Thurs., Nov. 19, 1936. (Ehmikp? ^ruut Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County, North Carolina PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered in the Post Office at Murphy', Aorth Carolina, as second class matter under Act of March 3. 139/. SAM CARR Editor L. A. LEE . _ Ouner and Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Yea* $1.50 Six Months .75 Payable Strictly in Advance Legal advertisements, want ads, reading notices, obi tuaues. cards of thanks, etc., 5c a line each insertion, payable in advance. Display rates furnished on request. Murphy, North Carolina, Thursday. November 19, 1936 NORTH CAROILNA IS DOING A LITTLE BETTER The Atlanta Journal Sunday carried a reproduction of a map which recently appeared in '"Public Safety" showing the highway death rates in all the 48 states which were computed from the number of persons killed for each 10,000.000 gallons of gasoline consumed. It was interesting to note that North Carolina was among 20 states that showed a marked decrease of fatal highway accidents during the first eight months of this year. As best we can remember, it was about this time la-t year when North Carolina was seemingly leading the death toll list. The honors, however, seem to have switched t > Georgia which is leading the 10 states that show an increase above i"? per cent in the death rates on the highways in their states. PWhat has brought the change about is hard to say. Probably the stark tragedy of hundreds of people being killed yearly on the highways .taught its own bitter lesson. Add to that the fact that many motor clubs and publications ha\e warred against indecent driving, and you probably have the answer. At any rate let's keep the record clean YOUNG CRIMINALS ARRESTS HIGHER Some interesting figures on crime and youth are revealed in an article from .1. Edgar Hoover's headquarters iu Washington which appeared in the Knoxville Journal Monday. "Seventeen of every 100 persons arrested throughout the United States during the first nine months of 1 '.?-"? ? were less than 21 years of age, tabulations by Director I. Edgar Hoover, of the 1..1 1 . -.?* I... ... ?f *U T\ * i \ i* ?i IKIU'UU ?>? i:.\vniiKaiiuu ui iin.1 in-parimcm. of Jus! ice, show. "The ratio of young criminals to older ones was obtained through examination of arrest records of o 43,132 persons whose fingerprints were forwarded :?> the bureau by state and municipal law enforcement agencies. "Records of the bureau for the four-year period ending the last half of the 1935 calendar year also show that 19-year-old individuals arrested throughout the nation outnumber those of any other single age group. Since June. 1935, the majority has shifted to persons 21, 22, or 23 years of age. "The bureau is not quite certain whether to attribute this shift to the fact that the 19-year-old age group may be continuing its criminal tendencies and becoming second offenders or to an improvement of economic factors. "More than half of the persons arrested for three major offenses during the first nine months of the present year were under 25 years of age, the bureau's tabulations reveal. "Othr interesting facts revealed hv the ?tntSc_ tics are that of the 59,954 youths arrested, 526 were charged with criminal homicide, 3,622 with robbery, 2,307 with assault, 8,660 with burglary, 3,944 with automobile thefts, 11,081 with larcency, 696 with forgery ami counterfeiting and 708 with carrying weapons." DIGNITY IS LACKING | It seems to us that the court room, where reprimand', J^ire supposedy made, meted out and dispensed with ir precisive and orderly fashion, as the law requires, is los ing some of itq judicial dignity. It was our displeasure to attend a session of criminal court recently when the following scene took place. A man was called before the judge to prove "gooc behavior" during the intei-val between the term of courl and the preceding one that he might not have to go tc jail for some minor offense he had committeedOfficers were called to the stand and they vouched for the man's good behavior. They said they had had no trouble with him, had heard no complants and that he . The Cherokee Scout, Murphy, was working when possible. In some way it was brought out that his mother ha died several months ago. The judge dismissed the charges against the ma and passed this remark as the man was leaving the stani "You didn't kill your mother, did you"? We like to believe that the man did not even hea the remark for he hurried away happy from having es caped serving a sentence. But knowing the principals in the case we rcmembe the mother referred to as being one of the finest an most respected ladies that ever lived in this communit and her family is traditionally one of the best. What prompted the judge to pass that remark i hard to say. He was obviously trying to be funny at th other man's expense. Court routine is a tiresome thin; when it is followed day by day, and it is usually durinj the criminal session that the judge meets the lowest typ ol people who would not resent a remark like that. But it is very evident that not only in the court re ferred to but in other courts in general, much of th prestige and dignity that should go with the bench 1 lacking. The law does not believe in dilly-dallying and neithe we think, should its procedure. This is another example of English court superiorit; over others kinds. Dignity on the bench, there, is neve i.. luciwug DISTRIBUTION OF TALENT The economist views education uniquely. At leas Professor Thomas Nixon Carver does. Professor Carver says that the bad distribution o wealth is mainly due to the bad distribution of huma talent, and that the most constructive program for in1 proving the distribution of wealth would be an educations program for improving the occupational distribution c human talent. If there were just enough competnet men in ever type of human activity, the scale of pay in each lin would be approximately the same. The best in each o< cupation would get the same high income and the wors would be on an equal, but lower, basis. The ideal educs tinnal system, therefore, should seek to train men as fa? as it can for those lines in which talent is rare. It shoul discourage men from training for work in which the coir petition is already keen. College professors, untrained in economics, some times resent receiving salaries that do not compare favoi ably with the incomes of delitcatessen merchants. Ir stead of berating the system that permits this inequality they might determine that their sons shall train for th proprietorship of delicatessen stores. Right now, mass education is effecting a noticeabl change in the salaries that high-school and college gradi ates can command. It is not unommon for a college gradi ate never in his life to make as much money as a compai atively illiterate carpenter or structural iron-worker. . newspaper editor recently confessed that in the immediat years ahead the army of chronically unemployed woul more largely consist of college graduates than of con nion InhnrPfc TVw? pnlluwn ?*>? 4--- " . ..V (tin ate l.iuxui"t tu dUilUCUllU laborers. The college men are crowding to suffocatio the fields that seem to befit their dignity. Wages i these lines not only are low, but jobs are unobtainabl at any wage. We may conceivably see the day when the top me in all work will receive approximately the same pa; Meanwhile the world will pay a premium for talent thj is scarce. Judgment, discretion, courage, initiative, an leadership are some of the uncommon qualities toda; To increase their supply is one of the foremost tasks < an educational system. COUNTY SCHOOL LUNCH ROOMS We think it is well that since the government h; decided to diversify its funds for public benefit that the do not leave out the country school children. At present the WPA, under the direction of Mr Walter Witt, has befrun a program to supply hot lunch for underweight children in the smaller schools. Through the plan a kitchen supervisor is provided I WPA funds and the children themselves bring in pr duce in exchange for hot lunches. Thus for a few veg tables a hot, nourishing lunch is provided the children. v Gratifying to hear also is the fact that citizens 1 - the various communities where these lunch rooms ha' been opened have been donating generously to the I welfare. It is well that the lunch room project in this coui 1 ty has been successful so far as Mrs. Witt announced th t week that the maintenance of the project here depcm > ed on the cooperation the people gave it. But the cooperation is merited in this vitally nece: 1 sary program of keping young school children stron in body that they might learn more and have a bett< | chance. North Carolina 000 00 00+000000 000 DC d TURNING BACK HIS n 70 YEARS AGO yc 1, Friday, November 19. 1936 da Mr. and Mrs. Connie Holder and oi daughter and Mrs. J. II. McCall rc 1 spent the week-end in Atlanta shop- er ping. Mr. and Mrs. Esco Wakefield and w; daughter, of Andrews were the r guests of Mrs. J. C. Palmer, Sunday, sp d Mrs. Garrison Maneval, of Ashe- to y ville is the guest of home folks Mr. M. L. Mauncy of Peachtree was in town Wednesday, s Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harrelson, of e Donaldsonville, Ga., are visiting relatives here. j ^ Mr. and Mrs Jerry Davidson spent s'( ? last week in Atlanta. e Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Phaup were in r; Atlanta over the week-end. Bud King and wife, of Atlanta * have recently been t visiting relatives a e in town. ?, s Dr. Mason, of Culberson was shopping in town Tuesday. ar Dr. J N. Hill was host at a smoker 4*. r at his home last Wednesday evening ^ of last week. Miss Grace Albright of Asheville, vj y and Waynesville spent the week-end r with her sister, Mrs. B. W. Sipe and Mr. Sipe. . tn 23 YEARS AGO n Friday. November 21, 1919 ? Mrs. T. J. Mauney has been visit- ' ing relatives at HayesviUe for sometime. f H. C. Ricks who has been confined ln n to his home with influenza, is out , i- af?ain' . M i Mrs. Norine Gibson, of Almond, N. '' j C., and R. J. Allen, of Union, S. C. c-l t" w-ere united in marriage last week. q 30 YEARS AGO y Tuesday. November 20, 1906 e Miss lilanche King has accepted a position with Candler's Department Store. Mr. Ed Slaughter, of Robbinsville i- was a pleasant visitor to our town it Friday^ J. B. Dickey, of Culberson, arrived ^ Friday and was shaking hands with CQ l" his many friends. al W. N. Cooper, of New York, and T. J. Cooper, of Sandersville, Ga., n( were here several days last week on cj, business. m l- Mr. Samuel Bryson, of Beaver cj, j dam, was in town Wednesday. ? W E. Parham and wife of Knox. c \ille, Tenn., arc visiting the family of R. V. Swan. e 43 YEARS AGO Tuesday, November 21, 1893 Col. G. W. Hayes, of Columbia, [ _ Tenn., is here for a few days. ^ J. P. Phillips, of Blue Ridge, Ga , paid a visit to his brother, J. J. ;e Phillips, of our town, the past week, d Drs. Sullivan and Sanderson, Sher^ iff Scroggs, W. F. Martin and S. D. Chambers, of Hayesville, paid their n respects to Murphy yesterday, n Col Tom Butt, of Blairsville, left' Buy Yoi N O sl As Winte On Price: 2 NOW IS THE TIME ' BIN FOR TH i- And when you buy y< is get the best. ' HurDhv Ice * u PHONI TORY'S PAGES H ?X-t-XMMK?>X"X"X--X-v-X-:l^ sterday after paying a \ines will be orry to nr she is B !; at this writing. B Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Payne are visitg thdi children at A-' B Mr Willard Forster wa- Sum B dinner guest of Mi 1'auline B ontgomery. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mnrdy Crt tnciay with the latter'.- neither. Mrs. . L. Tils,in. Mr. Herman Dean of l?a , lla. mow 1 into Mr. J. K. Mundy house, hicii was vacated by Mr Joe MorIW. Mrs. Estella Forstcr spent Friday last week with Mrs. \V. T. Mont>mery. o? Mi*s. Vernon Cover of Boulder, slo., has a most unusual traveling mpanion, which she takes on trips 1 over the country. It is a buck ;er, now 3 years old, with promi- | tnt antlers, and it rides in her speally arranged automobile. 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