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?hr (Hlfmikrr ?rmtt Published every Thursday at Murphy, N. C. ADDIE MAE COOKE Editor and Owner ROY A. COOKE Production Manager MRS. C. W. SAVAGE Social Editor SL'BSCRIITION RATES Cherokee and surrounding counties: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1 00 Four Monti- . 75c Outside above territory. Otw Year $2 50 ? Six muiiths $125 \? En ered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolma. as second class matter under the Act of March 3. 1897. MEDITATION "Don't give way to pessimism ? don't expect the worst ? think before you voice despair ? look for tire bright sid* first; don't judge by appearances, though life looks dark to you ? hold to your ideal, and keep the highest things in view. Better to believe that Love must conquer at the last ? Something good must come out of the anguish of the past; pessimism hangs a veil of glo >nt Ik* fore your eyes, blotting out tomorrow's dawn that waits beyond the skies. ... In the world today, the powers of evil seem to reign ? fed by fear, and man's desire for mere material gain: yet it may be all a part of human destinv ? the conflict between right and wrong . . . the struggled to be free." Education, Pleasure, Culture Progressive and rendering outstanding serv ice is the library operated in our town and re gion. Its influence spreads throughout the ter ritory it serves, reaching even remote sections through bookmobile service. Our library is one to which we can point with pride, and it catches the attention of visitors who come for just a day or to spend a vacation, even influencing people to spend longer vacations here. But, most of all, we appreciate it for what it means j to our own people. Tile Nantahala Regional library is supported from three sources of income ? local appropria- i tions, T. V. A. aid, and State aid. Forward looking state law makers, with Miss Mariorie . Beal, state library commission secretary em phasizing to them the necessity and importance of doing so, have made appropriations in the past few years that have made library service available to many small communities that never before could afford it. Pointing to the results and the need for enlarging the program, the people of the state this year are asking the legis lature to appropriate $225,000, instead of the $175,000 proposed, for the biennium. The difference of $50,000 in the state would mean a difference in this region of from $4, 987.50 to $6,716.25, or $1,728.75 more, ac cording to figures compiled by Miss Dora Ruth Parks, regional librarian. Miss Beal wrote in a current publication: People are being born, growing up, and liv ing all their lives without the privilege of libra ries or opportunity to read good books ! The rural sections shoulder the responsibility of edu cating their children, and then the young people move into the towns and the cities. One means of keeping rural people contented and informed is the county library. And by the county library is not meant a library located in the county seat or in the largest city and used by those residents who can visit it during the limit ed hours it is open. By a county or by a regional library ? several counties contracting together - ? is meant a live, up-to-date collection of books with some way of moving them about so every one may have books near at hand and may se lect those books he wishes to read. It's a simple plan, and it works.'" In the opinion of The Scout, the appropria tions committee will do well to comply with the request for $225,000, as the money will be so spent that it will bring pleasure, education, and culture to our people. For Everybody Many organizations and individuals are en listed in the infantile paralysis drive now going on in our country. Our quota of $964 should be easily raised, but everyone in the county should have a part in it. Dr. W. A. Hoover is the coun ty chairman, and if no one contacts you for a contribution, send a check to him. The dread of infantile paralysis is with us, even though this county was spared from hav ing a case in the epidemic that recently spread over the state. New cases are even now being reported, and our dimes and dollars will help to lessen them and see to it that those attacked have proper medical attention. * OUR DEMOCRACY ? by Mat john Fitch ? " I jANOARy 21, IMS- JULY 2, 17J8 , / I ~ a 'iS J. r. ?. r- ' HIS ?786 STEAM80AT ! EACH BANK OF OARS RAISED AMP LOWERED 6V A SJN6LE CRANK. HIS SMALL STEAM 60 AT 1797- DRIVEN BV PADDLE-WHEELS AND SCREW PROPELLER * Patriot a;jc> inventor, john fitch served as GUNSMITH FOR. AMERICAN TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE - completed his first steamboat model in 178S , bjilt his largest vessel which was run as A PASSENGER BOAT BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND WILMINGTON , IN I ToOAV HE SHARES HONORS WITH ROBERT FULTON *OR THE INVENTION OF THE STEAMBOAT. " 'MOCXACy S7/Mi'lAT?S t'NVENTtVE GEN/OS. Saturday Night Bible Readers William Penn once said: Men must be ruled by God. or they ,vill be ruied by tyrants." In a world so full of confusion people can hardly be blamed for setting "off the beam." One writer ?ays the American people are too Acary and tired to care. Harry Hopkins said they are too dumb :o understand Barnum said they like to be humbugged Referring again to William Penn. the great Quaker, what happened in Russia ? Before the ( volution Russia at least in name Aas Christian. Und?r communism .: b asts that God is to be blotted )ut. Russia is governed by a ty rant . Luther turned the mind cf the . Oreorman people to God and the , Bible. Then it was God. Now it is Hitler. Italy, one time a religious cen- j ter. Came decadence and then Mussolini One of the big modernist preachers of this day says the Bible contains the word of God. but not that it is the word of God. He believes that Jesus was a great prophet but not the Son ?f God and his sacrifice on the cross entirely unnecessary. He criticises other modernists be cause they go too far. But where is the stopping place. One modernist throws one thing out and another throws some thing else out. A third thinks these didn't go far enough so he finds something else to throw out. The first gets a little ways from God The last gets clear away. Then comes the tyrarnt. In America not more than 12 1 per cent of the people attend church or read the Bible to find out what God has to say as to how people and nations should live. Coleridge says that St. Paul's letter to the Roman's is the "pro fcundest document in the posses sion of the human race." The let tei points the way to be govern ed by God. Force are beginning to operate in America in this year 1945, to a wake A the f>eople to the dangers of the hour and to search the Scripture, and be governed by God and the instructions in his inspired word When a super-airplane gets "Cff the beam" it crashes and the passengers get killed. Get this na fion off the sure safe beam o! Gcd's Inspired Word and it will crash too. Everything that we have in America that is worth while and worth preserving was built on the Bible. You can't help much towards preserving America and all that is good in it if you are ignorant of the Bible and its teachings as God's Word. The conflict in America and in the world is be tween what God in the Bible says how people, individuals, and na tions should live and act and how! the forces against God are trying to get people and natiosn to act. Prepare yourself to help by dedi cating Saturday night to careful reading and study of the Bible. Do it every Saturday night. Get your neighbor to do it. Redeem Saturday night from one of rev elry to one of reverence. Price and Ration News MEATS. FATS ? Red Stamps | Q5 through X5 aood indefinitely. No new stamps until January 28. PROCESSED POODS ? Blue Stamps X5 through Z5; A2 through G2 good indefnitely. No new blue stamps will be validated until February 1. SUGAR -Sugar Stamp 34 good for five pounds indefnitely. Noi new stamp until February 1. FUEL OIL ? East and Far West I 1. 2. and 3 period coupons good! indefnitely all over the country. I SHOES ? Airplane Stamps 1 . 2 j and 3 in Book Three, good in- j | definitely. I "Essential" and "Critical" Draft j Guides The guides ;st up by tne War Manpower Commission for Se lective Service in inducting men in the 26 through 29 age group make a nice difference between the "essential" industrial employ ment and that which is consid ered as "critical" to the war pro duction program. | Most smaller comm unties (excepting mining and specialised manufacturing | towns) which are closely related to their agricultural areas, will find that most of the men in the affected age group fall into the category of 'essential" employ ment when they work in such fields as the following: AGRICULTURAL SERVICES Commercial poultry hatcheries, ?eed processing, animal breed ing. crop disease protection serv ices, initial processing services of compressing, threshing, cleaning, shelling, curing and the like, ir rigation services, farm repair and maintenance services, farm pro duct | assembly services, custom grist milling and ice harvesting. No "critical" employment is list ed under the WMC guide for ag ricultural services. The produc tion of packaging materials for shipping and preserving essential products is also listed as an es sential class of employment. In the category of "critical" employment, as it may affect the draft status of citizens of non Industrial smaller towns, is listed such work as the repair of auto mobiles, busses, trucks, tractor; and farm equipment. However, It is intended that to the j of repair services consideration be i- iven only to individuals qualified i ? o render all-round repair services on the types of equipment in cluded in the essential list. Types of repair service other than the above are deemed "essential In the field of health ani wel fare services the critical classifi cation is applied to physicians, surgeons, dentists, oculists, osteo paths. sanitary engineers. veteri narians engaged in farm live slock treatment, medical, denta, and optical laboratories, pharma euttcal services, hospitals, nurs .ng services, and inst.tuticnal rare. Into the "essential" class go mortuary services, auxiliary civ ilian welfare services t> the armed forces, welfare service, to civilians, church activties. acci dent and fire prevention services and structural pest control sen ices Only educational service con tend critial is the United States Maritime Service Training pro -am: m -< others are listed as essential set vices. In the forestry and lumbcrinp ('elds the only critical classifica laaa are 'hese of timber tracts and logging camps, cutting of milpwocd wood for tann ng ex tract. sawmills, veneer ant} plan ing ana plywood mills. Substantially, the guide system el up by VVMC. which is in ac 11-dance with the directive to Se- ; 'active Service by the Director of Wai Mobilization and Reconver sion. James P. Byrnes, reflects the intensified demands on Ameri can resources of men and ma terials to wage the war. and the fac: that the past years of war have absorbed the more readily available resources. War Expenditures at New HUh Evidence of the demands of a vast war effort is tha fact that :n December, according to the Treasury Department and the War Production Board, war ex penditures averaged $313,400,000 , day a new high for the daily outlay. The daily rate last month was 14.8 per cent higher than in November. | Consumer Front Little Changed The consumer front remained little changed with continued right rationing controls by way of fairer distribution of limited wartime supplies. Most consum ers recognize that 1945 will be a tight" year for most commodi ties Retail prices on smoked pork loins and loin cuts have been cut by OPA by one to two cents a pound and retail cent-per-pound ceiling prices were established on bo-li kosher and non-kosher cook d coined beef briskets. Owing to the critical manpower situat ion in ?he Mansfield. Ohio, area, West inghouse Electric and Manufac turing Co.. volutarily stopped out - mt of electric irons in its fac ? ,.iy there 'half of an authorized 137.000 irons had been completed). Every town, every business dis trict is asked by the Government lo turn off advertising signs, dim illumination and use electricity sparingly to save coal for winning the war. Hayesville Rev. R. Lane Akins spoke at the Baptist church Sunday morning cn "Getting: Ready for the Evan gelistic Crusade." The church voted to adopt the crusade goals suggested by the Southern Baptist Convention, including the Sun day school goals. These will in clude a census, an extension de partment. a cradle roll, an en largement campaign with study courses and visitation periods; a drive to enroll all resident church members in Sunday school, a va cation Bible school, a training ?chool for the Sunday school workers, new clases, a drive for an increased enrollment of at least one-fourth and an increased attendance of at least one-half a monthly visitation day. an ev angelistic effort to win at least 75 converts; increased offerings to missions through tithes, and ether aims. The subject of the evening serv ice was "Grow in Grace and Knowledge." Everett Crawford and Misf Velma Beam were lay speakers in the services at Hickory Stand and Ogden Methodist churches Sun day. They spoke on the "Cru sade For Christ." Rev. Clark W Benson also conducted services at Oak Forest church Sunday n..?ht, speaking on "Wing Power.' The W.S.C.S. of the Methodisl church is meeting today at thi home of Mrs. Ed Curtis. Community prayer service* were heU Monday at the hom< of Mrs. Pa il Vaught. > About five million pounds o! ? food will be stored in freezer lock I er plants In Nortii Carorllna dur - Ing 1945. These plants will als< t cure about 8 to 10 million pound of meat for farmers. ^nutting Itlith (Elic ]a5ttur THE GENERAL. BOARD of tlie Baptist State Convention, com posed mostly of preachers repre senting each region of the state, met last week in Raleigh. Being the only woman number present did not seem so strange to me. Since my profession has on num erous occasions and at many events taken me into groups where I was the only woman Nor did being an editor in that majority group of preachers seem so strange when I looked around to find three other editors -Sanford Mar tin of the Winston-Salem Journal; Dr. C C. Carpenter. Biblical Re corder: and Dr. Sylvester Green, of the Durham Morning Herald THE BOARD s|?ent long hours j mapping out the year's work and | planning the budget. The educa- 1 tional committee found its task ; he hardest and sat in conference U nger than any other. It falls to this committee's lot to super vise the work of and allocate the funds for our various educational | institutions, and with each col lege pouncing upon them for a large share of the favors they will no doubt have many headaches .n the year ahead. THE PRINCIPAL NEWS de veloping from the br?ard meeting was the unanimous passing of a resolution to dispense with all Baptist meetings, statewide or others that will require an at tendance of as many as 50 and use public transportation hotel | and eating facilities while the ban on such meetings exists, making application for holding any kind of meeting only in case of emer gency. GOING TO RALEIGH via train was comfortable and was the oc casion for meeting 'several in teresting people. Mr. Damtoff of the Champion Paper and Fiber Co.. who used to spend a good deal ot time in Murphy, was headed for the capitol city. Major Mur phy of Texas thought that the Murphy for whom our town was named might have been an an cestor of his. C. B. McFee. Jr., of Asheville. who sells clothing at the Man Store knew several Mur ph folks. GOING THROUGH the New York car to the diner, I saw Mar tha Lee. en route to New York markets, and Loretta Ashe, who was accompanying Martha to visit her brother. Grover Ashe, who is in the Marine corps sta tioned in New York. IN RALEIGH MONDAY Louise My rick, who visited me here in October, and her little girl. Carrie Stell, came over from Tarboro to meet me, and we had a few hours together. < AT THE CAPITOL Tuesday our representative. Mis. G. W. Cover, was receiving compliments from various legislators on the speech she had made that morning in be half of the school teachers of the state. She said she just couldn't stand to see the requests of the teachers cast aside and the feel ings of the NCEA representatives hurt, and it challenged her to make her first speech before the House. Mrs. Cover is the only woman in the Legislature this year and she is doing credit to the county she represents. She has been appointed chairman of the committee on enrolling bills and vice-chairman of the com mitteee on public utilities, and is a member of various other com mittees. THE FIRST familiar face I saw in Raleigh was that of Lee Par ker. insurance executive, formerly ; of Ahoskie. Then I had occasion ; to chat a few minutes with news 1 paper friends. Bill Horner of Sanford. representating Lee coun ? ty in the House, and Tom Bost [ veteran news man whose prin cipal work is for Greensboro Dailj ; News, as its Raleigh representa i tive: Thad Eure. Secretary ol I State <we were neighbors in East ? ern N. C.); Rev. Oscar Creech, a former pastor, who has been pas tor of Ahjskie Baptist church for 20 years and will always be one of my favorite preachers; Dr. E H. Potts, pastor of the First Bap. tist church, Elizabeth City; Dr. J. B. Turner of Laurinburjj, who was instumental in helping tne land a summer job on the Raleigh Times following my freshman year in college: Jas. P. Davis of the War Food administration. Rev Donald Myers of Wadesboro and Rev S. L. Morgan, Jr., Dunn. Ridgccrest friends; and a few others whom it is always a pleas ure to see. MR. FRANK JARRHTT, fam ous for the good food he and Mrs Jarrett serve at Jarrett Springs hotel. DiUsb >ro, and father of Clyde Jarrett of Andrews, is a member of the General Boaid and he was on the same train 1 was. on the return tnp. He is in teresting to converse with, praises Dillsfcjro whenever there is half an opportunity, and is sincerely devoted to the Baptist work ui Western North Carolina. He par ticularly likes poetry, but he could not understand how I could keep my head in a bcok The Green Years, Cronin) most of the way home. However, the only time I get to read is when I ride, eat or just before I sleep. While I read. Mi Jarrett picked up two pocket magazines I carried along and found them worth a few minutes' reading. He later said if he travel ed with me long he was afraid he'd get in the habit of reading I and get "educated." Dear Miss Cooke : : In your "Scouting Around" column, you occasionally toss a few posies, where they are rich ly deserved. I have no doubt Since you do not have a Win chell's "Orchids To You" column. 1 would like to tell you a story that I personally, believe rates orchids of the year. There is an elderly man. Fred I Sneed, who with his family re side in the country some distance from the rural mail route. His son. and I believe his youngest, is a soldier, who had been in the army some time before he was badly wounded, in the left side of his face and his left shouttier All the father knew was that his son was in a hospital in France. You can imagine how anxious this father was. Every day he would trudge through the mud to the mail box to wait for the carrier, hoping, praying that he would hear from his son. Day aft er day. until the days grew into weeks and the weeks grew into seven ... no word .... no noth jing . . . just grief. The carrier on this route knew all his patrons and tried to look after them in the very best way he could, trying to accomodate them if the opportunity came his way. It almost broke his heart to have to tell this poor man each 'day that there was no mail for him. He just dreaded to get to this box for he knew that he would be I there and that all he couki do was to sadly shake his head and ? say "sorry, no mail today, maybe you will hear tomorrow". To him | ii, was a pitiful sight to see the j father turn away from the mail i box and go back home with only j his thoughts. I One Sunday this carrier, think ing to expedite his work for Mon day went to the post office to case his letters, and in so doing he found three letters from this wounded soldier to his father. The 1 thing t'h a t the carrier first I thought of was the look on the I father's face when he would not hear from his son. So the kind hearted carrier took these letters out all this long distance to the ! man. walking the muddy road where his car could not go. in order that he might ligihten his grief and bring him happiness . news of his son . . . So. won't you agrere with me that John C. Odell, rural carrier on route 1. deserves the orchid of the year ? Sincerely. THELMA DDCKBY Our County Farm and Home Agents i During the past two weeks 4-H . fclubs have been held in Murphy. Hiwassee Dam and Andrews high' schools; Peach t r e e, Martrin's [ Creek. Ranger. Hiwassee Dam, . Wolf Creek. Marble. Murphy and . Andrews elemen tarry schools. ) Much interest was shown by the i boys and (Iris of these schools In the selection of their pro)?cts for 1945. Cherokee County 4-H club boys and girls have done an ex cellent >ob during the past three years in helping to meet the national food, feed and fiber (foals as well as participating In all war emergency programs and cam paigns. It is expected that 1945 will again find 4-H clubatera "on the aleart."
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