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Ik/ VOLUME XXXVII. $ llm wjgjj By Arthur Rrisba:i-> ! ?5*s-vr,- tjtrrrr*.--.rva?ua3aflyara=ic?bab* , TOO MUCH WEALTH | . SOME STARVE, SOME DON'T I TOO Many nnrv<; ?AND A LITTLE MORAL B 1 : 5 ijt Certain interests connected within power companies that want to con- j g t: ,!; troi water power carry on systematic' i; misrepresentation as regards the va- j j Jue of irrigation f Demand for irrigation influences' , -- w votes for Government control. Hence j. , y the attack on irrigation, destined to t redeem millions of acres, the most fertile in the world, and to add tens j of billions to the wealth of the na- j v tiori. I g f Farmers know that even where it v rains irrigation can improve the crop o values. ( It is shown that in favorable local- p ities. under irrigation, two crops of p potatoes can be raised in one scasson instead of one. In addition to dou- e hling the size of the crop, a season's irrigation more than doubles its va)- t, ue by bringing in the first crop much )j earlier and getting higher prices for v earlier potatoes. jj This column has already described s Die alfalfa ranch of the Hodge Brothers on the Arizona desert, where I rap rarely falls. h The land there, year in and year v out produces seven crops of alfalfa t ^ per year under irrigation, more than v nou- tons to the acre. The total cost J| of electric current for irrigating one ^ hundred and fifty tons worth $28 a t 8 ton is $2(10. Any farmer knows the n ^ profit in that kind of farming. a M rs. Mary Harrington, of Mahoriy je City, Pa. had several children. Her^n husband, a coal miner ori strike Wehi " t to look for work in another town She t; pave her children what food she had r and she died of huner. h One advantage is with the mine u OWNERS?No matter how long ajh strike lasts mine owners, their wives a and children never starve. That's an v advantage, yet pushed too far, k can p become a disadvantage. d SWhig told that the poor had no !i bread, Marie Antoinette wondered v. 'why they did not "at cake." Later she and her husband stopped eating via the guillotine. She was only a v poor fool: p An able statesman of her time t suggested that the people eal grass.; j mi . juu . (itwpiv snuicu in: rnuuiii vvitn. i\ gratis when they carried his head a-\ \ round on the end of a pike. It is well ; -t. to remember these things, even in hap - <\ py, prosperous days. ? F. G. Bonfils in his able Denver! Post, tells of truck farmers in the j o surpassingly rich San Luis Valley ask-; d ing the Government to protect them t against too many wild ducks, farmers t plant miles of pea fields for cdtmerieF. Wild ducks, like a cloud, cat the t peas. e ? !' The ducks will be annoyed when ft. i * i G. Parvis, Colorado Game Comrnis-j ^ sioncr, carries out his plan and sends' C a snorting, humming airplane up and 1 down the San Luis Valley frighten- h ing the ducks from the peasCan you imagine the rage of those \ t ducks when they see that new bird, , looking to them as big as a moun-j tain, bellowing and roaring at 300 -f Tiiilcs and hour up and down the ^ ? valley'.' * -That's better than in the old days! c before the French Revolution, when j ? miserable peasants watched deer eat,; ? their crops and wild boars root up; r their gardens, helpless because noble- j t men wanted the pleasure of killing, 1 these animals and would not let the! * ^ v. a k kuuv.li Liiv.ni. That is one of many things that brought on the French Revolution, j * To avoid revolutions, make the mass- j est contented. Give them something to j' live for. j1 That is done here by manufactur- j * I ' ers of radio apparatus, automobiles,? moving pictures. The fact that a revolution might break up the movies, t and disturb the broadcasting stations would make the people hesitate. Boone's first circus of the season.! j The world's reatest amateur carnival B ./ event will be given at the court house k f Thursday evening March 4. Come, ! J ^ee the fattest baby in captivity? j clowns, animals and amusing stunts. 1 .. '.S% s - '-.J',-, - -V:. V-j , . >v dSSSB atai l.SO Per Year BOONE. SAYS CHARM OF NEW PARK REGION DEFIES ANALYSIS The forested and shrub covered ioumains in western North Carona ami eastern Tennessee, which ie federal government proposes to st aside as the Great Smoky Mounains National Park, has a charm. iat defies analysis, says Horace Kep art, noted writer on these mountains i a recent article in the Charlotte >b server. 4'Many a year have 1 wandered iaek and forth over the Smokies," lr. Kephart writes, "often going ai- j ine for days on end without seeing U..?, I I 3? - uumaii uemg. 1 nave passed me: ame places scores and scores of imes. Dut never in all these journeys! save I conic a second time to any. :len or brook or summit without find i ntT there something new. Never have followed a trail through the tall! 'orest without wondering what I j hould find at the next turn. Always! here is something new growing on he old place or moving over it. "Do you wonder then that we who ivc in the Smokies and who have; worked so hard to protect and pre-! erve their loveliness?we who are'; ighting the commercial interests that j could, if let alone, -destroy the vir-' inal charm and adorable beauty of j iod's masterpiece?that we should; iow be eiated by the almost certain uospcet that the nation will soon dopt this region and preserve it forver as a national park. " "What is the secret of that charm, he fascination of the Smokies., which; inkers so lovingly in one's memory | rhen he is awr.y and lures him so! rresistibly to return?" Mr. Kephart, ska, and then as ?f to answer him- j elf, he says: "1 have often pondered over it but i confess it defies analysis. In part, rviu/.Utt.- H Jo f.. fUn o? 1 wonderfully varied forest primeval J hat covers the Smokies with living j ordure to their very summits. "Bare rocks may rise to awe-in-! piling heights, they may be sculpured by natureinto striking forms hoy may be toned by the elements nd colored by atmospheric changes, hoy may be rohed in snow and jewllcd with glittering ice, they may be lajcstic in calm or terrible when the umpusta rage or vrtlcv avalanche bunder down the slopes; but bare ocks are never lovable. The stony osoru is cold. "But when the mountain framework is covered with trees and shurberry and flowers, grasses and ferns Kid moss, which harbor an infinite ariety of animal life, then every oak becomes a personality itself enowed with the graces and warmth of ife. Then nature is our mother and ;e love her:" Mr. Kcphart described his converation with Robert Sterling ^ ai d, a widely known authority on national arks and the secretary of the Naioqal Barks Association, on the subcci. of the proposed Great Smoky fountains National Park. He met Mr. :\rd, be said, at Asheville and was old by Mi'. Yawl that the Association ad direeled him to visit the proposed >aVk area and determine whether it ame up to the national park stanLard, or whether it had merely, been verrateri by local pride. Mr. Yard leclarcd that he had been skeptical hat even the fulsome recomrnenda-1 ton of the members of the Southern . tppalaehian National Park Associa- j ion that the Great Smokies be in-; hided in the national park group; lad not convinced him fully that the j maintains were on a footing with thel followstoiia, the Yoscroite or Grand'anyon parks of the west- He visited I He proposed park area and Mr. Kep-i inrt :.aid to him: IWeQ you have just returned from he Smokies. You have seen them, ire you skeptical?" *'No,*;/he replied with some emihasis, according to Mr. Kophart's acounl of the conversation. "Kephart have found something in the Smo:ies that is unique, something that no >ther park possesses. I do not mean ust scenery, though in that respect he Smokies have all that the Commission claims for them. I mean some hir.g that not only delights the eye, >ut that wins the heart. There is a :hurm in the Smokies that defies malysis." "How does it. affect you?*' Mr. Ccphart asked Secretary Yard. "In this way," Mr. Yard replied," I 'Some other regions may have more ;xtraordinary, more awe-inspiring! eatures.But when you have seen one| d these wonders of nature, such as! \ geyser, a glacier, a lofty pinnacle j >r a profound gulf, why?-you have ;een it. You don't care to go back a-, ain to see the same show over again my more than you would pay adnission to see a theatrical show the ;econd time. But the Smokies lure; rOu hack. You want to return and inger there. You love them. My wife md daughter and I were so overcome vith affection for the Great Smoky! fountains that we are going, to come | >ack and build our summer home! iga WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH ( SPELLING CONTEST 1. Spelling list?A list of word for the spelling contest will ho mad1 up from the .-tale adopted text book in spelling used in the county school plus a supplementary list to be sen to the schools in preparation to th contest. 2. Time and place of prelirninarj or county contests. The time of the county contest will be left to the county ?.uperintejg dents, must he concluded b April 20th, and names of winners cc tified and mailed into the J ournul of fice by April 2-3. No contest .-hold' be held however before the first o April. These dates include the Iocs school contests and county contest as well. The county contests shout be held at the county seat. Two set of winners should be scketcd at th county contest, the boy and girl mat ing the highest grades from the ru r?l schools and a boy and girl fror the town and city schools. Time and place of final con ?esl. The four winners in the count contest arc expected tc? present then selves for the finals in Winston-^ iem on the date to be designated hi ter. This date, as far as possible wi bo sole-. .ted to suit the convenient' of all concerned. 4. Manner of holding all the cor tests. All words used in the contests ar to be dictated, and are not to b repeated more than once, and th contestants are to write the word down, and present their papers at th close of the contest for inspectioi and correction. The local teacher may certify the names of the win tiers to the county superintended who in turn will certify the name of tlic county winners for the final4 This contest is financed by th Winston-Salem Journal. If any tea cher would like to enter your schoc for the county contest with a vie\ to entering the final contest at Win stun, let me know at. once so 1 cai make the necessary arrangements. kirn/ ( (i iinumunni, Co. .Sup; ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Sunday School is making pre T!h church membership is lcs than 30. The Sunday School atten dance averaged 32 for the month o January. A contest between the Red and Blues was staged a week ug< last Sunday. At that time the atten dance was 34. Last Sunday the Red defeated the Blues. But the total at tendance was .18. Our goal for nex Sunday is 00. The Lutheran Sunday School at tended the preaching service and ev erybody was delighted to have then with us at both services; Elder R, N. Baldwin, pastor of th church, will preach at Foscoc Sun day afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, at th Christian Church on the subject "Who Made the Universe?** By spec ial request; of rhe church a Foscou Mr. Baldwin is putting or. ; series of sermons combatting the the pry of Evolution. He has given muc time and sturiv to the axguments Pi ooir siues 01 cms quosunn anu, 1 prepared to present his views, whic' are non-=ectarian, but at the sam time a clear-cut defense of the Biblt to any community which may wis to avail themselves of his services. The Sunday morning sermon \vi be about "Paul Preaches in Ephesus At night he will preach on "Th Fight ^Against Strong Drink." The Advent Christian Church He sires to recommend these sermor in advance as being worthy of th time and attention of every one \vh can spare the time to hear them. m ?. j I THE LAST CALL For Woodrow Wilson Memorial To the many friends of pur lat President Woodrow Wilson I wis to say that I am making the last aj peai for this fund, as the campaig will close on the 28th of February It is earnestly hoped that each on j will send in their contribution at one [ if they have not already done so, a the Treasurer Mr G. P. Hagamai of Boone, will send the contribution to Staunton, Virginia some time nex week. Hoping that a goodly numbe will have in their offerings on tim 1 am, with very best wishes. Yours faithfully, J. M. DOWNUM. County Chairmar here." Everyone, declares Mr. Kephar who has once climbed up into th high Smokies, away back from th hihways and railroads into the wil S Eden that remains there in all it prmitive majesty experiences th same feeling, the feeling which M: jov W. A. Welch of the Federal Par Commission expressed when he sai of these mountains: "Nowhere els in all the world is nature so muc my mother as in the Great Smokies There 1 rest in her bosom and nr satisfied." I :AR0L!NA. THURSDAY FEBRUARY : 7 FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB < si The Friday Afternoon Cli'b was de- j ej lightfuliy entertained by Mrs. I. G. s | Greer on February 19th. In spite of i sjthe threatening weather quite a few it t j members were present. Mrs- Russell | c c i Hodges and Miss Prfdgeu were in-j ;i ! vited guests. ] \ y After a short time of sewing MissjS Stanbui-y and Mrs. Dougherty gave c si interesting sketches pertaining to St. j s - Valentine's Day. j i y i The guests were invited into the j t r dining room where Dun Cupid held J c i sway. The room was a cob web of 11 d j heart? and after finding your name 1 f i on an arrow you still had to trace. d) your heart. This proved to be such | 1 fun, and each was rewarded by a ! d charming verse. : 5 On re-entering; the living room we < e found tables had been laid. The beau-j : :-i t'fu! oriental covers and quantities : 1- ci narcissus transformed the room1 a into a veritable oriental garden When j all had found their places a delicious i 1- salad course with accessories was ser- ^ vcd. This was followed by a fruit's y frappo, cake and coffee. ji 1- Later in the afternoon each guest j ; - was asked to see how many words [ t 1- they could make from the wordj ( 11! "Heart.'" Miss Pride*. > was success-j j e fill in this and received an attrnc-j ; live pri/.e. ; 1- Soon each guest was making her 1 way homeward after a thoroughly en-i ; e joyabie afternoon, e Mrs. John F. Hardin will entertain ;; e the club at the next meeting on the < s 5th of March. 1 e i 1 n BROOKSIDF. LOCALS i . s ! t Mrs. C. H. Howell who recently j i I- underwent a very serious operation j t at a Hickory hospital, and for some ; 1 weeks has been "under the core of 1 c! Boone physicians, was brought herert ~ : Sunday. Glad the wife and mother t 1 has beer: blessed to return to her v family again. ( By the way Mr. Joe Blackburn t n who has been visiting his parents* at Brookside, made a long lonesome i trip from Chicago in his Ford car, < - but he will not be lonesome when ho \ returns next week, fir by his side i wlji sit a beautiful little black eyed! 1 k~ wife, who will make Joe forget all < & about mud while .they sing. "As we < go marching on." i Mr. W. N. Howell has been suffer- ? sj ing very intensely with f,ome trouble 1 u with his eyes but is some better now. 1 His failure to be present at the last t s' meeting of the Board of County * "'Commissioners was due to his eye; * I troubles. | Z. T. Watson left Monday for the t Green Valley, where he goes to cut i " J loops and twirl ovals in his school of . < 11 penmanship. He taught a term of 10 r j days there last February and the i ej young people decided they wanted to; i make further progress in the fine art J, 1 e i A series of meetings has been in ' ' ** j progress for the past two weeks at ij ( jSodth Fork Baptist Church. Rev ' , Hughs of Raleigh doing the principal : I . part of the preaching. < j" Rev. Thomas Bobbins music teacher ? 5 of Stony Fork, recently closed a 23 ' II days singing school at Pilot Mountain- t * Church. The young people made fine i progress during the term, and have i ^! organized a regular choir to meet M each Sunday at the church. ) | The Fikland High School will close 1 .. Tuesday night February 23rd. with ? appropriate exercises. When the state ' highway is built by the way of Todd, ' lC the children representing the Consol- 1 idated school should be furnished a I conveyance by, the way of Todd, the ls children representing this Consolida? ted School should be furnished eou? yeysuce by the Counties of Watauga and Ashe, as it has been a shame how th>. pupils have pulled themselves out of the ntud o-t the way to ami from i school. After many weeks of snow, mud and ? high winds the blue birds have come ' to tell us the winter is past, and the i time of vine and flower is drawing n nigh. e e i <. BETTER 1, - -? : t lS (James M. Downturn) t r It's nice to live by the side of the rottd-j; e j And be a friend to man, ! It's best to walk with the man in the ' road i j And help him all you can. n ; , It's nice to show them the way. to the ; ' spring. j I U Where all may quench their thirst ] * e But nicer yet the water to bring j e And thus be helpful first. ' d s It's- nice to sit by the side of the road e And see the crowd go by ( i- It's better to help them bear the load k And ease the heavy sigh, d ' : e Many may sit in such quiet ease h ! And wish the crowd so well, 5. | But who will bring to them sweet n I surcease ? | And make their glad hearts swell? t locr 25, 1926. 5 Cts. aCopjr :H AMBER OF COMMERCE IN INTERESTING MEETING On the third Monday nigh*, of this nonth, being the 15th of February, here was a very interesting meeting >f the Boona Chamber >i' Commerce it the Crilcher Hotel. The program va<- *r charge of the faculty of the State Normal. Professor Kent first ailed on Professor Logan, who made omo very interesting and timely renavks. At the conclusion of jjiis renarks. Dr. Rankin was asked to dis uss the relation of the school to the own. His talk was very interesting rum every viewpoint. Then Professor Greer was asked to discuss the elation of the town to the county, do suggested many things that we ;hould do, all of which should be rarried out. At this meeting we had iicinucia |Mur>uiiL anu lUUSC WHO tayed at home certainly missed a treat treat. The Chamber of Commerce is the ncdium through which everyone in own may speak his sentiments on any .ubject he may choose, if the schools n the town are as good, as big and :s perfect as it is possible to make hem. don't attend the Chamber of Commerce. If the streets in the town ire as wide and as hard and u'? dry is you would like to see them, don't ittend the Chamber of Commerce, f the merchants and business men iave all the business they have time o do, and have no time to wait on ldd.itional customers, don't . tend the Chamber of Commerce. If the banks iave all the money they can loan and Lheir deposits are jiv.t what they vouhl like for them to be, don't atertd the Chamber of Commerce. If he Sundays schools are as large as ve would like to sec them, and the norals of the town haw reached a joint where they orninot be improved upon, do not attend the Chamber if Commerce. In other words the Chamber of Commerce was organized chiefly for ho purpose of making Boone a bigger, better and brighter town to live n. All other live towns have live Jhamher of Commerce meetings and ntcresting programs The lives! towns n North Carolina are the towns which lave the largest attendance at the Chamber of Commerce meetings. F,vrry town in North Carolina is growing .vorse'or better every day, is betomiiig more sightly or more unsighty every day, is growing bigger and tetter or smaller and worse every lay. Which way will Boone grow? It vill grow just the way that people yho live in it make it grow. Think )ver these things and if you are ineresied in the town that is furnis'hng you thix>e meals a day, let's meet it the Critcher Hotel sharply at 8 dclock on the first Monday night in March, heing the first day of the month, and hear Professor B. R. joughvrty discus; the rates for light iiK! power in Boone. He would he reed to sb?r all the patio its-?!iii fact very one who uses light ftfntl power t this meeting, rle wili tell the cost >f the plant, the cost of operation the evenue from the town and the school, ad will make a suggestive proposion to sell the lighting business to ho town. We will have some good inging at this meeting led by Professor I. G. Greer. We are also ex fV-VAIIIj, ?? V. ?IU*VU \J U" 1XU U'H 1 1.11 ti tuw II o bo present. This subject is one :>t great interest to everyone in the . .1:, so we urgently request you to be present and bring your pocket Liiil of questions which we will have Professor Dougherty answer. W. H. GKAGG. President Chamber of Commerce. METHODIST NOTES According to reports I here were t> 15 people present at Sunday Scool last Sunday in Boone. The Baptists led with 284 present; the Methodists had 288, and the Adventists and Lutherans had 58 and 85 respectively. About half of the people of Boone attended the Sabhath School. Pretty good report hut let's improve it. Both worship services wore well utended Sunday. The women are now leading in attendance at the night >er\rices. Prof. J. A. Williams made an instructive and interesting address to the Epworth Leaguers Sunday eveting. Another good program will be v*s nnvl Good news comes to us last week vhen we discovered that work on the icw streets of Boone\vill begin soonSunday School Sunday morning at ) :45. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. n. by the pastor. Epworth League 6:45. Wednesday prayer service and rhoir practice 7:30 p. m. Misses Virgie Reeves and Ruth McMillan spent the week end with Mr. md Mrs. \Y. T. Payne of Cove Creek. Carter and Zeb Dickson of Ashe -ounty have entered the Normal class >f the A. S. N. S. NUMBER 7 INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE NORMAL SCHOOL Rarely have there been more interesting events connected with the Appalachian State Normal than during the past lew days. In the first, place the faculty had charge, by special resuest. of the programme of the Chamber of Commerce, which proved to be a most interesting meeting in which a number of vital questions were discussed. Then to the lovers of sports several match games in basket ball were played, one between the Normal team and the Rutherford Col lege team in which the score stood . 28 to 42 in favor of the Normal ?team, two other* between the Nor! mal team and the Wingate Junior College team in the first of which the \'nrmgi ti'am won Jiv m r.f .'.0 to 17 and ;u the second by a score of 20 to 27. Also a team from the ! liigr School D j. i: . 1 ?.:i .ver the team from ire Cove Creek H'gh. Another item ->f interest is the i closing- of til* Demonstration .School for the >prrng, on Monday night with a concert by the fourth, fifth and j sixth grades and exorcises on Tuesday afternoon at *2 by the seventh grade. Thus closes the first year in the new building and decidedly the ! Vv ry best year in this Department of ! work. Still more interesting was the open ing of the Spring Term for College work The High School Department has up to that time had the larger number, hut on Tuesday afternoon of the KUh at 2 o'clock the College took first place in the registering of Miss Mayc H. Barlow, of Creston j Ashe County, and the enrollment in ! the College is now far ahead. It was ; recently reported that 15C colleges , .n the United States had an average ! increased enrollment of 7 per cent. ; The Normal College, here now has : 251 enrolled which is i little more : than 9Tl.& per cent over the enroll. moot at this t ime last year. The number of students in the College ! and the High School Department com oineu is ill, or luc more i.nan iiavt1 over been enrolled for the entire rfjgtilai term. This shows a remarkable growth of the Normal College enrollment here, which has been since its inauguration almost 100 per cent for each succeeding year- daring *he regular year and a very large increase for the Summer School. A large number | liavc already sent in reservations for tho coming summer. Prof. Smith Hagaman recently reported that the average attendance for the public schools of Watauga County for tlie past year was above the average lor the State, the state's ! average being 74.F) per cent and the : average for Watauga 77. And the lowest was not in the mountains, where it is usually expected to be i found, but the eastern section oi" the I State, showing that people who speak ! of the backwardness of the mountain j section, should he on the alert lest : while deploring this they themselves ! are ieft behind by the swiftly develi oping section of the mountains. On a recent night the Comrades j Class of the Methodist Sunday school gave a concert of unusual interest, as shown by the reception given to the different numbers by the crowd present. The receipts go to the fin| ifjhipg of a large room in the dome the Church for the use of this ' goon class. BOONE BAPTIST CHURCH > i 2So were p resent at Sunday school last Sunday, the contest between the . two adult classes shows an increase of interest. 31 were present in the adult women's class and 22 were present m adult men's class. Make it a point to come out Sunday. We need you. Your presence is an inspiration. The pastor plans to preach Sunday morning: on "God's Call to the Ministry." The gaps are to be filled through prayer and consecration. 1 There are a great many fine Christian boys and young men in the town and at the Norma! who ought to consider God's call to the ministry These ; young men are invited to hear this [special message Sunday at 11 a. m. j Sunday evening at 7 the subject j will be "A Warning Agair.st Making I .. ol: i f y . i > 1u on4>wm'i( OA raim. B. Y. P. Us meet G p. ni. Girls Auxiliary meets Monday 2:30 | p. m. with Miss Leila Ayers, with i Mrs. Pearl Hartley, assistant Superintendent as the leader. A number of ladies of the Womans Missionary leave Tuesday morning of next week for their convention in Raleigh. Superintendent announced Sunday the Northwestern Baptist Sunday School Convention meets at North Wilkesboro March 11-12. We hope to have every teacher of our Sunday School, together with others to attend. Entertainment will be provi! ded free.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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