THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, i93g
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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
WHY SOME PRAYERS FAIL: Ye lust, and have
not: yc kill, and desire to have, nnrf cannot obtain: ye
fight and uar yet ye hax'e not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, ainl receive not, because ye ask ainiss, that ye
may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:2, G.
HONOR A BOY HERO
Life everyday presents its heroes who de
serve the acclamation of the world no less than
those who die on the battlefields.
Of course, we do not hear of all acts of
bravery, but one day this month a Maryland
home caught on fire. All of the family escaped
except two small boys, six and four years old.
An older brother, James Haddick, 17, died in a
vain attempt to rescue them.
Hearing the younger boys' screams, he
broke away from those restraining him and
clashed into the burning house. Later, he was
seen to reach the door with one of them in his
arms but staggered and fell back into the .flames,
James probably did not stop to think of the
danger to himself when he answered the cries
of distress that came from his small brothers.
Some may content themselves with the observa
tion that !he should have been more cautious in
view of the improbability of effecting a rescue.
However, millions of people everywhere,
who hear of his deed, will laud his brave and
self-effacing act in the face of danger, knowing
quite well that the future of the human race
depends upon the impulse that moves men and
women to sacrifice tihemselves for others.
LET'S WAGE WAR UPON SYPHILIS
One of the nation's leading magazines.
The Ladies Home Journal, is conducting a cam
paign amontg the women of the country, de
signed to enlarge the national fight on syphilis.
In a page newspaper advertisement, the editors
asked women everywhere to write a letter to
their congressman, urging passage of the bill
introduced in the Senate by Senator Robert
M. LaFollette and in the House by Representa
tive A. L. Bulwinkle, which plans an attack to
stamp out syphilis in this country.
We have not read the bill but the magazine
calls attention to the facts that 60,000 babies
are born with syphilis each year, that 40,000
people a year die of cardiac conditions caused
by syphilis, that $10,000,000 a year is spend
for the syphilitic blind, that $31,400,000 a year
is spent for the syphilitic insane, that 683,000
syphilitic cases are now under treatment and
that in one city 44 out of every 1,000 expectant
mothers were infected.
"The only possible enemies that this meas
ure will save," says the editors of the maga
zine, "are inertia and indifference. If this bill
is passed, all' it will cost is twenty cents a year
per person. That is much less than the present
cost of caring for syphilitic blind and insane
alone." ..'
As the New York Times has so "well said,
"Experience has shown that the words 'syphilis'
and 'gonorrhea' must be used in print if vener
eal diseases are to be controlled." Certainly
the time ihas come for plain speaking everywhere
and for wide education among all people in re
gard to matters of sex. The literature of today
discusses this subject with a frankness which
would have seemed incredible not many years
ago and The Mountaineer offers no apology for
calling the subject to the attention of its readers.
It is just about this time of year that busi
ness men begin thinking excuses for going
. fishing.
It may be human nature to criticise others,
but we find it hard to understand those who
never find anything good anywhere.
An expert is a man who thinks he knows
it all without studying any more.
TOUGH ON LEGISLATORS
If the State Bar Association, which has
opened a campaign to bring about reform in the
system of appointment of justices of the peace
in North Carolina, is successful in doing any
thing about it in the next legislature, the law
yers will have preformed a great service to
the State, but they should consider the hard
ships that will be inflicted on many legislators
who have promised magistracies to their cam
paign workers as a reward for their services in
the campaign. For in the past justices of the
peace have been appointed almost entirely on
the basis of political services to legislators
rather than on their qualifications as judicial
officers.
As a consequence of this system of selection
of justices of the peace, as Francis E. Winslow,
president of the State Bar Association said in
Raleigh in an address before the Wake County
Bar Association in opening the campaign for re
form in the manner of appointment, "in spite
of this fantastic system, there is a small and
courageous minority of magistrates who still
manage to carry on their duties with nobility
and self-respect which lift them above the mul
titude", but at the same time it ha3 created many
other justices of the peace who are of the oppo
site type and character who misuse and abuse
the authority and responsibility of their office.
Winslow severely condemned the system
as one which creates out of the ihigh office of
justice of the peace "a business which depends
upon convicting so many head a month" and
permits the indiscriminate and wholesale ap
pointment of justices as a reward for political
services. And while stating that his attack
would be upon the system and was not directed
toward any individual justices, he bitterly con
demned those magistrates who corrupted their
offices for personal gain.
"We all know J, T's who have convicted
appearance bonds to their own use; who have
pocketed fines; who issue warrants for offenses
over which t'hey have no jurisdiction and col
lected costs thereon; who bulldoze and intimi
date humble defendants who render judgments
by default without notice, who solicit accounts
for collection, who always fix judgments for
their regular customers, who regularly decide
cases from personalities, prejudices or favori
tism and who are otherwise lacking in upright
character," Winslow asserted. Gates County
Index.
CANCEL THE ORDER
We had always thought that the reason it
was vital to increase this country's annual in
come up to a hundred billions, or thereabouts,
was to bring to an end this business of relief
of all kinds, to make everybody sufficient unto
himself with money in two banks and a house
with Southern exposure and a rumpus room.
We had thought, without really having given
any great thought to it, that Government was
only stepping in because it had to during the
acute stringency of a national income ranging
between a miserable 40 billions and 60 billions.
But not so.
Not so according to Senator George of
Georgia, anyhow. After the President's speech
at Gainesville Wednesday, he said :
"The President is eternally right in his po
sition that the national income must be increas
ed. Our national income must go to $100,000,
000,000 to enable us to meet the inescapable
demands on government."
If the first reason for gearing up our eco
nomy to a hundred-billion rate of production is
simply to enable the politicians to appropriate
in the style to which they have become accus
tomed during an emergency, we believe, for our
own part, that we'd just as soon do without the
rumpus room. Charlotte News.
! Tf' Vinti. oiran IflWirflrc ty flHmit
that they don't know the law.
The world, in general, is not interested in
the individual Who has a good excuse.
The trouble with most plans for efficiency
in government is that it means few jobs to distribute.
We may have passed the horse and buggy
era but there's many a human ox pulling a heavy
load. "f
THE OLD HOME TOWN
Roger Babson says that farmers who raise
spinach are making money. And yet, what is
money, with a troubled conscience? Detroit
News. -
After seeing pictures of advance models
of the 1938 bathing suits, we have come to the
conclusion that there will not be much on the
subject.
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GLANCES
By W. Curtis Russ
We suppose if a newspaper columnist should
ever die a violent death it would be spoken of as
killing the goof that relayed the olden gag.
The Ohio State Journal.
Mrs. Gwyn in her "Here and There''
and Uncle Abe, frequently make
mention of my dislike for poetry, and
prose. They are absolutely correct,
but since it's spring, I'm giving over,
and reprinting an article, which
conies under the head of prose, that
was first published in The Rico
Dove Creek (Colo.) News:
As the slow dragging andante and
falsetto of Lohengrin's wedding
march was fading then pealing in
air, Mrs. Marcelia Davis strummed
the ivory keys unto a. higher pitch
as the little flower girl, mystically
wonderful, threaded her winding
along the aisle, strewing (lowers upon
the floor, fit emblems which fill with
hope the human heart aw; strength
en it to bear the storms of
life. Once again the magic
fingers touched the ivory keys,
and rich music melting and tender
like love's tear filled eyes, mellow and
rich as an old painting rare, spark
ling and gay like imperial gems and
chaste and refined like the face of a
muse, bowed like a rivulet through
the quietness of the room, as the
bride stepped forth like some lovely
star from a frosty sky, fresh and crisp
like the mountain breeze, touched by
golden ingots from some treasured
isle.
Clinging upon her father's arm she
passed o'er the rose petals strewn
along the bridal pathway leading unto
the wedding altar. Rejoicing in the
brightness of her course she did not
shrink in the midst of her journey,
but exultant in the strength of her
youth and the thought of meeting her
loved one, she moved toward the spot
where she was to meet her lover.
Where gleaming spokes of pale light
spread its beams across the mound
of roses, there stood the groom, and
as she threaded her deep path of
roses, he stepped forth to guide her
trembling feet to the altar which
quivered and gleamed beneath a ceil
ing of amber and pavements of pearl.
Here, within the depths of a palpitat
ing sea of flowers, stood the battling
Titan who was to pronounce the words
which would permit these two to rear
themselves their future home.
With church ritual in hand, Rev.
Davis, dignified and adorned by his
sacred shrine built for his peoples'
God, stood, and as the wedding march
reached the strain where Lohengrin's
white gondola rested upon the placid
sands, strewn by the groans and
wailing of the wild sea waves, the
tumult was stilled, and as the shades
of evening deepened into night this
strange pilot of human fate pronoun
ced the words which made this loving
pair as one.
KDlTOIi'S NOTE lettrri to th editor,
it Irw of personal ubu.se, are alwais
welcomed. All letters must be signed
and the opinions expressed by the writ
er are not necessarily the opinions of
Th Mountaineer.
Waynesville, N. C,
March 29, 1938.
Mr. W. C. Russ, Editor
Waynesville Mountaineer,
Waynesville, N. C.
Will you permit me through your
columns to Call attention to the splen
did efforts being made by the Youth
Council in our township. I was de
lighted to be present at their meeting
held last week and was deeply im
pressed by the program and the
earnest manner in which it was conducted.
Probably the most lasting impres
sion was made when the leader asked
for sentence prayers from those pres
ent, and one of the young people ask
ed that God would "open the eyes of
our parents, that they may see our
need and help them to direct and help
us to live up to higher standards than
ever before."
When these young people come for
help and encouragement, will you
not make a sacrifice if necessary, of
time and money, to help them make
our community a finer place for us
all to live?
The meetings are held each Tuesday
night at various places in the town
ship and all Christians are most cor
dially invited to co-operate. 1 am
firmly convinced that these young
people have started out with a
determination to set a higher stand
ard for right living, and to better
moral conditions in our community.
Let us encourage them all we pos
sibly can and this group of earnest
young Christians may be the leaven
which is needed to elevate the stand
ard of morals and Christian living
in Haywood county.
Very sincerely,
EVELYN M. HYATT. I
March 30 Radio telenhonp ...
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rendered 30,000 people homeless, 19u
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Hamburg, 113.
POINTED
PARAGRAPHS
Most appreciated 'after-dinna
speech : "dive Mb the check
waiter."
O , hiiti . . .i
puuieoiie asKs, rvnai is trie ratfS
expensive talkie ever produced!
Ah, brother, her kind is legion.
homebody wants to know if it',
possible to create a perfect vaccina
It isn't HUMANLY possible, but oK
mother nature does some pretty neat
jobs of it.
"Affairs of defunct local telephont
company finally wound-up" head
line in small-town paper. Now thej
can take off the "receiver."
Memory: When your pockets irt
lined with silver so are the clouds,
"Method in his madness" would
seem particularly applicable to i
European dictator if you transpose
the first and last words.
Remarks a politician: "I wish ti
remind you that a politician is a hu
man being." . Ah, brother, unless yon
resolve to keep your trap closed, it's
a forlorn wish!
We're in favor of a prolonged hol
iday on the passage of any further
laws. There already are more laws
on the statute books than a. fellow
can break.
Sometimes one wonders if being
struck by lightning could be much
worse than constantly catching thun
der. .
"If you wish a thing done right, do
it yourself" except in the case of
house-painting, where we'd advise
against putting the paint on your
self.. -
Still Digging at Dugald
Mrs. Mae Pherson ( iust at meoi
time) Dugald, we've guests at the
door.
Dugald Grab a toothpick quick!
Is Your Hat
In
"Easter" Shape
If Not lit Us Renew It In
Time For Easter.
ALWAYS LOOK YOUR BEST
CENTRAL
CLEANERS
MAIN STREET
Phone 113
Undeceiving
She--Anybody would think I
nothing but a cook in this family.
Husband Unless thev ate a mpal
here.
"This girl is new on the coast and
it's up to us to show her the differ
ence between right and wrong.
"unajr, pal, you teach her what's
right"
A CHINA EGG
May look like the real thing to a hen, but it makes a
mighty poor omelet. . .If a hen can be fooled with an in
tation of her own specialty, how much tiiance has a lay
man to detect inferior quality in a prescription? That's
why Alexander's label means so much.
A S K Y O U R D O C TO R
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DRUGSTORE
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Opp. Pest Office
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