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Established July 1889
MCshed every Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County N. C
ADDIE MAE OOOKE Editor and Owner
MRS. C W. SAVAGE Associate Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Qmekee Count\ One Year, (2.50; Sis Months, 81.50; Outside Cherokee County:
, ~ ll?;' 7 O* Year, $3.00; Six Months, f1.75
QdNred in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolina as second
nutter under the Act of March 3. 1879.
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SfinMJl
of Mercy
WfearH
Meditation
/ will not doubt though all my ships at
sea
Come drifting home with broken masts
and sails.
1 will believe the Hand which never
fails.
From seeming evil worketb good for
me:
And though I weep because those sails
are tattered.
Still will / cry, while my best hopes lie
shattered.
"I trust in Thee".
Cull Lnprofitables
Sometimes dairymen keep unprofitable cows
to help build up a larger milk base for market
purposes.
This may be all right as a temporary prac
tice, but such cows should be culled from the
herd as soon as the base building time has passed,
say A. C. Kimrey, dairy specialist for State Col
lege Extension Service.
"High prices now being paid for beef make
this a good time to cull out dairy cows that are
unprofitable," asserts Kimrey.
If these unprofitable cows are kept in the
herd, he adds, they will add to the early summer
milk surplus. This always causes a disturbance
in the dairy industry and in most cases it is pro
duced at a loss to the herd owner.
Cows of the smaller breeds, Jersey
Guernseys, that are producing less thaf 6,C
pounds of milk per year are as a rule unprofit
able, particularly in view of the present high cost
cf labor and all other things that enter into the
cost of producing milk.
Larger breed cows, such as Holsteins and
Ayrshires, must produce a minimum of about
7,500 to 8,000 pounds of milk per year to be
profitable.
Conquering Colds
Apparently science continues to labor hard
in the direction of curing the ordinary head cold.
The latest miracle drugs, such as sulfona
mids and antibiotics, are, of course, not effective
against virus diseases, such as the common cold,
but Dr. Mark Welsh, of Pearl River, New York,
says that large laboratories are getting soil samp
les from all parts of the world to make tests for
new molds.
The scientists hope they will find a pro-'
duct that will be as effective against viruses as
against bacteria, which will mean conquering in
fantle paralysis and cancer, as well as the com
mon cold.
Hint to readers of the news: There is no law
against thinking things out for yourself.
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Hard work succeeds in life whether the
worker has mediocre or exceptional intelligence.
Almost in/body can give you a plausible
excuse for not doing something that should have
been done
If you think the truth is easy to discover,
try listening to two candidates of opposing poli
tical views.
s If you are conscientious and unselfish in
what you say or do, you. need not worry about
what people think
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Whatever prosperous hour Providence be
stows upon you receive it with a thankful hand.
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Scouting
With The Editor
ARE 'WETS' CHRISTIANS? This is the Ques
tion which heads an editorial appearing last week
in Brevard's Transylvania Times. Our recent beer
election brought wide-spread publicity to our com
munity. THE SCOUT and its editor getting their
slutre of It. I make no apologies for my position.
The Transylvania paper, one of the Anderson chain
which is edited by my friend, John Anderson,
.'tates in the editorial that the publisher took an
unusual position in the issue. I see no discredit in
being "unusual" if it is done for a righteous cause.
As to the question, "Are 'wets' Christians?" I shall
leave that to Mr Anderson to answer, but shall
describe the situations as they existed which gave
the reporter the natural expressions of "Christian"
and "wets". Before and during the election, we saw
hundreds of people who are professed Christians,
dozens of ministers, some of the finest people in
our community taking a definite stand against lega
lized beer. We also saw these same "dry" workers
meeting together in a Christian spirit and with
prayers to the God they serve to give them a vic
tory against an evil. Members of practically all
churches in the community?most of them leaders
and active workers?were among that group de
signated as "Christians". We do not retreat on this
designation. As to the "wets", they were so desig
nated because of their own claims. We did not see
ror hear of their holding any prayer meetings or
doing any praying for success of their campaign.
They may have, and we give them the benefit of
the doubt. Christian people are commanded to
"ask" and receive the power and V-adership of the
Lord. They did it during this election and had a vic
tory. They will not stop with voting out legalized
beer. They plan to continue to be banded together
to stamp out bootlegging, corruptness, poor law
enforcement, and the other evils they see in our
community.
THE EDITORIAL from The Transylvania
Timet is reprinted below, and comments pro or con
on it are welcome:
"Another Western North Carolina town has
banned the legal sale of beer. Murphy, which is
the county seat of Cherokee County, by a vote
ol more than two to one two weeks ago. voted
the beverage out.
"We leart\ from Miss Addie Mae Cooke's
Cherokee Scout that a group of around 200 peo
ple in the courthouse while the ballots were being
counted, upon learning%of the dry victory spon
taneously sang "Praise God from Whom All
Blessings F:low."
The Scout took a very determined stand
against beer from the outset of a campaign which
was bitterly fought. Miss Cooke refused to ac
cept publicity, even the paid variety or print
ing from those who favored the continued legal
sale of beer.
"This is a very unusual position for a pub
lisher to take. In a controversial issue in which
public opinion is sharply divided, a publisher
will generally?and rightly?we believe, permit
both sides to be heard, even though he may be
actively identified with one side or the other.
"In her story reporting the outcome of the
election, Miss Cooke, or one of her reporters, by
inference, makes an odd distinction. We quote:
"Christian leaders of the community as well
as wet forces weie in the court house throughout
the day."
"Again: Christian forces immediately went
to work and planned a campaign to defeat the
proposals.
"Clearly, in the mind of the writer of the
story, one who advocates the legal sale of beer
is not a Christian. The word the writer intended
to use perhaps was church, since church people
directed the campaign. However, it may be that
the drys were so inflamed by their own outpour
ings that they concluded that those who favored
beer were per se allies of the devil and hence no;
Christians.
"In an idle sort of way we wonder what
odious term the Murphy paper would apply to
a fellow caught slipping into a joint in Cherokee
and buying beer,after the ban goes on. Plenty
pf tjiem will do that, including perhaps some of
those who joined in the hymn of thanksgiving
when the tabulation of votes forcast the end of
legal sale Of beer in Cherokee."
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The Red Cross must cover the world these days-do your part-answer the call.
Lookingl
Over
A Four-Hi
Clover
By FRANCES PUBTT Amd M. B. WRIGHT
By FRANCES PUETT
AND M. B. WRIGTH
Four-H Club members and lead
ers of Cherokee County wish to
extend their sincere appreciation
to the sponsors of the special page
cn observance of National 4-H
Club Week which occurred in
last week's Scout. We are indeed
grateful for your assistance in
making the page possible. As you
travel over the county and observe
the projects and accomplishments
of 4-H Club members, we feel that
your reward will be realized.
FOUR-H CLUB SCHEDULE FOR
MARCH
Tuesday, March 4, Andrews
Elementary at 10 a. m. and An
drews High at 11 a. m.; Friday,
March 7. Hiwassee Dam Elemen
ary at 10 a. m, and Hiwassee Dam
High at 1 p. m.
Monday, March 10, Ranger at
:30 p. m.; Wednesday, March 12,
lurphy Elementary at 9 a. m.;
Murphy High at 10 a. m.; Thurs
day, March 13. Peachtree at 9 a
m.
Monday, March 17, Hangingdog
at 10 a. m.; Tuesday, March 18,
Unaka at 10 a. m.: Wednesday,
March 19, Martin's Creek at 10:30
a. m.; Thursday, March 20, To
notla at 9 a. m. and Marble at
10:30 a. m.
Thursday, March 20, County
Council Meeting at 7:30 p. m.
The topic of the program for
March 4-H meetings Is "The Mil
ky Way to Health", to be given by
Club members.
DAIRY DEMONSTRATIONS
Four-H Club girls are present
ing the Dairy Foods Demonstra
tion, "The Milky .Way to Health"
In eoch of the , ;4-H Clubs this
month. '. ", '
This type of program is deeign
I *m perSneded, that neither
deaht, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come
nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God,
which la in Christ Jesus our Lord.
?Rom, 8:38-39.
HAYSEED
By Unci* Sam ?
If you wont to bo respected
show respect
If yon want to bo ? genius bo
wilUng to drudge.
If you want'friends bo a Mend.
If you want succeos be willing
to toU.
If you went consideration be
consktarate.
If you want to ba trusted bo
;d to give the girls opportunity
or leadership in club work. The
ollowing teams will give a pro
fram at their clubs:
Barbara Barton and Joyce Col
ett, Andrews Elementary; Shir
ey Carver and Barbara Barton,
Vndrews High; Imogene Voyles
ind Jo Ann Simon, Ranger; Mary
fell Reese and Helen Wilcox, Hi
vassee Dam; Roseli Curtis and
Geneva Garrett, Unaka; Marilyn
rrull and Betty Lou Wilson, Mar
>le; Carol Palmer and Joy Ruth
i>ack;. Kathyrn Amos and Osia
3ell O'Dell, Hangingdog; Ann
dartin and Frankie Chastain,
Martin's Creek; Mary Ruth Don
ey and Betty Kate Wilson,
3 each tree; Christine Elliott and
ierry Ruth Smith, Murphy High;
tileen Farmer and Carol Elliott,
Murphy Elementary.
Ml'RPHY CLUB
The Murphy 4-H Club present
:d a chapel program Wednesday.
March 5 at 10 a. m. in the school
luditorium. This program was
;iven in observance of National
l-H Club Week, March 1-9.
Emma Jean Shields opened the
irogram by giving a welcome and
i short history of club work. Club
nembers sang the National 4-H
'ledge and 4-H Plowing Song,
fames Smith, Billy Killian, Chris
ine Elliott and Elizabeth Frank
im gave the "Meaning of the
l-H's". Joan Cornwell, Billy Kll
ian and Jerry Ruth Smith served
<s music leaders. A film was
hown on "Four-H Headlines",
fhe program was concluded by
Federation To Have
Meeting Mar. 15
The annual Farmers Federation
Stockholders' meeting for Chero
kee County will be held In the
Murphy Warehouse ot the organi
zation at 10 a. m. Saturday, March
15. it has been announced by
James G. K. McClure. president
of the Federation.
Stockholders of the Farmers
Federation in this county will at
tend the annual meeting for the
election of committeemen and the
namination of one director, it was
announced. The director nominat
ed at this meeting will be voted
upon at the annual meeting of all
stockholders of the organization
in the Buncombe County Court
House on March 29. Each director
if the Federation is elected for
o years in such manner that one
director comes up for election
each year.
At the meeting Saturday music
will be furnished by the Farmers
Federation String Band, and baby
"hicks will be awarded as prizes.
Refreshments will be served.
The present directors for the
Cherokee County Warehouse are
T. H. Hampton and W. A. Adams.
Committeemen for Cherokee
County are as follows: W. A.
\daras, Clyde McNabb, U. S. G.
Phillips, John Tatham. B. B. Pal
mer, J. H. Hampton, Ernest Bur
-lette, Mrs. John Shields. Wayne
Crisp, Mrs. Aline King. Ralph
* ovingood. S. H.aRoberson, Mrs.
Clarence Hendrix. J. H. Hall
Horace Brendle. Mrs. Henry L.
Cover. J. H. Ellis. Claude Stiles,
-nd Cole Hyatt: Graham County:
R. O. Sherrill, B. N. Hyde.
he singing of "America.".
HIWASSEE DAM
A similar chapel program was
given at Hiwassee Dam assembly
on March 7 in the school auditori
um.
OUR DEMOCRACY *Mat
OF THE BOYS, BY THC. ZOYS^FOR THE BOYS
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BWS JOIN THE SCOUTS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO- BECAUSE THEY
LIKE THE IDEAS AND IDEALS THE SCOUTS STAND FOK.ANO THE FUN
AND HEALTH AND SCLF-KEUANCE THAT SCOUT THAININE MEANS.
The aery scouts ark
NO'YOUTH MOVEMENT,'
BUT RATHER. AN
ASSOCIATION - FREE
OF REGIMENTATION
OK COMPULSION ..
SELF-DISCIPLINE
AN? TEAM SPIRIT? ''
IN WHICH BOTE WORK
an? Fiat together
WITH COMRADE SMTP,
SELF-ftllSPBCT AN?
CONSIDERATION FOR. OTHERS.
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BY OR KENNETH I fOHt v ' ?
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Balance Sheet, j
tmu far Muck ?. 1M>
rii not every roes who at the
close of his life can look tack
end say that life baa brought him
more than It took away. Death, or
the approach o f
death, is a remind
er it is time to bal
ance our books
There was a man
named Paul sit
ting in a Roman
prison. He was to
be tried on a cap
ital charge, and
there was no cer
tainty that he
would be ?cqultted.
Yet If the Romans had only
it, that solitary prisoner, whoso
very food was provided by the char
ity of friends, was the happiest man
in Rome. He looked back over bis
eventual life and in a letter to his
friends, while admitting that he bad
lost much, counted everything well
lost in comparison to what he had
gained. The balance sheet of Paul's
life showed no deficit, but an enor
mous balance on the credit side.
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Losses Written Off
PAUL gave several '.humbnall au
tobiographies, some of whi<.n
are included in the Scripture read
ings for this week. So ar.o v
pretty well el.at he had to give up.
Wat U'luld strike most of us to
day i? l.is ?><s of cur.fort and se.u
rny l.'o-.?r? Americans ? ?.it ab. ve
all t> be emtio#table and secure.
PrvtalUy Fee! eatsnsd comfort
and M-.-urlly ?s mocb as any
man. for be nae born to both.
But at an "ambassador of
Christ" he had had to give all
this up.
He had long since exhausted what
ever money he may have had; he
had to work at hard manual labor
to support himself; he was a con
stant traveler, which in those days
did not mean Cadillac cars, Pull
mans or even foam-rubber bus
seats; it meant dirt and fleas and
bad food and seasickness and
wrecks iwe know of four he had';
it meant sometimes being half
starved, sometimes robbed and ai
ways in danger of armed robbery
His Worst Losses?
BUT there wis worse. A wise mar
does not count hardships hit
heaviest losses. To lose freedom b
more serious. And Paul (when hs
wrote to the Philippians) had been
under arrest for more than foui
years. He had been jailed at Jeru
salem first then for two years in
Caesarea, then a journey in chains
to Rome, and then in Rome for we
don't know just how long.
Paul was just the tempera
, men! that feela Imprisonment
most keenly. Active, vtgerees.
always on the go, the four walls
of a cell ar evea the foar walla
of a bouse most have galled him
terribly. But perhaps worst of
all was loss of standing In hia
home community.
He was bom both a Jew and ?
! Roman (as a Jew today may bo a
I good' American or a good French
' man too); but the Jews looked an
him as a traitor to hia i ace, a man
not fit to live; while the Romans
regarded him as a crack-pot at bast,
a subversive agitator at worst.
Whatever advantages Paul had
i bad at birth or by education, ha had
' definitely lost long before the end
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Credit Balance
YET Paul in writing up the bal
ance sheet of his life, calls
| everything he had lost se
j trash, in comparison with wh*
gained. To hia mind It
like losing a truck-load of
and finding one diamond.
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For many of us, and all of ?? mfl
him Saint, which meena ha beta*
to God's aristocracy. Ton can IP
ford to looa a good deal tog ttog
He was sleo, and still Is, dam tot*
top, tt not at the top, of the Rat to
w???* Be to this, becaui
half the books to the New
meat were ? ill ton by htan. Yet he
not my, spooking of toe Ufa's
"I count them things M
in compart?i with ng poat
?I . . . the fact of my
I We know what hi
1 were; "to toaUfy Ska peed i
I the greet at God-; "to i