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Page 2 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Wai Street Phone 1T Waynesville. X.orch Carolina The Coumy Seat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS RL'SS Edrtor W. Curtis Russ .ind Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATE'S Or.: Year. In Haywood County $1.68 Six Month. In Haywood County 75 On? Year. Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entcre.l it Uw post office at Wij-oesville, N. C. u BcowJ Clas Mail Mttr, a primdej under tlie Act of Marcfc I. 187V, NurrraUr iu, 1614. Obituary djUc. resolutions of rpct, enk of thanks, and all aoti of MitertainmmU fur profit, viS. b charged for at the raw of one ccmt per word. vNortii Carolina PBESS AiseciAiioSbl THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT "Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is mi ft better? ... '"for icio knoweth what is good for man in this life which he spendeth a thadow! for who can tell a man what sskall be after him under the sun.'" Eccles iastes 0:11-12. WELL QUALIFIED The resignation of Rev. H. W. Baucom as pastor ;f the First Baptist Church, takes him into a field in which he is well qualified. While ''serving as pastor here for the past eight years, he 'has intered actively into a work that has been sorely needed in this community. Before coming to Waynesville, he took an active part in the work of the Associated chari ties in Wilmington, and his service for many months with the Red Cross in France, gave him a background that enables him to excell in a work that he will enjoy as associate chaplain of the Good vSamaritian Mission, in Asheville. WHIPPING STUDENTS In Mecklenburg County the other day, a judge dismissed a case against a school princi pal, who wa,s being sued by the father of a 15-year-old student, who claimed injuries were suffered whan the principal whipped the 160 pound athlete. The evidence showed that the boy refused to obey his teacher, and had been the source of much trouble in the school. He rebelled against punishment, and went so far as to take off his eoat when the principal approached to make the foot ball star of the school behave. The principal got the best of the rebellious student, and proceeded to lay a leather belt on his back at frequent intervals. We have no idea that the boy suffered phy sically from the whipping but his pride was hurt, as he realized that all the students had seen he couldn't bluff the principal, Who was in his right, in demanding respect for himself and rules of the school. Sometimes, a school teacher might act too quickly under such conditions, but in this Case, tjhe principal is to be commended for his tactics. MOB DEMANDS Just to show how absurd some "mob de mands" are, is proven by the typical example of high school students in Kearney, N. J., when they presented the principal with a "Campus Bill of Rights." The bill, signed by students of both sexes, included in its demands: creation of a student body; permissions to "truck" and dance the big apple; and last the right of stu dents to grow mustaches. The principal should have readily agreed to the demands, and expelled any student who signed the "bill" who did not live up to it even the last demand, and include the girls in on it too. TAX COLLECTORS , Some 19 or 20 centuries ago when the Master walked this earth, there was much dis cussion of taxation and the tax collector was an unpopular citizen. In these more modern days, the tax collector, in most cases, is held in high regard, and citizens who are not pleased with the amount of their tax bills do not usually resort to cussing the tax collector. Rather the government" or certain "party" bears the brunt of the dissatisf action. With taxes mount ing higher and higher every year, we have ar rived at the conclusion that relief will not come until we get the matter back on a personal basis, as it was in days of old. We need not neces sarily take it out on the collector, but we can go after those wWo are responsible for spending the money and actually levying the taxes. And we might take a look at ourselves, and see whether we are on the receiving end of the line more than we should be. Stanley News and Press. PEACE AT ANY PRICE As war clouds continue to hover over Eu rope, and the far East, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, have started a campaign to get 25 mil lion American signatures to be presented to the President, saying that the people of this nation want to keep out of war. The ballot which they are asking voters to sign is headed : Keep America Out of War, by Ballots, not Bullets." The campaign is meeting with success, and indications are that it will igather momentum as the days go by. Along this same line of thought, The Pro gressive Farmer, in a pointed editorial caption ed: "Wrill Your Son Die In The Next War?", re cently said : . "For months past now parts of Europe and Asia have run red with soldiers' blood. . .while England, Germany, France, Italy, Russia have trembled on the brink of war. . .on the brink of war that might involve America. . .and no one can say that the war that did not come in 1937 may not come in '38 or '39 or '42 or '45. That potential war that war that may even now have your own son marked as one of its victims can no doubt yet be averted, provided, and provided cnly, that peace-loving people in all nations move quickly, a million bereaved moth ers and fathers a decade hence may echo the heart-breaking cry: " 'Statesmanship waited too long! All those who loved peace waited too long! Too, too long!' "The only sure preventive of war is to set up some kind of Supreme Court of Nations to hear disputes between nations and with power to enforce its decrees. Until some effective League of Nations or Supreme Court of Nations is set up, some carefully planned neutrality may be our wisest course. But in the long run 'neu trality' will not save us. And even if it would, America would never be content merely to save her own skin while permittiig weak and defen seless nations to be butchered and raped by bru tal and vicious nations. We must cooperate with all peace-loving nations to put the laws of God above the laws of the jungle and the brute." A TRIBUTE TO "THE COUNTRY DOCTOR" In a recent issue of the New York Herald Tribune a very beautiful tribute was paid "the Country Doctor," the editorial pointing out that "probably it is inevitable that in time the be loved figures of the country doctors will be ccme only a memory, but they are not yet all gone. "The country doctor has come a long way from th horse-and-buggy days, but his place in many communities remains secure. He has an automobile now, and sometimes an airplane. But he knows, as his predecessors did, that the psychic factor, the bedside manner and friendli ness, are things which cannot be replaced by cold and impersonal specialists. He knows, also, that he must not be aloof, but must be a part of the lives of his people. Many of these men still carry on, and some of their records are amazing. "Dr. Pierre Herbert, in a little town in southern Quebec, reported last spring that he had attented 2,500 births and never lost a mother in childbirth. Dr. Richard A, Morgner of Fit echburg, Mass., reports 4,317 births. Dr. Stew ard Harris, of Libson, Ohio, has passed the 2,000 mark. Last July Dr. W. E. Thompson, of Bethel, Ohio, the nation's oldest practicing physician, observed his 102nd birthday with the boast that he had delivered more than 1,800 babies and never lost a mother. In 1935 there was a cele bration on Staten Island for Dr. Walker Wash ington, who had practiced there for fifty years and brought more than 2,500 Staten Islanders into the world. "The country doctor's diagnosis may have been faulty on occasions; his medicines may have been confined to quinine, calomel and opium ; his instruments may have been years behind the times; his lack of time and means may have made it impossible for him to keep up witJh the advances in medical knowledge. Never theless, it would have been rough going with out him;".. STILL A CURSE Efforts to rid North Carolina of the slot machine curse have met with stiff resistance. The very fact that those wGio profit from the gambling devices spend so much time and so much money in the effort to over-ride laws pass ed against them is plenty of evidence that they should be out-lawed. It is the desire for easy money which prom pts the promoters, to fight against all laws pass ed within the view of eliminating slot machines. Vast fortunes have been accumulated, and those who have reaped the rich harvest from slot machines are anxious to continue the process. Aside from the fact that all who play slot machines are the losers, we know of nothing that has a greater tendency to promote the spirit of gambling, especially among yountg peo ple. The slot machine racket has been a curse in the past and will continue to be a curse so long as it is allowed. Away with them. Sampson Independent. . ' ' '" . . THE OLD HOME TOWN 7- . . n ALL YOU HAVE To Do, IS SELL IO BOXES TO YOU FRIENDS --EASY AFTER SCHOOL. WORK---YOU GET" 2S2 IN MONEY AMDA 6f?AND PRVZE FOUNTAJM PEM-AMt By STANLEY WvjE,LL ILL COLLECTj "V V Ihh IHKtt -fcl&M ' rj 1 7 evooiccc "UArr 1 24 1 & 1 I Vll TH vilbur Fiperrs mother. -mooKr THAT'KNOOON AT THE COOK. I Random SIDE GLANCES By W. Curtis Rues After a four week's rest from col umning I am back in harness. The short vacation did not do much good which is typical of vacations, because I wore myself out trying to remember to forget about not having to write a column. BETTER! KDITOR'H NOTE Letters to the editor, if free of personal abu.se. are alvaytf welcomed. All letters must be sinned and ttte opinions expressed by the writ ers are not necessarily the opinions of The Mountaineer. If there are two negatives in the above paragraph don't take them to mean a positive in plain English, I ain't rested- All my life, I've heard of fog that was thick as pea soup, but not until last Friday night did I fully realize just how thick pea soup fog could be With Charles Ray at the wheel and L. M. Richeson acting as coaxwain from the back seat, I watched as best I could for the right hand edge of the road, while we blindly pierced the fog for two hours and twenty minutes The speedometer reached an all-time fast of ten miles an hour. Even the saturation that Charles has of Cham ber of Commerce optimism could not throw off the feeling of foggy pres. While We three suffered from a se- J vere case of jitters, we learned later that others experienced an equally hair-raising experience. One Waynesville man actually got lost on the streets here, and stood be side his car, with hand on horn, sound ing a call for help. For five minutes, he tried as best he could to get his bearings, but to no avail. While all the country side from Asheville to Waynesville, and proba bly farther west, was enveloped in the dense pea soup, the higher points of town were bathed in clear moonshine, while the valley below resembled wind driven snow. A picture that made one almost gasp for breath, after spend ing over two hours or roiling along a narrow ribbom of concrete at the bot tom of the soup. But as one philosopher said, we have to have the pea soup fog to fully appreciate the clear moonlight nights. This is the season of notable birth daysEdison, Lindbergh, Lincoln, Washington, and probably others. The only person I know that makes sport of the events is R. V. Erk, who tells people he was bom a week after Lincoln's birthday and a week before Washington's. These Scout leaders should credit me with my daily good turn for last Thursday. About noon, in walked a prominent professional man. He reached over to pick up something and snapped his suspender strap. His fate hung by a mere thread. I would not dare offer tailoring aid. I cannot sew. No needle and thread were avail able. But the suffering must be re lieved at any cost, I ha ve been told, so I put my automatic paper clipper into use. He backed up, and I stapled his suspender strap in place, and he went merrily on his way, and no one the wiser. The printers are setting this as fast as I write it, and one of them just whispered to the other that if I didn't soon stop, he would be out of capital Ts." All right, Mr. Printer, use the last one in this sentence . ... I'm through. OFFICE AND OFFICE-HOLDERS Editor The Mountaineer: Under our constitution all men are created equal with the same inherent right of suffrage the privilege to as pire to and hold office. Neither our constitution or the law of the land has the power to prohibit only man him self has the power to disqualify him self for either suffrage or office. For more than a century after the formation of our American Govern ment, the office, both great and small, sought the man. The only qualifica tions were honesty, integrity, sobriety and a reasonable amount of common sense. Frequently men were drafted for high positions, both in state and nation. So keenly did men feel the responsibility thrust upon them that they honored both the office and the people by the service they rendered. The people were prosperous and hap- py. - Soon the sad day came; customs changed and men began to seek office both for the honor and emoluments of office. Soon political favor began to make itself felt both in office and at the polls. Graft and corruption, on the one hand, and the purchase of votes, on the other, men frequently swept themselves into office regard less of their qualifications. Under the new order of things, qual ifications are no longer the prerequiste to held office, but political strategy, money, trickery and, frequently, false promises. I do not mean to convey the impression that all men who hold office do not serve faithfully and well. But I do mean to say that such men are too far in the minority. Competency and ability, not polit ical favor, should be the stamp of VIEWS OF EDITORS Not In U. S. A. It seems clear that Daritv . derive from the verb "to part." Vir giman-nioi. He Should A cpntpnariftn in (lur-r, .. 10 nve on onions alone. Naturally h would be alone. London Ouini.m Quite So! "L - . 1 . uDjecuon to nymna because are emotional is objection to mqir because it is music. The Detroit FreJ rress. Have to Sleep Too "Wives don't tell their husband everything, says Judge Crawford 11 . L. 1 .1 . . .-Liici mi, mere are only hours in each uay. runch. Seat of Reason Some men never change thpir ; t vym ion because it's been in the family fur generations. The Ohio State Journal Great For B. S. O.'s Exhibition of an automobile that can be started and stopped by the huma: voice foreshadows brighter times fo back seat drivers. The South Bead Tribune. Explained Oeneral bummerall says soldier well dressed are better fighters. Thi explains the old description, "dressed to kill." The Fort Worth Star Telegram. Character Sketch A banquet, we believe, is a show) sort ot meal, where the speaker eat a lot of food he doesn't want and thei proceeds to talk about something h doesn't understand to a crowd 0 people who don't care to hear him.-j Caper s W eekly. . approval for public service. If w would safeguard the social, political and financial security of our economii safety, both of the state and nationJ we must check the rapid growing ten dency of unscrupulous and unquali fied would-be politicians from usurp mg office while qualified citizens, bear ing the burden of taxation and rv-l sponsibility, directly or indirectly, fo the welfare of the people are brusM aside only to watch the unproftt&bl scions of undeserved favor undermin a civilization which it has taken it hundred and fifty years to make. We, who are charged with the sponsibility for the social, political and financial welfare of our coramo nity, must not be content with the ex ercise of citizenship, or the privilgd of suffrage, but by act and word mus demand the right to exercise this rw sponsibility which is ours to the fullt extent. As a further safe guard to true de mocracy, we must not only simplifjl but make stringent our election laws Last, but by no means least, every good citizen, both male snd fd male, must shoulder the responsibility which is theirs to see to it that otn election laws are carried out. F. E. HAYNES. They're Like New When We're Thru send us your DRY CLEANING CENTRAL CLEANERS MAIN STREET Phone 113 Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass Vanbrugb, Point Of View Someone has said that a politician thinks of the next election, while statesmen think of the next generation. At Alexander's all thought of immediate profit is obscured by the desire to render to the sick and suffering in this community, a trustworthy and a helpful service. A S K YOUR D OCTOR ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE Phones 53 and 54 Opp. Post Office TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR PROTECTION
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