The Transylvania Times
Published Every Thursday by
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Brevard, N. C.
THE NEWS THE TIMES
Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
Consolidated 1932
Hntered 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
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Thursday, May 27, 1943
College Year Ends
A splendid wartime commencement
program has been arranged at Brevard
college and we welcome the three distin
guished speakers on the program to Bre
vard and Transylvania county.
As many townspeople as possible
should take advantage of the opportunity
to hear Judge William Bobbitt, Rev. James
B. McLarty and Dr. H. T. Hunter.
Although the graduating class is the
smallest in the history of the institution,
we are proud of the forty-eight fine boys
and girls who will receive their diplomas
next Monday morning.
Besides obtaining an education, these
graduates have made many friends here
and Brevard people will certainly miss
them. With each one of you go our best
wishes for continued success, service and
happiness in life.
In announcing that the college will
start a separate department in June to
give junior and senior high school boys
and girls a greatly accelerated education,
we believe that Dr. Coltrane is doing some
thing that will fill a definite wartime
emergency educational need.
One of the great calamities of the pre
sent conflict is the fact that boys in par
ticular are having to give up their pursuit
of knowledge shortly after they become
eighteen and learn the arts of war and
killing.
Of course Uncle Sam is going to try
to make it possible for these boys to re
sume their education after the war, but it
is obvious that many of them never will.
To be associated in a college even for a
short time before having to enter military
service will prove of lasting benefit to
young men.
Historic Action
Quite the most startling and significant
development that the current war has pro
duced in the realm of politics was the
order from Moscow dissolving the Third
International, the organization founded by
Lenin and his associates in 1919 to fo
ment world revolution after two similar
attempts had failed. More amazing still
was the statement of the executive com
mittee of the Comintern that the organiza
tion had been “outmoded” and was a drag,
in some countries, “on the further strength
ening of the national working class par
ties.”
Communism has never been a menace
in this country, but it has produced no
end of friction between our government
and that of the Soviets. As long as it ex
isted and persisted in its hostility to all
forms of government not to its liking,
there could not be full cooperation be
tween the Russians and their Western al
lies in any undertaking. The order liqui
dating the International, an irrevocable
one it would seem, insures a larger meas
ure of cooperation between the countries
—all of them—fighting the Axis. Even
more, there are Communists in Axis coun
tries and they may, at the behest of the
committee, resort to sabotage. The stage
would seem to be set for a final and
supreme attempt to smash the Axis and
to establish a new world order based on
harmony and understanding. While de
nouncing it as an “act of gigantic bluff,”
the Germans conceded the importance of
the decree by connecting it with an Allied
invasion of the continent.
What the Communist branches in dif
ferent lands will do now that those who
founded and nurtured the movement have
disowned it, remains to be seen, but there
is reason to hope that they will be in
fluenced by the committee’s plea to join
in the war against the Hitlerite tyranny.
An immediate reaction may be expected
from China, whose position just now is
critical. General Chiang Kai-Shek has
never been able to win the all-out support
of his countrymen who got their orders
from Moscow. The impact of the decision
is also sure to be felt in the turbulent Bal
kans—in fact, throughout the world, in
enemy as well as Allied, lands, there will
be a reorienting of aims, purposes and
hopes now that the ferment of Commu
nism has been abandoned and disowned
by its nestors. The stress of war has dis
covered to them that not established gov
ernments, whatever their nature, are the
foes of the proletariat, but that the real
enemy is Hitler and his evil doctrine.
A moment ago we mentioned the in
fluence this order may have in enemy
lands. We had in mind Germany particu
larly. It should not be forgotten that after
the collapse of their Weimar republic, Hit
ler’s struggle for mastery of Germany was
with the Communists. The German revo
lution was of Communist origin. Its roots
are deeply imbedded in Germany today.
One foreign diplomatic source in Lon-'
don is quoted as having described the dis
solution order as “the most intelligent and
adroit diplomatic move of the war.” Un
questionably this is true. Hitler used to
gloat over his “bloodless victories,” dip
lomatic triumphs achieved by bluff and
cunning, but none of them will compare in
significance with this maneuver which
focused upon him the wrath of Commun
ists the world over, even in his own reich.
Dr. Goebbels was right when he envisaged
it as an invasion prelude for it accelerates
and strengthens the action that will liqui
date Hitler and bring deliverance from the
scourge he inflicted upon mankind.
An Outsider Speaks!
“I was surprised to learn that a pro
gressive county like Transylvania does
not have a free public library,” a well
known editor of a newspaper published
below the mountains told The Times last
Sunday.
“Why Transylvania is one of the most
outstanding counties in Noith Carolina
and during the recent war campaigns you
have won second place in both the scrap
and bond sale drives,” he continued.
“A good library is essential to progress
and your county will have one soon,” he
concluded.
To that observation we say, “Amen.”
Transylvania should and must have a free
public library. The ladies of the UDC have
done an excellent job, but now that isn’t
enough. We should have a library with
twice as many volumes as the present one
contains. These books should be free for
the-asking to any citizen.
People who read good books make
better citizens. Today, because of travel
restrictions, most people have more time
in which to read.
If you think the county should have a
public library, tell your county commis
sioners so.
The state is willing to contribute $1,125
during the next year. The cost of the
county will be very little and no doubt
much of that can be raised for the first
year through private contributions.
Our tourists expect to find and use the
facilities of a good library. Our schools
could use it.
Let’s get behind the movement.
More Than A Military Debacle
The Kannapolis Independent sees in
the Axis debacle in North Africa “a psy
chological victory ... as great as the
military vr t -y.” Germany, it says, is “de
flated.”
“The licking would have come just
the same as if the Nazis had fought to
the end,” the Kannapolis daily continues,
“but the astonishing thing was the way
those supermen ‘jumped the gun’ in hold
ing up their hands as they had done in
the final stages of the last war.”
A correspondent on the scene was
quoted as having written that the Germans
had “plenty of guns, they had good posi
tions, they had millions of mines,” which
enabled them, if they had chosen to do
so, to “make a hell of a fight.” But instead,
the correspondent relates, “they just pack
ed up,” and he adds “Nobody seems to
know why.”
The Kannapolis paper infers from the
manner of the Nazis’ surrender that
“Something was wrong with those Ger
mans and something must be wrong in
Germany.” And we hope that’s true!
"ONE WORLD"
;
Washington, May 26—American
flyers of rather low rank counsel- !
ed the strategy for taking Attu
first and then going back to get
Kiska.
The high command here is un- '
derstood to have asked flyers on
ground in Aslaka for suggestions [
on strategy and their recommen
dations were followed. This is how
a democratic army functions in
contrast to Hitler and other totali
tarian military regimes.
The importance of the islands as
bases for invasion upon the Jap
anese mainland may be slightly
over-estimated in the public mind. ,
They are good submarine bases, ,
but, due to weather conditions,
are not satisfactory air bases.
The Japs have been building :
fields on both Kiska and Attu,
however, and the one on Attu is
large enough for bombers. They
could not have been used to at
tack the United States, being too
far away, but would have launch
ed bombings of Alaska.
They are doing a lot of things
to prices here, but no one seems
to know just what, and somehow,
no matter what they do—threaten,
point-ration, feeze, or promise—
every time you go to a store with
r market basket, food seems to
cost a little bit more.
A load of publicity about the i
new dollar and cents ceilings, roll
backs, subsidies, and mandatory
margins, has created the impres
sion that the cost of eating has
declined, but the evidence to sus
tain such a conclusion is still lack
ing to consumers.
The experts are as confused as
everyone. For instance, OPA first
fixed margins of profits on vari
ous foods on chain stores, some of
which were mandatory and others
optional. Then they made all mar
gins mandatory on the old basis
of March, 1942, but raised some
margins. That was on Monday.
Two days later, on Wednesday,
margin reductions were ordered.
The statisticians of the chains fig
ure the reductions will cut them
to such an extent in meats, canned
l fruits and vegetables, cereal, rice,
and sugar as to make their busi
ness unprofitable. Yet somehow
nothing you buy seems to be any
cheaper. However, OPA promised
another meat rollback decrease
June 1, based on subsidies which
the government will pay out of
the treasury to the meat packers.
A cursory check of the effect
of the 300 food ceilings ordered
by OPA ten days ago, indicates,
these did not roll back anything.
Some prices were increased, some
decreased, and the average left
about the same. Enforcement may
be improved by the action, but
not prices.
The particular brands of canned
goods hit by decreases seem to be
those used in the chains, and this
should help the independents, but
the aid received by the consumer
is not yet apparent.
The only thing sure is that no
scientific effort to handle the
price situation is evident. Rather
it is piece-meal plugging.
The confusing things which
have been done are expected by
most private economists to be
merely temporary stop - gaps at
best. In the long run, they think
food prices are likely to continue
to work themselves upward one
way or another.
Also obvious is the fact that
food buying through normal re
tail channels has fallen off enor
mously.
In the chains beef consumption
this April was off 70 percent from
last April; processed foods, 50 per
cent; meat, 60 percent; butter, and
iheese, 50 percent; sugar, 25 per
cent; coffee, 33 percent. Much of
his reflects curtailment due to
joint rationing, but some of it is
ilso due to black markets in meat,
poultry, and potatoes, and the
ransfer of business to -smaller
stores.
The point rationing system
seems much too complex for the
iverage housewife, and buying is
lot being done on an efficient
Jasis, in the opinion of all autho
rities. The government has made
luying and living too complicated
:or average intelligence.
No one, in or out of the govern
nent, seems satisfied with the con
lition, but it looks like we will
lave to go on with OPA, until
some semblance of efficiency evol
/es out of the chaos through the
eveling process of time.
OAK GROVE NEWS
Devotional services will be held
?ach Sunday evening at 8:30 at
Jak Grove Methodist church. At
he Wednesday night prayer ser
vices the book of Mark is discus
sed each week.
Miss Melba Siniard and Miss
Katherine Siniard have returned
:'rom a visit in Kingsport, Tenn.,
vith relatives.
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Branch
Chapman the past week-end were
. h e former’s brothers, Burley
L'hapman, of Valley Forge hospi
;al, in Pennsylvania, and Demus
Chapman, of Tryon.
Mrs. Harvey Sprouse accompan
ed Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Canup and
?hildren to Franklin the past week
?nd, where they visited Mrs. Can
ap’s parents.
OLD TOXAWAY
By Miss Myrtle Aiken
Rev. and Mrs. Nathan Chapman
and children, Mr. and Mrs. Cur
tis Chapman and daughter, Mrs.
R. M. Powell, of Middle Fork, had
a picnic dinner in this section.
Mr. Elliott Robinson, of near
Brevard, visited S. E. Robinson
and Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Robinson.
Mrs. Clemmons Chappell, Miss
Myrtle Aiken, Ira Pettit, Howard
Aiken, Mrs. Eleford Chapman,
and Bessie Chappell were busi
ness visitors in Brevard last Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway and
Jess Meece, of Middle Fork, visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Chap
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Aiken, of
Middle Fork, were dinner guests
on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Chappell.
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89c
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Cold Tablets
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$1=25 Wampole’s
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