? # ^ A Non-Partisan Familv - ? - VOLUME XXXV. VIRGINIA GETS NATIONAL PARI Secretary Work Recommends Site i tfte Shenandoah Region Rugged mess and Isolation Barred Smok Region. Washington, D C.?Selection o the Bh;< Ruljre Mountains ?>f Viypiii ia iu- the site for the first jcroai na tional ark of the peast of the ea> La? bee*? announced by Hccivtar Work of the interior department wh proposed that it be established am named the Shenandoah National Par The region was declared the mos desirable because of its scenic, hi; tone and recreational qualities am because it is within a day's travc of more than $10,000,000 population The choice was named on a rvpor to tr.?- secretary from the Sou then Appalachian National. Paik Commit tee rieaded by Representative H W Temrdo ??f Pennsylvania, which dur toy the i- t eight months has mad nr e: tensive tour of inspection i the great Smoky .Mountain cf Tenrie X;.:th < a am Virginia w.-n described si:? -r':?? to Hh " Ridge mo ..in i tudc a 1 cir' other \ atun . ih latti - . "i.i y tv v . ui'O'1 tc:. < < .nmnitfce* ' fnv?n\ Hop. Vas < xpress**.<1 hv the committee tha / But! ? oi:a! ah i rk would !?< os ^tab1 d and that it s^ucce. wil r;.g< congress to curat'' a set ourk at the Smoky Mountain which lie some MOO miles distant t< |h< Plthwo-t. Although effort wa: jgnade t.o estimate the cost of tin Blue Ridge aiva which embraces 70( dkptarf miles in eighty counties be 4>vi *v, Front ttnyal and Waynesbor< fth'. comm it toe expressed belief thai ."through constructive cooperation be Virginia and some large land -" own* i s. reasonable prices and prob xbly some donations might be expec jted. A suggestion was advanced tha rFhouhi congress approve the site. J somtnittOQ be appointed to handle th? {purchase, solicit contributions and ai rang, necessary condemnation pro feedings. ' C Primeval forests, picturesque can . yons and gorges and an animal re , jfuge of national prominence are fea ij* tares . 1* tin- selected location. Tha mountains overlook valleys where tha battles of the devolution were fough ni!(J rtllCiC tmi (" "HiClli: . r-i . born, lz is traversed by two highway: and the committee pointed out th< possibility of constriict ing h sky lin< commanding a view of the Piedmon plain a id stretching to Washington. There are seventeen national park in the west and Secretary Work t-ail ed attention to the need of a grea outdoor recreation ground in the eas appointed the committee and reques ted that the site chosen should cove not less than 500 square miles ant | contain scenery typical of the regioi "The committee has been impress ed with the amount of interest man ifested in al! sections of the east iz the promised park/' its repivsenta tivc stated that this interest has re r suited in numerous requests that th< committee inspect various areas Many of these requests pertain to lo calities that have ahundant scenic ie. lures but which are riot of sufticien size to warrant their being consider cd lor a national park. Wo found many areas which couli well he chosen hut the committee wa chanted with the responsibility o selecting the beat, all things eonside ed. Of these sevral possible sites th great Smoky Mountains because o the beighth of the mountains, dept of the valleys, ruggedness of the are and the unexampled variety of tree shrubs and plants, was very impresive. The Smoky Mountains howeve had some handicaps which woul make the development of thera int a national park a delay; their ver ruggedness and height make road an ot her park developments a serious ui dertaking a- to time and expenses. "It will surprise the American pe pie to learn that a national park sue as the suggested Shenandoah pari with fine scenic and recreational quj ities can be four.d within a three hot ride of our national capital and will f. in a day's ride of forty million of or inhabitants. It has many canyons an gorges, with beautiful caseadin streams. The greatest single featui however is a possible skyline dri\ along the mountain top following continuous ridge and looking dow K Hfe Newspaper Published in ar I SO P#*r Ycr BOONE, SAMUEL GOMPFRS WILL BE LAID TO REST TODAY r ^ Att??rict? Federation of Labor Chieftain Who Died in San Antonio on n Saturday Interred in New York. y' Funeral services for Samuel Gom' pets, aged president of the American ! Federation of Labor who died in San ,f J Antonio Tex a.- on Saturday, wili be ! belt! at the rooms of the Elks Lodfce | in New York today at nine. The re, ! I'crious services will he conducted by j v Rabbi Stephen A. Wise, arid the eu-j o| W*U fe delivered by .James Dun-I d | can first vice president of the Am-1 i.. ricur. Federation of Labor. | The ieli^ioos services in the lodge, ._! l ooms will conform to the Elks ritual , jj' while those at the grave in Sleepy i ,); Hollow cemetery, wil! follow the Ma , -onic ritual. ,j. ] A lar^e delegation of American j n' Federation of Labor officials, com-; nosed of representatives of the bc.il-I ding trades, meta1 trades, labor and . railway department, will leave Wash . ?"i 'oniuincA mr. r rayne saiu, i" f meet the funeriii train on its arrival , at Ciucinatti Tuesday morning and i ..^'Company the body to the nation's scapital. When the train leaver V.'i hi- at miiir.nr.t T-.n -day tbir.j -.: eg i about 300 1 uJ accompany it to Now | ? V--?: Jn t- - r(\ funeral. f AROLIN A STILL HAS HOPE FOR A NATIONAL PARK Superior of Slhtc 's Mountains nil Good KoaiSr< to H&vr Weight j | 1 ? Misjht Donate the Land Raleigh. Dec. 1 i. Members ?.f the j j delegation which recently visited j Washington in the interest of the na-i tional park which seems by recent j ~ i papers to be head.d toward Virginia [ do not lose hope aiui there are two, capital circumstances favoring North ^ Carolina. First place, ail Washington agrees that North Carolina has far! the more beautiful country and in j the Hceotui place the state ha . roads ;l f The Washington authorities gavel the delegation to understand that the1 government would expect to receive the land by donation. Everybody beI lieves thai North Carolina has morej ! money to put into land than Virgin-, i ta nas ana mat a nonn C arolina ieg-; i islature would inore quickly meet the', national conditions by purchasing the: : <*al estate and the assembly would I appropriate more generously than! would Virginia and ih&t first great test could be quickly met. it the Government will accept a substitute it will put to the credit of a state the roads which the govvninont would be forced to construct j North Carolna has her.- and a state \ .:',h\vay commission which can build * more. These two great conditions can . easily met and the hotel visitors *?vho have read today's news somej . hat xurowly think when the stale presents this side the Congress will . take serious thought of it. There i> no discouragement here 1 anu North Carolina will fight. oil. It is believed that the state tan get ihe land needed very cheaply because hardly any large tract is made valuable by thickly populated towns or even villages. Fact is the country j L" is very sparsely settled. The state rather expected the preliminary recommendations though they hurt for; s all that. t . j . BWJNOE BESS OPINES | "Wher the boss refers to circura' j stances not under his control?I just 5 I know he is talking of his wife." Ij ? ^ I Stamprding Tre?iure Seeker* ' Stopped by Koyt( Mounted Police h _ a Starnpeders, traveling by automo?; bile, dog teams and afoot to the ^ I Cassiar placer district strike in Brirjtiah Columbia, have been stopped on d | the international boundary line north Q of Wrangell, Alaska by the royal Cay nacian mounted police and refused ^ permission to travel to the scene of j operations by way of Stikine, Tel-I egraph Creek and the Dease lake! ? trail until March. The order to head j k off the winter rush was issued to ??| prevent hardships and privations with ^ out proper provision at Oassiar. ir i- westerly on the Shenandoah Valley ir from 2500 to 3,500 feet below and d also commanding- a view of the Piedmont plain stretching easterly to the Washington monument, which lande mark of our national capital may be a' eon on a clear day. Few scenic drivsj n| ,i the world could .-urpass it.*' id for Boone and Wataugj WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C; rj The First Ch Once upon a time a poor cfian Vis wife and children. Sometime the tiny home At these times k The winters in the country wh cold So cold for days tiiat th forest, and get wood to born int< The winter that I am going t< this. It was late in December had nothing but gruel once a d? igiod in their bed of fir tips to h On the fifth day the Father w While he was away the Mother She returned with n great arm 1 children stuck a branch in a era 3 their Mother was getting grain fi i 1,,,rt T he Father name home at e g It mad** h?rn remember the day I u.u:... A . r .? !rh- > '.vcr.1 v.'.de-ry-;-g. r b . ' c < what she was rloin? ;:he >ld ? ! 'ft! .jvoniiii; they b>gi?od their I*. Child. Many neighbors told the many homes were decorat- d w it One year the Father broup' f. 1 it it> the home. It was tc Sake had always been put near the ch Soon all the (oiks in the forej Christmas. The custom spread t< One Christmas morning the clii! of paper ti< d to the tree. Thei they opened it. there was some di How happy they were. Other ! on the followinif Christmas then in the forest people's homes. This was many many years ag even to this day. I KRAUT INDUSTRY ii (By F. M. Jeter in Chi ii This its n story of accomplishment. It should contain a number of references co treopge Boss, head of the state division of markets, to John L>. Steele. county agent fur the state college fit ens inn division in Watauga, and to 5 iworkers of the horticultural divuion who saw the possibilities of mountain cabbage and helped the Blue Ridge Ftiritters" Asuciation of Boone, X. C. to organize I and to begin the manufacturing and! successful marketing of the bests kraut that hits ever been placed bo-j fore the exacting* epicurean. The commercial production of J kraut in Watauga county began with the activities of county agent Steele early in 1923. Mr. Steele knew that I he cabbage of his mountain couVnry had a crispness and flavor thai was unexecelled. He! found that his farmers were not getting the price that they should get for these cabbage. It was a long haul to market and unless cabbage are crisp and fresh no matter how good they might be, the market would not pay a price to justify the haul. Therefore the cabbage growers of the section around Boone had no outlet for their product. Cabbage and the Blairs They did, too, in a small way , For several generations the Blairs \ of Boone had made kraut. Those j who moved away sent back to Boone j for such kraut as was "fit to eat. Tl.e kind they bought elsewhere was not good. It had no flavor, was lifeless and tasteless. It could in | no way compare to the fine kraut j made by the Blairs of Watauga. So, with the cabbage and the! Blairs, there was no reason, thought Mr. Steele, why he could not organize the farmers so that the cabbage could be manufactured into kraut with H. Neil Blair as kraut maker,] and thus sell the fine crisp cabbage j as a finished manufactured product. Acting on this thought, the cabbage growers were organized into the Blue Ridge Farmers* Association with H. Neil Blair as krautmaker and Jno. B. Steele as advisor and helper wherever and whenever he could be of assistance. Ninety growers joined the a Ba a County, the Leader of N >KOLiNA, THURSDAY DECEMBER on II OH* 1 III fel ristmas Tree coal burner lived :r? a wood with s there was not enough food in tis babies went hungry to bed. .ere these people lived were very e Father could no*, go into the 0 charcoal. 1 tell you about was on- like For four days the kiddies had ly. Every night they had sttug;eep warm. rent into the forest to get wood, gathered fir tips tor a now bed. oad. While playing, one of the ck in a wall of the- hut. W'hile or gr-.i !, his little brother copied ..nl the frr tips ail about i it v r Christmas. He told 's?!$ v r.o w.ti born in Bethlehem. y crawled into bed that night; er haa brought home a rabbit. { * ?ed the house with fir tip.. She ; . l il'dren's bed. When thev saw ? rfemotnb<-r J the Christmas pa?t, alhof for the story <>f (he Ch?-:st same story on t bat nig hi and h fir tips. irit!.4 a little fir tree and placed . '.he place of the branch which ildren's bed. tt were bringing home trees for > towns, then over the world. Idren woke to find several pieces ir Father took it off and when ied fruit in each piece of paper Fathers came to know of it and a was dried fruit on every tree o, but the custom is carried on ~ rj NOW ON ITS FEET irlotte Observer IGth.) ^ Li I association. The division of horticul-, iare entered in and found that this was a good place to assist in pushing j forward a new vegetable growing! industry, so Proof. C. 1). Matthews* ^isely took some of hi> funds and paid the salary of Mr. Blair until such time the Association was financially string enough to *ta!4e him over. The association built its factory, pu* in the lug barrels. cutu :> and al; other necessary equipment for making a high grade pioduct. Then the members began to bring in the cabbage. Three hand red and fiftv tons were delivered the firs cseason The effect was immediately fell. Those who had raw cabbage to sell found the price better and the Jfac- i tory stood ready to consume, at once, all surplus. So prices were | better than usual for cabbage in j the Boone section ir. 19*23. Marketing Specialists But Mr. Biair and Mr. Steele found that instead of being simpiy kiaut maker and county agent respectively, they must also become marketing specialists if the kraut were to move to the big markets in . iarge lots. The division of norti- t culture could carry the salary off I the maker no longer because the t work had passed the experimental stage. The fact was proven that < good kraut could be made. The t only difficulty now left was break- < mg mio esiaousneu traae cnan-1 > nels and proving that the kraut wasj i ail that the makers claimed it to be. ? It was hard to do. f Dr. J. R. Lowery, a leading sto- ( mach specialist of Raleigh helped j some. He went to the mountains ori \ < a hunting trip, had a taste of the | 1 kraut, and came home a confirmed ad j diet. In fact he tried to get some of I : his grocer friends to put in "Watauga Sauor Kraut, Pride of the Elue Ridge" line. They countered with the reply that Raleigh claimed to be too "high brow" for such food. But Dr. > Lowery worked on the matter even writing a letter that sounded like a testimonial for a leading patent medicine. He pointed out the virtue in . rin-.p.e dish like kraut. He said th< food contained lactic acid, vita mines tttJ$t orthvvestcrn North Carolin 18, ?S24. S Cts. .Copy ? , , ? ? . r NO PAPER NEXT WEEK j C As has beer, the custom in thi* ! shop lor the past J,5 yea** we j will miss wn issue next week, sol- ' eiy lor the purpose of relaxing a * 5 H?t after h very strenuous year's j work. The year just closing was I chock full of v. ork for the Dtrn- j oo rat's small fo?vo. The major Jj part of our business men have}! give u loysl r1 cow of- j j forts to make a paper in keeping \ j with the rapid progress made by;,,., the -plendi d town in which it is j j published. To them we extend! | ^ the >. ;;> a better paper than ever b< fore. Give $55,000,000 ( i., 4 J " ^ n!; Iff. fjjjjp. James B. Duke, Power and To- ., bscco magnate of North Carolina, and George Eastman, Kodak king i 11 of New York, unbeknown to each i ? ' other, on the tiame day announced i o gifts of their millions to charity i and educational institutions. Mr. ! Duke gave $40,000,000 and Mr. 0 Eastman $16,000,000. The Utter, I: however, had formerly given away J some $38,000,000. j y ind that this kraut whs the best food ! t: ic cou'ri get for intestinal fermc-n- tl ation. t. "A groat many people," Dr. Low- p pry said "have intestinal fermcnta- 1< ion w hich causes many unpieasant i 1 onditions, such as headache, ner-! p rousness, hardening of the arteries, v ligh blood pressure and premature y >ld age, and I know of nothing that n rives as good results as the eating h loiK' ? .? mi ra !a/>rin f. nirl I'rr.i't .? fore anything that I can do that will o educate the people to eat this healthful product, I will bo glad to do." ! f . . Dr. Lowery has a high reputation! v as a stomach specialist and this word; n of commendation from him greatly I heartened the farmers cf Watauga r to farther efforts in disposing of thcr 1 products However the maiketing t stffi encountered many difficulties t due to the fact that grocers had made t contracts two seasons previous for { their yearly supply. The Watauga i Association was left with lots of } kn?nt on it^ hands and much cabbage 1 ret; v fori the ?SMM seas or.. *1 ia.? Established in 1888 NUMBER SO SCHOOL CLOSES ~ NEXT FRIDAY Indents Will Enjoy Holidays Until January 5 Basket Ball Teams Meet With Various Successes. Other News from School and 1 'own. Si**/*.-ri'il baske* ball pmes have e^n played recently by the different .inns of the Training Schooi. The oung ladies played the Ncwland ant at Newland on the 8th with It.- skx?ve standing -- t<> 1- hi favor f Kotmf*; on Sat m: v '".itrht the Cove reek High School team played a igh school team of he Training cho ?i, tht Boone boys winning by J to 15: On the same night the reglar young ladies of the school playd Fast Tout essee urma! at Johnson *ity and the Teimo.see girls at by score of 28 to 0. The report r for the fi.'.vt quarter ave been sent on". The dela\ was au d by s'?n.e irregularity in the of ' -' let . - and the delay receiving 11:.' teacher's reports. i h i rainin*r .School h?"uud;r.g i; ; ; lie oldest \v.;a1hv:. .;m - ui ti haw db'ju fj?u- on k 6}r. J. ? Rankin preached at iietiou's < hripri on Sunday mornng. The I s. V\ oos.(oy preached a* blowing Lock in the afternoon and wont to r' it it< Falls owing to the illness of is wife, who is spending some id me i e ?ith home folks. Your correspondent, has along with large number ui other people in the 'immunity, been sick with a light at ick of influenza. "America": America! Murder and rime ami Recklessness!" Must this rill he thy record as the day apToaches commemorating the most icrcd event in all history? Awake > thy nobler task! It was imperative that this kraut e moved. Then George Ross was ppointed chief of the division of mrkets and he visited in Watauga. u.. i k...i I,--** "? ' IH > s k IKM1 1 . IMI1 tcele, the county agent. Hi wrote i: i . and when 1 saw him he talkd kraut. In the presence of the parwith me, ho sampled krau1. and i*i i wo had eaten kraut, ho insisted hat we drink kraut juice. Ho gave s a demonstration ro show that the rant certainly would tot harm us :td now he comes along: with a docm ; from ore