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THE WAYNESVILLE MO YAINEER
(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, jry
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The Mountaineer
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NATIONAL 6DITORIAI
flJOW ASSOCIATION
sS'Nonb Carolina
xmiss Assocuriosji
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943
(One Day Nearer Victory)
We Agree
We were much interested in the following
editorial from Klectrical World, because we
so fully appreciate what the electric utility
is doing at present in the great emergency.
So often we accept things without stopping
to give proper recognition.
"From many a factory there proudly lloats
the Army-Navy E. They are the civilian
counterpart of citations on the field of ac
tion for extra ell'ort by members of our
armed forces.
"These awards, however, have been given
only to manufacturing organizations. No
electric utility has been given an Army
Navy E. Yet no manufacturing concern was
better prepared for the demands of war, has
delayed war production less or has shown
so little labor disturbances since the war
began.
"Why has there been no recognition? It
would almost appear as though the Army
and Navy were conscious of the fact that
electric utility employes have inbred in them
the fixed belief that, regardless of anything
else, service must be maintained and that
no incentive is needed to encourage them to
do their best. Like our fighting men, they
give no thought to themselves when there
is a battle to be won.
"It would be difficult to single out utilities
for such honors, because all of them are
doing A-l jobs. They produce the only uni
versal raw material of war production, with
out which every factory making war goods
would have to stop. They make raw mater
ial that cannot be stocked, yet must be in
stantaneously available wherever and when
ever and in whatever quantity wanted. Their
men have been drafted, their requests for
additional facilities more and more limited,
yet they never have failed on the job.
"There has been no power shortage.
"Recognition or no recognition, no one
can take away from electric utilities the
knowledge that they have done a good job."
Long's Chapel
In the dedication of Long's Chapel at Lake
Junaluska, Haywood County citizens natur
ally turn back the pages of time and review
the early efforts of the Methodist Church
in that vicinity.
The first church established there in the
late fifties was served by a well known
Methodist preacher, wose name designates
the Chapel. For a few years after the
founding of the Methodist Assembly grounds
we noticed a tendency in the people to speak
of the church as the Junaluska Church, but
we have noted of late years that the church
is now referred to its original name.
We felt at the time that to call the church
anything but Long's Chapel would be dis
regarding the history of the vicinity, for the
pioneer work done by the Rev. Mr. Long
should always be associated with the church
he served so zealously.
Another Sign
The clerks of the Superior courts of North
Carolina met last week down in Raleigh,
and from reports from the attention they re
ceived from candidates the 1944 political
campaign is well underway.
As a general thing court clerks are not
as active in politics as sheriffs and county
commissioners, but the way the candidates
are said to have flocked to Raleigh to meet
' the clerks seems proof beyond words that
the campaign ahead will be a heated one.
Reappointments
To have public offices filled by persons re
spected for the quality of their service is a
fine thing for the morale of any community
and county. The reappointments of some
of the appointive positions in the county
made last week by the county board of com
missioners met the hearty approval of the
public in general.
The fine work accomplished by the farm
and home demonstration agents during their
terms of office have ' been notable. Their
work at this time is of vital importance to
the war effort. They have met the add
ed responsibilities with vision of what they
mean to the people.
The fire warden had ample opportunity
during the year to show that beyond any
doubt he and his men could handle an emergency.
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM "DOWN "UNDER"
Coming Down
We noticed during the week that North
Carolina air travelers will be able to fly
considerably cheaper, when the Eastern
Air Lines, Inc., which serves several cities
in the state reduces its passenger fares ap
proximately 7.G per cent. Air express rates
are to be reduced about 12.5 per cent.
One reason for the reduction is that the
Civil Aeronautics Board ordered 11 major
lines last February to show just cause why
they should not reduce their passenger rates.
Five airlines promised to reduce their fares
by July l.j, and the CAB board dismissed
its "show cause order." The ix remaining
airlines are being investigated by CAB to
find out why they should not also cut their
rates.
We feel that this reduction is one that
will continue as the public becomes more
and more air minded, and travels by air
more frequently. The reduction of rates
points to conditions after peace comes.
44WASUINGT(
Mayor LaGuardia
Unafraid of Probe
i
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
'nvestigatj
My Heir
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Unexpected Records
The state revenue records for the fiscal
year of 11)12-1; show an unexpected high
peak, so it has been announced from Ral
eigh. State officials are said to have had
a gloomy outlook for the "midst-of-war
year" and predicted "black days ahead"
for North Carolina.
It was a natural premonition. There were
so many gaps in gasoline and auto licenses
collections which were inevitable with war
time rationing. It did not make sense to
anticipate anything else, but anything can
happen these days as the revenue "take"
of the 1942-43 fiscal year shows.
The fiscal year just closed, according to
the officials, had a total of $103,441,916.67
in all revenues, the greatest ever recorded
in the state. The highest previously reach
ed was $99,127,473.05 in 1941-42.
As the year progressed, however, it is
reported that the officials, who had been
so pessimistic, began to take on new hope,
as rationing and war conditions did not
bring any decrease in some phases of state
revenue collections. At first the collections
were expected to be around $84,227,295 and
from time to time it was changed until it
reached more than $90,000,000.
Although the state spending during the
1943 General Assembly was also high, they
will be taken care of without worry.
Tar Heels should be gratified also of the
wise measure taken when the Post-War
Reserve Fund was started with $20,000,000
created by the 1943 General Assembly.
Although the predictions did not come
true for 1942-43, the revenue officials are
warning that the state will not see the
high figures repeated in the 1943-44 totals.
They point out the decreasing general
merchandise stocks, increased federal taxes
cutting spending, more severe ration of
gasoline among the many factors that will
bring different results in the year ahead.
We don't liki' to be a wet blanket ; thi
on the rights of women . . . we
don't want them to miss any recog
nition that should be theirs . . .
and we glory in the fact that they
have stepped out during the past,
generations and have entered a
larger world of service and vision
. . . we like the freedom they have
gained in dress, even if they go
to extremes' sometimes . . . wo
like the training of their minds
to wider outlooks . . and we have
often found ourselves on the de
fensive in cases when the woman
has done as good a job as a man
could do . . . yet has not received
either the honor or the enumera
tion for her efforts that would have
come to the man . . . but we don't
want her to travel too far from
home . . . and push herself in the
front to the extent that she loses
that dependence on the man which
is part of the very foundation of a
home . . . which after all is tho
woman's finest field of endeavor.
Navy dates extended to No
vember 1 . . . and here we haven't
lecoveieil yet from last Christmas.
. . . Owing to the great distances
the mail will have to go . . . the
government is warning lis again
that the packages must be packed
in metal, wooden, or solid fiber
board, or strong doublefaced corru
gated fiberboard -or strong fully
telescoping cardboard boxes . . .
we well recall how hard it was to
know what to send last year . . .
and this year it is going to be
harder. . . . What will they want
more this year than last of the
limited number of things that can
be sent for Christmas cheer?
It's
ng . .
I ping that
have to do without
a funny thing about ration
. we have noticed in shon
the more the people
ind the
more things that thev find they
can't buy for any amount of money
. . . the more philosophical they
are becoming ... we watched the
If electronics is going to do everybody's
work after the war, one supposes that prac
tically everybody will be employed in the
electronics industry.
Simple Susie says almost every one thinks
she needs some kind of a vitamin, but she
has never seen any one who needed the
vitamin I.
The man with the hoe and the man with
the golf stock have one thing in common.
They get hot over their job.
Some workers have been frozen on their
jobs, while others are just lying down on
theirs.
If the mind is kept closed there is no
need to keep the eyes open.
A mistake repeated often becomes a habit.
'; . -,, ,, . ., , expressions on the faces of five
Kirn rr 11a with t h nnin dirn nl
, , . , ...v.. ..v. r..T..v w. n,i'CMMf nnn rln.r 1. -T . ....t-
I vi.v. lll.Tl l 111 1IOIIL
of a meat counter . . . thev were
all wanting some beef . . . either
steak or roast . . . stew or ham
burgers . . . anything, so it was
beef . . . they all looked hopeful
when they asked the question . . .
but each one turned away with a
shrug and a smile when told there
was none ... a few months ago
you would have heard a lot of
gripping . . . which all goes to
show that it is often easier to
take deprivation in big doses than
in small ones.
making a home, of molding char
acter and giving the rising genera
tion ideals to guide and steady
them through a world that seems
yearly to grow more complex.
1 he cause of our airing out one
of our pet opinions is the dropping
of the word Auxiliary from the
Woman's Army Corps . . , we
liked the word auxiliary . . . men
will always be better soldiers on
battle fronts in wars than women
. . . if we women aren't careful
we are going to get so darned
independent that the men won't
owe us a thing . . . and we are
going to compete with them in
such hard fought contests that
pretty soon it will be entirely out
of order to literally and figura
tively put our heads on their
broad shoulders and pour out our
troubles "because they are wiser
and braver than we" . . . (even
if they aren't it has been a time
honored and comforting way for
a woman to iron out her problems).
. . . They tell us that after this
war is over there will be a start
ling shortage of husbands . . .
and that it will be a Woman's
World . . . personally we hate to
see it come ... we much prefer
to live in a man's world . . . even
with all its mistakes . . . which
confession, no doubt, dates us as
a hopeless Victorian.
We hear that Betsy Lane Quin-
lan, Red Cross recreational work
er, and Lt. Richard Queen, U. S.
Air Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Queen, have recently met
"somewhere in Australia." . . .
Don't you know they were glad to
see each other. . . . When Richard
was winning medals at high school
for his orations Betsy Lane,
dramatics teacher, used to coach
him . . . we hope they are station
ed near each other . . . for think
what a wonderful help Richard
would be to Betsy Lane when she
gets ready to stage an old fash
ioned square dance for the con
valescent soldiers in the hospital
as she did, not so many months ago
when she was serving with the
Red Cross up in Iceland . . . and
if there are any English soldiers
about won't they get a kick out
of the fact that Richard has danced
these same old folk numbers for
their own King George and Queen
Elizabeth when they visited Presi-dent-and
Mrs. Roosevelt in the
White House in the days shortly
before the war . . . when our fa
mous Soco Gap dance team was
chosen from groups all over the
country to exhibit our folks dances
. . . and, by the way, en route
overseas Betsy Lane ran into an
other Waynesville boy . . . Lt.
David Felmet, U. S. Navy.
Speaking of our armed forces
overseas ... we notice this week
that from September 15 to Octo
ber the 15th will be the mailing
time for packages overseas with
Traffic Officer You are arrested
for speeding.
Sweet Young Thing Why, offi
cer, you can't arrest me. This
isn't my car and I haven't any
driver's license.
MAYOR FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA of New v
national reputation for originality as a congressman '
In his own little Manhattan representatorial district1 '
already had established himself before his bailiwick d(
Country's capital. Otherwise his urban neighbors Dr-w
have picked him for his legislative seat under the d U
the Potomac. It was as one of the whole cowtvI
though, that he registered on a sufficiently outstar m
him. In the chief executive's office" in
Washington continental metropolis. c1'
! The fact is that Capitol Hill repar i- v,
R.putat.on nm ITS product than Gotham f h'm "
( Made Him Well, Fiorello Is assessed by Wash net
i men as a pretty advanced political 'liberal'11
as an unqualified radical. Conservatives have view ei h M
j consequently. But I've never heard one of them imply thatV
absolutely on the level. As one editorial commentator ha
it, "he's been as honest as it's POSSIBLE for a politi3"5
Yet, he hasn't been celebrated for good temper. '
When he has been criticized he has "sassed back" er.e
Thus, when Manhattan's city council voted an investigat"'
municipal administration, congress' reaction was that hi
Would be something super-scorching. 18 C01
To the amazing contrary, his immediate verdict was
council was entirely "within its rights" let it investigate m
qualification was that its quiz shouldn't be made ridiculous
sive but he didn't put any lid on it. J 1
Now, if New York City hasn't had a lot of grafting aJminitt
sub-divisions, it's news to the rest of the United States'
It's a fair conclusion that Fiorello has been kept guessing on
The truth is that the "Little Flower" is under attack not
honest folk, but from crooks, who object to his interference
their grafting.
Tnrtperl I've hpflrrl critics maintain rhnf ho 1
, . "an Hampered Kir
by being too "honest." That is, he is suspected of having caused
. and trouble by imposing delay and moralities in cities that i
altogether indorse them. j
And the other municipalities may fall within the same clasi
lion, out; iew xorn naiurauy is a conspicuous one
"Advertise it" is Fiorello's motto.
mis program is 10 mane u conspicuous everywhere New Y(
where to make it noticeable from everywhere likewise
A kind of a general mayoralty is his scheme.
It won't work in little burgs, but Fiorello's is to concenrate
He is a "national mayor."
His plan is to get little groups together. The little groups i
altogether like being merged, so they are investigating'' him.
"Let them investigate," answers Fiorello.
His case is an outstanding example. " aB.
He isn't afraid of being auizzed. He ditto's other'
local administrations. . 'orri
A lot of little municipal branches may be crooked. In Di
Okay," says the "Little Flower," "but it's imma
terial in general. In detail, let them be investigated including
I'm not scared personally."
The thing has strung along for years back. You can't com
in a decade of time.
If anybody thinks that this is going to be respectable in waj
short-order, morally speaking, he is an optimist.
But Fiorello is willing to be investigated. He is willing to had
administartion investigated, anyway.
It won't be a federal investigation, but it will amount to the
thing.
It won't fall far short of an inquiry, if the New York mayor's
is, clean, to qualify him for the presidency some time later. He
Italian parentage, but his birth is Americanly eligible.
It won't happen, of course, but, otherwise, he would havi
possibilities.
The
Voice Of The Peopt
If t)oit could have any career
yon wanted what would be your
choice?
Mrs. Johnny Shelby "I am per-
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
By WILLIAM RITT
Centra Press Writer
AGE, points out the Toronto
Star, has its advantages over
youth for, continues the T. S.,
we oldsters don't have exams.
Oh, yeah? Filled out any gov
ernment questionnaires lately?
! ! !
That German circus touring
Axis 'Conquered countries may
be overlooking t sure-re num
berthe big rug-chewing act,
imported straight from Berch
tesgaden. ; ; i
Hitler said that this war would
affect Europe for 1,000 yoart.
Oh, com now-it won't tad that
long to rebuild thoie Gorman
towntl
On'y female mosquitoes, we
read, bite human beings. Even
in the insect world, it seems.
Mamma uses up all of Papa's
ration points.
! t
fectlv satisfied with MJ
doing here in the hy
establishment."
John Boyd "1
still operate a furniture
I could not get int.i tin Anj
sinrp TTnr-le Sam tun'.iM md
I will keep the hu-in.
A middle-westerner is said to
diet op onions exclusively. The
eater, at any rate, should have
no trouble remaining exclusive.
; I ;
Factographs toll of a bottlo,
which had gono thro times
around tho world, being found
on a MauachuMtts beach. A rec
ord for a loving cup, Un't It?
! I !
Those new tablecloths on
which are printed maps of em
battled Europe probably are the
scene of many a pincers move
ment aimed at the sugar loaf
bowl.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
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WHAT. NO TIME ANDA MAI B BnO nan-nuc- 9
Kmture,
Miss Ruth Wngi'iiidil-
nrntnrv technician, as that
I am planning to do ."
Miss Bebe .IMronf-i i
be a math teacher in high 1
Mrs. Fred Campbell-'
like to have been a concert p
Lester Burgin, Jr. - "I
choose truck farming.
Miss Martha Mae HV
would like to be a laborator
nician."
Paul Martin-"Just ha
rlr,; no- in the electrical M
Miss Helen C,fey-" j
would do what I am noj
know more about the M
business than anything M
Jiff.. A. 7.iM "If
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twenty jciii;- .
give anything to he
bombers."
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MARRIAGE
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to Janeva Aiist.'
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Wife John! I
been drinking wh
last iiit'v. . ;rir
John-Yeah! Ti t yj
woman. Just becat:- i .
tie difficulty in ge.t:- .
I couldn't pronounce a y
because I took off n- ,
the living room.
to bed, you rush -e
that I had been dr:nk.