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f- . ,!'PTtMHER 14, }!>33 mi. ' TODAY and Ef^Ei (MNX PAPKERV|^|tt>( ' for | StOCKBRIPOFj^^^ .ftf * sto vie / K1X . . . anil old frlrnil Ever hear of zein? Few people have sna - by name?but it is one of the commonest sub3tances grown. ^ Zein 13 the name given by chemists to a hard, horn-like substance extracted from corn gluten, which is a j by-product ot the manufacture of corn starch. For mo. e than a hull- C0VJ drcd years industrial laboratories yjtl have been trying to find economical rec and practical ways of extracting zein c from corn in large quantities. Once they get the process, there 8r8 is almost no limit to the things Uiat fi(., can he made oi zein. Some time be- -j fore the war I met a German scien- fjci tlst who had made rubber out of ln-,, zein. It was good enough rubber so that he had made a set of tires for jon the Kaiser's automobile. g NT CVS-.. c-?- 1? - i'fcw 3 iii prosperity are usually based on new industries based on new ===: discoveries. Maybe some application of zein will prove the jermanent cure for the: depression. VALUE . - . unexpected sources Practical-minded people ask: "What's the use of such foolish things as horse-raci ig, motor-boat racing and 'round th< world flying?" It seems like a waf ce of money to many. But? Through the breed Jig up of horses to racing standard: the armies of the world have a . teady supply of cavalry mounts capable of higu speed and endurance; and say what you like, the horse has lot yet been supplanted by machine:: in war. And the other day T. F. W Meyer, who designed the propellois for Gar Wood's "Miss America X," the fastest water craft in the world, old how that improved propeller des gn, applied to the circulating systems of electric and gas refrigerators, bad reduced their cost and bulk and increased their efficiency. Something practical comes cut of almost every hums 1 activity, illost new ideas and ilevi .es originated in somebody's fooling around for amusement. HOGS . . .. Wallace knows them I have a good deal more confidence in the soundness of the Federal Government's scheme to reduce the 'nation's hog surplus, th in I would nave if it in anyone s hands except those of Henry Wallace. For tne secretary of agriculture probably knows more about hog-raising?which is really a branch of corn-growing?than anyone else in Uncle Sam's service. There are 20 million acres too much planted to corn, says Henry. 'There are five million too many hogs. This year's corn crop is snort, so his plan, which really originated with corn-belt farmers, is to kill off at once 4 million pigs or light hogs, and one million sows due to farrow this fall, keep the pork off the general market but sell it at a low price to relief agencies, and pay the hog producer a bonus te be raised by a tax on processing hogs and hog products. Sounds complicated. Takes experts to handle it. But if Henry Wallace says it will work, I'll believe him. BULBS . . . Holland's worry Holland is suffering from an overproduction of bulbs, and tulips, hyacinths and narcissi by the million are being destroyed by order of the "adjustment committee for rehabilitation of industry." Just what we are trying to do with cotton, wheat and hogs! Bulb glowing is one of Holland's chief industries. It has been hurt by the American restrictions on imported hulhs resultiner in Ihe imrsrlntiAli of many Dutch farmers to grow bulbs in this country. Great fortunes have been made in bulbs by the Dutch. Two hundred years ago the great "tulip speculation" set the whole nation gambling in bulbs, just as we Americans gambled in stocks a tew years ago, and with the same result; a financial crash that it took the nation years to recover from. Times changed but human nature doesn't. Every peop'e has its problems of overproduction, and all seem to be adopting the same type of cure. How much more sensible it would be if, instead of destroying Dutch bulbs and American wheat, we traded one for the other. KOADS ... up our way My home town has regarded and rebuilt three main highways in the past seven years. One of them, a macadam road running up to the next town south, we are building all over again; it has worn out in less than 3even years, under motor truck traffic from the quarries. The second is and asphalt-surfaced road over the mountain to the eastward, and the town has to spend a lot of money every years patching it. There was a lot of opposition to the cost of the third main road, a broad, concrete highway leading to the county seat, 14 miies north j Even with State and county aid, it seemed expensive for a little town like ours. Rnf fhaf rvMM't'f.tp rriflH VtA_n nmvwl the cheapest of all! It hasn't cost a cent for maintenance, and It brings thousands of motorists into and thru our town who hardly knew of its existence before. It is a tiine-saver for ryone who has to go to the "shire nil and we get more mileage out crt our gas, less wear on our tires,' pi< 1 greater safety. especially in wet J hoj ather, than in travelling on any ot; the other town roads, which are a sai istant drain on the taxpayers. thi Sarly concrete roads wore not ai- wil vh durable, but the modem reiu- leg ced concrete road, built on a deep I efi r.e foundation, is '.he best highway ge< the world from every paint of fat w. We ought to have a million es of them, and seme day we Uu ill. at fie KMEKS SHOll.D DEM AN It ms OOCNTf AGENT WOKS O. Uo t is extremely doubtful that far- iht rs in those counties wnere the tui mty commissioners refuse to pro-1 is e funds for county agent work will the cive as much benefit from future the rations of the Agricultural Ad- far tment Administration as do farm- ha' living in counties where the of- j for als are more 'ar-sighted. I em his is an opinion expressed by of-, of a!s of the United StatC3 Depart-1 ' at of Agriculture at a meeting ofjtio ension direct.ers held at Washing-1 last Saturday. .ueh an opinion is of extreme sig-! _ iv -.c'-V ' r.. C X\TTl m v / - Wi operations co very pre Although t it will be o that the C the spirit o At that til plan, wher work to gi well as by i demand, ai was possib) depression, havekepto We are just that Chevi depression, mp $KMPIMP WATAUGA DKMOCKAT?EVER-! ~" 1 ' - : - *, ? ? icauw .to North Carolina In that A like cotton* tobacco, wheat; and'. >bably peanuts, ctairv products and 5 will be handled by the AAA in| i coming few years. Dean Schaub d it would be possible tor farmers [{ unselvos to l'crm groups and work 9 Lb the AAA through the State Col- OJ e Extension Service but the ben- t! ts will not be so thorough and as 01 eral as where tb? College has its q m representative in a county. o: '1 am of the opinion that farmers ni imselves should take the initietive once and see that their county of- y ers begin to give this important ct itter consideration," said Dean 1. \\ Schaub. "We have an adminislra- 5, n at Washington extremely sympa- p, ?tic towards farmers nad afgricule in general and if tins sympathy to be translated into dollars tor fj farmer, he must begin to make j ! necessary contacts. The county p m agent is the greatest aid he can n /e In this. It may net be possible ^ us to continue much longer the ergency workers paid entirely out ?( State and naliona; funds." p l*he Dean pointed out that vocanal teachers had aided greatly In w ?t. campaigns nut these men must e: ousy wiiq i Heir clauses in 3. short j si u *ai lroui to dt ItS fcl TH President Roosevelt's accf A Automobile Code, Chevro irgest builder of motor cars, o in accordance with the admii igrain. he official code was signed only i >f interest to Chevrolet's many J hevrolet Motor Company start* f today's recovery program over ne, we put into operation a "s! eby our workmen cooperated in ve more men jobs. By means < egulating hours of work per wee id by building up parts stocks in e to carry 33,000 men on our pay] For eleven months of each yeat ur employment within 10 per cent ly proud of that record. We are a! olet workmen did not, at any t , become a burden on public wclfai CHEVROLET MOTOR CC CHE f THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. Vilkes All-Stars Beat % Picked Watauea Team 1,1 ? '? 1 ; i ai: The Wilkes League Ail-Stars tie- to mted the Watauga League AU-Stsrs to 1 Thursday afternoon in the secad of a three-game series between W te two teams. The game was played r'l a the Appalachian State Teachers B1 oliege field here. A detailed account!er t' the gacne, as taken from the Jour- ' h Hi-Patriot, follows: tr Playing brilliantly alield and using ar iclr bats with telling effect, in sharp * mlrast to their first game with the B: .'ataugans -a week earlier, the Wilkes oys completely outclassd etheir op- he onent8. ta An eight-mil rally In tb.e fourth ining in which Rob Billings and Win- pi eld Cooper crashed out home runs, >4 rove Bingham. Watauga's starting ?o ttcher, from the hill. Bill Lentz, who wi splaced Bingham after the local 'n :am had scored four runs, fared no otter and before three men were out, th >ur more ruunci'3 had crossed the ea late. ht to bile and will not be available to the ?cnt they have been duriug the pi .imraer vacation period. ia *& t ourj J^s; iptnnce of the On August 1st? Set, the world's wage increase t fficially begins week and the e lustration's re- wage increase t rolet having hi t 1 increase into t a few days ago, friends to learn We feel that th ;d to carry out whole-hearted three years ago! in America. It bare-the-work" ball rolling tow a1_ questioned. Iti ? spreading the 1 ?f this plan, as ' ^ceful steps tl k to meet retail ^e it a succi i .. every Americai lean seasons, it roll through the We are proud ? since 1929, we grateful to the :ofthi3average. enabled us to a !so proud to say to play our pat ; .1 : . _ *i_ . _ i t iuic uurmg iLie men cmpioyea ?department?. tinned prcfere MPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN VRC W$M M Sa >: fl&SSSiBSSsaSB Watauga started the scoring with tl it- run in the second and added 3 ree mole in the third Two miscues'di id lour solid smashes gave the \V?- r;. ugans their four runs. j le Roh Billings, first man U{; in the1G u-'tii inning, started the scoring for! ilkes with a home run over tlis j ir jht field fence. Gwyn Cooper sin-jo ed and Winfield Cooper sent ar.olh-,fi one of the Bingham's slants over: w c right, field wail. Ailie Hayes then di ipled to the gymnasium in left * leid tc id scored when the left fileder threw ild to third. They saw the end of R ogham. ni Before the rally could be halted, iwerer, four more runs had been p! Hied. le The game then settled down to a 10 tehees duel between Leslie Rhodes, ?. iller Creek's mound ace, who hurled n r the Wilkes t.eam, and Bill Gentz.lfr 10 limited the all-stars to three hits the first game here. Rhodes wa3 invincible after the t* ird inning. He had the Wataugans v, ting out of his hands and their irdest hitters walked to the plate no avail. " Phil Scroggs, of Moravian Falls, s civwv* utunaia;jr <*l SCCOUU IKtSCr, Cne CI field consisting of Rob Billings at m . 'M v. ?.> * r J 7 Pldd vari jf this year, Chevrolet announced is well as the adoption of a 734-hc mployment of 12,000 additional r .vas the second in the last 4 mont ;en among the first to put a blai :ffect. e President's recovery program de support of every citizen and inai is a bold, swift, courageous plan t ard economic recovery. Its since 5 objectives are admirable. And 1 ae President and iiis associates art ;ss, should stir the pride and adn n. md glad to do our part. And we i American people for the patronag nticipate the present recovery pre t today. After all, the immense i by Chevrolet is a direct result o nee America has shown for ( , Division of General Motors >LET e'1 ilrri, Johnnie Osborne at short stop, croggs at second, and Jimmie Hen?iscvn at first, giving: Rhoadea ex>He?t ^'r>pcrt. Coy Billings was in ft field. AJlie Hayes in center and wyn Cooper in right. The final score of the game came i the ninth innings when Wix&ieUt ooper crashed a long drive to right eld which missed going over the all by inches. The drive went for a juble. Cooper scoring a moment la>r. Rho&des and Win field Cooper >rmed the battery for the Wilkes ine. Ai? interesting rideelight was the laying of Manager Willard Cole in ft field in the first innir.g when the teal team had to start without the Mvices of Johnnie Osborne and Ale Hayes who were getting iu unt>rd. Russell filler took center field. Win $1,000 a year for life?-?o ncit*r how young you are or how long !>u live. Nine other cash prii.es. Big iogun contest in the American Weekly Magazine, which comes each unday w&ht the Baltimore Ameri,? n.... I*- f?? "* uvui }i?ur newsnoy <?r cwsdealer. " ?v: ' Ktitosj * v" r J hs, C'hcv* V_5 iket wage | serves the lufacturer o start the rity is unthe direct, 5
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