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Denmark Concerned
Over German Arming

COPENHAGEN Cp.-Reports of ex-
tensive German military activity,
especially as it relates to the Schleswig
area on the North and Baltic Seas,
are causing increasing concern in
Denmark.
A correspondent of the Ekstrabladet
asserts that in further disregard Of
the treaty of Versailles, military opera
tions are progressing at a fast rate
in the demilitarized Schlesw,g dis
trict, with new and highly modern
fortresses and barracks under con-
struction.
The famous German naval base at
Kiel, it is charged, is being completely
restored, along with the fortress at
Kielerfjord, and reports Of aviation
maneuvers at those points are becom-
ing more frequent.
What Denmark fears, in the event
Of such an attack, with a struggle for
control of the Baltic likely, is that
protection of neutrality status will
be difficult If not impossible.
The Versailles treaty laid down def
mite restrictions on German fortifica-
tions in the area.
Evening star., 1935-07-21

French encountered this in their war
against the Riff, when some 90 900
poorly equipped Ritfians held back
French Army OF 100000 men, and
victory was won only when the leader
of the Riffisns was purchased with
gold.
Long Warfare Seen.
Unless the AbySSinians prove utter
towards. it will take many months be-
fore the Italians can cross the noun
tsins and penetrate into the plateau.
An advance from the Somaliland is
still less possible, since the Italian
Army would have to pass through
some 600 miles OF marShy, equatorial
forest with no paths and no means OF
transporting the necessary war para
phernalia of a modern army.
Djibouti is French possession, and
it Is not believed that even the famous
''rsison d'etat," which was given as
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an excuse for many political treasons,
would allow France to let the Italians
use her Red Sea port as basis for
operations against the Abyssinians.
MusSolini is fully aware Of the fact
that he needs a quick victory against
the AbysSinianS. Because there is
some fear in Italy that the campaign
may be protracted and costly-there
are still many who have keen recol-
lection OF the Adowa atfair-MuSso-
lini has adopted the Napoleonic meth
cd. He tells his people that across
the seas there is a wealthy country
populated by slave traders but blessed
with all the worldly goods Italy needs
in order to become the first-claSs
power to which she has divine right.
All that Italy has to do is to go and
take it.
by Christmas your boys will be
back and Ethiopia will be ours"
Evening star., 1935-07-21

by international law. as well as to
direct the influence of public opinion
against the offending state. In no
case, however, shall they resort to
armed intervention, except as pro-
vided in other treaties to which they
may be parties.
Articles z to IL eliminate the pos
slbillties of getting around this obli-
which most ad-
yocates of organized peace overlooked
in the past-by providing how the
Inter American Court will pass upon
its own competence; how, if a con-
troversy is not susceptible of juridi-
cal decision, it should be submitted
to the Permanent Cancellation Com
mission; how, If this is not don, the
commission automatically will be en-
titled to act; how the parties may only
appeal to the court or to arbitration
against the commissions decision;
how, upon the reluctance Of one or
more of the parties to abide by the
Judgment of the court, the sanctions
prescribed in Article 5 shall be ap-
piled; how the countries in dispute
must prevent armed clashes while the
process Of conciliation and juridical
adjustment Is in progress, and so on.
(CopyriHht. 1850
Evening star., 1935-07-21
Starvation in Rural Areas Compels
Japan to Speed Relief Measures

TOXIC R.-Distress through the
countryside, producing black despair
that is bringing starvation to thou
sands of rural homes, has spurred
the Japanese government to put into
execution a special relief program
for the next two years.
With industry fiourishing, fed by
an expanding foreign trade and the
big armament programs OF the army
and navy, the government had hoped
to ease itself of some Of its relief
burden this year.
Nature ordained otherwise. Al
ways harsh in her treatment OF the
japanese islands, she exceeded her
self last Summer in display of ruth
less versatility that mixed typhoon
and food, drought and frost, and
turned the normal poverty of mil
lions of japanese farming folk into
distress and deStitution.
Although most of Japan's present
relief problem springs from such
natural calamities, economic forces
did their share through the collapse
of the American market for Japan's
raw silk, which sadly reduced the in
come of 2,5O0, 900 rural homes which
depend wholly or in part on the silk
worm for a livelihood.
Hence the government, to alleviate
suffering affecting in some degree
probably 10000, 900 persons, has been
comnelled to raise its relief expendi-
ture to a total of 272, ,OOO, 900 yen, the
largest figure on record except the
33s 600 900 yen expended by national
and local governments in 1e33-34.
In many farming villages, especially
in the north, there is actual famine.
Japan's relief problem today, as
nearly always, has to deal with des-
titution in the rice-growing, silk
worm-raising. fishing villages Of the
countryside and seacoasts. There Is
little need for tps city bread line or
Evening star., 1935-07-21
BY GASTON NERvAL.

OMNfENTING last week on the
leadership in international
I affairs which Mexico is dis
~ playing, We mentioned the
Mexican peace code submitted at the
seventh Pan-American Conference as
one of its outstanding features. A
somewhat Skeptical reader has writ
ten us inquiring for information on
that pacif1st scheme, which we
branded 1.-The most comprehensive and
most practical one ever devised"
The Mexican peace. code can act
ually be described thus, not merely
because of the general principles it
sets forth-outlawry Of war. definition
of an aggressor. non-forcible collec-
ton of debts, non-recognition of ter
ritorial gains by force, obligatory
arbitration, etc.-but because it pro-
vides the only co-ordinated and ef-
fective machinery which has yet been
advanced for the enforcement Of those
principles.
Condemnations of violence, indorse-
ment of diplomacy and arbitration,
dOCu uCIAdA obAOAAo OP
holding the methods OF peace over
those of war are all very well, but
experience has taught us the bitter
lesson that they amount to little,
unless the will to carry them out
translates itself in some practical
means to enforce them. The prin-
ciples of peace have been Endorsed,
time and again, by nearly every
civilized nation on earth. In recent
years they have been restated with
unusual emphasis. But, time and
again, in the presence of an actual
emergency, they have been set aside
by statesmen who had little difficulty
in finding way around them.
Enforcement in Mexican Code.
This has happened with such fire.
quency in the past, that any new in
Strument devised to preserve inter-
national peace must provide the ma
chinery of enforcement if it aspires to
be taken seriously at all. And this
the Mexican peace code does par
ticularly well. BY combining salient
features of the Gondra convention,
the Bryan treaties. the Washington
Cancellation and arbitration treaties of
1928, the League of Nations covenant,
the Kellogg pact, the Saavedra-Lamas
anti-war pact, the Scott draft for an
inter-American tribunal of justice, etc,
it offers a practical and co-ordinated
machinery for the maintenance of
peace in the western hemisphere.
1t is impossible, within the limita-
tions of q newspaper article, to de-
scribe at length the manifold pro-
visions embodied in the Mexican peace
code, but brief enumeration Of the
main ones will suffice to illustrate its
importance.
The first section of the Mexican
plan is devoted to a declaration of
principles which have been pre-
viously asserted, at one time or an
other, by most of the American gov
ernments but never adopted collec-
lively and in a single document.
Article l. in the spirit of the Kellogg
pact, outlaws wars of aggression
among the parties, and prescribes that
conflicts or differences of whatever
nature arising between them must be
settled by the pacific means provided
by the law Of nations. 1t is interest
ing to note in this connection that the
sixth Pan-American Conference at
Havana adopted similaA declaration
Evening star., 1935-07-21
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

w YHEN Mussolini, standing
NA/ erect on the carriage of a
Wv gun with his jaw more pro-
truding than ever issued
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soup kitchen. Industrial unemploy-
ment is less than 100000. the lowest
in years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
GREENWOOD ITEMS

Rev. Russell conducted a very i'm
pressive memorial service at the
Greenwood cemetery Sunday. A large
crowd attended.
A number of boys and girls from
this community are riding the bus
to Grassy Greek school this season.
John Blackburn, a citizen of this
section, died suddenly last week. L
was thought that heart-failure caused
his death.
Mrs. Willie Young of Madison
Neb., spent few days of last week
with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mar!
Young.
]. B. Young and family spent Sun
day with their daughter, Mrs. MunsSs
Rose Cox, Bride Greek.
Mrs. ]. J. THOMAS and daughter
Madge, visited the Padgetts at indie
pendence, Sunday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
GREENWOOD NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Sturgill and
two grandsons, and Mr.. Boyer, of
Maion, Va, visited with relatives here
last week. Ms. Sturgill has been visit
ing her mother, Mrs. Mary Young.
Mr.. and Mrs. Con Waddell an
nounce the birth of, a fine son on the
10Th of August.
Mrs. Oscar Jones has been very ill.
Bayne Dickson spent the week end
with his parents last week and re-
turned to Reidsville where he is en-
ployed.
Mr.. Ed Roe was in charge of the
services here last week in the absence
of the pastor, Rev. C. w. Russell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Munsy Rose Cox and
relatives, of Fox, visited Mrs. Cox's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Young,
recently.
Mrs. Otto Bohanna and Mrs. Jack
Bohanna, Of Winston-Salem, have re-
turned home after visiting their faith
er, r. E. Waddell, for some time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
OUR MOUNTAINS LOSE
A STRONG FRIEND

BY the death of Col. Wade Harris,
the state and the South not only loses
a brilliant man, but our mountain Sec
ton loses one of it's most ardent and
influential friends.
Col. Harris loved the mountains of
his state and the mountains in this
section just little bit more than in
any other. He was in a position, as
editor of one Of the biggest Southern
newspapers, to call attention to our
unsurpassed air, water, climate, and
scenery in a way that has meant
much toward putting US on the map.
We grieve with the state for his
loss and express a wish that the
mantle of his wisdom will fall on his
successor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
NOTICE

North Carolina
Ashe County. .,....
In the Superior Court
BEFORE the Clerk
The Federal Land Bank of Columbia
VS.
Martha Dickson, j. L. Dickson, Exc
cutor Of G. D.. Dickson, deceased. and
]. L. Dickson personally and individu-
ally, c. M. Dickson, E.. A. Waddell,
P. T. McNeill, Executor Of P. G..
Mcneil, deceased, G. E. Ashley,
Oliver Ham, Bank of Ashe, and T. c.
Bowie. -
The defendants, ]. L. Dickson, Exc
cutor. Of G. D. Dickson, deceased, and
j. l.. Dickson personally and individ-
ually, and G. E. Ashley, will take no.
tice that an action as above entitled
has been commenced in the Superior
Court of Ashe County, North Caro-
lima, for the foreclosure of a certain
mortgage executed by G. D. Dickson
and wife, Martha Dickson, under date
of October 10, 1922, on certain real
estate in Ashe County, North Caro-
lima, in which the above named de-
PENDANTS own or claim an interest by
reason of certain judgments of record
in Ashe County, North Caolina; and
The said defendants will further
take notice that they and each of
them is required to appear at the
Office Of the Clerk of the Superior
Court for Ashe County at the Court
house in Jefferson, North Carolina,
on the 18th day of October, 1886 or
thirty 1907 days thereafter, and an
swer or demur to the complaint in
J, said action or the plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded
| in said complaint.
This the 18th day Of Sept, 1885.
j. D. STANSBERRY,
10-10-A Clerk Superior Court.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
FOOD COSTS ADVANCE
CONSIDERABLY SINCE 1888

Since August, 1888, retail food
prices in general have advanced 14.9
per cent on the average, according to
tabulation made and issued by the
Labor department. The advance was
greater in some sections than others.
For Instance, in the South Atlantic
States, the incease was 10 per cent;
on the Pacific coast less than 10 per
cent. ...... -,:~
In two years the following average
increases in the prices of meats were
reported from 81 cities surveyed in
every section of the country:
Sliced bacon, 94.4 per cent; pork
chops, 1858; sliced ham, sos; chuck
roast, 51.3; plate beef, so; rib roast,
AZ; round steak, 1916; sirlcin, steak,
36.9; hens, 42.4; leg Of lamb, 1872;
lard, 1924.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
. FOOD PRICES GOING UP

The newspapers are declaring on
every hand that the depression is
whipped and that unless forecasts go
astray the United States will have
the largest farm income that she has
had for the past five years.
This is probably true of the farmer
who has something to sell since food
prices are almost out of sight for
the ordinary buyer. The old picture of
the cow jumping over the moon to poke
fun at the high price of beef might
we'll be changed to having the pig
jump over the moon. We have heard
that many people in this county want
to swap hams for fatback since they
have hams and are not able to buy
fatback.
Our people do not farm on a scale
large enough to profit by high prices
to any great extent, but rather they
suffer from them for we do not make
enough to carry US through from one
season to another but we must buy
food for man and beast when it is at
it's highest.
The general feeling of better times,
however, will reach US and with the
opening up Of business in general we
will be able to find many a job from
which We were cut off when the hir-
ing power of the nation was paralyz-
ed. Already our stores are feeling the
increased buying power. Now it is up
to Us to plan to use every available
space we have for the planting of
food stuffs and the raising Of stock
so that We may be able to feed our
selves even though we do not have
enough to have any left over for SELL
ing purposes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
LOUISIANA AND
HUEY LONG 81

The death of Huey Long removes a
picturesque figure from public life.
The Louisiana shooting adds one
more name to the list Of approx
mately seventy-five prominent men
who have been subjected to assassi-
nation for political reasons during the
past forty years. It was Longs por-
ton to be detested and loved, each
with heartiness having few paral-
lels in the annals Of politics and
statecraft.
A person so vigorous and aggres-
sive as Mr.. Long is bound to make
mistakes. It is equally true that at
times such a person must see clearly
through the wells that dim the ordi-
nary sight and discern the truth. His
career was eventful and stormy, but
after life's fitful fever, let us hope
he sleeps well.
The Charlotte Observer, speaking
of his dictatorship-which was the
reason leading to his death-o1
Louisiana says:
Relationships everywhere contain
the seed Of their own decay. History
is very emphatic on this point.
peoples for a moment have allow
ed some gifted genius to sweep then
off of their feet, to carry their liber'
ties around in his pocket, to swa!
their wills at his own imperial com
mand, to do with them politically
socially and economically whatsoever
he chose, but in the long run, the un
naturalness of such situation broke
it up.
"Men will not forever suffer
the repression and sitting Of
their natural political impulses
to be free men.
ain majority numbers everywhere
they are intolerable of relationships
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
CONSTRUCTION OF GAS
CELL TO BEGIN SOON

Materials for the lethal gas cham
Der at states prison will be ordered
Immediately and construction should
start in about 10 days, w. L. Craven,
bridge engineer Of the highways and
public work commission, in charge of
building the cell, said last week.
A. S. Brewer, director of purchase
and contract, said some materials had
been bought and all would be ordered
by the end of next week.
1t will take so to 80 days to- COM
plete the work and the cost will be
close to $1,000, Craven said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
WHY so MUCH DELAY7

In glancing through Journal-Pa
OF files of 1888 we CHANGED to notice
a story about contract being let on
the first section of the Millers Creek
Jefferson road. That story appeared
in: September a year ago this week.
At that time We had hopes that the
road would be finished in year. The
year has passed. Contractor on the
first section has long since completed
his work and left for other fields of
labor. The newly constructed section
of the highway ends abruptly in the
mountains. No contract has been let
for the remainder of the road.
Just why there has been so much
delay in constructing the remainder
of this highway, perhaps the most
badly needed in western North Caro-
lima, We do not know, but We do know
that citizens Of Wilkes and Ashe
counties should let no grass grow un-
der their feet in demanding that the
road be finished early as possible.
Long before the contact for the
first section was let We were given tt
understand that funds for the re
mainder of the road had been allo'
Gated. Possibly we were misinformet
but if this were true, great injus
tice has been done to Wilkes ant
Ashe counties in depriving their PEG
pie of such an important thorough
fare.-The Journal-Patriot.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

"That holds not only for Louisiana
but Germany and Italy and Russia il
there is in these countries enough Of
spread Of popular intelligence t.
tell the difference. And there certain
ly is in all of these instances with The
possible exception of Russia.
"Why, then, can men like Mussolin
and Stain and Hitler and Long &C.
quire for themselves such transcen.
dant power if they are products
merely of minoity creation?
ut is because as John Bunyan re-
marks in his analysis of the character
of Cromwell, when he observes that
"a mere knot of determined men who
See their course with the terrible SIM
plicity Of the fanatic and have armed
forces to do their bidding are more
than a match for million puzzled
citizens"
"Just so!
"Given a minority swayable to the
will and purpose of such a personality
as Huey Long, ruthless in his meth
DDS, crusading in his determination
and relentless in his lust for power,
and majoity of "a million puzzled
civilians are silent and impotent for
a moment.
"But not forever. Remove the per-
sonality and that which has sprung
up as a creation of this inspired min
GRITTY will crumple, as the empire of
Long in Louisiana is destined to de-
cay and that right early"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
NOTICE OF ATTACHMENT
AND GARNISHMENT

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
A. A. Price
VS..
T. P. Tudor.
To T. P. Tudor:
You are hereby notified that an ac-
ton as above entitled has been COM
menced in the Superior Court of Ashe
County, NORTH Carolina to recover
the sum of $2,O98.29 due the plaintiff
on promissory note; That summons
has been issued therein returnable
before the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Ashe County in his office in JEFF
ferson, North Carolina on the 10th
day of October, 1885, and that at the
same time and place a warrent of
attachment was issued returnable at
the same time and place, and that a
complaint has also been duly filed in
said action.
You are further notified that no.
tice of garhishment has been issued
to The First National Bank of West
Jefferson, North Carolina to appear
before the Clerk of Superior Court of
Ashe County in his office in Jeffer-
son, N. c., on October 18th, 1885 at
100 o'clock P. M. to answer upon
oath what property it now has in it's
hands of, or what debts it is now due
to T. P. Tudor; you are further mott
fled to appear before the aforemen-
toned Clerk on the aforementioned
date and answer or demur to the
complaint filed in this cause, Or the
relief therein prayed for will be
granted.
This September 10th, 1885.
:. ]. D.. STANSBERRY,
,10-10-B Clerk of Superior Court.
Fox hounds were brought to this
country from England in 1888 by
Lord Fairfax.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

King George of England presents a
strange appearance to American eyes
in a picture which shows him in
Scotch kits. AS an exception to the
rule that the king can do no wrong,
he must not go about without his
pants.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19
Nuts and Kernels
By Troy Isaiah Jones

Usually when a man starts out
bull-headel like Mussolini, he ends
up sorter cowed.
Boston culture began with a Tea
Party and gradually rose until it end
ed in beans baked in molasses.
A nudist is a sorehead who failed
in the skin game.
Politicians should be nudists. They
like the skin game so well.
You can learn more studying
MINERALogy about the human
mind than you can studying psychol-
ogy.
Jimmy Braddock can pound the
ivory, but not the sort that makes
music.
A man planted three pounds of
potatoes and gathered fifty-three
pounds in harvesting. He must have
got a cabbage head mixed in it!
A cheap skate is one who is all the
time slipping up.
The reason they are trying to fly
in the stratosphere is to keep up with
the rise of prices and taxes.
A man who calls his wife little
"lambkin" no doubt does so looking
sorter sheepish.
A man with checkered career
soon cashes in.
The wicked flaeth up when no man
insinuateth.
It takes the use of an Englishman's
head to block the situation.
It has gotten so that rattlesnakes
are mot afraid of preachers any more.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

Miss Katherine O'Neal, of Lansing,
Ashe county, is arriving Saturday to
spend the weekend with Mrs. Elmo
M. Sellars on West Bessemer avenue
and Mrs. A. w. Wells on Simpson
street. She will be here until Tues
day.-The Greensboro News,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

A well known stammering motion
picture actor is said to be laid up
after fight. Suffering with the
tongue is one thing. Suffering with
the fists is quite a different matter.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

A negro girl is seeking entry as a
student at the University Of Virginia.
She has employed attorneys.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

Tigers are becoming so numerous
in India that the government is offer
ing SIS bounty for each beast killed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

It takes the use of an Englishman'
head to block the situation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

1t has gotten so that rattlesnakes
are mot afraid of preachers any more.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

The wicked flaeth up when no mar
insinuateth.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

Fox hounds were brought to this
country from England in 1888 by
Lord Fairfax.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

A man with a checkered caree
soon cashes in.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

Jimmy Braddock can pound the
ivory, but not the sort that makes
music.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-09-19

A man who calls his wife lit
"lambkin" no doubt does so lookir
sorter sheepish.