MERRY-GO-ROUND
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worst of the emergency had pass
ed and that economy could be
obtained by preventing duplica
tion of effort and eventual re
duction of personnel. The bud
get bureau’s -function, it may be
explained, is to estimate in De
cember of each year what the
government will have to spend
in the fiscal year beginning the
following July, and also to super
vise the expenditure of the al
lotments during the fiscal year.
THE “BREATHING SPELL”
The other step caused consid
erable controversy. It was the
President’s assurance to business
that “substantial completion” of
the legislative program had been
accomplished and that a “breath
ing spell” is here, during which
business can adjust itself to re
cent modifications “in the condi
tions and rules of economic enter
prise.”
Democrats lauded the statement,
Republicans generally called it
“partisan propaganda" and the
more violent of the President’s
critics doubted that the promise
could be relied upon to mean any
thing except a political trick to
gain support- Plainly, however,
the President’s letter was no sur
render, but rather a justification
of “drastic and far-reaching ac
tion’’ already 'taken because he
believed it was necessary to pro
tect the country against a repe
tition of past evils. His plain im
plication was that business can
make progress if it will accept
these modifications and go ahead.
BOTH PARTrES STIRRING
Republican leaders will meet in
the nation’s capital next week for
the purpose of inaugurating the
1936 presidential campaign. This
is the first meeting of the execu
tive committee sincte June, 1934,
when Mr. Fletcher was elected as
national chairman. Party enthusi
asm has been aroused at recent
regional meetings, and the victory
of Charles Risk in Rhode Island
has helped build up a stronger
morale. While it is hardly proba
ble that decision will be made in
the near future, the committee
must consider the location of the
next National Convention and
some plan to secure campaign
funds.
On the other hand, Democratic
leaders have been holding inform
al conferences throughout the
country, and the President’s pro
jected trip to the Pacific Coast
is expected to build up new fer
vor. Of course, Chairman Jim Far
ley continues to assert that the
President’s re-election is “in the
bag.”
FARM ISSUE GROWING
While it is too early to attempt
any statement of the main issues,
it is becoming apparent that
both parties will give particular
attention to the farmers, especial
ly in the West. Secretary Wal
lace declares that business and
farming interests in the South
and West will organize to fight
the tariff if the Supreme Court
finds the AAA unconstitutional.
In the event that the recent
amendments successfully meet all
legal tests, the party in power
will undoubtedly laud its program
of crop control and benefit pay
ments, which have undoubtedly
won strong backing in agricul
tural areas. Some Republicans
realize that the party must formu
late a satisfactory farm program
if it is to recapture normal Re
publican strength in Western farm
areas. Robert H. Lucas, former
executive director, says that the
answer to this is “our biggest
job."
THE HOPKINS-ICKES ROW
Evidently the work relief plan
is progressing slowly although
about one-fifth of the $4,800,
000,000 appropriation voted by
Congress last spring has been
used for relief. Some 850,000
persons are at work—half in CCC
camps—or about one-fourth of
the 3,500,000 that were expected
to be employed. The delay is at
tributable in some circles to
Comptroller General McGarl, who
has approved projects involving
$800,000,000 out of the $1,800,
BIDS WANTED
Bid* wanted on 40 cord* of
wood for courthouaa. Submit
bid* before October 7, Wo retain
the privilege of accepting or
rejecting any bid.
Board of County Commimioner*
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F L O W E R S
For All Ocoauonr
ADVENTURERS
CLUB
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|i Madman on the Scaffold
I By FLOYD OIBBON3
Famous Headline Hunter.
HERE comes another one of those height stories thaf just
about scare the shirt off of me. You know, fellow adventur
ers, that height is my weak spot. I get dizzy just thinking about
high places. And when I get a yarn like this one from Marcus
Moore, I go through a pretty tough time while I’m reading it
and trying to put it down on paper.
You know, It seems as If riggers and steeple-jacks and flagpole sitters
and all those other guys who work in high places have sort of got my
number and are sending In these yams Just to get my goat But the
worst of the whole doggoned bunch Is this bird, Mark Moore. He doesn't
think that teetering around In high places Is enough of an experience to
call an adventure. No, he's got to be 90 feet above ground, and then have
a fight with a drunk.
It was In the winter pf 1929, and Mark, who was working for a
painting contractor, went out on a Job redecorating the Pitkin theater on
Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn. He was working on a scaffold, 90 feet up In
the air, spraying paint on the celling with a spraying machine operated
by compressed air and fed with paint from a tank on the scaffold. With
him on the scaffold was a big, raw-boned gent whom Mark had worked
with before, and with whom he’d never had the slightest bit of trouble.
It was a night Job. They started after the last show, Intend
ing to work right on through so the theater could be ready for
the 10 o’clock opening In the morning, and for the first part of
the evening, everything went along smoothly. Mark and the
lad finished one part of the ceiling, and then gave the signal to
lower the scaffold and move It to another part of the big hall.
Liquor and Scaffolds Don’t Mix.
While the scaffold was down, Mark and his helper went out for re
freshments. Mark went to a lunch wagon for a cup of coffee. He doesn’t
know Just where bis partner went, but when the big fellow came back,
his breath smelled of liquor, and he had a bottle on his hip.
Mark didn't pay much attention to that. It was a cold night, and
what the big fellow did was his own business. But as the eveqlng went
on, he got tighter and tighter. Finally, he got to the point where he Just
sat down In a stupor on the scaffold, leaving all the work to Mark.
It was tough on Mark, handling that big spraying machine all by
himself, but he tried It for a while. But all the time, he was getting
madder and madder, and when, finally, he saw thh helper leaning back,
taking auother drink out of hls bottle, he set down his machine, walked
the length of the scaffold and snatched the bottle from hls hand.
The big painter looked resentfully at him and reached hls
hand out to get the bottle back again, but Mark paid no attention
to him—went back to his work. Hs thought the matter was set
tled, but he reckoned without the big fellow’s determination.
Mark Sant a Blast Full Into tha Fallow’s Face.
In another moment he felt the scaffold swaying. The whole
structure was moving violently, dangerously. He looked up and
saw the helper, on his feet, teetering back and forth at the other
end. Even ae he looked, he saw the big fellow lower his head,
double up hie fieta and come charging toward him. He was after
that bottle.
Mark tried to retreat—found the paint tank blocking the way. He
tried to elude the lumbering man by edging around to the other side,
putting the tank between them. The helper was almost on him now,
swinging his big fists. As a last resort Mark raised the spraying machine
and sent a blast of heavy paint full into the big fellow’s face and eyes.
Choking, the big fellow pawed bis face. As the pain started to bite
Into his eyes, be gripped the hand-rail of the scaffold, and, howling at
the top of his lungs, began to dance up and down.
It’s a Living Nightmare to Mark.
By now, Mark was thoroughly frightened. He ran to the far end of
the scaffold. There was only one way out, and he was going to take it.
He swung over the side of the platform, wrapped his legs around the
fall ropes that raised and lowered the scaffold, and started to lower him
self to the ground.
It was 10 feet to the floor of the theater auditorium. About
SO feet down the paint tank flashed past him. Then, to his hor
ror, the tank was followed by the squirming, thrashing figure
•f hie partner, the big fellow. In his panic, Mark doesn’t remem
ber tha rest of his descent, but he must have slid the remaining
M feet at' breakneck speed, for the ekln was all burned off his
knees and the palms of his hands when he hit the floor.
Tbs rest was a sort of a nightmare. Dimly, Mark remembers police
questioning him—taking away the bottle he had taken from the helper
and which was still unbroken In his pocket. He remembers seeing these
take the lad's body away In an ambulance—remembers thinking that was
the last of him. But Mark was wrong there. The big fellow was a
tough baby. He spent five months In the hospital, but he got out alive.
As for Mark, be didn’t do any more work that night, but the next
night ha was back on the Job with a sober partner.
*—W.N’U Servlc.
000,000 submitted. Moreover,
with about three-fourths of the
huge sum allotted, something like
a tug of war is expected between
Secretary Ickes, of PWA, and
Administrator Harry Hopkins, of
WPA, for the balance. The
former advocates heavy con
struction, by private contractors,
with indirect growth of jobs, and
the latter favors light construc
tion, direct jobs at subsistence
wages with little money spent for
tools or material. .
Something like $2,700,000,000
of the fund has been allocated,
with Secretary Ickes getting'
$214,000,000 for low-cost housing,
$74,000,000 for loans and grants
to cities and states for construc
tion, and $100,000,000 for the
Puerto Rican Reconstruction Au
thority and others. The Depart
ment of Agriculture gets $400,
000,000 for public roads, $66,
000,000■ ■ for other purposes, and
Dr. Tugwell’s Resettlement Ad
ministration $7,000,000. The War
Department’s $150,000,000 is
mostly for flood control, and the
Navy and Treasury split $32,
000,000. Mr. Hopkins’ WPA
seeks to create jobs by using
$600,000,000 for CCC camps, the
same amount for local projects
to provide employment for those
on relief, and $500,000,000 re
mains to take care of jobs pro
posed but not yet approved.
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
North Carolina,
Alleghany County.
Having qualified ae Executor of
Mary Atwood, deceased, all per
son* having claim* against the
estate are hereby notified to file
claim* at once or this notice will
be plead in bar. of recovery.
This 0th day of September, I93S
C. B. TAYLOR, Executor
for Mary A. Atwood, deceased
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6/ Caleb Johnson•
IX. THE BILL OF RIGHTS
The Constitution could not take
effect until it had been ratified by
conventions in at least nine of
the thirteen States. Delaware was
the first to ratify. Pennsylvania
was next. New Jersey third, all
in 1787. By the middle of 1788,
Georgia, Connecticut, Massachu
setts, Maryland, South Carolina
and New Hampshire had given
their sanctions, and the Federal
Government was at last actually
in existence. Virginia and New
York ratified later in the same
year.
The feeling that the rights of
the States were not sufficiently
protected was so strong that the
vote for ratification was very
close in many States. Littlp
Rhode Island refused even to call
a ratification convention until as
surances were given that immedi
ate amendments would be made to
further protect State indepen
dence and the rights of citizens.
The result of this was the sub
mission of the so-called “Bill of
Rights,” constitution, the first
eleven amendments to the Consti
tution.
As things turned out, these
amendments were as important
as the people of many of the
States believed they were. Most
important of all of them is Ar
ticle I.
“Congress shall make, no law
respecting an establishment of re
ligion, or prohibiting the free ex
ercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech or of the
press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.”
On Article 1 rest the liberties
which the people of America have
enjoyed from the beginning of our
Nation and still enjoy. Relying
upon the Constitutional guaranty
of freedom of religion, of speech
and of the press, and the right of
assembly and petition, the citizens
of the United States have success
fully resisted innumerable efforts
to limit their freedom.
The other most important ar
ticle of the Bill of Rights, is Ar
ticle X. “The powers not dele
gated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively or to the peo
ple.”
The right of the people to keep
and bear arms, to be secure
against unreasonable search and
seizure and arrest without war-!
rant, and to a speedy and public
trial when accused of crime are
among the guarantees sought and
given in the Bill of Rights. Here
in was established the principle
that no person can be twice put
in jeopardy for the same of
fence, nor compelled to be a
witness against himself, or de
prived of life, liberty or prop
erty without due process of law.
The principle that private,
property may not be taken for
public use without just compen
sation is laid down here as is
the prohibition of the excessive
bail and cruel and unusual pun
ishments. And to make it doub
ly certain that all natural rights
not specifically delegated should
be preserved, Article IX of the
Bill of Rights says: •
“The enumeration <an the Con
stitution of certain .rights shall
not be construed,/to deny or dis
parage others retained by ihe
people.”
The Bill of Rights was speedily
ratified by all the States, and the
new nation was off, in 1789, to
an auspicious start, with George
Washington elected unanimously
as its first President.
Next Installment: “How The
Constitution Grew,”
New Hope
Stratford P. 0., Sept. 15—Mr.
and Mrs. B. C. Thompson spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
Wiley McMillan. Mr. and, Mrs.
Thompson are now residing in
Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Wiley P. Irwin, who has
been ill for some time, is now in
the Statesville hospital.
Wiley McMillan, who is working
at Hickory, spent the week-end I
with his family here.
Mrs. James Williams left for!
her home in Spearfish, S. D.,
Monday. She was accompanied
to Galax by Mrs. Grover Cox,
Mrs. S. O. Edwards, Mrs. Bert
Edwards, Grover Cox, C. T. Ed
wards and W. L. Irwin.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hickerson
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.
and -Mrs. Wiley McMillan.
Bert Edwards, of Leona Mines,
Va., is visiting his family at the
home of Mrs. S- O. Edwards.
John Walter Jones, the small
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Jones,
had his tonsils removed at Roaring
Gap Sunday.
Rev. C. H. McKnight delivered
NOTICE
The undersigned having quali
fied as Administrators of the
estate of John A. Irwin, deceased,
this is to notify all persons in
debted to the estate to make im
mediate settlement. All persons
having claims against the estate
will present them within twelve
months from this date or this
notico will be plead in bar of
their recovery.
This Angust 27th, 1935,
J. L. IRWIN and
GEORGE IRWIN,
Administrators of John A. Irwin.
Sidney Gambill, Atty. 4tc-19AT
interesting sermons here Satur
day and Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Greek Hill and
Miss Ruby Edwards were dinner
guests of Miss Virginia Taylor,
near Independence, Va., Sunday.
Mrs. Jessie Hill and Mrs. Luna
Weaver were shopping in West
Jefferson Friday.
Mrs. Charles Shepherd and Mrs.
Glenn Shepherd visited Mrs. C.
T. Edwards Friday of last week.
Several persons from here at
tended communion services at
Prathers Creek Sunday.
Miss Ruby Edwards visited Mrs.
Estel Halsey, Turkey Knob, last
week.
School is progressing nicely
here with Miss Alma Crouse as
teacher.
Cause And Effect
"George comes from a very
poor family.”
“Why, they sent him to the
university, didn’t they?”
“Yes, that's how they got so
poor.”—Des Moines Register.
Very Likely
Teacher—Robert, if you are al
ways very kind and polite to all
your playmates, what will they
think of you?
Robert—Some of ’em would
think they could lick me!—Chi;
cago Daily News.
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CHAPMAN SINGERS TO SING
SEPT. 29 AT WHITEHEAD
The Chapman Singing class, of
Taylorsville, is scheduled to sing
at Landmark Baptist church,
Whitehead, on Sunday, Septem
ber 29, at 10 a. m.
The public is invited to attend.
See Castevens Motor Co. for
radio batteries, tubes and ser
vice.—adv. tfc.
NOTICE
North Carolina,
Allegheny County.
Tbo Federal Land Bank of
Columbia, plaintiff
vs.
Kemp Miller et al, defendants
Paul Miller and Rose Cren
shaw, defendants in the above
entitled action will take notice
that the above entitled action has
been commenced in the Superior
Court of Alleghany County for
the purpose of foreclosing a
mortgage, and the said defendants
will further take notice that they
are required to appear at the
office of the Clerk of the Super
ior Court on the 27 th day of
September, 1935, and answer or
demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff Will apply
to the Court for the relief de
manded in said complaint.
This 27th day of August, 1935.
A. F. REEVES,
Clerk of Superior Court
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