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THE WAYNESVILLE MODNTAi THURSDAY, APRiL LNEKH The, Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main. Street Phon. 1ST Waynesville, North Carolina Th County Seat of Haywood County CURTIS BUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor i W. Cortii Rubs and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY . V! . . ' I SUBSCRIPTION RATES ; One Year, In Haywood County f ' Six Months, In Haywood County One Year, Outside Haywood County ..10 76e . 100 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance hlafd at (ha Boat offlaa t WaraaarUla. V. O- Olaaa Mall Matur, aa prorldad oudar tba Act SUocS) 187, Noraubar SO, 11. Obituary noticaa, raaolutkwa of raapact, earta and ail not lew of antarUlnmraU for profit, will I lot at tha raU of on era par word. vX'Nonb Carolina vX NATIONAL DITORIAl ASSOCIATION la jp THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941 Food Control Last August the mountain section was vis ited in quick succession by two disastrous floods. The destruction was enormous, not only to private property, but in damage to roads and bridges amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Obviously nothing can be done to prevent floods in the mountains. Our swift moun tain streams will get out of control and no human agency can prevent this. A great deal however could be done to minimize the disastrous effects of these floods if done in time. While the TVA is doing valuable work along this line it seems to U3 that the state highway commission in cooperation with the land owners along the streams could do some much needed work by lowering, widening, and straightening the streams and removing the wreckage left from last year's floods. The sight of this wreckage and debris left by the floods of last year is very depressing to the thousands of tourists passing through, as well as forming a base for drift that may change the complete course of the stream. There are a number of such places in Hay wood county now as the result of last sum mer's flood. Also a number left in such condi tion that the damage would be greater in case of another flood. A few dollars spent now in stream clear age might mean the saving of thousands of dollars later in damage to farms and high ways. -V..;; More Fishermen People that have never before bought a fishing license are now out' on the creek and river banks trying to lure the members of the finny tribe to their hooks, according to Cody Plott, county game warden. They are doing more than trying they are pulling in the big ones, and not letting them get away, he reported after checking up on some of the Izaak Waltons. At the pace the world is living today, and with the daily disturbances in the interna tional situation, and the uncertainty of things, we suspect that many a person who heretofore did not feel that they had time to fish are going out by the waters edge to get away from it all Any way we have found that those who come back with a catch seem refreshed. Those who had rotten luck, well, it is hard to figure their disposition out.. . . . . Highway Commission On Friday, Governor Broughton relieved the suspense that has kept the whole siaie guessing for the past three months by nam ing the new Highway Commission. L. B. Price, of Hendersonville, was named chairman and Percy Ferebee, of Aiidrews, for the Tenth District. Four old members, Messrs Watson, McCrary, and .. . . were retained, while six new mem bers were appointed in addition to the chair man. ' State-wide opinion seems to be that the Governor has appointed a very able body to handle the state's largest and most impor tant business, that of the management of the State Highway system and the prison depart ment and other public works. In Mr. Price of Henderson County, the commission will have an able leader, a man of sound judgment, wide business experience and a lawyer of ability. Mr. Ferebee is a prominent business man of Andrews and Murphy. He is keenly inter ested in the development of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Western North Carolina and will without doubt make a val uable member of the Commission. This paper extends to each of these new members our heartiest congratulations and our best wishes for a successful administra tion. :: . Mountain Roads The story of the old woman who said she believed that if one had enough faith they could remove mountains, but lacked that faith herself after praying that the moun tain in front of her home be removed, should go to Soco Gap and see those giant machines eat away the mountain sides. Some of the heaviest machinery ever brought into this section, has attracted hundreds of citizens to the scene of activity. Some of the machines resemble giant historic monsters biting out huge mouthfulls of dirt and then crawling along to the edge of the fill and spitting it out. Road building has come a long ways from the old pick and shovel days, and the manner in which the mountains are circled with roads that permit comfortable travel at high speed, brings us closer to that reality, what is there eft for man to conquer? POLAR DISCOVERY-1941 Voice OF THE People HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN More Traffic Lights Two new traffic lights have just been placed in Haywood one at Hazelwood and another at Clyde. These lights were not put there by the city fathers just to give their respective town an atmosphere of "big city" stuff, but for the protection of the public. The average motorists drives mechanically that is, they go places without thinking, and the need for devices to think for them is becoming more of a necessity every day. We don't especially enjoy traffic lights, yet we were glad to see the two recently erected go up. Both of them are at dangerous inter sections, and we are informed that officers are keeping a sharp eye for thoseVho appear to be "color blind." Life at its best is ever an uncer tain quantity ... one never knows when disillusionment waits around the corner . . . to shatter the dream of anticipation, . . . take for in stance the Waynesville High School Band . . . the group left here at noon on last Thursday for Greens boro . .-.'their destination, the State Music Festival contest ... they left with great pride that they had won the privilege of entering the state-wide contest , . 'it had been a goal to which they had worked since organization . . the town had pride in their trip , . . and keen interest ran high in the community over the outcome of the contest . for it might have lead to Richmond and the regional contest of South ern States . the trip down in five cars and a Queen City bus of the party of 70 strong . . . count ing L. T. New, band director, and six mothers . . . was a huge suc cess ... everybody was jubilant . . . and they enjoyed the stops en route when they were all together , . . the trip had been well organized . the party arrived all excited . . . a visit to the city of Greens boro meant more to some than oth ers . . . Dut to each the significance of the band's rating that made it possible, meant much ... '. . little did they know what awaited them . . . Good Old Warm Weather Old-timers agree that the seasons now are not what they were back at the turn of the ' century. This makes it difficult to predict the weather. The modern woman dresses according to . fashion, and not the weather, so mere man cannot be assured of what to expect by clothes. Flowers bloom in off seasons, and some times get caught in a freeze at the height of their blooming season, so flowers are not al ways an accurate guide. So what is there left by which a man can crauge the weather? Oh, yes. We almost forgot. The thud of the horsehide against the ash bat in the baseball park that's the definite sign of warm weather. And from the way things clicked at the athletic field here Saturday at the opening of the season, we can rest assured that warm weather is here to stay. . A ccommodations The fact recently brought out in the Ashe- ville papers that the city has had to turn down three large conventions on account of inadequate rooming facilities brings up the thought as to what Waynesville might be able to do in the event that a large organiza tion wish to hold a meeting here. It would be well to make a survey of the maximum capacity of the town and have a complete list-at all times of every regular rooming place and also of those who would be willing to open, their homes in a case of emergency. ' . . Not only would such information be advis able for times of prosperity, but also in dis aster, as last summer when people were ma rooned, lodging was at a premium, and such information would have been invaluable in getting people located. It necessarily took some time to get 70 people assigned to lodging places ... to get the instruments unpacked and put up and baggage cared for . . . some went to their rooms at once . . . and came out again for food ... while others got their suppers or dinners before go ing in for the night . . . a few qf this latter group did not know what had happened until the next morning . . . everybody was in high spirits . . . when out of a clear sky the local boys (hone, however members of the Greensboro band) began to knock off the caps of some of the Waynesville boys . . . they got them back . V . then shortly after: it all started up again v . . elsewhere you may read of what happened that night ... the story is no doubt well known throughout the community . . . of what occur red on the campus of one of the state's leading educational institu tions ... of how a lawless mob of boys held up a college dean, a band director and others until 1:30 in the morning in a college building and of how the band director and several of the boys were forced to spend the remainder of the night at the police station ... Congress, it seems now after authorizing America's multi-billion dollar rearmament program is overcome with a sense of old fash ioned economy and is claiming that now is the time to start saving. House fiscal lead ers of both parties are suggesting that money can be saved both on non-defense costs and in defense projects. It is no wonder that the economy bug has bitten them as they prepare to consider the administration's $3,444,000,000 tax program, The tax bill started its way through law-mak- ing machinery on Monday. Officials will at tend the closed sessions and suggest how to raise the money. It was not the welcome the band had expected ... it did something to those band students ... that hurt the older people to see . it was a hard unjust lesson m the process of "growing up" ... of course there was the tension that goes with excitement and exhilara tion . . . but it was not the type that brings out the best in human nature . . . ; When the group gathered . . . the next morning at 7:30 o'clock in the Music hall of the Wo man's College . . . where they were to play in the contest at 8 o'clock .: . . the air was charged with emo tions . . . hard to describe ....".'at least among our students ... their ambition was gone . . . their spirit broken . . . they had lost their high rating before they played ... how could they do their best under such a handicap? . . . some even afraid to be seen in their uniforms some of the best players had not had a wink of sleep . . , and the di rector had not had a chance to go to bed . . . but they were game . . . they played ... but not as they nave on other occasions . . . and we six anxious mothers in that audi ence . . , nearly blistered our hands trying to swell the applause ... for we were proud of their courage in attempting to play after such a night . . . in the next part of the contest, the public was not allowed . . ... that of sight reading . . . but the mothers went with them to the next build ing and waited outside . . . when it was over (and incidentally they made A-2 rating) the director called a conference and said, "Now you have played, if you want to go back home after what happened last night and miss the marching fea ture, you may do so" ... but in the meantime he had read the mes sages sent by groups back home V. . and they voted a loud "No" . . . their spirits seem to rise . . . and we were glad of their decision and much more so later . . . for they gained confidence during the day . . . and five minutes before they marched on the stadium for the last test . . that of "marching" ... the director told them that the Waynesville boys had been cleared in court . . . they marched with steady step and heads high and won A-l rating on their ability ;' . , we gloried in their comeback . . . and they really drew a hand fronj the hundreds, gathered in the college stadium . . In an editorial of one of the Greensboro papers about the mat ter the expression of "boys will be boys" was used . . , but courtesy to the "stranger within your gates" . . . is a law about as old as life itself . . ; and we hope never goes out of fashion . . , put yourself in the place of the band students . how would you like to visit a town and have a rank stranger come up and knock your hat off . . . pitch it in the street under a car? . , . Would you not resent it? . . . the students have been taught to take care of their uniforms and equip ment . . . they are not theirs ... but belong to the band . . far be it from us to condone or uphold in any manner rowdiness in our boys . . . but from all we can learn about the affair our students onlv did . . , in coming to the rescue of their director . . . what any red-blooded American boy should do . , under such circumstances . . . and the band returns with no loss of pres tige . . . but still maintains the high esteem in which it left . . . and also with apologies from the col lege and the city of Greensboro and sympathy from other bands in the state who have had their troubles on other occasions ... . . Industry May Even Welconi Federal Control Do you think our chances for keeping out of the war are getting better or worse? M. G. Stamey "Worse. It ap pears that the other nations in con flict with the Axis are gradually crumbling, except England, and because of the strong alliance of Japan with the Axis Powers, and the uncertainty of Russia makes our position a grave and preca rious one. J. R. Boyd, Jr. "I don't know that we are any nearer actual fighting, but the war situation is worse, but after all one does not know what 24 hours might bring , to pass." By CHARLES P. STElf V Centnil Press Col J QUITE a few of tu J trialists with plants adap1 production of supplies esa our nationally defensive! and to aid-the-democrJ poses aren't a bit averse! their facilities taken J managed by the goveromel the present emergency pei , ItB uggestion whicK from such anthn.;.:. 1 - -'vnuej i tion Director William q sounds a good deal uw but some of the industrial. nret if sa 1 r . ,v,s,, un nitf T. J. Cathey "It is getting worse. war ' conditions keep spreading. Every move that is made gets nearer our shores. Of course our greatest immediate danger depends on Japan." , Grover C. Davis "I don't .think the United States government has done anything to make conditions more likely for us to be drawn into the fight. I think our National Defense program will tend to keep us out." Mrs. N. M. Medford "I think our preparations lor war will serve as a protection to us." Dr. J. R. McCracken "Worse think each day our government is adding 'more fat to the fire.' " Dr. H. O. Champion "Our army we are building up is bound to be protection to us, but if England goes down, I had rather for us to fight it out." Lewis Brewer "Worse, We are going to be in actual fighting in six months.'" Mrs. Ben Colkitt "From read ing and hearsay it looks to me that we are fast drifting into war." i. u. u Hrien "I tiunk our chances are better. I believe our National Defense program is de laying our getting into the conflict, I feel that President Roosevelt's main purpose in the program was to keep us out of the war." WPA (We Pay and Pay And Pay and Pay & Pay) JACKSONVILLE What puzzled County policemen was just how the Negro who stole a car at Monti cello, Fla., had managed to buy gas oline for all the riding he did. They didn't know, until he told them, that the rides were on Uncle Sam. - - . ..'.' The Negro related he found WPA courtesy card in the auto mobile and used it for gasoline pur- cnases. There is no possible excuse to offer for the Greensboro high school boys for their behavior . . . which is a blot on the city . . . and youth of today in general . . . and the fact that such a thing could happen on the grounds of one of the state's leading educational in stitutions is not only odepressing, but alarming . . . it is time that youth of today took stock of them selves . . . their freedom has evi dently gone to their heads . . . when they abuse it as they did in Greens boro . .". and it is likewise a warn- ing to those in charge of our insti tutions who are responsible for their education .'. . and also to the parents . . . that a sterner hand of discipline is needed ... and that sen expression had better be curbed when it takes a criminal outlet . . . it is too bad for lessons to be taught by way of the police courts that should be learned in the homes and schools . . .with of ten the in nocent having to suffer along with me unenaen . . ; SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOTT Pfc OOSICK- (QV AIL 1 VMM A, S4U SjX lTjZl Yt ) COKS.ST A ft. CAT )1 M 1i Q sha,vih;-, JK I 1 14 . rj ATTACHES- f K I .'.EC 7 PoUltti fe ' f 11 Jill "'J" u Ttf& smalls. &f " -11 YrfHOLK CAN IMS. "MM. fount m him a. S. i Itv Of course, it's assnmi cle Sam will pay fair J the facilities referred 3 "commandeers" them, a3l pression is. s And adv'ocal plan urge its adoption J rental basis: the v outright confiscation. Tl trialists aren't altogethl posed to take Uncle sJ on it. 1 Washington's simnl, J with their representativ! scattering of their DfinriJ They don't say for public mey u welcome having thi governmentally command it s easy to overhear 'em ing it to one another. The idea's this The government, in contracts, is driving a of pretty hard bargains ing to the industrial gp account, at any rate. They're afraid it may er-fisted yet, too, with all sip there is about enormd gency profits and with jusi starting an investif production bottlenecks, stt other stoppages. Laboi popularly blamed for a able share in obstructive! managements comine sizable proportion of pul cism. Little Profit Seen Now, the industrialist! is that they're not due much money on the strenJ bargains they're conclm far, and some say their will be lucky to break ev That's as of this momei ing, What worries the indusj more especially, howevei prospect, foreseen by tb their costs of operation crease very rapidly and? ably. Their workers aire mand higher wages, as by the current strike The tale of the strikers' is that they can't stand basis of their existing Besides, they think (or pi think) that a big bulge in of their raw materials is it If their apprehensions ized, which they're disma bling on, they predict shortly will be losing ft like fury, The head of a big Atlaf building company was in ton recently, negotiating rector Bill Knudsens Production Management. quote him by name, but ha "We can't agree to th ment's shipbuilding ternl at desperate risks to oil ship. Yet we've GOT to 'em, or be branded as unf What we hope is that w much repair work that it 1 busy up to the limit oC pacity. We can charge bottom figures even work, but there's a 1 margin on that than thers" ual building. Our dangif repairs won't fully occupl well have to build, too, ul ernment regulation. Tnl , 9 us.-...-" How It Would Wi But if a plant's govenj commandeered: Then its ownership rental from Uncle Sam, At worst, it won't be rrnt loss. And Uncle Sammy all the strike headaches. workers do strike on hm conscript em, at whatevj bay he dictates. A Pi Dlover cant do it. nei the UDDer and the neti stones. I've no intention of "j industrialists' case for no authority on the subH economics. For whatevj be worth. I'm merely what T hpar from 'enlf 4 torial listener at their v. Anyhow, Uncle Sin mm. tn fricrhten 'em B"" ... - -o , inr about commanoH plants at a reasonable r Judge Okays Druni Stuff OnceMonin HELENA, Mont- Hintnn. Canadian, WW 5 Federal district court in J charees of drunkenn James H. Baldwin iecm "Ever since 1862 C'J became a territory) "J man's privUege to get V 30 days." . Hinton was release The British Red 1 own to $16,000,000 J hi. foat BM in i
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