THE
ALLEGHANY TIMES
Published Every Thursday
$1.50 Per Year
Entered as second-class matter
at the Post Office at
Sparta, N. C.
D. C. SHORES, Editor
Kill A Dogr and Get A
Pig
Mr. C. A. Miles informs us that
arrangements have been made
whereby any person on the relief
fund list who will kill one of his
dogs may get a pig in return.
All claimants are eligible for this
exchange, but Mr. Miles must see
the dog killed or have a reliable in
formant so that there con be no mis
take about it.
If a claimant has two dogs to kill
then he can get two pigs or if he has
three then he gets three pigs, or in
other words, he gets a pig for every
dog of his own that he will destroy.
^.^jTlus , should be interesting in
rM^JUmnation to those who are relying
on the relief fund, for a dog will eat
about as much as a pig ajid when
winter comes, those who take ad
vantage of the exchange will have
pork sausage instead of hot dogs.
It has been rigidly discussed that i
any claimant of the relief fund
should dispose of his dogs already
and this is a good time to make the
exchange before the names of dog
owners are dropped from the relief
list, if it comes to -that point.
At any rate, thtefe are hundreds
of worthless dogs in the county and
if you have them on May 1st you
will have to list them for taxation
anyway, and it would be far better
to have a pig than a worthless dog.
The county and people are always
ready to help theme in distress pro
vided they try to help themselves, so
it would be ah'ideal thing to think
seriously about swapping that old
dog for a winter’s supply of meat.
The Farmers’
Unnecessary Burden
Hundreds of .thousands of over
burdened taxpayers on farms and in
villages are paying millions of dol
lars per year in taxes that, by all
rules of fairne.ss, should be paid by
the residents of certain cities and
towns.
How has this happened? Simple
enough. It is because of the entry
of these cities and towns into busi
ness ventures,., principally gas, elec
tric and water utilities.
The situation can be well Uustra
ted by Ohio, for which complete sta
tistics are available. In.that state
is about §225.000,000 worth of
property, owned.by cities and towns,
which is used : entirely for business
purposes and is free from taxes. The
average tax rate for the state is
22.44 mills. A little problem ill ar
ithmetic shows that these towns are
thus escaping a tax payment of S5.
000,Ooo a year. The farmers and
village dwellers receive no benefit
whatsoever from the bpration of
these business! s.
There is an average. of sOOO.OOO
worth of this tax-exempt business
property in every Ohio county. If
this were privately owned. It would
pay state and local taxes of $6,700
a year. Municipally owned, it pays
nothing. The 6,700. lost tax dollars
must be passed on to other taxpay
ers. and levied against other kinds
of property. Residents of each coun
ty. principally farmers, are thus pay
ing the users of municipal business
properties a dole amounting to $!>”■
000 in a ten year period.
Former Governor MeElvie of
Nebraska, went to the crux of the
matter when he said. “I have no
complaint if municipalities want to
own their own utilities, but I want
the municipally owned utilities to
pay their share of taxes. The farrn
reeeives next to no benefit from this
property, w'hy should he have his
taxes increased on account of it?”
The situation in Ohio is present,
to a greater or lesser degree, in ev
ery state. The courts have upheld
the right to tax municipal property
when it is used for business, as dis
tinct from governmental purposes.
And no amount of talk can escape
the fact that this should be done, out
of justice to private business, the in
dividual taxpayer and the state at
large. If municipal business can
meet private competition only by;
what amounts to a public subsidy,
it’s time the public found it out.—
Industrial News Review.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Meridy Hill, de
ceased, notice is hereby given to all
persons „holding claims against the
estate to present them to the under- |
signed within twelve months from!
this date or this notice will be
plead in bar of recovery. All per
sons indebted to the estate are
notified to make immediate settle-!
ment.
This February 4, 1933.
J. K. TAYLOR,
TODAY and
fOMSSST
J
•MMCMRKER
BDOCMUDOE
NATIONALISM ... a kick-back
A lot of the world’s present
troubles are due to an excess of Na
tionalistic pride. Every nation is
trying to be self-contained, and then
grouching because other nations
won't trade with it!
Every dollar we spend for foreign
goods helps some other nation to
buy our goods. I believe in Amer
ica first, but I do not believe in the
stupid doctrine whifch would prohibit
me from buying something I wanted
because it was made abroad.
Nearly a hundred years ago there
was an agitation in this country
similar to the ‘‘Buy American”
movement of today. The party
which advocated non-intercourse
with foreign countries got the nick
name of “Know-Knothings.” Pres
ently we will wake up again to the
truth that every obstacle to inter
national trade hurts everybody con
cerned.
JEWS ..... in Germany
Jewish people all over the world
are greatly disturbed over the policy
of the new “Nazi” government of
Germany, under the practical dic
tatorship of Chancellor Hitler, in
boycotting Jewish merchants, doc
tors, teachers and others.
I talked the other day with an in
telligent y6ung German Jew who
had been getting letters from home
about the situation in Germany. He
was not at all worried. His people
had written him that they were not
being annoyed and that the whole
anti-Jewish agitation was directed at
a Communist element, mainly com
posed of Jews.
Another German, a non-Jew, said
t.n me:_"Here in America the Jews
work like other people. In Germany
a lot of them don’t do anything but
try to make trouble for the Gov
ernment."
But, of course, the German gov
ernment has handled the situation
stupidly, as it always handles any
situation. More than a hundred
years ago the great French historian
Guizot, wrote: “There is some
thing in the German temperament
which makes them utterly unable to
understand the point of view of oth
er peoples.”
MACHINES ... can't work
When these hard times are over—
arid that won’t be long now—we
shall not go backward but forward.
And one thing we may look for is
more and more perfection of ma
chines to do our work for us.
When I was a boy I used to ad
mire the muscular development of
the men who worked in my uncle’s
machine shop. Not long ago I vis
ited the same plant, now tremend
ously changed, and found one ot
those old-timers still working.
He was sitting in a rocking-chair
watching an automatic machine do
almost exactly the same sort of work
he used to do by hand, only many
times as rapidly and accurately
Every once in a while he would take
a finished piece off the machine
"iid put a new block of metal in its
place.
“They say the machines will
throw everybody mu of work," he
said, “but I notice it still takes a
human brain to tell the machine
when to stop and start.” That is
something people overlook. Nobody
has yet made a machine that can
ihink. and nobody ever will.
TKliKl’HOXK . . . another step
Everybody who has a telephone
must have wished for some sort of
an attachment which would answer
automatically when the subscriber is
away.
Word comes from Vienna that
just such a device has been invented
and is in use there. When one is
going to be out of telephone reach
he sets the imminent to the hour
when he expects to be back. Then,
if a call comes through in his ab
sence the caller hears a gong ring
to indicate the hour when the per
son called will return. When he
returns he finds a record of all calls.
It will be easy to develop that
idea into a phonograph record
which would say “Mr. Smith has
gone to Florida but will be back on
the fifteenth,” or whatever other
message it is desired to convey.
Something of that sort will come
some day.
TYPEWRITER . . has birthday
I have a vivid memory of the day
when my mother received a letter
from her younger brother in Buffalo
with the w-ords printed instead of
written with a pen. He said: “This
letter is written on a new kind of
machine we have got in the office,
called a typewriter.”
That was almost sixty years ago;
about 1876, I should say. The type
writer was only three or four years
old then, for the sixtieth anniver
sary of its invention by Christopher
Sholes has just been celebrated.
There was quite a celebration or
ganized by '#he Young Women’s
Christian Association. The type
writer, they held, had. emancipated
women by making it possible forj
them to do work in offices. I don’,1, j
think that is sound reasoning. Hard-j
ly anybody but men used typewrit
ers for at least twenty years after
the machine was invented.
The rush of women into business
began in the early 1890's, afteri
the telephone people had broken
down the barriers that kept wome
out of offices.
MONEY ..... a definitioi
I think we are going to come ouj
of our economic troubles with
much more general understanding ol
the unimportance of money, thaif
most of us had before.
Millions of people have learned
how to get along with substitute!
for money. A lot of them hav|
learned that money is not wealth
but is merely a symbol of wealtlj
Real wealth is commodities that ca
be used, and nothing else.
The best definition of money
have ever seen was written by
German economist. Paul Helffericj
He said:
“Money is a medium for storil
commodity values and conveyi|
them through time and space.”
SCRIP.just as go
Any money is good money whi^
everybody is willing to accept
such. Practically the whole natid
has gone on a scrip basis, and uni
we try to spend some of it outsil
I of the United States it is just as goj
as gold.
The only thing that makes go
the best money is that it is the ol
substance which everybody in tl
world accepts at the same value. B1
when everybody in Ilopfrog Cornel
accepts the local scrip at its faq
value, the scrip is just as goq
money as gold money.
.Neither scrip nor gold is wealth
both are merely yardsticks wit|
which to measure wealth.
FLAGS . . . In Get'inum
The German flag has been change!
again. Instead of the red, wlvifl
and gold stripes of the Republic, tlfl
new Nazo government has gone bacl
to the old flag of the empire, reel
white and black, with the swastika
or hpoked cross, imposed upon it.
Since the Great War there is hard
ly a national flag which has not beet
changed. The Stars and Stripe
stands out .today as one of the oljes
flags in the world. Only the banner
of Denmark and Switzerland are old
! er than Old Glory.
We still think of the United States
'as a young nation. As a matter of
1 fact, our country is about the only
one in the world which has not un
, dergone revoltionary changes in its
j form of government in the past 150
years. It seems to me that Ameri
cans ought to shake off the idea
that other nations are older and
i-therefore wiser than we. and assert
our rights to tell the rest of the
world where to get off, since we
i are not only the richest but the
oldest member of the family of na
tions.
XKGRO • faithful public servant
Eddie Savoy has retired. Eddie is
the colored man who has been door
keeper in the State Department in
Washington for sixty-four years. He
was a little boy of thirteen when he
first went to work under Secretary
of State Hamilton Fish in 1S69. Ed
die is 77 years old now. He has
served faithfully under 21 different
Cabinet officers but his legs are get
ting rheumatic, so he told Secretary
Hull the other day that he thought
he would retire on liis civil service
pension. '
Every foreign diplomat who has
been in Washington since General
Grant was president, knows Eddie
Savoy, and he got to know them all.
His unfailing courtesy and natural
dignity never failed to impress all
who came in contact with him.
“A faithful public servant.” said
Secretary Stimson, as he said good
bye to Eddie Savoy. That cannot be
said of every white man who has
held office in Washington.
STROTHER . . . his death a loss
No finer gentleman, no abler jour
nalist, no more faithful friend ever
lived than French Strother, whose
sudden death in Washington at the
age of 4 9 put an end to a career of
high promise.
A native of Missouri, a newspa
per man in California, for many
years an editor of World's Work,
author of half a dozen books, French
Strother attracted the attention of
Herbert Hoover by writing some ar
ticles about the work of the Depart
ment of Commerce. One of Mr. Hoo
ver’s first appointments as Presi
dent was that of French Strother as
his Administrative Assistant. It
was Strother's task, hidden away in
an obscure office in the White House
basement, to gather the data the
President needed to prepare his mes
sages and public addresses, then to
polish their language after Mr. Hoo
ver had roughed them out.
Dike everybody else who knew
him, Mr. Hoover formed a warm per
sonal attachment for his able assis
tant. French Strother was my friend
of years; his passing is a real loss
to the world of journalism.
Canada .... good banking
There are a good many things we
could learn from Canada, and one'
of them is banking.
Canada has been going through
just as difficult an economic crisis
as the United States, but there has
not been a bank failure there in,
ten years. Only two Canadian
The Modem Miracle
=By Albert T. Reid
producing
WHAT WE EAT,
^FOR LESS
THAW COST'
(JOLLY' !
i’t see how^
KEEPS OP .
It looks a little fishy when every
ailment the world has requires bleed
ing Uncle Sam.—Palatka (Fla.)
News.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
contained in a certain Deed of Trust, j
executed by Cleo McMillan to D. C.
Duncan, dated the 18th day of
'March, 1931, and duly recorded in
Book 16, page 165, in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Alleghany
county, North Carolina and there
having been a default iii the payment
on the indebtedness secured by the
said Deed of Trust and at the re
quest of the holder of the evidence
of indebtedness, the undersigned
Trustee will sell for cash at the
WANTS
Sewing Prices Reduced. Compare
work and prices before having
your sewing done. Mrs. R. M.
Osborne, Sparta, N. C.
For Sale—On Saturday, April 22nd
I will sell on the premises 250
acres of grazing to the highest
bidder. Grazing located on prem
ises of W. H. Billings, at Piney
Creek. P. C. Collins.
_——
Attention Mr. Farmer and Poultry
Raiser! Now is the time to get
your baby chicks. We are hatch
ing 5,000 per week. For the next
ten days we are booking orders
at $8.00 per 100 for blood-tested
State Accredited big healthy liva
ble chicks guaranteed to live and
grow. We also handle a full line
of Purina Poultry feed and have
the best display of brooder and
henhouse furniture ever displayed
in this section of the state. We
have recently installed a Mam
moth All-Electric Buckeye Incu
bator for custom hatching. Bring
us your eggs and we will hatch
them for you at 2c per egg for
full tray of 120 eggs. Phillips
Building , Tenth street. Wilkes
Hatchery, North Wilkesboro, N.
C.
Reins-Sturdivant
FUNERAL HOME
Ambulance Service Day or
Night.
Phone No. 22
SPARTA, N. C.
Courthouse door in Sparta, North
Carolina, at 12 o’clock noon, on the
28th day of April, 1933, the follow
ing described property:
Bounded by the lands ot Charlie
Edwards, Bud Edwards, Mack Jones
and others, containing 45 acres
more or less. This land is known as
the R. A. Doughton land and a part
of the Alex McMillan land in Prath
ers Creek Township. Reference is
hereby made to a deed recorded in
Book 3S, page 315 in the Register
of Deeds office, Alleghany county,
North Carolina, for a full and- com
plete description of this tract of
land.
This March 27, 1933.
D. C. DUNCAN,
4-20 Trustee.
Dft. M. A. ROYALL
Elkin, N. C.
SPECIALIST
in diseases of the eye. ear,
nose and throat
GLASSES FITTED
| EXPERT
RADIO SERVICE
Here is what you get:
t. Work done by trained and
experienced repairman.
2. Modern methods and equip
ment used.
3. Best quality of replacement
parts. #
4. Prompt and efficient ser
vice.
5. Special attention to out-of
town calls.
0. Full line of batteries, tubes
and supplies.
7. Our prices are in keeping
with the times.
J. M, CHEEK, Jr.
Phone 45 — Sparta, N. C.
It paye to advertise in The Alle
ghany Times.
FINE
REPAIRING
Two Expert
Repairmen
In Charge
i
c. W. STEELE
Jeweler
E. Main St Elkin, N. C.
PROGRAM
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ELKIN, N. C.
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Fri.-Sat.—
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Also Colortone Revue—Serial
Admission 10c—30c
Next Week, Mon.-Tues.—
The big hit picture of the year
“Strange Interlude”
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in
“STATE FAIR”
TO OUR CUSTOMERS
We carry a complete line of dry goods,
notions, grass seed, plow repairs and feed
stuff.
We specialize in giving the farmers the
highest market price for all produce.
Get our prices before buying.
When quality is considered, we will meet
all competition
THE PEOPLES’ STORE
J. A. Osborne, Prop. Sparta, N. C.
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