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VOLUME XLIII, NUMBER 28
EUROPE STILL DUE!
U: S. MORE THAN
TWELVE BILLION
No Cuts Have Been Made in Stupendous
Indebtedness. Twenty-two
Will H?vr? Rpliirn^
at Maturity of Plan in 1986. Interest
Rates Vary. Last Payment on |
Loans Made in July
(By CALEB JOHNSON)
Special Writer for The Democrat
We hear a great deai of talk, mostly
by politicians, about the war debts
Cwiue to the United States from Euro
pi? A lot of the talk is calculated
to create the impression that we have
in some way cancelled a part of these
debts and that there is danger that
the balance may be canceled. Some
people contend that an injustice
would he done to the people of the
United States by reducing to any ex-j
rent these debts; others contend that
we ought to wipe them all out.
Before we can discuss that question
intelligently?and it will be one
ot the things about which a lot of
discussion will he smiled in and oat
of Congress in this Presidential year
? let's see what the facts are. How
much did we lend Europe? How much
has Europe agreed to pay us?
During the war and immediately
afterwards we?the. government of
the United States?advanced to the
different European nations a total of
91 0.33S,000,000. We charged interest,
of c ourse. Interest, accumulated
arid unpaid up to the time these debts
\v'?>vp funded fv?? 1 otlll to
$12,036,000,000. That is every cent
thai all EUmpe uwtd uur guverllliiclit
up to the time the final agreements
were reached as to the rate of payment.
The money is owing to us from
England, France and Italy, principally;
some smaller parts from some of
the .smaller nations.
Not a single cent of this money is
owed to our government by Germany.
All the talk about what Germany
owes us is talk about something in
which the United States Government,
as such, is not concerned. It relates
to German government bonds which
were "old to private investors in this
country after the war was over, and
to commercia] debts owing to American
merchants and oanKs.
Our government made no claim
against Germany for 4'reparations,*'
or penalties in money, following Germany's
defeat. The reparations payments
by Germany go to the European
allies, principally to France.
The United States took the attitude
(hat it was sufficient to defeat Ger-|
many in the war, and that it would\
not be fair to the German people;
to punish them for the Crimea of the j
Kaiser's government, by bleeding
them while for generations, as Prance!
tried to do.
That ought to ho kept in mind,
whenever war debts are talked of.
But the- impression that we have been
frtijnllv c>i'nr?rnHK wit'n th<? nnf.ions
that borrowed money from as with
which to fight Germany is a totally
wrong impression, although the effort
is being made in many quarters
to create it.
The only concession that the l'it:ted
States has made in the case of
the war debts to us of the Allies is
a concession in the rate of interest to
be paid.
Money raised during the war in
this country by the sale of LibertyBonds
was lent to the Allies at 5 and
6 per cer.L As soon as it war. possible, i
after the signing of the Treaty of
Versailles, for the nations to take
stock of their losses and their obligations,
it became clear to everybody
that none of the debtor nations could
pay immediately. All of them would
need time, and a lot of time, to pay
what they owed to us. Much of the
menev we had lent to Forope had
been in turn reloaned fcy England to
oiner nations, and Eugland contended
that she ought not to be called
or. to pay us faster than she could
collect from these other countries.
England, France end the other
Allies had assessed on Germany a
huge claim for damages, which is
> nui ? nicaui mien uiv lerm reparations"
is used. It was perfectly obvious
that Germany must have a considerable
time in which to pay these
reparations, and the inclination of
the Allied nations was to pay their
debt to us only out of what Germany
paid them. Our government declined
to make these straight loans dependent
in any way upon the collection
of reparations from Germany. We
were agreeable, however, to giving
our debtors as much time as they
were giving Germany.
At the invitation of the German
government and its creditors, Americans
did unofficially take an important
part in working out plans whereby
Germany could reorganize its finances
and meet its reparation payments.
But these plans, first the
"tlaWM Plan." and then "Vnunc
Plan," were arrangements between!
Germany and her European creditors
in which the United States officially
liud no part.
The time fixed for the payment of
German reparations, under the Dawes;
Plan, and continued under the Young
Plan, was 62 years. Accordingly, the
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A Non-Partisan Nt
BOONE
Chicago Will Be Host at
Democratic Pow Wow
'
At t.ho clnip nt" !1ip mpptinw of tlm I
Democratic National Committee on
Saturday in Washington, Chicago
was selected as the place for the
holding of the 1932 convention, after
an offer of $200,000 for the honor
by Atlantic City had been met by
the Mid-west metropolis. The convention
will be held two weeks after
the Republicans meet in the same
city June 14.
The Jackson Day dinner held Fiiuuy
evening was marked by typical
Democratic deliverances from the
three last candidates for the Presidency,
Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis
and James M. Cox, auu harmony
prevailed. Chairman John J. Rusk oh
sidetracked his anti - prohibition demands
and denied that there was any
inclination on the part of be or his
immediate, associates to block ihe
nomination of Governor Franklin D.
RoosOvolf of Now Yo?*lc
boMofhealtF|
shows progress
DURING QUARTER
Report Issued by Local Sanitary Officer
Indicates that Watauga People
Are Co-operating in Program.
804 Inspections Are Reported, a.
Hundred or More Approved Privies
Built. Grade A M'lk Available.
Mr. Gordon Battle, sanitary officer
for the Watauga County Beard
of Health, has issued his quarterly
report to the United States Public
Health Sv'-vice, which' goes to show
that Wetau*.; .ns are quick to see the
importance of lending their full cooperation
in sanitizing- their premises.
Mr. Battle has furnished the Democrat
the following feats concerning
his work during the past four months,
which will give a general idea of the
accomplishments during that period:
During the quarter there were 804
inspections of private premises.
These inspections resulted in the installation
of 120 rural privies, nine
urban privies, and 18 school privies.
There have been 22 septic tanks installed
and 22 private water supplies
imwnvoH Another item of interest
is that there have been 51 sewer con-!
nections made to the city sewer system
of Boone since the first of July.
Bnbne has a supply of Grade A
milk, produced by the Howards Knob
dairy There will be at least three
Grade A supplies for the tourist trade i
hero and in Blowing Rock next aum-j
Hotels and cafes in Boone and in!
Blowing Rock have been periodically!
injected. All of these have a new j
placard posted ir. a conspicuous place, \
showing their sanitary rating and
grade.
Chevrolet Organization
In Banquet on Tuesday
Members of the local sales agency
tor the Chevrolet automobile in this
city came together in a social and
business meeting at a banquet at the,
Critcher Hotel Tuesday evening.
The discussions centered about the
giving of better service to the motoring
public during the coming year,
and it was developed that many new'
improvements are ptunned in connection
with the agency looking to
this end. Sales of the new model
Chevrolet have more than doubled
those oi last year for the same period
of time, and it Was revealed that
during the first month the new six
was displayed more than sixteen cars
were sold. A delightful dinner was
served, musical numbers by a colored
quartet were enjoyed and there was
a general good time.
Members of the W. R. Chevrolet
Company present included: W. Ralph
Winkler, O. J. Harnian, W. T. Payne,
L. L. Bingham, Hamp Blackburn, Ray
Brendall, Stuart Winkler and Ralph
Church. Messrs. A. E. Hodges, J. S.
Winkler. Cliff Mftflnnnell i?n/t T*r?nt_
ley Duncan were invited guests.
HEAD OF SEARS ROEBUCK
DIES AT AGE OF SEVENTY
Chicago.?Julius Rosenwald, numbered
among the greatest philanthropists
of all time, died Wednesday of
last week.
The ravages of arteriosclerosis and
kidney ailments that had kept him
bedfast overcame his weakened heart
and he died in his sleep at 2:55 p. m.
He would have been seventy years
old next August.
The fortune founded on the growth
of Scars Roebuck and Company, of
which he was chairman at his death,
Mr. Rosenwald pitted against racial
and religious intolerance, ignorance
and poverty. His benefactions to humanity
totaled more than $40,000,000.
V1I.AS MAN FINED
Jack Smith, of Vilas, was hailed
into Justice of the Peace E. N. Hahn's
court Friday, and was fined , $10
when he pleaded guilty to violation
of the sanitary privey law. Five days
were given for him to construct a
privey which will meet standard State
requirements.
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Legionnaires, Selectmen, Clergy,
united in a drive to uncover occasion;
Bridgewater, Mass, The touring van
UiM Cifiinu LecgiOu ujcu to tuv i/Cutx
5-10 FARM PLAN MA
COUNTIES IN MOUNT
The 5-10-ycar farm program
which was instituted some three
Weeks as?n under *h'J n!l'sp?CC3 of
The Asheville Citizen is finding a
favorable reaction in the hills of
the Northwest, according to information
coming to The Democrat.
The local Civitan Club has had a
communication from the Asheville
paper tendering their co-operation
should Wataugans wish to start a
similar movement or join with
their neighbors in the "real march
toward united agricultural prosperity."
Incomplete plans call for the for- I
mation of ,and vigorous carrying
out of an agricultural program in
the mountain counties. The points
of the 5-10 program, formally
adopted, are:
The five-year objectives:
1. Gtow enough for your needs. I
2.. . Devise model schedules ot I
space allotment to crops and products
on each farm, according *o>
sizo and location, tc assist farm- j
ers who can't plan to best advantage.
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3. Maintain high quality in ev
erything.
4. Have more anil cheaper feed |
production.
5. Have permanent pasture im- j
provcment.
6. Improve the soil.
7. Use good seeds, certified if j
possible.
8. Raise more vegetables and :
other truck crops
9. Produce more cheaply, so the
surplus gsu be dtipp<d away and j
sold; educate farmers in wholesale j
methods.
10. Urge consumers to use M*hat
Parent-Teachers Will
Hold Meeting Thursday
The Taient-Tcacher Association
will hold its January meeting at the
Demonstration School auditorium on
Thursday, the 14th, at 3:15 p. nv
Following a short program l>y the
sixth and seventh grades, Mr. Smith
Hagaman will make a brief address,
and Miss Virginia Wary will sing twoj
numbers. All parents and friends of
the school are urged to be present.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY OFFICIAL
DIES SUDDENLY IN CAPITAL
Washington, D. C.?L. E. Jeffries,
vice-president and genera! counsel
for the Southern Railway System,
died suddenly at the raiiroad consolidation
hearings here Wednesday of
last week.
Jeffries, a native of Unicntown,
Ala., had made his home in Washington.
He was S3. He had finished questioning
Daniel Willard, president of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, re
gaming details ol the proposed acquisition
of the Monon railroad. Upon
resuming his seat, Jeffries suddenly
collapsed.
Willard noticed Jeffries' gasps and
went to his side. The fire department
was called upon for it3 rescue squad.
Artificial respiration was attempted
without success.
Aho Girl Establishes
Unusual School Record
Miss Virginia Hampton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. Q. Hampton, of
the Aho community has established
a Tecord of having never missed a
day of school in eight years. The
young lady is now 15 years old and
has just recently passed her seventh
grade examination and will enter upon
high school work next year. The
marked attention she has given her
scholastic work is to say the least
unusual and her many friends will
watch with interest her future educational
activities.
DEM<
Best Interests of Northw*
ROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1
i Motor Van
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Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls
ai jobs for unemployed men in East
ia the fatuous "House on Wheels"
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VEIMRRArF AM OR
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rAINOUS TERRITORY
can be produced in this region.
11. Inform farmers as to what
IHCl' C/..liiLo 5CII.
12. Irr.prove home conditions.
! 13. Irrigate with water from
stornge dams built in spare time,
to he independent of drouths.
The 5-10-year objectives:
(In some lines of endeavor, results
can be well obtained by the
I end of the five-year period, but activity
must be continued into ten
years to be nearer a satisfactory
point.)
14. Standardize breeds and
products, each county making its
1 own decisions.
15. Increase poultry, hogs,
| sheep and cattle.
j (One may readily see that a
standardization of vegetables, poulI
try, hogs and sheep can be more
quickly attained than a standardization
ot heavier livestock ana
tiiHy cattle. An increase in pouly,
hogu, sheep and livestock can
be made in five years to show deI
cided improvement over the present
number, which admittedly is unsat??f??cto*-y-)
The 10-year objectives:
16. Maintain canneries in each
county, with a united sales chaiji.
17. Sell carloads of feeder cattle
for manure and the marked.
18. Prepare to build the cattle
industry to the point that a packing
plant can be supported in Western
North Caj-olir.a.
19. Increase and protect the
wild game.
20 . Slock streams and lakes
with fish.
21. Carry on reforestation and
protection of existing forests.
Wet Senators Urge Beer
F'or Aid of the Farmers
Washington.?Legalization of foui
per cent, beer was urged before the
Senate and or.e of its committees Satjurday
as a measure of helping the
j farmer, the unemployed and govern
ment finances.
I Senator Binghom. Republican, oi
| Connecticut, author of a bill designee
to bring this about, presented what
was called a "prosperity chart." prepared
by the Crusaders, an anti-prohibition
organization.
Adoption of the bill, he said,
"would create close to a billion dol
lar industry, raise at least $100,000,000
in taxes, employ thousands oi
men," and increase grain prices.
pun us nrMTi cv wc*d nc?tu
- wuii ixjb* i/t./* ri
Mr. Philip Bentley, aged and respected
citizen of the Laurel Fork
section, is critically ill with pneumonia
at his home, and hope of his
recovery has been abandoned by at
tending: doctors. Life was ebbing low
at noon Wednesday, and it was noi
thought that the kind old gentlemar
could survive the day. His severa
children are at the bedside.
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WARREN HOME BURNS
Belated news from the Mabel sec
Hfllt tollo of f Vi n KhphIwct e.vn. />
,
weeks afro, of the home of Luke War
I ren. The house was a substantia
frame structure, but no estimate a:
to its value is available. None of th?
furniture, and very few of the house
hold effects Were recovered from th<
flames. It is understood that no in
surance was in force.
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WILL UNUtKGU OPERATION
Mr. Orrin Gaither of Boone lef
Monday for Johnson City where h
will undergo an operation at the Vet
erans Hospital for a bone conditio
in the right arm. Several years agi
the member was broken, and recentl;
an infection developed which neces
sitates the operation.
3CRA
ist North Carolina
.4, 1932
Two-thirds of Federal
Loans Have Been P<
Mr. F. B. Benson, seed loan ag'. j
in charge of the collection of F
eral drought relief moneys in ^
fnunn ovwl XT.?* 1
west Carolina, was in Boone Thi .? ]
day, and during the day made sev ?
al calls on borrowers over the co J;
ty. Mr. Benson states that aror 3
$20,000 has already been collect] *
on Watauga's indebtedness of arou ?
$30,000, and thai in audition io i xl
amount several thousand bushels "OT
Irish potatoes have been collateralized,
and are being held for higher
prices.
Mr. Benson will return to Boone
on Thursday, Jan'iituy 21st, and will
be at the. office of S. C. Eggers in
the Watauga County Bank building.
Borrowers who have not met their obligations
to Uncle Sam are urged to;
see him on this date.
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cuiircw law run
t> A ft \I 17 DA TH7II?n
I ajvunii lift i trims
BY CITY COUNCIL'
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Children Under 14 Must Be at Home J
Alter 9 o'Clcck Unless Accompa-1
nied by Adult. Police Officers Ex-1
pected to Enforce New Edict and j
Monetary Punishment Is Provided. I
Public Appeal Caused Action.
The Board of Town Aldermen, in
regular session last Friday evening,
adopted a new ordinance, designed toj
control the activities of the younger
generation during the late evening
hours, along the linos of the old curfew
law.
Acting upon a petition signed by
the heads of practically every business
house in the city, the aldermen
made it a misdemeat r for any child
under the age o' f> #rteen years to
be on the streets aiter 9 o'clock in
the evening, unless accompanied by j
an adult person. A penalty for the]
violation of the new ordinance will j
vary from $1 to $5 at the discretion
of the Mayor. Police officers will
have charge of the enforcement,
there having been no provision for a
special curfew officer.
The request by the citizens for this
official action came in a large nea.sure
as a result of petty depieuati^hs
traceable to children, who have been,
allowed to roam .over the town at
all hours of the night, apparently
without parental control.
Dearmin May Build Ice
Plant Here This Spring
Mr. J. M. Dearmin of Elk Park
spent one day last week in Boone {
laying plans for the establishment j
here of an ice manufacturing plant!
this spring. Mr. Dearmin states that!
if the people will offer him co-operation
he is willing to install new
equipment and be ready foi iee-niak!
ing before hot weather begins. Mr.
iDearmin operates a model plant at
! F.Ik Bark, and for the past year has
! been serving Boone people with its
| output, but the long haul necessitates
the building of a manufacturing
j or storage plant if the service is to
| be continued.
i Aroma of N. Carolina
Apple Unites Brothers
Raleigh. N. C.?The aroma of a
North Carolina apple in distant Okl
lahoma was the agency in bringing
: together two brothers who had not
seen each other for 30 years.
Colonel J. W. Harrelson, director
of the department of Conservation
> and Development, received a report
r.Lof the rhanro mopting in ? rnmmnni;
cation from Captain Garrett Druinmond,
of Stillwater, Okla., formerly
stationed at Fort Bragg, who
checked up on its accuracy and relat
td it as follows:
Two men were sitting on o bench
in fTont of a railway station at Guth:
rie, Okln., waiting for a train. One
- was from Stillwater. The other was
' returning to North Carolina. They
had not spoken. Finally the Tar Heel
' pulled an apple from a hag and bet
gan eating it.
i "That smells like a North Caro1
lina apple, friend," the Stillwater
man remarked.
"It is. I brought them with me,"
the other replied.
"1 am from North Carolina," the
Okla'noman volunteered.
> The other man mentioned a n,oun
tain county as his home.
1 "Why, I am from that county," the
> Stillwater man exclaimed. "What is
t your name?" he inquired.
"McBride," answered the stranger.
! "That's my name, too," the Okla
homa man exclaimed.
The conversation led to mutual
identification and it was recalled that
they had not seen each other since
the Oklahoma McBride had moved to
t Stillwater 30 years before. The N. C.
e McBride had gone to the western
- state on business, but did not know
a his brother's address and was pre0
paring to return home.
f Naturally, his return was delayed
- while he visited for a couple of weeks
with the long-lost brother.
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$1.50 PER YEAR
JOHN K. PERRY DIES
FOLLOWING BRIEF
ILLNESS; WAS 82
Prominent Citizen of Beaver Dam
Community Succumbs to Three
Weeks Illness. General Debility Is
Cause of Demise. Watauga Resident
Since Shortly After Civil War. Funeral
Wednesday ?t Bethel.
John Kenedy Perry. S2-veai-old
resident of the Beaver Dam section
and one of the county's prominent
and most substantial c:tizens, died at
.his. home Tuosdny midnight. after an
| illness of three weeks. General debil|
ity was ?riven as the immediate cause
! of death. t
Funeral services are to be conducted
from Bethel Baptist Church
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The obsequies will be in charge of
keverends Hicks and hicKaughm
Baptist ministers, and interment will
be in the churchyard cemetery.
Surviving are a widow and five
children. Professor W. Y. Perry, of
Sherwood, is the only survivor by the
first marriage, and four are living
from the second union: l*)r. H. B.
Perry of Boone, Clyde Perry of Sugar
Grove, Mesdames W. Y. Farthing
and M. H. Edmislen of Sugar Grove.
Mr. Perry was born at Bakers Gap.
Tenn., a son of the late Commodore
Perry, moved to Watauga County in
the year I860, during the hectic days
of the Souths' Reconstruction, and
had made his home here since that
time. H - was for practically hir. en
tire adult life a member of the Bethel
Baptist Church and contributed a
full auoi'c to ilit; Christian iriuiialxy.
Possessing a remarkable mentality,
which never waned with the passing
of years, Mr. Perry was intensely interested
in the affairs of county.
State and Nation, and was a leading
figure in the civic life of the community
and the county in which ho
lived as a model citizen for more than
three score years.
Mrs. Tugman Celebrates
Seventy-fifth Birthday
Mrs. Anzanette Tugman, of Riddles
Fork, celebrated her 75th birthday
Monday with a family reunion
ysFrlch ^ ittcndrd bv her 188*
children and a number of grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
The day was happily spent at the
old home, amusing incidents of the
long ago were recounted, and a bountiful
dinner served; The birthday
cake, bearing its seventy-five lighted
candles, formed a center-piece f or the
large table.
Mrs. Tugman is the widow of the
late T. J. Tugrnan, was born and
reared in the Meat Camp section,
and has a wide circle of friends, who
join with the relatives in wishing for
her many happy returns of the day.
Children present for the reunion
wore: Mrs. T. P. Adams, of Siiverstone,
Mrs. Zora Tatum, of Todd;
\V. A. Tugrnan. of Todd; l)r. B. \Y.
Tugman, of .Jefferson, and S. G. Tugman,
who resides at the old home.
APPALACAHI AN BEATS UNION
IN OPENING COURT GAME
The Appalachian Mountaineers
opened their season here Saturday
night by taking the heavy end of a
i 37-27 score in a fast encounter with
j the strong Union College quint, from
Barbourville, Ky.
j The game was a nip and tuck afj
fair, and only after the half did ApI
palachia forge ahead to a safe lead,
j Goins, Mountaineer guard, looped a
j basket in the opening minute of play.
Union came back with two field goals
and was still leading, 17 to 1*2, at the
half.
Johnston's Mountaineers rallied
ip the half ng*?in and
regained the lead, where they remained
for the rest of the game.
Simpson, scrappy Union center,
was outstanding for the visitors,
scoring a total of ten points as high
score man. Davis and Walker, for
Appalachian, did some outstanding
work. McConnell, playing his first
regular game for the Mountaineers,
also showed up well.
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! MRS. THOMAS E. MOORE
DIES AT LENOIR HOME
Mrs. Thomas E. Moore. 56, sisler
of John B. Steele of Boone, died at '
her home near Lenoir Sunday morning
following a stroke of paralysis
which came on late Saturday afternoon.
A daughter of the late John
B. Steele, she was known and widely
j connected in this section of the
State.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by three sons and two daughters:
Mrs. Cecil Hickman of Granite
Falls, Miss Louise Moore of Boone,
Fred S. Moore of Elizabethton,
Tenn., Edwin Moore of Newland and
John Moore of Granite Falls. There
I are two brothers and two sisters,
Mrs. W. M. Moore of Statesville,
Mrs. Ben E. Harrill of Lincolnton,
Clark Steele of Lenoir and Johr. B.
Steele of Boone.
Services were conducted at the
old home in Happy Valley at 2 o'clock
Monday afternoon and burial
followed in the Steele family cemetery.
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