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THURSDAY. AUG. b. 1936 j
CLOSE RACE PREDICTED
I17:4L 4l .1^1: ... .t / <
w n.n nit* ueuverante 01 uov- .
ernor Landon's speech, accepting
the nomination for the presi- j
dencv, still coming in for a considerable
degree of comment. .
and with the previous deliverance
of the President following :
such lines as might have been!
expected, the history-making f
campaign for the country's highest
office is under way, and
within the short space of six or,
eight weeks will have perhaps!
reached its greatest intensity.
Those who keep themselves
intimately acquainted with matters
political, are almost of one
mind in the belief that the race
at this early date is close?much
cioser than would have been anticipated
some months ago. Belief
in some quarters is that in
the final analvsis. the voters will
stray away from the issues as
enunciated by the platforms
and that the candidates themselves
may constitute the issue.
Should the campaign take this
course, ail guesses might be of
the sat' l.o value, as to whether
the voters will continue to follow
the progressive and glamor- 1
oas Roosevelt or whether they
are ready to fall in line behind,
the plain and more conservative
Landon.
Oruce Barton
Says . . .
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Vouth i^ouk.s Ahead
The Advertising Club of a certain
city decided to offer a course of
lectures in the Choice of a Vocation.!
It was planned to have a leading doc-!
tor speak on medicine, an eminent |
lawyer on the Jaw a railroad man!
Transportation, and so forth.
With the idea of finding out vvntch i
sulvteeis would ht uf most interest to:
thy yeuag men Slid women of the!
city, a questionnaire was mailed to:
ey.yrert era -, ;ates the r-iy's highj
f-r-'io. ; - fh...- .fsdiyait1 s i
first a.r.J sfibor,:! . toil's of lift- work, >
;-'nr gentle " '.. .:. haw <V. j;".i * iu."J\ '
trus ballot cane out?
Otc v.-- opm-im: rcamjmapnMysa a11 i
r rJif-rf. IJTot medicine, law, chums
ffj. or advertising ?none of these.!]
?;, art '.:r"..-rv-."nei:,ijng majority, those
toys ; ah girls; looking over the whole
field and seeing what goes on, announced
as their first choice of a ,
life work government service.
I jo not blame them tor this vote; |
there are many opportunities for
gone: work in the government em- <
ploy. None the less, this is a straw
which shows a great change in our ,
national psychology. In the old days ,
no boy chose a government job, at ,
least until he had tried something
else first. He wanted to jump into ,
the competitive game of business: win
or lose, he would measure his wits!
and strength against his fellows. One
day he. might hope to have a business
of his own.
England, a much older nation, long
ago reached the stage where a large
majority of its people start their lives
thinking of their old age. All they
ask for is security, and a small salary.
and a pension at the end. Is
the United States growing old?
Beware of Typhoid Marys
The papers have reported that Ty- |
phoid Mary is seriously ill, and be-:
fore my humble tribute sees the;
light of day the old lady may have
passed on to her reward. I recall
dimly the excitement she caused more
than thirty years ago. She was a
cook and for a number of years she
went her way from one employer to
another, giving general satisfaction.
But a tragic fate pursued every family
she served. One or more members
invariably developed typhoid fever.
Doctors examined the food and
the milk and the plumbing without
success.
Finally one curious individual, Dr.
George A. Soper ,a sanitary engineer,
caused an examination of Mary, and
a startling discovery was made. Mary
was not sick; she never had been
sick; but she was a huge bearding
house and picnic ground for typhoid
k
lever semis She was what is known
as a "carrier ?& warning uistrioutor
of death.
Weil the world 15 full of Typhoid
Marys. 1 remember one wno was a
merchant r. a country town. Always
prosperous. h? was aiways pessimistic.
Go into his store and ask him
how business was. and ne would reply:
"Not good, not good. And if
you want my opinion, it'll get a whole
lot worse before its' any better."
His pessimism did not prevent hin;
Iron, making a snug annua) profit
and accumulating a considerable estate
But for fifty years he dropped!
a germ of pessimism into the soul of
every customer. Another mar. has
spoiled ten thousand sunny days He:
has a deer .seated conviction that j
every bright moment in human life
has to be paid for by an equivalent
moment of darkness. Say to him:
"It's a beautiful day. Mr Jones." ana
his Invariable answer Is: "Yes. but
it's a 'weathermaker. We're laying1
up some tough storms for the future. >
mark my woi\i." j
They locked up Typhoid Mary, bur ,
the spiritual Typhoid Marys roam the!
world unchecked Not sick them- j
selves, they instill & germ of gloom
and foreboding: into everyone they!
Turret. i
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Fireside Phile&opliv |
;By C. M. Dickson?
When the mind begins to relax flu '
devil gets busy.
A man should be proud if none of j
his 'in-laws'* are outlaws.
In the next world, :
iscits.sion. j
Strange as it may .
. the weakness of some men |
actually lies in their strength.
Ham probably gave his father toe f
much toddv. hilt the boy showed a
generous spirit by wanting his father
tv? feel young again.
Without a change, it seems that the
term "democracy" will always begin
With a small -(d' and that it will be
so observed as never to appear on
the front pages of history
So far as is known, just ONE of j
the Oolumbuses sailed in quest of un-!
Kiiowu iciuua.
As a rule, while political battles
rage, character and eonsciuece lull
themsclVes to sleep.
No serfdom is so subtle as that
which is disguised in the garb of democracy.
A person who is not musically inelined.
but whose tone is monotony
ions "fiat." should take at least a few
lessons in elocutionary rythm.
Cain's weakness was in not being '
abb.- lo see his brother Abel excel his i
older brother in a social way.
The pel son who drowns just onr J
rhiie wiii: never want to go whore the \
water is trip deep ay a hi.
There arc some partnerships'" j
that aire ;oifef*XHS gotten biit arc !
hard to get out of,
A boy is a little presumptuous who
has to be taker, ear.* of r.y his rath- :
rti\ hut who tells a girl that he is ,
capable fcak n'g care of Jier.
To either pour, sprinkle, or dip a J
person will not wash away one single !
sin?it takes an ''interriai" applica- |
lion of blood.
The arena of rael manhood is never !
crowded.
The arena of real manhood is never
church" are neither necessarily synonyms
in meaning nor homogeneous
in everyday life.
At night, there is always room for
one more in a Ford roadster.
One chief difference between the
mind and a material receptacle is
that the fuller the mind of the right
kind of material the more it will hold.
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COLLINS STRESSES
VALUE GOOD RAMS
(By \V. B. Collins, County Agent)
The farmers in Watauga County
who make the most clear money on
their sheep, are the farmers who
keep good purebred rams.
The farmers in this county will be
given an opportunity to secure good
purebred rams at the ram sale which
will be held at Mrs. Henry Hardin's
barn, just east of Boone, on Saturday,
August 8 at 1:00 p. m. The rams
consigned to this sale are from some I
of the best purebred flocks in South- J
west Virginia. Mr. L. I. Case, Extension
Animal Husbandman, of this;
State, and Mr. Kenneth Litton. Extension
Animal Husbandman, of Virginia,
wlli have charge of this sale.
These rams were selected for the sale
by Mr. Litton.
These rams will be sold at auction,
and the farmers will set the price.
We hope that a large number of
farmers will attend this sale, and increase
their income from sheep, by
purchasing these purebred rams.
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
TODAY and I
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; FORD Birthday
Henry Ford s ?3rd birthday falls on
j the 30th of July. 2 am strongly of
: the opinion that this is a date for
I future generations to celebrate There
| is no man living whose personal ef;
forts have done so much to revoiuj
tionize the world we live in and the
j way we live in it
Until Mr Ford applied tc the tnakI
i:.g of automobiles the system of
I mass production by automatic maj
chinery. which had beer, applied pre|
viously only or. an extremely smali
1 scale, the automobile remained a
rich man's playthnig By putting
motor cars within the reach of everybody.
Mr. Foru not only created &
demand ana supplied it?for tile
I new method of transportation: but
; when every farmer and worker beJ
gar. to rur. a model T. the last resist- j
ance to taxation for highway im- ;
; proveir.ent vanishes:.
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FARM and factory
Mr Fcrd took me once to his
grandfather's far^n at Dearborn,
ventre he was brought up and told
roe that his interest ir. motor transportation
began when he first rcali;
ed the cost in lime and Labor which
the farmer had. to spend ir getting
h .- j oducts to market.
He had the farmer and his Preble
ms ir: his mind when he began to
experiment with his first ''horseless
carriage" back in the lS90"s. His interest
still centers largely on agriculture
and agricultural problems. He
has bee the chief driving force behind
the effort to find new ways of
utilizing farm products in industry.
He told me once of his hope that
the time would come v- hoi; every factory
worker would also bo a farmer,
Woking his farm during the growing
season and working in the factory
dining lh< Winter.
KOI.'KSK^H I' ? ??.> ini>ro!iu..
I have spent a pood deal of time
with Henry Ford, and every time I
talk with iiiI an; pleased with his
penetrating vision of the future and
his common-sense understanding of
human nature.
He was the first to foresee that
i production of commodities would Siitj
run the public's capacity to buy them
! unless a larger share of the earnings
! of industry were distributed to the
I workers in the form of wages. The
most sensat tonal episode in all ini
-iustnal history was Henry Ford's
! announcement in 3914 of a minimum
wage of :>5 a day for even the low
iiest unskilled worker
The rise of the American standard
jit living and the enormous increase,
in tin distribution of manufactured
goods to ail strata of the population
dates from the establishment of that
nigh wagv policy by Mr. Ford.
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FAITH . . . im-vjM-nsiv c ear
i thin. cue of the secrets of Homy
I'Oi I's .success- is hi5. faith ir. kirn&cii'.
He wr.o So -'-years aid beiote he snc
eeedo-y in rvn-king. thy .automobile.his
'dream. which was a nractffisl v.
hie''.* that ooai-1 be- sc.ld at a raw pric.:
and which anybody could operate, Ho
hag made many cars before he ar- ,
rived at the model T but none of j
them satisfied him. His friends ridiculed
him for wasting his time on j
what seemed to them a foolish bream.!
Common people never would buy automobiles,
they said; farmers would:
always prefer horses. Ford had faith;
that people would eagerly buy a|
cheap, reliable car as soon as he |
found out how to make it.
I think, too, one of the greatest
contributing elements to his success j
was his wife's unquestioning faith, j
in the days when he was working for
wages and spending all the time and j
money he could spare on his experii
ments.
FINANCE . right kind
Perhaps the most amazing thing
about Henry Ford is his personal
mastery of the principles of finance.
Time and again bankers have tried
to get control of the Ford Motor
Company. Several times they have
thought they had him in a hole, where
he would have to call on them. Every
time he has found ways to finance
his operations without the aid of the
i money-lenders.
Shortly after he had bought out
I his early associates, Senator Couzens
I and the Dodere. Brothers for snmo.
j thing like $75,000,000 in all, 1 asked
him why he did it. He replied that
he had discovered that stockholders
| did not want anything out of a business
but dividends. He did not think
I the profits of the Ford Company beI
longed to him or to the stockholders.
! The fact that they were so large was
| proof that he had been charging too
I much for his cars. He wanted to
use the profits to find ways of making
Ford cars better and cheaper.
We heard a great deal of the
phrase "production for use" a3 opposed
to "production for profit." That i
was Henry Ford's idea nearly 20
years ago.
?EVERY THURSDAY?BOONE
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The Family Doctor
By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES
CiOfxl Words lor An Old Friend
Little Mai) wa.i the belle of her
e? :r.:'iudlty. A small group of her
p'riymatesj grew envious to the jxiint
? i conspiracy. "I'll tell you what
?;c.' whispered one. "We'll
start a tale on her. That'll fetch her
, UOWli."
That's just what has happened to
: coffee. American ingenuity, in the
| promotion of flat beverages has
started a tale," in the interest ot
their own products and poeketbooks.
I may say here, that harmlessness is
a mighty happy virtue to claim for
any sort or drink- ana most substitutes
for coffee arc absolutely harmless.
But. there's no need for slandering
one's good fi iend. We physicians
know that caffeine is one of the best
j heart tonics known, in spite of the
advertisements that it is '"deadly"
! and that "coffee topers" are virtual
S suicides by poisoning their hearts.
! If people knew how to use caffeine
| for headaches, fewer would really
| poison their In arts wit h coal-tar
: preparations.
Of course, coffee, like anything
i else, must he temperately used. But
! I have had over thirty years expe i?
' and close observation and T
1 have never yet witnesseu death as a
rfjsoe. or uorxerc <iriiuvmg: -l jjh vc
- i s s committed; yes. Hz
o\ ej\ything. Coffee is. to :t ysyy fee
tale extent, habit-iorriung. So is the
j use 01 Kiimg. profane In nguage and
: the like
When the working man comes
> home tired, exhausted. with a heart
just as tired as the other muscles,
what restores the nerves and general
equilibrium better than a good cup
of coffee? It is a blessing, a comfort,
not a menace. I would not give
coffee to children, for the very valid
reason that they don't need it. Neither
would I fill them with patented
nostrums, so-called nutrients, when
they can get good, wholesome milk.
DOG VACCIN ATION
Mr. Edgar B. Hardin of Laxon announces
that he will be at the following
places on the dates mentioned for
the purpose of administering 'die antirabies
vaccine:
Stony Fork Township, last round.
Aug. 14, Wade Green's Mill, 7:30-8;
Mt. Zion schoolhouse, 8:15-8:45; Will
Shirley's residence. 9-9:30; Linzy
Green's, 9:45-10.15; Linzy Cook's
Store, 11-11:45; Stony Fork Post Office,
12-32:30; Deep Gap Post Office,
1-2; Fred Greer's residence, 2:35-2:45;
Meadow Creek, James Miller's old
place, 3-3:45; Laxon Post Office 44:30.
j VETERANS TO BE FETED AT
FRIDAY EVENING DINNER
Plans are being formulated by Watauga
Post American Legion for serving
a free dinner to all the veterans
of Watauga county and their wives,
in the dining room of the Legion hut
j next Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
Veterans of ail wars and their
wives are urged to attend this meeting.
which is- the regular monthly
gathering of the Legion and Auxiliary.
Reports are to be made by
those who attended the State Conven.
tion and it is said there is much other
important business to come up for
considers tk>;>.
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Home News
By Nancy Hart
Far most of lis names just indicate
! certain persons, planes or things. For
: an historian they present one of the
| lew means of discovering whole chapters
of unwritien history. This is
especially true of geographical names
which, as an eminent teacher points
out. "are an expression of Uie mental
character of the people ar.d the
period."
With that in it
is interesting to examine the names
oi sonic Western towns to aee how
much they reflect the cultural life
' of our people in the pioneering days.
Basalt, Colorado, is one of a dozen
towns named after mineral deposits,
showing that the earliest settlers
were prospectors and miners, and
showing what value they put on
Colorado. California has places named
by its settlers for their agricultural
and commercial interests: for
example. Ramium, Walnut, Oilfield,
Orange. Rice, Sheepraneh. and Plaeerville.
Other Western names reveal flora,
fauna, and very human, pioneer interests:
Rifle, Smuggler, Graft, Wild
Horse. Wildcat, Bible, Model, Hym
he-, Ideal. Magazine, Officer, Inspiration.
Tombstone. Rumble Bee. Jen
y Lund, Weed, and Success.
Taken a.: together these geographical
names tell a good part of the
sat01 tiie West. What stories of
history do the place names in your
locality xcll?
Liy~v;-*V ' ^Vy
The drive for safety in home appliances
continues. Latest wrinkle
shown in Chicago's Merchandise
Mar{; is ah electric fan with semi
sort rubber blades. It needs no guard,
as the blades, while stiff enough to
set up a strong breeze, arc limber
enough not to injure inquisitive fin1
j ?ers.
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Whether yon write with a fountain
; pen or on a typewriter, you are using
glycerine. It happens to be an
important ingredient in the manufacture
of high-grade inks, typewriter
ribbons, carbon paper and printing
fluids.
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Shoes are a weaknes with Helen
Hayes, as well they may be. Any
possessor of a size three and onehalf
foot would want to show it to
| its best advantage. Few headiiners
! own a more impressive array of shoes
1: than this popular stage and screen
star. For evening wear she has asI
sembled quantities of sandals with
i high and low covered heels in ma;
terials and colors to match or coni
irast with her various gowns. To
I supplement her town clothes she prej
fers strap pumps and tongued oxfords
with medium heeis, and walking
shoes with low built-up heels.
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Goiter Sufferers, which includes so
many women through the midwestern
and mountain slates goiter belt, are
promised relief through the non-surgical
treatment of toxic goiter which
has been called one of the greatest
achievements of modern medicine.
The evidence is now overwhelming
thai the dread toxic goiter yields almost
invariably to radiotherapy without
any of the risks inherent In operations.
Complete and permanent
cures are obtained in about 90 per
cent, of cases, and this includes the
/varpe AG adtjfinrPil thflt r>f fin
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AUGUST 6, 1936
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i WE WANT i i?
'" federal]
^wwil /1 i
i oration would be fatal.
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Household Hint: Leftover biscuits
can be reheated by sprinkling lightly
j with water and placing in co\'ered
pan and then heating five minutes
: in moderate oven. You will be surprised
how fresh the biscuits will be.
"I don't think I'll pray tonight/'
i said four-year-old Joan as she
climbed sleepily into bed. "I've had I
an awfully good time today and I
guess God knows it. Besides. I can't
think of anything I want."
MEETING OF DIRECTORS
Most encouraging reports of the J
Company's progrp.w ?r?H condition
were presente<i to the Board of Directors
of the Security Life and Trust
Company at its semi-annual meeting
held at the home office in Winston'
Salem on the 28th.
Mr. Frank M. Payne, district manager
for the company, who maintains
i his offices in Boone states that his
business has broken all records for
the past twelve months, add that the
prospects for the future ai e exceedingly
bright.
President E. L. Davis submitted the
record of the company's progress of
the first six months of this year,
showing substantial increases in premium
income, assets, contingent reSvivti,
surplus and outstanding Insurance
in force.
President Davis called attention to
the fact that the ?ornpa has shown
consecutive gains in its insurance in
force each month since the middle of
;9S3, and during this three years period
has achieved the unusual record
of a 50 per cent. Increase in its total
outstanding insurance in force.
A general spirit of optimism was
noticeably In evidence on the part of
fhc officers and directors present at
the meeting as to business DrosDects
! for the future.
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| CAROLINA
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BLOWING ROCK
Presenting
"The Best In Motion Pictures"
Hours: 3:00, 7:30 and 9:15 P. M.
Thursday, Aug. 6
Edward Arnold?Joan Perry
?In?
"MEET NERO WOLFF,"
Friday, Aug. 7
Robert Montgomery?
Rosalind Russell
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?In?
"TROUBLE FOR TWO"
Saturday, Aug. 8
Wendy Barrie?James Stewart
?In?
"SPEED"
Mon.-Tue&., Aug. 10-11
Shirley Temple
in
"POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL"
Wednesday, August 12
; Ruth Chatterton?Herbert Marshall
?In?
"GIRLS DORMITORY"
Special Prices Every Saturday:
10c & 35c
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