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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-17
LOCALS

A number of leaders in Presbyte-
rian churches in Ashe county are
planning to attend church supper
following meeting of the Presby-
terry in Winston-Salem tonight.
Prof. B. H. Duncan has been suf-
fering with severe cold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Brown and
family, of Blowing Rock, visited
friends in jefferson Sunday.
Mr.. Carl Miller spent the week
end with Mrs. Miller in Galax, Va,
where she is undergoing treatment.
Little Barbara Williams, daught-
er of MIR. and Mrs. Paul Williams
of jefferson, was carried to the hos
pital at Gastonia this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Bauguess
spent the weekend in Lexington,
visiting DR.. and Mrs. J. A. Smith.
Mr.. Felix Jones, Of the Silas
Creek community, was a visitor in
the Jeffersons yesterday.
Miss Doris Mcneil, of Bina, is UNI
able to attend school this week.
Supt j. B. Hash made business
trip to North Wilkesboro Wednes-
day morning.
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MISS ELIZABETH M'EWEN
AND ARTHUR L. LANG WE'D

!, Miss Elizabeth, Katherine Nc.
Even, the. attractive daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Will McEwen, of Ores
ton, was united in marriage to Mr.
Arthur L. Lang of Clovis, Califor-
mia, on Tuesday of this week at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Logan
in Jefferson.
Rev. G. r. Stafford officiated. Mr.
and Mrs. Lawson Logan, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. D. Freeman and Mrs. Aman-
da Logan witnessed the ceremony
Mr.. and Mrs. Lang will leave the
latter part of the week for Clovis
California, where they will make
their home.
Mrs. Lang is well known in JEFF
ferson where she has visited fire.
quently.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-17
Masonic Officers
Installed Here In
Public Meeting

The first public installation of Of
ficers ever held in Ashe county by
any of the Ma3onic lodges took
place here Tuesday night in the hal,
of the Ashe lodge number GIL. A
large crowd of masons and non.
masons were present and the oc.
casion was regarded as being a biz
succe-s. +,
Before the installation ceremonies
several speeches were. made, empha.
sizing the great contribution which
this, fraternal order has rendered. tc
'-ociety and indicating some of the
reasons why this organization is, as
old as civilization itself. :
Ira T. Johnston, retiring master
and installation officer, acted as
master of ceremonies. u Rev. w. T.
Wilmington gave the invocation
I. B. Grayson made the address OF
welcome. Responses were given by
District Commander p: GleWright
for the American Legion; L. p. Col.
ward, for the !. o. o. F.; Mrs. P. G
Wright. for the Woman's Club anc
Ed M. Anderson, general public
Mrs. Guy Denney and Mrs. LEVER
Johnson. were unable to attend.
R. Floyd Grouse, prominent Spar.
ia attorney and Mason who made
the principal address, pointed Out
some of the fundamental principle!
and teachings of masonry ''The frs
fundamental creed of a master ma.
son is trust in God'", he stated anc
explained that friendship, morality
and brotherly love characterize {
mason's attitude towards society
and each other.
There isn't anything more need.
ed in the world today than is the
great spirit of masonry, brotherlJ
love'".
The new officers installed were l.
B. Grayson, master; Dean Mcmillan
senior warden; Bradshaw Miles
junior warden; E. D. Barr, treasur.
er; T. I. Jones, secretary; c. M
Payne and C. S. Mcneil, senior
and junior deacons, Capt. George
Doggett and Gwyn Gambill, stew
ards; J. w. Cooper, tyler.
Special musical selections were
rendered by the Cook-Harless quar-.
tet. And in conclusion refresh
ments were served.
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CONGRESSMAN BOB
EXPECTED TO SERVE
Continued from Page One)

position.
"But the contribution Of Dough-
ton is Of distinctly different type.
He suggests in this stab the way to
go after Reynolds. The procedure
is simple. The public would be
asked in all seriousness to say why
Our Boy should be made senator
again by a plebescite which has had
five years in which to sober UP
mentally. Roosevelt-minded as
North Carolina is it probably does
not relish the sort of representa-
ton that Reynolds gives. It may be
grand to be for Roosevelt, any NUM-
Der Of North Carolinians will say,
but Doughton has dimmed some OF
the Reynolds glamour by throwing
a choice piece of satire at him. 10y
atty to Roosevelt takes a queer
turn, in Doughton's mind, which il
joins the most violent of the Roose-
welt strafers in urging repeal Of
that tax, so pestiferous to business
men.
always it has been said by the
Raleigh observers that Reynolds
will start his own downfall and MOI
until then will it be safe for any.
body to oppose him. It looks as il
Doughton has called the shot or
him. The Reynolds desertion Of
Roosevelt on this issue can be made
tremendous club to be welded
manfully by Frank Hancock every
time Our Bob lifts up his head anc
shouts, ''Hurrah for Roosevelt
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Enthusiastic COP
Meeting Held II
Greensboro s at.
New York Representative Pre-
diets Victory OF Republicans
1910 At Lincoln Dinner.
AsHE DELEGATES ATTEND

Ache county delegates who att
tended the statewide rally Of the
Republican party held in Greens
boro last Saturday described the
gathering as being one Of the best
attended and most enthusiastic
COP meetings that has been held
since 1928.
Approximately 1000 Republicans
from every section of the state were
present for the meetings of the state
executive committee and young
Republicans organization meetings
held at the O'TIenry hotel Saturday
afternoon and the Lincoln Day din
ner Saturday night.
Attorney Silas Casey, Of High
Point, was POSTMASTER at the din
ner. Worth Henderson, of Green's
boro, was chairman of arrange
ments and the chief speaker, Rep
resentative Hamilton Fish, of New
York, was introduced by J. Bennett
Riddle, Jr., of Morganton, who was
reelected to serve as president OF
the Young Republican clubs in the
state.
Other officers chosen by the
Republicans were Mrs. Otis J. Rey-
nolds, of Elkin, elected first vice
president; Mrs. Truman Wall, of
Greensboro; Miss Edna Gregson, OF
Siler City; Brewster Grant, OF
Mocksville and Miss Mildred Green,
of Richmond county, as other vice
presidents; M. K. Harrill, of Char
lotte, secretary and Eli Daniels, of
Statesville, treasurer By unani-
nous vote, Mrs. Herbert Seawell,
Jr, of Carthage and James M.
Bailey, Jr., of Marshall, were elect
ed to serve as national committee
woman and and committeeman, re-
spectively.
The state executive committee
meeting was presided over by Chair
man William c. Meekins and Char
lotte was selected as the place for
the next biennial state convention.
Strategy designed to lure dissat-
fsfed Democrats into the minority
party fin the hope that through a
fusion it may reasonably hope to
become again the majority party
was advocated at the meeting
In his talks, Representative Fish,
whose majority in : elections; in
New York has increased every cleo
ton since 1920, described the pres
ent business recession as being q
| Roosevelt depression.
He. declared that the, new deal ad-
ministration is steadily bringing
ruin to the south through its poll
cies towards cotton. Half Of the
world market for cotton is gone, he
/ said and the remainder is on its
way out under present policies OF
trying to peg cotton prices far above
the market average.
He advocated two prices, a do
mestic price and cotton purchased
by the government dumped on the
world market at whatever price it
will bring.
"In the next presidential cam
paign we can sweep North Caro-
lima for the entire Republican tick
ct, as the Democratic party is now
split into pieces" he stated.
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TO BURY o. T. WATTS
IN JEFFERSON TODAY

The body of OWE Watts, age
48, who died at his home in Charles
ton, w. Va, last Saturday is expect
ed to arrive here this afternoon and
burial will be made in the Jefferson
cemetery.
Mr.. Watts, who is brother of p
E. Watts, prominent Ashe county
citizen, was born and raised in
Alexander county. For the past Sc
veral years he has been living in
Charleston where he operated an
auto repair shop. Funeral services
were conducted in Charleston.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-17
SLY NEWS

Thomas Arnold who has been
sick, is improving, we are glad to
say.
Mrs. Cora Arnold, who has been
visiting relatives here, returned
home last Monday.
Mrs. Rosa Sapp spent Monday
night with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Ham,
Worth, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Miller, got his arm broken recent
ly.
Mrs. Hester Farmer visited at Mr.
Lillard Elliott's Sunday.
Mrs. Martha Sapp is improving
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-17
WILLIAMSON-MILLER

Miss Orpha Williamson and &C.
Gil Miller, both of Oxford, Pa, were
united in marriage last Sunday
morning at 1870 o'clock at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Gentry
in Lansing.
Rev. w. A. GRAPHICAL, Methodist
minister of Lansing, performed the
ceremony which was witnessed by
a few close friends.
Mr.. Miller who is a former resi-
dent of Lansing, has been living in
Oxford, Pa, for the past two years
The couple will make their home in
Oxford.
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MRS. POTTER PASSES

Mrs. Maude Potter, age 80, died
at her home at Trade, Tenn, last
Friday and funeral services were
conducted Saturday, with interment
being made in the family cemetery.
Mrs. Potter is survived by her
husband, three children and her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henson Price.
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PRINCIPALS MEET TOMORROW

A meeting of the high schools
principals Of Ashe county will be
held tomorrow afternoon in Supt
Hash's office for the purpose Of
completing plans relative to each
schools participation in the Ameri-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-17
JUST THE WRONG INITIALS!

In the Colvard-Night Officer Ash
ley story Of last week, the initials
''L. Pr instead of "F. L." were in
advertent1y used in the middle iof
the story When this was taking
place, L. p. Coward was in bed
asleep and therefore was not in any
way connected with the unusual
incident.
NOTICE-Dr. w. c. Williams, Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist,
will be at his Office in West Jeffer-
son, Sunday, Feb. 20.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-17

IA glass Of water and a ton of coal
will carry atom Of freight a mile on
a modern railroad.
Evening star., 1938-10-19

the Home Owners Loan Corp. agency
which provoked the opposition of the
medical bodies that brought on the
Federal probe, Mr.. Zimmerman told
of the personal survey that preceded
the Inauguration Of this venture, cit
ing particularly that in the vast Stand
ard Oil plant at Baton Rouge, La,
where he said the medical services
that have been made available to the
workers are truly hne."
Mr.. Zimmerman made only casual
reference to the troubles here and
was mildly critical Of the opposition
that group health has encountered
from the medical profession.
Sees Path Eased.
Explaining that the local move
ment had run into "a great many
initial obstacles" he added, however,
now that important legal questions
have been answered and since an in
creasing number of well-trained doc
tors have come to believe that group
practice is the modern way to practice
medicine, forecast that in the future
it will be much easier to organize
group medical arrangements"
His criticism was based on the
ground that while the doctors have
been making splendid progress in the
science Of medicine, no one has been
Evening star., 1938-10-19

criminal records has dropped from 20
to 10 per cent, he said.
Mr.. Tamm told the delegates also
that the fact that fngerprints are
taken has become such common knowl-
edge that frequently the F. B. I. is
asked by prospective job applicants to
destroy their fingerprints If they are
in their criminal file.
In response to query from the floor
as to public attitude toward finger
printing, James G. Yaden, chief Of the
Investigation Division Of the Civil
Service Commission. said there was
storm of protest" when the plan was
Evening star., 1938-10-19
OIL FIRMS ROLE
IN c. H. A. CITED
Civil Service Assembly Told
of Program Background
by R. R. Zimmerman.
BY j. A. FOX.

The controversial group health plan
here, which stirred the issue Of
"socialized medicine" and led to the
current grand jury proceedings against
the American Medical Association and
the District Medical Society, had for
background a program sponsored
among employees by the Standard Oil
Co.. r. r. Zimmerman, director of
personnel for the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board, today told the Civil
Service Assembly of the United States
and Canada.
One of the principals in the forma-
ton of Group Health Association, Inc,
Evening star., 1938-10-19

could be expected to bob up, and
which do not reach the problem
Would Emphasize Prevention.
Any model program, he said, should
emphasize preventive practice
The present fee for service basis
Of payment is under fire." the speaker
explained. 1T is under fire because
1t doesn't lend itself to preventive
practice With an available service
to which an employe and his family
could go. there would be no need
for the usual delay in seeking a doctor.
The patient could see the doctor in
the early stages of illness before COM
Evening star., 1938-10-19

demand for it, and the doctor Is
afraid to sell 1t. preventive medical
service never will be given under our
present system"
Criminals Shy Away.
Persons with criminal records shy
away from Government employment
since 1t became the practice to finger
print civil service applicants, Quinn
Tan1m, chief of the Identification
Investigation. told the assembly.
This check was adopted after the
war, and since that time the number
Of applicants whose prints disclosed
Evening star., 1938-10-19

inaugurated but that this has sub
sided.
Evening star., 1938-10-19

thinking or doing anything about
the economics OF the situation"
The medical profession, as a WHOLE
he asserted. has tenaciously insisted
on the retention of its traditional
methods of individual practice and is
principally responsible for the failure
Of others to make necessary improve
ments in the administration OF their
services"
Mr.. Zimmerman Sketched the fea-
lures he believed should be embodied
in any workable group health plan,
and warned against the variety of
health insurance schemes" he said
Evening star., 1938-10-19

plications set in. Certainly, that Is
sound economy"
Only per cent OF the present medi-
cal bill goes for preventive practice,
Mr.. Zimmerman continued, adding:
The doctor knows the value Of
preventive procedures, but many OF
them are afraid to urge 1t on their
patients. This for two reasons-f1rst,
the doctor is afraid that he will be
accused OF soliciting business, and
second. and I believe more important,
he is afraid that the patient will feel
that he is just trying to run up a
bill Now, If the patient makes no
Evening star., 1938-10-19

Until Hitler's day Germany was
known as the land Of many races.
Evening star., 1938-01-20

WELL 1t Is DR.. Stanley High. DR..
High. during the presidential CAM
paign last year, was-I quote the an.
nouncement Of DR.. Highs publisher
"one Of President Roosevelts closest
advisers" He was . wheel horse in
the campaign. He was head Of the
Good Neighbor League" which was
anliated with the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee. Because Of the al.
truistic implications Of the phrase
Good Neighbor League" and be-
cause Of certain humanitarian asso.
Citations OF Or. High, he and his Or
ganization were valuable regiment in
the Democratic army. After the CAM
paign, and from his familiarity with
1t. DR.. High wrote a book, Roosevelt
and Them" From this book the
following sentences are detached In
the condensins, punctuation and a few
words have been changed or omitted.
but the meaning is not altered. The
extract explains what has been going
on in the Senate:
THE most remarkable gathering in
the president. campaign Of 1896 was
Negro mass meeting staged in mid
October in Madison Square Garden in
New York City. The expenses of the
meeting were largely met by the DEM
ocratic National Committee. In
so other cities similar mass meetings
were held simultaneously. A half hour
Of the high-spot part of the Madison
Square meeting was broadcast over a
coast-to-coast radio network-with all
Southern stations carefully omitted
from the hook-up. A few weeks
later most of the Northern Negroes
deserted their traditional allegiance to
the Republican party and voted Demo-
cratic. For the time being the
Democrats believe that In a good many
Northern States they have swallowed
up large proportion of hitherto Re-
publican Negroes. The Negro leaders
are at the point now where they pro-
pose to make up their own minds on
political and economic questions. They
are becoming aware Of their electoral
importance. If they seek to deliver
the vote 1t will be because-in terms
of benefits for their people-they have
got price for 1t. The anti-lynching
law was supported in the Senate by
New Yorks Robert F. Wagner and in
the House by Joseph A. Gavagan,
Democratic Representative whose dis
trict includes most Of Harlem. It was
an effort to repay-in legislative coin
the debt of the Democrats of the
North to the Negro voters who de-
serted the Republicans in the last elec-
ton. The Negroes. in any close
Evening star., 1938-01-20

He also nassed the President just Mr. Ophant
n Ihus When became necessary
trust crusade the holding
surface Of the New Deals collective mind
The processing tax which thought
by the House Ways and Means Committee
urgent suggestion Secretary Wallace
cent the powerful Farm
praries ahre for the reimposion processing
Whdt the Farm Bureau Federation wants
the farmer than the s500o0oO auoued
s5ooo 600 to s35oooo0oo in additional benefits
tue the agitation TOR processing
because the connced
that the Treasury II the tores
lees on wheat and cotton lighter than the old A.
specially calculated that they will
farmers hide S
organizations taxes look
pretty good
cop,rsh 1888 by the
Evening star., 1938-01-20
SOME OF The ART and
EDUCATIONAL LEADERS WHO
SPONSOR THIS PROGRAM

Dr.. Charles G. Abbott, Secretary
Smtthsonian lastitstios
David Z. Finley
Mellon AT aad Educational Nrxst
William Preston Frew. Prssids~t
Duke Usipsrsity
Horace n. r. jayne. Director
American Fsdsratis~ q A,ts
II. V. Kaltenbsrn, Radio Comnentato~
Audrey Mcmahon, Free. Sse'y
College AT Assoc;stion
". a. Nelson, President Smith CoUsgs
Asyrie R Rogers, Director
City Art kxssvss, u. keuis
Ray Lyman Wilbur. Presids~t
Sto~ford Bsissvsity
Philip N. YoutI, Director
Frederick P. Kepps,, Prssidest
Carnegie Cesysrstioa
Reginald Poland. Director
F'~s Arts Ga1s-y. Sea Dises
james Chillman, Jr., Director
AsseSm Of Fins Ants Of H>uaea
James d. Hoskins, President
J. ". Studebaker
U. S. Commissioner Of EIs>stios
Donald Ogden Stewart, Prssidsnt
League Of Amsrieoa Wckess
Evening star., 1938-01-20

made deal with the
secretary OF the Interior Harold ruling Forest Service Soil
Conservation Service the Survey
The ctrH serrce organizations hnre1
the Legion ana the
Sere Commission subsection OF the
Government personnel to the Mishes
roHer generals office forces uih the other
three groups.
In this last the petard The
controller generals Office wholly re-
sponoe only Congress until the
New Deal came along all service
The tremendous agencies made it necessary
however for the controller general to hire 1000
These Jobs have been udicous distributed
stuent so that the opposition abolition
not only from conservatives and Republicans but
vice President Garner has quietly
on ano using his influence to stimulate
revelations overlapping and other
are hurting the conservation department
men are leaving untrned
without " rr' ~
secretary Agriculture Wallace lobbying
un oa aso and doing with the
garo as one OF 1ckes private babies
Carolina the ocal sponsor Of the bill and
Senator Harry Byrd Of Virginia
1t. ~ ~ ~ "eN1N0'
Ihe genesis OF the presidential hostility companies can
traced to the moment months when Ophant
wing treasury counsel
interested holding companies
After study OF the problem Ophant
companies with all
specific
Evening star., 1938-01-20
The Lynchi1,g Bill Debt
Writer Quotes DR.. High in Discussing Background
and Explosive Qualities of Measure.

election, represent the balance Of pow
or In Pennsylvania. New York, Ohio,
Michigan and Illinois. The electoral
votes Of those States are 157 Tout Of
. total Of 53ll."
Took Republican Vote.
Here. then, is the situation. The
Democrats in the last campaign took
from the Republicans the vote Of
Negroes in Northern cities. The vote
thus acquired by the Democrats was
extremely valuable. Now. partly to
pay their 1885 debt to the Negroes
but even more to hold the Negroes
in future elections-the Democrats
want to pass the "anti-lynching"
measure and take other steps ap-
pealing to the Negroes.
But not all the Democratic leaders.
Observe in the quotation from DR..
High that when the Democrats broad
cast the Negro meeting in Madison
Square Garden on the radio all
Southern stations were carefully omit
ted from the hook-up" The North
ern Democratic leaders prudently ar
ranged that their left hand should
not know what their right hand was
doing.
But that prudent strategy now
brings embarrassment. The Demo-
cratic party is in the position of a
man who has given q mortgage on
his farm. but finds that his wife Is
unwilling to sign the deed. The wife
says she was not . party to the con-
tract and does not propose to be
bound by 1t. The Southern Demo-
cratic Senators resist payment of the
debt to the Negroes. They resist en-
actn,ent Of the "anti-lynching" meas
ure.
Trying y Pay Debt.
1t is the Northern Democratic lead
ers who are trying to pay the debt
for past gratitude-and for hope of
favors to come. Not all the Northern
Democrats Those who really want
to enact the bill are mainly a few
from the Northern States in which
the Negro vote is large. and who
therefore have a direct personal in
terest. Some Northern Democratic
leaders from States having a few
Negro voters support the measure only
tepidly and only as a contribution to
party policy in the North as whole.
Some Northern Democratic Senators
see the grave constitutional objections
to the measure. They see also the
political liabilities which are an offset
to the political advantages. They
see the resentment Of Southern Dem
ocrats, the party cleavage They see
also that much Of the public every
where may resent the cultivation of
group pressure-the passage of
measure constitutionally and other
wise dubious merely for the purpose
Evening star., 1938-01-20

Nowaer canvassng the young politicians
awyeshe President able dauned
but exceedingly Reed Kntickian
TACT which not him stable
region known to the Northeastern seaboard
makes him also available between
South North. ~ ~
Unless the courtworshpn0 dieads oppose
any nominee irho does not subscribe their
datane right OF Federal judges difficult
jan et confirmation He
group on the court rather
ang consisting OF Mr. Justice Black Cardozo He
~ closer 10 Mr. Justice Stone than he
nus soc1d outlook and M appoint-
" "N ''O' WV
l. probable that Mr. Roosevelt wished filling
vacancy Wnh might have resulted outstanding
liberal The New Deal policies
before the Supreme Court and the Cadozo
threatened to leave the New the and
the Holding Company Act
One OF the difficulties
welcome to New itself is losing its old
arrogance and bending before the legislation all
Andre Iarksop