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The Alleghany Times H. B. Zabriskie .. Editor and Publisher Sidney Gambill . Local News Editor Published Every Thursday at Sparta, North Carolina, and entered at the Sparta, N. C., Poet Office as Second Class Matter. Subscription Rate: One Dollar a Year, Strictly in Advance Thursday, February 14, 1935. As Endless As The Rim Of A Heart By John Edwin Price ' The Sage of East Aurora once said that a friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same. We might put it in another way and say that a friend is one who sticks to you because - he believes you have it in you to overcome whatever may be unlikeable or unworthy in you. A true friend hopeth for the best, believeth the best and endureth until the best is attained. A true friend is never through with you until he has seen you through the worst that life can hand to you. In other words he sticketh as close and as long as a postage stamp, even unto the end of the journey. “O, friendship,” said the dying Benson, as he looked into his wife’s eyes, “in thy face I have seen the eternal.” Maybe that last word explains why St. Valentine was made a saint. He lived as an embodiment of friendship and love—things eternal. Saint Valentine’s Day takes us back to the scenes of our childhood. We can shut our eyes and see again the little lacey cardboard tokens from childhood’s sweethearts. As childhood’s hurts are keen so are childhood’s thrills intense- To see the glint of gold on a certain girl’s curls made us walk in ecstacy for a day. To be allowed to carry her books home from school and slyly touch her hand as we gave them back was indeed a heavenly joy. And yet, these kindly comradeships of child hood did not rise to the heights nor desend to the depths that true friendship does. To have found but a friend or two On all life’s journey through Is to taste diviner joys Than e’er comes to girls or boys. To have known one or two persons in a lifetime to whom we can go with anything, anything that troubles us, and be sure of finding a haven of sympathy and understanding makes all the struggle worth while. Thinking of one such the following thoughts one day came drifting in. Just because of knowing you, And that friendship can be true; Because of what you’ve meant to me, I’ll always strive a man to be; To help some other bear his care, To play life’s game right on the square. Thankful to God, I’m thankful, too, Just because of knowing you. My Valentine’s Day wish for you is that your friendships may be as endless as the rim of a heart. An Open Mind TiO Accept Future Revelations Is An Asset Worth Possessing The young people of Sparta and Alleghany county have many things to expect during the course of their lives. To refer back fifty years reminds us of the great improvements that have been made. The life of every person is easier today because of the inventions and developments that have come into common use. This material progress is certain to continue. Fifty years from the present time people will look back upon today with sympathetic sorrow for the “hardships” that we endure. Our boasted civiliza tion will seem crude, indeed, beside the refinements then existing. The lesson for us to learn from the truths outlined above is the ephemeral nature of present achievements and the necessity of keeping our minds out of conservative ruts. Every man and woman can aid civilization in its upward trend by remain ting alert mentally, always looking for improvements and never being completely satisfied with what we enjoy. Motors, in a and extra* It will come, An open mind to accept future revelations is an asset worth possessing. In line with our thoughts as above we are pleased to reprint an editorial, “Looking Ahead— Years. Ahead,” which appeared recently in the Republican-News, published in St. Johns. TWi/»Vii<rs.n Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., head of General recent article, says that .amazing changes ordinary wealth and prosperity lie ahead. It . he says when people start to adopt' the changes which science has wrought in the last five years. Economic condi tions have diverted their attention: They have ignored what is going on in the way of scientific progress. Changes in houses—the homes in which we live—which are as great and as revolutionary as the change from the backboard to the automobile are at hand. The changes are: Air conditioning in homes, shops, factories and office buildings. Temperatures and humidity can and are being tied by new devices. Disease breeding dirt and dust and are being removed from the air one breathes, of the causes of discomfort and ill-health can be Houses of fabricated materials which will be built factories and shipped to the user in sections represent revolutionary change. Not only can substantial improved houses be obtained this way, but the element required in present day building be largely Also, it is claimed, the cost of homes can and materially reduced. ; and comfort of railroad trains is change which Mr. Sloan believes is Already new type trains are being used of this and whidi contains Four Great Treaairei. ''A-ttMUCt ®t!A-KTON MOSES Reared as the grandson of an emperor, doted on by a royal foster mother, Moses, who might have had every luxury, prefer red, like Abraham, like each of the prophets, like John the Bap tist and Saint Paul, to be “not disobedient to the Heavenly vis ion.” He was modest, .as most men of genius are. And Moses said unto God. Who am-I, that I should go unto Pha raoh, and bring forth the child ren of Israel out of Egypt? . . . Behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him. What is in thine hand? And he said, a rod. And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand. That rod was to play a mighty part in the history of the next forty years. By it the plagues were brought upon the Egyptians in tragic succession until even the stubborn will of Pharaoh was broken; the Red Sea divided at its touch to let the children of Israel pass through; and in the wilder ness, when water failed, the rock which it smote gave forth a crys tal stream- Moses had need of its help and of all the encourage ment and support that Aaron, his colleague, and the strong men of the twelve tribes cqiild {five- As law-giver, military commander' and executive, Moses transform ed his ex-slave followers into a self-governing people. There have been many leaders of powerful personality who fail ed because they could not associ ate strong men with them. Moses was not one of these. He realiz ed clearly the necessity for ftrst class helpers. He needed the wise counsel of Jethro, who urged Moses to set up a group of associ ate judges. He needed the sword of Joshua. He needed the eloquence and priestly help of Aaron. And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, 1 am' -not eloquent . i . but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. . . . And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy. brother? I know that he can speak well. . . . And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth. And he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God. The special talent of each of these associates supplemented his own abilities, sind he was big enough to know that they re quired supplementing. But the great essentials—courage, ideal ism, vision, faith—he borrowed from no man. He had them in abundance. SOME MARRIED WOMEN SEEK “THRILL” AFFAIRS Dear Louisa: I notice a great many letters from wives who suspect the single girls who work foe: their hus bands of stealing their affections. In my opinion, they have more to fear from idle married women than they have from single girls, don’t you think so? A WIFE WHO KNOWS Answer: I think that our reader is probably right. As a usual thing, the girl who works for the average middle aged husband has no interest in him at all out side of being interested in hold ing her job. No attractive girl with a grain of common sense is going to waste her time on a Professor—What college in the United States has produced the most presidents? Freshie—The electoral college. Thirty Days Judge—“What were you doing in that place when it was raid ed?” Locksmith—“I was making a bolt for the door.”—Wise Cracks. Officer—Judge, this man leads a double life. He’s a lawyer in the daytime and a burglar at night. Judge—Which was he arrested for? Right or Wrong Gus—Your wife’s diction is per fect when she talks. Bill—So is her contradiction. Or Put Sale On His Tail Big Game Hunter — “Once while I was having a meal in the jungle a lion came so close to me that I could feel his breath on the back of my neck. What did I do?” Bored Listener—“Turned your collar up.”—Sydney Bulletin. married man when she might be putting in good work getting some single fellow started towards the altar. The married women whose hus bands lunch and dance attendance on their stenographers will find nine times out of ten that the man is not being vamped as she suspects, but is the instigator of the affair. Of course, there are always ex ceptions to any rule, and there are a small minority of single girls who think it is smart and sophisticated to run around with a married man. If the man hap pens to be wealthy and attrac tive, there are also single girls who are so callous and selfish as to deliberately try to break up a home and get their man. But the average single girl is not interested in married men. On the other hand, there are some married women who have no children and nothing much to do. They are discontented and looking in every direction for a thrill. Unfortunately for them, the single girls prove more attractive to the bachelors of their commun ity than do they, so they have to hunt in other fields for their prey. The easiest game in the world is the man whose wife is so occupied with a house full of children that she hasn’t the time or inclination to be romantic, so our female hunter gets to work on such a victim with gusto. She flatters and “un^prstands” the husband. She appears to admire his wife immensely but lets him know how much she pities him for being tied down to such a practical, unsympathetic compan ion when he has such a capacity for love, etc., etc. He is usually just at the age to fall far this line of chatter, and the rest is easy. So I am inclined to agree with the “Wife Who Knows” and say with her that if the husbands of our readers have a tendency to stnay, their wives will do well to watch the idle wives of their acquaintance rather than their husbands’ attractive unmarried employees. Yours, LOUISA in nseii wm provide a vast army or wortcmen employment. Science has not stood still in the last five years. Changes for better things have been planned. The upset in economics has merely postponed some of these changes which would have been well on their way to adoption. Mr. Sloan believes. One has only to know that the population of the United States is about 130,000,000 people and that there are about 80,000,000 homes together with the fact that American people adopt changes for the better more rapidly and readily than any other in the world, to realise the significance of these statements. Private industry and private initiative which have so courageously carried this country to leadership in the world will again lead it out of the economic doldrums if given a chance. There are interesting days ahead. Our children and their children will accept as commonplace what we are now shaking our doubtful heads over. And in closing let us repeat—an open mind to accept future revelations is an asset worth pos sessing. The --— - Ever see a movie of a homely little girl that turns out to be a beauty? Note why she seems homely: her hair is straight back from her forehead, tight to the head; she’s without color with out accents of eyebrows or lips. And remember that only the most beautifully sculptured features can stand the severity of straight closely caught hair! » * » Many women refuse to keep any medicines in the house that are even slightly poisonous. This may seem overly cautious to some and unprepared for emergencies to others. But the best rule of all is, look at the label twice before using! • * * An attractive centerpiece for an informal table may be made with a hollowed half of a pump kin as <a fruit bowl set on a base of leaves and filled with dolorful fruits such as red apples, Oranges, purple avocadoes and clusters of grapes. Flanking this! "bowl” large oranges or grapefruit may be cored or hollowed out to the diameter of candles, and put to use as colorful candle sticks. * * * It has been pointed out that Arabs have for centuries lived on exclusive diet of dates and goat’s milk—a diet almost com plete. Think of the nutriment of this: equal parts of dates, figs, dried apricots and nuts. - Fitting the dates, mix them all together and run through a chopper. Cut into squares and roll them in powdered or granulated sugar. * * * The braid of real hair, {Worn across the head is one of the most favored notes ip- modern hair fashioning. It ia^called the coronet braid and ^oas largely taken the place of oe tiara. * * * For long it has been thought that women choose their foods for nutritive value rather better than men. But a recent study at a coeducational college points out the actual fact that meats and vegetables and milk appear most frequently on the trays of the men, and the desserts and sandwiches go to the women. It would seem that the women still need some education in choice of their own foods—if not for their future families. tBUNG \0UNO NEW YORK Suburbanites always take a bit of chiding when heavy snows come. Third nails get buried in the snow. Trains are always de layed. Manhattanites, tied to stuffy city apartments, take the chiding in summer. * * • Depression has been hard on specialists. Museum of Natural History ran out of money for one project recently, and let a scientist go. He has a string of degrees that rival the govern ment’s alphabetical list, but the last job I heard of him doing was overhauling an old automo bile for $25. * * * Fifty thousand men worked to clear Manhattan of snow, re cently. And even so, threats of investigation for the delay were heard. * * * Longest underground walk dis covered so far costs a nickel to get through a subway turnstile: eight blocks from Seventh Avenue at 12th Street to Eighth Avenue at 17th Street. * * * Three hundred men in New York are working on a scale model of New York City that will be 60 feet square, with every building over 16 stories high modeled to scale. It will be use ful to police and fire officials as well as to building investors. * * . * There’s a florist shop at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street that turns into a soft drink stand when warm weather comes around each year—and back again for winter. * * * Another unused theater has been turned into a night club with three orchestras, dancing on the stage, a rapid fire show be tween dances for the patrons, and tables substituted for the rows and rows of chairs. The show is practically nude. * * * Metropolitan Opera stars are finding that salaries are not so great since the 'dollar has gone down in comparison to foreign currencies. Tito Schipa says he shan’t renew his contract for next X W°RLD “/groceries l" A !_(C L LOUIS! KEOGH .v ;; ■’ ■ < ■ ■ ■ ffZ V IS MADE, non FRESHLY DROWN, T LIMBURG, BEL&IUH A BOUT lOO YEARS AGO THE: ACCIDENTAL EATING OP A TOMATO WAS A SERIOUS MISHAP AND CALLED FOR ENER6FNCV TREArMBfXC fWSMMM PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO HAKE BREAD. MXEKKMW THE DEM#<& The Senores jnd Senorifas Through State Capital Keyholes (continued from front page) year. Many persons supposedly versed in the gentle art of poli tics think he is doing pretty well with the second General Assembly to hear the sound of his gavel. It is generally admitted that he knows his way around in politics. SNEEZES—Head and chest colds, just like those down on the farm, have been disturbing mem bers of the General Assembly. Among those absent from the Senate on such an account are. Senator A. Hall Johnston, of Buncombe; Senator Carroll Weathers, of Wake; Senator White, of Robeson, and Senator Harriss Newman, of New Han over. To date, none of these members of the upper branch of the Assembly have been in ser ious condition except Senator Johnston although hoarseness on the part of Senator Spence, of Moore, delayed consideration of the Automobile driver’s license bill for several days. REORGANIZATION — Mem bers of the present Legislature are in no mood for such a waste of time as was imposed on the 1933 session by Senator Larry Moore’s committee on reorgani zation of the State government. Representative Laurie McEachern, of Hoke, introduced a bill to re establish such a committee after it had been abolished by rules committees of House and Senate but there is little chance that a radio microphone will be installed in the Senate chamber to hear the reading of a reorganization re port as was the case two years ago. BLACK EYE—Members of the General Assembly often get in bad with the home-folks by pub lished accounts of short session of the House and Senate. News papers fail to record the hours that these same members spend in committee meetings ironing out the knots in legislation in order to avoid lengthy debate in gen eral sessions. Many legislators are members of half-dozen or more committees and spend long' hours going over bills in order that time may be saved when general session convenes. SALES TAX—The three per cent general retail sales tax isn’t reenacted yet. Opposition ap parently is greater than in the early days of the session and op ponents have substitutes that ap peal to many legislators. The ad ministration is still confident of reenactment of the Sales tax but the revenue bill hasn’t been rati fied. It’s a pretty safe guess that you’ll have the privilege of paying the sales tax to keep the schools open another two years but not if Representative McDon ald, of Forsyth, and Represen tative Lumpkin, of Franklin, can stop it. They have proposals they say will produce needed money but a lot of people doubt their estimates. AUTO TAGS—If all goes well you will not have to pay as much for your auto license plates next year as you did this January. It’s pretty well agreed that the Legislature will cut the cost of auto tags and it looks like the minimum will be about $9.00. It now appears you will buy your next year’s tag on a basis of 40 cents per hundredweight instead of 55 cents as formerly. LOBBYISTS—Published reports of increased corporation and busi ness taxes as substitutes for the sales tax brought representatives of various commercial groups to town in a hurry. The boys are finding their way around hotel and legislative lobbies but general conditions are supposed to have subtracted from their power. You can’t blame them for not want ing taxes upped on their business and that of their clients and after all every citizen who is to be taxed has a constitutional right to be heard. Couldn't Blame Him First Kid—“Gee, Jimmy, when I went by your house this morn ing I heard somebody swearin* something awful P’ Second Kid—“Aw, that was my dad. He was late for church and couldn’t find his hymn book. Frightful Blowhard—There we were, in the thick of the jungle—the tiger and myself, face to face! Girl Listener—H-ow frightful it must have been for both of you! ..chest PROVED BY 2 GENERATIONS (Lift) FAMOUS EXPLORER: "Camel* have a rich flavor that I can enjoy. 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