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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democrat The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY Established in 18S8 and Published for 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PATES: One Year 51.5C Six Month .73 Four Months 5 (Payable in Advance) R. C. RIVERS Jr., - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Respect, Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advertising rates. Entered at the MR! A3 Second Postoffice at Class Mail Boone, N. C. fpJKif Matter. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23. 1936 ENGLISH ATTITUDE rung ueorge, V, ruler of the world's greatest empire and one of the most thoroughly democratic personages ever to wear the British crown, is dead, and the black curtain of grief hangs over the domain on which the sun never sets. For days, even before His Majesty's illness became necessarily serious, crowds gathered on the stones outside the palace?workingmen. charwomen and folks in the upper strata knelt together in the commons, praying for the recovery of their Sovereign. During the last hours of his illness, when his life was despaired of, hundreds of commuters, immobile in their common grief, forgot their train schedules and could not return home. While His Majesty was unquestionably a good and just ruler. the subjects would behave similarly on any similar occasion. And one is caused to wonder if this inbred respect for constituted authority, does not account for the superior efficiency of English government. particularly as regards the .-rime situation. In America, where crime has flourished in historymaking fashion, there is considerably lessened regard for those who sit in the councils of the mighty. "MEDICINE-MAN" ECONOMISTS In a recent address. Charles R. Gay, President, of the New York Stock Exchange, paid his respects to economic cure-alls and self-appointed prophets. He said that "the state should refrain from trying to supplypower for the economic machine," and that insofar as the state's contribution to prosperity touches economics, it will lie in "equitable taxation, the wise regulation of monopoly and unfair competition, and a sound currency and credit system. "The government wili need expert counsel in these matters," he continued. "Here the economists of true and penetrating vision can function when the 'new' economics of the Henrescion Viae had its day, completed its experiments and retired?to compute the cost. "Li Hides or doubt and distress there are always new, plausible prophets who find a! hearing by announcing they have! discovered a cure for the troubles which afflict society. "The itinerant medicine man used to sell his nostrums for $1 a bottle, with a guarantee that it would cure headache, chillblains, or any other ache or pain. He gained his following because of the public's ignorance and desire for a quick remedy, and I suspect that the same human weaknesses account for the popularity of today's economic curealls. "With the gradual return of better times, these prophets will oI/yhtItt eiwlr Konlr in-fn nUe/mrittr uxv/?? i y Jilin ?./c*v-rv iiitu uuovui ibj . I think I can detect signs of their approaching eclipse." The Family Doctor By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES YOUR NEW MOLARS There has always been a definite relation between "medicine" and dentistry, inasmuch as both relate to the physical well-being- of humanity. The professions "are a distinct brotherhood and should work in harmony with each other. But I read recently, did not dream of it before, that it is the custom of some of our excellent dentists to take impressions for new teeth, and send J them away to near-by cities to have the plates constructed by operators who have never seen the patient, and can merely imagine the contour of the face and other individual pecu ! liarities of the structure sought to 1 be improved. It seems to me this is ail wrong. It is the accidental happening into an incident of this kind this very week that inspires thi3 brief SLrticle for my readers that happen to need "store teeth." The real rtist in dentistry, it seems to me, does his own work from start ! to finish. He alone sees the peculiar | type of patient. He sees the minute i changes that come from extractions made at far-differing dates. He alone can minister accurately to the patient he is serving, not the machine operator milling his game in the stiffling mart of mass production. Therefore, if my opinion is worth anything in this important matter, I would certainly give preference to the dentist who builds his own masterpiece. From individual inquiry I have learned that such dentists give the greater satisfaction to the patient. That is what counts. I~ IT 1 Bruce ttarton wSavs . ^" |. . . Marriage for The Wise i A man who many years ago or[ ganized a bachelors" club committed ' suicide the other day, leaving a note in which he advised all vuunr men to marry. He said: '"Living alone is unnatural and can end only in unhappiness." He should have made this discovery earlier, as a majority of his feliow-rr.cn do, but 1 probably made the mistake of paying attention to the poets and the philosophers. From Diogenes down they have tended to cynicism. Diogenes, asked when is the proper time to marry, answered: "For a young man not ] yet; for an old man never." Socai tes, under similar circumstances, advised a young man" -'Whichever you do, you will repent it." Fielding wrote: "One fool at least in every j married couple." Mme. de Rieux left this warning: "Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness." Probably the most widely quoted joke that Punch ever published was: "Advice to those about to marry--Don't!" Luckily, young people are not much impressed by this accumulated cynicism. If, before marrying, the boys stopped to consider whether they would be able to support a family, or the girts to measure the chance of disappointment, there would be few matings. They have knowledge that is deeper than judgment, they take the plunge, and they and the world are better for it. Only once in my life did I ever attempt to head off a marriage. The young folks were penniless, jobess i iind .1T1 TtllOV WOrilfvl fr/x twvffnur rrom me to finance what looked like a sure loss. When T refused, they promptly borrowed elsewhere, and now are as happy and successful a couple as you would want to meet. Most of us had parents who were hard up all their lives, but they had each other. And in spite of struggle they knew the truest happiness. They | were wiser than all the cynical wise men since the world began. ? * . . Opportunity Is Where It's Needed A city man, out to visit friends in the country, found when he was ready to return that his motor would rot start. He was told that "Ed Bostwick, just down the road." probably could fix things for him, and in a little while Ed arrived with a basketful of tools, and the job kept him busy for nearly two hours. When he [ had the motor purring pleasantly, he | was asked what the charge would | be. "Well," he said after soma consideration, "I guess about fifty cents." Upon inquiry, the car owner learned that Ed formerly had worked as a mechanic an a city garage, but had given up his town Job to live on a little farm Inherited from his father. "But with your ability," said the city mail, "I should think you would want to be where you would have be.ter opportunity." "I wouldn't want a better opportunity than I have here," Ed replied. "All the farmers have cars, trucks, tractors, or other kinds of machinery to bd kept in repair, and they keep me busy. I'm making a good living and, besides that, I like being where I'm needed. The folks around here all depend on me sort of." Many other people feel as Ed does. Some of them are college grad-! | uates, but they are perfectly content as country preachers, county doctors, store-keepers, or farmers. They find golden opportunities where some of us imagine that we would feel buried alive. I once made a talk to a college class on Neglected Businesses, trying to point out that too many graduates make straight for the bond business, or advertising, or law, or medical practice in a city, while too few think of insurance, retail store-keeping, or running a gasoline station.. Yet people in these unthought-of fields often do better than the members of..the more popular callings. We live a very short time, and the imporant idea seems to be to live happily. Happiness is not geographical; it is being needed?being where, as Ed expressed it, "people depend on me sort of." WATAUGA DEMOCRATOPEN FORUM Readers are invited to contribute to this department. Profit may be derived from these letters. Name of writer must accompany all manuscript and brevity is urged. TALKS ON SPENDING Editor Watauga Democrat: I read with much interest the art: cle wrote by Mr. Holtzclaw and als< the one by Mr. Jackson, and then seems to be considerable contrast ii their opinion and owing to the wai the affairs of the government havi been managed I presume each mar has a just cause and a good reasor for their different view of condition: now existing. True democracy should always ren der equal protection and liberty t< all; but this hasn't been done foi years and from observation during the present administration I fee quite sure that this has been neglect ed more than any time in history foi greater mas3 of people in this natioi has been vprv flistincMv divided int. three classes during the last threi years. We find the politicians by the mil lions and even their sons and daugh ters, who have been given easy job: with big salaries under the alphabet! eal term, ami then we find a c!?.s: that is favored by the politician be cause tliey can be used every twJ years and this class has received foot ?clothes?and aid in many ways am evidently they have a friendly sym pathizing feeling for this money flow administration: but the third cios! like myself, and many oLhcrs, tha has labored in the heat and cold fo: our living without receiving one dol lar of those billions that has beer thrown out like chaff upon the wind just can't feel right well pleased. Many that received help receiver a very great blessing, and it was fine to help them. Jc3us always healed the sick and fed the hungry ever before He preached the Gosrpel tc them, and feeding the hungry is a great part of the true religion of Jesus Christ, but to bo extravagant and make sonic strong financially, while others must labor empty-handed and atruggle to live will cause some one to complain, for it Is the pup with the fuli stomach that lies quite basking in the sun. We all agree there is more money just now: Rnd why wouldn't there he; but the question arises, where did tills vast amount of money come from. Where wtli it drift and what will be the results later When bread is cast upon the water in abundance the big fish and sucloCi usuauy miter. Willie tne Jittle ones suffer, but let's everybody hope and be right quite for the storm has just about ceased and just in a few years we will know whether it has been destructive or profitable to this great and beloved nation. A. 53. TEIYKTTE: Reese, N. C. IX MEMOKIAM Professor A. M. Norton Before the massive Gates of Paradise A suppliant stood, with face serene and mild. "What hast thou done," the awful Voice said, "That through these portals thou shouldst now be led?" The suppliant answered, "Nothing great or good; Yet once an eager youth before me stood; I fait the cry for wisdom in his eyes, And pointed then the way; he saw, and smiled." "But one?" the Voice replied, nowsoft and sweet. "Know tliou that Light from one to one must go, And soul leads soul in wisdom's way most meet; Thy one becomes a myriad there below!" Then open wide the massive portals rolled. And angels smiled and touched their harps of gold. The above lines, written by one of his students a few years ago and dedicated to Professor Norton, express what many students have felt for this beloved teacher for whom the massive Gates have now rolled wide. Many students have paid him that highest of all tributes to a teacher: ''He has helped me to think for myself." He had that rare ability tc teach not so much facts to develop the mind as truths to widen the horizon and enrich the soul. No teacher has ever been more universally loved by his students. One felt in his classroom a warmth anc ft lfinHlv WAl/?nrviA u?1!? _ J ?WUIV, ail uiviuilion H sit quietly and enjoy with him th? gems of English literature, the teach, ing of which was to Professor Nortor not a task but a delight. To thos? who treasure the hours spent in hit classes hia memory will live always like the music of the ageless poemj he loved to read. ? ?A FORMER STUDENT. WANTED Will pay highest price for a $20.00 gold coin. BERMAR Jeweler BOONE, N. C. uSRKBmzif^u V.*"- gg??5V-' "- iSXfttrSiflXfS'' -EVERY THURSDAY?BOONE. N Running the ( iiu ^ !ji'? 111 i' i I:,! I! I ill! I ! L? I ? i I H ii l g Ii ; | LOCAL CHURCH SERVICES 1 METHODIST CHURCH Morning worship will be at the i L Boone Methodist Church Sunday | ' morning at 11 o'clock. There will be ; special musid by the choir, directed ! | by Miss Virginia Wary. The pastor I will take as his subject, "The Son j Who Came Back." The Sunday ] 1 School will meet at 9:45; Dr. J. D.j Rankin, general superintendent. The | Epworth League will hold its devo- : ! ( .OA rtlU? . nviiui oci victr at o.ou. me evening i ' service will be at 7:30. BAITIST CHURCH Sunday, January 2G, 103(1 9:40, Sunday School, Prof. TJ. R. Eggers, supt. XX a. in., worship and i serjnon by the pastor. 6 p. m., Baptist Training Union, Eugene Byrd, director. 7 p. in., worship and sermon by the pastor. You are welcome to all our services. J. C. CAMIPE, Pastor. CALENDAR OP LUTHERAN SERVICES St. Marks, Blowing Rock: Preaching service on the first Sunday of each month at 2:30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9:45 a. m., Miss Marie Bradshaw, Superintendent; Prayer meeting Wednesday night of each week at 7:30. Luther League every Sunday, 2:S0 p. in. Grace, Boone: Preaching service f vrMjr muiiUOtY <11. IX o.. ill., VUSpCTS L 7 p. m. oil 2nd and 4th Sundays; Sunday School every Sunday at 9:45 a. m.. Prof. George I.. Sawyer. Superintendent; Luther League each Sunday night at 6 p. ni. Holy Communion Banner El!"; | Preaching service on the 3rd Sunday j of each month at 2:30 p. m.; Sunday ' School every Sunday at 9:45 a. m.; Luther League at 3 p. m. on l'rst, second and fourth Sundays. We most heartily welcome the public to ail these services. On the fourth Sunday of each month we hold services at Hanging Rook Ciiupei at 2:30 p. in. The public invited. REV. J. A. YOUNT, Pastor. VISION! (Enterprise, Mansfield, La.) The secret of achievement Is a clear vision of a goal. Something definite at which to aim. The clearer the vision the more certainty of accomplishment. If one has such a vision clearly and vividly stamped upon : his nrtnd it tends to fire ambition to 11-. .?-i . ?c ctiu i-utiL every enregy is direct- j . ed toward the achievement of a goal, i! When one's vision of a goal is obi scure or imperfect, effort toward its achievement will be half hearted and scattering. This is the reason some s individuals seems to go straight to; wards what they want and others I seem never to get started. > ! Two Publications ; Are Now Available | Agronomy Information Circular , 96, "Fertilizers For Different Crops" including The Best Percentages of Water in Soluble Nitrogen of Total in Fertilizer Mixtures," and. Agronomy Information Circular 97, "Suitable Fertilizer Mixtures For Differi; ent Crops, Including the Functions of Chief Plant Nutrients," are now available free of charge to citizens of North Carolina on application to C. B. Williams, head of the department at agronomy at State Collage * L C. Gauntlet Hj|P RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP Sights And Sighting To The Rest Advantage. (By H. M. Rooney) Marksmanship is a natural attainment of mankind ar.d especially by the male element. Witness the tendency of all boys to til row a rock, a baseball, use a "flipper," make a bow and arrows, own a ;;un and shoot it. Now, to do any of the foregoing things there must be a mark at which to aim, cither a "plug" hat, a fat man or some other target and the important item is that the mark must be seen in ordfr that the best display of skill shali be exhibited. This brings us to the essential matter of sighting when using a rifle. There cxi3t3 the fact that a rifle is only as good n? U'a sights, which mnflno frViof "tm?? ? ? - ?*-* uiui. jwu guna aue cm ngxi~ or you won't hit 'em." So keeping in mind tliat any sight ia better than no sight we will take up the common sights that are to be found on the average rifle of today. First is the notch or "v" sight which has been in use for centuries and which has been standard equipment on commercial rifles up to about a year ago. This sight is excellent for the game hunter where the game is likely to be found on the move, it is cheap and easily made; sits low on the rifle barrel and has few adjustments and these usually in one plane only i. e. raising or lowering the elevation. The user "allows" for what he thinks is needed to bring his shot into a center hit at whatever target he may be aiming at. When using' this sight the shooter should see the foresight bead clearly and liave the rifle sufficiently to know at what distance such sighting will form a close group of at least five shots. This is called the ''zero" and with this established he can then make very creditable shots at longer or shorter range. | TIlP airrlif 1.-.? 1 ! 35g"? uaa UCCJl long" m use but due to the added cost for the higher grades, it has been only found on the more expensive rifles, both target grade and hunting type. It is a disc, with a small hole, that can be located at the rear of the action of the rifle and oft times on the tang. This rear-ward locating of the sight brings it closer to the eye of the shooter than is possible with the 'notch' and has many advantages among which are the longer sighting radius, (the distance between the rear and the fore sight), looking thru the peep always brings the eye into the same plane, and It has the effect of sharpening the lines of the target at CAMEL'S'TRY 101 Smoke 10 fragrant Camels. don't find them the n fcest.flavnpfvl ~ jrv. smoked, rerarn the paclta{ therestofthe cigarettes iu at any time within a zaont) this date, and we will refur fall purchase price, plus p< fp, {Jip?y?.J.ReynoldtTi V\jw w inston-Salem COSTUE \s3Tp\T0BACC JANUARY 23, 1936 ?- by A. B. Chapin 'tj > <* gfil which aim is being taken much as the shutter of a camera- brings out the detail when reduced to it's emaileat opening. Adjustments are provided ir raising or lowering and in the movement to the right or left that have a definite scale by which the shooter may bring his siiots into the center at will. This is the type of sight that the champion marksmen the world over are today using in winning matches. The telescope sight ts just what it is called, a telescope mounted on the rifle and by which the shooter can aim and see his target with the maximum amount of clearness. The cost of the better of this type of sight makes them scarce among the ordinary goups of shooters and at the present time matches for telescope sights are featured on the match program? srmnrately front those wherein iron sights are used. When sighting a rifle with Intention of malting bullseye hit3 the marltsman should hold his sights so that the 'bull' is at the top of the front sight just so one would place a ball, if they were trying to balance it on the end of a stick. The reason for the holding of the front sight at the bottom of the 'bull' is that it is possible to see all of the mark and it is easier to know that one is 'on' the 'bulk in this manner than by trying to hold in the middle of the black mark. i HAUPTMANN REPRIEVED Richard Bruno Hauptmann, convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby, who was to have died in the electric chair last Friday, was granted a last minute reprieve, good for thirty days by Governor Hoffman of New Jersey. The Governor, stating that he was not required to give a definite reason for his action, clearly indicated that he wished a more thorough investigation of the crime, with the hope of uncovering further evidence. Democrat Ads Pay Helps Prevent lf? Many Colds Especially designed Sfla aid for nose and upper throat, where I VlCKS I most colds start. llVs.taoj-e.. II II Ragoior Sit* ...304 DoobUOuonbJy 304 VICKSVatronol IFFER STILL OPEN! II U it us Si '.-on. id as >t CuO ,1 R"-" y. i 0 ;
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