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TIITTRSnAV. APDTr - THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Lessees Main Street Waynesville, N. C. Phone 137 Published Every Thursday W. C. RUSS Managing Edf?or ,, P. D. DEATOX --- General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year - ?2.00 6 Months 1-25 3 Months 65 Subscriptions payable in advance Entered at the post office at Waynesville, N. C, as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided un der the Act of March 3,1879, November 20, 1914. THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932 BIBLE THOUGHT God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in; truth. John. 4 :24. ROUTE 281 Last week the Greenville Piedmont ran an editorial commenting on the Knoxville-Green-ville Highway which is none other than Num ber 284 that leads into Waynesville from Bre vard and out the Dellwood road through Mount Sterling. This route is not new to the leading business men of Waynesville and the county. They have been for some time trying to create interest about this highway which would open to the motorists one of the south's most beauti ful shenic highways. It would save people in South Carolina about 70 miles to come to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park via. Brevard from Greenville. The motorists of today when trav eling are looking for three things; short routes, good scenic highways and modern accomoda tions at their destination. All lacking to make 284 an A-l scenic highway is paving and the state highway commission will pave this road when the citizens of this county prove to them that is is necessary for this highway to be pav ed. We must create a demand for anything before we get it-and the same with a paved highway from Brevard. Waynesville is not alone in: trying to get this road paved. The Chamber of Commerce at Brevard and Greenville are doing as much and probably more than we are in trying to get this road through. The Greenville editor sizes up the situa tion as follows: "The Knoxville-Greenville Highway" "South Carolinians have a very real inte rest in one road project upon which citizens of the Brevard sectoiu of North Carolina are centering their efforts, the paving of North Carolina Route 284 on the short stretch from Brevard to Spring-dale. "This would assure an improved highway through the Great Smoky National Park and by the Cherokee Indian reservation from Bre vard to Knoxville. "It would therefore assure a shorter, more beautiful highway from Greenville and points south to Knoxville. "Brevard is now connected with Greenville by one of the finest scenic highways in the country, the Geer highway by way of Ceasar's Head and Ceder Mountain, and to have this road carried on through the Great Smoky wonder country to the Tennessee city would be of great value to both of the Carolinas. "Brevard's and Greenville's chambers of commerce are working steadily on the Route 284 project. Many individual citizens of Bre vard are taking an active and aggressive inte rent in it, and it is encouraging to learn that to their number is being added individual citizens of Greenville and other parts of South Caro lina. Let's hope the number continues to grow. "A shorter, scenic route linking Knoxville and Greenville would open up a beautiful coun try to our own people, would aid commerce and would bring through the Carolina tourists who now choose other roads in going south or in agoing from points below Greenville to the mid dle West." . PROVINCE OF A NEWSPAPER It would be comical, were it not somewhat pathetic, the way newspaper offices are besieg ed every day by their friends, urging them to "roast'' this and that; to "see to it" that this and that is corrected ; to have this and that done in the city or county ; to start this and that kind of movement to correct evils in the state government. These frienlds actually appear to believe that it is the newspaper's business to handle all these affairs. But a self-respecting newspaper, though ready and willing to carry all reasonable re sponsibility, must remind its readers that they the people are the authority upon whom rests the responsibiltiy for the present state of affairs, local, state and national. A self -respecting newspaper tries to report the news of what actually happens, not what it might wish had happened. The relation of a self-respecting newspaper to the general pub lic is not always understood. It is the duty of a newspaper to be in a position to support any good act and criticize any bad act of public policy. ' This relationship cannot exist where fav ors are asked and granted. Honesty is the only policy for a newspaper. If the objectors don't like the way things are goingthey should qualify as voters, and then raise Cain about it. Florence, S. 0., News. LETS GIVE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES MORE FACTS ABOUT LIFE ALONG WITH PRAISE During the next few weeks thousands of high school students will graduate. Many of these graduates have arranged to go to college and complete their education, while a larger number have finished their "schooling." At commencement time one's thoughts always go back to the days when they stepped out and received their diplomas, and if we would only admit it, we wouldn't have exchanged places with the president of the United States at that moment. We were proud. We had a right to be. We felt that we were on top of the world and that nothing could remove us. During the last few weeks of school we had been admired by every .grade in school. We were king and lord of all. We were seniors. We were graduatnig. Out of town speakers came to town and although never having heard of a member of the class until a few minutes before he spoke, praised us to the skies and left us there. Our teachers proudly, if not truthfully, publicly admitted that this was the best graduating class to ever leave the school, and so on down the line. All we got was praise. To those that have graduated years ago, we want to ask if the above isn't true ? A little praise for the graduates is necessary, but The Mountaineer firmly believes that if a little less praise were passed out and more true facts about what the world has in store for the ave rage graduate that it would leave a deeper im pression and be more effective. And so at this time we have these thoughts to pass on to the graduating classes, where ever they may be. You have finished a course in kv-ks. What you have learned is yours. No or.i? can deprive you of it. The world is waiting for you and for what you have learned during the last eleven years that you have been "male" to work. Out in the world you will not have the same teacher for nine months, but a new teacher every day. New and different problems will come into your life daily. Every day is exami nation day. In school, it was largely through the efforts of your teacher as to how you "got through." In the world it is left entirely up to you. There is only one person that assigns the lessons. That person is you. The length of the lesson depends entirely on your ambition. If you fail to pre pare a lesson now, there will not be any staying after school. But there will be a little less time to attain your life's ambition. In school, graduation day is your ambition. Your diploma, your goal. In life, a success, at whatever work you follow, is graduation day, and an unblemished reputation anld character, your diploma. In high school, no one can deprive you of what you have learned or your diploma. In life, no once can take from you your success or your reputation, provided you have a firm enough grip on them. Remember, you are just one of the millions of high school graduates of this country. Many millions have traveled the same road. The time to prove what you have been learning these eleven years is now. What are you going to do about it? STEVENS AND THE BONUS Henry Stevens, the firsthand perhaps the last, North Carolinian to be Commander of the American Legion; is probably expressing his honest convictions when he joins up with Hoov er in opposition! to the immediate payment of the bonus (he gets a swell salary as Command er anyway;) but he is far from making either himself or the Legion prnular with former service men and their families anld friends, who also are legion. When the Legion, last fall, at the request of President Hoover, resolved not to insist upon! the bonus payment at,this time, the action was probably endorsed by the ma jority of the men who would recevie their mon ey, they being hard pressed, but still patriotic citizens. But the situation is changed. The men have seen unheardof amounts unprecen delitly voted from the treasury to the big in terest, most of which were making a million dol lars every time a soldier lost his life, during the war. They have seen the government rush to the aid of distressed big business, which brought economic ills upon itself and us, and shamelessly and lavishly invil-vl raids upon the federal treasury by the vested interests. This was done at the insistence of President Hoover who finds himself so opposed to veterans' legis lation. The former service men and the coun try can see no logic in. a situation where the government unhesitatingly makes huge loans to big banks and busted railroads, and yet pleads pauper when it comes to paying broke doughboys a just, honest, and fair debt, that the government has already pledged itself to pay a few years hence. Exdhange. The sentencing of Judge Harwood to the state prison for the term of one year for tamp ering with the records in an effort to save his only daughter from prison offers something new in the history of North Carolina, for he is the first Superior court judge to b? convicted and sent to prison. Soon after he was arrest ed, reference was made in these columns to the fact that a friend or relative who is attempting to help a person in trouble should, above all things, avoid doing anything that would injure his standing or influence. It is difficult to un derstand how a man could do what he admitted doing without giving the matter considerable thought, and after giving it considerable thought it is even more difficult to understand why he should do it. A man without influence might try such a thing but one with influence had no dear reason for doing it. Love that is blind does considerable damage. Stanley News And Press. 20 Years Ago in HAYWOOD HEARING SEEING THINKING ABOUT TOWN -wcr- tt YEARS AGO TODAY Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Lee, at their elegant home on Walnut I reel, were the recipients of many congratula tions from their friends last n:gli i he occasion was the celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversa ry. About four hundred invitations had been issued and a lar'e crowd of i guests a.'.embletl. It was a delight iiil occasion and will long be rtmem iKied in social circles in Waynesville. ..i r, Lee is a prosperous merchant, .enior member of the firm of Lee and Mock.-. He is also a public man of . onsiderable prominence. Congressman W. T. t'rawf ord will .lave no opposition for the nomination ,n the tenth district t-hi y.'a. Mr. liillianl Atkins came in from Woiford t. allege to spend Easter with hi:: home people. Missc- Evelyn Lee jui-.I l.illie .Sat ii:;ftnii came home j':o.)i Elizabeth H"ge, .( '.hat lotto, to .-pi? ml . fclastyr. Some hundred people turned out Last Thursday night after Hon. J. C B Ehringhaus has finished ns speech Felix Alley rose and told every body to come forward and shake hands with the next governor of North Caro lina. If the size of the crowd that ke his hand indicates nW they were pleased with him and are troinir to vote ior mm, hc "... i 4 Ilava'nnfi VULC 111 "vw. of getting a big county. When you are in the sheriff's office, if you'll notice closely, there is a chair that has the back cross pieces broken out, leaving just the two upright posts Well, just a tip, that's Frank Fergu son's special chair, you know Frank is the magistrate that is helping these farmers with their crop loans rrom the government. He likes this broken chair perhaps because he has enough backbone of his own. By the way, if he has to make out many more farm loan blanks he is going to be com pelled to buy a new typewriter. I ought to be ashamed to tell this Hnrtipr Davis, the picture king f Wnvnusville. but it's all in fun. Grins and Chuckles Parents should alwav to.. night to their children; tha f Vimr nan nuimi m u.,,:, ", Isn't that fine! Won't yUUS!'L thing you've composed?" reaener ito seven-vear-nUi . you have broken off a tooth, hav How did you do it?" ' t; Seven-year-old: Q -hiftir.c , on a louypop. r ..v. .l .1.' one. 1 onut;u iaini'i the v y.ui seiu me: ne was them." lie: "Indeed! What did he,! Ol co..., . U... 1 one. uiiai ne iigntea to unu tnat I wa.-n to marry a poet." . u,Foa.v night to the emivt hu.-.d to M;nday, i called Homer and told ::ear Rev. R0L. Davis li.,cu:.s he I'"-him j wante'd a picture of a diplomat niintion question. He madt- some;from gouth Africa, who was leaving Hong poiiu Homer gathered 1. .L. ic r Ill LHTUUl 'JIUUIUUMMI ,1 nt ,nvnitio- ..na snowed that tne naoit 01 wnishej iu his tamera anj supplies and rush . inking is one that siiu'rai-ts ii";m " !.ei OVcr. Up toward the post office young man's uscf illness: lie uls. made I ;,irn,.v( an i met Mi . I.ouw cunt- clear me poini. iiiat proiiutiiMiii win .e.-scn the tax rate. 1 n r.:;s aco today Last Monday morning the people of ,. ay lit':.' villt amh Haywood county ,uie.s: ed the im t rem.ii'luibii' ; now inir out of the post office. I whispered to Homer, "there he is, walk fast, we'll catch him before hp gets in the hotel." Homer pulled back a minute hesitated, then said, "I thought you -aid a diplotmat from Africi, ' was expecting to see some kind of wild 111 the county : animal . to':n that ever fell .v this tune of year. Tin-' Southern Railway pedal latevoi 4.".(iil to ', A SI.VIM'SVj -V to pi ut'ilwll'y r'r t lie I'acilic 'oast. .l iss I-.ni:na Alt t ;ot.lco' i' ui'ilay fur. her holiu' in Cai.o li'cr a pleasant visit to hoi' .'.(r. .'Hugh. A. Lov. ;v:ie w pained. .home b;,' h"f. iu-oia'vv, 1' l'i'dick Love. 1 he (.iiuner is unk r many o!i!i;;a- tioiis to Mr. J. T. -Bridges -for -va'lu-aole assistam e rendered this wei'i:. Mr. T. Lenoir liwyn, the 'young ; wyer--' ai nier of Springdale, was in .Vn.vneaviile yesterday. -' T be ice delievery .coinptiiiy has '.t.M.ed their wagon and will be 1 ,eas .. to rece ive your orders. Maine's got a job as, a stenpff I "What, Maine no: ' "Honest!" "Do ya s'pose she'll get by? "Wed, she may at that, yj her boss told her right off tl man 01 iew worus an that encouragin to Maine she d,, very many." ad erl i ;es 17. 15 i'rmi: . goi poin" s 1 busine i Sat , 'rii.. V;-ter. ircolll- Ma- i , !,!i Not many moons ago,, as LETTERS TO EDITOR I'RINfTl'LES NOT MEN THIS YEAR Dear Mr. Editor: When' we come on June 4 to select 'embers of the Legislature, both for the senate and the house, there are two things that every voter should rod the storv related to me oy a reiuiui man who rather not have his there was a gentleman from Wavnesville going to Fhorida for a few weeks vacation. Just before getting to Miami he, unfortunately, picked ui a nail in his tire. He got out to see what the damaue was and in doing, so got a good whiff of Way nesville air coming out of the tire. It n- (b- hiin so homesick thai after re pairing the tire he turned around and came back home, with out completing his trip; Someone ought to get Ernest Withers to put that on. his Chamber of Commerce literature that he sends to Florida "Did you call Susie up this r. J mg ." " Yes, but she wasn't down." ... K..i. ...1 .1: l..f. ils, out uy uiua you down.' "Because she wasn't up." ttmi. 1 1 inen can up now aiu -Ca: down for not being down whs: called her up." from the "busted": pocket books of thB home and farm owners. Is it asked where from? Common sense ''.replies, '"Front those who have the monev and not from those who haven't it." These two principles here given are imperative. J here are others lue unto them; but the tyrannical twenty nor cent tax foreclosure sale ana tne fifteen cents ad valorem tax on real estate are prime evils. We must smite the men who are for them hip and thigh and take no chances. We can- hold in mind. The measuring should be carefully applied to every 1 not afford to send any man either to candidate for these two positions in the senate or the nouse, wno sounds a order to determine whether or not heiiaisc note on eitner ot tnese issues is the right sort of man to send to Raleigh to make laws for the average man This year especially, we need o scrutinize more jloselv the candi dates than ever before, Principles count for more than men this year. WHAT MANNER OF MEN SHALL BE CHOSEN TO RELIEVE OUR DISTRESSED CONDITION? 1. Haywood County should send men who will h all in their power to repeal the twenty per icnt taxe fore closure sell out, by which the homes of thousands of good citizens throughout North Carolina have been seized for taxes and deeded to the Shylocks who are demanding the flesh. The men who were guilty of passing this monstrous and devil ish measure should never again be allowed to see the city of Raleigh unless sent there in chains. So ends the first lesson. 2. Haywood county should send both a senator and a representative pie a; senator and a representative pledged to repeal the fifteen cent ad valorem tax cm real estate and get the money needed to run the schools from other sources than And another thing. We should be shy of the general sales tax. There will be an effort made in the next Legislature to shift the fifteen cents ad valorem tax to the general sales tax, which will be like putting up Dweedle Dum to fight Tweedle Dee, which is the same as shifting the tax burden from the right shoulder of the heavily loaded taxpayer to his left shoulder. There are plenty of straight forward methods without lestoring. to jugglery. The Reynolds Tobacco Com pany, that made more than thirty mil lion dollars prolfit in 1930 and almost destroyed the tobacco farmer, wants the general sales tax and now have their agents throughout the State try ing to work up a sentiment for it. The fact that this hungry and heart less corporation is for the sales tax is reason enough for me to be against -it. " What do the candidates for the house and the senate say? One or two have already spoken. The silence of the graveyard surround the others. The tide is rising. It is time to speak out. W. C. ALLEN une cei mm ponuciau iook j: squib in the editorial column 'las: a where it said, "Some people the; are going to have a cool su:intt vear because there are so manvH assets in the country," He reiJ that he thought the election m l ing to be so hot that it would msj the assets. In fact he went oh ::l it waif going to be so hot that the Southern Railway engines through Haywood county that th; 1 man would have to put ice inttel box to keep the boiler from burJ If it does get that hot, here's that'll favor adopting the GJ method of dressing. High grade Boone Count Seed Corn for sale, careful selected, nubbed and shew It's well adapted to this tl mate and will produce ond hundred r more bushels corn per acre on good M No better Corn ever .tro $2 PER BUSHEL K. 0 WAYNESVILLE J B. HENRY Phone 431 At Pep PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY MIZELL SALES AND SERVICE, INC. in s No. 10 WAYNESVILLE, N. C. 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