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JANUARY 11, 1923 ALLOCATION OF ROAD FUNDS (Winston Salem Journal.) Where will the state highway commission spend the new fifteen million dollars? That is the question uppermost in the minds of many.who favor this additional amount for road work.} Discussrng this subject the Charlotte Observer says: "The allocation should be made j on a compensation system. By that! the Ob-erver means that the 15,000,000 should be apportioned so as to! balance conditions in sections where; the original fund did not extend far. enough or was not applied to the erds sought. As an example, the most? important artery opening the northwestern section of the state is . a hard .lace highway from J offer* sen in Ashe County, to Wilkesboroj and then to Taylorsville, where it J would make connection with the road j wisely extended from Statesville to that key point by Commissioner Wilkinson. This would give a cen-, tral avenue serving the large and untouched territory between Route 19 from Shelby and Spruce Pine and to Sparta on the south and to no. 20 \ from Kikin on the north. This is the centra! avenue of the whole mdun-1 tain syst ;m." In other words the new fifteen million should be so "allocated'" as to insure completion of main high ways in winch Charlotte is primarily interested. Bui what about the Seventh High-; way District? This is the district which contains all the great mountain counties of northwest North Carolina. That is (he District in which arc to he found all the "Lost Pro-! vinces." No ther of the roads which the Ob-, server names v the "central avenue" ! of that district." And certainly the ate Highway Commission would not think i t a moment of a ! eating the new funds in utter disregard of one j great hie;h 'ay district in North Caroline. If the . e\ -nth district c to rec*. any >f thifi a lift ell railHon dole nrs -re o e Lia: w;iy i . that distric wl cfa wit1 ji t! oveil-.c! ? It ' the leg ...y that the k. a. t main artery, the "cei..ra. i; you rhe of i the ; : District. 1 rat ijgl way i known a- the Boone T?ail ami leads from Winston-Salem straight west through Vraiie > county, through Wil-4 kos county and oil through Watauga and o T(mim<"<c lip- If thi^v j;.anywherc u North Carolina a "central avenue of ihe whole mountain! system' l is this Boone Trail. Any allocation of road funds that fails to take his highway into acc-j s onnt is a i'arve. That is why Winston jy Salem and Forsyth County and .ij great majority of the people o? the; Seventh District will demand first,! last and all tie* time that the BooneI Trail be hard-surfaced before any! other road in the seventh district! receives attention at the hands of the J State Highway Commission during the next two years. This is why the Seventh District is for this additional fifteen million dollar bond issue. There is no other way to complete this main artery of highway transportation linking up the mountain; 'j? counties?the "Lost Provinces" with] Piedmont Central and eastern North Carolina by Urn mosi direct route,! except i : an addition*! bond issue properly ailugated. I i THE MAIL ORDER FIEND Cbemkf e Times. Tw > persons within he pa-- we. k have complained to u -hat the;- < been cheated by ma. orde* houses with whom they had le.i deal. We feli absolutely no sy.-. - ?athv 1 them, because both were u. -:.ns ? ! ^ average in t? liigence and sin Id !v;-. ^ known 'hat they could have rn better values right here in Gairney from r? liable merchants who would have stood behind the goods. When these people had stated their cases and asked our advice, we told them to employ a lawyer in the city: from whence the goods were shipped) and then when the case came to trial! to go there and testify and that we! believetT^they had a good chance to = recover. "But" said they, "tha^ j would cost us much more than the value of the goods." "That" said! ?ve, "is the price which you are paying! for dealing with people of whom you know nothing You could have pur a chased the same goods in Gaffney as! cheaply as you paid for them, and if they were not up to specifications P and your merchant refused to makej good, you could have brought suit and recovered right here at home." We do not say that all mail order! houses are irresponsible, because we know a few who will do what they say 7. but we do know that it is only in very j t exceptional instances htat you can1 buy goods from them cheaper than, you can from home merchants. We mean goods of the same quality of course. There is a good reason for this; the merchant buys his goods I ^quantities and gets a better price I iSfen the person who buys only a jftgle "nrment. ^ The merchants of Gaffney are a Wl'Wprt of our body politic, they arej j I j&iT own people, and all things being I I oftual, we should spenjl our money) J |*ith them instead of sending it to| j^gPPjeople in the north and east increas'|P'ing their circulation thereby depleting our own money supply. Mw Did you ever hear of anyone in ?iy New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore ordering goods from Gaffney? Youj , i ?iiever did and you never will, because ^ J* those people are smart enough to / \eep their money at home where it ?l ?rill do them the tuos. good- 1 1\ COMES TO SENATE AFTER 50 j YEARS ABSENCE FROM CITY Senator Allen Jones, of Alleghany county, the oldest member of the : upper house of the sixty-seventh gen- i eval assembly of North Carolina, had * not seen Raleigh since t?ie fall of I 186." just fifty years ago, when he \ encamped here with the First North * Carolina cavalry then on its v.ay t to Virginia to join "Light Horse" < Harry Lee's brigade to fight the ] Yankees. i Senator e^nev represents Alleghany t \sLc and *Vatnuga. throe "Lost Prov- l nice;-.'* He is a cousin of "Grand old t Man" Rufe Houghton, of Alleghany, t and like the latter is chuck fall of rampant Democracy the kind chat <. has kept the fire glowing since the i time -Jefferson penned the constitu- 1 tion. Senator -Jones opened his eye- \ when he got nere. lie was only > sixteen years old when he pitched t his tent here in *63, the youngest memoer ??i i.oioiieiH neeKS r ::m< n, . but all he remembered of Kalcigh \ was a few old straggling building* t alorg Fayetteville street and the mud r and dirt of the intersecting thorough- \ fares. "As well as I remember." said \ Senator Jones, "we pitehcd camp J somewhere north of the city, or town i as it was the::. We had a Rood time j here." he added, "for we knew that : it wouldn't be long until we struck t he firing line." ( < As it turned out, however, it was ; not until twenty days later that they came across the rap-Red soldiers of i the then dwindling Con fed'-rate army and fiting themselves against the op- i t posing lines of blue. Senator Jones' memory of the trying days that followed is very vivid. Me spoke words of praise for the gallant Colonel ( heck an?l for "Light Horse" Harry Lee, whom he gladly followed over many a hard fought field before arms were stacked at Appomattox ; Apr of the 7 liowi year. * /" en.- >r Jones. his 77 year is mar -ously active and full of (Bg !!._ is an interesting story , te: r. and one can readily z that 4 fc? keeps up with iurrent everts. 'Ie von a .'.mat victory over hi . t. yauiicun oripoiu-ni in the mountain counties, carrying the district i by over Iv o hundred majority. bcnHt'."/- doiir.s ftves Pralli. v'gfl ( r.vk. ju. t across Peach HnLi m mot; .ain from the little village " : His '.mite i. n. the ?vrutnt gr.i: < < ' lion of Alleghany where land within the past iV\. years has jumped ton and twenty dollar- an acre to a hundred and l'it'ty ami t hundred- Little there is to do in the mountain con .iy to make a living but keep up the fence and mow ! the hay in the summer. Cattle, horses and sheep on the fine pasture lands, with buckwheat on the mountain sides literally make of it a "land of milk and honey," one of the garden spots of the world- j I BOONE SENIOR B. Y. P. U. Coming, next Suuday night January 14th, to the Boone Baptist! church, a Bible study lesson. The short books of the new Testament, "Pllilippians," as a background for the study of Paul's letter to the Philippian church. We must read again the story of Paul's visit to Philini * (Acti u?). We all remember the < vision of the man, holding out ap- ? j i hands, raying. "Come over i?i o Mattdoma and help us." Paul t was <t! Troas, on the coast of Asia, r whet: he had this vision, God called ^ m from work in a province to the >nq\ic:t of a continent. Paul cross- A : the narrow Aegean Sea from Troas , .A 10 Philiupi in Europe. Beyond < i' >pi lay Greece and Rome, the :\ i:t. rs form which issued the learn- : lag, the commerce, and the armies j j which governed the world. Thus Pan* that European ministry which carried out Christ's purpose : for kirn, To bear my _?ame before the t Gentiles (Acts!) 15). Do you enjoy love letters? Get your supper early and come to our D. Y. P. U. Sunday night at six , o'clock. We study Paul's love ietter * to the Piiippians. it is the most beau- ( tiful of Pauls letters, in which he . lays bare his very heart in every i c sentance. Of course we all enjov to ^ read love letters and I think most j of us young people have a fancy j to get a chance to read some o..e , elses. Let us remember that this let- ^ ter vas written from a prison in y Rome, and is called Paul's love letter, j We can recall another striking example of Paul when he was in prison with Silas in Phiiippi, and th. > R sang songs. in the night until the ? earthquake was ser.t to set them free = (Acts 1G: 25, 16) Now in tn?' Roman ^ Prison, Paul's chief word is Jcy or R rejoice. | Have you ever heard it said, Well ? we cant ail be missionaries, as if ^ that settled the question of duty to R those in foreign fields who are with- q out Christ? The onlv trouble about that statement is that it just isn't ^ true. We ail can be missionaries. II and foreign missionaries at that. Do | you want to know how? "Oh," you ^ say, "by giving our money so that ^ others can go if we cannot." Yes, 2 in a sense that is a way in which we J can go to the uttermost parts of the ^ earth. But there is more real .and b personal ways than that in which you & can become an actual foreign mis- [i sionafry, or a home missionary either, and stay right where you are if it c be God's will for you to stay. Decide Q to be an "Intercessory missionary". Q There are two things necessary to. 5 become an intercessory missionary, a first, the putting of Christ at the jj senter instead of the circumference |l of life, and second, the mastery of | the secret of prayer. Neithe? is easy, J M - s ? ? ' E THE WATAUC/ A SOUND VETO (Springfield Republican) .... President Harding has preformed i public service that entitles him to t nucb praise in vetoing Senate Bill 1275 known as the veteran's pension >iil, applying to other than Spanish var and World War soldier.. If C<m-j rrc;-s should pass it over the veto, hat body would be entitle*! to an e-, juivalent amount of censure. How J Pile attentive to such legislation the K'op'r are in "vldnet from the f; t ,hat the bill origtn&lly passed _h tranches by overwhelming majori-. ies without a pretest from any quar-j ers being heard. It was small pota ves compared with the bonus bill, posting only S!0$,000.000 a \ . ar us igainst the several billions ultimate-! y involved in the bonus. The most flagrant feature oi the 5ur. um bill, now vetoed, is the les- < ening up of the provisions for vet-' rans widows. .Many a cortgressibn-, 1 il battle was fought between 181*0' 1 iml 11*10 over widows, often youth- j t ul, who had married civil war vc-t- j ** cr.dodorans in their old age. A com- 1 >romise was finally reached under|t vhich no Civil war veteran's widow I vas pensionable unless her marriage \ iad taken place prior to June 27, ' 11*05. The vetoed bill extended the I narriage period 10 years, or to June !7. 11*15. Even after that date it) I provided that any marriage "or, I :ohabit?.tion" for two years prior to t veteran's death should entitle the * \ idow to a pension of 950 a month . I "or the rest of her life. A woman of 20, consequently, mild obtain $50 dollars a month ur- 1 il she was 100 years old?if she sur-' ived that long?by marrying cohab-, ting with him for two year: prior o his death. In this wa* a pension v ?!1 on account of the Civil war could * >e kept in being much more than a :! .:rv alter the civil war ended. v fact, civil war pension ti v.:dov. ' vho wok- not atiw tir: ?: years A' ? hat war ended will actually continue ' ' > he ::.!<) undBj ex;H nv i;nt?l j | .he las- ?!?-:<..:iv* - :? of is .nr sort 1 er.tury Thir c ma ba d o n g| ho gowrnrik'nt' v.crioe with ' 1 nsioew on acrou-t of tin- ; \ nary war ai.d -he war oi LSi2-; ' El 1 !. The IV..--blent ignores no equh- \ < i-vim u?"?r til: government's i:erOrif\ in v.ying: "I do not rc gni/.: *r*y nu'dic obligation to per-' * : >n women who now, many tjO years j it i the i'jvi; war, become wives. 1 it \\ tci ans of t1 at war." 1 Four liot more veterans of j ? he wai? ot I nited St4it.es were | made by the 1 w.?r, and new pre-j1 o.lcnts in pension legislation should ' " carefully considered by Tongrejs ' n connection with the fiscal burdens ? ffuture generations. If the v.ar isk insurance system, as a substitute :'or the old pension system, has al- 1 cady broken down, new pension laws " merit a much stricter scrutiny and * riticism than they have been getting : n late years. * : t Read the Ads j> 11 ENTRY NOTICE No. ZS64 V Stat-i of North Carolina, Watauga ' uounty, Office of Entry Taker of i Said County. W. R. Graham enters and lays dnini to the following piece of land.! 1 The same being vacant and unap- 1 t i.i! in . T)nl.! . . Mountain Township, on the south voters of K!k Ocek and adjoining] ; ;.l- lands >i Abatlk and Elizabeth j irafaam, X. M. Dobbin aad others. Beginning on a chestnut ir* Gra-j1 uun's line, running various courses'; for compliments, so as to include j 1 ill the vacant land between .Maitie j 1 trd Elizabeth '!? . hr-ui, -\. jj". Ool bi md others, containing by estimate! j me acre, ir.ort or less. Entered Janaarv 2nd, 1023. IT. .1. HARDIN* E. T. i is going to the foreign fields is not * asy. hut he who has met these two conditions is as truly a missionary is the worker in the heart of China >r Africa or any other mission field. ^o*.v to do tlii.; we should go over} c he list of the missionaries in the oreign fields and pick out whose ! cork is pcculiary on ycur heart, and * hen pray for this missionary, and i >y doing this you can become an" ; ntercessorv missionary. j t HERMAN WILCOX I S RE' I "Business h tJy Kev. B. 1 "A story of the mountain, boot =Qj ers and white trash. Si But the book proves that whit ^ excellent, tempered steel."?The Jcf "The scene is laid in mountai with the "poor white trash,'* thei ist, it: PThe s *ss wa w in t :o W Cre 1. yr?--;V jIRlr .1^ - "yllLl L DEMOCRAT THE KU KLUX (The Carolina Citisezi) la the early part of the lost ccnury there was a great hue and cry n this country against the Masonic fraternity. Newspapers iind politiians and even preachers denounced t, and excitmenv ran high. The masms were accused of being in league fith the devil, who, it was asserted, retjuentlv met with them in their edges, and all manner of crimes ere charged against them. A po-1 ilivai oarly. called the anti-Masonic ?arly, was formed, and a man, whose , iame nobody rati now recall with-' iut ! t ferring to an encyclopaedia, iras 1 miniated for president and at tlally carried two or three states. < But the Me.sonic frai rnity lived ' .Ki iloe.ri.shed. and came to be renin. d as a respectable member} if soeiety, while the anti-Masonic! lolitj-al party soon died and \\:t-: orgo ion. Reading of these time.-1 sow makes one inclined to believe | hat nations, a? well as individual, ire subject to periods of brain storm. The Ku Klux Klan of today seem.- J o be going through the same ex>erience. The organization is being [enounced m tno must irenzied lashon by more or less prominent newsvipers and politicians, and yet it onti ;< ? to grow and spread. Apia; - y it is thriving: upon the oplosilion. We sometimes wonder if promoters are not very shrewd idvertisers, and have encouraged the ight upon it in the knowledge thai methods will strengthen it t rather than weaken it. It is very >ro!.?aMe thai the majority of the )"or>! of the United States hail ath< be lined up against the opef the Ku Klux Klan than h hem, on almost any sort of iub i- question. v. ii the prescnl Ku Klux Klan : darted several years ago nle paid any attention to it. b* at ;e attitude of the public of ind: ire nee. '? hi re p > u ? be little if any reason for ts cr -i'. iK'.' a;ltf some of the claims yf ?t i r . rot rs wore so gruatb. . iv.rn as to he ahfturd. Th. n. H- of 're n i. ? ;[)(? w : he cou rry try.rg to ov. . . ocai Klaus wi re not of a y* inspire lesprct- or coni'd -:,t - . ?u: duenly intense < upo-it mi u> j .1 llared up in certain quarters] i 1 t. r type of nu n appcaed "as ;rg; . ar.ci since the!., the g. h the organisation has Keen phetcme il. It has spread to every stm i! i union, and within recent uon.: has been more active in the lortl' ,;m! oast and we.-t than in the 4'iilii. I I.ere has been little evidence is .. what u has actually done, but >onv . opie profess to be alarmed io what it may do. There seem; o be very little alarm on this point ii th south where this organisation tarted, and in other parts of the -oiiniry the alarm apparently exists n the minds of the newspaper cdl Uiiu ana KUIIV1 kldlil JU he minds of the people as a whole. The fact of the business is that .he Ku Klux is to be judged, and vi,: be so judged by the public, by vhai it docs rather than by the claims mule by its sponsors or by the charres made by its opponents. If it )i\>\es to a helpful organization it ,vi 11 live; if it terns out to be ham* a! in any way it will soon run its tourse and die. Anything that will irnv men closer together and make Ikj.i realize more fully their duty as it...ens to uphold the lew and the >r: topics upon which the governin . : was founded is to be comp.eiui*:I. 10 matter what its call :r.a\ he X organizat ion whose sole nri-is to stir up racial or . i ftrifc or intolerance will not g c t ;ai nor last long. And it n.;: be; nr.! in passing that the Kv. Klux vi;.;! has suffered quite as reach his respect from some of its prruuot;r. :s it has sudcred from any of its ?PP"iieats- Some of the claims mailt >y eme of the organizers have been aiciilated to disgust reasonable men 1 i;i it, and that il has survived these hirgs is proof that there must be ;onii inherent merit in it. QUALIFIED "What profession is your boy Josh :oii V to select?" I'm going to educate him for uvyer," replied Farmer CorntosseJ. 'U naturaliy argumentative an' on mixin' into other people's roi. >les an* he m.. iu jots" as v,oil t or his time." Washington ?. voting ;iar. p; tD 1| > Business" I 4. Harmon leggers, outlaws, timber exploit- =nj e trash is not trash at all, but jypjj Gorham Press. jyp ns of North Carolina. It deais gjl r miseries, pride, gullbility. the hrQ injustice and hinderance of tyle is simple, and the biaterial QTcj y which is often, of course, the gQ he Ohristiafi Kvangelist. ^nl i r. S. HARMON ?k, N. C. 3U^J^j^iuaiic3Li^if=TU^njaLiaiit^ep t CHARLOTTE FOR NEW RAILWAY t 1 (Continued from page one) i go to waste, in so far as North Caro- t lina is concerned," Judge Finley said. "The products raised on the other ide of the ridge art entirely <" different from those raised oa this ' -ide. and the entire resources of the i region are going into building of ' Johnson City ar.d other Tennessee > cities. H "The state is not doing her. vii'J > j*e ti hi allowing this to eo-itinue. \ railroad connecting the couruics ' with the :c i of *.h6 tati-. cxtend^ijg 1 to the Seaboard and through -he 'i tains giving us excess to the ^roal fields a.ai an outlet to the northwest, w?ll bc? of inestimable advan- 3 iagc to the state. t "Tl- railroad will do away with the . ?? called goto ci?ics of Virginia. :: us on an equal foot hug with t the Virginia chics industrially: Vir- 1 ginia has three roads leading to the coal fields all of them good roads. L If the stale f .! ha can have thr > good roads from the coal fields to the coast, there is no reason why 1 North ('ar_oJ > '51 itinlliil rtr>* K-n .. . . ... t In proportion to business of the two states, North v aroiina should have six. "The matter should appeal to the 1 pride of every citizen of the state; i not only to their pride but to their pocketbooks. The state is rapidly f moving forward. It is paining mo- ' me::! um every day and the accumu lated energy is moving it forward faster every day." The "Hindenbarg Line" ' **0";e fourth'of our border counties are without, railroad facilities ' aid ; ';< ori..,erc?al Hind, ihurg Line mu t ' . hroi ,-u. A railroad should extend from Taylorsvills to Wilkes- f boro : d th?'!u . th v tVri.-'-Yv 1 way. .. Bui'* ?. ' T i; .: : y ; * : ,v . . .. ! very short while; The Irish ix>Lau> ' * of Wat;: ? en :my a . j .. .<! to i : be tb ! : a1 <in th in try. A 1 ; .: !' or . ' v- >u v. ant a [ the e potatoes to feed her m?ht . tn k i - ; . th mills. rhe qui stion S of bviriging; tbe potatoes ?.? Gastou co;: i.-a was gone i nlo. "It was learn , ri that, bring ing the! potatoes through i init.-.-ir, shifting'j then! several tiro s from one railroad , to another, would cost more than it j wouid cosl to bring li.e produce from j New York state, it costs more toi carry potatoes across two counties j j into the third county than it ?ioos | to ship them from northern New? i York. "il.e people on the eastern coast, ! want coaling- stations. These sta-; j tions could bo established with a j road leading: through the mountain! j counties to the coalfields. These stations would enable vessels to lay I | in a supply of coal without going: , to Norfolk. i j "We have made a trip to Washing j Ion and talked the matter over with I various railroad officials. They state I that they are . rested in only a ~ 'trunk line ? gh Jus section, aril tliat no .: . ould be considered. "Tfc of 1 -v. the ate is to v- . . >ad . state * | . : 1 cis.l *n ' - to the I c-.gajs * -o v. .i^trac- ioad. or ; We are required to year to the Banking D< pora'ion Commission very exhaustive and c tior. regarding our fi will enable the superv termine whether our 1 ried on with proper funds entrusted to oui We are also subjec the bank examiner or e out giving any notice c The examiner goes ov books and securities ai ph ase of our operatio We have always w supervision and shah t The People i Trust C< Pace Srr? he state could build the road and case it to some railroad company. "North Carolina would save enough n gateway freight rates to pay the nouey back time and again." Other Committeemen Talk Mr. Burke of Taylorsville made i rousing talk, stating that he had earned that Charlotte had a big icart, and urging that the city put heart and brain together and aid a putting ever the project. With he combined aid of Charlotte and arioas other cities of the state, the natter - l t put a. ' . .he- stated. K spohv of xhe . t: -r from a huuan standpoint, stating that the ta v uv.v i it to b n~ ).t:'tain peo>:v l<> give ib in the advantago. "The mountain people ta mo to a wirh :!.e ;r . a that they want o c lie o fch/' lie i nded. Mr. i!a'-kett spoke of the various out d i : ning that the mouna .i )K-(i;de do rot wal the railroad f i; will benefit them alone. "But it will be of unfold benefit o the entire : late." he said. Judge Harding spoke of the reonrcea oi the region, telling of a rip he made recently from one court !o another. "1 was forced/' he declared, "to ; ? through Virginia twice, through soi . a carol 1. . houth Carolina, Pcnnessar. and b:r.k into Xorth Caroina.'" The juri . 1 chat he was in;ormed Cat dor- i - one company n the state that would pay into the ;tar< ireawiry enough mois-y in tax's in' sixteen days to l>i :Id the road. '< expi d himself a? h :tily in favor of it. ??Iflend: ' -p of [he protects raised in that : ; tic . tolling >i the e -y of rhe Irish potatoes. "Arid ;J a"." 1 :i; d. "the ' ate. r a.- . ' that the state has is he splendid character of tie- mounlrt<) .) !. ' of nariotio r:v o*jj-y ronminder of he ul > , altogether. GOOD CIGARETTES I *jr GENUINE 2gar "Bull" ' -r ' f Sff DURHAM TOBACCO NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a bill vill be introduced in the present ses \,\ of the Legislature to amend the harder of the town of Boone so.as :o ' extend the bounds i d s of the said own. Edw. N. Hahn, L'jiis .Ian. 1 1023 Mayor i * i vised 1 [ ? report six times each spart merit of the CorThese reports are rtnvpv cncK ~-7 iiiiui Hid" nancial condition as ising authority to deiusiness is being carregard for safety of keeping. ;t to examination by uditor who calls with>r warning, whatever, er and proves all our id inquires into every elcomed the strictest :ontinue to do so. s Bank & ompany
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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