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t ! A.' Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY ti . jlN'E The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 18? 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, Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County 11.75 Six Months, In Haywood County . 90c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood Ceunty 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Etaterad it the port office at Waynesrllla, N. 0.. M Sod OUm Mall Matter, provided under the Act of March I. 17, HoTember 80, 1014. Obituary noticea, reeolutlona of respect, card of Wla-f. tad all aoticea of entertainment for profit, will be charred for at tbe rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL DITOrslAL IMI-ASSOCjATION North Carolina i ' WIS ASSOCIATE THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) June Recording Morning: A cock's muffled crow. The harsh cry of Jim Crow on wing to the near est cornfield. Sammy Jay, loud and com manding, trumpets to late sleepers. The bird chorus awakens, like a great symphony tuning up for a concert. The ffuted notes of the bluebird mingle with the clarinet tones of the Baltimore oriole. A prairie warbler runs the scale, while chickadees vainly reach for octaves. A hermit thrush with organ harmonies accompanies the red eye vireo on his fife. Against a hollow tree a woodpecker drums out the beat. And from the soloist's rostrum floats the meadow lark's crystal-clear song. Noonday: Trees whisper among them selves. The voice of a lone grasshopper speaks from his grassy forest. A bee drones on a zigzag course overhead. The muted breathing of lazy noon rises and falls. Evening: Robins plead for rain. A dog challenges the oncoming darkness. June bugs crash against the screen. A whippoor will calls from the woodland floor. Pines sigh sleepily. An old acorn thumps on the ground. Tree toads chirp incessantly. From a steeple comes the lonely peal of the village clock. Christian Science Monitor. The Test Farm The decision of I he StaU culture to locate the new Test wood County will, we think, proval of every citizen of the 1! oard of Agri Farm in 1 lay meet the ap county. The decision is a tribute to agricultural develop ment in Haywood and also a recognition of the farming potentialities of this area. During the past year the board made ex tensive investigations of possible locations and has made careful scientific tests of the many factors involved in the selection of a farm that would be representative of the mountain section both as to types of soil and fertility. The Clarke farm near Waynesville serves to more nearly fill these requirements than any other obtainable location found by the board. Its location is now and will be in the future a matter of great pride to the county and the many experiments which will be carried on there of immense value to the farmers of Haywood and the surrounding counties. We also feel that the farmers of Haywood County have a right to feel that the high standard of their agricultural progress in the past few years had something to do with the decision. They have already proven what can be done on Haywood farms, with modern and scientific practices. We are glad to note that the 4-H and FFA boys will hold their contests at the state farms. The visits of these Future Farmers will be stimulating both to them and to us. Special credit, we1 feel, should be given those who boost Haywood for this selection. Among those who have worked with the state board in favor of Haywood are includ ed: Howard Clapp, county farm agent; D. Reeves Noland, member of the State Agri cultural Board ; the county board of commis sioners, George A. Brown, Jr., John R. Hipps, and D. J. Noland; T. Lenoir Gwyn, market ing specialist for the Department of Agri culture; H. Arthur Osborne, of Canton; Jonathan Woody, Glenn C. Palmer, and many others who have given time and in fluence in securing this property for the test farm. War Workers In our recognition of the vast armies of our country who are battling with all their might overseas, we must not forget the vast army of war production workers back home, who are making the supplies to keep the firing lines in combat. When we consider the machines and the mass of warring implements that have gone into the combat areas and are pouring out of this country every day both to the Atlantic and the Pacific, it makes us realize that while we have heard of numerous strikes, all workers are not in that class. Had not thousands of workers stayed on their jobs time and over the great invasion would not have been possible. And the sup plies and fighting equipment must go in a steady stream into the fighting centers. As vice-chairman of the War Production Board recently said, "All that has gone before is merely dress rehearsal." It has been pointed out that war workers need not rush back to peacetime jobs, in the belief that the invasion can keep going on what has been manufactured, for it will take much more than the current production output. The American war worker has mere ly "entered upon a new and dramatic phase of his contribution, in which he may work by sudden fits and starts, may be asked to sit tight or to move into other works on short notice. The war production goals will have to fit the fighting demands, and in view of the new period of the war there mav be changes." 'G. I. JOE HIS MARK" W 'v i rga!' . $&L HERE and THERE HILDA By WAY GWYN War Bonds Are Made Of Pulpwood Among the many war uses of pulpwood War Bonds shouldn't be overlooked. While they don't have the direct destructive power of gun powder made of pulpwood, nor the life-saving quality of blood plasma packed in pulpwood containers, they are essential to winning the war. Buying War Bonds and cutting pulpwood are similar in at least two respects: One, they are primarily responsibilities of civil ians on the Home Front and, Two, they are necessary to back the men on the fighting front. Actually farmers and woodsmen in this area can do double duty for Uncle Sam and the mert overseas this month. They can cut a few cords of pulpwood and put their earnings in War Bonds. Be sides helping speed the day of Victory, this is a good investment. For a cash outlay of $18.75 every pulp wood cutter can get a $25 War Bond. That means a third more for his work. Let's make this a record month by going over our quota in buying War Bonds and by cutting more pulpwood than any month this year. That will give Hitler and To.io a double blow at a time when both of them are toppling. The Reidsville Review. There are two historical dates we will always remember. We re call quite vividly how the news of the Armistice came to us in World War I. In a flash memories crowd ed back to us when in the early hours of last Tuesday morning we heard the news of the Invasion. As the latest from the front came over the radio we felt the mighty im print upon our mind and heart the epochal event. We were trying to firiij words to put down in black and white our emotions when a friend handed us the following editorial from the Charlotte Observer, which we think is the finest thing wo have read to date on the Invasion. Peace and Future Cannon Fodder Last month Collier's Magazine carried a reprint of a cartoon which appeared in the London Daily Herald of May 17, 1919, a few months after the first World War. It was described by the editor of the magazine as the most poignant and prophetic cartoon ever published. It contains the pictures of four persons as having settled the fate of the "class of 1910." In the picture are the four architects of the "peace of 1918-19 Georges Clemen ceau for France, David Lloyd George for Britain, Vittorio Orlando for Italy and Woodrow Wilson for the United States Behind a column of the building from which the four are emerging is a baby crying, labeled "The Class of 1940." History is surely repeating itself. What of the Class of 1965? We are facing an other peace parley. We should have learned something during the past quarter of a century. Certainly the world is still full of people who can remember how our great leader Woodrow Wilson tried in vain to look toward the future and plan for the class of 1940. It is being brought to us witlj increasing force as the battles rage, that there must be a different kind of agreement with Ger many this time. If to be allowed freedom, she takes advantage of the world and bends every effort to build back to destroy, she must be made to surrender all her liberties. Some arm chair strategists in this coun try already are working out alibis for the Germans in Italy just in case they should be driven back to Rome or beyond by the Allies in their present offensive. HOW ARE YOU TAKING IT? This is not a question as to how America as a nation is taking the first stages of the momentous in vasion bv its troops against tho European continent. It is not a question as to how your fellow-citizen of the same city or town or hamlet are taking it, It is not even a question as to your neighbor's attitude, your friend's reactions. It is a question as to how you individually are taking it in what spirit, with what emotional res ponse! Take the case of yourself off somewhere and wrestle it out in quiet reflection and serious self- stmlv in order to decide just how you are really taking it. If you have a son or brother or husband surging across those bloody beachheads, one may know full well how vou feel about it. You are in there, too, with everv breath and every sigh. You are dreadfully anxious. i ou read anil listen to the news of the invasion and walk the floor with a lump in your throat. If you are the father of one of those boys, you are saying to your self, "Would to God I could be in his shoes instead of him." If you are the mother of one well, you are as other Rachels going abroad throughout this whole land mourning for their child. And if you are a brother or sis ter left at home, working here and yonder or leisurely putting in the time betewen school or college terms, one need not put such a question to you, either. All who are of understanding hearts know how you, too, are tak ing this invasion. But what of all the others, those who may have sons in the service but who as yet have not been call ed into combat, and who, pray God, may never be. Yours, too, is an intense concern, but immeasurably less, you must admit, than that of the kindred of the tens of thousands now face to face with the grim and gruesome realities of this thing of terror and horror. And all the others, one by one, here, yonder and everywhere how are you taking this initial thrust of your country's forces of libera tion against the strongly entrench ed enemy you who have been look ing at this war as being a thing more or less apart and remote from your interest. We saw a group of men standing on the sidewalk during the early hours of the first day of this mo mentous enterprise, about the time many of our men were being mas sacred by the cross-fire of the enemy before they even got out of their landing boats. The group was intensely talka tive and those in 'it were betting their money how long it would be before the Germans surrendered six weeks or a few months? That's how these were taking it with a wanton and nauseous levity and almost satanic uncon cern except to gamble on the possi ble outcome of the acrifices oi the lives of thousands of American boys who were giving the best that God ever gave them to give to the, cause of human freedom. Then there was the fellow on the bus who in casual conversation said he was working at a given plant engaged in the production of war supplies. But he hadn't felt very good the morning of the invasion, so he decided he wouldn't check in for duty that day. That's how he was taking it with such indifference that he would allow a headache or an upset stomach to keep him from making his individual contribution of mus cle or mind to victory, and the beaches of France for the length of 50 miles blazing with flaming death for the sons of this nation in deadly grip with the ghastliness of war. But let the question be asked again and again HOW ARE Y'OU TAKING IT? Are you in any way transformed from out of the "as usual" attitude or the "as usual" emotion are you behaving as if nothing were hap pening in your world, so as if, even though you realize that the whole human family has a date with des tiny in this invasion, you prefer to take a spectatorial seat in the grandstand while these fighting millions of ours race into the arena of death. Are you going to prayer meet ings in your church, or praying at all anywhere, that victory may come to our arms at the cheapest possible cost in the currency of the blood of our boys? If any hour has ever struck in tliis nation's long history of honor and nobility, if any hour has ever struck in your own life-time, be it long or short, when you should be solemnized and deeply touched into emotions of sobriety and impas sioned patriotism, this is THAT HOUR. How are you taking it? WASHINGK Ynk Flyer, si. nonet tl in Specitl to CentrtJ Pr res Legislative Leg Jam Piltt Up for Congress f WASHINGTON-A.ll the bull-dozers on Cawtrj u to work these days to break the legislative w broken if Congress hopes to adjourn June 20 GOP members to attend the national convention v mik Congress has only begun to whittle awav t ,1 mcf.l In four and one-half months, only one remiar onTu'- been enacted. A dozen others must be passed k!E deadline. In Addition, other hichlv Imnnrtmt . orf r iCKisiarmn . n . . . 1 i, stabilization taw, p,;,. Control date. June 30. Diseussi,-. .. ulw Land-teas Laws Up moved. Price control and wage lease act must be sion or rh ., currently being held un in ,u. e hanlf inc rnmmitlu. nat Other vital legislation reouirin. tion Includes the 49 billion n ,JrimHJ troversla! national war agencies bill, the sv ' and the District of Columbia bill. uwaiCTl Prtnffmoo nun hlftflt thA lAff.lam kut l ..it . ..b. ... wo j win nave to M I This means Saturday sessions and lnncor v,,,. urM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S RETURN r,. 23,000-acre "Hobcaw Barony" plantation in South a significant tip-off that the Allied Invasion of u.ror,l i. 1 j " -"-owni w near ai iieutu. Washington observers were a war that tH. u . make It a ooint to be in the Whif Hn,i. .u. . MtcuBlI 1 --"-"V at me nour Cm D. Eisenhower, Allied supreme commander, gave the Jl-out assault on Adolf Hitler'a Festung Europa, Mr. Roosevelt will follow every move of the drive wh In tha aorot man nvmi in thA Whlta . nen tt - " "- v"w ",u" "uuac. in mis detailed maps so-complete mat every movement of be "watched." 1 room, tl Allied t SKEPTICS WHO BELIEVE that American Army iu, v onui uown snonW I. II. of the returning flyers. Maj. Richard I. Bong, of Poplar Wu uraot PoiIAn ana urith f7 nlanaa ffflinl u : ' " ....... . u,iva (viuiai; tv uis credit St?t W newsmen ngni recently. Fighter pilots must either photograph the Jap plane ci cisiniegraung in me air, or anotner pilot must see the u back up the claim. In one case, Bong shot down a Jan him nearly to the water. He thought his wing man sa tk, uiiu uegieuieu iu pnuiugrapn iu Later, he learned the wing man was on the other side i and didn't see the action. Bong got credit for a "probable Army pilots say the score against the Japs should be much than official records reveal. Jokingly, United States pilots say they muat bring th( Vl 1 f-v-i Q f hastl hAnfA fVtAir rn r imvmib n "trill T" l U 1 ,.,kinU J U J1-. 1. : 11 t. 1 . '1 Htm ui wiiiui wcic uuuuuuLeuiy Kin a, uius onnging his scon to 30 or more Japs. Voice OF THE People II Ini I irtts your reaction vhen I,, ! f II, beginning. Of thought fu st of CUM, Hi my .vine I Mrs. (.'.. .Yi.J : 1 1 . is nam 10 say. 1: was there was rrlu f fr. w , J. C. I knew in awe was wl:a 'm:g. ,. II to tlnw,. i, what tli I t'eaici I Iu ill a -"l was pleased; started and I felt that ci 'Iimim nd knew exactly i y Wei V lloill!!. Of Cull IM , 'lb- ;: ot !., ..f life." . .'. At I,,, in the morn a very ji , i' niiiieh'il w:'i Mm. put; it in for me t me both ; lnrkvtl"l can't ids. It was too big : press. But it gave ad and a sad feeling." II l r ; "I was glad to ted for I knew the that much sooner." " . ' Da ris "It is hard to way it made me feel ! '.. .: wa.. coming very close to u l! made me feel that it was something ending, and yet I know that in some ways it is only the II' above evi glad it c; E. had started, bee bring the v;e end." jiw won't be Letters To Editor YOU'RE TELLING ME! -By WILLIAM RITT- Central Press Writer WHAT WITH H-Hour, D Day, G-5, 4-F, LST, 1-A and M 4, Grandpappy Jenkins says the daily war news sounds a lot like a recipe for alphabet soup. In the day when everyone has his own helicopter: "Scrub the roof, quick company's coming " it; A 100 milet per gallon ap peals to Zadolc Dumkopf who hopes, however, the post-war driver won't try to get that far in that many minutes. ! i I American occupation of some European countries may have another beneficial result if the Yanks manage to teach the folks over there how to brew drink able coffee. 1 ! ! Today's fairy story: Once upon a time there was a brand new automobile . 1 ! ! The motorist who complaint loudest about chuck holes in the streets Is always the first to hoi er when the repair crew make him detour. ! ! ! ' That resident of Miami, Fla., who plans, after the war. to commute to his job in New York, will have plenty of excuse if he is late at the office. Editor The M.-ukV Mv coin- ef Th- )!: May 25th received Nst.i I v helned me a It Hist ' picture of the Haywn court house which w uH advertisement ef the Dan ber Manufacturing Com This picture wa ' price of The Mountain vear. A honie-ten PM helps us keep our dss place like this. efcm ci-ient an vp.-irs in the 3-'i Yours wry '"'-? PVT. CI.YPK L ' Or.;' Fj May 29, 1044. T 1MB! Farm Quest and THE OLD HOME TOWN , By STANLEY ft- HES SOCF BECAUSE A CISLioeesV SALESMAN SOLO HIM SOME FANcVoV'OA SETS'SUPPOSEO TO COME UP IH SIX DELi CIQUS FLAVORS- BUT All W Ck?l TURNEC OUT BE J" PLAIN cJW ON THE HOME SWEET HOMff FRONT tk m -wi. . iiiJ1,LB t.r Question: 1 ways a success ing fruits and Answer: N Agrent Ruth f f!nllpirp Fxter- rate of heat -a''r. dry heat than "' bath. Tn a. In;. has developed hazards. She reasons for over. the packing that the filling the jars t'. ing the jar tor? allowing the mcf anJ tllo iar to fi'' has boiled up. V?' of the steam. T.e , may not.be f war t-unu'"' - Frnnprif. servicing - pr' See-:- -.vet I a;3 si' food expaf ,. ben Wit Judge-Aveyour back the insulin" J Business Man-IJ . . - I.-, merer w n ciple of my anything dui " tJ. t will exchange ing words for others i ' Li i-1 n ' 1 class. i
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