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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933
utye iHnuntatnrrr
Published By
THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO.
Phone 137
Main Street Waynesvillfc, N. C.
W. C. RUSS Editor
W. C. Kuss and M. T. Bridges, Publishers
Published Every Thursday
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der the Act of March 3,1879, November 20, 1914.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933
EXPECT TEACHERS TO GET MONEY
There have been many complaints against
the sales tax for the support of the schools, but
there is one group that should make no com.
plaints. That group is the school teachers. If
the sales tax produces enough money to pay
the teachers, and we are sure it will, the teach
ers will get their money and will not have to
wait as they have in past years for the people
to pay their taxes. The sales tax is on a cash
basis. When the merchant sells an item that
is taxable, he collects the tax in cash and will
send it on to the state department of revenue by
the middle of the following month.
This will give the teachers their money a
fast as they can earn it and there should be no
waiting on their part. For this we are glad.
We know thai it has been a breat burden on
the teachers to wait on their pay for months,
lint the counties did not have the money until
the taxpayers' made their payments, and the
counties were not able to borrow against collec
tions as they have in past years. The taxes
on all the lands will be paid some time but there
is no way of knowing just when this will be.
The salaries for the teachers may be less
this year than in. the past, but it is all the legis,
lature thought the state could pay, 'and the fact
that they will get the money when it is due
should be good news to them at this , time.
Mecklenburg Times.
There is a reason why the average age of
criminals,' or those supposed to be, is between
17 and 21. It i a well known I act that children
born into the world are at first devoid of evil
thoughts. As they are taught .0 they grow up.
If they drift it is evidently the guiding hand
that is most at fault. Consequently, indifference
and laxity on the part of parents and teachers
for many years lias had a lot to do with the
ever increasing number of children drifting
away from Sunday School and into the Reform
School. Prison News.
A COW IS MOKE' PROFITABLE THAN A
STILL
Judge Wilson Warlick argued in his conn
in JMorganton last week that milking a good
Jersey cow is., more profit able than tending a
still. We are very frank to admit that the
figures given by His Honor were a revelation
to us. For a long time we had imagined that
manufacturing hooch was a very profitable en
terprise and any arguments to the contrary
coming from a less authoritave source would
have been hooted at by us. Put after reading
what the judge has to say upon the subject we
are convinced that the dairy industry should
have many new converts before the winter snow
Hies and looking after a still becomes still more
uncomfortable. -These-, arc Judge WarlickV
words :
"A good Jersey cow will give between three
and four gallons of milk a day, if she is prop
erly fed. Milk sells for -40 cents a gallon and
liquor, brings only $1.50 or thereabouts. Noth
ing has decreased in price so much as liquor.
If anyone expects to make a living out of the
manufacture and sale of liquor, he w-ill soon
find that court fines and jail sentences eat up
all the profits. A good cow can produce in a
day about the same amount made for which a
gallon of liquor might be sold, and milking cows
is a perfectly legal and honorable business
Polk County News.
The instructor leads to the door, but apti
tude rests with the individuals Selected.
A moonshiner in Kentucky recently an
nounced he had given up distilling and would
become a spiritualist. No doubt he had worked
with spirits so long he'll make good at -his .new-vocation.
The young man was a failure as an archi
tect, so he went on the stage, but he isn't draw
ing any better houses.
A New York scientist is trying to find if
fish gain weight rapidly. According to some
fishermen, minnows get to be whales overnight,
ODD THINGS AND NEW By Lame Bode
A local store is displaying toilet soap
shaped like fruit, animals, toys etc. Even at
that, the small boy knows that it is still soap.
From April 7th to June 30th 277,105 per
sons paid to the United States-$6,290,530 for
the privilege of making or selling beer. Wonder
if the treasury officials termed that sum as
liquid assets?
A visitor in Waynesville recently remark.
ed, "why you can grow anything here in Hay
wood county." Beg pardon sir, mosquitoes
won't.
We were told this story last week for the
truth. Perhaps it was a joke. Anyway it has
a thought in it. "Two men were found on Love's
Lane looking for the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, as the sign on Main street point,
ed in that direction." At least the sign caused
them to spend some time in Waynesville.
.y AM EXPANSION 'Z
A u'SiC inch OF
-VATE.R Expands to be
CPMt A CUdIC
COOT OP STEAM.
If some people waited until they had some
thing worth saying before they spoke, how quiet
some would be.
WHEN WINTER COMES
The Summer vacation season soon will meet
its end. Thereafter dates next to be anticipat
ed will be Thanksgiving Day and Christmas,
then New Year's day, with its turning of new
pages to reveal new hopes, new prospects and
new difficulties for men and nations.
The American nation has had a pleasant
summer, comparatively, so far as economics are
concerned. Prospects fo r the autumn are tint
ed with bright hues that will appear in business
and industry as well as in the leaves. The many
millions of new found wealth for persons al
ready receiving, and those who soon will be re
ceiving, the immediate financial benefits of in
dustrial codes will "take hold" Within a short
time as an influential economic factor. After
the autumn, then the winter.
When winter comes the powers of the N.
P. A. indeed will be put to the test. Conditions
of the winter season inevitably cause a slowing
up of industrial and commercial activities hi
normal times. The present is not a normal time
neither is there any prospect that the approach
ing winter will be a normal time. In the next
three months much can and probably will come
to pass, and the odds at least favor the hope
that these events in the main will be greatly
beneficial to the nation as a whole. Consequent .
ly, it now appears the American people will have
more than the Usual number of good reasons
for devoutly observing the first Thanksgiving
of the "new deal" era.
Christmas and its giving of gifts should be
influenced by the fact of minimum wages for
many millions of persons. As usual, Ney Year's
day probably will be accepted as the appropriate
time for mental relignments and appraisals of
the future. More strength 1o the prophets on
that day and may they be able to read the signs
aright !
It is advisable always to give some thought
to the, future the near term,: the, mid-term
and the long-term. Just now the near term is
worthy of contemplation.. As concerns that
period, here is one thought: During the days
of returning thanks, of-giving good cheer and
of turning new leaves in the pages of history,
as will be done in this near term, we will have
with us ye unemployed manpower ami money
power. Wit;:, will they, especially the former
which cannot wait, do?
Till; LITTLE FELLOW PAYS
The little fellow never broke a bank, but
on the other hand he, is the one who pays. In
variably investigations of closed banks bring to
light the fact that at the crack of the whip the
small borrower stepped up to the window and
paid his loan. It was the big borrower who
broke the banks in the recent crash of financial
institutions over the nation. It appears from
reports now coming to light that in most cases
it was the inability of the banks to collect on .1
relatively small number of large loans that pull
ed them down into the mire of financial death.
The so-called financiers who required large
sums of the other fellow's money to carry on
their operations, were the ones who left the
banks in the lurch. The whole condition was a
part of the frenzied era of finance, with its un
warranted expansions and big deals for which
the depositors are now paying and paying
heavily. ; " .-.-'
These revelations should point the. way for
bankers in the future. It should show them
plainly that the little fellow is by far the. better
risk. It is hardly possible, however, that they
will follow this, becauce the tendency now seems
to be to f reezs out the small depositor and cater
to the big boys. It is doubted if they have
learned anything from the crash that t6ok its
toll in dollars untold. -Burlington Times-News.
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Decline in Suicides
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
In one of the loading financial jour
nals recently appeared an article en
titled, "Suicides De
cline ns Trade Im
proves !" the .sug
gestion beiiiK that
because of the im
p rove d economic
c o n d i t i o 11 men
round it unneces
sary to resort to
suicide in order to
end their troubles.
Insurance compa
nies in loii-.'t.'l paid
11 n 11 re c e d ented
lar'e sums to fam
ilies because of the
suicide of n holder
ol a pobcy in which the members of
II. i.iinily were the benelicia ries. .Some
I""1"!' funned that suicide was not
an lict of cowardice, but on the con-lr;ii-.
was indicative ol a certain
si r. .. ah of character which -provided
the lamil.v With all necessary income.
It seems vassj ri f strange that in a
c-.nli'y which oilers so much of free
dom, opportunity-ami advantage, that
the l.-inip ol courage could burn so
low - that I he only retime was in Scl!'
dctniction. Perhaps one ep.lanatioii
for suicide can be tound in the lack
Of revert -!.. for home and all that it
should mean to a head of a family.
If lie home has lost ifs charm and
the en:
plact
issiu'ned to the head
of the family is that ;t a bread win
ner, naturally lie will find little to
support hini 111 his- sl.remious efforts
to provide- extravagant luxuries, (in
the other hand, doubtless many a dis
couraged mail found jjreut strength
mid an lii-e to t'mht the battle through
because those dependent upin him
were helping hi sacrificing the unnec
cssary lhin-,'s in life and were content
with a reduced income. Many fam
ilies were thus kej.it intact an! brought
hearer to one another because they
mutually, shared a common ''.burden
and helped to solve it..
The ipiestion naturally arises, have
we profited from this depression?.- Have
we learned anything., that will make
life more livable and more worth
while? As we look hack upon the suf
ferine of the last three years, one fact
must impress itself Upon every think
in;: . person -.that many things in -life
are far more valuable than money and
that many of the' dearest ..things can
Hot be bought with nioney. The per
manent ideals upon which every civ
ilization 'must rest arc frankly not for
sale. They must be toiled for. and
when acquired, wifely guarded against
the wiles of that crass: materialism
which argues that trade improvement
jnstilies the decline in suicides. ,
, 1933; W.-Bt.ra Xi'wspiii'-r t.'rion
AXD IF NOT?
A certain professor wore si'o whis
kers, mucli to the discomfort of some
members of his family. One day he
appeared before them, razor' in hand,
with one check, shaven smooth.
"How do you like it " he asked.
"If you think it looks well I'll shave
the other side, too.''
Use Burlap Bands To
Trap Apple Worms
TraDDintr and destroying the worms
of the Codling moth as they leave
the infested apple and crawl down
the tree around harvest time will
greatly reduce this pest next spring.
"The pests can be trapped by fas
tening layer,, of burlap from four to
six inches wide around the trunk of
each bearing tree.'' says H. R.Nis
wonirer. extension horticulturist at
State College. "Many of the worms
that leave the-fruit before ripening
time will also hide behind these bands
and can then be desltroy -?d."
The bands are -placed, around 'the
tree from eighteen to twenty-four
inches above the ground and held in
place by nails run through the ends
of the burlap. Before putting on the
bands loose bark should be scraped
from the trunk in order to eliminate
any hiding place other than the bands.
After the harvest season is over the
bands are removed and the worms
destroyed by boiling them' in an iron
kettle or similar container. . The bands
can then bo dried and puft away for
use another year.
This method of worm, control is be
ing practiced by apple growers
throughout the country and many
growers in this State . have banded
their ttc---i. '.in.ee the middle of June.
"The r- "olleeted through this
early bw..,img have been destroyed
each week and this practice has saved
growers much money in reducing the
number of poison sprays to be appled,"
says Niswonger.
24 Years Ago'
in
HAYWOOD
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(From the file of September 3, 1U09j
Miss Jessie Woodall and L:zz;e
Morgan of Clyde left Tuesday i'.r
Raleigh to enter Meredith College as
students.
Mr. A. C. Cagle has moved his fam
ily ito town and is now living at his
old place at the corner of RichLcd
and Short streets. He is better pre
pared than ever before to do all work
in the wagon repairing and carriase
manufacturing.
Mr. Cleveland Welch entertained
on Wednesday at an elegant dinner
party at his country home, Welch
Farm, in honor of Miss Hilda Way's
guests. The table had for its center
piece a beautiful arrangement of
dahlias in a cut glass bowl-
22 YEARS AGO IX HAYWOOD
(From the file of Sept. 1, 1911)
i ne paiauai nome 01 oisnop avuiu
was again open to their many friends
Thursday evening, the occasion be
ing a reception itendered Dr. and Mrs.
James Cannon.
When the Southern train pulled
out from the Shelby station this
morning at 9:45 those who knew the
secret were alllowed to tell their
friends that Mr. and Mrs. Josh
Mauney were aboard. The bride was
Miss Eevlyn Howell, the attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. P.
Howell.
Miss Margaret Stringfield is ttie
guest of relative, in Charleston, S. C
ithis week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Plott have re
turned from a week's visit to Mr. and
and Mrs. R. H- Plott at Jonathan.
Miss Edith Pou who has been the
house guest of Miss Josephine Gilmer
for several weeks, left Tuesday for
her home in Raleigh,
The recent rains in MomhoMMioi-n
Xoitb Carolina -have vastly improved
(Widens and the corn crops.
PROOF
The man entered the country post
office and asked: "Have you a parcel
for Mr. Jones?"
"I have," replied the postmaster,
"but how do I know you're the man?''
The man produced a photograph of
himself- "Have a look at that " he
said. "That looks like me. doesn't
it?"
"So it does," exclaimed the post
master, and handed over the parcel
without another word. New i ork
Morning Telegraph.
BE
XOW ARITHMETIC MUST
CHANGED
Teacher: "If a man worked 11 hours
in one day how much "
Johnny (interrupting): "Teacher,
he can't do that, you know the code
won't allow it!"
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LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE
Checks Malara in 3 days. Colds first
day, Headaches or Neuralgia in 'W
minutes.
FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC
Mosf Speedy Remedies Known.
SAFETY'S SAKE
"Does your father know I write
poetry?" asked ithe suitor.
"Not yet. dear." replied his wife-to-be.
"I've told him all about your
other faults; hut I wanted to see how
he took them before I mentioned
that."'-.- .-'
THE DESCRIPTION
Mrs. Clupe: "Did you see the Smith
twins0"
Blupe: "Yes."
The Mrs-: "Don't you think the boy
is a picture of his father?"
Blupe: "I sure do and the girl is
a talkie of her mother." Mutual
Magazine.
WE ARE NOT PREACHERS
but
Vh SAVE SOLES
THE CHAMPION SHOE SHOP
E. T. Duckett, Prop.
MAIN ST. NEXT WESTERN UNION
Mrs. Wiggs: "Is Billy sick, Mrs.
Skinner?"
Mrs. Skinner: "Well, 'e ain't ex
actly sick, but no stummick can
stand thirteen apples! It's an un
lucky number."
FREE C
siRicM
In nearly every Hospital, free clinics are maintained
for those sufferers w.ho are unable to pay for medical and
hospital service.
Doctors of experience and many years' practice give
these patients the same care and treatment as they do
their private patients.
Doctors do not receive remuneration for this service.
Every true physician deems it a duty and an honor
to make this contribution of time and talent to the needy
who go to Free Clinjcs, City and County Hospitals, Baby
and various other hospitals.
YOUR DOCTOR WANTS TO' KEEP YOU WELL
ALEXANDER'S
DRUGSTORE
Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office