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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30
CLEAN UP, PAINT UP AND
ABOVE ALL, LOOK UP

The following from the Manufac-
turers Record should be read and
the advice needed by many Of we
Boone people:
"If every town in the south would
initiate most Of the towns in Florida
the South would become noted thru
out the world for the beauty and
charm and cleanliness of its towns.
"Cleanliness it has been said,, is
next to Godliness. A dirty individ-
ual is neither clean spiritually nor
mentally. Dirt makes for ruin phys
ically, mentally, morally. This is as
true of a town as of an individual.
rubbish, of untidy houses, of mud
dy streets, or insanitary conditions,
is non-progressive, materially, NOR
ally and educationally. Neither
moral nor material advancement fou-
rish in dirty unkempt dwellings or
in unkempt towns.
"If any town or city is ambitious
for advancement or if few of its
, men and women are ready to devote
their time and energy to the better.
ment of the community, the surest
way to achieve success is to clean ul
make back yards and front yards
clean, make streets clean and keer
them clean, encourage the people
white and black alike, to beautif!
their homes and their yards, stim
ulate love for and pride in thei
homes and in their towns, repair thu
tumble down yard fences, paint up
make things as clean outside as the,
should be inside, and then that com
munity will look up, mentally, NOR
ally and materially.
"No community which does no
clean up and paint up, which doe
not do it's best to have clean street
: and clean yards, has any right t
look up and face, the world.
"A cheap coat" said Presiden
Harrison, "makes a cheap man.
In the same way it might be said
dirty town makes a dirty people;
dirty people makes moral and ms
terial dirt and decay. 1t is the du
ty of all men and women to max
, their homes and their home town
| just as clean and attractive and beat
/ tiful as possible. He who falls shol
in this respect falls short Of his dut
5 to God and man, it matters not whs
, else he may do. "
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

"We passed the ruins of long alb
andoned stone dwellings, occupied,
perhaps, in those remote days of pre-
Incan rule when these mountains had
not risen to their present height and
this region was in the corn belt.
Continuing south from Copiapo
little by little the desert flora grew
from tufts of grass and stunted bush
to tall algarobas and cacti of many
varieties, one with great red bloom.
At Vallenar we entered wide irri-
gated valley emerald green with al.
falfa, and vines heavy with those
luscious white grapes whose equal
have found in no other part Of the
world.
"The vine, brought originally ir
colonial days from Spain, is now cul
tivated throughout an extensive ter
ritory. The French vine popular il
certain provinces, was introduced il
the fifties. Chilean wines are cele
brated throughout Spanish America
Here the manufacture of wine is re
garded as a national industry ant
few advocates of prohibition plac'
light wine and beer on the blacklist
cat the River Elqui the longditu
dinal railway gives twist seawar'
to serve the charmingly situated lit
tie town of La Serenarand COuuim
bo, it's port.
GAS you sail down the Pacific coas
you say goodbye to verdure at Qua
yaquil; then follows the long stretc
of desert coast through Peru and mol
thern Chile. 1t is only as you nea
Coquimbo that green fields agai
greet you.
"For a century and half Ct
quimbo has been famed as a minin
center. One of our North America
steel companies has developed a n
markable iron property in the Cigar
t tic TOTO mines, where ore taken frol
a mountain Of iron by steam shove
! is conveyed by an electrically oper'
!, ted railroad to the pier and loade
directly, through cars into special
constructed steamers.
From Coquimbo the railroad a
ain strikes inland. Two locomotive
i urged our train up the steep graz
d to the cumbre, the rack system b
ing used for some 30 miles.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30
THE SMALL TOWN SHOWS.

Louisville Courier Journal.
Not upon Broadway, New York or
in Louisville and other cities of it,
class, are found the worst of public
entertainments and worst morally.
The carnivals which 60 from one
small city or town to another are
described by a contributor to the
American City as being far great
er evil than public entertainments
of the most Objectionable class in
the large cities.
These marauders, as the writer
terms them operate gambling devices
controlled electrically in the interest
of the operator, and sell children
lemonade made of citric acid, red
dye and dirty water, in which thou
sands of lips touch the slice of lem
on that is used over and over again
till worn out.
In addition to fleeing the general
attendance and subjecting the chill
dren to grossly insanitary condi-
tions, the carnivals contain organ
lied prostitution in connection with
Living Pictures, Dancing Mermaids
Oriental Dancing and the Hawaiian
Hoola-Hoola, performances in them
selves often too obscene to be de-
scribed in matter passing through
the United States mails.
The carnival problem is one Of
public health and not one of the
moral health of communities merely.
According to The American City,
these travelling shows have in the
smaller American centers of popula-
tion an aggregate attendance of
more than 1S,O00,000 annually, and
until public sentiment has been
aroused to the many evils that re-
suit from their existence prohibitory
legislation will not be enacted by
State Legislatures.
Will prohibitory legislation ever be
enacted? Would it be valued, and
. if valid, would it be defensible?
1t is easily within the power of
any town or city to regulate public
. entertainments for the prevention
| of such practices as The American
City describes. If local public opin-
r ion in the smaller cities were suf.
| ticiently opposed to them they could
| be handled effectively.
Where the small town show is a.
. vile as it is described by The Ameri
can City, it's vileness reflects equa
! vileness in small town politics anG
government.
2 A few small towns have proceed
ed informally, and perhaps illegally
e to require Of strolling players ap
Y pearance before a health officer t,
r determine whether they should b,
n quarantined. But that progressive
!, measure suggests connivance at com
i mercial vice as one of the enter
S prises in which carnival manager
: engage.
/ The carnivals and kindred show
e should be regulated by municipal
IS ties not prohibited by states throug
II laws which, inevitably, would Pre-
!, hibit harmless performances alon
II with harmful ones
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30
THE MOUNTAIN RAILROADS
With realization that the comm

With realization that the commit
tee appointed by the Legislature to
look into the matter of making rail
road connection for the mountainsec-
ton is proposing to function to some
purpose, interest in the project is
being manifested by piedmon4 owns,
which are coming forward with plans
by which they may be included in the
rail laying. The committee is ap
pointed on behalf of the North Caro-
lima Railroad Company whose stock
it was proposed to sell and apply to
railroad building. Mr.. Arthur j.
Draper of Charlotte is one member,
Maj.W. C. Heath of Monroe is an
other; Colonel Benehan Cameron of
Stagville is third; Mr.. Tam Bowie
of Jefferson, originator of the bill
is fourth and the fifth is from New
Bern. This committee has held sew
orally meetings and has gone over
three proposed routes into the noun
tains, and has, it is understood, come
into fairly good appreciation of the
situation. The probabilities are that
the committee may map out a plan
of railroad connecting and building
that will appear feasible to the Leg
islature and that will give the great
est amount of satisfaction to the peo-
pie most intimately commemorative
people of Ashe, Allegheny, Watauga
and Wilkes. 1t is also understood
that the proposition to dispose of the
States holding of stock in the North
| Carolina railroad has been tacitly alb
andoned but there is under considera
ton another plan of financing the
project, the merits of which will bt
left to the consideration of the Leg
islature.
The Chamber of Commerce Of
Hickory wants hearing on propo
sition to extend the Carolina ant
| Northwestern from Edgemont to ;
connection at Boone and jefferson
and Sparta, thence to pick up tn
Elkin e. Allegheny which would ca
ry the loop back into Elkin. Blu
would this not be building aroun'
the State of Wilkes? We would no
want to do that. Again we woul'
think that the extension of the Caro-
lima & Northwestern might involv
negotiations on part of the State wit
the owners Of that property in whic
complications might be involved. ]
!, might be better to let the owner
build to a connection with the stat
enterprise. There are other proper
ties unfinished and in a condition Q
, idleness in which the state we be
, lieve owns stock, which might b
included in the scheme. Buildin
out from Boone and picking up tn
a Watauga & Yadkin River Railroa
9 Darby, the State could come into
=. Wilkesboro over line already larg,
4 ly completed. Then the Statesvill
v Air Line might be picked up an
carried into Elkin, and the Elkin
>. Allegheny run into Sparta. Thel
$ are good many economical cond
q tions that might be advantaged {
= to the making of the mountain raj
road proposition entirely practicabl
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

The inscription on the tomb Of
President Garfield is this:
"Life's race we'll run, .,
, Life's work well done;
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

The Observer believes railroad
plan for serving the mountain Sec
tions and the state will be submitted
to the Legislature in such shape that
will invite the word to "go to it."
Charlotte Observer.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

Mrs. w. H. FELTON, of Georgia took
the oath Of office on the 21st as the
first woman United States Senator.
She was appointed last September to
serve until the November election in
the place of Senator Watson, de-
ceased. On November 7th Walter
F. George was elected as her sue
cessor to fill the unexpired term of
Senator Watson.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

Canada is succeeding we'll in her
plans to prevent the extinction of
antelope in the west. The reserve
created at Foremost, Alta. in 1918
with so animals in captivity now
holds 13O head.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

VIM. H. Vanderbilt came into pos
session recently on his 21st birthday
Of the property left him by his fAth-
er who lost his life in the sinking of
the "Lusitania." I'm 4. y 's (, I
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

On the 21st instant the Planters
Tobacco Warehouse with large a.
mount Of tobacco, 450 bales Of cot
ton and two residences in Goldsboro
were destroyed by fire.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

Denver, Colo, is having a scourgs
of smallpox, and compulsory vacci-
nation is in force. More than 100
have died there of the disease with
in a short while.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

Pierce Butler of St. Paul, MINI.
has been nominated by the President
as Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court to fill the vacancy made by the
resignation of Associate Justice Day.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-11-30

Windsor Castle has been for more
than 800 years, a royal residence.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
Tariff Plot Is Charged
In American Valuation,

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9o.-The Amer
ican valuation clause of the Fordnev
tariff bill ais in reality nothing more
than domestic price clause which
surrenders the making Of tariff rates
to American wholesalers backed by
selfish manufacturers" II. f.. Miles. Of
Racine. Wis, chairman of the Fair
Tariff League and former vice-presi-
dent and director of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, declared in
all address to-day before the tariff con
vention of the latter organization.
The meeting was called to urge i'm
odiate action of the tariff bill EN-.
bodying the American valuation plan.
Mr.. Miles's attack on the c1ause fol-
lowed addresses supporting it's princi-
pie by j. <. Edgerton. president Of tho
association; former Representative
William E. Hung phres. of Washington.
and former Governor James N. Gillett
OF California
Mr.. Miles declared the American val
uatlon clause would add billions of
dollars annually to the prices consur,
ers would have to pay for ordinary
articles.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
Lack of Houses
'lmperils City,
Is Probe Report
Lockwood Committee Backs
Bill in Legislature for
Insurance Companies to
Finance Building Here
Needs in State Barred
Cheaper Homes Described
as Vital; More Facts TO
tic Supplied Next Month
From a Star Corrcspo,,dent


ALBANY, Jan. 3O--In a rcnort IN thr
Legislature tonight the Lockwood
housing Committee declared that tn,
housing shortage in New York CITY is
so acute as to imperial the health and
lives of the entire population Of the
city
Inc committee reports that there is
shortage of $4,000 apartments in New
York City and that the 100000 men
women and children thereby deprived
OF adequate living quarters arc crowd cd
in with other families in the poorest
section Of the city.
In many of the poorer districts the
committee has found three to four
times AS many people housed in the
same space as before the war. There
arc 100. O.00Oviolatlons Of the santa ry
and building laws filed against these
places upon which no action has been
taken.
The committee reports that unless
the city or the state is granted the
necessary constitutional power TO lend
their money to home builders, the only
other source Of capital can be found
~ the life insurance companies. a bill
enabling these institutions to engage
in the construction of dwelling hous scs
WAS introduced in conjunction with the
report.
House Shortage Imperils City
The report is only preliminary to a
moro comprehensive report to be sub
D,ttcN Eo ,,J nt J.>J
to emphasize the grave danger from,
epidemic which menaces New York City
because of tho lack Of housing facli-
ties. The committee finds that similar
conditions exist in other cities of the
state. The report reads in part:
"N our committee finds Overwhelming
evidence that the emergency in hous-
ing accomm oda tions that existed, par
tlcularly in the City Of New York, at
tho time the emergency rent laws were
passed still exists, and that with re-
spcct to the cheaper class of tene-
mcuts and houses that formerly rented
st from Sd to Sll a room the cmer-
Ecncy has grown, and is to-day more
acute than it was at the time the laws
were passed.
Your committee further finds that
owing to the high prices of labor and
materials and to other economic con-
dltions no houses Of the cha aracter la st
described are being constructed or are
in prospect, while, on the other hand,
many Of the older tenemcnts Of this
class have become obsolete and unin-
habitablc, while many others have been
torn down to make room for business
buildings that arc encroaching upon
these ighborhoods
"The present costs have driven build
ing activities into the construction of
business and residential properties and
OF the more expensive apartment
houses, to the exclusion of reasonably
priced tenements. Meantime the CON
gestion among the masses Of people in
the great cities. and particularly n the
City Of New York, is increasing to
such an extent that it has become a
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
Radio Monopoly Charged
Continued Use Of Navy Wires
For Press Matter Sought

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80. - Charges
that the Radio Corporation OF America
was seeking to obtain monopoly Of
press radio communication from the
United States were made to-day before
Senate committee by Joseph Pearson.
of "Thc Chicago Tribune" chairman of
the American Publishers Association
committee on radio and cable commu-
nication.
1cstifying at hearings on the pend
ing bill to extend for five years the
authority Of the Navy Department to
handle press dispatches by radio, Mr.
Pearson said the radio corporation had
obtained partial monopoly ON the
Atlantic coast and was seeking n mo-
nopoly Of press radio business on the
Pacific coast.
a protest against The Bill was voiced
by william Brown and Richard A. Ford
representing the radio corporation, and
II. II. Adams, speaking for the General
Electric Company. They asked that tn hc
extension be limited to two years.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
1000 Rioting Workmen
Clash With India Police
Two Killed and 40 Wounded
When Volley Is Fired
Into the Mob

CALCUTTA, Jan. 80 (By The Assc-
Gated Press -Four thousand worker
in the standard jute mills at Tittcghu!
in the environs Of Calcutta. engaged in
riot Thursday and were only qucllcd
by the police after numerous cssusi p
ties had been inflicted. The trouble
arose when the workers demanded the
release of two comrades arrested in
charge Of aSsaulting the manager o.
the works. which WAS refused
Police were received with shower
Of missiles. They fired into the ali
but the rioters renewed their attack.
whcreupon the officers fired y voller
lnto the mob. two Of tho members Of
which were killed and forty wounded.
Twelve policemen, one q deputy inspec-
tor, were injured by stones
clash also occurred in the city.
where meeting Of non-co operators
was dispersed by the authorities Sev-
cra were injured on both sides and
thirty persons were arrested
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
Actress, Who Recovered DESPITE
n Broken Neck, Walks Agai,
Mary Moore Once More Astonishes Medical World Nv
Iottering From Armchair TO Window on Day
Alter return From Three Months in Hospital

Mary Moore, the young actress who
escaped death in an automobile acci-
dent near Babylon. l.. l., last November
by precise hairs s-breadth, walked ten
steps yesterday. What it means to
walk after suffering three fractures Of
the skull and q broken neck only Mary
Moore can tell.
While her two sisters and brother
watched her. Miss Moore stepped from
couch and very gingerly and uncer-
ta'n'y made ten careful steps before
she sank. painting. her brow beaded
with perspiration, into an armchair at
the window of her home at ZIG West
Forty-sixth Street
She has this trick of walking, as we'll
as the adult accomplishment of co-ordi-
nation. to learn all over again. But she
Is completely recovered from some of
tho most basic injuries the human sys-
tenn is capable Of sustaining, and learn
ing these superficial tricks is only a
matter of time.
At the Broad Street Hospital they
say that her recovery is the most re-
markable in the history Of the institu
ton. Any one of these four injuries to
the skull and at the base Of tho neck
ordinarily prove fatal, they say. That
is why they regard her with affection
ate approval, professionally and other
wise.
They give the credit for her recovery
to her extraordinary pluck and eamy
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
*mdo,c Glass Me,, Test
Jurisdiction in Combine
'et' Acts Th0rged Here. While
1onsPir~sy Is Placed Else
saere. Defendants Declare

~... Is John c. Knox heard argument
i. ,'0as IN Federal District Court on
o. s"olrers entered by the majority
~. uefendants named in the Sher-
~. =. se' Indictment fled against fifty
MI, 0sporations aud ffty-one indivld-
sisd.es engaged in the manufacture Of
sids,.. sis.* glass. The government con-
ssst cas.. .s one OF the most important
b:!ars 'es w IN thrust litigation, as it
lsbsr ,p The lrnmunities enjoyed By
Qa,tcr,s ,seoess under Section 6 Of the
:sa;ni,.s scI the question of whether
~ ksey IN restraint Of manufacture
u construed as restraint of trade
Il, sn.EaNty 49, Of combination throuch
dsyihnr,i;os osment of q single exclusive
Vssst;nr agency and an importsnt
oa OF jurisdiction. '"'''
Anbs..seo 70 this last point that forr
II >eroof No.. John ". Davis, ren-esant
u tn" OF the defendants, devoted III
d ne In the argument. The o,. 81
.a,e6 tEea IN the indictment are A.
nave been committed IN ~.
et~hsuc et~hs' out the conspiracy was foro,S on.s
sl .aI nIs'nly on Section 81 Of ~ +he SrEu- ar,
+l,iSooe sooe, which gives The co,r, -'e sim IN
's.s1 smsJ IN which the conen, 80 .. 'Ee
Sony csss ceicsive jurisdiction ~ s.a, -
iissthan proS.' ,' wni'e David L. Podell and
;I;aited t'ost jr.. special assistant :,,t
at the So So d'str'ct attorneys. nrces
'easnIr..sn snermsn act. which mai s'. ~.
n tne crime, comes un.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
johnson Wants
$4,000 in Lost
Traction Action
Senator Received $4,000,
and Voucher for $4,000
More Has Beeu Approved
by Corporation Counsel

Corporation Counsel John r. O'Rrjon
has approved voucher for s1a Ooo IN
payment for legal services Of Senator
Hiram Johnson. of California. AS sne1'
clal counsel for The City Of New YORK.
In the traction cases. The voucher hs &
been transmitted to the Finance De
partment for the approval of the Conn
troller. If this payment is made Sena.
tor johnson will have received s25. .OOn
for his services so far, rs one payment
OF $4,000 was made last year.
The voucher has to be examined and
passed upon by the bureau of law and
adjustment of the Finance Department.
This is the custom for all vouchers sor
special counsel. In investigating the
claim the bureau usually calls upon the
department affected for all data on the
subject and in some instances the
claimant is called for personal cxami-
nation. Whether Senator johnson will
be called has not vet been decided. as
IL was said the matter had not nro.
gressed far enough to determine tha It
question.
The bill now before the bureau
reads:
ITO balance for professional services
IN traction matters and actions and
proceedings arising out Of the citv's
street railways and transit companies
to January I, 1922, $4,000"
The voucher Is certified by Assistant
Corporation Counsel Nicholson to the
effect that the services rendered and
the amounts expended were necessary
for the proper transaction of the legal
business Of the Law Department and
incurred solely for the benefit OF the
City of New York
The services rendered by the Cali.
fornia Senator date back to the session
of the Legislature in 1921. when he an
peared at Albany against the Miller
transit bills. From then on Senator
J Johnson had charge of preparing the
city's case in fighting the transit act.
he appeared in court here and in
Albany in the course of tho action
against the validity of the law. which
case was lost by the city in recent
decision OF the Court of Appeals.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-31

resistance. and she hands it back TO
'ncn for the astonishing feat of sur
gerry which is the most tangible cause
for her recovery.
=, tier case WAS battling one. because
therc were no exterior abrasions to
mark the injuries to the skull. and this
might have led to the case being
treated as one of simple brain con
cusslon, III which case she would not
have been alive to-day DR.. Arthur
Barker Savage, the head of the instjtu
ton, who was called to Babylon. where
Miss Moore WAS lying unconscious. raw
complexities in her injuries. and - sub
sequent &-ray confirmed his diagnosis.
nosis.
His diagnosis and an immediate on
Grafton by DR.. Robert r. Morris for
the decompress of her skull were
powerful factors in saving Miss Moore's
ME- When she recovered consciousness
tive weeks later she found herself en-
cased from the armpits to the ears in a
plaster cast
Miss Moorc's discharge from the
hospital on Sunday was in defiance Of
three expectations: That sho would
live: that She would be discharged be-
fore 1928, and that she ever would got
up and walk. Having shattered so
many precedents. Miss Moore means to
be back on Broadway acting again next
tall IT'S pretty good little life, SAYS
Miss Moore, If you don't weaken,