The Dickenson County herald. [volume], June 23, 1927, Image 2

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OICKNESON COUNTY HERALD
Published Every Thursday at Clintwwd.Va.
F. C. Raines, Editor
The Dickenson Couuty Herald is inde
pendent in politics and it’s columns are
open to all parties at the regular rates.
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without the name of the author is known
,o the publisher.
Entered as second class of mail matter
February loth 1927, at Clintwood, Va.,
under the Act of March 3, 1819.
WHAT CLINTWOOD
CAN BE
Nothing is in such bad taste
as that form of community
criticism that is pure and un
niulteratd "knocking” without
a semblance of constructive re
view. It is especially unbecom
ing issuing from a business
man.
Constructive criticism, may
find fault with existing condit
ions but it always is said in a
way that sounds like “boost
ing.” Knocking is talking too
much about what the commun
ity isn’t. “Boosting*’ is talk
ing about what Clintwood is
and can be.
The man in business, whe
ther or not he deserves it, gets
most of the credit or blame for
what his community is. If he
critizes adversley he is, in the
public’s' eyes, just belittling his
own work. But it is never un
becoming for him to boast of
the many good qualities poss
essed* and acquired by his home
town. i
That community which is
without faith in, itself is with
out hope. And if its business
men lack faith in it how can
the community expect to enjoy
the faith of the lay citizen?
However,, the faith Clintwood
demands of its citizens is not
the blind faith required of cit
izens of less fortunate towns.
The wise business man
never knocks, regardless of
how bad business may be. He
knows the “hammer” may re
bound and strike him. know
ing an optimistic public is a
buying public and, that consum
ers tighten their purse strings
with the first cry of hard times
he exhales optimism with
every breath.
MAKING SHOPPING EASY.
This isi truly the age of ad
vertising, and ever expanding
advertising. One, whoi; counts
himself among the “common
people,” on reading the adver
tisements in his newspaper re
marked that it is dangerous to
the purse to read the advertise
ments too carefully because
you cannot even scan them
without finding something you
want and at a price and of a
quality you can’t iafford not to
take advantage of.
It cannot be charged against
newspaper advertisements that
they force upon the public un
wanted merchandise. They do,
however, inform the public
where their merchandise wants
can be fulfilled and at lowest
cost.) The public, with the as
sistance of newspaper advertis
ing, is now able to buy intell
igently and expeditiously. Be
fore the buyer enters the store
he or she knows where desired
articles may be purchased and
where the most favorable
prices are obtainable. News
paper advertisements have er
adicated the hit and miss and
the hurry and scurry, from
shopping, . .
HOME TWEETS.
Clintwood’s Declaration Of
Independence.
The Fourth of July fires the on- j
thusiasm of every citizen. It
marks the celebration of the cel
ebration of the adoption of a <
great document in the story ot |
Nor.h America. But the needs of
the old Declaration have passed
into history. No longer uo the
people of this great country fear
or deride a foreign king. Rather
do they think of the Mother coun
try across the sea in a spirit of
harmony and close a 11 i a n c e in
Anglo-Saxon kinship.
What Clintwood needs is a lit
tle “D e c! a r a t i o n of Indepen
dence” of its own against King
Apathy and Indifference. Para
phrasing the memorable docu
ment of 1776, and applying it to
our own community; we say to
such a “King:”
He has refued to assest to our
Laws, whereby the Public booct
has suffered smartly, while oth
ers have escaped a well-deserved
term in ye bastile. .
He has forgotten to paint up
and clean up in many and divers
manners, even while ttiere was
the wherewithal in ye Exchequer.
He has plundered our streets
and highways, -nd ravaged our
sidewalks, leaving his spoils of
rubbish in places wmnt to be clean
and free of tire punctures.
He is at this time transporting
large armies of house flies and
perchance mosquitos to complete
the works of d'eath, desolation
and tyranny!
He has constrained our fellow
citizens not to meet together and
to bear arms against cooppera
tive effort, whereby small atten
dance has resulted at meetings
for public weal.
He has incited domestic insur
rections amongst us, where sev
eral civic improvements and pub
lic works have beep delayed be
cause of his renting our minds
of dissension and discord.
He has endeavored to suppress
support of local business, and has
permitted the merciless savages
of peddler’s competition to ring
our door bells and turn the pages
of ye mail order catalouge!
He has criticised without facts,
slandered without proof, and at
this time seeks to errect a roulti
titude of new but unfounded rea
sons why CHntwood should not
grow and develop and enjoy ye
fruits of prosperity.
Therefore, we the people of
Clintwood assembled, appealing
to the civic conscience of our cit
izens for the rectitude of our in
tentions, do in the name and by
the authority of the good people
of this town, solemnly publish
and declare that Cljntwood is and
ought to be free and independent
from old King Apathy and indif
ference, and all connection with
the old bird from henceforth and
forever be totally dissolved; and
that we are just as progressive
and up-to-date and ambitious as
any other baliwick in ye realm;
and that business hereafter will
flourish, friendships will he ce
mented, boosters will organize,
schools and churches will advance
homes and buildings will contin
ue to be erected, and all the
community round about will make
our town their town; and for
ourselves as well as for posterity
in support of this declaration,
with a firm reliance in ,alb we
mutually pledge to each other
our asperations, a little of our
fortunes and considerably more
of our civic honor!
President Coolidge said in his
Hammond speech that the num
ber lacking in religious devotion
is altogether too large. Right;
and we might add that it’s hard
to tell whether they remained
that way from associating with
others who have none, or got that
way from following some of those
who profess to have it.
Does “skilled labor” mean
skilled in getting out of hard la
> bor?
DverHeael. ing Zlite Rights.
The claim of fedrnl control cf
water rights i J #n example of
g'-adr.al encre a ahirent on the
states. In an able editorial. the
Portland Oregoni an < >f May 3 says
“The gov^rnm controls nav
igable rive's for purposes of nav
igation only, and piemits construc
tion of dams for t h: . p u r p o s c.
As the same mams' e nvelop water
power, it assumes authority tv
license construction of power
plants, and logically that of dams
for both uses. In many ca=es it
owns the shore lanes for build
ing-',and thus has direct as well as
inairect control ove» use of water
for power. Thcgove rnmentowns
land along unnavigable streams
flowing through public domain
and controls power development
owning the power sites. In law,
the states are sovereign ever the
water for all purposes except
navigation, but tl cir control is
rendered ineffective by federal
ownership cf chore land and by
federal authority to license dams.
“In the Colorado basin,the state
strives to hold in substance a right
on which only the shadow remains
to them. By attempting to draw
them into a compact the federal
government recognised their law
ful rights. Arizona and Utah
dissent, and the nation now un
dertakes to supplant the shadow
with ihe substance,which it holds,
A similar compact is sought be
tween Oregon, Washington and
Idaho regarding the Columbia
Basin project, and 1 ere the gov
ernment’s hold is stronger, for
reclamation by use of federal
funds is proposed. A contest in
the courts is threatened in the
Colorado case, and if the three
Columbia River states should fail
to agree, the government pa a y
proceed in spite of them, and may
be blocked by another lawsuit.
A final definition of federal and
state authority over rivers and
of the manner in which water
shall be apportioned among states
may be given by the supreme
court as the outcome.”
Splitting Legal K airs. The
American Association for advan
cement of Atheism is fighting
thru the courts to have chaplain
appointments discontinued in the
army on the ground that the con
stitution provides that no religi
ous test shall ever he required as
a qualification for public office.
But the A. A, A, . will not
win. The “religious test” clause
merely provides against possible
denominational or sectarian dis
crimination, and was never in
tended to prohibit the employ
ment of men and women whose
services would include the giving
of spiritual counsel. And while
it can not be said that the United
States is a Christian nation from
a legal stand point, it is such a
nation from a practical and his
toric standpoint; and unreserved
ly it is a nation whose citizen,s
mainly adhere to religion of some
kind, It certainly is not an athe
ist nation such as would give
common consent to the claims of
the atheist’s doctrine.
The atheist are not mui h wor
ried over a violation of the con
stitution as they are over their
attempts to pry loose re! i g j o n
from its foundation and overturn
spiritual ideals. In this they seek
to use a technical army regula
tion as a handle.
Good Neighbors.
A woman iq the tenament dis
trict of Paris has started & “Hood
Neighbors” club. She wants to
restore old-fashioned neighborli
ness and friendship among people
living door to door, Shy wants
to be able to borrow a spoonful
of coffee for the breakfast cup
and a teacup full of sugar for
supper and have both parties to
the transaction feel alright about
it.
More power to her! All of us
feel that the old time neighbor
is becoming extinct. As an in
stitution he is losing ground.
Communities are getting too
much like hotels, especially those
in the large cities, Ihe people
dc n’t k now, anddo n’t cr re to
know who the fellow is that lives
next door. We are thankful that
this condition is rot so pronoun
ced in Clintwood. But if this
neighborhood spirit ever finally
vanishes, there’s no telling' what’s
to become of us or our nation.
ACCIDENT PREVENTION
Compelling every automobile
owner to carry liability insur
ance will not in itself prevent
accidents. Indeed, there are
those who contend that a reck
less driver to operate a car to
m.ore reckless than before.
Instead of constantly striving
to make it easier for the reck
less driver to operate a car to
the detriment of the public,
why not make it more difficult
by imposing obligations based
on character and ability to
drive.
During 1926, there were 7,
000 accidental injuries and 246
deaths every day in the United
States. Motor cars were the
largef/t s ingle contributor 'to
the death, hospital,and the $4,
000,000,000 money loss.
Some accidents seem unav
oidable but by far the greater
majority are easily avoidable:
by car inspection, bv reasonab*
<e driving, by fair consideration
of others, by pedestrian decen
cy and care. The speedster and
the jaywalker are twin perils;
the foot hog and the car hog
are other twins, alike deadly;
the get-out-of-my-wiay driver
and the don’t-you-dare-touch
me pedestrians run neck and
neck in the fatality list, for
themselves and for others.
Safety is largely an individ
ual matter; it must be taught
to every person, every succeed
ing generation there is no her
editary or racial caution to
save anybody.
The best contribution any
man can make to public saf
ety is to be careful himself, and
to demand caution in his own
family whether it walks or
rides. This loss of §4.000,000,
000 a year in accidents, most
of them avoidable, is every
body’s business; and until ev
erybody does his' part, the
slaughter and the loss will con
tinue.
Camming Out 0f The Mud
One of the chief benefiis the
farmer derives from really good
roads is that of being able to
move his farm products to market
over them, quickly, cheaply and
without ir.convenince. the far
mer’s crops are his stock in trade.
If he ca i market them with
out delay when the price is
up, he is the gainer; if, because
of bad roads, he is unable to get
his products to the market until
after the price has declined, he
loses.
in the old days when roads
wore good only in good weather,
the farmer could do little satis
factory marketing, He was for
ce:] to take a chance of getting
his products to the buyer on a
rising market.
One decided advantage in good
roads is tqat they encourage he
use of motor vehicles by the far
mer, effecting a saving in time
and worry in crops, and in get
ting his family to church and
chi.dren to school.
Thousands of miles of poor
roads which act as feeders for
main highways are being made
practical for modern traffic at &
minimum expense, by protecting
the old base with a waterproof
wearing surface, Thus farm
land is made available for use,
which would otherwise be isolated
due to distance from schools and
markets and prohibitive cost of
building standard types of state
highway pavements,
The modern tractor and road
machinery plus the waterproof
ing qualities of asphalt are ena
bling hundreds of communities
to come out of tho mud.
Good roads are probably next
in importance to newspapers in
S unifying our people.
- ^ Begin Now to
Have Money!
RIGHT NOW, no matter how old or young you may
be, is the time to begin banking your money or
making the balance to your credit grow.
Someone else profits by the money you spend; YOU
gain by the money you put in the bank.
Start Saving Regularly NOW.
We Invite YOUR Banking Business
RESOURCES, $380,000.00.
THINK!
HAVE MONEY!
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