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PAGE TOUR The Watauga Democrat: The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY Established in 1888 and Published forj 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers j PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Month 75? Four Months .. ? 50 | (Payable in Advance) R. C. RIVERS Jr.. - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions oi' Respect. Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advertising rates. Entered at the As Second Post off: co at Class Mail Boone. N. C. Matter. THURSDAY. JAW. li. iyj7 LIQUOR AGAIN Right-thinking people throughout the state of North Carolina, regardless of their personal beliefs in regard to the treatment ol the demon rum. deeply regret that the Legislature is again to occupy itself in an obvious effort to legalize that, which pie people as a whole do not want The gubernatorial commission has recommended a county system of liquor stores, with the state acting in a supervisory capacity and collecting a share of the profits. It is a serious question as to whether an operation of such magnitude should be administered by the inferior units of government. Rather it would seem thai legalization pi whiskey should come only after the people of the on Lire state, should have had a free and untrammelled expression of their sentiments at the polls. In the words of Governor Hoey. "1 do I not believe the General Assent- | bly would be justified ii. annulling the vote of the people! by legislative enactment." The writer was one of those who subscribed to Lhe belief that the people of tire stale in 1933 wanted liquor legalized and thus placed in the. category of taxables, Tile pcyply voted a 'continuance of prohibition by a thundering majority of 185.000. Regardless of what the legislature may do or want to do in the premises, the overwhelming majority of the people want aj strict state prohibitory law. J.11UI !? JUSC VVIiat IOCS should have. The right of the majority to govern is of the essence of the democratic governmental structure. This right should not be abridged by any ! action of the representatives of; the people. THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM The problem of how the traffic is to be handled in this city appears to be one which is to put civic enterprise and ingenuity to their gravest test. In the block from Depot street to Smithey's store, where the street is very narrow, the congestion on Saturdays is so great that a motorist should feel relieved when he has negotiated the stretch and finds himself on the open road outside the city. The problem is more complicated due to the fact that delivery vans unload their cargoes at the front of the buildings rather than at the rear, sometimes having traffic almost completely blocked for a consider auie space vi Lime, .luiomobiles are often bumped into other cars, as drivers, heedless of the crowded condition, jump their cars from a parking spot into the iane of traffic. Eventually there must be another through artery of travel in the town, such as might be procured by cutting the novelty shop street through to College street, and west below the old jail to connect with the Boone Trail at some point above. Through truck travel could be routed over such an avenue, thus materially reducing the flow of vehicles on the principal street. Incidentally, where possible, vans requiring any considerable j length of time for unloading should be required to deposit their merchandise from the rear of the buildings, this being possible in most cases, and there should be strenuous effort to provide a space-conserving and systematic moans of parking C3rs, ^fsfsi'sblv with 9 narkinH limit in the most congested area. Business men of the town who live close by. could help by leaving their cars at home on Saturdays, for the fello-.v who will occupy your parking space is a potential customer. AN EYE FOR AN EYE The body of Charles Mattson. 10 year-old son of a Seattle physician. has been found, frozen stiff in the snowy wilds of his home slate, following a chase for the kidnapers of the child who tore him from his father's fireside at Christmas-time. The G-men, more than two score or them are working day and night following every slight clue and judging by past experience. those who tortured the little boy, broke his front teeth out arid finally bashed in his kuli. will be brought to the bar nf incHi>i; J?? ?> Every time deponent comes around to the point of believing that the abolition of capital punishment would be the better part of wisdom, something of this sort happens, and the Biblical quotation, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth", forces itseif into our consciousness, and we are caused to wonder why science ha.- bothered itself to devise humane methods of escorting such dastards from out the sphere of human activity. TOWN AND COUNTRY CO-OPERATION Both farmers and merchants benefit from mutual understanding and co-operation. Lack of this understanding and cooperation encourages antipathy and avarice. An article in the Progressive Farmer suggests the establishment of community improvement organizations, composed of both city and farm residents, to analyze the shortcomings in community welfare and provide f o r remedying them. Says M. R. Bedsole, the writer of this article: While teaching; in a small rural sch >o] recently, T sat in & small store ami watched a merchant render real service to the farmer patrons. He. ordered the best available, poultry feeds for them. He bought their eggs by reference to daily market quotations furnished by the state marketing service. As a real friend to his farmer customers, he offered valuable criticisms and suggestions. This man. by keeping abreast of agricultural progress, thus rendered great service to his community. He realized that his future success depended on those who traded With him. He not only provided farm equipment and other supplies of superior quality, but arranged to purchase the daily production of surrounding farmers and send by truck to distant markets so as to secure the highest prices for fresh eggs. "In some towns local citizens have formed helpful committees for marketing farm produce. Some have contacted distant markets and shipped by consignment to reputable wholesale dealers. Others have effected similar results through competitive bidding in auction sales, members of the board of trade bidding in competition with purchasers from other places. This has generally brought about higher prices for farm produce and a mom satisfipH ?imloratorr?ln<r between producer and buyer. "In conclusion, it appears that the white-collared town resident and the overalled farmer should consider first and last the welfare of the whole community, rural and urban. Does your community possess this kind of business man? Does your town provide all possible advantages and conveniences fdr farmer customers? For one tiling, many towns do not have suitable facilities for metal construction and repair or suitable woodworking establishments for farm implements and devices. Progress in other sections is held back by the grasping short-sightedness of business men in important inferior work animals and failing to help farmers to buy purebred swine and cattle sires and so develop a livestock industry. The communities are indeed fortunate which have town leaders continually interested in helping farmers prosper as the surest guarantee of prosperity for the town also." WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE OPEN FORUM Readers are invited to contribute | to this department. Profit may be : derived from these letters. Name 1 of writer must accompany all man| uscript and brevity is urged. ? _ ! DREADFEE CONDITIONS MADE BY REREAD AND Uljl'OJI {Editor Democrat: 'Prohibition is a failure." cried the ! wets in 1933. The remedy sough! I was the repeal of the eighteenth j amendment, which was secured, ant: J that would stop the moonshiners anc bootleggers in their tracks, and cure us of all hypocrisy, and put a new spirit and millions of dollars into the public treasuries Has the remedy sought and secured fulfilled the solexiu promises the wets and those who voted for repeal? What do the ] facts, which have resulted following the rejxa", savV The facts show that all the promises the .vets made have failed; and that the repeal and onlj hypocrites were and are the wets; but who, enlightened by the spirit o! ; truth and observation, ever thought (of the wets otherwise? j The secretary of the treasury ) makes no secret ot lite fact that re] pal has not stopped the moonshine* and the bootlegger. Ho says that i> | four months preceding repeal fedora 'agents captured 2 165 illicit stills ape i four months following repeal 70( ? agents seized 2.400 such stills. Ami ) he says ftirther, "Seizure in recent weeks have continued at even a higher rate." and that "in four weeks 70( agents seized 7SS stills." And he asks for 2.000 agents to extinguish the moonshiners and bootleggers who were to vanish like the dew before the hct morning sun when repeal should be accomplished. The facts show that it costs more to enforce repeal than to enforce prohibition and to clean up moonshiners and bootleggers. And the failure tc clean up the moonshiners and bootleggers is not Liie worst of it. Notwithstanding the political platform promises and the solemnly repeated pledges of the wet leaders that the saloon should never come back, it is here with all its attendant evils and debauchery and destruction, and they have increased from 177.000 before prohibition to 500,000 since rent a! The American Automobile association made a report that a 'wave vi recklessness was sweeping' the nation's highways," and a s of iii know that there has beer, a groal increase in traffic accidents anc deaths on the highways, and a bis per cent is caused by drunkenness The governor of Massachusetts sai< u short time ago. "The time is no1 i far ilistuht whop 'it won'r be ggra for any one to venture on our streets after the cocktail hour." Repeal lias failed to solve old problems anvl has created r.ew ones. The condition:? now existing caused by re peal were predicted by the mora Christian men and women of tincountry, and they are now alarming ly dangerous and will grow wors? til! the problem is taken from thi wets and prohibition is restored a tic enforced as :t car. be with honest officials; nrd it is the duty of -v. r\ true citizen to save North Carolin? from the damnable curse. J. A. McKAUGHAX. Winston-Salem. X. C.. Jan. 9, 1927. Little Journeys In Palestine By J. C. CAN7PE After landing at Haifa, we go immediately to our hotei on the rim ol Mt. Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean sea. As soon as we unloaded our baggage we started for a walk to the top of Mt. Carmel. I spied a raven, the same kind that fed Elijah It is twice as large as our crows, but flies as graceful as our buzzard. The guide showed us the karot tree which produces the fruit called husks. Likely what the prodigal ate 1 to keep him from starvation 1 have a sample with me now -jit Carmel is known mostly for the famous duel in prayer between Ahab's gods of Baal and the true God ol Israel. And also for Elijah's great prayer for rain. Elijah was the here in this mighty drama. Standing on Mt. Carmel one can see the great sea to the west, 'he plain of Esdraelon to the south, the Jordan valley to the east. The railway connecting Haifa and Damascus with Mecca crosses this plain and enters the Jordan valley near Beisan. We spent a long time on the top of Mt. Carmel viewing the surrouning country, rehearsing the Biblical backround and meditating on the joy of the privilege to be there. I lingered behind the crowd and bowed behind a great rock to pray to Elijah's God. God blessed my heart and gave me the assurance that He still heard and answered prayer as He did when Elijah prayed here foi rain thirty-five hundred years ago James 5:17-18. FAVORITE RECIPES What is your favorite recipe'! Win prizes in the recipe contest conducted by the Baltimore Sundaj American. You'll find the Balti more American 011 sale at all new: stands :RY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. HIS NIGHTMAARE 3^ Jjjji |r BjjgBb^gpyfBg? J jSL Fireside Philosophy Bv C. M. Dickson) . j No juage should pass upon the ! I ; ^ruilt or innocence of a person until ] > tv>th *ides of the evidence are heard. j ] "Cupid's. arrow" hit King* Edward i ; "a-thousand." I Neither Davi i nor Ids son. Soio- I 1 mon. was ever persecuted half so j . much as has beer. King Edwati. Surely no woman should lie deemed . unwc: th> to .. ar the : . a" of the . qu? en <?f a gtfcat nation until she- has I * divorce J at least three husbands. j The Roman "pater" < father) hlone I . ehcse a wi:'t for his son: Errand 1 frees a step further?she wants the i consent Of the who.. offioiai fa.nily. ; Since Mrs. Simpson. has fled t France. -t seem si? MP :(H \ , that UivjBf *8 ir kui"if (how D? \ j*.iregr?t-.-~! j ingr "hide-and-seek/'fe; ' ' mistress of the matrimonial as '-veil 1 as oi the commercial sdiu Probably Mr. Simpson didn't know j until he lost her just what a cove-Leu j prize he did possess. Stanley Baldwin and a few others | have brayed" the 'bray" heard 'round the world. If a woman wants to be pursued, j let her prove her adeptness for side- j tracking: husbands. Compared with that of King Fid- I ward and Mrs. Simpson, the romance j of Anthony and Cleopatra will fade , into "obScure-forgetfuIness." Proven that a king may 'bare his breast" to a cannon ball, but he I will quai! before a woman. According to the stones that have 1 been cast by the "royal" blood of 1 England, the inference is clear that i this royal blood is "uncontarninated," I and that its possessors arc as chaste > as a medieval monk, and as loyal as j nuns in a modern convent. k If or.e "abdicated" monarch and one divorcee can bring the hierarchy of a nation to its knees, it is to be hoped that the whole nation shall re( ceive the "second blessing." One indisputable fact ? Greater love hath no man than that he lose fj uoui nis neaci and his crown for a woman. The man who jeopardizes his own ' life and the lives of other folks by violating Lhe speed laws should be branded, at least, a crazy moron, j It is better to use a small gun and hit a small target than to use a big gun and hit nothing. CARD OF THANKS I desire to express my deep ap preciation to the fnends and neighbors for their kindness and sympai thy during the illness ar.d burial of . my grandfather, Tillman Adams. The , kindness of Mrs. Hann Raga.o is . particularly appreciated. t JOSEPH MOODY. REVIEWS OF PICTURES If you want to read about the Hoi- j lywood previews, set? how movies are j made and enjoy the gossip of the J ' screen's favorite**, read the (iKEKN i . SPOTLIGHT, a bright new section t which comes every week with the . BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERI CAN. Get your copy from your favorite news dealer. *? ? HI 1 * iifissPiisr y /^HBiH ko TfiT|i)7 t jjBCClJ! jiLlIt a L10NISM : By HERMAN \\ 1LCOX, Chairman Finance Committee. I IMUPOSK OF LIONS t Ll liS One of the primary purposes of a Liops cluh is to ereate and foster a spirit of fellowship and good fcelir.g au'iong the members and people of tin town and surrounding territory through a study of tlieir problems and a belter understanding of the roods of the individuals from the standpoint of business and professional ethics. The members of the Boone I.ions club are made up of 30 oi um> icaduig business an<i professior.aI men of Bgpne and they ail fool the need of a closer fellowship and a more thorough understanding of their community and county. They are interested" in and will seek to promote the theory and practice of good citizenship and good government. Through the facilities of an i ire animation such as the Lions club, they fee i that they have a better opportiin. ?.y to do tin;, tilings than pvpiild ne possible through individual effort. It is the policy of the Lions clubs throughout the state and country to i sponsor various movements and educational projects that will make for the betterment of the civic, commercial, social and moral welfare of the community. The Boone Lions club is making a preliminary survey of the number and condition of the blind people in Watauga. county. Dr. Robert R. King is in charge of the work and after a definite knowledge of the condition is found, it is the purpose of the club to aid these unfortunates in having some of the comforts of life. This is only one exampre of what the club hopes to do toward building a better feeling of fellowship and happiness for the people of our community and county. The club meets twice each month on the first and third Tuesday nights. Our first regular meeting was held on the first Tuesday night of January. An interesting entertaining and educational program was given and as each member ate a hearty Tneal in the midst of his friends and fellow business and professional associates, he felt that he knew him better and was able to give better service to his people by reason of his having had such an association together. WADE E. BROWN. Democrat Ads Pay WORLD'S CHAMPION SPEED SKATER. Kit Klein, says: "I like to enjoy Camels the whole day through. I rely on Camels *for digestion's sake* ? enjoy them while l*rr? an A ?(i?? " JANUARY 14. 1937 -J - - - ' - 1 . . By A. B. Chapin PRESU)ENTASKS REORGANIZATION Congress Split Over Roosevelt Proposal: Senator Iiyrtl May Lead Revolt Washington, Jan. 12. An a!!-inclusive presidential plan for morgan i^iim urc government- --including tiie creation of two new departments? ran headlong into such formidable opposition in congress today that many sources forecast a hitter battle. Though many legislators praised the plan, others were doubtful or frankly hostile. Emphasizing "good management'* rather than economy, President Roosevelt, asserted in a special message that "the executive I structure of the government is badly out of date" and recommended: That the department of social welfare and public works be added to the present 10. with all of the government's 100 or more agencies grouped under one department or another by executive order Hits at Comptroller That the comptroller general be replaced by an auditor general with no authority to pass upon the legality of current expenditures and charged primarily with making a post-audit" of government finances for the information of congress. That the civil service be extended to include all positions of a non-policy making character, with increased salaries to attract able men to kep positions. That the President be provided with six additional assistants to act 1 as liaison between himself and the departments, to "keep him in closer and easier touch with the widespread affairs of administration and to make for speedier clearance of the knowledge needed for executive decisions." That provision be made for strengthening the managerial agencies of the government, with especial rpfpr??n/>A +r? *-v - 1 5~ w ^.uiuiui^, nit: imtiK" et, personnel, and efficiency research. Bvrd Lends Critics Congressional opposition, which took no account of party lines, made itself manifest as soon as the message had been read. Tonight, it appeared to be heading up behind Senator Byrd. Democrat, of Virginia, the chairman o; a special committee which has been studying reorganization. , D USING, nc? porta announcer, soyas tttne's a hectic life?but my digestion ' ! cps running smoothly. 1 enjoy Camels ith my meals and after." Camels arc mild better for steady smoking.
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