flood water over into the
dust bowl;, nature's frown would be convert
ed into a smile to all concerned.
The Winston-Salem Journal thinks
there must be something wrong with our
economic system because bald-headed men
don't get their hair cut any cheaper.
One writer observes that "things are
getting better. The boys have gotten the
red out of their ledgers and are using it to
paint the town."
There was one nice thing about good
old yesteryear: You could find the mule a
good parking space and the old jar-head
would hold it as long as he wanted to.
They are calling old man Fleming a
"guinea pig." Give us two hundred dollars
a month with the command to spend it, and
you can call us whatever you please.
No Reapportionment
It was not written in the eastern stars
that we should have reapportionment of
representation to conform to population as
provided in the constitution. The eastern
statesmen again showed their superiority in
political strategy, and the bill offered by
Representative Bickens, of Guilford, was
killed with a bang.
Trading did it, as most of us thought it
would. East of Raleigh, strange as it may
seem, the clamor for a purging of the elec
tion machinery was most insistent. The
westerners didn't want it tinkered with more
than necessary. It was not hard to reach an
agreement, then when it came to the cross
buck. Likewise the liquor issue provided a
channel for little. • private understandings
that were not calculated to bring about the
much delayed reapportionment concerning
which the Constitution has this to say:
"... The Senate districts shall be so alter
ed by the General Assembly at the first ses
sions after the return of every enumeration
by order of Congress that each district shall
contain, as near as may be, an equal number
of inhabitants. The House of Representatives
shall be composed of 120 Representatives . . .
to be elected by the counties according to their
population."
There has been no such reapportion
ment since the last census, because the east
ern counties checkmated every effort to that
end. It could easily be claimed then, that
the legislature is unconstitutionally consti
tuted. It looks that way to the layman, but
we reckon the law books would have a dif
ferent answer to the issue. You can prove
almost anything by them, if you are smart
enough.
But be that as it may, the constitution
specifically calls for reapportionment and
we don't have it. In his inaugural address
Governor Hoey said that it should no long
er be delayed, and feeling that way about it,
the least that could have been expected of
hii-i would be to use his influence to that
end when the fight was on. It is not of rec
ord that he pitched in and helped a-tall.
But why waste space discussing it. As
Willie Lee Lumpkin said during the debate
on the issue, we are proceeding contrary to
the constitution in so many ways, that add
ing a few more won't make much difference.
Calls It Amusing:
Carl Goerch, in his State magazine,
commenting on the proposal to irsnke some
alterations in the election law in North Car
olina which was being considered by the
State Democratic *Executive Committee,
thought it amusing that some of the old
timers saw in the proposal to take "profes
sional markers" from the voting places, an
unjust thrust at the honesty and high and
holy purpose of the Democracy. Editor
Goerch says:
"Men like John Folger, of Surry County,
and Carl Bailey, of Washington county, raised
their hands in holy horror over the suggestion
that there was crookedness in the Democratic
party in North Carolina. They expressed the
opinion that even to consider such a sugges
tion was a reflection against the purity and
sanctity of Democracy in this grand old State.
Phooey! That's nothing but a lot of twaddle.
If Mr. Folger and Mr. Bailey and others don't
know that Democratic workers in some sec
tions of North Caroling are as crooked as a
ram's horn, they're deliberately blinding them
selves to the trpe facts. Why in the world
should any honest Democrat object to the
passing of a resolution having for its purpose
the curbing of crookedness which everybody
knows is existing?"
Carl Goerch is right. There is no
earthly reason why the party should stick
its head in the sand. It is sufficiently dom
inant and resourceful to send its linen to the
laundry when ditto is soiled. In fact that is
the surest way of conserving its standing
with the voters and incidentally its
strength.
It is possible that these old timers,
smug in their own honesty, are conscientious
in their belief that "the king can do no
wrong," but they have only to open their
eyes to conditions about them to find that
all is not well.
In the final analysis, much of that
216J000 McDonald bloc vote was in protest
against just this sort of clinging to out
moded if not questionable methods, and the
Democratic party in North Carolina most
certainly is digging a deep hole for itself in
making them a permanent part of its ma
chinery. v
Anybody who is not utterly blind can
see that there are grave faults in the elec
tion machinery, and the dominant party
ought to be about the business of correcting
them.
A Subtle Purpose
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee recommends a return to the conven
tion system for the nomination of judges
and solicitors on the theory that these of
ficials should not be required to step in the
political mud and soil their shoes in seeking
promotion to these important places.
The General Assembly is expected to
follow the advice of the high priests of the
party and make provision for this.
On its face this effort to take the ju
diciary out of reach of primary mud-sling
ing has its appeal. But turning the selec
tion over to the convention system is simply
dumping it out of the kettle into the fire.
Remembering the wire-pulling and intrigue
of the old fashioned convention, one can
easily see in it a vaster opportunity for
trickery than via the primary. It is delegated
authority from the precinct meeting up to
the last word in party say-so. In it the
wishes of the individual voter does not rate
the importance of an echo.
It is not hard to understand the trend.
This is but the opening wedge to the aboli
tion of the primary altogether. There has
been so much complaint about primary
short-cuts that the dominant party senses
the fact that something must be done about
it. If the primary is hedged about with too
many restrictions that are calculated to
make it the property of the masses and take
it from the control of the politicians, that
just wouldn't do at all. If the political
house is swept too clean it wouldn't be nice
to spit on the floor, as it were.
There is nothing wrong with the pri
mary system that could not be corrected by
getting under the hood with a monkey
wrench and a screw-driver—plus a barlow to
amputate the absentee ballot. The rules and
regulations governing the primary could be
improved; the democratic purpose back of
it couldn't. But to take the selection out of
the hands of the people and delegate the
power to a few hand-picked politicians, is
just like stepping backward into mud.
Evidence of Progress
The Charlotte Observer was host to
throngs of friends and patrons who went
Saturday night to see the big new Hoe press
in operation. And they got an eyeful. It
is the ultimate in mechanical construction
and is considered the most modern equip
ment employed by any newspaper in the
South.
Already a topnotcher in journalistic ef
fort in this section, The Observer is now in
position to give its patrons even greater
service, because this swift moving and de
pendable machine will grind out more pages
and faster.
Building on the foundation laid by Joe
Caldwell, The Observer has grown and ex
panded with the progress of the Sooth and
today is one of the most all-embracive news
gathering agencies in the country. It-has
succeeded because it has deserved to suc
ceed and because it is rendering a service,
second to none in the area it serves.
"We congratulate The Observer on this
new evidence of its progress and anticipate
the paper's continued success.
THE ELKIN TRlnliNß.
SOIL PAYMENTS
ARE ANNOUNCED
For Farmers Who Participate
In The Soil Conserva
tion Program
SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS
Soil-building payments offered
North Carolina farmers who par
ticipate in the soil-conservation
program this year have been an
nounced by J. P. Criswell, of
State College.
The maximum amount of these
payments a grower will be eli
gible to earn is called his soil
building allowance, Criswell said.
These payments will be in ad
dition to the diversion payments
offered for taking land out of
soil-depleting crops and planting
it to soil-conserving crops.
On farms where a diversion
payment can be earned, the soil
building allowance will be $1 for
each acre normally devoted to
soil-conserving crops, plus the
number of acres diverted from
soil-depleting crops.
For farms not able to earn any
diversion payment, the soil
building allowance will be 75
cents for each acre of crop land
or $1 for each acre in soil-con
serving crops, whichever amount
is larger.
In both cases additional allow
ances will be made for truck grow
ers, orchadists. and dairymen,
Criswell continued.
The rates of soil-building pay
ments are:
For planting approved * seeds of
legumes and perennial grasses:
Alfalfa, $2.50 per acre. Red clover,
mammoth clover, sericea, kudzu,
and bluegrass, $2 per acre. Aus
trian winter peas, vetch, crim
son clover, alsike clover, sweet
cfover, annual lespedeza, and or
chard grass, $1.50 per acre. White
clover, bur clover, crotalaria, red
top, carpet grass, Dallis grass, and
timothy, $1 per acre.
For plowing or disking under as
green manure the following crops
after they have attained a nor
mal growth of at least two months
or for leaving on the land certain
of these crops grown in 1937:
Soybeans, velvet beans, or cow
peas plowed or disked under, $2
per acre. Crimson clover, Austrian
winter peas, or vetch; rye, barley,
wheat, buckwheat, Italian rye
grass, oats, or a mixture of these:
sudan grass, millet, sorghum, or
sowed corn—plowed or disked un
der, $1 per acre. Soybeans, velvet
beans, cowpeas, or lespedeza left
on the land, neither cut nor
grazed, $1 per acre.
For planting forest trees on
crop land, $7.50 per . acre; on
other land, $5 per acre. For ap
proved forest thinning, $2.50 per
acre.
For applying ground limestone
or its equivalent at the rate of
100 to 500 pounds per acre on
any permanent pasture or in
connection with seeding or main
taining specified legumes or
grasses, 60 cents per 100 pounds.
If the superphosphate is ap
plied in connection with certain
legumes or perrenial grasses seed
ed in connection with soil-de
pleting crops, the payment will be
30 cents per 100 pounds.
The AAA will make available at
Sheffield, Ala., triple superphos
phate, containing 43 per cent
phosphoric acid, which will be of
fered farmers who pay the freight
costs and handling charges. On
this superphosphate no soil-build
ing payments will be made.
For applying 30 to 250 pounds
of 50 per cent muriate of potash
or its equivalent to the acre on
land where 16 per cent superphos
phate or its equivalent is applied,
$1 per 100 pounds. If muriate
of potash is applied in connection
with a legume or perrennial grass
grown in connection with a soil
depleting crop, the payment will
be 50 cents per 100 pounds.
For terracing crop land or non
crop pasture land, which the
county committee finds in need
of terracing, with a sufficient
amount of properly constructed
terraces to give adequate protec
tion against erosion, 40 cents per
100 feet of terraces.
Upon approval of the county
committee, payment will be
made at the rate of $2 per acre
for subsoiling crop land to a
deoth of 18 inches, with furrows
sufficiently cose together to' com
pletely break the subsoil.
BOXING BOUT FATAL
Lexington, Va., Jan. 31. Wil
liam Judson Eastham, 18-year-old
Virginia Military institute sopho
more, of Washington, D. C., died
In the V. M. I. hospital today of
a broken neck received in a box
ing match last night with the
University of Maryand.
He collapsed at the ringside sev
eral minutes after losing his
match in the 155-pound class to
Mike Lombardo of Maryland by
a technical knockout and was
placed under the care of doctors
at the hospital.
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GREEN FEED WILL
HELP SWINE HERD
Aids in Keeping Them Vigor
ous and Healthy During
the Winter Months
CONTAINS VITAMIN A
Green feed wijl help keep the
swine herd vigorous and healthy
during the winter months.
When possible, hogs should be
allowed to graze on green forage*
If pasture is -not available, a
green, leafy, legume hay should
be fed, said H. W. Taylor, exten
sion swine specialist at State Col
lege.
Green feed contains vitamin
A, which is essential for healthy
swine, he continued. Alfalfa, soy
bean, and lespedeza hays make
good winter food.
Taylor also warns growers not
to let pigs feed too long on soy
bean and peanut fields, as this
tends to produce soft, oily pork
that is not desirable for home
consumption or for marketing.
After pigs have reached a
weight of 85 pounds, they should
be put on a feed of corn and fish
meal or tankage. Cottonseed meal
may be mixed with the fish meal
or tankage, in equal parts, if de
sired.
Hogs like cottonseed meal, it
helps stimulate their appetites,
and it is a good "hardening ra
tion," he explained.
The corn and protein supple
ment should, of course, be balanc
ed with an abundance of leafy,
green feed, he said.
This ration, if fed until the
pigs attain a weight of 200 to 225
pounds, will produce pork that is
firm and well marbled, Taylor
pointed out.
He emphasized that when hogs
are fed a softening ration for a
long time, they cannot be made to
produce good, firm meat by feed
ing them corn for a few weeks.
CLEMENCY PLEAS REFUSED
Moscow, 'Jan. 31. Clemency
pleas by 13 confessed conspirators
against the soviet union were re
jected today by the presidium of
the communist executive commit
tee, destroying the doomed men's
last hope of escaping the firing
squad.
The prisoners, convicted of
treason in the sensational trial
of Kart Radek and 16 others
charged with plotting with the
exiled Leon Trotzky, appealed to
the presidium as the last resort
from the death verdict of the
highest soviet court.
They were ordered shot within
72 hours after sentence was pro
nounced at 3:30 a. m., Saturday.
ADMINISTRATRIX N^flCE
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of W. D. Turner,
late of Suiry County, this is to
notify all persons holding claims
against said estate to present
them to the undersigned within
one year from date of this notice
or same will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons owing
said estate WiU please settle at
once. This January 21, 1937.
; SOPHIA K. TURNER,
Administratrix of the estate
of W. D. Turner, dec'd.
W, M. Allen, Attorney. 3-
CAB CO. OFFERS $5.00
PRIZE FOR NEW NAME
A cash prize of $5.00 is being
offered by the owner of the taxi
company now known as Carter
Cabs, for a new and suitable name
for the company.
Under new management, it has
been thought advisable to change
the name, and the cash offer is
the result.
Everyone is eligible -to enter
one or more names in the contest.
All entries should be taken or
mailed to Down-town Service Sta
tion not later than Wednesday,
February 10. Names received after
that date will not be eligible, it
was announced.
' The winner of the contest will
be announced as soon as possible
after the contest closes.
Read Tribune Advertisements!
WANTS
Lost—Friday night, ladies' black
week-end case. Reward if re
turned to Tribune office, ltp
Just Received a good lot of china
table ware. It will pay you to
look the line over before you
buy. Somers & Co. 5c and 10c
Store. ltc
Squibbs Mineral Oil, quart size
89c. Antacid Powder, large size
50c. Nyseptol, pint 49c. Turner
Drug Co., Elkin, N. C. tfn
Fresij eggs every day. Sourwood
Honey 20c lb. Red Honey 12 Vic
lb. At Woodruff's Store, North
Elkin, N. C. 2-4-c
For Rent: Three room apartment.
Furnace heat, private bath, ga
rage. No children. Mrs. Carl
Chappell, telephone 126-M. tfc
Just Received a big shipment of
Aluminum Cooking Utensils.
Visit our Basement Store, and
buy your needs. We carry a
heavy line as well as a medium
weight line of Aluminum wares.
Somers & Co. 5c and 10c
Store. ltc
For Sile—Good Mule 5 years old.
Gente as a dog, works good
v anywhere. Mrs. Myrtle A. Holy
field, Zephyr. tfc
For Sale or Lease—Filling Station
on Winston-Elkin Highway, 3
miles from Elkin. S. M. Roberts,
Jonesville, N. C. ltp
Special for this week-end —One
lot Rag Rugs, 24x48 inches, 50c
value, 39c. Visit our Bargain
Basement. See our windows.
Somers & Co.', 5c and 10c Store.
For Sale: $l5O credit slip on new
Chevrolet. Wijl discount 40%
for cash or negotiable note.
Write box 13, Elkin, N. C. tfc
AUCTION: Saturday, February
6th at 2 p. m., one horse, two
wagons and 'harness; Chrysler
roadster. All in good condition.
N. L. Pardue, Jonesville, N. C.
The bigest and best assortment of
Valentines ever shown in Elkin.
Prices 2 fon lc. lc each and up
to 15c each. Valentine candies.
Buy your needs at Somers & Co.
5c and 10c Store. ltc
We buy scrap iron and steel.
Double Eagle Service Co., Elk
in. N. C. tfc
Thursday. February 4, 1?37
Girls Wanted—To learn Beauty
Culture. Very low rates. Write
for particulars. Hlnshaw School
of Beauty Culture 3ox 46,
North Wilkesboro, N. C. 2-25 c
Wanted to repair radios. Our
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. tfc
Do yoa want plenty of eggs from
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamin. We
have it. Abemethy's, A Good
Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfn
REAL ESTATE
For sale or rent: 6-room house,
lights and good well water. 1-4
mile new bridge in Jonesville.
Price SIOOO. S2OO cash, balance
SIO.OO per month, or rent SIO.OO.
For Bent: 129 acre farm, 1-2 mile
Elkin city limits. About 20 acres
bottom. sls per month.
I have some good bays in both
city and farm property.
D. C. MARTIN,
Realtor
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BABY CHICKS The time to
start your chicks is here and
this season we have the finest
breeding flocks to produce
hatching eggs that we have
ever hadi We are specializing on
New Hampshire Reds but hatch
all of the other leading breeds.
Hatch off every Tuesday morn
ing and chicks are now on hand
and ready for delivery. Place
your order early and avoid dis
appointment later and don't for
get that every egg set by us is
disinfected and every chick
hatched fumigated, which ren
ders them as free from disease
as a chick can be made. Call in
to see us and let us explain our
methods before placing your or
der. Do not buy re-handled
chicks, get them from some
local hatchery. Mount Airy
HatQhery, Mount Airy, N. C. tfc
Castevens Hardware Company
will save you money on Men's
and Boys' shoes and Oliver
farm equipment. Castevens
Hardware Co. tfn
HOMES FOB SALE
SPECIALS
I—6 room home West Main St.
I—6 room home West Main St.
Extension.
Financed on B. & Loan Terms.
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