THE ELKIN 'TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C. • '
Thursday, December 8, 1938
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
second-class matter.
C. 8. POSTER— .President
fl. F. LAFFOON ...Secretary-Treasurer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PEB TEAS
in the State, $1.50 Out of the State, $2.00
It'll soon be too late to do your- Christ
mas shopping early.
Eventually that Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis
is liable to cut somebody's head off.
The trouble about it is that they've
twisted that TV A yardstick into a great big
question mark.
And think of it! Governments boldly
boast that they have propaganda depart
ments.
According to an Indiana paper: "Golf is
a wonderful game. It keeps a man's mind
off the business he is neglecting."
The premier of Hungary is a fellow who
goes by the name of Imredi. In the light of
recent history he'd better be.
The British and French may have every
confidence in their peace program with
Hitler, but there's nothing like keeping the
powder dry. ,
Japan has closed the Yangtze river to
foreign shipping "until peace and order is
restored in China." And who, pray, is dis
turbing peace and order in China ?
And soon the bathing beauties will be
looking at you from front pages where now
are the football boys daring you to come
and get 'em.
Italian newspapers say they hope Am
bassadors Phillips and Wilson will cause us
to "understand." That's what's the mat
ter. We understand too thoroughly now.
Harry Hopkins declares that he never
said: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax,
elect and elect." Well, it would have been
superfluous to put it into words.
But you've got to hand it to her. Your
gramma did right well, considering that she
didn't know a vitamin when she met it in
the middle of the road.
And there's the Georgia girl who, ob
jecting to cotton hose, reasons this way: "If
my legs are good looking I want to show
them off for everything they're worth. If
they are ugly, I want to do everything I can
for them." But apparently she doesn't have
the same concern for her brains—rif any.
When the Hunter Takes to the
Field
About as safe a yardstick as any to
measure the character of a man, is how he
hunts. If he is considerate of the hunting
rules and regulations laid down by the
State, he is law abiding; if he is mindful of
the property rights of the landowner, then
he is a neighbor of good parts; if he is con
tent with the prescribed bag limit and ad
heres to the ethics of the true sportsman,
then he is removed a notch higher above
the pot-hunter.
It is timely right now that those who
shoulder gun and go to field or wood, pause
and take stock of themselves.
For one reason or another game is be
coming scarcer and scarcer. And that is
deplorable from two standpoints. To the
hunter it means curtailed enjoyment and to
the farmer it means the loss of many
friends that actually assist him in his work
by destroying insect pests. Because of this
dual interest, then, the fullest co-operation
should exist between hunter and landowner.
The hunting license fee is supposed to be
used in the propagation of game and the.
policing of areas to that end. That being
so the hunter is doing more than observing
the law when he arms himself with this
little passport: he is contributing to the as
surance of a future supply of something to
hunt.
Among many there is the mistaken idea
that game is private property, and con
versely, that game is public property, to be
taken at will and under any circumstances.
Both theories are wrong. The ownership* of
game is in the people, of the State and the
legislature may withhold or grant to indivi
duals the right to hunt and kill or qualify
or restrict, as in its opinion will best serve
the public good. No landowner, either in
dividual or government, can take possession
of game simply because it happens to be on
their lands—except in accordance with the
laws made and provided. *
But the landowner does have property
rights that should and must be respected.
Trespassers cannot come and go at will
without becoming amenable to the law. If
thfere were no law, common decency directs
that due courtesy be given, and hunters
should first be certain that they are wel
come. This alone would breed a better un
derstanding, better co-operation, and is es
sential if hunting conditions in the future
are to be what they ought to be.
The hunting season is now only a few
days old and it is not too late to take mea
surement of one's self by this yardstick.
And above all the hunter and those who are
not, should help to make the law effective
against the quail bootlegger, for x Ihe law
says the seller and the buyer are equally
guilty, and the law itself ia a result of the
planning for a continuity of game. It
should be observed and enforced, if for no
other reason than that.
A Serious Matter
Saturday the farmers will vote on
whether they want a continuance of crop
control for 1939. They have control now by
virtue of their own favorable decision, and
they wiil continue or abandon it in the same
way. It is the democratic way. Nobody is
ramming it down their throats. It is for
thtm alone to say.
But there wiil be others who are inter
ested, others who will have no voice one way
or the other: warehousemen, bankers, mer-'
chants, all of us will be affected by the re
sults of the voting Saturday.
There is no purpose here to advise the
farmers of Surry county how to vote on this
issue. In the first place we don't know
what is best for them, and so we can only
hope that they will consider the matter care
fully and as free from prejudice as possible.
In the administration of the control pro
gram many inequities may have developed,
many vexing factors may have served to irk
the farmers who are sensitive to restraint
of any kind, and these flaws may cause them
to shelve a program that at least has been
effective to some degree, and with nothing
to take its place.
Long before the AAA the need of some
sort of control was sensed. Voluntary con
trol was an abject failure?, becfluse when
Bill Jones curtailed, Bill Smith took that as
his cue to make a killing. Government step
ped in with a more definite and imperative
plan, rewarded the faithful and penalized
those who failed to toe the mark—all in the
commendable effort to stabilize prices by
more nearly making production meet de
mand.
We don't like to hitch any economic pro
gram to scarcity. Yet that is the basis of
successful industry in this country today.
No industrialist would think of continuing
to pile up surpluses when the demand be
came limited. He shuts down when his
finger on the business pulse reveals that
there is a surplus in what he is producing.
It is his only way of assuring that prices
will show a break-even or mayhap a profit.
Just as certainly the farmer must fit pro
duction to demand or be made the goat of
those who play both ends against the mid
dle.
It is significant, we think, that the
enemies of control have no alternative pro
gram. Their talk about freedom of indivi
dual action is high-souding, but you can't
eat freedom, you can't spend it for a sack of
flour. Dig beneath 'the veneer and you'll
find some selfish purpose, political or other
wise, in those who are crying to high-heaven
against regimentation and dictatorship in
this farm program.
We are hoping our farmers will give this
matter intelligent thought, weigh both
sides, for as Secretary Wallace says that if
the farmers don't curb crops, low prices will.
Worthy Causes
By now all of us should realize the im
portance of the Red»Cross Health Seals that
have become so much a part of the Christ
mas holiday program. But it is not amiss
to remind that seventy-five per cent, of the
money derived from the sale of seals will be
retained for local use, while the other
twenty-five per cent, will go to the general
campaign against tuberculosis.
Continually those concerned with health
conditions in this county uncover new cases
of tuberculosis that need only the early
treatment that will free the victim of this
dread disease. All too often these cases are
neglected because of lack of funds. And as
a result the death toll in the state has be
come enormous.
Until one has seen these accumulated
pennies grow into dollars, and until they
have seen the effectiveness of the dollars in
the fight against tuberculosis, there can be
no appreciation of the need that the sale of
these health seals run to a big volume. And
if all of us spend a few dimes, it will do just
that.
Those who buy seals, therefore, may rest
assured that they are aiding a most worthy
cause—right here at home—and the good
the pennies do will be reflected in better
health conditions, immediately and in the
future.
Likewise membership in the Red Cross
is equally a good investment, and we are
urging our readers to enroll, if they already
have not done so. The cost of participating
in these two great humanitarian movements
i» only meager, and we are certain that one
i can enjoy the holiday season a great deal
f more, when there has been a measuring up
to this responsibility.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Pilot Mountain Man
Stresses Crop Control
(Continued from front page)
in charge has handled it, junk
the law? If we do it is pretty sure
that Congress will have no
more to do with it; for the tobac
co territory is comparatively
small and only about 20 members
of that body of more than 500
were concerned encugh to take
active interest when the bill
passed.
Then; too, if we throw open
production one year only, and
then repent and undertake to
vote control again, all in other
states that grow tobacco will
come in and vote with us, as to
bacco growers. The six states in
volved in this election are: Vir
ginia, N. C., S. C., Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida. At this time
66 per cent of all the acres and
71 per cent of all the pounds al
lotted to the six states come to
North Carolina. Only the re
maining 34 per cent and 29 per
cent respectively, goes to the other
five states. If we vote off control
it is predicted that at the end of
another year the five will have
the 71 per cent and we the 29 per
cent. Due to the low price of
cotton, which is only about 8c per
pound, or 1-3 received for tobac
co, the cotton growers want to
turn to tobacco, and they are "all
set and ready to go" the day it is
announced control is voted down.
This will likely destroy them and
us too, as we all go down togeth
er. It is estimated by those
higher up, that the tcbacco crop
will then amount to 50 per cent
more than can be consumed the
first year control is lost and pro
duction is wide open.
We need to keep in mind some
certain facts in arriving at our
decision on this matter; one of
which is that in North Carolina,
particularly this part of North
Carolina, tobacco is our "money
crop," and as we are lined up at
this time, without tobacco, or even
with tobacco at starvation prices,
we would find it difficult indeed
to pay our taxes, to say nothing
of other obligations. I ask, to
what other crop can we turn for
money? Such blunder would very
probably result in many aban
doned houses with woods growing
in the yards. One will remind
that it was not that serious when
we operated or dragged along un
der the old system. That may
be so. But at that time the other
states named were not interested
in turning to tobacco as they now
are. The tobacco and cotton
were both about the in
price. But now when cotton
growers are in distress, and they
look over into the tobacco terri
tory and see tobacco growers re
ceiving an average of 25c, and
the roads so full of shiny auto
mobiles that there is not enough
room in the towns to park them,
they are ready to swing to tobac
co. If they do not know how to
grow and handle tobacco, it will
be an easy matter to employ a
few trained men to supervise for
them. I am told that inquiries
have already come from Alabama
for men to assist them. The
states named have unlimited
lands suited for the growth of the
types of tobacco now in demand.
As we stand at this time. I
think it safe to say that North
Carolina is the most prosperous
and favored agricultural section
in the United States. We are
vastly ahead of the cotton and
grain and live stock growers.
Shall we kill the goose that is
laying the "golden eggs" for us?
It may be well to let well enough
alone.
If we tamper with our position,
and place our financial structure
in doubt, we will all suffer. How
will bankers, merchants, dealers
in live stock, fertilizers, automo
biles, and in all other lines, know
how to estimate the safety of
such deals and the matter of
making proper collections? And
on the other side—how will the
man desiring credit and pledging
his property and his good.' name
know how to calculate on paying
and saving his land, his personal
property and his good name?
Another thing to remember—
tobacco production will be con
trolled either by our control pro
gram, or by the buyers of tobac
co, that is the manufacturers and
the exporters. Which shall it be?
Shall we control the acres and
pounds, or shall the buyers? They
don't want the Job, and It Is un
fair, to them to call them ugly
names when they are unable to
Permit us to dump
quantities on them at high prices
and fore* them to pay Interest,
Insurance, storage and other ex
penses on tobacco that they can
not use for a long time, we can
not change the immutable law of
supply and demand, and we will
, pay for our folly if we try to.
If the four big companies were
to pledge to pay 25b average tor
tobacco for the next five years at
the end of that time, after sell
ing all they could, they would
have on hand stock enough to
l*st them 10 years, and we would
be begged down properly.
We have this better control
plan in our hands and can carry
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it along indefinitely unless we
act as Esau who sold his birth
right to his brother, Jacob, for a
mess of pottage.
Only a limited amount of to
bacco is and can be consumed.
The manufacturers advertise over
radios, in magazines, and in ev
ery other way possible. They try
to put a chew, a pipe, a cigar, or a
cigarette in every mouth, and
this is all they can do to con
sume.
The beauty of our plan is that
the men at its head know how
many pounds are held in stock,
and how many pounds to grow to
supply the demand, and they set
the quotas accordingly. The
tobacco is fed to the manufactur
ers just like a self-feeding ma
chine feeds itself automatically.
It is a worthy and workable plan.
To be sure, the plan is not per
fect, but will be improved as we
carry it along. The first auto
mobiles put on the market were
far from perfection. But by cor
recting weak points, they are
now a wonderful piece of machin
ery.
Things happen in our churches
and schools that irk us, but shall
we destroy them and lapse back
into heathenism?—not at all!
Let us rise up on the 10th and
all vote to maintain our enviable
position and safeguard our prop
erty and our families and our
high standards of living. We
need a rousing vote to off-set the
votes against it from other states.
We must carry by 66 2-3 major
ity to win.
Yours for control by growers,
I. M. GORDON.
Pilot Mountain, N. C.
December 5, 1938.
Roosevelt Says
Liberalism Will
Continue March
(Continued from page one)
cation that the United States
while wholeheartedly for peace
was "not only the largest and
most powerful democracy In the
whole world, but many other
democracies look to us for lead
ership that world democracy may
survive." *
He continued:
"There may be those in the
world who believe that a regi
mented people, whose every
thought and action is directed by
one man, may give some people a
type of security which is pleasing
to them.
"But whatever convictions I
have, none is stronger than my
abiding belief that the security
and well-being of the American
people can best be served by the"
democratic processes which have
made this country strong and
great.
"The future, however, jests not
on chance alone, not on mere
conservatism, mere smugness,
mere fatalism, but on the affirm
ative action which we take • in
America.
"What America does or fails to
do in the next few years has a far
greater bearing and influence on
the history of thfe human race
for centuries to come than most
of us who are here today can ever
conceive."
The President spoke from a
flag-deoorated rostrum In Wool
en gymnasium, a heavy rain
forcing transfer of the cennonies
from Kenan stadium. The gym
was filled to its capacity of 8.000.
CITES RULES FOR
SAFE TREATMENT
It May Be Simple Stomach
Ache Bat It Coald Be
Appendicitis
It may be only a stomach ache,
but if you want to be safe—
Call a doctor, remain quiet and
apply an ice bag to the abdomen.
Do not take a laxative, food, or
medicine.
The observance of this simple
three-point rule will save many
of the 18,000 lives lost in the
United States every year from
appendicitis, according to Dr.
Donald B. Armstrong, third vice
president of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance company. The impor
tance of the rule, which, Dr. Arm
strong points out, should be fol
lowed in every case of abdominal
pain, is being brought home to
millions of American families as
part of a nation-wide campaign
against appendicitis being partici
pated in by the insurance com
pany.
The rule. Dr. Armstrong says,
is based on sound medical ex
perience, reinforced by a recent
study made by health authorities.
He points out that medical
science has proved that self
treatment is responsible for a
large number of the appendicitis
deaths, and that most of these
could be prevented by calling a
doctor and receiving surgical care
when needed.
The appendicitis survey shows
that in a group of appendicitis
patients, among those who re
ceived no laxative, only one died
out of 64. When one laxative was
taken the deaths were one out of
18, while among those who re
ceived more than one dose, one
death occurred in 11 patients.
The study also revealed that
when hospitalization was delayed
from two to three days after an
appendicitis attack, the death toll
was three times as great as
among those patients who were
admitted to a hospital within the
first 24 hours.
WANTS
For Sate five room house, cheap.
See Douglas Darnell. lctfn
y
For rent— six-room house on
North Bridge street. See Dr.
W. R. Wellborn. lt-c
For sale at a bargain—l heatrola,
1 laundry heater and 1 coal
heater, all in good condition.
Telephone 44-W. ltc
Wanted—Standing merchantable
timber in unlimited quantities.
Reich fe Hunt.
Large assortment of wines and
cocktails, including the famous
Tom Collins brand. Also Wid
mer's white port wine. Better
than brandy for fruit cake. The
Rendezvous. 12-8 c
For Rent—7-room house with
garden and pasture. Home of I.
A. Eldridge, deceased. Located
5 miles north of ESkin. Partly
furnished. Write E. B. Eld
ridge, Glade Valley, N. C. 12-15 c
For Sale—All kinds of wood, any
length; oak or mixed. Delivered
anytime. J. 8. Hudspeth, H
W. Crouse. Telephone 180. tfc
Thursday. December 8, 1938
FREE! If excess acid causes yon
pains of Stomach Ulcers, Indi
gestion, Heartburn, Belching,
Bloating, Nausea, Oas Pains,
get free Sample, Udga, at Turn
er Drug Company. l-26p
For Sale: Baled soy-bean and
lespedeza hay. L. S. Weaver,
Jonesville. 12-15 c
Wanted to repair your watches
J. F. Talbirt on Main street
next to new bridge. See me for
your watches, both new and
used. 12-15p
FREE! If excess acid causes y«a
Stomach Ulcers, Oas Pains. In
digestion, Heartburn, Belching,
Bloating, Nausea, get free sam
ple doctor's prescription, Udga,
at Turner Drug Co. 6-3p
Wanted to repair your watches.
J. F. Talbirt at the home of
Mrs. C. W. Rogers on Bridge
St. has years of experience as
a watch maker. All work guar
anteed. Prices are as follows:
Balance staff $1.50; jewel $1.25;
mainspring $1.00; watch clean
ed SI.OO. Nothing over $4.00»
12-15p
Wanted to repair radios. Oar
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., Elkln, N. C. tfc
Do yon want plenty of eggs from
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamln. We
have It. Abernethy's. A Good
Drug Store, Elkln, N. C. tfn
We bay scrap iron and metals.
Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk
ln. N. C. tfc
Xmas Candy at wholesale prices,
direct from candy manufac
turer. 5 lb. box $1.00; 10 lb.
box $1.85 sent prepaid for
Money Order or check, or C.
O. D. Southern Candy Co.,
Dunn, N. C. 12-22p
Will trade 7-year-old, 1200-ponnd
mule for Pordson tractor and
double disc harrow. O. K.
Cockerham, Mountain Park, N.
C. 12-8P
REAL ESTATE
Friends—l have been bulMlng for
the past several months; bqtj
now am ready to give ycnf
more real bargains in real es
tate buys in both large and
small farms; also city property.
I have 100 acres, dwelling, two
good tobacco barns, pasture, 35
acres of real bottom land that
does not overflow. A fine to
bacco and grain farm, 7 1-2
miles of Elkin, on good road.
Price $2500 cash.
See me for your needs in real
estate.
D. C. MARTIN
FARMS FOR SALE
Good tobacco farms for wV
in Hoke, Moore and , Rich
mond counties, North Caro
lina. See . /
SAM, C. FLOYD
Hart Building
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
Representing
NORTH CAROLINA JOINT
STOCK LAND BANK -