The Alleghany Times
H. B. Zabriskie . . Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Sidney Gambill .. Looal News Editor
Published Every Thursday at Sparta, North Carolina,
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Thursday, October 31, 1935.
If We Want Our Auto Death Toll To Decrease
We Will Have To Banish Drunken Drivers
Increasing fatalities on the highways of the
United States should cause every reader of The
Alleghany Times to be interested in a statement of
David Beecroft, former president of the American
Society of Automotive Engineers. He insists that
“the driver, and not mechanical failure, is at the
bottom of most accidents” and asks “what is the
use of testing the machine and not the driver?”
Moreover, at a meeting of the American Safety
Congress, recently held in Louisville, Ky., seven
volunteer subjects were tested for reactions after
taking a single cocktail and the ability of each
subject was “slowed up.” Obviously, if the mind
of an automobile driver slows up when he ought
to be putting on the brakes to meet an emergency
something is going to happen.
This brings up the question—“Is alcohol
responsible for the rise in the death rate on the
highways?” The answer may not be conclusive
but the evidence is fairly positive and the only
uncertainty is what we are going to do about it.
How long will the public permit auto driving by
drunks and near-drunks to be overlooked or winked
at by law enforcement officials?
One of the features of the meeting of the
Safety Conference was -a mock trial of a person
accused of “driving while drunk.” He pleaded not
guilty but testified that he only had drank “two
bottles of beer.”
Dr. H. A. Heise, of Milwaukee, as an expert
witness, testified that he had tested the defendant
at the police station and that, while the man talked
clearly there were symptoms of the use of alcohol
in his walk and on his breath and that the tests
showed 0.3 per cent of alcohol in his blood. As a
qualified expert, he added that 0.2 per cent could
affect the reactions of an automobile driver. The
jury of 123 delegates voted 85-38 for conviction.
Man's Three Worst Enemies;
Do You Know What They Are?
An Inspiritional Editorial
by John Edwin Price
Disease, poverty and fire are not man’s worst
enemies. A man who suffered 18 years from
infantile paralysis before he again learned to walk,
who experienced the humiliation of gradually
growing deaf, and who today is still fighting dia
betes, says that man’s worst enemies are shame,
envy and self-pity.
I . That man is Raymond L. Goldman, author of
“The Good Fight.” Having pinned the label
“Worst Enemies” on these three he, who lost his
wife after a few short years of joy, says:
* “I feel no bitterness except bitterness toward
them. I cannot tolerate them within myself nor
in the hearts of others. I have torn them out of
my own heart and my own life and I have slain
them. Yet they are not dead. I see their ugly
reflection on joyless faces and I recognize their
pernicious influence in the actions and reactions of
men, women and even little children. Can they be
destroyed by every one? The psychologist would
answer, ‘No, they are too deeply rooted in human
nature.’ But I have destroyed them for myself,
and I believe that what is possible to me is pos
sible to nearly all men.”
H Goldman was first handicapped by shame be
cause as a child his playmates poked fun at his
crippled legs. When he finally conquered this
sense of shame so thoroughly that he was able to
let his “best girl” see him in a bathing suit it was
■ a real victory.
When he stopped envying other people their
advantages of health and position this was still
|; another victory.
. After the death of his wife he had to stop
pitying himself before he could do justly by his
| little son. ,
When a man has conquered shame, envy and
self-pity he has more time and power to devote
to aggressive acts toward getting the most out
| of life.
One of the arts of life is to grow old grace
fully; be your age! . *
It is always easier to get into the courts than
to get out of them.
* * *
Business is better and so business men are
worrying about whether it will stay better.
* * *
You have no idea how easy it is to get out a
newspaper; the problem is to make it pay.
One of these days human beings will be nearly
perfect but most of us won’t be here to see it.
* * *
Consistent advertising is the merchant's pledge
of quality; it is visible proof that he has faith
jugh in his goods to back them with his name.
The other evening we heard a woman ask what
the world would become of the younger gener
That's an easy one. They’ll fall in love,
rried, have children and trouble and all that
thing, and as they get older they will worry
, what’s to become of the younger generation.
* * *
it ever occur to you that the best method
higher on life’s ladder of success is
the level? • ; ’
XV.—FINAL: THE CONSTITUTION, TO DATE
The .recent Supreme Court de
cision that the National Recovery
Act was unconstitutional set in
motion a nation-wide discussion
of the Constitution. It brought
about the situation which made
this series of “The Story of the
Constitution,” a most timely sub
ject.
The Supreme Court’s decision
was, in effect, based upon the
fundamental principle that the
Federal Government is one of
the delegated powers.
Under the Constitution, all
power rests in the Congress, which
receives its authority from the
people and the States. The Exe
cutive power is to see to the en
forcement of the Acts of Con
gress. The power of the Judiciary
is that of determining whether
or not the Congress has, in any
given case, 90ught to exercise
power which has not been dele
gated to it.
In the NRA case the Supreme
Court held that Congress had re
ceived no power from the people
to delegate any part of its law
making function to the President;
that the States had granted the
Congress no power to regulate
commerce or industry except as,
they are in the stream of inter
state commerce.
Within the limits of its dele
gated authority, Congress has
usually been upheld in its ef
forts to legislate within the
needs of an expanding national
economy. The Supreme Court is
expected to take a realistic view
of current conditions and recog
nize the necessities of the times
when this could be done without
infringing upon the powers re
served to the States or the peo
ple, under the Tenth Amendment.
By this process, the Constitution
has operated for 148 years.
The flexibility of the Consti
tution to meet new conditions has
been testified to by generations
of statesmen. In the few in
stances, during recent years, when
the considered will of the people
could not be executed under the
powers already granted to the.
Congress, amendment has proved
to be a simple and speedy pro
cess, once public sentiment has
become crystallized.
The 20th Amendment is an apt
illustration. This Amendment
changed thet terms of office of the
President and Vice-President and
of all Senators and Representa
tives. Under the 12th Amend
ment all of these took office on
the fourth of March following
their election. But Congress was
required, under Article 1, Sec
tion 4, to meet annually on the
first Monday in December. That
resulted in what came to be
known as “lame duck” Congresses,
many of whose members, al
though defeated at the Novem
ber election, held office until the
following March 4th.
In March, 1932, Congress sub
mitted to the States an .amend
ment making the terms of Sena
tors and Representatives begin on
January 3rd, and those of the
President and Vice-President on
January 20th. The annual meet
ing date of the Congress was
changed to January 3. In less
than one year, 39 States had
ratified this 20th Amendment,
which was proclaimed as a part
of the Constitution on February
6, 1933.
It took even a shorter time to
establish the 21st Amendment, re
pealing the 18th or Prohibition
Amendment. This was submitted
to the States in February, 1933,
by the present administration, and
became a part of the Constitution
on December 5, 1933.
Both of these amendments had
an overwhelming weight of pub
lic opinion behind them. Such
has proved the rule; that in like
manner,'- when a proposal to
change the Federal Government
structure has behind it strong,
nation-wide public opinion, then
is our Constitution usually amend
ed and changed.
(THE END)
MARRIED PEOPLE MUST “GO
ALONG” TOGETHER
Dear Louisa:
I hear so many women com
plaining about their husband
The Woman’s Angle
The younger crop of college
men are demanding women with
finesse. And they’re quite frank
about it, too. No elbows-on-the
table, no whole-slice-at-a-time but
tering of bread, and no audible
criticism of other girls’ clothes
on the dance floor. They won’t
have it. And they demand social
grace, tact, kindness and sym
pathy of their dance partners in'
all things. . . And the girls are
learning it in » hurry at the
more progressive co-educational
schools.
* • •
Renaissance influence even ex
tends to makeup, and the darker
face powders and brilliant lip
stick with a bluish, rather than a
yellow cast are demanded by the
wine-colored reds, the deep greens
and the glowing purples so popu
lar in the Renaissance mode. And
brunettes are in a much better
spot than blondes so far as these
colors go, as you may realize by
looking at any portraits of Re
naissance time, they were dark,
and they wore such colors beau
tifully.
* * *
Women are style conscious
even in China. For when But
terfly Wu, China,’s great film
actress, appears in a new film
with a very slight change in the
very stable styles of China, Han
kow, Qanton, Peiping and Tient
sin women follow her lead. The
variations are chiefly those of
fabric designs, though there are
occasional slight changes in the
length of slits at the sides of
the long skirt, sleeve length and
the height of the collar.
* * * "
An unsung heroine we know is
the woman who used to teach
home economics In schools 'in an
exceptionally poor neighborhood.
Knowing her pupils were greatly
undernourished, yet wholly de
pendent on her salary herself,
she spent a large part of her in
come on extra, nourishing sup
plies that the children could cook
and eat under her supervision.
wanting to stay home all of the
time. Because a man wants to
come home at night and rest af
ter a hard day’s work, they seem
to think it is awful. Well, I
just want to say that a husband
like that would suit me fine, and
that if some of these complain
ing women had a husband like
mine who wants to be going
somewhere all of the time they
would get mighty tired of it.
No matter how strenous the
day has been, or if we are half
sick, Dick has this bright idea
every night, of stepping out some
where or running over to see
somebody. If I finally persuade
him to stay home he looks so
restless and jittery that it gets
me all up-set. Oh, for a hus
band who would be satisfied to
stay home and .read the paper
or listen to the radio every night.
E. L. B.—Alabama.
Answer: Isn’t it funny how
hard it isjto please people? Some
women weep because their hus
bands never take them anywhere
and here is one who is bemoan
ing the faet that her husband
wants to be going somewhere all
the time. I wonder why these
women didn’t find out something
about their, husband’s tastes be
fore they were married. Because,
if the women who like to run
around had married the men who
like the same thing, and vice
versa, everything wpuld have been
just lovely.
Congeniality is . one of the
greatest factors towards making
a success of married life. It is
so much easier to get on with
someone who likes the same things
that we like. For we all desire
companionship and if we dance,
play golf, play bridge, or swim,
it is much nicer to do so with
our own husband or wife than
with some one else.
However, if we have married
a parson whose likes and dislikes
are not ours, it would be a good
idea for us to compromise. The
husband who wants to be a play
boy will perhaps agree to stay
home half the time if his stay
at-home wife will go with him
the other half and be agreeable
and enthusiastic about it when
she does go. The stay-at-home
husband can be persuaded, no
doubt, to go somewhere one or
two nights of the week if his
wife will let him rest in peace
by his beloved radio the rest of
the time.
Washington News
For U. S. Farmers
PROCESSING TAX CASES
The Supreme Court having
agreed to review the Boston Cias
cuit Court decision the Hoosar
Mills case, in which the agricul
tural processing taxes were held
to be invalid, the government
wants the ease heard as quickly
as possible, instead of awaiting
its turn behind more than one
hundred cases ahead of it, on
the docket.
Officials of the AAA, as well
as the Department of Justice,
are anxious for a decision to
settle the issue because the
collection of processing taxes is
being held up by injunctions
issued in numerous lower courts,
so that the revenue from them
has dropped around $25,000,000
a month. The Hoosac case will
probably be the first involving New
Deal legislation to be heard at
the current term, although a
second processing tax case, in
stituted by the Washburn-Crosby
company contests the payment of
the tax on wheat and com since
the date of the AAA amendments
and concerns the right of pro
cessors to enjoin the collection of
processing taxes in inferior
Federal courts.
COTTON CONTROL QUESTION
In addition, there are two
cases involving the cotton control
Act, although neither seems
likely to produce a clear-cut
decision on the Act involved. The
first, wherein a cotton grower
and shipper attempted to compel
a railroad to transport cotton on
which the levy had not been
imposed, may be determined on
procedural grounds and the
latter, involving the State of
Georgia’s contention that the
Act invades the sovereignty of
the State by attempting to con
trol the planting of cotton on
State-owned land might be settled
on the basis of the relationship
between the Federal Government
and the States, rather than in
dividual citizens.
KEEP AAA OUT OF POLITICS
Chester C. Davis, Administrator
of the AAA, has warned against
all efforts to enlist the agents of
the farm program in politics, de
claring that these workers are
organized for crop-adjustment
programs and “for no other
purpose.”
Something like 100,000 farm
ers serve as committeemen, hold
ing quasi-public official positions
although working on a per diem
basis and not considered Federal
employes. They are to fix quotas
and allotments and enforce con
tracts between farmers and the
AAA.
As a matter of common sense,
farmers should strenously resist
any effort on the part of either
party to use these workers for
political purposes. It will not do
for the program to become a
political football. At present the
prospects are that the current
farm program will get through
the approaching political campaign
without serious attack. Of course,
criticism not political in nature
is not to be stifled, but the main
idea is to prevent adequate relief
to agriculture from becoming a
political issue.
BLAME AAA FOR BREAD
PRICES
Secretary Wallace vigorously
attacks the bakers of the nation
who have raised the price of
bread one cent a loaf on the
excuse that the processing taxes
have increased their costs.
He says that the bakers in
1933 used this excuse for advanc
ing prices and unless the tax is
increased cannot do so again. He
points out that there were no
restrictions on spring wheat
planting last year.
Mr. Wallace knows that the
consuming public in the metro
politan areas will resent increased
prices and if the blame for them
is attributed to the farm pro
gram that much feeling will be
aroused against the program to
relieve the farmers of the
nation.
NEW POTATO CONTROL PLAN
The much discussed potato
control bill goes into effect on
December 1 but it only affects
potatoes grown in 1936 or there
after.
Meanwhile, the AAA comes
forward with a plan to bolster
the price of the 1936 crop by
mrsuading growers to divert ten
per cent of the crop from the
market by using them for the
manufacture of alcohol, starch,
flour and livestock feed. Farmers
would fee paid bounties for mak
ing the diversions which, it is
expected, would bring the price
of potatoes up to around 67 cents
a bushel or about three-quarters
of parity..
Farmers making the diversion
would be paid 26 cents a bushel
bounty and the amount to be
JERUSALEM DESTROYED
International Sunday .School L®»
•on for November 3, 1935
Golden Text: “Righteousness
exalteth a nation; But sin is a
reproach to any people.”-*—
Proverbs 14:34.
(Lemon Text: 2 King* 25:1-12)
Zedekiah was the twenty-third
king of Judah, an irresolute, va
cillating character in a position
of authority. Apparently helpless
to change the tendency of af
fairs, Zedekiah lacked even the
courage to try and one of his
few decisive actions, breaking
with Bablyon, led to the utter
destruction of his kingdom. s
Judah had previously felt the
sting of the Babylonian lash and
at first Zedekiah submitted com
pletely to the power of Nebu
chadnezzar. He even wrote to
some of the Jews already in
exile to submit peaceably, and
become good citizens. As the
years passed, however, ,a power
ful group in Judah began to
flirt with the idea of overthrow
ing the Babylonian yoke. Moab,
Edom, Tyre and other countries
wanted to arrange a general up
rising, against which Jeremiah
warned, but when the King se
cured the promise of Egyptian
help, he was willing to defy
Babylon.
It so happened that the king
against whom Zedekiah was re
belling was one of the ablest
rulers yet produced by any coun
try. Navopoiassar had restored
the Babylonian Empire and his
son, Nebuchadnezzar, had been
one of his capable generals, hav
ing defeated the Egyptians in the
battle of Carhemish. Nebuchad
nezzar ruled Babylon for 43 years
and his fame rests mare upon his
statesmanlike and constructive
ability than upon military achieve
ments, although in that regard
he is entitled to rank as a great
leader.
Nebuchadnezzar enlarged and
rebuilt Babylon, surrounded it
with a gigantic wall which is
said to have been more than 300
feet high, and then within the
city constructed a costly and mag
nificent temple to the God Bel
He had designed and constructed,
for his wife, the famous hanging
gardens which ranked as one of
the seven wonders of the ancient
world. In addition, he construct
ed a vast reservoir to contain
a water supply and for the pur
poses of irrigating, with canals,
etc. Notwithstanding all this,
however, the city of ancient
Babylon is buried under fifty feet
of accumulated earth and its
one-time glories are only brought
kept off the market would de
pend upon AAA calculations as
to how great a reduction in
supply would be necessary to
boost prices toward parity.
Last year, it is said, the aver
age price was 61-7 cents a
bushel, and this season, prior to
October 1. the price was about
fifteen cents lower. The parity
price, or “fair exchange value”
is said to be 89.6 cents a bushel
at present but if the price of
this season’s crop can be boosted
to three-fourths of parity the
AAA would be satisfied.
:o light through excavations by
;he archeologists.
When Zedekiah rebelled, Nebu
:hadnez2»r promptly came at the
head of a large army which di
vided to besiege several cities
limultaneously. In those ancient
days, the wa’ls of a city were
its defense against destruction
ind so the subjects of Zedekiah
defended Jerusalem for 18
months. Notwithstanding every
effort to provide the necessary
supplies, it was inevitable sooner
or later that the horrors of fam
ine would bring about destruction
unless some relief came. An
Egyptian army marched to the
assistatnce of the Jews and this
brought diversion but it was only
temporary and in the closing
months of the siege, famine and
plague took a dreadful toll of
the people of the Jews.
Eventually, the battering rams
and offensive power of Babylon
made a breach in the walls of
Jerusalem, whereupon the king
and the army fled, hotly pursued
by the Babylonians. This was in
the year 586 B. C. Zedekiah was
captured as he endeavored to es
cape and was led before the
Babylonian monarch in chains.
Here he was condemned by a
court for treachery and suffered
a painful and life-long punish
ment. Many of the prominent
leaders of the Jews were execut
ed and the king’s children were
killed in his presence just before
Zedekiah was permanently blind
ed and carried captive to Baby
lon, where he died. Thus, two
prophecies, apparently contradic
tory, were fulfilled, that he would
be taken prisoner to Babylon and
that he would never see Babylon.
A month or so later, the city of
Jerusalem was destroyed by the
Babylonian army. The protec
tive walls were tom down,so as
to render further defense, impos
sible and a large number of the
better Class of the survivors were
carried prisoners to Babylon.
Solomon’s marvelous temple, an
other of the ancient wonders,
which had been admired and re
vered for more than 400 years,
was entirely sacked and destroy
ed. The King’s palace, upon
which Solomon spent thirteen
years in building, the Armory
and Treasury of the Royal House,
with its magnificent reception hall,
throne room and other apart
ments, were likewise razed to
the ground. Only a limited por
tion of the inhabitants' of Judah
were allowed to remain in the
land.
The history of Judah has a
value for all modem nations. The
Jews prospered and grew in
strength as long as they were
moderately obedient to God’s
laws but when the moral fibre
of the nation had been shat
tered, all of the glory and power
of Jerusalem passed forever. This
experience has not been unique
for Judah alone, for the record
of history is nothing but the
countless repetition of peoples
and cities growing in wealth and
power to domination, when leis
ure and luxury and selfishness
brings about disaster. Syria, As
syria, Egypt, Babylon, Greece,
Rome and others furnish the same
illustration. America today has
grown to power and influence
throughout the world—will our
people profit by the lessons of
history?
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