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VOL, LI
Number 29
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More Area Needed for Smokies Park
I''\’I’^LOJ-’M l'2i\T of the (jreat Smoky Mountains
National Park already has had a very marked
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influence in promoting- the tourist business of West
tern North Carcjlina, but delay in the formal open
ing- of the park is depriving- this section of the full
benefits to be derived from this marvelous public
])layg-round.
The very heart of the park is now accessible by
hard-surfaced highways, and work is well under
way on the scenic hig-hway connecting the Smokies
with the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia,
a highway which will ])our many thousands of vis
itors into Western North Carolina.
J3ut facilities for caring for the multitudes that
are sure to visit the Smokies Park have not been
provided, and likely will not be until the park itself
is completed.
Half a million dollars is needed to buy land to
reach the required area of the park, Arno B. Cam-
merer, director of the National Park Service, told
the North Carolina Press Association at Waynes-
ville last P'riday night.
“1 am not willing to recommend the conijjlete
establishment of the park until the original objec
tive of 427,(J00 acres has been achieved,” Mr. Cam-
merer ex^plained. “We have in hand 393,000, but
good faith compels us to abide by the original
agreement.”
Certainly we should not lower our sights from
this original objective; it would not be dealing
squarely by ourselves or by those.who already have
contributed to establishment of the park. The full
area should be acquired and with as little loss of
time as i)ossible. It behooves the i>eople of North
Carolina and Tennessee to find means of supplying
the necessary half millio-n dollars. If congress can
not be ])revailed upon at its next session to provide
the money, then it should be api)ropriated by the
tw'o states or raised by voluntary subscriptions,
'rhe lack of half a million dollars should not be per
mitted long to delay completion of this great public
domain. Let’s not let another summer pass with
the (ireat Smoky Mountains National park un
dedicated and unprepared to provide adequate ac
commodations for the beauty-lovers who each year
are visiting it in increasing numbers.
cAdded
TO
MOVE OVER
I'M IN THIS Race
iim
Bruce-
Barton
A Fine Community
attractive appearance of our neighboring
town of Waynesville has always enchanted us;
but until last week we had enjoyed only a casual
accjuaintance with the people of that community.
Now, after having spent two days in Waynesville
attending the annual convention of the Xorth Car
olina Press Association, we are more impressed
with its people and their fine conununity spirit
than we are w'ith their corporate pulchritude.
Never in any town were visitors more delight
fully entertained than w'ere the newspaper folk of
Xorth Carolina who went to Waynesville. Upon
iiujuiry we discovered the reason. For two years
the i)eople of Waynesville had been ])lanning and
l>reparing for the press convention. Some capable
person was in charge of eve»\' minute detail, so
everytJiing went off without a hitch. B,ut this was
just the machinery of entertainment; what was
more important was the ever-dominant spirit of
hos])itality. The whole community joined in mak
ing the visitors feel that they were honored guests.
Convention-goers usually expect to pay and pay
a ])lenty for their good time; but that was not the
case in Waynesville. The hotels, instead of increas
ing rates, cut them in half. Delegates even found
it difficult to buy a Coca-Cola; a convention badge
was a carte blanche to everything.
Waynesville is situated in a natural beauty spot;
but with the same citizenry it would be a fine, at
tractive town even if it were set down in the mid
dle of the Sahara desert.
NEVER THE WHOLE
SECRET
I listened the other day to an il
lustrated lecture by a celebrated
authority on the pituitary gland.
I'o an ignorant layman it was a
fascinating revelation. This tiny
organism, hardly bigger than a
couple of paanuts, is imbedded in
the base of the brain, from which
point it proceeds to perform mir
acles of good or ill in human life.
A deficcncy in its action may pro
duce a giant or a pigmy. Baby rats
and pigeons, when an extra supply
of Its hormones is injected into
them, leap into sudden maturity,
Icliot children have been put on the
path to normalcy by the correction
of an under-developed condition of
the gland.
One left the room with a bewild
ered sense of awe. If such immense
changes m human personality can
now .be definitely related to this
tiny gland,^ which was utterly un-
what
more will be discovered presently?
Does the whole secret of all that
has hitherto been mysterious about
men and women He in this infinite
simal Controller?
Not the whole secret, certainly
? ere still will be some things to
^ explained long after the secret
of the glands has been fully ex-
^ored. Immanuel Kant, the phi
fesopher, remarked that ther SL
two things m the universe that prT
oked his undying reverence—the
starry firmament above hitr, j
the moral la* *i,hi„
Vhat IS this moral law? This
to take the hemlock xS ^°"ates
so easily have saved his life'wS
I'ed Jesus to the crms t, ,
road to Galillee and SetT r
ways open before Him? ^
n.;r'a£ Ie"aS.Sr,o%r'
nature a Control that k vT
than self-interest-and it '
the pituitary gland.
and both si^
PROFIT ^
The head-master of a Ko . ,
who has gained a
special wisdom
dealing ^ith
youngsters, .tells me that the really
bad boy” is practically non-exis
tent. Occasionally one turns up who
is inspired by the devil and has to
be sent away, but these cases are
rare. The trouble comes with the
normal, well-meaning boys who, by
carelessness or extra hilarity, get
themselves into situations that re
flect discredit on the school.
How do you deal with such
cases?” I asked.
He answered that the problem
had puzzled him for a long time,
but that now he has a formula.
s very simple, but it works
wonders When the boy is brought
to my office for judgment I talk to
” about the honor of his family
name and the proud name of the
school. I show him that I am dis
appointed and distressed. And then
[ say to him: ‘Honestly, I don’t
.ta. to do i„ /',ase “ke
tos. I guess you’ll have to help
about tv and think
S of yours over
ask wh^t place, and
I escribe if my responsibility were
on your shoulders. Whatever deri
variSlv'^’th added: “In-
ever have than I would
for ihe benefit'of wisdom
Struggled with tli have
t'iscipline. It has in^-'t
business men aL A ^
of my acquaint- ^ ^®‘‘y rich man
has made mo " of hi,
this precept: "urthe " tl°'-
-an make the propoiT^L.Vsa"
man comerthmj'7 ^he other
that is more tha ^ Proposal
any good unlet"br‘-
he says, and there k '
amount of fairness in ^ ^“’'Prising
‘f you give it a human nature
% ' “ to come out.
(,U>'pynght, K.F.S.)
nard Taney,\"otf?p''‘^ Leo-
quietly married in th
Peeds office Mon?l ^'^S'ster of
13 with GLS^fert^^ng, July
peace, offilating! "
Muse’s C(
THE SOUTHER
SINGING CONVEl
BETHEL CHi
By Troy F,
It was on the 12th o:
When we ate beam
pie,
And had more tun
hold.
And friends we im
gold.
That squad of folk
grand,
This side of Heavei
To meet and treat it
Which never will
soon.
At Bethel church tlir
town,
Where all wore s
a frow'n.
With a true blue sp
intention.
They had the Son
Singing Conventio
Clinic for Crippl
To Be Held Sat
The regular tnon
children’s clinic for tl
Jackson, Macon, S\i
Cherokee and Clay
the high school in Bi
Saturday, J.uly l^i
9:30 a. m.
All crippled childre
are invited to atteJ
for examination. Dr. ]
ders, of Asheville, is_
physician. Simon P-
son City, is chairman
committee. Others sM
Davis on the cornnutl
Morgan and Dr. Ge
Mrs. H. C. Hart is s
J. H. Clippard, assis
cational rehabilitatio'
will attend the din#
Mrs. Appelt, of the ^
crippled children’s co:
Further information
tained from Mr. IJ®
members of his c®
Hart, and from ai>)
the Rotary clubs ot ^
li.n, Bryson City, An
Lions Club at Mur^
RUINING THE COU
Under the recovery
ports William 0. ^
Securities and Exc^
sion, the national w
creased about $160
the national debt ha^ ^
about $60 per capi^
This fellow Roos«"
the country.—Raleig"
server.