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ALLEGHANY OVER HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 52nd. Year. No. 20 Sparta, N. C. Thursday, January 9, 1941. * 'ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS , REWARD This column offers three prizes of 'fifty, thirty and twenty dol lars for the best answers to the following question: I In the long run, are dictator si ips more efficient than repub li s? Limit your answer to two hund r d' words. Mail it within one v eek after this column appears t< Samuel B. Pettengill, Shoreham Building, Washington, D. C. | This contest is open to the rank and file American, to all except lawyers, teachers, professors, economists and professional wri ters. The names of the winners will appear in the first column published in February, together with excerpts from the winning ainswers. At a time 1 shall sub mit another question with like prises. And so on for several months, perhaps throughout the year. There is no catch whatever in thia. lt is on the up and up. There will be no trick questions. This is my own idea. No one suggested it. But, of course, there is a reason, in fact, two reasons. First, for my own information I want to know how well certain -* basjc facts are understood. Facts which lie at the very foundation of our system of government and social and economic structure. I want to know how well or how pporly our public schools have contributed to that understanding. I want to know what high school boys and girls, workers, farmers, and housewives are thinking. Second, it is my hope that this column will encourage newspa pers, luncheon clubs, veterans’ and patriotic organizations all over this country to stimulate sim ilar searches for truth and com mon understanding of our com mon problems. I am certain it is nieeded. 1 will tell how I came to do this. Three months ago I was talk ing with a friend of mine. He said, “Every office building, rail road, factory, farm, store, and home in America is held in the hollow of the hand of the ‘mass man’.f He can crush the whole system like an egg shell. Or he can guard it against the world. “We spend millions to advertise the things this system produces —automobiles, radios, ginger ale,! motion pictures, tojtriv and bread. ; We spend more millions to insure | our factories and farms against j fire, windstorm, embezzlement, j credit losses, etc. But what are; we doing to advertise the system , itself? And what insurance are j we taking out on the foundations i upon which the whole structure! rests,—the understanding of the! millions who have the power and! the votes to uphold or destroy? “We endow colleges and pay taxes to support the public schools. But what are the colleges and schools teaching? And how many go to college, or finish high school? “But this system of free gov ernment and free enterprise is in peril. It has vanished in Russia, Germany, Italy. It is going up in flames elsewhere. And sparks are flying across the Atlantic. “Business men and investors, of course, want to save it. But there are hundreds of labor lead ers also who want to save it, men who think as did old Sam Gomp ers. They are Struggling men in their own ranks who think they want to scrap the works. What help are they getting? “We get all heated up once in four years when a political cam paign is on. Democrats and Re publican alike, we blow millions in six weeks’ time to ‘educate the voter’. Most of these millions are wasted. And then we sit on our hands for another four years and do nothing but groan. “In 1787 some men decided to try to sell constitutional govern ment to our forefathers. They wrote the Federalist Papers. And for two years these men and their friends argued ' the question in every city and hamlet and hearth side in the thirteen original states. Not to win a political campaign. Not to elect anybody to the pay roll. Just to bring a strong ■ free government to birth. “That’s all. But it was me most successful advertising cam paign this world knew until Karl Marx and Hitler and Stalin start ed another to attack their work and destroy it. “But that was 160 years ago. It’s like advertising Ivory Soap once in a century and a half. Is it any wonder people are buying other goods ? Everybody is busy doing everything else except to look after the biggest business in the world today—and the most important to him and his boys and girls—the United States of America. “I understand”, he concluded, that a stone has been erected over the grave of the French Republic. There are two words on it—''Too Late’ ”. And that is the reason I am asking these questions and offer ing these prizes. I want to do my bit for the country that gave me my chance. It is my New Year’s I Ou r wo r (4 ■ • ’ Are European Assurances Sure? London.—“-Balkan sources said yesterday that Tur key six weeks ago informed Bulgaria she would enter the war on the side of Britain if German troops occu pied Bulgaria and that Germany is aware of the Turk ish pledge. They added that Germany is not yet sure! Bulgaria would not resist a German occupation. Russia Holds Several Answers Sofia.—Bulgaria looked to Russia again tonight for an answer to whether German troops massed along the northern frontier mean war or peace. Prem ier Bogdan Philoff’s return from a “health trip” to Vienna shed no official light on the situation. He hurried from the station to his office without comment on the threatened Nazi march across his country toward Greece and the Dardanelles. • • • Those Energetic Greeks Do A Trick Athens.—Greek destroyers churned into the Adri atic, penetrated by night into the Albanian Gulf of Valona and shelled the Italian-held city with 60 rounds without even so much as sighting Italian warcraft, the Greek marine ministry announced last night. (Greek destroyers have been built both in Italy and Britain). Then, said the commander, the squadron loafed back to its bases “at reduced speed.” • • • British Humanitarianism Again Washington.—British authorities have agreed to relax the blockade, reliable sources said tonight, to permit the American Red Cross to send some con densed milk to unoccupied France and wheat to Spain, • • • British Press Hard On Tobruk Cairo.—British forces smashed at the outer de fenses of Italy’s big Libyan base at Tobruk after cap turing the El Adem airdrome 15 miles south of the Fascist stronghold. The British drove upon the outer defenses of Tobruk after capturing or destroying 94,000 Italian soldiers in their smashing drive across the western desert. Armored units racing ahead more than 50 miles from captured Bardia found that the Italians had evacuated the air base, abandoning 40 j planes which had been disabled by a heavy British j bombing raid. The Rome version of the Fascist dis aster at Bardia hardly squares with known facts as re ported by neutral eyewitnesses on the spot. These eye witnesses concur in British reports that the Italians surrendered on a scale that embarrassed the victors. • • • A Ringing Hopeful Note In Britain British comment on President Ro-osevelt’s speech strikes a ringing note of confidence that the critical corner of the war has already been turned. “Fresh encouragement” has come from the United States, the London statement said, “at a time when there is good cause to believe that the tide of war is turning.” Be hind this lies the conclusion of British war leadership that Italy has already been knocked out of the war in effect;- that disaster awaits Germany if she strikes to retrieve the situation, either against England or in the Balkans. Loan-Lease Plan Will Win Washington.—President Roosevelt’s proposed plan of loan-lease aid to Great Britain, China and Greece will win congressional approval with a minimum of opposition, private surveys indicated last night. At the same time, it was disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt plans to ask Congress from time to time for money to finance the program under which armaments, ships and planes would be lent or leased. • • • Bullitt' Says Give What They Need Chapel Hill.—William C. Bullitt, former ambassa dor to France, declared last night, “we know that the surest way to defeat the axis powers is for us to go to war in support of Great Britain, Greece and China,” but that the American people “at this moment” pre fer to take the risk of a totalitarian victory “rather than go to war.” To diminish that risk, Bullitt told the International Relations Club of the University of North Carolina, the United States must give those nations “what they need—not what we think we can comfortably spare.” • • • New Board With Wide Powers Washington.—President Roosevelt yesterday form ally set up his new super defense board which iip mediately warned the nation that everything in na tional life soon must be subordinated to the necessi ties of preparedness. The New Year National Defense Needs Getting the skilled men needed •for National defense jobs con tinues to be one of the greatest problems of the new year for the Civil Service Commission. Thous ands were appointed during 1940 but thousands more are going to be needed during the coming year at the arsenals and navy yards and in the air service. Tool mak ers, instrument makers, and ma chinists are especially in demand, and they are especially necessary to the National defense program. Among others also urgently need ed are: Aircraft instrument me chanics; aircraft mechanics; metal smiths (aviation); coppersmiths; lens grinders; loftsmen; ordnance men (torpedoes); shipiltters; and ironworkers (shipiitting duty). V you are skilled in any of these trades, and wa^nt a Government job, write to or call for infor mation at the office of the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at any first- or second-class post wish that thousands of others will join in a continuous non-partisan campaign to resell America to Americans in the American home market. SAMUEL B. PETTENGILL office. You may also learn about these jobs by consulting the no tices posted in the third-class post offices. Lucille Ford Circle To Meet ; Next Tuesday The Lucille Ford Circle of the Baptist W. M. U. will meet Tues day night, January 14, at 7:30 o’clock, with Mrs. T. Roy Burgiss, the program leader to be Mrs. Ben Reeves. Chevrolet Sold A Million Cars In 1940 Chevrolet sales of new passeng er and commercial cars for the calendar year of 194(1 passed the 1,000,000-mark December 20, H is announced by William E. Hol ler, general sales manager. This is the third time in the history of the division that sales in any calendar year have exceeded 1, 000,000. Only in 1929 and 1930 did Chevrolet dealers retail in excess of one million cars and trucks, and 1940, according to his estimates, will surpass 1929. Chevrolet dealers have main tained first place in automotive sales in nine of the past 10 years, Mr. Holler added. President’s Speech! To Congress “Magnificent” On Monday President Roosevelt delivered in person to a joint ses sion of the National Congress his annual message on present con ditions and policies and needs. Af ter the address Senator Barkley of Kentucky termed it “magnifi cent”. Congressman Doughton of N. C. said “It was a great message. I believe the American people are in accord with his message in re spect to international affairs. It is a big order, but we are a big country and our needs require and demand and we leave nothing undone, in our direct defense, in helping the countries attacked by dictators who are now fighting our battles. The price will neces sarily be heavy but the objectives more than justify the expense and sacrifice.” The President’s message was concerned largely with interna tional affairs, and particularly the! danger to this nation unless we | stir ourselves now to forestall j greater dangers later. His address | was received with repeated and enthusiastic ovations, and proba bly the most emphatically spoken passage was the one delivered1 slowly and with ever rising tone,’ which said, “Let us say to the democracies, we Americans are vitally concern ed in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our ener gies, our resources, and our or ganizing powers to give you strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose arid our pledge.” The President had begun hi message with a brief review ol the crises which have arisen in United' State.- hist dry. and quick ly arrived at the «••>«« ttr-ioi that no crisis ha> e • r iippr..:ic* I tie magnitude of •! *' us today. He pel • m s order of tyranny which ha, arisen since Munirh, and said, The American people have un alterably set their face- against that tyranny. “Every realist knows that the Democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assail ed in every part of the world— assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous pro paganda by those who seek to de stroy unity and promote discord in nations still at peace. “During sixteen months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. The as (turn to page two, please) Census To Give Aid To Farmers Progressive, business-m i n d e d, fact-seeking farmers who desire information t» enable them to plan their agricultural program for 1941 will be called upon this month to report their crop acre ages, livestock and poultry popu lation, and give other information for the Farm Census which will be taken for the 24th time by tax listers, Frank Parker, federal statistician with the State De partment of Agriculture, annoiWic ed today. “North Carolina’s leading agri cultural authorities are unanimous in their appreciation of the farm census as a medium for intelligent planning of farm programs and as a source of accurate infor mation that can be used as a yardstick in measuring agricul tural progress,” Parker empha sized. The 1941 farm census sum mary will be sent to farm leaders and workers throughout the State and will be available to all com-1 munities. Parker, urging all of North | Carolina’s 300,000 farmers to co- j operate in furnishing information, for the farm census, explained* that some of the uses of the Farm j Census are? (1) To provide a! foundation for county estimates! of crop production; (2) To serve, as a check on the state acreage! estimates published by the United; States Department of Agricul-' ture; (3) To provide reliable edu-j rational and research material;! (4) An aid in locating crop sup-; plies and markets for farm pro-i ducts; ( 5) For planning future 1 agricultural programs; (6) For state and county advertising ma-; terial. Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott commented that “the uses of the farm census in planning a more substantial mar keting program atone will more than justify any cooperation that growers can give in this attempt to gather statistics vita) to agri i ulturr' planning." To Celebrate The President’s Birthday Robert M. Gambill has accept ed the county chairmanship of the Committee for the celebration of the President’s Birthday for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The State chairman is Dr. Julian S. Miller, editor of the Charlotte Observer, who writes that the hope is to raise some ! $40,000 during this month’s cam Ipaign, half of which will remain Senator EUGENE TRANSOU Transou And t Edwards Have j Gone To Raleigh j Eugene Transou was chosen in the Democratic primary election j last May to represent the Ninth’ District’—Ashe, Alleghany and 1 Watauga counties—in the state senate. In the November election ■ he was unopposed. Now he has gone to Raleigh to serve in the present legislature which opened yesterday, Mr. Transou served this district once before, in 1917, as. senator,., jj nd went to Raleigh once as , Representative of Allegh-1 any County, in 1929. He brings; to the. present office a wealth of experience in county affairs and | a good background of experience in state legislative affairs. The picture herewith presented' locally for the first time is the) only one approved by Mr. Tran-1 sou and authorized by him. W. Bert Edwards represents Alleghany County in the legisla ture because he won the primary race in a field of four, and in the November election was not oppos ed. It is his first trip to Raleigh as a legislator. No proper picture of him is available for publica tion. for use in the local community and half go to the National Foun dation. New Buildings Add Beauty To Sparta Three new buildings now neai^ ing completion, add much to thu beauty and dignity of Sparta. First is the Vance Choate’s new home on the hill back of the water tower. It is beautiful and charm ing in its design and coloring and setting, and would be an attrac tive place in any town. The new Baptist Church has an imposing dignity that is very fine, and the combination of red brick and grey granite makes a fine front. The entrance is different from the customary design, and very ef fective. And the County Office Building has redeemed that lot back of the Court House and made it indeed part of the town. Again that fine grey granite from Woodruff’s quarry shows off to excellent advantage, and the building has a very solid business like air about it. These three fine buildings add much to Sparta. “Billy’s Goat,” Next Faculty Play, January 18th What do you demand from a good play? Humor? True-to life characterizations? Love in terest? Surprise? A bit of hu man drama? Clever dialogue? Fast action? Well, you will find all these ingredients in Billy’s Goat, the play which has been chosen by the faculty as their pro duction this year. Billy’s Goat will be presented on the evening of January 18th in the Sparta School Auditorium at 7:30 o’clock. VPhen a group has been rehearsing a play for a number of weeks, it usually gets rather stale to those taking part. But the cast are still laughing at the funny lines and amusing incidents in Billyhs Goat, and their en thusiasm is still as high as when they first started rehearsing the play, so it assures the audience of a sparkling performance. If ybu have ever wished to maivage a family belonging to some one else for just a day, then you must not miss seeing “Billy's Goat.’’ The cast of characters is as follows: Henry Carter, a financial agent —H. H. Higgins; Violet Carter, a daughter—Mrs. A. E. Hamby, Jr.; Beulah, a maid, Miss IvaieU Taylor; Mrs. Susan Carter, Hen ry’s wife, Miss Anne Truitt; Miss Davies, his secretary, Mildred Wagoner; Miss Cool, his wife’s secretary, Miss Anne Sue McMil lan; Billy Hay, a salesman, Byron Stuart; Madge Carter, another daughter, Miss Nina Grey Liles; Arthur Angel, a poet, T. J. Haig wood, Jr., and Harold Hollinghead, an Englishman, B. F. McCann. HOME INDUSTRY The retired coal dealer was se lecting his library. “Will you have these books bound in Russia or Morocco, sir?” asked the dealer. “But why,” said the patron of literature, “cfin’t you have ’em bound right here in Chicago?” Mother; “No, Johnnie, you can’t have the hammer to play with. You’ll hurt your fingers.” Johnnie: “No, mummie, I won’t. Doris is going to hold the nails.” BASKETBALL TONIGHT The Honda boys and girl® are coming over tonight to meet our Sparta teams in basketball con tests beginning at 7:30 o’clock. t/7 GATE-CRMHEHS AT BMl GAMES GETIAANV A BRUISfc. BUT RAILROAD OATS-CRA&HER.S | SET HEADLINES IN WIW»/ J
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