THE SYLVA HERALD
And Roralite
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Sylva, North Carolina
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? Hayes
I sat me down beside the sea .
And wondered who could ever be
So dull to hold, with shallow mind
That God is not, and faith is blind;
Could any other one man than he
Have formed this earth and boundless sea?
No, only God's creative mind _
Could make such beauty for mankind.
\ ? G. H. Dey
I Shall Return
?Keeping a promise which he made over
two years ago General Douglas MacArthur
has returned to the Philippines to begin lib
eration of the imprisoned American soldiers
who were taken at the fall of Bataan and
Corregidor, and of the 16,000,000 natives,
who have suffered under Japanese oppres
sion since he slipped away from the Islands
March, 1942, at President Roosevelt's com
mand to go to Australia for the purpose of
-assembling and army to do what he has now
accomplished ? return to liberate the Philip
pines ? this remains yet to be done, but in
the General's own wordsd, "it will be done."
As General MacArthur landed with
250,000 men on the Island of Leyte he split
the Japanese forces in the middle which is
following out his usual strategy of divide and
conquer. MacArthur is particularly pleased
at being on Leyte as he now faces the 15th
Japanese division which he said did the
"Dirty Work at Bataan". They have been
living off the fat of the land for more than
two years and I believe they'll be a little
softer now, said the General. "But soft or
not, we'll get them," he said.
The Filipino men, women and children
greeted the Americans with great joy as
they larked and began to advance into the
interior. Everywhere they go the natives
rush out to greet them with tears of joy
and shouts of happiness. General Mac
Arthur and his veterans of the invasions of
the Solomons, New Guinea and the other
stepping stones back to the Philippines and
eventually to Tokyo, will, find much hard
fighting ahead but with the help of a strong
home-front furnishing the needed supplies
for such an undertaking, they will be vic
torious.
Our Lady Senator
As is so often the case we fail to really
- r appreciate the people with whom we are in
close contact.* This is the case with Mrs.
Gertrude McKee. True, we are all proud of
her and the many things she has done for
Jackson County, but I am afraid none of us
really realize just how much she has done.
It made us very proud to see in the
Congressional Record the compliment that
Hon. Josephus Daniels paid her in his ad
dress to the Council of the N. C. Federation
of Women's Clubs, in Raleigh, Wednesday
September 20. Quote:
"Three-fifths of the members of County
welfare boards are women and their deft
hand guides government with a heart, as do
the hundreds of other women who serve with
_ ability,
May their tribe increase!
North Carolina's jecord of giving wom
en a place in the halls of legislation does
not differ materially from that in the Fed
eral Government. The women have been
voting in this state since 1920, and, though
-there are 170 seats in the legislature, exactly
seven women have had a voice in making
the laws which affect the whole state, many
of which peculiarly affect women and the
home. It may be well to call the roy. In
the state senate in this quarter of a century
only one woman has been elected, Hon. Ger
trude McKee, of the mountain county of
Jackson. As if to atone for the injustice to
the better half of the electorate, let us pause
to do honor to that district whose voters
have had the wisdom to return her to three
sessions. Her record of progress and wis
dom makes us hope the people will give her
a fourth and even a fifth term ? not because
she is a woman or because she is indespen
sible ? but because her record shames other
senatorial districts for not drafting well
qualified women to do for them what Mrs.
McKee has done for her district, and indeed
for the whole state. "
Pulpwood Maps Speed Victory
The United States Army today is better
equipped with maps of the territory it in
vades than any army in history. With every
new advance, maps revealing every road
way, stream and hill are made available to
our fighting forces.
One news story related that captured
German officers were found to be using
these American-made maps in preference
to their own.
Aside from their remarkable accuracy,
these maps are marvels in paper construc
tion. They can be soaked in water or gaso
line, smeared with blood, grease or mud
without suffering any damage that soap and
water won't remove.
Pulpwood cutters can feel justly proud
of this development in paper making they
are a part of it. A large part of the value
of this map paper is that it can be furnisfied
our troops in huge quantities when they
need it most.
More than 70 million maps were used
in the invasion of Normandy. Ten million
were used in the North African invasion.
Ten tons of maps were dropped by para
chute to General Pattern's army when it sped
across France.
Thus pulpwood is doing a specialized
job which pays dividends in lives saved and
enables our armies to^tmt-blitzkreig the
Nazis. Pulpwood cut today may be used to
make the maps for the invasion of Berlin and
Tokio.
INSIDE WASHINGTON
SPECIAL TO CENTRAL PRESS
WASHINGTON? Some of " the most
thrilling stories of modern warfare are
buried in theToTflcials files of the Navy, and
many may never be told. They are tales of
exploits of daring American undersea raid
ers in their forays against Japanese ship-;
ping. . I
Logs and reports of sub commanders
are among the Navy's top secrets.
The Navy obsured the fact that there were
survivors when it announced tersely that
the submarine Flier was lost in recent oper
ations against the enemy. Alert newsmen
noticed peculiar wording of the com
munique and pried out the statement that
at least the skipper was a survivor.
The Navy's communique said that "the
next of kin of officers and crew have been
informed." The usual wording when all
hands are missing is that "the next of kin
of casualties have been informed."
However, the Navy stood firm on de
clining to comment as to how the skipper
was saved or whether any members of the
crew were rescued.
The Navy high command contends that
any stories about subs may give the enemy
some idea of our underseas technique. News
men contend that by clever writing thrill
ing stories can be told without giving the
enemy any valuable data. However, the
Navy so far has won the battle.
/
YOU RE TELLING ME!
GRANDPAPPY JENKINS says he can
/ "" "V-?
remember when cowboys had no trouble
gettin jobs even if they hadn't had
a single singing lesson in their lives.
! ! !
There are 30,000 varieties of flies and
they all make a bee-line for the break in the
screen.
! ! !
Hitler is reported to be drinking one
cup of strong coffee after another, all day
long. Probably trying to forget that all his
troubles began over a stein of Munich beer.
? ? ?
The man at the next desk says it is sad
dening t6 think of how those beautiful post- '
war" motor cars will be driven bv drivers
%/
with ugly pre-war tempers.
? ! ! !
According to Factographs the Roman
Emperor Nero loved to play the bagpipes
hours at a time. Oh, what a fiend that man
was!
- ? It!
? ? ?
Like many a more modest motor car
the Nazi war machine is finding the going
plenty tough this year. .
"SOMETHING ON OUR CHESr
News and Comment From Raleigh
CAPITAL LETTERS
By
THOMPSON GREENWOOD
BAPTISTS ? Are you in favor of
combinging Meredith and Wake
Forest colleges, selling $1,250,000
worth of buildings ~~ at Mere
dith and setting up the school
as a part of Wake Forest College at
Wake Forest? The beautiful build
ings at MeTeditH will be paid for in
full this year, and the campus now is
one of the most beautiful in the State.
However, there is a move on foot at
this time to scrap the whole business
and move Meredith, lock, stock, and
barrel, 17 miles north to Wake Forest.
There is a rumor that Governor J.
M. Broughton, the leading Baptist of
the State, has considered plans for
the purchase of the Meredith build
ings by State College. There is no
foundation to this gossip. Governor
Broughton in a recent letter to the
president of the Meredith Board of
Trustees denied knowing anything
about any plan for the purchase of
the Meredith plant in the event the
college was moved to Wake Forest.
A gentleman from the Wake Forest
Board of Trustees had talked with
Governor Broughton about the pos
sible sale of Meredith, but no plan
was offered and the Governor would
have nothing to do with such idea.
If you are opposed to the move,
you had better get ready to fight it
at the convention to be held in Char
lotte in November, for the matter will
certainly come up at that time. In
the event you .would like some in
formation on mergers of colleges, just
talk to an alumnus of State College
or W. C. U. N. C.
DEANS ? Governor O. Max Gard
ner some 14 years ago conceived the
idea to combine Woman's'College, the
University, and State College into
one university, calling it the Greater
University. When he went out of
office, he pronounced this one of the
outstanding acts carried out under
his administration. But it has never
been satisfactory, and you know it,
whether you will admit it or not.
At the recent meeting of the Uni
versity Board of Trustees the mat
ter of what to call the administrative
heads of each of the schools came up
for some discussion. It seems that
[elks don't like to call them "deans"
? they want to call them "presidents".
Well, then, what shall we call Dr.
Frank Graham? We will call him
"chancellor".
With a little revamping of the or
ganization, the Greater University
should become much stronger. This
will likely be done. We must not
overlook the fact that, within the past
decade, the University has become
THE State University of the Nation,
outranking them all in almost any
bedy's poll. The present set-up should <
Glenville Lake
R. F. JARRETT
Today i stood by Glenville Lake
And watched its crystal wavelets
break
Against the shore about my feetr ~
While o'er its waves a Zephyr sweet
Bore from some far-off, southern
strand
The odors of a tropic land,
Within its bosom all the day
A mighty forest mirrored lay
While towering peaks their vigil keep
Above its waves so calm and deep.
A million flowers fairy-sown
Have here sprung up, budded and
blown ?
To make of this a magic land
With beauty spread on every hand.
This lovely lake lies cradled high
Like some bright jewel in the sky.
A beacon light that sends afar
not be seriously disturbed. When
the editor of this column was in Wis
consin recently, he found that the
people of that State rank our Univer
sity right up with the University of
Wisconsin ? and that's some rating
when you know something about the
intense pride those Wisconsin folk
lake in their State.
MEETINGS ? The rallies being held
by the Democrats throughout the
State are being very well attended ?
250 average at each meeting, which is j
the best attendance in a long time.
While there is no doubt the State will
go for Roosevelt, some of the counties
which are close may go Republican.
The regular Democrats here in Ra
leigh thoroughly despise those "Con
stitutional Democrats". Oh, yes, they
dislike them much worse than they
do the Republicans. These C. D.'s
tre doing right much harm in those
close counties. It doesn't make any
difference how prominent they are, |
it will be a long time before the reg- j
ulars have anything to do with them
in a political way. . |
MC ? Roosevelt has no worse hater
than Malcolm McDermott, head of the
Duke University Law School. This
fellow can really wax pretty bitter
now and then. The Duke ? not the
alumni, necessarily, but the builder^
and backers of Duke ? should not look
op the President so keenly, as a mat
ter of fact, for he had done very little j
ior public utilities during his 11 years
in office. Perhaps McDermott is !
talking for his bosses, who knows.
But we must not forget that during
the past 11 years the REA has carried |
electricity into area the utilities
didn't know existed prior to Roosevelt.
Those farmers who have lights in
their homes now should think twice
before they cast a vote against that
man in the White House.
INCIDENT ? A heart-rending little
incident occurred here a few days j
ago. The girl's husband was drafted
early last spring, and, not used to
working downtown, she had tried to
get along without getting a job. Find
ing this impossible she took a little j
position as a clerk in one of the cloth
ing stores three weeks ago. Saturday
night she received her pay ($22.50)
in four five-dollar bills, two ones, and
two quarters. She put the envelope
in her bag. It had been raining hard
that afternoon. While waiting for the
bus, she pulled a handkerchief out ol
her bag. With it camd the envelope
and the money. Water was gushing
down the gutter. Yet, it caught the
envelope and carried it down the
drain before the girl could grab it. (
it is said she stood there and cried
over that hole for an hour or so.
A beam as from some glittering star |
To guide v all those who fain would!
find
Healing of spirit and of mind,
And God looks on this lake and wood 1
And cries, "Behold, 'tis very good." |
Carl Cagle, Jr. J
Visits His Parents
Carl Cagle, Jr., S. 2-c, of Norfolk,
Va., spent a 72-hour pass with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cagle of
Sylva last week. J
Seaman Cagle enlisted in the Navy
in May, 1944, and took his boot train
ing at Camp Peary, Va. and was sent
to Norfolk for further training. Hie
returned to Norfolk for further as
signment.
He is a graduate o I Webster High
school.
This & That
By
HELEN A. HOOPER
We all know the story of Lidice ?
the Polish village in which every in
habitant was murdered by Nazis. But
China has had twenty "Lidices".
When Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo
rr:ders had to come down on account
of lack of gas, they landed on the
coast of Ja-occupied China. Regard
less of personal danger, the people of
20 villages hid the flyers by day and
right, stealthily guided the uninjured
*md carried the wounded from village
to village until all were safely irt
Chungking.
And then ? in revenge, the Japa
nese shot every manv woman and
child in every one of those twenty
villages.
Wes Gallagher, AP writer, tells us
that it the doughboy of 1918 should
be sent back to the sector northeast
of Nancy, in France, that he -would
find things very much the same as
when he left it in 1918. The same
shell-shattered towns with manule
piles in front of the wrecked homes,
the same dripping skies, and abover
alJ the mud, oceans of it, rivers of it
where the roads should be. GI's ar
riving in this area found the ground
lrtced with long irregular grass cov
ered depressions ? where trenches of
the last war have been almost obli
terated by nature. Modern foxhole?
were dug in these same depressions.
He tells us that destruction of the
villages is even greater than it was
in the last war, because of our heavier
equipment and the air force.
The freezing winds and ankle-deep'
mud fail to dampen the troops' spirit.
They kid about having running water
in every dugout.
I wonder how many of us could
kid about sleeping in dugouts with
water up to our chins, and wading
in mud over our ankles.
We may hear the Liberty Bell ring
out. when peace is declared. Congress
may decide to have the bell restored
by arc welding. By radio it could
be heard all over the world.
? The natives of Hazel Creek must
have thought that the war was rag
ing in their section on October 16 and
17, when a group of men from Sylva
and surrounding towns, were down
there bear hunting.
When they were stationed at the
stand a drove of bears came running
toward them with the dogs about a
half mile in the rear. Mr. Frank
Frick and Mr. Harry Ferguson used
up all their ammunitoin in the first
phase of the hunt but they each had
a bear, and Mr. Frick had a cub for
good measure, i Everette Harris and
Vaughn Plo>t^ach bagged a bear.
Mr. Frick told us that after he had
used all of his ammunition that he
started back up the mountain to bor
row some from Mr. Ferguson when
he came face to face with a big bear.
There he stood with a perfect shot and
no ammunition. Wonder if he sang,
"Praise the Lord and Pass the Am
munition."
LELA'S BEAUTY SHOP
Has been moved to their
new location over
STOV ALL'S CAFE
Sylva, N. C. Phone 62
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"BAREFOOT BOY!" j
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to us for new soles, heels
and complete rejuvena
tion.
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SHOE SHOP