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Entered as second class matter, Octo
ber 29. 1981, at the Post Office in Bre
vard, N. C.. under the Act of March 8,
1879.
BIBLE THOUGHT
MAKE RICHES SERVANT NOT
RULER: Then said Jesus unto his dis
ciples, Verily I say unto you, That a
rich man shall hardly enter into the
kingdom of heaven. And again I say
unto you, It is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter into the kingdom
of God.—Matthew 19:23.24.
Paragraphics
LTHOUGH LIGHT rains have eased
the water shortage possibility in
Brevard to a certain extent, there is still
no room for carelessness in the use of
domestic water. It is extremely essential
that every possible care be taken to in
sure a continued and adequate supply
to the residents, and only by the co
operation of every individual user will
this be assured.
* * * *
CONGRATULATIONS to those who
have been instrumental in the in
stallation of a new' wrater system in the
town of Roeman. The residents of Ros
man should be proud of their adequate
and safe supply of sub-strata wrater. An
unsafe water supply can be one of the
most dangerous and detrimental things
to the health and general w’ell being of
a town or community. We are glad that
such a community improvement has
been carried out in our neighboring
town.
J^fORE CONGRATULATIONS are in
order to those responsible for the
extensive improvements carried out in
the Pisgah Mills company section in
Brevard. Plumbing and water supply
has been made strictly safe, as well as
numerous improvements on the build
ings themselves, such as painting,
screening, roofing, and other minor re
pairs. The mill community has a very
pleasing appearance, and the residents
of that community as well as the
citizenry of the town and county should
join in hearty appreciation for the im
provements.
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'J'HE EPIDEMIC of accidents which
occurred last week-end in Transyl
vania county is inexcusable and, to say
the least, deplorable. Two deaths and a
dozen injured was the result as far as
human emotions go, not to mention the
hundreds of dollars of damage that ac
companied those four accidents. The
rain-drenched highways, first in many
a week, and the light fog w'hich prevail
ed last Saturday may have been ac
countable in part, but in most in
stances the people at the wheel were at
fault. This does not necessarily mean
that both drivers of the cars involved
in the collision were at fault. It means
that some one of those drivers was at
fault. In the future, let’s drive care
fully and save a life.
Repeal Is Certain
A CLIMAX is expected this week at
the nation’s capitol in the fight to
revise the Neutrality Law so as to per
mit all American ships to be armed and
to carry war materials to Britain and
to other countries in the war zone.
Whether we like it or not, there is no
other course left for this nation to fol
low at this time, and we predict that the
hotly debated issue will result in the
revisions requested by the Administra
tion.
Why? First, because this Democratic
nation cannot ever “do business with
Hitler”. Second, because we are com
mitted and have gone a long way to
wards aiding England and all others
fighting Hitlerism. Third, because a
majority of the people of this nation
favor the revision.
The famous Gallup Poll a few days
ago disclosed that, according to its
latest survey, seventy-two per cent of
the people want to see armed merchant
ships.
Leaders of the Democrats and Re
publicans agree that it “is the only
course to pursue now”. In an address
last Saturday night, Wendell Willkie
declared that the “axis powers are win
ning now and unless we act soon, it
will be too late.”
“Let us stop deluding ourselves,” he
said. “Berlin, Tokyo and Rome are ir
revocably linked by the dangerous
dream of world conquest. Victory for
one is victory for all. Their aim is world
domination—the destruction of liberty
and the end of Democracy”.
“Our ships will continue to be tor
pedoed unless we arm. Axis victories
will not end unless we deliver in rapidly
increasing amounts our goods into the
hands of those who arc fighting for
freedom on land and sea.”
The Republican presidential candi
date even went further than that. “But
even this is not enough—we must re
move the show and deception of hypo
critical neutrality laws. We must
abandon the hope of peace.”
We are afraid that Mr. Willkie and
Mr. Roosevelt are right. We dislike th«
idea of parting from the wistful “hope
of peace”, but in our hearts we firmly
believe that “he who bows to the will
of Hitler will sooner or later feel the
deadly pangs of the Nazi heel, crushing
out all individual liberty and freedom.
Hitlerism must be destroyed before
the sun can shine again in this darken
ed hour of world history, and upon this
nation reste civilization’s flickering
hope.
Home Builders’ Break
rJ*HE ANNOUNCEMENT that only
critical material essential for de
fense are affected by the priorities sys
tem will be good news to great numbers
of people interested in building needed
homes of moderate cost and in repairing
and modernizing their present homes.
When the Supply Priorities and Allo
cation Board released on October 9 its
new policy regarding the allocation of
critical materials on all public and pri
vate construction, many people in Tran
sylvania county and elsewhere where
home building is in progress got the
erroneous impression that this would
immediately put a ban on all residential
construction, especially in non-defense
areas. Apparently, this was not the in
tent of the SPAB, but the policy an
nounced was more for the purpose of
curbing “pork barrel’’ legislation pend
ing in Congress for large river and
harbor projects, and commercial and in
dustrial expansion projects requiring
substantial amounts of critical ma
terials, particularly structural steel. The
term "residential construction” was
thrown into the release, and later em
phasized by the press, bringing about an
undue impression.
Based on recent reports from the
SPAB office in Washington concerning
the release of the new policy and its ef
fect upon the building industry’, we be
lieve the following statements will help
to clarify many misunderstandings:
(1) There is no specific ban on resi
dential construction as such. Where
dealers, builders or contractors have the
materials to go ahead. Where there is a
need for housing in defense or non-de
fense areas, such housing can go ahead,
but priorities will be limited to the need,
and critical materials should be elimi
nated as far as possible.
(2) There is no ban on private con
struction in farm and rural areas. Farm
production buildings, farm residences,
and modernization projects on the farm
can go ahead, as it is readily admitted
that this type of construction is neces
sary for the health and safe'ty of the
people and for the proper furtherance
of increased farm production.
(3) There is no ban on rehabilitation
and repair activities, but the same
measuring stick in regard to the use of
critical materials will be applied here as
in other fields of building.
No Bands Played On
THERE WERE no bands playing
Monday morning when 18 Transyl
vania county young men left for Fort
Bragg. In fact, there wasn’t even a
crowd of well-wishers at the bus station
to bid the draftees adieu. We felt a lit
tle ashamed... .ashamed of ourselves
for not fully appreciating just what it
meant to the many young men being
drafted... .ashamed of Mr. and Mrs.
Transylvania county for not showing
these boys how grateful we are for the
sacrifices they are making.
We talked to one of the men who left
Monday morning. We felt a little 6orry
for him. But he didn’t seem to ap
preciate our regretfulness. We knew
deep down just what it meant to him
to be leaving. After all, he had spent
years preparing himself for his work.
He said himself he had spent over
$5,000 obtaining his education and for
the past three years had worked mighty
hard building up his business. Now he
was leaving all that behind.
“If Uncle Sam thinks I can serve him
best in his army, that’s where I’ll go,”
he said. And he went without a quibble
or a quabble.
We wonder if each and every citizen
of this county fully realizes just how
much those boys are giving up to de
fend us, our country, our democracy.
We wonder if each and every citizen
appreciates the sacrifices those boys are
making. Army life is hard. Those boys
have to dig ditches, peel potatoes, sleep
on the ground, march for hours heavily
laden. They do it for you and they do
it for us. The next time some of our
local boys are called, let’s give them a
big send off. They’d appreciate it.
Cavalcade Of America
Will Salute Navy Day
Cavalcade of America salutes’ Navy
Day, Monday, October 27, with a radio
adaptation of Commander Eld ward Ells
berg’s new book, “Captain Paul.” The
star of the show will be Claude Rains.
Supported by the Cavalcade Players
and with a musical background arrang
ed by Don Voorhees and his Orchestra,
the story will portray the life of the
burly Scotsman, John Paul Jones, who
started his service before the mast at
the age of 12 on slavers, privateers, and
finally because of his love for a Virginia
girl set out to make a name for him
self and in doing so made U. S. Naval
history
uUR DEMOCRACY-byM,t
SHOULDERING ARMS- |
AND RESPONSIBILITY.
handling yourself and developing leadership—
THE ARMY'S TEACHING THAT TO A MILUON AND A HALF
. YOUNG MEN.*SAYS LIEUTENANT GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM,
"THE CORPORAL OF TODAY REQUIRES THE LEADERSHIP
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE LIEUTENANT OF YESTERDAY.1"
tHUOH A. DRUM MET SITUATIONS
AND LICKED THEM.
SO D/D
KARL TRUESPELL.
BORN IN MICHIGAN,COMMISSIONED
SECOND yEUTENANT FROM CIVIL
LIFE IN I8?8. LIEUTENANT GENERAL
TODAY, IN COMMAND OF
THE WHOLE F/RSTARMY—
MAINE TO GEORGIA.
1
BORN IN MINNESOTA.
PRIVATE SOLDIER, 1901.
MAJOR GENERAL TODAV
THE 6™ ARMY CORPS
IS HIS COMMAND.
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EDITORIALS FROM
HERE AND THERE
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We’ll Need It Too
An official of a big aircraft corpora
tion, addressing: a meeting of the Win
ston-Salem Junior Chamber of Com
merce last week, said that when aviation
basses the pioneer stage it will offer
cheaper transportation than any other
medium, and said the country should be
dotted with small airports and landing
fields. In other words those communi
ties which do not provide these modern
facilities will be in the same fix of those
towns which the railways skirted in
yesteryear—they’ll simply dry up.
He gives good advice. In a sense, air
transportation has passed the experi
mental stage. When the last war ended,
there wras a tremendous upsurge in the
use of the airship. But it was a* noth
ing compared with what one may rea
sonably expect at the close of this con
flict. The European belligerents even
now are transporting light tanks by air
plane, and over here we have developed
a sort of hawk’s claw that will pick up
such heavy and cumbersome freight and
release it with a minimum of trouble.
And if we have gone that far, it will
be a small matter to develop something
applicable to freight carrying in the in
dustrial field.
And you may be certain of one thing: |
The big aircraft factories, geared and!
tooled for the production of huge bomb
ing planes, will not engage in a whole
sale dismantling of their plants, if there
is any way to employ them in the more
permanent field of industry. And so we
need not be surprised some of these
days to see, instead of the puffing truck
with three-four cars aboard, the air
plane with one or more autos hugged
to its belly, making delivery in hours
that now take as many days under pres
ent methods.
Everybody is in a hurry these days:
in a hurry to get where we are going
and in a hurry to obtain delivery of the
things we want. That means that the
demand for air transportation is already
here. We’ll have to finish this war busi
ness, of course, but it is well that we be
thinking and planning for the after
math.
If we don’t want Elkin to be left out
in the cold, we’d better be thinking and
planning too. It may be years before we
will be needing a first rate landing field,
but it will be fewer years than we now
think, before we will face the need of
adequate facilities to tie in with the
feeder lines that will be running on
regular schedules, much as the grains
and busses are running today.—Elkin
Tribune.
Shortage In Trans
portation
The latest “shortage” to be thrown at
the people of the country is of railroad
facilities, not applying solely to gaso
line shipment, but to all shipment. It
may develop or it may not, but it is
likely to be as shortlived as the gaso
line shortage, which most of us are be
ginning to forget.
There Ls a trouble-making class of
individuals in this country, which looks
forward with pleasure to a "collapse of
railroad transportation.” It is this class
which, for a long period of time, has
been predicting impending or immediate
car shortages. None of these shortages
have put in their scheduled appearance,
and railroads have carried record
breaking loads without delay or con
gestion. But nevertheless, this class is
j still putting out scare rumors, intimat
ing again that the railroads will soon
prove unable to meet the demands of
the hour.
One wonders just what prompts this
sort of defeatist psychology. If the rail
roads should break down, the calamity
howlers are not capable of remedying
the situation. To those who really want
to see our defense program go through
to a completely successful consumma
tion, it would seem like a sounder plan
to encourage basic industries. We should
give them credit due for their remark
able achievements during the emergency,
and help them iron out their problems,
which are the nation’s problems, in a
cooperative manner.
So far as the railroads are concerned,
it is obvious that they face transport
problems which are dumped in their lap
by every industry and every department
of government. Yet the fact is that
every problem so far has been met and
been solved. The tremendous emergency
load has been carried without break
down for the reason that the lines have
achieved the finest standards of operat
ing efficiency in history. They have
worked with shippers, to the end that
cars are being loaded and unloaded
faster than ever before. They have in
creased train speeds and capacities.
They have placed enormous orders for
additional cars and engines. And all
their efforts are being given to con
tinually bettering their record.
No industry is doing more for de
fense, as high government officials have
often said. The motives of those who
eagerly anticipate a railroad crisis, are
questionable.—Thomasville Tribune.
Japs Have Own Way
Of Computing Age
In Japan a child is considered as one
year old the day it is born and two
years old the following New Year’s
j day. A child born Dec. 31 would be two
| years old the next day.
Quebec People
Visiting Around
(T. 0. Henderson)
Quebec Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. "Walter Reece and chil
dren of Rosman, visited the former's
mother, Mrs. L. E. Reece, last Sunday
afternoon.
Rev. N. H. Chapman was dinner guest
of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Henderson Sunday.
Mies Loutee Fisher, of Brevard, visit
ed relatives here last week, returning
to Brevard Saturday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Owen and
daughter, Sarah Hyacinth, spent Sun
day night with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Owen.
Mrs. Lesa Loving and daughter, Miss
Mary Dodgin, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Gideon Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McCall and
children, of Candler, after spending a
week with relatives here and at Balsam
Grove, returned home Friday.
Rev. Z. I. Hendenson, of Six Mile. S.
C., preached at Oak Grove church last
Sunday morning. The eermon was a
great message and was attentively lis
tened to by all the members of the con
gregation. After the services at the
church, Rev. and Mrs. Henderson went
home with and were dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Henderson. In the
afternoon they returned ot their home at
Six Mile.
Send Your Renewal In
Argo Pineapple 5c
Dixie Home
MILK, 3 tall or 6 small cans.23c
TOMATOES, 2 No. 2 cans.15c
String Beans, 3 No. 2 cans.25c
Lye Hominy, 2 large cans.15c
Pie Peaches, large can.10c
Argo or Green Giant
PEAS, can.15c
Fruit Cocktail, 1-lfe. can, 2 for.25c
Dessert Peaches, 15-oz. can.10c
Salt or Matches 4-5u,„. 10c
Vjfhitehouse ^
Apple Butter, 7£-lb. jar 49c
Combed or Strained
HONEY, 5-lb. jar.67c
Ernst Brand Corn Flakes or
WHEAT FLAKES, box.5c
Oyster or Soda
CRACKERS, lb. box.10c
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MEAT SPECIALS
Pure Pork Sausage, !b.25c
Fat Back, thick, !b.12c
Chuck Roast, lb.21c
Lamb Shoulder, lb.19c
Breakfast Bacon, sliced, lb.27c
FRESH PRODUCE
Florida Grapefruit, each.5c
Green Cabbage, 3-lbs.10c
Sweet Potatoes, 6-lbs.19c
Red Tokpy Grapes,2-lbs.15c
Fresh Cranberries, lb.19c
POPEYE, THE RECRUITING OFFICER, HANDS OUT A ROUGH IDEA!
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-EXCUSE- ME, I DIDM'T
MEAN TO DO THAT —
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ROUGH IDEA UJHAT
TH' NAVV DOME
FER ME !!
OKAV. Nj
POPEWE, VOU
CAM SIGN
ME UP.
RIGHT NOW*
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You’ll look great in a Navy uniform!
Everyone looks bigger, handsomer, in
that uniform Uncle Sam’s Navy gives you.
And that’s only a start. Uncle Sam takes
great care of his sailors.
Free meals. Free board. Free travel.
Free medical and dental care. Free train
ing in any one of fifty-odd skilled trades.
And the Navy pays you good money
■while you learn.
What an opportunity! If you are 17 or
over, get a free copy of the illustrated
booklet, “Life in the U. S. Navy", from the
Navy Editor of this newspaper.
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BUILD WOUR FUTURE f
GET IN THE tsiAW NOtt>!