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kj • . . jj __ , i' - . " « r rtp( • You Will Profit eiriany limes—— DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY JANUARY 26, 1939. I Number 37. Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent While the people of the United States concentrate their attention upon preparedness and think of the outbreak of actual warfare, they are overlooking the existence of a stern struggle that ha3 been going on in the field of interna tional economics for a number of years. The economic warfare is waged with different weapons but it is just about as deadly, in the long run, to the well-being of the peo ple- of any. nation. , Practically every nation seeks to obtain eco nomic advantages over other na tions by erecting tariffs, estab lishing quotas, tiade restrictions, exchange regulations and curren cy manipulations. It is a conflict based upon the belief that one nation can prosper only at the ex pense of another nation. The most persistent efforts to bring order into the chaotic tan gle of world trade has been the reciprocal trade program of the United States, fathered and push ed by the dignified Cordell Hull, Secretary of State. Mr. Hull is firm in the faith that one of the best ways to settle the ills of the world is to promote international trade upon terms of comparative equality. For this reason, the trade treaties made by the United States are not exclusive. They do not work to the disadvantage of other nations but provide that re ductions and concessions apply to aU nations. The idea is to begin the grad ual reduction of tariffs and the steady removal of restrictions that hamper world commerce. This could not be accomplished by agreements which limit benefits to the nations concerned. Imagine, for example, the United States with a trade policy that required separate agreements and different tariff l-ates with each country in the world. Imagine then, that every nation in the world had a similar set-un and you will get a faint idea of the tangled confu sion which would result in world commerce. Let it be admitted that the United States is interested in re viving world commerce because of a belief that it will prove an eco nomic benefit to the United States. This will be accomplished by fa cilitating the swap of American goods and services for the goods afid services of other nations. It will not be done by selfishly at tempting to swap American goods and services exclusively for gold. This nation now has so much gold that it is a glut on the mar ket. Foreign countries have so lit tle that they are unable to buy American goods and services to the fullest extent because of an inability to settle for their pur chases in gold. Tariffs and simi lar trade restrictions prevent for eign people from settling for pur chases in this country by sending us goods or services. As Congress gets underway, it is very apparent that a deter mined drive is beginning to ham string the reciprocal trade pro gram. A number of bills have been prepared and various pro tected industries are asserting that the trade treaties are ruining them. Already, Secretary Hull charges that the Capitol swarms with lobbyists intent upon scut tling the program. An interesting development oc curred early this month when Col. Frank Knox, publisher of Chicago and vice-presidential nominee in 1936, called for a radi cal revision of his Party’s tradi tional tariff policy, in a speech delivered in South Dakota. Taking cognizance of the complaint of agriculture, Col. Knox declared that if the Republicans “are sin cerely intent on giving back to the farmer his just and equitable rights to a dollar of equal pur chasing power with that of the urban dweller,” they must “forth with abandon the present system of excessively high tariffs and go back to a moderate tariff on domestic manufactures, only suf ficient to protect American wage standards and nothing else.” Col. Knox used the automobile industry as an illustration, saying that it was one of the most highly competitive, but that it required no high protective tariff to pro tect and maintain it. The cost of automobiles has been steadily lowered, wages paid have con stantly increased; and the use of automobiles widely developed. iReferring to the complaint of farmers, Col. Knox said that it had its origin in the recognition by the farmer, as a class, that he had to sell his products in a com petitive market and had to spend his income in an artificially high priced market for the commodi ties he used. Being tired of “con (tum to page four, please) A plea for the reduction of taxes was heard >—Tuesday in Eafcigh by the' General Assembly’s joint finance committee. The plea was made by representatives of railroads operating in North Carolina, who hung the specter' of government ownership of the railroads before the legislators and said taxes have “passed the point of confiscation.” "We’d like to run under our own steam,” said William T. Joyner of Raleigh, division coun sel for the Southern Railroad. “We’d like to pay our own ex penses, but if we do not, there | is only one alternative. I “Railroads have to run and the government will run them,” he added. “And if the government takes over operation of the rail roads, there isn’t going to be the tax money in them that there has been. ’’The finance body was work ing on the 1939 revenue bill. i In another public hearing Tues ! day it heard representatives of j state banks assert that if the state j continues to levy an income tax on them, they may be forced to give up their state charters and become national banks. R. L. Pope of Thomasville, president of the North Carolina Bankers Association, told the committee state banks are being “discriminated against” and can not “compete” with national banks which pay no state income tax. I Joyner told the committee he and the other railroad represen- j tatives approached the committee! “prostrate, nearly hopeless and j almost completely destitute” toi j seek reduction in the franchise! tax which cost the carriers $l,-j 443,492 last year, and in the in-1 come tax they paid when they I “had no net income.” i Recent Bride Mrs. Gwyn Crouse (above), of i Woodstown, N. J., who was, be fore her marriage at Twin Oaks, on Christmas eve (Saturday, December 24, 1938) Miss Ethel Ward, daughter of Mr and* Mrs. J Z. F. Ward, Cox’s Chapel. Rev. j W. H. Handy performed the wed ! ding ceremony.—Photo Courtesy1 I Winston-Salem Journal. Judge Hoyle Sink says grand juries hinder work —iof 'the courts and 'has j outgrown their usefulness.j I Judge Sink, Lexington, re-1 j newing twelve years of op- j j position to the grand jury system, i told the new jury in Guilford : Superior Court, in Greensboro, Monday that the grand jury amounts merely to a cumbersome rubber-stamp for the court, and that instead of aiding the court it is more often a hindrance, j Judge Sink made it plain he was’ not criticizing the personnel of the Guilford grand jury or any. other, it was the system he was after. The jury was a valuable institution back in the ■old days when citizens needed protection from persecution by the judiciary, and when law en forcement officers were so few in number the jury was needed to keep an eye on violators, said the judge, but declared conditions have so far changed the grand i’r .- i,: cut of date. Impeachment of Secretary Perkins was sought —in proceedings started Tuesday in Washington, D. C., when Rep resentative J. Parnell Thomas i (R), Of New Jersey, introduced a resolution in the House calling! for an investigation to determine! whether impeachment is warrant ed. The proceedings begun against: Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor, ■ and t wo a i d e s , charged crimes and misdemeanors by ob structing the deportation of Har ry Bridges, Australian-born west[ coast labor leader. The action .tnarked the first attempt to impeach a cabinet member since 1876, w'hen Secre tary of War William W. Bel knap was absolved of accepting bribes. Named to High Court WASHINGTON, D. C.—Felix Frankfurter, of Massachusetts, professor of the Harvard Law School, who was named by Presi dent Roosevelt to be an Associate Justice of the United States Su preme Court. Frankfurter was named to the vacancy created by the death last July of Benjamin N. Cardozo. Debate began on i the $725,000,000 refief bill —Tuesday in the United States Senate in Washing ton, D. C., with charges by economy-minded Democrats that a campaign of "misstate ment” has been directed against the measure and protests from administration leaders that WPA rolls must be cut 65 per cent, unless the appropriation is in creased $150,000,000. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D.), Ky., who is leading the new deal fight to in crease the appropriation to the $875,000,000 sought by President Roosevelt, predicted victory by a narrow margin. Chairman Alva Adams (D.), S. C., of the Senate appropriations committee, who is floor manager of the bill, is con fident that the lower figure will prevail. Informal polls indicated that the issue may be decided by fewer than six votes. While Bark ley intimated that a final vote may not come until the latter part of the week, Adams and his aides are hopeful of disposing of the subject before too much pressure is brought upon some senators to whip them back into the administration corral. The issue was stated by Adams Tuesday to be new deal spend ing, continuation of which, he said, would wreck the nation’s credit. Backing him in his fight to hold the relief appropriation to the lower figure are Vice President John N. Garner, Chair man Carter Glass (D), Va., of the potent appropriations com mittee, Senator James F. Byrnes (D), S. C., close friend of Glass' »nd one-time presidential adviser, »nd Senator Pat Harrison (D), Miss., who, as chairman of the powerful finance committee, has broken with Mr. Roosevelt on bis tax and spending policies. Aligned with Barkley are Sen ior Kenneth McKellar (D.), rtnn., most of the new deal De mocrats and a few Republicians, ncluding Senator William E. Borah (R.), Idaho, who recently warned that there are thousands >f persons in America living like ‘beasts” and that the reduced re ief appropriation would force ;hem into starvation. Well-drilling Equipment At Work In Sparta^ Pictured above, is a view of the well-drilling equipment of the Virginia Machinery and Well Company in action in Sparta, drilling one of the 300-foot wells which will supply Sparta with wat o'. Bonds for this PWA project have been sold and work on the water lines will begin as soon as it is definitely established that a sufficient amount of water can be obtained from the wells. The well shown in the picture is located on the property purchased from SI W. Brown, north of Gentry Memorial Methodist Church. A 20,000 gallon tank on a 100-foot tower will be erected on this site, land will furnish pressure and a water reserve, for Sparta.—Photo Courtesy Winston-Salem Journal. Barcelona was shelled Tuesday by the rebels •—under Spanish Insurgent General Francisco Franco’s army, the first three columns of which nolled its way fco within a mile and a half of the city’s center. The insurgents’ southern army on wheels, almost without firing a shot, captured the government airdrome at Prat de Llobregat, and then sped along the coast to the suburbs of the capital where it expected to halt until the othei armies could sweep across the coastal plains to cut the city ofl completely. The dash was made by General Juan Yague’s Moroccan corps which earlier had been reported at Gava, seven miles away. Within Barcelona proper, re ports reaching the border said the calm of the refugee-chokee city of 2,000,000 people was be ginning to break as it became ap parent there was no means bj which they could flee to the north Alleghany County teachers will meet here on Saturday —morninig, January 28, at ter o’clock, in the Sparta High Schoo auditorium, it has been announc ed by W. C. Thompson, superin tendent of Alleghany Countj schools. General school problems are tc be discussed, it is said. All teachers in the county are expected to attend this meeting Six Herefords were sold recently from an Alleghany herd —to A. A. Fields, Bel Air, Md Mr. Fields, who has been conduct ing a large dairy at Bel Air, is now replacing his herd with pure bred Hereford stock. The cattle sold went from the herd of Ken ny Truitt, Sparta. Mr. Truitt’s herd is one ol die prize herds of Alleghany County, it is said, and has won 1 number of ribbons at county fairs where cattle from the herd lave been exhibited. The state Baptist Sunday School Convention for 1939 —is to be held in Winston-Salem, >n Thursday and Friday, February 2 and 3. Officers of Baptist Sunday Schools in Alleghany County, and -other interested per sons, are urged to attend this neeting. All who desire to attend are urged to see their pastor, in arder that transportation may be arranged. Over-night entertain ment in private homes in Wins ton-Salem will be provided. rHE U. S. EMBASSY AWAITED A REPLY —Tuesday night to the sixth note Washington has sent to Germany concerning the status of American lews under rigid Nazi anti Semitic laws. Assurances regard ng their treatment was request ed. | Harry L, Hopkins ;was confirmed as Commerce head —Monday by the Senate in Washington, D. C., by a v te of 58 to 27, after a three-day attack on his administration of work relief, } | Fifty-three Democrats, two Re- i publicans, one. Farmer-Laborite, j one Progressive, and one Indepen- i dent voted for Hopkins, and 22 Republicans, five Democrats and j one Farmer-Laborite against, i Present but not voting were I Senators Josiah W. Bailey (D.), N. C., Millard Tydings (D.), I Md., and Carter Glass (D.), Va., !who joined with Senator Hiram j W. Johnson (R.), Calif., in a scathing assault on WPA activities ! i in politics. Johnson gave Hopkins’ defend- j |ers' a severe tongue lashing, while the 81-year old Glass placed the explosive issue of politics in re lief squarely on President Roose ] velt’s doorstep. Hopkins' chief defender was Majority Leader Alben W. Bark ley (D.), Ky., who charged that anti-new deal newspapers had gone out of their way “to find a peg on which to hang a hat” in attempts to involve Hopkins in WPA irregularities. Democrats voting against con firmation were Walter F. George, Georgia, whose democracy Presi dent Roosevelt questioned in the j recent primary; Rush D. Holt, of West Virginia, consistent critic of | administration policies; Peter G.! Genry, of Rhode Island, a leader; of the Democratic conservative' bloc; William H. King,of Utah, a| new deal critic, and Frederick i Van Nuys, of Indiana, who did j not have administration support in : his race for re-election last year. | It was one of the few times in ; his long congressional career that i Glass deliberately dodged a vote I on a controversial subject and, ; he explained it to the Senate in j ! this way: | “I don’t want to vote for him J I because I would have to make ex- ' | planations to thousands of people I | who would get the impression; I that I approved of a man of his j .type. “I want it understood that 11 I don’t approve of any of Mr. Hop | kins’ acts or speeches. * I also jwant it understood that I feel | that they were done or made iwith the knowledge and consent j . of the appointing power. I I “Yet, I feel that the President I should have the widest latitude in ! .-■electing his advisers. If he wants a man of Hopkins’ type, 11 think he ought to be allowed to . have him. Hopkins couldn’t; give him any worse advice than j the people who surround him to- ■ day and who are not subject to , ! Senate confirmation.” ___ 'a wedding took place IN THE STATE CAPITOL :—in Raleigh Monday, for the first time in history, in the office: of the Secretary of State, when j Mary Louise Powell and Ryland Hill, of Woodland, were joined1 in j matrimony by Dr. John C. Glenn, i pastor of Edenton Street Metho dist Church. Governor Hoey was among those present. Births and deaths I in North Carolina decreased in 1938 —according to figures released recently by the State Board of Health’s Division of Vital Statis- j tics, of which Dr. R. T. Stimp- i son is the Director. The total' number of births in the' state during 1938 was 30, 603, as compared with 80,644 in 1937, a decrease of 41, while dealths in 1938 numbered 33,765, j showing a decrease under the pre- i vious year. Of the drop of 335 \ in the total number of deaths, j 204 are accounted for in the de-j creased number of persons meet-, ing death by accident. Deaths j from what are termed preventable ; accidents in 1938 totaled 1,429, j as compared with 1,633 in 1937. | “Best Meal in Years” SACRAMENTO, Calif.—That’s what Tom Mooney, jailed 23 years ago for alleged partici pation in a California bombing, declared as he had his first meal with friends as a free man after his pardon by Governor Culbert Olson. His release was widely acclaimed by radical and labor groups. "When a Woman Decides” is to be given here —in t'he Sparta High School auditorium, on Saturday night, January 28, by per sons from the Hooker School community. The play is a com edy in three acts. According to advance infor mation on the production, Billie Defoe, whose part is to be played by Oliver Sidden, will receive 82,000,000.00, according to his father’s will—but not until he marries a woman worth that much money, or more. Many compli cations arise when Mr. Defoe tries to comply with the terms of his father’s will. Each new fe male that appears on the scene only tangles Billie’s affairs more and more, creating one hilarious j scene after another until Billie i wishes he was a Mormon. The cast of characters follows r Bessie Hayden—a poor little maiden, Lois Edwards; Silas Saw yer—Billie’s lawyer, Bert Mc Cann; Hilda M. Burl—just an ancient girl, Thelma Cheek; May bell Tony—pretty but phoney, Clytie Duncan; Matilda Petter— a real man getter, May Brooks; Rastus Toll—blacker than coal, Eugene Chappell, and Mandy De haven—no whiter than a raven, Marie Saunders. A “Puppet” show will be presented tomorrow (Friday) —at Sparta, Piney Creek and Laurel Springs, by the Division of Oral Hygiene of the North j Carolina State Board of Health. This show will be a demonstration J of dental care, and will be shown i f or Grammar Grade school child- j ren. The schedule follows: Laurel Springs School, 9:00 a. m.; Sparta School, 11:00 a. m., and Piney Creek School, 2:00 p. m. Demonstrations can be shown only in schools having auditor iums and electric current. ECONOMY ADVOCATES IN THE SENATE DENOUNCED —administration figures on relief needs Tuesday as inaccurate, at; the height of a bitter, slashing debate on raising or reducing j WPA appropriations. The con-; tooversy was made the more in-1 tense by the acknowledged fact that a close vote was expected. Frank P. Graham attacked the proposed tuition —boost at the three units if the University of North Carolina Tuesday, saying that the suggestion of such an increase applies a "test of wealth instead of merit” to pros pective students. Dr. Graham is jresident of the Greater Univer sity of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. The two other units of the miversity are the Woman’s Col lege of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and North Carolina State College, Raleigh. The attack by Dr. Graham was made in Raleigh in the General Assembly. Speaking before the joint ap propriations committee, Graham warned that boosts in entrance fees would violate the spirit of North Carolina’s constitution and tiaditions, and asked the General Assembly to increase the annual appropriation for the greater uni- , versity by $908,233. Of that amount $46,503 would go to restore salaries and wages to the 1928-29 level and non-per sonnel items. The remainder would make up for the increase in receipts, anticipated by the bud get commission from tuition in creases “We would violate not only the spirit of the state institution, but we would violate the spirit of the people if we began to make wealth more a test of admission, than character, ability, and mer it,” Graham told the committee in taking a stand against tuition in creases. The university president said that 24 states in the Union grant free tuition to in-state students and that the constitution of North Carolina laid down a policy of free tuition. According to a table shown by Dr. Graham, only nine state supported universities now charge in-state students a higher tuition fee than the University of North Carolina does. Under the pro posed boosts, only Rutgers and the University of Maryland would require higher charges than the university at Chapel Hill. The budget commission recom mended that tuition for North Carolina residents at the univer sity be raised from $75 to $125 a year, at N, C. State from $80 to $125 a year and at Woman’s College from $50 to $100 a year. “We stand high in tuition and we stand somewhat high in fees already,” continued Dr Graham, pointing to charts on charges at the state-supported universities of this country. A IhO to revise North Carolma’s pension laws —so as to reduce the counties’ burden of pay ments to indigent old per sons and dependent child ren, was introduced Monday night in the House of Representatives in Raleigh. Sponsored by Tompkins, of Jackson, the measure also speci fies that the county tax rates t» finance the social security pro gram shall be more uniform. The bill provides that social security payments shall be “dis tributed to counties according to the needs therein, in conformity to the rules and regulations adopt ed by the state board of allot ments and appeals, producing as far as practicable a just and fair distribution thereof.” It also would limit the ad val orem social security tax in any county to not more than 10 cents per $100 of valuation, and would provide that virtually all state receipts from the intangible tax be transferred to a social security equalizing fund. Another measure, introduced in the house by McBryde, of Cum berland, and Seeley, of Cartaret, would set the state’s highway speed limit at 55 miles an hour. At present, there is no limit in North Carolina, but a speed of more than 45 miles an hour is considered evidence of reckless driving, in the event of an acci dent. Representatives Everett and Hollomon, of Halifax, sent for ward a measure to pay state employees semimonthly, instead of monthly ;
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