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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
To Hold Crippled
Children's Clinic
In Ashe June 20

DR.. J. S. Gaul, of Charlotte, will
conduct a regular crippled child
ren's clinic in the office of the
county health department on
Thursday, June 20, starting at 2
o'clock, it was announced today.
The clinic will be sponsored by
the Rotary Club and all cripples
in the county are invited to at
tend the free clinic.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
TO GET WATER AND
SEWERAGE PROJECT
FOR ASHE HOSPITAL

Plans for getting a supplement
tary WPA water and sewerage
project for the Ashe Memorial
Hospital Association are now be-
ing formulated.
The committee working on this
project is composed of Wade Ell
Ter, B. D. Barr, Roy and Guy
Badger and L. P. ColYard.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06

It was announced this week
that the annual communion SER
vice of the Blue Ridge Baptist
church would be held June 9, all
members are urged to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06

The portable dipping vat, pur-
chased by the directors of the
Ashe Sheep Growers Association,
arrived yesterday and will start
out on the rounds today, with
Barlow in charge of operations.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
AsHE CoUNTT

is the air-conditioned section Of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. TWENTY-FIVE miles
of the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
BELHvR-m-oR-Nor

The Skyland Post is the only
paper in North Carolina having
an audited circulation Of over
three times the total population
OF the, town in which it is pub
lished.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
WEIGH COLORED

Lawyer and Mrs. ]. S. Red
mond were attending to business
and calling on friends here We'd
The M. e. Workers club of
t he Court street Methodist
church entertained with a big
Christmas party for their men,
bers and friends at the palatial
home of Mrs. 3. H. Jenkins on
Court street Tuesday night. Gifts
were exchanged among the mem
bers and after a delightful social
hour delicious refreshments
were served. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernal Wright
were the dinner guests of Miss
Cleo Barksdale of Gary, last
week and were also guests at a
lovely dinner New Years day
given at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry O'Neal of linden st.
Mr.. B. H. Williams of Jaeger
was attending to business here
last Wednesday.
s'T'9H-sSssgsyzs
Miss Margaret Warren en-
tertained at her home on Beech
steet last Friday night honoring
her guest, Miss Lula Belle Smith
of Dallas, Texas, and Miss Mary
Bunday of Bluefield, w. Va.
Dancing was enjoyed through
out the evening. Delicious re
treshments were served to the
Misses Lula Belle and Susie
Pearl Smith, of Dallas, Tex. :;
Mary Bundy, of Bluefeld, Cen
eva and Evelyn Hewitt and Mar
ION Williams of WEIGH, Harry
}. Capehart, Jr.; Dave Hall,
Milton Woods, David Belle All
bert Hagood, George Gray and
Harold Calhoun of Keystone,
James Leese of Huntington,
K III Warren, Jr., and Billy
Warren.
On last Sunday night an in
teresting and enjoyable program
was given at the st. James Bap.
church. Atty. Capehart was the
speaker of the hour.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
Fire Again Strikes

Keystone has had another
residence fire since the last issue,
and in it a 13-months-old child
persisted. This blaze is extremely
regrettable but from all reports
thee was not the least thing any,
one could do about it. The Times
has waged a campaign against
fire the whole winter and it has
almost weekly carried words of
warning against fire-the demon
strikes when least expected and
this time with fearful toll.
In Northfork one of the large
st mercantile establishments of
that city was Quilted by fire, and
large residence situated near
the Cherokee store above Ash
and burned to the ground on
New Years day, with almost a
Total loss of contents.
At all Of these fires the local
liremen fought the flames with
unusual skill for a volunteer
firemen organization. The intense
cold and lack of water handi-
capped them at the Cherokee
blaze, and the cold and the fact
the fires had gained Roadway
precluded much more than the
prevention of the flames from
spreading at the others.
The Times had representa-
i've at the first two blazes and
ne expressed admiration for the
manner on which Keystone's
fire laddies carried on. half
frozen and withs kill, until the
fire was under control. The
local police force and Mr.. Gala
way sleep with one ear open for
the alarm, and when it comes,
they and other volunteers start
Immediately, for the scene. Lack
of water, high winds and head
way start are things they have
to contend with, and time in out
of town blazes.
While Keystone has a most ex-
celleent fire organization and a
fine truck no one should allow
that fact to permit carelessness
with fire anywhere anytime, for
fire can gut a house in a very
few minutes if there is a wind
blowing, and if no water source
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
Warnings, Floods!

Floods can be expected on
January 8, floods of oratory des-
cribing the great deeds of the
New Deal, big and little, in state
and nation; for January 8 is the
day the Democrats celebrate
and gather in the coin at 500
a plate from the payrollers at
their Jackson day dinner.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05

is near at hand the finest fire
department. in the world is, to
say the least much handicapped.
Again we repeat, Be careful
of fire all the time and do ont
give it chance to get loose, for
uncontrolled fire is truly q very
destructive demon.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
news BRIEFS
FROM KIMBALL,
BY Mrs. L. l.. billiard

The month of December was
one of m u h activity for the
little city of Kimball. The spirit
of good will was shown in the
schols churches and homes, and
Throughout the community.
The Kimball PTA met for the
last time in 1889 at the Memorial
building Monday, Dec. 18th.
The children Of the 4th and
9Th grades rendered the Christ
mas program. Mrs. Beatice
Order, 9TH grade teacher, was
in charge of the program.
After the program a delight
full social hour was enjoyed.
Sandwiches and hot cocoa were
sold for a very small price.
The next meeting will be on
the third Monday eve in Jan at
the Memorial building.
The executive board of the
PTA will meet tuesday after
noon at the school
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
Drought Is Predicted

Reliable report has it that
many state house workers at
Charleston are giving up their
apartments and taking less ex-
pensive rooms. Seeing the hand
writig on the wall for the next
election, they are now going in
for a bit of personal retrench-
ment. H.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
Discovered the Ran,n,

Inc panama was discovered bv
sieXander the Great, along the In
aus, three centuries before Christ
,s, was brought to the New World in
i2lo. BENJAMIN Disracli once de.
claTed: The most delicious thing
IN the world is banana"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
here as swiftly and as surely as
it has vanished abroad.

mere rs SWlllly aIlu DIS SUI ely do
it has vanished abroad.
Turning to our own internal
problems, our task is great. The
gratifying Improvement that
'necently taken place THROUGH
out our economic structure must
not be allowed to blind us to the
unpleasant truth that not one
of the issues which we were
forced to face at the start of de-
preston has been solved. Most OF
them have become more compli-
Gated and difficult. The national
debt, despite the heaviest tax
load in our peace-time history
has nearly trebled in the past
decade and will soon reach the
present legal limit of $45, 0OO,-
900, 900. The immense expendi-
lures for relief continue, e v en-
though business has much i'm
proved and unemployment has
consequently been reduced. The
agricultural situation, in spite
of. a long series of extremely ex-
pensive farm relief" measures
remains tangled and unsatis-
factory. -.
On top of that, there is still a
strong clique high in govern
ment whose attitude toward
business can be described only
as strongly inimical. This is the
group which backs any and all
measures designed to put govern
ment into tax-subsidized competi
ton with cavity taxed private
enterprise-which stays awake
nights thinking up new ways of
saddling business with restric-
laws and punitive class taxes
which encourages labor excuses
to the full-and which does all
in it's power to prevent stability
and to keep chaos and uncertain
ity in the saddle. 1t is a re-
markable tribute to the courage
and staying power of American
business that it has managed to
progress as much it has when
confronted with such handicaps.
Summing up, we have plenty
to do at home during the years
that stretch ahead. The cur
rent congress and those which
follow have their work cut out
for them-but satisfactory re-
suits will be secured only if the
people as whole are awake and
watchful, are conscious of their
needs, are deply aware of their
Ameican heritage and way of
life. For in spite of the unproven
claims of extremists, our only
real progress has come from pro-
duetive, employing industry,
working under the American
system of free enterprise which
brought us from a minor power
to a world power in a century
and a half.
Here in America we have all
that is needed to bring a greater
prosperity than we have ever
known-the industries, the men.
the resources. But unless we
maintain our basic liberties,
material blessings mean no
thing. go. :. :. go.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
The Year Of the Locust

S0I VI VIZ LoNAoS
-.
! One Of the most eventful de-
cades in modern history has end
ed. And this nation enters a
new decade during which, unless
an signs are wrong, it's people
must face and grapple with prob
lens, issues and responsibilities
of the most far reaching sort.
The 1885 will be known to
the historians Of the future as
the years Of one of the greatest
and longest depressions this or
any othe nantion ever expert
enced. They will be known as
years of experiment., of trial and
error, of the weighing Of our old
values and our old traditions.
And. they will be known too as
years in which the democratic
process was consistently attack
ed by some of those who called
themselves its friends, as well as
by those who were its frankly
ayowed enemies. xC
From the international point
of view. the tragic 30's came to
a cynically fitting end in that
most ghasty and unnecessary OF
events - war which embraces
much Of the world. In nation at
ter nation the arts Of peace have
of necessity been put aside, to-
the end that war might be pro-
secuted to the utmost. And war
destroys more men and materi-
ais and machines and economies
and states. II destroys those es-
entail liberties for which men
have fought and died in holy
causes ever since the world we
know began. 1t destroys those
spiritual values which aer at the
root of all artistic, cultural and
humanitarian achievement. 1t
has been, truly said that in
modern War theer' can be no vic
tors = there are only the van
Quished. 1t is an ironic comment
airy on the times in which we
live that those nations which
are figting this war in the name
of threatened democracy, have
been forced to use the methods
of the dictators in order to
meet the enemy on its own
totalitarian terms.
The greatest blessing which
this nation possesses today is
its physical remoteness from the
conflict abroad. That is a posi-
Non enjoyed by no other of the
WotId's major powers. There is
profound wisdom in the attitude
OF the great majority of the
American people who say in eff
eect-''We can keep out of war
land we win keep out of war."
There is no war party in this
Eountry--no responsible states
man urges our participation. We
nan ali feel . deep and abiding
Ehankfulness that it is not so.
Never before was it so import
ant that we Americans keep our
hhads, in order that we may al
- keep our liberties. For should
This country become involved in
6Far. democracy would vanish
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05

Mrs. William Law. =.
Mrs. Virginia Manns of Cars
we'll, was greeting old friends
here in the city over the week
end.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05

The members of the trustee
aid society Of the Court st. Metho
dist church entertained at the
home of Mrs. Richard Warren
with a tea from 8 to Sunday
afternoon. A large number of
friends called during the time
Miss Laura Hall, one of the
visiting students here, spent the
latter part of her vacation in
Baltimore, Maryland
H J Capehart Jr, and Arthur
Froe Capehart have returned to
Michigan university at Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, and w. Va. State,
respectively. Arthur had to
leave Thursday to fill engage
ments with the Gloster Current
w. Va. Collegians orchestra in
which he plays the trumpet,
and is one Of the solo;sts. Harry
Junior, left Sunday so that he
might spend the night with his
brother in Charleston before go
ing on to Michigan.
Other students from WEIGH
who returned to their respec-
tive schools yesterday were:
Miss Marion Thomas Walden and
Queen Esther Seay.
Rev. 7. J.. Griffin will write q
Thought for the Week" for this
paper in tn near future Rev.
Griffin is the able and popular
pastor of the Court street Metho
dist church.
The Leon P. Millers gave their
annual New Year party at their
home on Court street. This is
loked upon as one of the seasons
swanky affairs.
Misses Donley and Cleopatra
Pittard spent the holidays with
their parents here, the Rev. and
Mrs. U. A. Pittard on Ash street.
Miss Donley is a popular teacher
in the high school at Martins
vile, Va, while Miss Cleopatra
holds a secretaria position in
Wasingtn, D. C.
Mr.. Eugene Irvine was attend
ing to business matters in Ma
6toka and Bluefeld this week.
MIR. Irvine is Compensation In
spector from the State Depart
ment of Compensation.
Rev. and Mrs. Sawyer, parents
I of Mrs. B. H. Jenkins, will re-
turn to their home in Point Plea
SAINT this week. Rev. and Mrs.
Sawyer spent the holidays here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Howard
of Ebert, were visiting their
| siste and brother-in-law Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Ingram this week.
Misses Margaret Warren and
Lula Belle Smith were the guests
of Miss Mary Bundy of Blue
field New Year Day.
1t is Wi t h much regret we
learn of the death of Miss Cen
eva Walkers mother, Mrs Hat
teiHal, off Havaco. Mrs. Hall
was visiting in Rockhill, S. c.,
at the time of her death. Her
daughter, Mrs. Walker, is a
popular member of the Kimball
high school faculty.
Mrs. Mary Law Lewis and
young daughter, Consuello, have
returned to their home in Wash
ington, D. c., after spending
the past few moths with Mrs.
Lewis perents here, Mr.. and
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-05
Better to Be Beginner

Keep on tryin'," said Uncle
Eben. "It's better to be a perpet-
ual beginner dan gutter"
Evening star., 1940-04-26
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY M

ONCE, was welcomed cordially by
those present at the conclusion Of
the program and was called upon
to say q few words.
The concert formed a part of q
series in the biennial convention.
There were is songs on the program,
two Of which were presented In q
trio fern with violin obbligati,
composed by Dorothy Radde Emery
Of this city, whose steady growth is
q pleasure to watch. The trios
were "Serenade to Vida" and Moon
Madness" with words by Alden H.
Emery. Bonita Grove, Georgia
composer, introduced Journeys
End" and "You and l." both lyric
in character, while Iris Brussels Of
New York added a lighter touch by
her gay and charming Thursday I"
Her two descriptive numbers, But
terflies" and Deep In the Night I"
were followed by a clever imitation
Of the New York traffic on the
piano, which she performed artisti-
cally.
Elizabeth Merz Butterfield, chair
man Of the Pen Women's Conven-
ton, has adopted a style which
Evening star., 1940-04-26
Rites Held In Stockholm
For American War Victim
, ths Axsocia atsh prsss

~ the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, April 26.-Fumeral
services for Capt. Robert M. Losey,
assistant United States Military At
tache in Stockholm, who was killed
In Norway Sunday during q Ger
man air raid, were held here today
in . chapel crowded with Swedish
military and government ofacials.
The Swedish Aviation Corps ac-
corded full military honors to the
dead flyer, who was struck by a
bomb splinter while helping Amer
ican residents in Norway to make
their way to Sweden.
The services were conducted by
the chaplain Of the British Lega-
ton. The American Ministers to
Oslo and Stockholm, Mrs. Florence
Jafiray Hartman and Frederick A.
Sterling, attended with other Lega-
ion officials.
Evening star., 1940-04-26
City News in Brief
TODAY.


Dance. Federal Transportation
Association, National Press Club, 10
pm.
Convention, American PHYSICAL
Society, Wardman Park Hotel, all
day.
Meeting, Sigma Kappa Sorority.
Carlton Hotel, 7 pm.
Dance, Alpha Beta Chi, Annapolis
Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Delta Theta Phi, Lafayette
Hotel, 10 pm.
Meeting. American Federation of
Government Employees, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Banquet, National Real Estate
Tax Conference, Mayf1ower Hotel, 2
pm.
Dinner, Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co.. Mayfower Hotel, 7
pm.
Meeting, Alpha Delta Phi Sorority,
Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Amalgamated Association
of Street Electrical Railway and
Motor Coach Employees of America,
AoNAS2S,il 44opSls plll.
Meeting, Sons of the American
Revolution, Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Gard party and dance, Gonzaga
Mothers Association, Willard Hotel,
8 8pm.
Dance, Phi Sigma Kappa, Hotel
2400, $50 pm.
TOMORROW
Luncheon, National Pan-Hellenic
Association, Mayflower Hotel, 1:30
pm.
Dinner, Alpha Delta Pi Sorority,
Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Card party, 1885 Matrons and
Patrons Association, Eastern Star
Temple, 2600 Sixteenth street NV,
8 pm.
Tea dance, Georgetown Univer-
sity Freshmen, Hotel 24O0, 4 pm.
Dance, Rainbow Division Veter-
ans, Hotel 24OO, 10 pm.
Meeting, Converts League, Catho-
lie Daughters of America, Willard
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner, Phi Delta Phi Legal
Fraternity of George Washington
University, Raleigh Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Convention, American Physical
Society, Wardman Park Hotel, all
day.
Dance, Riggs National Bank,
Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Congress Lodge, No. 81,
Wardman Park Hotel, 9 pm.
Dinner, Sigma Kappa Sorority,
Carlton Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1940-04-26
Warren l.. Dent Retires
After 36 Years With U.S..

Warren L. Dent, for 50 years 4
Government employe, retired today
from the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing, where he has been en-
ployed in the examining division.
Mr.. Dent began his career with
the Government as a teacher at the
National Training School for Boys
and later transferred to the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, where
he has been for SO years. He is q
member Of Maryland family and
Is a graduate of Charlotte Hall Preu
School and the University of Mary
land,
Evening star., 1940-04-26
Methodist Report
Expresses Concern
Over Farm Migrants
Relief Program Comes In
For Criticism; Peril Of
Growing Pogonism Seen
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April 26.-
The General Conference of the
Methodist Church turned its atten-
ton to home missions today and
heard report that the mechanical
ton of agriculture was resulting
in peasantry in large sections of
rural America"
The complaint was contained in
q report of the church's Committee
on Home Missions and Church Ex-
tension which said:
I'VE must be more concerned
about the plight of the sharecrop-
pers, the homelessness of the mi
grants, the plight of those in dis
tress IN the dust bowl, the insecurity
of the tenants, the millions of youth
banked up in our town and country
communities without jobs and with
out the possibility of establishing
homes and living normal lives"
Dwelling at length on social con-
ditions among the "unchurched, !"
the board said the United States
had an active criminal population"
Of 4,750,000, and added:
Half of these are less than 21
years old. With many debauching
influences at work and $4,000, 900
children and young people not be-
longing to any organized religion,
the seriousness of the situation
should be appallingly apparent"
The report condemned petty
politicians who play with the farm
problem as a way of feathering
their own nests"
Without commenting any further
on the subject, the board made
these remarks about the Govern
ments relief program:
Millions of people living in town
and country communities have been
pauperized by the relief program
promoted on such a large scale.
We have ample evidence
that the lack of adequate income
cripples millions of our people in
their development and makes it
impossible to put on an effective
church program. The Government
Is promoting an elaborate program
to help meet this need. Much of
this program is expensive and i'm
practical. The goals cannot be
achieved without the challenge and
motivation of the Christian church" I"
The Missions Board said the dan
ger of progressive paganism" in
the United States was IAN actuahty
rather than fanciful fear" and
the Christian constituency OF
America must wake up"
Evening star., 1940-04-26

Is almost classic in its simplicity-
MY Country's Greed" and America
for Me-" the latter having rhythm
which kindles an immediate re-
sponse In her hearers. Harriet
Wares conventional Joy of the
Morning" and Hindu Slumber
Song" were contrasted by her catchy
Sunlight Waltz" which may find
its way soon into the repertoire of
coloratura singers and supply the
demand In that field. Distinctive
were the three offerings by Pearl
Adams entitled Boats" "Devc-
tions" and "Omnipresence." The
first was a mems song and dealt
with subject which broke the
monotony of duplicated descriptions
of insects, flowers and birds. The
latter were devotional in character
and effective.
An aria from the opera Mirage" !"
by Alma Grayce Miller, the first
grand opera composed by q woman,
as 1t was announced, and one that
had received a favorable comment
from the director of the Metropoli-
tan Opera, created an impression by
its modern idiom and consideration
Evening star., 1940-04-26

Of the human voice. Il had long
sustained passages for the baritone,
which blended well with the chang
ing harmonies Of the accompani-
ment.
Last but not least were the four
movements Of Mary Howe's ''Trio"
for violin, cello and piano. consist
ing Of a prelude" "Chanson
Grave" "Air Cal" and "Elegie. /"
There was serenity, breadth and
beauty In the tonal combination Of
the three instruments. Mrs. Howe
possesses the art Of saying briefly
and eloquently what she has to say
Her work has individuality and
style, coupled with technical COM
mand over her chosen medium of
expression.
The artists who contributed of
their time and talent to the success
OF the evening were Margaret Spen-
Ger Besler, soprano, who displayed her
musicianship as well as her colora-
tura voice by playing her own accom-
paniments in one instance; Mrs. Car
men Of West Palm Beach, Fla. !:
lone Hoffman, mezzo-soprano; Lily
Garrett. contralto; Clarke Paulsen,
Evening star., 1940-04-26
Pen WOn1en's
MusicIs
Presented
IS Songs Heard
In Program at
City Club
BY ELENA DE SAYN.

Animation and good fellowship
was the keynote of a festive as
sembly at the Woman's City Club
last night, where a composers group
Of the League of American Pen
Women. presented their songs and
instrumental numbers with the as
sistance of several local and out-of-
town artists. Mrs. Edna Gasch, the
new national president of the Pen
Women, elected that evening to her
Evening star., 1940-04-26
Tolerance Discussed

DR.. A. w. Gottschall of the Ma
tional Conference of Christians and
Jews described to the Cosmopolitan
Club yesterday the work of his or
ganization in promoting tolerance
and friendship among the various
religious sects. DR.. Gottschall is
head of the conferences activities in
the Southeastern United States.