The Transylvania Times
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TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Brevard, N. C.
THE NEWS
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THE TIMES
Estab. 1931
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Hntered as second class matter, October 29,
1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943
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The movement to establish a free town
and county library has been started and
if you favor such an institution we urge
that you tell or write members of the Bre
vard Board of Aldermen and the County
Commissioners, who are now giving con
sideration to the proposal. Officers and
members of the Women’s Civic club are
to be commended for their sponsorship of
this badly needed institution. If the town
and county will each contribute around
$200, the balance of the sponsor’s part
can be raised by private subscription and
the state will give $1,100. Don’t you think
that Brevard and Transylvania should have
a modern, up-to-date library?
The county commissioners are to be
commended for banning the sale of beer
on Sunday, starting July 1. This order is
effective everywhere in the county except
in corporate limits of municipalities. We
understand the Brevard town fathers are
giving serious thought to taking similar
action and we think they would be acting
wisely by adopting such a resolution.
Practically all of our neighboring cities
and towns have already prohibited Sun
day sales. From the standpoint of local
dealers who sell beer here, we believe that
the increase in meal service on Sunday
would more than offset the loss from the
sale of the beverage.
We admit there is a lot of truth wrap
ped up in the new three-word slogan of
the Victory Garden program, “Weed and
Reap,” and at the same time much of the
success of the food for freedom drive de
pends upon preservation of vegetables,
fruits and meats by canning. Miss Teague,
together with the able assistance of a num
ber of volunteer workers, is holding a
series of canning demonstrations through
out the county this month and we urge all
housewives to attend one of these schools.
Bond Quota Increased
To help meet the national goal of
twelve billion dollars worth of war bonds
set by President Roosevelt for the fiscal
year that ends this month, Transylvania
county’s June quota has been increased
by one-half. Our quota, plus one-half more
amounts to $45,150.00 for the month.
Our county has made an outstanding
record in bond sales and we must not fall
down this month. If we do, the nation’s
goal might not be reached.
It is, therefore, imperative that every
man, woman and child buy series E bonds
before July 1. Start today!
Whiskers Coming Back?
Whiskers are becoming stylish, they
say. And not because of razor-blade short
age either; but because a flowing beard,
chin whiskers, even mutton-chops and
Burnsides, betoken a dignity, a manliness,
a sheer dominating masculinity, which
compels the respect, even awe, of all
femininity. Goatees may not work the same
miracle, so we do not recommend them.
They have no charm.
This whisker revival is said to be due
to man’s extremity; it was necessary to
combat the growing disrespect of the wo
men. Now that so many women smoke, use
bad words, walk the streets be-panted and
be-trousered or be-slacked, wear military
uniforms—and all that—conditions have
become intolerable. Man's authority was
completely knocked into a cocked hat, and
none was so humble as to do him rever
ence. Then some one had a thought.
He remembered that in days of yore
women stood aside when men approached;
women were respectful, deferential, even
humble, when his lordship looked up. A
careful study how to revive man’s authori
ty revealed that men were men in the days
of whiskers; when any weakness of the
man was hidden, hirsutely. So, whiskers
may come back, to give men that appear
ance of austerity which rebuked presump
tion and inspired obedience. Soon all the
chinless wonders will look like all-conquer
ing swash-bucklers, and the “wimmen”
will bow the knee to us. We wonder?
Breaking War Rules
Most of the people who violate war
time regulations do it without giving much
thought to it.
When a woman buys a couple of
pounds of meat at a black market it is
difficult for her to believe that that small
purchase will seriously affect the rest of
the nation. But if every woman did the
same thing, it is easy to see how all efforts
to control food distribution and food prices
would be destroyed.
In the same way, in gasoline rationed
states, if a family drives a few miles to
the movies or to make a visit, it doesn’t
seem that the half gallon of gasoline used
is going to affect the operations of our air
forces in Europe or Africa. But it is just
as clear that if all families used a few
extra gallons a Week, millions of gallons
of gasoline, which might have gone to our
fighting forces would be lost.
With all war regulations, the best way
to think about them, before considering
a violation, is to picture what would hap
pen if everyone broke the rules in the
same way.
A Yankee Serves The State!
During the Civil War days, North
Carolinians and other southerners had ev
ery reason for cussing and fighting the
dam-yankees, but today it is an entirely
different story. Many of these former
dam-yankees are now some of the best
“southerners” we have and there are a
large number of them who have come to
North Carolina and are contributing a
great deal to its progress and develop
ment.
One of these men is Mr. Carl Goerch,
founder, editor and owner of THE STATE
MAGAZINE, who first came to North
Carolina from New York state in 1913.
For several years he published The Prog
ress, a weekly newspaper at Washington,
N. C., and ten years ago he started a pub
lication that has been worth a great deal
to the entire state and to every county of
the state.
Through this interesting publication,
North Carolinians have learned to know
vital information about every section of
our great commonwealth and about the
people who are making the wheels of prog
ress turn. Every issue of this publication
has also given its readers several good
laughs and the magazine has played a
significant role in unifying our state that
is so completely divided into three parts.
It has also been an excellent publicity
medium, advertising the Old North State
to the nation.
To Mr. Goerch we extend our con
gratulations upon his tenth anniversary of
THE STATE and wish for him and his
magazine many years of continued success
and service.
War Is Costly
During the past year the United States
has accomplished miracles on the produc
tion lines and indications are that still
greater miracles will be achieved within
the next twelve months.
W P B Chairman Donald Nelson has
just disclosed that a total of fifty-nine
billion dollars were spent the past fiscal
year and that plans have been made to
spend nearly twice that much for war
purposes during the forthcoming year.
Director James F. Byrnes, of the War
Mobilization Office, recently announced
that the 100,000th. plane has been made,
that we have doubled the size of our fleet
during the last year, that we have turned
out over two million machine guns and
that we have shipped to lend-lease coun
tries almost twice as many motor vehicles
as we produced for ourselves alone in the
last war.
This growing allied power is being
severely felt by the Axis nations, too, and
as the summer progresses they will feel
more $nd more of it.
Let’s do it cheerfully.
Victory is costly, but we must have it
at any price!
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Washington, June 16—Dear Mr.
Bradstreet Hyatt, Meriden, Con
necticut: I thought ycu presented
the orthodox liberal position very
well, although you do not profess
to speak for Mr. Bruce Blevin or
the new republic in your letter
to me.
You both drive upon the theory
that only one side can enjoy free
dom in the conflict between the
workers and the employer, for
instance, the alternatives, as you
see them, are that the employer
be free to exploit the individual
worker or the individual worker
be free to exploit the business.
That is the trouble with all lib
eral thought in this country and
the reason why it is not liberal.
True liberalism and true democ
racy says no group should be at
liberty to exploit another group.
The corporation should not be
free to exploit the individual, or
the unions free to exploit the cor
poration. You ignore the great
bulk of us—the consumers who
pay the bills.
The duty of true liberal govern
ment is to defend the average—
he greater good for the greater
numbers
Its interest is solely the interest
of the average man. Its norm is
the average of all freedoms cf all
classes and people.
It safeguards the rights of labor
no more assiduously than the
rights of business, knowing that
both these rights are inferior to
the common rights of all.
To find where your liberalism
leads ycu, follow it to its logical
conclusion and your ultimate vic
tory. Crown it with success.
You then have such things as
John L. Lewis standing abeve the
common good, actually able to
conduct a devastating strike in
wartime without punishment or
any retribution whatever. He is
able to ruin the price-wage policy
of liberal labor government for
the immediate ends of the worker
—not their ultimate good, for in
flation will destroy them as well
as us all.
Lewis has no other interest than
to keep coal miners pleased and
paying dues, no responsibility to
the government or the people, only
the responsibility to get his men
ever higher and higher pay and
privileges. So also with all union
leaders.
All men know these obvious
truths, but no one dares speak
them. Certainly no politician or
Washington statesman does, be
cause of fear of the political
power that the naturally selfish
(like the rest of us) union leader
has amassed. Even the President
of the United States in his deal
ings with Lewis obviously has not
felt himself free of this pressure.
You should not be surprised to
hear me say your view is reaction
ary, and liberal. It was good
liberalism back in the days of the
Elder Lafollette when unions were
weak and oppressed and something
like a Wall street orge in various
forms and shapes, was an economic
power in the land.
Management is crushed today,
Only one class and group has ac
cumulated wealth out of this war
— the labor union. Government
made' it that way.
Only the unions are free of the
confiscatory wartime taxes which
have and will continue to prevent
any other group from acquiring
wealth. You liberals forced the
new millions of war workers in
to unions and the payment of tax
free dues, which comprise the
only wealth secret from the in
spection of anyone, even the gov
ernment.
No one knows, therefore, how
much wealth the unions have
amassed out of this war, but they
are buying up property here,
building big office buildings, even
—ironically—lending money to
Evalyn MacLean the ex-million
airess, to build a bus terminal;
and buying the building which
the Republican National could
not afford to buy.
They are the bankers now, even
for presidential candidates. They
have the new power of wealth, the
only remaining power of wealth.
In this system, the average man
has about as much freedom as a
mine worker in the Lewis union
who might want to do his patriotic
duty and return to work.
Your liberalism thus has raised
by enslavement the man who
works with his hands above the
independent man who works with
his brain. You have spurned in
tellectual success to embrace manu
al uniformity.
Bricklayers earn more than school
teachers and occupy a position of
more civil power in your scheme
of life under their union head.
You control courts and make hi
jacking legal for unions only, but
a crime for every other group.
Teamsters probably earn more
than the writers for your liberal
magazine, the new republic, cer
tainly, scrub women earn as much
working for the government in
Washington as some white collar
clerks.
Your liberalism, which professes
a devotion to learning, truthful art
and independent thinking, wor
ships the man who cannot read,
write or think, and makes him
your norm.
You have made the noble pro
fessions less profitable and less
desirable for coming generations.
You want to confiscate success in
all lines in favor of a union jiorm,
even reducing medicine to a whole
sale government business.
The taxes you advocate put a
penalty on the teacher, artist, in
ventor, doctor, lawyer, writer who
struggles through 20 years of pre
paration to attain a great success.
What thinker in this county has
the power or actual prestige of
John L. Lewis or the local politi
cal bosses?
The consequences of your liber
alism are an end of democracy and
a strong-armed quasi-dictatorship
under a democratic name, which
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