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PEACE emotions j
Xt amuses me to read, as X often
* do. newspaper reports headed "Peace j
Meeting Breaks up in a Row." The I
u?/uuiv ?? wiwi us tu oiwp VYai
by conversation is that people bring
their personal and racial dislikes and
prejudices into these gabfests.
I don't believe peace is ever going
to be insured by talking about it. All
of the peace arguments are based
on reason and logic. Reason and logic
play a very small part in human
affairs. Mankind is still the plaything
of its emotions. Let the hands start
playing and put the boys into khaki,
and we'll all throw reason and logic
overboard.
Just the way the folk do who get
Into a scrap at peace meetings!
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WAR not people's
Thinking back over what I have
read in the history books, and what
I have observed in a fairly long lifetime,
I don't remember any war that
was actuialy instigated by the people
of any nation. Few ordinary people
ever \.ant to go to war with their
neighbors. They <v e led into wars by
governments and rulers who have
ambitions and purposes which are
seldom fully disclosed to the general
run of common folk.
I am talking, of course, of the way
wars start. Everybody, practically, i3
ready to jump to the defense of his
country when the other fellow starts
to invade it.
How to end war? I don't know?
and I don't think anyone else does.
A good way might, he for nations to
stop trying to Lake advantage of
each other.
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MORALS .... of nations
One of the commonest examples
of loose thinking is the prevalent
idea of "national honor." It implies
that there is some sort of a moral
law or obligation applying to nations
comparable with the moral laws by
which individuals are, on the whole,
guided in their relations with each
ether.
There ought to he some such rule
or moral law governing International
relations, but there isn't. The
League of Nations was set up with
the idea that it could serve as an
international .conscience, and by solemn
proclamation "outlaw" nations
which started to grab something
that beiongc-d to other nations. But
I doubt very much whether all the
moral force and "sanctions" recently
brought to bear by the League
against Italy would have had any
effect if the British fleet had not
been mobilized in the Mediterranean.
Conscience has as much to do as
policemen in keeping most individuals
from taking somebody else'3 property
by force. But until we have an
international police force, strong
enough to overawe any nation, however
powerful, I don't think we're
going to stop war.
AMERICA free
Did you ever stop to 'think that
the United States of America is the
largest area in the civilized world in
which all the people speak the same
language? It is more than that. It
is the largest area in the world in
which everybody can travel freely
without interference, sell his goods
freely without tariff obstacles, and
live and work wherever it pleases
him.
War between any two states or
any two sections of the United
States is unthinkable. We had a sectional
war 75 years ago over the
question of slavery. That war settled
forever the liberty of every individual
to travel, work and trade
anywhere in the nation.
I become more convinced as time
gees en that there win be no such
thing as permanent peace until the
same liberties of travel, labor and
trade apply to all people anywhere
in the world as they do in the United
States.
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RELIGION .... influence
The fundamental teaching of
Christianity is the brotherhood of
man under the fatherhood of God.
Churches and sects have overlaid
and obscured this basic teaching
with such a variety of doctrines that
the essential principle seems almost
to be lost sight of in much of our
religious teaching.
Most of the other great religions
of the world have a similar foundation.
I am firmly convinced that
the world is far 'better than it would
have been had It not been for the
Influence of the great religious teachers.
But I am also convinced that
most of us are a long way, still, from
really Believing in and acting upon
the teachings of religion.
Maybe it will lake 10,000 years,
maybe longer, but the only ultimate
answer to the question of war or
i^aue must, oe, 11 seems to me, tne
acceptance by the whole human race
of the underlying principles of religion.
MEETING IS HELD
A series of revival meetings which
had been in progress at Antioch Baptist
Church for a week came to a close
Sunday. The pastor. Rev. W. C.
Payne, and Rev. W. D. Ashley did j
the preaching, and the meeting was
described as being successful.
WA1
An
VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 20
President lhinks i
Roosevelt Indicates That Got
Chance of Being R
DENVER ... In a conversation
with mid-western state
Democratic leaders, while enroutc
to the coast recently.
President Roosevelt indicated,
indirectly that he expected
Republican Governor Alf M.
i-andon of Kansas to be his
opponent in the November
1936 Presidential election. The
conversation occurred on the
Presidential special between
North Platte, Neb. and Cliey
v.uTE, wyo. un tnc train were
tj. S. Senators Adams and
Costigan and Gov. E. O. Johnson
of Colorado and a group
of Wyoming leaders.
WHITE PLAGUE IS
FATAL TO SEVEN
Respiratory Tuberculosis Claims
Seven Victims in Watauga
County.
Raleigh, Nov. 11?Watauga county
hail 7 deaths from respiratory tuberculosis
within the borders of the
county last year, of which 7 were
white and none colored people, while
the number of usual residents of the
county dying from this disease numhered
6, of which 6 were white and
none were colored, the State Board
of Health reports. The distinction is
made because the deaths without
showing the usual place of residence
wou'.d be unfair to counties in resort
or treatment areas.
Ill the entire state there were 1,818
persons who usually reside in
this state, of which 763 were white
and 1,055 colored, and 119 more, or
1,937 died within the borders of the
state, of which 851 were white and
1,086 colored. Deaths from all forms
of tuberculosis in the state last year
numbered 2,143.
Protection Against
Diptheria Is Urged
Tt lo ni'trn.T lmfns oil
u. u<6\.u ufuti an ^/aicnus uv UIC
District Healtii Department to see
that their children are protected
against diptheria, and this protection
can be secured, it is further stated,
by vaccination of all children between
the ages of six months and
six years.
Some six months after vaccination
a simple test can be made that will
show whether the desired protection
has been secured, the Schick test.
This test is being made in the schools
in the first and second grades in the
regular course of the physical examinations.
and will be made for any
of the upper grade children upon request.
No charge is made for the vaccination
of the children of the first two
grades, but because of a shortage of
expense money it is necessary to
make a charge of ten cents, the cost
of the vaccine, for those in higher
grades.
One "Good Samaritan," Mrs. David
Milton, of Blowing Rock, don iter;
$25.00 for the purchase of toxoid
with which to protect the children ol
our county. At ten cents a dose this
means that two hundred and fifty
children have benefited from this
kind lady"s generosity.
CHANGES MADE IN HOURS
AT DISTRICT HEALTH DEPT
The District Health Department is
discontinuing office hours on Tuesday
morning and instead will be oper
on Monday and Saturday mornings
from 8:30 a. m. until 12:00 m. This
change is to become effective froir
this date. All citizens of Wataugs
county are invited to visit theii
I hhnlth /lADOrtlDhnf An V.rtr.e.
I .? wiviiv uu uicoc uaya aui
take advantage of the service that ii
being given there.
PROLIFIC SWINE
I Mr. Clayton Vines of the Beavei
Dam section is reported by R. T
Palmer as having a sow, the mothei
of a litter of 15 Poland China pigs
The pigs are described as perfectly
normal, are now three weeks old, ant
none of them required artificial feed
Ing.
PAUG.
Independent Weekly Ne>
BOONE. WATAUGi
.andon Likely Foe
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i 2 BRANDY STILLS
TAKEN BY HOWELL
Sheriff Reports Capture of Fifty-Eighth
Blockade Distilling
Plant.
A small, but complete distilling
outfit, which was being used for the
manufacture of apple brandy, was
captured by Sheriff Howell and deputies
on the Pilot Mountain, near Todd
and represented the first illicit whiskey
plant to be taken in that Immediate
neighborhood for forty years.
The capture also brings to 53 the
number of stills Sheriff Howell has
taken during "MS HOTrtWstraiioo, and
the officer states. Incidentally, that
the distilleries are evidently becoming
scarce in Watauga county, judging
from the many fruitless raids
which are made.
Several nights ago another small
brandy still was taken in Stony Fork
township. Until recently it appears
I the manufacture of brandy had been
I abandoned in favor of the synthetic
! corn liquor usually referred to as
"suear-hoad."
Dept. of Agriculture
Movies To Be Seen
Arrangements have been made to
show several United States Department
of Agriculture films eacjj month
to the vocational, home economics,
agricultural students and 4-H club
members of the county, it has been
announced.
The first series is scheduled to be
3hown at the Pastime Theatre at
11:30 Friday, November 15, the
showing having been made possible
through the courtesy of Mr. A, E.
Haniby.
Farmers and home makers of the
county will also be Interested in these
shows, which are altogether educational.
4-H club members are particularly
urged to attend.
The first series of movies includes,
"Home Is What You Make It," ''Our
Wiid Life Resources"; "She's Wild,"
"The Chip College."
Production Credit
Official Is Coming
' Mr. L. E. Francis, secretary of the
Wirston-Salem Production Credit
1 Association, will be in the office of
' Mr. ?. C. Esrirers November 19. for
' the purpose of receiving applications
for loans for live stock investment
or other uses permitted under the associations!
rules. Mr. Francis is very
anxious that borrowers meet him
during the morning hours of his onei
day visit.
i RA KAN CHILD DEAD
i Mildred Mae Ragan, daughter of
I Mr. and Mra D. B. Ragan of the
i Meat Camp section, died Saturday
i after an illness with diptheria.
Funeral services and interment was
I at Meat Camp Baptist Church Sun'
day at 2 o'l lock. Rev. W. C. Pyne led
the services and Reverends Moretz
and Ashley were also present.
Surviving besides the bereaved parf
ents are four brothers and two sis
ters: Billy, Ted, Fred, Raymond
r Mary Annie and Opal.
r The best exhibit of Jersey anc
i Guernsey cattle ever displayed at s
- Union county fair were shown thi.'
year.
A DE
vspaper?Established in t
I COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,
ilNUMBER AIITOSIN
CABOUNA NEARS
ALL-TIME RECORD
By End of Week More Than
Half Million Motors Should
Be Registered.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
| PLANS PROCEED IN STATE
j First Driver's License is Revoked;
Education Week Programs;
WPA Progress. Other News of
Raleigh and The State.
] Raleigh, N. C., Nov. U.?By the
j time this is read, North Carolina
will have more licensed automobiles
and trucks than were licensed during
the peak year of 1929, when the
number reached 503.590. The registrations
were less than 2,000 below
the 1929 figure by the middle of last
week, and reports for the entire
wec-k will show the 1929 figures have
been passed. The regist ration la si
VMr tvaa r*?ilxr A'71 AC<4 frw ?? !? '
year. The low figure after the peal
was 3117,455 In 1932.
New cars sold in October numbered
-1,938, and 1,091 trucks, as against
1.384 cars and 1,364 trucks in Sep
tenrbcr, and 6,978 cars and 1,91;
trucks in October, 1934. New can
sold in the 10 months of this yeai
are 46,197, and 11,834 trucks, a:
against 10,046 cars and 9,700 truck:
in 10 months last year.
SPEARS NEW JUDGE
Marshall T. Spears, prominent
Durham lawyer and part-time law instructor
at Duke University, recently
named federal referee in bankruptcy,
I was appointed last week by Governoi
IShrihghaus as judge of the Tenth
Judicial District, succeeding Judge
W. A. Dcvin, Oxford, who in turn
was placed on the Supreme Court
bench succeeding the late Justice W
J. Brogden.
Judge Spears is a native of L.11llngton,
graduate of the University
I of N. C. in .1912, later studying law,
licensed in 1915 and practiced it:
Lillington, moving to Durham about
eight years ago. He had the almost
unanimous endorsement of the Durham
bar and many outside the district.
Mrs. Spears ts a younger sister
of Dr. Robert L. Flowers, vice
; prv?<leg^v<s.tKl business manager- at
Duke University.
ELECTRIC PLANS PROCEED
North Carolina power companies
are going ahead with rural electrification
in close co-operation with
ine elate Rural Electrification Authority
Gi?i?miin Dudley Bagley announces.
Lines are being' constructed
and authorized and others are being
surveyed right -along Mr. Baglej
cites that the Carolina Power &
Light Co., since dune 15, has completed
11.7 miles of lines serving 10E
customers, has under constructiof
18.75 miles to serve 157 customers
and has authorized construction ol
127.25 miles to serve 879 other cus
tomers. The company is still survey
ing for new lines, Mr. Bagley said
Other companies are also busy, h<
said.
TO RECEIVE COMPLAINTS
Stock and bond holders in reorgan
ized corporations who have been vie
timized by dissipation of assets ii
high salaries of protective commit
tees, receivers, trustees, attorneys oi
others, and by assessments of stocl
for such orporations, do not have i
place to lodge complaints and hav<
such individuals investigated. A. J
i Fletcher, Raleigh, and J. C. Meekins
(Continued on Page 2)
Sixteen Sheep Are
Destroyed By Dog!
Mr. P. W. Moretz, who resides oi
the Rich Mountain, reports the slay
n'K ?y me aogs or hunters of sixteei
sheep, four of which were registere
Hampshire ewes, Mr. Moretz tell
the Democrat tliat all hunters ar
advised that henceforth all dog
found on his land will be killed 01
sight. One of the dogs engaged ii
the dcpradation is reported to hav,
been trailed to a TV A family, when
its owner shielded it from death.
Episcopal Bishop
Will Preach Here
Bishop Robert E. Gribben, of Ashe
ville, will preach at the Episcopa
Church in Boone Sunday morning a
l 8 30, and conduct a corfirmatioi
service, it was learned yesterday.
Bishop Gribben is known as one o
; the most forceful members of tb
Episcopal clergy in the state, am
. this is his first pudlc appearance b
. Boone. A cordial invitation is ex
tended to all to attend.
INFANT SUCCUMBS
1 An Infant daughter of Mr. sun
i Mrs. Frank Ray of Deep Gap die
i Sunday, and interment was at th
cemetery at laurel Springs Church
:moci
he Year Eighteen Eighty-Ei]
, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1935
j JIMMY AND BETTY 5
I Former New York Mayor and
, Wife End Exile
; NEW YORK . A close-up of c
former-mayor Jimmy Walker of j ~
N. Y. and his wife, the former * |
j. Betty Compton, upon their return j *
^ here after his three-year self im- | t
posed exile in Europe which start- j
j ed amid the Seabury investigation. ^
"Walker says he wants no part of ^
? politics" for the present, at least. g
HIGH SCHOOL GIVEN i
APPROVAL OF WPA t
Sixteen Room Model Iligli s
School Building to be Built G
In Boone. fi
G
FISH HATCHERY APPROVED p
Later information from the t;
Winston-Salem WPA Office, indi- 1
cates that a project calling for the expenditure
of about three tfcous- tl
and dollars for building and new s
water sources at the Rutherwood tl
fish hatchery, bus bees approved. v
This, it is Stated, brings the
amount of money definitely on the n
way to Watauga county, to approx- ti
imately $05,000. G
6
'f That a sixteen-room model high **
: school building *witt be' erected in ?
Boone as a part of the Works Prog- n
ress Administration's program, ap- a
peared certain Saturday, when Dis- P
1 trict Director Jim Rivers announced
an allocation for the purpose of $12,- t<
i 000. to supplement a previous grant u
of $6,000 and a state appropriation 1:
of $12,000. The structure is expected ti
to he of native stone. Boone had hi- V
therto been without high school hous- p
ing facilities, the school having beer, a
carried forward in one of the college t
buildings. 3
' At the same time it was said that
i Bethel, Mabel and Valle Crucis v
schools would 'be pushed as had pre- I
t viously announced and that a sup- a
plemental grant of $7,500 had been (
- added to the street improvement pro- I
gram in the town of Boone, which
i together with the money advanced by i
the municipality will result in the *
expenditure of nearly $25,000.
Mr. Rivers stated that the new
money added to Watauga county's
quota had been granted from a statewide
fund, and represents about $20- v
000 more than could have otherwise I
. | been secured for the county. He fur- o
' ther states that road projects arc in i
^ the offing, and that a sincere effort a
, is being made to allocate the work
as per instructions, with due regard t
to the centers of heaviest relief loads, t
and points most easily accessible to ,
the unemployed. 1
Work Overtime i
The work program in the sixth
district is going forward night and
5 day, according to Mr. Rivers, who stated
tliat no holidays or Sunday
ieaves would be permitted until the
full program has beer, inaugurated.
? Tuesday 535 additional workers,
j 400 of them men, will be employed. '
g There had been 4,547 jobs created in '
e the 13 counties of the district up j'
g until Saturday night, and state WPA j1
1 officials are authority for an an- '
^ ?wu?n.cjuci!i Liiiii uie sixui district is t
,, now employing more than twice as :
I many workers as other districts of ,
the state.
1R, W. Seehorn Dies;
Once Watauga Citizen 1
i
Mr. R. W. Seehorn, 85 years old,
- died at his home at Shouns, Tenn.,
1 last Monday and funeral services 1
t were conducted from the Methodist i
1 Church there in the presence of a s
large assemblage of friends. Rev. R. (
f C. Eggers, pastor of the, deceased, 1
- was in charge of the obsequies and i
i interment was in the neighboring
1 cemetery. The floral offering was i
- profuse. I
A widow, one son and one daugh- 1
ter survive. i
Mr. Seehorn was a highly respect- <
3 ed citizen, and a member of the i
3 Roan Creek Church. He had former- i
e iy lived in Watauga county where he
i.'was well known by many. 1
*AT
ght
$1.50 PER YEAR
ill M PARKWAY
COl'TRUCTIONTO
BE%CCELERATED
3ontraclS^et on Scenic Road
For Construction to Mulberry
Gap.
CONSTRUCTION WORK
NOW GOING FORWARD
'he Deep Gap and Virginia Line Sector
Constitutes Principal Portion
of Thoroughfare; to Detour
By Boone.
Bids on the construction of the
ourth segment of the scenic parko-park
highway in North Carolina,
-Til be opened by the U. S. Bureau
f Public Roads December 5, Chairnan
Capus M. Waynick of the State
lighway and Public Works Commision
has just been advised. When
hese bids are opened, they will bring
o a total of 43 miles of parkway on
vhich contracts have either been let
>r bids opened. The first from Virginia
line in Alleghany county to its
ntersection with State Route 21.
iids were opened some weeks ago
in Projects B and C, extending from
loute 21 to Air Bellows Gap and
rom Air Bellows Gap to Mulberry
Sap and construe!ion on these two
:egments, totaling more than 17
niles. is expected to start just as
oon as the contracts have been
warded.
This four til segment extends from
lulbrery Gap to Horse Gap, about
2.5 miles and will bring the parkray
to within 12.5 miles of its interaction
with N. C. Route 60 at Deep
tap. It is expected that bids on the
ifth and la^t segment from Horse
iap to Deep Gap and Route 60 will
robably be opened about January
y Browning of the Slate Highway
, Chief Locating Engineer R. Gettonunission
said today. When all
tie.se projects are let and under contraction,
tlie first main sector of
tie parkway totaling some 55.5 miles
rill be under construction.
For the time being, it is not plan
en 10 miiid mis nortneastern porion
of the parkway beyond Deep
lap and its intersection with Route
0,T)Ut to follow Route 60 into Boone
nd then on into Blowing Rock over
loute 28, aince these existing state
Dads are already p&ved and offer
lmost as short a route as the prcosed
parkway route.
The parkway from Alrhellows Gap
i Deep Gap will follow closely the
lain ridge formation of the majestic
Hue Ridge and several short seeIons
of the scenic road will be in
Vilkos county. This section of the
arkway will offer unexcelled panorrolc
scenery because it will follow
he main ridge, alternating on each
ide around the higher peaks.
The next main link in the parkray
to be constructed will begin at
Suck Gap on Route 104, and extend
iround Mount Mitchell and the
haggles to its intersection with
toute 694 just north of Ashevllle.
^oad Project Will
to Employ 69 Workers
Information Wednesday morning
ras to tlie effect that the Works
'rogress Administration had approvd
road work for Watauga county,
evolving the expenditure of *7,995
.nd designed to employ 69 workers.
No information was forthcoming as
o the specific projects approved, al
nougn it is understood that a large
.limber of road building proposals
lad been made to the governmental
igency.
Armistice Day Is
Observed In Boone
Armistice Day was atmost a complete
holiday in Boone, all the retail
;stablishments with the exception ot
irug stores and cafes closing: their
ioors in observance. A large portion
>f the population either took to the
'ield and forest with dog and gun or
:ook their families on outings, and
he day carried with it the usual
Sabbath calm. A display of fireworks
jy the American Legion took place
n the evening.
WOULD CONSIDER BUYING
CAROLINA GROCERY CP -IN
The receiver for the Car' ina
Stores, Inc., has received an v-fer
for the purchase of the comp; j as
i going concern, according to ie
Caldwell Record, and the offer ill
be submitted to the Superior Court
it Newton, November 20th.
The party making the offer, has
informed the receiver that it is his
intention to continue the operation of
the stores as such, and as conditions
improve, to extend the territory
which they serve. There will be no
interruption In the operation of the
stores.
Two of the units of the Carolina
Stores are located In Boone.