C tie Cheroftee ?>cout The Official Organ of Murphy and j Cherokee County, North Carolina. I PUBLISHED EYERY FRIDAY C. W. BAILEY .Editor-Manager Mrs. C. W. Bailcv Associate Ed. B. W. SIPE Associate Ed. Entered in the postoffice at Murphy, North Carolina, as second class mail matter under Art of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN CHEROKEE COUNTY One Year SI. 50 Six Months 75 Four Months .50 OUTSIDE CHEROKEE COUNTY One Year . $2.00 Six Months .. 1.00 Four Months .70 North Co roll no $ \ f PBESS ASSOCIATION j 1 928 2 J O Is Education all We Need? Not infrequently we have some ?vise educator tell us that all we need is education. How does he ex- ! plain the fact that in Sing Sing: Prison ther(? are less than thirty un- i educated prisoners. What will he j offer as the cause for the more than three thousand educated prisoners? How will he explain th inter pret life at its highest. This endea vor will enlist his powers not only mentally, hut phssicallv. and mor ally. The Home of the Nation Some years ago some men of na lional reputation were riding through the ? if\ of Washington! \s I hey passed tin* W liilf House one of I he men remarked: "There stands the home of ihe nation." From an other member of the partv eame the reply: "\o. I?ut i! you will go up among the mountains of keniueky. and among the hills of Virginia, and in the humble homes of those men who fir-t eame to the White House as our Presidents, there You will find iln "homes' of our great nation." We need only to think, hon estly to agree wit hthe latter. If America is to excel 1 in leader ship in the years just ahead, there muni conic a Hior,-: sprious ?>.>?!- i tive altitude toward the growing ^ hoy. Our progress in everything seems to he very maked. save in I he ! matter of character-building. Let j us give the boys of today a chance. On To Chanel Hill By C. IT. BAILEY, Editor ASHEVILLE. Jan. 21.? Gentle Reader, we are herewith about to j give a short resume of our trip to j Chapel Hill in order to attend the Annual Institute of the Newspaper ! Fraternity of North Carolina which ' meets there this week, to discuss j conditions and problems perplexing ; and peculiarly affecting the pub- | lishing business. If vou should become bored with | this sketch, pardon us and shift your vision to another article that in some- ! what more boresome. However, we hope to make it interesting from many viewpoints. So here goes with chapter No. 1. Arrived at Asheville about five o'clock (4 Murphy time) in the af ternoon. safe, sound, sane, and so ber. Had an enjoyable trip, made in a ear from Andrews with three preachers, a postoffice clerk and stu dent, and a dry goods clerk and stu dent. as follows: Rev. W. H. Ford, pastor, and Rev. H. H. Hyde, of An drews: Rev. J. L. Steele. cVf Rome. Ga.. who preached a ttlie Murphv Baptist church Sujidav: Glenn Wil liams. and Wilford (Fatso) Reese. ^ of Andrews. They were on their wav to Mars Hill to attend the great er W. N. C. Pastor's Conference meeting there this week. Rev. Ford is scheduled to address the confer ence during its session. We swept out of Andrews and up over the gap at Topton (Mr. Ford THE TOWN DOCTOR SAYS ? 1 MANY CITIES LIKE TOPS^ HAVE "JUST CROWED" In tin* past, the mental genius of the entire country has Men devoted ! to invention, and the creating and studying of scientific manufacturing and j production methods ?a mechanical age with very little thought, compara I lively, to the analvzatior of the community. Now it is recognized that for j further expansion of business it is necessary to give the same kind of con structive thinking to towns and the individuals making up the community as has been accorded industry . W hat was, isn't! The museums are full of those things thought indis pensable a few years ago. Consider the case of the dinosaur or the Tyran nosaurus that had the strength of a steam engine, or the Cigantisaurus that was over a hundred feet long and as big as a house, as an example. They ceased to serve a useful purpose ? there was no reason for them so they ceased to exist. These things that were, but aie not now, did not know they were "slip ping," could not help themselves, so cannot be blamed- -they could not j think, therefore a warning of their predicament was useless. Men indivi dually and collectively are capable of thinking; therefore if they, their business^ or their t??un* verge on the edge of the old order of things, they | alone aie to blame. Having the powers of comprehension, a hint as to the new order of things should be sufficient. Yet. man with all of his brains retains those things in his makeup that : tends to make one picture those creatures of the long ago. \\ ith osme, it is procrastination and prejudice, while with others it is just plain every day refusal to think! There is a new order of things. Look around you ? you will see it on | every side. Business industry, know it ? you can't help but recognize it. I Hut look at your town! Has it kept pace? Most towns have just ridden ; along on the crest of the wave ? like Topsy's, have "just g rowed/' with lit tle or no thought. consideration, or analysis that is vital to continued growth, expansion and prosperity. A town is a business ? your business. You are a part of that business the same as an employee is of an industrial plant. Your bread and butter [depends on the continued growth and prosperity of that business, and re gardless of your station in life regardless of the job you hold, the work you do or the business you are in, you aie responsible. As an employee of a manufacturing plant you are a part of it: you i must do good work, you must be sold on the product made or you arc fired. The better the work you do. the more you make. As a part of your j | town, the same is true. You should know about your town ? it is yours, and what you do goes lo make it a good town, a progressive town or ? a bum town. You may think your town is not a good town ? maybe it isn't: maybe i( is "old , fashioned." maybe it has "just glowed" ? but what have you done to make it any different? V town is just as big as the people in it. and you are the people! It is not the opinions and habits of the few shining lights that make I a community. True, there must be leaders, but when big industries con- I jsider your town for location of a new factory, investment in present en- | Jteprises. etc., it is the people in general they are most interested in -you and all the other people like you. Never in the history of this country lias the smaller city ? your town ? 1 had tin* opportunities that it has today. Big business is looking to the smaller city as it nc\er has befo.e. The town or eitv that prepares itself for big things will greatly profit, and every individual citizen will l?e bene fited ? but the town must be ready . The way to be ready is to be at work i building up the morale, aggressiveness, customer attitude and sales manship ability of the "clerk.- ? citizens ? of the community I ? not only li\ erection of monuments or idle talk on "Town Boosting'1 ? but by con ductive thinking to iiiiprcSaiVc, iO 5oV tiiC , least. And now to give you a fair idea of your daily newspapers, The Ashe ville Citizen and The Asheville Times, and a somewhat vague com parison with your weekly paper. The Cherokee Scout. The Citizen is a morning paper, and "the force" were just getting j down to work when we "went | through" ahout six o'clock, while I ; the force of The Times, which is an j afternoon paper, were all gone ex i cept for two or three Linotype oper ators, and ad men, who work at night; Mr. Corn, the circulation j manager, and several advertising solicitors. Just to give you an idea of the immensity of these organizations: For the Citizen, it takes eleven Lino ? types and as many operators, one Monotype and one Ludlow type ' casting machines to set the type ? ; reading matter and ads? of the pa per each day. Twenty-five to thirty men are employed in the composing | room, five in the sterotype depart ment. 10 in the mailing department. | On the editorial and reportoria? staff there are some fifteen or twen ty who do nothing but get and edit the news. And we saw fouT automa tic typewriting machines writing at the rate of sixty words per minute, without being so much as even touch by human hands, bringing 'r news i from all part? of the I over special leased wires of the Associa ted Press and other news gathering agencies. There are some 12 or 15 employees in the display and classi ficd advertising departments, while the circulation department requires about 115 people, including mana ger, district managers, city paper boys, carriers, and route carriers, in all the principal towns in western North Carolina. The press of the Citizen, on which the paper is printed, delivers 20,000 forty-eight page papers per hour, printed, folded, and repdv for dis tribution. Some press! About 20 times fast er than the press on which The Scout is printed, and more than thirty times as big. The immediate human force behind this paper is nearly a hundred times as big as that behind The Scout, while the type casting machinery and equipment necessary for publishing wil run ap proximately forty times as large. The investment in capital will prob ably run 100 times greater. And that, we believe, dear reader, gives you a fairly good comparison between your dails paper and your weekly paper. And what is true of the comparison with The Citizen is likewise to be considered true of The Times. C. R. Scroggs. Telegraph Editor, kindly conducted us through The Citizen offices and plant, while Glenn Melton, copy boy, was our guide through The Times' plant. And. now. Dctr Reader, we are going to retire, as old Big Ben (which, by the way. is a big black porter) is set for 3:30 A. M.. when we continue our journey on to Chapel Hill ? and perhaps chapter \o. 2 of this series. The South s Industrial Future Deoends On HorseDQwer "It is (he power that lies in gen erated electricity, power that moves the machinery of the New South's great industries. It is the power that ilies in her mountain torrents, in her rivers, in her eoal deposit*, in her I voluminous natural pas. It is the nower that constitutes one of the fundamental reasons for the New New South's startling industrial re- . sources, a 1 read) developed to an j I amazing point of efficiency and ec- I 1 onomy ? and still possibly the least i developed of all these resources. For no living man can estimate with any degree of accuracy the ex tent of power yet undeveloped in the borders of the Southern States." writes Arthur Coleman in the current issue of Holland's. The magazine of the South, published at Dallas, Texas. Mr. Coleman goes on to say: "In dustry is moving Southward. It is moving in ever-increasing numbers, and with greater and greater swift ness. Anu to meet the demands uf industry, power must be developed; for power is the sinew of industry And this explains, possibly, why in the past 20 years the South has shown an increase in developed horsepower of 178 per cent, while the remainder of the United States has shown only 105 per cent in crease.. It is, the reason why the developed water power in the South today is 24 per cent of the Nation's total. It is the reason for the in crease, since January 1, 1927, of ap proximately a quarter million horse Dower in the installed capacity of Southern hydroelectric plants, rep resenting as it does mere than 41 per cent of the entire country's ag gregate gain for that period. "It is the reason which ultimately will justify, in all probability, the existence in the South of approxi mately 100.500 square jniles of coal land, its five-bill ion -barrel oil re serves, its untold natural gas sup ply, and its vast water-power re sources. For the South, with its mountains and its valleys, and re sulting swift and husky streams and rivers, is going in rather extensively for water-power developments. The South is fond of power. It needs power; and as time goes on. can use more and more. For staggering as has been the progress of the South during the past six decades, it is but a beginning ? a forewarning of the greatness to follow." Alamance County has begun a campaign for 3.000 acres of pasture to be planted in the county this year. Taxation and Bondage Kditor Scout: ? Some time ago you published an article entitled "Bonds and Bond age." I would like to make a few remarks which should be of interest to those who give thought to these matters. If we are to continue to exist as a nation it is necessaiy to be confi dent that the people as a whole are able, not only to govern themselves in the present, but to plan for safety in the future. We must slop being like children in spending money on everything we desire and learn to have a sane idea of proportion in gratifying what we think are our needs. Right here let me say there is a wide difference between wants and needs, but most people seem to think that because they want or de sire a thing it is therefore a nee* si ty. Unless we are careful the ship of government will be wrecked on the rock of taxation, and, for our own salvation, we should, as taxpayers, take more interest in taxes and the way they are spent. Murphy has beautiful scenery but, while this an asset, neither the town nor the people can live on it. If this town is to grow and prosper it is necessary there be some indus tries. with payrolls, and also a steady production of raw materials. This is where taxation may have a great effect on the community's de velopment, for industries cannot flourish if taxes are too heavy. While it is necessary to spend mon ey for things which are really need ful. we should be sure that none is squandered and wasted, in ways that a;*e foolish, and for things which do not give a proper and tangible re turn of service to the public as a whole. Everyone who wishes to see gov ernment firmly established and lo go on to further progress, with due regard to the right of private prop erty. should inform himself on the way that taxes are expended in his state, county and municipality, and see that whatever is done should be accomplished without hardship to the citizens or industry bv saddling them with :i burden of heav\ taxa tion cither in the present or future. Government spenders will bear watching as it is so easv to gel ap plause by giving the people what they want and, by means of bond issues, leaving posterity to pay a large part of the bills. Posterity will have its own problems and ex penditures and if thev are bequeath ed a heritage of debts they may be tempted to respond to them. When the public officers find that the peo ple are taking an intelligent interest in this subject they will not be so ready to make pre-election promises of economy only to rush into extra vagances after clcction. It may be asked, "How are the people to get the information and data on expenditures so that they may be informed and understand the subject." Here is where I think the newspapers in small towns and counties including "The Scout," are not doing their full duty by the pub lic. The press should be the watch dog of the public interest, and warn the people, bv telling them what is done and said at all meetings of City Councillors and County Com missioners. A full report of all meetings would enable the taxpaver to know what., expenditures are dis cussed and how the different offi cers voted on the questions. In this way a genuine public in terest could be aroused, and peonlr could express their opinion for I" against any particular project beflre it was carried into effect. j Reports issued once a year Ire never read, and even if thev ar/ it is then too late to object to whathas been already done. Also there i / no way to find responsibility for that has been done or to know how ii?" representatives of the people irlni duallv filled their trusts. I therefore think it would 1' 3 great public blessing, and an lion in which virtue would not lie il ''n" ly reward if the Scout gave ful *c" counts of all meetings of thi 1 and county officials without fer nr favor and free from any pai -1'1" bias. I say this with a hops that the "Scout" will see its way t