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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. - Elkin, N..C. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937 Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. 8. FOSTER. - -President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER TEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, S2.M Spring house-cleaning is about over, but there's still many a skeleton in the closet. Woman's place is in the home—of a neighbor, if there's a bridge game on. • If our opinion is worth anything, what we like most in these new spring frocks is— a nice-appearing—gal. With so many of us having to be con tent with a sandwich, what in the heck's the use o' learning how to use a knife and fork? If you don't think this nation means to take care of our mentally incompetent, just take note of the number we elect to office. With 2,000 strip-teasers out of a job and 2,000,000 wives complaining that they have nothing to wear, it looks like we're headin' into another mess. Pour the gas to her, Big Fellah, the tank don't leak. And besides Japan is pro viding a profitable market for our scrap metal. What Christopher Columbus didn't fore see was the difficulty in finding parking space on Main Street Saturday afternoons — else he'd have stayed at home. It's Philander Johnson's Jud Tunkins talking: "There's as much difference be tween talkin' sensible and actin' sensible as there is between givin' a note and payin' it punctual." Will Mr. Hackett Hold to His Expressed Purpose? When J. Gordon Hackett, of North Wil kesboro, was named to a place on the State Highway Commission by Governor Hoey he stated that he had coveted this opportunity to be of service to the people of this section and that now he would seek to be remem bered by them as a man who had served their interests unselfishly and efficiently. That, we submit is a high purpose and meaningful, and if carried out literally, there is no question but that Mr. Hackett's objec tive will be attained. The notion here is that Mr. Hackett could demonstrate this unselfish purpose in no better way than by curbing the urge to move the highway office from Elkin to North Wilkesboro, for the transfer would serve no other purpose than the selfish de sire to bring some new prestige and material advantage to his home town. Such transfer would not by any stretch of the imagination promote economy, and goodness knows every dollar that can be saved to the roads—should be. On the con trary it would work in reverse. Elkin is more nearly in the center of the district that is under Mr. Hackett's supervision, and the nature of his duties certainly doesn't re quire that the administrative office be with in arm's reach. The welfare and convenience of the em ployes who are to be retained should not be disregarded. Some of these own their homes here and to require them to pick up and leave for no better reason than to satis fy a whim is an injustice that Mr. Hackett will find hard to defend. Once before the highway office was moved from Elkin to Winston-Salem, but the fallacy of thi| move was soon realized and the office came back where it belonged. If Gordon Hackett still holds to his pur pose of serving unselfishly, and not under take to use his authority and influence to make a political football out of the highway service in this district he will say "Get thee behind me Satan" in this inclination to bene fit one neighbor town at the expense of an other. Rural Electrification According to a survey made by the Edi son Electric Institute, only 3.6 per cent of .the farms in this State had electric current available on July 1, 1935, the date the Rural electrification work was started. Now the same survey shows that at the end of last year 8.2 per cent of North Carolina's farm homes had electricity. This is an increase of 4.6 per cent, a great part of which may be credited to the various power companies serving the State, prodded to action by gov ernment interest.* Since July 1, 1935 a total of 3,381.31 miles of rural power lines have been con structed, serving 18,511 customers; 544.85 miles are under construction, to serve 2,966 families; and 1,943.96 miles have been au thorized,-these lines to furnish power to 10,- 750 farm homes. All of which is but scratching the sur face, and is nothing at all to boast about when compared with what some of our Eu ropean neighbors are doing along these lines. But these spidery webs of rural electric lines that are being spun in increasing num bers each day are bringing many city com forts and conveniences within the grasp of North Carolina's farm population and the days to come will reflect in a more contented and prosperous citizenship. And our rural people are not the only beneficiaries. Power producers have learn ed that increased consumption of power, even at a lower price, nets a greater profit than lower consumption at a higher rate. Private concerns are about the business of finding a way to curtail loss in transmission, and with improved methods stand to in crease their earnings under this new order. Surely North Carolina is on the thresh old of that more abundant life that we have been hearing so much about, and this white servant provided by nature will be contrib uting its share. Paternity Wards No longer can there be any question about California's supremacy over Florida, and no longer need that state boast about its climate and its film stars for it has pi oneered in another direction and in a man ner that will win the love and acclaim of all men everywhere. For a San Francisco hospital announces that it soon will open a "paternity ward" where expectant fathers may soothe their anxiety in streamlined comfort. No longer need they pace the bleak corridors of hos pitals in San Francisco, suffering all the pangs of anxiety and uncertainty that only expectant fathers know. Needless to say that this improvement will spread until hos pitals everywhere will be providing this ser vice for those who must foot the bill for what is taking place in another section of the institution. A hospital offical sketches briefly some of the fittings and the setting that is to be provided for expectant fathers: A long room fitted with comfortable chairs, reading lamps, ash trays, pictures—but no bar, Ap propriate pictures will be on the walls in cluding photographs of the Dionne quin tuplets, (a soothing factor to be sure) and there will be accommodating nurses to an swer all his anxious and foolish questions; textbooks on the care of children will be within convenient reach, and everything possible will be done to make comfortable a most miserable and anxious man. For centuries the hospitals and physic ians have placed all the emphasis on improv ing facilities to aid mothers during child birth, while the fathers have been shunted aside and neglected. Now they are being recognized and their misery ministered un to. Surely this is another accomplishment of the Roosevelt administration which in the beginning was dedicated to the relief and emancipation of forgotten men. The Leaven Is Working "I feel that a firm owes a lot to em ployees who stick with it a long time. Be sides, the politicians have been taking our money and distributing it for us, and with our own money they have been getting our employes gradually to feel that their future depends on politicians instead of on us. So we might as well distribute it ourselves." That is Harmon P. Elliott, wealthy of fice machine manufacturer, explaining how come he has issued $250,000 worth of pre ferred stock to his employes. They had just come to him demanding an increase in pay, but immediately they forgot their grievances and once more are a contented lot. Those workmen who had spent years building adding machines, probably knew how to do little else. They had contributed much to Elliott's success, had helped him build a fortune and deserved the break he gave them. But his was not such a magnanimous act after all. In the main his workers have the government to thank for their good for tune. By Elliott's own confession this is so. More than any other in recent decades the Roosevelt administration has reached the government hand into the pockets of wealth, and with two objectives: to meet the ex penses of government and to prod industry into a willingness to divide with its workers the profits they have helped to create. Only a few months ago industry was falling over itself in announcing wage in creases, liberal dividends, and new policies of partnership with labor, and for the self same reasons that Elliott advances. The leaven is working. Industry is sensing the fact that it owes an obligation beyond the pay envelope; that in making SIOO,OOO salaries possible for executives, la bor deserves a cut-in somewhere down the line. Having observed what a smidgeon of nitrate of soda will do for a growing plant, we're wondering if it wouldn't be a good thing to apply to that fast-growing bald spot a-top our head. People who have a mania for counting things such as pin holes and pieces of paper are in the first stages of insanity, say the scientists. In the future the sheep can jump the fence until they're skase, for all of us. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA WESLEY CHAPEL WILL | HAVE HOMECOMING There will be an all-day home coming at the Wesley Chapel Methodist church, Sunday May 30. The program will begin at 10:00 A. M. The speaker of the morning will be Prof. Gentry, of Statesville, and former superin tendent of schools of Iredell county. The afternoon will be taken up with singing by a num ber of choirs, a history of the church by P. M. Trivette, and an address by Rev. Walter E. Isen hour, a former pastor; also talks by any of the other former pas tors that may be present. The public is invited to come and bring dinner and be assured that you will feel that the day was well spent. LITTLE RICHMOND FINALS UNDERWAY Commencement exercises at the Little Richmond Consolidated School began Wednesday even ing, May 26, with an operetta, "Hie Fairies Are Really True." Trursday afternoon, May 27, a black-face comedy will be pre sented by the fourth and fifth grades. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock the graduating exercises will be held. J. Lee Thompson is principal of the school. Other members of the faculty are. Miss Dovie Moore, Miss Florence Wall, Mrs. Mable Brendle and Mrs. Lula Woltz. * WANTS If you are going: to need any roofing, now is the time to get it. Our prices are cash prices. Surry Hardware Co. See our assortment of house dresses, retail prices 59c and 97c. A good assortment of la dies' white crepe hats, specially priced at 89c. Somers & Co. We have a small studio piano in your community that is like new that anyone may have by pay ing unpaid balance. Credit Dept., Box 262, Salisbury, N. C. 6-17 C I Squibbs Mineral Oil, quart rise 89c. Antacid Powder, large size 50c. Nyseptol, pint 49c. Gallon Mineral Oil $2.25. Turner Drug Co., Elkin, N. C. tfln A big variety of Linoleum Rugs, 36x72 in., 49c, while they last. Eureka household paints, enam els and varnishes, 10c, 25c and 49c. Somers & Co. Paint with Stag Paint and Kel logg's Pure Linseed Oil and you will save money. Surry Hard ware Co. FREE! If excess acid causes you Stomach Ulcers, Gas Pains, In digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, get free sam ple doctor's prescription, Udga, at Turner Drug Co. 8-3p See our line of Hosiery. Anklets 10c-25c pair; ladies' silk hos iery .25c, 39c. 49c and 79c pair. Every pair a good value. Som ers & Co. 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. tfh See the New Myers T faction Sprayer. It is a one-man, one horse, two-row Sprayer. It sprays from 10 to 15 acres daily. Casstevens Hardware Co., El kin, N. C. tfc We buy scrap iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk in, N. C. tfc The last call for McCormick- Deering binders. Surry Hard ware Co. Wanted to repair radios. Our expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc Now is the time to enjoy Kodak ing. Secure your kodaks and films from us. Just received a new lot of inexpensive krdaks. Somers & Co. We have the genuine "Shutt" grain cradles. Get them now. Surry Hardware Co. REAL ESTATE I have some good buys in both small farms and city property. I also have some 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 The cherries will be getting ripe at the old Spicer Cherry Or chard May 29th. This place is one mile southwest of Austin, ■N. C. Everybody invited to come. Walter Spicer. ltc REAL ESTATE If you want a home, farm, busi ness proptrey, or sell or rent, we want an opportunity to talk it over with you. Five-room cottage in West Elkin for rent. REICH A HUNT cA thought for cfflemorial T>ay by A. B. CHAPIN Save Money On These FOOD SPECIALS HEINZ —— ——— TOMATO JUICE 2 Cans 15 c FREE! HEINZ FRESH CUCUMBER . . . Dim E Larire Size 10r We are to & ve awa y » rllKLfc, Large bIZ€ 19 c large basket of groceries Sat- STRING urday night, June sth at 8 nr i wic xt„ o o * «r- o'clock. Come in today for de- BEANS, No - 2 Can —3 for 25c tails "ON TOP" SWEET Heinz Demonstration Sales- TARN No. 2 Can 3 for 9Cc man to be at our store all day ' Friday. Come in for samples BELLOW of Heinz delicious foods! SQUASH, 2 15 c String Beans, 4 ibs 29c New Potatoes, io lbs. 45c Bananas, 4 lbs. 23c Klflfliocf See the Model Sail Boat in our window! lilUUlvdi Come in and guess the number of boxes of Cracker Jacks in our window. To the one making the nearest correct guess will be given the boat! Boat to be given away June 2 at 2 o'clock. ALL CUTS OF NATIVE AND WESTERN MEATS IN OUR SANITARY MARKET PHONES CAUUS 89 WE 309 J |j DELIVER East Main Street • Elkin, N. C. Tribune Advertising Gets Results Thursday, May 27. 1937
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