PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democrat j? The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY j t Established in 1SSS and Published, fori ? 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers 11 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: j " One Year SI.50 Six Month 751 v Four Months 50 < r - (Payable In Advance) ? ! i; R. C. RIVERS Jr., - Publisher 11 s Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Re- j s spect. Obituaries, etc., are charged > for at the regular advertising- rates.! b j t; Entered at the USA As Second c' Postoffico at VUf Class Mail 0 Boone, N. C. Matter. " ? THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936 j o 1? AX ABATED NUISANCE I Regardless of what personal ; q opinion may be on the malier of' h prohibition, or what it aecom- ' ti plished, or failed to accomplish.: c the Democrat has been quite' e thoroughly convinced that it is j d possible to control the public ef- i s| feeds of liquor in a community.1 c vv unm ir.c space oi a lew weeks, j I: debauchery on the streets of this | a town has practically ceased to j c exist; the community has been ;; made a safe place in which to; move about at night. even on t Saturday night, and law-abiding j c residents are undisturbed in j t their slumbers by the revelry of | s rum-filled ramblers. The condi- it tion had become grave along!a about mid-summer and the Deni- i j ocrat felicitates tlie officials j upon "naving brought about an 1 era of peace and quietude, the j f like of which is beyond the fond- j a est dreams of the most san- j 1: guine. t A LESSENED NEED t The firemen, at the last mir.-1 ute, got together plenty of Christmas cheer for the desti-! lute, and to spare, it is noted, the people of the town having responded quite generously, as' they always do. to the last minute appeal for empty stocking contributions, but the element of need this year was overestimat- j ed. True, nlaees were fm:n,l where the goodies could beplac- ! ed and appreciated, but the 1 dry before Christmas, the file i of ragged and pleading children j on the streets of Boone, was j, down to a pre-panic minimum. :: One fellow, whose habit has i been to bestow his Christmas 1 cheer in the form of silver, top kiddies who arc noticeably un-j; derpriyileged. found that most , all the folks in town the day be-!' fore Christmas, had some change j ?the grown-ups. children, thcj well-dressed and the ragged? ali seemed to be able to buy. something for themselves. And! although the Christmas cheer j group distributed many paek-j ages, few came to town to ask! for them. It was a quest.ion of! door-step delivery?in marked < rnnrracf t,-\ o ? 1 ....?ok w u vcoi Ctfcjv.', WJil'il they were still coming after' 1 night asking for Santa Clans 1 bags. ] The firemen still have some : packages on hand, we think, and j , a little money too. despite the! J fact that the budget was less this;. year, and the needy and the! t near- needy had a good Christ-11 mas. jl All this is preliminary to the j * de.clar-ition that times are bound j" to be better. Whether.one thinks! the New Deal out a figure ir. the j ^ upturn or that recovery came in! c spite of the New Deal; whether j i one believes in the letter of the j 1 constitution or in a slight stretch-15 ing of the historic document, the j? fact remains that the tender-! _ hearted found less this Christ- j mas to touch the heart-strings ? than in any recent year. And s that is something for everyone c to be proud of. r h ON REFORESTATION t A reader of the Democrat, in- ? tensely interested in the rnoun- !J tains and the preservation of t their native loveliness, calls at- p tention to the following press v dispatch, indicating the efforts c being made in Spain to retrieve ? the benefits taken away from a that nation years ago by the in- 1 rll cprityii noto nco r\-f lV>o c . viaubJ. UOb WJ. UiC WWUO" ^ man's axe: t "A determined effort to convert t millions of acres of desolate moun- 1, tainsides into flourishing forests is ir >ly. Interested farmers could e: onstantly enhance the value ot ^ heir plantations and at the (j a me time contribute to the bet- g eiment of the country round- i, bout, if they would occasionally t ilant small forest trees in the v dace of those cut. These seed- c< ings may be secured either Cl rem State or Federal nuseries, nd through their use. there may T le a never-ending supply of a imber as well as an improved g or.dition as to climate and wa- s. er supply. r< is d OPEN FORUM ? 1 v l\ Readers .are invited to contribute . to this department. Profit may be derived from these letters. Name of writer must accompany ati man- s uscript and brevity is urged. 0 _____ ii ON AMERICANISM .1 Editor Watauga Democrat: j. Will you give me a little- space in f your esteemed paper tor a few scatLerlng remarks on Americanism. The government was founded by our 'ore fathers guaranteed protection to .is citizens! But what have we got today? Take for instance the Lindbergh case. lie won Ills way into the teat tr. of America his own native tand, by one of the bravest and moat faring acts in history: it is useuessto rehearse the loss of his son. We know it was a foreigner that the court3 have condemned and now what no we find. Col. Lindbergh and fainily must leave America to get the pro- ' tectio i that America should grant him. It is a slianie on America to pro- j. teet these aliens an-.l Communists in , this count:;/ and let oar own ciri- o z-r.s find safety in a foreign land. ; What ia tlie matter with this country? For one thing we have too many Conimuniats in Lin- Government em- ! alovnicnt. Take the Great Brain ' rmst; sec who they are. Madam Sec- ' -etary Perkins, foreign minded, and 5 icr birthplace not known: she, in 0 spite of the Federal law making it c i felony to allow permit or aaaiat in 0 my way. any alien anarchist to en- 1 e>- United Stales, gave written per- fi nits to the once deported anarchist. e Omnia Goldman and to such worldvide recognized Communist -leaders * ia Straehy Munsenberg man and v Jarbuase. Siie also invited Communst leaders f mill til.. r-1 I Prade Union Unity Ixsague to sit in d onference on proposed labor strikes * Phe T. U. U. L.. is Moscow controlled. a s Uiere any wonder our own citi- *l :ens have to hunt safety abroad? X ? ;av down with all such as she is and 13 lev associates, such as D. W. McCornick. McUOrmick "s foreign bom. He n s training inspectors to learn 13 lan- v iiaires, stock questions and answers o as to eliminate interpretors. He is a ommissioncr. of Immigration ami a Naturalization under Secretay Per- c ins. See what the atrocious Kerr v ill is Mrs. Caroline O'Day. N. Y. ongresswoman, who introduced the c ifamous house resolution No. 350 a rhich approved the Secretary of Ivor's defiance of law requiring de- e citation of undesirable aliens aives ?ith the Secretary, reintroduced the ' Sriffin bill which would permit nat- ? iralization of aliens on the under- P tanding that they would not have -v o fight in time of war. a Roosevelt belittled the Constitution e rhcn he wrote Rep. Hill of Washingon during Gufiey Coal Bill debate h hat members of Congress should not c et doubts of the constitutionaBity ? [eter them from voting for his bill. P teckless ambition has no respect for " . Constitution that guards the peo- " i*r J UltTjr ' l?-' 1UH. I am calling on all true one hun red per cent. American? to come rith me and take a peak at the s" irain Trust. See who they are and rhat they ore. doing; what they stand a or. I am calling on all Protestant n WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E tinislers to get into the fight bcire we are like Soviet Russia from hence conies all thi3 Deviltry. Think : it with a man in the White House ho. in order to keep on the good de of ail this stuff, has willingly viotted his oath. Protestant America lould demand that the President ?vor relations with Russia at once you have any doubts the Demo atic Party has been stolen by radi-) its and the real Democrats -thrown j it of control, read over the national i tatfo&n of the Socialist Party for 132. Then note how every plank has ?en fulfilled by the New Deal. There as been a few slip-ups such as failre to enter the Woitld Court. But lat was not the fault of the admint rat ion. We have recognized Soviet ussia and have done or attempted > do everything: else that the radiils planned. All true Americans, lets >wn this unAmericanism. Respectfully, M. E. HOLTZCLrAW. oone, N. C. "THE HOLY SPIRIT" Suppose we notice the explanation ; Sampson's strength. How much of to New Testament lies in the old? rhe Spirit of the Lord came mightiupon him." Is not that gloriously ue today, the only hope for a clean ?art and a pure life in this couny is the Spirit o? Jesus Christ comig mightily upon us. And let us-bless od for it, that In this awful and lgged crisis of our sou's there is >mething always nearer to us than le spring* of a lion or tiger?and j lat is, the spring of the ever-watch- j ig Spirit of God. There is One nearr to us than the precipice, even hen it yawns at our very feet, here is always a way of escape, a oor opened, or a strong deliverer? reatcr on our behalf than those ragig beasts that can be against us? lie Spirit of the Lord. See how Heaen and earth are mingled in that inflict. In order to tell this story jmpletely, we will have to bring the ' ipernatural in. The Spirit of the ' ord came mightily upon Sampson, here is philosophy in our minds bout the operations of the Holy \ ' pirit, all we know is, God knows the ;cret, and we do not. When mind ; caches mind, God knows the secret i which it is accomplished, but we o not. We do not know why the soul f man, like a complex instrument of ? ponderous scope, is played upon, by rortls and music that make their earls dance within them, making up he whole scale of their being. We !o not know' how the mother pours er ef fee Won 0:1 her child's heart; but} he does. Two stars never shone into] a eh other as two loving souls shine' llto each other hut ' , -?>. ? V miun *?. JO OV, ] ut \vc don't know why ?t is so. We io not know why soul touches soul., low thought touches thought, or how! ecling touches feeling; but we know t does. EDW. N, HAIIN. Bruce Barton 4_? hays . . . Mrs. President, I'/dlkelv j A woman who had obtained a jobj is co-pi!ot on an air mail line resign-1 d because she could not enter the, | plot's Union and so was not perir.ited to fly passengers in bad weather. This caused Amelia Karhart to suggest the raising of a fund "to break 1:.., i. the barriers against women in iviation." Miss Earhavt has done much herlelf to break down sucli barriera, but t will take a long time to dnstrov " I ho prejudice inherited through many fenerations in which men have nianiged transportation. Jio woman drove hariots through the streets of Rome >r commanded galleons on ihe Medierrar.ean. No Indian squaw captaind a canoe; no . . v*.*v.. - <. '..m... arned a Jiving as a gondolier, and vt>n in modern taxieabs not more han one driver in a thousand is aj toman. These are sad historical facts, and do not blame the self-reliant m&iens of the present from being reeilious toward them. But there is n even sadder fact, which is this? ae real despots who keep women out! f the top positions are r.ot the men ut the women themselves. A leading feminist refused to have woman doctor when her children ' .'ere born. "I like women," she said, and I battle for them. But when I i m sick I don't want one fussing ' round me." Another woman, sue- ; essful in business, refused an interiew to a woman bond-salesman. "I rork hard for my money," she exlaimed. "Do you think I want to let ( woman invest it?" An organization which proposes to icct a woman President of the Uniid States asks me to write in favor will do no good. "The men will not i f their movement, but I answer that bit up much of a fight," I say, "But ou never will be successful. No worn- ' n will be President because the worn- \ a will vote against her." For some millions of years wives | avc turned to husbands in cmergenies and cried: "What shall 1 do?" . ome day doubtless this habit will \ ass away?in just about as many , lillion years as it has taken the habto be formed. * ? * . . Faith Is Greater Than Hope "Billy Sunday is dead?but he had ' jmething worth more than monej- or < ime or the splendor of kings. If you ' re a very sophisticated person you i lay have thought him an emotional 1 :VERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. LEAP YEA! clown, but no one who knew him r ever could doubt that he believed what he preached. He was as sure of ? the existence of God and of Heaven as he was of his own presence on earth. Abraham, Isiluc and Jacob, Moses and St. Peter were as real to 9 hi in in their angelic robes as were ; P the people who appeared physically j ? before his eyes. He was sure also of I v his own salvation: he knew he would j go to Heaven. | h Compared with the hi a in of Robert]?1 G. fngersoll, the brain cf "Billy" may j ^ have born an inferior Instrument of a thought, but what would lngerso'll! 9 hav given for ''Billy's" unqueation- {11 fatUi! Ingerftoli achieved fame j' as '.he great agnostic because liis in-111 i i _~.i* I il kv;iitwi.u0i iiuiicaiy wumu iuh. penuii j ; him to affirm what lie could not i *' pi. v\ But yearningly, almost pathetically, he hoped: and or.cc, at his ? brother's grave, he gave this tragic utterance 10 that hope: "Life is a narrow vale between the " cold and Ihhtch peaks of two cterni- ^ t?-5. VV~ ?irivc in vain to look beyond g the heights. We cry aloud, and the ^ only answer is the echo of our wail- j ^ ing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no r woi-d, but in the night of death hope j sees a star, and listening* love can j hear the rustle of a wing." ? i TngcrsoU wanted to believe; "B:!l,v" \ Sunday believed. Which was the more ( fortunate? If it were possible to ini- c plant in every heart the certainty s that "Billy" possessed, it would be j the greatest blessing tbaL could be a conferred upon mankind. , The Family Doctor ? By Dl{. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES ic 1 BABY I My nearest neighbor is a grand- v mother since quite recently. Her 1 youngest son's baby is now 3 months old. The mother of the infant is not fully recovered from an exhausting confinement and she is with her s mother, recuperating. The infant's father is in contract employment, 1 hence he is away and hence grandma r ,.^+V. V.,.? : - ^ w :i.ii m i vjwv c&|)uicni;e, comes in * handy. Two days ago, I was called by telephone. "Baby was sneezing, and the . tiny nose was getting reel; there was j some restlessness in thl3 unusually good baby. What to do?" Did I gq into a medical fit and give this baby calomel, aconite, and other poisons? I did not. 1 told the grandmother to keep the room at a steady temperature and to give baby plenty of pure water. I advised a eery simple laxati\ip that was clearly Indicated for elimination. Then, be guiet please, I recommended red onion-juice, a drop on a little sugar evsry hour or so. I just telephoned this hour, before [ turned to my typewriter. "Baby is all right," was the weJcome message. Just a word more about keeping up elimination through bowels and kidneys and a caution aboqt feeding a 3-months baby too much starches. Also a final injunction to use just plain horse sense with the perfectly new youngster, the pride of Lhe neighborhood. The incident is closed. I wonder just how many young mothers and alder grandmothers will pick up a grain of practical utility out- of my Jiscourse this week 7-^ Miss Itoxaima Williams of Cullscr;nnd county will start 250 acres ;f pines under management as the esult of a thinning demonstration ;ive>i iii the county by the ffixteneion 'orester c. R- ? ilMbusiness Talks Planned )n Farm Radio Progran The first in a new series of talk n the buying ami selling of farri roducts co-operatively for the Car lina Farm Features radio prograr Wednesday. Tire talks, which will be prepare* y J. W. Johansen, extension agri ulturist at State College, arc to cn and over a period of twelve week! iul will cover the subject of co-op rativc buying and selling. Mr. Jc ar.sen is of the opinion that fan - - twi^i i SE/innnrr' P<--=f/ O 2 OSspj Hero Of World War i Is Taken By Death s i San Francisco, Dec. 30.?Lieut. 111 Gen. Hunter K. Liggett, 78, world I nm IIV1U NI1U BCTytU 1111/1V' umll 14 11 years with the United Slates army, died today after a year's illness. ;1 Physicians said deatii was caused - by heart disease due to a complication of ailments, i. His wife, Mrs. Harriet Lane Ligi gett, although frail herself, remained at his bedside, ii The officer was awarded the disy tinguished service medal for his scrv- , e ice in France as commander of the e first army of the American expedi;. tionary forces. He also received tire it highest decorations from Great Brit:t nin. France, Italy, Belgium and Porit tugal. d Judge's Son Dies Of d Monr,vifjo PclSOHlIl" d * Kinston, Dec. 29. -Alton Frizzclie, " 20, son of Superior Court Judge J. 0 Paul Frlzzelle, of Snow Hill, died at u liospital today after he was found suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure in his stalled ' automobile. ^ The youth left home Christmas t eve, and was found unconscious in j his automobile two days later on a ,' remote road In Greene county. Young j. i Frizzelle, a student at V. P. I., was " | home for the holidays. The funeral win op held tomorrow. n LODGE EIJEtrrS NEW OFFICERS n Snow Lodge No. 3G3 A. F. & A. ,r M., elected the following officers on r_ December 28 for the year 1936: lt A. D. Wilson, master; M. G. e Barne3, senior warden; Joe Mast, J junior warden; Martin Harmon, secretary; O. J. Harmon, treasurer; Don Shull, senior deacon; Dewitt Brown, junior deacon. i- " >r HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD '.- I the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERII CAN. Family to Better L^LPS if a CoM Strike*.. Vicks VapoRub helps End a Cold sooner I If a cold has already developed, use Vicks VapoRub, the mother's standby in treating colds. Rubbed on at bedtime, its combined poultice-vapor aci tion loosens phlegm, soothes irritation, helps break congestion. Often, by morning the worst of the cold is over. Better Control of Colds id shorter colds. Developed by Vicrs ested in extensive clinics by praced in everyday home use by miltd in each Vicks package. cts Open House: wish ^rshCLTtJOOflS- aery ruLjy 9:30 V. u. (tt. s. T.) NBC coest-to-eoast SS32I39BEE2B. toss? gSniH&fel jf"*"