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mi Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, OCTOBER The Mountaineer I'""""" Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 1J7 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS EUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN -Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County 1.75 Sit Months, In Haywood County 00c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2&Q Six Months, Outside Haywood County..... 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance btared at Um post offtc it Wurnaartlla. H. O.. u mM Olaai Mall Matter, u prorlded under tbt Act of March . 17, mmbir to, 114. Obituary notice, reaolutiona of reapect, card of aaa kU DOticea Of entertainment tnr nmftt will h rhmwM .1 mm iim ui unc cent per wora. The schedule of E. W. Tennev. recreational director under the Community Council, grows fuller each week. This is proof that there is an increasing appreciation on the part of the public of the services offered under the program. We have needed here for sometime a wholesome community-wide program of rec reation and the Community Council has done much to develop such a service. It is recognized by all medical authorities that everyone needs relaxation and recrea tion which gives a complete change from their work. A program of this type not only serves this purpose, but tends to create a fine fellowship that makes for better citizenship. "SOMETHING ON OUR CHEST" NATIONAL DITOFIAL J Li. - A Good Remedy I w -J Worth Carolina THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1914 (One Day Nearer Victory) State Record North Carolina had the second lowest death rate in the nation last year, according to figures recently released by the Census Bureau, and stood fifth highest in the birth rate of the nation. The birth rate in North Carolina last year was 26.1 per 1,000 persons. Nationally the birth rate was the highest since 1933: The death rate in North Carolina was only 8.3 per 1,000 persons. Only Arkansas with a rate of 8.2 had a lower death rate than this state in 1943, a year when the nation's death rate was reported to be the highest since 1937. Waiting We doubt if there is a home in America today where the family is not living in a kind of tension. These are waiting and anxious days for us alL Great events are taking place hodr upor hour, and the moat momentous pages of history are being re corded. We seem to be passing through that period of "blood and tears" that Winston Churchill told us about sometime ago. Our leaders tell us that our casualties are smaller than anticipated, and we heard from the wounded returning home that the boys could not have better attention. While we all realize that the defeat of Germany over in Europe will not end the fight, we do know that it will bring the end much nearer, for the entire world seems to be of the opinion that the fall in Europe will shake the morale of the Japs. Yet while we wait we scan the newspapers daily and listen to our radios, and guess and hope for the end. The whole world is tired of war. Whether there will be a postwar crime wave in the United States depends on wheth er economic dislocations and a depression follow the peace in the opinion recently ex pressed by Lewis E. Lawes, prison consult ant on the War Production Board and former warden of Sing Sing Prison. "There must be jobs," he has stressed, "by jobs I don t mean jobs that pay wages reduced to adnormally low levels. I mean jobs that will enable Americans to maintain a decent standard of living." Mr. Lawes further points out that to eli minate crime in the future it is necessary to eliminate crime breeders, stating that the slums and depressed areas could develop an. other crop of potential criminals, today's de linquents. Having heard a great many people make the statement that they feared the prolonged war would make criminals of our men in service and cause them to hold life very cheaply, we were interested in his scoffing at the fear of a murder wave being started by veterans of the war, "because they have been so thoroughly trained in the art of slaughter." He holds that "the urge to kill will disappear with the goal to killwar.' We believe that the nation and the com munities are thinking along the same lines, judging from the manv Diana re garding employment. It is said that there win nave to be 15,000.000 John mr, were available before the war in order to give employment when peace is declared We have only to look about in our own community to know that idleness is the finest breeder of crime that exists, and that work is the finest antidote. TyjFA &J&& i f liS8flh mm.. AtWASHINGTO I U. S. Navy Files Hid I .., Russia Soon M ti:ii: ai r I u" W i mining nui jagas i r j 'Iberian Specitl to Centrtl Press aft WASHTNfiTOM Srtm. t th. . .. ... iiiobi inriiun - warfare are buried In the officials files of the ot never be told. They are tales of exploits of dan!!7. sea raiders to their forays against Japanese stonW Logs and report of sub commanders are arm "X secrets. 6 u'e -Mry The Navy obscured the fact that there were announced tersely that the submarine Flier , ?m'r n , ... 1JST Story of A U. S. Submarine ations against the enemy Alert n W: peculiar wording- of the cm,,..: " smen 4 HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN We would like to pay our last respects to the late Weaver H. Mc Cracken. Havwood countv citizen. who possessed to a high degree the groat gift of making friends. Weaver always had a smile for everyone. He had been in politics practically all his life of one kind or another. He was a good vote getter, yet he' never made any great show of "going after 'em." He was always cordial, so when he ran for office a campaign was not any special effort on his part. As a public servant he stood high. He had the ability to run the posts to which he was elected with credit to himself and to Haywood county. He was a fine type of citizen and will be greatlv missed. He knew everybody in the county and his iriendiiness to others came back to him in the srood will of all who knew him. Changes We take this occasion to say goodbye to Rev. W. . Hutchine, who leaves Waynesville after serving .six years as superintendent of the Waynesville district of the Methodist Church. Mr. Hutchins has done a splendid piece, of work in this district, organizing it under the new order created with the union of the Northern and Southern Methodist Church. We likewise extend our best wishes to Dr. Lambeth, pastor of Central Church, Asheville, and manager of the Methodist As sembly, Lake Junaluska. Dr. Lambeth will leave this area for Greensboro where he will serve as district superintendent. His inter est in the development of the Methodist As sembly and his friendliness to the Haywood county folk will make his leaving regretted by many. A welcome is hereby extended to Rev. J. Clay Madison, who returns here for the third year as pastor of the First Methodist Church. Both the congregation and the community at large hoped that those responsible for making the changes in the district would allow Mr. Madison to return. A welcome is also extended to Rev. Walter B. West, as the new district superintendent. Rev. West is a former pastor of the First Methodist Church and is well remembered in the community. Since leaving here he has served many larger fields and his work in the church outstanding. How Many Will Vote? This seems to be a burning question these days, with only a short time until the dead line of voting is past. The following resume of the situation which appeared recently in the Raleigh News and Observer gives a pret tp fair idea of the situation. The politicians are agreed that if the vote is large this year, Roosevelt will be elected. His supporters fear that many in the armed iorces and migrant workers will find it so difficult they may not be able to vote That is the reason why President Roosevelt went on the air to urge all eligible voters at home to register and vote so as to offset any loss because Dewey in New York and Hncker in Ohio have refused to take steps needed to make absentee voting easier It is estimated by the Census Bureau that people vote this year in the same ratio as in 1940 the turnout in November will be -o.300,000 with the oversea sor,r;n' eluded. If they are excluded in the calcu lation 50,300,000 voters will turn out. The Gallup poll estimates that the civilian vote this year will be around 39,500,000 and says this is made on the voting registration in Philadelphia which closed on September 1. 1 .e turnou m the September elec tion. This would be Dhenomon nl.V J .r. undoubtedly based on the belief that there win oe a small vote by men in the armed lorces and the migratory workers According to the census, there are 88 000,000 potential voters this year Here is the vote that was cast in the last four presi dential elections: 1928 1932 .'. 1936 1940 We have heard many stories about men in service from far flung cornj getting together, but not quite so many of old friends meeting. One incident of the lat ter is the case of Col. Mint Reed and Capt. Sam C. Welch, boyhood friends who grew up in Waynes ville and later attended Duke Uni versity together. They are now serving in the Caribbean area. Col. Reed is in the air corns and Capt. Welch, U. S .Infantrv. is in charge of the Antilles Exchange system. Their areas of operation cover almost the samp, t.prritnw For several years after leaving college their paths separated and were often far apart. Col. Reed went into the Air Corps, then a struggling branch of the U. S. Army, and Capt. Welch entered the field of banking. Col. Reed has been stationed at many posts and Capt Welch has worked as a bank examiner in many parts of the country, East, South, Middle West, and Pacific Toast, before he volun teered in the service soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They kept up their friendship, but rare ly met Capt. Welch, who was in Topeka, Kan., at the time he en tered the service has not run into many men from his home town. Now he is seeing auite a bit of his friend of such long standing. 1 ney go hshing together when thev can got time off, just as they did icK in Haywood when thev were boys. They still seem- to have a lot in common, especially one burn ing ambition. They both want to come back to Waynesville to live. It is home as no other place can ever be. India, China war theatre: "It ain'ts the heat nor the blistered feet Nor the meals of Spam in place of meat. Nor the butter like lard, nor our turn at cuarrl. None of these is one-half as hard As the jolt we get, after all the sweat And a cherry voice says, 'No mail yet'. And it ain't the breeze, like a dragon's sneeze. That peels the hide and weakens the knees Nor the dirt in your gun nor the broiling sun These are forgotten when day is done, But our voices fail and our faces pale If we draw a blank when it's time for mail. We can stand the flies, and the sand in our eyes, The orders, the rumors, the truth and the lies, The mosquitoes, swarm and the water warm, And the wards that reek of chloroform. What takes our fight and makes throats tight Are the letters somebody didn't write." the statement that at iMr m Pn, vivor. ' SMPPr ai The Navya communiaue saih n. of officers and crew have been inform. Wx: wording when all hands Art miactnor la v .... uaHies have been Informed." 1 of A However, the Navy stood firm on declining to con the skipper was saved or whether any member, f " u 1 rescued. 01 the cm- The Navy high command contends that anv aa.M a. 1 . . i JKurit Ok.... majr uie rnemy some idea of our undersea I men contend that by clever writing thrilling stones 1 out giving the enemy any valuable data Howev k has won the battle. lfte NavTi STOELXSQ CROWS TM WhOlTTHfyvrma - - -- - - - uim KUaaU arm I grant air bases In eastern Siberia to United Statw fortkV w. - wa Haw WIMVa HI Ml WIHIII I The Soviet government repeatedly has pointed out that it cally is at peace with Japan whenever the subject of h. ' But Allied officials never kava taken tnn a.wn.,. .u ,. despite Moscow's hard-hsded, realistic and oft-tlmei tJw il diplomacy. "6u-ui Experts recall Praaner Josef Stalin's Indicated dr, to AJ war at a tlma T?aar lh thint .t n.. "61 , uuii nusa uie um j DronlHmiJ u"6vuii ice in, is wnen uermany no lonr danger on tt Western front. M Russian Mr bases bordering Manchuria would give Ameneu flrswata jumplng-off point against the Japanese homeh oild pull the 20th Air Force out of its presently tlrtTZ RADIOS ARE EXPECTED to be the first major home J nv um uuainci witc vjcrmany is aeieatea and con trols virtually lifted from American industry. According to experts in Washington it will take about six weeks to turn out radios once industry 1 given the go-ahead sign. Production of new automobiles is expected to take at- 'six months or perhaps longer. WITH THE WAR NEARING ITS END in Europe, the f J 3uiKion migni get a token bombing seems dlsaoMd wiiicicijr, eoyetiaiiy m me senate. The upper legislative branch has taken down 1U blscltout rati First The Voice Of The Peopl Do vnu have ami xrttvruil. nnaf- v - r- - . war plans that you hope some day to realize! 36,800,000 39,800,000 45,600,000 49,800,000 Don't let too much money go to your head. A better place for it is in War Bonds. The watch on the Rhine is about to run down because the Germans are all wound up. Politicians are doing a lot of blowing these days enough in many cases to blow the election. We have always like to read Shakespeare's Seven ages of man. and his famous description of each age, but we believe that the follow ing which we are borrowing from the column of Miss Beatrice Cobb in her Morganton News-Herald perhaps is more easilv understood today: At five, the youngster says: "The stork brought us a new babv sis ter." y At ten: "My Dad can lick any man twice his size." At fifteen: "Girls are-Blah." At twenty: "Just give nie a cnance, I'll show 'em." At twentv-five: "Th. all wrong. There should be some reform." At thirty : "In few Will wake UD and demnnH tVioir. lights." At thirty-five: "I'd Up inh if T had stayed single." At forty: "Give nie unnth,..- h,.t tie of that hair rnmV " Mrs. Paul McElrov--" hone to remodel my house and have my husband retire from the Nninr and settle in a permanent home here in Waynesville." or not there wil line." be manv I George H". Hendrii don't right now I am just iij ed in the war beine over! Grover Clark "Yes, I do in business and in home." both Mrs. R. L. Coin "I am planning for the day when my two sons conn- home. Then I would like a little warm postwar house like we read about for my old age." Dan Watkins "Yes, I I hope they will materialia the war is over. I think wel have lots of community plans, too, including morel an airport, and residcntialc.il Hon." Lee Keiger "Yes, I do. I would like to repair things and get them in good condition back to normal. I think we look to a great future when the war is over." TRANSACTIONS Real Estatl (Re Recorded to Mondajil Of This Week) Mrs. Charlie Woodard "Yes, I have plans galore, which include a farm with a big house and a big barn and plenty of room." Hugh Frazier "Really I don't. 1 just take life as it comes. There will be plenty of time to make plans when the war is over. Frank V. Kinney "Yes, I look At fifty-five: "Thank Cod I've ! forward someday to utilizing my We read that in the restaurants in Paris that the menus will soon be printed in English as well as French so that the American and British G. I.'s can read them. This should be a great step toward better international relations in our opinion. We guess that most of us who are not fluent in our read ing and speaking of French have at some time been overcome in a restaurant or hotel dining room over a menu in French with a haughty waiter standing beside our table patiently waiting for us to decide what we wanted to eat. One is so ant to order th last thing they really want on the menu in the game of guessing. Displaying our ignorance in front of His Majesty, the waiter, could certainly drag one's morale in the oust. Then the amazing thing was. how darned simnle the mvs- sterious soundinc dishes wpre when they appeared on the table. It s been so lone since we ate in such a place that we would gladly torego the dignity of any prewar waiter just to find ourselevs there once again. got a good bed." At sixty: "I was mighty lucky to pick such a fine woman." At sixty-five: "I feel' as young as I did 20 years ago." At seventy: "I don't know what these modern young people are com ing to." transportation pvnprinncfl hr npr 1 i V ... I manently locating in some form of transportation business." Contributed to u this the following which was sent by a soldier serving in the Burma, THE OLD HOME TOWN W. F. Strange "Well I am so busy I haven't given it much thought. Of course, there will be changes, but I don't know whether fit U I VMM 1 Know, you uketo eat soMFBoorEuss; - kUM du I WHAT .5 THE USE --YOU WOMEN ALL TRADE REOPES-IF WE EAT v .YOUR. BKI PE S- rr , i lwi i WANT TO HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIS STai K Cicli V "o fs A&A,iN " j - By STANLEY BeavertUnn Tuv-fshA T. H. Powell, ft uv Powell to A. I.. Taylor J. L. Henson. ct uv u pion Paper ami Fibre Compi Ellie R. Smathers. et uxl L. W. Nash, et ux to J. L- et ux. Arlrlip Plemmons to 01 telle, et ux. Oscar Layman. ,JS lard J. Hall, et ux. T P Hunter, ct U A Rrrtvlpc pt UX. W. P. Swafford. ct ux t, F Swafford. et UX. Canton Building and Uwi i o M RnhinsonJ ciation arm - tn W P P.ilmer. et ux. I an ton Rnilrlintr and ciation and S. M. Robbing t n W. Wise, ct ux. v n T "1 HOW "TOO TALK i if i stanlEV "E LITTLE WOMANS HUSBANO - Clyde Tou-nsliiP r a ir.,..fl Tnr. to Hipps, et ux. rf-ll J T.. It n .T 3 A T. Ward. I H Jones, et ux Bon-A-Venture. Inc Davis, et ux. 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