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THURSDAY, MAY THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County .....Editor TIT rTTTTTQ RT1RS l MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Kuss and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County j r j.. .$L75 . 90c 2.50 1.50 Civ f tn th Tn Havwood County One Year, Outside Haywood County ot lfnkn Afaila Havwnnr CfmntV OUL lUUliLiio, " j --- AH Subscriptions rayaDie in numuw Entered t th, port offic. t Wayn.U.. N. 0.. Sjcond Clau Mail Matter, u provided under the Act of March 5, , Norember 80. 1814. Obituary notice, reaolutioni of reapect. wJi of thank., and aU noticea of entertainments for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. : 1 NATIONAL EDITORIAL-. ASbUUAI.UlM xNorth Carolina PRESS ASSOCIATION) THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942 A Taste Of War People coming into Haywood from other sections fail to understand why the citizens here do not have "war jitters." This area, practically isolated, so far has been almost immune to war. Only during the past few weeks has the average citizen been made to realize that there is a war on. Very few cars in this section have been stored because of tires. The sugar rationing was our first sacrifice, and now gasoline. And by giving up tires, sugar and gasoline, some have an idea that tremendous sacri fices have been made. So far, we have had our luxuries slightly curtailed. The essentials of life have not been touched. We are still a fortunate peo ple. And furthermore, we must make the best . of things, and take them as they come. With chins up, chests out, and a deter mination to whip the enemy, we can again go back to the luxuries which we will soon find we can do without. . Inconsistent Orders Washington has yelled wolf so much, when there wasn't a wolf, that the average American is getting dizzy, rying to figure it all out. The average American citizen fails to understand why the lack of so much con sistency on the part of those charged with "planning and executing the war program for the civilians back home. One group of officials come out with a statement that nothing but hard work will win the war. Before the civilians get through reading the news, here comes news about large sums running into hundreds of thousands that have been allotted by WPA for recreational centers. Three were let last week in this state. Under the direction of Secretary Harold Ickes, of the department of the interior, the motorists on the Atlantic seaboard were put on rationed gasoline last week. From the same office, there has been issued a book let urging Americans to travel more. If it is going to take hard work to win this war, then the thing to do is to make everyone realize the fact, and SEE to it that they work, and work hard. Then for the present, forget recreational centers and get down to hard work. If there is a need to ration gasoline, then make it strict. Make it nation-wide and without sectional partiality. And under such conditions stop talk of travel. Above all, let's be consistent. Washington bureaucrats need to get to gether on one consistent program, and see it through. Stop befuddling the minds of the people back home. They are at a loss to understand it all. If there is just cause to yell wolf, then yell at the top of your voice. If no wolf is in sight, then keep quiet, and let the citi zens lead as normal a life as they can. r Washington needs to be consistent in giv ing out orders to civilians. Walking One trouble begets another. With auto mobiles going out, walking comes in, and walking calls for shoes and the shoe manu facturers are alarmed over the scarcity of leather with which to make shoes. In the meantime, patriotic Americans will be de lighted to go barefooted if it will help lick the boots off of Hitler. Charlotte Observer. Bailey Deserves Re-election For the first time in the ten and a half years that we have been editing this news paper, are we going to editorially support any candidate seeking a political office. - It is our firm conviction, that the state of North Carolina owes it to the welfare of the nation to re-elect Josiah W. Bailey as our senior U. S. senator. Senator Bailey ranks high in Washington, and his ability as a clear, keen thinker is readily recognized from the President on down. Senator Bailey is deliberate, and thinks through problems before making rampant speeches that would reflect upon him or his state. North Carolina is fortunate in having a man of such ability to represent the state in Washington, and the least the voters of the state can do on May 30th, is to give him an overwhelming majority vote, as a vote of confidence and appreciation of what he is doing for the nation at large. A Precious Asset The average business man today is grow ing a crop of grey hairs in trying to operate a business on a normal basis. There are priorities to be dealt with, and rationing, changing prices, shortages of this and that, and the general increase in overhead, and the gradual reduction in profits, It all makes owners of the average business tumble and toss at night, instead of sleeping soundly. It is just human nature to worry about such things, but after all, one of our major assets is health. It is worth much more than a few extra dollars, a little more than stock or property. That which is so valuable, important and precious should be guarded with more care than the average business man is now giv ing his health. WPA Is Costly Bureau Why doesn't the Administration do away with the WPA? It was a child of that dis tress period of unemployment, created to : create jobs for the million of able-bodied Americans of various classes and conditions who were out of work and needed assistance. The situations out of which the WPA were born no longer exist. Almost every body can get a job now indeed, almost every body ought to have found one, except, per haps, the lame, the halt and the blind, and other provisions of assistance can be made for these limited groups without maintain ing a huge, elaborate Federal bureauracy that costs around a billion dollars a year to maintain. : If the WPA shouldn't be literally torn up by the roots, it assuredly could be denatured to the extent that it would function only in the limited areas in which its services are imperative, and quit existing merely to cover ground that requires no official Federal covering. Charlotte Observer. News We Didn't Get "In the battle of the Coral sea, the United States battle cruisers Lexington, Saratoga, Constitution, Constellation, United States and Ranger, together with six battleships and numerous supporting vessels completed In 1922 to 1924, provided the decisive strik ing power that destroyed the Japanese fleet and cleared the way for the recapture of the Netherlands East Indies and all other terri tory that had been held for a time by the Nipponese savages." ! This would be interesting and thrilling but it did not occur, for the simple reason that in 1922 politicians in Washington sen tenced to death the vessels named above. Battle cruisers? We have never had one, though the Wilson administration had six on the ways when the Harding administra tion took over and began the systematic destruction of our whole structure of self defense. This makes unpleasant reading today; but we must be reminded of such blundering, that we may remember never to let them happen again. Charleston News and Observer. Congratulations The American Legion has in days past been inclined to make their state and nnrmn. al conventions gala occasions. We note with pleasure that this year thev are nlantiino- to simplify all details and to have a strictly uusmess affair. There will be no big and colorful parades, drum corps contests and the usual big time entertainment. DOWN THE HATCH HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN If the churchgoers of Waynes ville went to Sunday morning; ser vices all keyed up to get the low down on the other fellow . . . to hear the sins of the community aired out in personal dramatiza tion .. .in response to the an nouncement of the moral commu nity clean-up by the preachers ... they must have been disappointed . ... at least those who heard the pastor of the First Methodist church were . . . while generali ties were touched upon . . . and certain undesirable conditions were pointed out . . . . Rev. Madison told his flock . . that their community was con trolled by them and was just as good as they wanted it to be . . . and that the laws were enforced according to the wishes of the average citizen , . . in other words it was not to the other fel low Mr. Madison preached, but to each one of us . , ..'our community is an individual responsibility , if enough people want a clean town morally there will be a clean town . one expression impressed us Sunday morning . . . referred to a number of times , . . in. the ser- n . . . "the callus compromises" , . it is true that we all have them . . . in our lives . . . until sometimes in our tolerant mood of compromise that last vestige of our strength and character are threatened. . . . One of the funniest stories from the sugar rationing that came to us was about a local man who signed up for his family and got everything wrong about his wife ;' . her age, he had one year younger . ... . her neigtit, ne had three inches taller than she was but it was her weight that really got him in serious trouble . he signed up 20 pounds heav ier than she really was . . . he filled in 140 where he should have written 120 . . . with the favora ble mistake in age it looks like she might have forgiven him . but, instead .', . that 20 pounds is a dark cloud upon the domestic horizon . . . the next day, he was starting home . . . and sugar ra tioning was long since forgotten , . he called up to see if she would like him to bring her some ice cream (the dish being one of her pet weaknesses) . . . and she answered, "No, I don't want any ice cream, you are just trying to make me gain that 20 pounds you said I weighed. . In this day of "marrying into the service' . . . the following con tribution should prove of interest to girls contemplating, joining the navy through a wedding ring. . . Marriage Vows, Navy Style "Wilt thou, Jack have this wo man as thy wedded wife, to live together insofar as the Bureau of Navigation will allow? Will thou love her, comfort, honor and keep her; take her to the movies and come home regularly to love her on the 1630 boat?" , "I will." . "Will thou, Jane, have this sailor as thy wedded husband, bearing in mind liberty hours,' boat schedules, watches, sudden orders, uncertain mail communi cations . . . and all other penal ties of navy life? Will thou Obey him, serve him, love, honor, land wait for him; press his uniform and let him smoke Navy plug in the house?" "I will." "I, Jack, take thee, Jane, as my wedded wife from 1630 until 0730, as far as permitted by my commanding officer; liberty hours subject to change, without notice, for better, for worse, for earlier, or later, and I promise to send thee a weekly letter while on cruise. "I, Jane, take thee Jack as my wedded husband, subject to the officer of the deck, changing resi dence whenever the ship moves: as my allotment comes regularly, and therein I give nvy troth." The pattern of American lives constantly changing ... what would we have thought of ration ing a year ago? . . . what would we have said over such reduced quotas of gasoline? . . . it would seem that we Americans had built our lives around the motor vehicle . and yet they tell us that as yet our lives are untouched . . . and that the fires of war have just begun to burn ... and that sacrifice is still a mere word to us, rather than a heartfelt ex perience. . . . . Girls hunt up one of grandma's old fashioned sunbonnets ... for sunbonnets,. if you are in fash ion, you'll be wearing . . . the sunbonnet is said to be a symbol of earnest endeavor . . . as when a man rolls up his shirt sleeves, signifies that he has a hard task ahead of him . , . but determined to do it . . . and when a woman puts on a sunbonnet she is getting ready, to dp a man's work . . . it has been pointed out that Amer ican women wore the sunbonnet during the days of the Civil War . that the sunbonnet went with the covered wagon across the con tinent ... where the rifle of the pioneer went . . . the sunbonnet was not far behind . . . it has come to "stand for quiet persistence and dauntless determination" . . . so for your victory garden , . . you must have a sunbonnet. . . i Paging Carleton E. Weatherby . . . Coach, we hear that what you really wanted was a quarter back, but that you are perfectly recon ciled with a cheer leader ... and she is quite an engaging young lady . . . and that she and her father already "speak the same language." i .. . Rambling Avound UJ W. CUKTJS RUSS Bits of this, that and the other - picked up here, there and yonder Voice OF THE People Who do you think has the hard est job in this community? Grover C. Davis ''Every house wife in the community, thinks she has."'. ' Miss Mary Medford "Right now, I think the county farm agent has the hardest jod. H. B. Atkins "I think the au tomobile dealers are up against the hardest job in the community at present. Miss Alice Stringfield" I would say at present that Dan Watkins, chairman of rationing board, has the hardest job." Mrs. Lawrence Leatherwood "I would sav the members of tut ra tioning board." Mrs. John M. Queen "I think the men on the rationing board have the hardest job in the com munity. I would certainly not want to do their work, for they have to listen to criticism from everybody." Harold Massie "The men who work in the drying room of a local industry at a temperature of more than 200 degrees." Mrs. Roy Campbell "Having swept a house, the men who sweep the streets of our town have the hardest job in the community." W. F. Strange "I think the hotel and bearding house opera tors of the community are going to face the hardest job of any body this summer." What Made News Years Ago FIVE YEARS AGO 1937 Work starts on $55,000 high school for Crabtree township. House appropriated $5 millions for Blue Ridge Parkway, and Fed eral survey in this area will be sought at once. Two local boys enlist in navy Leo Buckner, Jr., of Dellwood road, and Ralph Edward Calhoun, of Hazelwood. Twenty-five Haywood county Boys are given promotions in Boy Scout work. Girl Scouts given impressive ceremony under leadership of their captain, Miss Mary Stringfield. Manufacturers lose exciting game to Canton, with Canton's run in the ninth inning too much for Hazelwood. 75,000 trout are put in Pisgah YOU'RE TELLING ME! -By WILLIAM RITT Central Press Writer INTUITION, says Zadok Dumbkopf, is what his relatives have nothing else but. They . seem to know as soon as he does when he has decided to rent a place in the country for the sum mer' ' ' i In a western state burglars made off with an empty safe. What's this spring practice .': ! I '.-.!' '". Germany faces a shortage of scrap metal. Even after the R. A. F. bombings of Rostock? '!''!! -''-.' One of the worst guesses in history was perpetrated by the Mikado at -his coronation. ' He said his reign would be known as the Era of Enlightened Peace, ! ! ! .. Soon comes the time of year tor bowling alleys when things are so quiet you can't bear a pia drop. ' ....... . Beards are staging a come back In the United States, we read. Well, why not good old Uncle Sam wears one, doesn't net- -.I:"! .!'"'. There is something new under the sun now" the rents ar frozen. Instead of the renters, THEOLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY p" GIVE ME THREP DOLLARS glillp 3ji FOR TMS CAR VJITH THE ggl!gll i fEUf "piL TIRES -ANO FOr? CASH fjpijM " lliJiL. iu. -Mrow it the ff?. r; p ' 2 'jsi Are Acco a erasers gives Since ers, poetic you a dooJIer! i ra.ng to a trarf. er is a on pencils. aj J someone wm. ; v .j.., le foil Lullaby To A Dj me auraUon, pkase auu icH r nn , I oi,iaw . nf i be kind r,,u'-"s a pin J ap we BB.l For Wea You Scratch Please On For First One tute'd a ban went didn't lone Then and that pencil maiiufart,,... a nlastir i,.., , , went on hi- , 1 UP to 10 cents, but J occm io rmn(J M t as thev onnU came the ,-u, . , the orders from WaJ iu more rubber could erasers Pencils ; are nnvi' . n.tf, .. ".""" ivuuucu U)), With . ' panii wneie the held forth. yes the price remains cents per. Ul4 About half way up the I lain, aoove Ulink Bonny, in clearing, a dogwood tree, like a eriant snowball yJ in profusion for weeks. 41 trees are within yards of tJ wood, and in that clMP J can be seen for miles. Tj must have known it stc prominently, because it i l a. i it nas iriea so nard not it's snowy petals. The other day several n were discussing the ban i mowers, and they hit idea of the cooperative i of a cow. The deal hast completed. . About 25 years ago, 8, found ; the fat pocketbookl Pennsylvania miser. The was around $10,000. Of this! $3,500 was in cash. As a reward, he did nJ gei, iriariK you. father's grocery store at ttj Out in California, they an annual frog jumping i Thousands attended, and tire town takes on an tiflf of a big holiday, llany yeal one contestant fed his opa frog a large meal of bJ When it came time for thel legged frog to leap, he i get off the ground, which 1 curses upon his head frora who had wagered heavily i ability as a distance-getterJ MARRIAGf John Thomas Cagle t Hazel Warren, both of Alhert Stollenwerk, of ! kee, to Frances Allison, of T ville. John F. Manthy to Moore, both of Murphy rearine- dooIs near Brevil rainbow and speckled troutl nlnr-pH in Piseah FoKSl --- snrine. Miss Margaret Perry nI University of North Carol! TEN YEARS AGO I 1932 Mineralogist's report M . vain al a 5200,000 coppc near uruso hi v-" ... i Livestock field day f on may .'- -: ..-I large number of terr Carolina iarmers i house "Prertatl ilSl tive, praises beauty C1 ndl L'AlinTH III. V,U.. ...... delivers s""l E. T. governor, to attentive """"- ..ii J nnnnttr 0U naywoou mentwillpayed Country Liu" " it v i h Ml 60 IS nroiom Korth would provide an outlet wood livestock. An armed chicken th Romeo who farmer W ., scar" tnie". -..., was i. hia Juliet Mrs. W. A. n.v- c trict director of thej are collecting J in the met' war: AH tnf make a .30 cai. "h i be obUined f" .1 coUection a p" r one trash basket . . i.-.motrf A rentea rrv the steam at tha1 punt part."-!-.-Production Drive. to have and to hold just ai long
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