Page Two JEtjp (Etjmikpp 9nmt Official Orpan of Murphy find Cherokee County. \orth Carolina PL BUSHED EVERY FRID I) Entered in the Post Office at .Murphy, \orth Carolina, as second class matter under Act of March c. VRTG. L. A. LEE 3 Managing Editor SAM CARR . Associate Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year 81.00 Six Months .50 Payable Strictly r: Advance Legal adverti- ment>. want ad*, reading notice*, obi tuaries. cards of thanks, etc.. 5c a line each insertion, payable in advance. Display rates furnished on request. All communications must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will riot be accepted for publication. Name of the writer will not be published unless agreeable. but we must have nam of author as evidence of good faith and responsibility. Murphy. \. C. June 8. 1934 Nearly fifty years ago the Cherokee Scout made its first appearance in Murphy. Some of the older residents r member the occasion and a few copies of the first edition -till remain. They have watched it grow. They have s.*en it fight. Perhaps not always for what all the peop!" thought was right. But it did fight, and it grew. But right or wrong it gave the people of thisection -unething tangible omelhing that would draw tin- pe .pl' closer together?a tie that would give one man the views of the other. If it has made any mistake ii has profit d bv them. "The old order aixelh E ' place to the new. And th:> irf I /Ac Scout appears under a neit publisher. 'I'll.* new- publisher aims to make this not his paper, lait the people" : paper. It i- not intended to he an idle organ of degrading t \ iio-urr. ranying a load of printed matter that i- unreadable. so technically dry that it becomes dull, and serves only to injure good eyesight. Instead it i> aimed primarilly to give the news?and all the news. It -lands first for the primary needs and interest** of Murphy and Cherokee county. No project will he too big f.?r it to tackh*?none too small. Rather than a stepping stone for petty injustice, it is designed to report the new-, the facts?truly, and as far as possible, accuruteh. The Scout has no axes to grind, and holds no sacred cows. There will he no trifling dogma built up by year- of predjudice in its pages. It will he fair and just at all times with the welfare of humankind I- hind every word. There will he no "misconstrued meaning" hidden between the lines. l h * Scout i? designed to be interesting?not to a few. hut to everyone. Every phase of local news will he amply and accurately reported. Every comment will be intended to boost rather than knock, and it is hoped that those who reed its pages will take the same optomistic view. Every word printed in the pages of the Scout will have the sanction and thus the honor of the publisher as a gentleman behind it. No article or advertisement will have as its object "to put something over on the people." Again we say litis is the people's paper. All laws of nature teach us to protect that which is ours, and to cultivate it so it will not grow stagnant. If the Scout is yours, why not help to cultivate it so it will grow and you can be proud of it? The Scout will appreciate your suggestions, both critical and helpful. Interesting contributions of any kind will be received. Any seivice within the power of the Scdut that can be rendered, is yours merely for the asking. The Scout is behind the T. V. A. The Scout is behind war veterans. The Scout will beg for the poverty striken. The Scout is whole-heartedly behind everything that is to the best insterest of Murphy and Cherokee county. And again we say this is the people's paper. THE SCOUT SALUTES Always observant and ready to acknowledge the success of another, the Scout this week salutes Miss Beatiice Cobb, editor of the^Morganton News-Herald. Miss Cobb, it will be remembered, won national recognition for herself and western North Carolina in journalistic circles recently by receiving third prize in a contest sponsored by the National Editorial Association at s meeting in St. Louis. A single edition carrying a roto grcVure section of Morganton scenery and articles oi the city's growth won for her the prize. Knowing Miss Cobb as an enterprising lady, the Scout ventures the as . The Cherokee Scout, Murphey, N BE If ANT THE D A M HERE! The Stout had no sooner pledged itself a fullfledged supporter behind the plans to build a dam here under sanction of the T\ A. than art announcement came to the effect that the House had passed the deficiency appropriations bill wherein th- Tennt>-e0.000: French Broad, in the valley of the French Broad, between Ashville and the Murphy area. S30.000.000: and Hiwassee, in the Murphy ar'a. $13,000,000.** Four different possible sites for the dam on the Hiwassee are now being considered. They are: the Coleman dam site, at Murphy: Ax ley Shoals, jurt above Murphy: Appalachia. and just above the mouth of the Hiwassee where it runs into the Tennessee river. It is t<> the l>est interests of Murphy to have the dam situated here. First it means the dispers?ment of 13 million dollars in Murphy. Thousands would he put to work. Their supplies would come from local merchants, industries and farmers. The water that would back up would flood out acres of waste land that could he sold. The back water would be supplied with fish. Murphx would become a tlirivix:ir enter of - a-onul and \ i- it ir:ir tourists. Merchants would ire r <\;> their business. Summer homes and cottages would he built. It would be necessary to have an auditorium seating thousands of people. Murphy would thrive on the \i-itors and delegations that would come here. Muiph\ would l>ecome one of the most reknowned cities in the Lniled States?If the (fan: were bui'f here! Is progress such as this worth roiling up your sleeve-, and fighting for? Chattanooga is fighting to gel the dam there. This i? why they want it. We quote in part a story by Cecil Holland appearing in the Cnatlanooga Times: "The Hiwassee dam will serve a three-fold purpose. ... It will be a power dam for the manufacturer of primary power. It will also serve a> a resorvoir for the purpose of preventing floods, which means much to Chattanooga, and also keeping a steadier 1 low in the Tennessee river for navigation purposes. "Tin* Hiwassee dam will Ik* to Chattanooga what the Morris dam has Ixten to knowille. That means that engineering offices will be located here and the development directed from this city. Lc?> than fifty miles from Chattanooga, it is quite conceivable that a part of the large force necessarily employed on a project of this kind will l?e recruited front Chattanooga?just as Knowille is supplying many workers for the \orris dam." Would it mean anything to Murphy to have tlmir power bills cut almost to nothing? W ould it mean anything to Murphy to have the engineering offices located here? Would ?t mean as much to Murphy as it would to Chattanooga? Is it north fighting foj> If Murphy goes after the dam right, there is no reason why we should not have it here. Several TVA officials have come here. When asked where the dam would be built, they said they did not know, and if they did know,, they would not be permitted to give out the information. Murphy has nothing to loose by asking. As the Scout was about to go to press, it was much interested in the plan to get up a local delegation of prominent persons to go to Knoxville and personally talk to Mr. Carl Bock, assistant chief engineer and seci retary to the board of the TV A. The Scout endorses ' such a delegation and wishes it well. scrtion that it might have been her dream to receive such worthy recognition. We have heard time and time I again that dreams do not come true. But when dreams are built on constructive thinking and constructive civic progress, they will come true. We need not be told again that pulling together spells progress. If the farmer hitched one mule to one end of his wagon and the other at the other end, he ' could whip them all day, they would wear themselves out pulling, and he would be no closer to town at suni down than he was at sunrise. One of the very first i principes qf the Bible is cooperation. . Cooperation can come only from constructivi thinking and will automatically bring about civic proi grcss. More than that it will instill a certain feeling o civic pride. One man will not hesitate to trust another f And after all that is the basis of sound-living and pro, gress. So if you dream, make that dream worth while. Friday, June 8, 1934 BW jHhH PI HI a message to news readers 1 and advertisers ft Beginning with the next issue of The 8 SCOUT, we plan a number of important % 1 changes and improvements, all designed to 1 give subscribers more news and interesting || features, and advertisers greater service and J increased coverage in the Murphy trading | area. These imporvements will be noted I next week, and announcements will be made j| i- r * in succeeding issues or tne paper, from time W to time. || 1 The local field will be covered thoroughly fcr news stories?general news, sports 1 stcries, society news, agricultural items, country correspondence school ar.d Church \ news?every bit of reliable information of ]& interest to the public. This local news will S be supplemented by news from state and na- I tional agencies. Features of the first grade, |g lively and entertaining, supplied by national- I ly known writers, will be added to the de- ? partmer.ts you will want to read regularly ? each week. g The number of papers printed and ac tually mailed is no secret, and any informa- n tion in regard to our circulation lists will be Q| gladly furnished any advertiser at any time, n Thorough coverage of the city, county, and S surrounding trade area is our aim. Merchants who use the columns of The S SCOUT for their advertising will be given m the whole-hearted co-operation of the news paper staff in writing copy, mapping adver tising campaigns, tying up local ads with na tional campaigns, and in a dozen other ways. | Merchants will not have to call on us?we 11 be calling on them regularly. ? In addition to the newspaper, a com mercial job printing department is operated, prepared at all times to give prompt and ef- 9 ficient printing service. Letterheads, envel- | opes, statements, labels, cards, invitations, stationery, programs, booklets, printed forms, and a thousand other printing needs can be supplied at reasonable cost. A telephone call will bring a man ready to assist and advise, or to submit samples. Contributions of any kind will be greatly received. In fact, we urge you to send us any news of importance, or any literary or poetic t efforts. And if you have a criticism to make, do not hesitate. If you want to boost, that s f allright too. But in all cases the Writer s I name must be signed. Remember, "this is your paper". ^