THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,
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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
The Mountaineer
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937
HAYWOOD'S APPROVED HOSPITAL
Announcement by the American College
of Surgeons that the Haywood County Hospital
is on its 4937 Approved List of hospitals focus
es attention upon an institution relatively in
conspicuous in the community, considering the
importance of its function. It would, beyond
a doubt, be better for the community and better
for the hospital if a more adequate conception
could be conveyed of the constructive character
of present day hospital service.
. : Whereas in times past the hospital in most
cases could do no more than mend or patch
seriously diseased and broken bodies, today in
constantly increasing proportions it is return
ing them to society in a state of complete or
practically complete restoration. Furthermore,
it is so minutely noting and recording symp
toms, developments, and responses to treat
ment, that every patitnt contributes a share to
the advancement of medical science. Upon him
is lavished the benefit of the extensive research
and experimentation carried on in laboratories
both within and outside the hospital, and he in
turn passes on for further study a record of
his individual reactions. Through him succeed
ing sufferers from similar maladies or injur
ies are given constantly better chances for com
plete recovery.
The hospital is constantly making known
its records of experience and discovery, to the
end that the public may be educated' in health
preservation. Prevention is the modern health
gospel, and the hospital, though it is thought
of as being dedicated to caring for the sick, is
preaching that gospel, and practicing it.
Hospital service has been immeasurably
improved through organized effort such as the
Hospital Standardization movement originated
by the American College of Surgeons with the
aim of assuring as nearly perfect an environ
ment as possible for the practice of surgery.
All hospital patients have benefited by this
movement, since improvements made to assure
better care of surgical cases before, during, and
aftrt" operations have necessarily extended to
Stll departments of the hospital, Now every
service directed toward the care of the patient
is involved in the movement and all patients
whatever their ailments may be are better
cared for because of it.
Surgeons grant that no matter how great
the skill of the operator, deficient after-care
may convert a successful operation into an
eventual fatality or a less degree of recovery
than should have been attained. Hospitals
have therefore been eager to cooperate with
surgical groups in bettering their facilities,
equipment, organization, methods and atti
tudes. ' The hospital standardization movement
has provided a convenient and reliable gauge
whereby communities and individuals may
judge how well the interests of the sick and
injured in their hospitals are being protected,
and whether those hospitals are fitted to func
tion as health centers, leading, as they logically
should, in better health education.
Haywood County is most fortunate in hav
ing an aDDroved hospital. It is and will be in
creasingly vital, since medical knowledge is
constantly growing, in assuring
health protection for its citizens.
maximum
If women's skirts become much shorter,
the leaves won't be the only thing to turn red
this fall.
One secret of success, is making hay with
the grass that grows under other people's feet.
It is said that there are some utterly use
less articles on the market. Oh, well, people
must have something to buy for wedding pres
ents. ' . ' ' ' ." . -:.' -
LACK OF APPRECIATION
Every year we find ourselves saying that
the foliage is the prettiest of all time. This
year was no exception to our annual remarks.
However, we feel that scenes like last
Friday and Saturday, with snow falling thick
and fast on the colorful forest is something that
we shall long remember.
The scene resembled a make-believe pro
duction from Hollywood, yet no artist would
ever be able to reproduce accurately such views.
Yet, our every day contacts with such
beauty has a tendency to deaden our fullest ap
preciation for the real beauty of nature.
NORTH CAROLINA PAYING ITS DEBTS
It will probably analyze as an indisputable
fact that of all the states of the union which
have been trying to get their debts paid since
the onset of the depression, North Carolina has
made the most creditable showing.
As a matter of fact, of the entire 48 states,
only six have reduced their indebtedness at all
since 1932, and North Carolina is one of these.
It has paid off twenty-one millions of obli
gations, reducing the outstanding liabilities
from $164,543,000 to $143,183,000.
According to a study made of The Analist
by Dr. B. U. Ratchford, of Duke university,
North Carolina has risen above Arkansas, West
Virginia, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Oregon
in state debt per capita.
North Carolina's debt now averages $41.42
for each inhabitant. The national average is
$20.03.
North Carolina's service on its debt, that
is, annual interest plus contract amortization,
requires $3.87 a year from each inhabitant.
The Atlanta Journal takes its hat off to us
for such a remarkably fine showing.
It is enough, indeed, to justify North Caro
linians in taking theirs off to themselves.
Of course, we are a long way yet to go be
fore the state is decently clean, and the burden
upon our taxpayers is heavy and grevious, but
they have their lucky stars to thank that the
high taxes they arc paying are not being wast
ed in profligate and riotous fiscal living.
It is not a similar case with the federal
government which not only exacts heavy taxes,
but keeps on piling up expenditures and adding
to the national indebtedness.
We are at least deserving of the credit in
North Carolina of heading toward the daylight
instead of rushing into darker and more dis
mal blackness. Charlotte Observer.
REAL SOCIAL SECURITY
With all the talk about "security" which
is finding expression in new laws and in the
efforts of the trade unions to obtain for their
members the exclusive right to work in many
industries, we hear very little about the only
way in which a man can insure his own security
in his employment and for old age. So-called
security which rests upon the changing vag
aries of politics, or for which its beneficiary has
to pay by surrendering his personal liberty and
freedom of choice to labor leaders or others, is
pretty sure to turn out to be insecurity in the
long run. ".
The one way in which any young man can
insure his own future security is to master
some trade, craft or profession so completely
that his services will always be in demand. The
highly-skilled worker is seldom out of a job
except by his own choice. In the very depths
of the depression few first-rate 'men were un
employed. It was the second-raters, the ones
who had never developed their skills to the ut
most of their ability, who were dropped from
the payrolls.
Too much attention and effort has been
directed toward getting more pay for less work
for the less competent, and not enough to train
ing young men in the arts and crafts to become
really skilled workers. As a result, the nation's
industries are complaining that there are not
enough skilled workers available to fill the jobs
which are waiting for them. Hertford County
Herald.
Piano manufacturers report that the piano
is coming back, which is another good sign of
recovery. It is when it's going back to the
dealers that things are bad.
The latest type trailers are said to be built
along Pullman lines. Are the windows sealed?
It has been several weeks now since there
has been "sidewalk preaching" in front of the
court house on Saturday afternoons. This can
be added to the list of recent improvements in
Waynesville.
At this time of the year, we are reminded
of the pun pulled sometime back, when it was
said that the leaves are just blushing after
thinking how green they have been all summer.
THE OLD HOMETOWN
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Random
SIDE
GLANCES
By W. CURTIS RUSS
At five o'clock last Thursday after
noon. Carl Goerch, editor of The
State, Raleigh, was praising the people
of Waynesville for taking him on a
trip through the park. He was using
all kinds of flowery words describing
the foliage he had seen en route to
Black Camp Gap and Heintooga. In
fact, he was more than elated with
the day perfect weather, congenial
friends, a beautiful trip, in fact, as
the flappers say, it was a "heavenly
day."
Just at 5; 15 o'clock, Mr. Goerch fin
ished his speech, and bid the party of
Waynesville people who had taken him
through the park good-bye.
At 5:10 his broad smile left his face.
His eyes blinked and he looked again.
Sure enough, it was gone his car.
He had parked it earlier that morning
in front of the court house, but fail
ed to lock it.
But after having looked at so much
colorful foliage, he would not trust his
memory nor eyes, so he called back
to his Waynesville friends and told of
his plight They in turn began a
search- A careful check failed to show
any signs of his car.
Charles Ray inquired at the Puroil
Service Station, while Frank Miller
sought the aid of the police. And all
the while Mr. Goerch was pacing Main
street, and 1 am positive his thoughts
were not the same adjectives he had
used just a few minutes before.
As the group began to get desper
ate, up walked Policeman Patton. He
was told the sad news. He took it
calmly. Showed very little interest in
the details, and when he was asked
to help look, for the stolen car, his an
swer caused no little Concern, as he
said: "The car ain't stolen, I have it.
This man parked by a no parking sign
early this morning and stayed there
all day, so I carried the car to the city
garage. It is up there now and he can
get it for $10.60."
rat k lji 4
Editor The Mountaineer:
John Bragaw and I certainly appre
ciated the hospitality of you folks
up there, and as a slight return for
the favors shown us, I am going to
boost Waynesville and the adjacent
territory in every way I can. You
can depend upon that.
The trip you folks gave us was the
most wonderful I've even taken in the
state. I enjoyed every minute of it,
including the contact with your people
and even the big fat policeman by the
name of Patton.
CARL GOERCH.
Raleigh.
PARK MUSEUM HELPED
Editor The Mountaineer:
Mrs. John N. Shoolbred has recent
ly donated a collection of several hun
dred specimens of rocks and minerals
to the Great .Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park Museum. This is a val
uable addition to our collection of the
minerals of Western North Carolina,
and I wish to acknowledge, through
your paper, the donation and to thank
Mrs. Shoolbred in behalf of the Na
tional Park Service for this material.
Mr. Shoolbred was mining engineer
and knew much about the mineral re
sources of Western North Carolina,
and other areas.
I wish to say also at this time, that
something; like a year prior to his
death, Mr. Shoolbred called me up to
his office, and gave to me, for the
museum, several valuable government
reports pertaining to the Great
Smokies area. These reports have
long out of print, and I had been
unable to secure them from any other
source.
In making the donation, Mr. Shool
bred, in a very magnanimous way,
said to me that he had been opposed
to the establishment of the park on
broke into a laugh, and demanded to
know who was at the bottom of it all,
but before finding out, he shook his
fist at Policeman Patton, promising to
get even.
Then, he went on to say that he
dared a one of those who framed the
joke to ever come to Raleigh.
I had to admit that it was all my
scheme, and that Harry Hall approved
it while R. E. O'Farrell carried out the
washing details, and Policeman Pat
ton played his part as veteran actor.
Mr. Goerch swore he did not see the
sign. In fact, he thought he had park
ed farther down the street, but this j , ... Wu s.r,i.r w
was futile as Policeman Patton pointed , sneeia. eare not to; , Mr
to a large sign on the sidewalk right j (;0lrepj
where tne Uoerch car had been parked
Nothing but $10.60 seemed to be on
Policeman Patton's mind, so the Ral
eigh visitor suggested that the matter
be settled as he had to be on his way.-
In the meantime Frank Miller intro
duced Mr. Goerch to Policeman Patton,
but IT1 always believe that the Ral
eigh man just grunted, anyway, he
was relieved to know that his car was
not stolen, yet $10.60 seemed like a
big price for overtime parking on
Waynesville's Main street.
As a last resort, Charles Ray, of
fered to take Mr. Goerch to the city
garage to get the car and. also gen
erously pulled 60 cents from his pocket
to apply on the fine making it even
money.
Just as Charles started ff to the
city garage With his down-hearted Mr,
Goerch, the stern-faced policeman
"spilled the beans."
Along the I
POLITICAL
FRONTS
-Continued frop
co-orrji
to
iat question!
for the new
condition that Reynolds
1940 when it will t. 1 '
. o ,n
6"'c""' "cyiioius Wll n-j
c Tin uc me uig snot in th
izauon. ne will be the
as oenaior Simmons U;i
year democratic regime.
Other dope: With
o-i.j s,u.inK lur near v t,.n
uie noerai group is JUl.
tnrougn to a majority al
uon now. ay working with R.-ynii
1938 their combined strength X
cio-i. huh, iney miliK, mi, (,v
with Reynolds' strength with
they can elect a govern.,,- and
s ta tc uisaiuzauon. 1 hat would e
viasiuiig poirn, or the present
machine.
The real dope: All
perhaps could not happen,
nouiing more man the personalia
tne candidates and the neeessitj
tne machines at stake. But th
ifiiillP Will Kd Prti-tc.Kr.ilt- 1 .,
"v "mi tnefi
win he lor or against the new
Both candidates will be inclim
shrink in importance beside th,
they are destined to raise, It
: t 1L - I n . ,
iiibl nine nie people or the states
had a fair shot at th
Reynolds will be for
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in dvflrv Irnnwn lj,,m it I
... .......... ,uSuuSr, niu
will be partly for it, partly aga
he will have to take a clear
:i. 1 u ii
on il iiu uv reasonaoiy againstli
he wishes to corral the anti-R
vote, which he does.
HANCOCK'S SUPPORT
TT 1 11 1. . ,
nancocK win nave tne suppol
the democratic machine, the si
conservative democrats, and aim,
those factions that elected Civ
Hoey as governor. However,
parts of the machine will be luke
toward nim until it begins to a
that thev must fitrht Hevnol.lu tiX
serve their control of state polit;
Reynolds will have his person
lowing, the federal democratic:
pointees in the state and their su
which is more than is generally
pectcd, and he will have the libc
new deal democratic support.
Whether Hancock is nominat
Reynolds the politicians see the
sibility of an extreme shake-u
party affairs in North Carolina.
By next spring, it was ai-Rued,
liberal group in this state will
stronger men in its make-up th
the past . The movement has
been well organized, it has nevef
campaigns supported by either p
politicians or adequate funds, bf
has grown to the point where f
practical politicians are beginnin
connect.
Because the issue of party ca
is so involved in the next senat i
primary race, it was believed tha
campaign will be one of terrific r
ure.
the grounds that it would tie uj
all time the natural resources, mi
products as Well as timber producfc
the area included. On the other V
he had favored a national forcsf
serve, because from it both t:
and minerals may be taken if
government supervision. But'f
that the park idea had prevailed
hoped that I would accept his donf
as an offset to anv impediment thf
might have placed in the way ol
establishment of the part.
Other donations have been
from time to time, ami it is
through such generous interest
that sufficient niaB
mav be brouarht together to adeqf
ly set up the natural resources f
human history phases ot tne
nni. r.ronf Smnkips Museum.
h. c. wii.ni'if
"Your car is in the sei-vice station
there," he pointed. "We're just hav
ing some fun."
Mr. Goerch looked at the laugh-'ng
policeman. He looked at Charles Ray,
and then at the service station still
no car, and then an assistant to R. E.
O'Farrell, manager of the station,
rolled up the door to the wash rack
and there was the Goerch car, all
washed and shinning. '
The Raleigh editor got out. He
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