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I TODAY'S QUOTaJ IODAT9 BIBLE 7tR32 jlrwt frfation 0f Gc4 j, J s^Ekv5%5t? Editorial Page of The Mountaineer fluff an ffni?hh "i". ?? --i ? glary.?Isaiah 60:18. Crime Remains Expensive Crime costs each family in the United States an average of $195 annually, accord ing to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I. . , Mr. Hoover's startling statement was made to a Congressional committee, and just as startling was the fact that for every dol lar s|h nt on education it is estimated that $1,82 is spent indirectly for criminal activi ties, and for every dollar donated to a church there is $10 that goes to crime. This 'is not such a pretty picture for any of us. Few, if any of us, realize that we are paying almost $10 per week against the cost of crime. In fact, most might feel that per haps the figure is a high, since we do not see or feel the cost direct. On the other haipl, the cost of crime to each family is absorbed in other things until we can neither see nor feel the cost. Take for instance a merchant must carry burglary insurance. The cost of carrying that insurance for the merchant, as well as the manufacturer, and the man who transports goods from manufacturer to the merchant, is all added to the final cost of the goods we buy across the counter. That is where we pay our share without real izing what we are doing. "I do not believe the average citizen senses the proper role that crime plays as a national problem," he said. "It exists on a scale so enormous that it is difficult to grasp it. It can reasonably be estimated that 20 billion dollars annually is the cost of crime in this country." Hoover voiced concern over-an increase in the crime rate among youths. He said 7.8 per cent of the persons arrested in 1952 were under 18 years. 13.3 per cent were under 21, and 2"^1 percent were under 25. The group under 18. he said, accounted for 10. t percent of all robberies in which arrests W' re made. 36.9 percent of all larcenies, 17.8 percent of all burglaries, and 52.6 per cent of all auto thefts. The facts and figures should be of vital to everyone -at least they show that ? Bvervone is paying their part of an expeit P^^sive bill. A Cunable Jurist One of the best liked Superior Court judg es to preside in Haywood court in recent voirs is Judge William H. Bobbitt, lie was JJJtlV (nyudlv. but a WWfele UiifcH MiaM^^y 1 ways. His abilities as a capable jurist are known a toss the state, and now. as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, he. is in a pnsit'ori to render even greater service to his state. W > share with his many friends here in Haywood, the feeling that he will go down in state history as among our most brililiant supreme court judges. V Again, Haywood Comes Through Among the many things clone to the heart of Haywood is the constant fight against polio. The generosity of the citizens of thi? coun ty has been proven time and time again, as they donated freely to light the dreaded disease. Haywood has been among those counties that have in the past been hit by polio, and the devastating aftermaths of the disease are well known here. Cur civic leaders, and especially here in this end of the county, Dave Felmet and Leo Weill, led the campaign to raise more than $12,000 to not only fight the disease, but to render comfort and medical care to those already afflicted. All of Haywood can well be proud of the job they have done again this year, and hope that before too long, medical science will get the upper hand over j)olio. More Beef For Less Work Some facts about the cost of beef, based on tT. S. Hureav of Labor statistics data, will come as a surprise to a great many consum ers. Last year beef prices in respect to wages were at their lowest point in history, saV3 for the war period when OPA ceilings fost ered such widespread black markets that it was impossible to quote reliable and realistic national averages. In other words, the aver age industrial worker has been able to buy more beef for the money received for an hour's work than he ever could before. One reason for this was the marked de cline in livestock prices, which found its reflection at the retail level. Still another reason was that during the first nine months of 1983 marketing charges for meat drop ped seven per cent, according to the Depart ment of Agriculture?the greatest decline for anv food. Still another is the extremely low profit earned by the meat packers. This j profit has heavily declined in late years. In j I!>,*?2, for instance, the packers realized earn ings of only three fifths of a cent per dollar of sales. General manufacturing, by con trast. earned profits of four cents per dollar of sales. Meat is a good buy. A Bad Tax One thing can be said with virtual cer tainty about taxes?once a tax is adopted, even though it is supposed to be temporary or of an emergency nature, it is extraordi narily difficult to got rid of it. The federal gasoline tax is a fine case in point. It v as first enacted 20 years ago. purely on a temporary basis. And what has happened is that it has been periodically in creased?instead of reduced or eliminated? and has reached the present level of two cents a gallon. There was hope that it would die this April?but the President has asked that it l)e continued. The President's position is based upon the need for maintaining government revenues Put. aside from that, the federal gasoline tax is a very bad one. Gasoline taxation is properly a field for the states and the states only, under laws which allocate all the rev enues to road work and prevent diversion to other purposes. According to The Oi' Daily, the federal tax now brings inclose to $ 1.000.000,000 a year, while federal appropri ations to the states for highways are only $550,000.0Q0 a year. In other words, close to half of the tax is being siphoned off. Tbn motorist does the paying?but he doesn't get his money's worth. One can understand Mr. Eisenhower's po sition. The federal gas tax should be repeal ed and this source of revenue left to the states where it belongs. THE MOUNTAINEER Waynesville. North Carolina Main Street Dial C.L 6-5.101 The County Spat of Haywood County PitWshed Pv The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER. Inc. ?* V CURTIS RUSS Editor V Curtis Puss and Marlon T. Bridges, Publisher* I" "1 TSH^D EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY Ore Y"T $3 00 r-.y"n Months 2 00 Th -er Months 1 00 NORTH CAROLINA Or" S'ear $4 00 v Monttn 2 20 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA Or" t>pr $'1 SO ct? Months 2 SO Entered at the nost nfTice at Wavnesvllle. N C.A as Sec ond class s?atl Matter, as provided under the Aet of March 2. 1B79, November 20, 1914 MEMnrn or Tttr associated pnr.ss The Annotated Prers Is entitled exclusively to the use for re-nuhlieatton of all the t'wnl news printed in this n"wsnaper. as well us all AP news dispatches Thursday Afternintn. Februnry 11, 19."?l fheyH 13o It Every Time ??*?*??????? By Jimmy HarloJ / Will voo ly mr ???"? jvwmo small i z ul im mere? 1^ iv say sir ? u\lmis cous?^-^_x^_l fp XMEARTTSOUTRT\THAT'S IS RIPE FOR A MEW // wuat WEW I COOLIMu SYSTEM?-^X\ MERE "IDTRv I v CRILLY-TMIS IS MycoUSN) f EUSTACE PUJNK-WITM MOTI-OG < L COOLIMCj CO.-X KNOW VtX/UL 6ME rrt HIM EVERY CONSIDERATION- UN- . ' I thr-T SEE >OU LATER- - _<! jm/W "JJMJ4NOTWER Tl /^S^wJLVSSof?M I A?. A(: *C^U4N-tt-^ * - , ?lGJ>OWEIMJNDER5TANDIN^^^^. fe$ X2 m Looking Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO J. R Morgan teaches newly or ganized Citizen's Sunday School Class 111 his office on Main Street. W. Roy Francis is sworn in as enior assistant district attorney. Mr. and Mrs Hugh Massie and little daughter. Mary Ann, leave for Tampa, Fla.. where they will spend a month. Miss Betsey Lane Quinlan leaves for Mt. Holly where she will di F'ect a play given under the aus | pices of the Woman's Club. ! Miss Iris Chafin goes to Atlanta I ? to visit relatives. 10 years ago Committees are named for Red Cross drive with the Rev. Clay Madison as general chairman. Miss Margaret Johnston Is guest speaker at Rotary meeting. Cpl. Marcus R Rogers of Clyde, Route 1, arrives in England. Mrs. Sydie Ray, who has been lesiding in Asheville, returns to Waynesville and is a guest at Oak Park. C. J. Harris, noted Western <orth Carolina industrialist, dies n Asheville. 5 YEARS AGO Haywood County now has four county agents; Wayne Franklin re turns to assume duties in East Fork-Cecil areas. W. M. Cobb heads Merchants As sociation. W. G. Byers is named assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Senate in Washington. Mrs. Jonathan Woody, sponsor of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, entertains the sorority at buffet dinner. I Voice of the Views of Other Editors People Ho you consider it good or bad that, according to the groundhog, we are to have six more weeks of winter? M. It. U'his-nhunt, superintend ent ft st Farm?"If farmers get eood weather to do some plowing now. of course another freeze would he of benefit, in fact more -old weather would definitely be -ood for the soil. But personally I like warm weather." Rill "Mliner, sanitarian. County ?It-altb Dept. "From a health ooint of view, and especially so fai ls our work in Ihe health depart ment goes, people get more colds. In and the like and there are more sanitation prooblems if thp woath ?r warm- un too soon. In the spring -veryone gets out and starts -leaning up and noticing faults on heir neighbor's property and we ?set more complaints. Smelling privies and cow pastures, stagnant ?eater which breeds 'mosquitos, ?rash dumos.s which people don't notice ill Ihe winter these are all warm weather problems that are brought to us There is a strong law in privies hut we have ho control ivor most of the other things. The -ounty certainly needs a trash tump Country people < ither dump t somewhere or bury it. Ttie more -old weather. Ihe more flies and -?her Insects that are killed. Those I ties are disease carriers The -rnundhee's prediction is all right with me " Wsvpo Franklin, county farm -eeVit - "I'd sav yes and no. If wc J -?ot snow or rains In build up mols 'tire in the prnund. more winter weather will he rood hut if the winter is too rnuoh. it's hard on mall grain and rover rrons Gcn -rallv sneaking I think it will he bettor if we have more cold though -? least until shoot the middle of Mareh ?n that ? lat.- frn?t would ant kill thipes like the fruit cron 'hat would start budding now with a warm spell." Buving a potato masher? Then make sure It has a comfortable easv-to-grlp handle and enough weight to break uo the potatoes The handle is best when it's un oalrted because the steam from I hot foods may make the paint peel. VALOR OF CHEROKEE SERVING | IN KOREA ADDS NEW CHAPTER TO TALES OF BRAVERY The Cherokee Indian nation has' a great treasure house of tradi tion and history, much of which has been dramatized in "Unto These Hills." now presented each summer in the remarkable Moun tain Side Theater near Cherokee. N. C The drama unfolds tales of, great patience, determination and heroism, including what we may j with justice term martyrdom. It is a brave, fascinating story that: brings great lumps to the throats | of those who sit In the cool com-, fort of that theater with the stars above .and the majesjic foundation of the universe for a seat. Now the Cherokees have a mod ern hero, a youth who was born at , Cherokee and whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob George, live at Whitlier, N. C. Their son. Pfe. Charles George, a rifleman with the 179th Regiment. Forty-Fifth' Division, performd such an act of heroism in Korea that he has been posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor lay this nation. While on a mission to capture a prisoner Private George, volun tarily serving in a rearguard cap acity. threw himself upon a Com munist-hurled grenade to protect the other members of his party. He smothered the blast with his legs His comrades carried his shat tered form to an aid station where he died. Private George has added anoth er and modern chapter to the story of the surpassing bravery of the Cherokecs.?Knoxville Journal. NORTHEASTERN PARK AREA DEVELOPMENT DESERVES KNOXVILLE'S ENCOURAGE MENT Considerable effort is being made by the Cosby Community in Cocke County to develop that sec What Do You Know About ? ??>.>* '$ ! -s Lincoln? 1 Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Lincoln's mother, was a natural child. What is generally believed about her father? 2 When was the first public observance of Lincoln's birthday? 3. What did he serve the delegation that called on him to tell him of his nomination for president? 4 Did Lincoln ever fight in a war? 5. What happened to his first love affair with Ann Rutledge, the tavern keeper's daughter? 6. Was his Gettysburg address immediately recognized as a clas sic? 7. What were the three favorite books or writers of his matur ity? 8. Lincoln, who believed In dreams as omens, told his cabinet the day before his death of a dream he had had the night before. How did he interpret it? 9. How much actual schooling did Lincoln have? 10. What led to reconciliation between Mary Todd and Lincoln ; after their engagement was broken? * * * (Answers are on page 6. Give yourself lg points for each correct answer, 7# or higher is eacellent. M rood. 36 fair and lg?so you | knew about Gettysburg?! \ I ? Rambling * Bits Of Human Interest New? 01 By Frances Gilbert Frazier ? "Oh. would I were an apple blossnn J A-swaying In the breeze 2 That would be just fine unless some i u|,t ' Along woigd coine a freeze. ? And then were 1 an apple blossom, ? My blooming would be brief. | If it's all the same to you, my frier. J I'd rather be a leaf. j| No matter how cloudv the sky, If the smok rises sir ! the sun will soon appear. She was pretty, ambitious and young ... , >ositidh since she graduated. She, also, was a i ? ound her desk was in the same room with t) . . jj irst assignment was to fill out cards for filing ; ^ J ilong fine as she diligently applied herself to hi work 7 1 rards puzzled her for a few nY'nutes but she fit., ; I vas to fill them out. Under the headings as to cor . J ihe wrote the proper explanations. Then when n ,Ti(i, J ion," she studied a minute before she wrote: A 1 rou don't bother him." We have found something that can stag:;"! vuihom, objectionable . . . the new White way lights. In a recent radio program, we heard the <i > um j.^ many times does the word or figure 'ONE' appr. , ,t The correct answer was "Eighteen times". We t. <t ... lieve and happily were able to produce a bill *:.a; diligent counting, we located the 13 ones. Tin is to find a dollar bill. It would be interesting to follow the travi ,t , leaves its birthplace, brand new. Perhaps we won: i)(. ... barrassed if we went everywhere it did from ' pi until its crumpled, dirty and delapitated finale \ i s buy nearly as much as it did in years gone by I , ,:; of some of these "greenbacks", thev have >crvo< But, no matter how they look, they still look mi good "If winter cones" (which it most assurely ha- can Sprij up on her schedule? ? lion in a number of ways, but es pecially as. an area to attract tour ists. Impetus has been given to the movement by the construction of the new road from Cosby to Gatlinburg, opening up a new northeasten route into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and also affording park lovers easier access to a most attractive section of this great scenic region. The Cosby people, who are build ing hard with their own hands, materials and capital, have pointed i out through their spokesman, form er Gov. Ben W. Hoooer. that for years they have boosted every de velopment in connection with the park and now want to do something ' in their home community. They deserve encouragement in this endeavor and we hope that this thriving little community adds to its broiler industry, orchards and nursery a substantial tourist busi ness. It may be that some Knox villians will I ' k at with a jealous- >'-i bir - share that \. ?1... buaines! it f.l-'H see Whatever wiaKbi-i^B in this region eventual jH into Knoxville We a!?< IB share, The' gre.iier the /i^H Knoxville trade area >H wealth Will Ik > Irons n unities into knovulle i. -1 about an Hour's dnt^H K ' " - ' . ' I e I to us in this day than Ctfl Farragut were jii the dap I business.?Knoxville Jo^H A can of condensed'asM combined with one oi :lfl mushroom wonderful. Condensed cream of chicken -oup-:S old friends \< ?'aba -oi^M good mixed with split pea j Ike's Attitude Toward Congress Has Changed Strong Leadership * l Felt Prime N?# 1 President Eisenhower Special to Central Press WASHINGTON?One of the most striking phenomena I ton these days is the sudden shift in President Ei*nW i 1 attitude toward, and relations with, Capitol Hill. Sometime during the recess between the first and second* J of the 83rd Congress, the President obviously decided that i!*? have to exert strong personal leadership in order to get his ptyfl through Congress. . J That was the reason for the recent briefing sessions with "19 * ? ? ? - a , nfPTPnCf MB legislators anu tne Buusequciu w??? Democrats at the White House. In bin:" *. Mr. Eisenhower was doing no moi c than C!> sell Congress a bill of goods. . There is good reason for his precedent* ing performance. Unless he can hold a number of backers in Republican ranks ff at least a measure of support front Democrtf whole administration program faces a diss* ?likely a pigeon-hole. Last session, the President studiously i" any criticism of Congress wh< n it I'"* wishes. It will be interesting to see * continues to fdllow that course or carries M to the people when the votes go agmnst fc" In Washington are betting he will folio*' >* ond course. ? ? ? ? ? ABC's OF ATOMIC SUB?The launching of the atorc-tV submarine USS Nautilus this month is hailed in the ^3V.Ja most revolutionary development since the Wright brother 1 at Kitty Hawk. * A few tradition-bound admirals still insist that the a < j| is "just another steam plant" but younger Navy men s. because the oldsters won't look at facts like these: ^J 1?The main limit on the amount of conventional P?wf: be built into a vessel is the amount of fuel it can earn I atomic engine uses no fuel?virtually none?the lid is off. ^ 2?If other requirements can be met, an atomic ergine ^ Its power without increasing its small fuel consumption ^ another way, a chain reaction can create a temperature grees Just as easily as it can create 1,000 degrees ^ 3?The engine uses no oxygen, and if a vessel is prop*' ^ underwater travel?blunt-nosed like a porpoise?it ran J0 (jt| less power than it could on the surface. As the flsh air friction beneath the surface is less tta The Nautilus itself is a "model T." but 50 per cent ? other sub. More amazing to engineers Is the fact that it ^ without strain to maintain its top speed for two or tin re time?an endurance unthinkable with any other kind of P?" ? 'REVENOOERS'?If you are courteous, friendly. help" standing and co-operative, you should have no great trout" 1 a job as a revenue collector for the United States government. t f*"* The Treasury department and the Internal Revenue Bureau are starting a drive to Install these virtues in all tax collectors and other personnel who handle your tax money and deal with the tax-paying public- y However, you would have to be a gentleman at all tim* ^ the word of Mra Ivy Baker Priest, treasurer of the She says the administration wants to leave you impre***" Heeling that every employe of the tax bureau is "a perfect J Her definition of the perfect gentleman; "One who is nice as he sometimes is." A
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