T rIE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
Drew Pearson Praises Josephus Harriets,
Says 'Never Lost Common Touch'
(Editor's note: The following
syndicated and copyrighted article
by Drew Pearson, was published
recently in the Shelby Daily Star.)
WASHINGTON When the last
surviving member of the Wooilrow
Wilson cabinet achieves the lusty
age of 85, and when on that birth
day he still writes a daily editorial
and keeps his sense of humor and
his same sane philosophy on life,
and when he is just as great an
inspiration to his neighbors and to
his family and the nations as Jose
phus Daniels then that's news.
And it's more important news than
anything 1 could dig out of a cab
inet meeting or salvage from the
backdoor of a congressional com
mittee room.
So today, on his 85th birthday
I'm going to write about Josephus
Daniels.
One reason I like Josephus Dan
iels is because, though he's held
high position, has "walked with
kings," been flattered by admirals,
been taken up on the mountain.
he's never lost the common touch
He has remained just the same.
His story is a story which per
haps could happen only in Amer
ica. His father died when Josephus
was two years old. and his mother
opened a millinery store to support
her three sons. From this Jose
phus Daniels rose to become Sec
retary of the Navy in the World
War I cabinet and to hold thai
post longer than any other man in
history.
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of course, his old friends in the
Navy didn't like at alii
"The real need in preparedness
is to' abolifh the offices of Secre
tary of War and Secretary of the
Navy and substitute a Secretary for
National Defense with, subsecre-
taries in charge of each depart
ment! That would synchronize de
fense operation under: one head and
would have the advantage of pre
venting a great deal of duplica
tion and inefficiency which pre
vails under the present system."
It took more than 16 years for
others to come around to this view
in thp present Army-Navy merger
now before Congress.
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1941 PRODUCTION .
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CARRYING SCREENLANO'S Margaret
O Brien across the threshold, col
umnist Walter Winchell dedicates
a B-room house at Columbus Cir
cle, New York City, which will
serve as headquarters of the Damon
hunyon Memorial Cancer Fund.
Stars will entertain daily from the
fiont porch during the campaign
drive fur fund. (ulerialionol)
The years between had not been
easy. Later his mother was ap
pointed postmistress in Wilson, N.
C, and put Josephus and his broth
ers to work in the postoffice. His
job was to light the fires, clean out
the building and later to distribute
mail. Finally he got permission
to set up a little newsstand in one
corner of the postoffice lobb, and
at the age of 18 branched out as
editor of the Wilson N. C.i Ad
vance. From then until this day.
Josephus Daniels has been, first and
last, a newspaperman.
This was one of the taunts hurled
at him when he was Secretary of
the Navy. Daniels had riled the
admirals by proposing revolution
ary reforms. He had banned wine
and liquor from the officers' mess.
He insisted on promotion from the
ranks and inaugurated the practice
of making 100 enlisted men eligi
ble each year for the naval acad
emy. He also pushed education
for enlisted men.
In fact, Daniels was such an en
emy of the brass hats that finally
they stirred up charges that he
was a meddling Sunday-school
teacher and political hack whom
Wilson was rewarding for past
favors. Today, however, fair
minded naval officers who look
back on the Daniels regime admit
that on the whole he probably did
more for the Navy than almost
anyone prior to Franklin Koosevelt.
Josephus has said, with that boy
ish grin of his, that, as Secretary
of the Navy, he achieved two of
his greatest ambitions: To be the
manager of a big baseball team
and to hear a brass band play ev
ery day. The Navy gave him a
number of service teams and brass
bands galore.
It is significant that Daniels,
Sunday-school teacher that he was,
was far ahead of his time when it
came to the airplane and to the
unification of the Army and Navy.
As early as 1926 when Douglas
MacArthur had helped convict Gen
eral Billy Mitchell for insubordina
tion In advocating airpower, Dan
iels defended him.
"Mitchell," he said, "was sincere
In his desire to promote aviation
and perhaps hit no harder than
was necessary to wake up the
country."
A few years later, Josephus ut
tered these prophetic words which,
When Josephus Daniels finally
resigned as American Ambassador
to Mexico, as he neared the age
of 80, most people would have con
sidered him entitled to rest. He
had seen his country so through
virtually four wars the Civil War.
which was raging when he was
born; the Spanish-American War;
me hrst World War, in which he
played a vital part, and the sec
ond World War which was jujst beginning.
i Instead, Josephus went back to
l work went back to his first love,
I newspapering. And every day of
l lie week, Josephus gets up at 5 or
j 6 in the morning, bats out his daily
i column or editorial, comes home
I for a short rest after lunch, and
then sits down in the after.ioon to
work on his book.
I saw him not long ago at the
funeral of another great North
Carolinian, Max Gardner, and Jose
pnus looxea as sprigntly as any
youngster there.
In this impatient add intolerant
world, Josephus Daniels has con
tributed fourscore years of serene
and unselfish service. And his
friends hope that he will be batting
those wholesome editorials out In
longhand and doing those same
thoughtful things for his neighbors
far many more years to come.
Cecil News
By MRS. J. EDGAR BURNETTE
Sheffield And Rouser
Attend Co-Op Meeting
R. C. Sheffield, manager, and
Gene Rouser, work order clerk,
Haywood Electric Membership
Co-op, attended the quarterly meet
ing of the N. C. Rural Electric Co
operative association at Winston
Salem, May 21-22.
The meeting was attended by
managers of all the REA co-operatives
in the state and several fed
eral officials, with conferences held
on work order procedure, new con
struction specifications, and allied
problems.
A commencement program was
held at the Riverside church on
Friday evening at 7:30, ending a
week's vacation Bible School un
der the direction of Miss Gretchen
Johnson, Haywood county mission
ary. A, picnic supper was at
tended by most of the pupils, teach
ers and a few friends and parents
at 6 o'clock. Each group gave a
demonstrated program showing the
work of each day.
The groups learned new songs
verses, books of the Bible, pledges
and made scrapbooks: the two
groups of younger children had
drawing and cutouts. The children
were enthusiastically in favor of
a two-week term next year.
Beginners' teachers were Mrs.
Ned Moody and Mrs, Claud Sin
gleton.
Primary teachers were Mrs. Ed
gar Burnette, Mrs. Roy Edwards
and Miss Helen Justice.
Junior teachers were Mrs. Albert
Messer, Miss Alma Chambers and
Mrs. J. P. Ledbetter.
Intermediate teachers were Mrs.
Thomas Erwin, Mrs. Jim Metcalf,
and Mrs. Frank Sorrells.
The collection for the five days
was $10, which was sent to the co
operative program.
Tne enrollment of 79 was a very
good attendance and held up well
except for the rainy day on Wed
nesday afternoon which was 59.
Miss Johnson helped the teach
ers in all classes whenever needed.
and family expect to get moved
into their new home in a day or
two, perhaps this week-end.
The Cecil Home Demonstration
club met on Wednesday afternoon
i at the home of Mrs. a. m. rrazier.
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SALES AND SERVICE
Waynesville
Miss Agatha' Phillips returned
home from the Haywood County
hospital on last Friday evening
where she underwent an appendi
citis operation. She is recuperat
ing nicely now.
Miss Louise
dinner guests
Misses Martha
Lou Burnette.
unamoers had as
on Sunday, the
Moody and Laura!
Mr. and Mrs. Von Rogers and
children were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard S. Medford and fam
ily Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Massle
and son,. Bruce, were the guests
ot Mr. and Mrs. Roy Medford Sunday.
Rev. Gay Chambers has consent
ed to preach on the second and
fourth Sunday evenings in place of
the general assembly program fol-!
lowing trie regular B. T. U. service.
On Sunday evening his subject was
taken from Romans 8:28, "All
things work together for good to
them that love the Lord."
On Wednesday evening during
choir practice hour at the River
side church, a youth choir was
formed for those in the 13-year old
or over group. Next week we
should like to have enough of the
younger group present to form a
junior choir from the 7 through
U0r "0MP-
jWri. Robert Gibson has been a
patient at the Haywood County
nospitai lor the past 10 days.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pressley of
Canton, moved on Monday into the
ira Massie cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. George Allen have
improved greatly and we are glad
to report that they are both able
to be up and about again.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Burnette
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Mrs. Bant Ledbetter had a heart
attack on Monday and has been
quite ill; she is slowly Improving.
Mrs. Thomas Erwin, Mrs. A. M.
Frazier and Mrs. James Reeves and
son. Stevie, attended the first dis
trict of home demonstration clubs
at the First Methodist church at
Waynesville on Thursday in an all
day meeting. Mrs. Erwin and Mrs.
Frazier helped with the serving of
lunch at noon.
Miss Barbara Jean Burnette was
the overnight guest on Wednesday
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evans and
daughter, Judy, of Dix Creek.
167 Teachers-Are
Allotted Paywood
School Districts
194748 Allotment
Received From State
Board; No Change In
Number
The allotment of teachers, as set
up by the North Carolina board of
education, will total 107 for schools
in Haywood county (with the excep
tion of the Canton district) during
the 1947-48 school year, it is an
nounced by Supt. Jack Messer.
This is the same total number as
the teachers allotted for the 1946
47 terra, although there is a loss
of two high school teachers and a
gain of two elementary teachers.
Teachers are allotted, in high
schools, on the basis of four for
the first 85 pupils, and' one teacher
per 39 students In excess of 85. In
elementary schools the allotment
FRIDAY
The regular monthly business
meeting will be held at the River
side church, Saturday evening. An
election of officers for the coming
year will be held at that time.
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