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Washington, April 14; By its latest series of decisions on the Constitutionality of Federal and State statutes, the supreme Court has, by its own act, effectively spiked the contention that its members are not abreast of the times. That is the way exper ienced Washington observers in terpret the Court's" rulings in the Railway Labor Act case, the Washington State Minimum Wage case, the Virginia Milk case and the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium case. This new body of interpretations has served to clarify the line between the powers of the individual states and those of the Federal government. in the Washington case, the Court reversed its own ruling in a case in 1922. At that time it was held that no right existed to reg ulate working conditions of wo men and to fix a minimum wage for women workers. The Court now holds that decision was wrong and that states have the right, in the exercise of their police pow ers, to regulate working condi tions where the public interest is affected. In the Railway Labor case the Court's ruling was definite that the Federal Government has full power to deal with labor condi tions in interstate commerce, and that all the functions of a rail road, even shop work performed entirely within a state, are a part of the interstate operation. In the Virginia Milk case, the Court's ruling went further in de fining the powers of states to regulate industry. A state milk authority may cross state lines to fix prices and handle the mar keting of milk in order to protect producers. This is regarded here as pointing the way for agricul tural regulation by state, rather than Federal action. In upholding the revised Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act, the Court demonstrated that it was not opposed to giving distressed farmers leeway in which to take care of their overdue mortgages, Expert Repairing Watches, Clocks, Jewelry We Now Have Equipment to Make Any Kind of Duplicate Keys. W. M. Wall, Jeweler Phone 56 ElUn, N. C. WHEN YOU BUY **-ATLAS TIRE tSAFE SILBNT TRIAD fi- V f.r.* • • ' Ar liberal a guarantee as we offer with every Atlas Grip-Safe, Silent Tread tire could only be possible in connec tion with a tire "Built To Laat". We can afford to stand back of this guarantee. Atlas tires stand-the-gaff— the new Atlas especially. New in de sign—new in safety—new in silent op eration—yet retaining all the well known Atlas features—wider and deep er tread—more anti-skid mileage more road grip. And underneath the tread are extra-heavy plies of heat-re sisting, anti-friction cord for blow-out protection. See the new Atlas re-in forced tube—examine the tire careful ly. Then, buy this combination with absolute assurance that your invest ment will be protected—a new achieve ment in tire value—guaranteed per- BOYLES ESSO SERVICE Phone 251 Elkin, N. C. but only to the provisions in the similar law, previously declared unconstitutional, which did not sufficiently protect the rights of mortgagees. Labor Decision Waits While the court has handed down no opinion yet in the five cases in which the Constitution- | ality of the Wagner Labor Rela- i tions Act is in question, observers who like to draw inferences are predicting, in the light of the 1 other Labor decisions, the Court will rule that the Wagner law set ting up the National Labor Re lations Board is Constitutional, but that its provisions apply only to labor disputes in industries which are clearly In interstate commerce. The sharp lines which the Su preme Court draws between the powers delegated under the Con stitution to the Federal govern ment and those reserved to the states are not greatly to the lik ing of those of the President's fol lowers whose aim is to enlarge Federal powers. The decisions, moreover, are regarded here as tending to weaken Congressional support of the President's propos al to enlarge the Court. They have a bearing, also upon the Labor situation, which became the fo cus of Congressional attention when, in both House and Senate, the "sit-down" strikes were of ficially noticed. Senator Byrnes of South Caro lina precipitated the subject by ffering an amendment to the new Ouffey Soft-coal regulation bill, just as that was coming to a final vote in the Senate. The amend ment provides that any miner whose employment has been ter minated is guilty of a crime if he remains upon company property after being ordered off. That started a free-for-all discussion, in which several Senators took occasion to denounce the whole principle of sit-down strikes. An echo of the Labor debate thus started was heard in the House, when Representative Dies of Texas Introduced a resolution calling for a Congressional inves tigation of organized labor and its policies and practices. This, like the Byrnes resolution, was aimed primarily at John L. Lewis and the C. I. O. This open interest In both houses of Congress format ters involving the methods of or ganized Labor is regarded by some observers as reflecting the influence of the American Feder ation of Labor, which is bitterly opposed to Lewis and his program. P. W. A. Projects Curtailed The President's order curtail ing major P. W. A. projects is a move intended to keep down or reduce prices of products of '/heavy industries," such as steel, copper, cement, etc. The Public Works Administration buys great quantities of such materials. Its job Is the construction of per manent public works, and more of Its funds are spent for materials than for labor. The war prepa rations in Europe have created such a demand for the sort of things which P. W. A. consumes that prices have gone skyrocket ing, and to carry on with the P. W. A. program would leave a still smaller share of .its expenditures going into the pockets of workers on the job. W. P. A. on the other hand, does not deal in these "heavy goods" to any great extent. Its funds go directly and almost wholly to la bor. The idea now seems to be to substitute for the permanent pub lic works program a scheme of such enterprises In which labor is the main item, such as dredging channels of streams, throwing up THTE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA earth dams for storage reservoirs and the like. This is part of a policy now de veloping which is intended to prevent the inflationary boom in prices, which most economists in and out of Washington agree is impending. Fear of another boom and its inevitable crash is sharpening at tention of Administration and Congress leaders on the tax ques tion. There is more serious con cern about getting the Federal budget into balance than at any time in the past four years. It is beginning to be generally conced ed that more and, heavier taxes are necessary, and the only cer tain way of increasing tax reve nue so far discovered is to ex tend the application of the in come tax downward, to take in wage-earners-even in the lowest income brackets. DEATH IN WAR QUICKER TODAY But Confederate Veteran Not So Sure Modern Warfare Causes More Pain TELLS OF EXPERIENCES Raleigh, April 3. Silver thatched Samuel A'Court Ashe, who 75 years ago fought under the Stars and Bars of the Con federacy, isn't so sure that modern warfare as demonstrated by the present civil strife in Spain, causes more suffering than the type em ployed in this country's Civil War. "Death is quicker today," the 96-year-old captain who is clerk of the federal district court here said in an interview. "During our war, I saw men's legs amputated without anaesthetic. I saw men die from sheer pajn in improvised hospitals. Possibly the develop ment of modern surgery almost counteracts the new horrors of air raids and machine gun fire." Captain Ashe, North Carolina historian and former newspaper publisher and lawyer, was sitting by an open fireplace at his home here. Before him was a card table on which he had been playing patience. Two black cats curled asleep at his feet. At times, as he talked about "the war," his memory was alive, vivid. Then the table became a battleground or a fort and the playing cards the Northern and Southern forces. Captain Ashe says he is "not as young as I was once," but the fine acquiline profile Is still there. His eyes *re sunken deep behind shaggy, expressive eyebrows and his skin grows close to the pock et® of his skull. Nevertheless, the veteran regu larly goes about his:duties aa clerk a position he has held the last 20 years. And although he fell and fractured his hip last December, the member mended perfectly and he says he is feeling hardy and fit again. Captain Ashe has no recipe for those who would live a century. "Living got to be a habit with me," he chuckled. Always temper ate, he stopped smoking when he was a mere stripling of 55 and swore off chewing seven years ago. Born at Wrightsville Sound, near Wilmington, he entered the United States Naval Academy in 1855 and although he stood sec ond in his class, resigned three years later because "try what I might, every time I put one foot on a boat I became seasick." Returning home, he studied law two years and joined the North Carolina forces after Port Sum ter at Charleston, S. C., was at tacked. He served at Port Caswell and at Charleston, being appoint ed a lieutenant by President Jef ferson Davis and finally being ele vated to the rank of captain and adjutant general on the staff of General Pender. Even now, when Captain Ashe says "Yankee," his. brow contracts the least bit into a frown. "But I don't believe they ever treated a prisoner any better than they treated me," he said. The card table became a battle field again, as the veteran de scribed the fight at Cedar Run and told how "we whipped the Yan kees for three days, by hokus," at Second Manassas. ■ It was immediately following the second affray that, while tak ing a dispatch to headquarters, he rode "into a camp full of Yan kees," was captured without a shot being fired and sent to Washington, where he was re leased after being held prisoner a month. After the war, Captain Ashe served nearly a year on the Wil mington and Weldon Railroad and, as conductor, rode with the first sleeping cars from Wilming ton to West Point, Oa. It took two days and a night to make the trip each way. He obtained his license to prac tice law to January, 1867, and was elected to the State House of Rep resentatives in 1870. In 1879. he bought ihe Raleigh Observer and two yeans later consolidated it with the Daily News. Subsequent- ly, he merged the Chronicl* with the News ana Observer, but'later sold the newspapers. He served for a time as post master here and in 1909 was ap pointed an expert for a finance committee of Congress, He has written two histories of North Carolina and numerous historical I sketches. ■ * se t^ese non-acid forming fertilizers if yob want to grow 4 ' . jFr —fnore of the higher-priced grades of tobacco. The nitrogen is in Tm pflnV many forms derived from rich fish scrap, packing-honse products & I and nitrate mines. 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Miss Ruth Lawrence, Miss Ver tie Snow, Ed Snow And Woodrow Thursday. April 15. 19ST Lawrence spent Sunday in High Point. The horse and buggy days weren't so bad. There weren't roadside signs advertising wreck er service. The problem nowadays is to keep popular government popular.
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