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Want To Sell Something? Try a Want Ad The Alleghany Times You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY ! Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938. Number 2. by Hoc,. J S. Sims, Wftrl'iingtcn Correspondent Officially, theoretically, and on paper, the authorized tonnage of the United States Navy was in creased twenty per cent, last week ■when President Roosevelt signed the so-called “Billion Dollar Navy Expansion Bill.” Actually, until Congress make ■ specific appropriations for the construction of specific warships, there will be. no increase in the fleet. As a matter of fact, how ever, the Navy is anxious to be gin the construction of some of the ships authorized and congress is expected to make, an appro priation before the session ends. What the Act Does There has been so much dis cussion about the Navy since the House Naval Affairs Committee, early in March, voted to recom mend the expansion bill. What die. the bill mean? Simply that the United States, which' had lim ited the size of its Navy in accor dance with naval treaties, was amending the law, passed in March, 1934, which set the limit on the size of the Navy, forbid ding the construction of warships in excess of treaty provisions, When Japan notified the United States and Great Britain that she intended to abrogate the treaty es tablishing the naval ratio, it was apparent that a naval race was about to begin. The Japanese ■were dissatisfied with the treaty provisions which permitted Japan only sixty per cent, of the battle ship tonnage allowed the United States and Great Britain. A pre vious revision of the naval limits had advanced the ratio allotted Japan for smaller warships. Meets New Condition Great Britain, facing the. threat of Italy in the Meditteranean and the growing power of the German fleet, began some years ago to construct additional warships. Act ing under a clause of the treaty, the British notified the other powers of fleet increases. What was the position of the United States? In the first place, the American fleet was not up to treaty strength. This country had not maintained its strength in ac cordance with the naval ratios established by the treaties limiting the size of the fleets. In the last few years, however, a regular program of construction had been inaugurated which, in time, would have built up th? American fleet to full treaty lim its. With this program establish ed, the nation faced a new situ ation when Great Britain and Japan began to construct war ships in excess of the limits set by the naval treaties. Fleet'* Size Limited The nation then faced the prob lem of deciding whether to re strict its fleet to the limit of the treaties which had been abrogat ed, or to build a fleet to match those of other countries. How ever, the size of the American fleet was fixed' by the Vinson Trammell Act, passed in 1934, and until the Act could be amend ed, it would be illegal for the United States to construct any warships in excess of the limits set by the treaties. Because of this fact, it became necessary for the United States Congress, if it wished to build a ■fleet in proportion to construc tion by other powers, to change existing law and to legally au thorize the necessary expansion of the fleet. This was the purpose of the “Billion Dollar Navy Ex pansion Bill.” By itself, the meas ure does not add a single ship to the Navy. It merely authorizes a twenty per cent, increase in the limit set for the American Navy. Before a single ship can be con structed, Congress will have to pass an appropriation bill, spe cifically providing the money for the ships to be constructed. 20 Per Cent. Increase While the new law increases the Navy’s authorized tonnage by 20 per cent., experts estimate that the three battleships, two 20,000 ton aircraft carriers, nine cruisers, twenty-three destroyers, nine sub marines, 950 planes and' twenty six auxiliary vessels will add from fifty to seventy-fwe per cent, to the fighting strength of the fleet. Last month, Admiral Wm. D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, submitted figures to the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, showing that Japan’s navy is stronger than that of the United States in three major types of war craft and that only in battle ships and in heavy cruisers do we hold superiority. He pointed out that Great Britain leads us in all ■classes except heavy cruisers. (Turn to page five, please) I The 8th-month Honor Roll lor Sparta H. S. —has been made public re cently by school officials, and is published below, in addition to a list of those who made a perfect-attendance record for the entire 1937-38 school term. The Honor Roll follows: First Grade: Tommy Burgiss, Raymond Crouse, Frank Davis, Paul Edwards, Glenn Rector, Ed ward Rizoti, Jr., Jimmy Williams, Virginia Van Crouse, Evelyn Dowdle, Mary Lou Miles, Clarice Mitchell, Jessie Holcomb, Zollie LaRue, Janet Poe and Renie La Rue. Second' Grade — George Bryan Collins, Malcomb Gambill, An drew McKnight, Howard Naylor, Charles Reeves, Duane Kilby, Jane Bledsoe, Zelma Choate, Vera Wood, Reva Mae Rector, Bonnie Sue McMillan, Wanita Higgins, Virginia Pooie, James Jordan and Elsie Edwards. Third Grade—D. C. Bledsoe,Jr., James Douglas, Tommy Davis, ; Berton Edwards, Billy Reeves, George Roe, Doris Collins, Naomi Douglas, Reba Edwards, Mary Alice Landreth, Dorothy Sue Mc ‘ Grady, Evelyn Mitchell, Martha i Normanj Wanda Trult^ £uby ! Caudill and Jean Collins. Fourth Grade — Mattie Lee ! Sanders, Dodge Sexton, Harold , Irwin, George R. Crouse, Wade Irwin, James Poole, Billy Sex ton, Rosamond Doughton, Georgia Goodman, Winnie Mae Goodman, Maybelline Richardson and Ellen 1 Hardin. ■ Fifth Grade.— Wanda Blevins, Patsy Roy Burgiss, Dorothy Cor nor, Eva Edwards, Irene Hendrix, Lorene Hendrix, Ramah Joines, Nada Landreth, Lucile Mitchell, Lorene Osborne, Mack Caudill, Cebert Jarvis, Thomas Zack Os borne and Raymond Woodruff. Sixth Grade—Edwin Duncan, Jr., M. A. Goodman, Jr., James Dee McKnight, Glenna Duncan, Ruth Evans, Mave.n Moxley, Laura Lee Smith, Jessie Jean Sexton, Dorothy Truitt, Anna RoSe Reeves, Gloria Rizoti and Donna Lou Rutherford. Seventh Grade—Doris Richard son, Una Lee Richardson, Lois Smith, Ktherine McMillan, Vir gnia Gentry, Ethel Poole, Pika Rizoti, Blanche Hendrix, Dan Thompson, Robert Morton, Clif ton Edwards, William Goodman, Iris Poole, Ted Reed, Aldean Shaw and Dorothy Shepherd. Eighth Grade — Freddie Sue Seixton, Margaret Sexton, Elsie Wagoner, Mildred Wagoner, Retha Crouse, Mildred Bennett, Wanda Choate, Gretchen Duncan, Edith Edwards, Georgene Mitchell' and Mattie Lee Rector. Ninth Grade — Rose Wagoner, (Turn to page five, please) FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE Jeff Gray’s unusual romance with beautiful Ruth Chiswick, told in Wililam MacLeod Raine’s exciting new serial, “To Ride the River With.” A clock with eight hands and two sets of numbers tells time all around the; world. Picture in our new photo section. Big doings in Red Eye Pete’s Gin Emporium! See Mescal Ike in our comic section this week. The importance of a sound mind in a sound body in main taining personal efficiency, is the subject of the Sunday school lesson for this week. The need for iron and copper as a help to avoid Anemia is de scribed by C. Houston Goudiss, noted food authority in the fea ture “What to Eat and Why” in this issue. Differences between the United States and Japan on role of equipment of possible future war is discussed in this issue in the “Weekly Washington Merry-Go Royund.” The Billion-dollar Naval Ex pansion Bill, signed last week by President Roosevelt, is discussed in “Looking At Washington,” a feature in this issue* A proposition was discussed Tuesday morning —at the court house here, whereby Alleghany county, by appropriating $1,200 for health work would be per mitted to join a district health department, thus enjoying- the be nefits of a health program which would otherwise cost $5,000. Dr. G. M. Cooper, director of the Division of preventative med icine and Dr. R. E. Fox, director of the division of County Health Work, both from Raleigh, met the county commissioners and in terested citizens here for this discussion. By participating in this health program, Alleghany county would receive in addition to the con tinued services of the county health nurse, a pro rata part of a health officer’s time, who be sides other duties, will treat in digent syphilitics, give the tuber culin test to sehool children, thereby discovering this dreaded disease in its early stages, when cure is comparatively simple and inexpensive. I An important service of the district health department is the dental program. If the county commissioners appropriate the amount necessary to ;nab)e AI|e_ 6ixany county to join this health department, a free dental clinic Will be held for eight weeks an nually in the county. The need for such a clinic, it has been pointed out, is clearly seen when it i§ recalled that, of the 1,155 grade school children examined in this county during the past year, 901 have decayed teeth. Alleghany county will also re ceive the services of a sanitary officer, and of a clerk in the health office, as well as other advantages. For instance, only or ganized departments will receive aid from the Smith-Reynolds funds and Similar foundations. All of these services, and others, amounting to approximate ly $5,000 Alleghany county can have by apropriating only $1,200. The Baptist S. S. convention is to be held Sunday —May 29, at Laurel Springs Baptist church, according to an announcement made re cently by persons who are actively engaged in formulating plans and arrangements for the gathering. The program is as follows. Hymn, “I Love to Tell the Story”; Devotionals, W. F. Dough ton; Words of Welcome, Rev. H. J. Ford; Report from State Sun day School' convention, Vann Mil ler; Talk, “What a Sunday School Means to A Community,” Rev. A. F. Absher; Five-minute talk by each Sunday school superin tendent present; Talk, “The Ideal Teacher,’’ Miss Iva Grace Doughton; Special music; Address, Rev. J. P. Davis, Boonville; Ap pointment of committees; Prayer, Re.v. William Hamm; Lunch Hour. Song, “Loyalty to Christ”; Prayer; “Building a Standard Sunday School,” Rev. H. J. Ford; Special music; Address, Rev. Perry Crouch, Raleigh; Round table discussion; Talk on “Or phanage,” J. T. Fender; Report on canning for Mills Home, A. O. Joines; Plans of committee on Canning for this year, Mrs. C. A. Reeves; Election of officers, and Benediction. Circle No. 2 of the W. M. U. of the Baptist —church held its monthly meet ing on Tuesday night, May 10, at the home of Mrs. Walter Taylor, with Mrs. Bruce Wagoner asso ciate hostess. The topic for the month was “Japan.” Mrs. T. R. Burgess was leader and presented an interest ing program, with the folowing members taking part: Mrs. Hugh Choate, Mrs. Odell Richardson, Mrs. Sally Vass, Mrs. Bruce Wag oner and Mrs. Wayne Richard son. During the social hour, the hos tess served refreshments to thir teen members and five visitors* Posters Promote Safe Driving These posters' were selected by a group of judges which include Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and W. H. Cameron, Managing Directo of the National Safety Council, as best dramatizing safety rules fc motorists and pedestrians. The contest, held at Rockefeller Cer.^ New York, was held to help focus attention on reducing - at0 toll* The U. S. supreme court will adjourn M-y 31 ! —for the summer vacation, and within a few days after adjournment, most of the justices will have left the capital, not to return until the next session of the tribunal opens on October 3. Chief Justice Hughes, in ac cordance with his custom, de-! dined to say where he will spend the summer months. He usually; goes, with Mrs, Hughes, for long j automobile rides through New i England or New York returning from time to time to Washington, I, Three of the associate justices j —Roberts, Reed and Butler, will j “go back to the farm.” !. Justice Reed, the newest mem- : ber of the high court, will spend , his time in Maysville, Ky., wherej he raises blooded cattle and grows! burley tobacco. He plans to break his stay there only to attend a session of the American Bar asso ciation in Cleveland late in July. Justice Butler, having recently purchased a farm of some 400 acres in Howard county, Md., will spend most of his summer there. Back to his farm also will go Justice Roberts. His place is not far from Philadelphia. He will re turn to Washington at times for meetings of te German-American mixed claims commission of which he is umpire. Justice and Mrs. Stone will. leave by train for the Pacific coast June 8. From there they will continue their journey by, automobile through Vancouver and other sections of western Canada, returning east in the middle of the summer to spend several weeks at Isle Au Haut, Maine. Justice McReynolds also plans to spend some time on the Paci- j fic coast. Recuperating from a serious | illness, Justice Cardozo already has left the city. He is spending j the summer at the home of Judge) and Mrs. Irving Lehman in Port1 Chester, N. Y. When he left sev- • eral weeks ago it was said there was a possibility he might return j to his duties on the bench in J the fall. The last time he sat in court was December 10. Shortly j thereafter he suffered a series of j heart attacks. Justice and Mrs. Brandeis plan j to leave for Chatham, Mass., as ; soon as court adjourns. They have ^ spent the summer months on , Cape Cod for many years. Justice Black said he had made “no plans" for the summer. Justice Sutherland, who retired from the court in February, will sail for England early in June as he has for several years past. Justice Van Devanter, also re tired, will go to his farm in Maryland, perhaps making a trip to a fishing club in Canada some time during the summer months. Miss Faye Joines, Sparta, is among the 150 students —of Mars Hill college to be grad uated at the final commencement exercises to be held tomorrow (Friday) morning. This is the largest class to be graduated in the history of the college. By receiving a diploma, Miss Joines will have completed all requirements necessary in finish ing a junior college course^ y.ci'nodists of the Statesville Strict W\ —last week in North Wil kesboro for the annual dis trict conference. The con ference was in session on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17 and 18, and was presided over by Dr. John T. Hoyle, presiding -lder of the Statesville district. The district embraces 14 north western counties of the state. John Wesley’s Aldersgate ex jerience was described Tuesday >y the Rev. R. E. Ward, pastor )f the Bethel-Fairview Methodist :hurch near Hickory. Ward depicted how Wesley ’ounded Methodism after he ex jerienced a “peculiar feeling” ind a desire for a new form of Christian worship. Tuesday afternoon delegates leard church and committee re ports. Among those speaking were ihe Rev. A. W. Plyler, editor of :he Christian Advocate; the Rev. J. S. Hiatt, who spoke about the Children’s Home in Winston-Sa lem, and the Rev. E. J. Coltrane on behalf of Brevard college. Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe, of Duke diversity, brought the spiritual life message to the conference Wednesday and the Rev. J. C. Gentry of the Moravian Falls cir :uit, delivered the sermon. The lay activities program was presided over by W. H. Worth, of Jefferson, district lay leader. He ■vas re-elected as leader and as sociate leaders are R. C. Bunch, Statesville, and L. S. Weaver, Jonesville. Wednesday afternoon, Dr. L. 3. Abernethy, of Elkin, spoke on nissions and the Golden Cross work, and Dr, W. A. Jenkins, Elkin, represented Greensboro :ollege. Hopewell church on the Catawba charge, extended an in vitation for the next meeting, which was accepted. Delegates to attend the an mal conference in Charlotte this ’all are W. D. Halfacre, W. H. A'orth, R. C. Bunch, W. T. Nich )lson, R. M. Abernethy-, J. E. Rowe, L. H. Phillips, L. S. Wea rer, G. F. Ivey, R. L. Snow, J. 3. Keever, W. H. Jones, W. L. fefner, F. D Stonestreet, T E. ’arker, P. J. Brame, Mrs. J. B. lenderson, Mrs. G. W. Mann, drs. J. B. Tabor, Jr., Mrs. T. 7. Goode, and Misses Blanche ’ugh, Gladys Hefner and Lillian Southerland. “It's a boy” or “It’s a girl” is beard nine times —every hour, day and night, from the lips of some doctor or nurse in Norh Carolina. Each day there are 216 addi tions to the Tar Heel family, according to the State Board of Health’s vital statistics for the first four months of 1938. There are aproximately four deaths each hour in the State, oi one every fifteen minutes. One is killed in a preventable accident about every eight hours, while somebody succumbs to cancel every five hours. Each day sees art average of more than one suicide, according to the average for the past four months. Each day the number of homicides is one and a fraction and one victim of syphilis dies, Sparta High School Finals Closed Mon. Morning With The Graduation Exercises —at which time diplomas were awarded the 35 members of the Senior class. The literary ad dress to the graduating class was delivered by H. R. Eggers, registrar of Appalachian State Teachers | college, Boone, who was introduced by W. C. Thompso-n, {superintendent of Alleghany county schools. The theme. Gets WPA Vote I 1 . Lawrence Edward Smith, VVPA l worker employed on a St. Louis 'park pnlJ?Ct, j? a candidate for the Democratic nomination' for the seat in Congress now held by , Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. Smith has been promised the support of the 26,000 fellow WPA Workers in the city and is confident of victory in the primaries. Sparta will have a cooking and refrigeration j —school today (Thursday),; at 2:30 p. rh., in the Spartan theatre, conducted by the Northwest Carolina Utilities, Inc., according to an announce- j lfient made recently by G. T. Rob-1 bins, district manager of the [ utilities < company. The school will be under the direction ofj Miss Mary Brown Allgood and, Mrs. Lynda E. Bailey, home j economists. The school will be sponsored' by the local Woman’s club. The new electric roaster will be introduced at the school this year. This ultra-modern device in addition to being a master, as its name implies, bakes, stews, broils, grills, fries and toasts— actually a complete two-foot elec- j trie range which the company claims will bring automatically j controlled electric cookery within the reach of even the most mod- ’ est budget. Despite the small amount of floor space required by a roaster, it has sufficient capac ity to prepare a complete meal for eight to ten people. » Miss Allgood will give special! attention to electric refrigeration! at the school this y»ar. The preparation of a number of new, desserts as well as . the proper storage of food in the refrigerator ; will be included in her program,: A most cordial invitation is; issued by Mr. Robbins to the! housewives of this section to at tend the school. Twenty books were donated to the public library —in Sparta by members of the Woman’s club, and others, in cluding Mrs. Edwin Duncan, Mrs. P. L. Choate, Mrs. T. J. Carson, Mrs. S. B. Shulkin, Dan Thomp son and Thomas Zack Osborne. Among the books donated are “A White 61rd Flying,” by Bess Streeter Aldrich; "Ma Cinder ella,” by Harold Bell Wright; “Just Around the Corner,” by Fannie Hurst; “Blue Window,” by Temple Bailey; “Valley of the Giants,’ Peter B. Kyne; “Her Father’s Daughter,” by Gene Stratton-Porter and “Bor der Legion,” by Zane Grey. A half dozen new books pur chased by the library arrived the early part of this week, including, “The iCtadel,” by A. J. Cronin; “Riders of the Purple Sage” and “The Rainbow Trail,” by Zane Grey, and “Re-Creations,’ by Grace Livingston Hill, of Mr. Eggers’ address was de signed to encourage the class to always' learn and work. Immediately following the ad dress . the diplomas were present ed by C. R. Roe* principal of the school. Contest awards were pre sented by Ex-Lieutenant Gover nor R. A. Doughton,' Sparta. Those who jeceivei diploma* were-.; * Claude . 'Andrews, Hoke An drews-, Perol Carpenter. James Church, Robert Crouse, Edna Edward.-, Ella Edwards, Pauline’ Edwards, . Page Evans, Imogene Franklin, Mildred • Gentry, Ema il he Hawthorns, Eugene Higgins, Imajean Hopper . John W. Ir Skeep, Paul Irwin, George Mack Irwin, Harrell Joines, Virginia Joines, Doris. Jones, Juanita Long, Ray Lundy. Lila L von s'. Wade Mc.Mn.lan, F A eit Myers, Lucile Pugh, Dan Rec tor, • fa?!' Richardson, Minnie Richardson, E, J. Richardson, Bert Richardson, Edith Rizoti, Pauline. Sexton and Alma York. Included in the exercises held Monday morning was the class program, which tfas as follows: Address, Paul Irwin, class presi dent; Salutatory address, Mis* Pauline Sexton; Class- History, Miss Minnie Richardson; Class Prophecy, Miss Virginia Joines; Vocal Solo, Miss Emaline Haw thorne, and Valedictory Address, Miss Alma York. On Sunday morning, May 22, it eleven o’clock, the commence ment sermon was delivered by Rev. D. Sidney McCarty, pastor )f the Galax Presbyterian church. The sermon was very instructive ind inspiring. The Galax minis ter was introduced by Rev. R. L. Berry, pastor of the Sparta Pres byterian church. On Saturday morning, May 21 the annual high school debate was held in the high scho-ol auditorium. The query of the debate was “Resolved, That the several state* should adopt a unicameral sys tem of legislation.” Those par ticipating in the -debate were: Dan Rector and Harrell Joines, on the affirmative, and Lucille Pugh, on the negative. Lila Lyons, a negative debater, was unable to participate, due to ill ness. The winner of the debate was Harrell Joines. After the debate, the Seventh grade eaitificates and perfect-at tendance certificates were award ed by Superintendent W, C. Thompson. Saturday afternoon, the reci tations and. declamations were given. Those who gave, recitations were; Texic Hoppers, who. re cited “Sambo’s Defense”;.. Elvira Wagoner, who gave “China Blue Eyes"; Trevn Jarvis. “Angelina Takes a Joy Ride.” ami Georgette Mitchell, who gave “Scratch, the Newsboy’s Dog.” Treva Jarvis was the winner. Those who took part in the (Turn to page five, please) The annual reunion of the Colvard family —and descendants of the Colvard family is to be held >at Union Baptist church on Sunday, June 5. Hus church is located on Highway No. 16, approximately 14 miles from North Wilkesboro, near Wilbur post office. It is hoped that all Colvards and Colvard relatives will attend this reunion. Also, family con nections and friends are especially invited. Several interesting facts con cerning Colvard history have been revealed since the reunion last' year and an enjoyable time is planned. A picnic dinner will be served and everybody is asked to take a basket.
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