The Alleghany Times Alleghany County’s Only Newspaper Published every Thursday by the Gazette Printing & Publishing Go. 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 $1.60 This paper charges for the insertion of Obitu aries, Resolution Cards of Thanks, etc. Obituaries occupying not more than eight inches of space, $1; longer ones in proportion. Cards of Thanks. 35 <-ents. Cash «r stamps must accompany the cour 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, Nov. 16, 1939. The World Grows Better The temperature of the world has been steadily rising sipce the turn of the century, says J. B. Kincer, of the United States Weather Bureau. He says this has been such a persistent trend as to suggest that the idea of stability of climate needs some revision. This is an important observation if it represents the beginning of a gradual increase in the heat of the world. Is it possible that the world is in the begin ning of a heat wave that will reach new highs and, possibly, vitally affect climate all over the globe ? Mr. Kincer says that the changes to which he refers have been world-wide in j scope, with records showing that there I has been abnormal warmth in the last two decades. Thus, he lends weight to the theory, often heard, that the winters are growing milder and that the climate of the earth is actually different from what it was a generation ago. Farm Income Gains The people who write for the news papers are cheering up the farmers with the news that agricultural income, this year, bids fair to excel any recent year, with the possible exception of 1937. It is about the same as reporting that the temperature of a patient has dropped from,104 to 103! Farm income in the United States is running this year about eighty per cent of parity and parity gives the people on our farms, slightly more than one-fourth of the population, less than one-seventh of the national income. Frankly, there is no magical method to restore prosperity to the nation’s farm ers. It will be a matter of some years, at least. Meanwhile, the national economic machine is out of balance and the entire; country continues to suffer. An Important Distinction The recent indictment of the nominal head of the American Communist Party, Earl Browder, turns the spotlight upon the contrast between two ways of life and two habits of thought. Browder has been indicted for travel ing to Moscow on forged passports, an act which he frankly admitted in sworn testi mony before the Dies Committee a short time ago. Now he is about to stand trial, protected by all the Constitutional right that guarantees any citizen of this coun try, no matter how heinous his crime, a fair hearing. Picture a similar situation if it had occurred under one of the systems under which these protections do not exist, and towards which Browder, if he had his way, would willingly drive this country. The victim would not receive an open and fair hearing but a star chamber proceed ing, and as soon as the admission was drawn from him that he had used forged passports, the firing squad would be trot ted out to do its work. Yet, in this country where the rights of the individual are so jealously guarded, the followers of the Communist chief are even now complaining that he is being persecuted merely because he is a Red. We trust—indeed, we know—that Browder will have his Constitutional right to a fair trial. But it is important to make the distinction, so frequently and easily neglected by the enemies of this country as soon as they happen to step out of bounds, between the just protection of citizens and their “right” to violate the country’s laws in the interest of under mining the very Constitution to which they so brazenly appeal. What Other Editors Say Religious Freedom From the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel Another blow has been struck for religious freedom by the United States circuit court of appeals which ruled that school children do not have to salute the flag if such action is contrary to their religious belief. The children involved were expelled four years ago from a Minersville, Pa., school when they refused to salute the flag because they are members of a religious sect which believes that it is sacrilegious to pay tribute to any earthly thing. The court held that the right of religious freedom j stands above everything else. It is interesting to note that the opinion was given by a judge who is an Episcopalian and con-! curred in by another Episcopalian judge and a Jew. One can well imagine how important it would seem to a Jew to uphold the right of religious freedom> when in other lands Ms race has been a victim of religious intolerance. No matter how much at variance a man’s religious beliefs may be with that of the major ity of his fellows, America concedes him the right to that belief so long as no criminal acts are com mitted in the name of religion. It is doubtful if compulsory tribute to the flag could be upheld constitutionally, even if the religious question were not involved. It is a pretty, patriotic gesture, but one that does not necessarily inculcate a love for the flag in those that make it. Patriots are not made by com pulsion. Children should be taught to respect the flag. They should learn flag etiquette. They should know why the flag, as a symbol of what others have fought for, should be respected. But the ends of patriotism are not served by forcing a salute. The Low Down From Hickory Grove With the war crowdin’ even the divorces and murders out of the news, it is not so hard to savvy why we don’t pay too much attention to Uncle Samuel when he borrows another 10 or 20 million just to pay interest on other money which he borrowed before. Borrowin’ money to pay interest on other borrowed money, brother, that is borrowin’. How Uncle Samuel manages to keep out of the calaboose, while the SEC puts other persons in, for too high financing, it is kinda mystifying. But most of us, I reckon, we are kind& like j the young duck when he graduated there at the Champaign and Urbana University. On the day he graduated the Professor said to him, young feller, you are now finishing here and) there is just one thing you do not know—you don’t know yet, that you don’t know anything, I guess maybe one of the things the Pro fessor had in mind, it musta been politics. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA Two Sides To Every Question by Lytle Hul1 WANTED—A GREAT STATESMAN Great statesmen are often the cause of the world’s troubles and likewise have been, and can be, Che cure. A Talleyrand in France—since the end of the World War—a Disraeli in England, a Machiavelli in Itajy, a Mettemich in Austria and a Stein in Germany would have recognized, and heeded, the danger in which another great war would place Europe and would have avoided the risky ven ture upon which it has now em barked. These men, through individual greed—or let us call it patriotism •—might have played recklessly with pawns but would never have risked the checkmate which faces the countries of Europe if they expose themselves, through ex haustion, to the now obvious men ace of Bolshevism. By now everyone is aware of that great danger. Anyone can visualize a half starved Germany falling easy prey to any promise of peace. The old slogan of Capitalistic and Imperialistic War will fall on fallow ground. The fallacies of Communism will be ignored by a desperate people, and the great German nation of dgjhty-eix million normally sane [inhabitants will become part arid j parcel of the greatest menace , which civilization has ever known. On the fringes of this dread I morass will stand the small Bal [ kan nations—Hungary, Bulgaria, [Rumania, Yugoslavia, Turkey and j Greece—to the south. To the north the Baltic and Scandinavian nations—Finland, Esthonia, Lat via and Lithuania; Norway, Den mark and Sweden. To Hie east little Holland, Belgium and Switz erland. Southeast a strong Italy and farther on a weakened France and England; then Spain and Portugal. A powerful array mili taristically. • Today—if it were consolidated into one fighting force—all the balance of the world could not hope to defeat it; but four yeafrs of disintegrating warfare w;ll change the picture drastically. ’ The people of the war-torn na tions might resist the insidious ideology of Bolshevism but would the woirnout soldiers of those nations be willing to fight an other war against a Russ’an and German army? The German sold ier would no longer have the chance to refuse; he would do what his master, Russia, told him, or face the firing squad. Three or four yean of exhaust ing war between Germany and > the Allies is possibly what Russia has planned. No matter which side begins to weaken first, Rus sia, by some means, will probably bolster that side. She has already fooled Germany into starting the war and is even now making deals with England to encourage that nation. She is no longer even subtle, and therein may lie her weakness. She seems to feel too certain of her prey and it is there, pray God, that she may overplay her hand. Europe is waiting for a Talley rand, or a man of equal states manship but more altruistic ten dencies. She is teetering on the edge of possibly a hundred years of dark future and many believe that her people would welcome a reasonable armistice and that her troubles and questions could be satisfactorily worked out un der the guidance of some great statesman. There is, at the moment, a deadlock, not only physical but moral. Each nation is convinced it is fighting for a just cause. Each nation would like the other to give in and void the awful outlook ahead. Each nation CAN give in a little and the war CAN be stopped. Germany makes peace moves but stipulates her own terms, Eng land and France will not accept Memories THE jATUkDAY BEFORE T^Anksg-ivik/g HERE —THESE TABLE SCRAPS WILL HELP TO FATTEN HIM — AN' BE SURE TO G-IVE HIM FRESH WATER ! THEN I WANT YOU TO CHURN TV»' BUTTER. ,AN' PEEL TH' APPLES, AN'CUT UP TH' PUN KINS,AM'CMOP | *TH' MINCE MEAT, AW'CHOP MORE WOOD — Then maybe you'll have time to go up to tw' woods an' find Some chestnuts for th' STUFFIN' • A TfflSiAVitaRkA; .X Weekly Washington Merry-Go-Round (Trade Mark Registered) by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen Britis'h Taking Seamen Off U. S. Ships; Some Even Naturalized Citizens; WPA Sees No War Boom; Relief Demand Greater Than Any Time Since 1937; Govern ment Experts Explain How To Buy, Cook Your Thanks giving Turkey; Trailer Census Will Be 1940 Problem; Here Is Townsend Plan’s Payroll. Washington—European censors have concealed the fact, but the British have been taking seamen off American vessels in much the same manner as they did durng the War of 1812. Usually the mefl removed from U. S. ships are Englishmen who have taken out their first Ameri can naturalization papers, and therefore are in a betwixt and between category of citizenship. In one or two cases, however, the British have removed men who claimed to be fully naturalized American citizens. Ambassador Joe Kennedy, in London, has not considered! thase cases good grounds for protests to the British Government. Ken nedy was once chairman of the Maritime Commission, and as such advocates full American crews on all American vessels. Therefore, he has taken the stand that when the British remove partially natur alized! citizens from U. S. vessels, they are indirectly helping to in crease the number of full-fledged U. S. sailors on the high seas. Note—Under the new neutral ity act, no more American vessels will visit British waters. No War Boom WPA officials have so far seen no evidence of a war boom or any other kind of boom. They assert that clamor for federal relief, both from individ uals and! localities, is greater now than at any time since the 1DS7 slump. They now have on file more than 2,500,000 applications for work-relief jobs; which is 700,000 more than the total on WPA rolls last month. Further, WPA officials expect this demand to mount as cold weather increases. In anticipation of this, they purposely held down relief quotas during the last quar. ter in order to be able to expand in the winter months. The quota of jobs under which WPA will operate for the remaining eight months of the current fiscal year, unless Congress soon reopens the purse strings, follows: November _ 2,000,000 December _ 2,300,000 January _ 2,400,000 February _ 2,400,000 March _..... 2,200,000 April _ 2,000,000 May _ 1,800,000 June . 1,500,000 This schedule will give a monthly average of 2,000,000 em ployed. Administrator Harring those terms and have more or less outlined their demands. There is a middle course—there are several middle courses—but some one must step to the front and point them out. Someone must take the initiative and it must be someone whose power is sufficient to command attention. In all the world is there no man great enough to save Europe from the awful scourge of Bolshe vism? ton holds that on the basis of minimum need it should be not less than 2,500,000 a month, an increase of 25 per cent. Trailer Census The Census Bureau is prepar ing a big ballyhoo which will have for its refrain: “Calling all trail ers! Calling all trailers!” For the first time since cover ed wagon days, a substantial ele ment of the U. S. population is liv;.ng in homes on wheels, with no other permanent residence. The tremendous use of auto trailers for year-round residence has threatened to throw out of gear the big decennial census of the United States, scheduled for next year. To meet this problem, the Cen sus Bureau is planning to set aside a single date, probably April 9, to catch all wanderers. The job will be accompanied by high pressure publicity, like the count ing of the unemployed! three years ago, and it will have to be done in one day, throughout the coun try, to prevent counting the same wanderers twice as they move along the highways. After an enumerator has inter viewed a trailer family, he will put a census sticker on the wind shield, indicating that these trav elers have been counted. The only unsolved question is what to write on the census blank specifying home address, street, number, and town. Thanksgiving Tips Attention, Housewives! Before you buy and cook your Thanks giving turkey, read these tips by experts of the Bureau of Home Economics. Don’t buy a turkey with a de formity (such as a crooked breast or backbone), because it will make carving difficult. Also, be sure that the bird has a coating of fat under the skin. ' When this is lacking, the skin has a bluish tinge. To determine the right size for your family, allow one pound for each person if the bird is bought undrawn, with head! and feet at tached. If the turkey is drawn, be sure a loose strip of skin is left under the tail, so the legs can be tucked under this for roasting. Govemment-gsaded turkeys are available in all good markets. Top grade is U. S. Prime; next, U. S. Choice and third U. S. Com mercial. Stuffing Before stuffing the turkey, singe, clean thoroughly and rub the inside with salt. Fill with stuffing, but don’t pack too tight. Slip a crust of bread in the tail and neck openings to keep the stuffing from spilling. After trussing properly, the tur key should be rubbed all over with salt and butter and then pat ted with flour. Savory stuffing depends largely on seasoning and the bread that goes into it. Onion, pepper, salt, parsley and chopped celery are a tasty combination. Sage, thyme and celery seed are strong and should be used cau tiously. The experts warn that bread should be dry, but not stale. It I should be picked apart lightly so! that it forms crumbs rather than soggy balls. Roasting' Best oven temperature for roasting is around 300 degrees. Frr smaller birds a little more heat, about 325 degrees, is desir able and for large ones a little less, around 275 degrees. What ever temperature you use be sure ithat it is kept constant from start to finish. A young turkey, be tween 10 and 14 pounds (un i drawn) requires three to three !and-a-halF circles that the SEC has dropped its case against the Gianninis, leading California bankers, are without foundation. Real inside is out foundation. Real inside is that SEC investigators still are working on the Giannini books and public hearings will be resum ed! in December. . . The SEC irn’t the only government agency crossing swords with the Gian ninis; the Treasury and Justice Department also are pressing cases. . . Senator Burt Wheeler is trying to woo Townsend back ing for his presidential aspir ations. L. W. Jeffery, vice-presi dent of the Townsend organiza tion, is friendly to the anti-New Deal Montanan and works close ly with Burke Clements, Wheel er’s manager. (Copyright, 1989, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Tom—“Was it a big wedding?” Tim “Yes, I got in line twice to kiss the bride and nobody no ticed it.’’