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Q Established in 1888. A Non-Partitan Family Newlpaper. Devoted to the Best Interettt of Boone, and Watauga County, "the Leader of Northwestern Carolina." Published Weekly VOLUME XXXIV BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH. CAROLINA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1922. NUMBER CHILE'S EARTH- NEW BOOKS FOR QUAKE VICTIMS RURALSCHOOLS .A Most Interesting Bulletin prepar-IList of Forty Text Books Selected ed and Issued By The National Hickory Asks Committee to Look Over Edgemont Route Geographic Society at Washing 'ton, D. C. n m:.. M.., r p.i.. f . it.. V"" I . .1.. ... T T1.A in the Rural Schools of the state Legislative Committee investigating rroiect re to of North Carolina. I -. ,. .. . ,. , l o. l oil .1 .il l visit nicKory ana otuay rrooiem at rirsi nana; North Carolina General Assembly to conduct an investigation and report on the advisability of selling the rail road stocks now owned by the State Copiapo, Coquimbo, and Vallenar, Raleigh Dispatch Nov. 22 The Chile, shaken by earthquake are de-1 North Carolina Library Commission scribed in a bulletin from the Wash-1 today announced a list of forty books ington, D. C. headquarters of the! for rural schools. The selections National Geographic Society as fol-lwere made by Miss Mary B. Palmer in - M 1 . r lows: I secretary, as a course oi reading iori R s tr r.r.i.p.v "Uopiaco is unite s most nistonc i pupns in smaii institutions ana werei Tlll. oii T..i.itii. Pnmwiittoo town," says the bulletin, which is based on the graded list of books for I nnnintaA af tun iOEf Boaenn nt the -... " : l: i. iu. o. .l:u il. XT.t: i r-j : I "f""-" . DBScd on a co.-.mu.ncttwo-i vu me ou- ciinurcu ui uie nnuuiim uuucauuu ciety by Harriet Chalmers Adams.'- I Association. "William Wheelwright an Ameri-1 The list follows: can in 1851 built the first railroad in I Grades first to third, Aesop Fables South America from the port of Cal- James Baldwin, Fifty Famous Stories lf North Carolina and invest the pro. oera, ou miies iniana to opwpu. ie neo a; ns en Dimer.,m, oiuiy ui ceedg Jn th(J construction of a railroad little stream which borders it, now I Little Black Sambo; F. J. Cooke, Na- tha ,.rn(.t prnvin(.p, nf nearly dry, now m full flood was our ture Myths and Stories for Children; western North Carolina with other first oasis after crossing the parched Edward Eggleston, Stories of : Great sect5on8 of the state has been ex. desert of Atacama. To travelers of Americans; E. 0. Grover, Overall! . .. SnvStnHnn t visit Hirkorv old as to us this strip of meadow Boys; J. H. Hearen, Rhymes and Fa- , , '. . tn iha inabilities offered land was a God given sight. bles; Songs and Stories; M. F. Lan- . . through this section into "To Copiapo in the fifteenth cen-1 sing, Rhymes and Stories; Rose Lucia I .fv, nnnaa . .i t .. t.i m It. . j t.,i o 1r ir I umwnwreiii tury, marcnea tne mean nuier, lupac reter ana ro iy in summer; m. y . T- invitation wa9 gent to the com. XUpar.qui, witn nis victorious army, unea, six nursery uubb, uiu ifct fc president j. A Moretz of to subiueate the tribes of northern I Wonder Stories; Mrs. L. F. Perkins, I., .,.... ,vv. n .VSlrt I rinfrtV. Twimo chnl nlif in Koa.l , 7" t d ; rr.7 following the adoption of a resolution , Tale of Peter Rabbit;! t ? . . Ai.ra f n. a. ocuuuer, uua ux semi-monthly meeting last week. The Folk Stories; R. L. Stevenson, Childsl. . 0 nllfV, tho rnpp. Garden of Verses; H. T. Margaret .. . . cue of Pizzaro, traveled the same and Free Treadwell, Reading Liter- mif, ,t- will h- i road with a great army of Spaniards I ature, both primer and reader; Chas.l Uo 'is, if. and Peruvians, horses and llamas, two Welsh Mother Goose Nursery Rymes Jf invitation , accepted by incan princes acting as gu ues. ceue wyiey, luou.er Ui.. hfi , Uye committee it is under bid Spanish chronicles tell of the! Grades fourth to seventh: Alcott, I , ... . . . , terrible suffering from cold and thirst Little Men, Little Women; Anderson brdV endured by Almagro. men on the Fairy Tales; F.J. Olcott'a edition i six months march. The desert was I of Arabian Nights; A. J? . urown in strewn with their bones. Alluring! the Days of Giants; Browning Pied were Copiapo's meadows to those who Piper of Hamehn ; Lewis Carrol, Al- h construction of the A I I ton'o A HvAnTiivna in r ha AArtrlarlann I "Amagro failed to subdue the sou-1 Craik, Little Lame Prince; Defone, thern natives and five years later I Life of Robinson Crusoe ; Mrs. Mary Route Proposed That Will Belt the North western Counties at Small Public Cost. Chile, "The Inca's trail from Peru led down the backbone of the snow clad Andes and across the burning desert In 1535 Diego de Almagro, a collea in effect, provide a belt line around the western part of the State. Beginning at Edgemont, the pres ent terminus of the Carolina & North western, the proposed line would, in volve the construction of the road through the Carey Flats to Blowing Rock; thence to Boone, where con nection would be made with the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina giving an outlet to Johnson City and Bristol, Tenn. From Boone the line would be built to West Jefferson and Jefferson, con necting with the Virginia Carolina road at Abingdon, Va., or it could connect up with this line at Elkland From Jefferson it would be necessary to build the road to Sparta, where it would connect with the Elkin & Al leghany road from Sparta to Elkin The plan would contemplate the com pletion of this road. At Elkin the proposed road would connect with the Southern railway's Wilkesboro- Greensboro-Winston-Salem line, mak ing a complete belt line around the northwestern section of the State. This line, it is claimed, would serve the counties of Watauga, Ashe, Alle ghany, Wilkes and Surry at a mini mum cost to the State. line into the "Lost Provinces." It is claimed that the route through Tjr:i-.-.. t toi t a Spanish army was again encamped Dodge, Hans Brinker; Grimms House- ff economical as well as fa Copiago, led this time by Pedro hold Stories; Harris, Uncle Renuls, nyS0"tZ 'In the halcyon days of '49 when Lorenzini, Adventures of Pinocchio ; I . ,. , . npasiBrv f rnn. t m T : l ei .1 . . 1 1.. I - " . " - j " - j - nect up the seperate links and would, California's gold lured men round the! Page, Two Little Confederates; Pyle, horn. Valparaiso became the great I Some Merry Advenures of Robin mart of the Pacific coast supplying I Hood ; Johanna Spyri, Heidi; Wiggin flour and other commodities to the! Posey Ring; Wyss, The Swiss Fam- California miners. My pioneer gran-1 ily Robinson. lather used to tell me of those ev -..tlnl A n ITn U7Vln a TIT Q O 1TI 171.. lo in iho PJirlv fifties CoDiano was an I Mrs- W- H- Felton of Geor&ia took road connection for the mountainsec- MOUNTAIN GLORIES IN FALL MONTHS Wild Riot of Color No Conservatory Would be Able to Duplicate. Fogs Chill on west coast.. In Adiron dacks Lakes Already Frozen Over (By R. P. Harris Saluda, N. C. There has never lived an artist with the power topor tray the scenes of the mountains of western North Carolina for the past month. Victor Hugo's description of the battle of Waterloo is said to be the best piece of description ever penned, yet his power would be to tally inadequate to convey to a rea der the beauty of this section in the fall of the year. . Of the thousands of tourists who travel these mountains in the sum mer months, there is not one of them LINDSAY PATTER SON DIES SUNDAY Prominent Attorney Passes at Ho in Winston- Salem. Holder of Vm( Properties in Watauga. Intermmt in Caldwell County. Mr. Lindsay Patterson, prominent lawyer and business man of Winston 1 Salem, died at his home in that city Sunday evening at 6 o'clock after a short illness. No man possibly was better known in Watauga than he and was held in high eseem by all. He was per haps the largest land owner in the county, and while he did not live here, he was a great friend to Wa tauga, and always took a lively inter est in her welfare. He made quite a visit to his big holdings on Long Hope and the "Big Bald last sum-' who has an idea of their beauty un- j mer and on his return remarked to less they have seen the foliage in the fall. , Now that the automobile is the popular mode of travel the time is approaching when the people through out North and South Carolina will begin to spend their week-ends dur ing the fall in this part of the state. Hotels are beginning this year to remain open later in the season and once the people realize the won derful fall weather here, they will remain later, and the tourist season will be lengthened from the first of September to the first of November. Wild Riot of Colors For the past two months in this section there has been a floral exhib it of wild nature that cannot be dup iicated in any conservatory in the world.. There is not a picture ex hibited in any saloon that has the The Democrat that it was the most lovely section of this entire moun tain region and promised himself ma ny more happy trips to his mountain haven. The remains of deceased were bur ied in the Happy Valley Caldwell County, Tuesday, where if we are not mistaken, he was born and rear ed, f THE SMALL TOWN SHOWS. THE MOUNTAIN RAILROADS With realization that the commit tee appointed by the Legislature to look into the matter of making rau- s .-.f i.o,iT. v.d ir.ni.ft.lthe oath of office on the 21st as theltion is nronosine to function to some pean opera season with Santiago and I fist woman United States Senator, purpose, interest in the project is nr.. I She was appointed last September to I beinc manifested bv medmon ;owns. serve until the November election in I which are cominer forward with Dlans the place of Senator Watson, de- by which they may be included in the ceased. On November 7th Walter! raii iavinr. The committee is aD- F. George was elected as her suc-l pointed on behalf of the North Caro cessor to fill the unexpired term of hjna Railroad Company whose stock Senator Watson. I if Was nroDosiid to sell and anDlv to railroad building. Mr. Arthur J. rirnnpr nf Charni.tp is nnp mpmhpr. Pierce Butler of St. Paul, Minn. I Mni w r itPIlth nf Mnnrn. is nn. Valparaiso "Wheelwright's dream was of a transcontinental railway across the Andes to Tinogasta, ia Argentina, and on to the Atlantic, but the road never got far beyond Copiago "This great American also gave Chile its telegraphic system and after failing to interest American capital 4 .r.l.!n linn V nlltrrtriM Vnlnnw. iiso and New York turned to Eng- nas been nominated b " esident " her; Coton el lenehan Cameron of SS al inlLra t'eJ in the earlv s Associate Justice of the Supreme Stagv'iUe is a third. Mr. Tam Bowie .ivfin. tv, firs Efpan,Pr RPrvlPP he-1 Court to till tne vacancy maae Dy tnei 0 jefTersoni originator of the bill dia uvu mv niuf ,-- . - i p a i . . . i ; i tween the west coast and Europe "In 1832 a donkey driver, Juan Godoy discovered a silver deposit at Copiapo and put the long-neglected town on the map "Godoy's story reads like a roman ce. resignation of Associate Justice Day. is a fourth and the fifth is from New Bern. This committee has held sev erally meetings and has gone over three proposed routes into the moun tains, and has, it is understood, come into a fairly good appreciation of the situation. The probabilities are that the committee may map out a plan of railroad connecting and building that will appear feasible to the Leg- flflttlini. raHa nf 4-Vto -.alra nni tha Kril. No intimation has yet been made ,innf n. tha Annona regarding the committee's probable tles of iant treea dotti the moun. recommendation regarding the con-Lnina T RfanH mnllntnin v H x'WM Vipro nH lnnlr nf fho vnaf nnnnrnmn i. u..i. ri 1 I " v WCBLern tuuiitlCO, uui it 13 icit nere nf rintino- mIah i o man nnnnnol. A . L 1 1 J iL . M iL 1 !1J I v O .avw wvv. w i.iii,vUHt inat snou.a me repon xavor me ouiia led in t xhe uce ing of a line the route as outlined nnj ninoa rAAr nJ would render the greatest service at tain ,aurel8f are the hmmt p0881Oie Hpenuiun oj. ereen o the 8Urnmer with the reds muiiey. 1 flj nurtje nf tbe shumarks. oaks. maples and sourwoods, lying with the CLEAN UP, PAINT UP AND browns of the chestnuts and the yel- ABOVE ALL, LOOK UP lows of the hickory-nut, poplar sea ley-bark and other giants present a The following from the Manuf ac- vast pallet of color that cannot be turers Record should be read and I described by man the advice heeded by many of we For two months the weather has Boone people: been ideal and there have been only If every town in the south would four days of rain in that time, and imitate most of the towns in Florida two of those days the sun was out the South would become noted thru- part of the time. There have been out the world for the beauty and only three light frosts and the days charm and cleanliness of its towns, are like ideal summer weather. It "Cleanliness it has been said,, is has not been cold enough for an ov next to Godliness. A dirty individ- ercoat this fall and very few of the ual is neither clean spiritually nor houses have had a fire in ' the day mentally. Dirt makes for ruin phys- time. The nights hover around 40 ically, mentally, morally. This is as which calls for an evening fire and true of a town as of an individual, blankets are drawn up for comfort. rubbish, of untidy houses, of mud- Incomparable Climate dy streets, or insanitary conditions, The writer has been in practically "We passed the ruins of long ab andoned stone dwellings, occupied, perhaps, in those remote days of pre Incan rule when these mountains had Tired of loading his train of I not r;snn to their Dresent heicht and donkeys with scanty brushwood for I this region was in the corn belt. town customers, he started across! . "Continuing south from Copiapo the nnmna to hunt the rovine eua-l i;tti v.,r littu tV.o dwrt flnra orew naco. Sitting on a rock to rest he from tufts 0f grass and stunted bush Mature and that will give the great Hisrnvered that his seat was of sil-L toil tc,a.a nnr. mrti nf mnnv I est amount of satisfaction to the peo- -m. i ! I ... I I wv i L-f iif imnnl t nrv irnirt f ver. Keturning nome witn specimens varieties, one with a great red bloom. I "c "'va .v.u he shared the knowledge of his dis- At Vallenar we entered a wide irri- people ot Ashe, Alleghany, Watauga covery with an educated acquain- gated vaney emerald green with al- a"u ""Kes- " 's uueis;u tance who aided the ignorant man faifa( and vines heavy with those I tnat the Proposition to dispose of the to make the most of his find. God- iusci0us white grapes whose equal State's holding of stock m the North oy became the Silver King ot that j have found in no other part of the l ranrouu as ut-eu vaciuy au- period. I world I anaonea uul inere is unaer consiaera- It was hard for us to visualize Co-1 xhe vine, brought originally in uo" A iu.uhchik me piapo's past splendor in the forlorn colonial days from Spain, is now cul- project, the merits of which will be little town that we lound. nan tneiHvnt.. thrnncrbont n extensive ter- ,Ci' - -m -"iiiuuui. . mio i.t-B' buildings were still in ruins, after the I rjtory. The French vine popular in disastrous earthquake of the previ-! certain provinces, was introduced in ous year. The hotel, kept by a sad-1 the fifties. Chilean wines are cele laced Englishman had a decided tilt. I brated throughout Spanish America. Doors and windows were jammed and I jjere the manufacture of wine is re- window panes missing. Our host a-1 garded as a national industry and pologized for candle-light, saying the I f ew advocates of prohibition place gas pipes were still out of commission I iiKht wine and beer on the blacklist. . ..... i. i i. . ; l I . . . . ... . ... Thn ctnno hnrn tun reacnea dv a tick-i At tvio w nor nm the nncrtitii- flitrbt of stens. had a somewhat Linoi roiinmv crives twist seaward I would this not be building around tipsv appearance. to serve the charmingly situated lit- the State Wilkes? We would not "But the Copiapmos nave not lost tie town of La Serenarand Coquim-I , , , u" """" 6' . i Li I . I friiriif f nof f no ovf nn oinn nf thn n rn. courage. More tnan once earwiqua-i bo, its port. I,- xt i. ... . kes have completely demolished the As you sail down the Pacific coast lina Northwestern might involve Tn tbis land where the ex-l ...... o cnw fn verdure nt Gun-1 negotiations on part of the State with nun... v...- - - I juu di fev-. w - " . . . .. . . ... ... . . treme infrequence of showers is a yaquil; then follows the long stretch ine owners oi mat property in wnicn i...iui.in tbev bave come to believe Aa- .noof tfarnnirh Peru nn nor-1 complications might be involved. It K0f onrfVimiAtcPA are forerunners oiUk oin rhile Tt is nnlv as vou near e setter to let tne owners i. ..in Between nnakes r hf oan fioi.a no-nin I build to a connection with the state ..... . .!. j? I I onrernrise There are nrhor nenrwr. how look to tne east. WatcnillE luricrreet vnil. I -.-r-- - -- - - is non-progressive, materially, mor ally and educationally. Neither moral nor material advancement flou- every state of the United States yet nowhere has he discovered such a climate as this section of North Car islature The Chamber of Commerce of Hickory wants a hearing on a propo sition to extend the Carolina and Northwestern from Edgemont to al connection at Boone and Jefferson and Sparta, thence to pick up the Elkin & Alleghany , which would car ry the loop back into Elkin. But a heavv fall of snow in the Andes. Then the rivers run full and the fields smile. "From Copiapo a trail across the desert leads to the mountains, so sterile, gaunt and forbidding; yet there is a majesty in the Andean contour. From our bleak upland ' camp at the sunset hour the coloring of alones and crags was gorgeous be yond adjectives to describe., Pink deepened to rose; rose to terra cotta turra cotta to purple. Then each towering peak became a sentinel guarding a mysterious Promised Land o .nf,,r,, or,, o hlf Cn. I es unnnisned and in a condition oi ho. hoon famed . a Tnininir laieness in wnicn tne state we se center. One of our North American pve - owns stock, which night be steel companies has developed a re- , ounaing markable iron property in the gigan- out from Boone and picking up the tic Tofo mines, where ore taken from Watauga & Yadkin River Railroad - mn,,..in f irnn hv steam Rhovef.l vaiug, uic saw cuuiu cume iniu rt. j- .,-,,. h r, elertrirallv one. Wilkesboro over a line already large- ted railroad to the pier and loaded & completed. Then the Statesville directly, through cars into specially "P.an" " J,'a effamer. med into Elkin, and the Elkin & n k rho railroad ,,. Alleghany run into Sparta. There tw innnmntives are good many economical condi urged our train up the steep grade tions that might be advantaged of to the cumbre, the rack system be-1 to tne mamng oi tne mountain ran ing used lor some SO miles. I road proposition entirely practicable. rish in dirty unkempt dwellings or olina. California boasts always of in unkempt towns. its unrivalled climate, yet it cannot "If any town or city is ambitious I compare with this. Colorado which for advancement or if a few of its is the mecca for those stricken with men and women are ready to devote I tuberculosis, falls too far short for their time and energy to the better-1 comparison. The Adirondacks of up munt of the community, the surest I per New York come the nearest to way to achieve success is to clean upl approaching this for scenery in the make back yards and front yards fall months. Yet that is only an clean, make streets clean and keep imitation of what we have here, and them clean, encourage the people California has its chilling' fogs for white and black alike, to beautify weeks. Colorado has been snowed their homes and their yards, stim- under a blizzard of sleet and ice and ulate a love for and a pride in their the Adirondacks have already had homes and in their towns, repair the zero weather, with some of the lakes tumble down yard fences, paint up, frozen over. Yet here in the moun- muke things as clean outside as they tains of North Carolina there are should be inside, and then that com- hundreds of children running around munity will look yp, mentally, mor-lin their bare feet and too warm to ally and materially. wear a coat over their shirt during "No community which does not the days. clean up and paint up, which does There will be a time when the not do its best to have clean streets people of the South realize that they and clean yards, has any right to are committing a crime against their look up and face the world. tubercular patients by sending them "A cheap coat," said President to the vaunted sections of Arizona, Harrison, "makes a cheap man." New Mexico, Colorado and Adiron- In the same way it might be said a dacks. Right th5re within a day's dirty town makes a dirty people; a travel they have a sanitorium pre dirty people makes moral and ma- pared for them by nature that can- terial dirt and decay. It is the du- not be equalled anywhere in the ty of all men and women to make world, including the famed sections their homes and their home towns of Switzerland. Climate is the main just as clean and attractive and beau- consideration in the treatment of tu tif ul as possible. He who falls short berculosis and the most wonderful in this respect falls short of his duty climate to be found is right at the to God and man, it matters not what door of the southern people. There else he may do. " I are doctors in this section that are equal to specialists anywhere. With On the 21st instant the Planters this climate a patient can remain out Tobacco Warehouse with a .large a- of doors at all times of the year and mount of tobacco, 450 bales of cot- never encounter the fogs of Califor ton and two residences in Goldsboro nia, the shrivelling heat of Arizona were destroyed by fire. New Mexico with their dust storms the terrific changes of temperature and the hicrh altitude nf Cnlnrndn nor Windsor Castle has been for more Ll. nrti wpnthpr of the Adirondacks tnan BUU years, a royal residence. in the winter.- Charlotte News. Louisville Courier Journal. Not upon Broadway, New York or in Louisville and other cities of it class, are found the worst of public entertainments and worst morally. The carnivals which go from one small city or town to another are described by a contributor to the American City as being a far great er evil than public entertainments of the most objectionable class in the large cities. These marauders, as the writer terms them operate gambling devices controlled electrically in the interest of the operator, and sell children lemonade made of citric acid, red dye and dirty water, in which thou sands of hps touch the slice of lem on that is used over and over again till worn out. In addition to fleecing the general attendance and subjecting the chil dren to grossly insanitary condi tions, the carnivals contain organ ized prostitution in connection with Living Pictures, Dancing Mermaids Oriental Dancing and the Hawaiian Hoola-Hoola, performances in them selves often too obscene to be de scribed in matter passing through the United States mails. The carnival problem is one of public health and not one of the moral health of communities merely. According to The American Cty these traveling shows have in the smaller American centers of popula tion an aggregate attendance of more than 18,000,000 annually, and' until public sentiment has been aroused to the many evils that re sult from their existence prohibitory legislation will not be enacted by State Legislatures. Will prohibitory legislation ever be enacted? Would it be .valued, and if valid, would it be defensible? It is easily within the power of any town or city to regulate public entertainments for the prevention of such practices as The American City describes. If local public opin ion in the smaller cities were suf ficiently opposed to them they could be handled effectively. Where the small town show is as vile as it is described by The Ameri can City, its vileness reflects equal vileness in small town politics and government. A few small towns have proceed ed informally, and perhaps illegally, to require of strolling players ap pearance before a health officer to determine whether they should be quarantined. But that "progressive" measure suggests connivance at com mercial vice as one of the enter prises in which carnival managers engage. The carnivals and kindred shows should be regulated by municipali ties not prohibited by states through laws which, inevitably, would pro hibit harmless performances along with harmful ones. The Observer believes a railroad plan for serving the mountain sec- Canada is succeeding well in her plans to prevent 'the extinction of The inscription on the tomb of President Garfield is this: "Life's race well run, Life's work well done; Life's crown well won, Now comes rest." Denver, Colo., is having a scourge , of smallpox, and compulsory vacci nation is in force. More than 100 . have died there of the diseue with in a short while. .. ..... ... , . ... . i vv r - ' t tions ana tne state win oe Buomittea antelope in thfe west. The reserve to the Legislature in such shape that created at Foremast, Alta. in 1918 will invite the word to "go to it." I with 50 animals in captivity now Charlotte Observer. holds 130 head. Wm. H. Vanderbilt came into pos session recently on his 21st birthday of the property left him by his fath er who lost his life in the sinking of- the "Lusitania." v - . beyond the Andes.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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