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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

a hindrance to organized Christ
ian work and that in the future
he will cease to stress denomi-
nations and will give to all
charitable and Christian enter
prises without regard to wheth-
er they are Baptist or not.
Mr.. Rockefeller's decision is
based on a real desire to help
the greatest number Of people,
but back of that he has a deep
rooted hope to see the world
embrace a one-church, all
Christian religion. His ideas and
his aims are most sincere. All
Christian religions are striving
for the same heaven; all believe
in the same fundamental prin-
ciples; all are building on the
same rock. Then why, asks Mr..
Rockefeller, is it that we can
not all unite and work together
as one instead of this striving
against each other as denomina-
tons do?
Real Christians in denomina-
tons do not strive against each
other, but this man of wealth
who has been brought up in the
Baptist church does not take
into consideration the DISPOSE
ton of man. Where five church
members would agree to lay
down UNCONVENTIONAL preju-
dices, ten could be found who
would fight for them and would
kick out of harness altogether
rather than belong to a church
that did not believe in certain
Biblical interpretations. This
desire of man to interpret the
Bible as he sees it and to form
his religion likewise has caused
the many branches of the var
ious churches we have today.
And mans nature has not
changed.
Mr.. Rockefeller's object is
worthy, but because of our very
disposition, he is doomed to
failure before he begins.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
ROCKEFELLER CHANGES
POLICY

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who
has followed in the footsteps of
his famous father and has be-
come known throughout the
world for his charitable gifts,
has, in the past, given lavishly
to the Baptist church, of which
he is a member, and to the
Northern Baptist Convention,
with which he is affiliated.
During the past week, Mr..
Rockefeller, called the richest
man in the world, has announc-
ed that he feels that gi- ing to
only one organization -th e
church to which he belo., $ lis
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
Lansing Larger Parish Notes

At a meeting of the first quarter
ly conference of the Lansing Cir
cult, arrangements were made tt
60 enthusiastically forward with
plans for the, new parsonage fol
Rev. L. c. Stevens.
The COMMUNICATIVE revival al
Greer's Chapel continues with great
interest. Many neighboring pastor.
are helping.
Rev. F. p. Cook will fill his regu-
lar Saturday night and Sunday
morning appointment at Fairview
Revival meetings will begin a
Rich Hill, Dec. l. Revs. Roye o.
borne and Leonard Mulis will
preach Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Arm
strong, of Boone, will arrive Mon.
day to help carry on the meeting.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
Public Expression OF Thanks


To the Editor of the Skyland
Post: We, the undersigned, wish to
express through your paper our
gratitude and thanks to our many
friends who showed so much SYM
patty in our bereavement and
trouble on account of the loss OF
our dear son and brother.
Without your sympathy it seems
that our loss would have been un-
bearable.
Words can not express our graft
tude and thanks to each and every
one who contributed in any way to
our comfort.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Howell,
Richard and Sanford Howell.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
DEATH RIDES ON
THE HIGHWAYS

A statistician has figured that
if the present rate of deaths on
our highway continue, one out
of every five children in the
state is doomed to die in that
manner.
When we realize that careful
and sober driving by every man
or woman at the wheel of an
automobile would automatical-
ly wipe out this terrible score
of death and make automobiles
into the vehicles of pleasure
and usefulness for which they
were designed, we can hardly
realize in this land of peace
that we are wantonly taking
our own lives and the lives of
others.
The following news item in a
current newspaper is worth
reading:
October, 1885, deadliest of all
the II months in automobile
mishaps, furnished 131 killings,
the state department of revenue
has announced, bringing the
chastity total to 1888 for 10
months.
The 81 days of October saw
also a new high in accidents.
There were 754 injured persons,
a supremacy high all time mark.
The 10 months covered lead the
same period of 1894 by 1874. The
highest killer in North Carolina
history was 1884. 1t lacked four
of going to an even thousand.
Apparently there is no hope of
holding the deaths to a mark
below 1,10O.
Of the slaughtered, 80 were
pedestrians, but that is not the
greatest number of that class of
victims yet recored. September,
1885, produced 116 killings, just
one under the murderous
Christmas month of last year.
There were IL deaths among
children under IA years. Drunk
en- drivers caused 10 fatal. and
SO non-fatal accidents. Speeding
is credited with 33 fatal and SO
nonfatal accidents for October,
last. Reckless drivers are charg
ed with q fatal and lis non-
fatal mishaps. October year
ago was worse in that respect.
There were q killings and SO
injuries.
There were 20 killed on
curves.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

FOR SALE-250 acre grazing farm,
with buildings, well fenced plen-
ty Of water, six miles from West
Jefferson in Pine Swamp Township
and near Oval post Office. This land
is known as the Waddell farm. For
price and terms write H. F. Coin,
Field Representative, Atlantic Joint
Stock Land Bank, Box 786, Ashe-
vile, N. c. l1-28-pd.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

FARM FOR SALE-40 acres "
mile north Warrensville, N. C.
Land in fine state of cultivation
well watered, plenty wood, and
pasture, 4 acres bottom land, good
barn, large chicken and brooder
house, all necessary out buildings, 8
room bungalow, sleeping porch
electric light, running water, sewer
bath. See Jack Rhodes at Rhodes
Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

SEE THE BEAUTIFUL living room
suite we are giving away. Come
in and get full details of this great
sale that will last until Dec. "a.
Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

FOR SALES H. p. International
gasoline engine and Is" Black
burn mill. In AL condition, priced
cheap for quick sale. See Jack
Rhodes at Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

EDWARDS will leave w. Jefferson
Wednesday, Dec. II, at z a. m.
for Bel Air, Md. Reduced rates.
For information or reservation see
Carl Miller, West Jefferson, N. C..
or w. B. Edwards, Darlington, Md.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

BEAUTY CULTURAL complete
course, competent instructors
You may learn in a short time.
School approved, and accredited,
rates very reasonable. Write or
visit Hinshaw School of Beauty
Culture, Box Sc, North Wilkesboro,
North Carolina.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
WANT ADS
Twenty-Five Cents Charged
For Each Want AID

COMPLETE COURSE in Beauty
Culture for only $4,000. State ap-
proved. Employment aid. Macs
School of Beauty Culture, North
Wilkesboro, N. c. 1912
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
Statesmen Wanted

MAN WANTED for Rawleigh route
Real opportunity for right man
We help you get started. Write
Rawleigh Co., Dept. NICK 249 O.
Richmond, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

Boy-Mother, do you believe in
love at first sight?
Mother-Of course. Do you sup
pose I would have married your
father if I had taken a second look
at him?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
NANCY RUTH REEVES, Editor
States to be affixed.

States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washing
ton this twelfth day of Novem-
Der, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and thirty
five, and of the independence of
the United States Of America
the one hundred and sixtieth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

FOR SALE-One yoke of oxen,
years old, weight about 1900 lbs.
See or write F. B. Jones, West
Jefferson, N. C..
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

GOOD USED PIANOS, recondition-
ed and tuned, 2 uprights and one
Milton player priced cheap for
quick sale. Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

SINGER SEWING MACHINE looks
: like new, priced cheap. Rhodes
Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28
LET US JOIN IN
GIVING THANKS

AS has been the custom of the
President of the United States
for time immemorial, President
Roosevelt issued his annual
Thanksgiving Proclamation last
week and thereby followed the
custom set by our Pilgrim Faith
ers in setting apart one day out
of each year for calling the
nation to give thanks to God for
the help and guidance that has
been ours for the past year.
In his proclamation, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has given parti-
cular thanks for the fact that
our land is at peace at time
when war clouds are lowering
over distressed Europe, and
he has laid stress on the fact
that the people of our nation
are trying to lay the foundation
for a fellowship wherein they
seek the greatest good for the
greatest number.
Mr.. Roosevelt is called by
many an idealist and he is the
object of much criticism from
those who think this world OF
hard knocks is no place for a
leader who holds with his the
cries. Perhaps it is the country
that is wrong and the ideas of
Mr.. Roosevelt are right. Be that
as it may, his national procla-
nation of thanksgiving is a goal
that, if not already attained, is
worth striving for.
Let us read it together today:
I, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States
of America, hereby designate
Thursday, the twenty-eighth OF
November, 1885, as day of ma
tional thanksgiving.
In traversing a period of ma
tional stress our country has
been knit together in a closer
fellowship of mutual interest
and common purpose. We can
well be grateful that more and
more of our people understand
and seek the greater good OF the
greater number. We can be
graceful that selfish purpose of
personal gain, at our neighbours
loss, less strongly asserts itself.
We can be grateful that peace
at home is strengthened by a
growing willingness to common
counsel. We can be grateful that
our peace with other nations
continues through recognition
of our own peaceful purpose.
But in appreciation of the
blessings that Divine Provi-
dence has bestowed upon us in
America, we shall not rejoice as
the Pharisee rejoiced. War and
strife still live in the world.
Rather, must America by ex-
ample and in practice help tc
bind the wounds of others
strive aaginst disorder and ag.
gression, encourage the lessen
ing of distress among peoples
and advance peaceful trade anc
friendship.
The future of many genera
tons of mankind will be greatly
guided by our acts in these
present years. We hew a new
trail.
Let us then on the day ap
pointed offer our devotions ane
our humble thanks to AL
mighty God and pray that thu
people of America will be guild
ed by Him in helping their fel
low men.
In witness whereof, l have
here unto set my hand ant
caused the seal of the Unitec
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

GOOD PHONOGRAPHs $1,000 and
up. Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

SEE OUR USED RANGES and cook
stoves. Rhodes Furn. Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-11-28

WANTED TO BUY good used 6 H.
p. gasoline engine. Rhodes Furn.
Company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09

ficulty. He added. however, that next
year we are going to have to compete
with the Army, which Is given $4,000
more men" in its 1896 appropriation
The Senate committee also added
amendments increasing expenses for
the Newport, r. l., training station,
and for reopening the Great Lakes
training station.
The only decrease in the House bill
Is the dropping Of a 100000 item
from the Naval Research Laboratory.
Navy Letter Revealed.
The Senate hearings on the Navy
bill, available today, contain a letter
from the department pointing out that
the House reduction in the amount
for starting the new ships would
mean slowing down construction Of
the vessels, particularly those to be
built in navy yards. Under an exist
ing law Navy shipbuilding programs
must be divided equally between pri-
vate and Government yards.
The Senate committee not only
made available the funds cut out by
the House, but also included language
which will permit the Navy Depart
ment to work on designs for naval
vessels before funds for construction
of specific ships are made available.
For the Marine Corps, the Senate
committee added $103.378 for the pur-
chase Of clothing for the Marine Corps
Reserve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09
iva. FACES Cop
FIGHT IN SENATE.
Austin Asks Probe of Activi-
ties as Norris Demands
Qualification of Act.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Republican opponents OF the ad-
miniStration's Tennessee Valley elec-
trio power experiment indicated to-
day they would carry on indefinitely
their Senate fight against considera-
ton of a bill defining the r. v. A.
act.
During a three-hour speech yes
terday. Senator Austin. Republican,
of Vermont charged the T. v. A. with
a long list of violations Of law"
He said 1t had committed itself to
spend 25O,OOO,000 or five times its
original borrowing power, and added
it should be thoroughly investigated
before further changes in the law
are made.
Norris Asks Qualification.
Pending was a motion by Senator
Norris Republican. of Nebraska. CO.
author of the T. v. A.-Muscle Shoals
Naturalization act, to consijer his
bill clarifying that law and seeking
to give T. v. A. specific authority to
buy up existing power plants and
sell surplus electrical energy. 1t also
would double the r. v. AS orig
inal bond-issuing authority by per-
hitting it to borrow 500, 1000 900. but
limiting this to five years.
Democratic leaders were trying to
prevail upon the Nebraskan to with
draw his motion If the opposition
speeches became protracted, but Nor
ris insisted that his motion be voted
on.
N. r. A. Must Wait.
New NJ r. A. legislation, one Of
the five must" bills listed by Pres
ident Roosevelt for disposition before
Congress adjourns, waits behind the
Norris proposal
IN his attack on T. v. A.. Austin
said Government audit of it, first
two years operation showed abuses
and excuses" Of authority and "un-
authorized" demands upon the Treas
ury for funds far in excess of its
$50, 000 900 borrowing authority.
He charged the T. v. A. Board
had decided it lacked power to sell
electrical appliances and engage in
other activities, but went ahead with
those plans anyway.
He added the board had authority
to build only two dams in the Ten
nessee Valley, yet had started five and
announced plans for 20 or 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09
COMMITTEE O. KS
NAVY SUPPLY BILL
CARRYING BOOSTS
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
taken from the initial outlay for the
new ships.
The "a new vessels are: One aircraft
carrier, 2 cruisers. Is destroyers and
submarines All are requirements.
House Had Cut Sum.
The House had cut in half the
S23. $3.50 900 for starting the new ships
ca the theory that, with another naval
conference to be held this year. 1t
would be a desirable step to delay
starting the ships until later in the
coming fiscal year, and let the admin
istration ask for the amount elimi-
mated from this bill in January. II
advisable The Senate committee,
however, decided to follow the budget
estimate for the new ships and to do
it without an actual increase IN total
by using the unobligated balances re-
ferred to-
Even with the s1.8O0000 added by
the Senate committee to the House
total for other purposes, the bill Is
still S25, 300, 900 under the budget esti-
mates. When compared with the cur
rent appropriation act. however. the
1886 bill shows an increase Of Sta
10000.
The Senate committee left un-
changed the House provision for an
Increase of $500 in the enlisted
strength of the Navy.
Recruiting Costs Low.
During the hearings, in discussing
the routine expenses of recruiting sta
tions, Senator Byrnes, Democrat, Of
South Carolina, inquired whether the
Navy has had any difficulty in getting
applications.
Comdr. v. Kirkman replied that so
far the Navy has not had any dif-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09

9 SUITS: sizes. regular ~ 80. Il
IS, IL 80; medium stout ID 81.
ID 80; short stout % CIT o.
a.: were $50 and S35. SI 100
5 SUITS: sizes. regular 81 SO,
a. 81. % SO, ~ 40; stout
u 40; we're S35 and COL 81
$40 ......... o. LUZ
S SUITS: sizes. regular ~ ~. ~
as: short (2) 81: medium stout
% a.; short stout % coz o.
40; we're $40 and S45. C@O'OO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09
MAN USES elevated
TRACKS AS GALLONS

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May ct cost q dime
for q man to execute himself, the
police said.
He paid 10 cents yesterday to &C
through the gate Of an elevated rail.
way station and then walked out or
the trestle, from which he later leapeC
with q rope around his neck and
with the other end tied to the struc.
ture.
He had placed q handkerchief over
his face In the manner of = Legal
execution. Firemen who cut down
mis- body found the name of Joe Ka-
lamaja in a notation left by the vic
tim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09

and fourth, Woodfellow, Misses Helen
and Ruth Bedford.
Green hunters, middle and heavy
weight. 3-year-olds to jump 31a feet,
others q feet: First, Sherwood, E. L.
Redmon; second, Memory's Pride.
Misses Helen and Ruth Bedford;
third, Capt Kidd, Ray S. Shoemaker,
and fourth, Royal Wonder, DR.. L. M.
Allen
Green hunters, lightweight. Swear
olds to jump 3i2 feet, others 4 feet:
First, Mezzo, Robert B. .Montgom-
cry; second. Firenza Brumanna, Mrs.
NJ. Robert Guggenheim; third, Miner
Bird, Mrs. D. N. Lee. and fourth,
Going Up, E. L. Redmon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09
Scouts to Give Party.

HERNDON. Va, May 9 (SpeciaD.
-Herndon Boy Scout Troop. No. l24,
will hold benefit bridge, five hun
dred and anagram party tomorrow
evening at $50 o'clock, N the home of
DR.. William Never.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09
Hirohito Receives Upham.

TOXIC. May 9 P-Emperor Hiro-
hito today received in audience Ad-
miral Frank B. Upham. commander
in chief of the United States Asiatic
Fleet. The admiral was accompanied
by United States Ambassador Joseph
c. Grew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-09
Mortgage Aid Voted.

designed to ease the burden of rural
mortgages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Lenin or Nine. BIavatsky
SCOTT NEARING

THERE have been half dozen other letters about
this column on Scott Nearing, in which the
writers earnestly testify to the fine work done by
Scott Nearing on the platform in defending the
Soviet Union and the cause of Communism.
But believe I was sound in my criticism of
Scott Nearing I would like the comrades who
wrote these letters to know that for some of us
it is impossible not to discuss Scott Nearing. Dur
ing recent lecture tour, covering some Is cities
I was asked questions about Nearing at least is
times by workers in the audiences. They wanted
to know why Nearing is out of the Communist
Party. They wanted to know why he had made
certain statements at variance with the Comnnu-
mist position
What is a speaker to do when workers ask such
questions2 Only one course is honorably open to
him; he must tell the truth he sees it. My
column on Scott Nearing repetition, mainly
of the answers gave to such questions.
I can assure you it was not all made up out
of my head I first learned that Scott Nearing
had been theosophist for years from biographical
sketch of Nearing by Roger Baldwin published in
the Christian Socialist magazine, 1.-THE World To-
morrow" Baldwins article was quzzical and
friendly but civil liberties "spetz" also mar
yelled at the contradictions in hearings mind. How
can anyone reconcile Madame Blavatsky and
Lenin?
Perhaps. in the hurry and worry in which one
often has to formulate these daily columns, with
out time for revision or copy reading, I might
have given wrong impression But can honestly
say that was marvelling, much as Roger Bald
win, at the contradiction and was trying to point
out the connection between this sort of mystic con-
fusion in mans mind, and the political mistakes
that are sure to follow.
Some of Scott Meanings public utterances have
deviated from the Communist Party line This
was not because the party line was false or Sec
TARTAN or unrealiStic, but because Scott Nearing
had lapsed into moment of mystic individualism.
Madame Blavatsky had temporarily won over Lenin
Ought one analyze such weaknesses in a prominent
and influential speakers mind or ought one ignore
them? But the workers demand an explanation
and it is ones duty to give it to them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Symposium in Chicago
On Rice'S Judgment Day

CHICAGO-Afraid to face the implications of
fascSm, the Jewish Peoples Institute of Chicago
has refused to allow symposium on judgement
Day by Elmer Rice to be held in its auditorium
This refusal is made in spite of the fact that the
Jewish Peoples Institute Players foremost little
theatre group in Chicago, is producing Judgement
Day, and their director Lawrence Paquin will speak
at the symposium.
This anti-fascist discussion banned by the
wealthy trustees of the Jewish Peoples Institute
will be held under the sponsorship of the New
Theatre League of Chicago at sos South State
Street, on Sunday evening, Feb. "a, at $3.50. Pro-
fessor Robert Morss Lovett of the University of
Chicago and Lawrence Martin of Northwestern
University will speak at the symposium. Charles
Freeman, producer of Sixteen, Allen Taub of the
New Masses, and Charles DeSheim of the Drama
Union, will add their viewpoints to the discussion.
With this symposium, the New Theatre League
OF Chicago celebrates International Theatre Week
and introduces its new policy of uniting all drama
tic groups in common struggle against fascism
war, and censorship. speaker from the New Thea
tire League will explain the far-reaching scope of
its work, and its afhlaton with the International
Union OF Revolutionary Theatres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

IT SEEMS that an injustice was done to
Scott Nearing in this column recently.
A comrade in Vancouver, British Column
bia, had sent me a clipping from the Com
monwealth," a quasi-Socialist newspaper
in that city Scott Nearing reported as hav-
ing told its interviewer that the Communist Party
Of America was too sectarian to have any future.
The Workers tTrotzkyite- American Flag Party
was the only real party with future
commented on this surprising statement, but
now it seems that Vancouver has its own variety
Of treacherous Socialist-hberal leader They evil
IDENTIFY know how to SANDER as well any Hearst,
Noske or Abe Cahan.
Another Vancouver comrade has sent me the
following clipping, which is a letter from Scott
Nearing to the same paper repudiating the false
interview. An apology is in order, and I hereby
tender it, vowing solemnly never again to believe
a damn thing printed in the Socialst-lberal press.
Or should one?