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THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
(Onfe Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, DECEMBER
The Mountaineer
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1944
(One Day Nearer Victory)
Slowly But Surely
It has been interesting to note of late that
while the ground advance in Germany is
slowing down, along the Western front, the
Allies are still in the air in large numbers
and are doing their best to prepare the way
for the infantry against each step it makes
across the enemy territory.
This fighting by air is destroying the re
sources of the Germans. While we under
stand from men who have returned from
that war theatre, that often within a few
weeks the air fighters have seen whole fac
tories restored that they had razed to the
ground with bombs, they are bound to begin
to be weakening after the number of attacks
made by the Allies.
At this time the ability to reach over the
enemy territory is bound to count in our
favor. It is bound to slow things up. The
enemy does not have mM this power, though
we have the disadvantage of having to ship
our supplies great distances.
What Kind of Peace?
Even though most of us are now settling
down to the ideas of a longer duration than
we had hoped for back in June, since that
date we have all been forming ideas of possible-
peace terms. There are many argu
ments about the kind of peace terms that
should be meted out to the Germans.
Some feel that to be harsh and demand
is not Christian like. We admit it is foreign
to the American conception of fredom and
democracy. We have been told that our talk
about "unconditional surrender" has fired the
fighting spirit of the German people and
made them more daring and determined
than ever to fight to the last man.
But when we read of such things as car
ried in a column by a war correspondent last
week, we are inclined to think that we must
hand out to them peace terms built on their
own actions.
In case the story may have escaped your
attention. A medical aid of the U. S. Army
was trying to make, a dying German prisoner
comfortable.
The American soldier had forgotten that
the man was a prisoner. He viewed him as
a human being like himself with only a few
minutes to live. The man was suffering and
put of the kindness of his heart the Ameri
can was doing his best to alleviate his pains.
With one last gasp after the American had
rendered his service, the German prisoner
raised himself up and spat in the face of
his helper.
We like the answer of the medical aid,
when he was called down by those about
him for his kindness when he quietly said,
"I have a job to do."
Now we are beginning to believe that from
all the reports brought back by the returned
soldiers from the European war theatre, that
with one accord they feel that there can be
no soft terms for the Germans. They know
from first hand things that we can never
understand even from their telling us.
They know perhaps better than we that
the Germans if they had it in their power
would treat us as they have the Poles, the
Russians, the French and the others who
have been in their way as they have at
tempted to gain their world supremacy.
We are beginning, to feel that by their
own acts of cruelty, inhumanity and bitter
ness the Germans have set the pattern on
which the world is to build their peace terms.
Pearl Harbor
We were glad to see that the Army and
Navy boards that investigated the Pearl
Harbor disaster found no grounds for court
martial proceedings. While our armed forces
on the job were not on the alert, it was not
a sudden move on the part of the Japs. We
have always had the feeling that as a na
tion we were almost as much to blame as
those men in our army and navy who were
at the point of the attack.
We can recall back several years ago see
ing car loads of junked cars and other metals
going right out of our own community, and
everyone seemed to know they were destin
ed for Japan. We all thought at the time
that it was a good riddance.
Why did we not know that Japan was
ready to attack Pearl Harbor, with the world
wide communication facilities we have today
will always be a question in the minds of
most Americans.
The inability to withstand the attack with
out serious damage at Pearl Harbor was the
result of a well planned hostile gesture to
bring us into the war.
Now we are told that for military security
the facts cannot be released until after the
war. We have an idea that there may be
some surprises or us all when the true
story is told.
Nation Wide Bible
Reading
The nation wide Bible reading from
Thanksgiving to Christmas, sponsored by
the American Bible Society, had its begin
ning in a Bible reading emphasis last Spring
suggested by Baptists in Texas. It has
since been promoted throughout that state
by the American Bible Society and churches
of many denominations throughout the
country.
In this Bible reading program, conducted
on a scale never before attempted in our
country, members of the Armed Forces and
people at home will join in simultaneous
reading of the same daily passages, selected
by a nation wide poll of chaplains and pastors
as being most helpful in this critical period.
Bookmarks listing daily passages and post
ers announcing the nation wide reading are
being furnished without charge for wide
distribution to chaplains, pastors and civic
groups, for use in community-wide observa
tions throughout the nation and in every
unit of the Armed Forces around the world.
Knowing that the scripture you were read
ing was being read around the world should
make it impressive and at time like this
should serve to steady one's faith and give
a spiritual sustenance that we all need,
whether at home or in the Armed Forces.
Growing Pains
For some years needed improvements in
the community have been under discussion.
They have been agitated annually. Usually
these discussions have been more heated
along about Spring, when we are faced with
the annual flux of summer visitors.
About the healthiest sign we have evidenc
ed is that we are not waiting now until
Spring to agitate these matter. They are
bobbing up daily, in meetings and in con
versation. In other words, we have out
grown outselves. We are feeling the pinch
and need of greater facilities, of expansion
in many lines. We are suffering from grow
ing pains.
It will be interesting to watch the next
few years and what changes they will bring,
for the majority of the citizens seem to be
of one opinion. We either go forward at
this critical stage in our growth, or we pass
up a great opportunity.
We feel that with our progressive citizens
there is no danger that we fall out of the
ranks of progress, the need of which is felt
by both the younger and older groups.
When we take stock of the progress and
the developments along all lines in our com
munity, and then we review our facilities
that have not kept pace, we realize with
alarm that the time is urgent for these
things to be supplied.
While industry is welcomed. It is the
year-round backbone of activity, yet there is
room and opportunity for both that and the
tourist business. In this we are especially
blessed as many communities do not have
such a diversified potential development
within reach.
With so much discussion and interest at
this eeason we feel sure that at some date
not far distant we will see the result of the
realization of . our community needs reflected
in greater expansion of facilities.
A hypocrite will fawn on you while an
honest old friend will yawn on you.
NEW FUEHRER
If
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HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
We have a complex about figures
ordinarily. We don't like to work
with them when they are assigned
to us as a real task, but ever so
often we run into figures that posi
tively fascinate us. We encounter
ed those kind last Saturday morn
ing at the annual Achievement Day
of the three farm groups in Hay
wood county. The attendance at
the meeting was not so good, but
that was easily accounted for, be
tween the weather and the gas
rationing, one understood why they
did not get there, but reports spoke
for the absent members. They
showed beyond any doubt that the
three groups have been on the job
for 365 days of the year. "By
their works ye shall know them."
We have attended many of these
achievement day programs and
from the standpoint of actual work
accomplished we have never known
a better year. We salute the hun
dreds of Haywood county farm men
and women, girls and boys who had
a part in these achievements and
also the county farm and home
agents who have helped them in
their work.
with 10 graded
Let us take them in the order the
reports were made. First we con
sider the highlights of the 18 Home
Demonstration Clubs with their
membership of 500.
They gave 1,602 hours to Red
Cross Surgical Dressings.
Made 372 cotton, 51 wool and
knitted garments for Red Cross.
Contributed $281 to Red Cross.
Collected 1,208 pounds of waste
fat.
Club members and families
bought $147,871 worth of bonds in
1044.
Leaders aided county librarian
in establishing 15 book stations.
- They sold $26,565 worth of dairy
products.
They sold $15,161 of poultry and
eggs.
Sold $5,0(56 worth of fruit and
vegetables.
Sold $368 home products and
crafts.
Repaired 9,775 women's gar
ments. Repaired and mended 21,150
garments for children.
Remodeled 1,183 garments, with
351 of them ripped, washed and
made over.
Members estimate a saving of
$17,000 by mending, repairing and
remodeling clothes at home.
Four new homes built in 1944
29 remodeled.
149 improved grounds.
137 built new storage space and
140 rearranged and improved kit
chens. Members and neighbor leaders
canned a total of 997,341 quarts of
fruit.
Canned 921,420 quarts of vege
tables. Canned 49,053 quarts of meats.
Canned a total of 1,967,814
quarts of food.
Members cured 177,407 pounds
of meat.
Members stored 107,750 pounds
of fruits, 56,407 pounds of vegeta
bles and 936 pounds of frozen meats
and vegetables.
1,770 non-Club members reached
and aided with their work on farm
and in homes.
2nd
ani-
Stock show
choice.
Won Reserve Champion
place in county group of 5
mals.
First place in county group of
home raised animals in group of
3.
First place in showmanship.
These ten boys produced 9,400
pounds of meat for Victory.
4-H boys and girls produced 320
bushels of corn.
They produced 225 bushels of
potatoes.
They produced 2,700 pounds of
tobacco.
They produced 125 bushels beans.
They produced 7,675 dozens of
eggs.
They produced 2,700 gallons of
milk.
Girls made 268 garments and
remodeled 75.
Girls planned and served 1,320
meals.
They cannul 4,412 quarts
food.
Collected 100,000 pounds
scrap.
They bought $17,072 worth
bonds and stamps.
Now catch your breath and we
will take a whirl around the coun
ty with the 4-H girls and boys, with
their nine clubs and 584 members:
They carried 696 projects and
completed 491 in 1944.
Outstanding projects were food
conservation and baby beef pro
duction. On 4-H Mobilization Day in
March they had an attendance of
979 boys and girls. Around 600
signed up to grow food and help
feed one fighter on the battle fronts.
A Haywood girl entered District
Dress revue winning a gold pin at
meet in Franklin.
10 boys entered 13 calves in Fat
Now let's leave the youngsters
and see what the Demonstration
Farmers have done to improve the
soil and produce. The great soil
conservation program may not
sound as dramatic as some of the
foregoing figures, but it is making
them possible, not only for the
present but for the future.
Demonstration Farmers used
1)19,200 pounds of TV A Triple su
perphosphate. They used 1,200 bags of 32.5 To
ammonium nitrate.
Under AAA program, used 4,
501 tons of lime, 106,200 pounds of
18 prosphate; 68,200 pounds of
19 7c prosphate; 313,700 pounds of
20 phosphate; 11,032 pounds of
Austrian Winter Peas; 2,962
pounds of crimson clover seed.
Most of them took materials
available in AAA program rather
than receive checks for earning
goals.
297 of them grew 410 acres of
tobacco yielding 583,430 pounds,
valued at $291,715, based on 1943
market.
7 purebred bulls and 42 pure
bred females placed with Demon
stration Farmers in 1944.
They planted 8,500 white pines;
7,500 yellow poplars for erosion
control and reforestation.
Out of 139 purebred breeders in
WASHIGTOl!
' $5,000 Personal Campaign
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No Relief FromPM
Gift limitNowCriticiztd ' Uothtrlfor Civil 1
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON There's a feeling on Capitof Hilfthai '
Congress clamped too tight a celling on campaign exD Prt
'that the three million dollar limitation on a national conTu'
the $5,000 personal contribution limit are too low. ramuti
' v Opinion of some observers who are getting uito th?
that in this campaign there were Irf
tions available than could be used bv tJl I ii
channels under the law. M
Independent
Committees '
Mushroom
So, as Robert T. Murphy, Senat camwW
Denditures committee counsel ri.,.. . .
rvmia um l
0.., i,, t Bo-OUljj
dent committees." The individual could give oniv n .
committee but he could contribute the Same flmnimi - - '
clarification of the definition of "contribution" with one I i
Homer Ferguson (R.) of Michigan, asserting that it alreadv iTl
v onvnna wH Wflntd in pnfnmA IT ' - J Ul
ALTHOUGH CIVILIANS will continue to" get sufficients
fihanM am thpv will h nf Imv minlifv f -... 1 "1
vu"'m' nvj iuiii iiuw until SDriiif
fnrmril War Production Board floun-pa nnlnt . '
. r.v vui, American
lenthor Uppninc the hide situation in tho turrh ,. . Pi
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since the war started.. -
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ARMY AND NAVY department suggestion that roboTbomJ
a fha TTnitaH fitatofl urn a "sntirolv rtrtaalhla" un 1
nc uuu j " j icin. auuiuonai streai
to the widespread belief that Germany would use other netd
weapons, including gas, aa a single, aesperate last resort
While the Army and Navy emphasized that robot bombitl
nave very uiue miuiary eueci on uie unuea states, gome otwrl
have expressed Deiier mat gas couia create momentary dmJ
Europe and the British Isles before the attack was quelled
V uunuruusaiuin iui ouuww oay government agenclentffl
lagging in working out programs ror the disposition of sutdIhi
plants, although there has been some speeding up of plain k
last few weeks.
Nevertheless, decisions have not been reached as to whit
'will definitely be regarded as surplus.
The surplus war property administration reportedly hat'nmy
effort to dispose of any plant facilities up to the present dot,
OP A CHIEF chhstisk BuwiLus nas instigated a new pf
meeting monthly with the nation a top farm leaders and WFA
Marvin Jones. They will discuss all aspects of the food quwf
from production to distribution and rationing.
LOOK FOR A FLARE-UP any day now on the old Itw ol
conversion versus war production. The controversy Is back wt J
and probably will burst out into the open now that the electa
over.
The National Association of Manufacturers called the tun
pointing out that WOB recently has begun soft-pedaling reeonM
in favor of increasing emphasis on lagging war output
It Is another chapter in the old fight between Donald Nelra,
mcr WPB chairman, and the military over how far reconvaf
should be permitted to go while the war Is still on.
PROSPECTS FOR A SHAKE-UP In the cabinet, whentlieM
terra begins, are believed to be greater than at the start ol
previous Roosevelt terms.
One reason is the fact that Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins and Agriculture Secretary Claude
Wlckard have not handled big war-time programs
relating to manpower and food. Reports around
Washington Indicate that both Miss Perkins and.
Wlckard may step out of the cabinet. C
In addition. Secretary of State Uoraell Huu nas Deen w m
era! weeks at the naval hospital at Bethesda, Mi, and udcom
rumors are that he has offered his resignation.'
Shah
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The
Voice Of The Peopl
H'nr (hi linn account for ivar
production falling off at such an
alnrminy rate ot thin critical stage
of the irar?
Charlie Ray "Due to the feel
ing of war workers to get a peace
time job and turn their feet home
seed growers, 2 are Demonstration
Farmers.
Recently authorized treasurer to
invest $1,500 in war bonds in 6th
War Loan Drive.
We guess you are dizzy with fig
ures by now, and overcome with
what is taking place in rural Hay
wood county, along withthe great
progress in our county. These ac
complishments have been made
possible through scientific methods
plus hard work, and superb lead
ership. As we listened to these
reports the thought came And for
county 86 Demonstration Farmers, i these things we are fighting to
5 of 6 farmers growing hybrid keep forever in this free country
corn Demonstration Farmers.
Out of 25 Grade A dairies in
county 16 owned and operated by
Demonstration Farmers.
Out of 3 certified Irish potato
of ours We thought of the home
sick Haywood boys from our farms
and of the price they are paying
that our rural life may continue
in its well balanced program.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
ward, but not due t" a lack
triotism but to a ?r
preservation."
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o-ivimr in) thi'ir i"bs. but
that the govenuwnt -h'
defense worked ar.,1
the job and kwp r.m
it is needed."
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is nearlv over ami they
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