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
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SOME THINGS THE SCOUT WOULD
LIKE TO SEE IN MURPHY AND
CHEROKEE COUNTY
In Murphy
1. An active Board of Trade or Chamber
of Commerce.
2. More Manufacturing Industrie?.
3. New Pa-senger Stations?A Union
Station.
4. More Improved Streets.
5. Regular Library Hours.
6. A Readang Club.
In Cherokee County
1. A System of County Roads Supplementing
the State Highways.
2. Morr 1*8 Bcttrr Tittle Rsi/iig ar.d
Dairying.
3. More Fruit Growing.
4. Scientific Poultry Raising.
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CO-OPERATIVE
MARKETING
THE county agent and lending farmers
in this and adjoining counties are t > 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
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in car lots at tegular intervals, then then
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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
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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
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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.
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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.;
!<hed ? v the effort, however, it will he because
the representative -j-.?kesmer: of the I
public?the pre-st and the law making bod.*
n Washington f ill down on the iofl. It
will be because the American people have
idc.tlisn.. It will l*? because too mr.nv
; our people are actuated by selfish motives
and because our vision is blinded by j
the <!" lar mark. Let no one inpugn th?
motives hat ha\- actuated Mr. Bok and
the Peach Award Committee and the writer
of plar 1-16'J. Can we not rise to the oc- !
1 caston and deal the monetary charge a telling
ballot?
Let America assert her idealism!
IN DEFENSE
OF BIG BUSINESS
THE opinion is general that biff business
i- all bad. That it owes its growth to
dishonest methods, that its stock unci valuations
art watered an dthat it earns an .
enormous and outrageous return. Virtue
adheres neither in big lu-iness nor little dt
busine--- organirations. The odds are In li,
favor of the larger organizations being hon- sc
f st and fair, however, for corporations, lik- w
individuals, that deal dishonestly do not
thrive for long.
The announcement that the Southern m
Power Company has been granted the privilege
of making a slight increase in its minimum
rate? in order to enrn a reasonable .j
divide nd. as it would appear, is indicative w
of a , h inge of attitude toward large business
organizations. For three years the
company has been trying to get an increase
in rates and has only just now succeeded.
During this time many contemplated developments
and extension* of the lines of ^
kit onmnanv have Imun h<>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- ,
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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. ]
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BILLY SUNDAY PARAGRAPHS.
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' 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:
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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]
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Bt Carl
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1 Merrily ?in
Breaking the si
Hurrying the
Its message is
Melodious an
Ar.d this i>- whi
"She's comir.i
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Letters From The People
Edittor The Scout: 1
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^ 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.
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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>( <!? :
al Reserve ratio had sunk 40 ptr cent
id overstrained credit put the brske* t)
le trade boom. In retrospect today q
nd that no time in the pan year did tte l
ederal Reserve ration drop below 71 ?nt
and for a time, it held steadily abort
a per cert. Between the Fall of 1920 ^
id the summer of 1921 there wa? a coa. '
-action of eight per tent in the circabrg
medium. In 1923. between April ir.4
oveniber it expanded a full four per cew. M
-Charlotte Observer. I
The Fat Man's Corner ?
e tdurirg the interval.)?"What did jn t
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ty your agt was:
She ismartlyi?"Well, 1 didn't sty; but
vc just it at hod twenty-one."
"Is that so? What detained you!" ?
ondon Answers.
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"Was your landlady indignant when yw
pk'.'d her for another month's rent!"
"On the contrary, old man, it was 1 vht
as put out."?Chaparral.
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Conversation between husbands *bo
rages for wives take effect.
"What do you pay your wife."'
"A hundred dollars a month, t-ut yo*1!
n i.Un !.??. ?- -- ? --1
-Spokane Spokesman-Review. Ud
Tho at or k delivered a fine baby boy
!r. and Mis. (\ E. Buzzard one Jay
reek.- The Nicholas Chronicle i.sunuiictl
ille, W. Va.) II
"What are you indignant about!**
"They fined me for selling whiskey," n^E
lied the bootlegger, "when it wasn't vhfeH
iy at all."?Life. B
Hall Boy?"De man in room sebco Iflfl
lone hang hi?eif!" BP
Hotel Clerk?"Hanged himself! Did
at him down?"
"No, sah! He ain't daid yet!"?Ufa Bj
An institute visitor saw a non-iaMlN^Hj
water pipe running across' the
Tiling, it was dripping water upol MH|
;acks which had congealed upon it frdf^^H
itmofphere. Baking Technology (CbMf^^E
A Scotchman w oke up one morni^t BB'ind
that in the night his wife had p**BB
iway. He leaped from his bed and ran
or stricken into the hall. I
"Mary," he called downstairs to the f*H
pral servant in the kitchen, "come ta
Foot o fthe stairs, quick." X
"Yes, yes," she cried, "what i? if- B^B
"Boil only one egg for breakfaat
morning." he said.?Bison. V
Affable Clergyman (pinching a littfcMW
bare leg): "Who's got nice, round,
Little Boy: "Mamma" S
A young woman who through **
losing her husband'* affections
.seventh daughter of a seventh daflP^M
for a love powder. The mystery
told her: "Get a raw piece of b**f?^B
riat. aoout an men taeciu iV.icc "
in two, and rub the meat
with it. Put on peper and salvS^'
on each aide over a red coal fir*
o nit three lumps of butter aad
f pare ley and get him to eat * "
young wife did no, aad her hushed
bar ever after,?Pipe SUria fl