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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2,
The Mountaineer
Published Bs'
THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO.
Main Street Phone 137
Waynesville, North Carolina
The County Scat Of Haywood County
W. CURTIS RUS3 , Editor
MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor
V. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers
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PtESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938
TUHERCULOSIS AND THE CHRISTMAS
SEAL
Dining the year 1937 there were 1,753
deaths from tuberculosis in North Carolina.
Some of the cases, no doubt, were doomed from
the beginning1, while others could have been
saved, 'had they been discovered in time and
proper treatment received. Still others might
have been prevented.
Buncombe County had the highest rate in
the state with 3G6 deaths, of which 306 were
non-residenU of the county. This is to be ex
pected, for hundreds of persons come to the
hospitals in Buncombe, seeking the cure, many
of them in the last stages, too late for the climate
to benefit them. In Haywood County there
were 11 deaths, with one non-resident.
The Tuberculosis Christmas Seal which
goes on sale this Friday, has a meaning far be
yond its colorful pictures. "Like the candle in
the window it has lighted the way for millions
and it still beckons the way to millions."
Tuberculosis is one of the most expensive
diseases known to man. Once it reaches certain
stages, only through long months and some
times years, with the patient relieved of work
and responsibility and given rest and the best
nourishing food, can the cure be brought about.
Often hospitalization, not only for the sake of
the patient, but for the safety of the family, is
desired.
There was sold in this community last
year $125.00 worth of seals. Three fourths of
this money was kept locally, with one fourth
going to national headquarters.. The money
was spent in preventive measures. Milk was
bought in several schools for tubercular sus
pects and undernourished children.
As you sit down to your table with its
well balanced meals, and your child has what
nature intended it should have to develop into
a strong normal body, remember there are many
right here, maybe in the shadow of your own
roof, who are not getting enough to eat. We
had occasion to check up recently in some of
the schools, and it was surprising how many
children, by not being properly nourished are
laying the foundation far tuberculosis. We
resent outsiders speaking of such cases, but if
we are honest we must admit that they exist.
One fine thing about the Christmas Seal is
that it is within everybody's reach. If you have
only a small amount to spend, your "widow's
mitt" will serve the same noble cause as the
dollars of the more fortunate.
Remember the undernourished children in
this community and even if you tuck the Seals
away and foiget to use them Christmas, buy
them.
50 YEARS OF NEWSI'APERING
The Charlotte New.s has always made it a
policy to publish human interest news, present
ed in such a way, that even the busiest of us
take time to read "the largest afternoon news
paper in the Carolinas."
Last week, however, we found we had to
take more time than usual, when the 172-page
edition of their 50th anniversary came in. While
most special editions are "samey" and filled with
dry material, we found that The News ran true
to form in their, anniversary edition, ".and had
prepared an edition brim full of human interest
material.
It is encouraging to know that such a pro
gressive newspaper can still remain so close to
its readers. Here's wishing the entire "force"
another J0 years of success.
THANKSGIVING DAY IN AMERICA
Once upon a time Thanksgiving Day meant
family reunions and festive boards groaning
with all the competent housewife could get on
the table. Today Thanksgiving is almost syn
onymous with Football. It means in many cases
just a holiday for a trip. Perhaps you have
turkey, maybe you don't, you might just grab
a sandwich, at a filling station while you are
getting gas, in your hurry to some point of in
terest. But be that as it may, each generation has
its own idea of pleasure. The point of this is
that whether we are enjoying the day quietly
at home, or on the highways, or in the excite
ment of a football game, we Americans should
not forget to be thankful.
For our many blessings do not alter with the
march of time, but if we stop to compare them
with other nations t'hey are on the increase. We
may critize our government for this policy and
that, but we still have faith, and we know in
our hearts that this confidence is justified.
It's an old story to hark back to the princi
ples upon which this great nation was founded,
but when we see how the Jews are being treated
and banished from Germany, we should all turn
back unconsciously and feel a deep spirit of
gratitude enveloping our souls, for the freedom
and tolerance we have always had and continue
to enjoy in this country,
ANOTHER STEP
The passage of the $25,000 bond issue for
a municipal building last Thursday, was another
step toward local ownership of a town hall.
Waynesville is one hundred and thirty years
old, and it has often been pointed out that there
are few towns boasting such an age in North
Carolina, which do not own their own town hall.
Tha rents paid during the past few years
would have built a very creditable building.
The Turbyfill property which has been
bought for the site of the proposed municipal
building is. ideally located.
A building of this kind has been needed
and desired by the civic minded citizens of the
town for many years, but it has never seemed
feasible in the past or the matter was not push
ed sufficiently- for promotion. It is hoped that
the realization of the recent efforts by the local
authorities will culminate in the construction of
a municipal building.
LEGISLATIVE PROBLEMS
It is only a few weeks until the 1930 ses
sion of the General Assembly will convene in
Rakigh. It is time to consider legislative prob
lems, which should be thrashed out before this
body of state law makers.
The regional meeting held here last week
of the state league of municipalities spent the
entire session discussing new laws and the re
peal or modification of old ones, which affect
the towns and cities of the state.
They are recommending to the Legisla
ture the continuation of the sharing of the
state-wide collected highway funds with towns
and cities for the maintenance of municipal
streets used by state highways. The extension
of this principle, they wish, to include an ap
propriation of not less than 10 per cent of state
collected gasoline and automobile license taxes
to be returned to municipalities on a definite
and fixed basis, of population and mileage. They
also urge that there be no diversion of highway
funds to non-highway uses.
They are recommending the return to coun
ties, cities and towns, all revenue collected by
the state from intangible personal property
without any deduction by the state other than
for actual collection expense.
They desire a modification in the existing
legislation regulating tax collection procedure,
including making the tax listing date as of
January 1, instead of April 1, moving forward
tax due dates to the first Monday in October
each year, reduction of one per cent in the dis
counts for repayments. They also urge the
imposing of penalties for non payment of taxes,
beginning November the 2nd, of the year in
which taxes are levied and due at the rate of
one per cent per month, until the tax sale is
held, the sale to be held the second Monday in
May of the year in which taxes are levied and
payable.
In order that the General Assembly may
be freed ifrom the bother of local legislation so
that it may devote its entire time to matters of
state-wide importance and further permit the
people of local communities to determine their
own local policies, the league favors the princi
pal of constitutional home rule for cities and
' towns.
The league has also gone on record as
strongly opposed to the tax exemption of home
steads as unsound and ruinous to the financial
structure of local government.
These are all pertinent problems in which
tax payers should be interested and inform
themselves, as they will affect all municipali
ties in the state.
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William B!
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KLACKIE DEAR MEETS
POSSUM
Story 12
When Blackie broke out of Mr.
Man's wagon and started for home,
his hair was so rumpled up from the
harness rubbing him while he was in
the wagon, that he didn't want to go
near Dr. Coon's house, for fear he
would have to tell him what a joke
Hee-Haw played on him, and he was
mighty ashamed of having to do a
donkey's work. So he took another
road up the other side of the creek,
and was galloping along as fast a3 '
he could go toward home, when who
should he meet right square in the
road but Billie Possum!
Now, Billie is the greatest fellow
for laughing you ever saw, and every
time he meets anybody ho grins,
whether there is anything to laugh
at or not. But there really was some
thing to laugh about this time. A
few days ago Rover Dog had found
out where Billie Possum lived, so
Billie decided to get him another house,
and he moved over to a big hollow
tree on the edge of Mr. Man's field.
He was sitting in his door and look-
ng at Blackie Bear when Hee-Haw
kicked him down, and when Mr. Man
hitched him to the wagon, so he had
been watching Mr. Man and Blackie
all the time.
When Blackie broke loose and
started for homo, Billie Possum
thought he would have some fun, so
he ran down his tree and started on
the road to meet Blackie Bear. When
Blackie met Billio and saw him grin
ning, he thought Billie was laughing
at the way his hair was all rump
led up, and so he thought he must
make up some excuse for it. But
Billie got right after him with questions.
"Where have you been, Blackie, and
what ails your hair? You certainly
do looK mighty tired and hot. You
must have been running after a migh
ty fast rabbit."
"I haven't seen any rabbit." said
Blackie, "but I was running a deer
and he jumped a creek that was wider
than 1 could jump, and when I tried
it, I fell in. That's why my hair is
so wet.
The Billie certainly did grin. That
story was funny enough to make a
dog laugh, much more a possum,
whose regular business was erinniner.
So Billie just laughed "ha-ha," and
said: "What made all those streaks
on your head and across your back,
pray 7 .It... looks . to' me like some
body has been working you in har
BY D. SAM COX
B9LLIE .
"A faith which teaches that
atnpism tliof j .
that gloom is i sin, has a miS8io
can be readily grasped bv ,;i
well."Mark Baker Eddy.
"Infidelity does not con3i.,t J.
heving or in disbelieving: it co2
in professing to believe what m
believe." Thomas Paine I
Met Billie
Possum rierht
the road.
square in
ness. You couldn't get streaks like
that in the creek."
And then Blackie grinned, too, but
it was what you have heard people
call a "dry" grin, and he didn't know
what to say. But Billie had some
more to say, and he said it. "I know
you are awfully ashamed of having
to pull that wagon, after all of your
big talk about what you would do;
, ''Wh-t behaved well in the pi '
behaves well today is not such a I
der. The wonder is always f
always how there can be a mean!
or an infidel." Walt Whitman.!
RAILROADS NOW AND ThI
OGDEN, Utah.-A 60-yeJ'
train resembling those at the drfc
of the golden spike at PromorX.
Utah, in 1869, stopped here fof f
pairs recently en route to sou
Utah for use in the motion nil
"Union Pacific."
Although the two oM engines!
27 cars were being pulled by a i
ern locomotive, one of the enjjf
developed a hotbox between Spi
Nev., and Ogden. The speed. '4
V.,,1 on ...:)., . . T
ukkii iv nines an Hour, v, 11 c
10 10 miles.
The old train was salvaged
discarded equipment of the v'ir
& Truckee Railroad of Nevada, t
of the engines was the one v
pulled Gen. U. S. Giant's train f
he passed through the West oif j
round-the-world trip,' s;tid jr
road men. The 27 cars include c
passenger coaches, box car. t
blacksmith car, wooden tank 'car,i.
a wood car with fuel for the wfc
burning locomotives.
;
but it's too good to keep, and ug!
you want to make a little trade f '
me, I'll have to tell the boys abo i
I could keep mighty quiet about
of this, if I had your sheep-skia j
to sleep on, and I don't know anal'
thing that would keep me t
making some other folks lauph. f.
I would have to ride on your baa t
your house to get it."
"Climb up, saui lilackie, "it i
worse than hauling wood."
(To be continued.)
You don't want
"Jittery" Nerves
What's the Answer?
By EDWARD FINCH
o
Smokers find Camel's Costlier
Tobaccos are Soothing to the Nerves
I
IVlHERE. DID THE
GAAL OF FOOTBALL
ORieiNATEJ
XJOST of us today think of foot
ball as strictly an American
game and will be very much sur
prised to learn that it was con
ceived and first played in Japan as
early as the Seventh century. It
was very popular among court cir
clet and was limited mostly to those
enjoying high royal rank. It was
called football to distinguish it
from the Roman national game of
nanabau.
Wttrn Newipaptr Union.
Never Pass On A Prescription
Often individuals feel they are doing a neighborly act
by letting someone have their prescription filled, just be
cause the medicine helped them, and their neighbor ap
pears to have the same symptoms. This is a dangerous
thing to do. To their untrained eyes, it may appear to
be the same trouble which they had, yet be entirely dif
ferent. Perhaps there may have been some condition m
their case which the doctor did not mention, but which
had an important bearing on that particular case. There
fore, never give another person a dose of medicine whicn
has been prescribed for YOU, To do so is to take a chance
with Fate.
ASK YOUR DOCTOR
ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE
Phones 53 and 54 Opp. Tost Oft"
TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR
PROTECTION.