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VOLUME XLI, NO. 28
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Today and
Tomorrow
By FRANK P. STOCK BRIDGE
Lonjr Island ships dressed ducks to
j \ California. California sends turkey?
*?? New York. Florida ships trainloads
?f celery 1the North and Jacksonille
stores soli California celery.
New Jersey raises strawberries. onons,
cabbages. but Jersey suburban
( housewives buy them from grocers
vho in turn buy them from New
York City wholesalers.
.r \Jf- V Tin- f ederal Farm Board "diuulu
j jf ind ways to eliminate these round-1
J jbout methods of food distribution. j
.vith their expensive freight charges
\ . and profits to half a dozen middle- j
i men. The food supplies of big cities j
j .vill ome day be grown in regions
/ adjacent to the cities. It. will be
J cheaper to grow winter vegetables'
/ ; under quartz glass in electrically- i
/! \ \ heated hothouses than to haul them j
across a continent.
Buliding
The last stand of the hand-worker
tgainst the machine is in the buildI
ng trades. Building costs are excessive
all over the country and are
- till mounting. Wages go up without.
orresponding increase in productiye|
less. In the mechanized industries
j " j ligher wage."* reflect higher produc-j
j :ion.
,, I It is perfectly possible to erect
(j, nouses of any size out of stand a rd\
1 zed, machine - produced elements.
-any, unskilled workman can
.mt together under competent diroc.ion.
Plastering is unnecessary; many
vajlboards on the market are better
aid more economical. Painting can
<e done more efficiently and cheaper
y spraying.
Some day some group of capital-!
>ts will finance a building project
. vhieh will utilize mechanical procJ
\ ssos as the automobile industry does.
Th<*ii Hftmoc will K? ..v..,-..
? ?v on vucaji uiai
j i very family can own one exactly
' fitted to its needs.
p( Marconi
Thirty years ago a young manj
with an inquiring mind succeeded irii
ending a signal across the Atlantic
vithout wires. That was the begin-1
ning of radio. Everybody knows some
>f the things that radio has accomij
\ "dished since then, hut there is more
B j.4 o conic.
Marconi looks for the transmission
of power by radio hefore very
long. Television?seeing at a distance
?is just around the corner, already
Ihere in the laboratory. A photograph 1
h sent across the ocean by radio the
>thci* day enabled the London police
:o catch an American crook. .Short
radio waves raise the body temperature,
so that wo may yet keep warm
in winter by having radio terminals
j m opposite sides of each room.
Land
Chicago is building a new skyi
i scraner on land woe
:or $5,000,000 an acre. One family
owned this land for ninety-two years.
It cost that family $2.50 an acre
I n 1837. The present value is just
two million times that, which is not
(' a bad profit, even if one's heirs have
to wait a hundred years for it.
More foitunes have been made in
America by buying land and hanging
n to it man in any uliici way. The
biggest (tains are in the biggest cities,
but who knows where popula#
tion will center a century hence?
I. Except for occasional speculative
'and booms nobody has ever lost mon|
ey by buying: land anywhere in th?*:
United States, if he held it long:
j enough.
J Somebody, some day, will Svrite a
history of the United States in terms
a j, of real estate. This country was settled
by landless men who wanted to
owii a piece of ground and couldn't
[! (J do that in Europe.
Thinking
If you want to Ret your pay raised,
think. A biR automobile factoryneeded
more space. A young engineer
climber a girder and looked
over the machinery floor. He thought
for half an hour, then showed his
boss ho.Nv overhead "carriers could
displace the trucks which carried
parts to and irom the machines. The
space saved in aisles and wtwavi
ways provided room for additional
machines, to house which the com-!
p r had contemplated spending a
c if a million. The salary in>t
^young engiineer got repre-j
Tho 3 'est on a fifth of that.
/ 11 pays more for ideas
I BOO hing else. They must be
L .ctive ideas, the prod17
>'K'ne- Evcr>" steP the
j^ir ^^^nojviooau^o> advance is the result
9 thinking.
/ATA I
A Non-Partisan Ne^
BOONI
CTVSIANS PREPARRI
FOR THE NEW YEAR
Will Wage Fight for New Manuf&cturning
Plants for Boone and Support
Farm Interests. Hold Meeting
Tonight at Valie Crucis.
The Boone Civitan Club held its
regular weekly luncheon meeting at f
the Dame! Bpone Hotel last Thursday
noon, with President G. P. Haganian
presiding. After routine matters
of business were brought before
the body, two major objectives of the
club for the Nev^ Year were discussed.
An effort will be made by Civiian
during 1DIPJ to locate one nv more
small manufacturing plants in Boone.!
which will take care of surplus labor
and offer a market for raw
products of field and forest. The j
second objective of the club will be .
to offer assistance to the farming
and stock-raising interests of the j
county, and to do everything in its
power to stimulate interest in purebred
cattle, truck farmirjg. dairying j
and poultry raising.
Short talks were made on these!
subjects by President Hagaman R.
I). Hodges. Cliff MeConnell. L. L.J
Bingham, A V. Hoxyell and others,
each member pledging his support
to these worth-while tasks.
Through the courtesy of Dr. L. F.
Kent, the membership of Clvitan i
Club will motor to Yallc Crucis to-;
night, where it will hold its monthly j
business meeting and enjoy b o'clock ,
uiiincr at the Industrial School. Rev.!
Mr. Kent, who is a gifted speaker,;
will probably address thc-^ gathering. '
Miss Mattie Curtis
Dies in Tennessee
Miss Mattie Curtis. SI, died sud-i
denlv at the home of her sister, Mrs.
F. l?. Curtis, at Butler, Tenn., hist j
Thursday, and funeral services were,
held from the Curtis home Friday!
afternoon.
Miss Curtis was in good health!
until a few months ago and was a]
remarkable character for her age.
She possessed a fine disposition and
will he greatly missed in her community,
wtie'rfc" she has made her Some
for many years. She was the last
member of an old and distinguished
family, her brother having died about
six mutiIns ago. Miss Curtis was well
known and loved in Boone and surrounding
territory, where in former;
years she had spent a good deal of
time visiting with her nephew, the I
late E. S. Coffey.
Surviving are the following nieces]
and nephews: Mrs. David R. Shearer.!
Johnson City, Tenn.; Mrs. Wade
Smythc, Mountain City, Tenn.; Mrs.
Noheck. Miss Selma Curtis, William,
Fin ley ar.d Fred Curtis, all of Butler,
Tenn.
Library Is Proposed as
Memorial to Dougherty!
A committee appointed by the
adult Sunday School class of the
Boone Baptist Church recently for
the purpose of considering a fitting
memorial for the late Professor D. D.
Dougherty, a former teacher of that ,
class, has recommended that a librarv
be established as a tribute to his work
in the church. The resolution, which
is printed below, proposes that works
relative to missions be procured and
that the literature be used to spread
knowledge of this branch of church
activity throughout the association.
The resolution:
tVli<eivfu>? v>ur beloved teaehev. nro-M
fessor D. D. Dougherty, has been I
called to his rewai'd, and in view of;
the fact that he was a great lover
and giver of books and that he possessed
a deep interest in missions and ;
also in our country churches, we yourj
committee, appointed to consider a
fitting tribute to his memory, recommend
the following:
1. That this Sunday School class j
present to the association at its next'
quarterly meeting the nucleus for a i
library.
2. That the books composing thisj
library center around the work of:
missions.
3. That the library be used to
stimulate the study of missions in
the churches of this association.
4. That this library be located in
(this classroom in the Boone Baptist
I Church.
5. That the books be handled and
distributed under the direction of the
associational mission study leader
| and a librarian appointed by the
C>. That this library be known J
as the D. D. Dmi^oriv 1
WCUIUlldl
Library.
MRS. .T. M. MORETZ,
MRS. E. S. COFFEY.
MRS. I. G. GREER,
Committee.
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More than two hundred farm men j
and v-omen of Pitt County attended I
tne recent live at iiunit uonnucl Iicm i
at Greenville. j
JGA :
Arspaper, L/evotea to the E
!, WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CA
FIRST SHIPMENT OF
?apji?
Photograph shows group of thoroug
in line with the movement started b
the herds of the county. The bulls w
distributed to eleven farmers in difi
another shipment soon, and it is exj
tercd bull in every community in t'n
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Page Diogenes i
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Last week a man walked into
the Carolina Store, hard by The
Demucr<ii office, and-tendered to !
Manager Gragg a dime, which he
said he owed the firm as a result
of the theft of an apple and a [ 1
banana, several months ago. He
averred that the secret transaction
had caused him considerable j
worry of late, and said that since
he had joined the church recently,
he was making a round straightening
up certain unfinished business
in order that his religious af- I
filiations might not appear hypo- ?
i criucai 10 himielt. hurthcrmort,*!,
he offered the groceryman an ad- j
I ditional payment as interest on j
| the thin coin.
A. S. T. C. Opens Basket
Ball Schedule Tonight
The Appalachian State College
Mountaineers will open their home
basket ball schedule tonight at the
College Gym, with Johnson Bible College
of Tennessee offering the oppo
pition.
The Mountaineer's are fast rounding
into shape and should he able to
give a good account of themselves in
the encounter with the Tennessee
team. In the first game of the season,
with the same opponents, the
game proved a thrillev in that the
score was in doubt until the final
whistle. The Mountaineers eked out
a victory by the margin of two
points. The game was played on the
Johnson Bible College floor, and the
Mountaineers were greeted with fast
moving opposition, in fact, victory
was the gift from the horn of dear
old Lady Luck. Both teams scored
the same number of baskets from
the field, but the Mountaineer's managed'
to "hoop" two foul marker*
for the counting points to win.
lonight's grame is due to be called I
f s o'clock- The probable line-up] for
the gahie follows:
Johnson Bible College?Schnedl01
Mill, right forward; Wvigiet, left for- .
ward; Saunders, center; Bennett,
right guard; MacDonald, left guard.
Appalachian State?Ii inson or
Carpenter, left forward; Livingston
or K. Hinson, right forward; Canipe
or Walker, center; Fulkerson or McKinney,
right guard; Pyatte or O'Hare.
left guard. Reserves?Fortiner.
Waters, Davenport, Dabbs, Williams,
Poplin.
MRS. JANE BENFIELD DEAD
Mrs. Jane Shore Benfield passed
away at her home at Blowing Rock
last Thursday at the age of G2
years. Funeral services were conducted
Friday morning from the
Blowing Rock Baptist Church by the
r? n ? " * * ?
hului, wc-v. r. i\. mens, lollowmg
which interment was made in the Reform
Cemetery at that place. Surviving
are nine children, fifteen
grandchildren, five brothers and two
sisters.
Airs. Ben field was the widow of
the late John Benfield. She joined
the* Brushy Fork Baptist Church
when a girl and was one of the charter
members of the Blowing Rock
Church.
H. Etheridge. of Clay County,
cleared over $300 above his feed
bill
600 white Leghorn hens.
DEM<
?est Interests of Northwes
ROLIN'A, THURSDAY JANUARY
PURE-BRED SIRES BR<
MlBuiSKggNfe*^
m&SzzZMT:
hbrcd Hereford bulls which were dist:
y the Watauga Livestock Association
ere purchased by a local committee in
ferent parts of the county. Organizat
pectcd that the movement will soon ri
& county.
Normal Colle,
Come From
Data Compiled by Registrar Shows Tha
Come From Distant Points. Pracl
Represented in Enrolment. Wat a
With 49. Spring Term Opens on I
Pi-nfn.'CAt' ! XI !? :
lejye, sends to i he Democrat a most ir
to the student body of that instiution
in the various sections of this and other
in the fncUs embodied in this article:
North Carolina Counties
Alamance ?tj
A lexandor JVr- . a!
Alleghany ?
Anson 9 j
Ashe ?- 49
Avery 11
Beitie 2'
Blade n - -- ??
Burke - 1%2;
Cabarrus .. . _.. ? _l ? 2
Caldwell __ __ 22
Cartaret - Caswell
I i
Catawba ; -.12
Chatham ">
Cherokee 2!
Cleveland . 16 j
Cumberland 3
Currituck CC _ _ I >8
Davidson ; - - 0,
Duplin :>-|
Edgecomb Forsyth
3
Gaston 1** I
3$t'ea 1
Iranville - - 1
Suilford ?: ^ t
Harnett - 1
iendersoii 1
Hoke 1
Iredell .i?f?E Il>
Lee -5
Lincoln 37 j
Madfson ? - 3
McDowell ? Oj
Mecklenburg . 1 >
M rrcheli 1 TiSSuiiMiHSflT
Moore 2
Nash 1
Pender ? l
Person _. . 11
Randolph 1
Richmond L 1
Robeson - . .. . _ 10
Rowan - 5
Rutherford If
Sampson . 1
Stanly 6
Stokes - 3 j
Surry jjB _ 3 j
Transylvania 1 j
OTHER FACTS ABOUT
Number students within SO miles of th<
Number students beyond 50 miles of tl
Number students beyond 50 miles of tb
v..?i 1- ?*?* ~
nuuiuci ui2ue stuaents enrolled in Colli
Number female students enrolled in C
Number students in Freshman Class-_
Number students in Sophomore ClassNumber
students in Junior Class
Nbmber students in Senior Class
Total number students enrolled for Wi
Increase over last year's enrolment for
Number counties east of Guilford (Cei
Number students from east of Guilfor<
Number states represented by the stud
Average radial distance of students fr<
The Spring Term of Appalachian
ruary 25tli. Kxpenses for the twelve
dents will enter at that time, and exc
he as helpful as possible to all those
Spring Term.
)CRA
t North Carolina
9, 1930. j
3UGHT TO COUNTY I
|j
if J V ^
in
ributed over the county last Vfeek <
to eliminate the scrub sire from , v?
Southwest Virginia and have been ' 4
ion plans call for the purchase of ; e
esult in the ownership of a regis- o
t<
!*
ge Students js
! J>
Many States \
t Thirty-Ciree Students of A. S. T. C. ; si
lically All Sections of United States
uga Has 85 Students; Ashe Follows 1 ''
"cbruary 25th.
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r at Appalachian State Teachers Col- i h
l teres ting group of Statistics relative I
i. The many friends of the College j o
states will undoubtedly he interested j f
i s
Tytcll .. 1 I
Union . -... ... I '.i ,
Wake . 1
?K? - ??
Wayne -I
Wilkes Yadkin
22
Yancey
Other States
Colorado
Otero - - - 1
Florida?
Dacle - - 1
UcovRia?
Whitfield - - 1
Illinois?
Cass 1
Chevenne ? 1
Clark . . - . - - 1
Decatur ? - !|
Maryland? i
Baltimore ... 1
New York?
On:milaK? ? - 1
St. Law vence . ? - - - - - - i !
South Carolina
Anderson '
Chesterfield 1
Dillon -&? - 1
Lancaster ??
Lee _ 1
Marion 1
York
Johnson - 5- ^
MeMin - _i;--?
Y nin-? j
Carroll Vj' J
Grayson _ -<??? - - - 1 i r
Patrick _ - j ,
Pitts -- i:,
West Virginia?
Kanawha _ - - 1 : c
t r
lr? Other States {
Number Counties ? ? 24 s
Number Students - 33 j c
In N. C. Number Counties 59j e
Total Counties .? ^1 <
Number Students 541 j <
THE STUDENT BODY
i College 1ST
le College ___o55 r
e College in other States 33 i
pge to date 173 i
allege to date 402 <
301 t
218 |
43 j i
1S]>
nUji Term to dgtc - . 575 I 4
Winter Term to Date 90 j 1
itral Co.) represented 24 1 1
1 County -? 69 1
ent body- _ 1 11 "<
im College, in miles 175 *
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State Teachers College opens on Febweeks
is about $55. Many new stucutives
of the college are anxious to
who contemplate registering for the | <
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FI CENTS A C OPY
5R0THh0FMRS7
BOYD i J IS KILLED
W
. Albert Kirby, President of Smiths
Grove (Ky.) Bank, Fatally Shot
In Gun Battle With Desperadoes.
Posse Hunts for Murderers.
Donald .1. Hoyden, Blowing; Rock
otclist, \ylto spends the winter
ir.nf hs in Knox villi*. Tenn.. sends
'he Democrat a detailed account
f a bank robbery and battle with
[audits, in which A. Robert Kirby.
brother of Mrs. Bovden. was killed,
he tragedy took place near Oak
inn, ivy., on iJecemter 2?>. Mr. Ki>y
was president of the Farmers
lank of Smith Grove, Ky.. and was
atally shot when he and other citipns
of that town attempted to upreheml
robbers of the Oakland, "Ky..
lank. The story, in part, follows:
Three masked banSp. driving: a
irge sedan, on the morning: of Deember
26th held up and robbed the
Oakland Bank of approximately $1,00
in goid, silver and currency after
enorizing the cashier. assistant
ashler and ten customers in the
a ilk, herding them into the diree[>rs*
room. Then they fled, after a
lomontary street battle with offier.s
and citizens, to Smiths Grove,
here they killed J. Robert Kirby.
"i years old, president of the Farmrs
Bank there, when he and several
ther attempted to stop them.
The cashier of the Oakland Bank
Mephoned Mr. Kirby as soon as the
nhhers had left, and asked him to
et help and stop the bandits. Mr.
irby got four or five men around
is bank to join him and with shotuns
they started out. Just on the
ostein edge of Smiths Grove. Mr.
. irbv's party met the bandits, who
nened fire tiiem_ aipr?sped by,
everal shots being fired by each
ide.
The posse followed the fleeing
audits on through Smiths Grove and
bout two miles out the bandit car
uddenly wheeled around and faced
tie. Kirby party. In a snort battle
here Mr. Kirby was hit by a bullet
1 the abdomen and insitantiy killed,
leanwhile. a second pursuing party
f nearly 100 men came upon the
Lirby car. Stopping a moment, the /
econd group went op in pursuit, WBl
rhile the ear in which Mr. Kirby
lad been riding was turned back to
use ips uouy to town.
Throe miles further the new posse
ounil the bandit car abandoned, and
hen the pursuers divided into small
frbups, all armed with shotguns and
ifles, and started out over the hills.
A second member of the Kirby
arty was wounded by a shot in the
oot. He was Charles Heard, 20, who
perates a filling: station at Smiths
trove. It was believed the bandits
ad decided also to rob the Smiths
trove bank, but failed to do so when
he Oakland robbery turned out as
i did. The robbery in Oakland was
arrie.d on in a most dramatic fash>n,
the whole time consumed in the
heft being only about five minutes.
!awed-off shotguns and a machine
tin were the weapons employed by
he bandits in the daring daylight
old-up.
So far as can be learned, no arests
have yet been made.
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.R1SSOM ANNOUNCES HIMSELF
k CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
On the platform of "cheaper rovmment,"
Gilliam G lissom, United
fates collector of internal revenue
or North Carolina, will seek the
Republican nomination for Gover!0i*
in 1032, he announced in Raleigh
Yiesday.
Mr. Grissom is the first Republican
0 announce for the office and his
tatement has temporarily shifted
)olitical interest in the State from
he 1030 United States Senatorial
ace to the Gubernatorial election.
The Young People's Democratic
rganization of the State has vecoglizeu
five Democrats as ''possible
randidat.es for Governor, ' and isued
them invitations to a Demo
rratie dinner to he held in Raleigh
his spring. They are Attoraey-Gennral
Dennis G. Brum mitt, Lieutenant
Governor R. T. Fountain; Albert L.
2ox, of Raleigh; J. C. B. Ehringlatis,
of Elizabeth City, and Judge
T. L. Johnson, of l.uinberton.
No Republican has announced as
1 candidate for the United States
Senate seat for which Senator F. M.
Simmons and Josiah W. Bailey will
rontest for the Democratic nomina;ion
in the June primaries.
Mr. unssom has been collector of
nternal revenue for North Carolina
iince 1921. For years he has been
> member of the Republican State
Executive tonnuitiee. He is vr:?iua!y
from Cibsonville, Guilford Cour:y.
Herbert F. Seavcell, of Carthage,
vas the Republican candidate against
Governor O. Max Gardner in 1928.
Gardner's majority was slightly over
70.000 votes.
Freezing- weather in December
ranged heavy losses to Irish potato
s.owczt, cf Avery 0"*>ty