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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-16
YOUTH CRUSADE RALLY
TO BE HELD AT BOONE

A large delegation of young
Methodist in Ashe are planning
to attend the Youth Crusade Raj
ly which will be held at Boone
on March 10. 1t is a tri-county
rally.
Miss julia Bauguess, of Jeffer-
son who is president of the Ashe
Union, will preside and an in
,eresting program has been ar
ranged.
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buildings. grounds, and theme cen
ter are attracting wide attention.
They are the apportionment of
1.-THE Home Folks Dollar" shown
through the use of a symbolic sill
yer dollar, behind which animated
figures of men appear; and the dis
tribution of Arcadian Nitrate, which
employs a map with lighted zones,
animated freight trains and steam
ship to bring home it's message. A
lecturer supplements the display,
giving vital economic data; and
sound recordings, color projection
and motion pictures complete the
ensemble
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-16
GRAZING CROPS

There are 107 Currituck farm
ers who are providing winter
grazing crops. for their pigs. This
means healthy pigs, grown under
sanitary conditions and more
profits to the owners, SAYS L. A
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-16
PlOW Terraced
Lands Carefully

An automobile requires oil and
grease to keep it in good work
ing condition. Likewise, a ter
raced field must have considera-
ton at blowing time to maintain
it, says H. M. Ellis, agricultural
engineer of the State College Ex-
tension Service.
Farmers in many section of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-16
SERVICE AT ST. MARY'S

There will be service and
preaching at st. Mary's church,
Beaver Creek, on Sunday, Feb.
10Th, at HOO A. NJ, Rev. j. B.
Stills having charge. He is stay
ing of Jefferson and Glendale
Springs this week.
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CONGRESS-:
To the House

British-French cheers reverberat-
ed across the Atlantic when the u. S.
senate passed, So to 30, the admins
tration's neutrality bill which per-
mits cash-and-carry sale of NUM-
tons to belligerents. Berlin was re-
sentful and Rome was sad, the lat
ter forecasting longer war if
America aided the allies. In Rus
STA, the newspaper Izvestia COM
mented sourly that "war in Europe
was met by Wall Street with poorly
disguised rejoicing in expectation Of
profits on war orders"
fThe U. S. soa, already on bad terms
ipith Russia since the u. S. S. City of
Flint, seized by Germany, had been taken
to far-north MurB,ansk, repaired, and re-
leased by the Soviet TO her German prize
cretO. All u. S. diplomatic efforts to To-
cate the Fiint's American cretD pere ig.
nOred, but il tpas learned the Al men
Uere aboard as the ship sailed for Ger
many. Stopping at Tromsoe, Nor,0ay, the
Flint pas ordered aiUayJ
Still awaited was the house vote
on neutrality. Administration lead
ers arranged to have the rules COM
mittee bring out simple resolution
sending the measure to conference
with the senate, move made posi-
BILE by the houses passage of a
modified version of the program
last summer. Then the only house
vote on the embargo would center on
a resolution to instruct house agents
to insist on the partial arms en-
barge. If the resolution failed, quick
agreement was certain since most
conferees are pro-repeal.
AS house debate opened, admin
istrationists forecast victory by at
least 80 points. Isolationists, insist
ing the result would hinge on about
10 votes, hoped pressure from back
home would sway fence straddlers
to their side.
But after neutrality, what next?
Although Franklin Roosevelt wanted
congress to go home, many an anti
New Dealer wanted to sit pat until
the war was over-whether a year
or decade.
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Confidential Information
Available to FOREIGNERS

But to get back to the Dies com.
mittee list of alleged communists,
or fellow travellers, within the gov
eminent itself. Those of us who
have been in constant contact with
individuals in various official capac-
tiles recognize the dangers that are
inherent in their situations. I, for
one, am genuinely fearful of them.
Any government worker comes into
possession of vast quantities of high
ly confidential information. It is in
formation that belongs to you and
to me and to others, because we
are compelled by law to supply to
the government all records and facts
which the government seeks.
1t is not information that belongs
to any one government employee or
official and that person has no right
to use it or disclose it to others, ex-
cept as the laws require.
I believe, therefore, it does not
take vivid imagination to see how
such information can be used de-
structively by one of the rats who
secretly owes allegiance to the So
Wet or the Nazis or to the Fascists,
of Italy. America long has pro-
ceeded upon faith. If that faith is
preached between individuals, our
laws and our courts are available
for correction, for damages, for en-
forcement of rights. But what, I
ask, are any of us going to do when,
within the offices of the government
itself, there are concealed men and
women who descend below the level
of common thieves and secretly sup
ply facts about our nation to for
eigners whose purpose is to destroy
us? Who knows but that this sort
of thing goes on within our army
and our navy?
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did not look like a German-French
war. Neither did the communicates.
Said Berlin's: ''No special happen
ings." Said Paris: every reduced
activity during the night"
There was no sign of peace be-
hind German lines, however. Al
lied reconnaissance revealed about
100000 Nazi troops concentrated
on Swiss, Belgian, Netherlands and
French frontiers, indicating a posi-
BILE invasion of the lesser neutral
states. Opposing them were the
same number of French troops and
about $4,000 British.
Still the war did not start despite
frontier filters which were height
ened when the Reich cut telephone
communications all along this 500
mile frontier. Observers believed
only bad weather or Adolf Hitler's
whim stood between German troops
and a large-scale offensive. There
was also chance Hitler awaited
support from Russia.
Nazidom had no fear of an allied
offensive, but that very assurance
constituted an even greater fear.
Poorly fed and nervously strained,
Germany cannot endure a long war
of attrition such as Britain and
France will no doubt wage. Some
observers believe the "war of
nerves" which Hitler used to such
advantage earlier this year is now
rebounding, and that Naziism may
soon give way to army rule.
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GERMANY : RUSSIA

Arrows at ~ shotU course OF pos.
sible Hungarian drive to regain Transyl
Uania and the minor provinces of Buko-
pina and the Banaf OF Temesuar; (2)
sho,o the Russian threat to Bessarabia:
~ the rich Dobruja region, coveted by
Bulgaria. Most OF this land Uas given to
Rumania at Versailles. Its loss pould
cut her of from the sea and finish her
as q poioer. But aid may come from
YugosLapia IA, or from the Allies,
Greece and Turkey at (BJ.
ko told a patriotic rally to remem-
Der 1.-TWO ancient countries which
have been wiped off the map"
But il was in the Balkans that
greatest fears arose. When Italy
calmly appropriated $873, 000, 900 for
an arms program which might be
needed to drive nosey Russia out
of the Balkans, Rumania was genu-
inely frightened. Working slyly, the
Soviet kept encouraging Bulgaria's
demands for return of Dobruja fsee
map.
King Carol knew what that meant.
Should trouble come with Bulgaria,
Russia could follow her Polish tao
tics by marching into Bessarabia to
protect" White Russians. Mean
while Hungary would not be above
Saving" her own nationals now I'M
der Rumanian rule. International
observers were convinced this was
no joke, and so was Carol. He sum-
moned his ENJOYS to Turkey, Bull
garia, Greece and Jugo-Slavia for a
conference, and next day Premier
Constantine Argetoianu met Jugo-
Slavia's Premier Dragisha Tsvetko-
witch for mutual defense talks. Ex-
pected daily was some statement
from Italy: Would she demand that
Russia keep hands off, thereby
breaking with Germany? 1t seemed
a good bet.
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Publication of Names
Considered Craze Mistake

Publication of the list stirred Off
cial Washington. 1t was an action
that was undoubtedly grave mis-
take, because anyone can examine
the list and find victims" of the
racketeering organizers persons
who were misled, persons who be-
lieved they were serving sincerely
fine purpose. Many of them are
likely to lose their jobs in the gov
ernment-minor clerks, messengers,
Observation-Disclosures of their al
legged connection with an outfit
whose motives, unknown to most of
the members, were designed to de-
stroy our form of government.
It was about this action that Pres
ident Roosevelt spoke, although it
has been known for months that he
had little respect for the Dies COM
mittee program. Chairman Dies un-
doubtedly deserves censure for pub
LEGATION of the entire list. Common,
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THE bride came home, but not
to weep on Mothers shoulder.
"There are too many bare spots in
our house," she said; "and I want
to rummage in your attic" "You
are welcome" replied Mother,
"but you will find no antiques
nothing there but junk"
A golden oak dresser; a fish
bowl; an old PORTER; a chrome
in wide gold frame; and an old
piano stool; were carted away.
Varnish remover and plain
drawer pulls transformed the
dresser into good-looking chest
of drawers. A glazier put mir
ror in the oval gold frame. Those
are dusky pink branches in the
fish-bowl-lovely against the rose
red brocade hanging. The dia-
gram shows how the hanging was
made from a part of the porter.
The edges were finished with dull
gold colored braid and fringe: and
it hung with matching cord, tas-
sells and an ordinary curtain rod.
What became of the stool and the
mirror will be told next week.
NOTE: Readers who are now
using Sewing Books No. l, 2 and 3
will, be happy to learn that No. 4
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have settled their ninorities prob
lem" Commented midas Mohandas
Gandhi: 81 wonder if dominion status
has any meaning unless it is synony-
nous with independence. midas
cooperation in the war is not as
barren as Hoare believes. It &.
will continue effective, if the Con-
gress party remains non-violent.
But violence may result if Britain
fails to back-water Immediately.
q LOUISIANA. When New Orleans
grand jurors howled after District
Attorney Charles A. Byrnes alleged
ly blocked their probe of tax cor
ruption, Byrnes resigned and was
replaced by Niels Hertz under ap-
pointment of Gov. Earl K. Long.
Hertz first act: To close the hear
ing, where it was being charged the
city lost hundreds of thousands Of
dollars through the alleged tax rack
ct. Next day the u. S. stepped in
with federal grand jury.
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Mechanical corn pickers account
ed for the harvest on about Is per
cent OF the corn acreage, or about
20 per cent of the corn harvested for
grain. These estimates are based
on reports to the United States de-
partment of agriculture from its vol
unteer crop reporters.
California, where the combine first
came into common use, leads with
95 per cent of the wheat acreage
harvested by combine. Arizona COM
bined SO per cent, Washington SO,
and Oregon Is.
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Combines Harvest Half
OF American Wheat Crop

WASHINGTON.-Nearly half the
wheat acreage in the United States
was harvested last year by COM
bines-machines that combine the
reaping and threshing in a single
operation. In contrast, only about
10 per cent of the oat acreage was
combined. Farmers used binders
for harvesting most of the oats, even
in states where nearly all the wheat
: IS combined.
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THE NEUTRALS:
DOGGY Men

A warning power can line up its
weaker neutral neighbors either by
back-slapping or jaw-punching. The
former has more permanent advan-
tages; the latter is useful under
stress. All Hallows' eve found Com
rades Hitler and Stain sticking boz
gey-man Jack O'Lanterns in many
a Balkan and Baltic window while
France and Britain tried to soothe
the frightened children. Italy just
sat.
Up north, where Finland was still
refusing mysterious Russian de-
mands, Foreign Minister Elias Erik
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Bruckarrs Warrington Digest
Bruckarfs Warrington Digest
Investigation of Un-American
Activities in U. S. Bearing Fruit
Gives New Perspective Foreign Influences at Work in
Our Midst; Shows How Our Citizens Are Used
To Promote Ends of Dictatorship.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington d. C.

WASHINGTON. - The long, and
sometimes wearisome, investigation
by the special house committee on
un-American activities, headed by
Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, has be-
gun to bear fruit. 1t is not yet
clear whether all of the fruit will be
good. But there surely is reason to
believe that, even with some of
that fruit Slightly decayed, a great
deal has been accomplished that will
be helpful in retaining America for
Americans.
! have feeling that when the
committees work finally is brought
to close, most of us will have
new perspective on the foreign in
1uences that have been at work in
our midst. We will know more
about the 'isms" that have been
transported to our shores and spread
among us under organization names
that are designed wholly to conceal
the purposes of a controlling clique
which gains its strength and its mon
ey, to a considerable extent, from
foreign lands.
For another thing, it is now evil
dent that whatever else the Dies
committee has done, it has disclosed
how thoroughly easy it is for a few
rat-eyed, scheming foreigners to
feed upon American resources and
use our citizens to promote the ends
of dictatorship. Moreover, the testi-
mony thus far taken has shown how
these weasels operate, the methods
they use.
The testimony has brought out the
fact again that one of the simplest
things in the world is to "organize"
Americans. Some vague promises,
delivered with oratorical fervor; CT
tation of some wrongs and theories
for correcting them, stated only in
generalities, and group of active
organizers, working for pay-that is
what you have to have to Organize"
in the United States. And the trag-
edy of it is that thousands of indi-
viduals will part with coin ''for this
great movement" or that one, with
out knowing that the leaders are
using the membership only for what
ever crooked purposes will serve
their own interests.
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the strike-bound factory to collect
vital U. S.-owned patterns and de-
signs, was turned back by pickets.
Originally the incident was publ
cized by Michigan's Republican
Rep. Clare Hoffman.
q AGRICULTURE. With U. S. soy
beans selling abroad six times bet
ter than in 1888 thanks to the war,
farm officials think 1940's wheat,
beef and cotton crops might be
boosted if Germany's U-boats ham,
per British-French communications
with their colonies. Otherwise beef
slaughter will drop because of poor
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Activities of Ndzis and
Communists in u. S. Revealed

The committee has been attacked,
threatened. Even President Roose-
welt characterized some of its oper-
atoms as a "a sordid procedure.
Members of the groups whose his
tory and purposes have been laid
bare have shouted their heads off
about "unfairness," and injustice"
But repeat, the Dies committee has
served a useful purpose and the
public should remember that the
stuck pig squeals the loudest.
Let us look back over the rec
ord. It shows that the German
American Bund' is a tool of the
Nazi leaders, if not directly of the
German government. It shows that
communists have been and are OPP
Grating in countless "cells" in the
United States, and because of the
record the committee made, Earl
Browder, the boss communist in the
United States, is under indictment
charged with having forged pass
ports that enabled him to make
frequent trips to Russia without the
facts being known. It shows also
that there are numerous organiza-
tons in this country which are SIM
ply the catspaw of the communist
party of Russia.
It appears there is more scandal,
more evidence of violation of law,
yet to come. Largely, because of the
committees exposures there prob
ably will be prosecutions of various
foreigners or officials of so-called
American organizations because
they have failed to comply with our
law. They have not registered with
the department of state showing
their connections with foreign gov
ernments or foreign groups.
In addition to all of these, the
committee has made a CHASTITY ex-
pose of communists within the Of
fees of our own government. It
published the names of 563 persons,
on the government payroll, who are
members of the American League
for Peace and Democracy, with the
assertion that part of them, at least,
were avowed communists.
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ho0s OF oigOT. erS' (Poland,
Czecho-Slovakia, Austria) rights and
impedes agreement and peaceful in
tercourse."
q At Rome, Premier Benito Musso-
lini celebrated Fascism's birthday
by urging the nation to build and
go forward" Stunned was any men,
ton of the war.
q At New York died Alice Brady,
46-year-old stage-screen actress who
won an oscar" from the Motion
Picture acadamy for her work in
"In Old Chicago"
At Phoenix, Ariz., Trunk Murder
ess Winnie Ruth Judd knocked at
the door of the state insane hospital
from which she had escaped one
week before.
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Clue to Hidden Woman

NEW YORK.-New light has been
thrown on the possible identity Of
the Hidden Woman" in the Gilbert
Stuart portrait of George Washing
ton which is one of the treasures of
Morristown National Historical park,
N. j., the department of interior
reports.
Restoration of this valuable paint
ing is now going on, and in the
process an inscription has been
found on the stretcher for the can
vas which may be q clue.
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The Answers

1. A contest is any battle for
supremacy; a tournament usually
refers to some test of athletics or
card skill.
2. George Eliot was a woman.
3. Two-one to mountain time,
and one to Pacific time.
4. A U. S. coin not minted since
1885, made for trade in the Orient.
5. AID libitun, at pleasure; ex-
empli gratia, for example; i'd est,
that is; videlicet, namely.
6. Roman" generally implies
the early Roman empire. italian"
is used.
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of conditions prove that olive drab
is superior to slate blue so far as
low visibility is concerned.
The proposal to change the design
of the uniforms to make them more
comfortable under field conditions,
however, has been approved. The
principal changes are loose cut Of
the shoulder to permit greater free
dom of arm movement, and the use
Of trousers instead Of breecheSnow
part Of the uniform.
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lette from instructing his Iowans
for Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace. Reason: Wallace lacks
political cit"
Wallace himself got his fingers Sc
verely burned. In San Francisco,
he remarked that the President is
"the best qualified man to
guide this country in a serious in
ternational crisis" Back in Wash
ington the President refused COM
ment, but Secretary Steve Early an
swered for him: cit would have been
kind and polite of the speaker to
have consulted the victim before he
spoke"
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winter feeding prospects. Meanwhile
severe west and southwest drouths
endanger the nations breadbasket
again.
q INDIA. When a British white pa
per postponed until after the war"
consideration of midas plea for
dominioniZation, the Madras proyin-
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Immortal Minds

If we work upon marble it win
perish. If we work upon brass
time will efface it. If we rear
temples they will crumble to dust.
But if we work upon mems i'm
mortal minds, if we Undue them
with high principles, with the just
fear of God and love of their fell
low men, we engrave on those tab
lets something which no time can
efface, and which will brighten
and brighten to all eternity.-Dan-
iel Webster.
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Operations Are Directed
From Moscoro and Berlin

But how did the Russian Comm.
tern" operate to get into these vari-
Gus organizations and promote its
nefarious schemes toward world
revolution in a so-called intelligent
race of people here?
The processes, according to the
testimony by Browder and others
before the committee, were very
simple. The American Communist
party sends delegates to the Com
munist International in Moscow.
Decisions are made by the Moscow
group. Browder explained that the
delegates came back with these de-
cisions and policies but he described
them as only voluntary agree
ments" between the Americans and
Russians. The Americans were not
compelled" to observe the Russian
made rules or follow Russian-made
orders, according to Browder. But
the head-communist in this country
was squeezed into a corner by COM
mittee questions and finally ex-
planned that it was customary" for
American members of the party to
part company" with the group
when they failed or refused to agree
with the imported schemes. And
thus voluntary action was forced &C
ton, directed from Moscow, as far
as I can understand words.
American "Fuehrer" Kuhn, of the
German-American bund, appears to
have had something of the same
system. He nevertheless insisted
before the committee that his or
ganization had no connection with
the Nazi party leaders and was not
guided in any way by them. This
statement was made despite testi-
mony, some from Kuhn, himself
that he had many close contacts in
Berlin and that he had made re-
cent visits to Adolph Hitler.
There has been considerable sus-
picion that both Browder and Kuhn
have many men and women in their
organization who can be described
only as racketeers. That is to say,
they have numerous workers" who
are fully aware of the general pur-
poses but who are willing to engage
in the movement" solely because
they have well-paying jobs within
the ranks-which, in my opinion,
rates them as completely dirty
crooks
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POLITICS:
Third Term Talk

In late October a Gallup poIl
showed Franklin Roosevelt's popu-
larity to be greater than in 1896,
when he got 62.5 per cent of the ma
jor party vote. Gallup rating today:
64.9 per cent. Less emphatic, third
term sentiment rose to 43 per cent
compared with 40 before the war.
But many anti-third term voters said
they might change their minds if the
war continues.
Much bigger political news was
the feeling in Washington that Pres
ident Roosevelt will not seek a third
term, an undercover sentiment that
has made many an anti-New Dealer
support his neutrality bill (See CON.
GRESS).
Certainly he is discouraging NOM
nation talk. Observers learned he
told Iowa's Sen. Guy Gillette that
the tall corn states convention dele
cation should go unpledged. It was
also believed he discouraged Gil
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state with
unlimited
authority
bre axis the
unity of the
supranation-
al society,",
robs the law
of nations of
it's founda-
ton and Wig
or, and leads
to the viola
ton of 9TH
kr,I
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THE WAR:
Rebound

When Swiss President Philip Ell
ter visited the intersection of Ger
man French Swiss frontiers, he
passed cigarettes to his own troops,
next handed them across the line to
French soldiers, then offered the
pack to the German guards. This