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?hr (Chmikrr Srmrt Published every Thursday by B. Arp Lowrance and Addie Mae Cooke \DI>IF M\K Cl K>KK ?:W Manager A. V 5HAMBLIN - Associate Editor ROY \. COOKK Production Manager SI BSCRIPTION RATES Cherokee and surrounding counties: One Year $150 Eight Months $1.00 Pour Months 50c Outride above territory: CSC 553 SHOO Six Months 91.3d Entered in the Post Office a*. Murphy. North Carolma. as seccncl Class matter under the Act of March 3. 1897 MEDITATION "Thou broadeneM out with every year lioi'h breadth of life to nnrl: I varrc so much sweet. Thou are m> much more NWh-t With centle swiftness lead me on Ikar God. lo tl*> face; And meanwhile in m> narrou heart O make th> >ell more spare!" POST-WAR OPPORTUNITIES Everybody is going all-out to win 'lie war and nothing will interfere with that effort the man on the street, the factory worker, the housewife, the farmer, and the business man are showing grim determination to bring this war to a successful termination. But we should not be human if we didn't sometimes speculate on what wi 11 follow. We face a huge task in winning this war and just as huge a task in winning the peace. To win the peace, we must prepare now- even while we are concentrating cn winning the war. No one wants to go back to days of de pression. of idle plants, idle men and idle money. American industry, built and maintained by foresight, isn't ignoring this problem. It is tackling it right now. along with dozens of other problems created by war production itself. It's laying plans for a speedy change-over to in creased civilian manufacturing when this emer gency is ended. With all its natural resources, its many ad vantageous building sites, and its outstanding business citizens, Chetpkee county should plan now for the post-war days. It should plan for new industries to take care of her returning victorious warriors: it should plan for expansion of its tourist a tractions; it should plan now for greater educational institutions, religious and civic organizations: it should begin now plans for extensive farm and livestock expansion. Regardless of what has been our practice in the past, the time has come to make adjust ments ? everyone is being called upon to make adjustments. Let one of these adjustments be that we will work for a greater Cherokee coun ty when the peace is finally won. MorUrn Americans aenerallv have been in clined to look down cn walking as a drudgery, and few have mastered the art. The individal who has will find the OPA order banning plea sure driving far less tragic than the man or woman to whom walking is to toil laboriously and painfully toward a remote objective. Walk it. g, indeed, will become to all of us a pleasure, if in the end it will bring us victory over the axis powers. "A new concentrate of green vegetables causes wounds to heal more quickly." At last a painless use for spinach: You don't eat it, you apply it. ? Detroit News. England has some children who mistake ? lemon for a banana, says a writer, but then number is small compared to the adults in thi' country who have mistaken a lemon for a usee car bargain. ? Louisville Times. No sugar for the coffee; no coffee for the sugar. Let the war go on. ? Philadelphia In ^ quirer. (Pur (Great America -?? /fo/Tryon A TOM or AAfTAL PE? L?r* BOAT \S % NOW BEING SAVFv BVONE M S MAworACTU?r? or FO?E?T PfcOOOCTSuTMO AAKFS MUWCH7TPS Or -TMESF BOATS - FROM PtV WOOD ^ /VIOKC VV3NEV PROM TA^rS Y* -5P?nT Iki THE USA *OQ tPUCAT,0*AL PU?P05?5 THAN ?* ALL CTM?fi COU^TtHES OF T?E v-OQlD COMBINED touelpspsi^ mf AS^e*?BLVO? 4MC??:CW* PlAN?^ SVlAlt v? SIMILAR TO TWO^E 0^?V BV OtMTlSTS AUf N.)WU5?0 IN 4'WC?iANf ASSEMBLY PlANTS TOMFlP ^kA?( N SEE ?N1C>S*\Aii A^POO* OP TWf WAV ^-^Tr* Great Thoughts of. reat Thinkers We ncvt r arc satisfied with our opinions, whatever we may pre: end nil :ht-y are ratified and ??. luirmed by suf'-.aics of the of mankind. We di>pute and wrangle lorever. we endeaver to ret men to come to us. when we do not go to them . Sir J Rey nold < I would much ra:her tha: po> teii;y should inquire rsliy no ?*j? wprn wecteed^ to mo than why they were.? -Cato. A habitation giddy and unsure hath he tha* buildeth on the vul gar heart Shakespeare. He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secur ed his own Cofucius. He that finds truth, without loving her, is like a bat; which, though it have eyes to discern that there is a sun. yet hath so evil eyes, that hit cannot delighf in the sun Si: P Sidney As Others Think oi;r town One by one the lights so out, and half the town is fast asleep by 10 o'clock Here and there a light gleams where a party is :n progress or someone sits reading into the night. A cold Novembt-r wind whips across the lawns and street lights sway drowsily at :ncir all-ni^ht vigils. Far in the distance a locomo tive whistle cuts into the still ness. Another troop t:ain is mi ning eager young men to their rendezvous with life or death. The editor lays aside the work he has ocen doing, rubs his eyes in fatigue and snaps off the desk lamp. Fourteen hours ago he sat down to work. Just another div. Even now he hesitates at the | f ont door and stands staring out into the night. This is the town, this is the county, these are the people he loves. Thirty-three years is a long ? time to stay on one corner Thirty ? j three years . . . good years . . . years . . . 7*51 worry and pain and disappointment* yes. and years of triumph, too, be cause the town, the county and the people have prospered. ! Editors seldom grow rich in money or property, but 33 years on one corner are bound to make one rich in pleasant memories and in friends. Remember back in 1S09? Babies born then now have bi bies of their own. On the same corner 33 years watching the moving panorama of life . . . lovers marry . . . babies born . . . children grow up . . . friends and , neighbors die . . . and the edi or recording it all in print as time marches on and slowly turns hair : to silver. Some of those silver hairs were put there by worry about some thing threatening to harm the town or community ? and edi torial guns were always trained on anything or anybody about to leopardtae the welfare of the people. The troop train whistles again Remember 1917? Thc7 left then la trainloads. too. dome never returned. The boys of 17 art retttng a little gray now. and soma a atU ? pasm -hy. WW a day K was la Omni when that war nMI Ws mac uroh bells all day long! Re membcr? And then the boys came back . . Jennings Marlin and L'lvir Stockhwe . . Elmer Mat-sel md Toad" Reinwald . . . and a?! the rest. They come back and got down to business and v.. lived again. M.t iagos and bir:hs and picnics vh parties: liiarh school gradua ?:n. and football c.imo.s. drouth> and depressions and years of plenty. And now. war again. But it will pa>-. Once aga:n peac.% will reign \vr . America victorious. Business will go marching along in a joy ant ? the business of life. inf ? ? in,.rnorc?. of farming. All over the county it will hum. Cul' the roll as you proudly say: OUR TOWN Call the roll! Car mi' Grayville! Enfield! Trumbull! Crc .-ville! Norris City* Burnt Prairie! Mill Shoals! Maunie! Herald! Emma! Ep worth! Spring - erton! Cento: ville! Phillips: own! Gossett! Middlepoint! Roland! Sacramento! Sumpter' Calvin! Answer the call of "our town" and say to that troop train: Hurry along - hurry to your destiny. Return soon, and bring those toys back." Another light goes out across :he street. The chill November wind sets a sign creaking on a store nearby. The editor is not weary now. There's a gleam in his eye and a -pring in his step as he locks the door and strides off into the night. Roy Clippinger in the Ca.mi <111. ? Democrat-Tribune. EXPERT TESTIMONY There are more than 2.600.000 civilian employe.-, on the pay roll of the federal government. Many observers tolieve this is far more employes than t ic government needs ? so many more that the overcrowding in burocracy prev nts efficient wort and interferes with the conduct of the war. The Washington Daily News asked five rank and file employes in greatly expanded agencies a: the capital what they think Here are their replies: 1. A 26 year old war depart ment worker from New York: "Besides a lack of opportunity there's never enough work in my department to go around." n 2. A 26 year old native Wash ingtionian in the war depart | ment: "We work' so hard I have I to spend every other Sunday at ! the officee. but all I do is read j three Sunday thorolv. ? T'Ve Uicu iiucc IttliC'a to Quit, but | they tell me they'll attach 'with precjudlce* to my civil service rat ing if I do. A lot of it's the army officer supervisors. They're stub born and unreasonable an won't listen to civilian supervisor. 3. A 24 year old clviyl engineer from Missouri In the coast and roodrtic survey: rTXny imbecile with a minimum of muscular con rol could do my job. They hired me as an artistic lothographer at he $1,660 semi-professional sa lary and now I spend all day trac ing contour lines from one map to another. It has great occupa I tional therapy possibilities, but T I ran'i use them. I've tried to quit but they wont let mc go." 4. 30 year old navy department employe from Cleveland: "You j i could fire 30 per cent of the de ; partment and still net The work j ; done. Nobody vuits to take re- | ; xponsibillt? tad nobody Tsnt* V> ] give orders. Because the super visor wants to make a good im pression. she and her clergks do aU the work while everybody else slt? around " ?. 23 year old civil service commission worker from Wiscon sin: "RoneaUy. It's almost enough to mate a reactionary oat of me. i I took as exam la loomillsB an4 Restrictions Of Newsprint Are Announced By WPB The Newspaper Industry Ad visory Committee met last week in Washington with WPB offi cials to discuss the supply and demand situation affecting print paper. No final action was taken in connection with any possible changes in the supply of print paper available for use by news papers. However, two steps were taken. I"..* Ir.^u^try rom mittee adopted and submitted to ! the War Production Board the following formula which can be used as a basis for further study ' of the problem ? ? The war requirements of the United States have created short ages of manpower, electric power and transportation affecting the supply of print paper and other crin al materials required in the j production of newspapers Not withstanding the esscential char actei of tiie public services rend red by newspapers. especi illy in j ime of war and with full ap preciation of their fundamental ponsibiliiy in a democratic mmunity. it is considered nec essary to reduce their consump- . ticn of wltirnl materials In order that such reduction may be equitably a pp. ted. the i. .lowing order governing the use of print paper by newspapers is deemed necessary and appropri ate in the public interest ? "Each individual newspaper I ?daily. ?cven-day or non-daily) may consume print paper in each quarter commencing January 1. 1943 in an amount based upon the total tonnage required to pro duce its "net paid" circulation for the corresponding ouarter of ?he year 1941 Inevitable loss in usable ton nage including wrappers, damage :. transit, spoiled copies in print ing. etc.. in a total amount of 3 . percent shall be allowed over and above the "not paid" base ton nage. "In order to reconcile the 1941 base to substantial circulation in : creases, the director lias authori ? ty to make adjustments to the *aid base. "Should reductions from the aforesaid base be necessary in the public interest, they shall be ap plied by the Director General for Operations. War Production Board percentage- wise to the base a i determined in Section 1 . "Print paper shall mean any grade of paper used. The ton- j rase used in all ready print pages r supplements, including those , printed or prepared by other than the distributing newspaper, shall be figured as part of the distrib- , uting newspaper's consumption in both the 1941 base periods and I the corresponding quarters of 1943. Print paper as defined by this order shall be that used for the publication of said newspaper. All loans of print papeer shall, with in the period of 30 days, be re ported to the director." After a discussion of this for mula. it was also recommended by the committee that thts formula for possible restrictions, if adopt ; ^d. not be applicable to the first 25 tons of print paper bought by I any paper during a quarter, after : the paper had complied with the ? provisions relating to the 1941 ! level. This would have the effect ? of net consumption by imail papers which, en the whole, j use a relativeely small amount of the total print paper supply. It was also pointed out that i the formula, if adopted, would | affect American newspapers in I varying degrees, so that it is im possible to give any flat per ; centage to which over-all print paper consumption would be cut. 2 The Industry Advisory Com mittee adopted a resolution along the following lines ? "Your committee unanimously recommend to all newspapers ?hat, for the purpose of meeting ?tie shortage and possibly fore | stalling the development of fur "her shortages, all possible eeco nomlci In the use of print papc and other critical materials con sistent -with the least passlbl *as hired as a Junior professions' assistant Now all I do Is file | ?rrade a few tests, and try to looV busy the rest of the time. Wher I mentioned qulttln*. my super visor said she didn't think it was it was vrrr patriotic of me, but I told her. 'Where I come from they don't pay file clerks $35 a week and I don't think It'a very patriotic to set It from tht jo-T arn'." ? ctrratasd frw impairment of their public serv- ; ico be Immediately instituted." During the meeting the follow ing joint statement was made by William G. Chandler. Director of the Printing and Publishing Divi sion. and by Donald J. Sterling. Consultant to the Chairman of WPB on the newspaper and pub lishing industries ? "The sole purpose of our ses sion today is to attempt a balance between present ?uiu i iiiiiiiSuwi* | supply of print paper and other materials which we can use in the production of newspapers. "It is our hope that you will understand the limits of our dis cussion. It is our understanding cf the War Production Board that we may help industry in its sole purpose of maximum aid to the \\ii: eilort wi:h the minimum ot injury, or e\ien destruction of private industry. "You will understand, with all j its implications, that the repres , ^ntatives of Government here present, and you. the representa tives of an esseential means of public information are here so I that we may completely submerge j our individual interests. "You. as members of th Ad ' visory Committee, are the best j available selection of those who represent the difficult task of newspaper publication. In an ef : fort to help you in your advisory capacity, a task group of five men has sought a solution of an ' unavoidable and inevitable prob~ 1 m. These live men have left : their respective responsibilities at ] home to serve unselfishly in your ! interest. "You are met to advise the War | Production Board in necessary re ^trirtion of use of that product on which your available informa tion. your contributions to educa tion and your ideas of entertain ment are spread before the Amer tcan public. "For what our individual judg ments may be worth, these five men have utterly divorced them- j selves from their personal or cor- i porate interests. Their recong- j mondations to you are. in my judgment, in our common inter- ' est. May we attempt to make it | clear to you that our meeting to- j day is without regard or consid- | n ation of the present or future ; cost of the product through which the public is served. The prices which you will pay for print paper, metals and chemicals nec essary to your service to the pub lic are not the responsibility of the War Prouction Board. Prices are the responsibility of OPA. The ceiling prices on which we are dependent for our public service I and our ultimate assistance, rest : with others here and aboard. "Restriction of volume of those products neccssary to our con tinued sen ice may or may not j control prices of our necessary | materials. It is with no idea or purpose of avoiding responsibility to you that we limit this discus sion and War Production Board responsibility to available quanti- | ty and not to cost. "In the words of a former pres ident of the United States. Grov er Cleveland, "it is a condition and not a theory which confronts us.*' "Your task group and the se lcctioned persons from the news paper industry have sought means j lO control m lliVtitcd CJpp'y so tnal the result may be as nearly equitable as human means may permit. "Lach of us has our respective peculiar and local situation with which we are concerned. We have implicit confidence that each of us will divest ourselves of our respective interests on behalfs of ervice through the medium of the printed word. "We will retain our vital func ion in a democracy, regardless ?>f the limits Of material and the *ost thereof." During the discussion, it was i -ade clear that the War Produc- | ion Board, in any program to b? dopted. does not intend to adopt ny regulations affecting the way i which publishers may use thr 'antitles of newsprint WhJch a~e ?ailable. During the session. the pub -hers unanimously expressed *eir tfranXs to R. Z>, Welder, ^wsprint administrator of Cana '* and to R. E. Whitaker. Deputy "H rector of Puip and Paper Diri lon of WPB for the compr*hen ive Information which they made available on the supply and de mand situation in print paper. PoUowtnc the meeting, Sffr Chandler made the fo?k*rta? .statement to correct a misunder standing aris.ng out of repc** concerning the availability * pulp wood for the manufactjnv of paper. "Misunderstandings were cur rent in Washington last week about the availability of print paper next year. "The misunderstanding arose because of confusion between the availability of print Dawr pu.p wood supply. " The facts on pulp wood supply arc these ? a preliminary and approximate estimate of the pulp > wood supply available for 1943 indicates a supply of 20.000.000 i cords in North America, including Canada This compares with cur rent consumption at the rate of 25.000.000 cords a year. This in dicates a reduction of 5.000.000 cord.s In the North American sup ply -But the cut in availability of wood does not necessarily mean a proportionate cut immediately In the supply of print paper, because of tho inventory situation today and other factors. It is impos ible now to gi\e a definite figure on i print paper supply to 1943. g? FARWELL TO CREDIT CARDS Residents of North Carolina who have treasured tlielr handy gasoline credit cards must now relinquish them with a sigh, for Petroleum AdminiEtmtcT for w>r Harold L. Trices Km ordered Uu?i. courtesy cards and credit cards "for the purpose of effecting or fostering, directly or indirectly, the extension of credit in the sale of motor fuel to any ultimate consumer by or through any re tail outiet " cannot now be distrib uted or used. This order applies only to cards good to all stations of a gasoline company, and docs not apply to any account you may keep with your local gasoline sta tion or garage. MORE AUTOS Any person who is regularly en gaged in a gainful occupation or who is engaged in work which contributes to the war effort or to public welfare will be eligible to acquire any new passenger automobile which has a list price of $2,500 or more, or any 1941 or earlier model, the State Office of Price Administration announced last week. Harbeck Receives Commission As First Lieutenant In Marine Corps Earl Harbeck. assisant engineer and office manager of the U. S. Geological survey in Murphy for the past 15 months, has received commission as first lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps, to bo on | aviation duty. He is to report to Charleston. S. C. on January 20. Mr. and Mrs. Harbeck and their | baby left this week for Wisconsin, to visit relatives. Mrs. Harbeck will remain there for the dura tion. Succecding Mr. Harbeck in his work here will be Bob Steacy, who v.-m iwiMant for some time. The Harbecks have been active in civic work during their stay in Murphy. Mr. Harbeck has been scoutmaster of the local troop. The geological survey here works in co-operation with the TV A. Frank M. Palmer Dies Hayesville Prank Marlon Palmer. 67. died Wednesday, Decemeber 30. after a long Illness .at his home In Kayesvllle. Funereal services were held in Hayesville Baptist church with the Rev. James Clansmr and Rev. J. H. Wilson. cffMatfM Tnterment was in IlaywHto crmetery. He Is survived by: his wife: four daughters, Mrs. Rlla Ross. Mrs. Or ace Bradshaw. Mrs. M ae H'ibhard. of Havesvllle. and Mrs Pearl Swain ot Murph7! Muee sons. Orealy. U. 8. Army :W?de, U. S. Navy; and Ruth of Ookb boro. PalB?rarer? *?*? v. M VimwW OUbert Bradshaw, Homer Auber ry. Charlie Carrlnser. Fred Pal mar. and Bart ?UndrM**. Mt Fonaral tiam raa tn thg|t.
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