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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1947
A Rigid Test
Those who have taken their driver's test,
as provided for under the new state law,
point out that it is not as simple as just giving
persona data, such as age, color of hair,
weight, etc.
The actual road tests are just what they
mean.
Many a veteran di n er has failed to answer
some of the questions, which most have been
taking for granted for all the years.
One motorist who has been driving for
many years' almost fainted when he had to
identify the different meanings of highway
signs.
This thing of driving a motor vehicle these
days is a serious business in fact it is a busi
ness of life and death, and the state cannot
be too rigid in the examinations put to those
who get under the steering wheel.
We venture to say that more motorists have
been studying highway si;;ns and hand sig
nal8ince July 1 t'han in any five-year period.
The program is splendid and the thorough
checks of cars goes right along hand in hand
with the test for drivers.
Lotteries Are Illegal
Down in Ahoskie the Kiwanis club staged
a raffle with a $.'5,200 Cadillac as the prize. At
the drawing, the name of a 25-year-old Negro
was drawn, and officials of tlc club ruled
that the contest was for whites only. The
Negro had paid a dollar for his 13,000-to-l
chance ticket, and nothing was said about
race or creed when the sale was made.
A second drawing was held and the car
awarded a doctor.
Protests started pouring in from over the
nation. One congressman entered his bitter
protest, and a New York newspaper started
a fund to raise money to get the Negro a
$3,2Qaqar. , ,
.pbittbiqMiislrfd- a';hirrricd meeting
and decided to give the Negro a car, and also
the doctor, in order to bring the matter to a
close.
While all this was going on, the attorney
general's office in this state received more
than 100 requests for a ruling on staging a
raffle, or similar drawing. The answer was,
"lotteries in North Carolina are illegal.''
Since the Ahoskie case brought such a
storm of protest, there is a feeling in many
circles that fewer and fewer like events will
be staged in North Carolina.
Two Seconds To Kill
How long is two seconds?
Not very long. Barely long enough for a
pedestrian to say: "I've got plenty of time be
fore that car gets here. Barely long enough
for him to take six steps into the roadway,
so the Morganton News-Herald points out.
An automobile going 40 miles an hour trav
els ll8 feet in two seconds and even on good
pavement, even with good brakes, the driver
cannot stop under 126 feet . . . that means 8
feet beyond the "hit pedestrian."
"Speed of oncoming cars is very hard to
judge in daylight impossible at night. Last
year "some 130,000 pedestrians were killed or
injured between intersections because they
guessed wrong or just weren't thinking at all.
The place to cross the street is at a crosswalk,
and ff there is no traffic light, it pays divi
dends in life and limb to wait until the way
is clear. Two seconds is often all the time it
takes to die," . - . a
The Signs Were Late
Although late, the highway department has
erected signs at the intersection of Highway
19 and 19-A, 23, which should eleminate a lot
of confusion that has been existing since the
Lake Junaluska cut-off was completed.
Some business people promptly estimate
that 50 per cent of the travel coming as far
as the Lake now keep on Highway 19, instead
of coming on into Waynesville. We haven's
any accurate checking figures, but we pre
sume many travelers will not find their desti
nation by the signs, and not take the wrong
route. Fven then, enough will by-pass Way
nesville.
"YOU HAVE CANCER"''
No Income Tax Reduction
The action of the Senate Friday took all
doubt out of the minds of American people
that next year's income taxes would be lowei .
Many people have been going along on the
assumption that the tax rate would be cut,
and gearing their economic life to taking ad
vantage of the cut effective January first.
There is a lot of argument on the matter,
but regardless of how one feels, the income
tax rate will not be reduced.
The two prevalent lines of thought on the
matter seem to be: (1) Keep the present rate
and pay off the national debt; (2) Stop loan
ing and giving money to foreign countries
and reduce the rate.
The average citizen argues the point from
the standpoint of his personal advantage, and
often fails to take the national picture into
consideration when going irtto the subject.
Family Reunions Start
The annual family reunions have started
and from now until fall, scores of families
will gather arouri the festive board and
spend the day visiting and feasting.
This is a fine American tradition and we
feel the world would be knit closer together
if more old-fashioned family reunions were
held more often.
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Rambling 'Round
Bits Of Human Interest News Picked Up By Members
Of The Mountaineer Staff
More Applesauce
The Western Carolina Tribuae tries to set
us right about the apple crop in Henderson
county. In an editorial recently we com
mented on the fact that Haywood had 77,000
apple trees, according to government figures,
and Henderson had 50,000.
The Tribune said editorially
"The Waynesville Mountaineer has been
shocked from an old assumption as evidenced
by its declaration that 'we have taken it for
granted that Haywood led in the production
of apples.' It adds that 'recently a statement
was published in a magazine that Henderson
county was the leading apple-producing coun
ty in North Carolina.' It then quotes census
figures showing that Haywood has 77,000
trees, Buncombe 73,000, Alexander 59,000,
Henderson 50,000 and Wilkes 38,000. Old boy
they've been planting them on every hillside
and on top of the Blue Ridge so fast in Hen
derson county it will take another depression
with special WPA enumerators to catch up
with what we are doing over this way in the
making of a million dollar apple crop."
The Mountaineer hopes there will not be
another depression, but if it should come, we
would not be inclined to accept the count of
WPA enumerators.
Have you ever thought of the
tragedy behind some of the adver
tisements you find in the news
papers? For instance: "Have you
seen a little w hite dog with a brown
ear. He was a child s pet and the
owner is inconsolable." Perhaps the
little white dog has just wandered
away in search of new adventure;
or some one has picked it up and
carried it away: or maybe a care
less motorist has crushed out its
life. Whatever the cause of its ah
sencc. there is a broken childish
heart.
that summer seems to be a forgot
ten season. The rain has kept the
foliage in such cleanliness that
the usual dusty reminder of hot
days has been noticable by its absence.
Is an old man's interest in teen-age girls a mark of senility?
Answer: In the main, yes. For
while on the surface he seems only
to be trying to regain his lost
youth, the more serious his obaes
si6n with "sweet young things" is,
the more it reveals a loss of con
tact with the real world, and es
pecially the fact that liis interest
cannot be returned. He thus goes
beyond the "wishful thinking" in
which almost anyone may indulge,
and displays the loss of memory
of recent events, and the tendency
ta "live in the past" which are the
outstanding characteristics of a
senile person.
Do we fall in love with some
one who is like one of our
oarents?
At. KBR! Ki. TCS htrni r., par
ents, we are picnj certain to do
this unconsciously, but accord
ing to a study reported by A.
Strauss in the American Sficio-
. logical Review, a resemblance to
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VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
Certainly no one can criticize the
weather we have enjoyed this sum
mer; so little really warm days
have interfered with our comfort
And still speaking of weather, we
have just ahead ox us hardly six
weeks of summer then comes the
glory that is ours. The fal and
early winter grandeur of these
mountains is something that will
always linger in the minds of those
who have enjoyed it. If our sum
mer visitors could only realize
what they leave when they depart
from here along about September
first, we feel sure they would either
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How's The Season?
The question that is perhaps asked more
today than any other, is "How is the tourist
season?"
A perfectly natural question but one that
often gets a variety of answers. The answer
all depends upon the person answering the
question.
This newspaper asked the owner of a busi
ness catering to tourists and was told, "Not
as good as 1946."
As soon as the "boss" turned his back, one
of his employees was queried and the answer
was, "All the business we can handle."
We suspect somewhere between those two
answers is the correct one for the community
as a whole.
With the general prevailing cool weather
during June and July in most of the Southern
states, many potential visitors have delayed
their annual trelt to the mountains until later.
Some purposely waiting until September.
We believe that when the curtain rings
down on the season, some time in' October,
that most everyone will find ft has been a
fairly good season after all.
By JANE EADS
WASHINGTON Dr. Albert
Kenririck Kisher. first chief of the
U. S. Biological Survey, says he is
the man who discovered you could
cat rattlesnake meat and live.
That was long before they start
ed canning the stuff and selling it
for $1 a pound.
Or. Fisher, who recently cele
brated his 92nd birthday eating
roast beef at the historic Cosmos
Club with a group of cronies, says
rattlesnake meat is okay when you
haven't got anything else and
you're starving.
Let the gourmets have it, says
he. He prefers roast canvasback
duck, which feed3 on celery and
has a much superior flavor.
"It's not bad' eating," says he.
"I don't like white meat of any
kind, and I think chicken is poor,
but I'm willing to eat the dark meat
of turkey on Thanksgiving."
Dr. Fisher retired from govern
ment service after 46 years back
in 1931.
It was in 1890 when Dr. Fisher,
leading a party of six. got fwo
weeks ahead of the chuck wagons
out in Death Valley in California.
When they got to the starving
point the party reasoned that
anything alive was food, so they
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Do you think a conference be
tween President Truman and
Premier Stalin of Russia would bet
ter relations between the two na
tions at this time?
Howard Clapp: "Yes. Two people
can always profit by a discussion
of problems."
Henry Hale: "No. I think there
have been too many conferences.
Let the situation stand as it is for
a while, and let us wait until the
Russians approach us."
Jim Killian: "I don't ' know
whether it would or not. If Truman
was as good a diplomat as Roose
velt, it would be all right, but I
doubt if he could come out as well
in a conference with Stalin."
Joe Jack Atkins: "I have my
doubts that a conference would do
much good. '
or the extremely efficient head
waiters who act more like frigid
Uiipiomats accepting an unfriendly
Charles Isley: "Anything is worth
a try to straighten things out, be
cause the situation seems to be
very serious now. We've gone more
than half way with Russia already."
Guy Messer: "It ought to estab
lish better relations.''
The Luth, or Leathery Turtle,
is a marine animal inhabiting
tropical seas; it reaches a length
of eight feet and weighs as much
as a ton.
Looking Back Over The Years
LEON'S BREAK WITH
! EDDIE ENDS CHAPTER
OF HOSPITALITY
NEW YORK When, as had
been indicated for some time, Leon
Enken and Eddie Davis put an end
to their 20-year partnership in their
extremely lucrative night club,
Leon and Eddie's, Broadway lost
one of its most colorful hosts, the
aforesaid Leon Enken.
While Eddie Davis' bawdy bal
ladry certainly was the main at
traction for Leon and Eddie's in
an entertainment way, the effusive
Leon at the door greeting his
thousands of acquaintances was
equally as much a profitable part
of their amiable 52nd St. uproar
house.
There are few hosts of Leon's
superior style left on Broadway.
The trend seems to have shifted
Kuvi-rnmens protefl
lnendly souls of oil
"Km club tradition
Leon has a reputati
ins as manj folks I
01 life as Jim Farlev,
ory lor faces a
posed to be of all-til
caliber. Not only J
member a name ij
town of thousands if
visitors, but he woaf
the names of other
customer's home buri
tive little host's tricl
tlcared him to
ii)ining is so accept!
xork as the mention
town.
Bartenders with i
remembering faces
never have a worry
a Bi'oaduav job, for
to aloof and accented 'continentals j town who. however
may be attending
the sightseeing poinl
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WASHING
Mon Wallgren Suggested ! Taft - Hartley
As Trumcn Running Mate labor SecreHra
Special to Central Press
"TV7"ASHINGTON The political tight rope-walking hi
west has become a battleground for the 194S
paigns a full year before the Democrats and Republianl
nominating: conventions.
No less a personage than George Allen, erstwhile "cf
and close adviser to President Truman, has suggest
state's Gov. Mon Wallgren as Mr. Truman's 1948 ruffl
Political observers An Washington see W&llgren'l t4
event the Republicans nominau 11
5 YEARS AGO
A storage tank at the Standard
Oil company bulk plant on Water
street started leaking Tuesday
morning and in some undetermined
manner tte fumes became ignited
and caused an . exDlpsion which
brought death to five Waynesville
citizens.
Carmel Hollingsworth, a student
of the Waynesville vocational agri
culture class, won first place in the
district essay contest sponsored by
the Cotton Cooperative of Raleigh.
Sixty-seven men are scheduled
to leave this area on Friday for
induction at Fort Jackson.
10 YEARS AGO
Special engineers of the West
inghouse Electric company have
completed the installation of the
latest sound producing system for
the Park theater.
On Friday afternoon Miss Fran
ces Robeson gave a tea honoring
several members of the faculty of
Duke summer 'school.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Ward were
given a surprise on Sunday, July
18, when nine of their ten children
and their families arrived to cele-
15 YEARS AGO
Miss Bessie Boyd returned Mon
day from a three weeks' trip to
New York, New England and Can
ada. Two attractive visitors, Miss Ask
ing Ivey, of Concord, guest of Miss
Mary Stringfield, and Miss Marion
Gibbs, of New York, guest of Miss
Elizabeth Ray, were complimented
last Friday afternoon with a bridge
party given by Miss Ray.
The First National Bank has just
erected a large electric clock on
its building on Main street here.
Hundreds of citizens have ex-
brate with them their Wh KZTZ", S
,.,nAA; "' iu
"""'vcisaiy. 1 building was torn down.
?'fw'v 1 Thomas E. Dewey again, and thoM
!? jv I Stassen for second seat on the GOP
Walleren. almost overlooked m M
tinl snernlatinn. is a close friend Of
nt'. T act vpar Mr. Truman went
him out in Washincton. It Is
Truman would like to entice WM
Washington state to preside over
If Stassen shared tne ucwi -
.nfo .mwnnr would M
null on the pro-labor votes of WW
eon and northern California. I
t,.. ,ii7.P that this couMfl
some extent by nominating Waugwj
graphical balance would r u,u4-
vjj. uewev-oiasseM i'r-
Washington
would have a mid westerner and a far westerner
no concessions to the east.
CUT SCHWELLENBACH POWER S-Washington
ing that Secretary of Labor Lewis Sclivveiie""
only "bureau chief with cabinet status." There u
Jiuinor in me remarK. . , mjjtl
Schwellenbach's department is being clipped 0 1
tlons and much of its personnel uuuu6;. -
and tne Wis appropriations measuic. --nation
They'll Do It Every Time
Five times as much vitamin A has been
found in the milk of cows fed on good alfalfa
hay as in the milk of cows led on poor tim
othy hay. 1
Men who enter West Point Military Acad
emy most be at least v feet, stz fnctie
talL
601 n' Fish i m'.
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LUCKXlD. BUT
REMEMBER- youR. )
NAMES MUD IF
SOU VOfiJ
us ootK Pi MESS
OF FISH-
NOW, CHARLIE.!
FISH FOR THE $
SQUATvvELLS-
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By Jimmy Hatlo
So HE BLEW A
FUSE GETTING
Them a nice
string for
the Pan
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WHY DOES THAT Mu6
Ring us these veGv
dead fish? you know
WE HAVE A ROAST IN A
'He OVEN AND WE'RE I
(SOING OUT TOMORROW &
MIiLlf 1! it-, r. . .(
lEFRI6EI2ATOR, ETC,
,-50 WRAP THEM LIP
D GIVE THEM THE
.D HEAVE-HO IN THE
GARBAGE CAN
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HOWACO beijnhard,
San FtaN65co.C4i.rF
TBe Taft-Hartley law takes away tne ,
the department and sets up an independent -,l
statute also expands the NLRB as the Oo
agency. rienartm'
The new appropriations bill for the labor
slashes its personnel and trims Bureau of UD0 . &
of Labor Standards and United States Employe
Moreover, if Congress rejects rresiuii". w
mental reorganization plan, Schwellenbacn
entirely and be deprived of authority over
division.
RUSSIAN frOLERAVCfi"-Soviet pwpagw
treated religion with bitter scorn, now boas
accorded Catholics In the USSR. . -yhiUj1
The Soviet Informatidn Bulletin, P"bllS'iea.'"nf ndBa
itussian embassy ana Known as me $avj
United States, currently features a story 0IJT Baltic TO
Cathollcsihcludfiur nuns and tnonks-m we 1
western Ufcralnejand western Byelorussia.
Armrtinr TJ,,lloHr, members of .. .. I
"usually wear the apparel characteristic 0
order or Bbciety and they have the rigni w 6
As a further indication of Commune ft
..ii..... iJ....J that monaslerlw
mihaedhess." the fcublidatioh says that mon
are permitted to operate their own wetia0ltf5
ebutnfjer! ufth tnhW anrl niftrhinerV. The .jj f
rr " inflUB1
. AMD
"The state regards these workshops
which have the. right to dispose of neir. p-rtivef
Ing local trade channel A the producers cwr
!ie Soviet magatine also notes that m0"
mlUUy erVicei aTrule.'V