Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1929-08-15
Daniels Addresses
Normal Students

which North Carolinians must rally
is a library in every school" )" Jose
phus Daniels told the teachers of the
Appalachian State Teachers College
last Friday morning.
Rejoicing in the advance which
North Carolina has made and point
ing to evidences of new interest in
librariees, as the splendid new Ii
brary buildings at two of the state
schools, Chapel Hill and Greensboro,
and the beautiful and magnificent
library building at Duke University,
Mr.. Daniels said that the teachers OF
the state must not rest content until
every school in every district in the
state, no matter how remote or iso-
lated it may be, houses a collection
of good books and the children hav-
ing access to them have asquired
lasting habits of reading.
Good histories of North Carolina
and good biography should hold
prominent places in this collection "
the speaker declared, citing the lives
of two North Carolinians, Andrew
Johnson and Andrew Jackson, who
now are receiving the attention OF
the best biographers in an age OF
splendid historical research, as two
examples of "thrillers" which moth
ing in the much-heralded jazz life of
modern youth can touch for pure
romance and adventure.
The life of the apprenticed tailor
whose birthplace in Raleigh is be-
| coming a national shrine as the
consistent record of Andrew Johnson
through the strife and struggle of
the sixties is being revealed by un-
biased biographers and the life of
Andrew jackson, the downright,
duel-fighting, chivalrous and per-
haps ruthless-where political enc
mics were concerned-Old Hickory,
whom the speaker believed the
greatest soldier ever produced in
| America, were held up to the tachers
who heard Mr.. Daniels as two citi-
zens of their state well worth know
ing with a new intimacy.
mo community is an educated
community until the children and
their parents are reading and dis
cussing books. The school is becom.
ing the community center and the H.
brary should be the center of the
! cph
come from buildings, grounds, lab
oratOry equipment; it must come
when the mind of the child and the
mind and personality of the teacher
meet, andsno teacher has a greater
obligation than that of instilling into
the lives of boys and girls love Of
books and reading"
On the stage as Mr.. Daniels spoke
were two college presidents, DR.. j.
/. Foust, of North Carolina College
for Women, and Dr. Richard G. Cox
of Gulfport Park College, Mississippi,
with whom Mr.. and Mrs Daniels mo-
tored to the Normal from Blowing
Rock where they are spending the
summer
DR.. Dougherty, in introducing Mr..
Daniels as North Cardinals first and
most loved citizen, cited the inter
esting historical fact that the five
North Carolinians who have held
cabinet positions in the national gov
ernment, Branch, Graham, Badger,
Dobbins and Daniels, all have been
secretary of the navy, and that Dan
iels served longer than all the others
together.
One of the best and most popular
entertainments at the college recent
ly, was the folklore program render
ed by Prof. and Mrs. l. G. Greer on
last Saturday night. Prof. Greer
sings the old folk ballads as they
were sung by our ancestors in Eu-
rope and. the early Anglo Saxon set
tier in this country, while Mrs. Greer
accompanies him on the dulcimer, one
of the most ancient of the stringed
instruments, and the renditions are
strongly suggestive of the spirit of
our fathers. This ancient music has
SIo"H very pOpuIdf III tneSe laCLef
days, and as so few are able to sing
the songs, it is fitting that so many
of them are being recorded on
phonograph records to be enjoyed by
the future generations.
DR.. B. B. Dougherty went to
Asheville Tuesday, where he had
been asked to address the Associa-
ton of County Commissioners on the
plans and duties of the board of
equalization. DR.. Dougherty has
made thorough study of the work
of this important body, along with
the resources and needs of the vari-
Gus counties in the state, and is
therefore able to present the facts
in an altogether understandable
manner.
Mr.. Upton Greene, expert rock
. mason, who has done much artistic
stone work about the campus, is now
engaged in making additional stone
steps and walk ways and other