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The Alleghany Times TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY j. : 1 ----— jVol. 13 GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938. Yiou Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements Want To Sell Something? Try a Want Ad DEVOTED Number 46. by Hoijfo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent BIG DEFICIT CUT SEEN The Federal Government’s bud get is $1,000,000,000 nearer bal anced in the fiscal year that ends June 30th than it was in the last fiscal year. During the first nine months of the present year about $700,000,000 was borrowed as compared to more than $1,700, 000,000 in the same period of the preceding year. Another en couraging factor in the fiscal af fairs of the nation is the increas ed income tax payments by cor porations and individuals in March, with receipts exceeding those of last March by $10,000, 000. ' The increased revenue from taxes on income reflect larger earnings by individuals and cor porations during the year 1937. Even with the slump that occur red in the final three months of the last year, 1937 was a profit able year for business, although business generally is in the midst of a defeatist psychology on ac count of present conditions. Ex perts attribute part of the in creased revenues to legislation, closing loopholes which hereto fore permited large sums to es cape the Treasury. The tax on undistributed earnings of cor porations undoubtedly forced div idends, which increased individual income tax payments. REVENUES LARGER The improved condition of the Treasury is not due to reduced expenditures but almost solely to enlarged revenues. For the first three-quarters of the present fis cal year expenditures totalled about the same as during the pre ceding year, when they were al most exactly $5,500,000,000. The reader should note, however, that the total of expenditures for the present year includes a large amount belonging to the old age reserve accounts. The Treasury used the money that came from I payroll taxes, paying the fund three per cent, interest, and the amount was charged as expen diture because of the debt creat ed. In fact, however, nearly the entire $700,000,000 deficit of the Government is represented by the dollars borrowed from the old age savings. RAILROADS’ PLIGHT Viewed ih another light, the Government, in nine months, has taken in taxes almost as many dollars as it has distributed in ex penditures. In other words, for the first time in nearly eight years, the Treasury operations created no net “purchasing pow er.” In view of the enormous sums pumped into the economic structure of the nation in recent years the cessation of governmen tal priming is generally consider ed a major factor in the present recession. In the opinions of sqpie officials and many experts, the failure of private business to re place Government spending made a recession inevitable and the business slump will probably con tinue until the Government re sumes its pump priming or busi ness takes up the slack by capi tal investments. , The plight of the railroads of the nation involves the welfare of banks and insurance compan ies which have invested heavily in the securities of the carriers. In fact, certain railroads of the nation have seemed to be mere pawns in the financial maniupla tions by which banks, brokers, at torneys and receivers have made huge sums. This, however, is hardly true of all carriers and the fact remains that most of them carry insuperable financial bur dens. That some solution of the problem is vital to the nation’s economic welfare is generally realized but no easy manoeuvres will be effective. President Roosevelt recently ap pointed a “rescue committee” in an apparent effort to avoid any thing like Government ownership or control at this time. However, it is generally recognized that the situation demands an authority - with power to force sweeping re organization of the entire railroad industry. About five years ago, the railroads, in a statement ad dressed “To the American Peo ple,” pledged a reduction of com petitive waste. Somewhere along the line, something interfered with the results anticipated. The railroad crisis is to the present recession what the bank ing crisis was : to nation in 1933. Unless- something is dene,, officials fear that the business slump will be aggravated. With widespread insolvency and other companies facing difficulties, pos itive action is necessary if the in dustry, which employs a million men, represents a big slice of na tional investment and looms large in our economic setup, is to sur vive. The plight may be empha sized when one Realizes that three and a half billion dollars of the thirteen and a half billion dollar (Turn to page five, please) Roosevelt spoke of opposition to his bill —for government reorgani zation Tuesday in Warm Springs, Ga., where he is vacationing. The chief executive bitterly condemned an unnamed source of opposition to the Pleasure, which passed the Senate Monday 49 to 42, assert ing the passage of the bill by the upper house proved that body “cannot be purchased by organiz ed teJegrams based on direct mis representations." Talking to reporters while sit ting in his new open car in front of a press cottage, he repeated the word, “purchased” when an aide interrupted as if to inquire, whether that was what he meant to say. He also gave his remarks furth er emphasis by permitting news men to quote him directly. He did not name the organized op position, but showed plainly, his elation over the senate’s action. Several features have yet to be passed upon by the house, although it already has approved the merger powers, principal tar get of opponents in and out of congress. Fresh from a swim in the Warm Springs foundation pool, the president talked also about the railroad situation, which he regarded as critical. He said as soon as he received additional opinions on his special committee’s report recommending a solution, he would prepare a message to congress proposing legislative remedies. He asserted quick action was essential and that further investi gation would be unnecessary be cause all the information needed already was' in the hands of the Interstate Commerce commission, the Securities and Exchange com mission and the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Since the ICC was an agent of congress, he said steps to be taken to relieve financially distressed roads came under the jurisdiction of congress and it was. the legis lature’s primary responsibility. Governor Richard Leche, of Louisiana, was a caller at the temporary White House after the press conference. "The president said the call had no special sig nificance. The bill to make available RFC funds —in the amount of $1,500, 000,000, for business and public works loans received the approval of the U. S. Senate Banking committee Tues day in Washington, D. C. The bill was favored by the Roose velt administration. The committee acted after a brief hearing at which Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the RFC said the legislation would invite any business with a legitimate need for credit to “come and get” long-term government loans. Besraes permitting tne corpor ation to make business loans, the measure would revive the agency’s former powers to finance projects for states and munici palities which demonstrate ability to repay. The committee disregarded a suggestion by Secretary Ickes that the public works administra tion, which he heads, pass on the loans to public agencies. He said he thought a saving could be ef fected if PWA was given this duty. Jones told the committee there was an ‘‘impression’’ that com mercial banks could not meet the demand for business loans. “We want to answer that im pression by providing machinery for loans to business—not to pay existing debts, but to provide mohey to hire men and buy ma terials, he said. “What we want to do is to tell anybody, anywhere, ‘if you’ve got -a legitimate right to borrow money for five, ten or fifteen years, come and get it’.” Jones agreed with Senator Townsend, (R., Del.), that com mercial banks are ‘‘full of money they want to loan but can’t.” He said, however, that the govern ment could afford to make loans that banks could not underwrite. I Noted Evangelist ' Dr. R. P. (“Fighting Bob”) Shuler (above), who is pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Los Angeles, Calif., the largest in all Southern Methodism. He is now in a two-weeks seties of meet ings in Bland Street church, Bluefield, W. Va. He is» a native of Grayson county, Virginia. Dr. R. P. Shuler, of Los Angeles, Calif., arrived —Saturday in Bluefield, W. Va., to begin Sunday a two weeks series of revival meetings in Bland Street Methodist church there. Dr. Shuler, who is nationally known : as “Fighting Bob,” is a native of the Comers Rock section of Grayson county, Virginia, and has been pastor of Trinity Methodist church, in Los Angeles, for about 12 years. He, is a graduate of ! Emory and Henry college, Emory, Va., and first joined Holston Methodist conference, later going West. Dr. Shuler’s church in Los Angeles has the largest con gregation in all Southern Metho dism. His ministry brings him east two or three times each year. In the spring, of 1929, he preached the baccalaureate ser mon at Emory and Henry college, and in 1936 he preached the commencement sexmon to the class of ’36 at Elk Creek (Va.) high school. On that same trip he preached the baccalaureate sermon during commencement at Asbury college, Wilmore, Ky. The famous and colorful Cali fornia pastor-evangelist, who used to operate his own radio station, will vote for unification of the three great branches of Metho dism at the general conference of his church in Birmingham, A'a.J in May, he said upon his arrival in Bluefield, but he sees many “headaches” ahead, par ticularly for the branch to which he has devoted a lifetime of ministry, the Southern Methodist. He looks ahead to the time when he believes the question of uni fication will be dropped into the lap of the civil courts. Dr. Shuler now has a large number of relatives in Grayson county, particularly in the Corn eas Rock community, near Elk Creek. Rev. H. J. Ford visited school at Laurel Springs —last Tuesday morning and gave a very inspirational talk on “Faith.” Following is the Laurel Springs Honor Roll for the sixth month of the 1937-38 term of school: First grade — Fred Parsons, Doris Upchurch, Reba Upchurch, George E. Shepherd, Clifford Church, Wendell Moxley, Bill Brown, John Woodruff, Robert Glen Long, Georgia Taylor, Maud Taylor and John. Baird. Second grade—Orville Hend rix, Herman Pruitt, Roy Miller, Ellen Woodruff and Louise Up church. Third grade—Jimmie Wagoner, Fielden Miller, Wheeling Miller, and Thompson Shepherd. Fourth grade — Roy Hamm and Kay Miller. Fifth grade—Bill Woodruff, Edward Taylor, Ralph Brown, Pearl Upchurch, Emma Caudill, Hazel Caudill and Peggy Long. Sixth grade—Hazel Osborne, Marie Atwood, Betty Anne Mil ler, Dorothy Pugh, Iva Dale Rendry and Arlene Miller. A protest was given Mexico by the U. S. —Tuesday against expro priation :cf United States oil companies’ (properties taken over by the Mexican govern ment on March 18. A high Mexican official said United States Ambassador Jo sephus Daniels presented the pro test to Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay in a formal note Tuesday afternoon. It was stated authoritatively that the Mexican government feels the energetic stand of the United States was due largely to British pressure. The government also was un derstood to feel that suspension of silver purchases by the United States came as a result of British complaints that continuance of the purchases merely gave Mex ico more ammunition for war on British and other foreign capital. (The United States Treasury announced Sunday it would sus pend silver purchases from Mex ico April 1 terminating, at least temporarily, its program of buy ing $2,500,000 worth of silver monthly at 44 cents an ounce, only one or two cents above the world price but guaranteeing a day-to-day market and keeping the silver off the world market. This had the effect of supporting the market. The- price for do mestic silver in the United States is 64.64 cents an ounce.) The oil protest, according to the government officials, asked in ef fect: “Since Mexico has been unable to pay for lands expropriated from Americans under Mexico’s Agrarian program, how could it be expected to pay the larger amounts involved in the oil prop erties.” Meanwhile, a split in the ranks of oil workers added to Mexico’s difficulties as the peso continued to drop following the Washing ton silver announcement. Governor Hoey said America is living —in the greatest hour it 'has ever known, despite toil and strife and economic con flicts, Saturday night in Salisbury, where he was speak ing at a banquet of the Rowan County Future Farmers of Amer ica. “I believe,’’ said the chief executive, “that man will con quer the economic difficulties of today and biuld a mightier civi lization here on the Western Hemisphere than the world ever has known.” The governor, who rose from farm boy to the gov ernor’s mansion, predicted “bet ter days ahead for agriculture in our great state.’’ The farmers of tomorrow and their fathers—400 of them— packed the ballroom of the Hotel Yadkin to hear Governor Hoey and State Superintendent of. Pub lic Instruction Clyde A. Erwin. They stood and applauded as the two state officials entered the big room. liovernor tioey orougnt tnem to their feet again when he de clared that Rowan county and North Carolina will lead the world in agriculture. “I don’t think the best days of agriculture have been seen in North Carolina,” said the gover nor. “Ahead lies better days— the days in which you will be the leaders.’’ He told the future farmers that their task won’t be easy and said there would be times when “you may want to give up.” “You are living in a time that calls for men of action, men of purpose,’’ declared Governor Hoey, his voice ringing through the big room. “It is up to you boys to take the lead and carry-on where your fathers leave off.” Governor Hoey was preceded by Dr. Erwin, whom he said “has rendered a greater service to the schools of the state than any man before him.” Dr. Erwin, wearing a red car nation in his coat lapel, told the future farmers; “You are standing on the threshold of maturity. Before long you will be the leaders and upon your shoulders will fall the mantle of responsibility. Norris Okays Quiz j WASHINGTON, D. C. . . TVA j continues to hold the Capitol | spotlight. Above. Senator George IW. Norris, pioneer advocate of | federal power projects, endorses ; a move for a congressional quiz j of Chairman Arthur Morgan’s i charges of maladministration, i Norris previously objected to the investigation fearing that a pos sible scandal would jeopardize future of similar developments throughout the country. Col. E. M. House passed away in New York Monday —after the close friend and adviser of President Wilson in World war days had passed a night of coma, from pleurisy and other ailments with which he had been stricken two months ago. Monday night, in the East Side apartment, which was Colonel House’s winter home, messages' of condolence were pouring in from the great and near-great of the world, to the widow and the daughter, Mrs. Janet Auchincloss, who survive. He was among the last of the ! big figures of the World war to j survive and his death brings that | chapter in this country’s history nearer to its close. He enjoyed I unofficial power, second only to j that of President Wilson at a [time when Wilson was admittedly I the most powerful statesmen in the world. Leading the. tributes to Colonel House was that paid him by Presi dent Roosevelt, an old friend, who was deeply affected when he learned of his death. From Warm j Springs, Ga., where he is on va cation, the president issued this ' statement: “A great ana unique ngure na5 jbeen lost to our national life in [the death of Colonel House. The ■trusted friend and adviser in for eign affairs, of a great war presi Ident, Woodrow Wilson. Colonel House possessed a sagacity, pru dence, patriotism, and integrity which' made his> counsels invalu able in one of the most critical periods of world history. “Few Americans have possess ed in such degree the confidence of statesmen at home and abroad as did this modest and self-effac ing man who placed his country’s good and the good of humanity [above all personal considerations. As one whp had long enjoyed this privilege of his friendship I shall ! miss his wise counsel and un varying loyalty.” House won for himself the soubriquet of “maker of presi dents.’’ He supported former Governor Alfred E. Smith in the 1928 campaign and more than a year before the 1932 Democratic convention he urged the candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He advised Mr. Roosevelt in the 1932 campaign and counselled him in the selection of his cabinet. The body was taken Tuesday night to Houston, Texas, the city where he was bom nearly 80 years ago, for burial. And in keeping with a deathbed request, there was to be no funeral ser vice. AN ATLANTIC GREYHOUND BUS LINE WILL PASS —through Sparta, running from Charleston, W. Vh., to Winston Salem, within the next few weeks, according to T. R. Burgiss, who has endeavored for the past two years to get such a line estab lished. Mr. Gilmer, traffic manager for the Atlantic Greyhound Lines, and E. O. Woody, who is also conneeted with this company, stat ed while in Sparta recently that two $18,000 buses will make round trips daily between these two points. “Antics of Andrew,” the play given —here in the auditorium of Sparta high school Saturday night, by the Junior class, has been termed a huge success. The play, which was a comedy production in three acts, was pre sented under the direction of Mrs. Halsey, of the school. Proceeds will be used for im provements on the school grounds. Parents of the slain girl and of the slayer sat —together Sunday at the funeral of Charlotte Mat thiesen in New York. The girl was shot to death by her lover, Donald Carroll III, during the latter part of last week in what apparently was an incompleted suicide pact. “ At her breast was a bright red rose, a flower symbolizing the tragic passion that destroyed her. It came from a cluster sent by the boy who loved and slew her. In her hands were blue violets —for abiding faith. They came from her father. And facing the casket, striving in the depths of grief to com fort one another, were four par ents, who, by ordinary standards should have been divided by re vengeful hate. That was the fu neral, of Charlotte Matthiesen. f riends and relatives came and left quickly. Finally time came for the Rev. Lewis E. Christian of the Jackson Heights Commun ity Church, to perform the last rites. The mother begged for a few minutes longer. She sent a friend out for pink sweetpeas, and arranged these like a halo around Charlotte’s head. “Sleep in peace, my darling,” she said. Then she sat down be side Donald Carroll, Sr., father of the boy that shot her daughter, and buried her face in his shoul der. Almost at the moment that the chapel rites ended, 16-year-old Donald Carroll, was entering the prison chapel of the Queens county jail to attend the after noon services for prisoners., Held for murder, his request to be al lowed to attend Charlotte’s fun eral had been denied. The Carroll boy told police he “lost his nerve” in failing to carry out his own self-destruction in a double death pact after they discovered Charlotte was an ex pectant mother. Wiley L. Moore has inaugurated a big campaign —for the public benefit— the “Drive Safely Crusade,” now being sponsored by oil companies of which he is president in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Statistics show that in these four states alone there were 2, 852 deaths from motor vehicle accidents in 1937. Traffic on streets and highways increases by leaps and bounds. The speed of motor vehicles has been enormous ly increased in all types and classes. To maintain police sur veillance of every highway is manifestly out of the question. The only conceivable solution of the appalling problem of death and mangling injury is to induce the largest possible number of drivers of police themselves. That is the basic idea and ob jective in this new and distinc tively constructive campaign Mr. Moore ha9 inaugurated, and which his oil companies will put for ward in the four states above named. In no sense whatever will the “Drive Safely Crusade’’ be commercialized. An employee of one of Mr. Moore’s stations who attempts to sell a motor ve hicle driver any gas, oil or ser vice, on the strength of the driv er having enlisted as a member of the crusade, will be dismissed. Any driver of a motor vehicle can enlist without charge, and attractive cash prizes -will be of fered. A driver simply signs a pledge to drive safely, “To Save A Life, To Avoid An Accident, (Turn to page 3, please) A program was presented Sun. in Elkin —in the Presbyterian church, by E B. Eldridge, superintendent of Glade Valley high sc'hool, and i members of the faculty and student body. Dr. R. E. McAlpine, pastor of the church, presided. Superin tendent Eldridge gave a brief his tory of the school and outlined the chief objectives and accom plishments • during the 27 years of its existence. He said, it was the first high school in Alleghany J county, which now has two state controlled schools. . Glade Valley school is owned, controlled and chiefly supported by the Winston-Salem and Orange Presbyteries and the women's auxiliaries of these Presbyteries. Donations of individuals, products of the school farm and dairy and old clothes shop where clothing contributed by interested friends is sold, are other aids in the support of the school. Through the self-help plan, many students are enabled to go through Glade Valley school and this year thirty students are work ing their way by assisting with the farm work, in the kitchen, etc. Ten orphans this year are enrolled as students; others have earned scholarships, he said. A total of 114 seek office in North Carolina —primaries and elections this year, it became known when the state board of elections closed its entry books at six o’clock Saturday afternoon. The 114 aspirants' for office had paid a total of $7,930 in filing fees. One congressman, two superior court judges and eight solicitors will be unopposed both in the Democratic primary and the gen eral election. They follow: Representative Lindsay O. War | ren, of Washington, N. C., first 1 congressional district. Judges J. Paul Frizzlle, of Snow ; Hill, and Wilson Warlick, of New i ton, fifth and 16th; judicial dis | tricts, respectively. Solicitors Donnell Gilliam of ! Tarboro, second judicial district ; ' E. R. Tyler of Roxobel, third; W. Y. Bickett, of Raleigh, seventh; H. L. Koo.ntz of Greensboro, 12th; Rowland S. Pruette of Wadesboro, 13th; John G. Carpenter of Gas tonia, 14th; Charles L. Coggin of Salisbury, 15th; and L. S. Spur | ling of Lenoir, 16th. Filing Saturday were: For Congress—Willis G. Briggs of Raleigh, Republican, fourth; R. H. Watkins of Durham, Democrat, I sixth; Frank C. Patton of Morgan ton, Republican, 10th; R. L. Whit mire, of Hendersonville, Democrat, 11th; Vonno L. Gudger ox Ashe ville, Republican, 11th. For judge—Thomas Turner, Jr. of High Point, Democrat, 12th. For solicitor—John Hill Paylor of Farmville, Democrat, fifth; Guy Weaver of Asheville, Republican, i 19th. | Posts to be named are a seat j in the United States Senate, two state supreme court judgeships, | the utilities commissionership, 12 jresident superior court judgeships, 21 solicitorships, and 11 congress ional seats. Since not more than one Re publican filed for any state-wide • office, no state-wide Republican primary will be held. A Repub lican primary, however, wrill be | held in the 17th judicial district, where J. F, Jordan of Wilkes boro and A. E. Hall of Yadkin ville, both Republicans, have en nounced for the solicitorship. All other Republican candidates automatically will have their names listed on the general elec tion ballots. The state-wide Democratic pri mary and the district Republican run-off will be held June 4. Can didates for legislative posts have until April 23 to file for the state house and senate with county boards of election. REV. HOWARD J. FORD IS TO PREACH NEXT SUNDAY —night, April 3, at 7:30 o’clock, ; in the Sparta Baptist church, of which he is pastor.
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