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Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County VV. CUKTIS HCSS .i. . Ivlitor W. Curtis Hush and ih.rioti T. Hiales, Publishers rCBIJSHHU i:KKV THl'ltSDAV SI !B.SClMl'TIO.V KA KS One Yea i1, In Haywood County $1.00 Six Months, In Haywood County 00 One Vi'ji' Outside Haywood County $1.50 All Subsri)tions Payable in Advarn-e KlitHif.i at. tin JX.St tiffi e .it ille, N. C, js -t"l OLss Jl;iil M.it.ti-r, m s (maidi-d IC.'l.T tlie Art of Mitch 3, 1 s;!, Niivfinlicr 1 11 1 1. OOilmry imttrfs. rrs'iiiitioiis nf rt"ip" car. Is of th.uiki, and ;!! tiufirrs nf rtitrrta irrrrjri.ts fur pi "lit, will be ,lirgeJ for at 1 1 1 rat"' of niif rflit p-r woni. North Carolina ... EXTRA WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 19.56 A PARK BOOSTER One of the first, and most sincere, booster-; of the (Ire:it Smoky Mountains National Park was John A. Livingston, a former newspaper man, and now a practicing attorney in Raleigh. In a recent letter to a friend, Mr. Livingston had the following to say about the Park, which is expressed better than an editorial which wi might attempt: "Ten years ago this autumn I spent a week with Horace Kephart at liryson City, and we explored some of the (!reat Smoky Mountain-, area. In the Spring- of lVH I had heard the director of the Palisades park in New York say at a dinner in Raleigh that he had visited all of the National parks and for beauty and grandeur of scenery none of them excelled and few equalled the (I rent Smoky Mountains. That was news to ny and I determined the first op portunity I had I would visit that area, and I did so. I wrote two Sunday articles for the News an i Observer, after my visit, and they were revelations' to its readers as the discovery of the region had been to me, and played an important part in securing favorable consideration from' (!overiior "McLean and the Legislature. "I started my teaching career as principal of the high school at Canton, and hence had some acquaintance with them, but in those days' the Great Smoky Mountains were practically a closed area, and I never really learned any thing about them. "I first became acquainted with Arno E. Cam merer 'by reason of my interest in this park, ami his visits to North Carolina, and sub' sequently came to know him well in Washing ton. Mis interest in the park is real and sin cere. "While in liryson City I spent considerable time with Judge Pryson at his home there, and ', we remarked upon the fact that everyone wh ) really came to know these mountains becomes an enthusiast. I talked with a man from Baltimore, who told me that his wife travel ing through that era, burst into tears for sheer inexpressible joy over the grandeur of the scenery. There is something powerfully mov ing about it. " 'I owe my life to these mountains, and I'm going to do what I can to see that their pristine and virgin beauty are preserved.' said Horace Kephart as we talked together on n Sunday afternoon in the autumn, looking out over those mountains, "It is worth while to have lived just tJ catch some of the glory of that wonderful moun tain country. North Carolina has so many great undertakings that I would not care to say which as most important, but right at the top I would place this National Park." NEITHER KNOW NOR CARE Nearly 80 per cent of the people applying for state drivers licenses in North Carolina are having their applications rejected for the simple reason that they cannot pass a simple exami nation prepared by the state patrol authority on this subject, according to the commander of the state patrol, Charles D. Farmer. In each instance, says a Raleigh dispatch, they ara given a set of questions for another trial when they have learned the correct answers to these questions. While a few of those who fail to pass are new drivers, the patrol commander says most of them have driven cars from ten to fifteen years. It is recalled that in 1935 Commander Farmer told , the North Carolina General As sembly at least half of the drivers in that state knew nothing and cared less about the high way laws. Subsequent to that declaration the law-making body enacted its drivers' license law. Spartanburg Herald. "JUST ANOTHER DRUNK DRIVER" Saturday afternoon, just about dusk, a new car crashed into the guard rails on High way No, 19, about half way between here and Asheville. The car was badly damaged, and another car was wrecked. Fortunately, no one was injured. The cause of it all was a drunken army officer, on a week-end furlough. In his car was a pistol and two shotguns. Perhaps that has no bearing on the case, but it does show that he had in his possession four things that were dangerous since he was drunk a car, and three firearms. Our source of in formation on this particular wreck was the in vestigating highway patrolman. This army officer was not the only drunk en driver on the highway Saturday. Perhaps some of the others were even drunker than he, but they managed to take the curves better and got by. It might be that the next time they won't get by so easy. Newspapers over the state are having a lot to say about drunken driver's, and The Hick ory Daily Record recently carried the follow ing eriiroria! on the subject: Over in Gaston county The Gazette . s waging a persistent fight in its efforts to have drunker, drivers of automobiles punished with a severity befitting the crime. Ab ;ut a week ago, Solicitor Carpenter of the Gaston superior cour:., wt'.s quoted as com menting on the case of a convicted driver: "Jut another drunk driving an automo bile." The defVndent in question was fined fifty dollars and costs for his offense after a state patrolman had testified that the man was drunk when arrested. And a lawyer had passed the offense off lightly by expressing that "he just had a little toddy." - To which file (lazette added a stinging editorial rebuke : "Just another drunk," and "he just hail :i little toddy," but back to those puerile and de fenseless pleas, lie widow's weeds, the tears of innocent wives and mothers, whose sons and husbands have been killed in automobile acci dents which were caused by liquor mixed with gasoline. "Instead of being passed off as a mere qui?), a joke, so to speak, this matter ought to be of the deepest concern to the solicitor, bound by , oath and promise and elected by the ballots of the people who trusted him, to carry out the mandates of his office. He has been sworn to enforce the laws of the State of North Carolina, and he ought to do this with an enthusiasm and energy that brooks no flippant foolishness or flambuoyant play to the stands." And now, there is the hopeful indication that even Solicitor Carpenter has "seen the light" and is so ashamed of his alleged flippancy that he is seeking to hit the sawdust trail to wards .something dike due appreciation of the gravity of the crime which a few days ago he was inclined to pass off as commonplace and trivial. We read with great interest the fol lowing from an address he is credited with hav ing delivered to the jury of the same court: "I am going to ask the next legislature to enact a law making road sentences mandatory in the case of conviction for drunken driving." To which The Gazette responds by accep ting the pledge in good faith as follows: v "Gaston people will watch with eagerness to see if Solicitor Carpenter carries out his public promise to use his best endeavors to se cure re-enactment of this law. "And, if and when it is re-enacted, they will watch -with similar eagerness to see how vigorously he endeavors to secure convictions and sentences under that law. "Gaston county; certainly needs something to clear its highways of drunken drivers who menace life and limb and who not infrequently, take human lives on its roads, receiving there for, all 'too often, inadequate punishment." Hickory Record. THE OLD HOME TOWN BY EMILY POST A lady, in such long ago times as the need first came to define her, was a "loaf giver," and so may we who love her best still consider her. She feeds with a living bread the hearts and soujs of us, and thus also does she satisfy our lightest fancies and our farthest straying thoughts. "Her glorious fancies come from far, be neath the silvery evening star, and yet her heart is ever near." A poet who knew and loved her well has written, as but the beginning of his tribute, "Great motions hath she of her own, yet deeds of week-day holiness fall from her noiseless as the snow, nor hath she ever cause to know that aught were easier than to bless." And now comes Emily Post to add another sayingj to those that already picture her. She says: ' ' The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: r . Sincerity ;"i J: i Simplicity - Sympathy Serenity. -: '". I7 r YE5MAM--IU. COE APTER CVMkrK AMP PCie UP You UAUNPtTY, AND WEU HAVE LINE BEFORE D,Yll.iHT NAE GUARANTEE You THREE HOURS MORE 51.EEPOR "YOUR MONEY BACK by STANLEY 7 a i a. mi I Fi.. "-JW-, 'te-T) "J ' AA-M-A 1 II III ,1 1 S d M'MMspkide is .f . lflWf WrfA WET WASH 23 Years Ago in Haywood T. TRXIHe, OUT THE MEW BEAT YOOR NEIGHBOR TO TME L7NE SEJCWCS- A NEW FEATURE LOCALLAUNOVr Random SIDE GLANCES liy W. CURTIS RUSS And once a.ain, the eld let ter "11" appears in the nnnith, and we have oysters with us -again. Now siime folks don't like oysters, but to my mind, there is no better food. Most people probably know that oysters can't lie eateii in a month that doesn't have the letter "H". Of course, it-jitst so happens that all the months' fioni Septt'iiilnf to May have the letter "U." ' Two of the best yarns to conic my way this past week were on the .sub ject of ctissine;. One man, it seems, had none to such extremes with the use of profanity that be wa called before the church board of which l) was a .member. He was politely toid why he was called before them, and urned to mend his ways. He did hi best to say something: aptdoin'tic stating that he knew it was, wrong .to cuss, and -that he was sorrv he had gone so far with his bad habit, "but ne sain, "it l (inin t cuss once m a while, I'll be (lamni'd if J 'wouldn't bust," 1 he second 'yarn came via J. Dale Mentz. it seems tmu a man got a job collecting for a religion's organ ization on the pereeiitajjre basis. At the end of the finst week he had turn ed in more money than tJie head of the organization had ever hoped lo get. How did. .you do it. he w;i, asked, "Why I just wrote letters to those who were behind with their payments, and. here is the money." Naturally the heads of the organi zation were dumfoumled as to the amount that had been lollected by let ter, so they inquired further into the matter. "Well, HI tell you how it is," the successful collector said. ''Here is a letter I received yesterday'--from a memlw of your organization." It reads: Dear Sir: Herewith is my check for $10, as per your statement of the 21st. This pays my dues up to date. Thank you for reminding me that this was due. Yours trulv, JOHN DOE. P. S. I just want yxu to know that skunk is not spelled with a cap ital letter, and that kind of dam is spelled with an "N." The other Sunday morning some of the folks were hurrying to church, and others taking a late Sunday morn ing nap, Mr, Councill was walking on a Waynesville street picking up' pa pers that had been carelessly scatter ed on the streets on Saturday night. He seemed to be enjoying making the town look better. It is. a pity that more people did not have more civic pride. Tiresome things: Old people try ing to appear young, and voung: peo ple trying to act old and dignified. Useless thingspeople who strut. Goat getters people who keep waiters, or soda fountai ing for an order while they tell some ury yarn. . ".. . ... vuii, Lucie comes mat wo man whose face has more wrinkles than a baked apple, yet she has to fill the places with powders ghostly , TTe F'rst National Bank should have a room set aside just for women since quite a number of the women customers still carry the bank roll in their stockings, and building is crowded when they go t make a deposit, which often cause n little embarrassment. " Nobody Balievca Tlilt Sit at a table with twelve other peo ple and o"e will die within a year Mat Lon( Sbortllno Florida has 1,143 miles of short line and a land area of 50.SG1 square miles. ''...- TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate (As Heeoi'ileU to Monday .Noon of this Week). BeaVenlam Township I). S. Green, et al, to W. A. Silvers. Paul and Chas. C. Robinson to Joyce Mtioilv. ('. K. Smith, et ux, to Jennie Mease Hell. Hester L. llfiifc to Mildred Rogers and J. Herbert Mease. ('has. M. Mease and Margaret Dor soy, to J. H. Mease, Jr., and Mildred Rogers. Mildred Rogers and J. H. Mease to J.W.Wells. East Fork Township Illaine Trull, et ux. to J. B. Reece. Iron 1 luff Township '.. V. ' Ferguson, Trus., et al, to Willie Green. Z. V. Ferguson, Trus., et. al. to A. M. Ferguson. . Ivv Hiil Township W. M. Hrice. et ux. to 1). 0., J. R., (I. C, and H. II. Plott. Pigeon Township V. F. Murray to Pearle L. Murray;, 11. V. . Medford, et ux, to James Murray. Waynesville Township W. R. Francis. Trus., to J. R. Mor gan and F. W .Miller. J. K. Gnnce, et ux, to Leacil Gar rett, wife of James B. Garrett. Ray ("line, et ux, to T. G. Massie and Martha Mock. Mrs. Nettie Mock and Martha Mock to Lelia Mock C.line and Hettie Massie, (From the files of August Mr. Will Thomas, 0f Whir in town this week, the gut: atives. iiiis winiireo: iwitt et f,,- .1 :n ...i , nsucvuic, wnere sne wi sister, Mrs. Henry T. Shar, ' Misg Mary Coble, trained r the Piedmont Sanatorium, nf is spending her vacation w parents, Mr. and Mrs. Georg,. i Miss Bessie Ruth LathiwV , mingtcn, N. C.. visited Mi--Allen this week. Mrs. Frank Smathers, City, arrived Thuivday ar.d W) her parents here. Mis. James W. Reed and Mi Briggs motored to AsheviM.. i-. day on Monday. Miss Lucile Herren spent th, , in Asheville as the guest of jv Mrs. Carol Blanchard and h'Un Hertford, are visiting re.atr.i's town. Miss Willie Willis, who has : visiting relatives in Le.xiimtoi: has returned home. Misses bara and Josephine T; are spending the summer a ' imiiaa urra in wnittier, an.j ji having a houseparty this week Miss Evelyn Lee entertain, -,i w.:. a progressive party last evening -compliment to her house gues-.. Hazel Robinson. The sale of .'lot at Grand ':.-.v the Johnson Hill property, w as on in great style here Weiiiie iay. ' good crowd was present and the b i ding was brisk. Mr. H. F. Cary, genera! pass. i. .. agent, of the Southern, with :u v . quarters in Washington, was hv.v . week, investigating the' service of past summer season, taking imsVl, things necessary for next season St, Catherine's in the Moum'aV the college for girls, that is to upir 'n temporary quarters in the W'avnV ville Inn, in September, will ha'w i distinguished faculty, and will ,.' a!. to set a high standard for the c.! -.',. in the beginning. K. t-.- MARRIAGES (As Kecoi'iled to Sloiulav Vimn of Tliis Week) Pig Iron Pig Iron Is cost, or Intended for cast ing. In pigs, the molds or channels in sand Into wliich the nMilten metal Is run froin m mi'Uln'." fiirniice Thomas L. Case to Fay .Mull, hot:, of Waynesville. Howard Bartlett, of SwunnaiMa. Bertha Eloise Dotson, of Black Moun tain. John Jenkins to Annie Dee Jehkir.-, both of Cove Creek. D. L. Treadway to Annie Rai hln.ro, . both of Canton. James Henry Evans to Rachel H! 'i t Gillis, both of Canton. . William Green to Lola Bell ILn derson, both of Joe, N. C. Another Monkey I.angurs are long-tailed leaf-e.itina monkeys, widely distributed over south- VI St Ashi The Immortal ABE MARTIN Wisely Counselled: ."Tit Feller That Don't Advertise May Know His Business But Nobody Else Does" The Mountaineer More Circulation In Haywood County Than Any Other Newspaper
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