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THE PRAYER CORNER ^ THE SCOUTS | My Dear Young Editors? I ? am sending you "The Prayer Corner" on THE SCOUTS" for your issue of TJie News. God j bless it to you, one and all, I and to all who ? read what you J so faithfully and lovingly ed ited. I Sincerely yours for the cause, ? ? C. D, C. One of the enactments of "The Scout Law" is brief and to the point ? "A Scout is courteous." True courtesy is never out of fashion But it is, after all, a -quite different quality from . fashionable good man ners. It is quite consistent with our seSf respect: but it includes habit* ual and instinctive consideration of the other man, and it requires that we should think of him with habit ual good will. What a different world our human world would be if we all were cour teous. Would you not like to ha vet it said of you as the English editor, Sir- Robertson Nichol once- said of Lord" Harcourt: "He was never known to do an unkind thing." Courtesy has its usual opportuni ty in little things.- It is not put on with evening dress or official robeH only for great occasions, "A small unkindness is a great offence," said Hannah Moore. Our courtesy is a different and much deeper thing than fashionable manners. It lays hold on the courtesy, the good will, the loving kindness of God. "Religi<Jh," says Archbishop Legh ton, "doth not prescribe, nor is sat isfied with such courtesy as goes no deeper than words and gestures, which sometimes is most contrary to that singleness which religion owns. These are the upper garments of malice; saluting him aloud in the morning whom they are undermining all the day, or sometimes, though more innocent, "flet it may be troublesome merely by the vain af fection, and access of it. Even this becomes not a wise man, much less a Christian. "Our courtesy goes deeper than all these superficial things to draw its inspiration from above and to take refuge under the shadows of ihe Second of the Great Command ments: Thou shalt love thy neigh bor as thyself." (See Mathew 22: 37-39). j A PRAYER FOR THE SCOUTS I Dear God, you are always near us, we know. We want to feel that we are near you. Make real our belief, deepen our trust, strengthen out love. So shall we more surely know that you are not beyond oui reach, and that we are close to one ?" another. ? Father, we know we ought to be on good terms with every one. We know that we should bear no ill will in our hearts, but be kind and for giving to all, even as you arel to us Teach us, therefore, to treat others as Jesus treated them, that NO^J ? and in the days t o come, we maj both forgive and forget every wrong even as we ourselves hope to hav< those whom we have wronged for give us. Our Heavenly Father, we. are Thj sons and daughters. Help us t< honor our father and mother as w< honor Thee. Teaqji us our duty tc our home, that it may be a happiei home belcause we are there. Let u; not act in any way to give pain t< those who love us. May our lif< bring them joy and honor, nevei sorrow or shame. In place of sec recy, give us honest and open hearts Make us thankful for all they hav< done for u$. So in honoring then may we honor Thee and learn to b< ,like Jefeus ChrisF. i Grant, 0 Lord, that in all th( i joys of life we may never forget t< bs kind and courteous. Help us t< i be unselfish in friendship, thought ful of those less happy than our i selves, and eager to bear the burd ens of others. Keep us ready t< help others at some cost to our selves. Send us chances to do a lit tie good every day, and so grov more like Christ. And unto Thee dear Father, an< ;Thee dear Jesus, and Thee dea: i Spirit, shall be all the praise, nov and evelr, Amen. ? C. D. C. BEE GEE'S CORNER THE MOONSHINE STILL, AND THE MOONSHINER Today we hear more of the "moon shine stills" (whether on lower Manhattan Island, , in the "foreign" districts of Chicago, or in thel moun tain areas), than nearly any sub ject. The Southern Appalachian section gets a large proportion of the credit of the "moonshine activi ties," regardleiss of the fact that one large outfit captured in New York, Pennsylvania or Illinois, may be able to make more liquor in a day than all the stills in half a dozen of the mountain counties in a weiek. Since the adoption of the Eight eenth Amendment, and the enact ment of he prohibition laws, and the consequent high price of illegal liquor, it is true that a large num ber of mountain distillers have en gaged in this traffic "for revenue only," and many of them have de veloped a marked ability in "cut ting." "adulterating," "re-running over and over again, ' so as to make their product bring them a high rev enue. However., this is a product of the conditions of the last fefw dec ades, and has little if any bearing on the development of the "moonshine still" as it has long been known. I The original "moonshine* still" was primarily an economic development, and not a development of criminals and lawbreakers. * I A century ago. . it was the usual thing for a supply of whiskey, wine, -J YOUR EYES Should be carefully exam ined once each year. That is simply guarding against se rious trouble later in life. Dr. F. B. RAYBURN OPTOMETRIST Post Office Building Each TUESDAY Afternoon 1 to 5 o'clock Home Office with W. H. HAWKINS & SON Hendersonville ale, or brandy to sit openly on th< sideboard of nearly every house Dealing in liquor was, by many con sidered an unpardonable crime. Oi the other hand, it was almost as un pardonable for a family, even fairl; well-to-do, for a family to not havi a supply on hand, for themselves an< for their guests. | A well-to-do planter considered i , still as almost as necessary a par of his equipment as his plows. Th main crops were corn, rye, apples ; peaches and errapes.. The local de mand was limited. To haul th crops a great distance cost mor than the crops would bring at des tination. The only way to save bumper crop was to turn it into th form of distilled spirits. In thi iform, highly concentrated and pow jerful, a man could carry mor ; "crops" in his saddle bags than ; wagon could haul in the form "a grown,." and more easily market able, and at a higher price. Under these conditions, drinkinj ( was practically universal. But drink ling to excess was a rarity ? espec . ially in the rural districts. From time immemorial, our fore fathers were accustomed to mak< ales, wines, brandies and whiskies to keep them on hand at all times and to dispense them at thei pleasure. , Before the early settlers came t< this country, the same- was true o the old countries. In England, Scot land and Ireland, depending on th? location, one would always find ale stout, brandy or whiskey, and oftei the whole round. The< excise law (taxes on spirits) were the most un popular jaws of England. Be hi prince or peasant, it was the except tional man who objected to his liq our being a liquor that had "not pai< tax to the crown." The ordinary man did not consider it a crime t< either beat un or kill a "gauger" oi "collector of excise taxes." The' same traditions permeated th< early settlers of this country, fron Boston Bay to Camp Oglethorpe The governing: powers did not inter fere! with these traditions. Th< "Whiskery Rebellion" in Westerr Pennsylvania, during the term oJ George Washington as president came near wrecking the New Repub lie. After the "Whiskey Rebellion' ? nominally "put down" but actual ly compromised ? the question oi excise did not arise in the Unitec States until the Civil War. As a war measure, to help detfraj the cost of the Civil War, Congress passed a tax on whiskey, originallj ? | Don't Be Afraid! I fO GIVE THE BABY I OUR MILK TO DRINK! Our cows are Tubercular-tested, and pronounced I Good. Our bottles are steam-sterilized, hence no danger of getting contagious diseases from bottles I picked up where there is sickness. ? j . ? We keep our barn and dairy just like we were I expecting the inspector to arrive any minute. , 1 Eastview Farm Dairy '? C. K- Osborne & Son Telephone 173 wLCwk' ' til C ll ? ?J it v ? . raised to a dollar and un ^nls ? gallon. This tax, though originally passed as a war measure, was con tinued until the adoption of (he Eighteenth Amendment to the Con si tution in 1918. With the foregoing explanations it is easy to visualize conditions in these mountain sections. The p-o pie were practically self supporting but, at the same time, they had to have a certain amount of "hard cash." It took actual hard m'on > to pay taxes, to buy salt, coffee, tea and sugar, and to buy instruments, luxuries and conveniences that could not be supplied by the local crafts men. Mining in this territory was un known. Timber and timber products had only a local demand ? transpor tation costs precluded export. The surplus crops grown were in like condition ? it would cost more to get them to markeft than they would bring. It being absolutely necessary to have "hard money," the eceonom ic conditions forced turning the sur plus crops into a form that could be easily transported, and would al ways bring a good price. Hence, the "still" as a part of the regular farm equipment When Uncle Sam imposed a tax on liquor, the ordinary mountaineer gave b^t little weight to the law. At best he had but a hazy idea of the Federal Government, and cared less about the government getting pay for the costs of the Civil War. For generations, he had had the idea that he had a perfect right to make anything he pleased out of anything he grew. At all times it was hard sledding for him to get enough "hard money" to pay his taxes, and the "excise law", was Regarded as an in fringement on his rights. . With the widespread corruption in governmental circles among the var ious "Whiskey Rings" during the quarter of a century after the Civil War, he did not bother his head. About all he knew of the Federal Government was an occasional visit to court at Charlotte or Greensboro, and later at Asheville, either as a de fendant or a witness, w"Hich might occur when either he or his neigh bor happened to be caught by an occasional visit to a Deputy Marshall or an Internal Revenue Collector. The activities of the Bureau of In ternal Revenue did result in his mov ing his still from his farm buildings to a point up one of the numerous coves on or near his farm. He also early developed the idea of placing a still, either badly worn or cheaply constructed, on the same stream with but below his 'still, with the "plan" arranged to have all the ap pearances of being operated. Then, with a judicious use of the "supply on hand," placed "where it would do the most good," he would gener ally be able to steer matters so that the officer would "cut up" the 1 "plant," and make a report that the outfit was cut up in too wild a sec ion to be brought out, and, most im portant, to report that no operator was caught. The remains of the "plant" could be patched up a little and made do duty as another "plant" from time to time. Until a comparatively recent time, the "moonshiner" cared very j little for the monetary returns. He was under necessity of raising enough "hard money" to pay his taxes. A "run" or so, judiciously handled for friend at a distance, would meet this demand, and pos sibly supply him with salt and sugar and coffee. Beyond this, you could not insult him worse than to offer to buy liquor from him. If he liked you. he would gladly give you all you could carry, internally and exter nally. If he didn't, you had better | move on. I Conditions have changed, and the , supply of money conies from other ! sources. . The old time moonshiner would consider himself eternally disgraced ; if he sat out a bottlei or a jug that j contained anything but a pure ; liquor. He prided himself more on i the quality of his liquor than on the abilities of his "houn dawg," or on the accurate shooting of his rifle. : The adulteration and cutting was un known, and would not have been j tolerated. Since the Eighteenth Amendment, and the Volstead Act, the high price of the contraband spirits has brought into the "moonshine" operators all sorts and conditions of people ? the various classes that give an undue value to a dollar. There1 is as mu^'n difference between the modern ^moonshiner and the old timel article as there is between the modem eight cylinder, high priced pleasure car, and thei old rough mountain sled that is still used in some of the back coves. Times have changed, but they don't all change in the same direc tion. 1 Even with the changed times, there is still an occasional moun taineer to bo found (who has the same old handmade copper outfit possibly made by his father and prandfarther) that he has had for years, who makes an occasional "run" for himself arid friends; who would sooner lose his right hand than to sell even a drink; who is never classed as a "moonshine?;" who would^ resent it as a mortal in sult. if any one offered to buy a drink or some liquor from him; but who, should you be one of the for tunate ones invited to enjoy his hos pitality, would set before you a jug whose contents would far surpass the fabled "Ambrosia" and "Nectar" of the Gods, and which would cheer one, make one "love everybody," ex hilerate one, but would never fur nish even the suspicion of a head ache. . Verily, the advertising of the Eighteenth Amendment and of the various prohibition arts, and the changed conditions resulting, have given the old fashioned moonshiner an unmerited name. SuV ~ ? ? rm~~ From General Motors comes tb6 announcement of . the Cold Control M Offered only onFrigidaire. Gives auto matic regulation of temperature in freezing compartment. Speeds freez ing of ice cubes. Makes dozens of tiezo desserts possible. COLD Control is a simple dial that enables you to regulate the time required to make spark ling ice cubes . . . unusual frozen salads . . . delicious new ices and desserts. . w . If it's afternoon, you can have ice cubes for the dinner table . . . perhaps a delicious new frozen, dessert. Simply set the lever at colder . . . the point that's "colder than cold" ... fill the ice trays with water . . . put the material for your dessert in another freezing tray. Sparkling full-sized ice cubes . . . the frozen dessert ... all will be ready. Such exclusive features as these have made Frigid aire the choice of more people than all other makes of electric refrigerators combined. Frigidaire prices today are so small and its savings so great that it starts paying its entire cost the day it is installed. A small deposit will put Frigidaire in your home to morrow. Stop in at our display room. REUSING LIGHT & REFRIGERATING CO. FLAT IRON BUILDING ASHEV1LLE, N. C. ?" - I Jk ? FOLLOWING ARE MY NEW PRICES V /,??> : : -r " i V GOODYEAR TIRES The changes are lower on smaller sizes, and a small increase in the very biggest Balloon Tires. All High Pressure Tires reduced* 30x3 !/2 Pathfinder $5.50 30x3^ Over sized Pathfinder . . . 6.30 30x31/2 All Weather 6.75 30x3 Over sized All weather. . . 7.4? 32x4 All Weather tread 12.80 33x41/2 18.00 30x5 All Weather tread ....... .21.45 33x5 All Weather tread 23.50 34x5 All Weather tread 35x5 All Weather tread 25.20 29x4 ;40 Standard A W T 8.25 29x4 ;40 6 ply Heavy Duty 11.50 29x4 ;50 Standard AWT 8.85 30x4:50 Standard A W T 9.20 30x4:50 6 ply Heavy Duty 12.30 30x5 ;00 Standard AWT 11.35 . 31x500 Standard AWT 11.85 31x5 ;25 Standard AWT 13.60 32x6 ;00 Standard AWT 15.95 33x6 ;00 Standard AWT 19.50 This makes GOODYEAR TIRES and TUBES cheaper than they have been in thirty years. If your size is not listed call one-O-seven or drop me a card and you will be sur prised. If you need truck tires, well, the best thing I do is to satisfy truck owners as to what their tires cost. See me. Don't let your wife drive a car this sort,; of weather with slick tires, but get her a new set of Goodyears and she won't have to use chains. 1 have heard lots of talk about tires, and the more I hear the gladder I get that I sell G? 0? O? D? Y? E? A? R? S. ' < C' Here's some tire "TALK" ? R. W. Everett, prominent citizen of Brevard, took a Goodyear off his Hupmobile touring car that had run over twenty-seven thousand, three hundred miles. . Mr. Everett says that he expects to use Goodyears in the future, exclusively. If you haven't been using Goodyear Tires and Tubes, it is time you were trying out the tire that more people ride on than any other kind, AND THE PRICE IS R-I-G-H-T. * CALL 107 OR SEE ED McCOY at the PISGAH FOREST POSTOFFICE "RIDE A FEW MILES AND SAVE A FEW DOLLARS Support the Girl Scout Movement
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