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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Airplanes at $750 Each
Perils of Pacifism
Iihe "Man of taicinnr
Improving Human Breed?
^ Fourteen concerns have offered to
build small airplanes to cost as little
as ?750. That is important aviation
news; the bureau of air commerce is
to oe congratulated on its effort to
encourage individual flying.
The day is coming when there will
be more machines in the air than
there are automobiles on the ground
now. More than 25,000,000 airplanes
may sound tike exaggeration.
But it sounded like exaggeration
some years ago when this writer published
editorials urging citizens not
to spread tacks and cut glass on
roads, to ntirirturr?
because, before Jong', automobiles
would be used by workers going to
and from wo'rk. That prediction
came true.
Some one preparing a list of ten
things that Christians would and
would not do says:
"There would be no private
wealth: Jesus denounced great possessions
as alien to His gospel, and
fatal .to His kingdom.
"There wouid be no poverty and
no war, because real Christians
would refuse to fight."'
7r. this civilization, if Christians
refused to fight, they would rapidly]
diminish in numbers and the Pacific I
coast would be settled by Asiatics, j
Trie founder of Christianity taught
that what was due to Caesar should
be rendered unto him.
If He were on earth now He
might say the same of organized capital,
knowing that it supplies, in our
?-on:plicated system, the possibility of
steady work.
Nobody, not even a clergyman, j
can be positive as to what Christ's
commands would be if He returned
in this age of flying machines, automobiles,
public schools and the
strange problem of too much of almost
everything, combined with.want
among many thousands of families
lacking food and the government
wondering occasionally what to do
with millions of bushels of wheat.
Before long y?u may have football
touches feeding calcium to
their players You know what we
call "a man of iron" is really the
"man of calcium."
The metal calcium in the Diooo,:
in quantities that do not change, or
that change little, produces a steadiness
of nerve inciting in man w.th
a fluctuating calcium supply.
It i3 said that experiments made
on four young :ncn at an eastern uni-1
versity showed that a drop in calcium
brought on "moodiness, depression
and pessimism."
If there is high calcium content in
the blood serum they are in a "happy,
cheerful, optimistic, emotional
slate."
But ask your doctor about it. Don't
swallow calcium recklessly.
London thinks something should
be dene about "more than 250,000
mental defectives," and sterilization,
on the German plan, is suggested,
on' condition that the individual
consents. With such a law,
governmental sterilization agents
would have few customers.
tinker one law suggested, the health
minister would order the sterilization
of "physicially ailing persons shown
to be carriers of transmissible dis-j
abilities."
The world is preparing to regu- j
late and improve Ule rumar. br?e?;
as it has long regulated and improved
breeds of cattle, swine and
other creatures; a step in the direction
of uniformity that may not be
desirable.
One of the most enlightened educators
in America tells teachers and
undergraduates that the important
thing is the general welfare, not the
individual welfare. An excellent idea
to put into the minds of young people.
They should also be told that individual
welfare and striving, with
selfishness back of it, is the foundation
of general welfare.
The baby wiggling its arms and
kicking its legs in the cradle is building
up one more strong baby, for
its own sake, not for the general
welfare, to which it, nevertheless,
contributes. The man, concentrating
on his career, and on the care and
education of his children, has chiefly
in mind his career, children and
family. But he also is building up
the general welfare. Each tiny coral
builder worked only for its own speck
of coral, but beautiful Islands are the
result.
After four years of study, wise
men discover that ideas are impressed
on the minds of children
more deeply by moving pictures than
by reading books. Less than four
minutes is required to establish that
fact.
GOES TO RENO
Mrs. Bertha Smith of Zionville left
last week for Reno, Nevada, where
it is reported she will establish her
residence looking to the institution
Ui ui iUi be o vtiOIi. Her daughter, Miss
Lillie Mae Smith and oousin, Ray
Pennel), are said to have accompanied
her.
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VOL. XLVIII, NO. 13.
Plans Festival
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Professor Garbee. head of the TriCounty
High School Association,
who is making plans for harvest
event in November.
HARVEST EVENT
BEING PLANNED
High School Association to
Sponsor Competitive Contest
According to Garbee.
According to reports from Professor
Garbee. head of the "Annataehian
High School Association of Ashe.
Avery and Watauga Counties," plans
are pending whereby the playcrafters
and the Music Department of
Appalachian College will sponsor a
competitive contest. Harvest Festival,
here November 26-27.
Presentation of one-act plays is to
be one of the main features of the
program, and already nine high
schoois di the surrounding" counties
have signed up for the tournament.
Three stages are to be built on the
campus of the college which will
serve for the presentation of the preliminary
play contests. At night the
finals will be held in the college auditorium.
Professor Antonakos, head of the
PI aye rafters, has announced that
the main events of the musical program
which are to be held in connection
with the play contest will be
featured after each play presentation.
This event will mark the first program
of its kind in the Appalachian
High School association, but if this
program proves successful similar
ones are to be staged at a later date.
ELECTRIC PLANT
BEING IMPROVED
New Type Turbine Expected to
Increase Horsepower Here
About Fifty Per Cent
Saturday, September 26, the old
runner of the New River Light and
Power Company's hydro-electric
plant was replaced with a new
brass-bronze mechanism, a recent invention,
which, according to engineers,
will increase the horse power
of the plant from forty to fifty per
cent.
This new runner wa3 brought
down and installed by George Biggs,
representative of the James Leffel E.
Company who is widely known
throughout the states as one of the
greatest water wheel designers in
America. He and his assistant supervised
the installation and remained
in Boone until the new addition had
been tested for its efficiency. Much
of the work was done by the New!
River Light and Power Company
crew who worked from Saturday
night until the job was completed.
Tne purchasing of the new device j
resulted from a trip made last weeki
bv Dr. B. B. Dougherty and Mr. S.
M. Ayers to Springfield, Illinois, the:
headquarters of the designing company.
Reid Coffey Case To
Be Heard On Appeal
The State Supreme Court today
(Wednesday) hears arguments in
appeals from the seventeenth district.
Of local interest is the appeal of
Reid Coffey, sentenced in Avery
county to death in the gas chamber
for the murder of an uncle, Harvey
Coffey, early last spring.
The deceased was said to have!
been shot as he was singing hymns
with members of his family by his
own fireside, the load from a shotgun
having been fired through a
window of the home.
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independent Weekly New:
BOON K. WATAUGA COUI
DON KERLEY DIES;
INJURED IN BLAST
DURING WAR DAYS
Prominent Citizen Succumbs In
S tales ville; Funeral Held On
Wednesday; Fatal Illness Result
of Battleship Explosion.
Thomas Don Kerley, *8 years old,
and popular resident of the Bamboo
neighborhood, died at a Statesvllle
hospital Monday where he had been
a patient for four weeks. Mr. Kerley
became critically ill at the hospital
where he had taken a son for treatment
and, severe bums which he received
in a battleship explosion during
the world war, are believed to
have brought about the fatal illness.
The circulatory system all but failed
and efforts of physicians to restore
it were of no avail.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday at 10 o*clcck from me
Rcins-Sturdivant Funeral Home. by
Rev. J. C. Canipe, Baptist pastor,
and interment was in the Critcher
graveyard in the home community.
The American Legion was in charge
of the services at the graveside.
Surviving are the widow and eight
children: Jack, Norma, Gwyn, Stuart,
Kale, Larry, Conley, Ed Kerley;
six sisters, Mrs. Joe Pea: m, Moravian
Falls: Miss Annie Lou Kerley,
Blowing Rock, R. F. D.; Mrs. B. L.
Stone, Daughton. Ga.; Mrs. Jim Ray,
Boone: Mrs. R. C. Little, Roanoke,
Mrs. J. L. Downs, Douglas. Wyo.;
Mrs. W. R. Johnson, Boone.
Mr. Kerley was born in Watauga
county, the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. J. Ed Kerley .and was reared
here, where he received his education
at the Appalachian Training school.
He enlisted in the navy in 1917. It
was while the battleship Brooklyn
lay i*.i the harbor at Yokahoma, Japan.
in the fall of 1918, that he suffered
near-fatal injuries from a terrific
explosion in the boiler room. His
recovery was not at first expected,
but. after a year spent in a hospital
in Janan and a lik*> npHnrf in
Francisco, he was sufficiently restored
to rotor" home in 1920. In
1921 he was married to Miss Bina
Watson of lhl? .county, ajul for a time
they made tlieir home on his ranch
in tlie state of Wyoming. Returning
here he engaged in farming, owning
the Kerley home place, ami a plan
tation in East Tennessee, he succeeded
to a remarkable degree. 13c was
uniformly popular throughout, this
section where he had a wide friendship.
and whs a splendid citizen.
Mrs. Garland Dees
At Trade, Tennessee
Mrs. Maggie Garland, 90 years old,
died at her home near Trade, Ten::.,
Monday from an illness with an incurable
ailment, and funeral services
were conducted from the home Tuesday
by Rev. G. T. Byrd and Rev.
Woodard of Mountain City. Interment
was in that community.
Surviving is the husband, Mr. I,
C. Garland, and the following sons
and daughters: Clarence, of Shouns;
Russc'J, Tr"ds; Bruce, Havre de
Grace, Md.; Mrs. Myrtle Martin, Ce'
dro Wooley, Wash.; one brother,
Orsytr, I.nrwlpv Oregon; one
sister, Mrs. Jennie Rarediell, Red
RnnU ni/ln - ? ? J?1. !I J
fIVIU., bWdVC= qI Ui 1UL.U11U1CU cilj
so survive.
Homecming To Be At
Lees-McRae Saturday
Banner Elk, Sept. 24.?Lees-Mc;
Rae college will celebrate its annual
1 Homecoming on Saturday, Oct> jcr 3
this year, it has been announced by
Edgar H. Tufts, president of the college.
According to Miss Fannie K.
Taylor, alumni secretary, invitations
have been extended to a large number
of friends and graduates of the
institution and the largest and best
homecoming of recent years is planned.
The guests will arrive Saturday
morning and the first event on the
program will be a basket lunch at the
Maple Orchard, which is near the
college. Following this the LcesMcRae
Bulldogs will meet the Boiling
Springs College football team on the
college athletic field. The facultv
; and studenc body will be hosts at a
social gathering in the lobby of the
Tennessee building at 7:30 Saturday
evening.
Bog Agle, of Boone, is president
i of the Lees-McRae Alumni Associa!
tion, many members of which will be
| present Homecoming. Vice president
i3 Miss Thelma Boring; secretarytreasurer
is Miss Dorothy Harris.
GROCERY STORE CLOSES
Lowe's Food Store, operated here
for the past three month.:, closed its
doors Monday afternoon and the
stock was moved to Hlcaory. Mr.
Lowe states that he left Boone on
the advice of his physician, who
found that the change in altitude had
adversely affected his health.
Al Of
spaper?Established in tl
^TFY, NORTH CAROLINA. THU
Clubs Swing In Wi
i
Five thousand lettuce workers o
r>< /--r? i-jr ? -? - -
\>i >jauxia3, wrtei* uiej' srar
general riol prevailed. One s.ri]
and many were injured as ciubs
kcting the crops meant heavy los
National Commander
- r cy' W. Coloier
Harry W. Colmery, of Topcka,
Kansas, is the new national comrsshder
e? the AmericiUi Leriqn, :
having been recently elected at the
Cleveland convention.
LOCAL POLITICS
TO HOLD STAGE
Republican Headquarters Ar<
Open; Active Campaigns Of
Both Parties Predicted.
With the general elections onh
about five weeks in the offing loca
interest in matters political is grow
ing more intense on "both sides o
the fence" ami n vigorous campaigr
for every office from constable ti
president wiU likely be waged in thi:
county. Republican headquarter:
have been opened on Main Street an<
reports are that soon the Democrat
are to have an official center of op
erations, and it is to be presume!
that the usual number of outside ora
tors will soon be heard at publt
gatherings held here and there in th
iiivic pupuuiLea sections.
Th" '?i?t that a closely contestei
campaign is being conducted for th
presidency stimulates local politics
activity to some degree. A full slab
of state officers also comes up an<
the county ticket is shortened by om
name, as the result of the decisioi
to abolish the recorder's court. Rich
ard Kelley, Democratic candidate fo
Coroner is the only unopposed loca
candidate.
Singing Convention
To Be Held Sunday
The regular semi-annual singin;
convention of the Watauga Sin gin j
Association will be held at the court
house in Boone Sunday, October 4th
according to an announcement mad
jointly by N. L. Harrison, chairmai
and Z. T. Greene, secretary of th
organization.
The officials are requesting thleaders
of the various singing classe.
in the county to be at the eourthousat
10:15 o'clock and at that tin*
transact such business as the lead
ers may think proper. A cordial in
vitation is extended to all the peopl
in this section to attend.
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Grissom Promises
Merger Of Counties
I Gilliam Crissorn, Republican can
' didate for the Governorship, injeete
I a new note in the state political cam
paign in a speech delivered in Win
| ston-Salem Tuesday, when he pledge
] the Republican party to a consolida
j tion of counties in the state,
j Speaking before a seven-county Re
I publican rally Mr. Grissom outline
his platform in appealing for econ
omy in government, repeal of th
sales tax, honest elections and socia
security.
:moc
ie Year Eighteen Eighty-Ei
RSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1936
istern Lettuce Strike
n strike completely upset the quiet
ted pulling crates from trucks arid |
icer and one bystander were killed :
swung freely. The delay in mar- j
ses to the farmers in the region.
CHILDREN ENJOY
NEW RECREATION
College Class Provides Program
Of Games and Amusements
For 400 Boone Children.
Under the sponsorship of Coach
tVatkins, member of the Appalachian
faculty, one or* I he college's Physical!
Education classes is carrying out a
recreational program for the children
of Bcone. The informal games
featured in this program, many of
which arc adaptations of the children
themselves are riesicnnlerl side
walk games because they are played
on the pavement, porch steps, or on
playgrounds.
Over four hundred children here in
Bcone have turned out for the games
taught and are participating in all
of the program's activities. Next
Thursday at the college gymnasium
a roller skating meet is to be held
from 12:30 until 1:30, at which events!
such as fancy and stunt skating-, distance
skating, and 3katc racing will!
be held. Every boy or girl from the]
age of six to fourteen is allowed to
enter the contests, however, the com.
bats will be arranged according to
the ages of the entrants
Next week a bicycle riding contest;
is to be the main feature of the pro-!
* gram. Appealing events such as ridi
ing in relay races, distance races, distance
dashes, and stunt riding are to
be held. In connection with this, a
' throwing contest for newsboys will
be an event. The winner of this will
be the rider who is able to throw a
newspaper the most accurately withr
out leaving the bicycle.
1 Every afternoon at three-thirty a
- playground period is conducted at the
f demonstration school ground. Piayi
ground ball, tag football, sliding
i boards, and sand bar games, are a
* few of the contests scheduled for the
3 recreation. Every school child is ini
vited to attend. Monday at threes
thirty the college swimming pool is
- open to thi3 group, and certified life
1 guards from the Physical Education
- department give swimming instruce
tions.
5 Fortunately for the Kids vf Boone,
an organization known as the "Knot
3 Hole Club" has been established by
s tne coaches u:~ the Appalachian Ath1
letic department. The purpose of
e this is to allow all the children of
3 Boone to see the football games
e played by the college without having
i to pay admission. However, the
_ members of this organization, in orr
der to hold membership, must abide
3 by the rules set forth by the coaches,
namely: that they support Appalachian's
team and conduct themselves
well at the games, in the classroom
and on the playgrounds. Cards are
j issued by the college which denote
membership. A special seating arU
rangement is to be made for this
? group.
Red Cross To Aid
n Pellagra Patients
e
j The local Red Cross Chapter has
5 made arrangements to furnish yeast
a to pellagra sufferers in this section
e according to Mrs. James H. Councill,
e local chairman, who stales that the
- patients must have a physician's cer
tificate or be examined by Dr. King,
e of the public health department.
l Applications should be made for
these examinations at the offices in
the postoffice building on either Monday
or Saturday mornings.
j
MEW BUSINESS BUILDING
i
Ground war broken the first of
- the week on the Critcher Hotel lot
3 for the erection of a large business
building, and understanding is that
the structure will be rushed to com
pletion at the earliest possible date,
d The owners of the property, Messrs.
- Ft. T. and Grady Greer, had no statce
ments to make at this time as to the
tl exact purpose for which the new
structure will be used.
RAT
$1.50 PER YEAR
COURTJgRM ENDS;
FEW Cm CASES
ARE DISCED OF
Dave Guy Gets V Sj. Years Iu
Penitentiary <; ? Highway
Robbery Convicts ^'.^Almost
One-Fourth Of <^n' Cases
Are Disposed Of.
The fa)! term of Watauga Superior
Court, was ordered adjourned byJudge
Harding Friday afternoon, af|
ter an unusually heavy slate of crimI
Lual actions had been cleared from
j the docket, and a substantial inroad
j made into the civil calendar.
: Dave C?y. Beech Creek resident
VW?S i-nrilnnnnri t r? a tnt-m nf tVivJa
| years in the state penitentiary, when
he was convicted of highway robbery.
Lee CoIvard, accused of an assault
on a female was sentenced to a term
of six months on the roads, the sentence
being suspended on payment of
r one-half the costs.
I Howard Brown, reckless driving,
no! pros with leave.
All other cases disposed of by the
court were published in the last issue
of the Democrat, and the term involved
the greatest number of state
cases and the most serious infractions
of the law known here in any
recent year.
Eight civil cases out of a calendar
containing something more than
thirty, were disposed of.
| Recorder's Court
Four cases were tried by Judge
Bingham in Recorder's Court Tues|
day as follows:
Roland Simmons, assault on fe!
male. Prayer for judgment continued
I for thirty days on payment of onehalf
the costs.
I Bynum Childers. temporary larceny
I of automobile. Four months.
I PhiiiD Moretz. resisting acrMt
public drunkenness. Sixty days on
! roads, suspended on payment of $10
j and one-half the costs,
j Graham Tcaguc, abandonment,
j Sixty days on roads, suspended durj
ing good behavior, and with the. con|
dition that he support his family,
j Virginia Dare Warren, vagrancy,
i'raver ror judgment continued tor
10 days.
PLAN EXPANSION
AT BANNERS ELK
Tufts Association Spend $500,000
On New Buildings and
Equipment.
By Miriam Glovier
Banner Elk, Sept. 25.?The Edgar
Tufts Memorial Association, which
includes Lces-McRae College, Grace
hospital and Grandfather Home for
Children at Banner Elk. is instituting
this year a development program in
which the first objective is $500,000
to be spent for building and equipment.
An additional $1,000,000 endowment
fund for i he tbrpo inatifo
I tions will be sought. The prog-ram
j was formally endorsed by Concord
J Presbytery on September 7 and 8 at
J \ meeting in Banner Elk. their first
there since 1909. :
The program h:is been planned by
the trustees of the Association, and
tile President, Edgar H. Tufts.
Concord Presbytery's endorsement
of the program was given in a speech
by Dr. C. E. Raynal of Statesville,
whose statement read: "The Presbytery
ha? ag-ain seen, after many
years, the various institutions comprising
the Edgar Tufts Memorial
Association. We stand amazed before
the evidence of God's great
blessings upon the work founded
here by our predecessors under the
leadership of the Reverend Edgar
Tufts in 1897. We believe that the
work here is unique In its ministry
to the people of nine mountain counties
surrounding it, and the people
of the nearby communities and that
nowhere else can there be found such
a combination of teaching, preaching,
healing and sheltering ministry, or
one that offers greater returns for
the investment of lifetime talents and
money.
We have seen the college, the hospital,
the orphanage, and the business
pntpmriswi Wo ohM? o>- ?k
solute necessity for such ar advancement
program as has been outlined
in the printed plans presented by the
trustees of the Edgar Tufts Memorial
Association. We heartily commend
this development program now
being ur: lertaken to all the members
of our churches of our Presbytery
and urgently request that they cooperate
with it in every possible
way." . '-u'-.J;
The work at Banner Elk was at
first a home mission of Concord
Presbytery, but when the center of
Appalachian was created, the Asso- Wat
ciation automatically became a part vjj
of Holsten Prcsbyteiy.
With this formal endorsement by
the Prcsbytexy, the program was of(Continued
on page 3),