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BIBLE THOUGHT
THE WILL TO COURAGE: Though
a host should encamp against me, my
heart shall not fear.—Psalms 27:3.
PARAGRAPHICS
Add similes: As antedated as an
Italian victory.
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The only trouble with this paper
hanging Hitler is that he is pasting too
many nations before he hangs.
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That hot water that Brother Adolf
finds himself In over in Russia these
days—could it be that Papa Bear Joe
Stalin is getting ready to make some
soup?
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This business of putting a ceiling on
prices of commonly used commodities
looks like good stuff to us. Perhaps by
so doing the economists will learn how
to put a floor under commodity prices
after the war.
There are those who say life is too
short to spend time thinking about how
to make it better and more productive.
They would make us believe that life is
too short to live it.
* • * *
\X7ELCOME is the news of the open
ing of a Red Cross first aid course
here, open to all who w-ish to enroll at
no extra charge whatever. There is
plenty of room for the teaching of first
aid essentials, and the more people who
take the course the better prepared this
county will be to meet an emergency of
any type- that might occur. How often
'have lives been lost in automobile ac
cidents, farpi and home accidents,
drownings, and many more, all simply
because no one was on hand w-ho knew
how to administer the simple but effec
tive principles of first aid. Those who
have the time by all means should en
roll in this first aid course. It may mean
the difference betw-een a life lost and a
life saved some day in the future.
ANOTHER group of Transylvania
county boys left here yesterday
for induction at Fort Bragg in this
country’s vast, rapidly growing army.
Fanfare, as with groups who have left
Transylvania from time to time since
the induction began, was little, and per
haps within a few day6 all but members
of their immediate families will forget
that they are gone to serve their coun
try’s need in a time of peril and in
creasing danger. From this corner it
appears that we, as civilians who, be
cause of various legitimate reasons,
have been allowed to continue our tenor
of life in the workaday world, should
be more appreciative of the price these
young men are paying in order to put
themselves in line for defensive action
against possible encroachers upon their
liberty and our liberty—every Amer
ican’s liberty. Let’s appreciate their
sacrifice.
I
ENOUGH HORSE PLAY
•TtHE saddest thing about the almost
* inevitable soaring of prices in this
current wave of mild inflation, with a
greater wave yet to come perhaps, is the
continual squabble between labor and |
capital, between distributor and con
sumer, about wages and prices of com
modities.
From this corner it appears that en
tirely too much horseplay is being en
gaged in by the parties concerned for
the satisfaction of the mass citizenry
and certainly for the well-being of our
democracy in this time of imminent
peril. There seems to be a growing fear
on the part of labor that perhaps it will
not gain its full share of the “honey”
from the national defense industries and
the concurrent rise in the value of both
skilled and unskilled labor. On the other
hand, capital appears to be wary of an
apparent phantasy that it will not ob
tain the full share of reward that its
investitures deserve and is, therefore,
laggard to come out and meet the full
demands of labor.
As a result of this horseplay, within
the past twelve months millions, aye,
billions of dollars worth of defense proj
ects have been tied up while pickets
trampled down green grass and hurled
harsh words, even weapons, at their
adversaries. Machinery stood idle for
weeks on end and production was nil.
It appears that by now labor and
capital should both have come to an
understanding sufficient for them both
to pass by such, though important, im
material matters when national defense
and the preservation of our great democ
racy is at stake. We agree with labor
that it has a point in contending that
it should share in the profits being
reaped from national defense contracts,
and we agree with capital that its in
vestment is deserving of a share as
well, but we do not agree that the
method of curtailment of defense pro
duction should be used as a means to
obtain those rads.
WHAT CHILDREN THINK
IjME learned the other day that seventy
one per cent of the children in the
United States set spanked.
When statistical studies reach the
stage when even such subjects as spank
ings are covered, it would seem as
thougih about everything in the world
must now be covered by polls.
But the spanking survey, made by the
Reed Children’s poll, was actually a very
Interesting study, the first ever made, so
far as we know, to find out what young
sters of eight to thirteen are thinking
about.
The poll wasn’t just concerned with
spanking. It covered even more serious
subjects than that—if there are any
more serious ones to a child of the
spanking age.
One of the subjects covered, in
questioning 10,000 children, was their
atittude toward war. It was found that
27 per cent of these children think the
United States should go to war against
Germany, wihich is a little higher per
centage than shown in most polls of
adults. Furthermore, almost half of the
boys and girls fear that the United
States eventually will be attacked by
Germany or Japan.
War, it was found, is definitely in
fluencing the ambitions and thinking of
a large number of youngsters. Twenty
per cent of the boys want to be airplane
pilots, ten per cent want to be soldiers,
five per cent want to be sailors, and
nineteen per cent of the girls want to
be nurses. Only four per cent of the
boys want to be president of the United
States.
Another interesting revelation was
the air-mindedness of the youth of to
day; sixty per cent of the boys and girls
questioned saying that they prefer air
travel to any other means of trans
portation.
The idea of analyzing the opinion of
children should prove interesting and
the Reed poll intends to continue its
venture in this field. Strangely enough,
there was not a single question in it
about whether or not they like candy.
After all, however, that would be a
foolish question to ask any child!
Did you ever stop to think seriously
about what your children are thinking?
You might even be surprised.
WHERE IS CONGRESS?
•T*HE United States has done every
* thing short of declaring war to as
sure the world that this nation is com
mitted to the destruction of Hitlerism -
and the passing of every hour seems to
bring us closer to being engaged in a
“fighting war” with Japan or the other
two axis partners, Germany and Italy.
Yet in spite of these far-reaching i
commitments to aid England and Rus- i
sia and of the grave dangers that con- I
front us and all free people of the globe, <
there is still a serious lack of unity in i
our land.
The numerous strikes in the defense 1
industries have emphasized this fact for i
the past several months, but still more 1
impressive and more alarming was the 1
unbelievably close vote in the house of
representatives on the army sendee ex- ■
tension bill. <
This vital measure, empowering the ]
President to keep draftees, militiamen, i
and army enlisted men in sendee for a ,
maximum period of 18 months beyond \
the twelve-month term for which they i
were inducted, had been declared as be
ing essential by the war and navy de- j
part meats, by Secretary Hull and by ,
the entire administration. t
It was passed by the senate by a large £
margin, but what did the Congressmen
think about it? The final count showed
that 203 voted for it and 202 against its ^
passage. Just one vote margin. A shift r
of one count would have killed the bill
with serious consequences to the na- (
tional defense effort. I
We are against war and everything it .
stands for. We don’t like this idea of {
spending billions of dollars for airplanes (
tanks, battleships, and munitions, or of ^
sending the flower of American man
hood away from their homes and their i
jobs to be trained to fight. No, we don t 1
like it, but at the same time we do not
want to live in a world dominated by
Hitler or see Democracy crushed in our
own nation.
We seem to be following the only
safe course. We have started on it and, (
in fact, have already gone a long way, .
too far to turn back. To be successful,
however, there must be national soli
darity. We must pull together. We must
be united.
Of all people, Congressmen and Sena
tors should be agreed on our course.
They have charted it and if they do not
have guts enough to stick to their con
victions, they should go back home. Our
leaders today need to be strong, cour
ageous, far-sighted, and not desert the
battle lines. .
All of them should read, if they have
n’t already done so, an address delivered
by Secretary of War Stimson last Friday
night. This magnificent speech was ad
dressed primarily to the young men in
service.
He described three points: first, the
crteis which makes necessary Americas
present preparation for defense; sec
ond, the general principles of our na
tional defense; third, the vital part
which the army must be ready to play
in that defense.
“It would not only be a danger to the
safety of your country, but also a crime
against yourselves if we should send
you half trained to meet the enemy
troops against whom you might be
pitted’ he declared.
“Thi%. nation was founded in the bond
of blood and sacrifices by men who
pledged their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor. They reached their
goal. Now you men of the new genera
tion are called upon to preserve that
freedom for which they so bravely
won.”
PAYING THE PIPER
1U|ANY a motorist these days is won
dering just who is going to pay the
piper in the proposed gasoline rationing
which is soon to be effected in a tier of
eastern states because of lack of facili
ties for transporting the precious fluid
from the refineries to the distributing
stations. Who should pay the piper?
We are not attempting to iron out all
the wrinkles—part of which will be in
the motorists’ foreheads—of this gaso
Hne rationing proposition herewith, but
we would like to say our Mt on the mat
ter and proffer a few points that may be \
OUR DEMOCRACY——byM*
WE WILL DEFEND I
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Things of the
SPIRIT ALWAYS • 1
HAVE BEEN FIRST
WITH OS. FREEDOM
IS A PERSONAL
POSSESSION OF
EACH AMERICAN.
WE PROTECT OUR
CHILDREN AND
WOMENFOLK.
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In addition to things of the spirit is the
COMMON SENSE FACT THAT THE AVERAGE
AMERICAN HAS OTHER THINGS TO PRESERVE AND
DEFEND.... HOME, FARM, JOB, SAVINGS, LIFE
INSURANCE, BUSINESS, AND ALL OTHER THINGS
WHICH MAKE POSSIBLE
• OUR HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING,
OUR THRIFT GIVES LIFT TO OUR MORALE.
aken into consideration in reviewing
he matter in your own minds.
First off, the whole thing is in the
nterest 6f national, defense, and there
ire none, let us hope, who would at
empt to buck the program. Then, we
■an readily say that a curtailment should
lot be instituted for vehicles being op
irated directly or indirectly in the in
erest of national defense. This does not
nean, however, that even operators of
hese vehicles should not do all within
heir power to conserve gasoline.
Next in order are those vehicles which
ire necessary to the maintaining of an
qual and substantial flow of com
nodities from points of manufacture to
vholesale establishments and retail
stablishments. It is vitally important
hat this flow of commodities be kept
ip.
Then, there are those positions held
>y persons, travel in which is essential
ind which should be provided for. They,
oo, should take every measure to con
erve gasoline.
But motorists who will really pay the
>iper—and perhaps justly so—are those
vho merely travel for leisure and joy.
Phey will have to curtail much of their
oy riding during the present emerg
>ncy. This may prove inconvenient to
he tastes of many people, but even pay
ng the piper in that manner is far more
luitable than the fear of knowing that
he preservation of our democracy may
>e endangered.
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THE SILK SHORTAGE
There’s an old saying-, "Necessity is
he mother of invention”.
At the beginning of World War No. 1
he United States found that it did not
lave a single fast dye except those im
>orted from other countries—mainly
Germany. When war was declared on
Germany many began to wonder just
vhat we would do without Germany’s
lyes. Some were so skeptical as to be
ieve that the cotton and rayon lndus
ry would become extinct for lack of
iroper dyes, and some women even
vent so far as to picture themselves
Iressed in clothing that had faded as a
esult of the lack of fast dyes.
Today, twenty-odd years later, the
Jnited States ranks at the top In the
lumber of fast dyes produced as a re
iult of chemical experiment. We no
onger depend on Germany, or any
ither countries for our dye products,
>ut have advanced so far that we are
exporting them to other countries. This
vas a case where necessity resulted in
he manufacture of the product.
At the present time our country is
aced with a problem of silk shortage,
ind one that will affect North Carolina,
ind this county industries more than
my other section of the country. As a
natter of fact the efTect on North Caro
ina will be almost as much as on the
combined other 47 states.
For years we have been depending on
lapanese silk, and now that silk is be
ng held under the Presidential “freeze”
nany are wondering what the final out
some will be. In our immediate section
t may mean that four or five hundred
imployees will lose their Jobs. Coupled
vith this is the fact that thousands and
housands of dollars have been invested
n machines used in the manufacture
if silk.
This newspaper agrees with Governor
Broughton in his efforts to get the
irioritiea board to take note of the Tar
3eel Manufacturers’ predicament to the
ind that adjustments may be made. As
Sovernor Broughton pointed out twenty
housand of the 35,000 bales of silk are
n North Carolina.
If the oocasion should necessitate it,
he Nation and North Carolina will be
aible to find a substitute for silk, the
same as was done with dyes back in
1916-17, but until a suitable substitute
can be found it seems only fair that
some kind of consideration be given
North Carolina manufacturers and
workers connected with the silk indus
try.—Belmont Banner.
THATABOY, BOB
Married life begins again with "Our
Bob” at 57.
Soon he is to celebrate his fifth ad
venture in these bonds, and to stumble
upon a diamond wedding this time—
none other than the famous $2,500,000
Hope Diamond at that!
The girl herself, lest we forget in
pondering upon matters appertaining
to our old friend and his marrying ways,
is Evalyn Washington McLean, the
richest girl in the Capital City, heiress
of many millions.
Evalyn is 20 years old, and doubtless,
long, often and arduously besought.
Girls with millions headed their way
for spending money are frequently
quite popular in a social way.
"Our Bob”, as old and decrepit and
tottery as some of the rest of us who
classmated with him shortly after the
turn of the century at Chapel Hill, in
trigues with his artful successes in the
field of amours, even as he has aston
ished at his lack of finesse in the field
of statesmanship in which he has for
some years been also flirting and pas
timing.
It is no sort of new revelation, of
course, that the Senator has always
known his way about in the romantic
vicinity of the Elysian haunts of Cupid.
If gossips have it straight, he has
left an avenue of broken hearts all over
this vast, wild world through which
and across which he has traveled,
“From Greenland’s icy mountains
From, India’s coral strand,
Where Africa’s sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand’’.
Whether rollicking on the Riviera or
flourishing hie glamour before the dusky
lassies of the Fiji Islands, his presence
has been that of Apollo, his manners
those of a Chesterfield and his appeal
that of Adonis. “Our Bob” was always
all of a rage with the gale.
And now that his irresistible love
making is to bring him the awards of
international social prestige and the
wealth of Croesus, down here in the
backwoods of his native State, we shall
be obliged to forego further calumny
for the moment and get into a kowtow
ing stride.
What boots it though that one may be
ever so deficient in the techniques of
statesmanship so long as one can play
boy oneself into going to the marital
altar with the Hope Diamond?—Char
lotte Observer.
NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
STATE OP NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF TRANSYLVANIA
ANNIE L. SHIPMAN, and
ROSA L. SHIPMAN, Plaintiffs,
vs.
MILDRED SCOTT, Defendant.
In The Superior Court
The defendant, Mildred Scott, will take
notice that an action entitled as aibove
has been commenced in the Superior
Court of Transylvania County to sell
the interest of Mamie Shipman, deceased,
in the lands described in the complaint
herein for division of the proceeds
thereof: and the defendant will further
take notice that she is required to ap
pear in the office of the Clerk of Su
perior Court of said County in the Court
house in Brevard, North Carolina, with
in ten days after the 18th day of Sep
etmlber, 1941, and answer or demur to
the complaint in said action, or the plain
tiffs will apply to the Court for the re
lief demanded in said complaint.
This the 18th day of August, 1941.
B.MicINT06H,
Cleric Superior Court
8/14/4t.
SQUIBS
—AND—
SQUAWKS
..■ ■ — ,
Cut down, on sugar, also gas,
For time has now come to pass
That war is pinching us all,
Do your hit or doum toe fall.
—8—8—
Thinking of gasoline brings to mind
that several people have told your
col’mn'st that there is mite of boot
legging going on-not white likker
bootlegging, but selling of auto fluid af
ter hours.
—8—8—
Naturally there is a bit of bootlegging
of white likker going on—always has
been—'but the traffic seems to have fal
len off here considerably for the past
months_I know the earmarks of a
likker dealer, and while some of ’em try
to hand me dirty looks once in a while,
they refrain from saying anything out
right because they don't particularly
care for the brand of advertising they
could be given through the paper—
without per inch cost, too.
—8—S—
Was over in Wilkes county last week
with Kin McNeil—county where moon
shining has always been at its top, and
the folks there told me that the nefari
ous business was about a thing of the
past, but, just like Brevard, “store
bought” likker is being peddled “just
around the corner.”
—S—S—
Incidentally, that stretch of sprouts,
weeds, and briars so prominent as one
enters Brevard from Hendersonville way
has competition — at 1/enoir... .both
communities ought to set a day and
clean house.
BOOMER, name of Wilkes community
that seems to be booming... .the North
western City itself is to be complimented
on its comeback since its disastrous
fires and floods of the past several years
....and is a city in comparison to 25
years ago when lowlanders used wagon
trains to haul fruit, vegetables and
chestnuts from that section to Charlotte,
Raleigh, and even Columbia.
Appropriate sign at edge of man’s
cornfield: Wreckage fees, autos $3.00:
trucks, $5.00_maybe Mrs. Hubert
Wolfe ought to start charging for en
trance via Death Curve near Pisgah
Forest_or maybe, better still, the
state would take notice of the danger
ous situation and do some -work that has
been needed ever since the first auto
came through here.
—S—S—
Rentiniscing—in Wilkes county there
were once great forests of chestnut
trees—now denuded hills... .same in
Transylvania_our great grandchil
dren won’t have enough woodland for
birds to build in unless there is some
sort of reforestation program gone into
with more interest than has been shown
recently.
—S—S—
I can remember the time right here
in Brevard when a man who owned land
out in the county had plenty of timber,
plenty of bark, and consequently, plenty
of money when he came into the county
seat... .natural resources gone, and
water washing our hillsides down the
French Broad river.
~g~S—
Two people told me Saturday about
“writing spiders”, and both said that the
letter V was prominently displayed in
the webs... .V for victory is easy for
me to believe because I wish to, and
whether you believe in writing spiders
or no, you MUST believe in victory over
totalitarianism which means Hitler.
—S—S—
Stopped in village of Black Mountain
last Friday night to see if there was a
murder and house afire... .just U. S.
Highway 70 blocked off for couple
thousand people square dancing on Main
street-seems that Brevard’s idea in
stituted couple years ago, is 'being tak
en up in lot of resort towns.
, — S—S—
Calamity_man in light truck stop
ped Saturday on square for red light,
started too quick and off rolled the
watermelon which he was evidently tak
ing home to the wife and kids....made
a mess on the square which Policeman
■Galloway swept up pronto, but the
worst of it must have been when the
man got home, called his youngster to
come see what he had brought from
town for them, and the look of bewilder
ment he must have had, plus the dis
appointed kids.
—S—S_
Several people (Democrats, they -were,
too) have talked to me about Our Bob
Senator Reynolds, and here is gist of
what I think these chaps tried to convey
as their feelings in the matter:
Our Boy (Robert Rice)
Ladies man, superb, nice;
Flitting hither and yon—
20-year-old for his “hon.”
Rift in ages makes no dif—
Great big diamond is the if.
Younger girls he must adore.
His 57 years adds to his score.
Three years past he said fine,
“Be no wrar during our time.”
But Hitler riz up on hind legs
Left Prophet Bob holding eggs.
Now, alas! Poor Bob’e shaky,
Voters saying er-ah-maybe.
In three years he’ll have no job,
His heiress says “No -worry Bob."
Country needs him, he says no,
First comes women, and my dough.
So ends Our Bob before hie time.
Statesmanship fit only to rhyme.
—«—S—
Always hate to see the organized
camps closing, but at the same time I’m
happy to have Harry Kenning and his
Red Cross school which follows im
mediately: and in a short time the Bre
vard College youngsters will be here....
after all, Brevard is always a good town
_maybe needs a little fixing here
and there but I'll stack it up every day
in the year against most any com
munity. —DOUG, ex-ed.
Send In Your Renewal To-Day
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RITZ. 1-lb. box.21c
Dill or Sour
PICKLES, qt.15c
Campbell’s Tomato Soup or
PORK & BEANS, 2 can*.15c
Blended Orange and Grapefruit
JUICE, 46-oz. can.19c
MATCHES, 2 boxes. 5c
Dixie Home Salad Dressing or
SANDWICH SPREAD, qt.27c
Bulk
VINEGAR, gal.19c
Jar
RINGS, 5 doz.20c
Fleecy White
LAUNDRY BLEACH, qt. bottle.10c
MEAT SPECIALS
Bacon Squares, lb.17£c
Pork Chops, lb.29°
Dressed Pan Trout, lb.15c
Lunch Meats, assorted cuts, lb.23c
Mr. J. C. Rhodes, of Hickory, experienced meat cutter,
is now in charge of our meat department, and is at
your service.
PRODUCE SPECIALS
Celery, 2 large stalks.15c
Yellow Onions, 3-lbs.12c
White Seedless Grapes, lb.10c
Avocado Pears, 2 for.15c
Homegrown Tomatoes, lb.5c