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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933 Page 4 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER (Ihr Hmmtamr?r Published By THE WAYNES VTLLE PRINTING CO. Phone 137 Main Street Waynesville, N. C. W. C. RUSS Managing Editor P. D. DEATOX --- General Manager Owners Published Every Thursday SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year - - $2.00 6 Months 1.25 3 Months 65 Subscriptions payable in advance Entered at the post office at Waynesville, X. C, as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided un der the Act of March 3,1879, November 20, 1914. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12. 1933 THE SOCO GAP HIGHWAY Announcement that the survey of the Soco Gap highway from Dellwood into the Great Smoky Mountains will be completed immedi ately from the Haywood county line through the Cherokee Reservation to tap State High way No, 107 is gratifying. This is the most important road project still uncompleted, so far as Western North Carolina is concerned. The statement could, we think, be made stronger than that. The Soco Gap road will give an en trance into th( Smokies which will probably be more u.-eri than any other and it should be one of the most productive highways :n North Carolina. The engineers who completed the first part of the survey before Christmas have reported that the cost of building this high way should not be excessive and that the road will be a beautiful one, with no sharp curves and no very heavy grades. Until this road is built it will not be possible for Western North Carolina to secure the full benefits of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It should from the first carry a stream of travel which Will abundantly warrant its construction and its direct value will be enormous. Asheville looks forward to its building with the keenest interest and hope. Asheville Citizen. QUEER SUPERSTITIONS Superstitions regarding the prevention and cure of disease have persisted from time immemorial, many of them being still prevalent in the more backward sections of the country. A few were called to mind by a recent writer, in noting the death of an aged Kentuckian who continued to wear ear-rings to the last, in the belief that they were good for his eyesight. Another old-time notion was that wearing a mustache was beneficial to weak eyes, just as it was thought that carrying a buckeye or a potato in the pocket would prevent or cure rheu matism. One doesn't have to be so very old to re member when children were caused to wear a little bag of asafetida strung around the neck as a protection against "catching" diseases, and when in many homes bunches of various dried herbs were hung about for the same purpose. Some believed that keeping a goat around the house was a prime health measure. The writer remembers being warned when a boy not to wade in water when afflicted with hives, le.st they "strike to his heart and kill him." He waded, nevertheless, and lives to tell the tale. These superstitions, like the bejief that a horse-hair placed in a rain barrel would turn into a snake, are gradually dying out but many presumably intelligent persons to this day will refuse to take the third light from a match or walk under a ladder for fear of dire consequen ces. Monroe Enquirer. RELEASE THE BRAKES It was on a mountain railroad. The long freight train chugged and puffed along for miles and with a final snort made the divide. The engineer sighel with relief. "Thought we couldn't make it." he said. "That was what I thought, too," responded the inexperienced brakeman, "but I had the brakes all set to keep us from sliding back." Too many concerns are like the brakeman. They are playing safe at the very moment when they should be delivering the maximum of power directly to the wheels. Today's empty shelves are prophetic of a demand for more goods tomorrow and, according to a recent sur vey, there's forty billion dollars of latent buy ing power in the United States alone to pay for them. Here, squeaks in the machinery of fi nance are being lubricated with new credit ; and the quadrennial slowing of the business pulse contingent upon election, has passed. The stage is set for 1933 to develop what 'every depression in history has created: New and aggressive leadership. Rotarian Magazine. TECHNOCRACY ON THE FARM Borrowing an idea or two from the Tech nocrats, the farmer may soon turn to mechani zed production on an increased scale in an effort to reduce labor costs and compete under new economic conditions. New developments in this line that have just been announced by manufacturers include: A sugar beet topper that plows the beets out of the ground, grabs the entire beet plant and carries it to the chopping knives. It is claimed for this device that it will cut labor costs 75 per cent and obviate the necessity for transient labor. j A new type 01 iracior inai. weigns mue more than a big draft horse, but has the sustain ed pulling power of four draft horses. It costs no more than the average small motor car, does belt work and supplies power for binders and other machines hitched to it. A machine which brushes, grades and poli shes 1000 bushels of potatoes a day, being some what similar to a recent invented machine which brushes the fuzz from peaches. A "combine milker" with which the milk is never exposed to the air from the time it leaves the cow until it enters the bottle. A new balloon-type of tractor tire which is said to increase the rate of plowing by 27 per cent and to make a saving of 23 per cent in fuel costs. All steel barns which are shipped in parts from the factory and erected on the farm in units designed for 21 or 32 cows or any other standard sized herd or flock. Thus the mechanical experts have it all figured out how a farmer can cut his labor costs and increase his production at the same time. So far, however, none of these engineering wizards have invented a machine which will enable the farmer to find a market for the tre mendous crops already on hand or a machine that will lift a mortgage. Until somebody invents machines of that nature, it seems that the others might just as w e 1 1 vv a i t. Bruc e Cat ton Hendersoiiville Times-News. . EGGS Poultry and egg production has grown enor mously in the southeastern states within the past few years, but they may expand many times more before the importation of .these articles of food is stopped. , Here is a case in point. A farmer wanted several egg crates for a use entirely apart from poultry and eggs. He went to a store in the little town near his farm, and seeing that the merchant had labeled his display of eggs as "fresh country," said: I suppose you haven't a few egg crates you'd sell me." The merchant replied that there were several in the rear of the store. They were there, all right, and bore the label of Kansas. It is fully 800 miles from any point in Kan sas to the point where these eggs .were being sold. If they came by fast freight the trans portation charge was lower than if shipped by express, and there were at least two middle men's profit before they reached this country merchant, together with some handling charg es. And they were not fresh country eggs, at that; they might have been in cold storage six months, which meant more cost piled iip. That fellow up in Kansas, whose hens pro duced those eggs, received a very low price for them, or the people in that Georgia town were paying a very high price. We think, however, that the Kansas farmer got a fair price, be cause they produce more eggs in Kansas than in several southeastern states, We continually hear the complaint that t lie re i no local market for home-produced food stuffs. Well, there cannot be a market until the st ull' is produced and offered for sale. In the .matter of eggs, if a farmer gets a reputation for having absolutely fresh eggs for sale he will have no trouble selling them to home mer chants and we are a long way from over-production in this section of the country, South ern Agriculturist. Answering the criticism of another poet that her works are somber, Edna St. Vincent Millay said: "The best poems are more likely to be sad than glad. Why, I can't think of a single great poem that's glad." Perhaps this explains why so many people prefer the best works of the minor poets to the minor works of the best poets. Exchange. .Most successful short-story; Writers do not concentrate on plot, declares a professor of English. Does he mean they find it pretty hard to get their thought away from the amount the editor will think the story is worth ? Exchange, What to do with the Christmas cards of yesterday is a question uppermost these days in the thoughts of housewives faltering be tween sentiment and tidiness. Exchange. IROGIEIRS BKVF.RLY HILL. A Preacher named Rev. Grant of Simpson Metho dist Church, of Minneapolis, Minn-, wrote nit: "I am speaking on you and your lifes philosophy at a bun day evening vesper service, in our great Church of two thousand mem bers. Is there any word of greeting? I would appreciate St. Yours, A. Raymond Grant, Pastor." Well the same night I answered his letter I had to write my weekly Sun day article. So I couldent see why one ''Greeting" or "Alabi" wouldent do for both. He had beed mighty nice and I appreciated it. So I got stiung out and in my long winded way- I sounded like a Preacher with out a stop signal. Dear Rev. Grant: I got your letter saying you was "Speaking on me." But you didnent say why? There is an awful lot of different ways to speak on me, and all of 'em be pretty near true at that. My life has got more angles than a cat. You may be one of these Re publications, (as most of the ministers hav,, gone into politics). You may bo one that blamed me for electing Mr. Roosevelt, or you might be one of those Democrats who blamed me for fleeting Mr. Hoover four years This is kinder the public season to jump dm me if anything has gone wrung, everything from a scarcity of skunk hides in the Northwest to I) -('dominating amount of girl babies in I'ennsyl vauia. ou see, Re' Giant, I think I am as independent as any on" writing-. 1 have as many Republican as Democratic papers, as many readers that cant read as can. The iditorial policies of thesL, great dailie- mean nothing to me. I am goir.g to call 'em like I see 'em. I think I hac complimented mativ a worthy thing in my time, and I have taken a shut at a lot of "Hooey 1 am not against it mind you, as it just seems that it takes so. much of it in every busienss. And they are a my friends, I am proud of the fact there i.-. not a human being that I have go it in foi-. I never met a wan I . (lident like. I -got mi "Philosophy," I dont even know what the word means. The Fourth Reader (McGuffey) is as far as I ever got in schools. I am not br-'igging on it, I am thoroughly ashamed of it for I had every oppor tunity, everything I have done has been my luck, ho move was premedi tated. I just stumbled from one thing to another. It might have been down. I dident know at the time, and I don't know yet. for I don't know what "Up" I may be low- tr than I ever was, I don t know. I nviy be making the wrong use of any little talent (if any) that I acci ri"iitly have. I 'don't know. I feel mighty provul that you will d s-cu-s nie in your labernnclc. The joke more on ycu, than on me.". I thought the only tin'e I would ever make the pulpit as a cotiversasional subject was when I finished, and t-'ien on'y by one minister who ? charges for kind words wmll be deducted ' :n the estate. i . '"1 like I did the jther day when they told me I was in the British "Who's Who." There was no way J could sue. 'em or make 'em retract, iiul there U n way to keep you from gabbing iu'-iuru! about anything yOii "like. I Iv.'at.i a fellow preach one time on Jess, Jfiiu? th; outlaw,-' and 1 !Vt the i hti '! wanting to hold up eveiythiiiK a:ul everybody I run into. So if yon are such a persuasive n -ea elver, you are liable to turn out a (lock of iSweedish comedians up around Minneapolis.. Don't make the life too rosy, for with the politicians horning' in, our comedian business is overcrowded as it is. I preached one time in a church in .Cleveland. Ohio. But the collection dident warrant me carrying it on as a steady profession. Pleaching should not onlv be done by a preacher, but a man like Gandi. who can do fasting .when necessary, for i: will be necessary. Love to all your congregation, in cluding the lines that are not paid, up, its just hard time-, they hit an well. Parson. They got just as much re ligion as (he paid up ones, so you will just have to trust 'em, and give 'era a little preaching "On Time." icu see preachings is one of the few things that folks havt, never been able to dope out exactly what its worth anyhow. Some preachers ought to pay admission to get into the church themselves, but as a rule preachers do a mighty good job and are underpaid. But there is a lot of dignity about the clerical profession that you would have to work for years for in any oth er line. But you are sympathetic, useful, instructive and the most worthwhile profession ever invented- I wish your church a happy and charitable '33. or any other years. No use being stingy in our wishes. Pick out as many years as you want and I will wish you good luck with all of QUACKS By I. B. A. QUACKER 24 Years Agft m HAYWOOD era. J" 1 933, McNaught Syndicate, Inc. Xada Girri of Los Angeles furnishes each year 3,000 synthetic skulls made of plaster, to universities and the medical profession at large. Shirley Staschen, 18, of Sah Fran cisco, will abandon her art studies and assume management of the mortgaged garage left by her father who died recently. A committee of representative busi ness people selected Ann McCarthy of New York City, as the "ideal busi ness irirl" at thp 29th anniml national business show in Gtand Central Palace. The new posts along the highway will hold the careless drivers and al so ca"eful ones in the road for many years ... not only that, but their appearance pleases the sense of sight . . . but what about us countrymen on our horses or oxen and you French men on your bicycle. . . . Too, the old plank fence kept the drunk from falling off the roadside . . . it served as the farmer's fence to keep cattle on ;he road to market or in the dry pasture to starvation . . Jbut science i:as a new stop for wayward cars . . . the plank fence must go the way of the covered bridge . . . and where are the roadside loafers going to carve their names? . . and, say. does Hay wood county possess a covered bridge? . . . Haven't seen one since I return ed from Georgia. . . Forded down towards Albert Walk-st-'.-i. back down past John Hipps' farm, past Mrs. Noland's, who is prooably the oldest woman in the county, and back through Iron Duff . . found ithe roads in a worse condition than I have seen them since the era of ood roads . . may need a road report if these rains don't stop . . still they were not bad enough to be com pared with ithe roads when Bob Mor row was pulling cars from his house acro-s Cedar Top hill. 1 would like for Hazelwood and Waynesville to form one town, . . . with town limits jusjt beyond Mr. .Inn-ay's railroad crossing and at this end of ,:hs Ratclitf Cove road .... --.:!. this new town what you will, even- your taste is no better than to cill it Richatkinson . . Jbut if you do ',' want a better picture of Bon than was in the paper last Sunday . . and suggest that Rich wear' a -cap. so that "i.-.n is s will not embai.iss Bob Howell by calling hint Mayor. . . ). ('. Patrick claims many people want a special number for their car Mr. Bunn has had ::i,500 reserv ed . . . we all want particular tags if we could get them . . there is nothing strange about that. .... Of Nonth Carolina's little tin tags that cost so much, I prefer number one . . but what would the Governor think? you see he also wants a particular number. . . Canton has a nice en semble of blue and white city and state (tags. My old friends Mr. and Mrs. Snears have moved from the Clyde Inn. . . I bet it wont ibe long until their new place in Canton will be full of bridge. Rev. Herman of Asheville: "The teacher is the maker of civilization, the keeper of civilization, and the maker of progress." I hope the law makers in Raleigh realize the truth Fulness of this statement. One of Haywood county's greatest isssts: The Duke University Summer School at Lake Junaluska . . . there the teachers get (better prepared to better prepare your child to live more nearly like God intended it to live . . as for immediate cash . . the student coming here to board leaves seventv- Miss Mattie Love gave a very de lightful party at her home on' la-; Tuesday evening in honor of th Masses Alf;ae1ter of Galion. Ohij the guests of Mrs. Hugh A. Low. Progressive Hearts was the game :' the evening. The ladies prize, a dainty collar was won by Miss Jessie Moody. The gentlemen's prize, a box of cigar,, was won by Branner Gilmer. Afte the game delicious refreshments wen served and the evening, was grea-tiv enjoyed by all present. The Waynesville Printing Company has formally taken over the plants of the Courier Printing Company and Sentelle and Dickson. At a meeting of the stockholders recently direet t rs were chosen .arid the following officers elected Prtsidertt Hugh A Love; Vice President, James E; Car raway; SecretaryTreasurer, W. ( Allen; Business - Manager, Horace Sentelle; Supt. of Plant. C. L. Dick son; Solicitor, John Sentelle. Dr. Thos. Stringfteld,-after a se vere attack of La Grippe, is able to bt. out again. 1 The inauguration of W- W. Kitchin, of Roxboro, as governor of North Carolina took place in Raieigh today in the presence of thousands. The parade was a feature, 16 military companies being- in line, with many civic organizations, and also the stu dent body of Wake Forest College, of which Mr. Kitchin is a graduate. YEARS AGO IX HAYW OOD The annual meeting of the stock -holdeis of the Waynesville Print ing Company was held in the otlice of the company in the Cour ier Building, Tuesday afternoon. The future of the Waynesville Printing Company is very bright, and the managi iiu-nt feels .exceedingly hope ful and proposes to make the yen l'Jl 1 a hummer. The wedding of Miss Sydie Moore and Mr. Davis Ray was an interest ing event of last week; taking place Wednesday. January 4, jn Binning ingham, Alabama, the Hom of th bride. Mr, and Mrs. James Killian air visiting Mrs. Killian's parents in Stark, Florida. Miss Jennie Ray will leave the last of the week for Spartanburg, S. ('. where she will resume her studieaf Converse College. five dollars . . . the instructor with nis lamily and car will leave much more. . . The Duke school at (the Lake looks like crood business r mp. . . . Briefs: "To ithe victor belongs, the spoils". . . How some will regret their tratorism in '28. . . . Ed. Howe in "How About It." says to read McCauley who advised reading Addi son for ithe same purpose? . . If science can let me hear the king'.s voice from Europe, why can't it send me something to abolish this dand ruff? . . . When I'm tired of hearing the banquet speaker I cross my fingers and feel my nose . . . but that TT minds me of the two. headed calf at the county fair here many years ago. I prefer Al Smith, the speaker, not (Continued on page 5) JUSTATIP- You need no longer throw those old shoes aw: y. Just bring them to us and we'll return them to you almost as good as new. "The Trade Is Not Closed Until You Are SatisHed" THE CHAMPION SHOE SHOP E. T. Duckett, Prop. NEXT WESTERN UNION MAIN ST. Answer Consult a rsli&ble physician and Tn&ve ycixir prescriptions fill eci here You should wjth zealous care investigate the purity of any medicines given to a child. If your prescrip tions are filled here you can feel sure that they are safely followed to the letter and that the drugs con tained therein are of the Jiighest. purest type. Bring your prescriptions here. 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