By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
GOP Studies Elaborate Griffith Plan For AAA Sub
stitute; McCarl Now Going Out Of His Way To Help
Administration; ICC Reverses Policy Of Generosity
To Unsound Railroads; Mahaffie And Senate Probe
Forced Turndown Of New Haven.
Washington — A confidential
memorandum containing the de
tails of Dr. Ernest S. Griffith’s
plan for an AAA substitute has
been placed in the hands of
executives of the Republican Na
tional Committee.
(On November 1 the Washing
ton Merry-Go-Round reported
exclusively that Dean Griffith of
American University was draft
ing a farm program probably for
next year’s GOP platform.)
Griffith’s formula is a varia
tion of the old McNary-Haugen
export subsidy scheme. plus
several / unique innovations.
Specifically his program calls for
the following:
Removal of all Government
restrictions on crop production.
Fas-m prices to be pegged at
the 1910-14 level through
purchase of all surpluses by a
Government-operated non - profit
corporation.
This corporation to dispose of
the surpluses through (1) barter
for foreign goods not at present
produced in quantity in the U.
S.; (2) barter for tourist dis
counts on steamship, railroad,
hotel and other travel charges;
(3) barter for scholarships to
enable American students to
Btudy abroad.
The goods obtained through
barter from abroad to be turned
over to cooperatives for un
employed, the co-ops to pay for
the commodities in scrip. This
scrip in turn would be used by
the Government to pay unemploy
ed for work on Relief jobs, the
workers using the scrip to
purchase the goods of the co
operatives.
The non-profit corporation also
to retain some of the surpluses
as a reserve, in event of drought
or destruction, and to prevent
speculation.
The barter proposal is outlined
in great detail in Griffith’s
memorandum. Items listed by i
him as available for exchange j
without injury to domestic in
iustries are: tin, rubber, works
of art, jewelry, antiques, books
“and other unique articles.” The
NOTICE
SALE OF REAL ESTATE
NORTH CAROLINA,
ALLEGHANY COUNTY
Under and by virtue of »»
order of the superior court of
Allegheny County, mode in the
special proceeding entitled Mack
Woodie, Administrator of L.
Woodie, deceased. Vs. Mattie
Woodie, C. D. Woodie and others,
heirs at law of L. Woodie,
Incensed, die undersigned com
missioner will on Thursday, Dec.
S, 193%, between (he hours of
2 and 3 o’clock, P. M., on the
promises, in said county and
State, offer for sale to the
highest bidder, one-fourth cask
and the residue on 6 months
time, the following described
tracts of land:
FIRST TRACT—(to be com
5r*t) adjoining the lands of Isom
Cox, S. E. Smith, Rebecca
Smith, Charlie Williams, T. E.
Pugh ail’d C. D. Woodie, known
u the “Nathan Williams Place,’*
eon touting 29 acres, more or
less, being a part of the lands
conveyed by deed from B. A.
Weaver and wife, to Loggias
Woodie, recorded in Book 32,
page 73, Alleghany County
SECOND TRACT— Adjoining
the lands of Calvin Andrews,
Isom Cox, J. W. Atwood lands
and others, known as the “Joshua
DeBoard Place,” containing 13
acres, being the land conveyed
by W; H. Sturgill and wife, to
Loggins Woodie and recorded in
Book P. at page 53*. Alleghany
County Registry. •* V
TH1RD TRACT—Adjoining the
lands of J. C. Andrews, J. M.
Smith, Paul Fields, A. C. Sturgill
and the J. W. Atwood lands,
containing 14 acres, more or lass,
being the lands conveyed by J.
W. Atwood and wife, to Loggins
Woodie and wife, by deed re
corded in Book Z. at page 24S,
Alleghany County Registry.
This 4 th day of November,
1935. -r ^
MACK WOODIE.
He4t8AT
checks
COLDS
FEVER
latter he would dispose of by
Government auction, the money
obtained to be applied “toward
the cost of the crops purchased
and exchanged.”
Griffith’s novel foreign travel
and study features of his plan
are his special pride. He sees
the farm surplus problem as a
heaven-sent means of providing
opportunities for thousands of
Americans, both adult and young,
and at the same time helping
the grower.
WRONG NUMBER
Newspapermen perked up their
ears at an Ickes press conference
when the Secretary’s telephone
rang during a barrage of press
questions.
Reason for their interest was
the Interior chief’s boast that
only “one man” could interrupt
his press conference—the Presi
dent of the United States.
Ickes answered the phone,
listened for a moment, then said:
“No, madam, there is no one
by that name here. You have the
wrong number."
SUPREME COURT RELIGION
The religious affiliations of the
members of the Supreme Court
are: Van Devantar, Episcopalian;
Sutherland, Episcopalian; Stone,
Episcopalian; Roberts, Episco
palian; Cardozo, Jewish; Brandeis,
Jewish; Butler, Catholic; Hughes,
Baptist; McReynolds. Christian.
COOPERATIVE
Comptroller General J. R. Mc
Carl has been quietly yaking
peace with the Administration.
For months the target of New
Dealers’ accusations of obstruc
ting their plans, McCarl more
recently has gone out of his way
to be helpful. '
Not only did he assure the
President personally of his co
operation, but followed this up
ay clearing nearly a billion dol
ars of Work-Relief funds.
His latest act of friendliness
was to come to the rescue of the
Bituminous Coal Board. Depriv
»d of its appropriation through
Huey Long’s defeat of the De
ficiency Bill, the Board has been
laving a rough time devising
ways and means of functioning.
Finally Board Chairman Hos
ford made a personal appeal to
McCarl. To which the Comptroller
replied:
“Mr. Chairman, rest assured I
will do everything in my-power
to help you. If there is a legal
way to provide money for you I
ihall do so promptly."
A few days later, McCarl’s
»ffice authorized an emergency
grant to the Coal Board.
HEALTH CENSUS
“Good morning, madam. Do
irou have cancer, diabetes, hemor
rhoic, tuberculosis, or tumors?”
Surgeon General Cumming
popes that Harry Hopkins’s Re
lief people will have more tact
than to put the queries quite
that way, but those are some of
the questions being asked in the
WPA health census.
For the first time in the history
»f the country, a nation-wide
lurvey iB being made of health
conditions. It is employing 6.000
white-collar Relief workers,
touehes nineteen states, and costs
(3,500,000.
Every day for the next six
months, door bells will be rung
in Ipswich and in Oakland, in
Pontiac and in New Orleans, in
Birmingham, Schenectady, and
Moline—in ninety-five cities all
told, and Relief workers will ask
p lot of questions that a lot of
people won’t like.
Thus far, however, ruDiic
Health Service finds that few
doors have been slammed in the
face of the interviewer* .
One of the things Cumming
hopes the Health Survey will re
real is the answer to this
troublesome question: What are
the causes of that chronic disease
which causes more deaths' than
any other ailment—heart trouble?
He hopes that 700.000 families
can give him the answer.
NO MORE PORK
There was vast significance
behind the refusal of the Inter
state Commerce Commission to
pant the *5.000,000 RPC loan
requested by the New Yni-k, New
Haven * Hartford Railroad—a
rebuff that sent the road careen
ing into bankruptcy.
The turn-down marked a
significant reversal of policy on
the part of the ICC. In accord
with this new attitude, there will
be no more ICC okays on RPC
loans to railroads in shaky
financial condition.
Two men are chiefly respon
sible for the Commission's
Charles D. Mahaffie, an ICC
career man who formerly headed
its Finance Division and is now
a Commissioner. The other is
Max Lowenthal, noted financial
authority, who is directing the
Senate investigation of railroad
finances.
Mahaffie is the man who
fought the ICC’s policy of ignor
ing the Act of 1933 which bans
loans to unsound roads. He was
overruled by a majority of his
colleagues, and the ICC authoriz
ed the RFC to pour $119,000,000
into railroads which later went
into bankruptcy.
This easy-going generosity
tightened perceptibly when
Senator Wheeler, toward the
close of last session, passed a
bill for an investigation of rail
way financing and then put
Lowenthal in charge of the in
quiry. With Lowenthal on the
job. Mahaffie’s colleagues had a
change of heart.
But when the New Haven loan
was submitted a hot behind-the
scenes struggle ensued. Powerful
pressure was brought to bear on
the Commission. No less a
personage than RFC Chairman
Jesse Jones threw his weight on
the side of the railroad.
But the ICC, vigorously prod
ded by Mahaffie and with its
eye on the watchful Lowenthal
in the background, stood firm.
The lo,an request was vetoed.
Note—Moody’s Railroad Manu
al for 1935 lists the following
railroads as owing money to the
Government: Rock Island, $13,
000,000; Frisco, $7,995,000;
Missouri Pacific, $23,000,000;
Chicago & Northwestern, $46.
588,000; Chicago & Eastern
Illinois, $5,916,000; Western
Pacific, $4,366,000; New Haven,
$7,699,000.
DO YOU KNOW—?
That only bachelor officers are
chosen for the post of military
and naval aide to the White
House?
That the cornerstone of the
Capitol was kid September 5,
1793, by President George
Washington but that its dome,
built of cast iron and modeled
after St. Peter’s in Rome, was
not completed until 1866?
That contrary to the statement
of Capital guides, there are only
thirty-six and not forty-eight
colonnades around the Lincoln
Memorial ? Reason is that there
were only 36 states in the Union
when the martyred President was
assassinated.
That the families of members
of Congress who die in office
usually are voted $10,000—a
year’s salary?
MERRY-GO-ROUND
William 0. Douglas, SEC in
quisitor who recently tore into
Cuban bondholders’ protective
committees, still carries on his
law classes at Yale, shuttles
between New Haven and Wash
ington. . . Spanish grapes will
^iot appear in Christmas fruit
baskets this year. Spanish mer
chants overplayed their hand
last year, shipped too many
Malagas, lost money, are re
trenching now. . . Municipal
jails report that they have taken
on a new popularity since
September 17. That was the dead
line liopkins set in his transient
camps. Transients, turned away
from the Federal camps, drop in
at the city jail' for a night’s
lodging. . . Harry Hopkins has
received more than a dozen
letters from one man urging the
employing Of “141.000 graduate
psychiatrists, to be kept from
the Relief rolls.”. . . Buckets of
blood are required to feed the
creatures recently acquired in
the National Zoo. They are
vampire bats, whose diet consists
of beef gore. . . TVA’s big
problem now is to find fish for
stocking Nbrris Lake. They are
looking for a species that can
adjust itself to widely varying
depths of water. The lake will
have a “draw-down” of 50 feet
when the sluiceways are opened
in dry weather. . . When you
come to Washington, you can get
your teeth fixed at the expense
of Uncle Sam—if you are a
merchant seaman. The Public
Health Service has a free clinic
for them. . . Thirty of the forty
eight states have selected entirely
new color schemes Tor their 1936
auto license tags—not reverse
combinations of 1936.
(Copyright, 1936, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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COLDS
The Family
Doctor
by John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
“CAFFEINE”
Most important vegetables con
tain “active principles” which
distinguish the particular plant
from others- In medicinal plants,
leaves, roots, flowers or seeds,
the active principle thing is called
an “alkaloid.” That means, like
ness of a salt, or alkali. Nico
tine is the ultimate principle of
tobacco. Morphine, the alkaloid
of opium; theine the alkaloid of
tea. and so on.
Caffeine is the active principle
of coffee. I have said in these
columns that, caffeine is one of
the most valuable of heart tonics.
It is virtually harmless, if used
in -moderation. Immoderate use
is harmful in anything. I have
been criticized, even berated, for
telling this sort of truth. I pay
no attention to the senseless carp
ing of shallow, ignorant faddists.
Let me give you some opinions
of eminent authors on caffeine:
Hare says, “Caffeine is a valu
able cardiac stimulant and tonic,
as well as a renal (kidney) stimu
lant ... so useful in cases of
cardiac disease, that it has largely
supplanted digitalis in the hands
of some practitioners. ... A cup
of strong black coffee is often
useful in .relieving a paroxysm
of asthma. . . In headache, due
to nerve-strain, it is often of the
greatest service.”
We give two to four grains
of caffeine in disease; the aver
age cup of coffee contains about
half a grain.
Caffeine gently raises lowered
blood-pressure by its tonic action.
It may slightly increase high,
blood-pressure by stimulating the'
entire nervous system. But that
is only temporary.
Don’t rely on coffe to offset
the effects of overwork. If you j
are overworking, rest. . . And. |
do it right now. I
Whitehead
Whitehead, Nov. 11.—Mr. and
Mrs. Reece Heath and daughter,
Lucy, and Mr. and Mrs. John
Heath and two children, of
Clinchburg, Va., visited relatives
here over the week-end.
H. G. Billings and son. Hobert,
of Hanes, were here on business
last week.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard P.ruitt, on November 4,
a daughter, who has been named
Jerelene.
Dinner guests at the home of
William Cleary Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. Reece Heath and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John
Heath and two children, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Blackburn, Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis Blackburn and Mrs.
Rosa Nichols.
Elmer Crouse has returned to
his work in West Virginia after
spending several weeks with his
family here.
Lee Blackburn and family have
moved to the home of Mrs. Rosa
Nichols.
Twin Oaks
Sparta P. O., Nov. 11.—E. M.
Williams, Mae Williams and
Howard Vaughan spent Sunday
visiting relatives at Whitehead.
Howard Vaughan returned
last week from a trip to Long,
Island, N. Y., where he had been
attending to business concerning
his employment. It will be re
membered that Mr. Vaughan’s
brother, George, was drowned in
Long Island August 18 and was
later brought to Alleghany for
burial. It is reported that Howard
plans to make his home with
his uncle, E. M. Williams, at
Stratford.
Bower Watson and Gene Irwin
made a trip to Statesville Sun
day.'
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Joines and
daughter, Rama Lee, visited
friends here Saturday night.
Ray Billings and family, of
Hanes, spent the week-end with
.relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gardner,
Statesville, who have been visit
ing here for' a week, returned
bo Statesville Sunday. They were
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Clay Edwards and daughters,
Ella and Louise.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Irwin,
Sparta Route 1, spent several
days last week with relatives at
Stratford.
Ennice
Ennice, Nov. 11.—Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Higgins spent Fri
day afternoon with Mrs. Higgins’
brother, R. C. Todd, at Elk
Creek, Va.
Mrs. Guy Taylor and son, Guy
Frank, Jr., and Misses Ruby and
Gelein Higgins spent Friday
night .at the home of G. N.
Evans.
Mrs. Pinkey Wilson spent
Saturday night with her sister,
Mrs. Ross McGrady.
Bryan Bailey and Ray Wilton,
Oak Hill, W, Va., visited Mr.
Bailey’s mother, Mrs. Mae Bailey,
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Larrie Cooper
and daughter, Mildred, spent
Saturday night at the home of
W. C. Higgins.
Mr. and Mrs. Herley Edwards
and family, of Sparta, spent
Sunday at G. N. Evans’ home.
Miss Mildred Cooper is re
covering from a serious illness.
Miss Cecil Combs, of Galax,
spent ,the week-end with her
mother, Mrs. Alice Combs.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Combs spent
Sunday night at the home of W.
C. Higgins.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Evans
and son, Kyle, and Mr. and Mrs.
Kyle Edwards spent Sunday at
the home of P. J. Richardson.
Miss Ruby Higgins spent the
past week with her sister, Mrs.
Larrie Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Higgins
and Mr. and Mrs. Carrie Cooper
spent Saturday afternoon at the
■home of A. M. Greene.
Mt. Zion
Piney Creek P. O., Nov. 11.—•
Mrs. Mary Cox visited her sister,
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Sunday.
Mrs. W. F. Pugh spent Sunday
with Mrs. George F. Smith and
Mrs. H. Clay Smith.
Eugene Black and daughters,
of Topia, spent Sunday with
relatives in this community
J. F. Shepherd spent Sunday
afternoon with relatives and
friends in this community.
Mr. and Mrs. George Pugh and
Miss Ethel Pugh spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Hallie
Douglas, Piney Greek.
Mrs. Hallie Douglas, Piney
Creek, visited her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Pugh, recently.
J. C. Pugh visited his mother,
Mrs. Nancy A. Perry, near
Peden, Sunday.
News has been received here
of the death of Arthur Williams,
formerly pf this community, but
at the time of his death, of
Washington, D. C. His body will
be brought to Mt. Zion for
burial.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Combs,
Sparta, visited G. D. Roupe,
whose condition does not im
prove, Sunday,
See Caste vens Motor Co, for
radio batteries, tubes and ser
vice.—adv. tfc.
Reins - Sturdivant
Funeral Home
Ambulance Service Day or
Night
Licensed Emhalmers
SPARTA, N. C.
Telephone 22
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