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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democrat ; - iibe iuVimo I iul * COMPA!11^ ? Established In 18S8 and Published for 45 years by the late Kooeri C. Rivers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Alonth ? 75 Pour Months 50 (Payable In Advance; R. C. RIVERS Jr., - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Respect, Obituaries, etc., are charged tor at the regular advertising rates. Entered at the NRA As Second Postoffioo at Class Mail Boone, N. C. f&f Matter. THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1936 SHOP TALK With only one more issue of The Democrat to be published before the battle of ballots is waged, the day is almost here when it will be too late for the county journal to carry messages of political parties and candidacies to the folks of this immediate voting area. Both parties are using considerable space this week, and one candidate is wise in presenting his platform to the readers in detail. Which brings to mind the fact that in the election of 1934. two candidates, one from each party, used the columns of the county paper in consistent fashion, in explaining their positions to the people. Both candidates ran high on their respective tickets. Folks at this stage of the game are talking, breathing and living politics. Anything political is eagerly read bv the public and there are manifest advantages in using printers' ink in politics, the same as in business. The contents of The Democrat news columns are fixed in accordance with where t h e news breaks, the individual beliefs of the publisher does not govern his publication. Advertising \s sold to all and sundry parties or candidates at the same rate, and besides the regular rates prevail. Political advertising does not draw a premium with us, as is the case with many publications. The Democrat is glad to assist in any way possible in aiding in the preparation of advertisements for the politicians. Whatever service can be rendered in t.his connection is entirely impersonal?just a matter of co-operating with our patrons. Jgruce Barton Says . . . J . . . . There is Purpose and Plan In a remarkable book called "Black Reconstruction" W E. Bur^hardt du Boise says, 'No American now believes in his religion. Its facts are mere symbolism: its revelations generalities; its ethics a matter of carefully balanced g^?r> " This is one ot those sweeping generalities that Taku in too much territory. It is a fact that religion has beer subjected to a series of shocks that have pretty nearly wrecked its tradi tional structure. Galliieo shocked it with his discovery that the earth if not the center of the universe witt the sun and stars circling around it Darwin shocked it with his "Descent of Man." Religious people have beer taught that man was created prrfw.1 and by sin felt. Darwin proved thai man never was up. He is not yet ui to the height which the contlnuihf processes of evor.it ion may make pos sibie. The astronomers allocked it whei they peered through their telescope; beyond the clouds and found lieithe: the streets of gold nor the pear!; gales we once supposed were there. So religious people, robbed of thi mental Images of gold and with n< clear images to lake their place, an bewildered and groping. In this sens; they have ceased to believe. But nothing has happened to thi voice inside that speaks in silence nor the sense of awe that is still un der the stars, nor to the deep convio tlnr *1-. -1 ? S? i.iv?i ui?m. jjwiucjiuw uiure 13 a. purpo# and a plan that makes life signifi cant and duty worthwhile. They evei dared to affirm that this purpose am p'-on extends beyond the grave and n scientist can ever produce any proo that their faith is unfounded Bewildered and broken, the com mon man still has something i which he believes and even though that something be only one per cen Lfa'Vo'i of what he once was taught, he i hundred per cent better off tha though he believed ir. nothing. |?$it .J? . J Ut's do leas geiremiiy speak in The advertising manager of a coif oration "rod an idea that his com- j pany could gather some good-will tor itself by broadcasting an hour of dinner music The hour sctecteu w? from six to seven The plan met with the approval of the various department heads aim the bojuJ of directors, but the chairman of the board interposed a vigorous obj'"cjMiWMMMMB 1 never Knew anycauig more surd in my life." he sputtered. "Dinner music from six to seven! Wliy, nobody sits down to dinner before 7:30." No argument would move him. Indeed, he burst into his office a couple of days later very triumphant "J told you so," he exclaimed. "X came in on my yacht from Newport and i had twenty guests. 1 asked each one of them "what is your regular dinner hour?' Some said 7:30, seme said S o'clock. Nobody eats from six to seven." He had talked to twenty people on a yacht and he thought he was getting a cross section of the American people. Much of the bad Judgment and trouble in the world originates from this habit of picking isolated bits of information and proceeding forthwith to construct a general statement. Bacon remarked that it is the nature of the mind of man to the extreme prejudice of knowledge to delight in the special liberty of generalities. j Scientists, physicians, sea captains, j and airplane pilots do not generalize, j Writers, orators, economists and | politicians do to the vas: annoyance J and injury of the rest of the human race. I \ j j The Family Doctor j i By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES j COO I, DAVS BRING ON SKIN j IRRITATION Cooler weather is the signal for the spread of skin diseases. This is because many people neglect proper bathing and are exposed to radical changes of temperature on the surface of the body. To rush out into the cold air while perspiring even ! the least bit will aggravate skin j troubles or bring them on. To work-1 l ing men in shops or the indiscreet in j | farm houses this article will he time-1 Ily ! Eczema is by far the most common | skin disease. It may develop on anyj part of the human being whether protected hy clothing or not. It is not contagious --and may become a j chronic disease it neglected. Its chief ! i* itching or burning Ex-j cessive 'scratching' which seems ini-i per&tivc may arouse moisture, even! bleeding, l-careiy does eczema scale or pee? off Von should consult your physician if you get a persistent skin trouble that you don't understand. My advice must be genera! though correct Remove every source of irritation if you have eczema. You will not recover with the best medicines If you do not. I once com ) pel led a iady to cease wearing a fur ! neck-piece much against her will, but j she recovered from a fierce eczema i of the neck and shoulders. Even very soft garments may irritate. Therefore, change to less irritating. Use nothing on the skin that irritates. A 'famous** patent medicine that I know of does nothing more than relieve the itching?it never cures Even that is fine- -for the i charlatan who sells the nostrum. If, unfortunately, your eczema is all over or universal you should consult a nerve specialist as well. The cause may be found in a deep-seated nerve affliction. Local medicines should be soothing in the highest degree MOUNTAIN TOP MEDITATIONS i By J. C. CANIPE ll Who is the most valuable man in ; the community ? I believe that the I {food man is the most valuable. Mot | j negative goodness, not the goody goody man. but the genuine good ' man whose life and deeds and influ' ence register in the commufilty for > all That is beat. The word good is " akin to the word God and indeed all true goodness comes from God. If t then, the good man is God's man. he i represents God in our community, t j Of course, he does not do this >' i tJimiifh nr.ir?nao --- ? -v 0? ^srespssseyc w manr.-ucucvc, but he does it out of the genuine ness, the sincerity and naturalness of ? his living. The life will be true to its' self but will not be selfish. It will be s true to others, but not meddling in other peoples' affairs. It will have e a contact with God and also a vital contact with man. The worst ene tales that Jesus had testified that He - was a good man. And the best bioe graphy of Jesus was. He went about - doing good. After all. what a mar n does is the result of what he is. We 1 need more good men who love God o and serve their fellow men. x BABY GI&L BORN TO 'n MR. AND MRS. BOWMAJi ti t Banner Elk, Oct. 17.?Mr. and Mrs s George Bowman, of Elk Park; an n nouncc the arrival of a baby girl a' Grace Hospital, Banner Elk, Tkure day, October 15. g Mr. Bowmor. in county supermten k dent of schools in Avery county. TW \YWU in 1! ! i Washington & j A RESUME OF GOVTEKNMEN- | 5IKNTAL IIArI'ENINGS EN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ; Washington, Oct. 17.?-One definite forecast can be made at thi.s time in regard to the presidential election of November 3. That is. that the total vote for all presidential candidates will be greatly ui excess of the number of oallots cast in any previous election. Both of the major parties have been concentrating a great deal of their energies upon. seeing to it that every one of their prospective voters was registered, and the result so far has been a surprising increase in the total registration. In New York state, for example, the registration is nearly a million in excess of the number who voted in the 1032 presidential election. The increased registration is proportionately somewhat less heavy in other states, but on the whole it is a safe bet that there are around 15 per cent more citizens in the nation qualified to vote this year than ever before. The effort to get out Ute vote does not end. of course, with seeing that all possible voters are registered. From now until the morning of election day the most vigorous efforts will be made to see to it that not only those newly registered but all of the previously qualified voters, in states where annual registration is not required, actually go to the polls. i iiav. win iiul uc oulii a uantuiL laatv as it has been in many previous j elections The proverbial apathy of 1 !he American voters seems to be a minus quality this year Certainly and not since 1916 has partisan spirit run such a high temperature and penetrated so deeply into the mass of voters. Expect Heaviest Vole While there are no exact figures of the total number of persons qualified to vote in the entire nation, there are somewhere above 60,000,000 citizens who have reached the [ age of 21 and who can vote if they ! have been duly registered. The heaviest vote ever cast was in 1032 when 39,816,522 citizen^ went to the polls. That the popular vote will run closer to 50.000,000 than 40.000,900 this year is the expectation of all of the best informed poli1 lical observers. All of the political signs point not only to a heavy vote, but to a much ! closer division of the vote between the major parties than at any time within the past 20 years. That is i one of the reasons wxty It la so difficult to forecast the outcome with confidence. At this stage in almost every previous presidential campaign, the experienced political forecasters have been able to say with irreat rprlnlntu ii-1,1 ?v- .........11 ? ? -J - - - " ' * * -J win. There have, as a matter of fact, been very few close elections in the political history of America since 1860. Few Close Elections Mr. Lincoln had a close shave in his campaign for re-election in 1864. In 1876 the presidential contest was so close that the election \va3 thrown' into the house of representatives to| determine between Mr. Tilden and General Hayes. In 1884 it was also an extremely close thing, Mr. Cleveland carrying the state of New York by less than 2,000 plurality There was no other really close election until 1616. when Charles E, Hughes, now chief justice of the supreme court, went to bed on election night satisfied that he had been elected president over Mr WilsonIt was two days before the belated I returns from California gave that [ state to Mr Wilson and re-elected j him president. There has not been a single close election since 1916. All the rest of them have beer, in the nature of landslides. Popular sentiment has been so preponderantly upon one side or the other that it took no particular skill for impartial observers to foretell by the middle of October which party would win, Mr. Harding's election in 1920. Mr. Coolidge's in 1924, Mr. Hoover's in 1928 and Mr. Roosevelt's in 1932 were foregone conclusions almost from the beginning of those respective campaigns. This year such doubts as there are arise from two factors which have not been presented in previous presidential campaigns and for which there is no experience to serve as a guide in trying to estimate their weight. Alt of the nation-wide polls upon which the public and the politicians have been accustomed to rely since 1920 point 'in one direction only TTiat direction is toward Gov!-1 Lanrton, who has a comfortable margin in these "straw votes." Likewise, in the matter of newspaper support, not more than a small handful of inj fluentia) newspapers outside of thej south are supporting Mr. Roosevelt. 1 But when it coxnes to predicting!! the election outcome those who approach. the question with the most' ' open minds, hesitate because of two factors whose value it is impossible - to determine. i ^ Relief and Labor Vote 1 Those two factors are the relief - vote and the labor vote. The general assumption is that the relief . vote will go preponderantly for the 1 re-election of Mr. Roosevelt. There IY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C, AS IT WILL SEEM TO SEVERAL MILUOW K5EW VOTE?? ? /MOW \ ? "\ oio \r v \are ii > grYoott-,) 01^ ATOsa iff ii jomv^' pmw FCAN* PAP. K? rY["""> $&>{ Li" ? <XK.ftK I IXs i FAKMlNti . . . Mr. Hunter's way After listening with a great deal of disgust to all the talk about farmers having p.o chance these days. I experienced somewhat of a thrill to read David Hunter of Iowa, who has run S-I.S-S up into S30.000 in 20 years of farming. Mr. Hunter is now if. years old and he celebrated his birthday by burning paid-up mortgages for nearly S20.000, the money he had borrowed to buy and equip the 160-ncre farm. He nlsu rents a n5w-?crt fami an-.i 3ays that he has made money every year but once since 1916. when he started farming. This, to me, is just another evidence that a good farmer can make a good living on good land, anywhere, any time. * ? ? MOVING ... to fertile soil I have just soul my old, rocky hillside farm in Berkshire County. Massachusetts and I am moving to a more fertile and prosperous agricultural region, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After spending a large part of my summer looking over this region where generations of thrifty Quakers and "Pennsylvania Dutch" have made themselves rich from fanning and their descendants are still making good money from the soil. 1 am not surprised that so mruy generations of New England yoc ? have left its rocky hills to go into farming in the more fertile regions lying between the Hudson river and the Great Plains. There are still good farms and good farmers in New England, but most of them have a tough time of it All New England is becoming a sort of a national playground. Dike France, New England relies upon the tourist trade for an increasing part of its income. It wJH always be to me the most beautiful part of the world. * 9 * PROXITY a factor My main reason for moving, beyond the fact that I got more for my New England property than it was worth, is that I have to be in close tcucli with New York and Pennsylvania is less than half as far away as Massachusetts. Few people realise is no way of determining what proportion of the beneficiaries of the administration's relief measures barre been in the habit of voting the Democratic ticket anyway. Much ot the same situation exists in regard to the labor vote.. Organized labor and the families of members of labor unices may account for a possible total of 5.000,000, presidential votes. But, again, the question arises as to what proportion of these 5,000,000 has been in the habit of voting the Democratic ticket in pre| vious elections. Nobody knows. While it is the general belief that a higher proportion of the organised i workers in trade ahd industry, and ! a higher proportion of those who I occupy Utc lower economic strata will vote lor Mr. Roosevelt this year than have voted for the Democratic candidates in previous years, there is no way of finding out what percentage of the relief vote and the labor vote will go to cither of the major candidates. In other words, all of the signs oi I the times point to an extremely close I ., ..? ?? *-*- -- - I Cicwsoji, lur MI?: i:rsi in 2C i how narrow the State of New Jersey j I is. It is only 60 miles from the Hud-! ' son to the Delawure, and both rai!! way and highway travel is much fastj er east and west from New York j than northward. Another thing I like about Penni sylvania is that there is no state in| come tax and property taxes are the lowest 1 have ever heard of anywhere. ] New Yorkers are just beginning to | discover that Northwestern Pennsyl- j vania is more accesibie than Western | Connecticut or even Northern West- i j Chester county, and real estate prices j , have not begun to soar, j ... ! F.LEOTItlCTY .... low rates ) Another thing I like about Pennj. sylvania i3 that the rate for electric | current is lower than anything I 1 l>.<e... In 1 U . nnvw ui id uic c<aov. T am going to try heating my en- j tire supply of domestic hot water by I i electricity using a scheme called the j i "off fsSir rate Tne electric company installs hp. 80-gal'.on hot water i tank with an electric heating unit, j and charges me one cent a kilowatt < hour for current. ,e*cept between the I > hours of 4 to 10 p. m.. when they have a demand for all the current they ean : produce. < I am told that this is the cheapest j electric current rate anywhere in ' America, and thai I car. got hot wa- j I ter for all household purposes cheap- i eh than by coal, gas or oil. Anyway, < 1 am going to try it and will report ? progress If it can be done in one place. I don't see why it can't be done everywhere. > i SPEED round tile works Nearly 60 years ago Jules Verne, the French romantic novelist, wrote a book called "Around the World in ISO Days." Jt was pure fiction. Forty-five years ago a New York I newspaper woman who wrote under . the name of Nellie Blye, set out to i beat that time. She got around the ! world in 72 days, using only the regular means of transportation available to anybody. Now two New York newspaper rei . 1 Carolina I n nri /M <lL ? C C * * 1 ? ?ujiauuiicc9 uic orriciai = scription Department i and manag I DR. J. I = It is a pleasure to assur EE service of the best?a = and accuracy. We im is and meet Dr. Pike. ^ |j| your prescriptions. , H HOLL1NGSWOETH S EXC g iiiOSE WHO LOV! 1 Carolina I g Day Phone 47 OCTOBER 22. J 936 =rwi? '"W IP i Iv i t *KI W i ) ko ^ wrosj^) i | fl^ reran >ortcrs have started to try to go go iround thb world in 20 days, still ua ng regular transportation linee till he way. They flew east on the big lirship "Htndenburg" to Germany, hence they go by plane to Rome, a rain across Italy to Brindisi. then a .hrough plane to Hong Kong with a ew stopovers on the way, by ship rora Hong Kong to Manila, and then jack acsxjss the Pacific on tile big lew plane the China Clipper," to 3a;: Francisco, to catch the night jtane which will land them in New fork the following morning. If nothing happens to disturb their icheduie they will simply demonstrate that anybody who wants to and ius $3,000 to spend can go around the world in 20 days, a quarter of the Lime which it took Jules Verne's Phlleas Fogg. Question; What is the proper temperature for curing sweet potatoes ? Answer: The temperature for "ueoi results should be from 80 to 85 decrees. This should be continued until the sprouts begin to appear, which usually requires about two weeks After this curing period, the ., i to rage temperature should be low:red to 50 degrees and kept at that [joint until removed for shipment or ise. The temperature should never tje allowed to go below 40 degrees nor abote 50 as high temperatures luring the storage period causes excess shrinkage. 'SidftVS. rv fr ... ft p*? BOONE DRUG CO. The Kcx&ll Store uuiHiiiifiHiiitiiiiiiuiiininiiiiiiViiui^ >harmacy | opening1 of the Pre- ?= snder the supervision I? . t M ement or ?e ). PIKE | e you of prescription = guarantee of safety if 'ite you to come in ? e call for and deliver =E 55 m JUISITE CANDIES FOR = w *?*?** ? ii.Tnr* m i Ct jrAi*n? lniiiua 'harmacy 1 J Night Phone 1X1-3 ?= ^ ? \ ? _ |
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