North Carolina Newspapers

;? -r-; " ~ "J: : ^ 0 r fir First, Sec tea"'1 all the POLK COUNTY ? The Gateway ?f Western North Carolina Tryon, N. C., July 9, 1925 An Independent Weekly Published in an inde dendent part of these United States. Five Cents Per Copy $1.50 a Year jSflULS OVERRATED; REALLY A WAR JgOlEER OFFERS ANSWER TO TANGLE . p8ier Development, Made Important for Political "CC pointed Gut By Smithsonian Expert Who Has Made ilS close Study of Existing Conditions. appear to be suc^ a colossus of power and pie ^ if Dr. Samuel S# Wyer, noted engineer of ,? 1 js correct iu his appraisal. Meanwhile it i:'~" ;s one of the greatest engineers of the age p,:e>; ' (,,-uo way or the other in Muscle Shoalg ex L. ? Muscle ?/?s all v . ? country ?yjOlirO'" the VJVt ' k pOiitiO iclieve; -rategic "f elei> *Tangle being aired in federal courts Fili On I Ordinary Folks jkl It's All About. De- | fU ad Judges disagree. Ju^p .Mcl v'i.'iiii k. at Los j Bieciarc s tiu- o'UTimieut's Doiieiiy and that | Hardiu.- exceeded the 1 fcieiutivi- discretion in I tte matt <r :r?>m the na si:: ii1 iiit' mtt rior de- I \u?) tuii.es Federal ?[ l iifv r nue, and uP n ftt l?uiuv affair with the Harding j ifpii. With identical j avu/'fi I .11 the two cases !&? Court can uu- j ir? hviid its temper. j jjtiir t-uonuity of the lapther with the politi- ' is.- eases have had up- j U^y,? these, combined . i apprehensions regard. ! ;-'>jt!,>uv generally, | Dcoif aud fcllk Hills af_ | L.-fj .iu unwarranted Im uiy opposite decis- j I in the etxreme to the j s should tic remembered ! r siiiiv u.mrt often re- j ?iJiii in these cases j 14' appeal, in the result : majority ni people have ! lit! SURPRISE 10 IIKfOillS HERE Ifapr. Son ot Mr. and Mrs. iojef. Weds Miss Flossie Has been Member ol Clapel Hill Faculty >y-'- f notice was 2. ? ?? ? observer <*-?: A.i. particular i 1 wIlu have I iJi.i'-:..- : ' ?acliouL his j L<i He is! ?** ; ' U . 'C I II f LI wflO ! ?? - :u- i.t follow his : th- :r. Mis of this :? !?- upM ^reat i Mr L ft,- I Fiai 1 1 tol I b b -iinewhat iiiai.-ie took ??iiiutj in St# j ' ? untract L" ? i f'l''.-sie Cau : iTryon i bd..' U |ri- j.u.\ - ' &V ? * HVi C M k i-.-y." ?>???. - Vit-_ i'.aA-i. lot Wy- ^ '4 UUti V . * ' K'-.< ? ? F1 ' tred to ?- r offiei ? as used. 'Tt'inony ! : by au ? , where l I'll where I summer ' ! ? r of the j . ali<] Ikrri, ilr. ? '!?'? past - duugh i'aiHell. ' '? ive tak Sdf-H . ' ' ' -I al v hut 4 lj !?. l , ; ? "H' dur ? ii, j visit | I^ti ,.f ' ?> for the to j *V center % *..,/* 1 !f-morial , Manse 10 laa^.. . ' '"-'tupied ; ' *fjrk ljMi ' ?''' i he new 1 1 ' u r?- mi . , , I S'W,. Probab J : October. 1?^ h>. ' the rVdki'i';;;'iai> rai3ed V 'D a tricity can be depended upon at Mus cle Shoals, says Dr. Wyer. Com paring the development with others, ' he adds: It would take 35 Muscle Shoals to equal one Niagara Falls. It would , take 250 Muscle Shoals to equal the undeveloped water powers that can be easily developed in the United ^tates. It would take 400 Muscle I Shoal8 to equal the stationary horse i power now in use. It would take j more than two Muscle Shoals to i v.qual the Colfax steam station of j the Duquesne Light Company 12 I miles north of Pittsbourgh." When the Wilson Dam, part of the ' project, is completed thia year, the United States will be in the position j of having $49,000,000 invested in a ; plant without provisions for trans mission line8 and market, according to the engineer. "That is," continues Dr. Wyer, The Muscle Shoals power project will be all dressed up and no place to go." "On the basis of leasing the Mus cle Shoals plant, it will be impossi ble to secure rental Large enough to wipe out ultimately the investment. N0 one but a fool would agree to pay a large enough rental that would ultimately wipe out the money that nag gone into the project. "On the basis of seliling the Mus cle Shoals plant, it will be impossL ble to get a bid <mual to the amount of money that has gone in. "On the basis of the United States government operating, the #l*ut, it would be inposaible to sell the cur rent at a rate that would give a large enough return to pay back ultimate ly the money that has gone into the project for the simple reason that this Muscle Shoals power would al ways have to compete with power generated from the - near-by coal mines and power can be generated cheaper a^ these coal mines than at Muscle Shoals". Here is what Dr. Wyer suggests as to the future program for Muscle Shoals: "The Muscle Shoals project for the two now practically worthless ni trate plants, costing $79,000,000 and^ the overestimated Wilson Daiii, cost ing $49,000,000, Is largely a war loss and vh's war loss should ?? ed at once and written off. Of course, the tax-payers must pay for this loss. "After this is done, the Wilson Dam could be leased to the highest bidder on the basis of making the relatively small amount of electric power that can be generated avail able to the citizens on the basis of the greatest good to the greatest j number "What is needed is a fact-finding fact-recording and fact-facing frame of public mind. "The insignificance of Muscle Shoals iB obvious. When the public) once grasips this bed rock fact; It ' will no longer be excited by claims of alleged strategic importance. Suc^ enlightened public wlU then, therefore, be no longer interested in the distorted political aspects kept alive by Congressional activity." Q - COL STUMS REBIIILDIHB FAMOUS MIMOSA HOTEL Col. Bill Stearns of Mimosa is rebuilding a portion of that historical edifice and expects to be open for business during the later part of the year. Using the present casino ?structure *s a basis^ Colonel Stearns is making many changes and addi tions and when finished - the new Mimosa will contain fifty steam heated roomsf modernly equipped and furnished. The old Mimosa Hotql which burned some years ago was the best known resort establishment in this section and we are told . maintained the firs^ golf course in Western North Carolina. In any case it was famous, and so wa8 its genial pro prietor. Everyone in Polk County will be pleased to hear of Cojonel Bill's re turn to the hotel business and join in wishing him the best of luck in his newt venture. May ^the new Mi mosa far eclipse the' old ? which is raying a lot in a few short words. "WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTAL S BE" By A. a CHAPtN Shakespeare MAS RIGHT J SOUTHERN PUBLISHERS IN SESSION IN ASHEVILli DISCUSS NEWSPAPER ETHICS AND LAMBLAST POSTAL LAW First Duty of Newspaper is to Print the News Says report on Ethics Famous Publishers From all Parts of the South in Attendance. Address by Adolph Ochs of the New York Times and Chattanooga Tines Proves Entertaining. The postal rates as applied to the newspapers came in for a first class hammering when the Southers Pub- ( Ushers Association assemble^ in I I Asheville during the past week went ' into executive session. Branding the increase in rates as a war measure and declaring that all other similar measures had been modified excepting the afecond class : rate ruling the publishers decided to ' take their complaint direct to Wash- j ington. That the first duty 0f a paper is to j print the news regardless of indi viduals, politics and creed is em_ bodied in the report of the assiocia I tion on the ethics of the press. In connection with the meeting a serious squib appeared in one of the trade papers worth reprinting: ? How To Run A Newspaper. 1. Opening: (a) Secure your j power from the local fighting com. ! pany who wilt" be pleased to in- | stall modern electrical equipment ? cash in advance. Likewise they'll J furnish sufficient current to keep j yotir plant running at four times the rate charged other industries in the vicinity and they'll let you print their job work in competition with the big town printers who never | spend a dime with them. Fail to j pay and get your power cut off ? | the town has to havc, a newspaper, I and somebody will pay if you can't. I (b) Buy a rebuilt typesetting ma chine on the painless, easy payment plan. Thiy will afford a safe de posit for surplus cash and absolute ly prevent your wife from spending it all on clothes (c) If you intend to run an eight page paper, be sure to buy a two page press. This will save valuable floor space and insure making the mails; it will also keep your em ployees employed. The speed should GREEN'S CREEK TOWNSHIP BOASrS ACCREDITED SCH00 In announcing ^ that the Tryon school had passed its requirements as a fully accredited High School^ we were reminded that Green Creek Township boasted the same high standing and that within her splen did new school building the work done last year placed her too, in this much desired list. The school building of Greens Creek township was finished last year at a cost* of $30,000 aqd every effort was made by principal and teachers to live up t0 the high standard set for it at the beginning of the term. E. T. Hines, principal^ had splendid sup port in his corps of efficient teach erSj and will be back again when sshool opens in September. <i ' w | Starts Date Bureau | Margaret Mafrkley. of Emporia (Kansas) College, has opened a date luu. -an, charging young men 25 cents a:/ I'irls 50 cents. She says bash fn ! s"i#ors are making business goo4 ? auii the girls like it, too. not exceed 500 per hour for beat re yiilts, and the fly should deliver two out of every three papers ? one the table and one on the floor. (d) Buy type, leads, rules, etc., from te nearest second-hand dealer ? they satisfy. (e) You will not find it necessary to buy or build quarters for your pa per. Any of the leading citizens will be glad to furnish a suitable building at a very small rental and will rearrange and repair upon re i quest. 2. Operating: (a) Begin first by se curing a supply of paper, ink, etc. Any reputable supply house wUl fur nish these items promptly ? bill of lading attached. . (b) Employ a linotype operator. If possible, secpre a man drawing government compensation. They will work cheaply, are careful and painstaking, and can spell and punc tuate on their own hook. The sav_ | ing in wages on this item will easily take care of the expense of magazines, mats and back-paws. Nor will it be necessary to purchase additional hyphens. (c) Employ a printe^ Get one who Ms familiar with and accustom ed to every variety of hooch. Then he won't get killed experimenting. (d) Employ a pressman. Get one with long legs so he can wade through the stock on the floor. If possible, prevent him washing his hands except at quitting time. Nev_ er mind his waste sheets ? the cus-. tomer never counts. (e) You are now fully equipped and feady for business. "Open your subscription books ? and get the big surprise. Solicit some advertising and get a super-shock# (f) Your congressman has probab. ly wri^en you. Publish his enclosed article. (g) Be courteous to candidates ?they'll pay if elected. (h) Start a strong editorial page ?and gejt boycotted. (i. Give a half page ad to the La dies' Aid Oyster Supper ? they won't charge you anything extra for your oysters. ( ? (j) Publish all poems, juvenile and otherwise. Also publish all ob ituaries. This gives you great prestige ? in Asia. (k) Boost your town ? and get your rent raised. (1) Play up the farmer ? and get paid off in potatoes. (m) Jump on the delinquent of. ficers ? and get sued for libel. (n) Borrow a *ew thousand dol lars from your local bank when needed. They will gladly accommo date you on an eight per cent basis if you can offer government bonds as security ? of course you can. (o) Stick a mortgage on your plant. Mortgage holders are al_ ways agreeable and accommodating ? when they get theirs. (p) Actively support every local institution ? without cost. The business men will appreciate yotir presenting them with free publicity and say "I told you so" when the sheriff nails a "Closed" sign on your fron^ door. (q) If after a year y?u are alive consult a brain specialist. He will probably te|ll you you are suf fering from mental hysteria and suggests a change. (r) Take his advice. COMMISSIONERS ACCEPT REMICK'S ROAD PROPOSITION The Polk County Commissioners sitting in executive council consider ed the offer of R. C. Remick, pres ident of Hog Back Mountain, In corporated, developers of Hog Back and Rocky Spur mountains and de cided to accept that portion of the Hogback Mountain ro'id leading to Melrose Mountain, and will continue to connect with the Melrose Greenville Highway now under con struction. Tfcis new route wity bring many additional motorists into Polk Coun ty and will make a valuable asset to the existing ro*4 8ystem, traversing as it does one of the most beautiful parts of a beautiful country. UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TO SOLDIEft DEAD DRAWS RECORD CROWD TO COLOMDOS ON 4th i ? * V ! County Seat Stages Interesting Program With Noted SpeaM[[s Addressing Interested Audience. Memorial FundjRaised By School Children. \ The Fourth of July celebration In Columbus drew the largest crowd ever before seen in the county seat at one time, hundreds of people pre sent from all over the county and surrounding towns, when the Mem. orial t0 Polk County's heroic dead was unveiled with due ceremony. This gift of the school children of the section smnds a fitting momento to the spirit which predominates throughout this mountain country. Senator Francis Pickens Bacon in a few well chosen words welcomed the speakers of the day and explained the manner in which the memorial fund had been raised by the school child ren of Polk County under the direc tion of W. A. Cannon of Lynn. An AS A BOY GIFFORD PROVED DUB AT MATH EMATICS BUT RECOVERED President of American Telephone and Tel egraph Company Says Rise Attributed to Mastery of Mathematics. When Walter S. Gifford was re cently made President of the? Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph Com pany many people credited his pro. motion to his remarkable grasp of figures. In keeping with this im pression, the toastmaster at an alumni club of Harvard University dinner, recently introduced Mr. Gif- < ford as a speaker by referring to his remarkable genius for figures.* The toastmaater had thought Mr. i Gifford would disclose t0 the assem blage the secret of his command of arithmetic as demonstrated when Gifford supervised the making up of I an industrial inventory of 27,000 bua. iness firms for the United State^j government - during the war. He' had xlikty remarked tfc?t Mr. Gif ford must have been a freak student of mathematics from his. kindergar den days to have made such a suc cess of handling statistics. To the surprise of all present Mr. Gifford confessed that as a boy he was a veritable ''dub" at arithmetic was the bane of the existence of his teachers at Salem, Mass., where he first went to school and of his pro fessors at Harvard . He said when he looked back on his early struggles with ' arithmetic he marveled that toastmaster dared describe him as one of the world's greatest mathe- j maticians. He closed his little speech by saying that any man could do as he did in overcoming his hatred of mathematics. When he found that he was always trailing behind at college he deliberately changed his attitude of mind con cerning the science of figures and in conquering arithmetic really came to love it. He added |fhat the same thing applied to other kinds of work and advised everyone dissatisfied with his progress in life to try the formula . o Mrs. Marian A. McAdow Arrived At New Home on Top ofTiyon Mountain Beautiful Trvon Mountain to Blossom . under Skilled Care ot Mrs. McAdow, a Noted Florkultiirisl and.Botanist Mrs. Marian A. McAdow of Punta Gorda^ and Treasurt; Island, Florida who recently purchased the Ryxha ven Estate arrived in Tryon, Monday and is now located at her new home on Tryon Mountain. Mrs. McAdow has let a contract to Wright J. Gaines of Tryon for the remodeling of the Fannie J. Ricks' home at Ryxhaven which wiU be converted int0 a house of the Swiss Chalet type. The grounds will be flagged with native stone^ fountains erected and plants from every corner of the earth planted. Mrs. McAdow hav ing a national reputation as a botanist and floriculturist will per sonolly supervise the laying out of the grounds. Contracts for the installation of prones and electric lights have also been let and construction on these modem essentials to comfortable ex istence is now under way. Ryxhaven^ under^ the ownership of Mrs. McAdow will doubtless become one of the show places of the Blue Ridge country and wili prove' an add ed asset to this section ways. invocation by Rev Will 13. O'N'eill of Tryon opened the ceremonies. Mayor E. B. Cloud uf Columbus introduced 1. C. Blackwood of Spar-j tanburg to the teeming throng which j packed the historic old court-room and Mr. Blackwood^ in ringing words and with true oratorical ability, made ! the presentation address dedicating the memorial to those who died in! France. He spoke of the early his-i tory of the nation and the part played' in the fight for independence by the! mountain men of the Carqlinas, Inj 76, 61^ 98 and 17 the soldiers of thej Tar Heel and Palmetto states foughtj side by side upholding the traditions of a free people. He spoke of thtl sacrifices made by men overseas, otj the sacrifices made by their families^ here at home and expressed a wis that it . might eternally cement bond of loyalty and faith in the tra^ dltlong of the pioneers who madtj America possible. Introduced by Fred W. Blanton, J; WJll Pless, Jr. solicitor for the disl ran and ex-8tate commander in the Amefican Legion, in a speech of ac ceptance told of the dough-boy's at titude toward the late war. "The American soldier does not want to be considered al hero. He merely had a Job to do and he did it in a in a workmanlike way. Few of the bojrg who wore olive drab realty boys ...Who wore olive ^drag realty kn?w* What It was all ftffBfct. They MM0: know that that t^ey had been called, upyn to defend the honor c f the and they shouldered their guns and went to see to through." Mr. Ples8 also spoke of the ter rible sacrifices entailed by war. The loss of life> the bitterness and agony and suffering engendered. But mos t of all he stressed the sacrifice (f the man who came back shattered in nerve and body to take up tqe battle of life where he had left |t under a terrible handicap. Thetie j men, said Mr. Pless^ are the re*l j heroes of the war. Music by a twenty piece band enfl j ing in the' strains of the National ; air accompanied the unveiling of a memorial which wil] stand as a me- . mento of the heroic deeds, not on y of those Polk County boys wt.o died in France, but of every son )f the rugged mountains who saw ser vice under the Stars and Stripes j when the nation needed them. Dinner on the grounds followed | and the afternoon was given over to the renewing of old friendships and the making of new ones^ and the enjoyment two sizzling ball games between Greens ' Creek apd and Columbus aU(j Saluda and Co lumbus which the county seat bo^s lost. The first game going to Green Creen by a score of 9-G and tie other to Saluda 13-8. Columbug was gay with bunting and everyone present seemed to en joy themselves to the , limit ? and over. With it all order prevailed and everybody went home pleased with their celebration of America's greatest holiday. Mr_ Dan Ledbetter, or uree, nio ! tored to Tryon last Saturday and I after a brief visit with friends at I tended the celebration at Columbus. \ o MILL SPRING MEETING OF POLK COUNTY CLUB 1IILY 21st Through a typographical error; it was stated in the last issde of (jhe NEWS that the next meeting of the Polk County Club would be held at Mill Spring on the first Tuesday in July instead of the third Tuesday in the month as provided by the by. laws. ^ The meeting under the auspices of the ^Masonic Lodge at Mill Spring will be held on t^ evening of July 21 at 8 p. m, and an effort is being made to make it a Joint meeting of the Rutherford County Club and the J Polk County ClnJ). Mr. Price, Edttor of the Ruth r ford Sun and chairman or tii. ; r gram committee of the Ruthern r.i County Club is working with repre sentatives from Polk County to per i feet such an arrangement.