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The Washington times., 1935-01-14

Revived at the hospital, he was
identified as Adolph Brinker, 1900
block California st. N. w. After
treatment for lacerationS and con-
tusions he was allowed to go to
his home.
At the Weather Bureau obser-
vatory it was said that the wind
would increase in force.
The Washington times., 1935-01-14
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and much colder tonight:
Tuesday fair and continued cold.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1935-01-14

weather Details on Page 16)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
BAND-WAGON

Supporters of Congressman R. L..
Doughton are attempting to get the
band-wagon started in behalf of his
campaign for Governor next year.
They take out their pencils and set
up figures to prove that nobody on
earth can defeat the Congressman if
he should choose to run. Despite the
fact that he opposed the sales tax
in Congress the Doughton boys are
marking big business down in his
column. Neutral political observers
don't figure that way. Also they can't
figure Mr.. Doughton carrying the
first congressional district against
the opposition of either Clyde R.
Hoey or Lieutenant Governor A. H.
Graham. Some people say it is plain
that the Doughton boys are trying to
work up good victory cheer even
before he announces.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
MR.. AND MRS. GLEN LITTLE
ENTERTAIN AT JEFFERSON

The Jefferson League was enter
tanned at an attractive April FOOLS
party at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Glen Little, Monday evening when
about two dozen members Of the
church organization met with Mr.. and
Mrs. Little.
Games were played and many
April FOOLS jokes were INDUCED in.
AT the close of the party, all the
guests left without expressing their
pleasure in the evening to the host
and hostess, which was also anApril
Fool plan, but they did not leave UNI
til Mrs. Little had served potato
chips, lemonade, cakes, and candy,
which were not on the April Fool
program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
GLEEFUL

Republicans around the General
Assembly are privately laughing up
their sleeves these days. They think
dame fortune is smiling their way in
getting the Legislature to re-enact
the general sales tax and privately
they express the hope that the Hill
liquor bill will pass, although they
will vote against it to man. The G.
o. P. boys believe these thfhgs will
be good campaign thunder in the
legislative elections in close counties
next year. But the Democrats believe
that good schools with higher pay
for teachers will taste better to the
folk back home than would repeal of
the sales tax with another cut in
school appropriations.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
AN EVER INCREASING
BURDEN

Not only is the public debt Of the
Federal Government moving swiftly
into higher and more oppressive alti-
tudes, but that of the lesser political
units in the country is going in the
same direction, contributing to the
gravity and aggravation of problem
that, however mildly it may be dis
cussed nd then dismissed by the pres
emit generation, will surely arise to
hound posterity with its dire specters.
The total public debt of the country
now, counting all units of Govern
ment, according to the National In
dustrial Conference Board is
1900, 0OO, 900.
Most Of the money now being spent
by Government does not come out Of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
THROUGH STATE
CAPITAL KEYHOLES
BY BEss HINTON SILVER
GETTING WARM

Congressman Frank Hancock, of
the Fifth District, paid brief visit
to Raleigh and looked over the Legis-
lative situation. He would not answer
questions pertaining to his chances of
opposing Senator ]. w. Bailey next
spring but the general impression in
some quarters here is that he will not
run. Hancock said he is being swamp
ed with mail from North Carolina
urging him to oppose the Rayburn
bill to give the federal government
unprecedented control over the power
producing industry. 81 have never
had such fire built under me" Han
cock said and added that in his opin-
ion the Rayburn bill will be greatly
modified before it passes Congress.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
SAVINGS

Democrats are planning to take
something back home to their folks
when the General Assembly that
make the natives forget their objec-
ton to the sales tax. First auto
license tags will be reduced in price
and the chances are your children
will get much cheaper books by
means Of rental system expected to
be put in operation by the State be-
fore the schools open next fall. The
school book rental bill has been slow
coming out of Committee but the
administration is solidly behind it and
plans to see it law before the gavels
fall in fnality on this session.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
HIGHWAY IDENTIFICATION

Without ballyhoo, paid publicity, or
overfowing tills, there is spreading
across this nation today a spontane-
Gus movement to improve the road
sides of the country. It is the work
Of volunteer groups aroused to action
by the unsighly and dangerous condi-
ton of our highways. Here in North
Carolina an interested group of men
and women are building sentiment
that one Of these days will provide a
pleasing beauty for our roadsides.
It is becoming more and more ap-
parent that miscellaneous collections
of hot-dog stands, ramshackle gas
stations and garish billboards are
creating "slum boulevards" that de-
stroy scenery and ruin property
values.
These crusaders in the cause for
beauty along the highways, represent
a cross-section Of American life.
They are members of garden clubs,
chambers of commerce, town plan
ming associations, real estate boards.
automobile clubs, business and wom-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
STILL GOING

George Ross Pou, son Of the late
Congressman Edward w. Pou, who
held Third District seat for more
than 80 years, took it on the chin last
spring when Harold D. Cooley beat
him in the contest to succeed the vet
eran Congressman. George Pou has
been practicing law in Raleigh since
then and this week formed partner
ship with Colonel Ed Abel and Nor
man Shepard, of Smithfeld. They will
maintain Offices in Raleigh and
Smithfeld. Colonel Abel is the Dean
of the Johnson County Bar and comes
near being the oldest practicing at
torney in the State. His activity be-
lies his, age. Shepard is an up-and-
coming lawyer jim his thirties, who
has record in the Capitol City. The
combination gives Raleigh and Smith
field a new law firm of big-shots.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
LARGER PARISH NOTES

Rev. F. P. Cook will preach Sunday
morning and night at Green Valley
Methodist Church of which Rev. H.
H. Cash is pastor. Sunday night Mr..
Cook will hold a called Quarterly
Conference.
Mr.. Cook will hold an official board
meeting at Bethel Thursday night
after the regular prayer service.
The staff of the Lansing Larger
Parish will meet at the home of Rev.
F. P. Cook on Friday for an all day
meeting.
Rev. H. H. Cash, Rev. Lowell c.
Stevens and Rev. and Mrs. Cook at
tended the group meeting of the
Asheville District presided over by
Bishop Wallace E. Brown in Asheville
last week.
The people of Greer's Chapel on
Little Horse Creek have completed
the new roof on the Methodist Church
there under the leadership of Miss
Martha Stewart.
j. D. w. Cook, reporter.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04

it's income, but is represented by Dor.
rowings against the future. The
Board says that the margin between
tax collections and public expendi-
lures is now about $4,000, 900, 900, of
which $4,0OO,00O,OOo is reflected in
in rising indebtedness. The other
$4,000, 100000 is made up by non-tax
governmental receipts, such as earn
ings of general departments, assess
ments, fines, etc.
To give still another illustration,
the cost Of debt service-interest and
retirement of maturing bonds-in a
late year for all units of Government
combined, amounted to 1876 per cent
of gross expenditures, and almost 80
per cent Of total tax collections.
There are the figures, and they re-
quire little comment. The gap be-
tween income and outgo is steadily
widening with the inevitable result of
more taxes and higher taxes-at the
expense of employmnt, BODYBUILDING
and industrial expansion.
and industrial expansion.-The Char
lotte Observer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
SPRING CLEANING TIME
HERE AGAIN

Just as the housewife has her regu-
lar spring house cleaning, every home
owner-or renter, for that matter
should have regular spring cleaning
for his premises. Old bottles, old
pieces of wood, out-dated and dried
up Christmas trees, ashes, automo-
bile tires, and thousand other things
have been left lying around during
the long winter months that have no
part in the clear freshness of spring
days.
Have you made a wood pile out of
your front yard? If you have, take
look at it and ask yourself if it
wouldn't be just as easy to chop wood
in the back yard and at the same
time make your neighbors a little
happier to live close to you. That old
car that hasn't run for the past year
might be dragged around to the back
also. We feel sure that our friends
and neighbors had far rather have us
tell them that we used to own a car
instead Of our keeping the remains
Of one cluttering up our front yard.
If it will run, all right. All of US can't
keep new models, but a lot of US keep
old car bodies that we know we can
never use again, and every day they
grow worse and worse looking to
the passer-by.
For small houses that get uncom-
fortably hot in the summer, it is an
easy matter to plant few fast grow
ing trees now, and not only will they
help the looks of the house when they
begin to leave, but they will add to
the comfort of the occupants on many
a sunny, dry, summer afternoon.
Let US look about as and take q
day or two off to clean up our front
and back yards. A little work in this
direction will go a long ways toward
improving our dwelling places with
out any actual cost in money.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
NO SALES TAX
EXEMPTIONS

While we hate to pay the sales tax
and we agree that it is truly nuis-
ance tax, we have never been unre-
servedly against it since it does make
a great class of people pay tax who
would otherwise be reaping the bene-
fits of living in this land of ours
without paying a cent toward the up
keep of its institutions. There is the
argument that the sales tax hits
those who are least able to pay it,
but until the last sales tax bill came
up in Raleigh, there were nine basic
exemptions which included fatback,
molasses, bread, and other necessities
which left the man who has to count
his pennies free to buy the food he
is. forced to have without paying a
tax.
Now comes the fight over the sales
tax in the General Assembly with
prospects of the tax being cut to two
cents from the old three-cent rate,
but the outcome is that the three-cent
rate is kept and the exemptions are
taken away. The three per cent sales
tax will not only be with us for
another two years, but there will be
no exemptions.
It seems that our legislators have
completely forgotten the luxury sales
tax that was agitated so thoroughly
in 1888. To our mind, it would be
fairer to keep the exemptions on the
old law and if that did not raise
enough money, make it up by adding
it on in luxury tax.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
Up and about, But

~S~ASA S~OO~Oc AA~
When your back feels like you
were knocked down and run over by
5-ton truck last week: and your
liver turns over every time you take
deep breathJyou've had the flu.
If you think your head is going to
bust open, and your eyes run waiter
like unto leaky spigot, and you
can't keep your nose bowed, and
your head roars like a conkshell,
you're taking the flu.
If batter-akes taste like dishrags,
and coffee becomes confused with
stump water, and nobody loves you,
and the back of your neck seems to
be sprouting a cow-bunckle, you've
already had the flu days.
If you cough deep and long, and
your mouth and throat are as dry as
Maine, and your legs feel limp, and
your stummick weak, and your arms
akimbo, and the bottom of your feet
itch, your flu is getting better.
If medicine tastes like medicine,
lookout for a back-set. If you dodge
drafts, and refuse to go out without
blanket over your head, your wife
will put you back to bed. the flu is
still in your bones.
If your knees screch when you try
to walk, and your nostrils sizzle when
you breathe, and you can stoop over
and pick up your own hat, and your
hair becomes dry and fluffy, then you
have only more weeks of illness
ahead of you. The flu has not yet
flown.
If somebody tells you that he does
not know whether or not he ever had
the flu, unless he's a terrible liar, he
has never had it. The flu. step on
you, tromps you down, mashes you
in soft places, chokes your vitals, and
bruises your anatomy. My advice to
fellow-man is: dodge the flu as you
would dodge your wife.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
LEAKED OUT

Friends of Thad Eure, principal
clerk of the House, who have been
urging him to run for Secretary of
State against Stacy w. Wade were
trying to keep their little matter a
secret but it just can't be done. Max
ing a speech on the floor of the
House, Representative Spruill of
BERTHE, let the cat out of the bag.
He referred to Eure as "the man who
will make the best Secretary of State
we ever had if he runs" Everybody,
including Mr.. Wade, knew what that
meant.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
OLD AGE PENSIONS

We had meant to write an editorial
on the Townsend plan, but after
thinking it over we couldn't think of
anything sensible to say. The plan
would provide for persons over 60 to
draw $4,000 each month from the
government and spend it during the
month in order to be able to draw the
next 5000. The plan sounds fine and
it would be hard to find anybody in
the United States who would not APP
prove of tiff it were as easy to
work out as it sounds. Human nature
is human nature. Outside Of trying to
figure out how the taxpayers would
feel when they saw hundreds of men
and women who had been lazy and
idle the greater part Of their lives
drawing that sum of money, picture
to yourself what nation Of fools we
would become if We had struggled in
want an ignorance for So years and
suddenly have such a kingly fortune
handed US. It would turn sensible
heads.
Old age security pensions are all
right, but they will safeguard society
only when they are made up of a
per cent of the earnings of the men
and women who work during their
youth. Many who do work have too
little management to lay up for the
inevitable rainy day. If the govern
ment can help them do this, it would
be doing real good. Nor can we let
the ne'er do wells starve on our door
steps, but they could get on on con-
siderably less than DIR. Townsend's
$4,000. To give such an amount to
the sort of persons to whom it would
go would be the height of simple
mindness.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
GETS START

Senate passage of bill to permit
the High way Department to spend
100000 annually in maintenance of
City streets is viewed by old-time
guardians of your gasoline taxes as
the beginning of division. Another
bill now in the Legislature, unless it
passes before you read this, would
name a commission to study the mon
ey of premature payment to the coun-
ties of loans made to the highway
fund back in the days when the
counties wanted good roads faster
than the highway department could
get the money with which to build
them.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
SOP

Legislators voting for the three per
cent general sales tax without basic
food exemptions are hoping to pass
some law providing Stae system of
public school book rentals in order
to take some relief in financial way
to the folks back home. Some of them
honestly believe the voters had rather
have cheaper school books than to
be relieved of the sales tax. And if
you figure the thing out in dollars
and cents the books proposition
CONES near being as much expense
unqel the present syte,n as. the sales
tax providing you have two children
or more in school.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04

ems organizations, etc., and their eff
forts have been augmented by the
emergency relief committees in many
communities.
In the early days of this campaign,
efforts were scattered and directed by
individual communities. Now eleven
states have established organizations
for futhering the work. Delaware has
set out thousands of roses along it's
highways; garden clubs of Virginia
hope to have 100000 dogwood trees
planted by the end of this year; Illi-
nois is setting out trees; Massachu-
sets has entered upon a five-year
program of laurel planting, and
Texas has undertaken to cover 5000
miles of roadsides with oleanders,
palm and date trees.
Here in North Carolina this pro-
gram has not gone beyond the spas
modic stage, but occasionally there is
evidence Of planned Identification by
individual or group. Roses were
planted along the Roaring Gap road
out from Elkin for distance, but
their possibilities have not been ade-
quately followed up with the atten-
ton the plants deserved.
Public interest in this important
matter will some day be aroused in
North Carolina, and our excellent
system Of highways will be fianked
with sbeuaty, that will also Increase
the value of adjacent property, and
be worth decidedly more than the inn
provement costs.-The Elkin Tribune.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
GIFT TO LOCAL LIBRARY
DONATED IN MEMORY OF
MRS. r. A. HAMILTON
fMrs, c.. D. Neal)

A very valuable gift to the Ashe
County Library was received this
week when R. A. Hamilton donated
twenty-four volumes of fiction, poet
ry, and biography in memory Of his
wife, Laura Agatha Hamilton, who
deceased in 1926.
Mrs. Hamilton was the daughter of
Frederic Agatha, a German professor
Of music who taught in two N. C.
colleges, st. Mary's and Salem. 1t
was Mrs. Hamilton's efforts that
brought about the building of the
Episcopal church at st. Mary's.
During the past week, books loaned
have numbered over fifty, exceeding
the past week by about twelve. The
students of the schools who have call
ed have been able to find what they
wanted to report ON for school work.
Membership cards were recently
purchased by Mrs. Paul Jones and
Mrs. W. M. Wyrick, and book of
fiction was donated by Mr.. r. C. Ray.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
PRESBYTERIAN NEWS

The weather is fine and Gods
great gifts are being poured out upon
up day by day. Come out to worship
the giver of all gifts at some church
every Sunday. We cordially invite all
who will to the West Jefferson Pres
byterian Sunday School at 10 a. m.
and worship at II a. m.
Sunday School at Ebenezer Church
10 a. m. Low Gap Church 2:30 p. m.
Peak Greek at 10 a. m. Laurel Forks
at 1880 p. m.
Rev. John w. Luke.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
BELIEVE 1T

Members of the Legislature are
now satisfied that Representatives
Cherry, of CASTOR, Chairman of the
House Finance Committee, Morphew,
of Graham, Chairman Of House Judi
ciary Number One, are out-and-out
candidates for Speaker next session.
Legislators also believe that Robert
Grady Johnson, present Speaker, will
run for Lieutenant Governor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our many friends,
and neighbors, for their kindness and
sympathy, shown to us during the ILL
ness and death Of our loving mother
and wife.
Mr.. Wade Roland and family.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
{sss9 NUTS AND.
II KERNELS
BY TROY ISAIAH JONES

r-s.f
A man showed me flower the
other day called the Hoover Rose. /
did not know what he meant until /
found out that it was the "bloomin-
est" thing that I ever heard of.
Hitler is fixing to go "down" in
history!
We still strive to reach the unsat-
isfactory situation with which we
started.
One place has got to be about as
uncivilized as another.
I saw some round trip tickets from
Raleigh advertised. They ought to
issue some one-way tickets to that
law making conference that they are
holding down there.
Fudge is what you get when you
try to make candy! Flattery when
you try to make love!
Tennessee is trying to repeal the
monkey law. She is rival to South
Carolina and Virginia and knows how
hard it is to do without ancestors.
Hugh Johnson's book asks for the
re-vamping of the NRA. AS much
vamping as there has been about that
Blue Bird, I am surprised at such a
request.
Frank Kent says that Secretary
Wallace borders on the cosmic and
at times does not live on the ground.
That is "perty" looking position for
the secretary of farming to get in.
A North Carolina beautician went
to New York and brought back some
beauty Secrets. think that she has
her clientele trained to keep the
secrets!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
PARKER TIE COMPANY
MOVES TO NEW BUILDING

The Parker Tie Company has NOV
ed into a new building back of the
Duncan Motor Company headquar-
tiers. The building was recently erect
ed by w. E. Vannoy. They have also
moved their tie yard near that loca-
ton.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04
HOUSEKEEPING HINTS
Here Are Some Things to Do and
Not to Do
Cracked eggs are boiled without the
contents oozing out if a teaspoon Of
salt is added to the water.

salt is added to the water.
If you pop corn in your family, try
salt instead of butter or shortening,
sprinkling the bottom of the pan with
heat the pan and put in the popcorn.
Finish by pouring the melted fat over
the popped corn, the flavor is better
and the corn pops more evenly,
To remove varnish stains from
fabric, sponge and rub with turpen-
tine. Away from flame or heat of
course, and then sponge with warm
slightly soapy waters Sponge with
clear warm water afterwards and let
dry.
Never stretch damask table cloth
or the napkins while ironing them.
Iron while quite damp and press until
dry. This preserves the heavy, leath-
cry quality of good damask.
Use clean soapy water in making
starch. Clothes have a glossier ap-
pearance and won't stick to the irons.
X
Japanned trays, or lacquer" trays
are once more in popular use. To
clean objects of this finish, use mix
ture of vinegar and powdered whit
ing. Apply with a soft flannel, wipe
off with clean cloth and polish with
chamois.
Roy Sullivan of Enid, Okla, grew
a lemon Is inches in circumference
and II 1-2 inches in length on a g.
year old tree.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04

Americans eat more than Do0, OO0e
tons Of sugar each pear, ysoo;eoo
tons Of which are imported.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-04-04

The night has thousandeyes and
the neighbors even more.
The Washington times., 1935-09-14
VANDENBERG
G0ESABR0AD

NEW YORK, Sept. IA G.N.s).
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
Republican member of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, sailing for a five-weeks vaca-
tion in Europe today declared the
trip was purely for pleasure, and
that his was not the role of
AN itinerant fixer." He said:
"By practically unanimous
action, Congress has committed
the United States to a new
policy of strict and scrupulous
neutrality. For the time be-
ing, 1t is exclusively the re-
SpOnsibility of Secretary of
State Hull to implement that
policy, and I am confident he
will do it effectively"
The Senator and his wife will
visit England, Belgium and IRE
land.
Concerning politics, he said:
~ think events within the
next IL months will irresistibly
dictate the proper Republican
leadership and the proper Re-
publican program. 1t would be
both futile and unfortunate to
attempt to interrupt this natu-
raj process"