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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, Ai'ctjj THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Pae 2 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 181 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 fl.75 Sii Months, In Haywood County - 80c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered it the port office at Waynesville. N. O.. u Second OUa Mail Matter, as provided under tbe Act of March I, 17, Hovember 20, 1914. Obituary noticea, resolution! of respect. ard ol thanks, ud all notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL DITOr,IAL inllJjOSSOClATlON 1 KnntmT'- North Carolina i ' PT. S3 AKOCIATK THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) Express It In Trees K. W. Graeber, who is in charge of ex tension forestry at State College, is sug gesting that the counties in North Carolina plant memorial forests to commemorate the sacrifices made by men and women in World War II. Mr. Graeber points out that there will be many property owners in the state who would gladly donate the land for such a me morial, while there would be others who would contribute funds for the development of such a project. He also points out that such a memorial could serve as a county-wide recreation cen ter; for nature study by public school stu dents, 4-H Club members, Boy and Girl Scouts and garden clubs. It is a fine idea, for it is a living memorial, that would serve generations to come. A county forest reserve would be a fitting memorial for it would be significant of the freedom to enjoy the advantages of this country for which thf men and women made their supreme sacrifices. Benches We want to congratulate the Chamber of Commerce on the benches which have been placed on the streets in the community. We have heard much favorable comment both from the local residents and from the sum mer visitors. They all like them. In days gone by we have often heard the objection raised that if we had benches about, as they have had in many other re sorts for years, the local folks would monop olize them, and that the tourists might have little opportunity to enjoy them. From what we have seen no one need worry, the local folks apear to be too busy to have much time for relaxing on the benches, but if they do wish to enjoy them, we see no reason why they cannot join the visitors in a short leave of leisure. We trust that another year will bring additional benches. We have noticed a number of places where we think a bench would be an asset. As we understand it, if the public likes the benches and takes the proper care of them, ere another season there will be more. Turkey For Our Fighters We are glad to note that our men and women in service who are stationed overseas are going to have turkey for Christmas whether or' not we civilians get our holiday needs filled. We view with favor the idea, for certainly we at home will gladly eat chicken, and give way to those in service. Turkey will bring a bit of home to them at Christmas that will cheer their hearts. Last week the army purchased all the turkeys in 24 states and designated counties of three others in order to fill the holiday needs of service men. The WFA order out laws sales of turkeys for civilian use until enough have been purchased for the mili tary groups. The states which are affected by the em bargo are: Minnesoto, Iowa, Missouri, Ark ansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Colo rado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Wisconsin, Illinois, Delaware, and certain counties in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. Mission Accomplished This week we are carrying the news that Haywood made her E bond quota, and went over the over-all quota of the Fifth War Loan Drive by about $400,000. We would be justified to write at length on this accomplishment, but what more can be said than this is just characteristic of Haywood in war time to go all the way in every war effort. J. E. Massie, C. N. Allen and the many others who worked untiringly at the task, can look back on the accomplishments and well be proud of the record. A Splendid Job The appearance of Mrs. Roosevelt at Lake Junaluska last week presented a problem in traffic, that could have easily resulted in confusion, had it not been for the efficient manner in which it was handled. At the moment, we can't recall a larger assemblage of automobiles in this commun ity since Pearl Harbor. And never have we seen the flow of traffic handled better. Credit for all this goes to the Waynes ville police, highway patrolmen, sheriff's de partment, and the Lake's own officers. They did a mighty fine job. What Does It Mean? While the news that there has been a revolt against the Nazi regime is encourag ing, we have wondered what it would mean to the German people in general since it came from the high officials. We believe that had it come from the people it might have shown better signs of a democratic spirit beneath the Hitler suppression. It may be that the people have been press ed down under the heavy load of Nazi in fluences so long that they have temporarily lost their initiative, and that they are still looking to their leaders and not trying to think for themselves. When one considers the stories that have come out of Germany for the past several years, of the cruel demands of the leaders, it is not surprising that they are slow in expressing themselves. In American with our freedom it is hard for us to get their viewpoint. .CORNERED ' Jap Dnv. to cur cma Aut() Mo In Two, a Formidable Ono I u;.k special to Central Presj m WASHINGTON DesDite Amm' Pacific, military and naval observers are dm SUCCesses e nese drive designed to split unoccupied Ch-a""' over j heaw fiehtine- and stiff casualty ., . Lll! ,, " - -uncieu 0V 1m V. Ciirnn Inuo oinn IniiatA .. .1. . : . " n'H Foresee Strong Jap Counter-Action the Saipan invasion Indicates what is in store fArncas 4 uuvb tiuser ana closer to the Phi) Once American forces eet u- tance of Formosa or China nr, , ' rjil action t Pviurt.H . . . h r' violent no,,, me janjf... , " United States from eettin, , , ' '. 3 10 P. she can pour in sunniipa n fighting men, T"V a Inn hirvVt Mvtif n n 4 a n m a. 1 . uic jof ins" wuuuauu o-pyaremiy is bar.Xir o-i the HERE and THERE HILDA By WAY GWYN School Lunches We see friat the continuation of the na tional school lunch program for the 1944 45 school year has been assured by the ap propriation by Congress of $50,000,000 for its operation, according to the War Food Administration. This will be welcome news in Haywood county where the lunch room program was carried forward so successfully through the county board of education with Mrs. Rufus Siler, as county supervisor. During the 1943-44 school year more than 4,000,000 children in 31,000 schools through out the nation participated in the Federal local program. The program for the coming year is said to be designed after that of last year. The school lunch program is planned to operate under local sponsorship of school boards, or other school organizations, civic groups and other non-profit organizations. The War Food Administration reimburses local sponsors for their purchases of food up to a maximum amount determined by the type of lunches served. We want to pay our respect this week to the efficient and speedy manner in which the Chamber of Commerce handled the breakfast given in honor of Mrs. Roosevelt. In a .town of this size, with limited services at all times and under present shortages of help, it takes time for perfecting organization to fling a party. To learn around 5 o'clock one afternoon that at 8 o'clock the next morning you are to be host to a breakfast and have as honor guest the First Lady of the land is a large order to fill. It was a courtesy that should have been rendered. In fact our com munity would have been ungracious to have failed to notice the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt in our county. It took quick action to pull the party. We overheard one woman at the breakfast say, "Well, every town needs a Charles Ray who knows what to do and how to do, and who is willing to give his time to see that things are done right." Supplementary Medicine We notice that Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State health officer, in his address before the joint session of the North Carolina Medical Society and the State Board of Health, this spring, emphasized the import ance of supplemental medicine, rather than regimentation or socialized medicine, in the ordinary accepted sense of that term, as means of giving adequate treatment to the low income population. "Whether we like it or not, humanity is on the move, both physically and spiritually. We must not blind our eyes to the fact that this is a realistic age and that the medical profession faces a golden opportunity for real leadership which it can ill afford to lose," pointed out Dr. Reynolds. The State health officer also stated that there are lay groups which are insisting that some measures for improvement be made, and that this tendency on the part of the people brings the medical profession face to face with the realization that they must act. "Organized medicine has no desire to become a pressure group, neither should it sit idly by and, itself, become the victim of any pressure group. It can avoid this by taking the initiative, by assuming the lead ership that rightly belongs to it," he brought out. We understand that Charles Ray and S. A. Jones, acting secre tary of the Chamber of Commerce, started at 5 o'clock when they knew definitely that Mrs. Roosevelt could come, and they worked into the early morning getting things lined up. The first rushed up to the Piedmont Hotel and broke the news to Paul and Mary Hyatt, who al ready had a house full of guests that they were to be hosts the next morning at breakfast for Mrs. Roosevelt. Put yourself in their place and let your imagination do the rest. Things fell into action in a hurry. Dining room tables were arranged. The guests also rose to the occasion and went out and gathered wild flowers that adorned the lobby and the dining room tables. Paul, we hear, laid a log fire that night so it would give a cheerful note in the early morning. Then if one is to have a party there must be guests, and they had to be asked in a grand hurry. Then there was all that home cured ham to slice, which was served in such gorgeous lus cious pieces along with homemade sausage. How we wanted an extra piece of ham. It was one party that every who was invited got there ON TIME. The community should be proud of the way things were pulled off, and as S. A. Jones said when it was all over, "Now Charles Ray is the kind of person who can get things done. It's a pleasure to work with him, ami I want everybody to know that Paul and Mary Hyatt certainly did their part to pull the party off." Now we would like to talk about the guest of honor. Mrs. Roosevelt is an extraordinary woman. She has without any doubt the largest acquaintance of any woman in the world. She has traveled every where. She has gone on important missions at home and to far cor ners of the earth for her husband. She knows America from North to South and East to West. She is at home with kings and queens as well as with the simplest American citizens. She is perfectly natural, with an interest in people that makes friends for her wherever she goes. You may not agree with Mrs. Roosevelt on all issues, but no one one doubt her deep sincerity. She wants to cure the ills not only of America, but of the world. She seeks justice to all classes and groups. She has a vision of the practice of brotherhood in every day life. She is a woman who would have been an outstanding citizen, regardless of the high position that has come to her through her husband. When she was leaving, Mary Hyatt gave her a quart of sausage, and she appreciated it just as you or I might have, and said, "This is lovely, I will take it home to Franklin, for he is so fond of sausage." Most women in her position would have said, "The President," instead of "Franklin," which made one feel Mr. Roose velt was just another husband. We had the pleasure during the week of reading a second letter from Warrant Officer Bobby Sloan. We have a suggestion to make. We want every friend and relative who hears from Bobby to save his letters and to hand them over to his family for safe keeping, with the idea that someday they might be compiled in a book. We recall that there were a number of such volumes that came out of World Warl. We have never read more interesting letters than Bob by writes. We feel sure you will agree if you read the excerpt in this column last week. He has had some experiences that should have been given publicity, that have come in his letters, with definite requests that they must not be made public, yet when the war is over he might feel differently, and be glad to share them with the readers of such a volume as we suggest. ui a war s i f . 1 and will be ripe for a peace which still would leave t j ir,e gains maue smce sne launcned the Far r,. "" Even when the systematic bombing of the Jan ! U"'te3l Have you been to the community cannery? If not and you plan to can you are missing a wonderful opportunity. We have the feeling that it is the forerunner of many such cooperatives that will come in time to be a part of the changing ways of living in America under the new economic and labor pattern which we all hear so much about. Most of us feel that life will never resume its old story, for too many people have found their way into industrial plants who will not return to former employment. In the first place the cannery has every type of equipment that you need. With the high powered pres sure cookers you can process your food in an unbelievably short time. Canning in tin is much easier than in glass and the cost is about the same as buying new tops and rubbers, provided you have the glass jars. Then you have no fuel bills, and those of us who can the old fashioned way over hot coal and wood stoves know what firing up means in cost and labor. Those in charge, Mrs. Rufus Siler, Mrs. Herbert Buchanan and J. C. Brown, know their job and lend a hand to the canners in all the stages of caiining. Don't take our word, make an appointment 24 hours ahead is the rule and try your hand at canning in the community plant. TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate (Re Recorded to Monday Xoon Of This Week) Benmdmm Townthip McLain Smathers to W. S. Elrath. Mc- American military and naval leaders do not expect i lnnse auicklv. Dartlv because sh supplies from factories In the interior of Manchukuo"1' 1 Japan s naval ana air forces have been beaten ,. , Pacific, but her huge land armies are intact on the a J I And in Japan. Ailitlc 4 ONE OF THE , PROBLEMS of the Navy meJical ,.M I the rehabilitation of men who lose their i,...,.. "A - - - - vi4jig m action i eardrums cannot stand up without some inlurv nn. blasts aboard a man-of-war when all guns are going t attack. 8 Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclwtire, surgeon general of th. v.J are suspicious of everything around them, since they liwh" that has no sound. 1 Naval medical men, however, believe they can do ia w vm c . v. m.v i.t.vu ijuivKiy ana nidi u Und that their cases are not hopeless. Curiously enough, Mclnt.tr believes men blinded k easier to rehabilitate. He aay they are more opUmim? future, although they live In a world of darkness. There are comparatively few cases of blindness in theNu THE QUESTION O-CONVERTINO the automoblte 1 peace-time production will receive another threshing out m Washington to discuss plans. The meeting will consldtr km In to WPB by each company on the particular difficult! m t. S ..MUt-I.Mll In llHfr,ll AtlM ., ....... 1. , - 1 the time comes. i WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson previously has umsJ he sees no chance of making passenger automobilM tWiJ inai oniy a lei-aown oi war m&nuiaciuruig will permit Net t acture next year. Nevertheless, WPB and the lnduitry u plans Into shape. WHEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIONED bill td . American-born Japanese to renounce their United SUt tfJ : there was enacted a law much toned-down from th onjtul or we west coast. For the law merely facilitates cltlaenshlp renunciation la war, thus allowing the Japanese-American to make the statement and get expatriation to Japan in the u,u N nr lira I ' But what the west coast had wanted was a law ; that could be used as a basis for deportation of th 20M 20,000 Japanese who told the Army and relocation authorities they would not forswear allegiance to the tm Japan Rep. LeRoy Johnson (R.) of California, voicing the far view, Introduced an amendment that would permit the iw earlier statement of the Japanese In the expatriation procedJ However, this amendment was defeated by a narrow miqli officials doubt if many will declare their allegiance to Mppo, jlng It means certain deportation. The Voice Of The Peop Do you think that the taking over of the hotels in Asheville will hmi the tourist season in Western Xt.rth Carolina? Mrs. II'. H. Burnett "No, I think tourists will stay in this section and continue to come." Joe E. Rose "Certainly it will hurt, because some of the tourists will return home, but we must re member there is a war on." Chrcs George "I feel that with the hotels closed in Asheville, and the presence of so many men in service, that there will be more people than ever before who will visit this section." should help thn tuvis: ki other sections of thi- Mrs. J. Harden Howell "No, I feel that it will help the season here and elsewhere, as the visitors in Asheville will seek other resorts in Western North Carolina." D. Reeves Soland "No, I do not think it will hurt the tourist season in Western North Carolina. ' H. B. Atkins "It will very defi nitely hurt the Asheville area, but THE OLD HOME TOWN . U L Hssm Oms By STANLEY (TcANT FfNISH YOUft "-T"i ' it NOW,MRMASSENFEFFETre.-- I (o5mEw? ,, thftjfrjnj I HAVE TD V OUT ANO HB-pJ (LETS SO ) W MtMJ THE EARLY MORN H& SHIFT Asheville, but i Hugh J. think so, but it ter the toui i -1 1 and the snialln better season." J. II'. . Mrs. Tom think it v il business in Una, bu( wi ; other ;!1 W. -t.r-: N'1 I sen.! t' the smaller twns. Letters To I Editor Rditnr The Mountaineer: If traveling condit what they are. I present on Thursday e. Indian I" Rihhald Smith, wh'1 ' Chewani, spoke at LaseJ , i !, certainly lft1 1 M1UW licv'- audience and held t-effl oikkoU knon t . i. i..i. .,,) and W-1 inaian dhcr -; o "man with a nief c:v.koU u an hi-t'5. word-of-mouth author ? old medicine men pi because ni j.-- -, father, Chief Yonsgu generations of V'. xrtin rho rhiefsiitP t" down fr cm , 1,1 of a H , i,t not save lDe as ne s, land, nf his pf'W 8 , t heinc herded . I . H- driven UKe came. .- 0 one fourth of the . rn trie removeu. un -the West, which nollprl "The Trail Too few people r the Cherokee f , would love I- b them more. - , r ,h ingion - .nf Violn if we tnrew (Continued on P nto ha? of P
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