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THURSDAY, MAY o, Page 2 C 1A THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PR1NTIM CO. Main Street I'h',ne WT Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood Coun'y W. CURTIS Rl'SS E,lilor MRS. HILDA WAY UWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Buss and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers published" i:vi:ry thcrsday SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County Six Months, In Haywood County ., o(J;,i H:ivwood County line i ciii , vL4-.-.im ...... All Subscriptions Payable in Advance 7. V,m,iUt iO. I'-HT. .i .lll;,:!;;urr'irrv,T;rS:;n.;, ..r ,.;, m , f. r .'t P:.- rate- ot """' ' worJ- , - Sl.oO 75c 2.00 -'North Carolina v 'MESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, MAY 20. 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT lie that l"si,ieth lix neighbor simieth, but ft that hnth fit a of the ,-, "' ' -. Proverbs 14:21. NEXT TIME MKJHT BE DIFFERENT The other day, Chinese aviators flew American-built planes 2,500 miles to drop leaf lets on Japanese people to oppose war. This action should be fair warning to Japan that the same planes on the next trip could cany bombs instead of leaflets, and do to Japanese cities the same havoc which Japan airmen have done to some of China's towns. ANOTHER PROBLEM It is interesting to note in a news release from the American Bible Society, that the an nual circulation of the "scriptures throughout the world is over seven million copies. Portions of the Bible are now in over 1000 different languages, and the Society has 12 for eign agencies. Increase distribution was noted in all sections of the globe even in war-torn China. While the matter of distributing the Bibles into every section of the world is a mammoth task, there yet remains an important work to be done that 0f getting the people that have the Scripliues, to read them. We presume that the American Bible Society is well aware of this problem. TAXPAYERS PAY FOR THE DAMAGE About ten days ago, two large trucks, used to 'haul gasoline frcm one end of the state to the other, met in a head-on collision in the early morning at a bridge near Laurinburg. One of the trucks had 3,500 gallons of gasoline, and the other was empty. Flames shot 75 feet in the air one driver burned to death, the other had a narrow escape, and $12,000 damage done to the bridge, besides property damage for a hundred yards or more around the scene. This is not tihe first time one of the large gasoline transport trucks have burned and damaged public property. Neither is it the first time the drivers have been burned. This newspaper has pointed out before the danger of such trucks passing through towns, especially where the highway is also the main street like here in Waynesville. Should one of these trucks catch on fire on the main street here, the business district would be destroyed in spite of all fire fighting equipment available. The trucks such as are used by local oil dealers in making deliveries from wholesale plants, are not to be compared with those large transport tank trucks. The smaller trucks are easier handled, and do not carry anything like the loads of the cross-state trucks. All of this leads us to the opinion, that this question will come before the 1939 legislature . for action. Certainly the railroads will be in favor of abolishing the use of the highways for the ine of such trucks. ;;;) We sh.ar-: the views of the Whi teville Re port ei;, which said editorially about the burning of the .Vi-i'iv av b;:t.'ge: "All of this constitutes add:tinr:.l cr; r-r e fur Mr. and Mrs. North Caro lina taxpayer, f-r the benefit of a few indivi duals in th.3 state. Those tr ucks are destroying our highways, endangering life and property along their path and nothing is done about it. "It seems that North Carolina taxpayers who pay six cents on every gallon of gasoline they buy would be loath to see their roads reduced to ruins and additional tax burdens heaped upon them because of benefits to a favored few. "The incident at Laurinburg Friday night beaifs out the contention of this paper for a long time that these trucks constitute a menace to life and property in this state, and should be removed from the highways." VYE DON'T THINK Several nights ago, two ears filled with young people of this community, wsre driving down frcm Soco Gap, One driver decided to pass the other car. The first driver felt he would be disgraced to let such a thing 'happen. So down went the throttle in both cars, and the hand on ths speedometers went around to 45, then 50, and over to 55 and on a little past (50. As the cars sped along at sixty, a young girl in one of the cars leaned out the window m:king fun of the other crowd, as the cars were neck and neck each making sixty or better. In a desperate, and last effort, one driver pushed the tsnrott.e down to the floor board, and shot his car to 75 miles an hour and passed on down the road feeling he had accomplished something. Having done this, he had gained nothing but a title of being a "reckless driver." Fortu nately, nothing was lost, but there was every chance for every one of the young people in botih. cars losing their lives. When the story was told us, we asked one of the occupants, "what did you accomplish by such 'dare-devilery,'" and his answer was:: "It was fun while it lasted." To us, that is a pitiful answer. In fact no answer at all. Had those young people have thought for one moment how their lives might have been wiped out in an instant, or how some of them could have easily been crippled for life, they would have perhaps been more careful. As it was they didn't think. And isn't that the answer for the large percentage of our wrecks on highways today? SOUTH GROWS TWICE AS FAST AS NORTH AND WEST For a long, long time the South was a nursery ground for other sections of America. Our young men went West or North or East. South ern population gained slowly. New our young Southerners are finding out f iat there are just as great opportunities right here at home as anywhere else. Instead of Weste rn lands being cheaper than our own, they are two to five times as high. Instead of our thinking that growing cotton, tobacco, peanuts, and rice are the only. ways to make money on Southern farms and that the West is, the place for livestock and dairying, the West itself is going into hysterics lest line South beat them producing dairy products, hogs, and poultry! And intrad of industrial opportunities being sought in great Northern cities, it is becoming better in our thriving Southern towns and cities, Where rents,-taxes, fuel, etc. are low. What is the result of all this awakening to Southern opportunity? Let the census figures tell the story. The South has become the fast est growing section of America. According to estimates just made public by the U. S. Census Bureau, the 16 states (including Maryland and Deleware) classified as South Atlantic, East South Central, and West Soutih Central, gained 3.0:15,000 population from 1930 to 1937, while all other 32 states combined only 3,452,000. And in percentage of gain the results were even more remarkable as follows: 16 Southern states' population gain was 8 percent. 42 Northern and Western states gained 4 per cent. In other words, the Southern states are now gaining in population twice as fast as the rest of America! And outside the South the fastest-growing state is California, whose mild Dixielike climate is the main reason for its growth. Keep all your bets on Dixie! The Progressive Farmer. One of the most difficult things to recover, once it is lost, is faith and confidence and trust in a fellow man. Strange, when common sense tells ihow valuable these things are in human business relationships, that some men will sacri fice them for a trivial personal advantage. TWO MINUTE SERMON BY THOMAS HASTWELL THE CHRIST OF THE HUMAN HEART Between the two countries of Argentina and Chile, near the summit of the Cumbre pass, in the Andes mountains, stands a great bronze statue of the Christ. The base of the statue was hewn from the -rugged granite of the mountain, and the statue itself was cast from solid bronze obtained by melting1 cannon. The statue was erected in commemoration of the peaceful m Lt'c.nent of a boundary dispute between the two coun tries of Chile and Argentina and is known as "The Christ of the Andes." Silent and majestic it stands, a constant reminder to the world and the people of both nations, that, in accordance with the teachings of Christ, these, two great nations of South America elected to lay aside their differences and live together in peace and in harmony. As the statue towers above the inter national highway there is nothing in its solid bronze that would influence the men of these two nations to forget their quarrel. Of itself it is impotent to stay a single hostile hand or calm a single hate. Its power lies in the spirit it represents the spirit of the Christ. So it is with men todayi who have within their hearts that spirit of Christ. In a world filled with wrong, and greed, and jeajousy, and fear, and hatred they are a constant power and influence for good. Even more remarkable than the influence of the Christ of the Andes is the influence of the Christ of the human heart. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY fumu cr r 1 THOSe CIRCUS HOUSES I I ( NOW, FOLKS" ) (Vja.lMOU (-TRAMPEP AU OVE -TAkEIT EASY-- - V fffi t)NT A ) My PCTUNIA. BCD-- ) I ONE AT A TIME 1 COM HOME"" J I AND SOMEBODY IS ( MR5. SMITH SOM. ( V p JUST KHSW V soum'to RAY nZZl YOU KITTLE ) ( HE PJO go VVtTHM FO? n!, ( apat'S "5r Cv--ht WAf 5VJAMPED WITH OFFICIAL BOSNES SOON APTE1 THE CIRCUS PULLED Z STAKES AND LIT TOWN -S this week in HISTORY Random SIDE GLANCES Uy W. Curtis Russ I have never made it a point to pick up hitch-hikers. In the first place, it is dangerous; and second, nine out of ten stand along the high ways in places where it would be folly to stop. The average hitch-hiker must not give any thought to the convenience of the motorists, because if they did, they would not stand at sharp curves, on top of hills, or half way down a steep hill anl expect a motorist to pick them up. If I were a hitch-hiker, I would choose as near as possible even if ii took a mile hike to get there a spot along a straight stretch of. highway, where a motorist could give me a once-over before deciding to stop. A smiling face has gotten more rides fo rtheir owners than those whose faces that were screwed up in knots, trying to resemble some hard boiled viHiaii in a movie. I don't believe these fellows who stand several leet over in the highway impress ,motorists as being brave, just because they do the silly stunt; neither is there an air of demand about them. Hut why should I worry myself about the short comings of thumbers? They seem to get rides some how even if '.it. does take some of them several hours. Then, too, I might be too practical to make a good thumber and if all motorists were like myself, there would not be any hitch-hikers so there. It looks as if I will have to stoo eating strawberries last week I was served at three different places, and each time, the last berry was too old and what a taste. I have about come to the conclu sion that we are all so busy trying to do something that in the end we don't accomplish a thing. This goes lor. individuals as well as tions. organiza- How fine it would be if we could only halt for a week, and get back to a normal place. As it is, we are going at break-neck speed and for the most part, not getting a worth while thing done. Ihe average man is in several or ganizations, on half a dozen or so committees, and supposedly to be in terested, heart and soul, in twice that many community projects. He goes at them in a half-hearted fashion, and with little accomplished. i ma Bailie muiuue goes ior some business. Only recently I saw a merchant so intent, and interested in buying a line of goods to be shipped next fall, that he did not take time to wait on a customer who was in terested in some goods on his shelf that were right then seasonable, and represented a fair profit. Could such folks be termed "fu turists?" It is a good thing to look and plan ahead, yet too many of us are living for the "ideal day" ahead, and forget to live today. Our neighbors are living this way, and goodness knowsj, we can't let them get ahead of us so goes the world. A New York store advertised that it understands women in all her moods. ; That seems to disoel the common belief that business men in these days lack confidence. . Your Horoscope cmpiu- iia, celebrated in Caiu,.ia ratified the arbitrav.,,.' ' the United Stau-s, n.u May 24 FirXTXa, sent by Morse i'ium Baltimore, 1S-U. ... v 11 . ' "U eieciea presiutin oi public, 1873. ir-.tii 1 McVi May 25 Vom,.n ganized dress nr, 1873. Call 110,11,1,1 Spanish-American w; May 26 Montat.a as a territory, 18'4. born, 1886. ';,,V(!t.- A! J ac: May 27 Haymarket anai, dieted in Chicago for nn,;'."" May 22, 2.'!, 24 You seem to pos sess two natures that are opposite. If you choose, you can be charming and very agreeable, or if the mood says so you can be very disagreeable and sarcastic. Your pride keeps you from accepting assistance or favors from anyone. You are always found on the right side of a question, even though it means self-sacrifice on your part. You do not always make the best use of the ' many gifts nature has bestowed upon you. May 28 First I' for France, 1917. launched on Lake Ei in the Water," 1818 S. troops a V Stealth the May 29 Wisconsi into the Union, m "'as admih IMS. Am.,;.. ,,.. r,.:.- May 25, 26, 27 You do not care for flattery, are light hearted, and sympathetic to a degree. You are fond of pleasure, like amusement and sports, though you are often very impractical and make, some odd t takes. You have the faculty of ; ning and keeping many warm UlASbS liAMHTS" TOO F.d NEW YORK-William Th, carrieu nis game ton far. Wt cnasmg an imaginary gane of ta in Central Park he became lost H alter wandering aimless for sr hours, he walked up to a policen, Ofl.;ffyJ Iw, ....... 1 . . " (Lviuiii.i.ci.1 iic was iosi, anit was Ui-j to a ponce station where his pare came for him. Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted I27'i. 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