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, April 29, 1943
Ban Sales On Sunday ,
In accordance with provisions of a law
passed during the last session of legislature,
a large number of towns and counties in
Western North Carolina have already bann
ed the sale of beer and wine on Sundays.
A town ordinance here prohibits the sale
of these beverages until Sunday afternoon.
In line with the action of neighboring
communities and in keeping with Sabbath
observance, we urge that the new board of
aldermen of the town of Brevard and the
county commissioners take immediate steps
to stop the sale of beer and wine from Sat
urday nights at 11:30 o’clock until Monday
mornings.
Any one who visits the local court on
Monday nights realizes that there are en
tirely too many persons charged with pub
lic drunkenness.
Prohibiting the sale of beer and wine af
ter 11:30 o’clock on Saturday nights and all
day on Sunday may help to reduce this
number. And even if it doesn’t, more con
sideration should be given to the proper
observance of the Sabbath.
Saluie-American Style
No industry is doing a better adver
||tlsing job than are the railroads. Indi
* 'Vklual companies and the railroads as a
group are carrying in the newspapers
and magazines of territories served, ad
vertising that builds pride in our institu
tions and confidence in our ability to pro
duce and deliver the goods.
Here is advertising which impresses
on our people the mighty resources of
our land, and the ability of the greatest
railroad system in the world to handle
t^hem.
A paragraph from one advertisement
paints the American railroad picture
when it says: “A friendly wave—that’s
the traditional salute between the farmers
and the men who run the trains. Together
they are learning, from the heartaches
and hardships of war, how necessary they
are to each other—and to the preserva
tion of their precious privilege as free men
to salute each other American style, with
a friendly wave of the hand.”
Tourist Outlook Bright
In these critical and uncertain days, it
is difficult to make any accurate predic
tions, but it is gratifying to learn from
chamber of commerce officials here and
in neighboring towns that the tourist busi
ness in Western North Carolina will be
good this season.
The indications are that because of
transportation restrictions, the number of
tourists will be reduced from peak years,
but that those who come will stay longer.
It is obvious that the lack of defense
plants and army camps in this section will
serve as a drawing card. Today people
are working harder than ever and those
living in congested areas who have money
will certainly want to get away to a quiet,
cool place in the mountains for rest.
We are glad that our chamber of com
merce is sending out as much advertising
material as in former years and we urge
placing stress on the fact that there are
no defense plants or army camps in this
area.
If the opinions of chamber of com
merce officials in Florida and leading
winter resorts in North and South Caro
lina are at all accurate, our tourist busi
ness should be better than last year.
The outlook for summer campers is al
so better than had been anticipated.
Let's keep Brevard and Transylvania on
the tourist map. We’ve enjoyed splendid
industrial growth, but we need all of the
tourists we can get, too. Together with ag
riculture, the two make an ideal combina
tion. t
Eye For An Eye
Every American felt sickening shock at
the announced execution of U. S. airmen
by the Jap barbarians; but it must have
been no surprise. The past, dating to Pearl
Harbor, is only a long, black, grisly record
of crude, cruel andl inhuman warfare to
the finish. There have been machine-gunn
ed fliers prachuting toward safety, mas
sacre, rape; with the little brown legions,
there is lust and hate in war. With us,
against them, there must be a stern deter
mination to give them no quarter.
One great handicap to our war effort
now, in our opinion, is the slow, easymov
ing American spirit. It is not the free,
quick thing it was in ’76, or in 1812, or in
’61. The great mass of the people think
heavily of this war, as if there are millions
of enemies who must be swept out of the
way, one by one, laboriously. The enemy
is machines, not men; they do not think or
speak or breed poisonous ideas to warp
the world. Too much of our thinking is on
that line.
Men at the front who have seen action
lose that line of thinking, quickly. They
come, after the first brush, to realize once
andi for all that it is kill or be killed in re
turn; it must be the same for populations.
The German people are not poor, misled
puppets—they are the people who have
produced, financed and nutured aggres
sors through forgotten centuries. The Jap
anese are not misguided dolls ruled by an
iron-handed clique of warrior lords—they
are a nation dedicated to war for nation
al growth.
On the side of Jap and German there
will be forever cruelty; compact and rules
of honor will mean nothing to those na
tions. It was a normal Japanese reaction
to execute the fliers who bombed Tokyo.
A great many more such cases will be
brought to light. But Americans must not
stop with the shock ot the revelations, or
the expression of hatred. They'must come
to a complete realization of the nature of
the enemy. We fight bands of beasts
whose utter ruthlessness is not surpassed
in the history of man. Their will is only
to destroy our world. The quickest way to
their extermination is through the forging
of a national will that they shall be fought
in the way they are fighting. There is too
much talk of losing our spiritual stature by
stooping to hate. In this conflict, there is
certainly little room for brotherly love be
tween the warring nations. There was none
in Tokyo. It is our hope that the final death
blow at that city will be delivered' in the
same spirit before which our young men
were murdered.— The Charlotte News.
A Guest Editorial
TODAY & SOME TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO
In those days God looked upon the world
and He saw the people in a state of con
fusion, brought about by their disobedi
ence to His Commandments, and trying to
live according to their self-made blue
prints. God saw that there was no other
way to save them except by sending His
i Son, Jesus Christ into the world.
Jesus came, labored, and paid the su
preme sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, that
by His suffering and death those who will
might be saved, and that man might enjoy
life on earth and have that wonderful
promise of Eternal life. Our Savior made
it very plain that man would be punished
if he disobeyed!, and that sin’s ultimate re
sult would be destruction, and the ROB
BING of that precious promise of eternal
life.
Today we a.e facing that same confusion,
caused by the same attitude toward right
and wrong that the people were possessed
with back then. We also know full well
that when we leave God out of our home
life, business life, and national life, if you
please, that the devil, takes over and the re
sult has always been, and always will be
misery and destruction. It should behoove
all of us to discard our selfmade plan of our
lives, and start using the plan that our Lord
has for each one of His children, gleaning
our instructions from the Book of Books,
the Holy-Bible, and attending the services
at our respective Churches, and our Sab
bath School, and I know of no better time
to start than now. Let us quote, John, 3
16, “For God so loved the world, That He
gave His Only Begotten Son, that whoso
ever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”—By F. Brown
Carr, of Pisgah Forest.
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By BmilMallon
Washington, April 28. — The
charge has been made in the press
that much of the housewife’s
trouble in getting enough food
at the grocery is due to govern
ment overbuying and waste of
foods.
One authority claimed that 20
per cent of our available food was
lost by government inefficiency.
It’s true. Competent food au
thorities, outside the government
here, say the federal handling of
food was a "disgrace”. They date
it back even to the time when the
camps were being constructed
and too much food was bought
for the commissary departments
to feed the workers.
The 20 per cent estimate may
or may not be accurate, but proof
of the basic fact lies in the offici
al action turning back large sup
plies to consumer channels. Ap
parently. the overbuying was not
in any one line, but in eggs, dairy
products, meats vegetables, can
ned foods and now potatoes (too
many were dehydrated.)
Local newspapers a few days
back carried an item urging ser
vicemen to avoid public restau
rants and to eat in camps where
there is plenty of food.
Somehow these things happen
in various phases of the war ef
fort day after day and no one is
ever held responsible. So far, the
war has been conducted without
placing responsibility.
No one was held responsible
for Pearl Harbor, and apparently
no one has been held responsible
for anything since.
It is true the commissary de
partments for the armed services
should err on the side of getting
too much for the men, rather
than too little, and we at home
must accept what is left, without
complaint. But waste of food by
anyone, including the armed ser
vices is disastrously detrimental
to the war effort, and should be
exposed rather than censored.
If the average man makes a
mistake in his income tax return,
he will find how important the
government regards even a min
or slip. This man cannot be al
lowed to feel that generals and
admirals are immune to a simi
lar responsibility for their errors,
in more vital matters.
Fighting, government and civi
lian morale will deteriorate if a
complacent and benevolent atti
tude toward inefficiency continues
to be maintained.
The difference between the
Keynes British plan and the White
American plan for financially in
ter nationalizing the post- war
world were omitted in a recent
column for purposes of simplifi
cation. But there are differences
—vast ones.
Shrewd Lord Keynes has pre
sented a tricky method of insti
tuting the international board of
directors which is to run the in
ternational money world. In
stead of having membership on
the board divided according to
the amount of money put up by
each of the nations, he would al
locate these mighty seats on the
basis of foreign trade handled by
each nation in the three pre-war
years.
Of course this would give
Britain complete control. The
British, on their little island are
almost entirely an international
trading nation. Their dollar vol
ume of international shipping is
much greater than ours.
Thus, the British proposed to
gain control, not only of the sta
bilization of international curren
cies, but they would also even be
able to devalue the dollar and up
the value of the pound. They
could impose penalties on any
non-subscribing nation, could
borrow money from our Federal
Reserve Bank, and generally lay
a heavy hand upon the fiscal af
fairs of the United States.
Our White plan proposed that
no participating nation gain more
than 25 per cent of control on the
board, but wants us to donate 40
per cent of the $5,000,000,000
fund. It would let us have a veto
power on many important issues
by requiring a four-fifths vote
from the board of directors.
Keynes, similarly, is toying
with us on the gold aspects of
the plan. It is clear that the small
er nations could put up as little
as 5 per cent of their donation in
gold, making 95 per cent of their
contribution to the fund in their
more doubtful currencies and
bonds. Obviously, Keynes pro
poses to use gold, even in this
small way, only for two good
British reasons:
(1) London investors own most
of the stock in most of the gold
mines in the world in Africa,
Australia, Canada, and elsewhere
and (2) The United States has
clung to gold, and even a minor
use of it would make any finan
cial scheme primarily attractive
to us.
Obviously, Lord Keynes has done
more than propose a simple util
itarian method of stablizing in
ternational exchange. He has
concocted a skillful device for
British financial control.
NORTH CAROLINA’S SCRAP
CAN LICK THE JAP!
Timely Hints For
Farm Homemakers
By Ruth Current
Some women resign themselves
to the drudgery of dishwashing
and keep their minds occupied
with other things. Other women
make the job fast and easy with
a well-planned sink-center, plen
ty of soap and hot water, and a
good dish drainer. Take your
choice.
The family that plays together
stays together.
To make a razor blade a safe
instrument for ripping seams,
place one edge of the blade in a
slit in a large cork. The cork
serves as a handle and is also use
ful in protecting the fingers.
When using lemons in a way
that does not call for the rind,
pare off the yellow portion care
fully and put it through the meat
chopper (using the finest plate).
Then dry the grated peel, place
in a tight container, and use as
a pleasant flavoring when a fresh
lemon is not at hand.
Lemons which have been soak
ed in hot water a few minutes
prior to using will produce much
more juice than those not so treat
ed.
Wilful waste makes woeful
want. Some, ways to waste foods
are: To pare vegetables thickly;
to discard wholesome edibles; to
drain away fat.
We Present
llnele Sam
with a Bomber!
Like liberty-loving people everywhere, all of us here
*n Transylvania county have one-track minds today:
The only thing we’re thinking of, working for and
fighting for is VICTORY!
This war may put thousands of miles between friends
and loved ones, but it can never separate them spirit
ually For all Americans, whatever their task,
wherever they may be, are inseparably united in the
resolve to make this a better world . . . where men,
women and children can enjoy the worthwhile things
of life in peace and security.
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