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Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
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1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943
Can For The Schools
This newspaper joins the presidents of
the Parent-Teacher Association in Tran
sylvania county in urging all patrons to
do some canning of vegetables and fruits I
for the school lunchrooms.
In our opinion, school lunchrooms are
as important as classrooms and since WPA
assistance has been withdrawn, it will be
necessary for the community or patrons to
make contributions if the lunchrooms are
to be operated successfully this year.
Children need hot lunches and most of
them cannot afford to pay the high cost if
all of the food has to be purchased from
the money received through the sale of
meal tickets.
When you can for school lunchrooms,
you are really canning for your own chil
dren !
More Rumors Current
As the Allies continue to mop up in
Sicily and to bomb leading Italian cities,
and as the Russians continue to advance
all along the long front, rumors are current
in London that German military leaders
and financiers may dislodge Hitler from
power.
Indications are that the Italian govern
ment may be seriously considering another
peace proposal. An Italian frontier re
ported this week that thousands of anti
Badoglio pamphlets calling for a general
strike against the government’s failure to
make peace have been distributed in Mi
lan, Turin and Genoa following huge Al
lied air raids that did considerable damage.
Badoglio was reported to have offered
to surrender if the Allies would agree not
to use Italy as a base for attack on Ger
many. It is believed that the Allies replied
that only unconditional surrender would be
accepted. By continual bombing, it seems
rather obvious that the Italians will force
the government to act within a short time.
When this happens and when the Ger
man people fully realize that they do not
have a chance of winning, it is quite likely
that they will overthrow Hitler. However,
an Allied invasion of Europe may be neces
sary before this development takes place.
Undoubtedly Hitler is still deeply entrench
ed and he is not going to give up quickly.
A Lesson In Astronomy
The Office of War Information has
issued a report on American air transport.
Factual in character, it is nevertheless
breathtaking. It gives United States com
mercial airlines much credit for the de
velopment of airways reaching to every
area of the globe and flown over by the
Army and Navy air transport services, as
well as by the airlines. The OWI says:
“A pilot on the Lisbon-New York run flew
the Atlantic four times within three days.
Another pilot crossed the ocean twelve
times in thirteen days, making one round
trip in less than twenty-four hours.” Every
thing from heavy freight to critically
wounded men and medical supplies are
carried on these globe-girdling flights.
During 1941, their last normal year of
operation, American commercial airlines
carried 4,060,500 passengers, an increase
of 45,000 per cent over the approximately
8,700 carried in 1927. Between these same
years, air mail increased from 1,270,300
pounds to 44,595,300 pounds, and air ex
press and freight from 45,860 pounds to
22,315,000 pounds. Regarding the future,
aircraft production figures become astron
omical. In 1938, according 4:0 the OWI,
total production of the aviation industry
— cargo and combat planes together —
amounted to a mere $280,000,000. It soar
ed to $1,800,000,000 in 1941, and in 1942
made another huge jump to $6,400,000,000.
With such staggering aviation expan
sion, which has become international in
character, it is understandable why the
airlines favor uniform Federal regulation
of commercial air transport as envisaged
in the Lea-Bailey Bill now before Congress.
Inequities in the proposal, if they exist,
should be corrected and the measure
passed.
Eleanor Concocts Freedoms
We have suspected more than once
that some of the antics and utterances of
Eleanor Roosevelt have been inspired by
an aversion on her part to being eclipsed
in the public eye by her husband, who is
no piker at grabbing off publicity.
All of us have heard of FDR’s Four
Freedoms, but it is not generally known
that Eleanor has concocted a quartet her
self aimed at what she regards as a domes
tic tyranny. We didn’t know until we read
in a negro paper comment on an article
she had written for The Threshhold, organ
of the United States Student Assembly.
Her article was entitled “Abolish Jim
Crow.” The editor of the negro sheet hailed
it as “one of the best expressions we have
seen in some time by an American white
person on what Democracy ought to mean
in the United States instead of the travesty
we have.” He goes on to quote with ap
proval several extracts from Eleanor’s
article that express views which are an
athema to Southern people, among them
the statement that no force or law has been
able to stop racial intermingling.
The term “Jim Crow” is, of course,
used by Eleanor and other trouble-makers
like her as a rebuke to Southern people,
who believe that certain usages governing
the relations of the races should be main
tained. Observe that the negro editor says
these usages, based on experience and
acquiesced in by wise negro leaders in the
South, make of our democracy a “traves
ty,” or a sham.
Negro leaders in the North seem slow
to perceive that such half-baked ideas as
these from Mrs. Roosevelt do nothing to
help the negro race. They stubbornly—
and purposely—close their eyes to the fact
that the very people at whom these diatri
bes are aimed have done more than any
other to improve the lot of the negro. It
is a truth that the negro in the South has
advanced as far and as fast as his endow
ments and his energy would carry him;
and that he has done it under the guidance
and with the help of his white neighbors.
The attempt of Eleanor and the negro
press to make it appear that negroes in
the South are “jim crowed” out of rights
and privileges needed for their well-being
and progress is just mischievous nonsense.
But it snares the votes:—this coddling of
the negroes—and Eleanor’s husband is run
ning for reelection.
The Shangri-La
The United States Navy, instigated and
abetted by that lover of naval lore, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, is about to break a tradi
tion. There are fairly strict rules for label
ing ships of war: a battleship is called
after a State, a heavy cruiser rates a
big city; a light cruiser a small city, a
destroyer honors some naval hero or some
distinguished friend of the Navy, and a
submarine takes the name of a fish or
some animal that is at home in the water.
Aircraft carriers enjoy more freedom, for
they can be named after early fighting
ships of our Navy or after battles. Thus
the Saratoga, the Bonhomme Richard, the
Kearsarge. But until now no ship has been
named after an imaginary place, the crea
tion of a story-teller’s dream.
One is going to be so entitled. It is,
of course, the Shangri-La. In a moment of
inspiration President ^Roosevelt told the re
porters that the planes which bombed Tok
yo took off from this never-never land of
James Hilton’s invention. Actually their
starting point was the rolling deck of the
Hornet, later lost in the Midway fight. So
the new aircraft carrier, for which we are
all being asked to buy an extra dollar’s
worth of war savings stamps this month,
will bestow a triple honor: on Mr. Hilton’s
bold imagination, on the lost "Hornet and
on the men who carried out what was
probably the most spectacular air raid of
history.—(The New York Times.)
'BACKWASH OF THE WAR!"
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By* HMJLMaLLON
Washington, August 11 — Our
cheers over the caging of the Jack
al Mussolini must now be temper
ed with the knowledge that he was
only half-pushed into the cage. He
went at least half-way voluntarily.
Mussolini got out for purely
military reasons. He could not get
from Hitler the planes necessary
to defend Italy. It was evident to
all that he would have to obtain
large reinforcements, not only of
planes but troops, in order to
defend hisjiomeland. When he met
Hitler a week before his “fall,”
he found Hitler had few of either
to spare.
The King took over to work out
as good a peace deal with us as
possible and likewise as good a
deal with Germany as possible.
His first efforts were directed
toward establishing Italy as a neu
tral nation like Switzerland.
In doing this, his first act, there
fore, was to serve the purposes of
Hitler and Italy, because Italian
neutrality would create a buffer
defense state against us to protect
Germany from our air bombard
ments.
Naturally we would not accept
any such pro-Hitler proposition,
our cause demands that we use
Italy, her airfields, oases, and even
nilitary supplies against her Axis
Dartner.
This left the little King sweating
between two fears--fear of what
the German occupied troops would
do to him if he unconditionally
surrendered to us, and fear of
what our bombers would do to his
cities if he did not surrender. It
was evident to everyone except
the King that eventually he would
have to resolve in favor of his
greatest fear, our devastation of
his cities.
It is clear from inner and outer
advices now, therefore, that Mus
solini’s departure signifed no up
rising of Roosevelt or Churchill
democrats among the Italians. In
deed, there are few' if any such in
all Italy.
Those political prisoners who
were released from jail do not go
through the streets singing the
praises of British or American
democracy, although some were
reported to have tried to strike up
the internationale.
Caution and clarity require us
to realize the anti-Facist groups
are of many liberal and radical
varieties, and there is no organized
group representing what might be
described as a Roosevelt-Churchill
idealism.
The only mystifying circum
stance of the American bombing
or Rome was that Mussolini,
Badoglio and the King refused to
[ take the step which would have
! avoided it. They did not declare
their famous international citadel
j of religious and artistic culture
I “an open city,” although those
three little words spoken by any
of the Italian authorities would
have prevented us from dropping
a single bomb.
Why did not they take this
means of protecting their religi
ous and artistic shrines t^hich
they revere even more than any
one else? Paris and Manila
(mostly) were saved that way.
Why not Rome?
The only military objectives in
Rome are a huge chemical fac
tory with a supplemental munitions
plant, the railroad yards where
large quantities of military sup
plies were being stored, and the
military headquarters of the war
department.
To make Rome an open city, the
chemical-munitions plant would
have to be abandoned entirely,
military rail traffic could have
been shifted westward to a small
rail line running down the coast,
although the line is not suitable
for large volume traffic or for mil
itary storage. *The War Depart
ment, of course, could be moved
with the sacrifice only of com
munication facilities
Thus, while it would have been
difficult and uncomfortable for
the Italians to free their city of
the bombing threat, it was physi
cally possible.
The inescapable conclusion, I
herefore. must be that they like |
their shrines less than maintain-1
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
---By WILLIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
Junior cannot understand why
the nation is not agog over plans
for a fitting celebration of the
first anniversary of’ the cessation
of the manufacture of bathtubs.
Not all fat men may be popu
lar but, observes Zadok Dum
kopf, they do make the biggest
splash at a swimming party.
A Pennsylvania wife complains
her husband insists on playing a
German anthem on the harmonica.
ing the few prime military ad
vantages to keep their capital in
the war.
It cannot be proved, but the
most competent purely military
authorities here believe, from
these facts, that Italians figured
the united nations would never
bomb Rome for fear of the religi
ous reaction.
Secondly, they knew that if we
did bomb it, the act would fur
nish favorable propaganda for
their side. Consequently, they in
tentionally let the matter drift
and refused to take the step which
would have saved Rome.
This is a new angle to the war of
nerves.
Diogenes, who couldn’t find
an honest man, would have had
a short search today judging by
the large number of the “Don’t
Knows’’ in public opinion polls.
Grandpappy Jenkins says he
knows a big-hearted fellow who
tried to help folks out during the
last heat wave by giving everyone
the cold shoulder.
Mountains, according to Fact
ographs, grow but two inches
every 1,000 years. Well, they’ve
been a long time on the way.
Wet socks are now suggested as
a possible remedy for insomnia.
But how can a fellow' prevent the
resulting sniffles from keeping
him awake?
When your doctor asks where you
prefer to have your prescription
filled, say: VARNER’S, because:
Filled only by registered pharma
cist; as written and at reasonable
prices. (Advt.) tfc
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