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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE T m * * I [ ?, Editorial Page of The Mountaineer SKfegr"^ __ _ ,| nwi-T >???i ? ? ^ ' ? Labor Day ' * Witk Lphor Day coming as lata us it .can this year, there is every reason to /eel that the program as arranged by the committee at Canton will be the best in the 47 years of the annual observance of the day. This year, as in the past, all major Labor Day activities will center in Canton. There a varied and interesting program, arranged for the old and young alike, will be staged throughout the day, and even before the ar rival of Labor Day. In fact, it is truly Labor Day week. Labor Day has come to mean more to the citizens in Haywood than most places. Not only is it a day set aside to honor the work ing people of the nation, but also a day which we can take leasurely before "getting our second wind" for the busy fall and har vest season ahead. Those in the tourist business feel that' Labor Day means the end of the season has arrived. But that is not as much so as in the past, because more and more people are finding that September and October as beautiful months in the mountains, and months which they cannot afford not to be here and enjoy the weather, as well as the unmatched beauties of the area. Labor Day in Haywood means the begin ning anew of another year in which our peo ple enjoy their work, and enjoy working. And that, after all, is one of the major factors of life. $9,600 A Year For Nothing Do you wonder what happens to all that money the government takes from you and other taxpayers? Much of it is spent usefully. But a lot is waster. For instance, a State Department employee recently told a House committee that in more than a year of being on the pay roll at $9,600 per annum, he'd never beert giv eij any specific job to do. He didn't even know what the branch of the Department he was working for was supposed to accom plish. What excuse can be offered for this kind of Waste? Se?ue! This fellow in Newton threatened to jump from a water tower sometime ago. He did not JWnp when: ttUit'uasatihu 1. He was promised a job. 2. His estranged wife said she would re turn to him. The first sequel occurred when he did not show up for his new job. So now the wife, fil-V ing suit for divorce, has provided a secQnd sequel. She never intended to return to her husband, she said. She just wanted to get hirtj down from the tAwer. THF MOTTNTATNFFR < ' Waynesville, North Carolina Main Street < Dial GL 6-5301 The County Sent of Haywood County Pnh1(?h?><l Rv THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS _L Editor W. Curtis Rusk and Marlon T. Bridges. Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3.00 Six Months 1.78 NORTH CAROLINA One Year ? , $4.00 Six Months . .. 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA Ofce Year $4 50 Months _ _ __ 2 50 Enured at the post office at Wajfcesvllle. N. C.. a* Sec ond Clan Mall Mattn, as provided under the Act of March I. 1879, NovemlWr SO. 1914. ? MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaaodated Press is entitled exclusively to the uee for re-publlcatlon of all the local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches Thursday Afternoon, September 3, 1363 Atom Or No Atom "Ae Hew Yorjt Tjm*? rec&}Uy ran an in teresting editorial on coal us* and gome ol the problem* the coal industry muat de& with. The Times pointed out that there have been drops in coal production, due to vari ous causes Then it said: "With coal wages here five times as high as the European average the tbn cost is about one third that of Europe. "The coal people look forward to a time when the demand for their favorite fuel will grow again?possibly in twenty years or so?to twice ita last year's level of 466, 000,009 tons. Ingenuity, economic law and psychology are all involved. In the end the nation will need every ounce of energy it can get, atom or no atom." Coal has and no doubt will continue to have its ups and downs, but it is inconceiv able that it will ever become obsolete. It re mains a primary source of heat Aid energy, and it is b&aic to the operation of such key enterprises as steel and electric power. Re-! search has made it the source of hundreds of new and valuable chemical products which will be used to an ever-increasing extent as time goes by. Our resources of coal are enor mous, and the industry's technical achieve ments are of the hjghest order. Its position in a world whose energy requirements seem to know no limit is secure. Give Me Subsidy! In a recent speech, Dr. U. G. Dubach, pro fessor of political science at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, made this cogent observation: "We want the budget cut, but we don't want cuts for appropriations affect ing Portland." He added that this generation, unlike that of Patrick Henry's time, has a philosophy pf "Give me subsidy or you can't have my vote." Dr. Dubach thus characterized the worst disease that now affects the body politic. The idea that government economy is for the other fellow, never for us, is rampant. It is a commonplace for local chambers of com merce and other organizations to demand rigorous econojny as a principle?and cry to high heaven when cuts affecting t^pif areas are proposed. Here is one of the reasons why a balanced budget and tax reductions have not been possible so far. Even more important, the attitude it represents saps the character and fiber of the people, and implacably under mines the foundations of free, representa tive government. ?- i * The Dizzy Whirl 01 Fashion The fairer sex seems faced with a major problem. The correct hemline. ? The fashion experts have thrown the style trend into a furor, and many of them are in sharp. disagreement aS to what is "correct." In the meantime, the fair ladies, wanting to be in the height of style, wonder just which way to turn, and what will be the ulti mate outcome of it all. But the hosiery makers are as happy as can be over the trend towards shorter skirts. It seems that shorter skirts also will bring about shorter trousers for the men, the ex perts predict, and that means a boom for dealers and manufacturers of men's socks. And so the fashion world goes into a whirl, as well as the heads of those who try to keep pace with the merry circle. On healthy eating, flerd ano herman from papa get a daily sermon ? stop <3ul ping down yaupct / fooo like a couple of wild \ /ostriches! va wanna 69CM UP) amd have stomach ulster? jm uke uncle lushwell? eat h ? slow f chew everv site f7 \ \ fortv tides' <slve the la sv gastric juices a /m p st ts^ chance to perhfc^# But the/also have their doubts pop doesn't practice mj he wm TELL 'EM (GULP') Voice of the - ? ' People What has b|B?n your main projec1 > u a number of the Bethel Chap . ter, Future Farmers ?f America? Guy Mease: "When I entered the i FFA chapter my advisor told us we would have to take two or more projects before we cotrtd become members. That year ! took a bull, three cows, and corn. The bull cost $200 and sold for $560. I enjoyed feeding and taking care of thp cows and sold their calves for $350. for corn, I plowed a field that had been in alfalla for 5 years. I used fertilizer and when the county agent came to measure it, Us yield was 106 bushels to the acre." Charles Stamey: "I entered the FFA when I was 14 years old. My projects were six-tenths acre t<* bacco, a feeder calf and a dairy heifer. I made $500 profit on the tobacco, $100 on the feeder calf, and about $300 profit on the cow." Joe Djotson: "My shop projects for the first year were a bookcase and whatnot shelf. Last year's shop projects were a buck rake and a magazine rack. My other projects last year were forestry, and a fat tening hog. I set out 500 poplars, and 500 white pines. This yeer'i projects are corn, potatoes, garden, and forestry." James Green; "When I was 1$ the sixth grade I got a sow pig from my brother to use as a 4-fl pig. When I showed It, I won first i HERE'S HOPING THE GAS HOLDS OUT! place in Haywood County and then took her to the Western Carolina Show where she won sixth place. After I got in the ninth grade I joint- the FFA where I took*a sow pig and a dairy calf for projects. I showed both at the Bethel Fair and won two blue ribbons. I raised six pigs that year valued at $12.60 each. In my second year, I had the same thing and raised another lit ter of pigs and an artificially bred dairy calf. In my junior year I showed 3 artificially bred calves at Enka and won second place on all three with $30 cash prize. I sold the Guernsey cow which I won in the 4-H club and her calf for $275. I have for a project now a Jersey cow on whleh I won Grand Champion of Haywood County. I also have an acre of corn." Looking Back Over The Years 15 YEARS AGO Haywood Cannery ends success* ful year "with 170,000 pounds of beans canned. Soco Gap-Cherokee Road is ap proved. G. C. Palmer, Jr. of Crabtree enters the freshman class at State College. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Chambers and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Armour leave for a two-weeks stay in Philadel phia. L -Jack and John Willis of Atlanta vifeit their grandmother, Mrs. Em nja WUIU.. l. o i ? < 'i* > ?* ? 10 YEARS AGO Jeeps, bombers, parade, pre mier movie, and other entertain ment included in big War Bond Rally. Sgt. Johnnie Cuddeback is trans ferred to Camp Barkley, Tex. Miss Mary Noland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Noland, is at tending the Woman's College in Greensboro. Miss Mary Ellen Boone enters High Point College. Miss Martha Way Wyche enters Woaaan'a- College ? 5 YEARS AGO Fines Creek, Crabtree, and Iron Duff will soon get 175 telephones. Shirley Bridges has eighth birth day party in her third grade at East Waynesville school. Mr. and Mrs. James Francis and Bob Francis return from trip through Texas and Mexico. ??????? , Miss Ida Lou Gibson enters Cin cinnati Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Phillip Myers and daugh ter, Lura, leave for their home in Los Angeles after visiting the former's parents, Judge and Mrs. Frank Smathers. Views of Other Editors| LEGEND THAT WAS A MAN Casey Jones was a good engineer, Tol' his fireman to have no fear, "All I want's a liT water an' eoal, Peep out de cab and see de drivers rol' . . . Who knows when and if Paul Bunyan ever lived? (All we know is he dredged Puget Sound.) Mike Fink may have been a keel boatman on the O-hi-o a hundred years ago, but we can never know. Big John Henry was either the Black River Giant?a roustabout? who lived only in legend or a real champion "steel driver" on the C&O whose "ten-pound maul" helped put through the Big Bend Tunnel in the early 1870's. But "Cayce" (Casey) Jones was a real engineer. He did drive the Illinois Central's Cannon Ball Ex press from Memphis, Tennessee, to Canton. Mississippi. ("A car roller, and in my estimation the prince of them all," said ohe of his conduc tors.) He did mouht "to the cabin with his orders in his hand," and then, when "Old number four stared us right in the face,*' shout to his fireman, "Boy, you'd better Jump," before taking "his farewell trip to the promised land" with one hand on the throttle and the other on the whistle cord. They've put up a granite monu ment to the engineer from Cayce, Kentadky, at Vaughan, Mississippi, the hamlet where his "six-eight wheeler'1 plowed into the rear boat cars of a freight that hadn't clearpd the siding. That was near midnight of April 29. 1900. His Negro fire man, Sib Webb, who Jumped at his order, was on hand at the dedica tion last week. So was his widow, bright-eyed Mrs. John Luther Jones. And they rang the bell from old No. 628 (which has long bepn calling good people to worship at the Black Jack Methodist Churtti). And they blew the whistle Caaey could "moan like a lonesome turtle dove." Hurry up, engine, and hurry up train, Missle gwine ride over the road ?g?in, Swift as lightnin' and smooth |i glass, Darky, take yo' hat off when tjhe train goes past . . . JFhoooo-op-o, whoooo - oo - oo - o, wfcoo, whoo-ooo-o?o-?-o. ?Christian Science Monltpr. CHEATER INDUSTRIALIZATION A CURB FOR TRAHRELIA'S I Una's industrialization comes at a propotious moment. On the day that Governor Urn stead held the first in a series of meetings designed to stimulate lo cal interest in industry it was learned that Tarheelia had dropped from 44th to 45th place in per cap ita income. There are a number of factors accounting for North Carolina's rel atively low per capita income. Among these might be listed the comparatively high proportions of total income from agricultural sources. The fact that the Stafe's established industries are not gen erally recognized as being In th|e high pay category is another factor. A high percentage of unskilled workers probably constitutes an other. The Umstead Administration is putttng the emphasis where It should be in its efforts to attract more industry to North Carolina. Certainly thert is little likelihood of a helpful Industrial development ft there is not an inviting atmos phere locally.* A well rounded industrial expan sion would seem to constitute the best remedy for the State's pres ent low income ills. ?Raleigh Times. RflUNplNG AESOP UP TO DATE (Many people, says a right-wing columnist, are getting bored by thg controversy over "method" in fighting domestic communism; they want the job done, they don't care how.) Once upon a time there was a large and prosperous community which suffered an infestation by certain harmful peats. Some were weasels, some were rats; some were merely mice. But in the dark or under cover they did much harm. In order to keep their nefarious depredations concealed these pests became expert at imitating useful and harmless creatures. Some would make themselves look and sound like dogs, some like cats, and others like little dogs and kit tens. And they fooled a few of these harmless creatures into help ing them. So the citizens for a time didn't know which wer? which. But the city fathers had skilled hunters who knew how to watch these pests at work and how to track them to their lairs. To make sure no tragic mistakes were made these hunters, when they had caught a creature acting suspici ously, would bring it before certain learned men for careful examina tion. Then these fearned men would say, "No, This is a cat and not a weasel. Let it go." Or, "Yes, This is a rat, not a dog. Dispose of it where "it can no longer harm us." All of this went on rather quietly for some time. But then the good citizens suddenly became alarmed Weasels and cats and mice had been found in places tbtrtJght se curely locked. And the fright spread. Then came other men who, hop ing to win the people's favor, said, "We will rid you of these pests quickly." So with great ado they spread large nets which caught all sorts of creatuqps. About one they would say, "Yes, it looks like a dog. But it snarled at us. So it must be a rat." And of another, "it might be a cat. But it has a slinky look we do not like. It must be a weasel." So other hunters joined the j chase. Some tried a little poison in the wells that supplied the com munity with water. The pests drank of it, but so did the useful creatures and the people. Others sprayed the air the pests must breathe with noxious fumes. But the useful crea tures and the people had to breathe ,lt too. And all the while no one enjoy ed the excitement more than the rats, the weasels, and the mice. For they were very skillful about lying low and letting good people chase and strike blindly at the dogs, the cats, and the kittens. And the community was thrown into confusion and turmoil. Which is just what the weasels, the rats, and the mice had set out to accomp lish in the first place. Moral:' Methods do matter?es pecially if they lead ends no body wants but the enemy. ?Christian Science Monitor. CLEANER NEEDED, NOT AMBULANCE IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) ? Three cars tangled on a highway and the driver of one of them look ed into one of the other cars and called an ambulance. There was blood all around, he thought. It turned out that no one was seriously hurt and Mrs. Darwin Champion was we/i able to smile through tears as she wiped red paint from a spilled can from her hair. ? TH? OLD HOME TOWN By STANUY EC>,T>?r Vi/ORLD IS $PEffD CRAZY-I H&BK THOOfiHT lb UVS TO S6* A SLEEP-, , WALKER PICVAKS A U NKHTMAer-- M ^ANDOOOL^^^ PMIUK-waaon M MARE, AT 7XAT!!J Rambling Round Bits Of Unman Interest News-? By Frances Gilbert Fraxier Every day in the lives of most adult human beings ther, aome to which no answer is forthcoming One to ?u VOWW apwecinte a reply is: what is the proper course to pur^ fffnf pnf makes an incorrect assertion and we know it is wron^ we let it pass strictly unnoticed and perhaps give the imprea* we plao are ignorant ^ Or shall we make the correct,on and ti cur the displeasure of the speaker? And in most cases, hive remark given as a reward. In our line of work, errors are our prey and wt. from ^ habit) pounce on any luckless mistake that sticks out h> netk. it, Sdious trait but one that becomes part of the proof-reader Life |s a merry-go-round and we all want to ride the , ??? Mr. Bedee was mad and above his head the air had a tu tinge. At th? sixth hole on the golf course, his game had disinu and fallen entirely apart. He had ruefully watched the little bfll gracefully circle the rim of the cup, then amble leism, some distance and snuggle cozily next to a perfect stymie. His partner, a preacher, and the two other members of th, some stood in awestruck wonder as the atomic blast of won the atmosphere. Finally the preacher said: "Oh, come now a grown man not a child." The irate player, Wholly unmodified. "I know darned well I'm not," he exploded. "If I had been a could have flipped that putt into the cup with a marble." Death laid a gentle band on her shoulder and said "Cm In Memory of a Lovely Day. Soft white Clouds drawing diagrams on a sapphire sky heavy with the perfume of silence; gigantic sentinels staw rigid attention with inslgnias of gold and scarlet on their I long streamers of shining satin, tying at intervals little nose) pretty homes; waterfalls roaring their applause for the a streams playing hop-scotch over the boulders in their path; ( footsteps of approaching dusk and the beckoning finger of ham best of all, the warm happiness of sitting next to someone whoi understanding makes for everlasting friendship. Hlckery, dickery dock. The mouse ran up the clock. Now wasn't he a silly clown? He passed the clock as it ran down. Fir The Birds FAYETTE, Mo. (API sparrows and starlings we fing so thick around the house that "people stayed I droves. Firemen tried to hose the the trees. The birds loved the wot flocked to the area in even number. Anyway, the sidewalk! cleaner for a while. The digging of the Sua took 10 years, from 1859 to i M PUBLIC GROOMING.. bad ta*to to comb yowM or do on oloboroU job in public. Wait until H got homo. DAILY CROSSWORD ACK0S8 1. Water 8. A story book (Engl 8. Prickly seed cue 10. Revelry 11. Doctrine 12. Blunder 1>. StiE.ptout hairs 15. Nooks ii-putof "to be" IS. Adverbial 1 particle 21. Constellation 1 22. Earth u a goddess 23. Help 24. Legislative body JS. Varying u?lt of weight (4ftC.Gr.) 27. Girl's name 28. Hftifa quart 28. Enemy 30. Toward 5,JXT" 33 Confer knight hood upon 34. Net mkly 35. Concise ? ?7.F*rtofa (?? ,|j?r 2. Completely 3. One oI the Bears 4. Soviet republic by Black Sea 5. Species of wild sea geese 6. Ireland 7. A privateer 8. Carat (abbr.) 3. Droop In the middle 4. A religious Permit >6. Cared for medically 17. Perched 20. Olive drab (abbr.) 23. Emme^ 24. Female deer 26. Sluggishness 27. Mender of shoes 28. Place 20. Chinese prefecture 31. To be In'debt 33. SUght depressions 24. Deadly y??lerd?>''" 36. 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