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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14

reasoning our lawmakers have en-
acted much social legislation de-
signed to enhance the freedom of
the individual by establishing
wage and hour standards and 9th
er economic safeguards, while at
the same time passing laws which
destroy capital and threaten the
very freedof they profess to up
hold.
Capital is accumulated savings,
which, put to productive uses by
private citizens, supplies jobs and
opportunities. When private citi-
zens are prevented from accumu-
lating capital and using it to
create jobs. private jobs in free
Enterprise gradually cease to exist.
AS Mr.. johnson observes:
a.. A great many people - in
polling booths and in legislative
bodies - have thought that you
can tax business just as much as
you like and still have free en-
terprise' and the American Way
of life.' You cannot. Just suppose
that you taxed all new savings
and all new profits and all new
capital out of private hands into
the public treasury. What would
you have left to be the creator of
new jobs? Only the government.
Only the totalitarian state. We
stand at a solemn parting of the
ways. Our business leaders and
our labor leaders want freedom.
But what is the price of freedom?
l say it is the capital with which
to operate capitalism. The word is
Freedom will be lost unless we
recognize the truth of Mr.. John
SON words.
capitalism"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14
Y. VIC. A. News

Phyllis Wheatley Branch
Idell @. Vertner, Executive Sec.
The second series of Up-to-
Dating Courses will begin next
Friday night. Two courses will
be offered simultaneously. one
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14
YAKIMA NEWS
BY LLOYD JAMES

Mrs. M. Donaldson is now able
to take a trip to Seattle. S h
will stay week.
Mrs. Kathryn Williams has be-
come president of the Allen
Christian Endeavor League.
Visitors in the city last week
end were Mr.. Wilson and Mr..
Robson of Tacoma, Wash.
Mr.. Paul r obe SON, IA
nous Negro Baritone was here
in Yakima last Saturday. Among
those who attended the concert
were: Rev. ]. Roberts and fam
lily, Mrs. Harry Ellison, Mrs. John
Woods, Miss Rowena Mitchell
and Lloyd James. Mr.. Robson
said from Yakima he was going
to Spokane.
The Mt. Hope Baptist church
Missionary Society held tea at
the Y. w. G. A.
Mrs. Herb Jones was visiting
in Seattle last week.
Mrs. Alexander is visiting
friends in Seattle also for week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14
SEATTLE NEWS

There will be no dance at the
Savoy Community Center this sat
urday night. Bumps Blackwells
Orchestra advertised in last
weeks issue of the Enterprise
disappointed the Center Manage
ment, SO a popular Il piece band
with singers and dancers known
as the Men Around Town. has
been secured by the management.
and viii greet the Center patrons
Saturday Eve, April oath. with a
dance music program, that will
please everyone. You are most
cordially invited to be present.
and witness one of the most en-
joyable evening of the season.
Don't fail to see the Durham
dancers at the Moore Theatre
this week. Thursday, Friday. Sat
urday Matinee and Saturday
night. Tickets are selling fast. so
for a good seat you viii have to
hurry.
You are welcome to Seattle's
first Dawn Dance honoring our
own professional group, appear
ing at the Moore this week. Spon
sors the Managers of the Savoy
Community Center, time 12t
O'Clock Midnite. Friday, April 16.
Place Savoy Community Center,
21st and East Madison st. En-
tertainment, refreshments and
dancing.
Private Robert Williams, well |
known to Seattleites, stationed in
San Francisco is doing a fine job |
for Uncle Sam as censor in the
Army Post office for the past five
Pvt. Robert Williams is ex
pected to return to Seattle on
furlough in a short time.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14
ANYWHERE
FLYING Time

Along with all that's being sale
and written about the kind Of
world we'll be living in after the
war, here's one fact you cannot
ignore: mo spot on earth, how
ever, distant, is more than SO
hours flying time from your To-
cal airport" That's how small
the world is today, because of the
plane. If you doubt 1t. ask the
pilots and crews who are flying
today's big long-range planes,
ferrying military personnel and
supplies to our far-flung battle
fronts. They'll tell you that the
Atlantic is only 500 minutes wide
- that Australia and San FranL
cisco are a mere So hours flying
time apart - that you can hop
from the U. S., touch Brazil's
hump, and come down in Africa,
all in 81 hours flying time.
Or look at one of the new "a
Walton geography" maps, like
those our children are studying in
school. These maps make obso-
lete the maps We have always
known. They show us the world
as it really is. In this world, be-
cause of the plane, Main Street
runs from your home town to
London, Moscow, and Chungking.
Nations and people We once
thought remote are now merely
hours and minutes away.
Air-Age Timetable
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14

Airline
From miles Hrs
New York to Berlin 1850 20
Chicago to Singapore 1855 AZ
New York to Capetown 1901 80
San Francisco to Well
lington ........ 6759 "a
Washington to Moscow 1883 "a
London to Rome -. 8S7 Az
New York to London $3.50 II
London to Berlin -. 574 8
Today, of course. the global
skyways are reserved for war.
But after the war. when freedom
of the air returns, trade and
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14

Mrs. Alexander is visiting
friends in Seattle also for week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14

Mrs. Herb Jones was visiting
in Seattle last week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14

The Mt. Hope Baptist church
Missionary Society held a tea at
the Y. w. G. A.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-14

Pvt. Robert Williams is ex-
pected to return to Seattle on
furlough in a short time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

daily paper, not only wildly describes
hog-killing, but shows that the editor
would probably enjoy himself down here,
very much at this time of the year:
"The frosty days of late November saw
steam rising from the scalding barrel and
butcher knives whetted razor-sharp in
those pre-ration days Of not so long ago.
For this was, and in few fortunate places
still is, hog-butcherin' time, when the win
ter's supply of pork was prepared for
smoke house, picking tub and sausage jar.
eff the master of the job was real old
timer, the scalding barrels water was for
titled with wood ashes instead of lye; but
in any case the porkers bristles were loos-
ened and scraped off with more vigor than
ceremony. The carcass was quartered by
the master hand, leaf lard stripped out and
heaped in the rendering kettle, hams and
side meat trimmed and prepared for their
cure; more perishable delicacies set aside.
"Then the feasting began. Fresh ten
derloin was cut thin and fried to a turn.
Pork steak, pork chops and side meat gen
erously striped with lean were sizzled in
the big iron skillet. While the sausage
grinder turned and the fragrance of sage
and black pepper tanged the air, spareribs
simmered and pork roast Drowned in the
oven. And when the lard kettle had done
it's duty, crisp golden cracklings were left
to shorten pie crust and hot biscuits.
Meanwhile great pots of head cheese and
scrapple simmered on the back of the
stove, thickening for their molds.
"That was hog-butcherin' time in the
days that were. And many man in Eng
land and Africa and Italy and India and
China and the South Seas is trying right
now to describe it adequately to his CITY,
bred brothers-in-a It was as American
as Thanksgiving. And we'd swap our
whole ration book for just one week of it.
Preferably Thanksgiving week."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
MOTORISTS URGED
TO SAVE TIRES

Continued from Page One)
glect on the part of operators and
many other actions that lead to
a shortage of tire life. Such cas-
es will be met with strict COM
pliance action by the local office,
as we'll as the office of defense
transportation and may possibly
result in a deduction or COM
plete loss of gasoline ration for
such trucks" Mr.. Campbell said.
"The passenger car tire situa-
ton isn't any better than the
truck tire situation, therefore, all
statements relative to tire abuse
on trucks will be applied to au
tomobiles with the exception of
gasoline ration. Gasoline ration
for passenger cars is handled by
the local office. Any violations
will be met with prompt action
on passenger cars" he added.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
WORTH w. DAVIS
is FOUND DEAD

Continued from Page One)
points on the highway in this
section with an almost perpendi-
cular drop. A rock wall gives
protection to motorists along
most of this point except where
the car of the deceased left the
road.
Highway patrolmen investi-
eating the accident said that Da-
Wis car was evidently travelling
at high rate of speed when it
left the highway and had leaped
in the air several feet.
Since the tragedy occurred,
thousands of people have visited
the scene of the accident 1t is
recalled that many years ago,
when only a wagon trail passed
this way, man, driving wagon,
went over near this point and
was unable to stop before reach
ing the bottom of the gulch. One
of the mules was killed, but the
other mule and the driver escap-
ed with injuries.
Funeral Held Sunday
Funeral service of Mr.. Davis
was held at the home of his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Davis,
at Whitetop, on Sunday, when a
large crowd was present. Elders
Ed Davis, Dewey Rotten, Charlie
Hall and R. c. Dancy took part
in the service and burial follow
ed in the family cemetery.
In addition to his parents, the
deceased is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Kathleen Miller
and two daughters, Mary and
Martha, of West Jefferson.
Two brothers, Bradley and
Tam, and one sister, Lucille, also
survive.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Christmas Shopping

The Christmas shopping season is here
and local merchants are ready for 1t.
Throughout this paper today will be found
hundreds of advertised values and in the
stores will be found even more.
There are some gift items including
nylon hose and automobile tires that are
not so plentiful! Other items have under
gone changes But in most cases where
duplication of last years items is not to be
had, there are good substitutes.
Remember to be generous this Christ
mas, without being impractical. Give use
full gifts and you may be sure they will be
enjoyed.
Local merchants have made every eff
fort to secure a good selection of Christmas
merchandise and we believe this year have
as good an assortment as can be found
most anywhere. We are fortunate to have
so many really fine gifts here at home.
Do your Christmas shopping now and shop
with your home merchants for a Merry
Christmas
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
OBITUARY
MRS. IRENE Y. JONES

Mrs. Irene Yates Jones, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. G.. Yates,
was born March IL, 1916 and de-
parted this life, November IA,
1943, being q years, 8 months
and two days of age.
She leaves to mourn her going,
her husband, her father and mo-
Their and the following brothers
and sisters: Mrs. Charles Hens
ley, Meben, w. Va; Mrs. Glenn
Barker, Aberdeen, Md; Vascoe
Yates, Smethport; Mrs. Wade
Jones, Jr., Aberdeen, Md; Mrs
Fred Ashley, Wilcoe, w. Va;
Pfc. Elmer Reece Yates, U. S.
Army, stationed in Washington
besides a host of friends and rel
atiVes.
Her stay on earth was short,
but she made many friends who
will miss her every day. She
was kind and friendly to every
her departure, to her family
one she met. She spoke often OF
and said she was saved, and
wanted to be baptised.
We regret very much her 60
ing, but let us hope that our loss
is her eternal gain.
By Rev. r. G. Ashley.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
ROOSEVELT, CHANG
AND CHURCHILL MEET

Continued from Page One)
for an unknown destination in or
der to meet Marshal Stain"
The meeting would be the sew
enth between President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill and
the first in which they had met
Generalissimo Chang. The last
Churchill-Roosevelt meeting was
in August, 1913, at Quebec and
subsequently in Washington al
which Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten was named supreme
allied commander in Southeast
Asia and, presumably, the grand
strategy of the Pacific war was
decided.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Hog-Butchering Time

During the past several days we have
been hearing much about 'hog-killing."
The time is not only here but the weather
has been right for it and much has been
done in Ashe.
We heard some interesting discussions
between some expert agriculturists and a
farmer the other day, about the method of
killing hog and we agreed with the
farmer, although we have never killed a
hog. He said that he shot his and then
stuck it. The experts said that the most
scientific method was to simply stick it,
leave it hanging to bleed to death. This
seems a little too cruel to us.
But no matter how we kill hog, the
important thing in this day and time is to
have one to kill. The many people of this
section who have their own hogs are in
deed fortunate.
The following from The New York
Times, which is our favorite metropolitan
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Congratulations To Schools

Congratulations to the 10 schools OF
Ashe county now operating lunchrooms,
where thousands of children are served
hot lunches every day, together, in many
cases, with grade-A milk.
We hope that there are still others IN
the county that can start this program.
We are told that the lunches, themselves,
under the state aid plan are much more
satisfactory than ever before, and that
they are not only eaten, but enjoyed by
both teachers and pupils.
It is real inspiration to visit the schools
of the county where hot lunches are serv-
ed and to see just how much the children
are enjoying them. We have also been i'm
pressed with the excellent management of
those lunchrooms we have had an oppor-
tunity to visit.
Statistics have proven that the hot
lunches in the schools are an important
factor in the health and progress of stu
dents Not only this, but they are real
convenience, saving mothers time and
trouble in packing cold lunches which are
sometimes not eaten.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Rs
DIG eHANCEs
Over s., $1,000 i'm Cash Awardo !!

Thousands of smart trappers are dis
covering that this season is going to be
aBlG money-maker for them! Trappers!
This season is your big opportunity /!
Fewer men on the trapiine means big
ger catch for you. Big prices and big
awards through Sears-Roebuck, too GAP
in all-making total of $7,590.OO in
cash awards for careful pelt handling in
Sears 18th Nationa Fur Show.
Think! 918 daily awards! 100000
First Major Award! Other big major
awards besides. And ell of them in adds-
tson to the TOP market prices Sears
Rocbuck get you for your pelts. Only
handling of fur counts, not kind or value
OF skin. So you may easily be winner!
Win your share of these extra fur
dollars! Every pelt you ship to Sears
Roebuck during the Fur Show period is
automatically entered. As soon as your
t'srs are ready, ship them to Sears, Roebuck
and Co., Raw Fur Marketing Service,
Philadelphia.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Congress Taking A Hand

During the past decade, the Federal
Department of Justice has prosecuted
many leading businesses and industries of
the country, charging violation of Federal
antitrust laws. Recently it brought such
action against fire insurance companies.
In sustaining a demurrer to the charges
District Court of the United States in Geor
gia declared, "The Supreme Court has re-
peatedly held during period of rs years
that the business of insurance is not COM
merce." The government has appealed to
the United States Supreme Court
The effect of this antitrust proceeding,
if successful would be to destroy state
regulation of insurance, and bring about
complete chaos in the insurance business.
The issue involved in the attack on fire in
surance concerns not only states rights
and the companies, but also every insur
ance policyholder in the United States and
the local agents throughout the country
who serve them.
The states have found that to permit
uncontrolled competition tends to result
in favoritism to the strong as against the
weak, and that companies which write
rates violating the laws of averages must
in the end become insolvent, with nothing
but loss to policyholders and the states.
Every insurance man knows that loss ex-
perience and physical and economic con-
ditions in the several states vary, and, that
while state regulation on the whole follows
a definite pattern, it should vary with
states to meet local conditions.
With view to maintaining state au-
thority in the insurance field, and prevent
uncalled-for Federal encroachment upon
the rights of states, by regulation of local
AFFAIRS identical bills are now in the
United States Senate and the House of
Representatives which, if enacted into law,
will affirm the intention of Congress that
the regulation of the insurance business
remain within control of the states.
There is nothing unusual in these bills
since the Supreme Court of the United
States has long held, without exception,
that the business of insurance is not COM
merce, hence, is not subject to Federal
antitrust laws, and may be regulated by
the states. For over 80 years, insurance
has been regulated by the states, each act
ing to meet local conditions in the way it
deems best for it's citizens.
The security of this nation now rests
more than ever in the hands of Congress-
It is heartening to see it, as we'll as our
courts, taking firm stand to assure con-
stitutional protection for individual as we'll
as states rights.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
The Skyland Post
West Jefferson. N. G.
November 10, 1913
The Skyland Post
West jefferson, N. G.

The Skyland Post
West jefferson, N. G.
Dear Sirs:
$500 to extend my subscription
to your very excellent paper. l
am a native of Ashe county. l
left the county thirty-two years
ago. I still have a number of
personal friends in your county.
Your paper is the only medium
through which l can keep in
touch with the vital news items
as we'll as the material develop
ments of your section. I don't
want to miss an issue I am de-
lighted to learn that you are 60
ing over the top on your War
Loan Drives, as we'll as The War
Relief fund. The patriotic atti-
tude of your people is very COM
mendable.
T. M. Calhoun
independence, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Classified Ads

FARM FOR SALE-2OO acre
farm for sale on Big Laurel
creek. Good seven-room house,
barn, and all necessary out
buildings. 35 acres meadow land,
and $500 worth of timber. Can
divide into two farms or less if
desired. Fronts road about a
mile. A. w. Hodgson, Hemlock,
N. G.. 12-2-4tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02
Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE

November 10, 1913
The Skyland Post
West Jefferson, N. G.
Dear Mr.. Anderson:
Enclosed please find a check
for one dollar and twenty-five
cents for my subscription to the
Post for the next six months.
have been out of the county
for five years, and have enjoyed
the Post immensely during that
time. 1t is so refreshing to take
time out between studies in
Greek and Hebrew to see what
is going on down in Ashe county.
1 am now in my junior year in
Theological Seminary, and hope
to complete my stddies here in
1916.
Let me congratulate you for
your recent honor.
Most sincerely,
Denver S. Blevins,
Union Theological Semin-
airy,
Richmond, Va.
Tillwan, S. c..
Nov. Is, 1913
The Skyland Post,
West jefferson, N. c.
Gentlemen:
Please find enclosed check to
renew my subscription to the
Post. l do not want to miss a
single issue as the family and l
consider it real pleasure to
have this reliable source of in
formation concerning our friends
and the things that take place in
Ashe county. The page devoted
to men in service alone is worth
the price of the paper.
Yours very truly,
J. D. Weaver
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

WILL PAY 15c pound for clean
white cotton rags. Will also buy
clean light colored rags. Ashe
Motor Company. West jefferson,
N. G. -. 12-2-2tn
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

SPECIAL NOTICE-To an1]
trucker returning empty, or part
ly loaded from Baltimore, Md.
See Mont Jones, J & ] Store,
West Jefferson, N. G. 12-2-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

FOR SALE-Good five-room
house, electric lights, out-build-
ings, one mile from highway, 50
acres of land. Cash $4,000.
See or write Vance G. Combs,
Smethport, N, c. 12-2-4tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

WANTED-Pine lumber, high
est market prices paid. Phoenix
Chair Co. 12-2-2tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

Pfc. Oscar d. HOuck, son of
Mrs. S. L. Houck, and the late
Mr.. Houck, recently visited rel
atives and friends, here. He is
stationed in Washington, D. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-02

Cpl. Claud Hill, of Scottville,
visited his sister, Mrs. w. E.
Nuckolls, last week. He is sta
toned at Hattsburg, Miss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-26
Govt. MayRaise Ceiling On
Corn us Cents a BusheZ

tors. Present prices make it con-
siderably more profitable to use corn
as feed rather than sell it as
grain.
Means of Adjustment
AS means of adjusting eastern
prices of other feeds in line with
corn, the OPA and VITA were con-
sidering a freeze on oats and barley
prices for 60 day period at the
end of which price ceiling would
become effective. Eastern feeders
have complained that prices of oats,
barley and other feeds not under
price control have scared because
of the lag7e demand occasioned by
their inabl.lty to obtain corn.
Farmers difficulties in obtaining
corn and other high protein feeds
also have contributed to recent de-
clneS in milk production. The VITA
announced it will pay dairymen sub
sides totalling about $40 a month
during October, November and De-
cember to compensate for higher
feed prices.
While no agreement has beer
reached on the ceiling to be placed
on oats and barley prices, VIA Of
ficials said prices probably would
be reduced about 10 cents a bushel
for both. The average farm price
Of cats on the farm October Is was
IA cents and of barley $1.O3 q
bushel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-26

Washington. Nov. 26--tUp>--CIoV-
eminent agencies were expected to-
day to announce within the near
future an increase OF between seven
and Is cents buSned in the ceiling
price of corn in move to relieve a
threatened eastern feed shortage
and reduce use of corn as feed for
hogs.
The Office of Price Administration
and the War Food Administration
were working on plans for the in
crease, which probably would be-
come effective in late December or
early january, but have not yet
agreed on the new ceiling. Stab
ilization Director Fred NJ. Vinson
was expected to make the final de-
cision.
The VIA, seeking to make it less
profitable to use corn for hog feed
and at the same time to free corn
now being held in the middle west,
was said to favor ceiling of up to
$1,22 pushed, Chicago basis, COM
pared With the ceiling of SLOT in eff
fect since last spring,
The OPA, however, was said to
favor new ceiling of $1.14, con-
contending that the VIA proposal
would result in higher food costs
VIA officials said corn ceiling OF
around $3.50 bushel, Chicago basis,
would make it about equally profit
able for farmers to feed corn to
hogs as to sell 1t directly to eleva-