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Watauga Democrat An Independent Weekly Newspaper Established in 1888 and Published for 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers, Sr. PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS Subscription Rates One Year ?1.50 Mx Months - 76 Poor Months 50 Ootside N. C? 1 year $2.00 Payable Advance. Notice to Subscribers In requesting change of address, it is important to mention the OLD as well as the NEW addresu. R. C. RIVERS, Jr. - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Re spect, Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Boone, N. C., as second class mail matter. ' "The basis of our government being the j opinion of the people, the very first ob ject should be to keep thnt right, and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without gov ernment. I should not hesi tate a moment to choose the latter. But I should mean thnt every man should re ceive these papers and be capable of reading them " ?Thomas Jefferson. THURSDAY. FEB 15. 1945 EDITORIAL DICTIONARY An editorial writer's philosophi-1 cal dictionary: Aroused citizenry?Two people who write letters to the paper say ing they think that editorial crime was pretty good. Lower elecents ? Three citizens I who write to the paper saying the! editor is nuts. Stirring call to action?Any speech by anybody boosting what the pa per is for. Which threatens the very founda tion of our government?Remarks by two men named Obalatsky and Glutz, on a street corner, concern ing longshoremen's wages. Subversive doctrine?The idea, advanced mildly by a college profes sor, that the constitution means what it says, perhaps. Fascism?something you denounce in one column and advocate, under another name, in the next. Outraged sensibilities of all good Americans?The result of anything said or done by (a) Rex Tucwell; (b) Herbert Hoover; (c) Henry Wal lace; or (d) W. R. Hearst. Flood of letters?Four. Veritable flood of letters?Seven. Showed that voters were alert to the grave issues?Any election your candidates win. Menace to free government?On cays the Old Man has dyspepsia, practically anything. His loss will leave a gap hard to fill?Death of any well-known citi zen. (Variety, for Will Rogers, wrote the obituary to end all obitu aries: "He was quite a guy!") Leave no stone unturned?What the police should do after robbers get $4.56 at the Olde Booke Nooke. Affront to civilization?The way some nation you don't like runs a war. The sturdy patriots of '76?The | two-thirds of American colonists who didn't give a damn whether '? Washington won or lost. Hardy pioneers of the west?The men who taught the Indians new and better ways of torture and mur der and then exterminated them for j learning these lessons. True Americanism?The suppres sion, by force, of everybody who doesn't agree with your definition of true Americanism.?From The American Press. Letters To The Editor FOR WHAT AM I FIGHTING? Editor Democrat: By the time you read this I will be in training somewhere in the states. I already have my call and 1 must go out from you all to fight an enemy that I have never seen; one. who has never done me any harm. One that has the same right to live as I, so far as I know. Last week I went to the OPA of fice to get some gas stamps for gas so that I could cut some wood for my aged widowed mother, who is left behind to get along as best she may. The office girl told me that they had no stamps. She asked me if I had no friends, or friendly gas dealer. This seemed to be to be sug gestive of gas "black-marketing," but I, of course, wouldn't be suppos ed to know, as 1 am only a soldier who is to go to defend what Since I can't stay with my mother to get the wood and food for her, but must go to the defense of my great country, perhaps she, if she freezes or starves, will NOT go to the place that it seems some are heading for in a great nonchalant, careless way. When I think of con ditions here as they have been forc ed upon me, I can't keep from ask ing the question?What am I fight ing for? MARTIN MORETZ Zionville, N. C. 2S3.2S6 PLANES BUILT From July 1, 1940, to ?Dec 31, 1944, American factories produced 253,256 planes of all types. FARM PRODUCTION UP Farm production increased 21 per cent from 1921 to 1944. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Y. M.C.A. has provided sleeping ac comodations to 273,000 servicemen and served nearly 3,000,000 meals to fighting men from nearly ever allied country o At Fort Knox Pic. Grani R. Ayers, oi the array, spent last w?k with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Ayers oi Boone. He has been training at Fort Knox. Ky.. as a radio electrician. He iinished his course with a rating oi "excel lent." NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE FARMERS By H. M HAMILTON. Jr. County Farm Agent. PUREBRED SALE TO BE HELD THIS FALL The purebred Hereford breeders of Watauga county held a meeting at the county agent's office recent ly and decided to hold their third annual purebred Hereford sale in Boone sometime in the late fall. The breeders agreed to fit their cattle better and to improve the quality of the offering over pre vious sale offerings. F. R. Farn ham, district farm agent for the western district, attended the meet I ing and made an interesting talk on] I the importance of breeding good ] type cattle. ? ? ? i BO BUSHELS OF CORN PER ACRE W. W. Wilson, a unit test-demon i tion farmer of the Bethel communi ! ty, reports the yield of 80 bushels of ! com per acre on an upland field in j 1944, This field had been limed al ' the rate of two tons per acre and in 1941 was treated with 100 pounds of I triple superphosphate per acre. A red clover meadow was established! ot that time and this turf was turn I cd under in the spring of 1944. At i the time of planting. Mr. Wilson used 200 pounds of 4-12-4 fertilizer | and in early July side dressed with 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate | per acre. Farmers Urged to Cut, Haul Extract Wood Karm woodland owners in this county arc being urged by the gov- j ernment to increase production of' chestnut extract wood in an effort to meet the mounting demand for| tannin to process leather for mili tary uses. Tannin has been placed on thei critical materials list of the Army I and Navy Munitions Board, as its use is absolutely necessary in pro-! duction of leather for shoes, gun scabbards, harness and many other military items. Extract companies point out that imports of tanning materials ceased | near the beginning of the war and that blight-killed chestnut trees are now the most important raw ma- j terial for tannin. Further, no prac-1 tical substitute for vegetable tannin I has been developed for tanning [ leather for shoe soles, and the de mand for this use in war is stupen- j dous. Most of the nation's chestnut wood is centered in the Southern Appalachians. During the continu-i ed winter rains many large timber] operations in remote mountain areas j have been forced to shut down. Un able to transport timber from these I operations, extract plants are ap- j pealing to farmers to get out all the | extract wood they can produce to j help meet the war supply emergen cy. Cutting and hauling wood during i the weeks before spring plowing | gives the farmer the opportunity to! earn extra cash through his own la-1 bor, use of his team, truck or trac- ] tor, and the sale of dead chestnut trees that in time would become too I rotten for marketing. General specifications for mark-j cting extract wood call for sticks to| be cut to 60-inch lengths and meas-j ured in 160 cubic foot units. Sticks between 4 and 6 inches diameter at the small end should not be split; from 6 to 10 inches they should be halved, and above that diameter they should be quartered or split to comparable size. Ttft> wood must not be rotten. Full information on marketing ex tract wood can be obtained by farmers andi other wood workers through forestry representatives of the U. S. Forest Service, the State Division of Forestry, Extension For esters and County Agents. Farmers are advised to be assur ed of a buyer before harvesting any forest products for the market and | to obtain specifications from the' purchaser. S3.600.000 FOR OLDSTERS i In January. Colorado distributed $3,600,000,000 to 41,000 persons on: its old-age pension rolls. Sao Paulo and Santos, in Brazil, are to be connected by a helicopter line. TODAY and TOMORROW By DOW ROBINSON COUNTERFEIT . . . coupon* The office of price administration seems considerably cheered because, in a two months' check-up, only three and one-third million counter feit gasoline coupons were picked up. "These counterfeits," Adminis trator Bowles proudly points out "are a substantial reduction from the estimated number of counterfeits a year ago." ? j In a statement on the situation ' Mr. Bowles goes on to pay high j tribute to the members of the petro leum industry who have given whole-hearted co-operation and "to the many American people who j have shown their disgust for black I markets and those who patronize I them." Somehow, however, I am not too impressed by this record. Having i been jn Washington, where every I body talks in terms of billions, for some time now, Mr. Bowles may feei that a few measley millions aren't worth worrying about. But among motorists, who scrimp and save on gasoline in order to get along on two gallons a week, the mere men tion of millions of gallons is enough to make them start seeing mirages I don't blame Mr. Bowles or the OPA for this condition. I realize I that it is practically an impossible job, without employing a 10,000.000- | man police force, strictly to enforce i any kind of rationing. But when we j realize that there are so many men | and women in this country who will i deal with racketeers in order to get I more than their share of essential' products, it hard to continue to feel much faith in the integrity of i the American people. ? ? MEAT control An even more disturbing story of| counterfeiting was the recent seiz-1 ure in Chicago of counterfeit meat coupons totaling 2 billion red points. | That is enough red points to buy all of the beef sold to our population' for a three-weeks period. The fact that a few criminals would look to the ration coupon j field as a juicy source of dishonest j revenue is to be expected. But the I revolting side of this story is that j they knew there would be a market' for these coupons?that they knew there were thousands of butchers,; restaurant owners and housewives i who would jump at the chance to* buy these coupons even though it i would rob others of meat and could | Had to a total breakdown of our i rationing system. It is estimated that the meat cou pon racketeers expected to make about S2.500.000 out of the sale of these stamps Tin- gasoline stamp counterfeiters did collect over a million dollars from their racket. Either field offers excellent oppor tunities for the future for promising young crooks. And it is quite pos sible. unless some method is devis ed to bring this type of counterfeit- i ing to a halt, that all rationing cur-j lency will become worthless and the black market will become the! sole source of scarce products. The OPA is taking effective steps 1 to control the counterfeiting menace. But in the final analysis, the only \ adequate control must come from a ! decision of the American people to refuse to contribute to the welfare' of criminals. CITIES blame It is significant to note that the] sale of counterfeit gasoline and food i coupons is confined largely to metro politan cities. "Large rural areas that have practically no counterfeiting," i says Mr. Bowles, "are offset by cities that are turning in an appalling' number."' Part of the reason for this is that there are more customers per square mile in cities than in the country. But it is also undoubtedly true that the country people wouldn't do busi- 1 ness with the racketeers, and the' counterfeiters know it. Racketeers know that at all times, country air is unhealthy for crooks?and in | wartime they realize that farmers t and small town people, imbued with j a high form of patriotism would! feel it was about time to start t shooting if they were offered the I "opportunity" to join a plot to un-! dermine rationing." Red Cross First Aid Course To Be Held Dr. R. C. Busteed, chairman of the first aid and water safety di vision of the American Red Cross in Watauga county, announces that there will be conducted an advanced course in first aid and water safety, beginning Feb. 10, under the direc tion of Lewis Plunkett, special rep resentative of the southeastern area, American Red Cross. | The course will be given in the college gymnasium and all those eligibte for renewal of certificates may contact Dr. Busteed or Mrs. Jack Hodges at the college. Mr. Plunkett. special field repre sentative fcr first aid, water safety and accident prevention of the Red Cross, joined the organization in June, 1944, after serving as main tenance and test photographer for the Pan-American Airways in Mi ami, Fla. He has been active in Red Cross work for a number of years, having attended Red Cross aquatic schools at Camp Letts. Edgewater, Md., and Chautauqua Institution, Chatauqua, N. Y. Mr. Plunkett also did volun teer work in water safety and first j ? id for the Lynchburg. Va., Red J Cross chapter in 1939. Mr. Plunkett's safety experience includes his work as water front di rector at Camp Greenbrier, Ander son, W. Va., in 1939 1940 and 1943. In the summer of 1941 and 1942 he AND YOU, TOO, HAVE ESSENTIAL JOBS' ^-T C?AB poft'T ' Zb^ ' WORK qT* ^ I rlWr^C JjVJ * C; i*V* **?% ?&\ C J jHL ,. OR , ... /"?v <c MORf op>? ^ ^xG" *** *% ^ ,N fettZ,? IGHT An>^0a/ v,&ar oercAT.s, pcop4CAn^ ?=^ P'GN> re'GHT *4SletS ,i P'CMT RUMoa-SPREADERS ^ JPlPlTvJ^ ?v(> jjC Etj> WE All-too - compuccvT 1 Howe FROUTERS I r ~ *5X^57 "2 | Welfare Boards To Be Named April 1st ? Passage of recent legislation will necessitate the reappointment of all county welfare board members by April 1, 1945, in order to provide staggered terms of office, Dr. Ellen Winston, commissioner of public welfare, announced this week. Terms of two of the members would have expired on that date. I The new act provides for appoint ment of all three members for terms : running for one. two and three years i for the <irst appointments with sub- j sequent terms to run for three years. Trtus only one member's term will expire each year in the luture instead of two terms expir-! ing simultaneously under the cidl law. One member of the board is nam-1 ed by the state board of public wel- j fare, one member by the county' commissioners of each county, and! these two jointly select the third member In the event the two ap pointees cannot agree on a third i member, the appointment is made i by the resident superior court judge. The state board at its meeting on | Feb. 19 will make its appointments: for the first term of three years. County commissioners will make; their appointments for the two year j term, while the third member chos en this year will be appointed forj one year. All members now serving on county welfare boards are eligible j for reappointment this year. In: making its selection, the state board I considers suggestions from any citi- j zens of the community interested in public welfare. "The development and progress. of the state's welfare program de- j pends largely on the leadership, di rection and active participation of the local boards. Through interpre tation of problems and needs, local | board members stimulate commu nity understanding and support,'" | Dr. Winston said. Watauga county's board of public | welfare is composed of Mrs. Mary S.j Harris, A. W. Greene and L. M. ] Hodges. - ( was with the Piedmont area Boy Scout Camp in Coleman Falls, Va. His favorite sport is canoeing. He has made canoe trips on the James river in Virginia, and the Greenbriar river in Wlest Virginia ver in Virginia, and tl ver in West Virginia. \ / DOES SHE? If she enjoys your company as much as she did when you were engaged . . . then we'll bet it's because you have not forgotten how to court her. The ladies love to be loved . . . especi ally when you say it with some spark ling adornment for their loveliness. \'M Come in . . . let us show you what we mean. W. B. STALLINGS State College Hints For Farm Homemakers By RUTH CURRANT Clothing specialists offer these suggestions to make a woolen coat or suit wear longer: Give it a brush off in the air. Brush woolen clothes often, in the direction of the grain of the cloth, inside and out, and in and around pockets and cuffs. Hang Woolen clothes outdoors when the weather permits. Hang clothes straight on hangers ?zip pockets and button the top buttons. If you do not have a trouser hanger or wooden hanger with a cross bar on it. fold a piece ot heavy cardboard over a wire hanger to hold the crease in trous ers. Protect woolens from pests. Win-1 ter is not a closed season for clothes moths or carpet beetles, so play safe | by using moth balls, flakes or sys-1 tals. and keep stored woolens seal ed in paper or airtight boxes, cheats or closets. Boone Flower Shop I Cat Flowers. Potted Plants. Funeral Designs Main Street Phone 1N-W Try BISMAREX cid Indigestion. Insist 'genuine BISMAREX and other so-called Anti Powders, recommended to be "just as good." BISMA REX is sold in Watauga coun ty only at BOONE DRUG CO. The RF.XALL STORE DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT, FEB. 17th 9 Till ... ? Music by All-Colored Orchestra The BARK Blowing Rock, N. C. Mr. Farmer: I have been advised that it is very im portant for the farmers to place their or ders and get their fertilizer early, on ac count of the labor shortages at the factory. So Ii you want V-C Fertilizer Come in and see me at once. C. M. CRITCHER Warehouse Near Bus Station Boone, N. C.
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