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TWO ivTADOO SUPPORTS JACK GARNER FOR DEMOCRATIC RACI Former Treasury Secretary Says A! Factions Would Unite on Texai for Presidency. New Interest I Shown. Garner Candidacy to B Pushed in All Sections of Natior Withhold? Statement. Washington.?The dry wing of th Democratic Party Friday was move nearer the momentum-gathering booi r?......... ur;n;?. wi na?.i\ vmi ir.i >v ii;i m unui Ixihhs Mc*Ario'o tossing his support t the Texan for the party's presider tial nomination. While Garner looks on in silence holding rigidly to his simple state meat '-hat "my iob now is runnin this House," powerful elements froi the dry side are pushing his nam The McAdoo announcement in Lo Angeles held "under Garner ail elc meats of the party would be able t unite" and in that case "his electio: would be certain/' It follows closely a projection o Garrer's name into the muddled Dem ocratic situation by Senator Shep psrd, o fellow Texas Democrat o Garner, co-author of the Eightecntl Amendment. Sheppard with his colleague, Sena tor Connally, only this week in a for mal statement said Garner's candi daey would be pushed in all section; of the country. What effect thii move, with the backing of dry ir.flu ences, will have on other presiden tial aspirations cannot be foretold vet It has not gone far enough and Gainer's name is not entered in any pref erential State primaries yet. Confer ences are being held among his fol lowers with a view of placing hi name in some primaries, but thi move is proceeding without his con sent. Mr. Garner reiterated tonight hi statement which followed the Shef pard-Connally announcement?that h knew nothing of Mr. McAdoo's in tentions. Packers Now Demand Only Trimmed Lamb: Letters now being sent to the trad by livestock commission merchant ir dicate that the packets are demanc ing trimmed lambs. These dealer have always shown preference fo iambs handled in this way anil nm it appears they are in a position t make this a demand or prices wi be less, From the standpoint of the butel ers, this would seem to be an idei : - UmG- firi' CanyliiK oiit cht'ir Intel tloos/' says L. !. Case, livestock c? pert at State College. "There are lit eraI supplies of lambs on the markc ar.d it is. getting to be more of ; problem to absorb the supply thai to get enough for their needs. T will, therefore; he to Hie ad van tag of producers to trim and dock thei lambs where they will reach the mar ket about June iOtb." Trimming the lambs is not the onl; desirable thing in producing then lor marset. Mr. ^ase says lop larriD must bo properly bred. A 'good pure bred mutton type of ram should b used in the flock and while it is to late to do anything about this fo the present season, plans should b made now for next season. The lamb also ought to be in good flesh. A fa lamb is one that is getting plenty o milk which means that the ewe b kept in good condition. Choice lambs are also free froi parasites. The common stoma h won which does its greatest damage dm ing the warm weather of spring an summer is the main offender hut may be controlled by frequent! changing the pasture and by reguU drenching treatments. For lambs to bring the best price Hthcy should not only be of the rigl conformation, docked and trimme and fat, but they should be sent t market in uniform lots weighing fro: 75 to SO pounds each, says Chase. BRITISH WOMAN FOLLOWER OF GANDHI IS SENTENCE Bombay, India.?Miss Madelin Slade, British disciple of Mahatm Gandhi, was sentenced to thro months imprisonment last week o charges of breaches of public order Miss Slade was ordered when sh returned to Bombay in defiance of police order that she leave the cit and return only with police permi: sion. She h3d been to Poona to se Gandhi, imprisoned at the Yerod jail there. ^lay crash yoo jost is the last ?f the mew year's resolutions be/n brokeh m I I ^ ^ I ^ ^ BSgG I'I gr rj~ t^Sf ^ ** ^ We don't know which (Sip admire mew or her handsome young husband. Be 1 Barbara Bebe Lyons, just christened at good to'us. | MITER UNEARTHS 5 : FACTS ABOUT NATK By CALEB JOHNSON I] (Special Writer for The Democrat) i i I spent some time, not long ago, ^ s looking up a lot of fact about George 1 s j Washington which are now set down i- in oli the schoolbooks. I got a r.ew'j N impression of the Father of His Coun ? > try after visiting Mount Vernon,' 1 < where he lived from his youth until j 1 c his death, and the city of Alexandria, i i- where he was engaged in business for! fifteen years. The ideas that most of us have of j J Washington as a boy come from the' J first book about him, written by Par- * 5 j son Mason Weems just after his de-; misc. The fables which it contained [J e became pail of the Washington tra-i , dition. It was Parson Weems who toldi j. the famous 4 cherry tree*' story, to.: ^ prove that Washington never told a' ' . lie. That story was probably not true, >' v but it was one of the stories which i ^ 0 have made most Americans regard!* H him as more like a marble statue than:4 ix mar. of flesh and blood like the rest; J of us. i I ? From all I have been able to gath- j' wiy G^s?gv - W ashingson nS^Trhst Wc r . of toda>"__mjght eail a "regular fcl-j' , low." IT" was a natural leader, to bej! t sure, in everything he went into, butj ajhe was not the cold, aloof individual pj before whom everybody stood in si- * L lent awe, that some of his biograph-i* ? ers have painted him. On the con-!* r travy, he was very decidedly a goodj1 mixer, a jolly companion, good com-j pany in any crowd, and a most en-|* v thusiastic sportsman. n And that he was a good business * s man Is proved by the fact that he was * America's first millionaire. He was ' e the richest man in the United States 1 0 when he died, and he had made most 1 r of it by bis successful operations in ' c TV a i estate. a We celebrate Washington's Birth- i! I day on February 22, but in the calen-j' ^ dar in use when he was born at e Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, just two hundred years ago, w it was February 11th. In 175G EngT( land and the English colonies adoptr_ ed the modern calendar, and dropped (j eleven days out of the month of September in that year, so that all any niversaries fell eleven days later. Fewj ir people bothered to change their birth j dates, and George Washington never l S) did, but after his death some precise | H school-teacher sort of people, the kindj j who are always trying to sec the world 0 right, said that to continue to celem brate he llih as Washington's birthday would be all wrong. He was dead by then ana nobody else cared, so it 1 got iuto^the schooibooks as the 22nd. [ > .Augustine Washington, George's father, died when he was eleven, and ,e! he went to live with his half brother, a? Lawrence Wnhington, at his farm on j ,e Hunter's Creek, which was later p named Mount Vernon, after Admiral VnrnfUf nf tVin Rritish Mnvv T AWT e ence's good friend. George went to a ! a little school taught by the local miny ister until he was fifteen, and when he was sixteen went to work. Lawre ence Washington had married a a daughter of William Fairfax who, with his brother, Lord Fairfax, owned morA land than anybody else in America. He hired young George to go out into the wilderness and survey the bounderies of his property. For three years that work took him into unex-l plored country, clear to the Ohio River. He realized that land in the Ohio Valley was going to be worth a great deal as soon as roads were opened j to ii, and from then on, whenever he ) had a chance, he bought land in what was tne.-? the West. It was because he was the only man in Virginia who knew the Ohio country that he got the chance to lead the colonists against the French in 1755. When he was nineteen his brother Lawrence became ill and the doctors ordered him to go to the West Indies. George went with him, and caught smallpox in Barbados, which left his face pitted and scarred for the rest ; of is life. Lawrence Washington died, 'HE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE md the Baby HflBfiflBES j it. beautiful Bebe Daniels that was, n Lyons, or their baby (laughter, Los Angeles. Little Barbara looks someInteresting )n's first leader eaving George heir to Mount Verlon, a large and prosperous farm. *eorge Washington at twenty-one had -cached his full height- of six feet ;hree and, as one of his intimates vroto, "had the largest hands ever ;ecn on a human being." His complexon was fair, usually burned briek ed by sun and wind; his hair was 'air with a slight reddish tinge. There isn't much in the books about .Vushington's life between the end if the French and Indian War and he beginning of the Revolution, but ibotil those fifteen years between he time when he was 27 and 42 I 'ound some records and a good many raditions which, interested me. He was 27 and or. his way back to Mount Vernon when he stopped off n Fredericksburg, where he owned i house his father had left him, and .net the Widow Custis at a dance. It seems to have been a case of love it first sight, and they lost no time jetting married. Martha Dandridgc Gnstis was 2d, had two little children, John and Martha, and a hundred thousand dollars. A wife's money belonged to her husband in those lays, and with this capital Ger.rgc Washington was able to join the Fairaxes in real estate operations which mid them all handsomely. The prim] ipal venture was the development >f the little settlement of Alexandria nto a city. Lord Fairfax had built, himself a own house on Prince Street; George Washington built one diagonally tcross the street; which served not inly os a town house when he drove ip from Mount Vernon, half a dozen niles away, but as an office frcm .vhich to manage his increasing busitoss affairs. The Fairfax home still i '^i H KY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. s:5nus. but the Washington house was burned years ago and ouly a tablet marks its site. The Washingtous, George and Martha. look an active part in the social life of the little colonial city. Here tieuigr Washington was made a Mason. and in the rooms of the old lodge of which he rose to be Master, I saw many relies of his Masonic days, including the actual gavel he once wielded. These Washington relics art now installed in the new Masonit Memorial to Washington, on Sl.oot er's Hill, in Alexandria, where Thorn - ' -,-r. tol of the United States. Washinjgtior insisted on building the city naraec lor him on the Maryland side of th( Potomac. "I own too much lam around here, and would be criticized,* he said. The ancient records and tradition! I of Alexandria reveal that Washing ton was a "joiner" in every sense o i the vvoi"i?. Betides the Masons^ he he | longed to the local fire company, wa captain of the militia company, an* one oL the most popular figures a their social events. In the old taverr where the young business men of th town gathered for festive occasions is the table where he sat with ni boon companions and where, tradi tion has it, he often led the singin; of popular ditties. His favorite wa an old English song entitled "Th Derby Ram." If there had been sue a thing as Rotary and Kiwanis in hi day George Washington would h.av belonged to them! To be a vestryman of Chris Church was one of the highest- socit distinctions in Alexandria, and Wast ington held that office for man years. When at, home at Mount Vei non he attended the little Pohie church, of which Parson Weems, h first biographer, was the rector. H was a great horseman and his favorit sport was fox hunting. His diaric ! tell much about his care for h hounds, and are filled with refc j ences to his hunting horses and a< ventures afield. Many of the present streets of A . exandi ia run just as they were orij ! inally laid out by George Washinj i ton. The little school which he bui j for the children of the poor., and ft which he left and endowment in h will, still stands and is still a schoc while a hlock of tenements which 1 built is still occupied. There is a tr; idition that Washington, when in h ! 'teens, raced another boy on hors | back down what is now King Strei ; and won by running Ins horse irJ ' the river when the other lad ptillc I "P. General Washington's career fro i 1774, when he was called to Car , i bridge to advise with the New En land colonists about an armed revc against England, to his death 011 D cember 12, 1739, is the part of Hi tory with which every schoolboy faifiiiiar; Hut somehow I feel as I knew Washington better after di ging into the story of his youth or young manhood, especially those fi teen years when he was in the re estate business in Alexandria. There is something about leapede: growing that keeps hope and faith the heart, says Tom Broom, coun i agent of Union County. I Alleghany County farmers pu ! chased 3,000 pounds of common at Korean lcspedeza seed from Stan I and Rowan farmers last week. Tenfral BOOI Two Men of Same Name'J And Age Are Buried at 1 Same Time in Rutherford Both Were Named Blanton, Both j Were Farmers, and Both Members of Methodist Church. Large Crowds Attend. Rutherfordton.?Two men of the ' same name and same age, died in Rutherford County the same day andj both were buried at the same hour l in different parts of the county. Both | . were members of Methdist churches, j They both died February 3rd. Both] * were named William Thomas Blan-j . ton. One W. T. Blanton was buried at| Oak Grove, February C with Rev. -T. ] N. Snow in charge. He lived near, j Ellenboro and leaves six children. He J was a member of Oak Grove Metfc-j s odist Episcopal Church. J The other W. T. Blanton was burj. led the "SHiC hvJjr al :'S vhH^S ( Methodist Church, eight miles south g of here, with Rev. J. W. Kennedy in . charge. Some four or five months ^ before he died he took some walnut ? lumber to Forest City and had his casket made according to his own ] g plans, stating that he could not live e and "wanted to he ready.'* ^ Large crowds attended both funers els. Both Mr. Blanton's had been ill; e some time. Both were farmers and I were held in high esteem by a wide: circle of friends. At the time of the funerals, neither! family knew of the other funeral go* ing on. as the churches are some 12' * or more-miles apart. k ls C. M. 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