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fv PAGE TWO News Items 1 And The St; By >1. K. DTNNAGAN (Special Writer for The Democrat) Raleigh, N. C;?N. O. Aiwridge ail P. A. Hampton, trading as Aldridg and Hampton, are directed to deposi S2256.23 with the Clerk of tha Sope rior Court of Avery County fcr th beuefit of the widow and minor ehi] dren of Leonard Aidridge, killed whil employed by this firm, and if th award is not complied with within 9 days, the case wilt be taken up agai to see if penalties are to be impose by Industrial Commissioner J. Dew ey Porsett. Commissioner Dorsett found tha the lulled worker was not employe by the Champion Fibre Company o W. It. Smith and dismissed them a parties defendant. He found that A! dridge and Hampton, a partnershij had more than five employees an had neither provided insurance fo them nor rejected the compensatic act. The $2256.33 represents the val lue of $7 a week for 350 weeks fror August 9, 1933, date of death Th firm is also required to pay medica and hospital bills and funeral expen ses; not to exceed $200. 10 Per Cent of Population on llelief In January 10.2 per cent of Nortl Carolina's population was on direc relief, as compared with 8.9 per cen in December, and the number of fam ilies receiving such relief increase< from 56.042 in December to 65,85; in January, Mrs. Thomas O'Bcrry, N C. director of relief, reports. Cold weather and seasonal employ ment, the latter not overcome bi CWA job placements, is considerec largely responsible for the increase of nearly 10.000 families in January over December. At the end of Jan uary 57,79$ families were on reliei rolls, as compared with 47,635 at the end of December. January and Febuiarv show the largest relief rolls during the period of relief work. Stanly County continues to remain at the head of zhe percentage column as requiring less relief than any other county in the state. In January only 3.3 per cent of its population reauired aid. Cumberland. Harnett Davidson. Union ana l.inooln had lesi than -1 per cent, ot their populatior en direct relief. Tyrrell continued ai the other end of the list, more thar half of its population, 52.8 per cent being on the relief ILst, but this wai u drop from the 71.7 per cent of tba county's population on relief in Do cemlier. More than one-third ot tin f ...population in Pamlico Currituck niy Moore required aid in January. Watauga County, the report shows had 22 1 per cent of its populatioi on relief in January. In this count} 659 families were given relief during January, at a total cost of $4,230.84 while at the end of the. month tin number of families on relief was 651 a smaller number, naturally, than th< total given relief during the month. G. O. P. to Meet in April The Republican State Convention to be held in Charlotte April 4, wil have in attendance 1,113 accreditee delegates, with a like number of al ternates the number based on Un. number of Republican votes cast foi Governor in 1932, Chairman Jama; S. Duncan. Greensboro, has commited County conventions to elect delegates and alternates to the convention are to meet prior to April 3rd Congressional conventions to name candidates for Congress are to meet prior to April 13, according to the plan. Chairman Duncan reminds thai candidates for State, judicial and congressional offices must file notice of candidacy with the State Board of Elections by April 1-1 and candidates for county offices and the legislature must file with county boards by May 5. Chairman Duncan is expected to have- opposition in his post of State Chairman, W. C Meekins, Henderaonville. son of Federal Judge T. M. Meekins, is said to be seeking the post, while A. L. Ferres, Asheboro, lawyer, ami once a candidate for Congress, are mentioned as possible opponents. Guilford County will have the largest number of delegates to the convention, with 43, whiie Buncombe is relegated to second place with 43. Wilkes County will have 34 and Randolph and Devidson 33 each. in fourteen counties the Republicans are so scarce that they will have only one delegate each. Several of them are in the northeastern section where the 'Democratic candidate, Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, lives. These fourteen one-delegate counties are Bertie, Caswell, Currituck, Hoke Greene. Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Scotland and Warren. Watauga is assigned iG Ueiegate? and as many alternates in Chairman Duncan's division. PTax Bill Makes Progress The bill proposed by the National Association of State Tax Administrators for enactment by Congress tc protect local retail sales of merchandise in sales tax states and author izing equal taxation of interestatc saies had made very satisfactory progress, according to Commissioner oi Revenue A. J. Maxwell and Harry Movriiiian, director of assessments and collections, back from Washing I Prom Raleigh! ate At Large !!= r-r^-r j Beautiful Queen r BRUSSELS . .. Another beautiful c Queen graces the throne with her d King, Leopold IH. She was Crown -y Princess Aetrid, daughter of Prineo Charles of Sweden uDd the Princess f Ingeborg of Denmark. This new portrait study is said to be the <] favorite of the new Queen. r r j ton. c -! "The bill was introduced in the c f' House by Mr. Boehnc, of Indiana, and t 1 in the Senate by Senator Pa. Harri- \ -1 son, of Mississippi, on Tuesday of last r " ; week and in each House referred to - i the Committee on Interstate and For- f l- j cign Commerce, the X. C. tax men r : | state. "On Wednesday each of these q I committees appointed Slib-C'?m mi t tees j: 5 i to give it consideration. On Wednesday afternoon the proponents ct the j L measure were given a hearing by the v . House sub-committee, and by arrange- c r ment with the Senate sub-committec r briefs were presented Thursday. t i "Before leaving Washington we un- ? , dej'stooci that requests had been made c 3 by mail order houses for a hearing ? in opposition to it. No other opposi- I t tion to the measure appeared. f 1 "In express terms the proposed * statute would have no effect upon ' * the great preponderance of interstate t commerce handled through the usual ; " channels of sales to merchants, deal- 1 - res or manufacturers for resale as ? i % ?i? . ..?,icuaucryjp i'l mauuiuciureu gouus. All transactions of this character are ( i, already reached by a sales tax on re- ? i tail dealers. It applies not only to ' * actual retail selling in this State by r put of state merchants. If they send ? , tlieir solicitors or agents into the c .,, ut MLSLnuuiu retail sales rata- 1 , logues, competing with local mer- ' i chants, the foreign merchant will r have to t'ilA hlo anW Inv J?t"hlS * pay the State sales taxes exactly ' like the home merchant. ' a 1 tJenernl Fund Increased 1 Increase of more than 54,000,000 in ' - general fund collections and of more * : than $2,000,000 in the highway fund t for the first eight months of the pres- ' i ent fiscal year over the- same period of the last fiscal year is shown in ibe 1 . February report of Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell. v In the eight months through Feb- 1' . ruary, the general fund collected $12,- r 181,964.00, as compared with $7,364,- <[ 129.91 in the corresponding eight 1 months of the year before, while in P the same period the highway fund :L collections were $16,432,459.15, com- t! pared with $14,267,069.20 for the corresponding earlier period, an increase of $2,165,389.95. ? The sales tax collections in the S ri months, on sales made in the first ~ seven months of its operation, reached y $3,786,260.79, of which $468,534.63 w | was collected in February, on January P sales, a drop from the collections for c December. The beverage tax on 3.2 beer and wine now reaches $223,042.96 ti or almost a quarter of a million dol- 4; lars collected in 10 months for sale3 made in nine months. P ii Revenue Department Reorganized v The North Carolina Department of s Revenue, which has been in the throes I fi of reorganization for several months, ? is now beginning to emerge as a full, 3 complete, modem and up-to-date ic- a partment, recording every morning F every payment received in half a doz- li en places and following through un- h til every item is recorded in its proper ? places with no possibility of confu- a sion. n i Half a dozen machines have been , I installed and were started with the I j start of the month of March, making j these records and sending them to C I their proper places, to the extent i' 11 that a complete check can be made c i at the end of each day for each dl- c vision of the department or for each t of the 100 counties in the State. With t a girl operating each recording ma- c 1 chane, the day's business can be han died each day without .possibility of h i loss of a letter or check, as has hap- f pened in many instances before, caus- ? ing confusion all along the line. r ! F Thomas Given Parole e ; Jack Thomas, young white man, o ' who sprang into the limelight as he s i was chased, after attempting to hold F up a filling station in Chapel Hill by F WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER? TODAY ??d nMNX-pARKtirfK JfijtV.' ju STOCKBRI00?fcVr*'Tk LIFE . . . natural cycle Tee year 1935 ought to he a good fear for red clover in New England, ["ho winter has been the most severe r. years. Comparatively few of the ittle animals of the fields and woods survive a winter when the crust of :he snow is frozen hard. There will re fewer field-mice to rob the bumjie-bees" nests in the spring. More tumble-bees will come to maturity ind seek honey from the red clovertlossoms. The clover crop will thus >e tnorougniy pouenizea, ana me rea :iover seeds will be fertile. That will nake for a good red clover crop in 1935. To me this example of the cycle >f life, first pointed out. by Charles Darwin, has always seemed one of he most interesting of all natural henomena. I think that many well[leant efforts to disturb Nature's orlinary course are calculated to do nore harm than good to a world that las adjusted itself to the normal ycle. .... [TEETH . . . oov. and then Tooth decay has little to do with octh cleanliness or the lack of it, iccording to the British Medical Re:carch Council. wl'c'n has been digring deep into the subject. What nakes children's teeth decay is not nougii sunshine, too high a percentLge of cereai foods, not enough meat, :ggs, milk, cheese, fats and fresh -egetabies in the diet, these medical nen say. The whitest and soundest teeth are ound among savage and half-civilized icople who live largely out of doors ind eat whatever they can find that s edible. In rr.y boyhood toothbrushes were ust beginning to some into general ise ami not more than one or two lentifrices were advertised. Most folk ever brushed their teeth at all, yet :he human race had survived for a food many thousand, perhaps millions >f years. Clean, white teeth are desirable. lut nothing to worry about it' onel losen't have them. * * VIONSTERS . . . men have seen The amount of evidence that some strange sea-monster lives in a Scottish loch, and the many reports of a ieaserpent seen in Vancouver Sound, _ .j -?-??.?ilk. *.-?? - uawuiugtu luaujr xtuiv iu ten >C strange things they hive seen at lea, about which they had kept quiet '01' fear of being ridiculed. Officers of the Mauretania saw a ieaserpent on a recent Caribbean ruise. and drew a picture of it in :he ship's log. Now the Rev. .). E. tockliff, who is a sort of travelling n Lssionary to seamen and voyages lome 50.00ft rfiilen every yenra telle if seeing a ye'.iow serpent about sixy feet long in raid-Pacific two years .go. It seems to me that we are on the ierge of demonstrating once more hat there ia more to ancient beliefs ban a skeptical modern age has been willing to believe. e ?. 4 'OEM . . . O'Hara's Masterpiece Theodore O'Hara wrote one of the rorld's greatest poems more than 75 ears ago. It is "The Bivouac of the lead," and when Arlington National lemetery was established after the livil War, stanzas from this great oem were inscribed on stone tablets nd set up in different parts of the ield. The Fine Arts Commission decided lat the ancient stones, before which lillions of Americans have paused to lad O'Hara's thrilling lines, were not oung Ashby Penn, of Reicisville, arid ras sentenced to four years in State ri3on for assault on Perm when aught, has been granted a parole y Governor Ehringhaus. He was aeninoed in June, 1932, in Orange Coun1 Superior Court, Thomas, and probably another, aparently attempted to hold up a fillig station, and young Penn, a Uniersity student, and a young woman tudent and companion, joined an oficer in the chase of Thomas, fleeing i a car. Penn's high powered car oon overtook the one of lesser speed, nd Thomas assaulted Penn. Young 'enn. Congressman Umstead, then socitor. Sheriff Sloan and others joined i the requests for parole for Jackon, citing that he is a young man nd will have ample opportunity to lake a good citizen. 'otato May Be Included Major Crop Governor Ehringhau3 has written ihester C. Davis, of the AAA, Washigton, urging that the potato be inluded in the list of major crops, in rder that growers may benefit by he legislation provided for cotton, obacco, corn-hog, wheat and other rops. Share planting, Governor Ehringiaus points out, is largely responsible or the over-production of today, and iny plan that leaves it out cannot each the problem. "It is the most -ositive, seductive, and potent influnce in bringing about overproduction f potatoes that I know," he writes, aying that before the advent of share lanting there was no overproduction roblem. THURSDAY?BOON'S, N. C. Columbia's Queen NEW YORK . . . Paulino Rccvcre (above), descendant otPaul Reevoro, has been selected by faculty members na the moat beautiful girl at Columbia University ... an honor which completely *4 floored" too young freshnma. artistic, and ordered them removed. Such a protest was made, however, that it has been decided to inscribe the whole poem on the walls of the amphitheatre. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And Glory guards, with solemn round. The Bivouac of the Dead. I know of few finer lines in English poetry than those and the re3t of O'Hara's verses. ? * * * JPOKEK . . . and personal rights The great American card game, so far as men are concerned, is not contract bridge but poker. In a good many states there are laws against playing poker, also against playing marbles "for keeps" and anything else that can be construed as gambling. These laws are seldom invoked except when somebody in authority wants to make trouble (or somebody else. Representative Parker of Georgia had a candidate for postmaster ol his home town. His political opponents brought before the Senate evidence that the Congressman's choice had once been arrested in a raid on a poker game, indicted and fined. Mr Parker cheerfully admitted that wa* true. He had sat in the same pokci game himself and had also been ar rested and fined! If it didn't detoai him from later going to Congress, it ought not to debar his man from tb< post mastership. The Senate confirmee the appointment with glee. r-A.,T i 1-- . - - * v:w ltirwv cjcuuuaiy any sort oi :awi that restrict the right of the individ uai to do what he likes, so long ai he doesn't infringe oil the rights o others. Top-dressing small grain w i 11 quick-acting, soluble nitrogen ferfcili zer will help to overcome the effect, of the recent cold weather. "Cartwright Is Dead. Sir"?A grip ping story of love, murder and my* tery on the high sens-?begins Marc] )1 In. the American Weekly, the bij which Mrsci cstir Smtuaj with the Haiti mo re American. Ge your copy from your favorite news dealer or newsboy. I SW o Truck ity crops . We are g< on the R? Tested. J>I< \ neutral. F fertilizers a harmful That fertility ii your crop: profit to 1 The Abo rivvitm swiri Sold In JOHl Boor HAPPV MARRIAGES A good husband mukp3 a good wife Some men can neither dc without wives nor with them. They are wretched alone in what is called singlt blessedness, and make their home! miserable when they get married They are like Tompkins' dog, whicl could not beai- to be loose, and howlec j when he was Ued up. Happy bachel| ors are likely to make happy bus bands, and you know a happy husband is the happiest man on earth 1/ we were not married today, one saw a suitable partner, we would b< married tomorrow morning before breakfast. Why, says one, I thinl John would get a new wife if he wai left a widower Well, what if he did I How could he better show that hii former marriage was a success? W< declare that we would not say ai some do. that they married to havi someone near to look after the chil dren. but we should marry to hav< someone to look after us. But it is i mv3terv how certain Darties evei found partners, truly, there is no ac conn ting for taste. However, as the; make their bed, they must lie on it and as they tie the knot, they musi be tied by it. If a man catches a Tar tar. or lets a Tartar catch him, h< must take his dose of tartaric acid and make as few ugly faces as h< can. If a three-legged stool come: flying through the air, he must b< thankful for such a plain token o! love from the woman of his choice and the best thing he can do is to sil down on it and wait for the rollinf pin or some other little article. But oh. thou, man or woman: do not ex peet to find a perfect mate. If yoi find one without any faults, incapa hie of mistakes, never having guesse< wrongly, their patience never havinj , been perturbed, immaculate in speech in temper, in habits. Do not marr; Irepue i con vi !A County Conventioi PARTY of Watauga to meet in the town c day, March 24th, 19 for the purpose of el zation, also electing gressional and State thermore for the pur] , B and all business that fore the convention. Therefore each precinct chi - I 'iff of their respective precinct: . 8 23. 1934, at 2 p. m. for the pu , 8 county convention. * ^ You t | RUSSELL D. HODC IFT'S RED STEER FER TRUCK CROI iOH-A FORMI (PHYSIOLOGICALLY ] : growers are still talking about the e> obtained last year from Swift's Red St >ing to let you in or. the secret! For ye d Steer bag assured you Best Materii aw you get another plus value?Non-Jl 'radical farmers and Experiment Stati increase soil acidity. Swift's Red Stee acid residue to your soil because it Is means not only highest yields this year i years to come. Rich und full streng * needed calcium and magnesium. It is be grower. >ve Tag Is Att Every Bag CM P'C nrn L J RLII Watauga Co * w. ho; ie, North Cai MARCH 8, 1K54 I' them. Why? Because you would enact a swindle what would you do \?ith " .p?rf4'Ct mafp?yi)n SI'O ir12J1227 I feci yourself. How dare yon to bitch ;! your imperfection fast on such su?>eri natural excellence. What a compan ion you would make for ail anger? i We occasionally find a person who I say they never sin. We know they lie when they say it, for we have had financial dealings with several per feci persons, and they cheated us woefully, .so do not look for a perfect 1 mate for you will not find them. s ?EDW. N. HAHN ! Boone, N. C. E 5 SILVEKSTON'E NEWS | Mr. KoDert Anderson visited with 31 Mrs. R. G. Anderson at Wythevilie. ' | Va., last week-end. 5 J Miss Lucy Lawrence and her cous5 in. Ruby, spent the week-end with - Lucy's sister. Mrs. Lcxie Wilson. - Mr. Roy Wilson made his weekly 1 trip to Lenoir last Friday. f Mr. John Mast has been seriously - ill for the past week, but there are ' hopes for his recovery. Mr. J. W. H. Anderson and son, t Glenn, went on a business trip to - Chilhowie, Va., Saturday. ' Mr. Ralph Ferry and Miss Bee Wil. son spent the evening with Misses J Pearl and Ruth Anderson recently. I We have been having some rain in i this section for the past week. This f will please all the farmers. Miss Bee Wilson spent the night t with the Anderson's on Wednesday ; of last week. , Mr. and Mrs. Ivey B. Wilson spent - the afternoon at Mr. A. L. Wilson's i Saturday. 1 Catawba County cotton growers exr pect to get between 580,000 and $88,, 000 this year fr-om their rental and r parity payments. "t 7 " "71 iNTIQN 1 of the REPUBLICAN County is hereby called )f Eioone, N. C., Satur'34, at 2 o'clock p. m. ecting a county organi- 1 delegates to the Con- I Conventions and furpose of transacting any u may properly come belirrr.an is requested to call a meet- B 5 to be held on FRIDAY, MARCH 8 rpose of electing delegates to the rs very truly, UTILIZERS FOR CID I IN G I NEUTRAL) itra large yields of fine qualeer Fertilizer for truck crops, ars the Certificate of Quality lis. Double Mixed and Triple cid Forming (physiologically ons know that ordinary truck r for truck crops cannot add made Non-Acid Forming, bnt a better condition of soil th, this fertilizer also brings built for big yields and large ached To I STEER >unty By DGES rolina
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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