loudest is soonest over
blown.”—Smollett.
TODAY'S THOUGHT
DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC A?*D SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY
Volume 11.
GALAX, VA. (Published for Sperta, N. C.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER-5, 1936.
EIGHT PAGES
Number 77.
It
"he Presidential election. .on
*day brought to an end a
iod of prolonged political de
9. Partisan speakers on both
; sides have portrayed exaggerated
conditions, made preposterous
claims and some foolish predic
tions. 5 Happily for the American
‘Republic, most of the dire fore
bodings' can be written off and
charged to the exuberance of
politics as it exists in these Unit
ed States.
SOME OBSERVATIONS
As many of'pur readers already
know, this column is written sev
eral days before it is printed in
hundreds of leading county news
papers in the United States. It
so - happens that what you are
reading now was written before
the voters cast their ballots on
Tuesday. Consequently, the writer
at the time of these observations,
was not informed as to the out
come of the election. Therefore,
it should be obvious that the gen
eral discussion of politics and
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
It should be refreshing to the
average American to be able,
once more, to discuss some of
the issues before the people of
this Country without becoming in
volved in a heated partisan de
bate. For the past three months,
everything spoken or written
about public issues' have been
weighed in a mental scale which
had been distracted by the for
tunes of individuals and parties.
The leading candidates, Presi
dent Roosevelt and Governor Lan
don, during the political cam
paign, have been presented to the
public either as super-human men,
burning with desire to save their
fellowmen, or as selfish and de
signing politicians, anxious to
control the government of this
country for sinister purposes.
Naturally, neither fits the picture,
whether it was drawn by their
friends or their opponents. Both
men have much to their credit
and it "is "conceivable that the wel
fare of this country would have
been safe under the direction of
eithet.
—Naturally, men and women have
different ideas and prefer one to
the other. Moreover, in some
B few instances, there seems to be
a difference in their professed
philosophies, of social, economic
and governmental affairs. Reac
tion to them varies according to
the fundamental make-up of in
’ dividuals but there is no use for
any citizen to worry about the
permanency of American Institu
tions or the reasonable prosperity
of our people.
DEMOCRACY’S NEED
One of the major problems
which we must face as a nation
involves a method of providing
employment for the millions of
Americans who have not found
a place in our normal economic
system during the past few years.
This grave situation has been
recognized bjr all candidates and
all parties- Naturally, there has
been a difference of opinion as
to the methods which should be
adopted in attempting to reach a
solution.
Before the election on Tues
day, every citizen had an oppor
tunity through his or her vote to
express an opinion as to how this
problem should be met. Now that
the voters have spoken and elect
ed a president to serve for the
next four years, it becomes the
duty of good citizens to give full
cooperation to the successful can
didate in his efforts to provide
economic opportunity to our citi
zens. This does not mean, of
course, that every citizen should
surrender his or her opinion, oi
that they should hypocritically
pretend an attitude of agreement
when, in fact, one does not exist.
* ■ "'i—
It doeS mean.-however, that a
citizen, regavMSs of an honest
difference of -opinion, should not
obstruct tlife course of Govern
ment or seek unduly to hamper
the next Administration in carry
ing out its policies. If they are
good, the nation will be helped:
if they are harmful, the fact will
be apparent. Besides, in the fall
of 1988, the citizen, as a aover
eign voter, will have another
chance to express approval or
disapproval of what their electee
representatives have done.
The same observation applies tc
other policies of the United States
The fact is that, in a democratic
country, there will always be i
minority whose views will noi
coincide with the p;rty or Presi
dent in power. The time to force
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I ifill
Reelected In Tuesday’s Election By Landslide
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
Dough ton Reelected TnesJy
Huge Majority; Alleghany
Clyde R. Hoey Far
Ahead Of Grissom In
Race For Governor.
Bailey Is Elected
VOTING IS ORDERLY
President Roosevelt
Rolls Up Big Vote
In North Carolina As
He Sweeps Nation
With a huge majority reaching
a total somewhere between 28,
000 and 25,000 votes rolled up
in his favor, Congressman Robert
L. (“Farmer Bob”) Doughton, of
Alleghany county, chairman of the
powerful House Ways and Means
committee, was reelected to Con
gress from the Ninth Congression
al district over his opponent,
Watt Gragg. These figures were
obtained on the basis of early
reports from over the district.
In his home county, the famous
son of Alleghany received a lead,
according to incomplete, and un
official returns available when
this issue of the TIMES went to
press, of about 750 votes.
Congressman Doughton’s lead
in Avery county amounted to
around 6,631 votes, in Rowan
to between 2,500 and 8,000, in
Stanly to approximately 1,500
and in Cabarrus to about 6,000.
Great pleasure was expressed
Tuesday night in Sparta by the
Alleghany congressman over the
overwhelming victory of President
Roosevelt in the national election.
“I am not very much surpris
ed over the victory,” he stated,
“although I did not think it
would be as crushing as it is.”
“I believed that the memory
of his greatest work would live
with the people.” “It is a great
vindication of a great man who
has done great things for the
people.”
When Alleghany county voters
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Is Again Victorious
Congressman Robert L. Dough
ton (above), of Alleghany county,
who was reelected Tuesday to
represent the Ninth district in the
lower house of the national legis
lature, over his Republican op
ponent, Watt Gragg.
No Returns From
A
II HI HIIWI
tVotmg
Received As Yet
When this issue of the TIMES
went to press, no reports had
been received as to how the five
proposed amendments to the con
stitution of North Carolina fared
in Tuesday’s voting.
One of these proposed amend
ments would increase the per
sonnel of the Supreme court,
while the four others would
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I z -y-.'-:$*}■
B. T. U. Organized
At Baptist Church
Sunday Night
A number of young people met
Sunday evening «t the Baptist
church to organize a Baptist
training union.
The following officers were
elected: President, Miss Ora
Goodman; vice president, Miss
Vancine Choate; secretary, Mrs.
Wayne Taylor; treasurer, Miss
Ami Truitt, and pianist, Miss
Carolyn Maxwell.
The Intermediates will meet the
pastor next Sunday evening at
7:45 to organize an Intermediate
union.
Services at the Baptist church
for Sunday, November 8, follow:
Sunday school, 10 a- m.;
preaching, 11 a. m., subject
“Power For Great Living.” Bap
tist Training union will meet at
7:46 p. m.
Voting Between
Roosevelt, Landon
Close In Kansas
Will West, Landon’*
Former Secretary, In
Lead For Governor.
Capper Also Ahead
Topeka, Kas., Nov. 8—With
the nine electoral votes of Kan
sas at stake, President Roosevelt
and Governor Alf M. Landon
waged a nip-and-tuck race in the
home state of the Republican
nominee for the presidency.
The margin between them was
so narrow the lead changed sev
eral times when returns from a
predominately heavy Democratic
or Republican county were tabu
lated.
Roosevelt held a narrow mar
gin—66,694 to 64,817—on un
official returns from 864 com
plete precincts of 2,690 in the
state.
Landon, behind on the early
tabulation of incomplete precints,
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'President Roosevelt Reelected
By Landslide Tuesday; Landon
Ahead Only In Maine, Vermont
I
Historical Markers
To Be Erected In N.
C.; To Make Survey
During the next two weeks, a
survey of historical spots in North
Carolina, for the purpose of erect,
ing highway markers, is to be
undertaken by Miss Marybelle
Delmar, Acting Collector for the
Hall of History.
The markers, double faced and
made of aluminum, are of the
same size as those in Virginia,
but the lettering is larger and
the design distinct. Almost 100
legends have been approved and
several dozen markers are actual
ly in place.
Nominees’ Wives
Quietly Receive
Returns At Homes |
Mrs. Landon “Ready
To Accept” Results.
x Mrs. Roosevelt Drives
Own Roadster To Vote
Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 3.—
After spending a quiet after
noon working, Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt heard the election re
turns tonight with the family.
Earlier in the day she had driven
her own roadster to the polling
place to vote.
She left her desk, where she
had been going over his mail,
before dinner to join the family
party in the big stone and stucco
house overlooking the Hodson.
The family voted shortly after
11 a. m. today after two minor
hitches.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., the
president’s son, who was casting
his first vote, forgot to bring his
high school certificate, and had to
take a literacy test.
Mrs. James Roosevelt, Sr., 82
year-old mother of the president,
started toward the voting booth
without giving her name and
signing the registration book.
“Darling, you have to stop
here,” Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt told her.
Franklin, Jr., who had left the
needed school certificate at the
White House, took his literacy
test at the Hyde Park high school
and his vote was unchallenged.
Topeka, Kas., Nov. 3.—Tonight
Mrs. Alfred M. Landon, outward
ly calm and with an expressed
attitude of “ready to accept what
ever comes” in the election, was
hostess at the governor’^ mansion.
Here in this yellow painted
brick house, shaded by large elms,
Mrs. Landon had the mansion’s
staff—Roy, the butler; Daisy, the
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Swine Specialist
To Hold School In
Sparta November 13
On Friday, November 18, at
10 a. m., H. W. Taylor, Swine
Specialist from the North Caro
lina Extension service, will hold
a two-hour school in the Spartan
theatre on feeding, disease con
trol and production of pigs.
Mr. Taylor will have with him
a portable projector with which
he will illustrate his lecture.
Probably a lot of farmers think
they know all there is about the
production of pigs but it is
thought if they will attend this
meeting they can get some new
ideas that will enable them to
increase their profits on swine.
R. E. Black. Alleghany county
farm agent, expresses himself as
feeling rather fortunate in get
ting a man with the experience of
Mr. Taylor to come to the county
for a meeting of this kind, and
hoping that every farmer, even
though he is only producing
enough pigs for home use, can
attend this meeting, if for no
other reason, to learn something
about feeding. There is no
class of livestock more improper
ly fed than swine, says Mr. Black.
I
Chief Executive Is Pleased With
Report Of New Deal Endorsement
KANSAN CHEERFUL IN TOPEKA
Jokes And Smiles As Returns Are
Heard; Lemke Trails For Behind
BULLETIN
According to a radio dispatch received shortly
before this issue of the TIMES went to press, the land*
slide majority of President Roosevelt had grown to such
an extent that all indications pointed to every state in
the union, with the exception of Maine and Vermont, as
being in the Roosevelt column.
As the situation stood at the time of the dispatch,
Roosevelt had a total of 523 electoral votes, as compared
with eight for Landon. Approximate figures as to the
popular vote gave Roosevelt 20,000,000 and Landon,
12,500,000.
Millions of voters in the United States went to the
polls Tuesday and, by one of the most enormous land
slide majorities ever recorded for a presidential candi
date, elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an
other four years in the White House and also named
Vice President John N. Garner, of Texas, to serve with
Roosevelt for a second term, in preference to Governor
Alf M. Landon, of Kansas, and Colonel Frank Knox, of
Chicago, the Republican candidates for president and
vice president, respectively.
In all but a handful of states, the Democratic
ticket seems to have been preponderantly victorious. As
early as ten o’clock Tuesday night, or shortly thereafter,
some of Governor Landon’s strongest supporters conceded
defeat. Others waited hopefully for late returns from
the Bmall town and country voting regions, but so great
were the Roosevelt majorities in the large cities that even
the pfospects of the late returns held out little encour
agement for Supporters of the Republican ticket.
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I Wins Tues. At Polls I
Vice President John Nance Gar
ner (above), of Uvalde, Tex.,
who, as President Roosevelt’s run
ning mate, was again victorious
in Tuesday’s election. The Texan,
before taking over the vice presi
dency in 1933, was speaker of the
House.
Jesse Sheets Is
Killed As Trad
Runs Over Him
Jesse Sheets was accidentally
killed yesterday (Wednesday)
morning when run over near
Laurel Springs by a truck driven
by Odell Andrews, Sparta. Mr.
Andrews, who is employed on the
Blue Ridge Scenic parkway, was
on his way to his work at. the
time of the accident.
According to reporta, Mr.
Sheets walked in front of the car
driven by Mr. Andrews.
An investigation of the accident
was conducted by Sheriff Walter
M. Irwin and it is understood
that the death of Mr. Sheets was
purely accidental and unavoid
able.
The deceased was 66 years of
age and was unmarried*1
Further details of the happen
ing were unavailable as this issue
of the TIMES went to press.
The weather-vane states of New
York and Pennsylvania rolled up
Roosevelt leads counted in. the
high thousands.
Through the midwest and on
the Pacific coast other electoral:
votes nodded toward the Roose
velt column in profusion. In two
New England states. Massachu
setts and Connecticut, the Demo
cratic ticket was ahead, and even £
in Landon’s own home state of
Kansas the race was extremely
close.
The New York Times announc
ed Roosevelt’s reelection. So did
the New York American, a Lan
don supporter. The Kansas City
Star and the Chicago Tribune,
both for Landon, reported a
Roosevelt sweep.
The Republican nominee held
to a lead in only a half-dozen
states. His reliance was in New
England, where he took early
leads in Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island, and
held to them fairly steadily. Ha
see-sawed with Roosevelt in Iowa
hnd a few others.
The great cities piled up tre
mendous totals for the new deal
—so great in some states that the
Republicans early lost confidence
that the out-state vote could pull
them down. New York, Chicago,
even heavily Republican Fhile
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"When anger come* in at die door,
wisdom leaps out of the window"
NOVEMBER