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ALLEGHANY STAR ^ TIMES Alleghany County’s Own Independent Weekly Newspaper Since 1889. Published Every Thursday At Sparta, N. C. Walter S. Mead, Editor and Publisher Office in Transou Bldg. opp. Post Office Telephone 77_ All Subscriptions In Advance One Year by Mail ---— $1.50 One Year by Mail in Alleghany County — $1.00 Want Ads, one cent a word. Minimum charge, 25c. Display Ads, 30c per column inch. Short Notices and Cards of Thanks, 35c. Obituaries and Resolutions, $1.00, Entered at the Sparta, N. C. Post Office as ; Second Class Mail matter. Thursday, July 25, 1940. “Let There Be Light” a Thought for the Thoughtful Father Time, is not always a hal'd parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly on those who have used him well. —Dickens. The Thirty-third President by J. E. Jones The people of the United States will devote a great deal of time and measureless conversation in the next three months to the quadrennial prob lems relating to electing the thirty-third President of the United States. One phase of Presidential elections is that the voters seem to agree with the politicians each four years that “this is the most important election,’’ and that it is “again necessary to save America.” In the first election in this Repub lic each elector voted for two candi dates for President, and at that time George Washington received 69 elec toral votes to 34 electoral votes for John Adams. The Electoral College named the person, receiving the largest number of electoral votes as President, while the candidate in second place was chosen for Vice-President. That’s the way Washington and Adams started out. But Saint Thomas Jefferson had 73 Republican votes in the Electoral Col lege and Sinner Aaron Burr had 73 votes. That threw the election into the House of Representatives where 10 States voted for Jefferson, and 4 States for Burr. Be it remembered, that in this midsummer month there are loud threats of a “mud-slinging campaign.” Senator Barkley as Chairman of the Chicago Convention referred to the Re publican “Kilowatt convention,” and next day in Washington some of the newspapermen who hadn’t gone to Chicago spoke of the Democratic gath ering as the “Job-holders convention.” Well, that’s all useless and “obsolete” stuff. After more than a century and a half of struggle “to form a more per fect Union, establish justice, insure do mestic tranquility, provide for the com mon defense, promote the general wel fare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” the fact should be recognized that the two old parties have gone to bat on the genuine issue which is: Shall the New Deal be approved by the voters and continued for another four years, or shall it be replaced by policies of the Republican Party? One of the grand old fathers of this Nation was Henry Clay, and he de clared in the sunset of his life, ninety years ago, “I would rather be right than be President.” That is good phi losophy today, which every American voter might take home to himself and recast in this individual platform: “I would rather be right than a mental slave to either one of the old political parties.” Congress And Its Opportunities The political conventions of two great parties afford members of the Senate and House a “breathing spell,” which they are in need of. The con vention system provides new sounding boards for political opinions—which is a good thing for the nation. The demands of the Administration have been rules obeyed by Congress at this session. In former times Congress had initiative enough to originate legis lation of its own. Congress used to make its own policies. Under the New Deal the President and his advisors make the policies and Congress agrees with most of them. The political convention went back to the old style of tearing all public problems apart and analyzing them. That was a sort of re-christening of popular government which has been on a vacation for most of the time in re cent years. I MillIIMIIIlRI g«nninn»iii»i»iiiinuinnuiiHininiHmim»HmiiHiinHniuinimiiunH»niniii>i>i|11 Other Editors' Comments ...—-.41 “You can fool all of the people only some of the time,” cries a trenchant critic of gov ernment trends. After that, it’s the other party’s turn.—Lynchburg News. Add to list of footwear problems: Finding somebody to fit Jim Farley’s shoes. Cactus Jack is reported leaving the adminis tration and the Democratic party to their own devices. Throwing in his hand. Whatever came of that scolding Henry Wal lace got from the White House for a speech he made in San Francisco suggesting that con ditions would be such as to force F. D. R. to run for a third term? Herr Hitler talks as if this was his war, which in fact it has been, mostly, so far, but it may not be very long before famine and disease take over.—Greensboro Daily News, Acclaim And Support The address of President Roosevelt, signal izing a willingness to make the sacrifice, as he described it, to abandon a personal desire to retire at the end of his second term to continue his public services in a time of world crisis, was acclaimed by new dealers today as the best of his oratorical efforts. These good friends of the President were saying today that Mr. Willkie will, perfoice, meet the champ. There was some support for this viewpoint, very flattering to the President, outside new deal circles. For example, the Washington News agreed editorially today that the Presi dent .was last night at his best, that “his oration was a superb job of self-justification in the course he has chosen-—of rationalizing his in despensability.” But the News prefers the sim ple words of warning uttered by Jefferson, to what if refers to as the oval room oration, and it takes its stand with Jefferson, horse and buggy and all, “rather than subscribe to the indespensability of any man, at any time.” The foregoing editorial utterances strength en the impression that the Scripps-Howard pap ers, numerous and influential in the central west, are to throw their support to Mr. Willkie. —Greensboro Daily News. Politics Will Be Cleaner It would be, naive to suppose that the two Match Acts, the second of which has just been passed by the House of Representatives, will completely purify American politics. Basic reforms are not accomplished simply by passing laws, but they can be and are accomplished in wholesome degree by public support for enforce ment of those laws. Public. opinion has been heartily for the Hatch bills; otherwise the present one could not have been forced out of a reluctant com mittee and brought to passage over the oppo sition of entrenched political leaders. The first measure, passed in 1939, provided penalties for using Federal office to influence the votes of WPA workers or others on Federal pay rolls. The statute which Senate and-House now have added will forbid this sort of political activity among State employees paid wholly or in part' with Fedreal funds, such as highway depart ment workers, agricultural agents and many others. The Bankhead amendment also limits politi cal contributions to $5,000 from any individual. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican nominee for President, added to the pressure for enactment Of the bill when he announced that gifts to his campaign fund would be limited to that amount anyway. The curb on activity of State em ployees already had earned he endorsement of President Roosevelt. Such measures, as has been said, are, are not self-enforcing. But the fact of their pas sage under the circumstances described* is in itself an earnest of the fact that the American people want elections decided on their merits and not by an army of office-holders using public funds. In a democracy public opinion determines political customs, and political cus toms determine the character and1 quality otf government. The passage of the second Hatch Act is an important step in defining the Ameri can concept of political morality.—The Christian Science Monitor. The Hickory Grove Low Down \ You know, this idea of doing something about getting prepared for war is 0. K. But the idea of just doing something, and having only a hazy idea about how it is gonna turn put, is a horse of a different color. And you take these battleships costing around 90 million each, which we think we gotta have, they will maybe not be what we want, 3 or 4 years from now, whan they are finished. We need something now as much as 4 years hence. For 90 million we Could build 25 or 30 welter-weight boats. And 25 or 30 such spit fires circling one battleship, would make things pretty lively for the big boat. The 25 million dollar Graf Spee of the Germans, she didn’t last long against 3 small Britisher's, down there off South America. We been rushing around, voting money hap-hazard, and half-way beside ourself. The only thing Congress asks is, how much—and the bigger the amount, the quicker the vote. Maybe this old, common-sense Hoosier boy, Willkie, will kinda get ’em quieted down and back on terra firma, there in Old Potomac Town. Yours with the low down, JO BERRA I HE WHO GETS KICKED PUBUlCj | {Alleghany —Oddities \ l = j 0itiinininiinninmninniiuiiiiiinnniiiniiiiiiininiin | Oddities of nature make us j ! wonder, but oddities made by [ human hands really make us sit j I up and take notice. I walked into the home of Cor- ! bitt Sturgill of Twin Oaks, the! i other day and was looking at what I • appeared to be an ordinary library ! 'table. 1 tried to open the drawer! •in the table and discovered it to! be only an imitation. I inquir ed why the table didn’t have - a drawer, and Mrs. Sturgill ans wered that there wasn’t room for a drawer in the table because there was a bed in it'. I looked at her, wondering if I was crazy and hearing strange things, or what was wrong. She soon solved the mystery by simply lifting up the! top of the table. And there, con cealed, was a set of folding ; springs. She unfolded the springs, land the legs to hold the foot of • the bed just automatically drop ped into place. The top of the: .•table served for a very attract-! • ive head board! So there you •have its—a simple library table-—| 30 inches by 40 inches, patent ed in March, 1918, and sold to • the present owner by a salesman i passing through with a load of furniture—with a full length, half I size bed concealed on the inside of it. Strange to relate, this bed is really very confortable to sleep ; on. By the way, trailer owners, here’s a tip—it saves a whole lot jof space when space is scarce. Mt. Zion i i Piney Creek P. 0., July 22.— Mr. and Mrs. Bonnett, Mr. and | Mrs. Roy K. Pugh, of Indianapo lis, Indiana, and W. R. Pugh, of jTopia, spent a short time in this j community last Wednesday. They ' were on their way to visit rela | tives at Crossnore, Avery County. Dr. 0. R. Black and son-in-law, Ralph Lynn, of Landis, and W. E. Maxwell, Sparta, spent Sunday night at W. F. Pugh’s home: other guests in the afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pugh, Logene and Fred Pugh. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Black and children, of Sparta, spent Sun iday with Mr. and Mrs. Lee j Black. Rev. W. C. Cooper, Mocksville, ! Rev. R. L. Berry and son, Robert j Allen, Sparta, were at John Grubbs’ home Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Wagoner and children, of High Point, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Wagoner, Stratford, visited Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Bill ings Sunday afternoon. | Mrs. E. M. Mabe spent Sunday I with Mrs. W. F. Pugh. Other i recent guests were Mrs. J. F. ; Shepherd and Mrs. Dora Douglas. | Mr. and Mrs. Cole Parsons and | son, of Whitehead, spent the | week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. ]H. Parsons. A number of persons from this community attended the lawn party Saturday night, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Moxley, given by Misses Lorene Moxley and Velma Pugji. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pugh and children were dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hal lie Douglas Sunday. Misses Jean Absher, Mary Lou Grubb and Hazel Van Dyke were recent dinner guests of Mrs. S. E. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Weaver and children, of New Hope, and Miss Levon Church, Scottville, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Smith. J. F. Allen, North Wilkesboro, who has been ill for some time, is with his family near Peden. A number of persons from this community attended the revival service at Piney Creek Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hill and daughters, of Scottville, visited T ravel 'aliMiiiiiiMiHitiiiiiiiiMimiMtniiimiiiiiuiiiiMiiiiiiti Around the Rim of Good Old U. S. A. Montana And Yellowstone River Our road across the Bitter Root Mountain range led to heights of matchless grandeur, in vaded tall timber and mountain splendor, and swept around the flanks of snow-crowned peaks. After traveling through this rug ged country for days one can really sing its praise. Travel in any direction you wish, you will soon encounter some famed beau ty spot, for it ist truly a land where nature holds sway in wild majesty. It is a land to gladden the heart and quicken the senses, where one can feel the refreshig sting of winter’s bracing wind, or taste the sweetness of the mountain wafer, hear the roar of cataracts or enjoy the quiet of virgin forests, smell the odor of camp fires or inhale the fragra nce of wild flowers. Variety is the spice of any Western scene— variety of landscape, variety of climate, and variety of coloration. I marveled as I discovered won ders both natural and man-made. The series of scenes at every turn astonishes one’s senses. As I made this tour of the state I came face to face with the won ders of the West, and it appealed to me as a mad race between the works of nature and the works of man,—man trying to bend the way of nature to his needs, and nature ever on the alert trying to tear apart or destroy the pro gress of man. To include the work of both, they have given to the West their best-—the three great power and irrigation pro jects, and the world’s two largest bridges. The Boulder, Grand Coulee, and Bonneville Dams do honor to the imagination and skill of mankind. The Golden Gate bridge and the San Fran cisco—Oakland Bay bridge, it has been said, may never be surpassed. If I were able to find words for description, I would write a book on the wonders and scenic beauties of the golden West, but for the present I will have to limit my description and be on my way through scenic Idaho, and into Montana, a state no less impressive than the former ones, what with the romatic love liness of 250 lakes, 60 glaciers, and numberless gigantic preci pices. My stop in Butte was indeed interesting. Some of the old build ings there were quaint reminders of the typical western town in its heyday, when the law was the six-shooter, and gambling halls and saloons were the chief at tractions. I read one time (per haps in “Believe it or not”) that anyone who stood on the street corner in Butte, Montana, would be standing over more wealth than he could count in a life time. Very soon after taking the bus again, and thinking, “All’s well” we were on the plains, and the great Continental Divide was be Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pugh Sunday evening. Georgia Cox is spending this week with her mother, Mrs. Bee Smith, of Piney Creek. hind us. Plainly visible in the distance, however, I could see' another mountain range rising up abruptly, decorated like a bride with streamers of white clouds. And to add color to the scene a very fast train was worming its way around the side of the mountain, leaving a trail of smoke equal to any landscape painting. At Livingston, Montana, I gain ed an indelible regret for hav ing had to turn north instead of going south to the Yellowstone Park, which was only a short distance away. The Park has always been a magnet to my adventurous nature, since it is the oldest and largest of all National parks, contains more geysers than are found in all the rest of the world, and has to its credit the largest and most successful wild animal preserve on earth. For 200 or more miles our road played hide-and-seek with the beautiful Yellowstone River, which was crystal clear, and very often jammed with ice, which added sparkle and bril liance to the picturesque setting. He Wanted Utility Willie was being measured for his first made-to-order suit of clothes. “Do you want the shoulders ipadded, my little man?” inquired ! the tailor. t “Naw,” said Willie significally, , “pad de pants.’> ■?" : I i (3>i Anniversaries 4 This week it is a pleasure to honor one who will complete 81 years of a busy life on next Wednesday, July 31st, having been born in 1859. We send hearty birthday greetings and good wishes to MRS. S. JANE SANDERS —of Stratford, the grandmother of Mrs. Edgar J. Mabe, and the mother of C. M. Sanders the Stratford Postmaster, Mrs. I. B. Richardson and Mrs. W. G. Richardson of Stratford, Mrs. J. Lester Irwin of Sparta, and Mrs. F. O. Richardson of Laurel Springs. She has 14 grand children and 15 greatgrandchild ren. Being a widow, she makes her home among ther children. Her husband, Elder John R. Sand ers, died 20 years ago.She is very well known through the Stratford section and has many 'friends there and around Sparta. “This is the worst town for gossip I ever lived in.” “H’m! What have you been do ing?” J. C. Sutherland Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing INDEPENDENCE, VA. Hold Everything Folks! WAIT FOR THE BIG Sale of Sales A & Z Store s Big Price-Slashing, Money-Saving Mid-Summer Clearance Starting Friday Morning July 26,830 o’clock Tremendous Bargains In Spring And Summer Needs MEN, WOMEN ANDCH1LDREN Watch For Thursday’s Issue Of This Newspaper And For Our Big Circulars Being Distributed Throughout This Section. 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