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mi- ■ . ■ . . The Alleghany Times Alleghany County’s Only Newspaper Published every Thursday by the Gazette Printing & Publishing Co. 117 W. Grayson St. Galax, Virginia Sparta Office In Transou Building H. B. Zabriskie .. Editor Mrs. Robert M. Gambill . Local News Editor Subscription Rates—Strictly In Advance In Alleghany County . One Year $1.00 Six Months $ .60 In North Carolina (outside of Alleghany County) and Virginia - One Year $1.25 Elsewhere in United States .... One Year $1.60 This paper charges for the insertion of Obitu aries, Resolutions^ Cards of Thanks, etc. Obituaries occupying not more than eight inches of space, $1; longer ones in proportion. Cards of Thanks. 35 cents. Cash or stamps must accompany the copy Entered at the Post Office at Galax, Virginia as Second Class Matter under the Act or Congress of March 8, 1872 Sparta, N. C., Thursday, Mar. 23, 1939. United Free-booters Winning The action of Germany last week, in dismembering the remnants of Czecho slovakia, illustrates the situation in Eur ope, where German might stands ready, at the nod of the dictator, to step across national boundaries and make a shambles of independence. Peace in Europe, under such circum stances, depends upon the whim of Hitler or Mussolini. Their acts are not reflected in the attitude of their peoples because the policies that they advance are not neces sarily dependent upon approval of their peoples. The necessity for strong armaments on the part of Great Britain and France is apparent. No wonder the British people, in the face of such a threat, cheerfully assume staggering burdens in order to be able to fight, if they must, to maintain their freedom. Even as this is written no one knows where the next crisis may occur and what it may develop into. Germany, Italy and Japan are on the march and the only limit to their greed is imposed by the strength that may oppose it. The three nations work together and by coordination put pressure upon other nations that can be offset only by joint action. So long as the democratic nations of the world permit this alliance of free booters to work their will upon separat ed nations they will continue to take what they need. In self-defense, if for no other reason, freedom-loving peoples will have to join in meeting the common enemy of their ancient heritage. Balancing The Budget The annual income of the Federal Government has been increased steadily for the past six years. It is now close to six and a quarter billion dollars a year. It is derived from taxes of every kind, including the Social Security payroll taxes, which are just so much more income in Government bookkeeping. The annual expenditure of the Fed eral Government has also been increasing steadily for the past six years. It is now close to or above nine and one-half billion dollars. The difference between what the gov ernment spends and what it collects from its citizens is borrowed money. In the past six years the Federal Government has borrowed and spent about twenty-five bil lion dollars more than it has taken in. Close to a billion dollars a year of gov ernment expenditures are for interest on the national debt, which now amounts to about 41 billion dollars. The largest item of government ex penditures is relief, which includes WPA. Next largest is public works, which cov ers new postoffices, highway construction, river and harbor improvements and the like. Next is national defense. The inter est charge comes next in size. Unless spending is checked, the United States will go deeper and deeper “in the red.” When you read or hear talk about “balancing the budget” it sim ply means trying to keep the outgo within the income. It is a very difficult idea to put across with politicians in office. They love to spend other people’s money. That spending can be reduced and ought to be is the conclusion reached by the National Economy League of New York, from whose booklet “How to Bal ance the Federal Budget” the figures here are taken. We think it would be worth every thoughtful citizen’s while to study the League’s analysis of the Federal finances. A Great Opportunity _ expositions will ever regret it. The rail roads and bus lines are making it easy for people who want to see both of them, by special rates covering coast-to-coast trips. If only because the trip will enable millions to see more of their own country than they have ever seen before, it is worth anybody’s time to take in both of them. Each of these two World’s Fairs is 'something more than a mere show.’ Of I course, showmanship is used to attract i and interest visitors, and there are many ! amusement features scheduled at both of ithem. Those are on a grand scale; and | entertainment on a grand scale is some ! thing to remember forever. But both on the Atlantic Coast and 'the Pacific, the theme is the progress of I the world and the direction in which it is tending is emphasized by exhibits of the newest and most fascinating develop ments in art, science and industry. It would be hard to imagine a broader and sounder foundation for a liberal edu cation for any intelligent child, from seven to seventeen, than to give him or her the chance to roam at will through the expo sition buildings and see what the ingenuity and intelligence of the world’s most active minds have produced as sign-posts point ing toward the future of the world. The young people are the ones who will live in the World of Tomorrow. They are the ones upon whom these glimpses into a possible more wonderful future will make the deepest impression. From the ideas which bright boys and girls will absorb at the World’s Fairs may come, and probably will, inventions and discoveries that can change the world. What Other Editors Say Popular And Unpopular From The Coalfield Progress, Norton And now Hitler throws the full weight of his position on the temperance side, against the use of whiskey and tobaccos. To which attitude one could normally take little objection. But his record doesn’t quite stand up to give confidence to this newest moral attitude. Me thinks it smacks more of money than morals, he doubtless realizing that money spent for liquor and tobacco, reduces by the same amount the money he might use for warships and armored planes. News continues to leak out that Hitler is losing in popularity, and therefore in power. One writer has said that he is fast growing more and more unpopular “because he almost got us into war last summer,” contrasting him with England’s Chamberlain, tremendously popular in his native land, “because he kept us out of war.” ^ —A Pantry Full Of Pie From The Christian Science Monitor Rhubarb is rubbing stalks with other succu lent vegetables in the markets of American cities these days. In the North it is, as yet, a visitor from the South, not a native. Between blonde carrots, pale parsnips, unblushing turnips, it flashes red as a poinsettia. But its taste is even more appetizing to lazy palates than its color is a delight to the eye. : The rhubarb of our country boyhood' didn’t conje from a market at so much a stalk. It grew in the garden, in a sheltered spot near the farm house. It was years before we heard it called rhubarb—“pie plant” was its real name. Apple pie and mince pie were all right in their way, hut pie plant was the only plant that was named for pie itself. It was one of the green things we saw after an up-State New York winter. We hailed it with double enthusiasm, for when it piished its way up through the loam to the sun, winter was past and pie plant pie was just around the comer. That was almost as much of an event as spring itself. . Of course, a boy had to cut one of the first spindling stalks with his jackknife and taste it. In its raw state it was one of the sourest members of the vegetable family, and somewhat puckery besides. But when cut into small pieces and boiled in a pot bubbling with several cups of maple sugar, it became a pie-filling in which sweet and sour were miraculously blended. And when the big bulging pies came out of the oven, they oozed juice as generously as any huckleberry pie would a few months later. The number of pieces a boy could eat was limited only by mother's supervising cau tion. To this culinary courier of spring, «t«g a song of pie plant baked in a pie. The Low Down From Hickory Grove Sure looks odd to see how some countries can stay out of wars, and other countries, they squeeze into every one when they can get their foot in the door. You take Sweden, and Denmark and Nor way, they were next door to the World War— and kept their nose out of it—and they were smart. And you take it right now, they are snapping and frothing around again in Europe, 3 or 4 thousand miles from our U. S. A. but we are trying to show off—and balance a chip on our shoulder, or something. In the Encyclopedia you will read where Bismarck went out of his way and finally stirred up a war with France, 70 years ago. The German people, they were not itching to fight. But Mr. Bismarck, he craved to be a great person. He craved a uniform with gold braid, and he craved to ride the lead horse. But Mr. Bismarck, ha did not carry a musket —when war came. In the U. S. if we get foolish and listen to all the bonkers flying around overhead—and act like a flock of gesso we will bo gnoon stopping Yours with the low down, JO 8EBBA '• * X . • * • '■ . s Home Sweet Home .... P UE SMS ] " «E'S HOO / TIRE©/ / j YOU WPS GIVE ME A PAIN IM THE. NECK * ^ ' YOU GAM POMP LIKE WILD INDIANS f|COUGH Sp A HECTIC EVENING OF BASKET BALL --p YOU CAM PUN YOUR LEGS OPP POP HOURS PRACTICING POR A TRACK MEET p VtXJ CAM SHAG ALL MIGHT W«TH YbUR. p GAMG OP CRAZY JITTERBUGS But MOW ****** You CANT do A Five V minute walk to ih' grocer unless Wt LET YOU USE TW* CAR // fiW $0M$ SHAM THOSE jelly ankles , your mother meeds V^BHtr PUTTER POO. SUPPER, /f t > I Ajgg= |p3AViW —x/ Weekly Washington Merry-Go-Round (Trade Mark Registered) by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen Hitler Won’t Go Beyond Slovakia; African Colonies His Real 1939 Aim; Warlike Maneuvers Leading To Second Munich Unless France Is Aroused; Hoover His Own No. 1 Presidential Choice With Dewey (Not Taft) Next; Racket-buster And Ohio Senator In National Tug-Of-War For Delegates. Washington—Don’t be deceived by the Nazi drive to dominate Slovakia. Hitler wants that coun try as a part of his pathway to the lush Russian Ukraine, but he is not likely to go farther east now. The last thing he wants now is war with the Soviet. Such a war is sure to be long drawn out. Russia has the big gest army in the world, and even though the Nazis claim it lacks officer strength, the Red Army could keep Germany embroiled in war for a long time. What Hitler wants is exactly the reverse—a short, quick war, or better yet, accomplishment of what he wants with no war at all. He can get this with Czecho slovakia. He cannot get it with Russia. That’s why the scene soon will shift to include the Mediterranean and African colonies. Colonies are Hitler’s real goal at present—also Mussolini’s. Slo vakia is just by-play. The Medi terranean drive was scheduled to start earlier, but has been delayed by failure of Franco to capture all of Spain. Strange as it may seem, France and Britain rushed in to recog nize Franco, blind to the fact that the quicker the Republican army is subdued, the quicker Mus solini and Hitler can start their colonial squeeze. Obviously, if they start too soon, an army of half a million men still in cen tral Spain could do a lot of dam age, if given last-minute arms by the French. Another Munich Meanwhile exactly the same preparations are going on in the Mediterranean as before Munich and before the Ethiopian war. Detachments of Italian troops cure sailing regularly for Africa, and concentrated within striking dis tance of French Tunis. German submarines have turned up at Italian ports. More German troops are in the Tyrol ready to reinforce the Italian border against France. German technicians even have turned up in Libya. This same quiet closing in on the intended victim preceded the surrender of Czechoslovakia at Munich. The present strategy is intended to have exactly the same effect on France and Britain. Whether it will, remains to be seen. British sentiment still car ries a tang of Chamberlain ap peasement, but French sentiment is just the opposite. The French believe that the inevitable cannot be postponed, that if they mu»t fight, they had best get it over with. Presidential LUbiiitiee When Roosevelt disclosed that the Cruiser Houston was “sunk” with him aboard during the Carib bean naval games, he kept one thing back. This was the fact that the sinking was his fault. Ha ordered the ship to tha Charlotte Amalie harbor in the Virgin Islands to pick up mail that had been flown there for him from Washington. The harbor was in “enemy” territory, and as the Houston entered1 the anchor age, she was “torpedoed” by a lurking submarine. The incident was nothing new to the Navy. Presidents partici pating in war games are always liabilities. When Hoover was President he also caused the "sinking" of a ship. He was aboard the battleship Arizona when it engaged in an imaginary night battle with the destroyer DuPont. The decks of the Arizona were cleared1 for action; every hatch was battened down, every sailor and marine at his station. In the glare of searchlights, the duel was on. But Hoover, who had gone’ be low and been locked in, wanted to see the encounter. So a gun crew was ordered to open a hatch. As they were doing so the DuPont came astern of Hie Arizona at this unguarded point and scored a “direct hit.” Hitler’s Balance Sheet A German paper; the Voel kischer Beobachter, lists the fol lowing “official balance sheet of Hitler's acHviHes for 1938”: Purchased 4 new military caps, 2 pairs of top boots; added 2 false teeth; made 96 speeches; added 10,737,000 new Germans; spent 1,737 marks as pocket money; traveled 20,200 kilomet ers (12,500 miles); had 1,333 new streets named for him; and added 1.6 kilograms (3% pounds) in weight. Hoover’s Choice Republican leaders in the know say that Herbert Hoover's first choice for the 1940 nomination is himself and his second1 prefer ence, at present, young Tom Dewey. Insiders credit Hoover with a pronounced anripathy toward Senator Robert Taft. They also say he looks disapprovingly upon Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Sena tor Henry Cabot Lodge, Gover nor Bricker of Ohio and Governor James of Pennsylvania. The precise reason for Hoover’s dislike of Taft is a mystery. Superficially the two men have much in common, since Taft’s economic views are much nearer Hoover's than those apparenHy held by Dewey. Some attribute Hoover’s disapproval to Taft's flir tation with Townsendism, which Hoover considers as much of a menace as the New Deal. Dewey also made goo-goo eyes r»t the Townsendites—in a very 'overt manner—when he ran for Governor of New York. But ap paruiUy Tom explained tide satisfactorily to Hoover in their recent secret talks. HO0V9f ous effort to win the nomination for himself at the moment is overshadowing all other GOP de velopments. Most party leaders don’t think he can make the grade. At the same time they are not taking him lightly. He has had experi ence in delegate-wrangling—par ticularly among Southern Repub licans, where money is a not un important factor. And Hoover has plenty of money. In fact, word has already reached Wash ington of undercover activity for aelegates in the South • On the other hand, powerful factors within the party are against Hoover. Practically all the leaders dislike him personally. Also they feel strongly that his nomination would materially weak en the chances of victory. Former Governor Landon is dead set against Hoover. Even in his own state of California, Hoov er faces a knock-down-and-drag out fight. Liberal Republicans have served notice that if he en ters a ticket in the California primary next year they will run an anti-Hoover slate that will have the backing of Senator Hiram Johnson. Although Johnson now sees eye to-eye with Hoover in his intense hatred of the New Deal, he dis likes Hoover just as much as he did when he fought his nomination in 1920 and wrested' the Califor nia delegation from him. While Hoover’s chances of get ting the nomination are not very good, one thing is certain: He is going to have a lot to say about who is selected. He will have the votes and money to command consideration. Dewey V*. Taft The tug-of-war within the party between Dewey and Taft is rapidly developing on a nation wide scale. The Ohioan is finding favor among the big contributors and more conservative elements. One of his most enthusiastic boosters is Lewis L. Strauss, war-time sec retary to Hoover and partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Strauss rais ed $1,000,000 to finance one of Hoover’s presidential campaigns and performed yeoman monetary service in electing Taft to the Senate last year. Dewey, far better known to the public than Taft, is batter liked by the congressional leaders and by younger men in the party. Also, he has the better political brains advising him. Few know it, but he is in constant touch with the smartest politicos on Capitol Hill, also with National Chairman John Hamilton. Behind the scenes, the two can didates are very active. They are concentrating on lining up in fluential party leaders, prelimin ary to launching drives in the States for delegates. Right after the conviction of Tammany boas Jimmy Hines, Dewey strategists made a secret play for Senator Borah. They proposed that Borah issue a state ment lauding Dewey. But the cagy Idahoan told1 the emissary that while he approved of Dewey's racket-busting, he couldn't see him as a presidential candidate until he knew more about Ms views on national issues. Murphy’s Motor Moguls . A stockholder of General Mo tors wrote Alfred P. Sloan, chair man of that corporation, congratu lating him on a rumor that Sloan had approved the appointment of former Michigan Governor Frank Murphy as Attorney-General. To the stockholder’s astonishment, he received this reply from Sloan; “I do not know how you got the idea that I was in favor of the appointment of Governor Murphy as Attorney General of the United States. The least said* about it, from any standpoint, the better. Regarding his no long er governing the State in which < some of your money is invested, frankly I think you are lucky that is so—at least, that is my considered opinion.” Merry-Go-Round Catholic leaders consider Bishop Stephen Donahue, auxiliary bishop • to the late Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, his most likely successor. They discount reports that Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, or Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans will get the post. No American arch bishop ever has been transferred to another archdiecese. . . Allott ed a quota of 80 students for' aviation training in the Govern ment’s new pilot development pro gram, Alabama State University was deluged with 1200 applica tions. , . The Commerce Depart ment has received information from agents abroad that the Nad* are outwitting the boycott against' their films by producing them in France and exporting them a* French pictures. Several are now being shown in this country. . , Popular Garrett Whiteside, secre tary to Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, is the dean of con gressional secretaries, with 81 yean of continuous service on Capitol Hill. Whiteside started at 22 as a clerk in the House Com mittee on Enrolled Bills. . . Un til the Liberty Loans were float ed, the Treasury had to go to Congress for special authority every time it Bold a bond issue. During the World War, Congress changed the law to permit th» Treasury to issue securities up to 20 billion. The limit is now 46 billion. (Copyright, 1939, by ' nr-•< Pratnre Syndics’- It- , mm Jawitfie StMy If WE AUGHJNBAUGH MR Statistic* It will no doubt surprise my readers to learn that during the year, one person out of every sixteen spends some portion of his or her time in a hospital. We have in the United States 6,437 hospitals. This of course does not include private hospital® and sanatariums where only pat ients who can pay for their at tention are taken. In the public hospitals over 7,000,000 patient® are treated each year. The greatest number of case® were brought to these hospitals for surgical treatment, and of these the majority were taken in as the result of accidents, chiefly caused by automobiles. By strict observation of the safety rules and regulations for traffic and by using ordinary common sense in everyday life, surgical cases in the United States, it is conserva tively estimated, could easily be reduced 33%. It is safe to say that fully 20% to 30% of the cases of illness which resulted in sending people to the hospitals could have been prevented by the use of ordin ary intelligence. Take, for example, the problem of the common cold. In an organi zation employing 3,000 people more than 25% were away from work anywhere from one to fif teen days, due to failure to re cognize and properly treat the symptoms, and because they did not call on their doctor® earlier. Our annual cold bill is more t.tinw $500,000,000. The average American family spends each year $166.00 for motor cars and their upkeep; $67.00 for tobacco; $37.00 for candy; $34.00 for ice cream, soda fountain drinks and chewing gum;. $5.00 for radio repairs, and that same family pays the doctor only\ $24.00 a year, and that only ' when they are sick. It is estimated that $50.00 a- i year spent with your family doct or would keep you well and re duce the sickness In this country almost 50%. The thing for you to do is to consult your doctor when you feel the least indispos ed and not to wait until disease has got a strangle hold on you. Too Rod! I What do you , think of the Musuem of Art?” "Oh, the are good enough, but s*t no mod fokif muUr * ■ ** J UTI
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