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The Transylvania Times Published Every Thursday by TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY Brevard, N. C. THE NEWS THE TIMES Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931 Consolidated 1932 Entered as second class matter, October 29, 1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. ED M. ANDERSON_Publisher HENRY HENDERSON_Ass’t. Publisher MISS ALMA TROWBRIDGE_Associate IRA B. ARMFIELD-Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the County, $1.50 Out of the County,$2.00 Thursday, January 14, 1943 Local Bus System Needed The present OPA ban on pleasure driv ing emphasizes the need in Brevard and Transylvania county for an inter-urban or county-wide bus transportation system. The new OPA regulation prohibits in dividuals from using their cars to go to places of entertainment and yet entertain ment is essential in bolstering up public morale. There is also confusion about the ap plication of the regulation on attendance at club meetings. In Brevard and the coun ty there are a large number of clubs of all kinds and their activities are both social and for the general welfare, as well as for the war effort. As a partial solution, and to aid further in gasoline and tire conservation, we rec ommend that the owners and operators of the buses that naul Ecusta employees to and from work, endeavor to establish a regular inter-urban bus system from Bre vard to Rosman, to Pisgah Forest, out on the Greenville road and perhaps in other directions. A good deal of the time this equipment is idle and it seems to us that permission could be obtained to operate them on reg ular, frequent schedules during the day and in the evenings. It also seems to us that such operations wouRl be profitable, as well as render a great public service. School Lunches Must Continue That there is much the embryo Save the Children’s Federation can, given the proper support, achieve in Transylvania County was made evident at the meeting in the city hall Saturday evening, and a spectator was impressed by the earnest ness and concern apparent at that gather ing. Clearly we need in Transylvania a well-balanced, comprehensive and intelli gently directed recreational program. Many children in this county lack clothes to keep them warm, but the thing that gives us greatest concern is the probabil ity that, unless something is done forth with, the lunch program in the schools t have to be abandoned. The Times is firmly of the opinion that Jinder no circumstances should this be permitted to happen. There are probably 700 school children in this county who are receiving lunches free and, coming from needy homes, it is a pretty safe as ■ sumption that this is the only adequate vateal that many of them get. It would be worse than a tragedy to deny these chil dren this meal; it would be confession of a shameful derelection on our part. We cannot permit it to happen. Mrs. Cole suggested a means by which this misfortune can be averted: Get patrons of the schools to raise commod ities and pay the personnel of the lunch rooms out of the S. C. F. funds. This plan is feasible and there seems to be no al ternative. This plan has another virtue. Food stuffs are going to become increasingly hard to get. The diet of the civilian pop ulation is going to be restricted more and more, but if we raise the products needed in the lunch rooms here in the county we are assured of an adequate supply. The Times would not undertake to dictate which of the various S. C. F. ob jectives should be given priority for we realize all of them are worthy. But, we should like to point out that here is an established activity that is already serv ing an essential need in a satisfactory manner. All the S. C. F. needs to do is to take over and continue the program. We hope to see action to this end taken forth with. The President Speaks! During the past week President Roose velt delivered before the 78th. Congress two significant and history - making speeches which were heard and read throughout the entire world with keenest interest. His annual message on the state of the union and the progress of the war, was a triumphant speech that brought cheer to the Allies and discomfort to the Axis, and in his budget address Monday Mr. Roose velt asked for the expenditure of one hun dred billion dollars during the next fiscal year for the war effort, and this gigantic sum is more than all that the axis nations are spending. In 1942 the Allies stopped the Axis of fensive in Europe, Africa and Asia and in 1943 he expressed the assurance that “we will march towards victory along the roads that lead to Berlin, Rome, and Toyko.” The Russians were highly praised for their defensive and offensive victor ies against the Germans and the Presi dent assured them and the enemies that j “we will strike somewhere in Europe and strike hard this year.” Of course the chief executive also praised the other al lied nations and stressed the fact that our own soldiers are displaying great valor on the fields of battle. Discussing the homefront situation, he said “a miracle in production” for war had been accomplished in this country during 1942 and promised that still greater production records would be made this year. He likewise lauded Amer ican farmers for having produced more in 1942 than ever before and called on them for more food and feed to win the war. i The address was an extremely optim istic one and left no doubt but what vic tory would be ours and maybe in 1943. He cautioned, however, that all civilians, as well as soldiers, would have to make more and more sacrifices .... would have to work harder, and his speech Monday called for higher and higher taxes. The national debt is now nearly $120,000,000,000 and by July, 1943, he estimated that it would rise to over two hundred billion. The nation, however, is sound, he said. “We wrage a total war because our very existence is at stake. Without that su preme effort we cannot hope to retain the freedom and self-respect which ^ive life its value,” he said. “Total war is grim reality. It means the dedication of our lives and resources to a single objective, Victory .... In total war, we are all sol diers, whether in uniform, overalls or shirt sleeves.” Mr. President, we do not like to fight and kill, to pay high taxes, to sweat and toil, to be rationed and all of the other things that total war imposes, but wre prefer them, to defeat at the hands of the demons of Germany, Italy and Japan and are willing to make every sacrifice nec essary to preserve freedom, liberty and Christianity! A Great Scientist Passes Death brought to an end at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., a few days ago the fruit ful and amazing career of Dr. George Washington Carver, famed Negro scient ist, who rose from obscurity to world-wide renown. Honors were thrust upon Dr. Carver and great wealth could have been his, but he had only one ambition, “To work among the trees and ferns and the grass of God's good earth." Dr. Carver's life was replete with achievement. From the peanut, he devel oped more than 300 products during his half century at Tuskegee. Methods were devised by him to obtain ink, stains, glue and hundreds of other products from the sweet potato. From Alabama’s red clay he produced plastics, paint, paper, cos metics and hundreds of other things. He ! discovered new uses for cotton and he | was the first person to make newsprint from Southern pine. Dr. Carver was also a painter of note and a skilled musician. Doctor Carver’s life teaches important lessons to all. Granted that he was en dowed as have been but few men in any age, the fact remains that he took the common things and of them made more useful things; though his achievements were such as to excite admiration of the scientific world, they inspired in him no hateur, no vanity, no gloating. Dr. Car ver’s discoveries revealed his greatness as a scientist; his humility, his gentleness and his piety revealed his greatness as a man. News/ Behind tmm _ IV Paul M\l lon WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 —The outgoing Mr. Leon Henderson and the remaining fuel oil rationers have not the slightest idea what they have done to the average in dividual home owner. Their statements before the Senate Oil-Gas Committee rang the same old notes about “ not be ing to,ugh enough,” “people not cooperating,” and “stronger ra tioning to come.” They are all good, genial, con scientious men, but they are think ing in terms of national supplies, area quotas, and soulless statis tics. They simply do not under stand the human problems they have put on the average man. Personal case histories are scarce. No one furnishes them in the debate, but I will tell mine and prove it with documentary evi-! dence, if it will bring these offi- j cials any nearer a realization of the human problem in which they have involved the nation. It is an average case, not nearly as bad as many but it shows such a condition of confusion and mis understanding as almost to defy solution. I spent some hours filling out their long blanks and measuring the square footage of each room of my house last fall. OPA announce ments said they intended to allot two-thirds as much oil this year as last. Their publicity men gave out fancy stories about how Mr. Hen derson’s smart young men had worked out a complex formula based on weather for the last ten years so everyone would get his proper share. But when my coupons came back, the cut was 50 percent. My last year’s bills showed consump tion of 4,325 gallons in the mildest ; Washington winter of a decade, but my allocation was 2,200 gal lons for what is proving to be the worst winter in the same period. Right there, I found Mr. Hen derson’s smart young men not smart for me. Instead of measur ing cubic footage of rooms, as every heating man does when in stalling a furnace, they measured floor space only. The people in our neighborhood with low ceilings, in some cases, got more oil than they needed, i whereas the man with high ceil ings did not get enough to run the | winter at any temperature. Studio living rooms, with two story ceil ings, left some dwellers with a pittance. ivjy cu dealer lniormcd me there was no use going to the rationing board even today. It was a mad house. As late as this, it had not been able to allocate coupons to all the people, so there was no need to seek reconsideration. Clerks had largely volunteered, were untrained and the average of mis takes was high. Luckily, I had a vacation in De cember, so I closed the house for a month and went away to use the heat of others. Coming back, I felt comforted by announcements from OPA that all Washington dealers had enough oil, although I could hardly reconcile this with the news in the same paper that the British Embassy had no heat for several days. My dealer thereupon informed me the value of my coupons had been cut 10 per cent and anyway he would have no oil for “three or four days,” although there were only ten gallons in my tank. The only other oil dealer in town had plenty, but OPA had issued a reg ulation preventing him from serv ing any except his old customers. The government had prevented him from serving me. There I learned the problem of the oil dealer was worse than mine. Less than one-fifth of his drivers generally showed up on Monday, because increased pay al lowed them to take more time off without losing salary. OPA had descended upon them with new regulations requiring de tailed daily reports of mileage, gasoline, tire life, hours driven, concerning each truck, and it was almost impossible ’ for the dealer i to answer the telephone, much less to maintain an orderly business. So I closed off all except a couple of rooms in the house, wait-1 ing until I reach the last gallon of oil before seeking other shelter, although all hotels, apartments, and boarding houses in this local ity are filled to over-flowing. Even then, as I waited, the af j ternoon editions carried govern ment warnings urging more con version to coal and threatened dire consequences unless apartment houses did so. I became acquaint ed with the “conversion to coal” song of Mr. Ickes last year when I tried to convert my furnace. My furnace dealer informed me: “Oh, that’s just bunk the gov ernment is handing out. You would have to get a whole new fur nace and no furnaces have been manufactured. We simply cannot get them, or even get conversion “DRANG NACH OSTEN"-1943 \ 0 grates.” Ilis desk now is stacked two feet high with emergency orders for heating repair in homes where furnaces consumed the last drop of oil and blew out. A radiator j in the home of one of his custom- j ers blew out the wall under such j circumstances. Said customer went to the ra-; tioning board and raised hell, ' threatened to sue the government, j but he got no more oil and the government apparently seemed unworried. This is the story of my commun ity, and this is my personal ex perience, briefly told, but drama tizing a situation of greater se riousness in every community in the land. I do not mind partic ularly, but the next time I see an announcement by a government of ficial telling me not to use too much fuel oil, I am going to take the newspaper that carries it right down to his office and make him eat it. P- S.—The late afternoon edi tions have just arrived with an announcement from the local fuel director Mr. Whitney Leary, stat ing fuel dealers here have plenty of oil and warning people not to order more until their tanks get down to one-fourth full—and me with two gallons and no prospects of oil “for three or four days.” I am leaving for Mr. Leary’s office with a copy of the paper. MIDDLE FORK NEWS By Mrs. Homer Manly Regular prayer service will be held at Middle Fork Baptist church next Wednesday and Sat urday night. Everyone is invited to attend. Roy Galloway, of West Jeffer son, spent the week-end visiting his family. Mrs. Galloway return ed with him Monday to spend a few days. Lawana Morgan, small daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Morgan, has been ill at her home here, but is improving. Elford Chapman left last week for the U. S. Army. He was called in the last draft. Mrs. Roy Galloway spent Tues day visiting Mrs. Homer Manly. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Morrison and daughter Doris, of Travelers Rest, S. C., spent the past week end visiting relatives. Miss Bessie Manly returned home with them. Rev. George Holcombe visited relatives in South Carolina last Sunday. OLD TOXAWAY By Miss Myrtle Aiken Eleford Chapman left here last week for Fort Jackson, S. C. to enter the U. S. Army after spend ing a 7-day furlough with rela tives in this section. Miss Ailene Kimsey, of Oak land, spent the past week visiting Miss Ella Mae Kimsey. Rev. Roland Robinson of Oak land spent Saturday night visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Galloway of this section. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Galloway a son on Sunday, Jan. 3. Mrs. Galloway was before her marriage, Miss Mary Kimsey. Luna Meece and Ernest Powell, of near Rosman were the dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Chapman. Miss Mildred Chapman spent Saturday night as guest of her cousin, Miss Myrtle Aiken. Nor is There‘Any Season At VARNER’S A comparison of prices and service will show conclu sively that it is to the advantage of Transylvania peo ple to do their buying here. Our stock is as ample as can be found in any city, quality is unsurpassed, prices are competitive and our service is cordial and obliging. Moreover, our long service to the people of the county has thoroughly familiarized us with their wants and needs. We otfer to them a superior service based on experience. There is now another compelling reason for trading at home. We refer to the gas and rubber shortage. It is a patrriotic habit to reduce riding to the very mini mum. ORDER BY MAIL People living in the country may mail their orders to us for anything we carry in stock and they will be fill ed promptly. Take advantage of this service and save time and rubber. This means that we are just as close to you as your mail box. Call on us often, via U. S. Mail. Valentines for Service Men Remember the boys in the service with a Valentine. It is a courtesy that will give them much pleasure. We have the famous Hallmark line in a wide range of prices. Select yours and mail them now. Bottle of $1.00 Cod Liver Oil (Concentrate) TABLETS 89c 60c PERTUSSIN COUGH SYRUP 51c Air Maid (Rayon) HOSIERY All popular shades in a full range of sizes. $1.15 $1.50 $1.65 l>IIIIIIIIIIMll||||||||ll|||,IM,MallM|M|M|MM|||||M||a||||| $2.25 Size Harriet Hubbard Ayer Luxuria CLEANSER $1.00 Large Size USTER1NE 79c 25c Mead’s PABLUM 19c $1.20 Scott’s EMULSION 98c $1.00 Value CARDUI TONIC 89c $1.20 Dr. Caldwell’s LAXATIVE 98c Large IVORY SOAP 3for 25c Gainsborough POWDER PUFFS 10c Gainsborough HAIRNETS 10c 3 for 25c 1 Pound .--"fsawf Prince Albert TOBACCO l/AKNERS W (OJalcKeert (ftqencjn w drugstore BREVARD, N.C. PHONE 203
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