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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
ROMINGER NEWS

Rominger, Dec 16.-Mr. f. F.
Te.ter and wife and some of their
little children visited Mrs. Coy Ro-
minger recently.
NJ Birdie Ward has been very
lex, but is better at this time.
The school here will close in very
few days The attendance is unusu-
ally small for this district. The prin-
cipal has been very unsatisfactory
but the assistant teacher has done
fine work
Eide d. A. Greece baptized eight
"a didates into the fellowship OF
Z;on Hill Baptist church The tota
number received during the recent
revival was 81. Truly it was great
meeting.
Rev L. c. Wilson preached an in
spring sermon at Zion Hill church
Sunday, December y.
Mr. Coy Rominger is still in Penn
sylvania. Mrs. Rominger will joil
him there in the near future.
A revival meeting closed at Beth
any Baptist church last Sunday, De
cember y, conducted by the pastor
Rev. Watts and Rev. Ed. Hodges.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23

a Boone special of December Is
to the Winston-Salem Journal says:
The proposal to create a state equal
ling fund of $1,0G0,000 for county
schools wa severely criticized by
b B, Dau%hoftH, president of the
Appalachian State Norma! School, in
conversation with 4 representative
of the Journal The plar of an
Cqualizin~ lusd is good one, Prof,
Dougherty said, provided the fund
is safeguarded by checks to prevent
the counties from engaging in d wild
scramble for money.
"The law" said Prof. Dougherty,
'"should be so written as to encour-
age efficiency but to discourage ex-
travagance."
The way to accomplish this, Prof,
Dougherty said, is to place uniform
school tax Of, say thirty cents on
each county in the state. Then let
the expenses of the county school
system above this thirty-cent tax be
met one-half by the county's share of
the equalizing fund and one-half by
additional taxes in The counties.
IF you put all of the expenses
above the thirty-cent tax" Prof.
D0ugherty continued, the boards of
education in each county would de-
wise mean, of getting all the money
from the state they could. Every
county would plan an expensive sys-
tenn of education, hoping that the
state would pay for most of it, and
the state would always be embar-
rassed.
But if the counties had to meet
half of their excess expenditures out
of their own taxes, they would be
encouraged to use all care possible in
pending both their own funds anc
the states"
Prof. Dougherty secuted the argu
ment that the state could not raise
the $5,Oo0,0oO for the equalizine
fund. He called attention to the re
cent report that North Carolina hac
contributed more than any othel
state to federal taxes and added:
''Is there anyone, realizing ou
ability to pay $193,000,000 a yea
to The federal government who will
doubt our ability to raise the pittanc,
of $5,000,000 for an equalizing funt
for our own schools? If the fedora
taxes of one North Carolina corpora
ton could be turned into the stat
treasury for sixteen days, we shoul
have the entire amount This, OBJ
viously, is impossible, but it show
our ability to raise the equalizin
fund:
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
w. M. WATSON FAMIL
TO HAVE HOMECOMING

The W. NJ. Watson family, of Blow
in Rock Route |, will have a hoce-
coming on the 25th of December,
1926. There are eight living chill
dren and seven grandchildren, as fol
lows: c. S. Watson, of Knoxville,
Tenn. Mrs. Ellen ShulI, of Sweet
Water, Tenn; Mr.. Amos Watson,
Johnson City, Tenn; Mrs. Ninie How
ell, Of Brownwood, n c.; David
Watson, Turner Watson, Myrtle,
Watson Watson, all Of Blowing Rock
Route l The homecoming will be
at the home Of W NJ. Watson, three
miles from Boone.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
ALEXANDER WANTS LINNEY
IF NEW DISTRICT is CREATED

Alexander county people, without
, regard to political faith, party affilia-
ton, race, creed or color, want to
see United States District Attorney
Frank A. Linney elevated to the fed
eral di .trict judgeship says L. j.
Hampton in the Winston Salem
Journal Mr., Linney was born and
reared in Alexander county, and his
father, the late Romulus z. Linney,
former congressman, also lived and
died here. 1t was the elder Linney,
great campaigner, who was known
far and wide by the sobrique of ''the
Bull Of the Brushes" and there are
men vet living here, with hair turn
ing snowy white, who remember that
the Cd war-korse they call him well
deserce the cognomen, for he won
his spurs when political campaign
urJCn9 rested squarely upon the
shoulders of stump speakers who
went up and down the state telling
the people face TO face instead of
spreading campaign thunder by print
ers' ink. District Attorney Linney is
considered one of the ablest, if not
the abest of lawyers of his political
faith in the western part of the
state, and intimate friend. who have
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
Confederate Pension
Checks at Clerks Office
Total of $3,515.OO Being Distributed
to Civil War Veterans and Wild
ows in the County

Clerk of the Court Austin f.
South has received the semi-annuaI
pension checks for Confederate vet
erans and widows Of We 4rans. Ac-
cordin# to the records il the clerks
office, there are sixteen veterans on
the passion list-tvo Of the third
ela~s and fourteen Of III fourth class.
Six months ago vixen the checks we're
distributed t..ere were seventeen on
the list, Duke Ward having diod
since that tine, and one check on the
l. / for the pas six months viii be
returned, that for R. H. Fartl.ing, he
having answered the final roll call
within the past few months. One new
name has been added, that of Jenny
Greene.
The third class pensioners receive
$107.50, and the fourth class 500,
while The 81 widows Of veterans will
receive $50 each, making a total for
all classes of $3,515.OO
those Who have not yet received
le;r checks arc asked to call for
same. Those not able to come per-
sonally can authorize someone else
to receive them.
Following is the list of soldiers and
widows Of the county who are entitled
to the little Christmas cheer from
the state Of North Carolina:
Soldiers-Third Glass
Newton Greer, f. j. Norris.
Fourth Class
S. J. Bishop, Fl. A. Davis, R. H.
Farthing (deceased), f. NJ. Greer,
Jenny Greene, Wyatt Hayes, w. M.
Hodges, William Hollar, Thos., Love.
J. E. Luther, John NJ. Miller, L. d.
Miller Jonathan Moretz, James c.
Orrant, W. A. Williams, Albert P.
Wilson.
Widows-4th Glass
Polly A. Billings, Caroline Brad
shaw, Nancy Brown, Mary F. Coffey,
Martha E. Cole, Elizabeth Cook,
Martha Davis, Elizabeth A Dyre, c.
c. Edminsten, Elizabeth Eggers,
Mary E. EIler, Nancy Farthing, Sarah
c. Farthing, Elizabeth Hagaman, Lu-
cinda Harmon, Susan Harmon, Ann
Hayes. Julia Eta Horton, Mary S.
Horton. Mary Isaacs, Mary Je. tes,
Leona Mast Mary Miller, Mary E.
Moretz, Nancy Norris, Vina Norris,
Mary S. Parker, Mary A. Parson,
Jennie Ray, Dorcas Turnmire, Anna
Eliza Nandyke, Rachel Walker, Caro-
line 7. Walker, Margaret NJ Nc
CURE.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23

5 hich was disposed of on the trip.
Both announced upon their return
la Blowing Rocks winter climate
is much to be preferred over that of
he iower country
Out-of-town visitors during the
past week included Mr.. and Mrs.
Hunt, of Charlotte, summer residents
here, who returned on a short busi-
ness trip, and Mr.. and Mrs. Henkle,
Of 'atesville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe PAMELA left by
automobile for Charlotte Tuesday to
spend the holidays with relatives and
friends there.
Prof. B. B. Dougherty of the Ap-
paachian State Normal school, was
in Blowing Rock for a while Friday
Miss Lillian Robbins is visiting he1
cousin, G. C. Robbins.
Miss Anne Ward, who has been in
Lenoir for some time, has returned
to Blowing Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rupert Gillett viii
leave Friday for Ashe county, where
they will spend Christmas at Mrs
Gillett's old home near jefferson.
Not Yet Been Found
Searchers returned Sunday nigh
from a fruitless hunt for the Negro
servant of State Representative L. ii
Coffey, who, during his employer
absence Sunday, took Mr.. Coffey'
! car out Of a drive, wrecked it thre
miles from here on the Boone high
way, and gave rise to a rumor tina
Mr.. Coffey had been injured,
The car was found where it ha
been run off the embankment, bu
it was completely deserted. When
was recognized as Mr.. Coffey's cal
it was feared that the Watauga rel
, resentative had been injured, unit
Mr.. Coffey was found and said tn
; negro had taken the car out wlthou
: permission.
J 1t is believed that the negro
: either afraid to come back or is s
:. badly hurt that he cannot get bac
t to Blowing Rock.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
EPHRIAM MILLER PASSES

Mr.. Erhriam Miller, one Of the
pioneer school teachers IN this coun-
=, died at his home on Meat Camp
Friday, paralysis being the cause of
his death. Mr Miller was good
citizen. For the past few years the
.,aaC Of fate had res.ed rathec heavi-
~ upon I'm, and his mc:ger living
cured by whatever he could
tura his hands to. The world is no
worse by his having lived in it.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
cent tax.
much, sir,

cent tax.
8. Requiring each county partici-
pating in the equalizing fund to sub
nit its valuations to a central au-
thority for approval.
9. Let the counties provide for a
building fund and administration eX-
penses.
10. Encourage the counties tc
lengthen the school term to eight
months.
II. Have the books audited reg
ularly.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
Now She Knows

Inquisitive lady: And officer, tell
me what that strap under your chin
is for?
Officer: That, lady, is to rest my
poor old jaw when it gets tired an
swering silly questions.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
Impos sible Task

The Boss; Robert, | hope you try
to save half of what you earn.
Office Boy: | don't get that
much, sir
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-12-23
Needed a Dictionary

Doctor: Ever have any trouble
with dyspepsia?
Patient: Only when | try to spell it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
FARMERS Will
Get NO RELIEF
FROM CONGRESS
Administration Opposes
Farm Relief Measures

WASHINGTON OPP Altho the
house committee on agriculture is con-
tinuing its hearings on farm relief
bills, administration leaders in the
house have divulged the fact that they
have a majority of so or more in that
body against any farm aid legislation
this year.
President Coolidge is firmly op-
posed to giving federal aid to the
farmers, because he considers such
help to be "paternalism." He stood
out against all protest movements last
fall and during the intensified agita-
ton Of the winter He has not budged
perceptibly since the farm confer
ence of IL states in the corn belt sent
its committee of % to Washington
to demand enactment of farm ex-
port corporation measure.
This bill has now been drafted by
the committee Of H. It provides for
a federal appropriation of $3.50. 1000, 900
to be used as revolving fund to
finance the export, Of surplus farm
crops. The final loss on any export
operation is to be paid, pro rata, by
the farmers whose crops are handled
by the proposed FEDERAL farm board,
which is to contract with farm CO.
operatives for their grain and other
basic commodities. The house COM
mittee is expected to favor only the
Dickinson bill, which provides for the
formation of a board, but keeps the
government out of amy financial re-
sponsibility for its operations.
In the senate the prospect is that
no bill will be reported from commit
tee before adjournment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
BONES and HALF
TURNIP HANDED
TO UNEMPLOYED
City Relief Committee
Lines Own Pockets

WINNIPEG, Canada, March 30. -
The Winnipeg committee on unem-
ployment, consisting of local business
men, is using cheese-paring tactics
when 1t comes to feeding unemployed
workers with families.
A case has been brought to light
where a man was supplied with 10
pounds Of meat-this being an S-day
ration for himself and family. After
IA pounds of meat was cut away by
this worker he had a ~ -pound bone.
He declared he was unable to keep
his family on ~ pounds of bone and
~ pounds of beef for days.
Another man was given one-half a
turnip in order to make the exact
weight of his vegetable ration.
The whole administration Of relief
is rotten. The local butchers and
business men paid by the citizens to
care for the unemployed do as they
please and give the workers the worst
end of everything. The sooner the
workers in Winnipeg wake up and
see that all they can get is what they
are strong enough to take the better
of they will be.
If bones have to be gnawed, let the
grafters get Them, and the workers
enjoy the fat Of the land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Senate Opens Probe of
Tariff Commission
Especial to The Daily Workerl

WASHINGTON, March 30. - The
senate's special tariff committee met
to begin its investigation of the Unit
ed States tariff commission.
The first witness summoned was F..
w. Taussig, first chairman Of the com
mission, an appointee Of the late
President Wilson. Taussig was call
ed to explain how the commission OPP
Grated in its early days.
Altho no fireworks" were anticipat-
ed at the opening session, plenty
thrills will be accorded spectators lat
er on when the committee delves into
charges that President Coolidge at
tempted to influence decisions Of the
committee.
The investigation committee com
prises Senators Robinson, of Arkan-
sas, democratic floor leader, chair
man; Senator Wadsworth, repubh-
can, of New York; Senator Reed, re-
publican, of Pennsylvania; Senator
Bruce, democrat, of Maryland, and
Senator LaFollette, republican, of
Wisconsin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
DYNAMITE SCARE
USED TO SMASH
MINERS STRIKE
Coal Company Frames
Up Union Workers
BY GEORGE PAPCUN.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 30-As
usual the coal operators are uisng the
Dynamite Scare" to prejudice the
public against the strike Of the coal
miners against the 1917 scale. This
is some of the bunk that is being ped
died by the capitalist press of Pitts.
burgh.
Capitalist Press Bunk.
"Terrorizing hundreds of miners
and their families dynamite explos.
ion rocked the entire section in the
vicinity of the Montour Mine 10 of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company near Lii
brary early today shattering windows
and throwing debris for hundreds OF
feet. r. o. Van Sickle, a miner, who
has been working in the mine since
operations were resumed was arrested
shortly after the explosion and will be
given hearing.
ivan Sickle in a signed confession
according to Major ]. G. Search of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company's police, ad-
mitted the dynamiting, declaring that
he was ordered to place ten sticks OF
the explosives beneath the home OF
Jess Boyer, a Negro, by five men who
threatened him with death if he dis
obeyed.
ivan Sickle placed the dynamite
under a tree so feet from the home,
according to Capt. ]. MCGUIRE and
Corp. Andrew Bandish, of the police
where it was exploded, throwing the
entire community into an uproar."
Company Frame-Up.
1t is seen how ridiculous a news
item of this kind sounds. 1t does not
say so but it actually tries to blame
the explosion on the strikers who are
on strike against the 1917 scale that
this company has tried to jam down
the thoats of the coaldiggers after
breaking the Jacksonville agreement
This is not the only explosion that
has taken place around here, all OF
which seem to be pure and simple
frame-ups.
This is the type of bunk peddled by
the capitalist press which reaches
hundreds Of thousands of coal miners
and other workers thruout the coal
region in Western Pennsylvania and
the steel district. This IS the way
that the capitalist papers are attempt
ing to break the strike after the coal
barons failed to break the morale OF
the workers thru sluggings and the
importing of scabs from the outside
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
MARYLAND NEGRO
HEALTH week is
A HUGE FARCE
Worker Must Live In
Alley Shacks
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

BALTIMORE, Md, March 30.-Gov.
Richie of Maryland recently issued
proclamation calling on the Negroes
of Maryland to observe Negro health
week. One who knows the situation
of the Negro in Baltimore and the
surrounding districts would be led to
believe Gov. Richie either dumb or
blind.
Richie is neither. He is a typical
politician who wants to make the
workers believe that government Of
ficials are interested" in the condi-
lions of the workers.
The Negro worker In Baltimore is
forced to live in alleys instead of on
streets; in shacks instead of houses.
One reason for this is that the Negro
workers must work at manual labor
for a very low wage and cannot afford
better living place, and another rea-
son is that he is restricted to a GER
tain section of the city. The Negro
worker is not allowed to move into
cleaner districts.
An Injunction was recently given
out in Baltimore against a landlord
who rented his house to Negro. The
Negro was evicted by an order Of q
court Judge. This was done to pre-
vent Negro workers from moving into
the cleaner districts. The proclama-
ton is a farce in the face Of these
conditions. 1t is fine to call on the
Negroes to stimulate their interest in
the "betterment Of health conditions"
and for the prevention Of disease
among colored workers, but it would
seem more logical for the Negro to
issue a proclamation calling on the
state to aid them better their health
conditions and abolish the damnable
race segregation rulings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
American Can Co.
Head Leaves Two
Dogs Gift of $4,000
tspeoIaI 70 rhs paIIy W0rkery

NEW ORLEANS, March SO.-Two
dogs to receive bequest of $4,000
to be used for their care and keep and
on their death the remainder to re-
vert to their keepers, the disinheriting
Of a daughter because she married a
man she loved without his consent
and leaving his wife only the use of
the community property during her
life is in substance the will filed in
the civil district court by the admin
istrators Of the late Adolph j. Munich,
president of the American Can Com
pany.
Munich enjoyed an income of $4,000
year. He ran the American Can
Company as a strictly open-shop con-
Germ employing boys and girls at
starvation wages. On accepting en-
ployment each worker was forced to
sign waiver freeing the concern
from all claims for injuries while OPP
Grating unguarded machines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Military Training in the Public Schools

religion, and all other beliefs that per-
wade and hold the human mind at
present, must be handed down to the
child when he is yet uncritical. BY
the time he is ready to take his place
in society, all his notions, and pre-
JUDGES will get such a grip on him.
that he will combat any critical atti-
tude towards his beliefs as an attempt
to question the very fundamentals of
his existence.
Sociology persists that IL the proper
precautions are not taken into con-
sideration when the next war comes,
the war department will have a diff
fcult problem to face. The people
had learned lesson, not TO be easily
forgotten-the lesson OF "the war for
democracy" The children, left ex.
posed to current influences, to paci-
fsm, Reconsideration, Bolshevism.
will form very poor vanguard when
the time comes to fight the next cap
italist war.
Therefore, the advice Of educational
experts IS:
Have military training in your
schools. Develop nationalistic, even
chauvinistic feelings in the children
Of your respective countries!"
But impartial social psychology
adds to the unfinished generalization
made by the educational experts.
Il do not guarantee that things will
work the way you plan. Social phe-
nomenon are 10 intricate. There are
strong indications that discomfort, the
revolutionary spirit will grow, in spite
Iof your preparedness. II will grow
stronger and wider and will drown
your teachings. The future soldier
trained for the protection OF your In
stltutions, will use his training for his
liberation from the educational cob
web IN which you have sought to en-
mesh him"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Muscle Shoals Bids
May Lead to Contest
of Industrial Giants
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, March 3O.-A bat
tie between commercial giants for
possession of the governments $780,
100000 Muscle Shoals project may de-
velop from efforts Of the COMPRESSION.
at Muscle Shoals committee to lease
the property.
Four of the greatest industrial pow
ers in America, all world leaders in
their respective fields, have been in.
vited to bid upon the lease and the
committee today was hopeful that all
will respond. They are Henry Ford,
king in the automobile field; the In.
ternatlonal Harvester company, czar
in the farm machinery field; the Alu-
minum Company Of America, world
leader in its own field, and the Elec-
trio Power and Light corporation, a
subsidiary of the General Electric
company, one Of the worlds greatest
power concerns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
BY LuBA ADDISON.

MILITARY training is becoming a
4'A pressing issue in our educational
system. The war department has more
and more to say about the education
of our children. Sociology comes in
quite helpful in this case.
Social psychology, as a branch of
science, claims to be impartial in the
application of her achievements; as
a science she serves the one who gives
impetus to her progress; she is con-
cerned only with the variability of
her hypothesis. AS a branch of such
an impartial agent, social psychology
asserts, on the question Of education,
that In order to direct society within
channels you want It to move, you
should apply unified pressure on the
child. Contradictory influences pro.
duce an unbalanced Individual, an in.
dividual with no stable mode Of be-
havior Any influence that is exerted
on a child from an early age, and II
that influence is not contested by con-
Trajectory teachings, will be assimi-
lated as part OF his nature, or, TO be
more accurate, II will lay the founda-
ton Of his human nature"
This principle is being applied in
the Soviet Unions as well as in capital
istic states.
The war department is on the alert
to utilize all possible means for the
mobilization OF forces for future wars.
Social psychology calls the atten-
ton Of the war department to the
schools as proper place in which
to carry out its schemes, repeats the
lesson, that the habits and ideas the
child is to acquire, must be of such
character that they will serve the
desired purpose; the ideas imbued
must Justify the activities. The ideas
OF war. nationalism. private property,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Hold "Two Gun" Jesus
Shouter Upon Charges
by Mistreated Girls
tspecial q lie palIy workerl

ST. LOUIS, March 3O.-Rev. James
L. Delk, the ''two-gun evangelist"
who is wanted in Shelbyville, ILL.,, on
complaint filed against him by two
girls when Defk was conducting a
revival there declared today that he
was being framed" and still refused
to return to Illinois willingly.
Delk alleged that the Indictment
against him in Shelby county was
once dismissed but that his enemies
succeeded in indicting him again. Delk
asserts that he fears bootleggers
against whom he preached at his re-
vival there will "get him"
He won the sobriquet of the "two-
gun evangelist" when he armed him
self after being fired upon three times
in Shelbyville. He is being held on
a fugitive warrant awaiting word
from Illinois authorities.