The Transylvania Times
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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.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1943
Aura For A Bomber
Quite a number of Brevard people went
over to Asheville last week to have a look
at the “Memphis Belle,” noted bomber
whose pilot, Major R. K. Morgan, is a
native of Mountain City. The famous ship,
which made 25 flights over enemy territory
and bagged seven Nazi planes, has been
released from the service and is on a tour
of the country to stimulate sales of war
bonds.
Shortly after the plane reached this
country, it was announced that at the con
clusion of the present tour a Memphis,
Tenn., girl, for whom it was named, would
marry the pilot. But this is not to be; the
girl has announced that she will not wed
the heroic major.
Why? Precise reasons, as might have
been expected, were not divulged, but in
reading the girl’s statement we got the
idea that she just simply didn’t love the
man!
Now, this newspaper is always sadden
ed by a broken romance, whatever the
cause, but we contend that where love is
absent it were better that marriage should
be renounced. We believe that 95 girls out
of 100 girls would have jumped at the
chance of marrying Major Morgan; no
doubt he has been badgered by hundreds
of scheming females whose chief ambition
seems to ensnare a man and who scoff at
love. But not the Memphis girl; she ap
parently felt that marriage, even with a
hero, would be an empty and futile thing
if love were not there.
Sensible girl, say we. She may marry
some obscure lad, but it’s a pretty safe
guess that she will find with him supreme
and lasting happiness.
It seems to us that, assuming our con
jecture is correct, this Memphis girl has
out an aura about this bomber, this sinis
ter killing-machine, this symbol of hate.
In rejecting the pilot as a life-mate she
exalted love.
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A Prize-Winning Edition
In keeping with their great tradition,
the people of Rutherford county are mak
ing heroic records in the contributions to
World War Two.
The story of that county’s part in the
present, as well as in all past wars, is
magnificiently presented in words and pic
tures in an excellent 112-page edition of
The Forest City Courier and The Spindale
Sun that was published last week.
Since the days of the American Revolu
tion, when a large percentage of the coun
ty’s manhood banded together and march
ed to Kings Mountain and there won one
of the major battles for independence, the
men and women of Rutherford county have
always responded to the country’s cause of
liberty and freedom.
Today Rutherford has over 3,000 men
and women in service. On the home front,
the county’s farmers, textile plants and
industrial workers have gone “all-out” for
Victory. All war activities are highly and
efficiently organized and outstanding re
sults are being accomplished.
We congratulate Rutherford county
citizens and at the same time we take
pleasure in saluting The Courier and The
Sun upon the publication of such large and
truly excellent edition.
As a winner of prizes, it is our pre
diction that this edition will win a state
.and national award.
Are Women Patriotic?
Transylvania county has made many
remarkable war effort records of which
we are justly proud, but we are ashamed
of the fact that we are not meeting mini
mum quota requirements of surgical dress
ings.
The Red Cross has supplied the county
with adequate quantities of materials, the
work shops are conveniently located and
well equipped and the leaders are doing
j all they can, but they lack volunteer work
ers.
The majority of the ladies of the com
munity seem to prefer to play bridge, at- j
tend parties or to engage in other recrea
tional activities. Playing bridge is fine,
but there’s a war going on and the women
of Transylvania are expected to do their
part. Doing this kind of work is a patriotic
duty and we urge Brevard and Transyl
vania women to get busy!
A Big War Job!
Transylvania county has been assigned
another big War Job and this time the
appeal is being directed to the farmers
and woodsmen.
Today there is a serious shortage of
pulpwood and our country needs vast
quantities of pulpwood for explosives, ray
on parachutes, gas mask fillers, shipping
containers, smokelsss powder plastics for
airplane parts, shell and bomb casings and
hundreds of other war uses as well as
civilian.
The civilian products made of pulp
wood include wrapping paper, printing
and writing papers of all kinds, newsprint
and so on.
The pulpwood situation is acute today
because hundreds of thousands of cords
are required for war purposes and because
the general manpower shortage has result
ed in a decrease in the cutting of pulp
wood.
Mr. Donald Nelson, chairman of the
War Production Board, has given a key
for the solution of this desperate situation
with the following suggestion: “If every
one of the more than 3,800.000 farmers
in the 27 pulpwood producing states were
to devote 3 EXTRA days in 1043 to cutting
pulpwood, we could overcome the threat
ened cord shortage with wood to spare.”
So there’s a picture of the general
problem. To aid the government in helping
to solve this serious pulpwood and chest
nut wood, situation, this newspaper and
hundreds of other papers in the nation
have enlisted their support in a “U, S.
Victory Pulpwood campaign” which is be
ing launched in this county today.
The buyers of pulpwood and chestnut
wood, and the lumber manufacturers of
the county are also co-operating with The
Times in promoting this urgent drive. A
county Victory Pulpwood committee has
been appointed and all farmers and woods
men are urged to enlist, to voluntarily be
come soldiers on the home front.
The Rosman Tanning and Extract Com
pany will buy vast quantities of chestnut
wood. Champion and Meade and perhaps
other companies will buy all of the pulp
wood they can get. These firms are paying
high prices, too. The ceiling price for chest
nut is $10 per cord and $12 for pulpwood.
It is estimated that a farmer can cut
at least two cords per day. By so doing he
will make good money and at the same
time will be helping in the fight for Vic
tory.
A survey made by this paper indicates
that only a very small percentage of the
farmers of this county are cutting pulp
wood at the present time, and another
survey shows that there is pulpwood on
a large percentage of the farms of the
county.
Our farmers are doing a grand job of
producing food and feed for freedom and
now we urge them to devote at least three
days during the balance of this year to
cutting chestnut and pulpwood.
The war effort is also taking vast quan
tities of lumber, too, and our two large
lumber companies are doing all they can
to produce as much as possible, but they
are hampered because of lack of manpow
er in the woods.
The Carr Lumber company and the
Gloucester Lumber company have assured
this paper that they will be glad to give
part-time employment to farmers.
Put your trees into the fight. Make
extra money for yourself. Start cutting
pulpwood and helping to cut logs. Do it
today!
Published elsewhere in this issue is a
coupon which we urge you to clip out, fill
out and mail to this paper. A button will
be sent to you and we know you will enjoy
wearing it.
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By BuulMallon
Washington, Aug. 17 — His yes
men say Henry Wallace is a chang
ed man since his unofficial de
motion to about fourth vice presi
dent behind Jimmy Byrnes, the
real first vice president, Fred Vin
son, the second, and Marvin Jones,
the third.
(This country now has more vice
presidents than a New York bank)
but I'll say Mr. Wallace has chang
ed too.
By a heavy, violent speaking
campaign in the farming mid-west,
now to be extended elsewhere, he
seems to be trying to re-establish
himself as the rallying point for
the utmost left wingers and the
utmost internationalists.
To me, he always will be the
father of scarcity economics, the
man who devised the plan to pay
good treasury money out to farm
ers for not growing things. I
thought he was proud of it until
I read his recent speeches.
In those, he ardently denied be
ing a scarcitist and came out for
utmost mass production in the
post war world. His story was that
his killing of those little pigs was
somehow less deplorable than the
big steel corporations pig iron
curtailment when there was no
market. It is a little mixed up,
and no doubt Henry intends to
keep it that way.
Indeed, the story would go all
right in the CIO labor headquar
ters of the east (where Wallace
seems to be) but how his meta
morphosis as a mass productionist
would go over with the farmers
still receiving his government
benefit checks, I am not able to
say.
In general, his new line of goods,
blaming everything, including his
own scarcity economics, on the
invisible “corporations” is standard
political stock in trade, which, if
a little shop-worn, is still consider
ed good stuff.
But now he is going to Chicago
to advocate the Ball-Burton-Hill
Hatch resolution a few days after
Mr. Roosevelt told the country
this is no time to argue over peace
details—but to get on with the
war. Senator Hatch does not be
lieve this Wallace move conflicts
with the White House wishes, be
cause he says Wallace is not going
into details. Nevertheless Wallace
is an outstanding advocate for
getting together with foreign na
tions now on a peace program—
a step which the White House
obviously does not wish to take.
While Wallace is trying to carve
out a new left-wing career for
himself, or force Mr. Roosevelt to
include him on the fourth term
ticket, the orthodox democratic
politicians are taking a decidedly
different—but just as interesting
—new line themselves.
Speaker Rayburn, often men
tioned as the next Roosevelt run
ning mate in Wallace’s place, has
made a Texas speech denouncing
both criticism and critics of the ad
ministration, calling them “grumb
lings.” This was followed by a
speech from Senator Carter Glass,
saying no one should criticize the
administration in war time.
Apparently, the democrats are
not only getting ready for the
fourth term, but are preparing to
hush anyone who says anything
about them. They not only want
re-election, but their tactics sug
gest they are going to insist on
no vocal opposition.
If they can create an impression
that it is unpatriotic or unwise
for anyone to criticize the presi
dent or the administration, the elec
tion should be a mere formality.
Criticism, however, still goes on.
A butcher in a leading Washing
ton grocery store (one where Mr.
Ickes sells his eggs) has been
following a habit of asking each
customer if he would vote for Mr.
Roosevelt for re-election. Then he
always announces that, he, for one,
is not going to, and he will give
you a pretty good talk running
from five to 30 minutes on his
reasons.
A Justice Department agent call
ed on him the other day, he says,
either to see if he is loyal or if
he could be hushed. The Justice
Department man lost the argu
ment. The butcher laid down this
rule to him:
“I am not saying anything about
the war, or anything wrong, and
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
----By WILLIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
Another hero is the radio com
mentator who tackles such tough
ies as Castelvetrano, Caltanisetta,
Caltagirone and Canicattina with
out batting an eye or stumbling
over a single syllable.
. The most popular “rollback”
of the moment is that of the
Axis troops in Sicily.
After the recent shortage in that
food staple the phrase “small po
tatoes” has definitely lost its old
meaning.
One commentator thinks Spain
may yet join forces with the
Axis. Just as though Franco isn’t
smart enough to know a bowl
of very hot soup when he sees
one!
you can’t do anything to me.”
He is still talking.
This matter was settled at the
outset of the war. The true dis
tinction was then drawn. Political
opposition and constructive criti
cism are indispensable require
ments for the democratic system
we are fighting for. Loyalty to
the country must never be con
fused with partisan political loyal
ty to a party or an individual.
In New York a nag named
“Thumbs Up” won a race. Wonder
how many bettor were hitch-hiking
on that one?
Adolf Hitler may be a vege
tarian but even he ought to be
pretty well fed up with his cur
rent diet of sour grapes.
In view of the mountainous
terrain, Zadok Dumkopf says the
Allied and Axis forces in Sicily
naturally could not meet on an
even footing.
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