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PtESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933
nioi (;iiis ion sKHiors momknts
WIicii Ilium Is ruled according Co God's won!,
nnjrcl-. iniln asked to stay u 'nijtht with Us. nnd
they would not lind themselves out of their element.
". II. Spursjeou.
Hvery nolde activity makes room for itself. A
ure;il mind is a sjood sailor, as a great heart is. Kmer
son. We exiiuif'rale misfortune and '. happiness alike.
We are ueer so retched or happy as we say we are.
IlnlJte. '
Kdm iiilon eterylhiiiK (!eM-nds on that, tluit is,
wiiere our li's lie Sir Ofori Atta.
NOT INTERESTED
The town board of aldermen turned thumbs
down on an offer made by the national forest
service to purchase the watershed boundary
from the town recently. The representative
pointed out that other towns had sold theirs.,
and believed Waynesville would like to "cash
in" on a similar proposition.
Aside from the fact that the tentative
offer was only about a third of the purchase
price paid for the land, the board felt it unwise
to even waste time going into the matter.
There are too many controversies that can
arise from joint ownership of land for water
sheds by towns and the federal government to
make such a proposition practical every time.
There are too many changes in administrations,
both local and national to guarantee satisfac
tion for a period as long as Waynesville will
have to depend on the present watershed.
But it takes propositions like this to put
a little "humor" in the office of alderman and
keep it from becoming monotonous
WANTS MORE SPANKING DONE
of Cleveland Lounty voiun.-
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THEY MUST DO THE DISAPPEARING ACT
Back in 1928, Superintendent Stone, and
other Waynesville school officials complained
about the crowded conditions at the high school
here. The enrollment being 350.
Last year's enrollment reached 513, and
the same space as was available in 1928 was
used. This year Mr. Bowles expects the en
rollment to reach 550 or better.
These 550 students are being taken care
of in the same quarters that 350 were crowded
seven years ago. This leads us to believe that
Mr. Bowles and his assistants are almost as
good magicians as they are efficient school
teachers.
JOINING A NATIONAL PROGRAM
It is hard for the average layman to con
ceive the fact that $300,000,000 is lost each
year by the top soil that is washed into the
Gulf of Mexico down the Mississippi River.
Not only is. the top soil lost, but floods
sweep over the levees and do untold damage
to towns and crops yearly.
Commenting on the subject in the current
issue of the Rotarian, Elmer T. Peterson say's,
"Man with his engineering ability could clear
up the waters of such muddy rivers as the Mississippi-
He Could do so if he would go to the
very source of the river and hold the water in
; the millions of small gulches, draws, ravines;
if he would terrace farm lands, restore old
marshes, reforest slopes and quit digging open
drainage ditches and straightening rivers."
Mr. Peterson's solution to the great nat
ional problem is right in line with the program
now being staged in Haywood county that of
terracing and reforestation.
We feel like damage done by the Mississ
"Tppi is almost a foreign subject to us, but it
isn't; in fact we are more to blame for the
condition than the people living on the river's
banks, because it is our top soil that is wash
ing down the river, filling up the channels and
causing the over-flows.
Besides having the best lands in the county
washed away, we are causing hardships on
those of the lower lands.
"Scores
a couple of good spankings at the hands a
law, but the hands of the law are tied."
.Invpm'lp J u dire A. M Hamrick. in Shelby
cently.
Unless we miss our guess, the same appli
cation of punishment could be used to a good
advantage in Haywood County. If IF such
a thing could be brought about, it would be. in
manv instances, the first spank that many ot
them ever received.
ROBERT'S ITCHING FEET
From September 1. if Congress has ad
journed by then, until the middle of October,
Senator Robert Reynolds is going on a speak
ing tour over the entire country. He will make
about 50 addresses on behalf of the United
States Flag Association, which is our idea of
an unexciting vacation.
But Robert, patently, doesn't mind. Rob
ert is a confirmed traveler. Why, 'way back
yonder when he was running for lieutenant gov
ernor he upped and went to Europe, conducting
all the time a novel post card campaign. Then
when he surprised everybody by getting elected
to the Senate, it was no time at all after that
100 days session of Congress until Robert had
set sail for far off places, to study, his office
announced, European methods of liquor control
and the recognition of Russia. He returned to
see North Carolina vote to control liquor in the
same old way.
It wasn't long until Robert was planning
to go to Cuba to see if America should intervene
in the domestic troubles on that tortured island.
Whether or not he went our files fail to show,
but in January, this year, he turned up in Mexi
co City, where he was a guest of Ambassador
Josephus Daniels, spoke to the Mexican senate
and had his picture taken in an enormous som
brero. In the spring he comprised a one-man
senatorial' investigative .-body to the Virgina
Islands, which place he departed as soon as he
found the aggrieved natives failing to melt
under the famous Reynolds good humor.
Now, as soon as Congress adjourns, Robert
is going on a nationwide speaking tour in be
half of the Flagafter which he hopes to be one
of the party of Congressmen which will visit
The Philippine Islands to witness the inaugura
tion of the home-grown administration there
This itinerary does not, it will be seen,
take notice of flag stops, family reunions, bar
becues and just plain week-ends. But there is
enough of it $0 show that in Robert's it has
been a case of Join The United States Senate
And See The World. Charlotte News.
Cornfield Philosophy
"BV TIIH SWKAT OF 1IIS BKOW"
Th.it man should earn his living by the '-sweat of
his brow" is no idle saying of Holy writ.
The world has taken great and most wonderful
strides .'forward and Inventions have 'multiplied with
the years. And while all this progress and all these
inventions of this machine age have tended to break
many of the shackles and lighten much of the toil
of former ages, it yet remains for man to work.
And rightly so. Some things, yes many things,
a machine cannot do. They have invented a plow that
does wonders on the praries and on the wide, smooth
stretches, yet there must be a man to guide it; and
the rough steep or stony land remains to be cultivated
very much in the manner of fifty years ago. .
They have a potato-digger that does vvry well on
lmse, smooth land, yet it does hot dispense with hands
altogether. Look, also, at the modern inventions to
lighten the drudgery of cotton farming, still they can
not do without the stupid oiil mule nor the man that
drives him.
And I say. again, it is all very well. Because this
machine age has already become too lop-sided and top
heavy, as you probably have observed. The labor
saving machine has been a godsend to the manufac
turer: yet it has, at the same time, been a nightmare
to the laboring man.
The Cornfield Philosopher was talking with a farm
er down in Iron Duff township a few days ago, re
counting the days of a generation ago. . .the days'-of
the bright, barn-cured tobacco. The writer, like most
all boys of that day, would often set tobacco plants
until his back would ake so he could almost "see stars "
I would work in a stooped position until forced to
change and crawl on my knees, then after going on
my knees a spell would change back to the stooped
position.
Now, I don't think they can ever invent a machine
capable of picking up the tender tobacco plant and
setting it out as it should be. . .if they do, they'll be
"going some."
"WHAT'S YOVK III'RIIV?"
Forty years ago, yes even twenty-five, folks were
not nearly in so big a hurry as they are today. They
had time on meeting in the road to "sample" each
others tobacco, inquire about the general health and
swap a few yarns. Yet they got to their destination
and back home in plenty of time, also did all the work
that came to hand. Now, In this day of the. telephone,
the wireless, the automobile and the radio, we haven't
time to say a respectable "howdy do." Looks like we
would have more time for air these pleasantries. .
time to talk with friends, go to church, visit the sick,
etc., does'nt it?
But the point I'm trying to make is this: all the
strain and hurry seen on every hand today is not
necessary. There is scarcely ever a time when a man's
business or mission justifies his running at a 60 to 75
mile rate of speed with all the attendant risk of Ufa.
And nime times out of ten, when the fellow who travels
at this dangerous and uncalled-for rate of speed reaches
his destination if indeed he has any, may be seen loit
ering around for hours.
Therefore What's your hurry?
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SIDE
GLANCES
By VV. CURTIS RUSS
Two of the biggest night mares in
the life of an editor are: Getting to
press on time and typog-futjnicai
errors and to tell the truth he has
little control over either, it seems.
Two-Minute
Sermon
By Thomas Hastwell
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Last Wednesday night when the
lights went out, jus; as we were in
the grand last minure rush, I was
walking in circles, when all of a
sudden a burst of light sprang up
from the direction ot my desk, and
for a minute 1 was afraid to look,
not knowing whether something had
exploded without noise, or what had
happened (as a rule the area around
my desk is the darkest spot in the
office) but this time it was really
bright. ...
Lo, and behold, it was a big white
cocoanut birthday cake with ever so
many candles on it what a sight to
behold then it all came to me, the
force was pulling a "sprize" party. . .
Not only did they have cake, but
ice cream 'n everything even iced
water. With lights, or no lights, it
was easy to find our way a round af
ter that.
Several of the staff made speech
es and offered witty, as well as
timely congratulations, but since I'm
not one of these "after-meal"
speakers, the response wasn t recorded.
Anyway, it was a swell affair, and
even if the lights were off for almost
an hour, it diun t seem to bother
much ... the biggest trouble of all
being, I couldn't see how much I was
eating and too, was so elated over
the party that my jubilant feelings
made the region where the "goodies"
went rather numb . . . but for once
in my life I've been full of cocoanut
cake, and to my way of thinking, that
is the best there is. . .
There's no getting around the fact
that advertising was responsible for
the party 'cause I saw to it that
copy for last week's column got in
early and inserted the date in same. .
so again ... it's a proven fact that
newspaper advertising pays. . .
THE MOST INTERESTING BOOK
tv'LR .Vv RITTEN: To me the O.d
fes. anient is fascinatingly interest
ing. It is interesting in many ways,
it ttlis of tne creation of the heavens,
the earth and mankind. It tells of
ne groping of mankina toward some
form of organized society and gov
ernment, and his struggle upward
and Goaward from the animal man.
tne eld Testament is written as no
book written by man has ever oeen
written. No man has dared to write
such a book. In it we find a true
cross section of livc3 of the out
standing characters of the time, the
good as well as the bad, the beau
tiful as well as the repulsive, the
noble as well as the base, the cour
ageous as Well as the craven, the
pure as well as the impure. They
are all pictured here without
prejudice, faithfully, impartial'.
The writers, inspired of God, who
wrote the Old Testament, never
stopped to consider whether those
about whom they wrote occupied a
high station in the life of the times,
or were the purple of royalty and sat
in judgment over their fellows or
whether they served in the lowliest
and humblest positions. To these
writers they were all men, ; saints
and sinners alike and upon the pages
of this remarkable book a complete
picture and the life of each has been
painted and is handed down to us in
all its completeness. What an ex
ample of truth. Truth from preju
dice and partiality. Truth undaunt
ed, unchallenged, marvelous in its
justice. Nowhere else in all of lit
erature is there to be found such
true reporting and such faithful
realism. .
out of gas en route to Canton, but
since he had 1,000 gallons on his
truck the matter was of little concern
to him.
Something you seldom ever see is
a man cranking a car . . . but this
week a car from Georgia had to be
wound up for about five minutes be
fore starting . . . and was the crank
er hot . . . just about noon. . .
Partn'5
M,.r-.,
The biggest smile I've seen in a
long time belonged to Jack Leath
erwood, 'filling station operator,
wVian n man Hrivinor A fjncoln from
! New York, drove in to have the oil
changed 12 quarts at 35 cents per. .
Had quite a chat with Ruf us Siler
last week, and he was most compli
mentary regarding the "columnists"
of the paper . . . and if at any time
you ever engage Mr. Siler in a con
versation and he fails to mention
the Haywood County Hospital, just
come in and I'll see that you get a
treat ... he's wrapped up in that
work, and the results speak for
themselves. . . - ,
R. TL Blackwell greeted Mrs. Russ
this week: "How do you do, Mrs.
Side Glances?" ..
William Hannah and Walter Craw
ford had a corner of the court house
hall monopolized last week relating
different extreme court .cases and
decisions . , . and what those two
can t tell. . . mil s Kentucky grand
jury case and Walter's Tennessee
case topped the list.
(from t
have leturr.tj ;rul
tives at Maggie.'
Dr. an. Tn
announce the b:rh a
August the 6th.
1 n,.:n... .
Lodge, spen; Weir.;
on business.
Miss Fannie Bu
turned after a v.,,;
Statesviile.
iMiss Jciephin- M
Roy McCrac'ken -p.-a
week in Ashevillt,
Miss Carolina Th.
b;a, S. C, is the g-j
S.tterthwaite.
Mis3 Carrie Suc A.iim; tr."'
e-d on Thursdav afrpn.-.,,- "'tr:a
ment to Mrs. Joe '
Mrs. A. E. Moore an ,',J,;u '
ipft for t'nai,. V,... : V"JrW-aa
V sit nrr f M., 5-J
Mr. Theodore
several day on
week.
'Mr. R. B. Holman. of Rofe
spending several duw here '
friends.
Mr. Fred Howell ha; retu t
a visit to relatives in Knoxviiit.
spent, several aay. m ;.ttr ,
friends this week.
Mrs, Ellen Posey ami Master C
H. Ray, Jr. returns: Mmjay a
an extended visit to reiativ :r. S.Carolina.
Among tne thoroughly (ie'ijh::
anairs ot tne week was the br;
party given by Mr. .lame; E. Q
raway on luesday at termor., in k
or of her guest, Mrs. A. D. Car
way, of New Bern. 1 hi w..- -r
tables and each table was- giver
hand painted bridge -c.vre' as a p:
A lovely bridge party was si
last week by Mrs. R. L. Alien. Tb
were six tables and the"jra.me '
most enthusiastic. Mis. Xan Kill
made the high score and was p
sented a brass basket. ,
. Those who attended the rec;-j
given Tuesday evening at the acai
emy were given a rare treat. M:i
Josephine Gilmer -was the solois; ai
Miss Phyllis Waodall was the vipii:
ist. Both young ladies displayed ra:
talent and excellent training.- Tl
audience was large and ap.pwia:i
The Asheville Citi'.en is conuuet:
a ereat popularitv contest, to aicef
tain who are the most popular pel
pie in North Carolina So.MO
valuable prizes are to be given aw
and already - great interest is be:
taken in the contest.
Miss Annie Shoolbred entertair.i
on Thursday evening with a la'
party in honor of hep house guest
The well kept grounds were beaut
fully illuminated with Japanese la
terns, while settees, hammocks ai
chairs were placed under the tree
Tho rpcontion hall and the danc:!
room were banked with patted fer
of the most beautiful variety. Jl
ivi 1 o-ht-eii with anterns mi
thr-aw soft, tinted light in the
1 ..M-nor whpre DUnch W
served.
r era rtifioe who Cut
ohminHon9 which seem lmpoMif
that anyone could have committed
SEE US FOR SHIRTS
THREE FAMOUS BRANDS
Arrow Piedmont Tom Sawyer
Cheaper In T h e L o n g Rn
C. E. Ray's Sons
Work Shirts 49c up
The other day a car passing down
Main street ran right up to Bil
Lampkin, and one of the occupants
threw out the following letter:
"Der Carolinas: -' ' .
This is a beautiful place, but all
you need is a man like our Uncle
Huey to make it 1007c
'-- Your .
LOUISIANA FRIENDS.
Iszatso ?
Tom Jimison, Chanotte News col
umnist, wound up his column re
cently with this paragraph: "A letter
from an old friend, prominent mer
chant and farmer, in the eastern
part of the state, closes with this:
'Remember me in your prayers, and
be damn sure to bear down'."
Which reminds me of the old man
called upon by the v?siting preacher
to make the closing prayer of the
service. The 'congregation bowed
their heads, but the man did not say
a word. Again the preacher called
upon the brother to pray. The old
man looked up, and remarked: "I
don't believe I'll mess with it."
Now what I would like to know,
could anyone in the congregation
have been expected to have reverent
ly heard the benediction?
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