THE WAYNESVTLLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY,
tage 2
The Mountaineer
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THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO.
Main Street Phone 13T
v Waynesville, North Carolina
The County Seat Of Haywood County
W. CURTIS RUSS Editor
MRS. HILDA WAY GVVYX . . . Associate F2d;tor
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
' Same hunt hi chariots, and some in hornet; but ive
will remember the name of the Lord our Cud. Psalms
"GAS" TAXES FOR RELIEF
Oil companies .operating in North Caro
lina keep a sharp eye on the growing surplus in
the highway department, least it be diverted
ink the general fund of the state. The revenue
on which the highway department has been able
to create a substantial surplus, comes for the
most part, from the six-cents-a-gallon tax on
jjksoline.
Of course, the oil companies want the tax
reduced, and with a growing surplus, it seems
that the-) how have a better talking point than
before -at least oil men in Haywood think so.
Along this line, it is interesting to note
what is happening in New Jersey right at this
limp. Something like two millions a month are
bei Kg diverted from the taxes' collected on gaso
line into the relief funds. Present plans are to
put '(two 'millions a month into the relief fund
tram Ihe "gas" taxes, as some six per cent of
Now' Jersey's population are said to be on relief.
New Jwsey officials tried to take the money
fi)Hi ;tn educational fund, but found that would
be aainlawful, so they sliced off their needs from
the ""-gas" taxes.
Now that one state has already diverted
'gas" taxes, we look for the oil companies to
keep' an even sharper eye on North Carolina's
legislators during the coming session in Jan
uary, and to bring plenty of pressure to not only
keep the tax in the highway department for
road improvement and construction, but to also
iTthice t-he present gallon rate.
NEEDED STREET SIGNS
The town of Waynesville is having the
names of streets painted on all the curbs at every
corner in town.
This h a needed piece of work, and should
pwve beneficial to all people using Waynes
villie's streets.
The town has grown to the point where the
naxMs of streets and avenues are being used
more than ever. No longer can we give satis
factory directions in town by telling a stranger
or oven home-folks -to go to Brown's ga
raye, turn right and go down the street until you
?e Smith's red-top house, then turn left and fol
low the street to Johnson's store.
There is one thin that motorists should
keop in mind with these newly painted signs
that Ihe sign can be marred by driving too close
and .scraping the tires against the curb.
AN IMPORTANT COG IN THE BALANCE
WHEEL
There are many people in this community
who perhaps look on the cannery at Hazelwood
as a packing plant, with a large storage ware
house and a boiler room. Other than the phy
sical equipment, they hardly know what is at
the cannery, or the part it plays in the business
world here.
To try and explain all of it in words would
not be near as impressive as a trip through the
plant, and there, see first hand, just how fresh
vegetables are handled and put in cans that are
in demand over the country, because of the flavor
and method of pack.
To get an idea of the value of the cannery
to this section, one would not have to use their
imagination after seeing the large stacks of
cancelled checks, which have been cashed by
farmers for their produce.
It will be well worth your time to go through
ike cannery, and see one of the many things that
is making Haywood a well-balanced county.
SEEING AND LEARNING
Eetween five and six hundred are expected
to make the annual farm and home tour to
morrow. The number expected is not too many. In
'act, there should be enough interested people
in Haywood County to make the tour that would
swell the number to over one thousand.
Much work has been done in arranging this
tour, and those in charge have selected a well
balanced program, and will stop at places where
there are projects of interest and of value to
every farmer and his wife, as well as town peo
ple. It will be well for town people to make the
tuor and learn first hand of some cf the progres
sive steps being made by the citizens in the
rural communities.
The mere fact that a family lives outside
the city limits does not mean they do not have
as many or more of the comforts of life than
do many town folks.
Those who have been on the tours before
are looking forward to making the trip again
tomorrow seeing and learning more about the
county in which all of us should be most interested.
SELFISHNESS IS EXPENSIVE
YVPA officials, both in their attitude and
present co-operative spirit, lead us to believe
that the organization has more money than
projects right at this time.
To be sure, there are scores of projects be
ing sought that even the sponsors know are not
practicable, but made application, just in case.
There is one project, which would be al
most all labor, we are told, that Waynesville is
sorely in need of that is an alley back of the
stores 'on the East side of Main Street. This
suggestion has been made several times before,
and it seems that certain interests have thus
far been able to block the alley way.
It is needless to enumeratee the many ad
vantages of an alley behind the stores.
Some day there will be one. And that time
might 'have to come when WPA is gone and no
similar organization in a position to share the
greater part of the cost.
I f WPA is so determined to spend the money
somewhere, it seems that Waynesville would do
well to throw off the cloak of down-right sel
fishness and get in on this WPA spending spree.
Now, least we be misunderstood, do not
confuse the above suggestion with the WPA ap
proval of the sewer project.
All we know about the sewer project is that
it is a serious matter, and a subject that will
take more thought, and a much better under
standing than the average man on the street
can give before making a wise decision. We
have every reason to believe that the boards of
the two towns will handle the situation to the
best advantage, and not act too hasty in reach
ing a decision.
THIS COULD BE STOPPED
Thousands of dollars have been spent to
make the City i'ark on East Street what it is
today.
Needless to say, it is far from being fully
equipped and complete. There is, however, a
group of citizens interested in improving the
park, and making it a truly recreational center.
This community needs an outdoor recre
ational center, and the park has the natural
environment for such. -.'.'.'.
Taxpayers money was used to make the
park into its presnt form. No serious complaint
has been made of that, but there is a growing
sentiment, that the manner in which the prop
erty is being cared for is not in keeping with
the original plans of the park.
It is understood that a group of boys have
taken the liberty of breaking almost all plumb
ing fixtures in the comfort stations, Light
bulbs are broken out over-night, and damage in
general is done to the public property.
The breaking of the plumbing fixtures caus
ed an unsanitary condition, we have learned.
Two much good can come from the park for
this uncalled-for practice to be allowed to con
tinue. The devilment of a few boys should not
be permitted to deprive hundreds of the pleas
ure a park can afford, to say nothing of the
waste of taxpayer's money.
And this, together with the fact that it is
claimed that the guilty parties are known, should
make it a simple matter to stop.
The most depressing individual to meet
up with is the fellow who thinks that everything
good has already happened..
The grass on the court house Jawn seems
to (have made a quicker comeback after being
trampled during the primary than many of the
defeated candidates.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
OONT LOOK NOW.
BUT YOU MI4HT SAY HE
yTHUMBEP HIS WEIGH,
.TO RICHES.
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FROM HOOT3TSWvJ, SPENT A PLEASANT
RAY AT OTTO BLOPPS LOCAL MEAT
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Random
SIDE
GLANCES
By W. Curtis Russ
In almost every mail, or at least
nee a day, there comes to our desk,
a summary of the employment situa
tion in this state. .Most of the eon-
tents are statistics, and often make
dry reading.
Yet, it does convince one that there
is available, plenty of workers for
every jol. Alter digesting several of
the reports, it became evident that to
find a person to mow the lawn and cut
some weeds on adjoining vacant lots
would be a matter of only a few min
utes.: The motive behind the plan to pet
the weeds, cut was two-fold that of
pride for my home and community,
and also to pet rid of a source of pol
len which has fieonentlv mused me
miserable sneezing attacks. Neverthe
less, it meant a job of about three days
for someone.
After two days of pleading to lab
orers, I decided it would be easier to
organize a party to hunt tigers in the
wilds of Africa, or to catch live rattle
snakes, than it was to find an able
bodied unemployed person WILLING
to do an honest day's work for cash,
and at the prevailing "government
wage scale."
he does have some. His lack of ini
tiative are of no concern of his. The
fact that he is an utter failure has
never entered his mind. Such a per
son is pitiful.
And so, it is, we find these folks
in all walks of life the educated,
the illiterate, the aristocrats, the hum
ble, the meek and poor.
Mr. Curtis Rus. ;.!.,.
The Wavrif.-v:;.
City. ' "
My dear Mr. Ru:
Serving as C:m:n;;;i,
ernor's Hospitality c,
Haywood County, 1 hUVc
ber of suggestion.- ma,il
I will not go int., m,'
is one that ..... ' ' A
b u (.niH'iV
worthy of men;o.,.
All weeds, but tp
weeds and nnv ,tl,., l
to hay fever, should beiw,
..11 "IW.fC
... p.cuuaes vwmin the tvjpj.
nepi cieau.
.iuiiimeimaiiuM app;:eI
Hc.ianjr iu vacant ots and to
live iana witnin liynesvilfe, E
woou, ana L-aKe Junalusla.
There are some instances
is either the responsibility j;
wwiis, or 01 me state Highway,
tenance crews. Bankj and'
along the sidewalks should i
free of weeds.
uit-numi oi these td
in tne columns ot your paper
be most helpful, and 'would bt
predated by a great many peopl-
l oMiully y1JUrs
'iAa. e. ray,
But no matter what our environ
ment, our background of family his
tory, or social standing, I believe that
one of the worse things that can be
fall a person, is to become afraid of
work.
KNOWS HOW TO USE
HER 200 POO
Can such a person really , get the
most out of life? I can't believe they
do.
In Africa, says an explorer, a lot of
men never know their wives until
after they marry them. We don't
understand why he confined his ob
servation to Africa.
Plump Mrs. Rosina Aiora, ,
New York, knew how to u.-e !u
pounds to advantage. .
She told police that when she
Thomas Sherer, IS, in her candy
niuing 2o wortn ot cigartties J
his coat, he poked her in tit
So she threw hiiii douti and jj
him hard
The 100 pound:' youth pre J
fainted. He was held in JljA"1
on a burglary charge:.
Read The Ads
"WE KNOW FINER TOBACCOS
WE SMOKE CM
CALVIN WIGGINS (left) knows cigarette (obaccoi Hi
knows because he grou t tobacco. He sayi: "Bot'i
quite a difference between fine grade tobacco ud
other grades big difference in smoking top. Fromtnj
experience, it's the Camel people who buy the b
tobaccos. Most tobacco planters down here imoto
Camels, as I do. We know Camel buys utter tobacco).
In all my experiences in dealing
with common labor, and the public
I've never heard so many flimsy ex
cuses, for not taking a job.
Some of the men that were offered
me joo seem to De getting Dy, and ap
parently in perfect health, but when
work is mentioned in their presence,
an expression of agony comes over
their faces, their hands go to their
sides, and their back automatically
bends forward as their imaginary
pains race through their wrecked
bodies.
One man was on the verge of tak
ing the job, and asked about the hours,
and when told the hours would be
made to suit his convenience, he al
most fainted, because that answer
wrecked his old excuse.
Another man who has trampled
down more grass on the court house
lawn while loafing than any other
man, could not mow a lawn of a like
nature, because his feet were subject
to "grass rash."
And so on, the excuses went, until
it looked like I was going to have to
ask Uncle Sam for an offer "to plow
under" the lawn and weeds on the
vacant lots.
Perhaps I'm cranky about work
and because I enjoy it, I fail to see
what pleasure anyone gets out of sit
ting around twirling their thumbs
when their business, farm or garden
is going to ruin because of their lazi
ness.' ,
- J? "ST
HUMAN ALERTKES:
the uocaoay infeau
the modera diirffi
chiae,aurfnll.ii
packing ofyouCia
arettei.Tbetemll
of Camell miic II
are the UreNI4
arette1, sod od
carefully ictnaeilw
sure that ererfCu
smoke is a perftn
rette, tni a 1
blend of hoer. MORi
PENSIVE T0W
Vacation
Smartness. ..
Don't spoil your chances for
a good time with a drab ward
robe. Our modern Dry Clean
ing makes your clothes attrac
tive. -'''
CENTRAL
CLEANERS
MAIN STREET
Phone 113
Right now. I am thinking of a man.
who spent eleven years in the country's
leading universities and colleges. He
is brilliant, has a keen mind, is well
educated, knows life as presented on
the page of a book, but has made a
miserable failure at living. He stays
on the verge of starvation, and neigh
bors keep his family up. He has fail
ed to apply himself. Is afraid of hard
work.
After all the years spent in ac
quiring an education, he failed to
learn the most important of all things
he does not know himself. His own
good qualities are unknown to him
SUPPORT
The finest nitrhino- in ihe world won't win itl
ged support in the field. And in a critical battle tgW
illness, the doctor s skill must be supported by -headup
teamwork An tho no-f r Am oinr. and nurse, if UC '
.... ..... iui I Ul Vl Ug CffcVIC
is to be won.
Whpn ihe fio-ht in.mhi anA wnen the ;'slig'
bobble may prove disastrous, ALEXANDERS
attains maximum value.
ASK Y OU R D O C TOR
ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE
nc. r.-i
Phones 53 and 54
TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR
PROTECTION