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Above the Hullabaloo By LYTLE HULL SOMETHING SMELLS IN BERING STRAIT You couldn't throw a stone (or a baseball), from the U.S.S.R. which Joe Stalin owns, to the U. S. A. which he hopes to own; but one of those long range Ger man guns could drop a "pill" across the forty miles of Bering Strait which separte Gentle Joe's private property from our back yard in Alaska. We bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000 in gold, when that country belonged to Joe's predecessor, the Tzar; and there has recently been quite a lot of financial gossip in the Mos cow Wall Street Gazette to the effect that the sale was phoney. There is no claim that we gave them a rubber check, but it is flatly asserted that the Roman offs had no right to sell land which could have some day be longed to Joe Stalin even though Joe wasn't very well known in 1867. Now as long as the people of the United States don't take Sta lin and his spies, saboteurs and hatchet gentlemen with any de gree of seriousness, there is no particular reason why a column ist should do so, because column ists are crazy anyhow. So please consider any deviation from the path of levity—which may later develop in this epic—to be mere ly a sign of disintegration in the writer's cerebral regions. Let us get one fact straight: The "inside information" about a split between Hitler and Stalin contains, unfortunately, the same amount of horseradish as have the other 1,000 rumors about this overworked divorce case. The team of Adolf and Joe is pro ducing rabbits under the same old management. What the Bund boys are doing in America is probably routine news to Joe's Ogpu (secret police), and doubt less carbon copies of the reports of that eminent candidate for the Presidency of the United States —The Hon. Earl Browder— are laid out regularly with Hein rich Himler's morning mail. Hein rich as you know is the Chief of Adolf's kindly police—the Gesta po, and as such, keeps himself fairly well posted on what is go ing on "socially." The points which this article is SPECIAL BARGAIN OFFER REAL VALUE OFFER ALL SEVEN McCall's Magazine 12 issues \ FOR ONLY Woman's Home Companion 12 issues I American Poultry Journal 12 issues V Agß JHO Farm Journal-Farmer's Wife 12 issues 1 \ m || I Breeder's Gazette 12 issues 1 Y VW Progressive Farmer 24 issues CM The Elkin Tribune 52 issues HIGH QUALITY OFFER ALL FIVE \ FOR ONLY American Magazine 12 issues I mm McCall's Magazine 12 issues > II I. Woman's Home Companion 12 issues 1 |J IK Southern Agriculturist 12 issues / ll M,. The Elkin Tribune 52 issues YOU WILL GET ALL SEVEN OR FIVE publications, and if you are already a sub scriber to ANY of these publications, your present subscription will be extended. Mail or bring the coupon below to our office AT ONCE, and you will receive THE BIG MAGAZINES, and THIS NEWSPAPER each week. 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Hitler's agents are apparently "covered" by our own secret ser vice; but Stalin's boys are allow ed to work openly in American politics, in American schools, in American forums, in American munitions plants, in some Amer ican labor unions, and even, so they say, in the "home office" of that famous Ail-American civic center —the Borough of Manhat tan. If a German sticks his nose out of water long enough to snort "Ja wohl," we practically "con- THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA High Point Speedway Set For Opening Sunday centrate" him, and that is all to the good as far as it goes. But it doesn't go very far when we realize that a hundred thousand Communists are doing his work for him while we hold him under water. If this country was attending strictly to its own knitting, and allowing Europe, Asia and Africa to do the same, the presence of these unwashed sons of the U. S. S. R. wouldn't worry us much. But instead of knitting only air planes and battleships, we are also purling trouble for ourselves in many quarters of the globe, and the wolves are showing us their fangs. If one stood on Little Diomede Island which lies a few miles west of our Alaskan coast, and which belongs to us, he might—if his ears were very, very sharp—hear mysterious sounds coming across the five miles of water which separate Little Diomede from Big Diomede, which lies a few miles from the Russian coast and which belongs to Russia. These sounds would come from thousands of "colonists" whom Russia has placed on this dreary island; from tens of thousands of young soldiers whom Russia has reportedly sent to the Bering Strait district; from many for tresses, submarine bases and air fields which are said to have been constructed in this region; from steel foundries which are now es timated to be supplying the guns and other war materials which formerly had to come all the way from the Ural region; and from the other vast new activities re ported from this region of north eastern Russia. Why this tremendous activity? The answer might well be given by Fritz Kuhn, or by Earl Brow der, or by any one of thousands of Bundites whom we watch carefully—or by any one of tens of thousands of Communists whom we don't watch at all, but on the contrary, allow to teach our children, or work in our pow der factories, or run for the of fice of President. Add it up—it doesn't make sense! AID GIVEN 361 FOLKS IN AREA (Continued from Page One) the retired wage earner's own monthly payment. Another group of children who receive monthly payments of Federal insurance are the surviv ors of insured wage earners who died this year. A number of boys and girls in the Winston-Salem service area have been awarded monthly -payments of survivors insurance because their fathers who died recently have had so cial security accounts which pro vided this protection for their families. Mothers of these chil dren are entitled to the widow's current benefit provided under the survivors insurance clause of the Social Security Act. Mr. Freeman pointed out that when an insured worker dies, leaving a widow with minor children, monthly payments of survivors insurance are made to his widow and to his children who are under 16 (18 if in school.) An insured worker's widow who has reached age sixty-five or the widow who has children un der age 18 in her care receives three-fourths of the amount of her husband's primary insurance benefit and each of his minor children receives one-half of his primary insurance benefit with in certain limitations. In addition to monthly benefits paid in this area 105 lump-sum death payments have been made to survivors of insured workers who died this year. These pay ments ranged from $60.00 and $249.60. Mr. Freeman said that where the insured wage earner dies and leaves no survivors entitled to monthly benefits, a lump-sum death payment is made to the widow or widower or children or parents of the deceased. The maximum lump-sum death pay ment to near relatives is six times the primary insurance ben- MONDAYS are FUNDAYS WHEN YOU OWN A THOR WASHER! The Greatest Value in SOLD WITH LIFETIME . 1 11 11 ' .. 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