THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C. '
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
second-class matter.
C. 8. POSTER.— President
EL F. LAFFOON- - SMretey-twMwer
SUBSCRIPTION BATES. FEB TEAK
In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, }2.M
The greatest of all wisdom consists of
knowing when to change your mind.
But it's only seldom that you ever hear
a husband making a minority report.
"The only kind of social security avail
able to our forefathers was the root-hog
or-die variety. And they managed very
well, thank you."—Atlanta Journal.
Cupid's Antics
For Tennessee it's just one bum cupid
trick after another. Could it be that the
little rascal has been imbibing too much and
has momixed up his "puppy-love" arrows
with others that are meant for adults only ?
The story of one child-bride caused the
Tennessee legislature to doctor the state's
marriage laws. Then followed another link
up that was even more embarrassing than
the first, and the publicity hasn't done
Tennessee any good.
For a gangling man of thirty-three to
marry a child of nine or ten who would have
to stand on a chair to fry his breakfast eggs,
is so unreasonable, so uncivilized, so Sug
gestive of the densest illiteracy, that one
hates to think about it.
Pictures of these couples, so unevenly
matched in years and in stature, have found
their way into the public print in city and
hamlet, and these accentuate the absurdity
of it all. Readers are liable to forget that
these are only isolated cases; that they rep
resent only that small percent of mentally
stunted that may be found somewhere in
every state in the Union. And as a result
of this uncharitableness Tennessee is having
to pay a mighty high price for whatever de
linquency that may be responsible for this
state of affairs.
Worse things may be happening every
day in other states, but because of the un
usualness, these marriages have the effect
of branding our neighbor state as an out
moded derelict among her sisters. But the
tragical part of it is that in Tennessee's
failure to grab a broom long ago, these mar
riages may have the blessings of the law,
thus making government a party to a
mighty sorry piece of business.
The Price of Indifference
When the legislature ignored Governor
Hoey's advice and passed legislation pro
viding for legalized liquor stores in coun
ties that want them, it took a lot for grant
ed. Our notion is that there are going to
be some surprises unfolded in the approach
ing elections in the several counties that
have called them.
It will be remembered that when North
Carolina went to the polls with the liquor
question in 1933, the drys won hands down.
The bigness of the victory was partly at
tributed to the lethargy and apathy of the
wets, who either didn't have the nerve to
stand up and fight, or just plain didn't give
a hang.
There is liable to be this same lack of in
terest again, and the same cohesive and co
ordinated organization of the drys. It is
not as though these counties will be voting
on whether they are to have liquor or not
have it. The only question is whether there
is to be a semblance of control, or whether
it is to remain as is: whether the grog shop
is to be moved up town to front or Main
Street, or remain within as easy reach but
less in the open.
Many of those classed as wets won't
care much which way the wind blows. As
a matter of fact most of them will be in
convenienced by the liquor stores. They
will have to travel a couple of blocks to buy
their joy water, whereas under the present
system in vogue in our larger cities, all you
have to do is phone your bootlegger that
you stand in need of a pint or a peck and it
will be delivered in your office within the
hour. And then there will be the early
closing of the control stores and half a dozen
reasons that are not calculated to cause en
thusiasm for the stores.
It is reasonable to suppose that the
bootleggers will be loath to turn a profitable
business over to the stores. They and their
friends constitute a big bloc of votes that
will be counted against the control plan and
the combination is likely to produce the sur
prises we are talking about.
There may be some among the drys who
will be attracted by the profits that are sup
posed to lessen the figures on the tax re
ceipt—there may be enough of them to save
the day for the wets but not unless old Gen
eral Apathy is replaced a militant spir
it that at presfent doth not appear^
Grady's Vision
The significant developments in con
nection with two important conventions,
held in New York and North Carolina, re
call Henry W. Grady's prophecy uttered not
so many years ago:
"When every farmer in the South shall
eat bread from his own fields, and meat from
his own pastures and be disturbed by no
creditors and enslaved by no debt; shall sit
among his teeming gardens, orchards, vine
yards, dairies and barnyards, pitching his
crops to his own wisdom and growing them in
independence, making cotton his clean sur
plus and selling it in his own time, in his
chosen market, not at a master's bidding,
getting his pay in cash and not in a receipt
ed mortgage that discharges his debt but does
not restore his freedom —then shall be the
breaking the fullness of our day."
At the recent chemists' convention in
Chapel Hill, Dr. Frank K. Cameron, of our
own university, made report of his experi
ments, which may mark the way for the
South's deliverance from its economic bond
age, as visioned by Grady. For as a result
of his experiments, there is the promise that
instead of going to the forests for rayon,
which has contributed to the discomfort of
the cotton grower and manufacturer, we
will be getting this rayon from the very
cotton fields that it has been about to sup
plant.
For under the new program cotton
would be planted thickly, and after a com
paratively short growing season, the whole
plant would be harvested, baled for subse
quent processing. Oil would be chemically
extracted from the seed and the residue
would be treated to obtain cellulose, the raw
material from which rayon is made. Any
one who has planted cotton all spring, culti
vated it all summer and picked it all winter,
knows something of the toil that would save,
and stands ready to bless those who make
it possible. But best of all it promises that
the world's textile factories will continue to
come to our cotton fields for raw material.
In New York last week the American
Newspaper Publishers Association gave en
dorsement to the establishment of paper
mills in the South, virtually agreeing to sup
port financiers furnishing the cash for this
development by contracting for their cur
rent needs. That is talking a language the
investor can understand and reflects profits
that will attract. It will serve to break the
control of Canadian paper makers who only
recently announced an increase in the price
of newsprint, an increase that would be a
blow to an industry that already is having
to struggle to keep a few paces ahead of the
sheriff.
Paper mills are coming to the South.
Already they have sensed the possibilities
of turning the lowly pine into pulp. Sixty
million dollars have been invested in mills
to manufacture the coarser papers, and
these may easily be converted to produce
newsprint.
The Southern landowner should prepare
for their coming by giving the same intelli
gent thought to planning his tree crop that
he gives to corn, cotton and the others. Here
is the chance to utilize his marginal acres
and eventually clip the coupons that will re
sult from his wisdom).
Henry W. Grady did not dream of cot
ton harvested stalk and all; he never ex
pected the lowly pine to prove a gold mine
for his beloved Southland. But cotton and
pine bid fair to bring about "the breaking
of the fullness of our day."
Two Headaches Out of the Way v
Governor Hoey last week put his two
major jobs in connection with his appointive
program behind him, by naming the per
sonnel of the liquor set-up and of the State
highway commission. These were the Gov
ernor's most pestersome headaches, and ap
parently he is getting out from under with
out greatly ruffling his hair or disturbing
the rose on his lapel.
The chairmanships of these two State
agencies carry reasonably fat salaries; the
liquor control hetman receiving $6,000 a
year and the highway chairman $7,500. For
the liquor commission the Governor very
wisely shuffled his board, which now in
cludes one dry, one wet and one who is
neither wet or dry. That ought to give the
control measure enacted by the last legis
lature a fair tryout.
It is obvious that the Governor could
not have named Capus Waynick to succeed
himself as highway chairman without rub
bing the wrong way, some of his own sup
porters in the primary campaign and cer
tainly he would have been flying in the face
of both McDonaldites and Grahamites.
While Mr. Waynick was fortified with ex
perience and a creditable record, neither is
so outstanding as to create a demand that
he be maintained.
In naming Frank Dunlap for the high
way chairmanship, the Governor probably
found a man who is amply able to live up to
his responsibilities. One can tell better
about that as the days rock along. As for
the commissioners who will work in harness
with him, some of these apparently are tag
ged with political expediency, but on the
whole, we reckon they too will measure up.
As for this immediate section, with Gordon
Hackett within hollering distance, N we at
least won't have to strain our lungs.
But with .these two major jobs out of
the way, the Governor may take a breath
ing spell before he deals out the lesser
places.
Love is one of those things which if
you c«n be reasonable about it—you haven't
got it.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKS?. NORTH CAROLINA
Washington, April 28. A sit
uation Is developing here which,
to some observers, seems to be
tending toward a parallel with
the situation which existed in the
Wilson and Hoover administra
tions. In the last two years of his
second term Mr. Wilson had a
definitely hostile Congress stand
ing between him and his plans,
and for three of Mr. Hoover's
four years he had no influence
with the majority in Congress.
For the past four years Mr.
Roosevelt has had Congress eat
ing out of his hand. It would be
putting it too strongly to say that
he cannot still force Congress to
do what he wants to have done,
if he is willing to put on the nec
essary pressure. But it is fair to
say that resistance to Presidential
pressure is increasing in both
houses of Congress, and among
members of the President's own
party. It can no longer be safely
predicted that whatever the Pres
ident wants Congress will give it
to him.
This situation is mainly of the
President's own creation. It arises
from two definite circumstances.
One is the honest and sincere op
position to his proposal for pack
ing the Supreme Court. That op
position is Increasing in strength
in both Senate and House. It has
been strengthened by the demon-
stration furnished by the Court
itself, in Its decisions on the La
bor Relations Act, that the jus
tices are abreast of the times and
fully aware of changing condi
tions.
The other circumstance which
has weakened the President's au
thority over Congress is the
growing resentment felt by influ
ential Senators and House lead
ers at the readiness with which,
as they believe, the President con
tinues to listen to and be guided
by counselors who are regarded
on Capitol Hill as theorists rath
er than practical politicians. On
these advisers rather than the
President himself, his friends in
Congress place the responibility
for the failure of the undistribut
ed profits tax law, enacted last
summer, to yield the revenue ex
pected. Government income for
the fiscal year is short nearly five
hundred million dollars of the es
timates. That makes the nation
al financial situation even more
cloudy and uncertain than it was
before.
President Recommends Economy
The President's latest recom
mendations for economy. If adopt
ed would cut the expenses of gov
ernment by about half of this
year's deficit. But unless gov
ernment borrowing is to continue
on a huge scale, recourse must be
had to much broader and heavier
taxes and far greater curtailment
of spending. In any event, all
hope see ma to have been lost of
bringing the budget into balance
before the fiscal year 1939.
Continued increase in the na
tional debt by borrowing money
for current expenditures is fear
ed because it is regarded as the
certain road to inflation, with
runaway prices for all sorts of
commodities, increased taxation
is feared because of its political
unpopularity. It is realized by
most members of Congress that
the large accumulations of wealth
cannot stand much more taxation
and keep on doing business, but
they fear that their constituents
do not realize that, and would re
sent any new kinds of taxes which
appeared to put the burden on the
poor. And they fear a reduction
of expenditures for relief for the
same political reason.
The indications now are that
the relief appropriations for next
year will be at the rate of two
billion dollars or more. Their ne
cessity is being sharply challeng
ed, not only by the Admin is ta
tion's avowed opponents but by
many of its friends. Senator Van
denberg of Michigan has revived
the demand for an actual count
of the number of unemployed
persons, in a letter to the Secre
tary of Labor, in which he con
tended that the number of un
employed is actually under three
millions, instead of the eight mil
lion or more which the Labor De
partment estimates.
Confers With Labor Leaders
Miss Perkins, Secretary of La
bor, took the lead in exploring
the whole Labor situation, in the
light of the validation of the Ad
ministration's Labor legislation
by the Supreme Court, when she
called a conference of Labor lead
ers, industrialists and others to
discuss the next steps to be tak
en and their practicability. Not
necessarily as the outcome of that
conference, but as the result of
the widely-held and growing be
lief that the way is now open for
a broader and more clearly-de
fined Federal Labor policy, at
tention is being given to proposals
to amend the Labor Relations
Act. Proposed changes include
recognition of the right of em
ployees to present their grlevan-
Log 'Jarru by A. B. Chapin
ces, as well as of Labor; some
means of insuring the responsi
bility of Labor organizations Jn
the matter of contract obligations
and other agreements, and par
ticularly the broadening of the
Labor Board's powers to enable it
to become a mediator for the pre
vention of strikes and an arbitra
tor in Labor disputes, somewhat
as the Railway Mediation Board
now functions.
Entirely apart from matters 9t
national importance, the bitter
est conflict now raging In Wash
ington is over questions of Art.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Commission, headed by Repre
sentative Thomas J. Boylan of
New York, proposes to build a
classical Greek temple facing the
Lincoln Memorial on the other
side of the Tlday Basin. A storm
of protest is raging about Mr.
Boylan's head from two sources.
One is from those who do not
want to see more than 700 of the
Japanese cherry trees around the
Basin destroyed. Their April
blooming this year drew more
than 200,000 tourists to Washing
ton. The Jefferson Memorial
plan would Involve cutting most
of them down. And a strong group
of artists are protesting the pro
posed architectural scheme for
the memorial.
The same artists are raising hob
over the design accepted for the
Mellon National Museum at Art.
They want something modernis
tic, although the classical style of
architecture has been adopted for
all other Federal buildings. To
appease them, it is being proposed
that the Smithsonian Institution
should establish a gallery of mod
ern art for those who do not like
the classical.
I BOONVILLE I
Mrs. W. G. Davis is spending a
few days with her daughter, Mrs.
Hazel Nicholson, in- Winston-Sa
lem.
Little Miss Mollie Lou Cox is
very ill in the Baptist Hospital at
Winston-Salem, her will
regret to learn.
Miss Elizabeth Hewitt spent the
week-end with her parents, in
Lattimore.
Mrs. Arthur Matthews has en
tered Baptist Hospital in Win
ston-Salem, for treatment.
Miss Ruby Winkler visited her
her parents in Boone over the
week-end.
Miss Amanda Holloman spent
the week-end with her sister, Mrs.
Wayne Matthews, in Winston-
Salem.
Rev. I. L. Sharpe held his reg
ular services at the Methodist
church Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Shore spent the
week-end here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shore.
HAROLD WEATHERMAN
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Harold Weatherman, of Elkin,
is now assistant manager of the
Modern Food Store here, taking
the place of M. M. Teague, for
merly of High Point, who was
promoted to manager following
the resignation of H. G. York re
cently.
Mr. Weatherman has had con
siderable experience in the groc
ery business during the past sev
eral years. He assumed his new
duties shortly after the departure
of Mr. York. rlWSipjl
COOL SPRINGS
The rainy Sabath made the
crowd rather small at church here
Sunday.
The young peoples' meeting
was well attended Sunday even
ing. Miss Ruby Rae Holbrook
read the scripture lesson. A num
ber of young folks sang a special
song, composed by Mrs. Paul
Newman.
Several friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Holbrook visited at their
home Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Harrison Hayes will
preach here next Sunday evening
at 7 o'clock. The public is cor
dially invited to attend.
NO SALE
First shopper: "Why, hello, you
.seem to be busy."
Second Shopper: "Yes, I am
trying to get something for my
husband."
First Shopper: "Had any offers
yet!" .
One ton of food a year is about
the average consumption for a
human being.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
EXECUTION
NORTH CAROLINA.
SURRY COUNTY.
John D. Lewis, Assignee, Elkin
National Bank
-vs-
J. N. Steele.
In The Superior Court
By virtue of an execution di
rected to the undersigned from
the Superior Court of Surry coun
ty in the above-entitled action, I
will, on Monday, 31st day of May,
1937, at 12 o'clock noon, at the
courthouse door of said county,
sell to the highest bidder for cash
to satisfy said execution, all the
right, title and interest which
the said J. N. Steele, the defend
ant, has in the following describ
ed real estate, to-wit:
TRACT l: Beginning on a
white oak, old corner runs S. 50
deg. E. 7.50 chains to a stump;
thence North 70 deg. E. 9.25
chains to a red oak, thence North
74 deg. E. 13.50 chains to Mitch
el's River, thence S. 18 deg. E.
10.50 chains to a stone on bank
of river, thence S. 78 deg. W. 6.36
chains to a sassafras, thence
West 23.65 chains to a point in
old line, thence North 10.00 chains
to the beginning. Containing 23.57
acres.
The judgment is in the sum of
$397.50, with interest in the sum
of $120.00 and costs of court.
This 21st day of April, 1937.
H. S. BOYD, Sheriff of Surry
County. N. C.
By W. J. Snow, Deputy
5-20 Sheriff.
WANTS
Kerosene—Up to 50 gallons, lie
per gallon; 50 gallons and up.
10c per gallon. Greenwood
Auto Company, end of new
bridge. tfc.
For Sale Fairbanks-Morse 2-h.
p. gasoline engine; good one
horse wagon; White Dent seed
corn, $2.00 bushel. Wayne Bry
ant, Arlington, N. C. lt-p
SPECIAL PRICES! Bloodtested
Reds, Barred White
Rocks, Leghorns, 100—56.95;
Heavy Mixed $6.50. Prompt
shipments. Prepaid; live deliv
ery. Carolina Hatcheries.
Greensboro, N. C. 5-2tp
Thnmatfaw A nril Oft IG'57
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Lost—Small purse Saturday, con
taining bills and small change.
Please return to Tribune office.
ltc
Squibbs Mineral Oil, quart size
89c. Antacid Powder, large size
50c. Nyseptol, pint 49c. Gallon
Mineral Oil $2.25. Turner Drug
Co., Elkin, N. C. tfn
For Sale: 1933 Chevrolet coach,
in excellent condition. New
tires, 1937 license. A real buy.
See Mrs. I. W. Holleman,
Jonesville, N. C. ltp
FREE! If excess acid causes you
Stomach Ulcers, Qas Pains, In
digestion, Heartburn, Belching,
Bloating, Nausea, get free sam
ple doctor's prescription, Udga,
at Turner Drug Co. 6-3p
For Sale—One good, used wood
range. Call Leßoy Campbell,
at Duke Power Co. ltc
Do you want plenty of eggs from
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamin. We
have it. Abernethy's, A Good
Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfn
Poland-China stock hog for ser
vice at Wayne Bryant's, in
Arlington. $2.00 cash or second
choice pig. 2t-p
REAL ESTATE
I have some good buys in both
small farms and city property.
I also have some niee building
lots in Arlington, "the thriving
town; but no city taxes." $5.00
down and $5.00 per month
gives you your choice lot in
Arlington—why not now.
D. C. MARTIN
Realtor and Contractor
We buy scrap Iron and steel.
Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk
in. N. C. tfc
For Sale—several good ice boxes
and refrigerators. See them;
they're real bargains. Elkin
Plumbing & Heating Co., Elkin,
N. C. lt-c
WANTED: Inch Oak Lumber,
Green or dry. Write us for spec
ifications. Cherokee Flooring
Corp., Burlington, N. C. 3tc
Wanted to repair radios. Our
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co.. Elkin, N. C. tfo
Castevens Hardware Company
will save you money on Men's
and Boys' shoes and Oliver
farm equipment. Castevens
Hardware Co. tfn
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Suburban home sites frosn 1 to 1#
acres on principal road out of
Elkin.
12 homes for sale on easy terms,
5 store buildings in the best
trading districts.
25 nloe building Ms at buying
prices.
6 room house for rent.
Money to loan on good property.
REICH & HUNT
ROYSTER'S
Premium Grade
Fertilizer
At No Extra Cost!
F. A. Brendle &
Son
Elkin, N. C.