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Q 'it 1 ' 1- V . vvTfc ...... r. r I r .y-fT..-i, f., .... -f - I. '. r I"--" ' it II II I I I l Tl In H Al : -A) ' n 1 1 mm a kmi ia. -mm -v mc. now w m ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY v . ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY . . : ... ESTABLISHED IN.18S3 ' 1 1 . . ,. x.:f VOLUME XXXIV x , BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY NOV. 16,. 1922 , v J NUMBER 8 '4 RED CROSS AGAIN IN WAR WORK All preparations had: been mad for the annual Roll Call of the Am erican Red Cross, which must neces sarily be Completed lone in advance of the opening of the campaign, be cause theChaptera reach nearly ar ound the world; the slogan. "Every ery American everywhere a mem ber of the Hed Cross" has been nanimously approved and the work ed of Roll Call organization begun with the purpose of gaining amem bership of 5,000,000 for 1928. Then, as suddenly at it was unex pected, came the call from Smyrna for half a million innocent sufferers driven to the waters edge by -the victorious Turkish troops. . Thus came war into the midst of the Am erican Red Cross engagements of peace, and with an insistence that could not be denied. The call found the Red Cross pre pared for service and while the chap ter at Constantinople plunged into the breach, National Headquarter at Washington took immediate stept to meet the terrifying situation grow ing out of the crisis. Within a short time American Red Cross relief wa; Bent to Athens; its nurses in Europe were working in the refugee camps, shiploads of food, clothing and med ical supplies were started for Greek ports and over three quarters of a million dollars in Red Cross funds had been committed for this great relief work. The response of the American Red Cross in this war-time disaster re calls the happy' phrase uttered by Cardinal Mercier of Belgium when World War relief was at its height in his own country and in France, That brave figure in the great con flict had said of the American Red Cross: Such a national inspiration should be captured and held for the benefit of all mankind." The events of the last few weeks happily prove that the inspiration ha been captured. And the work for mankind in far off Greece serves to emphasize wh y the American Red Cross must be prepared to tope with any disaster, no matter, bow great in extent or how sudden, and must be ready to do the service ouickly and effectually. The situation which finds the eq uipment and resources of the Ameri can Red Cross again engaged in" re lieving the Bufferings attendant up on, war with the efficiency and gen erosity that in the world war was a marvel to all the nations, lays a greater obligation also upon Ameri cans everywhere during the Roll Call to endorse services to all mankind with their signatures and their mem bership fees. The Roll Call is a call to "Say it with names and with dol lars" and to say it, as in the world war times, with patriotic fervor for your Red Cross. For as "Peace hath its victories no less renowned than war," so must the American Red Cross have its re sources from the strength of its mem bership to go ever ownward in the work committed to the organization by the American people. TRAINING SCHOOL NEWS (From last week) A game of basket -ball on last Thursday afternoon between Moun tain City Tennessee and' the school , team resulted- in a victory for the Tennessee team. On last .Thursday evening. Miss Ruth- Coffey -and Miss Mary- Jarrell : and' Messrs Arthur Moore tocVJ; M. . f Downum were invited guests at the elegant country home of Miss Car rie Horton, "Lynwood" and it is e- nougn to say mat me evening meai was excellent indeed' and much en- ' joyed by all present. Examinations come this week, to show that .one-third of the school is past The number thus far enroll ; ed is 245. The Red Cross members oof he Watauga Chapter met at the Ctfurt ff) House -on Monday afternoon and el ected officers for the next year and planned for the membership drive to ; : be pushed from Nov.' 11th tq Thanks giving, and it is hoped that each one will again enroll as the need at this time is very great indeed. The f ol lowing officers were electsd for. next year: Chairman, A. J. Greene, Vice Chairman, Mrs. A. unney,' seey; . Prof. J. M. Downum, Treasurer, W. D. Farthing. Prof. A. J. Greene was erected ma nager for the Red Cross Drive. FRIDAY AFTERNOON . CLUB WJTH MRS. D1U JONES The Friday Afternoon Club met with Mrs. Dr. Jones November v. All members were present except two which is an unusually large at tendance. The hostess entertained in a Ten . . ii j - ; , t charming manner, ana a-aeueraua "t" r. : . . . ,r GREATER NORTH CAROLINA. Pronottoa of Moaataia Railroad.. To the Editor of the Observer: The life and greatness of a state is not unlike thatfof a man. It is' the little things in life which when taken collectively, make the big or great man. ine same neias true with our state'. Our institutions of learning, our facilities for the care a v an 1 m a of the unfortunate and afflicted, our farming industries, our manufactur ing industries; our commerce, our good roads, our wafer' power, our transportation facilities, when taken collectively make a great and won derful state. Right here there are two things to be born in. mind, one is that the progress of a state like all other things, does not stand still.. 'It either goes forward or it retrogrades. The other is that this present generation is responsible for. the future of our state, or greater North Carolina. We have made some wonderful strides in the past 20 years. While making such progress in one way we have lost sight of other things that are of equal importance. Our edueatonal and farming in terests have developed to the point where we needed better roads as our mode of travel has been revo lutionized in the past 20 years. Our people were shown the necessity of better roa'ds. Today, we have out lined and are building the best sys tem of roads in the United States. developed to the point where they must have increased transportation facilities so as to cheap the freight on their imports as well as their exports'. For example, within a radius of 50 to 75 miles of Charlotte there are several hundred textile mills,furni- ture factories and other industries, all of which use coal more orless. At Charlotte today you are paying approximately $14.00 a ton for' soft' coal, proportionately the same all over this radius of 60 or 78 miles. At Jefferson, Ashe County,- N. C. the same coal is selling today at $0 ton. A railroad built over the moun tains by way of Blowing Rock to Boone, there connecting with the Norfolk t Western which' brings coal into Jefferson, would place Jef ferfcaa end Charlotte less than' 150 miietUapsrt which at present by rail roadchey are about 500 miles apart You, at a glance,' can see. what a saving there would be on coal to this section ofthe state. This line would .penetrate the coal fields of coal alone would nay all additional tax of such a development and in a very few years would pay the prin cipal, and to further fortify our selves and our industries there should be a railrooad built from Ga lax, Ya. by way of Dobson, N. C, Elkin, N. C, Statesville, N. C. to a point near Denver, Lincoln county, N. ,C, there to intersect the road from Jefferson, Boone and Blowing Rock. At Galax, Va. you connect with the 'Norfolk It Western and are only 35 miles from Radford, Va., which is the gateway and southern outlet for the qpal, fields -of Virginia and West Virginia. This line would bring Radford, Va. far leas than 200 miles from Charlotte, a direct line to Cincinnati and Chicago. The two above spoken lines of railroad would cost but tittle to build, would open the coal fields of Tennessee, Virginia, and West-Vir ginia to North . Carolina by far the shortest route of any railroad. The cost of constructing these lines would be a nitre pittance when com pared to tho advantage to be derived therefrom, n They-'' bring jthe -whole Norfolk ft Western railroad -system in close and diret touch with this section. They bring the Louisville A Nashville railroad ystem in close touch also, both of which would be touch with greater North Carolina. Public improvements are like pit vate business, we will have, to admit there is always a certain , amount of selfishness. I think I have shown every citizen and every industry in this section where they- will be in svidually benefitted by these - im provements. '"' This line of constructive work will not only help our present minu factoring'; industries, - but it will broaden the fields of industry and induce hundreds of others to come I into our territory. Likewise, it will help the farming industry of this section. When our people once real iie these facta they 1 will v then see that this piece of constructive work is done, for it is a well known fact that we cannot have developments in production without developments in transportation. A line which will shorten the hauling of .coal into this territory , means much "to us from a financial and- progressive point of View. . : ' . W. T. SHIPP . Newton, November 8. ! WANTED to BUT year Beef Hidetw Will pay highest market prtoea Hoffman & J5oor Lenoir DEMOCRAT BUYS new Linotype Morgoathalor't "Brain Child" Adds Fiauhiaf Touch to Now Print Shop With a good deal of satisfaction the editor of The Watauga Democrat announces the installation of a new Model 14 Linotype. This mechani cal marvel is soeciallv eauinned with a complement of type faces which enables us to serve efficiently the large, number, of persons who look to our publication for enlight enment and entertainment arfd who patronize our job printing de partment. The ranidlv increasing Hrrnln. tion of The Watauga Democrat to gether wjth our desire to place at the command of our advertisers and others the highest grade of typogra phy, induced us to add to our me chanical equipment a multiple-magazine Ednotype for the quick and ac curate and pleasing presentation of the ryews of the day, and the produc tion of superior job work. Our new Linotype enables us to set by machine virtually all forms of composition that previously necessi tated tedious work by hand. Our plant ia now capable of turning out comnoaition ennntBtinir nf type faces in many different sizes,! ana the change from one size to an other is made by a "twist ofthe wrist."In the flicker of an evelaah the versatile onerator-whose hand is made famous by the Llergenthaler Linotype Company as "the hand that keeps the world informed"- on the versatile machine sets type of the following faces and sizes: "Democrat Ads Pay" "Democrat Adi P.v" . I "Democrat Ads Pay" "Democrat Ads Pav" 4mt?if Ann i m innit j I ion lUBMuiauun i a testimonial 10 the prosperity of Boone and vicinity. And tha the good people of the community are duly appreciative of our enorts to serve them in all de partments of the nrintinir burines. is manifested by the many compli ments received from individual pa trons since the arrival of our new machine. The accomoanvinr illustration will give our readers some idea of the marvelous mechanism fo. the Lino type, a composing machine on which are assembled matrices . (or little brass molds) and lines of type cast -lines such as you are now reading. l he particular model of machine we have just ' installed carries at one time four sets of matrices con trolled from S ntnnHsrH VavKoaril nt ninety' keys and an auxialary key keyboard of twenty-eight and gives mis upcntiiur . iiiBitiut command 01 568 different characters. Besides enabling the operator to set various faces and sizdB of type, our new Linotype makes it possible for him to produce all the rules and dashes and borders used in various advertisements in each is sue" of our publication. When em ployed in the comnosinff of tver. tlsements. newsnaner hearfimra. Knnk lets, catalogues, and various other unas oz printed matter, our new mo del 14 enables one operator to set in the same time mora tvna than mvM. narily eould be produced by five or six men or woftan Jhn tho k- hand and the eor position ia incom- 10 REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY Washington There will be 20 more remiblioann thnn Jpnu.t. l the next house of Representatives and 11 more republicans than demo crats in the new Senate, unless re suits indicated 'by practically com plete returns are overthrown. . In the-House the Republican ma jority over the combined democratic-and scattering vote will be 17, while in the Senate it will be 10. In the present Congress the Re publicans have a House plurality of 166 over the democrats and a ma-L jority of 1&6 over all. In the Sen ate the republicans' majority over the democrats is 24, with no scat tering votes. The line up ofthe new house as including 225 republicans and 207 democrats, was changed to 226 re publicans and 206 democrats today through a change in technical party affiliation by one of the successful ca'didates in the election. Repre sentative Guy E. Campbell of the 36th Pennsylvania district who in th past two campaigns has run as a republican democrat but who has been carried heretofore as a demo crat, requested the House clerk to list him hereafter as a republican. MRS. JAMES RIVERS ENTER TAINS SEWING CLUB Monday afternoon Mrs. James C Rivers was hostess to the member of the Young Ladies Sewing Olub at the attractive home of her sister Mrs. Jonn Sproles: The time was spent in sewing till late in the afternoon the hostess-ser ved her guests delicious salad course which was followed by a dessert. The members present were: Misses Nellie Coffey, Eula Hodges, . Marga ret Linney, Mae Greene, Vinrinia and Mary Councill, Ruth Benfield, Bcrnice Cook, Nita Winkler and Mrs Paul GVodwin. VIRGINIAN LEAVES $140,000 TO CAROLINA INSTITUTIONS Robert K. Smith died in Virginia recently and left $50,000 each to the University of North Carolina and Da vidson College and $10,000 each tb LutR-McRae School, Valle Crucis school, Glade Valley School and Cros nore school, or a total of $140,000 to mese institutions. Air. Smith was born in North Carolina but like ma ny others, in early business life yield ed to the beckoning of opportunity in other states and moved away. He succeeded in aliberal measure and now comes his thought and money to enrich his native wtate and its in stitutions. Statesville Landmark. parably better, While for a long time we have re ceived the patronage of a host of ad vertisers, subscribers, and "printing buyers in general, we look fsrward to the handling of an even gvedter volume of business now that we are so well qualified to render the sort of service most to be desired. It has been our aim to present the news of the day without fear or fa vor, and to reflect faithfully th e i- deals and ambitions of our constitu ents; and we shall continue. to devote our talents and resources to the f ul filling of this aim. And. of great help to us in the carrying out of our purpose will be our new Model 14 THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION President Harding Ittaa Thanks- .giving Proclantattooa at Tho... White House. Declaring that the state of the na tion "presents very much to justify a nation wide and more sincere tes timony of gratitude for the bounty which has been 'bestowed upon us," President Harding in the annual calls upon the American people to observe Thursday November 30 "as a day of thanksgiving, supplication and devotion. After calling attention to the cus tom of a day of Thanksgiving the President s proclamation says: "The year which now approaches its end has been marked in the ex perience of our nation, by a com plexity of trials and triumphs, of difficulties and of achievements, which we must regard as our inevit able portion in such an epoch as this through which all mankind is mov ing. As we survey the experience of the passing 12 months w shall find that our estate presents very much to justify a nation-wide and most sincere testimony of gratitude for the bounty which has been be stowed upon us. Though we have lived in the shadow of the hard con sequences of great conflict, our coun try has been, at peace and has been able to contribute toward the main tenance and perpetuation of peace in the world. We have seen -the race of mankind make gratifying progress on the way to permanent peace to ward order and restored confidence in"8 ftl?.n ae"'.ny' ... ror me divine guidance wnicn PI811?' led UB n raternity with other peoples to attain so much of progress for the bounteous yield which has come to us from the re sources of pur soil and our industry, we owe our tribute of gratitude and with it our acknowledgement of the duty and the obligation to our people and to the unfortunate the suffering and distracted of other lands. Let us in all humility acknowledge how great is our debt to the Providence which has generously dealt with us, and give devout assurance of unsel fish purpose to play a helpful and ennobling part in human advance ment. It is much' to be desired that in rendering homage for jje bless ings which have come to us, we should earnestly testify our contin ued and increasing aim t make our own great fortunes a" means of help ing and serving, asbest we can, the cause of all humanity. . "Now therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, do designate Thursday the thirtieth day of No vember, as a day of Thanksgiving supplication and devotion. I recom mend that the people gather at their family altars and in their houses of worship to render thanks to God for the bounties they have enjoyed and to petition that these may be con tinued in the year before' us." TRAINING SCHOOL ITEMS Rev. J. A. Downs assisted by Mr. Brawner, baritone, has been holding a very successful meeting at theEp iscopal Church during the past week. During this week these gentlemen conducted chapel exercises at the Ap palachian Training School and the talks and songs were greatly enjoyed by the students. The District stewards for the N. Wilkesboro District of the Methodist Church met in Boone last Friday. The first Quarterly Conference for the Boone charge met Friday night and the Presiding Elder- J. W.' Wil liams, preached Sunday night. The School examinations closed Friday and Saturday was named as a holiday thereby gTving many of the teachers and students a welcome chance to spend the week end at their homes or with friends. In a hotly contested basket ball game Friday night between a Cross nore School and the Training School the Training School was defeated the score being 28 to 34 This is among the first of the winter series of games which our students will play with local and other teams. A great many people from Boone and vicinity' attended the celebration at North Wilkesboro pn November 11th. Great preparations had been made for this event, and since the weather and roads were so fine large crowd was expected and an exceptionally enjoyable day antici pated. . J. M. Downum. MISS MORTON HOSTESS AT DINNER PARTY Miss Carrie Horton was hostess to a number of friends at a dinner party at her country home Sunday pf last week. Among those pres ent were: Misses Buth and Nelle Eiffey, Messrs G. I Uooat Baxter nneV an 'Dean. T . : :.:,'.-, f . Linnef art Dean Cr MAN'S ' NEW INVENTION M r. Rufaa Maltha, formerly of this PUco Perfects Electric Ditfe wathiag Machiae. ' ' Wisconsin State Journal Dishwashing drudgery the plague of housewives together with unsani tary diBhrags and the unpleasant fea ture of washing dishes or clothes by : hand can now be eliminated thanks to the inventions of R. L, Maltha and H. W. McKenzie of Black Earth. The inventors have been working together with Madisonians for month perfecting the details of patents' on a family dishwashing machine, said to be more practical and. economical than any similar device on the mar ket. Announcements v"f the inven tion were made here. Saturday. Although the Madison Gas and E- lectric Company have been approach ed to handle many dishwashing ma chines in this territory, they have se ected the machine of the local men in preference to others. The com pany will have charge of sales in . the city. One of the new machines is now on display at the gas compa ny show rooms. O. A. Meister, Black Earth me chanic, has been carrying on the me chanical work involved in the man ufacture of the machine.ufacture of the machine. Mr. Meister is in charge of thefactory established at' Black Earth. ' The present capacity of the factory is 10 machines per day. The output can be increased easily to meet the demand. Main offices for the new company have been established in Madison from which sales work will be direc ted. D. W. Heiney of Black Earth and A. T. Rose of Madison are oth ers interested in the -enterprise. While the Madison Gas and Elec tric Company will handle the sales work in Madison, the officials also expect in addition to market the product through their own salesmen. Since the 4ocal invention was made known, applications for sales territory have been made from all sections of the Btarte and from cit ies as far distant as the west coast. "We have 40 machines now prac tically completed," Mr. Rose declar ed in discussing the operations of the Black Earth factory. "Shortly we will be in a position to take care of any demand." The kitchen convenience has been called the "Family Electric Dishwash er" by its sponsors who have formed the Family Dishwasher Company to manufacture and market the ma chine. "Other companies have been man ufacturing dishwashing machines for hotel use many years," Mr. Maltba the inventor declared Saturday .'Our machine, is aimed however to take care of the demand of average fami lies for an electrjc dishwashing ma chine which will wash dishes quickly, conveniently, and at a small cost." The Family Electric Dishwasher is built table high and occupies a floor space 18 by 24 inches. It is attrac tively finished in white enamel. One of the big advantages of the local machine over other machines in the market, according to the inven tor, is that only a teakettle of water and about a teaspoon of soap pow der or flakes are needed for ordinary use. The machine will wash the de licate and fragile glassware as well as kitchen utensils without damage. Mr. Maltba declared. The principle of the machine ia - based on a specially designed series of paddles,- arranged in a special trough. Water is thrown by the paddles against the dishes which are placed in racks in the upper part of the machine. A small electric motor, supplying the motive power, is hidden from view. ..THE STATES RESPECT FOR. . WOMEN The general impression was that a woman entering the political are na would subject herself to the pro miscuous abuse and rough handling traditionally accorded candidates for for public office. But in the elec tions of 1920 and 1922 in North. Carolina, it was developed that tho . chivalry of the people yet prevails and that in the case of women there WATAUGA is a disposition to observe the pro prieties. It is a source of gratifica tion that during the course of her campaign when' Mrs. Lindsay Pat-' terson took the stump "like a man" she was conscious of no indignity, nor was she made victim of so much as an unpleasant remark. Thefact has been quite surely demonstrated that' woman can enter politics in North Carolina and maintain her self , respect. In short, woman on tho stump in this state holds the urn place in public mind as woman in the home.; Woman in politics' ia' North Carolina finds , hex surrouaaVi ings, measurably , agreeable, if r"5 antgether coexf orttilo, Cc "I - .-it-