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PROPH]
1 his desk i> getting rati
becoming all too prevalei
h< ieabouts 'after ihr l"\ \ It
\? i ording to the pro ph
Wc lay no claim to beii
takes much brains ?but we \
W e would suggest a dose of
* considerable amount of eo
We suggest that all foil
strongest defense is an attael
about the doom that is headei
It is distinctly our own
and admirable thing to put f
be a bad idea to give that I1
ighi direction.
I here is. .*! course, not!
the poor. lhe\ are always wit
back in hi-tory as you will,
-omebodv who was weaiing I
Over in Lgypl. 2.0U0 y?
lots o! tile, that 'Children no
sound I ami liar'.'
in Slime, ia older evei
?!deti gloi v of < )ld King 1
i long tale of woe telling ho
Hark in ievolutionary <
i id the Bi tis|i Parliament tl
u- but 111 in and gloom" .
In the eai Iv UHMl >. Ui-fi
? lared: "I dare not marry: tli
Ba< k in lii IB Lord
\utliing can -vivo I he l?rili>l
Dm* \ear later. Disraeli,
\ irtoria with tin- v.i>t Kvtipii
ominerce, anil agriculture, t
Ml these lainoiis ones
were wrong.
Those who see itiin ahe
show a reasonable amount of
About the only thing we
true today as when it^was fir
"Heaven helps him who
THE WA
Strong is tin' hope of tin
again become involved in a
hy standard public opinion
to keep neutral.
A very considerable segi
would eventually go to the a
were forced to wage war aga!
war went on for some length
have the advantage.
And so the United State
pa redness does not only invol
out peace?time history. A1
(Mobilization Day), prepare
on the outbreak of hostilities
effect on every individual am
Heart of the ol an. of eo
scripting manpower?The \\
her the confusion that follow
determined that it shall not li
It is believed that the ci
ganize a very large army, fc
very short time. Every man
enter government service, in
the selection will be made b]
Unmarried young men,
scripted first.
And industry will be m<
Resources Administration, st
ing with military chiefs, will
ters as regulating prices, lal
plies.
Industries which are be
couraged and helped to exf
will be discouraged, and pei
dustries will be taken over ?
Under any circumstanc
be 100 per cent controlled b
be in force for those who pr
But tihfl isn't all there
long believed that efficient
branch of the government
President, if they have their
the radio and the press.
In short we would figh
own.
Funny, isn't it?
THE CHERC
trnkt? grout
Murphy and Cherokee County
orth Carolina
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at Murphy. North Carolina as second
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I'hur-dav. August 31. 10.10
ITS OF DOOM!
iier weary of the defeatist attitude wheh
it as regards what is going to happen
av?*s."
els of doom. everything; is g??ing to pot.
ig a psychologist?or anything else that
vould Iikt* to prescribe I ?r these waiters,
optimism, mixed with a little faith, and
urage.
ow the famous general's axiom that the
t. In other words, lets quit wailing
1 this way. and do something to avert it.
t problem, and while it is a wonderful
till trust in kind Providence it might not
Vox idem e a good healthy shove in the
fnng new* about calamity bowlers. Like
li us. They alwaxs have been. Go as far
and \?>11 will find then* was always
the dark glasses of glo n. For instance:
ars before Christ, it as written, upon
longer obey their parents". Doesn t that
i than l.gvpl I .(MM! years before the
ill Mime man earved upon a stone table
w e\er\thing was going dead wrong,
lays. William Pitt, lamed Kugli>hmen.
'tat: "There i- >? areely anything around
i? ?l i W i I her force, writing to a friend, dcic
future i- so dark and unsettled",
dialt^huiy told tlie House of Lords:
i empire from shipwreck."
. who later was to present his Oucen
re <d India, was wailing: "In industry,
lie re i> no hope."
believed what they said?ami they all
at! of Murphy also are wrong?if \vc
courage, and some "git up and git."
i need remember is the old adage, as
st written:
helps himself."
lR situation
' American people that we will not
Eurpoean war. Not so strong, judging
polls, is the faith that we will be able
nent of the population believes that we
id of the European democracies if they
inst the dictatorships?at least, if the
of time and the dictatorships seemed to
is preparing for war?and this preIve
the largest militarry expenditures in
so involved is a plan for "M Day"
d largely by military officials, which
. would have an immediate and drastic
1 every business in the land,
urse, is a detailed procedure for collar
and Navy Department heads remmed
our entry into the last war, and are
e repeated.
irrent plan will make it possible to or?r
either foerign or territorial use, in a
within the age limits must be ready to
a military or other capacity, on. call?
i a sort of lottery system,
in good health, will naturally be coniblized
with equal completeness. A War
affed by important business men workbe
given gigantic authority in such matbor,
trade and the procurement of supdieved
essential to the war will be en>and.
Industries believed not eaapntJal
rhaps forced out of business. Some inind
operated by the government,
es, industry, commerce and trade will
-y government, and severe penalties will
otests too much.
is to the problem-?some officials have
warfare demands giving the executive
undreamed?of dictatorial power. The
way, would be given rigid control ovei
t dictatorship with a dictatorship of our
)KEE SCOUT. MURPHY N. C.. THURSDAY.
NOBODY'S
BUSINESS
' deer mr. editor:?
nir. holsum moore and dr. hubbert
green have had a oig argument about
the dividends the former mought be
entitled to in case the time ever comes
for him to be entitled to annything
according to the practice of big copper-rations.
mr. moore owns two shares of common
stock in a big eastern copperration.
enduring the past two years,
he has benn receiving a dividend of
c2^ ^hare. making his income
from tha source amount to c50, all
tolled.
dr. hubbert preen has made the
statement that mr. moore will not be
paid nothing till the pressident of his
company pets 250.000$, pins a bonus
of 1,000,000.000$. and not until the
vice-pres. pets 50,000$, and the
treasure pets 40.000$. and each director
pets 25,000$. and other position
holders pet 100.000$.
dr. preen allso insists that mr.
moore has no chance to pet nothinp
out of his stock till the first preferred
stock-holders get 6 per cent, and the
second perferred stock-holder pets
4 per cent, and the first mortgage
bond-holder pet 3 per cent, even then
h<? has to wait until the debunture
holders get 5 percent of their debents
ansoforth.
after the income and state and
county and citty taxes are paid, plus
insurance, plus interest on loans, plus
floating detts. plus social security,
plus unimployment taxes, plus insurance
on buildings and equipment, plus
fine on dodging 1932-33-34-35-36 and
.'?7 taxes, plus attorneys fees plus
wedges to employees who do all the
wark. plus cost of the purchase of
new properties ansoforth, then mr.
moore will get his c25 per share if
annything is left. dr. green says poor
folks in the north and south own common
stocks, while northern folks own
prvierrea siocks, honds and everything
else worth hawing, and they
hold the big jobs to boot, when do you
say rar. moore comes in on his common
(very common) stock, if at all?
plese arvise.
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
ENLIGHTMENT
Wisp murmurs, out of fadings far
and far?
Voices of yester-year, the coming day
Whisks you away. . . .
A sunless morrow?born to drowsy
tune
Of yester?noon
Where little dreams are gone. How
now, tomorrow
Where is the little sorrow?
For little dreams were clamorous?
your feast
Lay spread across your glory of the
East
Red rays, new horn nf ?>i
yearnings bled;
Now with the dead
The hours lie prone,
The day and night have gone?
Come, morrow, come?
Come sorrow, come!
And at your feet FU lay- me with a
sigh;
Clasping your feet, I'll say again,
Good-bye?
Chanting along the years,
Throught the tomorrows:
Gone are the little fears
The little sorrows?
Gone with the pri^m tints of faded
tears. ...
Come, morrow, come?
: Come, sorrow, come?!
Great sorrow, nobler sorrow?
Blest sorrow, clasping GOD from
vanished fears!
(Copyright 1939-Stanley Olmsted)
. AUGUST 31. 1939
THIS and THi4
Harve Elkins soft of voice, not
much interested i nanything, as near
as we can find out, except his home
and electricity, and generally regarded
as just about the Perfect husband.
may be travelling under lal&e
colors.
Mind you, we're not saying he is.
We're not saying ho isnt' either. We
aren't saying at all. We'll just give
you the facts, and let you judge for
yourself.
The other day we wanted to see
Harve about something or o*her that
was important enough (to us) to
make us leave our desk and go looking
for him.
His office was locked tight. Two
men were outside, who declared they
had been waiting for hint more than
an hour. Said one, glumly.
"(luess he must be at dinner?and
from the time it's taking hint he must
llUVc :i tnm> iuoi*m hp *
Said the other:
"I think you're wrong. I think <ome
wires must be down and Harve Is out
fixing 'em. And they must be a long
ways off, too."
The writer decided to take a chance
on the dinner table, and hot footed
over to the Elkins residence. There
Mrs. Bess Elkins vouchsafed the information
that Harve hadn't been
home to dinner, but was probably at
the office. Told that he was not, she
said she didn't know where else to
look?but that she was sure he was
around, somewhere.
The writer didn't find Harve until
the next day. Then it developed that
Harve had everybody fooled.
He had been in Atlanta.
And Mrs. Elkins thought he was
"at the office or somewhere."
Somewhere is right!
Ministers of the gospel and broadminded
merchants probably goaded
by newspapers which gleefully reported
the clashes, were locked in verbal
combat last month over issues
concerning enforcement of Sunday
"blue laws."
Most spectacular event in the
South-wide blue law arguments occurred
in North Charleston, S. C..
when the Rev. Paul M. Prigden led
his congregation into a diamond
where a Sunday baseball game was in
progress.
Of interest is the fact that an ordinance
at Charlotte, N. C.. failed to
hold up when a vender of watermelons
was tried on charges of selling
on a Charlotte Sunday. He was acPrisoners
tearing down an old police
station in Nashville were permitted
to keep any artcles found in the
ueDris. Une Negro found $20 in an
old envelope, than paid the remaining
$19.75 due on his fine and gained
his frccdomn.
Steve Brodie's critics denied that
he ever jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge, contending that he tossed a
dummy into the river. But a few days
ago Michael Ford, an able-bodied seaman,
really made the jump on a wager,
and swam unharmed to safety.
Turning Back I
30 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, August 31, 1909
Mrs. Jennie Cooper left Tuesday
for her home in Lenoir, Tenn.
J. M. Stoner, of Asheville was
here visiting his daughter, Mrs. A.
G. Deweese.
Lowry Hill entertained his little
friends at his 10th birthday party
on Thursday afternoon.
Miss Margaret Bell, of Mocksville,
N. C., is visiting her brother, M. W.
Bell.
Mrs. J. H. Hall and Mi?? Hot**
McCombs left last Wednesday for
Atlanta to be gone about ten days
buying goods for the fall opening of
the Enterprise Millinery.
Mr. John Airhheart and family accompanied
by Mrs. Martha Pntton,
left Tuesday to visit relatives a few
days at Sweetwater, Tenn,
20 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 29, 1929
Mrs. J. W. Thompson went to Copperhill
Wednesday to visit relatives.
Miss Velva Home, of Monroe is
the guest of Mrs. J. W. Davfdsor..
Miss Eva Nell Mauney returned
home Tuesday from a two months
visit with friends in Washington, S.
C.
Mrs. L. E. Baylcss returned Wednesday
from Copperhill where she
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Snow.
Misses Juanita Swanson and Ma
iT ^
cifically dw'nm
"And if you k.all ' eloiks
without runnm, ai. *??*.
chimed the Chan,,;,,. 5 tn" U?-.
you certainly ma s' "tt,.
N?.athread\,,r,;:..;^.,
A few cities h:t. . . .
f.cd Sunday . ^d *
practicable. Th, *?a
hall Karnes, and sal .f " . ? j"k.
Sunday except dun ,.hu'r'l '*
>n the morning and , k ?
ing. In the eve;
n~w.Mnn.pool '
. H,att Method;^ f
lowers into a pn, . ind 1
that Gotl shall , ,r*>
Sunday shows ami
Ministers in Gold? >n>. X r
ed wrath upon .
legalized Sunday
But a troupe of ra, . track pcrf,.
mers pulled a fast a Sj]i
bury, N. C mu??t. hen the, ^
<ied III a body morning services j? ,
local church and , 1 a tt,
hours later. Suicide 15., Haye>. %
troupe's lender,
ber of a Methodist b ,rd of stew?rd<
in his home town. hv:.
Municipal officii indrvds
cities and towns at facing int,
church-goers and hundreds more t21
Most municipals have antiquat- I
ed blue law ordinam- ridiculously I
stringent <>r full of otkn I
suffer archaic stat< ttutes, such as I
that in North Carolina < quoted in the II
North Carolina Att? > Generai* I
Opinions in this issue which author- H
izes a fine of one ti? L! .? for lifting a II
finger in labor or an . ment on the I
Sabbath.
Judge Alton A. !. n. Wilmicjj- I
ton, N. C., recorder. speaking of K
the city's blue law . ed that "the I]
only way to get rid of . bad law U B
to enforce it." Tha ->t official- W&
disagree is evident - their loath- I
ness to comment on problem.
Many agree, hoa.v.r. that mo<t H
blue laws in their ju t forms are H
due for early repeal v ;th substr.u- H
lions of workable ordin . < >. 5?
Unhesitant. on the tier hand. ? Bj
the Southern pie -i editorial B
w i iters point out : I
tickets to theaters or ,11 games, or B
the sale of bread, 1: I. vegetables, B
and other fresh food.-, should be no H
less legal than the sal- of prepared B
foods in cafes, gam i rivileges on B
municipally-owned g f courses, or B
gasoline filling station- ?8
Until recently Marie Dionne has fl
been the "runt" of t umous1 quin- B
tuplets, but a few days ago she B
weighed 49 pounds, a half pound B
more than her sister. Yvonne, who B
now is the smallest of the five. H
An 11-year old runaway Negro boy B
from Birmingham wa- recently P^h*
ed up by Alabama h away patrol
men. He was carrying a zipper ha?
and a police whistle, ai - said he u><?
the whistle to hail drivers of truvka H
for a lift. I
iistory's Pages I
mie Turner, of Etowah, |
this week of Misses Blanche xucaaiuson
and Martine Matt \.
J. W. Davidson, I!. ! Crooks and
Roscoe Mattox mot* i to AtlantaMrs.
J. H. Hall > f place left
Monday for Atlanta where >he wil.
spend several days.
10 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 30, 1S2?>
Mrs. Hadley Dickey and little son.
and Mrs. Wilson Ell: tt are visiting
relatives in Maryville, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harshaw of
St. Petersburg, Fla., are visiting their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. McD. H*rshaw
and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson and
children are visiting in Charlotte and
Gastonia this week.
Miss Marguerite Smathers, of Asheville
was a visitor in Murphy Tuesdav
of this week. Miss Smathers
formerly lived at Murphy. .
Mrs. G. H. Cope returned last Fri
day from a visit to her mother at
Sylva. I
Mrs. E. C. Mallonee and chfldre"
are spending this week with MrsF
C. Hall at Canton. I
Miss Ada Harshaw was a recent
visitor in Knoxvillc. I
Mrs. J. p. Hampton and son. 11 H
Young Harris, Ga., were visitors here
on Tuesday. . I
Miss Mennice Payne made a bust*
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