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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
Walter Erwin
Deputy Marshal

Walter Erwin, a former sheriff
of Allegheny, has been appoint
ed deputy marshal in the Middle
North Carolina district and has
assumed his duties with head
quarters at Wilkesboro.
He succeeds w. A. Jones, of
Wilkesboro, who relinquished the
office about six months ago.
Since that time other deputy
marshals had devoted some time
to work in this circuit of the dis
trict.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21

To Meet Tues

The North Wilkesboro district
conference of the women's auxil-
larry of the Presbyterian church
will be held at the Jefferson
Presbyterian church next Tues
day when representatives from
all of the Presbyterian churches
of Ashe, Allegheny and Wilkes
county are expected to be pre-
sent.
A number of officers and
speakers of Winston-Salem and
other places will also attend and
take part in the all-day program
which opens at 1920 in the morn
ing.
Mrs. Joseph Mccoy, of North
Wilkesboro, who is district chair
man, will preside over the meet
ings.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
RUSSIAN ARMY CONTINUES
DRIVE ACROSS POLAND

MOSCOW-The soviet Russian
army rolling westward through
Poland reported authoritatively
tonight to have occupied the city
of Wilno, about IS miles into
northeast Poland, and to be ap-
preaching the industrial city of
Lwow, some go miles in from
the frontier in the southeast.
Just how far into Poland the
red armies planned to 60 was not
definitely known.
Continued on Page Three)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
President To Open Congress
With Special Message Today
To Take Action On Neutrality
Act. Main Theme-"Keep
Out OF War;.

President Roosevelt will go be-
fore Congress today to deliver an
address officially opening the his
toric contest over the neutrality
law.
He began drafting that signifi-
cant document - which is to be
short because Congress already
has much information on the sub
ject - as members of house and
senate started arriving in the city
for the special session.
Among those who reached the
capitol, Senators Vandenberg, Re-
publican, Michigan, and Holt,
Democrat, West Virginia, i'm
mediately announced their OPP
position to changing the neutra-
lily statute at this time, while
Senators Connally, Democrat,
Texas, and Guffey, Democrat,
Pennsylvania, said they would
support the administrations pro-
posal that the embargo on arms
shipments to European bellige-
rents be repealed.
Asserting that his mind was
still open on that question, Sena-
tor Reynolds, Democrat, North
Carolina, just returned from
Europe, charged the administra-
ton had fallen down miserably'
in providing transportation for
Americans stranded in war zones
The U. S. Manhattan on which he
reached New York Monday car
ried, he said, a large number OF
aliens, whose accommodations
should have been occupied by
American citizens.
With the special session SEIZED
uled to convene today real in
flux of legislators and outpour-
ing of statements on the neutra-
lity issue is to be expected
Yesterday Mr.. Roosevelt held his
national unity" conference at
the White House on the admins
tration's neutrality program.
To this gathering he invited
not only the Democratic lead
ership in Congress, but the Re
publican leaders as we'll, and tC
this group he has added the
names of Alfred M. Landon and
Col. Frank Knox, the 1886 presi-
dental and vice president candi-
dates of the Republican party.
Vanderberg, who is expected to
assume a position of leadership in
the battle against the administra-
TONS neutrality program, took
the position that now that the
war has started any alteration in
the statute would be of itself an
unneutral act. This position, he
said, was based on zone funda-
mental rule"
"The only way you can have
neutral attitude is to define it in
advance of its application"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21

This week some several read
ers commented on "Ashe Gas" 1t
would be taking unfair advant-
age of a situation to repeat them
here, but it can be said that some
were favorable, some otherwise,
and still some others, just lot
of gas. All of which, is all this
column claims to be! But it takes
lot of gas to get places, says the
car owner, so we are on our way
for the week.
J4st Imagine :!
Frank SmethurSt, of the Ra-
leigh News and Observer,
and one of North Cardinals most
outstanding newspaper men, once
said, in speaking to a group OF
club women, that if he were to
choose one qualification for writ
ing, it would be imagination.
In writing, as in other fields,
imagination can be carried too
far; but on the other hand the ma
jority of people miss much be-
cause they are lacking in this
quality. Miss Hazel Campbell, of
B. Creek uses her imagination for
pleasure to herself as well as to
other. This week while gathering
Pippin apples she ran across one
on which there were some minor
blemiShed. To the average indivi-
dual it might have been just an
other apple, but Miss Campbell
readily saw that the blemisheS
formed the eyes, nose, mouth and
ether features of a face. Using
this for the head she cleverly
dressed a doll with an old time
bonnet, apron, dress and petit
coat, gave her a walking stick, =
snuff box and brush, and labeled
her IAN Ashe County 'pippin' ~.
Dozens of people have paused at
the Window of The Skyland Post
to admire her.
A. Lot Of HOey
Will Pryor, prominent Wick
Chemical company official, of
Greensboro, and New York City
recently told an interesting story
regarding North Cardinals illu-
strious Governor. He relates that
Immediately after the election,
some N. Y. associates knowing he
was interested in affairs of the
Tar Heel State, asked him who
the newly elected Governor was.
When he replied, "Clyde R.
Hoey," his associate exclaimed
"You southerners like a lot of
''hooey" anyway. The statement
is quite true when applied to
North Cardinals present Cover
nor who visitors at the Ashe
Continued on Page Eight
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
FRENCH ARMY TURNS
BACK GERMAN FORCES

PARIS-Under cover Of hea-
Wy artillery barrage, German
troops were reported tonight to
have struck in the heart of the
northern flank of the western
front and been turned back by
French forces.
The German armies, with vic
tory over Poland on the eastern
front virtually complete, took the
initiative against the French in
the west.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
Pugh Rites To
Be Held Today

Funeral service will be held
this afternoon for John R. Pugh,
at the Laurel Springs Methodist
church at 200 o'clock.
The deceased who was we'll
known in the Lburel Springs
section was 70 years old at the
time of his death on Tuesday
night. He had been in i'll health
for several weeks.
He is survived by his wife and
the following sons and daughters:
DR.. Charles, Robert, William, and
Edward Pugh, Mrs. S. L. Up
church and Miss Blanche Pugh.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
Ashe County Fair Will Open Here Next Tuesday Morning
The Official Program
ASHE COUNTY FAIR
SeDtember 26.3O. 1920

TUESDAY, SEPT. 26-OPENING DAY -
Entering of Exhbits-All Day livestock and Poultry
may also be entered at farmers responsibility
Midway Atractons-Day and Night-Fireworks at Night
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 27-"FARNER'S DAY"
Entering of Livestock and Few Other Exhibits until 1920
A. NJ
Judging of Exhibits To Start at II A. NJ
Speeches by F. R. Farnham and DR.. c. E. Grinnell and
Other Farm Experts-2:3O P. NJ
Midway Attractions Day and Night-Freworks at Night
THURSDAY, SEPT. 2S-"WOMEN'S DAY"
Contests for Men and Women, Starting at II A. M.
Fiddlers Convention and Dancing Contests P. NJ
(At West Jefferson High SchooD
Midway Attractions Day and Night-Freworks at Night
FRIDAY SEPT. EDUCATIONAL DAY"
Ashe County School Field Day Contests-1O3O A. M.
Pony Races for Boys and Girls-12:30
Address by Gov Clyde R. Hoey-2 P NJ
Football Game, Lansing VS.. Madison High-345 P. M.
Free u S. Dept Agriculture Movie and Comedy-8 P M.
Midway Attractions and Night-Fireworks at Night
SATURDAY, SEPT 3O-"WEST JEFFERSON DAY"
Exhibits and Midway Attractions and Night
Exhibitors to Remove Exhibits Saturday Afternoon
Combination Dance in Community Club House, to II
sponsored by Ashe Post of American Legion)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21

Mack Sugg, of near White Oak,
was the first Bladen County
farmer to begin digging peanuts
this season, reports Assistant
Farm Agent r. M. Williams.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
HELP YOUR SCHOOL;

The Skylard Posts Ashe coun.
ty central high school circulation
campaign and contest is now I'M
der way. The students will APP
preciate your support. Subscribe
or renew with them this month.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21
ASHE COUNTY

is the air-conditioned section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
OF the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
THEOR SAFETY OUR
RESPONSIBILITY

(From "Lest We Regret published
by the Travellers Insurance Co..
Blame it on their innocence on the
one hand and on their infrmities on the
other if you will, but the very young
and the very old play the saddest roles
in Americas traffic tragedy. When a
baby under four or an elderly person
over IS is killed by an automobile, the
chances are about seven out of ten
that it will be case of being jruck
down by modern jehu. True, death
strikes often in every age group and
death is death whether it occurs in a
car or under it's speeding wheels; but
the horrendous picture of this slaugh-
ter of usually innocent pedestrians is
one to make every right-thinking per-
son pause.
Let us grant that little children
should not be allowed to play in the
streets. Let us grant that the aged,
when their senses dim and their foot
steps falter, should stay out of. the
No Mans Land of speeding traffic.
Yes, let us grant these things, and
then soberly realize that they will be
there whether we wish it or not and
that humanity demands that their
safety becomes our responsibility.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
REMEMBER

Again tread the old school path
Winding out the lane.
The old bent maple and locust tree
Are standing just the same.
Now there's an arch-way made of trees
Where wonder slowly through
Into field Of golden-rods
Still wet with morning dew.
Along the fence the sumac
Still linger in my mind.
And then the breeze comes through the
trees
Filled with the scent Of pine.
Out on the road and up the hill
Some boys are waiting there
| hear their welcome boyish shouts
And see the smiles they wear.
Now toward the school house we play
along
One with stills he'd made
Another has a jack-knifc
And he tries to make trade.
To-day these boys have all grown up
And drifted on their ways
But in each mind still fingers on
Sweet thoughts Of those old days.
Joseph H. Sailing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
A. +. OF l.. IN LEGAL FIGHT
AGAINST NLRB DECISION

Washington, d. C. QLNS).-The
American Federation of Labor has
asked the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court to nullify certification
of CIO union as exclusive bargain
ing agents for west coast longshore-
men.
The suit, filed in behalf of the A.
f. of l.. International Longshoremen's
Association and Pacific Coast District
No. 1 of the LILA, asked the court to
enjoin the National Labor Relations
Board from refusing to withdraw its
certifcation of the CIO union
The Federation unions contended
that their members are compelled to
bargain through negotiators who do
not represent their interests and that
they have suffered damages and loss
of prestige.
Harry Bridges international Long
shoremen's and Warehousemens AS
sociation of the CIO, since being GER
titled by the NLRB, has signed con-
tract giving it's members preferen-
tial shop on west coast docks.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
"JIGC ERS"

No. 8's turner, Sid Young, high
priest and professor of the piscatorial
art has been conducting an extremely
exclusive school the past few years.
In fact, he has limited his class to one
pupil, Howard Moore, No. 8's demon
liner.
After three years of intensive study
under the professor, Howard, now a
senior, believes he has caught the mack
of the thing and is certain that by the
end of the course he will also catch a
fish.
Howard's $250.OO fishing tackle is
beauty itself, but the prof. has a hard
job keeping his ace pupil from using
a ten-cent bamboo pole.
x 4 X
Two Ton Tony was willing to wager
one thousand iron men that he would
hear the bell for the second round in
his coming unpleasantness with Joe
Louis. Now that it what we call real
confidence.
x X X
You can now buy union-made spark
plugs for your drive to the Potters
Picnic at Chippewa Lake. Local Union
179 are employees of the New Jersey
Spark Plug Porcelain Co.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
Dealing In Good Luck

Washington, d. C.-Keystone Lab
oratories, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee,
trading as Memphis Mail Order House,
Curio Products Company and white
Line, will discontinue representing
that Poreen Ointment, La Jac Lovin'
Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac
Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin
foods or skin whiteners, according to
a stipulation entered into with the F..
Il. G.. Also, that other of its products
eliminate wrinkles; that La JAG Brite
Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any
stated time, make the skin five shades
lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good
Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love
Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Load
stone or High John the Conqueror
Root and other similar products bring
good luck, love, romance, power, life,
inspiration, easy money or irresisti-
bility.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
Bargaining Survey

Washington, d. C.-Thc recently
launched impartial study of collective
bargaining in the United States will
be directed by DR.. Harry A. Mills, la
Dor relations specialist of the Univer-
sity of Chicagos department of econ
omics, member of the first n. L. r. B.
in 1884 and 1885, and member of the
arbitration panel of the newspaper in
dustry, it has been announced by the
Twentieth Century Fund. A detailed
study of such industries as printing,
newspaper publishing, mems clothing,
women's wear, steel, rubber, hosiery
and ailroads-industries varying
widely in the extent and nature of
their collective bargaining experience
will form the basis of DR.. Mills
findings.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE MASSES

PROGRESSIVE forces throughout the United
States will join with the American Federation
of Labor in re2retting the action of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House of Representatives
in refusing to recommend legislation at this seS-
sion of Congress extending the benefits Of the So
cia Security Act to some 6,125,OOO persons now
excluded from its provisions, including farm la
borerS, domestic servants, bank workers, Seamen
and employees Of non-charitable organizations.
The 1888 convention of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor declared that "cvery person who
leads useful constructive life has right to Sc
culity after passing the prime Of productive ser
vice, and that therefore the "cOVerage Of uld-age
benefits should be Widcned to include all employed
persons, including the Self-emplOyed."
This broader coVcrage also approved by
the Advisory Council on Social Security, whose
members, including many representative Amer-
citizens from employer and cmplOyc groups
and the public, and by the Social Security Board,
representing the President.
The enactment of the Social Security Act was
one Of the most cOmmcndable social achievements
in the history of the United States. It's provisions
lessen the fear and insecurity of millions Of per-
sons who are entitled to its benefits. But fear and
insecurity are still present in the lives Of millions
more who by all the standards of Justice are Just
as much entitled to social security when old age
approaches as are those already protected in Il
modest way by the provisions Of the Social Sc
curity Act.
With the underlying and indispuLablc justice
Of extending the Social Security Act to include a
few millions Of those now barred from its benefits
so plainly apparent it is to be hoped that the Ways
and Means Committee will reconsider its decision
and recommend amendments to the Act to include
at least the 6i25 900 persons estimated to be en-
ployed as farm IaborcrS, domestic servants, bank
workers, Scamcn and workers in non-charitablc or
ganzationS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
COMPANY UNION TINGE

1NHE wholly unWarranted prejudice of the Natl
Onal Labor Relations Board against the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is strikingly revealed in
some of the Boards decisions which clearly show
congenital tendency to attach the odium of COM
pany, unions to A. F. of L. affliates and to use
this preposterous prediction as the basis for tor
tured interpretations of the National Labor Re-
lations Act-interpretations designed not to pro-
mote collective bargaining, which is the policy un-
derlying the Act, but to discriminate against the
principles of trade unionism that are an integral
part of the American Federation of Labor.
These tortured interpretations have frequently
mechanical the Labor Boards decisions invalidat-
ing agreements with employers legally negotiated
by unions affiliated with the A. F. of L.
The Executive Council of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor in it's report to the 1888 conven-
ton of the Federation presented terse but ndubit-
able evidence of this sort of maladminstration by
the National Labor Relations Board in connection
with the Boards decision in the involving the
Consolidated Edison Company and the Internati-
onal Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of Ameri-
ca, an A. F. of l.. affiliate. The Councils report,
which the convention adopted at it's own decara-
ton, said:
'By virtue of it's decisions the Board has, by
implication at least, placed American Federation
of Labor unions in the category of company unions
and has caused to be visited upon American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor unions the same punishment as
has been visited upon company unions.
''ln the Consolidated Edison Company case in
j.
hood of Electrical Workers, the l. B. e. w. had
secured contract recognizing it as the bargain
ing agency for it's own members. The Board set
aside the contract and used language which fails
to conceal the finding that it looks upon the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as a
company union. This case was appealed to the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals of New
York. The Court held that there was no justifable
reason for invalidating this contract and author
lied the company and the l. B. e. w. to immedi-
ately enter into contracts upon the same
terms and conditions as those which were invali-
dated by the Board"
This Indictment of the illegal action of the La
Dor Board presented to the A. F. of l.. Con-
vention on October 3, 1888. On December s. 1888,
the Supreme Court of the United States decided,
in an opinion written by Chief Justice Hughes,
that the Labor Board" was without authority" to-
issue it's order nvalidating the agreement between
the Electrical Workers Brotherhood and the con-
sodated Edison Company.
1t is to prevent such mOnstrous perversiOns of
authority as the Labor Board exhibited in the Con-
sodated Edison Company case that the American
Federation of Labor is sponsoring the amendments
to the National Labor Relations Act contained in
the bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Walsh
of Massachusetts and in the bill introduced in the
House of Representatives by Representative Bar
den of North Carolina.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
CONTROLLING MONEY FOR THE PEOPLE

GINCE the organized labor movement of New
~ Zealand took over, by electoral action, the
government of that country in 1885 on a platform
designed to benefit the masses of the people, the
New Zealand Parliament has enacted much legis-
lation to protect the wealth producers and at the
same time provide reasonable profits for those who
own the industries.
With regard to the reservoir of money the la
Dor government started with the principle that it
must be controlled in the interest of the people.
This was tersely expressed by Prime Minister M.
j. Savage, who said that the "clear objective of
the organized labor movement in control of the
government sis to make money the servant of man
instead Of his master"
In explaining this principle and it's significance
Mr. Savage added: at is just as necessary for the
nation to be the sole authority for the issue and
control of money it is for it to be the sole
thority for the organization and control Of the
Army and the Navy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
ROAD BUILDING BY WPA WORKERS

QUITE frequently critics of the Governments s
~ commendable policy of providing work relief
for millions of the jobless whom those who own
and control work opportunities have barred from
employment sneer at the alleged useless labor per-
formed by the unemployed who are given tempor-
airy part-time jobs the pro jects administered
by the Works Progress Administration.
Statistics the work performed by WPA
workers on our highways during the four-month
period from July to November, 1888, made public
by Colonel F. C. Harrington, Works Progress Ad-
mnistrator, reveal the essential falsity of the
charges against the WPA workers and Indicate the
social value of their services.
Colonel Harrington pointed out that during
the four months more than 80 600 miles of roads
and streets, the largest portion of which was in
the rural areas, were built and improved by WPA
workers."
In addition, more than 1900 new bridges and
$4,000 new culVerts were completed, and 1,5OO
miles Of sidewalks and paths and more than 56,-
100000 linear feet of roadside drainage bitches
We're constructed or improved.
These figures, the report said represent only
projects brought to completion during the four
month period and do not include work done on ap-
proximately 10000 other highway projects which
were still in operation at the end Of the period
In explaining the public benefits Of this rural
highway construction program Colonel Hariing-
ton said "such roads are vital lines of communi-
cations to millions of farmers throughout the
country being in many instances their only access
to urban markets. Many of these have been in d
poor state of repair and impassable during much
of the year" But under the impulse of the WPA
during the last three and one-haf years tens Of
thousands of miles of such fal-Weather roads"
have been converted to 'year-round usefulness"
Evidently the three million abe-bodcd joblesS
provided with temporary employment by the Gov
ernment work relief projects are performing
important functions in constructing public I'M
provements for the benefit of the community.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-04-06
THEY BEGIN TO AGREE

THE Italo-Russian trade agreement may not
amount to much in itself, but it is significant
indication of how totatarian states can get to-
gether when it is obviously worth while to do so
Some months ago Hitler remarked that he
could make deal with any dictator-that it was
only the democracies that gave him trouble.
Indeed, why not? A totalitarian state is a to-
talitarian state, whether it calls itself Communist
Fascist or Nazi. The things that divided them
are superficial differences. 1t is between totali-
tarianism and democracy that the difference is as
high as heaven and as deep as hell.
Stain has come to an agreement with MusS-
olini. Stain can come to an agreement with Hit
ler. If it seems worth his while, Stain can come
to an agreement with the war lords who control
Japan On the important point despotism, they
all see eye to eye.-Gerald w. Johnson in Balti-
more Evening Sun.