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thursday, december 5, 1935
CHRISTMAS A IT ROACHES
Boone merchants are just be
ginning to launch their selling
campaigns on holiday merchan
dise. and indications are tha
they have this year, exceedet
their former efforts in amassing
amazingly complete and attrac
tive lines for the Chrislma:
trade. Practically ail of tin
stores have already taken on ;
good deal of the Christmas at
mosphere and a Santa Clan:
who could not fill his gift lisi
completely and satisfactorily ir
this community would be jus!
downright contrary.
More and more the residents
of this entire section of the state
are realizing the importance oi
Eoone as a trade center and il
is to be hoped that this year
there may be a minimum ot
trade diverted by local people
to the channels of commerce in
other sections and municipalities.
Glittering pamphlets from
towns in other states invite Wataugans
to go there for their holiday
merchandise?where there
is no sales tax?and it woiilc
take the purchase of more that
one hundred dollars worth oi
goods to offset the bare expense
of reaching those stores. Let uf
join in patronizing our local in
stitutions. who can serve us tc
an infinitely greater degree o:
satisfaction and thus contribute
to the prosperity of the town am
county, as well as to our own fi
hanciai interests.
The Family Doctor
By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES
WHOOPING-COUGH?PERTUSSIN
Bad company for the youngstersand
not by any means good for th
grown-ups. As old as the hills, it
cause is sun an uncnscovera en
ment, perhaps because it has nc
been considered a 3erious menace t
the life of the child. I have know
many families in the earlier day the
paid little attention to the diseae
among the little ones, so they ju!
"whooped it out" until recovery cam
?somehow.
Whooping-cough is contagious,
would feel better if it were quarar
tilled, in the hope of blotting it oul
It may indeed produce derangemen
of the air-passage in the lungs, di
late them and leave the lung aunor
iriZLl th, offsets srs ontTovn
Very few remedies, outside of nurs
ing, do any good. A little of somi
sedative cough-syrup should be ad
ministered to quiet, if possible, th
paroxysms and lessen their force.
Feed the child good, easily-digestei
nourishing food. You cannot "breal
up" whooping-cough. The best yoi
can do is to let it run its course
Once over with it, the patient is con
sidered immune from further at
tack.
An old remedy that has not bee
disproven is quinine. A good quinin
ointment, ten grains to the ounce o
benzoinated lard, and spread on
cloth as a piaster, may be laid o
worn on the child's chest. Change i
every two days. It has been proven,
think, that this tends to prevent di
lation of the air-passages and, con
sequent weakening of the structure
composing the breathing apparatus.
Sedative cough syrups may contai
bromide or tincture of red onioi
or of humulus (hops) or very mlnut
does of ipecac. But not enough t
nauseate.'
Keep the little one in out of ba
weather, or night air. Violent exei
ciae will aggravate the paroxysm
Forbid it. Keep the little suffei
quiet. -See your family doctor oftei
?and do the best you can.
METHODIST CHURCH
Morning worship will be at tl
Boone Methodist Church Sund?
morning at 11 o'clock. The paste
Dr. Erhest C. Widenhouse, will tal
as his subject, "Christ and the Oor
raon Folk." There will be sp?c.l
music by the choir, led by Mies Vi
ginia Wary. Sunday School will 1
at 9:46. The Epworth League w
hold Its devotional service at 6:3
The evening preaching service w
be at 7:30. The Young People's chol
led by Professor Henson, will lead
the singing and furnish special m<
ifc.
Jk
. CRITICS OF COURTS OFTEN
Xj AMONG PETITION SIGNERS
? Concord Tribune.
)r| In a recent charge to a jury in
i Catawba county. Judge Iioyle Sink
^ saici:
Y As long as people engage in mo?
dern sentiment about law violation.
so long is law violation going to
,q thrive and profit. 1 am candidly of
5 the opinion that one of the greatest
>0 breeders of crime today is public sentiment
and sympathy for criminals.
_ I sentence a man to 90 days for vio;r
fating the law and the whole town
_ rises up in arms. I can't get to my j
It. .,,1 V.io
>. : liamo av uiv iivivi, c? j uuuji aim "i-s
d brother wants to take him out. And
s. so Jong: as this sentiment and sym
pathy exist just so long is Uie life ot
d j man going to be in danger.
"No one enjoys seeing liis fellow
j man suffer?I do not like to see an
animal suffer, let alone a human be~
ing. There is no pleasure to a court
in imposing a fine when it means the
= j reduction of the source of bread to
a family of hungry children and maybe
an invalid wife, or take the bread ,
; winner awy from them. But there is
5 a duty that must be performed and
- we had as well make up our minds ,
t now that criminals must be punished.
j' A few years ago such sentiment did i
7 not exist, it indicated to every crimi- ,
': nal that a violation of the law meant <
punishment. Now they are listening
to that sentiment and that's all they ,
? will listen to. Reformation has its ?
* foundation in fear of punishment." <
One sees corroboration of what
5 Judge Sink was talking about almost <
r daily.
Jurist ns soon as ?i man <*?-*<: ir? .
, ble and faces a jail sentence, or a j
" road term, his friends and many oth- j
crs set about to nullify the work of ]
; the courts. Often these persons are ;
- among: those who. before sentence js ?
: passed, insist upon the law beings ob- t
t served. i
If the judge refuses to set aside the <
:, verdict or reduce the sentence peti- c
(, tion is made to Raleigh for pardon, c
' and if this likewise is denied, it is a
i not long before a prole is sought. In
; too many cases Hie term is shortened c
i and the criminal is soo freed. t
Ami herein we have one cause for
- much of the present-day crime and t
. lawlessness. \
i Glass Eye Poured
^ Year Ago, Perfect ;<
Corning, N. Y.?-Successful com-.1
pletion of the 200-inch glass eye for 1
' the world's largest telescope, an1
nounced at the doming Glass Works, 1
; means that in about five years man
1 will see four times farther into space '
. than ever before.
Astronomers will see what may exist
in regions about 1,200,000,000 light
. years away?areas of the sky so remote
that their light takes that long '
to reach earth, and which may be
seen, five years hence, as they looked
more than 1.000,000,000 years ago
or long before any known iife exist8
ed on earth.
Most Difficult Step
e Today's event finishes the most
3 critical and difficult step in making ,
this telescope, which will be twice the
size of anv now in existence. Five
? .yepra ^ conservative estimate of
t2 the time needed to grind and polish
| the big glass into a mirror and to I
ie! set i^.upr,in a telescope in the obser-)
!t vatory yet' to be built on Palomar
e Mountain, about 75 miles south of
Cos Angeles.
I The huge glass disk 17 feet in diai
meter and more than two feet thick
L was poured last Dec. 2, molten glass
t about a third the temperature of the
i-- sun's surface. It has been cooling
- ever since in an iron annealing oven.
Surface Is Still Warm
It i3 still there, awaiting an offi?
cial ,,party" for its removal in about
. two weeks.
e But meanwhile, it was revealed toi
da., the worries about possible flaws ,
j were removed by two Cornish Glass
c Works experts who crawled on hands
x. and knees a few days ago into the ,
now cool oven and back and forth j
" across the still warm surface of the
glass.
They could see major flaws if any I
n and found none. Polarized light from J
e hand flashes would show without J
f awaiting removal whether the tex-1
a ture of the glass was free from
r 1 strains.
t j Cooled Very Gradually
I The creeping inspection was made
C; by Dr. J. C. Hostetter, director of
[- development and research and Dr.
s George V. McCauley, physicist in
charge of disc making. The latter
n superintended the almost year-long
1( annealing, the slow cooling of little
c more than a degree a day which aao
sured freedom from the dreaded
"strains."
d Although the Corning Glass Works
- took less than, a year to make the
9. disc, the task of creating it began
-r | seven years ago in 1S2S. Because
n, I nothing like it ever was done before
I years of experiments preceded the
casting of the great "eye."
Poured Second Disc
ie Barely more than two years ago
ty the astronomers in charge of experr,
iments decided on a new kind of pyce
rex boroslllcate glass to be made at
n- the Corning works. The first 200al
Inch disc was poured of this material
r- in March, 1933.
be That first mirror was a success but
111 aocidents to its mold produced a
0. disc which would have required, so
111 much grinding that the scientists deir,
cided to try for a more perfect one,
in the "eye" now completed,
ii- In. this they .repeated astronomical
history. Four 'discs were poured for'
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?
Seek Reduction In
Heavy Automobile Toil
Chicago.?A nation-wide campaign
seeking to reduce automobile accidents
at lesat 35 per cent, by 1941
?thus preserving 38.000 lives? was
announced by the National Safety
council. The drive will open January
1. the council disclosed, and will
continue for five years.
The council stated it had a large
organization ready to proceed in cooperation
with public officials, traffic.
safety chieftains, educational
leaders, safety g - mps, civic organizations
and federal departments.
Announcement of the program
came several days after President
Roosevelt called a conference at
Washington within the next two
weeks to consider means of insuring
greater safety on the land and
sea and in the air.
Plan Educational
The council's plan is largely educational.
Tt cnvisons the extension of
uniform, time-proven methods to all
sections of the United States. It will
be localized for each state and city.
"It is planned to co-ordinate much
of the existing safety effort, to centralize
and standardize the. work
through application of methods proved
by successful experience." the
council set forth.
A definite state-wide school program
will be recommended for each
state, together with the organizations
of state safety councils and localized
safety organizations in towns and
pities.
The adoption of uniform laws, including
standard drivers, license legislation,
will be urged, together with
adequate administration of traffic
aws. Standardization of accident reports
will be undertaken with provision
for more complete accident staistics
and their interpretation and
application. The detailed engineering,
enforcement, and education technique
>f the states anci cities now doing
mlstanaing work will be made availible
to the country at large."
The executive committee of the
ouncii invited all interested agencies
o join in the campaign.
The council expressed confidence i
hat achievement of the objective
vag possible in view of reduction of
he accident death toll during the
irst nnie months of 1935 by 23
dates. The council cited the. cases
>f Rhode Island with a 31 per cent,
lecrcase, Oregon 16 per cent., Massa blUAlto
1.4 n " "I *?;
win.., a;iu iiilllllcaULtf
11 per cent. Intelligent effort also
wrought about reductions in fatali.ies
in a number of cities.
Motor vehicle deaths reached an
unprecedented high in 1934. when airiest
3(3,000 persons were killed in
Lhe United States and 1,250,000 were
injured.
To Forecast Weather
Two Years Ahead
Cleveland, O.?A weather observer,
returning from a rendezvous with a
major storm he foresaw months ago,
disclosed today a new method of calculating
the weather far in advance.
He is Sclby Maxwell, instructor in
meteorology who has heen doing research
work in a laboratory at Northwestern
University.
He haa evolved P, "principle of astronomical
computation of tlic weather"
which he calls ^forecasting by
astronomy."
"You can predict the world's weather
for two years in advance with the
same ease that you might predict a
3torm for tomorrow," he asseretd in
an interview.
Proved His Charts
In October lie made 12 charts of
the storm's course, ar.d placed a blue
print of the storm in thq hands of
navy weather men and his friends,
rt called for a start on Nov. 11, and
:>n that date he began driving eastward
from Chicago. It rained hard
it first.
At Niagara Falls on Nov 13 he
noted how heavy winds had blown
back the water of Lake Erie, drying
up the falls. Then he hit an ice storm
in upper New York State, went over
to the Atlantic coast in New England
and drove southward along the
coast and heavy gales swept the seaboard
last week-end, thus confirming
the charted course he had predicted.
Storm Differed In Sections
"It was interesting to note the different
manifestations of the same
storm at various points," he said.
"The winds on Lake Erie, the ice
sheet in New York State and the Atlantic
gales were all from the same
source, a cold mass of air from over
Greenland."
His method is based on the fact
that the relative motions of the earth
moon and sun are irregular, resulting
in a slight motion of the earth's
whole mass.
"That causes the atmosphere which
is like a fluid, to slosh back and
forth over the earth, just as water
will slosh out of a pan if the pan is
Jiggled," he said.
How He Does It
Mr. Maxwell computes the relative
changes of the magnetic fields of the
earth, moon and sun, which form an
astronomical triangle of continuallj
variable shape. From this he knows
the variation in the earth's motion
And hence the later variations in atmospheric
masses, making possible
long-range forecasting.
Mr. Maxwell predicts less snow
than usual this winter. "'During the
the 100-inch mirror, which the eye
of the world's present largest tiescope,
on jar. Wilson, California.
EVERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N.
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Sharpening the Olc
i
whole winter there will be about one ;
month's snowfall," he said. "That i
means about two good snows dufitig j
the winter, instead of seven or eight. !
There will be another drought | ,
next year," he continued, remarking j ,
that he had foreseen the last one. j
j "The whole northern hemisphere will j ,
j be subject to a drought until August.
.Next fall the weather will be wetter ;
than usual."
Black Fighter Said
To Be A Gourmand
Joe Louis. the 21-ycar-old Negro ,
champion that whipped Max Bacr
m a recent pugulistic encounter, is j
also a gourmand. He eats more than i
! a half dozen men if reports are true, j
Monk Harris, a close friend of the
brown bomber, who Is heir-apparent?
to the world's heavy-weight boxing
throne, has watched great eaters in
action for more than a quarter of a
century but when rt comes to stowing ;
away vitual3 in job lots he names Joe '
as the champ.
"Joe is the eat ingest and sleepingest
man Ah ever saw," said Monk,
shaking his head. "An' what's stranger,
the more food he cats the stronger
and better he seems to get. Why,
it's nothing?nothing at all?for him
to sit right down and eat five chick- i
ens for one meal. How that man !
loves his chicken!"
Monk, as amazed as his audience j
but insistent that what he said was i
not exaggeration, related some of !
Joe's "light meals"
Breakfast: A half dozen apples,
some bananas, half a quart of ice
cream and two quarts of sweet milk.
(.Monk said Joe was just a sucker for
ice cream and apples at breakfast.)
Lunch: Five chickens with all the
trimmings, a big mess of black-eyed
peas ami two quarts or sweet milk.
Dinner: Two or three big steaks
and a lot of ice cream and milk, i
(Monk said that after Joe had weigh- j
ed in for his fight with Max Baer !
: that he ate a f7 dinner of "plain vit- ;
| uals" and then took a nap before J
getting married and beating Baer into
a pulp.)
The other night, Monk said John j
Roxborough, co-manager of the I
brown bomber, had a 12-pound tur- j
key roasted and ready for some
guests. Joe didn't know about the i
company, but lie found the turkey I
and ate it up.
Simple Wealth
"There Is a sort of wealth in the!
ability to find happiness in simple
things like books, birds, flowers, and
fiiends, that cost nothing."?'Vinton
A. Hoi brook.
MYSTERY EXPLAINED
7iow they caught a monster like
hose of the old fairy tales is related
in an interesting illustrated article
to be found in the December 8 issue;
of the American Weekly, the big
magazine which comes regularly with
the BAIMMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN.
Get your copy from your local
newsdealer or newsboy.
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WAR AND LOVE THEME
OF FAMOUS PICTURE |
"So Rod the Rose," which deals
Aitli the great conflict between the
States in the eighteen-sixties, conies '
Lo the Pastime TTieatre on December
9-10th.
"So Red the Rose," i3 not primarily
a war story, although the War
serves as its exciting background. ;
Rather it is the story of life on a '
ereat plantation before and after the |
War. revealing the conflict of loyal- J
ty and duty that suddenly swept'
down upon a gentle and peace-loving i
family.
The film is an adaptation of Stark
Young's novel , of the same name !
which, since its publication nearly
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DECEMBER 5, 1935
?' by A. B. Chapin
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one year ago, still retains its position
on the national be<rt-seUcr list. The
picture, produced by Paramount under
the direction of King Vidor, is a
faithful transcription of the novel of
the same name.
The cast of "So Red the fto3e" is
a large one, and features Margaret
Sullavan. Randolph Scott. Walter
Connolly, Elizabeth Patterson, Janet
Bcecher and Daniei Haynes.
Whether you arc six or sixty you
will chuckle over the popular comics
to be found each week in the Baltimore
Sunday American. The big 10page
Comic Weekly gives you the
best humor that money can buy. Get
your copy of the BALTIMORE
AMERICAN from your favorite
newsdealer or newaboy.
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