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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12,
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
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IS IT THE CASE EVERYWHERE?
North Carolina 1
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1939
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VARYING VERSIONS
Conflicting testimony from witnesses ha3
always been a major problem of our courts.
We have often been amazed at the vast
differences in the testimony of two witnesses
giving accounts of events that gave no reason
for but one version. Our first thoughts were
that the witnesses were deliberately testifying'
as they wished, and in a manner that they
thought would help persuade the jury to render
a verdict in favor of the parties they were
helping to defend.
But, now, after hearing of the recent test
made in a university, where a "planned fight"
took place curing a lecture course, some hundred
girls were asked to write their answers to ques
tions which an average lawyer would have asked
during the trial.
The answers varied in every detail, although
the three "participants" in the fight were well
known on the campus, yet the "testimony" of
the average co-ed showed that they were non
observant and in most instances had little ability
to grasp accurately and quickly just what took
place. The "fight" lasted 90 seconds. Some
fifteen girls said in their answers that it lasted
15 minutes.
Several weeks later similar questions were
asked, involving more details, and the percen
tage of accuracy was far below that given im
mediately after the "fight," The majority could
not even give the correct date, nor the approxi
mate hour.
All this leads us to believe, that perhaps in
most instances witnesses intend to testify truth
fully, yet under the same circumstances, they
get different impressions, and overlook details
that are important in court.
Yet, there seems to be little than can be
done about it, and jurors and judges will con
tinue to Wear a puzzled look when the ever
conflicting testimony is present we expect.
HOW 'BOUT IT, GOV?
Governor Olson's statement from Califor
nia Monday night during the Rose Bowl game
that North Carolina Was still "far from civi
lization" provoked so much wrath and indigna
tion in these parts that we have serious doubts
if most people have got over it yet.
Yet, when we consider from whence the
statement came, from an embrayo governor
who himself showed that he didn't know how
to pronounce the name of one of the original
13 states of the union, by calling it "North
Ca'lina," who was about to take the oath of
office as governor of a state which makes a
mockery of marriage, flaunts the laws of God
and man, which has an underworld second only
to that in New York and Chicago, then we don't
seem to have much to be provoked or indignant
over.
North Carolina may be far from the kind
of civilization which conforms to the California
idea, but for our money, we'd still choose the
good Old North State to the "State where it's
never cloudy or rainy."
Governor Hoey's few well-chosen words,
.masterfully delivered, with culture and refine
ment embodied in every word, made Governor
Olson's illtimed and inopportune speech sound
like the prattling of a schoolboy.
Truthfully, we North Carolinians have
nothing about which we can be rightfully angry.
Whiteville News-Reporter.
Last week in the "Voice of the People," six
students home for the Christmas holidays were
asked, the most serious problem facing young
people today. Their answers were of one ac
cord, which is told perfectly in the following
which appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times
on Sunday : '
"It's 8:30 Thursday morning in the news
rooms of The Citizen-Times.
"A youth enters. He is the first to reply
to an advertisement for an office boy in The Citi
zen editorial department ('hours 4 p. m. to mid
night; apply between 3 and 4 p. m. Thursday,')
"They aren't going to interview the boys
until 3 o'clock this afternoon,' someone explains.
'Hadn't you better '
" 'Yes, I know; the ad said that. ' But I'll
wait, if I may. I want to be the first in line.'
"By 10 o'clock, with the arrival of the sec
ond applicant, the line had begun forming. By
noon, half a dozen were waiting for a chance at
the great American opportunity a job. And
long before 3 o'clock the line stretched far down
the hall as boys, and more boys, took their places.
"The Citizen, in the classified columns of
last Tuesday and Wednesday advertised for one
boy. There was just one job. But there were
170 applicants.
"Just how many are 170? Well, this will
give you an idea: Out of every thousand persons
in Asheville, three were in that 50-yard-long
. line. .
"The ages ranged from 16 to 33. There
were a number of married men among the ap
plicants, eager for a chance to become an errand
boy. One man telephoned his application from
Murphy ; Another, a college man, made the trip
from Boone for the sole purpose of applying;
and there were a score or more from nearby
towns. (A reporter learned reporters have a
way of getting people to talk, you know that
that bundle under one man's arm was food for
his baby; he had just bought it with borrowed
money.)
"Most of the applicants, however, were
youngsters : Some who hadn't been able to finish
high school; others graduated last spring ; and a
tragically large number who had been out of
high school one, two, three years, and still were
looking for regular employment.
"The boys represented every stratum of
society they were the sons of professional
men, artisans, day laborers but there was a
remarkable uniformity: They wanted a job;
they were willing to work; and they still believ
ed in theYAmerican tradition of starting at fhe
bottom.
"In answer to questions, some of them told
of desperate home conditions. (One boy after
months of looking for work, is about ready to
join the army; 'it's one way Mother and I can
be sure of sorwthing to eat.') But there was no
whining.
. "Certain standards had been set up and the
interviewers every applicant was personally
interviewed :', promptly eliminated many as
failing to measure up to those standards, and,
in fairness, frankly told the applicants. And
again there was uniformity in the good sports
manship with which they took the disappoint
ment; a smile and a 'thank you for your time,'
and they were gone- to try again.
"Not that they all took the first 'no' for an
answer; far from it. It was a jolt, that little
word, but they weren't through yet: 'I have to
have a job' ; or 'I can do that job give me a
chance to prove it' ; or 'isn't there something
else ? I'm willing to do anything.'
"They have intelligence and personality,
these graduates of our high schools ; and they
have determination; and they are salesmen.
Only one will get the job, but as a group, they
sold themselves ; for at least three persons the
three who interviewed them know today that
the myth that America has gone soft is a myth
indeed.
"One .hundred seventy boys, eager young
Americans asking for only one thing a chance
to help themselves.
"The Citizen has a job for one. And the
other 169 ? Has Asheville no place for them ?"
ifit OLD HOME TOWN
U $ Paw Oh
YOU KNOVM WHAT? IF THE SCHOOL.
KIDS OVCS OUR WAV DOUT SET ACROSS
THH TRACK BEFORE OUR MORNiN
FCSkSH-r COMES, TMEY HAVE TO WAIT
'-TIUL THE .AFTERNOON SESSION, WHY,
MHEN TMAT TRAIN SLOVJ-S DOWN TO
FIFTY IT TAES THREE HOURS TO,
PASS THE DEPOT SOME Kiri,
BISOTHE-EJ-
SOME
TWAIN - i
By STANLfcY
Balloon soup!!
THOSE LEAKY OLD
HAY BURMINO
ENGINES ARE SO
DECREPIT THEY
SHIVER AN&YOU
Think they ra
MOVN!
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HURRICANE CORNERS IVES THE
ENGINEER. ON THE MORNING TKAJH
A UNE ON SOME REAL. Eajl-KOAPN
'. . Wft BAruatS tMK.ll v MOKJ aom
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BY D. SAM COX
RLACKIE BEAR HAS A VISITOR Billie and Blackie were both mitrhtv
tickled to find it. Since Billie Possum
BACK IN HARNESS
Story 19
You have already heard how Mr.
Man found out where Billie Possum
lived, and hqw Billie had to skeedad-
dle away from his house before Mr.
n got back with his axe and gun.
illie didn't know where to find an
other house, so he thought he would
go and ask Blackie if he knew a nice
hollow tree that was big enough for
him to put all his things in.
It was almost dinner time when
Billie got to Blackie's house, and he
was mighty tired and hungry, so
Blackie asked him to put down his
things and stay to dinner with him.
Blackie had stewed rabbit and per
simmon pie for dinner, and he couldn't
have had anything that Billie Possum
liked better than persimmon pie, and
he ate so much that he had to un
button his vest before he could drink
his coffee.
After dinner Blackie got out his old
cob pipe and a new one for Billie
Possum, and they filled up with rab
bit tobacco and sat down on the door
step and smoked and talked about
some place for Billie to make him a
home. Blackie thought about all the I
places around there, but some animal
lived in every house he could think of.
But he kept on thinking and think
ing, and after a while he thought of
the bee tree right near his house
where Aunt Lindy got the honey that
was on her table that day when he
tried to eat Sallie Cat and her kitties.
Aunt Lindy's boy, Tom, had smoked
the bees to death, so he could eet the
honey, and nobody had lived in the
bee house since.
After they got through smokinff
their pipes Blackie Bear told Billie
he would help him to move into his
new house, and as he took some of
the rabbit skins, and Billie took the
rest of them and his sheepskin and
his frying pan and other things and
tney started out for his new home in
the bee tree. When they got to the
bee house, Billie Possum went in to
put down his things and what do you
reckon he found ? There on the side
of the bee house stuck a great big
diock or noney! Aunt Lindy's boy
must have been in an awful hurry
when he was getting the honey, or he
wouldn't have left so much of it for
Billie; but, anyway there it was, and
was just moving in and hadn't been to
mill to get any meal to make corn
cakes for his honey, Blackie told him
to take his block of honey to his house
and have supper with him. "I've got
some meal to make cakes of," said
Blackie, "and we will invite Dr. Coon
down, and have a good old country
supper of hot cakes and honey and
cottee.
That suited Billie mighty well, and
so they were soon back at Blackie
Bear s house, and they sent Jay Bird
over to tell Dr. Coon. You may know
that Dr. Coon didn t refuse the Invi
tation, and they had a real frolicking
sort oi a time.
"Blackie," Billie said, when they
were through with supper, "I can get
along mighty well with my rabbit
sKins tor my bed, and you have been
so nice to me I am Groin? to rive vou
back your sheepskin, arid then you
can sieep Detter. '
"You are a pretty good fellow,
Billie," Blackie said. "Let me fill vour
pipe again," and he patted Billie on
the back.
(To be continued. V
After dinner they smoked and talked.
ft Pays-Read the Ads
$75 In Cash, Left
In Public, Return
To Rightful Own!
If Diogenes had walked the
of Waynesville on Sf . 8rret
not have had as much trJH
an honest man, as history woulrl fl
us to believe, he did in ancipnt r. 1 H
for one of the best proofs thatfc
esty is a virtue cherished in this
munity wa8 demonstrated. tt
One of the professional m,
Waynesville had a check casfi
$75.00 at the First National Ban? S
walked over to .one of the 1
and attended to some other mTl
... ...i.ijr vine on me table, for,,
one to pick up, who might chanenj
sec it . - A
Thirty minutes after he discovl
much to his horror, that ha ah
have his money. He wondered if J
woma ever see lti again. He rud
"v nic inuu IlUDinc hnf .
ing the worst
He started telling the offir-i.i. i f
troubles, and his money was
over to him. Another customTj
uc uron uk xuuna ii. and tumiJ
into one. of the clerks. The offic J
vud venom wno nart
cashed for that amount had iru,.
the rightful owner. ft
Who said there was no hotiPf iJ
in this crooked, hard boiled, old world!
J KAJNS ACTIONS LN
Real Estate
(As Recorded to Monday Nooa
; . of this Week)
Bea verdant Townshin
r. T. Messer, et ux. to Arvii n,J
i ....
CI UA, .
Horace Robinson, et ux. t
Robinson.
Fred Pardue to Adeline Pardue.
Clyde TownshiD
T. H. Haynes, Trus.. to F. E.
et al. '
K. B. James to Robert Way Jam J
i - E
et ux.
Fines Creek Township
if. .. Messer, et ux. to R. P
rington.
. x. Arnngton. et ux. to I,
Messer.
Pigeon Township
way m. Mease, et ux. to Gni
Messer, et ux.
Waynesville Townshin
Earl Messer. et ux. to Kate Pi!
aps. . v. , .. ,,
C. H. Ray to W. H. Belk. et aL
J. P. Francis, et u. et al, toJoM
Morrow.
T. L. Green, Comm.. to Dewe l
' r
nrenaie, et ux.
JK. L. Whitner. et ux. to N. 1
Stephens. .
Fred H. Plott to Clyde C. Jordal
et ux.
Whats the Answer?
Br EDWARD FINCH
Main street's broken sidewalks have often
been the subject of much criticism, but even
more serious than the discussions has been the
possibility of a broken limb resulting from a
fall, and a heavy damage suit against the town.
The sidewalks are being replaced rapidly now,
and the cost is not only good insurance, but is
improving walking conditions to say nothing of
a needed town improvement.
Few men have a better understanding of
agricultural and civic problems than Noah Hol
lowell, of Hendersonville, now editor and mana
ger of The Western Carolina Tribune, of that
: city-'. :': .
Mr. Hollo well has been connected with
newspapers in Western North Carolina for many
years, and is recognized among the profession
as being among the best.
With his years of newspaper work; his
experience in public affairs, and his application
of practical business methods, together with
his ability to see the human side of people, makes
us feel that he stands 6n the threshhold of pros
perity and contentment. . .
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lIHY DO I LAUGH
WHEN I AM TlCKLtD
VlfHEN you are tickled on the
T feet or anywhere else you
might be sensitive, a certain set of
muscles and nerves are set intn
action. This action sends to the
brain a spontaneous reaction caus
ing a laugh. This same set of mus
cles and nerves are set into motion
by a funny sight or sound causing
the same reaction a laugh. Just
as when one person presses certain
strings on the violin and draw a
bow across them a certain sound
la produced, so will the very same
sound come forth when another per
son sets into action the same strings
and pressure and bow.
, 0 Western Kiripapf VbUm. '
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IT'S PRICELESS!
The most valuable thing in this world is Good Health.
And the pity of it is that few people realize its value until
it is lost. Otherwise we wouldn't overlook one of the
surest safeguards na periodic health examination by
a physician. Why not include this important measure on
your 1939 program ? You won't regret it.
ASK YOUR DOCTOR
ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE
Phones 53 and 54
Opp.Post Office
TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR YOUR
PROTECTION,