THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER j.
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Warning
Will It Happen Here?
Last week we read that the Caldwell county
home had closed its doors after almost a
century of service to be exact for 98 years
it had been the home for the aged and others
who had been deprived of their homes. The
Caldwell institution is "out of business," according-
to the county commissioners of the
county.
There were only six inmates when the
home closed, and these were taken to Stanley
county, as the number presumably was not
suflicient for the operation of thd home.
Perhaps this is a trend in the changing
times. With old age assistance and various
other means of security such places will in
time automatically cease to be. It shows
that there must be an improvement some
where in directing our lives.
Youthful Lawbreakers
We were surprised during the week to
read that J. Edgar Hoover, who has studied
statistics on youthful lawbreakers is warn
ing that there is a crime wave in the mak
ing. He places the blame squarely on the
famUand the community.
Hoover denies that crime is coming home
from the battlefronts, stating that mischief
makers are youngsters on the loose. "The
country will benefit when the armed forces
return," according to Mr. Hoover, "the more
killing they have witnessed, the more they
value orderly society."
During the first five months of 1945, ar
rests rose 8.4 per cent in the under 21-age
bracket, according to the FBI authority.
Boys 17, and girls 18, stacked up more of
fense than any other age groups.
Ihe statistics offer a challenge to
homes and communities of America.
the
Brain Tonic
We read that a Columbia University psy
chologist has taken a group of white rats
and set them to learning their way through
a maze, noting how many tries were neces
sary before they mastered the route. Then
he dosed the same rats with glutamic acid,
tried them1 on similar problems,. Without
exception they learned mazes 50 per cent
. faster, mastered puzzle box problems, which
without glutamic acid they had been unable
to solve.
"So I downed a pill and whipped through
my geometry lesson' is the prospect that
the psychologist holds out. In our business
of writing it sounds like a very wonderful
prospect. Perhaps without effort there is
a chance' that someday we may be able to
turn out copy by taking a brain tonic. We
hope that humaiv beings will react like the
white rats, and that we will be able to work
our way through a maze 50 per cent faster.
It-would .trurycsimplifjr life. i&-;' .'
America's highest ranking prisoner of
war, Gen, Jonathan Wainwright, is back in
this country, happy, after his years of im
prisonment by the Japs. He has received
ovations everywhere he has gone, but the
General is not overcome with his own per
sonal heroism, but more that the United
States never let such havoc be wroight
again.
Part of his warning is that the United
States must be well prepared, so much so
that "never again will our soldiers be forced
to suffer torment and starvation."
"I know that Americans will insist that
the full meaning of Japan's surrender be
brought home to every subject of the Em
peror. These truculent men must be forced
to realize the folly of their ambitions. Un
til the Japanese people display sincerely a
desire for peaceful ways, we must not aban
don our watch."
Which all reminds us are we repeating
the mistake we made in Germany in World
War I? Did we quit too soon out in the
Pacific? Have the Japs suffered enough
from the war to be impressed with their
own sins against mankind?
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TIH'ItSDAY, SEPTEMHER 27, 1915
Do They Still Have Faith?
We have heard much about the superior
race in Germany since the regime of Hitler
started, fur he was credited many times
with telling his people they were' destined
to rule the world. Over in Japan Hirohito
was telling his people something which
meant the same thing though he expressed
it a little differently.
Hirohito told the Japs they were a pe
culiar people, descended from the gods and
of superior flesh. The superior race and the
superior flesh could not stand up under the
fight they started themselves, so we wonder
ere this how they must feel about the leaders
who so misled them to their ruin.
N. C. At The Bar
North Carolina had a big part in World
War II in the European theatre, and now
with C lrcuit Judge John J. Parker of Char
lotte on the four-power court to try war
criminals in Nuremberg, we stand to have
an opportunity to mete out the justice to
the 2.A high ranking Nazi war lords.
We trust that former Attorney General
1'iancis Kiddle, of Pennsylvania, and our
own Tar Heel representative, as this coun
try's two judges, will brand these men who
have been the indirect cause of so much
suffering, as criminals in all their relations
with the people of all nations.
The idea, ais we understand it, is to indict
Nazisim as such for planning a war of ag
gression. The tribunal on which Judge
Parker will sit will set the pattern for all
future war criminal trials and the Jap
leaders and of all criminals throughout the
world who will be tried by other courts.
Although the trial will be military as has
been agreed by the four Allied nations, it
is interesting to note that military men
were not selected by this country. The State
Department wanted by reason of the trial's
historic importance, "experienced judges of
the highest and most outstanding character."
Archinal-Tojo
Sergeant John A. Archinal, veteran of
New Guinea and the Philippines, has achieved
a unique place in history so extraordinary
and in a way so baffling that it makes one a
trifle giddy to contemplate it. The sergeant
volunteered his own living blood to be
pumped into the veins of Ilideki Tojo so that
the latter could "get his just dues and suffer
for the seventeen months he made me spend
in PMew Guinea." If the sergeant is an irmur
inative man, as seems not impossible, and if,
as one hopes, he is able to attend General
Tojo's trial as a war criminal, he is sure to
experience some peculiar emotions. To nh.
serve one's own heart's blood being tried, as
it were, for high treason to the h uman rare
to realize that one has saved this primitive
anct cruel life in order that it mav he nrnnerlv
disposed of, to toy with the mystical idea
mat one has transfused vitality into this
creature which, dedicated to a suicidal cod..
could not even make a success of suicide, will
acid up to a singular exDerienre which mQ.r
well have Sergeant Archinal wondering where
ne leaves off and Tojo begins. It will afford
revenge, but of a pretty bafflintr kind.
In volunteering his blood, the sergeant
was a bold man. He was eettine- himP it
j try
through the curious intervention of modern
science, pretty deep into those ancient mys
teries of life and death, of blood and rerlpmn.
tion which have been the central themes of
so many great religions. And he was also
making himself a symbol. The destructive
and self-destructive impulses of ancient
Japan can only be halted and turned to bet
ter expression in the modern world by a
massive transfusion from the main intellec
tual and social blood stream of modern cul
ture. From New Guinea to the Philippines
we have literally poured out American blood
upon this operation ; arrived in Tokyo, we
find that in the act of destroying the savage
and barbaric in Japan we must pour out an
other great transfusion of Western thought
and institutions if our enemy is to- be left
neither a primitive danger nor a corrupting
corpse in our own society. We are all Ser-'
geant Archinala in & way. We have beaten
Japan ; we must now pump into her the blood
of a rational and modern order. We must
save her, in one sense, in order to save ourselves.
Do you think efforts should be
made to revive the former Hay
wood county fair minus the carni
val aspect?
Jonathan Woody "I would rather
sic our Haywood Livestock and
Home Demonstration Show revived,
devoted to the efforts of Haywood
:'olks with all the money kept at
home."
Miss Xancy Killian "I really
wolud like to see the county fair
revived, but I would also like a
little bit of entertainment."
HERE and THERE
Bj
HILDA WAY GWYN
"I have enjoyed being a soldier,
but I will be glad to return and
live with my family. I expect to
miss niv life in the armv however.
but I certainly don't want to go
through another war," said Master
Sergeant Walter D. Brown, 48,
veteran of two wars, and in the
regular army for 28 years, with
30 months to go before retirement
and his familv beamed on him.
while his youngest daughter perch
ed on the arm of his chair gave
him a timid hug. We had the
pleasure of talking to Sgt. Brown,
whom we have known always, at
his home last week on Walnut
street, where he is spending a 30-
day leave after serving out in the
Central Pacific with a heavy bom
bardment outfit in the air forces
since September, 1943.
We have always been interested
in the Sergeant and his familv.
We recall a number of times dur
ing the vears we havp hpen on
the staff of The Waynesville Moun
taineer that his mother, Mrs. I.
J. Brown, would call up and sav
with great pride, "I have a new
grandchild" and would begin,
Sgt. and Mrs. Brown announce the
birth' of, etc. The children range
in age from Lueile, 15, down;
Betty, Nona Jean, - Walter. Jr..
Peggy and Robert Lee stairsteps.
Their relation with their soldier
father is a verv fine thine to spp
They all adore him, and no four
starred general was ever a binser
hero at his own fireside than the
Sergeant Brown, native of Waynes
ville.
around two days, and it took every
minute in between to get those
shattered planes ready to ride
again. Quite a lot of our men did
not get back. It was the great dis
tances they had to fly to fight
and if it had not been over water,
they might have been rescued. The
planes from our outfit helped do
the damage over the Gilberts, Car
olinas, Marshalls, Mariannas, lio
nani and Iwo Jima. Of course I
am partial to the B-24's for they
were the ships used in my group
with ten men to a crew," he said.
Happy days are here atrain Dad and
Junior can take turns licking the egg beater
'sifter wnpWp'ffifeanl7oV'rles
Sgt. Brown volunteered in the
army in September, 1917, and
served during World War I period
and was not discharged until 1923,
at the expiration of his term of
enlistment. He remained a civil
ian five months, but the tug of
army life drew him back into uni
form. But even at that he has
been mighty lucky, for he married
between wars and had a happy
home, with his "squad", as he
calls his family of six children and
wife, and they have been with him
at all times, living near his camp
except the last tour of duty which
took him to the Pacific. He was
stationed at Polk Field, Fort
Bragg, 16 years, and only in 1940,
was he ordered to report to air
fields in California, later to New
Orleans and then back to California.
"Another thing, don't leave out
the weather in the Pacific. We
were only five degrees south of
the equator. It was so hot that
during the strain of the first three
weeks, trying to get organized I
lost between 50 and GO pounds.
In fact when I was ready to come
home they kept me four months
in Hawaii for rest. Life is hard
on the boys in the 'l'acific. The
government should not keep any
man out there too long. The
weather and no recreation iust
gets them. During the rainy sea
son, which is steady for at least
three months at a time, it does not
just rain, but it comes down like
a blanket waterfall. You can h.-ive
two inches of rain in 30 minutes
and before you know it. thines
are dry. You can literally wade
in mud and get dust in your eyes
at the same time. There are the
mosquitoes and Donatio fever In
contend with. The Denrnie fever
is a combination of sea sickness
and malaria. I have seen nurses
and men drop in dead faints with
the fever," he continued.
Frank L. Rogers "My first im
pression is that we should have
a county fair, for it creates inter
: sl in glowing better products and
livestock.''
Richard N. Barber, Jr. "Yes, I
think a lair is stimulating in a
county, but I also approve some
,'orm of entertainment, but not
he type of recent years."
II. B. Atkins "Yes, I think it
vouId be mighty fine to revive the
i.iir. There are a lot of young
People who are missing something
in 'not knowing about county fairs.
I think they are very stimulating
in any community, and I hope that
ihe.v revive a county fair in Haywood."
" " "l e's Picked l p
RAMBLING AROu
By W. CURTIS Kiss
PVT. WOODROW ARRINGTON
is in Manila, and from the tone of
his recent letter he would be better
satisfied if he could hear from
more of his friends in the States.
In a pathetic letter, he is asking
for more news from home. His ad
dress is Pvt. Woodrow Arrington,
Casual Co. 97-a, APO 11794, care
Postmaster, San Francisco.
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expenditu!,
Uncle s.i.:
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BEES have kept pupils of the
Central Elementary school on the
alert for the past week. The bees
built their nest at the intersection
of the school and street sidewalks,
and after several students had been
stung, the place was roped off.
The little insects have a way of
their own, and one of the safest
rules is to give them plenty of
room.
W. F. WHITMAN was fascinated
at the mechanism of the press of
The Mountaineer recently, but he
couldn't figure how he could mix
dough on it for his bake shop
neither could he figure a way to
make "dough" with such a large
expensive piece of equipment. That
is something many a newspaper
man has tried to fiure out in vain,
Mr. Whitman. Often it just isn't
done.
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II. L. Prevost "Yes, I do ap
prove of reviving the fair, but I do
not approve of having any gam
bling devices that take all the
nuney out of the community, but
I would approve of merry-Ko-
loinuls and such for the
dreii."
chil-
Noble Garrett "Yes, I would
erl airily be glad to see the ex
hibits of livestock, agricultural and
home revived in a county fair."
W. A. Bradlev Yes. I do on ac
count of the livestock and the agri
culture, and T would like some fun
ind amusement features along
too."
Maybe we had better catch up
with our story about the first
World War before we start on the
second. Sgt. Brown served with
the 6th Engineers, taking his basic
at Fort Thomas, Ky., and later was
sent to Washington, D. C, and
from there was sent overseas on
Dec. 17, 1917. He served in Eu
rope from that date until Aug.
1919, first with the 3rd Division in
France and later with the army
of occupation. He was in six ma
jor operations during World War
I, and from this was entitled to
wear the Victory ribbon, five
bronze stars, one silver star, and
the army of occupation medal
aside from all kinds of citations,
which the Sergeant would as soon
cut off his right hand as in toil
you about them, but his fam
proud to pass the information on,
so mat is now we learned the in
side story.
"Our first assignment in the Pa
cific was to get our bombardment
as close to the Japs as possible,
but that was not easy, to keep them
from knowing our location. It
was tough fighting in the Pacific,"
he said.
"You see a lot of criticism about
General MacArthur. Don't believe
any of it. He knows his job and
he knows the Japs. W hen he says
that 200,000 men will be enough
o have in the army of occupation
he knows what he is talking about.
You see what the public in general
does not understand is that it
would take between fiOO.OOO and
800,000 draftees to do what 200.000
regular army men could do. It is
best that the men volunteer for the
army of occupation, for if a man
really wants to be a soldier he
makes a better one than a draftee
in most cases. He wants to be a
soldier and he knows how and ex
pects to take discipline," he explained.
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II. B. HARRISON, manager of
D..11. t
ucih'iiuuauii s i cci.'iiiiy gave me aj
book and insisted that I read it j
"The Art of Living" by Norman I
Vincent Peale. I have read it and
it is a gem. Just a few simple
rules for finding a fuller life that
most of us overlook every day.
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Keep your chm up
ANOTHER BOOK from E. N.
Pope' of Raleigh, titled "Uncle
Sam's Billion Dollar Baby" is the 1
story of TVA in story book form.
An interesting volume, especially I
JONATHW WooilV
was rccemh pub!
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his elect:
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The
Everyday Counsell
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REV. HERBERT SPAlKiH, I). D.
J. VV. Killian "Yes, by a big
majority, and I would also like a
who was one of Ben Dixon Mc
Neall's favorites at Fort Bragg
and was the hero of many a tall
tale of this well known North Car
olina reporter, also vetetran of
two wars, we couldn't help but
wonder how the young civilian
commissioned officers felt toward
this seasoned 48-year old non-com,
who knew all the answers in the
army. We bet they weren't a bit
cocky around the Sergeant, lest
they display their ignorance of
military tactics, for behind his
good humor and jovial manner is
strength and determination that
wo feel sure made him chief wher
ever he happened to serve. Inci
dentally we have it on good auth
ority that the Sergeant turned
clown more than one chance at a
commisison, because he wanted to
live close to his men and stay a
non-com.
Here is an inexpensive aid to
those thousands of men and women
Letters To Editor
"Another thing I wish that peo
ple understood is that General
MacArthur is not wanting any
thing. He is definitely not in poli
tics. All he wants is to get things
settled and retire and come home
with his family," he dded with
much feeling.
As we talked to the Sergeant,
"I used to be the first sergeant
at home, but times have changed
my wife is now. and rieht here
I want to pay a tribute to the
mothers of America. They have
done a fine job. They are the
ones who should have the battle
stars. I know, for I have worked
with too many of their young sons,
not to know. I used to have bad
luck though, for just about the
time I would get my 109 men train
ed to cooperate like clock work,
here they would give me another
group to train," he said. But we
believe we understood the reason
for such changes by the command
ing officers, for in this ability to
train men Sgt. Brown made his
greatest contribution when he
served on the Pacific coast getting
men ready to fight the Japs.
"I hope to get in some college
as military instructor so all my
children can finish their educa
tidn." he said when asked what
he intended to do when he retir
edand we thought what a lucky
institution to get the Sergeant
for through his year of service he
knows military tactics and through
his own children knows and under
stands youth.
URGES NEW HIGHWAY
Editor The Mountaineer:
Push that Pigeon River highway
hard. It will be a good drawing
card for Waynesville and Haywood
County.
Congratulations to the town on
the work of Chief of Police O. R.
Roberts.
Waynesville and Haywood seem
to be on the up and up.
DR. E. W. GUDGER
New York City
Sept. 18, 1945.
living under I he tension
ern days. Ctrl' A PINCIIl
I have a red pinciivhion
one of my de kv w here
u ai an mm". hey a
thei e to remind ir.e thai
r way 1 can (,'el I hrtiugh a
little fun and a few stunts on the
side, but not the kind to take all
our money away." ..
Mrs. James E. Toy "I certainly
would, and while I do not care for
it, personally, I would like to sec
a little of the carnival entertain
ment for others."
fortahh i:, w itli a "pincu
titude.
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loneue-lasliing from on
narishoners. who took m
one of his si nnons. As
me of tlic incident he
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4WASHINGT
Franco Remain Strong
Despite Defeat of Axis
Estimote 35,000
Bodies Not Yet
When he re-enlisted in 1924,
Sgt. Brown did not return to the
Infantry, but joined the Ai
Corps, and has served as a master
sergeant, a mechanic, in this
branch of the service. H tminH
many combat crews in California
and the Pacific patrol from 1940
to 1943 before he was assigned to
the 7th Air Force and sent tn th
Pacific.
"It was a terrihl strain climat
ing the men out and back, for It
was our job to keep the 15 planes
in our group in nerfeet mnditinn
the ahiDI came hnrk Kftn tn rinM
with flak, my metalsmlthu wn
busy night and dav mendlncr flali
holes. The averaee time Mwmti
missions during a eight. month
intensive bombing period, was
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Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON The nnaittnn of Generalissimo Francisco
and his Spanish government Is considerably stronger than
believed, despite the complete defeat of his Axis menu.
Diplomatic observers who re,dirted that the pint-sire
chief of state would sneak out after Germany fell have bees
to revise their estimates. They fear now it may take
Shake loose his srin on the Snanish oeoDle.
Franco hnlds hi nnwor thrnnp-h the miehtv Falange
army more than one million bayonets-
popular with the army. Under t
1 trt a onH if.fVierl fhan ever befoit
?. . ... IMl
There , is a tremendous movement
left in- Spain's underground, but ita
being strong enough to overthrow rm
near future.
REPRESENTATIVE WEISS (D)
l friends during
i . Mian three
tour or murope maw mi" .iiA
.ft. V-TT T3oWin still U aS S City 0' "1
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witn an esumaieu
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air." Weiss wrote. "Over TO j
homes were riatj-nul Thu uv there are over JD.uw
ruins of Berlin."
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THET WAR LABOR BOARD-came very close t'olJJ
0f Japan- , h, opinio" tl
Some T Jlhnn fiAnftH-mAnt Aflfieials were or w ur .. t
WLB, created as the government's arbiter of war-
pules, should pass out of existence immeaiaie.
Apprised of this feeling, WLB memrjers "V"-----
industry and labor rushed to the White House ana
Mobilizer John W. Snyder that the board snouw ,
because such a move would leave chaos in i
trial relations front. oeaee-l
Hence, the WLB will stay at least unui -
machinery can be set up.
WHILE GEN. CHARLES DE GAULLE made i A
impression in the popular sense during n" i
doubt that he succeeded so well officially. gu d
De Gaulle was amiable and gracious througrw gU
intended primarily to correct the unfavorarjie .r
Ills ... Ik. I.I. Draeirlent ROOSeVClt U
iviunai ia w A . u. - ,
that' Injured him politically at home and abroaa. , m
, mw 1 .. Intended tO 'P .
i e general nyue rarit visn " - n sinter:
bunt may have, reacted irl thtj opposite direcuu . . ,