Thursday, Nov. 10,1938 ?he (EhrrnUpp Srnut Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County. North Carolina PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IntrreJ in the Post Office at Murph). North Carolina. * second class matter under Act of March 3. 189/. SAM C.IRR Editor L. i. LEE Owner and Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Payable Strictly in Advance Legal advertisements, want ads, leading notices, obi Dalies, cards ut thanks, etc., 5c a line each insertion, tavabie in advance. Display rates furnished on request. Murphy. North Carolina, Thursday, November 10, 1939 IN APPRECIATION FOR THE NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM Dr. J. X. Hill received a nice letter last week from Stanley \\ in borne, utilities commissioner of North Carolina, in reference to the opening of the new telephone system here. Undoubtedly Mr. Winborne did a lot of work to make the new system possible, and quite often we have the human failing cf forgetting those men who make such tnings possible. But not Dr. Hill. He wrote Mr. Winborne and thanked him for his efforts. "I rarely receive such a letter', Mr. Winborne stated. "In most cases when things have been accomplished, they are accepted as a matter of course." We do appreciate Mr. Winborne's work and assure him that the people of Murphy who now have an adequate telephone system will not forget his efforts in our behalf. HITLER'S PHILISOPHY In five years Adolf Hitler has brought Germany from a position of military impotence to that of the most f powerful and most feared nation in the world. This amazing result was not achieved by mere accident or good luck It was planned that way. Kor an insight into Hitler's moral and political philosophy, one needs only to read his own book, "My Battle", written for the most part while in jail at Landsberg. Germany, for an attempt to start a revolution 15 years ago. Briefly stated, he believes that might makes right and that a nation is entitled to take whatever it can by force or threat of force- One or two quotations from the book ore sufficient to make this clear. He says: "Xo nation on earth holds a square yard of territory by any right derived from heaven. Frontiers are made and altered by human agency alone. The fact that a nation succeeds in acquiring an unfair share of territory is no superior reason for its being respected for- ver. It merely proves the strength of the conqueror and the weakness of those of those who lose by it. This strength alone constitutes the bight to posses. "Therefore, just as our forefathers did not receive the land in which we live as a present from heaven, but had to fight with their lives for it, so in future nothing will grant us land and iife for our nation, except the power of a victorious sword." So whatever may be thought of Hitler's philosophy, the rest of the world may as well realize just what it is, and be prepared to meet his aggression with the only argument he understands?military force. BRITAIN'S CAPITAL In the light of recent events, which have given rise to the question of whether England could be defended against the rising power of Germany, the suggestion has been made that Great Britain's seat of government be removed to Canada. While the idea may appear fantastic at the moment it is being discussed, though perhaps not very seriously by some newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. Th< time inay come, however, when some such step might be come desirable, or even necssary. The Tendon news weekly Cavalcade points out a not able precedent for such a move, citing that the Empcroi Constantino, fearing Rome could not be defended agains the barbarians of the north, removed his capital fron Rome to Byzantium?later named Constantinople?in thi year 330. The barbarians did, in fact, take Rome in thi next century, while the empire based on Constantinopl persisted with varying fortunes for another thousani years. Naturally the proposed visit of King George am Queen Elizabeth to Canada and the United States nex year is linked with the suggested capital removal, but thi is only idle speculation, although affording wide possibil ities for discussion. fhe Cherokee Scout, Murphy, No BRASSTOWN TRAGEDY BRINGS OUT QUAL ITIES OF FRIENDSHIP One of the worst tragedies to occur in this section in I some time was the injuries sustained by Thurraan Paintei .it Brasstown last week. Mr. Painter is a reputable, hard B E working man but his financial means are limited. Following the accident in which he lost both hands ami the sight The rich and the poor meet together: the Loid is thi ' maker of them all.?ProverbsA headline says "Whales Are Used for Radio Sta tion." We consider that a whale of a yarn. r| 11 Corrigan wasn't the first "wrong-way" travelei i What about Christopher Columubs? 5 B A man may get along better attending strictly t . . e I his own business, but he misses a lot of fun. :)| | There's an art in lying?Roberta Lyndon. Wrong j Roberta, the art consists in not getting found out. 4i 5 | Some of our "fat sisters" who are so anxious to re . duce might follow the recipe Hitler used on Czechoslc vakia. rth Carolina ^ H TI j \aff?R Twenty y^ars | Pioneer Place Nairn But Appropriate, 1 "Pioneers named a place," it i said, "but to conquer it." Southern Highlands' place-name may well be the envy of novelist according to accounts noted by th Southern Highlands Recreation Con mittee, which is assembling informi jtion on the varied recreational a: ipects of the region, with the c< 1 operation of the Federal Writers' Pr< I ject, WPA. A large part of Eester Tennessee and adjoining sections c Alabama, Georgia, North and Sout Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky ai embraced in the territory. Humor and pathos found graphi ' ' . : 1 ii tti._i.i-. 1 ?. i VAIUI'MIUM III llic II 1J4 11 let IKK I S i choice of a name for a town, villas mountain or river. Events now leger dary were commemorated for pot terity by a word or two unconsiousl spoken. Two towns in Tennessee were cal . ed HardlicU and Difficult, and tw others in North Carolina christene Suit and Vest, respectively. Anion other names which tripped lightly of . the Highlander's tongue were Dirt Butt, Ripshin Mountain, Fight it John Creek, Picken's Nose, Mollie I Creek, Defeat Kidge, llostilit Branch, and Scratchbritehes Moui tain. In Smyth county. Virginia, i Hungry Mother State Park?and i Mitchell County, North Carolint THE POC 1 cf KNOW ~^"a jpf an? inventor*, BATtteiHIPf are n. CKUIfERi. for lar.ee cities , fa /tn/r* "Vij I es Are Simple Writers Find is hasks th? town of Loafer's G1 There are also such towns in ,s Highlands as Young Harris, ! 3 limes. Mountain Rest, Ninety0 and Calhoun Falls. Homely but appropriate, too, Blood and Slaughter MounU 3_ Mammy and Daddy Creeks, De j. Tater Patch, How Come You Ci Chunky Gal Mountain, and SI n|Rag Branch. >f | h TREASURY REPORTS DEFICIT Uncle Sam's master book pet Treasury Secretary Morgenthau n 'c another bottle of red ink accoi to the Treasury statement of No " ber 2. Since July 1, the begin of the nation's fiscal year, exp< tures have been $3,033,108, y Receipts during this period have *1,754,168,647. Another intere; item is that the outlay this yeai ? cceds that of a similar period vear by approximately $400,000, g ? : ? 1 BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET V The President supports Gove Benson (Farm Labor) i . 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