TAUGA DEMOCRAT -JBm, EVERY THURSDAY BY MYEU EWNTINCCOMEANY ? "to* , *? C WVEM, JR.. PUBLISHES An Independent Weekly Newai*f>er Established la 1888 Published tor ? r?in by Hi* tote Robert C. Una, Sr. *? wcmvtoH rates to WaUaet County: On* year, W.90; ilz montbi, <1 30; (our month*. 91.00. Outside Wctauf* County: One year, (3.00; tlx months, 91.79; four months, $1.28. Entered at the postottkc at Boon, N. C, aa second ctoaa mail matter, under the act of Congress of March S, 1879. '^HgjU Election Next Tuesday The city election which traditionally is held on of/ years and by special en actment occurs in Boone in June, will be beid next Tuesday. Only one Incumbent is offering for office on the Democratic slate, Mayor Howard Cottrell, who doesn't fe?rl he has the time for the top spot, but who accepted the nomination of his party to go back to his old job on the Board of Aldermen. Senator Gordon H. Winkler resigned as Mayor to take up his work in the Legislature which is still holding forth, and Dr. Wayne Richardson and Mr. Grady Tugman did not stand for re nomination. Attorney Wade E. Brown, who has never held city office, but who has served in the House and Senate, heads the ticket for Mayor, and Messrs Harry Hamilton and Con Yates finish out the Board. . All these men are able and patriotic, else they wouldn't be willing to assume the responsibilities oi running the affairs the city, which 4oe? require > good deal of time, a fair amount of worry, we understand, and of coarse the critic ism which invariably goes with any elective office. The Republicans haven't fielded a ticket, so there hasn't been the element of personal competitive campaigning, and except for the unlikely and futile organization of some sort ef write-in effort, this election will hinge on some voter going down to city hall and mark ing a ballot. Since neither money nor appreciable prestige is at stake in the holding of city office, since a fairly high degree of patriotism and civic responsibility is needed to go on the ticket, it appears to us that the least the voters should do is to come out in appreciable numbers and give these men a solid vote of con fidence, and to (how them that their willingness to perform a fairly thankless task Is appreciated. Summer Term Opens It is a happy thing to note the opening of summer school down at the college and to )oin in extending a welcome to the teachers who are converging on the campus. During these few days between the commencement for the regular term and the opening of the first summer term, things are slow along the Street. One can tell that school's out by the absence of the crowds of collegians and the di minished traffic in the public places of the community. In the churches, and in every organ ization, in every business activity the absenoe of the faculty and students pan be quickly noted, not alone from an economic standpoint but from the loss of the good fellowship which has tra ditionally prevailed between the mem bers Of the college community and of the town. Summer school is a pleasant experi ence for many of the teachers who take advantage of the facilities offered at Appalachian, in a section literally atf conditioned by nature. Away from the huctle and bustle of the larger cities, the student can have the twin experience of enjoying vacationing during pleasant cool evenings, while taking advantage of the peerless educational advantages offered on the campus. As usual, enrollment is expected to reach or surpass previous r?cords. As the fame of the college spreads through out the country, and the delight of the summer seasons in the blue hills is re lated in educational circles, more and more people continue to register at Appalachian. The building program at the College is going forward as rapidly as seasonal showers permit, and our understanding is that the growth of the college will continue in exact proportion to the growth of its physical plant. There seems to be no end to its growth poten tial Happily for all concerned, the State senses this, and the current ex pansion program is expected to continue far a long time. w 1 "? a _ a Vacation edition The State Magazine, which has filled .such an important mission in promoting the State, her many industries and tour ist attractions, issued its annual vacation guide last week. The edition is particularly interest ing here in view of the fact that a con siderable space i? devoted to Watauga county. A list of the attractions in Blowing Rock and Boone is spelled out, includ ing the Rock itself, Twectsie Railroad, and pioneer village, swimming, riding, golf in both towns, Cone Memorial Park with fishing lakes, riding trails and crafts center in the Moses H. Cone old mansion. Note is taken of Price Memorial Dam on the Parkway, its fishing advantages and camping sites. Rich Mountain, Tater Hill lake, Fiat Top Mountain, Howard's Knob, Daniel Boone Scout Trail, Antique Auto Mu seum, and stocked trout lake next to Blowing Rock Country Club are pointed out. Mention is made of the numerous seenic drives in the county, of Watauga Industries, Blowing Rock Crafts Shop, riding facilities and fishing in the var ious streams and lakes of the area. Picnic sites are pointed out, roadside parks mentioned, and places where pic nic lunches may be secured. Among the annual events listed are Horn in the West, Field Day and Pet Show at Blowing Rock, Blowing Rock Homes Tour, Blowing Rock Horse Show, Grandfather Homes Day and the Na tional Antiques Fair at Blowing Rock. fUe State has been an important pub lication in many ways, but particularly in letting North Carolinians know more about their own State. Ita circulation has spread over the country and people in other regions are taking advantage of the attractions the State points out in Carolina. The Bubble Reputation (Oracnaboro News) _ Ip ? capital commencement speech it Cha0el Hill, North Carolina born Editor Lenoir Cham ban of Norfolk made one among man/ food points that beari emphasis. It will >ot do. he auggeated, for any Sou then university or school system at any time, to congratulate itseU on merely leading a pack when the sta/idarda of the pack itself may tot laggard or dehdnt. The Idea on which Mr. Chambers casta doubt fcaa ? particularly tenaciooa grip on North CafaliiM. which often bowta that It "leads the South" in this of that. It waa Dr. Ein stein wtio suggested ttft vanity of riding in the front wagon of a train that is many hours off ai In dadtfi.- ; To Mr. Clumbers' thought, pertiapa another could he ad dad in exteiMw. Almost any aca demic rating system has Ua hazarda Moat yardsticks are warped k some way, and ter taiirty they am arbitrary. There la more and more pressure in Amtridin education to ann form to vague norma without any Marching look at the validity of those norms. Pin an abstract word like "ercelleona" en Mote stanuaro* ana universities ana coneges will stumble all over themaelva* grouping behind Uke banner. If the racing form men tality ia bad far any educational system, it ia doubly bad vrben the standards rat MMe fleah are act regionally and even nationally ? and not by the great tradition*. . Standards Ipr good acheol* may be helped by standards laid down by the Council for Baaic Education or the National Education Aasoci?tl?n or regional bodies of univertiUee and cottage*. But the real (tandarda ware aet a long time ago by the waaMng schtfan who founded the oldest Western uahrenw, The true staadard It the diatinction of the mind which ia produced by the ayatem ? ami 4>metimea not aU' the lab* and degreea aaaure auch diatinction. ^ Fundamentally, then would aeem to be one aura moaaurament for tovtherq Institutions to follow/ They should be In competition with their own capacities. Edueat tonally apeaklng, the bubble reputation may stiff be la the cannon'* moaU. "Admiral! Spare Hial Ship!" ' . SOME LOCAL HISTORICAL SKETCHES From Early Democrat Files Sixty Years Ago June 20, 1M1. Professor B. B. Dougherty left yesterday morning on a business trip to Tennessee. Sorry It learn that Adolphus W. Penley, ia very unwell. He is one o f our oldest landmarka, and we hope to hear of his speedy re covery. Mr. and Mrs. I. 8. Rambo are still in town. Their little son, Jus tin, has mease Is, and they will re main here until he la able to be moved. Fried H. A. Deal, Of Amantha, was in town this week, and Hid the roads up Cove Creek are now worked out and ia fairly good condition. Beg. May has a new boarder at his home, s little daughter. Many of the cottagers and a ?umber of summer boarders have arrived at Blowing Rock, and the jrospetts are good for a large crowd later oe. The stock law, we are told, is being ruthlessly violated by a ma jority of the people in Mitchell comity. In our opinion, a harvest of indictments will be the mult. The Children's Day Service at White Springs last Sunday was well attended, but, we are told, a considerable fuss arose among some youag men on the grounds during services that created quite a riffle of excitement. We have none of the particulars, who (he young men are or what was the nature of the fuss, but at religion? worship is the wrong place for brawls and wa hope the good peo pie of that community will see that they are as severly punished by law as the magnitude of their crime demands. Strawberries are ripening. Mr. M. H. Cone of Blowing Rock, is, we are told, shipping com to Lenoir, having it hauled down the mountain and is selling it to the laboring people at absolute cost. This is indeed a praise worthy act of that wealthy, yet charitable gentleman. There will be an Old Fellow's "" picnic at Vilas on July the 4th. Some good speakers will be pre sent, a good dinner will be served and an enjoyable time is expected. Thirty-Nine Years Ago Jnne 22, 1922. Mr. Edgar Payne, son of Mrs. J. M. Payne, of Boone, was Har ried to Miss Blanche, the cultur ed and popular daughter of Mrs. John C. Brown, of Route 1, last Saturday night. The marriage was solemnized at the Baptist parson age, the Rev. F. M. Huggins per forming the ceremony. Many con gratulations to the happy couple. Mr. T. J. (Uncle Tom) Sullivan, who has been suffering for some time with a badly diseased eye, had it removed entirely, at the of fices of Dr. Peaveler in Bristol, last Monday. No man has more friends in Watauga than he, all of whom would be glad indeed to hear of his speedy recovery, and a safe return to his home. Miss Annie Stanbury, teacher at Wilson, has arrived at her home in Boone, and will remain here daring her summer vacation. Just One Thing B, CARL goerch AFTER ANOTHER D. P. Topping, an attorney In Belhaven, uyi that ha ran acroaa a nine-dollar bill th? other day. It waa issued by the Bank W Wilmington and was dated Sept ember 10, IMS. Mr. Topping found It in an old trunk belonging to hit ill Hied another. The Mte ro cites that "The Bank of Wilming ton, North Carolina, will pay I# the bearer on demand Nine Dol lars ( 90.00)" It waa signed by S. Stewart. CsaftMr, and Joh* M? Rae, rraalihat. Mr. Topping wants la know whether we hava evar heard of ? nine-dollar bflt before. We have Christian Girl, of Florida, regis tered at the Sir Walter Hotel In Raleigh last Monday night. How evar, Girl Isn't ? f'rl; he's a man. And we dent knew whether he's ? Chrlatiaa or net. either. Come te think of M. we ?M t know orach about hia rata* that Ms nana is Christian Girl. % AM AMWI gkiia In ? con tribution which recently a ip eared i in a New Mexico paper: "Would yqu he so kind a# to in, sert the pMtoWtng In yo?r tort and phouni letnam: "Loet the cph pJkrota toy type wfttor. ffcow 4*HaW fprard ll?or return oyh MID* aa I phind it very unhandy and phor that matter a little undigniphied trying to make out without tt. Phrank Phuller." There's a gentleman in San ford ? we'd batter not mention his naiM ? who ia alwayi getting en dorsements from everyone in tawn for everthing that turns up. If there's a vacancy on the atbool board, he Immediately pro Mods to aolicit endorsements for the job. If he aeei a chance of tending tone political Job. he seta as Many endorsements ^* time will permit. It's the same with practi cally everything else. Some time ago. some of hia friends got together and called him up. "Sony you got left out," they told Mm. "Left out? What do yoa mean?" "We jutt read in the papers about the flaction." "What election?" ?T?? new fepa." "What do I care lhaQt the elec tion of tlx new Pope?" "Why." aaid hia frieada, "do you meaa to tell aa that you didnt adtiail esdorseaaants far that Job, toT" ?* Ka bang up on em. a Mr. John Whittington, who, when a boy, more than thirty yeari ago, held a case in The Democrat office, dropped in to *ee us Monday for the, first time in fifteen years. John has followed the trade ever since he left here and bears all the ear marks of a typical journeyman printer: He says he has worked the country al most over but has found no spot hiTn mountain h* was bom He tfMs'ttom here to visit his moth er who lives at the home of her daughter Mrs. Frank Grayson near Trade, Tennessee. Mr. J. Young Love, while haul ing lumber on Rich Mountain last Saturday, was most painfully, If not seriously hurt by hi* team running away. The Democrat has not heard from him since soon af ter the aecident occurred, and hopes he is not as badly hurt as was first thought. Daily improvements are being made on the golf links. The fame of the Green Park golf course is spreading Tar and Wide. Mr. E. C. Holt and family ire up for the summer. Fifteen Years Ago June 28, 1946. Rev. Adolphus Millard Brown, 76 years old, retired Baptist min ister and fanner, died at the home Friday after a long illness. Mr. A. M. Kennedy of Key West, FT*-, is spending some time with Mrs. Kennedy in Boone. Miss Rebecca Boone 1* visiting with Mrs. F. T. Downs in Wash ington, D. C. She will return to Boone on Friday. Mrs. F. A. Linney, Mrs. Paul A Coffey and son, Frank Linney Cot fey, were In Taylorsville last Tues day, where they attended a reun ion of members of the Matheson family, held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Coleman Payne. Mr?. P. O. Brewer and daugh ter, Olivia, of Washington, D. C. ?re at the home of Mrs. F A t.ln ney, where they will spend the summer. Mr. Brewer, who is' sec retary te Senator Bailey, accom pained his family here and spent the week end. Mr. Lester Deal, Seattle, Wash , recently visited with his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. E Deal of Sftet wood. On his return to the north west he w as accompanied by his father, who will spend m tim? in Seattle visiting with him, and wKh another son, Marvin Deal. Miss Mary Proffltt, oirty w?T he iMdatreatles with 3^ countries and in 1939 broke ei|*r one of them. I d?n't know what decision President Kennedy will make in this matter, but it *u agreed M afar' adslon Satvrdny night that we'll never git anywhere Wtttftg down at the Summit ta ble with them batxlits Clem Webster just about hit it on the barral toad when he said the only nbfs? tti?y respect is the hum of our missiles. It's a sad thought, Mister Editor, but i looks like <11 we can do is fa us to put our trust in the A1 mighty and keep our missile fac tories running on three shifts. Maybe them Zoomites tha founded that new religious 01 der at Rockport near Boston ha the right idea. If I recollect th story in the papers correct, feller named Goldie was electe the Zoom, and his followers li' w by a code he set up. Th< plan to stry underground .unt 1962. as that is the time th< figger these space missiles wi destroy civilization. Then thi plan to come out and start model civilization. The Zoo says their new civilization w be without fear, hate, vlolen or want. Now I don't take stock in their plana fer a mot civilization. It wouldn't be mon two year afore the Zoomit would be fighting amongst thefl selves to eloct a new Zoom I murder the old one. But what H pealn to me is that undorgrotfl cellar the papers said thay built. I have writ the head ZoH fee so n^o literature I may I moving to Rockport soon.