Thurs., Nov. 19, 1936.
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Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County,
North Carolina
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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
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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
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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'
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ute for Alabama t- EB
Dr. G. G. Whitcomb. . Ogreeta, ]a
is in town Thursday I
Capt. R- L. Porter, |
ent Tuesday and W ii 1 vsday in I ^
wn on revenue busim --.
HOTHOUSE I
Wei".. old man winti . oomc at ?
it, ami the bitter winds ar very
tone !
Miss Sadie Forster p. Sunday H
eht with Misses Kuhy and I'aulme
onteomery.
Mrs. S. M. Montgomery pending I*
few days with her children, of *
Lowah, Tenn.
Mr. A. J. Beaver and sons. Louie
id Foley, both of Gastur.ia, spent S
e week-end witii frienn- and rela- B|
res here. t
Mrs. Cordis Rogers. of Isabella, is
siting her dauehter. Mi Earl Hel- H
Miss Mabel Payne, of Suit, was I
ie Sunday guest of Mr- i R. Hat- !
The many friends of M Dewey I
>nes 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. The anial
is quite civilized, and smokes
garettes.
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