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BAGE FOXJR The Watauga Democrat! The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY I Established in 1888 and Published for| 45 Years by the late Robert C. Rivers j PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year J 1.50 i Six Months 75; Four Months 501 iPayable in Advance) i Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Re spect, Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advsrtising rates.; Entered at the Mpw;> As Second Postoffice at Class Mail Boone, N. C. Matter. 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 j A LEADER PASSES i In the death of the State's Attor- J ney General there is widespread sor- , row. Dennis G. Brummitt was one of j the most faithful and efficient public' servants of our time, and possessed \ a fearless quality of statesmanship, which vaulted him head and shoul- ] dors above most men who occupied' similar positions. The position made ; vacant can be capably filled, but it i is questionable if Brummitt's succes- i sor will be the same measure of man j in all respects. HIGHER PAY Governor Ehringhaus recommends in his budget message an upward revision of the scale of salaries and wages being paid to school teachers and other State workers, and regardloss of conflicting views on various kinds of taxes, there should be pre! - ' t.v general aweemont that those who j have made their living from the Stale 1 coffers, have been sadly treated. The executive proposal would increase highway expenditures by more than six million, at the same time giving the teachers a boost of two and a . half million, with higher wages all ;?lorvr. <-5v? -lij-.rt *r*Vw? cnptfEir liv if l^nrth Carolina impoverishing her workers while the nnticna! administration prescribed higher wages as a boon to recovery, has made an ugly spot on the reeor 1 of State management, and the Governor deserves praise for requesting its removal. I THE EN'D OF A I.ON'G itOAl) ! Even though she had trod the earth for more than one hundred and two years, Boone people were not ready to give up Mrs. Alice Council! their! friend, and the friend of their fathers and grandfathers during the decades when this community was her home Born in the lap of luxury, u member of an aristocratic Southern family, Mrs. Oouncills' greatness of heart is best shown by the ease with which she removed herself from thir life into that of a friend, a neighbor and counsellor to the people of a little i village in a mountain wilderness?tne wife of a country doctor, laboring hand in hand with him, and making the welfare of the people her absorbing interest. Born when Jackson was president and when steam railways were yet believed impractical, when uic iirst iron boats had just been constructed in the United States, Mrs. Councill was allowed to live through a century marked by unparalleled vicissitudes and material progress. The contribution of members of her family to three major wars left unchanged her quiet philosophy of life, and after each great calamity she was a potent factor in mending the fabric of a broken social and economic order. Those witli whom Mrs. Councill walked along life's highway were brightened and heartened by the perspective of this strong Christian pilgrim with helping hand outstretched. It is well that the great number of years was the lot of one who was so well qualified by training and disposition to make the very most of them POTATO COMPLAINTS Mr. D. M. Hale, Federal Seed Loan Field Supervisor, together with Mr. S. C. Eggers of the Production Credit Association, have been making a desperate effort to aid 'die fanners of Watauga County in disposing of their huge surplus of Iri3h potatoes. Literally hundreds of letters have gone forward to produce dealers and brokers and with the many replies comes a uniform complaint as to the potatoes grown in this section, or more specifically as to the manner of grading and packing the product. Mr. Hale has shown The Democrat a sheaf of letters, in every one of which is expressed ct desire to buy N. C. spuds, but all with similar complaints. For instance, a Charlotte broker says: rraae nere says isoone folks don't grade their stock well enough. PThey run machines too fast, which leaves a lot of 2s wi'> Is. It would help a lot if you could influence the growers to be a little more careful in grading." From Durham comes an echo: "We invite your attention to the fact that we have never been able to get an honest No. 1 grade from Western North Carolina and every time we have purchased in that sectiori we have had a lot of argument due to the fact that the shipper expected us to take potatoes with cuts, scabs, pitted holes, and other injury as U. S. No. 1 and our trade here naturally would not take them except at a dis count. . . . We tried our best to buy potatoes from that section . M An Asheville firm says: "It has been our experience buying potatoes from the farmers of Western North Carolina that it is almost impossible to get them graded to pass the U. S. No. 1 grade." And so, on and on. through scores of letters the same complaint runs, always with the ending: "we are buying our potatoes from outside growers." Mr. Hale exhibited a small, wellformed Idaho baking potato, government inspected, IT: S. No. 1 grade, wrapped in tissue paper, and which is filing at Asnevilie at an cxrarmlantly high price. With cheapened transportation; by water. raif and motor, New York. Maine. Idaho, Michigan und the othor potato-producing sections arc literally gobbling our own markets by offering a clean product, duly inspected and properly bagged. It is high time that, some sort of concerted effort be made to put Watauga growers in line for the more discriminating and profitable markets. A county agent would help, or better still a man to give his entire attention to grading, packing and marketing aids. As a matter of fact, our folks know how to raise potatoes plenty of them?but. in a year like this the methods followed withhold them from the markets. Potatoes are being bought right in North Carolina, train and boatloads of them, but the easterners are getting the business, while hundreds of thousands of bushels lie stored in this small county, with little chance of profitable disposal. THE BOOK . . the first line of which reads "The Holy Bible." and which contains Four Great Treasures .... By BRUCE BARTON \ GAIIDKN KASTWAKIl IN KDKN The first mau had a brain oyag*by 5 ckuil cf r.ab'.c c'-irvat'AUU i tiny reproduction of the blue curve u toe shy. il was 1.11 lis uraiu wniim this marvelous arch that pulled him ip and gave him a sphere of vision .mique in creation. The eagle could see farther ir. its flight: the ape had a wider radius when he climbed, but in1, the man; and he alone, could look forward and outward and up. With some such vague hut aweinspiring strokes history sketches foil's the portrait of our first ancestor and leaves htm naked, unhonored and nameless. Genesis is much more definite. It gives us his name, Adam, and his dwelling place "a garden eastward in Eden." And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Wc witness the creation of the first woman: And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took: one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh Of all the trees in the garden they might eat the fruit, except one only, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But lured on by the serpent, they did eat of the fruit of that. They were discovered and promptly punished. And the Lord God said unto the serpent. Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cat, tie, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. As for Adam and Eve, they were cast out of the garden. The ground was cursed with weeds and thistles; hard work and the sweat of their brows was to be their portion until they should return to the dust from which they came. So the Lord drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way or the tree or me. CHARACTER IS BORN A million sermons have been preached about Adam, berating him for his lost innocence. Adam was innocent in the Garden, in the same sense that the sheep were innocent, ar.d the sheep are just as innocent now as they were then. But Adam in Eden had no character, and character is the one good thing which God alone does not create. It is a joint product. Just what the sin was which is recorded under the symbol of the tree and Its fruit we do not know. It is an admirable symbol. The birds in Eden pecked holes in the fruit of that tree, as of many others. No fruit-eating beasts held'it in special regard. Adam's sin was something which was WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY TH wrong for him but not wrong for ' leasts and birds, some act of unbridled lust or bloody revenge; and havj ing done it. he knew instantly that it I was wrong. Somehow, in this new s green universe, remorse and repentj once entered into the soul of a living creature: and character began. 1"A being such as i should be capable of something better." he said to himself. | why did he say it ? What made him say it ? How was it that he knew himself ] j to be different from the beasts that j j perish? Why was he so sure that it! ; was wrong for him and not for them j to use his brief opportunity for all it 1 was worth ? What persuaded him that | God cored? I Xo matter if the story in Genesis j ! >c an allegory; no matter if it summarize ir. the experience of one man | a process which worked itself out j through generations or centuries. The ' central fact remains, that one day j somebody stood Cut against a back- > ! ground of innocent and contented anii malism and assumed the self-conI sciousness and reproach which go with a moral nature. To that somc! body, that Adam, we owe a debt j which we can never repay. He was | earth's first great hero. Adam in the Garden, fattening on the fruits that grow without labor, lias had too much attention. We care little for that brief inglorious period i in his existence It could not last for i long. Let us rather remember the la-1 j t* r Adam, contending with thorns and ! 1 thistles, trying hard to govern the | 1 rising generation which perplexed! him as it has perplexed succeeding j fathers, the Adam who earned his j bread with the sweat of his brow, the ; A date whose eldest son killed his J y. : i ger brother, the Adam who couri a- ously. uncomplainingly carried and I banded down to his descendants a na-1 'lure capable of responding to law ami' duty. That Adam is the first in honj or as well as in time. lie and Eve sent down to us the qualities that lift I out of tlie dust front) which they ! came aucl back to which we, "like j thorn, return. i: The Family Doctor By DK. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES TO SAVE MONEY?BORIC' ACID An ol i. time-tried friend, this Boric j 1 Ac nl tin to your druggist and buy i yourself a pound get the naiue rignL Boric Acid Not "borax," nor yet ; "horacic acid." You want a pound of ; Uorie Acid. It need not cost you over fifty cents possibly not. so much. It should be powdered, not crystals. Then, what have you? It is one of my office "stand-bys." Weil, a first class dusting powder) for the whole family. It is the basis ; of most dusting powders sold at many times higher prices. You will have. saved several dollars in one season' by buying this way. It is a good ap-1 plication for wounds, too. Vnd, you have the stuff to dissolve I in water- - and you have the very best j and safest rnouth-wash going; no j high-priced mouth "antiseptic" approaches it in efficacy. Dissolve a little in nn ounce of pure! boiled water, and yen have a first- J class wash for inflamed eyes. Your I flnf'f Ar 11 ill QfTfdA thnf T om finbt i Eyes with red, angry lids, from excessive perspiration Nothing better than boric acid solution. Then, you've got a remedy for skin inflammations ? nearly all kinds. Make up wet dressings with strong boric acid solution and lay them on the inflamed spots?you will be gratified. Shall I say more? There is no better, safer powder for making a douche ; ?the doctor can give you no better? and it costs nearly nothing. Honest old boric acid! Wives and mothers love it. There is so much quackery?humbug?these days: you had as well have service that costs you a cent or two as to pay some oily-tongued blatherskite a dollar for the same thing. OPEN FORUM i Readers are invited to contribute ! to this department. Profit may be j derived from these letters. Name i of writer mu3t accompany all man- j uscript and brevity is urged. A CARBUNCLE ON GENEROSITY Editor DemoeraL: Stop and think: here in the great County of Watauga, near the historic old town of Boone, nestled near the foothills of towering mountains which with many other nearby peaks that push their summits above the silvery clouds, become lofty steps for the angels to descend to that humble hovel i I hard by the hills, where the poor, the j maimed, the sick and feeble-minded i : are correlled; to sit and grope in I darkness, wondering why the great God of the Universe has dealt so . harshly with them; sitting and gazing at unsightly walls, not even a picture of the great Washington, Lin1 coin or the Christ to cheer their lonely hearts; no light except the moon and stars that peep through the win down at twilight; an electric line passing within one pole's distance of the County Home; not a friend to speak a cheering word; not even a friendly dog to wag a sympathetic tail; no one that ever takes the old dusty Bible down from the shelf to read some! of the great promises to the cash-1 URSDAY?BOONE. N. C. Wouldn't We IF we HAD TO THAW OUT Tsi%> * ..... -<*? IP VME HAD TO TAKE OU(i_Rt * SATURDAY MISht" LIKE DAD USED /Wffikn TOM? C> ^ wjyipg ^gS' ^27%) A cS^ J?\j ^'Jir k>. A iim A1^;^'' ,X! | I V-'fc HAD TO WALK. "tvA'O MILES dr-wthe poor and the huruble; no j c;:u? to bead a knee in thankful erat- j - ! > to Almighty God for His bless-j legs toward those w ho occupy this j 1- nely. deserted-looking place; not a hi i d by day or an owl by night to . reak the awful monotony of this] ?onely place. A mating plant, but discarded on : accognt of a few needed repairs. From whence Cometh light and heat? Oil lamps are considered dangerous. No one blamed the beeper o: OH1' poor-house. ' He is a good man, and | :. doing all he can for the comfort i and welfare of these few forgotten.: unfortunate souUl on the miserly lit- j tie. pittance the great county affords him. Let's stop and think: Had it not been for the mercies of God, it might have been my mother or your mother. It is a shame and a blot on Watauga that will go down in history as the most inhuman mistake our county has ever made, anil long before the winding of the present century, it will become a bugaboo to tell the children to frighten them off to bed, and deter them from mischief. Now the scene changes. Let every citizen who may chance to travel the highway 3tup and take a look at Ene Prison camp. The nicely located home for the negro convicts, with its fine, imposing buildings, its nice diningroom, kitchen and laundry, everything for comfort, heat, lights and concrete walks. It looks like the home of a Scottish king. Then, just over the hilt about one mile, stop and look again. Behold the run-down, wornout farm that once was the price of 4-V.n f/1-.nnLon ln/.L]n 1 ;i j; uic uiu, ^.ui oaivci t iuun.iiig uutiuuiga and fences?not a thing attractive to be seen. Presently a 3trange feeling seems to come over you. Something chilly creeps up your spinal column, a feeling similar to that of a black cat crossing the road in front of you In the great, benevolent heart of the CWA, the PV/A. why did they forget this great institution?the home of the aged and infirm? Five hundred dollars will add all the needed comforts?light, heat, nice yard with shade and flowers, porch swings and benches, and a good radio, not for the keeper but for the inmates. This amount will not raise the tax rate one tenth of one per cent. Who would grumble? No one?but all would be pleased to see these poor souls happy and contented. Will our legislator from this county give us law and regulations whereby these unfortunate souls (nine in number at present) may be provided for and taken care of in adequate manner ? If this is done, when he reaches the portals of St. Peter, he will hear the Master say: "Even as ye did it unto one of the least of these you done it unto me. Enter in!" May the great God add His blessings and mercies to these poor forgotten souls; may he bless our officials. open their hearts and make them feel grateful that through His mercies these unfortunates are not our mothers or our sons and daughters. Give us a home that we can boast of like many other counties in our grand old State. We have the location and the resources. Why not? ?J. W. McGHEE. Boone, N. C. butler man pays tribute to rev. wellington swift Editor Watauga Democrat: It has been almost twenty years since I moved from Watauga County, the place of my birth, and during the more than thirty years spent there i learned to know many people, and since leaving my native county i have been made to feel sad many times at hearing of a dear friend and Squawk ? ? IFvaig K OLD POU1 i (y^o/ | @1% J^hMn * |" 4# .;j ,?i J& *t!Sj. ~ i. * jjj. ' ' ?2t . 0 lr TUP F.-v fsu.-mo ' TO ScdOQ!- '. f-.COV Ti'...-: W1 H,?. neighbor's death in Watauga. Just recently the news came to MS ; that Rev. Wellington Ssvift was detui, and if you will give me a little space : in your paper. I would like to say f just a few words in regard to his j n life of 8t years, which was mostly J. spent in the Beaver Dam section. It j is hard to realize that Preacher Swift! has been taken from among us. To! know him was to love him. It is: doubtful if there ever was another: man in Watauga who will be missed mote, or was loved so dearly. "Daddy" (as his children and neigh-; bors called him) had that personality j lhat no one could help but love. I feel I ui.n an can say inai Knew nim umi ? g the world has been made better by, * his living' in it. It seemed that his efforts through his whole- life was to get people upon a higher plain of moral and Christian living, and we who knew him feel that his efforts were not in vain. He was so humble and chiid-like, void of selfishness, the same each time we met him, in honor preferring the other man, seeking not his own but the other fellow's weal tii. He made a good living, but it seemed his great desire was to lay his treasure up where it doesn't decay. He was a man who thought if your idea of life was Just to make a living for yourself and family and readied no ruriner ai making tne world a better place by liis living in it, it would be live the wild beasts that roam over the mountains?for they make a living. Brother Swift accepter! Christ when quite young, and thereafter to see him was to see Jesus living in his life We believe "Daddy" was comforted as he trusted his Master when they walked through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. I have heard people say that. Brother Swift was the strongest preacher they ever heard, not in books but in soirit. He did not condemn the other readier for his education, but he did believe he should be a spiritual man, called of God. He studied his Bible a great deal, and believed all of it. He gave j many years of his life to the minis: try with great success. Under the mighty power of his preaching people both old and young would fall at his feet, seeking to know Jesus. When in our homes or anywhere in his presence, some how we always felt safe from the storms of nature, and also from the storms and temptations of the under world. He was very zealous and most courageous, but patient in his ministry. If people did not act on his proposition in a revival he would not abuse and scold them as some do. "Daddy" Swift was in my home not i so long before he died. He talked to j me about his disease. Like the Apos- [ tie Paul, he had about finished his j course, he had kept the faith, and' was ready. He felt it would be better to be absent front the body and present with the Lord, ana that death ' was only a gateway into a more glorlious life. ?JOE CULVER. Butler, Tenn. REINS-STU THE FUNER Licensed Embaimers Ambullance Service PHONE BO -X> JANUARY 17, 1935 ? by A. B. CHapin ^ AD TO CHOP ice IUTHE . 0 SO Tw? COV1S CO WD DUtMK? . WMs % L,Wr ||j| l&j Au-roCA.* tS OW^ff0% _ ;Vv - S~. \ *? V w/SBz^W ^ ifiSSSsL 1.5 TO FR.GFT.E US STlPP ,5 A PAr^rV DATE ? ADVENT CHRISTIAN Kcv. Kenneth Burrs, Pastor Sunday School each Sunday at 9:45 doming service at 11 o'clock and eveling service at S o'clock. PASTIME THEATRE BOONE, N. C. "PLACE OF GOOD SHOWS' Program for Week Of JANUARY 21: MONDAY, JANUARY 21 ''One Hour Late" with JOE MORRISON & HELEN TWELVETREES TUESDAY, J/VNEAKV 32 "Sweet Adeline" v with 1 IRENE DUNNE and DON j w'OODs WED. JANUARY 23 "BABBIT" with AtXNF. MMMAHON & COY KIRREE SPECIAL! THIS COUPON with ONE PAID ADMISSION will admit two person on this date only I THURSDAY. JAN, 24 "BRIGHT EYES" with SHIRLEY TEMPLE and JAMES DUNN k. ' FRIDAY, JAN. 25 "DEATH On THE DIAMOND" with RORERT YOUNG, MADGE EVANS SATURDAY, JAN. 26 "Fighting Hero" with TOM TYLER Special Bargain Matinee, 10c, 15c Night Shows, 10c and 25c. EVENINGS, 7:15 and 8:45 MATINEE AT 3:00 ll KUIVAJN T AL HOME Funeral Directors % . .. 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