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\ , ? ? ? *-**?' f. : * TODAY'S wiii.F VKicSF TODAY'S QUOTATION Editorial Page of the Mountaineer jkjss^ ??"""" 0?'n'h ? ; ? Adequate Water Supply Here Is Big Factor During the poet few weeks, this state has suffered "from the lack of rain, and many municipalities have hod to order a curtail ment of use of water. ? The Waynesville water supply haa been far greater than the demand, although the us age hits been running at two million or more gallons per day, according to the meter readings at the new filtering plant It is a genuine source of satisfaction to know that Waynesville's water supply is far greater than the potential use at this time. However, at the present rate of growth and demand for water, the time is not too far off when the new filtering plant will have to lie expanded. Even with the expansion, the a mount of water rising on the 9,000-acre watershed will be sufficient to take care of our needs for many, many years to come. Mosquito Horde In East Alarming Thin section seems to be plagued with ced ar rust hitting apple trees and Asiatic beetles damaging pastures, but down east, according to H. E. Scott and George B. Jones, State Ex tension entomologists, there are "an alarm ing number" of mosquitoes. So bad has the situation become that the ontomoligists are asking for the cooperation of every citizen and all health authorities in combatting the pests which they say have moved as far west as Oxford and are "abund ant" along the coastal areas. Did You Know This? You wouldn't think of closing a letter with the words "without wax." Yet when you end a letter with "yours sincerely," you're using a couple of Latin words that literally mean just that. W. A. Stephen, State College Extension beekeeper, explains that when a sculptor wished to improve the form or repair a blem ish in the stone with which he worked, he used bees wax. A perfect work requiring no touching up was so designed by the sculptor. Eventually it was used to signify the veracity and hon esty of what has been said in a letter.?Ex. Lip Service Woodrow Wilson ? who was a teacher and historian as well as a statesman ? showed rare prescience when he said in 1914: "Liberty does not consist. . . in mere general declarations of the rights of men. It consists in the translation of these declarations into definite action." Everyone, with hardly an exception, pays lip service to liberty. But more and more have seemed willing to surrender rights, ob ligations and responsibilities to the greatest enemy of human liberty ? all-powerful government. Men were born to lie. and women to lie lieve them. ?John Gay. Haywood Baptists Ta Hear Encouraging Reports Some 10,000 Haywood Baptist* will be represented at the 71st Association meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, when the annual group meets to hear reports and |<lan for the work in the county, and cooperate with the similar work of the state and world. The group is destined to hear encourag ing reports, according to some pre-associa tion announcements already disclosed. The Association will also have the matter of working on some major projects, such as always comes up at the Association. From this vantage point, it looks like the Association will have a large attendance, many fine reports, and will approve projects that will be in keeping with the steady progress of the denomination down through the years. ^?a ? mm ? ? m - m m Lreneral Assembly Likely To Enact New Muffler Laws Some local residents as well as visitors have called attention to the excessive noise on the streets at night. This is a growing menace that plagues every town and city. The noises are more noticeable in the summer when windows and doors are open than at other times of the year. Then too, the traffic is heavier, as many folk are out riding later, and "whooping it up with both their mouths and deep-throated muf flers." There are ordinances which make it a misdemeanor for making "excessive noise." What constitutes excessive noise is depen dent upon whether you are making the noise or being forced to hear it. Even continuous whispers in church could be termed "excessive" by those being disturbed, if the matter is to be defined techincally. Many residents are being disturbed by cars "scratching off rubber" in turning corners, or making the tires scream by sudden and quick turns at high speeds. For the most part, those putting their vehicles through such needless paces neither own them nor buy the tires. The state laws uphold a certain tolerance in the louder than standard mufflers, which makes it hard on officers who are being constantly called to "do something" about the noise, when they are limited by the present state laws. Public sentiment is growing against this type of mufflers, and we expect the next General Assembly will find several bills presented which will make it mandatory for all vehicles to use standard mufflers, which will not make as much noise as now created by some mufflers. In the meantime, those who are prone to enjoy making lots of noises, either with their mufflers, tires or just yelling, should be aware of the fact that there are present laws which can take them in tow. and the penalty is not too light for those who make it a practice of disturbing residents. The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. ?Thomas Jefferson. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS Steel Goes Up ? and What Else? The .United States Steel Corporation has an nounced an average price increase of $8.50 per ton. This move follows settlement of a thirty-four-day strike by a contract calling for a substantial rise in wages The first question in public thought, there fore, is the relationship between this boost in costs and the boost in price. The steel company figures its price rise will average 6'4 per cent, effective immediately. That portion of the pay increase effective immediately figures about 8 per cent Wage costs account for 40 per cent of the cos-t of producing a ton of steel. The relationship of the pay increase to the total cost per ton. therefore, runs about 3.2 per cent. The spread between 3 2 per cent and 6^4 l?er cent the company may explain in many ways. Taken apart from other factors it is not great. But it shows that more than mere increases in labor costs go into a hike in the price of steel. And the reasons behind that spread are likely to come in for questioning. There is the matter of improved productivity, for instance. The annual improvement rate foe manufacturing has been estimated at 4 per cent. The steel union might say this proves the indus try could have raised wages without raising prices and still made its current profits. The industry might say it would have had to raise prices even more were it not for this improvement factor. On behalf of the consumer, we would ask whether in dustry and organized labor are assuming this im provement gain is wholly theirs to split between them. Then there is the matter of expansion. The steel industry, before the strike, was talking of the neces sity of financing its expansion through its own profits. It contends it can pay for expansion in no other way. Perhaps it is right. But with so many other great industries able to increase capacity through usual financial channels this contention bv steel is being challenged. This is all an indication that the price of steel is much more than simply labor plus materials plus overhead. This suggests also how United States Steel (and doubtless the others) has been able to raise prices but $8.50 a ton after hinting for weeks at $10 to $12. The industry is becoming aware that the public is giving it a place in the economy somewhere be tween that of a public utility and an ordinary mak er of consumer goods?a place In which the wages demanded by its lsbor and the profits sought by its management are both deemed "affected with the public interest." This leap-frogging of wages and prices cannot continue indefinitely, especially in an Industry whose operations affect all other industries. Either there must be control from within or there could com* control from without to the geooral detri ment of freedom of enterpria*. Or there could come an end to the process, more painful than eith er, by a sagging of the' whole economy under the sheer weight of inflation. ?Christian Science Monitor. THE MOUNTAINEER WirawTlU*, North Carotins Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The County Seat of BmiHf County Published By The WAYNESV1LLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marlon T. Bridges. Publisher* PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY ~ BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3.90 Six months 2.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year 4.90 Six months 2.90 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year 9 00 Six months 3 00 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month .40c Office-paid for carrier delivery . . 4.90 Entered at the poet office at Wayneevtlle. N. C? as Second Clue Mail Matter, as provide under the Act of March X tfr?. Nuremhsr SB. frit MEMBER OP TBI ASSOCIATED PRESS The AMoetated Press la entitled ascliMtvety to the use ?JJJ^^^^ll'ae ?IltAP Monday Afternoon, August 20, 1956 ' * V WILDLIFE GETS A BRAKE ^ Views of Other Editors POOR AT ARITHMETIC? Well, here's the latest probing of the child mind. We should es chew levity where .serious investi gators are concerned, but we'd still like to have a peek at the case histories gathered in a re cently concluded survey of school children in the "Garden of Eng land," the County of Kent. One major finding is that youngsters who are poor at arith metic usually lead an unhappy home life. The theory is that the offspring can't concentrate on adding and subtracting if Mum and Dad are nagging at each oth er day after day. So they (the children, not Mum and Dad who are too busy battling each other) turn to reading: this distracts them from the turbulent domes tic scene. On the other hand, the kids who are good at arithmetic but backward at reading don't feel the need of the latter as a refuge. Their parents get along dandy. Strip the whole business of the infant psychology angle and it seems to us that, without doubt ing the conclusions, the explana tion is much simpler. The chil dren who are good at arithmetic take after Mum. who ran add, keeps the household budget and thus ensures a happy home. They don't have to read because the parents can afford television. The youngsters bad at arith metic take after father, who can only subtract but insists on hang ing onto the budget. Bang go the finances and likewise the home. Next Investigation, please. ?Montreal Star HOW OLD IS OLD? The car, the news story said, struck "an elderly man". And fur ther down in the story written by a young reporter the exact fact was given that the "elderly man" was 60 years old. Undoubtedly to the reporter in his early twenties, it may seem the simplest state ment of a fact that anybody who has accomplished three score years is elderly. Maybe he is. President Eisenhower who is 65. spoke of his age recently and a young Democratic Governor went on to call him an "old man". That was not only a little rough on the President but the increasing com pany of his contemporaries. The late, long-time editor of this newspaper. Josephus Daniels, in his last years spoke pretty sharply to a reporter who describ ed an 80-year-old citizen as "aged". Apparently it all rfcDcnrfi on where we are in our years as to whore old age sett in. Two clear facts in our times, however, ane that people are living longer and that young people are getting married earlier. And if the in creasing number of older people don't like to be called elderly, nothing so outrages the young assuming matrimonial responsibil ities of maturity as the fairly prevalent cry, "Why. they're just babies!" The safest course would seem to describe everybody from nine teen to ninety as middle-aged. If that didn' please anybody, at least it would be fair to everybody from the perambulator to the palsy.?Raleigh News & Observer. ETI01TETTE FOR WIVES AT GAMF. Never borrow the pencil your husband is using to keep score in order to write down grocery lists, guests for next week's party, etc. Never, refer to any nlayer a* eat*. Never ask to least with the score tied at the end of the eighth in order to beat the crowd. Never giggle when the umpire bends over and dusts off home plate with his whisk broom. When busy trying to perceive how large a diamond is being worn by the blonde in the front row box, and suddenly the crowd cheers, don't turn around to your husband and ask what happened When your husband has dented a fender leaving the parking lot. don't ask him if it wouldn't have been cheaper to have stayed home and watched the game on tele vision.?Wall Street Journal. HOW FAR IS SOUTH? In an astute article on Southern writing. J. Donald Adams >of The New York Times says "... a North Carolinian can scarcely be accredited to the Deep South n ? There are some rather sweep ing implications in this view if it becomes widespread. If Mr. Adams means that North Carolina is not of the magnolia mint julep class, he is right. This state, antebellum as now. is a state of small farmers, far de parted from the Mississippi and related only geographically to the legendary Southern aristocracy. But if he were speaking geo graphically only, he faces a para dox. North Carolina's capital i? a thousand miles from New Or leans and only five hundred from New York. Yet the traveler must need Invert the distances if prox imity is to mean similarity There is more Canal Street than Madi son Avenue In Tar Heelia If Mr. Adams thinks of the Deep South as a leisurely region, an area of pleasant appointments and relaxed recreation, he is wrong about North Carolina Tar Heels can stay close to home and avoid the pell mellishness of the metropolis, just as can her neigh bors to the South. And if Mr. Adams moans the land where the much - maligned corn bread, fried chicken and tur nip greens are palatable and pop ular. he is wrong again, for North Carolina eats as it lives ? with simple elegance. North Carolina would like to he considered singular, resolutely pursuing the stae's best inter ests. but she does not want to live in a vacuum, separated from her border states by artificial bar riers. As a state, she claims the South, the Deep South. She would have it no other way ?Shelby Star. Looking Back Over The Years 20 years ago Clyde Ray, Jr. goes to New York to visit friends. Elizabeth Norman Barber, vio linist, and Evander Preston, ten or. will be presented in concert sponsored by the Waynesville Wo man's Club. Mrs. John N. Shoolbred honors her daughter, Mrs. Walter Taylor of Baltimore, at a bridge party. Miss Ola Francis of New York is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. P. Francis. 10 years ago Richard Queen entertains mem bers of the Municipal Square Dance Team of Asheville at pic nic supper. Clyde tax fate stays $1.85 for fiscal year. M iss Edna Mae Burress returns to LeGrande. Ore , where she is teaching Methodist ministers' wives give tea for wives of bishops at Lake Junaluska. First Fox Hound Bench Show here is termed distinct success. 5 years ago Fire destroys sawmill belonging to Glenn C. Palmer, Charles Isley returns from George Peabodv College, Nash ville. Tenn. where he has been working on a Master's degree in musiO. Lake Junaluska Woman's Club hears Jonathan Woody speak on history of surrounding hills and mountains. L. O. Ferguson Family is chos en by Crabtree Community as its Family of the Week. SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOTT r Y i" *n(y A Cftoco&tu cftits? I dlXRS WAS* 4m MUO ot?y o? 4s lyes v.ntu 1 * corns 0?< o? <*l STAMPS So <W rl CA* SLt ,\ * i<% ?*IT ?? lxxo. rl *ss fris mild MU.V - \, PLH.-14 ?l ?>?< AMOHlBlAJIS -ftlAY C?*<lD ?flAk ?' #IK<S - AP? *AfS W?v BMMrfS UPUiWCl H* ?B \ . ^OfAPS, \ s&ii 0 awo?m* <??IA?. 1 -*=, V t<<, CAB tl I tTTI V / Bassso- LO\^ /_/ LOOP, BlP*Ve*. /ite. BA*< I , . < f ttirasu \ reofear l0H<i'*? i N LOOP. /?4isU* Vict'iM I . ggffisA* n&Pw M 1 ? -- J -flMti U V ' '/f Miiol Htt> AS Dots . Acow-(o?oeua N ,<i 1? i '?"* -* "|V^4 4J<XD *? mm Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier Little Johnny had suddenly developed a decided taste tor profanity, a fact that horrified his parents. No amount of persua sion or threats seemed to have any effect on the little hoy who was thoroughly thriving on the attention he was being given. But, as comes to all transgressors, he overstepped the proprieties one day and his exasperated father indulged in a vigorous back-slapping (at a lower level) round-up. It was a very defiant but unconquere'd youngster who, gritting his teeth, faced his dad and made the an nouncement. "All right. You can lick me if you want to. I just don t give a d? "" he hesitated and shot a quick look at his father, then continued: "... I don't give a dime about swearing anyhow. A dollar is made up of one hundred pennies, ten dimes and a waiting list. There are some instances where persistence and perseverance do not receive their just rewards. This was brought to our attention one morning recently when we were passing the Garrett Furniture Store. Tom, the general factotum of the establishment, was indus triously digging out the roots of a dandelion that blossoms its busi est at the extreme northerly corner of the building. We have often wondered where this hardy plant received enough encouragement to live and bloom, as it seemingly grew out of the cement side walk A But if Tom had any sympathetic feeling about the matte^^Fcer tainly did not manifest itself as ho remarked "I pulls up this thing time after time but back it Is here again.'' If all the toothpicks used in public were laid end to end, what a wonderfdl job for a bulldozer. It is utterly impossible to exclude politics from one's conversa tion nowadays , . . and who really wants to? Somehow, there is a feeling of contempt f?r 'he person who airily comments: "1 don't khow a thing about politics, and am not the least interested in the conventions or the election." The making of our laws and the carrying out of same should be of the most vital importance to every American of voting age. It is necessary to have competent minds make these laws and equally capable intellects to see that they are carried out for the good of the country and its peoples. And to get these agents it is necessary to have politics and elections. In politics, as in human beings, there are good and bad and the latter must be weeded out. It's up to the people of this wonderful country of ours to study well the candidates and political parties, then vote for the men and women best fitted for the jobs. The Republican party will select their candidates next week in San Francisco. The Democratic nominations have been made, and now comes the signal for the big event . . . the race for the President tial Chair and the vice-presidential camp stool. May the contest be fair and square so there can never be any regrets When it's hard to tell right from wrong, it's ten to one you really incline toward the wrong. Letter To Editor THANKS FROM OPERA DIRECTOR Editor, Thg Mountaineer: May I offer sincere thanks for jour fine attitude and the publici ty awarded to the cause of Opera in VVaynesville during the sum mer season. Please accept my thanks foe the space in your paper. Sincerely, Arturo di Filippi OhauU WASHINGTON MARCH OF EVENTS 1956 Election for Congress 1 Hayes Only New President May Repeat 1916 Result ] To Face a Hostile House Special to Central Press Association WASHINGTON?Wilt American political history repeal itself in November for the first time in 40 years? Not in four decades has a party elected a President and failed to uin simul taneous control of the House and Senate. Yet political analysts say there is a good chance that this may happen this year. Every poll and survey indicates the re-election T"?? : J?i* ts: ? - - - vi i-iesiueni c,isennower, cut despite this tho odd3 appear to favor return of a Democratic House of Representatives. The Senate is re garded as a toss-up. The last time such a split occurred In party fortunes was in 1916, when President Wood row Wilson won re-election, but the RepublicaM*ur nered 216 seats in the House to 210 for the^Bio crats; Fortunately for the Democrats, ni^T In dependents were also elected that year and enough of them voted with the Democrats to en able them to organize the House. Only once since the present political party system was established has a President been elected and had to contend with a House con trolled bv t hf? nr\nr?c rm President Hayes .rr...A inis unusual situ* ation-occurred in 1876. In that year. President Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, found himself confronted with a House which consisted of 156 Democrats and only 137 Republicans. However, this was an unusual year, for Hayes* Democratic op* ponent, Samuel Tilden, received a greater popular vote than the victorious candidate, but lost out on a disputed 185 to 184 electoral vote* .... J 1 NO PRESIDENT except Wilson ever received a majority of the popular vote, but failed to carry with him a majority of the House. Yet Democrats are confident that it will happen again this year and Republicans admit privately they are fighting an uphill battle. Those who believe the House will remain Democratic point out that despite President Eisenhower's landslide victoiy in 1952 he was able to assure his party only a slim margin of seven votes. Landslide victories in the past have brought landslide majorities in the House. The answer, of course, is that many Democrats voted for Mr. Eisenhower, but voted also for Democratic House candidates. Republicana hope that the President's popularity with the still dominant Democratic electorate is as strong as it was in 1952, or stronger. If so. then the Hoi :?* may go Republican. * ? ? ? ? I THE SENATE, which is not as close to the people as the House (only one-third of its seats are filled every two years compared to all House seats), shows two similar examples of split party control. Although not as significant as those wpich occurred in the House, they are worthy of note. In 1880, when James Garfield, a Republi can, was elected President, the Senate found itself with 37 Repub licans and 37 Democrats, plus two members of other parties. Cleveland A more unusual situation occurred four years w later when Grover Cleveland found himself with a *' good working majority in the House, but was faced Net Senot* with a Senate in firm control of the opposite party. The lineup that year in the Senate was 41 Republicans and only 34 Democrats. The race for the Senate this year is regarded as very close. When the Senate convened in 1953, it contained 48 Republicans, 47 Demo* ,rats and one Independent, Wayne Morse of Oregon. Now the Sen ate t? Democratic by a slim margin, but the dopesters say it could go either way in November.
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