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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
Spanish Loyalists Take
Men From Every Walk
Of Life to Fight in War
$50, 1S2.48 FOR FARM
ROADS IN ASHE

RALEIGH, Sept. 19th.-The
WPA announced today that
$52,181.4S would be spent to inn
prove farm to market roads in
Ashe county, $15,722 of which
will be furnished by the spon-
SOr.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET
WITH MRS. J. M. PREVETTE

The Ashe County Woman's Club
will hold its first meeting for this
year with Mrs. j. M. Prevette in
jefferson, Friday, October 2, at
three-thirty o'clock.
Since many important matters are
to be take up, Mrs. w. D. Mcmillan,
president, urges a full attendance
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
Doughton to Open
Campaign in Ashe
at Lansing Sat. 10th
Democratic Candidates to Be al
Big Rally at Lansing
High School

Congressman R. L. Doughton will
open his campaign in this county for
reelection to Congress in Lansing
Saturday night. The speaking will
take the form of a Democratic rally
since the candidates on the county
ticket are expected to be present and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

speak briefly. The public is invited
by the county chairman, Ira T.John-
ston, to be present. The program will
begin at seven-thirty in the Lansing
High School.
Congressman Doughton is recog-
nized as the outstanding authority
in the state on national affairs
which it is thought will be the
theme of his address Saturday. For
this reason, Mr.. Johnston extends a
welcome not only to members of his
own party but to Republicans as
well.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24

what you have to sell or
what you want to buy in
The Skyland Post which
is read i'm more than so
per cent of the homes in
AShe county. Advertising
in The Post pays.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-24
SUBSCRIBE

to The SkyIand Post If
you are not already a
subscriber and If you are
to keep up with the label
on your paper which tells
you when your subscrip-
ton is out.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-24

price, was driven to cooperative Or
g~anization. The fertilizer interests,
when the economic revolt started,
refused to sell to the co-operatives.
So the co-operatives went farther
afield in their search for supplies.
When the ~co-operators bought
huge stocks of fertilizer to sell at $2l
a ton the fertilizer interests cut the
price to $40. But the revolt was
under way and could not then be
stopped by a price war. The one
stumbling block in the path of CO.
operative development was the in
ability of the ~co-operators to get
standard quality and assured sup
plies.
It was at this time that the coop
eratives found a copper mining
company with a surplus of sulphuric
acid. The company agreed to set
up a subsidiary corporation for the
manufacture of fertilizer which the
co-operators agreed to buy.
AS a result there is in L~ockland,
Ohio, today a fertilizer plant with a
capacity of 100, 900, 900 tons of fer
tilizer a year. The significance n
this case lies in the nature of the
business carried on by the manu-
facturer. The co-operators lay
down their own specifications. The
manufacturer produces fertilizer ac-
cording to the consumers own de-
mands. The co-operators take are
of all advertising, distributing, and
pay cash for their supplies. There
fore we have in this instance a pro-
Queer who has nothing to DO but
produce. There is no sales force,
no advertising department, and no
collection department. AS a result
this manufacturer signed the first
contract of its kind in the United
States, wherein he agrees to return
to the c~o-operatives one-half of the
manufacturers profit each year.
The linking of gasoline and oil to
the buying of farm supplies
throughout the West has naturally
led to the growth of consumer CO.
operation as an economic method
rather than as a mere way of pur-
chasing. The impulse is to move
farther and farther back toward
production. The saving of retail
profits has been, in most cases,
merely the first step of the coop
erative advance.
Continued to Next Week.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-24
Republicans Despair OIL
Landon; Concentrate
On Congress

CHICAGO-(FP)-Hoover defeat
ism, the curse that laid low Repub-
lican hopes in 1882, is again abroad
in this presidential year and hopes
of putting ALT M. Landon into the
White House are vanishing with the
fading of summer in Republican
party circles. The ironic slogan,
Abandon Landon, has become a real
ity.
Since the exposure of the Topeka
statesman as a minor puppet of the
Hearst dynasty, tellingly made with
the aid of court documents by Sec.
of the Interior Harold Ickes over the
radio, the heart has gone out of the
COP victory drive.
In its place has come a determina-
ton to salvage everything possible
below the top offices. This move is
most evident in the attempt to pied
ge candidates for congress of both
parties in advance against all efforts
to change the rules of the game by
which the banksters and p~rofiteers
now have the drop on the workers
and farmers.
Typical of this quiet campaign is
the work done in Illinois by the Chi
cago Assn. of Commerce, dominated
by Republicans like Dawes and Knox
and Strawn, to have the new con-
gress keep its hands off the U. S.
supreme court.
"Of the 26 nominees already con-
tacted by the Assn. of Commerce"
one of its employees declares, "13
have pledged themselves to oppose
congressional sharp-shooting at the
higher courts. The only candidate
who has already taken a definite
stand in favor of curtailment of the
powers of federal courts is Adolph
J. SABBATH (D) of the 9Th district"
All candidates for U. S. Senate and
the house of the two major parties
in the state were asked by Assn. of
Commerce %contacters:
l.. Do you approve of legislation
designed to deprive any federal
court of the power to declare acts
of congress unconstitutional?
2. Do you approve of legislation
designed to deprive the supreme
court of the U. S. of its power or re-
strict its power to review constitu-
tional questions in causes arising in
any of the federal courts?
8. Do you approve of legislation
designed to restrict the supreme
court of the U. S. in its power to de-
clare invalid laws which are uncon-
stitutional by requiring more than a
majority vote or concurrence of the
justices of that court?
4. Do you approve of legislation
designed to increase the number OF
justices of the supreme court of the
U. S.?
Even though it now looks as if
Landon will do a Hoover flop in
November, the crafty guardian of
social interests are assured that at
least half of the Illinois candidates
for senate and house will be good
little boys. Most of the rest will
probably yield to the steady corpor-
alton pressure, leaving only Rep. Sa-
bath, who comes from working class
immigrant district in Chicago, to at
tack the loaded dice in the supreme
court crap game.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-24
ON THE o

Among tina carefully guarded Sc
crets in the recent mimic war of the
army and national guard around
Chicago were the 2,400 hospital cases
of dysentery for which army doc
tors, as usual, couldn't find out the
cause.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-24

SAN FRANCISCO.-(FP)-Co
tending that a condition of extra
ordinary unemployment no longer
exists" the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce, the Builders Elk
change and other employers organ
izations are trying to have the g.
hour day municipal ordinance or
city works repealed. The ordi-
nance was passed in April, 1884.
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

JOHN BULL TRIED PROMOTE FIGHT BETWEEN THE
LEAGUE AND NTUSSOLINI; BUT THAT CLOUDBURST OF
WAR THREATS" OVER EUROPE MADE PROMOTER JOHN
BULL CHANGE HIS MIND.
England big boss in the League of Nations lined up other
League members last year keep Musson out of Ethiopia
The English Government backed sody by the British people,
boased that the military might of England ready back
the demand, "MUSS0LINI MUST STAY OUT OF ETHIOPIA.
Sir Samuel Hoare British Foreign Minister forced to
resign when he proposed to compromise with Musolni Eng
land would stand for compromise Young Anthony Eden
chief League supporter made British Foreign Secretary
The world settled back to watch fight this young Eden
would show Mussoni where to get off, Sanctions i'm
posed Italy.
In months in spite of sanctions Mussolni conquered
Ethiopia
Yesterday, in London young Sir Anthony Eden speaking
for the British Government addressed the House Of Commons
"We haze to admit that the purposes for Dhch
tionS UUere imposed haze not been realized. His
MGjestys Government has to the conclusion that
there longer utility in continuing these
a means of pressure Italy, The Government
is not prepared to take military action"
John Bull promoter of many BATTLES Of the century,
knows the He looks at those clouds of European
War Threats real Battle of the Century ahead and
says to himself (and the audience):
81 Uant fight uith MussOIini nouU. ri need him
later to fight on my side"
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
FASHION NOTE

William Tyler Page, author Of
the Americans Greed, clerk to the
minority in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, wears light summer
clothes cut along the same lines
as formal attire. Cutaway coat,
vest and trousers in strict formal
style.
Representative Wilburn Cart
wright CD, of Oklahoma, ap-
peared on the floor in a white
summer suit. One shoe was all
white and the other was brown
and white. Bum dogs, mebbe.
The four youths" who walked
arm-and-arm down the main
Capitol corridor to stop to gaWk
right in the doorway to the ro-
tunda so no one else could get by,
turned out to be girls. They all
had short bobs and wore mems
shirts and trousers.
They shouldn't feel badly (if
they read this). A couple in
shorts and polo shirts and a
couple in riding breeches, boots
and net shirts had already caused
as much comment as the two
women in beach pajamaS.
It's a toss up between the vot-
ers walking in the corridors and
the members talking on the floor.
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

is that old Edwin Q. Hill
standby, that dominant theme OF
many a campaign of the past
the tariff.
I got it from all sides in Cleve-
land. about time he did it," a
New Englander remarked to me.
He meant President Roosevelt's
action in lifting the rate against
japanese textiles.
"a fine how do you dO," said
a ChicagOan, "that we have to
import 100000 pounds Of pork
in one month from one country
and that we are eating sausage
from the Danube out here in our
own Middle West"
The tariff links up with the Ad-
ministration'S curtailment of farm
production in the Republican
strategy.
George Peek, who went into
President Roosevelt's officia l
family to work out a farm pro-
gram, has made out a most damag-
ing case against the Wallace Tug
we'll economy of scarcity and
against the Hull-Sayre program of
internationaliSm.
SIGNIFICANT
It is not without significance
that MIR. wallace is talking at
present in the vein that crop cur
tailment is not a permanent pro-
gram, but that it may be given up
now that an emergency has
passed.
The academic Cordell Hull, Of
Tennessee, is a tenacious individ-
ual. He was and always will be, no
doubt, an advocate of the League
of Nations, just as he was an
advocate of prohibition before,
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
Daily COnstitutiOnals
By Max BernS

|tion or concentration or poWerSs
but by their distribution, that good
government is effected. Were not
this great country already divided
into States, that division must be
made, that each might do for itself
what concerns itself direct, and
what it can so much better do than
a distant authority. .:
''It is by this partition Of cares:
concludes jefferson, "that the mass
of human affairs may be best man
aged for the good and prosperity
of ALL" ::
In our Constitution, 1--WE the
people" effectuate this principle by
definitely limiting the powers or
our government and by stating
that "The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitu"
ton. are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people"
TOMORROW: 'MAN'S INALIENABLH
RIGHTS")
copyright. 1886, by King Features
Syndicate. Ino.) -
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
Human Side of News
1896 Political Campaign Issues Reach into
Every Nook and Corner of the Country
By EdWin C.. Hill

ethrough and after the Democratic
convention in Chicago in 1892.
They tell you in Washington
that he is the most independent
of the Cabinet officers and that
he is the going through with his
theory that the way to promote
peace is to eliminate economic
barriers.
The theory may be fine, but
the methods of breaking down
the barriers is another question.
a question which is matter Of
concern today to the farmer.
The farmer knows, and we viii
know a lot better when the Re-
publican orators get through with,
him, how agricultural products
from abroad are pouring into the
American market.
And it just stands to reason
that the American consumer at
some time or other is going to
rebel quite strongly against pay.
ing the European farmer to pro.
duce what the American farmer
is being paid not to produce. .
The Middle West looks like the
battle-ground in this campaign.
And the Administrators cause.
will not be helped there by inces,
SAINT and heavy hammering home
of the attack against crop curtaiI.
ment and unprotected farm mar.
ketS.
Henry Ford has said that in his.
opinion it makes little difference
who is President, but at the same
time he has branded crop-curtail-
ment as worse than thievery,"!
adding that people are fatheadB-
to let them get away with it"
SLOGANS
Ford comes out for the economy
of plenty against the economy OF
scarcity which the Brain Trust OF
the New Deal inaugurated. -,
"There is only one security"
he says, "and that is plenty.
The minute you make produce
cheap, some one will make new
uses for it. If the farmers allow,
the land to lie idle, they'll Suf- =
fer" -.
Senator Steiwer's '"Three Long
Years" got the Republican Conven-
ton to cheering and singing, but
Seven cents pound for potatoes
in New York" will be a more diff
cult slogan for the Administration
to handle, as will the cry of the
Republican candidates in the mid,
west: Preserve the American
market for the American farmer"
Here is the table the Administrae
, tion must answer: .
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

t n e v e r y A'""
thought Of them give you the
Screaming MeamieS? Do you
rebel against them daily-think,
bitterly, what miracles you'd per-
form if you could only break
away and strike the Gypsy Trail?
It's dollars to doughnutS you
+ do. same as me. And that
you're a pain-in-the-neck to all
your more placid associates
thereby. Same as 7 am.
Provided such is the case, I'm
handing on a small personal ex-
perience which was good for what
allied me.
Whenever I can escape captivity
I live, as you may know. way back
in the Sierra Nevada brush with
wolves, buzzards, bootleggers, and
other congenial, rowing spirits.
Over the years, we've built a bunch
Of log cabins. The other day we
decided to move one Of them down
to the main outfit.
TOUGH JOB
Ever try shaking a husky, he
man log cabin down mile, over
ledges, across gullies, through a
tangle of bull pines and chaparral
that's never had a shave since
Adam bit into that first apple?
Then you know we picked our
selves some job!
Sunshine smashing down like
an avalanche. big Stumps roar
ing as the "cat" yanked them
from the dirt where they've been
rooted for 800 years. dust
sitting in a shifting, golden veil
,. and the smell Of pine needles
and broken fern rising in musky
waves. Not to mention sweat,
smashed thumbs, wood ticks, to-
bacco juice, and gobs of language
which no lady should ever have
heard, much less applauded and
assisted!
However, despite our howls Of
anguish, the job was a honey and
we were having the time of our
lives. Two of the men, stripped to
their brown sinews and cleaning
like wet seals, adjusted blocks and
cables. Benton rode the % "cat", ,
bucking like a bronco as it took
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
Street Car Fares

The application of the Capital Transit Company for
an increase in fares local street and buses is
bunder which should be corrected by the speedy with
drawal of the petition.
FAILURE OF THE COMPANY TO WITHDRAW
IT'S REQUEST WILL LEAVE 1T UP TO THE PUB
Lie UTILITIES COMMISSION TO SAVE THAT Or
GANIZATIoN FROM FINANCIAL COLLAPSE BY
REFUSING TO GRANT THE INCREASE WHICH
IS SOUGHT.
The companies which operated transportation
systems here prior to the recent merger act demon
srated time after time that they knew nothing about
how to build up goodwill and consequently they were
always in financial hot water.
For time it looked as though those who took over
control under the merger act might have learned les
son. they seemed to be genuinely anxious to win the
favor of the riding public.
But the petition filed last week by the Transit Com
pany demonstrates that those at present in charge of the
TRANSPORTATION system inherited than street cars
busses and tracks from their predecessors
They inherited also the supreme ability so yell
demonstrated formerly to destroy their OWn inter-
ests through shOrt-sighted alienation of the good
utH of those from UOhOm the company must obtain
its Me-giUing reUenue.
The company asks for an increase in the cash fare
an increase in the "token' fare and for abolition of
the dollar pass retaining the dollar and quarter pass
And it asks these things while admitting that the ad
ditional revenue will mean little to the company.
More than that it attempts to convey the impression
that wants the fares increased to bring about greater
uniformity.
Uniformity is certainly desirable and The Times has
persstenty urged that the Public Utilities Commission
simplify the complicated system of nuisance charges
built up through the years.
- That uniformity can be established uUithOut in
creasing rates.
1T CAN BE ESTABLISHED WITHOUT PUTTING
IN THE HANDS OF THE CAPITAL TRANSIT COM
PANY WEAPON WITH WHICH THAT COMPANY
PROPOSES TO COMMIT FINANCIAL. SUICIDE.
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

battler. The bill Duncan U. Fletcher
went to conference. The House
insisted it be thrown out.
do or die"
The next day Senator Fletchel
died. And the next day the Senate
gave in to the House and his pei
project was definitely killed be
fore his body was put into a grave
"The show must go on"
And the next day Senator Scott
Loftin, his Florida colleague, in
troduced the following poem writ
ten by Horace c. Carlisle, Of Ala
bama:
"SenatOr Duncan U. Fletcher
is dead
EveryOne'S friend, but no mortal
mans foe
National leader, of well-deServed
fame.
Always to all men, at all times,
the same
True and tried Statesman-yet,
when called to go
Out from this life, he was
quick to respond
Ready for service in Gods
great beyond.
During his long public service
career,
Until the last day before he
passed on,
None in the Senate StrOve
harder to do
CheerfulIy all that their friends
wished them to
Always an Optimist-facing the
Now he can rest-in perpetual
ease
Under the shade of eternity's
trees.
Faithful till death, was he to
every trust
Life meant, to him, more than
just to exist
Every day, thought he, was
duly designed
To be in histOry'S archives en-
Shrined
Carefully ordered to keep hu-
mankind
HOpefuI-determined, like him,
to resist
Everything wrong, but to fear
Iessly fight
Ready to die, if need be-fOr
the right"
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
The Greatest Show On Earth
Bu Frank Miller Smith

'and a newspaperman talked and
talked over a couple Of glasses
Of beer. One a piece, to be exact
Price 20 cents for the two. OF
course the Congressman got the
check. But the newspaperman
halted the gesture Of the $4,000
a-year man with:
you're sure you've got
enough to pay it?"
'YOu bet" was the reply,
Republicans are always sOIv-
ent."
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

g e rouS Adven-
lures, but can't
be bothered to
do tn e COM
mon, tiresome,
Lii t lie Things
t h a t fill the
Other Fellows
time?
"L 1 t t ! e
Things" plug
ging programs
petty excite
m entS. color
less interests.
m on o on GUS
gestures. Does
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
JUST ABOUT

JUST ABOUT
And then there was the time
Senator Henry F. AShurst, Ari,
zona Iawyer-statesman got on the
elevator with a correspondent
after delivering an address on the
Constitution.
did you hear my speech and
how did you like it?" Queried
the Statesman.
"WelI," answered the news
paperman, "it sounded all right
but it was a little too deep for
me-"
'But what 1 want to know"
persisted the Senator, was it
mysterious? Was it mysterious
enOugh?"
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
A'LANKS

Leaders are hard at work try
ing to get the Democratic plat
form to carry a plank on child
labor and another to repeal the
married persons clause in the
Government service. Both are re-
garded nice It'd bits to catch the
feminine vote and the Civil Serv-
ice question is going to be
smacked all over the campaign
anyway.
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

ut the cam
p al gn. An d
what a cam
paign it is going
to be!
Few times, II
any, in our his
tory have we
had such a null
titude of issues.
They reach out
into every nook
and corner of
the country and
into every farm
and fireSide.
Not the least
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

of Florida, dis
rega r ded the
threat to his
h e a ! t h. He
stayed on in
the S e n a t e
weary and i'll,
and fought for
the Flori d a
ship canal.
"The play
is the thing"
The Senate
allowed it to be
put into the de-
ficiency bill as
a gesture to a
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

Men are born with two eyes,
but one tongue, in order that
they should see twice as much
as they Say.-C. C. Cotton.
Woe to every mind which
wishes to be overwiSe !-Voltaire.
knowledge is the antidote to
fear.-EmerSon.
The stronger always succeeds.
-PlautuS.
Justice discards party, friend
ship, kindred, and is therefore
always represented as blind
Addison.
No bond
In closer union knits two human
hearts
Than fellowship in grief.
-Southey.
Politics is perhaps the only
profession for which no prep
The Washington times., 1936-06-23

All the worlds a political stage!
From now until November the
American people will have eyes to
see and ears to hear nothing but
the words of L.andon and RooSe-
welt. and tongues to talk nothing
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
Words of Wise Men

>aration is thought necessary
Yoshida-T -Torajiro.
Minds that have nothing to
confer find little to perceive.
Wordsworth.
Nothing can bring you peace
but yourself. Nothing can bring
you peace but the triumph OF
principles.-EmerSon. go
Thought once awakened does
not again Slumber.-Carlyle. -
He lives who dies to win .:
lasting name.-Drummond.
Weep not that the world
changes-did it keep a STABLE.
changelesS state, it were cause
indeed to weep.-Bryant.
I fear three newspapers more
than a hundred thousand bay
onets.-Napoleon I. =.
The Washington times., 1936-06-23
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson
THE CABLE

Are you one. Of those Free
Souls like I am-the kind who's
always planning DaShing, Dan