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I The Alleghany Times DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939. Number 13. This Week in Washington Washington, Aug. 9.—(AS)— Careful students of political psy chology ere trying to estimate the probable political effects of two unexpected occurrences in the closing days of the Congressional session, or what seemed to be its closing days. One was the unheralded “de nunciation’’ of the commercial treaty between the United, States and Japan by proclamation of the Secretary of State. The other was the personal attack upon Vice-President Garner by John L. Lewis, head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The Japanese matter comes down to this. Senator Key Pitt man, of Nevada, has been trying for some time to get Congress to enact some law which would effectively prohibit the sale and| export to Japan of materials of war. He had general support for the idea, since the sympathies of Congress, like those of the nation in general, are entirely with China. But unless the President should declare by proclamation that a state of war exists between Japan and China there is no law on i the American statute books which can be invoked to prevent any- j body from selling anything to: Japan, except a few items which aTe specifically under the control of the Munitions Board. It would make for an awkward international situation were the President to declare the Japan China affair a war when neither of the parties to it admits it is a war. Hence the United States is at peace with both nations, neutral in their neighborhood quarrel, and proposes to remain so, especially since we are bound by a treaty with Japan, signed in 1911, under which each nation gives the other free access to its markets, subject to modest tariff duties, for any commodities which I either exports and thg other im-, ports, “Denouncing” A Treaty That treaty, however, contains a clause under which either Japan or the United States can cancel by giving six months notice. Such notice, in terms of diplomacy, is called “denouncing” a treaty. While the Senate was trying to find some way to limit exports to our peaceful neighbor, Japan, without violating that old com mercial treaty, it occurred to j Senator Arthur Vandenberg to read the treaty. He came across the “denunciation” clause and immediately drafted and intro duced a resolution in the Senate calling upon the Presient to de nounce the treaty. The resolution caused some thing of a sensation. Nobody had thought of that way of clearing the decks to do what Senator Pittman had tried to do( legally barring the door to the export of goods to Japan and the impor tation of Japanese wares into America. While the Senate cloak rooms were still buzzing with the audacity of the proposal, and sen. timent was forming strongly for it, regardless of party lines, the Administration acted. Possibly the President and the Secretary of State had already considered the denunciation of the treaty with 4apan, and were hesi tating because of doubt about the attitude of Congress. But the reception given to the Vand,en berg resolution, which never came to a vote, removed all doubt. With no warning to the Japanese Ambassador or anybody else, the proclamation denouncing the treaty was given to the press. The politics which Washington sees in this is that it would have been very bad, politics indeed for a Democratic Administration to let such a proposal go before the people as having been originated by a 'Republican, especially when that Republican is a leading can didate ifor the Presidential nomi nation. Unexpected Denunciation The other incident which has set political dopesters at work with their fortune-telling equip ment, is the unexpected1 de nunciation of the Vice-President by Mr. Lewis. In the course of a hearing before the House Com mittee on Labor, the head of the CI<\ attacked Congress for its “unfair” attitude toward, organiz ed labor, and said: “The genesis of this campaign against Labor in the House is within the Democratic Party. It runs across to the Senate of the United States and emanates there from a labor-baiting, poker-play ing, whisky-drinking evil old, man whose name is Garner. . . I am against him officially, individually and personally. I cun against him in 1939 and will be against him in 1940 when he seeks the Presi dency of the United States.” Congressmen who heard Mr. Lewis say those things, which are taken from the stenographic rec ord, were stunned. The news spread through the House like (turn to. page five, please) Thousands of native shrubs ! and seedling trees —will be planted, and countless grass seeds will be sown, on the Blue Ridge Parkway during the year ahead, it was announced! recently. More than 200 miles of parkway will be involved, it was pointed out. The Works Projects Adminis tration has announced they will assign about 200 men from Asheville and Marion, North Carolina, and| from Galax, Vir ginia, and vicinity to the nearby pairkway sections. In addition, 200 men from CCC camps at Rocky Knob, Virginia, and The Bluffs, North Carolina, will carry on the forestry and roadside beau tification work already started! on the parkway at these points. Also work crews being supervised by the Bureau of Public Roads will continue on their program of landscaping. All the plans for landscape development are prepared by the National Park Service, whose | landscape architects also inspect the. work in the fields. The na tive plants used are largely col lected from the adjoining park way lands. Soil erosion control, forest cleanup, vista clearing, planting of trees and shrubs and grass seeding are part of the pro gram made possible by the var ious work agencies, Makes High Grade W. B. (“Bill”) Halsey (above), son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Halsey, Sparta, passed the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy with the highest grade of any applicant. He was graduated in June from the University of North Caro lina with a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy and he was a member of the honor council of the school of pharmacy for two years, vice president of the Junior class, and pharmacy re presentative to the campus legis lature in his senior year. He was president of the Kappa Psi phar maceutical fraternity. He is now employed at Morganton, and teaches in the nursing school at Grace Hospital. Musicians from five states have registered ■—for the Whitetop Folk Festival, which it to be held on Whitetop Mountain, in upper Grayton County, to morrow (Friday) and Saturday, John Powell, director of the fes tival announced recently. The lat est registrations include Council Cruise, Ernest Haw, Floyd Stev ens and L. B. Taylor, Tazewell, Va., J. C. Garland and group, Shady Valley, Tennessee, J. C. Dooley and group, Johnson City, Tennessee, R. L. Snavely and, group, Elizabethton, Eennessee, J. V. Sage, Rural Retreat, Virginia, and Herman Blevins and group, Green Cove, Virginia. Robert Blevins, of Jenkins, Kentucky, advises that he will bring a string band which will feature a good fiddler, T. E. Barker, who has been raised in the Cumberland Mountains with a fiddle under his chin, and plays such tunes as “Billy in the Low Ground,” “Patty on the Turnpike,” “Calahan,” “The Old Hen Cackle” and many other fid dle tunes. " A Alleghany County Schools will open Monday August 28 —it was decided at the regular session of the Alleghany County Board of Education held| on Mon day, August 7. , Practically all of the teaching positions in the county have been filled. i Trench silos are increasing in popularity —steadily, not only with small farmers, but with large ones as well, says John A. Arey, extension dairyman at State College, Ral eigh. For many years silage has been recognized as one of the best and most economical home-grown roughages for cattle. It is eco nomical because a large quantity can be grown on a small acreage with a comparatively small amount of labor. Then, too, only a small Loss is sustained 'during the harvesting and feeding oper ations. One of the most economical ways of keeping this economioal feed is the trench silo, Arey said. It is especially well adapted to the medium or small-sizddi herd where the initial cost of con structing an upright silo would ^ be too heavy. Trench silos have been used widely in North Carolina for more than five years, and those who have used these silos have found them to have the follow ing advantages: low cost of con struction, low cost of filling equip, ment, andl ease of construction. Also fire and wind hazards are completely eliminated. Since the trench silo can be constructed with farm labor, the roof represents the principal cash outlay of an unlined silo. The roof may be constructed from rough lumber which is usually available on the farm at a small cost. ~ i The equipment required for filling the trench silo is less ex pensive than that required for the upright. A small cutter with out a blower will do the job satisfactorily. Such a cutter with a capacity of four to five tons an hour can be operated with a 5 H. P. gasoline engine which re tails from 75 to 100 'dollars. Farm and Home Week at State CoDege, Raleigh —last week exceeded all previous similar events there in registration, with more than 1,500 farm men and women being enrolled. Swelling this total were other farm people who attended only a fraction of the week and (d|id not register. Largest day of the event was Thursday when special meetings attracted hundreds of additional visitors to the campus. During the week, a weli-balanc dd| program of entertainment and education was furnished. Morn ings were devoted to separate '< and joint sessions of men and women; the afternoons were, turned over to tours and recre ation ; and) the night programs were almost purely recreational and entertaining; Speakers prominent in their respective fields were secured to address the delegates on a wide variety of subjects. For instance, Dr. E. V. McCollum, head of the School of Hygiene and) Public Health at Johns Hopkins Univer sity and internationally known research nutritionist, spoke at two joint sessions on diet and food supply. Governor and Mrs. Clyde Hoey proved as popular with the dele gates this year as in. past years.) North Carolina’s first citizen anti) first lady, by popular request, ap peared before the Farm and Home Week delegation Thursday night. Classroom work was provided in a large number of fanning and/ home-making subjects. Farm women who have attended classes regularly at four of these con ventions are awarded honor cer tificates at the completion of their fourth year. Extension Service workers who have served 25 or more years were honored at this year's event \Vhen Two Political Enemies Meet . . . 1 I -57----; NEW YORK (?ITY . . . We do not know what they said privately, but no doubt each liked his party’s chances in the 1940 Presidential election. Postmaster4 General James A. Farley (left), national chairman of the Democratic Party, and John D. Hamilton, national chairman Of the Republican Party, are obviously in good humor as they are pictured aboard the S. S. Manhattan prior to sailing for Europe. Roosevelt said his judiciary aims have been —gained, in a statement j issued in Washington, D. C., | Monday night. The Chief ; Executive raid that he had attained all the objectives of his Supreme Court enlargement fight which he began two and one-half years ago in an effort to stream line the federal judiciary and ob tain decisions favorable to the New Deal. He made the announcement in an unexpected statement issued in conjunction'with his signing, a few hours earlier, of the Ashurst bill creating an administrative of ficer to supervise budget affairs of the federal courts. The statement came at the end of a busy day in which he signed numerous minor measures, dis cussed legislation and politics with homeward-bound members of Congress and completed plans for his own departure for Hyde Park, N. Y., late Monday night. Mr. Roosevelt declared that the opinions of the Supreme Court itself and legislation enacted by Congress had brought about all of the objectives he sought when he first called for judiciary reorgani zation on February 5, 1937. Earlier he had signed the new measure in an elaborate ceremony attended by former Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and his successor, Frank Murphy. Cummings, who received the pen with which the bill was signed as a souvenir, said immediately that “every objective the President had in mind has now been achiev ed.” ENGLISH PLANES CRASH London, Aug. 9.—Lifeboats and1 service motor launches searched off the east coast early today for four Royal air force warplanes which were reported to have crashed into the sea as hundreds of “attacking” bombers swept upon England from France to inaugurate Britain’s dramatic air raid tests. Another bomber crashed and' exploded near Tollerton, in York shire, 50 miles from the coast and five men were believed killed. SNOW IN COLORADO | Denver, Aug. 7.—The season’s first snowstorm whipped along the crest of the Continental divide from Yellowstone park to Pike’s Peak today, bringing rain and chilly morning weather to nearby areas. - * APOLOGIZES TO HOOVER Chicago, Aug. 6.—The Univer sity of Chicago apologized to former President Herbert Hoover on its nationally-broadcast round table today for a statement on last week’s broadcast that he was “buying’’ southern delegates to the 1940 Republican presidential convention. EX-GOV. LECHE INDICTED New Orleans, Aug. 7.—Reach ing high among the political heirs of the late Huey P. Long, the federal government today indicted former Gov. Richard Leche on a charge he profited by $67,000 through illegal “hot oil” oper ations. After a furious clash in the Senate— The 76th Congress adjourned Saturday night with all of its work completed —until the beginning of the regular session in January, unless a special session should be called for some reason. With the House in recess, the Senate heard an exchange between Senator Pepper (D., Fla.), enthusiastic Roosevelt supporter, and a group of other Democrats, which for plain forensic bitterness eclipsed any of the quarrels of the preceding seven months. “I am unwilling," the Floridan shouted, “to let this session of the Congress end without lifting my voice to decry the unholy alliance of those in and out of Congress, who have been willing to scuttle the American government and the American people and jeopardize the peace of the world because they hate Roosevelt and what Roosevelt stands for.” With that the administration critics were on the alert. And when Pepper went on to accuse members of the supposed alliance “of having prostituted their pow er to serve the United' States Chamber of Commerce, the Manu facturers' association and the benefiqjaries of special privilege,” a half dozen were on their feet simultaneously clamoring for recognition. Obtaining the ftoor, Senator Burke (D., Neb.) asked that, under the rules of the Senate, the chair call “Pepper to order.” j A V ' AT;; The chair did so, forcing Pepper to take his seat. New Deal Sena tor Minton (D., Ind.) following the formula of the rules, then moved that Pepper be permitted ‘to proceed in order.” On a roll call vote the motion carried and Pepper resumed. But Burke interrupted again with an ironic “parliamentary in quiry” whether a senator who be lieved' it impossible for Pepper to proceed in order could per missibly return to the cloak room. Without awaiting a reply, he strode from the chamber. Later, several senators arose in reply. Bailey (D., N. C.) called the Pepper speech “cowardly and1 mendacious.” "Under the rules of the Sen ate,” said Senator Pittman (D., Nev.) presiding, “such a state ment is out of ordler.” “Id order or out of order,” Bailey snapped in reply, “I shall make this statement. I shall make it privately.*’ Revival services will begin in the Presbyterian Church —here on Wednesday, August 16, with Rev. B. L. Bowman, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota, Fla., in charge of the meetings. The Florida minister will preach each night during the series, at eight o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend. The president accused groups in Congress —that wrecked his neutral ity, lending and housing programs of gambling with the fate of a billion and a half humans and of leading American business men to a preci pice over which it may plunge next Spring. The accusation was made Tuesday in Hyde Park, N. Y. A substantially unanimous Re publican minority in both houses, about 22 per cent, of House and 25 per cent, of Senate Democrats, Mr. Roosevelt said, must accept the responsibility for gambling on the prospects of world peace in a wager which may affect 1,500, 000,000 humans and gambling with the future of business in a bet which has direct bearing on the jobs of 20,000,000 Americans. Seated in the library of his home, Mr. Roosevelt, calmly but critically reviewed at a press con ference congressional refusal to act on his neutrality program, his $3,060,000,000 lending program, and his $800,000,000 housing bill. He said in rejecting his pro posals, Congress simply was gam bling. He said the conservative Democrat - Republican coalition made two bets with the nation— on neutrality and the prospects of business being able to absorb the wage earners who lose their jobs next spring on relief and public works administration proj ects. Enactment of lending program, the President said, would have provided an even graded descent from the present situation in which about 3,000,000 persons have held relief jobs and approxi mately about 2,000,000 have found work on PWA projects. Those 5,000,000 persons, he said, when considered in terms of families, actualLy represent som-* 20.000. 000 Americans. Mr. Roosevelt said the theory of the coalition which wrecked his lending program has been that business would take up the slack next spring when PWA projects virtually halt, and some 1.000. 000 wage earners are drop ped from relief. The Boy Scouts of Sparta spent a very enjoyable —week-end camping, boating, swimming and' fishing, on New River, under the guidance of Rob ert J. Andrews and Odell S. An drews, Scoutmasters. The boys m the group were Louis Wagonery Arza Richardson, R. C. Mitchell, Thomas Zack Osborne, Billy) Carroll Choate, Billy Hardin, Jean and Brett Marshall, Harold Irwin, Buddy Andrews, June Gentry, Edwin Duncan, Jr., and Johnny McMil lan. After remaining in the air for a total of 14 days —the flying Moody brothers, Hunter and Humphrey, ended their two-weeks endurance flight at 10:45 p. m. (CST) Sunday night. Landing during a severe elec trical storm, the young fliers had completed 343 hours and 46 min utes in the air, establishing a new endurance recoord for light planes. The landing was without mis hap. State police estimated a crowd of 6,000 saw the end of the flight. PREACHING SERVICES WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY —night, August 13, at eight, o’clock, in the Sparta Presbyter ian Church, it was announced early this week, by the pastor, ReV. R. L. Berry. REV. HOWARD J. FORD IS TO PREACH SUNDAY —morning, August 13, at eleven o’clock, in the Sparta Baptist Church, of which he b pastor. i Three Alleghany County fanners have been named —by the Farm Security Ad ministration, U. S Depart ment of Agriculture, to assist County FSA Super visor W. Bryan Oliver, of West Jefferson, carry out the tenant purcnase program. Van Miller, Laurel Springs; W. Carl Brown, Stratford, and Dillon C. Edwards, Ennice, well known farmers, were chosen members of the County FSA A'dtvisory Com mittee. The announcement was made this week by Vance E. Swift, State Director. The County Committees were chosen by the Secretary of Agri culture on the advice of the state farm advisory committee from lists sent in by County FSA Supervisors and Farm Agents. These local committees will study applications for loans, choose tenants who have the character and ability to pay for a farm, and appraise the farms successful applicants want to buy. Tenants are placing their applications for loans with County Supervisors who will assist successful applic ants in building or repairing their houses a»di in laying out their farm plans, it was pointed out. Mr. Oliver announces that he will be at the Courthouse her# each Tuesday morning (except August 22) for the purpose of taking applications. The Tenant Purchase Committees and County Supervisors from several counties will attend a two-day school in North Wilkesboro, on August 22 ■nd 23, for the purpose of re ceiving instructions in carrying out the Tenant Purchase Pro gram. Applications may also be filed with members of the Com mittee or at the office of the County Agent in Sparta. -'- .I'!'*1 Heads Baptists . 7 *7 - t ^||» M B Hf ATLANTA, Ga. . . . 10,000 Bap tist messengers unanimously elect ed nr. James Henry Rushbrooke, above, of London, England, as president of the Baptist World Alliance to succeed Dr. George W. Truett, of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Rushbrooke will hold office, for a period of five years. H. Styles Bridges opened a drive for the presidency —Tuesday in Washington, D. C., when two Republicans just out of their thirties teamed up for the purpose of electing the former new Hamp shire governor (now Senator Bridges) the next president of the United States. One was Bridges himself, just past 41, and the other was Rep resentative Charles Hawks, Jr., of Horicon, Wia, a first-term member of the House who turned 40 only last month. Hawks, somewhat mystified that Bridges had selected him as his campaign manager, sat in his office Tuesday and: outlined the objective and methods of the campaign. He indicated that accent on youth would be the keynote. The senator is preparing for a whirl wind speaking campaign this fall, which, unless plans go awry, will carry his uncompromising anti new deal views to audiences from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast and back. Bridges is now in New Hampshire preparing his speeches. “We want,’’ Hawks said day, “to interest the pie of the country in smment.”
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