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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Page 2 J. ! The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Viynesville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Hnywuoii County W. CURTIS HU8.S Editor W, Curtia Kuan and Marion T Bridges, ' PublinhaM l'UBL,ISHED KVEKY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.00 Six Months, In Haywood County 50 One Year Outside Haywood County $1.50 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Kuterrd at tile post offic-e at Wintsville, N. C, Seoowl Clan Mail Matter, aa provided under the Act ul March i, MM, November it, 1914. Obituary nottctti, reMolutions of re-ipect, earj of thaalu, 1 ad all noliren of eutertainmenU for profit, will be ctwrgeii for at tlie rate of one cent per word. North Cnrntmn THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936 LABOR DAY Labor Day to be observed in the United States is the counterpart of May Day in Europ ean countries. It is also a much more decent, sober and patriotic celebration in America. Over there the National holiday committed to labor is turned usually into outbreaks and offenses of which the American celebration is happily relieved. Monday's event will be the 53rd observance in the United States, credit for the origin of the commemoration being usually divided equally between the Central Labor Union of New York and the old Knights of Labor, both of which were in session in 1882 when the thought occurred to the leaders of oach alike and plans were immediately laid for an annual turning aside in the interest of draw-, ing to a focus the attention of the nation upon the ranks of working men. Labor Day is now a state and national holiday. It is set aside as such in honor of the working men of the nation, the men who grow the world's food, make its tools and machinery, build its bridges and highways and erect its buildings. Labor Day in North Carolina is now ob served generally. In Haywood County, which is industrially-minded, the day is celebrated with timely programs and entertainment fea tures. The working man is entitled to our appre ciation for the part he plays in making this a better world in which to live. A LETTER OF APPRECIATION In a letter to the editor, F. K. Brown, man ager of the Smoky Mountains Tea Room, pays this paper and our readers a compliment that is sincerely appreciated. He says "you un doubtedly have on the whole the most intelli gent list of readers of any newspaper its size or a good deal larger for that matter, that I have ever had the pleasure to do business with." Of course, the last paragraph in his letter is also very much appreciated by the publishers, when he stated: "I can truthfully say for the amount of money spent, the actual results ob tained from advertising in your paper are three times greater than those from any other news paper regardless of the size that the writer has ever used on a similar proposition." The remarks made by Mr. Brown were ab solutely voluntarily on his part. The state ments, were not solicited,: and we did hot know of the results obtained by his advertising un til we received his letter in Friday's mail. BANK FAILURES THEN AND NOW A fickle public forgets easily. Even some who suffered from the epidemic of bank failures that swept the country prior to 1932 need to be reminded of the figures in this particular cold, undisputed facts. From 1920 to 1932 fail ures each year ran from the low mark of 367 to the alarming high of 2,294. In the light of these statistics the country should consider with approval and hopefulness the report of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation only 36 failures in the entire country for the nine months ending June 30th of this year. Total deposits in banks for the first period that failed ran from 93 to 1,690 millions an nually. Total deposits in banks closed since last August, nine million dollars. And where as the earlier period deposits up to 99 and & half per cent were made good by the deposit guarantee. The half per cent lacking wa3 on deposits over and above $5,000 the highest sum guaranteed under the deposit insurance law. Morganton News-Herald. Careless truck drivers are being arrested by local police, so beware of your driving. A LABOR DAY MESSAGE On its serious side, the Labor Day holiday i3 a time for reflection on some of the unsolved problems of civilization. Three foremost of those issues, the Labor Day message of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyter ian Church of the United States of America thus defines: (1) The preservation of world peace; (2 the stabilization of social and economic pros perity; (3) the effecting of social and economic security. The Mission Board's Labor Day sermon takes stock of the world's material and spiritual condition and confronts these facts : That in many countries tyranny rules over the minds of men as well as their bodies; that world organizations for peace are under stress and now seem on the point of collapse; that in the search for social and economic security the nations are in the primary stage of experimen tation. That the picture is not all shadows is mani fest from some collateral facts of the world situation. Here, for example, is a great church communion accepting its direct responsibility "to provide spiritual leadership for the corpo rate as well as the individual life of modern society," in the words of the Mission Board. Furthermore, if the sword still seems to be the accepted yardstick for division of land and resources in the earth, that instrument of ap portionment was never before subject to as much general challenge. And as to the quest for social and econo mic security for men and women, since the autumn of 1929 two Government Administra tions in this nation formerly under almost com plete sway of the competitive system have exerted mightily their reserve powers to lead the people in collective activities for establish ing the security which the individual unaided by government seems utterly unable to obtain. Exchange. THE OLD HOME TOWN orst, we ACCEPTTEP CIKS FROM ALL POUTICAL. PABTIE5 AMD IM WORRIER. TM? i .T FFLLEIf SACV IP I o4F MY AMATEUR , STAMP IF 1 DtPAtT ANYTHING FOR MONEY It has been amazing to think of things some people will do to get some money, money which does not righly belong to them, and for which the public must pay. They think it is easy money and it may be if they get by with the plan but so many times the plan fails and they are branded with the effort so long as they live. Among these plans is that of fake accident and many trying this plan have collected large sums of money from insurance companies. In one case uncovered by the police of another state it appears that a smart fellow told a man and his wife that he could show them an easy way to make money. He faked a motor accident and then took the" 'Husband" and his Wife home and gave the husband a general going-over with a rolling pin, breaking his arm and doing miscellaneous damage, and meanwhile the merry conspiring wife was using a cheese grater to shed the skin off her legs. Their plan failed and they did not get their easy money but got a term in prison. We're glad these people did not succeed in collecting their insurance claim, because if they had been allowed to make money in this easy way they would have kept at it for the rest of their lives instead of suffering the pains of hon est work. And then the rates on automobile insurance would have been increased if they had succeeded. Mecklenburg TIMES. NEGRO CRAP SHOOTERS vs. WHITE SOIL-WASTERS In many hill country Southern counties soil destruction has reached the proportions, of a calamity. While statue books and court pro cedures are severe on negro crap shooters and chkken-stealers, white land owners who let their soils wash away commit a far greater crime against humanity. Commenting on this condition, Editor Clarence Poe of the Progres sive Farmer has this to say: "When we destroy the soil fertility which the Almighty intended should nourish not only you and me but all those who may come after us for a million years to come, we white land owners commit a crime far greater than that of any ignorant Negro who steals a chicken or ham or sheep. Those petty thefts affect only individuals today. But when we destroy essen tial soil fertility we sin against the human race not only today but for the tomorrows . ,". Yet our so-called statesmen in the legislatures of the South for years and for generations have been formulating statutes and setting up court machinery to punish chicken stealing and crap shooting while the destruction of the South'a fundamental natural resource, the destruction Of the Almighty's greatest gift to our section destruction which insures disaster alike to this generation and to all future generations has been treated as a matter of no public con cern." ' : Some folks say the first frost comes eight months after the first thunder in the year. In that case, there will be frost Sunday nigrht. i J I JZ ITS WMfiH YOU J&Mli S I ... coc-riFi ' jr P" I C VOTE ran m- V I I . ATOMBILSCTO- 1 -meet iou r- k Z. ZnSl v?.h" ) M&rf - by STANLEY XNOPHO MEE3, LOCAL, BASBMlU FIA3H FINOS THE POLITICIANS AtWAPY H TWO STOKES ON HIM AT TH6 VCKY START OP THE- SAMS Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS One man, who is usually among those attending all political tallies amused me When he said he was not attending the big Democratic rally in Korest City Saturday. "I have made up my mind I am not going to get drunk, and unless you do get drunk you can t stand tne jokes that are told, or live in the smoke-filled rooms in the hotels. Why, sometime th smoke gets so thick you have to cut it with a knife to get out of the room," he said as he walked away .shaking his head. And speaking about drunks, brings to mind the yarn that V. T. Huff is passing around Mr. Huff got it from an hcso folder and if is rather amusing. It reads as follows: "I had 12 bottles of whiskey in my cellar and my wife told nie to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or else. So 1 .said I would, and proceed with the un pleasant task. "I withdrew the cork from true first bottle and poured the contents down the sink, with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I extracted the cork from the second bottle and did likewise, with the exception of one glass which I drank. "I then withdrew the cork from the third bottle and emptied the good olii booze down the sink, except a elass. whih I drank. I then pulled the cork from the fourth sink, and poured the bottle down the glass which I drank. "I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next and drank one sink out of it, and poured rest down the glass. 1 pulled the sink out of the next glass. and poured the cork down the bottle. pulled the next cork out of mv throat and diank the glass. Then I corked the sink with the glass, bot tled and drank the pour. "Wiien I had everything emptied. I steadied the house with one hand. ounted the bottles and corks and glass With the other, which were 29. To be sure, I counted them again when they came by, and had 74. As the house came by I counted them again. and finally I had all the house and bottles and corks counted, excent one house and one '. bottle, which I drank." Waynesville, N. C. Aug 26, 1936. Editor The Waynesville Mountaineer: Fifteen years of experience in ad vertising ha taught me many things, Advertising is an absolute necessity to the success of any business. Ad vertising does not cost anything due to the fact that the increase in business more than offsets the cost. Spas modic advertising does not pay, it is rather a waste of money. It takes the steady day by day, week by week, month by month pounding to produce results, that some methods do not pay and should be dicarded and jifted down to those mediums that do. Check results obtained from adver tising not by the week or month, but by the year. One thing is certain one can be be absolutely relied upon whether in New York, London or Waynesville the knowledge of it is essential to all business men, yet only large corpora tions know its secret and utilize it that is 50 ner cent of set business ami 50 per cent of floating business this does not vary more than 3 per cent winter or summer. It is quite evident that the 50 per cent of set business cannot be touched this includes friendship, church, club affiliations, etc., it is therefore the plan of the business man to reach out for as much of the floating bus iness as he can get. The only tested method of securing a large percen tage of this business is through news paper advertising. lou will probably wonder whv I am writing all this. It is a letter of ap-1 23 Years Ago in Haywood Miss Anna Boone, who V' visiting in Lowden, Ter.n 55 to her home on Monday '' e jr: Miss Hannah Ashe, of' P..; rived this week-end and i IV'- 3N of Mr. J. R. Hyatt k" Mr. and Mrs. Henry T -ir son, Henry, Jr., spent the""?! l with Mrs. Sharpens pa-tnL, Mr. Walter Coble! of jf-k , Fla.. is the guest of 4 tt and Mre. G. W. Coble. ' 1: Mr. Charles Tull, 0f Ja-k,, , is in town this veek a, his parents. ' Misses Nora Howell ui n Garrett went to Asheville on uay. - Misg Sallie McCracken, uf jVtmi ville, returned to her hon,u , , !- Mrs. C. L. Kickson and Miss Bess Dickson 'eft ..r, t'.'.': day for Bryson City, whtre they r Prof. W. C. Allen left Twi... , Shelby, where he will attend tn! campment order of Odd Fellows "" iasi oaiuraay evening the people of Waynesville gave a rtHwn light picnic in Lee's guests. honor of Mis, Do!h( Miss Powe was the charmm. Pi:- tes3 of a progresive bri.i.'e Tuesday evening. The Cullowhee Normal and I.,,).,.. trial school opened Tueil:iv m... gratifying conditions. The first dav' enrollment shows an iiK-reasc .u that of the first day of last yea' The school's prospects are flattering Ihe members of the Asheville l!m. ed Commercial Travelers enj.yei the:- outing picnic neid at Lake Junalusia near Waynesville on Saturday. The special sale of Mr. D. A. How,:' opened on schedule time Thursiav morning, and it drew the Urir-st crowd that has ever come to Way nesville for a specica) sale. Sever'a. ' hours' before the opening of the d.: the crowd began to gather and when the doors were opened 83 people wt r( banked out to the middle or the street preciation for a service rendered an: results obtained and a compliment t your circulation for you undoubtedly, have on the whole the most intelli gent list of readers of any newspaper. its size or a good deal larger for tha: matter, that I have had the pleasure to do business with. I can truthfully say that for the amount of money spent the a tiial results obtained from advertisinif ir. your newspaper regardless of the siz the writer has ever used m a similar proposition. This L in view of the fact that ordinarily the . re.-ult fya advertising should not be appreo;a- bly felt by a new business tor -om- lme Yours truly, SMOKY MOUNTAIN TEA K00M F. B. Bi-owM, Mlt To read the above aloud makes it more of a reality. From down in Atlanta comes an nteresting letter from the Maxwells. who recently spent their 25th wed- mg anniversary here. Their pres nt plans are to spend their 50th anniversary back here. And I know of nothing that would be sweeter. Homer Henry glories in the fact that he killed a wild turkey on Flat Creek 26 years ago. Humpshouldered people give me the impression that they sleep with two pillows under their heads. Things that we could do without peopte who sing in a loud cracky voice, and turn round and gaze at those behind them, and continue to sing.'; , B. B.SAUNDERS Will Operate Two Warehouses I n Asheville Again This Year. Mr. Saunders is the man who started the tobacco market in Asheville, and this fall will operate the Saunders' Warehouse at Biltmore and the New Banner on Rankin Avenue. A real dark night is about as de pressing as anything I can think of. Recently I sat behind a young lady in an audience, and she had on one of these new: type dresses that has a slit in the back, of course showing her back. It was all I could do to muster up enough -will power to keep from writing on the bare skin. ' About the happiest looking people are those who rock real hard and fast in a big rocking chair. Archat ia Human Fool There are three arches In the foot, In addition to the long arch at the In side which extends from heel to great toe, the longitudinal arch. The front or Interior arch extends across the ball of the foot; the arch at the out side of the foot from the heel to the base of the smalt toe, and the arch across the middle of the foot under the Instep. The Products of Unceasing Vigilance Upon the unvarying purity and uniformity of Alexander-filled prescriptions largely depends the recovery of the health and strength of hundreds of people. Because we fully appreciate the importance of our duties unceasing vigilance in maintaining the most rigid standards of accuracy and purity Jhas always been a fixed policy of this drug store, and the result is city-wide ac ceptance and confidence in every prescription carrjinsr the Alexander label. ASK Y O U R D 0 C T OR ALEXANDER'S DRUGSTORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR PROTECTION
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