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If IT ISN'T IN THE SCOUT n-S BECAUSE WE DIDNT KNOW IT The Official Organ VOLUME XXXVII. No. 12 J fCUC SCHOOLS OF DENMARK AND FINLAND EXPLAINED BY DR. EDGAR W. KNIGHT Is Now Abroad Making Special Study Of Tbtie Schools Cherokee and Clay Interested Because of the interest of the1 Bra&sloirn and Peachtre-* section ar.d! adjoii>*ng sections of Cherokee and j Clay Counties in the Folk Schools'of | Denmark and Finland, the following extracts from a letter from Dr. Edgar W. Knight of the University of North Carolina, who is making a special study of these schools at this time, will be of interest to our readers. The folk high school of Denmark, says Dr. Knight, is for grown people, people between the ages of 18 and 30 : These schools originated in Denmark a little more than 80 years ago when the spiritual energies of the people | were at a low ebb. There are now j eighty odd of these schools in Denmark. Th*? nwi?n?ri?v n??l ?? jr.ent of the rura! people of Denmark have been applauded all over the world ia recent years. Many explanations ^ have been given of the remarkable success of these unusual schools. Dr.i Knight says he is trying to find an answer to their success also so that th information may be passed on to North Carolinians. (These schools seek to awaken, enlighten and enliven the people. There are no admission requirements, no examinations, no formal credits given. The Danes say that such credits have nothing to do with education. If such schools can he built *n<i maintained in Denmark, why can they not be had in North Carolina? I The chief objective of the Danish j schools is enlightenment. They encourage enquire. Few countries in Europe provide for continuation study beyond what we in the United States call the elementary grades. Iftt Danes know the full meaning of enlightenment. They know its strength also. Illiteracy is practically unknown in this country, a fact which stands out in great contrast with our own State North Carolina which still has within her borders more than 100,000 native born illiterates. The extent of literacy in Denmark, a constitutional monarchy, puts democratic North Carolina to shame, not onlv in this r??hut in the matter of the length of school term, careful preparation and pen-,, sioning of teachers, ar.d general in-j tercst in education and other cnlight-1, ening interests. Denmark's compul-l, sory legislation is nearly 125 yeats old. Such legislation is only 75 years ; old in the United States, and or.lyjj 25 years old in the South. Europe | j and especially Denmark, laugh: at I us, with our boasted democracy and J, self government and our vain quota-, j tions from the founders of the na-jj tian about equal educational oppor- i, tun i ties, etc. Europe does not understand the great difference be- , tween our demooratic theories and . our undemocratic practice. Illiteracy :, such as North Carolina has is an anomaly in a state devoted to the dem- j * ocratic theory of government which depends for its strength, we are told,; upon the diffusion of information and knowledge upon the masses of the' 5 people. ? ? i I The Danes ask for an explanation 1 of .why North Carolina with eight! t hundred thousand school children ? and about nineteen thousand teach-; i eis spends only about twenty-two j i million for education, while Iowa, t one of the newer states, with seven i i hundred thousand children and twen- ] ( ty-seven thousand teachers, spends js sixty-three millions for their educa- I tion. Whv. ask the ohieical Danes. do more than one third of the chi!- l dren enter the first grades of i < the North Carolina schools each yearli fail to reach the second grade the ( next year? Other simitar embarass-. i eg facts about our school system a * raised by the Danes, where illiter- f *cy is almost unknown and where the c compulsory education law is really 1 enforced. Why all this waste in ed- 2 ?cation they ask? And why is it? t North Carolina must answer this question sooner ob later.?Contributed. 1 ( HOTLA RIVER'S WATER LINE a Blairsville, Ga., Oct. 24.?Notla t Bi rvs is now beginning to regain its i normal water Une. It peached the t lowest erer known in the memory of c tko oldest people in Utaion County, c of Murph> And Cher 11 Car r _ <c??T*tV.w.y.p.i ~*"~J DOG INFECTED WITH RABIES CONFIRMED BY STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIEN Dr. J. N. Hill is this week in recort of a telegram stating that the doj whose head was sent to the Stat Laboratory earlier in the week, wo mad. The telegram received follow? "Raleigh N. Car., Oct. 23. Dr. ? N. Hill, Murphy, N. Car. Dog wo mad. State Laboratory of Hygiene. The dog in question was said t have been seen by Bass Walker t bite f? ur dogs, a mule, and snap o a child. It was killed and head ser U> Raleigh for examination. It is thought that the rabied do which passeu though Murphy seven months ago and which bit Miss Addi l.oatherwood, bit the dog which ws killed the other day. The dog which passed through se? eral months ^go bit several dogs i lite Warne section, one of which wet mad several days ago, biting seven jther dogs and a man living at Warn Ihe dog was killed and its head sen to Raleigh by Neil Reese, and was rc oorted to have had rabies. The mai is taking treatment. Dr. Hill stated that the attentioi ;f the people should be called to th fact that quite a number of dojts ar -unning at large in violation of th< uling of the County Board of Healti sometime ago, that ail dogs shoult ?ither be confined, or muzzled whei lliowed to lun free. This ruling i iffected until January 1, 1926. WALTON LEAGUE GIVES OYSTER DINNE1 Blairsville, Ga., Oct. 26.?A mos sumptiaus dinner was given by thi saac Walton League, Chapter one blairsville, one night last week. ^ treat time is the report and a numb ?r of new members were added t< he league. The League is grow ng rapidly and expects in the futuri o ask the government to restock th< mountainous sections ofi Union bounty with game ard fiih, that th< iports. of fishing and hunting ti.aj >e perpetuated. As guests of honor were Mr. Johi daralson who has spent many year >f his life among the big gam< -egions of the Western Frontier Japt H. L. Carroll who has traverse* nuch of South American countries tnd is noted for adventures with alii rators qnd big snakes of the boi onstrictor type, wild bulls and etc *ieut. Rouss Waldroup, Messr?. Roj Hauney, Edmond F. Crawfort tnd Col. T. S. Candelr. / lowever. the figures 1845 have beer ound carved on a rock in the rivei ibove the Nicholson bridge neai Jlaiisville, Ga., which indicate tha he river was as low in the year I64J is it was in the late drouth. There it lothing to authenticate the figure) >n the rock as connected with anj Irouth except supposition. ' <0)Cti okee County, and the Lc MURPHY, NORTH CAROL! 1't Fool Him Thi hlA ' LAKCE STILL CAPTURED ON BEAR PAW CREEK AND E BROUGHT HERE SATURDAY >t A large still of some forty gallons r. capacity waj brought here last Sate urday by C. T. Stiles, J. A. Wilis, liamson and C. 1). Ko?e:s, who captared it. and turned over to officer! r | for destruction. Tlie outfit was found Friday mornlS ing on the Iliawassec River about one mile below the mouth of Bear Paw o Creek, and was said to be setting or 0 the same site where one was taker t by officers some eight months ago, The still was in operation wher found, but the condenser was missi ing, due to the fact that the mash g was being cooked and it was not t| needed in this ptoccss of distilling, i( e j was said. lh { Some four hundred gallons of | mash were destroyed, and two bushr-'els of corn meal, one-half bushel of n | rye meal and 100 pounds of sugar taken, together with an army coal il | belonging to one of the operators e No on# was captured as these operit ating the still ran, as Stiles, William.. son and Rogers approached, the> n stated. n EDUCATIONAL PICTURES c BEiNC- SHOWN BY AGENT e IN COUNTY THIS WEEK e h A number of educational moving d pictures are being shown this week n in the different sections of the couns ty by County Agent R. W. Gray in conection with the extension bureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the State Department of * Agrficulture. Power for showing the pictures is being furnished by the * portable Delco plant of the Swan e Electric Co., of Asheville, for one ' week only. ^' The pictures are entitled. "Apples - and the County Agent," "Four Men t> and the Soy," "Selecting a Laying - Hen," and a comedy attraction, '-'"She's Wild." ej The pictures treat of better farm> , ing mefhods along the line of the 5 subjects mentioned, and the piogram f.is proving to be instructive as well j as entertaining, Mr. bray stated, tj The picttr.es were shown at Unaka * Monday night, Pcstell Tuesday night, i1 Suit Wednesday night and Grand. view Thursday night. They will be 1; shown at Martin's Creek Friday night. ,! Large crowds have greeted him at -'every place shown, Mr. Gray sUtcd.y HATMAKER APPOINTED J. P. r I FOR SHOAL CREEK TOW&SHIP 1 j Mr. W. T. Hatmake:, of Shoal I Creek Township, was here Tuesday of Ithis week in connection with qualifying for Justice of the Peaee for that r.township. He recently received his r appointment from Governor A. W. t McLean. i BACK ISSUES PAPER WANTED i Any of the readers of The Scout r having a copy of the issue of October Sth would do the management a lktt?z lading Newspaper in ti NA FRIDAY. OCTOBER SO, 1925. > is Year BHMMX lKAut.- AT-HOME CAMPAIGN 1 SPONSORED BY MERCHANTS BEGINS THIS WEEI ?' The Trade-at- Home campaigi , which is being sponsored by a num ^ ber of the merchants and busiae& men of Murphy begins with th:i > issue. It is to continue for a perio< ! of thirteen weeks, and each weel will be featured a message of vita ^interest to the community, the com ' munity spirit and community co i operation. M It is the purpose of The Scou - to co-operate fully with those mer 1' chants who are underwriting th< campaign. They are invited to ob 1 serve and make known their ob ; servations from week to week (hat the campaign will be as greal a success as possible. The campaign was scheduled tc j begin two weeks ago, but on ac count of the delay in receiving cufc for illustration, it could not begir until this week. "| The names of the merchants anc ' business firms underwriting th? campaign are given below. They < are making a special bid for the bus I inoss of the trading public in Mur phy and this section, and our read I ers are urged to co-operate with them to the end that n gieutei 1 Murphy and a greater Cheickei I County will not only be a vision bui a reality. They follow The Bonita Theatre, Murphy Ser vice Station, J. C. Slocumb Varietj Store, Cherokee Manufacturing Co. , Murphy Coal & Ice Co., R. H. King i The Bnnk of Murphy, Candler*! I Department Store, W. P. Payne, J (I. Greene. T. N. Bates, Womack & | Hamilton, The Cherokee Bank, J. W Davidson, J. W. McMillan's Garage I \V. B. Dickey and Sons. Griffiths, Inc, I A. M. Wiley, W. D. Townson, John| son's Market, Johnson's Garage, W M. Fain Grocery Company, Murphy tHardware Co., The Cherckee Scout, SECOND NUMBER HAYESVILLE LYCEUM NOVEMBBR 8TH j Hayesville. N. C.?The second number ot the 1925-1926 Lyceum bourse will be here on November 8th The McKinley -Root concert Company is the title of this number. The j Company includes Miss Dorothy i McKinley, dramatic soprano and pianist. Miss Eugenia Root, Superb i violinist who also plays the banjo most acceptably, and Miss Edna Bell who is a regular comedian and a most remarkable entertainer with hex Scotch song impersonations. Songs Stories, Readings, Music and Humoi will feature the appearance of these talented artists and the local committee considers itself fortunate in securing this trio of splendid entertainers. great favor by sending it to this of fice. We are entirely out of thai isaue and need one or two for out fi*o?. 'J. ve ycu ore? / ?cout ds Secdon of Western I ITELLICO PLAINS CITIZENS 'l RAISING FUND TO ADVERTISE \ NEW HIGHWAY CONNECTION! ' Tenneiieeam Ask Murphy to Put Up SIOO.OO?Want Meeting With Cherokee Citizens The Scout is this week in reeepit' j of a letter from C. F. Latimore. vice \ president and cashier of the TdUeoiJ Bank and Trust Co.. Tellico Plain?. f Tenn.. stating that a delegation from Monroe County, Tenn.. were seeking P a meeting with the Cherokee citizens * for the purpose of devising ways and ? means for advertising and putting on t the map the new highway connection between the two counties. ^ Mr. Latimore states in his letter that $300.00 had been raised by Mon roa county and was now on deposit 1 in the bank, and that they want \ Murphy to raise $100 to augment j i this sum and to share in the spending of it. Already meetings have been ' ' held and Monroe County will soon be well organized l?r this purpose, he ( j states. 1 i Mr. Latimore's letter to The Scout r follows in part: 1 "A delegation of Monroe County s Tenn, people wants to meet S with Murphy or a representative a ; crowd of Cherokee County, N. C., and discuss ways and means to ad- S vertirc and put on the map our new t road joining the two counties. We C have already had several meetings c I and will soon be organized to do t our best. We now have $300 in the i r bank for this purpose and want Mur- p ; phy to put up $100 and to share with t us in the spending of this money to c 1 the best advantage. Please put this t " before your civic organization and t s let us hear from you.*' J K I CAPTAIN CARROLL VISITS cj DE SOTO'S DESCENDANTS i ?? . j Capt. Homer L. Carroll of this h . place, formally of the United States t 1 Army, who has been stationed with t I the American Legation in Santo Do- t .' mingo, R. D., island of Haiti, West p ? Indies, informs that the ruins of the I .; fortifications on what is k-.ow ( . > as Fort Mountain some five mile? o south of BlairsvIUe, Ga. is the remains ] of a fort erected by DeSoto. Capt. I J Can oil while in the city of Santo e Domingo became acquainted with a t ,! Spanish family descended from the'c . | explorer of what is now known as t j Florida and Georgia, and the same s x De Soto that discovered the Miss- 1 | issippi river. This family still re-; j I tains in their poscssion many things I s; belonging to the hard-hearted merr ciless discoverer and explorer, among them his sword and a private dia:y.! .; Capt. Carroll has been kind as to t allow us the permission tn ountp I i from his translation: a "After we left the low plains and Q , swamps the same called Florida be- c j. cause of the many flowers, we came a to a region covered with much long i) grass. This country was not inhabited. Then we came to the foothills. ? Tn this section we found a small dog s that carried its young in a pocket and j did not bark. (Capt. Carroll's opin- e ion is that the explorer met with the J , oppossum). In the foothills we found t ,an Indian city. The natives were j not inclined to deliver to us the J '.secret of where the mines were locat-j ed, so we captured their queen compelling her to go with us as a guide, i 'r | After many days we came to the; mountains. Here the Queen escaped j v in the night. We captured another C native who instructed us to go north, c [ to a land known in the tongue as I Cosa, and there we would find much v I; fine gold. Crossing the highland we b ( came to a valley where the gold was I | found where we eirected a fort that, e we might be safe from the invasion1 C of the native tribes thht surrounded b r tl?e encampment." j J I Captain Carroll relates. "It is very j h Interesting visit to the location of the | fort that has such an interesting' t I tradition connected with it. The j I rains of the fort consists of a cir-jii ^ cular wall, the most of which is brok- e en down. The rhasonery is of a! | peculiar nature, different from the1 tJ kind erected by any of the Indian i o tribes, showing the work of skilled i masons. It is evident that it is not 1 the work of the aboriginal tribes, t aad if it was excavated would per- ( haps give much of the hidden story s of the civil iniquitous De Soto, first t of the white men to invade this part C of Georgia. Captain Carroll is con- a templating publishing the story of-r ADVERTISE IN THE SCOUT "IT WILL M A K I YOU RICH" Morth Carolina 5c COPY?$1.50 PER YEAR rOUR SISTERS IS NEXT MURPHY LYCEUM NUMBER Unutfuaj Program of Music, Sonja And Sketches By Four Re*l SiiUri A very clever organization, disinctive lyceurn work by reason of ;he fact that all of its members are sisters, and all are talented in instrumental, vocal, and dramatic lines, will appear at the school auditorium Monday evening, November 9th. This organization, the name of which is he "All Sisters" Quartet, is composid of four sisters, the Misses Hildred, Tlaire, Clyde and Marjorie Rouse. These young ladies reside at New Hampton, Iowa, near the "Little Brown Church in the Vale," and it s interesting to note that this song las been used on their programs. Their vocal work consists of solo:, luets and quartets, both ballads and ighter numbers, while the instrunental work featured by this com>any is the saxaphone ensemble, omc splendid effects being obtained. Standard selections are used as well is popular numbers. For the past four years the "All listers" Quartet has traveled over he leading Chautauqua and Lyceum Circuits, this year being on a Southern Tour under the exclusive direcion of the Piedmont Bureau of Vsheville, N. C., A large crowd of teople is ejected to attend the enertainment, which will no doubt be >ne of the most enjoyable of its kind hat has been to Murphy for some ime. ILAIRSVILLE CITIZENS TAKE POST OFFICE EXAM. HERE i A civil service examination was \ leld here last Saturday to determine * he qualification of a postmaster for he office at Blairsville, Ga. Those aking the e^m were J. P. Daven?ort, J. A. Brackett, W. C. Berry, V. P. Lunsford, Edmund Crawford, ^laud Butt and Charlie Nichols, all if Blairsville. The postmastership is now held by >*. E. Conley, whose term of office xpired last August. The office is hird class and pays $1500.00 and lerk hire per year. It is expected hat the appointment will be made ometime between now and January st, it was stated. JNAKA BOYS EXONERATED IN DISAPPEARANCE CASE Handing down the decision that he state had insufficient evidence. Jen Rose, Fred Davis, Henry Davis, ind Casey Jones were exonerated of ,11 connection with the disappearance if Virgil Burgess some two years go by Justice of the Peace at hearng here last Saturday. Some twenty witnesses were eximined and evidence was lacking, tated Mr. Nelson. Attorney John H. Dillard appeard as the counsel for defense for tose, and J. H. McCall for Jor.es and he Davis boys. AMES HUGHES BOUND OVER TO FEDERAL COURT ON WHISKEY CHARGE James Hughes, who lives at Hia. assee, near the Tennessee line. Cherokee County, was taken into ustody by ofTicers Josh Ciisp, J. P. )eweese, and Sheriff B. B. Morrow, >*hen th"3/ ca'ded a sti'l in that secion of the county about the 15th. !e was brought to Murphy and givn a hearing before United States Commissioner W. Christopher, and ound over to Federal Court under 500 bond. He was unable to make ond and was lodged in jail. When the officers made the raid* he still was in full operation, lughes, who was said to have been a charge, ran, but officers succeedd in catching him. he De Soto as translated from the riginal manuscripts in the Cathedral a Sy^nto Domingo City D. R. "The greatest things that authenicates this story," says Captain ?arroll, "is that De Soto spoke of hort corn and no doubt this has n< erence to the territory of Union bounty which for years unknown eed has been planted that produce othing but 'tops'.w
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