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tHSatauga democrat.
ft- C. RIVERS, Editor and Owner.
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AS TO ELECTRIC CURRENT
The board of town aldermen as is
norated elsewhere in this issue have
some propositions from Mr. E. VV.
Thomson, who owns the fine power
proposition on Watauga River, as to
furnishing Boone electricity for both
lighting and commercial purposes.
In order that Mr. Tomson may build
his plant of sufficient size to supply
our every need, he must close some
sort of deal with us soon as he must
start on the big- job a searly as possible.
If we refuse to accept any
proposition made or come to no terms
?i i ...:n i... i -1. i.i.. c ..
ni" (M<nu ?>ni uk~ uaiu witi\ li/i
Blowing: Rock, whereas if we are
so inclined, we can have it twice as
large, with adequate current for both
Boone and Blowing Rock for years
to come. It is as we wish, Mr. Thomson
wants us to let him help us in
this our great need; we don't know
exactl.% what propositions he has
made, but it is evident that he is
reasonable and that ar: agreement can
be made with him that will be good
for us. He wants to invest money
here, so why not?
Our growth in many lines depends
on our power. Wo have long been
handicapped because of the lack of
it. and now. town fathers,, we implore
you to come to terms with Thomson
without unnecessary delay, the town
stands with you, don't be side-tracked
by other propositions. This one
is sure. Let us all stand as one on
this issue for its our real chance.
T'n ematter will probably be definitely
decided upon Saturday evening
when the Commercial Club meets at
the Critcher Hotel. Be ..here and
boost this project.
Opportunity knocks, shall we open
out dooj ?
SWISS CHEESE IS NOW
M ADE IN NORTH STATE
(Raleigh News and Observer)
Swiss cheese with the regulation
eyes and teardrops, is now being manufauturod
in North Carolina.
To date, i; is only being done in
an expenmoniai way :?y ino dairy
specialists of the State ('allegro and
department o1 agriculture, hut the
outlook is bright for the new industry
to become firmly established, according
l?? F. H. ?Iester, editor of the
department.
"This new industry for the state
was begun last year at the Cove
Cove Creek Go-oporatfVe Cheese Factory
in Watauga county/' he said.
**lt nas long been known that the
mountain coves of North Carolina
were ideally suited to the manufacture
of cheese. Since the movement
was begun in a small way over there
in 1915 by experts of the experimental
station and extension service,
there has been a steady increase in
the number of factories being built
until about- 21ft were o<tjddi?sh#?d
"But all these factories were for
the manufacture of cheddar or cream
cheese. In the last year or two, the
market for this kkind of cheese has
not been so good and the farmers
were not getting enough returns from
such milk as was made up in this
way. Consequently, some of the cooperative
factories began to lose their
earlier popularity.
"Seeing this, the office of the dairy
farming under the direction of J. A.
Arey began experimenting with
cheese of higher quality. L-. H. Wilson,
of the United States department
of agriculture, was secured to begin
experimentnig with the swiss cheese.
"It was found that conditions were
ideal for the manufacture of this
kind and some experimental cheese
was turned out for curing and testing.
The quality was good, but there
were two many eyes or holes. Now,
the dairy specialists have eliminated
these extra holes, and state that the
cheese is as good as any made in
Switzerland ana marketed in this
country.
"Mr. Arey states that by adding a
newly discovered culture to get the
eyes of the cheese, a majority of
those manufacturers at Cove Creek
are number one products.. This is
not true of the Swiss cheese manufactured
in Europe, since only about
40 per cent of their manufacture is,
number one quality. However, the I
Swiss only send their best cheese
over here, and Mr. Arey states that
he is delighted that North Carolina
made cheese is ranking with the best
quality coming over here.
4 Mr. Arey further states that Swiss
cheese is bringing about 40 cents per
pound now and that cheddar cheese
is marketing at about twenty six
cents at the mountain factroies. He
finds that the Swiss cheese then is
returning a third more money for the
milk sent in by the co-operative
farmers.
"Some Swiss cheese in now being
made in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but
this is the first attempt to bring the
industry to the South.
"With the excellent, conditions for
manufacturing existing in the mountain
coves of North Carolina, however,
there is no reason why the new
industry should not grow into a
large and lucrative business," he said.
Democra t Ads Bring Results
I
MOUNTAINEER ANCESTRY
| (Edith M. Holt., in toe Charlotte
Observer)
In an article entitled "Railroad
Urged to Reclaim the Lost Provinces"
appearing in the Observer of Dec.
ember 22, I noted with interest that
the citizens of western North Caro'ina
counties are tired of being referred
to as belonging to the "Lost
Provinces.* stating emphatically that
they are native born 'Tar Heels' and
desire to be known as such.
I am not a mountain by birth,
but I have lived in the mountains a
large part of my life. I have taught
scores of mountain children and visited
numbers of mountain homes in
North Carolina and Kentucky, and
I know who the mountain people are.
There are no negroes among them?
! no Chinese nor Japs, nor Russians,
nor Greeks, nor Italians, nor Jews.
The purest strain of Anglo-Saxon
blood in America today flows through
the viens of the mountaineers. There
are a few Scotch, French and Irish,
but the English names predominate
and a glance down the condensed
biographical dictionary of the encyclopedia
Brittanica reveals their
ancestry. The names that show the
longest lists of great men in the history
of England are the names of the
mountaineers Look again?the signers
of the declaration of Independence.
What names had they? The
names of our mountaineers. The generals
and great men of the American
revolution? The very names now common
in our mountains.
Who occupy the middle and eastern
section of North Carolina? Men
who bear the same names that our
mountain men do. to be sure.
Who arc the leaders of our nation
today? Men who sign these very
same names.
And to my personal knowledge
the following members of the sixtysixth
Congress have names which are
identically the same as those possessed
by the mountain folk: Marcus A.
Smith, Joe T. Robinson, Hiram W.
Johnson, Charles S. Thomas, Duncan
U. Fletcher, W. J Harris, James E.
Watson. Frederick Hale, John W.
Smith, K note Nelson, John S. Williams.
B. I\ Harrison, James A. Reed,
Key Pittman, Walter E. Edge. Andriens
A. Jones. Furnifold McL.
Simmons, Ellison D. Smith, Edwin S.
Johnson, Thomas S. Martin, Wesley
L. Jones, to say nothing of the name
of ex-president Wilson?the greatest
man in the world today.
GREEK AND ARMENIAN
EXILES FACING DEATH
Dedeagatch, Western Thrace, Dec.
27.?Heavy snow, icy winds and intermittent
rains have wrought great
misery and suffering among the haifmillion
shelterless refugees scattered
over Thrace and Macedonia. Unless
help is prompt and gt tierous the
Greek and Armenian exiles in these
areas will perish in large numbers.
Already the majority are naif-naked,
starving and diseased. All the elementary
needs of life are lacking. Food
stocks in the towns arc growing low.
Famine must ensue this winter unless
Hour is sent in.
Human \%oe and wretchedness seldom
have reached such levels. Large
numbers are dying daily of exposure
and insanitation. The condition of
the children and the babies in pitiful
Infectious diseases are rampant. Typhus
is gaining such headway that
it is feared the great epidemic of
1018-19, which began at Cavalla, will
recur. Life in the east always has
been cheap, but never so cheap as
in this corner of Europe. Had the
i/wi?uiatiuii nvcii (iciiiuiieu ij remain
in Eastern Thrace and faced the
Turkish invaders, their lot could have
been little worse.
When the Associated Press Correspondent
crossed the little river
near Drama where Paul baptized the
first Christian, he was assailed by a
band of hunger-maduened Greek women
and children who begged piteously
for a crust of bread. They said
they had been on the march for 21
days and were subsisting on beetroots.
Althought there was a foot
of snow on the ground, many were
shoeless, coatless and hatless. The
blistered bleeding feet of the children
left red silhouettes in the snow.
In spite of many promises of help
from the outside, little has been done
to assuage the misery of these helpless
exiles. Most of them are women
and children. Thev nr.-* in
of help.
A HOLIDAY MEMORANDUM
The original plan of the American
Relief Adnunstration in Russia, as
drafted in August, 1921, provided
for the feeding of 1,000,000 sick
children and adults.In August, 1922,
the A. R. A. was feeding 6,257,958
adults ana 4,171,000 children. In
the areas affected there was a population
of more than 42,000,000, of
whom nearly 24,000,000 were described
as 'hungry." In this hungry
mass American charity fed 48.5 per
cent of the adults and and 43 per
cent of the children. Last July American
aid was being given to 1,663
hospitals with a bed capacity of 121,000,
to 8)8 dispensaries, and 819
children's homes.
This winter according to Fridtjof
Nansen, there will be 8,000,000 people
in need of relief, with the Soviet
I Government able to support no more
! than two and a half million.? The
I New York Post.
Finger prints are now sent by
radio by means of the Belin system.
The Chilian earthquake broke
open an ancient graveyard, within
10 miles of Copiapo, which may reveal
valuable data.
MOUNTAIN MOTHER OBEYS
THE CALL OF CHRISTMAS
Saturday evening an old. bent and
wrinkled woman knocked at the door
of the Methodist parsonage. Rev. W.
L. Ilutchins answered the door.
"i have come all the way from
Caldwell county to see my son, who
is on the county roads charged with
a crime of which he is not guilty.
I am old and t?red, 1 have no money
and I am hungry. I have not been
able to find a way out to the camp
yet. I must have something to eat
and a place to sleep." so spake the
aged woman whose mother iove had
drawn her from her mountain home
to be with her son at Chr'strnus.
Rev. and Mis. Hutchirs took her
in and gave her supper. The home
was filled with Christmas guest-; and
there was no bedroom to spare but
the genial preacher, whose heart is
always touched by the woes of humanity.
secured a ro ?m for her at
a local hotel ar.d raid for it ar.d her
breakfast.
Saturday night Mr Ildvchins toM
the woman's story to M. A. k!arp
county road superintendent, who
volunteered 10 carry- the woman out
to the camp where her son is, allow
her to spend the day there and bring
her back in the afternoon. This
was done. Arrangements were also
made to assure that the mother get
back to her home.
My hoy is not guilty, she told
the minister. Then she recounted that
ho had always been a good son to
her. had gone to the war and did his
duty by his country. Returning home
he and two others were mixed up
in the theft of some cloth from a
store. "The others put it all on my
boy. but he is innocent," she repeaed.
She believed it too "I have made
my living most of my life by washing
but rheumatism got hold of me. Then
I made some money putting up cord
wood?hut you know an old woman
whose fingers are drawn with rheumatism
like mine can't wash or put
up cordwood any more. I need my
hoy," she said, as she exhibited a
pair of hands drawn and gnarled by
labor and disease.
The aged mother was taken early
Sunday morning to the camp and
allowed to he with her hoy and in so
far as conditions would permit there
was perhaps no greater measure of
the Christmas spirit anywhere than
with the humble pair,
with the humble pair.? Lexington
Dispatch.
MAINTAIN RESPECT FOR
LAW, SAYS DAUCHEP.TY
Action by business and industrial
trade associations to maintain respect
for the law of the government would
go far toward preventing- "unrest
among our people endangered by cer:
tain dissatisfied and radical elements
Attorney General Daugherty declared
to day in a letter to the Philadelphia
board of trade.
The letter was in response to a
resolution adopted recently by the
board declaring its opinion that the
time had come for the business interests
to rally to the support of the
government.
Mr. Daugherty declared he was
wholeheartedly in sympathy with the
board"s declaration demanding the
law and overthrow of those destructive
forces which oppose the orderly
processes. So long as the mass of
people realize, the attorney general
said, that government can endure
only through "righteous observance
of law and order and justice" the
nation has nothing to fear.
"Our government today is passing
through a critical stage," the Philidelphia
chamber was told. Not since
the civil war has the nation been confronted
with economic conditions so
acute, so simplex, so fraught with
danger. Yet we are not isolated in
this respect. All the nations of the
earth have felt the blight, some more
seriously than others. Some have
recovered, others are recovering, and
a few possibly will never recover.
At this period of our history, especially,
the economic or substantial
basis of constitutional government
must be preserved and fostered at
all hazard, for out of unstable economic
substances pour the fumes of
unrest, distrust, rebellion against organized
and lawful authority.
"Since the termination of the
world war our government has met
I and conquered most of the economic
ills that threatened our body politics,
today our nation is prosperous and
at peace, militarily, with the world.
"Yet there are in our midst today
some elements striving vain-gloriously
for the plaudits of those who
would tear down constitutional government
through viciously founded
theroies and violent attacks upon
those public servents called by the
mandate of the whole people to preside
over and preserve the sacred
ideals of the greatest government
rtT'ni" *1." U ? ? J 1
VV1. (.ovuuiioucu i/jr tuc ILallU itUU
brain of men.
"So long as we have a nationalism
purged of malice and hatred and
dedicated to all that is best in government
and peoples, then shall we,
have little from those contentious
elements which in their infinitesi-i
mal minority, seek to practice de-i
ceit upon the people through unhealthy
and viciously acquired views.
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FEW ON WAITING LIST
New Year's Eve at Ellis Island
found only 800 immigrants awaiting
entrance to America, the smallest
number at the Island on that day in
many years. Six liners are due to
arrive Monday, but none of the newcomers
will be admitted until Tuesday.
t.
:a democrat
i
financed his own farm
(Dearborn Independent)
The Southern Farmer relates how I
by co-operation a farmer was able
to make needed improvements to
his buildings, fence his land, and fi-1
nance his coming: crop of magnolia
figs from a position of deflation to j
the bare land.
Texas laws do not permit an owner
to mortgage a homestead, thus the
farm had remained clear of liens.
The banker to whom the farmer applied
for a loan was satisfied with
the risk, and knew a way in which the
land could be made available as security.
It was a trick to evade the
iaw forbidding validation of a mortgage.
and this was the way of it:
Mechanics and labor liens against the
property were legally permissible, so
a contractor was secured to take the
job of completing the house, erecting
a barn and necessary sheds, and
building the fence. The contractor
received liens for work and material.
the liens being transferred to the
bank to be drawn against as the work
proceeded.
The farmer's table had been pro
vided for the winter, and he needed
j very little cash for expenses during
the? idlo spflsnn but whoro was bo to
J get the amount needed to finance his
* crop?
IThe banker had thought of that
too. And here is where hanking brains
proved to be creative. This banker
j insisted that the contractor employ
the farmer on his own job, rough
carpentry, driving his in hauling material,
excavating, and on whatever
work the farmer could do.
When the contract had been carried
out, Mr. Farmer had much better
property than before, more than
cash enough on hand to finance his
! next crop, and was able to discharge
the liens from a seasons produce.
The banker had gained interest on
more money than the farmer would
ordinarily have borrowed; further
more this interest was obtained upon
security which the banker could not
have used in obtaining funds from
j the Federal Land Bank; and besides
{ all this, the farm had practically improved
itself.
4 Of course, the same evasion of the
J mortgage law might be taken advantage
of to rob the owner of a homestead,
but/the banker who appears in
this narrative was a true servant of
his community, following ?: policy
that dictated helpful treatment of
patrons. If this wore more generally
i>nci> thnt'c u-aiiI/I Ku mnoli
reason for bitterness when farmers
are out of money.
A RUSSIAN MYSTERY
(Washington Herald.)
It is announced that the Russian
people under the Soviet government
? have now a surplus of grain which
Vthey can export.
And yet, singular as it may seem
Russia will stiil need the assistance
of foreign nations in grain. Now,
what does this mean?
The answer is simple. In Russia's
vast empire it is more difficult to
move goods from one part to another
than than to move goods from
the remotest part of the world to
Russia. The reason is that Russia
has no railroad system worthy of the
'name. She had none under the old
Czar. But even such railroad equipment
as she had was completely destroyed
during the war.
It is in better condition today than
it was when the Soviets took control
but it must be in very much better
condition still before the Russians'
grain can be brought from all parts
of the empire to feed the western
cities.
Russia is now buying railroad equipment
right and left. Five hundred
million dollars worth was recently
bought from Canada. Germany
and England are selling Russia hundreds
of millions of dollars worth of
engines and cars. Only America has
so much business that she can afford
to throw away Russian business in
order to satisfy the spleen of our
international bankers.
POLITICAf PRISONERS TO
"RECEIVE PARDONS.
"President Harding," says a dispatch
of the 29th, expects to sign
tomorrow commutations of sentences
of 12 or more "political prisoners"
There will, however, be no "generpl
amnisty" it was added. The commutation.
it was explained, will l>e
in the nature of a News Years gift.
Just prior to Christmas the President
granted these commutations
but these were not for offenders of
war-time laws.
RfeV. J. F .DAVIS WRITES
We are in receipt of a letter from
Rev. J. F. Davis, formerly of Boone,
in which he congratulates us on
"The New Democrat" and upon the
growth of our town, and expresses
a longing to visit Boone again. Rev.
Davis has many friends in Watauga
to whom he sends best wishes. Ha is
now located at Hilda, S. C.
SORE MUSCLES
Vacations are often
spoiled by soreness resulting
from outdoor
games. A good massage
with Vicks often gives
surprising relief.
WICKS
1 WW VapoRub
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LONG DAYS IN THE LAND
When it comes to the *fgd of long
lue, North Carolina is it. We believe
the Surry County woman who a few
months ago became a member of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, is 107.
Ninety odd year old field hands and
101-year-old cornshuckers are rot
uncommon in Cleveland County. And
I now comes Carter's Weekly with a
| fine rounding-out incident for the
' year. Mrs. Debby Kiddle, living on a
| rural route a few miles out from
North Wilkesboro, relates that paper,
; "jumps up all at once in the limelight
i of National fame for two reasons,
! first she delayed being a prominent
citizen until well on towards 110
j years and second she sent a letter
| recently to President Harding with
( five dollars enclosed for Greek ref,
ugees."
The American Ked Cross was so
j much interested in this Wilkes counj
ty personality and her gift that it
i sent for a photograph, to be preserv
ed "as an example worthy of being
j followed by a younger and stronger
| generation." The picture was secured
along with some history of this
remarkable woman. Her youngest
son is 75 years old, and she has seven
great great grand children. There
I -? ^ .f ?
; ?*iv i*ve generaiions ui h*v awuwi^o.
| All live within a radius of two or
! three miles, and to prove it. Carter's
| Weekly is shortly to print a picture
I of the families.?Charlotte Observer.
NORTH CAROLINA
APPLES WIN MEDAL
For a meritorious exhibit of named
varieties of apples and pecans, the
American Pomological society, meeting
with the Mid-west Horticultural
Exposition at Council Bluffs. Ia.,
last week awarded a bronze Wilder
medal to the North Carolina Experiment
station of the state college and
and state department of agriculture.
The exhibit, prepared and displayed
by C. I). Matthews, horticulturist and
F. H. Jester, editor, attracted great
attention from visitors to the exposition.
Forty-one- varieties of apples
and fifteen varieties of pecans, all
grown in North Carolina, were shown
in the exhibit. A decorative feature
of lopg leaf pine was used.
About ten other states were ucpresented
with different varieties of
fruits. North Carolina was the only
stale showing named varieties that
was awarded such an honor. A silver
medal was awarded to Iowa for its
experimental work in developing new
varieties and a bronze nudnl was
awarded to New 11 amp hire for its
display of fruits in packages,
1 used to think when times were
flush
And everybody gay.
That money came from grain and
hay.
That cows were poorer pay.
But now my eyes are opened wide.
Since feed been down so low.
f ;? ._ i.. __ _ .
nnvn iv ??? M'lp gt)OU COWS.
It always has been so.
Beavers of Alaska are falling telephone
poles where the poles stand
near the waterway. Several poles
have been destroyed in this way and
the linemen protect the remaining
poles by wrapping them with heavy
wire to a night of several feet.
\l 1
p PEOPLE demand q
jp terial the same as th
|| Buy where you can c
|,j and the kind of luml
p DEMAND is growins
jip the best, even thoug
J higher, people have f
^ be considered first.
p QUALITY is a part
me instance our No. 2 si
w have the same -rade
o-jj knots, air dried, and
I ^ well as price?Ours i
a has a few tight knots,
a| tiful ob. Which won
|P house? Isn't quality
H Think it over. .
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I Watauga Fur,
JANUARY 4. 1923
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THE REVIEW AND OUTLOOK
J The county seventh grade exam,
was given Wednesday December 20,The
entire class of seven taking the
examination.
The reading of the weeks Review
and Outlook was interesting and ap-*
j previa ted by the student body.
| The primary department enjoyed'
j the visit of our friend and commit
teeinan Mr. G. A. Ed mist en on FriI
day December 12. Mr. Edmisten
I spoke encouragingly of several children,
especially mentioning our sprigh
little friend. Miss Edith Tester.
Mr. A. E. Trivett, our efficient
merchant, was a pleasant caller at
our school today.
Some of the patrons of the school
arc indeed glad to know that the
school has come to a close on account
of some ??f the boys of the primary
department who were in lov?
with their teacher.
Mrs. Joclyn is having trouble w?tk
her daughter's beau who is very bashful.
On his last trip to see Miss Margaret
he had the misfortune to sit on
j his hat, turn over the ink bottle, etc.
j Our school during the term, boasts
I of enrolling people of almost all oc*
I cu pa turns even a "tramp".
Mother Goose is rattling -off her
i rhymes and jiii^}e.< nowadays as she
t did back when she was a young lady
in Ettgiana in ? ><.'v -a. u*
| Miss Anna, Ed mist en, excellent as
sistant teacher, entertained five o?
her baby friends at her home one
night during the past week liy saying
baby friends we mean babys of
the family and as she. Mis:; Anna,
is the bahv she enjoyed her friends
very much, also t he rest of the family
enjoyed having them.
School closed December 23 with
a nice little program including an
excellent address by Mr. Edgar Edmiften
a student of the A. T. S. and
a member of the E. S, of that
school, c: the subject "Christmas'",
with four sub-heads; What does it
it mean; Origin; Why do we keep it;
How should we keep it. It is being
spoken of by who heard it
as being one ? f the best talks ever
delivered at th'1 school.
Mr. A K. Trivi-tt our local merchant
has bought and sold t > the
Northern markets nearly $G,000.
worth, of turkeys from this section.
Fine for our section.
RENTING COFFINS IS
VOGUE IN ATLANTA
Operation oi >\-ei? of i.nting
fine coffins whereby persons ?f mod*
erato means could provide exiu-itbive
appearing fun.Tab for relative .> at
a small cost, was revealed as police
eoiitinued their probe into the 10b!very
of graves in a south > do cemetery
by a board of lietizro men.
i S. F. Ware. negro proprietor of
the Atlanta Undertaking ' , : v.
and said to he the in 4 ;ra:or ??i" the
crime, was indicted by r niton county
^rand jury on chart s of grave i >!>berv.
Charles Maddox ?o.d Thurrnan
Jones, two other men, alsj wtro indicted.
President Harding broke White
House records several months
standing when he shook hands with
1.150 persons in a recent reception*
Saving seed from the best vegetable
in the garden is a sure way to
know the worth of what you plant
next season.
L Si
uality in building ma- |al
J.
uo in oiner things.
jet the lengths, grades,
?er you want. fj||
I stronger each day for p
h the price be much p
ound that quality must w
of the price. Take for jp
iding. One dealer may jus
i, yet it is full of loose oj=
is cheao In nii?ll?? ? nc3
<1? SjiJ
s thro. >ughly kiln dried S
, and will make a beau- M
ild you want for your g
a part of the price? g
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