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Consolidated Novambdr 2, 1911
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VOL. XXI
MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAf AUGUST 23, 1929
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WHAT IS THERE ABOUT SHIRT TAIL
THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED AS SO
FRIGHTFULLY IMMODEST?
Remember Things That Were
Utterly Shocking ' Yester
day Are Commonplace
Today .
to it were put off the floor. Large
placards were to be found at most of
the dancing floors, giving notice that
no ragging would be tolerated. A girl
who permitted her partner to rag was
regarded as having sunk to the depths
. of depravity.
By Carl Goerch in Newt and Ob- It wasn't long, however, before
server, Raleigh, N. C. everybody began ragging, and then
Speaking from a general standpoint nobody thought anything more about
.there is no such thing as modesty; it's jit. As long as only a few were doing
a conventionality. There is no such it the practice was considered as be-
thing as immodesty; it's unconven-ing disgraceful. When that particu.
Help For The Veteran
The American Legion, District of
Columbia Department, has started
something needed in the form of a
non-profiting, employment bureau for
aiding former service men who are
out of work. Veterans are register
ed, facts about them recorded, and
references carefully investigated.
When an employer needs a man the
facts about several men who can pos-,
CONTROVERSY
IS REVIVED
RELATIVE HEIGHT OF MOUNT
. MITCHELL AND CLINGMAN'S
DOME AND MOUNT GUY
V V OT UNDER FIRE.
-'Asheville, N. C, Aug, 22, A con
troversy, three quarters of a century
COURT NEXT WEEK IN
MADISON COUNTY
tionality.
Modesty, according to Webster, is
"free from all undue familiarity, in
decency or lewdness: restrained with
in due limits of propriety." Con
ventionality is "adhering to social
formalities or usages."
If a : woman were to pause on
Main street, lift up her skirt and ad
just her garter, passers-by would
jasp in astonishment, and the general
verdict would be that she was the
personification of all things immodest.
And yet, that same woman can
wander up and down the beach, at
tired in the most abbreviated kind of
i costume, and nobody pays any at
;ention to her whatsoever. Her legs
ire bare and most of her back is in
;he same state. She is not consid
jred immodest.
This summer the stockingless vogue
s gaining numerous followers. First
ff there was much criticism concern
ng the style and the opinion of many
)eople seemed to be that anyone wno
ippeared in public places without
itockings was doing something of a
lecidedly brazen nature.
Why are bare legs considered per
'ectly proper on the beach and why
ire they censured on the streets?
You answer that one.
W. O. Saunders, of Elizabeth
3ity, appears in public in a pair of
lajamas, and people raise their hands
n horror.. v
"The height of indecency 1", .
r"H6w terribly immodest!"
"Positively shocking I"
These, and similar comments were
ieard everywhere. But what was
here about Saunders' costume that
ras indecent? Where did the 1m
lodesty come in? What was so
erribly shocking about it?
Pajamas consist of a coat and
ants. They afford just as decent a
overing for a man's body as does a
'aim Beach suit. Nobody has any
iistification for saying there is any
!iing indecent about a, pajama-ward-be.
It isn't a matter of modesty; it's
jnventionality.
It is because Saunders departed
rom the conventional garb of men
lat all the criticism was raised. So I
ir as modesty and immodesty are
jncerned, they cannot possibly he
nsidered as factors.
Suppose, this afternoon, you were
be walking along the principal
xeet in your town and should take
sudden notion to pull out the tail
f your shirt and let it hang on the
it side of your trousers, instead of
s customary place.
Everybody you met would think
u were either crazy or frightfully
imodest.
What in the world is there about a
lirt-tail that can be considered im
odest? People aren't in the habit of going
tout with their shirt-tails exposed,
i when somebody gets the idea that
'would be more comfortable to let
iem stay out, instead of letting
em constantly try to get out, he is
garded as being immodest.'
Where is there any Bense in such a
arge?
Another supposition. Suppose you
sre occupying a dressing room in
me bath-house at the beach. While
a state of what might be called
gligee, you discover that yon are
t of cigarettes. Yon take stock of
ur costume and find that you have
; your shoes and box, an athletic
irt and what are known as "shorts."
lening the door of your room, you
unter out Into the open and stroll
to the place where cigarettes are
idv : :::-- " v
Seventeen women faint and the
lice reserves are called out.
Why? . Because yon proved your
f indecent , Because yon are re-
rded las having' done . something i
y immodest. After you have sefe
d things with the police, yon re
n to the bath-room, shed the shoes
c and shirt and shorts, and don1 a
;hing suit that is far more abbrevi
d and that exposes much more of
ir body than did your former cos
ne. ' ' i-- f ; 3 i'. -iVhv
should your, appearance in
rt and shorts be considered int
dest? Why should it be perfectly
per to wear one of these scanty
hing SUitS? ':-.V-;.' '
lot because Of modesty, but be
st of conventionality.- 1 i :
Lbout 18 or 20 years ago,; young
cs began abandoning the waits
two-step. A new kind ' of a
e had come in; a horrible, wi
ly dance, generally referred to
.he rag." Dancers who resorted
lar form of dancing: became general,
criticism and condemnation were dis
carded. If everybody in Elizabeth City
were to appear in pajamas tomorrow
morning, nobody would notice' any
thing unusual or "immodest" about
the apparel.
To be modest, therefore, it would
seem that you have to do as the
crowd does. If you are doing a thing
all by yourself, you are guilty of im
modesty. Last Sunday morning, before I had
finished dressing, I went out on the
front porch to see the paper. When I
returned my wife chanced to see me.
It so happened that I had failed to
put on a shirt.
Did you go out on the porch in
your undershirt: she inquired, in
horrified accents.
I admitted the truth of the accusa
tion.
"Suppose somebody had seen you."
she protested.
Well, what if somebody had seen
me? What is there out-of-the-way
about a sleeveless shirt? Where
does the immodesty come in?
Modesty has nothing to do with it
whatsoever.
The women used to wear a gown
which was called the "slit skirt." It
had a' short slash up the side, reveal
ing casual glimpses of ankle and calf.
The garment was considered the
height, of immodesty for, a mqnth or
so.
Look what they're wearing today 1
And yet, the knee-length skirts of
today are considered respectable and
modest in every respect.
What is considered extremely im
modest today becomes entirely mod
est tomorrow.
Modesty, it would seem is based
upon conventionality, ana conven
tionality is based upon the abhorence
and dislike of the average individual
to see someone else do something of
an original nature. Modesty, there
fore, is akin to jealousy.
Going: back once more to W. O.
Saunders and his pajamas. The
principal reason why there has been
so much criticism concerning hid little
experience is because it proved him
to be original, daring, inventive and
unconventional. There was absolute
ly no reason in the world for all the
hullabaloo that was raised. Nary a
solitary reason. If people had pass
ed him by with a polite greeting, if
the preachers and editorial writers
had ignored him, if the whole thing
had been treated as an every-day
occurrence, unworthy of special at
tention, Mt .Saunders would have
stalked back to his domicile, ripped
off his pajamas, donned his regular
suit, and cussed out everybody and
everything in Elizabeth City for fail
ing to appreciate his originality.
People don'flttreTor anybody to
be original. Originality in wearing
apparel is termed immodesty. Origi
nality in conduct is termed eccentri
city. Originality in thought is radi
cal.
And yet. when you come to think
about it, practically all the progress
that has been made in the world has
been made by people who hao. origi
nal ideas of some kind or another.
Originality is the ppice of life. You
can get a bigger kick in five minutes
by doing something original than you
can out of following the conventions
for a life-time. If you don't believe
it, try it out for yourself. Try Saun
ders' pajama stunt, if you wish.. Pull
out your shirt-tail and let it flap in
the breeze. Throw your collars ana
neckties into the garbage can, where
they should have been placed many
vears asro. if you are a woman,
dieted to the cigarette habit,' throw
rxy your cigarettes and start using
a corn-cOb pipe. you warn o gy
efooted down to work, whose busi-
tipm I it. exceot your own. '
Modesty? Nothing but a lot of
rubbish, so far as ninety per cent of
the so-called modesty is concerned. --
The only reason I don't come out
in pajamas myself is that I wear night
shirts. The only reason 1 don't come
nut In a nlcrht ah Irt that I : "-:
- Wall, never mind the reason t
just naturally ain't going to da "It
modesty or no modesty. . - - - x
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sibly meet his qualifications are avail-iwi revivea nere
.. . ,. T. ... . , . it Was discovered that Clirvgman s
could be carried on all over the coun
try we would soon hear less about
the out-of-work veteran. It would,
too, kill off a lot of men who plead
the service-to-country act, but are
loafers in intent.
SHELTON DEAD;
WIFE IS HELD
Fred Shelton, said to. have been
shot by his wife, Flossie Shelton, who
is being held in the Madison county
jail at Marshall, died at a hospital in
Greeneville, Ttnn., shortly after mid
night Tuesday morning, August 20,
after he had clung tenaciously to
life for 34 days with a bullet wound
in his head.
Since Shelton was taken to the
hospital from Madison county, on the
night of July 16, he had been in a
semi-conscious condition, and several
days ago the hospital attaches gave
up hope for his recovery.
Shelton did not ciseuss the -hooting
during his stay at the ho.pital,
other than to whisper aiino.-i iotally
incoherent and scattering remarks
while in a semi-conscious state. Ac
cording to reports, one of these whis
pered statements was: "It was no
accident."
The body was sent to Shelton's rel
atives in Madison for burial.
Flossie Shelton, his bride of a few
weeks, is being held in the jail at
Marshall without bond on a charge of
firing bflfata4'ahOt. It haTbeen re
ported that no preliminary hearing
will be held for Mrs. Shelton, due to
the nearness of the Madison county
term of Superior Court, which will
convene Monday, and that the hear
ing will be held before the Grand
Jury.
Dome, a high mountain in the Great
Smky Mountains National ParK near
Asheville was on tentative barometric
measurements, conducted by the U. S.
Geological Survey, declared to be
higher than Mount Mitchell in the
Blaqk Mountains east of the city.
A$imilar controversy raged in 1848
when 'Thomas Clincrman and Dr. Eli-
sha Blitchell, after whom the two
mountains were named, each claimed
for his peak the honor of being the
highest mountain in eastern America.
Dr. JUitchell lost his life in scaling
Mount Mitchell to prpve the height of
that peak.
v A (third rival tor tne neigni aDoye
sea level supremacy has appeared in
the little known Mount Guyot in the
heart of the Great Smoky Mountains
wilderness. Mount Guyot, barome
trical ftwjasurements show to be high
er jthafceither Mount Mitchell of
Clinirtiah's Dome. As the measure-
mehtsco,mpleted by the Geological
SuryeyPwere barometrical only and
the cul height must be decided
withjsflrfteylng instruments there are
many; fto-still believe that lordly
MourifciMitChe11 will not be dethroned
fromi; the position of highest mount
ain in .the east.
ThjBiftftiVation of Mount Mitchell is
determined--at 6,711 feet above sea
levelJf i'.Ther' barometrical measure
ment! Bho-vfc' that Clingman's Dome is
above 6,W& leet in altitude and the
sumnjit oFMo'unt Guyot towers 7.025
feet aboT the sea. These latter two
altitutlesyfiheweveri; are at present
tentative,' hence the controversy.
1 yyg.;'
TROUTIEARED
IN ASHEVILLE
PUBLIC SQUARE
THOSE BACK SEAT BLUES
The salesman calls it a rumble seat,
To many it's a humble seat,
To mother-in-laws a grumble seat,
To tourists just a jumble seat,
To sister it's a mumble seat,
To grandpa it's a stumble seat,
To wise gals, just a dumb belle seat.
The Pathfinder.
"O Brung Bacj Mu Typist T' M3"
I
My typust is qway on hjer vacatuon
Mu typost ix awt fot a werk
My tyiat id away in her vaxatium
i While thesw keuys play hide anf serk.
Bjing back, bing bzch, brung bqck
My typixt tu me, to mr
Bging bxcj, brinf bacj, bting baxk
muy rypist to mee.
The Pathfinder.
THREE MURDER CASES
MAY BE TRIED
"whoozit in
MADISON"
'ZEB MERRILL"
Superior Court, which will be held
in Marshall next week with Judge T.
B. Finley, of Wilkesboro, presiding,
may prove to be one of unusual inter
est. It seems quite probable ' that
three murder cases will be for trial.
The fact that Fred Shelton is dead,
j h is wife, Mrs. Flossie Shelton, who is
held without bond in a cell in the jail
at Marshall will be tried for murder,
las he !s said to have died from shots
fired by Mrs. Shelton.
State vs. John Davis is on docket.
Davis is paid to have shot and killed
Bunt Roberts on the Doe Branch sec
tion of Madison county in a quarrel.
It is also possible, if not probable,
that the case involving the two Lan
ders brothers in the shooting of Al
bert King and Arthur Stanton, who
are now in the county jail awaiting
trial, will be heard. It seems that the
case may be delayed on account of
the little Stanton girl, now in an
Asheville hospital, not being able to
testify. This twelve-year-old girl
Vtn be an important witness when
the .case is tried, and if her condition
is such that she cannot attend court,
the case may be continued.
DID YOU KNOW-
Once upon a time a horny-handed
hillside farmer tied a plow line a-
round a calf's neck, handed the other
end pf the rope to his young son and
gave mm instructions as ionows: TW fW nrp :n nj npnr
Take this calf to town and sail '
him to the butcher. I want $5.00 I Asheville. 13 wood workine
for the calf, but if the butcher will (,.,-,,., D a
not pay five, you can back down, 50 , plants, 11 textile mills, flour,
cents at a step, to $3.00 If the ; d jgt m g artificial
butcher will not pay you $3.00, bring , B
the calf and the rope back home." stone plants and 2 stone cutting
The boy set off on his errand and i,,,., , . ,
conducted the calf to the butcher's establishments, 4 sheet metal
door, where ensued the following dia- 'WOrks, and 4 manufacturers of
logue : - I
Boy: "Pop sent me in to sellyou pottery, in addition to many
Butcher: "How much does he want other establishments manufac-
Merrily They Rumble
Along
Rumble seat riders will give a vote
of thanks to the inventor of the so
called rumbletop now seen on a large
number of cars on Fifth Avenue, New
York, and other great arteries of au
tomobile traffic. This ingenious de
vice is carried in a small space when
days are fair and warm, but when
sudden showers or chilly nights make
protection necessary the rumbletop is
quickly assembled. Transparent Py
ralin side and rear windows enable
the rumblers to view the landscape.
In short, this ultra-modern accessory
transforms the two-seater sports
coupe into a four-passenger closed
car.
Hebrew'Holy Days Are
Recognized
Men of Jewish faith in the Navy
will be granted leave in the future
when conditions permit, to observe
their high holy days, Rosh Hashonah,
and Yom Kippur. They will not be
the less valuable to their country be
cause they have a religious faith, and
make it known.
Asheville, N. C, August 21.
Asheville is probably the only city in
the United States where the angler,
were he allowed to do so, could pur
sue his "favorite sport in the center of
the public square. Over 5,000 brook
and rainbow trout disport themselves
in the great electric fountain which is
an ornament of the civic center, the
fish having been placed there for rear
ing purposes.
Baby trout wkere placed in the
fountain early in the year by W. M.
Smathers, local fisherman and conser
vationist. They were taken from the
Balsam Fish Hatchery near Asheville
while auite vounsr and will be fed
throusrh the summer season, the food
being provided by one of the markets
of the city. Late in the fall they will
be placed in the many trout streams
near Asheville.
Asheville has become a mecca for
fishermen owing to the restocking
Dolicv which has kept the streams of
this section alive with brook and rain
bow trout. Hundreds of miles of
good fishing waters are available in
the mountains near the city, nearly
200 miles of which are in the protect
ed Pisgah National Game Preserve in
which fishing is allowed during a part
of the summer months.
The long fishing season which ex
tends from April to September has
been made possible through the con
servation of the fish resources during
the year. An attraction also is the
bass fishing which has become more
important with the creation by dam
ming of streams of nearly fifty arti
ficial lakes in the vicinity of the city.
t Tobacco coring and. grading has
now begun in all parte of the State.
Growers are encouraged by the good
prices prevailing on the Georgia mar.
: Though a county agent haa been
at work in Stokes County since the
first of July, he has already placed
several pore bred dairy heifers.
HAVE YOU A RELATIVE OR FRIEND
WHO HAS LEFT NORTH CAROLINA?
If o, yon can help bring him or her back for the greateit gathering
of former Tar HeeU ever attempted in North Carolina. Tha State,
through Covenor O. Max Gardner and the HOME-COMING COMMIT
TEE, widiea to extend a cordial invitation to ; these strayed sons and
daughters to com homo for State and Connty celebrations, October
12.19, 1929. Every resident of North Carolina can help by providing
names of former Tar Heels to whom these invitations may be sent.
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Every person in the State is urged to fill in the blank below wgtb
the name and address of friend or relative who has formerly made his
orher borne in North Carolina and forward it to the Department of Con
serration an Development, Raleigh, N. C.
(Person suggesting name)
(City or town)
(Name of formtr Tar Heel)
1 :
I - (Native eoonty) , -
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(Full Address)
(Occupation)
$5.00 but said if you would not pay
that much, I could come down to
$3.00."
And the boy went back home with
Three Dollars and the Rope!
i
We are relating this story, which is
really an old one, simply to make it
clear to you what kind of a boy Zeb
Merrill WAS NOT! We know
not much of his boyhood but from his
present day reputation we would sur
mise that if Zeb had been the boy in
the story, he would have held out for
the top of the market, which in this
case was $5.00; that he would have
closed the trade without buidging
from the price, and that if the butch
er had given him a five-dollar bill the
boy Zeb would have had it changed,
turned over three dollars to his dad
and salteid down the other two dollars
in Zeb's own pocket!
For it is after this manner of do
ing business that some of our most
successful Cow Traders have risen to
prominence in their vocation, and we
find Zeb rated as one of the best.
Most of you readers know Zeb,
know where he ' lives and how he
lives know more than we do of his
past life, both as to the open and the
darker phases of his career. Zeb has
a nice home and a hospitable nature,
but he hai few or no chickens, for
which his alibi is that something got
among 'enone night and in wholesale
manner kiHed off a hundred fowls.
We believe this, although the num
ber stated may be what you would
call a round figure. And we do not
want you to suspect that Zeb spirited
awav his own', chickens at night and
turned them into cash on a good mar
ket, for we can assure you that Zeb
would not be the man to treat his
own family in any such measly way,
CowWrader though he is!
We can now see that we will not
be able to do justice to Zeb Merrill
in one chapter or issue. We are
willing fco continue the story next
week,, if our readers find it interest
ing, sp far. ,We leave it to you: You
may have' it if you want it
Old subscribers who are behind with
Us will please look at the label on
their miners and send in some money.
Otherwise Wi will have to cut you
off, in' wnlch we are perfectly se
rious, for money is required even in
a country print, shop. Help us out,
and incidentally let us know wheth
er yon are further interested in the
life of Zeb Merill, as we propose to
write it. "
New subscribers are always wel
come. Tne paper teas yon oi our Dig
standing offer, 'including the News-
Record, Progressive Fanner and
Pathfinder. Here is where yon getj
. i t
the worth or yonr money,, ngnt aero
at home. . Yon scratch our back ana
we will see that yours does not go
unscratched. , -
IN A LATE1$?U '
Hon. Gee. M. Fritehard
Of Marshall, Asheville v
' . end Washington. , ' -
Revealing for the first tim
George trained himself to ko
crimination odor and col
pollL ' speaking.-
ucts?
-The Asheville Times.
Stint On Feed;
Lose On Eggs
Cutting down the poultry feed, es
pecially the laying mash, in summer
means that laying will be seriously
curtailed not only for the present
season but later.
"Our experimental records show
that to curtail or discontinue the lay
ing mash to hens during late summer
will result in poor yields of eggs
later," says Dr. B. F. Kaupp, head of
the poultry department at State Col
lege. "The body of the hen must be
maintained first and if sufficient feed
is not furnished, she will use that
given for egg production to build up
her body. Production of eggs will
fall off and if the hen draws on her
body supply of nutrients, she will suf
fer in vigor so that production later
will not be satisfactory.
If not sufficiently fed, the hen will
draw on her body supply of fat to
build the yolk of the egg and on her
storehouse of minerals and vitamins
to put into the egg.1 This drainage
affects the condition of the body, says
Dr. Kaupp, and undermines the health
of the bird. He insists that the hen
needs a mash feed along with the
right amount of grain each day.
When putting on the new growth Of
8,000 feathers, she needs additional
care and attention.
White corn, fed alone, will not give
a hen all the food nutrients needed.
While the egg is 65 per cent water,
it also contains 10 per cent of fat, 14
per cent of protein and 11 per cent of
minerals, mostly in the shell. There
fore, laying hens must have a good
laying mash and grain feed each day
in the year. In addition to this, each
bird must also have at least seven
pounds of green feed to each 100
birds every day.
If these requirements are net,
there is no reason why some eggs
might not be secured throughout the
summer and the body of the bird suf
fer no diminution in vigor fej future
production. , . . ;. .
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Youngsters will probably pass n-
long the news that a New York fath .
er dropped dead while spanking his '
Son.r.'r. ,,X;.r . ii'.'i :A :- -.'; -V4 '4
The new North Carolina Crop Im
provement Association was definitely
launched ' at the Farm Convention
last week. ' .
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, It is no trouble to tell where corn
has been planted after clover in
Wilkes County. Ie r-""' i' r