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Thursday October 9, 1924
HOW WE BUILD AND PAY
Charlotte Observer.
It will be but a short time now?
whet! the egisiature meets in January?that
the 0! ti-vor can flaur.t
North Carolina in the face of pouty
old Georgia as the 5>100,000,000.00
Good roads state." How do we do it? I
Why. in the first place by an efficient!
organization of highway people, of]
the best business talent from thej
State, and an efficiently organized and
economical automobile department.!
likewise composed of men of the fin- i
est business qualifications. Men of |
big business affairs have been voiun- |
tarily drafted into the state's good'
road organizations ar.d these men. by'
their works, have justified the faith
of the people. Kesjllful application
of the state's money in highway construction
and maintenance tells the'
story. The Stale has now about spent
the quota of $ 5,000 000 which was
provided by bond issue voted by the
Legislature and is reaching out for
$85,0000.00 more with which to complete
the system. The state would
be in an uproar if the Legislature
should tail in that obligation, for
completion of the system is an obligation
regarded by the people as
their due. This demand is ask? d on
the utppiestiei ? d --uinoetency 0f high
way mar.agem* lit and upon the excellent
working of trie machinery glared
in the hands of Secretary of state
Evcret for devtM miner the funds to
pay for the work. It is an illuminating
utory.
It was the expectatio n when the
state highway work was inaugurated
that the best the state could hope
for would be the meeting of interest
en the bonds. The matter of reducing
the principal was regarded as an accomplishment
of the distant future.
It was the ''millstone" the lute was
tying around the neck of posterity."
Eut within thi years th -rtate has
retired $1,500,000 in road bonds and
will within the week retire another
51,>>00,000. thus taking ur? an is&ucof
$2,500,000 of bonds before the
ink on the paper is thoroughly dric-d.
A favvme expression an-nig some
people in contemplation f i big aecompii.shnv
m, is chat tlu-y "cannot
beiiew their own eyes," bat in this
ease ih< v cannoi avoid believing th?plain
facts.
A- disclosed by the rc-co-is oi Secretary
Kvortttb' depart.iv the recoil
f om iillomobile . - and
fro:-. .it gasoline 102l enabled
dcpactihcnl to .-et as b- $500
a nr. * fci maintenance if the highway
and to liquidate ail mi. ad . .?pen.
v.i the ro?hway department, to
pay ab 'merest charges on * a $65,000,000
bonds issue, and to put aside
Sl.->' 0, >00 for the sinki.m fund?
which means to pay off that amount
of bonds.
That " the record fo 1023. The
dei . l of depart Sc.
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mviii. inuicatCu -ver a uf-ivr fetora
for 192-1-25. Thi exfcctti)i?n is being
realised as indicated by the fact
that ?I,QCu.000 addition.! bonds arc
to ' c i- !)n--i immediately - . look
thi.- year is tor devMopm. ; of largely
increased revenues fr.,m licenses
and gasoline sales, for the state :
not near the limit. At) illustration ir
"ratio' migijt be given. The tota
revenues from registrations and tram
fers from November 30, it'll to N'o
vember 30, 1912 were $11,1*1. Th
revenues from the same source fron
June 30, 1023 to June 30, 192-1 weri
$o,97o,658.87. The revenues iron
gasoline taxes from May 1, 1921 t<
June 30, 1922 were $838,724.57. Foi
the year ending June 30, 1924 the
gasoline tax produced $3,979,855.40
Up to that date the total collection!
from automobiles and gasoline taxe;
amounted to $19,913,867.73, and tb<
total collections of the departmen
from all sources to $20,038,109.45.
The records further show that fo'
the registration year ended June 30
1924 there was collected by the au
tomobile department the sum of $8,
077,566.38. Of tfcia amount $824,
192.61 was collected and paid ovc
to the State Treasurer in June of thi
Tl
I This Wetkl
By Arthur Brisbane
FUR PRESIDENT COOI IDGE.
AND THOSE THAT PAY.
2.000 FIGHTING PIANES.
FOR ONE DREADNAUCHT.
President Cooltdgv recalled
.>ecr*Uiy Wilbur, of the Navy, to
Wimhin^iuQ to diKu6s with him
:e*ative value of battleships
and fi>ing machines in v/ar."
i.??*i:s. ? ! course, that the
PrtM rent will LISTEN to otber?;
and TAKE COUNSEL with himself.
It means thai, with all his
work, he has found tune for the
serious problems of Rir defense,
and doea not intend tc keep this
country among the backward nations.
as regards real preparation.
Facts alone will influence the
President, and tbey are not lacking.
For instance:
One battleship of dreadnaught
class cost forty-five million dollars.
For that sum the nation
couid build and mobolize TWO
THOUSAND FIGHTING AIRPLANES.
Does the President or
any other sane man ask wnst
chance & battleship would have
Against 2,000 fighting air machines
dropping TNT from the clouds?
The French have come through
a real war, with invasion to tne
very gates of Paris, millions killed,
other millions wounded. THEY
know something about fighting.
What has France done to prepare
against danger across her border ?
France has a first lino of air
defense, consisting of two thousand
fighting air machine*, with
a reserve of two thousand more
And that fighting French air
fleet is what makes England, with
all her lumbering battleships,
cruisers, etc., "the world's greatest
battle fleet," so nitifully polito
to Franco. She will continue to
be polite until she can dominate
in the air, as she used to dominate
tne sea.
The two thousand first line
fiscal year 1922-2S. The- remaining,
$7.:7.Y7."> was paid over to the
Treasurer during the fiscal year 192:1
-: with Ik- exception of $670.40,
>ad -heck?. The operating exm r-. |
during the year ending June JO, 1924
: was $21 i.lds.O* for automobile Jim
and gasoline tax, and $102.!
42rt.o9 fur the theft fund which included
cost ox number plates, pos
iagt . clerical work, depreciation of
i . uuipmenr, oftiec supplies and upI
keep of building in which the depart-1
is lucai&S The personal service
I os. if admim-t. nr.g the license and
' gasoline tax was I b2 per cent <.i the
revenue collected while the total cost
> . .* tU.. >. .. .1
v p I ? ... ui i*?. loilecte.l.
rr.u total vpi-oso of opei ath-ir
; hf av.tonfiobilo h pavtrr.ent oil
fr-.tn rovonue rccvivyd, and no :u:rt
i i-f til (J _'cr.eial iun<l of the i.<
: aii,iiu;)iiiited for its use.
inciJi ntally it miyht be >vr >nto
nee ibat in 1 1 1, so far t c
automobile detriment knew .?-re
we but 11 ,*>sr? t ,.:ornobi!ci ;Jie
state and oulj ISO dealers. A t . he
alo-ii a if the i.y24 report then v..ajcautomobiles
paying i:: :te
, t?> the- jtfhod road- ar/d l.AOS dealers
?elling iKomol - And that : how
the state grows and how it build no
good rnuis w About making the oi
nay any taxe- for them. A o in
this condition of affah's is locaud the
ason why the peon'e are dem; i?ng
the rounding out of the work and
legislative enactment which will make
it possible.
BOONE BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a. lib. VV. R.
j Gragg, Superintendent.
Preaching 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p. in.
j Prayer services are being conducted
this week orep&ratory to our
meeting which begins Monday night.
*1 Rev. W. L. Griggs, pastor oi thi
ci rob of North Wilkes
; boro iv to be with us in our meeting
We had a fine meeting of the can
vassmg committee Monday night Th<
a i canvass is for the local work anc
1 frvt- .,nr miecion ."niKpc Ft ic
i to be made the afternoon of the 4tl
' Sunday in this month.
} We extend a hearty welcome to al
to attend our services.
FORMER WATAUGAN DIES
IN THE STATE OF TEXA5
i
3 A mcsage from Paris, Texas bear
> the sad intelligence of the death o:
t our former county man Holland F
Hodges on last Friday. Mr. Hodge
r was born and reared near Boone lea
i, ving here some forty years ago fo
- Texas where he reared a family am
- prospered financially. He is a brotbe
- of Mrs. J. C. Ray of Horton and Mi
r R. R. Hodges who spends his sum
? mera here.
HE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?JSV
lighting plar.es that spell security
for I Ebmipe,
less than haii' the c^!-t of or.r i?*st
das* urea . h r??.
ier Kr<, :a' .hra Germany
ihaJl bu'ii * : - g planes.
We continue spc-aJSrg nSfioas
on big gi s v." uration f? r
practice. They uis. :il soon be
class e : a: ,r crtr.sear.'. curiosities.
used lo ...;skfc : loud noise in
the P/ - :;!al salute, or tickle
nig to his ship.
A sixteen-inch > gun costs as
much as fighting a/rshtps. It
lasts only long enough to fire one
hundred and twenty shots. Then
it is burnt-out scrap iron. The
life pi a fighting plane, costing
half as much as a single big g*r.-.
is equal to that of an ordinary
forty-five million dreadnought.
Mr. W. J. Davis, of San Diego,
earnest advocate of air defense,
says truly, ' The nation foremost
in the air will win the next wor
at the drop of the bomb, and before
the world wakes up the next
morning amid the fumes of phosphorus
or of bombs of some other
Kina, ii u ao?8 wane up ui urn, tne
var will hiive been won."
Battleships, besides beir.g obsolete,
are frightfully expensive,
soon out of date, worthless in
peace. Flying machines, enough
of them to make thia nation safe
against attack by sea or land,
could be built without burdensome
taxation, kept up with slight expense,
and they would pay their
way in peace, twice over, in the
mail service, and in spying out
torecfc fires.
Before this country faces s
new war?it won't come, while
they are e'i borrowing from us?
the range of fliers and submarines
will be as great as that of any
floating vessel. The submarines
will go as fast as any cruiser and
tbo fliers, of course, twenty times
as fast as any fighting ship afloat.
These suggestions are submitted
to the Prwident, who will decide
what shall be done, and to the
people of this country. They will
pay the bills in money, which is
not important, and in blood, which
is important, if a fatal mistake be
made in oar plans of dsfenee.
What yoa read here is printed
in several hundred dally newspapers.
including the Herald of
Washington, D. C., where those in
otftee may see it, and in several
thousand weekly nowroapers, read
in millions of country norms.
FOSCOE GLEANINGS
The Rev. Woosley preached a lii
a-nv.on here Sunday afternoon. ?.
ei pleas.-d lo hav. him with \
and hope he can return often.
Mi. Grove;* Waltes and family
Blowing Rock visited his sifter Mr
i). Coffey. Sunday.
.Mr. \\ P. Church ...in Miss \
a Coffey -i.e.,; Sunday in ZionviU
Miss Alcna McCain home agai
after spendine ths sumnyei i:i Bl.?v
ng Rock.
Mrs. Walters mad a inn i
1 How nig Rock and Lenoir la*, v. ? e
.^nc iook in tnu pioneer snow Tl
Covered Wagon." It was grand
Miss Virginia Coffey visits Mi
' Edna* Davis at Todd last week.
: I think Mr. W. A. Wat son is d
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Sew Rj
iiHi- 'V*e nave
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m. *tj; rbe ciesigi
ili |d wondertu
|i: Sj wait unti
|j j II improvers
ijij i I dy its heij
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I 1 I I &t?r cow
II I m Satin i*ni
II I IB refinemei
// I fIB * Tourluli ? R7n(
IJ IS i Roadster S7i
1114- liflu ' Sport Roadster 18!
\laf5l Sport Touring I' > 1!
Vt \V? Do Luxe
t \V XJgl I he G. M. A.
plan makes b
f. o. b. Lansin
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ery thursday?boone. n. c
[Wg]
, to find success v*rmo?/r ;
j mocm t fport ? uoo*. ??*
t?vj; [jiaiomarv - j
r?5r"^
Jhenv^L
w-?-?-y-~
Uncle lahnl^J
I motor*! out to Eesyviiie a
day or two ago. ... I'd
heard rome tales about 'cm that
I didn't think was so. I used to
lire at Easyville?she half-way
mothered me,-?oo, whan they
told ma ahe was dead, aaa I, "I'll
go an' aao."
She didn't hare no ferror, and
h?r pulse was ruunin' low
. . . Her symptoms waa about
the same as t.hi-ty years ago.
Shs weren't cnjoyin' mora of pap
than what the law required,?
an' ahe wouldn't aaern much
deader If she really had expired 1
No flowers was bloomin' oa
the lawns and, nary house was
painted. If aha had heard of
civic pride" they hadn't got aequalntod!
The alleys needed
cieanln' up?the weeds was
growin' high?e a a h family
owned a spotted pup that
howled aa we went by. . .
The wtmman looked slabsided,
an' the man was whiskered
rank. ... A veteran
with a wooden face was oettin'
hi the bank. ... I may be
wrotig about it, but I've got this
ranch to say: I couldn't stand rehearstn'
far a funeral everyday I
nit; tho right ling it. living to build
: ir,t Deep l;:iii 1 hope he can get all
I ho eiie.tn.ts he wants.' ilopc they
will kelp ii.m advertise ihi place. We
don't think we need anything mors
f . th ?neai Grandfather Mo tntain
s. to aid as. It* you stand on tin moantuin
you may see the sun fining
i- ions; after it is dark in the val'ey.
Try to live up high. Let your v. hole
in Hi'e be so, upward, upward.
Mrs. A alter- is planning a trip to
Hopev.vii church :ext Sunday witr
to i some friends.
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j WANTED?Students to work in ? !'
t'ico while taking business course. Tui
i tto-.s .1 from guaranteed positior
.-ii'ter gradual ??n. Edwards th:sines:
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n't changes. g|?
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k you see vsc !?sj; :'j!
lent wrought jg|U |j
"htened hooa. ;l|i
tive new radi- i'l
I lights i)uco i|jl \?
sa,^ and ocher
i 2-Pais. Rus.OopcSlMJ hi
"? S-?a;?. <^>acli i?tA5 I I
% t'-oupe 1175 ISif/# jil
> Sedan 1250 c5Ir/M jJr
sedan $i35o lyy g?
C. MtenJetl payment rZr y/
tiytntl easy. All price? 3 i
g. Tax and spare tire p y/
additional. I
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MOBILE
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OCTOBER 9, 192-5
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For Immediate Delivery
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J We have ust received a new shipment of I
Roadsters and Trucks. The Chevrolet has
proven its superiority to other cars for this *
section in every test it has been given. We
woud ask that you place your order etrly,
and if in doubt as to whether to buy this kind
o f acr or not, just ask the man who owns one
Ward Chevrolet Company
Boone, N. C.
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Your Roofs I
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I he season is fast closing in and
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before you realize it. King \\ inter
will have full sway.
Why not prepare all your buildings
for the rain slow and sleet
that is sure to come.
We have roll roofing of all kinds
at attractive prices, also it is necessary
to heat your home to a comfortable
degree and our line of hea
Jters is complete.
We will have a shipment of Hea
trolas, the inside and ornamental
furnace for heating your entire
home at an economical operating
cost of fuel, in a few days, and will
be glad to show you and tell you
! about it.
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Dont forget us when in need of
anything in the hardware line.
BOONE HARDWARE CO.
"The Friendly Store"