THE MOUNTAINEER, WAYNESVILLE, N. C.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933
WORK SELDOM KILLS
Every year about this time we begin to
see. reports in the newspapers, of farmers dy
ing from "sunstroke" while working in the
fields. We hear such occurrences used as illus
trations of the terrific hardships of the fann
er's life of toil.
About this time of year, also, we begin to
notice frequent reports in the city papers of
men dropping dead on the golf courses. We
have seldom heard anyone suggest that the
golfer's life must be a terrible one, because so
man' men die at the game.
One is work, the other is play.
There is a wide-spread, belief-that all work
is dangerous to health and longevity, while all
play is beneficial. We have heard we don't
know how many sentimental songs, and hav?
read innumerable stories and magazine arti
cles, all conveying the implication that work in
itself is a life-shortening, crippling and gener
ally unwholesome thing.
We are strongly of the opinion that there
is nothing injurious to health in work alone.
We have observed numerous individuals who
have spent fairly long lives in pretty hard and
steady work, and who are still alive and heal
thy. The persons to. whom work is injurious, as
nearly as we can figure it out, are unfortunate
ones wh'jse health has been impaired by di
sease. I; is much more likely that the knots on
Grandma's fingerjoints came from bad teeth or
infected tonsils than, that they were caused by
exercise at the washboard.
Too much encouragement is being given,
it seems to us, to the notion that work is a bad
thing for people, and that play should be th.'
chief obiect of life. Selected.
ELECTRICITY OX THE FARM
Electric power in the rural areas has pass
ed the stage of experimentation. Its worth ha,
been definitely established and the only problem
that confronts t tie farmer is its application to
his particular needs;
Electric sod heating is producing quicker
and healthier plants from both flower and veg
etable seeds by speeding germination and keep
ing it at even temperatures.
Electricity is bring water into the farm
home under adequate pressure and saving time
and labor in the stables as well. A proper
water supply is indispensable for modern living
anywhere.
Electricity in the farm home is lighting
the house, providing refrigeration, and supply
ing power for the small appliances that dwellers
in the city are enjoying.
Electricity lights the farm yard, warms
water for cows and poultry, milks the cows,
ventilates the stables, cools the milk, turns
motors- and reduces fire risk everywhere.
Morganton News-Herald.
CONSERVATIVE YET PROGRESSIVE
In the news columns of this issue appear
two articles about former residents of the town
coming back for a visit one after 57 years,
and the other after 27 years. In both ins
tances they seem amazed at the many progres
sive changes that have been made in the com
munity. - -
, To many of us right here in the mjdst of
this "progress" we are sometimes prone to
doubt there being any, but those away from
here can see it better than we ourselves.
This slow conservative type of progress
is far better than the spasmodic kind. There
is no doubt about it but what we are exceeding
many communities in progressive ways, wheth
er we see it or not.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP GROWS
The churches of the United States are oc
cupied with an annual and coast-to-coast stock
taking. Here are vast and varied agencies of
worship and service that include 240,000 minis
ters, or 1 for every 500 persons in the country,
and about the same number of churches. What
are the results of the inventory?
Membership is held to be the most ob
vious test, and an immense enumeration is pro
ceeding. It is complete for the Roman Catholic
Church, and for the churches as a whole the
general result is known. According to a re
sponsible forecast of the figures which appear
annually in The Christian Herald, the talk of
religion on the decline is beside the mark. The
churches are going ahead.
Last year's membership was 60,812,874.
This year's is likely to be 62,600,000 a rise of
about 1,600,000, or over 2 per cent. The rise
in population during the year is estimated to
be .58 per cent.
The membership of the churches falls al
most exactly into thirds. There are 20,000,000
Roman Catholics. There are 40,000,000 who
belong to other religious bodies.
Particularly interesting are this year's
figures for the Catholic Church furnished by
P. J. Kenedy & Sons of New York in the Official
Catholic Directory. The Catholics in the Unit
ed States, Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands
number 20,523,053, an increase of 200,459 over
the total of 1934, or just under 1 per cent.
The number of Protestant and other relig
ious communions exceeds 100. Detailed figures
of these bodies are published annually and for
last year the membership of the leading Prot
estant churches were:
Baptist, 9,860,290; Methodist, 8,766,017;
Lutheran, 4,381,094; Presbyterian, 2,674,875;
Protestant Episcopal, 1,876,390; Disciples of
Christ, 1,566,772; Congregational, 1,024,887.
Other headings include: Jewish congrega
tions, 4,081,212; Eastern Orthodox Catholics,
965,789; Latter Day Saints (Mormon), 732,812; j
Church of Christ Scientist, 202,098;; Armen
ian Church, 116,187; Menonites, 109,669; So
ciety of Friends, 107,473, and the Salvation
Army, 104,336.
Over a period of seven years all of the
leading religious bodies in so far as the fi
gures are given have shown gains.
The statistics are, of course, subject to
certain reservations, The returns are sent in
by the churches themselves and there is some
times talk of "padded" memberships. On the
other hand, the statistics are prepared under
the same conditions, year by year, and are thus
valuable for comparison.
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GLANCES
By VV. CURTIS RUSS
Two-Minute.
Sermon
By Thomas Hastwell
How times have change:!
don't even bathe like we
years atro. ...
. . . we
lid ten
Down on the farm it was a wah
tub on Monday, and a bath tub on
atari. ay.
The water was heated in kettles,
pots and pan-, with the member of
the family ca.'in the most for baths
ire'.tintr lirs: crack at the water, and
so on diwn the line. . .
Now, oli, what a difference.
No ciampy round zinc tub . . . but
one that can be lep; in or perhaps
its a shower . . . and that is so much
bcf.er . . . always fresh water . . .
. . hot or in between ... a whole
lot, r just a mere drizzle. ...
THE FRUIT OF A CHRISTIAN
HO'ME: Ta me one of the most beau
tiful stories in the Bible is found in
the book of Ruth. Not only are the
action and events of the story beau
tiful, but nowhere in all literature is
there to be found anything that sur
passes in beauty and purity of dic
tion the touching and eloquent part
ing words of Ruth. Driven from the
homeland about Bethlehem by hunger
and famine Naomi and her husband
Elimelech and their two small chil
dren had sought refuge some years
before in Moab. Here among a pa
gan, idolatrous people Naomi and
Elimelech clinging to their own re-
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v- '""i uie n.es a Vw
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-uaner Kobert M -
nesday with ;ne R
a ten days stay in
Miss Zelma Le v
water, Jean., amy,.,' ?
for a visit to her si-;e
Horton.
Mrs. Sam G-m,.,- .- ,.
the guest of Mr R '
week.
Ulr. and Mrs. Jar,
Jonathan's Creek, ..;Mr
town on business '
Mrs. Robeit Law
friends in Hendvrs.j
days this week.
M.. TT. .
.ur. nenry Lee left VV, .', ,
New York Citv. -ia'
vacation with his familv h't'"' S:s
Mrs. Henry Morri ', J! .
15 visiting her parent's heie"''"'0,
eral weeks. 1J-
Mrs. W. M. Burwei: of K'v - v
C, is the guest of relanw-'
this week. " 'm
Mr. Hurst Ferguson ..f w
-or cr. a.;
was a Waynesville
nesday.
Mrs. Thad Howell,
visiting relatives in
week.
Miss Edith Pou. of
guest oi iviiss Josephine U .r,.,
week.
iMiss Marion Rood, i
has been to Wayne
summers, is again lu-
Airs. K. L. Allen
of Ashtv
vhe co-jr.tv
..t f.
ligion, had reared their two sons to with a bridge party
Cornfield Philosophy
max I'owKii f;oi: to wasti':
(ivi'i- in front of Haywood County'.s splendid new
I'tuirf House, in the. halls inside,, in the court "room
ibove, in some of the offices, ami on the streets of our
Jittle capitol city as . well, there has been enough- time
"whitled away'" to have built a small Panama Tan 11
or a good-sized Xorris dam. This inisht Sound inere
dild'e to tliose who have. never given the matter 'any
thought. But just think of all 'the., man-power gone
to waste lurinjr the past fifty years since the old Court
hi. use was ..first Pui',j on the present site-
Xow this thing of loitering away and wasting time
is not an altigether imaginary and alistract something
that ."'ret uses, to lend .Itself to figures;
if we fix a reasonable starting basis,
'tily a matter of. simple arithmetic
Philosopher thinks that -
An average of twenty men .a
A-whilinj their time away
iround t!:e court house and on tin
ville is a very Conservative figurt;
ye;irs. The average has "Ubtless
that during recent years. Tii
of whileil-away tino- diiiing the 50 year period, and
at,. $1' a ilay w ould mean . 4.000 enough money to
build our present court house two and a half times
over. ' . " -
on the contrary,
the who thing is
The 'Cornfield-.
a day
streets of Waynei
for the past tiff v
is been far more than
gives us 3 12.001) davs
But, after all, nothing has been in
vented that is as '.refreshing as a
"slip-away" s'vim in the creek.
Ami .talking- about baths, brings to
mind a certain young man who suf
feis witn an intense' headache the
day after t-' king' a bath . . . he main
tains he always catches cold which
settles in his head . . his wife thinks
differently.
Whether you know it or not, but
the high school in Marshall is Mailt
on an island in the French Broad riv
er, and because of its unique location,
the students are more or less mindful
of the creek plunges, and if I were
superin;endeiit. there, I'd have to
think a long time before thrashing a
boy for skipping a class for a plunge
manhood. How natural that these
two young men, when the mating
time rime, should select as their
wives two of the young women of the
neighborhood. How natural, when
death had deprived Naomi of her hus
band and her two sons that she should
again turn her face toward Bethle
hem and the friends of her childhbod.
When the parting time came it was
not the parting merely a mother-in-'
iw from two daughters-in-law, it
was the parting cf three neonle who
loved each other with tho strongest
ties of human affection. Orpah was
p( rsuaded to remain with her people,
but Ruth would not turn back. How
incomparably beautiful she expressed
tra.
And talking about water brings to
mind the event of a week ago right
after a shower when one of Waynes
ville's newest fathers while out vis
iting and his host asked: "Why didn't
you bring the baby along?'1 The fath
er sincerely remarked: "It was too
lamp'. And to this date, they don t
know whether he meant the weather
or the baby.
NVw, if: we take the'
an average for the state.
county seat of Haywood as
as. 'regards both population
we ha vo
$4,400,-
( nearly )
'wasted '
and age, and multiply 312.000 . Ivy too and
3 1.200,000 days, which 'at :f a ilay would be
f..r the stale.
How. much ; of. this 1.000 w orking years
for the county seat of Havwood alone wn
. time on the part., of our. citizens, nobody knows it is
purely a matter for speculation. Most of our citizens,
however, seem to regard these, hours and days put in
loafing around town as being quite the proper thing
to do, anil would resent the idea that their cherished
privilege of meeting- regulprly with neighbors and
friends to comment on the crops, speculate on this
and that, and crack jokes, was ever abused
And to be both fair and tolerant about the matter,
the Cornfield Philosopher is going to admit that some
of this time yes much of it, is not wasted Time
spent in forming new friendships, renewing of acquan
tances, philosophic speculation and exchanging of views
is not misspent If not over done. But on the other
hand, from years of observation -and "listening in" on
the average "loafing" crowd, we are bound to con
clude that probably most of this time is wasted and
much of it worse than wasted.
MI LKS AND SOME MEN'
I have seen lazy stupid olrt mules go to sleep i,i
the barn lot on a sunny day and the flies would come
and crawl all over them, even into their mouths And
I have seen the same thing happen with lazy men, only
they didn't go to sleep in the barn lot. They usually
took a snooze under their favorite shade tree in the
front yard or, maybe at the shop or mill. You who
have been reared up on the farm know what I'm talk
ing about. .
And generally while the "of man" was engaged
in this his favorite past-time the good wife would be
hoeing in the garden, toiling- at the wash tub or at
some other of her many dally chores. But listen to
this man talk and you would think that the whole
thing at home depended on him. The head of a big
business, you know, often must relax and rest from the
great mental strain.
Another wet weather yarn, that is
absolutely the truth, was the result
of a certain young Waynesville gen
tleman doing a good turn, then tell
ing about it .... at a dance last
week, he happened to see the win
dows of this car was up, and a heavy
rain falling, so he took it upon him-
eli to lower them. So tar so gaai.
The next day he : met the young lady
i riving 'the car he had saved from the
drenching rain the night before, and
very courteously said: "I'm respon
sible for you having a dry seat this
morning. . . " You can imagine the
rest of the story , . .. one blush af
ter another, without a word being
spoken. . .
tention?"
"No, sir, I ain't married."
.'"'''Vha:: about your business?"
"I haven't got any."
"Do you think you can spare the
time to serve on the jury this af
ternoon?" "I do sir."
"You seem to be the only man
who has the time to serve his coun
try as a juryman' the judge told
him. "Would you mind telling me
how it happens?"
"Sure. You're going to try Jim
Billings, ain't you? . Well, he shot a
dog of mine."
complimentary to her i
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jiiss Laomess, ot .la... n , Ga
The Waynesville Drama"
will go to Canton on Am-j.- -'.
and present the Mikado'. Ir. .
opera was given bv
U'atc Irm i, ,1 ,
.... .. ....i.. mui wu? t 1 1 L I " ttFr
musical comedy. .ever pu-muj he'e
The long continued .Iiouirlr. rhrlvaV.
out the country is bt-cmx-.' ararwa
It is affecting cities . at-..! fa.-tore"-!
people, and animals. Iifv. a::j Ive'.
hood are seriously mi-naccd'fey-'it
liiead drought.
- l-'iil
- .-.:ri::
w i':uj acre al
i- left ttl
a-,',- !b
her sou! as she kneel.- a
"Vartn-.i ti.i
or to return from f -ll-.-.v.;-.,' aftt'
thee; for whither . thou Lfest I wi.l
go, and .where thou ltd-.-;. I will
lodge; thy people shall bv my people,
and thy God my Gn-i": wh-tbr'thfi
diest, I will; (lie, and. there, will I V
buried: the Lord do to me, and nwr?;
also, if ought but- 'death narr lint-
and me." What a huine Naomi's
home must have been t, have created!
such a spirit, such a fva!ty an i ,suc'ii
a character, surrounded a it was
by unfriendly strangers an 1 paiia.
idolatry. The lesson of -this home is
one of manv contained in th; boaa-j
tiful story. The chara.'ti-r of Rath is
the natural fruit of such a Christian
home.
It has gotten to the point wliere
this "manufactured weather" is get
ting to be common. Two weeks ago
several from here enjoyed the air
conditioned dining car from Ashe
ville to Sahsibury .staying on it until
forced to leave then in Raleigh the
air-conditioned coffee shop, which was
appropriately named by one of the
hill billies, "ice box eatin joint."
The pullmans have been air-conditioned,
and what a difference. Un
til autos ami busses install similar
convniences, thev will have an uo-
grade hghic to compete w.th trains.
But mv trip was spoiled bv hur
ried packing. I grabbed an old
tooth brush and unintentionally used
it only to find later that my mouth
was as full of bristles as if I had
bitten a cat. And a feeling.
I SMOKE ft M.L0 V ILl''',''1'im''l1""lll'lliS! ' 1
CIGARETTE WJ llj r I'VE TAKEN THE ff" ?
CAfVElS THEY f4 1 ATHLETES TIP ON I ii
DON r GET MV 't C'J CAMELS CAMELS I I I
MUD AND AFTEIl ''4 ' P PONT AFFECT MV " '
I HARD PLAy A ! 'W &,Wm'M CONDITION.-THEY I jv'Si
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WM. T. TILDEN, 2nd
Famous Tennis Star
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
C. E. Smith ;
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.cij uuusuai mac young lauies
Wrlll malra tnAn. . 1, C l. . 1 . 1.1
... -.,ilvn nlcr iuuu niat uiey
have birthdays, but Miss Helen Med-
ford frwlr i,rnnn.i. . 1L . 1 ... J
jjnuii to uie ruie anu
sent m some birthday cake to prove
the fact . . . . and the proof was
plenty good. Anyone else liking to
mgVo nimllnt, 111 1 . ... I
. yiwL win oe welcome.
and. bv iovp. 'tu tVi ;ah,
AuGTUSt WP 11. m -a U j
tae ior prooi.)
Of PflllfCfl fVlio Ai,l'L i... ..
tt r 1 nappen in
Haywood (??):
iSix men .summnnpH fni 5ni.Tr
had cried off on various pretexts.
V hen the judge came to the seventh
prospective juror he w3 getting
sarcastic, and inquired:
"Does your sick wife need your at-
SERIOUS WORK
Compounding prescriptions is not child's play. 11
is a profession calling: not only for hard, intensive pre
paratory work, but also the very closest application of the
Drinnnlpc: lphrnarl unj .li. jr n( rare anu
-1 -uam,vu, CII1U 1 11 C ILlgllCaL- U V 1 V V 1'
concentration.
The filling of prescriptions is serious work, and here
at Alexander's we take it in a very serious way.
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