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THE SYLVA HERALD AND RURALITE Published By . 4 THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Main Street Phone 110 Sylvu, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County W. Curtis Ru-s and Ma lion T. Bridges, Publishers^ PUBLISHED EVERY WKDNESDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County Six Months, In Jackson County 80c One Year, Outside Jackson County . 2.U0 Six Months, Outside Jackson Count> 1.25 - All Subscriptions Payable In Advance fcinteced at the poat office Jt -:>.>i*a, N. C\, aa Second Mill Matter, aa provided tin-ln the Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1W14. Obitiiiiry nvtices, reaolutiun.s of .lespi-i t, carda of thanks, and ail uo ticca of entei la iniAent lur |<t<>lit. .v ill t>e r-harj^ed for ?t _fc? rute uf one cent per word. <? , 1 | _ x^North Carolina f PRESS ASSOCIATION \\ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943 Jackson Forges Ahead The OPA in Washington recently took time out to compliment Jackson County .teachers for their efficiency in distributing" War Rationing Book No. 3. In fact, OPA, which seldom passes out compliments, rank ed the local teachers as tops among all dis bursing agencies in the nation. And that is a major accomplishment. Several weeks ago, Jackson, running true to form, made the War Relief Fund quota of $4,099. Back in September, Jackson quick ly made the quota set by th^streasury de partment in the Third War Loa\ drive. That all adds up to this, that the citizens of the county are backing every war effort that they are called upon to foster. There is another group in Jackson County that are performing a noble job, and by do ing such a fine job, have the eyes of Raleigh and Washington focused on them. In fact, the plan adopted by the Jackson County Labor Mobilization Board is being recom mended for other counties. The Labor Mobilization Board has a hard task to perform, in getting people who prefer to loaf to take a job. There are many angles to such a program, and extreme care must be exercised to see that only those who will fully refused to work are put to gainful em ployment, and those unable to work are giv en this recognition. The Jackson board is doing a splendid job, ajid the results speak for their untiring ef forts. Militant Christians Five thousand persons, representing Pro testant denominations, have organized the Christian Mission for World Order. They represent 25 million people who- are press ing what. they call the Six Pillars of Peace. The pillars are: 1. An enduring international political or ganization. 2. Economic and financial collaboration of national governments. 3. Provision for such changes in the peace structure as may be required by changing conditions. 4. Autonomy for subject people with ade quate provisions f6? the realization of this idea.. 5. Procedures for ^ controlling military , establishments everywhere. 6. The rights of individuals in all countries to religious and intellectual liberty. Between November 1 and 20, six major interdenominational groups will visit 102 cities in 36 states stressing the need for a pogt-war world based on Christian principles They wish to present a different picture of Christian activity than existed when many religious leaders declared for the League of Nations and then went to sleep while the Lodges and Reeds sabotaged the only hope of securing lasting wt>rld peace. Religious leaders now see that they must be viligant and militant to nrevent a repetition of that debacle. ? Raleigh News and Observer. About Right He left his wife $500 to buy a memorial stone after he died, and she thought a dia mond would he just about right. ? Florida Times-Union. Women Trainers In Mexican campaigns the women always accompany their . husbands in the army, so the soldiers are always kept in fighting trim. ? Anson* Kficora. y Honorably Discharged We have noticed an increase locally in ttie number of men who are being honorably discharged from the armV recently, but were rather surprised at the large number an nounced by the War Department. Around 550,000 -officers and enlisted men have been discharged from the army be tween December 7, 1941, and August 31, 1943, according to the War Department. Ap proximately 200,000 of the men are said to be over 38 years of age and were releas ed to accept employment in essential indus try or agriculture. The remaining were discharged on account of physical and men tal disability. In view of the need both in the armed forces and in the civilian production respon sibility, this is a wise move on the part of the WTar Department. A man discharged under these conditions should not feel that he has not served his country well, but that he is being placed where he can best serve by the discharge. Registration By-Products Registration for the fourth ration book has had worth-while effects, according to j the Christian Science Monitor. First, is the fresh emphasis on the fact that rationing is based primarily on the neighborly idea of sharing fairly so, that everyone can have enough, and only secondarily on the need to prevent anyone from taking too much. The paper also pointed out the fact that the- voluntary work of the teachers as clerks, often in cases long after dark, reinforced the impression of community cooperation. It also recalled the oft-forgotten fact that the ration boards themselves are groups of neighbors intent on the common good, not cogs in a bureaucracy intent on cutting down on supplies. The second valuable effect pointed out was of the registration experience of many citizens who have no-school age children, with the brief contact with the school teach ers. In these days of additional demanas on teachers, who have stayed on the job, despite the many inducements to go into better paid war production jobs, every addi tional touch of interest helps. -The Junior Red Cross Enrolls For Service This being a total war, there is an obli gation upon all of us no matter how young or humble to participate in it. Our school children have an important place in the war picture. While they are not required to muster a gun; they can help in their own way. It is heartening to report that America's boys and girls are "backing the attack" with all their might. The records of the American Junior Red Cross with its more than 17,000, 000 members is a clear indication of it. The Nation's largest youth -serving organization, the Junior Red Cross harnessed their enthu siasm, patriotism and energies in behalf of the war effort, and the results are truly pro digious: last year 9,000,000 comforts and recreational articles were made for the arm ed forces ? 12,000,000 since Pearl Harboi*; 100,000 gift boxes were &ent abroad for chil dren of allied nations; more than 50,000 tons of salvageable material were collected ; more "than 300,000 Christmas menu covers made for the U. S. Navy. Even this record will be exceeded during the coming school year be cause the demand from our armed forces will be greater. However great these material results, they cannot be compared to the moral and spiritual values which the school children derive from Junior Red Cross membership. The stu dent .sdev^lop_aJoviry^ lowmen which is motivating force of the American Red Cross. They learn to know the true value of sympathy, compassion, and the thrill of helpiryg: the other fellow. They recognize the responsibility of the strong to help the weak ? of charity in its highest sense. ^ ^ i -<? -Moreover, they receive an education in the brotherhood of man and in international friendship. They have a program of cor respondence with children of other lands which is bound to result in greater under standing. The noblest world-wide^ project of the Junior Red Cross is the National Children's Fund, through it they have brought food, clothing, and medicines to the children of war-torn United Nations lands. Thousands > of Russian war orphans; Polish war refu gees in East Africa, a war nursery in Eng land, and Icelandic children are helped. v The Junior Red Cross represents the finest flowing of American civilization, and we are proud of it. ? Franklin Press. "4 WATCH ON THE RHINE' HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Outside of personal loss in the casualty lists, the present coal shortage is, perhaps, the first real pinch that the war has1 brought to us in this section . . . We were as- 1 sured in good vfaith, we feel cer- j tain by the coal dealers that after the middle of November coal would start moving in this area i and that there was no actual short- | age, but before relief seems in ! sight for us here there is not only I a shortage, but real suffering, we are told ... we have avoided writ- j ing about the coal situation for wfc read so many contradictory reports in the papers that it is difficult to know the true conditions . . . (As1 one editorial writer recently wrote, the more he reads about it the less he knows.) . . . But even so, most of us have come to our own con clusions that somebody is afraid to buck the labor powers, and as a result not only individuals will j suffer, but war production will be , seriously hampered. The situation 1 offers many serious angles. We heard recently from an authorita tive source that the British could not understand strikes in a coun try during war time . . . Well they have nothing on us, neither canwe. In the first place we find ourselves asking the same question as the i British are, "Where is the govern- ' ment authority?" . . . Why don't they draft the strikers, as they have the cream ? of our manhood, for their work is certainly an es sential for both the home and battle front? No matter whether a man wants to leave his home and fight or not, if the draft board classifies him in 1-A without deferment he has to igo. We are not complaining about this system. It is a just and fair one. We are at war, our very homes are being threatened. Every red blooded man should feel that he must do his part. But what special privilege has the man in the 'coal mine to buck at such a time as this? Is it any more dangir 1 ous in the mines than it is flying ! a plane on a mission over Ger many? . . . Does the miner face death more surely than men in the , fleets out in the Pacific? How about the armies in North Africa, in Italy, in Sicily, and along the threatened second front? These boys are taking what the govern ment offers them in pay, but we do not hear any great howl of com-, plaint from them. . . We all know that the ways of government are thick with intrigue . . . and politics is in everything from our churches to the most isolated voting pole in our nation. The game seems inevi table. But there should be rules for everything, and when a people can hold up the vital work of a nation, somebody should start in vestigating. The world has become a mighty small place today, and we hate to feel that in such a crisis as this we could not manage our home af fairs better than this. Don't you know that Hitler is enjoying our ! situation. We feel sure it is being publicized as a proof of the discord of America and played up as a great show of our weakening. . . Put yourself in their place. . . Would we not get satisfaction to gloat that there was such dishar mony in Germany that even the people were being denied fuel. Wouldn't we be saying . . . "Well President Roosevelt had better look after his affairs at home, instead of taking time out to confer with Churchill." Yes any of us would. | Maybe this is one time that the ' American Press has. been too re pressed, but there is the side of not wanting to agitate discord at this time, trying to trust that the government would get matters ad justed . . . During the past week we have read scores of different slants on the subject. . . We are j told there is plenty of coal if the I situation, was properly handled. The I public had a panicky reaction a few | weeks back, now they are about I to loose faith. This is bad at a I time like this. j | Enough of an unpleasant sub ject. . . W7e heard a woman during the week say, "I am simply going to cut down my Christmas card list, what is the use of sending cards to A.icr eased Demand Placed On Service Industries by War 1939 1942 THE ELECTRIC UTILITIES Each symbol represents 5 billion kilowatt hours output for industrial use. THE RAILROADS 1939 1942 ^ ^ EacK-symbol represents 100 trillion ton miles of freight. THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY 1939 1942 rlr* Each symbol represents 10 million long-distance telephone calls. ? Prepared by fitch ikvbstoks hkrvtcc How war's impact has added to the responsibilities of America's utility, railroad and telephone in dustries is shown graphically in the above chart. The magnitude of the added volume of work placed upon the men and women of these great service industries is difficult for the layman to grasp. The chart is worthy of study. In every instance these indus ; tries have met war's challenge . while maintaining practically nor S mal standards of service to the ? civilian population. The workers l who have quietly carried on these enormous tasks are not eligible to receive official government awards for their truly great wartime ac complishments. In an effort to give credit where credit is so obviously due, General Cable Corporation ? the nation's leading independent supplier of electrical wires and cables, ? has undertaken to publicize their rec ords of accomplishment An edi torial from th* Mew York Times calling attention to the patriotic contribution of these war workers, has been reproduced in a General Cable adTertiaing release from Coast to Coast. 9?Au6e. WASHINGTON Many a Rough Surprise 'jShead for German Army Stormovik Plants Too Tough for Nazi Tanks Special to Central Press * ? WASHINGTON? There are many new and nasty surprises for the Germans as the United Nations storm ahead on the embattled read to Berlin. Along witn a general discussion of the Russian-desired ^front in western France. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Brit ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and their aides will discuss new weapons of war to hasten the end of the global conflict. Informed sources now are certain that Hull and Eden will tell Molotov that no French front can be opened up until spring ? prob ably May ? when the usually turbulent waters of the New War English channel are calm. ? But new Implements of war will be ready when eapon* the time comes to strike. These are being developed Readied and tested in American and British laboratories ai trial fields in the utmost secrecy. They will mo than counteract any surprises which the German scientists ha^e/ln store for the invaders from the democracies. * Responsible quarters think it unlikely that Hitler will use g a last desperate gamble to prevent defeat. They hasten to point out that vast supplies of gas are available ts the United Nations ? and that the Nazis would come off a terrible second best in war's extremest savagery. In the field of secret weapons, the Russians have gone the Nazi* one bettor in mass-producing a "tank buster" on wings. This lethal device has smashed entire Panzer divisions to bits on the Russia* plains. ? The Russian cannon-carrying, armored Stormovik fighting plane is credited with being one of the most potent counter weapons that has sent the German tegrions reeling grogglly backward across the Ukraine and beyond die Dnieper. One American observer recently returned from Russia was so en thusiastic in his praise of the Stormovik that he declared: "This flying tank buster has outmoded the armored forces." Military experts are not quite so positive in their statements, but they agree that the Stormovik is a "red hot" counter to the tank forces and has been a potent factor in stopping the Germans. The plane is virtually a flying steel hull. The entire fuselage en closing the engine, cannons, pilot and observer ^machine gunner ? even the gasoline tanks ? is sheathed In armored steel that will stop anything short of a direct hit by a heavy-caliber shell. Fifty-caliber machine gun bullets bounce off this armored shell like pebbles. Even the propeller boss, housing the mechanism for changing the propeller pitch, is armored. The plane carries two armor-piercing 37 -him. cannon, flies at higfc speed in low altitude attacks and has even knocked out the Germaa Tiger tank ? a 60-ton monster. ONE SOLDIER stationed in Washington will have an epic story to hand down to his grandchildren which does not concern the war at all. i The other day, leaving the war departme$?, he stepped into a cab and asked the driver to take him to the Army War college, but under wartime regulations the cab had to pick up a full load before leaving. And Wfl$ A couple of minutes later a lieutenant and a cap tain, whose identities must remain secret, came along Captain'*. - and upon being informed of the, cab's destination. Fa ce Red! got in. Hardly had the machine left the Pentagon building when the cap-, tain curtly said, "Driver, we are in a hurry to reach the Union sta tion. Take us there first and then you can drop your other passenger it the War college." Jor a moment the silence was so thick it could be cut. Then 9aid the cabby to the captain: "The law says the first passenger disrates the ^route of the cab . . t when you got in 1 told you I was headed for the War college, anfl," the cabby laconically continued, "I hope you like it, sir, because that's where you're going!" people you never think about, but have just formed the habit of send ing a card, because they send to you. I am going to revise my list and cut it to the bone*" Hold on just a minute, please, revise your list, if you wish, lady, but let us make a suggestion, don't cut down on the cards you send, just change names and addresses. . . Wfiy not substitute a list of boys in service for your casual acquaintances. . . Think what a pleasure that few cents investment will mean to that boy overseas . . . Maybe he has not a special friend here at home. Maybe you brought your groceries from him. . . Maybe he delivered something to you. . . Maybe he was just a boy about town, that you have known since he was "knee high to a duckling" . . ; Far from home, think what your thought of him will mean. . . This Christmas is going to be a grim one . . . and outside of the very young at home 1 . . . the soldier is the one to get I Christmas this year . . . Incidsnt l ally the War Department is asking i that all Christmas cards to sol idiers overseas be ftiailed at once. I Cards mailed this week, we are told ' ! will reach the most remote areas of the war theaters not before De cember 25. . . The cards must be sent in sealed .envelopes as first class mail (Now don't forget this feature). . . So remember the boys this year, even if your forget your civilian friends. Teacher ? Who was George Washington? Pupil ? He's the, yiiy whnaa wtffl makes candy. State College Hints To Farm Homemakers Make sewing easier by using everyday ordinary household arti cles in a better way: Needles: Needles are scarce and getting scarcer. Good care will help them last. The black paper they come in prevents rust, but if the needles should become ruaty run them through fine steeL wool, if you have it, or through a piece of beeswax, or an ornery bag. Don't leave needles in an emery bag be cause they'll rust. To keep needles and pins within easy reach when you are sewing, fasten , a woolen cloth to the top bar of your sewing machine. Thread: Basting thread is less expensive than sewing thread. Use soft basting thread, or embroidery cotton for basting. When you are sewing on but tons wax the thread on a piece^ of beeswax, or paraffin, to make it smooth and strong. This is a good sewing trick, too: lay a darning needle over the top of the button ! and bring each stitch over the I needle to make a thread shank. Then, pull comes On the thread in stead of the material. Tweezers are useful in pulling out basting threads. Old razor blades, the single-edged kind, will rip machine stitching in short o?der. Make a Guage: Use old card board to make a notched guage for measuring small hems and seam allowances. Cardboard is handy ?iov ? making ooalloped ? edges. ? ?f course, you'll make your pattern. THE OLD HOME TOWN U t NmmOMm By STANLEY HOLD IT? - WHEN THE BALL WENT' OVER THE FENCE THAT NEAR SIGHTED AIR RAID WARDEN GRABBED IT AND IS HEACHN? FOR THE RIVER// OUTSIDE /NTERFEREKJOE RUINED TODAYS FOOTBALL <5AME ? oorrw. ? . wwa mww m, wa*u> uum narai
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