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II I TODAY'S QUOTATION r. Editorial Page of The Mountaineer sheepT Wherefore it I* lawful to do well on *f noblest society.?Emrrson "* the sabbath days?Matthew 11:1*. _ The Safety Checking Lanes Have Done A Lot Of Good The two cheeking lanes which are being held in Waynesville and Canton have had a bout 2,500 vehicles through them in five days, and on some of the days it rained a great part of the time.; The checking this week has been under more favorable conditions, and should run the total number up to about 4,000 by the time the lanes close late this afternoon. About one out of every seven vehicles checked the first five days had some defect, which prevented the green safety sticker from being placed on the windshield. Moi.t of the defects were minor, and were easily corrected by the owners. The ratio of defects found here was not as Ht^h as in some places where cars were turned down at the rate of one out of every four. However, the fact remains, that if among the 880 cars found with defects last week are corrected and kept fr ?m having a col lision, then the lane will be worth many times over the time and effort spent in its operation. Motorists found that going through the lane was not a time-consuming matter, and were glad to see the green emblem of safety on their windshield. The project has been entirely worthwhile, and those who have spent so much in making it a success, de serve a lot of credit for their civic contribu tion towards safer highways. f. ' Tbe Bmcrest Business What Am This Administration has made a praise worthy start in getting government out of commercial business. But it has a mighty long way to go. A leaflet issued by the Chamber of Com merce of the USA states: "The government is still the nation's biggest electric power producer, the biggest power consumer, the biggest banker, biggest employer, biggest insurance company, biggest landlord, big gest. tenant and biggest publisher. In fact, Uncle Sam owns more wheat than the wheat farmers, more grass land than the cattle men and more trucks than General Motors." The same leaflet says: "No one ? not ' even the gov8ffflf!tenf=? has a complete Ttst in anv one place of all its businesses and in dustries." No one knows either how much govern ment in business has cost, is costing, and will cost the taxoavers, but it's a sure bet the figure would make any mind reel. Let the "get-government-out-of-business" campaign move into top gear! A Civil Court Case Oi Unusual Interest Perhaps no civil court lawsuit has ever attracted as much attention and created as much interest as the current case of "who owns the Central Elementary School prop- < erty ?" The case was highly technical, because of the varied angles of law, and the fact that the case actually dates back more than 83 i years, with many different laws being cn- ? acted during that period. The fact that the case was highly techni- , cal gave the average layman a vast wealth of material in which to base his arguments, as he discussed the merits of the case with ' friends, both prior, and since the decision has been given by Judge Dan K. Moore. Judge Moore explained the difficulties in reaching a decision in that there was no specific law governing such a case, but sev eral laws which could apply in part. This was partly bedbuse of the 83-year period, and the different school property laws which have been enacted from time to time. The judge remarked that he has studied the case from every angle, and rendered his decision in favor of the county board of edu cation. However, he made it clear that "there were seven wise men on the Supreme Court bench who could correct any error he made." The case has made the public conscious of the many conflicting laws on our law books, and how complicated a matter can get, when it takes a specific law to clarify a question. State Lobbyists The following editorial is reprinted from the Morgan town, West Virginia, Post: "The Tennessee Legislature made an ap propriation of $50,000 the other day which should be of interest to the residents of every state in the union. This $50,000, to put it bluntly, is to be lused for lobbying activity on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority ? and more particularly to get the maxi mum federal benefits for the TVA territory. "It would be equally proper, we suppose, for the legislatures of other states to make similar aonropriations to be used for lobby ing activity to prevent their being put at any further disadvantage to the TVA states through federal subsidization of industry in those states, "During the MO's, when the Federal Gov ernment was engaged in a federal relief pro gram of what was then regarded as astro nomical proportions, it was not uncommon for the governors of the states to maintain either full time or part lime representatives in Washington charged with the resnonsibil itv of getting the maximum share from the distribution of this federal largesse. With out bearing the name, these representatives were a sort of state ambassador to Wash ington. "If Tennessee is to set a new trend of that general nature, it mav not be too long he fore most of the states will have their special lobbies in Washington." The old breed is dving. but it dies hard. Stories of bullets being fired into television sets still turn up occasionally in the news. ?Asheville Citizen. Cheer un. Just two more "winters" and then it will be summer. Some, of our friends, who keen track of such things, tell us that we are vet to have the annual "Mav PleaV" and then "blackberry winter." Thev no'nt out we always have had these "cool spells" and will not miss this year. A health article says that pain strikes the body at its weakest place. No wonder we hear so much about headaches. Voice of the People Who is your favorite newspaper columnist? Tom Curtis: "Cari Goerch." Fred W. Howe; "I enjoy John Crosby and Stewart and Joseph Al sop." Eyerett McF.lroy: "Drew Pear son." Hye Sheptowitciu "Hal Boyle Tor his human Interest stories and easy style of writing." Jack Mesaer; "I read them all? whatever looks interesting. I don't have a favorite." Dr. J. E. Fender; "The Alsops." NO EXPERIENCE BONHAM, Tex. <AP) ? Cincin nati shortstop Roy McMillan had played only one game of baseball when he showed up at a Redleg tryout camp in McKinney, Tex., in 1047. He made such a good im pression he was signed up. NO BIGGER THAN .AJ^SJjAND_, ? ? i I Looking Back Through The Years 20 YEARS AGO t Belle Meade, recreational center, plans opening on June 13 with Kenneth Dunham as athletic direc tor and Miss Louise Strlngfleld as swimming teacher. ?? ? A ? ". .. ' : i Mrs. James Atkins and sons, Ben and Joe Jack Atkins, return from Chapel Hill where they spent the winter and the boys attended the University. Miss Gussie Martin arrives from Nellie where she taught for the rtocf VP ar 10 TEARS AGO Mrs. Evelyn A. Osborne, super intendent of the Haywood County Hospital, leaves for Chapel Hill to spend her vacation with her daugh ter, Miss Anne Osborne, student at the University. Dr. Walter B. West will deliver sermon as season opens at Lake Junaluska. Formal dance, as a farewell to Charles Isley, popular bind direc tor, is set for June 8 at the Arm orv 5 YEARS AGO Richard Queen receives the Dis tinguished Alumni Citation from Brevard College. Miss Mary Jane Rogers is select ed to represent Waynesville VFW Post in contest for State VFW Beauty Queen. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Ray leave for Pennsylvania to attend the wedding of their soil, Harvey Row an Ray, and Miss Shirley Belve heimer. Mrs. Robert Riley, the former Betty Tu**'" -?"eives degree from woman's College. ' l,wft KHOt <* ? 1 My \ Favorite Stories By CARL GOERCH The first time I heard of this was twelve or fifteen years ago It was told me by Hugh was editor of The American Maga zlne at that time and who went down to Ocracoke with a crowd of us on a fishing trip. If, one of the most interesting parlor games I've ever You tell it in story ,orm group of people: Many years ago there was a man his wife and seventeen - year-oW daughter who lived in India^ The of England. This was done. They arrived in London about seven o'clock one evening. They went to one of the best hotel" ^ ,he city. The mother registered and so did the daughter.^? y ^ the hall from each other After eating dinner, they retu ^t^rss tha* she believed she would retire earlv The daughter saw her moth er safely in bed; then went to her own room and retired. The next morning, about 7.30. thedaughter woke up. She dressed herself and then went across the hall and knocked on her mothers I d?The door opened and a man stood there. The daughter started back. ? Where is my mother?" she de ?-7''don't know anvthing about vour mother." said the man. "But this is her room!" "1 arrived here at five o clock this morning from Livemool and ?he clerk assigned me to this room There was no one here when I rame in." The daughter thought she ml"!" have made a mistake But no She romnared the location of the room with, that of her own and was nosit'lva that it was the same room in wh??h she had left her mother ? ho ni?ht before She neered Into ?h? mom ejnd It seemed ?o her thaf ?he forrBiire was different and ?h?t it had been rearranged. Nov pHhetecs. she know it was her ir?o^tier's room The eirl th&n herame frantic She called for the clerk. The clerk came up and the girl asked him about her mother. "I don't know anything about your mother," he told her. "But you were at the desk last right when we registered." she pro tested. I remember your eegWertng. but I do not recall anyone being with you." he stated. The ?lrl then went into hysterics. She raised so much fuss that the Wei neoole called for the noiice. "Hie police took her to the station Wer condition became such that they finally sent her to an asylum. That's the story as you tell it to "our friends Now then, the orob 'ern of. rmirvf is?what became of ?he mother' And that is the prob lem the crowd is snooosed to ?olve Then can flr? anv kind of "iiestjon as vou that thev want to: 'here is onVv one restrirtion ? vonr answer must he ronftned to a mere or "Vn". Tf thev nro nnnnd snrh nnestlnns as "Wtiv dtd so-and-so hannen'" or "Wow Aid the im*n hws that snrVi.sed^uch fContinued on paie 3) ? SENATOR SAM ERVIN ? SAYS * i WASHINGTON?Armed Forces Day gave me an opportunity to discuss my ideas about national defense. Several cities around Newport News invited me to speak to their combined Armed Forces Day celebration the past weekend. The remarks that I made ran along the general theme that the history of America furnishes am ple proof of the truth of this state ment: "The Lord and soldier we adore in time of danger?not be fore. Danger past, all things right ed?God forgotten, soldier slight ed." WHERE IS OUR WISDOM? When I was a student at the University of North Carolina I sat at the feet of a much beloved teacher. Collier Cobb, who taught us many thlnes in addition to his assigned subject of geology. He was wont to remark that wise men learned by the exDerience of oth ers .that fools learned by their own exoerlence. and that the ma jority of us learned neither by the exoerlenee of others nor by our own exnerlence. It would be well for us to ponder whether we have at last acontred the wisdom pos sessed by fools. On three occasions during our generation, the youth of our peace loving nation have been compelled to march forth to war and shed their blood that liberty might en dure. After they had won victory in the first World War. we ignored the truth of history that mankind spends a large part of his blood and treasure and time in the wag ing of war, and we deluded our selves into believing that we were to be blessed beyond all past gen erations and were to enjoy forever the blessings of peace. Aa a con seauence. we jeopardised our na tional security bv disbanding our Armv and bv sinking with our fountain pens one of the finest navies that evef sailed the seven seas. histoby repeats Historv has a habit of repeating 'tself. The second World War came. Once aeain our vouth went forth to battle and purchased a glorious victory,with their blood. And once again we ignored the truth of his tory that mankind spends a large "art of his. treasure and blood and time in the waving of war and de luded ourselves into believing that we were to be blessed beyond all nast generations and were to enjoy forever the blessings of peace. As a consequence, we again jeopardiz ed our national securitv bv dis mantling our Navy and disbanding our Army. After our Naw was dismantled and our Armv disbanded. the Ko rean conflict came And once again the vouth of America went forth to battle This conflict, has termin ?ted In a truce and it now appears ?t??t thei-e ia reason to t>nn? that Soviet Bu?sin and Red China at* ?hoof to rcdnu come of the ten sions of the cold war. l>et IIS wnclr for neace through the United Nations Let its nrav trie "?ere. And let n? keen oire nosedee dev and incurs the neace hv main, t-atntn* -an adenuate Armv. and adenuate Air Force and an ade quate Navy. Rambling 'Rour By Frances Gilbert Frazier There Is something awfully nice about living in a t0Wn nough to know everybody. It gives such a friendly ftoiin ?eople on the street and have them greet you with a smile t cross the street at some one and get the same back agaJ mow these people will be right here tomorrow. Then whi irrive. it's fun to get them acquainted with the others and B eel home-like, too. Familiar faces, familiar *ights and fM ?oundings make the small town a mighty nice place to live i A kindly thourht is a aeed for a kindly act that win a good harvest. Habit is a hard and, sometimes, cruel task master blindly, day after day, and if we happen to slip oat of whole program goes hay-wire and we flounder around he)# We go about ou rroutine tasks automatically, hardly real import. Then if we suddenly send back an inquiry as t0 i complished, it has become so much a part of us that we cana bcr just what, vtrfhen or where. Perhaps habit makes a job i because the cogs slip into gear without any force, but w? that sameness, that routine, that habit, doesn't hamper ou in forming new ideas. If all the inventors followed a bo they would never have wandered off far enough to find ne, in which progress was sprouting. Confidentially, we think Old Man Habit is just a lary 0 There's something sort of heartwarming and homer nun in a driving rain carrying a bright, feminine umbrtl ??? ?> Reading an article in the recent issue of Reader's Di the long aueues of oeoDle waiting to buv tickets at the] Music Hall in New York, brings to mind the premiere of 1 The Wind" in Atlanta, some sixteen years aeo. The show movie was at the Grand Theatre on Peachtree, near How From Peachtree it was a double-long block to Ivy street same distance to Ellis street, ditto back to Peachtree ? block to the theatre. Yet that entire distance was doouIj double-row of would-be patrons to view the picture. This t almost a week and was. undoubtedly, the greatest movie before and since in Atlanta's history. Margaret Mitchell, the writer of the famous book, i dent of Atlanta and was a dearly beloved personage. Both tors Played a part in the interest disolaved but the greati picture proved its worth. Truly, patience was its own rewai who walked 'round the block and "round again to see * The Wind". "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the ei if there's any of it left by the time it comes their turn. ? * A funny thing happened in Waynesville Monday. It didn't rain. Accordine to a blotter in the lobby of the WavnesvtUr postoffice. this town has been moved oat of the Tar Heel State into the Palmet to State. The blotter, distributed bv a lo cal insurance a rent, lists his ad dress an "Waynesville, Sooth Caro lina". Bv the wav. what hanoened to Wavnesville's observance of Arm ed Forces Dav? ? o ? STWPTT K?fer Moody sheetinr a ?v?ter pistol at pretty rirls on Main St. The deeora?ion? at the St John's nrom l??t FrHav nl?ht ? featurinr a wlshln? well with run nine water "star dust" and trees? was the cleverest we've seen ?nv where. And that includes colleee dances. The slaee setting looked like something out of a dream. Dbk Jockey "Nat the Cat" pro vides a maximum of wax with a minimum of lip. A Waynesville worn recently that the tral the corner of South Academy streets woul useful if it were at tb Main and Pieeon. She mav have a po traffic on Pieeon St ably heavier than that i St. Waynesville is draw from all over. Tnesdn car narked on Main S waii plates. We neeleeted to w ier. but the reerot 1 Commerce hannuet ?? iowrinr delicacies: "Prime Roast Iooehee" "Fancy Green Be? wood" "Snowflake Potaloo Speaking of food, hat the one about the league baseball player job in a New Yort catching tossed salad' Maybe it wasn't exactly romance- B ?utwdw does said nurse figure? BUT SMEDLEV FK5UREDA NURSE AS A ? VbU 6UESSED IT. FAL? WIFE MOULD TAKE GOOD CARE OF WIM-* ? y//^ v/,;/ . . GETTING AlARRtED^Nff^^^^l ?.?^3/ yup~i* GETTING m4RWED--T%M 7T7 AW.s^edlsv-TWAT NICE patient Y% I" ^1 iiT^~U MV NK5UT NURSE^UAZEL SWAB- IjH '.'A IN 412? REMEMBER? WEIL,4T 1 ?'// 1 ^==^3^ WONBERFUtGIRtMT LEAST y| LAST I CAN SAY BYE-BYE ? xu. nave soweeooy to ^ to nursing ' 7_v1 LFl ^LOOK AFTER 'ME wubmz^ >t * IQEj ,4.' W' THF MOUNT A INFER Wayneavllle, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The County Seat of Haywood County PnMlshed R? The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Inc. W CURTIS RUSS ?- ? ?- Editor W. Curtis Russ an? Marion T. Bridses, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3.50 Si* months 3 00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year 4.50 Six months 8.50 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year 5.0U Six months / S.Ot LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month 40e Offtce-paid for carrier delivery 4.50 Entered at the poet office at Wayneevtlle. N. C.. as Sec ond Clan Mall Matter, at provided under the Act of March 1 1879. November *0. 1814. y^florth Carolina v\ /win msoc . MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaoodated Preaa la entitled exclusively to tha uaa tor ra-publlcatlon of all the local nawa printed tn thia acwapaper. as well ae all AP new* dispatches. Thursday Afternoon, May 26, 1955 Mses going up "i " ' I pr^522{ Avtrog* Hourly Earnlngi, U.S. Pmctory Production Workort Say I Saw It In The MountM CROSSWORD ACROSS DOWN 18. Ago lOml L Scorch l. Reasons 19. Laughing AKyftj 6. Strong X Hoeirse 20. Perform BnHSill wind S. Skin 24. Help teMH$H $. Subtle 4. Sun god 25. Disguise fetefjEEl emulation ' A Agreeable 26. Crowns ??Egifl 10. God of war A Affix * 27. Cap mj&HM (Norse) 7. Cover 28. Hair on EEffrbM lL New wine A Entangle horse's 1A Pamper IX. PriesUy neck B2U-" 1A Question caste of 29. Birds of lABeed ancient prey .. ?easel Media JA Peasant ^ 1A Part of 12. Vegetable (India) ^ "to be- 1A Freeh-water SA Showers 4(1 ? 17. Natural hot tortoise 35. Troubles ^ ?rtog 1A To be M.Constel W. Spicy twaittBt 4 ltUoo 21. 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