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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, DECEMBER 15, 1938. Number :W. '* Hugo S. Sim*, Washington Corre*pondent The President, returning to Washington from Warm Springs, <ia., proclaimed the virtues of liberalism, gave notice that the New Deal would continue, and re affirmed his belief in the Ameri can way of life, including capi talism. Declaring that we are not only the “largest and most pow erful demorcracy,” but one to which other democracies look to leadership. Mr. Roosevelt said that what this country does, or fails to do, in the next few years would have a far greater influ ence upon the history of the hu man race than most people con •ceive. So, apparently, from a first hand source, we have an inkling of the Administration course when Congress convenes next month. Tfyat it will be aimed, generally, at the same objectives, regardless of methods and tactics appears conclusive. Those who have studied the President’s course in the past had no other idea. He is convinced that the reforms that he urges are neces sary to the welfare and contin uance of the American system. JHe is not likely to turn away from a fight, even with his own party, if they are challenged. Word comes from Texas that the citizens of that State are boosting the Vice-President for the Democratic nomination in 1940. At the same time, through several sources, comes the word that Mr. Garner will have noth ing to do with any effort to form a coalition with the Re publicians in any effort to haim string the New Deal. This con flicts with the writings of some columnists who have had “Cactus Jack” sulking in his tent and leading the conservative Demo crats in undercover activity against the President. While it is possible that the Texan might not agree with everything that .has been done, or the manner of the doing, he is a straight-out party man and too good a sold ier to knife his own comrades. In fact, it ought to be apparent to all Democrats that the fate of their party hangs on the success of the President’s program. And whether they like the program or not, it is the record of the party. The Republicans will put up a candidate to lambast it and to point out its errors. The voters, in 1940, will either en dorse the Democratic New Deal or they will elect a Republican President. There is no other pro bable outcome and conservative Democrats, who think they can take control of the party machin ery, in spite of the President, are just amusing themselves. Republicans generally look to; the minority party to write the j G. O. P. record during' the next i year and a half. They do not! give a very high rating to the j policy committee. The meeting in i Washington, in the latter part of November, not only advertised the liberal and conservative dif ferences, but by allowing a con servative of the old school to score a victory over a liberal, gave aid and comfort to the Democrats, who want nothing more than a Conservative Repub lican to oppose their candidate in 1940. It is too early to try to pick candidates for either party. Presi dent Roosevelt has not announc ed his course and until he does the faithful will “lay low” de spite the McNutt and Garner talk. If and when the President says he will not be a candidate, and that is probably what he will say, there won’t be much time for the Democratic rivals to stage a fight. The chances are that the Administration will hand pick the nominee before the rest of the crowd has a chance to line up any opposition that can stand a chance. On the Republican side, the talk of Dewey and Taft, et al., is decidedly premature. No one can tell what party member will develop leadership during the next twenty months, or who will capture popular fancy by sound political strategy. All that we can do is to watch developments; It is not yet apparent whether the , course of the Republican minor ity will veer toward liberalism1 or “old guardism.” Until that is to be certain, the candidate is bound to be unknown. The Conference in Lima is un derway, with Secretary Hull and the other American delegates, in cluding former Governor Landon, looking ,out for the interests o. the United States. It should b remembered that, in such a par ley, the United States has only one vote and policies may be ap proved that would seriously in jure this country. Naturally, the Latin-America ns will strive to get (turn to page four, please) The German press ■was rawed (king a dinner talk | —Tuesday night in London, ' England, by Prime Minister [ Neville Chamber lain in a | speech in which he roundly ! criticized the German press be j cause a part of it had called ' former Premier Earl Baldwin a : “guttersnipe.” The German am ibassador and German press re ! presentatives protested the attack ! by their absence from the dinner. The Germans sent their regrets just before the Foreign Press As sociation dinner after they had read advance copies of the prime minister's speech. Looking down on the dozen empty plates and place Cards, the prime minster followed word for word that section of his prepared address which said: “I must deplore the present tone of the German press which in one case has. not scrupled to' pour out its vituperation upon a most respected of our statesmen,1 himself but lately prime minister of this country, and in few cases i shows any sign of a desire to understand our point of view.” \ Thus Chamberlain referred to; the Nazi press attack on his i predecessor, Stanley Baldwin, aft-1 er a refugee fund appeal last i Thursday in which Baldwin | spoke of “an explosion of man’s; inhumanity to man.” Baldwin spoke as “an ordinary Englishman shocked and dis tressed” at the plight of victims. So late was the cancellation of the German acceptance of the For eign Press Association’s invita- j tions that waiters lacked suffi-: cient notice to rearrange the' dinner places to fill up the gaps. \ There was a vacant chair at Chamberlain’s own table where Ambassador Herbert von Dirksen' was to have sat. Another of the vacant chairs' was that assigned to Gottfried Aschman, head of the German foreign office press department whom Reichsfuehrer Hitler had1 sent to London to hear Chamber-; Iain’s address. Other German guests were to have included members of the! embassy staff and journalists. Shortly before the dinner, the' German embassy announced: “The German ambassador and ! members of the embassy staff | and German journalists sincerely j regret that because of certain j sentences in the prime minister’s j speech they should not attend the Foreign Press Association’s din-1 ner in London tonight.” Nearly 500 other guests attend ed the dinner, however, including the Italian ambassador, Count Dino Grandi. Invitations also were accepted by the ambassa dors of Belgium, Brazil, France, Poland, and the Soviet Union. (United States Ambassador Jose ph P. Kennedy was en route i home.) Loud and long applause rever berated throughout the huge ball room when Chamberlain con demned the Nazi press. The Italian embassy, too, learned of the action of the Ger man embassy in boycotting the dinner, but did not follow suit. John E. Brown, a former State Senator, died —on Tuesday, December 6,' in Washington, D. C., after! having suffered a stroke of paralysis. Ex-Senator Brown^ was born near* Sparta, and first | went to Washington in 1914 as | secretary to Congressman Robert j L. Doughton, of Alleghany Coun ty He, returned to Boone two years later, however, to practice law. He served as recording clerk of the North Carolina Sen ate and later was elected a mem ber of that body from Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties. Since 1936, Mr. Brown had been an attorney in the Federal Alcohol Administration, and had been living in the natoinal capital. Funeral services were conduct ed on Thursday, the 8th, in Boone, and burial took place there. I First steps to organize for i 'peace were taken —Tuesday at Lima, Peru, I when nations of the West ern Hemisphere, spurred by what Secretary of State ! Cordell Hull called a “grave world situation” took action look ing toward the ultimate estab lishment of friendlier relations | between the nations of the world. ! Putting aside what Hull term ed “excessive and short-sighted I nationalism,” the nations plunged | into discussion of far-reaching projects before the committee on ! organization of peace. • i In a radio address at the end of the day’s sessions of the 21-nation Pan-American con ference, Hull declared American nations were "keenly aware of! the threat to their principles and i institutions which has arisen else where in nations holding alien i ideas which they seek to impose j by force or extend by deception. “Unless 1 mistake the prevail-j ing attitude here,” he added, “the j American nations are determined j to defend these institutions and j principles of their own choice.” j The committee on organization ' of peace, meeting under the j chairmanship of Alfranio de Mel-1 lo Franco, former foreign minist-1 er of Brazil, reviewed proposals J before it under four headings: 1. Perfecting and co-ordinating inter-American peace instru ments; 2. Creating an inter-American court of international justice; Creating a league of Ameri- j can nations, and 4. Declaring an American doc trine of nonrecognition of terri tory acquired by force. Mello Franco named Ernesto i Barros Jarpa, of Chile, general I spokesman for the committee, and i directed organization of subcom mittees to consider each separate subject. United States delegates said ; they had no desire, at this early j stage, to agree on any plan ad- j vanced by other delegates for1 continental defense. Hull’s intep- 1 tion, they said, was to refrain1 from taking a position until after j full discussion of problems of1 defense in committee. Roosevelt greatly expanded the federal housing —administration’s scope Tuesday in Washington, D. C., by making a $1,000, 000,000 increase in the amount of the home mortgages which it may insure. The FHA, set up to facilitate the building of new homes, in sures mortgage holders against loss. The law says the total of such mortgages under insurance shall be limited to $2,000,000,000 at any one time, but gives Mr. Roosevelt authority to raise this limit to $3,000,000,000. This he did Tuesday. In a letter to Stewart Mc Donald FHA administrator, Presi dent Roosevelt said it was obvious that the increase was necessary if the agency was to continue granting eligible applications for insurance. McDonald had recommended the increase in a letter to Mr. Roosevelt on December 6. He said the unobligated balance of the original $2,000,000,000 au thorization stood at $415,000,000 on December 1. In'addition, he said, mortgages in process of appraisal on that date aggregat-t ed $115,000,000 and applications! for mortgage insurance are being! received at the rate of more than I $100,000,000 monthly. The administrator said that in the months the amended housing act had been in operation, there had been “substantial recovery in the residential construction in dustry, especially in the building of single family homes costing less than $6,000." THE YOUNG WOMEN’S CIRCLE WILL ENTERTAIN —the Women’s Missionary Soc iety of the Methodist Church, at the church, tonight (Thursday), at seven o’clock. Mrs. Purvis Lee will have charge of the program. Grand Champion Of Livestock Exposition CHICAGO, 111. . . Miss Irene Brown, 14-year-old daughter of an Aledo, 111., faimer, won the highest honor America can confer in the livestock realm. Her sleek black Aberdeen-Angus steer, Mercer II, was crowned grand champion >of the International Live stock Exposition. Irene bought the champion for $60. Alleghany County officers who were elected —an November 8 were sworn into office on Mon day, December 5, in the Court House in Sparta. No public installation ceremonies were held. Many people from practically all parts of the. county were visitors at the Court House during the day, however. Dewitt Bryan was inducted in to office as Sheriff, and Dr. B. O. Choate as Coroner, for four year terms, the term of Sheriff j and Coroner having been in-! creased from two to four years j by a constitutional amendment I which was approved by a major ity .vote in th» November elec tion. The amendment went into effect upon certification of the vote by the state. The oath of office, was admlnis- | tered to Sheriff Bryan by A. F. j Reeves, Clerk of Alleghany Su-! perior Court, who also gave the, oath of office to T. M. Ganibill, Register of Deeds; to J. C. Gam bill, incumbent member of the County Board of Commissioners, and to Dr. Choate, Coroner. The Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, J. C. Ganibill, in turn, gave the oath of office to the incumbent court clerk, Mr. Reeves. All Alleghany County officers elected in November are Demo crats. Only two Republicans have held office in Alleghany County I since the county was formed, by dividing Ashe County, in 1859. During the period since that time, two Republicans have been elect ed to the office of Sheriff of the county. REV. L. F. STRADER IS TO PREACH SUNDAY -—morning, December 18, at elev en o’clock, in the Sparta Metho dist Church, of which he is pastor. The Rev. Mr. Strader was ap pointed to the Sparta pastorate at the session of the Western North Carolina Conference held in Charlotte in October. Anthony Eden visited the White House —in Washington, D. C., Tuesday, and discussed international problems with President Roosevelt for half an hour, but left the world to guess just what had happened between them. Eden, former foreign secretary of Great Brit ain, has been in the United States for the past several days. Eden would like, to see the democracies of the world adopt a firm stand toward dictatorships. The Chief Executive and Eden met in the presidential study. The meeting was informal, but this fact failed to dispel wholly some belief that the conver sation was fraugiit with signifi cance for Anglo-American friend- i ship. The. consensus in informed i quarters was* that no commit ments were discussed or made, but that both men used the oppor tunity to review democratic prob lems in a world disturbed by power politics of totalitarian I states. Few unofficial copyersations in recent years had attracted as I much interest as Tuesday’s meet-! ing, partially because of the promi-, nence of the principals and the j timing of Eden's visit soon after j the Munich agreement and Presi-, dent Roosevelt’s prolonged review | of forign affairs with several of j his European ambassadors. Eden, who received a public j ovation wherever he appeared, said he enjoyed the visit but left j it to the President to explain j further. Mr. Roosevelt simply j said that he and Eden talked of! many things and agreed they had j a very pleasant conversation. Both before and after his con-1 ference Eden had emphasized i that his visit had no official i meaning whatever, while the 1 President also had explained he j was receiving Eden at the lat-1 ter’s request and in his capacity as a visiting member of the Brit ish Parliament. OUR FELLOW DRIVERS By Mueli«r “I’ll be finished in a jiffy—or know the reason why.” A hurley tobacco marketing quota referendum —will be held on Saturday, December 17, in accordance with the regulations gov erning the Holding of the referendum, to determine wheth er the farmers who engaged in the production of the 1938 crop of hurley tobacco are in favor of. or opposed to, such quota. If more than one-third of the farmers voting in the referendum oppov a national marketing quota for the marketing year beginning October 1, 1939, such quota will not be in effect for such marketing year. The places for balloting in Alleghany County will be Tur key Knob and Sparta. The poll- will be opened promptly at 9 A. M. and will be closed promptly at 5 P. M. oh Satur day,' December 17. Only farmers who were en gaged in the production of hurley tobacco in 1938 will be eligible, to vote., N*o one will be entitled to more than one vote, even though engaged in 1938 in the. production of hurley tobacco in two or more, communities', coun ties or states. There will be no voting by mail, but a duty authorised officer of an eligible corporation, firm, association, or other legal . entity may cast its vote. Each of two or more per son.- ■ . jointly engaged in produc ing burley tobacco in 1938 is entitled to vote. The United States envoy to China has been called home —for consultations with President Roosevelt and State Department officials in Washington, D. C. The action was taken, it has been pointed -out, by the American government after* it had become deeply concerned lest Japan close China’s “open door’’ permanently, j The announcement Thursday' of this step came simultaneously: with further clarification by Japan j of her intentions in East Asia, j and directly followed Great Brit- j ain’s declaration that she couldn’t j possibly subscribe to creation of an economic-political bloc there dominated by Japan, Joseph E. Kennedy, ambassador to London, unexpectedly advanc ed his plans and announced he would sail for home Saturday. Whether this foreshadowed some parallel action by the United States and Britain in bringing pressure upon triumphant Japan to prevent her attempted hege mony over all China was not dis closed. Kennedy’s return was considered highly significant, how ever, in view of the fact that Britain, like the United States*, has displayed marked signs of worry over' events in China. In Tokyo Thursday Prime Min ister Arita further outlined Ja pan’s views to the American am bassador, Joseph G. Grew, and the British envoy. Press re ports said Arita told the ambassa dor's separately that the principle or equality or opportunity ana the open door might have to be revised in establishing Japan’s “new order” program. A long and difficult trip lies ahead for Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, who leaves Chungking, temporary South China capital, on December 12 but does not arrive in the United States until mid-January. He will travel westward over the new military highway to Burma, take a perilous route of about 200 miles down to Rangoon, thence to London by air, and New York bv steamer. • Johnson has advised the Chin | ese government he will be back ! as quickly as possible. Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, who announced John son’s forthcoming return, said merely that the envoy had not been back for nearly four years and that it was deemed advisable for him to return in order to give the president the benefit of his views personally. His> visit in this country will coincide with that of Kennedy, who is expected to spend at least two months in the United States. The Roosevelt administration was charged —in a speech de livered Saturday in Boston, Mass., by Senator Harry Flood Byrd, (D.-Va.) with “fiscal insanity.” In his .speech, which was delivered before the Massachussetts Federation. of Taxpayers Associations, which was broadcast nationally, the Vir ginia senator demaded an end to “nine years of fiscal insanity” and declared he was convinced the administratio ncauld not be looked to for leadership toward economy despite the “tragic fail ure” of its. spending program. Senator Byrd outlined a five point retrenchment program which would include a thorough going government reorganization and a “purge” of the relief rolls, he declared: "We are facing a perilous sit uation and what can be done aboue it? Can we expect any leadership from the present ad ministration for economy and retrenchment? As one who has fought'for five years for prudent spending at Washington, I say no. As a Democrat I say it with sorrow, as my party is in power, but the Republican party cannot escape responsibility for their share in the present orgy of spending. Mr. Hoover added the first five billions to the public debt, and a majority of the Republican members Ln the sen ate have voted lor the huge ap propriation bills.” Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts, who demanded "tax reduction in every field of government,” told newspapermen just before he addressed the Tax payers’ federation he was con vinced President Roosevelt would not seek a third term despite pressure by his supporters. 5 Walsh asserted it was highly important for both the president and the next congress to "instill popular confidence that our economic system will be permitt ed untrammeled operation.” “A modern liberal,” he assert ed, “is tested and judged in proportion as to how libral he is willing to be with other peo ple’s money.” Verbally flaying the “economic philosophy” of Marriner S Ec cles, chairman of the federal re serve board, Byrd said his speech in New York last week on “pro moting prosperity by spending borrowed money” indicated “to what depths of false reasoning we have sunk in the crackpot legis lative ideas of those holding im portant public positions.” P. W. Meeldns has been named by R. L Doughton —as the Congressman’s pri vate secretary. Mr. Meekins is a Lenoir attorney and »* a former member of the North Carolina legislature. Lenoir is the conty seat of Caldwell County, which is in the Ninth District, represented in Congress by the Alleghany Coun tian—“Farmer Bob” Doughton. Meekins is a native of Dare County, in Eastern North Caro lina, and will go there on Wed nesday, December 21, for a short | stay. He will go to Washington, D. C., about December 27, it is understood, to familiarize him self with the duties of his new i position before the opening of ' the regular session of Congress in January. mm O' S440P4WG i Mrs TIL CHBisrmfts
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