North Carolina Newspapers

IKABB1TS . . . and hats Rabbits are getting so scarce in Kansas tiiat the state lish and game commission i3 planning to restock the state with them. Rabbits are becoming such a nuisance again in Australia that the government of that commonwealth is offering bounties for their destruction. The demand for rabbits in this country is not for their moat alone, hut for their fur, which is used for nine-tenths of the felt lints. In a perfectly-ordered world Kansas would be glad if it was rid of the pests and Australians would ship rabbit fur to Danbury, to be made Into a hats to be sold in Kansas, Mongolia BJ and the rest of the world. "h In our present spasm of economic nationalism I suppose it is heresy to suggest that something prpduced in some other country might be of value to us. If?' ' PIONEERING . . . still available. A.VTli^/1 !,-?ron ftmai^nona n an ing the passing of the last frontier, Australia, is offering an opportunity for young men who want to he pioneers. The great Northern Territory is being opened for development. Anyone who wants to go in there and start raising cattle or sheep, prospecting for minerals, or constructing railways and harbor works can get all sorts of concessions from the Australian government, including special tariff privileges and exemption from land and income taxes, as well as some financial assistance. There are always opportunities for adventurous youth and adventurous capital The British people are the world's greatest adventurers, and Australia's new policy will doubtless call thousands of young Englishmen and Scots to the antipodes We have been so busy developing our own htn- j ieriund that young Americans have] not yet formed the habit of looking beyond our own borders for opportunities. Personally, I don't- believe America's possibilities have been exhausted, but to anyone who thinks otherwise 1 recommend giving Australia the once over. ROMANCE ... In the eye. My good old friend hVed Wilbur, how well pact eighty, scoff a ni the idea of | romance. "Nothing but hard work," he says, when I try to get him to talk shout his adventures as n nttrring engineer in the Andes, as the bosom friend and adviser of the great Japanese statesman, Marquis Ito, and of the wild countries and wilder people among whom he led exploring expeditions in his youth. 1 was reminded of him when Cap? tain Ivy Wamboldt came into the K port of New York in command of her schooner, the E. F. Theriault of St. -Johns, Newfoundland, the other day. Newspaper men thought there was r something romantic about a girl of } 22 commanding her own craft. "Nothing to this romance of the sea," said Ivyy. "That's the bunk, it's nothing- but hard work." Romance is in the eye and mind. of the holder. The men and women J who get the world's work done seldom have time to think about how romantic it is in the doing. Even Hollywood is not romantic to the people who work there. COLDS ... an air cure. If you want to cure your cold, go up in an air jjio.hu. i iiiiL m utc tiuvice ur *-t. Haldor Carlson of Chicago, who has been investigating the belief that common colds disappear at high altitudes. Among passengers who had made the flight between New York and Chicago he found fifty or more who had been suffering from colds when they boarded the plane and had not a sign of a eold at the end of the journey. The doctor doesn't try to tell why that Is so, but airmen have long believed it, and now it seems to be proved. If doctors really knew how to cure colds, there wouldn't be so many "cold cures" advertised. THEORY . . .human approach. Nobody knows just how many hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions, since human beings began to try to discover the best way to live In communities together. Whatever the length of time that this experiment in living has beer, going on, it is a safe bet that every imaginable social scheme has been tried. Some of them have worked, most of them have failed because they did not fit the quirks ami vagaries of numan nature. It is easy to set down on paper an ideal; scheme for the reorganization of society. It is hard to get the social unit, man, to adopt himself to any prepared plan. About the only way to cram a new theory down the throats of any considerable number of people is to back up the theory with | an army. And that does not guarantee that people will like It and conform to it after the threat of ^ force has been removed. One reason 1 don't worry mtrch W about some of the impractical theoffiti; Tiea wl,ich some of the' bright young aHBj men in Washington are trying to put |BB over is that they haven't any army jffi hock of them. Human nature will jm *6 . :,>V - WA1 An Ir VOLUME XLV, NUMBER 2<5 | j Democrat Abridged; Force Had Holiday ? i The Democrat comes out today in condensed fashion, lue to the fact that those responsible for K? publication bad a brief respite from * thitir work for Christmas. However, with next week the paper will assume its usual proportions. The Democrat hopes that those I who have contributed to its \yeiI fare, as well as those whose friendship it craves, have had a happy Christmas season and that the coming year will be one of unusual , t prosperity and happiness for each one of yon. BUSINESS BETTER- i Tilt? rHRKTMAfi ! aimo viuinjiinno THAN LAST YEAR I i Recent Statistics Indicate Improve- f inents Which Started Late Last Month Art Continuing. Holiday Festivities Find Leading Industrial t Indices Well Above Minimum* for . This Tear and for LastNew York.?It's a merrier Christ- j mas in the business world this year. c Holiday festivities find lending In- t j dustrial Indices not only well above r | their 1933 lows but also above 1932 ' mbiimums, most of which were recor- ^ ded late last December as the country s began to sink into the troublesome i situation that led to the bonking hoi- C Iday. s Recent statistics Indicate that the improvement which started late last ? 1 month is continuing. Freight ear # loadings, on the basis of the last re- t port available, show a distinct con- c tra-seasonal trend. Moody's index, adjusted for seasonal variation, rose to 59.5 from 58.3 the week before. The 1 same barometer measured steel pro- I i duccion at 48 compared with 44.1 lit s ! the previous "week and CSeoVric jxjw- i er output 101.3 against 100.6. The I combined average improved 2.6 JiOjjrjU t t, "69 - f . V-. : $ Retail Sales Near Record 8 Retail sales, savs Don and Rmri-! t street, attained "nearly record proportions" in the last minute Christmas rush and profit margins are said to have widened. Volume was above earlier estimates. Lienor sales, in states where they are legal, contributed substantially to the aggregate. The agricultural South, according to reports reaching here, is showing considerable recovery, attributed by many observers to the government's 10-cent cotton loan plan. Cotton loans and options are said to have given many farmers surplus cash which is finding its way not only into retail trade channels, but is also being employed to liquidate old loans. Automobile output is not moving at as fast a rate as had been expected, although car production last week estimated by Cram's at 18,008 units, represented a small increase over the previous week. A year ago volume for the same period was 27,400. Ford is expanding, but Chevrolet is not yet in volume production on its 1934 passenger models. Total December i figures for tie industry tire now be- ( ing revised downward. I Hopes Bright for New "Sear I Hopes for tie new year, or at least i its first quarter, are being based on 1 an assumption that confidence has < strengthened, that governmental expenditures will continue to-help bus, < iness and enliven the capital goods ( markets, that seasonal Influences will < become more assertive and that world ! trade will maintain Its slow upward I movement. "Hie fact that the iate < weeks of the old year, which normal- ? ly witness a contraction of activity, have brought gains is also viewed as ] encouraging. MIDNIGHT SHOW The management of the Pastime Theatre announces that the New Year 3 will be ushered In with the screening 1 of a popular picture, "Girl Without 1 a Room," featuring Charles Farrell i and Marguerite Churchill. According i to Mr. Hamby, this is one of the most 1 favored productions of the year and 1 he expects a large crowd to be pres- i ent for the New Year's party, 'the i ] show begins promptly at 12:01 Sun day midnight. . ] students' night' 1 at jxjcai. ciinncn i 1 Sunday night will be observed at i the Boone Baptist church as College 1 Students' Night, at which time a i playlet will be staged entitled "The Jericho Road." All the young people of the community are asked to be piesent and enjoy the interesting . program which has been prepared. i accept such parts of the new , schemes as seem good to the indi- i < vidual, and pay no attention to the j; rest. Is the long run, nothing can 11 betp or harm us much except what j we do ourselves. : BOONE, WATAUGA cfctj ROOSEVELfxMAsl HAPPY OCCASIONNATION GREETED Chief Executive Supervises HnnglirS of Stockings, And Hearts Christmsa Carol to Family. Delivers BricJ" Message to His People and Grantor Civil Bights to About, 1,000 Person* Convicted of Espionage. Washington.?President Rooscvefe Monday spent, the "happiest Cfcristmases" with his family at this White House. After issuing a proclamation gim8> ing full civil rights to about 1,000 perf i ?ns convicted of war time espionage, lighting a great Christmas trefl | lear the Washington monument and aroadcasling a Christmas greeting to :he nattoa, Sunday night, Mr. Roose-v /elt devoted Monday to his family. { Christmas trees twinkled at Ui<6.Vhite House windows. GLfts wer^ jiled high for the President, Mra, toosevolt. and the several other r.embers of his family who came to Yashington for the holidays. Children Expectant "Sistie" and "Buzzie" Dal! went tiji led excitedly on Christmas eve, lnent upon peering into their stocky ugs at crack of dawn. The stockings if the President's grand-children, together with those cif every member if the family, were hung in a row on he mnntel-piece of Mr. Roosevelt's com. He supervised the nailing of hem there. Before doing that, Mr. Roosevelt ; fathered his family about him before l Christmas tree upon whioh candles lickered and read Dickens' Chrisfcipus j ,'arol, hip custom of many years ' lauding. I Previously he had pressed a button j vuich lighted a myriad of lamps on ' i giant fir in Sherman Square and ! tad delivered a brief greeting to.the nun try. "For mo and my family," he Said, 'it is the happiest of Chrlstm&ts. io the many thousands of you who iavt thought of me and who have lent me greetings, I want to tell you iuw profoundly gruioiy 1 am. . sag I Sven more. significant Is the deep lonvletlon that this year marks a ;ramef.uufi*ei&V ilg?>flcance In our modern llteo? "tEe caching of Him whose birth we are elebrat'mg. Tvove" Showing Effect "To more and more cf us these voi-ds 'thou shalt love thy neighbor is thvcelf has taken on a meaning vhich ia showing itself hod proving tself in our purposes and in our iaiiy lives. "May the practice of that high deal of twenty centuries grow in us ill in the years to come, and so I five you and send you one and ail, >ld and young, a merry Christmas ind a truly happy new year. And so Tom now and for always, "God bless is everyone." In returning full civil rights to jundreds of persons who have been . onv'hted under the wax-time espionige and selective service acts, Mr. tooseveit said: "During the World war a large lumber of persons were convicted inder tie espionage act and the seective service act of giving uttermce to sentiments adverse to the >rosecution 01 lne war ana ro tne uiforcement of the dmft. They have jaid the penalty that the law imposed lpon there. The emergency that made it necessary to punish them las long expired. Fifteen years have slapsed since the end of the war. "Accordingly, I have issued a Christmas proclamation extending a ull pardon to all persons who were lonvicted of suoh wartime offenses, pid who have complied with the sen;ence imposed or. them. The effect >! this proclamation in to restore to luch persons their full civil rights." Mrs. Sarah Thomas Dies at Black Mountain Mrs. Sarah Thomas. (54, aunt or Ura. John Morton of Boone, died at her home in Black Mountain last Wednesday, following an illness of several months. Mrs. Thomas was a lative of Mountain City, Tenn., but aaa resided iu western wortn uaroina since 1900. Immediate survivors nclude the husband, Mr. John Thomis. one brother and one sister. Funeral services were conducted at rabernacle Church, Black Mountain, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Herman F. Duncan, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Cnurch South, pan in charge, interment took place n Tabernacle cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Horton of Boone attended the ites. CHRISTMAS TREE EVENT A neighborhood CMristnuis tree xnd appropriate program combined Lo make a pleasant affair for the jeople of the Cool Springs school district last Saturday evening. Tinier the leadership of Mr. Dewey Mitchell, the teacher, local talent was used In presenting "The Prodigal Son," and the audience was arge. rJ: h||||1mIfiv.flL.' \:Mv- ' (Sew259R&? . '' '-p'iW-l--' ' , -v ' !\ DE paper?Established in the SSTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDA Heralding Ti Governor Joil To Close Btir Other News F H|nun| , Governor Earinghau3 last week t joined Lhc Governors of Kentucky and < Tennessee in issuing proclamations ( calling for marketing holidays in the j fcul'Iry tobacco region until some set jjusimeut is made as to more satisfactory prices. Burley tobacco, used pri- J f;mtUy, in chewing and pipe 3Dioklug Jobifiecs, is grown in .the western part 1 CS.r raj umc, ana a market nas Dec-n gpelgfeted iu Asheville for the past tew fears for its sale. Watauga County m how a cousiderabie producer of &>r!ey, and local farmers market for J fee ' most part through Tennessee and aJ Il<m -- ?r 'i'hc ~ ijuiiCJ jiratilem seems a little more complicate^! than the % fl^e^guqed bright tction in "acreage will be required to! let the surplus he used up. Wine may be obtained by a licensed preacher having charge of a congregation for 3acraniental purposes -to the amount of three gallons each ninety days, and hospitals and sanitorlums may secure whisky used in curing inebriates when it is administered by a licensed physician. Attorney General D. G. Bin rami tt has held In a series of opinions dealing with the liquor laws. In both of these he points out that this is under the Turlington Act and that transportation companies hauling uquor must keep complete records as to dates and places of shipments, senders and receivers, and keep records available. '' s! Mr. Brummitt also holds that intoxicating liquors may be shipped through the State from one wet state to another wet state, but may not he shipped from cr into this stole He admits that permitting liquor to be carried through the State will cause much trouble, as it will be al most Impossible to prevent its be Jig delivered in this State, which is con- < trary to both State and Federal laws. ] Another batch of highway projects , to cost an estimated $417,100, inclua- ; icg four regular highway jobs to cost , about $110,000 and 31 municipal high- j way jobs t.o cost an estimated $310,- j 000, have been sent to Washington /or approval by the State Highway , division. These projects are under the , National Recovery Administration, , and the entire cost wii! come from the emergency fluids. Six other municipal projects, originally included, t were eliminated for checking pur- ; poses and may be included in anoth- , cr batch to be sent to Washington j later. Included in the batch sent to , Washington is one project in Watau- . ga County, bituminous surface treat- j nient on N. C. Route No. 17 in the town of Boone. i Already 1934 automobile license tags, available less than a month, have been sent in showing the paint j on the figures largely removed, as ! was the case with 1933 tags. Howev er, this is not from normal wear and washing, but the paint had been re- i moved to make it harder to get the i number, Captain Charles Farmer, of ; the State Highway Patrol, states, an- j nouncing that his men will watch ob- i; '.iterate,! plates and indict the own- , era for trying to delete the Figures, i Most of the last year plates and those showing up now are scrubbed with i chemicals or other substances to make tfic numbers hard to read. Captain Farmer staling that rum-run- i ners and others seeking to avoid being caught by their number* try to remove them. Hi3 men will keep a close watch on such, he said. John H. Harwood, BrysoD City, former Judge and former assistant at MOC Year Eighteen Eighty-E Y, DECEMBER 28. 1933 ie New Year TV.., j. ' ^ jJMtj ^ _ __!* ., is Movement fey Markets; rom Raleigh orncy general, has been issued a lience to sell life Insurance in North Carolina for the Jefferson Standard jife Insurance Company, after exunination by the State Insurance Delai-tiuent. He announced tnaL he vould devote his entire time to the nsurance business, in which be was engaged back in 1907. He noted in lis application that he had pleaded guilty to violation of Consolidated itatutes 4255. He served a sentence or attempting to mutilate State Revalue nen.artme.nt reenrda m prevent ionvictior. of his daughter, Ali3s Cola Iarwood, for-twliexzling State funds; loll, served prtftm eehteneua and at; epald, with Interest. Judge Horwood, i3, recently sought to have the part >f the sentence depriving him of his aw licenses stricken from the roeirds. The case la now before the N. 2. Supreme Court. Two men alleged to be members of in organized gang of rum-runners rnd vendors of oouutorfeit money, vere held for Federal Court when jiven a hearing in Durham last week lor passing and conspiring to pass - ounterfet; money. One of the men lad given an eastern N. C. man nine spiirious $20 bills for a load of liquor. Ford S. Worthy, II. S. Marshal 'or eastern N. C., and Henry Thomas, Charlotte, secret service man, worked up the cases. Tbey say it is very lard to tell the spurious money. One plan of making it is to soak the ink From small bills and print larger aer.ominatiojis on the same eilk-woven paper. Some of the money get by local bank3 and Washington experts here helping gun it down found it eery hard to detect. Purchasers of goods who live outside the State but from North Carolina merchants are required to pay he three per cent sales tax just as 1 resident, of the State. Harrv "Mo Bfullan, director of the sales tax division, Department of Revenue, holdj in a statement answering an inquiry 'rom a local merchant's association, "The residence of the purchaser has loLhing to do with the liability foi the sales tax if the sole is made and lelivered in North Carolina," he said. North Carolina farmers are to have i new service through the Federal and State departments of labor as a pari if President Roosevelt's recovery progiam. Major A. L. Fletcher, commissioner of labor, announces. This service proposes to make of each employment office a clearing house through which farmers, farm tenants and farm labor may go when in need of any kind of help. Families of farm origin now living in town or mill villages will alsc find this office of help should they be interested in returning to th< farm. Some provision is being madf to aid such families with provision! and clothing where needed, under certain conditions. Major Fletcher ex presses the hope that this service roaj in these unsettled times, be of holj hi placing families of farm expert ence who have drifted to town aac find it difficult to fit themselves inlc urban or mill village life, hack tc their rightful environment. Under a new ruling, effective January 1, any sale of mixed feed to con"timers of less than one ton must b> classed as a retail sale and the thro per cent, sales tax applied, lnstea>. of the former 100 pounds minimum Harry MeMullan, sales tax director announces. Under this ruling, No. 42, mer RAT ight *1.50 PER Y-cAH. HOLIDAY TRADE j BEST IN YEARS, SAY RETAILERS : Throngs Four Into Boone as UaAtI minute Stropping Gets Under Way. j Seme Merchants Report One Hundred Per Cent, increase Over Ua.st Tear. Others Say Best Since 1928. Holidays Unusually Quiet. The Jast days of the week comprised the busiest penod for Boone merchants, since the panic got going, according to general belief among the shopkeepers, and sales forces were giad when late Saturday night, they could retire from the milling throngs and begin to make delayed preparations for their individual Christinas festivities. Many merchants report a one hundred per cent, increase in holiday trade over the same period a year ago, others say its the best trade since 1928, and some who have not V/uvuacu uicu caicu ICLUIVW bai^lUU/ believe it's the best trade they've ever enjoyed. From far and near the people came to Boone and by cio3lng time Saturday many establishments had sold out in popular gift items, despite the fact that preparations had been made on a larger scale than heretofore. Christmas Tree The American Legion Christmas tree event brought a. great number of the visitors to town, and the atj fair went over in fine shape. Some I hundreds of kiddies were feted, and carried away liberal packages of toys j and fruits. j On the whole it was a happy | Christmas. Those who had set about to enjoy Christmas through the route of liquid refreshment were taken care of by the police force and Satifrday night's round-up comprised more than a dozer who had lingered long over the wine. No appreciable disturbance j however was reported, and Sunday and Monday balmy weather contributed to the pleasure of the citizenry. I HSBL Jfij Sale of Christmas Seals 'Is Successful year has been very successful, according to Mrs. Mary Harris, of Axnantha, who is in charge of the campaign Incomplete returns indicate a total sale of SHH f>l j and if Ls explain^?, that several large communities where sales were being made have not yet reported. HONOR HOU, FOR FALL QUARTER OF A. S. T. CI. The honor roll for the fall quarter at Appalachian State Teachers College bears 116 names. These are distributee throughout thirty-seven counties in North Carolina and in five states. Watauga county leads the list with 21 students. Forsyth comes second with 10. Watauga county is represented by Clint Adains, Vilas; Mary Laura Carender, Matney; Toy Farthing Sugar Grove; Pauline Bingham, Ollie : Jean Coffey, Pearl Cowles, Beatrice | Culler, Homer Eggers, Ralph Hagaman, Rex Hagaman. Dale Keller, Mrs. Beulah Lyerly, Banner Miller, Madison Miller, Mary MoreCS, Paul Perkins, Win ton Rankin. Karl Sawyer, Ray Stikes, Fawn Watson, Mary ' Williams, Mrs. J. T. C. Wright, Beoue. FIRE RAZES HOME A fire supposedly originating from a defective flue Friday afternoon de [ stroyed the homes of Coo to Haigier ' and George Gomes, colored residents of the town, and badiv damaged a new structure being erected by a neighbor, Frank Grimes. Adl bouse| hold furnishings were destroyed, ; Haigler having perhaps suffered the ' greatest loss, since a smoke house with a large quantity of meat and a well filled crib were burned. The ' citizens of the community evidenced ' the Christmas spirit and have con' tributed liljcrally to the destitute negroes. Mr. Johas Winigbarger, of Piney Flats, Tenn., is spending the holidays J visiting with his 83-year-old sister, j Mrs. Martha Miller, of the Meat : Camp section. Mr. Wtoebarger states ui3t iiia tfgeu sister is very m ana ' that there is great anxiety as to the outcome of her illness. ' chants, manufacturers, mixers, blen' dera, producers and mills selling at retail to consumers will te required I to pay and collect the retail sales ' tax. Sales of ton lots at wholesale > prices to consumers may be classified as wholesale transactions under this ruling. Merchants, manufacturers and Sis tributore selling cotton seed meal s which may he used for fertilize* or ! feed are required to collect the sales ! tax unless they take from the pur, chaser a certificate showing that the . purchase hy the farmer ia for lie purpose of being used as fertilizer, - Mr. McMullan's order holds.