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Watauga Democrat An Independent Weekly Newspaper Established in 388fi and Published for 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers, Sr. PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS ! Subscription Rates One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Four Months 50 Outside N. C.. 1 year $2.C0 Payable in Advance. Notice to Subscribers In requesting change of address, it is important to mention the OLD as well as the NEW address. R. C. RIVERS, Jr. - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Re spect, Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advertising rates, j Entered at the postoffice at Boone, N. C., as second class rruii matter. "The basis of our government beins* the f toinion of the. people, the veiy llrsi ob- 1 jffc t should to keep That ) right and were it Ie?l to J me to decide whether we J should have a government' without newspapers, or] newspapers without gov-; eminent, I should not hesi- 1 tate a moment to choose the latter. But I should mean | that every man should re ce?vc these papers and bt j capable of reading them." j ? Thorn aa, Jefferson. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1944 Letters To the Editor WRITES FROM PACIFIC South Pacific March 30. 1944. Dear Mr. Rivers'. I don't know if you remember mc or hot, bu! it was swell over it year ago when I last wrote to you. I was thanking you for the paper that meant so much vo inc. 1 noticed something in The "Democrat'' today, dated Fel). 24, 1944. thai I do not understand. It was in reference to the Servicemen's Rotation Plan. It read something like this: 'More.1 than 200,000 troops, exclusive of sick and -vounded. have been sent back to the. U S. A? from overseas. The army's rotation policy provides that tfcose with the longest service overseas will be returned first.'!'' Actually, it isn't being done like that at all. Instead of sending the men with four years overseas first, they collect all the names of men with two or more years overseas, along with ail the others, it doesn't mat ter i? they have been two or ten years overseas, they all have the same chance at going back home. For instance, 1 have oeen overseas since Sept. 20, 1040. 1 don't have to remind you of what happened on Dec. 7 1941. Not so long after that, we were on Guadalcanal, showing them that they could be b.:-at at their own game. We, meaning my division, played the major part in either killing the Japs or chasing them off Guadalcanal, as history will show. You a)a> will remember the other islands in the New Georgia group that were taken from the Japanese, up as tar ;<s Bougainville. During the action on Guadalcanal, I was an infantryman, and all of the wild stories ihat have been told from lime to time about that campaign, tor the most part have been true. I know what it means to feel the very breath of machine gup. bullets in the tall grass, along with the concussion of bombs that were entirely too close for comfort. Going on patrols and having the snipers banging away at you at reg ular intervals, an occasional artillery shell landing here and there. Mostly, here! Seeing a pal that you havt known, and grown to love almost as a brother, laying in pieces, wonder ing just how many will fall before it comes your number, not exactly caring! Hoping only to see that lit tle slant-eye somewhere up ahead that is setting somewhere up in a thick tree with a light machine gun that is no respector of persons. Sleeping in a foxhole, or I should say trying to sleep, with at least six inches or more of stagnated water in it, with mosquitoes picking you up by the ears. Every sound you hear can be, and usually is, a Jap. We know better than to go walking around after dark. That was an in vitation for sudden death. Either from a Jap, or some trigger-happy pal in the next hole. All of this goes to make up quite a little of my last tw o years of overseas duty. Now. there are fellows that have never seen an enemy dive bomber, or heard the scream of artillery, or any of these cute little things that go with actual combat. Yet, they have their names dropped in the hat along with our to be drawn out for the trip back home! That is the part that I don't understand about the situation. Why do they print things like this in the paper? Is it for our morale, or th'e people that have boys overseas for three to five years that they know have been through hell that goes to make up war? Is it so they will be expecting their loved ones home on the next boat? We are taught to try and believe that our leaders back in the states say. But can we? This isn't a complaint, it is only an explanation so you won't be misinformed. Personally, I had just as soon stay out of the states until it is all over, then I can go home and live in peace. I have all the confidence that it won't be long. If you could see some of our boys in action, you would see what I mean! Sincerely yours, RALPH E. GREENE. China's first blood bank has been established on the Yunnan front, where it will be used as a model for other blood banks, ' TODAY and TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON TALENTS babies From the lime a baby boy be comes old enough to talk most par ents begin looking for signs of what he is apt to be when he grows up. If Junior starts marking the wall paper with crayons his mother is sure to feel that there is a budding artist in she family. If he chews on a monkey-wrench his father will hopefully buy him a set of tools of his own in order to encourage his mechanical leanings, and if he goes after the cat with n knife the par ents begin thumbing through medi cal school catalogs. A few years later come periods of disillusionment when the budding artist fails in his drawing class in school, the promising young me chanic breaks his tools in a fit of j i age over net being able to fix any - j thing; and the born surgeon faints at ' the .=!ght of blood. j Parents art: notoriously over icager in jumping to conclusions about the talents of their children arid many are also over- zealous in trying to interest their rifffsprings m the things thjS interest them. We sometimes hear of a doctor's son be | cor.iiug a good doctor or of a law yer's son becoming an outstanding lawyer, nut these cases ore excep tional. In the majority of cases the talents ot children differ widely from those of their parents and can niy be discovered after a long pe riod or trial and error. SPECIALISTS doctors But, although it is probably in advisable to push children into , adopting interests which later prove , to be foreign to their make-up, it j is also becoming increasingly in'.- 1 portant to expose I hem to as many | fields of interest as possible so that j their true ieanings can be discover- 1 ed at an early age. For there is no doubt that, when the present young hopefuls grow up. we will have reached an age of speculation undreamed of in the past. To succeed in that age of specilization a young man will need to be on authority on something ? oven though it may be a thing of minor importance. There are still plenty of family doctors, for example, who cope with all diseases, and all types of sur gery, but in another 20 years, the medical profession agrees, most all young doctors will have a specials. In the smaller towns it will still be necessary to have some doctors who can cover a multitude of complaints, but even there, with improvements in rapid transportation, the people will be educated to go to city special ists for serious troubles And, just as there may be one group of doctors trained to special ize m nose troubles, another group in throat troubles, another group in ulcer operations and still another group in heart ailments this same trend toward specialization will be noticeable in all fields ? whether it is law, fanning, store-keeping oi selling. FARMERS start I ! A professor in an agricultural col- 1 i lege told me, half humorously, that j 1 he could foresee the time when farming would reach the point where one farmer would grow to matoes to the stage where they were green and would then turn the field over to another who was an 1 expert on turning them red. | Farm specialization may not go I quite that far. but it seems nigliiy 1 probable that the general farm which includes cows, chickens, pigs and vegetahles, will soon be a thing of the past. For farmers will find it more economical to spend all of their time specializing in the de partment they know best and like best. The dairyman will devote all of his attention to cows and buy his pork from the farmer who spe cializes in pigs, his chickens from the man who is strictly a poultry farmer and his vegetables trcxvi a truck farmer. So parents who want, to give their children every possible opportunity to make good must probe deeper and deeper into their interests. If Junior actually docs prove to fce handy with toots and shows promise of being an expert mechanic, it must be determined just what form of mechanical work appeals to him most. If, on the other J-iand, he per forms a successful operation on the cat at an early age, the search must go on to discover into what depart ment of surgery his particular lean ings can best be cataloged. And if he wants to be a farmer, it is neces sary to find out what kind of a farmer. The schools will be called upon more and more to cater to speciali zation and to analyze the special in terests of students, but the parents who can actually determine theiy children's true leanings at an early age will be able to give them a headstart which will be invaluable to them. The paper shortage is so acute in England that a book publisher, on returning a manuscript to the auth or, remarked: "We're not interested in your manuscript, but we'd like to make you an offer for the paper. Punch. VhSMPdlmfo DOUBLE DUTY 1M1LLHBS 35.000 GALLONS GAS USED ILLEGALLY EACH DAY IN WESTERN N. C. Charlotte, Api'il IT. ? The Char lotte OP A office reported today that between 20 and 25 per cent of the gasoline coupons in circulation in this district, embracing 46 western North Carolina counties, were coun - terfeit L. W. Driscoll. director, estimated the diversion is 35,000 gallons per day. A new drive to enforce the regu 1 a- I tions, he said, may force some fill ing stations out of business. SPECIAL? Western Supreme House Paint. Guaranteed Quality un surpassed by any other brand of paint. On sale this week at S2.89 per gallon. Western Auto Asso ciate Store. lc \ TENDERGREEN BEANS ? Tdiaho grown. 24c per pound. Wo have Ab pack radio batteries. Western Aulo Associate Store. lc WANTED TO~ BUY ? 3 or 4 horse power electric motor. W. C. Greene, Luxon, N. C. 4-20-2c FOR SALE ? Carter's Champion White Reck pullets, 75 cents each, ti weeks old. Yatsa Greene. Rutherwood; W. C. Greene, Lax on, N. C. 4-20-2e NOTICE This is to state that my wife has left my house and that I am r>ot re sponsible for any debts she may make. This April 19, 1944. lc W. H. JONES. FOR SALE ? Registered 8 months old homed type hereford bull. Also I one registered horn type Hereford I hull for public service at my 1 barn. D. Bland Wagner. Boone I Route 1. 4-20-2p | WANTED ? White girl or woman to i j care for small child and do gen j eral house work. $5.00 per week and board. Reply to Margaret Greene Eubanks, Route No. 1, Box 83, Durham, N. C. 4-20-2p FOR SALE? 6-room house, lights and water, 3 acres land 1 Vi miles west of Boone on new highway. See Jim H. Brown. lp WANTED ? -DRY CLEANING HE1..P ? Prefer women over 18 years Experience not necessary. Pay $15 per week while learning Wanted, housekeeper with room, laundry, dry cleaning furnished. Write for full details. S. Allen Home, 720 E. Davis St., Burlington, N. C. 4-20-tfc WANTED ? Office girl, high school education, capable of dealing with public. Write for particu lars. S. Allen Home, 720 E. Davis St., Burlington, N. C. lc FOR SALE ? Baby crib, with new mattress. Mrs. Sumner Willis, Phone 213-R, Booue, N. C. lp LOST ? In Boone Saturday, yellow gold link bracelc-t with 3 blue stones. Return to Democrat of fice and receive reward. lp GARDEN FOR RENT to reliable party, located at 531 Queen St., Boone, N C. Write Lloyd Cole man. 11508 St. Clair Ave, Cleve land, Ohio. 4-2Q-3p FOR SALE ? One Dunbar Piano and one electric sewing machine, desk mode!. Mrs. Connie Cook, Hotel Watauga, Phone 9118. 4-13-2p HELP~WANTED ? Want two cooks and two girl workers in Princess Cafe, North Wilkesboro. Phone 206, North Wilkesboro, N. C. James Piperis. 3-30-4c FOR SALE ? Thoroughly recondi tioned electric radios, also battery radios. Dacus Radio Shop, Boone. N. C. 3-30-4p HELP WANTED? Man with small family to work on small dairy farm. Straight salary, house, gar den. This should carry draft de ferment. Reply to Bo* 468, Blountvtfle, Tenn. 3-23-4p OLD GOLD WANTED? We buy old gold watch cases, rings, dental gold, etc. Highest prices paid. Walker's Jewelry Stove. 12-1-tf DR. C. G. BAUGHMAnT eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of r-iiza bethton, Tenn., will be at the Hagaman Clinic in Boone the first Monday in each month for the practice of his profession. 12-1-tf DR. L. E. WELLMAN, optometrist, invites you to come to Mountain City, Tenn., for your next glasses. You will receive a thorw^h scien tific examination and the finest of lenses. The latest styles in frames or rimless mountings at a very moderate cost. Office days, Wednesday' Thursday each week. DACUS RADIO SHOP EXPERT RADIO REPAIRING ALL MAKES 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE 217 Main St. Phone 119 Boone. N. C. 3 2-8p TO THE VOTERS OF BRUSHY FORK AND NEW RIVER TOWNSHIPS This is to give notice that we have established a voting place in Brushy Fork Township at the old store building of T. L. Mast. In New River Township the voting place will be at the Harrison Baker place at Perkinsville. This April 11. 1944. R. T. GREER, Chairman, C. F. THOMPSON, R. D. HODGES, Watauga County Board of Elections HITLER'S PALS ? CCOOKED ClLUHQ STATiO/, OPECi.-roR.^-^ V^PDH ?< GARDENS Canners have beer, asked to set aside about 40 per cent ot this year's pack for war uses as com pared with 25 per cent last year. More and better Victory gardens are needed this year. War is a long way from North Carolina ? but in so many ways it's mighty close to us. Our men are fighting all over the world ? our factories and farms are producing an endless stream of supplies our troops depend upon. But even that isn't all ? it wouldn't be enough! We have so much more to do right here in North Carolina ? jobs that are up to all of us, jobs that must be well done. In the 4th War Bond Drive, for instance, North Carolinians bought $172,000,000 worth ? 37% above our quota ? but we're keeping right on buy ing more and more! We've gladly given our money to the Red Cross ? and hun dreds of thousands of hours of our time to making surgical dressings and kits for ounmen overseas. We've supported and worked for the U.S.O. and various war relief groups. We've built and maintained an efficient Civilian Defense organization. We've collected scrap and rubber, tin and fats Whatever has been asked, North Caro lina has doflft ? and then some! The men and wotnen of the Greyhound Lines, like their fellow-citizens or North Carolina, have shared in all of these activities. They've also shared in the vital job of moving wartime manpower ? in uniform or in work clothes. On special occasions they've transported U.S.O. Camp Shows and brought part ners to camp dances. Greyhound buses ? by making near neighbors and good neighbors of all the communities they serve in this State ? by linking cities, war plants, farm centers, and military camps and bases ? are helping to keep North Carolina's war efforts rolling to ward Victory! UNION BUS TERMINAL ELEPHONE 50 BOONE, N. C,
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