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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21,1937
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
second-class matter.
C. 8. FOSTER Preddent
H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PER TEAR
In the State, $1.50 Out of the State. $2.00
C T W B'^
A man may be plenty foolish to ask a
girl to kiss him, but he's just plain ignorant
when he takes "no" as final.
It is Carey Williams' notion that "the
husband whose wife runs the roost doesn't
ever run around with the chickens."
Suggestion to Bob Reynolds: Hire a
surveyor to establish definitely which end
of the State Frank Hancock calls home.
An ingrate is a fellow who asks for con
structive criticism and then gets snorting
mad when it is offered.
Since Colonel Frank Knox has admitted
that President Roosevelt's Chicago speech
was "magnificent," we are prepared to be
lieve that there may be something to this
prophecy that the world is about to come to
an end.
- The Equivalent of One War
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia University has figured the cost of
the world war in terms that can better be
understood when talking entirely of dollars.
The cost not counting the millions of lives
lost and the suffering that has come because
of it, according to Dr. Butler would be
enough to build a $2,500 house, furnish it
with SI,OOO worth of furniture, put it on
five acres of land worth SSOO, and give such
a home to each and every family in the
United States, Canada, Ireland, England,
Wales, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany,
Russia and Australia.
In addition, in each of these countries
named each city of 20,000 population and
over could have been given a five million
dollar library and a ten million dollar col
lege. Out of what was left, a sum could
have been put aside, which at 5 per cent in
terest, would have provided each year a
SI,OOO salary for each of 125,000 school
teachers and the same yearly salary for
125,000 nurses.
And yet all these things went up in
smoke—and are gone. And now we are get
ting ready to go at it again—do it all over
again.
All those families in all those nations,
all those teachers and nurses, and those
cities without libraries and colleges, that
have been deprived of those things Dr. But
ler is talking about, collectively could make
it never happen again if concertedly they
would assert themselves.
What is more, the workers in those
eleven countries, could themselves put a stop
to that sort of needless and useless spend
ing. By refusing to build these things that
kill and destroy, these engines of death that
actually may be turned on the makers them
selves, they could salvage the waste and
have their homes, and their libraries and
colleges and pay their teachers and nurses
to boot.
Yet we will continue to be without
these things, continue to pay, and pay, and
pay, simply because there are ambitious
braggarts hoisted to power and place, who
lead us into war, deliberately and determin
edly—and often for no better reason than
to save their own contemptihle hides.
Taxes and Pressure Groups
Congressman Doughton, through whose
committee national revenues are provided,
professes to see prospects of a start toward
a balanced national budget, and without any
material change in the tax structure. And
there will be plenty of us who will be hoping
that he is right.
But there are wrinkles in the tax laws
that will require ironing out, either at the
coming- special session or at the regular ses
sion which meets in January. The clamor
has been particularly loud and persistent
against the present provisions of the sur
plus profits taxes and it will be necessary
to amend this legislation for the protection
of those in the smaller business brackets, or
leave them seriously crippled.
But when the Congress turns its at
tention to taxes, that will be the signal for
tax reformers to swoop down upon the luck
less solons with every form of proposal un
der the sun. There is a general - ourcry
against taxes and there will be many who
will use it as a shelter from which they will
shell Washington with plausible theories and
distorted facts for one purpose only—to get
special treatment for themselves.
Everybody pawing up the earth for
tax relief, serves to pulverize the soil into
a fertile seedbed for strong pressure groups
who will seek to have perfectly sound taxes
wiped out in what they hope will be a sort
of general house-cleaning.
Because taxes are burdensome or be
cause the system as a whole is badly organ
ized, doesn't necessarily mean that all exist
ing forms of taxes are not justified. So if
there is to be a revision of the tax structure,
it should be made in the interest of the pub
lic at large and not in the interest of special
groups, powerful enough to impress their
will upon Congress. Yet it is largely true
that that is exactly what happens.
The present legislation covering capital
gains taxes and the undistributed profits
taxes of corporations, doubtless has faults
that should be corrected, but their principles
should not be abandoned until they have
demonstrated their worth or lack of it.
By the manner in which our represen
tatives deal with these pressure groups, their
statesmanship will be measured.
The Senatorial Race
Congressman Frank Hancock has served
the people of his district in the national
Congress satisfactorily and with distinction.
Now that he has announced that he will be
a candidate for the United States Senate to
succeed Senator Reynolds, it is predicted
that the voters in his district will support
him enthusiastically.
Those in the know have contended all
the time that if Reynolds would be opposed
it would fall to the lot of Hancock to do the
opposing. Congressman Doughton flirted
with the task for a long time, and there were
many who held that Farmer Bob was the
only man who could beat Reynolds. But
Doughton never could quite make up his
mind to face the expense and discomfort of
shooting the works. Cam Morrison listen
ed to the siren voice but apparently was too
peacefully placed with his Jerseys and
chickens.
The list of availables from A to izzard,
was carefully canvassed and finally those
who insisted that Reynolds should not re
tain his seat unchallenged, came back to
Hancock who is young, aggressive and eager
for the fray.
The public has never been given to un
derstand just why Reynolds must be de
feated. The records show that in the
he has supported the Roosevelt program,
and it must be admitted that the President
has not lost caste in North Carolina. Oppo
sition to Reynolds is not wholly earmarked
and tagged as coming from administration
unfriends. Some of the President's heart
iest supporters are just as clamorous for
Reynolds' unseating as the reactionary con
servatives.
In the campaign ahead it is not im
probable that the real reason for this an
tagonistic attitude will be revealed. Already
the grapevine telegraph has been saying
that objection to Reynolds runs deeper than
that he is a gad-about playboy, but these
reasons remain in the whispering stage,
which manifestly is unfair to the Senator,
if he wants to defend himself.
But when the primary fight is over next
year, either or both of the contestants will
know they have been in a scrap. Both are
young and vigorous and both are capable of
putting on the rousements which will make
next year's voting anything else but dull and
uninteresting occasion which it looked for a
time that it would be.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Right now there are two schools of
thought in this nation regarding Uncle Sam's
international relationship, particularly as it
relates to the conflict in China. Those who
believe in studied isolation who think we
should say nothing, hear nothing and see
nothing as against those who contend that
we cannot live in a world afire and not get
burnt.
President Roosevelt who ought to be in
a position to understand, could easily have
been classed as arr isolationist a few months
back, but that was before unbelievable atroc
ities were the vogue: before Italy, Germany
and Japan demonstrated their oneness of
purpose to rule or ruin and at any sacrifice.
In his Chicago speech the President said
that there should be a collective quarantin
ing against this disease of war, and many
interpreted this to mean that the people of
the United States may as well get set for
fighting. But in his fireside chat the Pres
ident reminded his hearers that he had had
some experience in foreign affairs in 1913T
to 1921 and made this significant statement:
"I learned much of what to do, and I also
learned much of what not to do." And that
alone is reassuring, in that it indicates that
we will use a sane approach to the vexing
problem that most certainly is ahead.
Mdst of us are hoping that this nation
will stay out of war, but unless some active
steps are taken now for the preservation of
peace, war will be our lot and we can't side
step it. If, by drastic means if necessary,
Italy had been stopped from the rape of
Ethiopia, or Japan's strangle hold on Man
churia loosened, there would not now be the
spectacle of another slicing of China and
the extension of Mussolini-Hitler ambitions
in Spain. But the trouble then, as now, was
that the democratic powers of the world
were not prepared to demand peace, and
these offending nations knew it. Drunk with
their own successes they continue to hatch
up pretenses, while the hatching is good.
There is universal sympathy in this
nation for China, but there is also concern
for the health and security of our own young
manhood, and whatever the result of the ap
proaching conference to discuss these prob
lems, there will also be the universal hope
that these may be spared the horrors of an
other world conflict to take its toll.
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
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FIRESIDE
PHILOSOPHY
(By C. M. Dickson)
Though payday seems a long
way off every person gets about
what he asks for Jiimself.
Liberty may lead to prison.
A "road hog" does not walk
upon four legs. Some of them
drive trucks.
When one looms above the ho
rizon he is looking skyward.
A "has been" is better than a
"gine-a-be."
■ A crutch is
made for a
cripple.
There is a
wide chasm be
tween the "get
by" age and the
millennium.
| Man is the
only animal that has actually
disappointed his Creator.
I believe in "fundamentalism"
but I do not believe in undermin
ing the foundation.
It's possible for one to stoop
too low to be right humble.
Some people are dispensers of
both gas and wind.
The light of Diogenes and the
sword of Alexander are still
crossing bats.
The Devil is the father of
doubt.
To budget the mind is as es
sential as to budget the incomes
and expenditures in business es
tablishments.
If the rising of the tides were
governed by the actions of some
men they would be slow in rising.
If free public schools were pro
hibited by law, we would have
crowded school rooms, Paul Re
veres, and "shots would be heard
around the world."
However much we deplore it,
we sometimes have to cut the gar
ment to suit the cloth.
A peacock lives that he may
ahow his tail.
WANTS
Wanted: Capable white girl to
keep house for small family.
Write Box 41, Elkin, N. C. ltp
For Sale —One mole, seven years
old. Weight about 1,200 pounds.
See W. B. "Dock" Holleman at
The Men's Shop, Elkin, N.
C. ltp
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We boy scrap iron and metals.
Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk
in, N. C. tfc
For Sale: Hifh bred bird pup,
male, 8 months old. Well grown.
Untrained. C. W. Dockery, Elk
in, N. C. v ltc
GIABLS WANTED: To learn
Beauty Culture. Complete course
$50.00. Free use of tools and
practice materials. Many posi
tions open to well trained op
erators. We have no operators
out of employment. Write for
booklet. Hinshaw School of
Beauty Culture, Box 46, North
Wilkesboro, N. C. 11-llc
REAL ESTATE
144 acre farm, 1-2 mile city lim
its, one 6 room house, one 5
room house and plenty of out
buildings with metal roofing on
most all of the buildings. 40
acres of good creek and river
bottom land. 75 acres in tim
ber, wood and pasture. Price
$4,000.00, 1-2 cash, balance with
easy terms.
For sale: 5 room house in Elkin.
Lot 110 ft. x 400 ft. All street
assessments paid in full. Price
$2,500. 1-2 cash,, balance on
easy terms.
Remeber "Arlington" the growing
town with no town tax. Your
choice lot $5 down and $5 a
month.
D. C. MARTIN, Realtor
Fifty acres for sale, 1-4 mile from
Traphill high school. Good
tobacco land. See or write A.
O. Brinegar, Wilkesboro, N.
C. 11-11-pd.
Two or three rooms to rent, fur
nished or unfurnished. Call
telephone 113. ltp
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 daily.
Casstevens Hardware Co., El
kin, N. C. tfc
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
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
Biltrite site, Elkin, N. C. tfc
Wanted to repair radios. Our
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. tfc
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Thtirsdav. October 21. 1937
We Buy Veal Calves, Hoes, and
Beef Cattle. See us before you
sell. Basketerla. 10-21-c
For Bent: Seven room house in
North Elkin. All modern con
veniences. Excellent pasture.
Call Mrs. W. S. Sale, telephone
161, Elkin. tfc
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. 6-3p
For Rent—Three or four room
downstairs apartment with pri
vate bath, private entrance and
garage. Mrs. Carl Chappell,
Phone 126-M. tfc
Sqnlbbs Miaeral Oil, quart size
89c. Antacid Powder, large size
50c. Nyseptol, pint 49c. Gallon
Mineral Oil $2.25. Turner Drug
Co., Elkin, N. C. tfn