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THURSDAY, OCTQRpp Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer j Published By THE WAYNESV1LLE PRINTING CO.. Main Street Phon 1$7 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County All Aboard . W. CURTIS BUSS 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 76c One Year. Outside Haywood County , ,, , 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Enteral at Cha Boat ottica at Waroaerllla. N. 0.. u OUaa Mall MatUr, u proritWd vain tha Act af Man , 187. Morambar 10, ltU. Obituary aotlcaa, raaolutiona of raapact. earda at thanks, and all noticaa of antartainnMnta for profit, will ba ehaigM (or at tha rata ol ona ent par word. yMorth Carolina wJk XfJsSASCIAIKQ NATIONAL 6DITOR.AI ASSOCIATION A progressive community is a working community. Now that we have more or less let up on many things that occupied our time during the spring and summer, it seems timely that the community, and we speak of the county in general, should get behind the roads and highway committee of the Chamber of Com. merce and not let up until the improvement of the road from Waynesville to Dellwood is started. This 5-mile road has served its day. It was built when traffic was slower, and much less than today. The road is not adequate to fill present day needs. It is dangerous, in that the curves are too sharp and the width not sufficient. This road serves one of the most thickly populated sections of the county, and traffic To Soco Gap and up to Black Camp Gap add to the overload. All of us working behind the capable com mittee can get a better road to Dellwood. We should mark this a "must" project, and get in behind it right away. Thursday, October 2, 1941 Good Beginning 1 Our Readers Speak The four "Letters to the Editor" publish ed on. this page, are worthy of special men tion, and certainly your time to read. Three of the four are along constructive lines, and since the fourth is a pat on our back, we'll pass without any comment other than to say to the writer of the letter, "many thanks". Taking the letters as we come to them: NAMING PARK PEAKS A timely suggestion from Frank Smath ers, urging that North Carolina start a cam paign to see that some of the peaks in the Park are named after famous Tar Heels, He cites instances, showing that Tennes see "puts on pressure" to get what they want, and the results thus far have been most en couraging on the other side of the Smokies. For the most part, Tar Heels are too modest to get out and seek such honors. However, in thi3 instance, we feel that North ' Carolinians would be justified in getting what is rightfully theirs. We' believe that the citizens of Tar Heelia have been just a little afraid of trampling on the toes of some one in Washington, and have appeared to be content with the "hand out of crumbs" rather than insist upon part of the cake. The time has come when we must exert some of our feelings, and seek what is ours until we get it. TRASH ON THE STREETS Mrs. W. T. Crawford is concerned about the increase of trash on the streets, and feels that something should be done about it. : . Certainly no town can expect to be called beautiful, such as Waynesville in the past has acquired as a title. Mrs. Crawford asks why people want to throw trash on the streets. We are frank to say we cannot answer the question, but feel that it is lack of civic pride and proper respect for their community which enables them to continue such an uncalled practice. We feel, Mrs. Crawford, that you are right in appealing to the younger generation to take pride and interest in their community. However, the example set by the older peo ple will have a bad influence on the young folks.. :. The town officials certainly mastered the traffic situation in Waynesville, and that, it seems, is your only hope. A town ordinance, and officers empowered to make arrests. People for the most part are afraid of the fourth and fifth floor 'of the court house. NO CARNIVALS NEEDED R. P. McCracken in his interesting letter, gives the history of Haywood's big fairs of years ago, and points out that the fair thriv ed until outside attractions were brought in. "'. The writer pointed out, that with the out side attractions, the purpose of the fair was lost, and interest in the fair waned until until it was just the carnivals and midway. This newspaper feels that it is. a foregone conclusion that carnivals have no place in Haywood, and that the' experience of past promoters of fairs and livestock shows In Haywood will be heeded, and that the Live stock and Home Arts Show will continue from year to year as an educational feature, and continue on the same scope as at pres ent. The Mountaineer again urges all our read ers to read these letters to the editor care fully. They are well worth your time. Haywood County is fortunate in having a man that is so capable of organizing and executing far-sighted plans for large scale developments that when Western North Carolina civic leaders met and looked for a chairman of such a working committee they unanimously named Charles E. Ray. It is with a certain degree of sympathy that we congratulate Mr. Ray, because we have an idea of the personal sacrifices he will have to make in order to serve thi section of the state on which he is so thor oughly "sold". This little tinge of sympathy is offset by the gratification we have in calling Mr. Ray: "our own". ' It Is A Great Elevator IMilMMIMM II liaiTMTH ailllHii 'll lil.')l w'; I: .. ''. -V-. H' "isE-?----. -j.iippiiim! ; r i 1 fv p P Si I (I York Times, and his tribute to the influence of the country weekly appears; in fits book, I he (.treat Tradition", published recently by Doubleday, Poran and Company. In this book in which Mr. Strun- sky examines the forces that have made America, he devotes one hapter to the press. After dis cussing the circulation of daily and weekly newspapers and week ly and monthly magazines, he states that in this nation of 30 million families, the average fam- ly each month reads 40 daily newspapers, nine weekly news papers and magazines and five j! monthly magazines. Then he adds HERE and THER E HILDA WAY GWYN Haywood is fortunate in having a man so these significant paragraphs: capable, and a man who will do this all im portant job. And we know that in appre elation of what he has already done, and will continue to do, that the citizens of this coun ty will rally at his call when he needs them for furthering the cause of making Western North Carolina a better place to live and it is to that end that he is giving of his time, energy .and money. The Asheville Citizen gave a general put line of the work of this group in this edi torial : '. ; : Whatever additional advantages Western North Carolina may anticipate from the Great Smoky " Mountains National Park, these cannot be fully realized unless there is a liberal expenditure of the region's own energies. Federal and State cooperation should be available in abundance, yet the initiative will rest always with the enlighten ed leadership of the mountain section, ; For this reason the organization of Western North Carolina committee to pro mote the Park as well as the Blue Ridge Parkway is a farsighted step toward mire energetic local participation. Though the title, "North Carolina Committee to Aid, in the Development of the Great Smoky Moun tains National Park may seem somewhat unwieldly, it is an accurate description jof the motive and of the task, which will be no less lengthy in expectation of achieve ment. The Committee personnel has been chosen with care. Men who not only are competent but representative of the communities con cerned as well will assume most of the re sponsibility for the development program. In the designation of Charles E. Ray, Jr., Waynesville, as chairman, Percy B. Ferebee, of Andrews, as vice-chairman and George M. Stephens, of Asheville,. as secretary-treasurer, the committee has placed itself under the guidance of an eminently capable group of officers. With such an auspicious start, the de velopment committee cannot fail to achieve some considerable measure' of success for its goal of providing a greater participation for Western North Carolina in the Great Smoky Park. Needless to say, Asheville and the other communities which stand to gain from its activities will afford the Commit tee the most enthusiastic support and cooperation What is the relative weight of each of these types of journal in molding American public opinion and, beyond it, in shaping the per manent ideas of the American people? . . . Instinctively, when we think of the power of the press we think of the daily newspaper, always hot from the griddle, al ways bringing the latest bulletins the latest victory or disaster, the latest reassuring communique, the latest alarm. The politician in the sidewalk cafe snatches the news paper from the shouting vendor nd leaps without loss of time to the top of a table to harangue the crowd for a march on the Bastille or on Parliament or on the con vention hall it is a familiar sym bol of the power of the press which may be as faithful to the facts as liiost symbols are. But whatever may have been true of the coffee houses of Queen Anne, when Eng lish journalism first : became a power, or the militant newspapers of the French revolution, or the cafe politicians of Europe since then, the picture does not hold good for this country. With us the shaping of public opinion is less the worK of city gossipers jn a club or a back room ! Isn't it funny hw a little thing can get one completely down . . , whereas a real potential tragedy "an be faced with perfect calm ness . . . now take the case of Mrs. Ruth Craig of the Personality Beauty Shop . . . and one of her associates . . . Blanche Medford . . . they were as composed as a May morn . . . when the shop was in danger during th fire of last week . i. , but a few days before they went all to pieees over . . . well, we are getting ahead of our story . . . it was past closing time , . , you know how accommodating they are about doing work after hours for the business girls . . , Blanche was trying to finish the "Horse and Buggy Doctor" . . . so to rest herself a bit after a hard day ... she decided to read a chapter or two before going home . . . Mrs. Craig was leaving . . . and so Blanche offered to lock up . . . Mrs. Craig stepped out . ; . into the hall , . . and leaving -aid "Good-night". V . . Blanche replied, not ; looking up from her book ... "Good-night" . . . and from down the hall there came another . . . perhaps it was an echo . . . "Good-night" . . .. it sounded queer to Mrs. Craig . . . she walked back into the shop and said . . . "Blanche, I am going to say 'good-night again, and I want you to do the same" . . . Blanche quite mystified agreed ... (she was deep in her book and did not hear the "echo") . . . Mrs. Craig said, "Good-night" ... and Blanche answered . . . "Good-night" . . ; and down the hall there came' the third "Good-night" , . . Blanche tossed her book aside and came out of the shop ... she and Mrs, than of half a dozen rural debaters T" wf W m the direc- at the general store or in the local j ? la' sound - 'M garage. With u, the small-town ' SnfJ6l " fdoor ' ' he?rd and country newspaper, rvhieh . J"?cUy away . from that most often a weekly journal, f"d in" they fled : . ... ana in one erand hurrw tumMut more influential than the daily ; down t hp " irrimaruy mis wouia De aue , rushPd infrt fh Power Of the Press This is National Newspaper Week. ' T a. ' m a . xxaiuraiiy one would surmise that ' any editor would write a masterful editorial on the "Freedom of the Press". We have editorials and articles on that and other 'subjects appearing in the second sec tion of today's issue, where we have grouped all that matter. In this column, however, we have a guest writer, so to speak an editorial writer by the name of Simeon Strunsky of The New to the very fact that it is a small town rural press. As late as the 1930 census, 51 per cent of the population of the country was living in places having fewer than 8,000 inhabitants; but this small! advantage of 2 per cent does not really measure the weight which he non-urban half of the Ameri can people carries in the life of the nation. In these small towns and farm homes the ratio of native-born is much higher than the cities. The ratio of old-stock population is much higher; and it is still a fact of prime importance for the realis tic observer that the American of the older stocks is a more power ful force, man for man, than the American of later origin. Coun try journalism, in addressing it self to this better entrenched and more highly privileged section of the American people, has right at the start a selective advantage over the urban daily press. To this we may add the priori argument that a weekly newspa per which is read and absorbed in the seclusion and comparative leisure of the small town or the farm 'is likely to exercise a greater pull on its reader than the average copy of the metropolitan daily pa per, crammed with a bewildering array of reading matter and con sumed amid the distractions of urban life. Psychologically, it is a sound contention that a single copy of a weekly newspaper slowly absorbed may succeed in driving home a point more effectively than seven daily newspapers repeating the earn point in the Courts of a week to a metropolitan audience. and Blanche Boyd Furniture store to find out about the mys terious "good night" . , . only to learn that the room had recently been rented to a couple who own ed a parrot . If you would like to be amused . ask R. V. Erk to show you a copy of "The Young Ladies Jour nal" . dated November, 1890 . . . an illustrated magazine . "Fashions, Fancy Work, Family Reading, and etc., etc." . . . (it was rather a relief to learn that the publishers did not employ traveling agents) ... we wonder if advertisements and stories in current magazines will be as fun ny 50 years hence as those found in this , publication j 51 years ago . romance seemed to run to tragedy . . , we were much intrigued over a sentence in a stirring story entitled "A Breath of Scandal" . . . we judged a widow must have been somewhat forward for her time . . . "a vision of splendor, with a few sprays of lilac about ber dress, hinting faintly and quite successfully at widowhood in its second year" . . . what would those 'pd'es of 51 years ago think of modern widows who don't even dress the part the first year? .. and the women were just as much concerned about being fat (no wonder with the waist lines they tried to keep) . . . for we found four impressive and convincing ads on the subject . . . and we want you to know that corsets were really objects of torture in those days . . . yet from one ad we would judge that there must have been some sentiment even then in the direction of "Freedom from stays ... for there was a knit ted garment advertised . , . and described as "support without pres sure , . . (it must have been a forerunner of the modern sleek elastic step-in) . ... don't you know hat ad read invitingly to many a straight laced dame back 50 years ago . ... Latest Triumph of Electric bcience ... (which evidently con cerned the men as well as the la dies) . , . "Electric Hair Curler . , . by its aid . . . the hair, beard or mustache can be curled . . . Keep the hair in curj with 'Frizzette' " . . . and Pills . . . they appear to have been a cure for anything that nappened to be the matter with you . . . "Complexion pills" . . riental Pills" . . . a boom to the Rich and Poor alike . . . can be secured throughout the world".". the famous Beecham's pills ... one a we haven't quite figured out . . " The Chic Dress Suspender" . . nothing can be seen of the SUS' SUNSET GUN " Letters To Editor Editor The M,., MI am advised Mountjiin d.-, - 3 tl nitely decided tot?1" the mnnntQ; " J0 Carolina I "m furlhe'r advised J renaming those officii VOr hnnm-m,. "I caroi n::i.w.td exerted an :0 acqmsition of the park stages) provided, how there is , definite and mereior by ftp the "informwl ki:. I am also advised tk Vet ton lat f. park officials to extend J biicd ui I n a rD , i . Balsam and other nea'rJ nrovided aUn u . 1 demand by an infomJ ' , , umted Public vided furtlio n.. 1 tne lands ar u;-- j l . "'oc ana n ited enought to reduce an up the price of the land I am also advised tha son Tennessee hag re uesi oi ine Bargain on I enterprise is because J first imnnrfnniia 1 desires and Jl uu.iaia Dy an intellirf piupaganua supplement litical, radio and grounl Th au. j , i . n xii ULjitr Wilms th.r r Rill "turn on th lioat" k . uization oi public semi suDDort. All of tVlia Vicuna,, information I pass on t canor, in the hope thai at once ascertain its trJ sity, ana if found accl will inaugurate a piJ srieg xo Dring about the! suits. Respect r KANK SMA Editor of The Mountain May I suggest a your "Voice of the PeopI do people want to throJ their streets?" I have ged, filthy, ignorant fol all sorts of trash on and roads, and I have ful girls and intellecti doing the same thing, Mind you, I would nj asking them not to do might be impolite, The a very free, exceptional!; fountry and may do ti about it. I just want Why see? ' I have se own mind for a reason sort of reason but cannl any. Surely all your put together could find or perhaps the ''trashl themselves imgh.t' be jrl swer! I am curious to what if anything is minds. Do the officers ever body for spitting, and messing up the town I have been told that present European war whole cities littered u could actually travel mil seeing a scrap 'of papea roads. And now that our highways are to be b you think, my dear j that the "trash thrower them up too ?! Hopefully ; MRS. W. T. CEA' Editor The Mountained I feel like I owe sol least an expression of appreciation fof the a hibition of livestocK (Continued on m rtender from the oufaiJ does not interfere with! and is quite independi Dlacauet ... entirely; worked from the oukii double sets . (H like a zipper) . .- - W turned out to be some i trantinn underneath a helped a lady lift her tVtoi rTrtor hPieflt tUC iyivf, " T" J displaying even her sw nntlipr nd on the samfl was headed "Dujt that! and for the sum of 12"? ould obtain "The rani Dress Lifter" ... na I ed in quick review im . . . the modern gal in I slacks ... and sk'.. from the floor , . . 1 agers" with elast lines w . and we hea of relief . . I Along witn from this section we been more raspbej1 I berry jam "carnedM tourists than in any H son . . . Mrs. Eung the Greentree ,T H Marley at Oak Park J Francis . . M M . . . Mrs. Shuford Hoj the American Fra.t S'j in fact at most ofj stores . nd "fl Mrs. McGraw at t "gone places - tUn three years she j 2,000 to visitors . J showththiiy-5 duce something the world will nndlj door . I
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