BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
World's Chemists Busy
ti.. v-... He!! Broth
Our Huge Gold Bile
s Trie gTeat fighters in Asia and
Europe in the days of Frederick the
U:eat and Napoleon had little idea
' of war's future. But ' marvelous
things, some of the greatest Napoleon
especially, might l)3vc done
with today's inventions.
Frederick the Great's father selected
tlie tallest men he could find
for his guard, probably kept them
away from the firing line. In batTie
they would have been killed first,
hit by the bullets that go over the
bead* of shorter men.
The wholesale killers of the okl
dayt prepared their killings' by
marching men up and down, drilling
them, encouraging them with titles,
brass bands to lead them, fancy uniforms.
. All that means little now.
About 100 mile3 from Berlin there
is f. station called 1-euna There
most useful work is done, in theory
and through study of the manufacture
of synthetic, petroleum; and
there most important, learned men
wren Dip Heads, spcctac)c3 and an
amount of education that would
make you dizzy if you could imapinc
it, concentrate their brains on the
prej-aration of better, more efficient
poison gases and high explosives.
Every country has its similar
death iaiioratory; men perhaps as
efficient as those of Germany,
though Germany is the kingdom of
chemistry, the teacher of other nations.
Henry Irving, on the 3tagc of his
theater in London, prepared an impressive
presentation of the witches
in "Macbeth." old. toothless hags, j
preparing their hell-broth, with power
to summon spirits from the dead
and make them foretell the future.
Par more efficient are those solemn
German chemists, physicists
and other professors, preparing the
real hcil-brotii of poison gas, upon
which the future of civilization and
the domination of the earth may depend
for many centuries.
We had our periods of universal
harbsrism and cannibalism, our ages
of flint, bronze and iron, our many
interesting forms of rulership, plannets
to give one or a few oontrol over
all the others. We hart the age of
military feudalism, and many think
that we are now seeing the end of
"industrial feudalism." There may
be in the centuries "hsftd of us a
period of airplane-poison gas rule,
which will moke the peopleag^S,, the
world as completely subject to u *ingle
dictatorship as were the ancient
galley-slaves, swinging their oats under
the lash.
Then; are a good many things
we haven't seen and many to which
we devote too little thought, including
perhaps the fact that it is dangerous
to be too rich if you are not
prepared to defend yeuroelf against
burglars.
Those thousands of millions "in
gold that we are hiding away in a
hole in the ground, as ingeniously as
any squirrel hiding his hickory nuts,
may bring us trouble some day.
The thought of those ten thousand
millions' worth of gold bars and dollars,
hidden not very far Mow the
surface, might cause some Ingenious
Asiatic or Sluropean to say to himself;
,
"For one or two billions I could
prepare the necessary machinery,
flying ships and poison gas included.
to conquer the necessary areas
of the United States and frighten the
others into submission. Having laid
down my layer of gas, I would desiiejBi
and take the ten thousand millions
and go home with a clean profit
of eight billions in gold."
Mussolini races his big Italian built
automobile, the engine burning alcohol,
made of Italian farm products?
no gasoline. Some lawmakers in
America suggest compelling the use
of 10 per cent alcohol in all fuel for
American automobiles. Fuel alcohol
can be made from corn, and the law,
it is said, would give work to 2,000,(K/0
men on 30,000,000 acres of farm
land.
It seems impossible to believe the
hideous accounts of the maltreatment
and cruel deaths inflicted upon
women in the civil war now raging'
in Spain.
That men should fight and murder
each other is to be expected, since
they are at beat "half tiger, half
monkey." and often the monkey given
way to the tiger. But that they
should inflict shameful ill treatment
and hideous death on defenseless women
seems utterly unbelievable, even
when you know what men are, in
a mob.
Watauga Pays $25,000
In Retail Sales Tax
Watauga County paid into the
uaimuy me sum of $25,379.86,
in the form of sales tax collections
f<fr the fiscal year ending June 30th,
according to figures which have been
made public by Commissioner of Revenue
A. J. Maxwell. .
Among the counties of the state
the following, led in order, named in
amount of sales tax returns: Guilford,
Meckicnburg, Forsyth Buncombe
and Wake.
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VOL. XL VIII. NO 11.
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Pittsburgh, Pa.?Norman Thomas
(above!, Socialist. Presidential can- Rt
didate, donned a miner's cap at L's
Hazelton as he swung through the ob
Pennsylvania coal fields on a cam- "
naign tour. tlc'
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RIVERS IS OUT AS =
DIRECTOR OF WPA "<
]
Boone Man Does Not Make 0<il
Wq
Clarifying Statement: Says s
He Will Talk Later. si *
Vei
Jini Rivers, director of the Sixth Qn
District of tlie Works Progress Ad- n,.
ministration in North Carolina, with
headquarters in Winston-S&Iom, has <>.'
been succeeded by E. W Cole, for- i
racr assistant director it was learned (jol
Saturday. State Administrator Coan hja
said Mr. Cole would sei-ve as acting (jr(
director until further notice. arK
When Mr. Rivers was shown the <je\
Associated Press stoiy which stated
that "announcement of the change jn
was made after city court records jj01
revealed Rivers had been arrested for
drunkenness" he declined to com- ,.()
ment, other than say that he would ant
have a statement to moke aliortly. cou
Mr. Rivers accepted tile appoint- Hoi
tr.ent as WPA official September 15,
1935, and nad planned during the t i
summer to finish out the year before n
resuming his duties with the Wareturns
to Winston-Salem on business
matters and declined to state
whether or not he would be engaged \
soon with the loeal newspaper, pend- deri
ing liis decision as to whether or nol are
he will accept a position tendered Sal
him down state. tic!
Coi
FIT /vvvmrit
KUWElt SHUW IS S,
GRAND SUCCESS 2
lici
Garden Club Well Pleased With ^
First Showing; A List Of qia
the Prize-Winners. we
d&t
The Annua! Flower Show of the hig
Garden Club which was held Septem- pro
ber Hlh in the Sunday School room 1
of the M. E. Church was in every in
way a decided success. One wondered the
at the beauty, variety and quantity clui
of the display. ind
The Club wants to urge every one er
to begin to plan now for next year's nln
allow. Trus was good but it is otir w"
purpose to make eacti show better ^ul
each year. tioi
Mrs. Underdown of Blowing Rock, 1
Miss Smith, Valle Crucis, Mrs. Dr. '
Bingham, Cove Creek and Mrs. Mary f*^?
Bullock. Charlotte, were the gracious ?a
judges. ^
Those who won ribbons were as er
follows: dat
Blue Ribbons?Miss Helen Under- I
uuwii, jnra. van rienson ?, Mrs. w. anc
C. Greer 2, Mrs D. E. Benfiekl, Dr. due
Widenhouse, Miss Cora Jefcoat, Mrs. aid
R. S. Swift, Mrs. T. Len Cook, Mrs. hor
A. E. Hamby 2, Mrs. Gaither, Mrs. use
Herman Eggera, Mrs. A. E. South 2, sch
Mrs. Frank Miller, Mrs. Dr. Perry, tie!
Miller's Floral Shoppe. cor
Red Ribbons Da
Mrs. Albert Watson, Mrs. Rosa Al- tau
len, Mrs. Edgar Cook, Mrs. L. B. I
! Hardin, Mrs. A. E. Hamby, Mrs. W. hat
E. Holshouser, Mrs. G. K. Moose, Riv- hlg
ers Printing Co. arc
White Ribbon <
Boone Steam Laundry, Mrs. D. J. 1
Oottrell, Mrs. J. A. Williams, Mrs. be
Watt Gragg, Mrs. R. K. Bingham, fall
Novelty Shop. 2
The club greatly appreciates the siti
cooperation of ail that bad a part in 3
making this show a success; the to
kindness of the M. E. Church in al- ma
lowing us the use of their Sunday po]
School department; the merchants pre
and citizens who responded so nice- trii
ly, the' able Judges who were so kind of
to do this for us, to ail we are in- of
deed grateful and we trust one and >
all will loin the club snH
can accomplish much that will im- eac
prove our town and county. be
siti
Mr. Bob Campbell, manager of
Parka-Bell: store in Pulaski. Va., 3
I spent Sunday with Mr. aiul Mrts D. wei
1E. Benfield. " Mr
dependent Weekly Ne*
BOONE. WATAUGA CPU
INNEY GREENE
RITES ATTENDED
BY HUGE THRONC
ne Of County's Most Promi
ncnt Citizens Succumbs It
Winston-Salem Hospital Saturday;
Good Citizen and Devout
Churchman.
Impressive funeral services wen
nducted Monday morning: from th<
?at Camp Baptist Church for I>&1
Linney Greene, 59 years old. om
that section's most outstanding
:iztns. ->vho died in a Winstonlem
hospital Saturday, following
illness whitih hed hojj. critical fiju
iy a short time.
The services were in charge ol
sv. J. C. Canipe of the Boone Bapt
Church, who was assisted in tht
sequies by Revs. R. C. Eggeis and
C. Payne. The esteem in which
ceased was held was evidenced by
i unusually large concourse of
enos wmcn packed avery available
rtion of the church building and
Tie hundreds occupied the churchrd
during- the services. Literally
>res of floral pieces were in eviice.
Interment was in the Meat Camp
uetery, the arrangements being by
ins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.
Surviving arc the widow, Mrs. BeiWilson
Greene and four sons,
rne, Frank, Woodrow and Burl
nene of Zionvilie, N C.: a sister,
s. Emma Setaer, Boone and the
her, Mr. Manloy Greene, of Meat
hp.
Jeceased was a native of the sec11
in which he died and had spent
life in Watauga County. Mr.
icnc was a farmer by occupation,
1 had succeeded well. He -was a
out churchman, and had been one
the leading figures in the church
hia community for a greater poiS
i of his life. He was an active
lonent of all those things calcuiat{a
be for the benefit of uis section
i county. In his death Watauga
inty loses one of her most value
and upstanding citizens.
igh School Students
Are Offered Prizes
K;r bounty Fact*
Vinston-S&lem.?High school 3tu\ts
in ten counties in this section
being invited by the Winstonem
Chamber of Commerce to parpate
in a County Fact-Finding
itest, with a cash prize for the
mer in each county. President J.
rry White has announced. He
1:
Many, opportunities come to us in
course of our service to give pubty
to the counties in the Winstonem
trading area. Hitherto, we
rc had no literature available in
tributable form. For this reason
are seeking to collect the desired
a, aiiu ill doing so. to give the
h school students a part in the
ject."
?he material Is to be submitted
the form of compositions telling
story of the conntv thic. in
Jes history, agricultural products,
ustries, points of interest, and othdetoils
of importance. The wing
composition from each countv
i oc punnsned in mimeographed
letln form for general distribuu
11 conducting the contest, the
unber of Commerce is inviting the
peration of school officials and
ehers in developing the project in
various schools, and the assist:e
of newspapers, parents and othinterested
adults in supplying the
a.
t is felt that with proper interest
I cooperation, the contest will pro:e
valuable information that will
the students in appreciating their
ne counties more. It wilt also be
ful in bringing tourists. High
ool students in the following couni
are eligible to take part In the
itest: Alleghany. Ashe. Davidson,
vie, Randolph. Stokes, Surry, Waga,
Wilke3 and Yadkin,
i-ull details regarding the contest
re been sent to superintendents and
h school principals throughout the
a.
Ion test rules are as follows:
The dates of the contest shall
from the opening of school in the
I of li?S6 until December 1, 1936.
I. All entries must be in compoon
form, limited to 1500 words.
!. All compositions are required
contain the following basic infortion:
Name of county and origin,
ulation. county seat, agricultural
ducts, mineral products, indusrs,
transportation, history, points
interest. Any other information
interest may be included.
L cash award of $5 will be given
the winning composition from
h county. Honorable mention will
given to the second best compoon
from each county.
irs. W. B Gragg is spending the
:k visiting at the home of a son,
. Horton Grasp-, in RSoiw
ill
A DP
rspaper?Established in tl
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NTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THU1
I 9 Cotton Picking Madhi:
?
Jackson, Miss.?Deeply concerned
uvium men 01 importance were ai
ness the performance of John anc
chine in operation. In less than ar
ton than a. hand picker could gath
coming of the machine was that it
and also 3tained some of the cot
hilly and uri
REA Project
Be Submitted
Xhe work of preparing the data
for submission to Washington preliminary
to the inclusion of Wataiaga
County in the Federal Government's
Rural Electrification
program, is nearing the home
slretok, according to Sir. W. B.
?oUlns. county agent, who with a
large corps of worker* in various
section* of the counts, hua been j
making all possible hustc in workink
ou' the project.
Mr. Port Jonen, Urn air draughtspmu$
Jbg&i&phave the roupx
completed and ready
for blae-priiiiiilrg.' At the taior
SEEKSlVORKERS j
ON SCENIC ROAD
Representative Of Employment
Service Will Be In Boone
Friday 25th.
Director Woolen or the district
employment office in North Wilkesboro
was In town Friday and states
that a representative of the N C.
State Employment Service will be in
this city Friday the 25tii and every
other Friday until further notice for
the purpose of contacting those desiring
work, particularly in regard
to the construction of the Scenic
highway.
Mr. Wooten states that none but
strcr.g able bedtrd ~en of mature
age and well seasoned need apply for
the jobs.
It is stated that the demands of
the contractors have been quite active
for certain kinds of skilled workers.
and that at present, there is demand
for qualified jack-hammer
men. these! tractor operators, experienced
on the RXJ-7" are also
I needed and some drivers for ffuggs
and Euclid trucks may be placed.
Those experienced in driving the
light commercial trucks only, could
not qnalitfy for these jobs it is said.
FINANCIAL KEPOB'f OF
The blowing rock clinic
Hie Blowing Rock Clinic is a
small five-roomed hospital to care for
the sick and to teach the prevention
of disease. It has a medical director
and a resident nurse. The building
was built during the winter of 1934'35.
and was incorporated in the
spring of 1936. The Board of Trustees
own the property and the business
is carried on by a board of
managers. The work, however, has
been going on since 1930. The report
there covers the whole period
from 1930 to June, 1936. In the 15
months of hospital activity 112 patients
have been cared for. This represents
350 bed days.
The income has been from patients'
fees, $360.25, and from gifts, $8,59333:
a total in the six years of $8,953.53
This has been spent in the
following manner: for drugs and
treatments before the Clinic was
built $1,401.67; for building -and
equipment of the building $3,150.45;
for the nurse's salary, $1,5CC,
maintenance, drugs and service $2,32XU1
T*,;,. ? .i? - - - - ' - ?
r?d iuuu or
j 377.03 and left a balance June first
j of 5576.53.
le Year Eighteen Elidbty-t
gSMr
3SPAY. SEPTEMBER
rte
m
with the future of cotton, many
: Stoneville, Miss., last week to witl
Mack Rust's cotton picking mat
hour the machine picked more cotler
in. a day. The principal short;
gathered twigs and.unripe cotton
:ton. Nor is it as yet adapted to
Leveii fields.
Is Likely To
I in Few Davs
J
. 'inie the data required vviU be com!
plete :uul Mr. Coilms believes that
1 the project will be before the proper
authorities in Wasbingtou by the
end of next week. The project will
be prepared with ?uch uceurafcenetss
[ nf detail, that it is considered quite
unlikely any changes will be rej
quired, pending its approval or rejection.
In discussing the work, Air. Cj>1lins
state, that the separation of
tui- people of the county In this
work hu boon whrilehoajrtt-d, and
has been largely, responsible for the
aucce.It of the undertaking up to
the present time.
MRS. AMANDALOVE
CLAIMED BY DEATH
91-Year-OId Vilas Citizen Succumbs
Monday?Funeral
Held Wednesday.
Mrs. Celia Amanda Love died Monday
at the home of a son, Mr. D S.
Love at Viia3. following a iong illness.
Mrs. Love suffered a badly
fractured hip several months ago,
from which she never recovered,
but oilier ailments, it was said,
brought about her demise. Mrs. Love
was 91 years old.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Brushy Fork Baptist Church
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock and
interment was in the Adams cemetery.
Mm. Love was well known throughout
this section and was one of the
olde.it residents. During her long
life she had endeared herself to the
people through her sterling qualities,
and left a host of friends.
Surviving are six sons and three
daughters: D. S. Love, Vilas; Francis
Love. Virginia; Joe H. 1-ove, Ferndale,
Mich.; James VV. Love. Springfield,
Mo.; T. G. and E. C. Love, Detroit,
Mich.; Mesdames Lec Greer,
heva, Tenn.; N. E. Wilkerson, Roanoke.
Va.; Betty Short, Plostlco, Va.;
49 grandchildren and a large nunibei
of great and great great grandchildren
survive.
Week-End Brings a
Minimum Qf AnSSt*
From the viewpoint of local police
officers the past week-end was the
quietest experienced here during the
past four months. City officers took
two into custody while the sheriffs
j forces arrested one.
I On an at-aroira *%??
uiu jmiiuner me
police department has taken aBout
twelve prisoners each week-end.
R. D. HODGES IMPROVES
R. D. Hodges, Jr., who suffered
serious Injury- when he was accidentally
struck by a rock near the Boone
High School last Wednesday, is now
showing a rapid improvement and it
is believed that within a few days
the popular youth will have recovered.
Young Mr. Hodges suffered a
concussion of the brain as the missile
struck him on the head and he
was unconscious for several hours. A
temporary paralysis condition of one
erm resulted from the injury.
The Surry County sub-soiler used
by the local conservation committee
will subsoil au acre an hour
fv"^ ',vFr
..'- ;.5;:
RAX
$1.50 PER YEAR
JsupeworcourF
a session to open
lln boone monday
Judge \V. F. Harding to Preside
One Week Mixed Term: Fifteen
Cases On State Docket;
>Iay Not Reach Civil Calendar.
The regular fa!! term of Watauga
Superior Court will convene next.
Monday with Judge VV Holding
presiding. The court is for one week,
i find la fnr ?Tlo t T-Ti?; nf hrdh ,sm-niwu 1
and civil actions, but because of a
rather heavy state docket, Austin 3.
South. Clerk of the Court, beliece3
it unlikely that, many cases will he
disposed of on the civil calendar.
Included on the state docket is one
homicide case, that against Alien
Mast, held on charges growing out
of the fatal shooting of Lloyd Preanell,
a companion on a hunting trsp.
Mast was said to have confessed the
! shooting, but elaimed self-defense,
j Preliminary hearing was waived.
, George Thornhil! and Manuel PatIterson
will be tried for burglary,
growiiig out of the robbery of the
bmithey Store, of which the two are
accused. Since persons were using'
the building for sleeping quarters at
the time of the robbery, it is said
that the State wiil likely ask for a
first degree burglary verdict. A verdict
of this kind carries the death
peiiaity.
There are two cases of breaking
and entering. One against Will Folk,
Soone negro, charged with burglarising
a" Boone barber shop, while
George Corr.ett is to be tried on a
.similar charge growing out of the
robbery of a mercantile establishment
in the Beaver Dam section.
The remainder of the fifteen or so
cases on the state docket are for violations
of the prohibition taws, some
of tlieni coming to the Superior Court .
on appeal from the judgment of the
Recorder.
Maine G. O- P. Counts
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Political interest centers this week
ftn ihft WnHwOr rtX. * 1
? .??I at* jg|
the analysis of almost complete returns
Tuseday Indicated that the barajjStiT
state had given the Republicans
50.8 per cent of the United
States Senate vote and 56.1 per ceut
of the gubernatorial vote
The percentages were baaed on
senate and governor totals of 310,878
and 306.4S5, respectively, each
we'd above the previous record in
Uns state.
To the personal popularity of twoterm
Democratic Governor Liouia
Brann, who polled 152,915 votes to
Republican United States Senator
Wallace H. White's 157,961 was ascribed
the senator's failure to run
even with his tlcketmate. GovernorElect
Lewis O. Barrows.
Barrows, in a three-cornered race,
polled 172,196 votes to 129,097 for F.
Harold Dubord, Democrat, and 5,332
flip TnHonpmlh'nl- f
...f.vMuviov vciijaiiitu V/. DUCKU".
Dr. Grover To Speak
At Chamber Commerce
Dr E. O. Grover, president of the
Blowing' Rock School of English will
address a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce Thursday evening at 'A
o'clock, according to Wade E. Brown,
president of the Chamber, who urges
all members to be present, as well as
others interested.
The School of English has been
a marked success this season, attracting
students from 17 states and
lectures by persons of notable literary
achievements, among whom have
- been Hcrachell Brickell, literary edi.
tor of the. New York Evening Post
and Margaret Mitchell, author of
"Gone With the Wind," now the best
selling novel in the United States.
It is tlie present hope and plan of
, Dr fimvn* to make the school a
1 permanent institution and there is a
strong probability of its becoming af- >'"
lutatea with Duke University, which,
in itself would be a great asset to
this section
WORK PROGRESSES
Work on the Mabel school building
is progressing, according to Wilfred
Davis, foreman of construction,
who states that plasterers have beer,
engaged this week on the interior of
the structure, and that only a few
yards of native stone remains to bo
. placed in the walls. He believes some
. parts of the building will be available
for use by the end of thirty
I days.
BZCOKDKB'S COURT
Three cases were tried before
i Judge EIngham's Recorder's Court
Tuesday, as follows:
W. E. Buchanan, violation prohibition
laws. One-half the costs.
D. if. Church, reckless driving, one1
half the coat.
; Carl Beach, driving while into*!- . 'b
cated, (50 and one-half the cost.