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 Matter.
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Thursday, November 1, 1934.
If You Think That You Are Not Paying Taxes
Every Day You Have Something To Learn
Are you tax conscious? Many people are not.
If you are not, just take a dollar bill out, of your
pocket and spend it and then try to find out how
much of that dollar went for taxes.
If you spent fifteen cents of it for a pack of
cigarettes just about six cents of the fifteen went to
the government for taxes. If you purchased five
gallons of gasoline, 25 cents of the little less than a
dollar that you paid went to the state and five
cents went to the National government—for taxes.
Almost everything else that you buy includes
from one to a dozen taxes. Manufactuieis and le
tailers both pay taxes and pass them on to the
consumer. These are what are often called pain
less” taxes because you do not see them.
When you purchase a car, a radio, tobacco of
any kind, or almost a million other things, you pay
taxes. And when you pay your house rent you are
paying the taxes on the property.
The storekeeper pays rent, part of which goes
to pay the taxes on the property he occupies, but
you who purchase his wares are the ones who pay
the taxes. Everything must be passed on to the
ultimate consumer.
Of course, the wealthy pay taxes as well as the
ordinary person. But what the wealthy alone pay
probably wouldn’t make a dent in meeting the cost
of government. The great bulk of taxes comes from
the ordinary person—and are in most cases taken
indirectly.
Instead of writing the tax collector a check,
most citizens pay their taxes unknowingly duiing
the course of daily living. Rent is higher than it
would be because the landlord must pay taxes.
Salaries are smaller because the employer is heavily
taxed. Food is more costly because the farmer, the
processor, the transporter and the final seller are
all taxed. So it goes, through everything we need
and use.
Don’t be fooled. Everyone pays taxes—and
everyone at present is in danger of being compelled
to pay more and greater taxes.
World-Wide War Strike Might Be of Benefit
In The Event That Another Call To Arms Is Made
By John Edwin Price
Erosion has moved mountains.
Seeds, by expansion, have been known to split
rocks
The quiet growth of the giant redwoods has
pierced the California sky for hundreds ot feet.
The weighty stars speed on in their courses
noislessly.
Sunken vessels, which no man-made power
could move, have, when lashed with cables to sur
face rafts, been lifted silently to the surface, by the
resistless might of the incoming tides.
Quietly armament and munitions makers have
gained control of newspapers which built up fears
and lies to propagate wars. Banks they owned have
collected huge amounts in interest for financing
the frenzied nations in buying their munitions.
Noiselessly have they through their paid representa
tives at the seats of government held up prizes for
early marriages and large families so that it would
e more bombs to smear fresh young bodies
e landscape.
)n the other hand, orators with bombastic rav
i*.- have tried to stop this vast, complicated ma
•h:i. of death. Now peace lovers are becoming
vise:-; Strong, keen-minded men are joining their
;. Quietly they delve into the files of munitions
makers—merely grown up boys, like themselves,
who have allowed their greed to become a perver
sion. With steely coldness the investigators reveal
where the dealers-in-hell have sold to the enemy
instruments and patents which meant death to their
own countrymen.
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think will make humanity arise in an irresistible
x power when the next general call to arms
d. They believe that such an event will see
ersal world war-strike which in mighty
will destroy all death-dealing gases and
mts and at one radio signal bomb all
tion-dumps and factories on both sides,
s might be alright were it not for the
possibility that some backward, power-crazed
peoples would not join the strike. Quiet investiga
tions can, however, reveal the wisdom of making
the financial sacrifice necessary to buy up all muni
tions factories and operate them nationally. Export
business would be curtailed but the loss would
more than be made up by the decrease in war
pensions in coming years and more live geniuses
to work out the nation’s destiny wisely, economically.
Are there other ideals which you want to see
realized? You don’t need to blow up the works.
Quietly get others to see things your way. Quietly
put men into control who will silently give your
ideals actual expression while the opposition raves
on. Yes, it is just as easy as that, and just as
challenging. Great force isn’t necessary. Much silent
education, may be.
Animals have force. The mastodon is gone.
Man has ideals. . . and a mind to devise methods
of wide communication. Possibly that is why the
Almighty entrusted man with “Dominion over all
things.”
The darkest hour in any man’s life is when
he aits down to plan how to get money without
earning it.
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Paul Scores Fundamentalists
Now Paul had great respect
for the Mosaic law, and he did
not object to the fundamentalists
provided they kept on their own
side. But to have them invad
ing a field which he had develop
ed and to start a divisive doctrine
there, looking not forward but
back, was too much for his hot
temper and strong conviction. At
once he called for his trusty pen
and after the formal greeting
he plunged straight into his mes
sage:
I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called
you into the grace of Christ unto
another Gospel:
Which is not another; but there
be some that trouble you, and
would pervert the gospel of
Christ.
But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which
we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed. . . .
For do I now persuade men,
or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of
Christ.
But I certify you, brethren,
that the gospel which was preach
ed of me is not after man.
He goes on to remind them of
his history—how he was the
chief persecutor of the church,
but, being converted, received his
message not from the group in
Jerusalem but from God direct,
in his hours of quiet retreat in
Arabia. He went to Jerusalem,
he says, and met with James,
“The Lord’s brother,” and he and
Peter agreed concerning the right
of Gentiles to be received into
communion without being com
pelled bo comply with the Mosaic
law, and he won his fight. When
later, at Antioch, Peter back
slid into the old hard-shell the
ology, Paul had refuted him
openly.
But when Peter was come to
Antioch, I withstood him to the
face, because he was to be
blamed.
By subsequent? battles and by
many persecutions, of which he
bore the scars, he had won the
right of his churches to freedom.
Were they now proposing to
abandon this great freedom be
cause some strict constructionists
from Judea came among them,
stirring up trouble?
Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath
made ug free, and be not en
tangled again with the yoke of
bondage. . . .
For all the law is fulfilled in
one word, even in this: Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. . . .
If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be desirous of vain
glory, provoking one another, en
joying one another. . . .
Be not deceived; God is not
mocked; for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flsh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life ever
lasting.
And let us not be weary in
well doing; for in due season we
shall reap, if we faint not.
Through State
Capital Keyholes
(continued from front page)
missioner. C. Zimmerman, his G.
0. P. opponent, is not rated a
triple-threat under ordinary cir
cumstances but Mr Winbourne is
bulwarked with recent reductions
in eiectric light and power rates
that will mean millions of dollars
in the pockets of Tar Heel
voters. It’s a guess in Raleigh
whether Mr. Winbourne or
Charles M. Johnson, State Trea
surer, will pile up the largest
majority next Tuesday.
SILVER LINING —School
teachers and other State em
ployeees are perking up since
the report of the State Treasur
er’s office showed the general
fund well in the black. The public
hired help has been hitting the
rough spots with a 38 per cent
salary cut ordered by the last
Legislature and utilized by
Governor Ehringhaus to balance
the budget. But now the pesky
old thing is more than balanced
and the slaves hope that the next
General Assembly will find this
sufficient cause for being more
liberal with appropriations.
STILL RUNNING—Recent de
velopments surrounding the pro
bable candidacy of Clyde R.
Hoey, of Shelby, and Congress
man R. L. Doughton for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion in the afore-mentioned year
of 1936 have crowded Lieutenant
Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham
off the front page but word
reaching Raleigh indicates that
Mr. Graham is not letting up on
his horses generally believed to
be headed toward the same goal.
Talk of violent opposition to Mr.
Giaham by Senator John Sprunt
Hill, of Durham, leads to specula
tion as to what sort of committee
appointments Governor Graham
will dish out to the wealthy
Durham lawmaker next January.
THEY LIKE IT—A great many
people wonder why men fre
quently mentioned for offices
they never actually seek, don’t
emphatically withdraw their
names once they decide not to
run. There are reasons and then
| reasons but remember—most of
them are lawyers and the at
tendant advertisement doesn’t
hurt business one whit.
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FRESH FISH—North Carolina
fishermen are almost on the verge
of starvation with their catches
selling as low as one-half cent a
pound and no market for others,
as the result of hap-hazard
marketing and • transportation
methods. R. Bruce Etheridge,
State Director of Conservation
and Development and Captain
John A. Nelson, head of the
commercial fisheries division, be
lieve that legislation requiring
properly refrigerated vehicles for
transporting seafoods for com
mercial purposes would greatly
relieve this situation by insuring
delivery of these products in good
condition. There is money in
North Carolina waters and they
believe it can be secured by
proper regulation of fast trans
portation. The fishermen are
organizing with this end in view.
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One He Can Throw Out
She—“Daddy is so pleased to
hear you are a poet.”
He—“Fine. He likes poetry,
then?”
She—“Not at all. But the last
friend of mine he tried to throw
out was an amateur boxer.”—
Capper’s Weekly.
Relapie
“Look here, Boss,” said a col
ored patron of an Alabama mar
ket, “dat ham you sold me last
night was spoiled.”
“Impossible,” said the butcher,
“it was cured in the best way.”
“Well, boss, if dat was cured,
it sho’ had a powerful relapse.”
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Something Worth Figuring
School Visitor—You encourage
your pupils to take an interest
in professional baseball?
Teacher—Yes, indeed, I find
that they improve wonderfully in
their arithmetic after figuring up
batting averages.
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Or Maybe ’Arry
Mistress—Whose was that man’s
Louisa’s
Letter
LEARN TO STAND UP AND
FACE LIFE’S ISSUES
Dear Girls:
One of the most valuable les
sons we can learn as we grow
from childhood into young man
hood and womanhood is that of
not .running away—of learning to
face the hard things and over
coming them rather than trying
to evade them.
The parent who encourages a
child to take the easy way out of
difficulties is doing him or her a
great injury. That particular in
cident may not amount to so much
but it sows a seed which sprouts
and grows to large proportions
later on.
I know a mother who takes it
upon herself to make all of her
daughter’s apologies. If Susan
has a party and forgets someone
she should have remembered,
mother rings up Susan’s friend’s
mother, takes all of the blame and
makes profuse apologies. Is Susan
makes a low mark in French,
mother calls on her teacher and
tells her of Susan’s earnest study
of the subject and her despair
over her mark. She also tells the
teacher that she wouldn’t dare let
Susan know that she had called
on her.
If Susan has guests, mother
thinks it is up to her to plan all
of the entertainment and to call
the boys and girls about coming
to see them. If there is any dis
agreeable duty to be done Susan
tells mother that mother will just
have to do it as she cannot.
I wonder sometimes, what will
happen to Susan later on when
she will either have to solve her
problems for harself or run away
from them. No doubt she will do
the latter. Suppose she marries,
and unforeseen difficulties arise as
they have a way of doing? Will
she try to face these things and
make the best of everything for
everyone concerned or will she
run away—to mother or with an
other man? When she has chil
dren of her own will she have
the courage to train them cor
rectly or will she take the easiest
way and let them do as they
please.
The worst trouble about this
“easiest way” is that it always
turns out to be the “hardest way”
in the end.
Usually the woman who runs
away from her husband and fam
ily finds that she has chosen any
thing but a pleasant path. And the
woman who lets her children do
as they please because it is too
much trouble to teach them obedi
ence is merely laying up sorrow
and grief for the future.
If we mothers only knew what
harm we do our loved ones by
taking all of their blows, we
would strive harder, I am sure, to
make them self-reliant and cour
ageous.
The ability to stand on their
own two feet and face all issues
clearly and fearlessly is about as
fine a thing as we can teach them
and about as valuable a legacy
as we can leave behind after we
are gone.
voice I heard in the kitchen?
Maid—Oh-er-my brother, mum.
Mistress—What is his name?
Maid—Er-I think it’s ’Erbert,
mum.—Punch.
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Not Bad For Hoopville
An Easterner stood on the
veranda of a little western hotel
and watched the sun go down.
“By George,” he exclaimed to
the native sitting nearby, “that’s
certainly a gorgeous sunset, isn’t
it?”
“Not bad,” was the answer.
“Not bad for a little place like
Hoopville.”
See Castevens Motor Co. for
radio batterie«| tube* and ser
vice.—adv. tfc.
HUSKY THROATS
Overtaxed by «—
speaking,sing- \
ing, smoking \
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS -a- BY ARNOLD
11 Brainless dinosaur —
The stegosaurus
DINOSAUR, ARMORED
INVINCIBLY AGAINST
ANIMAL ATTACKS, HAD
A BRAIN WEIGHING
But three ounces.
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Pineapple cloth
Cloth is made
FROM PINEAPPLE
LEAVES IN THE
Philippines.
Winter FROZEN FiSH
SlBERIAN RiytRS SOME
TIMES FREEZE SOHO. AND
THE IMPRISONED FISH STAY
FROZEN UNTIL WARM
WEATHER LETS THEM SWtM
AWAY.
The Family
Doctor
by John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
THE “BLACK WIDOW”
Just a spider-—this black wid
ow. If you have a book on in
sectology get it down and look
up the authorities in regard to
this bad creature, said to inhabit
the rural districts of our land.
I have never heard of a black
widow spider in a city. Your
encyclopedia may enlighten you.
In my neighboring large city,
a young wife lies in a hospital,
suffering from an alleged “black
widow” bite, which she acquired
when going -about her duties on
a Kansas farm. Her life is said
bo be hanging by a thread from
the spider’s bite. There is fever
of terrible severity—and delir
ium. The bite was on her cheek.
She has had many blood-trans
fusions, in attempts to dilute the
venom.
This strange variety of spider
is described as being of rather
large size—bigger than ordinary
spiders, one-half inch long, with a
body crossed by bars of black
and red. More curious, it is
alleged that the female in mating,
season, attacks and devours her
“husband,” and by this unholy
feast, fertilizes her eggs, and so,
brings her orphan offspring into
existence. What a world within
itself, this American insect life!
I cannot tell you much in re
gard to bites by this villianous
insect. I never saw one and
hope I never may. But, if you
live next to nature, in God’s
realm, do not expose your tender
skin to venomous spiders’ haunts.
Were I, or any of mine to be
bitten by any spider, I’d scarify
the wound as quickly as possible
—and swab the site of wound
with the strongest solution of am
monia I could get hold of. Am
monia has the power of dissolv
ing most poisons from insect
stings. I could very easily be
mistaken in a “black widow” bite,
never having encountered one.
You be careful.
NOTICE
We still have plenty of cattle.
If interested in feeding some for
the winter, see us. If fed during
winter we plan to have the cattle
grazed next summer.
C. A. MILES,
2tc-lAT Relief Adm’r.
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THEY ALL get a lift WITH A CAMEL!
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HOCKEY STAR. ''Bill” Cook, Captain of the
N. Y. Rangers, says: "A hockey player can’t
afford to have nerves. The way 1 guard my
nerves and yet smoke all I want is to smoke
only Camel9. Their taste sure bits tbe spot!”
PHONE OPERATOR. Miss Marita
Erickson says: "Camels do freshen
up my energy in a delightful way.
And they are the mildest cigarette I
know. Of course I smoke a lot! But
Camels never upset my nerves."
“KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES” —Eddie’* Head I* Working Now -By POP MOMAND
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