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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
$2OO,OOO ERA Funds
To Go TOlUard NeW
State WeIafre Setup
Each County To Participate In
Important Development
In Social Work

Raleigh, Jan. 27-First copy OF
the public welfare news letter re-
leased tonight by the state board OF
charities and public welfare, rates
the recent indignation of the federal
and state agencies the most i'm
portant development of the depart
ment since the reorganization un-
der Gov. Thomas w. Beckett.
The federal government in turn
ing over the ERA organization to
the state agency earmarked ap-
proximately 100000 for this pur-
pose and the money was made
ready the first of the year. The
news letter today says the state
board through an additional trained
staff will be able to do much more
constructive service than it has
done hitherto and there is being set
up division of field social work
with director in charge and five
or six field representatives.
Miss Anna Cassatt will direct the
new division of field social work of
the department of public welfare,
Mrs. w. T. Bost, commissioner of
public welfare, announced today.
Besides Miss Cassatt, formerly di-
rector of social service for the
NCERA, Mrs. Bost has appointed
five field representatives who have
been assigned groups of counties in
in the state. With their general ter
ritory, they are: Miss Victoria Bell,
of Hickory, western North Caro-
lima; Miss LESSEE Toler and T. L.
Grier, both of Raleigh, piedmont
and central North Carolina; James
T. Barnes, of Wilson, northeastern
counties, and S. J. Hawkins, of aFy-
etteville, southeastern counties.
Mrs. Bost said they would have
no definite district headquarters,
but would work under direction of
the state office.
Three-fourths of the 100000,
Mrs. Bost said, will be used in bull
ding up and strengthening the
county welfare departments.
This means that there will be ac-
tive welfare units in the 100 coun-
ties, Eat least through June and
probably longer. Inadequately staff.
ed, many of the county welfare de-
partments have found it practically
impossible to meet the excessive
demands of recent months in the
matter of servicing clients" Mrs.
Bost said.
There has been an immense in
terest in this program which hap
pens to affect every county in the
state. 1t took quite some weeks to
work it out. The governor wrought
this indignation and it preserves the
state character that he wished it to
have.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
LATE NEWS
BULLETINS
ETHIOP1ANS SUFFER
SEVERE DEFEAT

An Ethiopian force estimated
to number 10000 was repealed
by Italian troops Thursday in
what eye witnesses said was the
fiercest fighting on the northern
front since the war began.
Philippians repeatedly charged
a Blackshirt division but were
thrown back each time until the
Italians, strengthened by rein
forcements, forced the Philippians
to retire from the battlefield.
Military observers expressed
the opinion that the warriors of
Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum, in
their wild assault on the Fascist
soldiers, were attempting to Off
set the reported victories by
Gen. Rudolfo Graziani on the
southern front.
The Ethiopians, constantly
strengthened by fresh troops
from the rear, charged reckless
ly into a barrage of Fascist ma
chine-gun fire, paying little heed
to casualties despite the terrific
losses they suffered.
The Italians likewise fought
valiantly in defending their posi-
ton.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
King George Of England Buried In Vault
OF Thousand Year-Ozd Castle At Windsor
Rites Beloved Ruler Smp Norman Davis Represents The
President And People Of United States

George V, of England, was buried
beside the bodies of his father and
mother Tuesday in the vaults under
the chapel of his 1,00O-year-old
castle. He was laid to rest after a
simple service-in contrast to the
pageantry of a great funeral pro-
cession which brought his body to
Windsor from Westminster Hall,
London.
The mighty of Europe walked be-
hind his coffin, borne through mass
ed hundreds of thousands. The
great empire was stilled in final
tribute. Two minutes of silence was
observed and millions followed the
broadcasts of the services.
Before they answered him into the
vault they removed the symbols OF
his kingship-the crown, scept'
and orb. W
The Archbishop of Canterbt-
committed Georges soul to God, HI
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
FIVE NATIONS BAND
AGAINST ITALY

Five nations with interests in
and around the Mediterranean
have agreed to fight Italy if she
attacks any one of them, it was
afficially announced in Geneva
Wednesday.
Great Britain, France, Turkey,
Greece and Yugoslavia have de-
cided to strike together if Italy
should attack the British fleet in
the Mediterranean because of
the Ethiopian war situation.
This document was published
by the league shortly after its
sanctions committee of 18 decid-
ed to have experts investigate
the practicability of a proposed
oil sanction against Italy.
An Italian spokesman warned
Italy would protest to the league
against the Mediterranean defen-
sive pact.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
Extreme Cold In Nation
Accounts For $50 Liues
Local Man Recalls Jan. 26, 1913
When Thermometer Went
To % Below Zero
FARM LOSSES ARE HEAVY

Reports from Washington show
that $50 deaths had been attributed
to the current cold wave which has
been called the most persistent in
the past hundred years and the
coolest throughout the entire coun-
try since 1912. Heavy farm losses
have been reported in the peach
section while midwest farmers
have welcomed the snow as an aid
to their 1886 crops.
The thermometer in Ashe county
has dropped below zero during the
past. month on more occasions than
it had before in many years and
B. B. GRAPHICAL, of the Ashe Motor
Company, recalled, Monday, that
January 26th, 1918, the thermome-
ter in West Jefferson registered %
below while the government Their
mometer registered 81. Mr.. Gray
heal says that the thermometer
stayed below zero all that day.
During the past week in Jefferson,
Mr.. Joe Worth, who keeps govern
ment records of temperatures, re-
ports that one below was the lowest
point he recorded. Five below was
reported in one or two places in
the county.
Losses from fire have been great
according to Associated Press re-
ports, and are continuing to be
heavy.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
Rep.R.L. Doughton Introduces
Bill To Consolidate State Tax
Unit With Secret Service Dept.
Present Set-Up Of 8 Divisions
Doing U. S. Work Would
Be Reduced To One

Washington, Jan. 25.-The North
Carolina alcohol tax unit located in
Charlotte with Edgar Patten as di-
rector, would be consolidated with
the new division Of the Treasury
department known as the Secret
Service division, under an admins
tration bill which has been intro
duced in the House by Representa-
tive Robert L. Doughton, chairman
of the ways and means committee.
Under the provisions of the bill, the
offices of the assistant deputy COM
missioner of internal revnue in
charge of the enforcement division
of the alcohol tax. unit, the intelli-
gence unit of the bureau of internal
revenue, commissioner of customs,
commissioner of narcotics and all
other law enforcement and investi-
cation branches of the Treasury de-
partment would be unified and put
under chief of secret service with
a salary of $4,000 a year.
Under the present setup of the
Treasury department, eight rivi-'
sions are doing investigation work
in running down violators of the
liquor laws such as distillers in
North Carolina, counterfeiters, vio-
lators of the custom laws and other
infractions of Federal statutes.
For some time Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau has been
conducting survey of the various
law enforcement agencies with a
view of unifying their activities so
that there may be brought about
closer coordination.
Under the present arrangements,
when revenue raider encounters
an alleged counterfeiter, he fails to
pass the informationon to the secret
service section of the Treasury de-
partment as now exists. Represent
alive Doughton said today that he
would have early hearings on the
bill as it was thought that under
the plan evolved, a co-ordinated
system of law enforcement in the
Treasury department would be eff
fected. The proposed law would
take effect go days from passage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
In Reply To Address Smith Is
Called TurncOat By Robinson

Senator Joseph T. Robinson, can
didate for the vice-presidency in
1923 when Alfred E. Smith headed
the Democratic national ticket,
replied Tuesday night to his form
er teammates address before the
Liberty League Saturday.
The Senator portrayed Smith as
a turncoat warning against his
own people and against the men
and women with whom he fought
shoulder to shoulder in the past.
For the text of the address, Mr..
Robinson used Genesis, 1922: The
voice is Jacobs voice, but the hands
are the hands of Easu.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

the bond market" and would in
crease next years deficit possibly
to $500, 100000.
The Presidents warning in his
Patman bonus veto last year that
new. taxes must be levied to meet
all appropriations outside the bud
get also was ignored. The warning
was repeated by inference, in last
weeks veto. Democratic leaders,
whether or not conscious that this
is an election year, paid little heed
to suggestions that taxes be enacted
now.
Treasury Has Difficult Task
AS matters now stand, congress
simply has handed to the treasury
the job of raising the money. An
appropriation bill probably will
come along later.
Ready To Pay By June Is
Shortly after the President spoke,
Secretary Morgenthau told news
papermen the treasury would be
ready to pay off by. next June IS
the date when the bonds are CASH
able. He estimated total of 38,0O0,-
900 separate bonds will be needed.
Application blanks have been re-
ceived in the county and are avail
able to all veterans by applying to
E. D. Barr, West Jefferson, or L. P.
Coward, Jefferson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

lethal gas chamber, nor was his
opinion asked by the Legislature
which voted unanimously to shelve
the electric chair and substitute a
lethal gas chamber, nor is the Gov
ernor, he intimated strongly, going
to court possible impeachment pro-
ceedings by any wholesale commu-
tations for condemned men now on
the prisons death row.
"There is nothing I can do about
it, and, after all, do you think the
Legislature would vote unanimous
ly to undo something for which it
voted for unanimously" he asked
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
Shirley Temple In "Curley
TOp"At Local Theatre Next
Monday and Tuesday, 3-4

The favorite child actress of the
United States, Shirley Temple, will
again appear at the Jeffersonian
Theatre on Monday and Tuesday
of next week. This time she will
appear in "Curley Top" which has
been called one of her outstanding
pictures.
Those who can't see little Miss
Temple in the evening may come to
the afternoon shows which start on
both days at one-forty-five o'clock.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

A new method for recording and
reproducing sound which displaces
the old monograph record and
needle with black-lined paper and
an electric eye has been devised.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
Roosevelt Orders Payment
Of Bonus Early As Possible
Both Houses Override Veto By
Big Majorities; Doughton
Leads Bonus In House
F.D.R. ASKS VETS TO SAVE

president Roosevelt on Monday
sent orders to- the various offices in
volved to pay off as quickly as poss-
ible the $2,491, 100000 in bonus
money that this session of Congress
has voted to the veterans of the
World War. President Roosevelt
vetoed the measure after it was
sent to him at the White House
with an overwhelming majority in
both the House and the Senate. His
keto was promptly overridden with
vote of 324 to 81 in the House and
1913 in the Senate. The President
expressed neither pleasure nor dis
pleasure at the action taken by
Congress in overriding his veto, but
accepted their vote without COM
ment and set machinery in action
that will soon put the bonus ques-
ton in the background.
Congressman Doughton, from this
district, was an active leader of the
forces in the House who advocated
paying the soldiers. A loyal follow
er of President Roosevelt, Mr..
Doughton deserted him on this
issue.
The bonus, which will be paid in
Baby Bonds, may be cashed at once
or saved as an investment. Due to
the severe strain the payment will
add to an already strained treasury,
President Roosevelt has issued a
statement urging all veterans who
do not need the money to save their
bonds as NEST eggs.
Permanent advantage as oppos-
ed to wholly temporary pleasure
should be the criterion" said the
statement, urging again that the
! bonds not be cashed except for a
g'useful purpose" and apparently
taking cognizance of the spending
splurge INDUCED in by some veter-
ans after they were permitted to
borrow up to so per cent on their
certificates in 1881.
Administration leaders have esti-
mated that not more than one bill
lion dollars will be needed to meet
the first rush of demands for CASH
ing the bonds, and the President
apparently intended to keep the
figure below this if possible.
Urges Veterans To Be Patient
Within a little more than two
hours after the senate voted, Mr..
Roosevelt said in his first statement
that the treasury and veterans adj
ministration had been directed to
pay as soon as possible. He warned
of the magnitude" of the task
requiring between $500 and 5000
additional personnel working for
approximately six months to do
this job" He urged patience" upon
veterans. Refrain from writing fol-
low-up letters after filing an appli-
cation, he advised.
May Call For New Taxes
ALI these swift actions were TAX
en- III the face of previous treasury
warnings that it would mot help
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
Episcopal Church Services

There will be Service at st.
Mary's Church, Beaver Creek, on
Sunday, Feb. End, at HOO o'clock.
Rev. j. B. Sill will be at Jefferson
from Jan. 31st until Feb. 5th. He
will be at Glendale Springs for
service, Feb. End at 800 p. m.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

Since the beginning of the 10th
century this country has produced
more than one billion ounces OF
gold, IL billion ounces Of silver, 40
billion pounds of zinc, 100 billion
pounds of copper and 1876 billion
pounds of lead.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30
EVANGELISTIC CLUB
MEETING POSTPONED

Due to extremely cold weather
the Evangelistic Club did not hold
it's regular semi-annual meeting
last Sunday as was scheduled. It
was postponed until a later date
which will be announced when
settled.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

It is believed a method for in
creasing the percentage of rubber
obtainable- from golden rod has
been discovered at the Edison Bot.
anical Research laboratories.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

immigration laws have excluded
an estimated 100000 aliens from
the United States since late 1880.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

Natives of New Guinea use nets
spun by large spiders to catch fish.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

body to eternal peace. Then Ed
ward VIII, his son and successor,
sprinkled earth from a silver urn
on the coffin as it was lowered into
the crypt.
King Turns To Mother
AS the plain oak coffin disappear
ed, Edward stepped back and turn
ed to the queen mother Mary and
took her arm.
A CLEAN of sunshine flashed
across the chapel and touched the
diamonds of the royal crown WI
it rests5 in the nave s1ewlS
KIND - ,s------>-s
away. .e..1xe
FiYaA ~
Of. and W I! q ! s sIs6s
.ss "a d. issa
JR. and GENE ROGERS
OF WILD HORSES
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-30

ADVERTISE in The SkyIand
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the newspaper with by far the
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SUBSCRIBE to The Skyland
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the newspaper that is by far
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read of any circulated in Ashe
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

fall in love with one woman
when he is already half in love
with several. But when a love
affair has gone on the rocks and
he is feeling distract, diSillusioned
and bored, he had better watch
his step and keep away from
women. specially from the gooo-
ittle-pal type.
So long as man is wrapped
up in his work, absorbed in his
ambitions and filled with his bust
ness schemes from 9 a. m. to 5
p. m, he hasn't an emotion or a
thought left for any woman. Jean
Harlow and Greta Carlo would
just be wasting their time on
him!
But when the job begins to get
on his nerves, work begins to bore
him, and the doctor sends him
away for a little vacation: then
he is just a jay-walker, caught in
the midst of traffic. And it is
only a question of which woman
will get him!
AS long as a man has plenty
Of women to flatter him, admire
him and coddle him, he Is prac-
tically immune to matrimony. He
doesn't NEED anybody to help
him love himself
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

ruly child, might be at least little
civilized. I can never pay high
enough tribute to those men and
women.
Yet today, as a heckIed Ameri-
can taxpayer and worried Ameri-
can mother, / arise to ask
SHALL THE LITTLE RED
SCHOOL HOUSE BE ALLOWED
TO RUN AMUCK?
SHALL THE INSTITUTION
WHICH ONCE SO NOBLY
SERVED DEMOCRACY BE AL
LOWED TO MENACE AND UN-
DERMINE IT?
Startling questions? Not half
as startling as the facts which
lie behind them. facts which
prove that the Little Red School
House is. at this moment, in grave
danger of becoming and Of doing
those very things.
THEIR AIM
AS I write, two Of the most
famous and learned gentlemen
in America-one, an outstanding
leader il. education-are in Wash
ington, D. c., waging the battle
of their lives. What are they
battling for?
They are battling for the right
of the American school teacher
to explain, express, expOund and
explode Communism in our
American public schools.
Primarily these gentlemen, Profs.
George S. Counts and Charles A.
Beard, of Columbia University, are
not outraged over the issue of
Communism. They are outraged
over the fact that anyone should
dare to define or defy the limits
of the American teachers pro-
grams. They are also outraged at
the thought that there should be
any limit put on the questions
which little Junior may ask in
school and have fully, freely and
ever fulsomely answered.
And even If these questions
due to our present upheaval-are
apt to center about radicalism Of
every sort. they protest vigorously
that no check should be put upon
either Juniors or Teachers gabbi-
ness.
In short, little Junior should be
permitted to ask anything he
pleases concerning any subject on
earth and Teacher should be per-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04
PAUL REVERE HAD NOTHING ON THIS GENTLEMAN.


You know how Paul Revere reused the Massachusetts,
farmers from their beds with his THE Redcoa are
comng!'S That at the birth of this nation.
You the cartoon above the message that aroused the
citizens of Massachusetts, to pile up huge majority for
Governor Landon in the Republican Presidential
in the Massachusetts, primaythe beginning of the
REBIRTH of this nation.
Old Guard Republicans haUe scoffed: "WhoeUer
heard of this Landon? Why, he's from the West.
You couldn't sell him to Eastern UOters."
The vote in Massachusetts, skepcs Landon has
SOLD HIMSELF without half trying to voters who live
about far east Of Kansas they live without getting
wet
Landon was presented Massachusetts, Republicans with
out any radio balyhoo just quietly introduced the
sort Of American who hoped out Of bed and grabbed gun
when Paul Revere rode through the night in Colonial Masa
chuetts calling for volunteers to fight for life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness
Massachusetts Republicans like Governor Landon want him
their candidate for President Other Eastern Republicans
will learn like him. Governor Landon is the for Re-
publcans and the man FOR AMERICANS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04
Marry-GO-ROund
1y Helen ROWLAND
LOVE-INSURANCE

This is the time of year when
an eligible and attractive man
goes around with his hand on his
pulse, fear in his heart and an
alibi on his lips.
He is suffering from phobia.
The marrying phobia. And every
girl who smiles at him looks like
danger-signal. He wishes that
he could take out some sort of
love-insurance.
This is because he does not un-
derStand himself. If he did, he
would know that there are GER
tain moods and times when even
an impressionable man is woman
proof, regardless of spring and
the moon.
So long as a man is husky,
happy and contented, his bust
ness is going right, his digestion
is working on all cylinders, and
his friends are plentiful, he need
never fear that he will skid into
marriage. He doesn't need any
woman to Sympathize with him.
But when he is lonely or feeling
disappointed and abused, he is
easy picking for any girl who will
listen to his troubles and help him
to feel sorry for himself.
No man need fear that he may
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04
MANY PETITIONS

AS the last of 218 members Of
the House walked UP to the desk
and signed the petition calling for
a vote on the Frazier-Lemke farm
mortgage reduction bill, there were
20 other petitions awaiting the
necessary signatures.
These ranged from petitions
calling for a vote on the anti
lynching bill to demand that the
House be given a chance to ex-
press it's opinion on the complete
change Of reciprocal treaties.
The number of petitions on the
desk was one of the largest to ever
be waiting for signatures at the
close of a session.
And from all indications the
vast majority of them will be with
out a sufficient number of names
when Congress closeS-regardless
of when that day comes.
More than 60 names were on the
petition of Representative Joseph
A. Gavagan CD Of New York
sponsor of the anti-lynchine
bill, demanding vote on that
measure. No other petition bore
as many names.
Least number of names were on
the petition asking for a vote on
a bill to change reciprocal treaty
legislation.
That petition had not been
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-04

that the child's right to self-de-
termination must not be Shackled?
You would think-and rightly
that such q parent was COM
pletely screwy and public pest.
Yet it is infinitely more perilous
to allow a childish mind to toy
with the theories Of Communism
than with that poison or loaded
gun.
A child. even in high school,
cannot know the price we have
paid for individual liberty-or
the beating we would take If we
lost it. He cannot possibly know
why the American spirit and the
American standard are what they
ire, or why they are distinct
from all other spirits or stand
ards.
Being the high-spirited young
creature that he is. any American
child is bound to be as curious
and excited about Communism
as he would be about any other
new gadget which makes a loud
and spectacular noise.
But in the name of all COM
mon sense, is that any reason
why we should permit teacher to
hand him a machine gun and
say 60 to it. darling?
There is another aspect of the
case-outside the danger to our
which intrigues me in
this fight now being waged by
Profs. Counts and Beard.
And that it is their very obvious
and indignant notion that teach
ers mustn't be told where tc
head in.
In answer to which, as one Of
the taxpayers who are hiring
teacher, I reply-"Why the heck
not?'
America Is a democracy, but