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THURSDAY, APRIL 16. PAGE 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER iHamttainrrr 1'ublishea Hy THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. l'horif 13? Main SI rod W.iynt-.svilii-. X. l. ! W. UUSS Editor ' W. (!. ItutM and M. T. lii i.U'i-s. I'u iilishcis 1'1,'liM.SHKU KVIMIV THURSDAY SintSCIIIl'TION KATKS Yen. In County $1-00 (i MuiiUim, 1 ri County 5 J 1 Year. Outside of llaywouii County $1.50 SutjHciiilioiiH payable in advance Kntereii at tin- post otlici- at W.-iynesville, N. C, as Ht-nuiicf Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 17, November 20', l'JXi. North Carolina THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936 A SYMPATHETIC COMMUNITY It was clearly demonstrated last week that this community is truly a most sympathetic one, when they opened their pocketbooks and contributed $250.00 to the Red Cross for flood and storm sufferers. On IYiday afternoon the members of the Rotary Club made a canvass of the community and received $200. This has been forwarded to Red Cross headquarters. Never before in the history of this nation, has major disasters been so frequent as in the past six months. Snow storms, blizzards, and wind made it the worst winter in years. And as spring approached, the rivers and streams rose and did untold damage taking life as well as destroying property. And while the floods were still raging, the south was stricken with tornadoes, with North Carolina getting a part' of one. On every hand and at; present rather close home we find communities in destitute cir cumstances, and we feel that the liberality with which the people of this community have con tributed to these sufferers expresses their wil lingness to help. Thus far this community has been most fortunate in never having to call for help. THE DRIVERS' LICENSE LAW A total of 2c'00 automobile drivers' licenses have been revoked since the law went into effect, according to an announcement from .Ral eigh recently. The majority of those, having their licen .ses revoked were charged with driving while under the influence of liquor. About GOO were charged with reckless driving. The effectiveness of the drivers' licenso law will be determined when the officers and courts strictly enforce that part of giving the defendant the maximum sentence when caught driving after having had his license revoked. WRANGLING COUNTIES It is quite interesting to stand by and watch, or perhaps we should have said listen, instead of watch, the wrangling of MUehelL Yancey and Avery Counties with Asheville over the proposed state road to the -top of Mt. Mit chell. ; The three counties are claiming that Ashe ville has shown a selfish attitude towards the matter, while. Asheville comes back with the fact that more money has been spent in the three counties per capita for roads in the past few years than has been spent in .Buncombe Such controversies as this one never settle a question. The ultimate result will probably be a break in friendship between the counties involved, and no material gain made for either. NOBODY KNOWS Nobody knows about money, and everybody knows that ncbody knows anything about it. And that ia about all anybody knows about money, Arthur Brisbane has this to say about it, but knows that he doesn't know anything about the coin of the realm: "There is plenty of money in this country, billions of it, Jesse H. Jones will tell you, but it is not circulating. "You kiww the strange, perhaps true story of a man who unknowingly passed a counter feit $10 bill. It went through the hands of 10 individuals, paid for $100 worth of goods, and came back to the man who originally passed it. He identified it and destroyed it. "One hundred dollars worth of debts had been paid, nbody was any the worse. Money is a queer thing."- Ex. NORTH CAROLINA'S INCOME In the current issue of the University News Letter, a very interesting tabulation is shown as to the sources of revenue received by the state of North Carolina, and a similar tabula tion regarding the expenditures. Nonh Carolina's total revenues for 193j totaled $50,983,000. The sources were as fol lows : Income tax .$ 7,482,000 14.7; Gasoline tax 17,334,000 34.0 Automobile licenses 7,643,000 15.0 Franchise taxes 6,681,000 13.1 Non-tax revenue 1,594,000 3.1 Privilege licenses . 1,728,000 3.4' Inheritance taxes 502,000 1.0 Sales tax 7,654,000 15.0 Beer tax 365,000 0.7 , Total . . . $50,983,000 100.0 Expenditures Debt service $14,053,000 27.6 Highway maintenance 9,426,000 18.5 Social welfare , . . 1,486,000 2.9 Legislative, executive, admin istrative and judicial . . 2,193,000 4.3 Higher educational institutions 1,303,000 2.5 Public schools ....... 16,665,000 32.7 Pensions . , . . 626,000 1.2 Highway construction .... 190,000 0.4 Surplus 5,041,000 9.9 These figures in comparison with those of other years show quite a bit of difference. In 1924 the total of all state revenue was $1(5,500, 000. In 1929 it was practically doubled for $32, 700,000. No surplus was had in either 1921 or 1929 there being about a million dollar de ficit in 1924 and a deficit of $117,000 in 1929. The combination of sales and beer tax ac counted for about one million dollars in 1935. THE OLD HOME TOWN by STANLEY IS IT TO LAUGH? . This incident is related: A business man of limited means, so limit ed that he was unable to indulge' in wholesale philanthropies, became interested some months ago in a German boy of 20 who sorely needed work. He paid for an advertisement in a farm paper offering the services of the boy for $10 a month for living expenses and a home. lie received 300 offers of jobs for the Ger man.; Then having placed this friend, he thought so well of the idea that he began going from one relief agency to another trying to find men on the dole who would take the other 2!)!) jobs available. Eventually he gave it up when not a single man on relief would agree to take such work. The gentleman said that some of the relief authorities joined in with those on the dole in laughing at such a proposition. And, come to think about it, it is funny if patriots can laugh at. incidents like that! Charlotte Observer. ADVANTAGES OF FARM LIKE Even if it weren't worth a very great deal to be in any vocation which you really like, I wonder if you've ever had pointed out these in herent advantages of rural life as listed by Dr. O. E. Baker, of the U. S, Department of Agri culture: . 1. A farmer has more and better food to eat than have most people in cities 2. Tfe has better health and lives longer. 3. He accumulates more property than the average city resident. 4. He is more likely to enjoy his work than are most city people. ' 5. He is likely to enjoy a better family life. Dr, Baker's statements are all backed by the actual facts. He says that young people who reach the age of 17 are likely to live three to five years longer in the country than in the city. Also from the money standpoint, though you may not believe it, the states with the high est average or per capita wealth are all domin antly agricultural states. There are other decided advantages that should not be over-looked: 1. Fundamentally, the country is more beautiful than the city. The artistic and es thetic value of the rural panorama tree and plant and bird and insect and ever changing sky is incalculable. 2. The country is more conducive to clear thinking and to leisurely living than city. Life in the city is always geared to high speed. 3. i The country offers wider opportunities for recreation than the city, if the advantages are utilized. If, however, any girl or boy is so minded that social advantages can never mean anything but those that must be purchased, such as movies, flashy parties, or commercializ ed sports, he or she will probably never be satis fied on a farm. Alexander Nunn, in The Pro gressive Farmer. BUT TME.RES THE HOME OFTMEj j JU) TOWM CHAMPIPN5 - THE 1 yLlJ QllW CHAMPION PLAIN Si TTEr?-JiJr- J ' S-ll 'fL THE CM AM Pi ON "SOFT fAL 7 Q-&yJP WOOD -JHlTTLEte ANU Sa5-C ".v J "THEIR MAW, CHAMPION 5Ly $ (j ' CHAIR 7? r V iH 1 KNITTER 18 KODTrAk jj ,X JT WITHOUT A STOP-- S3- JL!S, i l1t T9S , v USING. SOflE f ZZ'j i THE 5TRANCER IN ToWM LOOKING. FOR A VtV SITE To START A RUBBES BI?ED BoARDfcl TW FACToreY WAS TAKEN BY THE HOME Br MARSHAL CTEY WALKED TofAr J tmMCf 23 Years Ago in Haywood Random SIDE GLANCES liy W. CURTIS RUSS W. R. Woodall, manager of West ern Carolina Creamery, has just com pleted his "experimental chicken yard" next to his place of. busi ness, and will feed the White Leg horn hens different kinds of dairy products to see what effect it has on their laying. If it continues to rain much inure, Mr. Woodall might have to substitute ducks for his hens, as the water seems to .seek his chicken lot for a ponding place; A pitiful sight the other morning was a man who must have weighed every bit of 300 pounds, leading a calf that must have been two days old. If you were' not one of those at tending the "freak show" at the Park Theatre last Thursday or Friday you missed something. A new develop ment in films called "audioskopics" was given, and never before have I felt like I've been hit in the face as mm li us at that show. The pictures give depth as well as height and width. They are in" col ors, and just by looking at them with the naked eye they appear like a nta$s of colored ,splotches, but the two-colored glasses handed to each person in the audience solved the problem. Editor The Mountaineer: We are now entering into another politi.al campaign which seems as if it might be one of the most intense in the annals of our country, both state and nation. The main isue in the National campaign seems to be the New Deal under which our Government is now functioning. All the figures we see for the last three years indicate that our country, in many ways, is no better off than it was five years ago when President Hoover was predicting that prosper ity .was just around the corner. To some extent the country is not much better off than it was when President Koosevelt began his New Deal pro gram three years ago. The number of the unemployed has possibly been greatly reduced, but it is still un comfortably large. The Public Debt is getting larger and larger and ex penses for each day of the year of the National Government are as great now as tor a whole year a cen tury ago. , The tragic part -of all this seems to be, that no end seems to be in sight yet and no one seems to have a plan whereby we may be lifted permanent ly from this state of conditions. One thing, however, is undeniable. While we have been going in debt, we have more general distribution of the National income, and, in part, of the National ' capital stock now than we had three years ago. Our banking institutiwns are on a safe basks, a condition which en courages more people to trust them with their money. Our farmers have been receiving more for their pro ducts; the numerous relief projects are placing money in the pockets of the unemployed; the merchants and business men are prospering; and our factvriot; are running even though with limited production. When one views the unending stream, of fine cars which travel our highways and stand parked on our streets, it almost makes us believe Mi- Mr. David Miller went on Saturday night. Mr. Bill Schauffle went on Wednesday for the day. ""' Editor Horace Sentelk , "t,'f , ton Observer, wtui here th: w, , Mrs. Riley Ferguson and ! . ter, Miss Fannie, were in .'.'' Thursday. Miss Meta Adams arrive,! v . ... from Raleigh, and will be th," her parents. Lieutenant Henry Lee is . vj home next week. ,v T T n A ,1 . r -hi. u . v. niiams, OI 1 ei;f in town this week, the s? ., parents. Miss Hazel Killian's cou Williams, who has been 1 , J j:- ii t-uncsuay jor UOnvtl.- (' ,'. to resume her studies. Miss Dollie Lee gave an ; n -, , ,. caiij ai ut?i iiume on walnut - last Wednesday evening. ;: was played. Mr. C. W. Miller, Jr., ha, (.r.. lt,; a very pretty bungalow coving , Haywood street next door t0 y' father's place. There is being built quite an a nex to Eagles Nest Hotel and en'a- ing the dining hall at least uiie-tk.rV There will be about 25 extra ruoj, , some of them with private baths. James and Hilliard Atkins are t-e0--ing on Main street, a splenilM br.x structure two stories high, 'flic fiv floor will contain a store room iin.i a modern playhouse "The Wavm-wnoj Theatre." ' The Greater Western N. C. Ass a tion is getting out its summer bookli" and all hotels and boardinir IkiusV desiring to appear in this booklet ar requested to send in full infuirmatk about accommodations, rati.s, sur roundings, etc., that will help a pros, pective visitor to make up his tniM, The Board of Trade has mailed a meeting of all its members and other citizens of Waynesville at the ourt house on Monday night at 8 oM.h'k tn discuss questions of good roads nnj other matters of importance. ing place around the corner. The critics continue to tell us of the cost of the New Deal, but otfer )) remedy for its shortcomings. . They say that the Government miist nit let anyone go hungry; must take car.' of the farmer; must give all worihy laborers employment, but never tvl. how these things can be provided for except by some such methods as havo been employed in the past three years. As every well informed perwr, knows, permanent prosperity is to be attained only through some ine-tlwl of fairer distribution of our National income. .!. A. FRANCIS. The folks in the picture looked as if they just stepped right out into the audience. One time a clock was push ed right into our faces. But the mnyt "n:i inf ill tf nil w-w ih.i li-.iui.i ball pitcher. He threw three times, I that prosperity has come from its hid and each one was a strike, and r'irVlt" I ' - on the nose. It was a queer feeling. seeing a ball coming straight for your face and at the same time knowing no harm would be done. Slave Holder, in 1860 The United States census of ISCjI. shows .there Were at that time ll.iCi:! slaves. One of the striking and li'ili' appreciated facts 'shown' ly lliis yn sirs Is that loss lliiiii .' per roil! of IV .southern whites were slave-bold'". 'V total number of o.xvners -.lieifi M vvt In the (loc-i'lp 1s.-,,i.:-. ; i lai ' si.in' holders had iin-reased ' Mioro cm ; . i . ! : v than the smaller "lies. At l!i i: 'iiii' Kl.li'iT ow.'iors liolil oO or nio;i' s! :i apioce. L'.-.'irJ held P'li or h,h:t oxviimI Jon nr more ; I I r.oo , n in"! one over 1.WHI. 'I'ih' ii;:..'-t i,; oVi:i"'s lioliiini." One slave :):' And to cap it all, a man with a shot gun, aimed and tired it point blank into the face of the audience. It was the first time I've ever looked down the barrel of a shot gun and seen the load coming out and I trust the last. .Someone said the other day that a certain man in Waynesville must think the world of his wife, since he takes her everywhere he goes. To that remark, one who knew the facts in the case said: "He don't take her places because he loves her, but in order that he won't have to kiss her good-bye." Of course I realize that last week should have been the time to talk about Easter eggs, but even this week there is some evidence that the Easter egg season is not far gone. Eve ry time I think or hear of Easter eggs, I recall the time when a large Sunday school hunt was staged, and the per son who had charge of boiling the eggs did not have the practical ex perience, and did not let them get done. Now if you can' picture what a mess 70 or 80 children about 6ix or seven years old made, each with about four half-boiled Easter eggs, you will readily realize why the superintendent of the junior , depart ment of the Sunday school resigned. It was the biggest mess ever seen in the town since the day of the cyclone. And while on the subject of eggs, there are perhaps more ways of cook ing eggs than any other one thing and by the way, if you want to see several piece,, of hen fruit, visit the creamery some day when the truck returns from the route, and you'll probably see six to seven hundred dozen. WOMEN FIRE-WALKERS A strange cult of women that defy fire, secure in the belief that their faith will not let them be burned. Read this unusual story in the April 19 issue of the American Weekly, the big magazine which comes every Sun day with the BALTIMORE AMERI CAN. Get your copy from your newsdealer. A FAMOUS FAMILY OF MEN'S HATS BYRON - DUNLAP - KNOX v:. E.: RAY'S ; SONS A COMPLETE CLOTHING SERVICE Try At Home First You Will Never Regret It "C U S T 0 M E R S" The man who said that Druggists didn't live lontr it just seemed long evidently didn't know the class of people who trade with us. The hours are long and tiring in the drug business, and since this is practically put whole life (in fact we almost live at the store) we would really have a hard row to hoe if our customers were un pleasant. So here's a boquet to the nicest bunch of cus tomers that we have ever served in our 30 years in the drug business. '' '.T . .;'- v". ,:""v."v '"'.' ASK Y O UR DOCTOR ALEXANDER'S DRUGSTORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR PROTECTION
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