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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 Matter. Subscription Rate: One Dollar a Year, Strictly in Advance Thursday, November 22. 1934. A “Day Of Reckoning” Is Bound To Come, And Then We Will Have To Pay, And Pay, And Pay B. C. Forbes, editor of Forbes’ Magazine and one of America’s foremost students of business and economics, in commenting recently upon the delusion that government has a limitless purse, that it can pull bundles of cash out of a magic hat, that “a day of reckoning never comes” pointed out that gov ernment cannot create wealth, that it can only spend it. So many people, it seems, overlook the fact that every cent spent by government must be supplied by the taxpayers. And that term “taxpayers” means every person in the country who has a job, an in come, any savings, a piece of property, a business, or a dollar to spend. It means the factory worker, the worker on the farm, the bank president, and every living soul who spends money. In fact, the factory worker, the farm worker and the low-salaried employee have the most to lose from tax extravagance and the most to gain from tax economy. Government cannot be sup ported by taxing only men of wealth, there aren’t enough of them. The greatest bulk of tax money comes from indirect taxation—taxes on food, clothes and the necessities as well as the luxuries that the average men and women with small incomes buy. “Wealth is created,” says an editorial writer who knows whereof he speaks, “when capital is used to provide facilities with which men can work to produce goods and commodities and services that the people need and want. Potential wealth is lost when the burden of taxation makes impossible this capital investment—when it stifles at the source the jobs and opportunities that would otherwise be provided.” “Tax reduction,” he says further, “is in the interest of every worker, every' farmer, every business and professional man. It would produce jobs, develop industries—and make more taxable wealth. And there is only one way we can have tax reduction—by spending less tax money.” Next Year Democratic Party Will 'Control, Roughly, 75 Percent Of The Nation’s Elective Offices Here’s the political line-up of the next Congress, which will assemble in January: the Senate will con sist of 69 Democrats, 24 Republicans and three member's of minor parties; the House of Representa tives will consist of 321 Democrats, 103 Republicans, and ten members of minor parties. And when the newly elected Governors of the several states that filled their highest offices this month are inducted into office there will be 38 states with Democratic Governor’s, eight states with Repub lican Governors, one state with a Progressive Gov ernor and one with a Farmer-Laborite. As a result of the recent election the Demo cratic party will control, roughly, 75 percent of the major elective offices of the nation. Father Coughlin, the fiery Royal Oak, Michi gan, Catholic priest, in his radio address a week ago last Sunday, stated that the Democratic party is “on trial.” Surely, with the preponderous ma jorities they will have in the next Congress, some thing ought to be accomplished that will prove their “trial” an outstanding success. Between now and the 1936 election much can be expected to happen. And whether or not the “tables are turned” on the present Administration at that election is going to depend on what is accomplished in these coming two years. A political commentator, writing about the recent election, says: “The Republicans took a ter rific lacing in the last election—so far as carrying offices was concerned. But they did get around 46 percent of the total vote cast. A party that gets as substantial a minority as that can t be considered dead by a long shot.” A Lesson In Compassion Is Taught By Truck Drivers by John Edwin Price A tiny kitten was making its way across the street. A friend of mine was watching him from an upstairs window. It seemed like its first venture out. It wabbled as it walked, fur all fuzzy, straight up-tail waving in the wind. As it arrived in the middle of the street a big truck came pounding along. Suddenly it grated and groaned to a standstill. Little kitten was under neath. The driver got out, shooed the fuzz ball away, saw him safely to the curb, climbed back into his cab and drove on. After he had driven on, the kitten started back up the middle of the street on his wabbly legs, fur all fuzzy, straight-up-tail waving in the wind. Presently two big gas trucks came thundering down the street, and (would you believe it?) yes, sir, they both veered sharply to the left, dangerously near the curb, sparing the life of His Majesty, “King Tom.” But little maltese, wabbly on its legs, fuzzy fur flying, straight-up-tail waving in the wind, still trundled up the street. Pretty soon a big sedan came along. Slowly it came to a stop. A nicely dressed lady got out, picked up “King Tom” and drove on. My friend soliloquized, “Maybe the truck driv ers thought, “Gosh, that looks for all the world like the kitten little Bill had last year.” A little later he said, “Cats aren’t worth much.” And breaking the silence still later, “You know, I think that compassion is one of humanity’s most God-like traits.” and wtiidi coo t»in» Pouf GmtTjKaaucs ^■B-RUCt*BA4^IOR AN OLD MAN SETS OUT Paul left Ephesus after the riot, but not to return to Jeru salem; he was going across into Europe again. We may imagine the conversation that took place, for we get a wonderful glimpse into his mind in the letters to the Corinthian* “You are going over the same ground again, Paul.” “Yes, but every time widening the circle. This is my third |ime out, and each time I make a little larger swing, and see the work growing.” “When do you get back to Jerusalem?” “Next spring at Easter. I am going to take back the biggest collection that the Jerusalem church ever received.” “Are you going to stay there?” “Stay there? Do you think I could ever be content to settle down and stay in Jerusalem?” “But you are getting to be an old man, and travel is hard on you and dangerous.” “Yes, I have been in dangers of many kinds. It has been my privilege to travel farther than any of the other apostles, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews live times receiv ed I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suf fered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In joumeyings often, in perils •of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wil derness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.” “That is a long list of perils, Paul. It must nearly have broken you down.” “I have still a heavier burden, my anxiety for all the churches I have established.” “Do you carry them on your mind and feel responsible for them?” “Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble and I bum not?" “You have done a great work and have much to be proud of.” “I am proud of it, and have been criticized as being vain about it. I have sometimes been asham ed of myself for letting people know my pride and joy in all this. Yet, while I have sometimes made myself a fool by seeming to boast, I really am not boastful. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of Christ in the joy of service.” “When you go out again where shall you go?” “Back again over the same ground, but more widely, to all the Roman sub-capitals in Asia Minor and Greece, and then to Rome.” Washington News For U. S. Farmers From TIMES Washington Bureau 1935 FARM PROGRAM Just what the new farm pro gram will be is uncertain but farmers may take it for granted that vigorous efforts will be made to secure vital changes in the AAA, with a double-edged drive on the legislation of the recent past. One attack will be based upon dissatisfaction arising out of the administration of present legisla tion. Another will be forged by those who oppose the basic prin ciples and underlying purposes of the farm administration. While some advances may be made by the first attack, there seems little reason to expect much progress for any assault coming under the latter head. AGAINST CROP CONTROL Representative Jones, chairman of the House Agricultural Com mittee, favors doing away with acreage restrictions on wheat and cotton and substituting a plan of benefits for growers on the part of their production consumed in this country. Theoretically, this would leave producers free to raise crops of any size and market them without regulation. Mr. Jones feels that each farmer should be permitted to produce what he wishes to be sold in the markets of the world because “in no sense can we af ford to surrender these foreign markets." Under a plan suggested by him, groWers of cotton and wheat would receive allotments repre senting their share of the estimat ed national demand. Upon this, the AAA would pay premiums representing the difference be tween actual price of the product and the pre-war average price. CORN-HOG PROGRAM With the smallest American com crop since 1881, the pro duction program for 1935 calls for an expanded production of corn and hogs but does not entirely remove the brakes of crop control. While the program has not yet been finally approved, the under standing is that it calls for a re duction of only ten per cent in hog farrowings for market under the average of 1932 and 1933 and a ten to thirty per cent cut in com acreage. This year the reductions were twenty-five per cent and from twenty to thirty per cent respectively. In return for a reduction in farrowings, benefit payments of $2 a hog on seventy-five per cent of average production between 1932 and 1933 is contemplated. Processing taxes will provide the funds for these payments as well as for rental on corn lands leas ed out of cultivation. COTTON FARMERS VOTE Cotton farmers will have the opportunity to cast secret ballots in the early part of December on the continuation of the Bankhead Act. If the vote is favorable, the fifty per cent tax on cotton; ginned in excess of allotments will be continued but if they turn down the Bankhead Act, a resumption of “voluntary con tracts” will result, with pay ments to producers restricting their acreage. The restriction plan, as Secre tary Wallace views it, is .a tem porary program pending the res toration of foreign markets, to be accomplished in part by lowering tarriff barriers. AGRICULTURE SUFFERED Secretary Wallace, in an ad dress in New York, recently pointed out that the interests of agriculture and industry are com plementary and that when the farmers win back their share of the national income they will greatly increase the purchase of manufactured products. Pointing out that not every branch of agriculture is similarly influenced, the Secretary of Agri culture declared that the export crops—wheat, cotton, hogs and tobacco—were getting less and less of their normal share of the national income before the de pressyrfk set in but that other branches? of agriculture, such as dairy, ' poultry and fruit and vegetable crops managed to secure incomes more nearly in line with the national total. The export group of farm products, he says, lost some of its income as early as 1925, with the total loss amounting to one fifth by 1929. After that time “all farm groups slid down the toboggan, but again the export group slid faster and farther.” Through State Capital Keyhole* (continued from front page) in the spotlight of the news. Then the Roosevelt administration got the situation straightened out and Mr. Hood dropped out of the news. Times have improved and closed banks are now paying dividends almost as rapidly as they were closing in 1938-84. That puts the Banking Com missioner right back in the sun again. Incidentally, the dividends have made Mr. Hood a more popular man than in the day* when the banks were closing. LION’S SHARE — Western North Carolina Democrats who at first complained that Governor Ehringhaus favored the East with patronage should be feeling better these days. The latest major ap pointment to go west was the naming of Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, a cousin of Senator “Our Bob,” as acting State health officer with every indication that he will be named permanently to that office next spring. He succeeds the late Dr. James M. Parrott, of Kinston. Other juicy plums tossed west by Governor Ehring haus are a place on the Supreme Court bench given Judge Michael Schenck; director of the prison division „ presented Jack Roach, of Statesville; Superintendent of Public Instruction tendered Clyde A. Erwin, of Rutherfordton, a couple of seats on the Superior Court bench and a hatful of minor places on boards and com missions. REVERSE ENGLISH?—Howls went up to high heaven when Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., was named Executive Assistant to Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell and placed in charge of personnel of the State’s collect ing agency. There were plenty of predictions that the next Legislature would give the Doctor the well-known boot. Dr. Noble said nothing consistently declin ing to be quoted. Of recent months revenue reports have been decidedly favorable but still Dr. Noble says nothing. Capitol Hill is beginning to sing a different tune. The ear-to-the-ground boys say off the record that the Doctor will not have to talk before the Legislature except to say, “Howde ye do.” They venture prognostica tions that the records will defend Dr. Noble in the early days of 1935. TO PAY OK NOT TO PAY— The question of immediate pay ment of the soldiers’ bonus is almost certain to arise to plague North Carolina members of Con gress during the coming session. President Roosevelt is against it at this time and most of the boys from the Old North State are riding the same buggy with F. D. R. these days. Senator Josiah William Bailey voted against the bonus last session along with some of the others but times have changed since mother was a girl. State Legion Commander Hubert Olive has come out for cash payment and the North Caro lina delegation to the national convention of the Legion at Miami voted solidly with the majority for immediate cashing of the certificates. There doesn’t seem to be much opportunity for straddling the fence. It’s just every man’s judgment as to whether President Roosevelt or the bonus can swing the most votes in 1936—either that or the voting of honest convictions. HEADGEAR—North Carolina’s victory in securing the park-to park road to be constructed by the federal government from the Shenanoah National Park to the Great Smoky National Park is a feather in the hats of the State’s two Senators, Congressmen Zebu Ion Weaver and R. L. Doughton and Governor Ehringhaus. But the honors seem to be about equally divided. From this distance at thw time it is difficult to HUSNrnmuK Overtaxed by ■peaking,sing* tag, a cooking AMAZE A MINUTE SCIBNTIFACTC --- BY ARNOLD The submarine ^ biro; The water ouzel WALKS ABOUT ON THE BOTTOM OF A POOL OF WATER AND SWIMS WITH A WING MOVEMENT . AS THOUGH FLYING UNDER \ WATER-_VvOfcvll i ' 1- **>•»•* W Eating Gains/ Our generation eats 150 MORE POUNDS OF FOOD EACH ; TEAR THAN THE LAST GENERATION. Fewer cereals ano more FRUITS AND MILK PRODUCTS ARS CONSUMED. Vs-QOO, OOO TH op AN OUNtt OF THE TOXIN FORMED BY THE TETANUS BACILLUS IS SUFFICIENT TO KILL A /WAN. Obituary NORMA G. CLEARY Norma Gladys Cleary was born June 30, 1909 and departed this life June 21, 1934, age 24 years, 11 months and 21 days. She re ceived a hope in Christ in the year of 1926 and joined the Primitive Baptist church at Union, Alle ghany county. She was baptized sitting in a chair by Elders J. C. Sparks and C. B. Kilby on the first Sunday in July, 1930. She became afflicted at about the age of four years. She was able to attend school some, but, as she grew older, her afflictions became greater. She was so bad ly crippled with something like progressive paralysis that for the last ten years of her life she was figure out how it gives any one of them any great political advantage over the other mem bers of the group. You can make your own deductions. BOLD STROKE—Several Ral eigh school teachers appeared in print in one of the local news papers with statements indicating that the schools of North Carolina’s capital are no more than shells. LeRoy Martin, sec retary of the State School Com mission returned their fire with a statement that amounted to “It ain’t so,” and got himself in a regular war. The battle is still waging with Mr. Martin con tending that if the teachers are right Raleigh might just as well close its little red school houses. Final decisions will be announced later. »n invalid. ' She was always cheer ful and happy when feeling well. Reading was her favorite past lime and she especially liked to read the Testament and the Primitive Baptist paper. She was ieprived of attending her church jften but the elders were called to the home for services, which she enjoyed very much. She suffered severely during the last few weeks of her life but bore it patiently. Funeral services were held by the Elders who baptized her and she was laid to rest in the ceme tery at Union church to await the resurrection morning, when her body will be changed and fashioned like unto the glorified body of Christ, and be carried to Heaven on the wings of His love, there, together with the redeemed, to sing His Praises in a never-ending eternity. Our little cripple is no more, She left this world of sin and strife; For Canaan's peaceful shore, At rest forever more. Written by request, C. G. FENDER A Leaaon Learned Berta—Did you say he doesn’t know how to kiss? Nora—No, I said he didn’t know how to kiss. See Caatevens Motor Co. for radio batterioa. tubea and aer vice.—adv. *fe« 666 Liquid Tablet* Sabre Note Drop* CHECKS COLDS AND FEVER first day HEADACHES In 30 MinutM •USINESS GIRL. EveMillersays: "I started to smoke Camels be cause I appreciate mildness and delicacy of flavor. I found, it* addition, that Camels give me a 'lift' when my energy is low." “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES” —Elmer Htu A Wild Right_ -By POP MOMANP | to im«v m (coht'o)
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