Watauga Democrat
An Independent Weekly Newspaper
Established in 1888 and Published
for 45 years jv the 'ate
Robert C. Rivers, Sr.
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" The basis oi our government being the
opinion of the people, the very first ob
ject should be to keep that
rinht. and were It left to
me to decide whether we
should have a government
without newspapers, or
newspapers without gov
ernment, I should not hesi
tate a moment to choose the
latter. But I should mean
that every man should re
ceive these papers and be
capable of reading them."
? Thomas Jefferson.
THURSDAY. FEB. 10. 1944
THE RED CROSS CAMPAIGN j
The campaign to raise 5200.000.- j
000 in tin- nation to f.ir;j'nc^ ,hl- !
huge wartime program of the Amer- ,
ican Red Cross gets under way the
first of March, and Watauga County
peoole are being asked to subscribe
36.000 as their share of this stupen
dous fund. .
Clyde H. Greene, war tuna eam
oaii'n chairman, has practically com
pleted his organization, and it is not ,
too earlv to begin arranging to do ?
your share promptly when the cam
paign opens. Last year w^tauf,a
County "raised almost trie amount
asked this year, as against a quota
of $3,600 But with fewer people
;n the county this time ,h" . ' , !i
ivho remain an going to have to dig
a bit deeper to take up tfjfc stalk.
Of the '56.000 asked. $2,400 will ,
remain at home io finance local ac
tivities of the Red Cross and B0
per cent of the national tund nl
be earmarked for direct service to
men in the armed forces. Local dis
asters. etc., will be taKen care ot
out of the remaining 20 per cent.
One thousand packages are being ,
sent by the Rett Cross tveekiy to,
American prison* rs of war, huge re- 1
serves of blood to save the hves ot j
wounded men have been collected,
and a thousand and one things done
for the benefit of the ine who are
lighting for us. To fail to 8lY^? I
give to the utmost of our ability to
the Red Cross, is to "let down the ,
men who have assumed the burden ,
of our protection, and who are nuak- ?
ing safe the way tor generations to
follow. Watauga has not failed yet
. iet's be sun: that the Red Cross
quota is exceeded this year, and j
thus help the men who a?e saving
us. 1
ABOVE
THE HULLABALOO
By LYTL.E HULL
ONI.Y THE PEOPLE CAN KEEP
1'EACE ON EARTH
The leaders of the United Nations
arc bending their efforts primarily
toward winning the war, and after
that, toward winning a peace which
will last. There is nothing particular
ly original in this ? it has been at
tempted times without number after
other world wars with which civili
zation has been plagued. These ef
forts on the part of leaders of nations
have been, as a rule sincere and hon
est. But leaders change and the pol
icies of nations change; and? for ec
^ onomic. or radical or political, or va
rious other reasons? international al
liances change. And with these chan
ges the old f notions ? and some new
ones ? return, and the fight is on ag
ain.
For the last hundred and fifty i
years, however, a new element has !
been entering the field of world pol- |
itics. The new element is "the peo
ple. ' represented by leaders whom
they have chosen. And the day is
coming, and coming fast, when De
mocracy ? meaning "the people" ?
will prevail not only in the United
Stales. Great Britain, Frances, etc..
but all over this earth. It may take 1
slightly different forms, and differ
ent names; but it will mean ? as it
does in our nation ? rule by. for and
of "the people." And when that time
comes, and Autocracy is finally el
iminated from off this earth, and
the leaders of all nations are put
in power by the people for the pur
pose of fulfilling their wishes ? war
will cease to be the fashion because
THE PEOPI.E don't want it, and
they .vill see to it that their leaders
don't start it. War will cease to be
the plaything of irresponsible Auto
crats and will become the preroga
tive of the people.
The day of the Autocrat is nearing
an end and war will have spelled
his doom: for the Autocrat and his
followers have been responsible for
wars ever since history records. "The
people" don't start them ? "the peo
ple" are slightly bored with them.
Some aggressive leader, and his fol
lowers, gets ambitious and no other
leaders are clever enough.- to stop
them except py force. Only the peo- 1
pie could stop him.
Before our nation was created, and |
I individual and collective freedom
became a recognizcd state of being.
I na lions fought, bled and died at the
! behest of the Autocrats and never
| dreamed any change in the routine
i was possible. But the whole scene
has altered- Today the people of ev
ery nation on earth realize that they
can overthrow the government pro
vided they have sufficient urge to do
so. They have seen the peoples of
the United States, of France, of Bri
tain. and of numerous other nations,
take the law into their own hands,
and clo away with Autocracy. There
will be a great awakening before this
war is over, and this ? and the cer
tainty of far greater and more jBs-l
> astatrng wars to come through the 1
agency of one or another autocrat];:
regime ? may spell the end of autc- ;
eratie government the world over :
So if the present leaders of the]
United Nations can so devise that j
this world can have peace tor but a j
few years, the people may take up !
! from that point on and taboo war I
just as democratic public opinion)
has tabooed duelling or any other,
form of murder. But it can only be
the people ? for in all the world
there is not, nor ever has been, any
individual or any group of individu
als clever and wise enough to main
tain peace on earth.
:SSBSWtafi2WSiC2MeEaMEa?=E3ea?: j
Dale Carnegie
MS
AGE HAS A PLACK IN
INDUSTRY
The head of a department store
chain once told me that the most im
portant lesson he ever learned in!
business is the value of employing |
both youth and age. He combines
them. He puts a young person and
an old person in the same depart
ment. He claims that youth has the
enthusiasm and energy; age has wis
dom and experience, and together
they make a perfect combination.
E. H. Little, president of the Coi
gatc-Palmolive-Peet Co.. told me
that when lie could not get young
men for his sales department due
to war conditions he was obliged to
take on old men. These older sales
men turned out to bo better than
i.is young men.
Let me tell you of one employerl
who would rather hire old people]
than young people! In other words.'
if a youilg man of 20, and a man
over 40. with equal ability, applied
for a job. this employer would lake
the older person.
She is Mrs. Orr. Snyder, the Illi
nois housewife whose husband fell
ill and thus placed upon her the re
sponsibility of earning the living.
Mrs. Snyder knew nothing about
business, so had e.one of its tradi
tions tu follow . She started on a
nickel, and finally managed to open
a liny little candy store in Chicago.
Following the depression of 192;),
when stores were closing right and
!e>ft, she opened five. Today she
has Iti stores, and 30(1 persons in her
ennp'loy.
She told me one of the secrets of
her suci.ess has been in employing
older people. Anei when she says
t-'ci she means old. She hired one
man who was 86. He war. an cxcei
1; ;it eandv maker and did his work
well.
In fact, Mrs. Snyder lold me 'that
in the 30 years she has been in busi
ness she has never discharged any
one because of age.
Her hard-candy maker at 76 made
better candy than when she first en
gaged him. He studied the art of
hard-candy making, went to all the
exhibits, read everything on the sub
ject. '"A man like that is never
old," says Mrs. Snyder.
I have a secretary- who has been
with me 22 years. I recently engag
ed a bookkeeper, who is 68. So don't
be afraid of hiring the oldsters. They
have a sense of loyalty that is sel
dom found in young people. And
with modern machinery and modern
methods to supplant possible loss of
vitality, they can do the work just
as well.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
By DON BOBINSON
STALIN labor
It may be significant that, during
his conference with President Rejose
velt and Prime Minister Churchill,
Joseph Stalin proposed a toast to
American "machines" instead of
American "labor."
In stating that the war would
have been lost if it wasn't for the
production in our country, Mr. Stalin
may have avoided giving labor the
credit for two reasons:
First, he probably realized that
the term "labor," which we associ
ate so closely with the activities of
unions, is a word that has lost caste
in our country ? a word that, wheth
er rightfully or not, reminds matt
of us of the seamy side of our v/ar
effort which we do not want adver
tised.
In the second place, although Mr.
Stalin is a champion of laboring
classes, he undoubtedly is even less
tolerant of strikes; during wartime
than we are. Although labor, by
comparison with the rest of the pop
ulation, probably gets more breaks
Bomber Mechanic
Keesler Field. Biloxi. Miss
Jan. 25 ? The Army Air Forces
Training Command announced to
day the graduation of Pfc. James
P. Marsh from the B-24 Liberator
bomber mechanics school at Kees
ler Field. Pvt. Marsh, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Crater L. Marsh, of
Boone, has just completed a course
of approximately 1? weeks of
training in all phases of servicing
the heavy momber, its fuel, elec
trical and hydraulic systems, in
strument". engine operation and
inspection.
in Russia than it docs here, such a
thing as a strike in a war plant is
unknown in Russia and would invite
the harshest form of punishment if
it wen- ever attempted.
Mr. Stalin, on the other hand, has
the greatest respect for production,
which he sees as the thing by which
a country's greatness and power is
measured. In his toast he therefore
aimed to compliment all who have
contributed to production, including
labor, but took no chance of his
toust being interpreted as showing
? sympathy to a condition which has
croused the anger of every patriotic
American.
LEV/IS freedom
1 have heard people compare
John L. Lewis with Joseph Stalin,
but actually there are probably no
two men who have such diametrical
ly opposite views. There is no doubt
that Stalin would be highly insulted
by any suggestion of a resemblance.
For in Russia, a man who de
manded that a group of workers put
their loyalty to him above their
loyally to their country wouldn't last
for two minutes. The thing that
probably amazes Stalin most about
our attitude toward labor is the fact
that we continue to let John L.
Lewis remain free. With 90 per
cent of the American people ready
to vote for Mr. Lewis as the mail
who has done most to interfere with
our war program, it is remarkable,
even in our freedom- loving country,
that we not oniy permit him to re
main unpunished but have so far
refrained from putting any curb on
his activities.
Since we have gone this far with
out taking any adequate steps to
stop strikes or to curb the activities
of union leaders who encourage
stoppages of war production, it
hurdly seems likely that anything
will be done along this line for the
duration. But even though strikes
may quiet down at times and quick
action may be taken by the govern
ment when they do develop, it
would be exceedingly dangerous for
us to let the labor problem become
a secondary interest. For even?the
unions which are behaving them
selves now are undoubtedly making
plans for new action after the war
? and the future of our country
could easily depend upon the post
war plans of labor unions.
FUTURE danger
When we talk about postwar plans
today, we think of them primarily
in terms of how many people com
panies like General Motors will em
ploy, how fast they will produce the
goods we want and whether indus
try will be able to avoid a period
of inaction.
In considering those complicated
problems, we are apt to forget that
labor could, if stirred up by ambi
tious leaders, completely upset any
plans which industry might make.
Take the automobile industry as
an example. Suppose the leaders of
that industry get together and work
out a plan for converting their
equipment to make automobiles in
a minimum time. Suppose that plan
necessitates the fast production of
millions of dollars worth of new
tools and machines before actual
production can go forward. Suppose
they even work out a plan to avoid
layoffs during the conversion period,
but find it necessary to reduce pay
until production can be started.
With plins and schedules all set, it
is evident that a union leader would
be apt to object to any temporary
pay reduction and might not only
call the automobile workers out on
strike but paralyze the production of
new tools until the industry agreed
to reinstate the old wage schedule
and guarantee the men a certain
amount of overtime.
That may not happen. That ex
ample is jjiven merely to show how
unions, if they wanted to, could
completely disrupt any postwar
planning. There is no doubt that
congress should have made strikes
illegal during the war. But it may
be even more important for legisla
tion to be passed now to make
strikes illegal during the adjustment
period following the war.
FORMER WATAUPA MAN
WHITES FROM CANADA
Editor Democrat:
Inclosed please find money order
for the sum of S3.00 for which
please renew my subscription. Am
sorry my subscription lapsed before
1 noticed it as I hate to miss a copy
of the good o5d home paper. It's like
getting a letter from home. I would
like to compliment you on the dif
ferent editorials in your paper and
i would like you to know several
of them Inve been used in speeches
and programs here in Southern Al
berta. Canada, and one 1 handed to
our leading newspaper, which was
printed and quoted as being taken
from the Watauga Democrat 01
Boone. N. C.
1 would like to tell you just a
little about our country in Alberta.
We have a great wheat and live
stock country. My farm is located
between one of the largest wheat
larms on the North American con
tinent. and the largest livestock
ranch hn the American continent,
being nine miles from the wheat
farm and seven miles from the stock
ranch- You can drive for days
through wheat country in Alberta.
The land is fairly elvel all over,
and most of the wheat is grown on
dry land. We have seven large irri
gation projects but most of this land
is planted to hay, potatoes and sugar
beets, as well as a lot of truck grow
ing.
We have a hunter's paradice here,
as we have lots of lakes which draw
thousands of wild ducks, wiid geese
and swan. Wo also have lots of
quail, pnurie chickens and Chinese
pheasants, and it is very common to
see 50 antelope in a' band on the
prairie.
And for the anglers we can fur
nish plenty of sport as fish are very
plentiful. As to our climate, some
winters are very cold at times, but
nur cold spelts do not last long until
we got a Chinook wind and may
melt all snow and ice. any time in
the middle of the winter. This win
ter has been an exception; we have
had 110 snow to dale. The rivers
have not frozen over and we have
no frost in the ground.
I will close by saying I am fond
of my old home town of Boone.
When 1 read in your paper of all the
new industries that have sprung up
in the last few years.
Yours truly,
F. A. NORRIS.
New Dayton, Alta., Canada.
Jan. 25. 1944.
Reduce Flea Beetle
Damage On Tobacco
Research studies by the Slate Col- j
lege experiment station has demon
strated that tightly constructed to- 1
baccti plant beds will protect the
seedling plants from much of the
damage caused by flea beetles, ac
cording to Director L. D. Baver of
Raleigh.
The protection -of newly set tobac
co plants by means of single appli
cations of insecticide, either in the
plant bed just before pulling or in
the field immediately after setting,
has been given attention by the re
search men. The tests show prom
ise of an economical means of pro
tecting srnall plants from flea beetle
damage during the critical stage.
If the plant beds are destroyed
after transplanting to the field, it
will remove a prolific breeding
place from which flea beetles move
'nil"1'' ''1? scientists points | and cutting of tobacco stalks after
, . . | priming will prevent the build-up 0?
It was shown that falf plowing | infestations of horn-worms.
WAIT
"OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS II Eli K*'
RADIO BATTERIES ? J ust received
another shipment of 1100-hour AB
packs. Western Auto Associate
Store. 1c
FOR SALE? Two good used saw
mills, one 4-side planer. 3 balers
and engines. Dewey D. Carr,
Mountain City. Tenn. 2-10-4c
FOR SALF ? One mart-; weight j
about 1,400 pounds. Works good, i
Will H. Hayes. Boone Route 1, 3]
miles from Boone. 2-10-2p j
FOUND ? Ladies' wrist watch near I
college. Owner can htive same by i
identifying and paying for this
ad. Andy P. Mast. Junaluska
Road. Boone. 1 p
BABY CHICKS? Place your orders
early for ba'oy chicks. Also Jet
me have your eggs early foi cus
tom hatching. Mrs. Roby S.
Isaacs. Sherwood, N. C. lc
WANTED? Washing machine, good
condition. Call 41 or write Box
393. Boone, N. C. lp
FOR SALE? Good baled hay, $1.75
hundred. Also grist, hammer mill
and roller stand for buckwheat, on
hardsurface road. Will sell or trade
for house and lot in town or small
farm. B. H. Phillips, Route 2,
Boone. lp
FOR SALE ? One 9- tubs; Majestic
electric radio in A-l condition.
37 Kv. c per pound. Dacus Radio
Shop.
FOR RENT? Good farming land.
See or write Mi's. Etta Brown,
R. F. D. 2. Boone. N. C. lp
NOTICE
To all concerned: I forbid anyone
in Ashe or Watauga counties to feed,
bed or clothe my son, Fred Rash, 14,
who has left home without my con
sent.
R. E. RASH.
This 5th day of Februarv 1944
lp
IF YOU HAVE A FARM to rent,
cash rent, write me at once in
care of this newspaper. M. O.
Brannon, Brevard. N. C. 2-3 -2p
FOR SALE ? Hand loom, complete,
in ;ood condition. Joe C. Mast.
Valle Crucis, N. C. 2-3-2p
FOR SALE ? Two Hereford cows. 3
and 8 years old. If interested, see
or write Joe C. Mast. Valle Crucis,
N. C. 2-3-2p
DR. L. E. WF.LLMAN. optometrist,
invites you to come to Mountain
City, Tenn., for your next glasses.
You will receive a thorough scien
tific examination and the finest
ol' lenses. The latest styles in
frames or rimless mountings at a
very moderate cost. Office days,
Wednesday' Thursday each week.
FOR SALE? Spring Guernsey and
Jersey heifers and fresh cows for
sale. D. L. Glenn. Vilas Service
Station. Vilas, N C. 1 27-0p
OLD GOLD WANTED? We buy old
Mold watch cases, rings, denta'
gold. etc. Highest prices paid.
Walker's Jewelry Store. 12-l-tf
Special Announcement
As you all know, there will be n
| more new radios until after the war
! and used radios are becoming almost
exhausted, therefore, we urge you t?>
bring in your old radio or radios
that you have stored away and net
using, and probably with the im
pression that they were not worth
repairing, and sell them to us so
that we may be able to make one
radio out of two or three, thereby
helping to keep the families of
Watauga County, probably your
own neighbor, with a radio for the
duration. Then after the war . . .
Television?
We now have for sale a few thor
oughly reconditioned electric and
battery radios, equipped with new
tubes and battery.
Dacus Radio Shop
Expert Radio Repairing ;
20 Years Experience
. 217 Main St. Phone 119
BOONE, N. C
i We have for sale now a few electrib
! radios in A-l condition.
FOR SALE- 57 acres good land near
Boone. Bargain if sold at once
See S. C. Eggers, Boone. 2-3-2e
FOR RENT- -One furnished apart
ment, with steam heat. Telephone:
14. Boone, N. C. i-27-3.
SPECIAL ? Large family size 5 ltur
tablets, vitamin B-l. a month's
supply for family of five, $4.9?
Boone Drug Co. l-14-lfr.
DR. C. G. BAUGHMAN. eye. ear
nose and throat specialist of Eliza -
bethton. Tenn., will be at the
Hagaman Clinic in Boone Hie first
Monday in each month for the
practice of his profession. 12-l-tf
YOU CAN HAVE~$7000 FREE
CASH AT THE END OF EACH
MONTH! Essential Hospital
Work for White gi'-ls and women1
Absolutely no experience neces
sary.
Your monthly salary $77A)
Minus average withholding
tax 0.W
Expense for room ... None
Expense for meals Nonti
Expense for car fare Non??
Expense for laundry None
Expense for work clothes None
Apply Supt. Springfield State
Hospital, Sykesville, Maryland
12-30-7c
For Real Values in Shoes
of every description and for every mem
ber of the family, visit our store. We
handle the famous Star Brand and oth
er leading brands, all sizes and widths.
Hunt's Department Store
(Formerly Bare's Fair Store.)
YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED
APTOMORILE MECHANICS ESSENTIAL
Do your share toward keeping Watauga County's
Essential Motorized Transportation Rolling.
WE HAVE OPENINGS FOR FOUR ADDITIONAL
FIRST-LINE AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS
1
Under our Salary Guarantee and 'Commission Plan
Earnings Will Run From $45 io $65 Weekly
Helpers Furnished
We have good working conditions, a very complete stock
of automobile parts, with a competent parts manager to
assist you. Write or Phone
MR. GLENN ROLAND or MR. W. E. AUSTELL
COLVARD CHEVROLET COMPANY
Boone, N. C. Phone 164