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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933 rage 8 SALARIES OF TEACHERS AND OTHERS The Mountaineer has always tried to make it a point to give tacts on all matters of general interest and we are printing below the otlieial re port of the State superintendent oi Public Instruction to the General As sembly. The report reads: There is some misconception on thv. part of many people about the sala ries of teachers. This is due largely to the fact that the total amount paid out in teachers salaries .is very large. According to the new report of tli State Superintendent of i'uldie In struction to the General Assembly tl:j total amount paid out in salaries to teachers and principals for the past year, which was the first- c:.r undei ! the cuts instituted hy the UK1 Leg islature, was .$17.(587,2(35. This, of course, is a huge sum of money, but it was divided among 23,2'JU people, so the average annual salaries of the whole group, including principals and supervisors and teach ers, both black and white amounted to only $8-17.59. Last year, 1931-32. there were 17, 127 white teachers, principals and supervisors in the State paid out of public funds. We paid these white teachers and principals a total of $14,720,585. The average annual salary of this group was $Sb9.&u or ijxi.ba per month on a 12 months basis. Page 5 of the report of Director of Personnel F. L. Dunlap, which has just been made t j the General As sembly shows that the 992 people on the State payroll, on boards, com' missions, in departments and else where, including everything from the Negro janitor and messengers and elevator operators to the highest paid State official, drew an average of jlfitb a year. If they are cut 327e from the salary as has been suggested by the Budget Bureau the average annual salary of all of these officials, stenographers and Negro employees would be ?1,205. The teachers make no protests against the salaries these people draw. They merely think that if this group is worth this much in their service to the State, they are cer tainly rendering a service that should be worth $71.68 per month. On page 5 of Appendix A of this same report it is found that the monthly salary last year of one of the employees of the State, listed as a cook, was $69.33. If this cook got his board at the place he cooked, as is the usual custom, he had a consid erably better job, so far as financial remuneration is concerned, than did the average white teacher in North Ca rolina. Again the teachers are ,iot con tindiiig that the salary of the cook is too high, but again they believe if the service this cook is rendering the St:.te is worth $9..":! a month, their service is worth ;71.N. Should the ia '-.isia: ure put into ell'ect the sched ule of eductions suggested by the Budget Bureau, that is the salaries of teachirs ;:nd principals be re duced l.V; and ;i2',; of the salary of i t i i j cs based on the 1931 schedule, we i" ! t:' t the average annual salaries Lit' the white teachers and principals will ie Slid. 93 per month, and the salary of the cook mentioned above will be .fol.KS for the cook in 1931 ta ; drawing yji.UU a month. this does not take into consideration the "perquisites" that usually go along with a cook's job, or the lack of there "perquisities' which do not go along with the teacher s job. The report, of the Commissioner of Personnel lists 97 classifications of positions with the State Highway Commission. The report says that it is impossible to give an accurate pic ture of the average yearly salaries of this group of people because of the short periods of employment for va rious groups, the amount of work to be done deciding the length of time various people in the different classifi cations are kept. The average annual salaries of the people in the different 97 classifica tions ranges from $1,787.55 to $2,270. Again emphasis is placed on the fact that the school people of the State do not think these exhorbitant sala ries for the class of people that have to be employed, and the amount of training the majority of the people in these classifications have to have. Many of them are college people, graduates of technical schools. The average monthly salary sent up by the State for this group, including every thing from junior guards of prison camps to the most highly trained en gineer range from $148.97 to $189.00. The monthly salary rating of a teacher who is a college eraduate. with four years teaching experience is $133.33 less 10 per cent "orl 20.00 a month. In the case of both of these crouns of course, the total yearly earnings depend on the number of months em ployment they are able to obtain. ROUTE 4 WILL BE DISCONTINUED ON FIRST OF MARCH i ( antinued from Page 1) ricr will go: Kouthea.-t t Dr. Green corner. Southwesterly to Gautier corner. I .VhiU and Southwesterly to Smith I coiner. Smith and .Southwesterly via. Ben nett's to J. M. Long's. Southeasterly to AlcCracken corner. Northwesterly to Tom Brown stoie. Northeasterly to Francis' corner., Ka-t. on Fast Street to Jessee Wells' corner. Northerly crossing No 10 via. Un dei wood corner to ('. B. Kussel corner. Easterly over No. 10 and Rateliff Cove road to J. It. Katclitt corner. Southeast to Frank Leopard's and retrace .00 mile. Northeast and Fast to Chambers' corner. Southwest to Web Gather comer. Northwest to L. L. Justice corner, .45 and retrace. Southwesterly and Westerly to Kelly corner. Northwest to Garner corner .75 and retrace. Westerly to Burchfield corner. Southerly to Mark Edwards corner .80 and retrace. Westerly to Gid Francis corner. Southwest to Ed Swayngim corner .40 and retrace. Northwesterly via. Brown's Store to Post Office. Total length 31.47 miles. Six miles of Waynesville route 4 will be given to Clyde route 1, Post master Green said. All patrons affected by the change in their address will be notified with in the next few days. ' I. B. QUACKS By , QU ACKER Waynesville Visitor Hit By Shots Aimed At F. D. Roosevelt F. A. BURGIN WILL RETIRE AS MAIL CARRIER ON TUES. (Continued from page 1. Hazclwood at this time. This, how ever, was discontinued in 1912. For 22 years Mr. Burgin delivered mail on route three. When he first began as carrier, he used an open two-wheeled cart drawn toy a horse. The roads at that time were too bad for a buggy. It was several years later before he could use a buggy. Once while driving a mule to the cart, the cart was turned over when the mule eased to one side of the road and pulled the cart onto a high bank. Bxcept for the "spill" and a little lost temper. ho. harm was done. Atter several years of the "cart system I.Mr. Burgin began using a buggy as the roads had been improved to that extent, hut even With a buggy the problem of combating mud .was ifi The magician shows you a girl supported on a slab of glass by two slaves ... he holds up a sheet before her. . . .''V. He draws away the sheet. . . . She's gone! -where? not ended, and has not been ended to this day, remarked Mr. Burgin. Mr. Burgin recalls once when the thermometer was down to zero and the road was covered with a slick coat ing of ice to the extent that his horse could not stand up and pull the buggy. Mr. Burgin got out and walked over the mountain on the ice. "My weight in the buggy was more than the horse could pull and stand up under." he said. (Cantinued from Page 1) One slave is a hollow dummy. The girl deftly slips off her glass couch m J into the dummy while the sheet hides her f rom the audience. ... vnc iime, me. retiring carrier stated, "when Waynesville had a four inch snow I got snow bound on the mountain at Stamey Cove and it was 9 o'clock that evening before I got home. The snow had drifted across the road waist deen. and mv hni-co just couldn't go any farther. In fact he just laid down. I got out, unhitch ed him and pushed the buggy back up the road and then led my horse down the mountain. I wenl '.-around the mountain to the top of the other side and then retraced my steps." About the coldest weather Mr. Bur gin recalls Was the finters if 1M7 and 1918. During the winters of these years the mud would often freeze on me wheels ot his buggy until it would form a solid mass and the horse could not pull it. He would have to o-et out and knock the frozen mud from the wheels before proceeding. It was during these two .winters that Mr. Burgin lost the onlv time to amount to anything from service, ex cept regular vacations. It was that year that "flu" was raging and he was one of the ones who contracted It. lie onlv lost 1, davs. thmio-h Mr. Burgin stated that he had often had his horse to fall and many minor accidents ot that nature, but had never lost any mail during his ' years of service. Bad roads are the outstanding men aces to the rural carrier, and natural i.v ;ir. Burgin drifted back to that topic. several years ago," he began, neii me nignway lorce were grad ing what is now Highway 284 at Pig eon gap, the mud was knee deep, and the county kept a team of big mules there to pull the buggies through. One time the niud was sxi deep that my norse could not move, so I got some help and We rolled him down the embankment into, a nastm-c Ho ould roll, but he could not walk." 1 hen when thev were building the Sunburst Railroad, the contractors would have a group of negroes to pick my buggy up and carry it over the rails and ties, while I would lead my horse through the woods to the other side of the. construction mnvk "As a rule I don't mind aiiu kind of weather except rain. Even in the summer time when vou pet wet von almost freeze. I'm just telling the J hard things about mv nast.. 'there were some bitters among the sweet.;.' " Un my routes I knew everv familv. every member of the family, and even me nogs, and a lot of times would learn the summer visitors." Many times Mr. Burgin has had a nice warm country dinner brought out to him and served while he sat in his buggy by patrons on his route, and at Christmas he was always the recipi tent of some thoughtful gift from those '"who looked forward to his daily visit bringing them news of the out side wi id, Mr. Burgin brought out the fact that people do not write as much to day as they did years ago. This is due, he thinks, to the fact that people visit more now and can see each other more often, and that, -of course, elimi nates writing, and bodyguard of Mr. Roosevelt. Th latter three were slightly wounded by the bullets : .angyra s pistol, sprayed into the crowd which surrounded the car occupied by the President-elect in Bay Front park. Louis Twyman, defense counsel who entered Zangara's guilty pleas said his client had insisted he wa guilty, "He says 'no, no, I not crazy when we asked him if he thinks he is insane," Twyman told the court. Taking the witness chair, uncon ecrncdly. Zangara gave stomach pains and hatred of capitalists as the rea son lor his desire to kill Mr- Roose veil.. T suffer all time from my stom cl ' .angara told Judge E. C. Col lins. "I no like the way capitalists take all money. When I read in pa peis the president come here, I de cide to kill him." "I decide to kill him and make him suffer. I want to make it 50-50, Since my stomach hurt I got even with capitalists by killing the president. My stomach hurt long time." .angara told the court he did not car.", whether, he lived or not. "I seek all time," he said. "I just think mayuc cops kill me if I kill president 'Somebody hit niy arm when 1 try it. 'They fools! They should kill him." llie prisoner turned as lie was led Horn the courtroom, held up eight lingers and asUed Judge Collins how ma'i.v years he h id been sentenced to ' rvo. I he judge nodded" at the uplifted 'i-our times twenty is eighty," angara snouted. "Uh, judge don't '"' stingy, uive me a hundred years.' i.augning m evident amusement. -vngaia then fell in with his guards let me assigned to route four. He has car ried that route to date. It was only about 6 years ago that -Mr. Burgin was able to use a car on the roads, and even now it looks as if sometimes he will have to resort to a horse again, he says. Mr. Burgin is not a native of Hay wood county. He was born near Old Fort in McDowell county. He came to Haywood on January 17, 1891 and settled at Tito, what is now known as Dellwood as a merchant. In May, the following year, he married Miss Cumi Owen, of Dellwood and then moved to Old Fort and engaged in farming for 2 years. He then return ed to Dellwood and operated a farm unui ne went into the mail service. The retiring carrier is a memher of the Junior Order. Masonic Order. and a member of Martha's Chapel at i lenwooa. During the nast twentv-siv venr r -w-. ' . . ? . V .nr. Burgin estimates he has traveled 223,000 miles and . handled more than 1,600,000 pieces of mail. The distance traveled is equal to 9Vi times around the earth. IMr. Burgin has served under three postmasters. He started out under John Crimes then T. L. Green and after Mr. Green, Frank W. Miller and then Mr. Green again. He remarked, "If I had stayed until after March fourth, I guess I'd have been under another postmaster, but I have no idea who." ... ; j .'. Although he has finished his task as carrier, there still lingers in his memory many days of happiness when his patrons rushed to their boxes to receive their mail, which perhaps meant a note from a long lost relative, or friend, and even perhaps a proposal from some young swain who was handicapped in carrying out Dan Cu pid's business by distance, or roads, and had to enlist the services of Uncle Sam's mail carriers who are made up of the same courageous material as .Mr. Burgin Valentine's I lav is iia.-t and .(,:nt of us arc still loose to enjoy an- ot!,:. r . . but the married may enjoy the (.ceasion iust a-i much- . . . You know one of the few things old people cannot tell youth much about is love . experience and age do not count. . . . Youth, according to Byron, the poet, gives to love its joy, sweetness, vigor, truth and its heart and soul. . . Many rules should be elastic . . our school laws, for example, state that money appropriated for coal must be used for nothing else . . Same with that , for buses . . last year we could have done without a new bus . . spent that saved for books or other . .ipplies . but this could not be done . . . a new bus was bought so the nionev could not be returned to Ral- e'gh to be sent to some other place. . Mark Sullivan, M. T. Bridges, Rob ert L. McLean, and I. B. A. Q. want iSumlay baseball. . . No, we should not . . we. should reform, go to the good world to watch all those players nd fajis now playing on Sunday play wav, way down below us . . how they 'll be crowded far space , . the golfers the joy riders, the hikers, the swim mers, the readers, the card players. and all others enjoying Sunday sports will be in Hellena, and not Montana . what's the difference in Sports? . . How do the people know the Lord isn't as much for one sport as another? Ju;.t because the bases are stolen? You know I've heard that people have less sense thun any animal . . some times. I almost believe it. . . "Josh Paul Beam, head man at the Hazelwood institute of learning, is now willing to give instructions on "ere" traveling. Last week "Josh" had a wreck 'and had to travel by 'ere" to his home in Gaffney, and he m-1 with such marked success that he i willing to disclose the secret of u art "ere you going my way," commonly known in these parts as thumbing. I was told "Josh" had his thumb in a sling for three days after his first "ere" traveling. Graft and unwise spending has placed our state, all other states, and our nation in a terrible delemma. . . There is no over-night panacea for these ills . . we are sick and must revert to ttie old remedy of bleeding. . i'll subject to transfusions . : blood must go into the state treasurv the monster Shylock must be appeas- s i. . . gradually our masters will regain their health ';' financial blood will weaken us . . some Will die . . . t'nd in a few years eight or ten men will decide we need 'another war . . . and the drama will again be enacted. . but some day the stacre mav bp shat tered . . Mr. Graft and company may 1)0 destroyed . . a different founda tion might help. . , The sales tax is probably the least evil to aid our troubles. . . I do not favor such a tax . . when we p'av our deht will the tax be removed? . ..T should sav not. ., . I do not favor a tax that does Operetta Will Be Given Again Here Tonight At 8 P. M. The music department of the Way nesville Township school will repeat the operetta, '"Love Pirates Of Ha waii," with about 40 taking an active part, at the Central Elementary school at 8 o'clock tonight, with a special admission prices of i" and 25 Tents. The operetta was given Friday night a week ago, but because of the bad weather that night and special eiuest, it will be repeated. Those taking leading parts are: .Sara Rathbone, Susie Alembane, Iris Chasin, Hilda Liner, Ruth Rateliff, Mary McCracken, Paul Davis, Fdwm Poteat and Boone Bolden. A chours of 10 Hawaian choru girls will be members of the Girl's glee club, while the chorus of Pirates will be 12 members of the boys' glee club. MEMORY OF MRS. RM1STA ALICE i: A LDW Y.Y not place the burden oil those with the ability to uav . . von ilfiVo vnnv ir all day in your work . . . Mr. Ford drives to work . . are you able to uav larger tax than Ford? . . Income the two best are nd inheritance ;inis of taxation And briefly speaking: The armory at Lanton is their best n ace for dance . . a good one . . I don't, mind hemg second choice at the party . the Cats are lust as cood. . . Good aepresion no, stoD lie-hts on Main nave l a tie savs he has the larp-es and smallest man in the county at his .Hoarding camp out Haze wood wav . Judge Clement and Alley are similar in appearance. Kest hasketha 1 Mmn salvage All-star ; . next best Hie. Canton game there. .' . Often wonder t Kussia won't be the leading na ion wunin tne next ho venrs. v r ... . - i . uunng the cold spell the Lake had some irozen assets and water, but not enough to skate on . . "anA TJ1' me finish) or Ernie" wa a io.,v i rawing . . it was not ohlv the finish i me ngnt out the end of a life. . . i'o you know any game except horse snoe where close counts? . . . W. mat me vuar of Watef elH n,i iony Liavis in the bovs l ne-un? Vould President Roosevelt break a custom to ask for re-election in '36 and mi: . . He will only serve 3 years and ten months this time . . and I'll be with you next Thursday at this same hour.. " Mr. Burgin remarked. "I will be Inst oftot. T niiif k,.f T ,. I'll 'About 4 years ago Mr. Burgm was get over it." Boxing And Wrestl ing Class Meet Here Tonight To Organize C. A, George, who organized a box ing and wrestling .class here last winter, announced yesterday that the class will resume workouts beginning tonight, Thursday, in preparation for the spring tournament, and urges all members interested to get in touch with him at the W. W. N. C. Cafe for final details, and the place of meeting. Last year the Waynesville boys won 3 of the championship events of tho Western North Carolina tournament held in Asheville. Seven members of ...v. o xai s me semi finals. ; :,'. ." ; Those winning championships Were Don Hyatt and Fred Ferguson, in the boxing and Ben Atkins in wrestling. BULK GARDEN seeds sets at Hyatt & Co. and Mrs. Arminta Alice Baldwin, only '. ughter of John Pinkney and Eliza cth Boyd, was born feu. 1, lnbl in Buncombe county. At the age of five years she and her mother came to Haywood county to make their home with her aunt. Mrs. Sallie McCrary, after the death of her father in the x-Cuvolutionury War. Making her home there until her marriage with Samuel Baldwin in the year of 1877. They lived in happy union until April 5, 1913. when he passed from this life. To this union eleven children were born. Mr. Boyd Baldwin of Pacolet, S. C; Mrs. Fdd Padgett. Mrs. R. S Walker, also of South Carolina: Mrs G. W. Noland, Mrs. W. A. Noland, and Mrs. J. S. Ray of this county. She also leaves twenty grandchildren and three great grandchildren. For the past fifteen years she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. V. A. .oland, of Crabtree She was a devoted Christian, having professed taith m Uhrist and joined the Baptist church at an early age, living a Christian life above reproach. She was also a true and affection ate mother.. Her place in our home t'an never be filled. We miss her more with each passing day. But God jenew best. He-carried her home to live with Him and her loved ones that have gone on before. I hear the low winds sighing Among the boughs that wave Beneath dear mother's lying, ( ao quiet in her grave. Unbidden tears have started As by the mound I bow, I think of when we parted, I have no mother now. The pale moon shines so faintly, Yet I in fanoy see Her face so pure and saintly. As when she smiled on me. Although she's safe in glory, Yet care beclouds my brow. There's sorrow in my story, I have no mother now. I feel so very lonely The future seems so drear. My. dear Redeemer only Can make the pathway clear Of wounds past mortal healing. There's few like this I vow. This sad heart broken feeling I have no mother now. By her daughter, MRS. W. A. NOLAND. "Stolen Auto" Was Hidden By Jokers, Caused Much Worrv f Saturday night whil- vjo . ; mends near Clyde- Marion Brv,. : linotype operator for The M , . aimer, had what was intended a piucucai jone piaycu on hup win "carried too far," he said. Someone rolled his car from' .... it was parked to a spot "a var i. and hid it behind a house. Thinking that it had bc-t. he immediately got jn touh police officials near here to be ' , look out for the car and began a for the car himself. At 4:3U Su morning his car was found : hiding place, but that was after n had made a trip to Waynesville ,, J.'. another car; had made several k.. distance 'phone calls and done of worrying. Want Ads SEE US for Field Seeds, Bulk Gar den seed, fertilizers, spraying ma terials, certified seed potatoes. A'; Kinas oi ieea, iew low Hyatt & Co. PriM. FOR SALE our entire Stock i' VICTROLAS at bargain prices, f roir $2.50 to $15, all in A-l condition. See our windows. Massie Furniture Company, Waynesville, N. C. FOR SALE Fresh milk cows. Pric reasonable. W.T. Shelton. Pieo;. Street, Waynesville. Feb. 16-23-Mar. 2-9 pd BULK GARDEN seeds sets at Hyatt & Co. and onion WANTED 500 -Cords,, of Tan Bark at $8.80. Come m and be put on the book. J. M. Mock, Mock's Depart ment Store. FIELD seeds, spraying materials Hyatt & Company. FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLASTY FOR SALE CABBAGE PLANTS Charleston Jersey. Flat Dutch, Succession ami Copenhagen Market 60c per 1000;' 5000 lots, 50c per 1000. ONION PLANTS White and Vei lcrw Bermuda 00c per 1000; 5000 lots 50c- per 1000. Shipping daily. Dorr is Plant Coi, Valdosta, Ga. Feb. 9-16.23-Mar. 2 WANTED Men and Women who wish to earn cash in their spare time by writing letters to their friends. Box 83, . Highpoint, N. ('. . -, Feb. 15 & 22 pd. FERTILIZERS for tobacco and gen eral crops, bone meal for your grapo vines, snrubs, vigaro fir' J'ou flow ers and lawns ao-Hyatt &:Co. CAT Lost or1 Strayed grey fur cat FERTILIZERS for tobacco and gen-i with squirrel tail, name "Tom." oral crops, bong meal for your grape 1 Reward for return to Gaither Can vinas, shrubs, vigaro fir you flow-i dler, Little Cafe, Waynesville, N. C, irs and lawns at Hyatt & Co. It. Get Your Baby Chicks Early Pure Bred Blood-Tested, Rocks, Reds and White Leghorns. We hatch every Wednesday and Thursday. FARMERS FEDERATION HATCHERY Asheville, N. C. How Old? "I lie doesn't look a day over fifty. And feels like forty: -At the age of 62. I hat's the happy state of health 1 pep a man enjovs when he gives wital organs "a little stimulant! When your system is stagnant nl yoi: feel sluggish, headachy, ilf-alivc don't waste money on ionics" or "regulators" or similar 'atent, medicines. Stimulate the iVcr and bowels. Use a famous ,ihysician's prescription every drug store keeps. Just ask them for Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin. This appetizing syrup is made from fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin. Cne dose will clear up almost any case of peadachc, biliousness, constipation. But if you want to keep in fine shape, feel fit the vear 'round, take a spoonful of Dr. "Caldwell's syrup pepsin every few days. You'll eat better, sleep belter and feel better. You will never need another laxative Give the children a little of this delicious syrup twe or three times a week. A gentle, natural stimulant that makes them cat and keeps the bowels from clogging. And saves them from so many sick spells and colds. Have a sou stomach, active liver and strong bowel muscles that expel every bit of waste and poison every day I Just keep a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin on hand; take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. See if you. don't feel new vigor in every way.
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