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The Alleghany Times •* Alleghany County’s Only Newspaper Published every Thursday by the Gazette Printing & Publishing Co. 117 West Grayson Street Galax, Virginia H. B. Zabriskie, Galax, Va. Editor Mrs. Sidney B. Gambill, Sparta, N. C. .. Local News Editor Sparta Office in Sheriff’s Office in Court House Entered .at the Post Office at Galax, Virginia, as Second Class Matter under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1872. Thursday, December 19, 1935. Christmas—A Day To Forget Self And Spread Happiness To All Humanity The approach of Christmas Day heralds the close of another year of our great Depression. There are few people who have not been touched by the business upheaval which enveloped the nation after the stock market crash of half a dozen years ago. Six, long, lean years have passed by since that doleful occasion. Years which have tried the soul, which made it imperative for men to pause and take stock of their personal qualities. In the face of our present distressful times one anticipates that Christmas Day will come as a day of good cheer and that the majority of the people will put aside their mourning raiments and try to be optimistic and happy. While it would not be just or easy to attempt to minimize the difficulties of the times, still it might be a good thing to recall that, after all, the present situation is bad by comparison with better times we have known, but, on the other hand, is not so terrible when we compare it with the plight of other peoples in other lands and, perhaps, of other years. The Alleghany Times does not maintain the belief that in order to properly create the Christmas spirit it is necessary to indulge in an orgy of spend ing. We would rather suggest that the real spirit of Christmas does not involve expression in dol lars and cents but in the hearts of the individuals who make up the community. They should, above everything else, undertake to see that some minimum of joy and gladness is brought to every human being and especially into the hearts of innocent children. They, the budding flowers of the rising generation, are unaware of the hardships with which their families may perhaps be surrounded and their hopes have not been dampened by an economic crisis which they, as yet, do not comprehend. As it has been said many times before, Christ mas Day should not be an occasion of reception, but rather one of giving. It should not be more than any other day, except for its historical sig nificance. It is simply a day in the year set apart from other days to afford mankind an opportunity to forget self and spread happiness to all humanity. Million Dollar Incomes *—How They Have Dwindled Only one man in the United States reported a net income above $5,000,000 in 1934. _ In 1929 there were 38 income tax returns showing incomes above that figure. That looks as if the process of "redistribution of wealth,” of which we hear so much, were actually under way. We don’t know the name of the for tunate individual, who, according to the Treasury Department, received between 6 and 9 million dol lars, of taxable income last year, though it might be easy to make a fairly close guess as to his identity. . There were only 32 million-dollar incomes, all told, in 1934, but there were almost 4 million per sons who received enough in that year to require the filing of income-tax returns. More than 2% million of those reporting incomes below $5,000 paid no tax, while the 32 biggest incomes, aggre gating almost 60 million dollars, paid more than half of their incomes, about 33 million dollars, as taxes. It is obvious that if all of the incomes of a million or more, instead of only 55 percent, were taken, it wouldn’t help the Treasury much. Most folks would be willing enough to pay Uncle Sam half a million dollars or more if they had million-dollar incomes. There would still be a surplus left on which almost anybody could live in comfort. But the fact that a man received an income of a million dollars in 1934 is no guarantee that he will get that much in 1935. The one thing harder than making money, those who have had experience say, is keeping it after you've made it. Even millionaires are alive to the need of laying something by for a rainy day. After all, the big returns to the Government from the income-tax are not from the few immensely -wealthy, but from the middle-class group with in comes of from $2,500 to $25,000 a year. And when we get down .to those who make no reports to the Government, the indirect taxes paid are probably higher, in proportion to income, than those of many of the direct income-tax payers. The reason there are not better ideas to solve problems is that folks have discovered that the uitration necessary to evolve a medium-sized is as much a drain on energy as lifting a hundred pound sack of salt. So most people go c to their puttering or moderate physical effort growl about the intellectuals being a lazy lot. A great problem met, whether fully mastered A% puts smaller ones in their places as incon itial. • * • The gambling slicker’s life is a smooth one for That’s because he’s on a greased chute for the rocks. • • • are again on Have you will be saving ■ yi' Pi .. ' BRUCE Barton * . . . . Thieve* Upon U« Many years ago Seneca the philosopher said: “There is noth ing we can properly call our own but our time, yet always some body is cheating us out of it. If a man borrows money there must be bonds and securities, and it is reasonable to expect him to pay it back. If we are robbed of our clothes there are laws for the punishment of the thief, but he that helps himself to my time thinks that he owes me nothing for it, though he has taken some thing that even gratitude cannot repay ” • Poor Seneca. You can just see him getting up early to put in some good licks on one of his books, only to have a chance ac quaintance burst in with the merry quip: “Was just passing by and thought I’d drop in for a chat.’’ He grew rich and had plenty of servants, but this, he discovered, involved time out for sad stories from his wife on why she just couldn’t get on with the cook. More possessions meant more papers to sign; added income meant added worry—and all at the expense of time. When the Emperor Nero, who had been his pupil, grew jealous of Seneca’s popularity and sent him orders to end his life, the philosopher received the message stoically. He gathered his friends around and said that, since he was deprived of the privilege of dis tributing his possessions among them, he would leave them the only things remained to him— the pattern of his life. Possibly the pangs of death were some what assuaged by the thought that he was going where he could ihave plenty of time. Doctors charge for their time. Lawyers charge so much for theirs that nobody goes to see a lawyer if he can help it. But the rest of us are more or less at the mercy of time-thieves. Busy j people, since Seneca’s day and even before, have protested that “there ought to be a law.” But so far nothing has been done. * . . . Sins Arm Perplexing General Evangeline Booth has issued a declaration of war against sin, to continue until December 81, 1936, though why this particular closing date is selected she does not explain. The campaign is not to be a local or haphazard affair. Miss Booth asks Salvation Armies in all countries to cooperate, and she names specifically the following Forces that are to be attacked: Greed, hypocrisy, immorality, gambling, blasphemy, malice, hatred, theft, cant, jealousy, cowardice, fashion, pride, conceit, self-consciousness, and lying. These Bad Actors have been a part of the human drama prac tically from the beginning. The proposal to tear them out by their roots from the human spirit, all within the space of twelve months, is a significant testimony to the courage of Miss Booth, but suc cess is problematical. Perplexing questions arise im mediately. Who shall define pre cisely what is and what is not a sin? “Pride and fashions," for example, are these necessarily sinful? Pride frequently is a powerful influence in keeping people on the straight and nar row; fashion is one of the most inveterate enemies of unemploy ment. Many sins are merely vir tues over-grown and distorted. Greed may be exaggerated thrift; the line between devotion and jealousy is often slender, as is the division between self-respect and conceit. Sin probably will take much of a beating from organized wars, announced by manifests. Its only real foe, however, is the slow evolution of the individual con science. Burns said: “Thine own reproach alone do fear.” Hen who adopt this motto sometimes do things that hurt themselves, but they do not often hurt other people. fBUNG \OUND NEWYOMC Walk into the financial section and watch the passers-by all day, and you’ll see very few really old men. They’re all retired, broken or dead. Above a certain age, “the pace” gets them. * * » Advertisements and window dis plays frequently illustrate young men carrying sticks, as though it were a very common New York article of apparel. Truth is, that except for Sundays in Park Ave nue and Fifth Avenue walking, you rarely see anyone but the Broad-way dandy affecting a cane unless he’s white haired and sixty. They’re a definite handicap in a subway jam! • • • No end of -strange dishes and strange restaurants in New York. A Mexican night club in Green wich Village: they serve nothing but wine and beer with their hot seasoned foods. The atmosphere is merry but never disorderly. And even the seasoning is tem pered a bit for northern palates. * * * An Armenian restaurant, where long skewers are used in roasting their meats, and a rose petal sauce is served with dessert. It actually tastes the way roses smell. . . Which reminds me of an old ambition to develop a liqueur that would taste the way fresh roasted, fresh ground coffee beans smell. • •'* • Which reminds me of Ida Ars lanian telling with serious face, but lovely, dancing, dark eyes that she now knew all about fly ing. She sat there, holding her father’s cane between her feet, and ilustarated. But every now and then, as she got into a stall or m spin, she’d have to look at the newspaper column of instruc tions to save her from a tragic death. • * * Christmas shoppers, laden down with packages, being shoved and jostled in crowded rush hour sub ways. . . Wonder how much good the subway signs have done in re questing shoppers to do their buying between 10 a. m. and Wall Street is grim and gray sven during the holiday season. Quite a contrast to the merry ights and eolors of the depart- { nent area and Fifth Avenue. Wise and,. Otherwise Overl The honeymoon is over when you disoover that your Pet Lamb is really a little Bossy—U. S. S. Nevada Cheer-up. Ain’t It SoT A California scientist says that freezing a person will kill all dis ease germs he may be harboring. It is also understood that decapi tation will permanently cure dan druff.—Grand Rapids Press. Mussolini won’t let the Italians eat horse meat on a Tuesday. Maybehe’s working up an appe Maybe tite ing. A Sail. oug staj ers Tim we indi ket D est Italj .B T< ' omy mier Lavi Cl shon be Ao change made.—Detroit News. Tee Much Mary Pickford say's it’s a good thing for the human race to have troubles. But, Mary dear, isn’t there such a thing as too much of a good thing?—St. Louis Post Dispatch. A FERA Job Junior came to school with the glad news that his father had work again. “What is he doing?” asked the teacher. “Oh, he's got a hard Job,” said the child. “He’s got to watch dx watchmen.” «— Indianapolis *ew». Washington News For U. S. Farmers ROOSEVELT PRAISES AAA Speaking before the annual I convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, President Roosevelt forecast further regula tion to perpetuate a "fair • bal ance1' between industry, agricul ture and other producing factors of the nation. Emphasis was placed upon “common justice” and the President reaffirmed his belief that agriculture can be stablilized to prevent great swings in prices of commodities. The president’s speech was de livered on the same day that the Supreme Court opened its hear ing on the validity of processing taxes, levied by the AAA and left no doubt of his intention to make permanent the gains that have been achieved in so far as the farmers’ welfare is concerned. The president pointed out that the parity sought for agriculture, as compared1 to,industry, is based on prices existing between 1904 14. Mr. Roosevelt reported that farm prices have moved from a point below fifty per cent, of parity, reached early in 1983, to a level that is now about ninety per cent, of parity. He empha sized that the annual income of agriculture has been increased more than three billion dollars. He called attention to the inter dependence between business and agriculture, declaring, that there has been a decided upturn in business, with some of the credit due to the increased buying of farmers. He said the plan to give the farmer an income on which his family can live is op posed chiefly by those who profit ed from the depression. He found occasion to approve the new reciprocal trade agree ment with Canada, denying that agriculture was “crucified” and predicted that this country would continue to export more agricul tural products to Canada than it imports. Moreover, he believes that the general increase in our trade with Canada will add to the purchasing power of wage earn ers in our factories and enable them to spend far more for the products of our farms. FARM BUREAU BACKING Following the President’s ad dress, Edward A. O’Neal, presi dent of the Farm Bureau, pledged the support of his organisation to the agricultural policies of the Administration, saying that it had accomplished more for the farmer in the last three years than was done in any comparable period. The Bureau chief claimed the policy now established as the off spring of the Federation. Along this line, it might, be well to cite the official estimates of farm income since 1932, when it amounted to $4,328,000,000. The next year it was $6,117, 000,000; in 1934, $6,387,000, 000; and in 1935. $6,800,000, 000. There is little..jBsp'VKtmn on the part of tribe* to question reality of this gain. Un Hbted evidence proves that the Hner is once more in the mar | and sharply higher registra ■ of motor cars in rural areas Hhasizes the fact. AT CRITICS CHARGE ritics of the Roosevelt farm ey deny that wealth can be ted by persuading the farm to produce less. They do not bute the increased income of lers to the AAA, saying that esulted from devaluation of dollar and the natural ten y of prices to snap back i the panic level. Moreover, decry the centralized bureau. 1 in Washington, the regu lation of the farmers and the ically dangerous system of ities to the growers. - Critics assail these policies as mainly onsible for the increase in 1 food prices, which, they have risen forty per cent ir the president. Another » of attack is that the AAA ram has been responsible for oss of foreign markets, caus other countries to expand >r*wuc7,nn ** acreage was the United State*. TAXES IN HIE COURT The Supreme Court last week heard arguments in the Hoosac Milk case, attacking the process ing taxes, backbone of the pay ments being made to fanners un der the present agricultural pro gram. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace enthusiastically support ing the AAA which, he says, “has worked better than I anticipat ed,” and predicting that “no mat ter what party k in power, some thing of the sort will continue,” it k evident that the Administra tion has no intention of abandon ing its crop control program even if the Supreme Court And* that the processing tax k invalid. ?/'world "/groceries ALICE LOUISE KEOGH Si*"5'MSk 12,000 PUSHCARTS' SUPPt/ NEW vORK CITY 25% OF ITS FRIIIME5EMB 451WfWo?H SfEeoa Cw»puy FRENCH. DRESSING! QUITE UNKHOWI * FRANCE,IS OF AMERICAN • origin. over 0,250 000 UDAVES OF BREAD AND 60,000,000 ROLLS art CONSUI'.ED ANNUALLY in U.S. The Family Doctor By John Joseph Gaines, M. D. A BACKACHE REVIEW Remember that backache is only a symptom. It is the same of headache and other “aches.” Backache is, in my experience, the far more common annoyance of men and women, especially the latter. If the lumber distress does not come from a downright injury, OKI t andjfe Humoi -E. Imagination Robert—Did you enjoy your self while your wife was on her vacation? Herbert—No, I dreamed about her all the time.—Stray Stories. AH°sit “I thought of a fine idea to day, dear. I promised a thous and dollars to a man if he would relieve me of all my worries.” “But where will you get the thousand to give him?” “That will be his first worry.” Atta Boy 1 Overheard on a dance floor the other night. Him: “Say, do your eyes bother you?” Her: “No—why?” Him: “Well, they bother me.” On Again, Off Again “Sandy MecDougal asked me for my hand last night.” “I thot you already were en gaged to Sandy.” “We were; he wanted to take his ring back.” such as heavy lifting and strain ing, or from a cramped, unnatural position of the body, it is, in all probability, “reflex” from disease of some other important organ in that immediate vicnity. . j Most patients go to hunting for kidney disease when they get an acute backache. As a mat ter of fact, a kidney is my last suspect in lumbago, us, ovaries, colon, and bladder, gland, colon, or bladder may be , the cause. Certainly, if the lat- j ter organs or any one of them j is out of proper function. In woman, we look out for the uter- j us, ovaries, colon, and bladder. Chronic rectal disease in either sex excites backache. Remove the cause and the trouble dis appears. A lumbago may be rheumatic but I never call it so unless the rheumatism is elsewhere in the patient. To give treatment for rheumatism in lumbago is blind practice, guess-work. Muscular strain of the back is a very frequent cause. An all day ride in the car, when unused to it, will leave backache from muscle-strain. A man sitting in a swivel-chair may get a chronic lumbago from the practice if it is continuous. Local dry heat is always a good measure. See that elimination is properly carried out. Regular bowels, active kidneys, regular physical conduct. Your physician will do the rest. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE North Carolina, Alleghany County Having qualified as administra tor of the estate of Charley Cocketham, late of Alleghany county, this is to notify all par sons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at Ennice, N. C., on or before the 25t1> day of Nov ember, 1936, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. This Nov. 25, 1935. J. C. 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