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Opportunity's Empire-Waynesville Altitude 2,802 Feet-Unsurpassed Natural Resources for the Location of Manufacturing Industries
Volume XXXVIIL Number 7
WAYNES YlLLIi HAYWOOD COUNY. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1926
$2.00 a Year in Advance, $2.50 if not to Paid
Waynesville is
Tourists' Haven
Lie in Beautiful Vally Center of
Great Apple Industry.
Asheville Citizen.
An hour's ride west from Asheville,
on a plateau overlooking the Rich
land Valley, lies Waynesville, often
referred to as the highest incorporate
ed town in Western North Carolina
and destined, when the proposed Na
tional Park in the Great Smokies be
comes a national playground, to be
the Eastern Gateway to that incom
parable chain of mountain peaks
which look down majestically on the
most attractive expanse of snug val-1
leys, and primitive forest in Eastern '
America. j
Lying between the Balsams and the
Pisgah National Forest on the South sti" in the care of the Near East
and the Great Smokies on the North Relief are also prepared for self-sup-and
West this beautiful little town, port.
long noted as the county seat of Hay- I have been asked to act again this
wood County, and a center of a flur- j year as chairman for Haywood coun
ishing apple industry, will soon be- , ty. But we have made a slight differ
eome a Mecca for travellers destined ent arrangement. Waynesville will
for the mountain camps. Indeed, the ' undertake raising one-half of tho
fame of Waynesville has already county quota, which is $1,200.00; our
brought annually a vast stress of hulf being $030.00. I am sure that
visitors seeking a vacation amongst the hearty support which you gave
the hills, and so attractive have they this cause last year that we will not
found this Gateway town that it has fall below this amount. We did much
often been referred to as "the town better than that last year, and had
Beautiful." the rest of the county responded ac-
It was named for that sturdy old
Revolutionary Warrior, General An
thony Wayne, and it has every rea
son to be proud of its opportunity to
offer to modern America, unstinted,
and untained, a full measure of that
freedom for which its namesake so
valiantly fought. For freedom it is
which lifts one up at Waynesville.
Every road leads one straightway
into primitive forests, where lofty
peaks, five and six thousand feet
high, shelter untouched valleys
through which flow crystal streams,
and where wild life still stalls its
native way, and the finny tribe hold
sway just as they did in the days
when Cherokees and Catawbas ruled
the hills. Not far away is the Cat
ahoochee, immortalized in song by
Sidney Lanier the bard of the South
land, and nearby is beautiful Lake
Junaluska, which nestles beneath the led Daughters of the Confederacy are
summer capital of the Southern As-! putting on an extensive campaign to
sembly, "the Chautauqua of the ' sell the Stone Mountain Memorial
South," A half hours drive west are' Coins. The quota for Waynesvillg is
the Balsams, on which lies the high
est railroad point East of the Rocky
Mountains, and at the foot of which
is snuggled the little town of Sylva.
North of this lies the Cherokee Res
ervation, home of one of the most
unique peoples in the annals of Amer
ican history and just beyond flows
the seething Tuckaseegee River,
famed for its splendid fishing.
In the mountain just west of Way
nesville along the Appalachian trail, the first of the month. You will be
is the State fish hatchery from which visited by a committee from these
the streams and lakes of Western j clubs and it is hoped that the ladies
Carolina are annually restocked with j will meet with success and soon sell
trout and bass, and visitors who have all the remaining 265 coins,
never before seen the scientific meth- Every banking town in the state
od of fish propagation in process find j has a special coin to be auctioned off
this a most unique and interesting to the highest bidder and the num
trip which every year is attracting . ber for Waynesville is 87 and it will
more and more visitors.
Mountain peaks that may be reach
ed from Waynesville include the fa-
mous Eagles Nest, with a drive to I to the Good Fellows Club Tuesday
a height of 5050 feet; Mt. Pisgah and evening at their usual dinner night
the Rat, in the Pisgah National For- J an(j the highest bid for the coin was
est; Clingman's Dome, near Bryson , $26.00 by one of the members. It
City, and Waterock Knob. Through-, yll be presented to other club and
out these mountains may be had the organizations and the person or per
finest kind of hunting and fishing to- gons making the highest bid will get
be had anywhere in Eastern United t),js coj
States. In Deep Run, the Tuckaeegee,
the Cataloocheevand Lake Junaluska
are found an abundance of rainbow
and speckled trout, and big black
bass still hold out inducement to
those who love to fight the finny
t.rirut. Rpar and deer huntincr still
afford stern sport to tho3e who are and Palestine. $1.00 will support an (defeating Qualla (girls) Sylva High
willing to dare the crags, an.1 in ec, 'orphan for a month. $2.00 will buy defeating Sylva Collegiate- Institute
tions wild turkeys and pheasants may j forty meaU for a child. $60.00 will (boys); Sylva High defeating An
be had in season. ' feed and cloth an orphan for a year, drews (girls). Saturday's games
At Canton, a few miles east of
Waynesville is located the largest 'an abundance, golfing at Lake Juna-t with the Iotla High School girls and
fibre mill in the world. Here is made Iuska, swimming, boating, horseback the Sylva High School boys as cham-
a large part of paper used by the riding through the hills and moun pions to be awarded the loving cups,
Saturday Evening Post, Harpers, and tains, mountain hiking and climbing, According to the schedule the two
other magazines, and national dailies, and camping. The town itself has champinoship teams met the Cullo
The lumber taken from the forest infinite charm, with ample hotel act whee Normal School teams Satur-
for this mill is lumbered under the commodations, and a reputation for day night, which resulted, in Cullo-
supervision of experts who follow boarding houses at which are served wheefsj f wfnning both games by a
out strictlv' the national rjroirramme meals in true Southern style. Lying, large margin. C. C. Poindexter of
for forest conservation. A visit to
this plant always proves interesting
even to those who have elsewhere
seen paper manufacture in process,
Of entertainment there is always
Stand by Them a
Little While Longer
The-work of the Near East Relief
is not done. 35,000 children still re
main in its care. For all of these
Near East Relief must do what it has
already done for the 115,154 that have
already passed through the orphan
ages into the normal life of the coun
try. America may well be proud of what
she has already accomplished in the
Near East. Graduated orphans are
now serving as teachers, nurses, mod- I
el housekeepers, sanitation workers,
mechanics and other workers with
capacity for leadership in industry
throughout the Near East.
But America can not take her ha.-vd
from, this great task until the 35,00!'
cordingly we would have gone well
beyond the quota,
These children are looking to Amer
ica to care for them a few more years
until they are old enough to go forth
and face the world for themselves.
Tho misfortunes of war left them
homeless, fatherless and hopeless un-
til they were taken to the kind heart
of rich, generous America. Let us
not forget them now. Stand by them
a little longer.
Mr. James Atkins is local treasur
er. You may hand you gift to him,
if you will, without waiting to be
called on personally.
S. R. CROCKETT.
STONE MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL
COIN SALE CAMPAIGN.
The Haywood Chapter of the Unit
390 coins so far 130 have lleen sold
through the banks. We are asking all
the patriotic people of the town to
help us sell the remaining 265. Gov
ernor Morrison is state chairman for
the sale of these coins and has ap
pointed Mrs. John M. Queen chair
man of this sale in Waynesville and
, . . . ,
and men's clubs and organizations of
the town to sell these coins before
correspond with the number in the
book, kept in the Memorial Hall in
Atlanta, Ga. This coin was presented
Near East Relief is a philanthropic
organization chartered by Congress
and supported by voluntary contri-
butions. It maintains wholly or in
part 54 orphanage centers and schools
in r.ruve. Armenia. Persia. Sria
.
as it does, high up on a plateau, the
air is cool and pure, and the climate
is always ideal. Every year more
visitors are finding ways to enjoy its
scenery and its hospitality. '
HON. CLEM
j Hon- clem s- Smathers as County Commissioner is the real servant of
! the People. He is a native son of Haywood county, and after being reared
5 to manhood with a liberal education training, he early entered into politics
and his life has been spent in public
Affiliating with the Democratic party, Mr. Smathers has served in several
important offices in his town and county. He always leads his ticket.
"Clem" Smathers is a progressive citizen and a valiant worker for good
roads. He is a true friend of the working people, and has a host of friends
throughout Haywood county who know him to be a good neighbor, an ablo
business man, and a square politician.
Cullowhee Normal
Basketball Contest
Iotla High School Girls and Sylva
High School Boys Win Trophies.
Oullowhee, March 9th. The sec
ond annual basketball tournament for
high schools held at Cullowhee March
4th-6th was a decided success from
every point of view. Eighteen vis
iting teams of boys and girls repre
sented some of the best high schools
and the pick of basketball lineups in
this section of the state. The dis
play of fine team work and the re-
markable demonstration of sport
fuu ,
manship throughout reflected much
credit to the high schools represented
as well as to the players au j coaches
of the respective teams.
The tournament opened it 10
o'clock Thursday morning when An-
drews girls won a victory over Sylva
Collegiate Institute. At 3 p. m. the.
boys of Sylva High School defeated
Qualla's team, followed by a combat
between Bryson City and Webster
boys with the former victorious. At
7:30 p. m. the Sylva' High School
girls eliminated the Waynesville six,
and at 8:30 the Franklin boys won by
a close margin over the Waynesville
lads. At 9 a. m. Friday Andrews
boys won over Marshall High School
by default as the latter failed to ap
pear as scheduled. At 10 a. m. the
Iotla girls elimnated the Webster
team, and at 3 p. m. Sylva Collegiate
Institute took a victory from the
Hayesville boys. Winning teams then
began to meet for further elimina
tions during Friday afternoon and
night as follows: Bryson City de
feated Andrews (boys); Franklin
brougnt aDout tne nnai enmnauons
Franklin served as referee for the i
boys' games while P. W. Alexander of
the Normal bcnooi canea tne games
for the girls.
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8. SMATHERS.
service
Condensed State
News From Raleigh
Raleigh, March 15. Collections of
the state revenue departments the in
creasing size of the state deficit, in
teresting decision by the Supreme
court and other matters absorbed at
tention at the Capital City this
week. The Women's Missionary
Council of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, held a seven day con
vention here and interesting matters
were handled by them. The Govern
or left the city twice to make ad
dresses at High Point and Asheboro.
Each time Raleigh was visited by a
snow storm, the only snow stora
this late in the year in a number of
years.
The State Revenue Department
which had collected income taxes less
than ?300,000 up to March 6, began
at that time a steady increase with
more than one hundred thousand dol
lars coming in daily. Commissioner
Doughton confidently expects that
when the March collections are to
talled the income taxes for this year
will exceed those of last year.
Governor McLean also is counting
on the revenue from income to re
duce the size of the state deficit.
Funded a year ago when the budg
etary administration of Governor Mc
Lean began, the deficit during the
past few months has again steadily
accumulated until now it is $1,238,
087.15, this figure being on February
28. Governor McLean, pledged to
keep expenditures within revenue is
not worrying. He expects tax col
lections during the next three months
to clean out the deficit and balance
his budget perhaps with a small sur
plus. The month of March probably
will tell the tale for it usually is tha
heaviest collection month of the year.
The Supreme court this week de
cided that the city tax of New Bern
imposing an added tax on- automobil
ists was invalid as being clearly a
tax on auto owners. This case was
of interest throughout the state for
it was believed if1 ruled valid it would
have pressed an orgy of city taxa
tion of auto oowners which would
have been prohibitive. The Supreme
court evidently
believes the auto
owners carry enough of the tax bur
den. The tasue is decided strictly7 on
points of law. '
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North Carolina's
Growth in Furniture
Within approximately three decades
the State of North Carolina has push
ed forward from a position of al
most zero in the furniture industry
to one of high rank among the furniture-producing
commonwealths of tho
nation. Although the industry start
ed with small beginnings in the midst
of new and untried territory, it has
achieved a place of eminece not only
in the state and in the South, but
also in the United States as a whole.
Growth of Furniture Industry.
As evidence of what has taken
place in the furniture industry of
North Carolina, the number of estab
lishments increased from 44 in 18DU
to 113 in 1923, the average number
of wage earners from 1,1)09 to 10,621,
the amount of wages from $:!33,72!
to $8,f9,000 and the value of prod
ucts from $1,547,305 to $40,072,01)0.
The increase in each case runs all
the way from 150 to 2,500 per cent.
According to the Thirty-fourth Re
port of the North Carolina Depart-
I merit of Labor and Printing, submit
ted December 1, 1924, the number
of furniture factories in the state at
I that timo was 99; the capital stock
thereof represented $12,734,000; tho
value of plants, $10,805,000; value
of yearly output, $41,019,000; amount
annually paid wage earners, $7,799,-
;000; units of horse-power employed
14,941; and total number of persons
engaged in plant operations, 11,181.
Location of Furniture Industry.
The furniture industry is located
in the central and western sections o
the state. While there are large
factories at such places as Mount
Airy in Surry county, Lenoir in Cald
well county, Mebane in Alamance
county, Hickory in Catawba county,
Statesville in Iredell count and Ashe
boro in Randolph county, the fore
most counties in the production ofi
furniture are Guilford, Forsyth and
Davidson.
The acknowledged center of tho
furniture industry in North Carolina
is High Point. There are those that
have ranked High Point in furniture
all the way from second to thirteenth
in the United States. In the Febru
ary issue of this publication in 1924
the author of the present article at
tempted to settle this question in the
light of the then existing information.
He found that there were two stand
ards of statistical measurement. Us
ing one High Point ranked eighth;
using the other it occupied fifth place.
It seems that there has been little
change in its relative position since
appearance of that study.
State's Rank in United States.
As to the rank of North Carolina
in the United States, the task is not
very difficult. In 1919, Now Yoih
ranked first in value of products,
Michigan second, Illinois third, in
diana fourth, Pennsylvania fifth, Wis
consin sixth, Ohio seventh, NoHh
Carolina eighth. With respect to thu
average number of wage earners,
and the cost of materials, the various
states occupy the same position with
primary horsepower, amount of wages
one or two minor exceptions as in
case of value of products.
In 1924, to quote again i'rom the
Thirty-fourth Report of the North I
Pnrnlina Department, of Labor and
Printing, North Carolina ranked j
tenth among the furniture manulac
turing states of the Union in tho
number of establishments, eighth in
the average number of wage earners,
tenth in the amount paid to employ
ees, eighth in cost om materials, tenth
in value added by manufacture, and
ninth in the value of products.
With regard to the South, North
Carolina is pre-eminent. She occu
pies a position that is supreme. Mr.
James T. Ryan, Secretary of the
Furniture Manufacturers' Associa
tion has the following to say in this
connection in the Southern Furniture
Journal for July, 1925: "The five
Southern states producing furniture
are North Carolina, Virginia, Tennes
see, Georgia and Alabama in the or
der named. The total production of
these states in 1923 amount to $66,
155,667, or an increase of 314 per cent
over 1914. It is interesting to note,
that North Carolina produced in 1923
twice as much furniture as the other
four state combined. Virginia, how
ever, shows a greater percentage of
increase in 'furniture-production than
any other Southern state. . . . While
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North Carolina
and New England
Boston, Mass., March 15. Alarmed
at the great growth of industry in
the southern states, the New England
chamber of commerce in a so-called
"warning to New England" points to
the awakening of t'le South to its
industrial opportunities, the lesson it
should teach all New England and
offers striking illustrations of tho
advance of the New South.
"Time was when it was customary
to speak of New England's suprem
acy in certain lines of business. Talk
of that kind is seldom heard today,
for New England industries have fall
en into the rear, while the Stuth has
made more than a remarkable ad
vance. This awakening of the New
South suggests that the days of the
"supremacy" of New England in in
dustry are rapidly passing. Manu
facturers of this section arc becom
ing more and more diffused.
The MiddU West long ag ceased
to bo distinctively agiicul Hit al. The
Far West seems to cease considering
tile possibility of furthering nanu
facurcrs. The South has its cotton
mills, its metal industries and other
activities unknown in the days when
cotton was king and reigned ulano.
What the South has accomplished is
well known, perhaps hard to realize,
hut nevertheless true. The new or
der means that there must be an ini
creased effort to sell the products of
New England in competition with
similar goods produced in the New
South.
It simply gets back to the question
raised before, whether there is suf
ficient advertising of New England
products throughout the country and
what is to be done to meet Southern
competition. New England is af
fording a splendid market for tho
Southerners yet very little if any
New England produce is finding its
way to the New South. The samo
applies to the rest of the coun'.ry.
This month nine great ships will be
launched at the plant of the New
port News shipbuilding and dry dock
company and at the same time the
keels of three other vessels will be
laid. The launching by wholesale is
but one of the many evidences ;.f in
dustrial expansion of the Southern
states. The great Leviathan was te
conditioned there and the ships to be
launched and to be built are commer
cial vessels for New England com
panies and several yachts for New
England men. ,
Tar Heel
President Ferguson of the ship
building company is a native of North
Carolina and the majority of the
workmen are Southerners. George
Gordon Crawford, who will have
charge of the expenditure of $15,000,
000 in the improvement of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com
pany, is a native of Georgia and the
first graduate of the Georgia School
of Technology.
Northern concerns must awaken 1 1
the danger of the great industrial
growth of the New South. They
cannot afford to longer ignore tha
situation or wait for business to come
to them. They must go after it,
using every means to advertise tho
advantages and facilities they have
to offer.
The most striking illustrations of
the remarkable growth of the South
can be found in North Carolina. In
addition to the great move toward
migration to North Carolina, North
ern capital is being now most ex
tensively there. Throughout the
State of North Carolina, New Eng
land capital is building industries and
producing goods that New Englanders
cannot begin to compete with. The
low taxation accounts for much of
this, yet New Englanders must take
some steps to offset this killing com
petition. Cotton mills and rayon plants in
the State of North Carolina, along
with those of South Carolina, have
placed our former great textile in
dustries and others in a position
where competition seems 'impossible.
Miss Clotilde Scarborough of
Asheville, who was a guest of Miss
Nancy Thompson at Oak Park last
week, returned to her home Friday.
Miss Thompson accompanied her
home and was her guest over the
week-end.
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