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I DEVOTED TO Want To Sell Something ? Try a Want Ad You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938. Number 12. .IK W jf U Hugo S. Sims Washington Correspondent Taxes are inevitable if peoples form governments and discussion of the problems of taxation, as a means of raising revenue, are in the air today as the Federal Gov- i emment faces a deficit of almost $4,000,000,000 in the current fis cal year, which ends next June 30th. The rapid increase in our na tional debt, during the past six years, has convinced most citizens that not only are taxes inevitable but that higher taxes are a cer-1 tainty. Consequently, greater in terest is evident in the study of taxes, their yields and effect upon the nation as a social and eco nomic unit The “If” In Taxation. President Roosevelt has assert ed that, in the main, our present tax structure will be sufficient to meet governmental needs and gradually retire the national debt if—and it is an “if”—business picks up to increase the national income to a figure that will give the average citizen a sum suffi cient to live on what is rhetorical ly described as the American standard. There is, of course, such a pos sibility. Already the last Congress against the wishes of the Presi dent, made certain definite tax reductions to encourage business. The congressmen responded to the incessant plea of business leaders that if—and here we find another “if”—the undistributed profits and the capital gains taxes were substantially reduced, the flow of j capital would make the wheels of industry hum. Demand Lower Taxes. For months, after the tax re form was enacted, the congress men waited for the developments that industrial leaders assured them would follow. The present upsurge may be the beginning of results but, at the same time, there are indications now that business leaders still insist upon further tax revision, with their aim directed against the high in come levies. The argument is the same, that excessive rates dis courage investment and prevent private capital from taking the risks of business enterprise. Thoughtful persons realize that there is some force in the argu- i rhent. Certainly, there is a point; where private capital prefers tax exempt securities to the chance of making larger profits through in vestment risks, with the Govern ment taking a heavy slice of the profits if they develop, but with the investor taking the losses if the venture proves ill-fated. Just where this point resides' in the tax scale is a matter upon which there is much dispute, and the writer does not know the answer. Under Di*cu**ion. Among some of the matters un der idscussion now are: 1. The Administration proposal to abolish the wide tax exemptions which are included in bonds of Federal, State and local govern ments. 2. The proposal to abolish the exemption of State and local gov ernment salaries in regards to Federal income taxes “and, also, the abolition of the exemption now enjoyed by Federal employes from State income tax laws insofar as Federal compensation is concern ed. 3. The LaFollette proposal to widen the income tax base of the Federal Government by lowering the individual tax exemption from $2,500 to $2,000 for married persons and from $1,000 to $800 for single persons. 4. The suggestion by Congress man Geller, of New York, that the Constitution be amended to provide that “in no case” shall the maximum rate of the income tax “exceed 25 per cent.” (The present maximum is 79 per cent.) 5. The indication that Presi dent Roosevelt will renew his fight to retain the undistributed profits tax and progressive rates upon capital gains. In considering any specific tax the Government seeks to ascer tain the revenue to be derived and also the difficulties and cost of collections. The taxpayer, as a general rule, seeks the reduc tion of the taxes he, or she, pays and the transfer of the burden to other sources of revenue as far as possible. Per Capita Tax Burden. Now that we have gotten to the word “burden,” let us see what taxes mean to the average Ameri can citizen. A study, recently concluded by the Tax Research Foundation, reveals that the Bu reau of Internal Revenue, which collected $5,658,385,125 in taxes during the fiscal year which end ed June 30th, exacted a per capita toll of $43 from every man, wo man and child in the United (Turn to page four, please) Governor Hoey named a Charlotte man Monday —chairman of a committee authorized by the legisla ture and appointed by the governor to make a general study of North Carolina’s public education system. Dr. Julian Miller, Charlotte, was given the appointment. G. B. Phillips, of Chapel Hill, was named secretary. The committee, at an organi zation meeting in Raleigh, adopt ed the following tentative pro gram of study: a 12th grade; curriculum; vocational education; transportation and consolidation; teacher welfare; integration be tween the secondary schools and colleges; organization, administra tion, and finance; and supervision of the program. Present at the session, besides Dr. Miller and Phillips, were Mrs. H. C. Etheridge, of Ashe ville, Holland Holton, of Dur ham, June Rose, of Greenville, Horace Grigg, of Shelby, Ben Cone, of Greensboro, George Ross, of Jackson Springs, and H. E. Stacy, of Lumberton. The committee will meet in Raleigh again August 23, and will conduct public meetings in Golds boro, Greensboro, and AshevilLe during the last week in August and the first week in September. Purpose of the public meetings, Phillips said, is “to have all in dividuals, organizations, and in stitutions present any views re garding any phase of the school system.” The committee is slated to make a written report to the 1939 Gen eral Assembly. National And World NEWS At A Glance AGAINST THIRD TERM Washington, July 29.—A move ment to place the Senate on rec ord next year against a third term for the president got under way today. Senator Holt (D), W. Va., a frequent critic of the administra tion, started it, and Senator Van denberg (R), Mich., predicted that Republicans would join in. ALICE FAYE ILL Hollywood, July 29. — While working in a motion picture to day, Alice Faye collapsed and a physician diagnosed her illness as ptomaine poisoning. She was sent home and production of the film was postponed until Monday. GOV’T. GIVEN BYRD FILMS Washington, July 30.—Motion pictures of Read Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s expeditions to the north and south poles and of his trans atlantic flight have been donated to the government and will be kept in the national archives. CLAIRE TREVOR WEDS Beverly Hills, Calif., July 30.— Claire Trevor, beautiful film act ress, and Clarke Andrews, radio director, were married here on Wednesday, July 27. A toast to life-long happiness was drunk as a climax to a brilliant wed ding reception which most of the notables of filmdom attended, up on invitation. HUGHES BACK HOME Los Angeles, Aug. 1.—Howard Hughes and his four record breaking companions flew home today, returning to the air ter minal where they prepared1 for their flight around the world. POLICE SEEK COUPLE Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 1.—Po lice today hunted a Strathport, Ont., couple believed eloping—in their bathing suite. Seventeen-year-old Cynthia Car ter’s mother, Mrs. William C. Carter, telephoned police from Strathport that she thought he* daughter and her 21-year-old sweetheart had eloped to Cleve land. She said that their clothes were left on the beach at Port Stanley Beach. JAPAN CLAIMS VICTORY Tokyo, Aug. 2.—Japan today announced defeat of a Soviel tank, artillery and airplane as saut in Manchoukuoan bordei warfare which the war office con sidered "exceptionally serious.” Architects Drawing Of Institute Of Gov’t. At Chapel Hill Pictured above is the architect’s drawing of the permanent home for the Institute of Govern ment at Chapel Hill. The contract has just been let. The building will be of Colonial design and will have four floors, and 20 rooms, including offices* assembly and exhibit rooms, training schools and clubrooms for public officials. A conference of principals is to be held in Sparta —on Tuesday morning, August 9, beginning at nine o’clock. The conference will be held in the Sparta high school auditorium, according to an announcement made by W. C. Thompson, superintendent of Al leghany county schools. The conference will be under | the supervision of the State De partment of Public Instruction, land will be attended by a repre sentative of Dr. J. Henry High smith’s department. The purpose of the program is to familiarize the principals with the new handbooks recently published by the State Depart ment. At this meeting the new regulations and requirements will be discussed, as well as plans for the new year. All principals of Alleghany county schools are expected to attend this conference and all teachers, as well, are urged to attend. Strikers at the Vaughan furniture plant in Galax —Monday morning overrul ed a proposal that they be given an opportunity to vote their convictions concerning whether to remain on strike or pursue another course. The strike committee, at a meeting held Sunday afternoon decided to let the men vote, by secret ballot, but when the matter was put before the group as a whole Monday morning, the proposal was vociferiously overruled. The men registered themselves as being almost unanimously in | favor of “staying out,” even if the company liquidates, as officials have declared it will do as soon as possible. “Let them liquidate if that is the only way out that they see. We came out like men and we will stay out,” was the sentiment of the men Monday morning, according to a state ment made by Bill Taylor, a spokesman for the strikers, in an interview with a BULLETIN representative. Today was the twenty-first day of the strike, which began on Thursday, July 14. An official committee repre senting the strikers was in Roa noke Thursday in an effort to enlist support from furniture workers and others in that and other sections of the state. Members of the committee were Rupert V. Farmer, and S. F. Fulks, attorney for the strikers. The men described the Galax strike as a life-and-death struggle, not only for them but also for other furniture workers in this area. SEN. LEWIS WILL RESIGN —after the next Senate session. The Illinois senator, famed for his fancy vests and courtly man ners, stated Tuesday. Alleghany county citizens may see a demonstration —in Chapel Hill in which, in one center, the govern mental practices scattered | in 100 county court houses and approximately 300 city halls is displayed. Such a demonstration, it is expected, may b.e available in the near future, in view of an announcement made recently by Albert Coates that the first city-county-state govern- • mental demonstration laboratory, in the country, to which public.! officials, citizens and students! and teachers of civics in govern- j msnt may go for information, will be built in the university | town of Chapel Hill. “Some governmental practices,” said Mr. Coates, “are better than others, and through the collec tion, comparison and demonstra tion of these methods and prac tices this governmental laboratory will help public officials to raise the standard of governmental per formance by lifting the poorest I practices to the level of the best.” j The building will be the home | of the Institute of Government and is to be situated on Franklin street, facing the University of North Carolina campus. It will be of Colonial brick design with four floors and twenty rooms, in cluding offices, assembly and ex hibit rooms, training schools and; clubrooms for public officials. Contracts were signed recently and construction will begin at once. “During the past five years,” said Mr. Coates, “members of the staff of the Institute of Govern ment have been going from city hall to city hall arid from county courthouse to county courthouse j gathering materials and forms \ and1 making surveys of differing! governmental practices. Surveys already completed include Pas quotank and New Hanover in the East, Guilford and Mecklenburg in the Piedmont, Buncombe and Cherokee in the West, and all the cities and towns in these coun ties. Thus 96 counties, 187 cities ana lowns, ana pracucany an state departments are joining in building the Institute of Govern ment and in carrying on this work, Mr. Goates said. During the coming year it is expected that exhibits will he received from every North Carolina city, county and state department. The laboratory building will also provide a home for the Insti tute of Government’s clearing house of information. Books, pamphlets, special studies, maps and charts already in the Insti tute library number in the thous ands, with hundreds of new books and pamphlets coming in each month. . Nearly two hundred gov ernmental magazines, state, na tional and foreign, furnish up-to the-minute information on cur I rent activities and developments in the field of government. More ithan one hundred daily and week ly newspapers are received regu j larly. The laboratory building will also serve as headquarters for the Institute’s training schools, many of which have already been (turn to page five, please) A Fanners picnic is to be held on Aug. 12 —in Felts park, Galax, be ginning at 10 a. m. A num ber of talks are scheduled for delivery during the pro gram for the event. “The Cooperative Program and What it Means to Farmers’’ will be discussed by S. Floyd Lan dreth, N. M. Ward and J. Earn est Cox, Galax; R. L. Wiley, In dependence ; A. C. Oosterhuis, president of the Holstein-Friesian association of the Carnation Milk company, and Dr. T. K. Wolfe, Richmond. Music will be rendered during the program by the Moose Mel ody band, Galax. M. W. Reynolds, Agriculture teacher in Virginia-Carolina high school, Grassy Creek, N. C., will be master of ceremonies during one period of the meeting. The meeting is to be presided over, in general, by Wayne Larrowe, Galax. Contests, games, etc., will be engaged in and prizes will be awarded, it is understood. Those who attend are asked to take picnic baskets. Free lemonade will be served. Whitetop will be first among the Appalachian peaks —«n Friday arid Saturday, August 12 and 13, when the Whitetop Folk festival is to be presented. To the pic turesque mountain, second high est in Virginia, will come, for the festival, eminent musicians, writers, artists and thousands of other visitors to mingle with the folk of mountain and lowland, city and countryside, and enjoy the traditional music, dances and customs of their forefathers. On the rhythm-rocked tune filled summit, overlooking five states, will be found ancient and later songs, ballads, dance tunes on fiddle, banjo, fife and dulcimer, “play-party” games and traditional dance figures. Traditional coun try dances, horn pipes, clog and square dances will be executed to the accompaniment of “Devil in the Woodpile,” “Natches-on the-Hill,” “Haste to the Wed ding” and similar tunes; the peo ple dancing all night in the “wild goose chase,” “bird in the cage,’’ “twistification” and other ancient figures. This year’s general festival program is under the direction of John Powell, noted American composer-pianist, who will be as sisted by Winston Wilkinson, vio linist of the University of Vir ginia; Richard Chase, who for years has been connected with the University of North Carolina in folk work and has recently been connected with William and Mary college as instructor in tra ditional games and dances, and by Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Wilkin (turn to page eight, please) Governor Hoey has called a special session of the N. C. Legislature for Mon., Aug. 8 —to consider the allocation of state funds for a proposed PWA improvement program at North Carolina institutions. The governor issued a proclamation Monday in Raleigh, calling the legislators to meet in the capital city at noon Monday. Immediately, clerks in the governor’s office dispatched telegrams to An “Old Fiddlers” convention is to be held in Galax —in Felts park, on Friday and Saturday nights, August 19 and 20, beginning each night at 7:30 o’clock, and many musicians are getting ready to participate in the contests. , A special program is scheduled for Saturday afternoon,- at 3:00 o’clock. Present prospects are fair for the 1938 convention to top all previous ones held in Galax, it has been said. Registrations are be ing received from every direction and musicians from several states are expected. Many authorities on music from far and near have been invited. Among them are Arthur Kyle Davis, of the University of Vir ginia, Charlottesville;, Mrs. An nette Simpson, New York; Rich ard Chase, Chapel Hill, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. John Blakemore, Marion; Mrs. Annabel Morris Buchanan, Marion; Dan Ganna day, of Radford State Teachers college, Radford; John Harring ton Cox, of the University of West Virginia, and John A. Lo max, Washington, D. C. The Library of Congress sent Mr. Lomax to the convention held in the Galax high school audit >rium last October and seemed to ba delighted with the abundance end variety of material he found here. A total of $129 in cash prizes is to be awarded at the conven tion to be. held this month, in addition to a silver loving cup for the best all-around musician. Ap propriate trophies will also be given all piize winners. As a special feature of the convention, an official public wedding is planned for Friday night. Any couple contemplating marriage about that time is cordially invited to register such intentions with Mrs. R. C. Bowie, secretary of the Old Fiddlers con vention, who will hold names strictly confidential until the time of the ceremony. Such registra tions should be made as early as possible, in order that all neces sary arrangements for the wedding may he made. All musicians who plan to par i ticipate in the convention are urged to register as early as pos sible, as Wednesday, August 17, is the last day for registering. An appropriation I by Congress has become available —for the Blue Ridge park way, according to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, who recently inform ed Governor Clyde Roark Hoey of the fact. The appropriation, which was made for the parkway, is in the amount of $5,500,000. Of the sum $3,500,000 was al lotted in the 1939 Interior Depart ment appropriation act, and $2, 000,000 was earmarked under the second deficiency appropriation act for 1938. The Blue Ridge parkway con struction program in North Caro lina for the fiscal year includes 16 1-2 miles of road between Route 241 and Blowing Rock, 11 miles between Wagon Road Gap and Tennessee Bald, and 7 3-4 miles between Gooch Gap and Buck Creek Gap. The governor said the state highway and public works com mission had obtained and con veyed to the federal government rights-of-way for part of the route. “The commission now is obtain ing rights-of-way for the re mainder, which ■will be deeded to the United States at an early date,” he added, “so that con struction may proceed. the legislators who were elected in 193.6 and already have served in one special, session and in one regular session. Attorney-General Harry McMul lan was instructed to draw up a bill authorizing the issuance of bonds, the ' money from -which will be used to supplement PWA funds in the event the contem plated improvement program is ap proved by the legislature and by federal officials.. The amount of the bond issue which the governor will recom mend to the lawmakers was to be determined by the advisory bud get commission, which was to meet in Raleigh yesterday and today. Heads of institutions were to present their requests to the commission at a hearing Wednes day. Treasurer Charles M. Johnson said the legislature could authorize a bond issue of as much as $6, 345,000, which would be sufficient for an $11,000,000 improvement program. The governor said there was a possibility that he would ask the legislature also to pass a measure simplifying the. procedure under which municipalities and counties may apply for PWA funds'. The governor’s proclamation came as no surprise, and admin istration supporters quicklv took steps to see that the “must” measure or measures were passed expeditiously. It was understood that a resolution limiting debate to PWA business would be intro duced in both the House and Sen a e, a few moments after they aa s called to order, Administration ■ supporters will preside over both bodies. R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia, who governed the 1937 house with a firm hand, and Lieutenant-Gover nor W. P. Horton, of Pittsboro, will preside over the house and senate respectively. Cherry now is chairman of the senate Demo cratic executive committee. “I hope that only PWA legis lation will be considered,’’ Gover nor Hoey stated. Rep. Doughton will speak in Salisbury Aug. 12 —at a dinner meet.ng cele brating the third annivers ary of the Social Security act, according to an an nouncement made recently by W. j C. Spruill, manager' of the Salis bury Social Security office. Con I gressman Doughton will be the principal speaker for the event. | The anniversary dinner, feat j uring addresses by outstanding ' speakers, will be the only one of I its kind in the nation, Spruill I said. Other officials have planned j smaller events, he explained. All persons employed by agen cies or services related to the so \ cial security board have been in' ivited to participate in the cele bration. Those who will address the meeting are Mrs. W. T. Bost, state commissioner of charities and public welfare; Major A. L. Fletcher, state labor commission er; Dr. John Cooke, of the Wo man’s College in Greensboro, and Dr. B. B. Daugherty, president of Appalachian State Teachers col lege, Boone. A Memorial to Dr. Guy F. Duncan will be dedicated —next Sunday afternoon, Aug ust 7, at 2 p. m., at Glade Valley church. Rev. Lee Hampton will have charge of the services. Other ministers will also participate in the program. The regular memorial for the Glade Valley cemetery will be observed at 11 a. m. Rev. R. L. Berry will have charge of this service. Friends and relatives are re quested to bring flowers.
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