PAGE I WO ?LDc ^.yuuuci 3?C0Ul i he Official Organ ot Murphy and Cbcrokt-c County, Norln Carolina 1'L BLlSUElf E\ Kltl flUDAY C. VV. UAILbY . . . Editor-Manager . Mlb. C. W. BAiLEV. Associate Ed. 1>. W. SAPE Associate Ed Eutertfu 121 the postotfice at Murphy, j .North Cuioiiua, as second class niuil 1 mallei uuder act of Alar, d, 1870. Subscription Rates Out Year .. $1.50 Eight lomhs 1.00 I Six Mouths ... 75c Payable Strictly In Advance Lvgui advertisements, want ads. reading notices, obituaries, caids of thanks, etc, ov line each insertion, payable j?i advance, Display and contract rales furnished on request. All communications must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will not be accepted for publication. Namc of the writer will not be published unless so specified, but we must have the name of the author as evidence of good faith. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Liu- possession of the latter is so cioscly dependent on ihe posession of the former i: actuality that always the mention of one vf the words brings tne other up from our association of words and ideas. It is true, that happiness may be had without health but not that complete fulness of happines- that comes with robust health ar.d full vital function of ail the tiod-given powers which is the consequence of full health. Neither the full happiness nor the complete full employment "1 the capacities oi the individuals is tenlized unless there is health. With this before us it becomes the duly ol the citizen and the community to protect as far as possible this priceless posessiou. The preservation of health and happiness is the driving power in every individual and is protected by the instinct of self persecution, but sometimes this goal becomes obscured to the indivduaj through the complicated mazes of society. Then it is that the community duty calls for a search to lind out that which is hiding the bin. dering menace. This is the function of our County, State and Federal Departments of Health, men paid, whose duty it is to study the prob lenis of each community and find means of protecting the individual rand the group. It has long been known that every tubercular cow is cither an actual or potential center of infection. That milk is frequently infected with living-, virulent tubercle bacilli. There is nothing hypothetical, circumstantial or inferential about this. It is a fact of plain, experimentally demonstrated fact. In many states and in more than three-fifths of the counties of this state this menace to health?this means of spreading the deadliest anu most loathsome of disease?has been eradicated through the co-operation of County, State and Federal Governments. It's cost is small and it's value to the individual and the community as a whole is inestimable. This county can obtain this work at a very low cost. It should welcome the opportunity. Every in 1 dividual - for every individual is ' affected?should give his approval to the subject. No peiaon is free from the possibility of contamination by this disease spread by infected cattle in this county. Think it over?It is Morally Right? Good Humanity? Economically SAYS STATEMENT IN SCOUT "ERRONEOUS AND UNFAIR" The Scout is in receipt of a letter from the Asheville Chamber of Commerce calling attention to an article appearing recently with reference to that body advising tourists not to use No. 10, and that the statement is "erroneous and unfair". It is an undisputed fact that No. 10 is the Murphy route from Atlanta to Asheville. Mr. Lovett, of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company, stated in his letter that they did advise him not to take the Murphy route, and if they advised Mr. Lovett not to take this route, the question naturally arises, How many others have received like advice? Tourists have been passing through Murphy over No. 10 every day for the past several months. Was it "er roneous" to advise Mr. Lovett that he could not get through from Murphy jSHH to AsheviUe over No. 10? Was it "unfair" to Mr. Lovett to advise him ji^^^BUj not to take this route that he might M^D^B view the natural wonders and beautiful scenery and points of interest in M^^HB the sections it traverses? Was it "unfair" to the many splendid towns HHH along this route? The letter from the Asheville Chamber of Commerce is carried below, with the letter received by Mayor IIill from Mr. Lovett. Mr. Lovett revealed the fact thai the condition exists, and The Scout merely gave it publicity. The letters follow: July 26, 1926. Editor, The CheroKee Scout, Murphy, North Carolina* Dear Sir: On tiie front page of your issue of Jay 16th we find an article with the following heading, "AsheviUc C of C Advises Tourists Not to Use No. 10". This statement is erroneous and entirely unfair to the Ashevilie Chamber of Commerce. We receive daily report.; concerning the condition of detours between , Ashevilie and Murphy and similar re-j ports concerning conditions on the | connecting roads in Georgia. At; times these reports have been untavorable Tile Georgia roads are not favorably reported now under wei weather conditions. Construe-1 tioi: on route No. 1U in North Carolina is progieasing rapidly and will soon be completed. The detours are not objectionable except in very bad weather. We endeavor to secure and distri buti- the must accurate information available. If you will examine our written ieports, you will find that they are truthful and impartial. We are sending hundreds of tourists over route .N<>. 10 on sightseeing trips. Our guide map? chow the route to Murphy and induates the points ol > interest. Many of the motorists are inter ! e>ied in seeing the Great Smoky Mountains. We are distributing Murphy literature at our information eountei. We will be glud to distribute souvenir post cards if they are furnished by your local Chamber oY Commerce or any other agency i inter* stcd. We are spending a great i deal of time, labor and money in our uivertising campaign for the Great Smutty Mountains Natonal Park. Murphy will certainly profit largely, ar.d every town on route No. 10 will be benefitted. Cordially yours, F. ROGER MILLER, Munagci. Mayor Murphy, N. C. Dear Sir: 1 have planned a motor trip from Atlanta to Asheville, N. C. via Mur I 11y, uisnsvuie una .'iuuis uup. 1 have just received a letter from Chamber of Commerce, Asheville, advising not to go that way but go by Athens, Gainesville, ns they would not recomend the Murphy route. 1 am very much disappointed as my hopes was to come that way. Please let me know if the road is not open and good ioad and your view of same. Please let me know by return mail as 1 expect to leave Atlanta on the 17th Thanking you for any information you am give. T C. LOVETT. Atlanta, Ga. 120 East Hunter Street. THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW I ~ - I We sometimes catch ourselves j wondering how to class a prohibition | agent, is he a benefactor of society and therefore to be accepted with all j his works as an exponent of the trend of a higher civilization? Is the killing of a seventeen-year old boy in Cherokee County the inevitable resultant of forces which we have put in motion and cannot now control? On any count the story which appeared in the Citizen on Sunday does not make pleasant reading. The killer may have had justification for the act; whether he did or not will be i made manifest in his trial, assuming ! that he is eventually to be tried. The j statement that he ran away immedij ately after emptying his revolver into ! the body of his victim may or may inot be true; if it is true it is hardly ja strong argument for the purity of his motves. We assume him to be innocent of wrong unless and until he is proved to be guilty. But justificable homicide or wanton murder, does a jury's verdict answei an questions: is tne discovery 01 a half-gallon of whiskey to be always and everywhere a portent of death? Does the punishment fit the crime? The law, we are told, is the law, and the voice of the people who make th? law is the voice of God, but even a good law may be so enforced as to become abuse of power. We presume that even a Federal prohibition agent has some one over him from whom he takes orders, and if he interprets those odrers to shoot first and to inquire afterwards it is only a I question of time when public opinion [ will say that this is not law but tyran. i ny. j We admit that prohibition is dif, ficult of enforcement in any event, but killing does not make it any easier. If prohibition is a moral issue, let us handle it on that basis. If, on the other hand, it is an iaaue not to be argued or debated but only to be enforced by fire and sword if neces % THE CHEROKEE SCC rtri * nr t k. i rilVij 1 P OH BOV! VW i H LOOK WHAT wafer B^UP^HERt tKlgto SPARE THE TREE The man with the proper civic spirit investigates before he criticises. He takes the trouble to bok into the future of his own heme town before he condemns it. The trouble with most critics, as with the knocker in this picture, ithat they do not know enough about the things th?*> criticise. Constructive criticism is valuable because it carries with it a full knowledge of the situation, but just mere km.eking i> Ignorance oh a rampage. There is nothing elevating or enlightening in continually finding fault, yet the small city frfequi nt y has this type of citizen with which to contend; a small minority which thinks the town is not good enough for them. But if it depended on their efforts, there would be no town at all. If you know anyone in Murphy who cannot sec the advantage; of making this a bigger and better town, get him to climb the ladder as our booster friend in the picture has done, and maybe he will drop the ax. for he will see fruits galore, enough for him and everybody in town. The law governing absentee votes is certainly headed toward a fight for survival in the next legislature, when opponents will seek to have it repealed. The progress and prosperity edition of the Hendersonville News of recent date is a veritable encyclopaedia of that city's unusual growth during the past few years. And to Noah Hollowell, the editor, and his boosting spirit is due no small measure of credit for Hendersonvilie's phenomen al growth. W. W. Hyde, the popular assistant cashier of the Bank of Murphy, says he was much impressed with the beauty and advantages of Murphy over a number of other towns visited in this section recently. More evidence supporting the theory that you have to go visiting to really appreciate the home town. j sary, let us then frankly declare il and proclaim once for all that the ! guardians of the law are themselves above the law, that in their sighl the ordinary citizen has no rights thai are worth respecting, and that all that is left to him, whether he knows it or not, is the duty of servile obedi. , ence.?Asheville Citizen. c , , ?* V^OL iU JL. >UT. MURPHY. N. C. HIS TREE VALUES VERSUS PRICES Editor Arthur W. Page of The World's Work made some comment m his (alk to Uotarv Thursday that j is highly worth while the considera| lion of owners of land remote from this city. This was the editor's dcc! larntion that he found some country land here priced higher than ' !: ?i?i on Kong Island thirty miles from I New York City and its 7.000,000 j ptopte. I This being the case it is reasonably 1 certain that either the local land is j priced too high or the near-New. York area is under-valued. We may dismiss the latter alternative?neither New York nor its environs are given to under-valuing anything that is theirs. To sustain our prices we must find some extra ordinary asset ! of value in the land. It does not contain gold nor ilia-1 monds, and no pretense is made that | its agricultural worth influences the j 1 price tag in the slightest degree. The land assets, the only features that j distinguish it from the Long Island ; | lenity, are climate and scenery. And! i acre is a wealth of these in this sec- 1 tion?the supply is considerably larger than the present demand and j in fact is enough to meet the normal demands of home-seekers for a great 1 many years to come. If these prices are fixed merely for the satisfaction of owners who do not wish to sell at any price, no objection can ?o mn.de, but if the owners really wish to sell they should take down their signs and replace them with lower price t;.gs The entire community h'?s ; n interest in seeing this land "move"?in sceine now houses J go'.ng up there and new settlers there And the big land owner?representative of hundreds if not thousj ands of acres of land?and his neigh. [ bors, have an even more immediate interest. Hear the words with the , hark on of a countryman who called , I at The Citizen office yesterday morn , ing and, entirely ignorant of what | Mr. Page said, confirmed much of what he said. "No land selling in our neighborhood," he complained. "Folks has got the price too high. They ain't any rich folks going to buy there because there ain't any golf courses and such. And folks of just moderate means ain't going to pay ' those fancy prices. Can't afford it? 1 farming won't pay the interest on the price. One man from our neighborhood sold his land at a big price and I went near Jersey City and bought 1 good land at half what he got here." "Foolish they are." said this man. "Put up prices and keep out settlers. last Traffic ' I Will i - I.,, TOMORROW By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. KIi.m Hassan. well beloved, was wont to nay. When i.tight went wrong or any project fulled "Tomorrow, friends, will be another day?" And In that fnlth he slept and ao prevailed IT IS us foolish to think that tomorrow will not offer us au opportunity to correct our mistake*., to repair our failures, as It Is to think that these mistakes aud failures will not have to he paid for. Tomorrow offers every man another chalice. If he will only take It. There Is a rait difference between nutting off until tomorrow what should he done today and finding In tomorrow a new day and a new opportunity to be taken advantage of. Constantly I see people? young people, too, who have everything necessary to success?who fall from discouragement. Crlfflth could not get on because he could never forget yesterday. He had trade a mistake, he had been dishonest, and he had had to pay a penalty. He would not. however, let the penalty sulltce, hut let the memory of his error eat into his consciousness, disturb his day. and haunt Ids dreams. So for a long time ho wasted his todays In grlevlpg over his yesterdays. "You've made a mistake and you've paid tho penalty," I said to him. "Forget ahout it. "Other people don't forget." he said. "Not many people know about It." I answered, "and those who do know are so much concerned ahout their own affairs and their own petty troubles. Ihut they are quite unlikely to give any serious or critical thought to you." He cnme to see this In time and made the most of Ids tomorrows. There is un ant climbing up the window casing in front of me us 1 write. A dozen times he tries to reach the top and as many times he has tried again mi disco urn god. Finally, under a little more favorable circumstance, perhaps, or with a little more persistent and well-directed effort he goes over the top and reaches the goal for which he was striving. 1 can imnglno other ants standing by and laughing 'ni him, when, aftet so many failures, he still kept on. It la the way people do. It Is said that Paderewskl'a first teacher of piano gave his young pupil very little encouragement, lie showed no particular tulent, things went wrong with his practicing pretty often. "Perhaps you'd make a teacher," the Instructor Is said to have remarked, "but there is little likelihood of your ever amountlug to taucli as a player." ilut the hoy kept on. rememberlne that i tomorrow would bo another day. Ills success may well be a lesson to us all. New day. new hope, new couragal Let thle be O aoul, thy cheerful creed! What's i yeHterday, With all its bharde and wrack and Rtlef. to thee? Forget It. then?here llee the victor's way. (ffl, lilt Weelem Newepaper t'nloa.) FACTORY TOWN NEWS Mrs. J. A. Rich and children are visiting friends and relatives at Mineral Bluff, Ga., this week. Mrs. Willie Rogers was the guest of her mother one night last week. Misses Mattie and Carrie Dockery were the guests of Miss Evelyn Rich Saturday night. Miss Eliza Young from Gastonia, was a visitor in Factory Town last I week. Mrs. Aldecka Rich, aged woman, died at her home in Factory Town, duly 16 at 11:30 o'clock. She was born in 51. She was a well known woman in Western North Carolina, and a faithful member of the Baptist Church from her early life. She leaves one son, J. A. Rich, who resides in Murphy, several grandchildren, two brothers and one sister. Her remains was carried to Shady Grove. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Ugeon Cole and Rev. J. A. Carroll. Our loss is her gain. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends *? ,? ... u tici^iiuurs ior tneir Kindnesses during the sickness and death of our mother and for the many floral offerings. May God's blessings be with the greaved ones is the prayers of the writer. J. A. Rich and family. OughtT^have new settlers to help , pay taxes and those bonds when they come due. They are just a keeping J back progress and yet when tax as- | sessing time comes they'll holler the land is taxed too much." Some sense in this? There is a great future for this section, of course, and land will become more valuable, but present prices should be based on present conditions. An egg will develop into a chicken but no one will pay tiie value of a full-grown chicken for an egg.?Asheville Ctti FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926 ffij LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE I Mr. Editor: As this the season for ounty poli-B tics and a time when many of citizens of the local sections are brc-H ught to a period of thinking in tfc?B terms of county government, I foifl it is a time when all should think B more about the affairs of the localB government and how should it feB managed. 1 take this method inB writing to the political loaders an