Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, June 11, 1937, Image 7

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Newspaper Page Text. — GREAT SMOKIEST Typical Great Smoky Mountains Cabin. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. THE 1,500 species of flowering plants that blossom before June 1 are spreading their color over the slopes of the Great Smoky mountains. Haze-shrouded, the Great Smoky mountains dominate the horizon of eastern Tennessee. Visitors often are amazed to find such lofty, wild, and unspoiled mountains straddling the Tennes see-North Carolina state line. In 1923, when public-spirited men and women of the two states or ganized to encompass soaring heights and plunging valleys in a national park, even the mountain eers, grandchildren of pioneers who had braved the arrows of cunning Cherokees, had not explored the whole area. Adventurous hikers who did In vade the mountains found the un dergrowth so thick in places that they had to chop their way through it with an ax. A few naturalists and surveyors visited parts of the Smokies. Hunt ers sought their quarry amid the ly trees and dense cover e u t Hp sheltered bears, deer, and numcr ous smaller animals. Revenue officers occasionally tried to penetrate the wilderness, and lumbermen, with dynamite, axes and saws, pushed their roads and railroads only as far as the most recent cutting. To business men of eastern Ten nessee and western North Carolina, the Great Smokies long were a trade barrier. No road leaped the rugged ridge along which the state line rambles for 71 miles. Com merce east and west in this latitude still moves around either end of the mountains, but the “barrier” now is an asset as the Great Smoky Moun tains National park. Life There Was Primitive. A few years ago it took more than a week to go to Knoxville and re turn to the cabins in the hills. In those days there was little rea son for the mountaineer to leave the mountains. A few sheep supplied wool for clothing and the mountain woman was an adept spinner and weaver. When cows and oxen became use less and were dispatched, shoes were made of their hides. Bears, deer, and birds, brought down with five-foot rifles or caught in traps, supplied the family meat platter. “Sweetnin’ ” was produced from sorghum. Nearly all the land in the Great Smokies was privately owned when the park movement was initiated. Arrangements had to be made for its purchase before the land could be turned over to the national park service for development. An inten sive money-raising campaign was planned. Private subscriptions ag gregated $1,000,000. Appropriations by the adjoining states brought the fund to $5,000,000. But this was only one-half the funds required. The campaigners for many months sought vainly for the other half. Then John D. Rocke feller, Jr., announced that the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Mem x . qrial would match dollar for dollar i * •my money raised in the campaign, k In 1926 congress authorized the -• establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National park on condi tion that the citizens of Tennessee and North Carolina present 427,000 acres of acceptable land in one sol id tract, the acreage to be equally divided between the two states. Of ficials who had investigated were enthusiastic. “Nature is at her choicest there,” they reported. Development of the area as a national playground began, and to day the thousand resident families have shrunk to about four hundred. Some sold their holdings outright and moved out of the mountains. Highways Are Being Built. For six years now government agencies under the supervision of the national park service have been building roads and trails and re stocking forests and streams. The work is just begun. Only sev enty miles of high-standard roads, twenty-five miles of secondary roads, and fewer than 600 miles of trails have been completed. Yet for the last three years this infant of our national park system, not yet dedicated, has been attracting more visitors than any other of our 25 national parks. Less than a mile east of Gatlin burg, Tennessee, a white and green sign announces the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National park. At the end of a long curve, a short distance beyond, the highway forks. You stop and peer through the haze at the steep, tree-blanketed slopes of Mount Le Conte and Sugarland mountain, whose lofty summits are often hidden in lowhanging clouds. There is only one modern road over the mountains between Ten nessee and North Carolina. It winds through the scenic valley of the West Prong of Little Pigeon river, crossing and recrossing the stream to the state line at Newfound Gap. The Chimneys, rugged twin peaks, thickly forested, stand like sentinels, guarding the bridge which carries the highway across the West Prong. From the bridge all the way to Newfound Gap the traveler is hemmed in by steep, wooded mountain slopes, unbroken except where a waterfall, too high above and too far away to be heard, gleams in the sun like a white silken ribbon as a mountain stream sweeps over a precipice toward the noisy river cascading below. At Newfound Gap along the state line the mountain top has been ex cavated and space provided for parking several hundred automo biles. Here the arboreal wonder land that is the Great Smokies spreads before you in both states. Down Into North Carolina. From this point the highway de scends into North Carolina along the Oconaluftee river, through the Qualla Indian reservation, tow’ard Asheville and Bryson City, North Carolina gateways to the park. Southwestward from Newfound Gap, the Skyway, one of the high est highways in the country, is tak ing shape. It has been completed nearly to Clingmans Dome, the loft iest peak in the Great Smokies. Ultimately it will wind forty miles over and around peaks along the state line until it reaches the west ern end of the park, affording amaz ing vistas of jumbled mountains and billowy valleys. Portions of the Sky way are already 6,300 feet above sea level. It is along the trails that the hiker meets isolated mountain families in their cabins, and stumbles upon the remnants of abandoned mills that not long ago ground out the moun taineers’ “turn” of cornmeal. Nearly everything one observes in and around a mountain cabin is homemade. Trundle beds, high backed chairs, spinning wheels, and looms are usually heirlooms. One of the first known white men to study the wonders of the Great Smoky mountains was a botanist, William Bartram of Philadelphia, who climbed among these heights about the time patriots in Indepen dence Hall signed the Declaration of Independence. After him came other botanists who have found the mountains their paradise, one of the largest and last vestiges of the na tive forest that swathed the hills and valleys of colonial America. Orchids and Ferns. So diversified are the wild flowers of the Great Smokies that visitors from many sections of the country find species that grow abundantly in their fields and woodlands among others that are rare to them. Twen ty-two orchids find a natural habitat in these rugged and well-watered mountains; there are 50 kinds of lilies; 7 of trilliums; 22 of violets, and 5 of magnolias. The native wild orchids, while not so large as the more familiar cul tivated species, have all the exqui site form and dainty coloring of their “civilized” cousins. Like many other plant families in the Smokies, the orchids are found throughout a long blossoming sea son. Certain species make a bold debut in the very early spring; oth ers appear reluctant to yield sway to chilly autumn. Ferns range from the most deli cate, with lacy fronds, to the most hardy types. There are lush car pets of mosses and lichens of many varieties, and hundreds of mush rooms and other fungus species range from almost microscopic sizes to the large and showy vari eties, many of which are prized edi bles. Here the catawba rhododendron is at its best. In late June and July its white and purple blossoms cover whole mountain spurs, fleck sweeping slopes, and envelop trails and streams. Mountaineers call rhododendron and laurel thickets “slicks” and “hells.” Indeed, the plants grow in such tangled masses in some areas that only wilderness animals can get through them. Huggins Hell, covering about five hundred acres, is one of the largest rhododendron and laurel thickets. It was named for Irving Huggin?, a mountaineer who sought to drive his cattle from one mountain to an other. On the way he was trapped in the Huggins Hell area. It took him several days to find his way out. Mountaineers avoid the “slicks,” identified by such colorful names as Devil’s Tater Patch, Dev il’s Courthouse, Woolly Tops, and Breakneck Ridge. WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for June 13 THE BROTHERLY LOVE OF JUDAH LESSON TEXT—Genesis 44:18-34. GOLDEN TEXT—Let brotherly love con tinue. Hebrews 13:1. PRIMARY TOPIC — Benjamin’s Bis Brother. JUNIOR TOPIC—Big Brothers. INTERMEDIATE TOPlC—Loving as • Brother. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Self-Sacrifice in the Family. The fundamental unit of society is the family. It is of more im portance than the state, the church, and the social order of which it is a part. The breakdown of the home and the sacted relationships sus tained between parents and chil dren, or brothers and sisters, points to the destruction of society itself. God established the family in the garden of Eden. His plan and pur pose have never been changed, nor have his laws for the protection of the home, for the sanctity of mar riage, for brotherly love, been set aside. Men and nations may de vise other plans and follow the dic tates of the flesh, but that road al ways leads to ruin. The continuation of our story of the life of Joseph and his brethren brings before us today the filial and paternal love of Judah, and affords us an opportunity to stress true brotherly devotion. No one should fail to review the connection be tween the chapter before us and the lesson of last week. Joseph had been dealing with his brethren who had failed to recognize him as the one they had sold into captivity. He was bringing them kindly but defi nitely to that point of repentance at which he could show himself gra cious to them. In doing so he had brought disaster upon them. Being happily on their way homeward with a new supply of food, they were overtaken and Benjamin, the beloved of Jacob, stands accused as a thief, and by their own words condemned to die. In this crisis the mouths of the ten others are closed, but Judah, who had really saved the life of Joseph (Gen. 37:26, 27), stands forth to make an eloquent and pa thetic appeal to Joseph. It presents him as a brother who is I. Courageous Easy rests the yoke of family life as long as all is joyful and pros perous. But when adversity strikes, when sorrow comes, or sickness, or sin, then the true test of devotion is at hand. It was a brave and manly thing for Judah to stand before the one whom he knew only as the man who was “even as Pharaoh.” The circumstances were all against him. He expected the flaming anger of the offended ruler. His brethren had collapsed in despair. It was one of those dark hours which come to every family when someone must demonstrate true love by being strong-hearted and steady. 11. Intelligent. Crises call for more than a cheer ful smile or an encouraging word, much as they do mean in such an hour. But we must be prepared by our close contact with our loved ones to speak and act with vigor and as surance. The plea of Judah is a master piece of logic, argumentation, and appeal, demonstrating that Judah was not only well-informed about his family and its problems, but ready to use his knowledge skill fully and effectively. 111. Sacrificial. One step deeper goes the devo tion of this man to his father and his brother He has done no wrong that merits punishment, but evi dently his brother has been guilty. Had he been of the spirit of Cain he would have said “Am I my broth er’s keeper?” and let him answer for himself. Why should he suffer for another? Why should he allow himself to be imprisoned in a strange land to save his father from sorrow and his brother from what seemed to be the just reward for his deeds? Thus reasons the man of the world, but such is not the language of love. “Let thy servant abide in stead of the lad as a bondsman”— so speaks the true brother. And this is but a faint prefiguring of the One “who sticketh closer than a brother,” who “though he was rich, yet for your sakes became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich” (Prov. 18:24; II Cor. 8:9). Let us improve the opportunity to review our relations with our own family, to determine whether there is aught that we in intelligent and courageous self-sacrifice should do for our own. An Aim in Life We want an aim that can never grow vile, and which cannot dis appoint our hope. There is but one such on earth, and it is that of being like God. 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