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Pae 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER (One Pay Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER aaSMaaaMiaaaanaai l The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street V ' Phone 187 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County . W, CURTIS RUSS..:.Z........-:....---Editor Mrs. Hilda WAY GWYN............ ..Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publisher! PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County.. $1.75 90c 2.60 Sbr. Months, In Haywood County... . Ana Vur Diitairia Havwnfld CountV. Six Months, Outside Haywood County................ 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered tt the post office at Wayneeville. N. 0.. a Seoood Ciim Mall Matter, at provided under the Act of March I, IB7, November 20, 114. '- ' '' " . Obituary notices, reeolutiona of respect, cardl of thanka, and all aut ices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. ' - NATIONAL DITOWAL vr Assoc Aiiurv A Little Short We were a little short of our goal in the recent 21-day scrap campaign as set for Haywood County, but even so we are very proud of the record made. It will long be remembered by the splen did cooperation of the citizens in one mighty effort toward the war effort, for it is doubt ful if there was a single person, regardless of age, who did not lend a hand in some way. No record or praise would be complete without a word in behalf of Howard Clapp, county farm agent, who worked for three weeks traveling over the county boosting the morale of the citizens in trying to put the county over the top. So despite the fact that the high standard was not realized there should be only satis faction over one; of the finest demonstra tions of cooperation ever experienced in the county. '.' II 1 I fata. Id jHrZun North Carolina l 'PtESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942 (One Day Nearer Victory) "Ration Card, Please" It won't be long now until the title of this will be part of our daily lives, and not mere ly for sugar and gas. After November the 28th, we will have our choice between one regular cup of coffee a day or two or three watery ones. One pound per person will be the ration over a five weeks period. ; This is just another step in the restriction of civilian goods in a war economy. It will follow the nation-wide gas rationing on No vember 22, with new rules barring sales- '. men and others from extra mileage cards. Tires exceeding five to a car will have " to be handed over. There will be a limit of two and one half pounds of meat per week. The Cut in fuel oil and the lowering of temperature, and the absence from the stores of many things we have taken for granted will all bring the war much closer. The Office of Price Administration has intimated that . further rationing programs wilV start; as fast as the' War Price' and Rationing Boards can absorb them. ;;In 18 months the OP A has increased its em ployees from 85 to 40,00 and in addition has 50,000 volunteer workers on part time. , It plans to establish a district office in every city of 100,000 or more. Its "all-purpose" rationing books will be ready for distribu tion about Christmas. All of which would indicate that we have -oruly touched the surface in what is to come. We hope and feel sure that none of us will .actually suffer by these necessary restric tion of the rationing boards. If 'e ever feel inclined to grumble, let us remember the boys and men in our armed forcea, lor our sacrifices are negligent be sides Jtheirs. Our forefathers could "take it" and .ao can we meet the test.- 1943 Tags From Raleigh comes the information that selling the 1943 auto tags is going to prove a big job for T. Boddie Ward, head of the State Motor Vehicles Department. It is said that it will take three times as much time and clerical work to sell and register the 1943 tags properly this year. Sales will begin the first of December, but to put the details of procedure over to the public. The job of enlightening the public is such that Mr. Ward has called on Bill Sharpe, State publicity director, to begin a publicity campaign by November 15. Mailing out instruction to motor vehicle owners will be the first job in the campaign. Sharpe is scheduled to send out newspaper releases and give radio talks on the subject. In reality the 1943 license plates will not be plates, but tabs, about four square inches in size. It will be the same color as that of last year. On each tab will be a serial number which the Motor Vehicles Depart ment will use in its records. The federal government has also notified Mr.' Ward that his department must require passenger car owners to put their occupation on their auto registration cards for future records.;,;',. Just why this is being done has not been "explained, and there is speculation about what it means. Some feel that the govern ment wants the information in order to ra tion tires and gasoline in the future accord ing to essential occupations. Others fear the information may be for more drastic reasons, maybe to find out which owners can do without their cars en tirely provided the government has to take over private cars for use in war effort. Which all brings to mind the fact that some cars may be automatically jacked up in garages for the duration, because there are no available tires or a legitimate reason for an application for recapping. HARVEST MOON-1942 MAN VQVil R nnnm EKI Voice OF THE " - .v . f - ' ' 'XL iv: ."1 T HELP J'Sri HERE and TH ERE By HILDA WAY GWYN We have tried to convince our selves that Uncle Sam is right in calling his 18 arid 19-year-old sons to the armed forces to beat the Germans and the Japs . . . but we can't yet feel satisfied about it . in fact when we think of how very young most of the 18 year olds are that we happen to know (despite how grown up they may feel themselves to be) . . . we turn sob sister. ... There are certain things that should right fully be a part of the growing-up process . . . before the responsibili ties of the adult world swamp one down ... the 18 year olds have another year or two coming to them by rights in which to get ready to live. . . . During the week we were discussing the matter with a soldier . 4 . who has been in the service more than two years . . . and this was his reaction . . "You see it is this way . . . you take the man 30 years old or more, before he . rushes into danger and obeys an order he thinks it through .' but the teen age boy, now he obeys without thinking . . . and he is therefore much quicker , . . and will make a better soldier . for after all in the army . . . the biggesting thing is knowing how to take orders" . . . all of which added none to our comfort. All Quiet In Haywood We notice where some our neighbors are? having trouble over their elections, or rather Ihe counting of the votes. In most cases--it seems to center around the absentee, bal lot :. The question of how the absentee ballot should be marked has been a headach in at least four of the North Carolina counties. While the Haywood election board in their rooms in the basement of the courthouse has spent many hours sorting out the bal--' lots and counting up the totals, things were mighty peaceful in this county, we are glad, to note. There are too many other things, right now that should demand our time and at-tention. Take Back Your Gold Like King Midas of old, the United States, and Canada have learned that for real use and value gold is not as important as many other things. Both countries have practically put an end to the mining for gold in order that the men so employed may work for more pn ' cious metals, like copper, nickel and xmc Another reason given recently for stop- ping the mining of gold is the effort to eco nomize on explosives and machinery. It ia said that the United States ta which the world s gold has been flowing since war ' was' first seriously threatened, now has a stock of about $22, 750,000,000 in gold, ' enough to Bupport a currency more than four times as large as our present record circulation of $13,830,000,000. Pathfinder. Twins, B' Gosh9 This paper has not been given in the past to overlooking some of the short comings of our Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, but we believe in giving everybody a break oc casionally, so we herein reprint the follow ing editorial which appeared last week in "The Cleveland Times" of Shelby: "Recently Senator Bob Reynolds' wife pre sented him with a bouncing baby girl and about the same time, nothing daunted and not to be outdone, 'Our Bob' gave birth to a brain-child ; that of boosting the work-week standard to 57 hours and eliminating prem ium pay for over-time as an immediate so lution for labor shortage. The Senator says England works 57 hours, Cermany 60 and Japan 70. Knowing the -Senator as we do it may be that, upon hear ing of a movement in Washington urging admission of several hundred thousand alien laborers, he immediately gave birth of the idea of longer hours. If Bob ever had an obession it is that of keeping aliens from our borders. He believes we have already admitted too many, for our own good and that this nation should be peopled from within ; that children, " like anty, should begin at home and right atly and ably is he putting the theory into actice. In this brief sketch it pan he seen at a glance ' that when Bob gets down to business and concentrates he can deliver an J last, but not least, he surely has some thing on the ball." We've always thought that waving a white flag meant temporary cessation of hostilities, but with the Japs there's no truce in it During the week we had the fol lowing contribution . , . which was asked to be reprinted ... TO ALL DRAFT' DODGERS I am writing this short letter and every word is true. Don't look away Draft Dodgers, for it is addressed to you. You feel at ease and in no dan ger back in the old home town. You cooked up some good story so the draft would turn you down. You never think of the real men who leave there every day . . . you just think of the girl friends that you get while they're away. You sit at home and read your paper, jump and yell, "Well win." Just where in the H do you get that stuff? Just what do you think, Draft Dodger, what this free nation would do if all the men were Dodgers and afraid to fight like you? Well, I guess that's all, Mr. Slacker, for I suppose your face is red.! America's no place for your kind and I mean every word I said. . . .'V So in closing this letter, Draft Dodger, just remember what I say; Keep away from my girl, you Bum, for I'm coming back some day.'-" and bonds for money . we won dered about what was taking place . . . and upon inquiry we found that numerous persons locally who are buying bonds turn right around and as soon as possible convert them back into money , . . it was a real shock to us . . . Of course we all have current obligations that must be met individually . . . and some of us can buy more stamps and bonds than others but we wondered if it was all ne cessary . . We civilians need not expect to have everything we want that money can buy for the dura tion ... we are going to have to get it into our heads that we are going to' have to make sacrifices in keeping partially with the men in the service . . . and when Uncle Sam asks us to lay away some thing1 for a rainy day and let him use it in the meantime . . . how can we ignore that request . which in reality is to save our own skins in the long run? Everything seems topsy turvey this year . . . old time established rules all seem to be amended . . . whether we voted them so or not . . . in the past We have been urged to shop early for Christmas . . . to avoid the rush . . . and aid the shop keepers and their clerks so that business would not be jam med for Christmas . . . and this year we are being warned that if we want any choice we better start early . . . for so many manu facturers that have turned out gifts for grown ups and children . . . are now up to their ears in war production contracts . . . and that when certain stocks are sold out . . . "there ain t going to be no more" . . . at least for the dur ation . . i we met a fond Papa during the week with the back seat of his car practically filled by one large box . . . we wondered when he smiled and said "Christmas" . . . and then he explained that there was a toy his young son wanted and to insure Santa Claus having the article when he would be needed on the night of the 24th, he had lent a hand early . . . Let's follow his example. MARRIAGES John Brown to Evelyn Chapman, both of Canton. John Hugh Gossett to Selma Brown, both of Waynesville. Peopl What did- vou serve vour' hue- band for the fret meal after your mamageT ' Mre. F. E, Worthmgton-lt ha been so long ago- that I can hardly remember, but I must have - jost opened a can." Mrs. R. L. Prevost "It was was breakfast and my husband helped - me. We had some left over chicken, which we stuck ' in the stove and warmed over, and in addition we had toast, scrambled eggs and coffee. MoreEcoa Optimist p Hv J i"sperityAhe By CHARLES P TJ - (Central pt.'i our !!.,. n&tfl Prophets are nilj cheerful predictio ture or ,i,4L M whole, outntT'e whether tre.,y basic difference bet rJ "d any war that everpr3 is a problem to -JH Mrs. O. V. Barker "It was supper and I had a chicken. I had never dressed a chicken and the meal was a surprise in more ways than one." Mrs. T. L. Bramlett "It was a steak dinner and the trimmings that go with it." Mrs. H. W. Bumette "It was dinner, and all I remember is the dessert. We had a coconut ; pie and my husband helped me make it." Mrs. John M. Queen "It was thirty years ago and I can's re member what we had, but it was the noon meal. We had just mov ed into our newly built home. I recall that we ate our first meal on a small living room table which I still have." Mrs. Jarvis Coman "When you have been married 38 years it is a little hard to remember such things, but I do recall that it was supperj I can't remember the com plete menu, but I do remember that I fixed some hashed brown potatoes." Mrs, Ben Sloan "I had never cooked and knew nothing about an electric stove. It was breakfast and I served what you might call a practically burnt meal. I re member making ' (burning) the toast three times." . Mrs. Fred Campbell "Our first meal was breakfast and since we had just returned the night "be fore from our honeymoon it was a rather sketchy.! meal. I think we had bacon, eggs, coffee and tomato juice. Now we like a cook ed cereal along with other break fast dishes," Mrs. C. V. Bell "It was break fast and I well remember that I served burnt toast, coffee and eggs. I had a cook book, 'A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband', but it did not tell me how long to toast the toast." Letters To The Editor Folks fond of wise cracks take a lot of pun-ishment. "Somewhere" has become to have a new meaning in the past few months ... we hear it every day . . . often many times , . . "Somewhere in the Pacific" . . . "Somewhere in Australia" . . . "Somewhere in Iceland" ... "Some where in England" . . . "Some where on the Atlantic" . . . "Some where in Ireland" . . . and so on . . . regardless of where it may be that "somewhere" spells danger to us' ... . we heard a story recently that has helped to dispell the sin ister meaning . . . at least gives us a smile when we contemplate the word now . . . if you have heard the story, skip it . . . if not, read the following ... A colored woman in South Carolina . . . so the story goes ... had ft son in the army . . . she had received a card from the government saying he was somewhere in England . . . and she promptly remarked after read-y ing the card . . . "Well, I knew that if that fool ever left this country he would get lost." We saw a line of people recently in- the post office . . , and they seemed to be turning in tamps APPROVE ACTION OF OFFICERS Editor The Mountaineer: As we have stated publicly be fore we, the ministers of Waynes ville, in our appeal for civic right eousness, are not primarily con cerned for the enforcement of law. We regret that it is ever necessary for any individual or concern to be punished for law violations. However, we recocmize that whenever the officers of the law make an effort to cleanse the town of vice as they did in the raid last Thursday, some criticism is sure to follow. Consequently, as citizens of the community we feel that we want to express our hearty approval publicly of this and every similar effort to make our town a cleaner and a more wholesome place in which to live. As citizens we would assure the law enforcement agencies of our sincere sympathy "and support in every effort they make to uproot THE OLD HOMETOWN By STANLEY RUSHED CXANM HERB ANt MAILED TWO PACKAGES ON THE NOON TRAIN NOW HES ' PISCOVEieEl M6 SENT HIS BBOTHEie W ALASKA , THE BOX Or BOBBY PINS. UP STICK, POWPER ANfe, , Scented wrvtin paper--and sent his oirl I CAMP A POUND TOBACCO.. A (?A"ZOR AND TNNO CAKEST" ; 1 S 1 I V feV '- P OUBItNIB HICKS M' K2T!!!a H W' wa enel, S wa' rt uil rnnra w ... - -----www III HnvTk.k. i m .Mil oi 'i ; - ---- , vrc a "luespun Vity for a wMl- .x vm "v"ouver. DUt depression J mini f fk " , .uc aruncial boom me Drier interval pair work. . The past theory's been tl is destruction. Even ., belligerent burns up his reJ '".,"'B lurm oi normally military junk, and, in the lc ..don l nnytning worth show for it. It's like havi Ev ij in 'Uomes, win surance, and then reekonii the job of rebuilding it wi you extra-prosperous. That's the kind of arpl usea 10 near rrom the wor ognized economists rek strife in olden days. The 1914-18 period was ception. Looking Backward Occasionally some short individual ventured a gue few years of inflation upon return, but the genuine e experts were convinced it last long. Well, we had the boom a! then the crash and then del for about a generation. I Today's war, being wori 1914-18's, bad as that waH it seem as if the economist! be still more pessimistic nj they were nearly a third oi tury ago? : But no; they're not. ' Among the latest I've nl expressing himself, was Whipple of Chicago, upon tion as president of the Ai Investment Bankers' associi its recent New York session! It isn't in the United alone that President Whipd sees unprecedented prol therell be, after the war. serted, "the greatest periol pansion and progress the w ever known." He didnt even the Axis powers af barred out of it. There's a certain note of optimism in the suggest Germans, Italians and Jan be excluded from economic tional re-co-ordination. Ii put in a separate classificatj urally they'll continue sinl and doubtless cause more later. Maybe, though, Ad nito and Emperor Hirohito into the discard and thei become civilized. : That's what democratid mists appear to be gambin The Yankee Foreign Pol ;.mn trivf more credit ain ("new Britain", as tj oinf inn pxnresses it) for I for a world economic f than the association's hot as insurance of 'permanei on earth. Russia A 0H Here's an interesting itj The Foreign Policy 5! hooks the United wmt and Russia closely in conj The associations J"' that we, Britain and folk can get on well toget A. hptween ourselves British, it's true, 0 . it. Ci.lota Will I"! xnat to modify their wn J ii. a American P'l . Actable question. The Chinese wiU doJt riuite afewoftheJ rru.. nice folk amorl I've lived with em Priorities have Wn onrational also. They originally J fd governmenUlly. nowever, - . , they're vital to their 1 liaise. They wy 'em into eil:,""naa cptime purpww Industrially, j-j sick of the war the vices wnic , themselves m this " 1 rminity. Wr . , far Using MP" w novelty these y, wears off. - ' TTT.n ti Don't ever can soldierhedoJ SO open - i
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