North Carolina Newspapers

PACE FOUR Zfyt Cljerobrr ?>cout Th? Official Organ of Murphy and Ch<-rk?e County, North Carolina UKYAN W. SIPfc tdi tor-Manager MISS H. M. BERRY Associate Ed?tor PUBUSHED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *1 SO EIGHT MONTHS 100 SIX MONTHS SO FOUR MONTHS 63 PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Display Advertisements, 25c per column nch; legal advertisements, want ad*, reading notices, obituaries, cards of thar.ks, etc., 5c line each insertion. Contract rates will be furnished immediately upon request. "We reserve the right to refuse advert:cements of a shady or suspic v us character, which are likely to mislead -r readers, or any other advertisement* - -fading , BOt in keeping with the dignity this paper maintain*. Entered ir. the Post .free Murphy, North Carolina, a S - i 1 - Ma . Matter under Act of March 3, 1 STiJ. 1 SOME THINGS THE SCOUT WOULD ] T IKE To SEE IN MURPHY AND CHEROKEE COUNTY In Murphy 1. An active Board of Trade or Cham. ber of Commerce. 2. More Manufacturers Industries. j 3. New Passenger Station*?A Union Station. 4. More Improved Streets. I 5. Regular Library Hours. 6. A Reading Club. In Choroke? County 1. A System f Cc unty Roads Supple ? menting the State Highways. 2. More and Better Cattle Raising and 1 Dairying. 5. More Fruit Growing. j 4. Scientific Poultry Raising. Community Enterprises THE churches, the r a: i th- library are public In *.: . ry one ? ? which is vital t- the r. i .11 should command the s i: r* : any immunity. When any n* : : n-: tut < prospers, the who r !;> - ' It follows, thcref.-re. * at n ; ; lua. in the community .. . i . ail tinus be ready and willing h. f tb->? institutions. Saturday. March 1. th community will be given an oppor* '? < one of the churches. Every busir> -> r.-use has been asked to donate cm half ..f its gross profits for the day and ev -akr.ii-d ar.d professional man one-halt of his daily ?amings for the benefit of the new Methodist etimwl). Dinner and sunnor wrill !?? Kf Served at the library on this day at fifty cents per meal for the benefit of the same Cause. While this may not be our denominational preference, it is important for the community that this church be finished. Spiritually speaking, what helps church helps them all. When one church prospers the whole community i- helped spiritually. And after all, church membership in any one church is not the important thing. I: is the mind of the community that counts. Commercially speaking, it is a good advertisement for a town to have good substantial and attractive church buildings. .And it hurts a town to have an unfinished church house standing in the f?'l <vf owpt,. v??-| itor. For these reasons, the whole corn's. muiiity will be glad to join hands to com| plete the new Methodist church. Last Thursday night the community joined hands for the benefit of the public library. It is recognized that the library Is a public institution and that it is to the benefit of the public that it should continue to grow in the number of volumes on its shelves ar.d the number of people who borrow books of it. The community should always be glad, as a whole, to help in those enterprises that are for the bent fit of the whole. It is such a spirit that makes for the growth of the town in numbers and stability. Veal Calves Announcement was made several weeks ago of the plans of County Agent Ellis to organize a veal calf shippers association for this and adjoining counties. The organization of this association is going forward, but in the meantime many calves are growing beyond the veal stage. For 1 this reason, and as a demonstration of what I the shipping of the?e calves may mean to I the farmers of this section, the agents of I Cherokee and Clay Counties are planning I to ship a car of calves before the association I i# completely organized. ] THE CHERO ! These agents are to be congratulated on ; : their ?f forts to aid the farmers in this secjrion in putting cattle rab*ing on a firmer 'basis. This will always be more or less of i a cattle raising section as there is much land Jthat car not be used fot anything but pasture i purpose -. The present methods of produc :ng and marketing cattle in this section are n't producing the farmers the revenue they >h"u!d rave. In fact, cattle raiding can scarcely be said to be profitable In this sce! tion. j Apparently the veal calf proposition will rmike the farmers money. At present prices' -'r m t ight :o twenty d-liars can be g :*.? n ' f. r th- calves on the Cincinnati market, and; . erta.r.ly the fa-nv.rs -h-uid I able to bring la calf ' a nv nth to two and a half months j old for th:- rice, when under the present! systcnt. he . ft comp 11 d *..? sell yeas-j 55 SB "*** I The far- r- -h uld support the county j | j- tht ;r efforts and give this propo.* a th r ;gh trial. It is f r their bene-' f.t that the tt: venter.t was started and Is' . being fostered. Coo!:dge On Prosperity PRESIDENT COOLIDGE was the chief speaker at a Lincoln Day banquet at the j Wa'.dorf-Astor lb I. in N?-w York, on Feb - . ry 12th. ar.j in h.- extended addr-ss was found this paragrapn: "N<> one w uld deny. I supp -e. that in-1: -. striailv \v. art v ry f urishing. Every; standard by which prosperity is measured,] vfac ther it be production, movement o? 1 :r: < rporut- earnings, employment of!' r r hank clearings, all point to the same a!u-i n. Disregarding the abnormal war) time condition, for every important entet-j p: o sav^ agriculture, the year 1923 holds rec r !. Earnings have : en very great ly increased, and except here and there, as in :r. L..>e of sme railroads, must be looked upon with a great deal of satisfacth n." Tr i- every indication to support this I.-tie- statement. Recent annour.ee. !. of earnings by many large business j i ani-ns lend weight to this >pinion. , W u't wn state, tite R. .1. Key: .<is To- . < on spar; y recently announced net . :.rn.;.gs - f more 'can five mi.lions above', u.i.'22. All industrial plants are run_ - :roir.y running day and n:ght. The : r.u1 t.i lumber is being boosted and lumber mills are operating at full blast. The papers | have recently annourued that the railroad-*, [taken ;is a wh. earned ' 4 per cent on I their investments la-t yea:. This year I should and probab \ will cxi .rd any previous . 11 jone. I The price of farm products is climbing. Cotton anq to race o axe about as high as j' j they have ever gone. Exports are ir.creas, ing. Everybody is hopeful and optimistic, i This should make for a great year during ' 1924. i Labor In High Place TO DOUBT rhe public is a bit shocked by - ^ .he London ; >.- dispatches telling of {the dock workers strike in the United King dom involving more than a million men and j jeopardizing the lives of millions more be-j caus* ?.f threatened food shortage?shocked. because a labor . vernment . at thr helm in England and the public generally ha> b< n led to 1 ;ieve that better things been thuoght generally that there was a close unity bet* wen all labor rganizations, and that such embarass.rg situations would n t likely occurr. especially so soon after labor came into power. Can it be that labor is going to dtstroyi itself by embarassing its best supporters, j and. therefore, sacrificing public confidence | ?n 11' aniiisy 10 manure puc>:i? aiVi.r-. ine looming of MacDonald into power in Erg j land was hailed as a ureal victory for labor.) j but it< supremacy will be short-lived if strike! j follows strike and difficulty follows diffl- i ' i-ulty as has been the case during the past > few weeks. If thoJe in the ranks of labor have fig-, urod that with sympathizers in high office, they can better carry out their <1 mands for concessions, they have a patently made a miscalculation. It makes a difference which side of the fence one is on. Responsibility greatly sobers one's judgment. It was predicted when the MacDonald government [came into power it would lose much of it* radicalism. Apparently this i* happening, j I.ike it ^predecessors. the present gov. rnj mcnt in England must think in terms of the 5 nation, not in terms of labor unions only. Its chief concern now is to settle the strik* in the best interests of the cour.tr>-, not i to the beat interests of labor. ] KEE SCOUT. MURPHY. NORTH CAROLIN. TARHEEL TATTLE By Cm*I W?U? IUSL. Prosperity'* Song. Hor yo* hosH". Mister Hardtirae.-! Pis ain't r. p.^e ' r am; t Better turn > : am aroun* An* hit de r ad for home? Our fiddle's play:* ' a prosp'ous air. An* we're dam . ' wid Goodtimes h- rel 1 Our house ih - d ter ovcrfiwin*. An* th* wal a-bur>:in" thru*; We i*ot no qua'ter for to spare. No. rot ft r th* likes o" you? Our fiddle's tuned wid a p >p'lar air. An' we're dant' wid Goodtim* - h?.re! 1 h TjsVn tn <i?t invfnl mn?r rim 11 * An* tit? (|ani?or'o intww!"' *? ???? ??** ? Better turn k c wn do re:.!. An' grit fer vtr own h- me town?- ! Our fiddle's tun ?i wid a pop'Iar air. Fer we're dar.f.r* wid Goodtimes here! < * History Repeating. Perhaps. The Asfccvill? Citizen cites the fact that "the Boston Tea Party ushered in indepen. n: government f r * jntry. The Tea Pot 1> me Party, given by Messrs. Fall an! Sinclair. may be th* beginning of clear vernment." > > "It'll All Come Right." This "Cheering W? from Hon. Fra: k L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution: "Honey, don't y : worry Bout de trouble what's in sight; De sweet word fer you Is: ""Twill all - mo right!' I)e sunshine is - travelin' To de shudder- er de night. But de star* is shin in' welcome: 'It'll all come right!* " < Wholly, Wholly, Wholly! ) The I'arugra| her if the Greensboro N< w* , na.M < thi> comment: "So the machine is? ;he i hurch of Democracy. Well, the Char"te ogran never play- anything but sacred; i. ;unes. > The G. O. P. Song. Walshy, take that Tea Pot off, Just case it gently down; For neither grass or candidates Will thrive in oily ground. , ? ? I Public Utilities ^^3 ""THE increased use of electrical power j. I during the last ten year- in the Carolina* is amazing and water power experts predict ^ that the next ten years will witness an even ! greater increase in its use. At presvnt the demand continues to outstrip the supply. All li e power from a proposed development 1*! usually sold hi fore it can be completed. So great has become the use of this form J f power for municipal and similar purposes! and so important has become the problem of regulating and fixing rates at which such power shall be sold, that the power, ga? and allied companies of the Carolinas have organized an information bureau with head-1 quarters in Raleigh and Columbia, with the purpose of seeking '"through the distribution uwUtute a ileartr understanding on the part of the public of the aims and problems of the utilities in the two .States. By this mean* it is hoped the utilities may be- aided in contributing further to the industrial development and propre > so essential at this time for the two Carolinas." If these companies succeed ir. their aim. they will have accomplished much, and apparently ikt v are going about it in the right way. For misunderstanding is the basis of individual and corporate difficulties. And if these companies seek to present their nuc ui mt- va?? lairiy 10 me puDiic and gam ^ the public confidence, the public will help them to grow and ''contribute further to the ^ industrial development of the two Carolin- , BS-" 1 "You never can tell." says Mr. Phaup * station agent, "what appear* to be a railroad crossing may be the place where you rross the Styx." , In 1000 the combined resources of the state national banks in North Carolina were l *32.362,000, and 1020 were 3477.122,000 In 1000 the assessed valuation of property n North Carolina was $306,570,00, and in 1020 it was 3,130.705,000. K THE man who is laughed at today !* revered tomorrow. They laughed at Re II ur\d his telephone. Edison and hi* electric light, and Langlty with his crazy flying machine. Th? Wright brothers were <!e-ided. the !:>? v r- r f \ ray- was ridicub <5 ?r.d the "radio delusion" brought smiles and tmusentent. But net n-iv. ! It is a- inij -isle - .r us to say. now. vhat the r.>.:d the future i- to be. as it V:i? imruwti^!-' fcT US tO m/, .'i >??i> ago, vhat the radio broadcast of todav would be. '"ver.tcr grants to inU-tcsl raiiiiai in naking a roadway of steel. I* will < ?t. ir ?uilt, not th usands, but several hundreds ?f thousands dollars per mile. Road guilders laugh. The public laughs. \\ all augh. Wry pay three hundred thousand lollar* a n-.ile for road- when we can g*t hem for a few thousand?? Tw.nty years ago the idea of paving wenty five thousand dollars a mile for n ad va? laughed at! The steel idea may be all wrong. It lasn't bi-. n tried. 1: may be chimerical in he extreme. We don't know. But we do .n w that laughing at it h cause it? differ n: is n<> way to prove it idiotic. Ten years igo people laughed at the idea of national lighwuys. Th? y dor.'t laugh any more. dore and more people are coming to thir.k hat highways are as much a part of the Naion's business as waterways, Panama Car.a!, >attk ships, an army. The new idea is ALWAYS laughed at. -aughter d t -n't prove anything except the stand-pat-mind" of th< i laugher. Maybe teel roads at three hundred thousand do?ars a mile are impractical. But why t >rir.g something else to bear on the qut-*i<>n esidts laughter? Nobody laughs at nati- r?' il highways any more: not even Ck ngre-s: The joke of yes: rday the fact of t -!a>. day be we will yet ride on national high cays of steel! They laughed at st el *ails or locomotives, loo. They laughed W trar.s ontinental highways. And hov. they did nugh at De Lessepa and hi- Panama i anal* He laughs u . '.lU.-rs ?- . Letters From The People .tutor rnc l>cout: You will please f.n.l enci ?-ed a "prayer" irhich I received a fiw days ago, ??>th :h?- inunction to pas? it on or ei se some evil would lefail me. Also with the promise of a bles>ng if 1 should send it t cine friends. I receive one of "pray r" letter* n an average of or.e a 1 certainly !o not object to nrav. r, ev-n though it be i pre scribed prayer. !ii:c the -tv. ; -ond in datth?\v ;t the one I have been eceiving, like the o;.i l?1. w:*h i* inunctions, etc., eertair.iy pass.s n\>- understanding. 1 feel sure it is sent out with all rood intent, and th -etitimcnt is good, but nstead of being in Jesus* life" it orginated during the dark ages with a church funded n -uperstitutu.n ad propagated acaxbcrs whu wtie k^pi it: ignorance and lot allowed the use the Bible, neither ire they allowed to the use of it today, ix ept tender certain restrictions. I certainly appr< ciate the good wishes of he friend.- that send the e "prayers" but vish to assure each of them that I have 'broken the chain," neither have 1 copied ?ne of them or asked my friends to spend if leflirf hTPfltv.f'Vfi hpsiHi<c 1/wi nrr raiuable time in perpetuating a superstition hat should not exist in this age of the world. I not only do not object to prayer, but im a firm believer in it. Still, I believe hat prayer should be rendered according to he Saviour's prescribed order. He says: 'And in that day ye shall ask me nothing, /erily. verily. I say unto you. whatsoever ;e shall ASK THE FATHER in MY NAME, le will give it you."?John 16:23. I For a more intelligent Christianity, I am. Sincerely yours. W. L. GARREN. 'ulberson. N. C., Rt. 2. Feb. IS. 1924. The "prayer" with the "injunction" folows verbatim: Oh lord Jesus keep us from evil and bring us to dwell with the forever amen this Prayer sent all around the world copp? and see what happens it was sent I Friday, February 22, 1924 V ROAD BUILDING | IN 1923 f "T^HE volume of road bulling in N'ortfc B A Carolina in 1923 was as follows: jw Topsoil, 221.53 miles, costing V 691.12. 1 Grader, 123.06 miles, costing 21,084,. I . 375.84. E Gravel. 92.52 miles, costing $832,297.67. E Bitulithic macadam. 38.66 mi'.vs, costing I $942,511.79. f i Waterbound ma? a<:am. 40.75 n.ile?, cost- ? ! insr $f.9.V2R9:in Sand asphalt, 21 37 mil. . re $2*4. ? 752.80. ? Asphnltic concrete, 1*6.94 miles costing I ! Zfl ? i Plain concret .. 323.04 miles. rrwtiJw ??. ? ? Reinforced concrete-, J2.il miles costing S1.218.8S6.32. Prick, .57, c -insr S14.34S.77. Corduroy. 1.32 miles, costing S33.769.g9. Bridget, $525,627,69. Sand clay, 55.60 miles, costing ?404^. 41*7.13. Reconstruction, 620 miles, : -ting $70,. *42.79. The total v !an.?.- of road construct:- n was " ! : .-?00. FAT MAN'S CORNER "But your mother is too old fashioned, my dear, I'm afraid she'd be awfully shocked at our party." BS'Sh, . rpe - to : that's why he's dy- i j ing t>? c me t --ur party."?Life. * * James Utt i- still trying to patch up the metery, taking a plank off a place whore it is not needed and nailing it wh- needed more.?Grafton (W. Va.l Sentinel. Bridt ?t. \ tcher)?What sort of roast ..:t? ild go well with a perfect !: . -and-white dinner set?? i . > > St.ige hand <:? manager)?Shall 1 lower :r!nin_ -i' 1 On- <-?f l'no livinf -.tntntP? 1 : National Hardware Mafrine. < "Oh, con-table, i feci so funny." | "What's the matter, madam? Have v?? Vert w>. nonstable, about two miles."? i Melbourne Punch. i A .... : d -.h teacher is credited with the fol'i.A-injj: "The word 'pants' am an un| common noun, because pant* am sinkrular at the top and plural at the button*."?Bos! ton Transcript. Her Mother -John, I thrnk Helen's voice i. .-.Id be uiiivated. if it doesn't co?t too ! much. Her Father?It can't cost too much if it , will improve it any.?Boston Transcript. "How did you get to know your second jhusband?" "Oh, it was he who ran over my first in his motor."?Journal Amusant. * "Is the new boarder married?" "i guess so. He only uses one hook In the closet." I The train came to a grinding S*?P a* * | small town in the South, and the head of u gentleman of color protruded from a ^n" dow at the end of a car. Seated by bis side could he seen a brown-skinned maide*. "Does yo* knows a cullud pusson by de name o' Jim Browm what lives here?" be asked of a station lounger. "Ain't ncvah heered o* no Jim Brown t hyah, an* Ah has lived in dis town fo' ten ' yeahs." I "Ts yo* righ suah dey ain't nevar been |no Jim Brown aroun' hyah?" "Positutely." "Den," announced the arrival, r:aeh?nf for a suitcase, "dis ia whah his new sba-idlaw gits off."?The Continent. in Jesus life all who wrote was Blessed all who passed it by met misfortune coppy and aend to 9 friends one a day for 9 days and on the 10th you will be happy please dont break the chain sign no name Just the date received this letter Feb 12 1924 *