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THE MOUNTAINEER, WAYNES VIL,E, x. C. THURSDAY", AWLST , GUr ifl0imtatnw Published $y THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Phone 137 Main Street Waynesville, N. J. W. C. RUSS - Editor W. C. Russ and M. T. Bridges, Publishers Published Every Thursday SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year, In County ..$1.00 G Months, In County - -50 1 Year Outside of Haywood County ..$1.50 Subscription payable in advance Entered at the post office at Waynesville, N. C, aj Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under twe Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914. North Carolina IjK. 'PfiESS ASSOCIATION Vi THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1935 Tiiorc; i its roit skkiois momknts To -rive plcusiiiv In a single lieiirt by u single kind art Is bciier than a thousand heads lxnvlnr In prayer. Saadi. My hnsiiics is not to remark myself but to make the absolute best of nliat Cod made. Robert Hi-owning. The best I hat we find In our travels is an honest friend; he N a fortunate voyager, who find- many. Sti'i'ii-on. I ai'I'v M'i-im j, responsible for all the j-""d within the scope of hi- iihility. mid for no more, and none can tell whose spln-rc Is the largest. Gail Hamilton. The oul would have no rnlnlmv, had the eyes no tears. ,1. V. Cheney. .WHERE SHALL THEY GO? The Keidsville Review hit the nail on the head last week in an editorial under the above caption. What applies to that county is also true in Haywood, What would you think of a man who train ed race horses, and never entered them in a race? What would you think of a man who kept drawing water, and never drank. or used it? What would you think of a man who plant ed an orchard and let the fruit rot on the trees, after spraying regularly and carefully watching soil conditions, etc? Well that, my friend, is a picture of the great American business man. When we Americans get rid of 75 per cent of our "bunk," and realize that we are not do ing our job by our young, we will get some where. We train the youngsters in carefully built schools. The rooms are heated in winter and kept cool when it grows warm. Teachers are hired at big salaries, and we pay the taxes, with many a grumble, but we pay them. And then we throw the children out into the street. No provision for them locally. No con certed effort to so train them that they will become efficient and trained public servants. We have no course in civics that would enable us to put trained men into public office. And, after paying taxes to educate youngsters for about 10 years ve send them to New York city, Honolulu, or some other city for a job. We maintain there is enough bought and used in Rockingham county to make a self coiw tained county. If we bought what we need in the county. If every hank bought everything it needed in the county, if every merchant did the same thing, and if they all got together to finance and create such industries as they did not presently have, we could absorb every child in Rocking lam county. We consume, we buy, and we spend enough n Rockingham county to support a population ;wice our size. And most of the money goes ilsewhere. If you could get a memorandum from the )ost office, covering cash paid in advance pur hases, out of the county, through the mails, ;ou would awaken yourself to what every post naster knows. AN OUTSTANDING INSTITUTION This morning marked a change in the sup erintendent's office, at the Haywood County Hospital. Miss Ruth Hampton takes over the place formerly held by her prior to being forc ed to rest because of her health. For fourteen of the eighteen months that she has been gone, Mrs. Millie Harbin has been in charge, and car ried on the work in a most creditable manner. Four years Miss Hampton worked untir ingly as superintendent of the institution, and directed many changes. Fortunately, the board of trustees was able to turn matters over to Mrs. Harbin to carry on. The Haywood Hospital has become one of the leading institutions of its kind in Western North Carolina, and one that every Haywood citizen should be proud. The fact that the local hospital is outstanding is because of the un selfishness of those who have been in charge from janitor to trustees and to them, the en tire citizenship of Haywood County is greatly indebted HOW MANY GERMS HAS A FLY? Two scientists recently examined 400 house Pies to determine how important thai: common insect really is in the spread of germs. Secur ing flies from all sorts of places they found that the average number of bacteria carried per fly was more than 1,000,000, reports the American Institute of Sanitation. Insects taken from garbage cans and other obviously insanitary places as many as six million germs each. Long before the development of the modem microscope far-seeing physicians sounded notes of suspicion against the common house fly; now their complicity as carriers of germs is definite ly proved, comments the institute. Under the hicroscope the fly appears like an animated feather duster, The legs and body are covered with fine hairs which carry count less germs from place to place. Each of its six legs have two hairy pads in which a sticky fluid is secreted. By means of these adhesive pads on its feet a fly can perform the novel trick of walking upside down on a ceiling. But those pads, so useful to the fly in defying gravitation, pick up all sorts of bacteria as the scavenger walks along. A single fly may alight on a dozen objects in a few minutes and leave an unseen trail of germs that would be appalling if made visible to the eye of a house-wife. Yet it is easy to demonstrate scientifically that a housefly liter ally sheds germs with every step he takes. Cornfield Philosophy )XTK.TMi:T The scene Is late afternoon in mid-July. The sum mer sun has. already .lowered itself behind the Plott H.ilsam. where a Maine of red now hovers in the sky. for old Sol another day's journey Is done. The red Klow now fades and turns to ashen Brey' as the shades of nlKht bepin to Krow darker in the deep recesses of the mountain coves. Outlined against the western sky, an airplane, finishing its last flight for the day, is seen to Blide downward like a hue bird and u.iH-;tr oeninu a wooded knoll. Across from where I sit two milk cows lie in the irreen grass and chew their cuds. . .now the call of a lark, is heard in the nearby woodland. . .the shades deepen. The chickens now tly up to roost, one after another, and quietly settle down in their accustomed places. . .my neighbor walks leisurely through his gar den, looking first here, now there. Listen! A church bell breaks in upon the deep silence now another, calling the folks to service. . .Now the people are passing by, young and old, quietly going to church. Silence again, deep silence. . .and peaceful con tent seems to brood over and rest upon. Wavnesvilte The Deautiful. Headline in a farm paper says: "There's a hortage of mules in the South." Maybe so, 'ut with so many people acting like mules, it's ard to believe, sometimes. j Some folks who can only see the dark side f every picture, and insist that things are rowing worse, should try and explain the fact ,iat the receipts at the post office for the past fteen days are over thirty per cent more than )r the same period last year, ; The general increase of this year over last jar is $2,323.94, while every quarter shows a arked increase. what m:.t? They quietly appeared on the court house lawn, al most unnoticed, two turn a a little smiling woman. The woman and the older man earned, guitars, the young man. a tambourine and liible. The small court crowd Is now coming out, so the two begin to strum on the instruments. . .now they're singing as they play, apparently at ease. Hut not so with the young man. He turns thrmii'h tw a.i looks up at the crowd, shifts his feet In an awkward position, lays down the Bible and looks up again, evi dently not at ease. . .he seems to dread the coming or deal.''. A conversation, almost whispered, is held. . .then the Utile woman rises, smiles and begins "Now, I want to tell you folks that I'm a preacher and I'm glad of it." (Three or four persons in the crowd drop their heads a rather bad start). Then the smilln-' little woman brave little woman, proceeds to tell of their misfortune. . .how that they have a daughter in a western state who was given up to die, but wag rais ed up and healed by prayer. Then she goes on to say how they have planned to "preach and plav" their way to this daughter and bring her back east. . .soon as they can get enough money to buv a license tag for their T. Model Ford. The little woman takes her seat. . .then the awk ward, embarassed young man rises and passes around the tambourine. They frot about a dime. Someone in the crowd remarked that they would "have to do better than that, or they'll never raise enough money to buy 'park plugs." Pretty cosmopolitan little place. Waynesville, but not very good "pickings" for strolling musicians and medicine men of late. What next? If mm Random SIDE G LANCES By VV. CURTIS RUSS Two-Minute Sermon By Thomas Hast well How time flies. Can you believe that it has been ten years since we were all going wild over the real estate boom? Well, count up. We thought we were making more money than we could possibly spend in our life time 'course it was all on paper but we thought it would be cash within a few day.s. Although Waynesville kept her head better than some other places, the boom was known here. But in Hendersonville and .. Asheville," oh, boy, did it rave? At one time it looked as if new names would have to be thought up for subdivisions, and we'll never for get those flashy real e-state sales men .... looked like a million dol lars in their swanky duds, and their glib was soothing to the cars of the "get-rich-quick," Although the high pressure sales men have gone, they did some good in that they broke u.s from ever lis tening to such people again. Oh, it was the life. Following a brass band at auction sales in the day-tinie in the hopes of getting a slice of the $25 in cash prizes, and then in the evening listening to concerts staged by the different subdivisions. I remember one subdivision that at one time had some twenty salesmen on the force, and even went so far as to have a song published in an effort to popularize their "gold mine." If you let memory wonder back far enough, you'll perhaps recall the free 800-mile bus trip to Coral Gables, at Miami. Of course, a salesman always made the trip to look after the "conveniences" of the passengers. It has been reported that the late William Jennings Bryan got $250 a day for speaking for that famous subdivi. TYPE HIGH "Type high" is an expression used in every prirftriing office. When a letter or an illus tration is not "type high" it does not print clearly. It is necessary for the printer to build up the low parts with byers of paper or card board until they are brought up to the standard heighth of the type. When this is done a clear print is secured. Sometimes the letter or the illus tration is Only a very little below standard heighth, a few hundreds of an inehe, so little that the eye can not detect it, but no matter how little it is, a perfect print cannot be secured until the low spots are brought up to standard heighth. We often see men like that. To all intents and purposes they are good citizens, ob serving the law and living uprightly but when the test comes, when the pressure is put on them, they back down or yield to wrong influence and wrong desire. They are not "type high." We find the.m in all walks of life, in high and low, among the offi cers of the law and among the mass es. As long as things roll along smoothly their low spots never re veal themselves but when temptation comes, with its easy: money and the lure of fame and recognition, they break down. Their cheapness and shallowness and selfishness and shod diness reveal themselves. They do not register true. lhey are not type high. 24Year in HAYWOOD - 1:.' : , n.iv; w, - Kr-. . Tu...:. Km;; Wi Naming the PtncappU The pineapple was named because Its fruit suggested ttve look of a pine cone. chains from wood no easy job. anyway, its And did the newspaper business flourish (until collecting time.) I remember one firm running page ads with only nine words in it, and it was not uncommon to get halt patres with ess than forty words and such phrases if the angels in heaven had read those ads they would have left the land enclosed by the pearly gates and sought the subdivisions in West- rn North Carolina. A Derson without arms has manv disadvantages, but one of the great est, must be that he can't move his hat just a little when someone puts it on for him. lo date I ve never heard of any beintr entirelv satisifted with the "feel" of a hat when not put on (by therh. And just for fun . . . how many times a minute do you blink your eyes? It is a fool question, but you'll doubtless be surprised. . . (From the file., of ju;y Miss Grace Bowlt. U this afternoon with a -e. Miss Doris Muslin, , f Mr. Hilliard AikiiN ha position wirti th.. i... ..V ville. l"",K ": Mrs. T. A. Love and M enck Love went to day returning in the ivi'l V Miss Hattie Whart.-f. is the guest of friends ir. v-, Dr. E. W. Gudger ' Normal, of Greensboro, , .-, week for his summer vk l i Miss Lillian Allen i- this eve'ninsr in hnn, guests Miss Elmore, Mi Miss Grindstaff. 'Mr. G, W. Maslin, of V:.,.,ur . lem expects to be her, ..hiV He has decided to sell h:s hmc a,i his Main street property htrt. Miss Una Plott has' returned 'h week from Asheville, where he to a hospital for a tonsil operation, " Invitations tn Ym :.. . . - .u vv mv vri:iiiL; Mai u the Hotel Balsam on Satur.iav. h ville. A large crowd of i'-u- y .j-. people are expecting to atr.-r.d-. " Little Miss Harriet Boom- and Ma. ter Roerer Boonp pntert M I. .... .. t pf their little friends at a '.iithday party on Wednesday afternoon tr their eountrv hnmp nwr tu children were driven out f town a: 3 o clock. tiames were ei ioyed ar.l dainty refreshments served. 1 his paper is requested :.. ,-a:i ii attention of liverymeii. :rfn houses, and hotels to th,. :m. ,..,...... of getting baggage to the de...; eady (before train time in order u, srt jt on the train. Baetracp shr.i.u h,. the train from twenty to thirty min utes belore the tram to leave. Fine DrosDees for Cum i'r..n Old Havwood From rcnm-i. ;r ;.-w Jieved that Haywood county will have one ol the biggest corn crops ever grown in the county. The recent rains have acted like niaeie on a!! growing crops. . Richland Rifles Preparing for iCamin Were drilled last niirh- in front of this office The KirleN one of the best companies in the state, are igetting ready for eneamjmient at Morenead uity un wednesdav m?n: Cant. J. H. Howell and I t Plott ibrought the boys in front of this office and drilled them for sometime, going through the manual of arm and other drills. PECULIAR ROBBERIES ON THE ONCE GAY RIVIERA Discussing how an aristocratic wo man walked away with her rich friend's vanity case and how an Ori ental potentate saved her jewels by slaps and shrieks also how a palace was looted of gems and gold. One of the many interesting stories in the August 4 issue of The American Weekly, the big magazine which comes every week with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. Get your copy from your favorite newsdealer or newsboy. If mn4 Wkaa "Wealth," said HI Ho, the iag of Chinatown, "Is most enjoyed by thost who dream with magnificence of whit they would do If they had it," Everyone from soda ierkers to bonatide real estate salesmen were selling lots an almost as many- were buying them. I bought one, about a fifty by one hundred some where with the understanding that t 1 didn t make $2o0 within 30 days on the deal tnat 1 would get my money back. Well, I was most hap py to get my money back. The day I bought it I listed in with every real estate firm in town for a profit of $250. Every firm was sure it would be sold the next day, but as far as 1 know it hasn t moved to this day except that it has washed down into the ditch and road. When our 8lKn, "Great Smoky Mountains National Park Eastern Entrance" wag placed at Main and Depot it was on the belief that our Eastern entrance the Soeo Gap road, would go on through without a op. a park official said at the time that it was pre mature. . .put the sign up after we get the road and not before, he said. Time has proven that he wa8 cor rect, ror more than one visitor has been fooled. AnJZ hat we're having good rains,; "dimes to about how v, T Wh has been complaining about how the dry weather was ruining everything has inyhbOUt;Kre'1 fa? there's no go! Ing to be anything made on account of ao much rain. It was great while it was going on, and the events of the "crazy ' era" wm live in our memories, but it don t seem like it was ten years ago. . . . TVanlr Wllo, Two Democrats were talking about PWA, TVA, NRA, HOLC and some other alphabetical arrangements of the government, when one said: "I like all of them, but the GOP " Which reminds me, C. B.Atkinson has a good political yarn, if anyone is interested. Mrand Mrs. W, M. Bramlett, of uieer, o. u., tooK time off from vis iting to drop in for a "howdy-do." They are from the peach and cotton country, and next to W. N. C. is an ideal place to live. M 11 H Whether for Men, Women, Children I WILL COST YOU LESS AT I C. E, RAY'S SONS J i i One of the hio-oFcat fnl t ever tried was to whittle a chair from a block of wood. To save my neck the thinor wnuld fi A f rn fir art1 o4-aw working up three blisters petting ,the nisi, nil out i was encouraged, but after it hrokp intn tVioa r; t threw the whole thing away in utter disgust. And to this day. I cant decide whether I think more or less of a person who tries to whittle SERIOUS WORK Compounding prescriptions is not child's play- lt is a profession calling not only for hard, intensive pre paratory work, but also the very closest application of the principles learned, and the highest degree of care and concentration. The filling of prescriptions is serious work, and here al Alexander's we take it in a very serious way. AS K YOU R DO C T O R Two LICENSED PHARMACISTS For Your Protection ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE Phonts 53 & 54 Opposite Post Offic Try At Home First. . .And You'll Never Regret It
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