THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1935
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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Two Stars Hit A Dramatic Highspot
IT'S TRUE! By Wiley Padan
A3 HE SEES THE
HUMAN SIDE 0' LIFE
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I TIIK CHRISTMAS Of Ml BOY-
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v oir.... 'round kltw chiidt: n an"
.wur.s fokes . . . Unkle Abe a-goir.'
'.. :.-il yp about Christmas back when
K wur. a boy. (But, of coin's, yv
!'. they didn't call mo I'nkle Abo back
Spencer Tracy, Myrna.Loy, Wade Border' in "Whipsaw
. jewel thief ami a secret am-nt match wits in .Metro-Cohlwyn -Alayer's
new dramatic hit. "Whipsaw." which will lie shown at
The l'ai'k Theatre Christmas .lay. Myrna Ley is the thief ami
.spencer Tracy is the .secret service man, and between the two
.,.!' them you can he sure that there is not a siir-le ilu'.l inoinen:
,n (lie picture.
Institute Of Gov
ernment Official
Making Study Here
Is Assemblying Data From Var
ious Offices In Order To
Compile Staiie-Wide
Reoort
i :;..i.'u S. (Jardntr, as.sui-iatv uirec
: 'A the Institute of Governmcut, of
( k.ipe! ilili, is spcraiinpr .several weeks
ii making a .study of the va-
, cuunty offices in the court house
,n,i the manner in which they arc
h i:-' tar.. His work is in no sense
,.n inspection or an audit but is a
; esu!t of the voluntary co-operation on
the part of the officials to assist in the
.-pler.iiid work beinj? undertaken in
.iie state by this agency.
Tin work of the Institute of Govern
ment, which was begun six years ago
by lr. Albert Coates at Chapel Hill,
Is a pre-eminent-contribution to the
study of Kovernment in the United
State, as there is no similar work
heiiiR tione elsewhere in the country.
It' receives neither federal nor state
aid, but so far has been carried on by
endowments and the contributions of
public spirited officials and citizens.
It has been the outgrowth of interest j
on the part of officers, students of
government, and a realization of the
public in general of a need of a clear
ing house to which governmental prob
lems might be carried.
At present there are four men do
ing specific field work; Albert Coates,
director, is working on criminal law
enforcement. Henry Brandis, dr., on
taxation, T.N. Grice is working with
the accountants and fiscal officials, and
Dillard S. Gardner, who is making a
study of the offices of the clerk of the
i curt, sheriff, the regisler of deeds
1 and the inferior courts.
The time is not far distant in the
state, when a man okv'.ed to county
or city office, in many cases, not lie
cause of his peculiar qualifications for
that particular office, but because he
received the most votes will be able
to find assembled material that will
enable him to approach his work withj
some vision of what it means.
The magazine, "Popular Govern
ment," at one time published quarter,
ly, but now monthly, by the institute,
contains in each issue an enormous
amount of governmental information
for officials, teachers and citizens.
From time to time guide books are be
ine eomniled that are proving invalu
able to the citizens of the state. The
last one, "The Highway Safety Book
let" i being recommended for study
by all organized groups in the state.
Dillard S. Gardner, who is making
the study here at present in his par
ticular field, and who will be followed
S:.. .; dozed then in Dcember.
a; week or two before Christmas ..
ye s-. e it only lasted 4 months, not
lilt' - weeks off
fodder."
L'r.kie Abe, as a boy, alius com
ment; gitten Christmas well into hiz
bones 'bout a week before good oi'
Saint Nick wuz suppozeti to come
around, it took a day or two to git
in the "Ch rust as wood," as we called
it; now the only difference I cood see
in "Christmas wood" an' ever day
wood wuz that it didn't go ncer so hard
with me to prepare the Christmas
wood.
0KfS u!c:!i t !i:.ve nmtol; money
lack then . . . ;hty bartered or ex
changed corn, chickens, eggs an um
times wool, roots and erhs an' cirule
apples for the things they needed from
thrw, Mt.h as dress c'oth. s''irt.
Ua'.hcr, volVie, sugar nr.' rvc.
kcnc.ro. irate
i oun
in the
iy pcepi didn't
towns then at
Christmas t;me. or anv time, like thev
do today . . . the' main retrain be in'
that it wu.i:'; iHcr so cozy to git to
town as it is today. No, sir-ee, it
wu? a day's journey, an' from sum
parts of this county, like Cattalooch,
Big Creek an' Hurricane, it took a
about 2 days.
We didn't have many Christinas
trees back then no, sir-ee! Little
fellers, boys an' gurls too, hung their
stockin's by the tire place to be fillet!
instid. Boys an' gurls both wore
home-nit wool stixkin'.s whitch they
tide jist below the nee with a cotton
string. So, ye can imagine what a
site ;; .r -I prs.t maybe 'a doz. pairs of
stockin's wood he a-hangiii' on the
mantel by the wide wood lire place!
So mutch fer the young fokes an'
things: in ginera'..
Nowt the older fokes selebratetl
Christmas very mutch as they do to
day, cookin' an' feastin', visitin", givin'
parties an' frolickin' around in giner
al. But the givin' of gifts an. send
in' of Christmas cards an' so foarth,
wuz not so mutch in stile as it is
today . . . no, they didn't give !i so
mutch back then. I don't sav that
people air any better now or have
more of the tru Christmas sperit, it
jij! wuzn't the stile an' thuWore,
wuz not so mutch eckspected ".o or 4(1
ecr- ago.
"santa Claws back in them days u-u-
a!!y brawl boys an' gurls striped stick
candy, apples, oranges, lire tracker-,
an' swect-brcti. l.ittte gurU konsid-
ei't'il t hem selves very ferrhi'.'iato :n-lin-d
if tinv got a cheep tioM . . . an'
trench harp.
An' lack in l.'nk!.
days ever kommunity
! oi' more "Christmas
woi d suiiitimcs Ivgin
Ii re Christmas, hut
ft r the'.e parties oi'
Abe's boyhood
wood have one
parlies." They
- or ;l day.s be
t lie usual time
country dunces
d a boy if he got
Mow back when t'nklc Abe ntu a
boy that? wuz. plenty of stoic's ou'.
in the country, so fokes didn't huff to
go to town to buy their Christmas
'kings. The kommunity store wood
be tilled with shoppers for a day or
two before Christmas . , . people who
had rode hoss back, tome in wagorus
or buggies ah' on foot over rutT, nar
'ow an' offen mutldy ' roads- to vcech
the stores.
thezc
wu:v on :hristmas i-ve, an' on
ockash.uns both the young an' t Id wcH'd
atteml, the young fokes. of roars,
iloiii' most of the nu-rvv -makin.'.
by others studying other phases of
local goveniment is the author of the
booklet, "The Proposed Constitution
for North Carolina," issued June, 11)34,
which received wide comment from
students of government.
We Extend
Best Wishes
and
Congratulations
To
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MR. MASSIE
And The
We Did All The
ELECTRICAL WORE
And Furnished
All the Lighting Fixtures
MARTIN ELECTRIC CO.
T w enty Ye a rs Experience
Phone 31 Waynesville, N. C.
l'lieze dances wnod be held suniti-mOs
in the ilinin' room, sumtime.s in the
parlor; but whir ever held, the room
wood ball to be ciurd of furniture, etc.
to ackommotlate the crowds. The fid
dim' an' tlancin' wood usually kon
tinue till "J or " ti'elok, sumtimos till
chicken crow.
But aiter all, it wuz the same
Christmas sperit that moved fokes back
then, an usually made- them happier,
less selfish an' better 'bout Christ
mas time, as it doc,s today, only it
wuz in another generashun an' under
sumw hat different customs.
An' may this sperit kontinue- to
make better the whole world.
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VIT'S TRUE! that Harry Rapf, producer of 'Whipsaw, was
handling vaudeville acts twenty years ago. He opened a new
Canadian circuit with the act of Friedman and Lewis. The
Friedman was Ted Lewis. At their first stop they found the
lame wouldn't fit on the marquee, and changed the act to Lewis
and Lewis as a result. Hence Ted Friedman became Ted Lewis
md has so remained ever since.'!
To Begin Punching
License On Jan. 1
UALK1GH. State highway patrol
men will start punching the drivers'
hi closin' Unkle Abo wants to say,
Thank-yo for the many kind words, of
encouragement a great host of you
have given me oil behalf of the
"Unkle Abe" column during the past
VI months. 1 hope you will not think
me vain or presumptsus when 1 .say
that at least fi.OOO 'people read this
every week . . an' here's wishin' all
of you a very good Christmas.
UNKLE A Br'..
licenses of all drivers who are arrest
ed, stopped, r warned for various
traffic law violations on and after Jan
uary 1, Cantain' Charles IV Farmer
.-aid.
In addition, the name and address
,f every driver,- the number of hi-
driver's license and tho violation will
be- taken and sent to the central off'uv
of-the patrol here, where it will bti
made a part of the record of that driv
er, in the files where the duplicate,
licenses are kept.
In addition, the driver's permit of
every driver arrested or stopped will
be punched or marked according to a
special code so that any patrolman,
in any part of the .state, can look at
the .Ifivimr nnrmih unit toll whether
or not the driver has been arrested
before and if sO for what violation.
IN THE
Park Theatre
We Installed The
PLUMBING
HEATING AIR-CONDITIONING
And Supplied The
STOKE-ALL AUTOMATIC STOKER
HARRY HYATT
Waynesville, N. C
Phone 431-J
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