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OVER HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
52nd Year. N.. 4.
Sparta, N. C.
Thursday, September 12, 1940.
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Up to the Battle of Britain
Germany has pretty much ha<
her own way in dealing with th<
weak and unprepared and thos«
nations destroyed from within bj
traitorous fifth columnists. Bu1
the situation is proving to b(
quite different with Britain, foi
the English are offering strong
resistance and returning blow foi
blow with unswerving determina
tion. It is becoming increasingly
evident that Hitler, already well
behind the previously boasted
schedule of Nazi conquest, has
met with a serious check in his
air campaign against the British
Isles; and that he has not merely
paused to prepare plans for a
still more intense bombardment,
or actual invasion, as Nazi spokes
men suggest.
Whatever the numerical super
iority of the Nazi air forces, the
qualitative superiority of British
pilots and of British and Ameri
can planes is setting Hitler back
on hie heels. Confidential reports
to Washington on the recent air
activity over Britain have it that
results are “almost unbelievably
encouraging.” Eye-witness ac
counts of American observers in
England prove that Nazi claims
of major bomb damage to es
sential ports, air fields, factor
ies and other military objectives
have been wildly exaggerated.
Apart from everything else, the
Germans’ own admission that
waves of British bombers are able
to raid Berlin for hours at a
time—as readily as the Nazi
planes can raid London—is posi
tive proof that Hitler has not
gained mastery of the air. What
a shock this must be to the Ger
man people! They had been as
sured by their masters that Ger
man planes could -wipe London
off the face of the earth but that
British planes could never pene
trate the superlative anti-aircraft
defenses in and around Berlin!
It is most significant that for the
first time the German propaganda
is trying to alibi military failure
to the German people and the
outside world. Thus it is explained
that successful bombing of Berlin
is due to the fact that a secret
type of varnish makes British
planes invisible in the glare of
searchlights so tii*t Gcrraau anti
aircraft gunners can’t see their
targets! It’s a good story, which
the British say is the bunk. True
or false, it’s an alibi that will
not carry any reassurance to Ger
man men and women as they
cower in shelters and listen to
bomb explosions.
The Germans have always loved
to dish it out. They don’t like to
take it.
Mass-Minded
If you do not follow the big
crowd these days you’re very apt
to be called an “appeaser,” which
is a synonym for the World War
word “pacifist.” This is the dan
ger in our National Capitol today.
Most people like to keep in
step with opinion even though
they have to follow with the
sheep. In Washington and through
out the country mass-minded is
doing a lot of damage. But “ap
peasers” and “pacifists” usually
have constructive conversation to
back their opinions, for the very
good reason that they do their
own thinking. When a Nation
lets one man do most of the
thinking and planning then that
Nation becomes an intellectual
goose-stepper. That’s the trouble
with Germany. In short, God was
good enough to give each of us
a brain, and we ought to use it in
genuine efforts to reach sound
conclusions, regarding all public
^questions.
Mr. and Mrs. John Green and
little John A. Preston Reeves, of
Boone, spent Tuesday with Mr
and Mrs. A. F. Reeves.
Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Richard
son of Boone visited Mr. and Mrs
S. C. Richardson last week-end
Our worId...
Same Story of Destruction
London, Sept. 11.—Nazi bombers smashed at
London with increasing violence early today in then
fourth consecutive dusk-to-dawn rodeo of destruction.
Until early this morning, the attack was much less
ferocious than the previous three. Then the pace
stepped up until four separate squadrons were wheel
ing about the capital at the same time at opposite
points of the compass.
Conscription Bill in Difficulty
Washington, Sept. 10.—A long session of the
senate-house committee appointed to write a compro
mise version of the conscription bill ended tonight in
a deadlock on the age limits of the men to be sub
jected to the draft.
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Senator Pepper Puts It Plainly
Charlotte, Sept. 10.—Senator Claude Pepper,
Democrat, of Florida, defended tonight the American
and British way of life against the philosophy of
totalitarian nations and declared that Americans “are
willing to lay down their economic resources as an
obstacle to Hitler and his cruel, petty, backstabbing
satellite Mussolini.” Should Hitler defeat “brave,
courageous Britain,” Pepper told a patriotic rally, the
United States would find herself with “no big army,
no adequate navy, hoping against the dictates of com
mon sense that in some manner we might be spared.”
Speaker Bankhead Quite 111
Baltimore, Sept. 11.—Sixty-six-year-old William B.
Bankhead, speaker of the house of representatives and
national Democratic leader, was reported ill at a
Baltimore hotel last night following a painful attack
of sciatica which caused him to faint. His illness came
a short time before he was to make an address open
ing the Democratic campaign in Maryland.
Snap Shots
and
Sun Spots
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My, my, the days of county
! fairs are indeed with us. From
j Galax to North Wilkesboro to
West Jefferson to Elkin to Mt.
Airy to Hendersonville to Sparta
to Raleigh—and even with the
automobiles it keeps us hopping.
Well, take your choice, or take
them all in if you wish, for the
highways are good. But for the
smoothest, sweetest, fastest ride
you’ve had in months or years
just try that beautiful new road
from the Rock south of
Galax through Low Gap to Mt.
Airy. If you’re not thrilled it’s be
cause something’s wrong with you.
And some day Route 18 from
Sparta through Eunice will be
hard surfaced, and that will put
Sparta just so much nearer to
the world outside Alleghany
County. Also it will provide a
better and shorter through route
from North Wilkesboro and south
to Galax and Roanoke. On Route
18 the recent floods damaged the
approaches to several bridges.
Some have been repaired, and
two are under repair—with de
tours on temporary bridges for
the meantime.
Some fellow was terribly agi
tated recently because he imagin
ed we were neglecting Sparta bus
iness houses in our advertising
columns. That would be tooo bad
indeed. We are always glad to
favor Sparta in every possible
way, but we cannot dictate where
the businesses shall place their
advertising. We go after advertis
ing where it can be gotten. And
as for Sparta we note with con
siderable satisfaction that in last
week’s issue the Star-Times ad
vertised no less than 30 local—
Sparta and Alleghany— firms
and ads. It would seem that
Sparta is doing fairly well.
The County Office Building or
Assembly Building and the new
Baptist Church are both growing
up, what with the large force of
men at work on each. And they
both will add much to Sparta. The
Alleghany Motor Co. is built up
in front, and they are steadily
DANCE
EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
at Rock House on Lowgiap highway, eight miles
south of Galax. Music furnished by Blanche
Reynolds, (Col.) 8-piece band.
We Specialize in Chicken and Steak Dinners
ADMISSION
Gents . 40c Ladies free ,
All kinds Sandwiches and Cold Drinks. Also
Special Dinners served.
GALAX, VA., R. 2
For Vaccinations
and Schick tests
—Mrs. Greene, the County Nurse,
i will visit the schools listed below
at the times given. These vac
cinations will be against typhoid,
'■diphtheria and smallpox. Tubercu
lin and schick tests will also be
'done. People are urged to take
typhoid vaccination that have not
had it in the last two years. The
law requires all children in the
first and second grades to be im
muned against diphtheria (mem
braneous croup). All parents
fwho have children over six months
of age are asked to bring them
to one of these schools.
Wednesday, September 18 to
25, and October 2: Vox, 9:00 a.
m.'; Blevins X Roads, 10:30 a.
m.; Little Pine, 12:30 p. m.;
Glade Creek (col.), 2 p.m . and
Dividing Ridge, 3 p. m.
Thursday, September 19 to |
26, and October 3: Gap Civil j
(col.), 9 a. m.; Turkey Knob, j
.10:30 a. m., and Piney Creek,
1 p. m.
Friday, September 20 to 27,
and October 4: Stratford, 9 a. m.;
Irwin, 10 a. m.; New Hope, 11
a. m.; Topia Post Office, 1 p. m.,
I and Prathers Creek (col.) 3 p. m.
Monday, September 23 to 30,
and October 7: Wolfe Branch, 9
a. m.; Pine Swamp, 10 :30 a. m.;
| Airbellows, 1 p. m., and Cherry
; Lane (col.), 2:30 p. m.
Further announcements will be
made for other schools.
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i building on at the back, so some
I day, they will be entirely rebuilt.
Smithey’s addition and enlarge
ment and rearrangement of the
interior seems as though it had
doubled the size and capacity of
the store. It is a joy to go in,
upstairs or down, and look around.
And that Lunch Counter ie a hit,
indeed.
Not that it is of transcendent
interest, but yet it is amusing the
way the subscriptions come in for
The Yellow Jacket. A man yes
terday wanted 12 subscriptions
sent to various friends. And we
never send off a list but another
two or three come right in. North
Carolina native-born R. Don Laws
is an institution in this state.
Wish we could get him to come
to Sparta with his lecture, “From
Adam and Eve to Amos ’n’ Andy”.
Those who’ve heard it say it IS
good. Doubtless, see who gives it!
Enough. But if you are missing
the Pathfinder these days you’re
miesing something good, apd don’t
| go and say we didn’t tell you.
Entertainment and
features extra
ordinary
—will headline the first an
nual Western North Caro
lina Agricultural and Indus
trial fair, to be held at Hen
lersonville September 17-21, in
clusive.
The fair will present on the
midway the Cetlin and Wilson
“World oh Parade” shows, the
country’s most popular midway
attraction, with sixteen riding
devices and eighteen shows offer
ing a wide variety of entertain
ment.
The grandstand attractions will
be entirely separate, and will be
presented each afternoon and
night of fair week.; They will fea
ture the Watkins Circus, one of
the world’s best-known trained
animal groups, and the Glamor
Girl Frolics, a specially designed
outdoor revue under the direction
of Pearl Haines.
One of the outstanding attrac
tions on the midway will be a
free show in which Vittorio Zac
chini, the human cannon ball, will
allow himself to be shot from the
mouth of a monster cannon over
two towering ferris wheels. Ar
rangements also are being made
looking toward having the Great
Zacchini appear before the grand
stand. Zacchini’s act has been se
lected by a board of show judges
as the outstanding act presented
on any midway and at any fair
in the country.
The colorful and music-filled
midway shows also will include
the scintilliting Paradise Night
Club song and dance revue;
Speedy Merrill’s Wall of Death
Motordrome, Arctic Girls Frozen
alive in ice; Lauther’s big side
show of human oddities; Stranger
than they Seem show; Van Ault’s
Big Arcade of Penny Amuse
ment; Hpi, Harlfjl show, Miss
America Tableaux a la Ziegfield;
the Glitter Gals; Fitzpatrick’s
Wild Life Exhibit, and Rr. R.
Garfield and his Hall of Science.
The Watkins circus With 35
trained animals—enough, inciden
tally, to stock the rings of any
circus, has a fastmoving and
highly entertaining routine which
is expected to draw hundreds of
repeaters to the grandstand dur
ing the fair.
In addition to its entertain
ment features the fair will, of
course, present hundreds of edu
cational and interesting agricultur
al, industrial and domestic ex
hibits. Two of the highlights of
the fair will be the eighth annual
Western North Carolina Fat Stock
Show, held hitherto in Asheville,
and the Western North Carolina
Automobile Show, at which new
1941 models will be shown foi
the first time in North Carolina
Mrs. Ollie Edwards
was honored
—by her children and grand
children when they gathered on
Sunday, September 8th, to help
! celebrate her 68th birthday an
niversary at her daughter’s, Mrs.
'Major Joines, Whitehead, with
!a grand picnic dinner spread on
, the lawn.
Attending the celebration were
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Grubbs and
daughter, Peggy Ann, of Wins
ton-Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Reece
Caudell, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Joines, of Galax, Josh Caudill, of
, Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs. Reid
Hampton and son, Carlgene, of
Stratford, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Edwards and daughters, Edna and
Ella, of Sparta, and Mr. and Mrs,
J. Elgin Edwards and children
Billy and Jane, of Vernal, Utah,
China’s salt famine has beer
broken.
THE. RAMPARTS WE WATCH.
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Mrs. Clay Thompson
| was hostess
—to the Glade Valley Auxiliary
Monday night. The meeting was
presided over by the president,
Mrs. Berry.
i Mrs. Ellen Guerrant of the
school faculty conducted the de
votional.
Mrs. Bruce Wagoner, assisted
by Mrs. Ralph Gentry, Mrs. Page
Thompson, and M,rs. Rush Thomp
son, presented an interesting pro
gram on Home Mission Work in
the Presbytery and" Synod^ of
North Carolina.
Rev. R. L. Berry gave a brief
message on Loyalty, as September
is loyalty month in the Presby
terian Church.
The hostess served a salad and
sweet course to eleven members
! and two visitors at the conclusion
of the program.
Mrs. C. C. Thompson will be
hostess for' the October meeting,
I with Mrs. Clay Thompson as pro
| gram leader.
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Anniversaries
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One hundred and twenty-six
years ago tomorrow Francis Scott
Key wrote “The Star Spangled
Banner,” which has come to be
our national anthem. But today
the feeling in the hearts of the
[people seems to find more ready
! expression in two later songs,
I “America The Beautiful” and
i“God Bless America.”
This Saturday is our Senator
iJosiah W. Bailey’s 67th birthday
j anniversary.
i And this coming Sunday is the
, 85th birthday anniversary of our
J neighbor over on New River, who
i sends the fine granite for our
buildings, Alex Woodruff.
“Hearty Good Wishes”
Next Tuesday, just 144 years
ago, President George Washing
ton declined a third term and de
livered his notable Farewell Ad
dress.
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Premiums totaling
$17,500 will be
offered
—to exhibitors at the «4th an
nual State Fair to be held at
Raleigh. October 8 through 12,
Iir. J. S. Dorton, manager, an
nounced today.
Premiums will be limited to
North Carolinians in keeping with
a policy established in 1937 when
State Department of Agriculture
took over management of the
Fair following- operation for sev
eral years under private manage
ment. Prize money will be larger
than in 1939.
The 1940 State Fair will have
19 divisions. •,„*
Edwin Duncan, Jr.,
will be one of
the new cadets
—at Fishburne Military School
in Waynesboro, Va, when on next
Monday it opens for its 62nd ses
sion with an enrollment that will
break all past records. Edwin Jr.
is a son of Edwin Duncan, of the
Northwestern Bank in Sparta.
Fishburn School has been fil
led to capacity for the past sev
eral years and the completion
last spring of an extensive build
' ing program affords facilities for
a larger student body for the
j coming session.
Colonel Morgan 11. Hudgins,
i superintendent, announced today
! that his staff of instructors will
I remain practically the same as
I last year.
Why?
We are against a “third term”
for any man, be he Democrat, Re
publican or New Dealer. And the
idea that the Democratic party
has but one man capable of being
President is absolutely ridiculous
—Yellow Jacket.
Why should we vote for Frank
\ lin D., when he had to draw oi
] the G. O. P. for a man to sene
'our ships to sea?—Yellow Jacket
Two outstanding
citizens have
passed away
—in, the last few days, and
Alleghany County is defi
nitely poorer for their pass
ing. Both were 77 years of
[.age, and they died almost within
j 24 hours of each other.
| George W. Miles has been call
ed one of the greatest preachers
Alleghany County ever produced,
j and the magnificent profusion of
[flowers at his funeral at Wood
■ ruff Church on Saturday, Septem
I her 7 testified to the great esteem
j in which he was held. Not only
flowers, but by careful count
[there wrere some 1,250 people
| who attended the funeral, and
, the autos and cars numbered
I around 200. It was one of the
largest funerals ever held in
1 Alleghany County. Mr Miles,
1'the son of a preacher, taught
I school for 45 years, and died
■at his son’s home, September 5.
William E. Horton, who lived
opposite the Sid Thomas farm,
from which the name Twin Oaks
came, was no less a great man,
though his paths led him in the
quieter paths of farming. For
’years he managed the Sid Thomas
farm profitably, and as fine a
tribute as could be was paid when
a man of influence remarked that
he would be glad to own a farm
if he could get a man like Wil
liam Horton to run it.
He passed away Friday, Sep
tember 6 and was laid to rest
in Elk Creek Cemetery on Satur
day, September 7 in the presence
of a large audience of sincere
mourners.
Whether these two men left
wealth is not a great matter, but
that they both had developed gen
uine characters and had won the
good name that is greater than
wealth is very Certain.
Uncle Ed.—“Why Johnny, you
don’t swear, do you?”
Johnny—“No, I don’t swear,
but I know all the words.”
NOTICE
All person* interested in the
condition of the Center Edwards
Cemetery, 1 miles north of
Sparta, are requested to be pre
sent there Saturday morning, Sep
tember 14th at 8 o’clock.
J. Elgin Edwards
Coming Events
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GREAT GALAX FAIR
Galax, Sept. 9 to 14
ELKIN FAIR
Elkin, Sept, 10-14
NORTHWESTERN FAIR
1 N. Wilkesboro, Sept. 10 to 14
UNION BAPTIST ASSN.
; Liberty Church, Sept. 13, 14, 15.
GREATER MT. AIRY FAIR
Mt. Airy Fair Grounds Sept. 16-23.
WESTERN N. C. AGR1. FAIR
Hendersonville, Sept. 17-21
ASHE COUNTY FAIR
W. Jefferson, Sept. 17-21.
COURT WEEK
Sparta, Sept. 23 to —
ALLEGHANY COUNTY FAIR
Sparta, Sept. 27, 28
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