Official Organ of Murphy and Cher
okee County, North Carolina.
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phy. N irth Carolina as second class
mutter under Act of March 3. 1397.
lUitlcy Williamson .... Editor
Barbara Mrronry .... Social Editor
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I Year, in N'orth Carolina
B Mo*., in Nurtli Carolina
I Year, Out 111 Mate
RECORD EARNINGS
W?'I!. we finally made i",. After 12 j
loiu years it is 'U'v possibl ? to say
th t tlie people of '.he United Sta
ai - arnmg more money than over
be'nr," In history.
Income payments : 1 individuals re
aolnd .1 record liit?!i during M ly.
equal to an annual rate if $1> JIM
000. DIM). Tins compares with l ;
income payments Us' year Ju.-; under
$76,000,000,000 ui'l i j-'-ik fuu ? iu
1929 of just over WJ 'WO.OOJ.OOJ.
Lot's take a quick 1 iok it soni ? o"
the places this ,*Jirni:M power :j
coming from. Every day nearly 130.
000 freight cars are being loaded with
commodities and merchandise >f A'.l
kinds. Down at the shipyards the
Navy's construction program inval ?
ves more ships than nave been "u"n
ed out in the last 25 years In the
construction industries business 1 i
humming.
Residential building alone is at
the best pace since 1928 when 75J.003
new dwelling unita went up. The
steel industry in the first half Jt
1941 produced a record-breaking to
tal of 41.000,000 tons. That's within
20 per cent of steel output in all 1917,
peak year of World War I.
And so it goes throughout the
warp and woof of our present nation
al defense economy.
Yes sir! America liao gone to work
with' a vengeance. They say that all
work and no play makes Jack a d ill
boy, but there is no need to worry
on this 9core. It seems that 83 per
cent of U. S. families play sards.
More homes have playing -ards tliau
radios.
Contract bridge l? .-.till the most
popular game, and it's on the in
crease. Second most popular game
with women is auction bridge; with
men It's poker.
Pinochle ranks third with both:
sexes.
WOMEN IN WAR
How about women's place in the
defense program? In Britain, women
have taken over many actual duties
ordinarily handled by men. in addit
ion to civilian jobs like drivinst buses.
maknK munitions and firming. Many
Britishers fear the gals will not rea
dily surrender their new jobs after
the war, and it might mean an econo
mic and social upheaval.
"Over here." the American Wo
men's Voluntary Service is speeding
up its organlzaton. college girls are
studying defense work and many
volunteer ambulance units are being
formed. One big firm is sponsoring
first aid courses where employees
learn to take care of disaster victims,
while at the Frankford arsenal in
Philadelphia several hundred women
have been trained for jobs rangng
from packing munitions to adjusting
time fuses.
Even though there's been talk of
conscripting women, most observers
believe American intervention in the
war would not cause much upheavel
as It has in Britain Ambulance driv
ing and first aid work. yes. but only
minor replacement of men In busi
ness.
The most profound effect may be
on femininity. Fewer permanent
waves, less makeup, more slacks and
L
I Typical jf Wuh.ngton is the way
in whi?\i rax measures designed tv?
ra: -i>? add *d revenues for defence,
which seem.'d to be KJtn^ Jlons* a*
swimmingly a< could be expected,
have come a cropper i:i the last wee!,
ir so And the reason for all this Is
?> curious is it is unfortunate.
Tlie progress )f Mte new rax bil!
was upset by the Injection into the
House Ways and Mejnj Committee
of highly c >nt: )v.t -ial material com*
ins? directly from the Administration
as "must" legislation. .
Included anion ; the "musts" listed
by *he Ainunistration were even
stlffer m in iustry. which was
1 1 ready he.ivily ixed and in line t >:
be ix?v1 i-ill m-^re heavily under i
'he terms of the original measure. I* ]
is believed by many who ought to i
know that these steps would have aj
disastrous effivt upon mony business '
jonwfiw, Included in that category I
being some >: the most mterprUing. j
Actually, the gist of the matter Is
! this:
Ex <'tis iv h.'-lriius lad been held
in cummluw an the proposed new
tax legislation Experts from many
fields had .iie lpporJimty to present
their ease. Then suddenly. iftpr x bill
h.id been drafted on the basis of ?1!
this disc u.ssiou. the White House
"musts" w ere tossed into the situ i -
tion like e?(t into a reinivinu fan.
In other woids, the intr .duction of
the tax "mu.?" was t last minute
thought? or lack of it. Meanwhile,
the taxpayer awai s i des:ision snd
wonders what his fate will be.
A Congressional committee. in re
porting a new Army appropriation
bill is quoted as declaring thit
imong those who deserve Congres
sional thanks are "our peerless in
iustrilists and those of their work
forces who have responded magnifi
cently" to the needs .if defja,.1.
This startled one Southern editor
to the extent that he sat down and
wrote the fallowing comment:
"One ? in a'.n ?t ? th ? ??at'n'tl-i ?
I 'j'l-in -ss leaders. r:< :u a i : :!v to en
quire. Wiii da: J wli > da'.?' One
iMti f ir.!ive thom he:r naturil 3US- '
picions. 3ut m:iv > ' i : > >d sun. !
Th-e mav actual!'.' be i -'lunge of
; heart !?U-i in i Jministrjtian een- j
Of crar?e tile editor :n question;
expressed ' i 1 1 ' before the
above-men: ioned ax bill :!ianm '
*vr? su*nejted by 1 1 1 ? Administra
tion. If 'a ? hid had the uportunity
i observe the .short-mtlce atfmpi
t ? reverse carefully stuided legisla
tion. me wonders whether his com
ment on tli ? nenerai situation would
: have been quite so ootimLstio!
W.ts:itn?'<)n Sid^lijhts: You've ill
heari i! sectionalism in politics. It
:s frequently a dangerous force,
destructive of whit i; good for the
ruti m as a whole. But in til-" fol
lowing Congressional exchange a
mong thr members < who shall be
identified here only as Congressmen
A. B. and C' it was merely comic.
The subject is location of new de
fense plants:
Rep. A.. "I respectfully submit
that, outside of California, there is
not a single plJnt west of the Mis
sissippi River. It seems that the Mis
ssippi River is the dividing line."
Rep. B.: "The gentlemen is in er
nr because many of them go to Chi
cago."
Rep. C.: "Chicago is not wes. of the
Mississippi Rivver. may I inform the
gentleman. . . "
With all the talk about "gasless |
Sundays" that is now being heard, j
this might be a good time to remem- 1
ber the wry comment being credited
here to newspapers in one foreign
city that is under totalitarian dom
ination. These ism-fearing papers are
reported as saying that the height of
luxury in their country is to "spill i
drop of oil and wipe away the spot
with gasoline."
W. N. C. Mountain Boy Takes 2nd Prize
Jn Two-State Essay Contest on Farming
Completing with three other dis
trict winners in North and South
Carolina. Carmel HolUngUworth.
Waynesvllle High School student,
won second prize of $15 in the four
teenth annual Cooperative essay
contest, sponsored by the North Caro
lina Cotton Growers Cooperative As
sociation and the Farmers Coopera
tive Exchange.
F! rst prize of a one-year tuition
scholarship to North Carolina State
C">H ;g ? and $100 in cash went to
14-year old J. F Allen. Jr. of Mint
>. >mery County Third prize of SIS
went Miss Dorothy Mclntyre of
Red Oak High School, fourth prize
of $10 -.vent to Meldrum Crapse of
Euill High School, the only South
Carolina winner, and fifth prize of
$7 50 went to Henry Napier of Polk
ton High School.
Speaking on the subject. "Agricul
ture in the Carolinas Yesterday To
day. and Tomorrow." Hollingsworth
said, in part:
"The farmer can never attain a
substantial degree of prosperity, as
long as he buys his supplies that go
Into livestock and crop production at
retail and then turns around and
sells at wholesale "
low-heeled shoes.
Speaking of women a recent sur
vey shows that the female of the
species Is wealthier than the male
Women in the United States control
70 percent of all private wealth, and
they .spend more than a thousand
dollars every second.
Tliey buy 90 per cent of all food,
95 per cent of all furniture. 75 per
cent of all clothing. They even pur
chase 63 per cent of all men's ties!
There are 37.000.000 adult able
bodied women in America, and their
estimated collective holdings exceed
$210,000,000,000.
Mrs. Posey Lists
State Centers For
Student Workers
Mrs. Wlllabelle Posey, in charge of
NY A work In Cherokee County has
announced the following list of train
in? centers where County boys and ]
girls can get work experience look- 1
Ing to employment in vital defense
industries. Student workers are paid
while learning.
Complete details cm be zo'ten
from Mrs. Posey at her office in the
the County Court house, in Murphy.
The list of centers follows:
Washington ? Hrlfc-clfcricii. cook
ing. nursing, and sewing.
Greensboro girls-c'.erical instruc
tion. and cooking.
Ansonville ? boys-agriculture, con
struction. cooking, farm shop work,
and forestry instruction.
Sardis ? girls ? clerical, cooking,
laundry, nursing, and sewing.
Hickory Orove ? boys ? auto me
chanics. construction and mainten
ance. laundry, cooking, and radio.
Durham ? regular course, auto me
chanics. construction, photography,
woodworking, machine shop, radio,
and sheet metal work.
Raleigh ? regular course, cooking,
photography, woodworking, machine
s iop. and sheet metal work.
Oreenville ? regular course, con
struction. photography, radio, wood
working. machine shop, and shest
metal work.
Wilmington? machine shop, sheet
metal work, welding, and radio In
struction.
Asheville? regular course, const
ruction, photography, radio instruc
tion. woodworking, and machine
' shop.
ACCIDENT FACTS
I Aisyon.* think i it uk ?.? two
m )?..).? vehicles to ni ? ic-> an a 'id 'at
???> ,:j grea'Iy di?lllu? me J by tlv
! Highway Solely Division's traffi ? ao
'? cldent s-immary f ir the first six
I months of thU year.
T!u> nummary. completed this
week. reveaio tha*. on!v I'-J of the
j4? traffic fatalities 0:1 North Caro
lina streets and highways the ftr.it
half of this year involved collisions
between two motor vehicles. The
other 413 fatalities were distributed
as follows: 153 involved collisions
between motor vehicles and pedest
rains, 116 involved motor vehicles
that ran off the roadway due to ex
cessive speed. 29 resulted from colli
sion! betwe n motor vehicles and
railiuad trains. 35 Involved cars that
overturned on the roadway. 20 result
ed form collisions between motor
vehicles and bicycles. 31 occurred in
motor vehicles thn struck fixed ob
jet* such as bridge abutments. 5 re
sulted from collisions between motor
\ chicles and animal-drawn vehicles,
and 17 were other non-collision ac
cidents such as when someone fall*
off a moving vehicle.
In other words, it dosen't take
two cars to iuve an accident. If
there's only one car on a highway
and that car is driven improperly,
a", an excessive rate of speed or In a
careless and recsiess manner, that
car can soon kill someone very quick
ly. It isn't "the other fellow" who
causes an automobile to be hit by a
train: it isn't "the other fellow" who
causes automobiles to land upside
d>wn in a corn field afte falling
to straighten out a cun-e. I four out
five fatal accidents, there is only
one motor vehicle involved, and the
driver of that vehicle generally Is
at fault.
Another striking fact disclosed in
the accident summary was that 211
of the 545 persons killed were under
25 years of age. Safety division re
cords show a decided upward trend
in fatal accidents involving youns
driver j.
NOBODY'S
BUSINESS
Bj GEE McGEE
SOCIAL ITEMS OF MORE OB
LESS INTEREST FROM
FLAT ROCK
? mUs jennie veeve smith, our af
fcient acholl principle, has gone on
a western tour with a party of
friends, they plan to spend a while
in tennessee and alabama. she has
never benn a any further towards the
rockies than georgla. and that was
when she was a little girl, but she
has refused to say how long ago that
has been. They went by buss and
will return in the same manner, she
Is taking this 300-mile trip instid of
going to a summer school.
? a new enterprise will soon come
to flat rock, it will be a saw mill and
a engine and a place where brick
can be bought, mr. jones will own
and operate it. he is mowing away
from high taxes at the county-seat,
by the time he got thru paying the
city, county, state, federal, social
security, unemployment, welfare, li
censes to do business, license tags for
trucks, plus all other kinds of taxes,
nothing wa left for him but his ma
chinery and a pile of sawdust, he
says the publlck Is wrong when they
worry about fedderal taxes. Their
local taxes will take all the manney
? the all-nite swimming pool is doing
a rushing trade at this ritlng. They
have cut their swimming rates as
toilers: to go in with suit. c25, to
go In without suit, cl5. his 3oap. c5
extry. youre soap, no charge, he has|
added another dressing room and |
now he has 4 In all. he runs It all I
night and sells beer and other soft
drinks, none of his slot machines
haw been ketched by the sheriff In
running order new. he has a trick
where all of the money that is drop
ped into them falls thru the floor
where nobody but him can get it.
? towels must be fetched If needed.)
? mr. slim chance Jr.. has benn hail
ed Into coart. he turns his mule and
his cow out every night so's they acn
graze on his nabor's crops and they
got tired of him and his stock, he
made like they broke out every night
by theirselves. but the poleesman
Former Sheriff Whhe
Of Clay County Dead
John B. White. aged 67. ! ?)
Sunday at his home In H iv-,,iu
following a stroke. Funeral , , <m
m,-i - aald Ttiesdiy morauu i io
o'clock from the Hayesville Bjjtut
church with tiie Rev. J. rl \v >11
L
M, . White, sheriff of C i : , y
for tw) terms. U survuv i , ,jg
widow. Mr ?. Lena McCrajkeu VV lite
of Hiyesvilie and seven ion Rly
unrl ?? ? -
Hayesville.
Ivie Funeral Hosij had :i :? uf
arrangements.
Bar Will Pay Tribute
To James Mallonee Jr.
A general invitation ha; 'iv. ex
tended to every person in tin. ? l
lon to attend memorljl sesvr for
.Jam** Mallonee Jr., to be hell in up
Courthouse in Murphy at 1 :3tl .> ,u..
nsx-, Monday afternoon. The
will be conducted by the MuriMy
Bo:' Association.
In addition to Murphy a n .i ,
Meisers. Clyde Jarrett of A.i i ? * .
and Robert Phillips and J;-: M >r
piiew ji Rob'oUisville ate t--: >? <1
to speak.
Young Mr. Mallonee. rising v uiiE
attorney, member of the State Le
gislature, and chairman of tin; Oiun
ty School Board died seveial weelcs
ago.
officiating- Interment v> > ,
Hayesvllle cemeter/.
3 ?
spied ou Htm and saw him tear down
the rence hisself and drive them jul.
he will bs sued for all kinds of dam
ages and him and his aiule lx>lli
moughc he impounded.
A HAPPY FAMILY *
?I discovered Happy Family No. 1
last week. It was my pleasure U) visit
in Che home of Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
Mr. Jones is a farmer. He owns 4^
acres of land. 2 milch cows. 2 mules,
t wagon, 1 model A Ford. 5 children,
1 wife and a five-room house with
reasonably modern furnishings in
cluding electric lights md water
works. Mr. and Mrs. Jones buy and
Sell for cash. They raise some vege
tables and chickens and he nas G
bee-hives.
? Mr. Jones is the teacher of the
men's Bible class at the little coun
try church near him. His daughter,
susie, plays the organ. Mrs. Jones us
the president of the local missionary
society. The two boys sing ill tlie
choir. Bttie. their oldest daughter, is
married: she and her husband livr
nearby on a 31-acre farm, which they
are gradually paying for. They live
at home and board there. What they
need they buy? if they have the
money. What they want they don't
buy unless they have the money with
which to pay for it. Nothing but
sickness or death will keep the Jonas
from attending church every Sab
bat.
? Mr. Jones votes at every election
and tries to pick the best men Wuen
no "best men" are running for office
he says he shuts his eyes and voi
a full ticket. The Jones take i Jit:,
newspaper and 5 selected marines.
The entire family drives to the coun
ty seat once a week and takes in a
good movie, choosing always on ?
children should see. Each person a
the family has to earn his or her own
money for this trip: if you cjn't )uy
your own ticket, you stay at home.
But up to now. none of them "
stayed at home. Every night and
every morning family prayer is held
after a chapter Is read In the Bible.
Each member of the family takes
turns in conducting the worship.
? Mr. Jones does not want any more
land. He Is not Interested n making
any more money than enough to
live on confortaWy and lay up a little
each month for a rainy day. He lov's
his neighbors and speaks highly of
them and so does Mrs. Jones. He
extends favors where favors are need
ed and deserved, but he rarely asks
favors. He has no broken terraces or
gullies or bermuda grass in his fields.
He plants at least 4 new fruit trees
every year. He keeps his house
premises looking nice and whereever
he goes he carries a smile and i
word for everybody. The Jones real'?
and truly know how to live.
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