THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937
Entered at the past office at Hkin, N. C-, as
second-class matter.
C. 8. FOSTER.— - Findflwit
H. F. LAFFOON Secr®Ury-Trea«arer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER TEAR
In the State, f1.50 Oat of the State, UN
The secret in being a successful loafer'
is to be able to look like he is busy, when
he is anything else but.
If he starts to talking loud and fast you
can bet the other fellow was getting the
best of the argument up to that time.
Now the scientists are about to make
silk out of pineapples. If they finally get
around to manufacturing sandpaper from
spinach, it will be perfectly all right with us.
Philander Johnson's Uncle Eben says:
"When I goes to church, I counts de con
gregation, an' if de's any member missin' I
goes back home an' counts- de hen roost."
It's not always the greenhorn that
horns the loudest on the streets at night
when you are trying to sleep. More'n like
ly he is a regular hellion.
If humanity is the same under the skin,
there is perfectly good reasons why the
Chinese think more of their sires than they
do of their sons.
Every dollar a man saves to make life
easier later on, requires him to hustle that
much more to protect it. So life is just
one danged thing after another, even for a
lazy man.
Maybe getting all het up over this
Sino-Japanese war business will serve to
take our minds off this new Black spot on
the Supreme Court. If so it will be worth
it.
When Edward Comes
Soon we will be having distinguished
visitors. Edward and Wally are coming,
and even this far ahead we are figuring on
what sort of welcome we should give them.
Individually we will be scrambling to see
who is to be who and when and where. But
collectively and nationally we will be want
ing to watch our step.
The Duke is of royal blood and once
was enthroned by the greatest empire in the
world, and therefore is not just an ordinary
visitor. His wife is a native American, back
home for a visit. Impulsive Americans will
want to be quite liberal with their hospital
ity, but it would hardly be considered cricket
if we do too much gushing. To give too
much of an official character to the recep
tion of an ex-King, might be embarrassing
to the British government, so we will be
wanting to watch our step.
Fortunately Edward will come with
sympathetic understanding. He knows what
it's all about; knows that the American
people like and admire him, and while his
will not be a "royal" welcome it will be the
next thing to it. It would not be surpris
ing if his wife should persuade him to be
come a part of her own people, which would
be a happy ending, to be sure.
It is announced that Edward is coming
partly as a part of his program of studying
the "well-being of the working man, in whom
his royal highness has always been inter
ested himself." Coming from any other
European high-brow than Edward Windsor,
that sort of talk would be accepted with a
liberal sprinkling of salt. But, as everyone
knows, Edward's interest in the common
herd is sincere, and is not a trumped-up
cause, for lip-service only. As much as any
thing else that/ is why he is not on the
throne of England today. When he on one
occasion looked upon miserable poverty and
wondered how a nation could build palatial
ships and permit such as that, and when he
continued to fraternize with the workers
and hold out promise to them, he was but
digging the bear-trap into which he even
tually fell.
But whatever the purpose of his visit,
this nation will welcome him and his bride
—for they know a regular guy when they
see one.
Where A (Jlean-Up Is Needed
The 1935 legislature passed a law pro
hibiting magistrates from soliciting business
for their offices: a law that was initiated
and sponsored by the magistrates themsel
ves, that is, those conscientious among them
who appreciate the high place in our judic
ial system which this group should occupy.
But one has only to pause and look
around to find that some of these officials
who are supposed to help administer the
law as it applies to others, are not willing
to abide by it themselves. Yet when have
you ever heard of a magistrate answering
an indictment for soliciting business?
Some of them specialize on marriages
hover around the marriage license reg
ister like vultures around a carcass; others
dicker with the enforcement officers in pri
vate understandings that bring cases to their
court and fees to their tills; still others so
licit collections, which if they cannot be
made upon presentation are reduced to
judgments involving fees that in the aggre
gate amount to little less than a "racket."
Right now the North Carolina Associ
ation of Magistrates is trying to clean
house; appealing to its members to adopt
a code of ethics that will lift this factor of
our judicial system from the depths to
which it has fallen.
There are some magistrates who make
it a point to know something of the law they
are supposed to administer, but there are
more who don't even know what it is all
about. They look wise, hear cases and then
take counsel of the lawyers appearing in
them to determine how they shall be decid
ed. Manifestly this is a travesty on justice,
and justifies the charge that justice is more
often thwarted than promoted in magis
trates' courts.
There are exceptions of course, but in
all too many cases the mosrt charitable thing
that can be said of some is that they are a
horrible misfit, which would not be so bad
if it were not so seribus.
Here is hoping that the N. C. Associa
tion of Magistrates will not stop Until they
have found higher ground for themselves.
Criminals and The Law
The. Lindbergh kidnaping brought this
country to the realization that crime is
largely an interstate industry, and in order
to fight it the least said about states' rights
the better. In acknowledgement of this
reality Congress passed what is known as
the Lindbergh Law, and forthwith J. Edgar
Hoover's men set about their work in co
operation with local peace officers, with the
result that out of 106 actual kidnapings in
vestigated they have solved all but two.
The records show that 233 persons
have been convicted under that law; sen
tences aggregating 3080 years are being
served; 30 men are doing life; six received
death sentences; five have committed sui
cide; six have been killed in the chase and
six others murdered.
That proves two things: First, that
when all is - said And done, the criminal must
admit that crime doesn't pay, and second,
when effective laws are passed and backed
by vigilant and concerted effort to enforce
them—crime can't flourish.
One may as well discount some of the
tradition built around J. Edgar Hoover and
his G-men. They have been given and have
accepted credit for much that should have
gone to local enforcement officials who were
less covetous of publicity. But the fact re
mains that someone, somewhere, somehow
has managed to get results and thugs are
less encouraged to take a chance.
And what the nation has learned about
the effectiveness of co-ordinated effort, the
one hundred counties in North Carolina
should apply. Some counties are able to
maintain effective investigating and enforce
ment agencies and others are not. The State
should make available a trained and depend
able crime fighting organization to which
all counties could turn in emergencies, and
with interlocking responsibilities and co
operation, we would not have many Bill
Payne's galloping over the State thumbing
their respective noses at the law.
An Official Battlefield
From this distance it looks like when
the Spanish conflict is over there won't be
much left of Spain for the Spaniards. If
that is to be the final outcome, maybe Rus
sia has the right slant on things when it is
suggested that from that source that if the
world is so crazy for a fight, why not let
Spain be staked off for an international
battle-ground—for a finish fight.
As tragic as that would be for the
Spanish people, it cannot be said that they
have not invited it. Instead of settling
their civil quarrel among themselves both
sides have drawn on other nations until
hardly any way of telling who's fighting
who. And the alignment which includes
the nationals of the five major European
powers, most of whom are not there by
their own election, but sent officially and in
armed droves for selfish national purpose,
indicates that maybe Russia's suggestion
comes a little late.
But at any rate the democratic nations
of the world are perking up and challenging
the saber rattlers who would have been
strutting their stuff so long, and getting
away with it, that they feel licensed to keep
it up. When France and England virtually
told Mussolini to put up or shut up, and
when President Roosevelt proposed a "quar
antine" against aggressor nations who can
not live up to agreements, and later when
our government announced that it would
join other nations in protesting in an effec
tive way, the Japanese invasion, for the first
time in a long while, there was a pause to
think things over. Japan, Germany and
Italy did not need to be told who Mr. Roose
velt was talking about.
And while they may have' remembered
that President Wilson's similar ideals for in
ternational honesty were shipwrecked on the
breakers of American public sentiment, they
forgot that Mr. Wilson had first been about
the business of fighting a successful war,
and tried his hand at effecting world peace
afterward.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
FIRESIDE
PHILOSOPHY
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(By C. M. Dickson)
FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY
Us more glorious to fight and
not win than to win and not
fight.
Much sin can be hidden be
neath one's skin.
One's mind may either a king
dom or a province be.
Better be a slave in want than
to be enslaved by wants.
Poxes are long-winded.
Some people need lubricating
■ worse than
they need
"gassing."
The sky is
blue wherever
you see it.
Blessed is the
man who can
be neither
bought, bridled, nor bribed!
Wasted time philosophizing
with a moron.
There are many ways of leav
ing things unsaid.
It is often better to forestall
than to recall'.
The product (mathematically
speaking) of the PWA should be
the same as the WPA.
Result: the whole world is
moving—cause: Archimede's lever
has been lengthened.
No woe should be pronounced
upon a doctor who will take his
own medicine, or upon a lawyer
who will take his own advice.
A "ring" is a "circle."
The person who prays very
much has no time to "prey" upon
other people's rights or property.
Greater love hath no man than
the politician who fulfills all his
campaign promises.
Modern education: think little,
work less, spend much, sport
more, drive fast, and drink deep!
No "oxidation" for parents
process too slow.
Why not have six days for rest
instead of one?
If one pill will do, why take
two?
WAIMTS
For Sale—Small farm, or lots, two
and one-half miles from Elkin
on highway 67. Land well wa
tered and timbered. Hbuse,
barn, pasture. W. B. (Dock)
Holleman, Elkin, N. C. ltp
We buy scrap iron and metals.
Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk
in, N. C. tfc
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
One bargain table of overalls,
shirts, ladies' shoes, children's
shoes, boys' pants. Your choice
of any article, 48c. W. J. Bur
cham, Elkin, N. C. ltc
For sale at a bargain—One pair
of mules, weight 1,200 to 1,300
pounds. See Clyde Hinshaw at
Sydnor.-Spainhour Co., Elkin,
N. C. . tfc
See the New Myers Traction
Sprayer. It ,is a one-man, one
horse, two-row Sprayer. It
sprays from 10 to 15 acres dally.
Casstevens Hardware Co., El
kin, N. C. tfc
We maintain a complete battery
service. Let us look after this
important part of your car.
Service batteries always on
band. Auto Motor Market. Elk
in, N C. ltc
Do yon want plenty of eggs from
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamln. We
have it. Abernethy's, A Good
Drug Btore, Elkin, N. C. tfn
Wanted: All grades poplar, oak.
pine, maple logs, seven feet
long, delivered to our Elkin
plant. Can us them as small as
six inches in diameter; also
oak and poplar lumber. Oak
Furniture Co.'s Elkin plant, old
811 trite site, Elkin, N. C. tfc
Don't take chances with the
weather. Avoid costly repair
bills by letting us fill your ra
*' diator now with Eveready Pres
tone. Auto Motor Market, Elk
in, N. C. ltc
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""Protest "thorn 95he Sidelines 1 fay A. B. CHApjN~j
f~NEY — ur\ P
Wanted—Monumental representa
tive. Pageland Granite Corp.,
Pageland, S. C. ltc
We Buy Veal Calves, Hoes, and
Beef Cattle. See us you
sell. Basketeria. 10-21-c
See these bargains in tables and
store fixtures of all kinds.
Shoes and all merchandise also
for sale. W. J. Burcham, Elkin,
N. C. ltc
For Bent: Seven room house in
North Elkin. All modern con
veniences. Excellent pasture.
1 Call Mrs. W. S. Sale, telephone
161, Elkin. tfc
See us for new and used automo
bile parts. We'll save you money.
Auto Motor Market, Elkin, N.
C. ltc
For Quick Sale—One National
cash register and all store fix
tures. Shoes and all goods at
a bargain. W. J. Burcham,
Elkin, N. C. ltc
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. 6-3f>
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For Rent—Three or four room
downstairs apartment with*pri
vate bath, private entrance and
garage. Mrs. Carl Chappell,
Phone 126-M. tfc
For Sale—Between four and five
hundred thousand feet of tim
ber. Open bids acceptable now.
•Located three miles north west
of Marler, Yadkin county. Mrs.
Taylor Day. ltp
I will trade my entire stock for a
farm and rent building, or sell
entire line and rent building.
Must quite business on account
of my health. W. J. Burcham,
Elkin, N. C. ltc
REAL ESTATE
For Sale: 7 3-4 acre truck farm.
11-2 miles from city limits, 1-4
mile from school bus line. 3
room house, cow stables, 2 1-2
acre pasture with spring and
branch in it. Price S6OO. S3OO
cash, balance $lO per month.
For rent: 5 room house, 11-2
acres land in Jonesville, sl2
per month.
Don't forget you can get a lot in
Arlington; the growing town
with no town taxes, $5 down
and $5 per month.
D. C. MARTIN, Realtor
•- October !4„ 19;
Wanted: Camp Care Taker; mar
ried, with farm experience, and
'general work. Only honest, so
ber and willing to work appli
cants need apply. Address,
Camp Herman, Denim Station,
Greensboro, N. C. 10-14 c
For Sale— Two desks at a bar
gain. Come in and see the
many bargains I have for you
as I am quitting the goods bus
iness. W. J. Burcham, Elkin,
N. C. ' ltc
Wanted to repair radios. Our
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. tfc
Wanted—Good renter for 100 acre
tobacco farm. M. H. Helton.
Elkin, N. C. 2t-p