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The Alleghany Times H. B. Zabriskie .. Editor and Publisher Mrs. Sidney Gambill . Looal 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, February 28, 1935. Automobiles In The Hands Of The Wrong Persons Can Be As Deadly As Pistols, Knives, Blackjacks There’ are pistols and knives and hatchets and blackjacks in the list of deadly weapons, and, when careless hands are on the wheel and reckless drivers are behind them, automobiles are to be included. If you doubt this, read the ever-lengthen ing list by traffic fatalities. A man does not have to be deliberate in his intent to kill to be a morally responsible slayer. He is one if he kills while acting in reckless dis regard of others. The motorist who drives his car at breakneck speed through the streets and goes hurtling down the path that others cross employs a deadly weapon against his fellows as surely as one who empties his gun down a crowded thorough fare. Let the reckless motorist fix this in his mind and, if he is not a murderer at heart, let him prove it by exercising proper care. Good drivers are those who get not the highest but the safest speed ■out of theirs cars. Lincoln's Principles Should Be Followed During These Times Of Emergency A short time ago the nation observed Lincoln’s Birthday; It would be a fine thing for the country if American citizens gave a little time to pondering the ideals and principles for which the martyred President stood. Lincoln was the embodiment of true democracy. No man was ever more passionately devoted to liberty, to freedom, to destroying human bondage of whatever kind. His was a loyalty to country that went beyond party, beyond partisan politics— and that would willingly make any sacrifice in order that the nation might endure, progress and prosper. No task was too great, no duty too exacting, if it would help to preserve and maintain those enduring principles laid down by the founders of the country in the United States Constitution. During four years of unparalleled national crisis, Lincoln was the rock that could not be swayed by mob sentiment, by fear, by the lust for power, by the desire for personal gain. No man ever possessed a greater hatred for war—yet Lincoln went into the Civil War deliberately, knowing that tragic as the waste of men and resources would be, it was essential to the preservation of the Union. Between 1860 and 1864 America stood at the cross roads—and Lincoln drove relentlessly forward on the course that meant the continuance of liberty, democracy and Constitutional principles. The issues that surrounded Lincoln have passed, but the characteristics of the man remain, and will not be forgotten. In times like these when so-called emergency measures threaten the very foundations of our Constitutional government, it is well to remember Lincoln and his work. You Have It In Yiou If You’ll Only Convince Yourself By John Edwin Price So many times we overhear conversations on busses or street comers to the effect, “O, I guess it just isn’t in me to make good.” A young man said the other day, “Yes, times are picking up. Most of my friends who were out of work are going back. But there is nothing-doing for me.” Some of the readers of the Gazette may have felt that same way. While we do not believe in goading anyone for the simple reason that we cannot con ceive of ourselves being bullied into better, still there is food for thought in something which was said recently by a young man who is making himself very definitely “wanted” by those for whom he is working. He said, “I find that when the sales pick ings are few and far between, that there are so many people who say, ‘What’s the use?’ and sit down pining for better times, that the fact of their dropping out makes the picking pretty good for those willing to keep going yiyth their eyes open.” This young man knew that the person needing to be convinced that there are better possibilities ahead is the one who needs those possibilities. It is our firm conviction that there is nearly always half a loaf for the man who isn’t more than half a loafer. And half is better than none. You have it in you to do something. Possibly you may have to invent a job while the world is going through this transition period. Someone has to invent new jobs ? Why wait for another to do it and then have to work for him? We are all endowed with many unused abilities and ideas. You have it in you to do something. Sing this thought to yourself. Hum it to yourself until you come to believe it. You know that when hunting for a job working for someone else you should first convince yourself that you are worth hiring. You have it in you to be and do something better. Growth is the order of life—unless one uses his power of will to determine otherwise. Most anybody else can tell you what you ought to be able to do with your money. Self-aid is now being stressed in relief work, it type of work will make for rehabilitation and respect. I like to listen to the conversation of men who 'ully think out what they propose to say before start their chins vibrating. For the same rea I enjoy what those men have to say who speak from their everlasting homes inside the open of books,—that have become immortal.—John *nee. . , -J: "Sx'J. A , mm line of which leufa, "The Holy Bible,“ and which con Him Four Greet Treisarei ........ ^ tl+tUUr ^HAU I ON THE HEART OF DAVID We know that David solidified his kingdom and made it respect ed among the powerful nations of that part of the world. Let us pass by, then, the rec ord of his official life and touch oh two incidents that reveal his heart. It was after one of the great battles with the Philistines when his little force was sur rounded, cut off from supplies and even from water, that David, worn out and thirsty, thought of the clear pure water in his fath er’s well which had cooled his lips in boyhood. His parched throat yearned for it. And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it. and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. It is easy to understand why men worshipped a leader like that. The other incident occurred m the campaign against his son Absalom, the boy whom he loved more than all the world and who repaid his love by organizing a revolt and attempting to seize the throne. David gave' orders that the boy was under no cir cumstances to be killed, but the zeal of a professional soldier was hot to be curbed by such an or der, and word was brought to the king- that Absalom was dead. The revolt was broken, his throne was safe, he could go back to the security of the pal ace, but it all meant nothing. The feelings of the monarch were swallowed up in the heart-break ing anguish of the father. O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! Perhaps the most poignant cry in history from a father’s bleed ing heart. The faults of David are set forth none the less clearly than his virtues; we feel the reality of him in every line. Yet no catalogue of his shortcomings can hide his essential greatness. He was a genius in war, in adminis tration and in literature. He re organized a government that last ed more than four centuries as a single dynasty and which lived as an ideal through thirty cen turies. (continued from front page) expenditures of veterans of the last war will exceed a billion dollars a year before death brings about a decrease in the number being paid. TOWNSEND PLAN WEAKENS The so-called Townsend plan has failed to make the headway that many conservatives feared. The appearance of the doctor be fore Congressional committees, where he was asked many humor ous, sarcastic and pertinent ques tions, brought about the gradual weakening of his own position, as it was generally understood. While in no wise admitting that his plan would not work the doc tor, in view of difficulties pre sented, finally suggested that the pensions be limited to persons over 75 years of age, estimating that it would take two years to get to those “over 60.” - He is quoted as telling the House com mittee that it "is obvious to all of us that we couldn’t start this plan at $200 a month for all over 60.” The committee’s re port, it is safe to predict, will attack the plan as impracticable and impossible of administration. WHAT ABOUT “WRITE-UPS” Readers of this column have heard the word “write-ups” con stantly used in regard to the fi nancing operations of utilities. They have read of examples cited by the Federal Trade Commission, showing where companies have taken over properties at one fig ure and put them on their books at another. Maybe, some of you have wondered why this was done and why objection to the proce dure exists. The point is that utilities, having a monopoly, are regulated and allowed to charge such rates as will give a fair re turn on the investment. Obvious ly, if the investment can be pad ded the return will be multiplied and this is what has happened in hundreds, if not thousands, of instances. REPUBLICANS’ ATTACK Vigorous Republican attacks upon the work relief bill, which would give the President control over the spending of nearly five billion dollars, will have very lit tle effect upon final passage of the measure but furnish interest ing political conversation. Sena tor Vandenberg, of Michigan, found it an “amazing proposal” that represented “lost liberty” and would create more problems than it solves. He made an elo quent attack which drew atten tion because of the fact that he has been widely mentioned as a possible candidate for the Presi dency next year. Senator Stei wer, of Oregon, vigorously as sails it as containing “evils almost beyond description.” PROPOSE BANK CHANGES Thewriter is not a financial ex pert or a professor of banking. Hence he is not able to give any worth-while, first-hand views on the proposed changes in the hanking structure, which have aroused howls from conservative, statesmen. Nevertheless, it re quires no prophet to point out l „y The Woman’s Angle | There’s a ne,w mascara on the market that comes in stick form, and works very much like a lip stick, except that you wet the stick before applying to the lash es. It may also be used as an eyebrow pencil when it is dry. • * • In China last year, General Chiang-Kai-Shek ruled that wo men’s sleeves must be no shorter than elbow length, dresses must not be above the ankles and legs may not be exposed—eliminating the slit skirt. Hair must be comb ed backward and must not be longer than the neck. * * * A punch that *is stimulating and delicious is made with the rind of half a lemon, crushed with half a cup of sugar, a quart of cider, the juice of one lemon and a cup of sherry. When cold, pour over ice in a punch bowl and add three quarters of a cup of brandy. * * * Women are wearing more and more veils on their hats both formal and informal. • For the informal hats, the vogue seems to be the veil without any de sign, but in stiff material and large mesh. * • * A new note in make-up for the very gay masquerade shades the eyes with gold or silver. For, exotic as it may sound, there are actually artificial eyelashes on the market in gold and silver. * * « The next time you open a can of peas, heat them in their own liquor from the can and a bit .of onion or celery. Try this with string beans, too. that the present system abso lutely failed to prevent the in flation of 1929 and that, in the opinion of many, including Gov ernor Eccles, “aggravated and prolonged the worst phases of the depression and still impedes the rate of recovery.” Gov. Eccles. a» we understand it, wants the Federal Reserve Act to function more,, freely and ad just itself more j readily to the business needs of the country. The idea is that a satisfactory de gree of solidity has been estab lished among the banks of the nation and that the time has come for a more centralised authority over these institutions in order to secure a broad national policy. Moreover, there' is little doubt that something like this will lim it .the power of Wall Street and make Washington the real cen ter of the finances of the country. ROPER FOR PROFIT MOTIVE Secretary of Commerce Roper points out that the present ad ministration believes in the profit motive, which is indispensable to provide initiative and results in economic enterprise. At the same time he does not hesitate to say that the Federal government must protect the public against prac tices which allow “the making of unsound, unethical and exorbit ant profits.” The idea, he says, is to eliminate the abuses of the present proftt system rather than to abolish the 'system itself. Na turally, it follows that govern ment must place restrictions upon business where necessary to pro tect the general welfare. Louisa’s Letter SHOULD A MARRIED WOMAN SEEK A JOB? Dear Girh:*—• So many letters come from women who are undecided about mixing marriage with a career. Personally I don’t think they mix very well. The career or the family is bound to be neglect ed unless the wife is a magician. Now, when I advise not mixing a job with matrimony, I do so where the question is one of choice; when it is not necessary for a woman with a family to work outside of her home. There are cases when an added income is a necessity and under such circumstances a woman can do more for'her family by doing such work than she can by stay ing at home. For instance, I know a woman who was an expert stenographer before she married a man who was making the same salary that she was drawing. She gave up her job and that meant that they both had half as much to spend on clothes, food, doctor bills, dentists and recreation as they had before. However* neither of them re gretted doing this as they felt that the happiness of having a home and being together made up for any material comforts they were being deprived of. But then a baby girl was born find six years after giving up her job this young mother found her self with three small children. The depression had come, in the mean time and the husband’s salary, instead of increasing, was a little less than it had been at the time of their marriage. It was simply inadequate for their needs. They had to move to a very poor neigh borhood and the children did without fresh fruit and other things they really should have had. A part time maid was out of the question and this young woman, who had always been accustomed to nice things, found herself oc cupied from morning until night with so much routine house work that she had little time to give to her children’s mental and spiri tual needs. She was irritable and anything but a pleasant compan ion for the husband who came home at the end of the day. One day her old boss asked her to work during the regular stenographer’s vacation. She got her mother to stay with the chil dren and attend to them, with the help of a hired girl. . When the regular stenographer got married she jumped1 at the chance of get ting her old job again. Today they have moved back among their friends, the children have nice clothes and regular medical and dental care- The wife and husband can afford to step out once or twice a week, and although these children are robbed of the society of their mother, I think they have all gain ed more by her taking the old job than if she had stayed at home to scrub the floors and pots and pans. However, if it had been a ques tion of getting a finer car than the neat coach, or hiring several maids instead of one, I should have said “Stay home and take care of your children and1 husband. No one can really take a moth er’s place and there is much there to do if you will only real ize it.’’ Remember the saying, “As the twig is bent, so the tree’s in clined.” yours, LOUISA Misunderstood Manager-—“I hear you and the leading lady are on the outs.” Electrician—“Ye*h. It was one of those quick change scenes with the stage all dark. She asked for her tights and I thought she said lights.” Sure, They Live Together Woman (to tramp)—“Go away, or I'll call my feusband.” Tramp—“Oh, I know ’im. 'E’s the little fellow who told me to clear out yesterday or ’e’d call 'is wife!"—Humorist. Tentatively "You are wedded to your art, I suppose, Mr. Brush?” Young Painter—“Well not ex actly. We’re tentatively engaged until I see what it can do to ward providing me with a liv ing.—Boston Transcript. fORLD*5/ GROCERIES Oliv'-*' jan' ■- - CULTIVATED INWr— COUNTRIES, COFFEE '-'-'vjin i nic.3j Uwr r Lb IS THE SEED OF AN EVERGREEN TREE.THC BERRIES, OR FRUIT, RE SEMBLE CHERRIES, AND EACH BERRV CONTAINS TWO COFFEE BEANS S/N$ie TKEB Y/SiDS / TO /A POUNDS A SBASON. THE CALIFORNIA RUSH DA# REACHED A DOZEH | C, ItcR WorVI Cartoon Cortnunjr Through State Capital Keyholes (continued from front page) Public Works Division. Highway Officials say this would be expen sive and would just about wreck the organization they have left under the hand-to-mouth appro priation of their own money by the last General Assembly. CHEAPER BOOKS—The bill to establish a State system of renting public school books at nominal rates has considerable support in the General Assembly” and Governor Ehririghaus has wished it God speed but it will have its troubles before it ever becomes law. Representatives of book publishing houses, which would stand to lose business by a rental system, are in Raleigh for some purpose- Astute ob servers say they are opposed to the book rental bill. You might inquire of the lobbyists their business in the Capital City. They have been very successful in past sessions. ANTI-SALES TAX—The bloc headed by Representative Ralph McDonald, of Forsyth, and Repre sentative Lumpkin, of Franklin, ■will not cease its fight on the gen eral sales until the biennial reve nue bill becomes law. They plan to carry their fight to the floor of House and Senate where they have no little strength. Leaders of the Ehringhaus administration still avow the sales tax is neces sary to properly support schools and other essential State" services and predict it will be reenacted. LIQUORr—Opinion among many legislative leaders is that legal liquor has little chance of ap proval by the present General Assembly. Some measure call ing a referendum on the subject may get by but the odds at pres ent are against even that sort of a bill. Too many members come from counties that voted overwhelmingly dry in the re peal election of 1933 and the lawmakers still interpret that, in most cases, as a dry mandate and those entertaining future po litical aspirations are not so hot for kicking mandates over board. CREDIT—When the first hear EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as the Execu trix of the last will of A. S. Carson, deceased, I hereby notify all persons indebted to him estate to come forward and make pay ment, and all persons having claims against his estate must present them to me for payment within twelve months from this •late or this notice will be plead in bar of recovery. This February 12, 1935. MRS. ZOLLIE CARSON, Executrix of A. S. Carson, 4tc-7AT deceased. Special Horse and Mule Sale At Grayson-Carroll Livestock Market GALAX, VIRGINIA Monday, March 4th Cadi Em rich, of Nebraska, will have a carload of Extra Good Mares and Mules on sale at our market next Monday. These will be offered privately or at auction. Bring Your Stock And Sell It At Auction Sale of all Classes of Livestock will begin at Noon Grayson-Carroll Livestock Market AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, GALAX, VA. J. T. HORNEY, Pres. W. C. ROBERSON, Mgr. - ' t- ' • ings on increasing the price of tobacco were held in Washington back in 1933 Governor Ehring haus, Congressmen Warren, Han cock and the late Edward W. Pou were present with farmers, warehousemen and federal of ficials. Since that time the to bacco program has become a practical political proposition and recent hearings have been attend ed almost one hundred per cent by the North Carolina delegation in Congress. The old band-wagon ride, you know. DIVIDENDS — One thing the McDonald-Lumpkin block has pro posed is catching favor with the General Assembly and has wide popular appeal. It would put dividends from domestic corpor ations in the same class with dividends of foreign corporations and tax them at six per cent straight. That may not pass but it is probable that domestic divi dends may be put in the same pot with all other income and taxed at the graduated income tax rate with the same exemptions allowed. A big fight is being waged against the proposal but the Legislature hasn’t adjourned yet. GOVERNOR—As the General Assembly has waxed warm specu lation on probable candidates for Governor on the Democratic ticket next spring has waned. It is generally accepted in Ral eigh, however, that Shelby’s sil ver-tongued Clyde R. Hoey and Lieutenant Governor Graham will make the race. Congressman R. L- Doughton is a more uncertain quantity and some politicians pre dict that former Lieutenant Gov ernor R. T. Fountain will change his mind and not run against Senator J. W. Bailey. Mr. Foun tain recently said he intends to do that little thing. Governor Ehringhaus is still being urged" to oppose Senator Bailey but an swers all questions with the statement that he is now busy trying to be a good Governor. Sm Caitevena Motor Co. for radio batteries, tube* and ser vice.—adv. tfc. CHILDRENS