IP AGE TWO Interesting N Reported F By M. K. DUXNAGAN (Special Correspondent) Raleigh, X. C.?Word has gone out 1 publicly and sent down the line that | State and federal employees and 3p- t pointees by the grace of a Senator are not to engage in partisan politics, actively, in behalf of any of the candidates, it is assumed that the voters will vote, that they are encouraged to exercise their right of franchise, but they are not to canvass and campaign for their favorites. Ail of which instructions and advice will be received, noted and filed, but it is ! doubtful if it will be followed, to the letter. Mrs. Thomas O'Berry has advised her relief working force to refrain. Governor Elirlnghaus has asked State employees not to be active. Chairman E. B. Jeffress has asked highway folks to do no campaigning Dr. M. C. S. Noble Jr., executive assistant commissioner of revenue, is so instructing his field forces. Senator Baliey state? he will refrain?in the Fourth district race for congress?and asks ail appointees by his grace to take no part, lest it be imputed to him. It's alt very good sentiment, but many are political appointees, and politicians do politic. New llfetory Books New history textbooks in the fifth, sixth and seventh grades will be used next fall, the State Board of Education decided Saturday, saying it would award contracts on the bids already submitted at a meeting Monday. The bids show that more than 10 per cent j will be saved on the new books under j the price of the books now in use. j The books now used were adopted in! | 1922 and are thus 12 years old. Edu- j cational folks say the texts submitted j and to be selected have better mate- i rial than the old books now in use. Few bodks have been bought in the last three or four years and with the return of better times a supply will have to be bought, anyway, just as aulomobileu have been and are being j bought to replace the old ones now i worn out. New histories would have to be adopted next year anyway, so the board members decided now is the best time, as prices are rising. Texts in the high school gz-ides will be adopted Thursday of this week, also from samples aiid prices submitted by the riiihiwher--: Effita were on several methods of distribution. so the board can decide the iiiost economical way of getting the books to the children, whether by direct purchase and resale by the State, or through the North Carolina depository, as ia now the method. IV. Lawyers to Meet North Carolina lawyers will gather in Durham June 28-30 for two meetings. ? twiKioSslon first annual meeting of the North Carolina State Bar, with 2.200 members, and then the three-day meeting, beginning that r.ight, of the N. C. Bar Association, a voluntary group with 1,100 members, 11. M. London, secretary of both, announces. The main morning address to the State Bar will be by Joseph B. Kenan, assistant U. S. Attorney General, on "The Lawyer's General Responsihilitv hi Snniptu omi ?* and in the afternoon William I.ogan Martin, Birmingham, former Alabama attorney general, will speak on "The Obligations and Opportunities of the Incorporated Bar." 1. M. Bailey, Raleigh, is president, and Julius C. Smith, Greensboro, is vice-president. of the new body. That niglit the voluntary association will open its 3Gth annua! meeting. Judge Robert W. Winston on "Southern Statesmanship Since 1830"; President Earl W. Evans, of the Amerioan Bar Association, and Dean Justin Miller, of the Duke Law School, will be tbe principal speakers. J. Elmer Long, Durham, is president, and W. F. Taylor, Goldsboro: J. B. Cheshire. Raleigh, and Zeb V. Netties, Asbeville, arc vice-presidents Sessions of both will be at Page auditorium at Duke. An Election Question Assistant Attorney General A. A. F, Seawell reduced to an absurdity the question asked by Wake election Gfficinl-C i? "nam-o" rv?. 3" *-* 1 ?- .w ..v^w >?? awnm cuuiu i be put on the ballot to distinguish a negro who has filed for Democratic j nomination of justice of the peace in Wake County. "Wc might have a ballot printed: For Justice of the Peace ?John Smith, Minister?Bill Brown, Bootlegger," Mr. Seawell said, or another: "William Johnson, Donated S50.000 to Child Welfare?Jake Smith Convicted of Horse-Stealing." While Mr. Seawell sees nothing in that action which would be contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, prohibiting against discrimination because of race or color, he does find in the State election laws wording which seems to prevent such designation and states that the "courts would probably not approve a ballot upon which was printed information concerning the candidate, intended to affect the choice of the voter." He states: "I think those interested in this matter should have a right to use every effort possible to make the rerl situation known, but this should be done by matter dehors the ballot." Insurance Company Wins The Concord mill worker who was j ews Items | rom Raleigh | j Jess Wiliard jr. j BERKELEY .... Joss Wiltesd Jr., 20, (nbovd), son of the former world heavyweight champion, now a freshman at University of Cgjifornia junior college, photographed as he tied in the high hurdle event in a track meet here* | | bitten by a lizard whiidi she slapped wbeii it ran up her leg. had her bluff called when it was found that she | was pretending that her leg had bej come stiff and dragged it across the i floor at the workman's compensation ! hearing on the case. Also, blisters would form around the bandage placed over the bite, which the insurance mon claimed canu- lion, cigarette burns or acid. Industrial Commissioner J. Dewei' Dorsott, hearing the ease, was not satisfied, so he had her J taken, to Duke Hospital for observaI tion and examination. Duke doctors, making tests, Said there was jij.i poison in the blood that would cause the blisters, conc'uiluig they were made. ! by the appiieat >n T ari l. ADh, thfcy reported, they put the woman to sh op and found that the knee joint was not stiff, I1 lit completely llexib!e. She was paid compensation tor lus few days she war out of work from the bite, but not for the period while 3he was apparently applying acid and claiming the leg was stiff, just to get the money. i Cost of Legislature High J Cost of the General Assembly was ! three times as much in 1931 than it I was in 1911. twenty years before, while the 12 regular and three special sessions from 1911 to 1933, inclui sive. cost SI .879 197 99 '< rlinrL-.1 IT, i-o. I veals. The 1!>11 session cost $78,765,j 41, while the 1931 session cost $248,184.63, and the 1933 session cost $193,528.13. The higher cost is due largely to the long sessions, 141 days in 1931 and 133 days in 1933, as compared with the previous average ol about 65 days, and the increase in salaries of legislators from $4 a day to $600 for the session, based on $ltl a day for a 60-daV session, made in 1928. I Coal Consumers to Save Money Approximately $800,000 a year will be saved by industries of Northwestern North Carolina as a result of the reduction in price of coal shipping costs, a3 made, by the Interstate Commerce Commission recently, as requested some five years ago by the old North Carolina Corporation Commission, Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne announces. The area affected as that nearest, the coal mines. New Highway Projects Twenty-five highway projects to cost about $1,600,000, have been sent to Washington for approval by the Bureau of Public Roads, and, if approved, will be included in the let ting to he held May 8. The list includes nearly 80 miles of highway work, grading, structures and topsoil, gravel, sand, asphalt and bituminous surfacing; 14 city and town projects of paving from a block to a mile in I length, and two bridges and approach| es. After this letting' some more than .^.uuu.uuo win remain of the $5,522,[ 000 in emergency Federal aid funds allotted to North Carolina, and the balance is expected to be included in two or three other lettings in the next month or two. General Johnson to Speak General Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, has accepted an invitation to address the 32nd annual convention .of the North Carolina Merchants Association at High , Point, May 7-8, Willard L. Dowell, secretary, announces, stating that if for any reason General Johnson cannot come, he will send a spring man on the opening afternoon. Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell will speak advocating adoption of the proposed new Constitution and the next afternoon Attorney General D. G. Brummitt will speak opposing its adoption. David Ovens, Charlotte, president of the National Dry Goods Association, will speak the opening I afternoon and a banquet will be held I that night. On the program for the second day WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EYER IWv^r RUN* PA^Kttt SrOCKBRIDotg^^^j^^. FAITH . . . mskes business Years ago I heard the classic anecdote of the little girl who, when asked in Sunday school what was meant by faith, replied: "It's believing what you know ain't so." Faith, of course, is belief in what cannot he proved. And it lies at the bottom of all human relations. All business is done on faith; that is, on the belief that a dollar invested here will somehow, sometime, come back, bringing a few cents with it. That sort of f3ith is based on so much experience that the probabilities can be reduced to almost a mathematical certainty. Just now we are going through a period when almost everything must be based oil faith. There is no experience to fall back on. to calculate the chances of the success of the enormous efforts of the Government to stimulate the return of prosperity. Humanly speaking, the majority of people have faith that we are going to come out all right, but owners of dollars are still waiting to see the figures. I think that complete recovery will come when the actual figures of busi ness being done give grounds for renewed faith, and not before. SEASKKPEXTS ... or liars Tne way these seaserpents keep popping up all ore the world means either that there are monsters in the sea of which science knows nothing, or that the human race haa developed a new crop of iiars. Tt is more than fifty years now since the 3easerpent was a current topic of conversation. In my boyhood | there was hardly a New England I seaport town that didn't have an "old \ sait" who told seaserpent stories to ! the. children, and incoming ships often reported having sighted one of ; the monsters. But scientific men ridiculed the notion and sailors got the ; habit, of keeping their mouths shut j about them for fear of being laughed i at. j The latest seaserpent story is that ! a couple of Uiem who have been seen j frequently in Vancouver Sound have returned to their old haunts. POWER . . . and cost I saw some figures the other day which confirmed what Thad long un= (lerstood; that is, that the time has conic when it .is cheaper to produce electric power from coai or oil fue: than hy water-power. We are hearing a great deal these days of devleop j ing wo ter-powers at public expense 11 have never been very keen about I Government going into any sort oi ! business. I have never known auj j Governmental unit to do anvthing economically or efficiently. But il the Government must go into tin power business, lit ought to use the same sort of commonsense a bU3i nesa concern would use. First the business concern woulc find out how many present and prob able users of power there were ir. the territory that could be served eco! nomically by the proposed plant. Ther , it would iind out whether they were already being well served by existing plants. If and when the Government does go into the distribution and sale o! electric power, it is my bet that \1 will eost the users more than any pri vate company would be willing tc j sell it to them for. ! RECOVERV . . . and burnt fingers I may have too high an opinion i or too intelligence of the human race j but it is my belief that it will be a long time before we get into anothei such era of free spending as we went through from 1922 to 1929. Those of us who laid up nothing but debts are certainly going to be more thrifty for a long time to come, even if our incomes are restored tc wbat they were. The wasteful ones will be the youngsters who will be holding the good job3 five years from now. Having money to spend will be a new experience for them. If I were a business mvii I would try to produce and sell chiefly merchandise that appeals to people under thirty. (iAYETV . . . always available One of the things the matter with most of us these days is that we are entirely too solemn in our outlook on life. We are taking economic pressure too seriously. In casual conversations overheard on the streets and in trains 1 seldom hear Uie note of gayety any more. That may not be true everywhere, but it certainly is the case in the regions where I go the oftenest. It is entirely possible to maintain a gay outlook on life even in the midst of serious money troubles. It are Ernest C. Hastings, editor and publisher of the Dry Goods Economist, New York; John C. Watson, ' president of the New York State Council of Retail Merchants, Albany, on the national recovery program and the sales tax. After election of officers and receipt of Invitations for the next meeting, a round tatte discussion will be held?and it may be safe j to say that the State sale3 tax will I be considered. A barbecue after ad' jo urn men I will end the meeting T THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. ! all comes down to adjusting one's j JJ | minds to realities. The outstanding tact that so many people never -earn La that happiness is never dependent upon possessions. They grow solemn when they tear deprivation of mater- th ial things. th The most, consistently gay folk I know anything about, as a class, are ci the negroes. I have encountered more th genuine gavetv in the Black Belt of Mississippi or in Harlem than in Park j*,; Avenue or other abodes of wealth. to . in KOAIi TESTS WEAK OUT si. BRAKES, BUT NOT NEW TIRES pc Read tests so severe that brakes ? on the automobiles were worn out every 72 hours were conducted to prove the new G-3 tire, latest development of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, according to A. E. Hodges, iocal Goodyear dealer. "In order to put the severest possible strains and abuses on the new tires," says Mr. Hodges, "they were driven at 60 miles an hour &nd brought to an abrupt stop every five miles. This punishing test wore out brake linings so rapidly that the brakes had lo uc aujusieu every eigne nourb anu j linings replaced every three days. But i the tests proved that the new G-3 j was adapted to use on the modern, higli speed, high powered automobile. Cars had been improving rapidly and tread wear became more of a problem. The road tests all proved conclusively, however, that tire mileage had been stepped up and nonsltid tread wear increased on an average of 43 per cent. "The improvements of the G-3 were accomplished by widening and flat- j tening the tread surface in contact 1 with the road, widening the riding j l ibs and narrowing the grooves be- I tween the nou-skid blocks and increasing the number of non-skid blocks In the tire's circumference. "In my opinion the G-3 tire is the most important contribution of the tire manufacturer to motoring since the introduction of the balloon tire," Mr. Hodges said. FAKSI QUESTION When can skim-milk be substituted for whole milk in feeding dairy calves ? Answer: Whole milk should be fed j entirely for the first two weeks. If the calf is doing well at the end of j this time the whole milk may lie | gradually replaced with skim-milk at i the rate of about one pound a day. Ail foam should he removed from the milk before it is fed. 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