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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-01-16

SAANS @4A SA4S g. ave AAOOV4O44S t140t
confront the United States today I,
as President of the United States,
must and will consider our common
problems first, foremost and pre-
eminently from the American point
of view.
The people of America know the
heart and the purpose of their gov
eminent. We will not retreat.
Whatever may be the platform
. . the basic issue will be the re-
tention of popular government-an
issue fraught once more with the
difficult problem of disseminating
facts = . in the face an opposition
bent on hiding and distorting facts.
Andrew Jackson /" was COM
PEELED to combat epithets, general
tiles, Misrepresentation and the sup
preston of facts. =.
A government can be no better
than the public opinion that sus-
tains it.
I know you will not be surprised
by the lack of comment on my part
tonight on the decision by the Su-
preme court two days ago.
I cannot render offhand judgment
without studying, with the utmost
care, two of the most momentous
opinions ever rendered in a case be-
fore the Supreme court of the Unit
ed States.
The ultimate results of the langu-
age of these opinions will profound
1y affect the lives of Americans for
years to come.
1t is enough to say that the at
tainment of justice and prosperity
for American agriculture remains
an immediate. and constant objec-
tive of my administration.
To most of us Andrew jackson
appropriately has become the SYM
Dol of certain great ideals +"
Jackson sought social justice and
fought for human rights in his
many battles to protect the people
against autocratic or oligarchic ag-
erosion.
." Jackson got his ideas and
his ideals across, not through any
luxurious propaganda but because
the man on the. street and the man
on the farm believed in his ideas,
his ideals, and his honesty, went out
and dug up the facts and spread
them abroad throughout the land.
After my annual message to the
Congress last Friday evening, I re-
ceived many appreciative letters
and kilograms from all over the
country -" " within a few hours
received more of these than at any
time since the critical days of the
spring of 1888.
I have definite feeling that what
I had said about the great problems
that face us as a nation received a
responsive, an appreciative, and an
understanding answer in the homes
of America. This means lot to me.
The other interesting facts about
Evening star., 1936-08-08
new YORK COTTON
Cy ne Associated Press.

g. ne Associated Press
NEW YORK, August s.-Cotton
futures opened barely steady. 8 to 13
points decline on lower Liverpool
cables and under pre-bureau liquida-
ton. October, II 90; December, II 95;
January, 1194; March, 1198; May,
1l.97: July, 1913.
Trading was fairly active although
business was mostly evening up for
the official crop figures which were
due after the close today. In addition
to liquidation there was selling for
foreign account but while selling pre-
dominated at the start the decline
brought in considerable pre-bureau
covering. After declining to 1895.
December rallied to 1903 with the
market ruling within a point or two
of yesterdays closing quotations on
the more active positions at the end
CT the first hour.
The Liverpool market eased under
Liquidation, cables reported
Amount of cotton on shipboard
awaiting clearance was estimated at
22,000 bales against $4,000 last year.
Futures. ll:5O am closed steady.
lower to l higher ''N''
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Fly tho Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 8.-Railroad
liens claimed leadership of the bond
market today by establishing general
gains on a large volume of transac-
tons.
Other corporate groups likewise
trended higher. italian municipal
bonds suffered a further slump, but
the rest of the major foreign groups
steadied following unsettlement yes
tcrday as result of tension over the
Spanish conflict
The movement in the carrier bonds
was given momentum by another dis
rlay of bullish interest in railroad
common stocks. Issues of Chesapeake
Corp, Illinois Central, Great North
ern. and New Haven, were bid up a
point or more, while sizable fractional
gains were made by loans of Alle-
ghany Corp. Baltimore g. Ohio. Rock
Island, Erie, Missouri Kansas Texas,
Southern Railway and Southern Pa
Cific.
A few of the industrials which
scored wide advances yesterday re-
coded a little, though the general
price movement was steady. Utili-
ties also reflected good support, bar
ling International Telephone SIS, which
met further selling, presumably on
uncertainty respecting the company's
POSITION in Spain.
United States Governments were
dealt in lightly, with Treasury 3lls
st moderate gains and the AIS a
shade lower.
Selling in the italian group bore
heavily upon Milan City IS and Rome
Gigs, which yielded to points.
Italian government rs were forced
down ~.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
CURB LIST MOVES /,
TO HIGHER LEVELS
Oil and Utility Sections
Show Widest Gains in
Short Session.
Py the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, August s.-Oil and
utility shares ran ahead Of the pack a.
stocks in the curb market trudged
higher today.
Gulf Oil gained more than a point,
Humble was up about /, and fractions
were added by Creole and Interna.
tional Petroleum as trading progressed
in the last hour. Sunray and Pam
tepec held steady.
Commonwealth Edison, Electric Bond
& Share and Northern States Power
"A" were leaders in the utility list,
with gains of a point or so. Columbia
Gas g. Electric preferred jumped 3.
Dow Chemical advanced about 2,
and National Gypsum gained more
than !.
Metal shares reacted fractionally,
notably Bunker Hill g. Sullivan, Amer-
ican Cyanamid "B" and Teck-Hughes.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO August d4r (U. S. Depart
ment OF Agriculture) Hogs. 1000 in
Guiding $500 direct; practically no trading
IN any representative weights: few butch
erS taken of market; shippers took none:
noldover. l:50O; Compared week ago:
Weights under go pounds. mostly 25a35
lower; undergrades of more: above 30
pounds and sows steady to 10 lower
Cattle, loo: calves 100. Compared
Friday last week: Medium weight and
Weighty, Steers steady. after having sold
on early in week: yearlings and light
steers strong to % higher; closing trade
healthy: run largest since December.
1894; approximately l1.0OO Western grass
stockers; stock steers and heifers. o5a5O
lower. mostly T5al.00 under recent high
time; clearance replacement cattle fairly
broad, however: fat cows 25 lower. cutters
steady; bully so lower and vealers 25a50
lower; extreme top fed steers, 9.75 prac-
tical top. 9.35; yearlings. 925; heifer year.
lings selling up. to this price: largely 7.25a
S.15 steer market. with stockers at 4.50a
Sheep. 5000. including 1000 direct;
for week ending Friday 19.200 directs:
compared Friday last week: Good and
choice native lambs about steady, late
upturn restoring midweek loss; other
grades weak to 25 lower; sheep steady;
bulk better-grade native lambs. 10.O0a
1880; packer top. 1850; shippers and
SO pound Washington rangers, 1850; good
Idahos. 1000: medium Idahos, S.00aS. %:
low-grade native throwouts. 5.50a1 90:
diminished and medium natives. 7.50a9. %:
bulk fat ewes. 2.50a3.50; choice light
weights, 3.75.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
CHICAGO GRAIN
bv tht Associated Press.

DIV INT hSSOClateQ eTeSS.
CHICAGO, August Slate ad-
vances of wheat prices today followed
word that the Canadian government
reported Canadas wheat crop condi-
tion as only As per cent of normal
The Canadian crop report came just
before trading here was ended for the
day. and said the past month had
been one of the most disastrous on
record in the prairie provinces. For
both Saskatchewan and Alberta, the
condition figures on wheat were the
lowest in % years.
Wheat closed unsettled, 5sa1H
above yesterdays finish, September,
1121saA; December, 1l134a7s; corn,
Is off to as up, September, 1o434a7s;
December. 93lsaA; oats at a decline
to a advance and provisions to 7
cents down.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
ly thc Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury August g.:
REeceipts. 81 .604 1861; expenditures.
SSss11'a34 a. .225.94 balance, S2.222 Sos
S5.612,O13 06,
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
-, S41":905.509. 90; expenditures, S54S.-
emergency expenditures) excess of ex-
penditures. S135. 49,. .S39. .46. Gross debt.
under The presoss esS5sssd DAY. o. dod
assets, S10,65O. 766,57065.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL August 8 P,.-Wheat .fu-
lures held generally steady today; prices
milling demand was coupled with covering
in advance of the Canadian governmnt
After esrly Bombay selling had been
absorbed BY trade calling, cotton futures
eased and closed around g. pom"
Paris and London closed.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
u. S. TREASURY NOTES.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

n NE NEW YORK. August 8 lP-gutter.
s'64s: steady. All prices Ahchanged.
Cheese, 55.517 steady State, whole
milk flats fresh. fancy unquoted
Egss, 1886. steady, All mixed colors.
whites, browns and duck eggs UNCHANGED
Lave poultry easy. By freight: Broilers
.Hocks and Leghornsl. 16a2O; other freisht
unouoted
Dressed poultry steady; fresh and frozen
lows. 12a23h: other fresh and frozen.
prices UNCHANGED
Evening star., 1936-08-08
LiverpoOI Ouotations

LIVERPOOL, August LP.-Cotton
1000 bales. including 1,4OO American
spot quiet prices l point lower. Quota.
tions in pence: American strict good mid
|dling; III; good middling. 7.4I: strict
|middling, 1.2l; middling. 7O1; strict low
lmiddling.. 6.71; low middling Gal: stric
|good ordinary, 6.2l; good ordinary. 5.g1
Futures closed barely steady October
40: December, 6.32; January, 632
March. 6.32; May, $50: July, 627.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
100 TONS OF LEAD SOLD.

NEW YORK, August 8 (P).-The St.
Joseph Lead Co. reports that 100 tons
of pig lead from Southeast Missouri
mines were sold yesterday at s4.45 per
hundred pounds, st. Louis.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady. September, 1000: Oc-
tooer, 9.99b; December, 992; January
9.95. Sales, II contracts.
Bid.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
New Orleans Prices

SpUV TIuSeu quIet, points down. Sales
none: low mlddling, lI.l7; middling
~: good middling. 1900.
Cottonseed oil closed steady; detachable
prime summer yellow, gS5a1005: prime
crude nominal: September, 94Sb: Oc-
tober. a:4Sb; December. 945b; January,
?.4So: March. 9.53b. Bid. ASKED
Evening star., 1936-08-08
WAGES ARE RESTORED.

NEW YORK, August 8 R.-West-
ern Union Telegraph Co. has restored
tne nnal per cent Of the original
~ per cent wage reduction made sew.
eral years ago.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK August 3 Cooper
steady; electrolytic spot and future. o.75:
export. .60a6212; other metals nominany
unchanged.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. August 3 Pi.-FollowinE Ia
the complete off1cial list of transactions in
stocks on the Chicago Stock Exchange to-
day.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK August s.-Dividends de-
fared prepared by the Standard Sta
Increased.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Liverpool Wheat Prices.

LIVERPOOL. August 8 1P,-Wheat fu-
lures closed steady.
Prev.
High. Low. Close close
October ----- 1.l53s lis Il5ss lis
December naa - .l2is i.di34 l.l23s LIZ
March --- .O6 . 1.057s l.0624 1.06A
Exchange, S.O212.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
US. RUBBER NETS
$2,1S7,9|)2 PROFIT
Six Months Total Com.
pares With Only s767,367
in 1885 Period.
sy the Associated Press.

6y tne Ah30clate0 EfebS.
NEW YORK, August 8.-U. 8.
Rubber Co. reported for 6 months
ended June 80 net income Of $2,1S7.-
902, equal to 1886 a share on the
So preferred stock. compared with
s767,367, or $l.18 q preferred share
in the same 1885 period.
Monsanto Chemical.
Monsanto Chemical Co., st. Louis,
reported for the months ended June
80 net profit applicable to the capital
stock Of $2,068,583, equal to $1.85 a
share on 1,114,410 shares, compared
with s1,84S, ,449, or $190 a share on
974.133 shares In the same 1885
period. No allowance was made for
Federal surtaxes.
Continental Diamond Fibre.
Continental Diamond Fibre Co.,
with plants in Chicago, Valpa-
riaso, Ind; Bridgeport. Pa, and Mar
shalton, Del, reported for the June
quarter net profit Of $l84,253, equal
to 40 cents a share on the capital
stock, compared with $45,719, or 10
cents a share in the comparable 1885
period.
Western Union.
Western Union Telegraph Co. re-
ported for the months ended June
80 net income of $3.055, ,l44, equal to
1892 a share on the capital stock,
compared with $1,899, ,739, or $1.8l in
the same 1885 period.
Pullman, Inc.
CHICAGO, August (P.-Pullman,
Inc. and all subsidiaries reported con-
solidated net income for the second
quarter of $1.493,717, equal to 80
cents per share, against a deficit Of
s4l3,298 the corresponding period last
year. Six months net was $2.693, $50,
or 70 cents, against S226,838, or 7
cents the corresponding 1885 period.
For the II months ended June 80
net was S2,l53,414, or Sc cents,
against $2,900,394. or rs cents, the
previous corresponding period.
Afiliate's Report Given.
Transportation operations for June
of the Pullman Co., sleeping car COM
pany affiliate of Pullman, Inc, ex-
elusive of earnings of the manufactur-
ing subsidiaries of Pullman, Inc. re-
suited In net, after taxes, of STA
67l, against q deficit OF $439,275 in
June. 1885. Six months net was
Sl,168,046, compared with $2.241 ,93S
deficit the corresponding period last
year. G. A. Kelly, vice president, said
June net earnings reflected continued
improvement in passenger travel. aid
ed by a better performance in the
salvage of net out of gross.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
CottOnseed Oil

Spot steady; middling l2,63
market closed at ll:5O m IN ra,
Inc crop report.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK August CP.-New York
Securlty Dealers ASSOCIATION:
Evening star., 1936-08-08
MORTGAGE VOLUME UP
Financing for June Is Ahead of
Previous Month.

Previous Month.
New mortgage financing for June
gained volume over the April figure
at a rate which goes far to overcome
the lag left in the early months Of
this year. The volume for June, as
reported by 27 metropolitan centers
from coast to coast. reached exactly
one-third of the volume Of new A.
nancing, which was going into mort
cages in the year 1926 With the year
1926 as the base, the index figure for
June of this year was 1873. The May
figure was 80. The advance Of 13
points is thus a 4 per cent gain over
Mays volume.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Bedtime Stories
One Mistake Leads to Another

did, using the same trick that she
had seen her father, Reddy Fox, fool
that Dog with. When the Dog had at
last given up. and, looking much crest
fallen, had returned home, Little Miss
Swiftly, with a look Of SNUG salts
faction on her face, trotted back to
the pasture to enjoy the dinner she
thought was awaiting her there.
Can you guess how she felt when
she discovered that that fat Hen was
not under the bush beneath which she
had thrown it? At first she thought
she was mistaken in the bush, but
when she found a few feathers under
it she knew that she was not mis-
taken. The Hen wasn't there What
could have become of it? Who could
have stolen it? She was sure some one
had stolen 1t. That Hen couldn't have
walked off, because she had killed it.
Suddenly she got a faint scent that
caused her to stop abruptly and look
around suSpiciously. 1t was a smell
that gave her most uncomfortable
feeling. feeling in which there was
something of fear. Carefully she
shifted the air. Then she shifted the
ground over. There it was again, that
smell she hated and feared. It was
the man smell. One of those feared
two-legged creatures had been there
and had taken that Hen away. She
Evening star., 1936-08-08

MACON, Ga. R).-Boisy Nixon's
bonus bonds arrived in the nick of
time. The Negro paid a $50 fine with
one of them.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Toxic. Japan, will have four days Of
air defense maneuvers.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

| your SuccesS?"
| Rosalind looked up from the script
1T isn't crazy. Matt; I've had it in
my mind such a long time now. When
was a little girl I read a story
sitting on trunk in some dressing
room in the sticks, probably-about a
| princess who became very tired of be-
ing princess and left all the glamour
of her fathers court behind her and
entered a cloiSter I didn't know
what a cloister was exactly: but the
story said she found peace there and
such happiness as the court had never
given her. That's what I want
Matt-a cloister Oh, I don't mean
! the real thing, of course. With me il
isn't place. It's a condition-free-
dom from the rush and anxiety I've
known all my life. That's why I am
| quitting"
! X x X
HER eyes fell once more on the
script BaXton said: 20. K, kid
see what you're after, I guess
Good luck to you. When do you
leaye?"
Rosalind looked up. the script still
in her hand. My boat sails at S. The
car should be here for me pretty
soon."
Il think" said Baxton, slowly. "I'll
give that part to Belle Fennell. She's
coming up, that girl, and the play S
too good to pass up. Yes-I think
Belle can do it." He lit a cigarette,
held the match still lit in his hand
Rosalind'S head turned quickly toward
him.
She leaned her cheek against one
small hand. held the script in the
other. Matt" she said, why does
the girl in this play go back to the
fellow. I can't see her doing that"
BaXton's match went out and
dropped to the floor He looked at
Rosalind closely. You didn't read
enough of it to find out" he said
"I read some Of the first act and
some of the third and think
BaXton walked over to the desk He
bent over the script, searching for a
page. "Oh, but it's the second act that
explains that. What second act!
Read this long speech, kid-read it
aloud"
RosAL1ND began to read, little
~ fatty at first, but with mounting
color. Her face and body became ami
mate, too. BaXton stood listening,
watching.
A knock on the door came Rosalind
did not hear. Baxton edged over to
the door, opened it, slid quickly out,
closing it behind him. A uniformed
chauffeur stood in the anteroom. Miss
Thorpe's car, sir. Her boat"
"Sh" said Baxton. They could hear
Rosalind's voice through the transom.
Miss Thorpe won't need the car. q"
Baxton whispered. Cor the boat,
either. She-she's in the cloister."
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-08-08
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.

II sometimes seems that one mistake
Brings many others in its wake:
old Mother Nature.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
SAVING COMPANIES.
CITE BIG STRIDES.
$7,5A,700 Invested in June
in Association Shares,
Report Shows.

Reports from LOTT Federal savings
and loan associations throughout the
country show that during the month
OF June, . total Of 1854, TOO In saw
ings was invested by the public In
these local private institutions for the
promotion Of thrift and home financ-
ing.
The amount represents savings Of
both old and new shareholders. and
indicates growing appreciation Of the
safety offered to savers through these
Federally charted associations, in each
Of which all investors are protected
by insurance up to 5000. The re-
porting associations have q total Of
S6S. .397 individual investors holding an
aggregate Of s40o, ,829, 100 In shares.
Dividends Average 3.77 Per Cent.
Dividends at an average Of 3.77 Der
cent annually were paid by 885 Fed
eral associations reporting for the last
six months Of 1885. after provision for
reserves. according to a consolidated
statement Just completed. OF the total
Of $7,202,368 In dividends, $6,432, 200
was paid to private investors and
$770,069 to the Federal Government
on its investment in shares in q num-
Der OF these associations. The asSo-
Citations not decalring dividends were
chiefly newly chartered organizations,
including about so which had pot
completed their organization at the
end Of December, 1885.
During June, lending by the OFT re-
porting Federal associations registered
q substantial increase over previous
months, largely as result of increased
interest in home ownership, improved
collections, and the augmented loan
funds on hand at these institutions.
The proportion Of lending for new
building held its recently attained lead
over loans for reflnancing Of existing
mortgages.
Loan Distribution.
The total of s19.691, 500 loaned was
distributed as follows: S6,025, 300 Off
the construction of new homes. $5,-
156,800 for the purchase of dwellings,
$5,242 500 for refinancing, s1,371 800
for repairs and reconditioning and
81 ,895,600 for other purposes. As OF
June 80, these associations held an
aggregate Of $444,446,100 in mortgage
investments. chiefly in small homes
The June figures do not include the
activities of 112 other Federal aSso-
Citations which were chartered in the
past few months.
Many individual associations report
Evening star., 1936-08-08

rise, it is not likely that such a move
ment will be extensive. The rent
index for any one year generally con-
forms fairly closely to the commodity
price index of the previous year. In
other words, rents lag a year behind
commodity prices. On the basis OF
1929 as 100, the rent index for the
first six months of 1886 averaged 82.1,
as compared with last years COM
modify price index of 83.9. In June
the rent index was 84.3, or slightly
above the 1885 commodity price
index. 1t is thus probable that rents
will not rise sufficiently in the near
future to contribute much to the
elimination of the spread between
building costs and rents. This means
that a decline in building costs will
be necessary in order to stimulate a
much further recovery in building
activity. Such a decline in building
costs does not appear imminent since
food prices promise to remain high
as the result of the drought, thus
making it difficult to reduce the cost
of building labor or the cost of labor
in the manufacture Of building ma
terials.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

AT ONCE HE STARTED RUNNING
ACROSS THE FIELDS AFTER HER.
thought she had been very clever and
smart. Not even when Blacky the
Grow pointed out to her that no real
ly smart Fox will ever bother the Hens
near where he or she lives unless
forced to by starvation, did she see
that she had made mistake.
"They say Blacky is smart" said
she to herself, but I don't think he
is very smart when he says that I
made a mistake in catching TAT Hen
when could do it without danger.
I'm going to do it again the first
chance get"
Little Miss Swiftly did this very
thing. 1t was only two or three days
later that she caught another Hen.
This time, however, she frightened
the rest of the Hens and they set up
a great screaming that brought the
owner of those Hens out to see what
the trouble was. With him came the
Dog, and almost at once that Dog had
picked up Little Miss Swiftys trail.
She hadn't reached the pasture be-
fore that Dog was around the barn
and baying excitedly as he followed
her trail with his nose to the ground.
The boy who owned the Hens ran
around behind the barn just in time
to get glimpse Of Little Miss Swiftly
as she entered the pasture. At once
he started running across the field.
Now, of course, Little Miss Swiftly
couldn't run very fast carrying that
Hen. AS soon as she reached the pas
ture she tossed the Hen under bush,
tracked a short distance and started
of to lead that Hound away and get
rid of him by a clever trick. This she
Evening star., 1936-08-08
COSTS AND RENTS
RATIO IMPROVES
Hamilton Institute Points
Out Former Index Is
Still Obstacle.

The relationship between building
costs and rents showed improvement
in June, according to the Alexander
Hamilton Institute. However, it was
pointed out that high building costs
still remain serious obstacle to the
full recovery of the construction in
dustry.
The building cost index, on the
basis of 1926 as 100, declined during
June from 98.4 to 97.4, while the rent
index rose to a new peak for the
current upward movement. The rent
index in June was 1855, as compared
with 761 in May and with 61.8 in
January, 1884, when the low for the
depression was reached.
While rents may show some further