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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02
No Cobwebs In His BroIn

John Nance Garner was born on
NOV, %. as near Thanksgiving as so
modest and wise a person would
choose to be. His countrymen can't
heip numbering him among their
blessings this week." said en- editorial
In the New York Times a year or so
ago in commenting upon the vice.
presidents birthday. "He holds play
fully" said the editorial, that the
DOCKS have got the year of his birth
wrong. They say it was 1853. He pre-
IerS 69. For us il is SO until he selects
some other date. Commemoration of
his birthday should be movable
feast Early to bed and early to rise
mas had Its proverbial effects. On his
anniversary Monday he was out of
oed at 7:45 a. m; into it again at p. m.
lie has been at Washington for
nearly IS years. There he is an insti-
tuition. Young folks a little careless
with their geography yet with an in
stlnctive sense OF the higher pro-
prieties are apt TO think of Uvalde as
tne capital Of Texas. He has minded
his own business perfectly. He has
minded the nations affairs carefully
and competently.
He can be patient with policies
that he disapproves. A sort OF Ben
franklin, he has no cobwebs In his
brain. He can be exposed freely to
fantasists and fanatics and keep the
peace. II Is lucky for his own that he
Is philosopher. The fluctuations of
his colleagues drove him from the
chamber. Politicians who habitually
spread their ears upon the ground
can admire man given TO forming
his own opinions.
He is wise by nature and long ex-
perience, without preteHse, pedantry
or solemnity. He Is q good man, an
able man, full Of humor and a good
fellow. II he doesn't make his years
round hundred, that will be the first
lime that he has disappointed the
public hope" .,enc.4rry 80
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

! The time has definitely arrived in
America when positions Of trust and
responsibility should be placed exclu-
sively in the hands Of the elders, de-
clared Roy Miller. oldtime editor Of
Texas. in speaking recently at a gath
ering Of old friends and neighbors Of
John Nance Garner. vice president, in
the little village of Detroit, Texas, where
the distinguished Texan was born near
ly sixty-nine years ago.
There Is no substitute, either In pub
lie or private life. for experience. and
experience, Of course. comes only with
years. AS matter Of fact, the only thing
that Is old about John Nance Garner is
some Of his political philosophy. He still
believes in the old-fashioned virtues Of
economy, thrift, and self-reliance. In
other words, he believes in the old-fash-
Toned, fundamental principles Of de-
mocracy. and no man in America. in
both his public and private life. exem-
plifles those principles to such degree
as does this great man.
while achieving high place polti-
cally. he has made substantial success
Of his private life. and 1t Is his proud
boast that he owes no human being a
thin dime. He believes in the pay-as-
yoa-So oySICA1p dilo WudI q DleSSlTB IL
would be II that system could be applied
to America today.
"Lest be misunderstood, let me say
here. with all Of the emphasis / can COM
mand, that John Garner Is no reaction
airy in his political philosophy. Indeed
he Il not even . conservative. II the
term be applied with the meaning with
which II was clothed In years gone by
John Garner Is liberal and q great
liberal He was liberal Democrat prac-
ticing liberalism many years before
some Of the most vocal present-day spon-
sors Of liberalism were even born. But
there Is no tinge or faint Of radicalism In
the liberalism Of John Garner. Hi.
liberalism Is that which would guaran.
tee to every American citizen the righ
and opportunity to work out his or hel
salvation with the least possible inter.
ference upon the part Of the Govern
ment. Therefore, he believes in all nee
essary legislation and regulation to pro-
tect the weak against the strong. thu
poor against the rich. the owner O.
property against those who would de-
stroy the ownership Of property; II
short, equality Of opportunity for every
American citizen. He believes In De
mocracy and prefers to be known as
Democrat in the old-fashioned interpre
tation Of the term without qualification
prefix, or suffix.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

time gambling is not unlawful
but in thia Estate arpeRany bet is
felony if made in numbers play
ing by a poor white or colored
person. ......
The law seems not to know
just what gambling is. Some
forms of gambling are legal and
others illegal. The dividing line
is SO hay and Inconsistent few
lawyers are prepared tofsay off
hand whether or not a thing is
or is not gambling.-unless one
applies the apt rule that it is
not gambling if the state gets
a share of the money involved.
Gambling is not on the wane.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Mrs. R. P. Johnson, Kimball,
spent several hours in Blue
field on Tuesday of this week.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

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the books were enough if they
.JgL. II hJog
1.-THE matter,.of enforcing exist
ing laws brings to mind the
bank night business. This plan
for packing 'em in sure smells
like a lottery to us. In fact the
equipment and modus operadi
are exactly the same used in
admitted Iatteries. Anyhow,
are the present day movies so
smelly that, a something-fcr
nohing scheme like bank night
plans is rceded to draw patron
age? 1t has not often been said
but both bank night theatre
men and numbers syndicate
operators have a gold mine, a
matter which the state may
have considered: theatres collect
money for the state while the
numbers racket does not.
Gambling is morally wrong
in ALL it's forms. 1t diverts
money to the worst possible use
the root of all evil can be appli-
ed, chances of winning are in
deed small for any one indivi-
dual, and the something-for-
nothing spirit is unhealthy.
No one has ever gambled
long without losing all he had
The best of odds give the man
or men running the game such q
favorable advantage the player
has small chance indeed to come
out ahead in an honest game anc
none at all in a crooked one.
Why gamble at all? Economy
thrift and industry will surely
bring the things a gambler
hopes to get IF he wins, ant
faster, one can gamble 40 year!
and have nothing, but one wh'
is Industrious, thrifty and VIII
lives frugally for 20 years ma,
reasonably expect to be able t
be financially independent an,
a property owner besides bein.
universally respected. But it i
idle to preach these homel,
virtues in a day of scarcity, an,
actual want, a time when job
are non existent for million
and the government is spendin,
stupendous sums for relief, etc
Views herein expressed ar
not necessarily those of TIL
Times. This article is run tina
opinions of others may be givel
PUBLICITY
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Among those to witness the
Welch-Bluefield classic on Tues
day night were Atty. S. A. Cal
houn, Mr.. Jess White, Editor M.
T. Whttico and Mr.. Charlie
France. -.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02
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Ills matter matter to be killed
hy legislation since it is some
thing more or less appertaining
to personal morals. The late un-
lamented prohibition experiment
perfectly illustrates what is
meant.
Thestate has new law which
the governor, aided by both of
the major parties, created for
thespecific purpose of killing for
once an all the policy or num-
bers game or racket. The COVER
nor doubtless had plenty of
reason for wanting the law.
Few citizens have time or incli-
nation to become versed in state
wide matters and for most. of
us a smattering of regional
affairs suffices. On the other
hand the governor and the
legislature ought to know what
is what all over the state. If in
their estimation gambling in
, has grown to the proportions of
a public menace it is but their
duty to curb it.
In Mcdowell we do not think
gambling has ever grown out OF
bounds. 1t is our idea that the
new law is aimed at large in
| strial area of the state distant
from Mcdowell because we dc
| not think Mcdowell has had any
wars" between rival number:
operators. We are not gulliabl'
enough to believe any legisla
tion of tbs nature will become
effectively feared until enforc
ment has been vigorous started
Hence we are expecting an,
day to read of arrests of big TIM
numbers syndicate men, or fail
ing will know it is but anothe
blue nose reformer law nobod
likes which church men force
the powers that be to enact
merit their support. The quain
idea that men and women ca
! be made to be good by law ca
only be found in the head of tn
Ielderly religious worker of tn
type that. made prohibition
law which only taught hal
the population to drink weir
mixtures an old time soak woul
run away from.
Whatever the mbtive, nun
bers is outlawed-the game
felony in West Virginia. 1t wa
orr in1prnc sion 1ou,c oJrooJ,, ~
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Mr.. Ulysses G.. Carter, Insti-
tute, is in tbs section for a ten
day period. He was accompanied
by Howard Mitchell, Maitland.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Mrs. Maggie Pugh, Kimball,
motored to Roanoke, Va, on
Thursday.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Mrs. Carter, t h e mother of
Mrs. Garrison, continues quite
i'll at her home in Gary.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Mr.. Franklin Galloway has
purchased one of the modern
Dodge cars sold bythe Cahkway
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02
SOCIAL AFFAIRS

"a
Announcements Of the marri-
age of DIR. J. M. Whittico, Will
hanson, to Miss Lafadie Belle
Dickersonfi Sandusky, Ohio, on
the thirty-first of January at
Canada Ky, have been received.
@fLNiH". luI JTIh|
Mrs. Ruth Murray, Keystone,
is improving rapidly after an
operation at Welch Emergency
hospital last week.
Mss. Geneva Hawk Walker
will soon leave for Baltimore to
join her husband William T.
Walker who recently took his
MA in Social Service at Atlanta
University.
Mrs. Maggie Pugh, Kimball,
motored to Roanoke, Va, on
Thursday.
DR.. and Mrs. j. E. Brown ex-
pect their daughter, Miss Anna
Vivian Brown tomorrow. Miss
Brown has spent the year in
New York university securing
her Masters degree.
| DR.. Ebert Pettress, Cincin-
natl, recently spent t h e week
end with relatives in Kimball.
The Times as we'll as every
one who knew her, regrets the
passing of Mrs. Williams of
lWelch last week.
| Mrs. r. P. Johnson, Kimball,
spent several hours in Blue
| field on Tuesday of this week.
Among those to witness the
Welch-Bluefield classic on Tues
} day night were Atty. S. A. Cal
houn, Mr.. Jess White, Editor M.
T. Whttico and Mr.. Charlie
France. -.
Miss Benena Hereford, young
est daughter of DIR. and Mrs.
j. E. Hereford, Morgantown,
!, formerly of Northrork, is a
member of the June graduating
class of Monongalia high school.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

garage of Keystofe--a ear car re-
cognized lasL6neE6fkHaed finest
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-02

Finest Car in KestOne Sold
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26
HELP FOR DIES FROM
'GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Chairman Martin Dies of the congress
sional committee bearing his name is
bitter in his criticism OF New Deal gov
ernmental agencies, chiefly j. Edgar
Hoovers G-Men, for utter failure to give
his investigators any help. He cited his
request that Hoover help find and sub
poena George Mink, suspected Russian
agent in this country, and Hoover's letter
returning the subpoena to him with the
remark that Mink's whereabouts is not
known.
Regardless what you think of the Dies
committee, you must admit that it has
centered national interest on subversive
elements in this country. In doing so, by
awakening the public to consciousness
that anti-radical movements are not just
so much hot air, the committee has done
the nation a great service. For this alone,
it deserves the Wholehearted help of gov
ernment bureaus and departments.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26
IT'S JUST ONE
MANS HOBBY
(Oroville Mercury-Register)


With Admiral Byrd and his doughty
band of explorers starting off for an
other jaunt to the South Polar regions
it is going to be rather difficult to con-
vince practical Americans that their cost
ly trip at the expense of the American
public is to be of any real benefit to John
Doe Taxpayer.
The purpose of the junket is to estab-
hSh Uncle Sans claims to vast areas of
frozen land, covered by many feet of
snow and ice that never thaws Apol-
og;sts for the venture assert that the land
is rich with minerals, that oil undoubted-
ly exists there in great quantities and
even that Ant-Arctica will be valuable
as a stopping place for air travellers en-
route to Australia.
1t all seems rather far fetched from
here. True enough, there may be miner
ais galore in that frozen land, but miners
have discovered that in Alaska, where
there's a thaw every summer, no mining
can be done during the frozen months,
and even then it is made expensive in
regions farther north because the ground
remains frozen from foot or so beneath
the surface on down
Can anyone imagine drilling for oil
with the derricks stationed on top of
hundred feet of ice and snow? Wild
caters venture great deal when they
sink we'll in sunny California, but if
they had to finance ship and crew as
Byrd does as e preliminary for drilling,
then the cost would be high indeed
And it seems rather silly to talk of that
frozen land as a stopping point for air
travel. The landing fields wouldn't be
very inviting to the average tourist and
there, too the cost of maintenance would
be rather heavy
Let's just wipe off the practical side
of the thing and put it down to the ambi-
ton of venturesome explorer, playing
his hobby to the limit, lucky to be fl
nanced by his indulgent Uncle Sam.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26
CENSORSHIP IS NOT
THE TRUE SOLUTION

There is a geat deal of wisdom in the
decision of Yale university authorities
TO permit students to hear Earl Browder.
American communist party leader, in an
address the students had invited him to
make Officials of two other universities
refusing to permit the communist to
speak on the grounds that he is under
federal indictment, are perhaps not so
wise.
The best way of assuring wide reader
ship for an Objectionable book is to bar
it from the mails or the library shelves
The best way to arouse student sympathy
for the false creed of communism is to
deny students the right to hear a COM
munist leader speak.
Communism is like a lecherous book
uninteresting to the point of boredom
when considered freely and in the light
of sound common sense. 1t thrives only
when its unprincipled disciples are given
an opportunity to scream that they are
oppressed and prosecuted.
University authorities who deny their
students the right to hear communist
speakers are helping to achieve the very
thing they are so set against. Those who
really achieve success in teaching Ameri-
canism do not attempt to censor the ut
IeranCeS OF OInerS. instead, I0eN present
their own doctrine SO much more at
tractively, so much more logically and
so much more clearly that comparison
shows the utter absurdity of communist
claims
Communism in America thrives among
the uneducated, the unstable and the
unthinking 1t does so because it is a doc
trine aimed only at them. Its ultimate
goal is 10 enSlave everyone at a low level,
dragging the highest down to the level
of the lowest without a single effort to
improve the status of the underdog. 1t
wants to make underdogs of everyone.
Communism in this country will never
be shown up for what it is if those who
are learning to think are denied the
right to hear those who advocate it. The
Job facing those of US who realize the
perils inherent in communism is not
Job of censorship-it is a job of educa-
ton.
\ 1t is not up to US to prevent commu-
knists from arguing their cause. 1t is up
to us TO argue our own cause better, 10
show communism up for what we know
lit to be.
AS far as the communists are con-
cerned let them speak.
AS far as the rest of us are concerned,
let US speak, also. In our silence, not IN
the speech of communists, lies our great
est danger.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26
WHAT IS The TRUTH?
dayton, Ohio, Journal l-Herald)

What is TRUTH asked PLATE as be-
fore him stood a man who spoke of that
which the Roman procurator could not
understand Through the ages, the great
and small of intellect, the humble schol-
ar and the philosopher, have been ask
ing: What is TRUTH" Today, we ask it
as we see greed reaching out with the
arm of war to dispossess the helpless
Our thought is torn by turmoil and, con-
fused, we wonder where permanence and
stability may be found
Yet all the while there are messengers
out of the realm of perfection which
speak to us. Like Elijah, who learned to
know that the Lord was not in the wind
which broke the rocks of Sinai, and not
in the fire and not in the earthquake, but
rather in still small voice, we come to
know that truth speaks to US frequently
out of gentle things. 1t may come along
a strain of music. It may voice a mes
sage from the petals of wayside flower
1t may be SO persuasive that we will
know for moment that wars are to be
no more, that greed is to vanish and tum-
ult pass; and that the things of time are
to be gathered into times abyss. A sweep
of violets at meadows edge or a bough
afire with October may convince us that
His "is the kingdom, and the power, and
the glory, forever"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26
Famous SAVINGS

Assorted and sundry experts con-
tinue to argue Justify over what
to do with the women. In Buffalo,
N Y. recently, Will Durant, author
of books on philosophy, warned
that civilization would decay" un-
less women put on aprons again
and took up their old posts at the
kitchen sink. He suggested that
ladies have become "luXuries" in
stead of the "helpmates" they were
divinely designed to be.
Springing nimbly to Mr.. Durant's
side is DR.. John Edward Brown,
president of John Brown Univer-
sity, Sloan Springs, Ark. DR..
Brown regrets that we are training
our young ladies for a mans world
rather than woman's world and
adds graphically that we are putting
out twice as much dog food as baby
food"
Both gentlemen are worried be-
cause the modern woman is more
at ease over comptometer machine
than over kettle of turnips. They
hate to think of what might happen
if that sort of thing were carried
too far. .. -.. . a..-...
Down New England way, a woman
who carved a comfortable niche for
herself in this mans world is
equally worried over what is hap
pening to woman's status. Miss
Sybil Holmes is the only woman
member of the Massachusetts, State
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission, and she believes that girls
should train themselves for business
careers-especially if they want to
get into public life.
Miss Holmes sees the fine hand
of masculine jealousy in legislative
measures designed to cut the gals
down a peg or two. Men, she says,
who aim to put their feminine col
leagues back into house dresses just
want to get Womens jobs for men,
Furthermore, Miss Holmes thinks,
bills which would equali2e working
hours for men and women are dis
criminauory against the ladies'. The
gals have consented-a little grump-
lily perhaps--to hang onto street car
straps, but they'll be darned if
they're going all the way in this
equality business.
Anyone who knows anything
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26

WASHINGTON-The latest ef-
fort to solve the farm problem
finds the administration circling
back to the famous processing tax
idea, which was embodied in the
original Agricultural Adjustment
Act. and which went out the win
dow when the Supreme Court killed
that act il 1886
The court killed the first AAA,
not because it objected to the pro-
ceSsing tax. but because it felt that
the tax was being used for an un-
lawful enG-ViZ., the regulation of
crop production.
The plan which Secretary Henry
Wallace is now formulating would
not restrict production; it would,
however, get the government out
from under an annual expense of
around a quarter OF a billion dol
lars. and would provide method
of financing parity payments to
growers of wheat, rice and cotton.
Parity payments now come di-
rectlv out of the federal treasury,
The Agriculture Department, for
instance, may decide that the cot
ton grower needs a payment of two
cents a pound on his production
in order to bring the net price he
gets up to parity"
But Congress can always throw
a last-minute wrench into the pro-
ceedings by refusing to appropriate
the money for those payments. 1t
almost did 50 last winter; and the
item Of 5000. 900 000-odd which fl
nallv went into the agricultural APP
preparation bill for that purpose
vas largely responsible for shooting
that bill up above the budget esti
mates.
Under the scheme now taking
shape. the grower would get his
money in just the same way-but
the money wouldn't come from the
treasury.
What he would get. originally,
would be a certificate, emitting him
to collect his parity payment.
This. in turn, could be figured
in one Of two ways; it could be a
straight payment on his entire pro-
duction, up TO a maximum set by
his farms average yield over per-
i0d of years, or it could be an equi-
valent payment at higher rate
per pound based on that percentage
Q, his production which the Agri-
culture Department deemed needed
for the domestic market.
IN substance. the professor would
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-26
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

pay a tax of so much per pounc
on cotton bought for his mill; he
would not pay his tax into the
treasury, but would handle it either
through a pool or through the
banks.
The result would be that the
transaction would not show up or
the treasury books at all. The De-
partment of Agriculture would carry
on with. it's soil conservation pro-
gram, which runs to half billion
dollars this year, and presumably
with its surplus commodities pro-
gram, which is standing at close to
5000, 100000; but the parity pro-
gram would be elf-financing.
And since this particular pro-
cessing tax would not act as a
brake on production, but would
be designed simply to raise the
growers price, the department fig
ures il would get by the Supreme
Court .#
Experts are doubtful, however,
that the stunt could be applied to
livestock: there. they say, a pro-
cessing tax could and would be
passed directly on the consumer.
One thing that makes the depart
ment look fondly on the income
certificate plan is the fact that it is
an alternative to the cotton loan
program, which hasn't worked SO
well.
Since cotton is an export crop,
loans on cotton must be offset by
an export subsidy. With the in
come certificate plan, it is asserted,
the export subsidy would not be
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