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.''y/'■. pH ' / r ' • " *mm KM Hpl '- HHfek “ tl 9PBBnB| *|gßF' 'WxsB f - .-* .• BPB| -B-SB S * HJ® fl lISa Jk SB BIM '|III M B 9 ■IIvMM■ B■g * II H vflß . ■ Bl ■ BP |B • BB ■■ B H .BB ■ jB. ‘ F aJB §§: JjP mt^M ß B ' Ijß H m * B B SB A Jff S ft flpl A MOUNTAIN SaPER DEVOTED TQ GOOD BUSINESS * CHEER t‘ . -■;■■ ■-■■■ . ' ' , 1.1. VOL. XX, NO. a. GREETINGS: As often befor6 this paper greets you—everywhere, in your office, store, your factory, mine, mill, bn your farm, on the porch of • your hovel of your mansion. If it is gen eral business conditions you are ex pecting ,uslto discuss, we are afraid we can’t be very helpful. The ed itor i§ only a detail worker and don’t know anything about the broad economic situation. He is riot an economist, not a statistician, not a forecaster, not a high executive. /•; We have tried out airing our ideas in the past. * ’SVe have made' suggestions, mentioned remedies for this ill or that. We have criti cised supposed wrongs, pointed out ways and means to what we thought would be better conditions; we have moralised and philosophized all to no avail. Such a policy lost us a friend for every one we made. We were accused as a common propa gandist. We are through with that line; there is nothing to ft but trouble and loss of business. ‘ When you come right down to it, we are just a plain old printer, with two or three ’’irons in the fire” all liable to get too hot and turn out unprofi table ventures—if we do .not work hard and attend to our own business and let that of others alone. There is only twd things that we know anything about: Farming on a rough mountain farm, and' run ning a.... EDJJting.. jjlant against 30,000 heartless competitors! And we are_ getting too old to change our line of work. , ,l\ 's%■' Just for the . sake of argument, we' are willing to admit" that times are mighty bad, and the , chances are that they might get much worse." Just how much worse may depend on the amount of time you and us loaf on our respective jobs and w,aste time talking -over the inevit able, making predictions OX spread ing propaganda. j - We don't mean to be impolite, by .any means. So if .you’ve got vour trie ssiicss ' _ you can talk the world .back from destruction and ruin and the devil, then we don't want to spoil your fun. Just go to it—as for us, we have- to work. broad overall economic • standpoint that ouf w°rk is so important—but only from our own selfish viewpoint, it seems awfully important to us to think that it is important! And maybe it would be made more important for both you and us, in our several jobs, if we would quit talking and work harder. May be we could all do a better job; for there is so much to learn and so much to do that none of us have yet done. . ' + NEW YORK, -June 20 lrij vy A.- J * BUSINESS — American business men were surprised to ast week that the present depression is more severe in the United States than in any other country, accord- j irig to a report by the Federal Re- 1 serve Board. The Board pointed OHt, however, that manufacture of war materials in foreign countries, particularly England, Germany and Japan, is mainly responsible for keeping many factories humming. In America, factory employment ds still wejl above normal in ten in- farm, implements, iron and steel waxwork, cash registers, en gines and turbines, machine tools, aircraft, women’s clothing, baking, beverages and rayon. It is signi • -Scant that these 10 all‘but the air craft industry afe manufacturing essentially peace-time goods. Per haps America will be enjoying prosperity when other countries are busy paying for their armaments.. the government geanr its machinery to spend,more money.-for relief and j work projects, 42,000,000 of Amer-j ' ica's motorists wilt stage a spending program of their own this summer, parfcn* with $1,806,000,W0 touring the U. S. from Maine to Mexico. This vtat's rolling army will be'l'3 per cent, greater than last year and ' Company, which made the survey. Os the nation’. 25,410,000 pasaen gcr automODiies, att* - . T= BURNSVILLE, N. C., OCT. - NOV. 1938, ■ . ■■■■, ' .M —.- > 18,000 hotels, 30,000 tourist camps, 158,254 restaurants, 317,000 gaso line filling stations and 98,004 re pair shops. WE IMWEIL When Ed Howe was 80 he said, “I have reached my 80th birthday. I frequently ask myself the ques tion: ‘What-do you think of it all?’ For cine thing, I have lived longer than I expected. At sixty and six ty five I made arrangements for disappearing around seyenty. _ -(ac cording to the three score and ten maxim) Every year since seventy I have laid in supplies sparingly, as a householder should who expects to move out next day, ot next month or so. .. . Today-I noted that my shirts, socks, hankerchiefs,, 4 collars* suits, shoes, need replenishing; that it is' necessary to put in anoth er order, but I shall order smaller quantities.” , None of us, get as much put of the world as we .did when, we were young-—that is, we , get more variety and not sq. much quantity. Most of us are inclined to see the world | in the' old way: We under stand .a man who meets us in thej road or the field or in the office or store. But when we meet him in a' book or a newspaper or hear him' make a speech he uses words that are new and too big for* us. We have difficulty in following him in his maze of fine words; We cannot see his 1- position so clear and we gri>w indifferent and maybe sleepy and we do not; care what, he says. We can read something Sls£, or if it. is a broadcast, we can ’ quickly turn the dial to a new station. How far back can you remem ber?. A long ways you think* if you are past fifty. You are begin ning to live much more in the past than you ever did. You do not day dream and ouild air castles in the future tense as you . did .when a young boy or girl. . Instead of J— —« ■ j sleep, you recount and re-live old memories. Your mind, is full of them. _ The scenes so long past crowd and "push each other* in your mind.- You -can see yourself back on the old farm where work was so Hard and pleasures &> few, ‘ Tot! can see in your mind’s eye, the neighbors like beings in a spirit land moving, and you can rtpike many of them out: and if you Could now hear their" Voices you wpuld recognise them easily. You ean follow them along ' the years and slferthtif achievements, I their failures and their follies and! you can recall the day when they, were laid to rest in their graves. Some of them were wise, some fool ish;- some were friends and some were foes, but npw about all of them are gone.—And wop;t of all, it seems all the best and truest friends, nearest neighbors, relatives, j brothers, sisters, parents, even the (old sweethearts and mates, seemed to have past out first! And strang est of all, you are still hSre. You ’wonder what Tor. Anyhow as Ed- Howe said, it will not be for sa iling. You will not need to lay in huge quantities of supplies to build new ’ houses, or make extensive im provements on your farm or busi ness. /. T. ■ _ ■, f -C V -t And Btr,nge fact yOT pvi n,»*vv. * v/v*,. 1 everything topsy. turyy, going to, 1 waste and ruin or to the , devil jYou would like to 4 do something iabout it, but no one listens to you.l It is because the world does not understand you and you do not understand the world. I It is because'your min# has be come ossified, jixed and, is fio more| receptive 5&1 mew ideas.. Yotit. mind I lives Only in the past; it , has no 'future. Your intellect is dying I slowly just like your body. Both I hive entered the transition from life —;—!—a—“—- ™—— 1 — i <■ , change and under their - inevitable rulings. Instead of un - folding into fields of future intell ectual glory, We become to be child ren again, arid tfisfead of learning new rules of education and fitting our memories with the fast moving events of modern wars, politics and rapid scientific developments, we; , remember vividly the old Possum* . Creek days and what folks said and - done in Cove Crecjc chprch and ’ school and the corn hustings and ■ log rollings. Modern society and movieland charactors sicker) us now, •i But we gloat over the courtships of so and so back in the horse and buggy days. And we live in the old days and ■ will die in them. is us if we 1 led then, unhappy liVei or had dis appointments-or losses and poverty to endure, for if so, we must suffer ■ yet. —in memory, lost opportunities, ■ lost friends, dost loves! 43 After all is remembered of mourned over or forgotten, the best sentiment »f all is this consoling fact, WE MEAN WELL! PROGRKM i FOR RECOVERY It has not been long since the Administration asked the , smaller business, organizations throughout the U. S. -to submit suggestions for methods by which the government can aid in the present business situation. When the delegation met at Washington the following plat form was submitted, which seems to be very, reasonable:— First: We urge that the Wagner Act be amended to make ’ labor as , responsible as Unions ; should be allowed to incorporate. Compulsory arbitration before . striking and picketing should be Written into the act. We believe ini ' the principle of collective bargain-J I 1 mail’s rieht t.» wotK. ; Second: We favor small loans, l to responsible business men on at - least a five-year payment basis, to be made by existing private banking , agencies and guaranteed by the Third: We ask that all Federal, ; State and local employes be requited to pay the same income and other taxes as other taxpayers. " Fourth: We demand the immed iate repeal of the undivided Surplus , profit tax arid a fair modification of ■ the capital gains tax. I Fifth: We demand that the Ad- J ministration immediately cease its unwarranted and malicious attacks on business. ; ...§ixth: We urge the Federal arrixF i etMer relief projects be on use ful work only, and that evfcry work er should give an honest day’s work. We favor the return of relief to local communities. \ Seventh: We view with alarm the increasing number of govern mental employes with resulting in ' creased taxes and business regula tion- —whether local, State or Fed eral. Eighth: We believe the unbal anced condition of the budget dis closes the unstable financial condi tion of the government and prevents business recovery. ' • Xj | Ninth: We insist on simplified ; tax forms and reports and we have ; Tenth: We favor giving back business to the business men, believ [ ing that they are more capable for [ running their own affairs than • through regulation and direction by! UllUUgil lcguwuuu anvj yii* DON’T LE f THE TOUGH WORLD DULL YOUR BILL ' Did you ever hear that little story j about the young minister who, got! [discouraged in hi* calling? Maybe] we’d better relate it to you US there i[ might be a good moral in it for) r This young man had graduated - from a theological seminary, was - sent to some sp«n«ey set - tied section where the folks .took i more interest in nearly ’ anything; { than they did in religion, especially ; the brand the young minister was l trying to install into their unrecep : tiVe minds. - - - -Some rime later a i] high up Bishop visited him and as [ kejl him how he was doing, where t upon the amhirious young sky-pilot l expressed his discouragement ,by l saying that he was exerting so lit , de influence op the welfare of man : kind that he felt like a tiny little 1 bird pecking Sway at a barren mountain of stone. The Bishop answered, “Yes, but ! just look what it will do for your ’ beak!” -—— | l-d Anyway the Bishop did not ad . vise the young preacher to quit and this paper is not going to ad vise our readers to quit advertising their line for sale, nor to quit work in producing. No sir, go right on with your “rat-killing”, whatever it island you will accomplish some thing some time. Jnstr keep on* pecking away, no matter how sore your bill gets. let the' pessimists out-talk you. Have a viewpoint iof your own. You should even hq selfish in some - ways.—Be selfish* about your work. “It will serve as a buf fer against hard times; it will* be something to occupy your mind and pass the time.away. It will be good for your soul and„ body—and to Sharpen your appetite, your mind and your Jrill. Whatever you can do will help to contribute to the welfare of the country as a whole. It may be a small'trifle. If the U. S. Ai has a population of 130,000,000, thgp your individual responsibility Is easy to figure out in this land of the free arid home of the brave— and if you do n at do your you .a re not EQUAL with your feller Jc. az ris, no ri tatter how “equal” IVyv. may havc .b’en created. Your r Uo,ooo'ooo ei job! ! j WE m tIT CUNT WE? A lot of folks you ,meet are talk ing hard times. . It is the same way with many of the country papers and the writers in the big ones. Some one ought to choke - these hard'time prophets. We may have something the natter economically maybe we have what some call a “slump”, a “slow market”, even a “recession”, or for that matter a “depression”, anything you'please —but we wish people would quit talking to us .about it —that' is, un less they haVe something new to. ■ say and not the same kind of stuff that has been said for so long. EjiLook around you at the fine crops, the way the arc growing, and the gardens. .load weather tOO. .You never u more- healthy nor good looking i in your life. Plenty of work to n the farms. Maybe we can. fir inds. enough to da jt.. If not w ndp a lot bf it ourselyes and If e re!st, go done. We still h good appetit es and there is g to be lots to eat —on the farms If we can’t buy nor hire eni| nor be em ployed, v e can sm eat. Some months a. > when the eco nomic conditions began to look bad, a Detroit man, c tiled Henry Wea ver, wrote a pamphlet as a| “Thought Starter on thri Eco. ornic: which he drcalated as a be. Mr. Weav r is some sort of r automobile man ho wanted to sell { more cars and saw 1 his trade shrink-] ing- up, just as we ail have. Any way we are "<>ing to pass on some « of his observanoi s, with our own j comment, where necessary "byway ( of clarifying the theme. W Mr. Weaver says.,' “As a mat-i --ter of fact I wouldn't mind genet-j king a'little hard gossip- of JK yawn if I felt it would do, any ’ good or even if I thought I wguld be ’able to -make some £mtetcuctivcl i contributions along the Ikies of new I i«r j. ’ *- ; v •' ",j ... t : i-■" ■■ I -- "• PUBLISHED NOW AND THEN I eil apd- widely circulated almost 3 ten years ago; and riowT they- are be - coming a-bit hackneyed. 'Now don't get: me wrong—l ’ don't mean to assume a Pollyanna [ attidude. I'm not trying to dodge l the facts arid I don’t exactly want t to pfery ostrich. I know that busi -1 ness is not iexactly as good as we’d all like to have it, v bilty|*jfeel that I have already done my share of lis ’ tening to people talk-about “gen eral conditions” and now I'd like to be let alone for awhile. “I speak only for myself. .1 don’t mean to imply that econom ic discussions should be barred al together, because there are gome ■ among us whose business is to study such- things—And you can’t blame a man for talking about his job! “But I’ve got a suspicion that there are very few ofi us who are in a position ,to help the general situation through talk alone. ’ May be the economists can- —although I sometimes father doubt it. Maybe the big business' leaders can—ex cept, that they don’t seem to have much time to do much talking, 'hjiiybe the politicians can-—. but having once been a ‘party man”. I reserve my opinion. “Aside from all that I’ve > got a hunch that maybe the best way for; me, personally, to help the general situation is to buckle down, dig in and do as good a job as some of the professional pessimists are doing on theirs. This is very good.advice for us all to follow. Our work may not be very important. It may b e quite UNimportant. If we will stop our little preachments and work more, then our troubles, if they do not- disappear, will at least. grow -lighter. Ben Franklin once said, “A task done willingly is a task done easily." When you have a job put up to you to do, for .in-, j stance a "job like that of ftiakirig a yiying for the folks in the family, feel. like rebelling against "aek some easier way or help pr^rirselTH andjt-need be, cuss hard tipias, aWn ) bounce to it with a. .gusto and say ' Sure I’ll do it—and like it”! It wilj Turn the trick and your burden will turn out to .be a profitable 1 WA* i'll - lvA n-■t■ i—L r~r pivoourc. ot/uii you n uc cacmg three squares-a day and sleeping eight honest hours under warm blankets every night. ~— 9 YE OLE TIMER SEZ (By Sam Miller) Just as we begin to-get over the sineii of campaign cigars (and the odor of bad whiskey) we tam . thoughts to hopes of bu valescing—we hope. ij# ' I *g*4!S*“ ■ SSMSSaSs In / a v r.- e gl &maE3mmaßKma&BL ~i#,U9(Cs j l\A X / MPUtOtrJOK | M Lu izLiz* rrKmrnm™• I Vr rTr "" * I CUN YOU KEEP II SECRET? Yes, we can keep a secret. Every once in a while - you hear some - friend say'that they can ‘’keep a secret.” ‘ Some ' folks cah keep a secret, but the .secret of saving mi ney shouldn’t be kept. So we won i keep it any longer. Here it is— '. IRADE WHERE YOU , SAVE MOST. No matter where a fifth ie located, no matter what its name, you save the most money when you trade with the one that- gives, you the most value and the best; service for every dollar, dime and cent you spend with it. You may be patriotic and love home shops and stores, but if they — can’t sell you what you want as cheap as the firm a littk farther off, you are very sure to mail the order off. That is what your family do when they want nice clothes. They haven’t a thing against the little , stores in the hoihe village; the)- just, find satisfaction, and variety, a wide range of choice and prices in die catalog—and they fill out an order sheet. . s o We do not recommend buying too much from the fellow who lives at a distanced Buy all you can get at home. Stick by your home merchant and manufacturer to the last ditch.—But when you can fsave money on what the local party can’t do so well, then you should hunt up abetter place to buy. The Edwards. Printing Company, during all its 38 years'in. .business has never felt so sure, tha*- we will not, nor cannot be undersold. Send us .all your choice jobs that must be done care fully at a low. pried We do not mean the handful of . letterheads or ' TPjPn i ? ) are -ziot with ' th. r paper. * We mean- the larger intricate jobs j out oh the local printers’ range ► saleshocks, duplicating forms'of, i [ voiceffr»ndars-, ■ posters, dodge ’ jobs. calling for color treatmc: 1 special rulings, heavy body compo sition, long or heavy runs; those that require numbering, punching, perforating, firte. 6?c. fife. A' Look over some of our price lists ’ on regular rijn work in this paper and write for estimates and samples ' pedal work not referred to in :
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