WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An independent ? Weekly rr EVERY THURSDAY in 18M and published far 48 yean by the late jtjty. Robert C. Rivers. St. R. C. RIVERS, Jr. - Publisher * SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN. WATAUGA COUNTY Ok Year Ja.00 Btx Mao the... 1JW floor Months. ? 1 ? 1.00 OUTSIDE WATAUGA COUNTY Oae Year $Uft Six Months. 1.75 Four Months.... 1.25 CE TO SUBSCRIBERS requesting change of addreaa, important to mention the i. aa well as the NEW address of Thanks. Resolutions of Obituaries, etc.. a rej for at the regular adver-[ rates. _ at the- postoffioe ail 83 secuna CAM ZZMUXf tr, under the act of Congress) ; * March S. 187* ' of our fBvmoMQt belli U the pi tf ihouM I re It left 1 ?hould have a oi the ptoplt, the vary _____ a teuM be to keep that and were it left to me to decide without without ?evetwnenL I ahould no! ite a moament to aneoee the let But I ahould tnaan (hat every ahould receive thaee paper* aod ? of reading them."? Thomat 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 * * J0BIL^ " ^9 4 ? - 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 ? ? ? ? - - fl DEMOCRAT ADS PAY! ? ESTES ELECTRIC SHOP Opposite Baptist Church DAY PHONE 473- W, NIGHT 31-W COMPLETE ELECTRIC REPAIR SERVICE, WIRING, ETC. ELECTRIC APPLIANCES RAY ESTES, Contractor ivWAWWWWWWWVWWVWWMVWWWWWWWWW !H. & W. ESSO STATION ] CORNER ELK AND PINE STREETS \ Across Street from Montgomery Ward ? Elizabeihlon, Tennessee COMPLETE ESSO AND ATLAS SERVICE We Invite Our Watauga Friends To Visit Us OWNED AND OPERATED BY Carl Henson - Cecil Ward vwwwawwvswwwwwvwwwwwwwwwvwX AWWVWVWWWWUWVWUWUWWWWWMW/WWW jl The Easter Parade Starts Here with a LOVELY NEW HAIR DO Call No. 39-W for an appointment YouU Want a New Permanent NOW to be lovely THEN ON ALL PERMANENTS FOR EASTER ; SHOP IN MY RESIDENCE ? 405 E. MAIN ST. I B I Quails i V Beauty Shop I ? ? i ; Mrs. Ed Quails I Boone, North Carolina SPECIAL 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 j The slogan ? "The United {States Army ? part of the Mam ? for security," Jus been approv ed by General Anar N. Bradley, Army chief of staff, as the theme of Army Day, on April 6th. notice or dissolution or c k M TRANSIT CO.. 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