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THE SYLVA HERALD AND RURALITE Published Bv THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. M ain Street Phone 110 Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County PIERCE WYCHE Editor-Manager W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County $1.50 Six Months, In Jackson County &0c One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.00 Six Months, Outside Jackson County 1.25 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March "3, 1379, November 20. 1914. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and all notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of oire cent per word. ^ I North Carolina PPESS ASSOC lATlOwy, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943 We Might Compete In a recent issue ot the Raleigh News and Observer the capital was ready to take over the role of the city of Reno as a divorce headquarters. The claim was being made because of the granting of 43 divorces in Wake County Superior Court that week and the fact that 55 more divorce cases were scheduled for trial at the next term of court. In view of the comments made by Judge J. Hoyle Sink on our local record, we don't % know but what we might challenge Wake County, for we certainly held our own at the September term, with 17 divorces granted. Softening Fathers' Draft Senator Taft's interesting proposals look ing toward the further deferment, or the most intelligent selection, of fathers in the draft have three main parts. One would re view the physical requirements of the arm ed services, with the object of meeting Army quotas, if possible, by dipping more, deeply -into the pool of 3,400,000 now listed*, ^s 4-F. This suggestion will meet . with popular support from those who have at times been dismayed when apparently splendid physi cal specimens, including even notable ath letes, have been rejected because of narrow standards. Nothing is to be lost by follow ing Senator Taft's proposal in this regard. His second suggestion appears to have equal merit. It would place fathers in what amounts to a national pool, removing some of the inequalities of local boards, as well as some possibility of arbitrariness, while still retaining the advantages of personal contact and individual consideration now available in the local groups. The third proposal would organize the induction of fathers according to age groups, taking those under 25 first, then under 30, finally the 30 to 38 group. While there may be merit in this proposal, it fails to provide for a very essential by product of the father's draft. It is computed that only 446,000 fathers will be needed for the Army this year, but there is, assert man power officials, the most acute need for sev eral times that many in the war industries. The current shaking of the tree is designed not only to fill Army quotas but also to frighten most of the 3,500,000 draft-age fathers still in nonessential jobs into war jobs. The Taft measure, limiting the spread of liability, which in itself might be desir '? able, would have the secondary and negative effect of lessening the pressure on the older fathers to enter war factories. In all this discussion there has been too little attention paid to the one thing that might preserve homes, soften the shock of taking a family's breadwinner, maintain a degree of morale, and avoid tragic war and post war economic adjustments, namely, a sensible, realistic allowance to families of drafted fathers. The Committee on Social Legislation of the National Lawyers -Guild has advanced the definite proposal that in stead of leaving a wife and two children with the paltry $72 a month now provided ($50 / for the wife, $12 for the first child and $10 for each additional child), the allowance be raised to $140 monthly ($80 for the wife, $40 for the first child, $20 for each additional / child). It's about time Congress got down to the bread-and-butter side of this question, and sought practical ways not only of raising men for the Army and the war plants, but also means for wisely softening the impact on the little homes and the big social order. ?Christian Science Monitor. Congratulations We extend our congratulations to the Veterans of World War number I, for com -pletion of payment on their home on Depot Street. We understand that they are now offering the use of the building to their com rades of the next generation who are serv ing in World War II. This building will mean much to the younger veterans, when they return, to have a place for meeting. We trust the two groups become one, for they have fought for the same adeals of democracy. We trust that the job will be finished this time, and$ that the sons of number two will not have and grandfathers did before them. Going At Low Speed We do not doubt for one minute the patriotism of the women of this community. They have shown it on too many occasions. Watch the bravery of the mothers as they tell their sons goodbye when they enter the armed forces. The women of our community are busy at home and in defense plants carrying on as the government has asked them to do. This past summer has been an unusaally busy one, with the extra load of food con. servation, but even so just between us our women folks have failed to measure up in one respect. They are not going to the surgical dress ings room to roll bandages as they v should. In every quota yet sent out by the govern- \ ment in any war effort we have gone over j the top, with the exception of the quota of j surgical dressings. It is rather strange that the women should ' have failed in this matter ? we feel sure that I it was an oversight. In their zeal for other war efforts they merely passed up this vital work. Now the situation is serious. It is ob viously the sacred duty of every woman who can possibly give the time, to aid in this work. The type of bandages made by the Red Cross volunteer workers is not made needed on every firing line, -by manufacturers, we are told, and they_are We are all aware that ?during the next year our casualty list will grow, our number of wounded will increase, the need for band ages will be greater. This is a definite piece of work for the woman who has a bit of leisure. Let it never be recorded again that ma terial intended for work in our own surgical dressings room was sent to other chapters, who have met their quotas and are able to take on the responsibility of others. This is not the local way of handling war pro- 1 grams. - The Year Of the Tomato We have never heard of as many people wanting to can or canning tomatoes as the past summer and fall; We thought maybe! it might have a local slant, and was not uni versal over the country, until we read a very interesting editorial on the popularity < of the tomato in the New York Times, ex cerpts of which follow: "It won't go down in the history books' under that name, but 1943 might well be , called The Year of the Tomato. Is there any gardener within sight or hearing who hasn't all but buried himself under tomatoes? Of course not. They have _ever^ harvested to matoes in window boxes/ And right now subrbanites in frost-haunted regions are rapidly burying themselves under green to matoes while they frantically scald, crush and strain the last high tide of ripe ones and fill the ketchup and chili sauce kettles. Our own carefully unconfirmed statistics show that two out of every three jars sold for some canning this year are now full of tomatoes. "Nobody would say anything but the kindest words for the tomato. It is a friend ly, healthful vegetable, or fruit, and let's not quibble about classifications. It oozes vitamins, and even more delectable things. It has flavor and substance and color. If it ~ doesn't help you to see Tat nfghtrft wghT tiJT for it outsells carrots on most tables. And it certainly helps you to see on the morn ing after. ^ "In any nomal season there are just about enough tomatoes to go around generously. Somebody sees to such things. We've been stuffed to the ears with tomatoes for three months, and now we're stuffed away every jar in sight with them. We are ready to call it quits. Until about Thanksgiving. By that time we'll be back to our normal vitamin deficiency and ready to say from our heart, 'And we are thankful, too, for all those jars of wonderful tomatoes ? if they haven't spoiled'." DIPLOMATIC COCKTAIL PARTY titfsday HERE and THERE ? By PIERCE WYCHE At first I though it was a wren . . . No, it was a robin . . . My error ?it was a cardinal. And then, I couldn't believe my ears! During "ten years in Western North Caro lina mountains, I had searched in vain for "the king of song," a mocking bird. Repeated inquiries of life-long residents has elicited shakes of heads. To high up for mocking birds. Well, there might be an occasional one. Hardly ever, though. I stopped, listened. What trills what thrills! Oh, heck! I had to laugh, sheepishly. A phonograph record! . . . Bound to be, here in October. And then came the real surprise, perched on top of the Methodist church, there he sat. He seemed to sense my delight, for he cut his f*ye mischievously, then, with never L break in the melody, shot sky 'ward, plummeted like a stone to within a foot of the ground, sailed debonairly from sight among the trees. He couldn't be' far, for cascades of liquid music were still lavishly being poured through the aytumn air. I found him ? this time on top 'of the Baptist church. He was playing no favorites? and maybe was practicing for a solo in one of our choirs. A rare guest artist he will be. President Kmeritus R. L. Madi son of W. C. T. C., dropped in and I told him about the mocking bird. "Oh, yes, we have a few," he said, "and they make up in song quality for their lack in numbers." NThe professor then hold how, when a boy, upon climbing a tree for a bird egg ? he would take one from a nest, so as not to grieve I the parents? he broke off the limb, then, distressed at breaking the home ties, tied the limb back in place. 44 It was an oriole's nest," he ex plained, "a long, pocket-like truc ture, and the eggs were unbroken. I was overjoyed, upon finding that I the birds were still occupying it. I And they really hatched and raised | a brood." | Can't some folks knock the props out from under you, when you least expect it! Still -fairly bubbling over with child-like en thusiasm over my mocking bird, I told the story to my business neighbor, John R. Jones, Chamber of Commerce secretary. Did he burst out with "Oh's" or "Ah's", or even a "Do tell'" or two. Never, nary a one. He eyed me askance and said: "You know, when a guy begins to hear birds singing, or other strange sounds ? particularly in October" ? at this point he frown ed with emphasis quite uncalled for ? "when a guy hears curious noises, out of season, it means just one thing: he's qualifying for a straight jacket." ' And, mind you, he said that while drinking a bottle of pop which I had paid for. Worse still: I too was imbibing a^_P?B__and. mv indignation getting the better of my discretion, I tried to enunciate ' scornful rebuttal while swallowing. Did you ever swallow a "lump" of air? It's all sharp corners and edges, many degrees harder than granite, oh, lots harder. I swal lowed one o' them, and Friend Jones laughed uproriously. Did I say "friend"? After all I had to forgive Friend Jones ? and ah, what a friend! He gave me a cabbage, a beauty of a cabbage, fresh and crisp and green; one of a basketful he had j just bought. You know, the cabbage has come into its own. Time was when it | signified merely an item in gro ceries, or something to throw at a bad actoiv Since rationing, and priorities, ?nd other restrictions, a cabbage is one of the biggest compliments you can pay. * Before long I expect to see a young man, instead of buying the I girl friend a box of chocolates ? ' trudging sturdily and confidently gal-ward, with a cabbage head neatly tucked under the arm. It would be a mighty good offer I ing to the prospective father-in j law, just before that momentous i request: "Mr. Ogre, here's a cab ! bage ? do I get her?" The answer should be "Yes." News and Comment From Raleigh l\ CAPITAL LETTERS By ? THOMPSON GREENWOOD BOSS ? Some time Ago when Mrs. Gertrude Clinton designed from her position as heacj of? s the United States Employment Serti^e here in North Carolina, Dr. J. S. Dorton, head of the War Manpower Com mission, declared he would appoint two or three fellows to help him carry the ball. He had the au thority all right ? both^ technically and politically ? to make these ap pointments, for as head of the man power setup he is without doubt head of all employment work as it is connected with the Government tn Nftrtfr CfcfGlWrft. He is head man and don't forget it. However, we only recently built up a merit system in this State and some of the merit boys were professedly disappointed that the doctor should think of making ap pointments without regard to it. i They actually cared not a whit i about merit, but they did not like to see Dr. Dorton holding so much ! power offhand that way. At a recent convention of em ployment folks held in Raleigh, plans were laid to trap Dr. Dorton or to embarrass him ? to worry him in every way possible. They put him on the program, of course, and sat back for the fun. Well, Dr. Dorton is not from Shelby for nothing, and the fact that he is the only man who has ever been able to make any money for the State with the State Fair and the fact that he is owner and manager of the Southern States Fair and the Cleveland Couny Fair stood him in OttiM WASHIN6T0N Giant U. S. Bombing Plants I Many a Nazi Airman Fatally Change Into Hugo Fighters J Fooltd by "Htdgthog" Plants Special to Centrsl Press ? WASHINGTON? Now the story can be told why American Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators have beea able to maintain such a high batting average against the German Luftwaffe (4 and 6 Jo 1). Normally, the big bombers carry 13 large caliber machine guns, making them the most powerfully-armed planes in the skies. For a long time after the United States Air Forces began their raids on Germany such armament was sufficient to keep the Nazij at a respectable distance. . But, after paying bloodily for the experience, Nazi flyers discov ered a blind spot here and there. They also learned that, in order to carry as many bombs as possible, the heavy bomb Foe Found ers were forced to cut down their supply of ammuni Ri* j c a tion. ,n p Thus the four-motored jobs were unable to engage for Awhile in prolonged dog-fights and the Nazis found it easier-^ picking if they laid in wait for the bombers, winging ?homeward with much, if not all, of their ammunition already ex pended. 0 * I Those happy hunting days did not last long, however. On one raid tvi? Nazis tore into a formation of "Forts" only to flr?d the bombers spewing back death from utterly strange places, ^nd, on the way home, the bombers fought off clouds of intercep tors with apparently inexhaustible machine guns. In April, May and June, Flying Fortresses shot down 821 planet against a loss of 183 of our own. The answer: Very secretly bombers had been sent to modification centers and transformed from the world's fastest big bombers to the world's big gest fighter planes! Instead of carrying bombs to Europe, they were loaded down with guns and ammunition. They were indistinguishable from their accompanying bombers, but carried a far deadlier sting. In the air forces they are now known as "Flying Hedgehogs." ' ? ? * ? # THE WAR FOOD " ADMINISTRATION warns housewives and others interested not to look for any improvement in the milk sup- | ply situation in November ? a month of normally low milk produc tion f Every effort is being made to spur the nation's dairymen on to ; greater production through changes in the feed situation, or in prices, but WFA officials say frankly that the vastly increased con sumption may cause every city milk market to have more difficulty in finding as big a supply as last winter. Expectations are that a milk sales control order will bp in effect in most cities in the northeast and along the west coast i Oct 1. One way out of the difficulty which is under consideration is re duction of the amount of milk sold in restaurants, hotels and other ? public establishments. good stead. When one works with fairs, he runs into every type indi vidual and situation. He made the speech and did not falter once, s6 his would-be hecklers admitted later in the evening. Dr Dorton, it is reported, told them that his po. sition and any position closely al lied with his own will hold only for the duration, that he would get out when he felt his work was complet ed ? BUT that as long as he held the place, he would run the show. And indications are that he is do ing JusFthat. EHRINGHAUS ? J. C. B. Ehring haus, who whipped Dick Fountain for governor back in v1932, is just another Raleigh lawyer now. Well, not just another either, for he handles some pretty nice cases now and then ? but he has nothing of the gubernatorial manner in his personality and general demeanor these days. To see him down at* the comer of Fayetteville and Mar tin streets waiting for the Ridge crest bus around 5:30 each after noon, one would never think that at one time he ran the State. He ap i pears to be just another success ful business man, I Quiet, good-natured, unobtru jsive in every way 'Ehringhaus is very popular among the substantial citizens of Raleigh. He is a lead-] er in the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd and in civic affairs. ' In 1933, when Ehringhaus be gan his duties as governor, the State^and the Nation were in dire financial straits ... as you probably recall. Think over those days a minute and you will get some idea about the problems cronfonting Governor Ehringhaus. On top of jthis spot of bother, Ehringhaus I was a sick man and for a time it looked as if Lieutenant Governor "Sandy" Graham would be forced to take over. But Ehringhaus came through it well ? that's the concensus ? and he is more popular now than during his years in office, r And he may not be through po litically, even though he apparent ly has no ambitions in that field at the present time, for there are thousands who would like to see him succeed Senator Bailey. DIVORCES? Much of the work being done by the courts of this State is concerned with divorces. A week's term of court in North Carolina usually has at least one OH, I 6USSS ILL STICK ON MY STKAM SH OV*L JOS OOWA4 ON THK coal dock fo* -m* V//NTEW- -WEVb <SOTA SWELL FOREMAN/ THE OLD HOME TOWN ST NLEY V 1 THE EARLY MORNIN* SHIFT day's business devoted almost ex clusively to "Renotizing," as Win chell puts it. In this State, we do not get fancy about it. We use no terms like mental cruelty, abusive language, or such Hollywood talk. In North Carolina ? and we seem to be do ing mighty well here in our coun try way ? we just separate for two years, ask for a divorce, and get it. Reno is better known, but Ral eigh and Wake County are not so bad. It is much cheaper to get a divorce in this State than in Ne vada and Florida. In those places, it costs hundreds of dollars ordi narily. Other requirements in Ne vada and Florida, and in similar divorce resorts, are establishment of residence and other technical impedimenta. But not in North Carolina. In Wake County, for instance, a person can get a divorce for $50 or less. Reports are that the ave rage attorney's fee here in Raleigh is about $25, with court costs ap proximately $15. Virtually all of the Wake divorce cases are based on grounds of two years' separa tion, regardless of contributing causes. PADDING ? Quite a few school principals may feel hurt when they find that plans looking to the end of padding of school reports are being given serious consideration. You see, principals are paid in line with the number of teachers they supervise and the number of teach ers is based on attendance. So ? teachers are quite frequently urged to forget absences in - order that no teacher will be lost when allot ments are made the following sum mer. It is thoroughly dishonest. The principal, leader in the com munity or not, often slyly hints that the teacher should fail to re cord absences. Sometimes he does not hint. He tells his teachers that he expects the attendance to be up to a certain per cent from month to month. If some teacher fails to keep hers up and a teacher is lost, she may be the one to go. The principal is frequently led into dishonesty by his desire to keep his teachers, so that the teaching load ? the number of pupils in each room ? will not become too large for satisfactory work. On the other hand, he doesn't forget the money angle. A teacher lost is money out of his pocket. Parents are sometimes the cause of padding. They are sorry enough to keep their children out of school ? but these same parents are the ones who criticize the principal when he loses a teacher. Something is go ing to be done about "padding"? ? so look for it. Watch For The I Expiration Date On Your Label It is important that sub scriptions to The Herald be renewed immediately upon ex piration. The expiration date of your I paper is stamped right under your name. Check on this date, and be sure your renewal reaches this office before the expiration date. ?
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