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Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER (One Day Nearer victory; ihuibuai, MARCH 2; The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina Tht County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS 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 1.76 Six Months, In Haywod County 90c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.59 Six Months, Outeide Haywood County 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance KaUni at tie aat ffl,j at Wayiiesrllle, N. 0., u On mi JUaa Matt Matter, as prerifed uiiaer the Act of March , l7t, Nevember ID. 114. OMtaaiy mUccb, raawlaiiaiia of reapeet. cara ( thMmkm. aid aJ aaaaoe af eaatertaioaaeat tor profit, will be eaurvad tor at Aa ati a4 aae cent aw wt4. NATIONAL CDITOf.lAI WJfig ASSOCIATION S'Honh Carolina v3k THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) You Need Advice If you are in need of any information about gardening, make a visit to the office of the county farm agent. You will find countless government bulletins on what, when and how to plant your gardens as well as expert advice from the agents. Then after the summer heat, plus your efforts have brought your garden to fruition and you are ready to can the surplus, visit the office of county home demonstration agent, and she can give you all desired in formation from the preparation of the vege tables and fruits to the last stage of screw ing on the tops. Our Armed Forces There must be a three months' reserve supply of food for every member of the armed forces stationed in the United States. When that same fighter goes overseas, he must be provided with a nine months' food reserve, which is about 1,400 pounds, rather than a three months reserve. The large supply takes care of the possible loss in transporting the food and includes a small reserve against the sinkings of ships and other war losses. Men are being sent out of this coun try now at a rapid rate, and the more men sent "overseas", the larger must be the food supply. It is said that the average man in service eats one and one-half times as much as he did in civilian life. Multiply one and one-half by 10 million fighters and this equals food for 15 million average peo ple. In the case of say four million men sent overseas, who require three times the normal food reserve this amounts to food for 12 million. These figures should convince us all that we must grow and conserve all foods, for we know that our fighting men need and must have food on which to fight. A Challenge While food production must be increased in this county and throughout the nation, there will be fewer fanners to produce the food in 1944 than in 1943. Each month farmers and their sons are entering the arm ed forces or going to positions in defense plants that are being made vacant by others entering the service. The increased production goal offers the greatest challenge that the American farm ers have ever faced. They must redouble their efforts, for they must not only meet this year's needs, but the government tells them they must prepare for a long war. They must keep up this production for next year, and who can tell at this stage how many more years. Even after the war is over and peace has been declared starving people in war torn countries will look to America for food. We must remember that starvation is one of the methods that Germany has used. There is hardly a farm in this county that has not been touched by the war. There are fewer hands to prepare the ground, plant and harvest, so this increased production comes as a challenge, just as the man in the front line fighting must meet the enemy. Could it be that Ohio's Governor Bricker, in his talk at Chapel Hill Saturday, sort of forgot that he, is serving his third term as governor when he lambasted President Roosevelt for staying in office so long? Victory Gardens Last summer brought many women and men into the garden who had not set foot in one in many years. The Victory Garden program in the nation was an outstanding success. We know that locally we contri buted our share. It is reported by the National Victory Garden Committee that there were around HERE and THERE HILDA By WAY GWYN It is funny how things work around and bring unexpected re sults. . . "We notice where a St. Louis food inspector had this to say of lipstick last week. . . "Good four million acres of land planted in gardens, i ruddy smeary lipstick has been a Somewhere between four and five billion jars of vegetables and fruits were canned. This home food production and preserva tion has to its credit in 1943, according to the National Garden Committee, six definite con tributions: helped to prevent serious short ages that might have resulted because of transportation and other difficulties; aided in making needed rationing program less severe; helped t& meet the Government's food requirements by releasing food for our armed forces and allies ; made for thrift and the saving of money; contributed to the health of our people by yielding vitamin and mineral-rich foods; brought about a signifi cant development or closer and more friend ly neighborhood and community relations. Lend-Lease While our own men in service must be fed and the civilians in our country supplied with necessary food, England and Russia must be sent food. In England we are help ing supply both the civilians and the armed forces. Practically all the food sent to Rus sia goes to the Russian army. So it is with food we are fighting, when we send food to our Allies, to feed their armies and to keep their people fed so that their factories can be kept running to produce arms and fighting equipment. England produced 45 per cent of her food requirements before the war and now under trying conditions her farmers have increased their production of food 50 per cent. We are told that today they are producing all the food possible and that all land that could produce food in England is under cultiva tion. Last year we are told Australia and New Zealand furnished our American forces with almost as much beef as we shipped to all countries receiving lend-lease, supplies from us, so it is easily seen that it works both ways. British and Russian ships help to transport our troops and our ships are re paired and serviced in Allied ports. Our Allies help build American camps and furnish a part of the uniforms and weapons used in "overseas" campaigns. They are said to be swapping labor and materials for the sup plies which we send to them. Yet only 10 per cent of our food supplies goes to lend lease for our Allies. Authorities on the war claim that when the lend-lease act went into effect three years ago it marked in many ways the real turn ing point of the war. This statement was made by Marshal Stalin at the Teheran conference. great factor in bringing about bet ter washing of cups and glasses in eating and drinking establish ments" . . . which brought to mind that at one of our favorite drink ing places we were recently served a coke in a glass with a perfect impression of some fair damsel's lips in the "ruddy smeary" lipstick . . . naturally we Bent back the glass and the manager of the place came to apologize profusely . we feel quite sure that he must have given a lecture to the boy who served us the drink . . . and that no doubt in the future that boy will be a bit more careful to see that he really washed his glasses. Not having been traveling much away Irom home since the war started and then not in the great congested centers where the crowds going home at night are weary and have no time for courtesy or man ners, we have not kept up with the changing forms of what is cur rently so called good manners . . . they tell us that if you get a seat on a bus or train you can hold it against all odds of manners or conscience, with no consideration of sex or age ... we were a bit surprised to learn that in a certain well known hotel in New York they have posted the following sign in the elevators. . . "Though some of us are very slim, a few of us are fut. . . Since space is small we ask you all, please don't remove your hat." Food Production Total war requires total production. We are told that every farm in this country must do its part in meeting the demands for food not only for the past year, when our record gained such recognition, but also for the coming year and those ahead. Even before Pearl JIarbor the agricultural department of the United States organized the farmers to meet the goal for Food for Freedom. Practically all the 6 million farm ers of this country have enlisted in a pro gram of production to meet war needs and to prepare for building a lasting peace. Never before in the history of the world has a na tion undertaken such a vast program of in creased agricultural output. More food is needed to supply our army, our navy and to give aid to our Allies and to build up reserves for the future. Large numbers of our people are working harder and under a greater strain than they have ever known. To do this they are needing more and better foods, so that they can give their best to producing for victory. Conservative methods of farming based as they are on efficient utilization of soil and water, are contributing greatly to meeting the goals of production now and over the long haul. Farmers can obtain larger out put during the next several years by follow ing the principles of effective use of the land. Conservation farming is the guarantee that production will be obtained and that it will continue. And conservation farming is the guarantee that in winning the war Amer ica will not lose the agricultural productive capacity that has helped give it supremacy among nations. We call your attention to the answer in the Voice of the People on this page given by Oliver Shel ton . . . for when asked what his main vegetable in his Victory gar den would be, he said, "1,500 lillies to feed my soul". . . Now don't get us wrong, we are very practical, and had a garden long before it was glorified by the title of Victory, though it was a victory patch to us for it kept down the cost of living . . . we loved Oliver's answer. . . With everything so hectic ... we think it necessary to grow some flowers along with our beans and potatoes . . . for the flowers really do something for us. . . Take for instance Mrs. H. G. West, how much she has 1 tamed from her flowers . . . and Uncle Will Shelton would never be satisfied with life if he could not watch his dahlias and his glads give forth their beau ty and color as the summer grows toward autumn . . . yes, even in war we need flowers ... to feed our souls . . . Mr. Shelton is right. Not so long ago we watched a postmaster as he "cashed" a bond for a woman. . . We feel certain that if she had only looked up from counting her money and seen the expression on the man's face, Bhe would have pushed that money back and told him she had decided to let Uncle Sam have it awhile long er. . . If ever we have seen disgust written on the face of a human being it was on that of the post master. . . We thought of the story suggested by Walter Winchell about people who cash in their war bonds. . . A man who was sche duled for induction the next day decided before going to sleep to cash in his bond the next morning. That night he dreamed he was in a foxhole fighting Japs. . . One Jap charged at him with a bayonet. Sighting his own rifle, our hero was about to save himself by pulling the trigger, when his sergeant tap ped him on the shoulder and said, "sorry but the man who paid for your rifle wants it back." have been responsible for collect ing the paper have been busy at other things recently. . . Our phone has been ringing and the question asked, "Why don't the Scouts come and get our waste paper 7 How about setting a Waste Paper Day sometime in April, when house chaning will be at its height so that housewives will have waste paper salvaged from debris which they are going to discard. Do you know that 100 pounds of waste paper (high as a broom handle) will make 200 containers for blood plasma . . . 1,470 cartons for emer gency life boat rations ... 17 pro tective bands for 600-lb bombs . . . 050 cartons for U. S. Army "K" field rations . . . 1,105 cartons con taining each fifteen 50-calibre in cendiary bullets. . . Let's save our paper. Voice OF TUB People What will be your main vegeta ble in your Victory Garden in VMV. will be benches and a picnic spot" Speaking of the tennis court: It could be planned not just as a con crete tennis court, but two or three courts side by side with the con crete running from one to the (Continued on page 8) o I.- -t "K Hot with r j waning Uas SerrJ AahMitla Road ' Horace Duckett. !)( potatoes." -"I guess it will Norman Caldwell -that it will be beans. 'I believe O. II. Shelton - -"Fifteen hundred lilies in rows across my garden to feed my soul." drover Davix "Irish potatoes, for we eat more of them than any other vegetable." En rl h'lnjunon " Roans. ' (li'orije (!. Queen will grow more c other vegetable." 'I believe we n than any Mr. W. L. McCracken"l think we will grow more Irish potatoes than any other vegetable." TELEPHONE Residence 485-R TUEPHoj, Offic, DR. JOE F. BAXTER Veterinarian Large and Small Animal Practice Waynesville, N. C. .. P. Dicns "I think that beans und potatoes will tie for first place in our garden." Prof. J. P. Whitesidex t will be potatoes." -"I expect Mm. Henry Francvt would bo beans." -"I guess it Letters To The Editor The following "advertisement" of Camp Croft is a clever presenta tion of life in a training center. . . SEND YOUR SON TO CAMP CROFT In The Sunny South Boys 18-38. Attractive lodges each with counselor. Outdoor sleeping facilities available. Ex perienced staff. We will be a friend to your boy. 5,000 acre campus, ample equipment. We offer hik ing, rifle practice, horseback rid ing and many other healthful out door sports. Accent is placed on neatness and discipline. Boys are asked to do little tasks around the camp to prepare them FOR LIFE. Our program is correlated with war-work. Lessons on self-defense are taught free of any charge. We will meet you at the train. Located near Spartanburg, S. C, so we are isolated from life's little tempta tions. Inexpensive, safe and bene ficial. Scholarships offered. Other camps are under same manage ment located in Italy, Alaska, New Guinea. New chain soon to be opened in Germany. Our motto: We build men. Write for descriptive folder. Our draft board representative will call. Now with Spring cleaning under way the matter of waste paper should be brought to the attention of housewives. . . We understand that locally the Boy Scouts who NEED OF RECREATIONAL CENTER CITED Editor The Mountaineer: To those of us who are interested in young people and to the towns of Waynesville and Hazelwood as a whole the recent action of the civic and religious organizations of the towns in planning to form a Com munity Recreation Center comes as a distinct forward step. One cannot but help and hope the two towns can submerge their dif ferences and pray that the different organizations will be able to see an overall plan and not hold out for their own pet projects. In this connection a two-fold purpose might help the groups to stay united: FIRST: The experience of most persons who have been extensively interested in recreation for young people would prove out that the first and most important thing is to have a supervisor, especially in the summer; a person who is given at least the minimum of equipment for softball, volley ball and other outdoor games, and a person who can look ahead and not be discour aged when after the first hrgh in but in both places; therefore, after crowds drop off; one who can fore see that this phase is the beginning of the real foundation and that the interest built from then on is the lasting, beneficial one. SECOND: Plan a long-range program, not for two or three years or for the duration. In so doing plan for the individual items in their order of importance or pos sibility of accomplishment at the present time and ill a step-by-step progress. Plan a unit, a united program, which looks forward to parks and play space not just in Waynesville or just in Hazelwood but in bothe places; therefore, after this overall plan is made, select the most suitable site for recreation not as to whether it is closer here or there or whether it is midway, but a place that will be used and that can have a future develop ment. For instance, Instead of one church group planning a tennis court next to its own church, and another civic organization plan ning a clubhouse on its own lot, pool these resources and ideas. Pick a central location, such as the lot back of the courthouse, and plan "Here will be the Community Cen ter," in which all clubs will parti cipate." "Here will be the tennis courts "Here will b a play space for young children;" andl "Here 'K'lhieire aire mot HiOimgj HDSsflamice call mrfcM lata Ugkia aa thick ma laws Dlataaica wltehbeawda lata apaaalnr win aaf Tbata ttaatt aa caH to S adaak" Thai's a hip aotU ! mm nfca arirsa abariag task paaiaaV Southern Bell Telephone nd Telegraph Com posy mamEmaamammaaam FARMERS - Buy and Get Your FERTILIZER Out As Soon As Possible We Sell . . . ARMOUR and PLANTERS Grow iviore Meat and Eggs this Year . . . Produce poultry With more edible meat per bird; f duce more errs per layer ... It can be done i' that invigorates. FUL-O-PEP it LAYING MASH it SCRATCH GRAINS it GROWING MASH it STARTER MASH See ls For Baby Chicks arnicas rcucifln At The Depot Roger Medford, Mgr. W I
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