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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
volume No. 15.
GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939.
Number 29.
This Week
in
Washington
Washington, Nov. 29 (AS)—
The Washington prognosticators,
who usually come closest to
guessing right, picked Attorney
General Frank Murphy as the
President’s most likely choice for
the Supreme Court as soon as the
news came out that Associate
Justice Pierce Butler had passed
on.
The choice of Mr. Murphy
seems logical for several reasons.
For one thing, it is geographically
right; Mr. Murphy hails from
Michigan, which is in the same
section of the nation as Justice
Butler’s home in Minnesota, as
Washington looks at the political
map. Then Mr. Murphy is a
Roman Catholic and so was Jus
tice Butler. Not that the ques
tion of religious beliefs has ever
counted for much in picking
Supreme Court nominees, but as
the court is now constituted it
contains one Jew and seven Pro
testants and not a single Catholic.
Justice Butler was the only one
of that faith to sit on the high
bench after the late Chief Justice
White died.
Senate Would Approve
The prophets pointed out that
Mr. Murphy could hardly fail of
confirmation by the Senate. He
has achieved a high standing in
general esteem since he came to
Washington, and his attainments
as r lawyer are unquestionable.
Moreover his experience as an
administrator in the Philippines
and as Governor of Michigan
have given him points of view on
Far Eastern affairs, which may
easily give rise to questions com
ing before the Supreme Court,
as well as of the relations of the
state to the Federal government.
The most compelling reason,
a» the (forecasters saw it, for the
selection of Mr. Murphy, is that
his political philosophy runs close
ly parallel to that of the Presi
dent. He is definitely a Liberal,
though he does not lean so far
to the Left as to justify the ap
pelation of Radical. He is defi
nitely less radical than some of
the other Justices, but much more
on the radical side than some of
the others.
A staunch upholder of the Bill
of Rights in many public utter-!
ances, Mr. Murphy is held by!
some competent lawyers to be
much more' a strict construction
ist of the Constitution in general
than the public gives him credit
for being. It is predicted that
once on the Supreme Bench he
would be found more often lined
up with the actually Liberal Chief
Justice Hughes than with either
the extremely Conservative Jus
tice McReynolds or the decidedly
Leftish Justice Black.
Fifth Appointment
In any event, the death of Jus
tice Butler gives the President
his fifth chance to fill a vacancy
on the Court with a man of his
own choosing, which is what he
was aiming at when he proposed
his ill-fated Court Reorganization
Bill, on which his own party split
more definitely than on any other
New Deal proposal.
A clear majority of the Court
will bear the Democratic label,
not to count Justice McReynolds,
who was President Wilson’s At
torney-General and politically is
more akin to Vice-President Gar
ner than to President Roosevelt.
If party politics played any im- ■
portant part in influencing Su-1
preme Court decisions, the three
lone Republicans on the bench
would be in a hopeless minority.
But with a very few notable ex
ceptions, justices of the Supreme
Court have uniformly been chosen
because of their high personal
character and legal ability and it
cannot be fairly said that the
Court follows the election re
turns.
Another reason which cynical
commentators put forward as a
sound one for Mr. Roosevelt’s
nomination of Attorney-General
Murphy to the Court is that it
would remove from the Presi
dential race a man who is credit
ed with ambitions to live in the
White House. The likelihood of
Mr. Murphy’s Presidential nomi
nation, however, is considered re
mote.
So, toot is the likelihood; that
either he or any other justice
will feel under the slightest obli
gation to take orders from the
man who appointed them. They
have been removed from all con
trol by either the Executive or the
Legislative branches of the Fed
eral Government and have become
the third major branch, with pow
er to check the actions of either
of the others.
Function* Of Court
It is their function, among
other things, to decide whether an
Act of Congress conforms to the
Supreme Law of the Land, which
is the Constitution, and their
decision to the contrary instantly
nullifies any such law without
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bovernor Hoey
may take a
neutral stand
—judging from persistent
rumors in Raleigh—in North
Carolima’s Democratic gub
ernatorial campaign. It is
indicated that the chief executive
will issue a statement soon pro
claiming his strict neutrality in
the matter.
Such a declaration, superseding
the Governor’s hold-your-hats sug
gestion, probably would lift auto
matically an unofficial ban on
gubernatorial announcements.
The hold-your-hats suggestion
was a broad hint to would-be
chief executives, dropped early
last spring, when Hoey said; he
believed a prolonged political
campaign would be unwise, and
added that he thought no hats
should be tossed into the political
ring until about the first of the
year.
The unofficial ban resulted.
Consequently, the gubernatorial
campaign to date has had many
of the aspects of an undeclared
war, since at least six men are
fighting for the post, but none
has declared himself formally as
a candidate.
The six who have told friends
repeatedly that they are running
are J. M. Broughton, of Raleigh;
Mayor T. Cooper, of Wilmington;
Lee Gravely, of Rocky Mount;
Lieut. Governor W, P. Horton,
of Pittsboro; Revenue Commis
sioner A. J. Maxwell, of Raleigh,
and Willis Smith> of Raleigh.
Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, edi
tor and farm leader, said re
cently that he had received many
letters urging him to enter the
unofficial race. Other possible
candidates include H. E. Stacy,
of Lumberton, and D. L. Ward,
of New Bern, speaker of the
state house of representatives.
During the last month, political
leaders who supported Dr. Ralph
W. McDonald in the 1936 guber
natorial campaign have had sev
eral conferences, and it is be
lieved that they considered the
possibility of backing Broughton,
Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Franklin,
or Paul Grady, of Kenly.
Dr. McDonald, now connected
with the extension department of
the University of North Carolina,
was defeated in the second Demo
cratic primary of 1936 by Gov
ernor Hoey. Lumpkin, a state
senator, managed his campaign.
Grady was defeated in a close
race for lieutenant governor in
1936 by Horton. He was de
feated for utilities commissioner
in 1988 by Stanley Winbome.
Even if Governor Hoey issues
his neutrality statement, he has
made it plain he would defend
his administration against any at
tacks by candidates. The neu
trality, of course, would end after
The hunting
season on quail,
turkey, grouse
—and rabbit in North Caro
lina opens today (North
Carolina’s Thanksgiv
ing Day), it has been point
ed out by the State Department
of Conservation and Development,
in Raleigh.
Most hunters who take to the
fields and woods today, the game
division believes, will be in quest
of quail, and reports indicate a
good crop this year.
Here’s some facts about the
seasons that hunters ought to
know before they oil up their
guns.
Quail—The season ends Febru
ary 15, execpt in Union County,
where it opens December 10 and
closes January 10. Quail shoot
ing will be allowed only on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays in
nine counties—Lenoir, Duplin,
Craven, Carteret, Pitt, Greene,
Jones, Onslow and Pender.
In all other counties bird shoot
ing will be permitted every day
except Sunday.
The bag limit is 10 a day andi
150 for the season, and the pos
session limit is 20—meaning that
a hunter may keep as many as
20 quail in his refrigerator or
nay put that many in cold stor
age for his personal use until 10
lays after the close of the sea
son. After 10 days, he may not
have any in his possession.
Wild turkey—T^he season is the
same as that for quail. However,
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Think back three hundred and eighteen years
ago ... to 1621 . . . when our Pilgrim forefathers
completed their first harvest! They had no luxur
ies: their humble gratefulness was for adequate
provisions, for crude homesteads, for refuge against
winter’s bitter cold and hurling snows. Their
gratefulness was for the chance to be free; to fight
for liberty; to pursue that happiness which is the
birthright of every individual. It was in Plymouth
that this first Thanksgiving Day was observed, more
meaningfully than any Thanksgiving Day since!
Today, in the well-heated comfort of modern
homes, we observe Thanksgiving anew. The
physical comforts we enjoy are immeasurably great
er than those of our forbears: and we must still be
thankful for the freedom with which we have been
endowed ; for the liberty which distinguishes our
nation among all nations; for the happiness which
we can pursue, and which we may pass on as the
heritage of our own descendants. These are
troubled times, and in their darkness we find all
the more reason for a full measure of Thanksgiving,
in the happy company of our loved ones, on this
day.
I--—■
Funeral services
for E. Lee Trinkle
were held Monday
—November 27, at 11 a. m.,
at the Second Presbyterian
Church in Roanoke, and the
body of the former Virginia
governor was taken to Wytheville
for burial. Following the ser
vices in Roanoke, the funeral cor
tege left Roanoke, at 11:30
o’clock, escorted by members of
the state police force.
The procession, divided, into
three groups to facilitate traffic,
arrived in Wytheville at 2 p. m.,
where the body lay in state at the
home of Mrs. C. A. Syenite until
3 p. m., when the cortege pro
ceeded to the Wytheville ;’ceme
tery for brief ceremonies and.
burial.
Active pallbearers were:
Governor James H. Price and
these members of the State Board
of Education: Dr. Sidney B. Hall,
Richmond; Virginius R. Shackle
ford, Orange; Joseph H. Saund
ers, ’Newport News; W. N. Neff,
Abingdon, and Blake T. Newton,
Westmoreland County.
The former governor’s death
came Saturday morning, Novem
ber 25, at eight o’clock, in Hotel
John Marshall, Richmond, after a
busy day. On Friday he presided
at a meeting of the state board,
of education on Capitol Hill and
then attended the reception given
by Governor and Mrs.. Price for
delegates to the Virginia Edu
cation Association’s convention.
He spent a sociable evening with
friends at the hotel.
As he came to retire he com
plained of a cold in the ehest
and an attending, physician djd
not at first believe his' condition
to be serious. Later the physician
summoned a colleague and thd
two of them had not-been long
at the bedside before Mr. Trinkle
died.
Mr. Tirinkle preceded United
States Senator Harry Flood Byrd|
in the governorship. As the
Democratic candidate, he defeat-,
ed Colonel Henry W. Anderson,
Republican standard-bearer, at the
polls in November, 1921, by a
majority of 76,000. He had de
feated his primary opponent by
23,000 votes.
He was bom at Wytheville
March 12, 1876, the youngest son
of Elbert S. and Letitia M. Sex
ton Trinkle. His stock was that
of the pioneers who move^j * to
Southwestern Virginia from Penn
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EDITORIAL
Give Thanks Today
Millions of right-thinking and grateful Americans
will pause tor just a minute on this Thanksgiving
day and reverently give thanks that they are for
tunate enough to be citizens of this great America
of ours.
Since the first settlers hewed out their homes
in the wilderness of this continent, it has been a
distinct privilege to be an American. They came
to these shores seeking liberty, equality and justice
and they were rewarded for their efforts. Our
forefathers fought, bled and died for our inheritance
of freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, and the right to worship as our individual
consciences dictate has been bequeathed to us by
men who were willing to give, and in many instances
gave, their lives that American citizenship would be
prized by their descendants. Upon this Thanksgiv
ing Day, we give thanks, therefore to the Supreme
Being for these men of foresight and vision who
gave us freedom and opportunity.
This year, probably as never before, the sen
tence “I thank God that I am an American,” will
really mean something definite to millions of Ameri
can citizens who have taken their heritage of citizen
ship as a matter of course and have uttered the
words without understanding their real meaning.
With several of the nations of Europe at war, we
should be thankful that we are at peace with all
nations, and that there exists in this country of
ours a public desire that we as a nation shall con
tinue at peace. We should be grateful, in a definite
sense, for our system of representative democracy,
which guarantees that no one man’s desire for
power shall cause the flower of youth of our country
to be sacrificed on the battlefield for the benefit of
those who would profit financially and otherwise
thereby; and for the guarantee that this public
desire for peace will be heeded. We sympathize
with our fellowmen in countries at war, whose
children and womenfolk are in mortal danger of
death each hour of the day, but each of us will
most fervently repeat—“I thank God that I am an
American,” and that the American way is different.
Of course, it is absolutely right and proper
that we should be thankful for our inheritance of
freedom and opportunity. Nevertheless, this year,
as never before, we should keep strictly in mind
that it is our duty and obligation as American
citizens that this inheritance shall be preserved.
There are men and organizations of men in this
America of ours who are wording unceasingly to
undermine and trample into dust that inheritance, i
Whether these men or groups of men are teaching,
preaching and upholding Naziism, Fascism, Com
munism or any other “ism,” we as true Americans
should, as we give thanks for our American inheri
tance on this Thanksgiving Day, resolve to do our
utmost in seeing to it that if these persons or groups
are not satisfied with our American way of life and
of doing things, that they be forced to go back to
the countries from which they came. Let us all
resolve to be increasingly on the alert to aid in
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Students of
Rich Hill School
who attained
—an average grade of 90 for the
I third month of the present school
term are as follows:
First Grade: Irene Lyons and
Alma Lee Crouse.
Second Grade; Junior Johnson,
Alfojean Johnson and Nella Mae
Shaw.
Fifth Grade: Guy Dickinson.
Sixth Grade: Virginia Edwards.
Seventh Grade: Lyla Dickinson
arid Helen Spurlin.
A short delay
in holding the
1940 conventions
—of both the Republican
and Democratic parties, for
the nomination of candidates
for the presidency were pro
posed directly to President Roose
velt in several discussions during
the chief executive’s Thanksgiv
ing visit in Warm Springs, Ga.
Presenting no intimation that
the proposals had any bearing on
the possibility Mr. Roosevelt might
seek a third term, the sources said
several recent White House call- j
ers had talked over the subject
with the president.
Under the plan, the 1940 con
ventions by which Republicans
and Democrats nominate presi
dential candidates would be post
poned a month or a month and
one-half. The conventions, nor
mally held in June would not be
held until July or later next year.
The informed sources termed
“pipe dreams” a suggestion that
such a postponement might give
Mr. Roosevelt firmer control over
Congress in an election year. The
plan, they said, still was highly
tentative. They doubted that it
had yet been placed before John
D. M. Hamilton or James A. Far
ley, national chairmen of the Re
publican and Democratic national
committees. The idea behind the
proposal, they said, is to make
the 1940 campaign “short and
sweet,” to save money for' national
committees, and to avoid boring
the country with a protracted
campaign from June until Novem
ber during a time of international
crisis.
It was pointed out that in both
his 1932 and 1936 national cam
paigns, Mr, Roosevelt did not
open his national swings until
September —- considerably after
winning the nomination. In 1932,
it was emphasized, Mr. Roosevelt
began his campaign tour shortly
after September 1, and did not
begin his swing in 1936 until
September 30.
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton,
of the Republican national com
mittee, figuratively told President
Roosevelt to mind his own busi
ness in Washington, D. C., Tues
day night, after the Chief Execu
tive wras reported to have dis
cussed the possibility of postpon
ing the 1940 conventions.
“It seems to me President
Roosevelt is arrogating to him
self a great deal of authority
when he undertakes to direct
when the Republican party should
[hold its national convention,”
I Hamilton said. “That usually has
been a function of the Republi
can national committee. If Demo
crats are willing to have Mr.
Roosevelt dictate all their party
affairs, that is their business. But
Republicans will not permit him
:to decree when they shall meet
and where.”
He said that the President’s
“deep solicitude about economy
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The local
Baptist Women s
Missionary Union
—will join other W. M. U.
women in study and prayer
for missions December 4-8,
at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noons.
On Monday, the meeting will
be held at the home of Mrs. A.
O. Joines; Tuesday, at the home
of Mrs. Howard J. Ford; Wed
nesday, at the home of Mrs. Clin
ton Halsey; Thursday, at the
home of Mrs. C. A. Reeves and
on Friday, at the Baptist Church,
at 7:00 p. m.
Members of the various W. M.
U.’s of the county are invited to
attend. Visitors are also in
vited.
(When the chant
of the tobacco
auctioneer opens
—.officially Boone’s new
Mountain Burley Ware
bouse, on Wednesday, De
cember 6, visiting growers
from the dark leaf belt will be
given opportunity to inspect a
building, the modem convenience
of which is said to be second to
none in North Carolina and sur
rounding states.
Constructed by Statesville con
tractors at a total cost of more
than $25,000, the Mountain ware
house is of frame and sheet metal
design, is well lighted by 2,736
square feet of roof glass, and the
basement of the building, with
dimensions of more than 9,000
square feet, has been divided into
two immense prize rooms. These
rooms are equipped with modem
scales, presses and pumps, and
will greatly facilitate the clear
ance of tobacco from the main
warehouse floors.
One of the features of the
modern marketing building is a
comfort room for visiting farm
ers. This space is fifty feet
square, and is equipped with run
ning water, toilets, bunks and
stoves. Boone followers of to
bacco markets are of the belief
that this noom is the most com
fortable to be found in the belt.
Communications received from
Eastern Carolina within the past
few weeks indicate a strong de
sire on the part of several lead
ing tobacconists to establish ware
houses in Boone. Promoters in
Boone are of the belief that at
least one more will be built be
tween now and opening of the
1940 season.
A hope that the
war will be over
—w a s voiced Thursday
(Thanksgiving) night in
Warm Springs, Ga., by
President Roosevelt, at a
celebration held at the Warm
Springs foundation.
Speaking at the annual turkey
dinner at the Warm Springs in
fantile paralysis foundation, the
chief executive said that if the
war still was going on in the
spring he hoped he could get back
down there “for a shortened holi
day, anyway.”
To 350 guests and patients,
some on wheel chairs, others on
cots, the president recalled that
when he left Warm Springs last
April he had told persons at the
station he would be back in the
fall “if we don’t have war.”
“Well,” he asserted, “we had
a war. We have a war today.
Columns were written about what
I meant and I meant just what
I said. We have a war, but I
managed to get down here this
fall.”
Then, for a moment the presi
dent’s listeners caught their
breaths and / finally gasped with
relief, as he added:
! “You know, I’m ip favor of"
i —the kind of war we’ve beep
conducting here at Warm Springs.
This kind of war is spreading all
over the country—a war against
:the crippling of men and women
and especially children.”
j The faces of most of the pa
tients were cheerful as they
caught and reflected some of the
exuberance of the occasion. The
president and Mrs. Roosevelt were
in informal evening attire, and
many of the diners were in din
ner dresses.
Pumpkin coaches drawn by
minature turkeys and cornucopias
spilling over with fruits and vege
tables decorated the tables.
Ten patients sat at the presi
dent’s table, having won their
places by drawing lots, and for
them the president carved turkey.
by next Spring
i war, very much in favor
A number of
books were given
the public library
—December 2, and also on Mon
day, December 4, in the room op
posite the office of The Allegh
eny Times, over Richardson’s
hardware store.
I Everyone interested in bargains
in clothing of all kinds is in
vited to attend.
This sale is sponsored by the
Young Women’s Circle.