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TWO P SHORT ITEMS OF fiENERAI NEW t&AAWA m.m-M x 1JU V 1 I Some of the Outstanding Happei.ini of pAmi Tveek, Gaiucrcd 1* ro Everywhere. Condensed For T! Busy Reader. Captain Nathan 0* Berry of Gold boro. one of the state's best knot* citizens and long regarded as a lea or in civic and business affairs, Fi day accepted the appointment Governor Gardner as state treasur and on Saturday miming assume the duties of the office, succeedii Benjamin R. Lacy, whose term vvou have expired January 1. 1930. < "o Ion el Charles A. Lindberg h. accepted his first official post \vi the government?technical advis> to the aeronautics branch of tl commerce department. Secretai Whiting announce:: Lho -ippahitmei Thursday, and said Col. Lindber^ had agreed to hodd himself in read noss to respond to any rail from tl assistant secretary in charge of aer nautics, to advise or personally assi the government in all phases of i regulation r*f civil aviation tablishment of air ports and airway research and prevention of accident H Birmingham, Ala.. Feb. 2il?Tl -Telephone operator at Duncan, Mis! told the Ago Herald that 2D persco were known to have been killed I -- . . - . ... a cOTTTTlv wlllvl Slyri>! liiul- Svr?!I that town between 2 and 3 p. ni. t day. Half the houses in the tow were levelled, the operator said, ar partis were searching through tl ruins for additional bodies. She sa the death toll probably would moui as the wreckage Was cleared awa at least 100 poisons being injure At Duncan, Miss, ten persons we] killed in the collapse ci one buili ing. while five Chinese went their death in another. Stale Treasurer Benjamin Ui< Lacy, the last survivor of the A cock administration which eamc in power following the restoration < the Democratic party to power in tl election uf I HOP. died Thursdz mottling at hi" homo ir. would have been 75 years old had 1 lived until June I'd. Although M Lacy had been ill for several day he had survived so many other a tacks when recovery seemed impo sib lag that his -dnsith came as a _di tinctshbek, even to those who we fully aware of his condition. Funer services were h< id Friday afternoc at the First Presbyterian ehurc The North Carolina Grand Lodg <>? which Mr. Lacy Was grand trea ;~ui?ry-had charge of the ceremony,-. The Confederate dead of the Or war. after sleeping for six decades rebels, were given official recogi Siv tion Monday tp' American j so.IdjJ ~\vKeh the senate passed a house b conferring governmental honors u on them. The bill authorized il secretary of war to erect headston over the "graves of soldiers who hi s erved in the Confederate arm and who have been buried in n tional. city, town or village cern teries or in any other places.!* T1 war department was also instruct! to preserve in its record "the nam rank, company, regiment and date ( death of the soldier and his state The bill gave the Confederate dea the same honors given the Unic ead with: ho i---?? single exf-pptienthe former cannot yet sleep i Arlington. After almost three years of ii quiry, a recommendation that Sohi tor-elect William S. VaVre of Pent sylvatiia, be denied his seat was sul mitted to the United States senai Friday by its special canipaig funds "investigating committee. Kov ever, the committee left it to t'n senate to decide whether final a< tion should be taken on the cas while the Peunsylvanian is ill an unable to take advantage of the ser ate's previous offer to him to appea and present his position. Elected i 1920, Vare has never occupied hi seat. On the basis of the committee' first report, the Pennsyivanian wa denied the oath when he presente himself in the senate in Decembei 1927. The committee's repott al iributed expenditures of ?7S5,U3 to him in his primary fight againt former Governor Pinchot and foi mer Senator Pepper for the Repul lican senatorial nomination. President-elect Hoover has ordci ed the special Brookhart senate con mittee to clean up its investigate into patronage corruption within month after inauguration in ord< - to have the old guard in the sout weeded out before patronage is di pensed. The order gives defini! recognition to the "new south" th; turned four southern states Republ can in, Nftvprntpr tor ll>. n ?O +1 ? "> ?and throws into the discard most c the Republican machinery that hi been.built up steadily since Civil wi reconstruction days. It is a swee] ing decision to extricate the par! "from one of the worst patronaf; uieMca in history. It will end negi domination in some states. The sei ate will do the rest, turning inl Texas, Georgia, South Carolin I Florida, Mississippi and Louisian Already the year-old senate commi tee which avoided annoying publich until after the November electio has heard testimony of outright sa of appointments to the highest bii ders in Georgia, South Carolina ar Florida, and of protection to boo leggcrs in Texas. Jk THIS WEEK 5 Br ARTHUR BRISBANE ^ I A BrAve M&u D?ftd Inb^ited Ge>n?ro:;ty m 1 Human Sacrifices *" Useful Warnings Those that pity themselves be is- cause their health is ''not quite wha rn it ought to be" may consider Baroi u- von iluenefeld, who died on th< ri- operating table, undergoing his 13tl of operation for an incurable disease ei , of the stomach that had afflicted hin id i for years. lg I lei j Suffering hopelessly, knowing tha j he could not live long and must en many operations, von Huene feld planned and carried out th( ! German-Irish flight across the At er! lantic Ocean. ie! Such courage and will powe; j should make others ashamed to com j plain. | .J. Pierpont Morgan gives Nev] p York hospital two buildings wortij j $2,000,000. Giving seems to be in ; her?ted. as illustrated also in the cast p* i of the Rockcfelers. f,Ir. MorcarJc fath?*1 gHV" to NVw s*; York one of its finest institutions, : ] great lying-in hospital. ie ^ . i Serious routing in India is eauicc is ?ir a report vl??L -doharr.-.r.cdanc hid >y napped Hindu children and sacrificei them connection with the con _ st ruction of a new bridge. The re *n Port prObably is not true. id . gg i Once important works wtre usu | ally accompanied by human saeri ^ tices. Somebody was killed am v buried under the corner of a new ^ building. A child or adult was oftec re killed and buried in a shallow holt ,j_ I in a field newly planted. Knowing Lo ? nothing about fertilizers they bli served with "religious awe" that tin grass grew greener where the corpst was buried. n .?? P Madame Bella Pollack died in Ru 1 J mania, aged I18> leaving 21 childrer ]cr! the oldest So, and a fiance wht -V would have been her third husband Madame. Pollack ate two and one half pounds of black bread and pound of sugar every day, and was j never ill until her last illness. ; Men often live long when the doc ^{ tor tells them that they will soon die ' .lames Melrose, twice lord mayor ol ^ York, England, is dead, aged 100 Insurance company refused him as : ' had risk 70 years ago. ,s" The famous Luigi C.ornaro becamt iritercsted-irs his health when doctor: ' 1 told him at 40 that he must soon die fie ate only 111 ounces of solid food drank IS ounces of red wine daily rs and died at one hundred ?nd four. ill P- Lindbergh, on his way front Miam re to Panama, "hopped off" on his 27u es birthday, id Only 27 and his name is known y. wherever men are civilized, a- Only 27 and already ho has con e- quoted the ocean, and, what is more te important, the respect of every mar :d and woman. e, The young American's history >f makes millions of others feel as ." Caesar did when he read the life of id Alexander the Great and suddenly in burst into tears, realizing that Alex under had conquGrud=the world-when in he was younger than Caesar was then. I "Herbert Hoover may find import1 ant aviation work for Lindbergh." ^ Nothing more probable. An engineer ;e knows that somebody who knows n how to do what you want done is ,m valuable, e Mr. Hoover understands the engic neering parr. of flying and all its im(j portance, from mail carrying to na( tional def-.nse. Colonel I.indbergli understands the n flying part. A fine combination. .. Many hats would go up in the air if young Lindbergh were put by Mr. ~ Hoover at the head of a separate dej partment for national air defense. Peking. China, Feb. 25.?Ameri" man money for relief of starting ' I millions in China is beginning to ar' j rive and is being sent by the China international relief committee to spots where conditions are worst. According to the latest estimates of r" the committee, between 12,000,000 ' and 20,000,000 people are starving n in the vast central district of China. a The worst affected areas are Cha 1 nar, Deyqim uie threat. wan, anensi, ^ Kansu, and southwest and western s" Honan. In Shensi entire families e have been driven to suicide, the chil dren taking their lives first and the " mother and father last. Hundreds ,e Whose homes have been burned have taken refuge in caves. In the Sien is yang and Chinyang districts whole lr villages are facing starvation, uii f" hundreds are dying daily in the -y streets. Tens of thousands are try e ing to keep alive on such food sub *n sti tutor. as mulberry leaves, cottonn" seed with the lint still adhering, wile to /grass ground to powder, and bakec a> 'cottonseed cake, a. t- Colored Rookie: I'd like to have i iy new pair of shoes, suh. n. Sergeant: Are your shoes wori le out? d- Rookie: Worn out! Man, the bot id toms of mah shues are so thin al t- can step on a dime and tell whethei it's heads or tails." THE WATAUGA PEMOCRAT?KVJ ]siX SOUTHERN COUNTY AGENTS WIN AWARDS Six Southern county agricultural are continuing an outstanding soil t impro.sment program and who were ! rewarded with a tree trip to BH anj nual meeting of the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers in " I Houston. Texas, have been named, j. | These agents come from North Car1 olina, Alabama. Mississippi. Oklahoma 3 I and Arkansas, and are being awarded 1 the trips by the Southern Division, ?, Soil Improvement Committee, the Naj tional Fertilizer Association. ' First place was awarded to H. K. 1 Sanders. Roxboro. Person county, t! North Carolina. The other five places are listed alphabetically, as no rankings were made of these five: W. U. Hall, Conway, Faulkner county. Ar k :in sat<: H. C. Heath* Lafayette. Chambers connty, Alabama; C. L. Mc Neil. CantoD. Madison county, Mississippi; Earl W. Smith. Muskogee, Muskogee cov.nty, Oklahoma; and W. Q. Yeager, Salisbury. Rowan county, N. C. 1 To Stimulate Interest "These awards were made to stimulate interest in soil improvement programs, as recommended and approved ujr Lite ValiOuo Statu CXvCn21C"t St2~ 1 tions and agricultural extension services,' according to J. C. Pridmore, di, rector of the Soil Improvement Committee. "Tiie six outstanding reports j were selected by a committee or agricultural college workers in co-operation Wills li:o eiieliSlC'Ii scllics O? ficials who have charge of county agent work in the various States. Winners wore selected on the basis of a uniform score card which took into \ consideration accomplished results in soil improvement in the county, mcth : ods of putting the programs into effect. and plans Tor future soil improvec ment efforts based on an analysis of the situation as it exists in the ? county." The winning county agents were given an opportunity of attending the Southern Agricultural Workers meeting and also the agricultural extension i wi rkers' jubilee convention coramem> orating the establishment of the first - agricultural cxteriaion office in the country at Houston 25 years ago. 1 The awards Include gold medal fobs ; presented by the Soil Improvement Committee as permanent trophies of accomplishment, along with certificates that may become the property * of tiio county represented by the win: ning agent. Members of the Judging committee ; were O. S. Fisher, extension agronomist United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. O.; W. D. Mernior, director of extension, Lou1 isiana State -Univerbify,"Baton Rouge, T. O. Schaub. dean of agriculture and director of extension in North Carolina State College, Raleigh: T. S Buie. head of the department oi agronomy, i Clemson College, S. C.; and J. ft. IUcks, i j director of the experiment station, A. and M. College, Mississippi. t ??? The Democratic proposal for a . $24,000,000 prohibition enforcement > appropriation in addition to the i regular budget funds was made again in the house Saturday and immc-dir ately defeated by a vote of 134 to ; 71. The house then adopted the i Wood amendment for an addition of j . SI 71 RK'i , ,. -- - ^u. ^luiiuuwiuii rj'turce jme.it as a rider to the second der "fiCIvJICjr CpprOpriaviull " IJ 111. KCpI'C* I ; sentative Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama, offered the $24,000,000 amendment to the bill, which was in troduced to take the place of the sidetracked first .deficiency measure. The tirst bill was lost in conference after house leaders refused to agree to such an appropriation, as voted by the senate in the form of an amendment. SAVE WITH AlfCT,V BOTTLED SUNSHINE j from the land of t.h" m:.-!r;;;ht \ | sun. Every drop 01 PURETEST COD LIVER OIL comes from Lofoten. Norway, j Tested for vitamin potency. I Family size Full fint i $1.00 Cod Liver Oil is the most potent of ali s':rength-building medicines n>cv?use it CGiata.*io many times more vitamins than any other substance in addition to ilo nigb nutritive value. I. BOONE DRUG CO. i ThoVfotadML Store cj BOONE, N. C. iKY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. 1 STRESSES YIELD i AND LOW i !' The average yields of crops in tin ! South, taking the region as a whole are not more than out?-third to onehalf of what they should be, according to Dr. H. W. Barre. director of th< experiment station, Clemson College S. C. Dr. Barre, at the 29th annual conj vention of the Association of Southen | Agricultural Workers, of which he waj president, pointed out in his presideu tial address that yield per acre ao< production per unit of labor are o 1 ouisi-aiichug importance in a ccnsid! eration of cost of production. Proceed ings of this convention have just beei J published. Profit or Loss. "In the case of cotton, cost studiei \ made in South Caroline, show th?t, fe> i ach increase of 100 pounds in yield I >er acre of lint cotton above the av; race, the cost decreases 3 cents pei j ound," Dr. Barre said. "This differi nee in cost of production frequent!} | the difference between profil :td loss. Our average yields, taking \q South as a whole, are not more I ;; PLANT rnrN AND FEED MORE HOG: The person who studied the hold j ings of pork and pork products nov i in cold storage without also studyirq j the present swine population of tin j United States might be discourage* about the outiook for swine th?. ! year, says W \V. Shay, swine exten | si on specialist at State Coi'egc. "Vet while the cold storage hold i ings are some greater, the numbc of hogs on the farms of the countrj j is now nine per cent less than las | year," says Mr. Shay. "Over si: million more hogs were slaughteret I under federal inspection last yea than the year before and under sue! jJoTuhtipiYs; North Carolina farmer ho averaged as much as <*0 uu.^-! of corn per acre made a 500 per cen profit by selling it as pork. Thos< .1-1,.. A- ?... ; I > . ..u vv!uuiuv w xwu nogs in is yeav ! will also get a good return for thei: corii crop regardless of the mark.e price of corn. It is even possibk that, Should there he a bumper ciu] j of com, thoso who systematical1.* convert their corn into pork will in crease their profits from the croj as much as from 500 to 1000 pci cent as compared with the profi 1 from selling the corn as grain.'* " - ? The B< FRO | BE I l is , I Firestone mileage per dol and mechanics mous quality c low prices to n Let us she than you ever Com ? I Voice Firesti PRODUCTION DOST i ===============J ? than one-third to one-half of what i, they should be, and there ore certain ?k?? ?=4 - -m 1? - 1U?.W>U vuufc MO Oliun oao Ut [llliua - importance in increased yields. Among a these we might mention stalks to tho i, acre, probably 20,000 stalks to an acre, more intelligent use of fertilizer, - better cultural practices, and more ini telligent fight against the weevil. With b corn, some studies Indicate that it - costs $1.40 per buBhel to make IB 1 bushels per acre, about $1.00 per bush- j f el to raise 25 bushels per acre, and | - 75 rAnta per bushel to produce 35 ! - bushels per acre. The difference in l yield is largely due to the amount of available plant food which has been applied as commercial fertilizer or i by soil improving crops or barnyard j p manures. The cost of producing praei tically all of our staple crops la Just - about as closely correlated with yields - p_r acre as I have mentioned In the - cost of corn and cotton. And if we are ? t n m net I.. " wuifoutiuu m cuts mr.uro 11 [ t is absolutely imperative that we in-1 ; crease the fertility of our soils to i where wo can get profitable yields/* Mr. Shav savs that there was a! rease in receipts of hogs at the! large markets in January. Then.] - i t . thrrtr a rc-a = _ 29.S per I cent in the volume of stockev and p: feeder shipments as compared with January one year ago. Furthermore, p over fifty million less pigs were 1 ( saved during the spring and fall of s: 1923 as compared with the year - i 1927. In the intentions report, it is found that there will he a decrease - of from four to seven per cent in the r number of sows farrowing this k spring. t J All this looks like a good year for v j North Carolina farmers to so breed I and feed th?'ir hogs for sale on the r r high markets of April and Septemi j her w ith assurance of a profit over | s j feed costs. --?? i Theft of Beans Brings life Term ? j C'aro, Mich., Felj, lio?Frank Bow> i or of King's Mill, was sentenced to r | life under Michigan's habitual crimII ina! law for the theft of thirty bags -1 of heans. Thi s was his fourth '. felony. My Bomiic ) My Bonnie leaned over the gas lank r The height of the contents to see; t i She lighted a match to assist her? j Oh bring back my Bonnie to me. SHiref. M THE WOR ST MATERIA reaches around the world liar. Every available resoui >.!, is Firestone-owned, that if these tires be maintained lotorists. iw you the way to more re. have known before. 1A# U WMFI CD W.K. 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