THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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Main Street Waynesville, N. C.
W. C. RUSS Editor
W. C. Russ and M. T. Bridges, Publishers
Published Every Thursday
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Entered at the post office at Waynesville, N. C,
a-; Seconj Class .Mail Matter, as provided under
r..e Act of March 3, 1S79, November 20, 1914.
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'PPtSS ASSOCIATION :
THl'RSDAV, J AM'ARY 21,
( HI IK H ATTENDANCE IN WAYNESVILLE
IS LOW
Charlu. tc is rated as having the highest
per ecu; of eh uih ;,-. its in the .-la... accord
ing to population. The rate given the Queen
City i 21 per cent.
That figure seemed rather small to be the
hhhest in the state, but after figuring what per
cent o!' people within the city limits of Way
nesville attended Sunday School last Sunday
we decided that Charlotte must be a "sure
enough" church-goeing city.
The best we. could find out was that not
more than sixteen per cent of VVaynesville's .
population attended Sunday School last Sunday
about one out of six.
From the figures supplied by church offi
cials there were less than -U in Sunday School
nearer 100.
The rural sections of the state are regard
ed the best church attendance, but according
to our. information it looks like the cities are
leading the rural section in this respect now.
We i mini red of one local pastor to what
did he attribute this low percentage here, and
he said : "More people are working on. Sunday
than ever before; more like to stay in bed on
Sunday morning; and there is a scarcity of
capable teachers that keep those who should
attend regularly interested in the work;"
Well, his e.vplaination seems to coincide with
the figures in every detail, therefore we'll refer
to his statement again and say, therein is the
trouble. .
'PAY THE OLD FOLKS A PENSION AND
SPOIL THE YOUNG
,, The chief topic of the day seems to be
.about pensionsand needless to say, it is an
interesting subject, and one that can be argued
pro and con with almost any group.
Right now Congress is being .Hooded with
thousands of petitions to pass pension bills of
some description or other, and there is little
doubt in our mind but w hat a bill will be enact
ed whereby the federal government will appro
priate $15 when .supplemented by a like amount
by the states to all persons over 65 who are
unable to be gainfully employed.
Now there are many old people who deserve
pensions. They paid their taxes when young
er and did their part in carrying on in the;r
respective communities, but there are two
draw-backs to paying pensions not from the
old people's standpoint, but from the young
people's.
Many young people would no longer be am
bitious to be thrifty knowing that when old age
crept upon them that the government would
care for him and his family with a mere pension.
Then too, there are right now too many young
people who sponge off their parents or grand
parents on the Confederate pensions, which are
paid twice a year.
If the payment of the pension to these old
folks could be made so that the young ones
could in no way share in them, then what would
be more humane than to assure the old that
their worries were over as long as they ; lived
because the small amount given them Would
provide food and clothing?
COUNTING WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS
Waynesville's newest pastime seems tot
be counting widows and widowers, a new fad
started by W. T. Shelton and Oscar Briggs last
'Week. : ,'. :
Well, it is an interesting pastime, and per
haps one that calls for more thought than put
ting jig-saw puzzles together, or working out
cross word puzzles.
NATION'S HEALTH IMPROVES
The health of the nation has not suffered
"during the depression, according to the Public
Health Service, which credits this to the work
of relief agencies and the absence of any wide
spread epidemic.
Figures released for the calendar year 1933
show the lowest death rate ever recorded .'n
the United States, 10.5 per 1,000 population.
Three new lows were recorded for tuberculosis,
typhoid and diptheria and only 40 deaths re
sulted from 7,000 cases of smallpox.
This is trood news to most of us. It indi
cates the possibility of further advance along
this line and may mean two or three years addi
tional life to those who read this article. The
fight on disease can be carried on in Haywood
County without regard to what other sections
of the nation decide to do and it might be well
for us to see that effective work is continued
here
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"IF EVER I'M TEMPTED"
We pause long enough to report that Rich
ard Henschen, 24, of Chicago, wants to be finger-printed
by the Department of Justice and
have his identifying prints on file.
This young man very sensibly observes
that "if ever I'm tempted to commit a crime,
having my finger prints on record may deter
me."
The chances are that Richard will not.com
"Mt any crime because a young man who is so
clear-headed in fortifying himself against yield,
ing to sudden temptations is not apt to go vrong
He is wise in putting the odds against commit
ting a successful crime because it does not pay
and the psychological influence of the recorded
finger prints will help him to "go straight."
It might be wise for some of the rest of us
to follow his example and set up defensive works
against the assaults of various types of temp
tation that constantly assail us. How much
wiser we would be if we followed this example
in whatever way might -benefit- and assist us in
doing what most people want to: do, "live right."
One hundred years ago, or more, or less.
You braved the perils of a wilderness!
You faced the hardships of a bleak frontier
Courageous, earnest, noble Pioneer!
It mattered not that your heroic band
Broke trail across a rugged, unknown land;
It mattered not that danger and despair
And loneliness were waiting for you there;
It mattered not that you had left behind
The comforts you could never hope to find;
Your mother-heart was filled with faith and cheer,
And life was good, for those you loved were near.
Yours was the spirit humble, brave and free
- That guided well a nation's destiny;
Yours was the fortitude and wholesome grace
That made a cabin joy's abiding-place;
Yours was the charm and noble strength of soul
That ever sought a better, higher goal!
And we, who are your sons and daughters, pay
Our tribute of esteem to you today;
Rejoicing in that priceless heritage
That grows more glorious from age to age,
We voice our veneration for you here,
Courageous, earnest, noble Pioneer!
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HAYWOOD f
has
CUT IT ENTIRELY OUT
A bill has been introduced in the legisla
ture already to knock out the absentee ballot
law. ; -
In spite of what eirorts may be made to
retain as it now is or to revise and remedy some
of its defects in practive, there is no particular
occasion to keep it.
As a matter of fact, it has been viciously
prostituted and its integrity too generally nulli.
fied, we fear, to make it practical for a state
that is insistent upon clean election practices
to hold on to it longer.
Governor Ehringhaus has called attention
to the legislature to the popular clamor for ac
tion in behalf of fairer and more honest elec
tions and it is the inescapable duty of the party,
in control to follow the suggestion of every legi
timate limit and that would seem to call im
periously for the abandonment of the absentee
ballot. Charlotte News.
Random
SIDE
GLANCE S
i!y W. CURTIS RUSS
j FARMER COLLECTS TOLL
. Chicago. Because officials failed to
(get a proper right-of-way deed, Henry
; ipona b-.r.i.acJeii a new highway,
I charging motorists ten cents each to
I use the road and a new SnOODOU .mil.
trpa.-is. The farmer and his sons,
with shotguns stood guard over their
property.
On a certain door on Main street the
word private is spelled "privet." I
ion't know whether it was put that
way for fun or not, but it has: aroused
my clliO.sitv.
PARIS BANS U. S. DANCER
Paris. Joan Warner, 22 year old
platinum blond from the United States
was prevented by police from staging
a nude dance in a Parisian restaurant.
HERE'S. SCANDAL. . . .
The Waynesville church ollicial
I'ho
The walking marathon in Asheville came
to an end Saturday night With the winning
couple winning $500 each for walking 65 days
or 1560 hours without stopping.
For the number of hours the winners put
in and the pay, it will figure about 32 cents an
hour, and there are lots of people w ho will fuss
about working eight hours a day for thirty-five
cents an hour and have sixteen hours of each
twenty-four for their own what a world, or
what some people will do.
was a -lojker-on . (?) at a crap game
until four a. nv Thursday morning
attended church Sunday and did not
oven nod during the sermon .what" a
man. The name of this man will not
be disclosed as I found out about
the.- incident by the slip of . his own
tori pup, and I'm not going to get him
in Dutch.
ROCKEFELLER'S OIL HOLDING
Washington. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., icports to the Securities Exchange
Commission that lie .holds' stocks val
ued at around two hundred forty-rive
liihiaii dollars in three oil companies.
Lis holdings include 1,872,528 shares
in tiie Stanuaid Uil Company of Culi
ioiii.a; 2,7-io)i2z shares in the Sum
uai'u vjii Company ol Ac w Jersey, ami
o,..u,j,o,j anares i.. lhe Socoliy Vac
uum Couipany,
Down in South Carolina there were
two signs at a crossroads one pointed J
towards, the ground and the other;
towards the sky. Now whoever did '
that funny thing should have had to
drive ten miles nut of the way over
the muddy road things like that
cease to hp funny when expensive to
someone else.
It .seems that my squib last week
about the preacher has aroused con
siderable curosity I'm sorrv.
Last week members of the Rotary
club agreed to take a piano from the
top troor of the Methodist church to
the basement to be used in their meet
ings. A call was made for "Strong
oac-Ks ana -weak minds" and we all
heeded the call, I have always; made
it; a practice to carry the bench when
a piano was being moved, but this
time there was no bench so I had to
just look on. - .
BLACK -DRAUGHT
. For
CONSTIPATION
"I am 71 years old and have used
Thedford's Black-Draught about
forty years," writes Mr. W. J. Van
over, of Rome, Ky. "We are never
without it, I take It .as a purga
tive when I am bilious, dizzy and
have swimming in my head. Black
Draught relieves this, and helps me
in many ways." . . . Keep a pack
age of this old, reliable, purely
vegetable laxative in your home,
and take it for prompt relief at the
first sign of constipation.
24 YEARS AGO ..
Mr. G. N. Henson
from Mangum, Okla.
-vi r. Jarvid Com an
Tuscola Saturday.
Mr. JJ. M .Cag!e of t
Monday in the city.
Mr. Paul Rockwell
ti;e guest ot Mr. Jack V
turned to Asheville.
Misi Mary Davis i. '
iness course at Shoeklev
College in Asheville
Miss Lula FergiLsor.
visited friends here Ian 'u '
Miss Georgia Miller v-t C"
from Asheville where -
the past ten days.
Muss Carrie Sue Ad
cepted a position wi:
Noland in the Register o'' L
mt. Kobert Howell of
Creek was in town tht tit
week.
Mrs. D. A. Baker kft T
for a vieit of several week. v ,
atlves in Wadesboro, X C
Mr. Charlie Tull has re-ur ?
Waynesville and accepted
with the Mcintosh Drup (. n
Mrs. G. D. Green has retu-ned ' :
a visit to relatives in v,i;.,"n.
Mrs. W .C. Allen enter a r. J
members of the Missionary ocV-T
the Baptist church Momk.y afte"
The entire lower n or was throw
gether and prettily decorated"-'
fottXl P.nts Music and reaiv
ny the dillerent guests were rt-
enjoyea.
-lhe fcew-Si Club had a dV-r-eet
ng with Mrs. Jame5 Atk'-
on Monday afternoon. A(w'Z'
plying the needle for an hour
the hostess served a salad
.among the guests were m;h f
g.ni . Jones Mi-s Jessie M--.Jv
Nannetto Jones, Miss c-i-tV '
Adams, Mrs. G, C. Plot M, v
garet Ashford, of Atlanta M .. f
Satterthwait, and Miss McFay,f
Among the people who attend't-j
performance of "The White V
in Asheville on Wednesday night
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Carrawiv v
and J. W. Norwood. Mrs. (i (' '
Miss Jes.ie Rogers, Miss Lillie Sr
thwait, Miss Fannie Burr H s-'
and Mr. K, L. Withers.
At a meeting of the Wav-.".
Athletic Club on January 21.;
decided t;i organize its memV
four teams of basketball
and henlthy. athletic spor I
velops the hwly and keeps w .sfe
proper health. The leagut r i
about the first of Februm'v
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CLOTHIN
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If your Christmas jewelry has not turned
green as yet, it Will be reasonably safe for you
to wear it in company.
Up to now we have not read anywhere
where the mild winter was the result of Con
gress being in session.
Outside of. Dan Watkins. there Were
no easulties it seems that Dan was
pushed up against the wall, and had
to waik that way, and when the crew
reached the bottom step it was found
that Dan had rubbed too. hard against
the wall all the Way downso the
Rotary Club is likely to get a bill
from Dan for a new pair of pants.
Not that it matters, but it will be
September before we will have a Fri
day the thirteenth. , .. and another in
December. . . .and Valentine's day is
on Thursday, so is the Fourth of July
Memorial Dav Thahkspiviho-
Hallowe'en (and my birthday). On
Monday will fall labor Dav and Ar
mistice nav.
For Men and Boys
G. E. Ray's Sons
A COMPLETE CLOTHING SERVICE
I."!"''?
There is one feature to the "counting wid
ows" game that calls for tact that other games
lackthat is if everyone participating had the
trouble one man did w hen trying to list Way
nesville widows. There was a certain woman
whom he wasn't sure whether she was married
or not, and did not know if her title was widow
or old maid or grass widow. Because of her
tempermental moods he dared not ask there
fore he lost a point.
Don't get mad if you are asked during the
next few weeks : "Are you a widow, widower or
grass widower, or even have an inclination of
becoming either?'' It'll probably be someone
trying to beat the present record which lists
96 widows and 15 widowers.
This week this paper was asked. "To
what do you attribute the vast difference in the
number of widows and widowers ?"
Your guess is as good a3 ours.
The best . yarn iror.i the newspaper
neia- u come my way in some time
was told by an editor who was having
iioulic .in jvteping nis rival paper
lrum priming news taken from his
paper. One day a clipping was taken
from his -.newspaper and the printer
in the rival shop turned the clipping
over, when he set the tvne nnH
of setting the news item as intended,'
he set the editorial column that had
appeared the week before in the other
paper. The error -was caught when
the paper was off the press. Imagine
the look on both, editors face when I
tney: met one embarrassed n tko
other tickled pink.
Things that will never happen: Zsb
CurtLs becoming a yoddler Chreat
Georpe not looking like a wrestler
r. j. k. .Mccracken driving slow
W. L- Lampkin not rea.lv far a fish
or rx-ar story Ernest Withers in
politics Tom Lee. Jr. K.;..
grouchy-W ilford Ray turninsr down
chicken gizzards William Medford
taking- short steps J. R. Morgan pass
ing a lady without tipping his hat
uncle Abe being satisfied if
Three Priceless Inducements
Our policies in operating this institution have alwas
been governed by the fact that Pharmacy, like Medicine,
is a profession. To make any sort of concession in an
attempt to appeal to people's "trading" instinct, seems
to us just as much out of place in one as in the other.
Alexander's solicits your patronage on the basis of high
est quality drugs, skillful compounding, and quick de
pendable delivery. .These are our only inducements
but they are priceless to you.
AS K Y O U R DO C T O R
ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE
Opposite Post OffiK
Phones 53 & 54
pestering me. , .