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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, NOVEMBEP 28, The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 17 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS KUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN ..Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County Six Months, In Haywood County ?1.60 75c 2.00 One Year, Outside Haywood County All Subscriptions Payable in Advance btnwl t Am port offlc it Waynwrillt, N. C, u Second Cm Mail Mattar, aa profited under tba Act of March S, 17. Howmbw 10, 1U- Obituary Boticea, raaolutlona of raapect, carda of thank, and alt aoticta of antartainmenta for profit, will ba charged tor at tha rata of ona cent per word. North Carolina j rWSS ASSOCIATION ' in xn vsr iuiii" mMrai y NATIONAL EDITORIAL- ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1940 Christmas Decorations We wish to call attention to the readers to the contests that will be held by the First National Bank and the Woman's Club for decorations for Christmas. The bank will sponsor a contest for the public buildings and the business houses. The club will confine its contests to private resi-, dences. ; .. We like the idea of this visible spirit of Christmas, of sharing so to speak, one's Christmas decorations, with others. This year when there is so much to counteract the joys of Christmas and to deny the teachings of the Prince of Peace, we should double our efforts to make of the season a thing of happi ness, beauty and gratitude. The State's Record Governor-elect J. M. Broughton told the Baptist State Convention last week in Char lotte, that North Carolina's record for law lessness is "one of shame." He pointed out the fact that 10,000 persons are now in the state's prisons and that crime and the number of delinquents are on the in crease. . ' The picture placed against the background of our boasted progress does not make a pleasant contrast, but it does challenge all Christian people. As Mr. Broughton said, "Good Christians must be good citizens to help raise the stand ard of government and create sentiment for law observance. In times like these when wars are raging across the seas and America seeks to prepare herself for any eventuality the spirit of religion should not be crushed, but all should realize that the light will come and a new day dawn." We can bring the matter home to our own county, the number of cases tried in the last term of court here were too large for a fine progressive county like Haywood. There is no excuse for the amount of lawlessness that exists not only in this section, but throughout .the state. "? A Silver Lining It is reported that litigation before the State Supreme court has been much less than usual this fall, and that the same may be said of a number of Superior courts. According to Dillard Gardner, Supreme Court librarian and marshal "the war abroad has kindled kindliness among neighbors at home." . Mr. Gardner believes that this accounts for the fact that there have been fewer neigh bors bringing suit against each other. H6 claims that "John Jones has become a little more aware that Tom Brown, next door, may need his help, or visaversa, if war comes any closer. So they have stopped arguing about the cow line and are mutually united against a common foe." Life Still Cheap There were 161 deaths last month in North Carolina, from what the State Board of Health lists as preventable accidents, as compared with 131 in October, 1939, according to figur es released recently by the Division of Vital Statistics. '. 4 . : . ... The increase registered in .October, 1940 was 30. Aside from the deaths due to .auto mobile accidents, there were. 15 accidental drownings last month, as compared, with only 3 during the same period a year ago, while railroad accidents not associated with high way traffic took a toll of 7, against 4 a year ago. Also there were two air transportation fatalities this year, as compared with none for the corresponding period in 1939. Thanksgiving With death raining from the air, under the sea and on the land in most parts of the world, this Thanksgiving for good gifts must be mingled with anxiety and prayers for a peace under brighter skies that will bring satis faction to the individual and purer demo cracy to all countries. We are thankful as we celebrate our national anniversary that on this continent not a gun is drawn and that no Pan-American country covets the possess ions of a neighbor. The leadership of Frank lin D. Roosevelt in the United States guaran tees a continuation of the Good Neighbor poli cy and insures the cooperation of the United States with the other 20 sovereign republics on continental solidarity for mutual good and for mutual protection. The uplifting faith in these tragic days, and the inspiration of thanksgiving, are found chiefly in the bravery and sacrifice of men who now as in former Dark Ages rise superior to the forces of hate and destruction. If you ask me today that for which my heart goes up in supremest thankfulness; I answer: Because I dare to believe that in history as in nature the darkest hour is just before the dawn, and that the coming century will wit ness more miracles for human well-being than, in any hundred years which have preceded it. May I on this Thanksgiving anniversary seek to lift the veil from the future and draw a picture of what sort of a world men and wo men will live in when 2040 dawns. Essaying the role of the uninspired prophet, I am most thankful that I can see a world of Tomorrow, which will be shaped mostly by peaceful evolution and partly by revolution. It will be very different and very much better than the planet this and former generations have known. (Excerpts from an address by Ambassador Josephus Daniels on Thanksgiving Day at the Union Church in Mexico City). Here and There "::"-By v' MILD A WAY GWYN One of the older members of the Lions Club had a birthday recent- lv ' . it befell the lot of W. u Bvers to to introduce the member on the happy occasion ... it must Vaja hssn mnaterDiece . . . we wish we had space to print it all . , . but cannot resist quoting ex cerpts from it ... with the hope that you are as intriguwl by its "rrfiitorics.1 gaimrncance. as we were. . ,'. Who Is Labor? Industrial peace is an absolute need for re arming America, Secretary of War Stimson told the convention of the American Fede ration of Labor. Production is yet far from adequate, he said. Sacrifices will be called for from labor as they will be called for from the other citizens, the secretary said. ' The overseas dictators would want nothing better than to see the United States torn by industrial strife. .. The, dictators know little 'and care less for Scripture but they are con versant with the truth pfa" divided house being unable to stand. If we can't have peace at home we are like ly to have war from abroad. If we fight among ourselves we will be too weak to with stand pressure from outside. If we haven't sense enough to stand together in a crisis we will be practically down and out when some inferior nation which knows the value of soli darity takes a notion to take a cut at us. And what is "labor?" Is it a word restricted to one class? It certainly isn't. When one buys a pair of socks or shoes, a washing ma chine, a box of candy, a bathtub, an automo bile, a paper of pins or anything else in a shop he is buying the products of labor. That is true. But where would the laborer be if the merchant had not risked probably everything he had to set up a shop for the distribution of these products? The clerk in the store is as necessary in the distribution of shoes and hats and everything else as is the man who helps make them. . The man who built the factory where such products are created is a laborer. Where would labor be without the opportunity to labor? Capital, management, labor and distribu tion are all labor. They all come under the head of work. They are all essential. Ameri ca is no place for class war, class hatred, class throat-cutting. -The Shelby Star. Pagan Conduct There are about 3,000 Chinese boys and girls in the New York area. During the past eight years there have been among them only two cases of juvenile delinquency. A recent legislature and court investigation has dis covered that Chinese percentage of delinquen cy is the lowest of any racial or sectional group, the ration being almost negilgible, Chinese teachers were questioned by the in vestigators concerning the reason for this re markable showing. What they learned should be broadcast, throughout America; "The mis conduct of the child is the fault of the parent." United Presbyterian. SHOfaNG his ugly higajm Many years ago, the reluctance of seamen to sail on a Friday reached' such proportions that the British government decided to prove the fallacy of the superstition. They laid the keel of a new vessel on Friday, launched her on Fiday, named her H. M. S. Friday, and sent her to sea on Friday. The scheme had only one drawback--neither ship nor crew was ever heard of again. Our Navy Magazine. "It i the custom in this country and all over the world to take no tice of events of great importance such as the fall of Jericho . . . the surrender of Poland . . ..'in our own country, the Declaration of Independence . , . and Washing ton's birthday . . it is my pur pose and privilege to announce the birthday of a venerable gentleman, who is a member of the Lions Club ... I shall not tell his age . . . but may mention a few facts contemporaneously ... and it will be a matter for you to decide how old the gentleman is . . . I envyl him his long life and experience . as well as the March of Time .. that he has witnessed in his passing . . . You may wondei; how this member has lived so long , . and is yet so apparently young . . . I think I can tell you . . . he was born in Clyde Township . . . near the banks of the Pigeon River . his soul from the beginning was that of the poet . . . the" first things that he ever heard were the whis per of the Pigeon . . . the tinkling of .the cow bells in the evening . . , the call of the whipperwill, and the yelp of his father's fox hounds . . . he was born in the reign of Victoria . . . queen of England , . . and Empress of India . . . has lived iii the reign of 6 English monarchs . . he was born in the administration of President U. S. Grant . . . and was a dashing young man during that famous period called the "gay 90s" . . . H. M. Stanley had just found Livingston in the heart of Africa . . . William E. Gladstone was Prime Minister of England . . . . David Lloyd George was then 20 years of age. . The town of Waynesville was a village of some 300 or 400 inhab itants , . . and had been inconorated only a few years ... the town of Canton was iinincoporated, being a small village known as the Ford of Pigeon . . . Theodore Roosevelt was a student at Harvard College woodrow Wilson was attend ing Princeton University ... Abra ham Lincoln had been dead onlv a lew years . . . Louis, the 15th, was King of France ... Alfred E. Smith was not born . . . Henry W. Longfellow was writing the sones oi mawatha ... Ben R. Tilman was a farmer in South Carolina . . ." : Bngham Young was living with nis Mormons in what is now the State of Utah . . . John Wanamak- er established the first department store in the U. S. the same year ouaJ crotner Lion was born . . . Wil liam Jennings Bryan was 12 or 14 years old . . . abtendine school w Salem, 111. . . . and had never thought of his Cross of Gold speech oara JLAelano Roosevelt, moth. er of Franklin, D., was entertain ing the youth of Hyde Park. . . . o. J. Shelton, (father of W. T.. was Tax Collector of Haywood County and reported the collection of something less than $7,000 in taxes that year . . . J. R. Ratcliff was clerk of the Superior court and reported that during the year he had collected $29.00 in fines and forfeitures ... the Commissioners of the Western N. C. railroad re ported that the rairoad was finish ed to a point near Old Fort . . and mat with good weather and other favorable circumstances miirht reach Asheville. within the next year , . A. E. Ward ... of Lake Junaluska, was m his latter teens and had not chosen the Land of the Sky ag his adopted home . . me ceioved Zeb Vance was Gov ernor ... and Dr. Snmnol T. T of Waynesville, (father of Mrs. Harry Marshall) was state auditor of North Carolina . . . there were only 36 states in the U. S. and a, oi 37 electoral votes . . . I have mentioned these f from memory . . .and it is not my Purpose by these comparisons . . . to make our brother feel old .v. and I admonish him not to be down hearted or discouraged, and I refer nun to a portion of the beautiful Poem, which says: 'Come grow old with me, the best of life i8 yet to D. Please allow me to pre sent, Lion James W. Killian." ... From all reports the fire depart ment, must have rendered a very fine service when they were called to the home of W. W. Davis at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning the 17th ... in speaking of it Mrs. Davis said, "Mrs. Gwyn, if it had not been for the fire department our home would have been completely de stroyed ty fire ... ft seemed to me that I had left the phone . . and central office was on the job, too . . . when the firemen were in the yard . . you have never seen In view of the fact that the ma jority of the states are now ob serving Thanksgiving on the third Thursday as changed by President Roosevelt, do you approve North Carolina celebrating the new date or continuing to keep the tradi. tional last Thursday 7 Dr. H. , O. Champion "I think that we should observe the same date throughout the United States, and as the majority of the states are celebrating the day as set by President Roosevelt, I would ap prove North , Carolina having Thanksgiving on the new date," Mrs. W. L. Hardin "As far as I am concerned I am old fashioned enough to want to keep the tra ditional last Thursday as Thanks giving." i Mrs. Carroll Bell "I prefer the traditional last Thursday. I don't think that the new date feels like Thanksgiving, . and I think that most of the people feel the same way." . ; . . t Henry Davis "I believe in the rule of the majority, and I think that if the greater number of the other states are going to have the third Thursday for Thanksgiving that we should do so in North Car olina.". . Dr. R. II. Stretcher "I think that it should be put to a vote of the people and be decided by bal lot, and the date set according to the majority of the people,' Prof. E. J. Robeson "I did not approve the change of the date of Thanksgiving, but I suppose one day is as good as another if we are thankful. Uniformity in the observance would avoid complica tions." Chas. E. Ray, Jr. "I definitely approve of the new date First I bpp'rove of the uniformity and then its commercial advantages. The traditional shopping week of fers advantages, and the length ening of the time between the two holidays is quite desirable. I well recall in my college days, how dif ficult it was during the short time between Thanksgiving and Christ mas to fall back into routine work." " Mrs. Chas. E. Quintan "I like the old date, "and personally prefer it, but I realize that some unifority will have to be worked Aftei all the Tdate -doea -flt ne Industry won't lik th so much, but rather theT spirit in which it is observed." StewartFiJ Expert Who Says Defense Progra. Can Pay It Way venirai Pres. Co, PRESIDENT Har tuUon advance the novel tion that our national defe gram madetd telf net J UncUsj ready J load of ednen 01 prepd witn. i keeping Of wgf,. war if.l w. n. u. niouiion ever, it into i money, and it doesn't h. J of any intrinsic value tod ctunoimc sense, it may s potential enemies, safeguai agauiai posstDle future wnicn would cost us ,i man preparedness does. N ess. military, naval'and equipment provides us wil ing of current utility. It'll uct that yields no return aj ems nooody directly, like we eat. the clothes we weal houses that shelter us. W pay lor it is cash 100 per of pocket. If we hadn't anv nation) but were just breaking evf men we piiea ine cost of t program on top of our output, without adding anyj our income, wny wouldn't into debt? Well, we're not J as breaking even. We're bit the hole. Why, then, wont run us still farther into if tainly it must. That's the reasoning o( great many economists I'v with, up to Dr. Moulton. And Dr. Moulton himself lay we shan't have a largei tooi. Increased Income What he does argue is thl nave an increased income td with. Tt'a hijt theain that rtpfanui wW boost our hdustries' ri from about 70 Uions anna 35 or 90 billionj That'll d government 15 i ( 20 billionj to tax. He agrees.' too, that rate will have to be high?! ably on the initial 70 billil assuredly on the 15 or 20 i al billions, Mrs. T. C. Norris "I believe that we should keep the old date for Thanksgiving." ; Mrs. J. Dale Stenta "I believe in the new date. I think that all states should observe ThanksgiV' ing on the same day." such quick work and such consider ation . . .the fire had a good start, the house was so thick with smoke that you could not see your way about , . . yet they put out the blaze in short order . and the least possible damage . . . nothing was hurt by water . . . which you know is a hard thing to do." ... A story has stayed with us , . . told recently by the Rev. J. G. Huggin, Jr., . . . illustrative of a certain point . . . jn one of his noteworthy sermons . . . An Aus trian baron once had wire strung over the trees on his estate , . . in order that when the gentle winds blew, he would have soft music . . . but as time went on the baron was disappointed . the soft breezes blew . , . but there was silence , . . then one night in a raging storm there came the sound of beau tiful music ... and the baron was repaid . . . and so it is with many of us . . . only through the storms and vicisitudes of heart aches does, life take on spiritual beauty . . . . and do we learn to understand con flicting emotions felt by others . . . as well as ourselves. . . . , CLIPPINGS THE HELPFUL NEWSPAPER . COMIC A physician remarked in a din ner table conversation some day ago which oscillated between the war and the big league baseball games;' "It's a good thing we have the baseball games to take our minds some of the time off what is hap pening in Europe." And the more we think about it the more we are certain he was right. All of us who think at all are terribly worred about what is happening in the world and what we must be prepared to meet, even if Hitler does not decide to try to conquer America. It is a good thing we have the baseball and football games to oc cupy our minds and get excited about some of the time. But what are we going ; to do when these are over?, An eminent neurologist. Dr. Ru dolph H. Gerber, says: "Pick up the newspaper comics, go to a good SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK By R.J.SCOTJ Mi i .ill. -fltEEAKfl $KSCRAPER i Art Swedes . UtP CAM NO K MAOC. m-rai. iSTJl outfit KoRE.f'KAM 2.SOO PAfaHf 44 AVE. tUli JLM-frt sincs. i69or o atUBSfrttrrksi ro. WOODKM RAH.tOA.D "Tit - BUT IMC 0J OAK EM 6l.aC.PfA tUt. tfgXI. m i.mmm nut ' consummerdom will ; more of its goods, for un ! ment will be wiped out a i be larger buyers generally ! try's profits will be cut tall percentage basis, by increa; ation, but the volume of sal be increased also. 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