5c PER COPY
$2.00 PER YEAR
INTER ED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THB POSTOFFICB
. AT TRYON, N. C- UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
THE mm DAM MLLEM
The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28
TRYON. N. C., WED., JANUARY 20, 1943
Do Hotels and Inns
Use Canned Food?
About twelve hundred pounds of j
^^cans were collected Tuesday,
^^uch larger quantity musthave
gone to the dump, as a majority I
of the hotels, boarding houses and
dwellings made no contribution. j
Another collection will be made I
in about a month and it is hoped |
that the response will be more
enthusiastic. If this material were
not needed the government would
not be making such urgent appeals !
for its conservation.
The Town of Tryon furnishes j
transportation when the collec
tions are made.—Salvage Commit
tee.
School Glee Club
At P.-T. A. Thursday
The Tryon Parent-Teachers as
sociation will meet Thursday af
^fcnoon at 3:30 at the Tryon
JPbol. The program will be pre
sented by the Tryon high school
Glee club under the direction of
Edwin Beach. A feature of the
meeting will be a cup shower for
the school cafeteria. Public is in
vited to the program and for the
tea afterwards. The hostesses will
be Mrs. W. R. Hoots, Mrs. B. B.
Bobo, Mrs. B. G. Henry, Mrs. E.
R. Goodyear, Mrs. L. C. Reynolds,
Mrs. B. B. Flynn, Mrs. C. A.
Martin, Mrs. David Todd.
Club will sing, “I Am An Am
erican,” “Prayer of Thanksgiving”,
“Steal Away”, “Stout Hearted
Men”, “Kerry Dance,” “Praise
Carol”, “Deck the Halls,” and
“Dream of Love,” an arrangement
of Fred Waring.
Brady Re-Elected Scout
Chairman for Polk
At the annual meeting of the
Piedmont Council Boy Scouts of
America, held Tuesday night in
Gastonia with representatives of
11 counties present, R. H. Brady
of Tryon was re-elected county
chairman or district vice-president
for Polk County. Those making
the trip to Gastonia were Council
Vice-president Nelson Jackson, Jr.,
Polk County Court of Honor
Chairman R. W. Blanchard, Tryon
Scoutmaster Dr. Will McCall, Try
on Cuhmasters J. M. Baker and
R. L. Dick.
Regional Executive W. A. Dob
son of Atlanta was the chief
speaker. Judge Bismark Capps of
Gastonia was re-elected Council
president, and Nelson Jackson, Jr.,
of Tryon was re-elected Council
vice-president.
Mr. Dobson gave a thrilling ad
dress in which he showed the
splendid work done by Boy Scouts
in their preparation for manhood
and citizenship. He gave war de
partment statistics which showed
that 20 per cent of the men in
the services are Boy Scouts, and
that 77 per cent of the decorations
awarded for bravery and distin
guished service have been given
to former Boy Scouts. One army
instructor told him that Boy Scout
training had saved the army three
months of training in many cases.
He said now is the time to give
more attention to the training of
our boys. The fingers of our con
sciences will be pointing at us in
the future if we fail now to pro
vide Boy Scout training. Every
patriotic citizen should £o out now
into isolated communities and or
ganize Boy Scout troops in order
to give them the important Scout
training.