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roRSDAY NOVEMBER Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER in if , . i $ '; j if- i The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street f Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Scat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY G'.VVN' Associate Ed;tor W. Cui 'i:; Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES )nc Y -tr, In Haywood County $l-r0 Six M'.-ntiis, In Haywood County 75c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.00 A ! Subscriptions Payable in Advance 1 ,,; t. .. , ii, ,. ,,ost .itfi.f ;it Wnyi.esullp, N. C, as Sei-mul ! 'I.mI H t.-r. a- pmvulcil under the Act ol Man'li 3, ls7!. N . -j 1 1 .t-j- ill. I'.ni. iil ii iny iiMj. i's, rrwliition of rrsjier-t. car.ls t Hunks. . ;1M ., ,, , of iMit.-rt linmi nSw for iirufil, will be rbunceJ f..r t II i ill e of one cent per wnril. "North Pornlinii .A 'nDrsl AnriA imM Xi THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 19:)8 VACCINATIONS OR ASSASINATIONS Theiv is till junt cause for alarm about the mad dog situation in Haywood County. Almost tvery day there is a mad dog killed somewhere la this euuiity. From skittering reports, there seems to have been a number of dogs killed in the rural sectwas during the past week. It is our understanding that inspectors in the various communities 'have been advised to make a i ! .v cheek on all dogs, and see that tkc-y are vceiiated against rabies. Haywood County is just two years too late ib sturtiiig on tins program, or at least in en i'tircing tl;v program, and now the situation has. grown in such projxirtions' that it . is a task to master. !!',vver, there is a way out, if the titizens it tlii, progressive county are determ iued'to ov.reoiiH' a growing menace. A ting vaccinated against rabies will not develop the dreaded disease within itself. This name dog, however, if bitten by a mad dog, can easily develop rabks, regardless of the vacci nation. That point, we find, is not generally uiulerstor. I by mcst dog owners. For the most Tart, owners of valuable dogs, have them vac cinated, and then lot them roam at will, fesling perfectly safe that the animal, will not have rabies, even if bitten by a mad dog. This is incorrect. The solution to the menace, is to vaccinate every worthy dog, keep them penned up for a time and see that all stray dogs are properly and quickly disposed of. One stray dog with rabies can cause havoc among 1,000 dogs ' What have been properly vaccinated. Several counties much smaller, and who do iHit claim to be as progressive as Haywood, have successfully combated rabies and have not had more than a score of citizens bitten at one time ly mad dojfs as had Haywood. Every dog properly vaccinated is. so desig nated by a badge. In that way, it would be easi er any citizen to spot a stray dog, and have them disjwsed of. Now this editorial has dealt with the vacci yi.nioii of dogs, and no mention made of the human suffering t'ha't one mad dog can do. From ne who has seen a man die of rabies, we learn t r,at it i t'ae most hurible of all deaths. There j- no cure for it after the disease is developed. The agony which the patient sutlers is beyond tJ'K ription. There are many worthy dogs in Haywood t int v.- There are too many that are worth- . .. And if v.e are to overcome the serious u-ciaca of mud dogs throughout the county, vt ry dog owner will see to it that there is I'lenty of vaccinations or assasinations and in r r'K.s-t instances the latter will be preferred. LI) ACE AND THE PENSION, RACKET A recent issue: of Collier's magazine re-j-orts that promoters of the California pension phiji are collecting around $2,400 a day in small contributions from old people who hope to bene fit from the proposed system. The magazine points out that one of the promoters was convicted in 1931 in federal court for using the mails to defraud in connection with the sale of a fake hair restorer. However this charge has not interferred wtfl the promoter's work along the pension line, fr he has been successful in enrolling 200,000 CaLfornians, in this pension plan. While it is necessary for those who 'have paused a certain age, and have not provided for their declining years, should have somesort of assistance from the government, it seems a shame that tiheir last savings should be spent on rackets from which no one but the promoters will profit. PEACE On the eve of Armistice Day, it seems fit ting to give President Roosevelt credit for his superhuman effort made in preventing this country's entrance in another war. As one well known writer on international affairs says, Europe, too should be forever grate ful for his great initiative, when he appealed to the various heads of European governments. At this time he should be given credit for saving civilization from another catastrophe, that would have been far more devasting in its results than the last World War. So in observation of that great peace that came to a shell shocked and war torn world, twenty years ago, with added thanksgiving we should not only pay tribute to the soldiers of that great army, that went across the seas, but also to the war from which our leader has saved us. INDIRECT TAXATION There has never been a time since the founding of this nation that the citizens have given such serious consideration to the question of taxation. From time to time various groups and organizations have made surveys showing in specific and very definite figures what the average citizen is paying out of his income. A survey made recently by the Family Economics bureau of the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, shows that from an income of $150 a month you pay an average of $212 a year, or thirteen and one half cents of each dol lar, in indirect taxes. Also it was found that you pay an additional five or six cents on each dollar in items too exclusive or two small in dividually to be traced down. , Now, these taxes are not really taxes, social security, income, or other taxes, which are classifn d as direct assessments, but the ones you pay in the purchase of retail goods and services, about which you are often hardly c:.ns'.::o!i It is estimated that the tax bill -collected by local, state and federal governments totaled for tlie year 1938, $1 1,32 1,000,000. This repre sents an increase close to a half-billion dollars above that of 1937. The direct and indirect taxes have reached the stage in this country, where thoughtful citizens are beginning to study the situation as never before, and the result is bound to have some reaction on the present trend. People have reached their limit. MAN'S SEVEN MISTAKES Man's imperfections lead him to make many mistakes in life, and the pointing out of these frailties has engaged the attention of philoso phers and reformers in all ages. A recent writer enumerates what he considers to be the seven greatest mistakes of man, as follows: 1. The delusion that individual advance ment is made by crushing others down. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we ourselves cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trival preferences in order that important things may be accom plished. 5. Neglecting development and refine ment of the mind by not acquiring the habit of reading. 6. Attempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do. 7. The failure to establish the habit of saving money. This appears to be a pretty fair diagnosis of what is the matter with us, and everyone might profitably check up on himself in the light of these suggestions. EDITORIALS IiY READERS Rarely a week passes, but some interested reader suggests that an editorial should be writ ten about some pertinent local matter, express ing very sound ideas on the subject. We often feel that the person making the suggestion would have influence in the community, and the readers would enjoy this man's opinion. on such things of vital interest to the public affairs. Week after week wre turn out this page, and feel that others would bring fresh ideas clothed in new language, that might be arresting to our readers, and we have suggested on numerous occasions, that they write a letter to the editor, expressing their views. Louis Graves in a recent issue of the Chapel Hill Weekly seems to have the same experience and 'he relates it thus : "Every once in a while I meet somebody who wants an editorial written expressing a certain opinion. I say, 'you write me a letter about that and sign it, and I'll gladly print it At which he looks alarmed and says, 'Oh, no, I don't want to do that.' In other words he wants me to express his opinion over my name." The damage done in a cat and dog fight is never as great as the noise would indicate, the same thing is true of many a family row. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY 'J 15.1 . inn -r rt v at- o i- o a t i if I SWl-m GAS IT WOULD STAY UP A'ili 4MA OFF OF TWE GROUND ANP j iWSUk MAKE A CLE AN,NHOLE SOME f K 00 W SAMe OF SKILL INSTEAD OFA SRANDPAPPY &ALE WinDPENNY HAS A SD&&ESTIOM To IMPROVE FOOTBALL mmmwam smas : GEMS for lour .S. Till,,... K I "As the U'llt1n.K...w.t. . Thee, O God." "Let each mui: , of God, His mind a ; breath of God; And let each u-. . and good deeds, To show the v.., hath in him." .1. "Heaven is nm rv;: bound; But we build the 1 we rise From the lu!y , ed skies, And we mount to it by round," J. h, 4 l1 ian,i. "Who hath found liniu. !; , v..fc im-ei uie (kmand',f man want or woe,-t,, s;i!i , J to satisfy the as,!ril-i.'.r''"l Baker Eddy. " " " ! A GOOD DINNER MAKES A DAY FOR BLACKIE Story 10 In some . things Blackio was very niui'h like some children. Even sonw srrtwn people are a e,'ood deal that way. He. was all the time saying that he would do so-and-so, if such-and-such a thine; happened, or that he just WOULDN'T do some other thing's.- He would make lota of fun of horses and donkeys for letting Mr. Alan and his neighbors hitch them up to wagons and plows, and ride on their backs, and he would tell Dr. Coon and I'.illie l'ossum how he would run away and tear up the wagon, and cut up Jack, generally, if he were ever hitched to a wagon. "No, sir-eo; no such work as that for Blackio. Bear," he said. '"It is bad enough to have to hunt all over the woods for my dinner, and when it comes to having to pull a wagon to earn it woof, woof. No! So, one day after Blackie had been talking mighty big about what he would do and .what he wouldn't do, he went out in the woods to hunt all by himself. After hunting for ever 50 long and not even finding a rabbit, he got pretty hungry and tired, and was just thinking that he would lie down and take a little nap and get rested, and then hunt some more, when lie came up to a little field. When he crept up to the edge of the opening to look around, he saw a donkey standing near a wagon under a tree, and his head was down in a feed box while he was eating his din ner. Blackie looked all around to see if there was a man in sight, but there wasn't. "That's a mighty little donkey," Blackie said to himself, "and I could n't eat more than one ham, but I wouldn't mind having a good big din ner. But oh, look; here's some din ner already fixed," he said, as he saw a big -tin bucket hanging from a limb of a little tree close by the wagon. Blackie looked around again, but there wasn't a soul but the don key, and so he went over to the tree and stood on his hind legs and reached for the bucket. Blackie thought Mr. Man must have gone off down to the spring to take a nap before dinner, instead of after BY D. SAM COX- BAD 1 I 1 -a "And the most diilicul keep Heights which tl.,. tent to gain."- Wnni-.v "Stretching his wn. the stars, he forireis tin ieet." Jeremy IJtt.thai-. MARRIAGES Thomas Ai vil l 1 -. ; , trude Mann, both ,.r ( ;l. John Cornelius A'!, . Vt., to Mary L. M.ni:-'; Clyde Clinst'ppi:.-'. Jones, both of Can;. in. Grady Henry, nf l.a: to Macy Dockcry. He kicked the breath out of Blackie. What's the Answer? 3 dinner, as he always did, and so ne slipped into the woods and sat down and ate all of Mr. Man's dinner in a mighty few minutes. "Oh, I feel better now," he said to the dinner bucket, "and I believe I'll go and give that donkey a slap and run him out of the field. And if he wants to fight well, I wonder how a donkey ham would taste, anyway." And now look at Blackie making a bad mistake. Here he goes creeping up behind Hee-Haw Donkey, think ing that those bir floppy ears are hanging down over his eyes so he can't see. But a donkey can smell a bear almost as well as a dog can, and Hee-Haw knew that Blackie was slipping up on him. And now just as Blackie was getting ready to say "Woof," and slap Hee-Haw, the don kep sang out "Hee-Haw" loud enough to be heard a mile, and then he slapped Blackie. Yes, sir; he kicked up both feet and hit Blackie right in the stomach so hard that he knocked all the breath and sense out of him, and Blackie fell over and lay there just like he was dead. When Mr. Man heard his donkey scream so, he came running up from the spring, with his jug full of water, and when he saw that Blackie had eaten up all of his dinner and then tried to kill his donkey, he was aw fully mad. "Well, anyway," he said, "I'll have a good bear skin coat, and plenty of fresh meat," and he took The Hollywood mnvi' said all ChicagriaiN uail are dodging sum"tliin.,' 1 do some dodging mi !;: in Chicago, jv t:; t:. x; it 11 s not one living t.i wn al it's another. No siiiiikt ,),-. we ceed in getting rid of the Mckrn in our basement than thu mwsc in tr.at anothe- bantam .utr c to be on the highways. Jokesmiths to the contrary',, were still many drug stnws wil soda fountains . reported in tho'Cf of Business for Ui".". The Drug Stores without fminuiir.s, 171 with fountains, ,'i8,7.;i. One cannot fully iinilcrstiind thJ uation in Europe without 'knot the backgrounds of it. That is also of about every other porp! problem in the world in general individual lives. Red Heads are most diffioult td under the influence of anostheti T .ouTif.rmrrtrtVi Xinnw l-PIlill'IS. V is not as strange. as it might. Red heads are accustomed to wn friends and influencing people, when it comes to taking their medicine-well, it is not being in red-headed circles. Scrap iron has become dollar business. In Siberia, there are river? W solid all winter, releasi still living fish in therfi began wneu t., take the out his knife and so it would be easy off of Blackie. ( To lie ConVnuedi. VYIhv.does a barber's POIE HAVE STRIPES? T ONG ago, a barber served in two ' capacities barber and surgeon. He "bled people" i. e., when a man felt sick he thought he had too much blood in his system and he went to the barber to have some of that blood removed from his body. The barber pole stood for the staff the patient held as he was being bled. The red and white stripes were for the bandages used in the operation, the white for the tandage used be fore the operation, the red for the dressing of the wound after it was over. The gold ball at the top of the pole represented the other end of the business the brass basin from which the customer was shaved. O Weitern Newspaper Union. THE PILOT The master of an ocean liner is one of the most effi cient of experts. But in unknown waters he turn? e ship over to the highly specialized guidance of a pilot- n YOUR vocation, you too, may be thoroughly proficient. But if you are WISE, you'll always turn over the Ship Health to your doctor when sickness conn lle the only one qualified to steer you through these watei- ASK YOUR DOCTOK ALEXANDER'S Phones 53 and 54 DRUG STORE Opp. 1 0Sl " TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR VrJ? PROTECTION. it v.
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