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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
Trees a Great Aid in
Healing Sore Spots
&C. J. RIGID

y
Every farmer knows how well To-
Gusts improve land. Most of us have
spots that are washing away. Some
of them are too big to be called
spots.
Would it not be a good thing to
set these sore spots to locusts? Then
would it not be good idea to seed
mixture of legumes and grasses on
these spots? It may be necessary to
add a little fertilizer or manure and
lime before seeding the mixture.
If the sore spots are in a pasture
they should have fence run around
them for cattle will eat the little
trees. 1t will be necessary for this
fence to stay until the trees get well
above the reach of the cattle.
Set trees 6 to feet apart. If all
live they can be thinned few years
from now when large enough to
make small fence posts. 1t will soon
be time to set them. If you prefer
to dig them from locust thicket
and transplant to the sore spots, be
certain to get it done before the
rush of spring work comes on mot
later than February or March.
However, if you wish to buy the
little trees, they can be purchased
at around $500 per thousand. A
thousand will set an acre. If you are
interested in buying please report
the number you want to the county
agents office
Let's don't leave those sore spots
on our farm. Nature will help-let's
help Nature.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
Graybeal OF to Detroit

B. B. GRAPHICAL Of the AShe Motor
Co., local Ford Dealer, left for De-
troit Wednesday with some 1875 Ford
dealers from North and South Caro-
lima, who with 1000 others from all
sections of the United States, will
move into Detroit by special trains
this weekend for a two-day gather
ing at the Ford organization, for a
display of the forthcoming years
models Of the Ford V-8. They will be
guests of the Ford Motor Company
while in Detroit.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
rROTANE DEALERS

The lEntral Radio Co., of West
Jefferson, recently appointed Pro-
tame Gas distributor, has very
complete stock of stoves and equip
ment in it's store, and is ready to
supply Protane Gas systems to
homes in this locality.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
DAIRY MEET BEING HELD

A meeting of Ashe county dairy
men is scheduled for Thursday,
Nov. 5, at 2 p. m, in Jefferson. 1t is
expected that Mr.. F. r. Farnham
will give an interesting discussion
on dairy problems in Ashe county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
Official Election
Report Next Week

Because all Of the townships
have not filed their official cleo
ton reports in Jefferson, a de-
tailed account Of votes cast for
each candidate in each township
will be carried next week.
A state and national report
with exact figures will also be
carried.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
Dairy Specialist visiting Here

Mr.. F. r. Farnham, extension spe-
cialist, is spending several days in
the county. He and Mr.. Rich, the
county agent, are aiding farmers
with dairy problems.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05

Mrs. J. w. Duncan, who has been
very sick for some time, is no better
at the present. 3
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05

Mr.. "A. F. Rose is erecting a small
dwelling near his home that he ex-
poets to use for renting.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05
Bob Doughton's
Majority Estimated

Hon. r. L. Doughton's estimated
majority in this congressional dis
trict is as follows:
Cabarrus-6850 Ashe-1000
Iredell-6531 Alexander-750
Rowan-6589 Caldwell-3500
Stan1ey-1164 Watauga-100
Alleghany-750 Total 1924.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-11-05

what you have to sell or
what you want to buy in
The Skyland Post which
Is read in more than 80
per cent Of the homes in
Ashe county. Advertising
in The Post pays.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
A DISEASE MENACES
AMERICA,S RECOYERY'

A few more weeks and the agony will
be over. We shall have elected our pres
ident and our Congress, the wild wells
and the frenzied appeals of the cam
paign will have died down, and we shall
forget about most of them while we
look forward in the pious hope that the
next four years will be kinder to us that
the last four.
But there is one thing we should not
forget, though we shall find forgetting
it very easy: the fact that this country
still contains a good many millions of
men who need to work but who cannot
find jobs.
Just how many millions of them there
are seems to be an open question. The
campaign has brought forth ridiculously
varying estimates.
But one thing is certain; there are al
together too many of them, and we
shan't be able to pat ourselves on the
back over our recovery" until we have
got their number whitfield down very
materially.
Poverty, we need to remember-the
kind of poverty which means absolute
dependence on outside help, with the
last resources gone and no job in sight
poverty is a disease in the body poll
tic, and it is just as dangerous to those
of us who happen to have jobs, bank
accounts, and comfortably lined stom-
achs as an outbreak of Asiatic cholera
would be.
1t may smolder along for quite time,
attacking only those whom we compla-
Gently look on as its natural victims;
but it can spread with dire rapidity and
strike into places where it never was
known before.
And we shant be able to say that we
have recovered until we have at least
got this infection under control.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
BY ALLEN w. BARKLEY
:. IL A. L.. -.

In the consideration of public as we'll as pri-
vate indebtedness We must consider the condi-
ton of the debtor, his income in proportion
TO debt, and the interest required to be paid on
the debt.
Let us assume that in 1888 man-for con-
venence will call him Mr. Hoover-had an
income of S2084 per year. His Indebtedness on
which he was required to pay interest amounted
to S22,539.
Let us assume that in 1886 another man-for
convenience call him a Mr.. Roosevelt had
an income of S4l16 per year. and owed SS3719
on which he required TO pay interest.
Our Mr.. Hoover, considered by many to be
an admirably cautious business man, had not
hesitated to assume a debt which was more than
10 times his annual income in 1888.
But for 1886 this Mr.. Roosevelt, to whom We
have referred, is indebted in an amount only
seven times his annual income.
On account of the generally more healthy
state of his business Mr.. Roosevelt was able to
reduce his interest charges during the past
summer to slightly more than 212 per cent;
but Mr. Hoover back in 1888, in spite of his
intimate friendship with numerous bankers had
been required to pay almost 3i2 per cent on
HIS loans
The result of this situation is that Mr. Hoo
ver's interest charges in 1888 amounted to S689
per year, while Mr.. Roosevelts in 1886, are
STAG per year. .-..-. ...~... -.
Mr. Hoovers income was three times his
interest charges.
ONE-HALF times his interest charges
The mathetics of his proposition cannot be
denied. No amount of partisan politics can
change it. AS you have probably surmiSed
the Mr.. Hoover to whom I am referring was
president of the United States. The Mr.. Roose-
welt referred to now occupies that high station.
The figures 1 have used represent the millions
and billions of government debt government
revenue and government interest charges taken
from the treasury statements and reduced to the
simpler term of thousands.
Therefore. although as a result of the de-
preston President Roosevelt has been compel
led to increase the national debt to net amount
about equal to the increase under Mr.. Hoover,
yet the income of the treasury under Mr.. RoQSe-
welt is 5l2 times the governments interest
charges while under Mr.. Hoover it was only
three times these charges, Notwithstanding Mr..
Hoovers increase in taxes during his admins
traton.
The criterion by which every lender and ev-
cry wise investor judges an enterprise is this
ratio of earnings to interest Alongside this show
ing, as Indicated above, the screams Of some
Of the recovering industrial and financial pa
tients, to the effect that our government is
punging headong into overwhelming debt, are
nothing but hySteria.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
ALL AMERICANS AGREE
ON THESE VITAL NEEDS

The issues of the presidential cam
paign may be this, that, and the other
thing; the outcome may be produced in
the deepest doubt. But it ought to be
possible to strike a pretty fair balance
on the things that all Americans, re-
gardless of party, want to see done in
the next four years.
For while we may be deeply divided
on candidates. and campaign issues,
there are some things on which all of
us agree The common ideal of what
America ought to be is not hard to de-
fine. Getting the ideal transformed into
actuality may be something else again,
but at least it can be formulated, even
in presidential year.
First of all, obviously, We want
prosperous America; land in which
the paralyzing fear of unemployment
and loss is lifted from worker, business
man, and professional man. We don't
especially want a boom and we certain
don't want runaway initiation; we
simply ask that things be fixed some
how, so that the man who is willing to
get in there and pitch will be able to
make a decent living.
Secondly, we want peace. We are will
ing to fight if someone comes over to
our side of the water and thrusts fight
on us, but we don't want to get into
any quarrel overseas. We know that the
European situation is complicated and
dangerous, but we do expect our gov
ernment to steer a course that will ena-
BILE US to keep our boys at home.
Thirdly, we would like to see the
government do its very best to stop that
destruction of national assets which has
been dramatized of late in the form of
dust storms, floods, erosion of rich
farm land and the like. We want our
great heritage of land preserved-and
we are willing to pay what it costs.
Fourth-or should this be put first
of all?-we want the inspiring old ideal
of free, democratic, classless America
preserved untarnished We still believe
that the class war of European theology
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

tempting facetiousness inspired a
chuckle. I cannot tell just why
and likely few other mouthcorners
would curl upward. Yet I chuck
led when it editorialized: 1T was
a great advantage to the Republican
orator if he could bring to the plat
form a white-haired and lifelong
Democrat who had at last seen the
error of his ways and turned to
the true party faith" A convert,
in other words, in the Billy Sunday
style. But the writer of this un-
expected mirth made the mistake
we all make-having said the thing
he goes on to say it again and again.
We who write are wont to repeat
and thus evirate the edge of bright
expression. Rare indeed the writer
who "hits and runs" Booth Tar
kington is about the only one who
says it and never refers to it again.
Newspaper fellows show better
than-average knowledge of Eng
lish, naturally But I don't know
that they ought to upbraid others
for being less proficient. To many
educated people, approximate
sounds and constructions are con-
sidered near enough, and in matters
other than English such persons
may express intellectual virtues in
which newspaper men are sadly lax.
The other day a great scientist on
air said ePOCKal for EPochal. A
fellow in our berg excused him.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

NEW YORK, Sept. %. - There
was a vivid recollection OF real
life triumph and tragedy of the
stage when they buried the roly-
poly and cherubic Nikita Ralioff, OF
the famed Chauve Souris, in Bel
asco's tomb some weeks ago. The
chief mourner was rightfully Nor
ris GeSt, who discovered him in a
dark Moscow cellar.
Ralieff was still performing in a
cellar gilded grill on Central
Park South-when stricken. He had
but one trick. That was his. strut
ting exploitation of "The March
of the Wooden Soldiers" A tune
that sets feet atingle wherever
heard. And Balieff made the most
Of it.
He paraded it in New York more
than a year, then in every large
city in America and across the
European continent and back sever
al times. He had at one time
a fortune of S500,000 in safety box
cash. But eventually his wooden
soldiers became worn out toys. And
Balieff a Pagliacci.
Like many improvident idealists,
he thought success would go on for
ever He lived on grand scale,
a charming host to Russian refu-
gees and titled pick-thanks. Always
good for a touch, this bland,
smiling little man. But not many
came to him in his hour of dolor
90
And there was scant comment
on another figure in the Broadway
theatre world who had passed
from the scene the same time as
Balieff. 1 refer to White, the
pioneer photographer The first tc
introduce the flashlight, then a
dangerous experiment that MANNED
and blinded. Readers of theatre
news learned to know that identifi-
cation on a picture, photo by
White Studio" Two others I re-
call were Byron and Sarony. But
White seemed better known and
his full stage enlargements graced
many lobbies. He paved the way
for the CeVil Beatons and other
deluX lensmen who now merely
touch a button to achieve art with
the elegant A.
I somehow do not laugh over
my reading as once. But the other
day the usually grave Times IN at
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Other Editors Say
DON'T LIVE LIKE A TURTLE
(Santa Paula ChrOnicle)

New facts on the number of years We Amer
leans live have just been issued by the U. S.
census bureau.
Everyone knows that in 1900 the average
length of life 48 years, and that today it is
SO years What the census bureau points out IS
how this affects a group of individuals.
Take group of 100000 babies, born about
1900. Of this group $4,000 will reach majority.
Three-fourths of the original number will live
up to the age of So And 25000 or one fourth
of them, will live to the ripe old age of "a.
So every man who reads this has one chance
out of four Of reaching four score years That
is a pleasant hope. But more important is
what you will do with those long years ahead.
Some turtles live for more than a century;
but it would be sorry thing if scientists have
increased the span of life for men and women
who would live turtles do The only value
OF our longer life is the good we can make of
these added years earth; the advances We
can make for ourselves and for our race.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Methodist School N
Board Will Meety

Special meeting of the Methodist
Sunday school board has been call
eG for Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock
in the new social hall. Organiza-
ton will be effected and as this
is the first meeting, all old mem
bers of last years faculty are to
attend
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
PIGEON CARRIES SOS

FUKUOKA, Japan. U,P] "A car
rier pigeon here is credited with
saving 130 lives. A small ship ran
into a storm which threatened to
sink it. Without wireless, it was
unable to call for help until a pas
senger, Risaburo Ishibashi, releaS-
ed his pigeon with a request for
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Both Sides of the CAMPAIGN

EDITORS NOTE: The articles appearing in
this column are not presented representing
the opinions of this newspaper During the
vacation of Mr. Rodney DutScher, who conducts
News Behind the News. both sides of the cam
paign are being pictured here without discrim-
ination.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

need not be fought on our soil; we still
believe that our democratic institutions
are priceless possessions. We do not
want them limited, nor do we want to
see class arrayed against class; we pre-
fer cooperation and we believe such CO.
operation is possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Scout Troop Will
Hold Reorganization

Troop 7, B.SA., will conduct a
reorganization meeting Tuesday at
7:30 pm. in the Scout hut. This
troop is sponsored by the local Elks
and j. P. Eyer is chairman of the
troop committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Imperial Valley Press

Published every afternoon ex-
cept Saturday and sunday (Sat-
urday afternoon issue now sue
ceeded by The Post-Press. sun
days) by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company. 625 state
street, Ell Centre, California.
Entered at Ell Centre. California,
post office as second class mat
ter.
Paul Jenkins, Publisher; George
Bennitt, General Manager; Rus
sell Bennitt, Secretary-treasurer;
Ed. Fitzhugh, Managing Edi-
tor.
NJ. C. Mogensen e. Co. National
Advertising Representatives.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subscription Rates: &c per copy
In conjunction with The Post
Press; per month soc; Paid in
Advance; months. $1.65: 6
months. S3.25: One Year. $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

Shipments of citrus fruit from
Los Angeles to Atlanta, Georgia,
by truck, havee been made recent
lV
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

sell from a dance with a young
lady one night saying his collar was
"irragating" his neck. Invariably
he said comic" for comet" He
became States attorney. A Mala-
propish attitude may merely mean
the offender does not think it
worthwhile to dig out the exacti-
tudes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Today's Horoscope

II your birthday is today you are
apt TO be bold, determined and
fearless. You sweep obstacles out
of your path but you are apt to
burn out your physical life with
your Intensity
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
e on Sol FRANK
tx. SAYS WATANABE
TN1S nv HOLDEN
BY Eis HOLDEN

FTRE
Next week are Fire Prevention Week. Such tnlng
are good all right. But it striking me hot that
every week should having such name please
Each every day me and you should be doing GER
tain rule and remembering fire must be good serv-
ant . but pretty bad when he becomes the ooss
man - most of time.
are promising myself not to being carelessneSs
with matches and not committing foolishment with
gasoline Also tromping out cigarettes and bon
fires like duck
If Careful be the notices all times maybe we not
requiring Fire Prevention Week. Is it?
Thank you, please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
Hints on Etiauette
Words of Wisdom

The fear of some divine and su-
preme powers keeps men in obedi-
ence e.-Aeschylus
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

ne-Minute Test
l. How many carats denote
pure gold?
2. What college Is situated at
Hanover, N. H?
3. The U. S. supreme court is
comprised of how many men?
Hints on Etiquette
Patty shells made of pastry
should be eaten with a fork.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

An old, but still good, story via
radio today. 1t was the mordant
and wry-necked Rube Marquard
used to tell. The locale, Haverhill,
Mass. The Browns were playing
the Greens during a wet season
with the river out of banks cutting
into left field. A player hit a long
one to deep left. The outfielder
went back for this hand and
ball shooting simultaneously into
the stream. Then he threw the
runner out at third with a mack
erel.
We were recalling roly-poly
crouch in our town called Doc
He came to Kerr's drug store night
ly to smoke his after supper cigar.
He disliked long speeches and one
night when a loafer started one
Doc" made for the door with:
Mail us the rest. That's the sort of
advice we'd like to give the radio
political speakers lately.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29
ne.Minute Test Answers

/. TWenty-four.
2. Dartmouth.
8. Nine. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

1 somehow do not laugh over
my reading as once. But the other
day the usually grave Times IN at
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-29

NJ. C. Mogensen e. Co. National
Advertising Representatives.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Chicago Cash Market.

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat, no sales reported: corn,
No. yellow. 59-60a4; No. 5 yellow,
57-58. Oats, No. 2 white, 32l2; sample
grade, 25l2-30. No rye. Buckwheat,
No. 2, Ito; sample grade, los. Soy
beans. No. 2 yellow, 81 nom. Barley,
nom.; feed. 30-45; mailing. 54-85.
Timothy seed. SIS cwt.; clover seed.
1200-1S.50 cwt
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, February Gunner
Gus new highs for the past five years
were recorded in today's lively stock
market.
Communication, farm implement,
rail and speciality issues led the for
ward movement. The activity was
pronounced at intervals. The list
quieted during profit taking periods.
American Telephone, Case and
Worthington Pump scared about
points each, and Western Union,
Deere, Mack Truck, Chrysler and
Caterpillar Tractor advanced to 8,
Gamers of fractions to a point or so
included International Harvester, U.
S. Steel, Bethlehem. Firestone. Good
year, Goodrich, International Tele-
phone. Union Pacific, Louisville &
Nashville, Delaware g. Hudson. Cerro
De Pasco and Warner Bros. The oil
and power stocks were only moderately
ahead.
The late tone was firm. Transfers
approximated 1900, 900 shares.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. February 6 R)-Foreisn
others in cents. Great Britain, demand.
5.Ol5s; cables 5.01ss; 60-day bills. 5.0Uss;
France. demand 6.69N: cables; 6.6914.
Demands-Belsium. 1905; Germany.
free. 1880; reg. tourist. 24.75; reg. COM
mercial $500: Holland. 6S.76; Norway.
Finland Ian %eSsn 9 swiszerianS en@a6k ss 6s Spain
1897; Portugal. 4.57; Greece. .96; Poland.
1915: Czechoslovakia. 4:201a; Yugoslavia,
Rumania. 80; Argentina. 33 43n; Brazil.
S.59n; Toxic. 29.30; SHANGHAI, 30. 30:
Hongkong 1910; Mexico City. 27s5;
Montreal in New York. l00.O3h; New
York in Montreal e9.967s Nominal.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
TOTAL VALUE OF STOCKS
EXCEEDS so BILLIONS
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 6.-The total
value of all shares listed on the Stock
Exchange crossed the S50,000. 900 900
mark as of February to the highest
level shown by the monthly compila-
ton since April l, 1881. the exchange
announced. The latest figure is $780,
164.547,052.
The value of listed shares reached
its lowest point in the figures as OF
July /. 1882, at SIS 1888, ,479,577.
They had sunk to that point from
the September l, 1929, peak of $89.-
668, ,276,854
A month ago the value was $46..
GAS, ,581.5 and year ago $32 2,991,.
035,003.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 6.-Spreading
operations in which May was sold
against July and September purchases
fo the bulk of business in wheat
:. with prices ruling irregular.
L. ,smperatures continued to pre-
vail over domestic wheat territory,
but were not so severe as yesterday.
The forecast was for SHOWS except in
Kansas
Wheat closed nervous. S. lower to "a
higher compared with yesterdays fin
ish; May. 99i4 Is; corn unchanged to
Is of; May. 6034 oats unchanged to
u down, and provisions unchanged to
Evening star., 1936-02-06

system has spent
SS,061,000 for ad-
ditions and bet
terments S i n C e
December /, 1888,
the date of the
merger of the old
Capital Traction
and Washington
Railway g. Elec-
trio Cos.
The announce
ment also states
that the esti-
mated expendi-
lures for 1886 to
c o m pie e the
Evening star., 1936-02-06

Electric Power & Light Corp.-Kilo-
watt system input of subsidiaries for
the week ended January 80 showed
an increase Of 1915 per cent over lika
1885 period; in preceding week gain
was i5.3 per cent.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. February 8 !lR.-Copper
export. s.70as.75 Tin barely steady: spot
and nearby 47.75:. future. 45.s7h. Iron
quiet. unchanged. Lead steady: spot New
York. 4.5Oa4 IS: East st. Louis. 4.35. Zinc
dull; East st. Louis. spot and future. 4.s5.
Aluminium. l9.00a22 90. Antimony spot.
12.S7h.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
Liverpool Grain Prices.
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February ga steadier
tone developed in cotton today in re-
sponse to relatively firm Liverpool
cables and indications that recent
liquidation had strengthened the
technical position.
After showing net advances of about
to 10 points, prices reacted partially
under realizing or scattered selling. but
the market was quiet and fairly steady
in late trading with active months 6
to points net higher.