The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-28
AWAITING THE NEW YEAR

Christmas comes and is gone; the record
is made and recorded by the press and
otherwise and, in this rapidly moving age
and country, the people move quickly on
to try out other experiences and to con-
front other problems of life. With the
passing of three days the New Year VIII
appear and reign for twelve months. Its
advent will be welcomed and celebrated
briefly and the population will then turn
to the serious business of living and labor
ing in the year 1889.
Hendersonville and the surrounding ter
ritory does not ''hole up during the VIM
ter to the extent which was the rule in
years past. Improved means of commune
cation, open roads throughout the cold sea-
son, more open weather during the Winter
than was formerly the case, and the great
Il increased disposition and determination
tof the people of the nation to move around,
IRE some of the evident causes for the dis
appearance of the condition of Winter iso-
lation which formerly enveloped all the
mountain section of North Carolina for
several months of the year.
Now, people from other regions come
and go in the mountains throughout the
Winter season, HenderSonville enteItains
visitors as in the Summer, although not in
the great numbers seen here in the Sum-
mer; and the activities of the population
are more noticeable and widespread than
in. the "horse and buggy days" All of
which naturally moves our resident popu-
.lation to activities which begin soon after
the New Year is chalked up on the calen-
'dar.
Therefore, We may eXpect-certainly if
the open weather continues-the resump-
ton of activities pointing to the coming
Spring and Summer-labor on the farms,
building operations planning for TIE next
tourist season.
This, of course, is condition of the
community and the surrounding country
to be greatly desired and encouraged. No
community or section can attain the ma
'terial development and prosperity which
will be found generally satisfactory by car:
;rying on business activities, even at high
pitch, for six months of the year, and
adopting grounding methods of living fo1
six months of each twelve months The
people must live twelve months in the year
and there is no good reason in this age
why they should not be engaged in doing
something useful for themselves and then
fellow men during the entire year, with {
view to improving individual and genera
conditions. There is little Justification fol
loafing at any time.
Hours of labor have been shortened tt
such an extent and the burdens of Labor
have been hghtened in such degree, tina
after one has labored all the hours allowed
by law, the average man will find he ha
not had opportunity to injure himself b,
engaging in hard work. There are yet, O
course, many who work long hours and la
Dor hard and diligently. This section o
cur citizenry is composed of those VIII
keep business moving, all sorts of activitie
at high pitch, and ward off stagnatio
and worse conditions, perhaps, than an
we have faced in the past eight years. Al
honor to them.
To sum up, the object of this little mes
sage to Times-News readers is to direct al
tention to conditions as they were, as the
are, and to changes which are developin
year by year; to voice the conviction tina
the changes which have been named ar
chiefly for the betterment of individus
and community conditions; and to urg
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