PAGE SIX The Watauga Democra The RIVERS PRINTING COMPAN Established in 1SSS and Published ft 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivez PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDA SUBSCRIPTION* RATES: One Year ?1.5 Six Month I Pour Months ? i Payable in Advance) rc. vj. ujlvuks Jr., - Pubiisiu Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of R< spect. Obituaries, etc., are charge tor at the regular advertising rate Entered at the >IRA As Secor: Postoffice at Ciass Mail Boone, X. C. Matter. thursday, december 5, 1935 CHRISTMAS A IT ROACHES Boone merchants are just be ginning to launch their selling campaigns on holiday merchan dise. and indications are tha they have this year, exceedet their former efforts in amassing amazingly complete and attrac tive lines for the Chrislma: trade. Practically ail of tin stores have already taken on ; good deal of the Christmas at mosphere and a Santa Clan: who could not fill his gift lisi completely and satisfactorily ir this community would be jus! downright contrary. More and more the residents of this entire section of the state are realizing the importance oi Eoone as a trade center and il is to be hoped that this year there may be a minimum ot trade diverted by local people to the channels of commerce in other sections and municipalities. Glittering pamphlets from towns in other states invite Wataugans to go there for their holiday merchandise?where there is no sales tax?and it woiilc take the purchase of more that one hundred dollars worth oi goods to offset the bare expense of reaching those stores. Let uf join in patronizing our local in stitutions. who can serve us tc an infinitely greater degree o: satisfaction and thus contribute to the prosperity of the town am county, as well as to our own fi hanciai interests. The Family Doctor By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES WHOOPING-COUGH?PERTUSSIN Bad company for the youngstersand not by any means good for th grown-ups. As old as the hills, it cause is sun an uncnscovera en ment, perhaps because it has nc been considered a 3erious menace t the life of the child. I have know many families in the earlier day the paid little attention to the diseae among the little ones, so they ju! "whooped it out" until recovery cam ?somehow. Whooping-cough is contagious, would feel better if it were quarar tilled, in the hope of blotting it oul It may indeed produce derangemen of the air-passage in the lungs, di late them and leave the lung aunor iriZLl th, offsets srs ontTovn Very few remedies, outside of nurs ing, do any good. A little of somi sedative cough-syrup should be ad ministered to quiet, if possible, th paroxysms and lessen their force. Feed the child good, easily-digestei nourishing food. You cannot "breal up" whooping-cough. The best yoi can do is to let it run its course Once over with it, the patient is con sidered immune from further at tack. An old remedy that has not bee disproven is quinine. A good quinin ointment, ten grains to the ounce o benzoinated lard, and spread on cloth as a piaster, may be laid o worn on the child's chest. Change i every two days. It has been proven, think, that this tends to prevent di lation of the air-passages and, con sequent weakening of the structure composing the breathing apparatus. Sedative cough syrups may contai bromide or tincture of red onioi or of humulus (hops) or very mlnut does of ipecac. But not enough t nauseate.' Keep the little one in out of ba weather, or night air. Violent exei ciae will aggravate the paroxysm Forbid it. Keep the little suffei quiet. -See your family doctor oftei ?and do the best you can. METHODIST CHURCH Morning worship will be at tl Boone Methodist Church Sund? morning at 11 o'clock. The paste Dr. Erhest C. Widenhouse, will tal as his subject, "Christ and the Oor raon Folk." There will be sp?c.l music by the choir, led by Mies Vi ginia Wary. Sunday School will 1 at 9:46. The Epworth League w hold Its devotional service at 6:3 The evening preaching service w be at 7:30. The Young People's chol led by Professor Henson, will lead the singing and furnish special m< ifc. Jk . CRITICS OF COURTS OFTEN Xj AMONG PETITION SIGNERS ? Concord Tribune. )r| In a recent charge to a jury in i Catawba county. Judge Iioyle Sink ^ saici: Y As long as people engage in mo? dern sentiment about law violation. so long is law violation going to ,q thrive and profit. 1 am candidly of 5 the opinion that one of the greatest >0 breeders of crime today is public sentiment and sympathy for criminals. _ I sentence a man to 90 days for vio;r fating the law and the whole town _ rises up in arms. I can't get to my j It. .,,1 V.io >. : liamo av uiv iivivi, c? j uuuji aim "i-s d brother wants to take him out. And s. so Jong: as this sentiment and sym pathy exist just so long is Uie life ot d j man going to be in danger. "No one enjoys seeing liis fellow j man suffer?I do not like to see an animal suffer, let alone a human be~ ing. There is no pleasure to a court in imposing a fine when it means the = j reduction of the source of bread to a family of hungry children and maybe an invalid wife, or take the bread , ; winner awy from them. But there is 5 a duty that must be performed and - we had as well make up our minds , t now that criminals must be punished. j' A few years ago such sentiment did i 7 not exist, it indicated to every crimi- , ': nal that a violation of the law meant < punishment. Now they are listening to that sentiment and that's all they , ? will listen to. Reformation has its ? * foundation in fear of punishment." < One sees corroboration of what 5 Judge Sink was talking about almost < r daily. Jurist ns soon as ?i man <*?-*<: ir? . , ble and faces a jail sentence, or a j " road term, his friends and many oth- j crs set about to nullify the work of ] ; the courts. Often these persons are ; - among: those who. before sentence js ? : passed, insist upon the law beings ob- t t served. i If the judge refuses to set aside the < :, verdict or reduce the sentence peti- c (, tion is made to Raleigh for pardon, c ' and if this likewise is denied, it is a i not long before a prole is sought. In ; too many cases Hie term is shortened c i and the criminal is soo freed. t Ami herein we have one cause for - much of the present-day crime and t . lawlessness. \ i Glass Eye Poured ^ Year Ago, Perfect ;< Corning, N. Y.?-Successful com-.1 pletion of the 200-inch glass eye for 1 ' the world's largest telescope, an1 nounced at the doming Glass Works, 1 ; means that in about five years man 1 will see four times farther into space ' . than ever before. Astronomers will see what may exist in regions about 1,200,000,000 light . years away?areas of the sky so remote that their light takes that long ' to reach earth, and which may be seen, five years hence, as they looked more than 1.000,000,000 years ago or long before any known iife exist8 ed on earth. Most Difficult Step e Today's event finishes the most 3 critical and difficult step in making , this telescope, which will be twice the size of anv now in existence. Five ? .yepra ^ conservative estimate of t2 the time needed to grind and polish | the big glass into a mirror and to I ie! set i^.upr,in a telescope in the obser-) !t vatory yet' to be built on Palomar e Mountain, about 75 miles south of Cos Angeles. I The huge glass disk 17 feet in diai meter and more than two feet thick L was poured last Dec. 2, molten glass t about a third the temperature of the i-- sun's surface. It has been cooling - ever since in an iron annealing oven. Surface Is Still Warm It i3 still there, awaiting an offi? cial ,,party" for its removal in about . two weeks. e But meanwhile, it was revealed toi da., the worries about possible flaws , j were removed by two Cornish Glass c Works experts who crawled on hands x. and knees a few days ago into the , now cool oven and back and forth j " across the still warm surface of the glass. They could see major flaws if any I n and found none. Polarized light from J e hand flashes would show without J f awaiting removal whether the tex-1 a ture of the glass was free from r 1 strains. t j Cooled Very Gradually I The creeping inspection was made C; by Dr. J. C. Hostetter, director of [- development and research and Dr. s George V. McCauley, physicist in charge of disc making. The latter n superintended the almost year-long 1( annealing, the slow cooling of little c more than a degree a day which aao sured freedom from the dreaded "strains." d Although the Corning Glass Works - took less than, a year to make the 9. disc, the task of creating it began -r | seven years ago in 1S2S. Because n, I nothing like it ever was done before I years of experiments preceded the casting of the great "eye." Poured Second Disc ie Barely more than two years ago ty the astronomers in charge of experr, iments decided on a new kind of pyce rex boroslllcate glass to be made at n- the Corning works. The first 200al Inch disc was poured of this material r- in March, 1933. be That first mirror was a success but 111 aocidents to its mold produced a 0. disc which would have required, so 111 much grinding that the scientists deir, cided to try for a more perfect one, in the "eye" now completed, ii- In. this they .repeated astronomical history. Four 'discs were poured for' WATAUGA DEMOCRAT? Seek Reduction In Heavy Automobile Toil Chicago.?A nation-wide campaign seeking to reduce automobile accidents at lesat 35 per cent, by 1941 ?thus preserving 38.000 lives? was announced by the National Safety council. The drive will open January 1. the council disclosed, and will continue for five years. The council stated it had a large organization ready to proceed in cooperation with public officials, traffic. safety chieftains, educational leaders, safety g - mps, civic organizations and federal departments. Announcement of the program came several days after President Roosevelt called a conference at Washington within the next two weeks to consider means of insuring greater safety on the land and sea and in the air. Plan Educational The council's plan is largely educational. Tt cnvisons the extension of uniform, time-proven methods to all sections of the United States. It will be localized for each state and city. "It is planned to co-ordinate much of the existing safety effort, to centralize and standardize the. work through application of methods proved by successful experience." the council set forth. A definite state-wide school program will be recommended for each state, together with the organizations of state safety councils and localized safety organizations in towns and pities. The adoption of uniform laws, including standard drivers, license legislation, will be urged, together with adequate administration of traffic aws. Standardization of accident reports will be undertaken with provision for more complete accident staistics and their interpretation and application. The detailed engineering, enforcement, and education technique >f the states anci cities now doing mlstanaing work will be made availible to the country at large." The executive committee of the ouncii invited all interested agencies o join in the campaign. The council expressed confidence i hat achievement of the objective vag possible in view of reduction of he accident death toll during the irst nnie months of 1935 by 23 dates. The council cited the. cases >f Rhode Island with a 31 per cent, lecrcase, Oregon 16 per cent., Massa blUAlto 1.4 n " "I *?; win.., a;iu iiilllllcaULtf 11 per cent. Intelligent effort also wrought about reductions in fatali.ies in a number of cities. Motor vehicle deaths reached an unprecedented high in 1934. when airiest 3(3,000 persons were killed in Lhe United States and 1,250,000 were injured. To Forecast Weather Two Years Ahead Cleveland, O.?A weather observer, returning from a rendezvous with a major storm he foresaw months ago, disclosed today a new method of calculating the weather far in advance. He is Sclby Maxwell, instructor in meteorology who has heen doing research work in a laboratory at Northwestern University. He haa evolved P, "principle of astronomical computation of tlic weather" which he calls ^forecasting by astronomy." "You can predict the world's weather for two years in advance with the same ease that you might predict a 3torm for tomorrow," he asseretd in an interview. Proved His Charts In October lie made 12 charts of the storm's course, ar.d placed a blue print of the storm in thq hands of navy weather men and his friends, rt called for a start on Nov. 11, and :>n that date he began driving eastward from Chicago. It rained hard it first. At Niagara Falls on Nov 13 he noted how heavy winds had blown back the water of Lake Erie, drying up the falls. Then he hit an ice storm in upper New York State, went over to the Atlantic coast in New England and drove southward along the coast and heavy gales swept the seaboard last week-end, thus confirming the charted course he had predicted. Storm Differed In Sections "It was interesting to note the different manifestations of the same storm at various points," he said. "The winds on Lake Erie, the ice sheet in New York State and the Atlantic gales were all from the same source, a cold mass of air from over Greenland." His method is based on the fact that the relative motions of the earth moon and sun are irregular, resulting in a slight motion of the earth's whole mass. "That causes the atmosphere which is like a fluid, to slosh back and forth over the earth, just as water will slosh out of a pan if the pan is Jiggled," he said. How He Does It Mr. Maxwell computes the relative changes of the magnetic fields of the earth, moon and sun, which form an astronomical triangle of continuallj variable shape. From this he knows the variation in the earth's motion And hence the later variations in atmospheric masses, making possible long-range forecasting. Mr. Maxwell predicts less snow than usual this winter. "'During the the 100-inch mirror, which the eye of the world's present largest tiescope, on jar. Wilson, California. EVERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. , Sharpening the Olc i whole winter there will be about one ; month's snowfall," he said. "That i means about two good snows dufitig j the winter, instead of seven or eight. ! There will be another drought | , next year," he continued, remarking j , that he had foreseen the last one. j j "The whole northern hemisphere will j , j be subject to a drought until August. .Next fall the weather will be wetter ; than usual." Black Fighter Said To Be A Gourmand Joe Louis. the 21-ycar-old Negro , champion that whipped Max Bacr m a recent pugulistic encounter, is j also a gourmand. He eats more than i ! a half dozen men if reports are true, j Monk Harris, a close friend of the brown bomber, who Is heir-apparent? to the world's heavy-weight boxing throne, has watched great eaters in action for more than a quarter of a century but when rt comes to stowing ; away vitual3 in job lots he names Joe ' as the champ. "Joe is the eat ingest and sleepingest man Ah ever saw," said Monk, shaking his head. "An' what's stranger, the more food he cats the stronger and better he seems to get. Why, it's nothing?nothing at all?for him to sit right down and eat five chick- i ens for one meal. How that man ! loves his chicken!" Monk, as amazed as his audience j but insistent that what he said was i not exaggeration, related some of ! Joe's "light meals" Breakfast: A half dozen apples, some bananas, half a quart of ice cream and two quarts of sweet milk. (.Monk said Joe was just a sucker for ice cream and apples at breakfast.) Lunch: Five chickens with all the trimmings, a big mess of black-eyed peas ami two quarts or sweet milk. Dinner: Two or three big steaks and a lot of ice cream and milk, i (Monk said that after Joe had weigh- j ed in for his fight with Max Baer ! : that he ate a f7 dinner of "plain vit- ; | uals" and then took a nap before J getting married and beating Baer into a pulp.) The other night, Monk said John j Roxborough, co-manager of the I brown bomber, had a 12-pound tur- j key roasted and ready for some guests. Joe didn't know about the i company, but lie found the turkey I and ate it up. Simple Wealth "There Is a sort of wealth in the! ability to find happiness in simple things like books, birds, flowers, and fiiends, that cost nothing."?'Vinton A. Hoi brook. MYSTERY EXPLAINED 7iow they caught a monster like hose of the old fairy tales is related in an interesting illustrated article to be found in the December 8 issue; of the American Weekly, the big magazine which comes regularly with the BAIMMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. Get your copy from your local newsdealer or newsboy. |l^P{yj0]|rn BOONE DRUG CO. The REXA1X Store c. 1 Machete ??-??? WAR AND LOVE THEME OF FAMOUS PICTURE | "So Rod the Rose," which deals Aitli the great conflict between the States in the eighteen-sixties, conies ' Lo the Pastime TTieatre on December 9-10th. "So Red the Rose," i3 not primarily a war story, although the War serves as its exciting background. ; Rather it is the story of life on a ' ereat plantation before and after the | War. revealing the conflict of loyal- J ty and duty that suddenly swept' down upon a gentle and peace-loving i family. The film is an adaptation of Stark Young's novel , of the same name ! which, since its publication nearly CHRIS G-M As usual Walker's is the ho gifts, and this year we are j cater to the wants of every completely and in the most for your approval a few suj BM Dinne I white H Pencil ^ULl. B| Lighti w irig S? IH71 IKJ Brace Books SrjM Spoor Knive Be Sure to V Walker*s Je DECEMBER 5, 1935 ?' by A. B. Chapin I; one year ago, still retains its position on the national be/\n * ? ??? r OK HLK tes, in white or yellow gold, r Rings, Diamond Rings, stone Rings, Bar Pins (all. in or yellow gold) Pen and . Sets, Pens, Manicure and I Sets, Silverware, Compacts, lets, Necklaces, Books, and I other items. FOR HIM I ;es and Rings (yellow and I gold), Chains. Chain and Sets, Belt and Buckle Sets, ry Sets, Bill Folds, Cigarette ;rs and Cases, Bibles, Books, Lights, Pocket Knives, Shav its. Watch Bracelets. 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