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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, sept THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street phone 137 Waynes ville, 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--.....-.. Six Months, In Haywood County , One Year, Outside Haywood county...,. Si Mnntha.' Outside Havwood County .............. All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Kntered at the port offiw at WayneKville. N C. ai Second Clans Mail Matter, as jcovided under ttie Act of March 8. 17. November 20, 1914. ' ' Obituary notices, resolutions ot respect, cards of thanks, and III notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one rent per word. NATIONAL DITC:IAU( ...$1.75 . 90c ... 2.50 ... 1.50 flortii Carolina miSS, ASSOCIAI 10NJ51 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1942 A Lost Art Revived One of the nation's leading newspapers has recently asked the following question "is letter writing truly a 'lost art' or will gasoline rationing and other current events revive it?" The question comes at an opportune time, for everywhere one goes shops that carry stationery seem to be enlarging stocks and the writing of letters is brought to one's mind. It is said that the men in the service have multiplied our letter-writing at least a hundredfold. There are other reasons as the paper point ed out- "One no longer drives 150 miles or so of a week-end to visit Cousin Joe now that such a trip means giving up three gas coupons. Cousin Joe gets a letter instead." "Long distance social calls are out of the question now for anyone with hall a con science. Even local calls much be curtailed to the minimum' to make way for urgent government and military business. So, again one decides to write a letter. "But friendship one discovers can be kept as green by correspondence as in person. Greener sometimes. There is something leisured about a letter. And in that leisure one has time to put things in the proper phrases, time to mention how glad one is to have heard from a friend, time to say, How are you, and how are the children, and to write and tell me all about the family. "Maybe the somewhat inarticulate public will make a virtue of necessity and become good letter writers not perhaps as Madame de Sevigne was good or Lord Chesterfield but at least better than before." Y Harvest Time Again The harvesting season is upon us again In Haywood County nature seems to have done her best as well as the citizens to meet the emergency this year. She has rallied around to do her part in our efforts for increased production of food as asked by our government. While it is impossible to obtain exact figures on crops at this time, it was learned from the county farm agents office that in every instance of quotas asked in the great nation-wide program for increased produc tion, Haywood has exceeded her quota. This has not been easy in many cases, for the labor shortage on our farms has been keenly felt. Right at the peak of the harvesting season, the draft quotas shot up for this area to the highest calls re quired since the inauguration of the selec tive service system. j Young men have had to leave farms from Jill sections" of the county to enter the ser vice,' yet somehow those who were left have managed to meet the emergency. Guilty, Stop Today Are you one of those .persons who are forever saying, "You people around here do not seem to realize there is a war going on?'.' If you are guilty stop today and consider what you have said, for the facts in the case will at once condemn you as a "care less handler of the truth." If the people of Haywood County did not know there was a war going on, do you suppose that -from every mountain cove in this county, from every walk of life, our boys would have flocked to recruiting sta tions and offered their services to their country- The record on this can be read with pride. When military authorities state that we have more men in the service in proportion to our population than any coun ty in the United States, there is no argument left. So you can take that off your list. The mountaineer is a natural patriot. When the quotas for the sale of war bonds and stamps are assigned this county, how do we respond? We go over the top with a bang good margin to spare each time the call comes. We do more than we are asked. When the appeal comes from the Red Cross how does the community react? They go to bat and see that every last cent asked by headquarters is in "the bag" before they stop that driving. With the USO they have gone the limit with some to spare. They feel for that boy in service, for there are too many of their own for them not to understand what the USO is doing. Visit the Haywood county farms, and see at first hand how the call has been answer ed by the farmer and his wife, and in many cases with their son, their right hand, so to speak of last year, "somewhere over seas." Yet they have carried on. It is true we. are far from the teaming centers of actual war activities, We are not brought in daily contact with the men in the service as they train and as they take off for foreign duty. At night we are not reminded by a black out, as those who live on the seacoasts are of what might happen at "anytime." We do not have daily contact with realities of war that give one nerves and "jitters." But we know here in Haywood County that there is a war on, and we are doing a fine job of cooperation with our govern ment. We also know that we have only touched the surface, and that before peace reigns again we will be called upon to make sacrifices of which we do not know. But we are ready to do our part. The following contribution was made to us by a very charming summer visitor -.from rort Lauuei dale .-. it appeared in a Tampa, Fla,, paper . , . we hope you enjoy it as much as we (lid . . . this war s such a grim affair that it some how broke the spell of its horror, at least temporarily for us the soldier who wrote it had that .the anchor" saving grace that helps tide us over so many tough spots in life . a sense of humor . . , MONOLOGUE I was one of those fellows that made the world safe for demo cracy . . . What a crazy thing t,hat was . . .1 fought and fought . , . but I had to go anyway . , I was called in Class A . .. . the, next time I want to be in Class B . ; . Be here when they go and Be here when they come back ... Pistol Law We were interested in a recent story about a pistol law applying only to Durham and Alamance counties. You know sometimes in Haywood County we have been knoJt kto be a little careless about how we use our firearms. We have often been too free with our bullets. The law was first put on the books in 1935 and it required the registration of all pistols, automatic pistols and revolvers (but not shot guns and rifles) and a permit for the purchase of new weapons of the kind to be signed by two persons of good char acter. The officers in the two counties are much pleased over the law. They claim that by means of the registration law enforcement officers have a knowledge of who has a weapon and that it aids them in disarming criminals. There is at least no harm in calling the matter to the attention of our represent tives in the coming State Legislature. Camden Solves Problem Women are. beginning to fill many places left vacant by men, but we were a bit sur prised to see during the week that Camden County, facing a shortage of school bus drivers, has solved the problem by women drivers. Mothers of school children have qualified for the work of driving the buses. This is part-time work and many women are able to do it who would not be able to accept full-time employment of any kind. Our own county has been faced with the same problem, but they have met it with high school boys over sixteen, who have taken courses authorized by the state school authorities. Acquainted By Proxy Dr. Thomas Stringfield in his various in teresting talks on his recent experiences in England, where he served with the Emer gency Hospital Service of the English Min istry of Health, has done much to create a friendly interest in our cousins across the sea. .-' We were particularly impressed with what he had to say of the conservative attitude of the Britishers, and yet their admiration for the initiative capacity of the Americans They seem to have forgotten that we Americans are here today because our an cestors were an adventurous type, and upon that SDirit established a new country. In that struggling environment against the odds of nature, in building a nation they naturally lost some of their old world cul ture, that we have perhaps never since attained. On the other hand we are prone to feel that what we lost is negligent in compari son to the rich heritage of the strength and virility of our founding fathers, who gave us freedom and liberty. "NEW SECRET WEAPON H E R E and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN (he middle of my best lean, the Captain rushed up and said ... . . ''What company are you in?" . . . I said, "I'm air by myself." . .... He said, "Has the Brigadier come up yet?" . . . I said, "If I swal lowed jt, it's up." . . . Talk about dumb people . . . I said to one of the fellows . . . "guess we dropped he replied "I knew they would lose itit's been hanging out ever since we left New York." ... Well, we landed in Australia . . . we were immediately sent to the trenches . . . After three nights in the trenches . . . the can nons started to roar . i. . and the shells started to pass . . . I was shaking with patriotism . . . I tried to hide behind a tree, but there wasn't room enough for the officers . ' .' the captain came I remember the day I regfstered around and said . . . Five 0 clock . .1 went up to the desk and , and we go over the top . . . I ,." In' "rW- was mv milk- k"i "Captain, I d like to the man in charge was my milk man ... he said, "What's your name?" . . . he barked so . . . I nld him "." . . August Childs" . . . e said, "Are you an alien?" . 'No, I said I 'feelfine" . . . He sked rnS wStSre Ii was born . . ; and I said Pittsburgh . . . Then ho said . ; . "Where did you first see the light of day?" . . and I said when we moved to Philadelphia . . He asked me how old I was and I said 25 on the first of Sep tember ... He said . . . "The first of September you will be in Aus tralia and that will be the last of August" . . . The day I went to camp I guess they didn't think I would live ong . , the first fellow I saw wrote on my card . . . "Flying Corps" . . . (CV . . . I went a little further and then some fel- ow said . . . "Look what the wind blew in" . . I said "Wind nothing, the draft is doing it." On the second morning they put these clothes on me . . . what an outfit . i . as soon as you are in you think you can fight any body . ". . They have two sizes of everything in the army . . . too small and too large . . The pants are so small I can't sit down and the shoes are so big I turned around three time and they didn't move . . . What a raincoat they gave us '. . . it strained the rain . . .1 passed an officer all dressed up with a funny belt and all that stuff . . ; he said calling after me . . "Didn't you notice my uniform" . . .1 said ... "Yes, what are you kicking about . . Look what they gave me." . . have a word with you" . . . He said, "Well, what is it?" ... I siid, "I'd like to have a furlough" He said . , ''Haven't you any red blood in you?" . . , I said, "Yes, I ut' I don't want to see it." . . . Five o'clock we Went over the top .;...', Ten thousand Japs came at us . . . The way they looked at me you'd think it was I who started the war . . . Our Captain yelled Fire at will" . . . But I didn't know anv of their names guess the fellow behind me thought ' maj times." I was Will , . . he tired nis gun and shot me in the excitement Rambling Around By W. CUBTIS RUSS - Bits of this, that and the other picKea up nere, mere and yonder Sure sign that SCWU ed ,s the u-ritin- Voice OF THE People 4 eiAtmrr. 1 1. OI the elements,. u U first thing a vQnnLmi- mite wants most that J world to knn-.ii"rl 'M resort to the silu-a'v. blackboards. sidewalk Admitting that politics has ser iously impeded the proper proseeu-, tion of the war, xn the nope of avoiding a recurrence of that sit nation in the future, would you favor a constitutional amendment suspending, in the event of war, all national elections? Johnny Ferguson "No, I would not approve. It might be all right for the president, but not for the senators and the congressmen." a- " oeen in passine-a ' V. J 6 '" 'Vlnai' siste VJ After living- un,3. , a painter's brush, tYL Zr the office, we found ft? one thing the war has Z$ ople s ,11 don't belief . that reads; .ffet Pai V have to feel he frw5 DUIic"-e anu see for thetnWVJ Noises in the niehUtt. thud of a falling apple .-,A renching tire that --: j ic Lue Degmnmg wail of t'J T-... n XT C.-t IT ,nU ..v n ' v.m no, even though our politics might r A howling: doc in t-he" di be rotten, I still' believe' in the,that sounds almost human. principal of the government of me people and by the people." W. Clark Med(ord"l think in a national crisis line mis we nugin, -- io nre sin do without rational elections." O. H. Shelton"! think all na tional elections should be eliminat ed, and that all politicians should lend all their efforts to ending the war, instead of trying to get elect ed to office and playing politics." Miss Winnie Kirkpatrick "I think in the case of the president it might be eliminated, but I would approve electing the sena tors and the congressmen-" A TTavwnnrl nit;- , ..-iwm ""K-eye" rifle j. urns uiai me presKient have tne enemy. The offer has been xu me cniei executive. If (or; icam ne cannut place it orancn ot service, why not of at auction to the hi uiuntr xor war bonds. In words, give ,' to the per will agree to buy the most ho Mrs. Doyle Alley "I do not feel that improper prosecution of the war .can be charged directly to the politicians, but I think it has been due to the complacency of the people of this country in general." H. Phelps Brooks "No, I would not approve. I think it would give too much power." Now is the time to bejrin tj lng-aDout wnat you arc mi., . ,i , isena me Doys "over there' 1 . J rw,t 'Lnnsimas. 1 ne post office ii ing that all packages be mil, October 15th to assure deli on or before Christmas. C. F. Kirkpatrick- "I would ap prove of the constitutional amend ment under question, as I do not feel that we need any elections dur ing the war." . , Captain W. F. Swift "If the right crowd happened to be in it would be fine, but I believe that under most circumstances it would be better to give the people a chance to make a change in the of ficials, if it is needed." T. L. Bramlett "I think we should have national elections even T think the ETOV- I ernment should function as in nor- t. i 1 1 . What Made News Years Ago Oh, it was nice . . five below one morning when they called us out for underwear inspection . . . you talk about scenery , . . red flannels . . . B. V. D.'s and all kinds , . The union suit I had on would fit Tony Galento . . . The lieutenant lined us up and told me to stand up . . . I said "I am up, sir . . . This underwear makes you think I am sitting down." . . , He got so mad he put me out digging a ditch . , . a little later he passed and said . . . "Don't throw that dirt up here'" . . . I said. . . . "Where am I going to put it?" . . he said . "Dig another hole and put it in there." ... TEN YEARS AGO 1932 Soco Gap road is assured by chairman Jeffress and work will be rushed. The new cutting plant at England-Walton will be completed in two weeks- J. Z. Cleveland, of Zirconia, wins sweepstakes in dahlia show here. More than 1,000 persons attend ed dedication of courthouse here on Monday. New sanitarium to be opened here in October, with newest treat ments and diets yet discovered in Europe will be given. Forty lawyers from 11th con gressional district gather here for organizing. Waynesville is now destined to become principal Park City. County might get federal funds for needy this winter. Three days later we sailed for Australia . . . Marching down the nter I had some more luck I had a Sergeant who stuttered and it took him so long to say "Halt" that 27 of us marched overboard . . , They pulled us out and lined us up on the pier and the Captain came by and said ..'."Fall in" . . . and I said, "I have been in. Sir." ... I was on the boat 12 days . . . seasick 12 days . . . Nothing going down and everything coming up . . . Leaned over the rail all the time . . . In FIVE YEARS AGO . 1937 Haywood county has good grade of burley tobacco this year. Mayor's court collected '. a total of $618 in the month of August. Haywood Boy Scouts will hold rally here on Saturday. : Large neon sign is erected at the Park Theatre this week; Teachers in state are given a ten per cent raise in salary. Balsam Weavers get big order from large department store in New York City. . David Stentz is named president of the freshman class at Brevard College. . David Palmer is named junior auditor with the state revenue de partment- Twenty-two students from Hay wood are at Brevard College.. A cow must be trained to back away from an electric fence; her impulse is to jump through it. Lemurs, more primitive than other primates, are believed to be relatively unmodified descendants of one of man's early ancestors. THB OLD HOME TOWN ST7 By STANLEY; . , -v- 41 r. I WCrPV IS -THROW BLACK TW (Mrl J One Haywood mother wd bought five plugs of tobacco. sent it air mail to her son hi 4. t: ml. i n aim. ine posiaee was overi Someone tried to persuade Id send it by straight parcel oost. she replied: "My boy wants toll above everything else. I mnt' to have it, and to have it in ry. It's my money, my boy, his tobacco. So a matter of dollars doesn't matter." The age was airmailed. A recent issue of Charity Children explained the origin long fingernails in this article Chinemen no longer wear curling fingernails. It was the custom of the rich Chine; wear long curung fingernai show that they never worked their hands. The long finger! were the badpe of honor, were, supposed to work their They looked down on the poor pie who worked with their Working with the hands sign of inferiority. The ffi have cut off their fingernail!. oeoDle of this country are tantly cutting off theirs. The ity to memorize what ome else wrote in a hook has been sidered the aristocracy of A pupil who made high mark! school and college was consi the highest type and was at Hip head of the class. We one of the. outstanding edncal of the state say that in years in a college class rooni nnA not come upon 8 nan dudHs who could think, am person in the group asxea nun become or the nan uw miestioner wanted to know had been expelled from It was agreed by the scno and lavmen bresent that tne onH -nllpirp courses Kt vised for thinking but for bJ izing. Students are not on to think. The ohly place they actually think are m Mnnns' and not in class i uf what u?p started to j that the long fingernails .- ;mmoH n this couiiuj the man who can do thing longer looked down upo"- ic-norine him. We like t"1 NOTICE SERVING ! MMO! BY PI BLICATIOT IN THE SUPERIOR COUSj NORTIT ' CAROU TOWN OF WAYNESMU' . .. TVS'tlTT.T.S rf LUCY WELLS, and l COUNTY. , Thedeienoa- ana wue, lu-.- .- , . n action entitle " ior uoun . .pec sessmem nei" . and the saw f vtl therteke notice ttat W J quired to aPPf".,8' Z H the Clerk oi 001 said County i" V'V ,ln ' w.,ville. North CaW'i in thirty days after t of October, 1942. demur to the comP'a.M. in aaid complaint- . j94t This September 1 Clerk NO. 1237-Sept.
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