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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democra The RIVERS PRINTING COMPAN Established in ISSS and Published f 45 Years by the late Robert C. Rive PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDA SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1. Six Months Four Months (Payable in Advance) Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of H spect. Obituaries, etc.. are charg for at the regular advertising rati Entered at the As S e c o r Postoffioe at / Class Mail Boone, N. C. Matter. Thursday. February 23th, 193 THOUGHTS Can the Ethiopian change hi.' skin, or the leopard his spots ? Thei may ye also do good, that are ac customed to do evil. ? Jeremial viii. 23. A r- m.w.l.. .... /vo oun.iv ao uuu io y<.)UU, su surf ly there is no such thing as necessary evil.- -SouI'ney. Sin has many tools, but a he if the handle that fits them all?Oliver Won/ioi! Holmes. But if ye shall still do wickcd'.j ye shall be consumed, both ye and your kind. I Samuel, xii, 25. For nation shall rise against nation. and kingdom against kingdom; and there shaii be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.?St. Matthew, xx.'v, 7. LAMBASTING MIL HILL Senator John Sprunt Hill whose wisdom in introducing ; liquor control bill is to b< hrniivht intn nnottim^ io rtiCCiV ing a llood of letters front over the State, and the quality o sotr.c of these is best explainet by the Senator himself: "About two hundred of then are from person-; who profes themselves to be deeply relig ious. But they contradict thei profession of faith by calling m< all sorts of names, many of then barred by the postal authorities Some tell me they are prayin; that some calamity overtake mr that 1 shall be stricken dead that my family will perish ii some horrible fashion, that I'l lose my money and my friends They put curses, spells and sucl things on me The letters are sac religious in that they ask Got to wreak some terrible von gcance on me or my family. Mr. Ilill's removal from a higl church board is also demanded. Thus these members of th vast prohibition majority in at tacking a man of Senator Hill' character unwittingly lend aid t the enemy. If North Carolin ghnulH donsrt froni -iUistatus, it will not be the fault o the wets but of the drys, wh can easily allow themselves t be drawn into a state of politi cal frenzy. "Whom the god would destroy they first mak< mad." And some folks are show ing signs of losing their temper o THE SWIFT MEASURE The Watauga Democrat in it: consistent backing of the Wataii ga Building and Loan Associa tion is merely keeping within it; conviction of the past fifteei years, that the institution ha: done more to provide homes anc to generally improve the finan cial status of the people of thi: section thap any other enter prise with which we have beei acquainted. It is quite in keepinj with these convictions that w< express at this time an unquaii fied opposition to Representativi Q;f<u;ll vj w u ii a um, ucotgucu iu uia pdiu up building and loan stock?; piece of legislation which we be lieve, if enacted, would strike ; fell blow at the only institutior which has been able to weathei all financial storms, and to con tinue to function in a perfectly normal fashion. While not disparaging Mr Swifts' motive in offering th( bill, and while agreeing witl him and all others that sonn money is placed in Building anc Loans in order to escape taxes we can't exactly understand win the finger snouia be pointed a one enterprise, while there is ni way to require the listing o bank deposits, while municipal county and State bonds go un taxed, and while the Federa Government is anxious to tak< money for its securities on whicl no tax collector can lift a penny We'll agree that there shouh be some way to tax liquid val ues, but there isn't?if such val I Q WAT j lies want to escape?but prayj _ i lei's du nui strike ai the one in- : * stitution that is reallv creating-1 ~jtaxable values, and at the same;, rsjtime enabling the people to own i, _ j their homes, thereby creating a [ .Y better citizenship. nr..* irUalj lli.C aiauc,ci -L/unvtunu | Loan Association has construct-1 50 ed or helloed to construct more 751than half the homes in Boone .and practically all business es_ | tablishments. It has financed ~ ' more than one hundred homes ed 'n the county, and has increased -s the tax book value of the conn_ ty close to a third of a million , a dollars. It has paid S4.800 in tax's in the past fourteen months. We're for it. tooth and toe-nail, t should be encouraged in cv cry possible way. The Democrat ; lias vet to find a man, out of the ~ ' numbers interviewed, who fajvors the Swift bill. In express? nig this opposition The Demoi ierat would state that no mem !ber of the newspaper organiza1 It ion has one thill dime in the 'Building and Loan which would! be affected by the enactment of ;the legislation. We are simply speaking for what we conseien- . 'iously believe is the best inter-; j jests of the county. jTHE PASSING OF MORRISON j Committee hearings on the , i \Hil! liquor control bill held a . spotlight position on the legislative stage last week, and as had t been envisioned all along, former c ; Governor-Senator Cameron Mar- 3 jrison emerged with the public- ' i itv l-.nt tipf.TiKp rtf hie j "* ySF ,i, jof tlie dry cause, which is just f i and proper, but because he took i advantage of the situation to ver-1 a bally trounce Senator Reynolds.! r. j and to take a nasty swat at fif- o , ty thousand voters who have ? banded themselves into what is " r known as the Young Democratic |" f Club. \l 1 "North Carolina has about the j is finest young men I have ever p 1 known," quoth Cameron. "but'<i s devilish few of them arc includ- j - ed in this organisation," and then | r the one-time mighty Morrison! _> proceeded to lay the plat to Sen i alor Robert R. Reynolds, in a :. fashion that would indicate ho $ hasn't the stuff to take a lick- u , ill;', the like of which came with c 1, the genial smile and rickety car " i which characterized the speetac- si I iilar campaign of his Buncombe (County adversary. w II Morrison was doing fine on his - prohibition argument, but lie 1 sized up the crowd wrong wlion - he shut down on the youthful " politicians and their friend Bob li Reynolds. Like all men who have worn the vestments of executive p power, he took in too much ter ritory just this one time, and it s took something like log-rolling o to get the House of Representaa fives tn concur in a Senate reso-lt .. InliAn r\ innifo l-v ?? ? * Irv 'VI ,f a joint session. There was bitter ^ o opposition and the matter was 0 referred to a committee, an uii- t - precedented action, when the t s matter of inviting a statesman to a e speak was involved. g Morrison is growing old, but is f . bearing his honored years with a a lack of grace all too noticeable. He's a dead gladiator in the po- a ; litical arena, and he seems to be f( the only one unmindful of hie ^ . status. It is safe to say that if ? ; and when Mr. Morrison offers o j himself to the people again, the b 3 young Democrats whom he c j seems to think constitute the rag- 11 _ tag element of Democracy, will ll 5 be there with bells on at his un. doing. The attacks on them and on Reynolds constitute twin- t 1 shanked coffin nails, which will c ? finally obscure the man who has c . been able to wear the millstone f u of the Frank McNinch appoint- _ ment as a necklace through the 5 sheer force of his personality. , * . ' 1 The Family Doctor ' By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES 1 r ? YOUR COMPLEXION Your complexion is your banner? ]j ? the flag under which you sail. It an- n i nounces to all observers the state of j j< ? health beneath it. A rotten complex-It j ion is the herald of some mighty bad t blood on the underside of the skin. a Were I to search for a penful of 0 ' perfect complexions, T would go out ! and visit a country school house with j, its two acres of play ground, and f, f would watch the youngsters racing in c [9 the pure air at playtime; I would see a _ every cheek growing in perfect health t I ?no prettier picture on earth. t I stood not long ago at a busy 0 " street corner in a crowded city; hun- a 1 dreds of people passed me as I stud- d ied their faces; I was thinking of g I complexions. Some were drab, some - sooty, some blazing with chemical - tints; all were extremely abnormal. 2 AUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY T The BEST remedy for the complex- i or: is DEEP BREATiHVi; CountryI people, as a rule, breathe better than | their city kinspcopie. If you live in | the city stop going: to bed at midnight T-ig?rjo- at ?ntr? hours: the fellow that gets up at S o'clock and begins the day with no breakfast will soon have as bad a complexion as the cartoonist could desire for him. The city girl should rise at six or seven a. m. and drink a glass of pure water: then she should seek the window that admits the purest air; she should raise this window and take twelve deep breaths, expanding the lungs to their limit; she may hold the inhaled air until she has counted ten. with the elbows held at the level of the shoulders. Notice the difference in the complexion. Eat regularly?sensibly. THE BOOK .... the first line of which reads The Holy Bible." and which contains Four Great Treasures .... By BRUCE BARTON , DAVID As long as the nature of boys regains what it always has been David .viil have a fresh army of admirers .villi each new generation, for he is the original 6 all Jack-the-giantviller stories and has been the hero K..vhrwi fcr three thousand--years- With the exception of St. Paul no uiman character occupies so large a >laee in the Bible: of none are we riven! so vivid and compelling a picnic. The most minute traits and characteristics are set forth in .such l way as to make certain that the ortrait was drawn from life. What l portrait and what a life! A redLeaded shepherd boy. tending his [olns aivu piityni^ iunw? in uie | pncsome fields, he is sent up to the j rmy at the critical moment when its | ?rees are paralyzed by the menace f the giant Goliath. What the swords j f the stoutest warriors have been i owerless to accomplish, he .achieves J v ct wen uitevled-nrivnr from hia oiiep- , crds' sling and becomes immediate- ! a national idol^ Triumphantly he j j carried to Uic court while the bands i lay and the pretty girls sing and ance. An.! the women answered one an- 1 other as they played. and said, Saul ! hath slain Ids thousands, and Da- , vid his ten thousands. Sr.-,aii wonder that Michael, the ing's daughter, loved him and be-' ame his wife: small wonder that Jon- ' than, the king's son, formed a friend liip with him which is one of the lost beautiful in all history. Small j rondor either that the king himself, as jealous and resentful. And Saul was very wroth and i the saying displeased him; and he 1 said, They have ascribed unto Da- i vid ten thousands, and to me they < have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? < And Saul eyed David irom that day and forward. 1 The jealous eyes of Saul, who was j a place too big for him and finally i vent mad trying f.y rm it_ drove Da t id out of the court and into the wil- < erness where soldiers of fortune railed to him from various motives, and 1 uilt up a lusty young army which, o his credit, he kept well disciplined ] jia rree trcm the grosser crimes of iierrilla warfare. Neither the king's nt*PPQ nnr Vllo ?1rs+r> ? "' ' to uie ponce ana went back to his z dollar-a-day job as "sandwich man," S carrying a sign through the financial = district. Now this man of 67, who z: came to America from Lithuania 47 =: years ago, has cash in the bank, a jj= new suit of clothes and a steady job s as a reward for his honesty. The "Cinderella" theme is always = appealing. IDverybody likes to hear of ss somebody rising from poverty to sud. = den riches. But to me the most ap- JJ] ?u< uia j'lULO V.UU.U prevail gainst, the young man's destiny. 1 In a previous chapter we have re- ' erred to his conquests, his qualities s an administrator, the sin which, arms the one black spot upon his 1 emulation, a sin, by the way, which : ras not so extraordinary in a king ! f that period and would perhaps have een forgotten but for the magnifi- 1 ent humility of his repentance, and : ne Psalms that are his eternal claim t> remembrance. Next Week: "The Heart of David." Wilkes County orchardLsts report hat prospects are good for an exellent apple bloom this spring. The rop of 1934 has been sold at satis- i actory prices. NOTICE OF SUMMONS forth Carolina, Watauga County, in' the Superior Court before the Clerk, j Howard Edmiston and Mae Edmis- I ton vs. Walter Gwyn, heir at law of j Hedgpeth. Deceased. *hat whereas on this the 26th dayf February. 1635, the plaintiffs (Pe- j itioners in this cause) filed a peti- j ion praying for the sale of certain j inds described in said petition forj artition, and that a Summons was. ssued in this cause by the Clerk of j he Superior Court of Watauga Coun- j y requiring the Defendant to appear, nd answer or demur to the prayer j f said petition, and the Sheriff hav- j ig returned said summons "after till ^ent search the Defendant not to be' ound in Watauga County or in the j Itate of North Carolina," the Defend-; nt, Walter Gwyn, will take notice! hat he is required to appear before' he Clerk of the Superior Court on: r before the 28th day of March, 1935. j nd answer said petition or the relief j emanded in said petition will be ranted. This the 28th day of February, 1535.! A. E. SOUTH, -28-4p Clerk of Superior Court, j HURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. | T he Royal Roa i fci, ?*^?J|p' ?"i lODtAYand toHWW II I * ~ i. -*r%.m\ is | R?ANK PABXtpVj^jtt-v/ IT j jH gOOCBRIDeEj^^^N^. '., STATESMAN . . . Elihu Knot ; ^ Root wh.s 90 years old on February 15th. I cannot help thinking of liini as the ''Grand Old Man" ^ of America. Seven Presidents have 1 looked to Mr. Root for advice and ni counsel. Not once has his influence been cast in any direction except for the lasting- jvelfare of his country. 1 ^ 111 ink of few otlier living men any- "j where in the world \yiio.ean so truly be called statesmen. It was Elihu Root who. as chair- T man of the New York Constitutional Sl1 Convention of 1915. first directed pub- iu lie attention to a young: delegate *"c named Alfred E, Smith. Although of ai opposite political parties, Mr. Rootj took occasion to say publicly that jw Mr. Smith understood the principles m M government and that of New York & particularly, better than any other Pr man in the convention. tu Mr. Root distrusts people who are ?* in a hurry. They usually go in the w wrong direction, he thinks. "Foot over SJ foot, the uug wciit to Dover," is one <= jf his familiar proverbs. I hope Mr. Root lives to advise in his country for many years to come. ei te RF.AVF.N *1 " - - ? ai Not only those of simple faith in m the hereafter promised to good men and women in the Bible, but almost everybody who has ever given serious thought to the hope of a life beyond the grave, has read or listened to the 1,1 tale told by John Puckering, the Engiimt gardener who came Dack to lite from death. His heart had stopped " beating for five minutes or more, aftsr an operation. Skillful surgical mas- ? sage started it going again; but for those five minutes Puckering was ac tually dead, to all intents and purposes. He is sorry, he says, that they n called him back from the beautiful = world in which he saw his dead wife = and many old friends, all looking su- -5 premely happy. Once he feared death; = now it has no terrors for him. E The world will talk about Pucker- E mg and his experience for a long E time. If the net result is to lift the ' E fear of death from human hearts, he E will have accomplished a great mis- E sion. E I do not know the answer to the E question of what comes after this life, E but I do believe that none who has E done his best to help others and in- E jure nobody in this world needs to E have any apprehension about the next E world. E * * * ^ REWARD . . . for honesty = I don't recall a newspaper story in Ei a long time that struck me as con- E taining such pleasing elements as that: E of Frank Greges, who found a wallet! = fuii of securities m the snow in Wall j EE Street, turned the treasure-trove over | E d To Romance ? 1i ^ I 1W aling part of this story was Frank regas' remark that "there's always ork in America for any man. who n't particular about what he does." That is everlastingly true. i he- ! JVC that it is true today, even in | ic race or an the talk of uneriiploy-j ent. The greatest handicap any man ! m put on himself is the burden of ! ide, of unwillingness to work at jmething which he regards as dead ing. ; t * * [AGIC ... of surgery What medical science has learned >out the mechanics of the human >dy in the past 25 years or so. is far ore than was learned in all the time ist. Few knew anything about the tetless glands: now every physician Vows that they control growth, emo>ns, mental development and many her bodily functions, The nearest approach to magic that have heard about lately is the relit obtained by a Russian surgeon grafting the pituitary gland of a >ung man who had been killed in i automobile accident into the body a girl midget. At fifteen the girl as only three feet tall. Within six onths after the operation she had own three inches. Then another op-! >rtunity came to obtain a fresh pilitary gland .from the brain cavity : a girl who had just died. This also as grafted Into the midget, who has j own another inches and is still 1 wwri Atr? . I haven't the slightest doubt that ; another half-century, or even soon- | % it will be common practice to in- 1 rchange human glands by grafting, \ id so bring back to normal thous-1 ids who would otherwise live abnor- ! al lives. * * ELIGION . . . and Hitler I do not believe the Hitler govern,ent in Germany is going to get very Lr in trying j^o .fiet up a Nazi religr.. The Itoiv.&n Catholic Cliuruli and le Protestant churches of Germany -most of them of one denomination -have started a vigorous warfare ion the "new Paganism" as they *rm it. The only large-scale attempt to pillllllilllllllllllitlliliH I Prog | OUR LADIES' READY-TC | HAS GROWN SO RAPI E COMPELLED TO GI THAT DEP. We are better prepared t the requirements of our E merchandise is arriving ; = invitation to include our E tour. I The Five-to (Underpriced i lllllllllllllllllilllillilllllllillliilllillllllll! i? FEBRUARY 28. 1935 T 9 by A. B. CKapin 1 Wmm ppWI I IJfcf m l fife v | *ST . ^ >l. :r15 CuA(>'N ? AUTO C ABTEf^ change a people's religion that 1 recall in history was that of the Emperor Constantino in the fourth century. Constant inc. a convert to Christianity. tried to make it the state religion of the Roman Empire. He found the opposition of the pagans of Rome too powerful in their resistance, and abandoned Rome to its fate, building a new capital for the empire at Constantinople. tt took nearly a thousand years to bring the whole Holy Roman Empire under the domination of Christianity. 1 don't believe Hitler will change a religion which has held so many millions of German people for so many hundreds of years, over night. 1IANDV SIZE COMIC WEEKLY The new Comic Weekly with more than fifty different comics each Sunday has made a distinct hit with the readers of the BALTIMORE SUNOA Y AMERICAN. This Comic Weekly, printed in handy, convenient, size, carries all of the funnies that are favorites in most homes. 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