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The Alleghany Times
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Alleghany County’s Only Newspaper
Published every Thursday by the
Gazette Printing & Publishing Co.
117 West Grayson Street Galax, Virginia
a. B. Zabriskie, Galax, Va..Editor
ill3. Sidney B. Gambill, Sparta, N. C.Local News Editor
Sparta Office in Sheriff’s Office in Court House
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Sparta, N. C., Thursday, February 13, 1936.
The Townsend Old Age Pension Plan Has Undoubtedly
Raised False Hopes In The Hearts Of Many
The Townsend Old Age Pension Plan has stir
red up considerabe controversy and probably raised
| false hopes in the hearts of many thousands of old
people.
Even if it were possible to give all citizens of
sixty years of age a life income of $200.00 a month,
there might be some debate over the justice of doing
so, unless we are assured that honest workers under
the magic age limit could earn at least an equal
reward.
The consensus of expert opinion, however,
seems to be that such a scheme is impossible in the
[ long run and that, even if adopted, would create
difficulties that would inevitably lead to a general
f collapse.
The TIMES is interested in some adequate
| provision for the cai’e of old people but we prefer
“ that this aid be approached more cautiousely. A
; start has been made in many states. Such aid will
| be greatlv increased under recent Federal legis
lation. While the payments to the old folks may be
less than those ottered under the Townsend scheme,
I we have an idea that they will, in fact, be more
t substantial.
Recently, the University of Chicago published a
pamphlet signed by twenty-one specialists on eco
nomics. taxation, public welfare, and public ad
ministration. These men conclude, after careful
study, that pensions of $200 per month are much
too large to be met by any ordinary scheme of
taxation and that the proposed transactions tax of
2 per cent would not yield enough to pay much
more than one-fourth of the estimated cost of such
pensions to ten million persons. Moreover, such a
tax, in their opinion, would constitute a substantial
burden on the cost of living and might force a con
siderable reorganization in marketing practices.
Even Though We May Be Slow To Realize It
We Are About To Enter Into The Air Age
The people of Alleghany county may be slow
to realize it but we are about to enter the air age.
Of course, we are no where near the absurd
accomplishments depicted by the imaginations of
fanciful writers, but the fact that Howard Hughes
recently made a coast to coast flight in 9 hours,
27 minutes and 10 seconds is a good indication of
the progress being made in air transportation.
While the present importance of air craft in
combat is over-estimated, the probability is that
future development will make air craft increasingly
vital. It is not quite accurate to presume that aerial
bombs have relegated other implements of war to
the background but under-estimating the new fight
ing arm would be just as foolish.
As most of our leaders know, the government
is attempting to interest manufacturers in the de
velopment of a plane adapted for private use and to
stimulate mass production. When such a machine
gets on the market, at a price within the reach of
the average citizen, the sky will carry its share of
traffic. In fact, the airplane is going to repeat the
marvelous development and growth of the auto
mobile and, much more important, duplicate the
automobile’s effect upon distance. Prophecy may
be foolish but there are those living who will see
the day when a thousand mile journey will be part
of the day’s routine.
Oldest Dealer,
Dependable Double-Dealer
An Inspirational Editorial
by John Edwin Price
Some double dealers are anything but depend
able. Here is where again and again nature is dif
ferent and wonderfully so.
When nature deals the oyster an irritating bit
of sand she also deals out the ability to turn it into
a pearl.
When nature deals out a lonesome windswept
hill-top on which an oak sprig must make its home
she also deals out inherent powers which develop
tough fibres as the wintry winds howl and the storms
rage in fury.
When she deals out darkness, she follows it
with a dawn.
When she deals out Alps she deals out potential
rength to climb them.
When she dealt out blindness and deafness and
dumbness to Helen Keller she dealt out a marvelous
sense of touch and a controlled mind and a won
derfully patient teacher.
When she* deals out a kick-out to the eaglets
the nest she deals out an instinctive knowledge
how to -fly with a little strength as capital to
sgin with.
Have you been dealt a* raw deal? That’s all
may be,—unless you look for the double deal—
play it for all its worth.
You’ll never have much strength if you have
obstacles to overcome.
You could not be a victor if you had no enemies
conquer.
municipalities would be better places in
live if more attention was given to social
oung people.
Bruce
Barton
* Make Home Building Eaay
Home is a little white cottage
with green blinds, where love
locks the door against the world,
and the warm light of the open
fire weaves a halo around every
head. Yes, indeed.
Also, home is a piece of land
which you can buy after weeks
of horsetrading with a real es
tatar. Home is an expensive jour
ney with a lawyer back through
the title records. Home is a con
tract supposed to include every
thing, but which, by the time
you have suggested a couple oi
little changes; such as a light
in the front hall and some shelves
over the kitchen sink, turns out
to represent only a very minoi
part of your cost.
Home is the place where you
hear the electrician who installs
the door bell saying to the elec
trician who installs the light fix
tures: “Do you think I am going
to let you run your wires through
my conduits ?■” A place where
you hear the plumber saying to
the steamfitter: “That is my job,
not yours—how do you get that
way?’’
Home is the place that was to
be all ready for occupancy on
October first, and into which you
move on February first in order ot
get the painters out. Home is
the place where every time you
make the slightest improvement
the tax accessor comes around
and boosts your assessment.
The above remarks, intended
somewhat in the spirit of good,
clean fun, doubtless will raise
a small riot among such mem
bers of my congregation as hap
pen to be engaged in real estate,
law, architecture, contracting, or
labor union management.
To .all such I would say ear
nestly and prayerfully: “You
have no idea how much more
business you could do if you only
would get together, work together
and iron out the hundreds of
needless annoyances that riow
plague the builder of a home.
G-Men Give Much
In Washington recently,' I took
occasion to pay my respects to
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the
G-Men. As we were friends, he
gave me a little special attention,
but any citizen is invited to visit
the department.
Here are five million finger
prints sent in by police depart
ments all over the country. Some
departments send only the prints
of felons; others file prints of
every one who TBomes into even
the slightest conflict with the
law. It has happened more than
once that an offender, picked up
in one city for so small a thing
as running past a traffic light,
has proved to be wanted in an
other city for a major crime.
The finger prints never lie,
and so marvelous is the system
of filing them that even you or
I, with a couple of hours’ in
struction, could locate any par
ticular set of prints.
Of the criminals the G-Men
have brought to trial in the last
year, nine out of ten were con
victed. The principal reason for
this astonishing record is that
every G-Man must be either a
lawyer or a chartered account
ant; they know how to get the
kind of evidence that will stand
up.
The G-Men are paid altogether
too little. The total expenses of
the department last year were
about four million dollars, and it
collected, in fines, and recoveries,
more than thirty-nine millions
The wonderfully efficient and
economic service of governmental
employees who protect our lives
and property, handle our mail
and guard our health, should al
ways be properly paid.
These unsung millions give an
awful lot for the little they arc
paid. And right up near the top
of this good list is Edgar Hoovei
and his G-Men.
Nuts and Kernels
Troy Isaiah Jones
Of course the business of rais
ing hell has neither been taxed
nor reduced. Of course the Re
publicans have got to have some
thing to do.
Some of the head hunters of
Africa have a method of reduc
ing skulls to the size of a goose
egg. Just as might be expected
we would find a remedy for the
swell. head among the savages.
Sometimes the political jam
you get into is the sort that you
get rubbed in the face.
"Bore-ah” that is' about all
that can be expected in the Re
publican party.
A man was on the jury when
his. case was called for stealing
chickens. He got to crowing
about it and they called him off.
Steven Leacock believes that
half the truth is stronger than
the whole truth. As professor
of economics he has a lot of
ardent followers.
As a matter of English tech
nique Man always embraces wo
man.
And I have misunderstood it
all the time. It is Cotton Ed
Smith, senator from South Caro
lina. The way he has been act
ing I thought It was Cotton
Head.
The penguin, the bird that Ad
miral Byrd discovered at the pole
walks like a man. Since it can’t
talk it has no feminine traits.
Smith thinks that the rank and
file of the American public is
for him. I think it is safe for
him to count on the “rank.”
Contrary to English tradition
they say that the Prince of
Wales has a sense of humor.
England too may realize a new
3ense of humor when they find
out that they have as king the
greatest joke of all time.
Every line of activity has fur
nished a genius, that is to say
a person that did not know any
better than to do the thing the
way he did.
People that do the knocking
are the ones on the outside wantin’
in.
Smith need not try to bolt the
party. He can’t be anything but
a "loose nut.”
Louisa’s
Letter
Dear Louisa:
Do you think a girl of six
teen is old enough to talk to
boys? If so, on what basis? Just
like she pleases or am I to have
a say so in it?
A Mother,
Alabama
Answer:
I can’t imagine why a girl
of sixteen, or of any age for
that matter, shouldn’t be allowed
to talk to boys. As for the basis
of talk, mother, I don’t think I
understand what you mean. Why
should any grown person wish to
dictate a young couple’s conver
sation? They usually talk about
things that wouldn’t interest us
at all and we would probably
think that what they had to say
sounded very silly. But it is all
very thrilling and enjoyable to
them, so why should we object.
The only reason I can imagine
you have for not letting your
daughter talk with boys is that
you may have heard her saying
vulgar or indecent things. In a
case like that you are perfectly
right to object to such a conver
sation. I hope you have reared
your child with a good under
standing of right and wrong, de
cent and indecent behavior. If
you have instilled in her the de
sire to be good and the know
ledge that you trust her, you have
done more to protect her from
“bad” boys than all watching
and prying will ever accomplish.
Louisa
Dear Louisa:
You may think I am a very
unnatural daughter but I think
my mother is a slacker. Father
died about five years ago. Of
course his good salary stopped at
his death. Sister had to come
home from college and I went
to work straight from high school
although both of us had made
splendid marks and were very
anxious to prepare ourselves to
teach. We could have managed
to do this, only there was no one
to support mother. Now, Mother
is healthy and could have gotten
a job as easily as either of us
but she had never worked out
side the home and she was struck
dumb when we mentioned
her. To preserve
ter and I both
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Doctor
by John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
THOSE LITTLE BOYS
Last week an anxiofts father
brought his little lad of seven to
my office with a really well-fitting,
surgical-looking bandage about
his head, only one eye peeking
through. There had been a fight
at the country schoolhouse and
it seems this seven-year-old got
a shade the worst of it. The
teacher, good soul, had applied
mercurochrome from her kit,
put on the dressing and hunried
ly took the boy home in her car.
Removing the dressing, I found
an abraded wound not skin-deep,
extending from the inner margin
of the left orbit, almost to the
point of the nose; it had oozed
blood rather freely, and blood
alarms even a school-teacher. The
slight wound had been treated
thoroughly with mercurochrome.
You know what I did? Well,
I removed the bandage which was
so snug and efficient as to be
almost disabling in itself. I pre
scribed an ounce of the teacher’s
antiseptic. I told the father to
leave off all dressings and paint
lightly with mercurochrome about
four times a day. Within three
days the wound had healed.
Now for the conclusions: All
small f minor wounds, involving
no important structures, heal bet
ter and faster IF LEFT IN THE
OPEN AIR. Had I continued to
keep over-heating dressings on
that boy’s face, he would have
been coming back today for at
tention. Keep your small wound
clean with any positive antisep
tic, and use as few dressings as
possible. They shut out air.
Do You Reckon?
A serious shortage of gasoline
is foreseen by petroleum experts.
Such a shortage will automatically
plow under every third filling
station.—Greensboro (Ga.) Her
ald-Journal.
ated over the whole mess that I
feel like leaving home.
„ Estelle
Answer: / \
Your mother is one of those
selfish creatures who believes in
taking everything and giving lit
tle. ~ How many wonderful moth-]
ers have worked and done with
out luxuries to prepare their chil
dren for better things in this
life! And unless the child is
worthless they have usually been
repaid for their sacrifices a thous
and fold, not alone in happiness
but in material things. Of course
it is hard to tell one’s mother
she must get out and support
herself but, if she is young
enough and able-bodied enough
to do so, I see no reason for you
two ambitious daughters to be
offered up as sacrifices on the
altar of poorly paid labor when
you could do better with a little
more education. Have a good
straight talk with your mother.
Probably she may be able to get
a place as a matron or house
keeper in the college you wish
to attend and then if you can
make the arrangements, you can
still complete your course.
LOUISA
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There seems to be nothing the
young bride can’t do nowadays
and still keep within the tenets
of good taste laid down by Mrs.
Grundy. She can be married in
pink. She can march to the altar
decked in diaphanous green. She
can be unconventional in white
cotton. And she can go com
pletely modem in a wedding
dress of sheerest wool. No longer
is ivory brocade an edict which
the Well-dressed bride must fol
low. It is her privilege and duty
to be beautifully gowned. The
bars have been lifted.
Whether you would set hack
the clock, if you had it to do
over again, and veer away from
an ivory wedding gown, is beside
the point right now. The inter
esting factor in this revolution
ary trend in fabrics, is that cot
ton can be so lovely and wool so
sheer that it can be draped to fit
the majesty of a wedding gown.
XXX
You have been offered trans
parent wrappings and transparent
sippers for imbibing soft drinks.
One of the newer members of
the ubiquitous clan that looks
like glass and is as light a9 air.
is a line of doilies and runner
sets that are made of fish-net
fabric of slit cellulose. The run
ners are obligingly washable and
lend a smart note to any table
setting.
Does the factory threaten to
usurp kitchen rites? A practical
study comparison was made of
commercially prepared food mix
tures, ginger bread, muffins, bis
cuit, chocolate pudding and gela
tin, with the homemade products.
Time value wa$ rated at 30 cents
am hour. In no instance did the
commercial product exceed in
price, the homemade, by more
than eleven cents. Ease of prepa
ration was in favor of the ready
to-mix. Texture and palatability
received comparable rating and
in some instances, the commercial
rated higher than the homemade
product.
Looking ahead to Spring and
Summer you can be selecting the
materials and colors that will be
new and in high fashion for
Spring suits, dresses and sweat
ers. Fabric industries have been
working top speed to bring you
the new colors in light-weight
fabrics and yarns.
Colors to wear with tweed:
soft leaf green, brown, Oxford
mixtures and beige. A black suit
or skirt is set off to advantage
with the pastels, dust pink, Blue
Bonnet Blue and corn yellow.
Grey which Paris predicts as a
strong fashion note, is strictly a
Leap Year style when it is com
bined with the popular new shade
of rust. . '
Friday, or any fish night, try
Salmon Souffle: Combine 1 1-2
cups flaked, canned salmon, 6
crumbled soda crackers, 2 cups
of hot milk, 1 finely minced
onion, 2 egg yolks and 1-2 tea
spoon of salt. Mix all together
Bargains In Haatrolas
Wo must close out at once
the few remaining haatrolas and
wood stores In stock. One-fourth
off regular prices.—W. 1* Por
te* Co., Galax, Va. ltc-13
lightly and fold in 2 egg whites
whipped stiff. Pile into an oiled
casserole and bake 40 minutes
in a slow oven at 325 degrees P.
A place for everything and
everything in its place is a fine j
household maxim, but how many
of us live up to it. Two dollars
and a tour of your favorite
housewares stores, will, I guar
antee, provide at least four extra
cubic feet of kitchen space. Items
I have purchased—you may find
others more suitable to your
needs: one dozen wire-spring cup
holders; one metal radiator cover
(20 cents); two wooden cutlery
boxes; one knife and gadget wall
rock; one unpainted corner shelf;
one mesh, fruit basket; one metal
vegetable bin.
Old King Salmon has marched
steadily to top place in the nutri- |
tion calendar. Nutritionists in
charge of Relief menus in all
parts of the world recognize the
meat of salmon as one of the
finest food sources of protein, the
tissue-builder, of fat that is eas
ily digested and sparkling with
valuable vitamins. A, the mucous
membrane protector, and D, the
sunshine vitamin. While equally
important are the minerals, cal
cium, phosphorous and iodine,
which are to be found abundantly
in salmon.
. XXX
The story is told that Napoleon
always dined on roast chicken for
breakfast. Whether he appeared
at sevtn o’clock or eleven, his
cook always had the chicken done
to a beautiful turn. On asked
how he managed it, “Sire,” he
sa:d, “1 put a fresh chicken on
every 15 minutes.”
Explanation
Sonny—Why are a lot of men
bald-headed? Is it caused by
hats?
Father—Yes, child; by their
wives’ hats.
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