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ro,nAY, MARCH 12, 1942 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 9 1 1 -- w I U AS HE SEES THE HUMAN SIDE 0' LIFE H' vas been quite a bit of here has ree' V, . about the -Pa L Tn. last week. tSStheralebig'nof 1886. 1936 ana we snows. 6's seem w - - - onlv three and a half f g hut remember it very ... i remember it because 2Vn the door and watched big brotnen. '-'r" Um for roaa-ways ,c..6 t" he house. First they snov- out one to me bih. -v, t0 .the wood pile spring, etc So that when they got it looked like where some ily of giant beavers had been rorlt. The Big snow was from Tt fell rifrht he last of November; and that election year it s "IU the elected candidates to reach county seat on the first Mon- jn December to oe sworn m. s said that one man in Bun he county failed to reach Ashe- that day, and when he did there another man had been -n in for his office. miles to get back home. "Shucks, that's nothin'," inter rupted Shurf Welch, "a wise old cat will travel fifty miles to git back home sometimes, maybe." "Yes, a hundred," added John Kerley. Then some one said that he thought that was all the cat-will-come-back-distance would stand this session and moved to peg it there. The motion carried. John Paul Jones Scat! ell. Mr. Editor, a passel of us t house fiillosofers was talkin' t cats 'tothcr day, sorter 01 L(f subjeck for us. But hit i that we had run out of any n and the weather, so Wade fend suggested that we talk Lt cats a while. First Uncle told what Wade Frazier said t his cat travenn' twelve Ops' M A K E pSg EVERY l PAYDAY BOND DAY This got men to studyin about sick cat-deeds You know like a man dumpin' his old bad cat off on his feller man. So I went home, sat right down an' thunk up the follerin' rime which I call Our Cats Come Back Life has a way of recompense You've noticed this I 'spose; How things will always even up "Shore as the rooster crows." Jist try your frown upon some guy, An' he'll frown back at you; But beam a smile no possum grin, An' look, he's smilin' too! Or drop two sick, unwanted cats Near some safe distance ( ?) door, An' some fine morn when you awake There's three sick cats or four! Don't give back-slaps to git re turns, Our deeds must be sincere; If a man's a hypocrit at heart His slaps will somehow queer. Good deeds we say "come out in wash." Well, if this is tried an' true, Your sick cat-deeds will too, re- turn Your cats come back to you. j.mwmmi ii ii ii.aMtKtii)x.uiiiii.li.iiiitwwwwl i .... h,W' U I I : till " r's:" 1 E I Another John Paul Jones fights for American liberty one hundred and sixty-six years after his famous ancestor made American naval his tory. This one is a lieutenant on duty at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station where he is shown atop a flying boat. His brother, a naval reserve flier, was killed in the Phi lippines. (Central Press) A miniature of John Paul Jones by his Parisian friend, the Coun tess of Lowendahl, is in the U. S. naval academy museum. Federation Declares 3 Per Cent Dividend A three per cent patronage div idend has been declared on pur chases from the Farmers Federa tion warehouses during 1941, ac cording to James G. K. MoClure, president of the Western North Carolina farm co-operative. Payment of the dividend will be in common stock of the Federation, Mr, McClure said. The common stock now bears interest at the rate of six per cent annually. In the event that a patron's business has not been sufficient to earn a full share of stock, credit amount ing to three per cent of his or her purchases will be issued toward a stock share. Remember-You Always Save At BELK'S iSKLK b . . . 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TORPEDOINGS by Axis pre sumbably German, submarine of oil tankers in Carribean waters and the shelling:, by the same fleet of U-craft, of the Dutch West In dian islands of Aruba may turn out to have been in the interest of Pan-American solidarity. That is being suggested at the state de partment by officials who have been closely identified with the cam paign to tie the western hemispher ical countries tightly together. It was a raid, it's argued, that was calculated to prove to them all how much nearer to them war ac tivities are than maybe they be lieved them to be. It's true that the mainland was not attacked and Aruba is Dutch, not Latin-American. Nevertheless the thrust was right into a Latin American pond, in entire disre gard of what the Latins might thjnk of it. Moreover Aruba's big industry is the refinement of Latin American pil and it iRn't deemed likely that the Latins will approve of the notion of having one of their important products bombed in transit to customers who are due to pay them well for it. Finally, one of the torpedoed tankers was Ven ezuelan. Its owners must be ex ceptional folk if they didn't resent haviup it fired on. The outrage oocurred, too, at a kind of a fortunate juncture. Not many days previously Cau dillo Francisco Franco of Spain, a warm friend, though not yet an actual ally of Herr Hitler and Sig ner Mussolini, hud predicted that at least 1,000,000 Spaniards would' volunteer to fight for the Nazis if there seemed any danger of their defeat by the United Powers. He May Be Right It isn't safe to assert that Fran cisco was wrong in hazarding this guess. ' Spain iB sharply divided. It has a large element that classifies as democratic or even more radically. Another formidable element, however, is and always has been extremely hostile to proletarianism. I'd have guessed that they'd di vide about 50-60. Grabbing at an opportune moment, the proletari ans gained control of the Madrid government, as republicans. They were, in fact, considerably more pronounced than that and probably overdid matters. Taking advantage of resultant disatisf action, Gen eral Franco started a totalitarian revolt. It was a doubtful civil war and the general might hot have won it but for the help received from Fuehrer Hitler and Duce Mussolini. With their assistance, though, he succeeded in overthrow ing the so-called republic and slid in as Caudillo. : Considering the evenness of the Spanish balance and his followers' obligations to the Nazis and Fas cists, it seems not improbable that the Caudillo didn't exaggerate in saying that 1,000,000 of his crowd would spring to the Axis' aid in an emergency. The qualification is that, with the draining off of 1,000,000 of his to talitarians for service in the Axis fields of action, Spain's alleged re publicans almost certainly would take the warpath again in Spain itself, and maybe dispose of Cau dillo Franco, who Would be pretty short-handed to deal with them, minus his absentee million. Inspired by Hitler? The suspicion here is, though that Francisco emitted his blast, not so much because it meant any thing, as because he was inspired by Herr Hitler to do it, for the sake of its hoped-for influence in Latin America. The Axis fifth columnists' con nubiations haven't been very effec tive there. " The Germans, among the new world Latins, are numerous in spots, but they and the Latins don't harmonize well; they're too differ ent from one another. The Ital ians harmonize, but tlfey do it too completely, they don't stay Italians; they become localized. The Japs remain Jappier than even the Ger mans remain German. The Axis theory evidently is that what art outstanding Spaniard says will count more with Spanish Americans thaii all anybody else can say, including the Yankees and all others. This may not be true in Brazil, which is Portuguese. Still, Spaniards and Portuguese are Til Never Forget--" HUMAN INTEREST STORIES COXDUCTED BY UNCLE ABE THE LOST BOY By C. L. Grahl. It's been about five years ago since it happened; still every once in a while somebody wants to joke me about losing my boy and his two little cousins. My father lives ten miles out from Dalton, Georgia, where my wife and I were visiting when it happened. We decided to take the children to the night show at Dal ton. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Plott, of the family, also) decided to go; so, together with their children, we made a party of thirteen, in two cars. But when we got to town the women folks did not go to the show; so after buying the grocer ies I took the women folks back home and went to bed, leaving the children with my brother-in-law, Sam Plott, But somehow our plans got crossed or there wasn't a thor- 1 ough understanding; so that when the show was out, Sam and the three older boys got in his car and went home, thinking that the oth er three had gone home with us that, is, if indeed he thought at all. Well, we had gotten home and were making sleeping arrange ments for the children before it was discovered that the three boys were missing. Where were they? "Didn't you bring 'em, Linwood?" no, "Did you not see them, Sam?" No, Then it broke loose, now b'lieve me and my father, the most excited of all. I told him I would take my car and go back for pretty close relatives.,' And it's the truth that Caudillo Franco's Falangist agents have been a worse nuisance in our south ward new world than all the Nazis, Facists and Japs put together. . Now, along comes a Nazis U-boat fleet and, it's to be hoped, with one timely raid, knocks on the head all that ,E1 Caudillo enunciated, by demonstrating what bad company he is in. the children. "No! Why, dad Jim it! How do I know but what you'd lose yourself, car, an all!" Back to Dalton at this time there were three little lost, grief stricken boys sitting huddled to gether on Main street looking for us. Sometimes the tears could not be kept back, so that passers-by noticed them and offered sympathy. The boys said that one drunk man staggered up, stopped, and said that he would take them home with him if they wanted to go, that he had a (hie) extra bed. By this time the news of the lost young sters had gotten out pretty well alpng the street. The police and others were inquiring, searching, sending word for it was 2:00 a. m. About that time a school bus driver noticed the boys crying on the street. His bus was parked nearby; so with what meager in formation the lost boys could give him as to their place of abode, he put them in and started toward home. But Sam Plott and I, the very worthy heads (?) of the searching party sent out from home, met and passed the bus un awares as we returnedto town. Well, we searched everywhere we thought the children might be first in the theater, them up and down Min street, finally we found someone who told us he saw the bus driver put the boys in and start toward Chatsworth with them. Leaving three of the party to stay in Dalton. I hurried back the Chatsworth road to see if I could overtake them. But in this I failed. Before reaching home I met the bus coming back out; the driver stopped and asked if I was looking for three lost boys "They're safe at home," said he. Now, believe me, relieved is the word. I turned around and started back toward Dalton for the third time that night, after the rest of the searching party. On arriving in Dalton and contacting my brother-in-law, we felt so good we de cided we would celebrate a little. Royal Tanksman' i kiiiiM.i .MJ Crown Prince Olaf of Norway, wearing the coveralls and helmet of a tank crewman, is shown as he went aboard an American army tank at the Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds. The prince was taken for a rough ride over the test course, also shown some of the new guns being tested. (Central Prew) Fines Creek Group To Give Play Friday The junior class of Fines Creek high school will present "The Red Headed Stepchild," a comedy drama in three acts, in the school auditorium Friday night, March 13, at g o'clock. Dorothy Rogers plays the part of the "red-headed stepchild," Other members of the cast are Louise Kinsland, Betty Jane Walker, Edith Rathbone, M. C. Green, Dortha Green, Reeves Ferguson, David Teague, Henry Green, Marie Hill, Blanche Green and Frances Rogers. Mrs. Frank Kirkpatriek is di recting the play. The proceeds will go to the athletic association. But alas, in the midst of our cel ebration who Bhould unexpectedly enter the tavern door but our two beloveds! They had come from home looking for us. "Did you men know the children had been found? If you didn't know it well, you ought to be killed! Now get out of here and let's go home It's almost day light.". My father says, "Next time you fellers have to go to town, well send the children along to take care of YOU." WOMEN! 2 H2 speak for REMEMBER YOU ALWAYS SAVE AT BELK'S BELK'S M en's for Spring Wear MEN'S SPRING SUITS Smart new Spring Suits in a variety of styles, including spring weight tweeds. $Q95 $050 Stjled right, tailored right Jf to Men's Dupont ZELAN JACKETS Weatherized to keep out wind and rain, yet remarkably light and really smart looking. 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