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' MONDAY,"JULY 11, 1938
New Oghte For Hiit^ways
»,._Mo8t of the 40;000 people who are
killed every year in automobile acci
dents meet death on the open highways
where traffic is not unduly heavy, but
the temptation to take chances on speed
ing is the greater for that reason. A
high proportion of fatal accidents are
due to darkness, and the dazzling lights
of approaching cars.
Experience has 'demonstrated that
there are few serious night accidents on
well-lighted city streets. Unfortunate
ly, it has been impossible until now to
light long stretches o(f country roads.
The cost has been prohibitive.
Now two new systems of highway
lighting have been invented and have
given good results in practice, which
are so inexpensive that any rural road
district can afford them. One system,
which is useful only for hard-paved
roads, is based upon imbedding a re
flecting material in the road surface,
so th at the headlights pick out the road
way and show clearly whether there are
any obstructions ahead. The other sys
tem is an' ingenious reflecting device
placed on posts or telegraph poles along
the roadside, which catches the beam of
the headlight and projects it ahead,
lighting up the road for half a mile or
so. Two or three of these to the mile
are said to light the highway almost as
well as daylight.
Better-lighted rOads and non-glare
JbiidUghte) >iax7. now per
fected and doubtless will be as compuls
ory as safety glass in a few years, will
help cut down the ghastly toll of motor
deaths.
Political Parties
To those who study politics the pa
pers last week contained interesting ma
terial.
President Roosevelt in his address at
Gettysburg highly praised the ideals of
Abraham Lincoln, who was considered
the founder of the Republican party.
Later in the week there appeared a
picture of John Hamilton, national Re
publican chairman, placing a wreath
on the tomb of Thomas Jefferosn,
known as the founder of the Democrat
ic party.
About 15 years ago a high school
professor said that the Republican par
ty, in power at that time, and the Dem
ocratic party, then the minority, had no
great differences.
At one time states’ right was claimed
to be the issue but both parties gov
erned in about the same manner as far
as the ^ates were concerned. That
melted away as both parties passed pro-
tective tariff laws.
Today the party alignment seems to
growing around Roosevelt s policies
of planned economy and party lines,
nation'lly speaking, are so faint that
they are hardly recognized, even in
congress.
The two-party system of government
in this country has worked exceedingly
well and it is but natural that re-align
ments occur. Both parcies ultimate!},
incorporate the policies of government
which best suit the people and which
are found to b$ worthy.
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idplendid Edition
'’e heartily congratulate the Watau-
Democrat, Watauga county’s news-
;r published at Boone, on reaching
iftieth anniverwry.
hat maans that the paper there has
[ered half a century of continuous
ce* . Ai.
observance of.the anniversaij the
r iMued l«»t wMk £»!*»'>>«•
I full of intereeting fuctB about
^.d l»d WICT-M'lly awmbled
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NOT VOf|lNG _
The Concord Tribune has dug up'
some tateresdng information regarding
county representation in the State Leg
islature. " “Ahiy idea,” says the Tribune,
“that representation otf North Carolina
counties in the State House is based on
the votes cast in the counties is an en
tirely erroneous one, a casual review of
the votes cast in the 1936 general elec
tion for governor shbws quite clearly.’’
As a matter of theory, the represen
tatives are apportioned on the basis of
population as of the last decennial cen
sus, but the present apportionment does
not even corform to that requirement c
the constitution—it’s based on the cen
sus of i920, not 1930.
Four counties have three representa
tives each—Guilford, Mecklenburg,
Wake and Forsyth. But these counties
Weren’t the four high voting units in the
1936 race. Buncombe, which has only
two seats, was second only to Guilford,
which carried off high with 34,20
votes.
Buncombe voted 32,674 for second
place, followed by Mecklenburg in
third with 29,316 and Forsyth fourth,
with 22,285. Wake wasn’t even fifth,
Gaston (a two-representative county)
getting that place with 21,473 to Wake
with 20,832 which landed in sixth.
No less than five counties entitled at
present to two seats cast less than 10,-
000 votes each in the 1936 governorship
race, the low of this group being
reached by Halifax where only 7,959
voters went to the polls to make a
choice between Clyde R. Hoey and Gil
liam Grissom (in justice to Halifax it
should be pointed out that more than
that many voted in the 1936 guberna
torial primary). Others less than ten
thousand two-seat counties were Pitt 9,-
207; Wayne 8,449; Nash 8,290; and
New Hanover 8,182.
On the other hand there were seven
teen counties which get only one repre
sentative each cast more than ten thous
and votes in the same contest. They
were Alamance, Ashe, Burke, Cabarrus,
Caldwell, Cleveland, Davidson, Hay
wood, Henderson, Iredell, Randolph,
Rutherford, Surry, Sampson, Stanley
and WiiicesT—Mdrganton News-Herald.
HEALTH PROBLEMS
By W. E. AUGHINBAUGH
Superstitions
To us of the present age it may seem
startling to learn that primitive man
built up a remarkable series of supersti
tions regarding stones of all kinds and
in various entirely different ways. And
to me what is the more remarkable is
that many people, especially those re
siding in rural communities, still observe
some of these ridiculous notions.
As a young man I recall that in my
town the Pfiel family had one posse.s-
sion which they cherished far above the
value of any precious stone. It had
been handed down from father to eld
est son in that family for generations,
until all their neighbors had about as
much faith in the wonderful things it
could accomplish as the owner. When
a pet dog, which I was teasing, very
properly bit me on the hand and arm,
my mother rushed me to the Pfiels.
Grandfather Pfiel took from a locked
box, which was hidden in his trunk, a
bundle which he unwrapped. When
the covering was removed I observed
that it contained a dirty stone about as
large as a big walnut. This was
wrapped about the most severe bite on
my arm. “Don’t remove the bandage”
said the old gentleman, “but bring the
boy to me on the third day.” When I
was brought to the Pfiel home, with
much ceremony the bandage was un
wrapped and the stone found to be
stuck to the wound, due, of course, to
the blood drying and holding it there.
“Now,” remarked Pfiel, knowingly,
“William will get well, because the,,
mad-stone has sucked all the poison out',
of his arm.” The fact that I got well
only confirmed Pfiel and our neighbors
in the idotic notion that this dirty stone
possessed mystic medicinal properties.
The real wonder was that the filthy '
stone had not set up an infection, which
might have resulted in me parting with,
my arm.
Indians and men of the wild tribes of ,
northern and southern Asia today wrap^
large, heated stones resembling babies,
and place them upon the bodies of "ex"'
iothtts! Yellow! stones,
cSm^ to xure jaundicef
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CROWN PMNCE RUDOLF
The Pillwt Crown Prince Were
, Stained Wilii Blood
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On a cold, foggy morning, short
ly before sunrise, in January,
1889, three pistol shots rang out
in the hunting lodge of Rurolf,
the Crown Prince of Ae mighty
Austro-Hungarian Einpire.
Rudolf’s friends, who had beeh
spending the night under his roof,
knocked and pounded excitedly on
the door leading to the royal bed
chamber. Hearing no respouM,
they quickly pried the door off its
hinges and dashed into the room.
The sight that greeted then-
eyes made them gasp wiih horror.
The room was in wild disorder.
The Crown Prince Rudolf, fully
dressed, even to his hunting boots,
lay across the bed, with the top of
his head blown off. Beside him lay
the woman he loved. She had
been killed by a bullet in her tem
ple.
Did Rudolf shoot his weet-
heart and then commit suicide?
Or did some third party murder
both of them? No one knows.
The dark secret of that royal trag
edy will probably never be solved.
Only two friends were^ in the
hunting lodge when the shooting
occurred. Prince Philip of Coburg
and Count Hoyos, and they both,
thought it was suicide. They
knew—that Crown Prince Rudolf
was unhappily married.
He had married the golden
haired Princess Stephanie, daugh
ter of the Ring of the Belgians.
But he didn’t love her and she
didn’t love him. The marriage
had been forced upon them for
political reasons. For years they
had been estranged. She seldom
visited his apartments; and yet
she was madly Jealous of his at
tentions to other women.
In 1888, the year lefore his
death, he met Baroness Marie
Vetsera, a . charming, vivacious
woman, with blood of the old
Greeks coursing through her veins.
She was nineteen: he was twenty-
nine; and they fell romantically,
ecstatically, in love.
The flaming love affair startled
even^ the scandal-hardened drav^
Tng^roSfllS'rf -»ni*-tRe
rumblings of it reach^ the stern
old Emperor, Franz Joseph. At
first, he winkled at the alliance.
But the flagrant affair persisted.
So Franz Joseph called his son Ru
dolf to the palace and told him
this wild, illicit love affair had to
stop.
But Rudolf defied the old Em
peror, swearing that he would
never give up Marie. In fact, he
wanted to renounce all claim to
the throne, divorce his wife and
marry Marie. But the old Ein
225 Persons Kflledji
In Traffidfishaps
Violent deaths ended Fourth of
July celebrations for at least 449
persons in the nation. New York
led all other states in the death
parade with 37.
Fireworks took only three lives,
compared to the pace-setting au
tomobile traffic toll of 225. Drown
ing ranked second in the death
column with 123. * ’Twenty'-one
were shot to dqath, 15 committed
suicide, 11 were killed by trains-
and 41 by various other causes. _
The fireworks victims were
killed by their own “inventions.''
A Maryland hoy died and two
comityiions were injured in the
explosion cf powder poured from
firecrackers into a piece of pipe.
In Pennsylvania a home-made can
non killed a man and a bomb
of tite
r, in
L^. Bgnk of CohunUa,
tnriiu Ida V/Rnow, et
tdanta, autbbrlxiiig _and
the andtfrigned Com-
mliHWweg. to esR the amds de-
scHhed iB a certain mortgage deed
undbr btte of the 9ft v of July,
:1927, exeooited by Ida VI Snow and
husband, B. W. Snow, to Tty Fed
eral Lam BaiA of Columbia, and
rerorded in book 126, page 206, in
the office of thq Register of Deeds
[eras, on fte same day,; nnUa
lid deposK ia made, .
Every deposit not forfeited 0|r-
■ fl be pror
to the in&er upon
(he period allomred by law for tm.
confirmation of said sale. ■■M''
This sale will be made snbjaet to 5}
the conflrmatioa of the Court.
This 20th day J*™*-1*»8. - t-
7-18-4t(M)
th dayof June, 1988.
EUGENE TRlVETTP,
) Conunfssioaer
r
for Wilkes county, u»e undersigned
Cfl!mmhuioner will expose to sale
at pah
bidder,
lUic auction to
, fwr caslu at. —
bouse door in Wilkesbo
highest
Court-
nouse uoor in TT uKesuucv, North
Carolina, at 12 o’clock, Noon, on
the 26th day of July, 1938, ^
following described lands, lying
and being in Traphill township,
Wilkes county, and more particu
larly describe and defined as fol
lows, to-wit:
All those two certain pieces,
parcels or tracts of land contain
ing 131% acres, more or less, sit-
aj^, lying and being on the Elkin
and 'riuphill road about twenty
miles northeast of the Town of
North Wilkesboro, N. C-, in Trap-
hill township, county of Wilkes and
State of North Carolina, the two
tracts having such shapes, metes,
courses and distances as will more
fully appear by reference to the
two plats thereof made by Charlie
non killed a man and a bomb on the 30th day
made out of an automobile wrist March, 1937, and attached to
the abstract now on file with The
pin killed another.
New York Leads
New York’s death toll, set as
the nation observed the 162d an
niversary of its independence
comprised 20 traffic victims,
drownings, a suicide, a victii
burns and a girl mysteriously shot
while watching fireworks.
Pennsylvania reported 30 deaths
and Michigan and Illinois were
third with 26 each. Pennsylva
nia’s traffic record was the worst
the nation, however, with 25
victims.
A 26-year-old man was charged
with murder after his mother was
killed by a rifle bullet as she
worked in a field near Narrows,
Va. The son and his stepbrother
told authorities they were prac
ticing shooting.
A Rome, Ga., girl drowned
when thrown overboard by the ex
plosion of a motorboat’s gasoline
tank. Four companions were
critically burned. A speedboat hit
rowboat in Michigan, killing
one. ,
~ A jersey boy’was killed and 17
were injured when two racing cars
locked wheels and plunged into a
g;roup of spectators. Four were
killed and three were hurt in
head-on collision on Long Island.
A motorboat explosion killed
Wisconsin resident, three negroes
were killed in a Kentucky cutting
scrape, and 11-year-old Salem
Va., hoy was fatally shot by i
chum while playing with a pistol.
A stray bullet which parted the
hair of a young woman, killed her
escort in Indiana. Lightning also
Federal Land Bank of Columbia.
This first tract being bounded
the north by the lands of Al
fred Spicer; on the east by the
,, lands of J. F. Stroud; on the
victim of and on the west by the lands
of S. V. Tomlinson and J. D. Mc
Cann, containing 69 acres, more
or less.
The second tract bounded on the
north by the lands of Frank
Cockerham and Watt Smoot: on
the east by the lands of the Cau
dill heirs; on the south by the
lands of Alfred Spicer, and on the
west by the lands of Sant Spicer,
and containing 62% acres, more
or less.
This is the same tract of land
heretofore conveyed to Ida V.
Snow by W. A. Stroud and wife.
Pearl Stroud, by deed dated 24th
day of Nevember, 1924. and re
corded in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Wilkes county on
December 3, 1924, in book 138, at
peror flew into a fearful rage of killed a man in that state. ^ An
denunciation. I Arizona rodeo accident claimefi
I
So Rudolf and Marie often met j one life.
secretly, after that, at his hunting! The toll, though exceeding the
lodge, nesting among the pine j 72-hour Memorial day week-end
week-end
trees, thirty miles away from the when 250 were killed, was far be-
. 1 . A. x-u- o x»nATi
prying eyes and wagging tongues
of Vienna.
And there they had once again
on that fatal week in January, to
steal a few happy days of love,
when suddenly three pistol shots
rang out—and altered the course
of history.
Rudolf was buried with regal
pomp and splendor among his
Hapsburg ancestors, who had
ruled Austria for six centuries.
But the body of his sweetheart
was tossed into a clothes basket
and put in the butler’s pantry at
the hunting lodge, and left there
unattended and unnoticed, for sev
eral days.
Finally, she was buried, at night
in a lonely monastery, deep in the
heart of a dense pine forest.
The monks placed her body in a
crude pine coffin made of rough
slabs. The hat that she had worn
so gayly as she came to her love
tryst with Rudolf, was placed un
der her head for a pillow.
low the total of a year ago when
the Fourth of July holidays cosi
663 lives.
New Beetle Pest
Raleigh, July 2.—Scouting for
the “white fringe beetle,’’ dan
gerous enemy of more than a doz
en field crops, is now being done
by the N. C. Department of Agri
culture’s entomology division
which has been informed thqt
hundreds of plants have been
shipped into the state from the
beetle-infested area of New Or
leans.
C. H. Brannon, head of the
entomology division, said that the
white fringe beetle attacks cot
ton, corn, peanuts, velvet beans,
cabbage, sweet potatoes and oth
er plants. The pest works under
ground and it is difficult to pois
on the larvae, he said.
The beetle control methods
have not been determined to date.
Poplar Blocks
Price: No. l-$25.fl0 Per 1,000 Ft.
for immediate delivery
LyM or Ciiciniiber Blocks
Accepted Same as Pojdar
Specificationa:
Length,, 3 to 6 feet; diameter, IS
inches and up
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL STc
KTATE ■,{*
North Carrfina, >Wilkea Cowrty.'
By virtue of the power of sale
contained in a certain deed u
trust executed on the 18th day of '
May, 1929, by T. T. Churfeh and
wife, Mattie Church, to-the un- ^
dersigned trnstee, said deed of
trust being rocorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds for'-SW
Wilkes county, in book 136,'nage
’76, and the terms having pot been
complied with and the indebted
ness due thereon being due and
unpaid and payment having been
demanded and refused, 1 will, on
Monday, the 8th day of August,
1938, at one o’clock p. m., at the
courthouse door in the town of
Wilkesboro, North Carolina, offer
for sale to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described
tract of real estate, to-wit;
Adjoining the lands of J. A.
Cooper, Jonas Bumgarner and oth
ers and bounded as follows:
Bounded on the north by the
lands of W. E. Fletcher and Thos.
Eller, on the west by the lands of
Thomas Eller and J. A. Coojper, ,
on the south by the lands of J.
A. Cooper and Jonas Bumgarner,
on the east by the lands of John
Vannoy and W. H. Eller, contain-,
ing 20 acres, more or less.
This 1st day of July, 1938.
JOHN-R. JONES,
7-25-4tM) Trustee
WILLIAMS
MOTOR
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