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WjjSSOCtATION
S North Carolina uiv
TUESDAY, DECEMB..
194C
Too Many Parties
We may have our political problems, but
they are nothing compared to those of France.
The siutation in France causes weakness in
foreign as well as domestic policies. A gov
ernment which is weak at home is certain to
be weak abroad.
The following resume of the recent French
general election, which came a few days after
our own should bring home to Americans
the immense advantages of the two-party
system as practiced in our country. Because
it does not follow this system France is
doomed to experience weak government at a
time when a positive policy is essential to
national recovery.
A dozen parties contested on November 10
for the 618 seats Which, including 45 seats al
lotted to the colonies, and compose the French
National Assembly similar to our House of
Representatives. No single party won a
majority of seats or anything like it.
The largest single party, by a very, small
margin, will be the Communists. They cast
approximately one-third of the total vote and
captured 183 seats. Next came the Popular
Republicans, with about 25 per cent of the
vote and 162 votes seats. In the third place
are the Socialists, which polled almost 2 per
cent of the total vote and will hold 101 seats.
The none remaining parties divide control
of the other 172 constituencies.
Because of the French elections the Foregin
Minister of that country, George Bidault, did
not attend the meeting of the Big Four in
New York. His deputy cannot commit the
French government td anything because he
does not know what the policy of his govern
ment will be.
Congratulations
We congratulate the sponsors of the Hay
wood county Annual Achievement Day pro
gram on the selection of Senator Clyde R.
Hoey as the principal speaker for the event.
With a fine understanding of the problems of
the state, and with a sincere interest Mr.
Hbey has much to offer.
Added to these his power over the spoken
word and his ability to talk made him one
of the outstanding public speakers in the
state.
This annual event is one of the most com
prehensive of rural progra.. .., .ield in the
county. Since all farm groups are combined
and recognition given to the men, the woman,
and the boys and girls, each age receives
inspiration from the other in their progres
sive course toward a better rural life in Hay
wood county.
In addition to Senator Hoey, a number of
official frorri the State Extension Service
will be 'present to give a message to the Hay
wood farm folk and their families, which
is always an attraction on any program of
this kind.
Vital Role
We were interested in the meetings held in
Charlotte last week of the REA groups which
were attended by the manager and another
employe of the Haywood Electric Member
ship Corporation.
Governor J. Melville Broughton made an
illuminating talk on the deveiopment of rural ,
electricity u'.id brought out the fact that in
this lies the greatest economic hope for the
South. He asserted, "These small community
supported industries will provide an eco
nomic nucleus for rural areas and help pave '
the way for a more prosperous South."
Mr. Broughton also emphasized that rural
electrification will also play an important,
part in North Carolina's good health pro-!
gram. It will supply the needed power fori
small rural hospitals, and will help relieve)
much of the drudgery of farm workers, which 1
will promote better health, it was brought
out by Mr. Broughton.
We know what the REA has done for Hay
wood county in the few short years since it
was established and its lines strung over our
section. We also ralize that had not the war
come and restricted its larger development,
its service would have been much greater.
MAN IN THE MOON
'X ".Tt i. f li' 1.
VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
Do you think the American
m-niile are tettins the habit of
taking their problems to the Fed
era! government rather than at
temutine to solve them in their
home towns and states?
Noble Garrett "The people cer
tainly have been encouraged to do
that: in fact almost forced to, dur
ing Hip past 14 years."
Mrs. Janet Crittenden "I think
Mrs. Laurie Arrineton "I think
Hint a lot of our problems should
be taken to the government."
Drive Opens
The 40th annual Christmas seal sale spon
sored bv the North Carolina Tuberculosis
Association was launched locally yesterday, j
It would be hard to estimate what the sale
of these penny seals has meant toward stamp-j Having recently had some thief
ing out one of the most dreaded of diseases. J sacualties in our family we lent a
That is one of the fine things about mod- 1 re than sympathetic ear to the
ern medicine, the development of preventive j stor' of Mrs- Newton Brendle who
measures. Years ago we took no action until had ,0 teU of her Thanksgiving
thP nstipnt was down and out. Todav We shopping tour- T,le Friday before
. . . .... , , , Thanksgiving Mrs. Brendle came to
recognize certain conditions and combat them ; , , ...,.,
I town early and boueht her Thanks-
before they become realities. giving dinner so that she would
Each vear the monev derived from these have nothing to worry about the
, ' . . , week of the great national day of
small Christmas seals is spent on a goodjThanksgivingi she made her pur
health campaign. It is aiding in cutting down 1 chases and we all know how money
our cases of tuberculosis. j"st melts in a grocery store. Be-
fore she knew it she had bought
It is something in which we can all help, j $12 worth of accessories to be
for the cost of the seals is within the reach served with the festive bird. She
of us all. No matter how small our purchase, , 'f er patkagcs w,ith hefr ,nar"
'(Plainly written and went to do
we have taken part in a grat crusade. j other shopping. When she return-
Let us not forget to include in our happy ' Alas her snceries were gone.
. , , 'Some customer whose desire for
unribimas Miuppniy as idige d nuniuti ui food was not supportcd by tneir
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
I". It. f ofirdill "Yes, I think they
ire t'etting that habit."
By JANE EADS
A WOMAN IS THE KEEPER
OF THE GREAT SEAL
OF THE U. S.
Paul Davis "When
became president during the big
t!eire ion the people wanted same
'hint? ('one. The government began
takirr; the lead in working towards
solutions of our problems, and the
tendency has been since that time
of looking towards the people in
Washington for help in many of
the things we undertake. I be
lieve we should start depending
more upon ourselves."
WASHINGTON In an odd-looking
cherrywood cabinet in Room
171 of the State Department, the
great seal of the United States is
kept under lock and key despite
the frequent use to which it is put
It is affixed to proclamations oi
the President, ratifications of trea
ties, the commissions of members
of the cabinet and of American
ambassadors, ministers and foreign
service officers and certain other
documents.
All of these documents must first
be signed by ihe President and the
secretary of state before the de
sign of the seal is impressed upon
a paper wafer which has been snor
Roosevelt! to tRe document.
these seals as we feel we can afford to buy.
What Does It Mean?
Pleriiy of Corn
The farmers of North Carolina have just
, completed harvegtihg the largest corn crdp
ever produced" in the state, accbrding to the
State Depaf trhent of Agriculture.
The! yield per acre, was 25 bushels, while
in 1S45 it was 2i bushels; and the total over
the state vfaf 58,708,000 bushels. ! This year's
crop id tepotteli IS "ietwo; per cent larger
than tfie i945 crop; and 17 per cent greater
than the i(e&yef age.;i : '
Thfo'ugH eiftergencfes'we often learri better
ways io "doHhfhgsfihd no dbtibt the urge to iive'tbgetherj but hgreetecl MSloM ih'the
help feed the 'drld hilpW tiS here in the back room of the finifcassy with a forced
state to "produce 'ftiors! cbrrL'i "',, 'v",';" " v ; ,smile! ;HK :tZ:,,-,i IZ-
We live so far away from the high spots
of contact with international diplomats that
often we folks who reside in the small com
munities and crossroads of America don't
realize what is actually happening until the
curtain is about to rise on the play. Then
with a shock we find we are scheduled to
take part in the performance, though we had
no idea we would be included in the caste.
You recall back in 1939 a lot of things were
shaping up which we thought did not concern
us and that to even suggest that they did,
was simply borrowing trouble. As the years
went by and each month we saw the buses
fill up with our Haywood county men, we
knew then that we had been a part of the
picture all along, but had not recognized the
fact.
The following taken from Drew Pearson's
column should make every American think,
and think hard. A party up in Washington
mav not be of special interest to us down
here trying to work out our problems, but it
might prove to be our business.
"The Russian Embassy trotted out Russia's
second-best drawing card, Foreign Minister
Molotov, for the annual reception celebrating
the Soviet Revolution. Even his presence,
however, failed to disguise the deterioration
of Russian-American relations.
"Significant was not who came but who
stayed away. For the first time since 1940
the bulk of the Cabinet was absent. So were
most members of Congress, even those still in
Washington. The Russians knew the freeze
was on. For the first time in five years they
roped off the third and fourth floors of the
Embassy, in previous years loaded down with
choice viands, rare cuts of beef and free
flowing vodka. The crowd simply didn't
show up. The Acting Secretary of State at
tended. So did the Undersecretary of the
Navy, so did fumbling Secretary of Treasury
John Snyder, who loves a party no matter
where it is. There were also a few brass hats,
but the outpouring of top hats seen in former
years failed to materialize.
"Molotove's entire visit to Washington was
a diplomatically correct but cool performance.
He was met at the station by Acting Secre
tary of State Acheson, visited the State De
partment for i0 minutes, and spent 10 min
utes dt the White House just long enough to
say hello and pose for photographers.
One Cabinet member who did hot show up
at Molotov'sr patty Was Secretary of Com
merce ' Averell 'Harriman;ex-Ambassador to
Moscow. Harrimari recently was dubted as!
saymg Russia arid the United States couldn't
pocketbook had walked off with
her groceries. It is a bad story
from a number of angles, and cer
tainly the old one about getting
ready ahead of time, She was more
We read with interest the results
of a recent survey by the Ameri
can Institute for Family Relations
excerpts follow The average
man hasn't "gone with" more than
six girls before marriage. Among
2,169 naval discharges (aged 17 up)
Dr. D. G. Townsend, a chaplain,
found many teen-agers who had
never had a date. Of these aged 25
(average age of first marriage) and
over, no one claimed to have been
dateless. But seven per cent of
the total had dated only one girl
and 10 per cent only two girls.
Thirty-two men had gone with 50
girls each, which in the opinion
of Dr. Joseph Folsom, sociology
professor at Vassar College, is the
ideal number. The survey further
revealed inai young people who
have had many friends usually are
more successful in marriage than!
inose wun tew menus. The sur-j
very further showed that the girls,!
the boys do not marry are a vital
factor in promoting a successful
marriage so we would advise all
mothers and sons, not to worrv
John Palmer "I think thev are
iaki:ii too much to (he govern
ment." sion thai Mr. Homer L. Ferguson
was born in Waynesville, but this
week we found out that he was a
nalh.-e of the Crabtree section of
I lie county and was born in the
ame bouse in which his father
first saw Ihe light. The house is
owned by M. H. Ferguson, of
Waynesville, whose father was a
brother of Mr. Homer L. and is
located near Ihe old Dr. W. R.
Ferguson house, 12 miles from
Waynesville.
Little Mrs. Clydia Mae Richard
son, with an upswept, pompadoured
hairdo and a pleasant smile, is in
charge of the presidential appoint
ments and authentication section o'
the department's Division of Pro
locol. She is keeper of the seal.
Her job and that of her assist
ants is a complicated one.
When Congress is in session, the
section prepares the nomination of
government officials on a hand
some handwritten (or "engrossed "1
form which is signed by the Presi
dent at the Whie House.
This form is then given to the
chief of records, Herbert L. Miller,
a civil service appointee from Mis
sissippi, who takes it up to Ihe V.
S. Senate. The secretary of the
Senate takes the form to the presi
dent of the Senate, who cuts in on
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charitable we fear, than we would! about their everlasting dating and
have been. We met her on her
second shopping rounds and she
told us she hoped whoever stole
her groceries enjoyed their dinner
we might have been tempted to
wish that they choked on our cel
ery, etc.
a new girl every week or so. We
have always had the opinion that
the larger the field to select from
the more opportunity one might
have to know what one wanted.
We had always had the impres-
On our desk we found three
copies of the "Fines Creek Reflec
tor," the paper of the Fines Creek
high school, which is mimeographed
and gotten up in a very attractive
form. It is "published" monthly
1 by the senior class of the high
school and the staff is composed
of Editor-in-Chief, Doris Rathbone;
Associate Editor. S. T. Swanger;
Advertising Managers, Geo. Mc
Cracken and Robert Russell; Cir
culation Manager, Faye Justice;
Sports Editors, Jack Greene and
Mary Grey Walker; Feature Edi
tors, Marie Early and Mary Jane
McCrary; Society Editor, Elva
Trantham: Art Editors, Ruth Sut
ton and Wilbur Teague; Reporters,
Eugene Taylor, Martha Ledford,
Dorothy Rathbone, Doris Teague,
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feiWASHINGT
Schwellenbach to Resign?
CIO, AFL Frown on Him
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Schwellenbach
Soviefs Are Trying to "Sell"
System to American People
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON-Some AFL leaders look for Secretary of Labor
Lewis Schwellenbach to resign his cabinet post before long
They point out that he is "in bad" with both major union groups
his health has been poor for some time, and all of the big labor de
cisions are more often than not made at the White House
Despite the pleas of Dan Tracy, former assistant secretary of
abor and nev. ly-rleeted president of the AFL Electrical Workers
the federations executive council refused to invite Schwellenbach.'
10 us nicago convention this year.
The CIO also is expected to omit Schwellen
bach's name from the list of speakers at its con
vention. The CIO has never forgiven Schwellen
bach for naming an AFL delegate to the ILO
meeting after the post allegedly had been prom
ised to the CIO.
Schwellenbach has been left out entirely in the
current coal-wage case and the recent maritime
strikes were handled in a large part at higher
levels. Reconversion Director John R. Steelman
even announced settlement of the Washington
hotel strike after the labor department had wor
ried with it for three weeks.
THERE IS NO FALSE MODESTY about the
official attempts of the Russian government to
'sell ' the Soviet system to the American people.
The USSR Information Bulletin, an attractively printed and widely
circulated publication distributed by the Soviet embassy in Wash
ington, is unblushing in its aggressive presentation of the glories
of Communism.
The current issue, for instance, includes sueh titles as these:
"Soviet Democracy Is a Higher Type of Democracy"; "The Soviet
System A System of True Popular Government"; "USSR, Cham
pion of Small Nations," and "The October Revolution Saved
Civilization."
In the last-named article, credit is given the Soviet Union for
saving the Allies from atom bombing or worse at the hands of
the Nazis. 1
The Soviet propaganda medium reaches not only Americans who
are sympathetic to Communism but many thousands of students and
others who thus receive an extremely rose-colored picture of life
behind the iron curtain.
Washington observers agree that it is highly unlikely that a
United States publication of similar nature would have a like cir
culation in Russia.
RUMORS ABOUT Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson
ever-pending "resignation" crop up again in Washington.
Anderson, who has said repeatedly be does not want to quit, took
the latest rumors up with President Truman. After his talk with
the president, Anderson called in newsmen and told them bluntly
that he would not quit and would not be "flred."
Furthermore, the agriculture secretary-said that the president
would back him Up on this statement if Mr, Tru
man were asked about his (Anderson's) status in Anderson
the cabinet. , ,
Observers who know the situation have never BcKked by
taken the -Anderson resignation rumors seriously. President '
Particularly, they brushed aside reports that Ander
son would be "flred." It la regarded as well nigh an impossibility
that Mr. Truman would dismiss the man he hand-picked for the big
Job of war-time boss of all United States food. -
A good bet: Anderson will 4tay as long as the Truman cabinet
continues to exist unless his health; which t not too good, maker
It necessary for him -voluntarily t seek reslgnatkm
Aly,,,H "'"MS , (ained the mm-hnchl n
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IN HEARTS OF FANS lainer, and was Ik,,
1 extra delit'ht over I fie hm
NEW YORK In the welter of! is just a cminle l ihIii
publicity attending the rapid rise I mals below Bina (wbj, H
of the Sinatras, Van Johnsons, Bing's careers siarn il ji
Dinah Shores and Danny Kayes, : mately the same lime
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int-it- na uet-ii a lenuericy io ig-, neiynis aimosi si in lilt aneoil
nore the amazingly sustained pop- on top of evervilnn" else
ularity of a young lady whoso lal- one of her l.i'.eiih immp
ents are as large as her own
matronly facade Kate Smith. Th(, llllks untll, thf
in tne last tew months Kate lias classics of slam' and mov
streamlined herself, dropping about I'm sure, passing up .1 licit
Jo pounds, but her popularity from ignoring the assured talcnll
coast to coast has not become lean: tuneful Kale. If somooii
in fact, it picked up at the same along with a play siisge
time she was slimming her figure, finalities of a "Goinn My '
In the last Hooper rating pub- "The Hells ol Si Man
lished as I write this. Kate had at- (Continued on Past' Til
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