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A SO-CALLED "H
THAT REALLY
\- \ <?u may have nolim
of "laying off" the national
we're wrong?that vou can g<
more detail, in your daily nc
We also take the positini
is happening in (Cherokee Con
The Seoul is for Cherokee Cot
world ran go hang.
We plan to follow the sa
plenty of local things to be d
about the Polish Corridor, or
spectaele of peanut political^
Statesmen, -or the love life <
naslie tendencies of the widot
Hut there is one national
tion ae; \ much so. We reft
\ New Deal measure thi
to Jerieo. and back even tru
every resident of .1 small tow
blasted regardless of your po
politic-*. It is a matter of bre.
Bight here in Murphy, it
Hcau Brumby whieh will m<
hundred dollars a uirk for p
\ I ready it has fo: red tin1
i a use of their age. or physical
cr joh to save their lives.
It is a fine thing for a si
eurry favor with labor union:
'standards of living" and simi
entirely on theory. These polit
that "the laborer is worthy of
That certainly does NOT
pot only what they were woit
would owe the voters money.
To talk of "living wages'
one thing. In the small towns
it means something entirely d
Standards of, living at
buy lite same ears, radios, eh
the cities of the North one can
of anything, without spending
^ on know that this is not
towns of our size.
But, they passed the n
establishing a minimum of 23
and large hut let's see how ii
of Beau Brumby.
kMr. Brumbv was paying
remember he had to train evt
I nder I lis system some made \
elderly lades who were very si
a day without too much effo
that amount sufficed their sir
were tickled j>ink to be su|
on relief.
Came tiie 25 cents an hoi
to |>uv people more than the;
elderly ladies couldn't earn S
didn't have either the speed, o
So they had to he fired.
The younger, more spr;
hut not enough to do them
definitely?and can't get ano
In a few days now, the
cents an hour. That will ca
Brumby certainly is not goi
produce.
The case of Mr. Brumb
now of Murphy, went throuj
flight executive in one of thr
Chattanooga.
In that factory they had
in the repair department. Thi
made minor repairs in "secoi
Then?the minimum waj
sibly turn out enough work t<
it cheaper to throw the faul
found themselves not with hij
THE CHEROI
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lturphx and Cherokee County
<rth Carolina
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IUMANITARIAN" LAW
WORKS BACK WORDS
I ?e are past masters at the gentle art
news. \\ e take the stand?tell us if
t national news more quickly, and in
wspaper.
i that if up can tell v?u most of what
nt\ we're doing about what you want,
inty first ami last? and the rest of the
me policy in our editorials. There are
iscusscd without bothering our heads
the Japanese situation?or the pitiful
i in Washington trying to act like
?f the beetle, as contrasted to the moved
swan.
I question which also is a local ques r
to the cruel minimum wage law.
but it should be blasted from here
e southerner?and particulaily by
n such as Murphy. And it should lie
Iiti1.1l leanings. It is not a matter ol
ad and butter.
threatens to close down the plant of
a^ a stoppage of a pay roll of several
eople who need it and badly.
' laxini? <il! ??f mnn\ ''hands** wlm !
handicaps?or both -can t get anothrnooth
tongued politician, seeking to
4. to prate of a "living Wage"?a
lar prettily worded idea that are based
icans like to declaim, grandiloquently
his hire".
appeal to them?for if most of them
h, they'd not only get nothing, but
in the big cities of the north, means
of the south?Murphy, for instance?
ifferent.
re different too. In all sections men
metrical devices and whatnots?but in
not go out of an evening and do much
plenty.
true heie?or in most other southern
linimum wage law. regardless; first
cents an hour. That's little enough by
t works out. Lets lake the home town
iiis help on a piece work scale.?and
iry one of them?at bis own expense,
nore?some less. He had a do/en or so
ow?but even so they could earn SI.25
rl: they lived on nearby farms?and
nple needs. As a matter of fact they
>porting themselves instead of being
ir minimum. \o business man is going
y earn. That isn't business. And those
>2 a day to save their lives. They just
r the knack.
f helpers got a little more money?
any real good. The others are out,
ther job.
wage rate will be hiked again to 35
use still more firings?for again Mr.
ng to pay help more than they can
y is not isolated. Mr. Harvey Wilson
;h the same thing when he was a top
; largest hosiery mills in the nation in
a group of elderly ladies who woi4ccd
sy sat in a big airy room, chatted and
ids",?and they were very very happy.
?e law. Those old ladies couldn't pos?
be worth that much. The mill found
ty hosiery away?and the old ladies
;her wages?but no jobs at all.
:ee scout, murphy, north carol
NOBODY'S
BUSINESS
flat rock takes the lead
?fla* rock is going Chinese. the
?hinks have benn wearing their shirt
tails outside their britches for 4.000
\ears. and we have been making much
fun of thi practice, but most of our
local citizens are now doing: the same
thing, and they are giving the Chinese
creddick for havvxing more sense
than we thought they had ansoforth.
It is cooled all over.
?our wimmen are allso drifting back
towards the sawoge manner of dressing.
hut of coarse they still wear a
few more clothes than the offricans
and the madagascar-ans wear, but it
won't be long now. it took 30 vards
i.Sut!i tv i.iki a woman a dcsccn*
' 1 * - . l_ .
uivss ana unaerinmgs years ago. inai
has been cut down to one yard at this
liting and they are still trimming
down a little from month to month,
so says maddam roomer.
?holsum moore has rote in to the
seeker-terry of the cenus bureau at
Washington, d. c. he has asked for the
job of district census taker with everybody
else subordinating: theirselves, to
his instructions, he is willing: to work
at 100$ per month and the gowernment
to furnisty the ford to ride in
and pay his board to his wife amounting:
to 15$ per mo. he asked for a
advance in sallary of 50$ to clean up
detts with so's he can count folks and
mules and cows without being- bothered
with bill collectors ansoforth. he
will kiwer flat rock townshiponly.
?miss jennie vceve smith is back
from n. y. after a sccont successful
trip to the world's fair, she did not
clear no monney on the last vissit. her
buss driver got arrested once for
speeding and once for being drunk,
she had to pay his fine, she has plenty
of spunk anil handles a mean steerage
wheel, she will hire a new buss
driver entirely if she carries another
covey of folks to the fair, she has
lost 20 lbs. fooling with them up to
now.
yores trulie,
mike lark. rfd,
corry spondent.
kaaiafif
LATE AUGUST
Over the clover flows the wind
And the maple bough sways and the
morn's crisp and keen
With a sheen
That is sunless; and cleanly the
ways
Over slopes through the grasses,
where the wind plays.
Summer's nigh over-!
Thus pipes the plover.
Cooling his wings in the slant of the
clover?
Slant and shimmer,
Gray-clear glimmer
Of winging morn without sun:
?Summer's done!
Pipes the plover.
Maple tree, poplar tree, junniperbush,
Thrummed of the wind, how you
hearken and hush!
Aeolian fingers have stroked you.
Satiny oak-leaves, emptied of nesting.
Deep in your deepened green glosses
are questing
Ingenuous, strenuous, brown little
cheepers.
Gone are the keepers,
Nest-building peepers,
Gone with heat-harried days that
provoked you?
Then, you hung limply?
Now, you are simply
Spruced out like renascent belles,
All your unbrage is dimplv!
All through your shades there's a
flicker and flash,
Coquettish lash
Of the eye of the morning,
Open and shut, such a winking and
warning! . - .
Hark to the bumble-bee, drowned
in the clover lea.
Shipwrecked in pollen dust, blown
on the clover gust
Summer's nigh done!
Say the birds,
Everyone.
But the wantonry rife in the sound
Bubbling round,
Aye, the delicate wantonry, knowing
its lure
Trebly sure. . . .
Ere the year 'gins to fade
She's a jade!
(Copyright 1939 Stanley Olmsted)
INA. AUG. 24. 1939
THIS and TH/
The following letter speaks for itself.
We are glad to print it and
deeply regret that it's author has be'.n
caused inconvenience and perhaps
shame. It should be explained however.
that the fault lies not so much
with the Scouts as to a case of mistaken
identity.
There are two Ernest Loudermilks.
One the author of the following
letter lives in Tomotla. The other
lives in factory town. It was to the
latter that the Seoul story referred.
The letter follows;
4*I)ear Scout Folks:
"A few weeks ago you all published
that Ernev Laudermilk. or Ernest
Loudermjlk was in jail. Well you all
were greatly mistaken. I am not in
jail. Further moru I never have been
so please publish your mistake. I can
prove where I've been by my wife
"Many of my friends and kindred
have been to see us telling of what
they had read in the Scout. I can't
understand such a mistake. Any claim
that I have been in jail is absolutely
false.
Ernest Laudermilk and wife
Tomotla. N. C.
A stranqe story af the supernatural?perhaps
it was vengeance familiar
enough to some of the older generation.
but never heard of by many
of the younger folks has just been
verified by Mr. James Raper. who has
recently returned to his home in Missouri
after a visit of several days to
Cherokee County, where he spent his
boyhood.
Mr. Raper, was one of the pioneers
of this section. When he lived here
there were no railroads, and the present
fine highways were mere trails.
A trip to Ashvillle took three days
sometime more.
They didn't have too many comforts
in those days?and any luxuries were
considered almost v 'eked. Gal's bathinq
suits were a le length, some
mountain ladies might smoke a friendly
pipe or maybe dip a little snuff
but they regarded cigarettes not only
as "coffin nails" but also as inventions
of the devil. Even a boy who
smoked them, they were sure, would
come to no good end. And as for
rouge ("paint" as they called it) gals
who used it simply were beyond the
pale.
They were a stern. God-fearing
set in those days.
Everybody went to church and
prayer meeting regularly. Everybody
was deeply and sincerely religious,
and why the Mormons, way out in
Utah decided that they should send a
missionary here to "save" our mountaineers,
is something you will have to
figure out for yourself. But that is
what they did.
Well the missionary came, and did
his best. His reception was not exactly
what you would call cordial. In
fact, a group of men took him out
in the woods near the present villiage
of Culberson, tied him to a tree, and
whipped him until he was almost
senseless.
As soon as he had been untied, and
was able to walk, he went away from
here?and no Mormom missionary
has been back since.
Mr. Raper saw the whipping adminTurning
Back ]
40 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, August 22, 1899
Harvey Hughes was up from Blue
Ridge Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Ferguson, of Waysiesville
is visiting her father, Capt.
Cooper.
Norman Davidson, of Gainesville,
is visiting his grandfather. J. D. Ab
bott.
Misses Callie Harshaw, of Murphy,
Pearl and Grace Brown and Mr. Virge
Brown of Warne were in town visiting
Friday.
Mr. Allen Richardson wa3 here Saturday
and Sunday shaking hand with
his many friends.
W. L. Harralson, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday in town with his sister, Mrs
L. E. Mauney.
30 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 24, 1909
Miss Corrie Wofford went to Blur
Ridge Saturday.
Miss Annie Cooper is visiting
friends at Bryson City.
Miss Emily Nelson left Saturday
to spend several weeks in Knoxvill'
with friends.
Mrs. R. J. Butt and Mrs. V. I
Butt, of Blairsville, Ga. spent Wed
nesdaynight here and left for a vis
it to relatives at Marion.
Mr. I, A. Patterson and Miss Mary
istered. During his visit here, he ^ H
many hours trying * , find the K
spot the Mormon \ been n S
failed. B
But Mr. Raper rifi-d a str.nt* B
ending to the tale. 1: i mediately alt-r W
the beating, the 1? av ,.f the tret .0 B
which that man *.< \ dried ap_
and within a very i rt time tht k
tire tree withered and died. ||
Write your own moral. s|
It isn't often that a laymen?and V*
a dumb one at that?can tell a good Ik
attorney something ;boul the lavr? Kbut
we have just had '.hat happy ex- E|
perience with Messrs Fred Christo- El
pner, and Ralph Moody, the latter fi
back on a visit from his State legal k
post in Raleigh.
It seems that some weeks back. *c I
wrote a little piece about a certain |
unnamed attorney wh was supposed B
t? *?,. but urhc, m. tvttliiy vas I
a sucker for the :): .-t woman B
Vii vii?provided merely that she |P^
had gray eyes. Wc offered to name E
the attorney for $11 ca^h?explaining H
that it would take that much to get If
us far enough away that we would I
feel safe.
Mrs. Maude Christopher promptly I
offered us $11. We refused it?which, fl
we maintain, is evidence that her I
supposition was all wet. \
But her husband, declares that Mr?. E i
Christopher still thinks the article |
leferred to him. He claims this writ- |
er has caused him to be held up to I I.
public ridicule, and has caused him I i
great mental anguish and suffering? I j
and all the rest of it. Finally, he en- I i
gaged Ralph Moody as his attorney to E l
bring suit for libel, asking $8,729.14 E
damages.
Messrs Christopher and Moody I
came to the editorial sanctum and I |
offered to settle for six beers P. 0. I j
B (placed on bar). Whereupon this EJ
writer sat back and gleefully told ly
them a few things about the libel 1$
lows of this state.
In the first place it was neces- B
sary to prove malicious intent. Since B
the writer's affection f-u* Mr. Fred B
Christopher Esq. is w i- ly known. B
this would be impossible. B
In the second place, it was pointed B
out. that since no nam- - had ever B
been mentioned. Mr. Fn-d Christo- B
pher could not prove that he was the B
person referred to.
In the third place, quoted the writer,
the Carolina Law accepts proof
of the Truth of charges as their justification?and
although Mr. F. Christopher
was NOT named, if he wanted
to make anything out of it. the writer
was prepared to prove that everything
he had said was true.
Mr. Fred Christopred has instructed
Mr. Ralph Moody, that he doesn't
believe he wants to sue, after alL
Recently the management and control
of some great and venerable corporations
have been turned over to
men under forty years of age.
A pilgrim returning from Washington,
this year, reported to friends
in his home town that we are governed
by children. He was shocked by
the youth of the members of Congress
and the holders of important
administrative posts.
V. C. 0.
History's Pages
BH
King, both of our twon, were warned
Sunday, August 15, at Blue
Ridge, Ga.
Dr. M. G. Hendrix, wife and two
children, of Ball Ground, G >.. arrived
Sunday to visit Mrs. Heiulrix's parents,
Mr. an dMrs. C. M; Wofford.
10 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 23, 1929
Mr. and Mrs. Pim Franklin an*
children visited his parents recen y
in eastern part of the State.
Mrs. W. L. Anderson, of Hayes'""
and Mrs. Hood, of Atlanta. were
guests one day this week of Mrs. Nettie
Axley.
1 Mr. and Mrs. George Ellis spent
Tuesday in Hayesville.
Miss Mary Robinson spent Sunday
with her grandparents at Clyde.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Dickey and
children motored over to Chimney
Rock Sunday.
1 Mrs. A. B. Dickey and children
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.
' and Mrs. W. B. Mulkcy at Marble.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Brown return7
ed to Atlanta after spending sever>
al days with relatives following the
death of his father, Abe Brown.
Mrs. W. H. Murray spent last wee
end in Knoxville with relatives.
Mrs. C. W. Allen, of Syha, is VIS" I
iting her daughter, Mrs. Dennis Bam- I
ett. I