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The Alleghany Times DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Want To Sell Something? Try a Want Ad You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1938. Number 6. • i : ji The inquiry into monopolies projected at the cost of $5UO,UOO is one of the most far-reaching investigations ever authorized by Congress. Before it is concluded its sponsors hope to be able to answer queries that have puz aled many people during the past •decade: “Why there is poverty in the midst of plenty; why there is hunger in a land of food sur pluses?” An Economic Study. On April 29, President Roose velt sent a special message to Congress on monoploies. He call ed for “a thorough study of the concentration of economic power in American industry and the effect of that concentration upon the decline of competition.” Five days later Senator O’Ma honey, of Wyoming, introduced a resolution to provide for an executive-legislation investigation into the causes and effects of the concentration of economic power and financial control over indus try. Considerable discussion follow ed as to the composition of the proposed commission and the con trol of funds allotted for the inquiry. The President suggested that the matter be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of justice, and the Federal Securities and Ex change Commission. There was some sentiment in Congress for an investigation by members of Congress without participation of executive officials except at the pleasure of the Commission. How ever, as finally passed by the Senate, the Commission consists of twelve persons, including three representatives and one person each representing the Depart ments of Justice, the Treasury Commerce and Labor, the Se curities and Exchange Commis sion, and the Federal Trade Com mission. FDR Controls Inquiry. Considerable argument was also bad over the disposition of the $500,000 made available to finance the inquiry. There was sentiment in Congress bo leave, the entire sum in the control of the Com mission itself. Administration adherents proposed that $400,000 of the money be given to the President to allocate it. This would permit the President to provide funds to various Depart ment.' and agencies of the Gov ernment in the process of the in vestigation. It was assailed as a surrender by Congress of its pre rogatives, but, nevertheless was> accepted. Senator O’Mahoney, in a radio address, declared that “the whole economic system has broken down 1 because we have permitted it bo be privately controlled for the ad vantage of those, exercising con trol instead of seeing to it that it is publicly controlled for the benefit of all.” He insists “the anomalous fact that stares us all in the face is that the world produces more than enough to enable everybody to enjoy plenty, but millions through no fault of their own, are in want and mis ery.” Broad—Far-Reaching. Investigation of monopoly in this country and of the concen tration of economic power is so broad in its scope and so far reaching in its implications that no one can tell where the in quiry might lead. The Commis sion, when formed, will sit through the Seventy-Sixth Con gress, or until January 5, 1941. It will make a first report to the next session of Congress, which is the first session of the Sevehty Sixbh, and make recommendations for legislation to improve existing economic conditions. Meanwhile critics of the Ad ministration are attacking the in quiry on the ground that it will he “a Roman holiday” for the New Dealers who will take ad vantage of its authority to pry into business affairs, harass in dustry and finance at will, and generally disturb the confidence which, they insist, is what the nation needs most at this time. JobleM v*. Plenty. The problems to be investigated according to President Roosevelt revolve around the 12,000,080 un employed, in a nation where one tenth of one per cent, of the cor porations own fifty-two per cent, of the assets of all corporations. And where one-tenth of one per cent, of the corporations earn fifty per cent, of the net income of till corporations. Again, while forty-seven per cent, of American families and single individuals have incomes of less than $1,000 a year the one and one-half per cent, of the country’s families at the top of the heap have as much income as the forty-seven per cent, at the bottom. What is the cause for this condition? (Turn to page five, please) The president signed 36 bills Mon. and vetoed —seven at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home. President Roosevelt, invigorated by salt, air and sun, waded into work piled up since the last days of the 75th Congress. Among the bills signed was one increas ing thel 1939 wheat acreage allot ments under this year’s farm act from 42,000,000 to 55,000,000. Another measure approved was a bill authorizing the construction of 52 rivers and harbors projects, estimated to cost $37,105,850, and the survey by army engineers of 66 more projects, the surveys to cost not more than $500,000. The president vetoed two bills affecting war veterans. Among other important bills still awaiting presidential action were those fixing minimum wages and maximum hours for inter state industry, providing for a lending and spending relief pro-! gram and the deficiency appropri ation measure which contains money to start the billion-dollar naval shipbuilding program. The chief executive, in rollick ing good humor, went ashore from the yacht Potomac, told an aide to send two stenographers to his home, held a brief conference with reporters, then motored away to his family estate—and work. Seated comfortably at the little' flat top desk in the study of his] family’s Hyde Park home, the! president pitched in immediately j on the scores of bills which con- i gress passed before adjournment j last week. At the press conference the president first joked with the re- j porters about having given all his | news to his son-in-law, John Boettiger, Seattle newspaper pub lisher -and former' White House i correspondent. He, said he would leave Hyde Park Wednesday or Thursday i night for Washington. In his few days in Hyde Park, he said, i he had only one definite appoint-j ment so far, a social engagement j Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Ches- - ter A. Arthur. The former is; the grandson of the late Republi- j can president of the same name. j Mr. Roosevelt halted his work on legislation long enough Tues- j day to receive Joseph P. Kennedy, American ambassador to Great Britain, who arrived in Niew York Monday from London. The president declined comment j on discussions of the possibility of a special session of congress, | after asking who started the spec ial session talk. Roosevelt plans to leave for San Francisco —on Thursday, July 7, and embank in the California city on a cruise that will carry him as far south as the equator. The president plans to go first to Marietta, Ohio, for the celebration of the founding | -of the Northwest territory, and j then proceed to Covington, Ky., on Friday, July 8. The chief executive said that plans for speaking engagements were indefinite.'^ f rom jventucKy, me president will cross into Tennessee and move westward, either by way of St. Louis or Memphis, to Okla homa, arriving in that state on Sunday, July 10. From Okla homa, he will go to Forth Worth, Texas, where his son, Elliott, re sidies. After a short visit in Fort Worth, the presidential special will head for Wichita Falls, and Amarillo, Texas, and then go into Colorado, Utah and Nevada. Before boarding a U. S. Navy cruiser in San Francisco for his ocean voyage, President Roose velt will tour the Yosemite Na tional park, which he has never seen. The president does not plan to visit any of the South Ameri can countries on this cruise. He will stop at Cocos Island, 600 miles southwest of the Panama Canal, and the Gallapagos Is lands, off the Ecudor coast. Gillette In Victory DES MOINES, IA. . . . First of the opponent’s of the President’s Coprt Reorganization Bill to face a primary test, Senator Guy M. Gillette receives the returns of his renomination in high spirits. He defeated the New Deal’s can didate, Representative O. D. Wearin. Bishop Kern was heard Sun. night in Chapel Hill —when he delivered the principal address at Sun day's session of the Carolina Institute of i International Relations. He, addressed a large audience in Memorial hall. There are many indications that the Sino-Japanese war will be a long drawn-out conflict, for which Japan was not prepared, said Bishop Kern, who was recently assigned to the Nashville, Tenn., area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Frank P. Graham, president of the. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, introduced the churchman, and Russell M. Grum man, director of the institute, presided. Presenting a comprehensive out line of the background of the Sino-Japanese conflict, Bishop Kern said Japan today faces “a most difficult situation. Her na tional debt has reached an alarm ing stage and in fighting she stands, almost alone.” “Should China be able to hold her morale and secure munitions she probably will be able to force Japan to evacuate or call for terms that will amount to a draw,” he predicted. Bishop Kern said that Japan faces a serious problem of ex pansion since her population is increasing at a rate of a million net annually and has doubled her population during the last 50 years. “Learning her lesson from Eng land, Japan was determined to build an Asiatic dynasty but she came upon the scene too late, for all available territory had either been absorbed or set up man dates,’’ he said. “I don’t think Japan wants ter ritory now so much as she wants treaties that will compel China to yield raw material at her own price and take her manufactured products, “During the last 20 years Ja pan has passed from a strictly agricultural to an industrial na tion,” Bishop Kern said, “hence she must import raw material and export manufactured prod uets.” FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE The story of Jeff Gray, lone wolf mystery man of the West,, unfolding in “To Ride the River With” by William MacLeod Raine. “Sharing Service With the Liv ing Christ” is the topic of the Reverend Harold L. Lundquist’s Sunday school lesson. He reveals startling facts on the tendency toward paganism. Muley Bates finds that neigh bors are a handicap to an aspir ing musician. See “Mescal Ike” in our comic section. A concentrated version of one of O. Henry’s classics is our “books in brief” literary feature this week. Four outstanding | speakers are I to be heard ! —during the sessions of the 20th annual convention of the North Carolina Depart ment of the American Legion, which is to open in Winston-Salem on Sunday, June 25, and continue through Tues day, June 28. Judge John J. Parker, of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will deliver the address at the Memorial Service to be held Sun day night, June! 26, at the Car olina theatre. The Memorial service will prob ably be one of the most out standing ever held during a Le gion convention. In addition to the address by Judge Parker, the convention committee has secured Miss Margarate Romaine, of New York, formerly a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, as soloist for the service. She will be ac corrtpanied by Samuel Harwell, of New York, pupiil of Paderew ski and widely known concert pianist and accompanies!. Judge Parker needs no intro duction to a North Carolina aud ience. He has served with distinc tion on the Federal Bench, and was appointed to the U.' S. Su preme Court bench by President Herbert Hoover. Politics in the U. S. Senate prevented his con firmation to this high post. The opening business session of the Legion on Monday morning ' will find two outstanding speak ers scheduled for addresses. They are Leonard H. Nasbn, of Cen terville, Mass., author, and Rear Admiral William H. Allen, of the General Board of the United States Navy. Nason will be. remembered by i Legionnaires who attended the 1930 convention of the Legion in Winston-Salem. He made such a good impression that the con- j vention committee prevailed upon ! him to return. He served in j France as a field artilery ser geant during’ the World War and was wounded at Chateau Thierry and in the Argonne. To top thing's off nicely, he was ship wrecked off Fire Island on his retfurn to the United States. He has written for the Saturday Evening Post and the American Legion Monthly since 1922 and has a story in the June issue of Woman’s Home Companion. He will be introduced by Sandy Gra ham, of Hillsboro. Rear Admiral Allen is a native of Florence, S. C., and command ed various ships, as well as naval districts, before he was given his present post on the General Board. He is also in command of the 6th, 7th and 8th Naval Dis tricts with headquarters at Char leston, S. C., although he makes his home at Washington, D. C. Admiral Allen is the first rank ing officer of the Navy to visit a convention of the North Caro lina department of the American Legion. He will be introduced by John C. Whitaker, of Winston-Sa lem. General Brydon is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of West Point. He wears the Dis tinguished Service Medal and serv ed in France during the World War in various grades from Ma jor to Brigadier General. Follow ing the war, he was reduced to his former grade, and has work ed his way back up to Brigadier General, reaching the present rank last fall. A WPA project has been pen the approval —of national WPA authori ties in Washington, D. C., providing for the construe tion of a new brick high school building, at Piney Creek. (The project has also been ap proved by state and county authorities and it is expected that construction work will begin on the building soon. The new building will replace the present two-story frame building, which is subject to condemnation by state authorities. Approximately 55 per cent of the ebst of the new structure will be provided by the government; thus, a much-needed new school building will be erected in the county at a minimum of cost to the taxpayer, it has been pointed out. Fit For A Queen LOS ANGELES . . . Lois James, actress, is delving into a heaping bowl of China’s favorite cereal. Thousands of persons will be served similar bowls of rice in “Rice Bowl” parties being held in over 2,000 cities in the United States to help raise funds to alle viate . suffering among China’s wartorn' population. A concerted diplomatic effort was begun —Tuesday night in Londiom, England, by the big powers of Europe, to silence the guns in Spain. The drive was inaugurated when the chair- i man’s submission of the 27-nation J non - intervention committee! unanimously accepted the long debated British plan designed to' quarantine the, Spanish civil war from the rest of the world. As the , subcommittee, eompris-: irig nine nations, acted to purge Spain’s conflict of its foreign forces, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain plainly re vealed to the House of Commons his cabinet’s resolve to restore peace to the Iberian Peninsula as ! soon as possible. During a foreign affa-.rs debate the prime minister, whose under lying policy aims toward the ap peasement and pacification of all Europe, told Parliament that | actual termination of hostilities in j Spain would provide the most satisfactory solution of the inter national problems arising from that struggle. He added: “We shall from time to time try to take some means with the view of seeing whether favorable prospects for success exist.” On the question of whether Britain would be willing to as sume the role of mediator in forg ing a truce between the Spanish government and the insurgents, Chamberlain significantly ob “When the time comes we shall be only too glad to offer our ser vices either alone or in conjunc tion with others in bringing this lamentable conflict to an end.” The major motivating factors impelling the nonintervention sub-! committee to adopt the British I neutrality plan were threefold: ; 1. France’s action in tightly} sailing her southern border against all movements of war ma- j terials to the Spanish govern-1 ment. 2. Premier. Mussolini’s eager- j ness to place the Auglo-I;r.iiaii j friendship treaty into immediate effect and thus enable Italy to obtain badly-needed commercial credits. 3. Soviet Russia’s preoccupa tion with the Chinese-Japanese j war raging near her Far Eastern frontiers and her subsequent wil-; lingness to liquidate the Spanish j conflict. A CCC camp will move into the Bluff Park area —near Laurel Springs, in Alle ghany county, and will be ready for work by October. The young men in this camp will work o nthe landscaping of the parkway, including forestry cleanup, planting of shrubs and trees and grass seeding of the slopes aand shoulders. The United States army ex pects to build the camp immed iately. Incidentally, work on the re creation park at the Bluff is now going forward rapidly under the WPA program, which has been employing as many as 250 men. The new CCC camp will not be used on the park work and the WPA program will go for ward the same as before. John Roosevelt was married to Anne Clark —Saturday, at noon, in Nahant, Mass., and them— for the moment at least the nation’s top-ranking newly-weds—the two slipped a way for their honeymoon. The society wedding combined sol emnity and smiles, noise color and poinp. President and Mrs. Frank lin D. Roosevelt, parents of the bridegroom, were present and helped their youngest son and his bride, the new Anne Clark Roose velt, make their “escape’’ from the sea-surrounded old town of Nahant, thronged for the day with thousands of the curious. The bride and groom started their journey by automobile, with a police escort discouraging pur suit. Heading northward, they hinted by their actions that a pri vate home in New Hampshire, or Campobello, the Roosevelt sum mer home in New Brunswick, might be their destination. “Gee, I’m glad it’s ail over,” John breathed to Anne as they rushed for their automobile, shortly after 4:30 p. m., eastern daylight time. Outside, a noisy crowd of sev eral thousand pressed against the police lines, cheering the chief executive and the first lady and two cabinet officers as they ar rived, and bursting into spontan eous applause as the young mar ried couple emerged. Joined by John at the flower banked, white satin covered al tar at 12:05, the two were de clared man and wife at 12:11 by the Rev. Edicott Peabody, 81 (Turn 1 to page five, please). National And World NEWS At A Glance BRITAIN WOULD DISARM London, June 16.—-Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today the British government was “always ready to cooperate with oother na tions” on the subject of disarm ament. • • • McCALL TO DIE Miami, Fla., June 16.—Frank lin Pierce McCall was sentenced to death today for the kidnaping of Jimmy Cash, a crime the pre siding judge called “the most cold-blooded thing I ever heard of.” • • • SHIRLEY TEMPLE ON TRIP Chicago, June 17.—Shirley Temple visited Chicago today and said she liked Lake Michigan “and those elevator trains that run way up on stilts.” The nine-year old Hollywood star chatted with reporters in a North Side hotel upon arriving with her parents by automobile on a cross-country vacation trip that will include Washington and New York. • • • JOHN GARNER AT HOME Uvalde, Tex., June 18.—John Nance Garner came home late to day, inquired about the illnesses of several friends, and plopped into a chair to enjoy the cooling breeze under the liveoak trees in his front yard. JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK Shanghai, June 20.—The Chin ese reported officially today four war vessels of the Japanese fleet in the Yangtze river were sunk above Nanking in a raid by eight heavy bombers. • • • ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK Hyde Park, N. Y., June 21.— President Roosevelt announced to day that he would deliver a fire side radio chat to the nation from Washington at 9:30 p. m., (EST) Friday, June 24. • • • LEHMAN WOULD RUN Albany, N. Y., June 21.—New York’s Democratic Governor Her bert H. Lehman, who a year ago left the ranks of President "Roose (velt’s unconditional supporters, offered tonight to campaign for the United States senate seat of the late Royal S. Copeland. • • • RELIEF BILL SIGNED Hyde Park, N. Y., June 21.— President Roosevelt signed th« $3,750,000,000 lending and spend ing bill today and asserted tha business is not and has not beei i as bad as a lot of people believe! it to be. Senator Copeland, of N, Y., passed away Friday —night, at 7:45 o’clock, at his suite in *Ke Shore ham hotel, in Washing boa,. D. C., of “a general circle latory collapse complicated by a kidney ailment.” The. legislator physician was 69. years of age. Mrs. Copeland, two physicians and two nurses were with the f senator when the end came. | Dr. Harry , M. Kaufman, one j of the attending -physicians, said. I the illness may have been brought on by overwork toward the end I of the congressional session, but j added -that “the senator hasn’t j really been well in a long time.” The senator was nationally known for his writings and broad ; casts on health problems as well j as for his activities in Washing ton. For the past year Copeland : had been especially active. He made an unsuccessful bid for the New York mayoralty last fall, and during the. congressional ses sion just ended spent much time on maritime labor questions. Once, he almost got into a fist fight when Senator McKellar, (D.-Tenn.), lunged at him dur ing debate on ari army bill. Copeland was a member of the Senate group of Democrats who frequently disagreed with Roosevelt policy. »_x>peiana was the second mem ber of the 75th Congress to die within a day after the historic, session ended. Representative Allard H. Casque, (D.-S. C.), .succumbed Friday morning. The New York senator, a blythe and debonair man, was easily spotted by gallery fans' because be always wore a red carnation. Hi? wife ■ pinned a fresh flower to his lapel each-morning! By overworking during the past session, lie. failed to follow the prescription he handed freely to colleague.?—rest and relaxation. When a ses.-'on dragged out, he would call for ’ adjournment,, on the ground that “frayed ..nerv es, lack of poise and general rest lessness’’ were symptoms of fatigue which made “deliberate thinking’’ impossible. The new deal had not been operating Long before Copeland began to display marked aversion to some of its policies. He was, for instance, a leader in the suc cessful fight against senate rati fication of a St. Lawrence water way treaty with Canada. “Rosetime” is to be presented in the Sparta H. S. —auditorium on Tuesday night, June 28, at eight o’clock, spon sored by the Woman’s club. The presentation is to be in the form of a comedy in three acts. The play centers around the adventures of Rose Perkins, the smalltown girl, who is Hollywood struck. This lead is ably handled by Edna Walls, opposite Leo Ir win. Rose gets her chance for stardom 'when she, is discovered by a movie troupe traveling through her home town. C. R. Roe is cast as Rose’s father, and Faye Joilies as her mother, and give a [delightful l-ural touch to the ! character. Carolyn Benny, as the glamor j ous movie actress; Ernest Hona ker. as the hard-boiled movie di rected ; Woodrow Richardson, as the wise-cracking property man; Frank Osborne, as the English playwright; along with other mem bers of the movie troupe, add color and spice to the comedy. Some of Sparta’s loveliest young girls sing and dance in colorful costumes, in the musical numbers. The play is directed by Miss Ophelia Colley. The Baby hospital at Roaring Gap opened June 15 —although no Saturday clinics wil be held until July 9. The hours for the clinics will be from one to four o’clock on Sat urday afternoons, beginning on July 9. Dr. Johnson, of Baptist hos pital, Winston-Salem, will be resident physician, and Dr. L. J. Butler, pediatrician, is medical ; director. Dr. Fielden Combs, eye, i ear, nose and throat specialist, l will be in charge of the tonsil clinic.
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