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PAGE FOUR The Watauga Democrat The RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY Established in 1SS8 and Published for 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTON RATES: One Year $1.50 ! Six Months - - 75 ; Four Months 50 j (Payable in Advance) R. C. RIVERS. Jr., - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Re- ] spect. Obituaries, etc., are charged i for at the regular advertising rates. I Entered at the Postoffice at Boone. : N. C., as Second Class Mail Matter. I THURSDAY. JUNE 3, 1937 | A GREAT DRY VICTORY The dry forces, in the imprcs- j sive lead amassed over the !i- j quor store advocates in Meek-j ienburg. have done themselves j proud, and in the definite removal of the populous county ,: from the ranks of those which' had been calculated to advocate j the legal sale of spirituous li- !. quors. it is felt that the so-called i wet tide is about to be stemmed.: 1 Added to this, is the dry vie- j 1 tory in Alleghany county, a ! territory which had been noted throughout historv for its wet 1 * 1 balloting, and the 19-vote wet majority in Wayne, which had i j been conceded as an over-, t whclminglv damp county, fur- j? ther hearten the dry forces of > p the state, and bear out The j j: Democrat's oft-e\Pressed eon-! r ~ viction that the legislature act- Ia ed contrary to public opinion in i n foisting upon the people the ? neufarious local option liquor 1 law. !. Indications arc that there is' ' 1l little danger of liquor stores be- j t ing opened anywhere in the jo Piedmont or Western section of Ie the state, and personal opinion Ir is that the developing resent- j meat over the wringing wet leg- e islation of the past winter, will h precipitate the return of strict c legal aridity within the space of h a very few years. The masses r of the people in a state-wide; J1 way are still dry, and their de-i1 sires will prevail sooner or I fc later. |" jg Little Journeys In i n_i. .1.: Ip JT cuesmie j [ By J. C. CA_NIPE If, ft We tirade several interesting side: ^ trips out of Jerusalem. One of these | trips took us southeast to Jericho, ! P the Jordan River, and the Dead Sea. On our way over we stopped at Bethany, on the south slope of the . Mount of Olives. Here we visited the home of Martha, Mary and Lozarath. We. found things quite J different, of course, from their day. ,, When We arrived at the home, a lit- I le, old, dirty woman poked her head ^ out of the door, surrounded by dirt * and half clad children. Still our hearts rejoiced to be there where Jesus came to rest so often. We also went to the grave where Lazarath , was buried, and where Jesus raisevl , him from the dead. o Moving on down the road from e Jej-usalem to Jericho, we stopped at c the Good Samaritan Inn, made fa- v mous *03' the great story of Jesus. Dropping on down, we arrived in Jericho, now an old dilapidated vil- t lage but once a great fortress in a Old Testament days; when Joshua jj capture;! it 011 his way to the Prom- j, ised J.and. Jesus frequently passed r, through Jericho. There is a wide j 0 plain of several miles from Jericho if( l<j me joruan Kivcr, DCing very not | f and dry because it is below sea level. ] S| We traversed the distance in a ; short while, arriving at the Jordan at the traditional place where Jesus s, was baptised. Here the Jordan is A more than one hundred feet wide and 0 ranges in depth from two to twenty feet The current is swift and the water muddy. We took a boat ride on the Jordan at this place. The ^ banks are lined with beautiful wil- j( lows. We stood on Jordan's banks h and sang "On Jordan's Stormy 4, Banks I stand," with great emotion in our heart. We then moved on down the Jordan to its mouth at the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea, being some fifteen miles wide and fifty miles long, is one of the unique spots y on the face of the earth. It is 1,225 feet below sea level and is so salty that nothing lives in its waters, g Many of our company went bathing a in the sea. Hie water is so briny si that one cannot sink. I took mine J out ill merely sticking my hand in ii the water and picking up a rock R which I have here at hoane with me is now. The sea i3 so low and enclosed U by such high mountains that the heat is oppressive. This was a oi V JJruee Barton Says . . . . . . Let's Look at the Record An ardent young: scientist com pletcd a series of experiments onl\ to find that the result he sought tc achieve simply could not be produced Imagine his mental distress when h( learned that the identical expert menfcs had been carried through ir another university some years be fore. If he had known about thii previous attempt he could have savec two years' hard work. He said: "There ought to be s careful record of the failures as wet as the successes in scientific research. Some institution should maintain a graveyard where the young scientist could go ar.d find a record of every research that has proved no good." If this would be a good thing in science it would be even more useful in business?and in statesmanship. In business we seem to learn so little from the past We go through the same circle of optimism, expansion, inflation, collapse, denression, and despairThere is hardly a single detail of the economic experience of the past seven years that cannot be matched in the record of every description since the industrial system began, yet the human mind refuses dumbly to remember. Each fresh burst of prosperity is hailed as a "New Era," and each bust is regarded as something unprecedented and irreparable. So with statesmanship. if you ead the- history of the Roman Eniperor Diocletian you will learn fhat practically all the measures ci modern government were tried out in his lay? with results that are sad to rejnember. France tried most of them after he collapse of the Mississippi Bub>le. and England hurried tliem onto he statute books when the South iea company collapsed. Ail this information is in the Concessional Eibrary, but unfortunatev our law makers seldom visit the Ibravy. They should be compelled to spend t ieasv a day a month in it., and here should be a permanent com- | nittee of congress called "The Com aittee on Thing's that Sound Good j ut Won't Work.'* * * . . I'll Tell You How to Write j Emerson in his diary says: "I have j eard that the engineers in locomo- . Ives grow nervously vigilant with j very year 0:1 the road, until the | mployment is intolerable to them: j ,nu, I think, writing is more and i lore a terror to old scribes." A famous American novelist was j .sked: "Does writing novels get i asier as you get older?" He looked orror-struck. "Easier," he moan- j d. "easier! Every Look is a lift and | leath struggle, and whenever I iave finished one T say to myself: j That is the last. I'm too old. I ! lever can do it again/" But he j :eeps on with the battle, and his j ooks are still best sellers. Irvin Cobb remarked that writing I 3 a job which no human being will mdertake unless driven to it by i lire necessity. He says, a writer j lever writes for fun. Most old scribes agree that the ! ardest part of writing is getting j tailed. If one will sit down dog- ' edlv. put a sheet of paper in the ! ypewriter and begin to write any- | even a. letter u> tne nome i oiks, it starts the blood moving j hrough the brain and work can fro i r?rvvard. But. the writer who walks ! round the room, picks up the newsaper or fusses with any distraction, ? 5 lost. There are some days, of course, | ;hen you just can't write, and there 1 i no use to try. The only thing to ' o then is to put on your hat and 0 out and get your hair cut, or neak off to the circus. Tomorrow lie words will come, VORK ON NEW DEMOCRAT BUILDING PROGRESSING! Excavation for the new home of tie Watauga Democrat, next door to he present structure, is practically omplete, materials are being delivered, ar.d prospects are that actual onstruction will get under way rithin the next few days. The uildirig will include the site of the Carolina store/' is designed paricularly for the newspaper business nd will be modernly appointed, '.usiness offices will be established 1 the front and the mechanical deart ment will be in the rear section f the building. Present plans call >r two stories ar.d a basement, the ront to be a combination of native j tone and brick. j Baltimore, Md.?Oysters have two j upplementary hearts, according to .. E. Hopkins of the U. S. bureau f fisheries. A11 three beat at dif;rent rates. Williams Bay, Wisconsin?The orld's largest refractor telescope is (cated at the Yerkes Observatory ere. It is 62 feet long and has a 0-incli lense. Seguin, Maine.-?Seguin won the itle for foggiest section of the county in 1907 when 2,734 hours of >g were recorded?30 per cent of le entire year. reat day and we returned to Jeruilem from the Dead Sea after the an went dwn. The climb from ericho up to Jerusalem is like comig from Patterson up to Blowing ,ock. The one difference, however, i there are no trees on the mounlins but desolate bareness. Next week we will tell you abut or trip to Bethlehem and Hebron. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT-EVERY Fireside Philosophy (By C M. Dickson) Modern Code of Morals ... if one : can't kill all the snakes in his yard, he shouldn't kill any of them. , J A duck takes his ored woman has i (Jhers straightened. iliat she will call ' i it a temporary." rtpj/dz:v;jiu^, suiiit go uxina to 4 keep from seeing1 something to do. I: some n.en ever receive grace at j all. it is like veneering ... a very ; ! thin coat Until Newton's law of gravitation j is reversed, one can make small ! j headway falling up-hill. No one should blame the minority I lor wanting recognition. If heaven is what we say it is, : should we not mend our pace to get ! j there ? It is feared that wherever liquor j : is voted into a county that it will be J necessary to build more jails and j \ county homes. A modern substitute for the Bible j . and holding family devotions- a deck of cards and bridge party.'' By no means dees the mere singing in the choir on Sunday morn a!- ; ways atone for what may have hap- j j pened the night before. Though one runs hard and reaches i high to win a prize, the prize is usu- ; ! ally worth it. \ When one sits down to strike, it I looks like the last mile post has I been reached. i Hard to outgrow ... an environ- j j meat which is surrounded by beer. j ; bottle-in-bond, and slot machines. ! The Family Doctor By DR. JOHN JOSEPH GAINES BLOOD B.M_\N< E Nothing should be appreciated ; more than perfect circulation of the blood the body; and, very many times we physicians, meet with variations from normal, which may be called "imbalance,'' or engorgements here .inH J-ho.ro mov vary from congestions to actual dilations oi the vessels?organic disease c People with big abdomens are suf- ' r ferers in varying degrees, from blood j imbalance. There arc a great many y_ veins that traverse the abdSfnUfa! t j wall and visceral content situated there. Anything that may cause ! s "rush of blood" to these blood ves- I seis, produces immediate and very T evident effect on structures else- .. where. A big meal is an example? overcoming; intense determination of r blood to the stomach and bowel, depleting the brain for the time being, ? causing dizziness, cloudy vision, c staggering gait, stupor, with heavy c feeling throughout the already over- t fleshed abdomen. The symptoms may amount to a temporary help- v lesaness. a not very enjoyable feel- t ing in elderly persons. c I believe without accurate figures, j, that one-fourth of the blood volume may flow in a great tidal wave to a ponderous abdomen, from overexer- 2 tion, overeating, etc.; and. that this = condition reacts heavily upon the z heart and brain; of course the veins j: of such an abdomen become much ; E miafrrtrl * - 1?--*. Hum tne uonsLiint sagging, making possible, if I may use the term, "abdominal apoplexy." Methods of correction are slow, discouraging and are seldom persisted in to get the relief possible. Carefully practiced exercises are productive of results. Of course free daily evacuation of the bowel must be maintained. Here it is that starches in the diet must be cut down to a minimum. Indeed, the diet must be just what is needed and no more. In chronic cases patients who are short of breath and puff with slight muscular exertion, may wear a well-fitted bandage to support the sagging, indolent abdomen. AGLE AGAIN HEADS LEES-McRAE ALUMNI Banner Elk, May 31?Robert Agle, of Boone, was re-elected president of the Lees-McRae Alumni association here today. Edgar Greene, of Sugar Grove, was named first vice president; Dorothy Pritchett, Banner Elk, second vice 'president; Dorothy Harris, Banner Elk, secretary-treasurer. The alumni of Lees-McRae convened for a business meeting: at the col lege immediately after the annual 5 alumni luncheon, which was attended : by alumni, college seniors and fac- i ulty. Agle was toastmaster at the : luncheon. \ Miss Fannie K. Taylor, of Lees- \ McRae, will continue to act as i alumni secretary of the college. z DEDICATED TO THE 19S7 i GENERAL ASSEMBLY The golf course lies so near the mill : That almost every day. The working children can look out z And see the men at play. E ?Sarah Cleghorne. E STEVENS INFANT DIES \ Nancy Ann Stevens, infant daugh- E ter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Stevens, E died Thursday. Funeral services = and interment were at Oak Grove E Baptist church on Friday morning. 5 THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. On Our Own IsJai y % \V-L \ L r7 \ \ \ WSh^sr?^ i imfec I\wji Four Questions s On Liquor Law Are Answered r Greensboro, June 1.- Answers to | "our questions which have been in i ioubt concerning possession of whis- i.. <ey under the new Kanford act have ? been received by Judge E. Eearle T lives. of Greensboro's munieii)al 'ourl from the office of Attorney General A. A. F. Sea well. The questions had been raised in nunicipal court here and Judge lives asked opinions from the attorley general. The questions with the answers by he attorney general's office follows: Q. 'How much tax paid liquor nay a (man possess in his own tome?" A.?"There is no limit placed up>n the amount of tax paid liquor a nan may possess in his own home, lowever if he has in his possession norc than one gallon, he is held to he responsibility of showing that he loes not have it for the purpose of aUoi" Q.?"How much tax paid liquor nay a man have in his office or ; dace of business?" A.?"The answer is the same as regards liquor in his home." Q.?"If four persons are returning t rom a so-called wet county in one ' ar, may each of them bring four luarts of whiskey into a dry couny?" A. "The answer to this question vas "yes" provided each person is he bonafide owner of not more than >ne gallon of liquor and provided it. s in sealed containers and not for jP?U | NE I RI ? We have a numl =} used Radios on 1 are offering at H duced prices. | $79.95 Battery I = /tti mi I A number of otl = condition pricei low. 1 FARMERS m iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii fcThont 1 .V tx I \jj^ ale.'' Q. "Is the Turlington act still in orce .and effect in dry counties .here the Hanford act does not spcifically conflict with or amend the e "uriington act?" t< A "Yes." P 6 Wellington, .V- Z.?The largest [, ingle flower i: the world grows on 1 he llafflesia plant and sometimes j caches a diameter of three feet, j g, ANNOUNCING TH IDEAL BAR! Third Door From Posto We have installed the most able, will employ only the be: very highest type of service LADIES AND CHILDREN Expert Slioi GIVE US / ALBERT S. BIT iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiii W AND USE A-D-I-OBargain Prict :>er of new and nand which we fl jEJL drastically re- I Sets, new, only I \N ~ .95 IB ner sets in fine p l|j ? d remarkably Ljf 1^ | iRDWARE & SUPPLY Boone, N. C. Ilillllllllllillllllltlllllillllllllllllllllllllllillll JUNE 3. 1937 ^ ^ >y A. B. CHAPIN NEW WAY TO KILL GERMS An absorbing; article disclosing acts about invisible waves so pow- j rful that they literally shake bacteria to pieces. One of many int<Tsting illustrated stories in the June issue of the American Weekly, the. ig magazine which comes regularf with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY lMERICAJN. On salo at all news lands. ___ ] E OPENING OF BER SHOP ffice on Street Level modern equipment availit barbers, and promise the available. ESPECIALLY INVITED 2 Shining 1 TRIAL VGHAM, Mgr. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllil d i j s | 115! ?COMPANY | ' *
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