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I (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phon 131 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 Six Months, In Haywood County - 99c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Eut.red kt the port office at Wnjnenill. N. 0.. u Sooa4 Olia Mall Matter, prorldcd under the Act of March I, l7t, ttoTcmber 10, 1014. Obltiwrr notices, raaolutlona of respect, card of thank, aad all outlets of entertainment for profit, will be charted for at the rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL DITOUAL IHIOJOSSOCIATION 1 t- 1 .Xwrlh Carolina w$v XJPMM ASSOC lATlOjJl Starting From Scratch There is one group of veterans that we do not hear much about. We hear a great deal about the men who will come home crippled and this is of vital importance. We hear a great deal about the rehabili tation program, but there is not much said about the boy who left school, or just grad uated. We feel that most men who had jobs will return to them and we feel sure that such will be their case, but we must remember that there will be a great number who will be starting from scratch. They left no job, for they were too young or were not ready to take on a job. We must no fail these young men, for they have given even more in some cases than their elders, in that they have had no op portunity at life. They have been robbed of some very precious years. Years in which they would be getting established in life, in getting a root hole. In the post-war plan ning this group must not be forgotten. TEMPERING THE $WORD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) Welcome To Haywood We take this opportunity to extend a wel come to the North Carolina Hereford Breeders Association which will meet here next Tuesday. Haywood county has pro duced some very high grade Hereford cat tle. Today the standard is growing higher and higher with better stock on our farms. We trust that those attending the meet ing will have an oportunity to drive over the county and view some of our farms and see what can be produced here in Haywood. We would like also for them to learn of our great industrial developments. We will not only be proud to entertain the stockmen, but we will also feel pride in showing them that our county is one of the best balanced in the State. A Warning Announcement has been made that the War Production Board has released forty per cent of materials for civilian use after Germany falls. This means that we are, so to speak, two fifths on our way then. But when Germany falls, the war, we regret to say, will not be over, unless some unfore seen and sudden progress is made in the Pacific war theatre. We cannot expect to see the rationing system abolished for sometime. We will still have to watch our consumption of things even after Germany gives up and we will be in grave danger of inflation. We must remember to take things as they come and not jump ahead. Until the day that Germany falls all America will live through a tension of sus pense that will snap with relief when the news of our victory there is flashed around the world. But peace, while it will be nearer will not be a reality. We must not become demoralized, but become more calm and de termined than ever to end it all. "The Japs have dug into the islands of the Pacific thirty feet deep and they are prepared to stay there a long time. It will not be easy to get them out," said one Hay wood boy recently, in an effort to give the home folks some idea of what we are facing before the war is over. The boy has return ed from many months of service in the Pa cific and he knows the true state of affairs. Will We Remember? If victory in Europe is in sight as Gen. Montgomery says, it is coming none too soon. For a Germany somewhat farther re moved from defeat would surely unveil new types of destruction more frightful than anything yet seen. The flying bomb is a good sample. The missiles have taken nearly 5,000 lives. They have destroyed or damaged 1,000,000 dwellings. They have forced evacuation of more than 500,000 persons from London, and preparations to evacuate a million more. Hitler's "secret weapons" are no longer a joke. Some have failed, like the small remote-control tank. Others, such as the one man torpedo and the radio-controlled bomb, have been only slightly effective. But the jet-propelled fighter plane is not to be laughed off. Neither is the possibility of the "V-2" probably a rocket bomb or a big pilot-guided version of the flying bomb. What else may be in store is limited only by the time and ingenuity at Hitler's dis posal. Certainly no humanitarian consider ations will deter the Nazi from fulfilling their promise to make the last days of the Third Reich a bloody night-mare for Europe. Hints of chemical or bacterial attacks are too fre quent to be entirely ignored. The Reids ville Review. The Kingdom Strongly Establish HIGHLIGHTS ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Bv NEWMAN CAMPBELL (The International Uniform Tinn nn the above tonic i Sept. 17 is H Samuel 1-5, the Gold en Text being Psalm 125:1, "They that trust in Jehovah are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth forever.") HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN There came in our mail during the week through the courtesy of the Red Cross two copies of papers published by the American war prisoners in Germany. They were edited for the Home Front. We wish we had space to include the entire editions, but since there is a limit to this column we repeat herein some of the high spots that give a glimpse into the lives of our POW's in Germany, for we have all wondered and worried how things might be going with them. It is truly a message from over seas direct and personal. The postwar roof will be supported only by air, says an engineer, who might go furth er and tell us what holds up a ceiling price. Boston Globe. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. John Dewey, Educator. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is at once best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann, Educator. A Golden Opportunity The meeting of the State Rural Electrifi cation Administration which is in session here this week brings to mind a very im portant feature that should be included in our post-war planning for this section. By virtue of climate and attractions this area is an ideal setting for conventions. Our neighbors over in Asheville have proved that. Now with their hotels taken over many groups are temporarily looking else where. We use the temporarily looking, to show that unless we deliver the goods, they will not consider us in the permanent class. Convention attendants like to hold their meetings in places where they may be com fortable and yet in their off hours visit scenes of interest. Our area is rich with side trips and offers a potential field, if only worked, for many future gatherings. We understand had we been able to ac commodate the members we might have had two or three other conventions this fall, out side of those scheduled. This is a serious situation, and one which the citizens of this community should take up immediately. It has been talked about for years, but the time is now ripe for definite action, or defi nite plans for future action. During the next few years Waynesville will either take an important role in the tourist business in this section, or we will drop from the niche we have held for the past several years. How a large hotel can be built offers a challenge to the community. If there is no one to attempt the project alone, then it should become a community affair. Other towns have met this challenge and built for the future of their community. The time has come when we need a leader to come forward and start the movement. We feel that in making the statement that every delegate to a convention here would want to come back at a later date and bring his family, we are stating a fact that time will prove true, if we can get the accommodations to house them. (Excerpts from editorials): "Through these publications we en deavor to bring you greetings from a community of Americans, and in the pages to set the temper of our existence. Introspection suf fers with intimacy, and it is not our wish to decry our position any further than to offer a smile for worried-next-of-kin and a tol erant smirk on Super Sanquine Bestowers of 'country club tags.' "In hope that our people at home may have a small insight into our prison life, we dedicate this issue of our camp newspaper. We hope you receive it and in doing, come closer to us and our daily lives. We strive here to set up a model of community designed to keep our bodies, minds and souls healthy and alert, waiting the day we can return to our own homes within our own land. "We have our moments of lone liness and hunger for the compan ionship of home and home folks, but on the whole we laugh and play. The rest of the time is spent studying, reading, worship ping and HOPING." Now we know why they called 'em baby bonds because every baby in the land is going to help pay for 'em some day. Co lumbia Dispatch. Somehow nobody seems to find out who is going to psycho-analyze the psycho-analysts to learn whether they really are sane and responsible, Detroit Free Press. Add to your vocabulary . . . "Kriegie", taken from the German "Kriegagefangenen", meaning war prisoner. It is the adopted name for the British and American pris oners of war. The Americans say, instead "POW." "Kollege" Four classrooms and 37 classes meeting each week is the ecord of the Education Depart ment Encouraged by textbooks contributed by the YMCA of Geneva, Kriegie college offers classes as diverse as differential calculus. Most popular are langu ages with German, Spanish, and French leading in order named. tender. Recently established is "Foodacco" a bartering system in which point values are given to food item. Highest on the list is powdered milk 120 points Tins of butter and jam are 80 points. Mondays and Thursdays, Big Days when Red Cross food parcels are made. SPORTS ACTIVITY Softball, first love of the Yanks is played. Baseball is out because of space limitations. A "homer" over the fence wouldn't work in a prison camp. Out of action now is the alleged swimming pool, a 5-foot deep outdoor fire reservoir sur rounded by barbed wire. Maxi mum capacity 50 men wading shoulder to shoulder. Drainage by volunteer bucket brigade. MOST POPULAR SPORT is walking round and round the compound perimeter. LIBRARY ... A small ante room in the cookhouse building houses the library. Constant read ing wears out the 1,000 books and over 50 per month are withdrawn from circulation. Bright hope is fast growing that load of books may come from United States. RELIGION ... It is a vital part of the life of the POW. Both Protestant and Catholic services are held each Sunday. A Scottish pastor captured while serving: with the British paratroopers in Africa is the unofficial chaplain of one compound. A French Canadian priest taken from the sinking "Zambeyi" in the early part of the war, who was enroute to Africa to do missionary work, cares for the spiritual needs of the Catholics. A WAR WEARY David came to Ziklag, and he knew not that Saul was slain and his beloved friend Jonathan, Saul's son. A man came to him, however, saying he was an Amalekite and that he had killed Saul when Saul asked him to. He brought with him Saul's crown and bracelet which he thought would give him favor with David. His story was only partly true, I as you will remember from the , last chapter of I Samuel, where ' we are told that Saul committed suicide. Instead of being pleased with the fellow's story, David was horrified, and had the man slain forthwith. Then David mourned Hppnlv nnrl sincprplv for Saul thi glorious king as he was when he nrsi was crownea. ne lorgoi me suspicion and jealousy with which Saul had treated him in his later days; and for Jonathan he la mented unrestrainedly, and this song of lamentation is one of the most wonderful in all literature. It is sad that we have room only for an infinitesimal part: "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jona than, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleas ant has thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, pass ing the love of women. "How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished!" David Goes to Hebron David asked the Lord where he should go and the Lord told him to go to Hebron, which he did, and the men of Judah there anointed him for the second time, the king of Judah. Then David sent a messenger to the men of Jabeshgilead, who had buried Saul and Jonathan and blessed them. Now Abner, captain of Saul's army, took a son of Saul, Ishbo sheth and made him king of all the rest of the tribes. Ishbosheth was 40 at the time and seems to have been rather a weak man. David reigned over Judah for seven years and six months when Abner and some of Ishbosheth's servants met some of David's un der Joab, David's captain, by the pool of Gibeon. The two groups f young men arose and fought I there was a "very sore bat- that day Rant 1- , . . three broths 1,lere Joab. Abishaian,, a . 7?v!d' latter was "d wild roe." ' v,lor'oot Asabel pursue.) Abner v h to make hi Jnerv'ho would nnt .""'..Ml. bu turned and tinaliu I.:,. . . J Kll e.l htm . the ntho- R....:. . " Jtab ' "'"u,er also pursuJ ner until th. nursuefj . . v eni down they came to a hm jaminites stood with Ah called to Joab asUm" the fighting. SoJoabV ,J r i,,c people stood -"'4 ma men and the servants of David Z i.nj tuumeo thesnnii. fni.nH rhof a. " Spoils oilu nau lost mor. than no.,: ",0r IV. . .: .i i ros Stronrer nouse of David grew sttmJ that Of TehKook.tL. tr latter accused Abner of beini umaie wun one of his fa,3 ulllcu, auu mat made A angry, so he went tn rv.. made a league to heir, v,i .J made a feast for Abner men aim maue me covenant Abner help David Israel, and Abner started aw3 peace wun David. When J heard of this, however h. ...3 .uiier ana wnen he. cam Joab killed him to avenge Am ueai.ii. David knew nothi a mm i later and he mourner! ! anu an nis peOD e mminu cafptains of Ishbosheth also that king as he slent .n came to David. thinkin h. J , j .t . . . "i uc pieusea inai nis rival was But David was furious at sneak attack and had them killed. After this the trihes 19 mj uavia ana asked h m in h. king over them all. "So ll elders of Israel came to the to Hebron; and King David n a league with them IWrhM Lord, and they anointed Dj king over Israel." David was 30 years old wheJ began to reign and he nit 40 years. David still had to conauer J salem, which he did and had house built there. It was "David's city." When the Philistines hparrl David was made kine thev tacked him, but, with the id help they were overpowered a second time thev came. "David did as the Lord commJ ed him; and smote the Philistl from Geba until thou com Gazer.' and Davids men Dl?'-' 'd by King Features Syndicate tr- The MUSIC . . . This ranke high in the entertainment value for all POW's. The YMCA has given a phonograph and records. They have a band, a chorus. The Kriegie's greatest "escape" from himself is in the theatre. They have a movie and amateur perform ances. Only 20 ner cent of the prisoners in the camp described can get in so there must be five performances. Voice Of The Peopl How do you think we should ob serve the day when Germany falls? M. G. Stamey "Prayerful Thanksgiving." Miss Edna McKay "I think it should be observed in a very ser ious manner and considered a day of Thanksgiving." R. E. Sentelle "Everybody should stop work and spend a day of rejoicing and bells should be at noon. Some sweat, some get. Letters are read and re-read, trad ed and read again Lifeline to America." THE DAY COMES TO AN END. Some good talk, much fool ish dreaming before midnight sends POW's to bed with the hope ever that the new day brings peace. The firsit American airman to 'e taken as German POW in this theatre is Lt. John Dunn, USNR, of New Haven, Conn., who has been in the German camp two years on last April. YANKS TAKE LEAD Sign of the Times a few months ago American contributions to the Ger man camps passed the British Heavy Bomber crews are respon sible for the influx. DAILY LIVING . . . "Before all other activities come household chores. Men live in combines of ! fi to 8. In turn thev take a fiver at cooking, K. P. and general slav- j The picture the foregoing paints ery. If anything they are learn- in words made us feel very humble ing a new respect for the women and appreciate with greater jof the house. Limited though they j depth of feeling what it means to are by 'Jerry' and the Red Cross i be safe here in America today , food issues, cooks manage to whip j and above all the debt we owe up bpam and r rench fries, oat j these men for while their lot is meal cookies, chocolate or lemon ( deplorable and heart-breaking cream pies." j Think of the boys who are buried j on the battlefields far from home. MAIL DELIVERY . . . "Is made How can we complain? rung and everybody happy again. Mrs. W. L. MrCrnrUn not think we should be too jul I think we should observe tm sion in a prayerful way a verv humble as we reali meaning of the day." Walter Crawford "I thii should go on as usual becaul war will not be over. Hew have the Jans on our has fight." T. L. Green "It woul mighty good time to Thanksgiving Day." CONTEST FOR BABY AND WIFE . . . This item to us was heart breaking as the article stat ed that some of the men had not even seen the babies whose pic tures they were entering. It seems that the American craze for con tests is even carried on in POW camps. The men are entering pic tures of their wives and babies and four Colonels are to decide on the best looking. (We hape a war within a war did not start over the decision of the judges.) POINT SYSTEM FOR ECO NOMY . . . Chocolate bars and cigarettes are coin of the healm in a prisoner of war camp. Ger man allowance to officers and men are reichsmarks, theoretically, but they devolve to mere bookkeeping. The weekly ration through the Red Cross, is one chocolate bar and 50 cigarettes per man. Emiently de sirable not abundant, and easily handled they make convenient legal THE OLD HOME TOWN AN LEY vm u i aim Jy JT (FOR 20 YEARS-HE SETS AU.U4Y VJATCHIrh) b I I TT ATM AT BULB -IF IT TURXS RED -HE MOVES : nn.I VTME LEVEI8 IF HE" OOE-SMT THE WHOLE ) ' 00 ((VOr?KS BLOWS UP, SOFTEST JOB H TH' ,L VW, t PLANT--STILL ME S SI?IPIN5, SAYi "TWEI5ES V0 V JQ FUTUCE TO HIS JOB r Tj-UJ J" THE; EARLY ! 10RNIN5 SHIFT- VwJ Rev. H. G. Hammett -that we should observe the a spirit of Thanksgiving, H and consecration, as there many problems ahead of us. Mrs. S. R. Crckett- i it should be a day of pra)1 guidance. Our great mistf World War I was in hav: much Dolitics. There e manv small men who out the bigger ones." Mrs. Stanlni n,Ji-"l u,,i.i nKc.rn. at least If it in prayer, either indu ,i -a: 1.. tl..,t nnr ta' or coneciiveiv m. may formulate a P'iU"' last." I this Dr. Tom Strinn nutrht tr rrlehiate everyone should be w f ful, and that we should a" holiday." Letters To H Editor Editor The Mounts :neer: i w rpren",a 1 riuvt? wcv.. alright. My '1,irt';? , changed, so I t'noujnt to let you know. li.. .1.. .in k' 1 reaiiy - , paper. It is worth a K I here in France i - a vou very much t or lion which has been Yours truly. Vonneth A trett Clemen FRESHMAN'S YA"1 Truth, they "'-.w f'.i Except for the "
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