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THE WAYNESV1LLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, i936 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 1ST Waynesville. Xorth Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County V. CURTIK RUSS Editor XV. Curtis Ku.ss and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers I'UHMSHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATl'.S One Year, In H.iywoud County $1.00 Six MonlliH. In Haywood County 50 One Year Outside Haywood County $1.50 All Sul).seri)tiuns Payable in Advance KatereJ at Ike post oifire :lt Wiiyuvsville, N. C, as Second Class St nil Matter. as imivlded (iinl.r the Act of Slarrb 3, 1S7K, Novemlier -20, lull. OhitK.trr notices, resolutions of respect, curds of thunka, ami notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at Hie rate of one ceut per word. North rrnhnrt A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936 'NOTES ON A FAMOUS BIRD' A writer in the New York Times offers some interesting information, by way of "obi tuary material" for the 20,000,000 noble birds that have died this year to make an American holiday. To begin with, here is something that few people have known before, concerning the name of the turkey. It is derived, we are told, from the He brew word, turki-turki, meaning an ostrich, and came into use by Jewish vendors who, after the great fowl's introduction into Spain, went about the market places selling their new material for table festivals,' and shouting "Turki-turki!" That Benjamin Franklin supported the turkey for choice as America's national bird, is nere recalled by way of further interest, but with the fact still true that most of us greatly prefer the eagle, as less original, of course, but more sure of respect seeing that nobody is tempted to eat it. It is true that Franklin had called the turkey a bird of courage and one, he said, that 'would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guard who dared to enter a farmyard tn a red coat." Yet not even with that, Could a bird which spends its entire existence with the shadow of the axe above its neck, ever create the atmos phere of independence and defiance maintained tiy our American eagle with the thirteen arrows of our original states grasped in its fierce talons. We, much prefer the turkey as we know him today, with his drumsticks pressed decor ously to right and left of his ample and savory breast, with oyster dressing on the inside of him, and a mush' brown gravy near at hand- Kxchange. TWO MISTAKES There is a wealth, of human interest in. a j-eries of letters now being 'printed in The Pro gressive. Farmer on the subject "Mistakes I Have Made." We quote two : FOR' JOT NEEDS My biggest mistake was failure to have my home remodeled and made pleasant for my children. If I had had it fixed up and bought a radio and a few extra tilings we needed, I could have made a pleasant home where my boy and girl of high school ape could entertain their friends and spend their evenings at home. As it is, there is noth ing pleasant in our home but a mother's love, so they seek pleasures elsewhere. It was a ser ious mistake I made, but I hope now to remedy it. Mrs R. F. Smith, Mississippi; OVERWORKED WIFE Last summr I insisted on my wife's taking in several board ers, doing all her own cooking, washing, scrub bing, and general housework. She was not strong but undertook to shoulder the task bravely. Result: By fall I had a broken-down wife in the hospital, doctors' bills to pay, and trained nurses and cooks to hire. Part of the time I had to play handy boy around the place myself and learned many things. The garden was a quarter of a mile away, there was no woodshed or wash shed, and the only pump was Jocated at the barn. The money I had to borrow to pay the expenses of my Wife's ill ness would have remedied all these inconven iences and much more. Ashamed, North Carolina.- At least the weatherman is giving us sam ples of real winter weather instead of over stocking us all at once, More as a matter of record than of fond expectations, the State Department in Wash ington has sent out notices to 13' foreign na tions, that the 15th of December they owe Uncle Sam a total of 155 million dollars for war debts.. PAYING THEIR OWN WAY During the month of November, defend ants in mayor's court, pushed across the bench to Mayor J. H. Way, something like $730 in cash, in payment of court costs and fines. Last Monday exactly 30 faced Mayor Way in city court, with most of them answering tu the charge of being drunk. But the month of November was not the only good month during the year for collecting fines and costs. For the months of July, Au gust, September and October, a total of $1,393. 42 was collected by the mayor's court. The town gets the costs, arid the fines are turned over to the county school fund. During the month of November, the costs paid by those arrested amounted to something like $450. This is exactly $150 more than the salaries of the entire police force of the town of Waynesville cost. The record as cited above clearly shows that there is much activity in the police de partment, despite the fact that the department is often the the source of much criticism. Perhaps if the police department was not so modest, and would come forward and make public more of their activities the public would take an entirely different attitude. The public, we feel, would not envy the four men their jobs, if the full details of their duties were known. THE OLD HOME TOWN ft IV I PM OMtm by STANLEY A DOCTOR ON SPINACH Every once in a while we run across an item of news that merits emphasis in these col umns in order that the unwary, who may have overlooked it in the ordinary news columns, will receive the full benefit of the revelation. Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, of the Mavo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., recently stressed the fact that the same diet did not necessarily mean well for every patient. He has found, for example, that milk is not good for everybody and asserts "it is bad stuff for many people and actually poisonous to others." The crowning revelation, however, pertains to spinach, which the doctor averts is not "the marvelous food wo have long thought it to be." Worse, "it isn't digestible unless it is heavily creamed" and the body "cannot digest spinach sufficiently to benefit from the calcium and iron content of the vegetable." Boys and girls having spinach rammed down their throats might pass this clipping along to the heads of the house! Ex. PROPER CARE VS. GOOD PRICES While there are about 100 acres less in tobacco in this county this year than last, is no reason for either the farmers or merchants to get blue. In fact, it should be about the best news coming from the tobacco crop this year. Less acreage will doubtless mean that the farmers will take more pains in preparing this crop for the market. The chief complaint from the buyers in recent years has been hasty preparation of the crop that has often been the cause for the low prices on what seemed to be quality tobacco. If the crop from the 400 acres is properly handled, all indications are that the farmers will bring back home more cash for their crops than they have in several years. Thanksgiving was a week ago today, but the last remains of the turkey only disappeared yesterday, which is reason enough to be thank ful again. Official quarters in Washington are busy denying that the New Deal is offering to sell Maine and Vermont to Canada, says a Michigan paper. Could this have been a Literary Digest prediction ? Since 1929 the majority of Christmas shop ping has been done the last week before Christ mas. Shoppers fail to either get the spirit and enthusiasm to buy, or did not have the money. This year the shopping has started earlier. There is evidence everywhere that not only will the season be longer, but much money will be spent in the meantime. Last week a woman was heard to say: "Oh, I didn't think to go there to look. I haven't heard of that place in so long I'd forgotten about them carrying that line." The public has a habit of forgetting easily. If the buying public is to be impressed, they must be remind ed constantly. . Looking over the crowd at court this week, we recognize quite a large number of the regu lar audience . . . those who never miss a single session, and look just as dirty and lack as much pride in their personal appearances as ever. County tax collector W. H. McCracken re ports a rushing business in his office last week and Monday of this week, since large numbers of taxpayers were paying their 1936 taxes and saving the one-half of one per cent. That is a sure sign that times are much better. novTbo7wmi5EC7 fps$$T-Er I AUNT SAIfAK PEABODY ME SO ON FIRST- ( ONE OF US VrfOULD BE THE MOTHS HAVE J I ON DUTY ETACH PAY. BY TTK V BEEN VslORKINO JN Y AL.TE f?N ATw C IT NWONT"""? MY BEARD A5AN AND -CHvV BE SUCH A STRAIN r z'cS. ) BY ANOTHER VJEEK IT VrON our feet;- Imishtbe a -' v VRUINEDj jUt) the die haw soci club boys aj?e soins to be bi6 help TO AUNT SARAH . . .HI? t(?IVE 9uey FOR A BI&frEf? AND BETTER CHRISTMAS FUND o mm - m. (-- ! 23 Years Ago in Haywood n: Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS With the thermometer hovering near freezing, I enjoy thinking back t0 boyhood days in the winter time. Unless one has lived in the rural districts during cold weather, they haven't gotten all there is coming to them. Some of the fondest memories a.s a boy are those spent on a farm during Christinas holidays. It was a typical farm in every re spect. The home was modern, and only had 10 rooms. A fire wa kept in the parlor and kitchen, Heat in the bedrooms .was unknown. Milking time Was promptly at five Feeding time at six, and breakfast at seven. The owner of the place also had a mill, store, garage and was postmaster. What more could a boy ask than to be a guest at such a place over the Christmas holidays? I had no complaint to make until the fourth day when the thermome ter dropped to zero. The old fashion ed pump froze the green wood would not bum fast' enough' and it was just down right cold. The only warm things about the place were their hos pitality, and the sausages which .were over-seasoned with red pepper anc sage. Soil Erosion Cost ly To N.C. Farmers It is costing North Carolina farm ers $00,000,000 a year to let their eoil wash away. That is the estimated annual de preciation due to erosion and the re sultant loss of fertility, gullying of fields, and silting of streams and res ervoirs, said Dr. R. Y. Winters, di rector of the N. C. Agricultural Ex periment Station. This has led to reduced crop yields, abandonment of many fields, and an increase in flood hazard and suscep tibility to drought, he continued. The Soil Erosion Service, the State College extension service, and the ex periment station are working to rem edy this situation, he stated, but they are handicapped by lack of informa tion about various conditions over the state. . In seeking information that may be used in developing adequate pro grams for conserving and building up tne sou, the experiment station is co-operating with the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture in making sur veys and mapping soil conditions of the state. The experiment station has been classifying and evaluating soils, stud ying factors that cause erosion, and determining what uses various lands are suited for. But to date only the surface has been scratched. Dr. Winters declared. A great deal of work lies ahead. On many farms terracing is not adequate, he continued, and many are too small to permit drastic changes in the cropping system. Yet some adequate means of controlling ero sion must be developed and put into (From the files of Nov. 28th, lSqy , Mr. Henry MacFayden, of Sunbu-.-is visiting his parents here. Miss Burr Cagle, of Clyde ia ,-.. attractive guest of Miss Doll'ie Let Mies Wilsie Smathers has from Pensaeola, Fla., where .-he . V1 the guest of her sister, Mi", j"a' Holtzclaw. ' Miss Jennie Ray has return, d i , Salisbury, where she has bec-n ,' for sometime. ' n i tt ... .uuss r.mny nariold is vi- ti- joiiii j.. naney at, ner noun, n r. this week. I Miss Josephine McCracken ,.,,. I Thursday in Asheville shooDiii" ' ' i? imc vnus nas return' i from New York, Philadelphia, Va--ington, and Atlantic City. Miss Maude McCulloch spendi sometime in Rock Hill, S. C. Messrs. Hilary and Hari v Crawford have returned to A. & M. College Raleigh, where they will resume tne;r studies. Misses Anna Boone, Hazel Killian Josephine Thomas, Messrs. Thuraan Williams, Faucette Swift, Clyde Chauncey, Harry Fisher, and Will Coble spent Thursday in Asheville where they saw "The Girl of My Dreams." Miss Nan Killian very delightfully entertained the Wednesday afternoon bridge club this week. Congressman Gudger has taken the post office in Asheville from a brother-in-law and handed it to a cousin, so it still stays in the family. Fred Seely announced sometime ago that if he could not run Grove Par Inn without selling whiskey, he would close it up. We notice that he v.a no among those indicted in Asheville las week. There ha never been a Morrison sitting in the Governor's chair in Ral eigh, but that is no reason why Cam of Charlotte should not have the.plai.-e.. practice. One of the main things, Dr. Winter pointed out, is to grow more soil con serving and building crop,,) that wi:l not only hold the soil in p. ace when it rains, but which will also add more organic matter to the soil. CONVICTED OF SLAVERY Convicted in Federal Court on charges of violating an ancient anti slavery statute, Paul D. Preacher, Ar kansas planter and peace officer, wa. sentenced to two years in prison anil fined $3,1)00 in Jonosboro, Ark., las' week. Defense counsel completed ar gument in the case, with a declaration' that the charges were the re-ults of polities and that the Southern Ten ants Farmers Union was back of th-' whole situation1. Preacher is said to have been the first person ever in dicted under the Federal anti-cdavery act passed by Congress in IHiiG. The first night, the boy of the house and myself toughed It out by sleeping between the icy fresh sheets. The second night, we lacked the courage, and moved up Just a notch and slept between two wool blankets thinking no one would ever be the wiser. The next morning we found we were wrong in our thinkir-tr the mother found it out but how, i don't know. The third night we slept in our stockings and about half our wearing apparel, leaving our night clothes hung on the hook. We got by with that, and by that time the weather was about normal again. I have often taxed my brain try ing to decide whether it is better to fetay in bed on cold mornings and smell good country sausages cooking, or face the music and get up in cold room to lower three windows. i i "tni Mini mimim krtMin iw i 1(1 Muh nrs JIlfl'lA "AFTER A SLASHING SET-TO on the ice, Swfei I head for Camels," says Phil LaBatte, f &WJil hockey star. "I smoke Camels for diges- l-afejb .m3i if t'on's sake for that cheery "lift."' J I MRS. C. SICKLES, a busy mother, says: 1a ".-ifS- t ?fiZ&k "What a pleasant help Camels are to ll v mW good digestion! They set me right!" 0' i A boy that has never had the op portunity of jumping out of bed on a cold morning and grabbing a pair of shoes and a few duds and beating it to the kitchen to dress behind the range can't appreciate modern conveniences. I once boarded in a home where the father kindled a fire in his bed room heater the night before, and the next morning at six o'clock, would reach over, drop a match in the heater and wait until the room was ;warm then he got up . . . and while he was making fires in other parts of the house his wife and daughter would dress in his room. Cold weather memories; frozen pump;-, being wrapped until I felt like an over-stuffed toad . . . trying to get stockings to come up smoothly over long underwear . . . thumping cold ears . . . skinning cold knuckles and uttering my thoughts ... dread ing to go to bed ... dreading to get up . . . staying in same position all night, fearing to move I least touch cold sheets ... . cold feet . . . hot soup ... snow cream . . . tracking rabbits . . feeding birds . . . taking enough medicine . . . cutting wood wishing spring wag here. . . . "LIBERALIZE OR DIE" From two separate Republican sources in one day last week came demands for new and liberal Q. O. P. leadership, with warning that other wise the party would aro the wav nf COSTLIER TOBACCOS. OUR "BLUEPRINT" The contractor builds according to the architect's plans and specifications. His own ideas may differ with the instructions on the blueprint, but he makes no sub stitutions because he realizes that those drawings repre sent weeks of study and the weighing of factors with which he is not familiar. The DOCTOR'S written prescription is ALEXAN DER'S "blueprint" and we are as careful as the exper ienced contractor to follow each instruction to the letter. We know it is the only SAFE way. A S K Y O U R I) O C T OR ALEXANDER'S DRUGSTORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOLK PROTECTION the Whig Party.
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