fife ?iferakee ftmit
Established July 1889
Published every Thursday at Murphy, Cherokee County. N C
ADDIE MAE COOKE Editor and Owner
MRS. C W SAVAGE Associate Editor
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matter under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Meditation
If you stand very still
In the heart of a wood.
You will hear many wonderful things;
The snap of a twig and the wind in the trees
And the whirr of invisible wings.
If you stand very still
In the turmoil of life.
And you wait for the voice from within.
You'll be led down quiet ways
Of wisdom and peace.
In a mad world oj chaos and din.
If you stand very still
? And you hold to your faith.
You will get all the help that you ask
You will draw front the Silence
The things that you need.
Hope and courage
And strength for your task.
HOW COLORLESS THE WORLD
WOULD BE Wl f HOL T BIRDS
An oriole in Ohio hanged herself as she tried
to weave a horsehair into her nest. Bluebirds
built in a mailbox in Mississippi and the owner
told the postman to bring the letters to the door
until the young ones hatched.
We don't think about all the things that hap
pen to birds. We hear them singing or glimpse
them flying by. We take them for granted.
Imagine this world it suddenly the birds
were gone. No wren singing the merriest of all
songs. No lordly cardinal whistling. No thrasher
flinging the leaves in a tempest of search. No
cobbin stretching a worm
What would twilight be without song of
the thrush? Or morning without call of a bob
white? Or mid-morning without a mockingbird
making his music?
The death of the oriole and the nesting of the
bluebirds make us think of all birds and how
much we owe them, their song and their color,
and how lonely we would be without them.
?Atlanta Journal
WORTH ALL THAT IT COSTS
The General Assembly put $15,000 into sup
port of the North Carolina Symphony Society
and the Society has $31* left. Without the $15
000 subsidy, however, the Symphony would have
been in the red by $14,687
We think it was a pretty good investment.
Good music with live musicians perhaps is
enjoyed bv more North Carolinians over a wider
area than by citizens of any other state. The
Noiih Carolina Sy mphony and its small relation,
the L.'ttle Symphony, cover the State thoroughly
from the shadow of the Smokies to the dunes of
the Outer Banks.
Youngsters who never knew good music are
introduced to it by patient experts who will halt
a theme to explain an instrument. New worlds
open up to older voyagers who have not man
aged to compass all the delights and experiences
offered by music. Maybe, as a result. North
Carolina sings a little as it works.
This is a legitimate activity of a State which
is conscious though not self-conscious about its
cultural opportunities. To that end, then. $15.
000 to bail out the Symphony is scarcely anv
expenditure at all.
We hope, however, that the Symphony So
ciety as it spreads its wings in maturitv will find
full and unquestioned solvency in the freely of
fered support of private citizens. Tax support
has been necessary. Private support should come
noyv that the Symphony has demonstrated its
dollar's worth to a richer Tar Heel life.?Ashe
ville-Citizen.
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A Four-H
Clover
By FRANCES PUETT And M. B. WRIGHT
CHEROKEE COUNTY FAIR
We are happy to announce that
the following 4-H'ers and leaders
have been chose to serve on the
Girls and Boys 4-H Club County
Fair Committee: Barbara Barton, j
superintendent; Joy Collect; Clara
H-ighee; Patsy Jones; Charlie
Mills; Jimmy Mints; T. J. Logan;
Mrs. Clarence Hendrix; Mrs Liflce
Carver; Mrs. T. C. Walsh, Miss
Medley Fox.
Entries in the 4-H department
will be open to the 4-H club mem
bers actively engaged in club
work during the current year. Be
fore a club member can enter an
exhibit In the 4-H club booth, he
or she must have carried that par
ticular entry as a project during
the current year. For types of en
tries cheek in your fair catalogue
is now available through
offices or fair commit
COUNTY CHAPTERS AND
4-H LEADERS
Cherokee County Crafters and
4-H leaders are sponsoring 4-H
Craft workshops for the purpose
of training 4-H'ers to learn crafts
and demonstrate the making of
the craft at N. C. State Fair In the
Cherokee County 4-H Club Booth.
The first workshop was held Sat
urday, August 16.
An all day workshop is schedul
ed for Friday, August 22, 9:S0 a.
m. to 12 noon and 1 to 4 p. m. At
this workshop articles will be
made of corn shucks. Leaders,
crafters and 4-H'ers are Invited.
A special workshop on corn
*huck dolls will be held on Satur
day, August 23, 9:30 a. m. Mrs.
Roy Lee will demonstrate corn
shuck dolls.
Scouting
With The Editor
TO BE OR NOT TO BE? Mary Ellen Stelling
has written a poem which describes my problem,
too. and 1 pass it along for benefit of those who
might have a kindred spirit:
I have a serious problem
Which I wish you'd help me solve.
Each time 1 try to diet
And strengthen my resolve.
I lose my disposition
And am cross as I can be,
Which is an imposition
On my poor family.
So here's the vital question
And I leave it up to you;
Shall I be cheerful and chubby
Or a sullen, stylish shrew?
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THESE DAYS that rapidly are bringing to an
end my present sojourn in Murphy are filled with
surprises that bring with them both pain and
pleasure?pain at the thought of parting, pleasure
in the friendships that bind our hearts together
The showers, the dinners, the kind words, the mes
sages. the editorials?everything is appreciated. I
am reminded of Thackeray's statement on saying
farewell:
Parting and forgetting??What faithful heart
can do these? Our great thoughts, our great affec
tions, the truths of our life, never leave us.?Surely,
they cannot be separate from our consciousness:
will follow it whithersoever that shall go. and are,
of their nature, divine and immortal.
? ? ?
THE WNC BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, in its
closing session Wednesday at Peacbtree Baptist
Church, passed a resolution which I so much appre
ciate I'm printing it below:
Be it resolved: "That this 68th annual associa
tion express its gratitude to Miss Addie Mae Cooke
for the work she has done in our association, for
her Christian influence, and for her efforts to keep
Christianity before the public by publishing a news
paper dedicated to promotion of Kingdom interests,
v hich news, and community development. We com
mend her to Chowan Collrge and will pray God's
blessings be with her in her new and worthy posi
tion with a Christian college."
My work in this association has been a real
)')>?. and I am happy to sea the constant growth
the churches are making in reaching lost people
and expending their service in their individual
communities
SCTAX ASP SIX.
Till? F.XF.MIES Ol- CHRIST
for worldly pleasures to every 50c spent
for religion.
100.000 souls die daily without Christ.
1.000 enter white slavery each year.
1.000.000 babies born illegitimately each
year.
I.OOOlOOO girls infected with social disease.
One in three marriages end in divorce.
One murder every forty minutes.
One major crime every 22 seconds.
Sixty suicides each day.
More barmaids than college girls.
?statistics by F. B. I.
letters To Editor
Knoxville. Tenn.
THE CHEROKEE SCOUT
Dear Editor
I noticed an article in a recent
Issue of THE SCOUT that Lonzo
W. Shields had retired from the
teaching profession in Cherokee
County after about 35 years of
service.
About 17 years before he began
teaching I taught school at Cul
, berson where I had an enrolment
(of about 80 students. Eighty-five
dollars was due the district, and
* taught this out at $25 per month.
I was officially Informed some
time later that the entire school
funds for the county were around
$8,000.
We had to begin school at 8 a.
m. and be there until 4 p. m. The
students used Webster's Blue Back
Speller and had the old time slate
and pencils that cost 10 to IS
cents.
We first taught students their
ABC's. Some students would
learn to spell and read In one
term.
I took thd examination under W.
K. Johnson. Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and paid him
a fee of $1 for the <
certificate.
1 ioTHISm^P
'new YORK
B bt mri fwimi I
The hottest day of the year so (
far lound a lot of New Yorkers i
absent from office duties. They ,
' cere cavorting in the suburbs. It j
I > ain't the heat that kept them ,
I away e ther It was a strik? on the |
| Long Island Railroad, that some-1
? hat infamous local line that by
now is known even to out-of
lowners as the unpredictable Too
! rerville Trolley of this city The
j -tribe lasted just two days, then
as suddenly settled. The coramu
'ers were glad to be home. Ques
'ioned closely, one of the conduc
tors admitted that much of the
-?use of the strike was the heat.
Miss Joan Thompson who has
j been designated "Universal Queen
- >f Peaches" was in town from
Kentucky, visiting this city for the
irst time. Her appearance herald
d the opening of the ripe peach
season in various parts of the
-ountry. and she looked a lot like
? pretty peach herself. Anticipat
ing graduation with honors from
he . University of Kentucky next
ear. Miss Thompson told me she
'ilocd best the Empire State Build
ing from which she saw most of
New York, and liked least the
? ush everybody here seems to be
in. although she found local folks
friendlier than she expected.
Over in neighboring New Jer
sey a well-to-do contractor lived
for years, making good in his busi
ness and having a reputation as an
honest and upright citizen of hh
ommunity. Then one day two
V-w York detectives knocked on
his door and took him into cus
ody for a murder he had commit
ted thirty years before. Not once
during all this time had he told
anyone about the crime, not even
his wife or three children. In
everyone's eyes he was a success?
except his own. Calmly admitting
his guilt, he told the police he was
relieved to be arrested. No one
knows, he stated, what it means
to carry a thing like that around
inside of one all those years.
Walter Lippmann has been
around quite awhile as a success
ful journalist, once being editor
of the famous old New York
World. And he still has some
'hings to learn. Walter told a
group of us when he got off a
boat here the other day after a
'rip to Europe. "One of the things
I had to watch most," he said,
'was doing most of the talking
myself Lots of people over there
asked m? questions, and I must
confess that a large part of the
*ime I can remember hearing al
most nothing except what I was
?aying myself. The rest of the time
1 fought a brave and partially suc
cessful battle to shut myself up."
Lately I have heard considera
ble comment about'families in the
Civil War Between the States who
bad sons fighting on both sides
->? that great conflict. Douglas
freeman recalls one in which two
brothers were on opposite sides
and both were killed. They were
buried in a double grave with one
headstone, and under their names
'he sorrowing father placed the
inscriptions, "God knows which
vas right." To me, Freeman com
mented. "Both sides were right."
The debate over whether rain
'akers can really make rain goes
-n here, with law suits and hot air
clouding up the forecasts on what
will happen. Some say that rain
makers are valuable; opposite
comment may be summed up in
the statement of one scientist who
?aid that dropping a piece of dry
'ce into a mile-square cloud was
about as effective in making rain
as "spitting out the window." So
the stormy debates continue. Tem
peratures are rising. The outlook
for rain making is unsettled, with
?bowers of words expected in the
afternoon.
Karl Marx is funnier than Grou
rho. according to our old friend,
Joe Smith. Joe says that Grqueho
One teacher taught all the stu
denta In a district and carried on
tn connection with their teaching
a debating society that met one
night a week, and some times di
rected ring spellings as mock
trials.
When we take Into considera
tion the great improvements that
have taken place, even In the paat
SO years, we are made to wonder
what will happen In the neat 80. |
In closing I wHI give one prob-!
iem we had in our Brit examina
tion: If ime third of IS is six what
would one-fourth of SO he?
O O.
Lucky You
by Dick Shaw
Lucky you?you got home in one piece after
that partv
HAYSEED
/> v Uncle Sam
OLD FASHIONED
There are many of the old-1
fashioned ways that are worth re
taining and putting into practice
in these modern days.
The modern home with all the
latest conveniences is very com
fortable and eliminates much work.
But the old-fashioned home with
the family meals, family discipline
and family worship built sterling
characters.
The modern schools with their
modern equipment ought to make
education much easier. But the
old-fashioned schools taught the
fundamentals of an education. The
students were taught spelling,
reading, writing and arithmetic.
The government with all its red
tape and bunglesome machinery
is acting Santa Claus to almost
everybody but ft is costing almost
one third of the national income.
But old-fashioned democracy gave
much service to its citizens with
out much expense.
The modern churches are very
beautiful and comfortable. The
means to be funny, while Karl did
not. although the latter said a lot
nf funny things in view of the de
velopment of today. For instance.
Karl Marx, founder of Commu
nism who lived In the 19th cen
tury. said that "captalism leads to
Improverishment of the people"
But look at the many people
chopping today>. Karl advised
Communists to "seize the tools of
production" (the average Russian
automobile is not as good as our
old Model T>. Of course there is
only one catch to this that we had
better watch. The Russians may
be putting their best materials and
labor into war production, while
we go on blithely doing business
as usual, Joe concludes.
music and preaching is quite high
toned but often cold and formal.
But the old-fashioned church was
a place for worship and prayer. A
place where a heart-felt, know-so.
livable religion was taught.
The world would be a better
world in which to live if many of
the old-fashioned ways were put
into practice.
PLATFORMS
There are various kinds of plat
forms. Many of them are of greater
value to the public than the poli
tical platforms.
Political platforms are built
mostly of candidatorial timber and
are used as a base for releasing hot
air. I
Most candidates try to occupy a
platform prior to election day. |
Often candidates use the plat- j
form for a springboard for a broad
jump when the poetical fire has
been built under it. i
LOOK OUT FOR
PEDESTRIANS
As a car driver joa can help to
keep pedestrians safe by:?
1. Keeping alert and driving slowly
in traffic.
2. Yielding the right of way to a
pedestrian crossing the street
within a marked crosswflk.
3. Yielding the right of way to any
pedestrian prior to driving over
or crossing any sidewalk.
4. Using every precaution to safe
guard pedestrians while operating
^ your car in a parking area.
THE AMERICAN WAY
The Leaky Trough
? V DR. KENNETH I. FOREMAN
Making of a King
Leuoo far Aunt M, lMt
ONE of the mojt romantic and
heroic figures known to aong
and story la that of David, King of
Israel. Even when Christ came to
earth, his fellow-countrymen could
think of no grander
title for him than
"Son of David."
Now David haa
been idealized al
most beyond recog
nition. The whole
story of his life (as
seen in the Bible)
reveals a man In
whom strength and
weakness, good and ~ r.
evU. were strangely
mingled.
But that ia not the main point
here. The faet Is, David made a
strong and successful king; and U
there was evil In him. It was more
in the older man than in the young
one. The story of bow he be
came king is too long even to re
view here. Let us concentrate on
that eloquent little one-sentence por
trait of hips drawn for a description
of him by one of his friends when
they both were young. It is found in
1 Sam. 16:18. -*
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His Family and His Fun
?fsHE BIG ARGUMENT for strong.
David by his friend who was
recommending him to the king, is
that he was son of Jesse of Bethle
hem.
A man's family is not an impor
tant fact. Men do not often reach
high places merely on the reputa
tion of their ancestors: but having
the right parents will make a good
start.
This is seriously true; for a
man's heredity Is what goes
into the making of his bone and
muscle, brain and nerves. The
kind of place where a man lived
as a boy, the kind of rather he
had, spells volumes a boot the
man, even years later.
Can we forget that David was the
ion of a sheep-rancher, a hoy who
jrew up working out of doers?
rhat his parents were God-fearing
people?
David's friend also mentioned his
?laying the harp. No doubt David
- ..creation; he was no
[ pn .'essirnal musician. But his av .
cation, hi? spare-time enjoym-.
turned out to be the first rung on i <
climb to fame It is important to
know about any man: How does he
spend his spare time?
? ? ?
His Brawn and His Brains
^AVID'S FRIEND, recommending
** him for a position in the roval
court, spoke of him as a "miebtv
man of valor, and a man of war "
This was an exaggeration, for David
at that time had never seen mili
tary service, as the story in Samuel
shows.
However, it was a good prophecy;
and so far as the valor went. It had
well been proved. A man who can
take a bear by the beard and kill
him. may be a bit rash but be it
certainly no coward. And what
muscles that young man must have
had! Never think of David as a little
boy when he killed Goliath the
giant; he was an athlete better than
most * .
Bat David, anllke some ath
letes, did net need a manager.
He was a "man of war," or at
least the young friend who was
describing him tboaght be was;
and time proved Mm right.
Now It takes more than muscle to
be a successful general. Almost
anybody can be a private; and a
man can rise somewhat in the ranks
on sheer brute power. But when it
comes to staff work, planning cam
; paigns, handling large numbers of
; men and supplies, fitting everything
I together like a gigantic cheas game
| with nations at stake, ?that calli
1 organising ability, farsightedness.
; mental powers of a high order.
? ? ?
I Hit Face, His Fluency, Hia Faith
THE UNKNOWN yotny( man whose
word-picture of David we ate
I following, was like many young
j people fa mixing togathcr items
, that an older person would take uu
separately. Almost in one breath
I ha reported that David was a good
; speaker, good-looking and godly.
Let us rather say that It la more
important for the rest of us that the
superior man and eromen among us
be God-tearing. Ood-loving. God
obeying men and women, than that
lag* Important persons should be
ISSI kf tee Olvtee ?
When political hand grenade*
begin U) explode In the vicinity the
candidate often attempt* to duck
under the platform. (