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Stic (Eltrrukw #rmit Puolished every Thursday at Murphy, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Cherokee and surrounding counties One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25' Outside above territory: One Year $2.50 Six Months $1 ! ADDIE MAE COOKE Editor and Owner ROY A. COOK Production Manager MRS. C. W. SAVAGE Associate Editor -p=5ST"i ? Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, sS^Horth Carolina j \ , , 'wtiss ^association j North Carolina, as second class matter v C ^ under the Act of March 3, 1879. MEDITATION "The Bible is full of exhortations to men that they should take thought upon their way of life. The exhortation is not out-of-date now: it never will be. "Here is one of the chief reasons for religious meditation. We need to take some time every da> to look back over the past twenty-four hours and see what errors we have committ ed. and to look ahead over the coming da>. seeking God's guidance therein. Such consideration would be necessary in carrying on any secular business; how much more in this in finitely important business of our lives!" Loss To Community Nantahala Regional library has been operat ing with headquarters in Murphy for the past ten years, and has rendered an over increasingly valuable service throughout this time. Mrs. Sara Lloyd who has served as librarian for the past three years, resigned ecently to as sume a new position in Rome, Ga. Her leaving is a loss to this community and the region, for ; she has put an abundance of energy and thought into the growth and development of the service. Her efforts, with the cooperation of the library board and other members of the staff, have re- , suited in the enlargement of the service from 85 ! deposit stations to 102: in the increase of book | stock from 1 9,847 to 24.609; and in circulation from 124,785 to 138,048. While this region regrets to lose Mrs. Lloyd and her fine contribution to the life of the people, she has our best wishes for success and happiness in her new work. The Scout congratu lates her on her accomplishments here and com mends her heartily to the people of Rome and j vicinity. More Reckless Are teen-age drivers as reckless as older folks say they are? The National Safety Council says the answer is "yes. The 1948 edition of "Accident facts, the Council's statistical yearbook includes studies , made of accident rates of drivers in various age groups. I hese studies show that the fatal acci dent rate in terms off miles driven by young sters under 20 was 89 per cent higher than the average rate for all drivers. The Council believes driver training courses in high schools and colleges are a big part of the answer to the problem. Better examples by par ents and other older drivers would help a lot too. it says. Just A Match Take a look at a match. It's a cheap, necess ary, and innocent looking little article. Yet matches have caused the destruction of hun dreds of millions of dollars worth of property and tens of thousands of lives. The same thing is true of cigarettes. Great forests, homes, factories? all have gone up in smoke and flame because people didn't go to the small trouble of putting smoking materials com pletely out when discarding them. How about the cords that carry the juice to your lamps? Their cost is small and they can be installed in a matter of minutes. Yet, easy as it is to replace them when frayeid, short-circuits also have a gigantic toll off destruction to life and property to their credit. These three examples show the main causes of fire ? and the ease with which such fires can be prevented. The vast majority of fires are the result of one thing only ? the human factor. Someone is lazy. Somene is careless. Someone puts off till tomorrow what should be done to day. Then fire strikes. The loss may be great or it may be small. In either case, it is totally un necessary. Keep that in mind1 when smoking, when checking household equipment, or when doing anything that has a bearing on fire haz ards. Almost any efficiency expert can speed up another man's business. OUR DEMOCRACY byM.t A GREAT NATIONAL RESOURCE The AMrR'CAN PEOPLE CAW COUNT THEIR,* URGE to PR06K?SS AS A GREAT NATIONAL RESOURCE . THEIR REACHING AHEAD FOR SETTER THINGS HAS SEEN EVIDENT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORV IN ALL PHASES OF AMERICAN LIFE - FOX EXAMPLE. j U6HT The translation OF THIS 'urge TO PROGRESS into ACHIEVEMENT IS ILLUSTRATED 8V THE LIGHT AND POWER INDUSTRY. THE CAPITAL NEEDED FOR. ITS DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BV THE AMERICAN PEOPLE , THROUGH THEIR VARIOUS FORMS OF SAVINGS. FROM THIS JOINING OF THRIFT AND VISION HAS COME THE DYNAMIC AMERICA WE KNOW TODAY- THE PROMISE OF EVEN GREATER GROWTH TOMORROW. Color's Coming! Within a few weeks, the annual march of autumnal colors will be i.iti in the vast hardwood forests uf the Blue Kidges and the Great Smokies, those twin mountain :*inges which run the entire length [>f western North Carolina. And with them will come the annual army of sightseers for the leaf" season ? a vacation and travel season now firmly establish ed as one of the best visiting times of the year Late in September will appear the brilliant red of the sumac, gums, sourwood. Virginia creeper, dogwood, red maple and low bush blueberry. They will blend with the yellow of the sassafrass. birch and vellow poplar, which, as the early reds fade, continue to blend with the late reds of the scarlet and red Daks, the tan of the white oak. and the yellow of the chestnut oak Fhese last-to-turn continue the color into the first week or ten days of November The glorious, flaming color pro duced by the greatest remaining stand of hardwoods in America is against a background of ever I greens, ranging from the bright green conifers to the sombre blacks | of the balsams. The arrival of fall j color is so gradual that everywhere : during October the traveler will 1 find a favorite view. Usually, j though, about October 15th is 1 considered the climax of the leaf j season. Many resorts will remain open as usual to take care of leaf visi tors. and in many instances, sum mer rates are reduced by from j 10 to 25 per cent. The Blue Ridge Parkway, the Great Smokies Mountains National Park and the forest lands of Pis gah and Nantahala National For ests are favored goals of visitors, and all facilities of these areas will be made available during the fall. Weather generally is dry at this j time, days sunny, nights from cool I to chilly, the air clearer. It's an awful hard jcb to exercise common sense. Talking too much and thinking too little has spoiled many a career. Another trouble with our country is that too many pecple who have nothing to say go right on saying it. There isn't any such thing as something for nothing. Someone pays. Smith: "I'm surprised that you permit your wife to go around telling the neighbors she made a man of you. You don't hear my wife saying that.'' Jones: "No, but she told my wife that she had done her best. CHU-PREkJ CRY -For it IWA^ * f ^ ,?? I rr>^ 7 THE BIBLE . speaks _ | International Unitona I I L_ Ji 1 Sun Uy School L? oo? r ^ By DR. KENNETH I. FOREMAN SCRIPTURE: Acta 4:32-37 ; 9:26-81; 11:22-30; 12:25?13:7. 43-52; 14-1-20; 15:1-39; 1 Corinthians 9:6; Galatlan* 2:1-13: Coloaaiana 4:10. DEVOTIONAL READING I P?alm? 1:1-6. The Man for the Job Lesson for September 12, 1948 HISTORY KNOWS some men only by their nicknames. Stalin is a nickname, so was Charlemagne, i And so is Barnabas, one of the best of the early Christ ians. The apostles nicknamed tyim "Barnabas" and the name stuck, for it means "Son of Encouragement," and Barnabas' spe cialty was encour aging people who badly needed it. Barnabas was ! not a brilliant man, perhaps not | even a strong one, though he had I an impressive "front." On a jour ney in the back districts the natives ' would take him for Zeus, king of all j the gods. But it was not his looks that were important, it was his big ! heart. When Saul was converted, there was an awkward situation when that young convert went back to Jerusalem. The little society of Christians there knew Saul for a tiger. They had suffered at his hands, they had seen their friends dragged off by his henchmen. So when Saul showed up among the very people he had terrified, when he not only showed up but claimed to be one of them, no wonder they were frightened. All but Barnabas. Somehow or | other (shall we say it was God's I Spirit in him?) Barnabas was not afraid. He took Saul the Terrible by the hand, he introduced him to i the church leaders, he told them his story, he sponsored Saul as we would say. ? ? ? An Eye for God After that experience with Saul, Barnabas' friends came to think of him as a man who could probably see the good in any man or situation if there was any good to be seen. So when the head quarters church in old Jerusalem heard of a novel sort of church down in Antioch, they sent this "Son of Encouragement" down to see what went on. It was certainly no church on the Jerusalem pat tern; was it a good one, or even a genuine church at all? Barnabas would know. And so he did. Other men could see the large number of church members In Antioch; others could give you statistics about its rate of growth; others could tell you it was bi-racial, a daring experi ment then as now. Some ap plauded, some raised their eye brows. But we read that Barnabas had eyes in his soul as well as in his head. What he saw, as he looked at that stirring new church with its new ways, was "the grace of God." All of us can see things on the sur face, we can count noses, we can make reports for the papers. But seeing underneath, seeing the grace of God (or the need of it)? that is not so easy. Wanted for every ; church: A Barnabas! ? ? ? Round Peg? Round Hole WHEN BARNABAS had taken stock at Antioch he knew the j place needed a man, and he knew the man for the place. Off he went across the Taurus mountains to Tar : sus, where Saul was doing nothing particular, and he brought Saul to , i Tarsus and set him to work. Saul turned out to be, as Barnabas ex* pected, the round peg for-the round hole. j That team was a "natural" ? but only Barnabas would have thought | of it. Paul fitted in with the church, too. A tireless worker, he was just the man for that vital growing con gregation. Getting the right people ; for the right jobs is still one of the big problems of the Christian church. Many a Sunday School class, for instance, now is withering on the stalk, only because the Sun day school superintendent has never found the right teacher. ? ? ? The Hands of the Church THE TIME came when Barnabas and Saul were sent out by that same Antioch church to be the first foreign missionairies ever deliber ately sent out by any Christian church. The hands of the church were laid on them before they left. To this day, when a man la set apart, by ordination, for a particular work In the Christian church, hands are laid upon his head. This Is more than an an tique ceremony, there Is more than maglo In it. The laying on of hands may 1 mean different things to different churches, bat this at least it always means: The so ordained are now the hands 6t the churches they represent ? ? ? (Copyright by (&? International Councti ol Rmllqloua Education on bekait a 4 40 Protestant dtnominatloMt. ReJeawd br WNV Fnaturnt.) "T Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mai lo nee and little daughter, Gale Sandra, are making their home in Murphy where Mr. Mallonee is employed in Green's grocery store. Dr. Foreman I NORTH CAROLINA In the Nation s Capitol By ROBERT A. IRWIN II BX DERSON V 1 LLE ? The now ; State Democratic party leadership | i? playing a smooth game of poli- ! tical poker and softpedaling the Dixiecrat issue while the question of whether the Dixiecrats get on j the State's presidential battle is pending before the State Supreme Court. This strategy gradually revealed itself in the conversations of Democratic leaders at the second annual Twelfth District barbecue held Saturday at the fabulous and beautiful Sky Brook Farms near HendersonvtUe. owned by Harry 1{ Playford. big league banker and airline ownei. Driving rain to the contrary. 1750 people showed up mostly from the Twelfth, otherwise from other parts of the State, out of 2100 invited by the co-sponsor of the barbecue. Rep. Monroe M. Redden, of Hendcrsonville, candi date for reelection to a second term in the national House of Representatives. The barbecue was neld Saturday afternoon, followed l>y square dancing in the evening on the hardwood second floor of one of Playford's almost palatial dairy barns that house a wealth of pedigreed cows, plus his collec tion of equally pedigreed horses, i The turnout was literally amaz ing. in view of the weather. Play- i ford figured only a few hundred 1 would turn out at the most. Prob- 1 ably he failed to reckon with the wonderful scenic attractions of the super-farm he is developing, the super-duper beef barbecue, the 1 politics and the hand-shaking that always draw people, short of snow i and ice and sleet. Democratic bigwigs busy glad handing all over the place includ ed the Democratic senatorial nomi- 1 nee, former Governor J. Melville ? Broughton. of Raleigh, who spoke to the crowd on the second deck of < the dairy barn; State Democratic Chairman Capus Way nick, who managed the successful campaign of governorship candidate W. Kerr i Scott; Secretary of State Thad ' Eurc. State Auditor Henry Bridges. 1 State Attorney General Harry I McMullan, State Commissioner of Labor Forrest Shuford. State i Bureau of Investigation Director : Walter Anderson; Lieutenant Governor L. Y 'Stag' Ballentine. ' candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture, and Brandon Hodges. < of Asheville. candidate for State Treasurer succeeding Charles M Johnson whom Scott defeated for 1 the nomination for Governor. ? ! Waynick believes that very, very 1 few North Carolina Democrats will ? | leave the Democratic Party be- 1 I cause of the race issue injected by President Truman. The mere fact that the Dixiecrat ballot issue is ' before the State Supreme Court < creates a situation that plays into ' the hands of the State Democratic I leadership. Many dissident Demo- < crats. remembering the penalties J paid by those who bolted the 1 party's presidential ticket in 1928. are thinking twice and thrice be- I fore bolting, if then. Those in ? doubt as to their course are say- 1 ing that they are awaiting the ' supreme court decision. 1 Therefore. Waynick at this time is not moving against the Dixie crat campaign. He will concentrate on a straightforward selling job for the full Democratic ticket, and any direct socks at the Dixiecrats will come later in the campaign when < they will be more telling and ef- i fectivc. The barbecue attracted a num- 1 ber of North Carolina Republicans ? from the mountains, who mingled 1 with the leading Democrats, with s fifty editors and publishers of ( weekly newspapers, members of the Western North Carolina Press ?' Association, and with visiting South ? Carolina leaders including Sena- * tor Burnet Rhett Maybank. life time summer resident of Hender- *? sonville, and Representative Joseph 1 R. Bryson, of Greenville. S. C . I native of Transylvania County, X. ' C., in Redden's district. In welcoming the crowd. Rep- * resentative Redden said, "You have J probably already observed, o r 1 conclusively assumed, when you I received an invitation to come here 1 today, that this occasion is wholly s non-political. The fact that you sec candidadtes for office present does x not change the situation, and if I t mention the names of any candi- 2 date or political party. I can as sure you it is merely a coincidence 1 "When I look around, I see pres- ' ent Democrats, Hoovercrats, Divte- c crats and RepUbii crats, and all of i you look good to me, and I extend t to each a hearty welcome and * hope that notwithstanding the un- a kindness of the elements that you * "ill enjoy tl.i, occasion And referring to cra.s. " Redden coming > wondering why the sji|a7,' ' ** seems to survive in th?- v '' 0,1 when politic, begin to ZT'"* election day. At least if " a good word, and I know\?" ?< -aidless of our differences h Democratic party as a llvi J' "* gressive organization t h - Pr?" which the great masses arc ^Ugh led to speak their mind ^ 7' only survive but will ' ? ra,ne Stronger as the years 1 ^ It has become immortal in life of our people and , American would have it per^T existence is necessary t, the * petuation of democracj America. ln "And so let's all have a big tim today and perhaps our .l.fficu 6 Will become a little ea.si,, as November 2 approach,., Redd' concluded. "en At the festivities in th0 hai.? Redden acted as master ?f cc?' monies Broughton was the ?1" speaker. The other vis,tmg d J at ics took a bow and then re lurned to their posts, either stand Ing against the walls of ,he J?' sitting on chairs, otherwise sittinz on bales of hay ringing the hard' wood floor Redden and his cham,. ing wife were busy glad-handm? c-onstluents from as far West * Cherokee County, the state southwesternmost count* One ?f the Cherokee visitors was Miss Addie Mae Cooke, editor of The Cherokee Scout at Murphy who started her Tar Heel n,?C ?reer at almost the exC northeastern corner of the state " ""tor ?< The Gates County Index at Gatesville, one of the Parker Brothers newspapers print ed at Ahoskie. -Nowhere in the crowd of lead ers at the barbecue could be found any admission that the Republicans had a chance to win a concession al seat this year. The GOP candi date for Senator. John Wilkinson. ?f Little Washington, has been unusually active, and he has been predicting his own victory, but he seems pretty well alone in tha: jpinion The existing anti-Truman sentiment has aroused no antagon ism to the State's all-Democratic delegation in Congress The big barbecue and the square dancing was concluded with a per sonal appearance by Mr. and Mrs 1'Iayford at the loud speaker in 'he barn, and the square danrini tile Sky Brook Farms well 'rained team This team was pre ceded by that of the Ecusta Paper PisSah Forest, another out standing group of square dancers The Playfords, Mr, Playford looking as friendly and yet is listinguished as ever with his closely-trimmed beard and Mrs I May ford comfortably informal un ler the protection of a buckskin jacket. took a brief bo? Mr. Plav rord. Florida banking executive md owner of several airlines, ex pressed gratification at the turn Jut unusually large in view of the -sea tiler It w-as his reward, and wife s. for being host and hos es: at the barbecue. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Elgin J. MacDonald >f Atlanta, Ga., visited relatives n Murphy recently. Mr. and Mrs. Winston Craig lave returned from a visit with Vfr. and Mrs. Hubert Mulkey oi Baltimore. Md. They also visited >ome relatives in Winston-Salem ?n route. Mr. and Mrs. Reid Mallonee of \sheville spent the week-end with tor. Mallonee's parents. Mr. and VIrs. J. A. Mallonee. Bobby Rector of Albemarle and Fack Norwood of Raleigh spent Labor Day holidays here with Mrs. Lewis Hodges, mother of Mr. lector. Betty Mynatt, who has spent ler vacation here with her grand parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barnett, eturned to her home in Knoxville ast week. She was accompanied >y Mr. and Mrs. Barnett who ipent the week-end there. Mrs. A. E. Vestal of Ashetooro is isiting her son-in-law and daugh er. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weaver ind family. Mr and Mrs. J. W. FwnkUn. 4r. and Mrs. W. P. Odom and Mrs ^uzenia Queen, returned Satur* lay from a week's vacation n Washington, D. C. While then? hey visited Mount Vernon & nany other points of interest round there and made a trip (aryland.
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