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The Alleghany Times H. B. Zabriakie . Editor and Publisher Mr*. 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, April 26, 1934. A Record To Be Proud Of Among many enviable records established by students in Sparta high school is an outstanding one set by three -wjJ-n of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Me. Reeves, who live near These three, the oldest of whom is completing th grade this year, have made the Honor Roll month since beginning the current school term, ne exception (one child failed to make it one le three children, the parents and the school are to be congratulated for this achievement, also the county for its potential citizens. A Need—An Opportunity The greatest potential business development in this country today is that of building, equipping and fur nishing better homes, according to the “American Builder.” “Recent official surveys show,” says the “American Builder,” “that millions of Americans live in homes without plumbing of any kind—without kitchen sinks, running water, indoor toilets or bathtubs. Rural homes are particularly bad in this respect—-lack of modern conveniences and comforts is the rule in many sections, rather than the exception.” And more than half of the ■vxfe© population of the nation, the publication states, HvW in houses that do not meet the accepted require ments for a decent level of living. Here is a great need—and a great opportunity. it s n&t only an opportunity for^ raising standards of housing, but for providing jobs and payrolls, for stimulating a f .thousand industries, for putting money into circulation 4 * _1_. ^ fno lAhfi PTI America needs homes—and she needs the jobs and investment opportunities that home construction and mod ernisation will provide. When the boom starts, costs are going to rise—and ri3c. :'ast. Supplies and materials and skilled labor will, a > compared with present levels, be at a premium. Ihe wiseeproperty owner, by building and repairing now, can spur; recovery—and, at the same time, obtain a genuine bargain for himself. Does War Pay? The cost of the World War ran into the hundreds of billions of dollars. The depression which followed came largely because of the expenditure of treasuie foi destruction and war expenses. The nations involved, one and all, would have probably been better off today if the struggle had been avoided by a reasonable and fair compromise. It has often been charged that manufacturers inter ested in the sale of war materials contribute towards buiiding and maintaining a belligerant sentiment in human hearts. Unquestionably, war means more profits • certain groups of manufacturing enterprises. Senator lye%f North Dakota, recently made a comparison of the jfofits of certain large companies in the United States during the two periods of four years each, one quadren niura being during peace and the other during war. The figures are interesting: Four Peace . Year Profits U>S. Steel ..$105,000,000 Dupont ..- . 6,000,000 Bethlehem Steel ..-. 6,000,000 ■* An conda Copper . 10,000,000 Vfitah Copper .. 5,000,000 American Smelting and Refining .. 11,000,000 5>Iic Iron and Steel . 4,000,000 * Marcantile Marine .... 6,000,000 ,Jsis Powder . 485,000 'cules Powder. 1,000,000 |i >s-Bement Powder .......... 656,000 ' .rill Mfg. Co. 655,000 eieral Motors . 7,000,000 —,— If it were possible to take all profit out of war we i certain that there would be many less such strug •s. Not only the profit from manufacturing com plies but the profit from the victorious nation, as well, fact, even the victor does not profit by war but usually 'll certain spoils in territory or otherwise which mis lg it into believing the venture to have been profit uj Removing the profit from any evil will inevitably in less popularity for the evil. "Four War Year Profits $289,000,000 58,000,000 49.000. 000 34.000. 000 21.000. 000 18,000,000 17.000. 000 14.000. 000 2,000,000 7.000. 000 6.000. 000 7,000,000 21.000. 000 The Family Doctor By John Joseph Gaines, M. D. he being utterly helpless. There is much of vital A CASE REPORT hemorrhage! How the us—a bursted vessel brain> causing paraly may well be in It’s a “grown person’s deal with it, either as man or patient, called to see a neigh 65 years. A man of habits; no over heart disease—no He had been sweep a porch. to put out to speak co Very weak—the right limb perfectly limp and It all came without within fifteen minutes, family weeping—the had had a "stroke.” Of course we got him ■adccssed and put him to bed, utterly helpless. import ance in the management of these cases, that the family should un derstand. It is necessary to keep all indication of alarm from the patient,—sometimes hard to do. Commonly all the relatives and neighbors crowd about the bed Of “course the family physician must be summoned, and a good nurse is worth her weight in gold in such emergencies. Be sure and remember that no emotion whatever must be displayed in the presence or hearing of the patient. Of course the outcome is re lated to the extent of the hemor rhage and the general condition of the patient. A temperate life here bears valuable fruit. If you get out of the affair with a live patient you consider yourself fortunate. The leg may “come back,” but the arm may be damaged for life. My patient is doing well. and which con tains Four Great Treasures ALWAYS A RIGHTEOUS MAN In every wicked reign there was a righteous man of God who could be neither bribed nor in timidated. He stood forth cry ing “Thus saith the Lord,” and Though the king writhed and fum ed and sought to destroy, the prophet was the victor. The first of this exalted com pany was Nathan, who was court preacher in the reign of David. When that mighty monarch had stolen the wife of the brave sold ier Uriah and compounded the crime by sending Uriah into the front line of the battle, Nathan appeared at the court and an nounced that he had come to tell the king a story. There were two men in a certain city, he said, the one rich, having many flocks and herds, and the other so poor that he possessed only one little ewe lamb. And the rich man, de siring a bancjuet, had spared all of his own big flocks and appro priated the poor man’s one lamb. And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord Uy eth, the man that hath done this thing .shall surely die. . . And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Picture to yourself the spec tacle. The king on his golden throne surrounded by his lords and soldiers; the penniless preach er, clothed in rough skins, with no power but Truth, no protec tion but the flaming sword of moral courage. “Thou art the man.” The effect was immediate. And David said unto Nathan, I ha\e sinned against the Lord, and David fasted, and went in, This Week In Washington (continued from front page) protests from industry and busi ness .against some of the code in terpretations. It is too soon to say that “NRA has broken down,” as many business interests con tend, but in practice it is not proving the benefit that it was ex pected to be. Turn To Economic Stability Much thought is being given to the effort to work out a satis factory plan to encourage home building, but without any success so far. Ther^ is also cooking up some program for aiding the so called “capital goods” industries, meaning the makers of machines and equipment which are not consumed but are used to make consumable goods. The feeling is growing, even inside the Administration, that the time has come to let up on social reforms and concentrate more on economic stability and re-employment. One strong stimu lant to that line of thinking is the doubts raised by Dr. Wirt’s warning as to whether or not all the social reforms have a prac tical, workable basis, or may have the effect, intentionally or not, of slowing down economic recov ery. Washington is more crowded than ever before. The past year has been a wonderful harvest time for Washington hotel-keep ers, and the climax came with the annual cherry-blossom festival, when there was not a single room in the city available for the late arriving visitors. Light Opening Irate Business Man—You book agents make me so mad with your confounded nerve and im pudence that I just can’t find words to express my feelings. Agent—Then I’m the very man you need. I’m selling dic tionaries. “And now, ladies and gentle men, I just want to tax your memory,”—said the orator. “Good heavens!” exclaimed one of his hearers. “Has it come to that!” and lay all night upon the earth. After Nathan came Elijah the Tishbite, a hairy man, living alone in the woods, drinking the water of mountain streams, and fed by ravens- He it was who stood out against the four hun dred prophets of the religion of Baal which the wicked Queen Jezebel had imported, and chal lenged them bo a life and death contest. They were to build their altar and lay their sacrifice thereon; he would lay a similar sacrifice on the altar of the Lord. Whichever god sent down fire from Heaven was the one who de served to be worshiped. From morning until noon the false prophets leaped upon their altar, calling out to Baal, while Elijah taunted them. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked. At evening when the four hun dred had proved their inability to deliver the goods, Elijah laid up his own altar, placed the sacrifice on it. stacked up the wood, and poured water over it to make the test harder. Then he prayed. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; ihe Lord, he is the God. Sparta “Hi” Honor Roll, Seventh Month Following is a list of Sparta high school students who were eligible for the Honor Roll fo>r the seventh month of the current term! First grade! Mozelle Andrews, Wanda Blevins, Glenna Duncan, Ruth Evans, Eva Edwards, Kath leen Harris, Morine McKnight, Lucille Mitchell, Ruth Smith and Thomas Zack Osborne. Second grade: Hattie Cook, Mary Ross, Anna Rose Reeves, Jessie Sexton, Dorothy Truitt, Jessie Gwyn Woodruff, Dean An drews, Gene Blevins, Billy Car roll Choate, Coy Chambers, Char lee Doughton, Reeves Edwards, M. A. Goodman, James Hardin, John Higgins, Jr., Raymond Miles, Jr. James Dee McKnight, Bobby McMillan, Ray Smith, Jr., Jack Sexton, Charles Thompkins, Raymond Woodruff and Bert Wagoner. Third grade: James Settle, Claudine Edwards, Virginia Gen try, Blanche Hendrix, Melba Hughes, Katherine McMillan, Iris Poole, Ethel Poole, Doris Rich ardson, Inez Warden, Irene Bass and Lee Nichols. Fourth grade: Mildred , Wago ner, Emogene Choate, Wanda Choate, Anita Duncan, Freddie Sue Sexton, David Easterling, Jones Andrews, R. C- Mitchell, Jimmy Atwood, R, A. Wagoner, Jr. Fifth grade: Ruby Atwood, Vila Atwood, Edith Caudill, Hattalene Edwards, Nellie Goodman, Mar jorie Halsey, Texie Hoppers, Mar jarie McMillan, Lois M. Reeves, Donese Russell, Rose Wagoner, Bill Collins, Guy McCann and Vern Smith. Sixth grade.: Mary Warren, Louis Irwin, Frank Osborne, Van cine Choate, Emoryetta Reeves, Shirley McMillan and Frances Wrench. Seventh grade; Ella Edwards, Edna Edwards, Virginia Joines, AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS -a- BY ARNOLD Raining fish/ A SHOWER OP PISH OCCURRED in England, i9is, when a shoal OP PISH WERE CAUGHT IN A WATER £4 SPOUT AND SWEPT INLAND SY A STRONG WIND US* American dialects SCI&NTISTS ARE COM POSING A LINGUISTIC ATLAS OF THE U.S., GIVING REGIONAL PRONUNCIATIONS, WORD USAGE! VI -- A FAAAIlvquarrel The two heads of a turtle found in Florida ACTUALLY FIGHT OVER THE SAME FOOD FOR ITS SINGLE STOMACH. _ Lucille Pugh, Verna Weaver, | Alma York, John Walker In-1 skeep, James Church, Eighth grade: Hattie Maines, Ethel McCann, Ruth McMillan, Sophia Choate, Ernest Edwards, Jay Sexton, L,ewis Jarvis, Ilene Kilby. Ninth grade: Mary Bennett, Florence Warren, Susie Osborne, Imogene Miles, Rose Richardson, Grace York and Mary Cecile Hig gins. Tenth grade: Leo Irwin, Ruth Hines, Mattie Lou Edwards, Wanda Edwards, Edna Walls, Ruby York, Ora Goodman, Sadie Crouso, Everette Richardson, Claude Sexton and Jennie Hines Eleventh grade: Mary Eunice Osborne, Bower Irwin, Tom Black, Johnson Sanders, Mildred Taylor and Robert Edwards. To The Voters Of AlleghanyCounty: At the request of many voters I will be a candi date for the''nomination as the Democratic candidate for Sheriff at the next June primary, subject to the decision of a majority of those entitled to vote in said primary under the regulations prescribed by law. April 4, 1934. R. B. McMillan | “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES”—The Sailor’s Unseen Audience Reports -By POP MOMANP | -THAT -SAU-OR has a voice LU<e A F06 V: x don't Hew CAM STAT klTCHSN WH6KJ HE StMOS 4
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