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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Wain Street Phone 137 Wayneaville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS nu.SS Editor W. Curtis Runs and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.00 Six Months, In Haywood County 50 Une ear (utsid Haywood County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance KiitertJ at tfae io.st office at Waynesville, N. C, as Second Claw M:ill Mutter, art provided unJer the Act of March 3, 1879, November 84, 1H. Ohituury noticeti. resolutions of reduect. cariia of thanka. and all notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at tlie rate of one cent per word. '"'North pmi,n"r 'MESS ASSOCIATION jijj THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936 ARMISTICE DAY November eleventh, the 18 anniversary of the close of the World War, found almost 6 million persons under arms. Nations again are in a dizzying race to gain superiority in arma ments. The words "the next war" have so fre quently been repeated that they no longer carry the whiplash of horror. And yet the last war is not vet naid for. Mars' ledger is still in the red. Many devastat ed villages have not been rebuilt, and will not ho. Shrapnel-crippled men still hobble down the streets. In hospitals and sanitariums others cough and fight grimly on, some too terribly disfigured to be seen even by kindly visitors. If people whose attitudes and desires were crystallized into decisions that led to the World War could have foreseen the results, would they have paid the price of peace whatever if, might have been? Facing prospects of a war even more costly, more disastrous, Will peonies today sacrifice that which is needed to make peace not war inevitable. These are things to think on not iust on November eleventh, but every day. Rotarian Magazine. HEWARE OF SCHEMERS The return of better times has one great vlisadvanfage. It brings along a number of fast talking, scheming salesmen, and also sales women, who are after unearned dollars. The "better the times, the greater the number of crooked schemers there are on the road. Sometimes their propositions sound good, .hut only too often it is. only the description of their plan or article that is worth a cent. Not only are there schemers of every type Moating around looking lor suckers, but check flashers often take advantage of better times. We repeal the wise words of one man, who said: "before you invest, be sure to investi-.gate." WORLD WAR TO COST U. S. 100 BILLIONS What is the cost of wars? Not in human misery, but in cold cash? Henry Morton Rob inson, in an article in the Rotarian Magazine, predicts that by the time the last Liberty Bond is retired, the last bonus certificate cashed, the last disabled veteran buried, and the last pen sion paid, the World War will have cost the citizens of the United States a total of 100 billion dollars! "At the close of the fiscal vear 1920." hp writes, "The Treasury Department of the Unit ed States unobtrusively announced that Ameri ca s participation in the World War had cost 27 billion dollars. Staggering as the figure was. no one believed it to be the 'total cost' of the great struggle to American taxpayers. And it wasn't. At the end of June. 1936. the direct. cash cost of the World War to the United States -not including such indirect costs as the War's share in causing the depression was 45 bil lion dollars. "Next year this figure will have to be re vised upward again by one billion, and in 1938 still another billion will be added. A half cen tury from now Americans will still be paying at the rate of a billion dollars annually. It anyone doubts that war is resDonsihle for the larger part of the national debt." he continues, "let him scan the following figures; In 1916, the public debt of the United States was one and one-fourth billion; the per capita interest charge on this modest indebtedness was 22 cents. Two years of war shot this debt to 25 billion dollars the most terrifVino- nl spectacular skyrocketing of public obliirationx since governments began to keeD books. IntP- rest charges advanced to nearly $6 a head and have remained there ever since. "Next to interest charges on our natmrml debt, the Veterans Administration nsnuliv claims the largest annual share of taxpayer's dollar. This Bureau has already snent 17 Mil lion dollars. Last ve;ir it and this sum does not include a sinirle of bonus money, either. The principal outlay d.s ioi pensions and disability payments," The lienor points out that of this amount surviv ors of the Indian Wars, and some relicts of the Mexican V ar (1815), and even the War nf ixio received an aggregate of 13 million dollars. ' "I K, .1 .. 1. . i wuevu, concludes Mr. Ko n nsnn "if needs no further demonstration to n.vwo'tw neither governments nor taxpayers find war a proiitabie undertaking. Disregarding the hu man sacrifices that must be I'U.JOJIIft lightly over the millions of young lives snuffed out by war, it should be an easy matter in this ledger-minded world of ours to indict war as a waster of public treasure and a ruinous finan cial venture to all who engage in it." THE OLD HOME TOWN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, i936 by STANLEY I I s . - m V WEU.5 OFAU.7HR NERVE f!-HEIE C (- - - 7 . I vga RAILROAD polks cut our jig, g -- - fae$ Toar peopui totravblS Lir. S J NEXT THESE Do MOOSE TOURISTS Sf "T S 7 I WILL, 88 RUNNIMS THOiC FOOL. JC rJlr cP I VWBM STATOM OAO KIYBS CAMS pV , pown BAreLrf this mornma he ioof LaZTJF I yf"-- TWOA,UTD-TKAILBreiPAKCONTMK V- I d I I T7 DEPOT PLATFORM. SO TMBYB BB TiJk I I I I , : 23 Years Ago in Haywood 1913) Random SIDE GLANCES liy W. CURTIS RUSS Hurley E. Wright, owner of the Canton Enterprise, and i'c-tt;i"v nf the Haywood Republican committee, while in Waynesvillo Monday, joking ly told Democrat friends that he and another staunch Republican of Bea verdani, had been notified that they would be arrested soon for rutins a KepiibLican ticket in a Demucrailic election of November Third. MARRIAGES (As Kevordctl to Monday Xoon of This Wet-k) There is 'one" thing -about the Re publicansthey take their defeat on the chin with a smile. TOY PISTOLS A MENACE? The nation-wide campaign to keep chil dren from playing with toy pistols, launched recently by the American Congress of Parent Teacher Associations, has failed to strike a re sponsive chord in the breast of Judge Joeoh B. Lindsley. of Spokane, Wash., who has handl ed hundreds of juvenile 'delinquency, cases. The judge fails to see that letting a young ster play with toy guns i in the slightest de gree likely to turn him into a bandit when he .grows up. "The spirit of adventure is born into boys," says the judge. "They want to read 'Daniel Boone' and other stories of adventure. Then they want toy guns and, as they grow older, they should have firearms and be taught to use them. "A man who' is following criminal tenden cies doesn t need a gun, if he is determined to commit a crime. Nowadays bandits use a sand bag or a piece of gas pipe as effectively as they do guns." There is a good deal of sense in the judge'3 remarks. The youngsters who are going to turn out to be bad eggs need something more than a 10-cent-store pistol to set their feet on the path of crime. Escanaba, Mich., Daily Press.. . : - Unless you have been around the country recently, you will be surprised at the number of new homes that are being erected. The much heralded rise in prices on building materials evidently has caused much of the building activity. HIS HOME PEOPLE PROUD OK HIM No one hereabouts is surprised when a Haywood County boy goes swiftly to the top -m u.e outside world. We have gotten used to Mich preformanees. The three Ferguson broth ers have made names for themselves in three widely separated fields of activity. And now Haywood County and all Western North Caro lina will take great satisfaction in the election of Judge William H. Smathers, born in Way nesville, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Smath ers. to the United States Senate in New Jersey. . The career of Judge Smathers since lie left his mountain home, following his gradu ation at Chapel Hill, for the great resort citv m which his brother, Frank Smathers had al ready won his way forward, has been one in which -his merits have achieved steady and in creasingly rapid recognition. He built up a fine law practice, succeeded his brother on the bench when the latter re tired some years ago, left the judgeship to be come an assistant United States Attorney, to which position he was appointed by President Roosevelt, resigned to go to the State Senate, was groomed f or the governorship and then, this year, was given the Democratic nomination for the Senate. His abilities have spoken for thpmi,., and the high regard in which he is held has been testified to in the successive honors that have come to him. Here in this mountain coun try he has a host of relatives and friends who have followed with pride his rapid rise. They are confident that at Washington he will be a figure in the Senate. Asheville Citizen Since Henrv Gaddv won no i.. than eiti'ht hats, a nair nf shuc a suit of clothes and some old cold rash on the election, he has promised .to give me one of his hats for Christmas, 1 Deiieve no will do that very thing, too, but if he had promised nie some chewing tobacco, I question whether I would have gotten that or not. Dexter Bumgarner to Ruby Buch anan, both of VVaynesville. Route 1. O. L. Bnggs, Jr., of VVaynesville, to Norma E. Rkkards, of Canton. Howard R. Clapp, of Swannanoa, to iiiiyan rowier, ot Walnut Cove, N. C. Lipe H. McGee, of Canton, to Verna -Marie McCant, of Canton, Route 2. HORSES IX TRAINING Eight horses are heine nut tViinncrv, 'mysterious maneuvers in the elephants nouse in tne zoo in London. They are being led, ridden, and driven up to and past and around the elephants, while a small crowd looks on. Next spring the horse are to be shipped to India to carry the Vicerbv and his the coronation durbar. Meanwhile tney are. being accustomed to the sight of elephants s0 that nothing in ine great coronation will frighten idem. And speaking of chewing tobacco, reminds me of what happened to Chief Stringlield recently, There were four of 11. standing on the street corner talking things over in general, when up walked a cigar salesman and hand ed each of us samples of a new hran,! of cigar. Of course. I know it because Chief was anions' us that we were recognized. Anyway, after the salesman had left, each of the other three passed our .tim-oke nvnv tn Chief. He was the onlv one in the crowd who siimked. but at. thi. tim:. lie vv:i fhewinir Ki'nt iuLm- Tn-Ut .in. wouldn t . part with it for ,.v. 001I cigars. F LYING CARAVAN British journalists have dubbed Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh s new touring monoplane "the flying cara van." Last week the Colonel tried out his craft for thp firt H, ; - ... .nils in a flight over Reading, England. Built .uung its owner's specifications the "fl.vinir caravan" has o RritiaV, and an American motor capable of 200 mile an hour. It is painted black on the fuselage, and orange on the wings, because the colonel believes these colors most visible in all weath er. 1 (From the ifiles of Novembe rs Jessie Moody spent Saturday in Asheville on business. 1 Mr. Ernest Witherc T.ur, .. .. . in Canton on business. V Miss Dorothv Mussoll . , ville visitor on Wednesday. Capt. and Mrs. J. H.L u have returned after spending SeVe!u; Mr. Horace SentelU . Canton Observer, was in t,. ' , ines6 yesterday. Mr and Mrs. J. R. Morgan have re turned after sDendino j ' Charlotte, visiting relatives. Miss fcarah Hill Hannah spent ve terday in Asheville shopping " Miss Helen Reed left . uaiuiudy aiU'r a several weeks visit to her brother Reed es W- Miss Elsie Tate pntprtinQj alloween partv Fridav nio-v,t L h - - j ai, aer ome 0n Walnut street. Miss Lillian Green was hostess a a masquerade party at her home 0n Friday. AH the gueets came in co-turns. Miss Josephine Thomas entertain ed a number of friends on Fridav evening. Numerous games were en joyed. One of the most attractive affairs of the week was the masquerade dance given on Friday night by Mis Dorothy Museell at her home on the Fairview Road. The house was tran iormea into a veritable woodlawn scene, lighted by weird pumpkins. The city . fathers met in regira session on Monday, Mayor Clyde II Ray, secretary J. H. Howell, and a -dermen P. L. Turbyfill, J. L. String field, W, H. Jones, and C. C. Mij were present. President Huerta has President Wilson, that he must re sign the presidency of Mexico, with out loss of time and leav-p th .,.,i free of interference. we were trvinc tr. thint nf thing bright to fit the xase of the Kepuoiicans in the eastern part of the state, who contracted to sell all their cotton at ten cents a pound di rectly after the democratic victories of last year, when we heard that one of the leading cattle men of Haywood County had made a parallel deal in hi. cattle and then we didn't have the heart to laugh. WORK ON CROP INSI RANCK Secretary Wallace i Roosevelt -viptorv nf Tm.c.1.... ... an endorsement nf thp M iir. farm plans and proceeded at once to the task of drafting an all-risk tom insurance program for submission to Congress. It will he nrt nf th., kv'- AAA nrocram u-hieh ...:n i. . formulated. Last week, a -stranger in these nnrts. ran right smack dab into a reddish fox at Lake Junalusku. The animal was lllstantlv killed anil tlm mntnrlt wrought it . into Wavnesville. and th. next morning Chief Stringfield skinned tlie animal lo:- the straniror -li left feelinir " vei'V kindlv fmvai-,1 ,,! hiA policeman, and mighty proud of his fox fur. in If ever a man had a richt tn mk 1 guess 1 did, when this cnimliv hoi' father's car. whizzed passed me under a red light, blowing their horn, only to da sh forty miles an hour to the curb of a drug store to order a couple of drinks, and sit there and gab. Whew, such things put me into a summer heat. ; To our way of thinking, these bets on elec tions where the winner gets a ride around town in a wheelbarrow are no longer news, funny, or smart. Pushing a peanut down the street with one's nose is much smarter that at least gets one down on their knees. It has been many years since there has been as much activity on Main Street during this time of the year as there is right now. New places of business opening up, and old ones either expanding, moving or making their places more attractive. This not only shows progress, but proves that business is better. And another incident that got up the dander of two service station op eiators was when two women both married with children in hiirh cki made exactly Hi turns through the tilling citation drives at both ends of Main street on a recent. Snt-nnlav afternoon. The thing got so monot onous, dangerous and uncalled for, the police was called in to nut. n stnn to it. ine women thoutrht. thev m.n just smart. I'd give a dollar for their pictures t0 run on the front page. I have their names and a loaded camera to get their profile the nexc time tney pull such a stunt. A pitiful sitrht tn me i seeino- cm loads of apples being unloaded here lor the local orchards to fill their needs, instead of the opposite. Local orchard men had to ra to nthpr .toto. this year buying apples. You never can tell juet what old mother nature is going to do. Can we stand it all . . . . first thp election, then the new cars, and this week-end the Duke-Carolina game men ine vavncsvi p- nntnn ramn then Thanksgiving, and then the nam. ing 01 ine cnairman of board of com- missioners. Whatta life. '" 1 . 1 "THAT CAMEL after the race certainly hit the spot," says Lou Meyer, 1936 Indianap olis winner. "Camels make food taste bet ter and set my digestion to rights." "I EAT HEARTY," says Charles Warreny 1936 Bowling Champ, "and thank Camels for being of real aid to digestion." Camels increase the flow of digestive fluids. They set you right! COSTLIER TOBACCOS Diamonds in India Diamonds originally came from Tn- dla. For centuries that country r. mainea tne sole source of Europe's sup ply. Diamonds were discovered Id Brazil In 17:10. and in South Africa in 1807. South Africa produces 90 per cent of the world's output. QUALIFIED OLD enough to have a wealth of experience from wnu-n to draw. "iOUNG enough to appreciate the value of progres sive methods and modern equipment. LARGE enough to give assurance of prompt and enicient handling of orders and deliveries at all times. SMALL enough to give each customer personal at tention and warm hearted co-ODeration- You can safely trust your prescriptions to such an organization. ASK YOUR DO C T O R ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOCtt PROTECTION
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