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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, APRh. n Page 2 The Mountaineer Publiahed By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 13T Waynesville, North Carolina The County Sent Of Haywood County W. ClMt'HS ItL'S.S Editor V. Curtiw Uuss and Marion T. Bridges. Publishers I'ljULISHKD EVKKY THL'KSDA V SUBSCKII'TION HATRS Oiu- Yfn. Ill Haywood County $1.50 SU Months. In Haywood County 75 One War. Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscription Payable in Advance Iv'ntiMcl it U.e p.wt oUUf' at Waynesvill. N. C. tm Second Class Uuil Mutter, :ui i.r.u.ie.l undw Uie Act of March 3, 1S7H, NoviMubsr -ill, Hit. Obituary .Titicf. resolutions nt respwt, cards of thank, ami nil imt,ir.'s uf enterUumieiiU tut prulit, will be charged (or al tin- lab- ot one cent per word. -XNorth Carolina iA 'PPtS ASSOCIATION T. THURSDAY, APRIL. 15, 1937 TEXT FOR TODAY "The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all." Proverbs, xxii, 2. WHAT IS A HOY? Today marks the beginning of the drive for funds for the local Hoy Scout organization. The development of Hoy Scout troops in the country has been most encouraging, and the interest that has been created among young boys in the country clearly shows that they are hungry for Scout training and development. Ever since the editor of this paper was 12 years old, he has been closely associated with Scout work, and because of that close contact with the work, and watching boys that have been more or less on their own out in the world, we are frank to say that we do not know of any organization that does as much for boys as the Boy Scouts of America. Scouting does something for boys that the churdh, school or home can't do- or at least, doesn't do. Every time you help the scouting program, or encourage a boy to become a scout, you have 'contributed to a better citizenship. Scouting deals with boys, and it might interest our readers to know what is a boy. The following editorial taken from the Rotarian Magazine answers the question thoroughly: "The person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is to sit where you are sitting and attend to things which you think are so important, when you are gone. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried out depends upon him. Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to manage them. He will take your seat in Con gress, assume control of your cities, States, and empires. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, corpora tions, councils, and prisons. AH your work is going to be judged and praised and condemned by him. The future and destiny of humanity are in his hands, so it mig'ht be well to pay a little attention to him now." THE ONLY DRAWBACK Probably no section of the country has profited more by the establishment of the CCC camps than has Western North Carolina. Right here in this immediate community, the mem bership of the camps have opened up trails and roads into sections that afforded the most na tural scenic beauty of our mountains. "'; The Charlotte News, however, takes a dif ferent viewpoint on the matter, when they said : "The reason for the almost unanimous ac ceptance of the Civilian Conservation Corps are not hard to find. It combines a number of fea tures that Americans respect wherever they encounter them. One is hard work. Another is usefulness. A third is the moral and phy sical training of boys and young men and a fourth is the assistance they render to their own needy families. They are required to send home $25 of the $30 they draw monthly. "Hence, the President's recommendation to Congress that the CCC be made a permanent institution with a maximum of 300,000 mem bers wilt meet, we believe, with immediate ap proval. But there is. no denying that the CCC, desirable as its continuance may be, is expen sive. The cost comes to about $1,000 per man per year, and $300,000,000 is a lot of money even in these New Dealing days. It is more than we spent on the Army in 1934 and 1935, as much as the average cost of the Navy in those two years. . r . Of course, if the CCC represented the one extravagance the New Deal had permitted itself, or one of the few extravagances, the country could probably afford the $300,000,000 annual appropriation. Undoubtedly the CCC is i paying dividends, but it should not be forgotten that it is doing so on borrowed money." 500TH ANNIVERSARY This year is believed to mark the five hun dredth anniversary of the use of movable metal type. In other words, the art of printing as we know it today, saw its beginning about the year 1437 through the ingenuity of Jonannes Guten berg, German pioneer in this business which has grown to mean so much to civilization. Incidentally, in this connection it is im portant to note that a New York University professor has also satisfactorily settled another problem which has worried modem men of the craft about as much as how Gutenberg hap pened to originate the use of movable type. Heretofore, it has always been assumed that in keeping with the custom of his time this pat riarch must have worn a long, flowing beard. Consequently, much debate has been raised as to how Gutenberg succeeded in preventing his beard from getting caught in the. press with which he experimented. The learned New Yorker now assures us that Gutenberg being a member of a patrician family was smooth -shaven, inasmuch as men of the aristocracy in Rhenish cities did not wear beards in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Hickory Record. THE OLD HOME TOWN HOW MUCH BETTER IS A MAN THAN A SPITTOON? Ransacking the offices of the social se curity set-up in Raleigh, presided over by Char les Powell, The News and Observer makes the discovery that every facility in the place bears a number. The chairs are numbered: the desks are numbered: the pencils and pens, we take it, are also numbered : all manner of documents are numbered: even the. spittoons bear a" number, like "UC 18" or "UC201." Verily, it would seem that we have come into what might be called the Generations, or a new Book of Numbers. Not only are the chairs and desks and pencils and pads and pictures on the wall and the rugs and the $G,500 addressographs and eveiy facility and material in the social security offices numbered, and even, ah! even the spit toons numbered, but we are numbered our own selves under and by virtue of the same Federal a uspices employers are numbered, employes are numbered and everything pretty much is now numbered unless, perchance, it be the num ber of cats and dogs on the premises or the hair of one's head or the number of molars in the false-teeth set, if any of either! And, come to think of it, if human beings are being numbered like that, why make any racket in the event that Uncle Sam wants to keep track of every spittoon he provides his tobacco-chewing bureaucrats? How much better is a man than a spittoon? - Charlotte Observer. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW The Sanford Herald raises a question that we have frequently heard asked but for which we do not know whether or not we have known the correct answer. Presumably somebody pays the printing bill (if not the postage bill) when some leaflet or pamphlet issued from the Government Printing Office is marked "Not printed at Government expense." At any rate that's the explanation we have been giving. The editorial in the Sanford paper makes in teresting reading. Here it is: "Every time a controversy starts among the lawmakers up in Washington and the Hon. senators and Hon. representatives commence making speeches from the Senate floors, oyer the radio or any other way there can be heard, then the bulk of our daily mail is suddenly swelled by dark, officious looking envelopes, bearing no stamp save the stamped name of some Senator. This is known as 'franked' mail. "Today we found two of these envelopes lying in the mail box, one docilely lying over the other. We use the word 'docilely' for a purpose ; for it rather surprised us when we discovered the contents, to think these two en velopes could have remained side by side with out scrapping each other. You see, one con tained a speech of 'Hon. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee in the Senate of the United States, greatly praising President's court revision pro posal and the other held a 'Radio Address by Hon. Josiah W. Bailey, United States Senator from North Carolina damning with no praise, hot even faint, the same proposal. "Incidentally, in each corner of both en velopes was printed a large square revealing, really advertising, the contents. "What fascinated us about these pamph lets, of which probably . thousands were sent to all parts of the country free of charge, was the little parenthetical sentence in the middle of the front cover saying, (Not printed at Gov ernment expense), and right below this phrase were these words: ','. "United States, Government Printing Of fice, 1937." Morganton News Herald. tt CUESS r too SHIRT ) ' - 4 -r DPIVC . so FA W -mm but- x in ' I HOH6 rums . Jl'-po-e t&A J' . X WHEN XENOPMON WEEKS HEARD THAT THO&E murderous sand hill st-ujiEes WERE WTENTCN BATTN HIM ALL OVER THE LOT ME PRESSEP UP FOW -me occasion cerraKr t cm m XmJ HEADLINES Of The Past Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS l'"or the itiwt'.two weeks this column has had to do with observation. This week, a slight change, in beinn made, ami a memory test is beitif,' 'iven. The ones. ions are lines that vu have known or read ilurlnX' the past lew years, And for the convenience of those who have 'forgotten. 1 am Ktv- m : the answ ers on another pace In the paper. PO I NT E D ARAGRAPHS MXETKKX yi:.Ks ( From the files of A Government wood f tablished hen. Apples not killed Shorthorn breeders Kaided two stills. ' Col. H. K. Ferguson ,., Regiment." Haywood Institute ,,,... ,: June "Home Sweet Home" is touching but there should be one verse about the Karate. Aids of the. midniuht oil burned by this yiiunc r generation is gasoline. Thinf may be pretty slack in some industries but the bee-keeping Indus try is always humming. Mavlie they call it the sea of mat rimony because most married 'couples are always sullinir into each other. 1. What was the cost of building th new court house? 2. When was the court house com pleted, month and year? 3. What 1m the nonulation nf Hnv- wood County, the 1930 census? 4. What is the area of I la vw bod County, in square miles? 5. How many Incorporated towns In Haywood? 6. What Is 1930 census population of each? 7. Are there more men or women in Haywood County? 8. What is the official elevation of Waynesvllle? 9. What Is ttie approximate annual payroll In Haywood County? 10. What company pays the largest tax bill in Haywood County? 11. How many voting precincts in Haywood County? 12. How many townships in the county r 13. How many counties compose the Eleventh Congressional District? 1 4. What Is the width of Main Street in front of the court house? 15. What firm in Waynesvllle uses the most water? 16. How many different brands of gasoline are sold in Waynesvllle? 17. What Is the difference In the elevation of Main Street at the post office and the court house? 18. When did the first train come to Waynesvllle? 19. What is the assessed valuation of the county? 20. What year was Haywood Coun ty organized? Now before looking up the answers. check back and see how many of your answers you are positive are correct, (live yourself five points for each ques tion. What is your erade? Maybe a good name is better than riches, but it's often hard to pass a good name off for the rent. A man will never be content with his surroundings as long as they make travel literature so alluring. Well, if things continue tn srn liVe they are going, the meek willbe the oniy ones to whom you can pan off tne earth. Drive: as : though you had good fens, even if you haven't. Anybody can give advice, bu' only the wise ones can well it. Von needn't hope to be economical and escape the charge of being stingy. Some make hay while the sun shine); others live on the harvest of their ancestors. The person who has his car stolen, opines 'Squire Mltehel, at least doesn't have to hunt a parking space any-longer. FIVK VK.AKs A(l() (From the flies of Ap-.i ,, J. M. Long says now"L". buy real estate. Thirty-one candidates nation for county otti.-.-s mary. The Bonus question Cars in Haywood sh. over laHf vaar 7" . T 'ii sn,ms t hicken thieves he,-,i w. farmers. ! Land values are returnm,- ONE YE,Ii go (From the files of April h ...... cm ncuiu at saretv ,,., Hiking Club will organ,,. J Abel building a show r,.,'m place of business. I'ark is visited hv n !,,.... ing March. " " ' Call issued for skilled urk:Kf, A Texas evangelist has ,)U,i,,h list of 723 sins. Some of tempted to send for a copy of jj fear we may be missing some.hir. April Fool comes but ,1 ',. 'he other kind come every .v ' "It is now possible." :,v in f. lisement. "to cool the ,rte.j.! an entire house by a simp!,, !nfiil cal apparatus." Another a-'i men. is to try to sneak iii -im-tL a1 2 o'clock in the morning. Why get out of deb; small minority? r.imne: as welcome as .1 hi iv hi in the head of a'' 30-yfar-oM wor There's one thing about th n busines!: There's always a hmk Some people never worry 1! where their money goes until it s coming in. When you see two men in the front (eat and two women in the back seat r-ou can rest assured that it Is a mar ried couple's outing. A baseball umpire was marooned by a sitdown in a Detroit hotel It wu an opportunity to learn how an ump lu aaye a strike called on Twin lambs, born on a SuIIlTU. dnd.) farm, had irm.nn 7!r sibly nature's effort to speed th f rea nannels. Some people throw ih.i. 'in alley and other people buy a tag for it and put it In the garage. A man is usually well Hrr, , woman rakes him over the coals. "The only thine all aK... girls, asserts a bachelor of is their chance of landing a husband." A judge savs everv n .l...u his wife where he has been when he vu.ues nome late. But all the judges on the supreme court bench couldn't make her believe him. Many nations are armed' to teeth, and the trouble is they area wisdom teeth. The average citizen i .".. - "i no insists on having the verv KUu. ernment obtainable in thia )m. world and at the lowest tax rate. The reason rtlormn . n... noses Is because they are always given u. turn recepuon, The world may be e-ninVt' as some old-timers say. but these same ones don't seem to be in any hurry to get out of it. 38,500 DEATHS BY AITM IN 1936.... 400,000 INJURED . . . 1000000 DISABLED With 25,000,000 cad licensed in the Vdw Statjs, accidents are m the increase. When dm ing you cannot tell what moment someow may come over on jdc side of the road. Today, good automobile insm ance is a necessity S EE US The L.N. Davis Ct TELEPHONE 77 Loans Real Estate Rent Insurance and Bonds. There's a world demand for scrab iron for munitions. Maybe the m. tions Intend to iron out their : differ ences. ' "' ' -': 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Women auto drivers are being d vised to carry pistols. But aren't thev dangerous enough just a ordinary drivers? A Florida man Daid 12.50ft for o dead horse. But many oeoole ha-re oeen Known to Det on i nag which turned out to be half-dead. Cora for Cold When circus elephants catch mm the attendants treat them with bniiin. lnegar. By means of a laree bar tw slips on over the trunk, the animals are made tc inhale the Tlnegar, which U said to be very effective as a cure. STRANGE SYMBOLS Y ou can't read the strange symbols and Latin phrases on the doctor's prescription order and yet each one of them has a tremendously important meaning for )oU or for the member of your family who is sick. Neither can you stand at the druggist's elbow and check his compounding of the prescription upon which the recovery of health or even life itself may depend. Too important an assignment to intrust to any but the most experienced and skilfed druggist you can isn't it! Yes and hundreds of other Waynesvilk? pePle agree with you. rv"; A S K Y O UR D OCTO R ALEXANDER 'S DRUG STORE Phones 53 & 54 Opposite Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR PROTECTION
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