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The Alleghany Times H. B. Zabriskie .. Editor and Publisher tllre, Sidney Gambill . Local News Editor Published Every Thursday at Sparta, North Carolina, ami entered at the Sparta, N. C., Post Office as Second Class Mattter. Subscription Rate: One Dollar a Year, Strictly in Advance Thursday, May 3, 1934. Schools Versus Taxes o Many people in Alleghany county are under the apprehension that a cut in the costs of operating our schools would mean a decrease in the taxes they would pay. Many argue that our teachers are paid too much. Looking at the matter from a mathematical standpoint, the following figures will show that we are the last peo ple who should complain of the cost of education in Alleghany county. Figures do not lie. The 1933 session of the General Assembly did away with the fifteen cent ad valorem tax on land and/ other property. It abolished all special tax districts. Alle ghany county paid in the year 1933 the sum of $10, 563.00 in ad valorem taxes toward the support of schools. The other contributions toward the school sys tem that we made were: fines and forfeitures, two-thirds of the amount collected as poll taxes, and the amount collected as dog taxes, less the amount that was uaeld by the Board of Commissioner's in the payment for sheep killed by dogs. The latter items have remained un changed. But instead of the $10,563.00 paid in ad valorem taxes in 1933, the first six months of this year the sum of $2,510.00 was collected in the county as sales tax. Figuring the last half of the year on the same basis, the total sum of $5,020.00 will be paid by the sales tax. This shows a saving to the taxpayers of $5,543,00 for this year on account of this substitution. The estimated contributions made by our taxpayers for the year 1934 are: $5,020.00 by the sales tax; $1,500.00 in poll taxes; $100.00 in fines and forfeitures; $400.00 in dog taxes, making a total of $7,020.00, which amount is the total amount paid to run our eight-months schools. The records of the office of the County Superin tendent show that the first seven months cost $31,737.81 and the eighth month will cost $3,683.00. There is yet outstanding approximately $250.00 for fuel bills and incidental expenses, agricultural training cost, $1,912.48, Home Economics cost $160.00; making a grand total of $38,425.29. This represents the amount sent from Ral eigh to maintain our eight-months school term. We paid, or shall have paid, as shown above, a grand total of approximately $7,020.00, which means that we receive in the county $31,405.29 more than we pay towards the support of our schools. In other words, taxpayers in industrial or more wealthy counties contributed the sura of $31,405.29 toward running our county schools for the year 1933-34. The amount we pay for our school system is depend ent only upon the amount of sales tax, dog tax, poll tax, and fines and forfeitures collected in the county. The amount that is spent depends upon the expense of the schools, the salary and number of the teachers. For example, a teacher making $100.00 per month costs the individual taxpayers of the county no more than a teacher making $50.00 per month, and for every dollar we con tribute to the support of our schools this year we received back into the county, as salaries and expenses, five and one-half dollars. The amount paid by the taxpayers of the county would not support one of the high schools for one term. The Cotton Experiment Probably the outstanding undertaking of the present era is the effort now being made to control the cotton crop by law. The Government, under the Bankhead act, practically tells the cotton growler, large or small, just how much cotton he can sell. Under this new law each cotton grower will be given an allotment of the number of bales he can market. If he grows or offers to market any more than his allotment he will have to pay a penalty tax high enough to take whatever profit he might have made from the sale of his quota. The theory of limiting production is, of course, to get a higher price for the producer for what he does raise. That is what lies back of the wheat, corn-hog and tobacco control measures, which, however, are voluntary agreements on the part of the growers. No man needs to join in these unless he wishes to, and he gets his compensation for limiting production out of a processing tax paid by the handlers. In practice, we have wondered whether this method would ever be successful, human nature being what it is. We think the principle behind the Bankhead law is, in some respects, preferable to the bonus system under the other crop-control laws. In the long run it is better for any human being to get his profit as a direct result of his own labors rather than as a bonus. If the cotton plan works, the price of cotton will go high enough so a bonus will not be needed, and the process tax need not be levied. That is all to the good. Anything which eliminates any form of taxation is al ways good. There is much speculation as to the success of the cotton program, though, affecting as it does millions of planters whose independence and individualism have been unquestioned for years. However, the present law was enacted only after an overwhelming expression..,of opin ion on the part of cotton growers who had already signed agreements to rigorously reduce the crop for the current year. In the face of their voluntary participa tion in a reduction program, it is their idea that no selfish minority of planters should be allowed to jeopar dise the success of the voluntary undertaking and, for that reason, they support reduction of the crop by law. Moreover, the average cotton grower recalls num erous efforts on the part of agricultural leaders to put over cotton reduction programs but they also remem ber the uniform failure that has resulted largely be cause there is always a minority willing to operate on a “lone wolf” basis and take advantage of the reduc tions made by others. For this reason, most of those who were anxious for a reduction in the cotton crop realized that it must be accomplished by law, be com pulsory upon all and be enforced by adequate machin ery if there was to be any prospect of success. Farmers in other parts of the United States will no doubt watch with much interest the experiment un meOQK , . . the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which con tains Four Great Treasures -B-R U C£ ® -B A-k I UR WHEN PROPHETS SPOKE The prophets seem to have come in pairs— Amos and Hosea; Isaiah and Micah; Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Micah was a down-state man who had the same prejudice against Jerusalem that many peo ple now feel toward New York. It was hopelessly wicked, he said, and merited destruction for its sins: Therefore shall Zoin for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. Isaiah, on the contrary, was a city man, loving town life, at home in the bustles of the mar ket-place and the activities of the court. Jerusalem was a grand town to live in, he said, in spite of its sin, and God would take care of it. Therefore Faith the Lord . . . I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. These two quotations encour-. •age us with the knowledge— much needed in these controver sial days—that two men can be equally good and acceptable to God and yet hold absolutely con tradictory views. Micah and Isaiah agreed in their stern in sistence upon righteousness as the only path to salvation, but they disagreed violently in respect to Jerusalem. Both were right and both wrong. God did defend the city for a long time after the northern kingdom surrendered to its enemies in 722 B. C. But ultimately, in 586 B. C., the de struction which Micah had prophe sied came true. In speaking of Micah and Isaiah as a pair, we mean that they lived at the same time, not that they were on the same level, intellectually or in the importance of their message. Isaiah was one of the outstanding religious lead ers of all history. He was of high birth, and may even have been related to the royal family, for he had free access to the pal ace, and he appears to have been a preceptor for one king, Heze kiah. His ministry began in “the year that King Uzziah died,” the king who had been his hero. Isaiah had to rebuke sin in high places, to offend princes and priests and politicians, for he be longed to the stormy period when the Assyrians were invading ad jacent realms, and his own little Kingdom was trying vainly to make its future secure by an al liance with Egypt. Then he de nounced and thereby gained the ill-will of many powerful inter ests. But when the time came that Jerusalem needed Egypt’s help, Egypt had her own hands more than full. On a desperately tragic day the Assyrian army camped before Jerusalem, and the king and his counselors were in terror. The king covered him self with sackcloth and sent for Isaiah, the one unterrified man in town. Isaiah’s day had come. Little Pine Ennice P. O., May 1.—Mrs. Mack Wagoner is very sick Mr. and Mrs. Tom Holder, Galax, spent Sunday at the home of Mack Wagoner. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Wagoner, who has been seriously ill with measles, is now improving. Miss Bessie Chappell and Misses Reva and Cleta Greene, Winston Salem, spent the week-end with home folks here. Mrs. Jay Caudill, White Head, spent the week-end with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Wagoner, here. Homer Wilson, Kistler, W. Va., and Tom Ackison, Crown, W Va., were visiting friends and relatives here during the week end. W. J. Harmon, Elkin, is visit ing friends here this week. Mrs. Johnnie Wagoner spent Monday afternoon at the home of Mack Wagoner. Miss Zel'ma Greene and Miss Emma Lee Wagoner visited Annie Rose and Eula Mae Reeves at Twin Oaks Sunday. Howard Andrews is ill with measles. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Murphy spent Saturday night at the home of Johnnie Wagoner. Mrs. 0. C. Wagoner, Mrs. Fred Hardy and Mrs. Ellen An drews spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Clara Wagoner. Mrs. Carl Wright and little son, Dillon, of Accoville, W. Va., are visiting friends and relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hardy and son, Billie, visited at the home of Lester Greene Monday night. Art Note Visitor (to butler who is show ing him through the picture gal lery)—“That’s a fine portrait; Is it an old master?” Butles—“No, that’s the old missus.”—Washington Labor. SAMUEL F. HALSEY Samuel Freelin Halsey was born on December 5, 1853 and died on April 27, 1934, making his stay on earth 80 years, 4 months and 22 days. He was married to Mary E. Halsey on December 25, 1882. To this union were bom ten children, two of whom preceded him to the great beyond in infancy. His wife, three daughters, Cora, Dora and Rachel,* and five sons, John, Carl, Fitzhugh, Paul and Blan are left to mourn their lo,ss. He also leaves one brother, John H. Hal sey, Piney Creek, and three sis ters, Mrs. F. N. Roupe, Sparta, Mrs. G. V. Halsey, of Nebraska, and Mrs. W. C. Halsey, of Wash ington. He joined the Primitive Bap tist church at Fox Creek at an early age and was ordained dea con of this church some time after joining. He lived a faith ful' member until death. He has long been a prominent citizen of Alleghany county, serv ing as County Commissioner for many years. He has always taken an active part in the upbuilding of the church, school and com munity. He will be greatly miss ed in his home, in the community and by his many friends. We feel that their loss is his eternal gain. Written by a friend. Call An Ambulance “Cup o’ tea, weak,” said a cus tomer at a London coffee stall. When the decoction was brought to him he eyed it critically. “Well, what’s wrong with it? You said weak, didn't you?” “Weak, yes,” was the reply, “but not ’elpless.”—Tid Bits. derway in the cotton area. If it succeeds in restoring adequate prices for the staple (which means more money tor the crops as a whole), the idea will probably be fol lowed by those who grow other crops. In a perfect world everybody would cooperate voluntarily and completely in every program for the common good. But that presupposes complete agree ment as to what is really for the benefit of everybody, and the utter absence of greed and desire to take an unfair advantage. When mankind has reached a stage when everybody agrees on what is right and makes no effort to overreach his neighbors we won’t need any crop control laws nor any other kind of laws. Unfor tunately, we haven’t reached that stage yet. r ThisWeek In Washington (continued from front page) in the past. The opposition has tried to discredit him with the public and with the President on the ground that he is a theorist who does not understand the human difficulties of making men behave according to a fixed plan, but he took the wind out of that the other day when he declared that no police force could be cre ated large enough to make Americans do what they do not want to do, and he was interest ed only in programs that met with general public acceptance. Opposition to the New Deal is now being largely focussed upon the allegation that what the Ad ministration is doing, in many of its aspects, is not and never was any of the Government’s business. This is particularly directed at such projects as the Tennessee Valley development, the proposal to put more land under irrigation in various regions and move farm ers off poor land on to this pre sumably good land, and bo move people out of the cities on to “subsistence homesteads.” One man very high in Adminis tration circles has predicted a great reduction in the population of many large cities as a result of the New Deal. Mt. Zion Piney Creek P. O., April 30.— Mrs. W. F. Woodie is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Dale Wilson, Welch, W. Va. W. J. Woodie was called to the bedside of his sister, who is ill, in Hickory last week. Mrs. Mary Cox visited her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Shepherd, a few days last week. Dr. O. R. Black and a Mr. Ericsson, of Landis, visited Dr. Black’s old home place Thurs day afternoon. H. Clay Smith anil son, Howard, and George Smith made a business trip to Sparta Wednes day. S. E. Smith was in the Strat ford community Thursday. Carey Blevins made a business trip to West Jefferson Wednes day. Ethel Pugh and Mrs. J. F. Shepherd were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith Fri day. W. R. Jones visited his daughter, Mrs. E. D. Jones, of West Jefferson, Friday. Sherifl R. B. McMillan, of Sparta, visited old friends in this community one day last week. Troy Pugh, Moselle Blevins, and Ida Richardson made a business trip to Galax Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Clay Smith visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Petty Saturday night. Those visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Smith last week were Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Warden, Stratford; H. Clay Smith and son, Howard; George Smith; Mrs. Mary Wyatt; Mrs. Mary Cox and grandchildren and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jones. M*. and Mrs. Chum Jones, Rugby; Mr. and Mrs. George Allen, Scottsville, and J. Paul Allen, North Wilkesboro, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cox Sunday. Mrs. S. E. Smith and son, Thomas, visited friends near Scottsville Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Williams and Joshua Williams, Peden, who are ill, do not improve. Mird. Rebecca Smith, who has been confined to her bed for more than a year, does not improve. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Cox, who have been ill, are improving slowly. Reins -Sturdivant Funeral Home Ambulance Service Day or Night " Licensed Embalmers SPARTA, N. C. Telephone 22 A MAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD 47-FOOT SNAKE/ A South American Anaconda stretching nearly 47 FEET IS the LARGEST SNAKE ACCURATELY ' MEASURED. es A GROWING LANGUAGE - American dictionary MAKERS HAVE TO BASS UPON THE ADMITTANCE OP 5,000 NEW WORDS EACH YEAR. kry JV Ml l|ni4kM. Im > FAST FLY The dragon fly can attain A SPEED OF 60 MILES PER HOUR. The Family Doctor by John Joseph Gaines, M. D. COSTS OF MEDICAL CARE In the course of years, I have dealt with many thousands of patients of other physicians— family doctors. I have heard very very few complain of their family doctor’s charges for ser vices. There have not been enough protests for comment here by me. Most complaints have been by those who have been robbed by the quacks, who claimed superior skill Oof course) and obtained by that method thousands of vic tims. I treated four pople who had paid $750 each to a nationally known charlatan, in advance, for his “superior skill.” I have seen many who paid capital-operation prices, always in advance, mind you, for the most ordinary, minor operations by ad vertising “’specialists'.” This adds quite materially to “costs of medical service,” and, deserves condemnation to the utmost. I have treated people without num ber who had been literally fleec ed, by buying the glaring lure of the quack, leaving practically nothing with which to pay me for trying to repair the wreck. . . . The greedy gold-brick ped dler generally hangs on until his victim is stripped of all he has. The druggist, if “ethical,”v is the doctor’s friend. If he is not Mistress—Be careful not to drop those china dishes, Norah. Maid—Don’t worry, mum. If they did fall they’re too light to hurt my feet.—Watchman-Ex aminer. ethical, he will peddle all 'sorts of nostrums, prescribing for sick men who are physically able to apply to him. Quite an item in the cost of medical care is the great stone and brick emporium, trimmed in' gold and plate glass; all these things are paid for by the man who spends his money inside of the structure. An ethical druggist or doctor is nothing less than an HONOR ABLE druggist or doctor. Being honest, neither will conspire to fleece customers. And, if nobody is fleeced, nobody is overcharged. Ethics means honor. See Castevens Motor Co. for radio batteries, tubes and ser vice.—adv. tfc. ANNOUNCEMENT To The Voter* of Alleghany County: I hereby announce my self a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for the Lower House of the Legislature subject to the Democratic primary in June. tfc?AT W. P. WARDEN. ADMINISTRATORS’ NOTICE Having qualified as administra tor? of the estate of W. G. Wood ruff, deceased, late of Alleghany county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said de ceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Sparta on or be fore twelve months from this pub lication or this notice 'will be plead in bar tof their recovery. All persons indebted' to the estate will please make immediate payment. This, the 27th day of April, 1934 W. V. BLEVINS, W. C. WOODRUFF, Administrators of W. G. Wood ruff, deceased. 4tc-24 AT Dough ton & Gambill - Attorneys NO MORE I WAS ALWAYS HAVING FRAZZLED NERVES. A FRIEND SAID,"TRY CAMELS." SO I DID. NOW I ENJOY SMOKING MORE, AND MY NERVES ARE O.KI | “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES”—Solid, Nonskid Ivory -By POP MOMAND | DRAT TH‘ DAW60NB DOPE., AMY MOW •• X WONOBft ip na's tbo 00*09 TOTAKS : A MIMT* / ;>< YEAH - DON’T KNOW SOME THAT ANY HBH - MEM - ALWAYS KiDDIN^,., MftY, COM*MOOO«e» WBU . 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