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Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, OCTQBEp , .I. The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Man Street Phone 1J7 ' Waynesville, North Carolina . ' ' The County Seat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS , Editor W. Curtis Rubs and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.50 Six Months, In Haywood County 75 One Yfiir, Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Kntered ut the pout uffit-e at Waynetvi!le, S. C, as Second Class Mail Matter, hs provided under the Act of Marcb 3, 1 87 II. November 20, 19M. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, canlg of thanks, ami all notices of entertainments for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. -North Carolina v PBFSS ACCoriATirtti Vl THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937 MAD DOGS AND WILD SHOOTING During the past week, several mad dogs "were ' reported in Waynesville. Late Friday, one dog marched down Main Street, and en dangered any person with whom he might have chosen to attack. Needless to say, a mad dog is a menace to any community, and the quicker the dog is killed, the better off the citizens of the com munity are, but we cannot wholly approve of the method used by some town representatives, when they shot several times at the dog in the crowded streets. It seems that one well di rected shot would have been sufficient. The dog was finally killed with digging tools in the hands of str.eet vyorkemen. Several times before, a policeman has opened fire on crowded streets here. Although, so far, no one has been injured by this type of shooting, but if it is continued, we might be prepared to expect the worse. . Not in a single case, to date, have we learned that this quick and wild shooting while excited was necessary. JUSTICE HUGO L. BLACK An important chapter in American history wtn written this week, as Justice Hugo L. Black tfrnned a black robe and took his seat as a mem t"r of the United States Supreme Court. Last Friday night, the former Alabama . Smator, chose to explain to the largest radio iindaence since King Edward abdicated, that he ihatl in 1925 been a member of the KIu Klux KUiT). This plea of guilt to the charges for meriy denied by his actions, has little bearing n the case, it seems to us, The fact that he remained silent when ht was charged with being a member of the "ktan when his name was before the senate for (confirmation seems to be of greater impor- : twsre than his actual membership in the secret organization. Why did he not arise then and make his . jstatemerit? Instead, he remained silent, and when the 'charges ' became thick and fast, he chose to .vacation in Europe. Before the appointment to the high court, .. .Senator Black, delighted in brow-beating wit aiesj.es before the investigating committee of i.whkjti he?, w&s -chairman. He was most unfair witfc his witnesses, and resorted all means of gathering information from big corporations. Heljved on glaring headlines. He welcomed the spotlight of publicity. "Then, when the tide turned, and he be leame the subiect under the same spotlight of unfavorable publicity, he immediately spurned tlse press, and spoke over the radio, and closed Wi discussion with his statements, but un-iiaTt-ered many important questions. ; -Putting it mildly, it seems that Senator Click became a Justice under false pretense. H should explain why he remained silent be fore the Senate confirmed him. By remaining silent he was unfair to himself and to the peo ple of this nation. His past record shows that he changes al most over-night. Usually he goes from one (extreme to the other, and with that in mind we can only hope that if he insists upon stay ing on the bench, that he will chose a broad and just view of things, and forget his past flighty moves. Unless he can do that, he owes it to himself and to 'the nation to resign. During th'i year, three-quarters of a mil lion people visited the Park. After hearing so rnuch about the government spending' billions, a mere million does not sound so big, even for Park visitors. Unfortunately, some people try to build a reputation on things that they are going to do. THE LOGICAL ROUTE An encouraging pfecfof 'news came lout ' of Washington last week when Secretary Ickes said he did not favor making any changes of the Parkway routing west of Asheville, al though the Cherokee Indians have refused to exchange land down Soco Creek for the Park way, i Secretary Ickes intimates that the Park way might have to leave the original route after reaching Tennessee Bald, and then follow the Tennessee Ridge into the general direction of the High Hampton section, and then back northward to a point between Sylva and Bzy son City and cn to the Cherokee Reservation. As far as we can learn, the original route of the Parkway was to follow the crest of the mountains from Pisgah to Tennessee Bald, to Balsam and then to Soco Gap and into the Park via Black Camp Gap and terminate at Smoke mont. Later, provisions were made to send the Parkway down Soco Creek to the Cherokee Reservation and then back to Smokemont. The latter move was in order that visitors might have an opportunity to see the Indians, thus adding a little local color, as it might be said, to the natural scenery. But the Indians have decided they do not want to exchange their land for better land in the Park, for the Parkway right-of-way, so that closes that chapter. The statements of the Secretary clearly show that he is aware of developments, and that his intentions of going ahead are all in our favor, however, there yet remains many a possibility that the entire plan can be. changed so as to affect this immediate section from realizing the fullest benefits that might be de rived from the Parkway. It is generally agreed, and conceeded, that the route from Balsam to Soco Gap, and then to Black Camp Gap would afford views not found anywhere else in the entire area, and after all, the Parkway was designed for scenic purposes... Since the Indians do not want to take ad Vantage of the opportunities offered them by the Parkway being routed through their sec tion, we fetd that concerted effort should be made to get Secretary Ickes to complete his plans for routing the Parkway direct from Tennessee Bald to Smokemont via Black Camp Gap. Certainly that is the shortest distance, the most scenic, and by far the most logical. THF OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY (e sen- a PULL r AT THE COORfT houv , ill. set -rbij a jy y SOFT JOB, RARY.YOO IS ANOTHER PIMM . ... -nm ..,-kt TO ME NWt ' Iri it- " i aiktt PUSHNO YOU woun. 'iC0M OR A SNOW SHOVEL." A i. -err wr. HOW COME pen , . PULL JOBS I-'- POLI I l . , A 1 r i L tu i nil POLITIca y-f iv ' a continued !', .. ot the Senate to si court of the I T,it- c. inrlod ., .' -- -. -1 uim ol the juJ;C A11 the whileTTiT , was in the spotlight, Pr veil remained silent He made some 2b i!tnt a n the THE MELANCHOLY DAYS Or FALL. ULSJE SETTLEP HEAVILY ON "THE PORTER AT THE CENTRAL HOTEL I Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS Writincr in the Charlotte Observer Guorjje Matthew Adams, had the fol lowinir to say about "Small Town Editors:" POINTED ARAGRAPHS GAMBLING DEBUNKED Most parents seeing boys gamble, will eith er take punitive action or shake their heads and ease the situation by comment tothe effect that gambling is an instinct, that instincts are a part of human nature, that you can't change human nature. But Dr. J. Halsey Gulick, ac ademy headmaster, did neither when boys in his charge played the slot machines. lie went to police headquarters, secured a confiscated gambling device, and had it set up in the mathematics room of his school. Then he arranged with the mathematics instructor to work up a problem involving the law of mathe matical probability. The boys were to play the machine with "phoney" money to solve the prob lem. And they discovered several surprising things. They learned, for example, that a player hits the "jack pot" once in 4,000 times. At a nickle a "throw", that meant it would cost about $200 to win $5. They learned also that the next highest "payoff" was once in 2,000 plays, and made it cost $100 to win $1. Probably Dr. Gulick smiled a bit-to him self. Perhaps he made a few notes for a book on boy 'psychology. But anyway, it fls report- ed that gambling isn't so popular in his school as once it was. Rotarian Magazine, f I have had the privilege the past week of meeting and talking with scores of country editors of weekly newspapers. There were a fine lot of men and some women. This par ticular meeting was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is in Canada. I was brought up on a weekly newspaper in a little town in -Mich igan. It was an event in our home when the paper" arrived. We soon knew that everybody in the town was about during the week. And the editor always had a bright and in structive talk to his "flock," The thing that makes the weekly newspaper so important is its close ness to its readers. It is an intimate organ. It serves its readers in quite as helpful a manner as does the Min ister, the Priest, or the town Princi pal of Schools. It ia un institution with out which no town is quite com plete. The country newspaper is one paper that is usually read from front to back--ads and all. In. the United States there are some 10,000 weekly newspapers, and in Can ada some 1,000. I have remarked that so long as these newspapers live and carry on, and the editors hold to their present ideals no matter what hap pens there will be left enough in telligence among the lot to guide each nation safely through any seri ous trouble. The daily press owes much to these newspapers, (rom them they have rawn many a worker and many a brilliant editor. The small town editor is a hard working, hard thinking human being. He has every one of his readers' inter est at heart. No item of interest is unimportant. His newspaper is the reflection of the weekly newspaper. He earns little but he gives much. His is a service. His influence is wide and far reaching. His citizen- hip is a fine gift to civilization. May he nevjr, perjsh f rom the earth? ATE HIS DESTINATION President Roosevelt appears to be more interested ill objectives than in methods. There are those in America, with sound reasoning, who think that the President has cared too lit tle for methods and that as a result much time and money have been lost. We are reminded again of a story President Wilson used to tell. A Negro deck-hand on a steamer plying the Mississippi was in consternation one day about a mule being shipped up the river. He watched the beast chew up the tag which gave the destination, and then ran to the captain say ing "Cap'n, dat mule done et up whar' he gwine." Perhaps the world's most unique bedroom is that in a tree-top in Kenya, East Africa. For a $50 charge, one may lie abed and watch all sorts of wild animals, including leopards, ele phants, hyenas and rhinoceroses, says an ex change. But why go to Africa, and spend $50, when a dollar's worth of some of this mountain dew will enable you to see the same animals parade across the ceiling wearing pink pajamas? We wonder what heaven would be like if the professional reformers could plan it. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." And meekly pay the inheritance tax. west, most of them d,alln. a vnk- f i """s iui me iut nation. ture wej: cu:;l r''sil.li-nt H0 J the The fact that P rMlvni ufl aDnointmpnr .1 -uneu si'im. ,,,J come forth wirv, ...... pJN , -"laiemfnt 4. anleu to nm,k. iv to the Sunrwn,, . ' ..v. ..urn lie nau a cha one. I he Black nave much direct hi ancc to 1 "PP'iint.mtn: : Jti . , ,J" uciii. a touh eniaint'intiu generally believed. V'm, And all the while Democratic 1 were keeninc an ..a- ... .1 to get the slightest vibrat,,," 1.11c uisiuroani't causi-d bv tY appointment. It might be all right to marry a girl who is beautiful but dumb if she would only stay that way. The new child psychology may be fine for little Johnny, but we doubt that it helps mother very much. Unfortunately, it seems necessary to place fire hydrants alongside the most desirable parking places. Washington state and Washington city, are both famous;. one for its ap ples and the other for its applesauce. As we understand it, the ' League doesn't permit nations to go to war unless they need some of another country's territory. Some men are natural tight-wads others, cultivate, 'tjie disposition in self-defense. . , .'. Most of us look in the wrong places tor the secrets of, success. While all this was iniimr Pnm,kl,'... 1 1 .. . "' ipuu.ic,, icauers Herbert Alfred Landon and Frank R,, j piana iui a convention of their 1 Pfll'lv n V f Gr.MK,,. . j ,.wv u,.ik. t. rne same scucmi luiiiojs mat Hoover woj a canuiaate lor the presidential I inaiion in iv-w were squashed hi iuiiuc 1 jjieniueriis se,eretaiv. ...... uueiesieil ml candidate. He is interested orj building up the party. And as the thunder of the led political World died away distance, Justice Hugo L. Blacli mains seated in his thick roU the supreme court bench. dose of sand, eats spinach; straight. But he says he prefers he ri the They are still shooting people who don't agree with the government in Russia. The possibilities in a country ot 170,000,000 people are unlimited. One thing we . liked about the old days was the fact that the big spend ers took the money out of their own pockets instead of the treasury. Get any job or enterprise in the hands of politicians and straightway it becomes a cross between a crazv house and sardonic practical joke. A Kentucky man, 90 years old. at tributed his longivity to an occasional This is national Fire Prevention Week. Wonder if China and Spain will observe it ? A Missouri editor, evidently with nothing else to do, or in order to get some dne "told, penned the follow ing on a "perfect editor." Of course, there ain't no such thing "Somebody wishes to know the qual ifications of an ideal newspaperman. There isn't any: such individual, but if there were he would be as fast in action as an electric fan and as pa tient as Job; he would have the endur ance of 20 and the wisdom of 70; he would have the memory of an en cyclopedia and the infallibility of an adding machine; he would have the eye of an eagle and the nose of a bloodhound ; he would be as tactful as an expectant heir before a rich uncle and as firm as granite; he would be as discerning as a shaft of light and have the analysis pf a supreme court jurist; he would be able to, at one, and the same time, answer two telephones, place a call of his own, check a proof sheet and add the middle name of the third Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and remember whatever it was he was told to bring home from the corner drug store." the following conversation took place: . 11 ah wants to insure my house agin fire, ah takes out fire in surance, don't ah-" "That's right, Bessie," he agreed. "And if ah wants my life insured, ah goes to de life insurance compa ny?" ., . . The salesman nodded. . "And what's de name of your com pany?" Bessie inquired. "The Fidelity Insurance-Company," the salesman told her. "Dat's what ah thought. Now, ah wants to see 'bout having mv hus- u.inu nueiiiy insured. An Oregon woman went tu jaj serve, a 30-day sentence rather I give her -bjrth date, for purposs the sj.ate drivers license. The rel ance of women to reveal their I long has been , the subject for crackers in print and eonversaf This is the first case on record w a woman proved that she would 4 er' go to jail than toll a lie about age ' An artist who Hs bren Jiwik f docoratmg in "th drVrYment nft tice building is being criticisetlf cause he painted the Statue of Lilt facing shoreward instead of sea The critics should not be too sej The artist probably decided that it! about time Liberty should turn ard and see what has been goim; 'M. hind her back. In Boston vandals decorated 1 statue of a war hero with red No disrespect may have been itnl ed, but their idea of painting I town red. A New York man has been sue fill in nrndnciniT hees. bv cioss e'T ing, so gentle they do not s-tir.g." if we could interest him in mosqait In snite of the fact that )W4 easv to c-et. the bootlepirer and moonshiner are still active, n .m be that those fellows just "! violate a law. nr ; ..,,iL-inir iirepara'il . i : J.... V,,,t ire also b('!a'v IUI U 1HII1V U.l , uui "v 1 enjoying today's sunshine. 1 and 1 Trior ia a hiir wheat crop 1 Knm or-nn Prices aW hipH. forman will nrosner. If &e i I DroDSDers. the counu; t"' :i Jt is rather amusing sometimes to see just what people expect of an editor . . . and as for that matter, people in every line of business have the same troubles, I guess. j , From the Whiteville News-Reporter, I ran across the following squib: A prodigious negro woman, with browa knitted in thought, approach ed an inscrance agent on the streets here recerr.ty so we are told and CONSTANTLY IN DANGER Doctors are so constantly running risk of infection and contagion that they dare not give it a thought. They do the necessary operation, or make the necessary visit. regardless of risk. That is part of their job. and accept ed as such. Every precaution is taken and ever apt. sterilizing and preventive measure is employ d fr ,h safety of each individual patient, but the Doctor must, m many cases, take a chance on Dersonal safety. Iri, and loved ones may fear and avoid contagion but he Doctor must carry on and does as a matter of routine duty.;," A SKY OUR DOC T O K ALEXANDER'S DRUG Phones 53 & 54 ST O RE Opposite PostOSrt
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