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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, AUGUST 11, 1938. Number 13. * Hugo S. Sima, Washington Correspondent Business men throughout th< United States are beginning to b< interested in the welfare of th< six million American farmers, be cause they realize that the cast money that the farmer receive! is soon turned their way as th< agricultural population begins t< buy the automobiles, radios, cloth ing, houses, machinery, and th« vast number of things that the farmer must purchase. Wealth and Soil. Years ago it was said quite truly that all wealth comes frorr the soil. It might almost be saic in the United States that the business flow depends upon the condition of agriculture. While about one-third of our population resides in the rural regions, it is safe to assume that many others are dependent, for their business success, upon the financial condi tion of the farmers. Last year for example, the cash farm income reached $8,250,000, 000. This year it will be about a billion dollars less. Production ex penses, however, are expected to be lower than the $4,000,000,000 of a year ago and Government subsidies are also to be somewhat larger. The net result is that the farmers will have about $3,900, 000,000 this year to spend on in dustrial products. Last year they had an estimated $4,600,000,000. Amazing Paradox. * The amazing paradox that puz zles students of our economy is that farmers are facing bountiful harvests, as a rule, but that in stead of the increased production meaning more money for the far mers to spend, the drop in prices will give them a smaller income. Exceptionally good crops at prices much lower than a year ago, pro vide less cash. Last year farmers were paid $1.00 a bushel for their wheat, as an average, but this year it will be about sixty-five cents. Cotton brought twelve cents a pound compared with eight cents this year. Corn, at $1.10 a bushel, compares with sixty-three cents. Hogs around $8.00 instead of about $9.00, and butter-fat at twenty-four cents instead of thir ty-one cents a pound. Control Necessary. Because agriculture has been without effective production con tiol, the past is a record of large crops producing huge surpluses, followed by small crops and ad vancing prices. The Federal Gov ernment is attempting to protect farm income from the wild fluc tuations of the past and to give agriculture something like the same machinery that industry uses to gear production in accor dance to demand and what is considered a “fair price.” In other words, the Government Is attempting to do for farmers what giant corporations have done for business and industry. It is creating production control and marketing plans on a long-range basis, with the taaxpayers provid ing the money to finance these controls and to stabilize farm in come. The justification, by farm experts of the Government’s con tribution is that the stability of agriculture will contribute great ly to the security of the national economy. Tariff Argument. In addition there is the argu ment about the tariff. Agricul turalists point out repeatedly that the farmers of this country sell their surplus production at world prices, and, when they come to buy must make their purchases in the domestic market, where man ufacturers and industrialists are protected by a tariff wall from competition abroad. The argument is not only that this forces the famers to pay higher prices, but that the tariff keeps foreign goods out of the United States thus pre venting foreign nations from se suring the necessary foreign ex change with which to pay for their purchases of farm products. Farm CollapM Costly. When one contemplates the Government’s efforts to provide farmers with a plan that will pro tect them against low prices, it is important to realize it is an effort to protect the entire nation against the agricultural collapse that oc curred after 1928. For some years before 1929 the farmers, as a rule had close up to $5,000,000,000 of income available to spend for the products of manufacturers in this country. When the depression came, extra cash was almost wiped away on the farms. Since 1932, the situation has been stead ily improved until in 1937, when once more, as shown by the fig ures quoted above the cash that farmers have to spend began to decline. Business men, including manu facturers and industrialists, who sit in their offices and those who dwell in metropolitan areas, are inclined to look on the Govern (Turn to page four, please) A state-wide project is under | way in this state | —to bring about a “North | Carolina Christmas” this year: through the medium oi ■ 'North Carolina Christmas I cards. The project has beer adopted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, it was announcec recently by Dallas Allford, state Junior Chamber president. i A Christmas Card committee, j headed by W. H. Chamblee, Ral j eigh, is now seeking designs to be contributed by native artists. A state-wide committee to be named by Governor Clyde Roark Hoey will select a half-dozen cards representative of the state’s scenery and Christmas traditions, and these will be produced and distributed through the cooper * ation of civic and patriotic or ! ganizations, according to the plan announced by Chamblee. North Carolina is accustomed to sending greeting cards sug gestive of New England, Old England, or California,’’ Cham blee explained in outlining the project. “Yet our state has beautiful scenes suggestive of Christmas, and it has many dis tinctive Christmas traditions and customs. We believe North Caro linians will welcome the oppor tunity to greet their friends with native Christmas cards, and out of-state people particularly will welcome a distinctive Tar Heel greeting.” Any person is invited to con tribute either a finished design or a suggestion, sending material directly to the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Raleigh. While not accepted as definite designs, Chairman Chamblee mentioned a number of suggestions already proposed to the committee: The famous State capitol, snow covered ; a mountain Madonna— mother and child in a Blue Ridge setting; a card with the state flag and a bar of music from the state song with the words, “Greet ings from North Carolina”; a Moravian Christmas carol scene; an “Old Christmas” greeting card, recalling Rodanthe’s famous January 5th Christmas.; a plan tation there. These and many other themes springing directly from North Carolina are being suggested to the committee. Other ideas will be welcomed, Chamblee said, and finished designs, in color, are especially wanted. A clinic for cripples was held in Sparta —At the office of Dr. C. A. Thompson on Saturday, August 6, by Dr. R. A. Moore, Winston-Salem, who was sent here by the State Board of Health at the request of the I Alleghany County Health depart i ment. Dr. Moore was assisted by the county health nurse, Mrs. Vir ginia Ashley Greene; and Miss Augusta Appelt, state supervisor for cripples. Mr. Clippard, super intendent of the rehabilitation de partment, was also present. Seventeen cripples attended this clinic, and were examined. All were referred either for treat ment, to operation, or for train ing. All of this including the clinic, is free to cripples under twenty one years of age who are unable to pay. Five of those at tending the clinic will be sent to the City Hospital in Winston-Sa lem for operation and treatment. Five are to have specially built shoes to help correct defects. Dr. Moore recommended two of the cripples to Mr. Clippard for train ing, which will enable them to be self supporting. THE ANNUAL DOUGHTON FAMILY REUNION WAS HELD —Sunday at Laurel Springs, with a large attendance. Many per sons present were from a dis tance. :. Among the after-dinner speak ers were Dr. Commodore Jones, of -West Virginia, and Rev. J. F. Fleteher, from the Oak Hill section of Grayson county, Vir ginia. Mrs. Eph Whisenhunt, of Elkin, will be heard in Sparta —at a joint meeting of circle: •of the Baptist Women’s Mission ary union, on Thursday after noon, August 18, at two o’clock in the Sparta Baptist church Mrs. Whisenhunt is well known as her husband, who is pastor o: the Elkin Baptist church, wa formerly a missionary to China She will speak here on “China.” Ladies of all other Baptis churches of the Alleghany associ ation are urgently invited to at tend this meeting and hear Mrs Whisenhunt’s message. Three strikers at the Vaughan furniture plant —in Galax are charged with assault on employees of the Vaughan company Tuesday morning, and a 'hearing (Scheduled for Tuesday afternoon j before Mayor B. D. Beamer in l Galax was called off when a num ber of the warrants issued were I changed from misdemeanors to I felony charges, according to a statement made Tuesday night by S. Floyd Landreth, attorney for the Vaughan company. The hear ing was called off shortly after court was convened by Chief of Police Jack Higgins. Bill Taylor, a striker, accord ing to Mr. Landreth; swore out a warrant Tuesday charging Taylor G. Vaughan, president of the i company, with simple assault. Landreth said Taylor charged Vaughan picked up a rock during an argument. Landreth said he was assisting the commonwealth in prosecution of charges against the strikers for whom warrants have been issued. Trial Justice A. E. Cooley, of Carroll county, was to set a date Wednesday morning in Hillsville for hearing of the cases that were scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in Galax. It was explained that the mayor has no jurisdiction over cases involving felonies. A conference was held at Independence Tuesday night, at tended by Judge John S. Draper, Pulaski, officials of Grayson and Carroll counties and the Town of Galax, a committee representing the strikers at the Galax plant and state officers. It was said that the conference resulted in a decision to request the services of ten additional state policemen, four additional deputy sheriffs each from Grayson and Carroll county, and four town officers to prevent further trouble at the plant. Landreth said the conference here was called by Galax officials. Judge Draper, at the request of the officials, came over from Wytheville, where he is holding | court. Attorneys for the strikers and the furniture company were present at the conference, and agreed to the action taken, Lan dreth said. v The following charges were changed from misdemeanors to felonies, Landreth said: L. C. Leftwich, striker, charged with assault by F. M. Andrews, an employee of the company; Bill Taylor, striker, charged with as sault by C. B. Hurst, an em ployee; Health Liddle, striker, charged with assault by J. R. Poindexter, employee. Mayor Beamer said he will try charges against Vaughan next Monday. The mayor said he ex pects to try another case Mon day concerning a charge by Bill Taylor, member of the strikers’ committee, that John Burnett used abusive language. In a statement Tuesday mght, Fulks, strikers’ attorney, said: “We are going to have our rights if we have to go to the Supreme Court of the United States. I thoroughly oppose violence like has occurred today and have worked continuously since the strike began to help preserve law and order, but when the men (strikers) saw outside laborers go in and take their jobs at which some (strikers) had worked for a dozen years, it was more than they could stand. I hope tomor row will bring the return of peace.’’ At a meeting of the company’s stockholders held last Saturday the previous action of the board of directors, which voted to liqui date the concern, was approved the stockholders voting to “order (Turn to page eight, please) Midgets Attend Midget Wedding BLACKPOOL, Eng. . . Herman Retter, 28 years old, and' his bride, j the former Annie Kneps, 27, both natives of Germany, are shown I leaving the Church of Sacred Heart with members of the wedding j party after their marriage. The groom is 3 feet 10 inches in height ... the bride 2 inches shorter. Governor Hoey made a bid for another big PWA —fund allotment yesterday (Wednesday) by allocating $2,200,000 from the high' way surplus for a $4,000, 000 road - improvement program for the state. The governor said the PWA would be asked to grant the state $1,800,000 to supplement the $2,200,000 appropriation. The funds would be used to eliminate flat curves, replace dangerous bridges, and widen narrow roads in the primary, or arterial, high way system. The road-betterment project is independent of a $8,200,000 PWA improvement program at state in stitutions which now is being con sidered at a special session of the General Assembly. If the lat ter program is endorsed this week by the legislautre, applications will be sent to Washington Mon day. Governor Hoey indicated both would receive “favorable consid eration” from PWA officials. In the event the two public works programs are approved, more than $12,000,000 in state and federal funds would be turned loose in North Carolina before January 1. The highway allotment does not require legislative approval be cause the Governor, as director of the budget, is empowered to ap propriate funds from the road surplus. In a message Monday to the General Assembly, when the special session called by the chief executive convened, Hoey stated that he would make the road al lotment and apply for additional PWA funds. The amount of the allotment was not disclosed at that time, however. Frank L. Dunlap, chairman of the highways and public works commission, pre viously had asked the advisory budget commission for $40,000, 000 for primary roads. Annual Memorial services were conducted Sunday I —morning, August 7, at the Glade Valley Presbyterian I church. Rev. R. L. Berry preached the memorial ser mon, using as a text: “What Mean Ye By This Service?” At two o’clock in the afternoon a memorial service for the late Dr. Guy Franklin Duncan was held. Rev. C. W. Ervin presided, and a number of close friends of Dr. Duncan paid heartfelt tributes to his memory. Among these were Rev. Lee Hampton, the Rev. Mr. Andrews, Rev. Spot McKnight, and Van Cox. A beautiful monu ment was unveiled to the memory of Dr. Duncan. Many floral tributes were plac ed on the graves. Both morning and afternoon services were well attended, the church being filled to capacity. A GAIN IN BUSINESS IN THE NATION WAS REPORTED —yesterday in Washington b> Secretary of Commerce Roper who said a check-up of economic statistics showed “that the im proved business morale a month age was translated into progress Officials of church colleges closed a meeting —yesterday (Wednesday) in Asheville. The gathering was the seventh annual conference of the church related colleges of the South. Of ficials, on the closing day, ac cepted a report of a finding com mittee that public financial s_p port for church-related colleges should be received with caution. The findings committee also emphasized the responsibility of church-related colleges in the field of religion, and pointed out that colleges should maintain a very close relationship to the church. The committee also brought out that church-related colleges should look for thir support from small givers from the churches and that church-related colleges should give guidance in the matter of student recruiting. Dr. Charles A. Anderson, presi dent of Tuseulum College, at Greeneville, Tenn.l, was named chairman of the conference for the coming year to succeed Dr. B. E. Geer, president of Fur man University, at Greeneville, S. C. Dr. J. N. Hillman, president of Emory and Henry College, at Em ory, Va., was named vice chair man of the conference, and Dr. W. M. Alexander, of Nashville, Tenn., secretary of department schools and colleges of the M. E. Church, South, was reelected sec retary-treasurer. Prospects for early erection of a factory —in Independence faded Friday night when Dr. E. Soott Elliott announced to member's of the local Busi ness Men’s club that he had re ceived word that the promoters, with whom representatives had been negotiating, were no longer interested in Independence as a prospective site for a hosiery mill. The full reason for the pro moters’ action was given, but it was generally supposed here that they considered the proposals of the Independence group to be below their expectations. Other high-lights' of the regular monthly dinner meeting of the club were: talks by most of the members; the presence of several visitors, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Cornett, Com ers Hock, and R. K. Poole, Wythe ville, and comments by the presi dent, Dr. M. G. Cox, in which he related experiences of his recent trip to the West Coast and ended by expressing his preference for Grayson county over all the ter ritory which he covered. A delicious chicken dinner was served the club by members of Circle No. 2, of the Women’s Missionary society of the Metho dist church. LAWRENCE S. CAMP WAS ENDORSED FOR SENATOR —yesterday by President Roose velt in Warm Springs, Ga. Camp, of Atlanta, is seeking to unseat Senator Walter F. George. E. C. Bottomley has just finished the first silo —to be erected this sum mer in this section. A number of other siLos have been started and beginning of construction work on still oth ers is planned for the next two or three weeks. As it takes only two or three days to erect a silo after a foun dation is completed, there is still time for any farmer to get a silo this fall, it has been pointed out. There seems to be a great inter est shown in this section in silo building this season and many other farmer's are planning to build, in order to take care of the crop this fall. Inquiries for information concerning silos con tinue to pour in daily at the offices' of county farm agents at Independence, Hillsville and Sparta; to the Galax Associ ation of Commerce, and to the Carnation company, in Galax, it is said. Professor Kiles, 0f the Engi neering department of V. p. I., Blacksburg, was in this territory Tuesday and Wednesday helping various fanners plan their silos, dairy barns and various improve ments to their present dairy equipment. He will be in this territory again the middle of Sep tember and anyone wanting him to help them should notify either their county agent or a repre sentative of the Carnation com pany. With the abundant corn crop there is still a good opportunity for many fanners to obtain a silo in order to carrrry their cows through this winter. Because of hot weather, much of the hay was put up in rather poor con dition and it is even more im portant ta> have silage for this winter. The following farmers plan to erect silos within the next few weeks and many others have indi cated the possibility of their do ing so: E. C. Bottomley, Roy Murphy and Flem Cox, Galax; George Edwards, E. G. Mastin and W. H. Lintecum, Hillsville; Lee Jones, Galax; T. M. Calhoun, Elk Creek; Lynch Calfee, Wood lawn; Dr. H. L. Lyons, Hills ville; Glen Joines, Sparta, N. C.; Troy Wilson and J. I. Palmer, Galax, and Eugene Transou, Sparta, N. C. Roy Murphy and Lynch Calfee are putting up stone silo3. J. M. Phipps’ dairy herd near Galax was first —in the Carroll-Grayson Dairy Herd Improvement association for July in milk and butterfat production, with an average of 949 pound: of milk and 31.8 pounds of fa! per cow. Mr. Phipps’ herd i: comprised of Holstein and Jersej cows. The second highest average ii milk and fat was made by th< herd of seven grade Guernsey; owned by 0. M. Thomas, Marion with an average of 687 pound: of milk and 28.2 pounds of fa per cow. The herd of 20 regis tered and grade Guernseys ownec by A. G. Webb, Mount Airy, N C., made the third highest butter fat average with an average o: 519 pounds of milk and 24.5 pounds of fat per cow. Th< herd of 12 grade Guernsey cow: owned by S. G. Thomas, Grant made the third highest milk aver age with an average of 55( pounds of milk and 23.4 pounds of fat per cow. There were 17 cows producing ] over 40 pounds of butterfat each and the owners and numbers own ed by each are as follows Phipps, 9; Webb, 3; Gordon C Felts, 3, and O. M. Thomas, 2. The cow making the highesi number of pounds of milk anc fat during the month was a grade Holstein owned by Mr. Phipps This cow produced 1,891 pound: of milk and 64.2 pounds of but terfat. Narrow highways cause many traffic deaths —said State Revenue Com missioner A. J Maxwell Tuesday in Winston-Salem, speaking at the annual con vention of the North Carolina | Sheriffs’ association. Maxwell told ! the law enforcement officers that j North Carolina’s highway fatality i rate is due to narrow roads that : are prevalent because of the j state’s unfinished highway system. “The reason for so many deaths on our highways is more deep j seated than mere carelessness,” I explained Maxwell. “Back of al j most every fatality is the narrow concrete highway with its dirt j shoulders.” The revenue commissioner, un der whose supervision comes the state highway patrol and division of highway safety, explained he had no bone to pick with road builders now and added that North Carolina was a pioneer in the con I struction of highways, j “We started building roads be fore the technique of road build ing was established,” said Max well. “Our roads were built nar row and with flat curves. The ; first roads builders were. very much too liberal with their curves i There was no banking of curves j then ; the flat curves are killing persons almost every day.” He explained that the state highway department estimates it will cost $40,000,000 to make the highways conditionable and less hazardous. “Regardless of cost we ought to make a beginning—a serious be ginning and go forward with re building our highways as is ade quately possible,” said Maxwell, “W^e can’t build them in a day; it will take at least five years, but we can begin now and work as fast as we can.” Other problems face the people of the state on our highways, he added, but next in order comes speeding. “There is practically no speed limit in North Carolina. It says the limit is 45 miles per hour, but there is no violation statute if you go over 45 without driving reckless. “I am here to tell you there should be a top limit, backed up by the law and a penalty that would stop this speeding and this killing.” National And World NEWS At A Glance CORRIGAN COMES HOME New York, Aug. 4.—Douglas Corrigan, the irrepressible young Long Beach, Calif., aviation me chanic who took off for Los Angeles in a fog and arrived in Ireland “by mistake,” came home today to a tumultous greeting that he said was “worse than anything that happened while j flying the Atlantic.” WARNER OLAND DIES Santa Barbara, Calif., Aug. 6. --Warner Oland, the Charlie , Chan who escaped a thousand terrible deaths on the screen, died ! of bronchial pneumonia today in his native Sweden. ■I - LIGHTNING KILLS BATHERS i New York, Aug. 7.—A bolt of i lightning raced 300 feet along Jacob Riis Park Beach, crowded with 20,000 people today, and felled 17 persons, killing three. The strewn injured lay un ' conscious on the beach several hours as more than 50 police emergency squad men and ambu lance surgeons worked desperately , to resuscitate them. LINDBERGH FORCED DOWN Le Havre, France, Aug. 7.— Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh made a forced landing at Beiville airport, near here today, when a plane in which he wag flying from Illiec Island to England developed motor trouble. ARMISTICE IS DECLARED Moscow, Aug. 10.—Russia and Japan have declared an armistice on the Manchukuoan-Siberian border, effective at noon Thurs ; day, it was announced today. The truce was described as effective “on the Far-Eastern front.” Armed operations will ! cease at noon Habarovsk time • (about 11 p. m. (e. d. t.), Wed netaday).
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