I VOLUME XLI, NO. 29. ii Today and Tomorrow By FRANK P. STOCK BRIDGE _________?__?_ New York Visitors to New York think that is inhabitants live a gay life, it not i wild one. They are wrong. The crayety and wildness is mostly staged tor out-of-town visitors, three hundred thousand of them in town every i day. The average bedtime of the real New Yorker is nearer 9 o'clock than midnight. When New Yorkers zo to the theatre they buy cheap a seats in the balcony; out-of-town P folks pay the exhorbitant prices in the pit. Very few New Yorkers would know where to find a night club or -a speakeasy. They live in New York I 1 because they can make more money J : there, but only by working harder than they did in the small towns they came from. To get ahead they have to live regular lives. They bring their small-town habits with them and fill more than two thousand csiurcnes every sunuay. ?_J: ,?. Water The droughts in the Northwest and the Northeast in 1029 have made I : communities of every size turn serious attention to the problem of ! i water supply. As population increases and people crowd into towns, the | j problem becomes more serious from ' | year to year, even in rainy seasons. New York City looks ahead to the j M time when it must draw its water j from Eake Ontario, three hundred j ? ; nilios away. Philadelphia already has! : * ?-<> into New York State for wii-j :cv. Inland cities on fresh-water lakes and rivers, are more fortunate, but the pollution of streams hv sewage is increasing. Eventually sewage will he disposed f everywhere in reduction plants and sooner or later science will find a way to purify sea-water for drinknig purposes and so make a water famine in seacoast towns impossible. | . Snpriali?!v '1! I., know a farmer who is perhaps the- greatest authority on potatoes jfi the world. He grows nothing else; raises them in Maine in summer anil in Florida in Winter. He is getting rich. I know another farmer who has abandoned every other crop to raise (gladiolus. He is getting rich. One man in Mains specialized in pheasants, and makes several thousand dollars a year on fifty acres. I know half a dozen farms where nothing is raised but.silver foxes. They make money. Some years ago 1 met a wornji an in Ohio who was earning a very |i pood income raising skunks for their fur. I know another man who grows !> only violets. I have never known a specialist "1 who made money if he pave any attention to anything hut his specialty. 1 have never known one to fail Sif he had the essential requirements of industry, common sense, salesmanship and sufficient capital to carry on until his specialty made good. Drivers I Automobiles kill more people in I America than any other single source (of accidents, far more than are killed by railroads. The cause of accidents is usually inexpert driving. We have ji interpreted individual liberty to mean f the right of anyone to drive a car whether he is competent or not. Massachusetts has stiffened its tests for drivers, so thatnowii, is impossible in Bay State to tret a lit cense to drive a ear unless one really knows how to drive. And that means a loL more than merely how to shift scars and apply the brakes; it means appreciation of the fact that there are other cars on the roads as well f as pedestrians. Some day nobody will he allowed! to drive a car in any state who has not some sense of responsibility to others. 1 A - Antiques Almost any old picee of furniture, china, glass or junk, if it is bats' tered enough, can be sold somewhere as an "antique." I attended several j country auctions in New England last summer and saw absurd prices paid for trash to which most folks would not give house-room. "Vet among them there was always a piece or two which was a real bargain. I bid on a SMS??? takle, which might have been fifty years old or a hundred and titty, out which was ol value to me because it would fit my dining room, was beautiful in design and sturdy in construction, and a modern table equally good would cost more than $200. I stopped bidding at $175 and the table went to a dealer who bid $5 more. Just before Christmas, rummaging I i"** furniture 'department of a New York store in A search of a good mirror at a bargain, J I saw this identical table. I asked the MAT 'Mr , '-VHfiWWHMMP I A Non-Partisan Ne BOOfi OfllAAI Nrnrd rpftM OWIUUL ilJLi Tf O 1 HVlll j BLOWING ROCK Circulating Library Enjoys Large Growth. 3,380 Books Loaned Dur- j ing Year. School Attendance for! Second Term Much Larger. Blowing Rook, Jan. 15.?A report j maue L>y the Blowing Rock Library,! which is shared by the school and community, shows 3,380 books to have been circulated during 1929. This number of books lent is found to be as large, in proportion to the population of the community, as the average city library reports in North Carolina. Gifts of books have been recently received. Altogether, over two hundred accessions have been made since summer. These books include current fiction and a number of excellent biographies, books on politics and government, and books of travel. These books have been the gifts of friends in New York, Richmond, Washington, Wilmington and Massachusetts. besides a number coming from local friends of the library, ir.T*.T~~ T.. 1 o x*rm* "** v.iuumg Jim. >101111 o. wiiuains, inrs. j T. H. Coffey Sr., Mrs. Sally Reeves, j and Mrs. W. L. Crisp. Among the recent biography of! especial interest in North Carolina J is Stryker's "Life of Andrew .John-} son," which reveals the reconstruction President, the North Carolina tailor's apprentice who arrived in the! White House, as one of the mostcourageous ami able men ever to fiil j the Presidency, despite the fact that former biographers have pictured him ; only as a man of prejudice and small i ability. Other Inographies oT public irttdi^T est are Karsner's "Andrew Jackson," and Atherton's "Life of Alexander; Hamilton," founder of the Republican Party. The second terni of the school year ,beginning this week, is entered j with a feeling of satisfaction because: iVw. ? ' y? ?nv rwcofua lliauu 111 bSIV IL'V.Ullt| mid-term examinations and because j the attendance now in the high j school is twenty-fixe per cent. larger than for last year. " Excuninaaoiis snow a.siiiunei ruum- j ber of failures and a higher averagej than was made iast year at the same? time, a natural consequence of the j fact that each class entering highj school is bettor prepared than the j preceding one. due to improved school conditions and upper-class students having had more experience as members of an accredited school. Early in this term work will begin on a number of entertainments to which the public wili be invited. Two features of the school this year which have broadened the activities of the students are the chapel programs prepared by the grades successively and. in the high school, the programs which have been given regularly at the close of each week by the Sidney LanieV and the Poe Liter ary Societies. These programs have included debates, plays, current events, readings, jokes, burlesques, a mock wedding, and a minstrel, besides programs in observance of such days as Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The program Friday will be in honor of Lee and Jackson whose birthdays come on January 19 and 21. Programs to which the community has been invited were given by the pupils of Mis. Eugene Story on Thanksgiving and those of Miss Floy Cannon on Friday before Christmas. The vent-Teacher Association, organized just as school closed last spring, has functioned successfully this Sear. Its regular monthly meeting was held Tuesday evening, with! the president, Mrs. H. P. Holshousei.l presiding. The program on this cc- \ casion was sponsored by the teach- j crs. ? ?<- vnu|A;i jw/ft by the hgh school student.-, was a j French play by the senior class, a] scene from "Cyrano de Bergerac";] a one-act play by the girls of the i junior class, and a dramatization of j scenes Xvdir. the French Revolution I by the ninth {trade, one of the prbj-l ects designed to make European his- j lory objective rather than remote. Each class in high school chose its representatives to take part in the Citizenship Contest sponsored by the Civitan Club, and a number of essays are being prepared. Uncle Si Tinklepaugh says too much ot a good thing is bound make trouble, like holding five aces in a poker game. price. "Nineteen hundred dollars," said the saleswoman. As time goes on, old furniture takes on increased value, provided it is well designed, well built and in good condition. The things that our grandmothers threw away are treasures today, 'tomorrow much of flic junk that we discard may be priceless. JGA wspaper, Devoted to the tE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH < Bank Officials Urge Purebred Livestock The stockholders of the Watauga County Bank were in session Tuesday afternoon, the attendance being unusually full. The present bom 1 of directors was re-elected as follow.*: B. B. Dougherty, L. A. Greene, G. Hagaman, S. E. Gragg, W. V/. Mast, .1. F. Hardin, -J. H. Mast. Baxter Linney and J. H. Councill. A 5 per cent, semi-annual dividend was paid and $2,500 add.3d to the surplus, making the total surplus fund $50,000, the equivalent of tl.f capital stock. After other routine matter:* had been considered, the bank officials turned their attention to an enthusiastic round-table discussion of the pure-bred livestock movement in the county. Each stockholder expressed himself as being anxious for the bank to encourage the raising of purebred livestock in every way possible and at the same time foster a movement 101* more extensive truck farming. The Watauga County Bank, through its cashier, Mr. G. P. Uagaman, was one of the principal factors in the organization of the Watauga Livestock Association, and has kept in the thick of the war against the scrub sire, which has already resulted in the importation of no loss than fourteen thoroughbred bulls. The first shipment of eleven head, which was purchased in Virginia has been followed bv individual purchases already. Messrs. Sam Atkins and John Dugecr. of Vilas, recently brought from Ashe County a thoroughbred Shorthorn bull; J. S. Snyder, of the Beaver Dam section, purchased a sire of the same kind in Tennessee, while Harrison Baker, of Meat Camp, went to Alleghany lor a registered Black Angus. And the hattie against Cm- scrub is drawing new recruits and growing hotter every day. Another committee purchase of hulls' is expected to be made soon and before the end of the year it is expected that a registered sire will lie placed in each community in the county. The original purchase con..ijfn.1 II c >- I? OIVVCUVT " I llfll-HllllS, IIUWCVCI many farmers prefer the Shorthorn or other breeds. The sponsors of the livestock movement are not interested in this phase of the proposition?what they want-is to be definitely of the scrub. Buy the kind of a hull you he is thoroughbred. Wataugans Will Attend Lincoln Day Dinner I'resiBfcnt Hon vol' and Claudius Huston, chairman of t'no Republican National Executive Committee, will be invited to speak at the Lincoln Pay dinnei to he held February 12 at 7:80 in the evening at Kins: Cotton Hotel, Greensboro, under auspices of the Young Peoples Republican Organization of North Caiolinn. County Chairman W. II. Gfagg announced Saturday. Mr. Grace said that, l.e had just received the infovmation from State headquarters, Hendersonville, and that he had already set in motion plar.s to have Watauga County well represented at. the dinner. It is pretty well assured that Mr. Huston will be able to attend and speak, it was said Saturday. However, 110 prediction was made regarding the President's comingMr. Gragg said he was informed that invitations would be sent to State Chairman Brownlow Jackson, Congressman Charles Jonas, State Vice-chairman Mrs Gill loo ilf R Rodgers, Republican National Coin? mitteewcman Mrs. W. E. Kennen. Congressman George E. Pritchartl and other prominent leaders of this and other states. A representative is expected from everj county in the State and definite plans call for the attendance of a large number. The meeting and dinner will have no political significance further than to promote and bring about a more extensive and cohesive organization of the young Republicans of North Carolina. Watauga Republicans wishing to attend the meeting may make the reservations through W W Cmgg. Boone, who asks that those wishing to attend communicate with him at once. He indicated that lie expected to see as many young Republicans | from this county attend as plans for j the dinner can accommodate. WOODCRAFT NOVELTY CO. RESUMES OPERATIONS The Woodcraft Novelty Company] which has been shut down since the first, of December, until their new building could he completed and the machinery reset, resumes operations toaay, wiui a iorce ot aoout twenty men. Since manufacturing was suspended, work has gone forward rapidly on the new addition to the factory and a force has been employed moving machinery and making many future manuj facture of wood novelties on a larger scale. ' DEM< Best Interests of Northw CAROLINA. THURSDAY JANUARY SIM MOMS TO ENTER SENATORIAL FIGffl Says He Cannot Afford a Campaign Will Stick to His Duties at tin Capital and Depend on. Friends ant His Record in "Last Battle/* I The veteran Senator Simmons. North Carolina, answered the chal lenge for his seat by announcing las Saturday for "my last primary con test.*' The veteran Democratic Senator dean 01 the Senate, who refused t< support the Presidential candidac: of Alfred E. Smith, took no notict of the announcement recently madi of opposition to himself in the Demo cratic primary to be held next June i Josiah William Bailey, of Raleigh | has declared his candidacy. In the statement issued Saturday he explained that he could make nc 1 Dcrsonal cam?sa>-?ri. by the Democrats because of wort in Congress and for lack of mono] to finance it. He is ranking: Demo crat on the Finance Committee am i is engaged in the pending taiif] struggle in Congress. The text of his statement read: "More than a year ago [ an | nounced that I would be a candidate j for re-election to the United State: i Senate and, pursuant to that declar ' ation. I shall, in due time, file no j tice of my candidacy for the Demo j cratic nomination in the primary oi j .June 7, 1970. in offering for re! nomination I feel it i> due my friends : and supporters to advise them oJ 1 the reasons why 1 shall not he ahU personalU t?> condu t or finance ai [ active primary campaign. i'Mn the first place1, the Congress which is now in se.s-.ion, will no! | fir.h-h work until after the nri j mdry contest is over. The party ant j my Democratic colleagues in the Sen i ate have honored me with importani j responsibilities, and ! regard it a. ] imperative that no personal consid j ovations shall be allowed to inter j fere with the proper discharge oi j those official duties in the interest, i of mv constituents, party apd coun I try; Neither would my physica i strength, which must he conserve! j for the effectual discharge of my du iTies in the SJoiiuti:, he Sufficient i?. j/carry, at the same time, the adde< I burden Of aiv artive camoaitrn norm I part. ? "Furthermore, having snout thi best years of my life in the publij service, T now have 110 money to fi nnnt'f a State-wide campaign. Ii those circa instances and for thesi reasons, I ^111 obliged, but quite con tent. t,o leave my candidacy in tin hands of my friends and the puoph of North Carolina. 44With profound gratitude to nr pavtv and to the people of my State I enter this, my last primary contest promising only consecrated service guided and directed by conscientioudevotion to duty, and earnestly in dulging the hope that nothing maj occur in this campaign which migh create or revive division or discov. in the ranks of the Democratic part} in North Carolina. 44I have been in active politiea life for the past forty-odd years. Mj record during those years is an opei book and is known to the people o North Carolina, and 1 am entire!} satisfied thus to leave it to then to say whether on not they wish mi to remain in the Senate longer thai my present term." Baptists Issue Attractiv< Year Book and Director) 0*1 K'.st ?>undny morning each o the members of the Boone Baptis Church were presented with a cop; of an attractive Year Book an. Church Directory, which came iron the presses of The Democrat tlv j latter nart of last week. I The little book contained twenty | four pages besides the cover, o ! standard book size, and the subjec j matter was arranged and the ad : vertisemenls of local business house j solicited by the pastor. Rev. P. A Hicks. The make-up consisted of a alphabetical list of all the member Ol the church, resident anu nun-i'cSi dent, the officers of the many chtircl organizations and a history of th church, interspersed with neat advei tising pages, which enabled the pas tor to make free distribution of th namn1.1y.K, IT . XT:i?: I'aiupincio. mi. mtivb is ueni^ cuii gratulated upon his enterprise in sup plying his membership with the ur usually useful and attractive Yea Book. MRS. A. W. HARDIN DIES News has reached Boone of th death of Mrs. A. W. Hardin, whic occurred at her home in Taladegt Ala., on the 7th, following a shor illness with pneumonia. She was 5 years old. Surviving are a husban and two children, one boy and on I girl. Mrs. Hardin was a native Als bamian, but her husband will b vememhored bv manv friends in thi section as the son of the late Jame , Hardin. OCRA est North Carolina { 1C, 1930. | { Mad Dog Causes Stir in j (' \\ Boone and Community j Boor.e citizens were thrown into panic last Wednesday evening, when . a small dog belonging to Conrad lc t Hodges, who resides two miles west I of town, became rnad, bit his master and a brother, Wilson Hodges, escaped from them and ran at will L through Boone and surrounding communities for four 01* more hours un- Ua tj til ?l was overtaken and killed by fo - Policemen Wyke and Gross or. Ci Laurel Fork. During the mad rampage of the G< > rabid canine, a seven-vear-old son ni< ; of Henry Moretz, of Meat Camp, was th ? bitten in the hand and leg, five dogs v,*j - belonging to Stewart Brown, of Per- de - kinsville, were victims of the an; . mai s iangs. and dogs belonging to ca , Alfred Adains and John E. Brown br were infected. All these animals Mi r have since been put to death. he > To determine whether or not the be 1 dog had hydrophobia, the head was te c sent to the State Chemist at Raleigh ta ? for analysis. Saturday a report came tit - affirming that this was the trouble, nil 1 and the infected ones are now be- so fling given the Pasteur treatment. which is said to be 100 per cent, ef- ne fcctcd, if properly administered. se Since the mad dog scare, which th . is the first in several years, dog own- tis > ers of Boone have been notified by de - authorities that all (logs found run- th; -{ ning at large will he killed. During - the time that the rabid dog was at scl f large, many other animals may have th< come in contact with him, so if you fo: > are the owner of one. Ice that he is tin f either kept tied up or killed. scl ha MThos. Wilson B uys j Poultry Business ai, t 18 -1 Mr, Thmnaiv^ WilsQn. of ^ionvilly, Qh l| was in the city Tuesday and while of - transacting business with The gem- an l octal gave out the information that cv * he had recently purchased from Mrs. te'i - Mollie Adams the Rich Mountain | ch - Poultry r arm and that he is now 1 to f actively managing, the business. Mrs.; pr s Adams maa signal success of the) lit' I ...... h-.... l... vc-... -ci - i iiwiui. > i'u;}vnc.v> >1? m iiuuiKit v>o;iWitV I Vt? 1| and was an authority on chickens. | ed U The new owner has also given most wl -j of nis time of late years to bmodeti j st; > chickens and his may -be 1 ye l| proven by the fact thai last year his I th; f j pullets proH un-d uT? a7vra?u?all { t;? I around of 224 5-2 eggs. He specia-- St i / -v in the single-conib White Ley on L% j horny most of his stock having been -I bought in the State of Washington, j.h *| wheie he has paid as high as $75 for wi c] a setting of eggs. lie now has 525 Mt -j hens, many of them 300-egg blood, -land has an incubator capacity pi? in-I 2,00b eggs at a time. He sells eggs, ni baby chicks and does custom hatch- be i ing. An advertisement for the farm ? apjK'ais in The Democrat today. q , ?,? ?? ''-^v iJ M L. GREER SUCCUMBS AT HIS CALDWELL HCMEJ j Mr. TXyj1. Greer received news on j ]0, ^! Tuesdav of the death of hif< llmmr-v i -I - : - -' >vi 1 j Mr. M. L. Greor, .which occurred at: * j his home near Lenoir as a result 01 ra | what has believed to have been heart 'i trouble. Funeral services were held m. ' yesterday from the Tabernacle ij Church near the home of deceased ac | hy his pastor, Lev. \V. L. Trivett, k' i following- which interment was in the ^ 1 neighboring cemetery. co 2 Mr. Greer was a native citizen of 1 Caldwell County where he was a \\ leading farmer, and was also promi- ^ nently identified with the business ? interests of Lenoir and the count>. ju He had for several years been a ^Vj f member of the Caldwell County 0| Board of Education, and had at dif- fe fi ferent times been a member of the fyf, t board of directors of financial ir.-j n* y stitutions in Lenoir. Surviving ar?| ju, i a widow and several children. ra n Among those who attended the fu-j e neral from Boone were: Mr. ar-<> Mr . T. F. Greer, Roby and Horace V -j Greor. gS tj THREE FORKS MINISTERS MEET WITH BOONE CHURCH s \ a i .! The Baptist Ministers' Conference T] n j of Three Forks and Stony Fork as- th s! sociations convened with Boone Bap- tk - tist Church or. Tuesday; danuajy 1-1. w h A very good number of pastors were ol e present and a very interesting pro- h< ......... .V^.--i miSi ?i - i jt;iaiii HrtD *.t personally known to the Sheriff, thinks their capture may be ar~ n ged. Watauga County Bank In Thrift Campaign The- Watauga County Bank in filiating itself with the National iirift Week movement is publishing e first of a series of eight sdversemcnts in this issue, each dealing ith the doctrines of the "Father Thrift." Benjamin Frankiin, iii >nor of whose birthday the thrift rriod is declared. Thrift week is sponsored by the . M. C. A., with which, last year, operation was extended to 47 oth national organizations. The purpose of this movement is > encouraee the wise use of monev ; the realms of earning, spending, iving, ' investing and giving. The; nei'its wiiidj will ciisuc indhridssHi" id collectively are obvious: more loney in the bank, more residents ring in their own homes, more comrrts and luxuries and less poverty. Readers of the Democrat should >llow the publicity of the local bank >r the next eight weeks. The mesiges are interesting, educational nd a follow-up of the ideas coneyed would contribute materially , the development of ** financiallv HBHBK idependent citizenship.