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% The Alleghany News POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY At Sparta, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1941 ED M. ANDERSON _Publisher JOHN F. REEVES_Ass’t. Publisher RAYMOND LOWERY..Editor MRS. ED M. ANDERSON—„-Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In County, $1.00-Outside County, $1.50 Entered as second-class matter February 23, 1940, at the post office at Sparta, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The News is glad to publish letters, not too long, on matters of general interest. But such communications must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, even when they are to be published under a nom de plume. "If the choice were left to me whether to have a free press or free government, 1 would choose a free press.”—Thos. Jefferson. Member of—North Carolina Press Ass’n. ICS - — Polygraph While the fr^sh peach crop in North Car olina is at its peak, County Agent R. E. Black is urging homemakers to continue to take advantage of fresh peach values dur ing the r^njAindfit-Of the season. Now is the time to lay in a good supply for home can ning, preserving and pickling. Merchants are now offering feicceptional buys on quali ty fresh peaches. With the season rapidly drawing t^,;>a close, housewives should make the. mek^t the present favorable market. - ,r„‘.,A000 Proof of| thfi'vplue of the Alleghany County Spor^mWh’s club was clearly dem onstrated a fti^Miays ago when the State Board of Conservation and Development endorsed the resolutions passed by the lo cal club to pr8te<A and to promote fishing and hunting i^AIleghany. These resolu tions, whic£ Ijfe’now laws in-so-far as their application is concerned, are published elsewhere in this issue. ooo Congratulations to Congressman Dough ton upon his; outstanding leadership and ability in ^vpr^g out the nation’s gigan tic defense, tfpc bill and getting it passed by the house of representatives by the vote of 369 to 30. Of course we are not looking forward to paying more taxes, but the war is responsible fpr this urgent necessity and not Farmer Bofc. At a critical time like this, it is indeed foMunate for the nation that our own distinguished congressman is still in Washington.- The ways and means com mittee has never had a chairman who was as fair to rich and poor, farmer and indus try, as is Congressman Bob. -—0O0 Are We In The U. S.? The new aluminum plant which is to be erected by the Aluminum Company of America in cooperation with the Office of Production Management is to be located at Badin, N. C., rather than at Andrews. This information which has all of the ap pearances of being official comes as a pain ful surprise to the people of Western North Carolina who had been earnestly hoping that the plant would be built at Andrews. Perhaps there are sound patriotic and technical reasons why the plant should be built at Badin rather than at Andrews. But the hard fact remains that not a sin gle defense enterprise has yet been locat ed in Western North Carolina. Other sec tions of the country are being stubbed with war plants. Other sections of the nation are revelling in the prosperity stimulated by this activity. Actually the prosperity of this region is being retarded by the de fense program. Our labor is being carried off to other and more fortunate sections. Our boys are being called into the fight ing services. If non-defense production is restricted—as it probably will be—our eco nomic situation will become serious for our normal business activity will be re duced without any offsetting advantage from the quickening of defense production. The action of the Office of Production Management in choosing Badin as the more likely site for the aluminum plant may be justified hy very practical reasons. The Citizen-Tin»|s does not venture to say. But no one can imously contend that West ern North Carolina is such an accursed reg ion that it should not be permitted to share effort and the de f, there is some war industry which can be located in West ern North Carolina without injury to the nation’s welfare and with some elemental fairness to the American citizens who live in this mountain region. — The Citizen Times. •oOo The Silk Shortage The United States’ economic war with Japan is not only creating a grave situa tion for the Japanese, but also it is hav ing its effect in this country, as every wo man is now beginning to President Roosevelt’s order freezing Jap anese assets in this country and thus im periling silk imports has led silk hosiery manufacturers to close their lines tempo rarily. The hosiery people, who use from 80 to 85 per cent of the silk imported into the United States, were forced last week end to curtail production and in many in stances, to close down their plants because of the freezing for government purposes of all raw silk now on hand in this nation. Faced with the possibility of not being able to buy silk when present supplies are exhausted, women have been stampeding stores this week. There is now an estimated three months’ supply of silk in this country, but it is be ing frozen to be used to make parachutes and gun powder bags. As the rayon, cotton and woolen indus tries get most of their raw materials in this country, there appears to be no short age of these fabrics. The new Nylon pro duct is also native to the United States and will not be affected by the Japanese em bargo. We sympathize with the ladies over the apparent shortage of silk hose, but it might be good for them to have to wear cotton stockings like their grandmothers and great-grandmothers did. This will also help business in the south where most of the nation’s cotton is raised. The ones who will be hurt worse by this order are the hosiery manufacturers and employees. The silk stocking shortage emphasizes the fact that every one living in this para dise of the globe is going to have to make sacrifices before the second great world war is over. -—oOo— We Mean Business The embargo banning the export of avia tion gasoline and oil to Japan comes none too soon. If it is to be questioned at all, it is on the score of its tardiness. The other day the President conceded that the United States had permitted the shipment of gasoline and oil to Japan in the hope that such consideration on our part might appease Japan and prevent the spread of the war in the Far East. That policy has lost any usefulness which it might have ever possessed. The most that can be claimed for it is that it post poned Japanese aggressions to the south. Now Japan is again on the march and noth ing short of force or of a show of force will restrain her. The American people have found scant comfort in the fact that we were supply ing much of the gasoline and oil that en abled Japan to wage brutal war against China. Professing warm sympathies for the Chinese people, we were allowing some of our resources to be used in crushing them. Japan does not take kindly to the em bargo. Her newspapers are fairly squeal I ing in their rage. Commerce Minister Sa Konji warns: me present international situation is so tense that a single spark may be sufficient cause for an explosion.” The situation in the Far East is critical. We may as well face up to that grim fact. But it is critical solely because Japan is apparently bent on expanding her territory and gaining control of raw materials vital to Britain and to the United States. Appeasement did not work. It merely en abled Japan to build up her gasoline stocks and to entrench herself more securely ip the Far East. She took advantage of our placatory attitude to rivet her policies to those of the Axis powers. The upshot? It may be a shooting war in which the American navy will be en gaged. That is a prospect which we can not ignore altogether. But there is no safety in a cowering policy. Dangers can not be overcome in a dangerous world by the sim ple and cowardly Expedient of running from them. The American people, we believe, en dorse the embargo. The critics may make much noise, trying to supply in vehemence what they lack in numbers. But these ob jectors represent at best only a fragment of public opinion.—The Asheville Citizen. j, Nat’l Geographic Magazine Gives Section To N. C. Vivid Picture of State is In terestingly Presented. Fine Advertising. North Carolina’s amazing in dustrial upsurge in a generation j forms the background for an ar- [ tide, “Tarheelia on Parade,” ap-' pearing in the August issue of the National Geographic Magazine. The author is Leonard C. Roy, j staff writer for the magazine. j The article covers 44 pages of | the Geographic, including 45 il-1 lustrations, of which 21 are print ed in natural color. In addition a map of the state spreads across two pages. The illustrations show scenic views, college campuses, industries, places of historic in terest, and North Carolinians at work and at play. Will Be Distributed Widely This article is one of a series of American State and city stor ies being published by the Nat ional Geographic Magazine, offi cial publication of the National Geographic Society. Appearance of the article in the Geographic means that it will reach more than a million home's of members of the Society. This membership, the largest of any educational and scientific body in the world, is represented in every communi ty in the United States of 100 or more inhabitants, and in many foreign countries. Nearly 10,000 members of the Society live in North Carolina. President of the National Geo graphic Society is Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor; Dr. John Qliver La Gorce is its vice-president. Not ed trustees include former Chief Justice Hughes, General Per shing, Admiral Pratt, and Charles F. Kettering. Mr. Roy was particularly im pressed with the industrial wealth of North Carolina, and spent many days inspecting the large -'factories of the state. At Greensboro, in the world’s larg est mills producing denim, he watched the machinery which normally turns out 100,000 yards a year, and half as many yards each of flannel and cotton print and piece-dyed fabrics. He visited several of the 30 fur niture factories at High Point. “By 1.918,” , . he writes, “North Carolina furniture was sold throughout the United States. North Carolina now leads all oth er states in the production of wooden household furniture.” Kannapolis Textile Center At Kannapolis the writer saw the mills which daily convert about 500 bales of cotton into tiny baby bibs, towels, bath and beach robes, sheets and pillow cases. He also inspected mills turning out 500,000 dozen pairs of hosiery each year and a giant paper mill where daily one* thousand cords of pine, poplar, hemlock, chest nut, gum and cottonwood are made into thirty kinds of paper, including stock for one-cent post al cards. This latter plant also oreduces turpentine and tanning .1 extracts. Mr. Roy found that one chemi :ay company at Greensboro prin ted its advertising folders in four teen languages, and had plants normally operating in England, Ireland, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. The-article emphasizes the ex cellence of the state’s highway system. The writer, in his exten sive tour, noted the vast acreage - devoted to tobacco, but still was surprised to learn that North Carolina, with its 120,000 tobacco farms employing half a million people most of the year, was the greatest tobacco growing state in ■ the union. “Three tobacco companies ope rating large plants in the State each use more than a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of reve nue stamps every working day,” he writes. “Do you wonder that North Carolina is the fourth ranking state in the payment of taxes to Uncle Sam? I saw hun dreds of machines each produc ing more than 1,200 cigarettes a minute. Other machines packed them at the rate of 120 packs a minute.” As the author of an article in the Geographic in recent years on the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park, the writer took ad vantage of the opportunity again to visit the Park, and he devotes considerable space to the State’s icenk attractions and health re sorts. SERVICES ARE ANNOUNCED Elder Ed Davis yesterday an lounced the following appoint nents to begin this Sunday; Elk Sreek church, August 10; Anti- 1 >ch, August 11; Union, August 12; Little River, August 13; Zion, August 14; Crab Creek, August i; Cross Roads, B., August 16; On the Home Front \ l i People You Know (Continued From Page One) lowing a short period of employ nent with the Yellow Poplar lumber company in Doran, Va., le returned once more to Ashe rounty and settled down on a !arm. Not long afterward he moved :o West Jefferson and joined his sorther-in-law. in the mercantile business. After building a home lear there, he sold it and built mother one, nearer town, and ;wo years later sold it and moved ;o Maryland. In 1925 he returned to Sparta, jut six years later moved to Pennsylvania. Then in 1933 he :ame back to Sparta and firmly resolved to “stay put.” Mr. Kil >y said he realized finally that “a rolling stone gathers no moss.” In 1905 he had joined the Pri nitive Baptist church, and in L909 he was called to the minis ;ry and ordained in 1911. Since ;hat time he has traveled and ^reached in 15 states, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Fi lancially, he .declares, he has not seen prosperous; but he has sac rificed much in the cause of his teachings. Marriage was on December 27, 1905 to the former Miss Maxie iCoontz. Mr. and Mrs. Kilby, who low live near Sparta, have four children living and one dead. Mr. Kilby once took an active )art in all available sports. As i baseball player there were few n this section better. He was also i swift runner, high jumper and iwimmer. Even today he enjoys 'ishing for mountain trout. Nowadays he "isn’t as active as le was in his youth, but he con inues to preach the Word of !lod and fulfill all the other mul ifold duties of a minister. He is ( veil known and well liked; hroughout this and surrounding :ounties. VACCINATION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA REQUIRED With the opening of school? in 'Uleghany slated to take place m Monday, Sept. 1st, Dr. Ro sert King, county health officer, :his week called parents’ atten tion to the fact that the state law requires that all children be vacci lated for diphtheria before en tering school. This law applies particularly to children who are Altering school for the first time. Clinics are held at the health iepartment every Tuesday and jntil noon on Saturdays. ATTEMPT IS MADE TO CIRCLE KIEV (Continued from Page One) m what was called a training rruise. The London Daily Mail carried i Washington dispatch which said here were reports in United States official circles that Prime Minister Churchill or perhaps Lord Beaverbrook might fly to this country for a discission of ‘closer Anglo-American collabo rations.” Jalax (evening), August 16; ”ross Roads, August 17; Rock -reek, August 18; Pilgrims Rest, August 19; Peach Bottom, Aug ist 20; Saddle Creek, August 21; Fox Creek, August 22; Piney Sreek, August 23. j Dairy Specialist Announces Six Meetings For Next Week J. P. Leagans Plans to Discuss Winter Feeding of Cattle At Meetings. Dairy Specialist J. P. Leagans, as an initial step toward assist ing the dairy farmers of the coun ty in their work, has called a number of special meetings to be held during the early! part of the week. Since it is impossible to meet with each farmer, Mr. Leagans has arranged meetings for six communities and urges tHe farm ers to attend the meeting nearest them. .! At the present time Mr. Lea gans is interested in working with dairymen on the problem of the winter feeding of cattle. Color slides are to be used at evening meetings to illustrate the lectures. The schedule of meetings (on DST) is as follows: August 11—New Hope, 2:30 p. m.; Piney Creek school, 8:30 p. m. August 12—Blevins Crossroads, 2:30 p. m.; Glade Valley, 8:30 p. m, August 13—Laurel Springs, 2:30 p. m.; Sparta courthouse, 8:30 p. m. OLD FIDDLERS PLAN TO HAVE CONVENTION IN GALAX AUG 15-16 Sponsored by the Moose and J Parent-Teachers association, the eighth annual old fiddlers’ con-1 vention is scheduled to be held in ' Galax, Va., on August 15-16, be- j ginning at 7:30 (DST) each even ing. More than $132 is being offered in cash prizes.Contestants must be registered in person or by letter by next Wednesday evening. Folk songs must be sung without mu sic. Only those contestants who perform both Friday and Satur day everiings will be eligible for Topia News By MRS. D. M. PUGH Staff Correspondent Miss Sara Blevins, of Berwyn, Md., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Belle Blevins. Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Blevins, and smpll daughter, Ju dith ,Ann, of Pa., are also spend ing a few days with relatives here. .■? Mr. and Mrs. Denny Angel and daughter, Thelma, of Kannapolis, spent the week end with their fa therland grandfather, Mr. W. R. Pugh. V Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Weaver were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Moxley, Sunday. Mr. Ruffin Taylor, of Scott ville, visited his aunt, Mrs. J. A. Moxley, who is ill, Monday. Miss Mary Fields, of , West Jef ferson, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Fields. She was accompanied to West Jefferson by her sisters, Misses Beulah and Grace Fields. Mrs. D. M. Pugh arid daugh ter, Velma, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Smith, of Pin ey Creek, Sunday. Mr. H. C. Smith, of Piney Creek, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moxley, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Blevins vis ited Mrs. Belle Blevins Friday evening. Miss Jacqueline Faircloth visit ed Mis$ Farye Lee Black, Friday. prizes. Bands must register under band name. Individual members may also enter one other string instru ment contest, as well as folk singing and clog dancing. No in dividual shall enter more than one band, and neither shall he enter more than one instrument contest. Mrs. R. C. Bowie, 304 N. Main St., Galax, is in charge of regis tration. Defense Bond QUIZ Q. In what denominations are Defense Savings Stamps avail able? A. Ten cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1 and $5. An album is given free with first stamp purchase to mount stands of 25 cents up. Q. In what denominations are Defense Savings Bonds avail able? A. You can buy a Series E Bond for $18.75, $37.50, $75, $375, or $750. The prices of Series F Bonds range from $74 to $7,400; Series G Bonds from $100 to $10,000. NOTE—To buy Defense Bonds and Stamps, go to the nearest post office, bank, or savings and loan association; or write to the Treasurer of the United States, Wash ington, D. C., for a mail order form.
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