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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 i I The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phoe 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County V. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES 9ne Year, ki Haywood County $1.50 Six Months, In Haywood County 75c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Kiili-ri'd at H i' post office at tt'ajnesvllle. N. C, as Second Clau M.iil M.illi'r, aw rwilei under the Act of March 3, 1.S71I. NovemlH-r 1. 1UH. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks. :ml all notices uf entertainments for profit, will be charged or at tin- rale of one cent per word. ' "mess association' THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938 PROPOSED SCHOOL CHANGES One of the most debatable subjects in the county today Bias to do with the proposed leng thening of the school term, either by adding a twelfth grade, or making the school term nine months. The matter is unquestionably complicated. Convincing facts are to be found for both plans, but to us one stands out far ahead of the other, and has no -equal. The success of any educational program de pends largely on the harmony between teacher and parent, so Uhu plan that will best meet with this requirement is naturally the logical one. While the average parent favors increased educational facilities, they are also conscious of the increased tax burden; and the plan that will be easiest on the pocket book will,, in a measure, be preferred. Right here in Haywood County, there is a .school debt of about $700,000. This represents money spent for new buildings and equipment. Teacher's salaries are not included in this figure. To add the 12th grade, would call for more class rooms, and equipment. A conservative estimate is t'lutt these would cost this county for the six high schools at least $:300,000, thus bringing the school debt to over one million. The 9-month term would not necessitate any more class rooms, and no additional indeb tedness for the county. So figuring from a dollar and cents angle, the 9-month term is the cheaper. Educators admit that a 4-month vacation is harder on a child than a 3-month vacation, in that the shorter lapse of time enables them to. pick up the work quicker than longer vacations. Some parents argue that children 16 and 17 years of age are too young to go to college, and that the addition of the 12th grade will keep them home longer and better prepare them for college wrk. While on the other hand, we must consider the large percentage of students that do not go to college, but drop out early in high school. Under the 9-month term, these students would have gained a year more of school work in their eight years. Is not that worth a con sideration? These are but a few of the many points that have been raised so far, but it appears that the most practical of the two plans is the 9 ' month term, yet the average legislator in Ral eigh next January is going to find plenty of pressure being brought to adopt the 12th grade plan. AN EXAMPLE AT HOME Hardly had the ink dried on our editorial in last week's paper, in which we urged that all appointed cfficeis stand an examination which would determine their fitness for the office, be fore a deputy in Canton was arrested and lodged in jail because of an alleged assault on a man he was attempting to arrest. The circumstances of the case above men tioned are riot known in detail, but we do know, that too io f ten inexperienced officers make bad matters worse, and in many instances cause law-abiding citizens to lose respect for the law. We feel that the sooner the state and coun ty adopts a stricter plan and rules for appoint ive officers to follow that the better off we will be. .' . , '' SO SAYS THE GOVERNMENT One of the government bulletins says: "a trapped skunk can be killed without disagre able odorous consequences if approached slowly and quietly and given a sharp blow across the back with a stick." The plan may be an excellent one, for all we'll ever know. PUBLISHING RELIEF ROLLS As the dole and pension system grows into an almost uncontrollable agency, the Warren County Commissioners have ordered that a com plete list of names of relief beneficiaries and the amounts given each one be published monthly in the county paper. This action is in keeping with recommen dations of the past three grand juries. Seldom does a day pass but what some per son who feels that they are entitled to relief, makes reference to some unentitled person who is alleged to be getting funds. The publication of the names gives the public an opportunity to see first hand, just who, and in what amounts the relief funds are being paid. A person with any conscience at all, will shun the spotlight of newspaper publicity when there is anything shady about the record being exposed. We will watch with interest the response to f he publication of the Warren County roll. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY UNDENIABLE FACTS Waynesville is not prepared for an influx of tourists. We have the natural advantages, yes, plenty of them, but we can't expect to reap a golden harvest from these, alone. Waynesville must grow from within. Either we will grow from within, or decay within. We can't expect to continue to get busi ness in 1939 by using 1900 methods. For several years we have been fortunate enough to get by. We are afraid that that day of getting by is over. Visitors are complaining, not only to local people, but to outsiders of the food and accom modations received in some of the leading places. This editorial is for "home consumption" and is meant in the spirit of constructive sug gestion rather than bitter criticism. THE PLAY INDUSTRY Play is rapidly becoming a major industry. 'With the continued shortening of working hours, the citizens of the nation 'have found time to play, as never before. With fewer hours devoted to work, it is only natural that the younger generation learn in a professional way how to play, and already over 1,200 cities in the United States operate 17,745 play areas, and employ 40,413 full and part-time recreation leaders. Last year $17,933,781 was spent for such purposes. There is no argument but what money spent in keeping youth away from questionable hang outs is money well spent, and that is what the play areas are doing. Yet, forty-eight millions of taxpayer's hard earned money, seems an awful lot to be spent in such a manner, yet, when we realize that this sum is just a small percentage of what crime costs us, we agree that this method is a step in the right direction, in that we are putting in to practical use that old adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." THIS TIME OF YEAR Mr. Webster calls it Indian Summer: "A period of warm or mild weather in autumn or in early winter, usually characterized by a clear or cloudless sky, and by a 'hazy or smoky ap pearance of the atmosphere, esp. near the hori zon. The term is usually applied to such a per iod occurring in October, or more commonly in November," The Sanford Herald reminds us. Confined within the compactness of a dic tionary, Mr. Webster should naturally not have been expected to go into any detail, but if just before he made that entry into his great work he had spent a couple days down in this county during this time of year, our 'guess is that he would have devoted at least a page to it. The sun is warm but not too warm and the sky is hazy and violet-colored around the horizon all right. He mentioned that, but he did not go into eloquent detail about how quiet and peaceful and awed and prayer-like the coun tryside is right now. The woods, with their splashes of yellow arid gold mixed with green, are truly God's own creation. And locust throb, dry and ripe, emits from the dry browning grasses along the way. "Heavy with sleep is the old farmstead," sang John Charles McNeill. "The windfall of orchards is mellow; the green of the gum tree is shot with red, and the poplar is sprinkled with yellow."' ,'.' Now, if ever, can a man commune with nature, and about as near, on this side of death, as a man can iget to heaven is to roam the woods and the fields in October, gaze up at the hazy blue sky, kick the brown dried grass with his shoes, and listen to the lonesome throb of the locust as he drones the time away. The most interesting1 part of most political speeches, is the part when the speaker says : "with this I'll close." f YOU KNOW WHAT ?- - THATS A NOV MY AUMT AMEUA PUTS A FEVJ MEXKArJ JUMFIM& BEANS IN HEW pancake battei? and the cakes, TURM OVER -THEMSELVES SMHEN You NUP6E EM ' ZS VWJMWJ.A L WMM. WMX 6RANPPAPPY SALE NAWJOPEJMNY COMES FORTH WITH ANOTHER LABOe-SAvM3 IDEA THAT SHOUL.O INTEfSESX THE PAN-CAKE FTOUlg INDUSTRY GEMSJ lour S, '"i'Qji.l BY JD.SAM-C.OX ULACKIK LAUGHS TOO SOON' Story 7 Iilackie hail had such bud kick at goose-hunting and fishing;, and all his other ways of getting something to eat, that he was getting mighty thin, So he decided that he would go an ask Dr. Coon where he could, find i good dinner. He hated to wake Dr. Coon up while he was asbep up in his house, so he rambled around in the woods eating berries and such little things as he could find until it got dark enough for Dr. Coon to come down for his own supper. After While when the sun had gone down and the moon had come up, 1))-. Coon came running down his stairs, and he ran right into Hlackie Hear. Blackie told him how hungry he was, and what a hard time he had been having getting anything to eat, and he asked the Doctor if he knew where he could find a good supper. Dr Coon thought a little while, and then something funny seemed to strike him, and he grinned almost like Billie Possum. He seemed to have some sort of a joke on his mind. Now, if there was anybody that Dr. Coon didn't like it was Rover Dog and all of his family, for Rover had tried several times to kill Dr. Coon, and if Blackie Bear hadn't come along one clay and slapped Rover Dog clear across the road and into a ditch, there probably wouldn't have been any doctor to look after sick folks on the creek. Ever since that day, Rover Dog had been waiting to get even with Blackie Bear, and Dr. Coon had been watching for a chance to get even with Rover Dog. So when Blackie asked Dr. Coon where he could find a good supper, he told Blackie that he heard Billie Possum say that there were four nice fat little puppy clogs over at Rover Dog's house, and they were mighty good to eat. That just suited Blackie Bear, for besides getting a good supper, he could get even with Rover Dog for trying to kill his friend, Dr. Coon. Blackie scooted off in a fast run till he got most to Rover Dog's house. Then he stopped and tiptoed on his' hind feet till he got most to Rover Dog s door. It was summer time, and it was so hot that Rover Dog had opened the door and left the puppy dogs in the house while he and Mrs. Rover Dog went out to sleep under a big rosebush right close to the door. Blackie slipped tip to the door and peeped in to see if all the doggies were asleep, and when he saw there was nobody in the house but the puppy dogs, he was so tickled that he laughed right out lound.. It doesn't pay to be too sure oi a thing till you really have it, and Blackie was too sure he had lour little puppy dogs for his supper, und that laugh got him into trouble. It woke Rover Dog and his wife, and they both jumped up and grabbed Blackie, one by each ear, and jerked him around and away from their puppy dogs. If there had been only one dog Blackie could uve whipped him, and would have gotten his supper; but with one dog holding him on each side he couldn't fight at all. So Rover and his wife turned Blackie -around and started him back to the road. They ran so fast that they soon had Blackie so tired that he felt that he just couldn't run any more. He begged them to turn him loose, and said if they would leave him he wouldn't ever bother their puppy clog again. So they each gave him one good bite on the ear, and then they turned him loose and ran back home. But when they got home they went inside and and shut the door and put the latch on. And now Black ie has enough of dogs, and when he hears one bark he runs in his house and shuts the door or climbs up a high tree. . (To be continued.) v nen we m,-;, survey the plot, And when v.v house, Then we mu. , erection" Shah - "We require f from men, tv.,, first, the doing ,.f well; then that !r pleasing in duip,. useii another f ecture'' 1 .,!' u-j -p. "We should ,t,!V,. . Horeb height where (J ,',, . and the eorner-st..iH. building is m.nM-'ly Eddy. saw thi the "No man iew Jerusalem, ed together, the unpaved streets clink of trowel scended out of John Robert Sedev .i.? 4 ...... lllJ man he. p:dav,; "aivn iri,, r tArdhitecture and therefore is 1 1 n i s uie .,r. v -i nar..,M (... . . " 1 prinples." Christopher Vi'.. "The stone which the iuseu is become the he corner." Psalms. ,NEW BREED 3IOSQUITO With everything else being im proved by breeding, like the revolu tionary new seed corn for uniformity and hardihood, why shouldn't mosqui toes go in for scientific reproduction? homebody remarked that vou don't hear mosquitoes singing any more. You used to think at this time when they are most plentiful that if the pests would just bite quietly and not wake you up whining in your ear, it wouldn't be so bad. But it's a fact, they have quit singing. Less whining and more whelping is now their creed. Monroe Journal. I KOBLEMS I OK (ii: Nil's (Uanville lUriMtM 1, i , . ii wun l oe long iietntv the A lean home is as sale a.-, tnt- m.i Alain btreet. An inventive man in .ew i ink tnrough with a handy solution slippery bathtub pnihl.-m, ( liquid -spray in the tub befu: turn the water on, ami i; m;lt process of falling dewn a t:' which you have t" ilfv;e a ;r. ..f . : i . vL iiiiiu iuui energy in aee.iiii:p;,s 1 he local press gave .the man, "world pi-eniicie (h-iiv.iii?t of his invehtion o.iidfWi tion, as was right ami -pr.-iu-r.. " 1. 1 . 1. T 1 . . parauie jame snmiiii he tno r of any other - bright y.un'ir ma sould develoj) in a pi-actial ajl ideas as: , Elastic soap, which, vould diately bound away .on ivji!;kt the eye. Insulated light'snckcts f-.i thl tection of little Johnny's lingi; Soup-bowls with therni'imc: tachments. A spray for toys which uouldi them crumble under font inst serving as roller skates. Stickum for the tinder side ci sized rugs. Artificial thumbs and foul for holding tacks. Another thing about driving in the old days, you didn't have to worry ii tne other lellow ; decided to cross a narrow bridge at the same time you started across. CHILDHOOD'S HAI'I'Y HO Of the -142-children undfr fo who were held in North 0 iailsi (liii'iiic the first six mm the year, Two were charged with arsf One was charg'cd with rape. One was charged with ptw Five were charged with sea quor; One, not yet ten, wa cl with making liquuiV-Charlutte As a usual rule th man it all isn't a great deal more Pj than the man who w'ants it When is it. when a man wins bet he tells everybody but his tf was betting a hundred - rru ivhn olives -.he'f r4 cold meals must expect to hot words from hi m. What's the Answer? By EDWARD FINCH I1""' DO WE SEE STARS WHEN HIT IN THE EYE ? I JS nt real y stars we see; it is v a blinding light. And that light AnvnVtT11 Sight but sensation. Any of the five senses when stimu lated artificially wUl produce thu sensation for which that sense is responsible. Thus, when a blow to the eye injures the nerves of the eye it sends to the brain a mes! sage of sight. Since there is really nothing there to see, it reacts in a sensation of blinding light Wetern Newspaper u'hlon. Advertising Advertising is an investment designed accomplish some definite purpose whether that be to stimulate sales or build prestige. Its value to you lies not " in what it costs 1 - but in what :' ; is accom- :; ; plished The Mountainee i4 '
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