ONL Oh I Ht r UNNILST STORIES EVER WRITTEN, “ TOO MUCH EFFICIENCY”, IN EACH ISSUE OF THE STAR. A LAUGH IN EVERY LINE.
VOL- XXXIII. No. 96
“Covers Cleveland Completely.”
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18, 1925.Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
How To Get The Best
Out Of Your Pastor
In view of the fact that every pas
tor of a Shelby church is new on ihe
local charge, a situation which is very
unusual, the following on “How to Gee
the Best Out of Your Pastor”, written
hv 0. L. Daw-son in the Alabama
Baptist will be of interest;
1.—Do not ask “How do w-e like
tie preacher?” Be more concerned
about how the preacher likes us. And
be determined that he shall like us
first rate.
•1.—Do not tie his hands. No one
does a cook or clerk that way, but
many proceed with the preacher just
about on that plan. They set him a
task, then by lack of co-operation, sup
port and backing, make the task im
possible of accomplishment.
3.—Love him, not so much for h:s
sake as for the sake of the good he
may do you and the church. We do
not heed preachers unless love inclines
the will.
4. —.Support him financially. His
credit must be as good as the banks.
The amount of his support should be
determined by his necessities, but by
the requirements of his work. You do
not want our preacher simply to live,
tut to be efficient.
5. —Go hear him preach. That is his
main job—just preaching. No amount
of personal or social attention or fi
nancial backing can take the place
of your regular attendance upon the
preaching of the word. Let the Sun
day school folks stay to the morning
worship. The man has never been born
who can do his best at 11 o’clock when
his own people turn their bad;: on
him at 10:45 o’clock. That one thing
i- taking the heart out of more preach
ers than any other thing I know. Sim
] ly a sympathetic hearing of the Cor
nel by all of the people will mak" a
great preacher out of almost anybody.
And it will make a great people. Th“
opposite will ruin the best pastor and
shrivel the souls of the noolest folks.
Think. Think! Just think!
6. —Encourage him, cheer in the bat
tle. Have you ever seriously consider
ed the gyrations of the “cheer leader ?’
Seems like he’s crazy. He is not. He
is one of the crucial points of the
game. Games as good as lost by the
team have been won by the “rooter-”.
One “gloomer” can rout a whole
church. During the war they lined the
pk omers ffp against the wall and shot
them. Not because they lacked loyalty
or patriotism. It w’as because they
made the spirit of the soldiers droop.
No man or church can droop to vic
tory. Talk victory and victory comes.
—If you need the pastor, call him.
^ ou call the doctor to minister to your
body. If you fail to call your preacher
do not complain at him if he fails to
appear at the proper time. This seems
a needless thing to say, but lots of
folks do just that wray when dealing
with the pastor.
8.—If you hear some one complain
that he is being neglected by the pas
tor, do not repeat the complaint to
others. Just to whisper a word in the
of the reacher is amply sufficient.
Except this—you might suggest to
the complainant that the mere lift
ing of his telephone receiver and one
call will bring the pastor to bis side
in less than one hour. If he fails to
do this simple thing you mav know
be has no strong desire to see his oas
tor
•'•—Your pastor is wise, and be- i
cause he is wise, he will be prudent,
hut every preacher walks in a circle of
fire kindled by evil minds. Protect
him from these gossips all you can. A
rood rattlesnake makes a more de
sirable companion than a gossiper.
^ou can pull out a poison fang. You
cannot pull out a poison tongue.
10. —Pray for your preacher. This
said so often that it seems common
place. It is vital to the ministry of
any man. Herein fail not. Pray for j
him singly—by twos, threes, in small
companies, as a church. Have set
times the one object of which is pray
er for the pastor. More than any soul
,n the church he needs it.
11. —Avoid all disputes and bick
erings among yourselves. How can any
general lead an army against the ram
Parts of the enemy when the chief
concern of the soldiers is to stick pins
°ue another. Swing out on a great
program that will make all little per
sonal feelings seem too small to men
hon. Such a greatness of mind and
sP'rit should so characterize evei y
"eacons’ meeting, every council of of
ficers, every business meeting of the
crunch that little personal matters
could not be so much as thought of.
^ud if some good brother should in
ject it unyhow, draw a ring around
;|m and pass on. Maybe he will fall
m lino again. If he does not—pass on!
"c* night cometh when no man can
'v°rk. Hasten!
12. —Do not be afraid to express
lour appreciation of your pastor and
. work for fear he may become con
jcited. There will be plenty of things
o take the conceit out of him. More
lu'taeli.ei'k die of broken hearts than
of swolen heads. I went to a memo
lial service held by a church for its
dead pastor, House packed. One spake
of the pastor ‘ as a citizen,-’ another
“a neighbor. ” another “as a friend”
another as a "preacher” another “as a
Christian,” another “as a family man”
and so on and on. It was all true. He
vas really a man out of the ordinary.
Then they called oil me to say a few
words. I said. “All you have said of
my dear brother is true. Moreover if
on each Sabbath day you had packed
this church as you have done today,
instead of breaking his heart with
empty pews; if you had said to him
and of him while lie was yet alive
what you have'said today, he would
rot now be dead. He died for things
you are doing for and saying about
him today. I knew.” Maybe I ought
not to have said it, but I did. A preach
er dead makes a first da-s funerr.'. j
But in God’s name the funeral ought
to be put off tvs long as possible.
13.—On all public functions when \
the church is acting through the min- !
ister, the pastor of the church should
always officiate if it be at all possible |
for him to do so. This is especially j
true of all weddings, funerals, bap
tisms and ether like things. To fail
in this discount both the pastor nr.d
the church in a very real sense. There
are sometimes exceptions to this rule,
but they ought to b - very rare and
for very evident reasons—such reasons
sa would make the pastor and church
feel at ease about it. If it seems (le
sion. If any one of the people should j
thoughtlessly violate this rule the m'n i
ister invited to take the pastor’s place |
should gently, hut firmly decline to
render the desired service.
14.—Let it never be forgotten that
good, bad or indifferent as long as he
is pastor of the church he represents
the church. Respect him. and see that
others respect him as such.
1
CAUSE OF CRIME
Scant clothing worn by white wo-,
men—rolled hose and other sugges
tive garb—have an effect upon the
ignorant and primitive rnind ofjre
gro men, in the opinion of Solicitor
J. Ed Swain, of Asheville, say a dis
patch to the Charlotte Observer.
Mr. Swain, commenting upon three
assaults made by negro men upon
white women in Asheville recently,
gave as his opinion that immodest
modes of clothing are a contributing
cause to the attacks.
“Women seem not to realize that
suggestive wearing apparel has a de
moralizing effect on ignorant negro
men and boys,” the solicitor said.
“Before cold weather changed the
modes o' dress, women walked the
Streets of Asheville disgracefully
clad. I have seen women walking
around with clothing weighing only
a few ounces Stockings arc rolled
down, portions of legs exposed, no
corsets worn.’'
He declares that there has been an
increasing tendency on the part of
women to become more suggestive in
their dress all the time. “Knickers ,
are worn with the legs encased in
the thinnest kind of s:lk hose. Ne
groes, lacking culture and under
standing of the. white men, can/iot
reconcile these things with modern
fashion and their emotions are apt
to get away with them. The first
opportunity finds the community con
fronted with a horrible crime.”
Mr. Swain is working nigbt and
day to convict the men arrested in
the assault case, and is also taking
steps to prevent an outbreak here
during the trials. It is be'ieved tnat
the two who were captured will go
on trial next week.
Huffman Should
Give A Chance
Union Republican.
Solicitor Huffman of the sixteenth
judicial district lias thrown a monkey
wrench into the Democratic machin
ery in that district by getting in the
race for solicitor again in the pri
mary next year. Sometime ago he an
nounced that he would retire but the
lure of office was too strong and he
has decided to stand again tor the
place. Just what effect this will have
on the running of the two other can
didates from Burke, the two from
Catawba, one from Caldwell, Cleve
land and Lincoln each, is hard to con
jecture. Huffman should stand aside
and give the boys a chance.
SPECIAL NOTICE. THE SOUTH
ern Inn is now open for regular board
c rs. Room and bpard for $7 per week.
Sanitary rooms and first class board.
Mis. P. E. Biouks, proprietress. b-H>t
The New South is fast losing one
of the cherished traditions of the Old
South—the “spirituals” and unmatch
ed harmony in the song of the negro,
says a Birmingham, Ala., dispatch.
In dustriai progress is believed by
music clitics to be largely responsi
ble for the changed conditions among
the lace. The large plantations of
Dixie at one time were the homes of
the South's chief negro musicians.
'Tis different now. The best musi
cians of the race are to be found in
the cities and centers of population.
But ni2ny of those who have become
urban citizens have acquired cultural
attainments which have detracted from
the old-time song.
Big cotton farms in far South
have been cut up into many smaller
tracts. The cotton planter who boast
ed once of “1,500 ploughs” cant’ be
found. His negro tenants have
found more profitable employment in
the cities—in the factories, on the
highways, in structural work.
Music Makers I’f.ssing
With the scattering of farm help;
the olden-time harmony is passing j
One must journey far into Alabama I
to find negro singing which even ap- j
proximatcs the harmony that or.ce ex
isted over the entire South.
Tuskegee Institute is making se
rious efforts to preserve for both the
white and negro races the spirit of
song originated by the negro. The
institute has produced some of the
finest singers. During the last col
lege year its glee club presented an
interpretation of the negro songs of
oilier days, which was described as
being as nearly perfect as reproduc
tion could be made. Fisk and Ham
pton likewise have given much
thought along similar lines of endea
vor at the instance of leaders of
both races.
Those who have never heard the
real cotton patch harmony can scarce
ly appreciate the apprehension of
music lovers that this art is about
to pass. Fifty negroes of varied
ages in one cotton field are capable
of producing an impromptu program
of song, chant, whistling and chatter
that can be found nowhere else on
the glob, in the opinion of music cri
tics who have traveled far to hear
the music in its orginal setting.
Songs Are Unwritten
The song is usually one which was
never written. It may or may not
be one ready worked out and familiar '
to those participating. A negro does
r.ot have to “know" a song to join
with his fellowsLin singing it. Every
farm group ha^ a leader. This per
son is nearly laways a man. He
strikes his key—and the group is
off.
The same song may be sung for
an hour, or all day. It never becomes
monotonous because of it's variations.
The present-day jazz artist boasts of
his ‘•barber-shop.’’ He knows no
thing of incidents or chords.
The negro singer can ring in more
notes than have ever been written
in the staff. He always sings in
minor, major and uhknown keys.
There’s no precedent for what he
does. Today lie sings a new song and
sings it differently from that of yes
terday. Tomorrow he will have a
new song and more harmony.
No matter what he sings and how
he sings it, there is that indescrib
able rhythm, swing and motion which
is as harmonious as the flow of a
meadow brook. He knows nothing of
crescendos, fortissimos, pianissmos.
He does know harmony.
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BHONE — 602.
AROUND OUR TOWN
" —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS—
—BY BENN DRUM—
THAT EVERY one else.
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RATULATING Max Gardner
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FOR HIS declaration.
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ABOUT THE Australian ballot.
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THE COLYUM joins in.
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AND INTENDS to praise.
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A LITTLE bit also.
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AND FOR another reason
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THAN the other give.
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FOR WE don’t know
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EXACTLY WHAT it means.
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THAT WORD Australian.
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FOR IT may mean,
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AS THE Australians vote.
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SOMETHING LIKE ostriches,
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BURY THEIR head in sand,
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AND TAKE a blind shot.
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BUT WE understand.
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BY THAT voting method
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THAT EVERYBODY cannot.
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WALK UP and see.
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WHO YOU’RE voting for.
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AND WORRY you.
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ABOUT WHETHER or not.
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YOU CROSSED the right one.
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OR SCRATCHED wrong.
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AND IF that’s so.
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WE RE STRONG for
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MAX’S AUSTRALIAN way.
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FOR WE hate.
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TO PICK a loser.
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AND WHEN one votes,
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THE PRESENT way.
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EVERY ONE knows.
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FOR WHOM we vote.
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AND IF we lose.
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THERE’S NO chance.
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FOR AN alibi.
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TO SAY' we voted.
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FOR THE winner.
AND ALONG in years.
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WE’VE VOTED
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FOR ONLY one president
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AND HE'S not president.
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AND WAS beaten.
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BY THE REST OF THE U. S.
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EXCEPT US it seems.
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AND IT was tough.
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ON OUR first vote.
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TO KNOW that everybody.
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KNEW’ WE picked wrong.
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AS WE remember it.
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IT WAS some Davis.
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WE VOTED for first
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BUT THAT don’t matter now,
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WITH MAX’S new plan,
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FOR WE vote alone.
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AND IF we lose.
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NO ONE will know it.
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AND WE’LL get,out
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AND GIVE 15 whoop-wahs,
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AS IF we won.
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AND SOME day mebbe.
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WE'LL PICK a winner.
SINCE NOW everybody.
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AND THEIR brother.
CAN'T COME up.
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AND SAY vote this way.
I'OR IT'S the best.
FOR MY sister’s cou in's.
HUSBAND’S daughter.
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SAW HIM tip.
A POOR! blind banker.
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“NOW VOTE this way.”
This old world sure does progress,
and its' advertising that we're speak
ing of norv. Had you noticed how
many people have paid their doctor’s
1 ill since the mds started saying
through The Star: "Is your la.-t baby
mortgaged." ,
Several of the doctors have pur
chased new full hats—all because
scmeone fell for those ads. and re
member they stumbled in The Star.
Come to think about it, Jack Doug
las might try to get the lawyers to ad
vertise ulong the same- method. Of
course, it is just as unethical—why we
don’t know—for a lawyer to adver
tise for business as it is for a doc
tor, but asking for what’s owing one
isn’t asking for business although it's
business to ask for it. And that's
what the doctors are doing and the
li.wyers might try.
Wouldn't this make a good headline
for a lawyer’s payment ad: “Do you
owe anyone for keeping you out of
jail the last time?”
Of course, though, the lawyers
have it on the doctors. They can make
a jury weep and keep a guy out of
jail, and1 then turn about and prose
cute, make the same jury cry again
and have them force the fellow to dig
—and sometimes when he gets
through digging he figures that it
might have been cheaper to go on to
jail.
And that’s where the doctors have
one back on the lawyers for very few
folks will figure that it would have
been just as cheap to die.
The dentist has it on them all. He
extracts his.
Last week a flivver carrying a
thicker coat of dust than a flapper
does rouge pulled up in front of
Wright’s barber shop and the driver!
ambled in for a shave. There’s no
wonder he ambled, anyone would that;
had driven a flivver from Indiana or,
some other far-off northern or west
ern state here. Time Patton, or some
of the other Skyland barbers, had
eased the sage brush off hi? face with
a lawnmower and a whiff or two of
bacon-and-tomatoes came in from
Heavy’s cafe the stranger decided to
take a walk about town. On his re
turn he informed the gathering about
his round-the-world-with-Henry that
of all the towns he had ever struck
Shelby wras the best. Then he kept
moving. Perhaps that’s his line and
Gastonia folks will say he hadn’t got
there yet.
But the colyumn’s way of figuring
why he didn’t stay over if he thought
it was such good town is that every
body lfkes the best last—such as des
sert after lunch—and decided he’d
keep moving and then come back here
to die.
And in behalf of Best and Palmer
the colyum says: “Come again,
Stranger.
Order your ringside seat now. It
seems as if Shelby is in for a fight,
! not a razor btatle, but a regular gloved
uppercuts. Last week Charles Cordell
under a likeness of his manly form
informed the world that he was ready
to take on all comers under 160 pounds
rnd the next Star couldn’t hardly get
off the press soon enough to carry
another manly form and the return
challenge of Cole Miller, the welter
weight's whiskers, who says he’s
ready and waiting to accommodate
Cordell’s plea for ten rounds of enter
tainment. Now it seems ns if it is up
to someone to find them a place large
enough to tie a rope around for one
ot them to fall on, get a crowd and the
fun starts.
Now the only thing the colyum
(Continued on page three)
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Op «in’ to The Slar)
A W iih tin* creation by
( iinfrn of it National Park in the
(-noi Si. ,iky Mountains of Pastern
relit • ■ ;« ,1 Western North Caro
lina i t ;i*j ohj.ctiv.*, the two states,
r onh "sit rotted in the project—
| N'ot Carolina and Ten tie. see -have
: joii ‘d l and; to make the park a
I reality. l>n, n ;* the pa t week the or
| «»• •••••' H v.m. n na-f iwn worKir.g
i iU’ y tmvrrd the sam? end have
*rjr.». j-. :.l committee, which
i ' "i hi n i- ilv. tr efforts. Col I).
• 1 h.ij.tnv I, ,.f Knoxville, a prime
ooyvr ■ t1 e uul aver to save the
'it* . - ;<tu the ravages of
l‘-‘ i . v;.:-- been named Chair
man of the Inter-.Mate Committee,
uul St it - n-it-.r Flat . D. Illbs of
Ashe ,iK etat y. The immediate
<oo.| i th ■ tw > < rg .ni-.r.tions, the
Great S n»Ji.vr.tt.ii t. Conservation
' • i‘--i >n of Teane: a *e, ami the
No. th Carolina Park Commission, is
to oh!h n fund to purchase at least
a part of the area to be set aside as
a park. Thor -foal sit by the Inter
State Executive Campaign Commit
tee is one million dollars t0 |M> raised
jointly in the two states. An intensive
campaign for North Carolina’s share
is scheduled to begin late in Nov
ember. Tennessee’s work will begin
intensively on December 7th. Cam
paign offices have been opened in
each state. Asheville is the base of
operations in North Carolina, and
headquarters have been established
at the rooms of the Asheville Cham
1m r of Commerce. At Knoxville, where
the Tennessee campaign will be cen
tred, offices have been opened in the
headquarters of the Knoxville Auto
mobile Club.
The sponsors of the movement to
acquire the Park are speeding up
their efforts to have a National Park
created before the mountains in the
proposed Park area are further de
nuded of their virgin forests. The
timber interests, which hold the bulk
of the Park lands, are rapidly en
croaching on the primeval forests of
the Great Smokies, regarded by bo
tanists as the most remarkable ex
| am pits of forestation in the western
j hemisphere. Unless these sections are
j soon set aside for a park, it is re
! garded as inevitable that the beauty
ampled variety of trees and shrubs
of the mountains with their unex
wiil be despoiled by the invading
loggers.
The area of the proposed Park is
roughly a minimum of 435,00 acres.
The State of Tennessee through its
State Legislature has authorized the
purchase of 80,000 acres. It is hoped
that funds will be raised in the com
ing Inter-State campaign to pur
chase several hundred thousand
acres more, and that the interest of
the Nation can be roused to provide
fnnH* far Kulann/t r*_
sjress may make appropriation for
that purpose.
Thy Park area, as tentatively
planned, :» located within the con
fines of Sevier, Monroe, Cook and
Blount Counties of Tennessee, and:
Swain. Graham and Haywood Coun
ties of North Carolina.
The establishment of the Great1
Smokies as National Park has the
approval of Secretary of Interior, j
under whose direction the National !
Parks are administered. A Federal
Park Commission, appointed by Se-1
cretary Work to select sites for a j
National Park in the Southern Ap
palachians reported that of the sec
tions visited, the Great Smokies
“easily stand first because of the
height of mountains, depth of val- j
leys, ruggedness of area, and unex
ampled variety of trees, shrubs and
plants.” Under an act of Congress,,!
approved by President Coolidge Feb
ruary 21, H!2T>, appointment of a
commission was authorized whose
duties were to set the boundaries of
such portions of the Great Smoky {
Mountains as were desirable for
Park purposes, to receive definite of
fers of lands and money, and obtain
options on Park lands. An appropria
tion of $20,000 for the work of the !
commission was authorized, and ap
proved by the President and the Bud
get Bureau. The Commission, which
is at work in mapping the boundar
ies of the proposed Great Smoky
Mountains Park is headed by Repre
sentative H, W. Temple of Pennsyl
vania, and is made up of four na
tionallly-known park experts: Major
W. A. Welch, Manager of Paliades
Inter-State Park of New York and
New Jersey; Harlan P. Kelsey, Pre
sident of the Appalachian Mountain
Clubs, W. C. Gregg, of the National
Parks Service, and Col. Glenn S.
Smith of the United States Geologi
cal Survey. The Inter-State commit
tee of co-ordination consists of six
members, three from each State. The
Tennessee delegation consists of CoJ.
D. C. Chapman, Chairman of the
Committee, Mayor B. A. Morton, and
Dr. Herbert AeutF, all of Knoxville.
The North Carolina members are
State Senator Mark Squires, of Le
noir, Chairman of the North Caro
lina Park Commission, State Sena
tor P, D. Ebbs of Asheville, Secre
tary of the Committee, and Charles
A. Webb, also of Asheville.
St. Louis.—Rain, depression sui
cide.
An interesting study of the records
in the offices of the Weather Bureau
and the coroner for the first nine
months of 1925 shows that these
three apparently walk through life
to the end arm in arm.
While it cannot be said that bad
weather is directly responsible for
self-destruction, it goes almost with
out contradiction that when the
clouds leak a depressive spirit pre
vails, followed by numerous suicides.
It was true particularly in the period
checked here, as noted to increase
either during or just following un
pleasant weather.
This was brought out most strik
ingly in almost every instance sui
cides were in the comparison of the
months of April, which had the great
est amount of precipitation, and July
when Old Sol was almost continuous
ly smiling in the heavens. April had
the greatest number of suicides with
19, while in July only five were re
corded.
Of a total of 99 during these
months, only 22 of the suicides were
women. Only three negroes ended
their lives in that period, a compara
tively low number for the popula
tion ratio.
John A. McGeoch, assistant profes
sor of psychology at Washington
University, when asked for an ex
planation of the effect weather con
ditions have on the mind, referred to
views of Dexter of the University of
Illinois on the subject. Dexter is
quoted as saying:
“W'hen the vital powers are deplet
ed or exhausted from long nervous
strain, then this phase of the cosmic
environment makes itself felt, The
groundwork of forgotten quarrels is
remembered uneasy questions arise
with regard to the future, and one
gets tired of life.
“Weather is not the cause of sui
cides, but some meteorological condi
tions so effect the mental states, so
influence emotional balance, that or
dinarily endurable things become un- •
endurable.”
The reason for the higher death
rate among men is assigned by 51c
Geoch to the fact that men hold great *
er responsibilities tnan women; tneir
failure affects more people than a
woman's soul and is not as easily
withstood.
Most suicides are married, this be
ing true of 67 of the 99 cases in St.
Louis this year. The records classi
fied the others as eight widowers, 22
single men, 8 divorced men, 4 single
women, 3 widows and 2 unknown.
Women apparently prefer ooison, 9
of the 22 using thig method, 55 hang
ing, 3 gas, 3 shooting, 1 drowning,
and 1 jumped from a window.
The average age for men is 44 as
compared with 42 for women. In
both sexes three groups of ages are
outsanding, the first about 20, seconds
about 15 and the third about 65.
With women, love affairs were
mainly the underlying reasons for
their acts, while with -tlic men, lack
of money and jealousy were explain
ed as contributing to their suicides.
Men usually succeed in their at
tempts while less than half of toe
women who take poison, take a suffi
cient quantity to end their lives.
Warning Children
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(Twin-City Sentinel)
Parents and teachers, both in city
and country, should constantly cau
tion school children along “Safety
First'” lines.
In going to and from school there
is frequent opportunity for accident
unless extreme care is used, and re
iteration of the warning along that
line and again may be necessary in
the case of young children.
Of course, no decent human being,
is going to drive a car in such a way
as to deliberately endanger the lives
of school children. But sometimes
these children, playing on their way
to and from school, dash out in front
of cars and even if the driver has
the automobile under exceptionally
good control, there is danger of acci
dent.
Automobilists, of course, should use
all possible care to avert accidents,
but parents and teachers, as suggest
ed above can help materially by con
stant and persistent “Safety First’*
advice to the children.
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