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JlonJay Afternoon, Apr", 17 j,.. 1 1 0 THE V7AYNESVILLC MOUNTAI.VZI?. f THE MOUNTAINEER Main Street ' Phone 700 Waynesvilk. North Carolina The County Sest f : Haywood County Published By TJIB WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Vf. CURTI3 BUSS : -1 Illl- . Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges. Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY. MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY , Ope. Year, . . $3.00 Six Months , , 1:5 . -NORTH CAROLINA One Year , , ,' , $4.00 SU. Months 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA Qn Year $4.50 Six Months ,..... ;.......l; .: - 2.50 Entered at the post office at Waynesville, N. C.aa Sec ond Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March J, 1879, November 20, 1914. . Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, card of thanks, and all notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of two cents per word. . MEMBER OF THiTaSSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for re-publication of all the local news . printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news disputches. NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTpdlATfoiri xtF- rrrrrr. Vl"una CsroiiM xK Monday Afternoon, April 17, 1950 Learning; By, Comparison A citizen of Waynesville made a business trip .to another state, and to a large city re cently. Upon his return he was quick to ad mit that he was "through knocking his home town." :". For many years, he had found fault with this, with that, and some other things. One of 'his pet peeves was dirty streets and dirty buildings. Upon his return from this recent visit, he decided he had been unduly hasty, and unfair in his criticism", as a comparison of conditions here with other towns. .- v From this one man's opinion, this news paper feels that there are a lot of other peo ple "who are. constantly knocking things which perhaps deserve a compliment instead. . The trip did this particular man a lot of good, he learned first-hand that he was not appreciating many things which he thought only existed in other places. There are many improvements that should be. made here we know that yet at the same time, there are many, many things here -vhich. other places do not enjoy; .,.'.,,. After all, remember, this is a good place to live and unless you are. doing your part to make it even better, you have no right to kick. "Drunk. With Power" Col. C. R. Tolar, head of the state highway patrol did the wise thing in offering his res ignation to the governor. The. colonel has been able to get into "more jams" than most people in high off ice. In fact hewentiinto office under some adverse criti cism, and on every hand, he seemed to be plagued .with the misfortune of doing the wrpng .thing at the wrong time. The straw, that finally meant the resigna tion.: was his ' arrest for speeding through Fayelteville. Only several weeks ago he was brought to the carpet for speeding through a .funeral group in a rural area. ', jGoL ToJaV Jias learned the hard way what a; lot of peopje in office should know before taking office a title does not entitle one to dg any more than the average citizen. It heckless Extravagance Of Government Pensions The Mountaineer wants to say a loud amen to the editorial of The Times-Nws, Hender sonville, on a subject that is fast becoming one of our most abused practices of any government set-up. ' The Hendersohville newspaper says: Bob Reynolds, politician and candidate, proposes that all citizens over 65 years of age be paid $100 a month pensions out of the United States treasury. Reynolds, of course, is not the only politician who endorses that or some similar plan for old age pensions. Citizens who would be force'd to put up the tax money to finance this or any other pen sion system, will act wisely in taking a real istic view of the proposal and in doipg some serious thinking and careful figuring on the cost of this proposal. - The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, probably in the best position of any business enterprise or any institution in the nation, to present the facts of this case, says that citi zens over 65 years of age in the nation at the present time number 11,270,000, To pay a pension of $100 a month to each of these per sons would cost approximately 13 billion dol lars a year. How many citizens, rich or poor, old or young, who are paying the taxes necessary to supply the 'federal government with 41 billion dollars a year for expenses are wil ling to shoulder the additional burden of 13 billions for pension money? 4 In this connection, also, the taxpayers may give some prayerful thought to the pro posal of President Truman that social securi ty taxation rates be radically raised and that beneficiaries of the unemployment insurance system be given benefits of more than $40 a .week.. .. : .. The suggestion is. worthy of a man whose business judgment was so poor that he could not make a small haberdashery pay. The United States today has a large popu lation of chiselers and crooks who steal from the government under the guise of deserving beneficiaries of unemployment insurance. How many additional millions would refuse to work if they found more than $40 a week available as the remuneration for loafing? This newspaper docs not oppose a reason able unemployment insurance system for honest, deserving citizens. But it is a well known fact known to 'government officials and to millions who have no. official, connec tion with the State or Federal governments that one of the most abused and discredited efforts that. has ever been made in this na tion to aid deserving people is the unemploy ment insurance system. If the present system is riddled with crookedness, how much would the incentive to chiseling be increased if unemployment benefits were doubled. When all citizens of this country are trans formed into honorable, honest people peo ple who will not lie and cheat and chisel, i may be a favorable time to adopt something new in government handout schemes. They'll Do It Every Time By jimmy Hatlo Battle puns were prawn up By LAWYER MS STRUDEL. STRATEGY" THAT'S WHAT WENT OM IN HiS NOODLE" 1 Po m:s stratagems work?' voj ASK OF THIS eiANTiJUST PROP UK TO SiSG SNQ AMI? ASK MS LAST CLIENT- '"OKE WA TO HANDLE VOUR type! YOU'RE A CARBUNCLE OM "WE NECK OP SOCIETY! I'M 60IN6 TO MAKE example oFvta TWENTY, VCADC -.I V V - V II ,M.TEr WCTDV -TWHCLI -VUttr.C" II '"v l gV 7 VACATIOM-1U.SEETO IT 4 Af VV 1 V J f$ '1 V THATYOU COMfc UK WITH f(u T Y V, I ilJ?R S JUD6E ON THE rL WIK Ih ;rAra -yr" WAT.': A k k v tvi-iv . .r1 n LookmgB 15 YEARS AGO Forty-third annual ramp conven tion will be held at Betsy Gap on Easter Sunday, April 21. Dr. J, C. Davis, Haywood native, is a member of the Texas Legislature. Maj. and Mrs. J. Harden Howell leave for Washington, D. C. where the latter is attending the Nation al Congress of the D.A.R. Mrs. W. A; Hyatt, second vice president of the North Carolina Division of the U.D.C., is honored at luncheon at Andrews. If YEARS AGO Postmaster General James A. Farley dedicates new postoff ice building at Canten. Paul Davis is associated with his father, L. 'X Davis, in his busi ness of general insurance and real estate. Bebe Medford and Ida Lou Gib son are among eight pupils re ceiving superior ratings at music contest held at Battery Park Hotel in Asheville. 5 YEARS AGO' Davey Tree Expert Company buys large tracts in this county. Forty-two motor vehicles are checked on first day of six weeks drive. . Pvt. Glenn H. Scruggs returns after 36 months in the Pacific. American Legion sponsors Jun ior Baseball Team for this year Oren Coin, Seaman first class arrives from the Pacifiq to spend I a 37-day leave with his parents. Capital Letters By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD WAR TALK Visitors from and use England as a base of war Not For A Minute Worried Michigan is to crack down on all drivers with alcohol on the breath. Excuses . lke, "Officer, I've, just been winterized," are not to be entertained for a minute. Hartford Courant. - - Could Be One who has long mingled with them says apes do not care for what they wanted, after they have it awhile, Could it be that the too bad that so many people get "drunk with species is reverting to man? Washington nnu'er" wVion in nf f ioo ' TTimninrt Ct-. is Evening Star. MIRROR' OE YOU R MIND lANv,NlA -zm XI Kt 7 ! man I 1 L- VI By LAWRENCE GOULD Consulting Psychologist wants, the clinging-vin wile may go in for temper tantrums. Or If she's too much afraid of losing him to dare to show her anger, she may take it out on herself by ber coming a physical or "nervous" invalid, which both punishes him and lets her demand even more indulgence. . it'niiiin V 3Kf X1 Does a chronic liar try to deceive hinuelf? ' Answer: Yes although he does, not know it. The person who makes a habit of telling malicious stories about other people may be conscious only of a wish to hurt them, but unconsciously he's try tng to break down his own ability to,, distinguish truth from false hood. If he can. succeed in getting what he: knows to be false accu sations against others believed, he will findj it that much easier to convince himself that the painful things which he remembers (or Imagine. about himself are the "pack of lies'5, he wants to think thtao. Does a "clinging-vine wife" love her husband? Answer: Yes, but not with the kind of love a man really can rely on. For the more childishly de , pendent you are on another per son, the more readily and vio lently you will turn against him if he "falls you." If her husband does not give her everything she Should you chopse the job that interest yon most? . Answer: Not necessarily, says Dr. Edward K. Strpng, Jr., voca tional guidance expert. The. work in which you're most interested is a better index of your personality than of your aptitudes. Being in terested in doing something which you think will bring you fame and fortune does not mean ypu're suited to it. And both interest and ability may be blocked by inhibi tions. However much talent you have, there is no use trying to be an entertainer it you're so self- conscious that you. cannot face an audience without paralyzing stage-fright. North Carolina in the Nation's capital Inst week were astounded at the amount of war talk heard in Washington. While we get good doses of this type of conversation via the press and radio here in the Old North State, it certainly isn't the main topic of conversa-, tion. We still have the weather, Kerr Scott, .heScjiaJte -race and, what the preacher said last Sunday. In Washington, Desease, nothing else seems to matter. You hear it from drivers of taxicabs and right on up the line to U. S. Senators and various members of the Cab inet. If the war atmosphere hangs as heavily over AJoscow as over Wash ington, lhn some kind of shoot-. Ing war seems to be just around the corner It is to be honed that this is the same corner around which prosperity sat in 1930-31. INSIDE DOPE In strictly off t he-record discussion--with nobody willing to be quoted the inside information is that the U.S. is pre pared to go to war with Russia in the event Joe Stalin's armies march into Eurooe; and this may Include an invasion of Yugoslavia by the Russians. Question seems to be if this country, would-attack Russia if she sen; her legions into Tito's territory or wait until she moved deeper into Europe. You can . hear in Washington on good authority that Uncle Sam is preparing to take over the opera tion of the English Government Letters To Editor SHOULD BIND COPIES OF ISSUE Editor The Mountaineer: During the recent Easter holi days I iound time to work over your "50 years of , Progress" in Haywood, and it is a notable thing. Your eneiaver did the best , he could with tfiQse old faded photo graphs, and how they did . bring back the past to me. and I am. I believe, the oldest (834 years) liv ing,, native-born Waynesvillian. I am sorry that you did not hold this issue strictly to Haywood county history no advertising and nothing but Havwood. This would have been much better. But as it is, it is something never essayed before, and you deserve great credit. And let me make this suggestion to you. Since this is an historical document of no small value, have at least three copies bound and present one each to .the Haywood county Library, to the State Department-of Archives and History at Raleigh, and to the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Then these copies I ...til i- . . ... . "ui ue yrsservea ana win De ac cessible to students of history. My congratulations to you. E. W. Gudger. New York City. if there is a European invasion by Russia. CRISIS GOVERNMENT This column certainly doesn't make a habit of delving into national and international affairs. Nevertheless, we seem to be more world-minded than a decade ago in this State and we are certainly much closer to Washington. Now it is difficult to decide whether all, this war talk is being pushed at this time as a part of the . crisi-upon-crisis approach to which we are becoming more or less . accustemed or whether the danger of war is really as. close to us as the operators of our Nation al Government would have us be lieve, A lot of it may subside after Voice of the People Rambling 'Bound" Dits Of Human Interest Xews By Frances Gilbert Frazier SCENE: Main street. TIME: Sunday ufternoon. CHARACTERS: Two boys of about sixteen, girl ditto, one small girl about five and an automobile from which the two boys had alighted. CONVERSA TION; Older girl: "Well, don't look so sone. She's my little sister and I had to bring her along or I couldn't have come. . . . CUR TAIN! Heard la passing: "Just don't par any attention to her. Her frsndpa rave her a quarter to spend and she's up in the clouds planning what to buy." : -:- -:- It gave that dull, sodden sound (hat only a coin dropped in a quiet room can give . . . and then it . began a rhythmic, rolling , , . on ana on. i ne genueman , wno dropped it raised his eyes toward the ceiling as though in. supplica tion, then turned and grinned sheepishly at his wife who strug gled to keep from smiling. Hur riedly the gentleman plunged his hand into his pocket and drew- out a folded bill- just as the plate for the offertory came to bis pew. Flowers and ; smiles are so mach- alike, They brinr sunshine Into, the most clouded heart. -:- -:-'..' She looked like a doll just out of its wrappings , . . with her first summer frock, ruffled and starch ed. She preened just a little which is allowable for a four-year-old. and then began a close scrutiny of the embroiders ..... abbrevi..; M.".u'"e turned to her '?J She questioned .., Her ni.it. ,uu"s ,euy replied, ' 1 was eyelet eobf24 you?" eyebrows?" ed and asked j, ter what .' mm. N matter if IML; tune withm.t . mins and you'U fi J? will keep step. ' . The mountains' are'l,, hang out their :nJ1 the sunshine, nrea,... 1 opening of the sun1 -mu.e is mimt. house-cleanins. puu and airy : -draper!,, L the garden, of wimfrs l, and opening the inlter the warm bree?e hi ny worries that have hic' : What is a friend? A rmnr i.. .. Firm grap of the hand.' . vsyuus.ive sjmpathy I nterest and integrity. E rnest support. Never. failing trust. Devotion unto death Among the KuW of India a suitor is expects a present of liquor to ty YmCr e Telling c Who will win the major league pennants this season? Sam Queen, Jr.: I'll pick the Dodgers in the National and the Yanks in-the American. Jimmy Reed, Jr.: I believe it will be the Dodgers in, the National League. It will be much closer in the American. I would like to see Connie Mack win it there. Jerry Rogers: Put me down for the Boston Red Sox and the Brook lyn Dodgers. Mrs. Cliff iSenne. My choices are the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Na tional . League race and the New the elections this fall. When there , y0rk Yankees in the American is war or danger of war, the Gov-' Strain. ernment is tree to spend and spend ...... J ' By WILLIAM R1TT - ; Central Press Writtr M O S CO W'S GUBITCHEV took an American television set back home with him. Probably wants to compare It with the one the Russians invented back in 195Q B. C. i i Hawaii would beat Alaska to statehood, hands down it it were just a matter of prefer ence; hula girls or polar bears. Eddie Cantor is reported get ting ready . for television. Sug gested theme song: "If you know TV, like I know TV . . ." Now we know what the poet meant in referring to the "cold steel of combat," In Montreal, Canada, cops broke up a bar room brawl in which the com batants were using chtJ weapons. In keeping vitk thi up-and-down state of ntu fairs, we note, the yo-jrc i aci again. I ! ! A fust-published notun tells ef a California fish W bles along the ocean botto its fins. Probably prortkinj o "walk on" part in lh undersea movie. i j ; A New York survy that dogs have better sense than humans. For thing, they aren't preocci with thoughts about bow better that could drive the fellow's car. UASIIItlGTI MARCH OF EVENTS and is master of the people and the voters, being fearful, go Howard Thompson; I'm picking Detroit in the American and -the along. In days of peace, with no I Philadelphia Phillies in the Nation- lmmeaiaie prospect ot war, the , al. people object to extravagance in Government. After the Congress has passed the appropriations, you may see a lessening of the war talk. SIGNIFICANT Crisis Govern ment or not, it is significant that North Carolina and other stale List week started laying plans for a civilian; defense program against atomic attack. Several members of the Council of State, including .Vtorney General Harry McMullan, State Auditor Henry L. Bridges, and Secretary of State Thad Eure were in Washington last Wednesday and Thursday get ting advice on civilian defense plans which will be carried for ward on a voluntary basis until the Legislature can mako further provision next year. Mark Heglen; My choices are the Red Sox and the Dodgers. Charlie Womack: I believe it will be the Yankees in the American and Brooklyn in the National again. Bonnie Howell: The' Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals 1 hope. PUBLIC LAUGHS LAST CARMEL, Cal. (UP) A HollyT wood movie company tied up traf fic for hour? along part of a main street in Carmel taking a sequence involving the star, Robert Young, Irate " residents who had been blocked off the sidewalks and street had the, last laugh, however, when they found the entire strip of film taken had to be thrpwn out because of poor lighting. FALLING BAROMETER Eisenhower Warning Jolts Johnson's Ardent Following Does Former Allied Represent Penlogon 3 I Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower The National Geographic Society says a native bride in New Guinea costs about $600. f MtUIR LJNDERtSTlMATtN V TWICE." j Special to Central Press TPTASHINGTON Critics of Defense Secretary Louis JoM W "trim off the fat" military economy policies are pointing; fully at Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's expressed fears for the m Even the secretary's most ardent supporters on Capitol Hi a Jolt from Ike's statement that the United states wu j inn foi" ' I The reason for both reactions is this: Eisenhower is crecM o maw ohora In nrcnurlnET the 13 billion military budget submitted to Congress. Joj took -care to point this out to me i- rt (hri TV la wnrripd. it must be 41 ' inJ.nn ii iminir funds tagged m fvm Armea services ana noi i Vf primarily. Eisenhower's siaiemn . f 1,11 Prps dent lruniaii. freezing some $800 million ailoted for m That : kept the nation's air fleet do groups instead of the 58 auinoi.u -However, the real question raised by hower address is whether he is carrying for high Pentagon brass who are una i nni W th.v suffer the "non-repnsai h j k . Adm.. Louis E. Denfeld, ousieu " operations after criticizing Johnson's policies. ' u, LESE MAJESTE The White House is losing m bricks and rotten timber the executive mansion " 1 J.. . ...111. m,tirv legenua. au n nas is nistory witn nu t)ien,f The. trouble is that there just isn't any tunnel from u i to the Potomac river. It is only a sewer built during w q of the presidential residence and is still being used lor l Pu:?8e' .. . ' .. . ...KUforthUf ine XMationai ueograpmc society is resp"-- . the ri to tnose wno prefer fancy to tact. polu ..coUrif( ground under the District of Columbia just doesnt neung. , - : , Vthe W That seems to rub all the glamor off the story tn t tunnel, supposedly started by Dolly Madison wne marched on the capital in the War of 1812, ngurea a Civil war plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincou 1. ucoM Wisconsin, insists that the GOP gave him no financ j preliminary investigation to develop his cnar5c -department is shot through with Gommunists or fei w J The Republican campaign committee, it is unas to fiirnUVi tha xxn .....i- u..iAr with funds on tne g Is not a candidate in this year's congressional eiec; ' .i ii is oovious, or course, mat, tvw"'j " can candidates across the country. fir.sr.ci1 1 However, even If ths leadership refused m"""' for the least one Senate Republican dug into his own , TOiniur uwen Brewster ik j, Mame. ai funds. committee, gave him $100 out of his own personal THE LADIES Women comprise only about 6 5' per cent of all persons listed in the new edition "Wh "Who's Who in America." jqo A In soft Af th cmiii horcnt?e. some 4U women made the listing, By far the largest nU"Lt of tk' ber of them are in the education field 23 Per number. ; f jn As a group, the women are on the gray sine ' expected, many of the coy sex didn't list their 8 who did report it, the median age was 87.
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