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THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER THURSDAY, MAY Page 2 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN .... Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County ....$1.50 Six Months, In Haywood County 76c Dne Year, Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entered at the post, office at Wayneaville, N. O., aa SMood Olaaa atail M.uier, aa provided wider tba Act of March I, IbJtf, November 20, 1814. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, carda of thanka, and all notices of entertainment fur profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. Nortn Carolina i ' mSS ASSOCIATION Vi THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940 Qualified Candidates Twenty-one candidates have put in their formal applications for seven county jobs, with almost a like number of office-seekers asking for state and district positions for the next two years. Their applications have been presented to the voters, and on Satur day, the voters, who pay the salaries of these officeholders, will decide with whom they will place the responsibilities of government for the next twenty-four months. Needless to say, some of the applicants for the jobs are worthy of their hire. Some have been tried. Some have had experience. Many are making promises about their quali fications which are foreign to being anything near what they have ever accomplished in any walk of life. Those who pay the bills and that includes every voter should take this matter of cast ing a vote as a serious matter. Any business man will tell you that, before he would fill seven jobs from twenty-one ap plicants, he would study carefully the quali fications of each. He would select with ex treme care those to whom he must pay his hard-earned cash for salaries, and not jump at hasty conclusions, or employ a man on hearsay, or pay any attention to rumors. He would KNOW the facts. In this same manner, voters should cast their ballots on Saturday for the men who are qualified to assume the responsibilities of office. : An Uncertain Vacation There are so many phases of a warring country. Often in a peaceful nation the hard ships being endured by those in the throes of conflict are forgotten or overlooked. With schools just closing in Haywood County, where the children have had a term, even though not so long as most of us would like, in comparison with other countries we must be grateful for its privileges. Seventy years ago universal elementary education became compulsory in England. Towards the end of last year for nearly 1,000, 000 children under fourteen, it has ceased to be compulsory. This break in a long custom was due to the war. Before last September it had been assumed that from the day of the beginning of the war London and other big cities would be sub jected to heavy bombardment. But it is re ported that thousands of parents who did not wish to be separated from their children ignored the government's advice to send their children away to the country. As a result it is said that there are 1,000, 000 children in the evacuation areas living in regions where they should not be and where there have ceased to be adequate or safe fa cilities for educating them. In spite of hur ried improvised steps to deal with them, most of these children were left to run wild, with out instruction, supervision or discipline. Experience has shown that even a few months' neglect in schooling can have serious results and give the child a setback that will be felt all his life. Just another phase of what it means to a nation to be "majoring" on a war, instead of the progress of its people. Same Old Formula There seems to be a tendency, since the problem of unemployment has become so acute, particularly that of the youth jus$ leaving school and starting job-hunting, to blame the situation on the defects of our edu cational system. Mrs. Roosevelt in her recent lecture in Asheville stressed the point that somewhere education is failing. We were interested in readine an article duriner the week on "So ciety Is To Blame," in which it was brought out that we adults are wrong in assuming that "youth can go it alone." "We should acknowledge first that youth's problems are not chiefly of their own mak ing. When youth goes to market his equip ment consists of qualities inherited and con ditioned, none of which have crystalized into a final pattern. At this age youth possesses imagination, not experience, an assortment of natural talents, or lack of them; habits have not congealed, and may change form under direction, and they have energy, but not judgment. These facts are mentioned only to show the futility of expecting youth to know and direct itself. Youth must be ex ploited. ' "Young people come in looking for jobs. They have finished their schooling and all they know about a job is that they want one. There is little reason to expect more adroit salesmanship from one who has just passed out of the protected environment of academic education as it operates in America today. The stamp of education, whether it be high school diploma or bachelor's degree in arts, does not equip youth with any formula for making itself useful practically. "The first score against youth then must be recalled by the referee as a fumble by education. "Still more damning is the observation that youth is not trained to work. Work habits may wejl be old-fashioned virtues. Youth is not going to act spontaneously in making them fashionable again. Youth will keep on softening until it is again taught the necessity for hard work and the satisfac tion of self-reliance. Youth will not set the course." In other words, according to the writer of the foregoing, despite the advantages of to day, youth is not so smart after all. It still needs the steady, guiding parental hand of experience and the lessons taught by the teacher who demands application as well as theory. There seems to be no new formula for suc cess. It still remains the result of hard work. ' ". Here and There -By-HILDA WAY GWYN TULIP TIME IN HOLLAND Tho CAvti Rav. Jrs. had a visit on Sunday from Mildred Seydell, of Atlanta, author and lecturer . . . . . who is said to nave interviewed, if not more, as many famous people as any newspaper writer in the world . .'. Hearst pa pers sent her to Italy for an inter view with Mussolini . sbe has a charm that would give her en tree anywhere .... and the power of expression .... both with the written word and verbally . . . present whaj she has seen and neara in numan . ... . ei l""M6 . and impressive language . . we were in Clyde's Flower Shop shortly after her visit ... he spo of it . . . so we went right over to the house . . . and asked Caro line to tell us all about it ... i isn't often that-we have as a guesi columnist . . . . a Pulitzer prize winner .. . . but Caroline consented to write down a bit about the con versation and of the visit in gen eral . . . so we turn the microphone over to Caroline Miller Ray author of "Lamb' in His Bossom" .". and nersonal friend of Mil dred Seydell . . Caroline speaking: How Many Read Bibles? The American Bible Society joyfully sends out the news that the distribution of 7,370, 908 volumes of the Holy Scriptures in 1939 represents an increase of five per cent over their circulation in 1938. The society hastened to explain that the total was by no means representative of the increased demands for the Bible, but the society's budgetary limitations kept it from being much greater. The distribution seems well in hand, and certainly should be satisfactory as far as volume is concerned. What we would like to know is: How and When is the society going about getting the Bibles read, now that they are distrib uted? We know of many Bibles which have become table ornaments and dust gatherers We repeat that, while their distribution job is well in hand, it seems their greatest and most important task of all yet confronts them. "Don't question your, wife's judgmeh't look who Bhe married." "Happiness is a relative term but not al ways a term of relatives." "Allies Losi ng i Ground," says headline. That is not such current news. For 15 years the same headline would -have been as truth ful. The Allies have been working for peace; while Hitler has been working for war. More AbouV'Hell Fire' "I would give almost anything to hear a good old-fashioned sermon on hell fire and damnation," said a regular church goer in a nearby county recently. The next day we read that Congressman Dies said: "What this country needs is a good old-fashioned religious revival." This dissatisfied citizen went so far as to accuse preachers of putting on the soft pedal in order not to offend the feelings of their congregations. It is true that the average sermon of today is not filled with the vivid descriptions of hell as so often pictured by the preachers of yesteryear. Back then, many a person was literally " swxed into religion. Now it is put in a calm er way. Which .is the better way, we don't know. We refuse to argue the question. We have seen some wbo professed religion under both methods "go to the bad," while others be came upright MM leading workers in the cause of their chfirch. After all, it is If ft up ta the individual, and woe be to the prWher who tries to please all the sinners in hia flock. ' . .. , She was just back from Europe (her hat and suit and shoes said "Paris'' before she did), she was just down from a week as house guest of Ruth Bryan Owen in Vir- ginia (she said that Ruth Bryan Owen and her young Swedish count were very, very happily mar ried, and that somehow made us happy). She wanted a description of how dusk comes in the moun tains. She said for us please, to give Mrs. Gwyn, Mr. Stentz, and Mr. Charles Ray her compliments, (remembering their names parties larly after two years and one meeting. "Five of my nephews are at the Belgian front, ', she said. We shuddered and put a foolisn question: "Aren't you depressed about it all?" "Of course," she said brightly; "but I've been a newspaperwoman so long that I've learned to sub merge private worries in the job in hand." Our mouths fell open. "Switzerland expects Germany to cqme in any day," she said' "my boy is in Zurich. , ; . ." "But can't you cable him?" we asked, again foolishly. "What should I tell him?" she wanted to know. We couldn't think of anything to tell him, long ago she told him how to live, and how to die: what else could she say? She lived for months in Sweden, Germany, Holland, Italy: she left Prague just before the Germans cam in, She believes that Eng land and France "are gone." (If people keep on saying that, it will tend to become true, we thought). What troublud her most, she said, is that the Allied governments will be set up in Canada, which will in evitably bring the whole problem much nearer home. We heard Hugh Sloan say that same thing six months ago, and thought then But how ridiculous! But now. , .) "Well, in that case . . ." we said, endeavoring to recover our equil ibrium, if any; "what do you think of the totalitarian system of life , . . .'. What would it be like, living under it . . . .?" "Wonderful," she said: "and I'm no Nazi. They have such perfect order, such efficiency, such thor ough training; they work, not just so that men may be employed, but in order that things may be accom plished, big things, and big things are accomplished." We thought of Germany fifteen years ago, and now: we thought of Rotterdam fifteen years ago, and now.) "There's no place in the world for soft people any more, is there?" we remarked. "Exactly," Bhe replied.' "It's a question of being tough." (Be strong, we thought: we are not here to dream, to drift. . . Be hard, be ruthless . So we aren't' our brother's keeper, after all ?) "We have become weak, and protected, and soft she said. (Her son is in Switzerland, and she goes on gathering material for newspaper articles and radio pro grams.) "There is no place for lazy peo pie in Germany," she said. (An J we are soft, we are lazy, we mourned) "But what about personal oppor tunity?" we asked, "what about an individual's chance to do the thing he wishes to do in the way he wishes to do it?" "There are marvelous opportu nities in Germany," she said "bet ter than most places, because the tempo is geared higher. Women doctors, for instance, all profes sional people. There is a tremen dous demand for trained, ambitious workers in all trades and prof es- scions. ..." "But what about the arts?" we asked freely. "Wouldn't so strict supervision kill all creative work?" "Not at all," she said. "Hitler was a painter, you know., They say if he had been successful at painting, 'all this never would have hap- I SV.r-W'VVi'.i - -..V....,.:."!v-v ... ' Voice off Ue Pej&pie Do you believe in a second pri mary when a candidate has a sub stantial lead over an opponent, but does not have a plurality? Mrs. William Hannah "No, I do not approve of second primaries. They are too expensive for the taxpayers." Dr. Tom Stringfield "I believe in a scond primary. I think it is the only fair method in some instances." R. L. Prevost ."Unless the high man is very close to a majority, I think if we believe in a democ racy we believe in a majority. If we fail to give the people a chance to express themselves we take away their privilege of democracy. Grover C. Davis "I think the law should be changed, to mandatory or abolished so the second high man could be relieved of the responsibility of ever calling a second primary." C. N. Allen "I don't believe in second primaries.'' C.B. Atkinson- "I do not be lieve in a scond primary ; unless there was evidence of fraud in the election," Jack Messer "As a general thing I do not believe in second pened." (Just another frustration, we wiought.' ) He losters." all forms of art: he has brought art within the reach of everyone, he has the most wonderful museums that are open to everyone. , . . ." "Perhaps genius requires discip line," we offered. "Of course," she said. "We thought Derhans Nazi nrnn. aganda had worked subtly to cause us all to admire German methods of work and war, no matter how much we hate their principles , . ." ".Not at all," she said ''they're wonderful, and I'm no Nazi." for years Mildred Seydell has traveled all over the world, with the .keen eyes and ears, with the reasoning heart, of a good report er. She is an intelligent, conserv ative, cultured American citizen, lovely to look at. fascinatinc to know: a two-hour talk with her doesnt even scratch the surface of her rich observations. She never has time for just talking, her mind is always doing a big job well. ; When we said goodbye, we could n't add: "We hope your boy will be all right in Switzerland. . . " It would have sounded so silly. Her son will be all right any where. We decided the more we know about the European situation, the less we know about everything. "Please do dusk comes back in the mountains" sne said, "with adjectives, you know. . primaries.1 Rufus Siler "I do'not believe in second primaries." M. M. Noland "I don't believe in Second primaries." William Medford "Generally speaking I am opposed to second primaries. Only in exceptional cases do I favor a second primary." CLIPPINGS DOVES AT D0ORN There are a good many people like Germany's ex-Kaiser. He has been living in a quiet spot in the Netherlands. Now that the Nazis are there, one of his grandsons speaks for him : "So far as Grand pa is concerned, all he desires is to be left in peace on his little Dutch estate." Though this quaint, epilogifo to the tragedy of 1914-18 is something of an anti-climax, Wilhelm IPs present wish to preserve his own peace is more understandable than some of his earlier impulses. But, of course, it should not be . con fused with peaceful thinking. The experience of small nations in Europe, whose chief hope seem ed to be that they too would be left in peace, is providing an ob ject lesson for the rest of the world. One of the fallacies of re cent decades has been the suppo sition that as long as a country wasn't too ambitious, it was safe; as long as it didn't want anything, it would be able to keep out of trouble. Much has been written on the technique through which Holland kept out of the World war. The Dutch simply armed themselves thoroughly for defense of the Neth erlands proper, and sustained with whatever grace they could muster the insults and injuries that small neutral trading nations must ex pect on world highways in war time. Americans, and people in other countries, were inclined to read in- to the Dutch experience in the World war a lesson on how to keep out of all wars: "Mind your own business, promise to make some trouble if anyone actually attacks your own roost, and don't talk back when outside your own back yard." That was the prescription. But now what? And besides, is the desire to keep out of war necessarily synon ymous with a desire for genuine peace? The Kaiser has not hither to been considered much of a pac ifistChristian Science Monitor. Stewart SaysJ American-Japants. War Would 55 Hitler At This T' KB i Adolf Hitler GOOD EATING In the south on vour menu vou can find the word "greens" as listed with your various vee-etablea of long standing. This might be tur- YOU'RE TELLING ME! By WILLIAM RITT- Central Press Writer i GERMAN parachute troops are equipped with collapsible bi cycles. The bike tires, no doubt, can be quickly converted hito waterwings on the way down If necessary. V- ! J ! Dental plates are beit ra tioned in Germany. There's a Uw with teeth but not real ones in it. ' ! ! Xl fundamentalist are being proven correct. The world may not yet be flat bat it' on Its way. '! Zadok Dumbkopf suggests that perhaps the reason Holland and Belgium are called the Low Countries Is because that's the way their spirits must be as they read of threatened blitzkriegs, i ; i , "Bombardment ol Norwegian town continues after dark" we read. Ah. the land of the Mid night Gun. -: ' ':'. The men ,at the next desk, proving ho up-to-date he to, ays he prefers to scuttle his doughnuts In the coffee. t ; I Business should be better by summer, opines an economist. Yes, we expect quite an upturn in the demand for fly swatters and sunburn salve. Central "p . uiittajj manv is ti-mn between Japan SUtes lack cr 1 """"nation b( vy j "v)-, nave j i w to k 1 the ,, v estiri I D - i wr. it M appean) 1 "uevejj. in ni 1 - n hich. officii! J a J .. , their representatives in th ' JUSl WhV tan x-jcnun and maXa In Tokio missed it wear, ii s considered wtB 'looking into, anvwav ! To beein with w , - Klim g. SJiese newsnanp.. I on what purported to be J juuuwiittuun, mat the miu, iGermans invade Holland, tht iau um r rencn will seize tin : erlands Kant tn,ii. .l .... u ouppues irom there to ft This would h vr . nffla,, Japanese, who are greatly i uyuu me r.asi indies Of their vitallv no.n.J I- - -oai; am terials, notably oil and nibitl Tokio Gets Bus; The obvious conclusion J ll Denooves the mikado It tne ' islands ahead of tit and French. It was a coJ which the Tokio governs mediately drew, for it M once to lorecast tne urgencj; speeay grao oi japan t om i It was a forecast id turn, promptly elicited Stcj of State Cordell Hull's id that no grabbing must Ix J far as the East Indies tit cerned. ; Naturally, JapaneJtaJ relations were strained. Seel Hull's warning, to be sun. ij applicable to the Britut French as to Japan, m the British and French icj object a bit to ha1ng tlx Indies protected by the If States, and Japan would. Tl( Ish and French would like fact; it would take a dutoJ from off their hands, Butlfc anese want those islands to 'J selves, i'' No Accident About B If this were iust an acci development it wouldn't sip- mucn However, the British, French Dutch consulates in Shanjta tend that there was no ohm it it Thftir account is that 6' Ambassador l'Usore Ott, ID T) paid that newspaper chain c pan 20,000 yen to puonn of his own. calculated to CW overwhelming Japanese j for an overnignt japai.e h of the Indies, in .ienar.ee kee wishes, thus, precipiu: Jap-American crisis in sho The German's reason to ing such an armed clash ii see-- Tough Figbt (orO It would be a 'mean : Uncle Samuel; At .short n latter is too heavy a the mikado, but it wc'Jj; ..... HncirfpiilV W ' handle hostilities away Pacific; in the ami"" indies- waicrs. , . Such a war would OT Sam out of Europe, 0 chance that he 'fi-alij think of buttin? in " . . . ..-or ftS Wl front, Ani,a"r.v-rt 10 oe. neii -gard that .contingency. ing the. last time M' more. Herr HWT'. recKons ui, v- l(t , uL-e'H have to bulk of our war suppW selves; nw ; I'm not, predietmg vi-ill fo ow. IT IShaitor? a?P template.; It' rather slicK pn that's what it is. trated 11 1311 V rr- m,0l' us. Propaganda m try we can But no Dies commrt -the Pacific to expose 'eftt""v depart wnai tne 0""v.,(,-aU'C. do about it isprob cni eft niD or beet gree dandelionlmufi(J er cress, : they are m. tk, east or west a diner, v.tf .viiood nap -ut ;rthembytefn e clutchea i" - - lunbonnets?iJ and passers- J - , f had no i-Mfl was as wr- pA them r - - spinach, mean water But sout; to many of in pa the a Knne a bag women with s sun they greens eating Eighty traffic weather, .lull fatalities :