North Carolina Newspapers

V VOIXME XLI. NO. 45 Today and Tomorrow Bv FRANK R STOCK BRIDGE T unnel The committee appointed by th British Government to investigate th ieasibility of a tunnel under tne jfcng lish Channei, connecting Englan with France, has reported in favo of the project. It seems to American siyrh a simple and desirable engi neering job that we wonder why i has not been done long ago, bq there are plenty of "die-hards" i England who fear that such a tunnc would make it easiery for an enem to invade the British Isles. They ar deaf to the obvious answers that a that would be necessary to stop ; r rencti army would dc to let Hie wa " ter into the tunnel. The British Channel, from Dove to Calais is about twenty miles o less across^ measured directly nortl and south. The shallow waters of th< Channel are easily stirred up !?: v inds and the crossing is one of th> roughest iu the world. Under the wa ter is a bed of solid chalk, mile deep, through which a tunnel coul< easily be "bored for electric trains. I would cost about ?1 5,000,000 lib committee estimates, and take eigh years. The French Government i: friendly to the project. When done England would no longer be in po silion where an enemy's ships coiib rut off her food supply, unless tlia enemy happened to be France. It seems more likely now than eve before that the Channel tunnel wil he built in the next few years. Police One of the reasons why criminal: re caught more speedily in Englam than in America is that England ha: <\ single police force for the entin country and in the United States w< have as many diffreent police dc parcrncnts as we have towns, eacl operating under a different systen a nd with no co-ordination betweer rhem except in rare instances. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has made a start toward rem cdying this. A network of telephom f -x. res connecting every important town in the State with all the rest and with four main centers of oper ntion, operates a typewriter-teiegrapl system in every police headquarters The momc-nt a crime is discovered anywhere, all the facts and possible clo.es to the criminal are printed ir fhi office of every chief of polic* ami the whole criminal-catching ina \ chinerv of the Commonwealth is se: * ! morion. * We shall never get our crimina element under control until such ii tie-up is hi effect in every State anc throughout the nation. Then we maj have a chance of equalling England's record for the suppression of crime Age "A woman is as old as she look* and a man is as old as he feels/ runs ail ancient proverb. Many rner of eighty or move arc capable ol doing as much work and with as much enthusiasm as most hi en oi forty: many more men are old am past their usefulness at sixty. The difference, recent scientific research has discovered, lies in the secretion! r?f *u.. I 1.. im... .. . v/j me wti.y vv iikj these uimiuisk old au'e supervenes Dr. Kany Benjamin of New Yovj working- in association with Dr. Cash nvir Funk, diseovercn- of vitamins, ami Dr. Benjamin Harrow of the College of the City of New York, has fount a way of introducing the hormones or essential secretions, of these glands into elderly men, with sur prising results. The effect is^ not tc prolong life, in all probability, bu to enable a man to retain his youthful energy through a period man) years longer than the average. So far this is experimental, but iht experiments have been successful and the tirhe may be close at hanc -when old age and helplessness wil no longer be synonymous. Rust Une of the greatest enemies o: ,y progress is rust. For years the it'or and steel industries nave spent hun drops of thousands a year in re search into means of preventing thi rust that destroys bridges, factories machinery, everything made of iron Protecting metals against rust is ar expensive pari of all kinds of con s miction and manufacturing proc esses. So-called "stainless" steel is pro riding one answer. Instead of pro tecting. the ?surfaee. certain othei metals are alloyed with the steel an< the metal becomes rustless, capabli of iaking and keeping a brilliant nol ish, ('hfiaruri- tWo? * J..I?' ? ??-x'wj "<?>! iuvrcj mor< durable than chromium plate, one au tomobile manufacturer is alread; turning out cars whose bright part are of stainless steel, and now othe makers are considering entire bodie and chassis of the same metal. 1 this works out our roads may become as glittering as they were when ev erybody rode nickel-plated bicycles. DR. CHANDLER DELIVERS BACCALAUREATE SFRMO? On Sunday evening the baccalau reaet sermon for the Boone Higl School graduates was delivered b; Dr. O. J. Chandler in the Methodis Chprch to a Very large congregation All other denominations were preset with their pastors. Dr. Chandler gav this discourse in a most effeetiv manner, impressing the yotng peo pic with the great importance o reaching for the real valuable thing Vof life. The audience was mucl pleased with the sermon, feeling th real value contained therein. A Non-Partisan Ne^ BOONE Iwatauga farms 1 being prepared for large crops j j .1 | Agricultural Prospects Bright as the a Farmers increase Acreage- Livej stock Industry on Incline. Many i e I Tracts to Be Planted to Burlcy a ej Tobacco. Home Garden Idea Be- s j-l ing Carried Out in Boone. 3 d t r Whether the citizens of Watauga e s are endeavoring to co-operate with n i- Governor Gardner in his live-at-home t t program or, on account of the pre- \ t '.ailing money depression, are forced jn to get to work, one thing seems cer- t ;1 tain: never in all time has the ef- i y fort been put forth to produce crops 1 e that is being shown so far this year t 11 throughout the county. Small farms a a which in years gone by Have pro[ duced but little above the support- of s the owner's family, have been well j li r plowed, abundantly fertilized, and o r planted to various crops: Every inch L h of soil on many of these farms that i e could possibly he ' ultivnted bar beer, i I- seeded, Irish potatoes .predominating, s c The recent drought has been broken \ - by rains and the outlook is bright p s! for large yields. r ii ao..:. ..is- ' - 1 I. cuts ueen on Cne m-| t clino throughout the entire section J A for several years, hot last summer an t! organization, the Watauga Livestock s Association, was formed and a con, certed effort started to make a self supporting county out of Watauga. | The Association does not confine its , t work to the field of stock raising. j( but includes in its program various j. r plans for the advancement of agri- y I culture. Through its efforts, a farm t institute was held at the State Teach- j' ers College in January, and experts ^ i of State and national importance p ! lectured nearly 1,000 farmers and g * J farm women on the growing of horti y I cultural crops, poultry raising, the > care of sheep, dairy and beef cattle, ' and hogs. Two speakers from the ?j - Division of Markets addressed these audiences on marketing farm prod- r^j * nets. An interest was c reated at that } i j time which, it seems, is sure to bear Q * I fruit during the current growing sea- ? I son. J. Watauga has no farm agent, and, ^ -i therefore, it is difficult, to make an j, - j est imate of the area that has already v t| been planted to potatoes. However, j. . | it is safe to state that fully twice ^ - as many acres have been seeded to ji this crop as last year. Ten acres has p * always heen considered a big "patch" 1" in Watauga, but it is nothing un- 0 ' common now to hear a farmer say a i that he lias 20 or 25 acres in "spuds. * c L. H. Hollar and son. Mack, who live v - two miles east of Boone, have the M largest potato nrop pmulcu In the? ( county, more than thirty acres in one 11| ' bountiary having been seeded. I ,i [] And cabbage is yet to tie planted, ^ I' which, incidentally, has always been j. a leaijjjlg money crop for the farm- p vers here. The Blue Ridge Canning u [ Company, manufaeturer.s of saner . I kraut, have contracted for several y I hundred acres of cabbage, their y .! agreement calling for a very sub- ? llstantinl cash price at harvesting time. This crop, it is predicted, will be c I much larger than ever before. ,, Burley tobacco, which for the last (1 i two or three years has been success, fully raised on several farms in the j western part of the county, has "nin-d such popularity among the u ' farmeis that more than 200 acres, ' mostly in tracts of one-half to two 1 acres, will he planted this year. This jj weed will find its way' to the Abir.g- / ' don. Va., warehouses where" places 1, I longing from 25 to 22 cents per p , pound have been averaged for the ,] I past two years. It is claimed by those c ; who have made experiments that Bur- s, . ley grown in tne mountains will bring 0 * to the farmer nearly $300 per acre. j. Cattle-raising, which for the past u * several years has been on the decline here, is again coming into its . " own. Through the enterprise of the 1 Livestock Association, more than s thirty purebred Hereford, Shorthorn and Angus bulls have been imported j into the county from Southwestern j Virginia. A campaign to eliminate b the scrub sire has been successfully M carried out, and today, it is stated, o not a single one remains in the coun- a ty. More tn 7.000 head of on*'1-- cl f will be grazed in Watauga during! e ! the 'summer, about half of them be- t - ing of the beef types. Arlie W. ti . Brown, of near Boone, now has near- C ? lv 800* head, mostly Hereford, which tl will he marketed this fall. ' IVjTr. Brown, who is considered one1 l] , of the leading stockmen of the entire Uf . section, states that at least 12,000 tl I-1 head of cattle should be the goal of p 1 Watauga within the next three years, n He is of the opinion that the Here-; f< foid strain, which now seems to be p Ithe favorite here, should be main- ti tained, and predicts that the iqdus- tl try will be returned to its former .'importance ere many years have v. t passed. ti Smith Hagaman, Superintendent of u j Schools and president of the Live- fi s stock Association, says that there are tl r now more than 9,000 sheep which v s have been or are ready for shearing o f on the farni3 of the county. Count- s e ing the lambs, the sheep population . snouia ue in the neighborhood of N 18,000. Mr. Hagaman believes this .J is practically as large a number of " sheep as was ever ranged at cr.c time v. I in Watauga. It is estimated that b these animals will sheai? an average I - of five pounds of wool around, c ii which will be pooled and sold, near a <1 the 20th of this month, an arrange- t t mcnt having been perfected with the n . State and tVobral Divisions of Mar-K keting to carry* on this sale. Numerous farmers, who never I - o e fore attempted the raising of lit h - stock, are buying a fe -- head of cat- v f tie or a few sheap. 1 nty are divevsi a sifying their cropsc adding to their p ii I equipment.-and going into their work c e t t (Continued on page four.) a t (bfsk&VSS JGA ATspaper, Devoted to the , WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C Local Talent Will Be Featured at Musicale A musical program, sponsored by i he \Vo:lh While C'mb. will be given I ,t the Demonstration School build-1 ng Friday evening by Mr. dames j kloore, assisted by Miss Ruth Coffey j nd Mr. Keimnel Porter, of this city. | Mr. Moore has been studying dur- , ng the past winter in New York City j md Washington, D. C.t and in renonse to an invitation from Rev. ilorris, pastor of the First Baptist hurch of Statesvillc. he has directid the music for an evangelistic j neeting in that city for the past wo weeks. On Mr. Moore's return to I Vashington, he has appointments to I ;ive recitals at several places along he way. It is hoped that Jim, as he! s familiarly known among his many; 5oone friends, will be given a hear-j v welcome in the form of a large utehd&nce Friday evening. Miss Coffey is one of the out-j landing musicians of this region and j las for several years been director | f music at the college here. Mr. j \>rtcr has been engaged in private iistruction here for some time and | violinist ?>f note. Both have been \ uccessful in radio broadcasts from j V'BT, Charlotte. The able trio is ex- | iected to furnish an evening of rare nusieal entertainment. ^lews Items From the State Teachers College (Uv J. M. DOWNED Last Wednesday nitrln miile an in- j eiesling aeoaie was SIN'en in trie co.?.%ge auditorium between the young |dies' negative team of the Appauchian State Teachers College and he young ladies' affirmative team torn Virginia Intermont at Bristol, 'irginia. A good audience listened nost interestingly to the splendid pe'cchcs of these young ladies, for lie speakers had their speeches so . eil in hand that one could not well iiTrain from listening, and delivered heir speeches so strongly that would list have to- listen. The cjuery was hat all nations should disarm comIctelv, except for a police force uecssary for local protection. The Apalachian young ladies won the deision hy a vote of 2 to 1 In fact he young ladies of the college here avc not lost a single debate this ear. and the young men's teams ave lost, only two, the affirmative ne and the negative one, which is a ine record for these fine young peole. At Bristol, Virginia. Tuesday night f last week the Bristol bankers gave banquet to many farmers and bankrs and other friends who were inijed from East Tennessee, Southrcsteni VirgiMi* ami Western North, larolina. The principal speaker for he occasion Was l>r. Morgan, prcsisnt. of the Cnivcrnity of Tennessee, nd a member of the United States I arm Board; Dr. B. B. Dougherty* I resident of the Appalachian College,! as one of the guests of the occa- j tor. and at the chapel exorcises on Wednesday gave an outline of Dr. (organ's speech. A meeting of this ature seems likely^to prove of deep itorest and helpfulness to all classes onceineci. as the bankers seemed | i> have as their true purpose to findj ut how buy might he able to beeipful to the farmers, which is fine uikation toward united efforts of; !1 who are concerned in these two roat interests. The commencement address at the Lppalachian State College will be devered on May 10th by Dr. A. T. dlen. State Superintendent of Pubc Instruction. A large crowd is exected to be present to hear this istinguished State officer. This oc-; asion will be one-of unusual inter-' 2t,,as it is the first eommencement i f this college as a four-year insjitu-; ion. A number of four-year graduates are to be given their diplomas. ! -ong Bridge on Boone Trail Near Completion The i^yo-loot concrete and steel ridge being constructed by the lorth Carolina Highway Commission n Route GO between Miller's Creek nd Deep Gap, bridging perhaps the cepest- ;r. that scciitm or "tne i ountry. is rapidly nearing comple- i ion and shou& be ready to open to| L'at'fic within ninety days, Captain i V: S. Currier, district engineer, told i ;ie Winston-Salem Journal recently. | The bridge, which is costing more! han $50,000, has a center span 150 J eet high and 150 feet long crossing! ie deepest portion of the gorge. Two j iers, one at eacl\ end, and two abut-! lents have been completed and the oundation of concrete for other iers is all in. All of the understrucure has been finished and much of ie superstructure is in place. The bridge will -be twenty feel wiue 'ith the exception of the two entrances onto the bridge which open p fan-like to a width of thirty feet, [eavy abutments will be placed at he ends while very heavy wire, preenting the automobiles from going ver into the ravine will be conducted. Traffic is now being detoured from forth Wilkesboro over Route 16 to efferson and then down to Boone. When this hridclp is rill be one of the finest str- ?^of ighway in Western Carol* .said taptain Currier. "and how marines can Jiur. down, that i o..d and cross that jrh.ge! It's going to tempt he (driver to make ? speedway out Juier construction is being rushed -rc?mpleting in the Western part f the State, he added. Route 17b. etween Blowing Rock and Linvilie, .ill be opened up to traffic June 1, Itnough it will not be quite comleted. This highway is made of grav1 and crushed stone treated, the reatment making it almost as good ,s the payed road. DEM< Rpst In t-prpcf-g of Northw XfcOLlNA, THURSDAY. MAY . DR.XT. ALLEN TO j DELIVER ADDRESS AT COLLEGE CLOSI I {Sinte Superintendent to Speak It First Class Finishing Four-Ycai Course. School Makes Great lm provoments During Year. Man; Former Student* Will Ai end thi Commencement Exercises. Statu Superintendent A. T. Alio will he the commencement Speake at the Appalachian State Teacher College 011 Friday, May 16. Dl*. Alien will address the firs class ever to be given degrees Iron i this college. Great interest is (level j oping about the commencement oc casion. and many former student from al! over the State will he preS | ent to see these Bachelor of Scienc degrees conferred, j This has been a great year f?? I the school. Progress has been mad j in all departments. The Young Worn | en's Christian Association has heel I accorded lull membership in the na j tional organization. Religious won I through the various churches in th town has been most gratifying. Un dor Coach .Johnson athletics has at traded attention everywhere: foot ball, baseball, basket ball for hot young men and young women, tenni and other sports have all elicited ou j enthusiasm and pride. Just recentl; [ the A. S. T. ' *. has become a mem her of the 'Tattle Six*' in athletics ! The debating schedule has been tin most ambitious yet undertaken, io eluding contests with Fuvman Uni versity, Lenoir-Rhyne, Campbell. Bos ton University. Wake Forest, Hig1 rouu, Virginia lntermout, Eton ant State and Guilford, resulting in mem borship in the North Carolina Foren sic Association. Then, too, the stu dents take pride in the academi< achievements of the college, the ma jor fields being primary education grammar grade education, science mathematics and .physical education Withal it has be$n a great year, every day filled to the brim with ac tivity. Mrs. Manley Greene Buried on Sunday Mrs. Kli/n Greene* age 72, \vif< of Maniey Greene, died at her hnnn on Zionville R. F. D. Friday after noon, following an attack of pneu monia which began Thursday morn ing, She had been in ill health foi several years, but until the fatal ill neSs^ developed had never been eon Mrs. Greene was the daughter < the late Jont Brown, cf Meat Camp was a member of the Baptist Church and t. hrniiiirhni.il regarded one of the best vyoniei of her community: an ardent workei in the church, u kind and generous neighbor, and a devoted wife ant mother. The Greene household, im der her capable care, was looked 01 as a mode: of hospitality, and hoi unexpected demise is the cause ot great sorrow to an army of devote. Iriends throughout- the- comity. The funeral services were hole! Sunday morning at 11 o'clock fron Meat Camp Baptist Church by tin Rev. R. C. Eggers, assisted by Rev L. A. Wilson and Rev. E. EL Hodges A huge concourse of friends and rel a lives were- present, and the flora' offering was profuse. The body was laid to rest in the Jont Brown Crave yard. Surviving are the husband; a .son D. L. Greene, of Zionville R. F. D. a daughter, Mrs. W. E. Setzer, oi Boone, and several grandchildren. Smith Hagaman Buys Fine Silverstone Farrr County Superintendent Smith Ha gaman has just closed a deal where by he becomes owner of the Hayes old farm in the Silverstone neigh horhood. He purchased the valuable property from Mr. K. M. Clemenl and the consideration was $15,000. Bjs The ".s one of the best in this county, contains 1.-I3 acres, and is admirably adapted to grass and grain. A considerable part of the pl$ce is hoy ir cultivation and the sale price included the growing crops. When rea t state was at high tide it is vecaMec that this farm once changed hands for $20,000. Mr. Hagaman has retained Mr John Eggers as superintendent of the farm and expects to devote the great er part of his attention to the live stock industry. Appalachia Wins Game From Catawf>a College The Appalachian State Collegi baseball team defeated the Catawbi College nine on College -Field hen last Thursday afternoon b;, a one sided -ic'orc of 7 to 1. C-arrisoi pitched a sturdy game-for the Stat< team, allowing only four hits. A fas: double .play in the eighth, Jones t< Mostella, cut short a threatened Ca tawiw riot. The State team securet r..., e:*_ s i ' - ..... ?.*ri? ujua (tiiu piayeu a line IJCiamj Same. Score by innings:- R II I Catawba --,100 000 000?1 1 ! A. S. T. C 120 002 01 x?0 10 { Batteries: Catawba?Miller ani Kcsler, Appalachian?Garrison an< Canipe. Officials: Gorey and Hols houser. The cabbage crop of Eastern Caro lina, particularly Carteret County has began moving in bulk with gooi demand, and fair prices so far. OCRA est North Carolina ~ JrZ=: ^EBjS^S ? - i ? Blowing Rock School Closes Successful Yea On Wednesday evening. April ?. 5 7 j at 8 o'clock the seventh grade of tl X j Blowing Hock School held its exei E j cises in the school auditorium undo :? the direction of their teacher. Mis 5 flattie Greer. After the history, tb e r ] statistics, oration, prophecy and poen ? " j had been read, Mr. Ira T. Johnston c/i * j of Jefferson. N. C., delivered the lit? fe ; erary address on "The Balanced I Life. It was very practical and well i taken by the large audience. Supern iutendent. Smith Hagaman delivered! r the ceitificates to the class of eight-j ( s con in number, saying that they had ] | ! made the highest average of any '?th- :? tjer class in the county and were the t 11 youngest. j v " I On Thursday evening at 8 o'clock I f * | the senior class, under the direction j \ sl of their sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Grady j 3 "IK. Tester, rendered a very unique ! r pi program when the class conducted its | f own funeral, having on the stage the < different funeral symbols. The last j c ci scene represented the ghosts moving "'about in the other world. ? ; Or. Friday cTcnu.-g ihr litcruiy au- | r - dress was delivered by President Wil- ; Kjliam A. Jenkins, of Davenport Col-jj e j lege, Lenoir. on the answer to the j s -1 question, "What is real manhood? ' j < The address was very forceful and ' t - j was greatly enjoyed by the large r p I audience. y s' The diplomas were delivered the .) r graduating class by the principal, t y! F. C. Nye. The following make up ? r - the class: Glenn Coffey, Hazel Bla j lock, Paul Foster. Lois Klutz, Ruby , ;i* ] Richards. Margaret Sudderth. Helen r I ?Sti(lderlh, M"2iy Robbing aud Ruby j < -1 Tolbert. 1 - This is the second year since the i d h I schoql has become tandard, and the ! n 1 j work was good. A very small per- i y, - rentage ol the s indents failed L<> pass 1< - tneir work and the attendance has j s - been fine. j y c - - . Tom Thumb Golf ? Proves Popular '' r n ! ^ Several hundred people visited the h newly-developed Tom Thumb Golf' e Course for the openinjr last. Saturday ! evening and from the many expres-1 n sions of approval heard on the streets it is gathered I ha', the hew sport is j r proving intmehsely popular here. Through the courtesy of the owners. ! s Mr. and Mrs. T. Hill Farthing, all the ladies were admitted free, and j o much interest centered around thojii . initial **eoun,d" in which Mayor R. S. It; - Sw .;t and !. A. Sproles, president of | s the Ho ore Soduli* Club, mulched j ^ - their skill. The latter won by ajk - small margin, and the links 'were j t ?hvowr. nprrrtsvthc ptihlrcrrrmuy cdu j v L pies staying until a late hour to en- j t , ioy the fascinating sport. e . | c <*a ono nrwi cidc * * i^ t- o >? ? Ji "homeless"in" new Hampshire |" f I C | ;i ;j Nashua, N. H.?Temporary shelter , I j has been provided by cfturitnble or- () - Ionizations for 1,500 homeless 11; i dents of this textile cityf who lost n theiv all in a $1,000,000 fire Sunday H afternoon and night. ;j ! The Salvation .Yfiny, Y. M. andi.j j Y. \Y. C. A.'s aided relatives and; tj I j fvieiids ia taking care of i.he unfor r| uMiaite, and every municipal depart- n 'Mnent ?.,essed their resources to pro- 0 . j vide means of relief. r, The conflagration, the most serious -j in the history of the Granite State, u i . long will remain in the memory of () ;iihe citizenry. Never before has such, ^ widespread devastation centered in] any one hamlet of New Hampshire jc , either by fire, flood or other agency.; f ; Latest estimates of the havoc p * wrought numbered the homes de- T] stroyed at- 260 with COO of the 1,500 (' homeless also jobless through the C; burning of mercantile establishments, Streets in the Crown Mill section p where the fire, di'iven by a -iO-inilc n I gale, cut a three, mile swath, today j off eve-d a colorless aspect of charred <Y brick and twisted metal. southern clock" on its ? wav to dixie after being tl absent for many years j | Boston, Mass.?An old clock taker. K I by Yankee ee.Ucrsa foraging- trip ,|?| ' I anting the Civil War was started J1 back to its Georgia plantation home t: . I Wednesday aboard (he steamer City ,iof Montgomery after it had ticked j, (away ti7 years waiting for this ges- 7 I tore 01 restitution. if I It 'Aas the Gram! Army of the: ;1 .[Republic of Altleboro, together with ! h | Edmond H. Gingras, who bought it ( 1 at an auction sale, which arranged | I i lor the return of the clock co Cap-,, 1 roJ-r. II D IT cs . ' j fcttiji 11. j . ivuig, c. o. /a., a lineal j 31 descendant of Thomas B. King, of i t( St. Simons Island, Georgia, Confed-. t] crate commissioner and the original !{ owner, i tl The clock's history was discovered I a by Gingras when examining his pur-|g 5 chase. He found inside beside the! a maker's name a penciled note. "Taken from the plantation home of Hon. ri 2 Thomas B. King, St. Simons Island, p * St. Simons Sound, Georgia. U. S. S. 1 [Ethan Allen on blockade, January |10. 1SG3." J There followed an extensive cor-; " J respondence with Brunswick, Ga..! and the discovery that three grand-1 } daughters of the Confederate com-i)<5 7 rhander wer0 living on the island and V J that Captain King: was a direct de' scendant. The latter is now stationed ,, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. ^ I PARKER DEFEATED c, 1 Information coming by telephone 1 " just at presstime states that the con- 1 firmation of John J/ Parker of North ' Carolina for Associate Justice of the ( _ Supreme Court was defeated by the I United States Senate, the vote stand' ing 39 for confirmation and 41 * [1 against. The balloting took place at 1 1:30 (Wednesday) E. S. T. * T $1.50 1'ER YEAR i'axTayments ahead of all past periods eriff Farthing Plt-ased With the Fine Response to Call for County Taxes; Has Collected More T.Ms ?Sprint; Than at Any Time During His Official Career. Small Taxpayers Have Been Prompt. L. M. Farthing. Shc-riff of Waaujra County since 1024. tells The wenmcrat that tax payments this pring arc remarkably good. in fact ho best he has experienced since he cas first elected to his important ofice. April collections, he said, toaled more than $17,000. and since day began, payments have been nade so glibly that the Sheriff's ofiee hasiivt compiled the total receipts to date. Collections the first if the week, however, are perhaps s much as $10,000. The property of delinc?ijpr?t tax>avers was lo have been 'advertised n this issue of The Democrat, but n view of the record-breaking: renonse lo the Sheriff's call, and the fforl the citizens are making to get heir receipts, an arrangement* was had?' with the county commissioners loud ay to extend the time until line 1. 15 is believed that bv that iU. t ' --- iiiiv cue ust or oeunqueuts will Be educed to the minimum. Sheriff Farthing attributes his access in collecting' the county's inner, largely to the good prices reeived bv the farmers last fall for heir farm products, and to their isposition to save against the fian<pial depression which has been e marked in other agricultural disrirt:.. Sheriff Farthijng says that the mailer taxpayers have been almost niformiy prompt in meeting their Migetions, and that generally sneakng, the people of the countx are earer to financial independence than i nny recent year. According lo umbers, he says, business men have xperiencod more difficulty in payng their taxes than have the farm rs. Tennessee Cops Get Watauga Truckmen East Tennessee is evidently tired f the prosperity afforded by the importation of products grown in Waauga County on the' North Carolina ide. Leastwise the operation of the tale highway laws as affects this ind of commerce, would bring about his conclusion. On Tuesday ?.f ihic . v k no less than fifteen motor ruckr, carrying lumber arid ether ommodities from Watauga into the apital of .lonnsoir County, were held p by the State traffic cops and their fivers were given orders to stay way, buy Tennessee license plates r be arrested for illegal operation f their, vehicles. Some of the Warugans, it is said, have business eoneetions in Mountain City which they re loath ro sever at this particular ? Into, and waptp to finish delivering icir commodit ies. T)n the other hand, lev do not think it right to have to ft.. V: v<v .ui 'iaub hi icunessee as well as i their home State, when North CarUna demands no such tribute from tsidvT?ts of the neighbor State. At iiy rate, some of the local fanners ent hack to Mountain City yesteray as usual, hut their fate is not nown to The Democrat. Ksnecially since the construction f the good road into Johnson Counv from Boone, Mountain City has rofited more, proportionately, from ie agricultural regions of Watauga ounty than has Boone. Being loated on a standard gauge railroad has been an important marketing oint for this region, and business ien of Boone have been more or ?ss perturhed by the trade which oas from the western part of the ounty into the sister State. Now, owevcr. with the application of the ew law, it is earnestly hoped that tie farmers of this county will berune agitated to such an extent that r*ey may go to North Carolina marets. even though the. distance^^^ww?? .:u, greater: The North Carolina law exacts no ix from trucks coming in from otlir states and her citizens are going > be .slow to see the justice in the Vnnessec ruling. Mammoth trucks rom Bristol and Johnson City are Imost daily on the streets of Boone online" o??l ? *...?? vni? VWJUIIIUUUIVJS. "n<k'r (he laws litre they may tome : ! 50 at will, do business here as fit 11 11s they like, and their Tennesee tag: is good. Now r ruling ought 1 he handed down to the effect that hey must purchase North Carolina tgs before crossing the-line. Tenessee has always lieen more or less verse to interstate friendliness and enuine good will toward? Tarheelia. nd the higher the legal fence they uild around the Commonwealth, the lore we neighbors will like our own eople. and the more business we will o in our own towns and cities. HX-YEAR-OLD CHILD KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Little T. B. Stine Jr., six-year-old on of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Stine, ?I -choir, was almost instantly killed leav that plate on Sunday. April 27, then the ear in which the family cas riding turned over, crushing the hiid's skull. Mrs. Stine and a small laughter suffered minor injuries. Funeral services were conducted rom the home on Tuesday at 10 a. n., Rev. Tucker, of the Methodist -hnrch at Lincolnton, having charge >f the funeral services. Burial took ilace in the Lenoir cemetery. Mrs. Stine will be remembered by riends as Miss Texie Isenhour, fornerly a student at the Appalachian State Teachers College.