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TODAY’S THOUGHT “O credulity, thou hast as many ears as fame has tongues."—Harvard. < DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC SOCIAL/ DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 11. GALAX, VA. (Published foT Bpaita, N. C.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936. BIGHT PAGES Number 74. sevelt and fully weigh le of theh anxious tc where they ood. Both >lic reaction and doing ngs moving sevelt and fully weigh le of theh anxious tc where they ood. Both die reaction CAMPAIGN MOMENTUM The campaign is on in full swing this week, with speakers parading the nation and political prognosticators busy trying to figure out how the voters will cast their ballots in November. | Both President Roosevelt * fiov. Landon are carefully , ing’^hi strategic value ► personal appearances, make their addresses will do the most sides are studying pc to campaign events their best to keep thin smoothly and effectively Meanwhile, there is not much real news in Washington for a commentator, although one or two news breaks are liable from the Supreme Court which convened last week and has on its program decisions in regards to a rehear ing on two important cases. These will probably be acted upon be fore the end of the month and one of |hem may precipitate the court into the limelight again although the political significance of the Court’s opinions can be discount ed to a large degree. EXPERTS DISAGREE Readers of newspapers all over the country are anxious for Washington correspondents to give them the right dope on how the nation will vote but, almost with out exception, they want to hear good news for their candidate. If the writer is sending out his stuff to Democratic newspapers he can play the tune that will suit the New Dealers and all will be well. 'If he is sending his dispatches to Republican newspapers he can call the music to a turn and know that those who read what he has to say will be satisfied. These two sentences account for much of what is being read on the present campaign. The writer of this weekly fea ture article, which appears in hundreds of newspapers, scatter ed all over the United States, lists among his publishers Democratic and Republican journals. Conse quently, he is read each week by thousands of Democrats and thou sands of Republicans. Facing this situation there is nothing to be - gained by trying to please biased and impartial survey of the situation ai he .sees it from week to week. In the long run the reputation of this feature is worth more to the author than the failure or success of any can didate or tile triumph of either party in an election. PUZZLING FACTORS There are a number of very in teresting factors that combine to make predictions somewhat risky in the present campaign. There is, of course, the personal popularity of the President, his unusually acute political sense and the pow er that he has to dramatize his po sition. Against him, we have an able, and honest man, with a record as governor that has been capitalized by his backers (but, withal, nothing like the advertis ing. that has accompanied the President and certainly nothing like his popular acclaim in the past few years during a great national crisis. Who knows which type the voters will favor? Who can tell when the bulk of our citizens will tire of the Roosevelt legend and prefer a business-like figure on the order of the man from Kansas. Calvin Coolidge. it is said, be fore the campaign of 1928, ex pressed the opinion that the peo ple of the nation would not pre fer his type much longer. He seemed to sense a change In the mood »f- the people and did not prefer to attempt to fit in with the sentiment that he expected to dominate the electorate. Certain ly these drifts to add1 from cer tain types exist but it is hard to say when they start and when they end, and mid-campaign weeks are not the occasion for , passing on.siph a question. Vr BUSINSSS-SITUATION We ,faee ion unusual situation in the bwriness world, where con ditions see: greatly improved, with something' like an appsOeih to <M«1’ Of co some is denied in s ^ in the higher cir iss and finance, there can On little doubt of the opposi tion to, the President and, con sequent,support of Governor Lan don. How many votes will this af fect? The answer is not on any blackboard and the situation can only be. set down as one of the factors to Sparta Epworth League Union Has Meeting Sun. Annual Rally Program Hold At Cox's Chapel Church. Joe B. Cox, President, Presides OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Rev. A. B. Bruton Is Present And Makes Inspiring Talk. Next Rally To Be At Shiloh On Sunday, October 11, the Sparta charge Methodist Epworth League union met at Cox’s Chapel church for the fourth annual rally. Three of the five Epworth leagues on the Sparta charge were well represented and a very interest ing program was given. Following the opening song, “Give of Your Best to the Mas ter,” Joe B. Cox, union president, made a brief speech of welcpme and Wilma Crouse, union secre tary, conducted the devotional. The contests, in which the var ious leagues participated, were evidence of the splendid training the young people have received from this organization. A pic nic lunch was served and greatly enjoyed by everyone present. Judges for the occasion were: Miss Nina Cornett, Comers Rock, Va., Mrs. Brack Phipps, Bridle Creek, Va., and Mrs. Alice Rob erts, Comers Rock, Va. Winners of the various contests were: Recitation, Barbara Phipps, Walnut branch league; declama tion, Charles Robert Walls, Cox’s Chapel league; quartet number, Miss Ruth Wooten, Miss Emolene Finney, J. T. Finney and Joe Finney, Jr., Shiloh league; choir number, Cox’s Chapel league, and extemporaneous talk, Rev. A. B. Bruton, pastor of the Sparta charge, was present and made a very inspiring talk. ■ The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Joe B. Cox; vice president, Miss Mollie Hampton, and secretary-treasurer, Miss Wilma Crouse. Doughton Now Busy In His Campaign For Reelection Congressman Robert L. Dough ton has launched his campaign for reelection and will speak in every county of his District be fore the November 3rd election. Much favorable comment is be ing heard from those who have heard Mr. Doughton speak, .this fall, and many are heard to say that he is making the most able and forceful speeches yet heard in the campaign. In every in stance he praised the record of President Roosevelt and the New Deal, and predicts the re-election of President Roosevelt by an over whelming majority. “President Roosevelt has almost sufficient states certain to elect him, while Gov. Landon has a tremendous fight to carry any states,” said Mr. Doughton. “The outcome in Maine is noth ing for the Republicans to boast about,” said Mr. Doughton, "For this is one of the six states that Hoover carried in 1932. In 1932 Hoover's majority in Maine was more than 87,000, while in the recent election, in the statewide contest, they could only get a majority of less titan 6,000, after all the money the Dhponts, the Morgana, ahid Rockefellers, and .other then offwoaltlP sett'to1 that state."'"'' ‘ ; " '' Congressman Doughton predicts his-majority: in the Ninth'Die-, -trie*, to be greater thkn ’he has ever received heretofore. He says be has nevori#sn the Democrats, espeeiellyidiho lo»r counties ed.his district, more enthusiastic arid...wr«king.:'lMUPder..;;^' ji,. % TO HOLD FRRECUNIC HERE FOR MOTHERS, CHILDREN A free clinic, held by Miss Virginia Ashley, State nurse for: Alleghany county, for mothers and for children up to 16 years of age will be held at Min Ash ley’s office every third Friday | afternoon In each month from 2 to 4 o’clock. Roosevelt T akes Fight Into Home State Of Landon Kansas City, Oct. 18.—Presi dent Roosevelt cut across the home state of Governor Landon and into Missouri tonight with declara tions that he did not believe Kan sas could have “pulled through” the last four years without fed eral cooperation and assistance and that the school "is the last expenditure upon which Amer ica should be willing to econo mize.” Cox Speaks Fri Night In Behalf Of Roosevelt Democratic Nominee For President In 1920 Raps Republicans In Dayton Radio Address Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 13.—“We would have a leaderless govern ment” if President Roosevelt is defeated for/ reelection, former Governor James M. Cox declared in an address here Friday night in behalf of the president’s campaign for reelection. “The Republican party and can didate, attacking President Roose velt for his leadership, commit themselves to a president who will make no effort to lead, but will make his recommendations and stop with that,” Cox said in a speech delivered at a Democratic rally, and broadcast over a na tional network. Ohio’s former chief executive also described William Randolph Heaxst, publisher, as the “trump eter of terror.” It was the former presidential candidate’s- first 1936 campaign address on behalf of Mr. Roose velt, who ran for vice president not mention by name Gov. Alf M. Land on of Kansas, the Re publican presidential candidate. “The Republican candidate would turn social security over to the states,” Cox declared, a move he described as “a favorite Tory barrier to all progress.” Other results of Republican vic tory, Cox said, would be “mass discontent,” a government “divid ed against itself,” and unsound tariff policies. Youth Instantly Killed By Dynamite Explosion Wed. William Dean Caudill, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Cleve Cau dill, Whitehead, was killed in stantly last Wednesday by a dyna mite explosion. * Young Caudill, who was em ployed on the Scenic highway force by the Perry McGlone Con struction company, was assisting in dynamiting a heavy obstruc tion of rock. Forty holes had been drilled and the loads were set off by electricity. Reports stated that only two went off and, after disconnecting the elec tric battery, the men walked up to investigate the reason for the lack of further explosions. Cau dill was standing directly over one loaded hole when the powder foreman, seeing a slight smoke arising from '-the hole, wdnssd Caudill that there might be danger. However, no sooner hod he spoken then the dynamite eat. ploded, burling Caudill about fif teen -Vet into the air, * and ' break ing almost all 'Ms hones, was. thought fa- have been . Funeral sendees were conduct ed fog the deceased on fMda*. October 9, el the -heme by Rev < Interment followed iiv tlte Cau dill cemetery. . ; 1 Surviving are the parents, five sisters, Mrs. Oscar Richardson and Mrs. Odell Andrews, Sparta; Miss Ella Caudill, High. Point, and Misses Muriel and Alma Caudill, Whitehead, and five brothers: Charlie Caudill, BoUsevain, Va., Sherman Caudill, Glade Valley, and Kemp, Kyle and Clay Cau dill, Whitehead. liberal ReKeTp Program Ptoposed By Gov. Lamdon Speaks To Cheering Throng Monday Night In Large Auditorium At Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 13.— Monday night, in a speech de livered here, Gova-nor Alf M. Landon proposed % “liberal” re lief program, founded on federal money grants and-' state rule, to supplant the new deal system he said had built a “shameless po litical machine” by “debauching” relief funds. “I am dedicated to the propo sition,” the presidential nominee said, “that no American citizen shall ever again be put in the position where he has to sell his vote for bread.” The Kansan faced a cheering throng that overflowed 16,000 seats on the spacious- floor and lofty horseshoe galferies of the huge public auditorium where, four months agor the Republican convention nominated him for the presidency. Behind* him a music hall with capacity for more than 7,000 held more #f the crowd unable to find seat! in the main hall. It was Landon’s&second major speech of his lake-stdtes campaign. In emphatic toned width loud speakers carried t* thr comers of the auditorium andradio through the country, the Candidate said that, if elected, the jobless would be released “from the grip of their political exploiters.” He said millions had been “de prived of hope and opportunity” by new deal reliefJpolicies which he described as a national scan dal,” “a disgrace te the adminis tration,” and " a -humiliation to the American people.” The governor asserted recovery and re-employmaniehad been de layed because “flWest business?’ had been “forced to tip-toe through a series of ’ breathing spells.” The relief program he present ed was built on a return of relief administration to the states, with federal grants-in-aid and a deter mination of the form of relief, whether work relief projects be begun or continued—-vested in the communities themselves. The Kansan was introduced by Representative Chester C. Bolton, of Cleveland, chairman of the Re publican national congressional committee, as a man of “ability, sincerity, fundamental integrity, and sound common sense.” “No matter what other states may do,” Bolton said, “let us assure him tonight that Ohio will give him its 26 electoral votes November 8.” as London stepped to tne oru liantly-lighted speakers’ stand to a place just below a huge sun flower bearing his picture, the crowd arose and for five minutes cheered, applauded and waved thousands of American flags. “Tonight I want to talk about the most urgent human problems that face the American people at this hour,” Landan began. He was interrupted immediately by more applause. He attributed “flagrant mis management” and “tragic neglect” to the conduct of relief by the Roosevelt administration. He said the new deal’s record in “duties that go beyond mare dollars”— protection of “human values” and amistance of “real recovery”—was a “miserable failure.” “The first thing is to get rid «f waste, extravagance and poli ties in th* administration of re lief,’’ .London said. “We mast Imm a ooramoa sense, workable Knox Plead* For Republican Vote*) .A&*He, K. a, Ort.; ?#.—Co» fruit : Knox,' Republican isfce presidential nominee, wound up his' southern penetration tonight by tailing North Carolina that a Democratic vote this year is one for "more boondoggling” and "government by guess.” KNOX AT CHAPEL HILL Col. Frank Knox spoke Tues day morning at Chapel Hill and mada brief Stops in Burlington, Greensboro, Salisbury* Statesville, Hickory and Marion. Roosevelt Makes Farm Speech Sat. Night In Omaha Urges Reelection Of Senator Norris, Of Nebraska. Attacks G. O. P. Farm Plans Omaha, Nebr., Oct. 13.—Presi dent Roosevelt told the nation here Saturday night that “Repub lican leadership” had proposed a farm plan to cost possibly $2,000, 000,000 annually, "not to save agri culture but to wreck it.” The president advanced a four-point program of his own for future assistance to agriculture. Speaking to an , audience pack ed into the Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum, the president led oif with an open endorsement- of veteran George W. Norris, Republican, who is an independent candidate for the senate this year. “Help this great American to continue an historic career of service,” Mr. Roosevelt asked. After asserting that in 1932, the “spectre of foreclosure stalk ed the farmer’s plow” and agri culture was “on the road to pauperism,” the president in seven sentences described the adminis tration’s farm record, adding that farmers could measure them by “the vast difference between the desperation which was theirs in 1933 and the recovery, which is theirs in 1936.” The long-time policy of the ad ministration, he said, includes: 1. Conservation against land wastage and soil impoverishment. 2. Seeking to increase purchas ing power so that people can pay for more and better food, thereby providing a “larger and larger domestic market for the farmer.” 3. Attacking the “evil of farm tenancy.” 4. Giving the farmer “a sound plan of crop insurance in Mud against extreme fluctuations of supply and price.” The chief executive, without mentioning by name his Republi can rival for the presidency, Governor Alf M. Landon, of Kan sas, referred to the “tariff equivalent” fram program which Landon proposed at Des Moines. “What about the cost? It would run to one and a half and even possibly two billion dollars every year. This vast sum would be spent not to save agriculture but to wreck it.” A tremendous ovation greeted the president when his open car rolled into the coliseum, and a gain when he stepped up to the microphone which carried his voice throughout the huge hall by amplifiers and to the nation by radio. Coliseum attendants said the hall had seats for 12,000 persons. Every one was taken. The crowd jammed into the aisles and over flowed into the surrounding crowds. Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, widow of the late former senator from Nebraska and Omaha pub lisher, had to wave for quiet sev eral times before she could in troduce the president. A roar of applause greeted Mr. Roosevelt’s reference to Norris at the outset. Even before he men tioned the senator’s name shouts from the crowd proclaimed “we know him.” For twelve years, the president said, the Republican leadership “neglected” an opportunity to help the American farmer. He put to his audience the question of what that leadership offers now, then save his own version. Piney Greek H. S. Y<sung Ter He*l Farmers Hold Meet The Piney Creek high school Young Tar Hee! Farmer chapter held its first meeting for the enr rent year on September 80, and officers were elected as follows: R. L. Gambill. president; Clay Joines, vice president; _ Chap Hampton, reporter, and Robert Johnson, secretary. At the initial meeting of the yOar plans were made for the Piney Creek Y. T. H. F. boys to the State fair at Raleigh ” tirWto hfiitur , . m one of the days if by their Maps Of Route For Proposed Road In County Posted Here H. E. Noell, of Statesville, Division Engineer for the State Highway and Public Works di vision, was in Sparta Tuesday for the purpose of posting maps in the courthouse, showing the proposed route for project 506, which is to be a highway be tween Laurel Springs and Ore Knob. Land owners along the outlined route will be interested in ob serving the proposed location. Any complaints concerning the suggested route will be consider ed before the route is definitely decided upon and the contracts A1 Smith Gres Reasons For “Taking A Walk” Says Main Reason Was Repudiation Of 1932 Platform By Roosevelt. Speaks In Philadelphia Philadelphia, Oct. '13.—Setting out in a speech here Thursday night his reasons for "taking a walk,” Ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, former Democratic candidate for presi dent, declared that the main one was “repudiation” of the 1982 Democratic platform by the Roose velt administration. He made no reference to Gov ernor Alf M. Landon or his declaration last week that he would support the Kansas gover nor for tile presidency. Almogt his entire speech was devoted to an explanation of the 1932 Democratic platform and an attack on the Roosevelt adminis tration for "repudiating” it. “During the rest of the cam paign,” he declared, “I propose as far as it is humanly possible to develop my reasons for the walk, and I am going to start tonight in Philadelphia and go as far as I can in the radio time with the chief reason and that is the complete, the almost complete abandonment of the Democratic platform by the so-called Demo cratic, but really new deal ad ministration.” He concluded his speech with an appeal to the audience to “sepa rate the political bunk from the facts.” Plans For Galax Fiddlers Meet Are Now Complete Final plans have been complet ed for the third annual Old Fiddlers convention, to be held in the Galax high school auditor ium on Friday and Saturday, Oc tober 23 and 24. Sponsored by the Galax lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, and the Parent-Teacher association, this gathering of old-time musicians, the third annual event, bids fair to be the most successful program of this kind ever to be held in this section. Thus far, more than one hun dred old-time musicians, from four states have registered for the various contests, promising lovers of old-time, music and song tw6 evenings of rare entertain ment. . .More than 4100 in .cash prises win be swarded the participants Big Democratic Rally To Be Held Here October 24 Congressman Doughton To Be Among Speakers. Other Congressmen Invited To Attend MUCH INTEREST SHOWN Affair Is To Be Major Democratic Event Of Year For Sparta And Alleghany County Saturday, October 22, has been set aside as a home-coming day for the Democrats of Alleghany county, when the largest rally ever held in the county fa being planned at Sparta. Arrangements are now being made for an all-day affair, with speeches both in the morning and in the afternoon, and a barbecue lunch sufficient to feed all whe come. Every Democrat in the county will be invited, along with many leaders from other counties), The last address of the day will be delivered by Congressman R. L. Doughton. Invitations have been sent to Congressman Har old L. Cooley and Congressman William B. Umstead, of North Carolina, and Congressman Fred Vinson, of Kentucky, to speak here at the rally. All these men are able speakers, and at least one of them is expected to speak on the morning of the 24th'. This rally will be sponsored by many of the merchants of Sparta, working in connection with tha county Democratic Executive com mittee, led by Attorney R. P. Crouse, chairman. Much interest is being shown in the affair, and thousands are expected to attend, since this will be the major meet ing of Democrats of Alleghany county this year. Child Thrown From Pick-up Sun. Night; la Instantly Killed Mabel, the 15-months okl daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Richardson, Cherry Lane, was in stantly killed early Sunday night when she was thrown from tin rear of a pick-up track on which she was riding. The driver of the pick-up, Rob ert Pearce, uncle of the child, also of Cherry Lane, claimed to have been blinded by the lights of an approaching car and drove off the highway, striking a tree. The accident occurred near the Teapot Dome service station. The impact of the truck against the tree threw Meek Chambers who was holding the child, and the child on the surface of the highway, bursting the child’s heed open and knocking Chambers un conscious. A number of others were riding on the truck but escaped with bruises and' minor injuries. Pearce was arrested Sunday night and lodged in the Spartm jail. He was released Monday and placed under bond to appear for a preliminary trial Monday morning, October 19, to answer to charges of driving while intoxi cated and manslaughter. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday at 10 a. m. at Wood* ruff church by Rev. George Mika. The child is survived by a small brother, in addition to its pareaatk and other relatives. Landon Heard ; Tue*. Night In ; J Detroit Speech Detroit, Oct. IS.—Got. Landon told a shivering throng tonight that the Ne«r by taking “*r*t steps"- t« destroying “the rights and ties oil the jumgjfctM “threat" to America Pledging hbaself, if "recommend repeal of all giving autocratic peeves# to executive,"- the nee asserted there was tration of power ia President Roosevelt whii ica cannot ignore” and believed AH MOEY Clyde R. nor Alf Mi delivered burg.