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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
Series 1937
GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937.
10 PAGES
Number 16.
■(-REACHING DECISION
’he decisions of the Supreme
«rt rendered last week, up
hng the National Labor Rela
te (Wagner) Act, mark an
ch in the history of capital
labor. In effect, the Court
modernized the interstate
imerce clause by holding, for
first time, that industries or
ized on a national scale are
irn the regulatory powers of
gress when interstate com
ce is “the dominant factor in
r activities.”
ive cases were before the
rt, all involving appeals from
ig of the National Labor Re
ins Board, set up by the Wag
Act and growing out of the
large of employes who had
l active in labor organization,
me case, involving a transpor
in company which conceded
it was engaged in interstate
less, the Court was unani
s in declaring that it must
the Act.
R DISSENTERS
lother case involved the As
.ted Press and while four jus
reserved decisions as to
her the news agency was en
d in interstate commerce the
rity of the Court, including
f Justice Hughes and Justices
dei8, Stone, Cardozo and
rts, made the law applicable
le (AP). Justices Sutherland,
Devanter, McReynolds and
it dissented on the ground
this involved the unrestrict
freedom of the press and
.tened the objectivity of the
reports. We will refer to
case again below.
ENS COMMERCE CLAUSE
three other cases affecting
ifacturers who relied on
■ previous decisions exclud
naterials locally manufactur
rom Federal regulation, the
;, by a five-to-four decision,
ened the commerce clause as
• before. Government law
were jubilant, holding the
ons were important guides
ture legislation dealing with
trial conditions of national
mic and social concern.
thout attempting to give the
easoning of the Court, or of
asenting justices, in the case
e Jones and Laughlin Com
a steel company owning
, railroads, steamships and
subsidiary corporations, the
attempted a distinction be
national and local com
and decided that tabor dif
es in the manufacturing
at Pittsburgh and Aliquip
tffected commerce” and for
reason could be the proper
:t of Federal legislation de
[ to prevent the burdening
struction of interstate com
Court made a distinction
en national and local com
, as provided in the Consti
, and pointed out that
rial activities in close and
ntial relation to interstate
srce are subject to congres
, control, although warning
his control should not be
led so far as to include “ef
so indirect and remote that
brace them in view of our
sx society would effectual
literate the distinction be
what is national and what
il and create a completely
lized government.”
LD FORMER POLICY
eating the words of a prev- I
lecision, the Chief Justice j
■d that “whatever amounts
•e or less constant practice
ireatens to obstruct or un
> burden the freedom of in
e commerce is within the
;ory power of Congress, un
e commerce clause, and it
sarily for Congress to con
ind decide the effect of the
and' meet it.” Moreover,
ate activities by reason of
end intimate relation to in
x commerce may fall with
eral control. The fact that
es concerned were engaged
duction was held not de
stive by the Court which
1 that the question was
fleet upon interstate com
of the labor practice in
dissenting opinion, deliver
justice McReynokis, main
that decisions of the lower
were sound and based on
e Court decisions recently
sd. Citing the NRA and
Act cases as authority, the
iourts held that the power
did not extend to em
ployee relations in man
Mr. McReynolds de
“E.very consideration
forward to uphold the
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Commencement At
Piney Creek H. S.
Ends With Sermon
Rev. H. J. Ford, Pastor Of
Sparta Baptist Church, Is
Heard By Class Sunday;
Diplomas Presented Fri.
GRADES GIVE PROGRAM
Large Audience Witnesses
Presentation Of Senior
Play, “Oliver Twist,” On
Saturday Night, April 17
With the annual sermon to the
graduating class, preached on
Sunday morning, April 18, at ten
o’clock, by Rev. H. J. Ford, pas
tor of the Sparta Baptist church,
the 1937 commencement program
at Piney Creek high school came
to a close. This year’s finals
program of events was the 27th
for the school.
The commencement actually be
gan on Friday night, April 9,
when two operettas, “Polly Make
Believe” and “Down Among The
Fairies,” were given by the grade
department of the school.
Then, a week later, on Friday
night, April 16, the graduating
exercises were held. The program
was in the form of a presentation
called “The Open Road,” which
was given by members of the
Senior class to a large and ap
preciative audience.
Those who received diplomas
from the high school follow:
Misses Marjorie Douglas,
Blanche Busic, Edna Collins, Ella
Mae Danielson, Eula Kennedy and
Jean Warden, Quentin Fender,
Chap Hampton, Reid Hampton,
Basil Landreth, Bernard Miller,
Claude Miles and George Warden.
The following students received
certificates of promotion from the
Seventh grade to the high school
department?
Louise Peary, Jeanne JJamelson,
Bina Sue Collinst McDale Ken
nedy, Maxine Jenkins, Howard
Smith, Pauline Hash, Myrtle Ruth
erford, Rose Johnson, Sidney Stur
gill, Virginia Caudill, Madge War
den, Robert Busic, Blanche Van
hoy, Virginia Robbins, Jessie Me
Osborne, Alice McGuire, Howard
Brown and Paul Smith. The fol
lowing students did not receive
certificates but were given con
ditional promotions: Sam Osbome>
Wallace Halsey, Wade Hoppers,
Virginia Hill and Ida Boone.
Forty-nine students received
certificates for perfect attendance
and 28 were given Reading Circle
certificates.
Certificates of Excellence that
have been given by the school
for the past six years were award
ed as follows:
First Grade, Herbert Barr;
Second Grade, Evelyn Brown;
Third Grade, Edwin Wyatt;
Fourth grade, Evon Jenkins; Fifth
Grade-B, Dorothy Brown; Fifth
Grade-A, Bruce Whiteley; Sixth
Grade, Burton Landreth; Seventh
Grade! Louise Perry; Eighth
Grade, Mattilene Gambill; Ninth
Grade, Cam Wyatt; Tenth Grade,
Grace Hoppers, and Eleventh
Grade, Marjorie Douglas.
By reason of her having made
the highest average grade during
the four 'years of her high school
work. Miss Marjorie Douglas was
valedictorian of the graduating
clas6, >and Quentin Fender, having
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Baptist W. lyi. U.
Holds Meeting At
Bumgarner Home
The Women’s Missionary Union
of the Baptist church met on
Thursday, April 15, at 2 o’clock
at the home of Mrs. Richard Bum
garner, with 21 members present,
three of whom were new mem
bers.
The president, Mrs. H. D. Estep,
opened the meeting by reading
the scripture lesson. Mrs. George
Crutchfield offered a prayer and
the program leader, Mrs. C. A.
Reeves, then introduced the sub
ject of the month, ‘The French,”
which was interestingly discuss
ed by Mrs. Ben G. Reeves, Mrs.
Ruth Hackler, Mrs. Estep, Mrs.
Leff Choate and Miss Margie
Vass.
During the social hour, Mrs
Bum garner, assisted by Misses
Mildred Taylor and' Ora Good
man, served delicious refresh
ments.
Standard Oil Employee |
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eighteen month*, Minnie the Cat,
has received a. pay check of $3.20
• month a* official monger tor the
refinery* She apends It for milk
an* eahhoftr* to supplement bet
monte-4let.
Cut In Federal
Spending Asked
For By Roosevelt
Congress'Is Told Tuesday
That Deficit Is Likely
To Reach Tiot»l Sum Of
$418,000,000 Next Year
Washington, April 20.—Presi
dent Roosevelt told Congress to
day that latest figures indicate
the government will go $418,000,
000 into the red in the 1938 fis
cal year—the eighth successive
year of federal deficits.
However, he. called for econ
omy, said he would use “every
means at my command” to wipe
out the threatened deficit, and in
dicated that new taxes may be
sought in the next session of Con
gress to close the gap between
income and outgo.
The president laid the figures
before legislators in a message
which called for $1,500,000,000
for work relief in the 1938 fiscal
year—which begins next July 1.
He overhauled previous finan
cial estimates to take account of
disappointing tax receipts, which
fell below treasury predictions.
Two “definite steps” will be
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Missions Program
To Be Held At
Methodist Church
On Friday nightf, April 23, at
7:45 o’clock, a missionary pro
gram will be presented at Sparta
Methodist church. This meeting
will be a part of a Missionary
movement in the Methodist church
known as “The Bishop’s Cru
sade.”
This enterprise is the initial
step in a movement conceived by
the College of Bishops to bring
about the ancient power to mod
ern Methodism. Fundamentally
spiritual in all its aspects, it
would place the missionary and
evangelistic passion in the center
of the people’s thinking. The
initial stage, which began in
January, 1937. and will culmin
ate April 25, Will face the pres
ent-day missionary obligation and
seek to lift the indebtedness now
resting upon the Board of Mis
sions, which is seriously retarding
the advance of world enterprise.
The second stage, commencing in
the fall of 1937, looks to the in
auguration 0f a great Church
wide revival of religious experi
ence, ending with the historic
hour of May 24, 1938, the 200th
anniversary of John Wesley’s
conversion.
The program Friday night will
consist of the singing of mission
ary hymns, brief addresses, one
by Judge J. C. Padgett, Indepen
dence, Va., prayer, special music
aid perhaps a reading.
At the close of the program a
free-will offering will be taken for
missions, and each person making
a contribution will receive a cer
tificate commemorating his partici
pation in this, the greatest mis
sionary movement of the Metho
dist church in the last decade.
The public is invited to attend.
Following the offering there
will be a fellowship period and
refreshments will be served.
Many Expected To Be Heie
For Big Dollar Days Event;
Bargains Galore Are Offered
Several Merchants Cooperating In Event Which
Will Be Held Fri., Sat., Mon., April 23, 24, 26
MANY PRICE REDUCTIONS TO GREET SHOPPERS
Harvest Of Values To Be Available To The Buying
Public Of Alleghany County And Adjoining Territory
Following the lead of many
other progressive towns and cit
ies in North Carolina and else
where many of the business hous
es of Sparta are inaugurating
Sparta Community Dollar Days
to be held Friday^ Saturday and
Monday, April 23, 24 and 26.
The cooperating business firms,
of Sparta, are ready and waiting,
with their stores literally cram
med with bargains, for this big
selling event. «r#'
Belk’s, Smithey’s and Jay Har
din, Sparta’s modem and up-to
date department stores, are offer
ing numerous values for Sparta
Dollar Days. A number of these
valuesi which represent really
worthwhile savings, are listed in
the double-page advertisement in
this issue of THE TIMES.
Cash and Carry Store and
Smithey’s grocery department will
feature attractive food values
these three days.
Alleghany Motor Sales, Cas
tevens Motor company, D. & R.
Motor company and the Sparta
Garage have reduced prices on
cars and various articles in order
that everyone who makes pur
chases at their places of business
during this special sales event
may really save.
B. & T. Drug company, Spar
ta’s modern drug store, is also
offering numerous articles at
greatly reduced pricest as is the
Farmers Hardware and Imple
ment Co., Inc.
Unusually good pictures will be
featured at the Spartan theatre
during this gala event, affording
visitors, also, an opportunity for
entertainment while in town.
In fact, every business estab
lishment participating in this co
operative sales event, is making
every effort to make these three
days a veritable feast for shop
pers of Alleghany county and
nearby adjoining territory. These
business firms have greatly re
duced prices on merchandise of
every kind and any one interest
ed in getting the most for his
money is urged to turn now to
the double-page advertisement in
this paper and see for himself the
many unusually attractive prices
on almost any kind of merchan
dise in which he may be inter
ested.
The merchants cooperating in
this bargain harvest are extending
an invitation to their customers
and friends bo take advantage of
the big bargains offered for these
three days.
W. M. S. Of Sparta
Methodist Church
Has Regular Meet
The Women's Missionary soci
ety of the Methodist Church held
its regular meeting on Friday,
April 16, at 2:30 o’clock, with
Mrs. Luts Hackler and Mrs. Jay
Hardin hostesses, at the home of
the former.
Rev. A. B. Bruton, pastor of
the church, conducted the de
votionals, after which the hymn,
“Rescue The Perishing,” was
sung.
The program leader, Mrs. Rob
ert M. Gambill, introduced the
subject of the month( “Achieve
ments Through Evangelism."
In discussing the divisions of
the subject, Miss Wilma Crouse,
Mrs. James Toms and Mrs. Emer
son Black gave close-up pictures
of the evangelistic emphasis that
is being made by the ' Wesley
Houses, schools and rural work.
The president, Mrs. J. T. In
skeep> gave an interesting report
of the annual Women’s Mission
ary conference of the Western
North Carolina conference held in
Mount Airy last week, to which
she was a delegate.
During a pleasant social hour,
the hostesses served delightful re
freshments to sixteen members
and four guests.
Va.-N. C. Band I&
Given Audition
Over Station WHIS
The “Virginia and North Caro
lina Liners” were given an au
dition Tuesday over radio station
WHIS, Bluefield, W. Va., and suc
cessfully passed the requirements
for additional time on the air.
Therefore, this band will be heard
in the near future over WHIS by
radio listeners of this section it
is said'.
Judge Harding To
Open Alleghany
Court On April 26
The Spring term of Alleghany
county Superior court will con
vene on Monday, April 26, in
Sparta, with Judge W. P. Harding
presiding. Solicitor Allan Gwyn
will be present to prosecute for
the state.
There are no murder cases to
be tried at this term of court.
However, with sixteen criminal
cases and twenty-one civil cases
on docket, it is thought that the
term will be fully aa long as the
average.
Baptist Men To
Meet Sunday At
West Jefferson
A meeting of the Baptist men
of the Ashe and Alleghany asso
ciations will be held at the West
Jefferson Baptist church on Sun
day afternoon, April 26.
The program will start at 1:45
p. m.t and eveiry pastor,
deacon and layman in the two as
sociations is earnestly requested
to be piresent.
Music will be furnished by the
Cook-Harless quartet.
Speakers will include Smith
Hagaman superintendent of the
Baptist hospital, Winston-Salem;
Rev. J. C. Canipe, Boone; A. H.
Cpsey, North Wilkesboro, and
B. H. Duncan, Trade, Tenn. Plans
for the associational work will be
discussed by J. C. Goodman. West
Jefferson, and W. B. Reeves,
Whitehead.
Bishop McDowell
Pays Winston-Salem
A Brief Visit Tues.
Bishop William F. McDowell,
senior bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of Washington,
was a brief visitor in Winston
Salem Tuesday, He was enter
tained while there by Dr. W. A.
Lambeth, presiding elder of the
Winston-Salem district. The visit
ing bishop was en route to Mor
ganton where he began last night
a series of meetings at the First
M. E. Church, South, of which
Rev. J. C. Cornett, former Wins
ton-Salem minister, is pastor.
The Rev. Mr. Cornett is a
former pastor of the Sparta
charge and is a native of Grayson
county.
Bishop McDowell conducted a
series of meetings at this same
church last year and was request
ed to return. He will speak each
evening this week except Saturday
and will close the series Sunday.
While in the twin city Bishop
McDowell visited at the Centen
ary Methodist Church and was
taken on a tour of the city.
Dr. Lambeth recalled that one
of the moot famous of sermons
was delivered by Bishop McDowell
at Duke university several years
ago. The title of the sermon was
“The Sower” and made such a
profound impression upon the stu
dents and faculty that a statue
was erected'to “The Sower” and
this is stiU standing, being view
ed daily by interested visitors to
the college.
Baby Genius
BONNE TERRE. Mo_Only 28
months old but smarter than most
grown-ups. Little Mary Christine.
Dunn has a vocabulary of 3,800
words and the intelligence rating
of a genius.
Agriculture Boys
Of S|iarta H. S.
Present Minstrel
F. H. Jackson, Instructor
In Agriculture, Has
Charge Of Program; Boys
Have Another Event
One of the most outstanding
Assembly programs of the past
school year at Sparta high school,
rapidly drawing to a closei was
the Negro minstrel program pre
sented last Friday morning, April
16, under the direction of F. H.
Jackson. Agricultural teacher in
the school. About fourteen of the
Agriculture students under Mr.
Jackson participated in the pro
gram.
Bryan Taylor acted as interloc
utor and Mr. Jackson, Sam Roy
al, Jay Sexton and Ernest Ed
wards were end men.
The jokes and songr worked
into the program kept the audi
ence roaring with laughter much
of the time during the hour that
was occupied by the program.
The climax of the presentation
came when half of the boys
changed their costumes to those
of colored dames and lassies and,
with their partners, took part in
the cake-walk. Mr. Jackson,
wearing white trousers, black coat
and a high silk hat and carrying
a cane, with his face “blacked,”
made a “perfect leader,” to quote
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finals To Begin
Sat Night At
Glade Valley Hi”
The 27th annual commence
ment of Glade Valley high school
will open on Saturday night.
April 24, with a music recital at
8 o’clock.
On Sunday morning, at 11
o’clock, Rev. Watt M. Cooper,
pastor of the North Wilkesboro
Presbyterian church, will deliver
the commencement sermon.
The graduating exercises will
be held at 10 o’clock on Mon
day morning, April 26. Rev. J.
W. Witherspoon, pastor of the
Lexington Presbyterian church,
will deliver the commencement
address.
At 2:00 o’clock Monday the
recitation and declamation con
tests will be held.
The Senior play, “Rainbow
Cottage,” will be presented on
Monday night as the closing pro
gram of commencement.
CHANGE IN HOUR FOR
CHURCH SERVICES IS MADE
Rev. Howard J. Ford announces
that services will be held at New
Hope Baptist church on Sunday
night, at 8 o’clock, instead of 11
o’clock Sunday morning, as pre
viously announced.
Finals Program
At Sparta R S. To
Open Tomorrow
Recitation*, Declamation*
And Debate Scheduled
For Fri.; Graduation
Exercises Sat. Morning
PLAY SATURDAY NIGHT
Dr. Abrams, Of A. S. T. C.»
To Address Graduates;
Rev. H. J. Ford to Preach
Commencement Sermon
Annual commencement exer
cises, bringing to a close the
1936-37 term of Sparta high
school, is scheduled to begin to
morrow (Friday) morning, at
10:30 o’clock, when a recitation
contest is to be held.
Contestants and1 titles of selec
tions for this contest are as fol
lows: “Let Brotherly Love Con
tinue,” Miss Wilma Grace Rat
ledge; “Tony On da’Phone,” Miss
Margaret Giobbi; “Giggling Liz
izie,” Miss Maxine Edwards; "Ma’s
Monday Morning,” Miss Helen
Maines; “A Kitty Goes Adopting,”
Miss Kathleen Jarvis; “Hannibal’s
Wedding Belle,” Miss Texie Hop
pers, and “The Widow’s Mites,”
Miss Elvira Wagoner.
Seventh-grade and perfect at
tendance certificates will be pre
sented by W. C. Thompson, super
intendent of Alleghany county
schools, following the recitation
contest.
At 1:30 o’clock tomorrow (Fri
day) afternoon, a contest in
declamation will be held, and con
testants entered for participation
are as follows: Ray Joines, “Lin
coln’s Gettysburg Address”; Har
rell Joines, “The Homes Of The
People”; Charlie Edwards, “My
Country, My Mother, My God,”
and Ralph Redd, “The Two Trav
elers.”
“Resolved, That the government
should own and operate all elec
tric light and power utilities” is
the question for discussion in a
debate which is also to be held
tomorrow (Friday) immediately
after the declamation contest.
Students who will represent the
affirmative are Harrell Joines and
Lewis Jarvis, while the negative
is to be defended by Jessie Lois
Jones and Cleo Jones.
For the contests in recitation,
declamation and debate, Misses
Retha Duncan and Edith Rizotti
and Harrell Joines and Bobby
Crouse are to serve as ushers.
Graduation exercises are to be
held on Saturday morning, April
24, beginning at 10 r30 o’clock.
According to information re
cently furnished THE TIMES,
Sparta high school officials are
greatly pleased to announce that
the annual commencement ad
dress to the graduating class is to
be delivered this year by Dr.
W. Amos Abrams, of Appalach
ian State Teachers college, Boone.
Members of the graduating
class who are to take part in the
program to be given Saturday
morning are Herbert Lyons, presi
dent; Jay Sexton, valedictorian;
Ernest , Edwards, salutatorian;
Wade Choate, class prophet, and
Miss Minnie Edwards, class his
torian.
Due to the fact that the Spring
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"One person’s house bum* that another
may warm himself"
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destroyed the i
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Turkey, 1877.
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Mexican war iought at
La Rcsta. 1846.
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Fellow Lodge instituted,
1819.
V—The cornerstone of the
Giant monument laid.
1892.
M—Mutiny on HilS. Bounty.
Captain Bligh and satt
on set adrift 1789.
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wuo w asnmgion, iiftH,