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? Officii] Organ of Murphy and Choc- j ' koo County, North Carolina b i^YAN W. 5IPE Editor-Ma.ator BUS S H. M. BERRY Aaaociato Editor i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 4" Ssbiiiiption Rates ONE YEAR $1.50 EIGHT MONTHS 1.00 5 SIX MONTHS S<> 1 FOUR MONTHS 6<^ ! PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Display Advertisements, 25c per column ncn: iegai advertisements, want ads. read- : ?ng notices, obituaries, cards of thanks, etc.. , 6c line each insertion. Contract rates will' be furnished immediately upon requ t. , Wo reserve the right to - -e advert: merits of a shady r .?usp!ci. us character, , which are !y to n -<i ir readers, or any other advertisements or - ? !ir^ notices not :n keep :< ' v. the " - paper < maintains. Entered in Post. " it Murphy. North Carolir.i. a-- S- i Mail Matter under Act of M. h I, 1 -~ ?? --- ? ?, I SOME THEN ;s IT. - TT WOULD LIKE TO SEE IE Ml WHY AND I ; I?: 1 r\r.r. \ ' 'V. -> i l In Murphy 1. An a<" ve Board cf Trade r Chamber f -ce. 2. Ma jfm!uriD(t Industrie-?. 3. New Pa--enger Station.-?A Union < Station. 4. More Improred Stre?*f?. 5. r r :!... Library I! a s. j 6. A Reading Hub. In Cherokrf County 1. A System of C. anty K ads Supplementing the State Highways. 2. More and Belter Cattle Raising and Dairying. 3. More K uit Growing. I 4. Scientific Poultry Raising. - ~rr? - E-^i' EDITORIAL w - . Where We Are WHILE the m i ting with the State High, way officials last w?"'k did not result in all tha* s*#aie of o\ir , .ens had h. >:?, yet it did clear! up ?-"nd ma'tc- in this county and the '-?ad 'OV. i ..w know what e\p.?t and v. -at th. ;? r-,>! do themsel The t mv::i ers w< to Inclined to go as far a- they could under (Bel Jaw in aiding in road work in this section. Assurance w..? clv?n that the r< ?.l to An dr*ws would be : iK :h* v.-ar f.itur- ar-3 engineering assistance was promised on the road to the Tcnr..-see statc ':ne. I r thn e reasons, the State cannot at present h> !p ' construct th- road to Tcnm according to stat f.'.viit. m , i- ! y both Commissioner* Fagt- and Ftikeleutht r First, the allotted money to the district out of the sixty-five i million doil.rs \?.tcd : - r> ad . nstrueto r is not sufficient to build th rods aha ady on the Official State Highway map; S'comi, I the Comnii-isio" : ? limited ta the number j of miles it can add ' ? the Renal State system. and crly miles : train to he a<lded in this di.-tr . and - r.ee th- addition < f sW miles \\--uld have a dead end to the road, whiv h is forbidden by the law, ev n this much of the road cannot he l-a.lt; and, third, maintenance funds urt. not sufficient to maintain th ?d should it be built by the' State. What Can Be Done THERE are two course# open l^0 road governing authorities of the county If tho people r.Icttg the route want the- ro?J badly enough the Townships and county jointly can proceed to construct it under thc direction of an engineering party of the Stat* Highway Commission. Certainly the road is needed badly enough, not simply from a jocai out irom a secuonai point 01 view anu it would seem the part of wisdom for the proper authorities to cot together and makd arrangements to put up the money and ask the State to send engineers on and get the work undcr way. The quicker it i$ done the better for all concerned. If it can he com* pleteo by the time the road to Asheville is finished, it will turn an almost continuous stream ofj travel into this section both from the Dixie Highway and from the AtlantaMurphy section of th^? Asheville-Murphy-Atlanta highway; which will bring this section into prominence such as nothing else could. The townships concerned, together with the aid of the county, could build this road without involving themselves in any serious Indebtedness, and within the course of a few years, the additional property valuation due o the road, and the additional business carried on >n county because of the road would be more than enough greater tha* THE CM1 what it is now, to pay the interest on the j 4 onds and retire them when they fall due. There is one other alternative and it is I ; rerv much to be discouraged: namely, sit i till and wait and work and prav for an a<l litior.al State bond issue in 1925 and then ' rv to get the State to take over and build V he road If this policy is followed, it wilt j * riean two years delay before anything can >e done and then there will be grave danger Cl f the State not taking over the road. The State bond issue will be needed but we car- n Tot afford to wait until then and tak- a'*5 home on getting the road built. Should jK vt wait and <h<n:*d the State decide , u 1 : ild this road, it would K at !it five art from r .v bef ! ? it could be eomp! ted th- pi 't t ( Ih t k- e County want to wait this long before this important link !? e onstructed? The part of w ?dom would (J ieem t<, be n-oe* d with the construction | v f this road at under the sumrvi- a > the State. Makt \ ir wants known, and f ?t"ss get this road built! u a Getting Ahead h 3 MOST people think of Abraham Lincoln a- having died in poverty; but quite ^ n the c<S?^3ri^ourt records in Spring- j 'ield. Illinois, show that he left an estate t. f i- Silo 0.0.0 no which was unit, a ^ 'mfortable -un. r:\ty years ago. Lincoln J b Certainly did -t:-r ;-.t the bottom; he wasl. iiway? hip hearted and pave freely of h> t| time and means; and he was ver srrupn- {] oils about the of the fees he < hnrg-. ! p f?*r any 1? pal servio rendered. Mi s tda M. i > Farbell h- 1 : a el-.. student of I..:--!'1 rein's lif?t and she has revealed that hisi fortune was amassed by hi- determination j : always put aside a !.:?!? p ?. h> 'y i-nrrings. He l ev. r always succeeded 'r j . this. Hut it was his principle, and he foliowed it as regularly as possibl. . And wher. he had saved a tidy little sum he invested it so that could help him earn more. Th - would be a good policy for all of us 1 to adopt. No matte.' how little our earn- ' injrs. \i we c -ild only save a small portion ! L' and invest it wisely. :,i would soon run int* * dollars. This does not nn-an that we should { be miserly. In fact, it means quite th op- ^ posite. There are two parts to Lincoln's > . ecd. One wub: "Save a portion of your v famines." but the other? and equally im- 1 portant one-, was ''Invest them." In other Word-, few people earn enough to nectv j inula:, n fortun-- unless they put their earn- frigs to work for them also. i The man who is afraid to invest his earn- ' irgs u like the man with the one talent in ' i iti. ParaK. i f the Talents. Ho may bo able J to conM-rvi' his one talent by rofusinp to Invest it. but he will never bo able to add much ! :t, if be depends altogether on his own brain and brawn <i all th?- earninp. One's suh-c.rue worth much if it is not and > annot be nut to work for the owner. Like all print truths, the formula for pcttir.p ahead is just plain ''common sense*", but then th - commodity is orn of the rnrWhy Merchants Should Advertise OXE merchant, who saw a farmer carryinp front the express office a larpe package of poods boupht from outside sources, had his eyes opened to the value of local advertising:, reports the Goldsboro Record, which tells about the incident in an interesting way. The Cheiokee Scout would like for every merchant in Murphy to read this incident riven. The local merchant expects the home paper to do all it can to build up the town. o advertise its possibilities and to be a real community leader. This paper wants to do and will do whether it receives the full upport of all those engaged in business or it. It is to the best interest of thP community. however, for our local business nun to realize that a sign out on the highway cannot be brought to. the home customer for him to read. A farmer who was carrying an express package from a city mail order house was accosted by a local merchant with the words: 'Why didn't you buy that bill of goods from me?" he asked. "I could have saved you the express, and besides you would have been patronizing a home store, which helps pay the taxes and build up this community." With characteristic franktK^s. the farmer replied: "Why don't you patronize your home paper and advertise your goods? I read it and didn't know you had the good* I have here, nor do I see your name in the paper inviting me to come and visit your store." ROICEE SCOUT. MURFHT. NORTH CA1 THE GOVERNMENT Br HENRY W. GARDES. Hi.loruui and Statistician THE PRESIDENCY N MAKING the jrreat appropriations for carrying on the government. perhaps be most important bill i* entitled th? Executive, legislative and Judicial. No better pquence can be found for this series, and s the office of the President of the United tates is not only the greatest within the ift of the people, but the first of th?.- Excutive positions of th?' government, it natraliv is the first to be- treated. Who w*i (he 'irit PresidentShould you ask th. school children be county or the c neral public of older rowt^ the name of th. first Pre*id< nt of he United States every hild and probably 91* out cf every th< .. rid f the ^rr ?\vrr up ould an-wer Genre- \Y shington. Every ne would be wrony. \Vash>uton the .r>t to be elected arid >?.rv? as President ndt r the* Constitution. 1 * was nr. oedt-d President of th- United St. u by ten the r men. Who tf wa. the first Prost w v . this honor is c .. rr .1 one of r sons, John Hanson, by Maryland, but rroneously so. Up to March 1, 1781, the vernment was carried on under the Conin< ntal Congress. The plan for a confedration was proposed by Benjamin Franklin uly 21, 1775, but the Articles of Confedration were not adopted by Congress until lovember 15, 1777, and they were not comIeted by the signature* of all the states ur?i March 1. 1781, when they wert. signed y the two Marylind di e gates. On that date ho Continental Congre-s officially became he Confess of th? United States and its residing officer "Pit ident of the United tatis in Congress assembled." and all state apers wecr signed by him as President, "rom that date until April 50. 1780, " hen icorge Washington was inauguiated as 'resident under the Constitution adopted larch 4. 1788, ten men occupied that ext d office. On March 1, 17*!. S.v.uJ Huntington, f Connecticut. was Pn lent of C ingress rid on the full organization of the United hates on that day h< canie the first PreslI'Tt. although not ?iect? d to that office, "he fir<: elected to the office was Samuel ohnston, a native of Scotland and a delerate from North Carolina. He was clcctt d 'resident duly 9, 1871, but declined the of 'ice. being the only man who ever refused his greatest of earthly honors. The next lay. Thomas McKenn. a native of PennsyT rania. but living at the time in Deleware vas elected and served until November 5, 1781. when he was succeeded by John Han on, of Maryland. Of the other ?0VCn predecessors of Wi V ngton :,i this office, Massachu- tts, Piti-v iylvaria and Virginia furnished t\v,? i:ul md New Jersey one. It is somewhat puliar that none of these men ev?r took prominent part i nthef government rides he Constitution and the best known nam: ? that of Joh Hancock, of Massachusetts he first man to sign the Declaration ? f In pendence. Method* of Selection. The first ten Presidents wer elected bj the Congress and as such were more or les: ts creature:-. The frame* of llu- Const i tution recognezed thi* and resoiv< d te hinge such a condition of affairs and th< omrest sect: ?n of that immortal docum. nt ! devoted to detailing the m-thods tG be fo! lowed in this selection. At first there wen no nominating conventions nor long pre convention campaigns. Each State, as now was entitled t0 as many elector* as it ha? representatives: in Congress and they wcr elected by the State legislature. Each elec tor voted for two persons, and the person having the greatest number of votes wa chosen President, and the one! having th> next largest number, Vice -.President. \ Ir the case of a tie vote or of no one havinj a majority the election was east into th House 01 representatives. Under this sys tern 13 persons were voted for in 1796, am 5 in 1800. The Twelfth amendment! to th> Constitution, declared in effect Septembe 25, 1S04. changed the method to the on practically followed to day. The first national convdntion for non\!n ating candidates for President and Vic President was held in Baltimore in 1831 h the anti-Masonic party, followed in 1832 b the other parties and has never sincc bcei abandoned. Minority Pre?*dent?. The election of a man to the Presidenc; does not necessarily mean that he has re ceived a majority of the popular votes o the country. Hayes received about 200.001 votes less than Tilder. in 1876 and Harrisoi 36,000 less than Cleveland in 1888. If th< ?otes of successful candidates be compare* with that of all his opponents,' there hart >een ton minority Presidents. The mos rommem aro uncoin, ? * mmoni) ir f nearly a million, and Wilson in 1912, wa n a minority of 2,500. while at the saint ime he received 435 of thc 531 electors otes. Frequently suggestions have been mad* { PROMOON( The bride look* more pleased than like matrimony better I | that th? President should he eltcted by direct v v of the peopV. hut t: - a , ? many difficulties; in the way thi: t it will probably be years hefor<J any chaiu: in, thi j present methed t:???! . Arothe. thanpe ' ften npitatid i? th< length :* ;.i t "m ' | office. At present it is four years, witt eligibility to any number ? ' re ! The change most pine-ally favored h a sinple term of six years. Presidential Power*. The President of the Unit- <1 Stati - is th. | most powerful of any head of any pnverri ment in the world today. Sonic of h s powers are accorded him dir. ct!y by the Co*, stitution but probably more have been ae luired or assumed by p-: dual f since the foundation of the p >vernm< * ITis command* r-in*chi? f of the arm-d force? and directs all military operati s warHis appointing power puts him at th-- lu-.n "f a vast army f pub'ic scrvnr.S. il- .on trols all our foreipn relations. He i; th,. titular and actual leader of party, but perhaps his most iu-vort . thority comes from his lead- . ?* the <* cutive service. His . : trol o\ t tr bran 1 ; came tbrouph the enactment of a law !? I T7S0 recopnitinp his power to remove mem hers of his cabini t without rvf.roiH-i t" th? , Senate althouph their appointnu nts must b. . confirmed by that body. Th - statu*: w.i . jn..irriy iougni ana or?y i?y uic uv ' | ciding vote of th?- Vice President. The tab imt has come- to he know,, a- th iV? <! nt* official family and his solo r.s a?v In , varibly approved by the Senate, thi> heinj . virtually only a formal action t0 compl; 1 | vith the constitutional pro\ isior.s. No Direct Legidativr Power*. 9 He has no express power over ti but by the txercise *?f the "hie stick" (Pre? idential patronage) and cspvc:ally by h*. power of veto, requiring a tv. -thirds maj * * itv to over-rid.-, he <\? reises a powerful U q fluence in this direction. In rec t year -jthe Presidents have shown a tendency t ap * peal directly to th,. p pie while th> reduc t tion of power of the Speaker of the Hous i* greatly increased their authority in the <!' - i rection of legislation. Probably one rf th t greatest influences w- ilded by the Pro - dent is through the corps of newspaper n. r a Urge and capable staff of whom frequen ? the White House and Executive offices an " always accompany him in his not very fre -; quent trips. * The Presidential Succession. * Up to 1886, \vhen the Cabinet line c e succession, beginning with th0 Secretary c t State, after the Vice President, of coursi 5 was established by law, the Pr? .- .dent pr p j tempore of the Senate and the Speaker c House wen considered t?- be the th:r ? 1 and fourth in line by a kind of unwritte o ! understanding. r Six Presidents have died in office an e . been succeeded by the Vice Presidents. N j Vice President has died in office nfter hm - ing succeeded to the Presidency, e The Pre?ident?al DutM. y The duties of the office have grown wit y j rhe country until the strain has become to n great for one man to bear. Washington ws President of 13 States and the total annul expenses of his administrations were lej y than $10,000 while President Coolidge go^ - erns 48 States, with annual budgets of $3 f 000.000,000, and the end is not yet. D The recent death of President Hardin * and the collapse of President Wilson und? e this terrific strain, will possibly result 1 3 the establishment of some such office as As e sistant to the President or a kind of Execi r tive Bureau to relieve the President of ' portion of his work. More than fiftee * years ago President Wilson in "Constiti * [ tior.al Government" made a prophecy thi 3 such assistance must come or no man of ordinary physique and constitution could b< come President and live. Friday. Auji,i J|_ ^ ( H ' I | - ~ rrrlj_ E the Rroom, hut wo ihink he'll Ret to g .<?* no rci* ciscti ?? ?? w , ?jrf . , r.im 4nnt irtl I *- ? _ The Fat Man's Comer \ M i .1 i Pointing to statin *-, of i Yernst: "Ah ; : want you all to km w Ah ! iht - woikin' he ah <lat Ah didn't i Vr.->ik tit- arm? off dis heah nvmununt; it Iwuz dat a way when Ah come heah." ?Albany Jul. > * "1 at- again. OM alley. How ?{.? y0a i .-mount for th - persistent tardiness?" " Ilk inherited - r. My father was- the 'ate Ma-had O'Mallcy." ?American tagon i Weekly. > w f thought hi r husliam! was per.S!-.t wr ahout it to the mu paper hut h. . letter was never published?h r i hand forgot to mail it' ? K. C. Star. > ! <1 i Won;an: "Well, do you want a pood nu ;.l : ?dly enough t ? work for it?" Tramp: "I'm jin t hungry, mum; not , pi rate."?l.ife. * * i t r.-h notiie in the Manchester iPr.gland) (Juardinn: Subjict "The Tht > Great Failure*. Choir Si rmon Offertory."?Voo Poo. > > Juii-o; "How did you come by th"?e i-hirkt-nr?" I Mo-- "Pat'- jes* de trouble; c uldn*t pet cm n>> how, -ah."?Cornell Widow J i Judg-<: "Pr.-oner, the jury find.- >- > guilty." I' ner: "That*- all right. Judg I kn?r.v iu' >o p nt to be in flu ceil he what th,-\ -av."?Jester. J A i<4, . . t >1.11: hildv i ? ?|nu\ and my clothes don't fit.?ParrakeeT. > p "Say. of fisher, where's thish Flat Iron , Building? I wanna get my clothes pressed.** "i t? i , ?I t hran. > (. | Caller: "Is the editor in?" ! Office Boy: "No." t'a'ler: "Well, throw this poem ?n l^c ?,waste basket." ^ > "Did you kr>?.\\ that they have a machine ? now that can tell when you're lying?" "Did 1? 1 married one."?Sun Dodgers. > a ! "Can't I sell you a copy of htis wonderful h volume entitled: 'Every Man His Own Ma?tlw. ......... .V. . V..V UWUIW "RCUl. "No," said the weary business man, "I v, cannot spare the money now for a divorce. * ?The Handcuff. ? "Fresh eggs, Mrs. Brown, are 60 ctnl# and cracked ones are 20 cents." io "Please crack me a dozen." al Mrs. Jones: "I don't think you ought to ? punish a child on a full stomach, do you! * t. Doc. Briggs: "No. turn him over.." "Look here, little girl, I can't spend the P day showing you penny toys. Do yoa r the whole earth with a little red fence >n around it?" ?- "Let me see it, please."?Charlotte ?hv server. a ^ ^ Salesgirl: "That man bought~?faid he was j- buying that five pound box of candy for his it wife." ? "Is he just married?" ^ X ?- j "Either that or he's done ^Bcthia* ?" I Richmond Eve ring Dispatch. 1
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