Published every Thursday by B Arp Lomrance and Addle Mae Cooke .WDIK MAE COOkK. Editor an J Manager \ \ SHAMBLIN I tocirit F.ditor ROY V COO K K Production Manager >1 BStRlPTION K \TKS Cherokee and surrounding counties: One Year. . .. $150 Eight Months $1.00 Pour M ?nt-r.s ? ? ? ml*- Wc Outside above territory: One Yeur . $J00 Six Months . $1.25 , v'rtnj* u 1 Fnurcd in the Po.^t Office at Murphy. ? i N :? i Carolina . iul cla.v. matur O y .ni'er Uie Act of M;i:rh 3. 1897. MEDITATION The hoi Id we li\r ill in a fairyland of rMiuKitr beauty, our very existence is a miracle in itself. am! ?rt few of u? enjo* as nr might. and none .1? yet appericate fully, the beau tie* .?ml wond??r% which surround us. . . . "If wr could imagine a da> prolonged for a lifetime. or nearly so. and that sunrLsc and sunset urn* rare events which h.ipiM'Ucd hut a few times to each of ih. we should i erta inly Ik* entranced by the beauty of the morning and evening tint-. The golden rays of the mornuic are a fortune in themselves, but we too often overlook the lovellnevs of Nature, because it is constantly before as. ?r? r a FINANCIAL PROFIT Alread> uverwui ivcu farmers have bee t'i on for still another vital contribution to the prosecution of the war. I he U. S. 1'orest Serv ice has appealed for increased production of selected timber from farm woodlands to meet war needs. Such production can bring the farmer finan cial profit, can substanitally aid the Nation's, war effort, and can serve through selective cut-| ting to establish woodlands cn a sustained pro ducing basis. During the summer 'lay-by' period, there are, few farm jobs which will return a better profit on the operator's l.nbor and that of any hired help he may have than getting out marketable timber. The demands are keen for almost all| types of usable wood poles and pilings, saw-! legs, veneer logs and pulpwood. In fact, almost every species of tree that grows in the South is now finding its way to the lighting fronts. Lven farmers with small woodlands can help swell the production total. Where farmers need technical advice in selecting and marketing tim ber. they should get in touch with their State Forester, Extension Service Forester, or a rep resentative of the U. S. Forest Service for this assistance. These specialists can give expert advice on selecting the trees to be cut, and on how thy should be sold to realize the greatest possible return and to serve their highest war usefulness. DAIRYING IN SPOTLIGHT June Dairy Month this year focuses attention! on dairying ? the largest of America's great industries. The importance of the milk from, the nation's 26,000,000 dairy cows cannot be i over estimated in the present gigantic struggle] to preserve the American way of living. "Milk and its products supply about 20 per cent of the protein and energy requirements of , man and even larger percentages of many other essential nutrients," Milton Hult. President of the National Dairy Council, said in a recent re lease. Hie fighting forces are being provided with twice as much of these vital dairy products per man as are available to civilians. Factory, office and munition workers are eating extra quantities of dairy products that they may pro duce essential war materials more efficiently. The sick and the wounded, among the Amer ican allies are supplied with milk and its pro ducts to speed recovery. In schools, homes, fac tories, offices, war plants and on battlefields all over the world, the part that dairy products play in building better and stronger bodies is proved. To make this contribution possible, dairy men on the farms and in dairy plants, as well as their families, are making every conceivable effort against difficult odds. Materials and equipment are short and sometimes impossible to get. Labor has never been so scarce. Hun dreds of thousands of highly skilled and irre placeable workers have joined in the fighting forces or have been lured into factories and muntion plants. Yet the dairy industry continues month by month to set new highs in its contribution to the war effort. A Week of the War ?B. the Office of War Information> OFF1C L%1. HOI VD I'P OF MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS IKOM Till; OFFICE OF \\.\K INFORMATION The surrender of Pantellcria. after 'JO days of intense bombard ment. was announced in a special communique from General Kisen I hower's headquarters. The an nouncement came suddenly, less than an hour after the day's re gular operational communique had merely reported continued heavy attacks on the island. Surrender of Pantellcria gives the A11U an airdrome and naval base only *?0 miles southwest oi Sicily 1 ' ?ncirclement of Lam .Mcppme > one island in the Sicil ian Nan v- would give the Allies another valuable base. Just 90 , miles i i* of Pantellcria and ,110 mili we of Malta. British i naval forces landed a rcconnais j -ance party on Lampedusa on I JuncG. and ali but two of the j parry returned safely. The communique reporting the lAll of Pantellerfa said the sur render w.i. the result of a period of "continuous and intense air bombardment, supported by naval I bombardment." It was an unprecedented capi tulation Drought about a'most sclc: b\ air power. The British J navy shelled the island six times. | but the utvater part of tlie attack was carried on by American and I RAF planes of all types. The surrender of Pantellcria i c ame at 11 40 A.M.. EWT. when the Axis garrison ran up a white i flag and placed a white cross on ! fhe airfield. Shortly after noon. I American flying fortresses mark ed the victory with a big parad? As Others Think \ NEWSPAPER EDUCATION Will Roger?' celebrated saying "All I know it what I read in the papers, was not a confession of ignorance, but rather an indica tion of wisdom. The American press is the greatest single educa i;onal influence in America V works with the public system to! make the American nation an in- , telligent. free thinking people. Without a free press the school system could not remain free. The press C]ears the ground Tor every new enterprise, every advance ment. It sways public opinion as nothing else can do. But its value is that it has remained free. At tempts to buy the press have met! with failure. Tho American news-! paper is founded on the doctrine of printing the truth, of giving a true picture of what is happening in the world. Anyone who reads the newspapers has a practical education for they touch every known subject.?Exchange. THE OLD MEANIE! There's a Kansas publisher who is not anxious to handle any more job printing orders for the local chief of police. In the publisher's shop to pick up his order, the chief asked whose car was parke l out in front. Told it belonced to the shop's owner, this unusual customer promptly slit open his package of freshly printed tickets, filed out and presented the first one to the publisher himself.? Pelican Press Messenger. THE TIMBER LINE We were greatly interested in a recent article in Collier's Maga zine by Marjorie K. Rawlings. well known Florida wTiter. In a section like ours with dwindling forests It gave food for deep considera tion. The author pointed out that experts have estimated that an- i other war twenty-five years from! now will see the United States without wood for war. While we hope that twenty five years from now will see this country at peace with all nations of the earth, viewing the future by the past we have no guaran tee. The author painted a picture of the great waste of our forests In the Southeast. We know from our own experience here in Haywood county that while many compan ies have respect for the future and have programs of conserva tion of forest?, other lumbermen have denuded areas In almost wholesale slaughter with no re gard for the future. On the other hand the article called to m tod the conservation of one of our own big Industries of forest lands and plans for the through the air over advanced Allied air force headquarters an impressive display of the growing | Allied aerial strength Even as the north a est African I air forces were concentrating on Puntellcria American four-engineil bombers of the middle Eastern Command raided the (lervine and Catania airdromes in Sicily, thu earning forward the campaign t?? cut down Axis air % t reus t h in preparation for possible larae scale amphibious operation*. Secretary of War 8tlmM>n. emphasizing that American air forces are striking with increasing vigor and effectives on widely scattered world fronts, said that while American ani British plane* continue to hammer the Mediter ranean Island of Sicily and Sar dinia. as well as tlie Italian main land, the weather In Britain has interfered with bombing raids m recent days. Over Furope a quiet prevailed i he longest interruption in the nii; h t air offensive against Ger many since the 24-ntght lull tnat pr? i?ded the Allied landings in North Africa. Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. head if the American air forces in tlu* F ti ropean Theater, -aid the I'SAAP in Britain ha- double:! since March and will he doubled ;i a in by September Bv the end < f the summer, said Gen. Eaker. the USAAP. increasing 15 to 30 per cent monthly, will be carry in? its full share of the bombirvx offensive against the axis. future that will include reforest ing that will go on for an inde finite period. Th.e preservation of the forests, however, do not rest entirely with the companies that cut lumber, but also with the Individual. Just as much damage can be done by a careless person in the woods with a match thrown aside as the lumbermen who is cutting timber.?Waynesville Mountaineer. I FOOD PRODUCTION IS THE NEED In all the talk about food, do mestic and foreign, it will be well to think of controlling and apportioning what is available, and consider to greater extent how to produce more. That is t :ie j end question, production. Happily. | Herbert Hoover in his latest ap proach to the problem, swings more to that line. He is correct in his view that American cities will have even less ; food supply in coming months, and next winter, than they have had in recent days. He is right in declaring that even so Amer icans will not starve. The reduced diets in American cities are still on a lush and luxurious plane by present international standards. When he says that if the war in Europe should come to an end within the next 12 months "we have no consequential food sup plies with which to meet three \ or four hundred millions of starv ing people" he accurately assesses one of the potential tragedies of sity for extraordinary, even colos these times. All this underlines the neces sal. food production In the United | States. Mr. Hoover barely sug gests the need when he asks for peoples, needs that include?so million additional acres next year, i What are other needs? We suggest a few: a price structure that will ] give incentive for the right sorts I of crops, better organization and j financing of smaller farmers, reliable guarantees of harvest hands, provision of adequate ma chinery and fertilizer, improved use of dairy products, and. above all. definite intelligent planning for the Immediate needs of freed the planting of from 40 to 50 they may help themselves?barn yard animals and farming im plements as well as sustaining ra tions.?Christian 8clence Monitor. It Is said to have taken the skin of 300 animals to make a single issue of the Outtenberg Bible which was printed on sheepskin. ?Graphic Arts Monthly. CALORIES About 40 percent of the calories in the food we eat comes from meat and livestock product?. Milk, | dairy product*, pork and lard make up three-fourths of this I group. FX PRESS I NO APPRECIATION; for the cooperation that th*. Towns of Andrews and Murp.iy and the counties in the region ! give tin* libra r v ?erv*ce. Dora Ruth Parks said Tuesday thai people in tills see Men clve their j whole-hearted support to see that thing1? are propei ly organlx-I #? CT their fellow citizen, IndunZT lis News. FOR SALE K .um- more chickens and help Mipplrmrnt Ihr nation's lood supply. On June 14 and each Tuesday thrrraftrr *r will have Ruby Chirks fur salf. Krom tested flocks thrv chirks will make rood broilers and layers. Ilook your order now. GIBBS HATCHERY Apply at Western Auto Associate Store Murphy . N. C. YOUR TRUCK AND CAR ARE IN THE WAR, TOO! And It's Our Job To Keep Them Running at Top Notch Perform ance. BE SMART. Let Us Service Your Vehicles Regularly The SINCLAIR WAY Drive Slowly. Save G a5, Save Oii, Save Tires, Save Your CAR and TRUCK. We Service All Kinds of Trucks and Automobiles ? ? ? ? Buy War Bonds and Stamps Regularly ? ? ? ? PALMER S SINCLAIR STATION Phone 202 *** Murphy, N. C. SUITED TO ALL COUNTS,... 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