| BOONE| SKETCHES | By J. C. R. THE LAW BITETH Judge John H. Bingham, who for the past several months has presided kindly and mercifully over the County Recorders Court, last week changed his tactics . . . and what a change! The popular jurist in pre vious sessions of his tribunal had tempered justice with compassion . . . he'd lectured scores of defendants on right living and right thinking . . sentence after sentence, passed on minor offenders, had been suspended with a fatherly plea to "go thy way and sin no more!" But the patience of Judge Bingham had been strained by a flock of "repeaters," who disregarded his warnings and habitually appeared at the Tuesday morning sessions of court. Yes, last week judicial procedure underwent a drastic change . . . the iaw bared its teeth? and six stiff road sentences were meted out to offenders . . . this week another group was given into the hands of the Public Works Commission. L.ike ail good judges, Mr. Bingham is willing to lend ear to the overtures of luckless defendants . . . but those who think they can continually obscure the vision of His Honor with the well-known wool of falsepromise . . . well, they've just got another "think" coming! QUESTION AND ANSWER There's a little eight-year-old girl tip at our house who's "quite the berries" at asking questic. I*ast Jin; u-ui"?' u niu |raitcill jiiiterfuniilias with a barrage of almost unanswerable queries . . . "why is the world round?" "why is the sky blue?" "where do the angels dwell?" "what are rocks made of?" . . . bewildering, perplexing i queries peculiar to childhood. The I old man was shifting uneasily in his chair, trying his best to keep a stiff upper-lip, when the little girl plied uuuiuc> vuGi , Clans live where God does ?" And , before an answer could be formed in the "fetched haid" of the suffering papa, a female voice exuded from the kitchen: "No, honey, and never will!" ... so that was that! LOCAL OBSERVATIONS A simple-sweet little girl of fourteen, seated in a local "dawg" estaolishment, blows smoke-rings ceilingward as she knowingly discusses the merits of "Camels," "L.ucky Strikes" and "Chesterfields." Gangling 'dolester' slinks away from Reiief Office with "bedamned if I ask them folks for any more food orders" unconsciously trickling from his Hps. Police officer accompanies local man to calaboose for umpteenth time on a charge of public drunkenness, as Sheriff Howell hauls in his fortyseventh stil!. And an observer casually remarks that "the supply apparently hasn't diminished." kind-hearted citizen makes round of business houses soliciting funds for the sustenance of impoverished family, while thousands and thousands of dollars in Federal "relief" funds are distributed amongst able-bodied menfr.Uc.q Well-dressed matron of thirty-nine ' summers escorts nineteen-year-old husband along the streets, as punster ^ soitiy sings "it s June and' January." Forty or fifty of Professor Dougherty's A. 3. T. C. girls beseiging postal employees for "Sunday packages" from home. A gentleman reads aloud to a group of loafers the story of a certain night club entertainer who executed a gentle dance on the trap-door of a Louisiana gallows just before an obliging executioner t?n uffed out his life . . . and just then a "wise-popper" 'lows as if: "That's nothing, I knowed a feller once that went home to his nottoo-loving wife at three a. m., whistling 'Don't Tell Your Troubles to Me'!" THE BELSHAZZAR INCIDENT Away back yonder, many hundreds of years ago, a king of Babylon . . . one Belshazzar by name . . . pitched a royal party for hia princea, their wives and concubines . . . and wine of ancient vintages flowed freely from golden vessels; food, the best that the land afforded, was served to the revelers in priceless urns of ham- | mercd silver fetched by the host's proud forebear from the temple at Jerusalem; they worshiped the gods of gold and silver, they praised the gods of brass and Iron and wood and stonet . . thev caroused knee-deen l in immorality, like the pagans they ] were! And the hand of God' wrote 1 the doom of Babylon and its, arro- i gant king on the walls of that banquet chamber. 1 The Forerunner, a journal published at Somerset, Ky., in the interest of : direct Chinese missions, and edited by our old friend Wagner Reese, carried in a recent issue an article condemning "Presidential Balls" . . . branding them as modern "feasts of Belshazzar," and prophecying dire events if such "cesspools of iniquity" continue to be "sponsored" by our Chief Executive. The editorial, in toto, follows: "We read that the President will again encourage 'Birthday Balls' in (Continued on' Page 4) toy W/VI An I VOLUME XLVI, NUMBER 33 Hoover Pavs His First 11 Visit to East Former President Addresses Lincoln Dinner In New York and Attends Directors Meeting. New York. ? Former President Herbert Hoover (above) came to New York this week, the first time since he left the White House in 1933. He was invited to address the Lincoln Dinner, February 12th. He also came East to attend a meeting of the board of directors of the New York Life Insurance Company of which he is now a momhpr Since the inauguration of President Roosevelt the Hoovers have lived quietly at their home in Palo Alto, Calif. DAIRYMEETING IS ANNOUNCED bright Outlook for Dairy Farming and Cheese Making Brings Government Experts to Cove Creek Saturday. Ail farmers who are interested in he dairy business, especially as ap>lied to the making of cheese, are isked to gather at the Cove Creek School next Saturday afternoon at 2 >'clock when officials from State Col- 1 ege as well as the Federal Governnent will speak on the outlook as regards this phase of the agricultural iltuation. Notice of the meeting has >ee?i received from O. F. McCrary, listrict agent, and F. R. Farnham, extension dairyman at State College, rhe text of the announcement is as ollows: Outlook for Dairying Bright "The outlook at the present time or dairy farmers producing milk and i :ream for cheese plants and cream-11 >ries occupies the most favorable po- j >ition in over four years. Prices now 1 eceived by farmers supplying milk I o uirec oi uie largest cneese racories in North Carolina averages 35c >er pound of butterfat. Prices of :heese have increased sharply in the iiot six week, Hm* in large part,, to ow production. "Realizing the prevailing favorable :onditions, we have decided to hold a nee ting of all farmers who may be nterested at the Cove Creek Consoldated School, Sugar Grove, cn Feb-uary 16, 2 o'clock p. m. "At this meeting the advisability >f centralizing all milk from the Bearer Dam, Silverstone and adjoining nilk producing sections will be discussed. "Mr. J. A. Arey, in charge of dairy extension work in Luc State; II. I.. Wilson, cheese manufacturing specialst, Bureau of Dairying, Washington, 3. C., and C. Allen Grant, cheese plant operator of Rochester, N. Y., will he present. Representatives of the Tenlessee Valley Authority have also been invited to attend. "We urge you and your neighbors to attend this important meeting in arder to decide if Watauga will go ahead with revived effort and develop a great cheese manufacturing "industry for which this county is nc naturally adapted. Don't forget the date, February 16th." Disposition of Excess Tobacco Is Explained XL litis ergh. The State and defense finished j icsday evening, and Judge Trenchard dnes4ay morning, the case going to let will be returned is problematical, ^ a few hours' deliberation will decide rican carpenter. t mts on Strike; \ -8 /t J J> 1 S* W jT% ??*> I C mi J. i , r i A. S. T. C. STUDENT DIES OF INJURIES j Robert Reeves, 18-year-old stu- } dent at Appalachian State Teachers College* died Monday at a I.enolr. Hospital, where he was taken Saturday for treatment for a broken nec.k. j Reeves, whose home was near ] ] Mount Airy, suffered a fracture of , j the seven!?i vertebrae, as he a!- 1 I tempted to execute some sort of i tumbling act at the. college gym- j nasiurn. The injury resulted in complete paralysis below the shoulders, it is said, and consciousness only returned at intervals prior to his death. Funeral services were to have | been conducted Tuesday from the home of his parents, Coach Stone and several other of the intimate i friends of the deceased in this lo! eality attending. ; Mr. Reeves was in his first [ year's college woyk hut had j acquired considerable j>opularity i I among his fellow students, lie was | married during the Christmas holidays to a Mount Airy girl, it is i said. Mrs. Moretz Brings rv r* *1 uown tsig Uray fox] Mrs. Poly Moretz, resident of the Rich Mountain section, qualified as a Nimrod of rare ability last week when she brought down an extralarge gray fox with one charge from a double-barreled shotgun. Mrs. Movets had heard the noiso of a chase in which a number of dogs and huntsmen took part, ancl in going about her usual work happened to see Reynard near her home. Unused to firearms, Mrs. Moretz succeeded in figuring out how to manipulate the hammerless weapon, which was kept in the house, and brought down the fox with one shot. When her husband returned home, she had skinned the animal, and has sent the pelt away for dressing so that a fur-piece may be a useful reminder of her prowess. Junior Order Will Hold Meeting February 22nd Daniel Boone Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., will hold a meeting with class initiations Friday, February 22, at 7:30 p. m., a similar kind of meeting being held in every district in the State at the same time, celebrating the birthdav of Georsre Washington At j the same time the meeting marks the i end of the fiscal year, and it is stated ! that there will be candidates for inj itiation at this time. The Junior Hall, ! in the Peoples Bank Building will be | equipped with a radio at the meeting I mentioned, in order that members i may hear an address broadcast from | national sources of particular interj est. Local officials especially request ! a full attendance, i RAl ght SX.50 PER YEAR rWO ARE CHARGED IDimi nimm * nir ? rt Willi BUIUiLAtU AS SAFE IS LOCATED ialph Gilley and Grady Hartley in Jail on Charge of Burglarizing T. L. Critcher Store. Safe Found on South Side of Mountain Where Robbers Had Failed to Open It. Ralph Gilley and Grady Hartley, esidents of the Bamboo section, are n jail, for trial at Superior Court on jurglary charges growing out of the obbery of the T. L?. Critcher store in :heir home neighborhood two weeks igo. The. arrests were made after the sheriffs' office had recovered a large ron safe which had been taken from he store building and which remained inppened. The safe was found in the neighborhood of Bailey's Camp on the Lenoir-Blowing Rook highway, and Sheriff Tolbert of Caldwell County notified. He immediately notified Sheriff Howell at Boone and he went lo the scene. The safe was considcriblv battered and some of the fixures had been knocked off with a lammer or other instrument. Contents Intact Mr Critehei was able to work the combination and the safe was opened. \_bout five hundred dollars in money ind some thousands of dollars in notes, ind other securities were found in;act. When the robbery occurred, and the lafe was taken from the building, Mr. ?ritchcr, who lives nearby, was not listurbed, and the marauders left no lues as to their identity other than he tracks of the motor truck on vhick they hafFIed away their loot, since then the Sheriffs* office has jeer, working incessantly in trying to cr-atc the. vault, which it was felt tertaln had been hauled to no great iistan.ee. visionsoiance FOR GOP VICTORY Speaker at Lincoln Day Dinner Criticizes New Deal and Forecasts Change in 1936. Many Waiaugans Attend. Congressman Christianson of Minnesota sounded a note of victory to the Republicans gathered in Greensboro Tuesday evening at the Lincoln Day dinner, as he heaped criticism upon the New Deal, and asked for a rallying about the standard of Republicanism "We can win again in 1036 if we have a sound and progressive platform," the speaker declared, "furnishing a rallying point for those who do not wish to go either to Rome or Moscow, but believe that the neces- . sary economic readjustment ear* be reached without compromising with either Fascism or Communism." The speaker was roundly cheered by the enthusiastic assemblage, as was Baxter Linney, of Boone and Lanoir, who spoke briefly as chairman of the Young Republican organisation. Those attending from Watauga County include: John W. Hodges, John W. Hodges Jr., S. C. Eggers, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Russell, J. E. Holshouser, Roy Keller, W. H. Gragg, Russell D. Hodges and Clyde R. Greene. TWO CASE ARE TRIED TUESDAY BY RECORDER Only two cases were heard by Judge Bingham in Recorders Court Tuesday. Charles Carroll, charged with violation of the prohibition laws, was fined $10 and assessed with the costs of the action. Richard Long, arraigned for the larceny of tires and gasoline, was charged with the cost and grivc-n a six months sentence, which was suspended. DEMOCRAT ACQUIRES LATEST TYPE FACE This paragraph is printed from the new Linotype Excelsior type, installed as a part of the equipment of The Democrat the first of the week, and which like other type cast on the publication, is of the latest and most pleasing design. This new equipment enables the local paper to furnish its advertise-s and job printing patrons a wider diversity of machine-cast display, and greatly increases the opportunity for creating favorable typographical effects. Thirteen distinctly different faces of type are now cast in endless quantity on The Democrat's composing machine.