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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE / f K ' TODAY'S QUOTATION -g? Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ??-??... ? A City Without A Newspaper To Be Welcomed What iff it like to live in a city without a regular newspaper? The people of Detroit know ? after a pro longed strike that shut down all three of itff dailies. The merchandise of the city learned it particularly well ? the hard way. They used all the other media to the limit. 8ome stores put out handbills of their own, to ad vertise their holiday wares. Yet, though Christmas trade for the country as a whole was well above last year, many Detroit stores did less business. The lack of newspapers was responsible. Again, the merchants faced a fresh prob lem at post-holiday sale time. They had bar gains and specials to offer as usual ? but moving them was another matter, without newspaper advertising space. Thdjeommunity problems that arise from lack n4<newspapers are certainly not limited to theibig cities. The smaller towns are (qually dependent upon the weeklies and dailiag'that serve them. In the small town, especially, the newspaper is a running rec ord of Jls history ? a thread that constantly touchW the lives of all the people who live thert. And, despite the newer media, it re mains ^he most effective means of advertis ing fuf merchants and others. Infinitely more important, the newspaper, small or large, is a guardian ef our rights nnd'Hfctrties which is always on duty. CHECK THE LIGHTS Ddtf< put up with undependable head lights says the Motor Vehicles Department. Have them checked today for aim, focus and brillianfee. Otherwise, remember. Of all sad surprises There's none to compare With driving in darkness On a road that's not there! BIBLICAL FOOTNOTE .$V In ttfe Bible there is a passage that reads, "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." Wliiah, in a-way, sounds suspiciously like an ordinary Tar Heel highway. (Jl'IDKS An elderly lady from Boston who drove down ,to visit Washington said she had no objection to the American habit of littering the highways with beer cans pitched from car vfllVlows. "It helps me drive at night," she explain ed. " AH those things shining in the car lights sho\? me wh?re. the edge of the road i?." ?Minneapolis Tribune. ?' * ?' i mmmmmi*??s?? ? ? ? 1 * - " " 1 "* ' "??" f *" The fear that automation will create wide spread unemployment flies in the face of history. Every improvement in production methods, along with every invention of im portance, has ultimately produced not few er jobs, but more and better jpbs. The automobile destroyed the horse and buggy businesses ? but an almost infinite increase in employment and opportunity fol lowed. More recently, prophets of gloom fore cast that dial telephones would bring a catastrophic degree of unemployment a mong operators. Yet there are 70 per cent more phone operators than there were #10 yeara ago. Automation is to be welcomed, not feared. The Old Country Store Would you want to go back to trading at the oldfashioned country store? No free de-' livery, no pretty food packages, no prepared cake mix, no full page grocery ads? That's one of the things they ask you when you complain about 1955 food prices. The answer, of course, is supposed to be NO ?but I'm not so sure. At this great distance, I feel a sneaky yen sometimes for the old general store on the corner. For the day when sugar and beans and crackers and corn-candy were all sold out of barrells, with the same tin scoop serv ing for all. . . for the sputtery gasoline lamp that hung in the rear, with strips of fly pap er daggling below it . . . for the big "guilli tine" knife with a handle, used for cutting off a nickel's worth of Horseshoe or Battle axe plug . . . for the hardcoal burner that got red-hot on cold winter nights, with the coal bucket on one side <?f the Horseshoe thawers and on the other side a flat box half filled with sawdust for users of Battleaxe. Yes, I'd like to see that wooden dry goods counter again, with brass-headed tacks driv en along its edge; it was a yard between the double tacks, and the single tacks in between measured a half-yard apart. I'd like to click that nickel-plated lighter that hung over the cigar counter, and get called down by the store-keeper for wearing out the flint (he didn't have to worry about shoplifters in those days, but we kids used to drive him nuts monkeying with the cigar lighter). Maybe tt wasn't the most sanitary spot in the world, but that old store did have its points.?Windsor, Colo. Beacon. SCHOOLS ? THE AWFUL TRUTH Ten years from now 23%' more children will be entering elementary schools than to day, 55% more in high schools and 40'/c more in colleges. We will need some 600,000 more classrooms to accommodate them ? a jump of about 60%. according to the Kip linger Letter. Well also need 200,000 more teachers evefy year for ten years to cover school grototh and to replace those who quit or retire. The main problem, of course, is money, which iit the end means more taxes. The to tal cost of schools, public and private, now is eight to ten billion dollars a year. In the next ten years thin may double and most of It must come from taxes. What kind of taxes will support the schools? Mostly property taxes for already nearly 45% of the property taxes collected in states go to the schools. So there will be higher local taxes, higher property assess ments, and fewer exemptions. ? * * ltO MILLION POPULATION IN 10 YEARS The papulation of the U. S. has reached 167 million. In five years it should be 178 million and in ten years, 190 million. By 1975, there will he more than 221 million people In America.?The Kiplinger Letter. THE MOUNTAINEER Wiynmlllt, North Oroltai Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The County S??t of Hawreed Ceunty Fubliahed ?v The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS .... 'Editor W Curtla Rum and Marlon T. Bridge*. Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY ANP THURSDAY 1 BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Yaar ... - $3.50 Six months * 1.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year *.50 Six months , . 2.50 . OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year . 5.00 Six months u. m a ?, 300 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month ?.40c Offire-iMid for carrier delivery $.50 Entered at the poet office at WaynaavlBe. N. C. as Bn ond Clan Mail Matter, aa provided under .the Act of March I. 11T9. llanaibar as. ISM. MEMB1 1 or THE ASSOC1ATICD PRESS The Associated Preaa la cnUUrd exclusively to the use er re.publication of all the local news printed in this newspaper, aa well as all AP newt dispatches. Thursday Afternoon. January 26, 1956 They 11 Do?It Every Time WW1 By Jimmy Hatlo OKK DOLLAR HE UBFI MET/HE WHO W4S ?o eogb to Him/ when X wiw OF-meiiw?,i j^jf&sssi^Su HE LE4VES TWO HUMORED TOTW4T NEPHEW WHO - WOHfcoirr LIFT A v ?^PIMdeft POR HtM-/ lH?=KZ~Trn\ r M44T X V | MINT TO KMW J* llSHHtTMOR)/ f WrTM 4U. tM \ MR > MIS H4V>?ND ) . *eaDST*m~/ J/' 1M _ r "nwji \? / JtDCY UAS\f /THE UCTUUMti KR-IHB T1M8S I JlSHB WOOU3KT flL (Vurr MtMSMOKt ] fON 1H6 M0U6E- / SQMCTHIN TILLS Me \ w I HBK Nloo FW8t>CT?? THE TIME SHE BROKE I UP ueocr% BJG flO*MHC* WfTM THE 64 L FROM THE FUSE WORKS WHO H4D THE r ^OOLP TOOTH ( HaGorSSe* J % K4V-4HO . f ABED STORE ( j {MQSZS!J 'V?u OWT PLC4se fVtRVB00y?tSP5Cauy 4LL THE. REL4TIVCS WHCKl "TME WILL IS ?m THANXA?t>4T)POr ME fig THROW OUT ir)E LIFELINE! DO STAY AND ")l > HAVE POTLUOr / (^WlTH USjjiJ J / rsr\ V^o^ssp/jf Highland My Favorite Stories ?7 CARL GOERCH Mings . . By BOB CONWAY The recent announcement by Postmaster Enos Boyd that a drive-in mailbox will be installed this year at the Waynesville post office is good news. The drive-in unit will bring in mail into the postoffice Quicker and also will ease the parking problem since postal patrons will be able to drop mail in the box without leav- I ing their cars. The installation of this box will leave the Waynesville postotfice lacking only one thing to give the public the best service and that is a stamp machine. We refer to the large machines that stand on the floor and are provided through the U. S. Post office Department and not to the smaller counter machines found commonly in drug stores. Stamp machines in postoffice lobbies sell stamps at fsfcc value and not for a profit as is the case of the machines in stores. The former machines also provide stamps for four different dcnom iations. The only one we've seen in this area is the one at Ashe vUle. ? o ? A service man back from over seas duty was in the office the other day and told us how much he enjoyed readinr The Moun taineer durinr his stay abroad. "I even read all the want ads." he chuckled. We'd better not mention her name, but a Mountaineer em ploye was addressing an envelope to a used car dealer the other day, and was chagrined to find that she had written "Used Cats". ??o The latest Issue of the maga sine "We The People of North Carolina" carries the anecdote about a Northern businessman who died recently while on a va cation in Florida. Hia funeral was held bark In his snowbound hometown and as his employes filed by his casket, an office boy took a long look at his bom' deep suntan and finally remarked to the man's wife: "Well, he cerisinly died healthy " o Ned J. Tucker, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, told us this morning of the strange fate that befell two cardinals which have been nesting in a birdhouse in his backyard. On Tuesday morning when snow covered the ground, his son. Nod, Jr.. went out back to feed his dog and found two female cardinals lying dead beneath a picture window on the back porch. It first appeared that the birds had frocen to death.'but a closer check showed that this was not the case. Finally, the strange truth came to light: both birds ha! died by flying into the picture window where small bits of feathers were found still clinging on the panes. Just what Cauaod the cardinal* to iy Into Uw window remains a mystery, bat Mr Tucker thinks the mow may have been the fatal factor that confuted tbe birds. The two birds were part of a group of due cardinals that hare been inhabiting the Tucker bird IMN. ? * Senator George Penny was one of the greatest story tellers ever to come to the General Assembly of North Carolina. Here's a tale he told me on one of his trips to Raleigh, told in his own words: It happened many years ago in Guilford County, at a small schoolhouse that was located sev eral miles from Greensboro, out in the country. In those days they didn't have the modern conveniences which we have today, That applies to schoolhouses as well as many oth er things As a matter of fact, it was considered an everft of out standing importance when the school authorities constructed two small structures at some little dis tance from the school: one for use of the boys, and the other for use of the girls. The building of these two edi fices was considered a great ad vance in progress. But kid* in those days were just like kids are today. It wasn't long before some of the young-uns started writing on the walls of these two little buildings that had Just been erected. The teach er issued several stern warnings that this would have to be stopped or else he would whale the tar out of anyone found guilty of perpetrating such a deed. One day. while Snaking a tour of inspection, the teacher visited the boys' building and discovered to his horror that some youngster had again written on the walls. He rushed back into the school house and hollared out that he wanted to know who had written on the walls, but nary a one of those young-uns would say a word. He gave them another warning and promised extreme ly heavy punishment to the next person who did such a thing. The very next day he' was ex amining a class in history. In this class was a big boy who should have been halfway through the University of North Carolina at his age. To say that he was moronic would be putting H rath er mildly. "Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?" inquired the teacher. Nobody said a word. He banged his fist on the desk and roared: "Answer me! Who wrote the Declaration of Inde pendence?" This bey?Julius Walker was his name, I believe?started cry ing and then?remembering what the teacher had said the day be fore he spoke up and said "I don't know who did it, teacher, but I didn't." The teacher lest all patience and entered Julius to get out apd go home Julius went home and confessed the whole story to his pappy. The old man was hoppin' mad. He cussed the teacher for all he could think of. "You come with me, Julius." he ordered, "and we'll tell that so-and-so a few things." Together they went to the schoolhouse and together they entered the room where the teacher was at work. "Now you listen to me." said the father. "My boy may not have much sense but he's honest. If he said he didn't write that thing, I know he didn't do it. And if you say he did, I'll take you out side and lick the everlasting day lights out of you. Ther? ain't no man that's going to call my boy a' liar. And rather than have him be in your school another day. I'm going to take him home and keep him there. I'd rather he grew up in ignorance than to be taught by any two-by-four teach er like you." And with that he took Julius by the hand and they started for home. Halfway there, the old man stopped. He looked at Julius and he patted htm confidentially-like on the back. "Julius." he said, "I want to have a little private talk with you. You know your pappy and you know that you can trust him. That little affair at the school house is 111 over with. I've wiped it off my mind completely. Now, Julius, you can rest assured that what you say to me will be. In complete confidence. I won't re peat it to a soul. I'm talking to you now, man to man. Doesn't that make you feel good?1' "Yes. suh." admitted Julius. "All right then. The only rea son I'm going to ask you this question is because I'm slightly curious. Tell me, Julius?man to man?did you write that damn thing or not?" "Pop, I did not." "That's all I want to know, son; let's go on home." Voice of the People Hm yon broke any New Year's resolutions? Mrs. Henry Gaddy: "I haven't broken any because I didn't make any. My honest ambition is to do the best I can every day." Mrs. Frank Albrtcht: "I didn't make any so I couldn't break any" Mrs. W. L. Turner; "To be frank, I didn't make any. I de cided to do the best I can every day." Mrs. Edwin Russell: "No Bo cause I haven't made any." Mrs Herman Fie: "To tell the truth, I didn't make any I'vi come to the conclusion that's the a a ? H ?wi wiy. Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier Little Johnnie and Little Willie were next door neighbors and went throguh the uaual daily exchange of verbal battles, with the usual aftermath of peace. The parents of the two little boys, familiar with the characteristics of children, wisely abstained from any inter ference knowing that amiability always followed dissension. One day Little Johnnie, showing off, fell out of a tree and sprained his ankle. Little Willie, exerting a strength he didn't know he had, got the stricken child home and stayed around to com fort him. Later in the day, Little Johnnie confided to his mother: "I'm never going to get mad with Willie again. If I start to, I'll just stop and think how good he was to me today. You just watch and see." One day after Little Johnnie had completely recovered, his mother heard the two boys engaged in a violent quarrel with Little Johnnie's angry voice in the ascendant. His mother called out to him: "Johnnie, remember you said you'd never, get angry with Willie again." The commotion ceased, then came from Little Johnnie this reply: "Well, Mom, it isn't hard to forget things when you stop hurting." How true! How true! , Heard in passing: "It doesn't take two to make a quarrel. She's a success all by herself." ji It was a brand new check. The number and date were correctly written, as was th? amount. The signature was straight, neat and impressive. It slipped easily into the addressed envelope and nestled cozlly down against the bill for the same amount as was written on the check. It joined hundreds of other envelopes and continued on its merry way. Later it reached the bank with the endorser's name on its back and then it passed through numerous hands and finally found itself again in another envelope and back to the original sender. When the envelope was opened, the check bounced right out with a cute little pink slip attached which read: "No funds". If wishes were horses, there would be just as many automo biles sold. Some one remarked once that money would buy anything ex cept happiness and some smarty replied: "But it will buy an automo bile that will take you a long ways toward finding it." Let that be what it may, there is ONE thing that money cannot buy ,\ . and that is old Mother Nature when she is handling the weather. Politics, friendships and business will bow to the,will of cash reimbursements, but not rain, sunshine, sleet or snow. To heck with a hundred dollar bill if it's going to pour the proverbial cats and dogs, and have you ever seen a pile of greenbacks that would influence those flaky little crystals of ice formed from the vapor of water in the air? Not by a bankful! When it comes Spring, can you imagine the leaves turn ing back into the bare branches if a windfall of dollar bills eame on the swelling breeze? Even last March when the freezing thermometer dropped 'way down to here and every orchardman and fruit man and vgetable farmer would have pooled together almost any amount, do you think Mother Nature even considered the take? So, just keep your bankroll for other purposes: Mother Nature knows her business and will continue to handle it as she has for centuries. Goodness gracious, sakes alive . . . Can't you write six instead of five? Back Over The Years 20 years ago Thermometer goes to five below zero. Schools close. Master Wallace Brown cele brates his birthday with a party at his home. Mr. and Mrs. Colin Mclnnes and children sail from New York for Africa where the former will buy leather for the England-Wal ton Company. Clyde H. Ray, Jr. and a party of friends motor to Greenville, S. C. 10 years ago Mr. and Mrs. L. N, Davis and Mr. and Mrs. C. N. AHen go to Florida for a vacation. State Commission grants Haz elwood Bank a charter. Jonathan Woody is general chairman of the Polio Drive, Carl Ratcliffe resumes post on high school faculty following dis charge from the service. r- I Charlie Woodard arrives in the States from the Pacific Theatre. 5 YEARS AGO Miss Marjl Lou Ferguson, Hay wood's 1990 Tobacco Queen is pictured on front page of the February issue of The Southern Planter. Richard Queen is named to a position with the House Public Lands Committee. James M. Davis of Hazelwood is promoted to the post of lieuten ant colonel in the National Guard. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ensley go to Florida for an extended stay. SPIRITUAL DISCOMFORT We wouldn't know, but a spirit ualist friend of our tells us.that whenever he is possessed by spirits, he feels like the devil. ?Charleston News and- Courier. ' '4 i i - . CROSSWORD ? ACROSS t. ClencheA hand 6 Shoot used for grafting ?. 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