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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933.
We are glad that the Times is be
ing published at home this week. Our
friends away who have been printing
the Times have extended every aid
courtesy in helping us with the
paper, but there is nothing like
“cooking in your own kitchen.”
GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
Of great importance to the nation
is President Roosevelt’s program on
the relationship of government and
: business. Research indicates that out
- throat competition, with the resulting
= tremendous waste, is a strong influ
ence in prolonging depression, inas
much as it forces prices down and
prevents them from rising. In the
pant, the anti-trust laws have stood
in the way of agreements to offset
this. The President’s plan is to abro
gate the trust laws, permit industries
to work together in controlling pro
duction and prices, with the govern
ment as arbiter. Government would
* bave a strong voice in determining
wages, hours of labor, output, price,
etc. Business' has shown itself ready
to co-operate.
UPTURN in BUILDING expect
‘ ED.
Factors at play now justify the be
lief that a heavy upturn in building
work Will occur before long. During
past tWo months small residential
building has been moving steadily
upward,- the material makers have
noticed a better than seasonal gain
in orders.
Building upturn would be felt in
every indiistry—lumber, steel, trans
port, metal, paint, and varnish, elec
tric. gas ,etc.,—and would provide
a vast amount of new employment,
w^th a consequent jump in buying
. power. Also important would be its
favorable effect on security values.
FUNDAMKTAL FARM RELIEF
Any sound farm relief program
T whether launched by the states or the
:x paMnn, should have as its basic prin
ciple the encouragement and develop
ment of cooperatives.
That Was the original intention in
the farm relief act of a few years
ago—which hit stormy weather onty
when it departed from that and ven
tured into the field of speculation.
The farm cooperatives are establish
ed. .They have the farmer’s faith. He
looks bn them, and rightly, as be
donging to him and his neighbors—
they have none of the remoteness
that a bureau dominated by Wash
ington necessarily has. They realty
Ipow his problems. They are inter
^gted in his welfare rather than in
ais. votes.
The depression should have served
to strengthen, rather than weaken,
the co-ops. Three years of bad times
have shown the farmer the fruits of
disorganization, of non-co-operation.
What achievements he has made ir.
Ihlg period have been mostly the re
sult of co-operative effort. They have
not been able to create profitable
prices—noconceivable agency could
—but they have in many instances
undoubtedly prevented prices from
dropping to even more ruinous levels.
’ They have indicated what they can
4o when normal times return.
Thme government should work
with and for the co-operatives. This
is the way in which real and perma
!•*■ nent farm relief can be achieved
>♦ \ it is the greatest single hope agri
has for a happy future.
I tAL
ASSISTANT
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that until fur
ther notice it''will accept applications
for positions of emergency agricul
tural assistant to fill vacancies in
{he Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration of the Department of Agri
culture. The examination is open to
qualified residents of the State in
jytiich this paper is published.
The salary range is $2,000 to $2,
$Q0 a year, subject to a reduction of
nut to exceed 15 per cent as a mea
/ sure of economy and a retirement de
k' duction of 8 1*2 per cent.
The duties are to contact farmers'
individually, and through establish-1
ed agricultural associations and or-'
ganizations of farmers and producers
in the handling of details incident
to securing the co-operation of far
mers in carrying out the provision of
the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Basic Requirements are (l)Gr ad
uation from a recognized agricultural
college, or (2) graduation from a
college or university of recognized
standing other than agricultural, and
residence on a farm until the age
of 18 or until entering college or
three years of actual farm experi
ence. In addition, applicants must
have had at least two years of ex
perience in certain specified agricul
tural pursuits. There is provision for
the substitution of acceptable spe
cialized agricultural experience for
college training.
Full information may be obtained
from the Secretary of the United
States Civil Service Board of Ekami
ners at the post-office in any city
which has a post office of the first or
the second-class, or from the United
States Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D. C.
Thomas Wolfe, On Manhattan
Thomas Wolfe, an author of whom
of whom North Carolina should be
proud, is contributing a series of long
short stories to Scribner’s Magazine.
The first appeared in May, and the
second is in the June issue. His sub
ject is the City of New York—and
Lord how the man can write. If you
haven’t read them, we earnestly call
them to your attention.He has caught
the color and the drabness of the me
tropolis as few authors have. His.
expression of what many New York
ers have thought, and been unable to
voice, is particularly felicitous:
“And the city would always be the
same when I came back. I would rush
through the immense and glorious,
stations, murmurous with their mil
lion destines and the everlasting
sound of time, that was caught up
forever in their roof—I would rush
out into the street, and instantly it
would be the same as it had always
been, and yet forever strange anc
new.
“I fell as if by being gone from it
an instant I had missed something
priceless and irrecoverable. I felt
instantly that nothing had changec
a bit, and yet it was changing furi
jusly, unbelievably, every second be
i'orfem y eyes. It seemed strangei
than a dream, and more familial
than my mother’s face. I could not
oelieve in it—and hated it, I loved it.
£ was instantly engulfed and over
whelmed by it.”—James R. Daniels,
in the Raleigh News & Observer.
SLAYER OF MARTIN HINSHAW
GIVES UP TO WILKES SHERIFF
Herschel Richardson is Placed In Jail
At Wilkesboro.
Herschel Richardson, allegec
slayer of Martin Hinshaw at a swim
ming pool near Traphill, about twc
weeks ago, surrendered last Thurs
lay afternoon to Sheriff W. B. Som
ners, of Wilkes County, while tlu
sheriff, accompanied by another of
deer, was in the Traphill section
searching for him.
Sheriff Sommers is said to have
been at the home of a Mr. Pruitt
when Richardson walked in and gave
himself up. He said he had seen the
officers pass from his hiding place
in the wods. He was carried tc
Wilkesboro and placed in jail.
Richardson is 26 years of age anc
is married.
Hinshaw, nearly2 3, was shot anc
killed near the Holbrook mill pone
about 5 o’clock on the afternoon o
June 11. Richardson, who is said tc
have done the killing, had been is
hiding since that time.
AMENDMENT TO TAX
ON ADMISSIONS
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
today called attention to the provi
sions of the National Industrial Act
approved June 16, 1933, relating tc
the tax on admissions. Section 211
of the Act amends Section 500 (a)
(1) of the Revenue Act of 1926 a;
amended, by providing that no ta>
?hall be imposed in the case of per
30ns admitted free to any spoker
play (not a mechanical reproduc
tion,) whether or not set to music oi
with musical parts or accompani
ments, which is a consecutive narra
tive interpreted by a single set o'
characters, all necessary to the de
velopment of the plot, in two or
more acts, the performance consum
ing more than 1 hour and 45 min
utes of time.
SNAKES AND SUPEBSTITUTION
The summer had been unusually
dry. Crops were suffering from lack
of rain, and all but the best wells
had dried up long since. Farmers
had begun to shake their heads du
biously and prophesy a disastrous
fall.
The day of our story came during
the middle of August. The corn
leaves curled up and hung limp; an
occasional breath of wind stirred the
listless leaves. From the intense
blue of the sky the burning rays of
the sun beat mercilessly down upon
a stifled, scorching earth.
Farmer Swen, a man of the old
school, sat in the shade of his favor
ite oak and looked dejectedly over
his acres of wilted crops. “Hit shore
looks lak the good Lord ha’ forgot
ten us,” he muttered to himself, as
he gaed to the southwest, vainly
hoping to see signs of rain clouds.
While he was thus engaged with
melancholic thoughts, he heard an
old setting hen clucking strangely
and excitedly near the barn. With
a hopeless shrug of his shoulders, he
arose and made his way toward the
excited hen. On his arrival he saw
a large chicken snake in the act of
swallowing an egg, while the hen
cluck protestingly against the intru
sion into her premises.
Farmer Swen dispatched the ma
rauder with a hoe and started back
to his seat in the grove. Suddenly
he stoped, and his face brightened
with a thought. Since his boyhood
days he had heard that if a dead
make was hung up, rain would fall
before night. Being somewhat su
perstitious, Swen carried the snake
to the edge of the pasture and hung
him on a lonw-hanging dogwood
bough.
All the afternoon Swen busied him
lelf about his premises with vari
ous odd jobs. He seemed rather
cheerful, and occasionally he whis
tled some simple tune. Constantly
he looked to the southwest for signs
of rainclouds that he felt sure would
soon rise.
As the sun declined, he lookeu
more or ten toward the west, and the
melanchouc, hopelessexpr ession, vis
ible on his features during the morn
ing, returned ‘and became more pro
nounced as time passed.
Late in the afternoon Swen’s per
sistent watching of the sky was re
warded. A tiny speck of cloud be
came visible on the horion. Swen
ceased from his restless movements,
and, shading his eyes with his hand,
watched the tiny cloud increase in
sie as it mounted the sky. A slight
oreeze sprang up and stirred the
drooping leaves.
Swen took off his old battered hat
to enjoy more the cool and refsh
mg wind that sent the clouds sweep
ing up toward the zenith of the heav
ens. With the prospects of rain ev
erything seem to take on new life.
i’he drooping corn came out of its
apathy and rusted and whispered
hilariously. Chickens ran to and
c'orth across the yard, and an old
rooster, perched on a high fence post,
flapped his wings vigorously and
crowed his challege to the world.
By this time the sky was nearly
hidden by dark, heavy-looking clouds.
Thunder growled and muttered back
ind forth across the undulating black
nass that promised rain. Suddenly
there was a deafening crash; a jag
ged tongue of fire split the cloud,
ind as if that were a signal for a
lownpour great drops of rain began
to patter on the yawning, sweltering
earth.
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iownpour and rejoiced. The patter
of the rain on the window and the
roar on the roof was sweet music.
For an half an hour the steady down
pour seemed to increase rather tlxag.
ibate. Swen watched the little pools
n the yard grow into rushmg
streams, and it was with some un
easiness that he saw the water pond
oehind the terraces in his cornfield.
Should the terraces break, the dam
ige would be considerable.
The rain did not slacken, and the
‘.paces in the field between the ter
races became miniature lakes. Swen
stirred restlessly, soon he arose,
threw on an old coat, and went out.
The rain beat in his face and
drenched him, but with determina
tion expressed in every step, he made
his way to the pasture. There, with
a deliberate solemnity, he took the
carcass of the chicken snake from
the bough and threw it into the pul
ley.
Finally the rain slackened and
ceased altogether as the cloud pass
ed over. Swen stepped out into a
refreshened and enlivened world
just as the sun was disappearing be
hind the scraggy pines that made
the western horizon.
“Waal,” he soliloquized, “thar shor
must be sump’n good in everything
bad. I believe to my soul thar’d a
bin a flood i fl hadn’t took that ar’
blooming snake off’n the limb when
I did.”
MAPLE SHADE
Mr. Ira Halsey and granddaughter,
Nina Halsey, spent the week end
with friends in Abingdon.
Dr. Mont Cox, Dewey Cox, and G.
W. Kink were business visitors in
Marion Wednesday.
Kate Hash, of Valney, spent the
past week with her sister, Winnie
Hash.
Mrs. Verda Halsey is very ill at
this writing.
Misses Winnie Hash and Grace
Kirk were business visitors in Galax'
and Hillsville Monday.
Mrs. Polly Cox spent some time
the past week at the G. W. Kirk
home.
News has been received here of the
death of Isom Cox, a citizen of the
Fox Creek community. He died Sat
urday.
Mr. Chas. E. Cox was a business
visitor in Independence Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle McMillan of Ga
lax, spent Sunday at the Chas. E.
Cox home.
Members of the Potato Creek
Church who attended Quarterly Con
ference at Walnut Branch Sunday,
were Mrs. Virgil M. Cox, Mrs. G. W.
Kirk, Winnie Hash, Kate Hash, and
Grace Kirk.
PINEY CREEK NEWS
Mr Eugene Halsey, who has been
-spending some time with his mother
returned to Miami, Florida, Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Left Parsons of Land
graff, W. Va., are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Parsons.
Miss Ava Ruth Halsey left Wed
nesday for Maryland where she will
spend the summer with her sister,
Mrs. Walter Puckett.
Miss Iva Fowler and Mrs. Alex
Bedwell who are in the hospital at
Winston-Salem, are reported to be
improving.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jess Billings has been sick for sev
eral days.
Mrs. Fred Brown and children of
Amelia, spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs, Bill Hash.
Several from here attended the
Communion meeting at Sparta Sun
day.
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cary
Wagoner Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs.
John R. Halsey, Blanche Busic, Marie
and Bettie Halsey.
Master Wallace Halsey is spending
some time with Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Halsey in Sparta.
PINEY CREEK, ROUTE ONE
(By Wilma Crouse)
Rev. and Mrs. W. N. Parker have
returned to their home in Dryden,
Virginia, after having spent a few
days with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Gilham and
family and Carl Douglas, of Sparta,
Wilma Crouse and Ella Phipps visit
ed at S. M. Mitchell’s Sunday after
noon.
The Quarterly Conference held Sun
day afternoon at Walnut Branch was
well attended. Everyone present
greatly enjoyed the splendid sermon
by Rev. W. E. Poovey, Presiding El
der. There was a good representa
tion from each of the six churches.
3 FLAVORS ICE CREAM
ICE COLD DRAFT BEER—
5 & 10 cents
Sandwiches made like you
like ’Em.
RAYS CAFE
SPARTA, N. €.
Jf AKtfltiKS MAY NOW EASE PA1JN
Of DEBT lUKOUGli I1 ARM At!
W. M. Allen, secretary ox the lo
calh'ederal Land Bank orgamauon is
prepared to furnish any information
desired about the loans authoried by
the recently passed emergency farm
mortgage act.
The act means that it is now pos
sible for farmers to obtain renewals
of old loans and to obtain new loans
through the federal land bank, and
where money is needed (1) to refi
nance indebtedness of farmers; (2)
to provide working capital for farm
operations; (3) to redeem or repur
chase foreclosed farm property.
The act was passed purely and
simply to relieve the financial straits
of the farmer.—The Elkin Tribuin*.
DOUGHTON PROMISES HE
WILL PROBE TAXES
North Carolina’s Representative,
R. L. Doughton, who is chairman of
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee says the recess of Congress will
be spent by a House Committee in a
study of the tax question. They will
find out how the law must be chang
ed to prevent big income tax payers
from deducting so much from their
wealth before reporting property for
taxes. They will also search for new
means of revenue in the hope of re
pealing the federal tax on gasoline
and other excise taxes. Among the
latter is the stamp tax on checks and
legal documents.
The House authoried this commit
tee to spend $5,000 on this matter.
Mr. Doughton says the income tax
law revision alone will save the gov
ernment millions of dollars every
year.—Galax Post.
FIFTH KILLING IN MONTH
TAKES PLACE IN. WILKES
LAST SUNDAY
Noah Brown, Factory Worker, Is
shot Through Heart.
While a large number of Wilkes
county citiens were gathered at the
courthouse in Wilkesboro Sunday af
ternoon discussing ways and means
of combating crime, the fifth Wilkes
killing within a month took place,
at the home *f Rom Dancy, farmer,
near North Wilkesboro.
Noah Brown, 33-year-old factory
employee, was the victim. Dancy
admitted firing the bullet which
pierced his heart. He surrendered
to officers following the shooting and
was placed in jail.
Dancy told police that he killed
Brown while shooting at James
Brooks, a member of a party of men
who were said to have stopped at
Dancy’s home and to have thrown
rocks at him as he sat upon the
porch. Other men in the party were
said to have been Harlow and Pete
Hayes.
Dancy went into the house, he
said, and secured a rifle when he
saw a gun in the hands of one of his
assailants. The bullet from his gun
struck Brown in the heart, killing
him instantly.—The Elkine Tribune.
CAPITAL STOCK TAX
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
has issued the following statement
with respect to the recent law pro
viding for a capital stock tax.
Section 215 (a) of the National
Industrial Recovery Act, approved
June 16, 1933, imposes upon evry
domestic corporation for each year
ending June 30 with respect to carry
ing on or doing business for any part
of such year, an excise tax of $1 for
each $1,0000 of the adjusted declared
value of its capital stock. This act
likewise imposes a similar tax upon
every foreign corporation carrying on
or doing business in the United
States with respect to capital em
ployed in the transaction of its busi
ness in the United States.
The law provides that returns cov
ering capital stock tax for the first
year ending June 30 must be filed
under oath with the collector of in
ternal revenue on or before July 31,
1933, unless an extension of time is
granted by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue with the approval of
the Secretary of the Treasury.
The capital stock tax is imposed
upon every corporation in respect of
the year ending June 30, 1933, if it
carried on or did business during any
part of the period from the date of
the enactment of the act to June 30,
1933, both dates inclusive.
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