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THE WAYNESVTLLE MO JNTAINEER
(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, jpNE
The Mountaineer
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NATIONAL DITORIAL
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THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1914
(One Day Nearer Victory)
Learning To Work
We have never seen as many youngsters
working as we have this summer. You see
the small fry mowing lawns, working in
corn fields, and in victory gardens like veter
ans of the soil.
We have wondered as we have seen this
young army, what they did before the great
emergency. We do not like to see youth
cheated of its natural good times, yet we
do feel that it may be a fine thing for these
youngsters in the long run, to learn the art
of work.
They are growing up and learning how to
take it. The world they will live in some
day when they are grown will be run to a
large extent by the men in the armed forces
today, and they will be trained with military
discipline. The rising generation will have
to know how to do things, or they will not
be able to compete with their oldsters who
have taken on realities at a tender age and
are seasoned long before their time.
Pensions
This war we are now fighting is from the
standpoint of expenditure about the biggest
luxury in which this country has ever been
known to indulge. We realize that there will
be in addition during the years ahead hun
dreds of thousands of those in the service
receiving pensions. We do not for one min
ute suggest that those who have defended
their country be denied some reward. But
when we noticed recently that civilians who
have worked on the Panama Canal be given
some renumeration we failed to see it.
They may have undergone hardships, yet
we feel sure that they worked on the terms
offered by the government, with no thought
at the time of any reward. We don't like
the idea, as they did not have to go and
accept the work had they not so desired,
while the soldier or man in service goes
where he is sent.
To us it is just one of those cases that
would bring a flock in their wake of similar
instances, and the whole country would
eventually be trying to get a free ride on a
pension.
More Abundant Living
, With the inauguration of the recreational
program in our community during the past
week, we start a new era of living here.
With the wholesome ideas upon which the
program is being launched it gives promise
of a finer and better balanced life -for our
people.
This realization, of course, depends upon
the reception the program receives, but with
the enthusiastic support of so many groups
and organizations we feel that success is as
sured. Work or play done cooperatively tends al
ways to develop a fine sportsmanship. With
the use of the proposed file of local citizens,
and their interests and hobbies no doubt
people who have been living here practically
as strangers will suddenly find that common
ties will develop a more friendly spirit, which
will in the end be community-wide.
We feel that the Community Council has
been most fortunate in securing the services
of a man of the high type of the new recrea
tional director, who has a rich background
of experience in his chosen field.
Spring Salad
Since our early childhood we have recalled
with keen delight the first "mess of lettuce"
picked from the garden, which was in turn
made into "Spring salad.' After the winter
of bleached lettuce, no matter how crisp and
appetizing it has been, this bit of fresh green
is always welcome.
Chopped up, with radishes, Spring onions,
and generously treated with French dress
ing, we put this old time favorite against
any salad we can think of for the moment,
to compete for first place as an appetizer and
a "Spring tonic."
Fifth War Drive
On June 12, the Fifth War Fund Drive
will start and once again the people of Amer
ica will be asked to buy security for them
selves ten years hence and ammunitions and
supplies to carry on the war. We would
like to think that this would be the last gi
gantic campaign for such funds. Who knows
it may be, if we folks here in our own coun
ty and throughout the nation come across
with the same fine spirit of sacrifice that the
men overseas are doing.
Despite the inconveniences we may have
to put up with as the result of manpower
and supply shortage, we here at home have
been untouched, so to speak, as compared
to the men on the fighting lines.
We have the feeling that in this Fifth
drive the citizens should not have to be
urged. Certainly, we all know what faces
our army, navy and air forces. We like the
idea of placing a star beside the name of a
man in service when a bond is bought. We
sincerely trust that there will not be a name
left unmarked on the rolls of men and women
in service from this county.
Don't wait for someone to invite you to
buy a bond, they are as busy as you are.
out tne corners and come across with an
investment in the future of America.
THAT WORRIES HITLER
AK 'OTHER "UNDERGROUND"
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HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
washingtI
ror.se Jopan.se Peac. I Arm.d Servl I
rtertur After Invatian 1 W. . ' ""rf
A New Meaning
The following editorial from the Christian
Science Monitor holds a promise and we feel
sure will meet a responsive chord in the
hearts of the people of America:
To many of those observing America's
Memorial Day it had a more personal and
potent meaninghan ever before. For mil
lions it was a fresh reminder that the most
appropriate memorial, the finest honoring of
those to whom the day is dedicated, would
be a peace system to curb the cause of me
morials. All whose thoughts turned in such a direc
tion must have welcomed Secretary Hull's
announcement that he has invited Britain,
Russia, and China to join in spade-work con
versations on a world peach organization.
This is a vital first step. Less spectacular
than a Casablanca or Teheran, such informal
discussions can begin to lay the foundations
for a genuine new order.
It is not too much to say that the people
have been crying out for more concrete
progress in the organizing of a peace system.
The Moscow conference announced the pur
pose and some preliminary work has been
done, notably Mr. Hull's consultations with
eight members of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee. This effort of the Presi
dent and Secretary of State to let represen
tatives of the Senate share in the early shap
ing of plans is a most encouraging advance
over the exclusively Executive planning by
President Wilson.
While the first invitations are going only
to Britain, Russia and China, Mr. Hull an
nounces that the other United Nations will
later be brought into the discussions. It is
well to emphasize the place of the smaller
nations. For while the Big Three or the
Big Four will have the chief responsibility
for policing the peace, other countries will
have a vital part to play and like the Sen
ate should share in the planning.
More and more, informal talk turns to
ward something like the League of Nations.
Mr. Roosevelt, in brief press conference ref
erences, said that the 1944 model would be
less idealistic than that of 1918, based more
on hard experience. This is widely taken to
mean that the Council which Mr. Churchill
called a "world-controlling Council" will be
composed chiefly if not exclusively of the
Great Powers.
It is assumed that there will also be an
Assembly, which, like the old Geneva model,
will have more of a legislative nature, leaving
administrative action to the Council. Pos
sibly something can be learned from the
American federal system and its solution of
the problem of large and small states. We
trust that in the method of choosing repre
sentatives for the Assembly, at least con
sideration will be given to letting the people
elect them.
We like to write news that has
an inspiring clement. . . . This
week we have a happy story to
tell you. For sometime it has been
out lot to turn out drepressing
copy for this paper regarding how
the women of our community have
fallen down on their home front
job of "keeping 'ein rolling" at the
Red Cross surgical dressings rooms.
Now we have a hoadliner from the
other side of the fence. Last
Thursday afternoon there were
thirty-two workers in the rooms,
the largest group ever to assemble
in one afternoon to work on this
vital war feature. The regularly
assigned supervisors had to call
for heli) and two others came to
aid in directing the work.
Among those present were ten
town women, six workers and four
supervisors . . . and TWENTY-
TWO WOMEN FROM THE
COUNTRY . . . Isabel Colkitt,
chief supervisor, was beaming,
Mrs. Chas. E. Ray, Mrs. Ruth
Reaty, Mrs. Jack Way and Mrs.
J. C. Crouzier, supervisors, were
all smiles. . . . The workers ranged
in age from fourteen to grand
mothers . . . all busy with pre
cise movements making dressings
that may be used to save the life
of some Haywood county boy.
forget she had tared for 10 gal
lons of milk in the early morn
ing. After cooking dinner she
took two cales in a truck to the
pasture, then dressed and was
ready to drive the truck and pick
up 12 women, and they made the
Red Cross rooms by 2:10. . . .
Leaving at 5 o'clock she went home
to fix supper, which she had al
ready prepared in anticipation of
the time spent in town . . . then
dishes to wash and to church to
conduct a IS.T.U. study course . . .
(Whew, it makes us weary just
to write about that day) . . . But
-Mrs. Francis has a step-son and
an adopted daughter in the service
and when she spoke of them we
knew how she felt about those
bandages.
If there had been an attendance
prize Ratcliff Cove would have won
by a big majority. . . . They had
come in 14 strong in a truck driv
en by Mrs. Claude Francis. . . .
Iron Duff had five good workers
present . . . Francis Cove had two
and Mooney Cove had one, who
worked with a steady hand . . .
for her work had a personal touch
as she thought of her son overseas.
We watched those women work
ing and we knew the way they
made those bandages that they
were in the habit of getting things
done, so we asked a few questions
and did a bit of interviewing . . .
after which we wanted to ask the
government to decorate each one
for their courages matches that of
their sons.
First we would like to intro
duce you to Mrs. Bob Francis of
Ratcliff Cove. . . , Her day starts
at 4 o clock with breakfast over
by five . . . after the dishes are
done she takes care of between five
and six gallons of milk. ... On
Thursday morning she set out to
bacco plants and picked strawber
ries. . . . She cooked dinner . . .
and was ready to ride at 2 o'clock
when the truck stopped to pick
her up to come to town. . . . After
she left the Red Cross rooms, she
had to feed chickens and get sup
per ... "I started coming to the
rooms here to help the boys, you
see I have two in service. . . . one
overseas and one in the States. . . .
I have gotten 7 women to come
here to work. You see I put it
to them so strong, they felt like
they had to come, but at first some
of them acted like they thought
there was nothing to it. . . ." she
concluded with a smile.
Now take Mrs. Claude Francis
. . . Eleanor Roosevelt has nothing
on her when it comes to "Her
Day", if Thursday is a sample.
. . . She started at 6 o'clock, cook
ed breakfast, washed up dishes,
worked in garden, put out cabbage
plants. . . . For two hours she
worked on her books . . . she keeps
as secretary-treasurer of the Rat
cliff Cove Baptist church. . . .
Then she ordered some material
for a Bible school. She is also su
perintendent of the County Com
mittee of the Vacation Bible School
of the Baptist Association. Then
it was time to get dinner, and cook
the vegetables she had gathered
when gardening. I was about to
How would like to match a day
out of the life of Mrs. Maggie
(nasty of Francis Cove? . . . Wait
before you answer. . . . She is a
widow, mother of 9 children from
1 1 months to 22 years. . . . Her day
starts at 4:30, to get her daughter
off to the Champion Fibre Com
pany to her work. . . . Breakfast
to her is a progressive after from
around 5 to 8 o'clock. Thursday
morning she took a turn in the
garden and in the fields, then cook
ed dinner, for ten, washed the
dishes and was ready to ride to the
Red Cross rooms. . . , "But when I
get home I will eat supper that
my daughter cooks and then go
to bed, for you know when you get
up at 4:30 you have to go to bed"
. . . she said.
War P,odurtf. .1
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opcciai iq central Press
6 WASHINGTON Peace overture by Jann .
dnnite possibility once Allied forces establish a beachh C"1
B:urope. And that possibility haa hlgh-ranwin. ,
worried They want to crush Japan thoroughly tht
he cannot stage a comeback In another 20 years o at
Prim war pxnertii toliava .Tflnan urtn 0.
-- - ---i - i . n ... give up much u
rr.olre If she is allowed to keen nrf r.t min. ... " fW
a re m other outposts which yield vital material. M4a4el
Top-ranking Navy men hope that the American bum.
& deaf ear to all Jap peace moves. They just d0 n . 1
anu mere is ineniy in the ennnv. -
Navy Headi this distrust. l
The real test of Jamn'.
Hop. Jap. fighUn(r wll, come wm-eu -ym t, (
Koyoed f lean bombers finally begin a systematic
her most important cities.
Once the Allies can switch most of their naval strenk
Atlantic and the Mediterranean to the Far East, JanaT
off from raw materials and supplies in the East Indie wS.
islands are useless to her, she undoubtedlv win ', r
them to the Allies for another breathinp- nn s"
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HEADS OF THE ARMED SERVICES are reported to k.
qIIv satisfied with h nrpflent IavpI tf wa i...., w
j . fjiuuucuon, notwttJ
- ...u.v.aimg mai outnut
tag behind because of a critical manpower shortaee
Authoritative government sources Bay that, considered at
11 ic nana vuwvvwtt av.iiuuva cia v UVlUg I lie I, I Tll3 UOM
intu in apuLa uuijjul 13 nut up u me levels desired. ButlnJ
Navy chiefs generaly are well pleased with production (rfj
What really has happened is that production of munitiom n
plies has increased while the total number of workers has b
riininp- This haa heen due to mir.h th Intra
- - - o" ""H'uvementii
duction, a reduction' in the number of changes in design o(J
uiu supines, cuiu luiiciiiuu ui Dtiuauujia in wmcn labor wu
hoarded, or in some way was not properly being utilized
Since last November, employment in munitions industries hJ
J 1 ' - I - - L II L - . M AA AAA 1 .
declining ui me raie 01 xvu.uuu per monin. i ms trend ii ts;
lo continue, aunougn pernaps noi ac mis high rate.
TVia a rmo A a a ruin ao at ill a ra a nvlAn a f Vtn ..A
X cw uivu jw .vu v w utw maoAu kV nave wUllgrCSS ffljj
t .onal Service legislation of some kind. But what they jj, ,
l-e worried about is not so much increasingly critical labor sha
tj a stampede or workers rrom tne war plants when the end
war is believed in sight.
To guard against such a disastrous contingency, they wot:
to have Congress enact legislation freezing in war jobs m
have been deferred from the draft because of such employmes
W W V V
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT A NATION-WIDE DISTR1B11
system has been set up, with headquarters at Chicago, fordispj
the so-called "miracle drug, penicillin, is good news
in the medical world.
Pewf
SurpJ
It discloses that production now has reached the
point where 10 billion units a month may be spared
from military and other needs for the home front.
WPB revealed that production has risen from 425
million units last June to a record 35 billion units in March.
The War Production Board sees hope for wide civilian use
as thd result of a 15 million dollar program under which U J
lean and two Canadian plants have been rushed to compleU
year ago, almost all penicillin was reserved for military needi
The drug has been found effective In treating Infections wii
Dot respond to sulfa drugs or other remedies.
The
Mrs. C. A. Dotson, of Iron Duff,
who lives seven miles from Waynes
ville, started walking in, but was
picked up on the way. Mrs. Dot-
son has two sons in the service,
and she knows that they make long
hard marches, so why can t she
take a turn, is her attitude. Her
day starts at 5 o'clock, for she
gets a daughter off to work at
Ah. Thursday she had milked, fed
chickens, ironed until 12 . . . "Then
I cooked dinner, but I really felt
ike going to bed," she said. . . .
She washed up the dishes, and
took to the highway that led to the
Red Cross rooms. . . . "Yes, I
want to come, and work here, for
I feel that it is my duty," was her
answer as to why she came.
Mrs. C. C. Francis gets up
around 6 o'clock gets breakfast
over before 7 . . . This week she
is house cleaning and painting
cabinets . . . she had planned to
help with the tobacco planting.
and work in the garden, but a
shower kept her inside . . . she
cooked dinner, washed dishes, and
Yoke Of The Peoi
A re you
'tedichie?
hi favor of socialized
Mrs. R. L. Coin "Yes, I ap
prove of it. I have been working
for hospital care since 1936 and
I think their plan of buJp
hospital and doctor'-- bill;
beginning of socialized M
made it into town. Expected to
cook supper when she got home,
and sew, etc., before she ended
Her Day. . . . Which all added up
makes you understand why her son,
Captain Francis, chaplain in Italy,
was recently decorated for his
courage under fire.
Other busy women and girls
working that day not heretofore
mentioned were Miss Nell G. Car
naham, Mrs. Paul McElroy, Mrs.
A. L. Fox, Mrs. Charles Francis,
Mrs. George Liner, Mrs. Hugh
Ratcliff, Mrs. Mary Ann Loflin,
Mrs. W. E. Christopher, Mrs. Mil
lard Buchanan, Miss Nellie Muse,
Miss Barbara Francis, Miss Lucy
Leopard, Miss Betty Joe Gaddy,
Mrs. Glenn Tate, Mrs. A. T. Mc-
Cracken, Mrs. Cash Edwards, Mrs.
Ned Crawford, Mrs. Lillie Hop
kins, Mrs. Claude Crawford. Mrs.
Glenn Hipps, Mrs. Annie Massie,
-Mrs. J. C. Rose, and Mrs. A. D.
GirTord.
Pardon me, did you say vou were
too busy to make surgical dress
ings.' e too have been under
that same impression, but now
now.
Mrs. Herbert Brnrn-'
would approve of social'
cine, if it is administered
ness to all people."
Mrs. W: F. Swiit
heartily endorse the M
certain restrictions and eii
if it could be kept out of M
Henry Davis "No, I ti
favor of socialized mefcl
think the medical profess:
lose much."
R. T. Mesner "Yes,
favor it because everybtxf
need medical attention,
prove the standard of the s
iTHE OLD HOME TOWN . By STANLEY
OM THE HOME SWEET HOME FOnT LfMj
J. T. Cathey "It is like
there are two sides to it
and if you have socialized b
you cheapen medical serri
the keen interest ot i
vice. On the other 1
sands of people would res;
fits that thev have nevr
realized."
Alvin Ward "X'i."
Hami Lee Liver "No.
not be in favor of social
cine. I do not NKe me
Uh 7 Sl,.ni "I "I
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made up my m::ia.
Mi Xavr.i h'Ht-i
feel I know enough about :
ti v. i hnve real
even tinman
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