THE SYLVA HERALD
And Ruralite
Published By
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
HSfak Street Phone 110
f Sylva, North Carolina
The County Seat of Jackson County
J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers
HELEN A. HOOPER . Associate Editor
MRS. JOHN H. WILSON Office Manager
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Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as Second
Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March
3, 1879, November 20, 1914.
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CHARACTER
Character is like a tree and reputation like its
shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree
is^the real thing. ? LINCOLN.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
?THOMAS PAINE
Reputation is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and the angels know of us.
?THOMAS PAINE
, Our Sixth War Loan Drive
Just as the boys on the fighting fronts
have their invasions, we on the home front
have our invasions, too. The big difference
in our invasions and their's is that they are
prppared to give their lives, if need be, to
put the invasion over the top ? while to put
our invasion over the top we are required
only to put our money in the safest invest
ment in the World . . . U. S. War Bonds.
Out next Big Home Front Invasion
starts next Monday, November 20, we of
Jaclcson county are asked to invest in 6th
War Loan Bonds the small amount of $216,
000.00 which is just about $10.80 for each
man, woman and child of the county . . . a
very small sum compared to offering your
life for your country. THIS is the difference
in what our soldiers are GIVING and what
we are INVESTING.
The sixth war loan quota for the Nation
as a whole is $14,000,000,000. This money
must be had by the4,reasury in order to sup
ply our fighting men with the guns, ships,
planes, ammunition, food, medical and other
supplies used up so rapidly in carrying on
war the magnitude of the one in which we
, are now engaged.
A few weeks ago, when our boys were
driving the Germans across France so
rapidly, we on the home front got it into
our minds that the war with Germany wras
almost over . . . that we could expect to hear
announcement of . Germany's fall at any
hour . . . the signal for us to begin celebrat
ing in a most foolish manner. How foolish
we all feej^now. Our fighting men knew
then thrSt Germany was not whipped, and
we know it now. Germany may fight on
indefinitely, exacting a heavy toll of lives
among our own boys before the war is over.
Our money in War Bonds now can help them
to beat Germanv to her knees sooner. Then
we can turn on the Japs with all our fury
and maybe conquer them within the next
few years.
It is hoped that Jackson county wTill
make asi fine a record in putting over the 6th
War Loan as they did in the 5th and previous
Bond quotas.
Esprit de Corps
Today, November 10, is the 169th birth
day of the United States Marine Corps.
A generation ago, Colonial 'Henderson,
the eminent British military writer, named
the Marines as one of the three most efficient
fighting organizations in the world, without
regard to size. When they landed on
ciuadaicanal in iy42, a well-known war corr
espondent who had covered in person most
of the major fronts since 1939, spoke of
as the finest group of fighting men of any
nationality he had yet seen.
How did they get that way? Every
thing about them bespeaks a pride in them
selves and the traditions of their Corps. They
are self-confident to the point of cockiness;
slicked, shined, and pressed to the borders
of vanity; and they have a deep, serene con
viction, not merely a belief, that one Marine
is worth ten of any other kind of fighting
man on earth.
There is an unmistakable feeling of
fraternity among them. Says the buck
private to the major as they exchange salutes
on Quantico's Barnett Avenue, "Good morn
ing, Major." Says the colonel to the ser
geant as they wait for a train in Grand Cen
tral Station, "What outfit you with, son?"
Says the boot-driver (drill sergeant) to his
charges on Parris Island, "One thing youse
guys don't never do in this lash-up is let
another Marine down."
All of this started a long time ago when
the Corps was small, and has been inten
sified and renewed during those many
periods when the Marines were so few that
every officer knew every other officer, and
a corporal rarely got his stripes until he had
six years behind him. And it works now,
even in a big Marine corps, as such grim
victories as Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan,
Guam, and Peleliu testify. ? Christian
Science Monitor.
Paper War Far From Won
The American Newspaper Publisher*
Association has released a resume of facts
and opinions gathered from key Federal
officials in the interest of newspapers sup
porting the pulpwood and waste paper cam
paign.
The ANPA inquiry uncovered the fol
lowing significant facts pointing to a con
tinuing demand for pulpwood long after the
defeat of the Nazis:
1. Military requipment for paper and
paperboard are now at a wartime peak.
2. Allied military supplies now in
Europe, including those of the British, must
be repackaged before being shipped to PaSfc*
fic combat area ?
3. Liberated countries, such as France,
Belgium and Holland, are making large de
mands on this country for paper.
4_The Army expects no severe cut^
back in military requirements for paper and
paperboard for six months after V-E Day.
This is but further evidence of the fact
that the "paper war" isn't yet over and that
the need for pulpwood is far from filled.
We have many miles and months to go in
the Pacific despite our glorious naval vic
tories.
Cut all the pulpwood you can. But cut
the kird of pulpwood the mills specify in
order to avoid a waste of time, effort, and
transportation equipment.
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PARENT PROBLEMNS
Interest In Arts Important
By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, Ph.D.
WITH THE inevitable emphasis in
these days on technical knowledge and
skills, we wonder what is happening to the
interest of technical persons in poetry, art
and high-grade music. As any technician
? knows he has a strong temptation to neg
lect these less tangible and emotionally
appealing sides of human culture.
Young men and women in high school,
college and professional schools, college, and
professional schools now, and veterans re
turning to resume their formal education,
might well consider this matter. So also
might parenjts of young children.
Apropos are some statements by the
great scientist Charles Darwin which he
made in his Life and Letters.
Darwin's Opinion
"Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it,
poetry of many kinds, such as the works of
Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge
and Shelly gave me great pleasure, anc
even as a schoolbov I took intense delight
in Shakespeare, especially in the historica
plays. I have also said that formerly pic
tures gave me considerable, and music very
much delight. But now for many year, I
cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I
have tried lately "to read Shakespeare, and
found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated
me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures
and music. Music generally sets me think
ing too energetically on what I have been
at wofk on, instead of giving me pleasure
~--7-My-fflmd seems to have become a kind
of machine for grinding general laws out
-of large collections of facts . . ?
"And if I had my life to live over again,
I would have made a rule to read some poet
ry an dlisten to some music at least once
every week; for perhaps the parts of my
brain now atrophied would have been kept
active through use. The loss of these traits
is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be
injurious to the intellect, and more prob
ably to the moral character, by enfeebling
the emotional part of our nature."
THE OLD HOME TOWN
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By STANLEY
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Autumn Leaves
By M. Y. Jarrett
I strayed today thru Autumn's Grave
To revel in its treasure trove
Of leaves deep-dyed with every hue
That Mother nature ever knew.
All red and yellow, brown and green
Such blends of color ne'er were seen
As spread before my raptured ga2?
All covered by old Smoky's haze.
The Maples blushed beside the stream
The dog-woods were an artist's dream
Deep gold and red the oak trees stood
The sour-woods were bathed in blood.
The hemlocks in their emerald sheen
Were pyramids of living green,
The tulip trees were towers of gold
Whose beauties never can be told.
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lis crimson leaves the black-gum
shook
And cast them down beside the brook
Whose waves a down a cascade splash
A sheet of flame the hickory tree
Waved banners fair for all to see:
Sapphire, turquoise, aquamarine.
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Here mingled with the pine tree's
green.
Like vast rainbows the mountains
stood
Each covered with its painted wood
Beyond all power to portray
As far they lie along the way.
Full soon will come a dreary day
With all this beauty passed away
But spread above the autumn sod
I've seen a master-piece of God.
Cpl. Hooper Has Been
In Forty States While
Training With Army
Cpl. Fred Hooper of Fort Benning,
Ga., is spending several days with
his mother, Mrs. W. H. Hooper, at
Cowarts. Cpl. Hooper has been in
service 3ince June, 1940. ? ^ he
has been in forty of the forty-eight
states and is now stationed with an
infantry unit at Fort Benning, Ga.
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A thrifty growing forest pays T.a"kes
and produces a steady farm income.
Cut fuel wood from the cull trees
and the poorer species.
This & That
By
HELEN A. HOOPER
Thanksgivng is not many days off
and in looking over the mail we
found the menu for the boys ?nd girls
i:i service, it looks as tho the one's in
service will have something to be
thankful for on that day. It is going
to be a busy day for service cooks, as
they are not going to starve the boys
for breakfast. Just to whet their
appetites for the big food at noon,
they will be served this breakfast
menu: Oranges, dry oerea'l, fresh
milk, fried eggs, pork sausage, toast,
butter, maimalr.de, coffee.
Il is to be a day of feasting and
Ihe mess sergeants will feed 'em again
n night, just like they hadn't had
a belt-busting meal at noon. For
slipper they'll have: assorted cold
cuts, sliced cheese, potato cakes, left
over vegetables, bread, butter, cof
fee, peanut butter.
And here's what they will have for
hat Thanksgiving dinner:
Grapefruit Juice
I Roast Turkey with Giblet Gravy
Sage Dressing, Mashed Potatoes
String Beans, Corn
Cranberry Sauce
Lettuce With Russian Dressing
Celery, Olives, Pickles
Hot Rolls, Butter ,
Pumpkin Pie, Coffee
Apples, Tangerines
Candy* Nuts
But there is no cause for civilians
to worry about a possible shortage of
turkeys for their Thanksgiving din
ner. While the total quantity re
quired for the Armed forces has not
been disclosed, the War Food Ad
ministration has advised that tur
keys remaining for civilian :unsump ?
tion this year will be more than tne
per capita consumption than during
the pre-war period between 1935 and
1939.
County AAA election meetings will
be held in North Carolina between
November 20 and 25.
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
ARE STILL IN JAP PRISONS
R
emember Corregidor ? Remember the
pictures of grinning Japanese soldiers
guarding American prisoners? We're out
to wipe the grins off their faces. We're out
to liberate thousands of American soldiers
the great national effort to win quick vie
tory in the Pacific. The cost of victory
comes high. It costs billions of dollars ?
month to fight Japan! But we know you'll
do your full share, as you have in all the
wnfr civilians still in Jap prisons^ That day other war loan drives. Your full share mt~
' can come only with final victory. least one extra $1Q& War Bond. Buy mm*
out to finish the job the Japs i* you possibly can. War^Bonds are your
started. The 6th War Loan Drive it pert of insurance of ^ safe, independent future.
BUY AT LEAST ONE EXTRA $100 WAR BONO
THIS 6TH WAR LOAN ME^S^r.F. SPOvSORF.r> BY:
SCHULMAN'S DEPARTMENT STORE
STYLE CENTER OF SYLVA
NORTH CAROLINA