Tr:\ THURSDAY, SEPraMBER 9 * ?' * - , ! ?--? t?f?The Polk County News PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY LOUIS LEHMAN* Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Tryon, N. C., as Second-Class Mall MiSte Under Act of Congress. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION On* Year 2-OC Six Months 1.21 Thr** Months l.OC DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATE Forty Cents Per Column Inch, Flat L?gal Advertising, One cent Per Word, Cash In Advance BIDS FOR MUSCLE SHOALS The bid of the Associated Power Companies, with Alabama as the fountain head, appears to be the best bid offered for Muscle Shoals. Local interest and private enterprise are vital fde.tors in great projects; and the bid of the Associated Companies has within its provisions ample guaranty to bring to the United States full returns for the concessions granted. The question of private gain enters, of course, into all nego nations lor the development ol industries. It enters into the problem of Muscle Shoals. But wha| considerations should come after that ? We already ha\*e mentioned one?local interest. Another, and perhaps the greatest, is |he consideration of service and utility. The Associated Power Companies propose not only to legitimately'exploit Muscle Shoals at the spot for the benefit of the country and particularly for the farmers but to distribute power and render service to adjoining states as well as to Alabama. Then, "nlike Mr. Ford's offer, Muscle Shoals goes back to its owner at the end of the lease without any strings. Henry Ford must be given credit for many good things. He has proven to the world the wisdom of efficiency, fair wage and quantity production. But no decree of the gods ever meant that he should monopolize industry or do all the thinking. Unfourtunately. Muscle Shoals has become enmeshed in congressional politics. I| is suffering the same malady as the Colorado-RiverBoulder-Dam and the Great-Lakes-St. Lawrence projects. In such a crisis national economy suffers by delay. The largest industry possible at Muscle Soals could not justly claim as much need as the greater concerns of agriculture and industry spread over the entire Southland. Perhaps no single offer evtjr received more genuinely favorable editorial and press comment than the bid of 1}he Associated Power Companies, including the Alabama Power Company composed of Alabama men, money and intellect. Many people think that Mr. Ford's offer is like that of the horse-trade?looks nice at first, but will not ITiCTUvtinn nf t Via Tt m o\r Kn f Viol T^nr/1'ct iiroa UV.U* mopv-v K1V1I \/i tuv i/W t tt? AW 111MJ WW VilCtb 1 VIU t3 V/Il^I TT CAO best and that we are wrong in our contention. Put his refusal to modify his original 100-year bid to a 50-year bid sealed the hopes of it# acceptance both from a practical and legal standpoint. THE EARLY BIRD It is nott too early to begin talking about voting; and It is never too early to begin thinking about voting intelligently. "BY THE PEOPLE" Local government is not something taken for granted. It requires the -same amount of careful management and wise administration that is necessary in a successful home or successful business. BACK HOME AGAIN Let us extend a royal welcome to the old-time residenl who comes back to visit the old home town. At best things are strange tfo him. People have changed. New faces stare at him on e\?ery side, as if to say, "Who are you?" The old vacant lot on the corner is now occupied by a brightly colored service station. The old church, where he used to worship, has a new coat of paint, or possibly there is a new and modern struc|ure that graces the atmosphere that once was his. The muddy street that led to his old home is now a silvery thread of pavement. Partly mythical are these illustrations, b"t they are everyday facts to him who visits the old home town. Let him depart, if at! all, with good words and praises for the town, not with a feeling of sadness or coldness. Possibly he may be induced to remain. Forever close as an issue the reason that he left in the first place. There was a reason. Does it exist now? One of the ironies of agricultural existence vs poli|ical fate is the fact that out West Where the dampness is needed most are to be found.the mast ardent Drys. STRONG MEN'S TASKS ' . Indications point toward Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews ramaining at his post in charge of Prohibition enforcement. Undei the criticism attached to his office and wifh limited facilities with which to cerry on the work, it is more or less a showinj of strength?to remain. Many men ha^e resigned from burden* much less arduous. Andrews probably will) remain on the jcJt long enough fio find out what the nxet Congress does for Pro hibition enforcement. If the next Congress is to wet he wil quit. _ EL * WHAT'S) IN A NAME? AGAIN Members of Angeles Temple, Los Angeles, have passed reso . lutions condemning the; way the Los Angeles papers have hand led the story of the alleged kindnaping of Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, and requesting that, her first name be not used alon< in headlines. Well, the kidnapers got nothing out of the deal |?!, ' 4 . t: I ! i j Mr !:irrr Progres HHfi'ii SOON l! I mil PULL HER. g , and Aimce says she has not rr licity, so if the newspapers rr odds? As to Jhe use of her fir ought to know that head-wr Usually when a person is add is a mark of fellowship and k familiar "AIMEE" has arouser righf or wrong, hurits the fe followers. Probably they're i writer n,ight simply call her RACKING 1 If there is a lull in business no bad sign. The percentage duces the percentage of busin Then there are those who are as a lot of sweating. They ar rush this fall and winter. Th( one can pull a heavy load tha SEEING AT L That nothing is impossible s science. Now they propose t from an airplane hovering o\* away. Already the apparatus DO miles. If sound can be br radio,?"magnified," a sone m that light and shadow can t I j Finally, as one now almost I J able to see across the continei ' ..... JUSTICE TO THE JUDGE (From The Ashi'viHe Citizen It is suggested that possibly ai editoria) in Monday's Citizen ma: be tak?n to imply that Chief Justio Taft considers that prisoners shouli be treated cruelly in order to dete others from committing crime. Thi noivor /tnna tint intend tn clvo sucl I ?I. ? an idea. On the contrary, Justico Taft la ai exceedingly biumano man and cet tainly cruelty toward convicts la a abhorrent to him as to any one. I man of wide experience with criml nala, one of sound judgement whic! rests o practical considerations, th chief Justice in his recent delivet ance was auggestng the wlsdon whlh lies botween the extreme o punishment, the barbarities aurviv in l from dark ages, and the extreme of eliminating all punishment b; making prison life a pleasure? am this he considers some well-meanini zealots would do. Impentuous, we are prone to rui to extremes Instead of applying th sanity of common sense which Jus tice Taft possesses in a marked d( gree. If 'a little medicine is gooi it does not follow that a deluge i better, and II an over-dose produce bad results it should not, of course be inferred that medicine has n value. And the same may be sal i of punishment as a corrective agei cy. Punishment of inhuman nature ha been practiced in prisons?is atll in vogue in some penitentariesand seeking to abolish this, wel ' meaning reformers have in som cases been carried away by thei zeal. In seeking to eliminate th cruely of punishment they tend t abolish punishment. They have bee: been joined by faddists, pseudc scientists who regard only the wel being of the criminals and eve: maintain that these are all lrrespoi J Bible beings, wh0 should have mor ? consideration than is given ordlnar } people. > This move ended to dangerou . extremes and sensing the situatto I public opinion declines to follow ll There is a reaction?It Is seen tha the theory of irresponsibility is ui sound. This Is voiced by the d< claratdn of Dr. Louis E. Bisch tha he Is now convinced that the grea ? proportion of crlmlnala are entirel; normal. The argument that punlst ment Is a failure because crime coi " tlnues now makes slight appeal?I i la realized that the same argumen t would repeal prohibition beacuse I ? I (coivod any benefit from the pub lake a cleaning on it what's th< at name headlines, the resolutor; iters like short, snappy words ressed by his Chritsian name i indness; but in this case the toi i a sense of ridicule which, be i elings of the evangelist's arden if raid some overworked headlini "Mac." UP TO START n during the warm weather it L of people away on vacations re ess transactions in exact raflio doing a lot of thinking as wel e getting up stam for tlhe gram >.y are "backing up to start," am it way. ONG DISTANCE eems e brought from great distances lears without limii, one may b nt. has not abolished liquor, or doctor be cause their is still disease. Justice Taft merely asks that san a judgement he applied in criminologj jr Increcration is intended as punisl B ment: if all its unpleasant feature j are eliminated then it ceases to b r punishment. Public opinion i a averse to cruelty but its sound judgf 1 ment demands some punishment fo a convict boss who has brfthall n beat helpless prisoners. It Is thl .. view that tlfe chief Justice voicesB the view likewise of many priso ^ reformers. I ! NEWSY TOPICS a Frankly speaking to Che U. S. A f that French debt is worth its wal in gold. 0 ? y "O death! where is thy sting? 1 Probably at the footing of Che ui g dertakerB's bill. a Worry kills more people than wor! e because more people are worryini i- than working. 4, j If anticipation Is greater thai g realization, the way to be happy i 8 to keep on anticipating. s 0 Before they can take lienor ou A of the movies they've got to tak i. it out of the movie studios. g A man will register his dog, hi varh t anrl hlo nor on/1 ^ , _ VMl t uuu tUDU 1U1 fcO to register himself to vote. l0 Wonder it that girl who swam th< English Chaimol ;ever hesitated |te e paddle her hands in dish-water? 0 The other day a man celebrate< a his 108th birthday. Wonder wha he has boen doing ail those 8 years "Man Arrested For Stranglini l" Landlord."?Headline. Poor fellov ^ put into action the Inclination o y most of us renters. s The boyH will stay on the farn n whenever they begin to put service t. stations out "by the barn and road A' houses on the back forty. > ,t They're trying now to get Gertrude t Elderle to swim the channel be y tween Long Beach, California, ant i- Catallna Island. And we suppose the i- shleks will follow closely in the t bottom boats. it V It READ THE POLK COUNTY NEWS. - - ...1 4 4 | SAFE AND DEPENDABLE (From The Charleston News and Courier) The boll weevil till Alabama some jfour or five years before 't got to j South Carolina. It caused panic in many* places. Whole communities virtually quit. Lands were abandoned. Consternation was general. But Alabama survived and the Mongomery Advertiser, in an article republished on this page today, gives a picture of Montgomery at the present time which shows that city, largely dependent upon agriculture tor prosperity, as more soundly prosperous than It has ever been before. The Advertiser article ought to be read by every Charlestonian and every resident of Jower South Caro' Una who still has doubts about the complete recovery of this city and section. They did not believe in Alabama that a dairy Industry could be established there. 'They did not believe that a poultry Industry could I be established on a profitable basis. Today thousands of Alabama citizens are making good money out of I poultry, good money in dairying. * - noQ They have learned now to yruuuw and how to market. What has been done In Alabama In the coutry about Montgomery can be done in -South Carolina In tre country about Charleston. All that is required is strong and virile leadership, a spirit of conff_ | dence, a determination to win out in the readjustments that are needed. B Already the position of the low 3 country agriculturally has greatly l. improved and is improving. But the t advance that Is In progress can be j tremendously accelerated if we will j. all go at it right. Let the spirit of conservation take ^ possession of thlB region, let its e people grasp the nature of the changes that are called for, let them vision the possibilities that are theirs, and a new era will open. Charleston, like Montgomery, is today, as for many years, a safe and 3 dependable city. The country that - lies back of us Is a safe snd dependi. able region. j Nowhere can there be found toj J day a more inviting ocmblnation of i opportuities. Nowhere are faith and j * well directed energy more certain I of reward. AND THE FATHERS, WHERE ARE THEY? 1 (From the Charlotte News) '? They are gone, a lot of them. S Tre relentless sweep of the years f has borne them on. The Psalmist had It down right. "We are carried 1 away as with a flood." e This community has known what ' It means within these late mnnths e to watch the mourners go about the streets for the big men nf another generation, for the achievers of yes teryear, for the leaders in our community life, for men of affairs, the 8 business, the financial, tihe industrial chieftlans of another day. e There has bee what almost seems ' to be a procession of prominent men ' leaving us via death during the 8 past year or so, prominent not only e socially, but prominent in their con8 tributions to the building here of a ** city, me who had a mind to work r for Charlotte and who were not y backward when It came to putting 8 out for the public well-being. The fathers are going rapidly n from us, trooping to the other side. What about the sons? Somebody has got to do what these men have been doing. One generation goeth ar another cometh, but the other cometh not k. only in response to the sequence of t posterity, hut in greather response to the urgent and inescapable demand that there constantly be some " ooay among us who will do things, t. who will not merely hang around and live out their appointed day, but sons of men who wll] be up k early and stay out late to do the g work of the world. We append to the ancient query, "The fathers, where are they?" this ii other, "and the sons, where are s they?" and "what are they doing?" Great tasks lie before us, great opportunities for success and sert vice, great lures to loftier helghtB, e the voices of enchanting sirens calling us to mightier labors and more sweeping accomplishments. B It becomes the sons to gird themt selves for the program of great works that stretch forth before them else in the city, in the state, In the 9 republic, there Bhall come an arrest9 ing of progress and an unfulfilled labor, an unachieved work, a unattained goal as the fathers of the 1 generation that goeth, oame unto t theirs. r Farmers conducting swine feeding ? demonstrations in Chowan County T recently sold 266 hogs for a little t over 66,000. Alt the hogs killed hard and these men will not worry about the Price of cotton this fall. 1 i 5 There will be an Increase In the * amount of barley planted for hay, grazing and grain this fait due to J the tine results seceured last season. ' i Ftrmers of the United States are 1 annually taking crops from the soli 3 and are producing livestock, the 3 value of which amounts to more than all th? gold mined In the United States fe^nce iCojlumbus dlsoorerad 1 America.?The Furrow. n , . . /'/" An examination of the past is in- j This , ), () teresting, and a dream of the future day ' '"'^B brings hope: but happiness depends | it h-. - H B upon living today. datim, , , ;v Tjjs*M The J?y of today depends to some [ pr.it..; , _ , }'[ *< S extent upon the memories of yes-j ami ..... llV'] 1 fprday and 1b heightened by the j usually I, H anticipation of tomorrow; but the (both nigger sings on the levee because j living :il he has forgotten both. '"?r.l.n Too much self-examination turns pin f , r tll(. the forces of the mind inward, j ^ l.,.,. i;, 'h,, K Work and play turn them outward, ih.ir, hi,...;. , n?, He who ia busy with living lays prop.,.,-. ^ Z basis for happiness. Man is ponds > ??hj ? like a vegetable. The means of pa.es Lwth comes from the outside, migh .. .: ., ,11 r,av?, the direction of growth is out- should !.. ' '0- y,-d ward. The act of growth is the for as>. th m lurce of health; and growth, w.th plan.,,,,, tr* thosp who work hard u\n I 11 - ( i joy, comes to tnose wuu , and play IntenTgently. '|l'r"M'" Playing golf for the health may j W).r,. , ; r . I be a good thing. I doubt it. an(, rl 1 U< ? 'a" ? TZT,; - 'never believed thatOrover Cleve- Vm-i.. ,h? i land went fishing in order to.pon- go.,.- h,. der- problems of state; and I can't |hp |in|y ... (,a . * be fooled with the Idea that Cyrua L w.. s H. K. Curtis was thinking of his stomach while playing the pipe- "r !> ;; organ, which Mr. Bok aaya he did thousand i d-.s That very beautifully. lhat w?' " '"""di a: My older brother recently wrote get our ]. ,r me, in connection with the subject It means, on the t-'iatran. J^^B of gardening for the health, The must live ititellirently thing that counts is the state of an,j it .v.iak,. each s mind while gardening." wo live. BEAUTIFUL POEM THE salijda gr?de i WRITTEN AT TRYON Some Weeks rur :t Many Praise Mrs. Peattie's De- ?at ,h'' s""',1,;r" J . , . had determine,i u;,?ri c,. scription of Mountains the fam011s .inds n*: J ig a new lin. around ~.S A number of people who visit Try- however hits lr ,.R j(( on are captivated by the marvelous hav|p'r flir p.? ai mountain scenery, but lack for ex- thg lj|r((t.,(1 , .,mpany i-jS pression to describe it; when their a 8ea3p of irr.jnuniry if attention is called to the exquisite companv h;i, poem which was written -by Tryon's herp has l)t^ m l 1? Ura charming ana graciuus muj, ??? >. _ a runaway trnn Elia Peattie, they feel that no furth- ... V with narrow . .< er expression is necessary and in- an:--?? Literary Editor for the great Chica- . . . , ,. .. ,, , stances in liir past. go Daily Tribune, besides being the . . ... . . . . grade imposes a o autho of a number of books which .. , , . ? ?n the operatinc ocjej * rank among the best sellers. She , . , I , , .... "rom being an i'ver-likdf mS has traveled extensively throughout ,. ^ the world and was in a position to ups have occureil in r.< compare the mountains of Tryon .... ., , . u ' ^ very likely till - lie -t as with those in distant countries. . . , ... . , _ behavior will s. t th- ratlr* The following poem is reprinted . , , . , _ ' to a new line of thought here from the Chamber of Com meroe booklet: HAS TO ~BE DONE THAT ? In order (J n -i, America THESE BE THE MOUNTAINS tion fixed on any subjwtjx^B THAT COMFORT ME them to think alxmi tli-sett'-^^B "Immeasuably old are they, to sprig :li matt-r These (hills llhat 'reund my val- wlth 80mp s"r: highly ley wind; spicing or It fills fist ihB Time has worn their peaks away, plains many a d. lib-rate !* And left them wise and humble up of sensational features. ? and kind. 1jb<' real nn>-iv I.- sirapiy One they were higher than Andoan People on the rim. m it crest, get them' to nmsid-rlng. ib* And biterly white as the Arotic bo,ieved by U" NVw ^ M sea; ) to explain in large P3" M?_ .. , , , passages in Ciomenc au's Now they are all In verdure drest; ,ep thf t 111" -The vine-lad slopes of her riven Times' brief commentSide, "To Mr. Edmunds nf I know how Jamiran mountains run who has uru'ou cimilla:^ To lave their feet in Che azure debts. Newton I' ,?akt'r * jl tide; what you and I hav The Gdthlc Alps with glittering cause calm and thought u spires, eration of this prave-.P Aetna, Stromboli by the sea, shall be happy Though each with their beauty my appears that t|ll ir otteran^-^^^B pirit fires, not intended a calm These be the mountains that com- reconsiderations in ;.ifl fnrt ? seen, "Mr. Chunn.iau ^ y With the shivering Joy of a great other day that th- Par^ surprisg; in his open 1< tl r 1(1 arat, The Jewelled crevasses of Muir have between Americas >'I been with Germany ami ^ ^ Revealed to my astounded eyes. sia's demotion ef 1 ^ ^j;f yl I know how Greylock looks in Brest-Li^ovsk was ? spring: - But it was a 1"""' j'; ,nd n* How splendid autumn Berkshires to stir up the atii?ia r,. r'H be;*" - not resist the . But though their beauties I will psychology his i"tm sing, - jjhe older t> ichi"^ ' ^ ?|!>| These be the mountains ^Jiat com- We do not think wl (i rort me. A-f H.n but with our 011.0:1 .1. my mountains hear me never brins ri'.is.'ii i"'o t under the spur of . m?lW- " ,|c I V"" 10 ">?> r?t. ??d thoiiphiciil "jJ whea I .? u..? k, do., collation ?ar ... ?' day hpariBr . TT,.?nm, ably fail to set-use a ' H Humped like elephants against the flrlck is to win ih.. ^'^B inH ?v? . ^ any neoessary 0M *""?k? ?- '?> I kiuv* ?v . . the course of iti.ok I^tao* am I dull kou.0 b,. ^ t0 wrnll, ?? - ta .pint l*?r"taf 'I a? m"mw- ? ? ? ?-?-vrs^jl Some people si"'"" A W. PEATTIE. Jars' worth of tilll'\,r' ?,n e^B r... ~~ "? half a hundred so tbey c m. I ..BEAD POLK COUNTY NEWS to pay the interest ou & ^B i m