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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, april THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, 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 $1.76 Six Months, In Haywood County 90c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance EnUrxl it the poit office at Wayiiearille. N. O., u 8eood OUaa Mali Matter, as provided under the Act of March I, ltTt, November SO, 1 VI 4. Obituary notice, resolution! of respect, card of thanks, aad M notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for it tkk9 rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL DlfOr,IAl lfiaOS$OCiATION Ij iTtynS 1 mmmm. North Carolina i mss AJSOC1AT THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1941 (One Day Nearer Victory) Praise For the Preachers We commend the Haywood county pastors for their program of exchange in pulpits last Sunday. It was a fine idea, and lent a bit of surprise to the service that stimulated interest. The subject being the same in all the churches was also an interesting feature, for no doubt it was handled from a different viewpoint by each pastor. We feel that the county-wide "Fellowship Day Program" showed a broad vision of the church participating. It bespoke a feeling of cooperation that had nothing to do with smug doctrines and beliefs of one small group, but was evidence of a larger faith that is conductive to spiritual growth. New Field A Large Order Filled The state prison print shop did a rush order last week when they pushed through the printing of the red ink stickers neces sary for the envelopes taking the ballots sent to service men. Every county chairman of elections has been sent a supply of stickers to go on envelopes that will make for speedy handling of mail carrying ballots to and from service men. North Carolina has taken first place in making it possible for soldiers to vote in the primary. Col. Joyner of the state elections board is of the opinion that 100,000 soldiers will cast their votes, while others put the estimate as low as 10,000, with most esti mates placed between 25,000 and 50,000. Many seem to think that the soldier vote will elect the governor. Chamber Of Commerce With the election of new officers of the Chamber of Commerce, plans for the coming year are inaugurated. This year there are so many phases of war effort, so many emer gency activities, that it is a temptation to temporarily lose sight of civic responsi bilities. The Chamber of Commerce is a perman ent obligation and its duties, though not so varied now as in peacetime, must be carried forward. The committees of the Chamber of Commerce must continue to function de spite the fact that their programs will have to be curtailed. As the church has for its aim the religious responsibility of a commun ity, so has the Chamber of Commerce the civic responsibilities. i There are calls every day or so for some worthy cause, many of them brought on by the pressing needs of war, but the financial obligation that we have as citizens of this community to the Chamber of Commerce, must also be met. While the tourist season ahead is perhaps unpredictable, it stands to reason that we will have visitors, judging by last summer and the great influx of visitors into Florida this winter. The latter always serves more or less as a barometer of what we should expect.. The contacts made by the community through the Chamber of Commerce have played a large part in the development of the industrial and tourist business. We must not let even the present great emergency break this thread of contact. The Chamber of Commerce must continue to function in this year of the war 1944 looking forward to a large field of service when the war is over. The State News Bureau has loaned 30 of the popular photomurals depicting choice North Carolina scenes to USO Clubs through out the State, where boys from every state in the union find their way during the pe riods they are stationed in camps in the state. Bill Sharpe, head of the bureau, is plan ning to distribute more of the photomurals. This should prove to be a very fine means of advertising the state. Perhaps there will be only slight immediate advertising bene fits, but no doubt the future will hold more. We all know that the places where the men in service have been stationed either makes a good or a bad impression. If they like a locality they will want to come back after the war is over, and more than likely bring their families. Certainly choice pictures taken in North Carolina from the mountains to the seas would make the stranger without our gates want to return. We hope there will be some of Western North Carolina mountains in the USO Club pictures. An Opportunity Farmers of this area have been given a market for beans through the Haywood Mutual Cannery. In signing a contract to grow beans a farmer is assured of the sale of his beans at a high price. Not only a sale is assured, but high grade seed can be had from the cannery, which enables the farmer to grow better beans. During the years the cannery has operat ed here thousands of dollars have been paid to Haywood farmers. Many farmers from other areas are now clamoring to grow beans this year for the cannery. To date Haywood farmers have been slow this year in signing up for bean acreage. i If the Haywood growers do not take ad vantage of this offer and make application for the seed which are limited this year and sign acreage contracts with the local can nery within the next few days farmers out side the county will be given the privilege of growing beans for the cannery. This year the canning of beans for. the armed forces is of vital interest as the gov ernment wishes to contract the greater part of the pack. Crowing beans this year for the Haywood Mutual Cannery will be both profitable and patriotic. XROUND CREW" HERE and THERE Jefferson's Farming In this month's issue of The Progressive Farmer, Dr. T. B. Hutcheson has an article on lessons to be learned from the farming practices of Thomas Jefferson. The writer points out the interesting fact that Thomas Jefferson, born 201 years ago this month, featured five sound principles in his farming. It was rather startling to find that they are some of the methods recommended today by agricultural authorities'. The five principles Jefferson used on his place at Monticello were : the use of legumes clover, vetch, cowpeas ; great care in utiliz ing farm manures; sound crop rotations; fewer soil-depleting crops; livestock as an essential part of a properly balanced farm ing system. The writer also points out that it might be well for those who farm today to emulate his eager and lifelong thirst and search for new agricultural knowledge. Jefferson was a pioneer in scientific farming. It is said that he was more interested dur ing the last 17 years of his life in helping advance agriculture in the new country than in the yearly income he received from his own acres. He is said to have tested all kinds of crops on his( farm and that when he went to Europe on his frequent trips he was always on the alert for new seeds to try out in America. Jefferson soon found out that he could not grow the same crops on the soil year in and year out, so to remedy the decreasing fertility of the soil, he cut his tobacco crop and made wheat his principal cash crop. He worked out through actual tests certain rota tion of crops suitable to his place. Jefferson might well have qualified not only as an authority on governmental affairs, but also as a secretary of agriculture had he lived at a later date. 1 The following taken from a letter he wrote in 1786 shows how he felt about the farm ers: "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigor ous, the most independent, the most Virtu ous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interest by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artis ans, or anything else." HILDA By WAY GWYN Maybe it is a stubborn streak we have . . . when we hear so much of one side of a question, we feel like investigating the other ... at any rate we have heard so much and read so much about post-war plan ning that we decided to look at the matter from the other side of the fence. We are wondering if the boys ovtrseas and even those in rigid training camps in this coun try aren't a bit fed up on our anti cipatory moods. We all get going in prophetic strain. Maybe it is a natural reaction of wishful think ing about the glorious days when the war is over. . . We have also wondered if we civilians at home might be a bit selfish in our post war planning and be wanting some thing different ourselves. . . It is a fine thing to want to have a "better world" for the boys when they come back. . . They will deserve the best we have to give. . . But maybe we are traveling too fast. . . Looking from the sidelines with the boys overseas and those right here in America . , . one gets another angle ... of post-war planning. . . Most of the boys are homesick. . . They are glad to ans wer the call of their country. . . Thiy wouldn't be back home for as we have heard many express it, ' they would not feel comfortable n 'civies' " . .. but they are plan ning and counting on the day when they can come back home. . . They may have lived in a fashionable residential section of a big city. . . They may have lived on the "other side of t he tracks." They may have called some crossroads hamlet home ... it makes no difference in their sentiments . . . they have the same nostalgic pains . . . and have you ever been homesick? We have, and how it can hurt, just as much as physical pain. . . Now we believe that those boys want to come back to the America they remember. It might be fine to have the house all painted up . . . and new linoleum on the kitchen floor, but we don't think those things will mean half as much to Johnny, as the familiar look of things and his favorite cake that Mom has been making for him since a boy, will taste just as good served on the old table as a brand new one. We believe he will get a far bigger kick out of seeing things just as he left them . . . even their shabbi ness, he will love. . . standpoint we must plan for post I war conditions ... we must look ahead, we must try to keep things stable, we must not have the boys come back into a world turned upside down by economic strife . . . we must keep our balance despite the pressure of emergencies, but let us remember that the men in service have not been idle. . . through the fire of their exper ience they have gone through rig id tests. . . They will have learned many lessons . . . they have been face to face with d.ath. They tell us that such experiences give one a mighty fine balance of true values ... in foxholes in the war theatres these boys have learned much more than we have back home. . . They will have also learn ed what they want from life when they get back home. . . They will have definite ideals. . . So let's not overhaul life for them and have it all too set. . . Let's give the boys a chance to help us build up the new changes in the American way of life for which they have sacri ficed. . . Voice OF THE People The boys will have visited many new and strange lands when they return, but we bet they carry al ways in their hearts the look of home . . . and that they see nothing that looks so good to them ... in fact we heard one man whose du ties have taken him around the world, say that he had rather own an acre of land in Western North Carolina, than thousands of acres in any country he had visited. . . We are rather inclined to think he expressed the sentiments of the majority. . . They will have seen many famous waters in their as signments, but we bet the old fish ing stream back home still holds first place with them ... we thought of the boys in service from this section when the opening dates of the fishing season were an nounced ... we bet when they read the dates in their home town pap ers, they have a wave of home sickness . . . for no matter where they are, whether in Iceland, or somewhere in the tropics, they will picture in their minds Spring back home . . . they will know that the maple trees are beginning to show green, that it is almost apple blos som time . . . that gardens have been plowed and that onions are in the ground and the first crop of lettuce and radish are planted. . . Think of the boys who have left our farms . . . we are sure they will long to change a "gun for a plow. . . . when they realize it's Spring in the mountains. We know that from the economic Why do you think the majority of the women of this community fail to give their time to making Ked Cross surgical dressings? Ed. Note This question has been requested. Miss Margaret Terrell "I think it is because they have not formed the habit. I have noticed when a woman conies once she is usually apt to come again. Another reason is because they do not realize that !)0 per cent of the dressings usd by the armed forces are supplied bv the Red Cross." Mrs. N. M. Medford "With no help, a house to keep, a family, no gasoline, it takes all the time most of us have to give to look after our families." Mrs. Ruth Bcaty "I think it is because they fed that someone else will do it. I think we have just as good women here as anywhere, but they seemed not to realize how serious the situation is, for if they did I believe that they would res pond to the call." Mrs. C. V. Bell "I don't know.' Mrs. Chas. E. Ray, Jr., "I don't think that people realize the ser iousness of the situation, for if they did I feel(sure they would respond.'' Mrs. J. H. Way, Jr. "I think it is because the women do not rea lize that it is their responsibility." Mrs. Walter Crawford "I think it is because there are so many women in the community who are employed away from their homes and between duties to their families and their work they do not have time to give. The feel that they could do so little that it would not count sufficiently." Mrs. Grady Boyd "Because most of the women of the commun ity have as much work to do as they can physically carry." Mrs. R. L. Prevost "I think the gasoline situation has something to do with the fact that more of the women do not go to the rooms and work, but I do feel that most of us could do better, if we tried hard enough." Mr. J. H. Howell "Due to the added duties for women in the home, the help situation and the large number of women employed away from home." r ' Paul Becomes a Missionqr - tMiwa ra Ttrw ervrxm a 1 By NEWMAN CAMPBELL (The International Uniform Lesson on the above topic for April 23 is Acta 13:1-14:28. the Golden Text being Acta 13:2, "The Holy Spirit said, Separate Ma Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.") OUR LAST lesson told us that Barnabas and Paul stayed a whole year at Antloch preaching and teaching. "Now there were In the church that was Antloch certain propheta and teachers; aa Barnabas, and Simeon that wa called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul." These were the men who were gathered at Antloch, and the Holy Ghost said to them, "Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." That meant that these two were to go forth on a missionary Journey sad news for their breth ren In Antloch but they never faltered, but blessed these two and sent them on their way. Go First to Seleucto They went first to Seleucla, and from thence sailed to Cyprus. Look on the map to see where Se leucla was in relation to Antloch, and the Isle of Cyprus with SalamU on its east coast, where they preached the word of God In the synagogues to the Jews. On the opposite side of the Island of Cyprus was Paphos. where they had their first real adventure of the Journey. A man who was a sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-jesus, was with the Roman deputy, Sergius Paulus, a Christian but faltering In his loyalty because of this man. Paulus called for Saul (now Paul) and Barnabas, asking them to tell him the word of God. When Paul saw this sorcerer and real ized that for the sake of his own comfortable living he was trying to turn Paulus away from Christ, he said, "O full of subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord Is upon thee, and thou Shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season." And so It was that Bar-Jesus or Elymas, the sorcerer, was struck blind, " and he went about seeking someone to lead him by the hand." The churches now visited by Paul and Barnabas are not men tioned anywhere in the gospels except in Acts. After leaving Perga they went to Antloch In Phry J conrusea with th. A. Hera they went Into S Korue on th. c. ., down. At th. A w. VJUae QJ J. psalm reading, etc, rrfflJ uie rulers of the wuiZl Paul and Brr,v!0R give whatever meWS to the congreeatlr Vl and preached one of th, 1 mom wa Vm ... H w nave qh raAMt of his love for Un& for the Jewl.h f.E cern for the welfare , 3 to whom h. ..... A - - "M peaMnj Jesus of David', tj, He spoke of Jesus cota the line of David, w to Old Testament 7 theme the death J Jesus, according .-.ri Hla resurrection tnmtl un person whom C from the dead, do you fa glveness of sins and jJ in believing, said the tpa At the end of the swvk Gentiles begged the p r...v.,i wura 10 inem Sabbath, and the next "came almost th gether to hear the word J inia roused the envy of the unconverted Jewi u stirred up trouble so that i ally Paul and Barnabut dust of Antioch and went on to Iconium 2 disciples welcomed them J in iconium both Jti oreexs Delleved, but unbi jews stirred up the Gen'J while Paul and BamihJ their message boldly, th ,i aiviaea. rneir enemies u them, so that thev fli tJ and Derbe, where they ri me gospei. Here they saw a man been crippled all his lif looking on the man, saw had faith, and Paul told stand upright. He did, leaped and walked When pie saw this they thoug Roman gods had come i earth and wanted to svJ them. Paul, much shoftJ plained that thev were nj but had a message for tliti tickle populace whereupon against them and stoned ! that he was thought to t but he rose, and next d:y ed with Barnabas lor Ur: Paul and Barnabas api: a round of the cities men!:, this lesson They ordained (the first . mention of eldtr finally returned to theirs point In Antioch In Syni "they abode a long time 1 disciples." Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc. jWWASHINGT McNutt, Hershey in Feud Over War Workers Draft One-Seventh of Al Ration Coupons Art Who' Boss Of Draft Situation? Special to Central Press WASHINGTON Behind the recently headlined draft ;: war production was another official scrap between War M Director Paul V McNutt and Selective Service Director 4 Hershey as to which one really runs selective Congress recently cut selective service aoft the war manpower commission. But General f still Is required to "consult" with McNutt. Ttj has Interpreted this to mean that he runs tM Hershey, however, has displayed gm 1 fence When the president's memorandum tightening up occup deferments was Issued, Hershey cracked down hard on occt? deferments. Industry protested to McNutt and to W Pb uiie. M. Nelson. McNutt and Nelson took the matter to the White Hoi they got was a telegram from Hershey to local boards telle that state draft directors were expected to recommend W for Irreplaceable workers- whose induction would hurt pw a THE rmWTFRlTRTTTWi-! rNTYMRTRY used to deal rency. But under wartime rationing It has dropped this m and has gone Into the big-time business of counterteiunj ration couDons. The new occupation is so lucrative that the underworld I Into It with both feet. Gangs of racketeers that formerly, liquor, narcotics, spurious money and other Illicit traffic M Into It. A. o .,.1t v,... IK . .11 ration CDC: circulation are counterfeit. In some cities, like Baltimore, ratio is as high as 45 per cent, and it Is even higher else The counterfeit coupons blanket the eastern seaboard -California, and parts of the mid-west, Including Illinois ano. rt th casoline ration rram. Tha OflW nt Prliu Irfmlnlitratlnn hoi ror rill ted 8 i . . . , .Mnr head!' Bgcuuo iy irucK uown me racxeieers, anu is iiiai u r.. ... . . . . n. ...hllr. ODli-'l uguu dui ic neeas greater cooperation irom mc j The biggest contribution the public can make, it la expu l refuse to buy gasoline without surrendering legai Service station operators who sell gasoline without receive must buy counterfeit or stolen ones Worn peddlars to coer ales. YOU'RE TELLING By WILLIAM RITT- Centrtl Press Writer THERE'S A LOT of varied meanings In the letter "A," Grandpappy Jenkins points out. For instance, as In "1-A" and aa In "gas coupon." ! ! ! There are few women diplo mats. The Utt silk bat must scare the rest off. I ! I Judging by the pot lhy or In, Ifs no wonder if tHa Finns or beginning to think the Reich Is all wrong. ; III f That round-the-clock bmbinf f Germany not only makes LtUn Pttjr dark for Um m-.i. h,,t it Is also knock daylights out 01 That new ,f TWO CJU" - .J SpringBeld. Usss -- one-two pwh- Y j .a... there w-r werksr bride mj. know hew vo trust of on oPP1 f - nlCW Those ra--. their cabbage bJ prices may ' t wbowukU
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