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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24
Extensive Civic Plans Are
Made By Local Rotary Club
Committee Appointments Are
Announced. Several
Goals are Set.

Announcement of standing
committee appointments of the
Jeffersons Rotary Club was made
last Thursday night by President
Ed Anderson.
The club has a total of % COM
mittees and the work of a large
number of them falls under the
general head of community ser
vice..
During this year, it was point
ed out, the club plans to spon-
sor the printing and distribution
of thousands of small pamphlets,
advertising the scenic attractions
of Ashe county, to secure a tex
tile mill, to promote agriculture
and livestock raising in the
county, to help complete the his
pital building, to hold crippled
children's clinics and numerous
other worthy civic activities.
The committees are as follows:
Aims and Objects Committee
Ed Anderson, Chairman; Dean
Mcmillan, Ira Johnson, Joe Neal
and Levern Johnson.
Club Service Committte-Dean
Mcmillan, Chairman; Robert
Barr, Glenn GRAPHICAL, GWyn
Price, John Reeves and DR.. Hun
ter.
Vocational Service Committee
Ira Johnston, Chairman; A. B.
Hurt, and Langdon Scott.
International Service Commit
tee-Joe Neal, Chairman; Bill
Austin, and Roy Badger.
Community Service Committee
-Levern Johnson, Chairman;
Tom Duncan, Bruce Dent, GWyn
Gambill, Ed Barr, j. B. Hash,
Wade Eller. H. D. QuesSenberry,
Lester Segraves, and Lem Hafer.
BOYS Work Committee - Tom
Duncan. Chairman; John Rhodes,
and Wade Eller.
Crippled Children Committee
Gale Mcmillan. Chairman; Lem
Hafer. and Rex Morton.
Youth Service Committee -
Bruce Dent. Chairman; Joe Neal,
and H. D. Quessenberry.
Public Hospitality Committee
Tourists and Advertising - Ed
Barr. Chairman: J. B. Hash, john
Reeves. Gale Mcmillan, ana
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

enough to have absorbed the
importance of expecting the fell
low in the other car to drive bad
ly. That and quick reaction to
traffic signals are what make a
good driver.
FLYING jobs
The Government is beginning a
program of training college stu
dents for flying. 1t takes plenty
of time to make a good flyer.
More than half the college men
who begin training in the Army
and Navy flying schools are
dropped out before they finish
the course. Some men just can't
learn to fly expertly.
It takes even longer to train
competent airplane mechanics,
and more of them are needed
than flyers. It takes five or six
men on the ground for every one
in the air, to service the planes.
That opens a great opportunity
for American youth.
With the prospect that in three
or four years there will be thir-
ty thousand military and COM
mercial planes in the American
sky, there seems to be one of
the greatest opportunities open to
boys of mechanical tastes, in
learning to be skilled airplane
mechanics.
Jobs are close ahead fer $780,
900 such trained workers, at good
wages, and the big airlines are
beginning to set up schools for
apprentices in which high school
graduates can learn, in four
years, all there is to know about
taking a plane apart and putting
it together aagin, and get paid
while learning.
MARRIAGE deferred
Too many young people post
pOne marriage until the man is
earning enough to give his bride
the comforts to which she has
been accustomed. I have always
believed that any girl worth mar
rying would put up with Whatev-
er her husband could provide,
and that the man who marries
young stimulates his ambition
thereby.
Some studies of the effects Of
the depression on marriage indi-
cate that in hard times young
folk are prone to put off marry
ing until times are better, with
the result that many times the
other fellow gets the girl. The
best chances for happy married
life comes to those who marry
young enough tC get a family I'M
derWay while the parents are still
youthful.
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, presi-
dent of Stanford University, ad-
Vises his students to marry young
He says that the reason fewer
European marriages fail than in
America is our tendency to wait
until our incomes are larger.
The European system of pro-
Vidin2 a doWry for the bride, by
her parents, might we'll be adOp-
ted in this country, too. The hap
piest marriages I have ever
known about have been between
youths of twenty and girls of
eighteen.
CIVILIZATION food
According to DR.. Elmer Drew
Merrill, professor of botany at
Harvard University, there were
no food plants grown in Ameri-
ca which were also grown else
where in the world, before the
white men settled here, and only
one domestic animal was COM
mon to both hemispheres. The In
dianS and the people across the
Atlantic both had docs
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

With no cattle, sheep or swine,
no horses, no crops except In
dian corn in North America and
potatoes in the western part Of
South America, there was no
civilization. DR.. Merrill points out
that civilization begins with per-
manent settlements, and that all
permanent settlement and commu-
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nifty life is based upon agricul-
ture.
Whole tribes had to migrate
from season to season in search
of food that grew wild, fish they
could catch and game they could
kill. They could not live other
wise. Therefore they cou13 build
no permanent homes and develop
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PAGE THREE

the United States Government OF
today comes to be written, it will
be set down that the thing which
has served future generations
best was the reduction of the post
age rate on books, from cent an
ounce to one cent and a half a
pound.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

DR.. B. B. Daugherty, of Boone,
was a business visitor in Jeffer-
son Saturday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24
Ceiling Fixtures

# has been said that the
ceiling fixture is thing Oh
the past. There is nothing
further from the truth. Cell
ING fixtures are highly deslr-
able as there are many times
when it is desired to flood
the entire living room with
radiant illumination. 100
many living rooms not en-
ploying ceiling fixtures are
likely to take en- the appear
ance of a lamp shop when
maximum illumination is de-
sired.
However many ceiling fix
lures today are not decora-
tons in the modern sense,
but out-moded extravagances
of the past. If such a Tx
ture is provided and it cannot
be replaced it is many times
possible to remove some OF
the unnecessary ornaments
which make it look out-ot-
date.
We wish to take this op-
portunity of extending our
best wishes to Rev. w. j.
Huneycutt, as he resigns as
as pastor of the West Jeffer-
son Methodist church to con-
tinue his studies and work in
Boston.
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IN s.
Making The Living Room more
LiVable

There are three types OF
lighting used in the living
rom: cealing fixtures, wall
brackets. and floor and table
lamps. All three of these typ
es of lighting can be pleas
inglv employed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

G. T. Robbins, Div. Mgr.
"Your friendly neighbor"
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05

a model for Congress. And as a mat
ter of fact, as Arthur Krick of the New
York Times, observes, many congress-
men and treasury officials would un-
doubtedly support a conservative tax
reform program-privately. Yet, for
political reasons-probably for fear of
being called "reactionaries'-many
have so far refused to support such a
program publicly.
One can only ask, Since when has
it become "reactionary' to promote
jobs and recovery?
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05

bers with cheap electricity, and fin
anced by the Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration-in other words, public
money-are faced with financial diff
ficulties," To put it mildly.
As of June, 1888, according to the
R. E. A, itself, rural electric projects
including some that were started as
early as 1885, had absorbed federal
loans of over $50, 100000. Under nor
NAL circumstances accrued interest
and amortization charges would run
into $3,OO0,OOO or $4,000 annually.
Yet, at that time, the government had
received only $138,869 as interest and
$50,567 as principal repayments. And
of the total repaid principal, 70 per
cent was paid by six private enterpris-
es that had bA roWed. The cheap
power rural electric cooperatives re-
paid only about $4,000 on the 100000
000 principal!
And now the only solution which
the public power advocates seem able
to offer in an effort to salvage this
experiment that has not only been
costly to taxpayers, but has helped to
paralyze the private utility industry,
is that the states adopt legislation ex-
cusing the electric coloperatives from
certain taxation, exempt them FROM
the Jurisdiction of state public serv-
ice commissions and exempt their sec
urities from "blue sky" laws.
AS long as the private utility in
dustry is forced to compete with this
kind of subsidized lunacy, is it reason
able or fair to ask it to attempt to ex-
pand, employ workers, lower rates and
PROFESSIONALLY?
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
POWER o. OPINION

The world is coming more and
more to be governed by public opin-
ion. Even in governments where the
public is supposed to have no opinion
of it's own, in the last analysis the
reigning power cannot long disregard
a settled adverse public opinion.
Public opinion is the result of
two forces. One is the accuracy of
knowledge and the other is character,
and when you know how much know
ledge a mar has and how much char
acter he has, you can predict the result
of those two things and forecast his
course of action. And so it seems to
be with nations.
Therefore the hope of mankind is
q continuous process Of education, that
the public may possess both character
anG knowledge. Otherwise public OPP
inion will misrule the world.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
RAIN

Thomson, in his most beautiful
poem, "The Seasons" tells how the
clouds consign their %treasurers to the
fields; and, softly shaking" on the
dimpled pool prelusive drops, let all
their moisture flow, in large effusion,
DER the freshened world.
The faithtulness with which Che
clouds have fulfilled this responsible
idy to mankind so far during the pres
ent summer is a cause for gratitude.
In the past We have not been SO fort
innate. Drought has been all too COM
mon as an unwelcome visitation of ma
lures contrary whims and, in conse-
ouence, there has been intense and
widespread suffering.
Miseries arising from the eco
nomic depression have been intensified
by the havoc wrought by nature. In
the parched soil the crops have perish
ed. Screams have disappeared, leav-
ing empty beds. The plight of cattle,
victims of starvation and thirst, has
been pitiable. In one way or another,
the disastrous effects of drought have
been felt throughout the land.
Happily, the treasures of the
clouds have fallen upon the land more
generously up to the present time and
there should be no lack of gratitude
for the benefits enjoyed.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
LOAFING TIME

Spring fever makes billiards of us
all but even that tired feeling of May
and June is as boundless pep compared
with the lassitude of July and August.
When summers heat is at its height
leisure becomes a necessity rather
than a luxury.
No need to apologize for being just
lazy this season. Chances are the
other fellow is taking things just as
easy as you. 1t is no crime to loiter
under a fan, lounge in the woods, float
in the water or doze beside a trout
hole when the mercury is lowering a.
round the century mark. Punishment
is deserved only by those supermen
who hustle around making everybody
else feel shiftless.
No matter what their occupation
none expend as much energy in July
and August as in January. The hand
that pushes the pen moves slower, the
fingers that press the typewriter keys
slacken their pace, the machines speed
slows down to keep pace with the guild
ing hand and mind and the mind dir
Getting the huge organization adopts a
new and slower tempo.
Leisure is expressed in July and
August through various forms of do
ing nothing. An active vacation is
nine-tenths loafing and one-tenth
searching for a cool place to cool off
and rest.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
WE CAN'T POINT FINGER

Speaking editorially, a leading
Pacific Coast newspaper says that af-
ter three years, during which a Social
ist government has been in control of
New Zealand, that commonwealth is
in a desperate financial condition, ac-
cording to reports from Wellington.
Export prices and exports have fallen
off and the industries of the country
are unable to compete under Socialistic
conditions with those of other countr-
les.
One doesn't have to go to New
Zealand to see what a policy destruct-
i've to private enterprise, does to bust
ness-Witness our own government
ownership drive against w gov
eminent ownership drive against u
electric industry and the havoc it has
raised in this country-loss of private
jobs, unnecessary loss of private in
vestments and increased taxes.
It's a poor time for us to point a
finger at New Zealand.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05

variable and indefinable in content as
culture should produce susceptibility
to a disease. This is a serious ques-
ton, because if only certain kinds of
culture produce hay fever a %forebear-
ing educational system will want to
deal warily with these branches in its
efforts to drill culture into youthful
skulls. The resistance of the young
hopefuls to learning is sufficiently
painful as it is, without giving them
hay fever with it.
Very possibly, We should say, the
particular branch of culture conduc-
i've to hay fever would be none other
than our old friend, botany. This the
DRY would gain added plausibility If the
the students speciality were the study
of ragweed, say, or goldenrod.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05

American agriculture faces many
problems-spme of the MOST serious
nature. And American farmers are
doing something about them.
Fewer and fewer farmers are
sitting back and waiting for the gov
eminent to step in and fix things up.
More and more farmers are working
with their fellows, through such or
CARNATIONS as the marketing cooper
atives, in a determined effort to les
sen their troubles. The gain in the
membership of these ~cooperatives, and
the increase in their volume of bust
ness, is one of the most significant fac
tors in the whole history of agricul-
ture.
Today's farmers have faith in
their own abilities to earn a living and
go ahead. When men feel that way,
few problems a defeat them.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
oOO
A LIVING WAGE

The amount paid by both employ
ers and employees in social security tax
es is scheduled to be materially in
creased next year. That simply means
that more and more money will go to
government-and that there will be
less and less money for private spend
ing, individual investment, and indus
trial development. AS a result, the
suggestion by SECRETARY Morgenthau
that Congress change the law SO that
the going federal rate of l per cent be
maintained for at least another year
deserves the utmost consideration.
There is no question here of en-
dangering the social security program.
Any number of economists, including
government experts, have pointed out
that the creation of a gigantic social
security reserve, is impractical and
basically unsound. And the social Sc
curity monies now paid in are simply
spent as soon as received by the gov
eminent, which then deposits promis-
sorry notes in the form of bonds.
Mr.. Morgenthau has a number of
excellent suggestions regarding tax
policies. His advocacy of repeal of the
nuisance taxes (levies such as the
undistributed profits tax and the cap
ital gains tax, which hamstring and
discourage business, yet bring in COM
paratively little revenue to the Treas
ury- should have been acted upon long
ago. Business has a hard enough time
now, carrying the regular federal in
come and corporation taxes. When
the special nuisance taxes are piled on
top of these, it's no wonder that indus
try is stagnant and investors look the
other way when there is talk of issu-
ing new industrial securities for job
creating purposes.
The greatest internal need we
face today is to encourage business
and you can do that only by allowing
business to earn a decent profit if it
can.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
is 1T "ReactiOnary" To Promote
Recovery?

More than rs percent of invest
ors have money available that could be
used to promote new enterprises, ac-
cording to a recent survey. But the
money is not forthcoming for the fol-
lowing reasons: 62 percent Of the in
vestors covered by the survey said that
the Government takes too much in tax
es from the Individual taxpayer. Six
ty-three percent feared the possibil-
ity of labor troubles, 70 percent fear
ed the possibility of new taxes on in
dustry, II percent cited legislation re-
stricting industry, SO percent COM
planned hat the government take too
much in taxes from corporations. Here
in black and white, are some major
reasons for upwards of 100000 I'M
employed men and women, soaring re-
lief costs, industrial stagnation.
Impartial authorities have fire.
quently pointed the way to a correct
ion of abuses which have destroyed in
vestor confidence in the future. The
Brookings Institution, for example,
has recently set forth a complete tax
revision program that should serve as
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
DO 1T TO-DAY

Every building should be checked
at regular intervals for fire hazards.
And it is obvious that the checking.
will be useless unless the checker is fa-.
miliar with at least the more common
hazards.
You, for instance, can adequately
inspect your own home if you are ARM
ed with a certain amount of simple,
non-technical knowledge.
Look at your roof-old or warp
ed roofing easily collects sparks and
flying brands. Thoroughly go over
your chimneys in search of loose bricks
cracks or any other failure that might
start or encourage a fire.
Keep your yard clean, trim con-
cition-dry grass, leaves, boards, etc.,
are readily ignited and are a definite
danger to nearby buildings. The same
thing is true of garages and sheds
cleanliness and good maintenance go a
long way toward preventing fire. Pay.
special attention to the storage of in
flammable materials-liquids such as
gasoline and benzine should be kept in
tight, metal containers. And remem-
Der that explosive liquids should never
be used for home cleaning operations.
Accommodations of discarded ma
terial-whether old clothes, furniture
or magazines-in closets, basement,
and attic, constitute one of the worst
hazards. Oily rags are most danger
Gus of all, as they are subject to spon-
taneous combustion.
If you use wood for fuel, pile it
neatly. And never mix rags or paper
with wood or coal-spontaneous heat.
ing may result. The whole heating
system should be inspected carefully,
and it's wise to hire an expert for this
job.
Oil burners should be installed
with extreme care, and in accord with
standard regulations. That is also
true of gas appliances. No gas applF
ance should be used which lacks a thert
mostat for cutting off the supply III
case the pilot light goes out. /
If your work room, as many are,
is Uttered and d~isorderly, you're SIM
ply asking for a fire. Keep it neat.
This doesn't exhaust necessary
instructions by a long shot-but It
shows you where to start. And it's a
good idea to do it today.
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
sNEEZERS

Nobody will begrudge hay few
er sufferers the consolation given them
by DR.. Berno Paul, European allergist
who says that in general only cultured
people have hay fever.
Yet is goes against our feeling
for scientific truth that anything so
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
SUBSIDIZED LUNACY

A majority of the rural electric
c%ooperatives, intended to supply mem
Evening star., 1939-08-17

on an appeal by the Demarest Lloyd
estate, but it was explained the con-
tract purchaser was Mrs. Emily H.
Shepard, who was represented by
A. r. Reed.
The board also granted an appeal
by the Hebrew Home for the Aged,
acting for the Jewish Social Service
Agency, for permission to erect a
two-story Office building for the
agency, west of the home for aged,
near Eleventh street and Spring
road NV.
The Potomac Electric Power Co.
was granted permission for the erec-
ton of one of its series Of new
Evening star., 1939-08-17

day as the result Of examinations
held in June. it is announced by
the War Department.
The two are John Huie de Russy,
who already was on active duty
at March Field, Calf, and 10 Kyle
Warner, who when appointed was
on duty at Hickman Field, Hawaii.
All of the newly-appointed officers
are to remain at their present sta
tions, it was said at the War De-
partment.
The following Virginians were
among those made Regular Army
Air Corps officers:
William Sydnor Barksdale, jr.,
Evening star., 1939-08-17

electric substations at zoos Bunker
Hill road NE, subject to approval
by the Public Utilities Commission.
The Emanuel Baptist Church was
given permission to erect one
story rear addition to the church
at 24O9 Anger place Sc; F. Weber
was granted permission to remodel
the Office building at 1913 Georgia
avenue into an apartment house;
Elmer M. Nelson was given permis-
sion to make alterations in the
dwelling at 1880 Jackson street NE,
and Mrs. j. Simmons was granted
Evening star., 1939-08-17
zoning Adjustment Board
0. KS Altering Mansion

Conversion of the old Matthews
mansion at 14O3 Thirtieth street, in
Georgetown, into a five-unit apart
ment house was approved late yes
terday by the Board of Zoning Ad-
justment, following a public hearing
at which this and eight other ap-
peals from existing zoning rules
were considered.
The large house, built shortly
after the Civil War, was considered
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Capt. John W. Joyes, Jr.,
Dies at AIbony, Oreq.

The War Department yesterday
announced the death Of Capt. John
w. Joyes, jr, U. S. Infantry, Tues
day at Albany, Greg. He was "a
years old.
He is survived by his widow In
Vancouver Barracks, Wash. and his
parents. Col. and Mrs. John w.
Joyes, and sister, Miss Patricia
C. Joyes of 2029 Waterside drive
NV. Funeral arrangements have
not been announced.
Evening star., 1939-08-17

Richmond; William Coombs Clark
Of Dufnbarton, Skidmore Neale
Garrett of Cumberland, Thomas Ed
ward Gurnett of Hampton, Donald
Waters Macdonald, Hampton, and
Philip Lambeth Mathewson, Rich
mond, all stationed at Langley
Field, Va; Elmer Earle McKesson,
Richmond; Robert Danforth Van
Auken, Fort Belvoir, Va, stationed
at Selfridge, Mich, and Henry Vic
cello, Chatham, Va, stationed al
Barksdale Field, La.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
D. 6. Motorists Urged
To Aid Qut-of-IoWners

Washington motorists were urged
today to be more courteous to out
of of-toWn drivers unfamiliar with
local streets and traffic regulations
in bulletin issued by the keystone
Automobile Club
The bulletin, in part, stated: "A
more considerate and tolerant atti-
Evening star., 1939-08-17

tude is needed. The National Cap
itals reputation for hospitality will
be greatly enhanced If local motor
lists accord visitors the same consid-
Grafton they expect in strange ter
ritory"
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Army Names Reserves
To Air Corps

Two men who gave Washington
as their home address are among
more than 300 Air Reserve officers
appointed second lieutenants in the
Air Corps, Regular Army, on Tues
Evening star., 1939-08-17

an appeal for erection Of q one
story addition at 3061 Clinton street
NE.