North Carolina Newspapers

Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County . W. CURTIS EUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Assofate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County Six Months, In Haywood County $1.50 . 76c 2.00 One Year, Outside Haywood County - Ail Subscriptions Payable in Advance ' Entered at tha pot office at Wajmaarilla, N. C., aa Sacond Claaa Hail Matter, aa prorided under the Act of Marcs . 187. Morember 10, 1814. Obituary notice, reaolutlona ' of reapect, earda of thanka, and all notice of entertainmenta tor profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. North Carolina x ! ' WtSS AMUC1AT1QW NATIONAL 6 DITORIAL ASSOCIATION in a n vstr aikAu THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940 Preventable In one garage in town, at the present, there are no less than 15 wrecked cars, in all stages of destruction. Before demolishment they represented symbols of man's progress in science and man's ingenuity. They stood for Jiard earned dollars. Now they are tangled masses of metal. Mute, but expressive omens of destruction of life and property. We read with utter horror of the lives being lost, of the buildings laid in ruin in the pres ent conflagration in Europe. Yet, the same thing is going on right here in Haywood jOounty, and in our own community. We do not call it war. We call it "an accident." But fn cold blooded analysis is it "accidental?" Most of the wrecks on our highways are preventable. We appreciate the alarm ex pressed by the ministerial Association of Haywood County in their recent meeting. There are too many deaths in this commun ity caused by alcohol. The tragedy on Saturday night, the 7th, said to have been a direct result of drunken-' ess, even though the two men who were kill ed were innocent victims. The suffering, to those left behind is that much more acute, . because it was one of those instances that are not in the normal course of life and death. It could have been prevented. The three men who were responsible for the accident, will no doubt also pay a dear price for a few hours freedom on the high ways. .'' Then again on last Saturday night there yas another accident with several persons receiving injuries and cars wrecked. In fact rarely a week passes without some destruc tion of life or property on the highways right here in our own vicinity. Sometimes we think that a year is entirely too short a period to deprive a drunken driver of his license. Few drunks reform in a year's time. Too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the responsibility that rests upon the officers of the law. The officer who deliberately sees a drunken driver and lets (him continue on the highway is just as guilty as the driver, if not more so. For the time being the drun ken driver's sense of discretion is dimmed, but the officer supposed to have his wits clear for any emergency that may arise, is being paid to handle that drunken driver. This most recent tragedy should have a sobering effect on the persons who persist in driving while intoxicated, and should like wise impress upon those charged with guard ing public safety, with their grave responsi bility. ; The automobile and good roads have brought progress. They have aided transpor tation. They have shortened distances in an amazing manner. They have opened up our mountain section to the outside world, but they also brought a new and tragic danger to us. A danger that is ruthless in its re The Last Years Next to the radio, the greatest boon to mankind on occasions is the little gadget that turns it off. In our complicated modern setup, the auto matic stoker or the oil burner in the base ment may displace the woodshed but no me chanical invention can supplant the need for home discipline. Detroit News. .Kids in training camps today will escape two horrors their dads endured over there cooties and Kansas French. Robert Quillen. It may be that "fun is where you find it" but lots of people have peculiar ideas of what constitutes fun anyway. Judre Robert W. Winston, well known nntrinr nnrl inn'st of thia nfnfo celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary on last Thurs day. Dr. Winston has lived a rich, lull, ana useful life. He has spent several summers in Waynes ville and has a number of friends of many years standing here. Judge Winston claims that the last years of a man's life are his best years, and that no man can say he has properly lived unless he dies properly. r There is much food for thought in the Judge's ideas. For certainly experience should give us courage to face life and should give us a philosophy of the finer things of the spirit that makes us get the right value of things. . If we have lived with the right attitude toward work, play and our fellow man, that sentiment that "the best of life is yet to be," naturally follows. Judge Winston attributes his long life to good diet, the proper use of .rest and quiet, and the ability to look at life pleasantly. "LONGER MAY IT WAVE!" THURSDAY, SEPTemrpp Here and There ':''..'V.-By- HILDA WAY GWYN Everybody Contributes A lot of times people who do not own prop erty and do not visit the tax collectors office get the idea that they do not pay taxes. But everybody pays taxes whether they know it ' or not. The followincr taken from a bulletin of the Texas Manufacturers Association, after a survey had been made in this field in a typi cal small Middle Western town will give some idea of how we all pay taxes. Taxes take 15 cents of every dollar spent for new automobiles. Taxes take 13 cents of every dollar spent for furniture. Taxes take 25 cents of every dollar spent for rent. Taxes take 10 cents of every dollar spent for wall paper. Taxes take 12 cents of every dollar spent for movie tickets. Taxes take 3 cents of every dollar spent for insurance. Taxes take 10 cents of every dollar spent for women's clothing. Taxes take 12 cents of every dollar spent for men's clothing. Taxes take 7 cents for every dollar spent for shoes. ..;';;. Taxes take 12 cents of every dollar spent for electricity, 15 cents for every dollar spent for gas. Taxes take 6 cents of every dollar spent lor bus fare. Taxes take eight cents of every dollar spent for meat, 18 cents of every dollar spent for sugar, 13 cents of every dollar spent for matches, five cents of every dollar spent for soap, 34 cents of every dollar spent for beer, nine cents of every dollar spent for vege tables, eight cents of every dollar spent for canned goods. Taxes take 20 cents of everv dollar snent for proprietary medicines, beauty prepara tions, or snaving cream. Taxes take 15 cents of every dollar spent for bread. Taxes take 11 cents of every dollar spent for railroad fare. Taxes take 15 cents of every dollar paid on telephone bills. Taxes take 10 cents of every dollar spent ior miiK ana aairy products. Taxes take 37 cents of every dollar spent i or automoDiie upkeep. OPEN LETTER TO THE STATE HIGHWAY AND PUB LIC WORKS COMMISSION TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEKN m is to voice a complaint with your department we have had occasion i during- the past summer to ooserve the license plates of cars from Rtjafjaa all nvpr the jTtuntrv ... and never haw we seen one yet in this year oi iau . mat pas looaea as bedraggled as the North Carolina plates . . others nave looKea none the worse for wear .... but even a North Carolina license that has been on a car that vou know is housed evprv niahr in a o-araire. has that same rusty dingy look about it ... . they all have painc peeling on them .... now please, when you make arrangements for the new plate for next year . . , get some thing that will withstand the ele ments . , . it can be done . other states have . . . .if you were looking for a bargain and got one in u . , , piease aon t try ior one in '41 . . . if you got gypped in the deal . , , try another company . . . about the best looking license plate we have seen this year was trom the state of Wyoming. Speaking of tags . . . the meth od used in hosnitala tn ear-mark new arrivals in the maternity wards is of interest . . . at our own Hay wood County Hospital they write the baby s name an a piece of ad hesive tape . . . with sex . . as "Baby Girl Brown" ... and put around the wrist . . . at one time I k v. , A - 'swa- , ... t tm mm i II .V vaw 9 Voice ajf ke People. TopicsQf "ay Jude ank Sroatk, Editor of MZI" 'A New Deal Vr: ceeded only by , 3,- by XermaL, " 'i Senator of Norlh Kv o, s a, -tthZt and is: an iJ:.. fonthtthSt' tion ha .u.r veltdini nomic structure of Am What do you consider the great est sin of modern lifer Rev. W. Herbert Mayers rector of Grace EDiscoDal church "The question is not capable of a direct answer. As I under stand it Sin ii -v- i ... is the exact onnosite of morality. uucjr ucu biiibu ueuus vran name ., ., , -- , , , - anoii v.... Now if one knows what morality Art Of Carving Most of us have either been under tho strain of trying to carve or watch others so that we can appreciate the sentiments of Louis Grav es, recently expressed in his paper, "The Jhapel HiU Weekly": "I believe that when the world rwvnmpa really civilized, perhaps the word should be ii, not when, to ask a man to carve a fowl at the dining room table will be considered just as unsuitable as to ask him to clean the fish, peei ttie potatoes, or wash the sand out of tho celery. The carvinc of n fmxrl ? i',4-;n4.i.. o - -v " to uiokiiivtljr something that should be done in advance of tne meal. "It is not only the carver himself who suf- iers. if he is inexpert, as most carvers are, the diners adjacent to him may be showered with drops of gravy and fragments of flesh; whether this catastrophe occurs or not, they are in constant fear that it will, which makes them very uncomfortable. There's another bad thing about carving at the table, the de lay. 'The gastric juices excited by the picture brought to them through the optic nerves, begin to fume and fret It calls to mind the late F. Hopkinson. Smith's story of the Ken tucky colonel who always shut his eyes when his julep was being mixed. 'Looking at it,' the colonel said, 'gets my mouth to waterin' so, I can't taste the whiskeyM opcucu uut in tiny letters , out . . . , ... : - this proved an unnecessary expense ls? might be possible tobnow . . . so the authorities thour . what sm is. Morality is the ef- we guess the fond mother? Wnted an, KP8. envision to take home the tinv nL to certain Pple of right and re- Imam Irtiral n tham TKnn 4 n n T go "among their souvenirs" 1 at any rate the present system of Prl"CIP'ea - nl oi waay or labeling them was inaugurated . Jf' but e ever-livg; and , -, ;, ... - . noooay Knows wnence on eartn n?f.i. . !:.. they sprang. (Sophocles.) F'VBlD 1D UUW D1UUUHU' K 1 1 1 1 I aimi ... . burn stencil" on each arrival f J , e . a P?!vadIn "P1"1.. in the baby's own mptiier's initials in fm . a l"CT even ws me a rich deen tan ?: . ,. thin 11 ' " performance., of real Chicago hospital they arc T taWng prints of the baby's nalrn, 88 T .belns . of lo. aUkf68. as te PP- Wit- r 2 " ' . " ness xne martydom of the small yours . .... and then of course thev sw are alway. unusual . never red ato natuf16; -J -ght. :: Sin today (the greatest di8tinw,s.K va.V.' 'X.TAVi'Jl " : "'. ine we f epint which u'T i" :ZJ f7 " 81ts y md does nothing about im ub!. a h BId sPonsibil- moral actions. Their deliberate re i-j ,v nave cnarifp or nnraavv ,.nfi i. i i . . . - ' - .av.j i jubhi lu Hnn v prAimn nnnmn aa tun of them at one time , . and of W.ht tn C" thpm ZS,T?:r", " eep W'-clvillzed PeoPe the most frn tT 7 i ' ' sintui people in history." .imc iv li'iiv yiv ace ivng ana mtr.;!.!. J 1 ;i. ... . ing up of infants . . . so we JudgeUS JTl that hospital attaches can't be too A.TZia h" r vuu". PM" careful in s..rh n,rtr !J Assoclat,on- In my opinion the grades, damns, and destroys moral lite of every soul." the aoout wrer-ViTl ii aMt...' Many of tc c . . will talc. 1 "l Hi ation-ru!1' ,on f tht ."... T"e reii thu tional har.1, ' m 4 nor ia it li.o . 1 al. admink rannnt K . . 4J 'word D rturo" r.t ...t. ." m ...wgiH,. part. World IS SO sntic.'f ' . that 7 L 80 l IUIUI one all parts. v n e America, taken singly 118 n past, hJ ing and ruinnnl j;..... 1 Buti,whe1,stuKra wie ngni oi wor d mHit;.. comparison with other natiJ Father A. F. Rohrbacher-St. the world, then we hi John Catholic church-r-"In view of Christ's statement, that the love of God is the first and great com mandment and the love of our neighbor the second commandment like to the first (Matthew 22:38-39) I would conclude, that lack of love of both Uod and man is the great est transgression of modern life." careiui in such matters . . cer tainly we all want our own baby. ... greatest sin of modern life is cov etousness. Covetousness is the BrOOd-Sow Or Motlher Sin nt mnA- ern life because it fills our minds and hearts with wrono mot.ivfiQ nnrl desires. It denies thn ownprs)iin We know the vouneer set will appreciate tne following story . and maybe a few olrlstor . will have memories that will give them fT, a v '"e. ownership manner . : v, ;j . umme are him f,r,-i A V- "Ul DIUtnel"8 weeper fic laws . . . a .ni,M :.. ' TT commercializes at first th; t s.'1 a i .. iMacio, II LM1IIK3 morp Of hnfH th.tl kills thee - uk nie ocuupa- mat lays the Go r?pn.tt, - - -66. uon of the o-irl i. aAAr,u. o - . .. . Me ouuucuijr "Kan to sit up and take special "utice . . and there was a euspi cious eleam in h nanded down thn ffliiriin fnn. . it a n ... -k All HIV llf A T hliva nrrorl tO nave thn hnnm a x --- a.v..va ovine uav ui uaving to try a school teacher . you may SDenH th mo,, wie aayjn court and write I broke jue irarnc laws 500 times,' " (Does u.iu laminar children? . . .) VUVCtUUSneSS IS Irfn Qfrv i ta the Tap-Root of all evil, it is the Brooder of all sin. It blights. d. Rev. James G. Huggin, Jr pas tor First Methodist church "The secularlization of life. Emphasiz ing the this-worldly and ignoring the other-worldly. The attitude which might be tersely exnressed w - V " by the title of a modern picture run not so long since in our town (significantly, on Sunday): "Noth ing Sacred." Dr. R. P. Walker pastor of Waynesville Presbvterian ohurf h. "Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power,, 2:3,5 Timothy. (The forgoing was the climax of Paul's list of heinous sins that should characterize the last days.") Rev. W. ' L. Hutchins sunerin tendent of the Waynesville district oi tne Methodist church "I would express it in one word, Greed." Rev. William H. Neese pastor or tne i,rabtree Methodist charge 'The underlying sin of this age is tne elimination of the idea of God from our thinking; The world has lost its God. Consciousness, and man has become a beinc and force that accents no find siinprior to himself. The elimination of the idea Of God is at the base nf sin of every age. Rev. C. O. Newell DaRfcor Meth odist church of De-ltwood "T rnn- sider the sin of INDIFFERENCE and PASSIVITY to be the great moral and religious issue (miu. cially Var and alcoholic bever ages) the most deep-seated men ace of our day." CLIPPINGS LIVE WfiRna H. - iiiessires. aro four graphs which the emphasis that deep conviction One local girl told thia W.pi, JT word3- They are at a nartv drin v' " ,. w - "s reading, ,f you missed . . mo wees . . . unerrt nn rli-o na a ,en sense of humor'. . . read in "n' r a 16 :"u i"-".im ,n tb stage of "looking -Nort), r... . me neifls nvor" j . i , nuuea me m ad had a s rin' ' her 3,500,000 people in un- continuouslv v, .v.na.! ""'f6? eoiidanty to the cause of , . . thi aM-r.7" ai Americanism. The people Of either a t.nr:80 !9 worth Car0na believe in full .nd either with her fcmul J0 . ?plete nonal defense on land . . .sheanri i,.. e na m the air. Thev be- uvi lUULMPr WCIFA ln.Ak I AIM. . , . in v. ,u' were I .e conscription bill . . . of me increase ,n number of Warri- timp r'hl V 011 Sn the men somethin fh6r WaS Rented in way S?5n-e 8e aDd was only . half way hstenmg to the conversation rmreadnyoftan very serinnt ' ' ' and the Mother ,0htfSTd--"Wel,, The first thin a ' . . and Wo lrnsiw t. the same hah; v i o rusn ior last n 7 the radi0 to 1 the st word from Great Britain . . . rnd?ta.riCTiticiZe the government seeUfromth'-C expressea it . . . greatest thing in the w;rld- 7 : no doubt you heard writer . e8t!7i:an,En1.'8" essary men anrl nun. . Push the desired end of maintain- "K our own freedom and independ ence and savin o- nm. ... , .tiu aiviu uie blight of war and the destruction 'ubn are not a very impression- I ' as raw material for diaboLcal art of Goebbels, who u a io aeanng with a rather neurotic neonlo ... j.n. u. --- are quiie hopeless . , . but if there is another -"u ueeper reason why our people are rising and n s r , . . ucovciiuiiiir in Lr'Vf ."d, h,s y be difficulf for p T to understand 'S-i ellSh' as eral for- eign Dhllosnnhc - . have nointrl "na .0,ierT" -ce... are at hertave'ry re!T- iney nave a passion for reliirloiKc observamce and ritual . . beuse they haven because a letter to me . nJ F- ia , : ' Their positiion s not so much th. r.-3 . side, but that T a 18 onour side " . on tioA of the American, way of life. In order to achieve this result, they are willing to travel the pathway of sacrifice. "North Carolina also believes that we have temporized with dis loyal elements too long already. My personal view is that the time nas come when the Congress of the United States ought to outlaw the Communist Party, the Nazi Bund, ana every other organization which seeks the overthrow of our Gov ernment. I believe in free speech, out mat ireedom should not ex tend to organizations which admit- leaiy owe first alleeianen to a. for eign power and seek the destruc tion of the government under which they claim protection. "We hate war, W hpliovo in peace and love it. We love peace SO Well that Wn aro willing, tn flrht to preserve it. if tiBoH h w k. - f ---w wva, uvi , v w aw- lieve the best Security for neaca is full and for national defense. "I COVet for America tho mnral and SDiritual lpaHorah for the distracted neonlps of the earth and a maior share in the task of rebuildinn- civilization . of th Hoey. Governor of North narnlina preceaing the President at the ex ercises Monday to dedicate the Oreat SmOkV Monntaina Matinnol i-am. xne Charlotte News. pai uur own ho.t. and rejoicing as the oE iacis ana ngures will show. America's national debt of is "chicken feed" compared t of all the larger nations of Ei most of which are admitted! hopelessly bankrupt. America is broke, the n the big nations have low "expired in a debtors prison. 1. America's debt hmvU greater in 1940 than in m cause the interest rate hu reduced one half, 2, The srovernmpnt's Mii never better nor trnnn tvJ 6V HUB aay, as evidenced by the factt every time the government rows money it is oversubsJ twenty times 3. America's Der caniti ii far less than that of Enelsi any other belligerent or.nl nation 4. Before the fall of FrascJ was pouring over forty billi nually into her war machine -60 per cent of her nation come. England was even l more into her war machiw. oyer 50 per cent of her na income. It must be far ri now. Russia, Germany, Japai pouring still more into their machines. , 5. The merchant marine and colonies of Denmark. E Belgium, et al, are all destri absorbed by Uermany. : 6. Europe's economic life trade is distorted beyond all ognition. 7 All rintinna have ado Marl r-nflffnl nf PYnnrts and OT and rationing all internal sua and resources. I YTntylan1 ia alreadv empll two foreign currencies the PI ia emninvinc the barter and M J A.,wwnnn.p avMiici'vaIv. All men of Europe are liquidated, A ed out, except England, m it lrlrn inowitjlhlP-With all at dizzy heights and worse H come. o oil th world at ngnting ioi me o"u . , i all labor, capital, trade, mduj agriculture aim ' State and national conW kor.irrunvv and unbalanced . i .' :m millions gets universal; wiw - - j and starvation stalking the m it iu en million eW'l wnn more tuau w !,; munitions with the gold and bar terns of free traae , . . i.j "wnne Wlf prise strangieu m wind;" with the money J for the moving of goods ploying of men, supercw L--JLtV incentive to idle men and machines f the starving, IC6"'" rtj profit-it seems weaitny bro 'J'llannedovel unbalanced it cosis . . ir. lionayeartostaroutof J we were in her sno, - nually instead oi 9 J erf MAY USE RADIO ON DISEASE CLEVELAND Short radio waves may now ha nsAi tn nn gingivitis, the wide-spread disorder indicated Iit. kij: t . iriar.en .ODak, of Chicago, in an address prepared for delivery today before the American Con frees of Physical Therapey. . . T.m Deal includes au works, l ing" for relief, PU 'S,, ers, nome o" vn,iness ' roads, and other ons now grumbling about an unbalanced budge fc . , Owing to world cond y , Hoover sUrted the , spending. .Mr: w to continue n , bettf (rot worse, Bi, of through no iau. - leave the toptaa that f this stawi j sjemocr '..ment oi J Kooseveit s m-.- tionv miry, ecmuv-invasion.