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Watauga Democrat Am Independent Weekly Newspaper Established in 1888 and Published for 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers, Sr. PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS SulAcription Rates INSIDE WATAUGA COUNTY One Year $1.50 Six Months 1.00 fteur Months ? .75 OUTSIDE WATAUGA COUNTY OM Year 42.00 Six Months ? 1.50 Four Months 1.00 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. filtered at the postoffice at Boone, N. C., as second class mail matter. "Ihl baaia of our government being the ?talon ot (hi people, the very flrvt ob lect should be to keep that right, and were It left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspaper*. or newspapers without gov ernment. I should not heel tate a moment to chooee the latter. But I should mean that every mat should re ceive these papers and be cayeble of reading them.'' Jefferson. THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 1946 Letters To The Editor SPEAKS TO SHEEP GROWERS To the Editor: I would like to address these re marks to the sheep growers of Bea ver Dam township, Vhere I recently listed taxes: According to the 1946 tax list on approximately 350 farms there are only 104 dogs, 97 males and seven open females. The tax on these dogs would only pay for 16 sheep killed by them. Mr. Sheepgrower, I am sure you can readily see now why you may not get pay for your sheep if they are killed by dogs. One hundred and four dogs with probably 100 more, may kill many more sheep than during 1946. A. E. TRIVETTE. ABOUT ROADS To the Editor: I have heard a lot of complaints against our highway department about ou? road conditions. I feel for them, as I know they cannot control the weather any more than I can. I wonder if those wfto are complain ing have ever given it a thought that it has been one of the most severe winters we have experienced in a long time. Can our highway depart ment control the weather? Can they go out and overnight repair all the side roads to every man's house in the state? Can they tell Almighty God that we have had enough snow, rain and ice? How many of us have had to leave our car and truck away from our own home because we did not clear our own driveway, which was only a short distance from our own home? Yet we expect the high way department to clear hundreds of miles of roads and work night and day while we stay at home and have a good fire to sit by and never think of the boys out fighting the elements so that we can have a clear road the next day. I read an article the other day about a party who had moved to North Carolina because of the good roads we had, and is now complain ing ab?ut the bad road conditions. I don't know of any toll gates on our roads. Let them go back where they came from if they don't like good old North Carolina. I use the roads of our state as much as any one and have one of the worst roads to travel over every day that there is in the state. I travel the side roads in two counties and most of the people who live on it won't do anything to improve it. They won't open up a water drain and drag up rocks logging up and down the road that will wreck your car. Then they think the highway department should come along and keep the roads in good condition for them. This don't apply to all, as there are some who will help you all they can. and won't accept pay for it. Do we realize that the state could not buy new equipment and mate rials to take care of the roads dur ing the war, and have they gone on strike fbr more money? We surely haVA a JTojfi highway system and gopd men afthe head of our roads. Why don't we offer to help the highway commission keep our roads in [good shape instead of calling th^m all the bad names we know? I for one think they have done a good job. CITIZEN. SUGAR DEALERS SUSPENDED Raleigh, Feb. 5 ? The keen short age still existing in sugar was re flected by OPA's suspension during December of 84 southeastern sugar dealers from doing busines^^n that commodity for violation of rationing regulations, Theodore S. Johnson, state OPA director, said today. The population of the earth in crease* approximately 20,000,000 an nually. Director r Dr. Robert P. Morehead, above, of Winston-Salem, ha* been ap pointed educational director for the North Carolina division of the field army of the American Can cer Society, according to an an qpuncement made in Ml. Airy by Mrs. George E. Marshall, stale commander. The appointment was made by the state executive com mittee, of which Dr. I. M. Proctor of Raleigh, is chairman. Dr. More head will direct the expanded ed ucational program of the North Carolina division, which has the active support of club women and civic leaders, as well as the medi cal profession. THE EVERYDAY COUNSELLOR Rev. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. The self-centered life is miserable and unhappy. More people ars suf fering from ill health, unhappiness and confusion as a result of self-cen tered living than any other cause. The way to overcome it is to make our lives God-centered. So many let ters and problems come to this desk from those afflicted with this form of selfishness. It shows itself in many ways: an inferiority complex, self conscious ness, bluster, bombast, nagging, bull ing, self-pity, worry. Many take re fuge from all this in alcohol which is a depressive to the nervous sys tem. This offers only temporary re lief, as it depresses a mans conscious ness of his troubles only as long as he is under the influence of alcohol. Many selfish people do not rea lize it, will not admit that they are selfish. But anyone who is guilty of any of these above mentioned forms of selfishness, is thinking ab out himself and his problems, not about God and His power. Jesus Christ spoke of one of these when he told of the men who had been an invalid for 38 years, while waiting for someone to put him in the waters of healing. No doubt he had been enjoying a kind of self pity for many years. Jesus made short work of him. He asked him if he really wanted to be healed, healed him and sent him home. So many people feel that they must be lifted ouf of self from with out; that they must find a job, go to work in somebody's store, office, factory. While this is helpful, it is not absolutely necessary. Christ said that the Kingdom of God is within us. This is the place to start first. We hear much about morale, with out realizing what it is about. Mor ale is a spiritual thing. Christ said that he who would find his life must lose it. He meant that he must lose self, it we would live happy and helpfully. When He set forth a summary of all God's commandments as, Love God and love your neighbor, He left no place for self. There is nothing in the Bible about putting one's self in the center. In fact, it teaches the op posite. When we open our hearts to God, our hearts receive His pow er. But that power helps us but lit tle, if it is not permitted to pass through us to others. It is like elec tricity. It does not work unless the circuit is complete. We complete the spiritual circuit when we receive God's power, let it pass through us into the lives of those about us, our neighbors. Here is the secret of happy, suc cessful, joyous living. It is one of the best prescriptions for good health It is so simple that many won't take it If you are tangled up with self, why don't you give God a chance with your life. When He comes into a man's life, aelf must move out of the center. The desire' to be useful to others follows. The result true happiness. Why not try it? Church News GRACE LUTHERAN Rot. Edwin F. Troutman, Pastor Sunday School 10 a. m., Edwin N. Troutman, superintendent. Morning worship 11 a. m. Sermon topic: "Jesus, the Hope of the World. "?Anthem: "My Light and My Salvation." Choir rehearsal Friday 7 p. m., Mr. Garnett Felts, director. ?,uther league and L.S.A. 6 p. m. Sunday. Come and worship. TODAY and TOMORROW Br DON ROBINSON I BARGAINING . . . . , . lutur* During all of this labor strife, the attitude of the unions toward man agement has been, "They won't bar gain with us!" But the thing that has impressed me ever since the unions began their bargaining effort has been thr preliminary restrictions they put upon bargaining ? they took for granted that they would get more money and confined bargaining ef forts to the. question of how much? We wonder what labor would do about it if the "bargaining" was re versed ? if management went to the unions and said: "We are going to lose money for the next year until we get back into full production. We therefore suggest a 30 percent reduction in wages during this loss period. But we are willing to bar gain with you about it to determine whether 30 percent is a fair cut." Of course, the unions would laugh at such a preposterous proposal. And yet, if we think of business in terms of small business instead of big cor porations, the only way many a business could continue to operate would, be to lower wages when money isn't coming in and increased wages when profits rise. The unions apparently are meas uring industry's ability to pay on the basis of those high estimates of record sales which are dreamed about for the near future. But it is quite possible that, as a result of the disruption caused by strikes, that pretty picture of a super-pros perous future may never materia lize. FORD solution I believe the proposal made by Ford ? that a wage increase be ar ranged now, but that it go into ef fect only after production has reach ed a specified peak. ? is the fairest possible answer to the present sit uation. In fact, it might be possible for labor and management to get to gether on a long-term contract whereby wages would automatical ly be increased as production mount ed to new highs. The only trouble with such a plan is that it would also have to work in reverse ? labor j would have to atrree to accept wage cuts during periods when production slumped. And it is hard to imagine most union leaders agreeing to such a two-sided proposition. But unless some long-term agree ments are worked out, I am afraid that the public will not have much faith in any labor-management peace agreements. For if labor set tles for less than 20 percent now, it will certainly go after that other 10 percent it has been talking about as soon as production climbs ? and that could lead to a repetition of the pres ent situation a year from now. I don't think congress should or could do much to end the labor management conflict which is now going on, but it should certainly take some kind of action to protect the public against a recurrence in the future. ? ? * COMMUNISTS .... optimism The Communist party is very much pleased with the way things have gone in this country since V J day. William Foster, head of the party, cheering on the sidelines, pre dicts the greatest strike movement ^n history. Outside of a bloody revolution, there is nothing much more they could ask than the pro gram which has been offered in the past few months ? first an exhibi tion of how the maritime unions can paralyze shipping, then a major blow at transportation by stopping production of motor vehicles, then an interruption of communications with the telegraph and telephone strikes and finally the striking of a crippling blow against the food sup ply with the meat packers' strike. The whole picture should certain ly look like a rosy one to the Com munists who want to prove that the main arteries of enterprise in this country, although still considered to be privately controlled .actually are Waich Repairing We are pleased to announce that we have been able to add anoth er man to our watch repairing department, and as a result, we are now able to do your watch repairing within a reasonable length of time. We are now aecuring a more sat isfactory supply of materials and can offer you about the same service as In pre-war days. Our 22 years experience in this com munity is evidence of our ability and willingness to serve you well. We solicit your further patron age and good will. WALKERS Jewelry Store WILL C. WALKER Opposite Poatoffic* Dynamite Big Noise In Farm Drainage Dynamite is the big noise in farm drainage as North Carolina's rural land owners seek in increasing num bers to save potential cropland from the ravages of unseasonable weath er, according to Howard Ellis, State College extension service engineer. Ellis, who has reported two suc cessful demonstrations of ditch dy namiting in eastern Carolina, says that the type of explosive beingJ used by most farmers now is aboufl 50 percent nitro-glycerin aftd ad? vised that blasting machines ratKr than the old cap and. fuse methpd should be used in setting off the charges. On one farm, the county agent de monstrated the advantages of dyna mite by blasting a drainage ditch two and a half feet deep, six feet w ide and 240 feet long. A test ci large of 22 pounds of explosive was first used to determine how the main charges should be placed in order to get the desired ditch pat tern. The cost of this ditching was about $25 and time required to fin ish it was about an hour. It was estimated conservatively that the cost of the same ditch, hand-dug, would have been $100 or more, if labor had been available. Side slopes of the dynamited ditch as sume an angle of about 45 degrees and spoil bank material is thrown dependent upon the decisions of the workers. The only hurdle left for the Com munists to overcome is public opin ion. But fortunately, when the Communists try to battle against public opinion in this country, they can't win. For, even though all of the cards appear to be stacked in their favor, they know that even the working men ? the men who are striking ? in their role as part of the American public, are almost as strong in their opposition to out right community ownership of prop erty as are the strongest anti-labor forces. over a wide area, rather than piled in mounds on the ditch bank. The cost of a similar ditch ? (our feet deep, eight feet wide and 450 feet long ? was about $60 using dy namite. It could not have l-jyn dug by hand for less than $150, according to engineers. The world has been at peace only in eight percent of recorded history. Tiny steel staples used in book. matches of which we consume 225, 000,000.000, requires 500 tons of steel a year. There are 2,500 varieties of ani mals on exhibit in the Washington ? zoo. There are approximately 191,800 railway bridges in the United States. .ROYSTER Fertilizer / All ROYSTER Fertilizer has six major plant foods, and is free flowing in the drill. Making good Fertilizer is a long establish ed custom at R(3YSTER plants. That is why it is so hard to beat in the field. COME IN AND BUY YOUR FERTILI LIZER EARLY, AND GET A WELL MIXED FERTILIZER We also have Cabbage Seed, Onion Sets, Seed Beans and Certified Sequoia Seed Potatoes. GOODNIGHT BROTHERS Boone, N. C. He'S still among us ? the same long, angular figure, the sorrowful face, gaunt-cheeked, hollow-eyed, brooding, lined by cares and suffering above and beyond his own. He will live as long as free people cherish a free nation. He will live as long as there remains one man who will fight to free another. H E will live as long as people remember and live by what he said. I. HE whole world remembers hi* phrases, and he uttered them over 80 years ago. They are as apt and as true now as they were when the Great Emancipator was struggling to hold together a split nation. It is somehow typical of all that Lincoln thought and said and did that the shortest and most widely known speech in our history should be his. T .HE remaii I Gettysburg Address is bounded neither by years nor by nations. It inj for us, the living, to prove our devotion to the cause of free men by aiding rehabilitating the nation and the world. We should again resolve that our dead shall not have died in vain ? nor even have lost 11 11 ? i ? 1 ? ? ?? ? - our ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? * * ?? vain ? nw even nave their live^. needlessly because we here at home did not help with all resources.^ , I F we do that, the faith in freedom that was Lincloln's can nc^r die. NORTHWESTERN BANK BOONE, N. C.
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