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r * JULY 4. 1935 ENGLISH SCHOOL IS \ NOW IN PROGRESS I Twenty-five Students from Fifteen States Enroll. Famous ? Authors to Lecture. BANNER ELK.- The Banner Elk School of English, first venture of its 2 kind in the South, opened this week under the direction of Professor Edwin Osgood Grover of the faculty of Tt Rollins College at Winter Park, Florida. Over twentv-five students, from * < fifteen states as widely scattered as Texas. Minnesota. New England and Florida, came to this tiny mountain village for the opening. Most of the students are instructors in English In high schools and many are young | writers who have come to study short story writing, play production, and ^ the writing of poetry. \ Classes are held each morning from nine to one, after which the students are free to look for local color and human interest and other material in the rugged mountain country around Banner Elk, which is at four thousand feet elevation. Besides Dr. Grover, who is teaching a course on the history of the book, the summer school of English faculty includes Di. Harold Blodgett, of Dartmouth, who is dean; Professor Edwin Granberry, of Rollins, who has published three novels and whose short short-story three years ago ago won the O. Henry Memorial prize; and Dr. Ed Winfield Parks, professor of literature at the University of Georgia, who is giving a course on the literature of the new South. Other faculty members arc Miss Eunice Tietjens, famous poet and cofounder with Harriet Monroe of "Po eery: A Magazine of Vorse"; and! Miss Tietjens' husband, Cloyd Head. I co-director of dramatics at the Uni-1 vftrsfty of Miami, and formerly exec-] litive director of the Goodman Memo- j rial Theatre of the Art Institute of j | Chicago. Miss Tietjens is teaching a|, class in the writing of poetry and Mr. Head is giving courses in the or- j ganization of the theatre and in play production. lecturers Calendared * ' Among visiting lecturers during the summer will be Julia Peterkin, noted South Carolina author of "Scarlet Sister Mary" anil "Green Thursday"; Rose Mills Powers, author of "Psyche's Lamp." and a member of the . \ poetry society of America; and Olive Tllford Dargan, North Carolina novelist, poet and dramatist, whose nov- j S el "Call Home the Heart," received j wide attention as a picture of the Gastcnia textile strike. Mrs. Dargan I will publish a new novel in September. Dr. J. Henry Highsmilh, State di- J rector of --vlucation, will visit the f school during the summer. The school of English has r.o official relation to Lees-McRae Junior College at Banner Elk, although its headquarters are in the buildings of ' the junior college which operates each summer as an inn. The school opened with a reception in the Lees-McRae College library, given by Miss Alison B. Stirling, librarian, for the faculty of the Banner Elk School of English, President and Mrs. Ederar H. Tufts of Lees-McRae College, resident members of the Lees-McRae faculty, and other guests. Mrs. Rosalia Shell, of Banner Elk, sang mountain ballads, and Miss Doris Swett, of Southern Pines, a summer resident of Banner Elk, showed her collection of twenty etchings of mountain scenes in the Grandfather Mountain region. Some of them were shown recently at the exhibit of the Philadelphia Society of ' Etchers. Other plans for the school include the presentation of several one-act plays, here and at Blowing Rock, by dramatic students; and a lecture here by Jean Jacques Pfister, noted landscape artist and new summer resi - dent of Blowing Rock. Mr. Pfister, a member of the art department of Rollins College, will paint a mountain scene at Banner Elk during the course of his lecture to the school of English. Willard VVattler, well-known poet I and member of the Rollins College faculty, may also come up during the summer. - - . I THE MOUNTAINS The mountains true allure you To heights so sweet inviting, To all who need their vigor pure, - , To beauteous scenes Inviting, Attractive, too, to yearning souls. Here where the cooling breezes blow, Both in early morning hours And in the pleasing evening time, Fanning so sweetly The cheeks so heated by The scenes in lower lands so far Removed from lovely mountains. Which hold the sweetest balm To rest the weary ones From out the lowland climes. Where sweltering heat depresses. Yes, mountains true allure you To heights so sweet inviting. JAMES MONROE DOWNUM Boone, N. C. CONSTRUCT "ART Colonel Charles A. I,intlbergh ai Sensational Med NEW YCRK.?The development of a? 'blocd-stream" which enables science and functioning outside the body, is ha annals of medicine. The two men who Charles A. Lindbergh, America's ace the pump, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, abo medical expert. News Items Fi (Continued from Page 1) w Vance last Saturday and 111 Halifax >*' T1 ttvJt fintmvtnw jp Judge Walter L,. Small, not passing' a; on the constitutionality, issued an order restraining the "Urys" from inter- ( fering witli the election scheduled in i irl Beaufort County. The "drjTs" had se- ]tfe cured a temporary restraining order ' from Judge E. H. Cranmer prevent-1Io ing the election, but, finding he would |ev net be biek ,r? it. on the Derma- > ^ nent issue, shifted it to Judge Small. jmj Whereupon, the "drys" took a non-!01 suit. The "wets," however, asked for]*-* and secured the order preventing in- j1,1 tcrference with the Beaufort election plans. The North Carolina Supreme Court met last week and adjourned the session, to meet again late in August. ^ Appeals from the above decisions can- u< net be heard until then and opinion will be some time later. So, Frank- of lilt cannot hold its vote, and New Han- Wl over and Greene can hold theirs, but 01 they will not be legal. Wilson and ac Edgecombe, meanwhile, are continuIng plans for opening county liquor io stores. cr Beaufort County voted 3 \*i to 1 and ?* Vance County 5 to 1 for liquor stores In elections Saturday. Wilson and bc Edgecombe had voted 30 to 1 and are w3 now getting in their liquor supplies ?-: Cor opening the stores. m kc TEACHER ALLOTMENT Watauga County was allotted 129. cr teachers aim principals for the pub-;to lie schools for next year, as compared rn ^ 11 THE SIGN OF ibpptj Hhtc'iinqi |||? Emblems of quality and |||| symbols of service.. the ||||| Esso signs which dot m||j the highways and thor- 5BM oughfarcs from Maine to Louisiana .. identify I the 30,000 dealers and Hh stations known as ESSO I MARKETERS who serve as authorized H representatives of the I world's leading petro- 1 leum organizations S:T A N D A '" .> - , WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE ___ ' IFICIAL HEART" [>d Dr. Alexis Carrel Achieve ical Triumph. i "artificial heart" and u mail-made , lo keep vital organs of man alive | iled as the most sensational in the j achieved this triumph are Colonel birdman, above left, who invented ve right, Nobel Prize Winner, the rom Raleisfli C7 ith 130 for the entire period last I >ar by the State School Commission i st woeki This is tlie first allotment 1 id readjustments will he made be- i re school opens and teachers will i j added as needed after the open- ]1 jg. For the State as a whole 23,042 j 1 achers and principals were allotted,, i illicit is about 100 more than the al- j J tment at this time last year. For the < itire year passed 23,322 were allot- i d. Estimates are that nOO or 60C ? ore win ne aiiottcci tietore scnoois, i id next year, making the total num- : 1 t about 23,600, ur some 300 more iah for the last year. GRAHAM FOR CONTROL i Lieutenant-Governor A. H. tSandy aft] raham, Hillsboro, candidate for j \ jvernor, has come out for local op-1: m liquor control and elimination of ' e sales tax on the hare necessities j t life in a statement issued here last j 1 eek. "At the next regular session j \ the State. Legislature I favor en-. i tment of a State alcoholic control j i stern, based upon the principle of \1 cal option, so that the voters of cv-s S y county may have the opportunity j 1 expressing their views on this ques- j J >n," he said. Liquor stores should j i : operated "only in those counties !s lere a majority of the voters have I v pressed themselves as favoring this j ethod of handling the sale of whia- \ y I feel that such q 3l?ite-\v:d< an would be a forward step in bet- i i;mp exisLinsr rnrihmW?i? i? ndit.ions arv: ^Cci lali>?y apt sTitssfacr; rl ry at the present, and 1 strongly: S vor taking steps Lo remedy this sit- jc KJMmP^ - " ,.s: ?& .. TO ASSURE */ At Rockefeller Centei Avenue, New Orlea. give individual atten stations?accurate m, R D OIL C RY_THURSDAY?BOONE, N. 0_ nation." Saying this would bring large | ? revenue, he said that this revenue j she!,ld be used "for removal of the sales tax now levied on foods and the bare necessities of life. It would also jv permit a substantial reduction of the 1 present rate." said 2Jr. Graham. i g Clye R. Hoey. also candidate for | r Governor, said he would make no pub- j v lie statement now, but "when the time comes I will discuss all issues v fully and make my position clear on!v each controverted question." ^ PI .AY FOR STATE CONVICTS 1 J. R. Roach, head of the State Penal t division, has a playground program " for every prison camp in the State, | more than SO of them, at a cost of . c not more than $50 a camp, which is approved by Chairman Capus M. Waynick of the department. Handball, vol- ' ley ball, basket ball and other sports} will be used. This will be put into ef- 1 feet at an early date, on connection r with the school instruction plan for 1 State convicts. Mr. Roach, engineer and former Mayor of Statesville, 0 thinks the plan will help prevent self- .v mutilation of Tuinds and feet by con-js victs to avoid work. 111 ic T K' CASF. DROPPED IX TEXX. , Foeral charges against Col. Luke ^ Lea. North Carolinas' most noted con- ;; vict, of aiding and abetting in alleged l ' misapplication of funds of the closed Holstorr-Union XTational Bank, Knox- * ilie, Tenn., have been dropped by the Federal court in Tennessee. He is ? seeking a full pardon, claiming he is not guilty of bank law violations in f this State. The Governor is considering it. ? THE NEW SALES TAX J .n?OTTvi,TUT3 extension Oi 111" J sales tax to eight formerly exempted basic food items is new ir. effect. Only Jnilk. of the nine items, is exempt now, the tax going on eight other items,' peal, flour, meat, lard, molasses, salt, | rug r and coffee. Products of farms. ] woods, mines and waters, sold direct From producer to consumer, are not I taxed. Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max (>li thinks the tax will be easier! poliected, as separate records do not iavc to be k??pt of formerly exempted items. The 3 per cent tux on hotel, CSUlUlfcUll UiiU wyaiuiufj in>UMC '.WZZ.I''. I became effective June 1st. MERCTIANTS WITHDRAW Five lopi units have resigned OV V'tlidrawn from the North Carolina Merchants Association in the last ,veek or so, including Winston-Salem md Statesvillc, whose resignations ,vere not accepted by the State direc:ors meeting here lest week, and Gasonia, UcidsviUe and Rockingham, vhose withdrawals have since been eccived. Willard L. Dowel), State scc etary, comments that it seems to be m organized effort to disrupt the Rate organization. The North Camilla Fair Tax Association, of which T. Paul I-conard. Statesvillc, former nercharit secretary, is secretary, is aid to have a part in the trouble, vhjtch Mr. Lixmard denies. SC HOOL I1CS DRi\EKS Counties of the State may use. ad ilt driver-s for school buses if they ire willing 10 supplement the alloteent made for this purpose by the >tatc School Commission, which inTeased the amount per driver from %PfHj t\ 11 ^iMfl idppij flfUt&tfoUf! Avail your set r. New York City; 261 Constitution Ave, 'is, La, . . where without charge exper tion to all inquiries, , whether by mail aps, up-to-the-minute road and iveather : O M P A N Y >7.50 to $8.50 a month at its meeting ast week. This may be used as part ?l* the wages going to the adult any- j rrs, Secretary LeRov Martin an-', lour.ced. The basis of pay for city ; uki county superintendents was h eached, an increase, while janitors i irere increased i.5 io 20 per cent as to ;rage3 and the janitors' supplies item ;as increased 15 per cent. Slight inreases were made in allotments for irater, light and power, but the fuel tem remains about the same. The mount for operation of buses is about j he same, but plans are made for im- j roving the operation of buses and j o secure efficient maintenance of j quipmcnt. INFANTILE I'AKALVSIS [ Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock, member of \ he Harvard Infantile Paralysis Com-1 aission, is in Raleigh to confer with ! )r Carl V. Reynolds, acting State ealth officer, or. the near epidemic j" f the disease i:i this Stale, ih which j .bout 250 cases have been reported ! inec January, and about 100 last tionth. State health officers in Wash- | ngton last week said Federal offi- ! ials would give complete co-opera- j ion and aid in fighting the disease. Jr. Aycock, distant relative of the , ite Governor C. B. Aycock, and na-1 ive of Georgia, has spent 20 years ;.i j tudying the disease, and will be in his State some time making a study f conditions here. Caution, but not renzy, is advised by Dr. Reynolds, i.*ho is centering the efforts of his ofice on the disease. THE REINS-STURE ASSOC1AT1 TELEPHONE 21 . . 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