IP AGE TWO
Interesting N
Reported F
By M. K. DUXNAGAN
(Special Correspondent)
Raleigh, X. C.?Word has gone out 1
publicly and sent down the line that |
State and federal employees and 3p- t
pointees by the grace of a Senator
are not to engage in partisan politics,
actively, in behalf of any of the candidates,
it is assumed that the voters
will vote, that they are encouraged to
exercise their right of franchise, but
they are not to canvass and campaign
for their favorites. Ail of
which instructions and advice will be
received, noted and filed, but it is !
doubtful if it will be followed, to the
letter.
Mrs. Thomas O'Berry has advised
her relief working force to refrain.
Governor Elirlnghaus has asked State
employees not to be active. Chairman
E. B. Jeffress has asked highway
folks to do no campaigning Dr. M.
C. S. Noble Jr., executive assistant
commissioner of revenue, is so instructing
his field forces. Senator
Baliey state? he will refrain?in the
Fourth district race for congress?and
asks ail appointees by his grace to
take no part, lest it be imputed to
him. It's alt very good sentiment, but
many are political appointees, and
politicians do politic.
New llfetory Books
New history textbooks in the fifth,
sixth and seventh grades will be used
next fall, the State Board of Education
decided Saturday, saying it would
award contracts on the bids already
submitted at a meeting Monday. The
bids show that more than 10 per cent j
will be saved on the new books under j
the price of the books now in use. j
The books now used were adopted in! |
1922 and are thus 12 years old. Edu- j
cational folks say the texts submitted j
and to be selected have better mate- i
rial than the old books now in use.
Few bodks have been bought in the
last three or four years and with the
return of better times a supply will
have to be bought, anyway, just as
aulomobileu have been and are being j
bought to replace the old ones now i
worn out. New histories would have
to be adopted next year anyway, so
the board members decided now is the
best time, as prices are rising. Texts
in the high school gz-ides will be
adopted Thursday of this week, also
from samples aiid prices submitted by
the riiihiwher--: Effita
were on several methods of distribution.
so the board can decide the iiiost
economical way of getting the books
to the children, whether by direct
purchase and resale by the State, or
through the North Carolina depository,
as ia now the method.
IV. Lawyers to Meet
North Carolina lawyers will gather
in Durham June 28-30 for two
meetings. ? twiKioSslon first annual
meeting of the North Carolina State
Bar, with 2.200 members, and then
the three-day meeting, beginning that
r.ight, of the N. C. Bar Association,
a voluntary group with 1,100 members,
11. M. London, secretary of both,
announces.
The main morning address to the
State Bar will be by Joseph B. Kenan,
assistant U. S. Attorney General,
on "The Lawyer's General Responsihilitv
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and in the afternoon William I.ogan
Martin, Birmingham, former Alabama
attorney general, will speak on
"The Obligations and Opportunities
of the Incorporated Bar." 1. M. Bailey,
Raleigh, is president, and Julius
C. Smith, Greensboro, is vice-president.
of the new body.
That niglit the voluntary association
will open its 3Gth annua!
meeting. Judge Robert W. Winston on
"Southern Statesmanship Since
1830"; President Earl W. Evans, of
the Amerioan Bar Association, and
Dean Justin Miller, of the Duke Law
School, will be tbe principal speakers.
J. Elmer Long, Durham, is president,
and W. F. Taylor, Goldsboro: J. B.
Cheshire. Raleigh, and Zeb V. Netties,
Asbeville, arc vice-presidents
Sessions of both will be at Page auditorium
at Duke.
An Election Question
Assistant Attorney General A. A.
F, Seawell reduced to an absurdity
the question asked by Wake election
Gfficinl-C i? "nam-o" rv?. 3" *-* 1
?- .w ..v^w >?? awnm cuuiu i
be put on the ballot to distinguish a
negro who has filed for Democratic j
nomination of justice of the peace in
Wake County. "Wc might have a ballot
printed: For Justice of the Peace
?John Smith, Minister?Bill Brown,
Bootlegger," Mr. Seawell said, or another:
"William Johnson, Donated
S50.000 to Child Welfare?Jake Smith
Convicted of Horse-Stealing."
While Mr. Seawell sees nothing in
that action which would be contrary
to the Fourteenth Amendment to the
U. S. Constitution, prohibiting against
discrimination because of race or color,
he does find in the State election
laws wording which seems to prevent
such designation and states that the
"courts would probably not approve
a ballot upon which was printed information
concerning the candidate,
intended to affect the choice of the
voter." He states: "I think those interested
in this matter should have a
right to use every effort possible to
make the rerl situation known, but
this should be done by matter dehors
the ballot."
Insurance Company Wins
The Concord mill worker who was j
ews Items |
rom Raleigh |
j Jess Wiliard jr. j
BERKELEY .... Joss Wiltesd
Jr., 20, (nbovd), son of the former
world heavyweight champion, now a
freshman at University of Cgjifornia
junior college, photographed
as he tied in the high hurdle event
in a track meet here*
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| bitten by a lizard whiidi she slapped
wbeii it ran up her leg. had her bluff
called when it was found that she
| was pretending that her leg had bej
come stiff and dragged it across the
i floor at the workman's compensation
! hearing on the case. Also, blisters
would form around the bandage placed
over the bite, which the insurance
mon claimed canu- lion, cigarette
burns or acid. Industrial Commissioner
J. Dewei' Dorsott, hearing the
ease, was not satisfied, so he had her
J taken, to Duke Hospital for observaI
tion and examination. Duke doctors,
making tests, Said there was jij.i poison
in the blood that would cause the
blisters, conc'uiluig they were made.
! by the appiieat >n T ari l. ADh, thfcy
reported, they put the woman to
sh op and found that the knee joint
was not stiff, I1 lit completely llexib!e.
She was paid compensation tor
lus few days she war out of work
from the bite, but not for the period
while 3he was apparently applying
acid and claiming the leg was stiff,
just to get the money.
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Cost of Legislature High
J Cost of the General Assembly was
! three times as much in 1931 than it
I was in 1911. twenty years before,
while the 12 regular and three special
sessions from 1911 to 1933, inclui
sive. cost SI .879 197 99 '< rlinrL-.1 IT, i-o.
I veals. The 1!>11 session cost $78,765,j
41, while the 1931 session cost $248,184.63,
and the 1933 session cost
$193,528.13. The higher cost is due
largely to the long sessions, 141 days
in 1931 and 133 days in 1933, as compared
with the previous average ol
about 65 days, and the increase in
salaries of legislators from $4 a day
to $600 for the session, based on $ltl
a day for a 60-daV session, made in
1928.
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Coal Consumers to Save Money
Approximately $800,000 a year will
be saved by industries of Northwestern
North Carolina as a result of the
reduction in price of coal shipping
costs, a3 made, by the Interstate Commerce
Commission recently, as requested
some five years ago by the
old North Carolina Corporation Commission,
Utilities Commissioner Stanley
Winborne announces. The area affected
as that nearest, the coal mines.
New Highway Projects
Twenty-five highway projects to
cost about $1,600,000, have been sent
to Washington for approval by the
Bureau of Public Roads, and, if approved,
will be included in the let ting
to he held May 8. The list includes
nearly 80 miles of highway work,
grading, structures and topsoil, gravel,
sand, asphalt and bituminous surfacing;
14 city and town projects of
paving from a block to a mile in
I length, and two bridges and approach|
es. After this letting' some more than
.^.uuu.uuo win remain of the $5,522,[
000 in emergency Federal aid funds
allotted to North Carolina, and the
balance is expected to be included in
two or three other lettings in the
next month or two.
General Johnson to Speak
General Hugh S. Johnson, national
recovery administrator, has accepted
an invitation to address the 32nd annual
convention .of the North Carolina
Merchants Association at High
, Point, May 7-8, Willard L. Dowell,
secretary, announces, stating that if
for any reason General Johnson cannot
come, he will send a spring man
on the opening afternoon. Revenue
Commissioner A. J. Maxwell will
speak advocating adoption of the proposed
new Constitution and the next
afternoon Attorney General D. G.
Brummitt will speak opposing its
adoption. David Ovens, Charlotte,
president of the National Dry Goods
Association, will speak the opening
I afternoon and a banquet will be held
I that night.
On the program for the second day
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EYER
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FAITH . . . mskes business
Years ago I heard the classic anecdote
of the little girl who, when asked
in Sunday school what was meant
by faith, replied: "It's believing what
you know ain't so." Faith, of course,
is belief in what cannot he proved.
And it lies at the bottom of all human
relations.
All business is done on faith; that
is, on the belief that a dollar invested
here will somehow, sometime, come
back, bringing a few cents with it.
That sort of f3ith is based on so much
experience that the probabilities can
be reduced to almost a mathematical
certainty.
Just now we are going through a
period when almost everything must
be based oil faith. There is no experience
to fall back on. to calculate
the chances of the success of the
enormous efforts of the Government
to stimulate the return of prosperity.
Humanly speaking, the majority of
people have faith that we are going
to come out all right, but owners of
dollars are still waiting to see the
figures.
I think that complete recovery will
come when the actual figures of busi ness
being done give grounds for renewed
faith, and not before.
SEASKKPEXTS ... or liars
Tne way these seaserpents keep
popping up all ore the world means
either that there are monsters in the
sea of which science knows nothing,
or that the human race haa developed
a new crop of iiars.
Tt is more than fifty years now
since the 3easerpent was a current
topic of conversation. In my boyhood
| there was hardly a New England
I seaport town that didn't have an "old
\ sait" who told seaserpent stories to
! the. children, and incoming ships often
reported having sighted one of
; the monsters. But scientific men ridiculed
the notion and sailors got the
; habit, of keeping their mouths shut
j about them for fear of being laughed
i at.
j The latest seaserpent story is that
! a couple of Uiem who have been seen
j frequently in Vancouver Sound have
returned to their old haunts.
POWER . . . and cost
I saw some figures the other day
which confirmed what Thad long un=
(lerstood; that is, that the time has
conic when it .is cheaper to produce
electric power from coai or oil fue:
than hy water-power. We are hearing
a great deal these days of devleop
j ing wo ter-powers at public expense
11 have never been very keen about
I Government going into any sort oi
! business. I have never known auj
j Governmental unit to do anvthing
economically or efficiently. But il
the Government must go into tin
power business, lit ought to use the
same sort of commonsense a bU3i
nesa concern would use.
First the business concern woulc
find out how many present and prob
able users of power there were ir.
the territory that could be served eco!
nomically by the proposed plant. Ther
, it would iind out whether they were
already being well served by existing
plants.
If and when the Government does
go into the distribution and sale o!
electric power, it is my bet that \1
will eost the users more than any pri
vate company would be willing tc
j sell it to them for.
! RECOVERV . . . and burnt fingers
I may have too high an opinion
i or too intelligence of the human race
j but it is my belief that it will be a
long time before we get into anothei
such era of free spending as we went
through from 1922 to 1929.
Those of us who laid up nothing
but debts are certainly going to be
more thrifty for a long time to come,
even if our incomes are restored tc
wbat they were.
The wasteful ones will be the
youngsters who will be holding the
good job3 five years from now. Having
money to spend will be a new
experience for them. If I were a business
mvii I would try to produce and
sell chiefly merchandise that appeals
to people under thirty.
(iAYETV . . . always available
One of the things the matter with
most of us these days is that we are
entirely too solemn in our outlook
on life. We are taking economic pressure
too seriously. In casual conversations
overheard on the streets and
in trains 1 seldom hear Uie note of
gayety any more. That may not be
true everywhere, but it certainly is
the case in the regions where I go
the oftenest.
It is entirely possible to maintain
a gay outlook on life even in the
midst of serious money troubles. It
are Ernest C. Hastings, editor and
publisher of the Dry Goods Economist,
New York; John C. Watson,
' president of the New York State
Council of Retail Merchants, Albany,
on the national recovery program and
the sales tax. After election of officers
and receipt of Invitations for the
next meeting, a round tatte discussion
will be held?and it may be safe
j to say that the State sale3 tax will
I be considered. A barbecue after ad'
jo urn men I will end the meeting
T THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C.
! all comes down to adjusting one's j JJ
| minds to realities. The outstanding
tact that so many people never -earn
La that happiness is never dependent
upon possessions. They grow solemn
when they tear deprivation of mater- th
ial things. th
The most, consistently gay folk I
know anything about, as a class, are ci
the negroes. I have encountered more th
genuine gavetv in the Black Belt of
Mississippi or in Harlem than in Park j*,;
Avenue or other abodes of wealth. to
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KOAIi TESTS WEAK OUT si.
BRAKES, BUT NOT NEW TIRES pc
Read tests so severe that brakes ?
on the automobiles were worn out
every 72 hours were conducted to
prove the new G-3 tire, latest development
of the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company, according to A. E.
Hodges, iocal Goodyear dealer.
"In order to put the severest possible
strains and abuses on the new
tires," says Mr. Hodges, "they were
driven at 60 miles an hour &nd
brought to an abrupt stop every five
miles.
This punishing test wore out brake
linings so rapidly that the brakes had
lo uc aujusieu every eigne nourb anu j
linings replaced every three days. But i
the tests proved that the new G-3 j
was adapted to use on the modern,
higli speed, high powered automobile.
Cars had been improving rapidly
and tread wear became more of a
problem. The road tests all proved
conclusively, however, that tire mileage
had been stepped up and nonsltid
tread wear increased on an average
of 43 per cent.
"The improvements of the G-3 were
accomplished by widening and flat- j
tening the tread surface in contact 1
with the road, widening the riding j
l ibs and narrowing the grooves be- I
tween the nou-skid blocks and increasing
the number of non-skid
blocks In the tire's circumference.
"In my opinion the G-3 tire is the
most important contribution of the
tire manufacturer to motoring since
the introduction of the balloon tire,"
Mr. Hodges said.
FAKSI QUESTION
When can skim-milk be substituted
for whole milk in feeding dairy
calves ?
Answer: Whole milk should be fed j
entirely for the first two weeks. If
the calf is doing well at the end of j
this time the whole milk may lie |
gradually replaced with skim-milk at
i the rate of about one pound a day.
Ail foam should he removed from the
milk before it is fed. During the
change, if the calf shows an symp
toms of scours discontinue the sktm
iniik until the symptoms disappear.
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Postmaster at Lenoir
Irf-noir.?X. Hunt Gwvn acquired
e title of postmaster at Lenoir and
e duties attendant thereto on Tues- 1
v morning of last week when J.
ark Smith, for 12 years head ofj
e local office, turned over the reins. |;
.At various times during the day j
any friends dropped into the office >
congratulate Mr. Gwyn upon go- ! .
g into office, ard to give expresons
of gratitude to the retiring
sstmaster for his faithful and courous
sere ice.
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AcTUAL RECORDS last
fed STARTENA, show that!
At six weeks of age, the lii
ounces per chick; the heav
chick. No wonder there's
STARTENA this year. Feec
chicks you want at six w
pounds per chick to do thi
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GENERAL AGENT
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ASSOCIATES
<CAN MR. J. IfENR
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MAY 3. 1934
Mr. Gwyn and Mr. Smith completed
cheeking- the records during
the day, and by mid-afternoon Mr.
Smith took down his photographs of
Presidents Ooolidge and Hoover, making
room for Mr. Gwyn to put up
one of President Roosevelt. Tlie
change in pictures is virtually the
only difference in appearance of the
postmaster's quarters.
The set-up in staff and employees
will remain unchanged at the present,
Postmaster Gwyn said.
An Advertisement In The Democrat
Will Get Results.
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fear on 925,427 chicks
93 per cent of them lived.
;ht breeds averaged 17.4
y breeds 19.2 ounces per
a big swing to PURINA
I it and get the kind of
reeks. It only takes two
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