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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, NOVEMBER 10, 1938. Number 25. Hugo S. Sims Washington Correspondent ELECTION PUZZLES NO NATIONAL VOICE JAPAN SPEAKS OUT U. S. FACES PROBLEM SPREADING THE BENEFITS SUBSIDIES OF THE PAST Now that the election is over with, the votes counted and the returns .announced, one would or dinarily assume that the people of the United States, through a solemn referendum, have made clear-cut decisions upon public issues. As a matter of fact, such is not the case. Who, for example, can take the returns of Tuesday’s ballots and tell what the people of this coun try think about the Farm Pro gram, the Public Health issue, the Reorganization of the Govern ment, the foreign policies of this country or the contemplated pro gram of greater preparedness for war To ask these questions is to an swer them. ‘As a matter of fact, it is impossible to say that the election of so many Republicans means so many votes against any particular measure or that the Democrats hold so many seats is equivalent to that many votes for or against any proposition. Some of the candidates elected under the label of one party are in fact closer to the political division of their opponents than they are to other members of their own party. The Congress will include Con servative Democrats and Liberal Democrats, Progressive Republi cans, and others under party names that mean little or nothing on national issue. Not only will the Conservatives tend to oppose the Liberals, but the views of the members will be colored by the states from which they come. For example, members from agri cultural areas will flavor liberal legislation for farmers, those who represent industrial and urban centers are apt to support liberal unemployment payments, and those from seaboard states are, in general, more apt to support pre paredness plans than others from interior commonwealths. As stated in this column several times before, the main issue de cided by the election is whether President Roosevelt retains the support of a large majority of the members of Congress. It may be that his Republican opponents, aided by Conservative Democrats, will be able to seriously interfere with his legislative program. This however, will not be known until the members of Congress cast their votes upon the legislative proposals that emanate from the White House, The writer cannot comment at this time upon the results in in dividual states because, to be frank, this article is being writ ten before the results of Tuesr day’s election are known. Next week, if the election returns trace a definite picture on the political horizon, we will try to sketch its outlines. Diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan will like ly become increasingly strained during the next few months. The recent note of the United States protesting against Japanese treat ment of American commerce in Manchuria and threatened discrim ination against our trade in other areas of China has been followed by plain indications that Japan intends to assert some sort of overlordship over the Far East. Inevitably, the Japanese will at tempt to exploit the Asiatic Main land and to assert its right to preferential treatment in violation of the Open Door policy. It is easy to see that if the United States insists upon its pos ition in regards to China, which is absolutely in accordance with treaties signed by Japan, and the I Japanese continue to pursue their imperialistic designs, a head-on collision is inevitable. Whether the interests of the United States in the Far East are sufficient to warrant a diplomatic stand that will invite a conflict is the only question to be decided by this, country. In our opinion, if the United States refuses to yield to what the Japanese consider the new position in the Orient, the chances of hostilities are consid erable. Undoubtedly, the Japanese are detrmined to carry out their Asiatic policy of supremacy re gardless of the attitude of foreign nations, including the United States, and nothing will check the Japanese venture except the weight of superior strength in battle. Many of those who study the .relationship between Government and its people have been amazed during the past few years to real ize the vast number of citizens now receiving some form of fi nancial asistance from the Gov (turn to page four, please) Gov. Lehman, of New York, was reelected Tuesday —(Over his Republican op ponent, District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, after a hard-fought campaign, by a narrow margin. Republican candi dates for major posts took leads, however, in such strategic states as Pennsylvania, Kansas, Michigan and Wisconsin. Incomplete re turns indicated1 a strong Republi can upsurge of strength in sev eral areas. Dewey, young; man hattan rackets prosecutor, carried the Republican colors into the lead in early returns from New York state, but later a rush of ballots from New York City in dicated a slim margin for Leh man. Senator Robert F. Wagner and Representative James M. Mead, Democrats, also were ahead for the two senatorial seats of the Empire state, whose 47 votes in the presidential electoral college make it the nation’s major battle ground. All were supported pub licly by President Roosevelt. In Pennsylvania, second rank ing state, the story was different. In the senatorial contest, Senator James J. Davis, Republican, en joyed a substantial advantage ov er Governor George H, Earle, sponsor of the “little New Deal” put forward at Harrisburg. Red thatched Arthur H. James, a Re publican and a superior court judge, likewise was ahead of Charles Alvin Jones, Democrat, in the governorship fight. In Kansas where tobogganing wheat prices created farm unrest, Republican candidates pulled ahead. Former Governor Clyde M. Reed, running for '.he senate, led Senator George McGill, New Dealer whose name is on the crop control law. For the governorship, Payne H. Ratner topped the De mocratic incumbent, Walter' A. Huxman. Frank Murphy, Michigan’s New Deal governor, fell behind his Republican antagonist, former Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald. ] However, the returns from De-; troit, which has been a Murphy j stronghold, were slow in coming in. The Michigan contest had been ! closely watched by political ana lysts because President Roosevelt1 had intervened to defend Murphy j against “treason” charges brought j by critics of the governor’s handl- j ing of sitdown strikes. Senator Millard Tydings, .whose j defeat Mr. Roosevelt personally sought in the Democratft primary,! was returned to the Senate by j Maryland with votes to spare. I The world was given notice anew Sunday —night by Sumner Welles, under-secretary of state, in ' Washington, D. C., that the United States was preparing, not only to defend itself, but to aid in keeping the entire western hemisphere safe from any threatened attack. In an address prepared for broadcasting over a nation wide (NBC) network and to South America, the State department of ficial appealed for inter-American solidarity at a time when “the doctrine of hatred is threatening civilization.” Territorial integrity and indi vidual liberty may depend upon continued close relations between the American republics, he said. “As a nation,” Welles asserted, “we will assure ourselves that we are in a position to defend ourselves from all aggression from whatever source it may arise, and to be prepared to join with our fellow democra cies of the new world in pre serving the western hemisphere safe from any threat of attack.” The United state sgovernment now is engaged in a general re survey of its national defense needs, in which study the com mitments of the century- old Monroe doctrine are being kept closely in mind. That doctrine de clared the American continent closed to further European colon ization. Welles said, that the eighth Pan-American conference, meet ing at Lima, Peru, on December 9, would be of outstanding im portance in view of the world situation. Secretary of State Hull is expected to head the Ameri can delegation. “Our respective freedom, inde pendence and future welfare may depend upon our continued soli darity,” Welles declared. “Just two years ago the Amer ican republics in a joint declara tion unanimously proclaimed that any threat to the peace of any one of the American republics was a threat to the peace of all of thepi, and justified immediate consultation between them all. NO SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY NIGHT —at the Presbyterian Church, on account of the lack of heat ing facilities, it was announced recently by Rev. R. L. Berry, pastor. However, services will be an nounced as early as the new heat ing plant is installed. Congressman R. L Doughton was reelected Tuesday in the Ninth District, which includes his home county of Alleghany, over his Republican opponent, Mon roe Adams, by a majority that, judging from returns at midnight Tuesday, was upward of 9,000 majority. According to these returns, 82 to 168 precincts gave Doughton 19,098 and Adams, 10,457. Doughton, who was hounded by representa tives of the Townsend old-age pension movement, in his cam paign, had kind words for those who campaigned against him. He said at midnight that “my victory right now looks like a 16,000-vote majority on the basis of returns I have received.” “I want to express my thanks to the voters of my district for their overwhelming vote of con fidence. This is sufficient answer to the Townsend movement in our district and imported speak ers and rotten literature broad cast throughout the district. The campaign against me was con ducted on the lowest level of any campaign ever conducted in my district.” Adams, backed by Townsend ites, waged a hard campaign in the ninth district. For weeks Townsend sound trucks rolled through the district urging the voters to send Adams to Con gress and replace the 72-year-old “Farmer BoJ>” who had the bless ings of President Roosevelt and the new deal. Doughton's victory was a vict ory for the new deal and anoth er setback for the Townsendites, who made their first appearance in the state this year by fight ing the man from Laurel Springs.1 A. D. (“Lon”) Folger, the Mount Airy lawyer who resem-1 bles the late Will Rogers, was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives from the fifth congressional district by a land slide vote. Sheridan Downey was leading in California —fior the senatorship from that state, on the Democratic ticket, and Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for governor of the state, was also leading in early election returns Tuesday night. Downey is a sup porter of the $30-every-Thursday pension plan. He defeated Senat or William Gibbs McAdoo in the primary. Inital totals also were unfavor able to the pension measure, as well as to a proposal to curb strike picketing and other labor activities by law. In 1,406 out of the state’s 12, 472 precincts, most of them par tial returns from heavily popu lated Los Angeles county, Olson got 102,869 and Republican Gov ernor Frank F. Merriam 71,540. Downey collected 72,987 in 1, 445 precincts while Republican Philip Bancroft, foe of the pen sion plan and critic of some New Deal policies, received 48,688. REV. HOWARD J. FORD IS TO PREACH HERE SUNDAY —November 13, at 11 a. m., in the Baptist Church. Celebrating The End Of The World War NEW YORK CITY . . . Soldiers, sailors and their girls joined in the celebration of the signing of the Armistice twenty years ago, the most enthusiastic celebration the City of New York has ever seen. National And World NEWS At A Glance EARTH TREMORS FELT Los Angeles, Nov. 4.-—Two [ slight earth tremors shook the Los Angeles area today. No ! damage was reported. The Car 1 negie Institution Seismological laboratory said the first quaqe lasting for 15 seconds oecured at 10:24 a. m. (P.S.T.) SENATOR’S MOTHER DIES Belington, W- Va., Nov. 4— Mrs. Mary Morris Neely, 89-year old mother of U. S. Senator M. IM. Neely, (D.-W. Va, ), died at her home today after a long ill ness. The senator, on a speaking tour through the southern part of the ! state, cancelled his engagements i and harried -the home. BRITONS TO VISIT PARIS London, Nov. 4.—Prime Minis ter Neville* Chamberlain and For eign Secretary Viscount Halifax will visit Paris November 23-25 in a new demonstration of Anglo French solidarity in face of the successful cooperation between Rome and Berlin. WILL SEEK BIG AIR FLEET Washington, Nov. o.—Adminis tration circles heard today that President Roosevelt intended de finitely to ask congress to au thorize one of the world’s migh tiest air fleets, numbering 7,000 to 10,000 warplanes, for the ar my. SALLY CLARK TO WED. New York, Nov. 5.—Sally Clark finished the first fittings of her trousseau today as she prepared for her wedding to George X. McLanahan in Em-, •manuel church at Boston on De cember 3. The sister of President Roose velt’s daughter-in-law, Anne Clark Roosevelt, has abandoned tempor arily her night club singing career and departs for her home in Nahant, Mass., Thursday. RECONCILIATION SEEN London, Nov. 7.—The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester may meet the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Friday in Paris as a first step toward reconciliation between the British royal family and the abdicated king. ROSE BOWL THREAT New York, Nov. 6.—Those Ir ish of Notre Dame, in full bloom of their greatest football season since Knute Rockne’s last in 1930 may cause thistles and thorns to grow in the Rose Bowl. Already they’ve tossed the promoters of football’s greatest classic into a November panic. The Honor Roll at Rock Creek School was announced —recently, for the second month of the 1938-39 term, as follows': First Grade: Helen Billings and Betty Ruth Farmer. Second Grade: Vella Billings and Dwight Reeves. Third Grade: Doris Souther and Blanche Grouse. Seventh Grade: Edna Sanders, Fred Hampton and Wilma Hamp ton. ELDER S. C. CAUDILL WILL PREACH SATURDAY —and Sunday, November 12 and 13, at eleven o’clock, at Elk Creek. I North Carolina kept its support I of the Democratic j —party unbroken in Tues day’s election, scattered re | turns from all parts af the state Tuesday nig'ht indicat ed. On the basis of available re ports, Senator Robert R. Rey | molds, the eleven Democratic ‘ nominees for Congress, and two incumbent members of the State Supreme Court were reelected, and two proposed amendments to the, constitution were apparently approved. With 548 of the 1,877 precincts reported, the vote for Reynolds was 78,238 against 23,041 for , his Republican opponent, former ; Congressman Charles A. J.onas of Lincolnton. Reynolds, running’ as an admin istration supporter, made few speeches in the campaign, having been handicapped by a throat ail- , nient. Jonas, who went to Congress in the 1928 Hoover landslide, at tacked the Roosevelt administra tion’s spending policy, and warned there was danger of regimenta- j tion in the country. He asserted the issue of the ! campaign was whether “constitu-, tional democracy” should survive, I and pictured himself as the bear-! er of the “flag of democracy.” King George, of England, is to visit the U. S. —early next summer, arwL there is a possibility that the King and Queen Eliza- \ beth will be accompanied; on their Canadian-U. S. trip by Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain. The King announced before Parliament Tuesday that he was “happy to accept” an invitation from President Roosevelt to visit the United States early next sum mer. The announcement was re garded as a major political de velopment that may have far reaching effects on American Anglo relations. The London Daily Mail said that the king, who with his queen will be guests at the White House for at least two days after which they will visit the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, was expected to exchange views with Mr. Roose velt on a “variety of important problems.” The royal visit marking the first time that a reigning British monarch ever has set foot on Un-1 ited States soil or even visited his dominions, is expected to bring the young monarch and his Scot tish consort to the United States about June 20. The Honor Roll at Pine Swamp School was announced —recently, for the second month of the 1938-39 term, as follows,: First Grade: Velma Edwards, Patricia Ann Edwards and Doris Walker. Second Grade: Guy Scott. Third Grade: Helen Andrews, Dwain Andrews, Marie Brooks, Dwight Brown, Reba Walker, Fay Walker and Dorothy Wagoner. Fourth Grade: Naomi Andrews. Sixth Grade; Eiva Sue Wagoner. -.,«c can4»4a,es r„„ntv were oftice TuesA*?, SW*?J USt/arJfsfi^s; -*» **• “ had ** b .„,va«»'> e' . « jpl B,W!. oi roo,e ;*"» ■"» One coU"W Jfsuvf «1CV‘SU °ve1 given a »>«oUW The charge that the U. S. helped tc elevate Hitler —to his present exalted position in Germany was made at Hollins College, Hollins, Va., Tuesday night, by Dr. William E. Dodd, former ambassador to Germany, in an adrlre • 0n “The Condition of Modern Civilization.” “The growth of dictatorships.” he said, “is a consequence of our not agreeing to Woodrow Wil son’s proposal for a. League of Nations, for . the reduction of armies, for easier trade relations and for a civilization based on the principles of Christianity.” He said that Germany has1 or ganize ! an army to beat anything in Europe c,r anything Germany has ever had. By 1940, he said*. Germany’s army will be ten mil lion strong and the whole of Germany will be laid out like a, great camp, with good roadsI leading from Berlin to every! strategic-.' point . of the frontier. He. also said that the United States has been aiding Japan in j the amount of eight million . Jol- . lavs a .month- in armaments,1 whereas, if the .democratic na tion:- led by the United State -. would impose a boycott on If' would collapse in :e. than, tlv ee months. Hitler, he blieVes, doe- not want war as yet, , and knowing . -.hat other countries want peace at any price, he need, only threat en. war to annex what territory he wants. Dr. Dodd said that me deni civi lization is in the greatest , danger it ha.- been in for hundreds of years. No nation, he said, seems . to realize the causes of thi. con-1 cation, because all democracies; seem to think they must compete i with one another and try to break down one another’s trade. Dr. Dodd believes that if democratic1 countries all over the world would cooperate, they could boycott the d elator nations so effectively that they could stop the increasing! power of dictators and probably stop war. 1 AM Hitler declared Tuesday night in Munich —that if negotiations fail to restore Germany’s war-lost colonies “nobody” must be surprised if we resort to other means.” Hitler made the declaration in a speech commemo rating' the crushing of his 1923 ‘‘beer cellar putsch.” The fuehrer, speaking before j his “old fighters" of the abortive j putsch that was the, beginning of ; the Nazi movement, boasted of Germany’s armed strength and! berated democracies. “We do not want anything from the western powers except the colonies to which we have a right,” he shouted from the ros trum of the Feldherrn Halle to which the Nazi veterans had marched over the same path they took in the putsch, carrying the same “blood flag.” Reviewing the dissensions with in Germany in the final stages of the war “when the great Ameri can apostle (Woodrow Wilson) came out with his 14 points and wonderful phrases,” he said the nation would not have collapsed except for civil war. “Had I been then where I am: now there would have been no! collapse,” he said. “I would have j done away with parties. The world democracies know that when they shed tears for German democ racy.” ms opponent. j.n. v. Jones, ana S. W. Brown, candidate for the Legislature, led his opponent, S. S. Landreth, in Gap Civil Town ship, by 423 votes, J. C. Gam bill, candidate for County Com missioner, led his opponent, Edgar W,vight, in Gap Civil Township, by 545 vote?. W. B. Austin, candidate, for State Senator in the twenty ninth Senatorial. District, led by 460 vote? hi? opponent, • Grant Bauguess. Reports are to the effect that, i;i Piney Creek Township, the majority for each Democratic candidate was around the 100 mark. Cherry Lane Township, here tofore a Republican district, went Democratic by more than 70 votes foi the lowest majority of any candidate there. The Republicans le.d in White head Township,' the largest ma jority registered there being ap proximately 40 vote?. Congress man. Robert L. Doughton, how eve i, carried this Township by a small: majority. In the last 'con gressional election, Mr, Doughton lost Whitehead Township to his opponent by about 1Q0 votes. Glade Creek Township gave a substantial majority to the De mocratic candidates, and Cran berry Township gave Democratic majorities ranging from 10 to 16(1, Congressman Doughton re ceiving 195 votes, as compared; with his opponent's 38. Doughton’?; majority in the, county is probably as large as. he has ever received here. i ’rather? Creek Township gave a close vote between M W. Brown and S. S. Landreth, candidates for the Legislature. The vote was also close between A. F. Reeves and X. C, Jones, candidates for Court Clerk. The Democratic candidates, however, had small majorities in this Tod nship. < ith-. er Democratic candidates in the Prathers Creek Township had a good lead. A memorial to Will Rogers was dedicated Friday —in Claremore, Okla., and friends of the late actor and comedian — including cow boys, actors, aviators and the president of the United States —joined Oklahoma in dedicating the memorial to Claremore’s fam ous son who one observed: “I never met a man I didn’t like.” The audience of more than 20,000 persons, gathered on a windy hill-top in front of the newly-completed §200,000 Rogers Museum, was in itself an unprece dented tribute to a private citi zen. President Roosevelt broadcast from Hyde Park, N. Y., his “grateful homage to the memory of a man who helped the nation to smile.” “After all,” said Mr. Roose velt, “I doubt if there is among us a more useful citizen than the one who holds the secret of banishing gloom, of making teams give way to laughter, of supplant ing desolation and despair with hope and courage. For hope and courage always- go with a light heart.” The president’s speech was the climax of a celebration which in cluded the unveiling, by Mary Rogers, of a bronze statue to her father made by Jo Davidson, American sculptor. Irvin S. Cobb, Fred Stone, Gov ernor E. W. Marland, of Okla homa, and General Roy Hoffman, chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission, added their words of praise. Emotion overcame Mrs. Rogers as her daughter undraped the quizzically-posed statue. She was assisted weeping from the rotunda of the museum. It wiii nouse Rogers’ own col lection of saddles, quirts, spurs and other trappings -of the range, along with Indian and pione&B curios.
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