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1HUBSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949
WISE DECISION
Governor Scott is to be ap
plauded for his appointment of
Dr. Frank Graham, president of
the University, to fill the seat
held so briefly by the late J. M.
Brou f?h ton.
A man of sincere convictions,
outstanding capacity, and tireless
industry. Senator Graham is
known as one of the truly great
liberal leaders of the nation. It is
fitting that North Carolina, the
most progressive of the Southern
tier of States should have one
outstandingly progressive mem
ber of the Senate. Politically, the
appointment is likewise sound.
Section returns indicate that
with the advent of the New Deal,
the Democratic majority in the
State grew top-heavy, and has
never yet returned to the slim
mer majorities of the old days.
Even with the prejudice born of
the civil rii^its issue the States
Rights candidate could only mus
ter about 60,000 votes in North
Carolina, where, like it or not, the
New Deal and Fair Deal senti
ment is rather preponderant It
follows that the out-front wing
should have a champion.
Of < course, Senator Graham
has 'been labeled a Communist by
the -unthinking. There are those
who attach the label to every
leader who don't want to take
<*e folks back along the dismal
road, who likes the high standard
of living developed during the
past few years . . . the farm sta
bility, the high wages, the farm
program. REA, social security,
old age benefits . . . the folks
don't want to go back, and they
won't with men like Dr. Frank
Graham in places of influence.
Off hand prediction is that if
the new Senator gives the same
measure of constructive service
to the nation that he gave to the
University, there will be no need
of an opposition candidate filing
next year. The folks will like
him!
Letters to the Editor
Liquor and Bootleggers
Boone, N. C., Route 2
Dear Editor:
Thank you for printing my let
ter against auto inspection.
Enough of us howled that time
to do some good. I believe we
should keep our cars in the best
possible condition for our own
protection as well as others. But
what a system. Oh, what a head
ache.
I am thankful for our papers
whereby we can let our ideas be
known. I think you are putting
out a dandy paper in spite of the
name and I don't mind that as
bad as I once did.
I would like to say a few
things about whiskey and boot
leggers, if you think it is worth
the space.
Voting out wine and beer was
just a start. Now we need to
get after the bootleggers. It is
common knowledge that you can
buy whiskey in Boone as easily
as a pair of shoes. Also east and
west of town they operate almost
openly.
I didn't have anything to do
with putting in the police, but
I did help elect the sheriff. Up
tiH now I am not satisfied with
what he has done against these
bootleggers. I think he can do
better, ditto the police. Of course
our officers can't do it all; if all
of us who voted dry would really
do something to make it that way
then we would get somewhere.
Oh, you say the bootlegger is
a good friend of yours. Listen:
No man that sells that rotten
stuff to your boy is your friend.
He knows he is working against
the individual and the commun
ity, tearing down the good .that
others try to do. We should1 re
gard them as parasites. Let's
use DDT on them.
R.. E. GREENE
THE BUS DRIVER
Sir: In rural areas we have to
, depend on buses for our children
to get to school as you know.
I'm wondering how many ^parents
teach their children to respect the
bos driverT How many realize
that a gnat percentage at bus
wMwti are caused by the chil
dren's behavior? One accident
1 know of described as a faulty
steering gear was started by a
paper wad shot at the driver,
which found it* mark.
I - 1 say, please teach your chil
dren to respect and obey the bus
(driver. Your child's life may de
tpend' upon his conduct.
EST EL CULLER
? ZionvUle, N. C.
KING STREET
(Continued iron} page 1)
town were utilized in promo
ting new business, there'd likely
be a lot more available coin,
when the solicitors' for some of
the obviously sound proposals
came along. *
Washington Rotes
' FARM VISITORS
Thirty- three young farmers
from the Netherlands will arrive
in the United States early in
April to spend six months work
ing on American farms under the
sponsorship of the Economic Co
-oparatioa - Administration. {Farm
families ii\_ fourteen state, from
Vgihe to Wisconsin, will take
the visitors into their homes and
provide on-the-farm training in
animal husbandry, farm mech
anization, stock and crop disease
control, pest and weed control,
general farm practices and 4-H
Club work.
TV SETS
Production of television receiv
er* in February totaled 118,938
sets, compared with 121,238 pro
duced in January. February pro
duction was held back by a short
age of cathode ray tubes.
AUSTRALIAN ROCKET RANGE
An agreement is expected to be
reached between the Australian,
British and United States gov
ernments. for the use of the
British Empire Rocket range at
Woomera, Central Australia, for
testing rockets with atomic war
heads. The present range in New
Mexico has been declared too
small.
MATERNAL MORTALITY"
The "maternal mortality" rate,
declining steadily since 1933 was
!.3 per 1,000 live births in 1947
compared with 1.6 in 1946 and
6.2 in 1933. The 1947 rate for
white woftien was 1.1 per 1,000
live births, that for non-white
women 3.3. In 1933 the compara
tive rates were 5.6 and 9.7. In
spite of a record 3,876,000 births
in 1947 the deaths in or soon
after childbirth, or from diseases
of pregnancy, were 175 fewer
than in 1946. In 1947 "maternal
deaths" totaled 4,978.
"AIR MASK"
The Navy has developed an
''air mask" to enable ? a man to
breathe and retain his natural
body warmth in the coldest Arc
tic climates. Weighing less than a
pound, the mask covers the nose
and mouth with a small but com
plicated, system of air ducts
several feet in length. Heat and
moisture is extracted from ex
haled air and retained in the
passages, warming and humidi
fying the cold air being inhaled.
A FORGIVING HEART
Los Angeles. ? Solly Manassee
is a man with a forgiving heart.
Manasse, now a Palm Springs ho
tel operator, and a survivor of the
Bataan death march and 44
months in a Jap prison camp, re
cently walked into the Los An
geles CARE office and handed
officials a $100 bill. "This is for
CAKE packages to go to Japan,"
he said. "I think we need a few
more gestures of international
friendship to help out the peace
of the world."
The Cleveland* and ?
Riddle
TS? First of i UriM of Thz+m
Historical Article* lUliling to
ib# Early History of
WitiHfli r.nuntr
by DIL J. E. HODGES
of HiMia &
The territory now embraced by
Watauga county was little con
cerned with the Revolutionary
War tor the simple reason - that
nobody lived in it and also, that
no event of arms other than two
small skirmishes occurred within
her borders, and of one of these
we have almost no details.
No man, or men, were more
concerned with the Revolutionary
history we do have, than the
subjects of these articles. To do
them justice in a single article,
would require more space than a
newspaper could be expected to
donate in one issue, so the little
information we do have concern
ing them, and of interest to the
readers of the Democrat, is divid
ed into three articles and will
appear as the_ Editor has space
to spare.
Of all the thousands of unself
ish, patriotic, self-sacrificing
Americans of the Thirteen Colo
nies of the infant republic, who
offered their all, their lives, their
fortunes, their honor, that their
children, their neighbors and
their fellowmen in general, might
be free, have free homes, free
schools and a free government of
their own choosing, we find no
mention in history of any whose
unspotted, unselfish patriotism
exceeded that of Benjamin Cleve
land. A few historians have
branded him as cruel, heartless
and inhuman.
But we must remember that he
lived in a cruel time and dealt
with heartless and inhuman men
? men who shot their neighbors
in the back, who in the darkness
of the night time put the torch
to the humble cabin homes of
widows and orphans, whose hus
bands and fathers had given their
lives that their young nation
might live, who stole the bread
and meat from the very mouths
of these orphans and shot th^
cattle and horses and hogs they
could not steal from ambush.
With these men he was stern
as iron. But when occasion de
manded ,he could be gentle as a
woman. Instances of both will
be mentioned later. A band of
resolute patriots, of his type, ga
thered about him, and never left
him while life or tHe necessity
lasted.
They called themselves "Cleve
land's Bull Dogs," the people
called them "Cleveland's Heroes,"
the Tories called them "Cleve
land's Wolves" and "Cleveland's
Devils."
Benjamin Cleveland's ances
tors came from England to Amer
ica, according to some historians,
about 1700. He was born in Vir
ginia in 1738 and came to North
Carolina about 1769. He settled
with some members of his fam
ily in Rowan county, which ter
ritory became Wilkes in 1777.
He settled on a fine tract of
land in a bend of the Yadkin a
few miles up the river from Ell
kin. His brothers settled in other
parts of what is now Wilkes
county. He lost the farm on the
Yadkin through a defective title,
soon after the close of the Revo
lution. It is now owned by Hon.
Hugh Chatham of Winston-Sa
lem, and is one of the show plac
es of the country.
The place where the doughty
'949 ? 1949
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WALKER'S JEWELRY STORE
BOONE. N. C.
Colonel built his house Is not
known, and the only thing re
maining reminding of his owner
ship is the name he gave it ?
"Round* bout"
His men affectionately called
him "Old Roundabout." His bro
thers, Capt. Robert Cleveland
and Lieut Lark in Cleveland, will
be mentioned in a later article.
The other name in the title.
"Riddle," is that of the arch Tory,
who operated a part of his time in
this section and got his name at
tached to a stream, "Riddle's
Fork" and a hill or knob, "Rid
dle's Knob," near the head of the
stream. This particular section
seems to have been used by him
as a hide-out and passway, as his
operations extended from Virgi
nia to South Carolina.
Dr. Draper says that Capt. Wil
liam Riddle was a son of Col.
James Riddle of Surry county.
Both were rank Royalists and
held British commissions.
The neighboring territory now
including Ashe county have been
settled a little earlier than Wa
tauga contained a sprinkling of
Tories among whom Riddle was
at home. ? > ? -
Two of these were Joseph and
Timothy Perkins who had set
tled near a place known as the
"Old Fields." These men were
from New England and had been
men of some prominence in
Massachusetts, where prior to the
opening of the Revolution they
had been tax collectors. They]
came south to escape certain pun-'
ishment at home. The remainder
of the family were ardent pa
triots, one, Dr. Richard Perkins,
said to have been a brother, rep
resented the town of Bridgewa
ter in Plymouth county in both
the first and second Provincial
Congresses, and served on many
of the most important commutes*.
He later served as surgeon in the
patriot army. Another, Cap*.
Ephriam Perkins, master of ?he
sloop, Polly, did valiant service
for the patriots.
Throughout the war, the hatred
between the Whigs and Tories
was something terrible. As a
rule the British regulars observ
ed the rules of war and respect
ed the laws of nations, and usu
ally the people at home had no
thing to fear from British soldiers
commanded by English officers
when passing through. But with
the Tories, who were often neigh
bors and fromer friends, it was
war to the death with no holds
barred. ?
Morgan Bryan, firpt settler in
the "Porks of the Yadkin," had
five sons. Two of them, Sam
uel and Joseph, were rank To
ries and held commissions in the
British army. Their three bro
thers were just as rank Whigs.
In the battle of Kings Mountain,
these three Whigs were said to
have been eagerly seeking Jheir
Tory brothers to kilt them.
At the battle" of Ramseur's
Mill, fought entirely by Whigs
and Tories, when collecting the
dead and wounded, two brothers
lay facing each other, each shot
in the forehead, and each with
his left eye tightly closed. It
was thought both shot, at the
same instant, and I have heard the ,
hope expressed that they did not'
?ecoj*j.ize each other. !
It was this type of warfare that J
touched Watauga territory. As '
the cloud passed her territory was \
just in the edge of the path of ?
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the storm. One of the Perkins
mentioned above was killed in
a skirmish in Ashe county.
The first episode in the Rev
olutionary history of Watauga oc
curred by reason of the capture
of Col. Cleveland by Kiddie at
jOld Fields in Ashe, county.
According to Dr. Draper, Col.
Cleveland owned the Old Fields
and used the land in peace time
for grazing stock. At the time of
his capture in 1881, he had a
tenant, Jesse Duncan, residing
there. Joseph and Timothy Per
kins lived about a mile above
Duncan's, but both were absent
in Tory service at the time. j
(The next article will tell of
Cleveland's capture and rescue.)
ARMY DAY
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Army chief of staff, as the theme
of Army Day, on April 6th.
notice or dissolution or c k
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