(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, July 2"
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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944
(One Day Nearer Victory)
Heroes
We don't know whether heroes have al
ways been the same type as they are in
the current war, but from actual experience
we have found out that in the majority of
cases the more heroic deeds a man in service
has to his credit the more modest he is
about letting them be known.
Last October, nearly nine months ago,
Wayne Corpening, former Haywood County
farm agent, was awarded the Silver Star,
and later received a French citation, but
little has been known of these distinguished
recognitions.
It made us realize that Wayne had not
changed one bit. He is the same hard work
ing, matter-of-fact person who left here soon
after Pearl Harbor. His bravery in action
under fire is recorded elsewhere in this paper.
It takes little imagination to picture the
dangers under which his mission was under
taken. The fact that he volunteered for
this perilous duty that eventually won him
the Silver Star makes it the more heroic.
No wonder it was "a lasting inspiration" to
the men in his outfit.
Whiskers In the
White House
Somebody figured out the other day that
Thomas E. Dewey, if elected, would be the
first mustached president in 32 years. That
is interesting as far as it goes, but it doesn't
go far enough. After all, the subject of
whiskers in the White House is not one to
be dismissed casually.
So, without splitting hairs over the mat
ter, we propose today to give you a some
what fuller exploration and documentation.
In the first place, it should be noted that
Mr. Dewey's mustache is quite in the tradi
tion of his party. For the first presidential
whiskers came to the White House on the
chin of the first Republican president, Abra
ham Lincoln. Before that, the people of the
United States had elected smoothed-faced
presidents with monotonous regularity for
72 years, from Washington to Buchanan.
(Sideburns don't count in our statistics.)
Since Lincoln there have been a dozen Re
publican presidents, and three different
Democratic incumbents. And a non-partisan
total shows that the smooth-faced chief exe
cutives are in the minority 7 to 8.
Irl fact, until Woodrow Wilson started the
clean-shaven vogue in 1912, whiskers of as
sorted sizes and colors had been a familiar
sight at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue except
in the administrations of Andrew Johnson
and William McKinley.
There's no dodging the fact that whis
kers are pretty much of a Republican prero
gative. Grover Cleveland was the first and
only Democrat of the post-Lincoln period
who didn't give the barber carte blanche.
He also was the first president to confine
himself to a mustache. Of the 13 Republi
cans, eight were either strangers to the
razor or had only a scraping acquaintance.
As to styles, the presidential whiskers
may be classified thus chin whiskers, Lin
coln; full beards, Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Harrison; mustaches, Cleveland, Theorodore
Roosevelt, Taft. The mustaches might be
subdivided as follows handlebar, Cleveland
and Taft ; scraggly, Roosevelt.
That's all. We just thought you ought
to know. The Reidsville Review.
Teacher Shortage
We notice recently that there are several
vacancies in the faculties of the schools of
this county, yet when we compare them to
the teacher shortages in other areas we
realize that we are very fortunate in Hay
wood. Dr. Frank W. Hubbard, National Educa
tion research director, recently stated that
from 15,000 to 20,000 classes totaling close
to 500,000 elementary and high school chil
dren will lack teachers, while thousands of
more children will get inferior instruction,
and curtailed courses.
We also hear that in certain areas schools
will have to be closed because of lack of
teachers, who have gone into war work
or better paying jobs, or have joined the
armed forces.
Yet it is said that at no time in the his
tory of this country has there been such a
need for well qualified teachers. The war
has taught us that we must improve our
educational systems. It all comes back,
while we must demand a higher standard,
we must be willing to make the profession
of teaching more attractive in salaries.
Welcome News
We are glad to note from an announce
ment last week in The Mountaineer that the
Boy Scouts will resume their collection of
scrap paper in the community. We have
had numerous calls from persons who have
saved their waste paper and are wanting to
donate it to the scrap drive and cannot get
in touch with anyone who will lake it over.
We understand the Woman's Club is also
asking donors of paper to add to the com
munity collection.
The school children of America have ren
dered a great service in the various scrap
campaigns which have been staged during
the war. At a recent assemblage of some
2,000 educators, E. W. Balduf of the salvage
division of the War Production Board, had
this to say of their part:
"When the history of civilian effort on the
home front in this war is written the part
played by the school children of America
will loom up as one of the most resplendent
and inspiring manifestations of American
patriotism in that record."
We recall with pride how the students of
the schools of Haywood County responded
to the drives. How they hunted over the
county salvaging from debris pieces of metal
and iron to add to the collections on their
own school grounds.
Authorities have stated that critical short
ages of tin, of scrap metal, of millions of
cords of pulpwood have already been appre
ciably lessened by the work of these school
children.
GRIM'S FAIRY TALE5!
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HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
We have on occasions devoted
this space to the men in the armed
forces. This time we did not plan
to do so, but in looking; over our
material, find that it is all related
to the boys. It's not surprising
that it concerns -them, for they
are constantly in our thoughts
these days as we wait for the news
from the battling lines.
First, we have an invitation for
every Haywood county boy who is
now stationed at Camp Cooke,
Calif. In a letter from Mrs. Odin
Buell, of Buellton, Calif., she is
asking us to contact all Haywood
boys now at the camp near her
husband's ranch. Last summer
Mr. and Mrs. Buell entertained all
the Haywood boys at Cooke with
a barbecue. They are wanting to
do the same this year. If any
reader of this column knows of a
Haywood man now at Camp Cooke,
please write at once to Mr. and
Mrs. Buell and give them the man's
address, so that they may get in
touch with him in time to have
him as their guest. Mrs. Buell is
the former Miss Josephine Thomas,
daughter of Mrs. James R. Thom
as and the late Mr. Thomas of
Waynesville. She has lived in
California over 18 years, but she
will always be a "Tar Heel born
and a Tar Heel bred". . . . Just
say you are from Haywood coun
ty, and that is introduction enough
for Mrs. Buell. She is your friend
and the doors of her hospitable
home are thrown wide open to
you. So please help her locate
some Haywood guests for her mid
summer barbecue.
Peace
One of the finest things we have read in
sometime was an editorial which appeared
in the July edition of the Southern Funeral
Director entitled "Peace ?." Excerpts follow :
"Victory might easily come sooner than
we have dared hope and much sooner than
we are justified in considering in any future
planning. Let us hope it does, yet make no
plans based measurably on early victory.
"Peace and Victory are not synonymous.
It is PEACE that we seek. Let us all have
the courage to carry on the fight for how
ever long and to whatever extent necessary
to insure more complete and more lasting
peace than was possible under a half-victory
in 1918 and the subsequent two decades and
more of political bungling.
"Let us understand now, and not ever for
get, that victory at arms alone does not
bring peace, nor preserve it. Let us not
relax and merely say: Again we have peace.
Let us not assume that peace abroad will
mean peace at home. It will not. Peace is
either absolute, or it simply isn't. There
are many wounds to be healed, many com
promises to be made, many views to be
reconciled before there can be peace. The
order to cease firing will be only the begin
ning of a new phase of our fight to secure
and maintain peace. If we take it as any
thing more, much blood will have been spill
ed for vanity's sake.
"One job we here at home will face when
the firing ceases will be to attain peace at
home. Many social, political and economic
ideologies, subscribed to in toto by none, and
in part by very few other than those who
(perhaps without understanding) consider
they are or will be the beneficiaries of the
part they approve, must be 'compromised' or
accepted, not by a few, but by a definite
majority. Those who believe in and want
to perpetuate individual enterprise or any
thing else must let it be known."
The following excerpt from a
otter to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J.
Sloan, from their son, Chief War
rant Officer Robert L. Sloan, will
give mothers, fathers, sisters,
sweethearts and wives a picture
of what the 4th of July was on the
front lines in the invasion in
France. Bobby, who has a talent
for giving things a realistic touch
has done to our mind a very
poignant piece of writing in his
description of the reaction of the
boys.
"Happy Holiday. Have just fin
ished a half page of a letter to
you, but it was too dreary (mustn t
let the morale of our boys on the
home front down), so I shall start
again. Was writing with a great
deal of feeling and truth, as a
matter of fact, of how tired I was
getting of our mud and rain be
ing particularly provoked today
because my bed got wet and I don't
look forward with much pleasure
to sleeping tonight. But I have
since had a hot meal with white
bread, the first I have seen in a
long time since I left the States.
The sun, Bless it, has come out
(although it is after supper time
there is sufficient sun time before
darkness for everything to get
dry), so I can't keep feeling down
in the dumps. After all this is a
holiday (fireworks included).
evitable 'corn of 'Well, we haven't
got the holiday, but we shore have
got the fireworks' ... we jumped
for our foxholes (it was a shell)
and 'Little America' had disap
peared. It was France, 1944."
We hear a great deal about how
the soldiers are turning to prayer
in these trying days. The follow
ing poem handed to us for use
in this column by Mr. B. H. Black
well gives in its humble way how
close the soldier is being brought
face to face with God:
Look, God, I have never spoken
to You,
But now I want to say How Do
You Do,
You see, God, they told me You
didn't exist
And like a fool, I believed all this.
Last night from a shell-hole I saw
your sky;
I figured right then they had told
me a lie;
Had I taken time to see things
You made,
I'd have known they weren't calling
a spade a spade.
I wonder, God, if You'd shake my
hand I
Somehow I feel that You will
understand;
Funny, I had to come to this hellish
place
Before I had time to see Your
Face.
Well, I guess there isn't much to
say,
But I'm sure glad I met You
today,
I guess the zero hour will soon be
here,
But I'm not afraid since I know
you are near.
The signal well, God, I'll have to
go,
I like You lots, this I want You
to know.
Look now, this will be a horrible
fight;
Who knows I may come to Your
house tonight.
Though I wasn't friendly to You
before,
I wonder, God, if You'd wait at
Your door;
Look, I'm crying me shedding
tears,
I wish I had know You these many
years.
Well ... I have to go now, God-Goodbye.
Strange . . . Since I met You I'nf
not afraid to die.
"It was after breakfast this
morning before we realized it was
the Fourth of July. We were sit
ting around enjoying that first
morning smoke, when someone re
marked, 'Say, this is the Fourth of
July' so we all got excited, and
began reminiscing (which in turn,
of course, made us ' all homesick
and blue.)
" 'My old man used to take us
to the beach' . . . 'You remember
that time back in Brooklyn . . .
'Nash, our folks always went to
the Yankee Stadium, Gees, them
were the days' . . . 'You remember
that bottle of corn likker Ish got
at Camp Forrest last Fourth of
July ... All the voice of Amer
ica making for an instant this
field of mud into a 'Little America'
for us. Then, of course, the in-
The liquor shortage means that
there is not as much pull in Wash
ington these days with cork
screws.
WASHINGTG
Predict Drlva by All!
Toward U Havre, Paris
mil
Is Havre
Only 50
Mil Away
Mariana Invasion sJ
runit Hopping" rJ
Spec to CentrtJ Press ''Vf'JSiJ
m WASHINGTON With Cherbourg tn American
sources In Washington are looking for an Immediate drive' k.
forces deeper ana aeeper inio v ranee in the general direct L
. . .i-ta that tio allmlnatlnn ugB
it. i w" " ,colsinceonthifJ
peninsula has freed many Allied divisions for action
bulk of the German troops In the Caen-Tilly area, and the
Allied move undoubtedly Is planned in this J
While the, port of Cherbourg u a hlrtiTj
Allied prize, Washington sources have vl
Inn tha rirlva Kooran that tk. . .. 1
Is so great that more than one major Don u
to keep It supplied. With this thoueht i j
strategists are now looking toward the huge port of uJ
less than 50 miles from the eastern end of the Allied beachhJl
iniJ, UyVVtl , tiui w HULK.
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HIGH RANKING ARMY AND NAVY OFFICIALS ...
meanwhile, that the Invasion of the Marianas is well mJ
because now they cannot be accused of conducting a coati. 4
LO-LSlculU UUCJUMVV Ul Hiw a otviuw. I
Even during the Marshall Islands Invasion, "arm-chair ttrJ
charged the Army and Navy was committed to hoppinj rrJ
Isiana 10 anouier in tumytugn uiav nugm iaKe years.
All the War and Navy departments could say to the aoJ
was that they never Intended to fight such a war in the Pacl
couldn t give any more speewe answers Decause it would ki
vealed the master plan to the enemy.
But when Marines and Army troops Invaded Salpan, thus ti
powerful Jap bases In the Carolina It was evident the tu
called for long, aaring nops 10 uie rruuppines and Japan.
It will reconvene Aug. 1, but It Is doubtful a qumi J
present in eitner nouse at inai time, rnere already la talkrfnf
recess until after Labor Day. It is generally actaowlednj
major business will be transacted until then.
But that Is not all. The fact la Congress will be largely nJ
Doara lor campaign ojjeetiica ui oepiemDer ana October, TU
result, therefore, Is that It will do a minimum of work frond
barring some unusual turn in the course of the war.
Post-war reconversion bills, despite pressure for their ptf
will be put over until autumn. There is very little chance th)
legislature win enaci a oui granting insurance companla
exemption rrom me anu-irusi laws.
WHILE ACTION ON RECONVERSION MEASURES will
layed, release of a report by an advisory committee of buslnJ
highlights the fact that the Foreign Economic AdrninUtrta
well aware of the immensity of the task of disposing of nM
dollars worm or government property wrucn win De lert overs
when the war ends.
The goods will include hundreds of consumer items and
scattered from England and northwestern Europe to the farn
of the south Pacific. The report emphasizes these itemi shw
considered a valuable asset, should be sold to the highest W
competitive sale and should be let go for cash, or
for credit only where the credit possibilities are good.
The report does not tackle the problem of surpluses
In this country or what to do with plants, ships, air
craft, etc., abroad. That's another problem to be dealt
with later.
VISITORS AT THE MASS SEDITION TRIAL may not to
but they're getting a pretty careful looking-over by deputy mi
at the courtroom doors. Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher order
brief cases and parcels in the hands of spectators be banned
order came after a woman, jailed for 10 days for contempt of
whisked out of a bundle a crude. Incoherent oilcloth papd
began shouting at the prosecutor.
ProU
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Now
Voice
OF THE
People
Arc yon in favor of women be
viji represented at the conferences
dealing with the peace terms?
Jonathan Woody "No, I think
it is a fighting man's job."
Grover C. Davis "Yes, they
should be represented on account
of their ability."
Ben Sloan "t think it will have
to be a military peace, and it
will be better for women not to
have to listen in."
Mrs. Walter Crawford "No, I
don't think that the women should
be in on the settling of the peace
terms. They have other things
to do."
Capt. W. F. Swift "I see no
objections, but I feel they will not
add much as it must be a hard
boiled deal."
F rnnris Mawtie "Yes, I think
they should have as much say as
the men."
Mrs. S. P. Gay "Of course, be
cause women are as much concern-
THE OLD HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
( SINCE THE YOUN UNS HAVE TAKEN V HEY'. MAVMWtVITaV
II OVER THE KITCHEN R5 A WASTE FPERrJJ MINUTE WELL SET
U TtfSSTIJSf JU' rTE MATERIAL J
To bake A Batch of cookies -sop ft . nnicK---
I LL COME OVE AND CHAT fC iOfJTO HERE QUICK" A
I with You rora awhile? -- J L . Remember we have ,
V - T 7 a N-TO HAVE COOKIES TO
I ( ffffify y KEEP UPOQg MQ15ALE
are capable of contribati
structive ideas to the ti
ed as the men, and many
peace."
Chas. E. Ray, Jr. "Yes,
ly. I think the state of
in the maintenance of peacl
more than that of men, al
should have an equal voice
settlement of the tonus of
R. L. Prevot" th:i
long as women are votefj
office, make political speed
should be represented at :i
table. They rear the chili
guide the youth, and they
help make plans for gui;
world. We should appw
sound judgment."
W. R. Francis-"Yes.
men should have represents
the peace terms will M
as much as they wm "e
Letters To H
A PLEA FROM FM
Editor The Mountaineer.
Please declare a closed a
croundhoers.
We, who are here, cans
appreciate how the
j :i t. i h-n-ini? some--1
uevus iici, c f.
a potshot at them every -are
rash enough to raise tc
above the ground.
We, like th jrraund!
low the earth's surface P
all the time an-1 for muc
reason self pr.
have the German SSsa
mortars to cope
:j ct rriier hapPJ
while the groundhog,
person with a weapon ,
However the ticl .,
neither of us can -world
without endive
very existence,
xi t-mi have
" a n,; in thefl
QV : castle, you
your norne - jvrs
questionably i -ear
to our plea.
hav. heen fortunate
have experienced an
this, please
Permit us to ritJ
clare a closed
hogs.
Sincerely.
CPI- Wiley
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Tmitt, SSgt. ChaJ :
SSgt. Dav.d E"1(r(j
gene Carver Sgt. f.
1st sgt. jk'l vq
Robinson ana i,
ser.
In France.
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