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c s . 1 . ;Vot AY , ML'OTcJ TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE I 7 *,v*'" * E&torial Pago of The Mountaineer ? ?i-j-wrcJ Business Activity Nerth Carolina Facts reports that busi ness activity in North Carolina continued high in October and was above the same month in 1953, although declines were noted in five of the 18 indicators which the publi cation uses as a basis of comparison. This is good news, but the five declines register a warning note that improved ac tivity may not continue. ?Raleigh News and Observer "r Calm Reality Predictions are that some 38,000 persons will meet a horrible death on the nation's highways this year. As one writer put it, "An awesome picture, to be sure, that a na tion is on a rubber-tired trip to the Promised Land." Just a casual glance at the cold figures of 38.000 perhaps does not make much of an impression on the casual reader. Yet when you consider that there are only 34,000 peo ple in Haywood, it makes one stop and think, because the number predicted to die in high way accidents is 3,600 more than every per son living in Haywood county today. If by chance, someone should make the prediction that next year, every person in Haywood county, and every resident of Sylva, (that makes 38,000) would contract a disease that would be fatal, there would be a howl, and a stir that would shake this en tire world?and rightly so. But right on the other hand, when the same prediction is made that 38.000 people will meet death in one year due to highway accidents, we seem to take it as a matter of fact, and lightly turn it aside with the thought, "ok, that stuff, if for the other fel low?I'm a safe driver." Let us hope that the feeling will materialize, and that every one will prove himself a safe driver?cer tainly hopeful wishing, but far, we know, from becoming a reality. Block THp Social Security Tax Increase In a recent syndicated column. Robert S. Allen states tbat President Eisenhower strongly desires to block the automatic jump in the social security tax that is scheduled for the first of the year, ancl that Chairman Reed of the House Way^and Means Commit tee has pledged cooperation. That tax increase, should it come, would offset the prospective income tax reductions for every couple with an income of $3600 a year or less. And there is no need whatso ever for a higher social security tax ? the system's reserves are enormous and are still growing. , The American people want and have been promised tax cuts at the earliest possible time. The President's position on the social security levy is 100 per cent sound. THE MOUNTAINEER Waynesrin*;, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The Conntv Seat of Haywood County Published Rv HIE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor^ W Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers* PUBLfSHED~EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year - $3.00 Seven Months 2.00 Three Months 1.00 NORTH CAROLINA One Y sr . $4.00 Six Mo.iths 2 25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA Dne Year $4.50 Si* Months .... 2.50 Entered at the poet office at Waynesvtlle, N. C.. aa Sec ond Class Mall Matter, as provided under the Act of March 2. 1879. November 20. 1914. j MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for re-publication of all the local news printed In this newspaper, aa well as all AP newa dispatches | Thursday Afternoon, December 10, 1953 j A Good Preseriotion The tourist groups of Western North Carolina had a prescription written for them by an authority here Monday flight, as Fred Whitaker, head of the Tourist Bureau, of the State, addressed the group here in one of his several talks in Western North Caro lina. "What is the greatest need of the tourist industry in Western North Carolina?" he was asked. "Organization and cooperation," he re plied. "It is a simple matter of njerchandising," he explained. "The product here is the mountains and the climate. The nrtarket is known, because people in all Eastern America are interest ed in this section. Now that you have a good product, and know the market, the next thing is to set up a sales organization. West ern North Carolina is now up to that point," the state executive said. Mr. Whitaker has put these cold facts right down before us, and who is there that deny the truth and wisdom in his approach to this vital question? The tourist expert firmly believes that what is accomplished must be done on a re gional basis, with all local groups cooperat ing and working together for a common cause. As we see the picture, it is a matter of all pooling our shots and sending a whale of a load into the potential market, instead of trying to bring down big game with each in dividual shooting a few scattered shot at a big target. Check-Off System Is Practical At this season of the year, our thoughts turn towards the true spirit of Christmas? making someone less fortunate than our selves happy. And as we enter into the-Christmas sea son, there are many individuals, and groups that have already decided to seek out a family or an individual and lend a helping hand. Such work is highly commendable, and certainly no more than we should do. According to the Salvation Army, and the superintendent of the Welfare Department, the local needs will exceed those of last year. The Salvation Army has a list of worthy families that need assistance, and the Wel fare office is compiling a list of about 40 to 50 other families. Every year, some individuals or groups who just go out looking for someone to help often find a family that someone else is al so helping, which .means a duplication in some cases, and no help at all for others. It seems that before an individual or an organization goes out to lend a helping hand that it would be thk practical thing to do to check with the Welfare and see if arrange ments have been made for that family or in dividual to receive help this Christmas. All agencies want to see every family that needs help get assistance, yet at the same time they do not want to see duplications made. The situation has been improving year af ter year, as more and more people join in on this check-off system. And as a result, more and more worthy cases are being cared for at Christmas time. The steady rains of thus week are begin ning to bring stream levels up again, after ^ reaching a record low point during the long 1 drought. A noticeable aspect of the run-off water, is that it carries lots of mud, which is | another penalty of the dry weather in the I additional loss of top soil. They'll Do It Every Time i > Have one kind of sons, and the publishers always tell >ou tmev want scmethin& else"** m v I 7 WAlTLL MX) HEAR THIS \2f no DICE# p *1 NEW ONE OF MINE, AS? %! BAYOU SONGSX da-da-de-dum-de-dum- yf are outa date/ \ tarVL BUT Vtx? A BAVtXJ,/! people WANT / / BERTH A-IF VtXJ M ANIMAL S0NS6.' 1 *T ATOLL FORME" y^/DOG6IES,8UNNlES, tv?^ bodies**STUFF . zp ?y~~7vn ' \ uke THAT TNEREA el (animal son6. | x'^rn / ^X>REDcy** ? By Jimmy Hatlo | So- "TWEKI VtXJ GIVE 'EM JUST 7J-IE TYPE TVEy ASKED FOR, AMD THE MERRY-GO-..OUND STARTS ASAlM/ ^ ! f CX^MA yue rtewy '7/ animal songs is I ^/praol^^rTTL T / PASSE/TDQAy-THE I I S tM' J PUBLIC WANTS SCCNCE l VW<LtK tM-/ RcnoM SONGS LIKE / vr^ "JUST BETWEEN US g 1 ^v, I'M OFF TO VENUS' A AND *MY JOLLY STfcCE i?*- IkO /MOBILE'-STUFF LfKE I nr Ms that twere-v 1 Voice of the People Haa Christmas ckuiet from what it used to he? Mrs. J. P. Ulcus ? "Definitely. We don't have the Christmas spirit we once had ? and don't show neighborly kindness like we used to do. Today we start talking about Christmas too far in advance." Hooper Alexander, Jr. ? "The spirit of Christmas is not there anymore. There has been so much commercialism that very few peo ple think of going to chureh." Mrs. D. Ballew ? "It surely has; we start celebrating too early and lose the Christmas spirit before the day gets here." Mrs. Charles Qulnlan ? "Christ [ mas has become too commercial; I'd like to keep the true spirit of Christmas." OUR dUt-WARK AND OUR SHIELD Looking Back Over The Years 15 YEARS AGO Haywood county is put In quar antine for rabies by Dr. William Moore, state veterinarian. Haywood County Club is organ ized at Brevard College with Mary Poteate as president. Bill Milner, star fullback for The Mountaineers, is picked on all Blue Ridge Conference team. Mrs. P. D. Turner entertains with a dinner on her husband's birthday. 10 YEARS AGO Dallas Rhea Clark, first Haywood "casualty," Is prisoner of the Jap anese. New high is set by Christmas buying in the community. Mercury drops to two degrees for coldest day of the year. Miss Jane Dudley Francis, stu dent at William and Mary College, arrives to spend the holidays with her family. V Walter Francis, who is employed at the Shipyards in Wilmington, is spending the holidays here with ? his wife. 5 YEARS AGO Chamber of Commerce fetes band and football team at banquet in the Hazelwood cafeteria. Caglc Furniture Company at Clyde adds 1800 square feet of floor space. The Rev. and Mrs. Malcolm Wil liamson and three sons leave for Miami to visit friends. Miss Josephine Cabe leaves for Frankfurt, Germany whefip she will visit her niece, Miss Virginia Rob erts. l Views of Other Editors THE POLIO VACCINE TEST The test of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine on ? mass scale start 1 ing early next year can be- regard ed as a most hopeful develop ment, provided hope is tempered with the same caution the medical profession holds. The vaccine is still in the experimental stage and in limited supply. This proposed inoculation of between 500,000 and 11.000,000 second graders in 200 selected counties around the nation is to be the first trial on a mass basis of tests whicfe up to now have been confined to about 700 persons. So far the vaccine ap pears to have been successful In producing antibodies against the three types of polio viruses. But a far better measure of its effect will come after next year's polio sea son, when the results of the large scale inoculation are compared with the disease incidence among non-inoculated children of similar age living in the san.e localities. The search for a polio vaccine has been going on for 40 years, jmd the product which Dr. Salk devel oped at the University of Pitta burgh. with the aid of a grant from the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis. Is the most promis ing yet. If it lives up to its prom ise, it may bring polio under con trol at last. The product contains the killed viruses of all three typesr To insure its safe use on the chil dren, each batch will be doubly tested in advance on both monkeys and on live tissue in the laboratory. This should relieve any lurking fears of parents, although in no case will it be given without par ental approval. This is bound to be a dramatic experiment whether viewed from its sheer size, or from the dread nature of the disease it is to com bat. or from the way it has been brought about. It is being made possible by the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, a non profit voluntary organization, which has been enabled to do this through the financial support giv en to It by millions of Americans. The whole nation will watch the ex periment with intense interest ? and cwtious hope. ?Th? New York Herald Tribune. CORN?ON THE COB, THAT 18 France has knighted the man who Introduced her to corn on the cob. Lloyd H. Cornwell an Ameri can who married a French girl, settled on a farm near Paris, start ed growing sweet corn and Anally Induced the French to try it, is now a member of the French Legion of Honor. This news item seems to strike a friendly, civilized note in an era which la not conaplcuows for either quality. It to true that com on the cob to not a complicated dish. It is on the contrary about as fool proof as any dish can he. The only ingredients are good corn, good butter, good pepper and good salt. mi . a ?^tfuualMbuutf^rf> TDt vii ij iuu i uwuM rvqtnrtmimK is, a measure of abandon on the part of the eater. Mr. Cornwall, or Sir Lloyd, de- j serves MS knighthood: 'ctfrn on the cdb Is one of the world's finest dishes. Somebody from Pitt or Edgecombe County might get an-! other Legion of Honor member- J ship by showing the French how to make barbecue properly. All we would ask of the French in return is that they lend-lease us somebody who will teach us to make crepe syzettes. ?The Greensboro Daily News MARRIAGE INSURANCE County clerks are finding draw backs in Arkansas' new marriage laws, requiring a blood test and a three-day wait between applica tion and license. ? They say license cost has risen to $13 and more. This is too much. Of course, the result is some co habitation that might have been legal marriage. It seems to us the clerks' suggestion of an amend ment to tfie law under which the county health departments would give the bldod tests is a good one. Any other moves to lower the price barrier between the intention of marriage and the legal ceremony would be good. There Is one exception to desir ability of lower license costs. Legis lators should take care that the portion of the fee which is income for the clerk remains at least at its present level. Additional legal changes should avoid reducing in- i come of clerks, already lowered by the recent change. The clerks gain nothing by point ing out that minds change between application for a marriage license ahd actual claiming of the license three days later. Every such case is additional proof of soundness of the law. That's what it was intend cd to do. There is a vast difference to ihe man and woman directly involved and to their communities between minds that change the day before a marriage and the day after. Divorce courts show an overwhelm ing number of hasty mistakes by couples who left tbeir borne coun ties to use more rapid marriage laws of some other State. The idea of elementary insur ance against marriages based only on temporary attraction, or quickly wrecked on health hazards, is just as good now as it was when Arkansas and many other states adopted laws requiring a blood test and a three-day wait. # They are such good reasons that Mississippi may adopt the laws be fore long. After all. the Mississippi court clerks have been able to argue until very recently that changing the. laws would be use less, because Mississippi couples would simply go to Arkansas. And it was only a few years ago that Tennessee adopted this form of protection for marriage The Memphis Commercial Appeal. THREATS TO FREEDOM We believe in fighting Commun ism. There can be no compromise between those who put America first and who put the Soviet Union first in their loyalties. But we should never let our op position to Communism blind us tc the threats to freedom which wc face because of the methods em ployed by some responsible offi cials in their fight against Com munists. If Congressional Committees un dertake to dictate what shall bi taught in the classrooms and wha' shall be preached from the pul pits, they will become a greatei threat to the 'freedom that Ameri cans have known than the Com munists are. It is trqe that no Communist should be permitted to teach in the ' schools and colleges and untver THE OLD HOMETOWN By STANLEY I A/ lH * ? // \W^M. YOUKNOW WHAT T ? MEBBg 'gs T v^^WHis-ruNa Foe_J[ [T Rambling Bits Of Human Interest News By Frances Gilbert Frazier He was about tour aiyl was standing in front of a park: He was also turning the crank vigorously and bawling lust ivestigation we discovered that this was- the fourth meter he had thrust a penny, and the reason he was crying wa! no candy or chewing gum had been forthcoming Total loss profit investment. Poor little chap! What seems like a supreme tragedy nos come an everyday occurrence as he grows into n:anh. ,d ar of crying he will find it necessary to bring forth powers of ment to prevent deeper losses than the pennies dropped int ing meter. ' Did you hear about the moron who turned the ladder down so that he wouldn't fall off the top rung? Our beloved Christmas tree oii the courthouse lawn ] somed out in Its brilliant array of colored lights and will gia eyes of all who look upon its beauty. Somehow, when the lig their first twinkle, the spirit of the approaching holiday seaa itself felt. Until then the event seems to be something in tl ... a time indefinitely ahead. But with the advent uf the 1 ly decorated tree and the street lights, we are suddenly br face the fact that there is no doubt about the' holiday seas just about in our midst, and speed is a requisite. In our n we all lose sight of the real meaning of Christmas and allow to be caught in a web of ulterior motives as we struggle ourselves. If we would only take a minute each evening as the ligh tree are turned on, to look up at the star on the topmost br feel sure the sight will influence us to recall the meaning of and we will then go back to our labors with a deeper feeling ence for the coming Christmas season. When it's hard to make up our mind, our mind isn't a as the subject. t \ Little Mary had tried in every way, except by blunt ass< convey to the family that she wdnted a doll bed for Christi talked all around the subject and felt quite aggrieved when the family paid any attention to her thinly veiled remarks time drew nearer, little Mary became more and more ope suggestions. "Daddy," she asked innocently at the breakfast I morning, "how did you sleep last night?" "Oh, just fine." non-committal reply. "Was your BED (heavy emphasis) com! was the little girl's next remark. "Yes, indeed. But beds arei necessary," was Daddy's response to that. Little Mary's faci with annoyance. "Well, maybe not for ? you but for dolls just as necessary as the hot water blanket Mommie is goin under the Christmas tree for you." In just two weeks from this to-day. Your world will seem to simply spin. You'll hear the bells as they ring out . .. But you, my dear, will be "all in". sities of tHe United States. It is true that no Communist can be a true minister of the Gospel in any church, because a person can't be a loyal Communist and at the same time believe the things that a true Christian minister must believe/ But for Congress to undertake to supervise classrooms and pulpits is not the American way. It is the Communist way. It is the Fascist way. It is the way of a Stalin and a Hitler, not of a Jefferson and a Linco.ln. Ever since our Republic was founded, educational institutions and churches have been free. They have been trusted in the past to1 decide who should teach and who should preach. We believe they can be safely trusted to make those decisions in the future. A profound American truth was clothed with simple words recent ly by one of our educators. He said: "Academic freedom is simply the /ducational need of a free Society. We cannot lose one without the ither." If Adlai Stevenson is right when he charges that the present Repub ican program in Washington peems o be one "of inndictment by sus Jicion, of conviction by accusa- . ion," how much longer shall we lave academic freedom and reli gious freedom in this country? If the fime ever corfies when eachers in our schdols and col-1 Study Marathon Near End IOWA CITY. Iowa ,\P> Julia Miller. 87. who list! cupation as "retired far nearing the goal of her study by mail for a deal the State University of Io She will be within four the number of credits reqi a bachelor of arts degree t finishes her current cours History of the United St Her grades in the coi all "A"s. The oldest Iowa corres] bureau student. Miss M gan her home study pro 1928. She lives with a sisti outskirts of Davenport. Io "I never could afford or money to go to eollei says. Water pressure of a pounds to the square ind the'limit of human endui leges and uriiversities will to search for truth whe may be found and preac be afraid to preach the t they believe because they investigated by a Coni Committee out to cnforc program as Mr Steve scribes, it will mark th< America as "the land of I ?Winston-Salem Journal CROSSWORD gsgjgi ACROSS 2. Billiard shot 22. Stuff gfe FjclmO 1 Cigar fish 3. Sum up 23. Lifted 8. Internal de- 4. Governor's 24. Disregards oay of fruit title c 25. Disease Lijpf-ffU^ta 9. Shadow (Algiers) - of sheep eplH 10. Theater 8. Swell 26. Kind of r M seats 6. Nobleman muffin 12. Robust 7. Ovum 28. A shade EB0MJE1-: 13. Musical 8. Pots for tea of brown S1.1 ? instrument 9. Furnished 30. Like a I I ' ? 14. Mouth: with shoe* horse A comb, form 11. Reptiles 31.'Grcek 15. Cushion 15. Fasten letter p~i?nt 16 Father 18. Reverbe- 32. Embers 38 km if Fault rate 33. Variety of 39. b?* 20. American 19. Rodent cabbage ? a rat I editor and 20. Crushing 35. Indian 0I author snake I weight 40. Lapro 21. Tin ^ aa- V/<op 23. Appropriate 26. Ground covering 27 Exchange premium 28. Beverage 20. India (poet) 30. Suspended canvas couch 34. Therefore 35 Unit of weiggit 36 Extinct fatrd 37 Mistake 30 Of an area 41. Dispenses, as cards 42 Musical instrument 43 Remain 44. Moslem title tpL)J e:-58?iL?v .mm* ? WJJXMVAA I wl 12 ? i=rsif=;p iiiii'P 25 24 2S ~ H 1| 5 1* " " "~W 2^ 35?*?p" 1
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