DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC /AN D SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935
Volume 11
Number 29
The action of the Supremi
Court in suspending the collectior
of processing taxes until it shal
decide whether court injunction!
to prevent such collections an
legally obtainable means that th<
Supreme Court will hear argu
ments on December 16th to de
termine whether the law prohibit!
the judiciary from restraining the
collection of taxes. There arc
those who contend that a statu
tory provision absolutely bars a
court order to restrain the Gov
ernment from collecting any tax
levied, leaving to the taxpayer
only the right to pay under pro
test and subsequently sue to re
cover the amount paid.
In passing on the issue before
it, the Court was dealing with a
strictly legal question rather than
one of constitutional import and
the decision is not a clue as to
the attitude of the Court in re
gard to the contested issues of
farm relief legislation. Undoubt
edly, the decision to be made on
the constitutionality of the AAA
will have more effect than any
other decision to be' made. The
economic welfare of millions of
farmers, the declared goal of both
parties for many years, is involv
ed as is the oondition of the Fed
eral budget. Concerning the bud
get, about $600,000,000 in taxes
depend upon the opinion of the
justices. An adverse finding is
not expected to stop the farm re
lief program but it will make
necessary some effort to locate
the additional revenue needed to
make the crop payments.
At Warm Springs las* week.
President Roosevelt continued his
study of the budget, his chief
concern apparently being "to find
some way to cut expenditures,
thus bringing them closer to the
income of the Government. While
no one expects that anything like
a balanced budget will be pos
sible during the fiscal year that
begins next July, it seems prob
able that the' Administration will
develop something of a retrench
ment program. How far it will
go depends upon Congress per
haps more than the President and
(also Jupon the disposition of the
bonus question, which most ob
servers believe is certain to be
paid. -v. «: ..-.v
AAA CASE AND POLITICS
The political effects of the
Court’s decision on the AAA are
problematical. Naturally a vic
tory for ..the Government will
strengthen the President’s posi
tion with farmers to whom he ap
parently looks for support. An
adverse decision might injure his
prospects if the Republicans come
forward with a tempting solution
of the problem raised. However,
it is quite probable that the de
cision. even if adverse, will leave
a way open for the coming Con
Kto pass a law that will con
with the ruling. If the opin
ion is adverse and no convenient
nethod is apparent to secure farm
lid in accordance with the inter
pretation of the judges, one may
}e gore that the “horse and bug
jy” issue will revive and probably
wershadow everything else in the
sampaign ahead.
By Great Throng
Say* Peak Of Federal
Appropriations And The
Depth of Depression Have
Passed. Cheered by Many
TALMADGE IS ABSENT
Slashes At Critics
Of Increased Public
Debt. Says Credit Of
Government I* Good
Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 29.—
The party of President Roosevelt
returned to the chief executive’s
cottage on Pine mountain early
tonight from the home-coming
day celebration in Atlanta. The
party arrived here at 6:80 p. m.,
central standard time.
Atlanta, Nov. 29.—Both the
depth of the depression and the
peak of federal appropriations
have been passed, President Roose
velt told a huge throng here to
day in a home-coming address in
which he slashed at critics of the
increased public debt.
Speaking directly to .a cheer
ing home-coming celebration crowd
of 50,000, and to the nation be
yond them, he sounded an “as
surance” of a "decreasing deficit.”
He asserted that revenues were
increasing, “without the imposition
of new taxes.”
With the presidential campaign
of 1936 already rumbling louder
daily, Mr. Roosevelt hit put at
critics of the financial phases of
his administration.
“The credit of the govern
ment,” he said, "is today higher
than that of any other great
nation in the world, in spite of
the attacks on that credit made
by those few individuals and or
Congress how to run the national
treasury and how to let the needy
starve.”
The chief executive drew ap
plause and cheers as he arrived
here this morning after a 76-mile
motor trip from what he has call
ed his “second home” at Warm
Springs, Ga.
Introduced by Senators Walter
P. George and Richard B. Rus
sell, Jr., of Georgia, in the Geor
gia Teach stadium as the next
president of the United States,
Mr. Roosevelt placed what he
cited as the record of the last;
two and a half years alongside
what }ie described as “those fools’
paradise years . before the crash
came.”
Recalling the “period of great
so-called prosperity” of 1924 and
later, the president heard a
chorus of ‘noes’ from the throng
as he asked if “you people would
want to go back to that con
dition?” .
He announced the enrollment
of 8,126,000 workers today on
federal work relief projects and
emphatically proclaimed the end
of the dole,. ^ ^-,«j
Emphasising the financial sta
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Peace Is Sought
By Advocates Of
Payment Of Bonus
Washington,. Doc. S.—Bonus
payment advocates concentrated
today upon conciliating the dif
fering views of veterans' organisa
tions in an attempt to smooth
the way. for successful legislation
by the returning Congress.
Senator Steiwer (K., Ore.), a
member of both the American
Legion and the ..Veterans of
Foreign .Wars, disclosed he had
been “invited to take part in
a move” to bring the organisa
tions together. .
Last session the V. F. W.
backed the subsequently vetoed
Patman (D.f Tex.), bill to pay
the |2,000,00b,000 worth of ad
justed compensation certificates in
new money. The Legion favored
a bill by Representative Vinson
<D., Ky.) appropriating the'
money from the treasury.
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TAKE&4TH WIFE AT 101
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. #.—Ed
ward W. Rooks, negro, who gave
his age a* 101 and said he was
a Civil War veteran of the Union
army, has taken 36-year-old
Roberta Williams for his fourth
■Sow ’ v '“tvS
Bishop Ainsworth
Is Named Head Of
Anti-Saloon League
St. Louis, Dec. 2.—Bishoj
William N. Ainsworth, of Ma
con, Ga., a bishop of the-Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South, was
elected president of the ' Anti'
Saloon League of America at its
annual convention here today.
The new president succeed:
Bishop E. G. Richardson, Phila
delphia, Pa., of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Da-. Francis Scott McBride,
Washington. D. C., was reelected
general superintendent.
Bishop Ainsworth is in charge
I of the Holston, North Georgia,
South Georgia and Cuba confer
ences at present, and has been
heard in Grayson county, Vir
ginia, at Galax and Elk Creek.
Violators Of
Neutrality Law
To Be Prosecuted
Secretary Hull Says
Swift Legal Action Will
Be Taken Against Those
Who Disregard Act
Washington, Dec. 3.—Coinci
dent with a new stir over the
matter of-oil shipments to Italy, a
threat of swift legal action against
any arms maker or expoo-ter who
violates the neutrality act came
today from Secretary of State
Hull.
Secretary I ekes, disavowing that
he spoke for the administration
or sought to interpret its “for
eign policy,” tonight reiterated
ilk a statement that American oil
producers should operate strictly
within the government’s neutral
ity policy. He did not, however,
expand that -•
understood at a press conference
last November 21, when he was
quoted as promoting a voluntary
oil embargo against Italy and
Ethiopia, Ickes moved to align
himself with the administration
policy of discouraging “excessive”
exports to the belligerents. Only
arms shipments. are embargoed.
Secretary Hull’s threat of legal
action was directed against mak
ers or handlers of arms or am
munition not registered with the
State Department by last Novem
ber 29, as required by the neu
trality act. He said 86 firms or
individuals had listed themselves,
but “presumed” others had not.
Secretary Ickes’ statement to
night followed a stormy press
(continued on page 6)
Hampton Is Oven
Legal Position
By Power Body
Washington, Dec. 3.—‘Frank A.
Hampton, close political ally of
former Senator Furnifold Sim
mons, and more recently an active
Washington attorney, was today
appointed senior attorney for the
Federal Power Commission.
Hampton, whose long associ
ation with Senator Simmons, as
his secretary, made Jiim well
known in North Carolina political
affairs, is expected to take a
prominent part in the legal ac
tivities of the Federal Power
Commission, which are vastly ex
panded under the public utilities
law enacted at the last session of
Congress.
Frank R. McNinch, chairman
of the Federal Power Commission,
some weeks ago tendered Hamp
ton the legal post but it was not
accepted until today. When Sena
tor Simmons bolted A1 Smith in
1938 Hampton followed his
“chief’ and helped McNinch, the
anti-Smith leader in North Caro
lina, manage the campaign that
put North Carolina in the Hoover
column. ^
When President Hoover ap
pointed McNinch to the power
commission and the then Senator
Elect. Bailey sought to block con
firmatlon. Hampton used his in
fluence In the Senate for hi. Mr
low North Carolinian- Probably
former Senator Cam M«r
did more to secure Me
any
| Warm Springs Greet Their Illustrious Guest j
\VARM'8P'RIN0$-,\Ja. . . . Patients in the Warm Spring Foundation here
look forward through the year to the arrival of thc.ii illustrious toastmaster,
President Roosevelt, for their Thanksgiving Day dinner. Photo shows the
joyful greetings of the little fotks^upon the arrival of the President last
week, for his annual sojourn with them over Thanksgiving.
To Construct New
H. S. Building
Here Under PWA
Work It Already Begun.
Improvement Of Streets
Of Sparta Is Included
In Alleghany Projects
Operations of the PWA are
getting under way in this county
and the various projects appear
to be operating quite efficiently.
According to reports from state
officials, the ‘Nlole’’ system was
discontinued the first of Decem
ber. Under ' the operations of
the PWA, the reeM^ants of gov
ernmental i»U' nn||| ~~jfcinn i |i il U>
receive assistance'-as recompense
for labor.
Five projects in which men are
employed have been opened in
Alleghany county. One, under
the supervision of Clennel Rich
ardson, expert carpenter and
wood-worker, calls for the con
struction of a new high school
building for Sparta. A lot, ad
joining the present campus and
measuring 200 by 100 feet, was
purchased fron^C. R. Roe* prin
cipal of Sparta high school, and
construction of the building was
begun about November 8. The
building will be a one-story struc
ture, 150 by 54 feet, of brick
veneer construction. A furnace
will be used to heat the building.
About 10 men are now em
ployed on this project with a
number expected to be added
later.
A second project ib mat or
street improvement in Sparta,
which is being supervised by
George Edwards.
Two road improvement proj
ects are under way; one in the
Walnut Branch section, under the
supervision of Charlie Mitchell,
and one at Barrett, supervised
by G. N. Evans.
The fish hatchery, which has
been in operation at Roaring Gap
for some time, has been taken
over for operation by the PWA.
It is estimated that between 50
and 75 men are employed at
present in these projects.
Five sewing rooms, giving em
ployment to moxe than 100 wo
men, have been opened in the
oounty, one at each of the fol
lowing points: Sparta, Pinfey
Creek, Laurel Springs, - Ennice
and New Hope.
MEAT DEMONSTRATIONS TO
BE HELD IN COUNTY DEC 10
R. E. Nance, meat specialist of
State college, .Raleigh, will be in
Alleghany county on December
10, to assist the farmers in
cutting and curing meats by the
more approved methods. Two
cutting and curing demonstrations
will be held as follows: 9:00 a.
m., D. J. Jones’, and 8:00 p. m.,
Amos Wagoner’s.
It is hoped that a large
number of farmers can arrange
to attend one of these demonstra
tions, since Mr. Nance has only
about 10 days leave - from the
college and it is felt that the
county is very fortunate in
securing these demonstrations.
Roosevelt Not ~
Willing To Name
Bankers Quoted
Governor Talmadge, Of
Georgia, Voices Demand
That President Make
Public Their Identity
Warm Springs, Ga., Dec. 3.—
In answer to those who are criti
cal of certain statements made in
his Atlanta speech of last Fri
day, President Roosevelt today
suggested that a look at the fi
nancial journals during the bank
ing crisis of 1933 might be worth
! while in seeking to identify the
bankers whom he said stated that
the nation could stand an emer
gency debt of fifty-five to seventy
billion dollars.
Smiliig broadly, the President
made the suggestions in response
to queries as to what bankers he
was referring to when he said in
his Atlanta speech last week that
some leading financiers had told
him such a huge emergency debt
could be safely incurred.
Mr. Roosevelt said he had a
list of bankers and some letters
but he received no request for
making these public and had no
intention of doing so. He added
the remark that a look at the
financial journal files of the per
iod might be worth while.
His comment was made about
the same time Governor Eugene
Talmadge, of Georgia, critic of
the new deal, voiced a demand in
Atlanta that Mr. Roosevelt make
public the names of the bankers.
His face deeply colored from
an early morning motor ride in
his open car and -a later plunge
in the swimming pool, the Presi
dent kept his regular semi-week
ly press interview as usual on the
I roadside en .route to his Pine
Mountain cottage.
I Opening the interview from be
hind the steering wheel, the Presi
dent observed he was having a
good time and there was no news.
He just about proved it.
Regarding various reports of
the favored site for the next
Democratic national convention,
he said he hadn’t thought about
the subject and he assumed pro
posals would come from various
cities.
Asked if he was a candidate
for re-election. Mr. Roosevelt
flicked his cigarette and quickly
replied with a smile that the
Democratic national committee
will decide where the convention
will be held and the convention
will decide who is to be the
candidate. < —
OFFICERS DETAIN MAN
SUFFERING WITH AMNESIA
A man, about S7, suffering
from amnesia, was picked up
near here by officers Sunday. He
was unable to identify himself
and appeared to have no Idea
of his destination. After much
questioning, he Anally submitted
a pocketbook containing an iden
tification card bearing the name,
“Leonard Mqrton,” with a Char
lotte address.
After long distance communi
cation with the detective bureau
Dr. A. C. Gibbs. To
Hold 1st Gu&rterly
Meeting Here Sat.
The first quarterly conference
of the present conference year
for the Sparta charge., M. E.
.Church, South, is to be held in
the Sparta Methodist church on
Saturday, December 7, at eleven
o’clock. Announcement to this
effect was made recently by Rev.
A. B. Bruton, pastor of the Sparta
charge.
Cr. A. C. Gibbs, presiding eld
ei of the Mount Airy district,
will deliver a sermon and then
conduct the business session of
the. quarterly conference.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this meeting.
McBride Gives
Reasons Repeal
“Is A Failure”
Says “Wets” Themselves
Have Given Ten Reasons
Why Prohibition Is On
Its Way Back In U. S.
St. Louis. Dec. 3.—Dr. Francis
Scott McBride, of Washington,
D. C., told the Anti-Saloon League
| of America tonight “the wets have
given us ten reasons why repeal
has failed and why prohibition
is on its way back.”
General superintendent of the
league, Dr. McBride outlined the
reasons as follows;
“1. No promise made by the
wets to regulate liquor has been
kept
“2. There is a decided increase
in drinking and drunkenness.
“3. Alcohol accidents, automo
biles and otherwise, have made re
peal the bloodiest period in our
nation's peacetime history.
4. Ihe bootlegger has stayed.
“6. The cocktail hoar and other!
liquor schemes are proving1 a!
greater menace to women and
girls than the old-time saloon
ever did to men and boys.
“6. Advertisements are asking
women to drink whisky.
“7. Revenues from liquor are
less than the relief squandered
for liquor.
“8. Corruption has increased.
Legislatures have again become
submissive to liquor.
“9. The saloon is back.
“10. Repeal has undermined the
veracity of our political leaders.
President Roosevelt declared in
the convention that nominated
him, ‘from this day on the Eigh
teenth Amendment is doomed.’
With the very next -breath he
said, ‘we must rightly and morally
prevent the return of the sa
loon.’ He made good on the first
part of the statement but has ab
solutely ignored the second.”
Today Marks &kl
Of Direct Relief
In North Caroina
Raleigh, Dec. 8.—Mrs. Thomas
O’Berry, state relief administra
tor, announced tonight all federal
direct relief in North Carolina
will be discontinued after Thu.rs
e federal relief fund alloca
tion to the state is not sufficient
to give relief after Thursday and
cover all expenses of liquidation,”
said Mrs. O’Berry.
The administrative personnel of
the state, district and county or
ganisations has already been re
duced about 60 per cent since
September and will be further!
reduced during liquidation, Sin.
O’Berry stated.
The NCERA received a Anal
allotment of $500,000 recently
and part of this will be used for
liquidation. Mrs. O’Berry said a
liquidating budget is now being
prepared for submission: to Wash
ington authorities for approval.
The federal government plans
$o give jobs to most of the able
bodied relief clients, leaving the
crippled, aged and infirm to the
care of local agencies.
SPARTA SCHOOL FACULTY TO
PRESENT PLAY ON DSC 14
A play, entitled '’Where's
Grandma?” is to be presented by
Glade Valley “Hi”
Has A Successful
Home-Coming Day
Fifteen Classes Of
Graduates Represented
At Alumni Meeting Held.
Organization Is Formed
“LOVE’S MAGIC” GIVEN
To Hold Another Meet
Of Alumni Association
At Commencement. To
Present Complete Plans
On Thanksgiving day, Glade
Valley high school observed its
25th anniversary with a home
come-coming and, despite the very
inclement weather, more than half
of the classes which have gradu
ated there, were represented.
At 11a. m., Rev. R. L. Berry,
Presbyterian pastor, delivered an
appropriate and appealing Thanks
gioving sermon, followed by spec
ial music rendered by the choir.
At 2 p. m., the alumni of the
school met and organized. E. B.
Eldridge, principal of the school,
presided over the meeting, at
which 15 classes were represent
ed. Short talks were made by
Mr. Eldridge, Clay Thompson,
Rev. C. W. Ervin and Miss Ruth
Bowlin.
The meeting was then turned
into an open forum and much
interest was manifested.
Mr. Eldridge was elected presi
dent of the Alumni association
and Miss Bowlin was elected sec
retary and treasurer.
An advisory committee, com
prised of Clay Thompson, Glenn
Tolliver, Miss Clarice Thompson,
and Tyre C. Taylor, was chosen
and Mr. Thompson was made
chairman of the committee.
rtiier some discussion, it w,as
decided to call another meeting
of the association at commence
ment during the. bitter part of
April, at which time complete
plans for the work of the
organization will be presented
and a permanent date chosen for
the annual home-coming.
At 4 p. m., a delicious buffet
supper was served.
At 8 p. m., the, Junior class,
unoer the ' direction of, Miss
Margaret Dowdle, of the high
school faculty, presented a three
act comedy-drama, “Love’s
Magic.” The play was well
presented to a very appreciative
audience and was a fitting
climax to a very successful
home-coming occasion.
Smithey’s To Hold
Hog-Calling Content
Sat., December 14
Who is the champion hog-call
er of Alleghany county? That
is a question that is troubling
some people in Sparta and it is
going to be settled on Saturday,
December 14, when Smithey’s
store, Sparta, will offer three
cash prizes bo Alleghany county
hog-callers.
The event, which will probably
attract a large number of con
teStants as well as a goodly sized
crowd of spectators, promises to
be laugh-provoking and amusing.
Watch next week’s issue of the
TIMES for. details and time of
day the event will be held.
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