Stye Clfrrukrr ftnirt
Established July 1889
Published every Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County. N. C
ADDIE MAE COOKE Editor and Owner
V. RS. C. W. SAVAGE Associate Editor
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Meditation
Children, obey your parents in the
Lord: for this is right Honour thv hither
and mother: which is the first commandment
with promise: That it may be well with thee,
and thou ma vest live tony on the earth. And.
ye fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath: but briny them up in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord. Servants, be obedi
ent to them that are your masters according
to the flesh, with tear and trembling. '?
singleness of your heart, as unto Christ:
So, with eyeservice. as menpleasers: but as
the servants of Christ, doing the will of Cod
from the heart With good will doing ser
vice, as to the l ord, and not to men: Know
ing that whatsoever good things any man
doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord,
whether he be bond or free. .\,id. ye masters,
do the same things unto them, forbearing
threatening knowing thai your Master also
is in heaven: ?neither is there respect of per
sons with him. Finally, my brethren, be
si ong in the Lord, and in the power of his
might.-y-F.phesians 6:1-10
Builds Success
Advertising is'perhaps the most wonderful
development of the modern commercial age.
It is maker and breaker of business, big or
l<ttl> It is the one factor of successful sales that
is most apt to be overlooked by the merchants ol
small towns and cities.
Advertising is not the elusive weapon of
big business; it is the power that will make little
concerns grow into larger success. It is a science
that requires study and. be it said, character. It
cannot succeed if it is untrue. It must build upon
faith and honesty.
The Cherokee Scout is prepared to assist lo
cal business men in their advertising problems.
Growing Larger
The Census Bureau has reported that be
tween 1940 and 1950, L. S. farms became fewer
but larger. While 713,000 farms disappeared in
the decade, the average size of farms in the Uni
ted States increased from 174 acres in 1940 to
210.5 acres in 1950.
While part of the.decrease in the number of
farms may be attributed to a change in the defi
nition of a farm, as made by the Census Bureau,
there is positive proof that farms are growing
fewer but larger. Although 870.000 fewer persons
were working on U. S. farms in 1950 than in
1940, the acreage being farmed did not show a
corresponding decrease. The number of horses
and mules showed a rapid decrease.
More than a million additional tractors
we - reported on farms in 1950. as compared
w th the 1940 total, while the number of horses
and mules decreased 3,700.000 in the last five
years of the decade alone. Despite the decrease in
farms, the decrease in the number of horses and
mules reported on farms, and a decrease in the
number of persons working on farms, produc
tion totals in many areas have lemained high
and. in some cases, have iricreased.
This is a reflection of the trend toward me
chanization of the farm, without which the Amer
ican housewife would face not only food short
ages but severe price increases. In fact, farm
mechanization is considered so important bv
many congressmen that they have often requested
the Government to allocate steel for farm equip
ment on a priority second only to emergency de
defense equipment. Their argument that the only
way farm production can keep pace with the in
crease in metropolitan population is through
mechanization is supported by the latest statistics
of the Census Bureau.
Looking
Over
A Four-H
Clover
By FRANCES PUETT And M. B. WRIGHT
CAKE MEANS PROFIT
Jimmy Mintz, a 4-H club mem
ber from the Hangingdog section
of Cherokee County, is doing a
fine job of growing out the pull
ets which he received from the
4-H Poultry Chain, sponsored by
the Farmers Federation.
He has his pullets in range Shel
t-s on a.good ladino clover pas
ture, which has cut his feed bill
in half. <He is using range feeders
and waterers. The sisa, vigor, and
health of his pullets are a reflec
tion of Jimmy's management aM
Ry and destre to make the best
batter.
?Dim CLUBS
Senior and Junior
mat Wednesday In ?b?
Church A short pro
n "Putting the!
Pledge to Work."
-erning project records and exhib
its for the Cherokee County Pair.
New officers were elected for
both clubs. Fred Van Horn was
elected senior club president; Lu
cille Hall, vice-president; Edward
Odom, secretary; Arlene Hall, re
porter.
Laura Bailey was elected Junior
Club president; Russell Johnson,
vice-president; Carol Elliott, sec
retary; Tommy Moore, reporter.
BEING EXHIBITS
TO THE FAIR
The Cherokee County Fair of
fers a great opportunity for 4-H
members to exhibit products of
their project work. This is an im
| porta nt part of every project. A
?peclal 4-<H department has been
set aside for farm and homesnak
| tng exhibits other than animals.
Four-JTers and their leaders
ars in charge of this booth. Bar
hara Barton. Suoerintendent, Joy
Collect. Clara Hughes, Patsy
Tones, Charlie Mills, Jimmy
Miratz, T. J. Logan. Mrs. Clarence
Hendrix. Mrs. Luke Carver, Mrs.
T. C. Walsh, Miss Medley Fox.
Four-Hers also assist in other de
partments.
Two special 4-H events during
?he week are the 4-H Pig Show to
be held Thursday of Fair Week at
2 p. m., apd the 4-H Pullet Show
and Sale to be held on Friday dur
ing the week at 2 p. m.
Four-H'ers will enter and show
dairy and beef cattle and sheep.
It is important to check with the
catalogue for the individual en
tries in the various departments.
Mr. and Mrs. F.rnest Queen at
F.Hzabetbton, Tenn., spent a week's
vacation here with Mrs. Sallie
Queen and family. On their re
turn home, they spent a few days
with friends in Birmingham, Ala.
John Brittain and boys at At
lanta spent the holiday week-end
with friends in Murphy. Mrs. KUa
Brittain, Mr. Brtttaln's mother, ac
companied them to Atlanta Mon
day night
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hembree
and sons, Johnny and James at
Memphis, Tenn., spent the Labor
Day week-end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hembree.
Scouting
With Ihe Publisher
IN A TRANSITION PERIOD for the business,
will all of you?advertisers, subscribers, readers,
friends?cooperate with the staff to help make the
SCOUT the kind of newspaper you want for your
community. I am sincerely grateful for every kind
ness that has been shown to me here these past ten
yiars and shall return to these mountains and my
beloved friends of Cherokee County whenever possi
ble
THE FOLLOWING from Christian Science
.Monitor summarizes what your newspaper does, and
I hope will be read with interest:
' There isn't a thing in the piper today.' you |
say as you lay your home-town newspaper on the
floor.
"You wonder why there is nothing in it about ^
your friend's son who day before yesterday was
ma^? vice-president of a bank in a metropolis miles
away, or about the party the people up the street
gave last night. In fact, you tell yourself that you
can think of a dozen focal stories the people down
at the newspaper office passed up.
"How right you are. They surely passed up a
rumber of good stories. But the fault was not al
together theirs. You as members of the community
have a responsibility to your newspaper . . .
"Never get the idea that the editor of your
newspaper is interested only in certain people in
jour town. .On the contrary, he is interested in
everyone who subscribes to his paper. Both the
wealthiest woman in town, who lives in the largest
house in the swank residential district, and the
piore-t man. who lives in the smallest house on a
side street, subscribe for the paper and pay the
same price for it. In the'eyes of the editor both sub
scribers are important.
"Getting back to those stories the newspaper
passed up?just how did you expect the folks at the
o'fice to know about your friend's son? The father
was justifiably proud of his son, but did he or any
of his friends think to tell a reporter so that even
acquaintances could share the new vice-president's
pleasure in hif good fortune? No, they fed the
grapevine and probably criticized the newspaper,
toe.
"Now about that party of your neighbor's. How
do you know that the society editor didn't call the
lady? 'Please don't put our party in the paper,' per
haps she begged when she was asked about it. 'We '
didn't ask three couples we're indebted to, and?
wgll, you understand.' You, too. realize the impor- ]
tanc? of self-pressrvation socially speaking, as well
as otherwise
"Maybe you think to yourself, 'I don't like the
editor and his politics.' What if vou don't always
agree with him? Have you ever thought how little
you really agree with your best friend? Yet you don't
ignore or criticize them constantly just because you
fail to see eye to eye with them, do you? Give the
editor a break.
' "In many cases the newspaper editor is far
more conscientious in promoting the interests of his
home town than he is given credit for being. If he
weren't public spirited he wouldn't be in the news
paper business.
" 'He's running the paper for the money he can
make,' you say. Of course he wants to make money.
Who doesn't? . . . any man or woman who can make
money in the newspaper business can make money
in some other line of work in which he would not
have to deal with so many different personalities,
many of them sensitive folks Yet the editor of a
newspaper chose this particular means of making a
i .oTHIS17*P
HEW YORK
Lfl
famnw
Professor Boris Stin'ield of Co
jmbia University who was born
ol educated in Russia, has just
,;d me son: ? unusually interert
nj,facts about that country Part
if his Vale information is based on
ha remarks of a friend of his, a
jrvivor of a Russian coneentra
icn ramp whose name cannot be
wrr'ed. Says Dr. Stanfield.
"There is a big sign over most
i.nerican homes and stores.
I ??: E.\SE DO NOT DISTURB.1
? Mle America is losing her posi
j tion in the world after 160 years
| ?? amazing success . . . While we
slept, the Soviet rulers built the j
Tv~h:iest state in history, so that 1
now every third person on the
| rlobe is under the yoke of the
Xr m!in . . . Communism appears
as a creed, a godless religion
promising a kingdom here on
?arth and thus tempting souls all
over the globe among the forgot-1
ten men' ... we must prepare our
American program of action and
let the world know about it: we
must come closer to the common
men on the globe whose awaken
ing is the most significant feature
of our era." j
?3?
A visitor up from Maryland tells
of a real old-timer back in his
home town, who spent much of his j
time sitting around the local post j
office whittling In fact this gen-1
ial whtttler had attained the age j
of 91 at this writing. One day a |
newcomer saw the old fellow and ^
ex pressed amazement at his age j
^nd vitality. Said the postmaster, (
-We dont see anything amazing.
abcut it around here. All he's done I
is "row old?and took longer than'
most people to do that1
Looking Into a 5th Avenue win
dow. I found the price of clothes
=o high that somewhat instinctiv
ely I moved over and looked at
hnby togs They were cheaper, H
smaller. One item seemed new and
'ntoresting. a gripper gro-shlrt with
snaps rplacing those long strips we
were tied up with until we grew
into the largest size of the gar
ment. This cotton job for Junior
| was advertised "to make diaper
(hanging easy" for the fellow of
extra girth. j
?3? I
Stopped in to see mv old friend.
Bill Lengel. veteran Fawcett edi
tor and now head of the Gold Me-1
ial Books division which puts out j
those popular paper-backed books (
sold on your local newsstands. (
Bill had a twinkle in his eye as |
usual, whether discussing business i
or the party we both attended for ^
Jimmie Duranty. He said the pa
perback books are not going to
replace the hard-cover ones, that
there is room for both, although
cf course his company's sales run
Into the millions where the (rider
type of books sell In thousands.
Bill Lengel feels that the cheaper
ones will simply supplement the
others.
Joe Doctor, my "Wall Street
correspondent," doesn't say how
old he is, but friends allow he
must be over 70. He doesn't look
V. though, and attributes part ofj
his good health to going light on
lunches. I happen to know that
Joe, a broker, can afford fuH
i course meals, but instead each
day at 1 p. m sharp, he enters a
nearby soda fountain and orders
a malted milk. It costs hhn a quar
1 t.er, 1* all he needs, he says. As
evidence. Joe points to his moder
: ate-sized waistline which he re
1 gards as good insurance for long
I life.
Do you want to be a big shot?
, living, for in his wsy he wants to help the town In
j which he lives.
"Have you ever considered the services the
newspaper renders you, the reader? For one thing
I where you can find bargains without wearing out
shoe leather or using up tires and gasoline.
"Then in the classified ads you find an abun
dance of help and sometimes even a laugh. Remem
ber the time you needed some one to do chores
| around the house and found Just the right man
i through the classified ads? Have you forgotten the
I time someone advertised a room for rent to a busi
1 ness girl with kitchen privilege.
"Your newspaper keeps you informed concern
ing happenings in your town, even if the news Is
not so complete as you'd like K. You learn about
projects of civic clubs You find out how the schools
are progressing. You read news of the courthouse.
In fact, you know many Wrings because of your load
newspaper.
"In the society section you are told something
of what goes on among the people who entertain in
your town. Remember how you had a pleasant chat
with friends from out of town because of a little
Hem which stated that they ware guests of some
people you know? The hosts couldn't call every one
of the visitor*' friends, but the newspaper cheer
fully spread the word around for them.
"The newspaper gives much free publicity to
worthy organisations. Some coat hangers are need
ed by a veterans' hospital nearby. The local com
mittee has a quota to fill. What does the chairman
do? She just calls the newspaper office and ex
plains. . . .
"You wonder about church services on Sunday
morning. From your newspaper you learn not only
about Sunday services but also about church meet
ings during the week. . . .
"Does the newspaper charge for this publicity?
Of course not
"When you give a story to the paper, don't
forget that there are four things a reporter must
know?who. what when and where. Check the ma
terial you prepare to be eure that you have answer
ed a 11* four questions. . . .
"Keep In mind also that the newspaper Is in
-rergity a public utility and must be treated as such.
vJha has to toe lighted before H furnishes heat.
Electricity must be switched on before It gives forth
tight. Water has to be turned on before It flows
from the pipes. News has to be given to the news
paper before it can be pot into print And therein
Ilea your responsibility, ss has been mentioned be
rore.
OUR DEMOCRACY by*wt
'BESUP^MOUAflE K\QMX-THEN GO AHEAD'
Daw Crockett- mighty
WOODSMAN AND FRONTIER
SCOUT,TRULY LIVED ST
HIS FAMOUS MOTTO.
Though self-taught with
LITTLE FORMAL SCHOOLING,
he'went AHEAD* TO BECOM E
AN ABLE STATESMAN.
9 JP ' J fJJWJ >)?>, }, .'/'A J
Me wed at the alamo, fighting for the pioneering
FREEDOM THAT HE LOVED AND LIVED.
THE KIND OF FREEDOM DAVY CROCKETT AND HIS FELLOV->
PIONEERS GAVE OUR COUNTRY HELPED LAY THE
FOUNDATIONS FOR THE FREEDOM WE ENJOY*TODAY
IN OUR DEMOCRACY.
HOME OWNERSHIP
The real pillar of our national
existance Is a stable society. One
of the greatest factors for creating
a stable society Is home ownership.
The more home owners possessed j
by a city or community the more
permanent will be its business.
Home ownership creates an in
terest In schools and churches.
Floaters rarely take much Interest
in the upbuilding of their sur
roundings. No man cares to fight
for a dilapidated shack for which
he Is paying an exorbitant rent. He !
would gladly retreat and leave it
in the hands of an enemy. But the ^
humblest home owners feel they j
have a part in the nation. The ,
greatest inciters to destruction are '
those who have not stakes invested
in a home and stable community
There Is need for insistence that
every person possible own their
own home. Too many sacrifice for
things of much less value.
The first line of defense for
America and democracy are the
people who have establishd them
selves in a permanent abobe. They
have a home to defend.
At least when you come here you
can appear to be one?if you will
invest in the following manner:
you can rent a Cadillac with chau
ffeur for about $<"0 an hour; a full
dress suit for $15 an evening, in
cluding shoes, shirt, tie and studs
?no socks, for some reason; then
you can turn out at some smart
night club, tip the doorman and
waiters * to page you loudly and
some folks will think you are a
VIP (Very Improvident Person) if
that is what you are interested in.
Frank R. Hunt, dean of students
of Lafayette College In Easton, Pa.
stopped his car and picked up a
hitch-biking student. The man
talked so Intelligently and was so
likeable. the dean asked him what
class he was in at Lafayette. He
wasn't. It was rival Lehigh Uni
versity at nearby Bethlehem that
he attended. '
Manhattan Musing: out at Con
ey Island nowadays, the surf Is
one-third water and two-thirds
people.
College Gives
Hints On Plug |
Protection
Turn off the electric appliance
before pulling out the plug, elec
trification specialists remind
housewives. This is a simple but
important rule to prevent damage
both to the plug on the electric
cord and the convenience outlet
In the wall. It holds for appliances
large and small, from washing ma
chines and vacuum oleaners to
toasters and heaters, and even to
portable lamps.
Pulling the plug when an appli
ance is running or heating shuts
off the flow of electricity gradua
lly so that it sparks or makes an
ore between the prongs of the
plug and the wall outlet. This
burns the prongs, leaving them
pitted, rough, and dark. Then they
cannot make a good contact and
eventually will bring in no elec
tricity at all. The contacts in the
outlet may also be burned out.
But turning off the appliance
by its own switch makes an im
mediate, clean cut-off in current,
and then the plug may be removed
safely with no danger of sparking
or burning.
Some few electric appliances'
are not provided with their own
switch. For these the rule is: Pull
' out the plug as fast as possible
when disconnecting.
As for portable lamps, it pays
to turn out the light before pulling
the plug from the wall when mov
! ing them.
Mrs. M. W. Bell and Mrs Her
bert Hazelman of Greensboro were
' guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Case
:cver the week-end.v They visited
' other friends in Murphy Saturday.
and were joined Saturday after
i noon by Marshall Bell of Clemson.
S. C., and Mrs. Perle Day of Msr
, ced, Calif., sister of Mrs. Bell.
I
. Mrs Bell returned with them to
I Clemson Saturday and Mrs. Hazel
man left Sunday to meet Mr. Haz
| etanan in Brevard where he atten
, ded a band meeting, and then re
turned to Greensboro.
BY DR KENNETH J FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE II iamual
ISTSMS; IS 5-13, 15 5. 31-33; lSb
"dEVOTIONA-L READING; Psalsi ?>:
After a man is dead, ?nd
indeed while he U still alive, we
ought to remember the best about
him and forget the worst. Ihat is
how we want to be treated, our
selves. But human
beings are so per
verse that we often
do just the opposite.
We remember the
worst, forget the
best. This is so in
the case of the
great King David.
A novel was once
written about him
in which his lie eras p,. Fortmoa
pictured a' a curve
high in tl. middle, bending down
sharply at both ends. After his great
sins of adultery and murder,' so the
story went, he went on down and
down hill to the end This is not the
picture we get from the Bible. In
many ways his later days were sad;
his fortunes declined, as we say. But
his soul did not decline. The latter
days of David show us how even a
man who has sinned can rise again;
how even an ageing man can grow
in soul.
Signs ov Growth
MOT THAT a man has to sin as
? * David did In order to grow. In
order to be healthy it is not neces
sary to be hall-dead with aver first;
yet even after a lona stay In the
sanitarium it is pors'Me for a man
to make his way to f'fl health and
strength.
New DavM, t- ? be fell,
"did net Mind t seal with
clay." The experience strnrk
down hia pride; he realised with
ahame what he had dene. Seme
men meat wake bitterly to the
fact of their own weakness be
fore they can begin to take bold
of God's strength. At any rate,
we can see signs of growth la
David's seal.
One of these signs Is humility be
fore God. Take the story of his
flight from his capital, for example.
He could have hardly been in a
worse state. His loved son Absalom
h~ r-nr a rebel, his th-n-v was
in ,' r '.? \ his friends were turning
sg'ip.n h'm. even his life was not
safe Another man might have ct.m
mined suicide, or sat in his de
serted palace bitterly awaiting the
end. Another man might have re
turned Shimei's foul language, curse
for curse.
But David moves through all this
as a man who realizes he deserves
his troubles, knows it is God who is
bringing these hard things to pass,
and bows humbly under whatever
God sends. His kingdom was shrink
ing. but his soul was growing again.
? ? ?
Is th t Young Man Safe?
ANOTHER plain sign of inward
growth was David's attitude to
his bad son Absalom. That young
man had ceased to be * son, but
the old man did not cease to be a
father. The young man would have
stopped at nothing, he would have
killed his father without hesitating,
in order to gain the kin^om for
himself. But David wss willing to
lose the kingdom. 4f by so doing he
could keep from losing his son.
General Joab. a professional
killer, coald see ne point la
David's generosity. He believed
David shoald be a king first and
a father afterwards. It waa
Joab who against David's strict
orders finally killed Absalom.
But in death as in life, David loved
that wild young man. No more tragic
scene is found in history than
David's lament, "Would God I had
died for thee. A Absalom, my son,
my son." It does not sound like a
lament for a dead enemy, and it
waa not; it was a father's grief for
his son. The grief came late; David
should long before those days have
remembered his duty as a father to
Absalom. But lata though it waa,
David's tears show that in him his
soul still grew.
? ? ?
No Cheap Sacrifice
/?\NE OTHER sign of soul-growth
^ comes to the surface: a single
sentence from David oo the day
when ha bought the land where the
temple waa to bp built The earner
Oman (Araunah) would have given
the land free; but David insisted on
paying the full value. "I erill not of
fer burnt offerings unto the Lord
my God which cost me nothing." he
Na e?
him fee taking advantage et the
ewaer, eatttng the priee a little.
Whaa davtd waa a yoaagar maa
I ha aright have geae tt; bat aat
perhaps; btri Oed weald knew It
It was a sign that David waa no
longer^ half-grown soul ha had
ooce been. For a maa never really
i grows up till he does what ha does,
I not because et fear, or ambition, or
reputation, nor tor any reason but
| because ha kaowa how God to go
tag to look et tt.
Dr. Zdau Aldan of Baton
Rouge, La., who apent a month
returned to
with