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FBANK PARMER^ I ju~
SOCKB?JD<3EfcS^^<
TAXES . . . time to halt
i don't know of any communit
county or state in which taxes ha'
not gone up in the past two or thr<
years. Certainly there is none
which taxes are not materially hig
er than they were ten years ago. I '
just got ny tax hills for 1934. at
perhaps I'm unduly concerned; but
can t help coining hack to the beli
I have long cherished, that .soon
or later we've got to abandon tl
tax on capital and find other at
more equitable ways of raising mo:
ey with whs to to run our vario:
governments.
Tne real estate property tax is
tax on capital. Nothing like it exis
anywhere else in the world, so far i
I am informed. It was adopted :
America in the pioneer days wbt
there wasn't anything else, much,
tax except tand. I like the Englis
system much better. There proper!
is taxed on the basis of what it can
?the income tax carried down to t>
income of everybody who owns
piece of property that is rented, t
course, there are other iaxe3, but thi
do not constitute a tien or, real pro;
erty.
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INCOMES . . . the average
The average income in the Unite
States is said, by Henry Wallace i
his new" book, to be about or und<
Si.500 a year. That includes ever}
body who works for a living?e:
cept farmers. He figures that tt
average farm income has been ci
down from about S1.300 a year I
something like $500 a year.
Of course, ivir. Wallace is taikin
about cash incomes. Out of bis ?1
500 a year the industrial worker ha
to pay for food and lodging. If h
lias 5500 a year left he is either
financial wizard or just plump luck;
Bui tile farmer, out of his S500 cas
inccnte, has to pay taxes and, like a
not, mortgage interest, to say not*
ir.g oi insurance and other items h
car" "work out," so it's about a
bi\ ui as it is long.
The fallacy, it seems to me. lie
in comparing the farmer with th
wage-earner. The proper compar
sen is between the farmer and th
business man, owner of his own bus
ness. he farmer is i capitalist, an
subject to the risks that all capiti
is subject to. That isn't to say tha
he doesn't have plenty of troubli
but at the worst, he is not in sue
imminent danger of starvation as th
unemployed industrial worker.
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STAMPS ... for nil taxes..
I len t know how many kinds e
Internal Revenue stamps there :m
hut it strikes me that the easies
:u:d most painiess way for any gov
eminent to collect taxes is by tnakinj
it illegal to sell anything that doesn'
. bear a Government stamp. I knot
that's mereiv another ,v<n* ..r
ing "sales tax," which is a phras
that atwaya makes politic-Jans see rec
Nevertheless, some of our most im
portant souiv.es of revenue are iron
the sales taxes, already in force.
There are revenue stamps on ever;
bottle of liquor, ever barrel of beei
every pack of playing cards, ever;
pack of cigarettes or box of cigar;
Shares of stock cannot he legall;
transferred without sticking revenu
stamps on them. Everyone is iamil
iar with the sales tax on gasoline.
The only reason why stamp or sale
taxes are not imposed upon floui
potatoes, shoes, hats and cannci
goods, is the fear of the politicians ii
power that the ordinary man wouli
thus be forced to realize that he i
paying taxes, and would vote the pol
iticians who imposed them out of of
fice. There sin't any other reason a
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DRINKING . . . and accidents
Vermont reports five times as man;
automobile accidents since the repea
of prohibition as in any year previ
ous. Vermont newspaper and official
are unanimous in blaming this on liq
uor. The Government collected $86,
000,000 in taxes on distilled liquor;
and $169,000,000 on beer in the yea
ending July 1, but only $4,000,000 oi
wines. Better wine is made ui th
United States than in France or Italy
out we are not a wine-drinking peo
pie.
The <lream of sudden prosperit;
through repeal has proved merely i
dream. Hundreds of concerns that go
liquor licenses In New York, think
ing everybody was going-to rush t
the bars, have abandoned them rathe
than pay the high license fee. Man;
liquor dealers have gone broke.
It took a hundred years of educa
tion to arouse public sentlmen
against the abuse of alcohol. Now th
effort seems to be all in the othe
direction. Prohibition was unworkabl
as a national program. It will take .
couple of generations to bring us bad
to a sane, balanced understanding o
the liquor question. Meantime, drunk
en drivers will kill off a growing pet
centage of sober folk.
Twenty Catawba County Jerse
breeders have signed up to have thel
cattle tested for Bang's disease. Oti
ers are expected to join the mov<
ment.
J. J. Honeycutt of Cabarrus Count
harvested 200 bushels of Italian ry
grass seed from ten acres planted.
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An
VOUIMF, XLVI, NTTJIBER IT
Becomes a King
i fiv::
Belgrade, Yugoslavia-?Above is
the last picture of Peter II, as a
j carefree boy of 11 years, seeing
' London sights. The photo was taK
ken 13 days before he became the
^ boy King of Yugoslav hi through the
r assassination of his father, King"
' ~ Alexander, while on an official misv"
sion in France,
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* WATAliGAN DIES
: IN AUTO WRECK
a Blowing Rock Citizen Fatally Injured
> and Another Hurt- When Truck and
k Car Collide on Lenoir Road. Bro_q
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? j hcii r%?cx ana i-mciurca Skull.
t
e Henry Greene. 21-year-old resident
5 of the Blowing Rock section, was fatally
injured last Thursday in an aus
to mobile-truck collicioii on Uic Blowe
ing Rock-Lenoir Highway, while
l~ three of the four other passengers in
e the two vehicles were unhurt.
l" Greene died before reaching a hospital.
He suffered a broken neck,
1 fractured skull, several broken ribs,
^ and sustained other injuries,
k Clyde Hampton of Lenoir, driver oi
e the truck, which sideswiped the light
passenger car, is being held under a
$2,000 bond pending further investigation
by Sheriff J. C. Tolbert of
lt- Caldwell County.
;t Surviving are the parents, Mr. and
:t Mrs Oliver Greene, a sister and two
- brothers. Funeral services were to
E?- have been held Friday, but details
t are not available,
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Adult Educational Work
i. Discussed by Teachers
0 (Bv TifRS V W MA?T\
The teachers of adult education met
f in Boone on Saturday for the discus'
sion of problems that confront them
f as teachers in a new field. Unlike reg'
ular day school teachers they must
1' j face their problems and work them
e out among themselves.
Pioneers are they?those teachers
who are blazing the trail in Watauga
s County for a new field of education.
V In years to come they may be looked
1 upon as torch bearers who carried
1 the light unto many who had been
* groping in darkness
3 What do they do, and whom and
" what do they teaoh: So many peo~
pie are asking these questions, and
' it is imperative that they know the
( correct answer. In the first place the
teachers go into the homes of the
people ami seek to Interest them in
r some phase of education. If they are
1 progressive mothers, they probably
will be interested in home-making,
3 child care, music, art, and various
* other subjects. If enough such mothers
are found a class is organized
3 and oh, the fun they have as they
r sew, hook ruga, learn the do, ra, me,
1 fa's, bake better cakes, arrange the
3 furniture to make the home cozier,
' and learn to balance Junior's diet.
The fathers are usually Interested
in knowing how to "figger" a little
v better so they can transact business
* to their own liking-. Along with mathematics
they are taught to write good
business letters, government affairs,
9 news of the State and county, and the
r fundamentals of grammar.
^ Then those who cannot read and
write are sought with a bit more interest.
To open to them a nerw life
t and to life the veil of darkness that
e has so long shut out the beet that
r life affords, that is the blessed ope
poriunity that belongs to the teacher
a of adults.
^ "Can they actually learn?" This
lf question has been asked. In answer
~ j let me say that a group of students
j who started to night school September
1st, not knowing A from B, can
- now write a short letter, add, subs'
tract, multiply and in fact know most
1 of the fundamental processes. They
are caught health and citizenship
along with the three Rs. These students
are enthusiastic over their accomplishments
and many of them are
y firmly resolved to carry on until they
e have at least an eighth grade education.
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Independent Weekly New
300XE. WATAUGA C
|jAiKLMifir
! KILLED; BANNER
! ELK MEN ESCAPE
Cousin of JLate Frank A. LSmtey Git
e rally B^at to Death by Tenan
Farmer. George Perkins and Ber
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..... ?v..uwmin ,viw w rem of 3s
SiiiLinf; .Deceased Was a Forme
Post master, Teacher and JEdJior.
James C Llnnoy, nephew of Col
Romulus Z. Linney and first crush
o/ the late Frank A. Lirmey o
Boone, was found dead in a publi
road near Tayiorsville Monday am
his tenant, W. R. Reavis, was char,ge<
by officers with beating: him to death
Mr. Linnvy was former postmaste
of the village; of Hiddsnite. five mile
from Tayiorsville.
Officers quoted Reavis as admitting
he had engaged in a fist fight will
his 55-year-old landlord after a dis
pute Monday morning, but said h?
contended Lmney walked away fron
the scene without showing signs o
being badly hurt.
When arrested, Reavis expresse<
surprise upon being told that I-inne;
was dead.
LInney's body was found on a roa<
a quarter of a mile from the faro
he had rented to Reavis. A passing
motorist picked him up and biough
him to Tayiorsville.
Several bruises were found on tin
head and neck but there were m
other wounds.
Dispute Over Rental of Farm
k Reavis said the dispute arose whei
Linney informed him he planned t<
I rent the farm to another tenant.
The Hiddenite mar. was a forme
school teacher and was once engage<
| in newspaper work at North Wilkes
I boro.
He fs survived by bis widow, i
daughter. Ruth Linney, of Roarinj
River, and a brother, tlie Rev. W. E
I .in'ley of \Vi!ke3boro.
' The difficulty between Linney am
RcvLs occurred when the former wer.
to the farm about noon acoompanici
by George Perkins and Bcrker Town
[ 3ond. both of Banner Elk, who wen
, interested in rcntuig the farm.
After Ilea vis had knocked dowi
Linney and beaten him until he plead
ed for mercy, according to witnesses
he turned to Perkins and TowflJIfend
. and ordered them to leave. Beta ran
' stopping at. the home of S. .??. G\yal':
rry' tr? ask for help.
Perkins and Townsend are bainf
held under bonds of $1,000 each a:
materia! witnesses.
An examination of Mr. Llnaey'i
body by Coroner A. M. Edwards wai
reported to have shown facial bruise,
and discoloration about the threat
The coroner, who summoned a iur\
for an inquest has not made knowr
I the verdict.
Linney, who had resided in Hiddenite
for several years and who laughl
school prior to becoming postmaster
was 59 years old and a graduate o!
Trinity College, now Duke University.
Debt Adjustment Board
Is Organized in Wafanos
Organization of Watauga County's
farm debt adjustment committee was
perfected Tuesday when the committee
appointed by Governor Ehringhaus
was called together by J. W.
Sears, of Goldsboro, field representative
for the State Commission.
The following officers were elected:
Chairman, W. H. Walker, Boone;
vice-chairman, J. B. Horton, Cove
Creek; secretary, Newton Cook, oi
Boone. Other members are R. T.
Greer of Boone an^ T. C. Baird of
VaJIe Crucis.
Any debtor or creditor seeking a
readjustment in the debt relationship
one with the other, may ask this
committee to investigate and nyike
recommendations to either or both
parties for the purpose, of effecting
a satisfactory solution of any existing
difficulties.
Grace Hospital Is
On Approved List
Grace Hospital, operated as a unit
of the Edgar Tufts Memorial Association,
Banner Elk, was among the
list of approved hospitals recently
given out by the American College
of Surgeons.
Being on the approved list meant
that requirements of modern hospitalization
have been fully met and
thai all details for the safety of patients
have been carried out. The list
is considered a guide for people selecting
a hospital in which to take
treatment or to enter into nursee
traintng.
In answering the question as tc
who shall go to an adult school
there is no restriction. We might saj
that anyone who is not satisfied witli
his or her store, of knowledge may gc
to an adult school. We wish thai
more people in Watauga wouid become
dissatisfied with their present
education.
There are around 268 adults now
attending school in Watauga County
rspaper?Established in the
JOUNTST, NORTH CAROIJNA, THt.TiSD
Soldier-Solon Uphol
* Repxcsentativo Albert- I . Bui win hie
comprehensive review of the accompli
'* lie address at the Courthouse Monday
i DINK DEPOSITORS T
; GETCHECKSTODAY
1
- S 10,000 Goes to Depositors In Watau
?a Bank, Representing 20 Per Cent !
? Dividend. Kew Deposits Reach >
. ^ |11G,009? Sftys nagaman.
-j ;
| Those who kid be'iuccs in the Wa-I
r [ tauga County Bank at lite lime of
3jits closing on March >i, 193!, arc toI
day being given cheeks ir. the uggre- !
1 gate amount of $40,000. the first div-1
3 idend to tie paid to tile old depositor.- j
3 j Cashier O. I'. Hogamau asks I n at the i
j depositors call at the bank, receive
' | their chocks, and new certificates of j
1 stock as provided for in the plan of'
reorganization.
Mr. Hagamau states that since its
opening the bank's business ia in;
creasing at a rapid rate and that
$140,000 in new doposits have passed ,
through the windows. Every indication
is that the bank is uow on a
firm fcotnig and wili receive the nor[
mat support of the people cf this section.
1
i Boone High Defeats
Wilkesboro High, 13-0 ;
On Friday, OcLober 19th, JBoone! ;
High School clashed with the Wilkes- \?
lvtivi tpnni nn WillfBQhr.rn Mftld Thf 1 t
results of the game were 13-0 in favor
of the Boone squad
The Boone boys received the ball
on their 35-yard line and after several
unsuccessful line plunges, the
ball wenL to the Wilkesboro boys. Although
the teams were quite evenly
matched in size and weight, the
Wilkesboro boys failed to gain and
were forced to punt.
No outstanding plays were made
until the fourth quarter when Vincent
Greer received a pass from Hamby
and scored a touchdown for the Boone
team. With eight minutes to play.
Hamby made a touchdown 011 a fake
pass, and as the try for extra point
failed the game ended with the score
13-0 in favor of Boone High.
AU the players on both teams deserve
credit for the clean sportsman,
ship shown throughout the contest.
. The outstanding players for Boone
. were Desos Barnett for his success
. in carrying the ball, and Hamby for
his strategy in the backfieid.
1
Saturday Last Day to
Register for Election
; g
Those who expect to vote in the r
, November 6th election must see to it
, that their names are on the regtstra- d
tion books not later than Saturday if o
they expect to avail themselves of I
> the privilege of the franchise. Satur- }
, day is the last day the books will I
' be open, and Sautrday week will be S
i observed as challenge day. No one J
i who has previously voted need re- ?
t register. Registration is required only
- for newcomers, and those just now
t coming of age. A person must have x
resided in the State for twelve months '
or in the precinct for four months v
. before he is eligible to vote there. c
MOCl
Year L.ighteen Eight.y-E.ig
AY, OCTOBER 2'i. 193 ?
us Administration ?
?f the Tenth district, who gave :i
s iments of 2tn- New Deal in :i 5111be
veiling.
John D, Rockefeller Jr.
Pay Brief Visit to Mrs, j
Milton at Blowing Rock
John 1>. Rockefeller Jr. ami Mrs.
Hi chefeller left Blowing Rook on
'r.u^i| of last week, after having
been guests since the previous 1
Saturday of Mrs. David Milton. j
The coming und going of the I
celebrated Oil magnate's heir ami |
his wife were veiled iviih such se- ?
v, it is said; that even the res- j
idnots of Blowing Rock were una
ware of their visit until after it
had ended. Since that time, however,
{here has beets' speculation as
to whether or not the Rockefellers
may establish an estate in the (
Blowing- Rock country.
Swift3 Celebrate Their
Sixtieth Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Swift of AmanDha
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding at the old home
Vfonday, but due to the illness of the
venerable husband the day was observed
quietly.
Mrs. Swift prior to marriage was
Vfiss Martha McBride, a daughter of
he late Hiram McBride of Cove ,
2reek. For fourteen vears she served
'Mj !
ls assistant postmistress of the
Vraaotha office, and last summer reigned
after having been postmisress
for a little more than thirty
ears. Both she and Mr. Swift have
>een active church workers throughout
their long married life, he havng
been a deacon of the Cove Creek
Saptist Church for more than half
i century.
In the closing years of the Civil
.Var, Mr. Swift, then a lad of sixeon.
enlisted in the Confederacy, and
icrved a Western North Carolina
:ompauy as drummer boy. As one
if the county's most enthusiastic !
lackers of the educational system, he 1
las been a member of the Cove Creek 1
chool board for 54 years. .'
Mrs. Swift is 77 years of age, Mr. 1
iwift 87, but. despite the many mile)Osts
passed together, the beloved 1
ouple retain to an tmusual degree I
ne opumisuc spirit of youth. Hun- 1
[reds of staunch friends throughout 1
he State join with the nine children, !
wenty grandchildren and two great- i
rrandchildren in wishing for them ]
nany happy returns of the day. i
Mr. and Mrs. Swift's living chil- I
Iren are as follows: Wiley K. Swift
if Montezuma, Dr. D. A. Swift of '
Sutler, Tenn., Mrs. Rose Fuller of "
.fountain City, Robert S. Swift of
Joone, Mrs. Mary Harris and Don
jwift of Amantlia, Clark Swift and ,
drs. Charles Lewis of Sherwood, and i
Icott Swift of Mabel. ,
Stanly County trench silo owners
vere busy last week smoothing the
vails of their silos and filling them
vith winter feed for their dairy
:ows.
:ht
(1-50 PER V.-AR
8DLWINHLE CITES
NEW DEAL AS BOON
TO GREAT MASSES
Tenth District C'on^rc^snian Answers
Republican Chmgcs ot l.A**yserted
Libert;.. His First Political Speech
Here. Uuds Bob Dotighton .And
Docrios the Liberty of 11 uoger, (.'old
And Unemployment in Nation.
Hon. A. L.. Bui winkle, Major in the
Thirtieth Division during the World
War and representative in Congress
from the tenth district for 17: e past
twelve years, answered the foes of
the New Deal in an address to a large
crowd of Wa.taugans who gathered at
the courthouse Tuesday evening, ft
was the occasion of Mr. Bulwirifc'??-*?
first public appearance in Footic-. since
10.19, when he delivered an address at
x celebration honoring the return of
the soldiers hom foreign fields.
Repeating the charges "being made
by Republican leaders that the liberties
were being taken from the people,
Mr. Bulwinkle entered into a vigorous
endorsement of the Roosevelt ian
era and decried the kind of iiberty
which brought hunger, cold and
genera! unemployment to fifteen million
breed winners in a land of plenty.
Going back to a bleak day in March
1933 when Franklin JD. Roosevelt was
inagu rated as President of the United
States, the speaker declared that America
was groping in the dark?revolution
had raised its gory head i.. the
farm belts and -industrial centers, the
banking system of the country was
destroyed, fifteen millions of people
thronged the streets arid highways ?n
search of employment and food for
starving children, and the Hoover
Administration had proven itself unmindful
to the misery which stalked
throughout the land.
The Congress was called into session,
he said, a banking system was
created from the ruins with Federal
deposit insurance; the NRA was established
and four and a half millions
of people were returned to gainful
employment: a revoitixur rarre noou
lace regained their sobriety and industry
as farm loans saved foreclosures
or, hundreds of thousands of
doomed plantations; the Home Owners
Loan Corporation was instituted
and seven hundred i.huu.-auds in the
towns were permitted to stay liy their
own firesides; the Federal Relief Administration
yk'trted the necessities of
?:fe to millions, and the cries of star- |jj?
vation were hushed; Public and Civil
Works Administrations provided employment
to two million; and 750,000
youths were restored to manhood
through the Civilian Conservation
Corps. Through the AAA, farmers in
North Carolina are receiving more
than double former prices lot their
cotton ami tobacco, most other farm
products have risen accordingly, det
irred the speaker, and yet we would
1 turn to the "liberty" which precludes
these improvements.
Mr. Bulwinkle told of sweat shops
in which women toiled for 12 hours
for 25 and 40 cents, of the child labor
situation in the textiles, and lauded
the Administration for forcing the
employers to nay a living wage.
Cites Mistakes
Mr. Buiwinkle declared that mistakes
were bound to occur in putting
over such a stupendous recovery program,
especially as regards the direct
relief, but stated that the life of one
hungry child was worth the e-men
diture.
Turning for a moment to former
President Hoover, the Tenth District
Congressman declared that in his recent
book, the ex-President scorns
regimentation. "During his time,
through the RFC, the government
was regimented in favor of the privileged
few. He didn't say anything
when Charlie Dawes drew eighty millions
of Federal money for his banks,
when railway executives (were draining
the treasury, and insurance companies
were coming in for their dig.
But he is opposed, apparently, to help
for the masses. If government is regimented
now. it is regimented ill favor
of all the people." he continued.
In the beginning Mr. Bulwinkle
paid high tribute to Congressman
Robert U Dougliton, and to the many
veterans from Watauga County who
soldiered with him during the World
A'ar.
The distinguished speaker was introduced
to his audience by Solicitor
Charles T. Zimmerman, and Hon. W.
R. Lovill finished with a rousing
Democratic speech, lauding the De
nocracy, lambasting Hoover and Al:red
E. Smith, and calling upon Ihe
partisans of the section to use every
ounce of their power in gaining a
smashing victory at the polls.
Board of Education
Honors Dr. Allen
The offices of the Board of Education
were closed Monday afternoon,
the cessation of business being out
of respect to Dr. A. T. Allen, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
who died Saturday, and during whoso
funeral no business was transacted.
County offices throughout the State
paid respects to the deceased educator
in like manner.