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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Parkway Theatre
Opens in City
Former JeffersOnian Theatre is
Being Renovated Under
Ben G. Reeves

The Parkway Theatre, formerly
the Jeffersonian Theatre, is being
opened Friday of this week with 6
showing of Joe E. Brown and Ann
Dvorak in Bright Lights" and g
comedy featuring "Our Gang. The
same picture will be shown on Sat
urday afternoon and night.
Mr.. Ben G. Reeves, manager Of
the new theatre, also manages the
Spartan Theatre in Saprta, and he
feels that he will be able to give the
public the newest and best in pic
lures.
With the showing of bright
Lights" as the opening vehicle, Mr.
Reeves, announces the public dedica-
ton and operation of the revolution
airy new RCA Photophone 'High FL
deity" sound reproducing system
which has been installed by the RCA
Manufacturing Company.
Mr.. Reeves is particularly pleased
that he has been able to schedule the
Schmeling-Louis fight for the near
future. Ring fans will be especially
interested in this.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
State Bakers Have
Facts About Bread

Seven major facts about bread and
it's value to mankind, which have
been brought out through three
year scientific research program in
several leading university labora-
tories of the country, are to be dis
cussed by DR.. S. Heller of Standard
Brands Inc. at the convention of the
Bakers Association of the Carolinas
at Myrtle Beach, S. c., Aug. 1912.
They are:
Bread is nearly 100 percent diges-
tible.
Bread aids the digestion of other
foods.
Bread itself is not fattening; in
fact, it is helpful in reducing diets.
It helps to get more iron from
other foods.
It is good muscle-building food.
It gives long sustained energy.
It is good for strong teeth and
bones.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Promoters of State
Fair Urge Interest
in All Exhibits

RALEIGH, August 12.-Premium
books for the 1896 State Fair are
now available at the office of Man
ager Norman Y. Chambliss in Ra-
leigh.
Exhibitors are offered a total of
$4,000 in prizes, an increase of Is
per cent over last years premium
list. Awards are limited strictly to
exhibitors residig in North Carolina,
although outsiders can show their
products without engaging in compe-
tition.
DR.. F. E. Miller, of the State De-
partment of Agriculture, is in charge
of all agricultural exhibits again this
year. Thus far, 20 per cent more ex-
hibit space has been taken than at
the corresponding time last year,
leading operators of the exposition
to believe that an unusually wide va
riety of displays will greet visitors
to the fair, which will be held the
r week of ctober 18th.
h Encouraging North Carolinians to
compete for the rich purses offered
the various departments, Manager
Chambliss declared eve want to
make, this State Fair in every sense
of the word It belongs to all of
North Carolina, and we urgently in
vite every citizen in the State to
take a personal interest and part in
the Fair. We are working to the end
that all sections of our State shall be
represented, and it appears now that
we will reach our goal successfully.
In addition to stressing the educa-
tional side of the fair, Manager
Chambliss is cooperating with Geo.
Hamid, internationally known show
man of New York, in booking wide
variety of entertainment attractions.
Interesting special events will mark
each days program.
''This will be our forth year of
operating the air for the State and
we have heard no complaints about
dishonesty on the midway, COM
mented Manager Chambliss. 1--WE ex-
pect to keep the air clean and thus
maintain reputation that has won
favorable comment throughout the
country.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
OVER 400 DRIVERS
LICENSES REVOKED

Considerably more than 1000 mo-
tor vehicle drivers licenses have
been revoked by the highway safety
division of the North Carolina de-
partment of revenue, it was disclos-
ed last week.
A total of SAT drivers permits
were revoked during the month of
July, most of them for driving
while drunk, and total of SO the
first four days of August, including
AZ on Tuesday.
Of the AZ licenses revoked Tues
day, A were for driving while
drunk, one for manslaughter, one
for reckless and hit-and-run driving
and one for incompetence.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Beans Thrive Where
Cabbages Failed

Mrs. Eugene Campbell has proved
that necessity is the mother of in
vention and that bad luck can often
be turned into good:
This spring, Mrs. Campbell set out
several rows of cabbage which got
ga bad stand" on account of the dry
weather, so she took some bunch
beans that had gone to seed on near
by vines and planted where the cab
bages had died out. Now she has a
thriving bean patch from seeds
grown this season and is preparing
to eat more beans than cabbage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
ANNUAL w. M. u. MEETING
AT OLD FIELDS AUG. 20

The annual w. M. U. meeting of
the Ashe Baptist Association will be
held with the Old Fields church on
Thursday, August 20, from 10 a. M,
to p. m.
The public is invited and the Bap-
fist pastors are urged to attend with
d elegates from their various
churches.
The program is expected to be
good with special speakers from out
of the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Roosevelt Visit to Draw
Thousands to Charlotte
Marshals From AShe County Are
Named to Assist in Plans
for Big State Rally
DOUGHToN TOLD OF PLANS

The statewide rally to be held in
Charlotte on September 10, with
President Franklin D. Roosevelt as
chief speaker is expected to draw a
crowd of around 100000 people, ac-
cording to an announcement made
recently from headquarters in Char
lotte.
Marshals from nine counties have
already been named and the entire
! hundred counties will be represented
s0efore the big affair. Marshals for
Ashe county include: Ira T. Johnson,
jefferson; L. p. Coward, Jefferson;
J. w. Hampton, Lansing; G.. B. Dog
gett, West Jefferson; Zeb v. Gambill,
jefferson; E. D. Barr, West Jefferson;
B. w. Jones, Lansing; G. M. Baldwin,
Lansing; A. H. Mcmillan, Crumpler;
B. H. Duncan, Trade, Tenn; j. E.
Roland, Clifton; C. M. Yates, Brown
wood; John Littlewood, Helton; E.
B. GRAPHICAL, West Jefferson; G. B.
Gambill, West Jefferson
Doughton Notified
of Schedule
Robert L. Doughton, representa-
tive from this district, has received a
wire notifying him the Presidents
schedule while in the state. The wire
is being reprinted through courtesy
of Mr. Doughton:
.'The President plans to arrive in
Charlotte September tenth about
four thirty o'clock in the afternoon.
He must leave Charlotte about six
o'clock In all announcements please
stress that the meeting will be non
partisan. Public release of these
plans by you is authorized Stephen
Early, xrssistos4t Secretary to the
, President"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13

The music will be in charge of local
singers and musicians until the latter
part of the meeting when Mr.. and
Mrs. jeff Wall, of Cooksville, Tenn,
will be present and take charge. Mr..
and Mrs. Wall were in the county
last year and made many friends
who will rejoice to learn that they
will be back again.
Mr.. Wilmington states that the CO.
operation given the meeting last year
was most helpful and that he is
looking forward to the same cooper
alton this year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Johnston Sets Ashe
County Convention
Date for August y

- u
According to an announcement
made on page four of this issue of
the Skyland Post, Ira T. Johnston,
chairman of the county democratic
executive committee, has set Satur-
day, August %, 10 a. M, as the date
for holding the county democratic
convention. The convention will be
held in the courthouse.
The Friday prior to this date will
be used for selecting township dele
gates and instructing those delegates
for the Saturday meeting. The town.
ship meetings will be held Friday,
August 81, at three o'clock.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
DUNCAN BUYS HAFER
CHEVROLET co. PROPERTY

It is reported that Mr.. Tom Dun
can, of this city, has bought the
property now occupied by the Hafer
Chevrolet Company, and that the
Duncan Motor Company will move
into the building at an early date.
It is understood that Mr.. Ed Jenkins
will construct a building for the
Hafer Chevrolet Company and that
a branch of the Belk's Stores will
move into the building vacated by
the Duncan Motor Co.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Delinquent Taxes Are
Advertised This Month
Burgess, County Tax Supervisor,
Say County Loses Money
on New Exemptions
TAX RATE REMAINS SAME

1885 delinquent taxes will be adj
vertised during this month and will
be sold at public auction at the court
house door in Jefferson on the first
Monday in September, according to
an order made this week by the
county commissioners.
Sheriff Miller asks that any one
wanting to pay up their taxes and
have their names taken from the de-
Enquent lists before the date of adj
vertising should send in the amount
named in the paper this week.
H. H. Burgess, county tax super
visor, who has finished listing all
taxes for the new tax books, has
found that the county will lose
around two hundred and forty-five
or fifty thousand dollars in taxable
property due to the new statewide
exemptions on livestock, etc. Hereto
fore, $500 exemption was allowed
on HOUSEHOLD property, but the new
law allows the tax payer who can
not claim the $500 in household and
kitchen furnishings, etc., to take it
out in live stock, farm implements,
etc. Because of, this loss of money,
it will be more important than ever
for tax payers to pay up promptly on
the new taxes.
The tax rate was set at 81 40 again.
According to a law made in the last
legislature, no advance can be made
in the tax rate for Ashe county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
DR.. AND MRS. j. l.. BALLOU
VISIT RELATIVES In ASHE

DR.. and Mrs. J. L. Ballou, of Port
land, Oregon, who have not visited
in the county during the past four
years, were in the city Wednesday.
They are visiting DR.. Ballou's moth
er near Grassy Creek, and other rel
atives.
Sunday, reunion was held at the
old Ballou home with all ten of the
Ballou sons and daughters present.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
CONSIDERED BEAUTY AIDS

If you look back into cosmetic his
tory, you'll find that good many
famous beauties used different fruits
and vegetables as skin beautifers.
Modern women still employ fruits
and vegetables for enhancing their
loneliness. Henlen of Troy used the
rinds of melons. Catharine de Medici
used peach blossoms. Egyptian prin-
cesses of the Ptolemy's reign used
pomegranates.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
DIR. J. HENRY HIGHSMITH
TO MEET WITH TEACHERS

DR.. J. Henry Highsmith will meet
with all county high school and ele-
mentary principals in the courthouse,
Friday morning at ten o'clock.
All other teachers who are inter-
ested are urged to attend this
meeting
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13
Wilmington to
to Begin Baptist
Revival Sunday
jeff Wall and Mrs. Wall, Well
Known Singers, to Be Here
for Part of Meeting

Rev. w. T. Wilmington, pastor of
the local Baptist church, will begin
a two weeks revival here Sunday
morning, Aug. Is. Services will be
held each night at eight o'clock, and
beginning on Wednesday, morning
services will be held at ten o'clock.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-08-13

Mr.. Ben Miller returned Tuesday
from three weeks trip in New
Jersey and other points north.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
PAY TO BE INCREASED
BY BLUE RIDGE RAY0N
b. the Associated Press.

ALTAVISTA, Va. November 90
The Blue Ridge rayon mills here plans
to increase salaries and wages of its
employees from to 10 per cent. effec-
tive November 80
H. c. Carter, superintendent. said
in a telegram: I'm keeping with the
improved economic trend in tendency
toward higher wages in other branches,
Blue Ridge rayon mills officials are
studying the situation carefully and
will give out on or about December !
its schedule of wage increases. ranging
from to 10 per cent, which will 6s
effective November 80.
More than half of Altavista's en-
ployed will benefit by the adjustment,
it was stated.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
ENGINEERING AWARDS
ABOVE YEARS AVERAGE
BY the Associated Press

BY the ASSoclaLed Press.
NEW YORK, November 20.-Engi-
neering construction awards for the
week ended Tuesday totaled $44,158,-
900, which was slightly above the
years average week to date, Engineer
ing News-Record reported today. For
the corresponding period last year the
volume was $51 SAC, 900.
Private awards came to SIS, 5,008, 900;
State and municipal, s22,943,000 and
Federal, $6,207,o00. A year ago pri-
vate contracts totaled s6,334, 900; State
and municipal, $4o,4s3 900, and Fed
eral, S4,829 900.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
AMERICAN CAN ASKS
FOR NEW CONTRACTS
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, November 20.-The
American Can Co.. is notifying all
customers having contracts calling
for discounts which might contravene
the Robinson-Patman act of propo-
sition to cancel them and write new
ones. Trade papers say the net effect
will probably be to reduce slightly
the price to the customer and the
profit margin of the company. Most
of the contracts affected are for pack
ers' cans.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS. November 90 CP. =
The price trend was lower at the open.
OF the cotton market today.
Losses were held under 25 cents q be -.
Liquidation by long accounts and SOL =.
hedge selling met q fair trade demand.
December opened at 11.73. March at
IL 81 May at 11.57 and July at IL A.
Buying in of December hedges and
placing them in later months. as first
notice day for the December option ar
preached. made up considerable of the
early business Price fixirf by mills i'll
March and May also accounted for some
of the buying.
Cottonseed oil futures opened steady.
December 9.55b: January. q.74b; March.
9.15b; May. 9.S3b. Bid.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,

NEW YORK, November 20.-A daw-
ding stock market today picked up
little strength in few utilities and
specialties while permitting many of
the leaders to drift to lower levels.
Financial quarters attributed the
apathy partly to fresh concern over
Europe's troubles and to expectations
further governmental restrictions on
stock exchange dealings may be im-
posed. Selling was more active just
before the close. Turnover approx
mated 100000 shares.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
LiyeruooI Quotations.

LIVERPOOL November 30 dPl.-Cotton
$4,000 bales. including 10, 100 America.
Spot moderate business done; prices
point lower. Quotations in pence: Amer
ican strict good middling. 7:5s: good mid
ding. G.2S: strict middlinR. 6.9S; middl1ng.
6.76; strict low middling. 6.53: low mid
ding, COS; strict good ordinary. SIS;
good ordinary. 5.4s; Futures closed quiet.
SAC; May 6.46; July. 6.42; Octiber. 6.17.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
new YORK COTTON
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 20.-C
ton moved over a narrow range to-
with December liquidation and heC
selling encountering fairly acti
trade demand on slight reactions.
BY the middle of the aftern
March had recovered from 11.eU
11.63 and prices generally were =
unchanged to 3 points lower.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Futures closed steady. l higher
COttonseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonSeed oil futu
closed steady. December, l0.l-
January, 10.l8b; March, 10.28b; ii. ;
1895. Sales, 90 contracts, incIL
10 switches. Bid.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

United States Steel Corp.-Bessemer
d Lake Erie Railroad and Union Rail.
road. subsidiaries, are inquiring for an
aggregate Of 1900 freight cars.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

l~--.,nued on Twenty-first Page.)
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Today's Trading on Exchange.

Trading ON the Washington Stock
Exchange today opened with two
small sales in Capital Transit, the
first at 1875 and the second at 13.
Washington Gas Light figured in two
sales, opening at 81 and closing at
61H.
Security Storage Co. stock appeared
on the board in transfer Of IL shares
at lis. Jump Of 8 full points since
the last previous sale. The only bond
sale during the session vas in City u
Suburban SIS, which ch..nSed owner
ship at 85h.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

to you the gravity of the situation
which confronts the people of the
world. This emphasis is justified
because of its importance to civ
ilization and therefore to the
United States. Peace is jeopar-
died by the few and not by the
many. Peace is threatened by
those who seek selfish power. The
world has witnessed similar eras-
as in the days when petty kings
and feudal barons were changing
the map of Europe every fortnight,
or when great emperors and great
kings were engaged in a mad
scramble for colonial empire.
We hope that we are not again
at the threshold Of such an era.
But If face 1t we must, then the
United States and the rest of the
Americas can play but one role:
through a well-ordered neutrality
to do naught to encourage the con-
test. through adequate defense to
save ourselves from embodiment
and attack, and through example
and all legitimate encouragement
and assistance to persuade other
nations to return to the ways of
peace and good will.
The evidence before us clearly
proves that autocracy in world
affairs endangers peace. and that
such threats do not spring from
those nations devoted to the dem
ocratic ideal. If this be true in
world affairs, it should have the
Evening star., 1936-01-04

interest-ws have no further con-
cern with how you keep your home
or what you pay for your money,
that Ii your AFFAIR."" Shall we say
to the several millions Of unem-
ployed citizens who face the very
problem Of existence-of getting
enough to eat-"we will withdraw
from giving you work. we will turn
you back to the charity Of your
communities and to those men Of
selfish power who tell you that per-
haps they will employ you II the
Government leaves them strictly
alonc?" Shall we say-"your prob
lem Is o local one except that per-
haps the Federal Government, as
an, act Of mere generosity, will be
willing to pay to your city or to
your county q few grudging dollars
to help maintain your soup kitch-
ens?" Shall we say to the children
who have worked all day-"child
labor Is q local issue and so are
your starvation wages; something
to be solved or left unsolyed by the
jurisdictions Of 48 States?" Shall
We say to the laborer-your right
to organize, your relations with
your employer have nothing to do
with the public interest; if your
employer will not even meet with
you to discuss your problems and.
his, that is none of our AFFAIR.""
Shall we say to the unemployed
and the aged-"social security lies
not within the province Of the
Federal Government. you must
seek relief elsewhere?" Shall We say
to the men and women who live In
conditions of squalor in country and
in city-"the health and the happi-
ness Of you and your children are
no concern of ours?" Shall we ex-
pose the population once more by
the repeal Of laws to protect them
against the loss of their honest
investments and against the ma
nipulations Of dishonest specu-
lators? Shall we abandon the
splendid efforts Of the Federal
Government to raise the health
standards of the Nation and to
give youth decent opportunity
through such means as the Civilian
Conservation Corps?
Let these challenges be met. If
this is what these gentlemen want.
let them say so to the Congress OF
the United States. Let them no
longer hide their dissent in a cow
ardly cloak Of generality. Let them
define the issue. We have been
specific In our affirmative action.
Let them be specific in their mega
tive attack.
New Instruments
Of Public Power.
But the challenge faced by this
Congress Is more menacing than
merely q return to the past-bad
as that would be. Our resplendent
economic autocracy does not want
to return to that individualism Of
which they pirate. even though the
advantages under that system went
to the ruthless and the strong.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

greatest weight in the determine
ton Of domestic policies.
Within democratic nations the
chief concern Of the people is to
prevent the continuance or the
rise of autocratic institutions that
beget slavery at home and aggres-
sion abroad. In the United States,
as in the world at large, popular
opinion is at war with power
seeking minority.
Fight on Autocratic
Institution an Old One.
This is no new thing. It was
fought out in the Constitutional
Convention of 1887. From time to
time since then the battle. has been
continued, under Jefferson, jack
son, Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson.
More recently we have witnessed
the domination of government by
financial and industrial groups,
numerically small but politically
dominant in the IL years that sue
ceeded the World War. The pres
ent group of which speak is in
deed numerically small. and while
it exercises q large influence and
has much to say in the world of
business, it does not, I am conf
dent. speak the true sentiments of
the less articulate but more impor-
tant elements that constitute real
American business.
In March, 1888, appealed to
the Congress and to the people in
Evening star., 1936-01-04

I repeat, with the same faith
and the same determination, my
words of March 4, 1933-"We face
the arduous days that lie before
us in the warm courage Of national
unity; with q clear consciousness
of seeking old and precious moral
values; with a clean satisfaction
that comes from the stern per-
Torrance Of duty by Old and young
alike. We aim at the assurance
Of a rounded and permanent ma
tional life. We do rot distrust the
future Of essential democracy"
cannot better end this message
on the state of the Union than by
repeating the words Of a wise phil
osopher at whose feet ! sat many,
many years ago:
What great crises teach all men
whom the example ana counsel Of
the brave inspire is the lesson:
Fear not, view all the tasks Of life
as sacred, have faith IN the triumph
of the ideal, give daily all that you
have to give, be loyal and rejoice
whenever you find yourselves part
Of a great ideal enterprise. You.
at this moment, have the honor to
belong to generation whose lips
are touched by fire. You live in
a land that now enjoys the bless
ings Of peace. But let nothing
human be wholly alien to you. The
human race now passes through
one of its great crises New ideas.
new issues-a new call for men
to carry on the work of righteous
ness, of charity. Of courage, Of
patience and Of loyalty >. How
ever memory brings back this mo-
ment to your minds, let it be able
to say to you: That was great
moment. 1t was the beginning Of
a new era This world in its
crisis called for volunteers, for
men of faith in life. Of patience In
service, of charity and of insight.
I responded to the cali however I
could. I volunteered tn give my
self to my master-the cause Of
humane and brave living. / studied,
loved, labored, unsparingly and
h pefully, to be worry Of my gen.
Grafton"