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The Alleghany Times H. B. Zabriskie .. . Editor and Publisher Mrs. Sidney Gambill . Local News Editor Published Every Thursday at Sparta, North Carolina, and entered at the Sparta, N. C., Post Office as Second Class Mattter. Subscription Rate: One Dollar a Year, Strictly in Advance Thursday, January 25, 1934. A New Page In This Paper’s History With this issue of The Alleghany Times a new page is turned in the paper’s history, for it comes to you from a new publisher. Last week, Erwin D. Stephens, who has been publishing the paper for the past several months, sold his interest in it to the writer whose name appears above. Words of praise for the improvement which Mr. Stephens made in the paper have been heard on all sides by the new publisher and he hopes that he will be able to continue giving the subscribers a paper that will please them as well as the paper which Mr. Stephens published. Readers will notice quite a change in the dress and make-up of the paper. This is due to the fact that starting with this issue, the paper is being printed in the new publisher’s plant in Galax, Virginia, where the Grayson-Carroll Gazette is published. It is not the new owner’s present, intention to aban don the plant in Sparta if satisfactory arrangements can be worked out to continue it. The sale of the newspaper included only a small part of the mechanical equipment and negotiations must be entered into to retain the present equipment and obtain other needed machinery. The new publisher’s policy will be to publish an independent newspaper that will print the newrs of Alle ghany county and, also, items of more than ordinary interest from throughout the State and the Nation. Naturally, being a county paper, it will cover the Sparta and Alleghany county news first,—and in detail. Import ant State and National news will be covered as fully as space will permit. The new publisher bespeaks the cooperation of the people of Alleghany county and assures them that he will be ready and willing at all times to devote space to further any cause that will be for the progress and bet terment of the county. America Is Going To School There is moi-e interest in politics, in the broad sense, in America today than there probably has been at any time since the earliest days of the Republic. But it is politics with a difference. Political discussion in the past has centered mainly on personalities and parties. Today it centers around ideas. Not since the Bryan campaign of 1896 have ideas been so dominant, then, as now, everybody was dis cussing lhe vCt iints of money and the silver question, t; Hut to-. ' ’ tjscussions among men in the street !'■ cover a fa ,vid, :■ ; ,.nge. There is an immense popular education in j>. •.. • out of which the American people . rc bound to emerge with a broader and sounder under standing of economic principles than most of us have ~e~Ver had before. One reason why ideas rather than personalities are in the saddle is the fact that President Roosevelt has sur rounded himself with scholars, men who have made a lifelong study of fundamentals, of sociology and eco nomics. It is easy to sneer at the “Brain Trust” but if we really believe that all college professors are ignoram uses, then why do we bother to sesnd our sons and daughters to college? Those who profess to look with contempt upon learning are usually inspired by envy; they cannot tolerate the idea that someone else knows more than they do. There is no longer any doubt that our whole social, economic and political scheme of things is being made over into something which, to most of us, will be both new and strange. It is therefore all to the good that so many people are debating with such eager interest the principles and purposes as well as the methods whereby the New Deal is being put into effect. They are pre paring themselves to live in a reorganized society. Those Unproductive Farms We have been greatly interested in Professor Ray mond Tugwell’s exposition of the program for taking unproductive land out of use. Professor Tugwell, as assistant Secretary of Agriculture and a trained econom ist, is keenly alive to the unsatisfactory state of farming and looks forward to a time when all land on which it is difficult or impossible to make a living through farming will be taken over by the Government or the States and converted into parks and forests, or else de voted solely to residential purposes for those who have other sources of income. € peen taKen m matdirection, out ds to be done if this beneficial plan in its completeness. It is not some ■ done in a hurry. A full human em to us to be about as short a ccomnlished in. For. regardless of __ niaKe a* living on it or not, most people feel — a Ueep attachment to the land on which they live, and will consent to move or be moved only under the sever est sort of pressure. lhe iarmers who will larm tne productive land win be mainly those who now own those farms, or their descendants. Possibly there is still some good agricul tural land that can be brought into efficient production through irrigation, but there is hardly enough of it to settle all the present occupants of bad farms on good farms. Professor Tugwell reports that the 28 percent of American farms which are classed as worthless produce only 2 percent of the marketable crops. We wonder whether Mr. Tugwell and the other eminent economist and statisticians concerned take any account whatever of the human factors involved. They are looking on farming as a commercial enterprise, whereas to probably the majority of farmers it is a mode of liviRg, with cash crops of secondary consequence. We think that before the whole present scheme of agriculture can be changed there will have to be some alterations in human nature. f and which con tains Four Great Treasures Cl ® -B'^RTUR MONUMENT TO MOSES The Ten Commandments ape, of course, the outstanding monu ment to Moses’ wisdom and in fluence. Read them over. How direct; how simple; how free from superfluous or trivial injunctions. They drive straight at the heart of human and divine relationships, and are the corner-stone upon which the nations have erected their legal and ethical codes. But they are not the only survival of Moses’ leadership. The long, carefully molded Mosaic Law is hardly less remarkable. It em braces both a civil and a criminal code and foreshadowed by cen turies not only our modern juris prudence but much of our mod ern health regulation and medical practice. On the civil side there is pro tection of property and reputa tion. There are exemption laws providing that the outer garment of a poor man, given by him in >pawn, shall be returned to him ai night; providing that the land | that has been mortgaged and forfeited shall be restored to the family at the end of a period of years; laws punishing libel and protecting the good name of man ai d woman. There are laws pro viding that a poor man’s wages are not to be retained to his in jury. On the other hand judges are warned not to favor a poor man but to render equal justice. Taxes were light and levied in proportion to a man’s property, but there was one tax concerning v.hich it was provided that the rich should not be permitted lo pay more nor the poor allowed to pay less. It was a small tax, but.it represented manhood and self-respect. Some of the regulations went far beyond ordinary legal linn > ar.d prescribed the conduct of a gentleman: Thou s'halt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before I i THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (continued from front page) the monetary use of silver be cause I believe that we should gain more knowledge of the re sults of the London agreement and of our other monetary meas ures.” The remonetization of silver is regarded by many of the Presi dent’s advisers as the most im portant factor in the restoration of world prices. Serving Notice The hope of the Administration is, however( that the definite fix ing of a top price for gold, serv ing notice on all the world that the dollar is now worth no more than sixty percent of its former value, will go a long way toward removing uncertainties which have kept private capital in hiding. Every holder of gold securities now knows that he cannot get more than GO percent of their former gold value for them. Every creditor knows that dollars he is going to collect from his debtors will be worth only six tenths of what they were if the standard of measurement be gold. But the Administration’s view is that a dollar will remain a dol lar so long as it is backed by the credit of the Government, and that that credit has not been im paired, nor is it likely to be im paired so long as the immense gold reserve behind the currency is maintained. Whether or not this latest monetary move will have the ef fect of raising domestic prices is another question, yet to be an swered. It may or it may not. It may turn out, as many of his advisers have told the President, that nothing which the United States can do by itself will raise prices so long as the world price of our exportable surpluses re mains low, and that world price can only be raised by international action. the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. . . . Thou shalt not go up and do,' r, as a talebearer. . . . Thou shalt not Hate thy brother in thine heart. . . Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of -the old man, and fear thy God; I am the Lord. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. The criminal code was severe and swift, but inflexibly just. Life was protected and murder punish ed with death. Even accidental homicide did not go without pen alty to him by whose carelessness it occurred, but he was not con demned to death. The sanitary code was extend ed, minute and enforced with strict penalties. Can you imagine the feat of bringing a horde of escaped slaves across a wilderness without losing them by dysentery, typhoid fever or hook-worm? It was made possible by a simple but powerfully effective system of sewage disposal. The isolation of communicable diseases and the strict disinfection under priestly supervision prevented the spread cf plagues. ,4 WUL Less and Less Landlady — “Really, with all these gjoings-on we must be pre pared for anything.” Hungry Boarder—“Yes, Mrs. Prune; or at any rate for hardly anything.” —o— Boom for the Mortician Mother—Did I see you kissing that young Allen last night? Beryl—The poor boy said he had just lost an uncle and I felt i so sorry for him. Mother—If 1 know anything about that young man he won’t have a relative left in a week’s time. —o— Out of Control Bobbie—“Uncle, you aren’t married, are you?” Uncle—“No I’m not. Why?” Bobbie—“Then who do you have to tell you all the things you can’t do?” A Fast Train “Is this supposed to be a fast train? The advertisements said it was,” remarked the excursion ist to the conductor of the Chicago Limited. “Yes, of course,” answered the conductor. “I thought it must be,” said the passenger. “Would you mind my getting off and seeing what it is fast to?”—-Pathfinder. Laurel Springs Laurel Springs, Jan. 23.— Wilmer Fender and Mitchell raylor spent Thursday night and Friday at Whitetop on business. Mrs. Tommy Moxley, who has been very ill with bronchitis, is improving. The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brown, who was ill with pneumonia last week, has suffered a relapse and is very sick again. The play given at Laurel Fork school house Friday night by the Peek Creek talent was very good. A large number of persons at tended. Mrs. F. Miller has been con fined to her home for the past few days with a severe cold. Those attending the dance given by Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Spicer Saturday night, January 20, were as follows; C. J. Spicer, Grace, Dorothy and Fay Taylor, George Shepherd, Glenn Miller, John Myers, John Long, Agnes and Margaret Shepherd, Maxie and Catherine Roberts, Akra Hop pers, Mr. and ' Mrs. Ivory John son, Mrs. Stella Miller, Lorraine Miller, Bart, Jess and Harden Taylor, Ruth and Nell Owens, Glenn Owens, Bruce Shepherd, Robert Joines, Wayman Combs, Helen Spicer and Bryan Taylor. Mr. and. Mrs. G. W. Spicer will move to Lenoir this week where they expect to make their home. Fred Mabe spent the week-end with Dean and Andrew Taylor. Mrs. Nannie Tedder and son, Junior, have been visiting rela tives in Crumpler, W. Va., for the past week. Misses Dorothy and Grace Tay lor spent Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Richardson near Schatville. Mrs. Charity Taylor visited Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Taylor during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Will Bell and son, John, visited Mrs. Bell’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Poe, of West Jefferson, Sunday. C. J. Spicer, of Grassy Creek, visited his father and mother here during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Cas Spicer an nounce the birth of a baby daugh ter, Monday. Whitehead Whitehead, Jan. 23.—Mr, and Mrs. Jessie Combs, of Maryland, are visiting Mrs. Combs’ sister, Mrs. Claude Halloway, who has been ill. Those who visited at the home of W. M. Cleary last Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Homer Caudill, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Caudill and Mrs. Celia Caudill and children. Homer Joines, of Maryland, is visiting his father, Henderson Joines. Mrs. Claude Halloway, who has been ill with pneumonia, is slowly improving. Mrs. Sallie Joines is ill. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Edwards visited Mr, Ewards’ sister, Mrs. Bettie Andrews, last week. SIMre - ^ ^fHVCS" ■ S,f*ce | TUBMtr, . 5 " ’» ««Wt% CAMELS COSTLIER TOBACCOS YOU CAN SMOKE THEM STEADILY. . 8ECAUSE THEY NEVER GET ON YQUR NERVES . . N EVER TIRE YCUR TASTE ’ AMAZE A MINUTE SOENTIFACTS ^ BY ARNOLD Qhe Friendship Boundary (Line The 115. - Cakam boundary une took BOO MEN A PATH SO FEET TO LAV OtfT, THROUGH 300 MACS Of DENSE FOREST, MON PILLARS DEMO PLACED AT "W ZEmI Gnat Wings | ■ m § The wingsi of a gnat flap i5,0OO TIMES PEP SECOND, BEiNG SO THIN THAT over 60,000 placed on one another vvoolo only be 0NE-00SRTER INCH THICK. ThE PI OVER BIRD, A WELCOME FRIEND OF THE CROCODILE, FLYS INTO THE MONSTERS OPENED MOOT* and picks his teeth clean. ICPVr'H"’ pt 7 ft HMi ifMKHt. lAL I Turkey Knob Sparta P. O., Jan. 23.—Mrs. J. L. Landreth, assisted by friends and neighbors, gave a surprise dinner on Sunday, Jan uary 21, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Landreth, that day being their 59th birthday anniversay. A long table was erected on the lawn and was covered with good things to eat. About 100 guests were present. After dinner the guests were entertained by string music furnished by Charles B. Shepherd and little daughters and Harvey Irwin. The family of Lawrence Reeves has been sick with flu. Mrs. Charity Parsons and children spent the week-end in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Dorothy Young spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young at Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Delp an nounce the birth of a daughter on January 22. See Castevens Motor Co. for radio batteries, tubes and ser vice.—adv. Reins - Sturdivant Funeral Home Ambulance Service Day or Night Licensed Embalmers SPARTA, N. C. Telephone 22 GOODYEAR PATHFINDER 55 up QUALITY wftM* Mock of ell 5 GOODYEAR SPEEDWAY WHAT PRICE SHOULD YOU PAY? Three tires—each a guaranteed Goodyear—three ^2* prices (if we illustrated Heavy Duty Goodyears there would be five prices!)—which is the best buy for you ? » » » The answer depends on how hard and how far you will drive your car. Our experience is at your call to help you decide. But no matter what you pay you’ll get the best buy at that price when you get a Goodyear. Giving the greatest value gives Goodyear the greatest sales of any make. GOOD#tEAR ALLEGHANY MOTOR SALES ROAD SERVICE PHONE 20. SPARTA, N. C. “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES”—A1 And Eddie Face A Cri»i« -By POP MOMAND IT AIMT r^KjMT H: WHY SHOULD CLARICE <SET SoRE IF WE CAJNTT AFFORD a maid? well LET HER STAY MAD — SHE can't bulldoze me READY ? where's TH' Ol-' I CXjNMO,AI_--^V6 SEEM AFRAID TO ASK TH' WAY SHE'S FIND QUT.". I'M HUN6RY !!• - - ER-YOO BETTER. Come WITH me <• im n tw
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