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Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
WORKING OFF THE FAT

The white mans burden of excess
i've weight seems to have descended
Oh the famous Dionne quintuplets at
q very early age, as it has been de-
Cided they are little too fat. Hence
they have to cut down on starchy
foods. and potatoes are out for them.
for the present anyway. Under their
highly competent medical care, the
dieting will no doubt do them good,
and help them get a start for long
and healthy life.
Many people who are troubled by
an excess of weight will wish they
nad started dieting at any equally
carly age. Perhaps if they had. they
would not now have TO carry these
nverlOads of flesh.
The ways of nature in placing flesh
An the, bones of man are mysterious.
Some people eat freely. and are thin,
and some eat sparingly and are over
@eight. Some human bodies eagerly
grasp every item of food value and
add it to their substance. while 9TH
ers reject this nutrition. and grow
into a lank and bony figure.
The modern world, particularly
women and girls, breads excess
weight. Many people run risks of
lemi-starvation in their effort to
Keep their weight down. The girls
seem to think the slender and will
owy form is the one that fascinates
ne world. and shows off clothes to |
lie best advantage.
1t would seem that an active and !
'igorous life should help keep down .
eight. If people are working ener-
on farms and in gardens.
over the house to do house
Urk, playing strenuous tennis and
off. dancing. taking long walks. it
Ould seem that the surplus weight
iould be less likely to become bur
IN. Some may say that such exer-
Use develops a big appetite, so the
1ditional food consumed might help
hem grow fat. The folks who are
'Orrying about excess weight would
otter go to their dOctorfi, and let
i'm decide what they should do.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
BUSINESS FRIENDS

Many of our best gains come from
the friends one makes in the stores
of his home town. When you buy
goods and services regularly at
home, you form ties with the people
of whom you buy. They feel under
obligation to you, and will do things
to help you if they ever get a
chance.
1t is pleasure to meet these good
folks, and become well acquainted
with them as you talk about their
goods. Many of these acquaintances
ripen into permanent friendships,
which are valuable and create happi-
less. II has often happened that
some very important advantage in
work and business comes to one thru
the friendship of these people gained
through trading at home.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
LIONS TAIL TWISTED

People used to speak of twisting
the tail of the British lion" Any
way the old lion is getting a lot of
twistings of his tail nowadays. When
Adolf Hitler stops taking a turn at
it, Japan or somebody else takes a
grip, and makes the old critter shake
his name with pain.
Just now Japan is doing the twist
ing, by penning some 1900 English
people up in the British concession
at Tientsin, China. England can
hardly allow its citizens to be put in
danger by any warlike power. If the
guns begin shooting over there in
China, they may begin soon in Eu-
rope and America. Warlike acts
spread fast in this feFerish world.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
MEALING THE sNRR sP0Ts

Social workers who assembled al
Boston for the recent National Flor.
ence Crittenton conference, talked
about the sore spots in American life
and how they could be healed. They
spoke particularly of supervised re-
creation and better homes for the
people.
There is an old saying that if
everyone will sweep in front of his
own door, the whole world will be
clean. Nearly everybody can do
something to heal the sore spots.
One sore spot develops when young
people do not have adequate activi-
ties to fill up their leisure time. The
old time boy ON the farm had no such
difficulty. His spare hours outside
Of school. if he had any. were well
occupied with wedding the garden,
watering the cattle. etc. If Satan
was lurking around to set him to
mischief in his idle time, he got little
chance for his work.
The modern town and city boy
needs some substitute for that ac-
tivity. Some boys get it by deliver
ing newspapers. working as substi-
tutes in stores, etc. II could be
wished that all boys had such op-
pOrtunities Good games on play
grounds teach them many things. and
make them impervious to old Satan's |
tempting whisper.
AS for better homes for the peO- |
pie. many folks need them. Some |
that complain of defects in |
the dwellings they occupy might do .
to obtain needed inn /
prOvements if they would cooperate
with the owners of their dwellings. /
When they are willing to do some
work themselves to correct such de-
Tccts. the landlord may feel he could
Afford improvements for such helpful
tenants.
Sore spots in the human body are
apt 10 develop from some infection.
Many sore spots in community life
ievelop because young people be-
,ome infected with wrong ideas. The
PARENTS should reason them out of
hese ideas before they reach the
hanger stage.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30

possessions. In ancient times the
Roman empire conquered practical
ly all the known earth by military
might, but its empire fell apart and
disappeared.
If a country is going to last, it
needs something better than military
might. mot by might nor by pow
er. but by my spirit" said the Bible
1t meant that unless a nation has
enough Of the spirit of God so that
1t promotes justice and exercises
kindness. it is creating forces that
lead to decay, and which eventually
bring the mightiest empire down to
dust and ashes.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
OF ANCIENT LIFE

Scientists are studying the remains
Of ancient tribes that Inhabited our
country in prehistoric days. Among
those to which special study is given
this summer are the Pueblo ruins in
New Mexico. In those ancient dwell
lings there lived 1000 or more years
ago, tribes of people who were very
strong physically, Industrious. self
supporting, capable Of meeting the
problems of existence.
Before the civilized world ever
knew there was any America, these
people lived. died, maintained their
Institutions, carried on religious wor-
ship. and handed down their tradi-
tions. They still turn out pottery,
wood carving. etc, of high artistic
value. The industry and peace low
ing qualities of these people have
liven them their long history. Ma
tions and tribes that avoid war and
work faithfully for their living last
long on this earth.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
ARMED MIGHT

A great deal is said about the
armed might" Of Germany, Italy,
Russia, England, France. Japan, and
! the United States. The vast military
forces of these countries are describ-
ed, and the impression is conveyed
that because of this military might, t"
these countries rule the world.
might makes right" has been the
motto of certain statesmen, and they
have acted on it to grasp what they
wanted. Their grasping has led to
terrible wars, which have devastated
the world.
Military might enables certain ma
tions to triumph for the time being
over their foes. In this age when
certain nations provide themselves
with this terrible equipment of death.
such armament seems a necessity.
Poor old China, which though poss-
essing nearly one quarter of the
worlds population, has been unable
to defend itself before the Japanese
with their relatively smaller num-
bers, is an illustration Of what hap
pens when a nation does not possess
military might.
Military might does not assure the
permanent greatness of a people.
Germany in 1914 had the greatest
might of any nation on
earth, but before it finished using
that military might. it was trampled
in the dust, and bowed in humilia-
tion. and it lost a large part of its
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
THE SUCCESSFUL SALESMAN

The successful salesman is the
one who makes the customer feel he
wants to come again when he leaves
the store. II is often more useful
to fail to make a sale, than il is to
persuade people to buy something
that is not quite what they want.
The main thing is courtesy and
helpfulness. The salesman who
shows irritation because the Gus
toner does not buy. does not offer
the customer any great inducement
to come again soon.
When a customer feels he has had
interested anu polite attention, and
that every possible effort has been
made to please him, he likes the
place. He will come again. That is
the story in the stores of Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30

EVERY TINE you improve the ap-
pearance Of your home place. you in
duce some neighbOr to do the same.
When he does so, someone else imi-
tates him, and SO your good example
spreads over wide area.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30

PEOPLE RESENT 1T if anything
is said against their own family and
intimate friends. They should be
equally resentful if things are un-
Justly said against their home
town.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30

DON'T FIND FAULT about busi-
aess not being good, if you haven't
tJken steps to make it good by adyer-
Using what you have to sell.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
Number OF Ashe
County People In
Various Hospitals

The following Ashe county
people are either in hospitals or
nave just returned:
Mrs. Ben Eller, of Jefferson.
was taken to the Wilkes hospital
last Friday night and her condi-
ton was said to be serious.
Mrs. Felix Eller, of Silas
Greek, is in the Baptist hospital
In Winston-Salem.
Mr.. Clint Hurley, of Dog
Creek, who underwent a major
operation in the Wilkes hospital,
mas returned home. Mr.. Hurley's
operation was said to have been
very unusual one. It was
thought that he had an liberated
stomach or a tumor, but a SUBJ
stance was removed from his sto-
mach which was something en-
tirely foreign to either.
Mrs. Artie Bowlin, Glendale
Springs, is in the Baptist hospi-
tai in Winston-Salem.
Mrs. w. M. Caudill, West JEFF
ferson, is in a hospital at Win
ston-Salem.
One of Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Kill
lens daughters is in the hospital
at Banner Elk.
Mrs. c. D. Roberts, of Jeffer-
son, has returned home from the
Wilkes hospital.
Mr.. Wesley Thompson, of Rich
Hill, returned home during the
past week from a hospital in
Durham.
Mrs. Howard GRAPHICAL, of
Buffalo, is in the Baptist hospital
in Winston-Salem.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

eight thousand words every
night. That meant that he was
writing two average-sized novels
every month - in addition to
studying eight hours day at
Columbia. That is a gigantic per-
formance. There isn't a man in a
million who could do it.
When he left college, he was
making seventy a week by writ
ing these wild, exciting tales for
BOYS magazines. That was big
income for an author who wasn't
twenty years old.
But Upton Sinclair wasn't in
terested in writing for money. He
was driven by a desire to abolish
poverty and injustice; so, in spite
of the fact that he had a sickly
wife and a child to support, he
renounced all his income, set up
a tent in New Jersey, and start
ed writing novels of propaganda
= novels to help reform the
world. He spent five years turn
ing out five novels; and these
five books earned for him a
thousand dollars-in other words,
two hundred dollars a year, or
less than sixty cents a day.
His sixth novel was The Jung
lie. It created national sensa-
ton; and made thirty thousand
dollars. He used all of it to fin
ance a Utopian colony on the
banks of the Hudson River, in
New Jersey, a sort of a coopera-
tive home, where writers ano
artists and musicians could live
economically in congenial sur
roundings.
Sinclair Lewis lived there for a
while and tended the furnace; but
he evidently didn't do very
good job for one night the house
caught fire and burned to the
ground - and that was the end
of that.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
Dole CarnQQie
5,Minute Biographies
Author Of <'HoaV to Win Friends ~
and Influence People," Yl.a

Upton Sinclair has written
forty-eight books and dashed off
over five hundred pamphlets.
Two million copies of his books
have been sold in Germany, and
three million in Russia. His radi-
cal novels probably helped to
bring about the Russian Revolu-
ton.
Although he is an American, his
books are far more popular in
Europe than they are here.
His books have seen translated
into forty-four languages, and
Mr.. Sinclair once told me that he
didn't even know the names of
some of these languages himself,
nor where they are spoken. He is
now the most wildly read living
author in all the world.
He has been supporting himself
by writing ever since he was six
teen years old. He has written Ii
terally millions of words - more
words than ar found in both the
old and New Testaments.
He looks a bit like Woodrow
Wilson and he is on fire with
an ideal. He wants to end power
ty; for he knows from experience
how bitter poverty can be. He
told me that at one time there
was period of six years during
which he was seldom free from
the gnawing pangs of hunger.
His father was whiskey sales
man and "a drunkard. Upon Sine
lair is a rabid prohibitionist, and
who wouldn't be if Whiskey had
wrecked his home and blighted
his childhood as it did this boys?
He never got chance to 60 to
school until he was ten years old;
so he taught himself to read. Two
years after he started school, he
was ready for high school.
When he entered college, he
didn't have a dollar - and he
had a mother to support. So he
paid his way through the City
College in New York and through
Columbia University by selling
jokes for a dollar a piece and by
writing dime novels, for cheap
magazines He dictated a story of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
Ashe Women At
Democratic Meet
County Well Represented At
Meeting Held In Winston
Salem This Week.

The following members of the
young women's Democratic
group represented Ashe county
the institute of government spon-
sored by the Democratic women,
in Winston-Salem this week:
Mrs. Ruth V. Price, Miss DeEtte
Crawford, Miss Elizabeth Speers,
Mrs. Austin Jones, Miss Elnore
Baker and Miss Margaret Phil
lips.
A high spot in the convention
was the banquet Tuesday even
ing, May 23rd, at the Robert E.
Lee Hotel. Governor and Mrs
Clyde Hoey; Hon. Gregg Cherry,
State Chairman of the Democra-
tic Chairman Committee; Lon
Folger, National Committeeman
and other party leaders attend
ed. Both men and women at
tended and more than thousand
democrats from all parts of the
state came to hear Senator AL
ben Barley, Majority Leader OF
the Senate, Speaker of the ev-
ening. Senator Barley was in
troduced by Governor Hoey.
Ashe people going down spe-
cially for the banquet were Mr.
and Mrs. Ira T. Johnson and Mr.
and Mrs. w. B. Austin.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
Preaching Dates
Are Announced

Elder E. o. Lilly, of Jumping
Branch, w. Va, and Elder c. r.
Dancy, of Marion, Va, will
preach at the following primitive
Baptist churches in the county
On Sunday, June II, at the
Big June meeting at Senter
church; at North Ford, June IL;
Big Helton, June IS; Bear Creek,
June IA; Roan's Creek, June 10;
Meadow Fork, June l6; Union,
June II; Riverview, June II, and
10. at 2:30 o'clock.
These appointments were an
nounced by w. w. Davis.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
MORE JOHNSON GRASS

Johnson grass roots are not
only long and strong but can
in intricate patterns as was prov
ed by the sample brought in by
Louis Sheets of Old Fellow this
week. Mr.. Sheets dug up root
in his potato patch which resem-
bles regular plating or weaving.
1t is as regular as if it had been
done by machinery instead of the
peculiar process of growing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
A MINIATURE EGG

Clyde Duvall this week
brought in a hen egg which is
not much larger in size than that
of a partridge. A light reflector
reveals that the egg has no yell
low. On one end is an enlarge
ment which would lead one to
believe that the egg started to
expand it's usual size and then
decided not to. The egg tips the
scales at one ounce.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
MORE BOYS CAN GO
TO ANNUAL C.. Nj. T. CAMP

All county quotas for attend
ance at CMTC have been disre-
garded and additional applica-
tions from Ashe are now being
accepted by Representative B. D.
Barr, at the post office here.
Mr.. Barr said applications were
being accepted at Fort Bragg un-
til about June 5. The encamp-
ment will last for one month and
all expenses are paid.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
EPISCOPAL SERVICES

Rev. George w. Hurlbut, of
Statesville, will celebrate the
Holv Communion at St. M2ry's
Church, Beaver Creek, on Whit
sunday, May 18th, at HOO A. M.
He will go to Holy Trinity
Church, Glendale Springs, for
service at 3 P. M. Mr.. Hurlbut has
many friends at Jefferson and in
the neighborhood, who will well
come him at this time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
MAKES LOW GOLF SCORE

DR.. J. K. Hunter, popular Ashe
dentist, is now getting in the
class with professionals when it
comes to playing golf.
Last Sunday DR.. shot the Roar
ing Gap course in 81, the lowest
score he ever made on the
course. Ed Barr made SO, Bruce
Dent, 1O3 and Levern Johnson,
LOT.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
so THAT'S 1T

He had been walking with one
foot en- the sidewalk-the other
in the gutter, and he was not get
ting along very we'll. Finally he
met a cop. you're drunk" said
the policeman. ooh, is that it?
Thank goodness, 1 thought I was
lame"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
BROWN breaches AT
BUFFALO TONIGHT

It was announced this week
that Jim Brown would hold SER
vices at Buffalo Baptist church,
tonight. The Cook-Harless Quar-
tet will be present to assist with
the music. The public is cordial
lv invited to the service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25
TOO LATE TO BE
CLASSIFIED

LOST OR STRAYED-About 10
days ago, Fox Terrier dog, white
with black head. Finder please
notify Earl Ray Jr. at Central
Hardware Co., and receive libe-
raj reward. 5-25-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

FOR SALE - Personal Calling
Cards for men and women. En-
graved with plate. Only S1.65 per
100; printed, 100 for $1.0O. The
Skyland Post. 5-25-tf
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

SIS REWARD-for return of two
all-steel wheel barrows that were
used on the WPA 221 Road pro-
ject near West jefferson. Notify
B. w. Jones, Jefferson, N. c.
SPLIT
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

WANT A HOME? Place your ap-
plication Now for a loan from the
Ashe Building and Loan Associa-
ton. Call at the Office, Parker
Tie Co., West Jefferson. 5-25-1t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

FOR SALE-Carbon paper, type
writer ribbons, letter file folders,
deed blanks, note blanks, cts. The
Skyland Post. 5-25-tf
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

Dayton, Ohio, has been select
ed as the second city in which
the food order stamp plan for
distributing SURPRISES through
normal channels of trade will be
followed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

FOR SALE-Engraved cards of
Sympathy Acknowledgement, 3
for 10c. The Skyland Post, West
Jefferson. 5-25-tf
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

FOR SALE Engraved wedding
announcements or invitations.
Choice of any style. Only so for
$7.95. The Skyland Post.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25


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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Marsh and
family, Mr.. Lynch Marsh and
Miss Chessie Lyles attended the
air show at Charlotte Sunday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

FOR SALE-Engraved Birth An
ncuncements or Informals with
envelopes, $195 per 100. The
Skyland Post. 5-25-tf
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

The men of Ashe county should
build a hospital for the mothers
and children of the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-05-25

FOR SALE-Engraved or Print
ed Stationery. The Skyland Post,
5-25-tf.
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The men of Ashe county should
build hospital for the mothers
and children of the county.
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Police Quiz Awaiting
Accident Victim I'm
conscious In Hospital
CONTINUED from page u

lC0HIlHueu from page
sciousness Monday. However, he has
not yet sufficiently recovered to un-
dergo questioning, it was stated.
The accident in which Roth figured
took place near the former Marion
Hixon farm, now owned by Philip
Hilty, when the car in which Roth and
Lee Dameron, Is of Kenesaw, Georgia,
were riding, solthbound, crashed head
ON with one northbound by Reginard
Brown, 46 colored of Findlay. With
Brown were his wife, Hazel, SO and
Howard Steward, %, also of Findlay
The car, Packard sport coupe, in
which Roth and Dameron were riding
was completely wrecked. Besides a
fractured skull, Roth received brok-
en- right leg. Dameaon received a
wrenched back but the injury was not
serious. Likewise the three Findlay
residents escaped with minor injuries.
Checking on the accident, state
highway patrolmen established the
fact that the wrecked Packard car was
stolen that afternoon from Charles
Keefe of Detroit.
When confronted with the charges
at the hospital here Thursday night,
Dameron at first maintained that
Roth was driver of the car and that
he was hitch hiking.
Under continued questioning, how
ever, Dameron changed his story and
admitted that he was the driver of
the car and that he had picked up
Roth, hitch hiker, between Detroit
and Toledo.
According to patrolmen Dameron
had been working in Detroit and had
stolen the machine to get to his home
in Georgia. He is now being held in
Lima city Jail awaiting federal au-
thoritites on a charge of driving
stolen automobile outside the state.
Dameron's second version that he
was the driver of the stolen car is
coroborated by A. S. Faze, Bluffton
filling station operator who stated fol-
lowing the accident that Packard
car with Michigan license plates an
swering to the description of the
wrecked coupe stopped at his station
on North Main street about a half
hour before the accident occurred and
obtained water for the cars radiator
Faze stated that the car was occu-
pied two men, the younger of whom
was driving.
Although little hope was held for
Roth, following the accident, it is now
belived that he has a fair chance for
recovery.