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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAYDECEMBER i, m
The Mountaineer
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938
HAYWOOD'S TOBACCO CROP
The news that two government experts
have termed Haywood's tobacco crop as being
the best quality they have seen in five or six
years is more than good news.
The fact that this year's crop is just slight
ly under the million pound mark, makes us feel
even that much better.
If prices Are anywhere near expectations,
it looks like a profitable tobacco crop for Hay
wood farmers who prepare their crop properly
bef ore taking it to market.
Haywood County has every reason .to .look
for a profitable income this year.
IF Till? WHITE MEAT (JIVES OUT
With memories of Thanksgiving turkey and
with anticipation of another succulent bird
around Christmas the. head, who happens to be
carving the fowl, might have the following bit
of scientific knowledge, tucked away in case the
white meat runs low as it will when you serve
a long table with many guests. It would make
fine argument in giving a guest some dark meat
along with the white.
According to Mrs. Helen S. Mitchell, re
search professor, at Massachusetts State Col
lege, you will get more calories and proteins
from the dark meat than those recognized
choice pieces about the breast.
She reports, the content of a turkey as :
21 per cent protein. 23 per cent fat, 1,320 calo
ries to the pound, vitamins A,, B., C. and D.
and quotas of calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper
and magnaese.
In other words, with plenty of dressing it
looks like a turkey is not only pleasing to the
palate, but mighty good food for the body.
DEMOCRACY EAST AND WEST
It is not the intention of the writer to start
any controversary between the Eastern and
Western North Carolina Democracy, since the
Democratic party in the state, seems to be
functioning fairly well. We do, however, take
exception to the statement of Warren V. Hall,
of Charlotte, state elections board member,
which, was quoted in an editorial in the Sunday
edition of the Raleigh News and Observer.
"The trouble with elections in this state is
still with the absentee ballot. The trouble lies
in the distribution of the ballots after they
leave the board of elections. They are being
peddled out wholesale," complained Mr. Warren.
"Dcm'.crats in the East don't realize it,
but that is nr.c of the reasons why the West
piles up -such"' heavy vote. The absentee ballot
laws ought to be repealed, but I don't think it
will be, However, we can place safeguards
around it as other states have done." Mr, Warren
is quoted as saying.
We admit all the flaws in the absentee bal
lot. We doubt seriously that it serves the sick
and those cut of the state, who are sincerely
interested in their voice in the government,
sufficiently, to balance the abuse of it among
politicians. We deplore its weakness.
But, we insist that the heavy Democratic
. vote in Western North Carolina is due more to
heart' enthusiasm and loyalty to the Demo
cratic party and the "regular Democratic orga
nization" than to the implied misuse of the ab
sentee ballott. as suggested by Mr. Warren.
One has but to review the votes of the past
eight years, primaries and elections, to realize
where the dependable strength of the Democrat
ic party lies in North Carolina. In the recent
election 78 per cent of the Democratic vote was
ast west of Raleigh, with a record of 22 per
" the Eastern section.
'ast two governors of North Carolina
"4Tri q largest vote in the West. We
IVJ. ( O patronage of the state is dealt
.j ; proportion ?
"Sho.
SAVAGERY THAT OUTRAGES THE WORLD
The following from the versatile pen of
Nell Battle Lewis, well known North Carolina
columnist, expresses the sentiments of most
Americans towards the Nazi German treat
ment of the Jews.
"I am of the firm, if naive, conviction that
hatred and cruelty are vultures which, with
a large brood, come home to roost. I believe
that seed-time and (harvest are as sure in the
sphere of morals as in the physical realm, and
that what is sown eventually is reaped, by na
tions no less than by individuals. Specifically,
I believe that the recent savagery of Nazi Ger
many towards the Jews, which has outraged
the world, has in it the certain foreshadowing
of ultimate disaster for thaf power-drunken
and hate-blinded nation. I believe that the Lord
still reigns, 'be the nations never so unquiet,'
and that part of His regnancy is through the
law that men do not gather grapes of thorns
nor figs of thistles, and that, like the vegetation
of the earth, the spirit of man bears fruit after
its own kind; the spirit of oppression, oppres
sion ; the spirit of destruction, destruction.
"The great laws of the spirit are for eter
nity, and sometimes their operation is too slow
for our recognition of results in our short span
of years. But that they work, silently and in
exorably, I am most profoundly convinced. 'The
mills of the tgods grind slowly, but they grind
exceedingly small.' And while we may not live
to see it although I hope we shall they will
grind this brutal tyranny to the finest powder
for the winds of destiny to sweep from the world
which it now so sorely afflicts. In its shocking
cruelty, its demonical fury, Nazism is opposing
itself to something far more elemental and far
more powerful than the humanity of all right
minded men; it is challenging the very struc
ture of the universe in which, however obscured,
'all's love and all's law."
But such a view, though true, does little to
calm the indignation inevitably caused by the
recent news from Germany, news which, if
any further confirmation were needed, only goes
to prove more conclusively that that unfortu
nate country is ruled by a fiendish genius who
by no stretch of the imagination can be Consider
ed to be in his right mind. Merely note what
Hitler said in his book, 'Mein Kampf,' as quot
ed in The New York Times, 'By defending my
self against the Jews, I am fighting for the
Lord's work.' If that is not the sheerest lunacy,
then I don't know what sanity is.
"It is distressing enough to think of thous
ands of adults homeless and helpless under the
Nazi terror and of others brutally murdered,
but it is heart-rending to read of children who
are the victims of these demons, some of whom
were described in a story in last Sunday's New
York Times. These German children had reach
ed the frontier of Holland in a state of com
plete exhauston after wandering aimlessly for
several days. A number of them had come from
the village of Dinslaken where, at the begin
ning of anti-Jewish excesses, forty children fled
a burning orphanage which had been attacked
and looted by a band of young Nazis. In terror
the children escaped into the neighboring woods
from which, after days of wretched wandering,
some of them straggled to the border of the
Netherlands.
"You can't tell me that a government whose
foundations rest on the misery of children is
going to endure!"
CORN SHUCKIN'
At the old time shuckings the main feature,
first, was to divide the corn pile by runing a
fence rail through the middle and two captains
chose the shuckers for a race. One captain
got first choice of the shuckers. Then they fell
to and shucked like all possessed to see which
could finish the task first.
A part of the inspiration of the race was a
jug with a corn cob stopper in the fence corner.
At a well managed shucking the jug was pass
ed discreetly and nobody got too much just
enough to add to the good feeling and the zest
of the occasion. If ladies were present the
young man who found a red ear was entitled
to a kiss.'
'".-.In the shucking race the corn was not al
ways shucked clean, but that was expected.
The work done, the chicken pie and pumpkin
and potato custards, boiled ham, and other good
things were served on a long table in the yard,
and if the night was cool, as it usually was, there
were bon fires for comfort. Then there was
wrestling, dancing, "pulling Tigers tail or Todd's
from tail " and the other forms of amusement.
There was no ticket to show as a prize and piano
and violin music was unknown. The idea of
playing a piano at an old time corn shucking!
But there was fiddle music in abundance, fiddle
music of the old-time variety. The man who
called a fiddle a violin on such occasion would
have been looked on with suspicion. Tfce Davie
Record.
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BLACKIE TAKES A REST
Story 13
When Blackie got home that night
after pulling Mr. Man's wagon all
the afternoon and then giving Billie
Possum such a fast ride, he was
mighty tired and hot, and so he
crawled into his bed, or the place
where his bed had been, without any
supper. Next morning when he
woke he was so sore and stiff that, he
just couldn't walk. Me had lam on
the ground all night because he had
given Billie Possum his bed, and
sleeping on the hard cold ground
wasn't good for such tired and sore
bones as Blackie had, so he was -in a
pretty bad fix.
Away along about dinner time
Blackie managed to crawl to the
door where he thought maybe he
could see Chatter Squirrel or Jay
Bird, and tell him to go for Dr. Coon
to come and rub his stiff legs with
liniment, and get him so he could
walk. He sat in his door for a long
time without seeing a soul, and then
he heard somebody saying, "Jay, Jay,
Jay," and he knew his friend Jay
Bird was coming. When Jay Bird
saw the fix Blackie was in he wanted
to know what had happened, but
Blackie told him there was no time to
talk, but would he please hurry over
to Dr. Coon s house and tell him to
get his medicine chest and come over
as fast as he could.
You know Dr. Coon sleeps all day,
and he had been out all the night be
fore, and so he was fast asleep when
Jay Bird got there. Jay Bird pecked
and pecked on the door, and then had
to call him two or three times before
he woke Dr. Coon up. The Doctor
didn't know what was the matter with
Blackie, and so he had to take along
all sorts of medicine so he would
have the right kind, and it took him
a good while to get ready, which was
well enough for Blackie, for after
Jay Bird bad gone Blackie found that
he needed sotne fixing, top. What
soi-t of a story was he going to tell
the Doctor about how he got in this
fix? He had to think and work fast.
Something had to be done to fool Dr.
Coon, no matter how much the doing
made Blackie s bones ache, so he
rolled down his steps and kept rolling
and scratching up the dirt to make it
look like there had been a big fight
al over the place. Then he crawled
back and sat on the step to wait for
the Doctor. It wasn't long before
Dr. Coon came running up, and asked
Blackie what his trouble was. Black
ie told him that last night while he
was asleep three great big tigers
came to his house and called him out
like they wanted to talk with him,
telling him that they -were friends of
Jocko Monkey. When he opened the
door two of the tigers jumped on him
and started to fight, while th other
one went in his house and stole his
sheep-skin bed and ran away with it.
He said that he whipped the other two
tigers, but it . was such hard work
that it made him so sore he couldn't
walk. -.
Dr. Coon felt mighty sorry for
Blackie, and he got some liniment out
of his medicine chest and rubbed his
stiff legs good, and then he got some
bear grass from down on the creek,
and made some good hot tea. And he
had thought from what Jay Bird told
him that Blackie might not have
much to eat, and so he brought half
a chicken that he had caught last
night.
Then Dr. Coon told Blackie to lie
down and sleep all day and night,
and he would come over to see him
again tomorrow. And he told Jay
Bird to stay around and not let any
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For Your Scrapbook
"BEAUTY"
"The best part of beauty is that
which a picture cannot express."
Francis Bacon.
"One thing have I desired of the
Lord, that will I seek after; that I
may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life, to behold the
beauty of the Lord, and to inquire
in his temple." Psalms.
"We ascribe beauty to that which
is simple; which has no superfluous
parts; which exactly answers- its
ends." Emerson.
"Man, governed by immortal Mind,
is always beautiful and grand. Each
succeeding year unfolds wisdom,
beauty, and holiness."- Mary Baker
Eddy.
"Beauty is a form of Genius is
higher, indeed, than Genius, as it
needs no explanation." -Oscar Wilde.
"Everything has its beauty, but
not everyone sees it." -Confucius.
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EDITOR'S NOTEI ettrs .
if free of persut,.,) i,,,,,
welcomed. All cn..r, ,',. .
aini tlie opiniims ni,rl.sJ'!"
ers are net uecessariiv ;t '
The Afinintuineer.
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Editor The Mountaineer:-
ousia note to express n v co-,
ulations on your dairying "editi'.'n
note that some of th- 1 .... H.'n
from thi nffin. ""uina sent
Is. but that vn LV -V0'J
m . iuuuu a p ace f ,
few of the items. 1
.. . ,U,UK r:s cp' 'Vcr to 0Ur!
w.... no A KI UW th.i.r ...:n
to see mil nnh .
given the dairv inrtnet.... ... ., "v
I congratulate ,.,. .'.
and I know thar it .,. ,0U:
. . " uo mnr
stimuiate a mnn Kul... i . "i
agriculture in your county. ifjS
c,...c Ui which you snou d be nrnnrl
With best wishes, 1 am
Sincerely
Editor Extension Work, State' ColJ
Editor The Mountaineer:
w ,uu miiitv it iair to let people
t..u nc.ci iioyc paiu taxes (and nevetf
wjh; voie oonaa on an over burdene
nponlp fnr niimnaoa . . 1
'r;r. " "" ""-wry t0
me wmure 01 me people who have
pay the taxes?
mi
mere are more widows than 1 whi
uie hoi. uoie io pay our present tax
l. 1 1 !. . . A'
iiiucii ieaa nave 1C raised. I woull
like to know the opinion of the peri
pie regaruing mis matter.
MRS. JENNIE H. HENRY.
Editor The Mountaineer:
ine two snort editorials in thtj
" Waynesville Mountaineer" .of Noveml
ber 10th namely, "Indirect Taxation'
onu liuiwiiaia uy iveauers, are no
only very timely, but deserve to bf
read and their significance doself
studied by every tax payer in thi
county, state and nation
With the hidden tax bill intreasinj
by half billion dollars annually an.
j I .i: i j. i-it
uie utruct tax mn increasing manf
tunes more than this sum. either bf
innated values or exhorbaiit levy,
is not only time to think ami wri
to our paper, Dut the tune is oppo
tune to act. No wonder one-half thi
tax payers of the state are in defauj
of their taxes from one to sever
years. The editor of this column hal
repeatedly invited the tax payeri
to use this column to express thei
views on, not only this issue, bi
others of equal importance to th
readers of the paper. Talking an
writing will help, perhaps, wondei
fully, but will not be a sufficier
weapon to bring the relief needed b
the over-burdened tax payers. Moi
drastic means must be used to. sta
the reckless inarch on the tax payer
rights. The reckless extravagan
and irresponsible tax grabbers mu:
be made to realize that tax under tt
Constitution should be levied at
collected according to the ability (
the people to pay.
I do not favor a sit down stril
of the tax payers of the countr
neither do you while this would be
most effective weapon perhaps
bring about relief to the burdeni
tax payers. But such a plan wou
tend to undermine our civilization M
wreck our Democracy and ultimate
we would drift into a dictatorship si
barbarism.
Business, labor and agricultu
must organize sufficiently to be al
to draft a tax system, first for t
county that will be fair for all w
earned and a system that will demai
the respect of honest citizens a.
then make their demands both at t
polls and at the capitol of the sta
and nation. The bonded indebted
of our county is and can be tarn
care of by a reasonable sinking tu
and if our county commissions
could only learn to say no instead
yes so much a reasonable levy
be sufficient to meet the needs of o
county's needs of administration.
K. fc. n--1' 1
(To be continued.)
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