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THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938
The Mountaineer
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'PRESS ASSOCIATION V
THtfltSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
WOKIiD ATTITX'DK
I pray no-: that Thou shouluest take them out of
'he world, but that Thou atvouldest keep them from the
vJI. Joh-iv 17:15. "The friendship of the world is enmity
with God." JauUtt 4:1.
ON SOLID FOUNDATIONS
One of the beat indications of business in
any community Ls the financial institutions.
Another g-ood business barometer, is postal
business.
Needled to say, here in Haywood County,
the financial institutions are far ahead of past
records. They made maney the past year. They
are solvent, and have records that should dispell
any fear that one might have.
The two banks of t'he county, together with
the building and loan associations made excel
lent report-; for the past year.
While business' is not as good as we would
like to have it, we should remember that every
thing' is in much better condition than it was
in 1930 and 19;il. In fact, there's no comparison.
Strong financial institutions, are after all
the backbone of th.9 business world. In Hay
wood, such institutions are ahead of the ave
rage in communities this size.
TODAY'S HOTELS
To our way of thinking, Coleman VV. Rob
ots in his address to Rotarians here recently,
hit the nail square on the head, by pointing out
that hotels and boarding houses had to increase
their services if they expected to continue in
business and successfully cater to tourists.
Of. o-j-urse, we readily realize that the mana
gers of hotels and boarding houses do not want
'outsiders telling them how to run and operate
their respective businesses. No one does, for
that matter. But on the other hand, the sug
gestions 'were in the form ef constructive sug
gestions, rather than criticism.
There was a time when one bath to the
floor was all that was expected. That day has
passed. There was a time when competition
from tourist camps was not so keen, and bad
roads necessitated slower travel that compelled
travelers to "put up with anything." Those
days went cut with the often mentioned good
old days.
During the last decade, the traveling pub
lic has been taught the value of sanitation, the
necessity for comfort, and along with it all, has
developed a desire for services and environment
that is better than that at home.
All of this is just a few of the problems of
operating a hotel or boarding house today, but
like all other business, to be successful, one must
leep abreast of the demands of today's buyers.
THE BOYCOTT ON JAPANESE GOODS
The attempt to get Americans to stop buy
ing Japanese good3 seems to have been renew
ed -during the past few weeks, and now seldom
does a day pass without some piece of mail mat
ter, coming in, urging that Japanese goods be
ignored by the buying public.
Some of them have been printed form let
ters, post cards in red ink, extracts from speech
es, and the latest being a reprint of a speech
made in Congress by Representative Byron N.
Scott, of California.
The Californian pointed out that the Ameri
can exports to Japan during the past year show
ed a substantial gain over the same period last
year, especially on oils and minerals. He points
out that if these exports were stopped, that the
undeclared war in the Far East could not con
tinue. .. .
The campaign, no doubt has a certain de
gree of merit. Just how far it will go towards
being effective, we cannot say, but Americans
are inclined to take grave chances, rather than
miss making a dollar. And for that reason, we
k not look for any drastic boycotting of Japan
ese goods. ':'.'':':';.
THE RESULTS OF STATE ADVERTISING
According to Director R. Bruce Etheridge,
of the Department of Conservation and Develop
ment, direct results frcm the Publicity cam
paign, Which is now being sponsored through
this department for the state, are steadily on
the increase.
During the week from, January 1 to 8 in
clusive, 135 inquiries were received from 30
states and Canada, as a result of advertising
schedules being run in agricultural publications.
A group of 100 farmers, business men,
bankers, professional men, and industrialists
from the state of Kansas, is considering includ
ing North Carolina in a 1938 industrial tour of
the state now being planned by the Kansas
Chamber of Commerce.
A party of New York school teachers, head
ed by Miss Isabelle Hart, of the geography de
partment of the State Normal and Training
School, of Oswego, N. Y. is planning to make a
study of North Carolina about the middle of
July.
The news office of the division of the state
advertising, now has on hand 4,000 photographs
of which at least 2,000 have been made by the
news staff office. More pictures are being added
each week, with the result that the news office
is getting in a position to supply any type of
North Carolina picture that may be wanted.
A large number of inquiries are being
received from industries asking for informa
tion concerning the State and are coming from
a much more varied field since the advertis
ing campaign.
Without blare of trumpets, the stae-wide
network of county hospitality committees is
rapidly being organized. These county com
mittees are really extensions of the Governor's
hospitality Committee and are the units through
which the central committee expects to work
in spreading the gospel of friendliness through
out the state.
Large deposits of a rare mineral, spodu
mens, recently found in Cleveland county about
fcur miles southeast of Kings Mountain, are
attracting attention of the mineral world and
may mean the establishment of a new industry
in the state according to state Geologist Her
man J. Bryson.
An extensive experiment in reforestation
of over-cut or burned-over lands will be con
ducted by the Riegal Paper Company, which
owns a tract of some 130,000 acres in Columbus
and Brunswick counties, according to Assistant
Forester F. H. Claridge, of the Forestry division.
Which foregoing all goes to prove that in
all probability the solons of the State of North
Carolina never passed a piece of legislation or
appropriated funds that will be more far reach
ing in their results than that dealing with the
great advertising campaign now getting under
way with such gratifying reactions, that give
promise of such state wide benefit.
OVERDONE
There is enough misery, misfortune and
trouble in this old world, without radio adver
tisers going to the extreme in having their
audiences constantly reminded that this is the
time of year for colds and coughs.
At almost any time of the day, there is us
ually some program that begins with a person
coughing like they were drawing their last
breath. Regardless of how good the program
may be that follows such sickening capers, we
cannot enjoy them.
It seems to us that it is a poor advertising
plan to play up misery, discomfort and sickness
as some programs are now doing.
Many people get into moods by what they
hear or see, and certainly if such a person were
to listen to some of the exaggerated programs,
they would become "bad off' right away.
THE DRYS HAVE THE LAUGH
Raleigh police forces have just made a sen
sational raid upon a social club in the Capital
City where lockers were found containing 400
pints of fancy stuff owned by individual mem
bers of the organization.
And, strange as it may seem, the wet forces
over there seem to be taking the incident more
seriously than the drys.
It is the latter, however, who have the
call when it comes to crowing, belated though it
' be.
With ABC stores running at full blast in
Raleigh in selling liquor openly and freely,
what's the answer to the establishment of a
social club with such large stocks of whiskey
being maintained in private lockers ?
Was not the legalization of liquor selling
in the counties of the State to put an end to all
of this sort of thing, not excepting the boot
legging enterprise? Charlotte Observer.
One Waynesville man who has five grown
daughters in his family is called on so often for
money for hose, that he has set the item in his
budget, as "running expenses."
THE OLD HOME TOWN -
By STANLEY
IM SORRY, MRS PCITCHETT.To
KEEP YOU WAITWMS -ILL. SEMCy
Your chair right over
ARTER LUNCH
1 VS
WITH E5 AT 60A OOZ.EM THAT OLD BROV4
HEN THAT HAMS3 AROOTtD THE REPAIR SHOP
HAS HELPED CUT DOWN THE OSRHEAP
QUITE A BJT
SPARKS
of
WISDOM
Man's crimes are his worst ene
mies, following him like shadows, till
they drive his steps into the pit he
dug. Creon.
VIEWS OF
EDITORS
Dept. of Sad Facts
There isn't any comfort of luxury
that wjll offset the discomfort of tight
shoes. William Feather Magazine.
Earnestness is the devotion of all
the faculties. It is the cause of pa
tience; gives endurance; overcomes
pain; strengthens weakness, braves
dangers; sustains hope; makes light
of difficulties, and lessens the sense of
weariness in overcoming them.
Bovee.
That's-A-Fact Dept.
Haile Selassie in Who's Who re
mains Kmperior of Ethiopia, but would
have no such standing in What's
What. Louisville Times.
Nothing Noncommittal
Says a Broadway columnist; "Al
Jolson's voice is as good as it ever
was." Come, come no beating about
the bush. Detroit News.
THIS WEEK
in
HISTORY
January 27, 1918 President Wilson
urged food conservation as aid to
win the war.
January 28, 1882 First cable strc
car railway opened in Chicago.
January 29, 1843 William McKm
ley, 25th president, born at Nik..-.;
Ohio. Kansas admitted to union.
January 30, 1882 President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt born.
February 1, 1899 American flni;
raised over the Island of Guam.
February 2, 1819 Florida purchas
ed. (Groundhog day.)
POINTED
PARAGRAPHS
"They Say" has rumed many lives.
Patriotism does not include the
belief that your country can do no
wrong.
Most every seller knows tfcat -his
proposition" is a necessity, beside
being a "wonderful" buy.
Farmers are now wondering what
to plant and next fall they may bo
puzzled over what to do with it.
The highest intellectual effort un
dertaken by some voters is trying to
pick the winner of a horse race.
If we had no failing ourselves we
should not take so much pleasure in
finding out those of others. Koche-fouchauld.
If judges would make their deci
sions just, they should behold neither
plaintiff", defendant, nor pleader, but
only the cause itself.-B. Livingston.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts,
and warm handshakes these are
secondary means of grace when men
are in trouble and are fighting their
unseen battles. John Hall.
Ignorance
A man is never astonished or
ashamed that he doesn't know what
another does, but he is surprised at
the gross ignorance of the other in
not knowing what he does. Halibur-ton.
Education
Tis education forms the common
mind;
Just as the twig is bent the tree
inclined. Pope.
Finis
Soup Box Orator (winding up his
speech) An' that, lidies and gentle
men, is the 'ole kettle o' fish in a nut
shell. London Opinion.
Need For Revision
"As quiet as a cemetery" goes the
way of other outworn phrases now
that Philadelphia claims to have un
earthed an undertakers' "racket."
Syracuse Herald.
Thought For France
It turns out that La Belle France
has been selling scrap metal to Nazi
Germany. Still, if worst comes to
worst in Europe, shell be getting it
back. San Francisco Chronicle.
People who p:an for their future
usually succeed better than thone
who do not, but there is no law which
requires you to plan.
People who complain about the
type of public servants we have these
days ought to take a look at some of
those who walk up to the polls ami
cast votes.
When it comes to mere talk, iht
biggest crook in the nation can do it
as well as the most honest man. That
ought to give you a fair opinion of
mere talking.
Life in the U. S. A.
A missing dog returned to its In
diana home carrying a paper in which
its loss was advertised. And yet the
White House belittles the power of the
press! Chicago Daily News.
Audacity
By audacity, great fears are con
cealed. Lucan.
Indiscretion :
An indiscret man is more hurtful
than an ill-natured one; for as the
latter w-ill only attack his enemies,
and those he wishes ill to, the other
injuries indifferently both friends and
foes. Addison.
Learning
Learning is like mercury, one of the
most powerful and excellent things in
the world in skillful hands; in un
skillful the most mischievous.--Pope.
Bad Liberalism
There may be differences of opin
ion about liberalism under the Sov
iets, but nobody can deny that they
are conducting their executions in the
most liberal manner. New York
Times. ;
"Dentist in race for House" News
item. Well, with his "pull," and bar
ring "false impressions," he should
be elected. And, we dare say, should
"fill" the place acceptably.
Who remembers when certain arti
cles of feminine wearing apparel -were
referred to, in subdued tones, as "unmentionable."
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that jigsaw puzzles are
now a game. Which leaves them just
a pain in the neck.
The abjectness of the people on the
subject of war does hot mean they
are cowardly. They will risk their
lives gladly for pleasure.
. Books
That is a good book which is open
ed with expectation and closed with
profit. Alcott,
She who triffles with all
Is less likely to fall
Than she Who but triffles with one.
: ' Gay..
What fates impose, that men must
needs abide:
It boots not to resist both wind and
tide.
Shakespeare.
Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new and followed; yet
we know
That what was worn some twenty
years ago ; ' :
Comes into grace again.
J. Flecther.
Who falls in honorable strife.
Surrenders nothing but his life;
Who basely triumphs casts away.
The glory of the well-won day.
J. Montgomery.
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the
Interior:
"I made no general indictment of
newspapers. I have too much respect
for many of them to do any such
thing." -.
READY FOR THE
BALL?
. . .Of course, you will want to
look your best when you attend
the Presidential Ball Saturday
night. Send us your garments
for cleaning and pressing.
After you see our work,
you'll be glad you did.
CENTRAL
CLEANERS
MAIN STREET
Phone 113
Jose Vargas, Columbian Minister to
Panama:
"In the present era of pugnacious
nationalism, the fact that American
success is looked upon enthusiastically
by the people south of the Rio Grande
is not altogether without meaning."
ALLIES
The Doctor's time and skill are dedicated to the sick
and suffering. That also is this drug store's chief con
cern. And that's why physicians KNOW that at ALEX
ANDER'S they can expect the fullest measure of co
operation. ''.
A S K Y O U R D O C T O R
ALEXANDER
'S
DRUG STORE
Phones 53 and 54
Opp. Post Office
TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR
PROTECTION