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wroBiggH^-/yL1:v.-;"-2-^ySi> -.-^aBf'? TWO VICTORY DRIVE IS GIVEN RESPONS More than One Thousand North C olinians Have AJreadj' Responded to Call for Funds. Closes by April 15th. Greensboro, X. (*. W til a total $S,4 72.35 m hand, the campaign the Democratic part.-.* to secure t'ui through its Victory Fund drive w which to wage the 1932 campaign r entered upon its final month in No? Carolina. ' 1 expect to close the campaign North Caiolina by April 15/' said L. Shuping, of this city. State ager, "and then So spend the fifte clays from that date to May 1. winding up the canvassing su counties as uo iiut complete the \Vg by thai date,"* Mr. Shtiping expressed the be.i that the object of the campai would be attained. He stated tt John TV". Davis, national eh air me had advised him that more than ?55' 000 '>f the goal of $1,300,000 h been collected, this representing cc iviVltll'nnc v^C-^-VnjJ f Vf?ni n\rr<f\- Ci lion of the nation, and that no sta had completed its work. "For instance," said Mr. Shupin "we have collected $8,472.35 in Nor Carolina, but the canvassing: has boi waged Intensively in only 23 of ti 100 counties. I have this week a vised ail county managers that v have only about thirty days in whh to complete the work, and have urgt upon thorn the necessity of making thorough canvass of the State in th time. When we have complete r ports ftvixi all 100 counties, I fe certain that the amount already r celved will be more than tripled." "Mr. Davis is greatly pleased wi the showing made by North Caroli thus far, and ho confidently expet that this state will attain the flesir results. I do not. see how we can i ford to fad in this work for the De ocratic party." Mr. Shu ping expressed gratific tion at the large number of sm subscriptions which have been i reived from North Carolinians. T total of $3,472.3.5; he said, repi sents the contributions of appro: mately 1,000 individuals, many whrn "have contributed not move th n dollar. The state chairman gave his beMcf tha? these small contril; tions "indicate the interest of t rank and file in the work of I Democratic party. They show ll people are looking to the Den cratic party as then* hope Tin ye and are willing, oven during the hi ciaxcs: of tiiis Ucpuhiicai: admifr'sr - r.ion. to contribute of their funds, order to help bring about Dentocfa victory at the polls in November.* "These are the kind of eontrii tions we want," he said. "We w: the people to feel that they are. fact, stockholders in the Deniocrf parry.-* ? The appeal is being carried ; to interested in the Democratic pavtv make their contributions, large small, at the earliest possible n ment, either to their local eou; managers or to ihe State headqu ters which are being maintained h? in Greensboro. HERE'S WHY THEY CALL WIND STORMS TWIST El f: Buchanan, Ga.?TKey call vioit storms "twisters.'' and here's grap! proof of why they use that word. Iler.r; Cook, a farmer, was tAh" a Sunday afternon nap when > storm struck here, awakening him. Looking out the window, Cook s: he saw his neighbors house "gpi across a field." "Gosh, I better get out of here a find me a ditch," he said he t< himself. Accordingly, he burst out the fr< door of his home, only to be picl up by the wind and hurled acr the yard until he bit a tree. "The wind wound my right around that tree, and broke the b( right above the knee." PRE-WA ============= Vat Dye Fast Color New Spring Hats, a o *n r*\ oiiK. Lyresses Men's Suits Men's Hose, seronrl . Central All Leather rive each wee to be rich WEAR CENTRA SHOES. A FIVE-to-F UNDERPRICE Where yoi A~ m mm i I Two Create 1E| S ^ ; if* } ^ j j ||fj th; jjn | "Little Poker Face" Helen Wi r\c' j player, and Ellsworth Vines, the yo d- j as the 1932 tennis match season bc$m 1 Says Nation c :! A e.; j:jl llUiiiC'Dl ^^^S^nS^SSSBS th i na' By CALEB JOHNSON its! j^pe'cial Writer for The Democrat.) e(j | There is probably no subject on j which so many experts have had so m_ i many discussions in the past few ; months as the subject of home build>a_jing in America. Not only in the conall fereht.es called by the President, but re- in every center of population and he wealth in the Lfraffed .States, much rC_ earnest attention is being giver. to the xi- problem of hew to provide better 0fj homes for ire great mass of Amerian'.can families, and to provide them as! at lower cos,', than has been possible ,u~J in the past. he' Many-aitvaaiug facts have boon distejP'OSed in these conferences. Such a percentage of homes, in eiticst iti- in small towns and in the country a!): contain v.'hr.t-Nvsy-tssaaHy call "mmiird l'": ' hnpbr.ve incut./' that there rpiite Sfet"1' i"c?cral iispiessksn that prxo ticalin 1 *y everybody has such things as TunTic:7f!"K Avaix-r, vTnthrc.bs, ^ewerr, c.leutile ?T" h: rddr.s ~r.d -the dthe; bu. i refinements of life which come in ;in; that broad classification. As a mat in iter of fact, only a small proportion American homes have all of these ;.ar?d most homes have hone, of r.hem. -,1] ' "i : TO one authority; thliT, j ha if of the homes ufAmoiica or! ace ji'p to minimum standards of I1C. health and decency, and the building ity i industry has not even started to build jU. good homes which are within the ;re< means of two-thirds of the populaj tion. There a re y c ry f cv: par Is o f the country in which a six-room detached | house with these minimum modern RS improvements can he built today to sell as cheaply as $5,000. Six thoumt sand dollars is nearer the average hie j minimum cost to the home buyer, oi ! the poorest kind of house that measngjures up to modern standards of ar1 o! raugement and equipment. And ?6,j 000 is too much money for the avaid, crage American to pay for a home. pM The average income in the United : States is about $1,500 a year. Kconondj mists are in agreement that no family old i can afford to invest more than twe years income in a home. That would mt'put a limit of $3,000 upon the. home fed j in which the average American could oss) afford to invest. There will always |be. of course, a considerable fringe among those of the lowest earning me J capacity who will never, under any circumstances, become home owners. R VALUE Printe 1 A* A A AAAfeWy J U1 *-* ? * ,A W 11 shades. . . .98c, $1.48 . . $2.98, $3.95, $4.95 . $9.95, $12.95, $14.95 s .9c, 3 for 25c Shoes, new patterns ark. You don't have . to be stylish. lL'S all-leather aw t r ? t w **-? KEAL VALUE.. IVE STORE D MERCHANDISE i Fee! at House THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E\ st Tennis Stars * J jiB lis Moody, champion woman tennis uthfel male champion, photographed 5 m Verge of lilding Boom I But it has been estimated that about i sixty per cent-, of the people of tht Ii United States who are not home own j ers could afford to put from $4,001. j to $5,000 into a home if they coulc ! get well built, durable and proper!} planned and equipped houses a i about those prices. So what these conferences on do ; mestrc housing are trying to do is tc work out practicable methods for pro vidir.jr homes such as will meet thi needs of the majority of families a a cost per family of under $5,000 fo house and lot, and to devise ways o financing such building that will makit possible far buyers to pay ?<>? then out of income. Before this can be done there mus l?e a good many revolutionary change f t or.* thr present methods lmt.h o budding and financing. Of that ther := rrr.rral agreement. Home building is one industry r wK:? ?"! i h'.t . m*r?Tt nS i hk'Ihod lor "hundr^s oi ycarsrHousc 1 are still built?except for the stec ! framed skyscrapers of the big eitie i by the most expensive processes. 1 I every other industry labor costs hav 'been cut down, in proportion to ra\ } material costs, but in the hiiiKlili; j industry the opposite has been true ,'The same methods of constructio are used with building trade tabo at from $10 to $15 a day that wc-r used when labor cost a dollar a da> And labor is the biggest item in th building of a house. It will contixiu ito be the biggest item so leng a i each house is manufactured as a sej iavate unit on the spot. One of the solutions which cei tainly will be adopted sooner or lr. 'Iter will be the use of materials whic j can be fabricated in factories an '! assembled on the building site wit 'the minimum of labor. Metal frame 1 that can be bolted together by uri j skilled labor are being experiments i with, and are found to be more eeo I nomical than frames built of lumbe i by hand on the job. Wall board c i many kinds, which can be produce; | in large sheets and attached to th ; framing quickly and by low pricoi : labor will supersede old-fashionei | i lath ana plaster ro a large extent i so the expeits believe. The same wil | i apply to roofs ar.d to outside walls I A ml it io o-finovnllti ow/in.l >? < j terials now available can be put to i gether to build attractive house which will be more comfortable ii' winter and summer, more durabli and much less expensive, than evei the best frame house that can bi built under present methodsWindow frames and sash ali mad< of pressed metal, metal door frame and doors, have been found to be al most as cheap in first cost and vey; ! much less expensive *o install thai J the wooden doors and windows, an< their frames fitted by hand, whicl j have long been in general use. Nev kinds of flooring materials are sai< in h#> much more economical to la: down and much more durable whei once in place than wooden floors. It isn't all going to happen a once, but there seems to be littli doubt that all over the country wi are going to see houses and group; of houses built by various adapta tions of new processes and the us* of new materials which will serv< as object, lessons and which will ap peal to the next generation as mor< desirable than the old types of homes Much more attention is being givei to the planning of small homes thai ** 1 I i-.vi uv.iuic, iu j^iYc uieiii cue rnrges ! amount of useful space at the small I est expense for enclosing: that space To do this economically we are going to see more houses built in groups partly attached to each other, perhaps and centering around community parks, playgrounds and gardens. It the cities, of course, low cost hous ing can only be achieved by piling houses one on top of another in apart mer.ts, but most people would rathe? ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. live in a detached house than in an ; apartment, and there is still a hun- ' deed times more unoccupied land oyail?ihlp for dwelling purposes than j there is land already built upon. Of course, modern, low-priced i j 1 borne? will all be eauipped with till ( the modern conveniences, and some! experiments are being planned for a single furnace or steam boiler to heat an entire group of houses, cut-, \ ting down the csot and labor require- ; ments of domestic heatingGreat attention is being paid to the problem of financing small homes. The ideal that is being aimed at is to enable a family which has saved J $1,000 to buy a $5,000 house and ' .ot without having to pay an excessive profit either U? the builder or: to the people who lend the money J for the rest of the purchase. The high cost of second mortgage money has 1 been one of the handicaps of the , J suiuii Uiw.-i suburban heme buy-1 ci. The talk among the financial institutions vi-ich bmvo taken part in * these conferences is that first mort-j' gage money ought to come down to: five per cent, or lower everywhere, * and that money should be made avail-,1 able for installment second mort-j * gages at a cost of not more than; seven per cent, or thereabouts in-,1 stead of the nine, ton or eleven per cent., which is the general rule todayt <>n second mortgages. think there is no doubt whatever! '.hat out of all of this discussion we; are going to see a speedy revival of ( small home, building all over the United States on a very much larger scale than ever before, and this is not only going to give local employ to pnnrn'iinti mimhorc of mon e c e c. >h .] h 5? ? 1928 CBQEVai 3 Coaeh \\ Yon will hi.ie to look a long amazinff vn!nr If TAH wnnt i 5 lously low price, come to our bargain. It's fully ?piipped hasalotof good miles in its re< $75 for today and tomorrow o Prices Gi ; 4 n 1 I* ' 1928 Chevrolet coupe. Good ^ battery. Starts good and in first class condition 1928 Chevrolet coupe. An ou> value, now being offered for e 5 ?nI>' 1929 Ford oupe, good tires tery and in first class repair for only . 1929 Chevrolet Coach, in go< j good tires and license tag included ! -! SMALL BOWS PAYM W. R iB^.a hut if will provide business for ihej manufacturers and producers of every j sort of building supplies?cement, I | lumber, steel; pun-ibing supplies, |beating equipment., and ail thj? rest. , ill will mean a revival of industry so widely distributed and providing forj '(the needs of so many people that i! i believe there is a great deal ;n the i ' thought that our next long period j !!of prosperity is going to be based! j largely upon the building of small L | homes. EACK TO GOD (By James Monroe Downum) Hast thou wander sd away from God, And lost His tender loving care?? ! 1 Wandered so far away from Him. - In spite of all I lis love so fair? f Then hasten hack to Him again. Whose love for thee will never fail, 1 If thcu in. faith return to Him. His love for thee will e'er prevail! is No other help can come to thee >lTo save thee from the dreary days, j flAnd from the sorest ills of strife; j e God's hand alone cart set thee free. And lend i.hee in the safest ways, | ii And give to thee the truest, life! Perfect Attendance At jV The Cove Creek School ' ? Mi Following is a perfect attendance ai record for seventh month at Cove 1 f-reek School: Fourth Grade?Ruby Bingham, "? Elizabeth Bingham. Marcelle Cole- c nan. Frances Gragg. Pauline Hicks, c Maple Mast, Margaret McConnell, J"* rhomas Mast. * Fifth Grade?Virginia Banner, Su- jne ie Elliott. Odemia Miller, Ruth Mil-j er. Georgia McConnell. Clayton Co e.j"'' Ralph Fletcher, Hal Johnson, Gordon \ Spainhour. Sixth Grade?Beryl Grahma, Reba ne \danis. R ox anna Bingham, Pearle iragg, Evelyn Mast, Delia McGuire, Sessre Presnell. Dean Grogar., Brow-j'y lie Hagaman, Morris Henson, Lynn *ia Isaacs, Lee McGuire, Wiley Ward, Dale Adams. Carolyn Greer. Seventh Grade?Lester Deal, Fay Dorris Gragg, Jamie Harmon, Sfij Edna Harmon, Rut'n Wilson. v\ Eighth Grade?Fred Greene, Bir- da phie Potter, Roy Potter, Hugh Reese. n,! Dewey Thomas, Loy Presnell, Blanch c0 JDsborne. Irene Thomas. Parlee Hen,'on, Bob Bingham, Clay Haworth, Paul Phillips. in; Eighth Grade?Margaret Adams, de fjjjSAFi A MEMC Sit down now, and wl itemize ALL the thing your home. Check up?and you will you have missed. A detailed inventory of together with your fire in; go in an envelope and I SAFE DEPC Fire claims must he acci Establish your evidence Watauara Co? time before you can equal this i good running car at a ridicushoMTOoro at once and see this with five good tires, and still conditioned motor. Marked down nly. Hurry?it will sell quickly. reatly Reduced 01 and 6 Cylinder C Chevrolet Truck, 1920 model, in good shape, being offered for the (P"J fTA week-end at. only ?pAt)\l tires and Hode! d"?y"7jr liies * I 0 dition tsainding 1929 (POAA battel tp?A/lJ on,y ? . ? _ 1 ftA M . CHEVROLET COMPAJ ixnMAimi\mmrn APRIL 7. 1932 den Bingham. Loy Brown. Wkeeier i thing. Stewart Fox, Dottie GUsmi, iwis Hartley. Ruby Johnson. Ora ast, Luther Miller, Harold Moody. A ma Smith. John T. Sutherland. | ady Tyrce, Ninth Grade?Jack Ilenson. Fleer Houges, Vaughn Keese, Henry ?we, Harry Rowe, Robert Thomas, sse loggers. Bert Fletcher. Lonnie lacs, Ronald Palmer, Kermit Reese, >y Kominger, Kathleen Beech, Geva Thomas. Eleventh Grade?Robert Dunn, in Harmon, Oka Henson, James Mcide. Paul Trivotte, Marshall Ward, sic Banner, Mary Elizabeth Banr, Nina Church, Annie l^u EdmUn, Muriel Harmon, Hazel Love, adys Mast, Vera Lee May. Trilla somas, Alma Williams. Madge Wilms. BOX SUPPER A box supper v i!' be held at Miller heel House on April 9th at 7:30 lock. Special string music and clog ncing will be a feature of the eveag's entertainment. The public is rdially invited to attend. TWhen you start your spring clear?? get your soaps and wAsliing powrs at Smithey's. 25c per dozen. 1 )Ry TEST thout looking, try to s in all the rooms of be surprised how many your household goods, surance policies, should be deposited here in a DS!T BOX urate. 1 in advance. ' inty Bank > tBCOBUIIIIONEB $150 n All Other tars T Ford Pickup, fairly good aau lit goou running con (|WV Chevrolet Coupe, fair tires and y, runs good, priced $250 rouring Car, has been run only miles. Clean inside and out.. An ent value ot the low $100 Ilupir.obile Sedan, good only t ?J C. M. A. C, TERMS ppHwmpnn
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