ALLEGHANY
STAR‘TIMES
THE STAR, established 1889 — THE ALLEGHANY TIMES, established 1925.
Vol. 16. No. 11.
Sparta, N, C.
Thursday, July 25, 1940.
Washington, D. C.—According
to the latest Gallup survey the
rise of Wendell Willkie in pub
lic favor shows definitely that
the feeling against big business
current a few years ago has been
substantially altered. Willkie’s
two chief points of appeal, as
analyzed in the thousands of com
ments gathered in the survey,
are his business ability and his
personality. Even among those
voters who oppose him, the chief
reason cited is lack of political
experience rather than his con
nections with the public utilities.
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Every night, as we turn the
dials of the radio, and every
morning as we pick up the paper,
we learn of the latest frightful
ness which threatens the remain
ing victims of Hitler’s “blitz
krieg”—screaming bombs which
produce insanity for adults, and
machine-gun fire which seems
always to attack the helpness non
combatants. Meanwhile, thousands
of little children have been sent to
what are presumed to be “places
of safety,” only to find that no
matter where they may flee,
they are pursued by their relent
less enemy, to whom, apparently,
neither age nor sex makes the
slightest difference in his hunt for
victims of his hate.
TheiDemocratic
Convention
By Franklyn Waltman
As time gives a perspective to
what is happening this year, his
torians may record that the great
Democratic Party came to its
end at its 1940 National Con
vention.
The hour of passing of the
party may, be when duly elect
ed delegates booed and jeered a
quotation from Thomas Jeffer
son, the founder of the party.
The booing of Jefferson’s words
came when the venerated Senator
Carter Glass of Virginia mount
ed the convention rostrum to
place in nomination for the Pres
idency the name of Postmaster
General James A. Farley Sena
tor Glass declared that Ji.iT -ilG
ley believed in the “unwritten
lav and the traditions of the
Democratic Party as advocated
ever since the day of Thomas
Jefferson, who less than three
years before his death appealed
to the party which he established
never to nominate a man for the
third term for the Presidency.”
The words of the eighty-two^
year-old Virginian—-one of the
country’s really great statesmen—
were drowned out by a chorus
of boos and jeers, which, corres
pondents recorded, came from
many of the delegates seated in
the convention arena intermingl
ed with cheers from the galleries.
Never before had such an am
azing spectacle taken place in a
national convention. Never before
had a Democratic convention
ever displayed anything but ar
dent applause for utterances of
Thomas Jefferson. Nor has a Rep
ublican National Convention ever
shown anything but enthusiasm
an affection for the words of
Abraham Lincoln.
But under the lash of the pol
itical machine, the plan of Mr.
Roosevelt’s New Deal satelites
to renominate him for a third
term must succeed—nothing must
stnd in its way! If the plan
clashed with the philosophy of
Jefferson, the party founder, then
down with Jefferson!
Amazing though the spectacle
was, nevertheless it symbolized
this year’s Democratic National
Convention. Lifelong Democrat
ic leaders early in the proceed
ings were pushed to one side.
It is no wonder that many of
the delegates were at first be
wildered and then sick at heart.
Too late some of the Democratic
delegates realized their party had
been captured by men with alien
and anti-Democratic philosophies.
In the closing hours of the con
vention, they struggled to retain
their self-respect but it was too
late.
None but tne witless ana tnose
overwhelmed by emotional fervor
accepted as sincere Mr. Roose
velt’s disavowal of any desire for
a third term. The record of what
he and his friends did to every
one who dared project himself as
9 candidate for the nomination
was too freBh in mind.
Most ludicrous of all was the
nomination of Mr. Wallace for
the Vice Presidency as the “farm
er’s friend.” Disclosure of what
Mr. Roosevelt desired in this
regard so angered delegates from
farm states that they booed every
time the name of Wallace was
mentioned.
Had it not been for the votes
from the big city and eastern
Democratic machines Mr. Wallace
would not have been nominated.
Obviously delegates from farm,
states did not want him.
Our wo r Id...
Italy Loses A Warship
London, July 19.—The Italian light cruiser Barto
lomeo Colleoni, one of the fastest warships, was sunk
with a probable loss of 250 men in the Mediterranean
off Greece during a fierce naval and air action today
with the Australian cruiser Sydney supported by a
small, destroyer force, the British admiralty announced.
One British destroyer rescued 250 men from the Italian
vessel. It was presumed another 250 Italian seamen
lost their lives since the ship’s normal complement
was 500. It was Italy’s first cruiser loss reported in
this war.
• • •
Germany Threatens A Tornado
Berlin, July 23.—Britain must brace herself now
against a made-in-Germany tornado of terror, high
Nazi sources indicated tonight, adding that defiant re
jection of Adolf Hitler’s peace-or-destruction offer had
“torn the lid off.” Henceforth, they emphasized
“weapons will speak.” Emphasizing this threat, the
Nazi air force again raided Scotland and England.
Britain Awaits Adolph s Worst
London, July 23.—Britain, barricaded behind a
growing wall of preparedness, waited watchfully but
confidently tonight for Adolf Hitler to start his blitz
krieg. Reports in neutral sources of “greatly increased
activities” in Dutch and Belgian dockyards and rail
ways indicated that her great test may not be long
coming. These reports, unconfirmed in British quar
ters, said the Germans apparently were concentrating
military supplies in the western lowlands—a logical
jumping off place for a mass invasion. Taking stock
of her position against efforts of German warplanes
and commerce raiders to create a starvation blockade,
Britain found herself strong in ships, food, men and
wealth.
For Compulsory Military Training
Washington, July 23.—Compulsory military train
ing moved a long step nearer reality today when the
senate military committee approved a revised Burke
Wadsworth bill providing for registration of 42,000,
000 men, of whom 1,500,000 would be drafted in the
first year.
ioosevelt Cracks At The Bolters
Hyde Park, N. Y., July 23.—President Roosevelt
donned political harness today long enough to speak
his mind about Senator Edward R. Burke, Lewis W.
Douglas, John W. Hanes and former Senator James
A Reed—four anti-third term Democrats who have
teamed up with Wendell L. Willkie. Prompted en
tirely by press conference questions, Mr. Roosevelt
said he understood that the Democratic party had
bolted from Burke.
rhe Mighty Jim Turns Aside
Chicago, July 19.—James A. Farley, who manag
ed President Roosevelt’s 1932 and 19.>5 campaigns,
arranged to leave national Pdf ties behind today and
turn the direction of Mr. Roosevelts third effort to
win the presidency over to another. Meanwhile it
became clear that the President would conduct a
“portico campaign.” There are two of them at the
White House, instead of the usual porch.
Vill A Tar Heel Succeed Wallace?
Raleie-h Julv 19.—Three North Carolina farm
leaders todav indorsed Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh,
for appointment as secretary of agriculture, to succeed
Henry A. Wallace, Democratic vice presidential nomi
nee but Dr. Poe himself declined to comment. W.
Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture, sent a tele
gram to President Roosevelt m which he said The
south has been called economic problem No. 1, and
it is well to consider a man who knows the problems
o^ thl soutli in seeking a solution to the agriculture
ills of southern farming.” ____
U. S. sweltered
in grip of
heat wave
_ias millions of Americans
were harassed by intense
heat yesterday and harried
by advice that mo general
break in the sultry spell was in
prospect.
Temperatures scaled up into
90’s in the midwest, east and
south.
The cumulative count of deaths
attributed directly to the swelter
ing siege—now nearly a week old
in some sections—rose to 29
while 129 drownings were re
ported.
Nebraska thermometers held
around the 100-degree mark for
the sixth successive day. Scat
tered week-end rains brought lim
ited relief to some sections.
Detroit residents watched the
mercury ascend t° 95, an all-time
record for the date. Readings
ranged up to 98 in Virginia.
Some «f the high marks were
112 in Phoenix, Arig., 110 in
Yuma, Ariz., 105 in Rapid City,
S. D., 103 in Minneapolis, 102 in
Huron, S. D., and Kansas City,
101 in Charles City, Iowa, 100
in North Platte, Neb., and Wash
ington, D. C.
How Did She Mean It? -
The small boy was being re
proved by his mother.
“Why can’t you be good?” she
asked.
“I’ll be good for a nickel,” he
said.
“Ah!’’ responded the mother,
“you want to be bribed. You
'should copy your father iand be
good for nothing.”
Secretary Hull
Denounces Russia
Washington, July 23.—-The Un
ited States, roundly criticizing
soviet Russia for “annihilating”
the political independence of
three B a 1 ti c republics, made
known today it would not recog
nize their absorption into the
soviet sytem.
Sumner Welles, acting secre
tary of state in the absence of
Secretary Hull, spoke out at a
press conference against “the de
Ivious processes” by which he said
! Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
were to be deprived of their free
dom by “one of their more pow
erful neighbors.”
The acting secretary did not
mention Russia by name, but he
left no doubt in any one’s mind
as to his meaning. Newly elected
parliaments in the Baltic repub
lics had voted in recent days, fol
lowing red army occupation of
their countries and an intensive
propaganda campaign, to seek
union with the soviet.
“The people of the United
States are opposed to predatory
activities no matter whether they
Another beauty spot of Alleghany County which has been
photographed on a post card by the Alleghany Star-Times, and is
available at Smithey’s and Kay’s Dime Store in Sparta. View of
the ice rocks in early Spring on the Parkway, near Sparta..
BRAINS
AND BEAUTY
Chosen as the most beautiful
Phi Beta Kappa of the South;
Atlantic States by a jury of Chi-;
cago artists, Miss Betty Moore, j
just graduated from William
and Mary College Was invited to!
be one of a group of four Anier- i
ican Phi Beta Kappa girls to be
in a Pan-American Court of
j Beauty this summer at the Elgin
| Time Observatory,, New York
j World’s Fair. With these will
I serve four representatives of
j Latin-American countries and
j Canada, chosen similiarly on a
| brains plus beauty basis. Miss,
| Moore lives in Gloucester Court
j House, Va; ^
| Elder C. R. Dancy
j -—will preach at Piney Creek on
; Friday, August 9th at 2 o’clock.
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So It Seems
“Mother, isn’t it funny that
hats cost more than radios?”
Mother: “But they don’t, dear.
What makes you think so?”
“Well, a sign in a window
back there said ‘Hats, $10 up,’
and we just passed another win
dow with a sign that says, ‘Radios
$10 down’.”—Santa Fe Magazine.
are carried on by the use of
force or by the threat of force,”
Welles declared in the prepared
statement he read to newsmen.
“They are likewise opposed to
'any form of intervention on the
j part of one state, howeve- power
; ful, in the domestic concerns of
any other soverign states, how
lever weak.”
Antioch Church
is preparing
—in rather a large way for tire,
Association meeting to be held
there soon. The plans include
painting; the building, clearing out
quite a large parking space, sod
ding the cemetery, and the er
ection of a stand. The women of
the church have been very active
in working with the men in clip
ping grass and bushes, and now
a call is made for everybody to
come on Thursday, August 1st,
with your tools ready for a good
days . work at improving the
grounds.
Better Homes Week
Some two decades ago, a
twelve-year-old mountain boy of
Tennessee won a national prize
for a definition of a Better
Home. The prize was a copy of
Gutzon Borglum’s famous head
of Lincoln. We quote the boy’s
words. Many think the definition
cannot be improved upon. It is:
“A Better Home is one my fa
ther is proud to support, one my
mother loves to keep, one our
friends like to come to. It is a
place to grow old in.”
Baseball League
TEAM STANDINGS
Fries Weavers
Ivanhoe
Austinville
Fries Maroons
Hillsville
Rural Retreat
Galax
Sparta
Independence
Jacksons Ferry
W L Pet
18 3 857
14 4 777
13 8 619
11 7 611
8 8 500
7 8 466
9 11 450
5 9 357
6 14 300
2 16 111
Results of Saturdays games:
Fries Weavers 6, Austinville 2.
Hillsville 7, Fries Maroons 6.
Ivanhoe 4, Galax 3.
COMING GAMES
Saturday, July 27
Sparta at Ivanhoe.
R. Retreat at Galax.
Fries Weavers at Hillsville.
Independence at F. Maroons.
J. Ferry at Austinville.
Wednesday, July 31
Fries W. at Sparta
Hillsville at J. Ferry.
R. Retreat at Ivanhoe.
Austinville at Independence.
Galax at Fries Maroons.
The naval gun factory at Wash
ington, D. C., is the only one of
the kind in the western hemi
sphere.
A new home is
being erected
—for Wayne Waddell across the
bridge, and next to Glennel Rich
ardson’s. Thus Sparta grows, and
there is growing up an attractive
community alongside the river
and pond.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are al
ready living in their attractive
new house down Whithead Street
and seem to find it very delight
ful.
And another new house is be
ing erected on the road to Green
Gables for Walter Johnson.
Omer Edward’s house that
burned in June is replaced by a
new one.
And Wayne Taylor is very
busy with many improvements to
his heat home back on the hill.
Mrs. Harry Vaughan
entertained
—the Young Women’s Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church
Thursday night, with Miss Wanda
Choate ag leader. After the de
votional conducted by Rev. L. F.
Strader an interesting program
“Our Human Heritage In Amer
ica” was presented by Miss
Lillie Ervin and Mrs! Robert M.
Gambill. Misses Emogene Choate,
Wanda Choate and Joan Mead
rendered special music. The hos
tess, assisted by Mrs. Crockett
Lucas, Served a salad and. sweet
course to fifteen members and
one guest, Miss Fave Joines.
No Confidence
I cannot accept the assurance
of Mr. Hitler, “Europe for Euro
pean-’’ and “America for Ameri
cans,’1 because I know that Mr.
Hitler and Mr, Stalin and Mr.
Mussolini, have already invaded
the Western Hemisphere with
their agents and their propagand
ists. I know they have already
violated the promise "Europe for
Europeans and Amejica for
Americans” by their action in
sending their agents to the Amor-'
Teas.—Representative Martin Dies
(D.), Texas, in Congress.
G. O. P. Granted
Rights To “God
Bless America”
Irving Berlin, writer of the
song “God Bless America,” has
advised Joseph W. Martin, Jr.,
campaign manager for Weridell
Willkie and chairman of the Rep
ublican National Committee, that
performance rights on the song
would be waived for the 1940
j Republican Campaign.
The song was sung at the Re
publican Convention in Philadel
phia by Maragret Speaks, the
opera star. , .
I _
Shiloh
Shiloh, July 2.—Mrs. F. A.
Mitchell and granddaughter, Betty
Jane Mitchell, spent 1 art of last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Bertie
Lee Hampton and daughter, Edith
Mae.
I. Clarence Joines arrived Mon
! day to spend some time with his
i parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
S Joines.
J. M. Boyer spent Saturday
and Sunday night at the home
of Rev. Lee A. Hampton.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hampton
and sons, Walter Lee and Joe
Thomas, Mollie Hampton and Ray
Joines spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Truitt, of Bay
wood.
Mrs. Cora Pugh, of Kimberly,
Idaho, spent last week with her
brother and niece. Rev. Lee A.
and Mollie Hampton. Mrs. Pugh’s
grandson, Ralph Pugh and her
son, Dodge Pugh, came Sunday
to take her to spend some time
with Ralph’s mother, Mrs. Maude
Pugh. She plans to visit her
old home while there.
Chadwick, former
Legion Commander
stated his views
—and his position in a
statement issued yesterday.
He is also a Democratic
leader of fhe state of Wash
ington.
“The Democratic party as I
knew if has no means of ex
pression under that label. Its
principles have been wholly aban
doned by the brain trusters and
new dealers, a group of political
opportunists who have taken over
the administration and selfishly
seek to perpetuate themselves in
office.
“Democratic principles as ex
pressed in the national platform
of 1932 are today exemplified by
the Republican party and its can
didates. They alone offer the
hope of economy in government
and freedom from bureaucracy.
“I advocated preparedness long
before the issue was politically
popular and feel that our present
tardy preparedness program will
better serve America and its place
if administered by a world war
veteran, one whose mind is so
single to America and its. security
that it avoids such expressions
as the ‘quarantining- of other na
tions but to the nuturing of an
ing ‘at the Rhine’, ‘the use of
means short of war’ and 'the
knife in the back, when the na
tion is unprepared to back up
such expressions.
“I have always considered a
third term as a danger to our
Democratic processes, tending not
alone to stimulate personal ambi
tions but to the nurting of an
office holding class.
"A designed third term devel
oped under forced draft presents
a real danger to the perpetuity of
our institutions..
“The situation 1 and thousands
like mo- .people who favor a gov
ern! aehi of laws made by our
chosen representatives rather than
a maze of federal rules and regu
lations concocted by new deal
bureaucrats find ourselves in, k
regrettable, but we cannot cease
to fight. We must be honest with
ourselves.. We must fight on.
“The issue is Americanism as
opposed to the new dealers, the
people against the self-perpetrat
ing bureaucrats; America minding
America’s business, its strength
and security.
“Still following the Jefferson
ian concept, I will be with Will
kie.
The S. H. Cook
Family Reunion
—will be held on Sunday, August
4th, at the Cook home, five
miles east of Sparta and one
mile east of Chestnut Grove
l Church.
_
i “What’s the best way, to flatter
a man?”
i “Tell him he’s proof against
flattery.”
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