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THTTPenAV UlDm . Vugt 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer j Pub!. shed By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Waynsv;!;-. North Ctro'.lr.a The Cuurry S: Of Hxywood Caur.ty Phor.e 137 Ed. tor W. CUKT1S Rl'SS W. Curt Itu,, Ld M,:..r. T Br.dse. Pushers !'i;i',I.IHEU KVEKY THLT'.SDaY f E4SC KIPTIO N R ATI . One Y-vii, Ir. Hijuujl C-un:y Six Mjirttn. fn H-iyw-'dJ .'our-.'.y One Y-ir ouu.iv Hayw .jJ County All Suti-r.ptint Piyibie ir. Advance .11 00 . . .5U . . $1 50 hH4 . U. Pt ,lf, , ,t ... 1 'r 1 ' xSonh Carolina v-K MISS ASSOCIATION). v.. THURSDAY, MARCH 23. 1937 NOT CONSISTENT We are fed-up, gorged, and disgusted with argument on this question of liquor stores. Not one person out of fifty will give a concrete statement in their argument. Practically all depend on generalities, which mean absolutely nothing. Within 1") minutes, we have been forced to listen to arguments r be rude one man said liquor could be bought at 2") places on Main Street, the other man .-aid there was less than gallons within the city limits. No doubt both "'stretched" their statements in an attempt to x?arry their iint. If the man kiirw of 25 places where liquor ."is being -sold why not name them ? If the other man is positive there are only 5 gallons in town why not give ome proof of his statement? We are a funny people, especially on this liquor question. Recently one man came in to request the editor of thus paper to write an editorial opposing the establishment of a liquor store. The office was a little too warm,' and. he had to hold to a desk in order to enter his request between "hicks," and staggers. Within 30 minutes, a leader in one of the churches came in and made just the opposite request of the editor, and as far as we know this last man does not know the taste of liquor. Another man mentioned the need of more articles on the evils of liquor, and the next day we learned that within three hours after mak ing that statement, he drank the greater part of a bottle of special liquor at the home of a friend. We are so inconsistent on this liquor mat ter, that there are but few people w ho are really eligible to discuss it at all. HAYWOOD RANKS 37TH According to the United States Census Bu reau, Haywood County ranked 37th, in 1935, in this state in retail trade. The retail sales for 1935 in the county are placed at $3,521,000 This is an average of $123 per capita. The same report shows that there were 168 stores in the county, employing 353 people. Mecklenburg led the state, with per capita sale's 'of $2G5, while . Avery was lowest with a $25 average. ' The average for the state was $136, and the total retail sales in the state for that year are given at $463,219,000.; We feel that we would be safe in saying, that for 1936, Haywood County would show an in crease of at least 25 per cent on each figure. LOST a boy: '."Not kidnapped by bandits and hidden in a cave to weep and stance and raise a nation to frenzie searching. Were that the case, one hundred thousand men would rise to the rescue if need be, Unfortunately the losing of this lad is without dramatic excitement, though very sad and very real. The fact is, his father lost him. Being too busy to sit with -him at the fireside and answer his trival questions during the years when fathers are the only great heroes of the boys, he let go his hold. Yes, his mother lost him. Being much en grossed in her teas, dinners and club programs, she let the maid hear the boy say his prayers and thus her grip slipped and the boy was lost to his home. Aye, the church lost him. Being so much occupied with sermons for the wise and elderly who pay the bills, and having good care for dignity, the ministers and elders were unmind ful of' the human feelings of the boy in the pew and made no provision in sermon or song or manly sport for his boyishness And so the church and many sad-hearted parents are now '.looking: earnestly for the lost boy. Selected. SPEEDING BICYCLES Every week or 30, some citizen of the com munity enters a complaint to the police or some civic organization about children riding bicy cler on the sidewalks even in the business dis tricts. A number of people have told of instances when they had to get off the sidewalks to let the cyclists pass, or get hit by them. There is an ordinance against riding bi cycles on the sidewalks . From all reports it is not enforced. Until automobile traffic is made to abide closer to the letter of the law, a person takes his life in his own hands to venture in the streets on a bicycle, yet that is no excuse for cycilists using the sidewalks. This is just another problem which the automobile has given the world, and no satis f actor solution will be found for this traffic problem whether it be bicycles or automobiles until we have to start digging down in our pockets and paying heavy fines every time the law is violated. A WORTHY CAUSE This week seals are being sold for the benefit of cripple children in Haywood Coun ty. Few people realize that there are 75 such children in this county that might never get attention unless the proceeds from these seals were made available. This is a deserving cause that mei its our support. EDUCATION AND MOTOR CARS The University News Letter, in a cur rent issue, come.- forth with more interesting facts on the school system of the state. This time a comparison - is made, as to the amount of money spent each year per car and the amount spent on public education per child. The editors of The News Letter, have found that in North Carolina,'-expenditures at filling stations (mainly for gasoline and oil) averaged $109 per -automobile in 1935, and only four states averaged more than that. The total expenditure on public education averaged $28.18 per child in average daily attendance, and only two states sptnt less. In other words, we are 5th in expenditures on motor cars, and 46th in support of public education. The United States averages $87 per auto mobile at filling stations, and $67.48 per child in average daily attendance at school. The News Letter goes on to say; "There has been a very' modest increase in the support of the schools in the state during the last two years, but the increase is considerably below the increase in the cost of living, to the rise in the general price level." The Charlotte News looks at the question from a different slant, when they say: "An expenditure per school pupil of $24.18, judging by other states, is much too low, but the contract between expenditures per automo bile and per school child is meaningless. "What signifies it that the cost of operat ing a 10-ton truck is far greater than the State's expenditure upon 16 first graders? You can't, they always told us, add apples and ducks. The operation of commercial motor vehicles in North Carolina is itself one of the State's largest in dustries and the operation of vehicles for pleas ure is the sole support of another conglomerat ed industry. If expenditures per vehicle were a tenth of $109, the State and the schools would be worse off, not better. "Beside, the automobile is a tax producer whereas the schools are. tax consumers. If the price of gasoline didn't represent about one third tax, expenditures per automobile would be about one-third less. In other words, the State collects more upon the operation of a half -million automobiles than it spends for the educa tion of a million children. What that signifies we have no idea, unless it is that both auto mobiles and children are expensive." WHO KIDDED THE PRESIDENT? In asking Congress to lay a tax of at least three-quarters of a cent a pound on sugar, Pres ident Roosevelt said he had been advised defi nitely the tax would not increase the average cost of sugar to consumers. Sugar sells for about 6 cents a pound, sometimes as a "special" at 5 cents. Growers and refiners of cane sugar and beet sugar com pete with each other in addition to the com petition between the two main kinds of sugar. Grocers handle sugar practically at cost, some times at a loss. : And there won't be a higher price to the consumer if a tax of three-fourths of a cent or more is put on sugar? It looks to us as if somebody had been kidding Mr. Roosevelt. Goldsboro News-Argus. If you please the question of a liquor store is not a "wet and dry" issue, but a ques tion of control. Yes, we know that this com plicates the question at stake, but it is true, nevertheless. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY ( P1U.S3UKY WEEKS, ( To &ET THESE uE&S "THEY FfEU LIKS t?U3SE (BanPS HE V.E'-T Or TH'S AT -3' ST T'7 POLE ANP V. ' - T I i- All ) i!S "73 CUBE I JilcJ f r ' 1 CN r.4jry "c - - I ' AMP Hll rOUK PAf -ni CAMl TO AH TOOA.Y Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CIRTIS RUSS Ju: rf htnd. I u.jiil'i t.v th.tt ..! u f-ver jj-Mple -Ah'i know huu he -ii'- ..f Kk:- ;s .l-tfrrnin"l thin tny '.!.-; .r. i- i .u i.t :' iu?.s-t:.n. I hl'. !.-vi:i M. iJi-l h-.u-..l it is u itf iinn-. Iju: fur m f T'in.:i.i. I' i' k ,1 ,;,y .,i f.v "A i'-:i.i-.vi- f-:;V,ii ( ay tt' an--.iuit.v 11 !.s.;rv-'l .inioni; Chris'; iris, in 'uMiiin'iii nr.-i ti. r. ..f th- I'rsurrec'.i":! ..f I'hriit. i..-curln aimu: '.he t.;i:- of !: vei-i.a ! ! j :. i. "W hen (.hrUti.mit.v- iv.w int!-'lufel. - rrit- dependent way uf ttxinn .i d.ite fur Ka.ster. upon whu-h many other fastivals of th chun h deper.dej, be come necessary. "There was mu-h difference -of opin ion as to the date. The Kaxtern churches commeinorated our Ird's death on the 14 h day of the moon after the spring equinox, and kept Kaster two days later. "The Western Churches kept Kaster on the Sunday following the 14th d:iy of the moon. 'It was not until A. D. 325 th:U the council of Nlcaea was held and there it was settled that Easter should be held on the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the moon that oc rured next after the vernal equinox, and that should the fourteenth day of the moon, fall on the day of the equi nox, the following Sunday was to be Kaster Sunday. "It was also decided at this time that in finding Easter, the vernal equi nox should be considered to fall every year on March 21. It was later decid ed that The calculations be made ac cording to tables of Victorius of Aqui taine. which he introduced in A. IJ 457. So much for that. Kaster is a time of joy and gladness, for it comes in the spring," when ac cording to pagun belief, hature awoke from the winter death sleep and every thing breathed life and hope. Russia puts more emphasis on Eas ter than any other country. The citi zens there arise early in the morning, and spend the day going about the towns extending to each other Easter greetings.' On their rounds of visK. each guest presents the hostess with a colored egg. and gets one in return, with refresh nients thrown in. It is said that Portuguese sailors, regardless of what port they are In. will on Good Friday, commit Judas to he waves, and sing the Angelus. In Hungary, the boys sprinkle their girl friends with rosewater and In return receive gifts of eggs. The French children, following an old custom, make rounds in the rural districts begging for red eggs. While !n Russia, the children . will, for every gift of a red egg. set free a caged canary. The Easter Bunny is another cus tom borrowed from the Pagan times as the hare was associated with the moon and new life. It is the firm belief of small r.e. mans, that a white hare steals into the house on Kaster eve and hides bean. tiful colored eggs. Today, American children feel that their Easter celebration is incomoleto without a basket, and candy eggs and bunny, and several fluffy cotton chicks. A Curious, but less common hotiof is that the sua dances with joy as it rises on the day of Resurrection Tliep. are Certain sections In Europe where the people rise early to climb some vantage point to watch for this phe 19 Years Ago in Haywood Editor The Mountaineer : Enclosed find money ori scription. ' j I am on a two year tojr , the Hawaiian Islands, an. . pitror iiiwi Liiail ttii trie i news you print in you; paper insieaa oi weeKiy. I am looking forwaid ; , your fine paper. ' Sincerely, R. L. ARRIN;tov U. S. S. Oarlala. Pearl Ha: T. H., via San Franoisco, Ca r ed from her own sheen .. .. l.j ed, carded and spun by herself Far ermure me neeuies are maje J wood from her own farm. ine rouowin young m.;-r. .eft J ureen, ram Kninenar: ';tJ Smathers M. T, McCracker JiJ T J Ol! Ti .... ' ""I Dr. McCracken's car nlavl frog with the gas pipe railing at 1 Logan garage on Saturday. H i J orea uriver was lamng his car I the garapre and the steering W;J went southwest on him. Or.lv rJ can put on a stunt like through it. ta: and ' (From the files of March 22, 191S.) Mr. Henry Davis spent Sunday in Asheyilie. Miss Helen Wye he was a recent vis itor in Durham. She is now visiting Mrs. C. C. McDonald ;n Raleigh. Governor Bickett was entertained on Monday at luncheon at the home of Corporation V.mmi-.-ior.ers W. T. Lee. A 'li-patch from Washinirtoh yester- stated that Lester Uurgin tni appointed postmaster at Sun day been burst. Ajrain there is no coal in town and Hyatt & Co. ,ay they have been un able to buy any lately. Their last shipment came from Virginia and sold fvir ?). ."0 a ton. Rufus Slier of the Bank of Waynes vilie. went to Knoxviile last week. He was relieved of his duties by J. P; Knox, who is not only a good book keeper, but a good telegrapher. How's your war garden coming an? The Waynesville Red Cross Chap ter takes pleasure in acknowledging the very generous response to the plea for children of the Belgian and French refugees, At the Methodist church on Sunday morning they will vote on a location for the new church to be erected some time in the near future. Mrs. J. K. Boone is not only one of the best women in town, but one of the most industrious. She has been knit, ting for the soldiers, from wool shear- GARLIC... In ancient Ejjfypt the! had a belief that garlil made men strong. Alorj with onions, it was f-l to pyramid builders. We have our d-jubil about the value of gar!:l but do know thai there:! nothing like a good iJ surance policy to b'oIstJ up morale and give i strength of self-confider assurance. The L. N. Davis Co TELEPHONE 77 Loans Real Estate Rentall Insurance and Bonds. " MY DIGESTION ROLLS RIGHT ALONG" -ays Ffd McDanitl, Cswtoy "I SMOKE PLENTY of Camels, and enjoy my meals," McDaniel says. Cam els at mealtime step up the flow of digestive fluids alkaline fluids that help you enjoy a sense of well-being. MACHINE OPERATOR, Franca Morel, uys: "When I feel low, I get a "lift in energy with I Camel. And Camels aid di gestion." Camels set you right! CAMELS COSTLIER TOBACCOS "M. D." Everyone knows wiiat these familiar letters repre sent, but perhaps some people do not attach any signi finance to the FIRST ktter and its meaning. Medicine is the doctor's most widely used weapon in combating ill ness, disease, infection and pain, and because it occupies this major place in his practice, we submit that too much care cannot be exercised either in its manufacture or dispensing. Anyway, that's the way we feel about it here at Alexander's, as our methods so clearly prove. ASK YOUR DOC TOR ALEXANDER 'S DRUG STORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR VOIR PROTECTION nomenon.
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