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1 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, JULY 9. 1936 Hlf fflninttamm 1 Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Phone 137 Main Struct Waynesville, N. C. W. C. KUSH Editor W. C. Rums and M. T. Bridges. I'ublishers PlISUSUKD KVF.KY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION KATKS 1 Yitar, In County $1.00 6 Months, In County 50 1 Year, Outside of Haywuod County $1.50 .Subscriptions payable in advance Entered at the no.st otllce at Wayneaville, N. C, as Second Cla.sx Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 179, November 29, 1914. North Carolina i PMSS ASSOCIATION) THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936 THE PRESS MEETING This community will have as her guests for the next three days, some of the outstand ing newspaper people of the state, as well as some from other states. They are coming here for their annual summer meeting, which is more of a recreational nature than is the mid winter meeting which is more of an educational nature. The members of the press that are com ing here for this convention, for the most part, are visiting this section of their state for the first time. We feel that they are going to be impressed with the scenery, the climate, and the water. We are almost assured of that. The manner in which the community has co-operated in providing entertainment featur es, assures the visitors a hearty welcome from the citizenship at large. There is not the slightest question in our minds but what we will look back over the ac tivities of the year and point out the meeting of the press convention here as the largest single accomplishment of the season. In order to. make the most out of the possibilities that will be ours for the three-day session of the convention, we are going to have to make a sacrifice in order to show the visiting news paper folks some of the most interesting spots in this section. LAKE JUNALUSKAS DEHT Interest is being-aroused over the state and south'-in behalf of Lake Junaluska. The special committee now at work raising money to pay oil' the $100,000 indebtedness on the As sembly before August 15th., have a responsi ble task before them for the next thirty days. While the Methodists over the entire south are interested in saving the Lake property, it conies closer home for those of us right here m Haywood County, because we realize from practical experience, just the value of the As sembly to this section. We feel that it would be useless to think of the program falling through. There are too .many interested people to stand for that, but at the same time, it must be remembered, that everyone will have to do their part to assure success, and not depend on the other fellow carrying the burden. GOOD NEWS WANTED When bad news is received there are innu merable people willing to spread the facts, par ticularly if sensationalism and horror are well mixed in. If a reputable citizen falls from sobriety and goes home and throws his wife down stairs, an army of volunteers spring up and carry the news to tie limits in every direc tion. If some man or woman receives a social slight, or gets told about something, or runs into some undignified or embarrassing hazard, it furnishes a choice morsel to be rolled under sundry tongues. If an involved business man cannot meet certain payments and his Credit hangs on a shred, irresponsible tongues much prefer to wag and tell all about it, rather than keep silent and not add to embarrassments with which they have no business. The sum total of good news to bad news is vastly in favor of the good. For every wild jake piece of conduct on the part of a young person, many of the young generation are liv ing fine and useful lives in preparation for shouldering the world's work when their time comes. For every hold-up on the highways, there are innumerable incidents of sacrifice and good turns being created about which little is said. Selected. Y WE POINT WITH PRIDE It is very seldom that we ever blow our own horn, but this time the temptation is great er than our pride, therefore we cannot resist from expressing ourselves over the fact that The Mountaineer is one of a few, if not the only newspaper in Western North Carolina, outside of Asheville, that has been awarded a 1936 advertising contract by the Standard Oil Company. This oil company is using only 435 newspapers in the United States, out of a total of about 20,000. This is the second consecutive year that this paper has carried this advertising. From what officials of the company have told us, Standard Oil Company only spends money for advertising in newspapers that offer exceptional advertising mediums, and for that reason we cannot but help feel somewhat proud of being recognized as such for two successive years. Another thing that must be remembered, is that the Standard Oil Company realized that the money spent for advertising in this paper last year was a good investment, otherwise they would never have renewed their contract this year. It proved to be a good investment for Standard Oil Company, and will prove just as good for any other business. b7 STANLEY LIBERAL GENEROSITY F. M. Pinnix, editor of the Orphan's Friend and Masonic Journal, the official publication of the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina, almost let his generosity get from under con trol last week when he devoted his front and second page entirely to the convention to be held in Waynesville on July 20th. The front page carried a scene taken near here, together with a detailed program. Not only the two pages, but a timely editorial fea turing the convention was carried. We trust that Editor Pinnix will be among the 200 coming here for the meeting that Way nesville's own Troy Wyche has worked so hard on. LOOK OUT AT NINETEEN! Shudders chased one another up the spin es of citizens of a large American city recently when they read of four .young hood'ums who were alleged to have beguiled a doc for to answ er a mercy call, then killed him as he resisted a robbery that netted them $5 a piece. One of the boys is 17 years of age; thre are 19. Their youthfulness is typical of a growing crime element everywhere. Records in the Bureau of Investigation at Washington reveal that of all arrests in the United States listed for 1934, about 56 percent were of persons under 30. The largest age group is 19 years. From 15 years upward, the criminality of the age groups increases rapidly until 19 is reached. Nineteen is "the dangerous age" for youth. Why should crime appeal to boys hardly old enough to shave? The answer is no secrev. Sanford Bates gave it in gist when he said: "The craving for distinction and leadership in our boys common and natural to us all must be satisfied somewhere else than in the purlieus of crime and degeneracy and squalor." Every reader of these lines appropriately can ask himself, whether those natural im pulses of boys in his own community are to find their outlet in crime and degeneracy and squalor or through employment or the Boy Scouts or Boys' Clubs or any of the score or more wholesome agencies that are ready to do their work if adequately supported by man and dollar-power. Rotarian Magazine. THE FUNCTIONS OF ADVICE Advice is a good thing, in its place, when judiciously handled; and especially when sought. Many people just love to give advice, free, on all occasions, and a great many more do not act on the advice given them. Many people are adverse to following ad vice given them for their good. They want to follow out the trend of their own judgment, which may not always be the correct thing to do. The giving of advice should be done dis creetly. This thought brings to mind the fact that no one liveth to himself. He must be an Abel, who by his immortal righteousness, be ing dead yet speaketh, or an Achan, the sad continuance of whose otherwise forgotten name is the proof that man perishes not alone in his iniquity. Every human being is a center of influence for good or ill. No man can live Unto himself. The meshes of a net are not more surely knit together than man to man. We men forget this secret, silent influence. But we are exerting it by our deeds; we are exerting by our words ; we are exerting by 'our thoughts and he is wise with a wisdom more than that of earth who seeks to put forth the highest powers for good, be his home a hut or hall, a cabin or a palace. Ex. I THE OLD HOMF TOWM . . , L- BUT DOC, PCWKTIC1 I TWICE IH THE PLACE. BUT J C M . V HERE I CAN PWOve, IT COMEVT -N Jl V, MKSHTY CLOSE ToIt!,' I f, v -y-ANOSHE eo vjui?H-ER,who DELivees washinosI FOR HIS VJIFK WAS USED A A MO PEL f IM DOC PILL'SeUWYi LATEST SWWUJ- SC.BMTIFIC OUTBURST . ..n-m. Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS wmmmmammBaammammaimmwk. For the past eight weeks, I have given a lot of thought to the press convention which meets here today. I have dreamed about it. I have wriU ten about it, and as practically every one in Waynesville knows, I have talked about it. But then, why should I have done all that? It so happees that it looms to be the biggest gathering here in years, and naturally, being a mem ber of the press makes me that much more interested. It is not that I can't talk about anything else. No, not at all, but I am saving the other things for later such as the letter from Miss Hazel Sisk, of Route one. Thanks a lot for that. I'll use it later. Now let's get back to newspaper folks. There are in the state, about 180 newspapers. Some publish four pages a week, and others as many as 70 pages on Sunday. But regard less of the size of publication, or the frequency of publication, all are invited to become members of the North Carolina Press Association. Ami it is that group that will meet here today, tomorrow and Saturday. The N. C. P. A., however, does not limit the attendance at the summer meeting to just active members. All newspapers are invited to send dele gates, or representatives. Those who" do not know newspa per folks intimately, will be eurpris ed at the lack of seriousness on the part of many of the editors who write some of the deepest editorials. The public will also be surprised to see representatives ot rival paper going places together and having the time of their lives. The rivalry be tween papers is a forgotten subject at press gatherings. One of the qualifications of a good newpaper man or woman is then- knowledge of human nature. And don't think for a moment that a news paper worker can't see under the surface of certain news stories that are handed them that it is for selfish interest that news wa3 given in. the so called And another thing that a news paper man can detect a mile away is a person who wants to be begged for a piece of news. Those who have news, but insist on being begged, when they are really uneasy because it might not make the front page, are no secret to newspaper men. Another thing that irritates a news paper man, is to have some person who knows absolutely nothing about publishing a paper, try to dictate an editorial, and the length of an article. And never get peeved if you send in an article, and find when it comes out in the paper, that the last para graph was leit out. ihe newspaper writer prepares copy in such a way as to maKe it easy to read, thus put ting the most important facts first. Many times people in a sarcastic manner, hand in an article to a news paper, and remark: "I did not try to write it, because it would be changed anyway." That is all true, and nine times out of ten, the person who wrote it would be ashamed of it when it appeared in print. The best way to zet more sDace about yourself than is sometimes de served, is to give just the facts, and not try to dictate the article word for word to a newspaper writer. Newspaper folk get paid althoush darn little for writing, and not for taking dictation. Ani never. in npvop lianJ in bit of newfi and remark that "you might an Well 11SP thi a. vrtii mncf have something to fill 'up the paper wnn. ; oucn material seldom gets in. Newspaper folks are subioct to call 24 hours a day. Even duxinsr their hours off, they run across news 23 Years Ago in Haywood M A-.-. Jr;;t.j 45 Different Kinds Of Animals Found In Smoky Mt. Park A survey made since the Great Smoky Mountains National Park came into existence reveals that there are three general groups of animals in that rium n their magnificent section. They are divided as fol lows: Animals with southern affini ties; animals with northern affinities; and animals with eastern affinites. The first group, according to E. V. Komerex, ranges in the lower valleys and up to around 3,000 feet; the sec ond group from 3,000 to 6,000 feet, and the third, or eastern group, is found scattered over the territories of the other two. The fox is the most abundant ani mal in the park, while the wolf and the mountain lion are almost ex tinct. All told, collections of more than forty-five species of animals that exist in the park have been made and the presence of ten more have been revealed. Birds in the Smokies are almost all of the Canadian zone type, al though two other types exist. The other two types are the Alleghanian type and the Carolinain type. During the past few years, the an imal life in the park has been increas ing rapidly, and even more rapid in creases are expected for the next few years. and regardless or wnat they may doing, they get the facts. And above all, a newpaper man works for his paper, and not for self or any individual. Whatever is written is done with the one aim that of pleasing the greatest number of readers. (From the files of Jum Miss Nannie Vance, t was a visitor in town la Mrs. Cleveland P.otr .. from a week's visit lo P V- Mr. R. N. Well, pro.mi.7i; ey of Asheville, was :n ,-.-day.; Mr. William Shooibre.i. been visiting in Tenm.,..,. past week, is expected morrow. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. S: little son left Wiedne'sday i ville where they will "ir.a home. Mrs. A. A. Shuford hu to her home in Hickorv week's visit to relative her-. Mrs. Clinton Burt, of Aru-v was in town Wednesday fr tr..- i'' the guests of her mother, .Mrs. ter Davis. Rev. and Mrs. New and family uie arrived and will occupy the ai ihouse for the summer months. Mr New will assist Rev. W. B. A.'len n hia mission work. Mrs. J. A. Revis, who has b.-n guest of Miss Grace Bowie, for :he past week, has left for he,- rmme ";n Louisville, Ky. Mercury stood today, (Kridayi. v 80 degrees in the shade, while "many Southern cities registered 100. This paper rejoices at the frn success attending the opening of :h Southern Assembly of the M. . Church, South in the large audita- grounds besides beautiful Lake Juna!u.-ka.-The Waynewood Theatre is row in its new home in the new brick block erected by Messrs, Jame.s ar.ii Hilliard Atkins. The theatre n.w has beautiful and up-to-date quar ters. It has a modern asbeitos age in which the films are operated There are over 400 opera stats, very nice and comfortable and the wails are tinted and the overhead ceiling is steel, beautiful design. This paper is always glad to '.earn of the promotion and succtss of Waynesville and Haywood people. Mi Evelyn Lee has recently been elected assistant in the department, of history at Elizabeth College, Charlotte, N. C, and will take up her duties as a member of the fa ulty of that splendid college in September. Lands 21-Inch Trout Out Of Cataloochee A party composed of W. D. Smith. Ben Wright and Gene Sutton, brought back to town Saturday a string. of fish that made even the best fi.-her-men almost "green with envy," Mr, Wright landed a iH-inch trout out of Cataloochee. In all. they caught 22 over eight inches lung, an-: 14 over 14 inches long. Read The Ads SUM U WG Jl MIU 6 HEWIGAN ACE OF M ATI ATM ON RUNNERS Been running for 28 years. Has won 704 prizes. A member of 3 U. S. Olympic Teams. JIMMIES FAVORITE PISH AND HIS FAVORITC CICAKTT SJ XfcB smo'te Camels for digestion's sake. ASjSJJ r 'i if It They give me a grand feeling of cpfhSyg DISOBEDIENCE It is doubtful if any of us ever outgrow a childly fancy to rebel against doing anything we are command ed to do. And so when the Doctor orders a rest cure, more exercise, strikes certain foods off our menues, or prescribes some medicine, the execution of his instruc tions becomes distasteful and we are apt to disregard them. Of course this isn't fair either to the doctor or our selves. Next time you consult a physician, be a soldier and obey his orders, even though the medicine bitter or the restrictions are severe. It pays. A S K Y O U R D O C T O R ALEXANDER 'S DRUG STORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Fot Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOrB PROTECTION
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