....■ I'UHI.IMI.II..H.HI,.. JSJ i THE ALLEGHANY TIMES $1.00 PER YEAR— CASH IN ADVANCE THE ALLEGHANY TIMES Qmii S' •a DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY AND BORDERING COUNTIES Buy Now! HELP THE NRA DRIVE FOR NATIONAL RECOVERY s "El VOL. 9. ALLEGHANY COUNTY, SPARTA, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933. No. 23. Senator Bob Reynolds Urges Repeal In Campaign Address ASSERTS NEED FOR TEMPERANCE AND SOBRIETY “The most damnable thing on earth is liquor,” said Sena* tor Robert R. Reynolds, in his speech for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, in the court house in Sparta Tuesday af ternoon. “There has been liquor since the beginning of the world, and there will be liquor as long as the world stands,” he stated. “The question is how to control it.” Contrary to popular opinion, the Repealists are not fighting for liquor, but how to control it, he asserted. The Senator “threw it” into the whiskey drinkers in no uncertain terms. “Any man who favors liquor is either an idiot or a fool,” and with a fervor of a crusader he asserted the need of temperance and sobriety. He spoke of the harmful effects of strong drink on the body and the mind, and he stated that National Prohibition was the worst thing that this country ever had to happen to it, in that it had bred lawlessness and disrespect for the Constitution. “We are not fighting for the return of liqquor. Liquor has never left us. There is just as much liquor here as there ever was, and more than in the days of the saloon. The prohibition law has filled our jails and peniten tiaries and increased our taxes. We need temperance and sobriety. Vote like you drink. “This is not a controversy between the Church and the other side, at some would make people believe. Re peal ifi the cause of temperance and sobriety. Good church people are in terested in this matter. “Wherever liquor is sold, that place is an open saloon. If that is true, then there are forty thousand open sa loons in North Carolina today. Moth ers and fathers are not going to stand for hypocracy any longer. They know what is gojng on today just as well as I do, and I feel it is my duty to teach the doctrine of sobriety and temperance. What we must do is con trol liquor, collect the taxes there from, and teach temperance. He stated that National Prohibition had cost the government a billioi dollars as well as the lives of abou three thousand officers. The taxes from whiskey, he estimated, would amount to 600 million dollars an nually. “Prohibition has made courts foi the rich, and courts for the poor. Go into any court in the United States, and you will find that the rich, influential man can pay out of a charge of violation of the prohibi tion laws, but the poor fellow must serve his sentence. I’m against any law that doesn’t deal alike with the rich and the poor. “It is not a partisan question and should never have been brought into politics. But since it has, it has made many public men sweat, not perspire but sweat, for they didn’t know which side to stand on. And most of them just straddled the fence. Any man in public life should be ready tc state where he stands on any question which interests his constituents. Peo ple have known where I stood on the prohibition questibn for tjje past ten years. “Prohibition has changed us from a nation of drinkers of light beverages to a nation of drinkers of strong li quors. It will take years of teaching of temperance to get people back to the drinking of\he light and less in jurious beverages. "Let us proceed with progress. The Old North State has the reputation of being the leading State in the South. Let u snot go back on that heritage and be a laggard, so that the finger of scorn will be pointed at us in the years to come. On Novem ber 7, let’s take that old rascal, John Barleycorn, put a rope around his neck, drag him through the streets, and burn him for all the harm he’s done.” FIRST VISIT TO SPARTA The Senator said that this was his first visit to Sparta, but that he had ben to Laurel Springs years ago. He commented on the beauties of this section and said that he was using his influence in Washington to get the Federal Government to build the park to park highway from Wash ington to the Great Smokies. That he said, would bring thousands of tourists and millions of dollars inU; western North Carolina annually. Several times during his speech the Senator was applauded. He appeale. to his hearers with his dramatic pow ers, his lively humor, and his frank ness. He was introduced by Mayoi Ft. F. Crouse, who spoke briefly or the purpose of the meeting. The auditorium of the court house was filled and a number were in the galery. Quite a large percentage ol the group was women. An hour be fore time people began to fill th< court room. The Senator’s party wai late on account of tire trouble, ant W. Carl Irwin brought the Senate: to town. After the speaking he shool hands with most of those present. ALL RELIEF FAMILIES TO SHARE IN FEDERAL PORK It was stated in The Times last week that only widows and cripples would receive any of Uncle Sam’s pig meat, but since then a new regulation has gone into effect and all relief famili lies may share in Uncle Sam’s generosity as long as the 1,065 pounds allotted to Alleghany lasts. C. A. Miles, local director of relief, states that “First comes first served” will be the policy of the relief office. FARM NEWS LETTER (By W. B. Collins, County Agent.) This fall I have had a few orders for some extra good beef cattle at comparatively high prices. This grade of cattle has been hard to locate in the county, and in some instances I was not able to fil the orders satis factorily. Our people have been in the cattle business long enough, and there has been enough price differential in the high and low grades, until we should have only high-grade cattle to sell. Yet more than half of the steer calves that are raised, to make stocker and feeder cattle, have to be sold as plain steers for 15 to 25% less than the top sters. Is there any business that can con tinue to take a 15 to a 2^% loss ev ery year and keep going? The man who is raising common cattle is try ing it. Good cows and good bulls can be bought at low prices, and I have never known a better time to get started to raising good cattle. MRS. INSKEEP IMPROVING Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, of Roaring Gap, who was injured in an automo bile accident on Monday- of last week, is improving. Her cuts and bruises are healing rapidly, but she will be confined to bed in a cast for some time yet on account of a frac tured hip. GOVERNMENT TO BUY BEEF IN EFFORT TO BOST CATTLE PRICES Breeders Selling Beef Below Production Costs. T. M, Calhoun, Elk Creek, chairman of the Grayson County Agricultural Advisory committee, who sent a tele gram to President Roosevelt recently in which he asked the help of the ad ministration in behalf of the cattle in dustry, has received a reply frem the President’s secretary, Louis McH. Howe, who advised Mr. Calhoun that the President was bringing the mat ter to the attention of the department of agriculture. A reply was also received from A. G. Lacy, secretary to Representative T. G. Burch, to whom a copy of the telegram was sent. Announcement was made in Wash ington Tuesday that the Federal gov ernment plans to purchase $15,000,000 worth of surplus beef and butter in an effort to raise the present low price of beef cattle and butter. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, of Vir ginia, one of those who asked that low grade beef be taken off the mar nei oy reaerai purcnases, expressed gratification Tuesday at the announce ment concerning the plans of the re lief administration. Byrd said he urg ed making the purchase because oi "the distressing condition of the cat tle growers.” He pointed out in a talk with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace several days ago that the purchases would tend to increase the price of good beef. Virginia breeders have claimed that they have been selling their beef be low production costs. Grayson Carroll Gazette RELIEF QUOTA FOR C.C.C. WORK WILL LEAVE NOV. 15 Mr. C. A. Miles, acting director of Relief for Aleghany County, in a tele gram from Raleigh yesterday, states that the men enlisted for work in the C. C. C. will be called on Novem ber 15th. Those who have enlisted foi work in the camps will please take note of this date. Aleghany was al lotted a quota of 8 men from the re lief families. MARRIAGE Mr. Clayton Davis and Miss Eve lyn Dancy of North Wilkesobo, were married here Monday afternoon at the home of Mr. F. N. Roupe, Jus tice of Peace. Mr. Roupe officiated. INKA laken Out Of Small Towns By President’s Order Retail Trade Code With Price Control Feature Adopted. tXTn am * A. AO i A \ *■ UI1* . » Wil, V/VW. 4<U-V AX J der the pressure of adverse farm sentiment, NRA today pulled out of the country’s villages and small towns, and announced a protective chain of local tribunals to keep mer chants from hiking prices too high. This first major change in the in dustrial recovery program was taken under an executive order by Presi dent Roosevelt, forecast by a single sentence in his Sunday night address to the nation. An exception under the order was that chain stores, wherever, located, will remain under code regulations also, small factories—those doing in terstate business and those employ ing more than five people—still have NRA watching over them even in the otherwise exempt towns of 2,500 oi less. No Price Control. The order’s issuance coincided with promulgation of the retail trade code which emerged with a price contro provision stripped of the ten per cent mark-up fought by farmer and con sumer representatives alike, but sc phrased as to give the merchant sub stantially the same protection against destructive price-cutting by competi tors. At the same time, also, the Presi dent had made public his own defini tion of the employer’s right to hiri and fire a worker on a basis of merit saying this was quite legal so lon{ as not used as a subterfuge to ous union men, but that it should not bi written into a code. It was the hopi at NRA that this word from th< President would end the long wran gle between spokesmen for industr; and labor over interpretations of th industrial law’s grant of the right t organize, untrammelled by employe interference. Johnson Statement. Recognizing the weigth of farr i sentiment against the price increas I es NRA has caused, Hugh S. Johnsor NRA executive, issued a length '<■ statement on the President’s orde which said that while “it would b T a tragic folloy to turn millions oi the reemployed back on the streets on the argument that thus the cost of living could be reduced,” the ex perience of four months showed the retreat from small towns could be accomplished without loss to the pro gram. Reemployment and wage in creases in the exempted establish ments, he said, were not sufficient to offset the hardship caused the merchants and the farmer. Johnson also spoke in behalf of the price control plan of the retail code: “In recent years, and especially with the growth of chain stores, a practice has grown up of selling one or two items at a loss in order to get people into a store. The little fellow cannot afford this. The public is fool ed, because what it saves on one item ti looses on another. Driven Out. "In the last four years, four hun dred thousand small retailers have been driven out of business, and it is bitterly complained that this so i called ‘loss leader’ was partly tc , blame. For these reasons, the retail . : code provisions that it is an unfaii practice to sell any article for lest than its invoce cost plus at least ■ a portioi) of the wages paid to em ■ ployes in the store. r ) r 1 V r e "This is frankly an experiment. A distinguished committee is to be ap pointed at once to watch closely the operation of this code and to make recommendations on February 1st.” To protect the consumer, city a; well as country, from undue price in creases blamed by profiteers on the recovery movement, the Presiden ordered that investigation be startee immediately “to determine the ex tent t6 which manufacturers and pro ducers have increased prices follow ing, or in anticipation of, the appro val of codes of fair competition, an< to set up adequate organizations fc the handling of complaints agains retail price increases alleged to b contrary to the requirements o codes.” PUBLIC VIGOROUSLY SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S PENALTY D E C R E E NR A Violators Subject Tc Fine and Imprisonment. Washington. Oct. 26- There was un mistakable response from all sections of the country to the President’s no tice that the penalty provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act will be applied to violators of the Presiden tial Reemployment Agreement and tc the codes of fair competition already approved. In many cases the approval was vigorous of the tersely worded Excutive order applying the strong measures of protection the act af fords to the vast majority of the peo ple who respect their obligations un der the Blue Eagle. Section 10 of the Recovery Act, en titled “Rules and regulations”, is con densed in less than 11 lines. But it is specific. It is referred to in the final line of the form of agreement the Pre sident forwarded “To Every Employ er” under date of July 27, under a let ter bearing his name. Subsection (a) authorizes the Pre sident “to prescribe such rules and re gulations as may be necessary to car ry out the purpose of this title, and fees for licenses and for filing codes of fair competition and agreements; and any violation of any such rule or regulation shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed $500 or imprison merit for not to exceed 6 months, or both.” Subsectino (b) reads: “The Presi dent may from time to time cancel or modify any order, approval, licen se,rule, or regulation issued under this title; and each agreement, code code of fair competition, or license approved, prescribed, or issued under this title shall contain an express pro vision to that effect. The term ‘agreemet” precedes the mention of codes The Administrator was authorized to appoint personnel and delegate power to accomplish the purpose ot the order and “to prescribe such ad ditional rules and regulations as he deemed necessary to supplement or carry out the purposes and intent ox the rules and regulations prescribed m paragraphs A and B of this order”, vvhich reads as follows: A. No one shall falsely represent himself to be discharging the obliga tions or complying with the provision of the President’s Reemployment Ag reement or of any Code of Fair Com petition approoved by the President under the National Industrial Recov ery Act or of any rule or regulation prescribed to carry out the provisions of said act. B. No one shall display or use any emblem or insignia or any reproduct ion of any emblem or insignia of the National Recovery Administration contrary to any rules or regulations prescribed hereunder by the Adminis trator for Industrial Recovery. General Johnson’s rules and regu lations designate the Blue Eagle as the NRA emblem; provide that any person who has signed and complies with certificates of compliance may displa and use it, but that when in the judgment of the Administrator or his dul authorized, representative there has been failure to comply or the Blue Eagle was improperl obtain ed, such person shall surrender and thereafter make no further use or display except upon the written per mission of the Administrator. It is further provided that the rules "shall not be construed so as to pre vent the displa or sale by any person whatsoever of goods or packages marked b athers with said emblem as evidence of compliance, except that such display or sale shall not be made in such manner as to indicate compliance by such person.” Both the Executive order and the Administrator’s regulations conclude with the penalty clause, identically woi’ded. Whitehead Citizens To Hold Community Meeting Saturday “A Call to Arms” A mass meeting of the citizens of Whitehead Township will be held at Whitehead school building Saturday 28th at 1:30 P. M. If you want to enjoy the big treat in store for you, bring your families and meet with us. Two prominent women of Winston Salem and three local men of the co unnty will entertain you. These speakers will be interspersed with songs and reciations. 1 The Committee of Ten B. & T. Drug Co. Has Wes ' tern Union Agency The B. & T. Drug Store has the • Western Union Telegraph agency for ■ Sparta and surrounding territory. 1 Messages may be sent or received ' from the drug store. All Western t Union telegrams received will be de 1 livered in SSparta. There are no tele f phone charges in connection with telegrams. DRY FORCES CONFIDENT VICTORY EVE ELECTION Assert Wets Are Making Last Desperate Attempt To Avoid Defeat. rvaieign, Oct. 23—Continued crumpl ing up of the Hindenburg Line of the repeal cause in North Carolina has forced the directors of wet strategy to hurl their last reserves into the breach. Former Governor Garner has issued from Washington a statement in fovor of repeal; Senator Reynolds is to make a hurried dash into some of the western counties and one or two eastern counties; and in addition to previous announcements in the way of sponsorship of Mr. Farley’s forthcoming visit to this state Sena tor Bailey is scheduled to issue short ly a statement in favor of repeal of the 18th Amendment, with sugges tions as to North Carolina’s proper policy in liquor control after repeal. The Dry forces afe chuckling over the re-entrance of Senator Reynolds into the arena. As to the effect of the Reynolds campaign, the. Drys recall a stroy William Jennings Bryan used to tell. A big husky man was the vic tim of occasional scoldings and ani mated assaults by his diminutive wife. When his friends chided him for being so hen-pecked and enduring so submissively the assaults and battery of the little queen of his home, he re plied: “Well, why not? It seems to do her a whole lot of good and doesn’t hurt me at all.” The view is taken by some of the Drys that North Carolina’s Junior Senator has set at least one example worthy of emulation by his fellow citizens back home. The most con spicuous official act of his Senatorial career, they point out, was his grace ful and complete apology one day last June to his feHow-Senators, and to the country, for a most unfortu nate mistake perpetrated by him the day before. The Drys suggest that, taking the cue from the Junior Sen ator’s graceful apology in the Senate, the people of North Carolina from one end of the state to the other go to the polls November 7 and show to the world how gracefully, completely and eloquently they can apologize for their mistake in having sent him to the Senate. Nor do the Drys seem to be taking on much worry over the participation of former Governor Garner in the fes tivities of the campaign. There has been some speculation as to what in fluence his position and prestige would have upon the votres; but no alarm discernible on that account. A certain remark of former Governor Garner made at the State College Al umni luncheon last June is recalled. “State College”, the quotation runs, “will always remain the North Car olinaState College of Agriculture and Engineering and will always be locat ed in Raleigh, if I have any influence left,—and some-thing happened Sat urday to make me think I have”. The something that happened Saturday was the handsome lead in the prima ries of more than 47,000 votes scored by the Ex-Governor’s favorite candi date, Mr. Ehringhaus, over the high est of his two opponents. The "in fluence left” seems however to have pretty nelar ruined his favorite can didate, who won the nomination in the second primary, indeejJ, but only by the narrow margin of a bare 13, 084 votes over his single competitor. Note is also taken of the fact that when Ex-Governor McLean and Ex-Governor Morrison completed their official terms and retired to pri vate life, they very properly refrained from any further efforts to govern the State, generously leaving that function exclusively to their succes sors in office. In connection with Ex rent campaign a number of news papers carried the following comment by their Raleigh correspondent: “There is also reason to beleive that while he (Ex-Governor Gardner) was gratified at the manner in which Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus follow edout many of his policies as gover nor and re-appointed a number of of ficials he had originally appointed, he was not so well pleased with some of the political generalship or lack of it displayed by Governor Ehringhaus in some of his other appointments and official acts. All of these things are lodging into the think-works of the average inde pendent North Carolinian: and there • is no doubt of the fact that quite a i number of them are coming to regard ' the approaching election as likely to ! remove from Mm. Gardner’s mind the , apparent hallucination that he is still 1 Governor of North Carolina. i MR. GROVER WARDEN FATALLY INJURED IN FALL 1 A Telephone message was received j here yesterday morning of the death , of Mr. Grover Warden, of Amelia, in a Statesville hospital there Wednes day morning. Mr. Warden was seri ously injured in a fall from a ladder last week while picking apples. He had gone to the hospital for treat ment and his condition was not con sidered so grave. News of his death comes as a shock to his many friends here. Funeral ar rangements had not been made as The Times went to press. ROOSFVELT “HIGH SPOTS” IN RADIO SPEECH SUNEAY PresidentSpeeks To Nation Over Radio Sunday Evening. WASHINGTON, OCT. 22—(UP)-Significant sentences in President Roosevelt’s outline to the nation of his future financial plans include: “Our troubles will not be over tomorrow, but we are on our way and we are headed in the right direction.” “Government credit will be maintained and a sound currency will ac company a rise in the American commodity price level.” "We are continuing to move towards a managed currency. ... I would not know, and no one else could tell, just what the permanent valuation oi the dollar will lie. To guess at a permanent gold valuation now would certainly require later changes caused by later facts.” • When we have restored the price level, we shall seek to establish and maintain a dollar which will not cl ange its purchasing and debt-paying power during the succeeding generation.” “Our dollar is altogether too greatly influenced by the accidents o{ inter national trade, by the internal policies of other nations and political distur bance in other countries. Therefore, the United States must take firmly in its own hands the control of the gold value of our dollar.” “As a means to this end, I am going to establish a governmental market for gold in the United States. Therefore, I am autohrizing the Recon struction Finance Corporation to buy gold newly-mined in the United States at prices to be determined from time to time after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. Whenever necessary to the end in view, we shall also buy or sell gold in the world market. Tins is a policy and not an experiment.” “It is definitely a part of our policy to increase the rise of commodity prices and to extend it to. those products which have as yet felt no bene fit. If we cannot do this one way, we will do it another. Do it, we wiU.” POSSIBILITY OF NEW SCENIC HIGHWAY NEAR LAUREL SPRINGS E. B. Jeffress, Chairman of the State Highway Commission and Public Works, has written to Ira T. Johnston, Jefferson, and sug gested the possibility of building a scenic highway along the crest of the Blue Ridge from Laurel Springs to Deep Gap. If Built, this highway will be a part of the Crest of the Blue Ridge highway which may be built by the Feder al Government. Concerning this project Mr. Jeffress says: “I am going to Washington next Monday and Tuesday (this week) on invitation of Senator Bailey to discuss the matter with (hose interested in order to do all we can to hasten the construction of this project if it is found fea sible. I do not know what the tentative route is, but it would certainly have to do with connec tion from Laurel Springs to Glen dale Springs and to Deep Gap.” Zone Meeting of Missionary Society Held At Spartc The Zone Meeting of the Ladiei Missionary Society was held at Spar ta Methodist church on Friday, Oct 20. About 35 delegates from the foui societies in this zone were presen The following pprogram was given Devotiohals, Rev. C. W. Russell. Address of Welcome, Mrs. T. J Carson. Response, Mrs. J. Armburst. Special Music, Miss Margarei Cheek and Mrs. Higgins, with Mis: Lambert at the piano. Talk, “Prohibition,” Rev. S. Taylor Talk, Mrs. J. B. Henderson. Roll Call, Reports, etc. Lunch Devotional, Mrs. J. L. Woltz. Special music, Mrs. C. W. Higgins and Miss Margaret Cheek. Paper, “Temperance,” Mrs. C. W Russell. Talk, “Mission Study,” Mrs. J. C Reins. Talk, "Spiritual Life,” Mrs. P. J Bra me. Mrs. T. J. Carson was appointed Mission Study Leader for the zone, and Mrs. C. W. Higgins was appoint ed assistant secretary of “Spiritual Life” for the zone. The next meeting will be held At Zion, near North Wilkesboro. Alleghany litizen Invents Number Of Articles Alleghany County has a citizen in the person of H. Woodruff who util izes his spare time in inventing use ful articles. For the past three years Mr. Woodruff has been working out the details of a number of inventions which he conceived. During this time he has invented a self-lighting cigar ette, a spraying-attachment for trac tors, and a garden weeder. At the present he is seeking a patent on an improved garden weeder. Those who have seen the weeder tried say that it is a big improvement over any on the market. For some time Mr. Woodruff has been generating electricity for lights by means of a small dynamo attached to a windmill. This device furnishes light for his home near Cherry Lane. SPARTA STREET TO BE WIDENED The work of widening and sur facing with gravel the street leading from Highway 18 at Glenn Edwards’ Store will begin immediately. This project has just been approved by Mrs.Thom as O’Berry, State Administrator of Relief, and the work will Ik* done with labor employed thru the relief office here. SAYS THAT “TIMES” ARE NOT SO HARD George McKee Tells of Con ditions in His Boyhood And Youth. (George McKee, of Anderson, S. C., in New Era of Bandera, Tekas) Don’t talk to me about hard times. I was born eight miles from a rail, road, five miles from a schoolhouse, nine miles from a church, 885 miles from New York, 200 yards from a wash hole and 15 feet from a corn field. Our nearest neighbors lived two miles away and they couldn’t bead or j write. I never saw a suit of under I wear until I was 17 years old, and that revelation didn’t belong to any body in our family. The only books in the house were a Bible and a catalog. There were 12 members of our fam ily, but, you see, we had three rooms to live in, including a dining room, which was also the kitchen. Every body worked at our house. We thought everybody else in the world l had gravy and bread for breakfast, , liver and cracklin’ hoecake for dinner, buttermilk and corn pone for supper, ’cause that’s what we had. Some of us wore brogan shoes oc casionally in the wintertime. We had ' nice shirts for summertime use. We slept on straw ticks, and pillows were not thought of or required. I didn’t know that money would rattle until I was nearly grown. Father got hold of two half-dollars at the same time, | and let us hear them rattle. taxes were no higher, but harder to pay. We owned two kerosene lamps, neither of which had a chimney. Our house wasn’t ceiled, but two of our rooms had lofts in them. We had a glass window in our “company” room. Our nicest piece of furniture was a homemade rocking chair Our beds were of the slat or tight-rope variety. We went to school two or three months in the year, but not a bus. We attended church once a month, but not in a car; we used a two mule wagon. We dressed up on Sun days, but not in silks or satins. We sopped our own molasses; we ate our own meat; we considered rice a delicacy for only the preachers to eat; we had heard of cheese, but never saw any; we knew of some store bought clothes, but never hoped to wear any; we got a stick of candy and three raisins for Christmas nad were happy; we loved ma and pa and were never hungry, enjoyed going naked, didn’t want much, expected nothing. And that’s why our so-called hard times ain’t hard on me. PROTECTION OF PUBLIC CHIEF FUNCTION OF NRA Washington. Oct. 26- IN discussing “Underlying Principles of NRA” at Wellesley Hills, Mass., General Coun sel Richburg* said to a convention of economists: “The rights of organized labor have beenwritten into this law, not for the benefit of any class of people but for the protection of all the peo ple from abuses of economic power. The economic powers of labor organi zations cannot be abused and exerted contrary to the public interest under this law any more than the economic powers conferred on trade associa tinos can be abused. Each group of employers and each group of employ ees is expected to exercise a correc tive influence to prevent abuses of the liberties whish are granted to every other group; and the Govern ment stands ready to insure that no group shall coerce any other group and no combination of groups shall ex ploit the public.”
