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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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THURSDAY (KTOKEK2B, 19:53
Isn't it funny how many useless words some
people use? The other day we overheard a con
versation between two men, and one .said, "you
know that widow woman, Mrs. ." Now
who has ever heaiv of anything except a woman
hem,' a widow? And then there are folks who
sav "tooth dentist;" "house carpenter;" "(lap.
per girl" and "police officer." Probably you
have heard many other's just as absurd.
During the past few weeks, the drys ol
North ' Carolina have gained .considerably.
Whether that gain was enough to carry the elec
tion is, as we said at first, a matter of specula
tion. The dry leaders say that there is a sulli
mjnt number of dry voters in the state to win,
if they will only vote.
The Crcenville (S. C.) News says:
"If there' is any state of the half-dozen to
vote November 7, which will break the monot
ony of the record up to now and vote to retain
the Eighteenth Amendment, our guess is that
U likely to be North Carolina.
"North Carolina, according to The Literary
Digest's poll last year, was one of the two states
in the Union that showed a small majority
against repeal. Very evidently there is a
stronger sentiment against repeal of the Eight
eenth Amendment in the Old 'North State than
inmost other states of the country."
APPEALS TO IMAGINATION
It is not surprising that State Highway
Chairman E. P. Jeffress reports that every
Federal government department is behind the
plan for a scenic highway from Washington to
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This
most remarkable of the natural beauty spots in
Eastern America, and equal to any in America,
appeals to the imagination of every person who
comes in contact with it.
Already more tourists are visiting this park
than any other park in America. This is because'
it is within a couple of days of all the industrial
centers of the Eastern seaboard and the Middle
We-!. One may not have the time or the means
to make a trip to the Far West, but one can get
away for a t rip of a few days to .this park. And
one can see in this park not only mountains of
as much grandeur as any he will find in this
country, but he will also find a greater variety
4f natural scenery.
While the '-Reeky Mountains' reach to a high
er level above the sea, they-rise out of elevated
plateaus, so that the scenic effect is not more
imposing than in the Great Smoky Mountains,
The Rockies are barren while ti e Smokies are
covered with virgin forests. In these days of
high tension and frayed nerves, nothing is more
) freshing to a tired man or woman than a trip
to the mountain country.
The construction of a 500-mile highway
from Washington to the Great Smokies will
connect it with the centers of population
throughout the East. Literally millions of
people will be attracted to Western North Caro
lina. That region Will become the great play
ground of Eastern America. That is one of the
things that is being stressed in these hard times.
Americans must learn to play as well as work.
They must learn how to use their leisure time
to advantage. Raleigh News and Observer.
REMARKABLE SIMILARITY
With all due respect to society editors, I
just wonder what their lives would" be like if it
were not for "cut flowers, simple and quite wed
dings, lighted tapers, delicious salad courses,
bridge was enjoyed during the evening and1
was found to have high score."
After an examination of three newspapers,
I found that on the same day five "simple and
quite weddings" took place and twice under
"lighted tapers." "Delicious salad courses"
were served on eleven different occasions in five
separate towns. New Bern Tribune.
BETTER OR WORSE?
On a number occasions we have started to
get together material on the .-uhjeet, "Arc the
young people of today better or worse than the
young people twenty-five years ago." Every.
tinie we got something that we thought worthy
to carry a point, something else came up that
offset the argument.
Recently we had a long conversation with
a broad-minded woman of this town along this
line, and it was her opinion that the world U
not getting better. She went on to say that
the young people of today do not have the am
bition and self respect that the older genera
tion had. Of course, that is open for argument.
We are not convinced enough either way to
express an opinion on the subject, other than to
say there is plenty of room for improvement.
In last week's issue of The State, Carl
Goerch, editor, had an article that will offset
the argument put up by the Waynesville woman.
The article reads as follows:
"It doesn't sound particularly funny, when
you read about it, but just the same it gave me
an awful shock.
"I was driving along the Chapel Hill road
when I overtook a Pontiac coupe. There were
two elderly ladies in it. 1 could see strands of
white hair peeping from under their bonnets.
1 trailed them for about a mile, and then decid
ed to pass them. We were going about 50 miles
.in hour, and I thought at the time it was a
rather stiff pace for thoe old gins to be travel
ing. "When I sounded niy hoi n, they stepped on
the gas, and I had to speed up to ." before I
could gel past. As I drew, up alongside, 1 looked
in their direction, and grinned. Not a grin of
triumph, or maliciousness, but merely one of
amusement. A minute or two later, I heard the
sound of a horn behind me, and 1 moved over to
the right. Up. came the same Pointac coupe,
and when it got opposite me, the old lady on mv
side of the car leaned forward, put the thumb
of her right hand to her nose, and wiggled her
fingers at me derisively. Then they shot ahead.
Talk about the younger generation it's,
the older folks that need looking 'after these
days and times." .
A COUNTY FAIR
The community fair held here last Satur
day was beyond all expectations. The crowds
attending surpassed all previous records, and
the quality of the exhibits was far better than
any ever shown since the days of the county
fair.
The enthusiasm and the displays at last
Saturday's fair led several prominent citizens
to make the statement that by next year Hay
wood county would have a county fair. In a
lot of places, it seems that county fairs just
played out, but it appears that there remains in
Haywood a longing for a county-wide fair.
According to W. D. Smith, who was largely
responsible for the successor this year's com
munity fair, there are civic minded men in the
county who are '-already making plans for next
year's fair.
It is interesting to note that almost every
county fair held in the state this year was a
record-breaking affair. Only last week at Hick
ory, press reports say, 10,000 persons stream
ed through the gates for the opening of the 25t h
annual Catawba district fair. Other places have
had equally as large a crowd.
-.".'.- We predicted last week before the fair here
Saturday's fair would be the beginning of reviv.
ing the county-wide fair: From all indications
we don't believe that we were far from right
ODD THINGS AND r,EW-3y Lame Bode
I. ' I"" r- -r r-1 .s r- r I
WTSB Pastest train in the
JyK WORLD TO-DAY IS ENGLAND'S
f i "Cheltenham Plyer" running
;-i -"tHiST TO London, which averages
I 70 MILES PER HOUR,
V H A Tof SPED P 85 '
f ''''"'pLES TO KEEP POTATOES-
i Uimm .- uliimi. Potatoes stored j
K rl Philadelphia's with ripe apples
(' CYPRESS POREST- IN CLOSED BINS
fa Excavators in stfj wll not sp'.ooj
v Philadelphia have MWtoosoon.
J FOUND CYPRESS STUMPSy III II WaVP': ''
3 17 FEET IN CIRCUMFER ,ff V I f'k-'l' (
25 Years Afeo
in
HAYWOOD
( From the tile of October
Little Mildred Crawfurd
doubting- both Peary and (' -.
controver.-y over the North 1
a.-much as neither of thv:
Santa Claus.
Miss Capeuton Bowie, h;
teaching the third grade at tr,
school this week in the pla
E. T. Wyche, who is detained
on account of sickness.
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22 V EARS AGO IN HAY Won
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LIQUIDITY
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
THE CRIMSON BALLOT
no winner yet
hist what the outcome of the election on
November 7th will he is a matter of speculation
and opinion at this time, as neither side has any
definite fact to base their predictions on. It is -interesting
to note, however, the many different
things that have come up in the past few weeks
that might make a lot of difference in the vote
next Tuesday week, ''
V Senator Robert R. Reynolds has arrived in
this country from his European trip, and is
'scheduled to make a series of speeches for the
repealists after 'definitely stating before his de
parture for Europe that he would not. His at
titude toward fulfilling promises to job-seekers
won't help him carry his points, either.
The drys have put on a more vigorous and
consistent campaign throughout the state than
have the wets, according to close observers in
Raleigh. This, of course, : will have weight.
Another accomplishment by the drys has been
the fact that their speakers have persuaded,
rather than abused. That goes a long way to
wards winning.
i If an apple a day keeps the doctor away,
its certainly going to be a hard winter for the
doctors south of here from the number of trucks
of apples that are being shipped out daily.
The dictionary deMiies liquidity us
Hie state of hoinu' liquid, a condition
in which nil parti
cles move i reel v
a in o n a !h in
selves. lien Hie
word is applied to
economics it means
a liiuincial condi i
Ion In which money
can move lreelv.
Hanks and business
concerns are liquid
.when they possess
an adequate cash
reserve which savesi
them from enihar-.
rassment Ir, tunes
of financial strain.
Many of the bunks which lailed dur-L
Ins the last few years were not in
a liquid condition even though they
may have been solvent. Their money
was Invested In loans which were'
called frozen because the borrowers. I
even ''though perfectly good and re
liable, were not able to pay. Other
banks which had kept more of their
cash In their vaults and had not loaned
money on real estate, or other col
lateral which was susceptible of being
frozen, were able to meet the cash de
monds upon them and were therefore
liquid. The very same condition ap
plies to business concerns. Many
failed or went into bankruptcy be
cause they needed cash with which to
pay their debts and were not able to
borrow sufficiently to meet the de
mands of creditors.
Liquidity Is ft condition which does
not create itself nor Is It the result of
mere chance or luck. The state of
being liquid Is perhaps one of the most
difficult to attain. This Is true of the
individual as well as banks and busi
ness concerns. In days of prosperity,
when It appears that poverty is for
ever banished, we grow careless and
spend money upon things which we
could just as well do without. Ex
travagance is the sin of every period
of prosperity. About seven years ago
a certain bank erected a new building
which it really did not need. It was
a beautiful building and cost a large
sum of money which, of course, hav
ing been Invested In brick and mor
tar, was no longer available for circti
lation. That bank failed to open Its
doors after the moratorium because
it did not have sutlicient cash and
liquid securities to meet the demands.
People are susceptible to the same
temptations and mistakes as are banks
and business concerns. Liquidity
when npplled to our personal finances
simply means that we spend a little
less than we earn. If we are more
concerned about the security of cap
ital than exorbitant interest returns
and avoid all extravagance we may
create a resers sucient to forestall
bankruptcy:
. 19J3, Wea.ru Newspaper
( Pi inteil by Request-)
)nt. day in a crowded court room
A sentence of death was said.
In the hush of the awful stillness:
"To be hanged bv the neck until
,i,...i,r'"
And a mother's heart was broken.
As she faltered a murmered name;
And a father'.- face was furrowed
With the tears of grief 'and shame.
Jt was only one of the dramas
That are acted every day.
And the judjre on the bench had asked j
hint
What the prisoner had to say.
'The jury ha -said 1 jm guilty'"
Was the low. resigned reply.'
"The law has .summoned the hangman
And said that I must die.
"But before the God in heaven
I did not kill my friend,
And to the looming scaffold
A guiltless man you send,
The dramshop did this murder. '
And the drink that fired my brain.
That made me do its bidding.
And held me in its chain.
"Hut not upon the dramshop,
Nor brewry. nor still
Nor on the high officials,
Who watch them steal and kill:
liut on your skirts, your honor.
And every man who's stood
To legalize the gin-mill.
Is stamped th, brand of blood."
His voict. rang like a bugle,
No other sound was heard.
While something kin to terror
In all who listened stirred.
And all the courtroom cowered
Beneath the lash of truth.
ThP boy seemed judgt. and jury,
And they the sentenced youth.
"For back of the law's officials
Is the law that spells my fate;
And back of the law are the people,
And the people are the state.
My hand held the murderous weapon.
And the blood on its blade they saw;
But back of the deed was the dram,
shop.
And back of the dramshop the law.
"And whosoever hath voted.
To license this evil, ties
The shameful noose of the hangman
'Round thp neck of the man who
dies.
And on his hands are the blooddfops
-. : And tin his brow a sign
That he is the man who
Sheddeth my dear friend's .blood
and mine "
Then back to his cell they led him.
And there on the trap, he'll stand;
And the Woody farce will h(, acted
Mrs. James Thomas en.
Tuesday afternoon with a it,.;
bridge party.
Miss Emma Alstaetter ua
tess to the Wednesday Bible
this week.
Mr. Robert Gregory and 'Mb
nie hicks were united in iti.irr;.is
Saturday. October 21, a; the h-ie
of the bride's parents at Fine- t'rt4.
I heir triemls wish them a long kt
happiness.
Mr. and Mrs. Jot. Graves at,, v:
nig relatives in bristol. Km:. -.Ms
week. J"
Messrs. Faucett Swift. iir.iy
Boyd. Will Coble, and Fred White,
tended the "Winning Widow' .,:
auditorium in Asheville S'iniiy
niirlit.
.-it i he state fair la-t week Hoy
wood exhibits by Haywood jn.rhnfs
won the following: Kllis ll'We'j-
special premium on county ;
tural exhibts Fit st mi single
corn. First on orchard gr
on best display of squashes. I
luimpkins. Vi--i on popcorn
W. I). Mc.McCraetu-M ur: ;
on all short horn cattle.
A. t . Walker lust premium
Hampshier Down sheeji
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Again and again in the land,
Anil every leddened giliU't
Shall be for a nation's i'hune
For every ballot is crimson-
I hat is cast tor a nation s snaiai
FRANK . MARSIl"' I.i
In The New Y
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cust seed this ..fall becau
healthy demand and the
crop in the mountain area-
h'f-
excelfnl
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ASK Y OUR DOC TO R
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of S- A. Shelton, de
ceased, of Haywood County. North
Carolina this is to notify all person?
having claims against said estate to j
R. F. D. 2. Waynesville, N. C, on or
before the 16th day of October, 1934.
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will make im
mediate payment, i
This the 16th day of October. 1933.
MRS. FRANCES SHELTON,
Administratrix of the estate of S.
A. Shelton, deceased.
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