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Too low they build who
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Young.
DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 19S5.
Number 16,
Volume 11,
LEGISLATIVE RESULTS
The Congress, held in session
by the President’s insistence for
uetion on his so-called “must”
program, passed many laws of
far-reaching importance before
going , home for a few months’/
rest to get ready for the next
session in January. It seems a
long time ago that the $4,880,
000,000 work-relief program was
authorised and a mere list of
some of the more important meas
ures emphasizes the magnitude of
the legislative task regardless of
what one thinks of the results.
Here is the record:
(1) Wagner labor disputes
measure, outlawing company un
ions and enforcing collective bar
gaining by a labor majority.
(2) Banking reform, bolstering
Reserve Board’s control of credit
and retaining ban on banks un
derwriting security issues.
,(8) Social security act, design
ed to remove the economic hazards
of old age .and unemployment.
(4) Regulation of holding com
panies, with the modified “death
sentence.”
(5) Ban on gold-clause suits
after January 1, 1936, before
Which date few holders can prove
"damages” as defined by Supreme
Court opinion.
(6) Wealth-Sharing, or so,ak
ng-the-irich taxes.
(7) Amended AAA to meet, if
tossible, constitutional defects.
(8) Guffey bill to regulate soft
:oal industry, a "little NRA,” of
loubtful constitutionality.
(9) Neutrality resolution de
ligned to keep us out of war by
estricting arms shipments, pas
lenger travel and aid to belliger
>nts.
(-10) Eleven appropriation bills
n addition to the huge work-re
ief fund, aggregating about $10,
100,000,000.
(11) A mass of other laws in
luding skeletonized NRA, exten
ion of nuisance taxes, liberaliza
ion of farm loans, “hot oil” bill,
ncreased home loan bonds, modi
ed Frazier-Lemke farm mort
age measure, pensions for rail
rorketrs, extension of CCC,
’ERA, RFC, PWA and rail co
rdinator, TVA amendment, crop
wms, “baby bonds,” pink slip
epeal, bus regulation, air mail
ct, liquor control, railroad bank
uptcy and pension for Spanish
jneriean War Veterans.
I ARM BOARD’S LOSS
The Federal Farm Board, e.reat
d by Congress in 1929, and given
i revolving fund of $600,000,000
Bfered a loss, actual and pros
etive, of about $344,000,000,
cording to a report of a sen
committee headed by Senator
_rles McNary, of Oregon, who
glared that “inexperience, ex
avagance, avarice, and in a few
ses, dishonesty in the part of
Hcials and employes of some of
cooperatives increased these
” The analysis of the
through the Stabilization
roration purchases of cotton
wheat have been calculated
to June 30, 1936.
bold
The senate document declares
jt the Farmer’s National Grain
>rporation made huge profits as
snt for the Stabilization Cor
ition, that it made a large
.Jt selling wheat, without de
aries and buying it back at
>r prices and condemned the
■-relationship which made
ible these profits, saying that
Stabilization Corporation
have perfoi
ices rendered.
Pointing out
re in the same hands and that
profit for Farmers National
it to stock holders while losses
the Stabilization Corporation
sre charged to the Treasurer of
United States the report con
st: “With remarkable accur
of foresight, transactions that
out profitable were under
_ by the Farmers National.
ile those that eventuated un
__ily either were relegated
Grain Stabilization Corporation
were undertaken by Farmers
ional under some special ar
ent with the Farm Board
limited the cooperatives
for losses.’’.
[The report points out that the
organizations were instru
i in the same hands, the of
were practically the same,
i offices were in the same rodms
that the corporations shared
light; telephone, and tele
charges, postage and sup
exchanged employes and
.ST TO SOVIET
general idea, H this is
is that nothing dramatic
r the exchange
" mtry —
Roosevelt Talks
To Home Folks In
Form Of Parable
Compares Changes Being
Made In Federal Gov't.
To Repair Work Now In
Progress At White House
SPEAKS IN DRIZZLE
Plans To Carry Out
Cherished Ambition—
To Participate In
Dedicating Boulder Dam
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 3.—
In an address delivered to his
home town neighbors tonight,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
vigorously defended his ideas of
governmental reform.
Standing bareheaded in a cold
drizzle the President explained in
homely terms his conception of
the reconstruction of the govern
ment. He compared the changes
being made in federal authority
to repairs being made upon the
White House, and it will continue
to be, Mr. Roosevelt said. So it
is with the American form of
government.
The President talked to 100 or
more Dutchess county . neighbors
and friends, members of the
Democratic Women’s Club of
Hyde Park. They stood huddled
under the dripping trees in the
twilight as he spoke from the
front steps of a little yellow
farmhouse.
“When I go back to the White
House it will be safer to live in,”
he said, “but it wil be the same
old White House the American
people have always owned. This
is a useful parable for you to re
member. . We are not changing
the White House. It will be the
same White House no matter who
may be the President in the next
four years, eight years or 100
years.
“And that is the, same for
other things. We are constantly
repairing and helping white houses
that exist on every farm and in
every community. That is one
reason I am not worried about
the future of the United States."
The President arrived for the
rally on the farm of Moses
Smith, accompanied by his son,
John, his mother, Mrs. James
Roosevelt, and small .group of
fiiends.
He explained that he was
“pinch-hitting for Mrs. Roosevelt,
who was scheduled as the original
speaker, but who was called tq
Winnetka, 111., to attend the fun
eral of Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife
of the secretary of the Interior.”
"I think it only fair to my
better half to pinch-hit,” he said,
“for she certainly has done the
same for me on many occasions.”
The President said that he
planned to carry out a cherished
ambition soon—to take part in
tne dedication of Boulder Dam.
From there he will proceed to
the exposition in San Diego,
Calif.
Local Ford Men
Win Trip To Big
Calif. Exposition
D. C. Bledsoe, owner of Alle
ghany Motor Sales, and Earl
Wagoner, who is also connected
with this firm as salesman, left
Sparta during the week-end for
California to attend the Califor
nia Pacific exposition as guests
of the Ford Motor company, with
all expenses paid. Mr. Bledsoe
was one of five dealers, and Mr.
Wagoner was one of seven sales
men, winning in their .respective
groups, who left during the past
week-end for the exposition. The
trip was awarded the local men
by reason of their winning first
place in their group classification
in the June-July dealer and sales
man contest, just concluded by
the Charlotte branch of the Ford
Motor company in this territory.
The dealer contest included
dealers, grouped according to
their territory, and their potential
selling prospects, and that of the
salesmen included salesmen,
grouped according to their terri
tory, population of their terri
tory and their potential selling
prospects.
The entire party of dealers anc
salesmen met at the Chartott«
hotel in Charlotte Sunday morn
ing for breakfast as the guest
of W. C. Patterson, Brand
Manager of the Ford Motor com
Doughton Is On
Committee To Work
For PWA Funds
Chapel Hill, Sept. 8.—Faced
with a situation which they con
sidered an emergency, 500 local
representatives from throughout
the state acted here today to ob
tain federal PWA funds for North
Carolina.
Most of the persons attending
the conference were county,
municipal and school officials. In
formed by Dr. H. G. Baity, state
PWA administrator, that most of
their applications, involving ap
proximately $24,000,000, for proj
ect loans and grants had been
rejected tentatively in Washing
ton, they appointed a committee,
armed it with" Suitable resolutions,
and directed it to represent them
in negotiations with federal of
ficials.
U. S. Senators Josiah W. Bailey
and Robert R. Reynolds, Congress
man Robert L. Doughton and Gov
ernor Ehringhaus comprised the
committee.
Sparta H.S.
Opens Monday
For New Term
Rev. R. L. Berry Has
Charge Of Devotional#.
Superintendent Thompson
Talks On “Streamlining”
The Sparta high school opened
Monday, September 2, with the
largest attendance on record. The
opening was also well attended
by patrons and friends of the
school, who showed a great in
terest in the activities of the
faculty and students.
A very brief program was held
during the chapel period, but was
not prolonged because of the
large number forced to stand
during the exercises. Rev. R. L.
Barry, Presbyterian minister,
conducted the devotionals and was
followed by W. C. Thompson,
county superintendent of schools,
who made a brief, but effective
speech to the students. The
theme of his talk was “Stream
lining.” This, he said, was the
method used by modern manu
facturers of" automobiles, air
planes, etc., in combating the
force known as friction. Educa
tion is the method by which, he
said, we may stream-line our
minds and lives to meet life’s
friction—the friction of ignorance.
(continued on back page)
Doughton Fears
People May Rely
Unduly On Gov't.
Salisbury, Sept. 3.—Congress
run Robert L. Doughton, of Alle
ghany county, tol-d the Associated
Master Barbers of North ^aro
lina at their eighth annual'.con
vention here yesterday that'the
nation’s greatest danger how is
that citizens may come to rely
too heavily upon the government.
Doughton, chairman of the.
House ways and means committee,
reviewed Congress’ acts to relieve
the nation’s strained economic,
situation. He praised the social
secuiity act as the most far
reaching and advanced social
legislation in American history.
Although some mistakes were
made and the new laws generally
were built crudely, said Dough
ton, the relief and recovery task
was weU done.
Everyone can see a “better
world” now than they could in
March, 1988, he asserted. Warn
ing of the danger of too great
dependence upon the government,
he urged upbuilding of self-re
liance mingled with “patriotic and
adequate support of the govern
ment.”
Tonight the barbers held their
annual banquet with Dr. W. L.
Tatum acting as toastmaster. A
dance followed.
Rev. Thomas C. Cook offered
the invocation and the conven
tion formally opened at 1:80
p. m. , v* l
Mayor C. F. Raney welcomed
the visitors, and M. E. Meadows,
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McDonald Would Drop Out Of
Gubernatorial Race In Event
Of Doughton Entry, He Soys
Says State Could Do Itself No Greater
Honor Than To Elect “Farmer Bob” Governor
PRAISES LOYALTY TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Declares North Carolina Must Choose Between
Machine Government And Spirit Of New Deal
In the event that Alleghany
county’s distinguished Congress
man Robert Lee Poughton, should
decide to enter the coming North
Caroline gubernatorial race, he
would have the enthusiastic sup
port of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald,
Winston-Salem, who, only a few
days ago, himself announced as
a candidate for the office, accord
ing to a statement made Monday
night by McDonald. He said that
if Congressman Doughton would
enter the race he would with
draw. f
“North Carolina could do itself
no greater honor than to elect
‘Farmer Bob’ Doughton as its
governor,” Dr. McDonald said,
“If persuaded to run, I would go
into every county in the state do
ing everything within my power
to .assist him in the cause,” the
Winston-Salem candidate also
said. * -»
Declaring the state must choose
“definitely between the sort of
machine government which we
have had in recent years and a
government in the spirit of the
new deal,” Dr. McDonald pointed
out that "for leadership in this
cause those of us who have been
most interested have sought urg
ently to draft Mr. Doughton.”
The gubernatorial candidate
praised Doughton for his loyalty
to President Roosevelt.
“In the face of the President’s
request, Mr. Doughton has been
unwilling to 4eav*:.JtK duties in
Washington,” the Forsyth legis
lator said. “That is the sort of
loyalty of which Mr. Doughton
is made. The state has need of
him; the nation has equal need
of him. If he must remain in
Washington, we must carry on
here ”
Dr. McDonald’s statement fol
lows:
“North Carolina could do itself
no greater honor than to elect
‘Farmer Bob’ Doughton as its gov
ernor. If Mr. Doughton could
have been persuaded to run, or if
he could now be persuaded to
run, I would go into every county
in the state doing everything
within my power to assist him in
the cause.
“North Carolina must choose
definitely between the sort of
machine government which we
have had in recent years and a
government in the spirit of the
new deal. For the leadership in
this cause those of us who have
been most interested have sought
urgently to draft Mr. Doughton.
President Roosevelt felt that he
could not part with the aid of
a man who had fought so well
against the forces of greed and
reaction. The President has in
sisted that Mr. Doughton remain
in the national Congress.
“In the face of the President’s
request M.r. Doughton has been
unwilling to leave his duties in
Washington. That is the sort of
loyalty of which Mr. Doughton is
made. The state has need of
him; the nation has equal
need of him. If he must remain
in Washington, we must carry on
here.
“In Mr. Doughton the people of
this state would have their ablest
leader in this fight for democracy.
He would have stood independent
of the special interests which have
so long dominated North Carolina
politics. His leadership would
have made victory easy.
“Our ability to draft Mr.
Doughton leaves the crisis in
North Carolina even more crucial.
Our lines must be even firmer and
our fight even more determined.
“It is becoming increasingly
clear that the people of this state
are ready to throw off the yoke
of the political holding company
which has been dictating the
policies of the state and reaping
the benefits from those policies.
I wish that we might have called
one more worthy than I to lead
this cause. But the cause must
prevail, for it is the cause of the
whole people of North Carolina.”
Song Dedicated To
Sparta Pastor At
Spring Valley, Va.
Rev. Cecil G. Hefner, pastor
of the Sparta Methodist circuit,
accompanied Rev. C. H. Brown
ing, pastor of the Independence
(Va.) circuit, to Spring Valley,
in Grayson county, Tuesday to
attend the monthly meeting of the
pastors and laymen of the Wythe
ville district, Holston conference.
While there the Rev. Mr. Hefner
was officially recognized by Dr.
J. A. Baylor, presiding elder of
the Wytheville district, as a visi
tor from a neighboring confer
ence.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wall, evange
listic singers of Cookeaville, Tenn.,
who are now singing in a series
of revival meetings for Rev,f. A.
V. Rudy in St. Paul’s Church,
Wytheville, Va., were present at
the Spring Valley meeting, and,
among other special songs render
ed by them during the day was
one entitled “Jesus Is Always
There,” dedicated to the Rev. Mr.
Hefner.
The Sparta and Independence
pastors were accompanied to
Spring Valley by Rev. B. A
Poole, a local Method!* minister
who lives near Independence, and
h's son, Rixey Poole.
Naval Recruits
Are Being Sought
In This Section
R. C. Mom, Machinist’s Mate
first class, U. S. Navy petty of
ficer in charge of the Navy Re
cruiting Sub-station, Salisbury,
announces that his station is now
receiving applications from young
men who are interested in • Naval
careor,
All- persons interested are in
vited 1» apply at the Navy Re
cruiting Sub-station, Post Office
Building. Salisbury, N. C.
Mrs. Ickes Killed
Sat. In Accident
In New Mexico
Santa Pe, N. M., Sept. 3.—
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of
Secretary of Interior Ickes, was
killed and three others were in
jured seriously Saturday night in
an automobile accident near Ve
larde, 38 miles north of here, on
the Taso-Sante Fe highway.
Those injured were a Mr. Sey
fullah, secretary of the Turkish
embassy in Washington; Gene
vieve Forbes Herrick, former
Chicago newspaperwoman, and
Mrs. Ickes’ chauffeur, Frank Al
len, of Gallup, N. M.
The Ickes automobile was side
swiped by a hit-and-run driver
and careened into a ditch at the
side of the road, where it over
turned. ' .*
Mrs. Ickes was pinned under
neath the machine. The other
members of the party were
thrown clear.
Mrs. Ickes died in the automo
bile of a motorist, who took the
injured to Espanola, 15 miles
away.
Funeral services were held to
day at Winnetka, Illinois.
President Spends
Quiet Labor Day
At Hyde Park Home
Hyde Part, N. Y., Sept. 3.—
Kept indoors for hours by a dm
sle and raw wind, President
Roosevelt observed the Labor Day
holiday in quiet fashion yester
day with members of his family
and a few close personal friends.
Mr. Roosevelt, except for a
small luncheon at the cottage, his
rural, retreat several miles from
Hyde Part House, spent most of
his time clearing away the last
remaining measures that were left
for action by Congress.
Old Book System
To Be Used During
Coming School Year
Clay Thompson, superintendent
of Alleghany county schools, has
announced that the old book sys
tem will be used during the com
ing school year in Alleghany, in
stead of the proposed new rental
system. Books will be obtain
able in Sparta at the same place
where they were on sale last year.
A teachers meeting was held in
the court house in Sparta on
Saturday morning, August 31, at
10 o’clock.
Two changes have been made
in the list of Alleghany teachers
which was published in a recent
issue of The TIMES. As they
now stand, they .are: Wolf Branch,
Claude Crouse, and Rich Hill, L.
L. Joines.
Jones Not To Seek
Governorship On
Republican Ticket
Statement Gives Impetus
To Possible Candidacy Of
Robert H. McNeill, Who
Defended Bishop Cannon
North Wilkesboro Sept. 3.—In
formation was obtained here yes
terday that Solicitor John R.
Jones, of the 17th judicial dis
trict, who has been widely herald,
ed as ,a potential candidate for
governor of North Carolina on
the Republican ticket next year,
has definitely decided not to enter
the race.
Solicitor Jones’ statement that
he will not offer himself as a
candidate gave impetus in politi
cal circles to the intimation sev
eral months ago that Attorney
Robert H. McNeill, of Washing
ton, may be induced to make the
race.
Mi. McNeill, a son of the late
Rev. Milton McNeill, of Wilkes
boro, has gained the distinction
of being one. of the outstanding
lawyers in the nation. His de
fense of Bishop Cannon attracted
nation-wide attention as well as
the part he has played in other
famous cases in the nation’s capi
tal and elsewhere.
Republicans here- freely pre
dicted that if Mr. McNeill runs
he will make a brilliant cam
paign, pointing out that he is a
great thinker, a great orator and
a man of powev and reason.
Solicitor Jones, in quieting ru
mors that he may carry the Re
publican banner in the state next
year stated that he will necessar
ily be compelled to devote all his
time to the duties of the solici
tor’s office.
He has the distinction of being
the only Republican solicitor in
the state.
Queen Astrid, Of
Belgium, Killed
In Auto Mishap
Lucerne, Switzerland, Sept. 3.—
—Great sorrow in the hearts of
the Belgian people marked the
starting Thursday night of the
body of their beloved young
Queen Astrid, killed in an auto
mobile crash earlier in the day,
to her home. The body was ac
companied by the queen’s grief
stricken husband, King Leopold.
Leopold watched the coffin,
wound in black crepe and hid by
flowers, put aboard a special royal
train.
Astrid was killed when she was
thrown from an automobile driven
by the king Thursday morning
The beautiful queen died in the
arms of her husband on the road
side, while a village priest gave
extreme unction. Leopold was
not seriously injured.
The injury which caused As
trid’s death, a fractured skull,
was similar to that which killed
her father-in-law, King Albert,
18 months ago.
Doctors who performed a hur
ried autopsy, said that the wound
in the queen’s forehead was in
the same position as that which
was fatal to Albert in his tragic
fall while mountain-climbing in
Belgium.
She was 29 years of age and
retained her beauty, it was said,
in death.
New Deal "Lights”
Rapidly Deserting
National Capital
President And Wife At
Hyde Park Home. To
Leave This Month For
Trip To Pacific Coast
TO ATTEND BIG FAIR
Many High Officials
Attend Funeral Of Mrs.
Ickes. Garner And Wife
To Go Globe-Trotting
Washington, Sept. 3—Today
found the nation’s capital deserted
as a theatre that is “dark.”
The White House, literally
lightless, stood as a symbol of
the, slowed tempo of the town.
Its electricity and water had to
be turned off for the complete
overhauling of the electric, sys
tem taking place in connection
with kitchen remodeling.
The President and Mrs. Roose
velt were not to return again un
til the September 23 mobilization
of human needs conference—and
then but for a one-day stay prepa
ratory to starting their transcon
tinental trip to the San Diego
fair. They now are in residence
at Hyde Park.
Rainy weather and the presence
of many high officials at Chicago
to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, killed in a New
Mexico auto accident Saturday,
further accented the capital quiet
ude.
Mrs. Roosevelt was represent
ing her husband at M,rs. Ickes’
funeral. Also there with Secre
tary Ickes were, three other mem
bers of the cabinet, Postmaster
General Farley, Secetary Dern
and Secretary Roper. Relief Ad
ministrator Harry Hopkins con
voyed the tributes of the emer
gency agencies; Mrs. Dern and
Mrs. Roper those of the intimate
circle of “cabinet wives.”
From Chicago they will scatter
widely, some not to return until
congress convenes in January.
Mrs. Roosevelt planned to fly
back to New York; the Derns to
go on to Salt Lake, then Cali
fornia, then board ,a cruiser for
the Philippines for the launching
of the commonwealth government
this autumn.
Most unusual among the Ori
ental tourists will be the Vice
President and Mrs. Garner, who
almost never go globe-trotting.
The Roosevelt family will be
as mobile as ever. Mrs. Roose
velt, who has been “off the rec
ord’’ for two months at Campo
bello and Hyde Park, will combine
a few public appearances with
family visits.
Next week-end she’ll go to De
troit to visit her brother, Hall
Roosevelt. While there she will
lanr.ch that dity’s slum-clearance
project. 'On the way back from
the San Diego trip,. she’ll pause
in Los Angeles, and in Port
Worth, to make speeches for the
human needs cause. Daughter
Anna Boettiger is expected to
join the presidential tour in Los
Angeles; in Fort Worth Mrs.
Roosevelt will be, making the first
visit to the new Texas home of
her son, Elliott.
JUJUlIBiC
How a*oot«uapih7
MS a um* SXMftTU
Wisbeiicrioteek advice at th*
beginning than at th« end."
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