FACE FOUR Cftt Cherokee S?cout The Officii! Organ of Murphy end Cherkee County, North Caroliai BRYAN W. SIFE Editor-Maneger MISS H. M BERRY . Aisoc.ete Editor PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $1.50 EIGHT MONTHS 1 00 SIX MONTHS SO FOUR MONTHS 60 PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Display Advertisements. 25c per column nch; legal advertisements, want ads. reading notice*. obituaries, curds of thanks, etc , be line ca< h insertion. Contra t rat?5 will be furnished immed ately upon request. We reserve th^ right to refuse advertisements of a shady ?r be congratulated on th< ir efforts to ge co-operative marketing a viations started. I.a?t week a movement was begun for co-operatively marketing veal calves and this week an effort is being made to stimulate the growth uf potatoes so that this crop can be marketed in car lots through organized effort. In both these endeavors co-operative effort can bring about telling results In Cherokee and neighboring counties. Stock raising is admitedlv not on a paying basi-? in the county. Farmers cannot afford to sell one and two year old cattls for fro mten to twenty dollars as they have done in the past. But if they can get from ten to twenty dollars for veal calves six ta ten weeks old, then there is the possibility ol making cattle raising pay. However, one or two farmers cannot market their calve; themselves and hope to make anything it, becau-e the transportation charges or a few animals will be too gr?at. But ii the farmers generally will band themselves together so that the calve* can be shipper * in car lots at tegular intervals, then then L i#-* is a possibility of making some real mone; out of the stock business. Hut it will re quire co-operative effort. The same is true of the potato industry There is a possibility of this becoming on of Cherokee's best cash crops. But in 01 der to compete in the markets with tht product, the potatoes must he shipped I car lots. No individual can hip a car. bu by joining in with his neighbors the pota toes can be put on the market in competl tion with other potatoes and when the mat net is ui me peas. The co-operative association is a new thing in this section as it is all over th South. We must learn to work togethei "If we don't hnr.g together we will han separately," as our colonial forefathei * said. There is every indication that thes co-operative efforts will meet with succes as they should. It is through such assoch tions that Florida and Colifomia citn fruits are marketed, so are Georgia an North Carolina peaches, so are the apph of the northwest. This is a day of co-ope' MAS AMERICA __ IT IS a common charge laid at the door * America that she is mercenary, that sh * is a chaser of the dollar. Every Americat no doubt, likes to believe this untrue. Th fact is that this nation has been so bustl engaged in overcoming the physical forci of nature and conquering and hamassin Fthe natural resources of the country thi the minds of comparatively few individual ifc . nn i.. THZ CHCttOKf have turned to the finer things. But much H prepress has been made. An increasing J j number are finding sufficient leisure to de; vote fVip attention to the uplifting of the social status of the nation. One illustra- \ tion of this is the efforts being made b? j Edward Bok to discover the will of the i American people with regard to a workable plan of securing world peace and tranquil j ity. I However, part of the public press and some of the so-called statesmen of the country are sneering at thi-* effort. One edij torial writer summed it up with a self-satis- ' ' fyir.g finality in words to this effect: "Bok r will get some advertising "tit ??f it and th. writer of the winning plan will get fifty; thousand dollars, and the public will talk : a'-><>ut it a little while and that will b?- th? ; end of it." The wh?de ? fort may fail to bring about the desired result. It no good is acctir.; !l/t In alif-viinri . Almost simultaneously with the announcement of the grant of an increase in rater*, comes the announcement of the companv to p the effect that two new power plants, in- ^ volving an expenditure of approximately five million dollars, will be begun in the 1 very near future. This means more power ^ ^ i for the Piedmont region of the Carolina? ^ " and. therefore, continued growth in innnu- , 1 ' * Ifactuiing and industrial interests of thcJe sections. It also means that the state will profit from these developments both direct- { ly and indirectly. j t A more iiherai policy toward wealthy!, nu n and toward large organizations will rehound to the good of the State because as the State's resources are developed, th? c State goes forward not only in wealth but 1 ? al-o in the fields of education, religion and [ [m social uplift. If takes large organization; ^ to do big things. No individual can sup. ply the needed funds to make the larger de- t vt lopments. Big business should be encour- ] aged. ] ; BILLY SUNDAY PARAGRAPHS. ? ' I 'HE noted evangelist, Billy Sunday, is l* * conducting an evangelist campaign in v Charlotte; which is attracting large crowds *" from over the Piedmont section of the | " Carolina'. The following are pointed par- [ 1{1 agraph* from a recent sermon as reported ** in the Charlotte Observer: ivery indulgence weakens your power of \ resistance. The accumulated force of haV it n>akes it easier for you to do either right , or wrong. >f If you live to get all yo j can?and then j >e can all you get, I hope t m will die in the . i, poorhouse. , y If your idea is to atiass wealth, without ? * honest scruples, go ahead. It won't do yoti * any good. You can't take it with you when 1 it you leave and if you could it wouldn't d> < Is you any good because it would alt melt j :e scout, murphy, north caroi THE SO] CI Bt Carl . -pHF ti 1 Merrily ?in Breaking the si Hurrying the Its message is Melodious an Ar.d this i>- whi "She's comir.i , , '1 r lis musa It tells mp thai That someon Though my hea I gladly join And we sing t t "She's comir There is n-.ore lustfulness in the world y than at any other time in history, I I eve. A met it i: has not T>een struck by ? hard aa have the other nations of t orld. A life is blighted in America every eij linutes. If an indicator could be put on many ni Miwine where tbev have been, few en oim n would speak to them. # The crying need, of America today ie single standard. I wouldn't wipe my feet on a society tl takes a distinction between a man who s nd a woman who sins. The virtue of our womanhood is the ra art protecting civilization. When > r?.*k it down?you're (rone. The nian who buys whiskey is as dirt nd low-down as the skunk who sells fou know he's a crook when you buy roni hint. When you (ret the preachers of the co ry to prearhinfr against corruption i hey quit splitting theological hair^, j rill see the cause of God move in earm You wouldn't repeal the law against m lor because it doesn't prevent murd< [)on"t say the prohibition law is not be "icial because it doesn't prevent drinking I will pay the carfare of any man to ; own where I have preached in the 29 y? I have been preaching and if he finds t [ have not lived as I have proached. I ome down from the pulpit. IT IS high time the legislative and judi authorities began to consider thp cr (the word is used advisedly) of drunkrni when driving a motor car as something finitely more serious than is drunkeni under ordinary circumstances. Prohibi is as yet too new for the world old opii if the <1 run sen man, as one to be iaup ?t, pitied, perhaps put to bed to sober Hned a *mall sum as a public nuisance hange at least overnight. But drunkenness which can harm no but the inebriated man is one thing; dn tnneas which is a meance to all who use streets and roads, and which via the IQ ' INA Tl F< t ~j |L ini h* NG OF THE William Bailey he rk? on the- ^helf. Y ping a ?onir, tl, ilence aerene, ?f Ir time along; m clear, distinct. d free; I nt ini it it sirta: r g back to me" ai ts ticking song! I f' : r . to my tar; I t ere long j 7 e wiii be neor. ai rt is yearning, with glee, N ogether again: g back t.i me!" p :L si r 1 to- converts the otherwise innocuous victim of j, )e- his appetite to a potentially wholesale muril dtrer, is entirely something else, h* Sentiment is swinging over to regarding the drunken driver as one who commits more than a misdemeanor; but it should swing w fht faster and go further. The man who, drunk, drives a car or a truck, is a madman; a man without stnse, without reasonability. ien without judgment. He puts in jeopard the tod lives of men, women* and children. Ho endangers property. He may cause frightful loss of life, hideous mamings, terrible am- n dents. No ninniac with a gun is allowed up- ~ on the street-; the mnr. who deliberately makes himself a maniac and fits himself lat out with a car loaded with potential death N in*! *?r man>** should be dealt with with the v 1 utmost severity. A few dollars' fine, a few v days in jail, the loss of a license, are not nn- i cnouPh. The nran who runs amuck with a run {tun, killing and maiming, gets years behind the bars. The man who run* amuck (i with a car while drunk is even more cul- . k y j pable. it. Let judges once get through their preit cedent bound legal minds that it is not the drunkenness, hut the drunken driving which is the c:lme, and our already crowded hard un- roads will he safer for us all; our children C md our women drivers, as well as our sober ou citizens p roc ted, as they have a right to he. est.! from a menace whi?*b ha? no e*cu"e. legnt ] or social, for existing. t lur- t em. i - - - a Letters From The People Edittor The Scout: 1 an ^ I want to take this method of informing ' the people of Cherokee County of my nre* 1 wili . , ent situation and the reason for it. About two years ago me and my wife ' were living at Copperhill and I became -o ^ enfeebled that 1 was almost unable to work. and my grandson, Foley Bell, proposed to 1 us that if we would give him dur property in Copperbill. he would take care of us for 1 the rest of our lives. We came with him in ! Hothouse to live. He s??ld tht> property in . Copperhill. consisting of three houses, and I gave us about sixty or sixty five dollars of ! cial! proceeds He was very good to us for ; about two years hut he began to circulate hp,* erroneous statement* ahout us. I did not |n.; make any trouble ahout them, but did deny ne? them. The situation grew worse until he tion finally told us that we would have to move I lion out- I tried to rent a house in the neigh-1 . ? *...? ? ? -.??-? - I, DPa ?w?ww?, ww* vvmu nu* iiiitt line Riiywiter*. i up. About a week later he told us we would have 1 to conie to the county home, hrher* we now' are. one I db not want to do my grandson any1 ink- harm by publishing this letter but I do want the the people to know hew he treated us. car. T. L. WEESE. 1 FrWly, Jmnntry Igt HE SOLID ^5 5UNDATION . J' "HNANCIAL m-w?ri>p*T* and f,,..;. M ^^SISSS^S^E ""* K authorities have heen busy giving istration o fthe in.proved conditio of tfeB it ion. These have generally folfauu ?B* ?aten path, to r.wlfcrity of more or iteration. Mr. C. W. Nash, praaidmt ?f B1 e Nash Motors Company, is regarded, byB ason of his mastery of fin*'*# and Ha*.!-, a I question.*, as somewhat in the ' an advisory agency in the finance cir ' the country. The Jto.ng through, or t)*B> .ldinr up of many a big deal in fira^B depended upon Na-h's advice. In Net ' ik. !fi t week, hi indicated the f?unda.B*' en upon v.hich his belief i? based. h : cms to be convincingly solid and 50uu4.Br i the year recently ended. Mr. Nssh inds. we have seen a normal rate of fmB five and one-half per cent for money > on*.- has forgotten the eight per ten ^ oney market of 1920. At that tim? t>(