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Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, SEPTE.MBFp The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES ine Year, In Haywood County $1.50 Six Months, In Haywood County 75c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Kiitnnl Ht Ihe cint tiffiee :it WayiiMville, N. C, as Scrond Claw M.iil Mailer. m pmvMeil Under the Act of March 3, 17U. IWciiiImT 20, 1. oltituary ii'itices, resolutions of respect, can! of tlmnkn. ami all nnlicen nf enteitiiinments for profit, will be charged for at Hie rale of one rent per word. North Caroiu'm vA perss association n THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938 MAI) DOGS AND CHILDREN Four children were bitten during the past two weeks by a dog pronounced mad by the labo ratories of the State Board of Health. The city police department reports that fifteen dogs, said to have been bitten by this same mad dog, have been killed in the community. Perhaps no ser ious harm has been done. Perhaps the treat ment the four children are now receiving will (Je effective, and the only damage will be the loss. 'of the dogs as pets. On t)he other hand four children may have rabies and go mad and end in tragic deaths, and the responsibility of their lives will rest with this community. We have laws to govern the situation, but like many other forms of legislation, they are not enforced and their provisions are such that we cannot wholly blame the persons whose busi ness it is to carry fhem into effect. It sefcms a natural reaction for us not to be alarmed about such things when we are not directly involved. In other words if it is not our child, we think that more than likely it will not happeu again. ; . , Raines is perpetuated in civilized communi ties, almost exclusively by the dog, and to a small extent by wild animals of the dog family. It is an acute specific, rapidly fatal paralytic infection after it develops, communicated from a rabid animal to a susceptible animal through a wound usually produced by biting, according to medical authorities, ; The disease is remarkable in several par ticulars, especially the period of incubation, whidh is more variable and more prolonged than any other acute infection and its high mortality is practically 100 per cent. It enters the broken skin and follows the nerve trunks from the injury to the spinal cord, thence to the medulla and the brain. It may be six months after be ing bitten by a mad dog before the person will show any symptoms of rabies. Most cases of rabies occur during the spring and cold months, and not during the "dog days" of July and Aug ust, as most people think. Rabies exists practically all over the world. It has never been seen in Australia, we are told. Rabies has been eradicated in England, but was reintroduced during the World War by Russia. In France rabies of a virulant type, with a short incubation period has spread since the World War, according to M. J. Rosenau, head of the School of Public Health. - During the period from 1932 to 1936 the heads of 5.941 dogs were examined by the state board of health', with 2,777 found to have rabies. In 1936, five mad dogs were recorded in Hay wood Pounty, according to the public health statistics. Five mad dogs may not sound very dangerous, but think how many people might have been bitten by each one, before they were killed. There are 2,086 dogs listed for taxes in Haywood County and it is said that there are between two and three thousand more not list ed. After the foregoing it is needless to cite the danger in this county unless these dogs are vaccinated against rabies. Public sentiment will accomplish this needed enforcement. If I we want the dogs vaccinated badly enough, we will have the law enforced. Suppose the next child bitten by a mad dog s your little boy or girl? The annual flower show here next Tuesday should be a drawing card for hundreds of peo ple. The shows are always worth while, and lovers of flowers find it a place to temporarily satisfy this longing. HEALTH AND PROGRESS AT STAKE The voters of this community will soon de termine whether we are to step back into the horse-and-buggy era, or whether we are to go forward, and become the center of the most progressive area of North Carolina. The decision the voters make when this community goes to the polls and cast ballots on the matter of constructing a sewer line from Hazelwood to a point below Lake Junaluska, together with the installation of an adequate water system, will be a milestone in the history of this community. The stand the voters take on the matter will have far reaching effects. If the question is voted favorably, we will be keeping abreast of the improvements already underway in every part of Western North Carolina, and we will continue to go forward and prosper. If the voters fail to realize just what this sewer and water system means, and defeat the issue, it means that we can no longer make claims to the healthful surroundings of this community, which Mas meant so much to our happiness, and has long been a means of bring ing in new homeseekers to make investments as well as the annual influx of tourists. This election can truthfully be termed a golden opportunity for this immediate section. The eyes of the state, and many from outside the state are closely watching to see which way we will step. No later than this week Governor Hoey expressed a personal interest in the out come of the election. The mere fact that the communities will have to remedy the present conditions is ine vitable, as the courts will eventually make the removal of sewage from Richland Creek man datory; and the board of health is urging a better and more adequate system. Besides all this, it is doubtful if ever again, the govern ment or anyone else, will offer to pay 45 per cent of the cost of the projects. To vote down the question will not end it, not by any means, it would merely call for more money and added complications. While the construction of the sewer line and water system will add to local taxes, we must remember we have to pay for progress in order to have prosperity ; yet at. the same tirrte, we must keep in mind that if this matter is de layed, that it will mean a far greater tax on the pocketbooks of the citizens of the community, when a court makes the plan obligatory and we have to foot the entire bill. A vote for the construction of the sewer line and a better water system will mean better health conditions for the community, and the unshackling of progress. Labor Day is supposed to be the last day of summer according to fashion. Life is just like that. Just as summer shoes get to feeling comfortable here comes dame fashion and says "off with 'em." MURDERS IN THE II. S. Nearly every time the "big" court con venes in Johnston county, a murder trial is on the docket, and occasionally, as happened rec ently, it takes a special term to dispose of the trials. '. . It is just such cases combined with those in other parts of the United States that piled up the number of murder trials in the United States to a total for last year of 7,859, besides the 5,705 cases of negligent manslaughter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation made availa ble these statistics, and listed by the Bureau are seven North Carolina cities with a popula tion in excess of 25,000, as having 106 mur ders last year. Quoting from the report : "There are roaming at large in the United States some 200,000 potential muderers who during their lifetime will account for the deaths by violence of more than 300,000 persons unless the present murder rate is reduced." That our laws are not curbing murder is evident. Even in North Carolina where Capital punishment obtains, there were in seven cities 106 murders in 1937. Capital punishment does not seem to be a deterrent. The sentiment against capital punishment may induce maneu vering to evade verdicts that would mean a life for a life and thus the ends of justice may some times be thwarted. But there is little doubt that states still cling to capital punishment for murder because the prison terms involked by the courts are rare ly served in their entirety. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation states that the average murderer in the United States spend less than 54 months in prison as result of his crime. If capital punishment were to be done away with, it should be replaced with life imprisonment without the privilege of pa role, for the taking of a human life is a serious thing so serious that many believe the state should not take a life 83 a punishment for mur der. Smithfield Herald. OLD HOME TOWN -"-- By STANLEY THE ( HE DiPmV set that ) rA J (fkomtoii-- he got I -ww.. , Vr T FROM A , r VCl ( LVIN& IN HAMMOCK S.. W Sj2!L&t .'? ' OWINC TO TMF PICK UPWLOCAI. S yzZt SsS?' "' Busmess the labor Bay Parade v " . 10OX 7 MINUTES TO PASS A VA) V .. . POINT-A &AIN OF -MINUTES OVEff J SW ,AST YEARS PARA&e : GEMS "Eternity is nt .,,r gins after you u. on all the time. Charlotte P. (.i:ln, ' ' BY D. SAM COX Story 1 "Once upon a time," as all good stories begin, there was a great big black bear that lived away up in the mountains. When he was a weeny little cub, he was so black that his mother called him "Blackie," and so he has always gone by the name of BLACKIE BEAU. Bears grow pretty fast, and so Blackie soon grew up to be a great big bear, and as people say, he "married him a wife," and her name was Betty Bear. Blackie was a mighty good hunter, and always kept plenty of things to eat around the house, but when his pantry was fu". and he didn't need to hunt, he would sit in his big chair out on his little porch and smoke his pipe that was filled with rabbit to bacco. But Betty never liked to See anybody resting while she was workr ing, and so she would make Blackie come in and wash dishes and scrub the ftuor and do other sorts of house work. Blackie told his old pipe one day that he didn't think much of that sort of work for a real he-bear that was a good hunter, and that he was going off and take a rest. So for several days he did a lot of hunting, and he just piled up things in Betty's pantry till she quarrelled with him for bringing in so much, and then one night after everybody was asleep, ha crept out of the house and started for a place that he had heard talked about as "the low country." He traveled hard all night, and some things happened that we will get him to tell about sometime, but now it is enough to know that he got off of the mountain and came to a creek that was wide and deep, at the edge of "the low country" just as the sun was rising. And here was his first piece of luck. He wouldn't have to get wet from swimming across the creek, for here was a great long log that had fallen down, and one end of it was on his side, while the other end wijs on the other side, and made a nice bridge. And just look at the big trees over there! And look at the biggest one of all, away over yonder on that little hill! Blackie not only looked, but he ran until he got to the tree, and then he stopped so short that he really "skidded," just as an automobile does What's the Answer? Br EDWARD FINCH when you put the brakes on too sud denly when the ground is wet. No wonder he stopped, and that his eyes nearly popped out, for he was looking at the biggest tree he had ever seen in his life, and it had a regular door with big wooden hinges, most like his door at home. Certainly some man had fixed that door, and Blackie didn't want to meet any man, and he was just ready to turn around and run back to the bridge, when somebody up over his head said, in a friendly sort of voice: "Well, what are you looking for? Don't you like that tree? The other fellow liked it." And then Blackie's eys nearly popped out again. Who in the World was talking to him? No use to run now: he would tight his way put if he had to. And now listen: "You needn't be scared. Nobody is going to hurt you. Go on in and look around, and if you like the house you may have it. A man that used to have a little saw mill down here lived in there, long before I came here, so a friend of mine told me, but he has been gone for years, and nobody else ever comes here." The Jay Bird flew down out of the big gum tree and said: "Howdy-do, Blackie Bear. I hope you will Hfce your house, and will live down hers with us. The house is plenty big for you, and I think you will like the funny fireplace and table. Go on in and look it over. Then they both went in, and again Blackie's eyes most popped out. Ha had been born in a tree nouse, tout no such a house as this. And look what a good heavy door, with a bar to fix it so nobody could get in! Then It is eternity nc.. j midst of it. lt ,, afa sunshine; I am ., , ' nv in thn li.,h, i i ' -'t 5 Jeffries. J" "Time is a nw.-,itl) ' visor of which i, tb. "V Snnt.flll.wi ""lilies j'y tws "Eternitv i n.. .... ox ume, out time ls a sh I thesis in a ,.i,, , ,. . Vt "And this is iife ctcmal , miyht knnu.- u . U1C (mly "To have the sense f the in lifo it u ..... j: , t r , m i,jr tin " ""u ii, is the snul's V. George Meredith. " WOMK.N S.MOkEKS vvieien ourgess, 111 VuurL: omoKing witn most women i symbolic act of emancipation i a genuine satisfaction 0; Women haven't yet learned 'h, smoke, or when, or where. .A all ol them are guilty uf ous affectations. , Look about it lestaurant; every wuinan in the sitting with her elbows on the j one hand sticking up ami awk holding aloft a cigarette as if ing for a Buffalo Kill t ,4 end off. And who hasn't swp canug wuii a roiK in one nar..j a cirgarette in the other? V not even a heavy snioker, wvi, ruin the taste of both looj ar bacco. Women have brushed aside i' ditions of courtesy and c..n.dr- as regards smoking. Women don't ami probably: will understand tht- philusop'hy ideal of good form that men bi veloped as regards the use of l J They're not even amateur;., them. They're comedians. he came out ami sat down on steps, for he was so excited thai was weak. "But tell me, Jay Bird, how d: know me?" I ny everywhere and know ei body, and I have seen you at home up in the mountains. B;: you live in the house?" asked Bird. "I won't live anywhere Blackie Bear said. So that's Blackie Bear came to settle do1 Bear Creek. (To Be Continued .Next ffwl Less than one per cent of thi pie of China subscribe ta newspd There must be a lot of people there who don't even know '.n a war going on. j Look Your Best. . . It Pays For Snappy Service. . .Call One One Three CENTRAL CLEANERS MAIN STREET Phone 113 llPOMwuEDF ninTuP. .Lh EXPRESSION HOeSOK'S CHOICE COME, T TOBIAS HOBSON was an English livery stable keeper. From his famous stables he hired out horses by the day or hour. In hiring a horse you could look them all over and make your own selection but by hook or crook, Kobson would contrive to get you to take the ene nearesl the door. As that horse was sent out the rest were moved up and the next customer would be invei gled into taking Hobson's choice of horses while being blarneyed into thinking he had made his own. It became the joke of the town and the expression came down to us meaning a choice with but one course to choose. O WMtrm Nairapapw Uoloa. ENDURING Enduring confidence is more profitable than sales. This institution has always been puided by that Drincinlp anil wo u f .vn.,;nnM it U one of "ie - " . niiwu 11V1II CAllCUCIIVt " great business truths. Alexander's values above everything else the con dence of its patients. A S K YOUR D OCT OR I 14 V 4 IVI II N K .1 li V ri lH m-J - DRUG STORE Phones 53 and 54 OpP- Post j TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR PROTECTION
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