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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY. jlLY
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The Mountaineer
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Main Street Phone 137
Waynesvnie, Xorth Carolina
The County Seat Of Haywood County
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V. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers
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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937
We wish we had time to spare to learn how
to play golf.' If wo did we certainly would get
s lot of fishing- Statesville Daily.
One consolation about being poor, we
don't have to worry about our names appearing
in the list of income tax dodgers.
The best editorial we could write on a safe
and sane Fourth of July is told in today's Old
Home Town cartoon on this page.
Officials in France have been having trouble
with nudism 'in several of their forests. We
prtsume there are too many bare facts.
Scientists are concerned because of a pro
longed drought on Mars, while prohibitionists
are concerned with the liquor elections in North
Carolina.
For the first time in two years, we can now
sit down and enjoy a meal of cornbreatl. bacon,
coffee and molasses, without having the thorns
ot the sales tax on these items prick our
frhroats. ': '
If all the statements made during the past
three weeks on both sides about the county
iiyonl's office were put in a barrel and set on
"lire, the explosion would blow a hole half way
io China.
"Most of us can remember the sensation
'v vented over the first billion-dollar congress,"
.says the Kansas City Star. "And now we're
iill heated up over a proposal to trim one de
partmental appropriation to a billion and a
b air-
Congressional Democratic leaders staged
a three-day et-together on Jefferson Island
Vast week-end. The result being something
kindred to the celebrations staged by the North
Carolina legislature .during the. closing hours,
and very tims ly called: "The Love Feast."
The most positive proof of genuine opti
mism among . newspapers - in Western North
Carolina; was the recruit installation of a .$5,500
iainoiype machine by The Ih'yson City Times.
'fresent and potential business outlook was the
reJison given by the progressive .publishers.'
Yesterday brought to a close another fiscal
year for Haywood County. Those in charge of
running the county government have pleased
fnaiiy and made many others quite mad on some
of their actions. Letting the record speak for
itself on those scores, it is encouraging to note
'thai' Haywood came out of another year with
out default, and with less bonded indebtedness
tli an last July.
Seventeen men are on death row in Iial
tjigh sentenced to die. Fifteen are there for
murder, and two for criminal 'assault. Still,
with that record, every toy counter in the state
is displaying pistols, guns and such while the
newsstands are cluttered with sexy magazines.
While these things might not have been entire
ly responsible, for the men being where they
are today, we do feel that the absence of such
temptations would make this a better state to
rear children.
Because Governor Hoey has always worn
long-tailed frock coats and long flowing hair,
he has been considered by many as not being
in sympathy with the lower rank citizens. This
week, The Reidsville Review tags the Gover
nor as "one of the boys.'' And it all came about
when it was learned that the Governor took a
large piece of brown chicken in his two hands
and began working on it with his teeth. Accor
ding to The Review, this alone, put the gover
nor in a class with "he-men."
A SAFER AND SANER FOURTH
For the first time in many, many years,
Haywood County will have a firevorkless
Fourth of July.
Last February Representative John Cabe
was successful in getting through the legisla
ture, a bill prohibiting the sale or shooting of
fireworks in Haywood County by individuals.
Where a celebration is staged, these in charge
can use fireworks when permission from law
enforcing officials is obtained.
This thing of making a lot of useless noise
with fireworks is nonsense anyway, and cer
tainly dangerous.
In fact, with the general increase of louder
automobile horns, we doubt if the average fire
cracker would be heard unless shot in some re.
mote section of the county.
We believe that the citizens of the county,
as a whole, will have a better Fourth of July
without fireworks, than with them. Certainly
it will be a safer and saner Fourth.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
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lS INSTEAD OF PICKING. GUNPONNCER
OUT OF "THEIR FACES ITS BKOscn
muimD;wELD GLASS. BOLTS AND
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TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
The new promise of a balanced federal
budget, it appears, is now pushed forward to
the VXV.) fiscal year the period of July I, 19:58
to June .'50, 19:5!).
Having apparently conceded that its hopes
of a balanced budget for the coming fiscal year
have gone glimmering, the administration is
having letters written to departments request
ing chopping of budget re-quests for 19:59.,'
Yet the regularity with which the pros
pects of .a balanced budget "right around the
corner" have been disappointed naturally leads
to skepticism as to how those present hopes .as
to the 19:59 budget will work out. As the cur
rent fiscal year draws to a close. Associated
Press dispatches place the net deficit up to this
date at over two ami three quarter billion dol
lars. Mr. Roosevelt has estimated the deficit
for the coming fiscal year at only $118,000,000,
but it is to be noted that this is based on ex
pectations of six per ci nf smaller expenditures
and a thirty-two per cent increase in revenues.
That last estimate will strike many as about
the height of optimism. And if We should have
any important recession in business during the
next year or so, the decline in revenues would
almost certainly create another big deficit in
the 1939 year, if expenditures are anything
like the present scale! Greenville' News.
HA.VE OPENEP ANOTHt K 1- A
IS ALU "-'- '
NOW THAT "THEY
NEW HIGHWAY DOC PH-LSBUET
THE LOST COLONY
At least a half million people are expected
to attend the o50th anniversary of the birth
of Virginia Dare on Roanoke Island this sum
mer, according to The Daily Advance, of Eliza
beth City, in a special 40-page edition, in which
details of the celebration were given.
The celebration begins July Fourth, and
will continue until September 6th. Some spec
ial feature is scheduled for each day.
Among the high spots of the two-month
celebration will be a visit to the scene of Fort
Raleigh by President Roosevelt, on August 18th
Virginia Dare's birthday. About 2D0 of the
nation's leading citizens will accompany the
president to the scene.
Fort Raleigh has been restored, and a pag
eant, "The Lost Colony" written by Paul' Green
and directed by Fredrich II. Kock, will be given.
The entire celebration will center around
the ill-fated colony, which "was composed of
118 members, that, vanished from the small
island in the Albemarle Sound. The island is
only 14 miles long and three miles wide at its
broadest point.
Three hundred and fifty years ago, a first
city of Raleigh rose on the north end of Roanoke
Island, built by rough, untrained hands of a
sturdy group of colonists that Sir Walter Ral
eigh had sent to the New World in hopes of
establishing a permanent colony in America.
His hopes were dashed. Governor John
White sailed for England a f,ew days after
August 18th, 1587, when his granddaughter,
Virginia .Dare, was born. The colony, leader
less, disappeared in a few years, between the
time Governor. White sailed and the day of his
return, leaving only the ruins of Fort Raleigh
standing.
Their curiosity piqued by history's failure
to explain the disappearance of the Lost Colony,
history lovers have attempted to explain the
mystery in various ways. But it remains a
secret today, i something explained many ways
but with no authentic proof of any advanced
explanation.
And now, another City of Raleigh stands on
the same site where 350 years ago those colo
nists attempted to make their homes. Recon
structed in form symbolic of the past, Fort
Raleigh today attracts thousands of visitors to
Roanoke Island. '
Mary Pickford was 30 minutes late to her
wedding with Buddy Rogers in Hollywood last
week. That was no more than expected because
any woman who has had two husbands
shouldn't be over-anxious to get the third.
Random
SIDE
GLANCES
Rv W. CURTIS RUSS
As ;i nili', people of this county art'
not familiar with the work of the
Salvation Army. Ex-soldiers know
more aliout the organization than the
rest of us.
I was impressed, as well as amaxed,
to learn from Col. A Ifred Tyler, divi
sional commander of the two Caioli
nas, with headquarters in Charlotte,
that the Salvation Army was 72 years
old.
Col. Tyler's ..parents were lit the
work when he was horn, and he has
lieen actively ' engaged in it for 'M
years, and knows every detail of the
organization's workings.
This past week, a summer Bible
school has been conducted at the Lake
for young recruits into the Army.
These young- people are trained along
the same lines as .soldiers in the U. S.
Army.
Titles such as Captain, Major and
the like are given the members of
the Salvation Army, ami the congre
gations are called .'soldiers.
When the work first began, the
Army went after the down-and-out
adults, but during the past few years
they have turned to' the young people,
basing; their theory on the fact that
a "preventative is better than a cure."
j After a young person shows interest
! in tin; work, they are given the oppor
I tuiiity of attending one of the four
I colleges maintained by the Army in
j this country. The one in the south is
i at Atlanta.
The Salvation Army has a reputa
I tion of just catering to charity and
l giving away food. The reason food
is given was two-fold -the hungry
j must be fed, and a hutigry man can't
I be expected to listen to preaching.
The Army also stresses the impor
tance of music. This is especially true
at their open-air meetings. Last year
an estimated attendance at these open
air meetings was twenty-two millions
in this country. The bass ilium and
cornet always attracts attention and
will get many to stop and listen.
In the larger cities, the Army is do
ing a splendid work among the young
boys and girls. They affiliate closely
with the Hoy Scouts and the Girl
Scouts.
What is the religion of the Salva
tion Army? That is a question you
perhaps have wanted to know. It is
the same as the Methodist. The foun
der of the Salvation Army was, Wil
liam R. Booth. He was a Methodist
preacher and lived in London.
He resigned as a pastor, and became
an evangelist, working among the
poorest and most degraded people.
He organized the Salvation Army,
and became the general. The Army
is now active in 96 nations of the
world.
The general passed away in 1912,
after a painful illness.
Mrs. Catherine Booth, wife of the
general, was influential in keeping the
work going after it began. She work
ed hard with the general, and wrote:
"We can't get at the masses in Chap
els," and for that reason the Salva
tion Army was started.
When the work first started in
1865, it was known as the Christian
Mission. In 1878 the name was
changed to The Salvation Army and
the military constitution adopted.
Every member of the Salvation
Army confessed God before the world
by wearing the uniform or an Army
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Paragraphs
Opportunity does not always knock
Sometimes he just sits out in the car
and honks.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who always laid something
aside for a "rainy day?"
badge. He must live a disciplined
life and be a total abstainer. All of
ficers must be non-smokers.
The Salvation Airmy (maintains
midnight patrol in large cities, ma
ternity hospitals,' leper colonies in the
far East, homes for children, inebri
ates and industrial homes, rescue
work, , labor exchanges, shelters, and
doing niucrt good m tune ot national j rat.her lie than sav
disasters.
ofjhe PAST
(From the rii.- - i
Picnic today at ...
Forty desei ter.- : ...
county.
Through traih.-
Sunday.
All men of dia:'
work government ..
Annual eieiti...; ,- ; ,
cers will be held 1- :.
Large Masonic
here.
(From the files . ; ; .
Many sumnu-i
daily.
Dr. Lancaster i:i . , ,
Waynesville.
Welch, Ehringha-. ;. v.
primary.
Commissioners m-: , ,
county agent.
Court house gnu,:.,!, ;
ing graded.
Lake program yi ;;:,;,
this week.
(From the files o' .l i!v
Haywood county av,:
majority of over 4,7m v r
Members of North t a,
arriving for meeting.
Crowds attend Sur.iU.; n
Dr. W. F. Few v i ! 1
at annual Duke Day ,.,..,
State stock judgir.y (-..,.
Steve Cathey.
Over $211,001) lna,. ;
ers in Haywood t'mii.r,
The one thing m
they grow older is i,
ing mistakes.
Still another tram
we get old too sour .-
It is all right f.u
for its insane prop!
neeessarv to let a i"!
office ?
hy is it that w la :,
average man for liilurina
I i
The organization of the Salvation
Army 'is 'much larger than the aver
age person thinks, and if we know of
some of the many details that are
handled by the ' officers, I .am of the
opinion that we might have just a
little bigger place for it in our hearts.
I am not a publicity agent for the
Salvation Army. Have never had any
contacts with them, and was not ask
ed to use this space for giving this
information, After hearing the facts,
I thought you, too, might be interested
in knowing some of the highlights of
an organization that is known in every
civilized country of the world.
Manv a bov s hmla-: a
to marry a beautiinl 'an
would be too proud it
work. hat the average' -iiiac ;
elastic cui it. nt i i 1 j
stretch when he huvs nam u-.i
shrink when, thev Iniv !!:.!
The man who shouts laiui.s
equal division ot weult n i .ua:i
one who spent his las: ,umi- j,.
or put it in a slot maciime.
If we could see our invini
ers see them we iniiiin i
little.
WUKT ITS A PLEASURE X
( SMOKE CAMELS! THEV HELP ME THp'. 1
EMJOV MV MEALS. FOOD TASTES i - I
BETTER SETTLES BETTER. l11
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tt Charlie Chase has
hTjM been railroading for WB. f f
VQJH 40 yea"-and enjoy,, i S I
ing Camels for 23. JJ ,
Over 1800 Different Drugs Guard
Your Health
We hope vou never neeH anv mpdicine. Iuf "f'ire
keeping over 1800 different kinds on hand to lf lfid-v
if you do.
Carrying so many drugs is an extra iP"1 10
but it protects you from dangerous delay.
Two of us at this store are REGISTERED ra
cists... No one else is ever allowed to touch cvervu "simp .
prescription.
When you are not well, you 11 do well to unietnf
this dependable prescription service.
A S K YOUR DO C T 0 K
ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE,,
Phones 53 & 54 Opposite j,
TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR. 'lB..
PROTECTION