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( The Week in Washington A RESUME OF GOVERNMENT ) MENTAL HAPPENINGS IN ; THE NATIONAL. CAPITAL Washington, March 10 -The situation in congress might be compared to a log-jam in the timber country. {Nothing can move down-stream un!ii the key-long starts. There arc a I.lozcn or so legislative proposals of major importance, anil scores of minor hills, which caimot make headway in congress until the most important 01 an 01 Uicm is out of I the- way. The key-log In this legislative jam | if the President's bill for the reorganization of the supreme court. It ?? ^generally accepted on Capitol Hill St hat the rest of the administration's j program must wait until that issue i resolved, for on the liberalization of the court rests the success or failure of the government's reform j f plans. It might be possible to put a large part of the program into laws which would stand the constitutional! test, but in the light of the fate of j NRA, AAA., the Guffey coal act and other New Deal measures, there is a strong disinclination to take any j chances with the supreme court as | now constituted. Therefore, the re- j organization of the court, by the ad- j dition of justices who will see eye to eye with the President on the con- j stitutionalily of his program, is es-1 sential if he is to get his projects ac-1 cepted by congress. And the key-log, the court reor-1 ionization proposal, is still jammed, with some doubt as to whether it will ever be released, and a reasonable certaintv that the nrooess will tiike a long: time, in any event. Senaton? and representatives are resigning themselves to a long, long session; but with the air-cooling system nofw in operation throughout the capitol arid the offices of members, the prospect of sitting through another Washington summer is not so appalling as it once was. President's Program i What is this administration pro- j gram which hangs upon either an' amendment to the constitution or at change in the point of view of the .v.jpreme court? Nobody can read the president's mind, but enough of his plan has been disclosed to make ( the general purport clear. Broadly, the program includes ten major items The plan, already submitted, ipi reorganising Ufis ?XecuLive branch os the government jjf 12 A plan for e^lAblishment of S minimum wages . and rnaxjmmn hours in industry and abolition of B labor. 3 A supplementary plan for voluntary trade agreements by industries, allowing some relaxation of an*?-trust laws in an effort to abolish unfair trade practices. 4 A new program for agriculture, carrying out Secretary Wallace's idea for an ''ever normal granary,", which with some form of federal crop control as a method to help bring it about 5. - A federal,plan of slum-clearance and low-cost housing:. t A plan for broadening the federal power policy, coupled, perhaps, with a. more integral plan for ilood control and water use. 7. Revision of the tax laws so as to place a large impost on income from foreign investments in the United States, to serve the double purpose of producing revenue and giving the federal government greater control over the foreign capital flowing into our security markets fc. Federal program for aid to farm tenants. 9 New appropriations for relief and recovery. 30. Amendments to broaden and refine the social security act. There is little difference of opinion on the desirability of most of the objectives of that program. There is \iolent difference of opinion on the question whether the proposed measures would accomplish their purpose and whether the federal gov- ; ernment has authority under the con- I stitution to undertake them. The j supreme court has held that some i oi the ends sought are unconstitu- j tional. Congress Divided The real issue, however, which | >1 !? o itoiiearl 11'>1 a motr foirliT V>? nolla/J I a constitutional crisis, perhaps the most serious in the nation's history, is whether the trend of recent years toward centralization of all government power in Washington shall be checked, or whether power shall further be concentrated in the executive. And on that issue the President's own supporters in congress arc sharply divided. Senators and representatives are hearing from j the voters back home in greater volume Shan ever before. Hundreds of J thousands, perhaps a million letters | have poured in on the members of both houses in the past month, the great majority opposing the President's plan of enlarging the supremo court instead of recommending an amendment of the constitution in such a way as to remove all doubt of the constitutionality of his proposals. That he will accept a compromise plan if his court plan fails of acceptance, goes without saying. Eur so far his attitude is that he is (Continued or< Page Eight) WA1 An VOL. XLVIII, NO. 35 Slain Labor Leader | : W&MM a stmmExk New York. R. Norman Redwood, i (above), "sandhog^* union leader, ! was riddled with bullets in his au! tomobile in front of his home. The j slaying: has stirred the widest investigation into labor union affairs here in search of the mobsters i who committed the crime. VICTORY DINNER WELL ATTENDED ! Solicitor Spurling Makes Stirj ring Plea for Continued Support of Democracy More than ono hundred Democrats I from the town and other sections of the county, gathered at the Daniel Boone hotel Thursday evening to participate ill the dinner given in celebration of the last victory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and to hear Solicitor Spurling call for continued support of the Democracy in the county, state and nation. Attorney Wade E. lirown was master of ceremonies and Rev. Mr. Brinkman conducted the devotional. Music for the occasion was furnished by the Appalachian College orchestra. and patriotic decorations were arranged by Prof. Antonakos of the Appalachian Playerafters. The sixteenth district prosecutor took as his theme "Lest We Forget" and called attention to the conj ditiens -prevailing in the economic strata prior to the advent of the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Spurl; iag characterized the Democratic party a* of thr people and urged his hearers to present a united front in preventing a recurrence of the Republican principles of government The address was interspersed with humorous stories and was well received. Mr. James H. Councill, chairman of the committe on arrangements for the dinner, reports the sale of 138 tickets at $2 each, and says that alter all expenses have been paid, there remains a net contribution of $165.85 to the Democratic national committee, to he applied to the deficit creatj ed during the last presidential cani| paign. Mr. Councill is being congratulated upon his successful manj agement of the affair, and incidentally desires to thank those who cooperated with him in its successful consummation. Young Men's Club Organized in Boone A group of young men of Boone met at- the American Legion hut Monday night for the purpose of organizing a club. The purpose of the club is stated in the following words: 1. To promote clean living and clean thinking. 2. To fight the evil of alcohol and accompanying vices. 3. To promote and sponsor amateur athletic and educational activities. 4. To promote and sponsor similar clubs in neighboring towns. Boys 15 years old and up are eligible for membership, provided they are of clean habits and character. It is felt that this club will prove ?-* W.WVV W lilt JVUIlg llltll VI Boone and the town as a whole. The town council has promised to help the young men find a place to meet and to encourage them in their work. The Chamber of Commerce will also co-operate as well as the Lions club. The young men hope to engage In some of the following activities: Tennis, baseball, ping-pong, boxing, checkers, soft ball, radio, public speaking, woodwork and library work. Such a worthy program and high ambitions on the part of these Boone young men deserves the cooperation, help and support of the entire town and community. Some sixty or more young men have signified their intention to be good and regular members of the club. TO ASSIST TAXPAYERS I J. S. Sink, deputy commissioner of revenue, wiil be at the office of the clerk of the court. Thursday and Friday of this week for the purpose of assisting state income taxpayers in the filing of their returns A U G Independent Weekly News BOONE. WATAUGA COUNT |CRIPPLEDK1DDIES , ARE TO BE AIDED Easter Seal Sales Are Promoted as Means of Helping Unfortunate Children - : I A movement whereby the crippled \ children or this section are to be .aid ed from the sale of Easter seals, has I been hislituUd in the county, and Airs. G. K. Moose will have charge ! of the sales in the city. An cxplana- 1 tory article is .submitted by Miss j Marguerite Miller, of the welfare! department, and follows: | The people of North Carolina have always been fully sympathetic with the cause of crippled children, and entirely willing and anxious thai, every assistance should be given to insure their care, treatment, education training and placement. Some very j commendable work has been done al- j ready along this line, but much' re- j mains to be accomplished. - For! sometime Miss Fisher, Watauga county nurse, has been giving the greater part of her time to trytinfcio care for the many crippled children in this county. Much has been: ac from the money raised by the president's Birthday Ball, but this money can only be used to aid infantile paralysis cripples. This leaves a large number of children crippled from other causes who receive no treatment This year, for the first time, Watauga county is affiliated with1 the ! X. C. League lor Crippled Children, | which is an international organisation. We are hoping to accomplish j a lot through this means. As a j means for raising money to care fdr our unfortunate crippled childreif we ; are putting on an Raster seal s&te. j The seals sell for a penny each. Vjj&tauga county keeps one-half of ali^hc money raised while the other Ml? is sent, to the Stale League lor 0t4pplei! Children Mrs. C3. It Moose, who so sploirthti- i ly put over the T. B. Christinas Seal jsaie, has consented to have charge of j | the sale in Koonc. We are piam&lg! . to work the remainder of the eouii| ti through tlic county schools, I'.vcpn now tmu jwaatey our ainvw W) eel) S100 of R&stsa- ttwls, so <-5r<JU you are upon we iiltpBr^TO will accept the challenge of the crippled children in this county and huy as many seals as possible. While this program is a humanitarian one, it pays economicaily. It costs loss to correct a crippled limb in childhood than to support a crippled adult. The earlier the help can be given, the less the cost; and over, i alxive and beyond these considers- j tions, are tlie spiritual values which one can never estimate. SPAMOOR STORE | BEING REMODELED | Popular Department Store Un- J dergoes Changes; Ready-toWear Dept. Enlarged Spainhour's, Boone's first modern department store, is now being remodeled to take care of an ever-increasing patronage. The principal change conies in the extension of the mezzanine floor, which is occupied by the ladies' department. Fifteen feet of floor space have been added to this floor, and with the extra room, a more completely modern ready-to-wear department will be possible. At the same time a number of new fixtures are being added, and the establishment will present a greatly improved appearance. Mr. A. S. Harris, the manager, has recently returned from the northern markets, where a large stock of the newest spring merchandise was purchased, and reports a considerably increased volume of business this j spring. ! BAPTIST MINISTERS' CONFERENCE TO BE HELD HERE MARCH 15 r ouowing is uie program tor uiei monthly meeting of the Baptist Min-: isters' conference to be held at the j First Baptist church in Boone on | March 15, beginning at 2 o'clock j p. m: Devotional?Rev. W. J. Cook. The Work of the Holy Spirit in Regeneration?Rev. W. D. Ashley. Should Every Pastor Have Four Churches??Rev. J. C. Canipe. Should Pastors Suggest and Insist on Converts Joining the Church?? xwv. x\. ciggeni. It is asked that ail pastors and deacons defer their appointments and consider the importance of this meeting. W. M. BROWN, REV. CARY TRIPIJ3TT, Committee. A. OH >paper LstablisHed in th' i=p "V. NORTH CAROL' ?* THCR! ?? H ^ ^ ^tiidv "Newark N. J. Commander C wife), of the Newark airport wea two years at the North Pole, there t range weather forecasting. He is Greely IT, the three-masted schoon* CAGERS: TOURNEY IS BIG SUCCESS Twenty-four High School Teams Participate in A. H. S. A. Tournament Here | The second annual Appalachian I High School Associ ation meet was j brought to a. close last night as ! Cove Creek and Boone fought for j first place in the boys' division and i Cove Creek girls played ha using for i the first place in that division. L Si set eon teanYS uvrc filtered intlic fWvc1 ffi*f5nlnn .ami --i .wf rnnr. i teen jpi'ls' teams participate*!. T!ie :\yo 4asys''Jjft' the tournament ; were fast and fuiious with games be| ing played in the men's ami women's gymnasiums simultaneously. All the i semi-finals and finals were played in the men's gym. Perhaps the most outstanding | game of the tournament occurred in the semi-finals Wednesday night when Cove Creek and Fleetwood j went into extra periods to decide their tilt. The Cove Creek quint won by virtue of a field bucket and a charity point in the three-minute period. Results through Wednesday night: First round (boys)?Cove Creek 47, Todd 13; West Jefferson won a forfeit from Bethel: Boone 2G, Healing Springs 7; Fleetwood 25, Crossnore 20; Lansing 20, Newlarid 10; Cranberry 22. Virginia Carolina, 18; Jefferson, 38, Blowing Rock 20; Riverview 35, Nathans Creek 13. First round (girls)?-Boone 5, Nathans Creek 30: Healing Springs 23. Newland 21; Todd 1.4, Cranberry 13; Cove Creek 24. Blowing Rock 10. Second round (boys) ?Fleetwood -18. Cranberry 26, Boone 23, Jefferson 10; West Jefferson 20. Lansing 18; Cove Creek 61. Riverview 20. Second round igirls)- Nathans Creek 61, Todd 16; Healing Springs 28. Fleetwood 9; Cove Creek 41. West Jefferson 30; Lansing 33. Jefferson 16. Semi-finals: (boys) - Boone 32. West Jefferson 21; Cove Creek 27, * leecwooa 24. luirisj - ?.^oye crecic 37, Nathans Creek 24; Lansing 34. Healing Springs 26. Finals Boone boys won over Cove Creek by a score of 33-28 In the girls' division, Lansing won over Cove Creek by two points in extra periods. VV. SMITH ROMINGER, 82. DIES AT ROMINGER HOME W. Smith Rominger, 82, a beloved and highly respected citizen of Rominger, died at the home of his son, Dewey, last Tuesday. Funeral services were conducted at the Piney Cove Methodist church Wednesday by the Rev. Mr. Woods, pastor of the church. Other ministers attend| ing were Revs. Talmadge Watson, D. M. Bdmisten and Edgar Edmisten. I Interment was in an adjoining cemetery. The deceased is survived by his widow, four sons. Manuel, Dewey, ! John and Coy Rominger; four ! daughters. Mrs. F. J. Trivett, Mrs. J. Y. Walker, Mrs. Minnie McNeil and Mrs. Vance Harmon; and one brother, Marion Rominger. MOC e Year Eighteen Eighty5DAY. MARCH 11, 1937 :hcr at North Pole ^ I JJifford J. McGregor (above witt ither bureau, sails next spring ?01 ;o accumulate data essential to long shown at the wheei of the Genera ?r he will sail into the north. PRIMARY ACT IS TO RE REPEALE | Representative Miller lot | duces Rill Designated to Abo ish I'rimary in County Representative \V. F Miller 1 introduced in the legislature a I undo: the teems at which the J inary election would be almlished sofar as Watauga county is conce ed and the nomination of county ficers effected, henceforth, thvoi tiie agency of the nominating o vention. The bill further provides tl 111 embers. of the board of caucat would also^he nominated'by the c '"'rttfnfi''VDTltr_" - - ?" Watauga county had been exen from the provisions of the prim* until last year, when Candida were selected by direct vote of people for the first time. Consid able dissatisfaction seemed to lu resulted from the change, and Miller bill, so far as is known, 1 practically the united support of local Democracy. The bill was referred to the eal dar committee. HINT HOUGHTON TO OPPOSE BO j Ninth District Congressm | Says He Hasn't Made Up Mir as to Political Future j The possibility that Represen ! tive R. L. Doughton maj' oppi j Bob Reynolds for the senator I nomination next year, was revived I Washington Tuesday. Tn reply to a statement carried a North Carolina paper that he wo not be a candidate for the senatoi j nomination in opposition to Sena ! Reynolds in 1938, Representat ; Doughton declared, "I am not in ! out of any political contests for i ! next election and made no statenn j to anyone regarding the matter : my lasl visit to Raleigh, or at s {other city I visited. 1 have r.ot st 1 ed or made up my mir.d whethei i shall be a candidate for the sens 1 re-election to my position in j house of representatives, or for s office at all." the congressman c< I iinuea. "When I do make up my min j Mr. Doughtori said, "I will state it j the people, and not to one indivii lal 4-H RADIO BROADCASTS On each alternating Saturd I there will be a special 4-H club p j gram broadcast from WBTF, I leigh, at 12:30 p. m? Eastern Staard time. These broadcasts will be put by various members of North Ca lina. parents of club members, 4 others who are interested in 4 club projects. The theme selected for the p grams is "4-H C'.ub Work. Tra Farm Youth in the Art of Livin it is nopea trial an 4-ti club i> and girls in Watauga county* v have access to radios will listen on these splendid programs. Silicosis can be positively diagr ed only by X-ray as silica parli< have to be under 10 microns ir. s to harm die human being. RAT Eight $1.50 PES YEAH VIRGINIA SOUTH IS VICTIM OF SELFINFLICTED BULLET Popular Young Boone Lady. Member of Prominent Family. Ends Own Life; Funeral Services CoiTuli*. icvi TuCSuuj Slid Interment Here Miss Virginia Mae South, 19 years old, an J a daughter of Clerk of the Court Austin E. South, and Mrs South, was found dead Monday afternoon in a room of the parental home. A revolver was lying: nearby and there was a bullet wound through the body in the region of the heart. Miss South, who was a member of the junior class at Appalachian Stat*3 College, had returned from school, and had been studying her text books in the living room She had taken the revolver from her father's quarters and gone into an upstairs apartment, where the fatal shot was fired. ? 1 U<.V II IVOOlg IIWI H/l i the act other than that Miss South i? had been in a slightly impaired state of health, clue perhaps to an extent I to the zeal with which she was pursuing her college courses. Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'ciock, the pastor. Rev. Paul Townsend. being assisted Din the rites by Dr. J. D. Rankin and Rev. G. C. Brinknian. The church auditorium was filled with a concourse of friends of the family and ro- the floral offering was most profuse, j. Interment was in the Boone cemetery. The death of Miss South brought 1?s great sorrow to the community in >ih w^ich a^? WJUS horn and reared and )r-'; where she was known and iiked by ail the people. She was a young huly ,s of cxeniDlarv Christian tendencies, rn ^ Wlis .a devout member of the Meth. odist church, and hud a sunny dis^ position, which endcaretl her to all her acquaintances. Virginia was a iat brilliant student and had dislingirish. ed hercelf in .the schools and college. on_ She 'win he sadlyAmi'seed in. the T Church, in the classroom, in the home and among the people of the i town. The bereaved family has the unbounded sympathy of the com1!^, munity and tlie county. Miss ftnuth is snnwwl liv the ner crents, two sisters and one brother. . Elizabeth and Marjorie South and 0 Stanley South las J the " WOULD REGULATE FEES en OF CO. TAX COLLECTOR Aa act has been introduced in. the legislature by Representative Miller whereby an amendment is made to Bthe 1933 act relating to Watauga tax collections. One of the provisions of the bill, it is understood, would be to encouran age the tax collector in the collection . of the delinquent tax list. This would be done by making the percentage for collections smaller on the first $50,000, with more substanta" tial returns to the collector on sub>se sequent amounts. While the definite 'ai scale as provider! in the bill is un1,1 available, it is understood that the average commissions of the collector m will be no greater than at the pres,li'1 cm time. -ial Jve Regional Conference on or Language Arts Announced the ' A regional conference on language on arU will be conducted in the Demon inv stration school auditorium in Boone at- Saturday, March 13. from 10:30 to r j 2:30 o'clock. , f. This is to be a council planning rhf. conference sponsored by the stale Lny department of puone instruction in on_ co-operation with local superintendents and the Demonstration school. .. The purpose is to promote a child to development progTam based on the ju_ new state course of study. It is hoped that through regional conferences greater services may be rendered to leaders in county-wide and ' other local teacher study groups,. ajr The regional conference is open to the public Of the counties listed for participation each white school; is ncj_ requested to have one or more representatives. on The regional conference will inr0. elude Alleghany. Ashe, Avery. Wilkes llvj and Watauga counties, and represenjj tatives from these counties are invited and will be here to attend the ro_ conference. ins g."j BOX SUPPER POSTPONED oys i The box supper which was to have 'ho j been heki at the Methodist church in Thursday night, has been postponed to an unannounced date. ios- After an open forum discussion of ties the advantages of farm life, Jones rize j county 4-H club members voted in (favor of remaining on the farm.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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