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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
Picture OF Three
Ashe Co. Men In
Blum's Almanac
Photo OF James Scott, Basil
Barr and j. E. Shumake Is
Reproduced.

There may net be many of
Ashe countys native sons listed
In who's Who" this year, but
three of them made a book that
Is almost as distinguished in
many respects as "Who's Who,
and that's the "Blum's Alma
nac", 1889 edition.
The 100 pages in this Almanac
contain great deal of interest
ing and valuable information for
farmers in particular. Like the
Bible, it also contains a word
of other fine information, rang
ing from poetry to jokes, from
philosophy to fairy tales for chill
dren, a number of splendid SER
mons, Sunday school lessons, and
so on.
There are a large number of
attractive illustrations in the
book, but only a limited number
of photos. Therefore, the pres
ence OF three of AShe cOunty's
citizens is an added compliment
to them.
But two of them owe their
presence in the book to their &C
quaintance and friendship with
AShe county's giant, James Scott,
of Grassy Creek, who is now con-
nected with a service station in
North Wilkesboro.
The picture showing the three
men was published in this paper
some time ago and was borrowed
by the Blum's company. It show
ed Scott, with his arms out
stretched and with Basil D. Barr
and J. E. Shumake standing I'M
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
leicester Badger Feast

LEICESTER, ENGLAND. - One
of the strangest surviving Christmas
customs is the Leicester badger
feast, started by poachers in Nor
man times. Soon before the feast
the village lads catch badger, kill
and dress it. On Christmas eve it
is strung on spit over huge fire
in the inn. When it is ready the par
ty attacks it with fingers-no cut
lery is allowed. Singing and toast
ing accompany the feast, which at
tracts practically all the villagers
and nearby farmers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

der them.
The cut lines were as follows:
"Ashe county challenges any
county in the state or even in
the nation to produce larger gil
ant than her own James Scott,
who is shown with Basil D. Barr,
West Jefferson postmaster and
J. E. Shumake, former police
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
: Amateur Farmer

John had become the proud
owner of a pig, and insisted on
caring for it himself.
After a few weeks, his father
noticed that the animal did not
appear to thrive, and remarked:
John, you're not feeding your
pig enough. 1t doesn't seem to be
fattening at ALL"
81 don't want to- fatten him
yet" answered John. I'm wait
until he gets as long as I want
him, then I'll begin to widen
him oI1t "
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
BOOST FOR LESPEDEZA

Mrs. R. B. Holcomb of the Enon
Community in Yadkin county Sc
cured 1912 bushels of corn from
two acres where the land had
been seeded to lespedeza the year
before. The sod land was SUBJ
soiled; allowed to stand until
mid-winter when it was broken
deeply, and was given a coating
of barnyard manure. No COM
mercial fertilizer was used.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
GREEN MANURE GOOD

To improve the land on which
he will plant silage corn next
spring, D. K. Winecoff of Kan
napolis, Route l, Cabarrus coun-
ty, has seated II acres of vetch.
He says he will turn under the
vetch and keep records on the
results secured with the corn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

The U. S. Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics expects the 1889
Irish potato crop to total about
310,000,000 bushels, a crop small
er by 100000 bushels than that
of 1898.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

REA officials are now busy get
ting right-of-ways signed and
membership fees collected so that
they can start construction on the
rural lines as soon as possible.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

chief, standing under his arms.
James is Is years old, weighs
300 pounds, is Z feet, 4 inches
tall and wears number Is shoes.
He is the son of the late L. A.
Scott and Mrs. Care Scott, of
Grassy Creek"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
Killing Time

Pupil (blufing): "You can't see
time; no one ever saw it. You
can't hear it, you can't touch
it,"
Teacher: "You are killing it.
though"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
just For Fun
"a few jokes borrowed from
Blum'S Alamanac)
A Lasting Kick
A Lasting Kick

why are We comm with your
milk pail empty?" demanded the
farmer. Didn't the old cow give
anything?"
eyes," replied the hired boy,
mine quarts and one kick"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

replied: II like to go and like
to- go and like to come, but it's
staying I don't like"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
Counter Attack

He: Janet, will you marry
me?"
She: "Why, you couldn't keep
me in handkerchiefs."
well, you don't expect to have
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

a cold the rest of your life, do
your"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

The Christmas shopping season
in West Jefferson opens tomor-
rom.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

Likes and Daslikes
A little boy, just returning from
his first day at school, was asked
how he liked to 60 to school. He
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

"No-no!" he cried tensely. His
arms went about her. Wen see
it through, we'll get out Of this.
We must. The car is firm, it won't
be pushed Off" But he knew that
his words were the sheerest bra
vado, because the car, even then,
was slipping fast. One real lunch,
and it would roll off the islet into
IL feet Of water. He himself,
alone, might possibly have a
chance. With Dorothy, in that
vortex, it would be hopeless.
QUIET WATERS
They held each other silently,
and in spite of fear, their hearts
were warm. Both felt that it could
be only a question of minutes
until they we're swept away. Then,
through one Of the odd tricks such
floods are capable of playing, a
great pine trunk came bounding
along, was clutched by a powerful
eddy, and thrust, as though by
a human intelligence, between the
front wheels and two protuber
anceS of rock that stood on either
side, and slightly in front of the
car.
All night they stayed there
nervously wondering how long the
tree would hold the car back
Then, as the dawn broke, they
realized that the waters were
gutter. A little later on Eric no
ticed that they were dropping
inch by inch.
Dorothy" he shouted, "they
must have patched the dam ur
above. The river is beginning tc
drop-we're going to get out Of
this after ALL"
Are we," she asked, land are
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30
Daily Short Story

den, and yet he knew that 1t was
They were travelling at sixty-five
miles an hour, when Dorothy
screamed.
Look out!"
He saw it at the same time.
Fifty feet ahead, at the bottom Of
a slight drop in the road, was the
wreckage of what had been a con,
crete bridge, and in its place the
Androgoosuc roared as it steadily
rose.
There could be only one choice.
To go ahead would be suicidal, the
river would drown them like rats
in a trap. If the brakes would hold
he slammed them on and his
heart rose to his throat as he real
lied that the wheels were locked,
and were skidding crafty on the
slippery, water-greased concrete
paving.
The heavy car, turning about
first one way and then the other
as Eric fought the wheel, paused
for an infinitesimal space at the
brink, and then erratically shot
off the road at a tangent, through
the concrete road posts, clearing
an open space of ten feet, and
landing precariously on a rocky
islet, already covered by the flood
"You-you're all right?"
"Yes-I'm all right, Eric" She
hesitated on the last word. It was
as If she wanted to add another
more intimate word, and yet coulo
not. Are you hurt at ALP"
HISTORY REPEATS
For a moment they sat quietly
trying to adjust themselves to the
fact that they were unhurt, YET
perfectly helpless to protect them
selves against the danger thai
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

} threatened momentarily-a dan.
ger that was made more obvious
by the increasing shaking Of the
heavy car as the flood tore along
its sides.
I'VE might form a sort of raft
of the cushions. I think they'd
float. You could probably keep
yourself up on them until an eddy
pulled them into shore. You'd be
all right then. I could stay here"
II suppose you do think I could
do such q thing" she said. Leave
you here to drown like a rat in a
trap if the car does topple. I guess
I can't blame you"
She laughed mirthlessly, and
yet, to Eric, the hooking quality
that had characterized her laugh
ter before was gone.
He stared out into the driving
rain, and she watched the pain in
his dark eyes.
Eric" she began, timidly, I've
we've made rather a mess of
things. II want you to know
how sorry I am for my part of 1t"
She couldn't explain 10 herself
what had made her say that. Yet
she felt that it was So that she
had been to blame, more often
than not, perhaps, and as she
watched him, wondering what
MIGHT no noSSIn0 thr0IIOh his
mind, cold fear came up within
her-fear that she might never be
able to prove that she meant what
she said.
He looked at her then, and un
derStood what she meant. That
they would never be given The
chance to show each other that
the thing they had brought 20 life
still lived, had only been asleep.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30
BIZ Shane O'Neiu

He laughed softly, warmly.
II was thinking just that-that
we wouldn't escape. And that 1t
was better that we shouldn't than
that we should go on as we had.
And 1 was happy that we had
found something-even so late,
that we thought had been lost for
ever. I was thinking Of another
stream, and what I told you then,
and 1 felt that it still was true"
And what was that, Eric?"
II said, You and I will always
be together-always.'
Eyes, always" And her heart
told her that this time it was so.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

There wasn't time to get Doro-
thy to the shore. All that he could
do was to Chamber up the rock,
and stay beside her. He had bare
ly reached it when the four foot
wave, travelling at terrific speed,
struck, causing even the great,
firmly anchored rock to tremble.
"Afraid?"
Her eyes had been filled with a
courage and faith now absent
from them as she answered:
There's nothing for me to be
afraid Of. You're here, Eric"
It grew dark soon after that.
and rained, raising the level Of
the boiling water to within a few
inches of their feet.
Eric knew that if it came up
just a little further, they would
be swept off their perch-and
nothing could live in the river.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

Iyou-are you glad?" There was
a timid pleading in her voice that
begged him to show her that the
same thing that had happened to
her had happened to him, that his
warmth during the night had not
been merely a protective chivalry.
His yes we're her answer. The
look they held-and his voice, as
ne said:
II am more glad than I have
ever been about anything else
until now"
Eric, what we're you thinking
about when you were looking out
over the water, before the tree
damned through in front Of us
when you thought we'd never
escape?"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

Constructed as 1t was in the mar
row ravine where he had been
fishing, it would sweep the strong.
est man under.
They stayed there on the rock
all night long, and never once did
Dorothy falter. He was almost
sorry when men came in a row
boat in the morning, and rescued
them.
"You-you and I will always be
together-always," he had told
her. 1t was when the river had
threatened most vigorously
when he had all but lost any hope
that they would escape it. Dorothy
had understood what he meant.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

THE CAR was peril
ously balanced. One real
lurch and it would roll into
IL feet of water. Then a
pine, caught in a powerful
eddy, was thrust between
the front wheels and the
rocks.
Eyes" she whispered, pressing
her cold, wet hand against his
Always"
And now they were driving tc
a city. A city where they would
stop at different hotels, where he
and she would go, separately, to
law offices, where dry old mer
would point out the delicate tech
nicalities to be observed while Sc
curing a divorce.
It didn't seem real to Eric Ly
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30
AUTUMN FLOOD

and tender, and full Of faith in
the pathway before them.
AS he stood there looking at her,
he felt the water rising from his
knees to his hips, and he sudden
ly realized that the lumber dam
must have given way UP river.
FAITH IN HIM THEN
At any moment tons Of water
would tumble down. obliterating
every obstacle. He listened intent.
ly, and heard the approaching
flood as it roared its way down.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-30

THE car rolled along
Il smoothly, and gave Eric
Lyden a fine sense of power.
It made no difference whether
the grade was steep or not, a
slight pressure of his foot,
and the strong motor delivered
a flowing life to the wheels.
1t made him feel as though he
was personally responsible-a sort
of god of the machine, and the
thought made him laugh.
Whats funny?" Eric's wife,
Dorothy, turned her pretty, dis
contented face away from a rapt
regard for the silver streaks of
rain that fell so hard upon the
roadway before the car, that fall.
ing leaves were scattered about as
though by heavy wind.
Funny? Why nothing's funny.
II just sort of laughed" Eric
said.
INFURLATING TRICK
"I'll say there's nothing funny"
Dorothy said, and she turned her
head away once more.
Never mind" he said YEARLY,
II just chuckled about a ridiculous
idea that popped through my
head. Nothing really worth laugh
ing at"
Eric stepped a little harder on
the gas, and noticed that the
streams running beside the road,
and crossing it under little
bridges from time to time, were
swollen to capacity. Crests of
white water foamed upon them.
He was glad they had only fifty
miles more to drive.
The swift water, however, set
up another train of thought in his
mind. He remembered one spring
a few years back when the water
looked like that. It was fall now,
but the water had looked the
same. A spring freShet they had
called it.
He had been trout fishing, but
the churning water precluded
that, and he had looked at Dor.
othy who sat on a high rock
watching him. They had only
been married a few weeks, and
she lived up to the general con.
ception of a new bride. Proud
Of him, and herself. Affectionate
The times-news., 1938-07-26
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE GROWING TAX LOAD

One hundred and twenty-four American COM
panies employing 100000 persons paid federal
and state taxes of $6S1, ,648,286 in 1882 and $50
companies paid 81 ,631 2S4, ,O94 in 1887 according
to an analysis by the American Federation of In
vestors. In 1887 these companies paid taxes OF
$514 for each empoye Each common shareholder
received Sl.95 in 1887 but for each common share
dividend taxes of $2.62 paid.
"If free industry is to survive" says the fed
Grafton, profits must be sufficient to meet taxes
wages, interest on bonds and fair income on the
investments of shareholders. Taxes MUST be paid
If the earnings of company are not sufficient to
pay its taxes the government may take its assets
even to the extent of destroying the company,
throwing its workers out of jobs, and wiping out
the value of the securities held by investors
THE prosperity of nation depends upon the
purchasing poweS of its people. Excessive taxation
seriously reduces the purchasing power of millions
of thrifty citizens, investors and workers, who pay
the bulk of the taxes. Extravagant governmental
spending may stimulate business temporarily, but
a depressing reaction is certain to follow, with
constantly mounting debt to be paid by ever in
creasing taxation"
1t is as true now as in the time of Thomas JEFF
ferson, that the power to tax is the power to de-
stroy Through taxation government can topple
the greatest of commercial establishments. 1t can
render helpless millions of loyal workers. No pri-
vate company operate year after year at loss
and avert collapse.
In the $50 companies listed by the federation
649O,00O persons hold shares The predominant
majority of these shareholders are not economic
tyrants" but small investors who can not afford to
suffer loss of their shares. An increase of 10 per
cent in taxes in single year (l936 to 1880 Is
much too great a burden on the thrifty Americans
who have invested their savings.
Serious as this tax situation is, it will be much
worse for government choosing to disregard the
utter failure of its spending, must increase taxes
in order to continue on it's wild course. 1t is i'm
possible to reconcile the presidents program with
his positive statements that extravagant gov
ernment leads the people the hill to the poor
house Something must break under the strain.
The News and Courier holds no brief for the
$50 companies but it is concerned for the Amerl-
can people whose personal fortunes are lnextr-
cably bound up with the fortunes of business and
industrial establishments There can be no true
prosperity in the United States if returns are swa
lowed up in taxes. Never has government had the
power to produce prosperity, for in government IS
no magic. Government has nothing it does not take
from the peOple.-Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news., 1938-07-26
HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS AND ALCOHOL

A report was issued from the New York medical
examiners office last week to the effect that 4O
per cent of the persons killed in New York City
highway accidents last year had been drinking al
coholic beverages. Said the report:
while the traffic regulations are very effective
in materially reducing highway accidents they can
not control the action of pedestrian driver whose
reaction time muscular coordination and mental
faculties are reduced by the ingestion of alcoholic
beverages"
The conclusion is that sit is safe to say that at
least one of every three pedestrians killed in high
wav accidents had been drinking" No other
similar studies are known to have been made
A conjecture of peculiar interest is as to the
percentage of alcoholics amongst those whose death
of alcohol into the system. In the case OF the Pc
destrian no more is involved than the risk or be-
ing himself killed injured; il that of the driver
of a car, the conclusions are necessarily much less
definite since there may be, and often are fatal
ties to Others while the actual agent goes un-
scathed
The actual alcoholic, who has "lost command OF
himself and to one degree another, Of his men
tai faculties" may be certain that as pedestrian
he is an extra hazardous risk and that as driver
he is not only that but more of menace to other
persons than are drivers in general. What OF the
person who is not an alcoholic, but is accustomed
to imbibe; is there a relation of drinking and &C
cident about which he needs to feel a concern oi
similar gravity?-Greensbor News
The times-news., 1938-07-26
IVA employees MAY TALK

Even though person may be employed by the
Tennessee Valley Authority, the special congress
sonal investigating committee sitting at Knoxville
has decided he has the ordinary rights of an Amer
lean citizen to talk with whom he chooses outside
working hours. This seems rather obvious propo-
sition yet it may prove distinctly important in get
ting at the facts about what has been taking place
in the Tennessee Valley.
In essence it means that IVA employees who
desire to do so may communicate with Dr.. Arthur
E. Morgan deposed former chairman, about nfor-
nation which he wishes to bring out before the
committee and may do so without being answer
able therefor to any iva official This will give
Dr. Morgan something nearer an equal opportunity
to prepare and present his case against the ma
iority members of the board 1t will signify that
though there may be difference of opinion as to
how the government power and flood-control prof.
ect should be managed affairs are not at the stage
where any deviation from the party line is sum-
mariy to be treated as sabotage and cOunter-revo-
lutonary activity.
The employees of IVA owe all the customary
loyalty to an employer, but that employer is the
United States, not any individual officials, and the
object of the congressional inquiry is neither to
defend nor to persecute any person but to get
at the facts-Christan Science Monitor.
The times-news., 1938-07-26

Editor The Times-News:
In his Madison Square Garden
speech in the fall of 1896. the
president said that in the present
administration, business had met
its match, but in his next admin
istration business would find its
master"
These were strange words from
the servant Of a free and SOW
reign people; but this servant had
usurped the vested powers Of the
legislative branch of our govern
ment, had also seized control CT
agricultural production, and had
plans to subordinate the supreme
court to his will.
Flushed with his success, he
now demanded to become master
Of the industry and business Of
the greatest industrial nation IN
history.
Surrounding himself with ad-
Visors, not one of whom had ever
turned wheel of industry, or
knew as much about business, as
a COW does about handling a
musket, this bunch conspircd to
sell business and industry "down
the river" to labor unions in OK
change for their votes.
With the help Of cowardIy pol
iticians in congress. laws were
passed cnslaving industry and
The times-news., 1938-07-26
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER,

that of New Dealers who wanted
to make a fight on all primary
fronts regardless of the chances
for success.
NEW YORK Industrial Commls-
" sioner Elmer F. Andrews, ap-
pointed to the governments
toughest job"-that of wage
hour administrator will draw
$4,000 a year, just $4,000 Jess
than his New York state salary.
But the five members of the
new Civil Aeronautics Authority
will each receive $4,000 a year
plus the aid of a $4,000 ad-
ministrator. Congress fixed the
salaries in all cases.
Besides Chairman Edward j.
Noble, a millionaire New Dealer
appointed as a Republican MEM
ber, the authority includes: the
other So-called Republican men,
Der, General Counsel Oswald
Ryan of the Federal Power Com
mission, of Indiana, promoted
from assistant general counsel
under the New Deal; Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General Harl-
lee Branch, Democrat with ex-
perience in airmail administra-
ton; Grant Mason of Pan-Amer-
lean Airways, close friend OF
Jimmy Roosevelt and husband of
the girl Jane Kendall - whom
Calvin Coolidge once said was the
prettieSt in Washington; and Rob-
ert Hinckley, western WPA re-
gional administrator, former air
line operator, liberal Democrat,
and close friend of New Deal
Senator Ebert D. Thomas of
Utah, who is up for denomination
and reelection.
The $4,000 administrator is
Assistant General Counsel Clinton
M. Hester of the Treasury, a
career man who wrote the final
draft. of the defeated Roosevelt
reorganization bill and much OF
the new aeronautics act. ~.
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