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dhr (ChrrnluT ^nutt > > Published every Thursday at Murphy. N. C. ADDIE MAE COOKE Editor and Owner ROY A COOKE .. Production Manager MR^ C VV. SAVAGE Social Editor SI BSCRIPTION R \TES Cherokee and surrounding counties: One Year $2 00 Six Months $100 Foul Mont'" 75c Outside above territory. On. Via; $2 50 Six monilis $1 25 En'ered in the Post Office at Murphy. North Carol.ua. as .second class matter under the Act of March 3. 1897. MEDITATION Hiere is no foe to >our growth m grate. 110 enemy in your ( hiistian work whic h u.i> not included in >our Savior's 1 1 * n <i ucs t *> . Viiu need not he .ilr.ud of them Wlvn you touch them. the> will flee before >ou. God has promised to deliver thtm up before >oti. Only he strong and very courageous! FY.tr not. nor be dismaved! The Lord with you, O might\ men oi valor mighty because one with the Mightiest. Claim vit tor\ Protect The Children School days are here again thousands of children are walking along our roadways, and crossing streets. They are carefree and anxious to reach school on time. The safety of these children is of utmost importance. I he safeguarding of the children going to | and from school is a responsibility of the school, the home and the community. 1 f 1 his responsibility can be met. provided ' p each of us is constantly reminded that although r the volume of traffic is much less today, the r hazard of careless driving continues to take its fc toll of life on our highways. 1 he following suggestions are recommend ed by Director Ronald Hocutt of the Highway Safety Division to parents and teachers for the protection of the school child pedestrian: 1 . Select the safest route for children in towns and cities to walk to and from school. 2. Instruct children daily to cross streets only at intersections. 3. Permit children to leave home in time to reach school on time, but not with tune to play along the streets or roads. 4. In rural areas children should be instruct ed to walk on the I .EFT SIDE. OF THF ROAD WAY . and to always move out of the way of approaching cars. 5. In cooperation with the local Police De partment, special streets should be designated as school crossings If possible, have this cross ing guarded during certain hours of the day when children will be going or coming from school. The Directoi >f the Safety Division also urges Motorists : I. Drive cauti uslv on approaching school /one.- in both run and citv areas. 2 Be cn tt'f ilert for children who may be playing along < r near the roadway. 3. At all times keep in mind tha^ the child along the road or street may suddenly run into F the path of the ncoming car. 4. The good driver assumes that every | ci ild playing on or near the street is about tojf dart in front of his car. and drives cautiously. C hildren can be trained to be good pedes trians. However, it requires the combined ef forts of the school, the home, and the communi ty Let all of us put forth the necessary efforts to protect the school children of our State from automobile accidents this school year. Prevent Losses j ! There's a dwelling fire every I 2 5 minutes, , < a farm fire every 7'/i minutes, a mercantile fire every 8 minutes, and a factory fire every 1 8 minutes in the United States. The ten most common causes of serious fires are a carelessly discarded cigarette or match; defective electrical equipment; overheat ed or defective heating equipment, chimneys, and flues; sparks on the roof; flammable liquids; rubbish; spontaneous ignition; children playing with matches; hot ashes and coals; and lack of fire protection equipment. Fire Prevention Week has been scheduled for October 8 to 1 4 and all property owners are asked to carefully check their fire hazards and make plans for preventing fires. David S. Weaver, head of the Agricultural Engineering Department at State College, urges farmers to particularly watch for the danger of OUR DEMOCRACY? ? by Mat j y; IT'S SIMPLE ARITHMETIC spending Wasteful sp - Does no good , Means 1 eans less money saved Future plans in doubt. - Prudent spending T Helps us all, =^^1^ Means more money saved in And future plans assured. ire in the barn. Keep the lightning rods in re >air; replace tile old combustible wood shingled ccfs with fire-retardant roofing; and by all neans prevent smoking in and around the >arn. Weaver says. Electrical cords should never be knotted or 1 1 lowed to accumulate dust and cobwebs as a hortage may develop from the knot and ignite he cobwebs. Lanterns should be placed so that they can lot be kicked over by men or animals. Hay should be thoroughly cured before it is tored in the barn and then it should be inspect d for heating. If the hay begins to heat, get it ut of the barn. Pulpwood Packs G-I Xmas Gifts The volume of Christmas packages going verseas to men and women in the armed ser ices will reach a new high this fall, according o the Office of War Information. In I 943 the Army Post Office transmitted ncre than 20,000.000 holiday packages and an idditional 75,000.000 to 100.000,000 pieces of niscellaneous mail. I his year. Army postal lUthorities say, the Christmas mail volume will >e more than double that of last year. Pulpwood has made it possible for those of is at home to keep in touch with loved ones iverseas whether by V-mail, regular mail, or by artons of home-made or home-grown foods. These packages and letters made from >ulpwood have also gone into prisoners' camps n Germany and Japan via the Red Cross. Al eady this year s Christmas packages are being jrepared by the Red Cross. They will contain urkey, plum pudding, sausages, butter, devil d ham, Cheddar cheese, bouillon cubes, tea, loney, strawberry jam, candy, mixed salted luts, fruit bars, dates, sliced pineapple, chew ng gum, playing cards, cigarettes, smoking obacco, pipes, a game, washcloth, and a picture :o hang on a barrack wall. Pulpwood cutters and producers may be aroud of the part they have played in making he lot of our fighting men and women auxili iries a little easier. Mail your Christmas package overseas early this year and cut all the pulpwood you can so long as the war lasts. OPINIONS Of Other Editors OUR SCHOOLS SERVE DEMOCRACY With the opening of schools of Fannin County, it might be well for parents and teachers to do a little thinking about the pupils that present a problem to both of them. Children going to a school sys tem should not be regarded as raw material to be subjected to cer tain definite processes in the ex pectation that the finished pro duct can be certain or standard ized. Factors of inheritance and environment combine to make each child a special subject re quiring. more or less, individual ized treatment. Parents who expect a school ? nd its teachers to take a rough I specimen of untrained humanity and develop it into a polished human being are looking for a good deal. They must not expect the school to take the place of the home and the church. The guid ance that a teacher can give to a pupil is valuable and necessary but it should not replace entirely all functions of parents. Teachers, on the other hand, facing a mass of little human be ings in their classrooms, should not overlook the importance of identifying each pupil as a separ- ' ate and distinct human entity. Til? good teacher Is not a mass- ; worker. There must be the it cog- 1 - i nition of the peculiar difficulties ' | t:-at confront each student, to- 1 ? gether with an intelligent tolen- i I ance for the child, if the greatest improvement in the individual is to be secured. Naturally, we are very proud of | the school system in this com- ] munity Along with millions of | ether Americans, we thoroughly j I i ndorse ti e common schools which ' I offer educational opportunity to all children upon practically equal I terms. Tlie school house, in our opinion, is the bulwark of de mocratic processes, which should be understood, respected and ob t served by officials and teachers. . as well as by students. Fannin | County Times YOUR LIBRARY a By I DORA ki th PARKS. Librarian N'antahala Regional Library NEW BOOKS: Coffin There Will Be Bread and Love "These sixty-odd poem:. ,, are the observations and reflec- , a] tions of a country man who has t imagination and love . . . They j J have a recurrent and stirring sense cf life and of life's goodness last ing, glowing from one generation t| to th? next a sense of continui ty. winch is like a religion vital in these disjointed times." Cooley - Your World Tomor row Your next automobile: new ladios and television: the amaz ing helicopters; food, clothing and health: your new boat: chem istry, a world remade: new leis ure: sports, hobbies." Moore ? You're Onlv Human Once - ? Grace Moore's autobio- . graphy. Horn - This fascinating Lumb er Business - This book was re commended by a Graham County library patron. I Goodman ? Your Hair, Its Health, Beauty, and Growth. "A helpful and authoritative guide i tor men and women." Groves ? The American Women. ' Tlie feminine side of a masculine civilization." Wallace Sea Food Cookery. Carnovsky ? The Library In The Community. Clark ? Pills. Petticoats and Plows : The Southern Country Store. Schlauch ? The Gift of Tong ues A map entitled "The World of Languages" indicates North America as Indo-European and indian. Aldrich ? Our American Bab - "The art of baby care." Walker ? School Health Ser vices. Mauricis ? A Time For Silence. "A novel whose scene is the French ; countryside before the war." F orgy Ar. : Pass The Ammu nition. "The story of the U. S. S. New Orleans, its fighting men and ihe padre who gave the spiritual strength and a tattle cry heard 'round the world'." Van Wyek Mason ? The Hong kong Airbase Murders. "Will bear comparison with the best of Op penheim s tales of 'International Intrigue." lii L : tl" I tl HINTS FOB Farm Homemakers Sewing needles will not rust if they are stored in a well-corked glass bottle or jar to which a drop of machine oil may be placed :'rom time to time. A nut pick can be a handy piece of sewing equipment. The blunt end can be used as an aid in turn ing belts, while the pick end can be used to pull out the corners after the belt is turned. It is also handy for pulling out basting threads A scrapbag made of mosquito netting, or any other open-mesh fabric, makes it possible to find the particular piece of material one may be looking for without j emptying the entire contents of ' the bag. Those perfectly good preserves or jellies which somehow do ac cumulate in the cupboard are splendid to use in gingerbread and spice cake. Spices should be kept away from the kitchen stove and in closed cans to best retain their spiciness. To insure straight edges on scrim curtains, fold each curtain down the center and baste the edges together before washing. Re move the basting after the curtains are ironed. invKSUAY, SEPT. 21 , Grouting With lElic jiftitor "Magnificent autumn! He eomes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a her mit. dad in gray; hut like a warrior with the stain of blood on hLs brazen mail. ? His crim son scarf is rent; his scarlet banner dripping with gore; his step like a flail on the thresh ing floor." LONGFELLOW, in tlie descrip lon of autumn above, said what lany of us feel in our hearts at le beginning of the fall season, utumn begins tomorrow. Friday. ; ept ember 22. Of all four seasons I f the year, autumn is my favorite | he colorful scenery; crisp, in- 1 igorating weather; harvest of rops: children trekking to and om school with :heir books under ims: stores filled with new fall othes; busy preparation for the j.'der winter months ahead ? al! ?mbine to make of autumn an al ii ing period. * * * GOVERNOR BROUGHTON. ic-mbers of the State Highway id Public Works commission and hers who visited our county and otion last week expressed de ?ht at the beauties and possi liiies of this area. Many of lem declared that this will be ] leir vacation spot when the war ovei . ? ? . CHEROKEE COUNTY people | ere highly complimented and lised for their hospitality, by le visiting highway delegation. ? * * AT FONTANA Friday TV A of cials conducted the party over le construction project and the llage, and the recreation asso ation. an organization of em oyees. were hosts at a luncheon. INTERESTING FACTS at Fon .na are; the employees work >out a fourth of the time by usic which is broadcast from the lblic address studio in the ad inist ration building ... 100 per nt of Fontana employees sub ribe 22 per cent of their eam gs regularly to the purchase of ar bonds . the payroll has mounted to as much as a half million dollars a month ?<wtuwicnes are daily for workmen to take Jub ? a doughnut machin makes 80 dozen doughn^** hour . U requires 9 000 roll/* day to serve the workmen ? * * ? W. J. McGLOTHUN chief trie training and educational lations staff at Pontana. after a visit to our office recently wro, "We were certainly piea.-^ u, J,, ihe attention your paper gUes the vitally important subject nf U'isp mncai'<>^; 01 lerest you have shown in TVA'c Fontana Dam." IF ANYONE WONDKRS what his Cherokee county chapter of the American Red Cross is doing, here is the answer from iust one department: In August -he home service office had 34 new cases, re-opened six: acted on 43: had cases pertaining to army person nel numbering 28. navy personal 10. and civilian two. Seven in quiries regarding servicemen were made for families: and three in quiries regarding welfare of ser vicemen were made. Two social histories were written: six fur lough investigations were made; one investigation for dependency benefits was made; two investiga tions of release from duty and two reports for the Veterans Ad ministration were made: 11 other investigations were made Claims numbered one. benefits three, fin ancial assistance cases three, and medical aid one. THE AMERICAN RED CROSS received a cable with 21 separate addresses and 21 separate signa tures. tilt only one message. It read: "Am prisoner of war. Am well. Hope baby arrives okay." Discovering they were all to be come fathers at about the same time. 21 newly captured American Mce and Ration News EATS. FATS ? Red Stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through G5. good indefinitely. ^OCESSED FOODS ? Blue Stamps A8 through Z8 and At : 11 ough L5. good indefinitely. Blue tokens, good only through September 30. Pool tokens with your neighbors to make multiples ol 10. JGAR? Sugar Stamps 30. 31. 32. and 33 each good ior f- mds indefinitely. Sugar Stamp 40 good for five pounds of canning sugar through February, next year. ASOLINE ? In 17 East Coast States. A-ll coupons, good hrough November 8. In States outside the East Coast Area. A-12 v upons good through September 21 and A-13 coupons in new A book become good Setember 22. JEL OIL? Period 4 and 5 coupons, and new period 1 coupons :^ood throughout coming heating year. IOES ? Airplane Stamps 1 and 2, good indefinitely. VICTORY FLEET DAY, SEPT. 27 Americans will do honor on ctory Fleet Day, next Wednesday, September 27. to the ship opera rs who have helped to give the United States one of the hight and Dst interesting standards of living in the world. The food that ightens the Americans' dining tables illustrates the world-wide ac uities of American ship operators. Merchant ships bring in coffee Dm Central and South America and Arabia ? cocoa from South nerica and West Africa spices from Ceylon. India. Netherlands ist Indies, Java. Burma and Latin America ? bananas from the anana republics," Cuba and Mexico ? ginger from the Ivory Coast, dia and Jamaica ? Pineapples from Hawaii. Mexico and Cuba. GASOLINE SITUATION IS TIGHT? The average civilian motor ' should expect no increase in his gasoline ration for the next several onths, at least not before the end of the war with German*', the 'fice of Price Administration says. Civilian stocks of gasoline built ? last winter have been greatly reduced despite increased imports id record domestic production. Civilian grade gasoline stocks have creased approximately two million barrels in 30 days. ONIONS GALORE. THIS YEAR ? Your hamburger sandwich sy have gone without its onion last year but now there's no excuse r such a deficiency, because the War Food Administration eat:niates at this year's onion crop will be 45 per cent above the 10-yeai aver e, 1923-42. RCUND-UP ? The Department of Agriculture says: Buuer sup ies for civilians for the last half of this year are estimated to te * r cent smaller than in the same period last year and the smallest for is period in more than 50 years ... Civilian supplies of fresh fruit, izen fruit and canned fruit juice are substantially larger this season an last, but supplies ol canned and dried fruits are smaller A v Weeks more of favorable weather will give this country the largest lume of crops it has ever produced. The War Production Board says: Cities and towns are declaring aper holidays" during whioh merchants use no bags or wrapping per except for sanitary or protective purposes . . . The Girl Scouts America will join the drive for salvage of tin, paper and rags on tober 1 Each Pennsylvania school pupil collected an average of cans for tin can salvage during the six months ended May 31. No rumors of Germany's surrender should be accepted unless con med by General Eisenhower, caution the War and Navy Depart' aits and the Office of War Information . . . Five per cent of the million Christmas packages mailed to Army and Navy personnel it year was lost because of faulty packing and addressing ining September 22 all gasoline filling stations may accept off-high ?y "R" coupons . Production of com pickers for this year's crop is ?ger than for any previous year, the War Food Administration says .More than 4,000 automobiles a day are being scrapped, to leave an imated 23,750,000 privately owned passenger cars in operation * e end of the year, according to a report Issued by the Office o ir Information.
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