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The Watauga Democrat -'.ESTABLISHED 188X Issued Every ThuisdfoThe RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY H. C. RIVERS ROB. RIVERS Publishers SUBSCRIPTION KATES One Year $1-61 Six Months -T, Three Months .U Payable in Advance Cards of Thanks. Resolutions of Re spect, Obituaries, etc., are charge* for at the regular advertising rates Entered at the Postoffice at Boone N. C., as Second Class mail matter THURSDAY DECEMBER 2 i. 15)31 Christmas Christmas, the birthday of the Sa vi >v of the World, the season 61 jo: and good will among iiien, is at c-iv threshold. The iirr.c of the greet holly with its red berries, and of tb< mistletoe, with its light-veined leg ends; the time of spiritual and phy sieal feasting and opcn souled gen orcsity; when the little children laugl in glee making ready for the visi] of the beneficent Saint ^Nicholas, ami the older folks assume a Jrihdliej mien, comc-s again with wide-open arms to bring joy to a weary worl* and give terrestrial toilers a orio: respite from their labors. This year, when distress holds itsway in many parts of the world :*nc when oven ir. this Sand of America! plenty, there are millions out of em u'oymenr. families hungry, cold an< miserable, and countless hordes o: children looking 1o a cold fireside thinking of Sanua Clans, Who mos likely will be unable to make gla< their hearts with his usual visit, i behooves we citizens of Watauga where plenty yet holds sway, to looi about us this Christmas eve. lest ou share of these destitute people t. without good cheer, on this holy day We have been signally blessed thi year, with oil its accompanying hard ships. Oar hills uhri valleys hav< brought forth abundant yields, ou granaries and larders are filled will the life-giving fruits of our labors and while financial prosperity can hot he measured with previous years we are enjoying a manifestly great or l.i.-ss : r than has come to oui neighbors in other parts of the coun try. Let us open up our hearts thi' Christmas, fcVen i.* our purges ar? no^ bnlginVr. and help each other t?. enjoy the sacred sc-ason. There- i; food and warmth for all. and le us use diligence in Order that tfccri j?$may be no wan hungry faces, tryirij ^ to effect n smile as they utter h cheerless ''Merry Churstnias.T> " ''The Way of Uf?F~ By BRUCE BARTON t'ROPHF.TS c-A man who was in France toid rid this sturv. which is intfcies^inf srrii may b? ''-V-.' 1 He.,^i<S that, on Novcmtov .10, rtr.f a frier.d ot' his went i'itn ?ur bond quarters ami slopped beside the d?Ssl of as* officer who was encased h 1 V' y statistical v-ork. The officer had beei , so busy with his chai.!s and figure: he had hardiy ieft his ofiioc fo days. The visitor said to him: "Well, guess it's about ail over." What do you mean?" asked the y .. statistician. "Why the Armistice will he de clarod tomorrow." "Nonsense," the statistician ex claimed, "this war is going on fo: another five years." Whereupon hi drew out his graphs and charts an. proceeded to prove it. Here's another story, told mo b; a banker. In November 1930, the ten lead ing economists of the country bcli a secret conclave and took a ballo on how long the business depressioi would lastOne of them said :t would be ove in six months. Y Four said it Would last from one to three years. The other five said it would las from three to five years. "If they are right, the outlook i: pretty gloomy, isn't it?" I said it certainly was. "There is just one joker in the story as I told it," he. added. "Thai the meeting was not held in Novera ber 1930. It was held in Nnvem'hoj % 1920. And that depression came tc a close, as we now know, in Angus 1921"' Looking back over business we cai see that prophecy has always beei a dangerous business. But. as betweei the optimistic prophets and the pes simistic the balance is in favor of tin optimists. Old Mother Shipton, in the earl; 1500s prophesied that "iron upon tfci sea would float as easily as a woodei boat." She foretold the airplane, th. submarine, and the telephone. Sin was suspected of being crazy, but sin does not look so crazy now. John Law, of Mississippi Bubbli fame, sold shares in his vast con : cessions on this continent. Specula tion ran them up to wild prices am the ensuing panic ruined thousands But those concessions represented thi richest part of the United States Jfren at their highest price thej would be cheap today. I do not intend to join the ill-fatet company of propl.ots. I merely re cord my general agreement with tfct late P. T. Bamum, who said: j "You'U Like This, J sMii-fij |i fir 14:1 ,H i jRHBrlr ik ^ <1,1 s Hons? : pco-tc-it'l^ sewse [|sugar i ; '^U t! I.-I.W-,..? -i .. I., .i.r-s t. if. [ r "If tbo truth wore known I think e it would be found that in this wideawake country, more people are foulis ed by believing too little than ever . wore fooled hy betfeviTigr too much." The Family Doctor , | By IiK. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES A CHK1STMAS SKETCH Tip? American Indian celebrated his victories 01 the batilpgrdunu with ? sumptuous feasts; he bad he other ' festal days than those wherein he tool; ' the most scalps, The. American white s man is very different. Tie has many t {festal days, most, of which celebrate - SOjjie peaceful event. " Christmas is. or should he, a lime i of rejoicing. The family doctor hero sees American life in ite varied phases. He is called to administer lo the - American glutton who "celebrates" with his. sf<er.:uh, and unknown to the masses, his hand goes inlo his pocket to help in bringing cheer to the squalid heme. It is amusing how many homes of the latter sort we have when we take a Second look.? > If ever a people should feci pro? I found gratitude, and thankfulness to a beneficent Creator, then pur peo; pic should he first in appreciation; _ There is abundance here for all, bar ; none. It i.% to be regretted that suv pcrior skill and cunning have taken j mosl for themselves?but that is not , God's work, it is man's. lie know men P pic-tty well when he said, "the poor ye have with you always." {! duttor.y is man's weakness?yet it's a serious fault. I can see no , reason for celebrating the birth of our Savior with riotious living. It should he a spiritual, rather than a gastronomic feast. Indeed my Christmas hours are more, filled with menr tal feasting than with material spi, ees. 1 love to contemplate that wonj derful manger and its Princely Occupant?and it is good for my soul. j My body is amply content with the ' simplest things. We nay penalties for intemperance, without regard to I when it occurs. Blessed Christmas! L With its abundant spiritual feast! i ' Sunday School Lesson i ' REV. SAMUEL D. PRICE, D. I>. t ! December 27th j THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY IN EUROPE ! Review offers unlimited nn i pcrtunity for research. I', is of value 1 this time ir. i elating the individual - and often scattered events that we have studied in tee life of Paul. The > work of the quarter began with the " call, "Come over into Macedonia and help us," Which was heard at Troas 1 it will he helpful to survey the en1 cire life of the apostle to the Geni tiles. Reud all of the Acts if you - can make the time, but begin as least ; with the conversion in chapter nine. You will need ? map a3 you follow t the travels of this itinerant evange3 list on his four missionary journeys, i Then you can reach good measures ? by reading the epistles that he wrote i en route or while in the two impriss onmcnts at Rome. In Macedonia, Paul began the ev angeli/ation of the continent of Eu rope, whence the influence was cx tended to America. The second jour-j 1 ney took Paul with Silas, Timothy i . and Luke, first to Phillipi and theitj ; as far as Corinth- Fine results were . obtained. Then he took his two Work; ing companions, Aquiia and Priscila, with him as far as Ephesus. i On the third journey more time . was spent at Ephesus than elsewhere. > Multitudes believed and gave evidence as they made a huge bon fire THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?RVK / Betclui" . \ \ y0/mrk~ v :\vw S ?&4 v/'v/Fkz ^ &4fw / ' ft? ** 8 ^ /-/ i. v --v.,? IMsiM and destroyed their worthless charmsIand idols. A^ain Paul went as far: j as Corinth and then returned to Je-ij ruialem. nroachiner pti routn. wnprp ! he was arrested. There more than two years were spent in prison at Caesara before the eventful ship-j [wreck voyage was made to Rome, j [During those two years in the lm-j 1 perial prison the apostle taught and !wrote epistles. Then came a short;, j release, followed by a second hi:-:' jprisonmenl which ended with his he-j [heading. Paul evaluates his "life bj I 1 saying*. "I have fought a good fight i ! 1 have kept the faith." 11 | j | Electrification Is the Keynote of the Soviet ; j; Moscow.?Nicolai Lenin's magic. 1 word "eleetrificattoji" will be khet] j keynote of the Soviet Union's second t j fiveryear plan. 1 With the government leaders claim- x ling that the chief objectives of the 5 | present five-year plan of national do- < vclonment Will bo completed m four i yeaw^ the press turned its attention last \?eek to the second plan, which i will be discussed at the forthcoming j session of Communist party leaders, i summoned }to Moscow- by Josef C. Stalin. ^ Like the first piwhich has giv;on the world an amazing if somewhat t vague picture of the progress of the . Communist state, the new plan will j cover a wide field, but will concentrate on electrical developments J [ tnrougnout Russia. The benefits of t I electricity was one of the channels I through which Lenin captured the im- ( agination of the nation a decade ago. Jt also will provide for further me- ( ehanization in farming, including itn- ( provement of the great co-operative ( and state farms and for higher <pial-jc ity of industrial production in Rus-te sia's new factories, according to in-1 ~ dications at present. There will be one striking contrast , between the second plan to be drawn . up by the Soviet leaders and the first ^ plan, which was considered an impos- s sible dream when it was first an- ^ nounced. This will he in connection ^ with construction of new factories r and machine shops. The first plats necessarily laid cm- _ | phasis on the building of factories ' ; to supply Russia with implements and ^ I machines which she tad been forced ] to import in the past. That stage ha3 been completed to a certain cedent and, in the new plan, stress will be . placed on the necessity for fullest dc- * velopment of the industries built up under the first program. t i There will be no demand for con- t struction of new "giants" in the in- 4 duscrial field, but instead the govern- , ment will exploit to the limit its present facilities. , There also will be a broad pro- . I gram for municipal improvements, ; [such as the recently announced plans ] for the rebuilding of Leningrad into t a "model Soviet city." It was confirmed that Stalin and j other leaders are making improvements of living conditions in Russia t one of their primary objectives, pre- j sumably feeling that the terrific pre?- r sure under which the nation has la- ; bored in recent years merits a trend I. toward elimination of some of the j hardships under which the people f have lived. ? The newspaper Pravda, cnmment! ing on the new program, emphasized 1 [that Russia is no longer dependent! upon foreign countries for tractors [and various other machines. t t Esley Hope Forbes 4-H Clnb mem- i [ her of Gaston County, now has a herd j of 23 animals worth about $2,500. In r the nine years since he has been a c club member he has won over $1,300'! in premiums at the Gaston County j Fair. e RY TBUKSOAY?BCONE. N. C. |tl ^ Hyr Albert T. Heid ^ illi j Iff j |gw j f ;! r1 J % ; if Today and Tomorrow By FRANK P. STOCK BRIDGE Canada i i?;u!a's census of 193 1 lias just i?c:n completed and it shows the. total lobulation o? the Dominion to be til nosfc exactly toil million persons. That s an increase <?f about fourteen per out. in ton years, which is a fairly apid rate ot growth?faster rate, n fact, than the United Slates diowed between iy"0 and 1030. it is lot very many people, however, to fiopulate Canada's enormous area. Che Dominion has 3,690,000 square piles, which is 660,000 square mites ar#rer than the- United States. Our lobulation is about thirty-eight per ions to the square mile, and Canada's is fewer than three pcrsbils to he square mile. This vast and largely undeveloped irea to the north of us still holds -imnense possibilities for the pioneer md the explorer. v'itamines We hear a lot about vitamines and liic in?;t;gs^ yj - eutiilg lootis con,?:aisi- j ng them, but few people ajit able to] ceop the list :n mind. Here is a sim-l lie, concise list of the common foods! vhich contain the vi famines essential] e health: Vitamine A.?milk. butler, fresh :hecse, eggs, Ere en vegetables (spinich, lettuce, etc.), yellow vegetables [carrots, yellow ccrn,. Vitamine B? Jerms of cereals, liver, yeast, lettuce, aw peanuts. Vitamine C?Lemons, iranges, grapefruit, raw cabbage and lauerkraut, sprouted grain or peas, omatoes, lettuce, watercress, raw ipinach, turnips or green peppers, /itamine I)?Liver and cod liver oil, XZ yolk, snails, sunshine (that is, "dltshinc on the body actually causes diamine I' to appear in the body, vhich aids bone growth, prevents ickets, prevents tooth decay). Vilanine Iv?Germ oil of wheat or other ;rnin, other vegetable oils, fresh meat ind animal fat, fresh luttuce. Vitanine P Samp fondo so vitnmiwe it ,'itamir.e G?Fresh or evaporated oiIk, liver, green vegetables, fresh >r canned, bananas and yeast. Enough natural gas is being prolueed in the United States today to 'rovide six times as much energy as ill of the electric power stations put ogether. X1 , 1 e - I > natural yas neios OI ftllOTnous volume have been discovered ind developed in the past two years r. Southern New York and Northern 'ennsylvania, and in many other secions of the United States. I know ome countries in which almost every 'armer has his own gas well. Probably enough natural gas has >een allowed to go to waste in the >ast fifty years to supply the whole iation with fuel for a hundred years, k great many ga3 fields "petered" iut, but new ones are constantly beng brought in. Eventually natural tas seems likely to be our chief ource of power. insurance The life insurance companies of he United States paid more than two housand million dollars to their polcy holders and beneficiaries last 'ear. There is about three times as nuch life insurance in force today is there was ten years ago. There ire literally millions of men who are yroviding estates for their dependmts after they die, and comfort for lemsclves in old age, by no other j-, leans than setting aside a fixed per- a: entag; of their >ncoines for iil'c- in- f, iranee premiums. A good rnie for anybody buying ,, fe insurance is to take as large a soiiey as can be paid for out of ten tl er cent, of the individual's fixed an- a uaJ income, and increase the insur- v nee as (he income increases. f obs !l Tht> haVdeat L?robk;i; thc.t * v committees on unemployment ,J ave to face in using- the funds raised i ;1 :>r UTiOTiiployniciit relief is finding: or] raking jobs fov the class often called: * white collar workers." It is comparatively easy to make v fork for the manual laborer. Ncv. *ork is doing: this by all sorts of ? fcreet, park and waterfront improve- i r.cnis. A good many white collar workers are being provided work ir. ?, ollectiog information which various hiblic and scmi-public institutions iced but in ordinary times have felt hey could not afford to collect. One \'ew York business house suggested 1 house-to-house canvass of the city o find out how many domestic electrical appliances of all kinds were in isc, and cn condition that this inforTiatio n should be available to every bstributor of electric appliances, one j >f the unemployment relief agencies t jut a thousand men and women at i vork on sab-y, ringing doorbells and gathering these statistics. There is no community so small aai some vorK o.i rnat general na- i :ure cannot be found for unemployed vho arc nut able to do manual labor, tnd who are unwilling to take char- r ty. V . \rveat\ , ii Professor " ir night; was critqi and cold. u tlieriRcmbtor had fniicn j\ & C\\ hc'nv The snow | crunched iirirlfr the ?V<:. Kwgzgfd K tj?e very s;nr,s sreint"! p to snap and cruqkivt in Di? lj 8aeBjB&%' hmivoiis; Frequent gnats r.f |? liffi&iSxi wlr.d shot, their icv pins in- r, to the ever rodder cheeks |> of the carolers as they weal froth ji house to lioiij-e singing thoir Ohri^i- ? tz:a:5 songs. as they pusscd through a Keauiriosu street the wind seemed co o sting wore than ever, but iho street e was short and there was, no reason s for i,ju* sbigcrs to pause there. Only; one hoi;. -' broke the espssnso of white p lawns with pimped hushes ntid hedges: t that \y;is the house of Profes^r t] Crotch* t, before which they would not J: dare stop. ! he piofessoi' was a grout v man, hot he was also a peculiar man d and u r reel use whose wife had boasted k at the last reception they had attend* b cd thai it was the first time they had s honored any gathering by their proa- *] entv; in eighteen months. "My hus- t hand is so busy," she had said. c This Christmas eve the house was * dark its usual except for a dim ray % of light which escaped between the t long shutters of the french windows j g in the professor's study. The leader j of the carolers noticed this pale light, and ranch to the surprise of everybody, called the singers to, a halt under the professor's window. Then broke out on the frosty air the joy- bus voices of young people singing, "It came Upon a midnight clear, that 1 "glorious song of old" . t'fI Professor Crotchet, deep ir? the still- ? ness of his shidy, pushed back his i\ pypers nervously at the first notes of ti the carolers, "Plague take these J & Tin; ib - r?n?riTrrmi u M idling ones:" he muttered. "How can n man ever work In tills <luy u'iid gen- ' eration with people singtug under his very windows'." lie waited impatiently for Hie Quiet lie eipected to succeed the song. But he was disappointed, for the singers had decided to give the crabbed pro- " fessor their whole program. One song followed another. By (he opening of. f the third carol the professor was pacing restlessly up and down. Then he suddenly readied for his day's mail which he had not yet opened. "Perhaps 1 can read this, even if 1 can't determine in the midst of all ft this bedlam how the Bulgarians pro- j nouneed O before G In 1334." he mut- I tered. "And to think, I bought the I only house in the street just to have peace and quiet" He ripped open an envelope aDd was amazed to read the following letter: " "Dear Professor Crotchet: A3 sec- * reiary ot me ClfiSS Ot 1!KW, I WBS re- J quested at oar Inst reunion to write you nt Christmas time our appreciation not only of the privilege we feel In having studied over thirty years ago under a man who has since wan suoh world renown as a philologist, hut even more, our heartfelt thanks for the homely, friendly, healthy counsel you gave us at that time, the npppllcalion of which has played such u large part, in our several successes since then. When yon dismissed ns for the Christmas holidays In 18S8, UECBMBER 24, 1931. r>u ?iM, now boys. in. jour homes iiJ rejoice \mn yoor funilliet: ainil -iviitls Fors^t boohs nut) striates for fortnight, fill 3jpu< lungs with lint are nlr ' { the crcut oui-of-Goor>, fctttfr on the frozen rivers. slbie on to icy liills- When you play. i'tny art'. when you ntr. relay; ;iiesi yoi; rill iic rretiiy In return to your tmrl; rush nu.i vigorous anil strong. Tfci> ; the ?ilvlce wtilich wo huve nil f... and this mtviee mis neen So.1 eunUaliou of our success. When ; :iVvo worked, trag have worked hard; ud when wo have wc? haco?" Professor Cro'via-l read no farther. le scratched his head for ;i moment. rushed to the freuch windows, rlilch ho threw ot>en into the night. 'Enter, enter he railed to i;: artilcrs. "enter, and warm yourselves >y the hearth.7 iMftry, Mary," he shouted, going to mother door, as the singers entered y the window, "hot tea and cakes for twenty. Mary; our friends have come :o wish us hotli an old-fashioned Merry Christmas.'* people It? t-tOJii clioerfu'ilj wii'v i "Merry Christmas^ Merry CbrUtnitf.fi Merry Ciirlstinns to you fiH.v <(?; . \W?tte:n Ncwsyaotr Union.. Quality Baby Chicks Means Poultry Success The most important factor ir, the iccess or failure of the coming poul-y year is the baby chicks to be atchrd or purchased. "The present-day poultry-man, heiher engaged in the business comtercialiy or simply as a farm flock vvijcr, or whether he is new to the usiness or has had years of experim-o, must give attention to the qknly of his baby chicks," says Roy S. icarstyr.e, head of the poultry denrtment at State College. "If these hicks are noi of proven stock, no mount of expensive equipment, care i feeding or rareful management ill put this quality into the birds, must, he transmitted to them by the ureal stock."' 15y quality, Professor Lmavsiyne oinls out, he means that the chicks e from flocks of high vitality, rareilly chosen for production and coiit.rinution <o the standard of the reed, am! from blood-tested parents. ' possible. Such chicks arc to be niinri only in hatcheries which have carefully chosen source of supply, e from flock owners who have provn themselves capable of developing uch chicks Dearstyne looks for nr. increase in ouitry growing in North Carolina hl?i rnniihmi.cooenn r.~>A t-Uie ajajay.;fc 1UO u l?maUQ. hero wilt bo a demand for baby chix. iumo will purchase on a price basis . ithoul regard for quality pad bring isease and low production into their resent flocks. Some wilt he misled ty enticing advertisements and will end orders without first investigstng the conditions. It would be wise, hinks tiic pouitiy-.nan, Cor those who oirtemplatc buying from outside of lorth Carolina to first take up with he agricultural college of that State he status of the source of supply 1EREFORD BULL FOR SALE--22 months' old. Weight 800 pounds. 150.00. Alfred Watson, Deep (lap N. 0. 12-21.2c Dr. C. B. Baughman, Eye, Ear, fese and Throat Specialist, Eliza ethton, Trim., will ba in the office if Dr. J. B. Hagaman in Boone, on be first Monday in eacb month for bo practice of bin profession. 'ARM FOR SALE?Eleven acres of good land, 1 1-2 miles from Cove Creek school in Vilas community. Good six-room house, barn and other buildings. Good terms. If interested. crnmunicate with Elder G. W. Trivett, Vilas. 12-10-.V ASTIME THEATRE "jpiaco of Good SHowa" ridav-Saturday Dec. 25-26. BUCK JONES ?IN? "TEXAS RANGER" Monday, Teen day, Dec. 2S-29. DMUND LOWE, LOIS MORAN IN ' "TRANSATLANTIC" red nee day, Thur?dsy, Dec. 30-31. BERT WHEELER and ROBT. WOOSLY IN-?"CRACKED NUTS" ADMISSION 10c and 25c Wcstertk \Electric SOU ND |) jj| SYSTEM II 1111 I \mm\Zm
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