Che Cticroftee Scout Tke Official Organ of MwrpJay and Cbcrokec Co?? ty. North Carolina. * PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY C. W. BAILEY Editor-Manager MRS. C. W. BAILEY Associate Edilo* B. W. Sipo Associate Editor Entered in the postoffice at Murphy, North Caro lin, as second class mail matter under Act of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Eight Months Six Months Payable Strictly in Advance Legal advertisements, want ads. reading notices, obituaries, cards of thanks, etc., 5c per line each insertion, payable in advance. Display and contract rates furnished on request. All communications must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will not be accepted for publication. Name of the writer will not be published unless so specified, but we must have the name of the author as evidence of good faith. VALUE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES RECOGNIZED $1.50 l.UU .75 AFTER the church and the school, the free public j library is the most effective influence for pood l n America. The moral, mental and material bene- j rits to be derived from a carefully selected collec- j ion of pood books, free for the use of all the peo- ; ->le. cannot be over estimated. No community can ifford to be without a library. ? Theodore Roose- i velt. The opening of a free public library is a most im portant event in any town. There is no way in which j i community can more benefit itself than in the establishment of a library which shall be free to all citizens. ? William McKinley. The system of free public libraries now being established in this count! y is the most important development of modern times. The library is a center from which radiates an ever widening in fluence for the enlightenment, the uplift, the ad vancement of the community. ? William Jennings Bryan. Promote as an object of primary importance, in stitutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. ? Washington's Farewell Address. The same wire policy and intent which open the doors of our free schools to our young, also sug gests the completion of the plan thus entered upon by placing books in the hands of those who in our schools have been taught to read. ? Grover Cleve land, Public libaries are necessary ' for the education and betterment of the people. ? Sir James Barrie. The importance of the public library can hardly be exaggerated. ? George Bernard Shaw. The library is essential to America's chief busi ness, which is the rearing, training and develop ng of the citizens of our nation. ? Sarah I.. Arnold, dean of Simmons College. The free public library is distinctly an American nstitution. No country in the world has opened up .ranches ar.d democratized the use of books and eading rooms for circulation and research as have we . . . The free public library is one of America's contributions to municipal administration. ? Fred eric C. Howe, writer on municipal government. A library is not a luxury but one of the neces saries of life. ? Henry Ward Beecher. Every man cannot select his environment or en ,oy the advantage of personally meeting the acutest linds of his day. Fortunately, however, many of . ;|ese great men have committed the reasons for heir own deductions to books. The inestimable blessing of libraries is that they give everyone the \ opportunity of getting in touch with these ideas. ? .Vilfred T. Grenfell. / It is hard for me to speak of the value of libraries in terms which would not seem exaggeiated. Books lave been my delight these thirty years, and from hem I hav? received incalcuable benefits. ? Sir vVilliam Osier. The New Jersey man who seized a giant locomo tive when the Pennsylvania Railway failed to pay i $32,000 damage suit which he had won, is perhaps a fellow with a "suppressed emotion" ? caused by his parent's failure to give him a train for Xmas when a boy. Earl Carrol back on Broadway, and under the terms of his parole of "no parties or drinking" for ?ight months ? will now have the oportunity to ob serve for the first time just what gosh-all-boobs ;he boobs on Broadway always have been. Levine, first trans- Atlantic air passenger, home rgain at last, announces he will build S1500 flivver T>lanes. If true it would seem every year is going to be a grass-hopper year from now on. two bobbed-hair girls on the Fall-Sinclair 1 "modern" haircuts like we saw on a local week, there was little chance for defense to pull the wool over their eyes. , since that London typist swam the English rl there is at least one stenographer in the with a clean neck. THE ROAD SITUATION HE HOPES of Clay and Cherokee Counties for an oil treatment surface on No. 28, between Hayesville and Murphy, have gone blooey again, and the general road situation with reference to both counties doesn't look as though we'll be travel :n*i ctiuitg on iiowery oeas ol ease" lor quite a while yet. In a meeting at Hayesville of the citizens of Clay, Mr. Stikeleather, Mr. Walker and a delegation from Cherokee, after an explanation by Mr. Stike 'tather of the difficulties under which he was labor ing, the meeting unanimously retracted the resolu tions adopted at a former meeting. .Mr. Stikeleather stated that Clay was some thirty thousand dollars overdrawn according to pro rata, and Cherokee was over in the red column by more than one hundred thousand. With the funds that would be available by January the first, he said, the j greater portion of this overdraft would be wiped j out, Clay perhaps completely and Cherokee some thirtv or forty thousand short. . With this situation, he stated, funds for the two j counties of necessity had to he limited. He stated j I he could not do anything this winter to No. 28. ' other than maintain it so that it would be passable. I With reference to the road to Tennessee, he stat- j ed lifter the meeting that the project would be let to contract for grading in December, and in all 1 probability just to the extent of the fifty thousand dollars donated by the county. He said the state h?d no place to draw funds fiom, but if any could be found for supplementing the county donation he would certainly do it. He said that some of the big counties where there were surpluses were asking him why he was spend ing their money down in Cherokee and* Clay, and other financially unfortunate counties, when they needed it on their own roads. He said that he was doing all he could for Cherokee and Clay, and it would give him no greater pleasure than to be able to do more. After doing all he cold, and then [ for a meeting to unjustly criticize him, he said he j felt like the visitor who announced alonp about : I supper time, that he was going home. And as near as we can give it this is the story he J told: The visitor said to his host: "Well I'm going home. If they haven't got supper done when 1 get there, I'm going to raise h 1. If they have got ! it done, I'll be d d if I eat a bite." ? A * * * So much for that! Mr. Stikeleather also made a statement vith reference to Cherokee county not i asking: fo funds to be expended on No. 28 that we | could not let go unchallenged. At a meeting of both Cherokee and Clay County ( citizens in Murphy, sponsored by the Murphy Lions | Club, at which members of the Road Commissions j of both counties were present, Mr. Stikeleather was I asked to give us a better road to Hayesville, and | 1 stated at the time that it was his intention to give thi3 road ar. oil coating surface and put it in condi tion to stand traffic this winter. On other occasions, letters have been written by citizens, and by word of mouth, he has been asked to do this. Also, the Commissioners of Cherokee 1 County have donated to the State some six hundred ( ' dollars (a small sum, we will admit, but money just j ' thi same, and we hope more will be available in the j I futuie) for use in betterment work on Patterson hill ? and this is certainly on No. 28. We felt th< statement an injustice not only to people of this county, but to those citizens of Clay county who have to use this road in order to get to their rail road point. The problems and fortunes of the two counties are so interwoven that co-operation with one an ( ther is a vital necessity, and it has been and will ? c ontinue to be the policy of this paper to suppress factionalism and strife, especially among the peoples f of which it has its being. These lines are written I and uttered in the most sincerest friendly attitude toward .Mr. Stikeleather, and we are glad to carry elsewhere in these columns a retraction of that statement, and accept it in the spirit in which it was given. mm Mr. Stikeleather has his problems, and we have ! cur problems. A meeting like that held at Hayes- ! v-lle luesday, and the discussion gone into in the! , spirit manifested by both Mr. Stikeleather and the j j people, is certainly not without its fruits. The meet- ! j ing, we believe, brought about a better understand- ' 1 irifc of those problems and the spirit of co-operation ! was again renewed. F!VF HAYS AT LEAST THE AMERICAN Federation of Labor favors a five-day week, giving the worker two days out * of seven. Russia's Government, exercising all pow - ers, establishes a seven-hour work-day, a* long step from the serf slavery of old Russia. Those who j start the five-day week, want men to have one day i in which to spend what they earn in five day*. Spending is as important to the country as earning, they say. i The value to workers of a seven-hour day, or five day week, depends on what they do with the extri j day or hour of freedom. If they read and think more, they will go ahead. If not, they will stay in the same place, but in any case, the greater leisure will improve their health. That will make a better next generation, inclined to thought. Robert A. Milikan, brilliant scientist of Californ ia Institute of Technology, tells students that science "will free human "slaves," meaning, presumably, that science will free men from hard labor. Pray that it may not happen too soon. Free men today from the necessity that drives them, and i?9 in 100 would become worthless. If you doubt it, contem [ plate those that inherit wealth, in so-called society, j That distant booming you hear these days is not the Mexican revolution ? but presidential candi dates limbering up the Big Berthas for the 1928 free-for-all. When Bill Hinch told Sam Purdy's wife to shut her mouth and keep it shut, she did. Bill is a *i~n tist. Stranger in town last week "did not choose to run" while crossing the street. One less Republican vote in 1928, or was it a Democrat. It has taken more than five years to prove it, but the nation now knows that Harry Sinclair har no Teapot Dome. Inasmuch as there seems nothing to interfere, why doesn't the King of Italy go over and play with the little King of Roumania? Whether or not it is announced in their plaforms, almost every politician is particularly interested in forestry. The log-rolling department, at least. The fellow who said the automobile was ruining the younger generation, really meant ? the young er generation is ruining the automobile. Yeh, all of them. France wants to talk about that war debt again, i Just like Mark Twain's weather, "everybody talks] and talks but nobobdy does anything." Geese are flying South early, indicating a severe ? winter. Who knows. It may be propaganda fram- | e?richt Hfifi or so. ' ' - \y Arthur BriiU^ MONKEY SUPERMAN. 115 RATTLESNAKES. HER QUIVERING FLESH. INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE. ' Professor Voronoff has made old men seem younger with the help of monkey glands, has made science take him seriously. Now he proposes to create sup ermen, such as Nietsche dreamed of, by using animal glands on yo-ing children of exceptional tal ent. He believes that he will create genius such as earth never saw in the children of children thus treat ed. The old-fashioned will believe that if monkeys could help create finer men. Nature and wise Provi dence would have called on the monkeys long ago. Also a race of supermen is just what the world does NOT want. Tall men like short women, thin women admire fat men, genius marries mediocrity, all proof that Nature wants us to march along side by side about even, not a few far ahead of the others, or riding on the backs of inferiors. Those that run risks today will have contributed to absolute safe flying in the future. Lindbergh says flying overland with a good pilot and machine is safer now than automobiling. Better machines will soon make ocean flights as simple and safe as a flight over the English Chan nel, for which Northcliffe, a few years ago, offered a $50,000 prize. Moving pictures show Lionel Barrymorc holding the red-hot branding iron, Aileen Pringle pro viding the snow-white shoulder and quivering flesh to which the "red-hot" iron will be applied. Thousands, shuddering at this branding, will hardly realize that such torture would have been con sidered natural a few years ago. Men were skinned alive, impaltd on sharp shafts and left dying for hours. ? At the time of Henry the Second, a workman was branded on the cheek with a hot iron, if without permission he left his par ish to find work in another. Those Fenry the Second work men may comfort united coal mine ?workers of America, forfiidden hv court injunction to interfere with the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cor poration's open shop. That injunction and others like it will do a pood deal to make unions powerless. Hut it isn't as bad as being branded for going out of your parish to look for work. \Ve do improve, although slowly. Near Riverton, Wyoming, Ted Lee killed 115 rattlesnakes with a shovel. Rattlesnakes rely entirely on poison and conceit, which makes it easy to destroy them. So with those that pervert truth in history, religion, or otherwise. They rely on a poison which is not reliable, and are disposed of easily. A British lady doctor, Dorothy Cochrane Logan, swims the Eng lish Channel in 13 hours and 10 minutes, cutting Gertrude Ederle's record by 1 hour, 24 minutes. This does not mean eclipsing the Kderle achievement. It all de pends on wind, tide and waves, as you know if you have sailed across that rough, mean and choppy stretch of water. Similarly the man who dies with a "big name" and millions has not necessarily beaten the record of I some poor devil ending in the Pot i ter s field. ALL depends on t lie : kind of sailing each had on life's i -.vater. ? D In Los Angeles last week. Max I S. Hayes, farmer-labor candidate for Vice-President in 1920, told the American Federation of Labor it ought to start a labor party in 1928. J President Green, of the Federa tion, knows that failure is no loikI advertisement, and will not advise a step that would mean a miserably j V-oor showing and hurt the prestige of organized labor. Union men know that one of two candidates will win the 1928 election, and they will reserve the right to vote for the one they consider the better man. Every year there are born ?n Germany 15,000 pairs of twins, sets of triplets. And a springing of quadruplets. Xo nation has so many. This human fertility is more portant to Germany tJ.nn any or her factories. The i ... v alt 1 lS human intelligence a.id i "d"stry, and the world's mothers c*cate real wealth. /