The Madison Messenger T. J. ROBERTSON, Editor and Owner Subscription: $1.50 Per Year MADISON, N. C., OCTOBER 1, 1931 With Governor Roosevelt of New York, as piring to be nominated to the Presidency by the Democrats, and Governor Roosevelt of Porto Rico, angling for the Republican vice Presidential nomination, the impression seems to be gaining that these gentlemen have a sur name that has been somewhat over-captalized. A devout old lady recently wrote Bruce Bar ton: “How can you go to church and still go to prize fights?’’ He gives his answer in the American Magazine: “Maybe I’m wrong, but I believe one can be a good Christian and s+ill have a grand time. Religion as I understand ih consists in liking people, helping them, being considerate and grateful and happy. It doesn’t consist of wearing a long face or making oth ers uncomfortable.” These protected interests, fostered for years and protected by the Republican party, have gotten bigger than the Government, and the government has not got the guts to stand up bn their toes'and tell them where to get off. The high protective tariff wall, inaugurated by the Republicans, have caused other nations to re taliate, and the United States is paying the price by a depression that ought not to exist. This tariff has kept-millions of dollars out of this country, while thousands of unemployed owe their present plight to it. But the Republi cans know from whence comes the big slush funds, and they do not propose to kill the goose that has been laying the golden, even if the country goes to the eternal bow-wows. ALWAYS ACT THE FOOL It has been charged several tithes, and not without good reason, that when our Republican • friends find themselves in a hole and things be gin to look bright for the success of the Dem ocratic party nationally, that these Republicans always bank on getting out of the hole by the Democrats acting the fool. We all know that such has been the case, and it is feared that things are at present heading that way again. At present the Republican party finds itself in a deeper hole than it has for many years, It has been discredited—weighed in the bal ances and found wanting. They realize that the “deer peepul” no longer regard it as a "Party of Prosperity.” Tko Democrats have a golden opportunity to sweep ; -.1 country in lb;J2, provided they do not the' >ol, Many of the so-called leaders, though, ...c .. .. t direction, just as the Republicans are praying for them to do so. These Republicans realize that this is their only Sflvation. This being the ease, they are doing everything in their power to agitate the wet and dry issue among the Democrats. If the Democrats will let this issue rest and nominate a man like McAdoo, then victory is assured. Rut if the question is injected into the party, it means another split, for there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats, especially in the South, who will not support a wet plat form and a wet candidate. _ • Raskob, the life-long Republican, is doing ail he can to accomplish this. But, we do not be lieve that he can muster enough strength to put it over,. Shouse advocated beer the other day, but the hosts failed to rally to his sup port. The American Legion wants a referen dum, but it is barely possible that the move will develop enough strength to create a ripple. As stated above, ail these moves are agitated by the Republicans, for the more agitaton they can arouse ir, the Democratic party, the strong er their position becomes. By presenting a solid front and naming a. good man like William Gibbs M ‘Adoo, the Dem ocrats can sweep the country nest year Bat if they allow dissections to ar se in the party, and act the fool, then they will have no one to blame but themselves if the election goes against them. TOBACCO PRICES DISAPPOINTING Much was expected by the tobacco growers in this, the old, belt when the market opened Tuesday, for it was said that we had the type of. tobacco demanded by*the manutactuieis. But it seems that they do not > ant any kind of type that they have to pay a reasonable price for. When the price of cigarettes was advanc ed, it was for the announced purpose of en abling the manufacturers to p; y a better price for tobacco, but every man who had sense enough to go in out of the rain knew' that this was the rankest kind of bull, and the only re- j suit that will be observed is when the dividends are declared next Feburary or March. Every reasoning man knows that these big concerns set the price of the raw material when they held their meeting in June. If ever a trust ex- , isted, we have it today among the tobacco bar ons, and the Government is net big enough to tell it where to get off—don’t want to kill the j goose that is laying the golden egg, matters not if the thousands of tobacco growers go hungry and half clothed, while their children are de barred from necessities that are by right theirs. The farmers are demanding the closing of the warehouses in many places, for they see ruin staring them in the face. These fanners can live without raising tobacco and if the govern ment won’t protect them we hope that not a olant of tobacco will be put out for five years. | [f the price of the finished product would only ; ;ome down on a parity with the low price of the ! raw material, there would be some excuse, but j the price of the finished product remains as ! steady as the rock of Gibralta, and when one increases the price of the finished poods, the others follow within fifteen minutes—oh, no; there is no conclusion; just a mere coincidence. ; Ye gods and little fishes! What are the great common people to do? How much longer will! they stand for such treatment? ' STEEL LEADS WAGE-CUTTING The steel industry has always been a sort of! outlaw in tile labor field, and it seems perfectly j natural in the^ light of historical events that the beginning of the wage cuts by large Indus- ! tries should have started with steel. To sav that the National Capitol looked at its morning newspaper recently, and was awe-stricken when ‘it read that wage reductions were at ; hand, is putting it mildly. Of course the fool stock-market was “en couraged" and stocks bobbed up that same day. : Like "Gandhi the’ voice of Wall Street was speak1 ing “for dumb mil lions”1—whose money is "fro zen" in stocks. But .other voices have been heard since in emphatic protest, The. readjust-1 went of. wages has been attacked not only by the American. Federation of Labor and its al lied trades union-organizations, but by thous ands of clear-headed American citizens who realize that we are entering an era of lower values with decreased purchasing power—a sit uation that most certainly does, not lit in with mass production. AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE (Winston-Salem Journal) The open charge that there, exists,a close alliance between the Raskob-Shouse leadership of the Democratic party in the Nation and those behind the wet movement is further sub stantiated by the financial report of the Asso ciation Against Prohibition Amendment. This report lists John J. Raskob. chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as having re cently contributed $40,000. A statement by the wet association covering receipts and expenditures from January 1. to August .‘51, .just filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives as required by law, shows' an operating expense of $391,658, over one-half of which was contributed by Mr. Ras kob and his associates in General Motors—the du Fonts. A ■ ■''■■■' '' While Mr. Raskob and his cohorts were lav ish ingly giving money to anti-prohibition or ganizations. the Democratic national chairman was increasing his “mortgage” on the machin ery of the Democratic party to the.tune of $10, 000 monthly: To use the words of Josephus Daniels, Mr. Raskob continues to loan to the Democratic party and to give' to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Mr. Raskob, Irene A. du Pont, I.amott du Pont, and Pierre S. du Pont contributed to the eassociation the stager ing amount of $202,000. It is also interesting to note that General Motors, of which Mr. Raskob and the du Ponts arc the “big guns", is one of the five large in dustrial corporations which have inaugurated the wage-cutting campaign. Although the divi dend checks of these men Continue to be large enough to pour money into the. huge wet slush fund, they find it necessary to cut wages of their employees in order to protect their finan vial interests. The fact cannot be overlooked by dry Dem ocrats that while Mi'. Raskob arid his friends are furnishing boodle for the wets, Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, undertakes to outline a wet plat form for the Democratic party in 1932. Ever .since .Mr. Shouse became Mix Raskob’s political lieutenant, he has received his pay check from tlie Democratic chairman. His views are re garded as having- the approval of Mr. Raskob. | •There is-'hardly any question that the Dem ocratic party will sweep into power next year -R it does not split its ranks by making prohibi tion the paramount issue. The Republicans are, i ol course, hoping their foes “will do the fool thing a.t the right time.” The “fool thing” is unquestionably for the Democrats to soft-pedal economic issues and pitch the campaign on the wet and dry question. The responsibility of having the Democratic party to do the right .thing at the time appears to rest more and more on the shoulders'; of Southern and Western Democrats. The barons of privilege are determined to shift the public mind from the heed for certain economic re forms, necessary for the happiness and well being of the masses, to the prohibition wrangle. The report of the Association Against the Pro hibition Amendment is concrete proof that “big business” is financing the wet campaign. The question facing those who have the wel- - fare of the Democratic party at heart is—will : they permit Mr. Raskob to make the party a ve hicle for special privilege as they attempt to camouflage the real issues facing the American people? There are said to be very few Democratic senators and representatives from the South and the West who do not privately admit that the crying need of the party of Jefferson at this time is for a strong, militant Democrat to marshal* the anti-Raskob forces in the Demo cratic party, offer a constructive economic program, and block the effort to make the Dem ocratic party a fool of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment in 1932. I SOCIAL ITEMS Mrs, J. C. Brown was charm ing hostess to the Dolly Madi ron Book club and several oth er guests bn last Tuesday af ternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Mrs. Guy H. Simpson, president, wel comed the guests and after the c'ollect and song, the roll call was responded to with current events referring to music in most instances. The club mem bers at this time were privil edged to draw for a book from the past year’s list of books us ed and read in the club library, this book to become their per sonal .property, The program for the afternoon was a musi cal program, the first of a se ries of four program of this na ture to be held during the club year. Mrs. W. H Gentry was program chairman and first in troduced Mrs. V. H. Idol, who rendered a beautiful piano num her, “First Valse.” Mrs. Gentry next gave some interesting events connected with the life of Chopin, the Polish pianist and composer, and then played five of his choice Preludes: “The Polish Dancer,’’ “Funeral March,” “Little Bell for the Dead,” “111 Humor,” and “Rain drops”. The concluding num ber on the program was“Mighty Lak A Rose,” rendered by Mrs. C. L. Martin at the piano and John Oscar Busick with his violin. The hostess served a delicious course of refresh ments at the conclusion of the program. Thursday afternoon in her home' on Hunter street, the George Reynolds Chapter of the D. A. U. of Leaksville was en tertained by one of its three Madison members, Mrs. How aid Penn. The house was a bower of fall flowers, and in the dining room, violet purple and New England asters accen tuated the purple punch. A lovely lace cloth graced the ta ble. Mrs. Penn was assisted in serving punch and refresh ments by her daughter, Miss Hilda Wall Penn; her mother, Mrs. Mollie Reynolds Wall, and by-Mrs. John Reynolds, of Mad ison. The program was featur ed by business routine, a speech by Miss Church, a gift presen tation and a contest. Mrs. Uulce Hay, of Winston-Salem, spoke a charming greeting; Mrs. T. J. Taylor of Leaksville led the ritual and the creed. Mrs. Pearl van Noppen led the eighteen members present in a salute to the flag. October 17 was set as the date of unveil ing^ a marker at Colonel Jack Martin's rock house in Stokes county by this chapter. Miss Church, teacher in the Cross nore School, presented the needs of her institution, stat ing that this school gets more help from the D. A^R.’s thai from any other source. She hibited handcraft of her pupils in scarves, baskets, counter panes, hooked rugs and hand bags. A contest of fifty ques tions on Revolutionary sub jects drew red, white and blue flowers as points. At the close Mrs. Martha Taylor Davidson, of Leaksville, had a prize cor sage and a samll silk flag. Miss Luna Taylor presented to the society a book of Revolutionary literature and clipped pictures which she had assembled, typed and bound,'the cover of which was designed by Miss Edith Fagg of Danbury. Non-member guests from Leaksville, Mrs. Albert Milner.; from Madison, Mrs. Jack Reynolds and Mrs. Cora Pickett. The bowling alley is being transferred from the building next to Rierson's five and ten cent store to the basement of Chilton Motor Co. We learn that a new wholesale gocery store is to be opened in the building being vacated by the bowling alley — Rockingham Wholesale Grocery. BB Sawed Their Way to Freedom ; Two negro inmates of the jail j at Danbury sawed their way to freedom Friday night, but the freedom of one was of short du ration. Art Ziglar, one of the escapees, was out but a few minutes before he kvas back behind the bars. The other, named Nichols, has so far elud ed the officers. He was to have been tried for entering the ; home of a white lady of the Sandy Ridge section. ,j Cumberland county farmers cooperated to ship a mixed car of hogs and sheep to the Rich mond market last week. -—- i BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS you see tne name oayei and the word genuine on the package as pictured above you can never be sure that you are taking the genuine Bayer Aspirin that thousands of physicians prescribe in their daily practice. The name Baver means genuine Aspirin. 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