tj Srt.rJ?y, Septra!*, 18, 1923 ^ TIm Offk^" Or|%a of Murphy and Cher* kee Coyl/, NArth Caroline BRYAN W. S1PE . . . Editor-M?n.f?MISS H. M. BERRY A..oral. Editor PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $150 EIGHT MONTHS 1 CO SLY MONTHS SO FOUR MONTHS ? PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Display Advertisements, 25c per colum: nch; legal advertisements, wmt ads. reading notice , obituaries, cards of tlianks. ere., 5c line each insertion. C -r trad rates will be furnished immediately r. request. We reserve the right t refuse advent ise^ menta of a shady or s..-; ..is character, which are likely t>< n d r r : or any other adv-urti enu r : r : cadir.g n ".ce* not in keeping with tin : : r .ty this paper maintains. Entered in the !' st : it M i y. North Carolina, as S*-c< : I < Ma.l Matter under Act of March l>7p. SOME THINGS THE > OUT WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN MURPHY AND CHEROKEE COUNTY In Murphy 1. An active Board of Trade < r Chamber of Commerce. 2. Mere Manufacturing Industries. 3. No v Passenger Stations?A Union Station. 4. More Improved Streets. !i R?'i?ilnr I-ihrnrv Tin!ir< 6. A Reading Club. In Cherokee County 1. A System of C * :y K ads Supplementing the Stat. Highways. 2. More and Better Cattle Raiding and Dairying. 3. More Fruit Growing. 4. Seient:f Poultry Raising. PARAGRAPHS 1 Politent - doesn't ? anything. Who -ad North Car na was ho:t on The Cherokee C jnty Fair a vers promising afFair Our local merchant' are prepar g for i splendid fall businc We are just word, ri - if Oklahoma doe not feel like dropping :1 "k"? Someone has said: "Chanl : is nfx . to Godliness." Wouldn t a clean town h fine? ; H' Look a1, the iabel on your paper ami i s^?N you ar* in arrears, conv- in. at d fork ov tlte filthy luer . We ne< d it. At last Mt-xi > has con e t<> be r. cognize, officially by tin- United Slates Government "Rome wasn't built withi: a day." The German mark has been reduced t. the point win t a micro-cope is neeessar; in order to detect it. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan evidently doesn* understand what the w .rd*, "A. E. F..' mean in manufactured doughboy language The eclipse was very plain here Monday rand created quite a lot o: interest. At least it pave some of our j eople something t< talk about. "Coal can make Coolidge," declares tlv Dearborn Independent. Another one o Henry's peace ships pone aground. Thi laurels go to Pinchot. "Most of the bones of contention are jav bones," comments the paragrapher th Aaheville Times. Quite true, except whei it's a pull-a-bone. Governor Pinchot evidently convinced th< miners and operators that they could pre aerve their interest more sweeetly by work ing than by striking. That boy who was paddling up and down the creeks and mud-puddles in a pair of dl lapidated overalls about a week ago, is th< verf same one wh0 cries and runs and tell! tfte tearcner n someone spiasnes a iew aropj oC perfectly clean water on him now. Scientists and near-scientists will probably spend the next decade in trying to solve the mysterious cause of the great Japanese disaster. Many and varying theories have already been advanced, so conflicting that aire wonders if, after all, it will ever be paired. THE C> The New School Building THE opening of school has again served tp emphasize the need for the new | school bui'idtng. wtflch is now under course ! of construction. The primary department f the school is overcrowded in every room, j So more desks cam be placed and there * it present no expansion room whatever. In -onto ?'f *he grade-* there are enoug^ chii i drea for two teachers, yet they cannot be ! divided on account of lack of additional ms. The new building will relieve the -.tuation and parent.-, pupils and teacher? 'alike will welcome its completion. The Role Of The Red Cross ORGANIZE!* larg? ly f -r service during the World War. many people consid* . red the Ami rican Red Cros? organization 1 tractically w rth < >< after the great war ! ceased. It is true that in many of tht smalYr ? immunities it is' unnecessary tr? . msinteir. ? rhnntpr to work with the nationa. organization, but it would seem folly to thing of abandoning the organization. The Japanese disaster 1- another illustration of the great g?x>d this organization may be to e worid. As stum a.- word of the earth; quake disaster on the islands of the Pacific reached thi.-* country, this great organization - t its machinery 11? work to gather together or relief funds for the stricken people of Japan. Only a few months ago when the lower Mississippi Vail y win being flooded this organization also render* d signal serflood b< gar. it- destruction. Were it necessary for the American p? t.pl, to be orvice, beginning tnly a few h ir-? after thgar zed each time !> for,- aid e ild be eff ctivdy rendered in times of great disaster like this, much of the off-v. vein.of the i aid that ;t new is to :\:.d r. w.iuid be of no avail. The-, arc only outstanding example-* of what this great humanta-;an oi gnni.v.t i,,n 1* doing. Every day in .iBKss sp, ctocular way the suffering of thousand.; f unfortunate individual.- is assure d and a -silver lining turned t many a irl > ni> life by th> organization. This organization i- *yn .-ally Amet an. it .? an agent ?h "Ugh which tht heart of Amrr,ea can g" ?ut to the world in tinier of need. Handicaps ? ______ A CKRTAIN y jr.g mar. from Tn ma. 4 * admit'.-.d to Wi t iVir.t on prohat on ! (.cause li fell one inch rhort of the pre' t -ibed minimum height, ltd hi. class for p four years and emerged with a credit of j 1IQ8 i" into of a possible 2*770* And editorial writers' are moralizing. ;?s editorial J writers will, ami pointing a moral. "Don't he (list ouraged." they say :r, a large pati ma! v re. "See what this youngster has , done in spite f hi. handicaps!" They might 0 i hi tter say: "See what this youngster ha? t j done because of handicaps!" What is a handicap but an incentive to lab r".' Which man keeps his trousers more { carefully creased, the one who is looking ' I for a Job or the one who has a soft - .ap? - I Which boy has the better chance to become a useful citizt n, the one who is left at the ' age of sixteen with a mother and three small sisters to support of the one who has an un. 5 limited checking account and a bright red roadster? Which people most carefully cultivates the hard and homely virtues that p are essential to greatness, the one that f against great obstacles or the one that alts 9 on seven hills to rule the world? The turtle, you will,' remember, made a jump of aiver.tccn feet ran nn a tree " when the tiger apeared in the offing?not e because he had these things to do. If * the homely girl is smarter than her pretty sister, it is because she has to be smarter to get by. f The rabbit and the antelope can leave a - given P?>nt a?d arrive at a safe distance in a - very short time, and their speed is due to the fact that they lack the equipment for a stand up fight. It is adversity that makes the fox i cunning. The lion soon would become - helpless as a jellyfish if fed on manna from * Heaven. The dandelions that infest the l?wn ? couldn't survive a six day drought if they * had been nutured in ? hot house. There's more inspiration in a handicap than there is in the sound of clapping hands. - ?Robert Quillen. * A scientific expedition is about to start for the jungle in search of a little pink duck, something that would not have been necessary before the advent of prohibition.?Minneapolis Tribune. - - ... --- .. -- ... ..... IEROKEE SCOUT. MURPHY, NORTH CnROI When Wa? the Backbone Of the War Broken? ! IN HIS great scrmon at Lake Junaluska taMl Sunday morning. Dr. G. Campbell j ??f organ. in relating a story of the World War. incidentally remarked that the backone of the struggle was broken before J\merica pot int<> action. Dr. Morgan is. a? r " >*ied. a citi/tn of Great Britain | row living in Athens. Ga.. and is a promt- , !h : .ent lecturer and preacher, frequently ad- v '.resting American audiences from Am r Kr -in platforms. He i*. moreover. a speaker *rt | f striking personality and dynamic power. t tr | .nd usually proves tht proposi: >1 he >nur- > ciatt*. (,t j; : :;ne this thi? ?:anrwi>?. h -V V. r. ni 11 Uiii. me iearnca gvauviium ? ;tended it as a Fort of axiom, as he offerer* ! ai J no proof. nut posdbly th.* distinguished | jH:t!-;er did not intend i r h- --rdf t0 car:y the full meaning they > :v? i to convey. I? If <- did mean ad that 1 - language implies t: and the inferences and implications that t,i r.isrlv legitimately be drawn, th-. n. in th \ ' f l>r. Morgan, the crusade of Anter- <_-i i-uv. i'.'-m? in li'17 and 15?i| wa, a usde-ss ::.dcrtakirg ar.d the x; enditure of blood iid treasure during tho o years was wholly w unnecessary. If. ns Dr. Morgan claims. a, the backbone cf the German resistance had -p already been broken, there was no need of the two million American soldiers landir.tr f( m France. a| Evidently thc learned doctor has foigot n some circumstances of the early sprit e ? f 19IS. ft i a part ??f the history of that ?t | great conflict thr.t the German drives of March and April that year had torn the British a mies into ribbons and. before April was gone. General IInig sent out an S. 0. B. |111 an that the hard-;'1-- d British yoemanry wer fighting with their back to the wall. A million American M . who had already *' iunded n Franci i. ard *.h call and rushed th, ro om . Ai ?; ii-. million. in the trainhi v . ; m pi ,:.g camps in Am - i. cros-rd the ocean oi ' - '?> h. >?.' and . ' i:-:?rre t? th en.battled ^ , British a: d French. Chateau Thierry. Bell,.u Wood, the A re. and the Meusc-Ar? i\. followed in - i on. and the war was won. '' It i- a h i ; \ n. . which was th< do- u ri-i\ batti.. of t if war. the First Rattl of : the M:.!iu > ! the / . :-I. Th r- i- n< d?. p. . m Anur ia t.. tea', the c!ory wi. it: s Britain's. Neither i thert any It.ti ton to allow. \vithout prot t. a bo ittling i f Vmc-v.o.iN part in the pre.it drama. 1 ipii.ion > . th Journal, th? i . . y eh for all. and all would be willing t with each and all.?Havw. <1 Journal. Many Thanks To Our Neighbor \Y/': OFFER our hearty congratu. j. ?, V ,? uur neighbor. The Cherokee ..it. h. A -i i i.il booster L. A, X. railway train, w hearing many of the officio's of the rail- f: ?ay, -topped in Murphy o;i Thursday t.r a last \% ek, and a short m - ting was held w .n th i. art house. Before the meeting ;1 adjourned. The Seout was out with a sp .-ial L. A: N. booster train edition, and the ti members of the party, as thty passed out a of thi building, were handed a copy of the p paper, in which was chronicled the things u which took piace during the meeting. Such foresight, pep, and enterprise art .. not alone commendable in a newspaper, but n such a paper is bound to reflect credit on ^ the town.; in which the newspaper is pub- a 1 lished. h We offer our congratulations. We are -fl proud to have The Scout as our neighbor.? p in-County .News (Aug. Jl). u The Beaufort News, published way up at M the other end of the State, opines: "In 7 the road letting that tock place in Raleigh ^ last week, nothing was done about that un- |j provided for stretch cf Route 10 in Craven ,y County. . Neither was there anything m aone about that stretch of No. 10 in <"htro- f, ceq County, betwccn here and Andrews. ? Apparently, just a case of where both *nds ^ meet, so to speak, oa common ground. The Haywood Journal recites the fact thi* c, motorists are becoming core lets and ar^ dls- tj regarding the North Carolina railroad stop tj law, thus voluntarily giving up the right of e damage suits against the railroads, and ther. g( asks the question: "What are we going to ^ do about it?" Take up a collection and pay p he undertaker. Brother. x e, b "Is he from the jungles?" o "Sure; he thinks Wheeling, West Virginir ;s .3 a hard job."?Jack-o-Lantern. -,WA Building the Nation By HENRY W. GARDES. Historian and Statistician THE BUILDERS. < DISCUSSING the preparation of this sketch :t was at fir>t i- t? ruled tt> make r??e Wash rf n the subject It was intcd otit to the advisory committer, h?wr. that alth u?h perhaps few persons tow ihat he was precede d by oth dsst.nli.-hed nten a? chief exicut've of the counv. and that during this perit ,1 hf> was coroander-in-chief of the Cor.'mental Armies it not President, he is too w?. !I known to ed n calling to the mir.d.; of the people In series of this nature. l'hi- vi w prevailed id this sketch of th< signers follows: The Immortal*. Fifty-six m< n signed the P? laratiorv of idopendence although rot all at the same roo. Fifty-thr signatun s vt:ttcn i August 2. 177G. Matthew Tin rnt>T. of ?w Hampshire. Klbridge Gerry of Massajusetts Bay. and Thomas McKcnji of DelWhat kind of men war thi- I'ttU* hand ho s0 boldiy defied thc M >th*.: Country id r solved to be free and independent? hoy literally toi k tn? ir 1 v - in their hand*, . H r when John Hancock, the first siirner. marked, "We must be unanimous; we mu:?t I hang togethi r." Benjamin Franklin anvered as he stooped to sign his name. W, or most assure dlyj we shall hung paratc-ly." Men Of Sub'tance Nearly all were men of _ independent leans and many of them rieh. Probah.y le wealthies was ilobt t M>?rri- of Philaelphin. who, wh? n our soldiers '.ut, in drs rat> need . f eve ythirir. j r.uuially loaned ie government ?1.400,000 with no si . irity seept tr. i it.u: and j atri t sm of it peole. He owned she cr.iy hut hou ar.d the uly iet l.KUSe in Ann riea. 1! njamin Frank n, of the* same city, w*a? a wealthy ; ubiishThe southern!.t!| wen nearly all landed lupri-.u i arg< slave owners. Samel Adams of Mas. achu-1 tt< was known as ? "j ?r ntlcm i: ." hut even he was ell-io-do. They men had nothing tu c-- n ut liberty, and everything to le Many of them did sustain serious lo, ily loss.k and s- ver. i suffered in : >n as well. Not one h -itaud for a m< n.< at. kh.i.un KHerv. th- wealthy liuode iwy or, twenty-four lawyers, thirv en we.\Ui:> nr.. t > and planter*, nir.e large merchants, nd five physicians. Two of the signer* ere nauv of i!:? and. two of Scotland, uee of Ireland, and on? v>f Wales. Jef* brson and Adams became Pr sidents, IIarisen was the father of anoth r President, nd Samuel Chase was appointed to the Surernc Court by Washington at the close of te war. The last words of John Adams were. Independence forever.*' He was the floor lanager who passed the resolution through ongress. Jefferson himself called him "its blest advocate and defender" anil described is character as "a man more honest never isued from the hands of his creator!" High raise indeed! The name of Benjamin Rush stands high i tiie i ujtcr of great physiCiaaa of the world nd of Roger Sherman of Connecticut, 'homas Jefferson remarked, "Thero is a jan who never said a foolish thing in his fe." John Witherspoon. of tho Scotchjen, waj the President of Princeton and rhen a number remarked "we are not ripe or m. aecaranon 01 independence," replied. In my judgment, sir, we are not only ripe ut retting." Unequaled in tl??tory William Gladstone, the great statesmen, ailed them a group of men uncqualed In tie history 0f the world and the document ley g?ve us ha? betn called the greatest evr produced by the human brain and only urpassed by the tables of stone brought own by Moses from Mount Sinai. "Com* arisons are odious" but when it is considred that this declaration was drafted, debated and adopted by 55 men in the course f a total of 28 days, Sundays included, one t sorely tempted to contrast with it the re* alt) of the celebrated meetings of more re. The Fat Man's Corner i ? 1 A lady asked a little boy who carried around pies and tarts to customers if ^ ever felt tempted to eat one. "No, indeed." replied the little boy. "that ! would be stealing. I only lick them and ! that don't harm anybody."?Richmond EvI ening Dispatch. * "i .iy. Mike, did you hear about the flute play- r 'n or' Hcstra dying?" asked pa?. "And Ht. thought so much ef hi?%flutv tha* J he asked to hav it juried wit^him." \ Faith." replied Mike, "an* it's a y <| thirp he didn't play the pipe organ." Nar i : "Ycu must forgive your lit* brother btf.re you go to bed. You might ! die in the night." Hobby (reluctantly): "Well. I'll ft: give him. tonight, but if I don't die. he'd better look out in th: morning."?Boston Tr .t??. E cript. \ "In nty n.w plav. I d:.ap:-. Lr >. the first act and gUfttt that moment o|M j everybody in the cast is on edge trying ? j find n?c." Friend: "Say, you must be the manager.'" ?American Legion Weekly. .;. Radio religious* services will never 'k? popular because the wompn can't see each other's hat.?Pithy Paragraphs Film. > He: "We must economize. Suppose, darling you try making your own clothes." She: "Oh. George, that would t.< r do. H u about me trying to make youi? Sample Case. < I When John left f"i Kurope. his fath. r told bun to ad a short wireless menage f he was in trouble . One day this c ur. colli,,:: "had: S. O. S S P. D. Q. K. S. V. P. s n." Nurraal Instruction. "Mi Myrtle,'* he said, feeling I I "can you?ir?m k a steak?"' 3 "Mr. Frankleigh, could you buy enough | ' teaks t.> make i; wr.ih while?" ---Itlehn ;ul Keening Dispatch. : '' I .1 udJ- > have been lhaii we tell i : ::t ?" a worried mothe# writes. Not a thing not a thing. It en n't be dor.c.?Oberl.u *> Stude: "See this chalk on my shoulder?* Il.omemate: "Yih." ! Stude: "Well, that ain't chalk."?Jester# > A certain young fellow named Fits, Falls asleep wherever he sitz. On a curb he did nap. With his hat in his lap. When he awoke he had in it six bits. ?Notre Dame Juggler. * Slick: "Hear about Nick? Escape of IS*5 in his cellar the other night. Ho struck a :natch to try and locate the leak." Hick: "Idiot! I should have thought that the last thing he would do." Slick: "It was."?American legion Weekly. In a Western hotel the other day, there was a reunion of world war heroes, wben the head clerk who was a first lieutenant* tailed the porter, who wag his captain, and the head waiter, who was his lieutenant-ec^ onel, and had them throw out a former ge?* eral, who was cluttering up the chairs in tW I lobby.?Sample Case. 8 cent years not greatly to the advantage fl the latter. Four Si(M th? Ccn?titut??n I Four of these men also affixed their dfr fl aatjr*. to that other great foundation ston^B the Constitution. They were: Roger4 9*^ H man of Connecticut, Robert Morris, B^B fimin Franklin, and George Clymer, ?B Pennsylvanians. There were giants in B days and no one doubts that others equally B great would be provided should *^the " fl them ever arise for the presery of glorious heritage left to us by them. I Next ?*tk?the M Copyright ^^23) I