I ^ ?_ Cfee Cbtrobet &ceut Official Orgaa off Mmrpby aai Cb?r* koo County, North Cuolu* iff YAW W. SIPE. . Editor Maaa?* MISS H. M. BERRY.. A.soeioto Editor PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY' Subscription RaU? ONE YEAR $1.59 EIGHT MONTHS 1 00 j SIX MONTHS 80 i FOUR MONTHS 60, PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Display Advertisements, 25c per column nch; legal advertisements, want ads. reading notices, obituaries, cards of thanks, etc.. 5c line each insertion. Contract rates will fee furnished immediately upon request. ?' We reserve the right to refuse advertisements of a shady or suspicious character, which are likely to mislead our readers, or any other advertisements or reading notices j not in keeping with the digrv.ty this paper maintains. Entered in the !' <: :'r: . ? at Murphy. N rth Carolina, as Se< r.d Class Mail Matter onder Act of March 3. 1ST9. ??? a j SOME THINGS THE SCOUT WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN MURPHY AND CHEROKEE COUNTY In Murphy 1. An active Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce. 2. More Manufacturing Industries. 3. New Passenger Stations?A Union Station. 4. More Improved Streets. 5. Regular Library Hours. 6. A Reading Club. In Cherokee County 1. A S.'>-trin of Coui.iy R ads Supple menting the State Highways. 2. More and Better Cattle Raising and Dairying. 3. More Fruit Growing. 4. Scientific Poultry Raising. ????: - ?9 ? - ?EDITORIAL Why Towns Grow *"pHE rapid : r _-r<. whi.'r. mo eitii < ana towns make has been the marvel of American life. People who art anxious to have their own towns irr-'*.v tsk h - t ts that certain towns and cit:es secure these rapid advances in population, and industrial CntC~r'.."C--. siiuw iJiai such | progress is not usually dm to favorable locations. The citizens of such places have not sr.* down and waited for progress to come to them. They haw done a i t of host!:: g : Ewrv new enterprise wants to come to a : wn. When one is select.r.g a piace : .ko a home he wants to k . w .: the r in the . mmnr.ity he selects are progressive or r.->t. The rep'-' i*:. - that a . ertaia_.t wn '* a live town has a " * * : th its advatt People '..kc to ' v r est;.:*- or engage rr. business in such ? r.nu: as they feel; that values will utcreas.. tha: decrease. Chambers : commerce ar.d 1 .-is of trade and other : usin<->s organizat" -ns have had ntucj. to do with the a ivar.c. of of fast growing t wr.s. Th - suits that such . r<:ar.::: -tic r s jet is ' ? ad; r than what sfcow; on the surface. The v >-k that . >. chamber of miner >: - a ulway be measured ir. terms f raw fact - s and , new business men, al'.k ugh t' y usually get their part of such. "What really counts for much i> the fact laiMc uuNiicsa . miu professional men are i working and pui' a? t gether for new entpmr' r.iil h . * ' - .ic V,r->- -- vantage?. And wr- n the people of a c mmunity thus v rk ?< gether. it create* art atmo?rhere or progress and {rood will that is essential for :h?- growth of any community. And then, t the artivit:.: > of a chamber of commerce are reported ? tho new-- . papers, and discussed by travelers ard residents. In this way. *h<* idea g:-ts abroad that such and such a town i? a progre??**ve ; town and a place of activity. where the people are working to accomplish things. , Whe^ a place gets that reputation, it grows j of itr ntc-mmtum. " - H8 The local Chamber of Commerce >.a- ae- * quired more publicity in the 1 st six month? than in any period of one ; ?ar in the past. * Tangible resaits of itg activities are evident. No one can tell what wHI re*uT? from the advertising publicity Murphy has r acquired In the past few months. People want to come to a progressiva/ commnn'ty. They want to be on the winning side?-r. a * winning community. ^ The Ambusher Of Character INVESTIGATING a system?o^- an insti- s< tution?la one thine. Attacking the personal character, the integrity or the honesty of an official or an individual is anoth- E' er. The former is one of the prerogatives ' J of the people. The latter is usually the ! last resort of the ambusher. During the | in past few weeks, the State's prison?or dt speaking more broadly yet. the ent're ; in North Carolina prison system?has) he or ' er under the spotlight. Charges were start- ' ta ed by E. E. Duddir.g of Washington City, i who. up to this time, has declined to grve b< the names of his informants. Pudding's la motive, whatever it is. is one thing; the fc proportions the agitation have assumed | th constitute another. Here is the net result: ai At the request of the Governor, the State w Board of Charities and Public Welfare will pj (conduct a thorough survey of prison en-' E ditions in Xo*th Carolina. Under the laws (] of the State, this body is vested with tTie a power. Here are the member- o." the board each an honorable, upright citizen, whose ii word v. uid be taken irt inv rnrirt in North - Carolina: W. A. Blair. Winston-Salem. ?r chairman; Rev. \V. L. Hutchins, LtX'.ngtor.; -xJ A. W. McAllister, Greensboro; Rev. M. L. Kesler. Thomasville; Mrs. Thomas W. Lin- ^ gie. Davidson; Mrs. Walter F. Woodard. hi Wilson: Mrs. J W. Pless. Marion. The j 0f , mmi&sior.er of Public Welfare is Mrs. ir Kate Johnson- c<3 So much f r the "investigation.** It !s goir.g to be held. And the report will be made to the Governor, who. there is r.ot , the slightest doubt, will demand that the ->st dra-tic measures be pursued if there *n should be any crue'.tie. uncovered. He is r.ot a mar. ' stand for inhuman treatment f anybody. The report, unbiased, made a" only after a careful, definite and systems- ^ tic?but net hy-ter.cal?survey. will be ~ made to him in person. j m Now. a? to the personalities that have *.* r- d the s.tua*. n. From Washington . ha\> c n. ? some of the grave t charges ever made against a pu't . official b th ve !i c a ed and pen. directed, .at G rg?> Ro.-s D :. s. : : v on.gressrrar. K. W. Pou. of the F-uirth North Carol ina District, soperinten- _ iit-t f the State's pr> r. at Raleigh. Pou yv has nevey protestedan bvcsiigaliun. Ha r ? has beer. qu ted in the pr-.-s of th State ta a* declaring that he welcomed ;t. Nor has hi he t-wr claimed that our prison system Is perf.vt. During the recent General As- hi rembly he worked hard for some improve- is nor.:.- which he thought ought to be made, of but which he was puwerlet< not fail to resent, he addr*?s?*d to the poe- d: plf: of the Stat<* u message ir. which right- I us . i.gnation was expressed that those or who - iiirh: ta vered or.iv por.is of attack. He no counter chare??. He made r<> tr: He iy called upon ambu-hed J , a > - to come out into the open. Tr. , . hi) ai". tr . he exercised a prerogative that should be denied none. Th honest press f the State has never rvd , *n< cv:tH praf*. He has been a > ??l "-^enville. No matter what horr?t ore* here may be ur?on their attitude Tomrd the charges that the system of their :trxticn was wronc. ea^h r. rr'r r r.ot pr'jrht character and intejrrity; rnd f ? he -i should accuse any one of them n r*- ij r* thingfe that Superin*?rt* m T "?h charged with he *ou"d *a * vut * *1 account and r: o to the court house and pi ve it; f miE SCOOT. WKFHY. NORTH CAfc ^ Letter* From the People 3ME FACTS ABOUT THE "MYSTERIOUS LETTER SAID TO HAVE BtEN WRITTEN BY CHRIST." ditor Scout: READ with much interest the letter on the above subject by Mrs. Corrie Kin*:, last week's issue of The Scout, and wonrred if it was possible that people living our day and age would still g ve credice to a fraudulent letter that has been ?xnt for more than seven hundred years. History informs us that Eu.face, th?. At>>tt of Flaye, in A. D. 1200. came to Eng nd and was very zealous for Sunday, but tund few sympathizers there. It seem. 1 at his opponents demanded of h.n> divin*. . ithority for keeping Sunday holy, as h. ' us preaching it, and wben he could no 'educe the evidence -Re ".eft the country of j nglar.d for the mainland, ar.d next year j 1201) returned with all of the proof that; people who had been groping in darkness r a thousand years could desire. (Sea oveden, who was living at th*> time, pp. 16-528). This letter had the sanction oi inocent III, who wras Pope at that time, j id thus was given throughout the world. : The Roman Catholic Church, ar.d 1 am 1 irry to say, some Protestant churches, ive never let an opportunity pass, to pan:; F this same spurious letter, for such it Is. t defense of th* Sunday Sabbath. it mt' out with more or less variation, but ways ends with some dire judgment upon ose who do not pass it on, but wlt^ blct.gs or. those who propagate it. Such has ways been Satan's method of couuterf ug Truth. He caught Mother Eve this ay. and we all know it. and still he is able get modern Eves in his r.et, and Adam* , through this same deception. Like e c.uack medicine venders, he can always t a few testimonials t-> prove the gennc-nt s of hi? statements. We sh aid ?>t* willing to read and pracre the genuine letter (The Bible) from a then whcn these counterfeits come . ng. that are not in harmony wit^ t. we m know there is no light in them. ?1 ia:. 20). W. L. GARREX. Mr. Pou. whose personal integrity ha* -vcr be for bftjj ? uncovered. And, from the ne of Pons pointed statement, it is. a* so. ghly probab:0 that unless these personal fronts cea.-o he- will take the proper legal ?p> to have them stopped, certainly if he ?covers the source. Along with Pou's statement was issued e from Mr. Sauders. member of the ard, which was "calm, cool and collect- , and in which he went intv details ay the reputed sale of horses ar.d mules by iscn author:: es. His -tatom. nt speak.c r itself. The transaction involves or.e , w di.-i.vaed. the iau E. F. McCulloch, an whom there was not a more honorable in in North Carolina. It is platn that Mr. .r. tiers resents this aliened slander against e ram ..f Mr. McCulloch who. although served the prison only a short while. ' i acceptably and was beloved for h'.s ^ rh personal , haracter. Now. summing: up tht situation, it is this: tpinvvsugBuuie ^ '-dy who uV : carry her own fan and parasol wher. went by with hcr beaux. The other r chv went by yi: ! '* ; re baby ?r. 'l : . V...J - t auwt.-fi-s ? / I K"K ??m?? idle- besides. Gpf-""r 1 a-ried t^rdi 1 jjir!* 7* r< < -?*tawa C3?' ' liMhirii OH HA * j Human Interest Stories By Brownie* Fri* * e THE RESULTS OF A LIFE. ^ NUMBER q{ years ago a North Care- ( lina country* boy was told to go to th- j wood pile and bring in a load of wood. He ; went out, he went out, passed the wood-pile ; and kept on going until after many harit- : ships he reached the state of Massachu *tts 1 and worked his way through Amherst College. Several years later he returned to his old home and stopped by the wood-pi"* ar.d took in a load of wood .?? ne had Smbcsi told to do! Soon after the Spanish-AmeCcon ?*ir a returned soldier was sitting cut on the porch with his father and asked h rn this question: "Do you think that the United States will get into another war durir.g your lifetime?" The old man d;d not answer for quite a little while. Years r >lled u) bnu ? ? oria v?ar oroKe r " *r- Europe. Then the Germans began to destroy ur.arnied American ships. ar.d the old man said to his SOgggBQes, I fie-lit-vo s But the North Carolina boy fairly hurtled with the wood, and the old man was quick or. the trigfcr compared with the ofttime results of a life's influence. Somewhere perhaps there is a man or a woman who is pro wing: weary in well corp. Perhr.ps there is a school teacher or a Sunday School teacher who may read this who is wondering whether to continue the work or to pive it up as a failure. And this message is directed especially to them. All ethers will kindly turn this paper over and read the want ads. In the early day* of the United States, a wealthy Southern man visited the Cty of Rome ar.d purchase d a famous painting. whiC|j was -hipped to his home n this country. Who- pi turn was unwrapped, a servant took the dry eras*. in which it wa? packed, out th< : a k way and threw it on the prour.d. The r. \t summer some beautiful Itaiian flowers grrew on that spot: flowers who.- d? cat,, tints the greatest artists cannot pa:nt; flowers which made the air heavy with heir sweet perfume; flowers which have sir.ee multiplied Into thousands < f g::rd? n a*! ov- r th < lountrv! A preacher e r-ducted a ser.? - f n v.v..* meetings whic^ he ar.d the little congregation considered a * :np!-te failure, lust one little 1 ov Vuu.i the church during that series of meeting-. But in after years that boy grew in: a powerful preach er and on account of his mapr.ifu-influence thousands "hit th trail." The influence of that meeting which was apparently a dismal failur, w: i perhaps po on and or. until it lashes ;?c:i -lit the shores of Eternity! In Colonial days at Will am.-burp. Virginia. Get rpe Wythe taught a law school. His influence did n< : -:em t - go very far: he was just an earnest mm in a little town. He looked w.th horror upon the importation of negro sla*. mt this country and set the -laves frc-e that he had inherit -d. D > :!t!cs- he was c red by the p-. -pie of Williams! urg Hs a .1 man hut a little cranky on the sublet o? liberty. In-" ad of teaching law only to the ycliiig follows in his school he cultivated in their souls the love of liberty and patrol :-t and statesmanship of the purest and loftie* kind. A vounp fellow whose name was John Marshall was one > f his students; an ?ther young fellow by the name of Tiv rr.:i Jefferson attended; ard another whose namewas Henry Clay, and he fired the souls of those boys *v-"th the love of liberty, justice, mercy ar.d high purpose. Thomas Jeffer.-on wrote irto th<- P .. [aration of Independence the Ultimate abolition of xlacery, but that clause was -tricken our, bef> re it was accepted. H. believed that the negro should not onl\ be j **t free but should be sent beck to Africa. Henry Clay moved to Kentucky and with' all the eloquence with which he was enriwed he preached against slavery. bir without any apparent success. Neither Geo. Wythe nor any of his students wh. idvocated the liberation cf slaves, lived to ?ee their dreams come true. Since our grandparents woifld not accept money for their slaves and demanded to fight to hold them, perhaps it was a Merciful Providence | hat let thase Southern men die before the Tivil War. But see how the seed they; ilantcd continued to prow In K-* :.v * -J - ... V..V W. urwaws *?:m <>uuge uoup- i as, Abraham Lincoln ?aid: "I have no urnose to introduce political or social quality between the white and black races, rhere is a physical difference between the j wo. which. ;n my judp -merit, will probably' - revcr forbid their Iking occther upon J ' FrM.,. M.y l? ,m The Fat Man's Corner Clerk?Do you want a narrow Man's comb? ^ Customer?No. want a comb for a st&ft iron with rubber teeth.?Brooklyn Life. * "Tell me. sir." demanded the lawyer "and mind what you are saying, do you assert that you were wounded in the melee? The witness pursed his lips: "I never said where I was wounded. It might have been in the melee and again it mightn't. All 1 know i.- that he hit me."?Spokesman H.'VIPW ? > "Say it with flowers." read the sign. Pickled Duntbcll?Thasha goocj idea. Ser.d n-y Aunt Tabitha a big boquet. and ?h ?better make 'em ail sun flower?. . ?r .she pretty hard of hearing. What makes you think Polly has a wood r. leg? , j She stopped :n a store to get some garter. ar.d : .e out with a package of thumb - ?-Avcaran. < A pretty girl in a fury. Took her case to a judge and jury, She said Trolly E Had injured her knee; Hut the J'-iry said. "We're from Missouri.?Termessee Mugwump. ? Mother?What are you crying about? Daughter?Oh. mother, Tom sent me a rir.g with the words: "With love to the ast." engraved on it. and 1 thought I was the first. ? Despondent (d.-appointed in love)?Oh. hang! I'm g-. ir.g d wn and jump off the bridge. R>om-mate ? :ke a room mate)?Wait a minute and I'll go down and watch you. ?Bearskin. > > Have - peanuts? Thanks. I E, Marry me? N'o. Gimme back my peanuts.?Georgia Tech Y?-.l v Jack.t. udpe?Haw y.'u over seen the prisoner the bar before? W ;r.? - V?- s. y ur honor, that's where I m t him. Atlanta Constitution. rp per:. : equality; and nns? . h ... it tn. - a necessity that there n : t be a differc: . I. as well as J udpe D.uiria1, am ?n f;.v r of the race to whah I i pn havinp the superior position. . . I h:.ve : ? v said anything to the contr.rv, u: I h- id that, .. 'w.-.kstandincr all th's Hurt i- run- - in the world wh\- * ? is v-X entitb.l to all the na:-u-.il r-.-'.t- er rat-.-d in the Declaration of Ind rde: ?th.- ripht of life and the pursuit f hap- I hold that he i- as r u.-h i .Y d to the-,, as the white r r. I pree with Jud.-*- i* uglas he is r. t y equal ir many r y certainly not In j e ?r. haps no* mural or intellwual ^ end wi-:, . but n the right to eat bread, without th . Icav, ?.f anyone else, w oh h - -.? ' a- 1. earr.<. he < my equal and j tht- ee.;:::'. < f Judge Douglas, and th, -al * v iiv. . . . Henry C" y? r.:y ' i- ' f a statesman, the man for i y humble life?H nry Clay i r.iy said of a class of men who w u'.d r< * i ss all tendencies to liberrv and uTil- | mate emancipation, that they must, if th y would do :his. po back to the era of oar . independence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return; they _-hts around us; they must penetrate the human soul, and . eradicate there the love of liberty, and Ithcn, and not till then, could they perpetuate slavery in this country." You see. we may trace the teachings of Gtortr* Wy.hi. a - mowhat obscure mom- < her of the House of Burgesse? and a 5 teacher, thresh his students, into the Declaration oW Independence and into the heart of Abraham Lincoln and into the hearts of millions! If you are teaching * Sunday school class and have only on# P?" nil. do not think rrf giving up; tea<|^ h'* 3 or her with all the earnestness and ahi'ity I you have. If you ara trying to do any- fl thing that is neblo and pure and umelfiA I do not look for results; just do the work fl the be*t you can. Whatever is pure and noble and right in you, if planted !n ha? H man hearts, will multiply and blossom nT1- I til the end of time! n (Copyright, 1923, by Brownlee Frix) 3 3