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ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY ESTABLISHED IN 1883 'VOLUME XXXIII BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1922 'NUMBER 17 TO SCRAP 100 HISTORY OF THE ; MANLY B. BLACKBURN FAVORS CO-OPERATIVE U. S. DESTROYERS CANNING INDUSTRY DIES III BALTIMORE MARKETING OF VOOL llSStJED, EVERY,,THURSDAY, , 1 : I ' 1 Sicntiry Dinbf RicoNMdj That Mavy Pinoanel Bi Flxei At 90,000 Un 'fi A Washington Dispatch of the 16th says: .Secretary Denby ap peared before the house naval committee to reccomend that the Baval personnel for the next .fis cal year be fixed at .90,000 men and 6,000 apprentices as com pared with the 100,000 men and 6,000 apprentices now authori sed. . V s Mr. Denby recommended that there be no reduction in the ex isting strength of line officers of the navy; that the first class at Annapolis be graduated and com missioned, butthatappointments to the academy hereafter be' re duced to ttfree for each member of congress, instead of five. . The naval secretary recommen ded that 100 destroyers be placed but of commission. He estima ted that the program he outlined would effect a saving of $70,000, 000 in next year's budget. ; Secretary Denby 's statement pointed out that since 1919 the waf-time naval establishment had been reduced from 1,862 vessels in commission -to 900, the com missioned personnel from 32,203 to 6,163, and the enlisted fore 3 from 480,723 to 100,999. I "It is not easy," he said,- "to get back to normalcy, from such Vast expansion. . . , ' : . r Mr. Denby said the net' result of the naval limitation conference today is that Great Britain is to have 22 capital ships, the United RtafAa 13 and .Tunan 10. thpro hp. ing no limitation on auxiliary combat crafti except as to the size and armament of future vessels. When the conference opened, Mr Denby said, the United Sta: Us tod M battleships, 35 battle cruisers,' 817 destroyers, 148 sub marines, 197 auxiliary craft and 164 "niosquito fleet1' vessels.. ' ' 't "By the terms of the treaty," he said, "the United - States will have remaining 18 battleships, 816 destroyers, 33 cruisers, 147 submarines, 196 auxiliaries add 452 small vessels. It is clear that no definite conclusions as to the future strength of the United States .navy should be reached .'..1.1 -1 ! V 4.1 1. the pending treaty, because we 1 11 1 1L 1. il . BUttll OUli KUUW UQU1 MttSU Ml&b lUC treaty will become effective. This complicates the question of, per sonnel.' ' ! 'Mr. Denby described the status of the effect in commission today, showing that battleships carry about 84 per cent comple ment, destroyers from 50 to 80 per cent and submarines from 40 per cent up. .ult is quite clear that the navy in enlisted and commissioned personnel both .is undermanned today" he said. , I "It is dear in vour mind nn- itt apportioning of vessels-in the different navies (under the treaty) ' was what was. called the navies needed for national safety and the resnlts were arrived at after a most careful study of the situa tions confronting each nation participating m the treaty. , It must be assumed, therefore, that 18, battleships is regarded by the treaty as the necessary quota for the safety of the United States." i JSTEET POTATOES. SENT TO K1M8 AND ' . J Southern sweet potatoes, " ser red In one of the appetizing dish- . wrm n iiiuiuub uv xiiAtc - uuuao Up Until 1825 tbiCiBBlnrof Food, Oil of Our Leading ladustrfes, Uokioii : Louisville, Ky.-A history of the canned industry dates back iOO years, according to a review at the receqt convention here of the National Canners Association The process began to be work ed out simultaneousiyin New York and Boston. Thos. Lem sett and Ezra Daggefrof New York succeeded in 1825 canning or packing in a crude way sal mon, lobsters and oysters. In Boston William Underwood and Charles Mitchell, usingheat, suc ceeded in packing damsons, quin ces, cranberries and currents. Up until this time the canning of food, one of the most important industries of present civilization, was unknown. Credit for the discovery of the method of keeping perishable goods by heat and sealing in air tight containers, however, :. be longs to a Frenchman, Nicholas Appert." Appert, taking advan tage of an offer by -Napoleon of 12,000 franks :for the discovery of a method of preserving food for, his army, began . experiments that after fifteen years, resulted in be discovery that food could be preserved by using heat and putting the. product in sealed con tainers. The theory of the process was unknown however to Appert and it was not until the time Louis Pasteur, the famous bacteriolo gist, discovered bacteria that the scientific basis of canning was understood. N v Prof. H. L. Russell of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, using Pas teur's, discovery j found in 1895 that the spoilage certain pea can ners were experiencing was due to bacteria. Prof. Russell's work was continued by Prof. Prescott and Prof. Underwood of the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technol ogy. . It was not until the Civil War that a canning factory was estab lished. Canned goods, - which formed the principal rations of the armies in the World -War, obviated the necessity of soldiers at the front going without food for several days at a time, such as had been the case in earlier wars, it was pointed out at the conventibn. . The War Department, during the year and a half the United States was at war, purchased for the American and Allied Expadi tionary forces 30,000,000 cases of canned vegetables and 2,000,0001 cases of canned fruits, it was shown. The annual output of canned foods', according to the Census Bureau, exceeds $800,000 in val ue. In order to create interest in canned goods the week of March 1-8 has been set aside as National Canned Goods Week. wives, wijl soon be on the . tables of Kinjr George and Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain, specially prepared packages for .them having been among a ship ment of 2,000 pounds, iorwarded from Charleston to Liverpool on the steamship Wekika. ' The Southern sweets are be ing sent to England for the pur pope of introducing this excel lent food staple through the joint efforts of the Southern Railway 6ystem,.the Carolina' Company, steamship: forwarding agents, and the South Carolina Sweet Potato Association." ' - - V : Kit .0 DR. FRED ROBERT FARTHING son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Farthing, of Boone Born twenty-six years ago Died in Philadelphia February 14, 1922 The Democrat Mourns THRONGS GATHER TO PAY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. FRED R. FARTHING The funeral of Dr. Farthing, was conducted last Thursday at the Baptist Church By the Reverends Huggins and was crowded with people from far and departed friend. The service, though Dr. Farthlflg rests in the town cenfetery under a veritablo bank of flowers. Beautiful floral offerings still come from companions both north and south, and the many messages and letters of condolence being received by the be reaved family, bear testimony to the held by those with whom he came in SMOKING INCREASES AMONG THE WOMEN Assistant City Pkjslclan of Chlciga Says U6lrlsMaki Cigarette Fiends -- . : Cigarette smoking among girls 14 and 15 years old, and especi ally among girls employed in in dustrial plants. where they need all the nerve force they have to withstand the strain of the ma- j chinisis increasing at an alarm ing rate declared Dr. Clara Seip pel, assistant city physician of HChicago,' at the fourteenth annual conference of the industrial phy sicians and surgeons. "Society girls, who have plen ty of leisure and can go to Palm Beach and Atlantic City for rest and recuperation, need not suffer the breaking down of their ner vous systems by this nerve-destroying habit." Dr. Seippel ex plained, ''.but girls who are shut up in shops and, confined to so many hours work every day be come nervous wrecks from smok ing cigarettes. . ' ' - "It is not only, confined to fac tory girls. I have been in many hospitals where all the women nurses smoke. The most alarm ing phase of the situation is growing of the babit among the young girls" vDr. Seippel also said that the abandonment of the corset has not proved a benefit to girls, "for instead of holding themselves up and developing their abdominal muscles, so many of them slouch down and thus injure their health."- -vi , Another injurious practice she eiplained, "1 going to i work without any breakfast. You do not find many boys doing that," she'ejuainjeyUuv,'.: w JLA.ST RESPECTS Brinkman. The large auditorium near who loved the memory of thoir simple, was unusually Impressive. high esteem in which the deceased was contact through life. QUANTITIES OF COAL IN NORTH CAROLINA State Hai Millions of Tons-Rilelgli . Paper Speaks of New Operations . (News and Observer. ) It has been known for a good many years that there was coal in North Carolina. But most people have supposed that there was no appreciable quantity. Now the government comes along and says the re are millions of tons. From the Cumnock mine, own ed by the Norfolk Southern RaiL road Company, coal is being1 tak en regularly, and it is said that the firemen.on that road prefer it to any other kind. The new mine, operations in which have been directed by Mr. Bion H. Butler and associates, is prepared for mining coal on a large scale. Twenty-five or thir ty men are now regularly em ployed and the number will be increased. The mine is in six miles of ac cess to four railroads, leaving nothing to be desired in the way of transportation, what is still more important it is in a territo ry which is now getting most of its coal with a heavy freight rate added to the cost of the coal at the mouth of the mine. This lat ter is an enormous advantage when it is remembered bow high freight rates are now. ' North Carolina is singularly blessed. It has resources far greater than it knows. 7 K. P. Hendly furniture mer: cnant, or Hickory. . has nied a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court. Liabilities, $5,-542.11, as sets $7,869.70, w ... :. . ; ., ; -v Prominent Local Idacator Pays Ttlbvtt to Memory of Mr. Blackburn, i Leading Business Man and Public-Spirited Citizen of Boone Who Died Feb. 17 at Joans-Hopkins Hospital (By Professor B. B. Dougherty.) Mr. Blackburn came to Boone as icegister of Deeds in ltm Later he was elected Clerk of the Court.. , He was born on Meat Camp. Aug. I,' 1858. Died in Baltimore Feb. 17, 1921. Married to Miss Martha Norris, a 'noble woman, who survives him. Three chil dren: Mrs. . Dr. J. W. Jones. Mrs. M. P. Critcher, Mrs. Hen ry Hardin. The three boys died when young. On leaving his office, Mr. Black burn opened a hotel and store. Later be enlarged his hotel, and the store has grown each year. Today his inventory would not be less than thirty thousand dol lars. The hotel and real estate are valuable. Twenty years ago Judge Coun cil!, said to this writer: Do you know that Manly Blackburn is one of the most public-spirited men that ever lived in Boone?" He was then working and spend ing money to build the Metho dist church. Laterhe became in tensely interested in a new court house for Watauga. He wanted vaults and safes, giving fire pro tection to our public documents. As a planner and organizer, and as a leader of men, he had but few equals in this country. He campaigned the county for bonds for the Watauga Ik Yad kin River Railroad. The bonds ffere carried but the road was not built. When the campaign was opened for dirt road bonds, Mr. Blackburn took the field a gain, often going into com muni ties where the bonds were least understood and had least sup port. He invited me to go with him. He stopped men in the road; he called them out of their fields; he talked with them around their fire-sides and in the public scnool houses. With an intenitive and apperceptive knowledge he knew what to say to each one on each . occasion.-The bonds were carri ed, and he served as road com missioner without money and without price. Leaving his business, he went during zero weather, when the snow was deep, to induce people to vote bonds to aid in the con struction of a railroad into Boone. The bonds voted, he helped with the rights of way and gave his strong cooperation to the build ing of theroad. As a town alderman he helped build the concrete walks and rock the streets, financing the propo sitiou when necessary with his own money. He worked day af ter day, with his own hands, a mid sunshine and rain, never dreaming of compensation, be cause he loved the town and wanted to see it improve. When the Appalachian Train ing School was started, he was among the first with a heavy sub: scription. His big team and dri ver was at easy command for days, weeks and months. As a Trustee and chairman of the Ex ecutive Com initte, ho gave sup port unstinted. He filled a niche in the sociolog ical life of this town that can not be replaced. .With a hospitality wide-spread, a most remarkable charity to both white and black, witn a love lor tne caurcn, and a passion for. all kinds of progress Forsaost Woof Bayer tf Watat Cedj ! Wants 1922 Clip (By W.E. Shipley.)" m Since the fruitgrowers, the tobacco growers and the West-, tern wool growerss have proven that co operative plan of mar keting is a success, why not the wool-growers of .Watauga county .. organize now and pool their 1922 clip? Practically all local'Vool pools have failed for the reason that that there is not enough in terested to make a car load. Ten thousand pounds is a minimum and fourteen thousand pounds a maximum car load. When, you have a full car of wool to offer you can get a buyer to como and pay you the full market value for your wool. Philadelphia is our best market, but local freight charges from here to Philadel phia are prohibitive. I have bought eighty per cent of the wool In this county for the past fifteen years. From 1910 to 1917 our wool sold at 10 cents per pound higher than the western wool. Now, if you will notice the market, or what the western grower gets for his wool, you will see that they are selling wool at from five to ten cents per. pound higher than any has been sold here. Not because their wool in of a higher grade, but because they have better methods of mar keting. - Our wool grades the same as Virginia, West Virginia and Ken tucky, one fourth blood. If you will notice market quotations on the above you will see what our wool is worth on the markets. If the sheep men of this county will re organize and get the far mers all signed up you will know approximately what you, will have to offer. The average clip in this county is about 5 pounds to the sheep, and when you have che number of sheep in the coun ty you.will know what amount of wool you have to offer. With your organization in effect you can let the wool people of the East know what they have for sale, and when your sale is made they will send a mah here to re ceive and pay for it. There can be some central point selected and a day for delivery. This way the grower will go back home with his money in his pocket, with no hereafter to fear of shor tage of weights, bad grades, etc. It looks now that it is a safe gamble that our wool will bring 40 cents per pound, and possibly more, if we don t fool it away. I would like to hear from others, ive improvements, he was always counted, though absent, when groups of gentlemen would dis cuss any of these matters. His judgement was good, his advice was always sought To many I have put this question: "What man in Boone has the greatest balance, the most com mon sense?" . The incentive an swer always came: "Manley Blackburn." He was modest and retiring, but an astute man with great ability. To me personally his death is a distinct loss an irreparable loss. . For twenty years, amid all kinds of perplexing problems, when other friends were hesitat ing, he gave to me support, con stant; steady, strong. One of the deep regrets we all must have, : that we did not express our ap preciation to him more when he was here. :, Knowing him as I have per haps better (han ony other man knew him knowing his joys and disappointments . in . this life; knowing bis hopes and-expectations in the life, to come, I can not but rejoice in the firm, sweet conviction that all is we rt$ him now;.r 'K:2;-':-'QiU f r... O CP J LA S7
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