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THURSDAY, APRIL I, 1916
Welcome Back
We greet with pleaslure the return of Col.
Wayne Corpening, veteran who returned to
his post in the county farm agent's office this
week.
As a farm agent in the clays of peace Col.
Corpening made an excellent record. It was
duplicated in Africa, and in Europe. He
plowed a straight row over there through
enemy lines, as he had shown our farmers
here in Haywood how to make the most of
their opportunities.
With the confidence of the citizens of Hay
wood county of his ability to do a good job
he will continue to render service to his
country this time along the home front.
To Test Or Not To Test
We have seen much written about whether
or not the greatly discussed atomic bomb test
should be made. There have been many ap
peals made to halt the test which we under
stand will not take place for some weeks,
later than first planned.
There has been a plea from the Order of
Purple Heart America's battle wounded ex
pressing the peace-longing of a peace-loving
people. They argue that "the armada should
be sent on a goodwill tour to the shores of the
countries harboring evil governments."
They further claim that the bomb demon
stration "can be construed by other nations
as a vulgar display of fiendish strength."
Their appeal closes with "Save these precious
American ships they may be needed sooner
than you think."
But to most Americans the test means an
assurance of peace and the damaged ships,
many of which are said to be obsolete, will
go down in a worthwhile attempt to show us
what we would need in a navy in the atomic
age. Observers from other nations have been
invited, so this should dispel suspicion on
their part, as this should alone prove that
we are merely building a world "concept of
law and order, and the machinery and imple
ment of it."
The time has come when we must not be
swayed by sentiments, but look with clear
vision to a future where peace will be assured.
Grin and Bear It
We always grin to ourselves when some
public speaker or civic leader starts enume
rating the "things this community needs."
We know the list by heart, and as far as we
can recall, it hasn't changed one bit in the
past fifteen years. The honored list is always
brought out at every annual Chamber of
Commerce meeting and repeated with zest
and renewed energy, and then carefully laid
aside until the next annual dinner, except
occasionally some civic leader will bring it
forth, but always the same old list.
An -amusing thing about our "list of needs"
is that everyone is ready and willing to add
to the list, but so precious few will do any
thingabout it.
We have said so before, and repeat it now,
that before any item on the "list of needs"
will become a reality, the community leaders
must adopt a priority system, and finish one
job at a time. "There are too many ideas, too
many opinions to successfully adopt a page
full of projects for each year's work.
When we stop this child's play of wanting
i everjthinjrt once, and center our thoughts
and attention on one thing at a time,, and
accomplish that job, then we will begin to
whittle down our "list of needs." Until we
adopt such .a , business-like basis, the time
honored list vUh remain cijitact, and we can
continue to Tjnndj?efhaps. bear .it.
ArmyDay
Saturday, April the 6th, is Army Day, set
aside by Congress to do honor to the men who
have made and who make up our army. It
is the first opportunity we have had in six
years tc celebrate Army Day in a war-free
world.
Army Day, as well as Navy Day, has a real
significance here in Haywood, where the dis
tinction still holds good that this county had
more volunteers in service, according to pop
ulation, than any county in the nation.
This April is quite a contrast to April of
last year, when our great forces were bending
every effort in the European theater to break
through the Herman lines and out in the
Pacific they were battling with the Japs all
in one mighty offensive to stop the war and
lifing peace back into the world.
It is fitting that in this or any other coun
try the people should have one day a year in
which to salute their valiant armies, who
have protected their people. This year we
should put special emphasis on the debt we
owe these men.
They have done their job, and now it is our
turn. Are we going to be wise enough, diplo
matic enough, and far seeing enough to stem
the tide of another war? Is the part we are
going to play in the UNO, as one of the
leaders going to be effective enough to hold
the peace so much desired?
Then there comes another pertinent ques
tion. Have we kept the faith with these men
who braved danger and life itself? Have we
kept the faith with those men who are buried
in the countless graves scattered over Europe
and on the islands out in the Pacific ? Could
we give them an account of our efforts with
the same pride that they can?
We regret that if we face real facts we
will turn aside with apology. Our idle manu
facturing plants stand as condemning evi
dence that we have not kept the faith. The
internal agitation in our country today is
poor proof of the appreciation that we should
have and should show.
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"MADAM ; BUTTERFLY"
Traffic Laws Ignored
T. Boddie Ward, Commissioner of Motor
Vehciles took a big dig at the state's lower
courts last week for their lack of cooperation
in meteing out sufficient punishment to viola
tors of motor vehicle laws.
At the time Mr. Ward lashed out at the
courts, he issued a report which revealed that
82 persons were killed and 433 were injured
on the streets and highways of North Caro
lina during the month of February, as com
pared with 44 killed and 242 injured during
the same month last year.
"If sentences were meted out for speeders,
reckless and careless drivers, on a real deter
rent basis, such as forbidding the violator
from operating a motor vehicle for at least
GO days for the first offense, an appreciable
decline in accidents would shortly make itself
manifest, based on experience where such
measures have been put into effect," said
Mr. Ward.
The rate of driving, Mr. Ward pointed out
is a matter of habit, it is much easier and
admittedly less dangerous for one to drive
at a moderate rate rather than a high rate
uf speed.
Of the 82 persons killed during February,
71 of the fatalities occurred in the rural areas
and only U occurred in the cities and towns
of the state.
These figures remind us that only two
weeks ago four persons were injured on a
Haywood highway. They might have lost
their lives, all because of disregard of the
laws of the highways. During the war it was
considered and rightly so a great tragedy
when four men were .wounded, yet we are
inclined to take accidents on the highways asl
"all in the clay's run of events."
"I have yet to hear of a mass meeting for
the purpose of curbing the continued unnec
essary slaughter of human lives, on our high
ways and streets. And yet if a small fraction
of as many lives were being lost due to some
new and incurable disease there would prob
ably be mass meetings throughout the state
to arrest and control them," Mr. Ward is re
ported as having said.
Mr. Ward is right to demand stricter-recognition
of the laws by the lower courts of
the state, for often it is with the first offense
that many drivers learn their lesson which
ultimately results in more -careful driving,
but if their misdemeanor .is . considered in a
casual way, the offenders will.naturally take
the matter lightly.
Finger bowls are returning-to some of the
tonier hostelries. It is years since these were
last seen, except when served under guise of
a clear soup. Detroit News.
Headlines: Men's Summer Suits to Have
Lace Insets. Whither are we drifting, fel
lows, whither are we drifting Scanlan in
Buffalo News.
Experience is a dead loss ifyou cannot sell
it for jiaore' than . iti cost tfou. r North western
National, News.
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Voice
OF THE
People
Do you think the Social Security
tax should be increased and that
it should be extended to cover
groups not now under tax?
T Ft r fit &MS$r -ijs."
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Maybe you read it and even if
you did we oiler no apology for
including it herein, for it will do
us all good to read it and re-read
it. We have reference to the
prayer that was found in the re
ceptacle in the black steel ballot
box in which the United Nations
Organization Security Council will
place its secret ballots. It was a
note the tinsmith who made the
box, one Haul Antionio, enclosed
and he expressed the hopes of
millions of us who may not be
direct members of the great UNO
who has been given the power to
muke or break wars, but who are
just as vitally interested as if we
sat in their council. We are sure
his simple, but heart felt message
must have given tlio.se who opened
the box a keen sense of their re
sponsibility as well as respect for
the maker.
"May I, who have had the privi
lege of fabricating this ballot box,
east the first vote?
"May God be with every mem
ber of the United Nations Organi
zation and through your nobel ef
forts bring lasting peace to us all
all over the world."
A German toy spilz was holding
court last Saturday morning on
Main street as passersby stopped
to admire the pet of Mrs. Marvin
Parton, of Hazelwood. "Peter" was
brought by her husband. Pvt. Par
ton, who has been in the European
theater for 31 months, in Germany.
He paid 1,500 German marks, in
American money $150 and ship
ped it to his wile at the cost of
$80. The dog arrived three days
before Pvt. Parton, who has been
discharged during the past week
from Fort Bragg. We could not re
sist telling Pvt. Parton that lie
either held great affect ipn for that
little white dog or his wife, and
maybe both, al which he smiled as
if we might be on to his secret.
The dog is one yea:' old. and for all
appearances seems very much at
home here, with his new mistress.
The likeness of Mrs. John N.
Shoolbred and her sister, Mrs.
Horace Frost has always furnished
abundant surprise and conversa
tion, but the night of their 80th
birthday party, as they received,
wearing the same model gowns and
flowers, their resemblance seemed
more marked than usual. As proof
that it is not the imagination of
their friends. Little Billy Shool
bred, is said to have gone up to one
of them and said "Aunt Rachel,
will you please do this . . ." and then
be looked at her a second time
and be said in disgust with him
self, "Oh, Pshaw Grandmother" . . .
While we sometimes think of gos
sip as a thing spun of malicious
intent, it is often merely an accu
mulation of circumstantial evi
dence, patched together. Edna Mc
Kay, clerk of the draft board,
wrote to a mother about her son.
Not so long after her assistant, Edna
McCracken, also sent the same
information about the son. She
mother a card about some routine
signed her ow n name. It had been
rumored in the mother's commu
nity that a certain Mr. McCracken
was to be married. She heard one
of the neighbors talkrng about it
and she found out the girl was
from the same area as Edna Mc
Kay, so she at once volunteered
the information that she was sure
it must be Miss Edoa McKay, at
the draft board office, because she
had heard from the draft board
twice and the first time, she had
signed her name Edna McKay and
the second time she had signed it
Edna McCracken. Many a story
has in time become an "established
fact," which all goes to show how
hazardous it is to believe what we
hear no matter how innocently it'
comes to us.
Rationing has held restrictions
for housewives, but we wish that
it applied to one bard to get Item
now Maybe we would have more
of it SOAP How can we do
Spring cleaning without plenty of
laundry soap to get last winter's
grim out of our curtains and other
household furnishings that have
to be tubbed at home. We guess
most of us have not realized "how
long a war lasts," for we had an
idea that by the first of the year,
things would swing back into reg
ular civilian routine and they cer
tainly have not. If you can scrap
up enough drippings of grease, and
you are hard put to it for soap, we
advise you to get in touch with
Mrs. Jennie Ray Breece, who can
give you a formula, for she is
an artist when it comes to turn
ing out home-made soap which
is both cleansing and easy on the
hands.
We have good news for (our
selves) and those on the "plump
sidet," The Bureau of Human
Nutrition and Home Economics is
Claiming that fat folks are the
lucky ones these days for the
very good reason that they can
reduce, bwhich is desirable for
health's sake, and they can help
the starving millions abroad by cut
ting down on their intake of fats,
sugar, pies, cookies and such. For
a reducing diet keyed to the times,
the fat ones are told to eat almost
no grain food, and (we) they will
be doing even better than the 40
per cent reduction recommended
by the Famine Emergency Com
mittee." By substituting fruits and
custards for baked desserts, such
as cake, pie, rich doughnuts and
cookies, you can take off another
100 to 300 calories, because so
much sugar and fat go with the
flour in them." But the Bureau
warns about letting your sympathy
run away with you and start diet
ing without a physician's guidance
that is if you are over 20 (and
few under that are much con
cerned with surplus fat). In this
war and its effects the civilians
have been given some pretty stiff
assignments. Who would have
thought we would have been asked
to reduce for the sake of feeding
the world so many months after it
was supposed to be over?
J. Harden Howell, Jr.
"Am certainly in favor of' the
lax as it stands, but am not famil
iar with the extent of the program
to know which groups are not
included."
Jonathan Woody
"Yes, the scope
widened."
should be
Miss Mary Martaret Smith
"Yes, I think it should he ex
tended as there are many groups
now that should be under Social
Security."
Paul Davis
"I am not certain that the tax
should be increased but I am defi
nite that there are certain groups
that should come under Social Se
curity not now included."
Howard Clapp
"I think it should be extended
to other groups, including farm
labor, and others, but as to the in
crease, 1 do not know enough about
the cost to make a statement."
Joe Sloan
"Yes, both."
James W. Killian
"I would not approve either."
Dr. J. Rufus McCracken
"Yes, without giving the matter
much thought, I would think that
both should be extended and in
creased."
J. C. Brown
"Yes, I do, definitely in both
cases."
Clyde II. Ray
"1 would approve an extension
to other groups, but 'no increase
in the tax."
REMARKABLE!
Crawfordville, Ind. Charles
Harmon won on a bet a dollar bill
on a bet that he would not pass
his physical examination for indue
tion into the army. He decided
to keep it "as long as I live." Eight
months after he was killed in
Europe, the bill found its way
back to this place and was recog
nized by Robert Barton when it
was shown to him by a cashier at
the light company office, where it
had been received from a farm
woman who said she got it at a
hatchery. Harmon had written his
name on the bill and listed the
places where he had been stationed.
His handwriting was identified by
his widow.
In case you are not a regular
reader of The Saturday Evening
Post, we recommend that you buy
a copy of March 30, and read
"What I Learned About Washing
ton" by Jonathan Daniels, as he
expresses it "somewhere between
the human swarm and the consti
tutional abstraction, there is. I am
convinced a government of the
United States" . . . and with his
background of experience he found
the answer which is revealed in
this fascinating story about Wash
ington and what makes America.
He calls himself "a politician by
act of Congress, and a spectator
by act of God." There is not a
dull sentence in the article. He
points out that regardless of scien
tific discovery that "the republic
of the atomic age is still the gov
ernment of a very human people
MAN, 87, LOSES $14,700
Chicago An 87-vear-nld retired
streetcar conductor, William Far-
rar, recently told police that two
men waylaid him in the vestibule
of his West Side home and robbed
him of $14,700. The victim said
he had kept his money hidden in
his house until three months ago,
when he started to carry it with
him because he feared thieves. A
gold ring set with a one-carat dia
mond and a one-fourth carat blue
sapphire which Farrar pulled from
the finder of one of them as they
grappled with each other is the
most important clue police have.
COLD CAUSES MISTAKE
Milaca, Minn. Convicted that
the strange animal he spotted run
ning for cover under a woodpile
was a mink, Joe Schmitz, suffering
from a severe head cold and watery
eyes, investigated and quickly dis
covered his mistake. The animal
he killed was a skunk and, while
Joe received 75 cents for the pelt,
he speiit many times that amount
for his dry-cleaning bill.
Book publishers urged to curb
"lewdness' by a code of ethics.
and the problems of people com
ing together for government may
still be more significant than dis
integrating the atom."
THE OLD HOME TOWN
By -STANLEY
POINTED PARAGRA?
WALTER ALLISON
The sap is rising. The furni
ture company wants their bed
back.
When asked if the atomic
bomb tests would be made
in May, a government official
replied, "Nothing shaUins!"
The Big Three today are nylons,
men's dress shirts, and a place to
live.
If Haywood county has a
Softball league this summer,
many fellows should reach
home before 10 p. m.
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"Where are the shingles going
in this country?" asks a builder.
Any little boy who eats off a man
tle can tell you, mister.
There's no danger of coal
ever changing it's color. John
L. Lewis loves to keep things
looking dark.
If Waynesvilh has a record
breaking season, we hope she
smashes Sinatra's, and hangs on
to Bing's.
i
One of the best ways to
keep your windows open this
summer is to have them built
out of green lumber.
When they re-surface Main
street, many veterans with the
paving company will feel at home
when I hey go over the top.
The little girl who had a
stomach-ache last night says
she can't understand why Riis
ria wants more oil.
It's not hard to find garden seeds
in Waynesville. That is. I lie neigh
bor's chickens say it isn't.
You can see the Northern
Lights most any night. Some
famiiies never g"et to bed bc-
foi-f
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"Sap yelling 'autbal
after the playwu
YOU'RE TELLING
By WILLIAM RITT
Central Pi ess Writet
LATEST DISPATCHES from
Australia tell ot a man down
there who stood on his head
and drank 10 steins of beer
This puts to shame th'se engi
neers whose feat was to force
just water to run uphill,
i i t
A Romanian murderer is, c
cused ol killing 32 taxnab
drivers. This is carrying pedes
trian vengeance too lar.
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First the shirt tail disappeared,
then the shirt It's a neat trick
but we don't care much for it.
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You can tell an old-fashioned
speaker, says Grandpappy Jen
kins. He still uyi
hot cakes" instead
nylons."
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April showm m
flowers evenlual;
moment, they also !j
glowers.
This is the time ol
a weather fortttwf
how in the world M
cided to lake tht job
place.
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Horseshoes, we ill
tographs, come lull
sizes and shapes. H'ij
toned jobs for sinui
44 WASHING
Demo Senators Confident
Truman Will Run in 1948
Broadcast Tel
Fiom High Fiji
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON Democratic senators high In parly
confident that President Truman will be a candidate
nation in 1948. and some of them are predicting tffl
that he will get it.
This view was voiced recently by Senators Lister
bama. the Democratic "whin." and Carl Hatch DI
Senator Kenneth McKellar (D) of Tennessee, who
Tr,,o n ii Kt. f th Kpnritp comment
.i mucin as ji valuing iini.i.t ui vn
man who tries to beat him m
hard fight on his hands."
At the same time, a number of
rrnts nre reserving opinion on this
Th rvsint nut that a lot of things
in the noxt two vears, that the m
Tnimfl n ' a nminntinil Will depend Oil
handles the reconversion P1
marked political changes may occu
,,a an trsnnrl in lin'Jf-t
Commerce Secretary Henry A ""1
. . ,. u.. M nnt ODDOSe
jut.ui . uiai lie .vww.t. ' ...
h i r,r resien from vt.
. , u.. ,m Demoo
laxen ai iace viuue uy - ,j
However, others contend that 1
tl, ltlol .-onfliililte Ot
lilt. iJiyn-ll ltd!
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iuit me nomination it me political ciuim
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President Truman
ing of television and FM Ifreauency mo.
at an altitude of 30,000 feet. ,h,
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juiii. ii e.nui imenis are uewiK idii--. . ...
luiuiauun, wnose expens insist n"1 nstrUn
aim aiso mar. me use oi a plane eium'"
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aiuiiuns unci Doosier points ai ircquem . j
a ' !,, ;.,nh smviaiiy equlPr
i uirac imcii. cg.ii o.. nr0Vjj(
ing in lazy circles high above the earth coiiw i
u-,.. .. b.. . f ,ho nations!"
r in cneapiy anil quiCKiy io mosi w e s;
Broadcasts from one plane could cover seveial a
JOHN L. LEWIS already is wielding a PweJ
AFL. into which he returned with his mdepe
worners a month, go. , , m
When AFL President - William Green deliver J
wmie Mouse . steps against restoration , ,, . &
were puzzled. Itwas not like, Green to ft u"
the executive mansion. haj i
Later the information -leaked" that Lewis
affair. Green's statement , and the official vie v
coincided almost word, fur word.
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.m -THE GOVERNMENT IS PROMISING to f
clothing onto the civilian market, but nee
fingers crossed.
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for exactly a year.
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Now it is starting anew by allowing F
The government has been endeavoring to
rrPOQUa rtn i I. 1 . 1,11 1 1 HI"
turers will begin volume production. happe1
But it will be. well to wait and see vvnal
decide to throw away any old clotii.
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