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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. Robert M. Gambill, Sparta, N. C. Local News Editor Sparta Office in Sheriff’s Office in Court House Subscription Rates—Strictly In Advance In Alleghany County .. One Year $1.00 Six Months $ .50 In North Carolina (outside of Alleghany County) and Virginia . One Year $1.25 Elsewhere in United States ... One Year $1.50 This paper charges for the insertion of Obituaries, Resolutions, Cards of Thanks, etc- Obituaries occupying not more than eight inches of space, $1; longer ones in proportion. Cards of Thanks, 35 cents. Cash or stamps must accompany the oopy. Entered at the Post Office at Galax, Virginia, as Second Class Matter under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1872. Sparta, N. C.t Thursday, January 21, 1937. The Kidnapers And Slayers Of Charles Mattson Must Be Apprehended And Punished The kidnaping and brutal slaying of little Char les Mattson horrified a nation that waited and hoped for word that his life was safe. The finding of his battered body in the snow made real the fears entertained by millions who knew him only through the newspapers that recounted the story of his capture. That the nation’s police, in full force, gave its best energy toward the capture and punishment of the monstrous brute was but evidence of the deep revulsion created in this country. Men and women abhor kidnaping like no other crime and those guilty of it must be apprehended and punished. The people of the United States, with one mind, look to the nation’s police forces to apprehend the guilty hands that struck down this ten-year-old boy and to the law of the land for action to dis courage such outrages against civilization and the home. As An Expert Sees The Future Colonel Leonard Ayres, of the Cleveland Trust company, who is probably one of the most widely known of American economists, and whose annual forecast and review of the economic situation is regarded with respect everywhere because of the accuracy with which he has been able to predict the trend of events, points out, in his forecast for 1937, that economic recovery is still far from com plete. The volumes of new public utility construction, new factory building, new commercial building, new railroad equipment and new corporate financ ing, he says, are all below those of the lowest year of the depression of 1921. We still have a long way to climb to get back to conditions formerly con sidered normal, he thinks. Col. Ayres emphasizes the point that business has become more dependent upon politics than ever before. We are moving toward a system of manag ed economics, which he describes as one in which the government undertakes to control the fundamen tal conditions under which business operates. This is something so new in American experience that we have not yet got used to it. But Col. Ayers pre dicts that we shall be living under such a system for many years to come. , The November election was a sweeping indorse ment of managed economics, and an expression of simple faith that government can not only overcome depressions but prevent them. That faith will last, Col. Ayres remarks, for the duration of prosperity. But if prosperity de velops into a boom it is doomed to be followed by another depression. A Princely Gift Is That Of Andrew W. Mellon The largest single gift, in money value, ever made to the people of the United States, and in some respects the most important, is the presentation to the nation by Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, of his entire collection of paintings and other works of art. Mr. Mellon is reputed to have spent $19, 000,000 in gathering what experts declare is the largest and finest art collection ever assembled by a private collector. The same experts estimate the present value of the collection at $50,000,000. It includes many of the finest specimens of paintings by the great masters of the past four hundred years. Besides presenting the nation with this princely gift, Mr. Mellon promises to build at his own ex pense a magnificent $6,000,000 National Art Gal lery to house it, and to provide an endowment fund to cover the salaries of the director and necessary staff. I Mr. Mellon’s architect has already prepared the plans for the building, to be erected on the Mall in Washington near the Smithsonian Institute and the National Museum. Mr. Mellon jnodestly stipulates that his name shall net be associated with this new of Fine Arts. i a source oi pride to etery Apierl ^ are to have a truly, national arhgal are many fine collections of art itt we have been alone among nations a national gallery in which the finest examples of art could be shown, the turmoil of these years shall Bnt history, these great works of te them shall 1 . The Family Doctor By John Joseph Gaines, M. D. AVOID EXTREME TEMPERATURES IN WINTER I have a neighbor who keeps a three-story apartment house. This building is strictly modern in the western sense, having hot and cold water, refrigeration, and the most sanitary of kitchenette equip ment; and it has the most effici ent of heating plants to be found anywhere. My neighbor is thoroughly equipped wth the idea of keeping his house WARM. I have attend ed patients there when the ther mometer stood at zero, and have been compelled to remove my coat to avoid breaking into an un comfortable perspiration. I have warned the owner of the danger of extremes in temperature in liv ing apartments. He uses more medicine for “colds” than any three of my other patrons who live in less scientific homes. Imagine sitting in a tempera ture of 80 degrees (often higher), and then walking uptown facing • northwest wind in a tempera ture below freezing! Imagine sleeping in a room at 75, and going out before breakfast in a zero temperature to brush snow from the front door! The object in writing is to urge on my readers the great danger of subjecting the body to extremes of temperature in win ter. It is equally bad for adults and children. The “germ” is a very poor second or ewen third in causing colds, when compared with overheated livingrooms; and this doesn’t mean “chilly” or damp sitting-rooms either. Living rooms should be COMFORTABLE, and maintained so by careful at tention. A good thermometer is indispensable in the home. And the matter of proper healthful ventilation is not so simple as one might suspect. It will pay you to study it closely. MERRY TRAM MARK ROUND REGISTERED by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen Spanish Smypathizers In U. S. Do All Their Fighting Right At Home; Communists Bicker With Socialists; Spain Does Without Their Help; Justice Stone, Convalesc ing, Will Return In Time For Vital Cases; British Royal Family Was A Real Family In “Recent Unpleasantness” Washington — American sympa thizers of the Spanish loyalists have been -wasting a lot of good fighting. The left-wingers have been scrapping among themselves over who should rule the roost of a movement to aid the loyalist cause, almost as violently as the loyalists in the Madrid trenches have been battling to hold off Gen eral Franco and his horde of Moors and Fascist mercenary. The story of this itemecine feud is an amazing tale of petty fac tionalism and partisan intrigue. Last September a group of prominent American liberals or ganized a ion-partisan committee to help the Spanish Government. Active in the movement were such notables as Ernest Hemingway, Suzanne LaFollette, John Dos Pas sos and James Rorty. A fund was started to send a fleet of twelve ambulances with a score of driv ers to Spain. No sooner had the committee begun operating than factional ism threw a monkey-wrench into the plan. It was discovered tnat oi tne 21 members on the committee, the Communists had quietly cap tured 19 places. This embarrass ed the original organisers, who had positively assured Spanish Ambassador de los Rios that the American aid would be free of politics. To offset this Communist coup, the Socialists organized a big mass meteting which they asked de los Rios to address. The Communists countered with a boycott of the affair. A free for-all seemed in the making when cooler heads intervened and induced the rival parties to sus pend hostilities and join in the meeting.. Meanwhile, the ambulances, which it had been planned to rush to Spain in two weeks, were months in getting under way. The next row arose over a pro posal to set up a publicity bureau. Among the liberals active in this plan were several who had criticized the * Moscow treason trials. The Communists promptly denounced them as “Trotskyites” and refused to work with them. The liberals returned the attack and soon a violent name-calling fracas was in full swing. Amid this welter of ephithets the establishment of the press bureau was completely forgotten. Finally, to prevent further re criminations and in the hope of restoring peace, the liberals with drew. A reorganization of the committee was effected and Frank tal in time to hear arguments be fore the Supreme Court on the Wagner Labor Disputes and Social Security Acts,,. Power Intermediary The undercover effort of power interests to find a friendly New Dealer who ’ftbuld act as their intermediary with the White House has led them into some strange by-paths. The search has been in progress since the election, when some of the ultility moguls decided that discretion was. the better part of valor and bej$n propositioning certain Adminf^bationites to inter cede with the President in the utilities’ behalf. The scheme has met with little success. But t^e power boys have not abandoned; hope. Latest to be approached was Major George Berry, head of the Council of Industrial Progress. The overture was made at a recent secret meeting of Berry’s Council. Siegfried Hartman, former member of the prominent New York corporation law firm of Stanchfield ft Levy, lavishly eulo gised Berry as a great and self sacrificing pnblic servant, then, suggested that ho turn hiB talents to bringing peace between the 'President and the utilities. The proposal evoked an immedi ate attack from the liberal-labor ites present. V1 Frank P. Whlsh, chairman of the New York Power Authority and for years one of the Presi dent’s closest advisers on power, jumped to his Jeet and caustically rebuked Hartman. Bluntly Walsh told the corporation lawyer that as long as he was a member of the Council he would never permit its being used for that purpose. Berry, with a few pacifying words, soothed the ruffled feel ings. He indicated that he was not interested iia Hartman’s propo sition. Note: New Dealers view the utilities’ peace overtures with hos tility because the utilities have made no move to withdraw their numerous suits against Adminis tration power projects and meas ures. Words Without Music TIME—Saturday evening, 6 p. m., January 9. Wire dispatches report break down of Governor Frank Mur phy’s efforts to’ settle auto strike. :lose, entire industry mplete paralysis. >or Department. ward : JW tinned back Labor Ed cShe Outcasts + I y . 'l/lancu^btarts HOME NEWS “Housework hands” may be as much a result of wind and cold weather as of too much dabbling in dust and dishwater- But whatever the cause, rough, neg lected hands giye you away faster than anything else. Yet a sim ple beauty treatment for the hands shows results so quickly that there’s really no reason for letting your hands show you up. Try to keep a jar of hand cream or lotion where you can use it every time you have your hands in water, and every time yon come in out of the cold. If gloves are not freshly cleaned, give the hands a thorough cleans ing when they come off, and fol low with a good creaming. A hand cream that absorbs quickly is the best. To soften roughened hands and keep the skin supple and free from the lines that come from dryness, regular beauty treatment should be repeated every two or three days. Massage the hands, using your hand cream and work ing down each finger toward the tip and upward across the backs of ’the hands and well across the wrists. Leave an excess film of the cream over hands and nails and slip on loose cotton gloves— it’s the soaking up of the emol lients by thirsty hands and nails that does the real work. With the current interest in the coat and dress ensemble, dress prints are styled to go with the silk coat- Often the coat is one of the new monotone ribbed silks, such as Bilk bengaline, silk surah, silk twill or silk gabardine. 1937 companion prints in silk use large and small sizes of the same pat tern, or two sizes of the pattern with the colors in reverse treat ment. Very new-looking are he^yy navy or black silk shan tungs printed in small monotone designs, which may be used for either coats or dresses. As coffee loses its strength when exposed to air, it should be kept tightly covered, especially after it has been ground. When coffee has lost its flavor from ex posure to the air, it can be im proved by heating the dry coffee in the oven, taking care, of course, not to let it brown. Most infectious ills are spread by contact, directly or indirectly, between huhians. If the chain of contact is broken, the dangers of infection :are reduced. Studies of the washing of dishes made by troops and hfmates Of institutions show that the incidence of influ enza may be reduced two-thirds oar more through sterilisation of eating utensils. Such sterilisa tion is also helpful in the home Every woman needs a change of lipstick with the donning of Bruce Barton 4* 4 -A* Forces More Powerful Then Men The principal lesson one learns in going around the world is that men do not make national policies and that the forces underlying national policies are tremendously more powerful than men. I am not fond of the Japan ese, but I understand their prob lem—the terriflc pressure of sixty million people pent up in tiny little islands. I do like the Chin ese, and I have some understand ing of them also. They are a vast collection of families. Their loyalty is to the family and as for who rules them the great mass hardly cares. In India the Mohammedans hate the Hindus, and both hate the English. How India can ever be anything but a seething menace is difficult to see. I do not know the Italians, but in looking at the map I saw no outlet f6? their over-crowded population but to the South. I like the Austrians and Hun garians, both proud people with dismembered territories, economic ally strangled. I like the Ger mans, and I wonder how long Twin Oaks Sparta P. O., Jan. 18—Ar thur Shores, Winston-Salem, spent Sunday night with friends here. Mrs. M. E. Wilson returned Wednesday after spending two weeks with relatives at Stratford. Mrs. Jack Reeves, Marvin Wil son and Jackson Reeves, Jr-, spent Saturday at Booneville vis iting Mrs. Reeves’ daughter, Anna Rose, who recently married Mr. Chipman, of Booneville. C. J. Edwards is spending a few days with his son, Clay Ed wards, here. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Kilby Atwood vis ited Lester Irwin’s home Satur day night. Wade McHargue, who has twice recently been threatened with a relapse of pnouemonia, is improved and able to be out again. G. L. Pender returned Friday to his work in Annapolis, Md., after spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. Monroe Fen der, hare. —-:—3-«-xr me-up” feeling. Corel is a tone for practically tdtai°n ity' Sw "anir' the popular Trtaek end equally «o with the warm tones of trtAmn * " M Drown, rust ana Household Hint: Next time you want to wipe off the leaves of your sun parlor or window try using a cloth dipped in they can possibly be kept ti down inside their pinching bou daries. Carlyle’s old mothert when s laid down her son’s first boo “The Life of Schiller,” remarke “I see that foreign peoples ha much the same feeling as ot selves.” • .. These are not optimise thoughts, but mighty plain blu truth. Troth In Classics for Law Maks “In order to spend on o side,” said Goethe, "nature forced to economize on the ot er„” Taking up this theme, Ds win simplified It in "The Orig of Species,” declaring that * nourishment flows to one part organ in excess, it rarely flou at least in excess, to anoth part; thus it is difficult to g a cow to give much milk as fatten readily.” Goethe and Darwin were co sidering Nature’s law of coi pensation, which is as ancient the rocks. Emerson discussed in a famous essay which eve law maker ought to be compel! to read at least once a year. “This law,” he says, “writ the laws of cities and nations, is in vain to build or plot combine against it. Things I fuse to be mismanaged Ion Though no checks to a new ei appear, the checks exist and w appear. If the government cruel, the governor's life is n safe. If you tax too high, t revenue will yield nothing. If y< make the criminal code sangt nary, juries will not convict, the law is too mild, private ve geance steps in. First or las you must pay your entire del Perons and events may stand f a time between you and justic but it is only a postponemei You must pay at last your ou debt." The leading manufacture know that the only road to lar er profits is'via lower prices. A business men recognise that e ery added price burden meal fewer sales. Unfortunately thei seem to be some law makers wl cling to the notion that they c< over-milk and still have a fi cow. , (Copyright, K, F. S.) Optometrist h_ will be in the office oi ' ft A. Thompson, C„ Saturday, Dr. Sparta N!| January 28, for the pur pose of examining ey« and fitting glasses.
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