THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAIN KEB
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PRESS ASSOCIATION V
THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937
TEXT FOR TODAY
The Engrafted Word: Wherefore lay apart
"iill filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,
jand receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls. James 1:21.
FOOD PRICES CLIMBING
Bad news for the housewives of the na
tion comes out of Washington in the announce
ment that food prices may be expected to in
crease steadily until the end of this year.
The monthly food bill for the American
family averaged $17 in 1933, according to the
Reidsville Iteview. Today this figure has risen
to $23.36, and by the end of this year it is ex
acted that the figure will top $25.
If for no other reason, we feel that the
housewife of every home in Haywood County
would be 'doing herself and family justice
to see the motion picture cooking school at the
Park Theatre this week-end.
The average housewife has not been edu
cated to buy foods correctly. Many of them do
not know how to conserve foods, and to get the
most out of their purchases. That is one reas
on why this newspaper together with the Park
' Theatre have gone to considerable expense to
bring to this community this picture which we
feel will mean much to every housewife who
-sees it.
The Review, continuing their editorial, on
the rise of food prices, had to say:
"Drought, dust storms and floods have
played a not inconsiderable part in this advance
of food prices. But two other factors also
enter. One is the crop restriction program of
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and the other
is the higher cost of food production, a trend
f.n keeping with general wage advances.
"As a rule, people are better off and hap
pier when they are busy working for good
wages, even if the prices of the things they
buy are increasing. But there is such a thing
as prices going too high. This is the present
danger.
"If foed prices reach the average of $25
u month by the end of this year, this will mean
;an increase of nearly 50 per cent since 1933.
'This is far in excess of wage increases and can
mean but one thing, restricted food buying and
Uower standards of living for the American
home."
. - "
NEXT TIME, MAYRE
To a growing list of such happenings is
appended this as recorded in yesterday's News:
A large oil tank went off the highway a
mile beyond Matthews . . ,. overturned
several times down a 30-foot embankment
and then caught fire.
By the grace of the gods which hover over
these 4,000-gallon tank trucks loaded with kero
sene and gasoline, the escaping inflammable,
explosive liquid merely produced a fire which
had not heated the bulk of the load to the point
of explosion by the time it was extinguished.
The same good chance was presented in a
i)00-gallon truck wreck near Lumberton. There
was a fire, no explosion. Without any fire,
some weeks later an oil truck accident at Mat
thews killed a man. And after that a some
what similar near fatal wreck in the Oakhurst
school vicinity produced no explosion.
-But some day one of these 4,000-gallon
oil trucks is going to lose its luck. Then there
will" be a roof-shattering explosion which will
leave a big hole in the ground where, perhaps,
. immediately before were passing automobiles,
people, residences and stores. Just why this
form of dangerous transportation is permitted
we cannot explain. In Charlotte, believe it or
not, one may not store gasoline or kerosene in
quantity except by observing the most rigid
safeguards. But one may load i into a truck
and move it about without any restrictions
whatsoever. Charlotte Naws.
PREDICTING THE END OF THE WORLD
"Honesty is no longer to be found in the
market place: nor justice in the law courts, nor
good craftsmanship in the arts nor discipline
in morals."
That sounds as if it were hot off the grid
dleperhaps, a line from yesterday's commen
cement oration!
As a matter of fact, however, the man who
said that has been dead 1,700 years.
Cyprian of Carthage was quite sure that
his favorite world was coming to an end 325 A.
D.
But despite his gloomy forebodings, his
world persisted and has come on down to us
of this generation pretty much the same world
so far as human nature in its basic constituency
is concerned.
Those, therefore, who today are reciting
their jeremiads over the surface conditions that
prevail and who are standing in the pulpit and
seriously trying to make people believe that
various signs of the time3 point to the immi
nence of the end of their world, might take a
leaf from Cyprian's sorry prophecy 1700 years
ago. Charlotte Observer.
WHAT TO DO WITH LIQUOR REVENUES
Public officials hereabouts, as doubtless
elsewhere in North Carolina, are beginning to
speculate as to what will probably be the reve
nues deriving to the treasuries from liqour sales
if and when such sales are authorized by the
people of the several counties.
Politically, the evil of all liquor legislation
is this lure of profits.
Governments so sorely need these reve
nues that governmental favor easily turns in
this direction.
Granting as much, perhaps it would be well
to counteract this political urge toward liquor
profits by some arrangements as to the use of
these revenues which would neutralize this at
tractiveness. For instance, why would it not be a good
idea to utilize profits accruing to the gov
ernments of the cities and towns of North
Carolina from this commerce in educating
the people against its use and thus in time
materially help to 'wipe out not only this
political sympathy for legal liquor but also,
and more important, develop the public
away from the consumption of liquor?
. Every available agency and organ of pub
licity and advertisement should be called into
play and paid for out of the profits arising from
the sale of liquor to inform the children in the
school rooms, the readers of newspapers, the
travellers along the highway, the listeners-in
around radios and by any other means that
could practically be suggested by which the
people would be instructed in the evils of alco
hol and turned away from its use. Charlotte
Observer.
BACK TO THE FARM
More Americans are living on farms today
than ever before in the nation's history, ac
cording to a report just made public by the
United States Bureau of Census. There were
31,800,907 in the farm population of Jan. 1,
1935. That is 1,356,557 more than, on April
1, 1930, when the last previous farm census
was taken.
This increase in the farm population may
seem, at first glance, somewhat difficult to ac
count for in view of the wide-spread talk about
distress and starvation among the farmers of
America. But everybody who knows anything
about rural America knows that there are two
kinds of farmers. One is the speculative, com
mercial farmer, usually operating on a one-crop
basis, whose situation is comparable more to
that of a business man than to the typical farm
er of tradition. The economic distress among
this class of farmers is far from being typical
of farmers generally. It affects probably less
than a quarter of all American farmers.
The typical American farmer operates the
"family type"vfarm. He has for the most part
been neither a claimant for nor a beneficiary of
political efforts to "do something for the farm
er." With him, farming is a mode of living
rather than an effort to enrich himself. And
most of the new population on the farms falls
into this class.
According to the Director of the Census
most of the current increase in farm popula
tion consists' of families who have moved back
from industrial centers to the security and
peace of the land. They are "subsistence farm
ers" in the phrase now current. They are the
type of Americans who prefer to dig their own
living out of the soil, even at the cost of remote
ness from the movies, rather than to go on
relief. Selected.
THE OLD HOME f OWN
By STANLEY
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Haywood county
$5,500 for Red r.
times amount in agr.i
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May
Star-:,
Random
SIDE
GLANCES
By W. CURTIS RUSS
I guess it's up to me
To wish you luck arid promise you
I'll come around to see
That cunning little sleepy head
Who rules the house and home
I guess you're mighty proud to have
A baby all your own.
Monday night
nursery.
all is quiet in the
BABY has just had her seven o'clock
feeding and is at peace with the
world
MOTHER, feeling fine, is primping
for expected visitors.
NURSE, all smiles because every
thing is quiet, although a look of an
ticipation on her face as she listens
for a wee wail from the little one.
COOK, hurriedly completing
chores of the day to keep a "date,
the
DADDY, tired, but happy, hesitat
ingly leaves the above scene in order
to catch up with work and to peck
out this piffle which perhaps isn't
missed when left out. ...
As one poet said:
Pink and blue clothes on bureau and
chair,
Fragrance of talcum about in the air,
A quaint little crib and its blankets
so new,
A sweet little someone to use them
for you,
What fun and excitement, what glad
ness and cheer,
All because of a nt'w baby, so dear.
Of course, I could go on forever,
writing about the baby, but have about
decided to stop and give deep and se
rious study to the topic: "What the
world needs most, is more sympathy
for prospective fathers."
Last Saturday night, at a press
meeting in Asheville, I had a similar
experience as that of the Rotary club
a week before. Everything that a
baby could use was piled high at my
place. For example: Seven pairs of
diapers, two rubber balls, two rattlers,
building blocks, pins, powder, panties,
more pins, ect., etc., etc.
by McAdoo. ' "
Forty-five more n, n 1, ,
More recruits ui !'
the navy.
T. D. Bryson can.ii,ia
i nomas tox, of
State Senator.
b:'
(From the files :
Two Haywood b
National contest,
The Mountaineer
Saturday night.
Rotary Club to
WWNC on Sunday.
Anniversary and "Mystery tJ
miss vuinian receives play;J
Tam Bowie gives views to
here last week.
prima.-;
(From the files of June 4 id
largest, vote in Uimty's
expecLea. w oe cast in
Saturday.
r -'"3"is TOUTS. m
oy mercnants nere.
700 women at Lake fur W
Circle conference meeting
uuuuiuK activities mcreas-
Hazelwood.
Work done by women of j
rooms of the county receiving
ment.
Beauty pageant to be gi vein;
Theatre.
DOINTED
ARAGRAPHJ
Oh, oh, there's the 'phone -Nurse
talking -"almost eleven,
baby is ready to take eleven o'clock
feeding hurry home and get quiet
before she goes to sleep "
Good night folks everybody come
to the motion picture cooking school
this week-end (Thursday and Friday
afternoons at three and Saturday
morning at ten- you have a good
chance of winning a prize.)
A woman can keep a secret, but it
sometimes requires the co-operation
of all her neighbors.
It is estimated that there are 60
million swine in the United States, not
counting the roadhogs.
Eat three raw carrots a dayu
to be a hundred, advises one
cian. Well, take strawberry
cake and compromise at 70.
Since an undersea photopi
says the octopus really is not ril
what are politicians going to J
describe the opposition?
Four new islands discovered bj
sians in Northern Siberia pro!
will remain unpopulated until the
treason trial.
The Duke of Windsor is very
because an author described h
being "muddling, fuddling, media
There was, however, no me ntic
cuddling.
A Kofcoma, Ind., boy killed a a
cause he couldn't firid a dead of
swing in a "Tom Sawyer" play.
t think the air was full o then
October.
Quoting some messages received:
"May 12, 1937.
"A queen has just been crowned,
and one has just come to bless your
lives. May they both reign forever
Harry M. Hall.1'
"I knew baby had everything she
needed for the present, so I am send
ing this silver fork and spoon: for her
future needs. Patsy Gwyn."
Taken from Hollowell's column in
the Hendersonville Times-News, on
May 13th:
"Editor Curtis Russ, of The Way
nesville Mountaineer, has entered the
realm of big and unusual things. Last
week he edited the second largest
newspaper (32 pages) ever issued in
Waynesville; the main issue this
week was his first-born child, a
daughter. What next?"
(What would you suggest???)
Editorial, Transylvania Times, May
20 "Random Side Glances, missing
from The Waynesville Mountaineer
last week. The explanation given by
the editor was 'My wife presented
me with a seven-pound daughter early
Wednesday morning, therefore my
mind is not on writing a column.'
Congratulations, and we certainly
hope the baby looks like its Mama."
(She does).
"Welcome little baby,
And congratulations, too,
For the very happy grownups
Living in the house with you."
There's nothing so sweet in the whole
wide world
As a baby so little and new,
A welcome I send to your dear little
girl,--
And the best of wishes to you.
A warm welcome to you little strang
.' ger, .
Just arrived our big world to ex
plore, And best wishes to both the proud
parents,
With this precious new baby to
adore.
. .. What H takes 'T
to win National Foils Crown S Mil
TALENTED Joanna de Tuscan S rfV '
has untiring power in her light- 1 jf V
niog attack. ''Being on the aim . Aj ,
counts a lot in fencing," she ex- i I j f Cb
plains. "When I feel tired after a f . : v
duel, I get a 'lift' with a Camel. I S 1 f
enjoy smoking Camels as often as s si W''itf$' t.
I please. Camels set me right 1" ::V jfft t(
When yen feel tired JLs:,.iihiwl iLtJ
GET1 1FTIVTHA CMiELl
Mrs. Roosevelt is urging eight hours a day,
with pay for housewives. It would be hard to
get some of them to stay home long enough to J
orof in triAir oio-ht riiirs
Now that a dear little baby has come,
To gladden your hearts and to
brighten vour home.
Here are the happiest greetings with
best wishes, too,
For mother and dad and the baby
that's new.
Now that you've become a family,
SUPPORT
The finest pitching in the world won't win the
fielders.
;t illn
game in the face of ragged support from the
Nilripr ran a nhveinian nn' lxl koitls ainin:
m pi, j uan n til a naiu iatnv -
without perfect support from nurse and drusr?W
These two are his teammates and he must
on them to discharge their duties attentively ana "
scientiously.
vjcAiiuuers is me Kina oi a rug siure a
to have working beside him in the toughest fights.
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