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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
PensiORed FL Years Ago Still
Keeps Eye on His Company

! Louis Piernas colored, has
worked for the Standard OH
Company of Louisiana for So
years. The last 81 of these years
have been on the pension rolls
OF the company, to which he won
a place after 81 years of service
to the Louisiana division. He is
the oldest annuitant i'm the
louisiana division of the COM
pany and one of the oldest in
the entire ESQ organization.
The eighty-four year old man
still drops in occasionally at the
New Orleans plant of the COM
pany to keep his eye on the
things which he had seen grown
from small beginnings. Born in
New Orleans on October 7, 1866,
he began work as a cooper with
the Standard Oil company in
1887.
While officially a cooper, he
did virtually everything there
was to be done at the New Or
leans plant. He boiled linseed
|oil, compoundd cylinder oils, fill
ed and inspected barrels, guag-
ed tank wagons took inventory,
pumped tank cars. He had the
honor of being the first man to
roll a barrel in the present NEW
Orleans bulk plant warehouse.
When he started with the
company there were no SER
vice stations in New Orleans,
when he retired there were six.
Today there are more than 100
company dealers in the city
alone.
Mr. Piernas is enjoying good
health despite his years and
looks forward to enjoying his
company pension for many more
years. =
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19

President H. L. Dickson of
Bluetield State, Rev. Chas. Page,
S. w. Wilson, ]. G.. Price, II. r.
Price j. A. Billiard, S w. Cobbs,
w. w. Turner, r. V. Coger,
Carl Mitchell, j. H. Taylor, j.
c. Henderson and f. T. Brown.
Solos during the session were
rendered by Mesdames A. M.
Robinson j. H. Joyce and J. 3.
Evans. Choirs taking part were
Trinity and Rock Hill, Flat Top
Choral Socity, Anawalt, AL
gonna and st. ames. a.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
w. Va STATE GETS NEW
REGISTRAR; OF HAMPTON

The West Virginia State col
lege ,annouhces the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Robert j. Blanton
to the Position of Registrar and
member of the Department of
Education. Mr.. Blanton is high
ly trained in the field of voca-
tional and educational guidance.
A graduate of Hampton and for
two years a member of the
personnel staff of his alma
mater, Mr.. Blanton was award
ed a General Education Board
Fellowship for study at Harvard
Graduate School of Education
during the school term 1867.
"A renewal of the fellowship per-
mitted him to continue an
other year when he received
the degree Master OF Education
in Vocational Guidance.
The past two years were al
so spent at Harvard by Mr..
Blanton in sthdy and research
toward his electorate in Educa-
ton, which will be awarded as
soon rs his thesis is completed.
Among his published research
are educational Guidance for
Ncgroe," an article in the
Southern Workman September,
1888; a monograph, entitled,
"An Occupational Classilica-
ton for Research Workers."
publishd by the Havard Press,
an original code for the classi-
fication Of male college gradu-
ates, made in collaboration with
Dr. Phillip J. Rulon.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19

and you have the gentleman in
the White House. One is as good
a general in chief as the other.
If you're going to fight. you have
to go all the way at once and
step on it while you are going.
Chaberlain and Roosevelt never
do that. As opportunists, too,
they are interested in all side
roads and back tracks. AS OPP
portunists, to they just natur-
ally can't keep promises. But
they both are Messengers-of-
Heaven. They are both Great
Good Men. But at the end of
the trail, all they have to show
for it is another Supreme Emer-
gency.
Don't swap horses in the
middle of a stream. Correct. But
the British have found out
first that you must be sure you
have a horse. You cam be fooled
about that. The British were.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
England Prepares for War

The English government has
announced it is ready for the
projected Italian-German in
Vasion and that plans are being
made for placing the war on an
offensive basis in 1912.
The Germans and Italians
SAY that they will finish off
England in a period of days or
even hours.
:. England is an armed camp,
more heavily armed than at any
time heretofore. The Germans
and italians hav been making
elaborte preparations for III
invasion and when they are
through are to begin the war.
Forecasts are not in order but
one side is going to lose and the
biggest battle of all time is go
ing to be fought soon, with the
fate of England and the dreams
of Adolph Hitler hanging in the
balance. Italian aid to Hitler
is of questionable worth and he
is reported as making no de-
pendence upon it.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
Fourth Annual Session of
Flat Top Baptist Association

The Flat Top Baptist associa
ton is being held this week in
the Wingfeld Baptist church at
Landgraff, Rev. Palmer pastor.
The session opened Wednes-
day morning at 900 AN. with
the Rev. j. W. Crockett as Mo
derator.
The pleasing welcome adj
dress was given by Miss Verng
Adams of Eckman and the ex-
cellent response by j. II. Frank
lin principal of Maybeury school
A very timely, common-sense,
thoughtful Introductory SER
man was preached by the Rev.
Mr.. W. y. Nesbitt.
Thursday morning was the
business session and an inspira-
tional address by Rev, II. G.
Gregory, Junior. Other splendid
speakers to appear on the pro.
J gram during the session were
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
Caretta Woman Dies Saturday

Mrs. Rubye Davis, &c, died
Saturday evening in a WEIGH
hospital following a short ill
ness.
She had lived at Caretta for
one month, coming there from
Thayer, this state.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at Thayer,
burial was at Lovern, Mercer
county.
Survivors are her husband,
Alec Davis; two sons, Samuel
and Robert; three daughters,
Naomi, Jessie and Lula; her
father, Samuel Brown; five bro
theirs, Francis, William, Leroy,
Clarence and Brady Brown of
Thayer; four sisters, Mrs. Blan-
che Peak of Stokesbury, Mrs.
artha Chambers of st. Adams,
Mrs. Virginia Fruit of Thayer,
and Lula Sheppard of Thayer.
The Kimball Undertaking CON
Lpany had charge of arrange.
ments.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
LOOKING FORWARD
(by FRANKLIN Waltman)

Thy Franklyn Waitman)
'In Union there is Strength, "
is a maxim older than the ma
ton itself.
1t may well be applied to the
current national political cam
paign as a symbol of Republi-
can strength and contrasting
New Deal weakness.
The Republican party is
united. r
The Democratic party, made
up of two widely divergent ele-
ments, the old line Constitu-
tional Democrats and the new
unconstitutional New Dealers,
is disunited; hopelessly divided.
The Republican party realiz-
es that issues far transcending
party lines confront the nation.
Accordingly it has unified its
forces with the single purpose of
patriotic endeavor to save
America from the disrupting
forces which dominate New
Deal policies.
The Democratic nominees or
president and vice-president
regardless of whom they may
be, must stand on the record of
the New Deal.
No platform pledges, con-
trary to the New Deal record
will be accepted by the public
as other than platitudes, honey
spread for gullible votes.
The American people are
happily, fully alive to the seri-
ousnes of the issues, domestic
and foreign, which this nation
faces.
This was evidenced in the
manner in which the Republi
can nominees for president ant
vice-president were chosen a
Philadelphia.
1t will be further and conclu
sively evidenced at the Novem
Der election.
No amount of honeyed words
no number of fire-side chats o
campaign speeches can diver
the public from its knowledge o
New Deal failures, it's fears a
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
The Wrong Horse

Knock a dozen years off Ne
vile Chamberlain, shave of his
mouse-nibbled mustache, stick
out his chin in all directions a
couple of inches, take away his
umbrella soften down his Bri-
fish accent. to a Harvard YER
sion and give him a microphore
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19

Court Street Methodist Church
Sunday services, 9:45-10:5O, a.
m. Church schoeI11 100, q. m.
,Worship-6:S0 to 7:3O pm, Ep-
worth League. 7::s5-9:O5, p. m. :;
Worship, Bird Sunday, 7:S5 to
9:OS p. M; Sacred Concert,
Program, 1st Monday, 1880 p. m.
Official Board; End Monday, at
same hour Unit Leaders board +;
Tuesday, 800 p. M, Methodist
Workers club; Wednesday, at
700, p. m. Prayer and Class
Meetings.. Thursday, 7:30 p. m,
Choir No. 1 and No. 2 Rehearsal
ais. LIST, End and 3rd Fridays,
1880 p. M, Trustee Aid.
Rev. r. J. Griffin ABB, BID Pastor
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19

|THEF ARE ANXIOUS TO
MAKE ALL POSSIBLE NEW
LOANS THAT ARE ADEQU-
ATELY SECURED BY ONE
OR MORE OF THE VARIOUS
TYPES OF SECURITY THAT
THEY ARE PERMITTED TO
ACCEPT"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19

WHY BE LONELY? Let me ar
range a romance for you. Ladies
and gents all ages, some with
business, homes and money.
Membership free, send &c stamT
for application. Romance Oppar
tunities, 100 N. 21st st., Colum-
bus. Ohio.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
VISIT VRGNfA'S BANKS -.
MAKE $4,000 LOANS TOTAL
ING $277,000,090. IN 1889

New York, July 15.-Thirty-
six per cent of West Virginia's
commercial banks made more
than 324,0O0 loans to business
firms and individuals through
out the state during the year
1889, according to the second
semi-annual survey of bank
lending activity of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association made
public today.
The survey, which was parti-
cipated in by GO banks or sc
per cent of the 181 commercial
banks in the state, showed a
definite expansion of bank
credit in the field of new loans.
The number of new loans made
between July 81 and December
81 was 4,281 greater or II per
cent greater, and the dollar
volume of loans made during
this period was $4,619,329 or 20
per cent greater than reported
by an equivalent number of
banks for the previous six
months.
The 66 banks reported that
during 1889 they made:
75.145 New Loans totaling
SOL, 529, $1,000
245,8664 Renewals of loans
totaling $217,991,2 72.OO
2,811 Mortgage loans totaling
$8,274.008.OO
A total of $4,000 loans that
totaled $277, 1854, 877.OO
The survey also reveals that
business firms in the state are
using less than half of the
open lines of credit" maintain
ed for their use on the books of
the banks. Ten banks in the
larger centers of the state re-
ported that they carried on
their books during the second
half of the year $10233,540 in
"open lines of credit" cSnsist-
ing of specific amounts of credit
offered to and kept available
for established borrowers for
use as needed by them. OF this
amount $4,784,872 or ACT per
cent was actually used.
The average number of new
loans made per bank was LAB,
land the average new loan was
$683.
The average number of renew
ais per bank was 1925 and the
average renewal was for ST.
$4,000
, The West Virginia survey was
part of a national bank lending
activity survey made by the
american Bankers Association.
For the country as a whole,
1888 or al per cent of the
commercial banks reported that
they had made 24,998,O00 credit
extensions totaling $39,810,810-
1000 during the year. These con
SISTED Of the following:
12,G80,000 new loans totaling
|S23, 12O,00O,O00
12,033,00O renewals of loans
|totaling $15,791 100000
285,G00 Mortgage loans total
ing $890,810,0OO
Making total Of 24,998,00
loans amounting to $39,81O,810,-
900
The number Of new loans in
creased 10 per cent and the
dollar volume increased 20 per
cent.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF KEYSTONE IN McDO-
WELL COUNTY IS AMONG
THE &c PER CENT OF THE
NUMBER OF BANKS IN THE
Estate THAT HAVE REPORT
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19

Oo0''itu1Aoifa gSfNennHaeRt
the United States be preserve,
from it's enemies within as wei
as without.
| Wendell L. Willkie has de
clared for a united America.
The New Deal has sought am
Epartially succeeded in bringin,
about class and racial strife an,
hatreds.
! 1t has aped totailitarian pre-
cepts and principles, the Will
declaring itself the Friend O
democratic processes which j
has openly Haunted.
| American voters have never
been slow to distinguish the
false from the true.
/ They will not now allow
themselves to be beguiled or led
further toward an Utopian
mirage which exists only in
the vision of Missionaries.
The American people wish to
face realities. They are capable
of so doing.
Thy have been quick to grasp
the realism of Wendell L. Will
kie and Sen. Chas. l.. McNary.
They know that these men,
with the able assistance they
can bring to their Command, will
save the American way for
Americans.
That they will have no part
in crack pot, hair Drained
schemes, substituted for eco
nomic laws.
That they will not seek to i'm
pose upon Americans the regi-
mentation of the masses which
failures the ways life OF Europe
that they will preserve indivi-
dual initiative, free enterprise,
personal liberties and will des-
troy bureaucracy and it's atten
dant evils.
They know that Wendell L.
Willkie and Charles L. McNafy
are champions of a govern
ment of laws, rather than of
men; that they will put the
American interests first that in
their hands the authority Of
the functions of the Congress
and of the Courts will be main
tanned and the system of checks
and balances, written into the
Constitution, preserved.
The American people from
the humblest working man to
the richest capitalist under
stand that the rights of each
will have equal standing under
the law; that human rights and
property rights alike will be
accorded even handed justice.
The American people know
that under this system, guaran
teed by the Republican party,
the unemployed will be given
opportunities to 60 to work.
political favoritism will be wiped
out; discrimination will cease
and prosperity to the whole peo-
pie restored.
They also know that under a
Republican administration can
best be maintained the nations
dignity and security; it's de-
fenses made impregnable and
the lives of it's citizens safe
guarded.
For these and countless other
reasons the American people
have decided to turn away from
false prophets, blatant promis-
es, insincerity ineptitude, waste
and extravaganza; selfish ambi-
|tions; peanut politicians fallaci-
ious economics and all the
rother trappings of the New Deal
administration.
They will supplant them with
sanity, common sense, hon.
esty administrative caDac1tv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
m NEW YORK BY GEORGE ROSS

kind of Worlds fair exhibit in
one of the stores on the Fiftieth
Street side of Rockefeller Gen.
ter, and the part of the show
that draws the crowd is the
magnified, illuminated press
ticker that spells out the news
of the world as it arrives.
Around the corner is displayed
the teletype equipment of the
rival news-gathering service. It
is the same as can be found in
any newspaper office and the
public gets a vicarious kick out
Of being behind the scenes of the
Front Page.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
TUESDAY, JANUARY .

Adverse aspects are active to-
day. II is time TO take stock
of ones assets, mental and MAJ
terial. Bad news regarding
foreign nations is presaged.
There Is sign counseling
Americans TO exercise extreme
caution in all their actions.
Heart and Home: Capricorn
folk are fairly happy when
married. They are undemonstra-
tive. but conscientious in all
their family ties and make wise
parents. This year In to be q
test to many families. for public
services will disrupt routine
activities. Adolescent love af-
fairs will cause anxieties. Early
marriages will be numerous.
Business Affairs: Sudden for
tunes will be earned by manu-
facturers. The temptation to
speculate will be strong. but the
wise will be cautious. The ex-
tension of preparedness activi-
ties win present women with OPP
portunities for good positions.
Thrift is strongly counseled.
for there will be cause for the
conservation of personal re-
sources before the end of 1910.
National Issues; The national
political campaign will bring
women more partisan work and
even less rewards than in pre-
vious years. Financial problems
will be presented from different
points of view. but there will be
general recognition of the nee
essity for change in the world
systems Of banking. Women will
be prominent advocates of q
third term for the president.
who will make an unexpected
move of supreme Importance.
International Affairs. Al
though the incoming OF the
Aquarium age. which has
powerful influence, should bring
a trend toward universal friend
ship in this new year. the stars
presage increased persecution Of
the Jews. There will be ter
rible suffering in Palestine and
in the United States seeds Of
hate viii be sown by secret
propaganda
Persons whose birthdate il Is
have the augury OF year OF
pleasant perplexities connected
with romance and pleasure
seeking.
Children born on this day
probably will be intelligent, am
bilious and industrious These
subjects Of Capricorn usually
have the ability TO reach any
goal that they set for them
selves.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
Pulse Of the
Public
1T WAS MT. TACOMA
IN OLD BIOGRAPHIES

Editor, The Times: l can't for
the life of me see why the Cham
Der OF Commerce wants to end
the controversy about the name
of the mountain. There is no
controversy to end. The noun
tain's name is Tacoma and moth
ing else.
Surely the Indians and the
pioneers who were here first have
the right to the naming Of the
mountain: 1t should not be named
for some one who never saw the
mountain.
II "A Reader" viii look in some
Of the old Biographies he will
find the name Mt. Tacoma. I
remember when was a little
girl, more than so years ago,
seeing the name Mt. Tacoma in
my mothers Appleton's geo.
graphy: also in Rand, McNally's
school geography, published in
Chicago. So some one knew
about Mt. Tacoma.
I am sure had the mountain
been called Mt. Seattle It would
have remained that. For good
ness sake, Tacoma Chamber Of
Commerce. rise up on your hind
legs and call the mountain by
her rightful name, Mt. Tacoma.
HAZEL X. PAUL
Home. Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

Each member of this quartet
exercised dominant influence
on Capitol Hill, concerning prob
lens of vital import to the aver
age citizen. The Nebraska sem
ator, after breaking the unholy
grip of the bosses in the house,
moved on to the senate and be-
came the father of public power
in the United States.
With Woodrow Wilson, Glass
created the framework of the
nations system of federal and
private finance-the Federal Re-
serve Board. Borah and john
son. more than any other two
men. helped to prevent Ameri-
can involvement in European af-
fairs in the League fight just
twenty years ago.
Despite their accomplishments
each man mourns, in his more
somber moments, the fact that
he has been able to do so little
in his particular sphere. Norris
realizes that only small amount
of the nations power supply is
generated by public units, for all
his crusading.
Glass fumes over the Roose-
Observation-Disclosures financial
policies. johnson and Borah,
fearing Americas reentry into
foreign messes in Europe and the
Orient, are among the most vio-
lent opponents of the Roosevelt
foreign program. So, if the New
Year brings you regrets for 1889
failures and unkept resolutions,
take comfort from thought of the
brilliant. yet unfulfilled careers
of these four great Americans.
Various Roosevelt ca binet
members have brought New
Years messages of good cheer to
the president a. a result of So
journs in metropolitan centers
during the holidays. In their
talks with bankers - business
Observation-Disclosures. they discov-
cred q friendlier feeling toward
the man in the White House and
less disposition to damn him for
the nations woes.
The erstwhile sideline critics
- the economic royahsts" -
seemed to appreciate most the
presidents more conservative
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

Once His Own State
Called Him q Traitor
But That Didn't Make
Any Difference
George Norris Went
About His Business
To Quit After Forty
Years in Congress
MO Matter toward which side
~ of the political fence one
may be inclined. there is uni
versal interest in the announce
ment that George W. Norris,
United States senator from Ne
braska, will retire from official
in 1913. A great deal has hap
in 1910. A great deal has hap
pened since country lawyer
who had lifted himself by his
bootstraps chats about all he
had with which to start to a
county judgship. was elected
member of congress from the
fifth Nebraska district 40 years
ago. He went in when the
American people were experience
ing great political and economic
changes. He will 60 out as other
great changes are accomplished.
Senator Norris went to con-
gress in time to ride high on the
progressive wave which went
along with the first Roosevelt
regime. Though elected as
Republican, the party collar was
always irksome, especially If
somebody tried to attach a
string to it.
He was an independent and
q progressive before Theodore
Roosevelt so designated his
followers. There were no re-
grets on either side when
Senator Norris shook off the
mantle of Republicanism and
declared his political inde-
pendence. The party leaders
were as glad to see him go rs
he was to be relieved of party
ties.
Few men have served long
er continuous term in congress
and none in that body has had
a more picturesque career. Reg
ular Republicans attempted to
defeat him for denomination in
1880 by bringing out a dummy
candidate with the same name.
George w. Norris, a grocer of
Broken Bow, Neb., was nomi-
mated on the Republican ticket
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
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in the hope that the similarity
of names would so split the
vote that Norris would be de-
feated. The Republicans wanted
To get rid OF Norris so badly
that they were willing to put up
with a Democratic senator for
one term. They would attend to
his case later.
This proved to be one OF
those stupid blunders Of which
supposedly intelligent men.
business leaders As well as
politicians, are often guilty.
The trick was obvious The
senator was renominated and
"the Grocer of Broken Bow
WAS convicted Of fraud.
Senator Norris first came into
prominence in the fight which
put an end to the broad parli-
mentary powers which enabled
Speaker Joe Cannon to control
legislation in the house. For
that he was charged with party
treason, and the parting of the
ways began there.
When Senator Norris went
into the upper house in 1914 1t
was as an opponent of the
United States entry into the
World war. He helped filibuster
to death President Wilson's
armed neutrality" bill, and
with Wesley Jones, from this
state was one of the little
group of wilfull men" who to
the last held out against the
United States entry into the
war. For that even his friends
in Nebraska denounced him az
a traitor.
oCAdAoi ANol 10 was LnC AaNhth
of the constitutional amendment
which eliminated the '1ame duck"
congressional sessions. He sup
ported President Roosevelt's pro-
posal to reorganize the supreme
court, another issue on which
some of his Nebraska friends
differed.
Senator Norris has been
warm personal friend of WASH
ington's Homer Bone. They had
been kindred spirits before Sem
ator Bones election. The 'rook-
lie" from Washington found him
q tower of strength in getting
over some Of the uncharted spots
which can plague the new conner
to the United States senate.
He wanted to quit in 1886, but
President Roosevelt persuaded
him to run again. He says he
will be like Calvin Coolidge the
next time and won't listen.