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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
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Sparta, N. C., Thursday, February 4, 1937.
People Of Alleghany County Should Repond Liberally
To Appeal For Funds For Relief Of Flood Sufferers
The people of Alleghany county should not
hesitate in making contributions to the fund being
sought by the American Red Cross to aid the hun
dreds of thousands of Americans who have sudden
ly become the tragic victims of one of the worst
flood disasters in the history of the United States.
With the Ohio (river spreading devastation
along its course and the Mississippi river trying to
outdo its tributary the need for relief funds will be
much greater than anticipated. Many of the people
of this section are well able to make a contribution
in cash for the benefit of families who have been
driven from their homes. Worse than the damage
from water lurks the dread spectre of disease, hov
ering over the stricken area and threatening the
lives of thousands.
The people of this county have listened to
dramatic messages, sent over the radio, as the sta
tions in the stricken cities gave utterance to cries for
aid from distressed families. The steady drone of
such pleas has impressed us with the weight of the
tragedy and left no doubt in the mind of any one
that there must be speed in extending aid. Let’s
everybody make a positive sacrifice, if necessary,
and send some money to do what money can do
in the face of such a catastrophe.
Surely, we, who have not been touched by the
flood, can cheerfully respond to such a human need.
What avails our ceaseless chatter about human
brotherhood if in the hour of necessity the heart has
no response ? Of what value is our lip service to
religion if we stand still when human voices cry
for help and little children face future days that
may bring sickness, hunger and, perhaps, death?
It is not for us to say what ahy citizen should
contribute. However, unless generous contributions
are offered by those able to make them, there will
be suffering along the river banks. No one can
forecast torrential rains that cause such floods but
human love can build a levee of dollars against the
ills that come afterward. No blame attaches to
man for the damage that a flood may wreak but
when it becomes a question of dollars to save lives
in peril civilized men and women stand condemned
if they thoughtlessly fail to do what is necessary.
News pictures, press dispatches and radio mes
sages leave no doubt as to the extent of the dis
aster. They headline an immediate need as they
emphasize the homeless, foodless and helpless fam
ilies, dependent, in part, upon the gifts of other
Americans. Turn the story around. How would we
feel if our people were huddled on nearby hills
refugees from raging torrents, looking expectantly
to outside Americans to send food, medicine, shelter,
clothing and fuel? If, as we waited, the American
Red Cross, backed by the President of the United
States, broadcast a call for financial assistance,
would we expect that call to be answered? Wouldn’t
we pray for an undestanding and adequate re
sponse?
We do not know how you have been impressed
by the increasing revelation of devastation and
destruction in the flooded areas, or how your heart
has responded to the evident helplessness of thous
ands of your fellowmen. We do not know whether ;
you have realized how terrible the suffering may
be. It is plain, however, that this is a major dis
aster and a call to be answered by all of us. The
money must roll in from all over America and, if we
want to feel right about it, some part of the golden
bulwark ta confront advancing despair and death
must bear a label, “From Alleghany county.”
The Hearts Of Thousands Of Infantile Paralysis
Victims Gladdened On 55th Birthday Of President
The hearts of 300,000 victims were gladdened
last week by the knowledge that five thousand
communities held balls on the birthday of Presi
dent Roosevelt, with the proceeds distributed for
the treatment of infantile paralysis cripples. The
proceeds are divided, with seventy percent kept in
community and thirty per cent turned over to a
national committee for delivery to the President
who will present it to the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation for the continuation of its fight against
the disease.
President Roosevelt has pointed out that one
out of every three crippled children in the United
States suffers as a result of an attack of infantile
paralysis. - Himself a victim of the disease, it is
particularly fitting that the President’s birthday is (
the occasion for a series of nationwide parties to
establish a fund to be used in fighting it. Largely
as a result of the contributions made by Americans
through the President’s Birthday Ball, the battle is
being waged more efficiently than ever although
much remains to be accomplished.
While the tiny virus which causes the disease
continues to elude research workers, the crippled
children of the country have received greatly im
proved care. Many of them have learned to walk
and to run and some, who were considered hopeless
cripples, have gone back to work and to a normal
Household planning experts,
having established step-saving ar
rangements, correct working
heights, thermostatic control, and
closed metal cabinets in order to
develop the kitchen to a position
of maximum efficiency, are now
turning their attention to the
home laundry. Also, because of
advancements in design and con
struction, laundry equipment is
coming out of its long-time ban
ishment to the basement.
Several architects have elevated
the laundry to a position on the
first floor. In one house recently
built, the laundry was incorporat
ed into the kitchen. Washing ma
chine, twin laundry tubs and other
paraphernalia of wash day had
been built into floor cabinets con
tinuing at the same level as that
of the sink and range cabinets
which were installed on the other
sides of the room.
Another well planned laundry
has been installed in a Cape Cod
cottage recently built for a wo
man who does all the work her
self. This launrry adjoins the
kitchen in a room which the ar
chitect had planned for a break
fast room. The owner, however,
being more interested in having
a pleasant room for Monday’s
washing, Tuesday’s ironing and
odd jobs all the rest of the week,
has had the room papered in the
same gay print that covers her
kitchen walls and she has installed
I in it the best equipment available
for home laundry work.
The outstanding colors in spring
silks from Paris are black, pale
pastels, red yellow, brown, green,
cerise, and all shades of blue.
Schiaparelli introduces “Parlor
Pink,’’ alone or with mauve. She
also combines black with lemon
fox, and pale blue with scarlet.
Lanvin black, purple, bright green
combined with black, and cherry
red with purple. For evening
she chooses blue with red, green
with black, rust with white.
Bread is one of the least ex
pensive things we eat and nearly
one hundred per cent digestible;
therefore,- -it' is one . of the most
economical foods. Good bread
does not only supply energy but
also material for growth and re
pair. All of the proteins or mus
cle-building material are not
equally valuable but wheat pro
tein, mostly gluten, ranks with
the best of vegetable origin. Sup
plemented with milk, bread can
supply all the body requirements
in this respect, hence the import
ance of using plenty of milk in
and with bread. Bread is the most
palatable of all foods because it
is the only food one can eat at
every meal day in and day out,
year after year without tiring.
Book of the Week: Dale Car
negie’s “How to Win Friends and
Influence People" continues on
the best seller lists from all parts
of the country. It is the most
readable of all books on self
improvement; full of interesting
and exciting anecdotes and suc
cessful examples; should be on
the required list for all who feel
shy or unduly sensitive in their
social contacts.
Household Hint: With patent
leather so fashionable this Spring,
here’s a timely tip. If you rub
your patent accessories occasional
ly with a glycerine-dipped cloth,
it will keep the leather from dry
ing and cracking.
The Family Doctor
by John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
THE EVIDENCE
My readers may possibly won
der why I am 90 frequently de
nouncing the six o’clock dinner;
this, when so many of our fore
most citizens indulge the feast as
a sort of triumph of civilization.
(1) From a study of aged men
and women, I find the longest
lived to be those who are hearty
breakfast-eaters, and who do not
load the digestive tract at the
evening meal.
(2) From a study of vital sta
tistics I find that six o’clock din
ner devotees succumb to “heart
disease” or cerebral hemorrhage,
never later than the middle six
ties. These are city-dwellers who
are too busy to eat necessary
meals until the day’s business is
dene.
4 3) If I were to inject the ex
pressed juice of the average six
o’clock dinner into a patient’s
veins, I feel sure that I would
kill him instantly! Well, the six
o’clock glutton gets those juices
into his veins more slowly, hence
he is slower about dying of
“heart disease" than he'd be with
intravenous injection.
(4) The tired body—the tired,
half-exhausted nervous system
cannot supply the necessary gas
tric and pancreatic fluids to digest
a heavy six o’clock feed; hence
the juices of the “gorge” are tak
en into the system by absorption,
and in a shape that cannot be.
utilized in the repair of bodily
fatigue, not all nor half of it
can be said to be fit.
(5) Hence, it is carried with
the blood-current, an active poi
son unfit for the human systemic
repair. Hence the eater does not
want breakfast next morning—
has a feeble appetite at noon—
but is ready for the disappoint
ing over-feed at the following six
o’clock. The very arteries of the
heart become poisoned slowly. The
vessels of the brain 'give way in
their walls. Short breath and
spopletic symptoms! develop slow
ly, insidiously. They finally kill.
(6) Any thinking physician, if
he will observe carefully, cannot
fail to agree with me. Lastly,
if I want bo have a groggy, heavy,
indolent feeling tomorrow, I will
stuff my carcass with a six
o’clock dinner tonight, at the
church dinner that I am billed to
aitcnd.
Sympathetic
The artist, having finished a
beautiful mural, declared, <‘WeH,
I'm sure I can neved do better
than that.”
Overhearing the remark_ an in
terested spectator said, “Cheer
up, my friend, I'm sure you can.”
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How Wolf I Remember
A well-known writer visited a
jail to take notes for an article
on prison life. On returning home
he described what he had seep,
and his description made a deep
impression on the mind of his
little daughter.
A week later the writer and
his little girl were in a train
which stopped at a station near
a gloomy building.
“What place is that?” asked a
passenger.
“The county—jail,” another an
swered promptly.
Whereupon Mary embarrassed
her father and aroused the suspi
cion of the other passengers by
asking in a loud, shrill voice, “Is
that the jail you were in, father?”
Ac A Choice
Poor Golfer—Well, how do you
like my game?
Caddy—I suppose it’s all right,
but I still prefer golf.
Restaurant Manager (to orches
tra conductor)—I wish you’d dis
play a little more tact in choosing
the music. We’ve got the Na
tional Association of Umbrella
Manufacturers here this evening
and you’ve just played “It Ain’t
Gonna Rain No More!”
Freshman—We have a fine land
lady. She saved me the most ten
der part of the chicken when I
was late for dinner yesterday.
Sophomore—What part was
that?
Freshman—The gravy.
Pat.—Moike, do ye* know why
an Irishman hits the pepper box
on the bottom an’ a Dutchman
hits it on the side? v
Mike—Begone, Pat, Oi don’t
Why is it? *
Pat—Shure, an’ it’s to get the
pepper out, Moike. ,
A Blot Qa HU life
Circus Manajpr—Wejl, what’s
Indiarubber Man—Briery timp
the Strong Man writes a letter he
uses me to rub out the mistakes.
“Just think, John, its about a
year since we spent our wonder
ful honeymoon on the beach at
Miami. Remember the glorious
lay we spent on the saBd?"
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IN WASHINGTON
WHAT
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TAKING
PLACE
BY
IfM H.
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UNITED STATES SENATOR
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Often some highly constructive
piece of legislation is thrown into
the Congressional hopper and lost
in the grind because it lacks dra
matic appeal. In other words, its
great significance is not quickly
grasped. Such a measure has
been offered by my distinguished
colleague, Senator King, of Utah.
It asks the President to call for
Federal and state conferences on
the subject ef taxation with the
objective of bringing order out of
chaos in the taxing field.
There is no single issue of
greater importance to our people
today than the need for settling
once and for all the proper sourc
es of tax revenue for the Fed
eral Government, the states and
their political subdivisions. The
present method, of double tax
ation, whereby the Federal Gov
ernment and the states, and of
ten counties and cities, tap the
same tax reservoirs is having a
disastrous effect. The situation
is steadily growing worse.
One example is gasoline. The
Federal Government collects a
gas tax, every state levies such a
tax, and in many sections county
and cities have superimposed gas
taxes. The result is that in many
areas the combined taxes exceed
the price of the commodity. An
other example is cigarette taxes.
In one state the users of cigar
ettes pay a Federal tax of six
cents and state tax of five cents,
or a total of eleven cents on each
package. At this rate, the use of
one package of cigarettes each
days means an annual tax bill of
$40.15. Here are two flagrant
instances of double taxation^ oth
ers could be cited.
The existing duplicate taxation,
made possible through hidden tax
es—levies included in the pur
chase price of a commodity with
the result that buyers lose sight
of the heavy taxes they are pay
ing—has been an important fac
tor in waste in all forms of gov
ernment. Citizens fail to realize
just how much taxes they are
paying. Finding it easy to grab
these .tax "Pennies from Heaven,”
legislators national and state, of
ten lose sight of equity and abil
ity to pay, and bow to expedi
ency. This is particularly true in
times of emergency such as we
have recently gone through. And
repeal of emergency taxes when
emergencies pm is the excep
tion rather than the rule. War
taxes levied by Congress were not
eliminated until 1928, and many
have been reenacted.
The primary reason for these
conditions is, of course, the fact
that our citizens are not tax con
scious. I have said that they fail
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Bruce
Barton
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Only One Big Contest .
Last summer there ■was a water
shortage in a town where I was
visiting. I happened to be chat
ting with my host, while he was
shaving, and I noticed how care
ful he was to use very little wa
ter.
“It seems sort of silly for you
to be so conscientious,” I remark
ed. “They don’t make any dif
ference in the final result,” he
said, “but they make a lot of dif
ference to me.”
He said that when he gradu
ated from college, a quarter of
a century ago, there was a great
deal of popular emphasis upon
so-called “social service.” Science
had begun to introduce wonder
ful new inventions for increasing
human happiness. Men were stir
red by the hope of a quick mil
lenium. Young people graduated
with the notion that a few years
of earnest effort would trans
form the world.
My friend was one of the most
eager of the reformers. He or
Wise and Otherwise
Did It Work?
As a father we are deeply con
cerned over the charge that in
Oklahoma City a School-teacher
sealed the lips of talkative chil
dren with clothes-pins. What we
want to know is: Did it work?—
Baltimore Evening Sun.
Explained
“The process of thinking draws
the blood from the feet to the
head,” an educator informs, us.
This explains, perhaps, why, in
so many cases, if you think twice
about a proposition, you get cold
feet.—Atlanta Journal.
What?
A Milwaukee jeweler suggests
that a badge be given a person
when he pays his taxes. In a way
the idea has merit, but after a
taxpayer paid his taxes, what
would he have left to pin the
badge to?—Washington Post.
Why?
A magazine success-story de
scribes a girt who never went to
school and writes Hollywood sce
narios. But why expose the tricks
of the trade?—Richmond Times
Dispatch.
It Is
“An alligator may live 800
years but he has no soul and
death ends all,” declares a writ
er. It’s a long time to wait for
a trip to nowhere. — Jackson
(Mias.) News.
Right! {
According to the way an Ameri
an thinks, if he can't save any
loney it isn’t because he’s spend
; too much, but because he isn’t
ganized, and voted, and
and did all the things that
should. But nothing hap
The good causes for which
cast his vote were defeated,
man nature showed a discou
unwillingness to change. “I
through a period of deep disilJ
ionment,” he said. “I thought!
myself, what’s the use of do|
anything when one’s single
seems so futile? One day
I was in this mood I discove
these words of Socrates:
•I, therefore . . . consider
I may exhibit my soul before
judge in a healthy condit
Whereas, disregarding the hon
that most men value, and look
to the truth, I shall endeavor|
reality to live as virtuously
can; and when I die, to die
And I invite all other men, |
the utmost of my power; . .
this contest, which, I affirm,
passes all contests here.’
"That flashed across my
like a bolt of lightning,”
friend continued. "It
everything. I realized that I
not responsible for the succe
failure of any good cause,
am responsible for is my own
effort in that cause. Whe
my vote be effective or
whether the amount of wat
can s^ve will make any
ence—these are not the questij
“The only question is; Am I j
ing my best?”
This Can’t Be The Goal
I remember the Christmas
my father presented me my
watch—a big silver affair
he himself had carried for
I was ten years old, and the
amazed me. It had never
curred to me that I should
own a watch until I was
one.
I remember how my wife
I saved up patiently to buy
first car—a second-hand Ford.]
remember our first antique,
we loved for months before
could finally acquire it. And
joy of seeing a sawings
grow slowly; and the thrill
building a library, one book
time.
Now the kids smash up a
watches before they are six.
they start life with care, and '
furniture; and at twenty
have rushed through all
emotional experiences that
’us leisurely through forty
Don’t mistake me. I’m a
ter for the new generation,
are healthy, direct, and line. (
sometimes I wonder-—
I wonder when, dn;
home at night, I pass a j
in which lives one of ~
famous neurologists,
pensive house, paid
es. Limousines are i
ed up in front of
It would seem
the prize of life in
to own a
in front of a