MAY 13, 1937 CIVIC CLUBS ARE VALUABLE ASSET Organizations Constantly Working for Betterment; Blowing Rock Record is Given We often wonder if the average citizen realizes or oven a tons to think what the civic organization? mean to his community. The officers and members of tne Rotary clubs. Kiwanis clubs. Lions ohibs and Chambers of Commerce are persistently and quietly working on something to benefit their communities and they merit the co-opeTfttion and assistance of every loyal citizen. The civic organizations of Boone, Blowing Rock and Watauga county are ever on the alert for sound improvement. The Chamber of Commerce at Stowing Rock is especially active and about five years ago formulated plans reaching several years into the future, to which they have tenaciously adhered, sometimes under -very adverse conditions. A few days ago we asked the secretary to give us a statement regarding their operations. His reply was that about the best statement he could make is to give the report which was made to the membership at the recent annual meeting and we think the following will be of interest to our readers: "At our previous annual meeting it was decided to expand the plan adopted several years ago lor advertising' the town and provide facilities to entertain visitors after they arrive. As a start in this direction we have constructed two high-class tennis courts which have proven very successful. It was also determined to put forth greater efforts thas year in bringing the advantages of Blowing Rock as an ideal summer resort before more people than ever before. "In the early part of 1936 we procured 7,000 attractive booklets which were distributed through the 70 offices of The Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service, the general passenger offices of five trunk line railroads, and Greyhound Bus lines, as weii as mailing hundreds to individuals and giving out hundreds from the office. piiiiiiiS If I l_ -J L_ | Equip Your C ( the HI or have your old tires = will enjoy your sumr == minimum of trouble. == em retreading plant. ? teed. = Prepare your car foi ??} changing to summer = prices on complete = ing, polishing;?a com ?? au^cooui ico. | HODGE | COM] EE We Tire Watauga County = 24 HOUR SERVICE ASSOCIATE T Mabel Service E. E. McGui Mountain Servii M. & M. Mot lllllllillllllliiliililllllllilllllllllillllllll ! Also procured lists of hotels and ? inns with their Tates. which were t distributed with the booklets. "Co-operated with the hotels and ; business houses of Blowing Rock and other communities in raising I funds to erect a large directional sign on the Lee highway at Fort | Cbiswell, Va.. and placing several hundred small arrow signs along TOO ! miles of highways leading into Blowing Rock." At this meeting the following citi zens were elected as a board of directors for 1937: C. H. Berryman, H. ? !?. Holshouser. Geo. T. Robbins. G. C. rtoooms ana t\ A. isennour. with. c. ! H. Berryman as president: Geo. T. j Robbins, vice president, and C. S. i r*revette secretary and treasurer. O. i W. Stone was re-elected as managing secretary. Tt is the policv of this organiza| tion to promote the interests of j Biuwing Rock and to co-operate as I fas as possible with all others in giving- publicity to the entire Westjern North Carolina section as a dej lightful place to spend the summer and to give visitors all the available correct information regarding other points throughout the section. A statement of their receipts and disbursements for the years 1935 and 1936 will be found in this issue ' of The Democrat. WPA PROJECT HELPS COVE CREEK LIBRARY t The WPA book-binding project | under the supervision of Mrs. Elsie i Hagaman. has rendered valuable service to the Cove Creek school libraries. More than 300 books have been repaired and reconditioned. A 24-volumc "New International Encyclopedia" that had been discarded, was rebound and is now in first class condition. Most of the books had been discarded as unfit for further use and to have replaced them with new copies would have been prohibitive with the present funds. The school is submitting a number of magazines for rebinding and indexing. Should any patron of the school have worn books or magazines they will donate to the school, these books and magazines can also be repaired ana made to serve a useful purpose. It is felt that this project has saved the county a considerable I amount of money and that it should be continued. IIIIII III! I i II IN III M11MI! I n!! I! 11! I! III III I! I! ji= Sar With New 1 <1Sl^nSri?' mm s tES | retreaded so that you = ner motoring with the e? We operate a mod- =S Every tire guaran- |? summer driving by :?E lubricants. Special = change-over. Wash- = iplete line of parts and = S TIRE I PANY | Boone, N. C. == FREE ROAD SERVICE = IRE DEALERS: E= Station, Mabel re, Todd = :e Station, Laxon = or Co., Boone = lilllilliilllillllllllllllllllillllilllllllllllllii WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER^ The Week in Washington l3 A HESUSIE OF GOVEBNMKN- jar MENTAL OAPPENLNGS IN v; THJE NATIONAL, CAPITAL j j Is ? * I a Washington, May 10.?-An things j w, look now to experienced and impar- ? tial observers, there docs not seem IB, to be a chance for the enactment of i rc' the President's plan of adding six j m justices to the supreme court. There is a bare chance that congress may jj agree to a compromise proposal, to cp increase the court by two, a total of eleven, biT even that is not to the taste of the opponents of the whole nt program inside the President's own party. The inclination now i3 to de- tl lav action on the whole court pro- "i posal until after the supreme court has ruled upon the constitutionality R of the social security act. That law c has 'been brought to the supreme rc court by an appeal by the government from the ruling of the federal Tcircuit court of Boston, which de- ei clarcd the act unconstitutional. The G expectation is that the court will C hear arguments this month and hand down its decision late in June. If it cc upnoids tne social security act, po- ; F litical wiseacres say that will defi- ; B nitely kill congressional support of i the court enlargement scheme. If j 3d the decision is against the social se- s curity act, then the compromise plan ir for two additional judges has a = chance, although that will be fought y bitterly, on principle, by powerful 2\ leaders on the Democratic side. ai Roosevelt Still Popular ir Much of Uie silence of many mem- D bers of congress, particularly in the Ci house, is due to the belief that the ir President is personally much more M popular with the public than he g> is even with the majority of his own C party on Capitol Hill. Something ci like a wave of antagonism to the administration is growing rapidly in bl both wings of the capitol, ami there v; is a strong inclination becoming = manifest to give the President no more grants of personal power and perhaps to withdraw some of the . powers which the last two congresses ? gave him. It seems certain that J* many of the administration's proposals will suffer defeat, and that con- ? gross will do its own bill-drafting on ~ major matters from now on, instead s of accepting whatever the White House proposes. = That seems likely to be particularly true of the whole plan of tax revision. Everybody recognizes that the present tax system is a jumble in which unworkable and oppressive elements are mingled. Roswell Magill. the undersecretary of the treasury, has come out with a proposal to rewrite and recast the whole system of corporation taxes on a more equitable basis. To do that will take time and plenty of study. Congress is not inclined to rush any more tax bills through in a hurry. Therefore, the tentative program now is to enact no new tax laws this session, but to extend for another year the excise taxes which expire by limitation this summer, and in the meantime set committees to work employing experts and holding hearings as the basis for a broad and comprehensive new tax program to be put through at the next session. Economy Measure -Favored Congress is serious about economy. There is growing strength behind the proposal of a horizontal cut of 10 per cent in all departmental estimates. The alternative plan proposed by the administration's supporters and said to have originated at tJie White House, to give the President authority to "impound" 15 per cent of ali appropriations and apportion savings and reductions among federal departments and bureaus as he sees fit, has met such a cool reception that it is not regarded as having a chance. Opposition to it is upon the same ground that most of the rest of the congressional opposition to the administration is based. That is the feeling- that while personal authority and discrimination granted to the executive by previous congresses was all right at the time in view of the economic emergency, it would create a dangerous precedent to continue that practice of delegating authority now that the emergency has passed. That feeling does not arise from any personad distrust of Mr. Roosevelt.. No one thinks that he has any inclination to abuse the tremendous powers which he has been given. But there is much distrust of the motives of I some of the President's advisers. Partly because of that {trowing sentiment and party because of a real urge for economy, it seems likely that several measures favored by the administration will fall by the wayside. These Include the Wagrncr housing bill, the plan to set up regional TVA projects around seven or eight of the federal power developments, federal aid for schools, and all of the department of agriculture's proposals, such as a new form of AAA, the farm tenancy relief proposal and crop Insurance. There is an evident though largely undercover revulsio'n in congress against farm relief projects as a cla s. The feeling seems to be that raor h't already been done for farmers than for any other class and that it is about time, now that the economic situation i3 back on an even keel, to slow down on legislation in the interest of particular classes. For the same reason, it begins to look doubtful whether any new labor legislation will be enacted this session, though = much study will be given to the Wag ner act with the idea of developing 1 from it a broader and better-bal- I aneed labor policy. At the same time, the Republicans I are beginning to come out of their tent and show signs of political ac- I tivity. The expectation here is that I there will be more talking for politi- I cal effect from the Republican side | * ^THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. Zionville News Mrs. E. G. Greer, accompanied by small granddaughter, Miss Barmi Sue Farthing, of Sugar Grove, ft last week for Cincinnati, Ohio, id Richmond. Inc., where she will sit her daughters, Mrs. Chas. aacs and Mrs. Jake Chapman, and ?on. u'tnwooct Greer, for a few seks. Messrs. Mon Critcher and ?>wight ggers went to Kingsport. Tenn., ccntly where they have employetit. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Williams of ristol, Va., were recent week-end jests of Mrs. Williams' parents, r. and Mrs. Carol Icenhour. Shelton Penn, Jr., is here from L?e)ir for a short visit. Miss Hope Eller. of Boone, spent le first of the week here with LVcle" John Jones Mr. and Mrs. Phil Moretz and son, alph, arrived here Monday from ouer d'AJene, Idaho, and will visit datives for a short time. Mrs. Howard Greer and sons, ommy and Harold, spent the weekid at Mabel as guests of Mrs. reer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. hurch. Miss Mildred Thomas, Mrs. Spenir Greer. Mrs. Chas. Wilkinson and leet Greer made a business trip to ristol last week. Air. and Mrs. Solomon Grogan, rrs. Sallie Mitchell, Miss I^ottie tains and Rud Greene spent Sunday i Elizabethton, Ter.n. ion there has been so far this year. II sorts of talk about Republican nd "Right Wing" Democrats formig combinations to defeat the New eal is going around, but most of it in be dismissed as "wishful thinkig." However, the decision of the Lissouri Republican organization to et behind Senator Rennet Champ lark for renomination at the Demoratic primaries for 1938 is a straw rhich possibly indicates a wind lowing in the direction of a conserative coalition. SURPRISE FOR YOUNGSTERS Build a world museum! Learn all bout wild animals and important uppenings. The World Museum ioramus Is something different for >ys and girls. A new feature in the omio Weekly of the BALTIMORE IJNDAY AMERICAN. On sale at II news stands. Wkat is 1 da So V remem Unti own a Tod prices $60 lo para hiBut mean I more 1 costs a vice ? Bod operati oline n deliver Priv all rep mileB i Che< Ford Ford 1 | Ford Y*t AT DEARBORN FACTORY. This prico is for the 60-lip. 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