8 I BOONE SKETCHES By J. C. R. pass the potatoes: Potatoes, the crop for which Watauga County 13 noted, occupied the minds of a group of haugers-around at The Democrat office a few days ago. And the culture of spuds, quite naturally, involved the name of Waiter (Watt) Beach who, with Cootei Haiglcr, his dusky assistant, can raise four hundred bushels to the acre without much more than hail trying . . . providing, of course, that the elements are favorable. Wi'frcd Davis, whose mind runs to figures, reached for his pencil and a ragged copy of the World Almanac . . . and started calculations on a project that would made the Hoover Dam and the N'orris Dam and all the other dams in the world look like a plugdime. He proposed to drain the lakes and the seas and the oceans, all of them, any let Watt and Cooterseed their tortile beds to good old Trish I potatoes. Around 164.99U.09C squat e miles of the globe's surface, or 6.599,960.000 acres . . . quite a sizeable tract, and rich beyond compare . . . was set aside by the Creator for the propagation and amusement of sharks and eeis and whales and 3easerpents and bathing giris. Young Mr. Davis multiplied these 6,509,960.000 acres by the inevitable 400 bushels of spuds raised by the Watt-C-ooter partnership, and found that, just 2,639,934,009,000 hampers of the "fruit" could and would be produced each year . . . 2,639 bushels for each and every heathen and Hindoo and Christian on earth . . . 13,195 bushels for ouch family of five. Just then some simpleton in the audience a3ked where the devil you'd put the water . . . and Wilfred, with a sweet little smile, used that portion of the temple that moves on hinges and scurried away toward a nearby tavern. NOTHING MUCH Discarded, soaked with rain, an inch-long Camel "duck" lay on the sidewalk . just, an ordinary littl- fag-end it was! Bui tne muzzle, or that portion of the smoke which rests in a smokec's lips, bore the crimson stain of rouge ... a feminine brand, as It were . . . and the scriiK-'s imagination went on a spree, as he tried to figger out the identity of the fair one who nonehalantly east It there. Perhaps IflK a country loss, a giughanr-gowned f blonde from the corawood belt, had fetched a ito/.eu eggs over a dozen miles of roeky trail to get herself a smoke . . . and had. eagerly ,o[k,:;l that good cigarette In her jaw, took a couple of inhales, and ditched it just as Uncle Henry's shambling lorm made its appearance down, the street? Or maybe a cute little doll, in the company E". . -f hes?s.,a it- . from a passing car in preparation for the sweet "smootch" she gave him? Or maybe a young mother released the "duck" as she began crooning a sweet melody to her fretful youngun? Or maybe grandma, she with the kind old face and the suow-white hair, had quieted her frayed nerves with nicotine as she prepared for the evening bridge game? Maybe a waitress, maybe a nurse, maybe a stenographer, maybe a black gal? It doesnt made much difference anyway ... It was just a cigarette "duck." if you please: Living is a bit tough, even when a feilow is sailing along reasonably well . . . but there are just lots of things that mrfke it tougher . . . and one of those things is a drunk man who seeks your consolation and advice when you aren't even taking one little nip' The guy thai writes this column has "wet-nursed" dozens oi souses in his time . . . he's let 'em cry on his shoulder . . . he's told 'cm bed-time stories . . . he's taken 'em home and been cussed out by thcii wives . . . he's held their heads and washed their clothes and run errand! for 'em . . . and made himself miserable in a thousand different ways! He'! glad to render all these services . . he's tickled pink at the confidence re> posed in him by those inebriated ones ... he likes to be ad assistance to the down-and-outer ... he doesn't like to rcfuBe any sont of a favor . . but in bis "old age" he's getting just ta trifle cranky . . . he's sorter burnt out on the whole business . . . anc hed' be much obliged if all his drunl 1 friends would first call on Chic: Gross ... let Chief Gross lock then in jail . . . and later call on him U help get them out ... if you please In other words, just have a sprci on me on him ... If you please! An< we thank you! UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS LISTS VACANCIES Savannah, Ga.?The Savannah Ma rlne Corps office has been authorize! to fill vacancies that will occu throughout the United States Marin Corps during the next several monthi according to aD announcement b; Lieutenant Colonel A. E. Drum, offi cer in charge, Marine Office, Post office building. Savannah, Ga. Young men who are graduates o thigh achool and are not lees tha sixty-six iuvhes in heighth are ell gible for acceptance. Applicants at cepted are transferred tc the Marin Base, Parri* Island, S. C. An 1 I VOLUME XLV. NUMBER 46 'lAD^Isi^WILr :j HAVE MOUNTAIN ] CAMPING GROUND ' Plan Institution Near Blowing Rock i on Order of Montreal. Corporation Organized. Camp Ground to Serve ' Conferences of Church in Six States. Negotiations for Site Now I Under Way. ' A permanent camp ground and re1 ligious center, with a tabernacle, cot tages and other buildings, to serve tbe same purpose for the Advent : Christian Church that Mor,t reat does for I'reSbyterians, and Ridgecrest for j the Baptists, will be established on the Blue Ridge near Blowing Rock. ! according to Hill L. Bolick of Lenoir, I secretary-treasurer of the Appalach! ian Advent Christian Assembly, a non : nrnfit romnrnHnn .... ?.. .1111 - 1.1, -1 >- > 1. ?..' < by the Stale of North Carolina to carry out the project. The huge venture is outlined in the following story, taken from The Lenoir News-Topic: Negotiations are now under way for a suitable site in the mountains, containing approximately 15 acres, Mr. Bolick said Saturday, and it is planned to begin construction this summer. The work will be financed J by donations and by loans from con! fercnces of the church in West Vir! ginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Ken! tucky and Alabama, representing several thousand members, and which I do not at present have such an in| stitution in the territory named. | Refunding of construction loans | from the several conferences, Mr. BoI lick explained, will be accomplished [ by revenue from long-term leases on cottage sites to be laid out around the tabernacle and by donations from churches and individuals for that purpose. Aims of Corporation | The assembly is empowered by its i charter to conduct missionary, wel| fare and educational work, including i financing and administration, in founding non-profit institutions for the "promotion of vital piety through the promulgation of Biblical truth, especially that the Bible is inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings and of supreme and final authorI itv in faith and life." j Sueli promulgation may be carried I on under the charter bv means nf missionary, trades and other training schools, camp meetings, ^-conferences, pa3tcraiea, radio broadcasts, issuance and distribution of books, pamphlets, and in other ways deemed advantageous for the promotion of the proper objects of the corporation. The corporation is authorized to purchase or otherwise acquire and dispose of real estate and property in any State or territory of the United States. There is no capital stock and indebtedness, after 1940, will be limited to one-tenth of the value of the corporation's property. Hill Bolick an Officer Incorporators named in the charter are J. Fremont Whitman, Charleston, W. Va., acting president; Frank J. Woodrum, Charleston, W. Va.; Hill L. Bolick, Lenoir, acting secretarytreasurer; Charles J. Preslar, Hickory, acting vice-president; and T. W. Ferguson, Ferguson, N. C. Main office of the corporation is in Lenoir, and the charter authorizes establishment of a branch office in Charleston, W. Va. The officers named are 1.?it.?-..njr iv#i luv jiuijKMv ui getting the project under way, Mr. Bolick said, and a regular election of officers wili be held later. Governing | power 13 vested in a board of not less than five nor more than nine trustees, the five men named consti1 tuting the board until their successors are named. J Speakers of note from churches in the six states interested in the proj' ect will be heard at a camp meeting ' to be held August 4-12, this year, on the ground to be acquired near Blow1 ing Rock by the assembly, following ' a custom of the past. This year the ' meetings . 11 be held under a large tent, Mr. Bolick said, but it is ex' pected that by the summer of 1935 " a commodious tabernacle will be j available. 11 Garden Seed on Hand J For Relief Families ' A number of packages of gardcr , seed are still available for relief fam* illes, states Miss Theodosia Watson " director of relief, who urges those it need or the seed to call at her office! at the courthouse and secure then without delay. ; The seed will be distributed to any. one who how is or has been on df - rect relief, regardless of whether 01 1 not they have received Federal seec r leans. e ,, TO PRESENT PAGEANT Y A pageant, "The Good Samaritan,' . will be given at Henson's Chape . Methodist Church next Sunday eve ning at 8 o'clock. The pageant dram j atizes the Good Samaritan parable n and is followed by a dramatizatioi [. of the present program of hospital! zatlon by the Methodist Church. Tb e public is cordially invited to attem this program. Independent Weekly Nev BOONE. WATAUGA C | Wrote Best Editorial Atlantic, Iowa.?Shown above i j the raost recent photo of Edito I E. P. Chase of the News-lelegrapl Ihere, who has been awarded th Pulitzer Prize for having writtej the best editorial of 1933. IflNALS PROGRAM I AT BANNER ELK j BEGINS SATURDA j May Day Pageant to Open Event Dr. Erdman to Deliver Buccal* rente Sermon. Senior Supper Su day Evening. Eighty-one Graduat to Receive Diplomas. Watauga Wj Represented in Enrollment. Banner Elk. The program for t3 i Lces-McRae College commenccmei i exercises, to be held May 19, 20 ai 21, was announced Tuesday. The e crcises will begin at 5 o'clock Satj day afternoon, May 19, with a Mi Day pageant in which Miss LuCti Ferrin, of Knoxville, Tenn., will 'J queen, and many members of t! senior class will take part. The pa9 ant is under the direction of Miss ? rail Turlington, Mooresville, of U faculty. Following the May feattVJ senior class night will be held. On Sunday morning the buccal J route sermon will be preached in tJ j Banner Elk Presbyterian Church S j Rev. Dr. Charles R. Erdman of t! ] Princeton Theological Seminary, j ! Princeton, N. J. On Sunday evenS j al 0 "o'clock there will be a ?? supper and at eight o'clock sen! vespers w Ui, t?e CUM ttor. of Edgar Greene, of G\ig > u i,*i., ^iivsiuciu ui iue class. oa Wiley, of Davidson College, will 1 the vespers speaker. On Monday morning there will 1 a field day program at ten o'cloc j At two o'clock that afternoon the ! will be an Informal meeting of alur ni and alumnae, who will be taki on a tour of the campus. At thr o'clock the commencement exercis will be held. The chief speaker the occasion will be L L. Campbe executive assistant to Dr. Arthur ; Morgan, chairman of the Ter.ness Valley Authority. There are eighty-one graduates all, one of whom is Eklgar Greene, Sugar Grove, president of the seni class. Young Greene is a brother Mrs. L. K. Pritchett of Banner El is a member of the Demostheni Club, football team and basket bi team. High school graduates from W .tailfffl nwe. "AT _ J sit iLuuga IUV otuuc iivuia, uaugau'r Mr. E. S. Norris, and Jack Zimm< man, brother of Attorney .Charl T. Zimmerman of Boone. Zirnmerm; is vice-president of the senior cla and a member of the football teen Other students from Watauga Loes-McRae this year are: Lucy Ft thing. Sugar Grove: John Greene, S gar Grove; Clara Norris, Boone. Valle Crucis Church to Give Special Prograi At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon R< A. C. Gibbs, presiding elder of t Mount Airy District, will preach s then conduct the 3econd quarte: conference of the Watauga Charg !i Valle Crucis Methodist Church v : I observe annual Sunday School I) next Sunday with a special progi'J at the morning session. The progr; is prepared on the theme, "Ch lenges from the Past." This progri 1 is one in a series of special prograi that are proposed for this year, whl i is the 150th anniversary' of the c - ganized existence of the Method , Church in America. The program v i be as follows: I Introduction by Mr. J. M. Sh i superintendent; prayer by the past Rev. G. C, Graham; brief addre . "Methodism's Part in the Early Si . day School Movement," by Whee : Farthing; short story, "The Chi I tian Flagg," by Miss Trassa Jam salute to the Christian Flag by termediates, directed by Miss T1 ina Thomas; hymn, "The Christ ' Flag," Juniors and Tnterme-diat 1 Scripture reading, I Cor., third ch - ter; brief address, "Fifty Years - Southern Methodist Sunday Sell ; Development," by R. A. Farthil i special ruusic; address, "Challen, - of the Past," by a representative s the Conference Sunday School Boa 3 offering for Sunday School Enter: | Service; hymn and benediction. vspaper?Established in th ?UNTT, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSi SURVEY OF SCENIC | HIGHWAY WILL BEGIN ON FRIDAY Expect to Complete Survey and Begin Actual Construction Soon. Favor North Carolina Route. Delay in Survey Improves Chances for Carolina Route. Huge Fund Appropriated for Road. 1 Washington.?A. E. Deraaray, assistant director of the National Park Service, said Monday that plans for another survey of the proposed routes for the parkway connecting the Great Snoky and Shenandoah national paries s are now being made. The survey is r scueoulea to ne^in nex:. rriaay, aviay h 18th. 6 A late winter has delayed the park n service from completing the survey work necessary to locate the route ? of the parkway. But now with fail and warm weather prevailing Demaray is hoping that the surveys car be completed at an early date anc some of the $16,000,000 allocated by . the PWA for the parkway can be pul to work In providing for the unenv y ployed. * The survey party which will "o( , t slated to begin work next Fr iday wil ttk be composed of Thomas H. MacDon Or> ale. chief of the United States liu ih- reau of Public Roads; Thomas O n. Vent, chief landscape architect of th( ?11 park service; Stanley Abbott, as - sistant. to Gilmore Clarke, natec ? landscape architect, who is now em ire ployed by the park service: official: nt of the Virginia, North Carolina and id Tennessee highway commission, and x- Others. ir- llemaray salti it has not been doty corded whether Clarke will be In the lie party. be The more timer that is given te tie surveying the proposed routes for the c- parkway the better the chances arc (i- for adopting the route proposed by 5e the North Carolina highway departu,: then which takes in the famou: l | ^scenery of Western North Carolina t-' fjorlh Caroiiniar.s interested in thr ere project are confident that if thr inSlUBrkwav is to be a real scenic hie-h then it musto follow the routs jjtoposed by the North Carolina highly department. They believe the more time tin o^p.irH. service gives to making the ^- jimzvevs o f the various proposec jjr reuses the more they will be Impress m ed with the scenery of Westerr be North Carolina. Unemployed of County re Are Colled to Reregister n an Untmpioyeu who iiavr icghirivu al ee the national re-employment office es here ami whose applications have not of been renewed within 90 days will bt 11, placed in the inactive file, states R K. I... Wooten, director of the office her< ee for five counties?Wilkes, Alexander Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga, in Renewal of the registration Is nee of essary due to the fact that the offic< or wishes to keep in the active file onlj of the unemployed who still are inter k, ested In getting work through the re al employment office, lil Applicants may have their name restored to the active file by letter a- telephone or personal call. Attentioi of is called to the fact- that thoff' x- desires all available information ii es regard to any special quillfications o an any applicants, especially in regar< .<43 to machine operators. Machine oper i. ators, when re-registering, shouli at state the particular type of machine: ir. with which he has had experience. lu_ files from, the re-employment of fice will furnish the list of laborer and skilled workmen for contractor on projects of the State highway am public works commission.?Wilke [jj Journal-Patriot. ev. 3aturday Last Day nd To Register Voter rly e. Saturday, May 19th, it is ruled b dU the State Board of Elections, is th ay iast day for the registration of vol lm era for the primary on June 2nd. Reg ltn istrars in the fourteen precincts c ai_ the county will be at the pollinj lm places all day Saturday for the pui nis pose of registering those whos icli name3 have not hitherto been on th < I usually get the remainder of the &31 j sets of an insolvent bank, declared >f Mr Zimmerman, as he pleaded for S fuller co-operation of the people to '- save the younger of Boones' two bane king institutions. 1 e Attorney R. L,. Ballou, who reprey sents a number of the depositors of the People's Bank, 3tated that while 1-; his clients were unable to furnish | e more money?that ithey had lost their all in the bank closing?they were willing to be lenient in the matter of time, and would co-operate in any f other -way possible toward the solution of the community and county y i problem. h j Attomey W. R. I^ovill cited liquidsil tion as the gravest consequence of :- any financial disturbance, and joined le with the others in a plea for coif operative action to forestall this st method of procedure. Others in the l- assemblage made brief remarks best fore the conclusion of the meeting. e, i- In the early days of the World War ts French airplanes carried brick throwjs ing machines for hurling brickbats hilt to an enemy's propeller. Two planes were brought down in this way. $1.50 PER y I.AR 1ELIEF GARDEN WORK IS GOING ON IN COUNTY 'omraunity Gardens Floated in Several localities. Farm Superintend- a cut Sees Much I'rogreas in Work. Six of Seven Hundred Families Are Provided with Seed and .Fertilizer. Scarcity of Plow learns a Problem. Work A3 progressing in several community gardens, being cared for brough relief' channels says Farm Superintendent L. M. Farthing, who Relieves that the relief authorities ire now on the right road to the find solution of some of the problems u destitution. A 14-acre community garden is being planted on the couny farm, and seven acres ui Watauga Ccwnship. Under this system a number of different, families join in cultivating the plot, each is given credt for the number of hours worked iuring the season, and at harvest time :>nc-half the jield is divided between the families or- the basis of time tvorked. and the- remainder goes to die relief fund to assist in next year's cvork. Potaotes. cabbage, corn and unions are some cf the crops predomnating in the community gardens, md some beans and corn will be set aside for canning purposes to help LVith the direct relief problem later jn. Mr. Farthing states that the origi al plans called for the establishment one of these gardens in each secion of the county, but that, because >f the lateness of the season it will le impossible tc carry the program hrougn on this scale. A marked scarcity of plow teams has 3knved lown the work in some sections, he ;ays. At the same time about seven hun!red families have secured seed and Fertilizer for planting their own garlens, and in these cases the relief administration will recover payment iext fait in work. Projects will be demised to take care of the labor tints provided. Pour Cases Are Tried r% r r x ? * ' * rseroie Judge dudderth Only ftiirfi cases came before Judge S iudderth's Recorder's ley: 1 month* suspended road, science, assessed with the cost. Adam Holler, violating prohibition aw; i months suspended sentence, a?ies3ed with the cost. R. I.. Townscnd, violating prohibiten law; 6 months suspended sen:ence, assessed with cost. Fred Yates, malicious destruction )f property, damaging automobile ires; ordered to pay automobile own;r J25, to pay court costs, and given suspended sentence of six months on roads. FARTHING GETS FETkFDAf miTM ruuLiiiiL riiUiTi Boone Man Named Appraiser for the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Working: Out of Greensboro. Albert Farthing Named Warden. H. Grady Farthing, for several years local State game and fish warden, was recently, named as a preliminary State appraiser for the Home Owners Loan Corporation, and at present is working out from the Greensboro office. Mr. Farthing will make his headquarters in Boone, however, but will he subject to assignments in any county in the State. Mr. Farthing is being congratulated upon having secured the patronage, which came through the support and rceommendations of Congressman Doughton and Senators Bailey and Meynolds. Mr. Albert Farthing has taken over the warden's position, temporarily, and states that hunters who have paid their fees will receive licenses within the next few days. ,McDade New Manager For Dry Goods Store Mr. R. F. McDade assumed the general managership of the Five-toFive Store Tuesday, when Mr. J. B. Brewer, Its founder, left for Sparta, Tenn., where another Five-to-Five establishment has been put up and is reported as doing a splendid business. Other stores are being added by Mr. Brewers' company at Crossville and Winchester, Tenn., and it is the ultimate purpose of the concern to have ten dry goods stores under the same firm name and management. Mr. Brewer will be general manager and purchasing agent for all the stores. Mr. McDade, who has been on the sales force at the Five-to-Five for two years, is well known to the people throughout this trading territoryHe came to Boone more than eight years ago as manager for Spainhours, and has been engaged in mercantile activities here since that time. , j ' jPfl