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THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
The Mountaineer
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Waynesville, North Carolina
The County Seat of Haywood County
W. CURTIS RUSS - Si0r
lira. Hilda WAY GWYN Associate Editor
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NATI ON AL DITO Rl A L-
1H0 W ASbUUAIiWIN
North Carolina i
mss ASSOCIATK
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1943
(One Day Nearer Victory)
L. M. Richeson
In the passing of L. M. Richeson this com
munity and Haywood County has lost one
of its finest citizens. During the twenty
odd years he has lived here he has made
a place for himself that will be hard to fill.
lie had adopted the community as his own
home. He was interested in all phases of
life. No worthwhile movement was ever
launched, but that he could be counted upon
to do his part with ability and enthusiasm.
He gave generously of his time and means
to further any cause for community bet
terment. He felt a personal interest in all young
people, as he contacted them as a Sunday
school superintendent, as a leader in Boy
Scout work, as chairman of the Waynes
ville township high school band committee
and other groups.
In his affiliations with the Chamber of
Commerce, the Boosters Club and other
civic organizations, he never failed to con
tribute constructive ideas. He always had
something to give everything with which
he was associated.
His sense of humor was a delight to
those he contacted, for he was always ready
with a bit of fun, but the responsibilities
of life he took with deep sincerity, in his
relation with family, in business and as a
citizen.
A Big Quota
We admit that the amount of the Red
Cross War Campaign fund quota for the
Waynesville area served by the Haywood
Chapter is pretty steep. In fact we will
have to confess that it is far greater than
we had anticipated.
But on second thought it is merely in
keeping with the times. None of us ever
.dreamed that we would see the world in
such turmoil. None of us dreamed that the
armed services of this nation would ever
reach the gigantic numbers, either in ser
vice, or the goal to which the government
is working.
None of us dreamed a few years ago that
the time would ever come when our high
school boys would have to leave their books
and take up arms to defend their country.
What the future holds in store of sacri
fice, bloodshed and destruction none of us
even yet can visualize. We know that the
picture will be very dark before peace
spreads its mantle over the world again.
In the path of this destruction of life
and material properties there will be much
suffering, both of mind and body. It is go
ing to take all the fortitude and courage
the American people can muster to meet
the conditions that face them.
When disaster comes the Red Cross is
there, the first on the ground to relieve
suffering and give both spiritual and phy
sical aid. The Red Cross faces the biggest
challenge it has ever encountered since its
organization. The task is of undreamed
magnitude.
For this task, too great to understand
at this stage, it will take money, and more
money than the Red Cross has ever asked
from the citizens of this country. -
We have no alternative. We will have
to fall in line apd give to this worthy cause.
It no doubt will mean a sacrifice to many of
us, for the calls for donations are coming
thick and fast now, but we can't turn the
RED CROSS DOWN.
In Step With the War
Effort
The sooner the civilian gets its into his
head that his life will have to bend every
effort toward winning the war, the better
cooperation we are going to give the men
in our armed forces.
The need for a more perfect organiaztion
of the Civilian Defense program which is
the passive branch of the active armed
forces was brought out at the meeting here
on Thursday night when officials from the
war department army air corps ground ob
server section told the local observers of
their duties.
None of us feel that the enemy planes
will be likely to pass our way, but we have
no guarantee that such will not happen.
Certainly we have learned during the past
two years that "anything can happen," so
if the United States government feels that
it is necessary to take this precaution with
aircraft warning service it would be unwise
not to fail to do our part.
Another Viewpoint
Most of us have been bemoaning the fate
of yout htoday. We have felt that it was
being cheated in the mad and hectic turmoil
that the war has made of life today.
The president of Middlebury College up
in Vermont takes another viewpoint at the
conditions under which youth today will
have to work out its problems. He recently
told his students:
"I do not pity your generation. You are
fortunate to be coming of age in time to
participate in this crusade against evil and
in the task of fashioning the better order
that must follow.
"The now maturing generation is en
countering tempering experiences for mak
ing the best type of men and women. They
will graduate neither into the enervating
sheepskin-to-bond salesman lushness of the
'20s, nor into the economic vacuum of the
':50s. No, the coming generation shouldn't
lie pitied; it should be envied."
By Request
The following editorials which first ran
in the Southern, Planner (Richmond, Va.)
and later in the Press Comment section of
the Greensboro Record has been sent to us
with the request that we reprint herein:
North Carolina Needs A Farm-Minded Man
Next year North Carolina will elect a
United States Senator. The incumbent,
Senator Robert R. ("Our I!ob") Reynolds,
if he stands for re-election, will face the
stiffest fight of his stormy and none too bril
liant career. The people of North Caro
lina have not been well pleased with the
antics of the Asheville attorney, and efforts
to unseat him in the Democratic primary,
June a year, are already underway.
In studying the economic and social set
up of North Carolina, one wonders why that
great agricultural empire does not send a
farm-minded man to Washington to give
some representation to the State's basic in
dustry agriculture. Nearly three - fourths
of North Carolina's three and a half million
people live on the State's 278,276 farms, or
in rural villages of 2,000 population or less.
Not only is agriculture the State's largest
employer of people, but North Carolina's
great textile mills and tobacco manufactur
ing industry are built on raw products sup
plied by the farmer. Cotton and tobacco,
produced on the State's farms, supply the
life blood of the State's commerce, and make
a noble contribution to the Federal Govern
ment. Tobacco last year paid a billion dol
lar tax. North Carolina produces 70 per
cent of the flue-cured leaf and manufactures
70 per cent of the nation's cigarettes, and
;)() per cent of the smoking and plug tobacco.
An agricultural people, making that con
tribution to their State and nation, deserve
a voice in national affairs. North Carolina
is sorely in need of a bold, vigorous, farm
minded man in the United States Senate.
Put him there in 1944!
The picture of a West Point wedding gives
us the happy pair surrounded by the cus
tomary drawn swords. Under the circum
stances, the groom wisely put up no resistance.
Not that it matters, but we have neither
seen recent pictures of Herr Hitler nor
heard his melodious (?) voice on the short
waves. Could he have been ah-h-h retired?
Awill of your own will help you to suc
ceed better than -a will of a rich relative.
DER FUEHRER'S "FACE"
Official And Timely Information On
Rationed Items
-as compiled from records and data on file in the office of th K
nesville Rationing Board, by the community service chairm
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Many interesting communica
tions ait' coming from far coiners
of the earth since Uncle Sam de
cided to take up arms . . . of course
little about the actual warfare is
Retting by the censors, but a sur
prising lot about the countries. . . .
After this war is over the world
will seem a much smaller territory
than in the days before our boys
started traveling such "far pieces."
Among the interesting things
from abroad conies what looks like
it might be a Chamber of Com
merce item of advertising ... it
is headed "Son.ewhere in India"
. . . it came from Sergeant W. VV.
Owen to his mother, Mrs. Cinda
Owen ... it opens with . . .
"Dear" . . .
"Greetings again from a country
of four million souls; India the
fabulous land of history and
strange customs. It is hard to
draw word pictures of the many
things I have seen here; so you
will have to help me by using a
strong imagination, which will do
everything except provide the di
versified smells which are ever
present . . . All over India we
have seen the rice fields ... in
many instances laud is at a prem
ium . . . the rice is sown in small
fields and the seedlings trans
planted . . . after which from early
morn till late at night, men, wo
men ami children care for the
plants . . . for tticm, rice is their
daily bread.
"Now for a note or two about
the work of the women in India
first let me assure you it is differ
ent from the work of the women in
the United States ... In the
States it is the man who toils in
the heat of the day or the cold
of the winter. . . . He mixes the
mortar, makes brick, but in India,
it is different ... it is the wo
man's part to crush the bricks
for cement . . . and on her head
she carried the load ... it takes a
lot of 'headwork' to build a house
in India.
"Those of us who are really see
ing India will never accuse the
Indians of 'not using their heads.'
The girls balance the morrjir nml
up the ladder they go and never
nave to touch their burden to
steady it it is so beautifully bal
anced. ... If some of the young
Debutantes of Fifth Avenue want
to acquire beautiful noise, iiwf oonH
them over here we have the an
swers . . . and the letter also
tells of the colorful practice of
painting the faces . . . which, of
course, is not strange to this
country.
Now from India let us swing
back on the other side . . . and
look in on Betsy Lane Quinlan
recreational worker of the Mili
tary Welfare service of the Red
Cross, who is stationed "somewhere
in Iceland" ., . . she has been there
for over a year . . . she arrived
with the first group to establish
the hospital . . . which did pioneer
ing work. ... In a recent letter
to her mother she told of Christ
mas Day in the U. S. Hospital
and the part the Red Cross played
. from her description these
Americans so far from home
most of them patients, are a small
world within themselves . . . (and
incidentally, she says that her
copies of The Waynesville Moun
taineer are literally worn out
after all the Haywood boys who
have happened to be patients there
have had their turn at reading
them ... she wrote of the one
real Christmas tree which was
Placed in the day room of the
hospital which had been sent from
America ... she wrote of the im
provised trees of wire covered
with crepe paper and decorated
in candy wrapped in colored tin
foil used in the wards ... of how
each patient and members of the
hospital personnel had a red stock
ing from Santa Claus (by way of
the Red Cross) . . . and how deso
late Christmas would have been to
this post so far away had it not
been for the Red Cross ... of
what a strong factor it was in
keeping the men from being home
sick. . . . She wrote of the cooper
ation of everyone to make Christ
mas a season of cheer . . . since
all were so far from home . . .
of the amateur play which she
coached and was given three nights
in succession ... of the packed
house . . . boys hungry for amuse
ment ... of the Christmas carols
sung . . . by 2H little Icelandic
children ... in the wards.
We were impressed by tin- fol
lowing excerpt from her letter . .
"I believe I know a little bit of
what the soldiers feel, and think
and about what they want, real
istically, we have to be practical
here.
"I don't believe we get nearly
as confused as the people back
home . . . we don't hear the com
mentators, or read the latest news
. . . we hear things as a whole.
. . . Kverybody has a job to do,
which in the final analysis, is the
best thing after all. . . . We learn
a whole lot about human nature.
. . . Discipline in the army .
obeying orders without a question
. . . the fine spirit of cooperation
. . . when this is all over we are
going back and try to keep things
saner than they were after the
other war. . . . These soldiers are
buying bonds and saving money
. . . to establish some kind of se
curity when they get hack . . .
it is not all patriotic flag waving,
with beautifully expressed noble
sentiments. ... It is working every
day in all sorts of conditions . . .
watchful and alert . . . and back of
it all, is the American humor and
the kidding. ... If a soldier doesn't
gripe a little bit I begin to get
worried. . . . Hut when you ana
lyze it, it is the independence and
the high standard we have always
had. . . . Fain money and spend
money as you please . . . leave one
job and go to another . . . marry
and start a home.
JtUfe
Mar,
Mar,
Mat,
Start
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Meal rationing, wun juwih, iuiuic uaw j
FRIDAY IS LAST DAY TO GET YOUR WAR RATld
Coupon
Lumm.ua ity Good For
Shoes, Stamp 17, Book 1, 1 pair
Gasoline "A" Coupon So. 4 3 Gals. Each
First Tire Inspection, Auto "A"
First Tire Inspection, Auto "B" and "C"
Sugar Stamp No. 11 3 Pounds
Coffee Stamp No. 25 1 Pound
Voice
OF THE
People
How much is the rationing of
shoes going to affect you?
Johnny Ferguson--"It is not go
ing to affect me at all, as I only
buy one good pair a year."
Miss Edna McCracken "I al
ready have some dress shoes, so
three pair of working shoes will
do me for the year."
Miss Tillie Rotha "Shoes have
always been my weakness, but I
can make out I guess. One thing
the rationing will do for us, it
will make us buy good shoes."
.'. K. Sen telle "I think it will
uive me more shoes than I have
been buying each year."
Mixh Louise Martin "It is not
going to bother me. I bought a
new pair of loafers the day before
the rationing and then I could go
barefooted in the summer."
On and after March first J
;.. .iit v- . .. m
vi taw mm ue savea the tp
and time of getting a certij
ior a recap. Motorists can
their tires direct tn
and get work done, provided!
ure warrants recapping and ul
such. This will also permit 3
ers oi ngnt trucks to get tirJ
capped with passenger-type cJ
DacK wiunout a certificate from
rationing ooard.
A warning was issued taxi
erators this past week, remind!
tnem oi tne lu-mile limit.
wasnington notified the lol
ooara tnis week that future tn
tire quotas will be redj
at least 12 per cent beginninti
msi oi aiarcn.
"When a soldier gripes it is
democracy in its highest test, we
aren't satisfied ... we want our
own way of living without inter
ference . . . and we have the
determination to see that we get
it."
And so from over the world we
are getting reflections from the
Americans on the fighting front
. . . it will inevitably broaden the
American viewpoint.
Old Philosopher Yes, sir, the
best way to get the most out of
life is to fall in love with a great
problem or a beautiful woman.
Young Man (after a moment's
thought) - Why not choose the last
one and get both?
Mrs. Clarke Meilimii "t is not
going to bother me, because I
have never bought three pair of
hoes in one year's time."
Henri (! tidily -"It is not going
to upM't me one bit in the world.
1 have on a new pair that are got id
for I wo more years."
Mm. Robert I'earce "1 don't be
lieve it will affect mo now since I
work all the time, because I won't
need any dress shoes."
'.Irs. Johnny Shelby "I am not
very hard on shoes and I think I
can get by."
h'. X. Uttrber "No, it will not
affect me this year as I have some
shoes I have not worn yet."
A lecturer of some renown was
asked to speak at a nudist camp.
He was greeted by ladies and gen
tlemen with no more on than na
ture saw fit to bestow upon them.
They suggested that he would
probably like to get ready for din
ner. He went upstairs realizing
that he must disrobe like the rest
of them. He paced the floor to
an agonized panic of indecision.
The dinner bell rang. With the
courage of utter desperation he
stripped, and in Adamite splendor
descended the staircase only to
find that all of the guests had
put on evening clothes to do him
honor.
Friend -What are you putting
"Personal" on that letter to Mr.
Smith?
Man 1 want his wife to open
it.
The local board spent much a
going over recent rulings on
point rationing system. AJ
the outstanding facts, which M
toiore nave not been publitid
were :
A point stamp is no rood uni,
taken from a book with a valij
tion stamp properly placed on
cover.
Stamps are only good for
period for which designated.
Consumers who need mo
cessed foods because of illness J
apply to the board for more poiij
Men in service on furlough a
get stamps by applying to rati
mg office, provided he is on
7-day furlough or lomrer
Any person can give away W
canned foods but are not permit!
under the ruling to ;ell anj
this. The gift limit is "0 qd
A new ruling affecting ink'
boots has just been issut
ruling specifies that farmers
only get lightweight, below
knee boots in the future,
pairs were granted Friday
took
r ...... c ..
ri LiiitaLf iui m"m null
decided jump last week, when
applications were man. n
granted.
A certificate to Inn ,i M
was given Aaron I'rcvnst
At least there is the comfort
that pedestrians haven't taken to
whistling while they walk.
THE OLD HnaF TOWN
By STANLEY
Tp r what to i S -
me UNSLICET BREAO Ef?A 2y "
Farm machinerv items 9
previously were rationed,
which have been removed from I
rationed list, include: one-1
horse or tractor drawn listers 4
planting attachments; horse
tractor drawn fertilizer distril
tors : one-row horse or trad
drawn listers (middlebusters wil
out planting attachments);
horse or tractor drawn or moiitl
ridgebusters. A purchase cera
cate is no longer required to Pj
chase any of these items
Letters To m
Editor
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refe:
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THK STATUS OF WAYSl
VILLE'S FINAXCFS-WA
I have Dreviouslv called ti
tion in The Mountain' , r to a ml
th:t our .""1
nnrl AMermpn have d "tie for 1
nesville. But now that "ur
listin? for 1943 is over, am;
such matters are in mind
not seem out of or. ft i to
Wavnesville's finances an
some well-deserved rhir '
town Authorities.
Last August, when getting
in The Mountainee, that the
rafp wa a tn ho ivdili''1'!
ft n k for mi-:. Hol
'7 IX ! V J. l -
when I came home. I " ' '
a tax refund check h n.jw
recovered from my at.t.
nr,A Vxr.A for an espial'
lit yj ' 1 " ---
I was told that the ta
I had read about ar!,! '
f Q V OG
'ml'. .j.ii.i - somet-
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n. i 1 ,mr h, ard of K
UlilL 1 IliJYC llv7.' ...
in Waynesville an I I
ably the oldesMiving
in Wavnesville. Stili
markable is it now
ville, North Carolina.
United States and ttie
duel
am T
.ron J
mere
,h,n "al
and
hole 1
are engaged in a struIe
, .. ..orvthll1E u"
wnen prices iu -. - .p.
the town as well as by ' J
,. ,,in we nupM e'.
local taxes like federal "
reaching toward the .skJ'thij
Later i irarntu
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