North Carolina Newspapers

Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkln, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937 Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. S. FOSTER. .President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, $2.00 To hear some people talk you'd think poverty is something to brag about. Edward's love affair would have been a path of roses had it not been for the su perfluity of detour signs. Soon be picnic time, and all the ants and not a few uncle bugs know in advance just where they will be held. The papers say that Edward and Wally are planning a visit to America. Betcha some movie scout will meet 'em at the pier with an attractive contract. Before our statesmen get through with it they will have learned enough about court-packing not to need any help in ar ranging their grip for the journey home. Supposing that some day the federal treasury takes in a coupla billion dollars more than it pays out, it would then be un necessary for the Charlotte News to ob serve: "No wonder men are asking each other How long can it last?'" Social item stresses the fact that it was "a quiet wedding" leaving the impression that it was in contrast with the Usual rauc ous kind. But the story didn't go so far as to say that you couldn't hear, a hem-stitch drop. Promise and Performance We will now have the privilege of see ing two theories, both bolstered by high sounding pledges in advance, put to the test and note how they work out. A few weeks back Mecklenburg county decided to have nothing to do with liquor stores. In the campaign against them the drys covenanted with the voters that if they would join in defeating this proposed form of control, there would be a campaign of law enforcement that would put the skids under the bootleggers. That was a pledge that took in a lot of territory, but the voters ac cepted it in good faith. Last week Wake county voted the op posite way, voted for liquor stores, and like wise the wets promised to curtail the evils of more abundant liquor while at the same time lifting something from the tax load in that county with liquor profits as the work ing tool. That, too, is a pretty large order and with conflicting angles. The heft from the tax load will be meas ured by the volume of liquor the stores sell, and volume depends largely upon how ag gressively the stores go after business, and seeking to extend liquor drinking is a mighty poor way to bring about temperance; Of course it can be argued that liquor consumption in Wake could be cut one-third, still under the new arrangement turn over to the county treasury money that is now es caping and pouring into the pockets of boot leggers. But that would mean that the 'leggers would have to be robbed entirely) of their trade—which isn't likely. Now then we have two outstanding counties, each with an outstanding city, both promised programs that involve differ ent approaches to the vexing liquor problem, and the State will be watching to see what eventuates. Mecklenburg drys have their chance to do some house-cleaning arid keep their pledges; Wake county wets have the machinery that is supposed to click in bring ing about control. It remains to be seen whether Mecklenburg drys go to sleep on their jobs and whether Wake wets stress liquor profits above liquor control. We shall see what we shall see. - Unfortunate It is unfortunate for North Carolina that Senator Bailey has elected to become an habitual scold: real statesmen rise above that, else they soon find themselves on the scrap heap. Able and aggressive Senator Bailey could be of distinct service to State and Nation, without any sacrifice of prin ciple, were it not that he allows his personal peeves to be reflected in his every action. His hatred of Harry Hopkins explains his constant nagging in that direction, which all but resulted in a fist fight with the works progress director. His disapproval of fftatty of President (Roosevelt's policies, and the criticism that came because of this antago nism has created a dislike equal tq his feel ings toward Harry Hopkins. He has as sumed the role of Huey Long whom he lam basted with such fervor when it suited his purpose to do so. Bui Long never yelped at the heels of the administration any loud- er or more persistently than Senator "Bailey It is unfortunate, because his colleagues in the Senate are becoming calloused to his tirades, and thus the good in his reasoning, and there is good, will be catalogued withv the less worthy and placed in the pigeon hole marked "prejudice." This is not meant to say that Senator BAiley should truckle to every whim of the administration, not that. North Carolina doesn't want him to be a rubber stamp for anybody, but the voters who sent him to Washington would like to see him submerge his hatreds and get his feet on the ground. He is eternally right in some of his conclu sions, but he is as definitely wrong in others, as measured by the process of reasoning employed by those who went down the line for him in the primaries last year when he was extolling the virtues of the man he has now turned against. Senator Bailey has the ability and cour age to represent North Carolina with dis tinction, if only he would shed his newly adopted prejudices and show a willingness to give-and-take—which is one of the mark ings of a statesman. We Have Invited It The Wagner-Van Nuys anti-lynching bill has been approved' by the Senate jujdic ial committee, and once more this issue will furnish the opportunity for Southern mem bers of Congress to throw a fit. Realizing that a vote on the issue would mean their defeat, it would not surprise if some of our Southern statesmen do not employ that sil liest of all legislative procedures—the fili buster, and talk the proposal to death. There are some provisions in the pro posed legislature that might work a hard ship on local government units, if and when lynchings occur. But these can be avoided by diligent law enforcement, and that is something we ought to have, with or with out a federal law. Some Southern States, and North Caro lina is among them, have laws sufficiently severe to deal with lynchings. But they are not enforced. We still have lynchings, in spite of the law, and seldom is anything ever' done about them. Men continue to take the law in their own hands, but because they are socially and politically prominent, nobody is able to identify them, and the solicitor, af ter a few high-sounding threats, lets the matter die the usual death. That has hap pened here in North Carolina, and is the rule all over the South. These mobsters would think twice be fore undertaking their dastardly work if there was certainty that they would have to answer to the flederal government, for the federal courts are not in the habit of cover ing up with whitewash. As much as the next one we deplore the crime that usually is the basis for a lynch ing party, but equally do we deplore a mob meting out the punishment. If we are to have this anti-lynching law, it will come because of our own delin quency. We have only ourselves to blame, and our representatives in Congress, remem bering that the law applies to all states alike, could curb their inclination to knife it, without much hurt to themselves and to their State. . - The Stage Is Set Europe is determined to fight it out. Not satisfied with the horror and human sacri fice of the last great conflict, not to mention the fact that the last war has not been paid for, European nations already are aligned for the scrap. The only reason they have not been at each other's throat ere this is because England is not yet ready. The Spanish strife is only an incident, Spanish soil provides a convenient setting, and the conflicting interest there represents the line-up. Germany and Italy, working in concert, have been pourihg- soldiers and mu nitions into Spain for the use of insurgents. The loyalist government must be defeated, if the ItaJo-German stake is to be saved. And that is why British and Trench and Russian aid is for the other side. But the issue in Spain is not developing fast enough. England is making good use of the time—preparing. And so other is sues must be devised and Germany and Italy are attending tO| that little matter. In cidents are being manufactured or magni fied to justify further interference in Spain, and one of these bright mornings the fuse will be lighted—and another world war with all its toll in human lives and all its toll'in material values, will be on again. For it will be a world. No discounting that. Tfee tonniving and planning has all been attended to. FJffcnce and England and Russia Qft the one hand and Germany, Italy and Jtsfen on the other. And somewhere down the line, #iark our prediction, this na tion 'will be drkwn into the vortex. Doubtless the details fading up to our entry also have bfeen attended to. Witti Russia's unhampered aid the 'democratic nations could make quick work of &fth a conflict. But Russia will be ham pered, very muchly hampeaed. She will be fighting Japan on one side and scrapping her neighbors on the other. Germany and Japan arranged that in that conference last summer. And all of this upsetting and the suf fering and anguish it will bring, is the work of two upstarts, two swashbuckling brag garts, Benito and Adolph, who must make a noise or step down. They choose to make a noise. And may God have mercy on their souls when they are through with the sorry mess they have stirred up. TRImIN( , _ _. N NORTH CAROLINA 11l 11' - » FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY (By C. M. Dickson) No artist, no philosopher, nor no poet can portray the real meaning of the words "too late." Of course, a person doesn't have to be a gentleman. The eagle flies "upward" to look at the sun. To be a "modern" scientist one ■' merely has to "guess" at the age of rocks and identify his "family tree." It's an awful pity that many children were not able to choose their parents instead of being the helpless victims of cruel fate! The far-sighted man will see his way out before he goes in too far. Some "beaux" will bend and some "belles" will rattle. Subtract your vices from your virtues and the remainder (if there be one) is what you are worth. Our greatest men have come from the (commonly called) low er walks of life. As a rule, a soldier is known by his scars. When a person becomes too good for earth he is soon winged and takes his flight to a higher clime. Every child is debtor to its mother. Civilization does not advance by leaps and bounds. Obscurity is often the father of thought. Labor and capital should be the best of friends. No person has a right to take more from society than he puts in it. It's easy to say "yes." The person who can stand either wealth, education, or au thority, is at least one third of a man; if he can stand all three, he is a super-man. Too much formality is hypo crisy in disguise. The person who looks before he jumps will usually land safely. There's a marked distinction between a person who is really sick and one who is simply "puny." The hereafter holds out no promise to a lazy man. America—the land and the home of sports and spendthrifts! Dr. C. L. Sherill Dies Suddenly At Statesville Home Statesville, June 24.—Dr. Coite L. Sherrill, 49, of the staff of the H. F. Long hospital, died sudden ly tonight at 9:30 o'clock at his home on North Center street. As house physician at the hos pital he put in a busy day, work ing until late tonight, and was apparently in excellent health and spirits. He was at his resi dence, having just completed a long distance call when he col lapsed as he took a seat in a chair, his death following imme diately. A heart attack was given as the cause of his death. Or. Sherrill was engaged in the general practice of medicine here before entering the World War. On his return from ftance he be came associated wtfti the H. F, Long hospital and has been witti the hospital continuously since that time. Dr. Sherrill has W£n prominent to ttofe work of the American Legion. At the last meeting he was elected national commander off the Wildcat Divis ion. Dr. Shentfll i§ survived by his widow, wla» was before tor mar riage Mif-S "Mary McLaln, of Stat- 1 esville, Ktfd three childrtSti, Henry, William 'and Marianrm Sherrill, his father, Walter Sherrill, of Catawtea, and a sister, Mrs. R. R. Clime, of Asheville. Ilhunlmftion Thoughtful Friend: "My good .man, why don't you take the ( Street-car home 7" Illuminated One: "8h no ushe. My wife wouldn't let me keep it in the henshe." — Independence Day, ePYCodern by A, B, CHAPIN ii. . 1 - '0 ... I. «>.«. V * J I The FAMILY DOCTOR (By John Joseph Gaines, M. D.) BLOOD BALANCE Nothing should be appreciated more than perfect circulation of the blood in the body; and very many times we physicians, meet with variations from normal, which may be called "imbalance," or ingorgements here and there, which may vary from congestions to actual dilations of the vessels— organic disease. People with big abdomens are suffers in varying degree, from blood imbalance. There are a great many veins that traverse the abdominal wall and visceral content situated there. Anything that may cause "rush of blood" to these blood-vessels, produces im mediate and very evident effect on structures elsewhere. A big meal is an example—overeating; intense determination of blood to the stomach and bowel, depleting the brain for the time being, causing dizziness, cloudy vision, staggering gait, stupor, with heavy feeling through out the al ready overfleshed abdomen. The symptoms may amount to a tem orary helplessness, a not very en joyable feeling in elderly persons. I believe without accurate figures, that one-fourth of the blood volume may flow in a great tidal-wave to a ponderous abdo men, from overexertion, overeat ing, etc.; and, that this condition reacts heavily upon the heart and brain; of course the veins of such an abdomen become much dilated from the constant sagging, mak ing possible, if I may use the term, "abdomen apoplexy." Methods of correction are slow, discouraging, and are seldom per sisted in to get the relief possible. Carefully practiced exercises are productive of results. Of course free daily evacuation of the bowel MUST be maintained. Here it is that starches in the diet must be cut down to a minimum. Indeed, the diet must be just what is needed and no more. In chronic cases patients who are short of breath and puff with slight mus ular exertion, may wear a well fitted bandage to suppon the sag ging, indolent abdomen. FURNITURE WORKER IS INJURED HERE FRIDAY Colin Couch, 2d, of Elkin. Route 1, is in Hugh Chatham hospital here as the reaalt of injuries sus tained Friday when he accident ally fell while at work at a local furniture manufacturing plant, where he is employed. Carried to the hospital diately after his fall, his most serious injury was found to be a fractured pelvis. His hurts are ex pected to keep him in the hospit al for several weeks. SPARTA WOMAN BREAKS BACK IN FALL TUESDAY Mrs. w. E. Maxwell, 41, of Spar ta, is in Hugh Chatham Memor ial hospital here in a serious con dition, suffering from a broken back sustained in a fall from a cherry tree Tuesday afternoon. Alrit It So? Mother: "Where do bad little girls go?" Betty; "Most everywhere." WILLYS AGENCY , IS FORMED HERE Charlie Morrison and Eck Reece Head Down-Town Auto Sales Co. "SURPRISE CAR" OF YEAR An automobile agency known as the Down-Town Auto Sales Co., has been formed here to handle the new Willys automobile, with showroom and office in the Down- Town Service Station building. The new company is headed by Charlie Morrison and Eck Reece, both well-known business men. The new Willys is said to be the surprise car of the year. It is one of the smallest standard width cars on the market, and gas mile age of 30 miles per gallon and more is claimed for it. Although small from an outward appear ance, clever engineering has pro vided a surprisingly large amount of room on the inside. Among the many features are all steel body and top, extra large brakes, safety glass all-around, low center of gravity, fender lights, and highly responsive op eration and control. The new Willys is now on dis play at the Down-Town Auto Sales Co., and everyone is cor dially invited to inspect and drive this outstanding automobile. Times Change Old Lady (as husband fails to help her up the steps of railroad coach): "Henry, you ain't as gal lant as when I was a gal." Husband: "No, Lettie, and you ain't as buoyant as when I was a boy." WANTS For Sale—Boston Terrier Puppies males and females. "Introduce Me" and "Champion Lyon's Gold Top" blood toes. American Kennel Club registration. Esca Royall, Elk Spur street, Elkin, N. C. 7-1-p For Sale at a bargain—one 1930 model A Ford Coupe. In excel lent condition and will sell at a bargain price. Elkin Motors, Inc., Elkin, N. C. ltc Strayed from homo—one male pig. Black with white spot on shoul der. Anyone knowing where abouts, please notify Robert Wilmoth, R. F. D., No. 1, Box 71, Elkin, N. C. - ltp FREE! If excess add causes you Stomach Ulcers, Gas Pains, In digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, get free sam ple doctor's prescription, Udga, at Turner Drug Co. 6-3p Wanted: All grades poplar, oak, pine, maple logs, seven feet long, delivered to our Elkin plant. Can us them as small as six inches to diameter; also oak and poplar lumber. Oak Furniture Co.'s Elkin plant, old Biltrite site, Elkin, N. C. tfc For Sale: One 1933 Chevrolet Tu dor Sedan. Good condition. A bargain at $235. See Robert Transou at Pure Oil Service Station, Main Street, Elkin. ltp Thnrwiftv. TuK 1 1937 Squibbs Mineral Oil, quart size 89c. Antacid Powder, large size * 50c. Nyseptol, pint 490. Gallon Mineral Oil $2.25. Turner Drug Co., Elkin, N. C. tfn The very thing for grocery deliv ery—l93l Ford Panel. In first class condition and priced at a very low figure. Come in and see it. Elkin Motors, inc., Elkin, N. C. ItC 1933 Chevrolet long wheelbase truck for sale at a sensational bargain. Four new tires and in good mechanical condition. First come, first served. Elkin Motors, Inc., Elkin, N. C. ltc See the New Myers Traction 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 1931 Chevrolet 4-door sedan in good condition throughout. An excellent family car that may be bought at small expense. Ask for a demonstration. Elkin Motors, Inc., Elkin, N. C. 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 We buy scrap iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co., Elk in, N. C. tfc For sale—l93o Ford A model roadster with rumble seat. Just the thing for summer fun. In excellent condition and priced to sell quick. Elkin Motors, Inc., Elkin, N. C. ltc Wanted to repair radios. Our expert thoroughly knows his; business. Prices right. Harris; Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tlo- For Sale—No 4 Guyser Threshing Machine; one Williams Cem\ Mill and Hammer Mill. M. W. Sparks, Cycle, N. C. T-Ip» REAL ESTATE For Sale: 9 acre truck farm-, 4' room house, barn, garage,, chicken house, woodshed and' other outbuildings. Good spring and orchard. 3 acres in pasture. 1-2 mile from Elkin city limits. Price SISOO. $750 cash, baltace# on easy terms. For anything ini real estate or building see me. D. C. MARTIN , Realtor and Contractor Piano—Have standard nuke pi ano stored, will sell at sacrifice- Cash or payments may be ar ranged responsible party. Pull', information, write, B. Coltrane, Winston-Salem, IT. C, Box 335. . 7-lc HOMES FOR SALE 1-10-room house, outbuildings and 8 acres of land, SIBOO. 1-5-room home, large lot, $950. 1-6-room home, $2750. 1-6-room home, $1650. 1-6-room house, SIOOO. All good buys and terms. We have Moved our office tem porarily to rear of old Farmers & Merchants Bank Building. Phone 78 REICH & HUNT 8 or 8 exposure Kodak film de veloped and printed 30c. Send coin, name and address with film. Work returned promptly, postage prepaid. Rembrandt Photo Service mmmmmmmrnrnrnmmmqmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmmmmmm ■