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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 $ .50 In North Carolina (outside of Alleghany County) and Virginia . One Year $1.25 Elsewhere in United States .... One Year $1.50 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 accomnany the copy Entered at the Post Office at Galax, Virginia as Second Class Matter under tne Act or Congress of March 8, 1872. gnarta W C. Thursday. Auer. 31, 1939 l—L-:-: About Accidents The newspapers recently told of several accidents in which a number of lives were lost. There was a train wreck in the West, which killed 23, an airplane disaster in Brazil, which killed 14, and other mis haps that caused sudden death to men and women. The reaction of the reader was to marvel at this sudden exhibition of com bined fatalities, with the idea that strange fate was at work. Well, the accidents were spectacular, but otherwise not much in the grand total of those who die each year by accident. Nearly one hundred persons are kill ed every day on the highways but these fatal crashes are no longer news! Nearly another hundred individuals go to their Maker through other types of accidents every day but most of them do not get into print, except in local newspapers. The most futile pastime is trying to guess what somebody else will do. In any discussion of the general wel fare there are individuals who think that the general welfare means private profits. Moving Thanksgiving Day <• There is no question whatever that President Roosevelt is entirely within his rights in proclaiming next November 23rd as the annual day for giving thanks to Almighty God for His blessings upon the people of flie United States. Thanksgiving Day is not a legal holi day except by tradition and long estab lished custom. The President’s change of date from the customary last Thursday in November, which will be on the 30th this year, to a week earlier, is not binding upon anybody but the inhabitants of areas completely under the control of the Fed eral Government. Any state by legislation, or any state governor by proclamation, can declare November 30th as Thanksgiving Day, and thus maintain the tradition established by immemorial custom in the North and East, and by the proclamation of Presi dent Lincoln, in 1864, for the first time on a national scale. There is much to be said in behalf of a longer interval between Thanksgiv ing and Christmas. The Christmas shop ping season would be lengthened, to the advantage of business men. There would be a longer interval between school holi days, which come pretty close together when the last Thursday of November falls |on the last day of the month, as it does this year. There are other good arguments for the general principle of observing Thanks giving Day earlier than time-honored cus tom places it on the calendar. The Presi dential action not only runs contrary to ancient custom and habit, but interferes with football schedules and other Fall events which had been planned on the expectation that Thanksgiving Day of 1939 would come at its usual time. More over, it makes liars out of the calendar makers, and introduces an element of doubt as to what they ought to do in the future. But if the whole business results in focussing more attention upon Thanksgiv ing and bringing more people back to its observance as a real day of thanks for Divine blessings, perhaps the net effect of Mr. Roosevelt’s action will be good. Most men would be in the gutter if it were not for their wives, if you believe I what many wives believe. I I What Other Editors Say What Is America ? From the Winston-Salem Journal, and Sentinel American tourists in Europe are coming home ; now as fast as ships will bring them. And we 'are i sure all of these tourists will agree that the most j beautiful thing they have seen on their trip is i the view of the Statue of Liberty as they approach i the shores of their native land. For this will mean that they are back in America. And what is this America bo which they are coming? Why is it that in a torn old world today so much emphasis is being placed upon j the good fortune of those who happen to live in this republic? Just what is America, anyway? Mary B. McAndrew, superintendent of schools in I Carbondale, Penna., has given us this beautiful | definition; “What is America? God built a continent of glory and filled it with treasures untold..' He carpeted it with soft rolling prairies and pillared it with thundering mountains. He studied it with soft flowing fountains and traced it with long winding streams. He graced it with deep shadow ed forests and filled them with song. - These treasures would have meant little if thousands of people, the bravest of the race, had not come, | each bearing a gift and a hope. They- had the J glory of adventure in their souls and out of them was fashioned a nation, blessed with a purpose sublime and called ‘America’.” America, then, is not soft-rolling prairies, [winding streams and towering mountains. It is j not merely great forests, great cities and fertile | farms. It is not merely a smiling land inhabited i by descendants of the Puritans and the Cavaliers. It is a gigantic crucible of democracy in j which peoples from nearly every nation under the | sun have come to mix, mingle and make their I dream of democracy and peace come true. • I The Low Down From Hickory Grove You might think that things would maybe be a little dull now with Congress not in session— and you would not have much to talk about. Especially if you was not an extra serious duck, and leaned a little toward liking a joke or a touch of comedy. 1 But .right off the bat, you can get your mind off Congress and it’s did(os. And this time, it is the ladies turn. Bustles are coming in—or maybe it is better to say, back. I But bustles have been in before, and if you will dig up history you will read about bow in the Old Days there was plenty of commotion therefrom—like runaways, etc., when a hoop-skirt or something would get caught in a zephyr. But today with the automobile versus the horse, we will not have that hazard—you cannot scare an automobile. But I am for the latest style 100%. G randan a will hardly be able to wear a bustle and sailor’s pants at the same time. Yours, with the low down, JO SERRA Two Sides To Every Question by Lytle Hul1 NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE I | Drifting hopelessly around in j a Congressional Committee—half forgotten and faintly discolored with age—is a proposal Of such vast potential importance to the people of America, that only a freak of nature or a premeditat ed plan of "power politics’’ could withhold it from public contemp lation. Its name—The Ludlow Amend ment: its purpose—to insure Americans, now and for all time, against participation in other peo ple’s wars over other peoples’ business. It is not argued here that our fear of being pushed into a gen eral war has been the sole cause of our exceptionally slow eco nomic recovery since business be gan to mend in 1938, but it IS contended that fear of this catas trophe has had a great deal to do with this delay. Even if our internal affairs were in good, shape; if we had no unemployment; if the wheels of industry were turning harmonious ly_even then the businessman seeking productive investment for his money would hesitate to put it in properties which overnight wright be converted from income producers into armament factor ies. The certainty of terrible de pression and stagnation in this country, and the probability of social upheaval, following any great war in which we were in volved, would induce him to keep his money in cash in the bank, and if he were hesitant in pros perous days, he naturally would not plunge ahead in depressed times with all these risks depend ent upon the well intentioned but possibly dangerous foreign policy of a few men in Government. None but a few biased individ uals believe that our present Ad ministration is desirous, or in tends, that this country shall be come involved abroad, but many are fearful of the chances which they believe our Government to be taking in its sincere effort to avert war between the European powers. It isn’t fair to the American people that all this uncertainty should exist. It isn’t fair to busi ness, and farming, and labor, which are struggling against so many odds on top of this sus pense; or to the unemployed who are looking for business recovery to get them back their jobs; or bo tile mothers of the young men who may have to 'die. But the finger of blame points not alone to our representatives In Washington; it points to the people themselves who, if they i wished, could have the power of I decision in their own hands. ! It is a small, but unfortunately poweiful, minority of Communists and such, which has anything to gain by this country’s participa tion in a foreign war. The over whelming majority of our people are sensible enough to be violent ly opposed to it, and if they were aware of s>cn,e method by which they could be insured against participation in any future wars, they would move Heaven and Earth to adopt it. It seems strange, therefore, that they take such a lackadaisical view of the most plausible sug gestion which has been advanced for their protection. The Ludlow Bill proposes an amendment to our Constitution which takes from Congress its present power to declare war without the consent of the Ameri can people, voting in referendum —“unless a foreign power at tacks, invades, or threatens mili tary action against the United States or our territorial posses sions, or any other country in this hemisphere." For reasons which might be very interesting, if we but knew them, this proposed Bill is not getting the publicity it deserves. The result is that most of the (turn to page three, please) King For A Day ... .-.- ' .. 1 Weekly Washington Merry-Go-Round (Trade Mark Registered) by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen _i New 1940 Boom For Bob Jackson Due After Supreme Court Victories; Rookie Senator Wiley Invents New Gravy: Free Summer Office Rent; Garner Takes Up Bantam Chickens; Yearning Ambition Is To Travel; Empty White House Still Busy As Tourists Flock In Record Number. Washington—Only one or two knew it, but a significant late-in the-evening caller upon the Presi dent shortly before he went va cationing was Solicitor General Bob Jackson. Bob summarized for Roosevelt the New Deal’s current Supreme Court victories, which was a score of 21 cases won out of 24 tried. Next day the President issued a statement emphasizing that re gardless of congressional set backs, the New Deal had won a tremendous victory before the Court. More important than this mid night conference, however, is the backstage move to revive Bob Jackson as a Democratic poten tiality for 1940. This goes back to January, 1938, when the President was looking around for someone to step into Lehman’s shoes as Gov ernor of New York. Jim Parley and the big, Tammany politicos spiked the deal. They didn’t want anyone built up who might interfere with Jim’s own per sonal and long-cherished ambition to be Governor—usually an ex cellent stepping-stone to the White House. (Jim knew, of course, that there could not be two Democratic candidates from New York State.) “Let Jackson make himself a reputation first,” one of the Tammanyites suggested to the inner White House circle. “You might pick some soft spots for him before the Supreme Court.” Jackson has now made his legal reputation, and the fact that Roosevelt brought him in for a quiet chat the other night indi cates that Jackson will get more grooming either as a 1940 pos sibility or as Chief Justice of the United States should Charles E. Hughes resign this fall, as is generally expected. Note — Roosevelt strategists generally concede that to win the presidential election in 1940 it is essential to carry New York State, and they think that Bob Jackson, as an upstate New York er, is better fixed than any other New Dealer to do the trick. Canaries And Dope You wouldn’t expect canary birds to be implicated in the hard, boiled activities of government narcotic agents—but they are, and in a singuarly important man ner. Due to the prevalence of mari huana in bird seed, canaries con stitute one of the peskiest prob lems of the Bureau of Narcotics, in its relentless war on the illicit dope traffic. "Wild” marihuana flourishes in virtually every State in the Union, and narcotic agents have discovered that sweepings from bird cages, scattered in back yards and empty lota, are largely responsible. Marihuana, or hash ish, Is one of the four principal ingredients of bird food. Govern ment agents have found that in many cases the seed is bought not Dy Dira owners out uy uupt; peddlers who plant it in niari huana patches. To combat this practice the Narcotics Bureau asked bird-seed manufacturers to treat their pro duct with ultra-violet rays, which would render it useless for cul tivation. But this is expensive, and some of the packers have objected. Vacant White House Though Roosevelt is back for a fleeting visit, this is the season when the White House is vacant. You would not know it, however, from the shuffling of tourists, who continue to stream through the I lower fl'oors at a rate which makes | the White House the only rival |of the World’s Fair. The upper floors maintain the |dark and dustproof respectability j of a manor house closed for the j summer. Rugs are rolled up, 'dust covers are spread over the J furniture, and doors are locked. 'Only a maid dusts in the day time and a policeman makes his rounds at night. There are thousands of tour ists—twice as many during Aug ust this year as last year—but in the living/ quarters no one dis turbs the summer somnolence. The kitchen is untenanted, the famous electric stove is cold, and the dumbwaiter carries nothing but a stray, cockroach who wonders what has happened to the old place that used to he so lively. Of the score of servants norm ally on duty, there remain only three, a houseman, a maid and a butler. All three have to go out for their meals. At 9 in the evening, a White House policeman barricades the front door by shoving a wooden bar through its handles, and then takes up his solitary vigil through the night. A few low lights are left burning downstairs, but all ir dark above. This is the only time of the year when the White House has but one inhabitant—a policeman. In the daytime, however, hun dreds of tourists check cameras at the door, but keep babies on the hip as they track up the par quet floor of the East Room, and peep enviously through the win dows to the sparkling fountain in the South grounds. At two o’clock, end of the tourist hours, the shuffling stops; the houseman, lugging his polish ing machine, repairs the damage to the parquet floor. Under The Dome Senator Henry Ashurst, witty chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he always wears a frock coat when he is likely to be involved in a heated contro versy. It is difficult, he explains, to get into a fight when attired in long-tailed, coats - . . The Washington State Commonwealth Federation, boosting; the Presi dent for n third tern, has sold mone than 70,000 “Draft Roose velt for 1940” buttons . . .One of the few roll-top desks still in use on Capitol Hill is in the of fice of Representative William S. Jacobsen of Iowa, who inherited it from his father, the late Rep resentative Bernhard M. Jacob sen . . . New ship construction ont the Navy’s books totals $907,106,000 for the Aext seven years. The peak will be reach ed in 1941 when the schedule calls for an outlay of $370,489, 000, largest in history. Animal Lover Jack Garner is fond of ani mals. He keeps a pet bear, rab bits, squirrels, birds and dogs about his ample Uvalde home. In Washington he frequently visits the Zoo. “You can always trust ani mals,” Gamer tells friends. “They will never lay down on you, or double-cross you, or ask you for (favors.” A more recent passion is ban tam chickens. A friend present ed him with a prize pair and he has become an enthusiastic fan cier. He has raised a good sized flock and personally feeds them when at home. When not fishing or hnuting, Gamer works a little in the morning at his desk or in Ids large yard. During the heat of the day he takes a siesta, and in the evening he reads. His reading consists chiefly of newspapers and magazines. He receives several New York and Washington papers, is fond of de tective stories, but modern nov els and economic tomes leave him cold. His favorite books are “Ivanhoe’’ and “Don Quixote.” One of Gamer’s secret desires is to travel. The only extended trip he and Mrs. Gamer have made was to the Far East sev eral years ago, and the exper ience whetted their appeties for more. They would like to make a round-the-world cruise and are particularly eager to visit Eu rope. “That is, of course,” adds Gar ner, “if there is anything left there by the time we are free to travel.” Fast Learner As a rookie Senator, Alexand er Wiley of Wisconsin made an indifferent impression among his colleagues. A mediocre speaker, he was put down as a “back-row” member. But while he cut no swath in the Senate, Wiley proved himself a fhst learner in one respect. He soon got wise to the gravy bowl. Chief nepotic on his congression al payroll is his daughter Wini fred, a $1,800 clerk in her fath er’s office. After Congress adjourned, Wil ey launched a new rinkle when he went back to Milwaukee and commandeered a private office for himself in the federal building here. The building was already over-crowded, but together with Congressman John C. Schafer and Lewis D. Thrill, .Wiley de manded free office quarters and got them. This new type of congressional gravy doubtless will be fully ex ploited by other Congressmen as soon as they team about it ■ ■* Veteran Nepotiet Gangling, tobacco-chewing Sen* itor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, who made social history n Washington when he appeared it the garden party for the Bri ;ish King and Queen rigged out n a ten-gallon cowboy hat, is i veteran “back-row” member, n his eight years in the Senate le has made one speech—and iew paid any attention to it. But like Wiley he has been up n front in getting his share of ?ravy. Bulow has two relatives ?n the congressional payroll; a jon, William J., Jr., as his secre tary at $3,900; and' a married laughter, Mrs. Kathleen Plot licki, who gets $1,800 as a :lerk. Merry-Go-Round The Trailblazers, vengeance squad of the Townsend move ment has moved into the district jf Representative Robert G. Al len, Pennsylvania Democrat, who voted against the old-age pension plan after promising to support it in last year’s elections. The Trailblazers spent a month lam basting Representative Allen T. Treadway, veteran Massachusetts Republican who also irenegaded on his campaign pledge. . . Town sendites plan similar drives in the district of every Congress man who went back on his prom ise. . . Years ago, as a minor official in the Lands Division of the Justice Department, Norman M. LitteJl was frequently provok ed by the haughty attitude of Washington executives. Now as the hard-hitting Assistant Attor ney General in charge of the Division, he has issued an order directing his assistants to come down to earth. He says: “We must not confuse the importance of one’s official capacity with per sonal importance.’’ . . . O. M. Thomason, one-time prominent Nonpartisan League official, has announced himself a Democratic candidate against Senator Henrik Shipstead, veteran Minnesota Farmer-Laborite whom politicos expect to run for re-election next year on the GOP ticket. (Copyright, 1989, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) I dwidt '_ HOM E ‘Autho; of Sl»t«r M«ry*« Klrcho" When you gather flowers from your garden for use in the house they will keep much longer if certain precautions are taken. In the first place it is a good idea to cut them in the early morning or late evening, when the stems and blossoms are full of sap. Then put them loosely into deep jars of water and let them stand for some time before ar ranging. Stems should be cut on a slant so that the flowers will not rest flatly on the bottom of the vase. Dahlias should be cut when in full bloom, and the stems should be singed in a hot flame IM MEDIATELY. Remove the lower .eaves that will be immersed in water,. as they will waterlog and turn black. Keep the bouquet out of a draught and your dah lias will keep in good condition for several days. Since it’s sandwich season be sure your knife is sharp and that the butteri is creamed before you start to make a batch of sand wichesfor picnic or tea. The quickest way to cream butter just out of the refrigerator is to put it in a bowl and work it with the pastry blender. Try it and see if you don’t have smooth butter ;he right consistency for spread ng in no time. When you are making boiled :offee over an open fire outdoors add 1-4 teaspoon salt and 1-2 :up cold water as soon as the ;offee has boiled as long as you want it to. Remove from heat, and let it stand two or three minutes before pouring. This set ties the grounds and' gives you, a delicious brew. These propor tions are for twelve cups *of ijtre'1. Paper towels and, paper nap kins will save hours of laundry work. There are attractive lunch son sets made of heavy water proof paper that make charming summer tables. Breath Misjudged Miss Gush—I think your pic ture adorable. It breathes the irery spirit of dawn. What are you going to call it? Artist—Sunset. Sarcastic “I try to be always in accord with nature/’ "So I observe. When natuie ioffs her garb in the fall, yon !>egin to put metre on.'*
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