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Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1936 Styr (Htjerokep ?rnut Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County, North Carolina PL BUSHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolina, as second class matter under Act of March 3. 189/. - SAM C.4RR Editor L. A. LEE Owner and Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Payable Strictly in Advance Legal advertisements, want ads, reading notices, obi tuaiies, cards of thanks, etc.. 5c a line each insertion, payable in advance. Display rates furnished on request. Murphy. N rth Carolina. Wednesday. December 30. 1936. THE NEW YEAR Friday we shall turn another page in the history of the world. Wliat is in store? What is in the cards for 1937, we do not know. It. may be exciting; or dull; it may he progressive or it may be retrogressive; more kings may abdicate, more wars may be fought?hut slowly and surely old Father Time will cut another wide swathe with his ageless scythe while the world goes on with him. be tile trio agreeable or disae-reeahle We begin a .story on the front page of thus issue of the Scout recalling important incidents during the past year, giving a survey of business during the last 12months period and giving an outlook on the coming year as nearly accurate as possible. Hut none of us can look at the stars and tell what thus old world will be buzzing about this time next year. YVe can, in all probability, expect a modicum of scientific progress nationally and internationally during the next year, for science, unlike economics, diplomacy and politics, has failed yet to show a set-back. . Within the next year, nationally and internationally speaking, our progress along other lines may or may not be so hot. The world, it must be remembered, is not immuno to wickedness or its better-known offspring such as crime, war, economic scandals and unfair ethics in international relationships. Thethings, however gr t we hate to mention them, must be expected, and they can be better reckoned '1 I with if ray a- considered. Preparedness in all things, next In : .ventim is our greatest assurance of safety. j we can expect, tor>. more devastating floods, morel drouth, more dust st >nus. These and more failures will I have to be nit?:. Locally it looks as :i we are going to have a good year?at least everyone in town we have talked to in preparing the aforementioned story has decreed so. We can expect ra; id progress on the Hiwassee dam project; we can look for more money to be spent here and more people to move here. Naturally with more people spending more money and more business being established we can expect city and county bonded indebtedness to be cut. This will lower taxes. Many other towns and communities can hardly expect that much. But this shifting scene doesn't just happen. The elements might have a lot to do with it but we as individuals have a lot to do with it, too?especially the part which considers the welfare of human beings. Many of us leave too much to the various organizations to take care of our own welfare. For instance, if a river jumps its banks and drowns out a community we expect the Red Cross to take of it; if the drouth killa off a rich herd of cattle like flies we leave that up to the government. The blind, the crippled, the underprivileged are left to state and local charities. Your city and county police, your local welfare office, your civic clubs, your fire department and your public officers seek your, advice and your constructive critirr>u.? 1 i * * * - vioiiu i m-jy nave nt'en estaDiisned to protect you and your neighbor, and even if you don't need their services, sombody else will, and they will have no precedent to go by, no choice in the matter but to cope with the situation as they see best, which, of course, won't please all the people by a jugfiill. We would ask you to go back over all the big events during the past year. Is thorp even one the cause or the cure of which was not due either directly or indirectly to your action, or your thought, or your opinion, or your Neighbors' ? So, to be fair to ourselves and to be fair to our humanity, we as citizens should pledge ourselves during the coming yean to: first of all take an active interest in what is going on about us, help those organizations which either through or against our own choice we have become a part of, and support them the best we know how. NEW YEAR'S DAY Festivals in celebration of New Year's Day may be traced as far back as 3000 B. C., when the Babylonians observed the day in honor of the sun god. Throughout New Year's Day in various countries. The Cherokee Scout, Murphy, Noi ARTHUR BRISBANE With the death of Arthur Brisbane there passed th most widely read columnist in the world. It is estimate that practically one-fourth of the population of the Unite States followed daily his syndicated article. He was nc only first in the number of his readers, but also in \h amount of his annual earnings?$200,000. The scope of Mr. Brisbane's interests was amazing His curiosity concerning all happenings, big and little, wa insatiable. Although he was an executive for a numbe of years, he was above all a reporter. Indeed he has bee called America's best reporter. It was in the midst of the newspaper battle betweei the late Joseph Pulitzer, owner, of the New York Worl and William Randolph Hearst, that Arthur Brisbane firs put his imprint on American journalism. He had pro posed to Mr. Pulitzer several schemes which he though would add circulation to the Evening World and put ai end to Mr. Hearst's hopes for the Evening Journal whicl then circulated only 40,000 copies a day. His ideas rejected by Mr. Pulitzer, Mr. Brisbam turned to Mr. Hearst and offered to work for one-hal the salary he was receiving from the Evening World. H< asked, however, for an arrangement by which his salary would increase as the circulation of the Evening Journa grew. His proposal was accepted, he was given full con trol of the Journal, and it was a matter of months onlj until Mr. Hearst's newspaper led the Evening World. The editorials in the Evening Journal were not t< Mr. Brisbane's liking. He engaged a new editor, anc while awaiting the latter's arrival, began to write the editorials himself. They were simply written but sensa tionally headlined. Two of the most striking were "Whj the Hair on a Monkey's Arm Grows Two Ways" and "Pit> Poor Moses, He Had No Ice Box." Needless to say, the captions bore no relaton to the text of the editorials But Mr. Brisbane's unique editorial methods created sucl i? demand for his writings he gradually dropped his exe cutive duties and devoted himself to editorials and signec articles. Later he began his world-noted column "To day." If not always sound Mr. Brisbane was always alert always interesting. Unusually well educated and an om nivorous reader, he was able to present an abstruse sub ject in a fashion both readable and understandable. It i: likey that he inspired many persons to pursue in book: topics which he touched on so entertainingly in his column His constant theme was the power of mind over matter and he put imagination on a pedestal. But he would havi fallen short of his tremendous success if he had no possessed tireless energy. What had all the early earmarks of a rout at Madri< * may be decided by the point after touchdown. John Bingling lived to see vast changes in the amuse nrent field. Some of his $2 adjectives were taken ove by Hollywood and applied to 10-cent films. t Once again we come to the annual ceremony of shuf fling a dozen aging ball players to strengthen 16 majo league clubs. To reduce Britain's constitution to writing migh destroy its elusive charm. However ours is in the book and its meaning is still a five-to-four proposition. Minneapolis librarians find that children still nea< "The Last of the Mohicans." Young moviegoers, perhap trying to detect the author in an error. The French senate affirms the dictum that the hus band is ijuler in his home. But you know what thes modern constitutional monarchs amount to. A Spanish surrealist suggests fur-lined cups, saucers plates and so forth?to harmonize with the morning-afte mood. In the church calendar. New Year's Day, comiix the ages various days of the year have been considere seven days after Christmas, is taken as commemoratin the circumcision of Christ, but this religious significanc is almost lost sight of in the secular observances pertair ing to the beginning of a new year. The giving of presents or good luck tokens may b traced to ancient Rome and 3til! prevails in some cour tries. The Persians exchanged eggs on that day. Man customs, pagan, Hebrew, Christian and social, have bee associated with New Year's Day. That of holding "watc parties" to see the old year out and the new year in, i observed by some church congregations, whiie more hi arious proceedings take place in night clubs and othe centers of conviviality. By means of greeting cards, written messages o spoken woTd the salutation "Happy New Year'' is almos universal. Thus we greet our friends and readers on and all. -th Carolina TURNING BACK t d 10 YEARS AGO >t Friday, December 31, 1926. e Mr. J. W. Davidson was a busines i visitor in Andrews Tuesday. I Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gray are visitin r J Mrs. Gray's parents at Candler ove I the holidays. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Luke Ellis, of And r rew were dinner guests of Mr. an< n Mrs. George Ellis Christmas Day. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Williams motor ed over from Asheville, to spend th n Xmas holidays with their parents Mr. and Mrs. A. McD. Harshaw. Dr. J. O. Nichols, of Etowah, Tenn t spent several days in Murphy las _ week on business. Dr. and Mrs. R. S Parker and chil dren are spending the Xmas holiday, i with their parents at Hickory anc 1 North Wilkesboro, N. C. Miss Irene Champion returned t< Knoxville Wednesday after having 5 spent her Christmas vacation witi ^ friends and relatives here. - 20 YEARS AGO Friday, January 5, 1917 j Miss Lizzie Richardson visited Miss Lillie Wood in Asheville last week. W. T. Forsyth, of Andrews, was : transacting husin**.?? Horn o ..v. ? b i UCOUdj and Wednesday. Miss Polly Brittain who is attend > ing Cox College in Atlanta, speni , Xmas here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Sneed of To motla were pleasant callers at the . Scout Office. Porter Fain, who is attending Clem son College, Clemson, S. C.. spent * Xmas here with his parents. ? Miss Helen Harshaw, a student oi the State Normal, Greensboro, spent the holidays here with her parents, i Misses Leila and Roberta Elliott oi - Copperhill, visited relatives anc ' friends here during the Xmas holi 1 days. Misses Bessie Mae Wood and Leils Posey who are attending business college in Knoxville, spent the holiday: , here with their home folks. Mrs. Grace Cooper and Mrs. J. W Davidson and little son are visiting I I ! IMPROVED Comr t | Decembe y. SOUT | RAIL W A I l_ v Beginning December 6kh. e ?|? augurated between Salisbury i X ' tion to Asheirille-Washington, X Raleigh sleeping cars: ! * I A "r X Through Coaches E Ij: Washington; schedul R 2:30 PM Leave New Yc d Y 4:09 PM Leave Philadel ** 7:45 PM Leave Washin; ^ X 9:15 AM Arrive Ashevil 6 J y This improved service w e y coaches, to make the trip thro New York, with only one chan y/t TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OU n ? EVERY WHERE-TRAVEL If h X |S ' | For further information, i r if R. H.I r <; ASSISTANT GE * 11 ASHEVILLE, 1 --.-a... . ilSTORY'S PAGES 1' relatives at Dalton, Ga. 33 YEARS AGO Tuesday, January 5, 1904 g! J. Q. Barker of Andrews, was here r for a few hours Saturday. Attorney A. T. Morphew, of Rob binsville was here Friday on business. J M. W. Bell returned Friday night I from a pleasant visit to relatives at - Mocksville. e Dr. S. B. Henry, of Whitney Tex., :, is here visiting relatives. He will be here for some time. R. V. Wells left Saturday to visit t relatives in Haywood and Buncombe counties. Misses Pearl Brown, Myntle Dickey < and Bertha Cunningham spent Christi nias in town with, friends. Master 'Harry Cooper and his sisJ ter, little Miss Emily, were at home ; to a number of friends the night after i Christmas. 40 YEARS AGO Tuesday, January 3, 1897 J. H. Stewart was in town last s week. George Abbott spent the holidays , in Hayesville. r Ed Herbert, of Clay, was the guest of Paul Hyatt during the holidays. Misses Sullie and Hettie Cooper ent tertaincd a few friends on Christmas night. M. W. Bell, mayor, of our town, re. turned Saturday from a visit to relatives at Salisbury. \t:? * ?' j ? ... ? - j rvnuie ana i_ame Harshaw, : three miles from town, entertained a few of their friends at a dance last ' Tuesday night. H. B. Elliott spent a part of last week in Knoxville. Mrs. John Reid. mother of Mrs. S. 1 \Y. Davidson and Miss Lyda Mallonee . of Andrews, were in town visiting last week. i Allen Richardson spe-t last week - with his parents at Andrews. i Misses Bessie Motcney and Meb King were the guests Oi Misses Annie . and Callie Harshaw several days dur. f ing the holidays. \ NEW.WOMAN I AKS TO PURSANC j Puraang contains dements of * JH value, such as Organic Copper jfliL. which quickly aid nature in rich, red corpuscles. When |rY,Jr^' pens, the appetite Improves. |Uj|f ness disappears. Energy and ll nia I usually return. You feel like II rre I non. Get Pursang from your ||*ff| I sr.HEnin.Es i " - - I * nencmg: $ i r 6th, 1936. 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