North Carolina Newspapers

i iMimmuiiiniB?? VOL. XXXIX, NO. 01! REFORM BALLOT BEFORE SOLONS Australlian Ballot Substitute Gets Favorable Report; Highway Bill Given to House With Prospects Good for its Passage. Raleigh, Fob. F?.?Two of the administration's most important bills today were shoved out of committee chambers with favorable reports at-1 fc.chcd. Now they are ready for consideration on legislative floors. The senate gets first call at one of th?*IT?- tho Australian hnllM Ionic. lation. The substitute bill was reported back favorably today and by special order the senate will begin considering it Friday morning. 1 The other, the governor's road bill, goes to the house. The committee's < # fiii'cmblo ronrtvi will ho handed in tomorrow and the bill will be placed on the public calendar. Action is sure to be seen on this before the week is out. 7 oi the two liie i wiids uiu Will haVC.j the easiest sailing. The committee' obviously is in greatest accord. The situation is decidely different as to the secret ballot bill, Thiough; the subcommittee drafted and agreed on a substitute bill and the commit-' tee voted it favorably, differences; continue to exist. Even the vote to report it favorably was not unanimous. The substitute secret ballot is a measure of concessions by both the' pros and antis. That was the only' way they were able to unstrap it from committee boards. The new! bill, verbally, would scarcely be rec-; ognized as the original Broughton- j Jonnscn Dili, Hie language in almost every section has been chanced. | Nevertheless, the changes in all save I ?5n" rtic!!ini-. are rather inconse j quentiul. 1 he chiel concessions, apparently, were made by the antis to the adamant pros. But they did not concede on one point and they consider this point their saving grace. The section provides that the sei -ip erct ballot he optional in the discretion of the county boards of e'eetion as regards to election of county officers. The committee also changed the "provision ire the original bill that the markers appointed by the' county boards iff fftenMdrc-shall; be appointed in equal number's fcpm ) each political party to read $,hat ' each party shall have represelii-a- j tives as markers without regard to I proportion. IL also decided that n| wife might accompany her husband; into the booth to fix their tickets. It is expected that many amend-1 merits una changes will Be made on j the hill before it becomes law, if it i ever does. Up ntitil Tuesday night 3S-1 house and 2fiG senate hills had been placed in (he legislative hopper. Following is a. list of the more important measures of state-wide interest: New Bills HOUSE By Morgan of Perquimans: T.oj provide for reduction of taxes audi county road maintenance. By Smith of Wake: To amend! ^MffiHffiBnmSa?|Lth&t solicitorial dis- j triets may he set up. By Boyd of Haywood: Amend' the law by requiring sheriffs to file' report of effort to levy on personal j property for taxesL-i Hargett of Onslow, Weils" 3?T SfiSfj der, and Boren of Guilford: Fixing maximum compensation of state of- i fieials at $10,000. Amend the 1921 act relating to divorces arid (reducing the voluntrayseparation from five to two years. Winston of Bertie: Limit private prosecution in North Carolina."?^ Hines of Sampson Make provision for the state superintendent of public instruction to be the state pur-! chasing agent. Young and Leavitt of Buncombe:! Amend the 1927 act relating to j registration of automobiles by non- j " residents. Blair of Guilford. Amend election 1 laws. SENATE Alderman of Var.ee, Gregory and j Eroughton of Wake: To enable the: state to participate in the preservation of valuable historical records by appropriation of $1,500 to the Colonial Dames for the preservation of the Joel Lane house in Raleigh, where the first North Carolina legislature held its sesions. Williams of Yadkin: Australian ballot act. Pv Burnett of Swain: To reduce t';.~ homestead exemption to $300. By Lawrence of Hertford: Te amend state game law so as to change the season to run from November 20 to February 15. By Scott of Alamance: To amend the constitution so as to authorize special methods of taxing forest lands, farm woodlands and wild or waste lands. By Person of Franklin: To relieve the defaulting taxpayers of North Carolina from the tyranny and oppression in chapter 221 of the public t of r>r7. By Cannaciy of Johnston: To V l" A Non-Partisan N< BOONE, .. A CORRECTION Grave errors occurred in the j table of figures purporting to [ show the value- of installment stock in the Watauga Building & Loan Association which appeared ; as a part of the page ad in last j week's Democrat. As the table j appeared the true value or one j share of stock in series three, for instance, was put at $78, where- j as $78 was the amount paid in, ! the value as of December 31 being $97.19. The printers were 1 furnished a full copy of the audit report and the wrong columns of figures were set. The complete advertisement appears again this I week on page three and a glance i at the table will show the amount paid in on any givn series, its age in months, profit and total value per share. The statement of the j condition of the association an n?nw on tho snmp nnjt nnrj furnishes interesting reading matter, j The Democrat regrets the error of ' last week. ? I GREER URGES VAGRANCY LAW FOR TOWN OF BOONE Prof. I. G. Greer, of the Appalachian State Normal, had chaige of the program at last week's meeting of the Civitan Club, speaking on the subject, "Making the Communi- j ty Safe for our Children." In his talk. Prof. Greer anumer-1 ated several things that would go to | make a more ideal community here, j among them being a vagrancy law j that would put every able bodied; citizen without visible means of sup-! port, to work, or make him move, j There are three kinds of citizens, he ! said?a positive, a negative and the "zero" citizen. "I have no fear of the bootlegger," he said. "He is not as dangerous to the community as the 'zr.ro' citizen win, ,J.ccr .yi care what is going on about him." I'rof. Greer urged iris hearers to be active for those thing3 that go into the building of a better community, if we wiii do this, be said, there will be no room iri Boone for the criminal, ami people seeking a b?tt?=J ,place in which to educate their children will be . attracted here and Boona will become what it should be?a cultural community. f- ~.r> - 1 . "-iv . c .. ? . ? CENTRAL TIRE CO." WILL ANNOUNCE OPENING SOON The new building adjacent to the Miller-Morel?. Motor Company in getting its finishing touches and an announcement will soon be made through the columns of The Democrat :ot tnF upe>;ih^ofcSoopot;r newest firm therein, the Central Tire Company. Mr. \V. R. Winkler, successful garage proprietor and large stockholder, will be the active man ager of the new business, and says that already shipments of tiros, parts and accessories have arrived totaling mote than three thousand dollars. A full line of the leading brands of tires and tuber, will be handled, as -will repair p2"t? and acc essories for all makes of cars. Soon after the opening it is the plan of the company to install complete vulcanizing eijufph-.cr.f -and also, specialize in battery repair work. The manager7 meiit will give full details of the business in the early announcement. ? New York, Ech. 5.?Louis Orefice, hailed to court for beating his wife, was allowed to go by the judge after obeying a command to kiss his wife and his mother in-law to show his gratitude to them for deciding to drop the charge of nssaut. : ? abolish absentee voting in primaries. Blount of Pitt, and others: To re quire the state highway commission i to reimburse counties for money; spent on state highways. Clark of Mecklenburg and Ward of Craven: An act regulating the guardianship of insane and shellshocked veterans. Bills Passed SENATE To make administators and guardi ians liable for failure to file reports. HOUSE Requiring instruction in the pubj lie schools of North Carolina in the evils of alcoholism and narcotics. By Williams of Warren: Relating I to the advertisement of judicial foreclosures of sales. Williamson of Bladen: Amend the consolidated statutes relative to judgments entered by 'clerks of the j court. j Ewing of Cumberland: Relative to notices filed hv candidates 3nd pledges made by candidates. Senator Person of Franklin: Repeal the 1927 act taking power of the United States senatorial appointment from the governor. Sfiaw of Mecklenburg: Change the i punishment for malicious injury to" {property, and increasing the grave' ness of certain offenses. Senate Bill Killed I Hohbs of Sampson: To change the date of the primary from the first Saturday in June to the first Cr.iur day in August. ;\vspaper, Devoted to the WATAUGA COUUNTY, NORTH C. NEWS~OFWEEK AT BLOWING ROC' Two Arc Severely Burned Wiiw. Coal Oil is Poured in Hot Stove; Oyster Supper for Library Fund & Was Successful Blowing: Rock, Feb. G.?Forrest Clawson^ind his small sister are suffering from severe burns as a result of an explosion of oil fumes in the stove in the Cbwson home last .Sunday. Mrs. Clawsoi* told Forrest to put some ccai in thj stove, but he understood her to say coal oil. Before his mother realized \vhat he was doing, he got the oil can and poured oil into the stove. The flash of flames burned Forrest and his little sister about the face. It is hoped that the burns are not deep enough to disfigure their laces. Ii was feared at first that Forrest had inhaled the flames, but Dr. Hagaman said that he had not, examination revealed no burns in his mouth. Excellent co-operation was shown last week by the townspeople in responding to the oyster supper and dance to raise funds to pay for the new books added to the libraryEnough money was raised to finish the payment. Mr. and Airs. Gene Story furnished the steaks and potatoes for those who did not eat oysters. A. M. Critcher donated the cabbage for the salad, and other citizens donated the milk and cream. Mi's. Nellie Hartley donated the use of the Central hotel dining room and kitchen and supervised the preparation cf the supper. Mrs. IV. C. Greene helped to cook the oysters. The lady teachers of the school acted as .waitresses: Mrs W I3 Ponloo ??rwl Others who coplrt not ho present sent donations in-caoh. Pupils in the Blowing Rock school are receiving their report cards this week with their grades for the first time. Parents are requested to examine the grades carefully, us j these .mid-year grades hsy o an, imi portar.t bearing on the pupils' pro| gross, for tije whc-le yuar. | The Blowing .Rocl: high smool'i | first graduating class is making j preparatoins for class day. Diplomas ! ana invitations have been ordered, j Dr. J. Henry Highsndth, state ill : specter of high schools, has accepted j the invitation of Principal C. O. Mudge to be the commencement speaker. It is probable also that a iisliiss. nla.v will be presented. The first grade .wiBr4yt composed of eleven members: Byr>um Crisp. Beulah Wooten, Ccrinnc Knight, Elizabeth Sudderth, Lucile \ lteid, Harley Mudge, Lucille Coffey, Velma Cannon, Edna Miller, Pern Rohbiiis and Christine Johnson. T . r- ?; .1 i i 1 ?. I uuv-ui: iv\;<u uucii nrjji. avvay I from school tor the last week by illj ne-ss of her mother. Fi-vphrafci&ns. aro being made to ! eater four pupils of the Blowing j Rock high school in the debates of the state debating union. The head "quarters at " "Raleigh "has bee" requested to triangle Blowing Rock with Lees-McRae Institute and Oak I lud&'e Institute, but no word has I yet been received as to whether this | has been ac? Gilip/lphcd. Those who will probably compose the Blowing ' Rock teams are Bynum Crisp, Luoile j Reid, Paul Foster and Jay Knight. ^{tigri^^^qiS^g^io has been worki ing near Charlotte, spent the week! end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Klutz. i J. A. Panella has returned from | Sratesville and reopened hts plumb ! ing business here. | Mr. and Mrs. Earl Coffey and litjtla son, Earl, Jr., were week-end ! visitors of Mrs. Coffey's mother, I Mrs. Mattie Story. H. C. Hayes spent the week end | with Mrs. Hayes ami his daughter Dorothy, who are spending the winI ter in Raleigh. I Rev. Perry Morgan made an in teresting lecture to a good audience at the Baptist church Sunday night, i Mrs. John Green of Blowing Rock j spent the week end with Henry , Green of Johnson City, Tenn. Fred Mays spent the week-end here with his mother, Mrs. Alice Mays, and sisters. Paul UnderdoWn has gone to Charlotte, where he will work foi the vest of the winter. | Miss Ruby Richards spent the week end at her home in the Boone Fork section. Charley Spann is building a new house for himself and family. He has lately returned home from the northwest. The new house is on the old Boone road. Dewey Mitchell delivered an in I teresting address last Sunday on the i Sunday school lesson at the Cool 1 Springs church. News has reached here of the .1.. .1, lo t w -V of C r in Coffey ol , Patterson, ile dieei or influenza. DEM & P s Intere sts of North _ c A ? * iNA, THURSDAY, FEBRUA - ? ? ? How to Ma Money BY RE A j A deiialwi "pmr. pWini* cro is necessary if the farmer is to ma the most of his land, according to T. Greer, who follows this system ? his farm between Boone--and"Blow!1 Hock. Mr. Greer began by saying th he did not want his article caption "By Heal Farmers," because, 1 maintained that he was not a re larmer. uiough everyone knows In few farms in the county are mo successful than the Greer farm. ''Before the plow ever touches t ground in the spring," Mr. Gre said, "the farmer should know e actly what he wants to plant ai exactly how much acreage he war to put in each crop. This is alwa dptormmerl hy the eapacitv for CI tivation. Most of us are too ai bitiottS; we like to think of 01 selves as going into farming on large scale, and. as a result, \ often plant more than v.e car. c?l I vate. "That is one of the greatest m J takes of the farmers in this secth tin my opinion. It is hotter tor t , farmer and bettei for his land i raise 5P0 bushels of potatoes on ti j acres of iand than to raise the sai 1 amount or. five acres. It is bett j to let the land lie fallow than for ! to be only half cultivated. We ha j enough acreage under colli vatic i what we need most is greater pi , duction en each acre. "How much land a farmer sh put under cultivation each yc should be determined by three fj tors: first, how much money he i for buying seed and other supplh second, iiow uracil icriithscr he hi I and third, what proportion of f I weather he can cor.nl on for cul i vation. > "As for the first factor, it slai ;!to reason that, a farmer should 1 (put himself too much in debt . | planting his cmpjT. Tin* very n 1 thb.cr I il.> r.i tVio onvin.r plant a crop is to see how mi j money I have in the bank and to < cuinte how much 1 can spare foi ; particular crop, when all other cessary expenses are considered, careful calculation of this kinci v I often save some financial emb rossir.cnt later in the season. "Opinions differ in regard to ' i second factor, fertilizer. booai some farmers favor one kind of f [ I ilb.er, and others prefer anoth Hencp. this element ^iKiuivcTtc, determined by the kind of fertili , used and the funds available for bi ins? il i iim not oimkmninK : i other man's fertilizer, but pers ally I find that all-in all manure the most satisfactory fertilizer. C . seciiienr'y, 1 do not plant to put il cultivation any more land than I i cover with the manure available. "The third factor, the amount 1 iair weather to not by any means the least impo ant. A crop needs a certain nniot I fit cultivation, and it will not do v. unless it has^t7\ In tour. ! a farmer can calculate that at la one-third of the growing season ; rainy weather when he cannot \v< , in (he field. Now, if he plSE rrerop; that will require enough c : tivation to consume three fourths the days in the growing season, is going to lose money, because I crops will almost certainly be nnd euitiva'ced. "1 want to insist upon these thi points, because I am firmly ci vinced that what we need most net more acreage, but better p duclion on the acreage we have, business-like plan for the crops, that all growing plants can be w cared for, will do more toward creasing the general faint ir.co of the county than an increas acreage, involving a correspondii ly increased expense and iaoor. "If you will pardon an illustrat from my own experience, last yi we raised 2,500 bushels Of potati on nine acres, an average of a lit more than 277 bushels an acre. 1 might have planted twice that ac age and got a not much better yie because we should r.ot have ht able to cultivate it properly. "We raise our own seed potato It is all right to buy the eertif seed, but a farmer may certify own seed if he has the necesss : facilities. We have a special field : bottom land on "wiucli "VVC grow-, seed potatoes?about two acres. 1 find that by selecting the best ! tatoes from this crop we have an ;. cellent supply of seed potatoes the next spring. "One mistake that I have notii j among some farmers in this coui ; is plowirg the land while it is * ! Along in the latter part of Ma one might travel the length of ' s county along Highway No. 60 : ; see a hundred plows in operati ^ with .the ground aimosi ni..d. T west North Carolina RY 7, 1929 tke More on the Farm L FARMERS Dslis bad for t.he land, because land ke j plowed while it is uio .vet, will puvk ,> | as hard as a roadbed when it icets ; ' j dry. t >n | "1 have one little corner of land ; -ST j that had to ho ?sod as a detour , | while the highway was being built at past ray home. 1 had no objection, i( ed ] ?f course, to allowing its use for : i ht'! that purpose, but the ears and j ( a- j wagons going across that land j \ at | plowed it, as it were, while it was J j vet. To this day, that land is not \ -c | so productive as it was before _ i ^1L* i it was used for a detour. No ] ( (*r man could pay me for the privilege , of plowing my land while it was wet, H nd j because I know that I would losej j "ts j money on it because of its decreased ! l ys 1 production. < rnoadow land is to he pro?11 l" j diictivc, it requires care? just as oth- < ir" j er lands do. Livestock should never j | a J be allowed to run over meadow iand j j ve j during April, for two reasons: they j | ii-* *vill break it. up v/hile it wot. and thus have the same effect as plowing , 1S" wet ground, and they will trample *n? the young grass just when it is get- . he ting a start. The stock should be 1 t? j kept up during this month, so *hat 1 the grass can get itr start for th- ] P-^unimer. After it gets its Mar-. :er j they may be turned on the pasture | again. ve, "Fanners should not worry about < n *\ what I have said in regard to reduc- j l0"!i: g acreage if they are not in a po1 sition to cultivate all their land thoroughly. The chances are that 'ar 1 the smaller acreage will be as pro"" I ductive under the more intensive ; tas t cultivation as the larger acreage j would be. Moreover, the land not in crops can he used as grazing land air i for livestock. And livestock is per- ; ' haps our most productive crop. A j few sheep will bring as much profit from the land as a good crop will, j 'At any rate, whatever the farm-| 1,1 | er raises, he should not go about it rst in any haphazard way. Farming is j I a business, and it requires as much j lch attention to production costs as doesj ;a-~ the largest manufacturing concern." 5 r a no- PREACHERS ARE ASKED A TO MAKE DRY APPEAL ar- New York, Feb. tf.-?A statement i on behalf of the Federal Council of I Churches of Christ in America to-! ?R? , ' pr_ night said that the council had ap-j er. pealed to pastors of the United j ih.-i Si-tites to. preach sermons on March 3 j zer urging support pX theriodyerouirmiv; jy istratior in prohibition enforcement. j my j "In view of the fact that a fedan oral administration pledged to the islsttpporl of prohibition, asstintes of-; tn-1 fire on March SMB said the state i nto1 went, "the Federal Cuuncii of the nit Churches of Christ in America ap- I j peals to pastors throughout the of 1 country to take occasion on Sunday, is j March 3, the Sunday before inau! rt-igui-auon dev to spca'r tc Their pee-j jut! pie. either briefly or at length, urgrCll I ing total abstinence and voluntary j ty, 'observance of federal and state laws' art! for the suppression of the liquor t is | traffic. irk j "The federal council recommends ' nts I that this app5<i! he made oil three; ul- 1 grounds'. First, out of loyalty to our i ,ji j Country ami its institutions; second.' he | in order to stem "a tide~of iawiess^: ho.'noss which has manifestlc hrrome py- i harmful to national welfare; third, j [because of the power of sobriety in J reo | s people, ami the very great social I in- importance of a successful handling j is of an evil, the menace which is recro ' ognized by every nation and which A ' all are struggling to control, so "The federal council believes that , el! men and women who are members of ! in- churches, and thousands who are not, me will respond generously alio urn-el-. sed fishly to these considerations. Those ng. V.ho do social drinking will stop it if | rightfully approached and for the! ion reasons mentioned. They will also i ;ar give their voice and personal influ>es ence to the support of national and tie community officials who are joining tVe hands in an effort to make the 18th re- amendment effective :ld, The federal council believes that:en the bootlegger may thus be largely j put out of business by stopping his | es.! patronage." ied | his! CARNES GETS FIVE YEARS try! Atlanta. Feb. 5 ?Clinton S. of I Carnes, former treasurer of the j i"*' TJonF>oF AAnvnrtHATt ralnr.rl I I ?E?s3 aijTfflgfji ?j iVc guilty here today to embetzlement j po-1 and was given an indeterminate senex-: tence of five to seven years impris-j forjonment. He is alleged to have em-! | bezzlcd nearly a million dollars from -ed j the home mission board of the South sty j era Baptist church. iet. j ? rchj If a resolution indorsing the Ten! the Commandments were introduced in1 indlthe senate it would be loaded down on. with 110 reservations.-^ lew York 'his Evening Post. . ' mj FIVE CENTS A COPY MILLtfl SETTLES WITH THE TOWN Municipal Authorities Very Secretive Concerning Detailr, of Settlement of $10,000 Account With High Point Broker The indebtedness of Claude K. Miller. High Point broker, to the ;own of Boone has been cleared up iccording t.o information made pubic Jj, A. Y. Jlowci!, town clerk. No letails were given out as to what erms the adjustment was made, othtr than that the "municipal author i ies were satisfied." It will he remembered that Miller ippeared at the September term of W atauga superior court to answer charges of giving bad checks in payment for a note of $10,000 which he vas t<? ha e negotiated for the town. He alleged that a New York bank land promised to buy the note and :hat lie sent checks to the local as a result -not b?intr?to stop the checks when he found the banker had laid down on the contract. It developed later, however, hat Miller had cashed the note at the First National Hank of Thomastil le and appropriated the money. The case was continued until the spring term of court to give him an opportunity to make settlement. POWER TO NAME SENATORS RESTORED TO GOVERNOR The general assembly Friday restored to the governor the power to fill vacancies in the United States senate from this state that it took away in 11127. Senator Person's bill to repeal the 1927 act, already passed by the senate was passed in the house Friday without discussion. The vote was put without a roll call and Ippixlation now becomes law. Before getting around to Senator Person's bill, the house passed. 77 to 33, a bill hy Representative Ewing, Democrat, of Cumberland, to require candidates in the state primary to pledge support to all nominjgna of the party. Under the present law they are required to promise support only the nominees ot the office for which they ore a candidte. TJie vote on the bill yvas drawn on almost strict party iir.es. >Jo Renub- StSjB Heart voted for it, and only one Democrat, Borer, of Guilford, againstKepieaer.tativr Sutilemyer of Ca'dwell, elected on an independent tickel, also voted agftjSist it. WHITE ILLITERATES IN STATE TOTAL 104,844 :?~? The state literacy commission, appointed V.insv. year i.y Governor- pes~r=~? Lean to make a study of illiteracy in North Carolina: and to devise ways and means of helping improve the illiterates reports that North Carolina has IO l.h'4-4 white illiterates, or more than the total number cf illiterates in nine states. These states are Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota. Iowa, Oregon, South Dakota and Utah. There are. v.hv rnonues in North Carolina, says the report, that have move than 15 per cent illiteracy, according to a study made by the corarnissiuii~yirrthe besis of the 1920 census. "In our total population," says the report, 13.1 persons in every 100"arc i! J: tem.t C:" In transmitting the report to the general assembly the members of the Vomthissiorinsay this to the legislators: "These facte and figures cm the serious problem of illiteracy are submitted for your consideration because many ef your constituents are hopeful that you will make possible, daring ttiis session of the legislature, a vigorous statewide literacy program." SENATE PASSES CRUISER BILL Washington. Feb. 4.? Over riding t'te expressed with of President Coolidpe, the senate by a vote of 54 to id8 refused late today to eliminate from the cruiser construction bill the stipulation that the sixteen, ships sha'l be laid down before July 1. 1931. Party ines went to smash on the proposition with a Democrat, Sena tor Hamsun-of- Mississippi, offering the amendment to give the president a free rein over the naval program and twenty six Republicans voting against the Coolidge request. This disposed of the dominant issue in the cruiser fight and the senate will vote tomorrow on the measure authorizing 15 cruisers and an airplane carrier ?i _?t enat of S274.000.000. . passage of which is regarded as assured. Washington. Feb. 5.?An increase in the navy by 15 cruisers and an airplane carrier was voted today by ihe senate, 68 to 12, with the stipulation that the ships bo laid down before July 1, 1931. You can tell a civilized onnjnS It's one where people kill the birds and then spend millions to fight insects.?Portland Express. ' -v . p's/ icClBi A. .'".yflfjfl