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Ml- Pigt 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY 'i: a- h ii The Mountaineer Published By' THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood Count W. CURTIS RUSS . ! . Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN .... Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES " One Year, In Haywood County ..$1.50 Six Months, In Haywood County 75c One Year, Outside Haywood County . 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entered at the post office at Waynesville, N. C, M Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act ol March 8, 1879, November 20, 114. Obituary notices, resolutions of reect, carda of thanks, and all notices of entertainments for profit, will be charged fur at the rate of one centner word. xNorth Carolina i ' PPESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939 A NEW OPPORTUNITY We were much interested in the announce ment of the purchase last week, of the first farm in Haywood County through the Farm Security Administration by Wilfred Jackson, county supervisor, for one of the farmers he has been helping "to get on his feet." From its initial set up, when it was called the Farm Rehabilitation and Resettlement, we have felt that the administration was based on one of the soundest principles of any of the gov ernment ventures. We liked the idea of helping the deserving person, who is not afraid of hard work, and who has a vision of working toward a definite goal, rather than making him a gift of only tempo rary value. A man who gets a loan through the Farm Security Administration has had to pass a good many tests. In the first place he must have been a tenant farmer all his life, with no property which he might cash in and buy a farm. Neither must he be in line for property inheritance. But he must have character. His family must have character. His life from childhood is revised. He must have shown that he is capable, as a tenant farmer on someone else's farm, to take the proper care of the land, and "his family must have shown their cooperation in his work. The loan made under this administration is the only one where the government puts up me hundered per cent of the purchase price, with only a man's character as security. He is given forty years in which to repay the loan, or if all goes well, and he is able and so desires he may pay up at any time. The sum of $43.26 paid annually on each thousand dollars of the loan retires both interest and principal. It is the biggest opportunity ever offered in. this country to the tenant farmer to become sl land owner. TO DANCE FOR THE KING AND QUEEN When we folks in Haywood County read about the proposed visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Iiritian, the event seemed very far away, because we knew that there would be no one from this county includ ed in the state festivities attending their so journ in the Capital. But we were wrong, we underestimated our fame and talent. We rejoice with the Soco Gap Dancers, who have been judged "At to see the King", and we are sure that His Majesties will fmd delight in their number. Which all gives us an idea, whoever is re sponsible for the w-elcome, decorations, arrange ments, or whatever official term it will be called, for getting the town ready for the passing of President Roosevelt, should certainly remem ber to have his friends, "The Soco Gap Players," under a banner bearing their name, standing at attention to greet him, or take some promi nent part in the auspicious occasion. Sam, we will be thinking of you on the night of June the 8th, and we wish you and the team the best of luck. A big fight over 1940 relief money will not be over its amount but over who is to control its distribution. Handicap facing many con servative Senators who would like control of the funds is that, much as they fear control ef relief by a Federal machine, they are equally afraid of (giving control to the State machines. The United States News. Let us be thankful for the fools But for them the rest of us could not succeed. Mark Twain. CLOSER RELATIONSHIP North Carolina is fortunate in having such an active and efficient department of Conser vation and Development. It is keen on con- serving every natural attraction in the state and developing all the resources, with personal contacts in each community. ' - Last week a group from the department was in town consulting with the Chamber of Commerce officials in an effort to tie up any local advertising with the state campaign dur ing the vacation season of the next three months. Last year this was done in the limited amount of advertising which the Chamber of Commerce was financially able to sponsor. It is doubtful if any department in the state (government has done more to bring the West and the East together, and to create a closer relationship of the citizens of the state than this department. The great advertising campaign, which has taken cognizance of the assets of the entire state, has-given one section as much of a "break" as another, and has served not only to bring the state to the attention of outsiders, but has also served to unite its citizenship in bonds of com mon interest. THE OLD HOME TOWN IHVTOWi FEEDS THC SPARROWS ' SPlNAO PILLS ANO-THEYRJf- ' ALU BASS AND HE MAS A PETC150W THAT DOES' A, V VENTRl l0aU"ST ACT WITH A BLUH JAT A TM6 PUNVV AND ' " " SVwft2r 4A1e I PET050W THAT BOB A, PtS. VyjjvWENTRll-OaUIST ACT WITH A ) By STANLEY GfJANPPAPPY 6ALE WVAJP PENNY OP MlifetaiCANE; CORXEHS CHIRPS A&AIN 6-8 PANACEA FOR UNEMPLOYMENT Practically everybody you meet hr.s some suggestion to make that would solve the unem ployment problem. Not long ago we heard a local manufactur er say that he was tired of hearing people com plain about the number of men thrown out of work by new inventions and hew machinery, as he claimed that both created far more jobs, than they discontinued. He also felt that a few new industries, however small, to take care of the raw materials going to waste in this parti cular section, would solve the local unemploy ment troubles. Along this line during the week we ran across the following excerpts from a speech re cently delivered in New England by Chas. F. Kettering, president of General Motors Resear ch Corporation. "There never has been a time in the his tory of the world when we needed inventions as much as we need them now. "We are so far behind that I am ashamed of our engineers, scientists, and research labo ratories. We have many men out of work, a lot of money lying idle in the banks and an enor mous amount of raw materials. When we have these three essentials, men, money and materials with nothing for them to do, it can mean only we are way behind in developing new products to put them to work. The future is going to require a change in our thinking, in our wants, in our habits, and in our standards of living. As industrialists, that means change in our products, whether we like it or not. Each season, year, month, and hour requires its unit of change. If we prepare for change and take it into account, as one factor in our bookkeeping, we will not have the more violent upsets of business we have recently experienced." JAY FLIES Ye editor remembers going years ago into a farm house kitchen and seeing on the kitchen table a row of goblets nearly full of soapy water and covered with pasteboard tops out of which a hole had been cut and the edges smeared with black molasses. A dozen or two Hies in each glasi? indicated that the glasses were fly traps They had been improvised by the ingenuity of the housewife who had no money to buy screens, which were not then in general use, or fly paper,' or insect powder. This housewife, like many others, had to protect food from the flies as best she could. When the family sat down to eat a meal, some one stood up and waved to and fro a bunch of long peacock feather or a fly fan made of paper, in order to shoo the flies away. Practically all homes in the towns and many in the rural areas are now screened against flies and mosquitos. Due to the teaching of sanitation in the schools, in women's clubs and through our county health department, men and women know more about the need of sani tation than they did two or three decades ago: but because the most of the homes we visit now are not infested with flies, one must not presume that all homes today are clean and free from flies and mosquitoes. Cleaning up the breeding places and screen ing are two essentials in fighting the germ-laden flies and mosquitoes, A will to do and plenty of elbow grease will accomplish the first. It will take some money to do the second, but what ever investment is necessary, shared by land lord and tenant, would result in dividends for all concerned. Ex. BIRD BRINGS NEWS TROUBLE Story 39 Blaekie Bear and Jocko Monkey were sitting around the table at Blackie's house, after a good dinner, smoking their pipes and talking about the new smoke-house, and trying to decide where to build it. They were still talking about it when they heard someone knocking at the door. Blaekie went to the door and took. down the bar, and as he opened it in flew Jay Bird, and he seemed in an awful hurry. "Well, what's the matter?" asked Blaekie, as soon as Jay Bird got seated on the corner of the table. "There's a whole heap the matter," said Jay Bird. "It doesn't bother me, but it's going to worry all you folks that can't fly. I was over at Mr. Man's house late this afternoon, get ting a few strawberries for supper, and while I was there Uncle Joe and Aunt Lindy came over. Mrs. Man was out at the well where the others were, and they all got to talking so much and so loud I thought I would hop over and see what it was all about. Mr. Man was awfully mad, and he was talking with his hands as well as with his mouth. He doubled up his fist and pounded down on the bucket shelf so hard that it knocked the bucket off and it fell down in the well, as he said: I tell you, Uncle Joe, this thing has got to be stopped! Something has got to be done. This rascal Blaekie Bear and his tribe of friends are about to ruin me, and we have got to clean out the whole crowd. They have taken my turkeys, pigs, chickens, apples and my gun. They have tried to drown my dog, and if they are let alone a while longer, they will be taking my cow and calf. We have got to stop them, and we have got to S BY D. SAM COX OF do it right away." "Got to stop them, has he," laughed Blaekie. "Well, what did Uncle Joe say?" Uncle Joe said, "You are mighty right, Mr. Man. If this things keep up, I won't have enough roosters left to Keep tne hawks away from my biddies, and not enough geese to furnish feathers for my beds. Wi certainly have got to put an end to it." . Then Aunt Lindy said: "While I was gone to town the other day, BJackie Bear came to my house and took a big bucket of honey that had just taken from a gum. I know it was Blaekie because I saw his tracks ax-ound the door and on the sand on my kitchen floor. Yes, sir, we certainly have got to stop all this robbing, or we won't have anything left before long " That's too bad," said Jocko Moh key. "We really ought to leave them a little something to live on, so they can keep on working to make some' thing else for us to live on. We will have to talk it over, and see if we can't plan a little trip." "You had better do your planning tonight and your tripping tomorrow night," said Jay Bird, "for Mr. Man said he was going to town tomorrow and get another gun, and the next day he and Uncle Joe and Rover Dog would start in to clean out all the varmints in these woods. There isn't any time to lose." "Well," said Blaekie to Jay Bird, you go over and tell Dr. Coon and Billie Possum to come over here early in the morning. And you stay over in the barn at Mr. Man's house to night and find out what he intends to do tomorrow. As soon as he leaves, you fly over here and tell us all about his plans. That's a good old bird Good night." (To be continued.) : GEMS "CULTURE- apostles of eaUalirw ?re anion "SchonT-ovorv,;.....: I ed: it is wns j cation, as a moral and l ture, which lifts t.l?mu Baker Eddv ,uPr.'J "For we heha vu.l ..... I orderlv amm "?arM ' 5 ,uuu ThessoU V'The foundation of cnItur character. 1.. ure. timenr."--" "t "sl ttle m "No one is so savage that k not be civilized if he ' f nariont on- . 111 J , Ui .J8'.the h of i v.cu wun tne best ami L. 1 whv" V ni... dnd M -'J . U ivy. MARRIAGES Grover Crawford to Canip' uulii ox canton, route 2. Roy H. Patton to "i)c!ir Mitchell, both of Canton. Charles. A. Lintib.i mon rt fl.. aU .i .. . 6,l ...c... vu Ule Auantic Ocean i in rmint; on -'lay 21, 11 SllM Here and There by HILDA WAY GWYN An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself. Robert Louis Steven : son. : -. Running into Bill Coble the other day ; . ..in the Southern Railway Star tton in Asheville . . . we recalled oth er days ... when all the travel from this section to any distance, started from that point ... we remembered the tall iron fence and the gates that used to keep the surging crowd from the trains , . , and how you had your ticket in hand, standing in line to show the gateman . . . then we drifted to the Murphy Branch . . . and we reminisced about the picnics we had enjoyed ... by the way of train to Balsam ... it was a faVorite place to go . . . the schedule was perfect . . you left Waynesville around 9 o'clock and came back in the late afternoon . and had a whole day to roam the 1 woods ... and they were real woods in those days . . . you usually came to the station at Balsam about an hour before train time . . . it would have been just too bad to get left . . . there were no bus lines then . . . you took no chances . . except there would always be one or two adven turous souls . . . (chiefly wanting to worry somebody) ..... . who would ar rive just in the nick of time ... . the poor chaperon (in case you don't know what she is . . . it was a person anywhere from 18 to 80 who was re sponsible for everything that hap pened on the trip ... no wonder they are out of 'fashion)'.'...', would be crazy thinking of all the things that might have happened . . . and how Johnny's mama would jump on her . , when more than likely Mama couldn't keep up with Johnny herself at home. If you were a girl you had gathered all the wild flowers your small hands could hold . .- . by the time you got home they were wilted past reviving . . , but you never learned ... you'd do the same way next time . . . and those cool springs from which you drank . . . most of the time you had to clean out the debris . . . wouldn't you be horrified to have your children drink from such places today? . . . but how you slept that night ; . . we de cided that the child of today who goes by bus or car . . . however streamlined, misses a big thrill for there was something mon strous and powerful, yet fasci nating about that puffing engine ... that had to have help going up Balsam . . . and even two en gines traveled up the grade as if they could hardly make it how tame today to ride to Bal sam in a few minutes in a car . . as compared. ten his business of words oijr ... ins wue came "jmj. me pantry one dav. an,! him in the act of embracing tit . , . mr. wepster," she said am surprised," whereupon Mr. bter gazea upon her in mild rei . . ... wo, my pet," he replied, are amazed, it is we who , prised." ... we nope it is a long time fci a recent visitor in town I her mistake . . . she was fJ distant state . . , in one oil eating places in town she i l u: i ociybu mg aominy . . . morecJ monly known in these parts lye hominy . . . she was i delighted with the food . . had a second helping . . some J s6n nearby . . , when she af what kind of rice it was , i . , ner mac it was mountain i and had been grown here J many years . . . she was quite s prised . . . as she had eaten ! in other sections . , . but h I always Deen grown m low marl places, . We had a phone call from I Prevost soon after her return I Bermuda with the .North CiJ Doctors . . '; and she told us bl Ur. McCracken and get a poef had written on the trip'. . . one 4 judge from the Dr. 's verses till medieal mpn nrp i?wf :t unset Jf rolling waves of the brinyl their patients might have been J and are no more philosophical. poem is dated . . . "Time 2 A. M J 10th Place, Bosom of the A:J On the Good Ship Bermuda.. i The doctor held to the Sun Decs! His eyes looked weak and hi; I was pale, With crumpled clothing and r;l hair, He was truly a pieture of dire t-i A friend who happened to p- way. Stnnnpd and lisrened and ha: sav. .'',.":..;: I have eiven un evt i ythss? 1 1 To the damned old mackerel, .1 er and shad." "You shot I the a In "His lessons in English" . . . . Alexander Woolcott tells the follow ing story of Noah Webster ... we had imagined that the great lexicographer was so busy with his studv of wnrrfa that he had no time for purely hu man indulgences ... but we find we were both wrong and right . . . he evidently had his weak moments . ,j but he seems never to have forgot- The friend said, complain, For you see your gain, ,' Tla v,a,r coom rmov eO.V0l3k But such deeds have their s: ' tion. "Give me vour halul. let's p - But the doctor fell to the ' ,. v ivu . "Please go "away and let wM I'll Hip nVht here, and tnen w- T,t- i,.j e-jll he mV haK -m. tit ir ianu . And nn thnt. isle I'll l've ; ri T ; .. .,in:t'.i riie tt-f rur x ill iievri i". back home." Methinks that when this 'c'rff'' Snmownoro out on Bermuos5 This doctor stands, ; with Toward everj-thing that !sri it: i.--x : .J hi rannw- nis Heart is ", "- - ,,a- than t But in his ears this song "Nothing could be .finer W Carolina in the morning- (The poem was at 2 a. m. following a s and according to P8, dtcthf-" ' - A.f 1 - - rnrrl responsive "" ... medicos, that it stole tne - the rest of the progr.- the !: