TODAY and | FUNK^dR UTOPIA . . . More's book One ?'ay last week Pope Pius XI did two things. He denounced all persons who seek to bring about war, and he approved the canonization of John Fisher and Thomas More, two Euglishmen who were beheaded in " 1535 by order of King Ilenry VITI, because they set the authority of. the then Pope above that of the king. I imagine the Pope's denunciation of war may have a powerful effect in Europe, but I am wondering whether His Holiness did not smile inwardly over making a saint out of Sir Thomas More. It seems so appropriate to these times, when the whole world is experimenting with new schemes of government designed to make everybody happy, to glorify the author of the first modern scheme to do just that. "Utopia," Thomas More's descirp* tion of a mythical island where a perfect system of government was in force and all human relations were adjusted and regulated so that there was no poverty and no unhappiness, was the most sensible book of its time. Published more than four hun dred years ago, it affected the political thinking of generations of Englishmen. Its title has come to symbolize the ideal social state, or rather the dream of an unachievable ideal of perfection. I think Thomas More wili be remembered longer for "Utopia" than . as a saint of the Catholic Church. b HAMMOND ... at eighty Forty years ago a young American minting engineer was sentenced to be hanged in South Africa. He had ta hen part In a raid by English advcn- . turers against the government of the ' Dutch South African Republic in the Transva&l. He wasn't hanged, but got off with a fine of $125,000, and on the Slot day of March this year John Hays Hammond celebrated his eightieth birthday hv brinEina out his &u- J to biography. The Jameson raid, however, resulted in a war between Great Britain and the Transvaal Republic, which began in 1899 and lasted three years, ending with tho absorption of the Transvaal into the British dominions. It was a good deal like the prospective war between Italy and Abyssinia. and just as the sympathies of most Americans now are with Abyssinia, so we were almost unanimously on the side of the Boers. This wont' be a perfect world so long as powerful nations continue to gibble up vveap and unprotected countries. o SCOUT . . . who knew I can't think of the South African war without recalling my old friend Major Frederick Burnham, still living at 74. Born in Minnesota, he escaped the Indian massacre at New Ulm by being hidden as a baby under a corn shock. He grew up to be one of tile best scouts in the Southwest during the days of the Indian wars. Then he went to South Africa to help the British pioneers in their i efforts to control and pacify the na- , tive tribes. Zulus and Matabelcs. I have sat with him many a night while ] he told me enough hair-raising talcs of his adventures to fill a book. ( When England decided to go to war against the Boers, Lord Roberts- Kipling's "Little Bobs"?was appointed to command the troops. Before he left 1 England he asked men who knew ' what the army would need most. ] "Scouts." be was told. "Scouts who . know the country; and the best of them all is Fred Burnham." Burn- < ham had come back to America. A cable was sent to the British Embas- ' sy in Washington to get hold of him at any cost. Burnham had just reached Juneau, Alaska, and was about to start inland for the gold fields when the message reached him. He turned around and went back to South Africa, as chief of scouts of the British Army. It was from his admiration for Burnham and the qualities which the American drilled Into his scout corps that General Baden-Powell got the idea for the Boy Scouts organization. That is, perhaps, the most far-reaching result of Fred Burnham's adventurous life. CANADA . . . now boss A Commoner has been appointed Governor-General of Canada, John Buchan, Scottish novelist, historian and dramatist. It is hard to imagine John Buchan maintaiinng the almost royal state of the Marquesses, Dukes and Earls who have preceded him. In my boyhood, Close to the Canadian border, the Marquess of Lome, afterwards Duke of Argyll, was Governor-General, and his wife was the Princess Louise, a daughter of Queen Victoria. Later in life I csais !n contact, an a newspaper reporter, with two GovernorsGeneral, Lord Aberdeen, an affable, courteous gentleman who rather liked newspaper men, and the Easl of Minto, who never felt comfortable except on horseback. Canada, under Governor-General Buchan, will keep on running its own affairs, as it has really done for a hundred years. And sometimes I think they have made a rather better job of it in many respects than we have on this side of the border. WA1 An! VOLUME XLVI. NUMBER 41 WESTERN GIRL IS 19: Shirley Frazier of the Universi Time Target Keco SEATTLE, WASH.?Miss Shirley versity of Washington, missed by o shooting to become 1035 champion, follows: 100, 100, 100, 99, 99, 100 . . MSTPICT MEETING ' OF LEGION HERE largest and Most Important Ga- ' thering Ever He'd in This Section April 23rd. Tne entire Sixteenth District of the \mfrican Lesion and American La - j ;iwii AuXl!i?rj" "vil! I!i^t ?t I louse in Boone Tuesday, April 23rd, i it which time representatives of the xosts at Lenoir, Morganton, Spruce , Pine, Elk Park and Newland will dis:uss activities of their posts and their . >lans for the future. Mrs. M. H. Shumway, president of . he Legion Auxiliary, Department of 'Torth Carolina, will deliver the prin- , :ipal address for the Auxiliary, and 3 vtr. WUey G. Pickens, departmental /ice commander, will be the princixal speaker for the Legion. Mrs. W. I. Ahaher of North Wilkesboro, naional comrhitteewoman; Mrs. F. M. fohnson of Statesville, past president >f the Auxiliary: Mrs. H. G. Smith of -onoir, committeewonxan. and Mr. , \ubrey Chisholnx of Crossnore, dis.rict commander of the Legion, will ilso address the meeting. , This is the largest anil most important meeting of veterans and Uieir ivives ever to be held in this section, Lnd all World War veterans are urged .0 attend and bring their wives with hem. The business session of the Auxilary will be held at the Daniel Booiic Motel at 4:30 p. m. and the speaking .vill be at the courthouse at 7:30 in the evening. Following the speaking a lunch will 3e served to all veterans and their vives at the Legion Hall. Bristol Man Caught With Over 100 Gallons Liquor A man giving his name as Gene Dakin, hailing from Bristol, Va., and carrying 105 gallons of blockade liqLiar in a Ford pick-up, was captured by Policeman Gross a short distance out on the North Wilkesboro road Sunday afternoon. capture was effected after a chase of about six miles. A companion to the driver escaped. Dakin was fined $75 and the costs L11 Recorder's Court Tuesday. CAO\trp W A T A1 TO A NT hlK.S AT HOME IN KENTUCKY Lee Greene, native Wataugan, but for many years a resident of Kings Mountain, Ky., died at his home there on March 25, and funeral services were conducted from the Baptist Church at that place on the 27th. Interment was at Stony Point, Ky. Mr. Greene was born in the Cove Creek section, a son of the late Jesse Greene. He was reared in Watauga County. wher<? he had a wide circle of friend3. He moved to Kentucky thirteen years ago, where he established a permanent home, and visited in Watauga about a yeai< ago. Surviving is the widow and four children. One sister. Mrs. J. R. Mast, of Sugar Grove, also survives. Mr3. Mast was called to Kentucky on account of her brother's death, but arrived there too late for the services. She returned home on Monday of last week. CXT/MIT m TTDDV Drtvir TLiunni A considerable flurry of snow came; with a sudden drop of the temperature Sunday night, and fruit trees bore ruil bloom* covered with ice. However, it is not generally believed that any appreciable damage came, since sunshine did not accompany slowly rising temperatures. Intermittent showers continue, and farmers are unusually late with their work, few potatoes or garden crops having been planted. Hans Langseth, who died at Washpeton, N. D., at the age of 82, had a beard 17 feet long which he exhibited for many years as a circus freak. AUG, ndependent Weekly News BOONE, WATAUGA 15 RIFLE CHAMPION 1 ity o? Washington Misses Allrd by One Shot. i . I Frazer (above), co-ed at the Uiu- r nc shot the all-time record in rifle a She shot six rounds of 100 shots as y . or, 59S out of a possible 600. a 1 o CONTACT WITH A LIVE WIRE FATAL j Spurgcon Eller, Formerly of Wa- 8 tauga County Meets Death j In Washington, D. C. P i Spurgc-on Eller, former resident of n Watauga County, was instantly killed c Friday in Washington City as he came f Ln CCr.tdCt?>?l?rV? Tonainn xirll'PR i which pursuing his duties as a line- ? man with a Capital City power con- f tern According to meager informa- e tion Eller, who was 38 years old, started to slip from his perch at the Lop of a transmission pole or tower, S and clutched at the live wires. The body was returned to Watauga ? County and funeral services were held a from the Forest Grove Baptist Church f in the Beaver Dam section Tuesday f afternoon and interment was in that I neighborhood. ? Surviving is the widow and two | children. t Mr. Eller was a son of the late Rev. v John Eller and was reared in this o county. He had been absent, however, for about twenty years. h Two Farms Selected for v TV A Demonstrations Members of the special farm committee representing Cove Creek Township and the Tracy section of North Fork, have selected the farm of Don J. Horton, Vilas, for TV A demonstration work, it was announced Tuesday from the office of County Agent. Collins. The W. H. Mast farm at Sugar Grove has also been selected for TVA work, this tract to furnish demonstrations for agrarians of I^aurel Creek Township and the Valle Crucis section of Watauga. Eight more farms are yet to be selected for TVA demonstration work, and land-owners who wish to have their places considered as asked to notify local committeemen by Monday, April 15. CANIE GREENE PASSES AT I tiOML ON STONY FORK p Ur. Came Greene, 15, died at, hiall liome on Stony Fork Monday after- N noon at 1 o'clock following an Illness t of several months. His condition had been serious for three weeks. ' Mr. Greene was born in tliis coun- 1 ty and spent all his life here. He is 1 survived by his widow, who was be- ' fore marriage Miss Bessie Smith of 1 this community, and the following t children: Joe, Mabel, Lucy, Ruth, J. < C? Delia Mac and Irene; mother and 1 father, Mr. arid Mrs. G. A. Greene of ' Stony Fork; five brothers, Arthur 1 Greene of Deep Gap, Verne Greene of Stony Fork, Turner Greene and Vilas Greene, both of Winston-Salem, and Russell Greene of North Wilkesboro; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Tay- I lor and Mrs. Earnest Greene, hoth . of Stony Fork. Funeral sen-ices were conducted at Stony Fork Baptist Church on Tuesday evening at 2 o'clock by Rev. W. D. Ashley and the pastor. Rev. W. C. Payne. Interment took place in the i church cemetery. JOHN ISAACS CLAIMED BY DEATH AT AGE OF 73 Mr. John Tsaacs, 73, well known resident of the Cove Creek section, passed away Friday night, March 29, according to belated information reaching The Democrat. Death followed a period of declining health extending over about eighteen rr.or.th". Funeral services were conducted on the 31st by Rev. G. C. Graham of the Methodist cnurch and interrner.t was in the home neighborhood. Surviving are the following children: Charlie, Bert, Enoch and Clarence Isaacs, of Sherwood; Clark Isaacs of Valle Crucis; Mrs. Junie Mc' Ghinnis, Vilas; Mrs. Alton Rogers, of Boone; Miss Effie Isaacs, Sherwood. Mr. Isaacs was a good citizen, honorable. charitable and truthful, and many friends and relatives are grieved to hear of his death. \ DE paper?Established in th COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, Fax levying bill i ENGAGES STATE'S LAWMAKING BODY ales Tax Measure Still Has a Hurdle to Cross Before It Is Enacted. fUMBER BILLS INTRODUCED V BOTH HOUSES IS NOW 1500 Icprescntatlves Tam Bowie and Gniffp Cherry Offer Amusing Side Show as They Debate Workmen's Compensation. By M. R. DUNNAGAN (Special Correspondent) RALKTGH. N. C.?The North Carona Senate is expected to be engaged bout ail of tikis week on the biennial ix levying bill, to be followed by the ppropriations or money - spending ill. after waiting nearly two weeks rhfte the Senate Finance Commitce juggled and changed the bill, reucing to two per cent, then changing ack to three per cent the sales tax ate. before the bill came to the Sente floor laut Saturday Tlie Senate >'vhl iiiLo a coromiuec 01 inc wnote t the noon session Monday to start n its grind of several days on the evenue measure. The Senate was becoming restless t the delay of the bill in committee lid was almost ready to remand that t be brought out when Harriss Newnan, chairman, promised it Saturday. Thursday the committee had reduced he sales tax, then on Friday, by an to 5 vote, restored the rate to three ?cr cent. It made several changes rom the bill that came over after lassage by the House, removing the ax on incomes from domestic or donesticated corporations, reduced thej hain filling station tax, put in a! loor tax on chain stores, and wrote n a sales tax of three per cent on asoline, over $600,OUU, wnicn comes rom the highway fund, with no inrease to purchasers of gasoline. Sales Tax May Give Trouble The sales tax fight will give the >enator3 trouble, for it is not yet over ts final hurdle. However, unless the Senate does something to that tax ,nd makes other important changes rom the committee's bill, or from the orm in which it was passed by the louse, the House is expected to conur in amendments it makes, thus K>intipg to an earlier adjournment hah %as expected. Hope is that two veeks more 'Will do the work, but ther snarls may develop even yet. Both Senate and House worked i tard last week trying to clear their I alendars, the Senate in anticipation ] f the Revenue bill and later the Ap-! iropriations bill, and the House to; :et rid of forty-odd important bills t had to act on. The Huuse expected o clear up the bills carried over while! he Senate struggled with the Reve-j me and Appropriations measures, all I his week, or longer. Bills introduced this session reached 500 Saturday, at which time 606 of hem had been ratified. Including a ew passed and ready for ratification, ^ast week only 13 public bills and res lutions were ratified, and 49 local >ills. -Attorney General Cumminj^ Heard TJ. S. Attorney uchcnti Horner S. himmings. resting at Pinehurst with ?rs. Cummings, addressed the Genral Assembly on efforts his department is making to reduce crime. He >aid tribute to Judge j. Crawford Biggs, until recently Solicitor Gen;ral, and A. D. McLean, still assistant. Three resolutions were enacted n connection with his coming, one to nvite him, another to set the time, md a third to invite Governor Ehrnghaus to be present and hear him. TJ. S. Page, Bladen representative, mown as the "Bladen Bombshell," vho has tried lo get several "kirgish" bills through to make him dic;otor of Bladen, was dubbed as a ioward, liar and other pet names ny Senator Buim Frink, of Brunswick, vho represents Bladen in the Senate, ast Thursday. Senator Frink had tilled most of the Page bills and had >een roasted. Page, who placed three >r four notches on his gun while a police officer, would not shoot t r itrike except in the back. Senator Frink said. The Hodse also put on some side(Continued on Page 8) SALARYOFSHERIFF MAY BE INCREASED Swift Bill Giving Commissioners _ ** -f VAm.lnfinn me rower ui nvguiu* .. Becomes a Law. The Sheriff of Watauga County may get an increase in salary if the County Commissioners so will it, under the terms of the regulatory act introduced in the Legislature by Representative Dean Swift and enacted into law following passage by the Senate last week. The b'H entitled "An Act. to Regulate the Salary of the Sheriff of Watauga County," gives authority te the Board of County Commissioner! to regulate the salary of the Shcrif: at its discretion, with the proviso tha the annual stipend shall be no lesi than S900 or nor more than $1,800 payable monthly. The bill had found lodgement In th< Senate during the illness of Repre sentative Swift, when proponents o increased Sheriffs pay desired to hav a higher salary made mandatory up on the commissioners. ? MOC] e .Year Eighteen Eighty-El THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 1935 First of May Queens > Is Selected Miss Jane Williams to Reign On Duke Campus. _____ , DURHAM, N. C.?Miss Jane Williams (above), of St. Paul, Minn., a senior at Duke University, has been elected 1935 May Queen to rule in elaborate ceremonies here on May 4th. JAMES M. HORTON PASSES THURSDAY Prominent Cove Creek Teacher j Succumbs to Pneumonia in Wmsion-Saieiii Iloupital. James M. Horton, prinicpal of the I grammar grades department at the | Cove Creek High School and member of one of the county's most prominent families, died in a Wjnston-Sa' lem hospital last Thursday after an I illness of two weeks with pneumonia. He was 35 years old. Funeral services were conducted from the Cove Creek Baptist Church Friday afternoon by a former pastor, Rev. J. A. McKaughan, who was as- ' aisted in the rites bv Reverends G. C. Graham and W. R. Davis. A large crowd overflowed the church, many , coming from a distance, and the flo- . ral offering bore testimony to the esteem in which deceased was held. 4 | More than fifty persons from Boone ' attended the funeral. Pallbearers were: George Farthing, i' Claude Farthing, Claude Pyatte. Rov Rllison, Howard Walker. Dr. R. O. Glenn, Jim Horton, James Mast, Frank Payne. Brantley Duncan, Clarence Watson, Olus Mast, Dave Mast. Flower hearers were: Mrs. James Mast, Anna Mac Sherwood, Virginia j Shipley, Mrs. Bob Glenn, Mrs. Richj ard olsen, Mrs. Clarence Watson, i Gladys Taylor, Earle Payne, Mrs. Dave Mast, Mrs. Ira Johnston, Miss Worthington. Mrs. W. R. Maddox, Mrs. James Horton, Mrs. Coy Billings, Mrs. Thomas Ooffey, Miss Alice Sherrill and Miss Winnie Tliornburg. Interment was at the Mast Cemetery near Sugar Grove. Surviving are the parents, two brothers, Saniuei F. Horton and John R. Horton of Watauga; three sisters, j Mrs. Blanche Davis of Kinston, Mrs. ' A. R. Barlow of Lenoir, and Miss Alice Horton of Vilas. Had Fine Educalion Mr. Horton was a son of Mr. and j Mrs. David F. Horton of Vilas, and ! received his education at the Appajlachian Training- School and at Wake I Forest College, receiving his A. B. > degree from the latter institution in [the year 1930. He graduated with j honors, receiving the Lura Baker Paden medal for four years scholarship in social science. Possessed of a brilliant mind, he was an excellent student quite gifted in music, and entered into the musical activities of the Wake Forest Orchestra, the college band and glee club. He recently organized a local orchestra. He was a man of wide travels, having been in nearly every State in the Union, but is said to have really found himself this winter in his teaching at Cove Creek school. He enjoyed his work thoroughly and the devotion on the part of teacher? and pupils appeared mutual. Mr. Horton had been a member of Cove Creek Baptist Church for many years, atrcnaea services v ?uu considered the pastor one of his best friends. A gentleman in the strictest sense of the word, he was kind, polite and thoughtful at home or abroad. His devotion to his friends was characteristic and the esteem in which ' he was held was manifested by the ' widespread sorrow occasioned when death came. Apart from his family, Mr. Horton leaves a host of relatives 1 and friends to mourn his passing. Attend Funeral I Those from a distance attending the I funeral were: Miss Wilhelmina Shull, " Gastonia; i Jr. and Mrs. nuueil Glenn ' and Miss Constance Shoun, Moun3 tain City; Mr. and Mrs. Tra T. Johnc ston and W. B. Austin, Jefferson, t Rev. J. A. McKaughan, Winston-Sa3 lem; Rev. Roy Davis and family, of Blowing Rock; Mrs. Lillie Ritz daughter and son, Harry and Hazel, also e Misses Faust and Short, Elizabethton, - Tenn.; Miss Winnie Thomburg, High f Shoals; Clifford Huffman and Miss e Scottie Sue Barlow, Hickory; Mrs A. R. Barlowe and daughters, Olene and Jewel, and son, David, of Lenoir. ... ,j . RAT ght $1.50 per YEAR 20S8HLDREN ARE MURED WHEN W TURNS OVER Srofe'gfrom Cranberry School V 5 ked on Boone Trail Mgighway in Wilkes. [nj?S?es sustained are not considered serious rhlrty-thrce Children on Way to Winston-Salem for Day's Outing Figure in Near-Fatal Wreck of Bus. Four Teachers in Party. Twenty high school children sus.ained minor injuries Tuesday when in Avery County school bus in which liey were riding, turned turtle on the 3oone Trail Highway a short time ifter the vehicle passed through Soone. The truck was loaded with thirty hree high school children and was me of three trucks from Cranberry leaded for Winston-Salem, where the 'hildien, accompanied by four teachers, were going to spend the day in Mi educational trip through a number if industrial piants. The bus overturned as it passed a .ruck on a curve and left the highway in the left side when the wheels struck the soft dirt and a culvert ibutment. Electricians who were .vorking on a home nearby helped the children from the wreck. All who appeared to be injured were placed in mother school bus and taker, to the Vilkes Hospital at North Wilkesboro. None Seriously Injured None of the injuries proved serious ind the children were allowed to eave the hospital after their wounds vere dressed. The injuries ranged rom scratches on the hands to bruists and sprains Ernest McGwire, 28. was driving he bus when the wreck occurred. Professor P. V. Parks was the teacher in charge and other teachers in he party were Prof. W. M. liagty, superintendent, Misses Alda Brown and Naomi Woll. Those who received hospital attention were Mary L. Hurl, Bill King, I oh n Fit zpa trick, Ernest McGuire, Kathryn McCurry. Elma Story, Irene Burleson, Rosalee Dearman, Sylvia Bagby, Lucy Cook. Juanita Jobe, Mary Alice Moore, Maxine Hughes, Edith and Katherine Burleson, Lola Wiseman, Lola Fields, Jack Eller, Gilady.s Story, Olive Ward, Katherine Keener, Wanda and Mary Lcdford. After the wreck occurred the trip to Winston-Salem was abandoned and the children spent tho day in going through several North Wilkesboro iniustrial plants before returning to A.very County. Belk-White Store to Open Friday Morning The Belk-Whitc Companys' new department store will open its doors to the people of the community and county next Friday morning-, according to Mr. Cyrus White, executive of the company, who came up from Columbia, S. C , Tuesday evening. Mr. White has just returned from New York City where he spent a week buying the merchandise for the ioca.1 store, and while he .states that not all of the shipments have arrived, he promises within the next few* days to have a stock which will compare favorably with those carried by the metropolitan Belk establishments. Mr. Howard, manager of Belk's at Denoir, is also over for the opening, while Mr. John Conway is to be manager, and C. B. Duncan, Boone, is his assistant. Heads of the various departments in Benoir were brought to Boone to assist in the opening, but will be supplanted at once with local efnploYC.f?; it was said. In discussing the plans of his firm for the future Mr. White stated that it would be the policy of Belk-White to employ only local people, that banking, etc., would be done locally, and that the firm would fill a niche in the community precisely the same as if owned by a local individual. BILLY SUNDAY CLUB TO HOLD SERVICES IN COUNTY Special evangelistic services, to be conducted by a deputation team from the Billy Sunday Club of WinstonSalem, are announced for this weekend as follows, by Rev. G. C. Graham, paslur uf the Watauga Charge: Friday evening at 8 o'clock at Henson's Chapel, following the showing of the motion picture of the Passion Play. Saturday at 10 o'clock a. m. at Mabel Methodist Church; at 11 o'clock, Zionville Baptist Church; at 1:30 o'clock, Thomas Chapel Methodist l-imui!, at v o ciock, iTaae (ierm.; M. E. Church; at 7:30, Valla Crucis Methodist Church. On Sunday morning for the Sabbath School hour and regular worship, the membersSof the team will visit a number of . e rural churches. At 2 o'clock p. m -v brief service will be held at the c ty home; at 3 o'clock the team ! be at Blowing Rock Presbyteria: Vhurch where the motion picture"'!. he Passion Play will be shown, fol oa?ed by a short evangelistic service, son. A most cordial Invito ^j>n is extended the public to attenc. services. WITH SPAINHC*?*? Mr. Tom Redmond is now *^yiected with Spainhours, Inc., assii. .ig in the mens' clothing end shoe departments.

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