TODAY’S THOUGHT
Onr doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the
good we oft might win
by fearing to attempt—
Shakespeare.
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SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935.
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Number 13.
REPUBLICAN WINS
The election of Charles F. Risk,
Republican candidate, to Congress
to take the seat formerly held by
Judge Frank B. Condon, of the
Rhode Island Supreme Court, will
be the basis of many a political
argument. In 1984, Condon won
the seat for the Democrats with a
vote of 70,518 against the 49,087
of his Republican .opponent. Last
week Risk went in by a margin
that impressively went over 10,
000 votes. The issue was mainly
the Washington administration al
though neither national committee
took any active part although
Senator Gerry, Democrat, and
Senator Metcalf,„ Republican, left
Washington long^ enough to make
campaign speeches for their party
candidate.
REMOCRATS SUFFER LOSS
Judge Risk’s main attack was
levelled at the AAA, alleging that
the interests of his state were be
ing sacrificed for the “benefit of
other parts of the country.” He
pointed out that the processing
taxes had closed several mills, and
that while the Federal government
thus collected $4,458 to the farm
ers of Rhode Island while the re
mainder was distributed to South
ern and Middle Western farmers
The Democrats countered with ref.
erence to public works, relief em
ployment, the HOLC and the bene
ts of the New Deal. The winner
was for. paying the bonus immedi
ately while the loser was luke
warm.
POLITICAL ARGUMENTS *
The election may or may not be
of the sentiment in the rest of the
nation but it will tend to strength
en the belief of Republicans that
the tide is running against the
New Deal and the President. It
will encourage the pr.rty workers
and bolster the faith of those
who feel certain that victory lies
ahead. Leaders are making plans
for an aggressive attack and the
party headquarters have taken
on new activity, with a “radio
man” and the publication of a
special bulletin to Republican and
independent newspapers. Chairman
Fletcher says the constitution will
be the issue and charges the New
Deal is trying to pervent or
subvert the document. In ad
dition emphasis will be placed up
on socialist experiments, high cost
of living, loss of foreign markets,
increase of debt arid taxes and
attacks upon the Supreme Court.
CONFIDENT PREDICTIONS
| Predictions being in order, inas
much as the campaign is under
way already. James A. Farley,
Democratic chieftain, beats the
gun by declaring he has no doubt
bf the result of the 1936 election
put he doubted if any Republican
thought success was possible for
[party. By way of answer Col.
ink Knox, of Chicago, widely
own newspaper man, mentioned
a possible candidate, after a
it to Former President Hoover
■dieted that a Republican would
:e over the Presidency in 1937
a program opposed to “plan
i economy.” His view w,as ap
>ved by other party leaders.
IOOSEVELT TO SPEAK
Meanwhile, with Congress near
ng the end of its prolonged ses
ion, the President’s advisers
naintain that he has revealed his
land and that the country can
low pass judgment upon his pro
pram, which needs only the final
lecisions of the Supreme, Court
o become law or useless legisla
ion. M<-. Roosevelt, it is said,
s anxious to open his campaign
’or reelection by stating the is
ues to the people and this will
>e done on his trip to the West
:oast when he will visit fifteen to
wenty states. He hopes to
tern the current that seems to
»e drifting against him by vin
licating the legislation that he has
ispoused dealing with agriculture,
-egulation t>f business, reform of
tanking, social security and labor
■elutions. That he will take the
tffensive is an easy prediction
tut exactly how remains to be
lisclosed.
;OURT OPINIONS COMING
Undoubtedly, future' decisions
if the Supreme Court will have
ome effect upon the issues be
’ore the public. That the judicial
tody will declare some of the New
)eal acts unconstitutional is no
onger doubted and if enough of
hem are set aside it may be that
he limitations thus placed upon
federal power to deal with spec
al problems will create the para
nount issue. The Democrats will,
t seems clear, have to stand for
, broader interpretation of Fed
tral authority and, equally clear,
he Republican will take the other
ide. The court will yet give its
tpinion on the processing taxes,
he Wagoner Industrial Disputes
let, and any social security meas
(continued on page 8)
Roosevelt To
Sip Social
Security Bill
Considers Measure
The Most Important
Legislation Of This
Session Of Congress
IS NEW EXPERIMENT
Bill Is Designed To
Protect Millions Of
Workers In Old Age
And Unemployment
Washington Aug. 13.—Presi
dent Roose.velt plans to sign into
law tomorrow what he considers
the most important legislation of
the session—the social security
program designed to protect mil
lions of workers during old age
and times of unemployment..
The measure was scheduled for
signing at the White House at
3:30 p. m. There were indications
the law would be put into im
mediate operation by the ap
pointment of the social security
board of three, members to ad
minister it.
Secretary Perkins discussed the
legislation with the president to
day and later expressed a belief
the board would be appointed
promptly. She was believed to
have consulted with the president
about the personnel.
Signing of the bill tomorrow
will iaunch the nation into a new
and far-reaching experiment in
social reform. It will also write
onto the statute books the big
gest tax program ever approved
by Congress.
Approximately 25,000,000 work
ers are estimated to be covered by
the two major features of the
measure, the nation-wide old age
pension system and the proposed
state unemployment reserve sys
tems.
Methodists Plan
To Heal Slavery
Split By Reunion
Evanston, 111., Aug. 13.:—A
schism which nearly a century ago
split the powerful Methodist
Episcopal Church into warring
Northern and Southern factions,
will be healed by 1944, if a plan
offered to church leaders here to
day is successful.
A reunion of the two groups
would make the Methodist Church
the strongest Protestant organiza
tion in the country, with a mem
bership of about 7,000,000 per
sons.
The slavery issue;, later to
plunge the nation into civil war,
precipitated the breach 91 years
ago.
LeROY MARTIN CONFERS
WITH PWA OFFICIALS
Washington, Aug. 13.—ReLoy
Martin, secretary of the North
Carolina School Commission, was
in Washington today conferring
with PWA officials regarding a
grant for constructing 1,100
new school buses.
The state has agreed to put
up $550,000 and Martin is seek
ing a PWA grant for $450,000.
A similar arrangement was en
tered into under the old PWA
fund and these buses are now
in use..
QUAIL TO BE DISCUSSED IN
WBT BROADCAST AUGUST 20
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—“How Quail
Can Be Made To Pay Taxes On
Farm Lands” is the title of an
interesting broadcast to be given
over the facilities of Station
WBT, on Tuesday evening, Aug
ust 20, at 7:45 p. m. This pro
gram is one of a series jointly
sponsored by the North Carolina
Emergency Relief Administration
and the State Department of Con
servation and Development.
The number of quail in the
state will be depleted unless meas
ures are taken for their conser
vation. In this program to be
broadcast a plan will be propos
ed whereby hunters can help sup
port quail farms, thus assuring a
continuing supply, as well as mak
ing an equal distribution of the
cost, and assuring the farmer a
return for providing a refuge.
TO REORGANIZE RELIEF
Raleigh, Aug. 13.—The start’s
29 relief districts will be reorgan
ized soon into eight districts to
conform with the WPA set-up.
Bulk Sales Barred
In Liquor Measure
Passed By Senate
Washington, Aug. 18.—Ignor
ing a charge of Majority Leader
Joe T. Robinson that a distillers
bottlers combination has given the
country “the most ''beautiful bot
tles in history and the worst
liquor,” the Senate voted 59 to
24 today to continue the present
bottle sale.
The vote came just before pas
sage of the administration’s bill
restoring federal control of the
liquor industry, which went out
the window with the NRA codes.
The bill now goes to conference
with the House, which voted to
permit bulk sales.
The Senate finance committee
recommended the elimination of
bulk sales, to which the treasury
was strongly opposed.
Hoover Wants
New Deal To
Explain Plans
Says Nation Has Right
To Know What Changes
In Constitution Planned
By The Administration
Chicago, Aug. 11—In a state
ment made today by former
President Herbert Hoover, the
former chief executive declared
"the nation has a right to know
before, this session of Congress
ends what changes this adminis
tration proposes in the Consti
tution.”
Breaking a silence on political
affairs which he had maintained
since departing last week on a
business trip to New York city,
the Republican leader, during a
six-hour stop-over between trains,
asserted the Roosevelt adminis
tration had by its attitude toward
the Constitution • created one of
the momentous issues since the
Civil war.
The administration’s acts and
utterances since the Supreme
Court’s decision on the NRA have,
Mr. Hoover said, evinced “a con
tinuous intent to change the Con
stitution directly so as to
authorize concentration of power.”
“The time has come when these
full purposes should be disclosed,”
Mr. Hoover’s statement added.
Passing over questions as to his
own political plans and declining
comment on the Republican con
gressional victory in Rhode Island
and other recent developments,
Mr. Hoover hurried from the
northwestern depot this morning
to a lakeshore hotel
His arrival was unnoted at first
by the scattered groups of travel
ers in the station until a photo
grapher began taking his picture.
Then a small crowd gathered. As
they applauded, the former presi
dent, 62 years of age yesterday,
smilingly lifted his hat.
At his hotel quarters, he con
ferred with Arch W. Shaw, of
suburban Winnetka, and other
personal friends and prepared the
statement which constituted his
only comment before he boarded
a fast afternoon train to continue
his trip to New York. Friends
said he saw no Republican leaders
here.
Federation Of
Labor To Fight
Sales Tax Laws
Atlantic City, N. J„ Aug. 13.—
Abolition of all state sales taxes
at the earliest possible moment
was urged today by the American
Federation of Labor’s executive
council.
The council instructed William
Green, president, to urge affiliat
ed state federations to work for
sales tax repeal in states that
have such levies at the next
meetings of their legislatures.
Every effort to prevent sales
tax adoption in states that so far
have not enacted any likewise
will be urged. “These taxes,”
Green said, “are bearing down
very heavily upon the laboring
people. They transfer the bur
den of relief to the poor—even
to the unemployed. Millions of
dollars are being collected from
people who are unable to pay.”
N.C.WPA Viewed
By Hancock As A
One-Man Set-Up
^_
Charges That Coan
Is Running Office To
Build Up Political
Machine For Bailey
Washington, Aug. 13.—Resent
ment in the North Carolina House
delegation against the way pat
ronage is being handled by the
works progress administration in
North Carolina, flared again here
today when Representative Frank
Hancock issued! a statement in
which he charged by inference
that George W. Coan, Ja., state
WPA director, was running his
office to build up a political ma
chine for Senator Josiah W.
Bailey.
“It is quite apparent,” Han
cock said, “that the majority of
key appointments in the WPA
offices in our state .are being made
upon the expressed recommenda
tions or with the tacit approval
of Senator Bailey.”
The Fifth North Carolina dis
trict representative expressed the
opinion that the WPA in North
Carolina was ,a “one-man set-up,”
but added that “under our political
system no one can justly blame a
man for using every legitimate
means of promoting his own
political welfare.”
Coan comes from Winston
Salem, which is in Hancock’s dis
trict. Hancock was not consult
ed regarding the appointment un
til it was ready to go through,
Senator Bailey, Representative
Doughton and S. Clay Williams
having engineered it. Hancock
then joined in the recommenda
tion, which was essential before
Doughton would give his final
consent.
Shortly after Coan was appoint
ed House members began to com
plain about the lack of consider
ation in the WPA set-up in the
state and off and on they have
privately expressed resentment
over lack of consideration in pat
ronage matters.
Hancock’s statement today,
however, is the first time a mem
ber of the House delegation has
publicly linked Senator Bailey
with the WPA organization and
gone so far as to say a Bailey
political machine was in the mak
ing. Senator Reynolds has had
little to say regarding WPA pat
ronage. His office stated the
other day that the junior senator
had not been consulted in any
way in setting up the state or
ganization.
Roosevelt Will
Speak To Scouts
Over Radio Aug. 21
Washington, Aug. 13.—Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt will
be heard over the nation-wide
Columbia Broadcasting System
and NBC networks on Wednes
day, VVugust 21, when he speaks
to the Boy Scouts of America
from the oval room of the White
House. He will talk between
8:45 and 9 p. m., e- s. t.
Scouts throughout the nation
will be assembled in special meet
ings to hear the nation’s chief
executive speak.
DRIVERS’ LICENSES TO
BE AVAILABLE SOON
Raleigh, Aug. 13.—State driv
ers’ licenses will be available to
the public about September 1,
George G. Scott, director of ac
counts of the department of reve
nue, announced today.
One million application blanks
for operators’ licenses are being
printed, he said, and two hundred
thousand applications for chauf
feur’s licenses.
The application blanks will be
distributed to the 870 automobile
dealers in the state, county clerks
of court and other offices where
they will be easily accessible, to
drivers.
ALLEGHANY MOTOR SALES
WINS EXPOSITION TICKETS
‘ News has been .received here
that Alleghany Motor Sales has
won two round-trip tickets to the
California Pacific exposition, San
Diego, Calif., as prizes offered
for making the most sales of
Ford .automobiles in their terri
tory, in a given period of time.
More details have not bean
learned.
Says President
influenced Tax
Measure Changes
Hastings Says Bill
Is A Roosevelt Measure
And Wants Democrats To
Make The Most Of It
Washington, Aug. 13.—A direct
inference that President Roose
velt influenced the Senate finance
committee’s sudden reversal on
the tax bill was made in a state
ment tonight by Senator Hast
ings (R., Del.)
“It is a Roosevelt measure and
I want him and the Democratic
party to take it and make the
most of it,” the Delaware Repub
lican add'ed.
In his statement, issued on the
eve of formal Senate consider
ation of the bill with all provis
ions for boosting taxes on little
incomes eliminated, Hastings said
he left the city Saturday with the
understanding all rates had been
agreed upon by the finance com
mittee of which he is a member.
“Senator Barkley (D., Ky.) re
turns on Monday, after having
spent a week-end with the presi
dent^ Hastings said, “and a meet
ing is had on Monday at two
o’clock and the bill rewritten
practically in accordance with
the president’s dtesires.”
It was Barkley who moved
reconsideration of the La Follette
amendments, previously approved
on Saturday, which lowered per
sonal income tax exemptions from
$2,500 to $2,000 for married per
sons and from $1,000 to $800 for
single persons, and raised sur
taxes in the lower as well as the
higher bracketed incomes. These
amendments were stricken yes
terday by an 8 to 7 vote.
“So far as I am concerned,”
Hastings said1, “I am done with
it (the bill) except casting my
vote upon the various proposals
and upon the bill itself.”
His statement was issued after
Senator La Follette (Prog., Wis.)
announced he would reoffer his
small-income amendments on the
flooiv for another show down. If
they fail of adoption he will of
fer less drastic alternative pro
posals.
Democratic leaders expressed
confidence meanwhile that all ef
forts to raise taxes on small in
comes, not mentioned in the presi
dent’s message, would be reject
ed. They expected debate which
begins tomorrow to last the re
mainder of the week.
All extraneous riders will be
met by tabling motions shutting
off debate, according to strategy
plans mapped out at a meeting
of the Democratic steering and
policy committees last week.
Produce Prices
Prices being paid yesterday
(Wednesday) by Sparta business
houses for produce were, as fol
lows:
Eggs, 20 cents; Butter, 12
cents; Ham, 18 cents, Country
Bacon, 14 cents; Chickens—old,
13 and 14 cents; fryers, 13 and
14 % cents; roosters, 7 cents;
Leghorn fryers, 11 cents; Onions,
65 cents per bushed, and Pota
toes (No. 1), 50 cents per bushel.
TEACHERS’ CONFERENCE TO
?E HELD AT JEFFERSON
The annual conference for ele
mentary and high school principals
of Alleghany and Ashe counties
is to be held at Jefferson on
Thursday, August 22, at 9:30
a. m. This meeting, according
to W. C. Thompson, Alleghany
county superintendent, is very im
portant as it will acquaint teach
ers with plans and changes for
the coming school year.
All principals in the. two coun
ties are expected to attend, amt
all teachers are urged to be pres
ent act the conference.
ISAAC SMITHEY INJURED
WHEN THROWN FROM TRUCK
Isaac Smithey, of North Wil
kesboro, who has been in Sparta
since the beginning of the con
struction of a store building by
his uncle, N. B. Smithey, was
thrown from the rear of a pick
up truck late Tuesday afternoon.
Smithey was thought to have re
ceived a fractured skull, and,
suffering heavy convulsions, was
taken to the North Wilkesboro
hospital, where an X-ray revealed
no fractured bones.
It is thought he will recover
satisfactorily.
“Vets” Of Spanish
War To Get Pension
Under New Measure
w asmngion, Aug. 10.—rensiuii
payments to 50,000 Spanish
American War veterans and their
widows will be resumed immedi
ately, as the result of today’s
eleventh hour executive approval
of the veterans’ benefit restoration
bill, i
President Roosevelt signed the
measure almost on the deadline of
the tenth day since, it was sent
to the White House, thereby pre
venting its becoming law by de
falcation. Had he failed to act
before Congress adjourned for the
day, constitutional authorities said,
the. bill automatically would have
been validated.
In signing the measure, which
will add $45,000,000 to the na
tional deficit, Mr. Roosevelt ex
plained that he had not discrimi
nated against World War veterans,
whose efforts to collect full prem
iums on the adjusted service cer
tificates repeatedly have been re
pulsed by the White Houses.
Long’s Friends
Throw His Hat
Into 1936 Race
Hoover Canvasses
Political Situation
In New York. Moses
- Boosts Colonel Knox
Washington Aug. 13.—A side
door announcement that Senator
Long, (D., La.), would run for
the presidency in 193fi and talk
of a state-wide test of new deal
strength in Ohio this fall today
centered a widespread series of
political developments.
They included:
President Roosevelt arranged
for a conference tomorrow with
Governor Davey, of Ohio, at the
latter’s request, arousing immedi
ate speculation over the possibil-1
ity of a special election to fill the I
vacancy caused by the death of
Representative-at-large Truax, (D.
Ohio).
Former President Hoover can
vassed the political situation with
Republican leaders in a series of
conferences in New York.
Former Senator George H.
Moses; of New Hampshire, said
Col. Frank Knox, the Chicago
publisher, had more supporters
than any other for the Republican
presidential nomination.
Long, although refusing to com
ment on reports by colleagues of
his plans to seek the Democratic
presidential nomination next year
and failing that to run independ
ently, disclosed that he had ar
ranged to speak at the Long fam
ily reunion at Lebanon, Pa.( the
last Saturday in this month.
In quarters close to Long, it
was said that he probably would,
discuss his political plans at that I
meeting.
Three California
Police Chiefs Are
Slain Recently
Sacramento, Calif-, Aug. 13.—
The third chief of police to be
shot down in northern California
in recent weeks was killed early
Sunday by bullets from a prowl
er’s pistol.
The victim w,as Erskine G. Fish,
47-year old police chief of North
Sacramento. Shot in an ex
change of gunfire with two men,
he bled to death within 20 min
utes.
Muttered talk of lynch law was
heard in the streets of the Sacra
mento suburb a few hours after
a suspect was placed in jail.
One man was arrested and
booked as George A- Wallace, 27,
of Oakland. He was picked up
by Deputy Sheriff C. K. Harder,
of Sacramento, who had been
called to the neighborhood by
citizens complaining of prowlers.
The deputy sheriff did not learn
of the slaying of Chief Fish un
til he had brought his prisoner
to headquarters here.
Other police department heads
who have been slain in recent
weeks in northern California were
F. R. Daw, of Dunsmuir, and
Police Chief O'Neil, of Santa
Rosa.
Two Men Killed
In Truck Mishap
West Of Sparta
Car Atwood, 40, And
Everett Irwin, 36, Are
Victims. Gwyn Whitaker
Is Struck By Truck
GEORGE IRWIN DRIVER
Funerals At Prathers
Creek And Antioch Are
Attended By Large
Numbers Of People
Two men were killed and two
others injured, one seriously, Fri
day night in a truck accident
three miles west of Sparta.
Those killed are Cas Atwood,
40, and Eve.rett Irwin, 36. Both
were from Stratford, in Alle
ghany county. Atwood and Ir
win were riding in a light pick
up trucki driven by George Ir
win, which left the highway, go
ing over an embankment near the
Twin Oaks garage, after striding
Gwyn Whitaker, Twin Oaks, who
was walking along the highway,
together with Harlow Pollard and
Gwyn Pollard. Whitaker was
knocked unconscious and suffered
a dislocated ankle and cuts and
bruises, George Irwin received
severe bruises and minor cuts.
Bower Irw’in and Hoy Evans, who
were riding in the, back of the
pick-up, were uninjured, except
that Irwin received a cut on his
hand.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Sunday at Prathers Creek for
Everett Irwin and was attended
by one of the largest crowds ever
attending a funeral in Alleghany
which attested to the number of
fiiends possessed by the deceased.
Services were conducted by Revs.
Coy Walker, Lee Hampton, Johnny
Tolliver, Jonnny Williams and
Shelby Atwood. Irwin^fs surviv
ed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jchn Irwin, three brothers, Les
ter Irwin, Sparta; Wiley Irwin,
Stratford, and Letcher Irwin, of
Maryland, and four sisters, Mrs.
Lester Jones, Furches; Mrs. Will
Church, Scottville; Mrs. Robert
Watson, of Maryland, and Mrs.
Mack Watson, High Point.
Interment was in the church
cemetery at Prathers Creek.
Funeral services were conduct
ed for Atwood Monday at 11:00
o’clock at Antioch church, also in
the presence of a large crowd of
people.
Surviving Atwood are his par
ents, Elder and Mrs. Shelby At
wood, seven sisters, Mrs. Eula
Boone, Mrs. Fannie Reeves, Mrs.
Merlie Reeves, and Jennie, Bes
sie, Ruth and Ruby Atwood1, and
one brother, Ben Atwood. Two
sisters, Lucy and Verda, are de
ceased.
Services were conducted by
Elder Johnny Williams, Elder J.
C. Sparks and Elder Isom Fender.
Interment was in the church
cemetery.
CAMPBELL HEADS VA. BAR
Stuart B. Campbell, prominent
attorney of Wytheville, Va., was
elected president of the Virginia
State Bar association at the re
cent annual meeting of the or
ganization held at White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va.
He succeeds C. O’Connor Gool
rick, Fredericksburg.
'listen eoi"S
OERE AINT[
NUTTIJ
f DON'T ]
KNOW/
14—John Galsworthy, English
novelist, born 1867.
IS—Indian massacre at Ft.
Dearborn (Chicago), 1812.
17—The Sioux Indiana go sa
the war path, 1862.
"He who boasts of his own Ipwwledge
proclaims his own ignorance.”
AUGUST
13—Manila surrenders to U. S.
fleet and army, 1898.
18—U. S. S.
tuns the