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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, Attend The REA Exposition Friday and Saturday THE WAYNESYILLE MOUNT AIXEEB Playwright LaGuardia "Sells" Food Stamp Plan Where 7,000,000,000 Will AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES FARM COMMODITIES, ARTICLES 0 1.350 000 ARMS. AMMUNITION. ARMOR NEWS FROM FT. JACKSON 1.34 3.000 7i yv V f 7.'fv 3 By Private Bobby Slaon 1 occasionally see a lighted window j or doorway, with a g roup o? silhou- j etted figures staring to f what j manner of thing this was which was j distrubing the normal routine flow of their rural lives. But now every-1 thing is dark, and soon we hope it ; will be sunrise. Together in our: private world, it is as if we were , projecting ourselves into eternity. I Someone lights a cigarette and a ' great rush of color floods inside our truck. Stolid wraithe-ljke dum mies become again soldiers. A sol dier studiedly changes position, and unconsciously there is a turn ing of faces in the direction of the movement The light goes out in an instant, but the spell is broken. The glow of the cigarette remains to serve as a key. unlocking the door back into reality. Someone j speaks, and again there is laugh- I ter. The rain has ceased, and now j there is a star. The cloud has lost ! The rain comes down, an in per meable wall, curtaining: for us a little individual world, shutting us out almost from eternity, it seems. For over an hour now no word has been spoken, and those of us who are M I'iir.g ti !e -f as if we could with all the ponderous jolting of the truck beneath usare leaJen- eyed, staring blankly into the faces of the other occupants of the truck, engrossed with our own little thought-world. Or we are attempt ing, with a hopeless futility, to observe the countryside we are rumbling through, unvarying in the ghost-twilight of the outside fog and wetness. Covered by t huge torpid cloud of spongy fog, the res ervation maneuver area land-cape, monotonous beneath even the cheer of a midday son, now seems to gather to itself a quintessence of everything unpleasant and dull, and this in turn has penetrated our spirits. The only color in the oth erwise neutral of the outside is to be seen behind us, as far as the night will permit, in the little blue black-out lights of the truck, invis ible to the planes which might be overhead. For we are in "enemy territory Somewhere in South Carolina and we are moving for ward to no-man's-land. Like the apparition of a great segmented monster, heard loudly but seen softly, the convoy creeps it's noisy way forward, with the blackout lights, leering blue eyes the only visual indication of ror presence, even if there was some one out in the night vastnesg to see. Yesterday afternoon we were in bivoiu: area, fai ba-k of the fM.nl lines, but our reserve strength, it has been decided by the ones Who directly control our lives, is needed, and so now we are moving in the darkness Before nightfall, we were a laughing, joking olive-drab caravan; now the mysterious cloak of night has changed ns into a crea ture out of some unwritten myth- Infantry Regiment, oiogy. I participating. We don't know now far we have Since General Marshall's visit of have come already and time has the other day during which we long since ceased to be important, were reviewed by him the air is A thousand rumbles back, we would full of the talk of where and when h ., -A- ff Jt . zTtlaS - SHE New York's versatile Mayor FioreHo H. LaGoardia dons a storekeeper's apron and takes the role of grocer as he "sells" the Federal' Food Stamp Plan to 4,000 food dealers at Manhattan Center. To make it easier for them to understand, Hiaoner wrote, produced and directed "How The Food Sump Plan Works and after rehear--' hve presented it with a full theatrical east Some T75.0O0 New Yorkers are prepanng to use stamps for purchase of surplus foods. it's torpidity, and again we are back in reality. Our creature of mythology vanishes, and once more we are a convoy of soldier-filled trucks. Physically we are cold and tired, but we can remain cheer ful, as long as there can be laugh . ... n: : . i:. i xt t - our superiors use for it. We don't 1 be nice, though, if it would be have to give it a pedantic name j well, say good old Haywood county as long as it is there, we enjoy I That's just as good a guess as one com now. His corporal stripes w,c Ma,rS re W utue Place. loo. VA . and when they will Uke pUce. but ll'TJJ0 of course no one knows. However, 1 we know that these matters will be i settled for us, and so there is noth ing we can do about it Wouldn't it ratings, as well as James (ToarJ And you folks back home ought to see the haircuts which Kermit Murray, Willie Messer, and Glenn Gunter are now sporting. Warm weather sure. enough must be com ing April Schedule and Program Home Clubs Announced IBS FACTORIES. MACHINERY TOOLS. SUPPLIES 9 75 Z 000 SHIPS and FACILITIES 629.000 TANKS. TRUCKS AUTO PARTS MILITARY EQUIPMENT CONDITIONING DEMOCRACIES FUND or CONTINGENCIES L- J w 1 362.000. 26O.O00.C 5 200.0 00C 40,00o1 I ADMINISTRATION 1 ' 10,000; fhtrt "hows how Preaident Roosevelt plana to spend th. i 000,000 requested of Congress to finance tha lSbJKSuJti? "inaks for democracies every fun, plana and munition ofww tf possibly can.- Ths estimate, were drawn up by U. S. Budge? j Harold B. Smith. , ,v,V ,1 Thursday the 3rd. The Jonathan Creek club with Mrs. Glenn Boyd at two o'clock on Friday the 4th; Maple Grove club The program for the home dem- ith Mrs. B. H. Burress at two onstration clubs of the county for ! o'clock on Tuesday the 8th : Francis the month of April will center on Cove club will meet at the church j "Making a better dress cutting at two o'clock on Wednesday the and fitting." j 9th: Fines Creek club with Mrs. Mrs. Geonre Plott. aeeomnan'M i me meetings w u.ern at u-n mirty O CIOCK it. Life is not so bad. j boy in Company H (whose name ! I will not give) who told me that i As you can see from the above, h'hd h.rH it . tk ,, s k xn.. v?n:. " follows; Beaverdam club with on Thursday the 10th. the regiment is busily engaged in r ht, :,., it .; L.r, - UWl ft. -m ' M..Troy Davis at two o'clock on Iron Duff club with Mrs. Etta in the Bahamas. If wishes were 1 Plott, arrived at Fort Jackson last 1 J,",!?, -LL A11?'8. freek Hraword t tw? o'clock on Friday c, i j l. , . " "J iurai.il me scnooi nouse ine litnr .unrninir stjir oii.K nrith P.IU.U., w lprau me wreifDU. nii-..j.- 4u. j . . " . - " jirs. t,. u aieaiora at two o'clock on Monday the 14th; Rock Spring club with Mrs. C. B. Allen at ten numerous short practice combat team exercises, in spite of the weather, which has not been very nice lately. However; there is no more of the severe cold weather which we experienced on the short winter maneuvers, and with the leaves beginning to bud down here at Fort Jackson, we are taking advantage of the warmer air to get in as much practice as we can before the big War Game of late spring and the summer months. Company H, as a unit of the 120th is of course money . Thee" is a song.. . "Old Haywood, I Love more than the name of ; ine trees out on the maneuver are not the only things which are beginning to bud with the coming of spring. Some of the arms of Haywood boys with Company H are beginning to fairly blossom with 'newly awarded Chevrons, corporal viyae Ko&inson is now a sergeant, and has been given the responsibilities of looking after transportation for the company, Dave Edwards, who was a Private First Uass with a Fourth Class Specialist Rating, is also a no While Attending the Electrical Show, Be Sure You See the Mrs. Plott came to visit her hus. ' rli.JT''SV ' . " company . c'ZT. .'U. """l . . V nv W UWK UII band, Capt. Plott, the commander of Company H. o'clock on Tuesday the 15th ciub with Mrs. D. J N two o'clock on Wednesday ti i ne maggie club with MJ White at two o'clock on TI the17th: Crabtree club J at the school house at twJ on Friday the 18th; time a of Clyde, Cecil, West Cad Junaiuska clubs will be am later. I Cold Storage Lockers' me cold storase Incite. which has been so popular! miawesj is rapidly taking the South, where quick lacuities are badly needed .711 O O 77 fur-jnrn 7777 o REFniGERilTOR -ELECTRIC RAUGE Ikiv Features-Sensational Values!'' Mil V ' HU4t mi FULLY-FITTED 6.1 eg. ft. FRJGIDAIRE REFRIGERATOR SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS ff - tVme of its 30 featurets ' " Stainless Porcelain Sliding Hydrator Double-Easy Quickube Ice Trays Double-widtli Dessert Tray Super-Powered Meter-Miser New Low Operating Cost Large 6.1 cu. ft. Food Compartment Frozen Storase Compartment FRJGIDAIRE ELECTRIC RANGE wM Exdushre, New, Faster RAMANTUBE COOKING UNITS SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS ' Some of its features: Three Large Storage Drawer Cooldng Top Lamp Thermizer Well Cooker Super-Size Twin Unit Oven High-Speed Broiler Caek-Martar Orm CcMrol i COME IH AMD tft THtSS SCAUTIfVl tAMAINSI McCracken Furniture Co. PU0NE 2354 PARK STREET wnen we first came down to Fort Jackson, many of the boys complained that the people of Col umbia were hot at all friendly. It all goes to show that we just didn't know them rery well at first. It took us a little while to get ac quainted, but once we got to know some of them, we find they are the most iKttpitable people in the world. As ftr their friendliness, ask Cor poral hipley, Sergeant Ed Hill, Corporal Grey Winchester; and Private Jimmy Howell how they enjoyed the dance Saturday night which was given for the soldier boys. We have a fine selectee from Waynesville in the company now. The boys who work in the office of Regimental Headquarters and there are some thirty or forty of us, believe it or noU-decided that while the food out here at camp as picniy gooa ana there was i plenty of it, still we wanted to have a "change of scenery" go last week we got together and had a dinner at the Hotel Jefferson, in Columbia. Sergeant Carswell was very much in evidence. That was a good dinner, wasn't it, Richard? And that fried chicken, almost as good as being at home as far as the food was concerned. See The Mm Washer At Our Booth In The REA EXPOSITION Mccracken Furniture Co. Phone 2354 Park Street CANTON, N. C. Switch to Switches " ' v i J S A 1 ff- :? IS a -: " , " f ' V ' ( .M. , r , " wrk . 4 . - The Luxury Every Woman Wants Can Be Hers Through CHEAP Electricity . . The time for family companionship is priceless i n is so easy to obtain through the of time and labor saving Electric Services. Pleas ing too, is the low cost of this luxury every Jlother warns. , . iou are especially invited to visit the Electric Appliance Exposition Friday and Saturday at the armory. Discover for yourself how easy it is to v7 mo0ern Electric Appliances and how economi caJ they are to use. See Your Electric Bealer C to V "."""T SERVICE - Yet It's Che CANTON, N. a . -oM1M1 ut 'THECARfWlisJA M.otWT
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