FAQK TWO Interesting N Reported F By M. K. Ul'XNAOAX (Special Correspondent > Raleigh. N\ C.?Add to the powers the Governor of North Carolina has ; now "the power to appoint the local j officers of counties and to^ns, the. [ selection of an appointive State j Board of Education which could I name all of the school teachers m i the State, give him the veto power, j and increase the opportunity for ex- [ ecuilve appointees and employees to sit in the General Assembly, and there would be created such a political machine a3 only a revolution could break or even dent." Attorney Genera! Dennis G. Brutnmit made this statement along with others on. 'The Proposed New Constitution" at his borne town of Oxford Saturday afternoon, in a summary of his speech, issued to the press. in an analysis he made of the proposed constitution, he said that under it "the legislature coaM confer on the Governor the power to appoint every officer of every county, town and municipality in the State. "It would place our public schools under control of a State Board of Education composed of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and six appointees of the Governor. TITat | board could appoint a secretary, in i effect, to be chosen by the Governor, j ancl confer on this secretary power j which should be exercised by the Su- ; perintendent of Public Instruction j elected by t.he people. That appoint- I r ive board could select every teacher j in every public school in the State, {j "It would give the veto power to the j Governor in the most dangerous and 4] obnoxious form. Under the plan of the ,* proposed new constitution a minimum a vote of 26 in the Senate and GL in the J House would be required to pass a bill over such veto." Mr. Brummit said its proponents ! admit that it would remove many re- ^ strictions imposed upon the General; * Assembly now. and that it is equal- 1 )y certain that it increases the opportunity for domination ami absorption of legislative powers by the executive. He said that today the highway ' and other departments with large numbers of employees are directly i> under the control of the Governor J ne iy.m, in iou cnoice i?i Liiree men i a3 members of tho State Board of! Selections, control the selection of iu Gri ruiu N'orlh Carolina teachers will get every penny due them for every day they teach in the public schools. Governor Ehringhaus has promised, and Frank L. Dunlap, in charge of the budget, promises that the money will he available. It is thought likely that Uie general fund will be probably S2,500,000 short at the time the teachers get their final pay. but the highway fund is available to it for any deficiency. and can be repaid later, il is stated. About S13.000.000 of SIV 000.000 anTiroorifili/tn fO- - t,.i; set aside for instructional service by the State School Commission, r.nc this is sufficient to pay ail teacher salaries, LcRoy Martin, secretary, states. The impression was current that because of the efforts to get Federal aid, tihe money would be lacking. Such aid can be used, but teachers will get their pay whether it is secured or not, officials state. {educational Statistics North Carolina is "next to the top in people to go to school; next tc the bottom in income with which tc pay the hilla." which is just another way of saying that white thi3 State ranks low in expenditure per pupil, it is near the top m the amount spent in relation to State income. The old "God bless South Carolina' for being on the bottom and Having this State from the ignominy is thus relegated to the past when this State's "effort" to educate its children is compared with the "effort' of the other states. The relation o) the number of children to educate to the income of the people of the State, as compared with other states, places North Carolina in a much more favorable position, figures compiled by H, C. West, statistician. State Department of Public Instruction, anon. North Carolina ranked IzLh in population in 1930, but this State was .second only to South Carolina in Che proportion of population of children from 6 to 17 years of age. those presumably in school. Naturally, this makes the educational problem in North Carolina, both in a relative and in an absolute sense, much larger than it is in many states, Mr. West points out. Although it is unfair to say that the amount of money spent is the sole criterion for evaluating results, this factor must be considered. It would certainly be boastful to say thai North Carolina can secure as good results as other states on half the cost. In fact, the actual average for tbis state in 1929-30 was some less than half of the average per pupil expenditure in the United States. WATAUGA. DEMOCRAT? EVEH Facts About Our Schools By Gi l" H. UILL Boone High School commencement is just around the corner and that corner Will soon he turned. This year there are fifty-six who expect to receive their diplomas and certificates Seventeen of these are boys and thirty-nine are girls. The list of candidates for graduation is as follows. Thomas Bingham. Reece Banner Harley Dofson. Jack Gragg. Turnei Gross, Dwight Houck. IViUard Houck Claude Johnson. Beach Parsons. Kermit Reese. Vernon Robbins. Mas Shoemalie, Hugh Steele. Ralph Tugman. Claud Todd, Len Wilson, ar.d in the summer session Craig Hollars Girls: Beatrice Bingham, Mona Bingham, Mary Brookshire. Edna Mac Brown. Jean and June Bush, Eliza beth Cooke, Geneva Cooke. Anna Bell Coffey, Floye Cottrell, Rena Mat Farthing. Edith Greene, Mabel N. Greer. Ruth Gross. Gladys Hagaman, Edith Hamby, Winifred Hampton, Delia Lewis. Wilma Little, Odessa Lookabiil, Katie Lyon, Edith Miller, Lorene Miller, Edna Mae Moody. Olive Moretz. Annie Xorris, Leo Norris (Hartley), Margaret Ray, Mary Louise Rhyne, June Lee Russell, Lillian Simpson, Ella Mae South. Virginia South, Mabel Triplette, Olive Triplette, Esteil Watson. Eula Wheeler, Gertrude Winebarger, Susan Winkler. Commencement Expenses To the individual pupil we have tried to make commencement as inexpensive as possible. One of the steps toward lightening expenses was the procuring of caps and gowns as the official garb for commencement rather than new dresses, new shoes, corsages, and the like. The average cost of the commencement is $5.18 per pupil. The cost to the individual varies directly with the number of invitations one purchases and whether or not one purchases calling cards. There will be no expense in connection with the commencement exercises. We are importing no speakers, but we are endeavoring to carry through a motif which has been one of our aims throughout the year. Commencement Exercises j On Sunday morning, April 22, in j the Boone Methodist Church, the Revterend J. A Yount, pastor of the LuItheran Mission, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating ; class. The public is cordially invited j to attend this service On Monday night, April 23. the sei mors' will Hva their OinRu pvpt. I ci^es. The place and exact time will j be announced later. To these excrcis ja cordially jnvitpd The commencement exercises proper will be held in the Appalachian State Teachers College auditorium or Thursday evening, April 2l>, at 8 o'| clock. Scats will he reserved for rel a tires and close friends of the graduates. Everyone interested in the progress of pubhc education is invit ed to be present. Parent-Teacher Meeting The last meeting of the Boone High School Parent-Teacher Association u scheduled to meet in the little audi torium of the brick building of th< high school on Tuesday evening, Ap r.il 24th, at 7:30 o'clock. It is sincere ly hoped by the teachers of the higl school that the auditorium will b . filled. The topics for discussion a n < upon which action should be takei are very close to tiie hearts of thi teachers. These, topics concern th . health education and the further in \ telleetuai education of our children ! A plan will tie proposed for a remc . dial health clinic for our childrei curing tne summer months, Th school cannot do the task itself, bu with the concerted action of the par ents of all the children and especial ly of those who have diseased chil dren there should result one of th i most lielpfui and beneficial clinic that has ever been held in Wataug Comity. Let roe urge all parents, pa Irons, taxpayers, and friends of th school to be present at this meeting Typewriting Classes The typewriting classes at the higl school for people who are workinj arc now in progress. The typewriter have been installed and three classe arc meeting each day of the wee! except Sunday. The classes are meet ing in two cycles. The first cycle i meeting 011 Monday, Wednesday an Friday of each week and the secon cycle is meeting on Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday of each week. It i possible to get in either cycle at an of the following periods: 8 to 9 a. in 3:30 to 4:30 or 4:30 to 5:30. This an nouncement is intended for ali thos who have paid and have not receive notice that the classes have startei as well as for those who would like t< come in and join any of the above scheduled classes. VILAS NEWS Rev. Roy Davis filled his regula > appointment at the Willowdale churcl on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Williams wen ' Sunday visitors, taking dinner wit! Mrs. J. L Reese. Mr. J. H. Brinkley celebrated hi sixty-third birthday Sunday. Th( crowd, the new suit of clothes an< the fine dinner were almost too rr.ucl for Henry. Those present, from a dis jtance were Rev. Roy Davis of Now iand, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Isaacs o Hcatcn and Professor Clarence BollcV of Elk Perk. lor $42.84 for North Carolina anc $86.60 for the United States. T THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. i OPENJfORUM ; Readers arc invite*! to contribute I to this department. Profit may he I derived from these letters. Name !of writer must accompany all manuscript and brevity is urge*!. ? WATAl'GA MAN TELLS OF TRIP TO WESTERN ST ATES Editor Watauga Democrat: j Here i am in Klamath Falls, visiting at the home of my eldest son. Ray Moret:<. and his family. I left Coeur d* Alene, Idaho, on March 2nd. accompanied by my youngest son. Tom Moretz, and his family and my nephew. Leonard Poole, in a Pontiac car. On our way to the Falls, we stopped at the home of Cicero Miller. a .r ;isin, in Moro, Oregon. The next day we started for K?a, math Falls, and reached that city on j March 4th. Everyone was glad to see | me and asked me to v isit them for awuuc. i xiau anuiuu ucliul-m tu back to Coeur d* Alenc, but when I had gone as far as ChiJoquin, Oregon, and visited at the home of my cousin, Mrs. Edward Smith, I was compelled to stay here awhile. The Smiths drove me back to Klamath Falls on Saturday. March 70. My eldest son, Ray Moretz, is caretaker of a large graded school here. There are about 700 students going to this school, including everybody from negroes to Indians. Ray likes his job fine. He has been at this school for the Inst four years. jr Klamath Falls was founded in the year 1SC9-70. At that time this was a very small piece of land called Linksvillc, consisting' of only three ? buildings. There were only about ten j or fifteen people here at that time. | Link River (called by this name because it links two lakes together) is not exactly a river. It is merely a link far Upper and Lower Klamath lakes. Some people have said that this is the shortest rives in the U. S. However, this is not correct. The shortest river m the U. S. is about three I quarters of a mile long, near the j Deshuies River, fifteen miles from | Bend. j There are over 10,000 people in Kla- j math Falls. Crater Lake is 60 miles | from here. The first man to ever go to Crater Lake was about 62 or 63 . years old. The lake is about 5 miles wide and 7 miles long. The deepest I spot in the lake lacks 5 feet of being 2,000 feet deep. c .j i m- isiauti in liic iqko is mo ieet ^ . | above the water, estimated at about j 1' 100 acres. Klamath County was or. I ganiaed in 1882. It was at first called " [Jackson County, In 1872-73 the Indian war began. (| This war was fought in the Lava (| Beds. The Indianchiefs were cap_Jtnred in Langell Valley. There has ibeen no hostility with the Indians ' since that date. . I The Indians were stationed twelve j miles from this city. The Indian res| ervation was started in 1858. Four Indian chiefs were hung at Fort Klaiirnut The oirect cause or the war was this: The Modac and Klamath 1 Indians were two separate tribes. The ' Modacs went in with the Klamaths and sold their reservation to the Gov: eminent. However, the two tribes could not get along, so the Modac3 got their money back. The first fight 1 was staged about three miles from ^ Merrill. There are about 19 or 20 lakes in 1 Klamath County, and 300,000 acres ' I of land arc irrigated from Upper e i Klamath Lake. This lake is the fresh eat water lake this side of the Rocky Mountain. ~ The Upper Klamath Lake talis 14,000 feet in 90 miles, over SO feet to a 't mile. The altitude of Upper Klamath : 0mYou Imagine] * i d I CAN you IMACINCrj I how BISMA-REX is boosted by o Concordio,Mo.,mon who, offer s severot years treatment for stomach v trouble in o Mrterons Hospital, was discharged os incurable, but secured positive relief for himself with this product/ With his lost bottle he , alsojbought a bog of peanuts/soy inq."l con cot anvthina now. and ^ my weight has increased from 130 ? to ISO pounds.* EXPLANATION Bisma-Rex is a new antacid treatr ment that Is bringing welcome re- ; 1 lief to thousands everywhere who suffer the agonies of indigestion L' and other acid stomach ailments. 1 Bisma-Rex acts four ways to give lasting relief in three minutes. It s neutralizes excess acid; relieves the : stomach of gas; soothes the Irrl1 tated membranes; and aids diges1 tior. of foods most likely to ferment. Bisma-Rex is sold only at Rexatl Drug Stores. Get a jar tof day at? C! BOONE DRUG CO. , The REXALL Store APRIL 12. 1B34 ! add anything to the words of Jesus ! Christ. The metaphysician may secretly regret that the Nazarene did not discourse like a Plato or Locke. The poet may wish that the son of man had said more about land, sea and sky. about opening springtime or the fulluig leaf: the Calvinist and Trinitarian may wish that they could find in the Lord's discourse a system that would more fully shadow their own philosophy; the devotees of science may feel that the "Cosmos" of Humbolt surpasses the simple story of the Gospel. But these longings and complainings are the result of narrow specializations. Christ spoke lor the whole world at the time of its greatest need. Our wishes are for the style time. Christ's manner is for eternity. Jesus Christ of Bethlehem ? There is a fountain whence roll the transparent waters of the broad philosophy. Por beyond all bcing3 who have ever lived. Christ was the broadest. All his ideas are imperishable. He cast off the temporary that had come down from Moses; He made the old ironbound sabbath die in the fields where PHILADELPHIA . . . Robert Freeman (above) of Washington, D 0. ia 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He is captain elect and basketball champion at the University of Pennsylvania So what wan more natural thnh that tho fair co-eds, iu a voting contest conducted by the college paper, sho\ild crown him rhc "Greek God" of %th? caclpus. ,ake is 4,144 feet. The wind blows he lake dry once in a great while, "his has happened three times since S70. The last time it was blown dry vas in 191S. That is just about al! he history of Klamath Falls that know. If I stay here much longer, will know as much as the natives. I have met many people from Corth Carolina. All of them ask me luestions about "that thar country." "he weather has been perfect here, nd I am very glad of that, as I disike cola weather very much. On March 15th, T celebrated my 6th birthday--and today I feel like 6. J was presented with a large picure of Crater Lake. Tonight I am ;oing to sec the new Union Pacific rain that is going to stop here. I am J^UlXlg IU acc LUC luumai tl\JK ?> Ocr springs hen-. Next week I am oing to Mitchell, Oregon, with the sinister and his wife, to sec my cousi), Shuford Miller. Although 1 think this is a very ronderful country, I can hardly wait intii I see the shores of "good ole forth Caroliny." I will close new, living my regards to everyone in forth Carolina. J. C. MORETZ. flamath Falls. Oregon. THE CHRIST We must not let all these proud lays deceive us. The time is here vhen we must feel that it is not in he power of rhetoric or passion to IN When the grave of a loyi inspirations, examples and ally lost forever. FOR THE BEST THE MONUI PLACE YOUR ll RICHARD PHONE 24 iir r THE Wont with } ? It is cool . . . coiafo smartest fashion cerite Freeman styles in Genu find one or more exai Lthe five tc "UNDER PRICED tne sweet wncat was ripening; Hi saw the human soul in Lazarus, in Magdalene, in little children: He rebuked the disciples when they desired to draw the sword on their own sect: He uttered few of the ideas that entered into the modern denominations. ,1 He was born in a common house of entertainment, where all might come to Him, and He died with His arms extended as a pledge that He would continue to receive all that came to Him. He never spoke of men as the | common multitude, but He made HimI self at home among them. He dressed j like a peasant; He went to their marriage feasts, attended their funerals, j and was so much among them, a man I among men, that the slanderers called j Him a gluttonous man and wme-bib| er, a friend of publicans and sinners. He was our Lord raised up among us I ?one of ou>- own kith and kin. For I this cause he was not ashamed to ran us urctnren, tor kc was our broi ther in the Resurrection; for after ; His resurrection He said, Go tell my brethren, luy Father and your Father, my God and your God. He pleads for i us as a high priest, one who can be ! touched with a feeling of our infirmities. God had graciously raised up such a mediator, and now He speaks to us through Him. who is enthroned in His inconceivable loveliness. ?Ekiwin N. Hahn. Boone, N. C. Norway's waterfalls are estimated 1 to be capable of producing 16.500,000 i electric horsepower. I [ORIAM ?d one remains unmarked knowledge remain tragicdENTAL MARKET AFFORDS ORDER WITH E. KELLEY ROONE, N. C. *rufe by Millions rtable and at home in the } rs. Come in and see these *V ine White Buckskin. You'll xk ctiy suited to your taste. ^ > FIVE STORE J MERCHANDISB" J