THURSDAY. JULY 1, 192t
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER.
Waynesville Mountaineer
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November 20, 1914.
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zations and to give the impression A BY-PRODUCT OF A MODERN
that the acquiring of a national park SCHOOL APPLICABLE TO HAY-
in Virginia ia a consummated attain- ( WOOD COUNTY.
ment. People throughout the state ,
i have understood this to be the case Wm- C- Allen- County Srperinter. lent
with almost nnthctw- rmli.t..n-n , 01 Schools.
The point is jn the fs itb.i-iv of
250,000 acres of "the moe; pictur
esque of Virginia's territory," con
veyed to the federal government, ly
ing idle during an indefinite period
of time, "with jurislictiori over its
inhabitant') suspended 01 confused.''
And it is submitted that in prudence,
v.mg of thn governmeru land ought
to be convevc-d until bath the first I
and second installments can be ac-1
could recover the loss r,t any other
big business in a few y.'ars, but net
this one."
The fault, it seems to me, if it
can be called a fault, of the forego-
People have always beci askir.g inK lutat'n from the Better Whorls
what is an education worth to au in- " " mu-1 en pna&is is
dividual, but the other question as to P,8ced uPon the imporenne? of th
what an educated persor is worth to !community idea of tn- valu
u community has not received the ,
eonsideiation it de.se.-vr And the
kindred question as ;o what a good I
system of schools is wort.i to a coun
ty, a township, a towr or community
is being brought to the fr.mt more
und more each yeai.
It is a self-eviden: fact that toe
! quired ana conveyed to the federil );inl.r thJ unit thnt ijf workwi suc.
iKov. -nment ".vhich may, r may nt, 'cessfully the larger ;!ic results will
ever be done be community urn', in education
It is hard'.v likely tha: a condition ; was the first idea because it was
community, but the value .f schools
to a county. We have good schools
in Haywood county, but they are in
spots. How much better it would ba
if it could be said th.; the whole
county has good schools. If we shall
ever realize the larger benefit! of the
by-products that are discussed in tne
afmva nnntntinn w shall Itnvp fcn
of th ' "
GALLEY TWO make our school units la.-ge and ex-
school. I am thinking no', so much tend the influence .f the better sys-
of the value of a go-id school to a tern.
St John's Catholic Chapel, 145
Church street, Waynesville. Mass on
Sundays at 10 o'clock, Mass during
the week at 7 o'clock.
REV. FATHER McDEVITT,
Pastor.
It is easy to recognize an Ameri
can at a bull fight. . He cheers for the
bull. San Francisco Chronicle.
of "suspended or confujtd ' jurisdic
tion would be permitted to continue
I The area wo i d certainly, if conveyed,
have the statut of national park land
Foraitfn Ad t- i -nip irprec.tli
THE AMFKIl AN I'KkSS ,.-$OC U 1U l
THURSDAY, JULY 1, ISJti
REAL ESTATE ACTIVE.
thought that a small aggregation tf
of people could work together better
than a large one. Hence the town
schools, the special charter schools,
It would bf ' (i.r "' in the rense of not B,,d the private school. Hut the ques-
being uliiU'h.. by the public for the t'on may we" be asked now if such
purposes jn vu.'d until a general system is for the bos', interest of
scheme of .1 -iment should be put tne Pt0P'e directly involved. Sup
into effect, if st to the vx'unt tf pose a sma" unit is bu'" UP l a high
building roads :.- , Kh ; l?.i there stute efficiency, does doc that very
would always be die Dn.-..vltv thar fact Duild a sort Chinese wall
While other cities and town have'-'' subsequent Congress miirht be in-,around it? 0n the uth hHnii. "P-
l t . ... .. I mua unit I c .J . 1 3 t.
Yc renorti-d booms, Waynesville has,unsu to modity the conditions. How- 13 "6e, Joes u
bun quie'ly forging ahead without a ever, the present posture of affairs is
so called boom, but with a tremen-jthat Virginia will have to dig and
dous increase in bunifide real estate strain and sweat a good deal more
transactions. Much property has if it carries out this park enterprise
Ih-iii sold not only among local citi-n anything like the scale upon
which undertaken, and in considera
tion of which Congress! was induced
to take favorable action. Details of
the conditions arc not at hand, but
i' is to be borne in mind that the
v: u i i.
-oonaoooan enterprise is
ion to tne iireat smokies i-ntmni-i
trcneral fninrr,i hot, k
mum un- uui m-mooih in tne pros
perity and growth of a community
purely a commercial viewpoint. We
( measure the products of our schools in
I terms of then educational value, their
T : 1 1 ! i 1 1 at an eiiriv (late. " L.M" "i uuioinoQiit.. nenil- .i-'ri-."t u,.., emu gins
..... , i . f .1.. ii.rln .-...! 1 1.. l:. . .
With tne lorinai npening oi no- . mj unierent ironi any
Su-.' ii-t Lumber Company and the now in u.st, which will
un-iial amount of summer visitor's, lunge without glare and
Waynesville will have its most pros- the
perous season it is predicted by every- by ;
,.ne.
. torx
7.i-n, but a great deal of outside cap
ital has been invested here and, at
the pp'sent time, there is a large
number of transactions and develop
ments taking place that astonish the
ul.le-t inhabitants.
Waynesville naturally has the cli-
mnte anil the soil the two 'main anil
featine-i which make towards sub- f,
-lantial and good solid investments ,
in real estate.
The nioveinent for a new hotel is MAKE NKJHT
momentum anil no iloulit e
A
iiiing
not unite the peoplo of the larirer
unit not only in scho.d matters, but
fn others as well? Thsse are con-
sidertions well worthy of the best
I attention of the people of our county
at this time.
I In this connection, I wish to quote
i extensively from a bulletin recently
sent out from the Better Schools
League, Chicago, III., upon the value
iof a school to a community, or a
comPan" i township, or a county:
"Few people realize now important
s lit s urctl . r . ... .... U
ding N'orth Carolina and Tennes
for the same spoon as Virginia.
DRIVING SAFER.
MAM TOURISTS HERE.
'I her, .ne many familiar 1 ices ill
iY.ivnc sville. ou. summer visitors,
among whom nave been coming here
fo: ni'inv seasoi.s. There arv also
nu-:iy who are here for the first
time, bu; ai" fairly sure of coming
again.
Waynesville welcomes each and
t-veiyone and invites them to stay
1 1 1 1 1 j.- and to come ..gain.
Tne hotels report that reservations
ha v. been better tha; for many years
irj "ha; July Hh will ee more tour-i-:-
:n Waynesville thai: every beforj
i- in" hiorv.
to meet the problems of life. These
give long ProIU(,s ure of Inst importance and
illuminate.'1 ' " wholesome condition that they
Inches along the side of the road,"'''' s" st''t'ssed. However, we often
wide side beam, has been devel-, ' '"'"'' tht' fact that a community
by the General Electric labora-! witn"ul a rood school may be not
after three years of exnei iment- ""'' '"'king in these essential ele-
ing. ments, but likely to be equally as
. e ... i. i i ...
With onwards of JO fwm , I 'dI ot'n' 'n material progress.
pt
killed each year and hundreds of
thousands injured in automobile ac
cidents, many of them occurring at
night, any invention which tends to
lemove hazards from night driving,
is- a public necessity today as are
suitable electric lights for the home.
IT'S UP TO ALL OF US.
NATIONAL PARK DIFFICULTIES.
I ., Norfolk Virginian-Piiot and
mi if its rei.dcrs have been discuss
w t h present posture of affair:-ie-pect
to I hi proposed Shen
. !:,!, .an national p. ilk. The paper
.ay that the park job is "one-half
den'.," and tiie reader writes that if
tin v.hole in-.c hi considered "your
;,f : t jiin nrnt . tht the obtaining
..t 'h'' naiional p.nk in the Blue
L'hVi mountains of irginia. is one
half in ,'omplished. seems to he gen-ern'.i-
ant lihircl." The hill (n
i.' i . - - passed contain: the provision
7ti.it ,Le -ccivtaiy of the interior is
to .in pt tjtlc in behalf of the United
Sti.'e- to lands embraced within the
Tiropo ed park site, but provides that
the minimum area shall be 250,000
;ien . or .'t'.iO square miles. But it is
t'artht r provided that no general de
velopment of the park area shall be
undertaken until n major portion of
ihc remainder of the area designated
by the park commission shall have
been acquired by the federal govern
men. That it 521,000 acres, or 814
square miles. Virginia reports sub
scriptions of $1,200,000, which is not
enough by $300,000 to buy the min
imum amount required by the bill
nt the estimated price of $fi an acre;
"Fire protection of cutover land
will solve the reforestation problem,'
declares A. I). Osborn
lumberman. "Lands naturally
stock themselves with timber if tire
us kept out. Ihe crime nirainst tim
ber has been the indifference of the
public to the prevention and suppres
sion of forest fires."
All authorities now agree that the
solution of the lire problem is the
real conservation issue, and next it
it is the problem of timber taxation,
which forces early cutting and makes
1 eg rowing unprofitable.
LIVE AT THE CROSSING.
be
That ail streets and roads that
terse: t a main highway should
made stop streets, is the contention
of the Albany, Oregon. Herald-Demo-1 ambitious
erat. It says:
"If such a practice had been ii;
force last Sunday it is very likely
that the sad accident in which a buby
lost his life would not have happened."
Change the picture to a main line j
railroad. Would the operating of
"When the time comes for a fami
ly to change its residence, a location
accessible to a well organized scho !
is of first concern. This is true in
rural as well as city governments.
Real estate values are affected by
proximity to the schools. A good
school will surround itself with a
population of industrious families:
families whose wants must be sup-'
plied who buiild up church member- i
ships mid w ho establish community '
prominent centers.
re- I "Attention is called to this phase of
school influence, an influence that
builds up the business welfare of a i
district as well as leading in the men-!
tal and moral development of its I
youth. A substantial, slightly, and j
well equipped school, manned by j
.eaclieis ot personality and power,
yith adequate facilities for study and'
play, iis a source of priide, a worthy !
aset to a rural district or town, i
Such a school atmosphere makes for i
ability in the property surroundings, j
increasing land values through its j
influence on the character and de.sira- .
iidity of the neighborhood.
"We have the testimony of a form
er cabinet member who has said that
citizens will go where
education may he had for their c-hil- '
dren. The same point is emphasized
,in the story of another prominent
, American who tells of his father's
leaving the backwoods of the m:.i::-.'
tains because there were available j
:but three months of school. 'Vn-i
in
father packed our belonging:
cials of the railroad permit cars to , eoVi rea agn, he relates, 'and w-n:
enter the main line from spurs. !to a new state and we moved ou'.
switches and branch lines without jof a thrCp months school into a nine
stopping to be sure that the track months one with a free high school.'
was clear? I "This leads us to wonder how de
sirable are new residents to a com
munity who . are not sufficiently in
terested in their children to inquire
The block signals and lock switch
es help explain why railroads that
carry millions of passengers annu
ally, do so almost without loss of , reKarc"ng oo advantages before j
i:r . i establishing a new him. It h
that is. supposing that the subscrip- ' . !said .We can judge of a civilization'
t,ons are worth 100 per cent in cash1 Anther reason, of course, is that; , indivilllll, hv tun wmv
when called for. The secretary of engineers don t operate locomotives !,'...,. . . . , , " '
the interior in a report to the house until they know how and until their
of representatives said he could not f'esiKht and judgment are tested. .
tell how much of the designated area ' There will be no real safety in mo
might be bought for $1,200,000, al- tor operation until a master traffic
though the commission had advised P'an nas Deen adopted and enforced.
him that the organizations active in
childhood is treated.
"This is a view of by-product of
our schools. These school:; pet form
a public service to tho district that
! should impress' rest! its who have
I no occasion to use the scnoo.s as well
If railroad systems did not enforce as non-resident land oom hnth ,.f
the campaign for funds had "re- every precaution to over-balance theiWhom 8C.metimes feel that they have
ported that they have obtained many carelessness of thousands of people, taxation without appropriate benefits
signed options covering considerable they would kill thousands annually. I ..The importance of Ae by.produets
acreage." It is set forth that the' One railroad, the Southern Pacific, 'and products of our school, m-ty be
organizations referred to "have feels it has progressed so far in mak-summarized i the words of Herbert i
doubtless encountered a multitude of ing people safe that has a right to Hoover, 'If we were to suppress our
difficulties in obtaining the home sue motorists who collide with its 'eHnrntmnnl vatom . c;n.i 1
. .... . ... . . -
sites of the 7,000 or 8,000 inhabitants cars and trains.
era Hon the equipment would decay,
of tne park region on a basis of 85. Lives won't save themselves at the 'most of our people, would di? of star
, pet-acre, but It does no good to close crossings. The baby that might have Ration, and intellectually and spirit
our eyes to the almost overwhelming ( lived, had the tnffic plan enforced a ually we would Blip bacK four thous
dUBcTJlties confronting thew-'organ-rsfety -stop,'tells th sierr- and years in human progress. We
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Shoes and Caps to
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Where Prices are Less
Nice Large
House Aprons
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81x90 SHEETS. NO SEAMS. $1.50 GRADE, ONLY
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LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S BLOOMERS, ONLY
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