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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, JtE
, 19a
The Mountaineer
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Waynesville, North Carolina
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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
am the light of the vorld: he that folhwetli me
shall not villi: hi dark-vena, but shall have the light of
life lohn 8:12.
GOOD BEHAVIOR
The citizens of Haywood County can feel
proud of the behavior en last Saturday. The
interest, and heat of the campaign, led many to
believe that there would be unnecessary drunk
enness and disorder, but the reports from every
section of the county bear out the fact that it
was the quietest election ever held, as well as
the largest.
A number of people have advanced theor
ies as to the cause of the better conduct. Some
say better law enforcement while others argued
that those who are inclined to crave a drink,
have learned to satisfy themselves with beer,
and stay sober
And much to our surprise, we ran into one
man who boldly said the world was getting better-
and while we did not put up any argument,
we hope he is right.
But be that as it may, we have every right
to feel proud of the conduct and behavior last
Saturday.
"A CORPORAL'S GUARD"
Bishop James Cannon had an audience of
eighteen people Monday night, when it was ad
vertised tint he was to talk on prohibition, the
president and predictions of the future.
We have been trying to determine whether
it was because of the bishop's past, or whether
people are tired of hearing the same old stories
and facts about the evil of. liquor that caused
the crowd to be so small.
SWEET GIRL GRADUATES
Not so many years ago the phrase "sweet
girl graduate" suggested, moonlight and incan
descence but so some report this year's
graduates are singing jauntily, "WPA, here we
come." Between these two extremes were a
number of years in which the young who came
out of the colleges fared well and lamied good
jobs and a later and more recent period in which
the college graduates have seen their share
a good-sized one of unemployment.
During the middle period many young
Southerners migrated to the North and found
work there, work that paid better and required
shorter hours than if they had stayed in their
native Southern states. But many of that group
have drifted home, jobless, in the more recent
years. And college graduates 'have discovered
increasingly with the years that their diplomas
do not unlock the treasuries of the business
world. There are so many of them that it will
be difficult for them all to find the kind of jobs
they want in the particular fields in which they
specialized. The violinist may learn to run an
adding machine in the local bank and the artist
may sell dresses, if she is lucky enough to get
the job, in the local department store. And
both even so may be happy! It is not incredi
ble. These graduating girls may be wise if they
stay in or ne:ir the communities' where they grew
up. It is ju-i-t. barely possible that they might
in those crowded cities of the North find a job
that would pay them more money than they can
make in this section of the country. But they
would find living dearer and not so pleasant,
food much more expensive and not so tasty.
There are Southerners working in exile
now who long to return to the South. Of course
there are some in their South homesick for
escape. It is true that wages and hours in the
South are not what they should be, but the new
and inexperienced workers will fare better in the
long run if they remain in the South to help
lift the standards of all in the South than if they
seek now the greener pastures which appear aa
a mirage beyond the Mason and Dixon line
Raleigh News and Observer.
AUTO THIEVES
Wonder how many motorists have noticed
that many fields, woods and farms along the
highways are gradually becoming enclosed by
fences so that those who would care to stop in
a shady grove for a picnic lunch, frequently
look long before finding an opening? The motor
ists themselves are to blame for this situation.
Farmers are fencing in much of the property at
considerable expense to themselves for their pro
tection against the motorist who has made it
a practice to rob fields, groves, gardens and or
chards. They proceed to take vegetables, flow
ers, fruit and nuts and the like, from these pri
vate grounds with no conscience for theft. What
if the farmer came to the city dwelling and
walked away with the doorknob? A motorist
may pretend there is "no harm" in helping
himself to the field supplies but would he do
so in the presence of the owner cf the land? In
the meantime the desirable camp and picnic
grounds are being fenced off at a rapid rate.
No such fences have had to be built along the
railroad, but who wants to eat potato salad on
a railroad tie? Ex.
THE OlD HOME TOWN
, By STANLEY 7
THE FARM SURPLUS PROBLEM
In the past surplus crops (have invariably
meant losses to fanners. The farmers produce
about ten billion dollars worth of products a
year, an average of about a thousand dollars a
farm. A hundred dollars more or less for the
sale of his products, therefore, may mean the
margin of economic safety for the farmer.
The Department of Agriculture estimates
the 1938 crop at 10 per cent greater than the
record figures of 1937. There are in operation,
however, three programs for the utilization of
crop surpluses, which, among them, may even
tually make the extreme peaks and valley of farm
income less of a bugaboo.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administra
tion, through the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation, began in 1934, the purchase of sur
plus farm products and distribution whenever
possible to families on relief. At the same time
private industry assumed its share of the bur
den when the efficient distribution methods of
the chain stores were put into use to aid the
farmer and consumer. New York State's apple
and egg surplus this year threatened to pile up
stocks which would have brought runious prices
to the producers, until state officials cooperated
with food chains in putting the efficient methods
of mass distribution at the disposal of farmers
in a drive to market the over-abundance of
foodstuffs.
The third hope of solving the surplus crop
problem is in farm chemistry. Once chemists
found uses for farm products, they began manu
facturing starch from sweet potatoes, power
alcohol from grains and vegetables and oils from
soy beans. And the chemists say they are just
beginning.
Farming has been a hazardous business
since the beginning of time. Farming as a cash
business on any scale larger than the family
"mode of living" or, as it is now called "sub
sistence farming," is always extrahazardous,
and will continue to be so long as we have not
learned to control the weather. dates County
Index.
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SIDE
GLANCES
Hy YV. Curtis Kuss
Every nominated candidate that I
saw Monday morning was wearing
a smile that reached from car to ear.
None of them, however hail smiles that
portrayed as much real happiness as I against
Dick Turpin is wearing, since the
arrival of an eight-pound daughter.
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June 6, 7 You are a deep thinker,
forceful and quiet, with a love for
truth, impartiality and congenial
surroundings. Though things some
time come short of your ideals, you
are pure and clean in your thoughts
and actions. You like to help the
less fortunate and have sympathy for
those in trouble.
I have known Dick for a number of
years, have yet to see him when he
was not talking faster than two old
maids swapping a scandal, but last
Thursday, he was just about over
come with joy. Although he talked
twice as fast as his normal speech,
1 only got a smattering, of what was
said.
.Mack White, the humorous red
headed barber while discussing the
possibilities , of winning candidates
last Saturday, blurted out (and not
for intentional publication) "It
would be worth a dollar to shave the
long face of a defeated candidate
Monday morning."
If we were going to paint a picture of hell,
instead of describing it as a place of eternal
fire, we would picture it as a place filled with a
group of people nursing a grouch. One person
given to nursing a grouch can convert an other
wise pleasant and congenial group into a small
hell, and surely nothing could come nearer mak
ing a perfect hell than a congregation of grouch
es nursing imagined wrongs and slights. We
can easily fongive the fellow, who, when we cross
him up in some way, turns in and blesses us out
until the air turns blue, and after having gotten
it out of his system forgets it, but we have
scratched from our list the fellows who persist
in nursing petty grouches. Life is too short
and too full of pleasant folks to spoil its pleas
ure with such.
Jim Killian can talk about horses
all day. When races are run, no mat
ter how far away, Jim can practi
cally name every horse in the race.
"one ne nasn i ever saia so, I am
of the opinion that among his fond
est memories are the days when he
drove horses from Clvde to Waynes
ville.
June 8, 9, 10 You make many
friends because you are a good con
versationalist. You are hard to
please, determined, Stubborn,1, po.si
tive but just, and sometimes run
other people with the same
characteristic, then you clash and
you sometimes get hurt. You will do
better as an employee than an employer.
June 11 Detroit destroyed bv fiJ
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appuinieu, jodo. K. H. Sav
thor, born, 1846.
June 11, 12,1,1 You make many
or firm extending the credit is not
shown. The book makes interesting
reading, and many business men are
already checking the list closely
before opening new charge accounts.
friends as well as enemies, but do
hold a grudge against anv one.
are of a happy disposition, love u
sic and poetry. Being of a pro;
leauess maKeup you are ready
ngnt lor your rights f necessai
though generally kind and lovinirv
can be willful and determined jr.
hard.
During 1937 only CU5B autonioti
anu trucKs were purchased by t1
great country of China. 80 per C(J
oi these were American made.
Nearly 40 per cent of Oresci
67,753 farms are supplied with tlJ
trie current. The average for (i
United States is 16.8 per cent.
narry nung, a lormer newspaper
man, has branched out into field of
tea room operating, and takes radio
ing and electricity as a hobby, but as
an imitator of a rooster crowing, he
has the old birds themselves put to
shame. He sounds more like a chick
en than a real chicken.
Clifford Harrell, operator of the
Puroil Station next to The Moun
taineer, has put in some profitable
spare time nursing a flower plot next
to his station. He has dahlias bloom
ing, and was considerate enough to
put a large red one right at the win
dow of ray office.
Before long his gladiola will be
coming into bloom, and will form a
colorful background for his trellis
of Dorothy Perkins roses.
Send Us Your Linen CENTRAL
Suits This Week CLEANERS
Hot weather is here and
we'll make you look fresh and
cool in your last season's lin- "
ens and other washable suits.
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IT PLEASES US TO PLEASE YOU
Since they know more about raising them,
why didn't nature give the other people all the
children?
TWO MINUTE SERMON
BY THOMAS HASTWELL
TO PILLAGE OR TO SERVE
The story is told that one day Wellington was
showing General Blucher over London. ' Coming, to a
high elevation which revealed the great city of London
stretched out like a panorama before him, Blucher,
with the true spirit of an old time general, said: "What
a place to pillage." No thought of its being a great or
beautiful city. No thought of the genius and power
for good that might be within its limits, only the thought
pf the rich field it would offer to pillage. Many men
are like that, elevated to a vigh place of trust politi
cally, their concern is not for the good they can do for
the happiness and welfare of their fellows. ; Their
first thought, as they look over the nation, or state, or
community is: "What a place to pillage." Two thous
and years ago a young man was taken up into a high
mountain and shown the world at his feet. His choice
was not to pillage but to give to mankind a great and
priceless service. Every man makes this choice, wheth
er he will pillage his fellows, or whether he will serve
them.
This column has never gone politi
cal, and certainly has no intention of
doing so now, but credit must be given
Senator Reynolds for crashing the
front page of the New York Times
with a two column headline about the
outcome of ' Saturday's primary.
As a politician I list him as the
best in North Carolina today. As a
vote getter, he evidently has no equal.
As showman, he's about perfect
Reports from Washington claim that
there is only one other senator that
gets more mail than does Reynolds.
He has a way about him that makes
people like him enough to vote for
him, and after all, its the votes that
keep men in office, and not their rank
as statesmen.
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