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MARCH 29, 1934 JCSTREFOSES TO CONDEMN THREE PCT. SALES LEVY "Takes Off His Coat" aai?J VVadeft Intt Sales Tax Critics at Meeting ol Educational Association. Wants t< Know Where Needed Revenues Ma\ Be Procured. Guy B. Phillips Xumed President of Group. Raleigh, N. C.t March 27 {Special). ?Governor Ehringhaus literally pulled off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and waded into some of the merchants for their attitude, saying he would not recommend repeal of the general sales tax until some other way is found by which the schools of the state can be supported, in an address before the N. C. Education Association at its final session here Saturday. and many times the capacity audience was pulled from its collective seat by his statements. When a merchant prices an article to you and adds the sales tax 4for the Governor,' it is your duty to tell Jinn mat o* per cent or that tax goes to the public schools and that if he insistsson misrepresenting the facts you will buy your goods elsewhere," Governor Ehringhaus told them, after pointing out the various uses to which the sales tax and other taxes are delated and showing that except for the gasoline and inotcr vehicle taxc3 84 per cent is for schools. "When the day carne when I had to choose between the sales tax and tile schools, 1 chose the schools," he said, adding, "I am not going to stand for the repeal of any lax until I see in its place something that will keep our schools open." He said he was as heartily in favor of increasing salaries of teachers and State employees as soon as they are possible, and showed that by doing away altogether with all executive and administrative offices in Raleigh would increase teachers pay only ten per cent. "Nobody in North Carolina 'disliked I adoption of the cussed and discussed i sales tax more than I did," he said, j asserting that he had not gone back i to his campaign stand of opposing; the tax, unless it were necessary | Real estate folks urged the teach-] ers lo adopt a resolution approving the ssics tax and R. T. Fountain lirg- j od the resolutions committee not to I approve it, members said. The resolution adopted was: "We request the General Assembly to continue the maintenance of the Sttae-supporteU eight months term out of revenue derived from sources other than ad valorem taxes." In another section the resolutions heartily commended Governor Ehririgtiaus "for the. forceful and earnest fight he mado to provide an elglit months school term for every child in North Carolina. We believe that if this plan is continued a3 the fixed educational policy of North Carolina It will be the outstanding achievement of his administration." Other parts of the resolution adopt o<i askca ror increased appropriations for schools "so that every school employee will have at least a living wage"; asked for provisions for permitting local supplements to school funds, properly limited; and continuation of the county 03 the school unit. Guy B. Phillips, head of the Greensboro schools, was elected president of the association for the next year, succeeding Harry P. Harding, Chariot u-. Mrs. T. C. Guthrie, Kinston teacher, was ejected vice-president, placing iier.in line for the presidency fori the following vear. .Yule r? w-?..*.ee ! secretary-treasurer since 1921, was re-elected. State Superintendent A. T. Allen and Mi'. Warren were commended for their activities In behalf of Federal aid for public schools in the present emergency. Dr. George T. Zook, U. S. Commissioner of Education, spsking Friday night, urged continuation of adult education to keep even educated I FR] I $5.00 I fg FOR ANY PAIR LE CAN'T R | TWENTY YEARS R Y-ou have never discarded a i rebuilt. We rebuild shoes n tion. Rebuilt shoes are mor than new ones. We put in b Caps, Heel Linings, Etc., Et 1|B WE THE BETTER SERVE OUR BEST. . . . WE KNOV WANT YOU1 I Appalachia O. F. Dimci (Now Located Next BOONE, NOR' ppppf: I New Educational Head Guy H. PLillips, superintendent o? the Grwnslwro school system, who last week was elected president of th North Carolina Educational Association. VA1XE CRUCIS NEWS (Deferred from, last week) Mr. Fritz Burwell of Winston-Salem is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Taylor. The following attended the funeral of Dr. John H. Squires at Lenoir on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Baird, Miss Wilma Baird, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mast, Mr. and Mrs. J. M Shall. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Mast and Mr. I. D. ShuTl. Mr. Henry Taylor spent the weekend with his parents. The Woman's Missionary Society met with Mrs. J. M. Shull Saturday afternoon. Fifteen of the members present enjoyed a program on "Brazil"' arranged by Mrs. I. D. Shull. Rev. and Mrs. Harding Hughes and son of Concord 3pent Monday and Tuesday at their attractive cottage, taking their meals at the C. D. Tay| iors. Mrs. Forster Bryant spent the past week-end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Woody. on oaiuruuy evening Miss Jvancy and Gilbert. Taylor entertained at a delightful party honoring their house guest. Those present were: Misses Perober, Jane Darwin, Gladys Taylor, Wilms Raird, Pearl and Grace Mast, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Olson, Mrs. T. W. Taylor; Messrs. Ilurwell, Frank Eaird and Frank Taylor. The delicious refreshments carried out the St. Patrick's motif. The Kutups Klub met at the home of Mrs. T. W. Taylor on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Howard Most and family spent ouuuuy wiui all. aim Llia. Oiaru. On Tuesday afternoon the Valle Crueis School girls attended an enjoyable matinee In Boone. Miss Virginia Sulley accompanied them. FTITURR FARMERS MKET The program for the Cove Creek Chanter of Future Farmers of America for Friday afternoon, March 23, 1934, consisted of speeches by the 8th grade contestants for the public speakina contest. The soeprhps and speakers were as follows: "The Machine Age and Its Effect on American Agriculture," by A. R. May; "The Machine Age and Large Scale Farming," by James Brown; "Rural Electrification," by Horace Bingham; "The Machine Age and Its Effect :>u American Agriculture," by Lee McGuire; "Rural Electricity and Its Effect on the Farmer," by Tominie Ward. Horace Bingham won first place, James Brown second, and Tomrale Ward third. All speeches were well written and well spoken. Next I^riday the eleventh grade will have their tryouts.?Reported. men abreast of the changing times. The meeting was well attended, despite rain and sleet two of the three days. EE! I In Cash! ATHER SHOES WF B EBUILD! EBUILDING SHOES! shoe but that could have been sgardless of worn-out eondie comfortable and economic few Welts,- Counters, Insoles, SELVES BY SERVING OTHERS iji V YOUR WANTS AND a BUSINESS! 11 Shoe Shop 1 in, Manager to Smlthey's Store) IU CAROLINA WATAUGA DEMOCRAT? E Vj TODAY and DRANK parxeu Pr^afe-^ SIXXX8ft(DOTKS^T^S XV CAREERS . - . man made "A man's life is what ha cboose3 to make it.' I heard cn eminent, scholar say not long ago. It sounded like a pretty broad sttaemcnt, but as I tried to analyze it 1 came to the conclusion that he was right. Mo3t people won't agree, because most people are not satisfied with what they have made of their lives, and imagine thai if they had "got the breaks" their careers would some hom liave been different. But, looking back oT the failures a3 well as the successes nrnor.g men X have known for years, I think the professor was right. Tlie failures failed because they Aid <- - - ? uiu uu(. or wouici not make, the necessary effort to attain the goal of their ambitions; the successes succeeded because they put al! they had in them into the job. To the failures their successes seemed to have been easily achieved, but only tti man who has succeeded knows how much harder he has worked than did the man who failed. WORDS . - . how nianj How many words does it take to, express one's self clearly in the Eng- j Iish language ? Shakespeare used j more than 3L?.000 different wcrds in J his writings. Some years ago a stu-! deal of such things reported that the j average uneducated man used not. J more than 700 different words. Some j savage tribes have vocabularies of; only 300 words. In the effort to compile a dictionary of English for use in tne education of persons speaking other lan ! guages. the faculty of New York Unij verslty has come to the conclusion 1 that hot more than S00 words are really needed to carry on all ordinary conversations. That docs not include technical tcrins, of course. Too many persons have a tendency to use unusual words where ordinary ones will answer as well or better. Sometimes I think* the world would understand itself better if no Doay were allowed to use more thai: I 900 word3 and those were so clearly defined that nobody could misunderstand their meanings. WKATU?R . . . down Fast The month of February, J 934, was u- winter month in ***** Eastern United States since the winter of 1777-7S, when Washington's army camped at Valley Forge and nearly froze to death. There have been heavier snows, but not in connection with such low temperatures. At my farm there was at one time three feet level depth of snow, with drlltts as high as twenty feet, and the thennnmcter 185 degrees below zero. Folks who were certain that the Gulf Stream had changed its course and made the Atlantic Coast permanently warmer are trying other guesses now to account for the cold weather. Nothing gives m03t people more pleasure than to try their hands at weather forecasting. And nothing is more futile than long-range weather predictions. INStll-ATION . . . new method As everybody knows, the trouble with most houses is that they let too much heat out through the roofs and walls in winter and let too much heat in through the same routes in summer. There are many ways of insulating an ordinary house, some more expensive than nihmo all sive. Now the discovery has been made that sheet-aluminum, leas than 1-100 of an inch thick, will insulate against the penetration of heat as well as 20 inches of concrete or twelve inches of brick. The discovery was made when a young man tried wrapping cigarotte3 intended for export to Africa in aluminum foil, and found that was the only protection against the tropical heat. It has been tried on many houses and it works perfectly and costs almost nothing, those who are experimenting with it say. That is only one of many new inventions which will make the new homes of the future more comfortable and economical to run. OBSOLESCENCE . . . interpreted Owen D. Young has brought into public notice a word that is not given enough consideration when people discuss the replacement of men by machines. He said the other day: "Science is the mother of ohsoles-1 cence." What Mr. Young meant was that it is the function of science to send old machines and old methods to the scrap-heap, to make them obsolete. There is no danger of the world becoming overcrowded with goods of man's production, so long as scientific research continues to fincl new machines or methods which will perform the same functions better, or do new things that no machine has ever done before. Some people thought there were enough automobiles in the world when Ford finished making his fifteenthmillion "Model T." But where are the mode! T's now? They have been re-| placed by better cars, which in turn] SRT THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. I IMMORTALITY" OF THE SOI7T. Are there not times in every man's life when there flushes on him a feel| ing -nay more, an absolute couvic-i ticn?that this soul is but a spark be- j longing to some upper fire: and that' so much as we draw near by effort,' by resolve, by intensity of endeavor,; to that upper fire by so much we draw! nearer to our home, and mate our-! selves with the angels? Is there not! a ringing desire in many minds to seize, hold of what floats above us vu the universe of thought, and drag down what shreds we can, to scatter to the world. We can see around us on every side cramped, hindered, still! born lives?merchants who should i have been painters, clerks who should j have been poets, laborers who should. will he replaced by still better cars. Let someone invent anything which will do any job twice as well as existing machines and cost half us much and every machine of the old type becomes obsolete. Where Daddy and C your brownie, nickel place in the whole r Ithey buy Aunt Emm Mamie's hams and C GROCERIES HAXWB1LL HOUSE COFFEE. X [ car. for only MILK OF MAGNESIA, 16-ounce I Ifor only RUSSIAN MINERAL. OIL, 16-oui CftJ.tle for only SALAD DRESSING, one quart siz ASSORTED GARDEN SEEDS, pi age only CALIFORNIA REACHES; 1 po?a< Ifor only LOOK HERE! lG-ouuce botUe Rul Alcohol. for only FINEST GRANULATED SUGAR pound only 100-PGUND BAG BROWN SUG. for only - . PURE ARBUCKLE COFFEE, p pound only Eg 7Vi-INOH CAKE OF TOIIAiT SC K tor 5c or SIX FOR W SQUARE OR STANDARD SNUB gE| tumblers r'or only PURE 100 PCT. PENNSYLVAN gg MOTOR OIL, quart M BEST GRADE CHOP, a real barg 9 per bag only I Brushy Mtn. Limber iv, COTTON MEAL HULLS, SCR.A DAIRY FEED, SWEET FEED. L Ju3t a Little Cheaper than You 3 I First Grade At ? EXTRA THICK FA 8 POUNDS SWIFTS O. K. SOAP, three 1 PRINCE ALBERT LARGE P. & G. SC KARO SYRUP, gall FRESH SALT FISf Remember we are of FLOUR lower than Feed of All Kinds a< sm: have been philosophers. Tbeir talent is known to a few friends; they ti.e. and their talent is b'iried in their, coffin. Jesus 3ays no ? It has at last j been sown for the harvest, it art.!' dime Into the open and blossom in j another lartrl And when the father designs to touch the cold pulseless heart of the acorn, to make it thrust forth from its prison walls will he leave neglected on the earth the soul of man made ill the image of his creator. If he stoop3 to give the rose bud whose blossoms float upon the autumn breeze, the sweet assurance of! another springtime, will he refuse; the words of hope to the sons of men! when the frost of winter comes? No.j We are sure that notwithstanding his; apparent prodigality, that he ha , ere- j ated nothing without a purpose, but: that nrovision is m?He for versa! longing ftM" immortality will be realized. We are sine that we shall live again. just as sure as we are living today We know that our redeemer livoth, and that after death. i G0 Il^Sm W To Spent Lrandpaw Goes . . . They , dime, qua *ter, fifty cents ountry! Why they buy ev icr's potatoes, Uncle Sno Irandpaw's chickens and > DR lound LADIES NEW S\ ^(7 V spring shades xrttle AA^. LADIES WHITE shapes lor only ice ? LADIES SUEDF. 013 for on'y :c for LADIES HOUSE I er Suits, priced fro ir pack- _ CHILDRENS EAS and crepe, priced < I c&il i~| __ vJiril Ld_>ivr.*r<*5 ?>UU Jl yb the thing for sprii ibing JJ" ? UNFINISHED CR JL^I^ Pcr yard only PCr /lift PEPPEP.ELL, PR! JJ ^ grade, per yard c AR A ftg APRON GINGHA (ItOu shipment, yard-wit er LILY THREAD, 1 IAP CJ F" _ MEN'S WORK SI /??1 V, sizes up to 20, oni F ill StFf* MEN'S DRESS SI Aj broadcloth, each [A | P_ BIG BEN OVERA XOv lhe !?w price of c 1.25 A new line , ig Apples "mi"um W; ifeESS We have ?ay Elsewhere! eUDl RugS a lantic White Flas (TAN PAID) T BACK MEAT, per pou JEWEL LARD for only I-pound bars for only. . . TOBACCO, per can only >AP, six bars for only. . Son bucket for only .... 1, per pound only fering that first grade QU you cam get aui ordinary t the Lowest Prices! [THE PAGE THRU .... we shali pass from, death unto life. Though atter cur skin worms destroy this ixxjy. we shall see God with out own eyes, viewing the inconceivable loveliness of Christ. as the incaraatioii of perfect holiness. ? KJDW. x. HAHN. Boone, X. C. FA KM QUESTION When should cockerels be separated from pullets in the flock of baby chicks? Answer: This depends upon the facilities available but as a genera] rule the birds should be separated as soon, as the sex is determined. The new quarters, however, should be well heated and the cockerels fully feathered before they are moved. Cockerels make a much more rapid growth than pullets and as a result, if the birds arc not senarated. the hr. . ? rr~" and floor space will be crowded and make the chicks more susceptible to disease and cannibalism. >ing| TO 1 I My Brownie I give you more for t or dollar than any erything to sell . , . rt's beans, Cousin ducks. '?Y GOODS VEATERS, the la J AQ 9 . 97c to I?0" 9 HATS iul nlma nnA -=? atfC I JACKETS, all col- 9 PRESSES & Sweat- jg m 79c to JL*?f Tt ITER FROCKS, voile QA? iSc to Ottf K SWEATERS, just AA? ig. only M -EPE, a real barg?: i, 29c 1 [NTS, the very best -f ftl >n 1.Y JLc/C M CHECKS, a new -f H Je. priced 12M?c to 1 large spools, special for g JIRTS, Covert Cloth, 8 HIRTS, fine grades of 5 .LLrS, large stock for H >r.ly / Vof Beauty Brand Altre, all sizes cookers! enty of those Linol- B 1 double low prices! lhGas,gl.19c I ind 6Y2C 59c EEN of the WEST cheap grade Flour! YSJ
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