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tifyerafcrr grant Hi' ?<?-*!( Established July 1889 W f S Established July 1889 Published every Thursday at Murphy, Cherokee County, N. C ADD1E MAE COOKE : Editor and Owner MRS. C. W. SAVAGE ??? Associate Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Cherokee and surrounding counties: (Ae Year, f 2.00; Six Months, f 1.23; Outside above territory: On* Year. |2.30; Six Months, f 1.50 Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolina, as second class matter under the Act of March 3, 1879. ? Meditation Do fby lit tin; do it well; Do what right and reason tell; Do what wrong and sorrow claim: Conquer sin and cover shame. Do tby little, though it be Dreariness and drudgery; They whom Christ apostles made Gathered fragments when be bade. Industry And Tourists, Too! The coming of the branch of Berkshire Knit ting Mills to Andrews has focused much atten tion on our county. Papers all over the state have published the news and editorials about it. We hope other news of like interest will be available for us soon, as Murphy and surrounding com munity await with eagerness the official announ cement of a manufacturing plant locating here. Raleigh's News and Observer published an editorial on the Andrews plant that has received much editorial comment in other newspapers. Stating that a nylon plant to be built at Andrews would mean that the Cherokee Indians are going to have the opportunity for employment and to become acquainted with machinery in North Carolina's industrial expansion, our capital city daily evidently has the erroneous idea that the Cherokee Indian Reservation is in Cherokee County. This is the thinking of many people in the eastern part of our state. As Editor Curtis Russ of the Waynesville Mountaineer writes, "We expect it is a fact that right now many people in Raleigh know more about Korea than Western North Carolina?and perhaps rightly so. Korea has been kept cons tantly before tl\em. As far as we know, very .little has been done by Western North Carolina to tell the world, to any great degree, about this section." That is a challenge to the Chambers of Commerce of our area, to do some advertising. Editor Weimar Jones of Franklin Press writes, "Can anyone who ever has visited the Cherokee village, can anyone who knows the Indians, imagine anything more inappropriate than the establishments of a nylon plant at the Cherokee vilage! It is rapidly becoming a tour ist center. And tourists and smokestacks just do not mix. The tourist has smokestacks at home; usually it is smokestacks, and the things that go with them, that he is fleeing from. Even more fundamental, is the misconception that assumes a shift from handicrafts to millcrafts involves a mere manual adaptation. It involves a complete revolution in attitudes and person ality .... " Cherokee County, like Cherokee village, is a tourist center, and with the coming of the Berkshire Knitting Mills branch We are not in terfering with that phase of our life. The plant will not make nylon. It will manufacture nylon stockings, and it will not have the distasteful features that drive tourists away from an area. We commend the people who have been instru mental in helping to locate plants here on seeking that type of industry. Our tourist business is a valuable asset, and we shall continue to make this an inviting place for those who come to view our scenery, fish in our lakes, and enjoy our climate. On The Bottom Figures compiled by the State Department of Public Instruction were released last week, showing the difference in- the per pupil cost of education in the various counties of the state. In the Western area, the three units in Cher okee, Murphy, Andrews and Cherokee County, are at the bottom of the list. For instance, in Transylvania County the cost per pupil last year was $167 37, or which 47.30 per cent was paid by the county. That was the highest county in this area, and the- costs decrease, by units down to the following figures for our units: Andrews. $101.74. of which 15.96 per cent is paid by the county: Cherokee County, $100.40, 13.86 per cent; and Murphy, $94.43, 12.61 per cent. If Transylvania county contributes $49 per pupil for the education of its youth, certainly , Cherokee county can do better than $5. We need to ask ourselves wherein the trouble lies. Is it because of heavy indebtedness of the county, or is it a lack of interest in the schools on the part of citizenship, or have the school officials failed to arouse the people and county officials to the needs that exist? Perhaps all these must be taken into consideration, but we must hasten to lift thfc level of educational opportunities. _ Scouting With The Editor LONGFELLOW wrote about spring: "It spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, o: burst forth with the sound of an .earthquake, and nob in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miracul ous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To moat men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous, and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be." * ? ? SPRING CAME upon us all of a sudden last week, when, with the warm sunshiny days the flow ers burnt forth into brilliant blossoms. Forsythia other spirea, and jonquils have been brightening our community for more than a week now. Weep ing willow trees are a beautiful green. The maples are red with new buds. Soon the dogwoods will be blooming. We hope winter is over, and spring can continue to paint the landscape with the exquisite beauty it always brings. * ? ? WORK is made easier when words of apprecia tion such as the following come to us: From Mrs. Howard Keater, John C. Campbell Folk School: "We enjoy your paper and I have begun to follow your travels and interests with keen concern. It seems that this section of North Carolina has the right to anticipate real growth in the future, and v/4 all realize what a share you have had in making it all pbssible. And to have a paper with the religious emphasis that you give yours means a great deal in days like these. We all are grateful to you." From Miss Lula Mills, Route 3, Murphy: "I have read THE SCOUT since I was a child. Our home has never been without it. We just can't get along without reading it weekly. From Mrs. Worth Wood, Route 3, Murphy: "When our subscription expires, we just have to come in and renew, for we don't want to mjss a single issue of THE SCOUT." * * * WHEN TRAVELING I murfi prefer to have company, but it never bothers me to take a trip alone. In fact It gives an opportunity to "be still" and do a lot of thinking that a rushing life does not often affbid. Then, too, I like to commit poetry to memory. Usually It's just a short verse or two, hut here's a longer one that I'm trying to master, written by Mary Lowe Dickinson: We would fill the hours with the sweetest things If we had but a day; We should drink alone at the purest springs In our upward way; We should love with a lifetime's lore in an hour If the hours were few; We should rest not for dreams, but for fresher power To be and to do. We should guide our wayward or wearied wills By the clearest light; We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills If they lay in sight; We should trample the pride and the discontent Beneath our feet; . We should take whatever a good God sent, With a trust complete. We should waste no moments in weak regret If the day were but one; If what we remember and what we forget Went out with the sun; We should be from our clamorous selves set free To work and to pray, And to be what the Father would have us to be, If we had but a day. Responding Well The humanitarian appeal of the American Red Cross never goes unheard in our midst. Our people are responding heartily to the fund drive this year, as they realize that in making a contri bution to that organization they will -be having a part in relieving human suffering and need in many parts of the world as well as in our own midst. The-goal of $2412 is about one-third attain ed. as Fund Chairman Bill Bolton reports over 5800 received to date. All those who have not yet made their contribution should do so at least before the month of March ends. The Red Cross is the channel through which loved ones can minister to those on the battlefields, beds of sick ness, or in the midst of disaster. ? Support the 1951 Red Cross fund and help to mobilize for defense. Berkshire To Start 12th ? ? c > ? % To Employ Its ANDREWS?Percy B Ferefcee has announced that word hat been received (ran the Berkshire Knit ting Wilt advising that Arthur N. Krummeneehl, personnel director, will arrive in Andrew* Sunday and start employing worker* Monday, ft Andrews Textile Building. Ap plication blanks bay be secured at Chamber of Commerce or stores. He also, stated that Harry M. Wfolfe. supervisor of vthe seaming operation and training which will be in the Andrews Textile Build ing. will arrive here Saturday and that the equipment for **?t? depart ment has been shipped. Mrs. Wotfe will be with her husband, end they expedt to reside In An drews permanently There will be a,sound and ooior motion' picture at the Andrews High School auditorium Monday night, liar IS, it TOO o'clock showing Mm Berkshire Knitting Mills ot Reading, Pa., the worid't Urgelt manufacturer oi ladies fuil fuhioned stockings. This picture kill show the plant completely, Inside and out, with Mr. Kium menoehl explaining It and answer ing any questions. The picture is free, and the pob l'c is urged to attend W. D. Dibrell Speaks Rotary Ladies' Night ANDREWS?Thursday night was annual Ladle*' Night with the Ro tarian sat a dinner meeting at the Junaluska Terrace Hotel. The Rev. Wm. E. Hall introduc ed the guest speaker for the eve-1 I ping who was W. D. Diibrell, Red Cross field representative. Mr. Dibrell stressed the fact that It is important that the Andrews Chapter exceed its quota, since ] there were so many pressing needs j in Korea. Speaking of the need Mr. Dtb- j rell said "What would happen A | you suddenly woke up one night . and found your community flooded I with thousands of people coming | to this section from cities that had ; been bombed by a surprise attack? Would Cherokee County be ready | to house, feed and clothe these people? The Red Cross has one of the biggest challenges that it | has ever been faced with in this community as well as all over the j nation. Blood is being sent to' Korea daily and Western North Carolina is doing Ha part to get the much needed blood to the front linea. The Job la big, and the cost is .great. Thia and other countries will have to exceed their quotas In the March campaign to keep up the much needed work which is going on. Few people realize that Cherokee County and other Western sections are con sidered the safety zone in the event of enemy hostilities. The crowded city areas,-, in case of bombing, would rush Into the mountain region for refuge. "The Red Cross needs your sup port in money as well as volunteer service." Following Mr. Dibrell's talk there was about 30 minutes of en tertainment in which all present participated. Mrs L. O. Caldwell, Mrs. Clyde Jarrett, The Rev. j. C. Neville and Nick Neville were guests. Approximately 45 attended the meeting. Rev. James A. Allen Heads Red Cross ANDREWS?It has been an- : r.ouneed here that the Rev. James ? A. Allen will succeed the Rev. Wm I E. Hall, as chairman of the An-! drews Chapter of the Red Cross. Joseph Sursavage has been ap pointed fund chairman of the 1961 Drive. ?Mr. Hall now blood chairman, slates that a national record was made in Andrews in blood giving on percentage basis in 1950. He further states that for the first quarter of the year one half of the 1951 blood quota was given, na-. tional water safety school has been j held, an expenditure of approxi- J mately $150 on telephone calls for ; service men and their families have been made, and there is a balance of about $100 in the bank < Mr. Allen asks the co-operation | of not only the officials of the local chapter of the Red Cross but the town people at large. He further states that he believes that this co-operation will be forth we have not mentioned, and it seems that if all 6ur dog laws were rigidly enforced, persons and personal property would be reason ably well protected. However, we feel that our game animals and birds should be given as much consideration as domestic animals. I According to our wildlife biolo gists. so called "self hunting" dogs ! destroy a tremendous amount of game every year in North Caro lina. All this valuable game is completely wasted. At this time of the year doe deer are easily caught by dogs. Very soon fawns will be born and. they too, will be easily caught. We do not believe that it is asking too much of a dog owner to ask him to keep his dog home at night. In faet, we see no reason for a dog being allowed to hunt during the day or night when hunting seasons are dosed. After all, why should our dogs be given more privileges than we have? Some dogs hunt the year around while we humans an hunt' only during a short open season. Fish are biting better. Accord ing to reports we have received. Grover Whitner recently caught a 5-% lb. smallmoutti ban; Gas Nel son. at Dvcktown, caught six baas near Hlwaasoe Dam; Floyd Kisn sey and Junior Sheets, of Turtle town, caught seven bass?total weight. 13 fcs.; Ouas Patterson Caught a 10 inch ratidww trout In .Vpalachia Lake; <Tnn* aaason is closad until April 19th. but we understand tint trout caught In lakes may be kept); Joe Gibson caught a limit of crappie. Let's ? -> coming in the future as it has in the past, because people are aware | of the value of the Bed Cross. There will be a meeting in the I near future for the purpose of | organization and planning. Home Dem Club Meets At Violet The Violet Home Demonstration Club met in the home of Mrs. Virginia Patton Friday at 1:30 p. m. The Home Agent Miss Edna Bishop and eleven members were present. One new member, Mrs. Ethel Wilcox, was received. The meeting opened with the song. "The- Quilting Party", follow ed by the Club collect. Mrs. W. L. Taylor gave the devotional. Mrs. Gwendolyn Beaver, cloth ing leader, gave a report on cloth ing and Mrs. W. L. Taylor a report on poultry. Mrs. Gay Murphy re ported on the Red Cross meeting held at the First Methodist Church in1 Murphy, February 24. i The Club voted to put on a com ; munity clean up drive during next , month. I The Club was then turned over | i tn Miss Bishop who instructed the | I group in planting strawberries,: demonstrating the use of burlap. I bags for mulching and helping to I keep weeds and grass down. Miss Eisbop showed several illustrations of new styles and colors in cloth ing. She distributed lists of books to be read in order to get a certi ficate. She urged the president and the education, recreation and family life leaders to attend a meet j ing at the library Tuesday to dis cuss problems with the Regional Librarian. Mrs. Patton served refreshments to Miss Edna Bifhop, Mesdames Clara Morrow, Noah Wilcox. B. B. Morrow, Gay Murphy, W. L. Tay lor, George Morrow. James R. Beavers, Clifford Rose James S. Morrow and Stanley Hmriby. Roger And Hobie Baugh Are Hosts The Jr. R. A.'s met Wednesday vith Roger and Hubte Baugh with ?even memben present Refresh ments were served by Mr*. J. L. Baugb. The program. The Mission at Borne Mission", waa given by the , boys. "Week at Prayer for Home ' ~ was thru seed by Mrs. After the benediction and broth erhood circle the boys with their I s hike I Scouts Plan Camping Trip ANDREWS?The Boy Scouts met Thursday night at the American Legion Hut at 7 o'clock with Assistant Scout leader Hermann Brauer to discuss plans for a camping trip in the near future. Following the discussion, they participated in exercises and play ed games. Present for the meeting were James Ledtord, Bothy Jack Love, Kent Laughter, Steve Higdon. Wayne Battle, Jr., Dan Cathey, Jimmy Holland, Charles Holland and a visitor, Bobby Martin. Richard Hicks To Preach Sunday ANDREWS?The Rev. J. A. Richardson, Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church announces that Richard Hicks, who graduated at Mars Hill College at the end of the first semester and is now a student at Furman University will preach at the 11 o'clock worship service Sunday morning. Sunday school will be held at 10 a. m? Training Union Groups will lcaive the church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon for visitation. Training Union for the entire family will be at 6:30 p. m., and preaching ser vices by the pastor will be at 7:30 p. m. Sick fa Andrews Claud Watson has returned to bis home {Ann a Murphy hospital where he spent several days. He is doing well at this writing. Little Linda Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hamilton 1- a patient at Rodda-Van Qorder Hospital suffering with pneumonia. Esco Wakefield who Is a patient ? Mission Hospital in Asheiville is some improved. Mrs. C. W. Gibson who has been i:l at her home for several davs is some improved. , J. B. Smith of Murphy who un derwent a major operation at Rodda-Van Gorder Hospital and who has been seriously ill is some improved. Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClelland remains ill at the home of their daughter. Mrs. Winfrey. Miss Sallie Buchanan who has been a patient at Rodda-Van Gord ei Hospital for several days is doing well. Mrs. Gurlie Phillips of Varns ville, S. C., suffered a stroke at her home Sunday night. This the second stroke for Mrs. Phil lips since moving from Andrews in December. J. G. Carrier who has been quite ill at Rodda-Van Gorder Hospital lor the past three weeks is much improved. Manly Sherrill who has been seriously ill has gone to the home of his brother, Baxter Sherrill, in Waynesville to recuperate. Mrs.-Grant Phillips who under went a minor operation at Rodda Van Gorder Hospital last week Is much improved. Mrs. E. B. May of near Andrews underwent a minor operation at Rodda-Van Gorder Hospital Tues day. Little Dianne Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mr* Claud Watson, is a patient at Rodda-Van Gorder Hospital. Mrs. Mary B. Darden has re turned from .Rodda-Van Gorder BoapKal where the underwent a minor operation and la recuperat ing at her home. ? Andy Luther la seriously ill at his home here. PASTURE FIXE A grass fire in the pasture ad joining Valley River, back of the E. C. Moore home, threatened to set oat of control about 8 p. m. Saturday. Hie fire department trae called to keep ft under oon trot Mr*.' Homer Stark at Moultrie O*., 1* vMtlng Mr. W. A. BWtrap j and Mte Edna Bishop, who the week-end la Moultrie By What Authority? Lmwi br lUrek 11,1N1 IT rilht or wtmgt ThU li a talr.quoaUoB ?lwv?- Bot fw" la another question to (o with It. Who la to tay whether it la right or wrong? Who la the authori ty? "Authority" meana mora than "ordera." It meana the final Judge, the court of leet an. WWW Neither Tea nor the Cro^rd COME SAY: Nobody can tell me whet to do; I do ai I please. There la no authority I am bound to recognize. Such a person has an authority, all the aame: himself. For him, "what I want" and "what I like" are the only reasons for anything and all the reasons he wants. Now aside from the fact that such People are a nuisance to all con cerned. and the fact that they can't even prentend to be Christians, this point of view won't work. The per son who acts as his own authority runs Into others who take them selves as their authority, and the result Is the awful mess called an archy. So all sensible people do recognize some authority outside themselves. They want approval from outside, from above. Bat whose approval do they wont? Under whose Jurisdiction, as lawyers weald say, do they liveT Some recognise only that vast and vagoe authority known aa "Everybody." If everybody does It, H most be right. If no body does It, It's bound to be wrong. Well, this Is not necessarily so. Fifty million Frenchmen can be wrong, or 150 million Americana for that matter. You can't take a vote and decide what's right and what's wrong by a simple count of Ayes .nd Noes. Neither you alone, nor a crowd no matter how big. can be the final Authority on Life ? ? ? Calendar, Code, Conscience ANOTHER proposed authority, be lieve it or not. is the calendar. Vrr* pen-'e will not read a book or see a "how or wear a dress or listen to music that Isn't up to the minute ? If it's "dated" It's dead, unless the date is today That is silly. on the face ol It. But there are other more respect able authorities which are still not THE Authority One of these is the LaV If it's legal it's right, say some people, and it can't be right unless it's legal. There is something true in this, of course. We should by all means obey the laws, and also see that good laws are made and bad ones repealed. But law Is not the final authority on right and wrong. Law makers can make mistakes. What Is a good law at one time may be a bad law under other circum stances. The best laws can never catch op with the morals of the best people. Still ether people take as their authority conscience, meaning their earn conscience. - This la not quite the same aa taking your own wishes or pleasure for your guide. Your conscience may lay unwelcome burdens on you. But while every one should of course follow his eonselenee, still anybody's con science can be asleep or mis taken. Some of the worst crimes In his tory have been committed by some of the most conscientious people. ? 00 God's Last Word WHAT, THEN, Is the highest au thority for the Christian? Noth ing and no one lata than Jesus Christ himself. Aa we were think ing a feu weeks ago, the very word "Christ" la a symbol of au thority at the highest level. ta Jesus' day there were two supreme symbols eg God: the Law and the Temple. Jeuuu not only assumed superiority to the Law, but (aa our Lesson re- - --*1 as) at the Temple itaeif. k k ? - ?? ecclesiastical pesMaa what if there ki< Han today, H Is not that Jem ?a be authority for one ami n* fm ths what Is the faeti out for as sad tar aa mem Jesus Christ b God's word" lei - i tay that be law a ~vs Is the supreme authority, b ETL2f -7V b*t?ees the spirit of Jesus and be law ? lei _ *r ' kin. Jimmie Kacfart k stand ing the week to Ifaiyvllte, Tenn.. with her eon and dnitfiMMn-Mr, Mr. tad lilt Luther Kephart * Wildlife News By PAUL CRAWFORD Doge, especially "mad dogs", hare been receiving considerable attention here in Cherokee Coun ty the past lew weeks, ago we read that our ttve, J. H. Duncan, had invajUgat ed dog laws, and that ItaJph Moody, assistant attorney general, ted stated in a written opinion, dad he believed that the sOrte has adeqaSte and sufficient lanut it they are properly enforced. Jtjr checking the General Statutes of North Carolina, we find all of chapter 67, and part 7 of chapter 106, devoted to dog laws. We give >ou some brief statements from some of the laws in these chapters: It is the duty of the owner of every dog to have same vaccinat ed annually by'a rabies inspector. The owner of any dog who falls to have his dog vaccinated shall be guilty of a misdemeanor'. The county health officer may declare a quarantine against rabies in any designated district. JVhen quarantine has hewn estab lished. any police officer or deputy Sheriff has the right to apprehend or kill any dogs found running at large. It any dog shall kill or injure any livestock or fowls, the owner of the dog shall be liable far damages. No person shall allow Ms dog over six months oM. to run at large In the night time unaccom panied by the owner, some ber of the owners family, or i other person by the ownere per mission. Any person may kill any mad dog, and alas.any dog if he V killing ahaep, cattle, bogs, goats, or poultry. There are a number of dbg laws
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