m. [ W 5 * VOLUME XXXVII. NO. 20 VARE'S VICTORY SEEN AS J. DISASTROUS BLOW TO G. O. P. j "Pennsylvania Prefers Wets To the! Drys; Administration Supported J G Senator Pepper Pennsylvania has made her choice} as between Mr. Vare and Mr. Vol-j stead, and takes the former, says a}T Washington dispatch to the Greens-|v" hero News. The immediate signifi-1 * t cance in .the Keystone state vote isj'ti that the second state in the union is wet er decidedly moist, and that' m V'arc*. with the aid of a friendly gov-; ' emor. will succeed those easy bosses, '; 1,1 Qtiav and Penrose, as leader of the (j Republican hosts. Looking further afield there is the! impression that the Coolidge admin- u istration has received a setback much | p. more pronounced than that received t p when McKinley was defeated for re-: 1 nomination by Colonel Smith in Il'li-j |< \ nois. The Vare vote is the more re- n markable when it is remembered that i jr, be was called upon to surmount a succession of obstacles, and to neukralize influences vast, and of un- n. told ramifications. While this has been, and will be ^ questioned, it was very distinctly un- Jj derstood that the weight of the r Washington administration was ' thrown on the side of Pepper, who #l] firs J opposed the World Court resolu- p ticai. and then came out for the court, voting against his own privately conducted reservations thereto. No a' one questions the fact that the Mel- 1* Ion- and their associates, business and political, use money world with- a Ant d.wl TUir, -.*4-; 1.1- P 1.1119 m.v.aiiiv n\i uuuvcnuii: | that Governor Pinchot, a participant | ^ in the three cornered fight for the. monitorial nomination, directed his a fire chiefly against Pepper, mainly ^ up.?n the theory that the Mellons and (* th? Pittsburgh machine were using mere money, in the hope of controll- b jtnp the electoral than was Varc and h hit Philadelphia machine. m fact, ubody supported Vare except those b who desired to take their whiskey, d and their beer," straight. o When it is asserted that Mr. Cool- a id; * playOd no favorites, that all ? three of tlih candidates were good b J ^Republicans. and, therefore. support- p i ?rs. of the Coolidge administration, ei the politicians smile knowingly and a derisively. At least, they remark, it means another man in the senate 011 h tU? Republican side who will owe l( nothing to Mr. Coolidge. This means C( a i mocrats may find it possible to h control the next senate. At most it ij may mean an ant.i-Coolidgc delega- ? air- of* 72 votes in the next national a eonvention, a possibility that stimu- a iates a let. of sober, or perhaps wet, ^ thought when it is reflected that the ^ 2?owden sentiment has of late weeks p been noticeably 011 the increase. e LOCAL DRY OFFICERS HAVE FEDERAL POWERS NOW j * Washington. May 21?Addition to ' VV ) I tne federal prohibition staff of state, j . rovhiiy and municipal officers was | f made possible, today under an exe-' r motive order issued by President t? Coolidge. it This move, made at the request of d Assistant Secretary Andrews, in 1: charge- of prohibition enforcement is g expected tiy him to augment the fed- o ?re; dry forces by at least several C thousands immediately. a Prohibition officials plan to place s< the local officers on the federal staff, p perhaps as dollar a year men, since they will be serving as federal offi- ? cers in addition to their regular du- s; ties. q While local officers in most states a and cities are already co-operating n with federal government in the en- p forcement of prohibition, it was said ^ at the treasury, today's action will 0 clothe them with full federal authori- e ty and it is believed by Mr. Andrews j, J t? be a big'step forward in the dry p WOrk. cr How soon Mr. Andrews will take p advantage of his authority and the e exact extent of the scope to which e he will put it has not been decided. t] The plan was first suggested by the ? M ?.l inn VitiliCniKl piuiuuiuiun ?U)IU1I10Mday passed the civil service retirelent bill providing for retirement of ivil service employes on annuities ot exceeding $1,200. The bill, allough carrying the house title, was idically amended by the senate. As assed by the house the maximum nnuity was $1,000. The measure ow goes to conference. Investigation of expenditures in 11 senatorial campaigns this year? rimary as well as general?was orered last Wednesday by the senate, Iter charges of corruption in the ennsylvania primary of Tuesday ad been made and denied on the oor of the senate. Complying with , resolution adopted, Vice President awes appointed a committee to conuct the inquiry. Washington, May '21: *Hitdreri^e*igislutwn received a setl^ve pre?he ouse today with the de^rave .Seto if Hiiuroii pric(.u.(l' ill. This action clearcu i.t ca.,:tiar of all farm proposals as the two thcr bills, the Tine Her credit plan nd the Curtis-Aswell commodity lark.eting measure were withdrawn y their authors. Ninety-eight Reublicans and GG Democrats supnortd the hiil while 121 Repu; ' :7s nd 8!> Democrats opposed it.. A plea of not guilty was entered y Harry M. Daugherty, former at jrney general, when he was arraignil in federal court in NowftYork last hursday on an indictment charging im with conspiracy to defraiul the Inited States. He was released on 5,00 bond. Thos. VV. Miller, former lien property custodian, indicted on similar charge, was not in court, ittorneys said he Was confined to is home in Wilmington, D?4., by lood poison. The case will argud within the next two weeks. Baltimore, May 22: Richard Ree.se fhittemore, bandit dandy and conessod slayer, has greeted his fate ith a snarl. His feet figuratively reading the gailows stairs, he last ight spat in the face of th?? youlli u 1 state's attorney who had fixed a ope about his neck. Whether he is i) plunge to oblivion at the end of . rests with criminal court. A jury eeided that, the slayer of Robert loltman, Maryland penitentiary uard, deserved to expiate his crime n the gibbet. Tacitly, it gave Judge 'Dunne authority to exact a life for life, but he may, in his discretion, entence the "Candy Kid" to life irnrisonmerit instead. The Watson-Parker bill for settlelent of railway labor disputes was igned last Thursday by President! oolidge who said in a statement that lthough he would have preferred "a lore definite declaration for the ossible, protection of the public," he elieved there was involved an issue f "first public, importance," that of. an muustry to aajust regions between employer ana emloye, without the intervention of the overnmont. With presidential aproval, the railroad labor board, in xistenee for six years, was aboiishd and a new system provided for by he establishment of conference roups and adjustment boards within he industry, and the creation of a oard of mediation whose five mergers are to be appointed by the presient. YONAHLOSSEE IN FINE SHAPE A representative of The Democrat rove over the Yonahlossee trail irvls Blowing Rock to Linville Sunay, Dodging it through the beautiful ection around the foot of the Grandather. The Yonahlossee is in fine hape# all the way between the two esort towns; in fact, it is in probbly in best shape it has ever been. ?he road from Newland to Boone is lso good except in a few places up 51k Creek where work of surfacing Hid regrading in a fcw~places is upler way. Willing to Try "Are you fond of children?" Applicant for nuise's job?"That lepends on the wages." V ' gSiWoqaMofri i iruBTCTMW iWli Liflh-ussi UGA ily Newspaper, Devoted t< I, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CA ! CONFEDERATE FORCES WILL j CONTINUE THEIR REUNlONSi i Birmingham. Ala., May 20?Bivouacked on the soil of (hie state that cradled the Confederacy, one-fifth of the living remnant of the Southj ern army responded happily to "taps" j last night after all thought of dis-i banding the United Confederate Vet-j j erans had been dissipated, j The Confederacy, represented by} | Lee's men, will carry oh. N'o bffi-j ! eial action was taken, or was neces-! I -ary, after General W. B. Fireman, j j commander-in^hief. had sounded the ; | tocsiii of war on ail such proposals in ! i his annual address. The magnetic in- ( j fluence of the commander's senti-j ; meat so electrified the veterans that j j rigihal proponents of the plan to ; ! disband could not be found to press; I their proposal. The militant address of the com-, mander was the high spot in the day's progress. With all the fire of his youthful, activie military days, i General Freeman told his compatriots that the Confederate army would never be disbanded?not so long as there were two men left able to get together. Ill voice touched by militancy, he declared: "No talk of us of 'a limping army of old men'?no nonsense about 'the last reunion.' " The veterans caught the meaning of his remark and yelled approval. The commander continued: "We shall meet and march and sing?" His voice was again drowned by the demonstration. When the noise had subsided, General Freeman went on: "We shall meet and march and sing, and tell our stories as long as two of us are left, to travel and when j we turn over the reunion to sons j who will he faithful and to daugh-; ters who will not forget?we shall I send one,' last, long rebel yell defi- j antly down the years." j General Freeman described the Southern soliders as the most fortunate men who ever survived in j old age the downfall of the country! of their youth. The emancipation of the negro brought emancipation of the south, he declared, and with it economic independence. TWENTIETH CONFERENCE OF M. E. CHURCH ENDS Memphis, Tenn., May 20?A consecration sc twice conducted by Bishop Warren A. Candler brought to a close here today the 20th general I conference of the Methodist Episco-1 pal church, South. Convening on May loth, the con-1 ference delegates, sent up from the district conferences after a split over I the question of unification, faced a crisis, the seriousness of which had ! not been equalled since 1814 when j the Methodist Episcopal church, south, withdrew from the northern branch and formed a separate denomination. The conference had no more than finished sending the unificatin program to a committee when it found itself plunged into debate over modernism and fundamentalism, a resolution introduced by Rev. Bascoin j Anthony., Thomasville, Ga., demanding that modernists in the church i either conform their opinions to the! creeds of the church or get out. A stormy discussion took place before the body sent that to a special committee on the spiritual state of the \ church where it remained until con-1 ference adjourned. Roll mui n Cr ?wWflr on tno V?r?Ali unification and modernism was thej question of a church constitution. | After spending an entire day debar-j ing the matter the conference decid-1 ed that the present was no time to adopt a constitution and sent it back to a commission for four years. Reorganization of the general board of the church, one of the farreaching proposals of the church, also I was sent back for four more years of I commission work.( The principal leg-! islation passed by the conference was j a measure giving laymen in annual 1 conference greater representation, j Overcoming stiff opposition, the lay-] men put through a bill which will al-j low them one delegate in the annual j conference for every 800 members in! a district conference. In the case; of small districts the delegation will I remain as at present. The missionary bo^rd composed of! 16 secretaries was trimmed to four, the most radical action taken by the j conference. The conference passed resolutions condemning divorce, moving pictures,! whiskey and the theater. MRS. COUNCIL HURT IN WRECK Statesville, May 20.As the result of a collision of an Essex coach occupied by Mrs. W. B. Council, of Hickory, andf her niece, Mrs. Harrington, yesterday afternoon, with a Ford car, Mrs. Council received slight- cuts and bruises and two occupants of the Ford car arc patients in the Davis DEMC o the Upbuilding of North1 ROHNA. rm.'USDA V, MAY 27. 1926 NORMAL SCHOOL 1 OPENS JUNE 1ST Largest Attendance in History of 11 the Institution Expected at C Summer Session 2 Next Tuesday, June 1. lymks the|U opening: of the fir>t term of 'he sum-! _ trier school at the Appalachian State J ^ Normal, which promises to be bv far, the largest in the history of the j school. Soriife time si rice every room J in th" large dormitories had been'" reserved and the applications con-1 .tinue to pour in. The town, of course, wili take care of the over- i. flow, as i? has always rone, and all will be cared for. i BRISCO GRIFFITH KILLED AT LITTLE SWITZERLAND > Brisco Griffith, aged about 20 c years, of Huntdale. Mitchell county, < was instantly killed Sunday morning 1 about 0 o'clock when his automobile 1 plunged over an embankment about 1 two miles from Little Switzerland. 1 Miss Bertie Wilkie, of Spruce Pine, j who was in the car with Griffith, j j u m ped out, caught on a snag about) ten feet down the embankment and j was not injured. 5 Griffith and his companion were in ; a new roadster and had just rounded , a hair-pin curve, going toward Ma- ' rion, when Griffith undertook to light ] a cigarette, it is said. The car rolled off the edge of the embankment, sank in the sand, whirled down to the ravine below, jumped the ravine and righted itself on the other side. Griffith's left shoulder was crushed and he received an injury on his head. | Death is supposed to have been in- j stantaneous. GOOD HAY SUPPLY IS }, BASIS OF DAIRY SUCCESSj italcjgh, May 2(??The dairy cow i j is a roughage consuming animal and ! fares best when furnished an abun-lj dar.t supply of this material. "But the roughage must be of the right kind." says J. A. Arey, dairy extension specialist of State College. ( "Legume roughage is best. There are , a number of summer legume crops ( which will do well in North Carolina and the most important of these, be- , cause of its adaptation to our climatic conditions, is the soybean. The hay j from the soybean is relished by dairy cattle and feeding trials show it to be , equal in feeding value to alfalfa hay | if cut at the proper stage and well ( : cured " j The proper time to cut soybeans j . I for hay is when the lower leaves heI gin to yellow, states Mr. Arey. If the , I plant, is allowed to grow more mature , j the leaves all drop off and the stems ! are so coarse and woody that they are not eaten by th?? dairy cow. ( Mr. Arey states that there is a substitute for legume hay in satisfac- j, j tory milk production. Sometimes, however, one's plans may fail and on account of drought or other coiiditions, it is impossible to grow a good j supply of legume hay. When this j ' haDuens. .he i ? . , - , ing substitute may be planted and no \ ] | other plant fills this place better than 1 I Sudan grass. i Sudan grass is drought resistant ? | and may be used for either summer grazing or for hay. When planted on j i good land it will produce a heavy j j yield within fifty or sixty days after I planting. Mr. Arey states that the grass may be sown broadcast or drill- i i ed using from 15 to 20 pounds of , I seed per acre. When used for hay, < | the crop should be cut from the time the plants head until the seed < j reach the dough. HICKS RELEASED ON BOND Sparta, May 25.?S. J. Hicks, con| fessed slayer of Jack Jarrell, of Surry county, at Ennis, Alleghany county on the night of May 18, was today i released on bond of $4,000 for his | appearance in Alleghany superior court. A drinking spree, a banjo, ; pistols and a dispute over the possession of a bottle of liquor, following \ a social at a home near Enniee post- i | office, are said to have figured in the homicide. Once Was Enough xneres a suouroan nome wnose owner's principal delight* is keeping it J i spick and span. After dinner he and \ i a guest were smoking on the lawn. I The guest after lighting his cigar, threw the burned match on the j ground. "Oh, I wouldn't do that, George," ; said the host. "Why not?" "It spoils the appearance of everything," was the answer. "It's just those little things that make a place . look Bad." The guest smoked his cigar in silence for a few minutes, then without a word, got up, walked down the road and disappeared. He returned in i short time. His host asked, "Where've you been, George?" "Oh, I just wen tdown to spit in the river," said George.?Carl New. ) RA' west North Carolina. iOVERNOR ADVISES STUDENTS D NOT TO LEAVE THE STATE ' i Chapel Hill, May 21?"I ou young| neri and women will have a greater! Hi banco in North Carolina in the next ( *? years than in any state in the! Tiion," Governor A. W. McLean told : his year's graduating class of the ,.?. Jnivc' s.ty of North Carolina at tlp-ir'in inui i'-ii;ouet bore tonight at the gr "arolina inn. "1 think it would be a calamity if' T : *'C uu would think of leaving the bor- . ,,, !< is of North Carolina in this period pn ?f the state's development when there s so much here to attract you." "There is plenty of room for you }1 n North Carolina today and and ev- n ry opportunity. 'J1 " Whatever you may say about the state's great natural and industrial esourccs, they are useless unless we 1 ran develop them with the man pow ; ?r of young men and women like you. j 1 * fou owe an obligation to North Cato-ilJ ina. The taxpayers have paid about I lalf of your expenses here, and they; aave done it gladly. You are the j ^ preferred assets and preferred stock- j *' udders of the state." Discussing the state's progress, the ;tc governor said that while great. strides had been made during the last! '' 25 yeai*s. "we haven't done one-tenth , . i>f what we can do and should do.1 11 The natural resources of the slate ! liave scarcely been touched. st PENNY BROTHERS TO SELL WALTER ALEXANDER ESTATE r ni The following from the Greensboro ? News of Sunday will be of interest ( tie re: "Penny Bros, 'world's original twin auctioneers' of the Amercian I.and Company, large auction operators throughout the south and east, have been awarded the contract to tiisnose of the large land holdings in ^ '.^'esterii North Carolina of the Wr1-j^? ter Alexander estate. It Is one of!ai 1 :i i-fr??ct nrniant c noi-!i'i?.c ' 1,4 handled in North Carolina at auction, j el "The Alexander estate includes the < ni famed Mayvicw Manor at Blowing! Rock, with its golf course, cottages, j al etc., for entertainment of summer)0! v isitors. Also Green Hill, a resort j 1:1 development, And villa sites. Settlement of the estate, through receivership proceedings, has been a matter of keen interest to large real estate, l' potel and resort operators for several u weeks. Awarding the sales contract to Penny Bros, was really the c.uhni-' C: nation of plans for final disposition)" of the property, which has been vari- j " ously estimated in value up to and! ihove a million dollars. j ? "Penny Bros, announce that plans'^ are already under way for the sale, \ which will begin on the morning of i Thursday, dune 2 1, at 10:30 o'clock, j It is expected to attract large crowds , of investors as well as those seeking j 'j locations for summer cottages in the ^ Parolina mountains." L BEAVER DAM BREEZES <*< P Beaver Dam. May 2tJ?The weath- j ^ er is stiil cool hut no frost to hurt jxv anything yet. The prospect for all' w kinds of fruits and berries is good, j provided nothing untoward happens, j -st Mr. -J. .M. Johnson, who has been sick for some time, is a little better. Misses Ollie Eller and Ismie Eller j quests in the home of Mr. R. M.; Greene. A John Walker has contracted for a tl boundary of timber 011 George's Gap, (h and expects to move his sawmill there st sometime this summer. pi Mrs. H. P. Dougherty visited her tl sister, Mrs. S. A. Moody, in Boone tl last week. cl A party of 24 people of the Beaver sc Dam secton went on a sight-seeing \v trip to Gastonia recently. Among the party was Mrs. Stansbury, who vis- e< ited her daughter, Bonnie, who has si been in the hospital there for seven m months. m Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Perry visited pi Mr. Perry's father, Mr. J. K. Perry, Saturday night. B Rev. L. A. Wilson filled his regu- w lar appointment at Bethel church Sat- c< urday and Sunday. ili MEEKINS CHARGES ARE c? FORMALLY DISMISSED j m Washington, May 25?The judiei-jm ary committee of the house todav dis-i missed the charges against Judge PI Isaac M. Meekins, of the eastern district of North Carolina. In point of fact, the committee decided unani- ^ mously that there were no ''charges" r;: against Judge Meekins, inasmuch as T. the subcommittee, after a careful gi scrutiny of the letter field with the S1 committee by Daniel F. Hickey, re- u] ported that nothing of an impeach- la able character had been alleged. b< m North Carolina pays more taxes on cigarettes than the rest of the states combined. The bill for the first ten la months of the fiscal years, 1925-26, li< were $101,193,717.44 and $121,- \\ 688,013.00. The total cigarette tax ti for the ten months for the entire na- tl tion was $183,424,153 in 1925 and tl $207,701,613 in 1926. e< r FIVE CENTS A COPY 1G TOLL OF DEATH JAPANESE ISLAND undred Dead and Many Hurt When Dormant Volcano Comes To Life Releasing Mountain Lake JokTo. Aliiy 25?A mountain lake, leased by an eruption from a long active volcano crater Caused the eaier part <>f the cfrath and destruens which followed yesterday*? remptiou of activity in Mount Tok hi. :i? cent?;?' Hokkaido, northeric-t of the principal island? of Jain. The .trove??: <> of Hokkaido repovti today to the home minister that 10 dead and more than 200 :njured id been removed from the mass . .1. M. Shull oil. Saturday aftnOOi) was combined with a celebraon of the birthdays of Mrs. .1. C. rown and Mrs. J. M. Shull. Mrs. I). D. Taber, national oducaonal worker of the Episcopal church as in Yalle Ci ucis from Friday till uiulay, and gave helpful and interding talks at St. John's and SI. Antony's us well as at Holy Cross and u* school. Miss Wilhelmina Shull and a party f friends from Gastonia delightfulsurprised her parents on Saturday ceiling, bringing with them a birtli;?y cake and other remembrances for er father. Mr. J. M. Shull. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Menzies and ttle son were visitors in the Valley aturday and Sunday. . Mr. and Mrs. YV. W. Mast, Miss ucy Mast and William Mast motor1 to Asheville on Sunday via Spruce ine and Burnsville, returning Monny via Marion and Lenoir. They ere much pleased with their trip, ith Asheville and the good roads. Frank Taylor, who has been at nooi in xxicKory tiuuugii hk- wmti'r us returned home. THE POPPY?IN MEMORIAM The Auxiliary to Watauga Post, mcrican Legion, held a meeting at ic Methodist church at Mabel Sunay afternoon. Mrs. Vass, of Winon-Saleni, explained the object and urpose of the Auxiliary, telling of le work done hy the Auxiliary in ic state, in behalf of the widows and lildren of the men who died in the jrvice, and for the ex-service men ho are sick in hospitals and the unities of these men. She explain* 1 that the money obtained from the lie of poppies on Memorial Day ay be used for the needy ex-service an and his family and for no other jrpose. Rev. M. B. Woosley, pastor of the none Methodist church, gave a very rgent invitation to everyone in the >unty to help ihe ladies of the Au.viary by buying the poppies. The poppies will be sold over the >unty on Saturday, May 29th?Meorial Day. Let everyone wear a poppy in emory of the boys who died for us. ROF DOUGHERTY RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE AT ELON Elon College, May 25?Two hono ;iy uegrees, tnai oi Lnt. L>., Oil IS. , Dougherty, of Boone, for distinlished work at the. Appalachian :ate Normal, and the D. IX degree )on Rev. J. H. Lightboume, Holnd, Vs., were conferred by the >ard of trustees at the cornmenceent exercises this morning. According to an estimate of popution as of July 1, 1926, made pubc Monday by the census bureau, inston-Salem will have a populaon of 71,800. The population of le state on July 1, is estimated by le bureau as 2,S64,846, as compar:1 with 2,559,123 in the 1920 census. A