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THE MOUNTAINEER. WAYNES! HA.E. . il.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933
THOKillTS FOR SEItlOlS MOM K NTS
ISIcsx'd Is lie who lias fount! his work. Ift him a.sk
no other MesM-diifss. He ha,s a work, a life punm', lu
has round ll and will follow it. Curlyle.
IK' silent always when you doubt your sense; And
speak, thonjrh sine, with seeming diflidenrt I'ope.
FOUR THINGS THAT NEED ATTENTION
Now that the summer season is entering
the last thirty days, it might be well for the
county at large to begin thinking on a program
for community activity for the fall and wint
er months. Some well denned program, with a
definite goal, would be well worth while during
the coming months.
Right oil' hand, we have four things in
mind that need immediate, attention Probably
the first should be the matter of WPA projects.
Thus far we know of no project that has
been approved for this county, maybe none have
been requested, but it is a matter of concern
and importance that we benefit in this program.
We learned from an authority that Haywood
is entitled to 65,000 man-hours per month for
the next eleven and a half months, provided
the projects are worked up and sent in. Now
that many hours a month going to waste is
something worthy of serious consideration. A.s
we understand it, the money is set up for this
work, and its just a matter of getting the right
kind of projects to get our share.
Another problem confronting the county
right now is the disposition of the closed furni
ture factory at Hazelwood, which belongs to
the county. Efforts have been, and are being
made to get interested parties to make offers
for operation, but to date no definite plan has
been decided upon.
There is a possibility of creating in tha.
closed plant work for some 100 men, with a
weekly payroll of around $15,000 or $20,000.
Right now indications are that outside partie3
will have to be sought.
A third part of the proposed program could
profitably be beautification not only in the
towns but the county as well. Right now is
not too early to begin this program, Sooner
or later we will be forced into it if we are to
continue to cater to visitors, because that is
one of the essentials of a "well balanced tourist
town."
And for immediate work, the Haywooi
County Fair is a matter of serious considera
tion. Every effort is being made by the offi
cials to restore the Haywood County Fair of
the days of old, and this year will determine to
a great extent whether this will be a feasible
undertaking, or not. .
So, as we see it. the four major points
worthy of serious attention this fall and winter
are: WPA projects ; disposition of the furniture
factory- county-wide beautification program,
and getting behind the fair officials.
There might be others just ai worthy-
THE ANNUAL DAHLIA SHOW
Waynesville, the home of the dahlia, will
show to the public next Tuesday, why so much
pride is taken in the growing and showing of
the large and soul-inspiring flower.
, It is a known fact that scores of visitors
remain over for the annual show, and that
others come for miles to attend.
Each year the growers try to go themselv
es one better in making the displays better than
the year before, and as the result, there has
been a 'constant improvement among the flow
ers as well as the show.
If possible, the event of the show should
be made a gala affair here. Asheville takes
advantage of the rhododendron blossoms, and
needless to say, we have many more advantages
than they if we would push the dahlia equally
aa hard.
Plants in Western North Carolina will close
Monaay. September 2, for the observance of
Labor Day, with mo.-t of the activities center
ing around Canton, where a well planned, and
interesting program has been arranged.
Owners of the plants, and their co-workers,
will "take the day off" to mingle in fellowship
with each other and enjoy the day in general.
Few places in the country can boast of o
group of industries where owners and workers
have as much in common as here in Western
North Carolina. Both groups work harmon
iously with each other for mutual good, and it
is to this end that has made what industries
we have in this area come under the column of
"thriving."
The attitude of both groups is to be com
mended, and may it long continue thus.
SO-CALLED "SPORT"
The "wild and woolly west" has always been
locked to for new innovations. It has them
galore. Here is one. They recently had in
Oklahoma City, what they called "good, clean
and harmless fun." Somebody put an assort
ment of venomous insects, including the recent
ly publicised black widow spider, in a glass to
see which would survive. Just to give the ex
periment an intellectual cast, a cockroach was
admitted. At last accounts the tarantulas,
scorpions and centipedes had fallen victims to
one another or the spider, while the roach by
nimbleness of wit and foot had survived.
There ought to be a perfectly grand moral
in this: Something about might not always
making right, and the race not always being to
the swift the roach having but six legs com
pared with the eight to fifty of his opponents.
But somehow the thought persists that the
two-legged insect who devised the contest ought
to be locked up in a chamber full of cobras,
tigers and wasps say, just for the fun of it, too.
Morganton News-Herald.
Driving on tires that have worn to a point
where but a few frail cords separate the high
way paving from the inner tube is dangerous
economy. Saving the price of a new tire, or
a complete new set of tires until one of them
gives way completely is just another form of
insanity. Mo.resville Enterprise.
Cornfield Philosophy
PROFKSSrONAIJSM
Aerordins to Dr. Glenn Frank, professionalism has
iU ilisHilvantajies. Tes. and the Cornfield Philoaophor
bi'lieves that this lonsr continued academic preparation
is also somewhat at fault in this day of mass education.
Chiefly so because it never stops long enough to "take
stock" nor Rive boys and girls a chance to find out
what they can do.
The idea of keeping a boy who is ffoingr to make
a lawyer or preacher in college until he gets his degree,
in the meantime giving him little or no time for prac
tice or apprenticeship in his chosen profession, is not
ilrogether sound. Young men and womc, should be
be given the opportunity to first find out what they ran
b' i' do. ' Larn to do by doing" coulil be profitably
applied t -more trades and professions today than
firming, printing and merchandising.
It is unfortunate that apprenticeships' are no
longer required in most of the trades and professions
Time once was the writer can remember it. whn
a honling was stressed less and . practice and - apprenticeship-
much more than todav. Perhaps the best
thing that enn be said about getting in all the prac
tice we can. while studying the theory in school, is
that it helps your...! men and women to "discover"
themselves, to find by actual -practice whether they
..in Mtf.'.dTor their chosen profession or not
M in a young man has started out to "make" a
.preacher and. with fond parents backing him with
then- all, has gone through the schools only to find out
when he got into the work that he couldn't "preach a
lick". . .or rather the people found it out for him.
And the same is true of lawyers There are men
'practicing a little law" today who would have made
good at something else had they only discovered them
selves in time.
Just think of the time, talent and money that
could be saved if our schools of law, theology, etc ,
would only formulate a plan whereby students could
have more practive and less theory! Thereby helping
bewildered, unsettled boys and girls to first find out
what they are best fitted for certainty to find out
what they are not fitted tor
"THE LETTER KaLETIT"
1 believe it was Paul who with reference to the
law of the Pharisees, declared that "the letter killeth '
And this truth has more than one meanins and appli
cation. . ,it can also be applied to our modern system
of schools and colleges. The practice of going to school
continuously, year after year, stuffing, stuffing, analyz
ing, theorizing with little opportunity for prakice,
tends to crush the spirit of normal yoiuh. The greatest
service the schools can render is to first help the youth
of our land to "discover themselves." i. e. first find their
calling, and then tram them for it. This they are
neglecting too milch to do.
THE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
By stressing vocational study more In the high
schools, much of the abuse mentioned above could be
corrected. , Really, this is where the vocational school
should get in its best work, during high school age.
School men have seen the great need of this vocational
Instruction and practice at this age, and are now mak
ing room for business courses, agriculture, mechanical
and home making classes, beginning at the 8th grade.
Our own Waynesville high school was one of the
first in the state to recognize this need; and now we
have courses In Business, Home Economics and Agri
culture that would be a credit to larger schools.
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Random
SIDE
GLANCES
By W. CURTIS RUSS
Not that it matters, but it was 85
weeks ago that this column was
started. Kigtity-nve times have I
pecked ir this "pillar" of hits and
misses how time flies.
Friday morning- I played the part
of a touristthat is, I assumed the
role in my imagination in that I
went to about ten hotels and board
ing houses on a civic matter.
At each place, I tried to feel that
I too was "up for the summer" and
glanced around to see what impress
ed me most. I tried to forget that
I knew anything locally. . .1 was a
total stranger.
At the Dunham House a young lady
was making arrangements for a trip
to Chimney -Ruck, and thi? display of
enthusiasm thrilled rue to the ' point
where I wanted to up and go along.
Others were talking about a hike here,
a trip thure, or something outstand
ing there. . .and really, it was interesting.
And before I forget it, have you
ever wondered how the town would
look if it were built some other 'way
than what is it. , .t have a number
of times, and the best way to get an
idea of how it. would look if turned
exactly around, just look in the rear
view mirror of your car.
Last week when the Weather was
a little "unusual" I told Miss Sylla
Davis and S. H. Bushnell, who suffer
with the heat during those "unusual"
spells in their office over this on, that
they might cool each other off b?
telling ghost stories many a chill has
raced down my spine while, hearing
such tales.
But I doubt if they've tried that
method to keep cool as yet. . .neither
have been seen wearing winter coats. .
Dan Watkins told a group last week
that while in school he acquired the
habit, along with all the other stu
dents, of licking their dessert when
first going to the table in-order that
no one else would grab it later.
I just learned where the first baby
born in- the Haywood Hospital is now
living in Chicago. A real boy, too.
His first name Is Haywood. If things
pan out, we'll have his likeness, etc.
soon. . .
Inci'lentlr. the lad's father, Mr."
Miller, and Dr. Nick Medford went
bear hunting some years ago, and
somehow, managed to kill a bear, but
seven miles from the car. After
helping carry the bear the seven .miles.
Mr. Miller remarked: '.'The next time
I kill a bear, its going to he in the
middle of the road."
A number of people have been in
terested in knowing who drew the
likeness of Uncle Abe. It was none
other than his daughter, and he posed
for the picture (but between you
and I, he spliced two cigars together
for the picture. He never owned one
that long in his life.)
In it necessary for tii-v sr'rls who
are working their way through col
lege ( ?) gelling magazines, to get right
in your face to spill their line of sales
talk?' :.
It is not often that I have a menu
printed In the "unknown language"
thrust upon, me. but it seems that
they are a nuisance -few people can
read 'em, and the rest of us have to
take pot luck in getting one of the
six things we can eat, and as the old
farmer said "I'm ag'n it'" I
A pitiful sight is to see a man chew
ing tobacco in a crowd, and nowhere
Id spit, or should I aay expectorate?
A home without flowers looks like
"airis not there few things are as
inexpensive as flowers, yet they add
so much.
First lawyer: "You're a cheat."
Second lawyer: "You're a liar."
Presiding judge: "Now that these
two attorneys have identified each
other, we will proceed with the case."
Two-Minute
Sermon
By Thomas Hastwell
HE PURPOSED IN HIS HEART
Voung Daniel had been brought a
?iptive of war to the palace of the
'ing Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon. In
stead of being subjected to the hard
ruel treatment usually accorded a
ive, which Daniel has every right
".o expect, he was notified that he with
i number of others had been set apart
f r special training and instruction,
and, that he would be fed with meat
from the king's table. The circum
stances were such that it would have
been easy for this young man, many
miles from home, among strangers,
to accede to the wishes of the king
and to have partaken of the king's
meat and wine. No one would have
been the wiser. Why brook the king's
d spleasure and run chances of being
assigned to the usual hard and cruel
lot of a common slave? The temp
tation Was strong, but Daniel did not
hesitate or waver. He purposed in
his heart. All of the success, all o
the honor that come to Daniel in his
eventful life came because of his
ability to purpose in his heart, to set
his mind resolutely to the right. This
might well be a text or a plan for
every young man's life. With such a
plan any young man cart go far. To
day more than ever before in the
history of the human race is there
need for men with the courage and
the strength of purpose to "purpose
in their hearts."
Mi
amages
(As Recorded to Monday Noon
of this Week)
Ctetus Moore to Nora Bryant, both
of Leicester.
Clarence Trull, of Cruso, to Thelma
Green, of Canton.
Harold Pressley to Eula Whitmire,
both of Canton.
Marion Green, of Waynesville, to
Zamie Burgess, of Cove Creek.
.Walter 0. Neil to Annie Hooper,
both of Cruso.
Fred Thompson to Celia Limey,
both of Clyde.
to
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K'ill.
chased a .Metz runaiC, P
Mr. Jarvu Coman. t r T,, .
Saturday in town on ouvC ' s,1t
Mrs. James R. P.,.,-., T "
athiiiiV Creek, soerr ' "' 11 A-
town shopping. '" J-:a5'
Rlaclrwll-Rnl,.,,.M l
lias purcha
two-Dassenfirer mna,,,t r "--"bed.
It . . ,
miss .;i.a Auams, 0f p-
rivea uu aionuay tjr a v
mower, airs. aicu. AJam.
Miss Eva Howell, 0f Sheib-
it-inn. Vint mo ., n 4-
Jonathan's Creek.
Mr. T. L. Gwyn and g
C. C. Middleton, are spending,
days in town.
Mr. Cfianes Knight U spend-ne
eral weeks as the guest of huti
mus uouise ana Mlss Qvr, JL
the guests of relatives.
Miss Sarah Staples, 0f tfcjsvil
is the guest of he sister, Mr s
Bushnell.
Mr. Charles Adams, of Oklaboi
City, arrived on Saturday u- a ,
LU 1113 laiCllba,
mm xjuuvm Alien nas ret'iir
uuiu a viaii iu iiiss LUia Ultmora
ilvl iiunie in utjsou v. rvy,
Supt. W. C. Allen and Col. W.
Hannah last week attended '( -meeting
of the General Encarcpmu
of Odd Fellows of N'or'.h Carolm
Prof. Allen was the genera! patria!
and the presiding officer. '
One of the prettiest parties of t ,
season was the bridge given by M r
Joe Graves at the Graven Farm t
Wednesday afternoon, comp!irnn:ar
to Mrs. rrank Kmsey and Mj
cnanes ferguson, nouse gutts
Mrs. S. T. Graves.
The secretary of the Haywood Co
ty Fair informs us that the nianai
ment is making every effort to haY
better farm and stock exhibits, bettj:
attractions and a better fair in eveij
way. The air ship, of the flying ra
chine is a much talkeil of instrumefc
now a days, and its feats are attra$
ing the world and provoking iis a
plause. The management of the fs
is now working to have one of th
man birds to give exhibitions liafi.
during the fair and the indications
that the efforts now being made
prove successful.
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