WATAUGA DEMOCRAT!
An Independent Weekly
Newspaper m
iblished in 1888 and published]
for 45 yean by the late
Robert C. Rivera, Sr.
EVERY 'THURSDAY
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
IN WATAUGA COUNTY
One Year 41-80
Six Months 1.00
Tour Months .75
OUTSIDE WATAUGA COUNT 5?
One Year _42.00
Six Months 1.50
Four Months 1.00
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
Respect, Obituaries, etc., are
charged for at the regular adver-J
tising rates.
filtered at the postoflice at
Boone, N. C., as second class mail
matter, under Ihe act of Congress
of March 3. 1879.
"The basis of our government being
the opinion of the people, the very
first objective should be to keep that
right, and were it left to me to decide
whether we should have a govern
at without newspspers, or
Ki without government, I should not
tate a moment to chooee the lat
ter. But I should mean that every
man should receive these papers and
be capable of reading them."? Thomas
f sfferson.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1947
GOLDEN GLEAMS
Few men have the strength of
character to rejoice iii a friend's
success without a touch of envy.
? Eeschylus
A sound heart is the life of the
flesh, but envy the rottenness of
bones. ? Proverbs, 14: 30.
Every other sin hath some
pleasure annexed to it, or will
admit of an excuse; envy alone
wants both. ? Robert Burton
The vulgar bark at men of
mark, as dogs bark at strangers.
? iivy
DON'T LAUGH
orn Shanghai, China, comes
the report that natives across the
Wnangpoo River are carrying out
a day and night watch for an
amphibious monster" which
they believe, is carrying off chil
dren.
It might be a good idea, be
; lore Americans smile at the cre
dulity of the Chinese, to reflect
UP??, the amazing phenomenon
of Hying saucers" which had the
United States by the ears for
about a week.
^EACE ^*AY END SUDDENLY
Senator Tom Connally, of Tex
as. says that it is important for us
to leave no stone unturned in
our attempt to understand the
Unfon" P0hcity of the Soviet
The senator made the state
ment in connection with a sur
S. Russla's foreign policy
wgan l8St year at his re
J Was an act've parti
? In several foreign confer
ences and chairman of the sen
W<msCOmm,ttee ?n fort'gn rela
The special report prepared by
, ?f lhe library of Con
gress describes Russia's foreign
flnH 'h i f .1,nt,?lprant- SUSpicioUS
and distrustful and warns that it
)* keyed to a program of world
worid war 31 the ^ ?f
declartd that com
munistic leaders are prepared "to
avai'ahle" in their
efforts to force "a complete
change m the social und econo
mic set-up of the world. Ad
mittedly, relations between the
I United States and the Soviet
Union have "deteriorated dan
| gerously since the two countries
' #K?rje(? as a"'es 10 bring about
defeat t*le a8gressors.
V?f do'not 8? 'nto details as
?,"?e fwd'ngs of the experts but
fu y Pr0P?r l? Call
?twntion to the conclusions be
yM.of vital necessity that
! *??ewCans, *ace world with
ledffc ?f dangers that
might arise. Russian leaders may
; "J^calcula - how far they can go
f P53Ce of the wor'd may
suddenly disappear.
SWIFT REUNION
On Sunday, Aug. 24, the nine
? children of Rt.v, Wellington
Swift met at the old home at
Reese. This was the first time
; the whole family had ever been
together, as some of the older
children had married and left the
old home before the youngest
. was born. T%e children present
were Lee Swift of Reese, Mrs.
D. C. Eller of Rutledge, Tenn .
Zeb Swift of Elizabethton, Tenn.,
Mrs. J. C. Culver of Elizabeth
f ton, Mrs. Charles Swift of Santa
Rosa, Texas, Carl Swift of Des
? Moines, Iowa, Dan Swift of De
, troit, Mich., Mrs. W. H. Norris of
Brunswick, Ga.. and Roy Swift
J of Reese. Thirteep of the grand
' children and 15 of the great
?I grandchildren were also present.
, At noon dinner was served on
the lawn to a large number of
relatives and friends. In the aft
ernoon a great many friends
called. During the day there
were over 100 callers. One es
pecially interest^ event of the
day was a talk made by Mr.
Smith Hagaman of Winston-Sa
? lem.
Dale Carnegie
Here'* an idea from ex-presi
dent Herbert C. Hoover that's
got a lot of wisdom tied up in
tour lines. It deals with thinking"
not the thinking of just one man
but of whole groups of human
beings, dealing particularly with
mass audiences.
"It is one of the most orofound
and important of exact etiolo
gical truths that man in the mass
does not think, but only feels."
One explanation for all this is
that it is much easi r to feel than
it is to think. Howard Lindsay,
star and co-author of the famous
play, "Life With Father," says:
I try to keep away from making
an audience think. My first ef
fort is to get them to feel. If an
audience moves over the line from
thinking to feeling, then the
audience is putty in the hands of
the actor."
Even when you get a group of
people thinking, there must be
divisions among them, Walter
Lippman, the columnist, says:
"Where all think alike, no one
thinks very much."
And it is even true that if
children think as their parents
do, then there is not much think
ing in that family. This also holds
true for a neighborhood, or for
any group of people in an organi
zation.
William Jennings Bryan had a
tremendous following in this
country, even though he never
achieved what he set out to ac
complish ? to live in the White
House. But he did know how to
appeal to people, how to sway
them and move them. He once
said:
"The secret of handling great
massses of people is to make
them think when, as a matter of
fact, they are only feeling." The
late Charles M. Schwab, founder
of the Bethlehem Steel Company,
said: "If I can get one man in a
department who can really think,
then I feel that department has a
natural-born leader. The others
can carry out his thoughts. It
takes one man to think, a thou
sand to execute."
Aibcrt Edward Wiggam, the
writer and lecturer, says: "When
the great mass of people think,
they're only airing their pre
judices. They take their ancient
prejudices out of the closet, brush
them and put them back in again
in exactly the same condition
they were before."
Most people don't even want
to think. Note how the average
man or woman quotes his news
paper, happy in letting someone
else do his thinking for him.
State College Hints
For Homemakers
I Patching will prove only a
temporary remedy for many
cracks in plastered walls, archi
tectural engineers of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture ad
vise. Sooner or later cracks may
appear again if the underlying
cause has not been remedied.
Cracks are often a sign that
foundations are settling, support
ing posts are rotting, or timbers
are shrinking. Much trouble can
be avoided if repairs are made
to framework or foundation as
soon as definite cracks show up.
To discover where repairs are
needed, go over the house and
notice where floors are no longer
level, or doors sag, or windows
do not fit tightly. It may be that
some part of the house needs
jacking up for repairs in the
foundation underneath.
If ceilings are badly cracked,
the joists that support them may
be too light to prevent sagging.
New plaster will not help unless
the joists are strengthened first.
Cracks often appear in plaster
around chimneys that pass
through the house. They occur at
the joining between masonry and
wood framing, because wood
shrinks and swells with weather
but masonry does not. Once the
cause of cracks has been cured,
cracks maye be filled in per
manently and successfully. When
doing this job, first remove all
loose material and dirt and open
the crack wide enough so that
plastering material can be forced
into the full depth of the crack.
Spackling compound, which
comes as a powder to mix with
water, is easy to use and satis
factory for small cracks. For wide
cracks and larger broken places,
fibred plaster or patching plaster
is recommended.
WOMAN HAS 53 CATS^
Los Angeles ? Upon complaints
by neighbors, health officials
called at the home of Mrs. Eva
Craft and found that she had at
least 53 cats of every description.
The woman admitted that she
didn't know exactly how many
\of them she had.
I sure miss seeing
all that b dutiful
Stalling* Jewelers
BOONE. N. C.
To Aid in Revival
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Hovis, above,
of Lincolnton, will have charge
of the music and young people's
work in a series of revival serv
ices at the Cranberry Methodist
Church, Todd charge, beginning
Sept. 8. Services each evening at
7:30. Special evangelistic serv
ices conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. Emest Stephens. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend
these services.
MASONIC MEETING
There will be a regular meet
ing of Snow Lodge No. 363, A. F.
& A. M., Friday evening, Sept. 5,
at 7:30 o'clock. Work in the third
degree. The membership is urg
ed to attend as a number of visi
tors are expected. The third de
gree team is requested to meet
at the hall at 8:00 p. m., Thurs
day night for practice.
DEAN B. BINGHAM, W. M.
J. E. CLAY, Secretary.
Acreage planted to late sum
mer cabbage is estimated to be
2.900 acres, or 15 percent less than
the 2.400 acres in 1946, and 36
percent below the 1936-45 aver
age.
It has been proved that grain,
silage, and hay can be saved by
fall and winter pastures. Every
pound of nutrients provided by
pasture saves buying a pound in
the feed sack.
Church'
Announcements
BOO WE METHODIST
R*t. S. B. Mm, Pastor
Church School 10:00 a. m.
11 a. m. ? Morning worship.
Sermon: "The General Rules."
Wednesday: 7 p. m. ? Mid-wee ?:
service. 7 p. irt. ? Choir practice.
PRESBYTERIAN
J. K. Pirktr, Jr. Pastor
Sunday School at 10 a. m., R.
W. Watkins, superintendent
Morning worship at 11:00 a. m.
Young people meet at 7:00 p.
m. We welcome all who worship
with us at any time.
Boon* Circuit (Methodist)
Bethel: Sunday School 1:30 p.
m.; Worship Service 2:30 p. m.;
Prayer Service 7:30 p. m.
Fairview: Sunday School 10:00
a. m.; Worship Service 11:00 a.
m.
Friendship: Sunday School
10:00 a. m.
Pleasant Valley: Sunday School
2:00 p. m.; Prayer Service 7:30
p. m.
REVIVAL MEETING
Revival services will begin
Monday evening, Sept. 8, at Hen
son's Chapel Methodist Church.
Mrs. C. L. Speivley of High Point,
will assist the pastor, Rev. R. J.
Starling, during the course of
the meeting.
^nch pipelines brought $182,
000,000 profit for United States.
Consumers are shifting to poul
try as beef and pork prices soar.
Survey show 65 percent of
American families saved money
in 1946.
World-wides shortage of all
fuels forecast for 1947-48.
EASTERN STAR MEETING
There will be a regular meet
ing of the Order of the Eastern
Star Monday at 7:30 p. m. All
members are urged to attend.
Grain export quotas for Octo
ber announced by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture total
1,213,400 long tons (45,685,000
bushels) of wheat, flour, (in
wheat equivalent) barley, and
grain sorghums.
CARD OF THANKS
| I wish to thank my good friends for
their aid when I lost all my cows by
lightning. ? T. J. Greer, Route 2. Boone.
"If it isn't out in five more minutes I'm calling in your competition."
I COMPLETE DISPERSAL SALE
of the
Eugene Transou Herd of Aberdeen Angus Cattle at
LOCUST GROVE FARM
8 Miles West of Sparta, N. C. on U. S. Highway 221
Friday, Sept. 12, 1947, 12:00 Noon
This is the noted herd of the late Eugene Transou and
is being sold by the administrators to settle his estate.
SALE CONSISTS OF
40 Cows and Heifers, 30 Calves, 10 Bulls
Including the herd bull. Epponion, 3rd, of Le Baron
This herd was established 25 years ago and all the cat
tle are purebred; however, due to loss of records, ap
proximately 75'v will be sold without registration
papers.
A Rare Opportunity for Cattleman to Buy a Real Herd
of Cattle. The Cattle are being sold in
pasture condition.
The following Farm Machinery and Sup
plies will be sold first; then the cattle:
2 Oliver Chill Plowi
1 Riding Cultivator
1 Grain Drill
Hay Rake and Buck Rake
4.000 Ft. Dry White Pine. In
boards
7 Rolls Wire Fence
30 Tom Baiftl Hay
1 Dime Harrow
3 Single Plows
1 Grain Binder
I Manure Spreader
134 Bags of Basic Slag
900 Pieces Ditch Tiling
1 Corn Planter
1 Old farm Wagon
1 Drag Harrow
1 Mowing Machine
2 Sets Harness
120 Bushels Orchard Grass
Seed O
1 Royal Typewriter
Several small farm implements such as hoes, forks, etc.
W. M. Transou
Jefferson, N. C.
Sale* Manager
Harry Hamilton, Jr.
Boone. N. C.
Austioneer
NO TEMPLE OF PEACE
mr
6 hi
^-r -^ki*--'- ?
"tK- ,
*? 3??wT f^tas^BZSF*
? & / ^ '"*
** fl.
r gtg
.>:* ' ?
B*$EL
n?-?
8 A BEL
6'
MOB
O^L
DUtr. by United Fciture Synllcate. Inc.
OBLIGING THIEF
London ? Alter a thief had
bound and gagged Mrs. Evelyn
Holman, 30, and stole about $100
and a gold watch, he kept his
promise to her by telephoning
Scotland Yard to give details of
his attack.
CORRECTION
The birthday dinner given
Mr. T. Len Cooke and his sister
in-law, Mrs. Alice Brown, occur
red at the home of Mr. Cooke, in
stead of at Mrs. Brown's. The
brothers and sisters of both were
present.
CARD or THANKS
We wish to express our thanks and
appreciation to everyone for their
kindness during the sickness and death
of our beloved husband, father and
grandfather. John Lawrence. The
flowers are deeply appreciated. as well
as the service of the funeral home.
May God be with each and everyone. ?
Emma Lawrence children and grand
children.
fokjCanning
Ks #
OJL
yy.
Mt
tok Cleaning
ton Cooking
VALUES... VALUES... VALUES... our ooly prk. but QUALITY. W? off.r tU
store it chucl< full of tk?m! A valu* ? not b*tt quofcty cK tk? low**t prk* . . . aiwayt.
0
We have in stock Hot Air Furnaces (coal and oil). Also
Stokers . . . Trade with us and save the difference.
FARMERS HARDWARE &' SUPPLY CO,
Phone 1 Boone, N. C.