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r M ,41: PAGE TWO THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, NOVEMBi The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (One Year, In Haywood County $1.60 Six Months, In Haywood County .75 One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entered at the post office at Waynesville, N. C., as Second Class Mail Miittsr, iis provided under the Act of March J, 1879, November 20, 1814. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and all notices of entertainments for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. t North Co rolina XPBESS ASSOCIATION ?1 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937 , , FEARLESS FIREMEN A mere editorial today thanking the mem bers of the Waynesville fire department for the manner in which they combatted the - t fire in this newspaper plant last Thursday morning would in no way begin to repay them for the efficient work they did. Hampered by a thick, stifling smoke, and heat, the firemen were unable to accurately play their hose on the heart of the fire until sometime had passed, but nevertheless, they bravely entered the building, and went across a sinking concrete floor to save as much of the equipment and machinery as possible. Although the water froze under their feet, and on their clothing they fought on until v the last spark was out. A Only by taking their lives in their own hands, were they able to confine the blaze to a point over the boiler room. Otherwise, . the entire plant would have been lost. It was a stuborn fire, with no signs of a blaze until an hour after the building was discovered filled with smoke. Waynesville's fire department is compos ed of men who are not afraid to go after a blaze. And in thus humble way, we again repeat , we are indebted to you. ARMISTICE VS PEACE In 1917, thousands of America's young men joined the two branches of service, in what was then thought was a war to end war. Today 20 years later, the Far East crisis and the state of affairs in Europe, makes one wonder if all the sacrifice made in the World War by millions of Americans, to say noth ing of the scores of other nations, was in tomorrow, this country, along with the rest of the world, will observe the day that marked the signing of the Armistice. The signing of an Armistice, did not as sure the world peace only temporary peace. The meaning of an armistice is a brief ces sation of arms. Just the temporary suspen sion of hostilities by agreement. An armis tice is only the suspension of military oper ations by mutual agreement between belli gerent parties. It is unfortunate that the world, on to morrow, cannot celebrate Peace Day, instead of Armistice Day. TRUE FRIENDS , Newspapers consider publications in towns 'many miles away as competitors, and often the keenest kind of business rivalary is found between newspapers in different towns. In Haywood County, the two newspapers do not look on each other as competitors. This is further evidenced by the attitude taken by the Canton Enterprise this week. As soon as the publisher of The Enterprise learned of our plant being temporarly out of commission, he offered the facilities of his plant. And that is where this newspaper will be published until our plant is recon ditioned and running again. Publishing two newspapers in one plant will tax his shop, but that seemed to be sec i ondary consideration, as he and his staff un dertook the double task. Service from our commercial printing de partment will continue as in the past. All customers will be served with the same speed as in the past. Several plants in this territory have offer ed us the use of their mechanical equipment until ours is repaired. The Haywood Print ' Shop opened their doors to us. While it will take many hours of hard work to get our machines back in condition to run, we realize more than ever, that -those in the same business in this territory, are our friends. v A SOURCE OF PERMANENT WEALTH One of the best informed cattlemen of the South has just been over our mountain coun ties. He tells us that the number of beef cat tle in this territory is down about half and that lots and lots of good pastures are now .'owing up in blackberries and brush. VBeef cattle have always been a solid back ' X for farming in Western North Carolina, his mountain section is going to be pros 'ous, we must maintain beef cattle herds, in and year out beef cattle pay, and are rce of financial strength to the farmer owns a herd. Good quality beef cattle .ent a wonderful opportunity to the farm of Western North Carolina. Farmers -jeration. TURN 'EM LOOSE GUILTY OR NOT! In Philadelphia last week a ring of thir teen automobile thieves were brought into court and adjudged guilty by their own plea. The federal judge passed sentence "three years on probation." It was not enough that one or two of the ring would be allowed to go free. No, the entire band was turned loose upon society to continue their law-breaking. They will probaly profit from their experience of get ting caught this time and it will involve a far greater expense to round up the entire gang again. It is no wonder that there is so much law violation being practiced upon society today, with such a laxity in court judgment. And as long as such laxity continue, law violation will multiply as it has been doing in the past years. "Go and sin no more" was the gist of the court sentence for these thirteen men who admitted their guilt of stealing cars and ped dling them off here in Charlotte. But the average citizen interprets that sentence dif ferently as the criminal himself interprets it "Go and get caught no more." The Mecklingburg Times. In case youare interested, there are 36 shopping days until Christmas. COMPETITION The pineapple now bids fair to become a strong, although not the only, competitor of the hard-working silk worm, a way having been found to convert its fibers into "silk." Invention has become so ingenious convert ing plant life into serviceable cloth that it would occasion only mild surprise to learn that a good quality of sandpaper is being made from spinach. Christian Science Mon- HUI. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY (BEEN TTAKiNKEJ JJ V.Te TO A MINUTES HE fUSy HE s FUNNY U KE . JXJJWORSE THAT.' VMKEN STAMP COUJBC-TOr? POC PlUJSBURYl FOUND OUT HIS PATIENT ALSO A COLLECTOR. POC SPEMT THE WHOLE ArmriiOOM AT HIS BEP5IPE Weather ReDorts Are BaspH ' ' - M. i-VI M Action And Direction Off? !" ir. m. FORTY HOURS We've been breeding cows to give more milk, chickens .to lay more eggs and pigs to put on more fat. We've been encouraging our lands to pro duce greater yields and making machines to manufacture more shoes. Now comes the Black-Connery labor bill agitation to put us on a 40-hour week. I know of no successful man or woman in all history who ever got there on 40 hours a week. Make this a land of drones and smarter nations willing to work 50 or 60 hours a week will skin us alive in the competition of the world. Clayton Rand, In Gulf port (Miss ) Guide. OUR SYMPATHY The News-Herald was distressed to learn of the misfortune which befell the news paper plant of the -''Mountaineer at Waynes ville last Thursday when a fire with resulting water damage, caused both loss and incon venience to the splendid weekly newspaper published there by Messrs. Russ and Bridges. Mr. Russ, the editor, is president this year of the North Carolina Press Association. The meeting of the Association in Waynesville in 1936 was one of the most successful in recent years, with much of the credit due to the capable people who make the Mountaineer. Other newspaper people throughout the State will join us in sincere sympathy to Mr. Russ and associates in this trying exper ience. Morganton News-Herald. MODESTY PLUS LOYALTY Followers of football are watching closely every development in the Carolina and Duke teams, as the players prepare for their an nual game in Durham Saturday. Fans from every section of the State will attend, but right here in Waynesville there is one man who prefers to stay at home, and his reason is different from that of perhaps any other man in the state. ' Dr. Tom Stringfield has played for both institutions. He remains loyal to both teams, and has no favorite picked to win the annual game Saturday. He will not even go so far as to predict a winner, other than to say, both teams are good, and the one get ting the breaks will win. : Many people occupying the unique posi tion of Dr. Stringfield would no doubt be on hand in Durham Saturday seeking far-flung publicity from every conceivable source. But modesty, together with loyalty, keeps Dr. Tom home. ' Random S ID E GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS After such trying experience us a file, one might think that a col umn on that subject would be timely, and the easiest to write, but I lind it to the contrary. I am thinking right now of an event that was just the opposite of a misfortune. It happened six months ago. To be exact, it will be six months ago tomorrow that our daughter arrived. My brief column of that date was the cause of much comment for several weeks. Since that time I have not mentioned the baby, so after holding out for six mon ths, I would perhaps be justified in devoting this column to the subject this week, to -offset the blow of last Thursday's fire. Well, Marguerite is growing fast, is well, and naturally we think she is getting more precious every day. She weighs slightly more than 15 pounds, iind-has al-S ready learned that she has a tem per and appetite kindred to her daddy's. From her mother she gets her brown eyes, black hair, sweet dis position, and ability to smile. During the past week she has learned to make both ends meet. She can put her toes in her mouth. One of the cutest things a baby can do, and certainly something that few grown-ups can show them how to do, She prefers to keep her feet out ing bath but has yet to agree that to have them wrapped up. As long as someone is standing over her, playing with her, and giving her the utmost in enter tainment, there isn't thte slight est sound, except for a' continual coo. But the minute she finds she's alone, right then the world is told that something's wrong. . One of the oddest pieces of news of the week has to do with the tearing town of a filling station in Hendersonville, That was real news, until the next day, came the an nouncement, that one four times as large would be erected. A well known educator recently said that "Football is no longer a sport it is a busi ness." Certainly it is a growing, and profit able "business' as he terms it, since the pay ing customers are always waiting for more. No doubt China and Japan will celebrate Armistice Day with a ker-bang. An Indiana University professor claims that the ear excels the eye in responding to a traffic signal. He over-looked the fact that when a woman drives from the back seat that the tongue is the fastest. A group of scientists are spending consid erable time trying to determine where the rose smell goes. We are not concerned where smell goes, but what we want to know is where some smells come from. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have decided to postpone their trip to the United States. Maybe they figured that they had received enough publicity and just get a double dose by not coming over. ' She looks forward to her morn ing bath but hasyet to agree that her ears and face ever need wash ing. - Her favorite position is on her tummy, with thumb in her mouth feet uncovered ,'arid kicking as if swimming. Several weeks ago she learned that her mother is afraid of a mouse, so instead of crying when she wakes, : she merely has to scratch the pillow case and im mitate a gnawing mouse, and her mother is soon on hand. Her 17 toys receive rough treat ment, and her rag dog has literal ly lived a dog's life since she be came her owner. She has been chewed, kicked, licked, cryed at, and flung far and wide. It has been a short six months. During that time we have learned to live' all over. Everything is different. At one time we could get ready for a week-end trip in 15 minutes. Now it takes that long to check the long list of ne cessities that she requires: for 24 hours.; , : and while on the subject of babies, I promised LeRoy Davis long ago that he'd get his picture published when he could boast of the title of "daddy." Well, he's acquired that title, but the pho tographer says that the new daddy's head is so big that three different views would have to be taken to get it all in one picture. After walking a baby for three or four hours a night, I am told HEADLINES of The PAST NINETEEN YEARS AGO (From the files of Nov. 7, 1918) The Democrats Win Congress man Weaver succeed himself. Considerable building at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina's Wrongs Shown Up in Washington. Wagoner J. D. Messer in France. We're With You Mr. Wilson By Jesse Daniel Boone. The Western N. C. Livestock Show. . FIVE YEARS AGO (From the files of Nov. 3, 1932) Engineers now surveying Soco Gap Road. Car runs down 30 foot embank ment on Highway 10. Tannery Cutting Plant Begins Work. Largest Vote ever cast in Coun ty Expected here Tuesday. Which vvill wear the smile of Victory Roosevelt or Hoover? Your Country Needs Your Vote. ONE YEAR AGO (From the files of Oct. 29, 1936) Landon and Roosevelt- Both Confident of victory next Tuesday. W. Roy Francis on Speaking Tour in Piedmont section. .Office of Land O' The Sky Moveft. Picture of Check that Paid Jun aluska Debt. Bethel Boy Wins First Place in National Contest. Leaders of Both parties confi dent of victory next week. POINTED I PARAGRAPHS It seems that government of ficials are trying to prevent our ambitious farmers from exceeding the seed limit. A man is as old as he looks when he needs a shave; a woman as old as she looks right after washing her face. ' The school of experience can also boast that its students wear a uniform a pair of overalls. More than one man can tell you that when his wife drives the car that all he does is to sit in the front seat and steer. Troubles always seem to learn to add and multiply a lot easier than they do to subtract. When we're right we credit our judgment; when we're wrong we curse our luck. "Footprint on the sands of time are not made by sitting down." An instructive book is like preaching. The only people who will read it are the ones who don't need it much. An angry man at the wheel is often as dangerous as a drunken one.: Nothing is more suggestive that a town is dfaH that tr fiA i . w iiuu cl 1UC of buildings in dire need of paint. There's nrnfit thra t - . uaja in making almost anything but mis- A preacher says there are no divrces in heaven and another says that the reason is because there are no lawyers there to draw up the papers. Apparently the President is not worrying over the possibility of a third term, as he has snmpthmrt like three more years to serve in nis second term. that the swelling from the head acmes in me ieet and legs : At that time, LeRov. wo ,;n publish your picture, but only of your iace. Hall By Harry Hall Very early in life I became aware of the influence of wind upon the scheme of my then lit- I tie world. Being hustled a few times into a Kansas Cyclone Cellar be fore I was old en ough to be proud of my first pair of pants, made a last ing impression up on my embryonic mind. Later on, through out my years in sailing ships and in steam ships as well, 1 learnea further that wind was a factor i reckon with. To welcome in its happy, peaceful moods as the power to drive our winged ships over the ocean in swift and com fortable voyage from port to port; or to dread in its wild, angry roaring tempests, lashing the sur face of the sea and filling the air with shrieks and blasts of un earthly voices; a hell far beyond any descriptive power of mine; making us fight for our very lives with all the knowledge of seaman ship and storm laws we possessed. What is this force we call wind? How does it act to influence our weather? Wind is air in approxiamtely horizontal motion. Observations of wind should always include its direction, its force and its speed as it moves over the earth's surface. Winds are caused by belts or zones of different atmospheric pressures. A knowledge as to the nature of air is necessary to an understanding as to how it can be set in motion by these differences of pressure. The atmosphere has been liken ed to a sea of air at the bottom of which we live and extending to a distance above us that has as yet only been estimated. Its pres sure decreases as the altitude in creases because of the lessoning of the weight of the air itself that still is contained in the space above. This air is a mixture of transparent gasses which are elas tic and highly compressible. It is very light, but yet has a weight which can be measured. At usual pressure and temperature a cubic foot of air weighs 1.22 ounces or about 7-770th part of the weight of an equal amount of water. Because of this weight air ex erts a pressure upon the earth's surface, averaging about fifteen pounds per square inch. To mea sure this ever changing pressure we make use of an instrument known as a barometer. The mer curial barometer is a tube in which a column of mercury is bal anced against the weight of the outside air at any special time and place is known as the atmospheric or barometric pressure for that time and location. In place of calling this pressure as shown by the barometer as so many pounds per square inch we say that it is a certain number of inches of mercury that many inches in height, and one square inch in cross section. All gases, including air, are very sensitive to heat, ex panding or increasing in volumn as the temperature rises and con tracting or diminishing as the temperature falls. This is the ac tion of the air which causes winds. If the atmosphere oyer any large area of the earth's surface is maintained at a temperature in excess of that of its surroundings the warm air expands and the up per layers of it will flow off to adjacent regions, becoming cooled as they go. The Pressure of the atmosphere at sea level through out the heated regions Will thus be lowered, while that over the circumjacent cooler areas will be proportionately increased. As a result of these differences in sea level pressures there will be a movement oi :-, from the -. . , pheric pro. .... (pressure aio; oi the sea lev,--! , pressure dinW results in w;-. ume or strew-;: difference in and their nea; -.( The closer thr- , steeper the r:, of high and 1 ,'.. and therefor and violenth thereby inert-;, :; the resulting :l, Many chap,-..... ten, many ;.-.., weather cond duced from t change of air li as the result ut i ations. There L for an article m all over the wo (Continue ;3V i ::e i'es The - g:vi H' t .Vfc to Pr - thd face have m pi. loo this lcTth, Wayned Novemb Waynesville Mountain Waynesville, N. C, A bit of news that interest to you. End cupping which appeal Asheville Time.-," two Robert Davis, of ' (Asheville scenic to J who has a rol with in Metro-Goldyn-MsJ Four Marys" spoilt th in Asheville and Way! was the guest of Mrs. I and lamily Ihursday e is the son of Mr. Jinf I Fines Creek. He and his wife, t Miss Myra Boyd, ietun ly wood Friday, where sume his role in "Lovel ache", with Metro-Gol er. Your truly, Mable Clark. Fair an Warm lay and v This w Tod Day IF YOU LSI GREA HEAR COAL IT'S HOT LITTLE X AM) thr; Waynesv Coal Cd Phone 21 The Real Yardstick Mother and daughter can secure their toilet nec4 a department store, Dad can buy his cigarette the rnrnpr nrnrorii nnJ Unia .Tnhnnv can sw ""vi, auu Aiiu w , , nickle for When it mmPC n' nrocrrinHnnC hp wliolt1 fa.rt1" rely on their druggist. tu: . .. . . : . ' j.rr ctnre sh(f aius ueing irue, tne worm oi a wi"h J. j uus y me cnaracier oi lis iiion'i "" that's the yardstick we WANT you to apply stitution. 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