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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 Entered at the post office at ESkin, N. C., aq second-class matter. C. 8. FOSTER .President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary- Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, $2.00 Sheep-shearing time out west; lamb shearing time on Wall Street. When you ask them "how are you feel ing today," some people make the mistake of thinking you really want to know. But you just wait a coupla years, Ed and Wally's command to "hurry" won't sound so thrilling. The question is, when Wally takes her marriage vow will she be the "Merry Wife of Windsor?" Robert Quillen advises: "So live that you won't yearn to skin Junior when he up and tells the whole truth before com pany." In case the scientists are right when they say the hair reflects the general state of one's health, the bald-headed man is in a powerful bad fix. The federal government announces that it will buy up surplus fish. But that doesn't mean that the sportsmen can palm off those that get away. North Carolina spends an average of $22.62 annually on each public school pupil, but $240.76 a year to support and supervise each convict. Highway robbers are specializing on courting couples parked along the roads in Forsyth. The which is calculated to cur tail the necking business. It is hard to decide which are the more to be pitied, the women who lend themselves to the strip-tease "art" or those who pay good money for this sort of entertainment. If that Tennessee faster really feels that he is called to preach, the publicity he has had will serve as a good build up for him. A medico says that whiskey is no bet ter for a cold than that much hydrant wa ter. One by one we are being robbed of our great traditions. Pulitzer prize goes to "Gone With The Wind" as the best book of the year. But that Mitchell gal's divorced hubby won't get to spend any of the shekels that come be cause of it. One writer reminds that "John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee is being sued by his wife. It looks like John didn't even carry his home precinct in the last election." Moldy Conscience Too It is barely possible that tobacco farm ers in this county have occasionally noticed the absence of tobacco plants from beds that held them the day before. Which is anoth er way of saying that somebody found themselves in need of tobacco plants as well as prayer—and proceeded to take 'em. But not to the best of our knowledge and belief has this county ever complained of such wholesale pilfering as that reported by a Johnston county farmer who declares that night prowlers stole three acres of his plants which had already been set in the open field. That is what you would call heaping it up and rubbing it in. Pilfering plants from the beds is bad enough, but this Johnston county farmer not only lost his plants but the time and pain of setting them out. For if anybody doesn't think that sort of work is "toil" just let him try it. The reason for this eagerness for pos session of tobacco plants is—blue mold. This disease of seedling plants in the tobacco bed is said to have taken a toll of approximate ly twenty per cent of the bedded tobacco plants in North Carolina this year. But it manifested a greater greed in Georgia, and as a consequence tobacco growers of that State, flocked to North Carolina for plants, paying as much as fifty dollars for enough plants to set out an acre. As a result of ourneighborliness in go ing as far as we could in supplying this need, North Carolina growers, find themselves pinched for enough plants to stock their fields, but we never expected to hear of suchj bald discourtesy as to go into another's planted fields to get them. It would seem that the ordinary ethics of the agricultural would prohjbif that. 1 jfewftaS! Barnum Was Conservative It was the late Mr. Barnum, the big show man, we believe, who said that "a sucker is born every minute." There is abundant reason to believe that Mr. Barnum was extra conservative. The American people are a gullible lot. That's why in yesteryear the medicine show rode the court circuit and raked in the shekels. That is why an Insull could build an industrial empire on a thin dime and a Van Swaringen swing a vast railroad sys tem with a shoe string—but in the end both of them found that they themselves had been sucked in. The great American trait of falling for the "hot stuff" is not confined to any one class. Sooner or later, mostly sooner, if the right string is pulled, somebody will sell us, some sort of gold brick. If we refuse to provide the fee that will lead us straight to the recovery of our share of Manhattan which our grandpa failed to deed away, offer us a bogus sweepstakes ticket and we'll eat it up. Get a bag of horse salts, add plenty of water, pack the mixture jn small, fancy bot tles, label it any sort of cure-all, price it at a dollar a bottle, and if you put enough bal lyhoo behind it, you'll soon be taking a trip to Europe to avoid the income tax collector. It has been tried and proven. And haven't most of us thrown aside a dependable and odoriferous old pipe because we listened to the siren voice that told of aged-in-wood, specially treated, exquisitely blended, sunkist tobacco, a ballyhoo that made smoke rings spell romance and caused us to dream of Burley fields and happy workers who were there to pull long, green worms off the golden leaves before they cheated us out of our happiness? We pitched aside that old pipe because somebody had taken a dime's worth of tobac r co, mixed in a lot of hokum and not a little pokum, put the whole in an attractive pack age, and made the price high enough to be interestirife. The more we think of it the more cer tain are we that Mr. Barnum was quite con servative. When the Governor Travels „ When the secretary to Mr. Ickes insist ed that Congress approve the purchase of a $4,000 automobile for his chief, newspaper paragraphers made it the subject for a lot of space-filling wise-cracks, and at least one North Carolina paper editorialized about the extravagance of it all. Yet one of the first official acts of Ca pus Waynick, as the new director of the di vision of purchase and contract, was the ap proval of the purchase of a custom built auto for Governor Hoey costing $6,015.93. This is said to be the finest and most ex pensive ever purchased by the State for one of its governors. A description of the lux urious big car, pictures it a regular palace on wheels as compared to the mere flivver proposed for Secretary Ickes. Don't get us wrong. We are not re cording this purchase for the purpose of criticism. We are inclined to string along with the board of awards in the contention that the State should provide a car for the Governor in keeping with the dignity of his high office, even though it costs a pretty penny to do it. And then it should be remembered that the higher you go the less in proportion you pay—in sales tax. The sales levy on the Governor's big Lincoln deluxe will not amount to more than we pay on our flivver costing in hundreds what his cost in thous ands. But daggone it, we do think the man ufacturers should have knocked off that ninety-three cents from the purchase price. We would have thought the Scotch in Capus Waynick would have prompted him to look after that little matter. Reclaiming Waste Announcement comes from one of the government laboratories that a process has been perfected for turning sawdust into a thing of value and utility. By cooking and mixing with certain common and cheap chemicals to bring about dissolution it is possible to obtain a hardened mass that may be rolled into sheets of plastic character, which in turn may be utilized as floor tile, wallboards, table tops, electric instrument boards insulators and even for building roads. Remembering the mountains of Saw dust in wood and at factories, the import ance of this reclamation becomes apparent. If the process can be cheapened and made applicable to small producers, this item of conservation would play an important part in our economics. But this nation, is so plentifully sup plied with everything that we do not sense the need of conservation. But we will come to it in time, even if we do not sense our need until the time is past due. Tin is an expensive metal yet the mu nicipal dump heaps all over this fair land contain mountains of tin cans from; which the American public is feeding itself. We'll get around to that too. We'll have our mu nicipal smelters to take this unsightly junk and litter and turn it back to us again—and incidentally pocket a few escaping dollars. European nations are far ahead of us in this conservation business. Germany saves her razor blades, converts waste paper into some useful thing—-wastes nothing but the blood of her young manhood. At some future day there will be more definite need for us to conserve, so we should be about the business of learning how. % THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELK IN, NORTH CAROLINA —— r 11 ~ 1 ■ ■■ Amphibious Auto Passes All Tests 1, M**sL Roscoe, Calif. . . . George E. Powell's "Mobile-Boat" comes out of the lake for a tour on land. The queer craft is perfectly at home on land or afloat. The next step will be to give it wings. Bruce- ran Barton j® I * . Moving: Mountains Is Not Easy Mahomet, who after more than a thousand years has two hun dred and twenty million follow ers, told the people that he was directly commissioned by the Al mighty and hence endowed with super-natural powers. The Arabs, being skeptical, said: "If you will cause Mount Safa to come to you we will believe that you really have the goods." Mahomet accepted the chal lenge and, full of faith in himself, commanded the mountain to ap proach. Nothing happened. Mount Safa did not budge an inch. This was a ticklish moment. Had he been a modern politician he would immediately have sought to divert the people's minds by cry ing: /'l did my best, but the Su preme Court would not let me." Or, "The House of Morgan has run around behind the mountain and nailed it down." Mahomet was wiser. Said he: "God is merciful. Had the moun tain obeyed my command it would have fallen upon us, and all you Arabs would have been killed. I, [therefore, will go to the mountain, and I thank Allah for having had mercy on a stiff-necked genera tion." The stiff-necked and bare footed Arabs, wooed by the can dor and innate wisdom of the re mark, concluded that so wise and frank a gentleman must indeed be endowed with something more than human intelligence, and promptly gave him their loyalty. RESEARCH SHOWS WAY TO RESULTS Fertilizer Application Should Be Made to One or Both Sides of Seed BRINGS HIGHER YIELDS Six years of research by the North Carolina Experiment Sta tion indicates that when the fer tilizer application is made in bands to one or both sides of the seed and a little below the level of the seed, higher acre yields of the crops so fertilized are obtain ed. "In general, we would recom mend as a result of our tests, that the fertilizer application be made two or three inches to each side and two to three inches below the level of the seed," announced Dr. E. R. Collins, fertility agronomist. "This application has given the highest percent of germination, the least seedling injury and the highest acre yields of cotton. Al though the experimental work in North Carolina has been done primarily with cotton and tobac co, results from other states indi cate that material increases in yields can be obtained with other crops. Therefore, suitable dis tributors for side placement may be utilized for crops other than cotton." - Dr. Collins found from his re sults last year that satisfactory results can be obtained by plac ing t!he fertilizer In two bands, about six inches apart, and then planting the seed half-way be tween the bands with a walking planter. This method of place ment gave an Increase of about 200 pounds of seed cotton per acre in comparison with placing the same amount of fertilizer be hind a three-Inch shovel In the conventlal manner. This side placement method, at planting time, in separate opera tions, gave an increase of ap proximately 400 pounds of aeed cotton more than where the fer tilizer was placed in a band three * . . There's Always Reform Theodore Roosevelt was the first restorer. He denounced the "malefactors of great wealth," and with a vast pounding of the base drum, he chased them away and restored the government to the people." Then came Woodrow Wilson, who likewise marshalled the forc es of the righteous against the in iquitous power of Wall Street, and again "restored the government to the people." Now Franklin Roosevelt. He, too, finds that government has somehow drifted back into the control of "entrenched greed" and so he sounds the Tocsin and "restores the government to the people." Very decided good was accom plished by Theodore Roosevelt. The Federal Reserve System is an enduring monument to Wilson's administration. Some, at least, of the reforms of Franklin Roose velt will prove permanent. But reform is not a one-night show; it is a continuing neces sity. Human nature is stubborn; progress is slow. Action and reac tion follow each other. A thous and years from now, if the Re public lasts that long, the Presi dent of that day, having ridden the white horse of Reform against the bulwarks of Wall Street, will announce to his adoring follow ers that the "government has been returned to the people of the United States." inches under the seed ten days before planting. Dr. Collins said it is advisable however to have new equipment that will place the fertilizer properly at planting time but that some alterations in the present equipment may be made to se cure almost as good results. TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS ANSWERED AT STATE COLLEGE Question: What variety of chickens is best for developing capons? Answer: Experimental work at this Station, both in developing and marketing capons indicate a preference to the Plymouth Rocks over the Rhode Island Reds as far as these two popular breeds are concerned. NO work has been done with the other yellow skin ned varieties such as Cochins, White Wyandottes, Jersey Giants, Langshans, Br&hmans, and Cor nish. The last three together with the Cochin are slower in de velopment than the other breeds, but usually make a larger capon when finished. Question: How can I control bud worms in my tobacco fields? Answer: The best known con trol is the poisoned corn meal bait which is made by carefully mixing one pound of Arsenate of Lead with 50 pounds of corn meal. One peck of this mixture will cover one acre. Place a small pinch of the bait in the center of the bud early in the morning when the bud is open. Applica tions should begin ten days to two weeks after the plants are set in the field and repeated every week or ten days until the plants are topped. A full-grown ostrich stands nearly eight feet high, and weighs 3M pounds. GENE AUTRY SERIAL IS COMING TO ELK Lovers of spine tingling thrills are soon due for a rare treat at the new Elk Theater here. Mas cot's sensational chapter-play. "The Phantom Empire," will be shown each Friday and Saturday for twelve weeks, starting May 21. The amazing story assertedly invades a serial field nobody has ever touched, in depicting "Mu rania," a fantastic metal city filled with supermen possessing death-dealing inventions far ahead of any earthly weapons, and located 20,000 feet under ground. The thrills are said to surpass those of any adventure books or newspaper cartoon strips. The stellar cast features Gene Autry in his famous radio songs and his two-fisted fights: Holly wood's boy star, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, champion girl trick rider, blonde Dorothy Chris ty, Wheeler Oakman, Charles French, Warner Richmond, com ic "Smiley" Burnette, William Moore and many others. W. M. WALL TO GIVE AWAY GRUEN WATCH A handsome Oruen watch, either boys' or girls' style, will be given away within the next three or four days by W. M. Wall, local Jeweler. A large clock has .been placed in the Wall show window, and on the face of it has been printed the names of the 1937 graduates of Elkin and Jonesville high schools. The big clock is sche duled to run down within from three to four days, and to the graduate to whose name the large minute hand is pointing when the clock stops, will go the Gruen watch. WAxNTS Twin Metal Beds, slightly used, $3.00 each. The Eagle. Wanted—Man to work on farm all summer. Apply 1 to Clarence Holcomb, Elkin, N. C. ltc Will ones who borrowed two white floor baskets please call Mrs. E. F. McNeer. ltp 100 pound capacity Ice Refrigerator, perfect condition, only SIO.OO The Eagle. Sqaibba Mineral Oil, quart slue 89c. Antacid Powder, large siee 50c. Nyseptol, pint 49c. Gallon Mineral Oil $2.25. Turner Drug Co., Elkin, N. C. tfn Iron Beds, slightly damaged in shipment $3.95 while they last. The Eagle. FREE! If excess add causes you Stomach Uloers, Gas Pains, in digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, get free sam ple doctor's prescription, Udga, at Turner Drug Co. 0-3p Reconditioned Living Room Suite uphols tered i n Jacquard Velour. 3 Pieces $20.- 00. The Eagle. Do you want plenty of cggn from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamin. we have it. Abernethy's, A Good Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfn Large Old Time Solid Walnut Side Board, only SIO.OO. The Eagle. We bay scrap iron and metafa. Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk in, N. C. tfc Hey There Get Your Building: Materials From ELKIN LUMBER MFG. CO. That Is Where I Got Mine, and Those Fellows Gave Me— QUALITY AND SERVICE —of which lam Proud! CALL 68 fVi "Everything to Build Anything ' % * - ,-i 5 _ * * * ' Inner Spring: Mattress guaranteed satisfac tion or your money back, $14.95 and only SI.OO per week. The Eagle. Wanted to repair - radios, pqr expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc Beautiful 9 piece Din ing- Room Suite $74.- 50. A rare bargain The Eagle. Castevens Hardware Company will save you money on Men's and Boys' shoes and Oliver farm equipment. Castevens Hardware Co. tfn Ranges, only a few left at "the old prices. Trade your old stove on one and pay bal ance by the week. The Eagle. REAL ESTATE I have some good buys in both small farms and city property. I also have seme nice 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 Dining Room Exten sion Table, badly used $5.00. The Eagle. Lost— Dne-biU for $25.00 on Fidel ity Finance Co. Payment has been stopped George Smith, State Road, N. C. ltp Trade-in your old Liv ing Room Suite on a new one at The Eagle. For Sale—Pair of Percheron hor ses, weight about 1,050 pounds each. Seven years old. Well broke. Priced right for quick sale. See John Triplett at Cash & Carry Store, Elkin, N. C. ltp Several Used Radios that nobody wants. $5.00 'picking choice/ The Eagle. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE / Suburban home sites from 1 (o 10 acres on principal road out of Elkin. 12 homes for sale on easy terms, 5 store buildings in the best trading districts. 25 nice building hits at buying prices. 6 room house for rent. Money to loan on good property. REICH A HUNT Cot Flowers—Funeral Designs Potted Plants Mrs. Grady Cockerham I Phone 22 " Elkin, N. C. I ROYSTER'S Premium Grade Fertilizer At No Extra Cost! F. A. Brendle & Son Elkin, N. C.
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