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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democrat The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY j Established in 1888 and Published for 45 Years by the late Robert C. Rivers PUBLISHED ~EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.501 Six Months 75; Four Months ~ ... 50 yrayuLuxx; in Au\cuiv.e; R. C. RIVERS. JR.. - Publisher; Cards oi Thanks, Resolutions of Re-: apect. Obituaries, etc . are charged for at the regular advertising rates. Entered at the ><11 ^As Second Postoffice at Class Mail Boone. N. C. Matter. 1 THURSDAY. MAY 16, 1935 THOUGHTS Nevertheless for thy great mer- j cies* sane thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful Cod.?Nehemiah 9:31. Hate shuts her soul when doveeyed Mercy pleads. ? C h a r I c s Spr&gue. But woe unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation!?St. Luke 6:24. It is only when the rich are sick that they fully ieel the importance 1 of wealth.?Colton. All nations before him are as nothing: and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. ? Isaiah. 40:17. Then said he unto theni: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ? St. Luke j 2! :10. ? ! GOOD WORK Property owners are gratified! that the- holes and crevices in the j sidewalks are being repaired and! will credit to the new ad-j ministration for making a worth-i ...K ;l? ; . ... t. i . I vwiitr puujeci us ursi visiDiecon-i ccrn. At the same time, the usual j clean-up period has been pro- j claimed by Mayor Gragg. and: with the possibihtv of the iarg-j est number of visitors to the; Northwester;-. pjptihtahw in re-1 cent years, it would bo profitable j for citizens to make an effort to; show them the cleanest town in the State. Booth would thus se-' cure the beenfit of the most fa- j vorab'e and at the same time' cheapest of alt advertising, to say nothing of the heightened selfrespect among the natives. PRIMARY GOES OVER As a pioneer exponent of the priniar;. system of nominating candidates for county office, The Democrat is quite pleased that such a law was written en the statute books during the closing days of the Legislature ari^ tba*' hereafter those who aspire to public position will win or lose the privilege of hating their names printed on the ballot j through the medium of the bal-j lot itself. No more democratic j means of naming candidates hasp yet been devised than for the people as a whole to endorse'. them, and while we do not hold j out the primary as a cure-all, it"; should most certain!v dimel thv-! rather common belief that candidates heretofore have been i nominated by a pitifully small minority. ? o LIQUOR ON THE WAY Assuming that Herbert Hoover was right when he referred to national prohibition as the! "noble experiment," the status; of North Carolina at the present I time in regard to her beverages) might be handsomely termed anj "ignoble venture." for nowhere) in the United States is there record of such a mixed-up liquor situation as was created by the past Legislature, so much so. in fact, that a plebeian can scarce tell just how dry we are. Five per cent beer is legal, naturally fermented wines varying in percentage from 14 to 22 alcoholic may be made, transported and sold: pending legal decision it is believed that as much as a gallon of spirits may be transported into and about the State, possessed and consumed without stepping into jail by way of the Turlington route, and to top it | off it's better than an evenj chance that within the next few weeks liquor stores will be in full operation in all or part of eighteen counties and two townships. The whole thing got a start 'way back in the early days of the Legislature when the wets decided to lay a tax on John Barleycorn, and the House finally passed one of the measures offered, wherein a State-wide plebiscite would determine whether or not a State control system 1 would be adopted. It was to have ] been done it' as many as fifty- j nnp nr? rivnvfvl anH nl- I though the drys were thus given; the chance of a lifetime to quiet: the liquor issue for years to come they downed the measure, and j with it went the chance to carry the prohibition banner through; another victorious campaign.; Sensing the growing sentiment; .for "control" Governor Ehring-!. ,"naus took a hand Friday and! tried to reason with the dty lead-; era, and get them to agree to! some sort of state-wide action in! the matter, but they remained adamant On Saturday, then, the! controllers were in the saddle! and eighteen counties in the east! are going to have a chance at I their legal liquor, and the Turlington act might be said to be struggling in its fatal illness. j There is a controversy as to whether or not these few coun-, *ies may substantially repeal a;. State-wide law. and there is yet' hope among the very drys that : the Supreme Court will save they day Otherwise legal liquor is j1 going to be sold in North Caro- j < lina this summer and the State'! is not going to gel a cent of rev-'1 enue therefrom. Much better i would it have been to have yield-: ed to another vote and the ac-! corr.pnnying unpleasantness than! to have witnessed this sectional nullification of a law which has' met with the favor of the great j majority. While holding no brief for the , conduct of the 'controllers" in j i the closing days of the Legisla-jr ture. it is not to their genius but;, to the overzealousness of the j! drvs that is due the credit for'1 the present unsatisfactory situa-h tion. The wets in North Carolina i are lost without they gain the j! advantage of a backwasli front < the unchangeable tactics cf their; i embattled foes. ;: 11 I1 THE BOOK i: . tnc first line of which reads j; The Holy Bible," end which con- j, tains Four Great. Treasure .... , By BRUCE BARTON THE ItTRl.E ( AI.IS HKU GREAT Ask a dozen Bible students. "Who 1 is the one woman whom the Bible : calls great?" and oven they would ? likely give a wide variety of answers. Was il Pharoah's daughter, whose wit and courage saved the life of ] Moses? Was it the rnightv Queen of 1 ?heba, ruler of an empire? Was it j the mother of Solomon, who made I him king, or the mother of John the Baptist, who consecrated him to his ! splendid mission? None of these: none whose close relation to kings or apo3- ' ties made their names famous for t deeds of public renown. Quite a dif- 1 inc.it sort cf woman altogether. l_et us look a moment at the picture of r her which is given in the fourth chap- < ter of Second Kings. 3 First, of all. she was domestic, a c home-maker; living not in the city, I but in one of the northern villages. ? Her husband was a farmer, which meant that he had his house on the 1 edge of town, as was the custom then. 1 .-v iiioiii i ijau ittii uuiu oy, ai'.u impor- ; Lant people used it. Solomon, too, ap- 1 pears to have traveled there in his ( time. The 'great woman" had executive ( ability. In the early days of her mar- ^ ried life she had no children, and that fact shadowed her life. But she did t not complain. The narrative distinct- ? ly implies that she accepted the sit- , uation and made the best of it, giving '( herself to such activities as lightened ^ the load of her husband. She was re- ligious, and she was hospitable. To , these last two characteristics she J owed the friendship that brought her , the happiness which she desired above all else, and won for her the place of honor in the Bible records. And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a \ ereat woman: and she constrained | him to cat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he J; turned in thither to eat bread. And she said unto her hushsmrl I Behold, now. I perceive, that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. Let us make a little chamber I pray thee, on the wall; and let us 3et for him there a bed. and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he eometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. As to what happened afterward the fulfillment of her long desire for a son, the growth of the boy, his illness, | and his miraculous recovery- at the hand of the prophet Elisha?all these are written in the next thirty verses of the chapter. She was just a small-town woman who loved her husband and wanted motherhood more than anything else in the world, and baked good bread and kept a clean guest room. The Bible does not tell us her name, but of all the woman whose biogrophies it 1 records it speaks of her alone a3 "great." Next Week: Esther WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE! TODAY 1Z gOCKBfttPOEfe^/*^?^ DISCUSSION . . . everywhere In the past three weeks I have talked with literally hundreds of the best informeo men in the country. liiey are Ult* piKmaacia 4JJ1J sible editors of the nation s leading ;.v\vspapcrs. Each oi them told me the same story. From Coast to Coast, the everyday "people arc discussing the nations' political, economic and social affairs with a degree of freedom that has not been noticeable for more than two years. The panic is over.' said one. "The bund fear of ruin has passed and with :! has passed the willingness to follow anybody who promised to lead Lhem out of trouble." The American people are still in trouble, but they are discussing the tvav out with clearer eyes and a better understanding, not only of the :auses of th-ir troubles but of the validity of the various plans offered to alieviate them. To my mind thai is the most hope- ! fui sign of the times. America is coming bach to its own when its people begin to do their own political thinkine. POLITICS . . . the battleground Anyone who wants to change conditions which affect any material number of people must approach his effort politically or he won't get to first base. That Is the American method. Tf he has the votes behind him he .:an. pci haps, accomplish the change advocates if he hasn't the votes lis hands are tied. . That is why Upton Sinclair and Fa- , :hcr Cough Jin ar.d Huey Long cut , >uch an important figure in present- , lay discussions of public affairs. Each >f them has a considerable body of jotciitial votes behind him. Upton 1 sinci iir nan more than ow.vruv voters A Radical on the other hand, is one who is finding trouble in fitting himself into the social picture, and wants to change th* whole system, in the belif that his troubles and those of his follows are due to faulty organization of society. A Liberal, in the true definition of the world, is one who is tolerant of all beliefs and of all minorities and especially of the rights of the individual man. He would neither suppress those who disagree with him nor exalt unduly any class or clique. T know many Conservatives who are also Liberals; I cannot imagine a Radical being Liberal. OUTLOOK .... real horse race j My belief is that there are more Conservatives among those who' % voted the Democratic ticket in 1932 i jack of his IOPLC scheme in California: nobody can guess how many Fa- , Lfccr Ooughlin or Senator Long might control, if it came to a showdown. Tho principal question raised in po. iicitai discussions today is whether or i, not mere will be a third party ticket in the field in led by one of the gentlemen just named or some other Radical. If such a third party is launched it will draw votes from unong these who otherwise would naturally support Mr. Roosevelt. He, will certainly be renominated, if he lives, but has he such a solid block of Democratic partisans behind him that he can win if the Radical fringe is trimmed off ? Enough, for example, to offset the 13 U million votes, ivhich the elections of 1934 demonstrated. stick to the Republican parly through thick and thin? I PARTIES . . . two or three 5 Until the present Administration in \ Washington, the main difference be- l ween the Republican and Democratic I parties was that one was in the seat nan could be a good Republican anajr iccept the Democratic platform of i 1932. and vice-versa. The vote that i dccted Mr. Roosevelt was not so much } >ro-Democratic as it was a vote for i i change. The acts and policies of the Ad- J ninistration in the past two years j lave made a real difference between ? he two great parties. The Democrats, i hrowing their platform overboard, ; imbarked on policies which sharply l iifferentiate them from Republicans. I hus putting the Republican party : lefinitely on the Conservative side of > he political fence. 1 The real political issue of 1936. i iherefore, seems likely to be between i l distinctly Conservative party and i party which, if not definitely Radi- 1 lal, is at least tinged strongly with 1 -tadicalism. If the Republicans try to i* ntroduce Radical ideas, they will ig&in be indistinguishable from the < Democrats. If the Democrats swing 1 too far toward Radicalism they will ' lose great blocks of their Conservative voters: but it they do not. they ' are threatened by a Radical third- * party movement. < DEFINITIONS . . . three classes What, precisely, do we mean by such terms as Conservative, Liberal and Radical? A Conservative is, T think, a per- J son who has become adjusted to his environment, whatever that may be, and who is able, therefore, to take a detached view of the world and it3 people. Such a person is opposed to hasty change and unproved experiments. IV THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. j 1 Kings That E OHOFAU. .OfOFAR., ?-J VOfcODv EvF.C S><AT> svcw Bad luck | VX ^ AS HS ~ I J I Trtt'SoBSTtK" *<*0 i* ALVVAVS iPttAWO MS *? * Ife'2*y~ TUO CARELESS pLClMC? - 5TATl0W ATTEWDAfcT Vrfwo SMEARS Mr CAR. ALL OVER VJ?TM OIL ?>*?**?~^tf-Ta tASTTft than anybody imagines. I believe, liso. that there is a much stronger Llement of Liberals in the irredu:i minimum of 13 L million Re I think that the ultimate aim of ali political parties and groups is the same?to find ways to accomplish me greatest guuu fbiLlYGr greatest number of people. The only real differences of opinion con( rn. not the objectives, but the Cray of reaching them. T think those differences of up-?.ion as to ways and moans arc becoming more pronounced and being mere freely expressed. it is differences of opinion that make horse-races," said Mar In Twain. It begins to look to me a? if we would have a real horse-race ir 1936. The Family Doctor By DP.. JOHN JOSEPH OA1NES "WILD GKEENS" Spring of the year. Such a rebel Lo get away from the routine drugi ind chemicals; the smelly box ui pills: the musty powders; the tcrribh throat gargles; let's go to the coun try for the afternoon. When wo reach the creek vallc] .vc dismount to. gather a, basket c: wild greens; no better food obtaina Die nor more refreshing or healthgiv ing. Growing in abundance, the wilt *reens invite us to come and gathei is we choose what we want. Perhaps the first friend we rui icross is the dandelion: his little cris [jy circlets invites us everywhere. On< Df my patrons, an old lady, made i most charming relish from crisp] young dandelions; she never cobra them at all. She gathered them, eu them with a mincing knife and pu young radishes with them, seasoning the whole with salt and pepper; ; know no better or more healthful rel ish with meats or more substantia irticles which grace our tables. And, oh, the ladies slipper and tht lambs tongue, and tender nettle! Am the "dock" and wild lettuce. Thei there i-i a ua ?:ij ? ui wiiu mustard Most wild greens may be had fresh er than commercial varieties. an< then we have the pleasure and out 01 iloor exercise of gathering them. The wild plants cook well wiU 2ured bacon?and is not bacon a stail jf life? Few dinners of greens wil escape the quota of bacon and th< family vinegar bottle with the beua REPAIR KIT 96 Sq.Inches I TIUKIChmm, itodcW nuswejuispfaAL Farmers Hardware and c i_ r ouppiy company BOON E. N. C. !um Mr Up! ?V> o. -o"1 ^ stow moving^ - koaO wao V WOKT KEEP TO THE | viw^t v?u?re ?a, Billon g-s 1 kAju* I BOY MOFT OP MY TWm&T IN TH' CITY TW.<J &o??C- ?s TO OlNKY fca ME'. the Citizen who Doesn't Suppoot uis -home town i & -d ~I"! 'M * l i _ ?1 % r ' tut pet wrio'>? lfcttostftomp. wuas uis C-o v*ur :?c a-?tiful brown squares of honie baked corn bread. 1 know of no healthier dish than that of boiled wild gr<-f*nsf they are . hc<hgiving to the highest degree, and put drug store "vitamines" out- i side and over the fence! Three cheers for the country out j ling to gather wild greens. IXTKM !?EKA.\CE Wine heightens indifference into I love, love into jealousy, and jealousy . , into madness. It often turns the goodnatured man into an idiot, arid the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment; it makes van' ity unsupportable, and displays every . little spot on the soul in its utmost ; , deformity. Nor docs this vice only be" | tray the hidden faults of a man, and j : show them in the most odious colors, j hut often occasions faults to which j he is not. naturally subject. Common j i sense, teaches us that drunkenness, \ i that intemperance is the breeder of j : many crimes, for intoxication throws j a man out of himseif, and infuses! {qualities into the mind which she is -r! a stranger to her sober moments. , j Like the skulis which a savage car- ( f! ries at his girdle or sets up on poles j Jin his palace yard, and tells the. tr&v- j eler what a mighty warrior this or, the other was till his axe or arrow} , laid him low; so all the sins, intern-! f I> -ranee is the one which, reuued from the ranks of the world's genius, j boasts the most crowded row of j ghastly trophies, to say nothing of , ^xjimy WUUIIUWI, aillOIlg UlC ] actual slain in numbers, are the iriusician and the artist, the philosopher I and the poet, the physician and the j 5 lawyer, the statesman and the ."judge.1 l Those who destroy a healthful con. stitution of body by intemperance | j and an irregular life do as manifest- j t. ly kill themselves as do those who , I hang:, poison or drown themselves. -EDW. N. RAKN". j ?! Boone, X. C. j J ARE roc COLOR BLIND ? I An ingenious color chart devised by j vja distinguished scientist is printed in j: many colors In the Americau Weekly, the big magazine which comes with the BALTIMORE AMERICAN, issue. [ of May 19. An unusual feature. Don't J j miss it. Your favorite newsdealer or j P newsboy has your copy. A new farm slogan growing in pop." p | ularity throughout Piedmont and j VEGET We have recently installe which affords our custorm icicles . . . fresh as the mor always at the lowest price: GROCERY PREMIER PRUNES, 2-lb. p FANCY EVAPORATED PE. ALL DAY COFFEE, per pon HORSESHOE BEXu COFFE LARGE OCTAGON SOAP. 4 SMALL OCTAGON SOAP. 8 HEINZ OVEN BAKED BEA {One Bean HEINZ RICE FLAKES, p^ci HEINZ BREAKFAST WHE ROYAL FLOUR, per hundre ROYAL FLOUR, 18 pounds ROYAL FLOUR. 24 pounds f RED BAND FLOUR A MULLINS i "Boone's Independe MAY 16. 1935 ? 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