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The Transylvania Times
Published Every Thursday by
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
i Brevard, N. C. t
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
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Non-Daily in North Carolina and Second Best
in Nation.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1943
A Real Opportunity
We hope the farmers of Transylvania
county will take advantage of the splen
did opportunity they now have of liming
their farms this fall.
Through the county AAA office they
can obtain supplemental supplies of lime in
quantities almost as large as they secured
last spring and these extra grants will not
be deducted from the grant-of-aid pro
gram.
County Agent Julian Glazener has point
ed out that the outlook for the feed situ
ation in the nation this winter and next
year is serious and Transylvania farmers
can make a real contribution to the victory
program by producing all of the feed they
possibly can. The market for this feed will
obviously be a profitable one.
To encourage more feed production, the
AAA is also offering supplemental grants
of crimson clover and vetch seed and Aus
trian winter peas.
Surely our farmers will not let this op
portunity pass.
Black Market
This was her big chance to help her
husband’s business. The business had been
hard hit, with so many people going away
to the war and materials so hard to get.
Mrs. Housewife began planning the
menu for a dinner party she was going
to give next week when an old friend of
her husband’s—now in war production —
was coming to town. His visit might mean
the plant would get a war contract.
She talked her plans over with a friend.
“I wish I could have a big roast,” she
sighed. “But that’s out of the question.
We just don’t have enough points to do it.
How I wish we lived on a farm and raised
our own food the way you do, Mary.”
“Yes,” her friend replied. “We don’t
have any worries about points. Why I tear
up lots of stamps at the end of every
month.
“But wait a minute, I can let you have
some points. We don’t need ours and I do
so want your party to be a success. Wait
while I get my ration books . . . Here, use
all the points you need.”
It seemed a fine idea. Mrs. Housewife
would have stamps for the roast she want
ed so badly. She wouldn’t think of resort
ing to a Black Market to buy meat without
points—And if Mary wasn’t going to use
her share of the meat those points st:> d
for, she saw no reason for refusing the
offer.
BUT—Those two women were building
a Black Market. Farm families which pro
duce their own food have been asked by
their government not to take more than
their fair share of scarce foods, not to buy
rationed foods they really don’t need. The
food produced for home use on America’s
farms is just as much a part of the nation’s
food supplies as that which is sold in city
markets.
Mary and her family were getting their
fair share when they consumed the meat
and other products raised on their farm.
Permitting another to use their stamps in
order to get more than their fair share is
unpatriotic.
Use of a ration book, except to buy
things for the owner of the book is un
lawful—is actually sabotage of our war
time program for the distribution of scarce
goods.
THIS IS A BLACK MARKET.
Rendering A Service
The Women’s Auxiliary of the Transyl
vania Community Hospital is to be highly
commended for organizing a service unit
that will be on duty at the local hospital,
assisting the regular hospital staff. By
giving information to relatives and friends
of patients and acting as general hostesses,
members of this service group will render
a distinct service to the hospital and to
the public.
Of course these women will work with
out remuneration and a schedule for work
ers is now being arranged. All women in
the town and county who desire to co-op
erate in this activity should contact the
Auxiliary.
Throughout the nation, many women
are volunteering as nurses’ aides, thereby
relieving the shortage of nurses and the
strain resulting from this shortage.
Here in Brevard Mrs. Reschke, one of
the new teachers at Brevard high school,
is carrying a full teaching load five days a
week, and on Friday afternoon goes to
Asheville, where she spends from eight to
sixteen hours a day on the week-end work
ing as a nurse‘s aide in the Biltmore hospi
tal. During the week here she also assists
in laboratory technician work.
That is certainly making a real contri
bution to the war effort and her work
should serve as an inspiration to all women
who are thinking of joining the Auxiliary’s
service unit.
Humpty Dumpty Has Fallen!
“Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall '
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All of the King’s horses and all of the 1
King’s men
Can’t set Humpty Dumpty up again.” i
We suggest that as an appropriate epi- 1
taph for Benito Mussolini, erstwhile leader ,
of the Facist, who was going to restore *
Rome to its former glory by the power of
“might” rather than “right.”
His partner in the revival of Old Roman 1
conquest of enslavement is now undertak
ing to prove that “Humpty Dumpty” can <
be set back up again.
Heralded throughout Germany as a ma- j
jor coup, fellow world-wide Gangster (
Adolf Hitlervrescued the former Duce and
over Nazi broadcasting stations last Sat
urday afternoon Mussolini is alleged to have
made a stirring speech to the world and
particularly to the Italians, his former
gangster followers.
He lauded Mr. Hitler, condemned the
Italian King and outlined a four-point
program for “loyal” Italians, urging them
to take up arms again against the Democ
racies and overthrow their traitor King.
Those who heard the broadcast are not
altogether convinced that the voice was
that of Mussolini, but even though it was
II Duce himself events this week have
proven that an overwhelming majority of
his once “loyal” Italians are not paying
any attention to what he has to say now.
With their aid, the Allied armies are
smashing the Germans and driving them
back to Rome. Within a short time they
will drive them back to the North Sections
and unless they cross the Alps with great
rapidity, they are apt to be completely de- !
stroyed, even to the last man.
Mr. Humpty Dumpty has fallen and it
will take more than Adolf Hitler to put him
back up again. As a matter of fact, Mr.
Hitler is gradually falling, too, and when i
he crashes to the earth, the sun will shine
again.
Remember?—Then Act!!
Remember when the Japs and Nazis
laughed at us, called us soft and decadent,
and bragged howT they’d biff the daylights
out of the democracies.
Remember how they tried to deliver
a sneak knock-out punch and had the
peace terms all figured out for us? They
were to be the lords; we the slaves.
You do remember, don’t you? Of course
you do. Made you mad, didn’t it? It made
the whole country mad.
While the Third War Loan drive is on,
we have a fine chance to take another
wham at the Axis—by cutting pulp and
add wood and putting the money we make
into War Bonds. The country needs pulp
wood—badly. And we need money to run
the war.
So get out that ax and grind it sharp.
Then get going. Every cord of pulpwood
you cut will hasten the day of victory. It
will accelerate that speed if you put your
pulpwood money into War Bonds—Do it
NOW!
Can it be done?—The answer is your
ax!
By RujlMallon
Washington, Sept. 22 — Most
)eople in the hurry and troubles
)f their own busy war lives never
;top to think about the opportuni
y these treasury bond drivgs offer
0 them.
They do not have the time or
>pportunity to analyze fully what
1 bond means to them personally,
['lie publicity is generally directed
oward inspiring their patriotic
pirit for purchases, as it should
>e, but there is another side of it
vhich should not be overlooked.
Bonds are savings. They are real
ecurity, real old age insurance,
['hey are the best investment for
he average man, the safest place
o put his money against a rainy
lay.
If any wage-earner can start
early in life to put a certain
amount of money each year in
small defense bonds, he can have
these coming due annually at the
end of a 10-year period—not only
the amount he paid in, but a 25
per cent increase on his invest
ment.
Where else can you find an op
portunity for small investment to
day that guarantees a 25 percent
increase in 10 years?
Series E bonds are best for this
purpose. I started in saving that
way seven years ago, long before
the war, and I have been fortunate
enough to be able to buy the limit
for myself and my family each
year since then.
Let us be frank and look at it
fairly. Some people hold back in
fear of the size of the war debt
or inflation. Those objections are
foolish.
No matter how great the war
debt, these savings bonds will be
so widely distributed among the
people after this war that the
government will have to maintain
their purchasing value to the ut
most. Public pressure will see to
that.
In any event, if you put the
money in the bank, you will suffer
THE HOMBURG HAT, we read,
is out for the duration. Gone the
way of the hamburg sandwich and
the city of the same name.
We won’t believe Hitler is
really out of office until the
Berlin broadcasts begin to refer
to him as Citizen Schickelgurber.
Horseflies, we hear, are bigger
this year. Probably got toughened
up trying to bite Army tanks.
These food rationed days it is
easier than ever to lose friends
and alienate people. All you need
do is display a boarding house
reach.
Though Atlantic waters are pret
ty chilly, the U-boats seem to be
in plenty of hot water.
Synthetic steaks are promised
for the future. Just the ticket,
no doubt, to satisy a false appe
tite.
Apropos of the canning season,
it might be remarked here that
the Allies have badly jarred the
Italian populace and that the coun
try is now in a pretty pickle.
the same results from inflation,
and you will not have the prospect
of half as much interest as you
will get from the government.
(Series E pay 2.93 percent over
the 10 year period, which enhances
their value 25 percent; savings
accounts hereabout now pay 1.5
percent.)
If you hide your money in a
sock in the attic, you get no in
terest, and the results of inflation
would be just as disastrous — in
fact, it would be disastrous wher
ever you put it.
These bonds are cash. They are
money. People do not seem to
understand this. They are the
same as dollar bills because they
have exactly the same treasury
backing, and can be transferred
to dollars at any time.
In effect, they are dollars bear
ing interest. If you put your sav
ings in a bank, the banker will
buy a bond anyway and get the
2,/2 percent or more, while paying
you IV2 percent.
For these reasons, every loose
dollar held by everyone ought to
be in government bonds. It is in
comprehensible to me that anyone
would choose for any reason to
hold cash or money in the bank
than to hold a savings bond.
Thus, from cold reasoning, this
bond drive should reach into every
crevice of idle money in this coun
try and put in to productive use
both for the good of the country
and the good of the individual
citizen.
More stirring necessities' back
up this cold one. If you have any
one anywhere near the battle front
—and who has not—you will want
j to sacrifice to buy even beyond
[your savings limit. Certainly if he
stops to think about it, any man
would deny himself actual pur
chases of comforts and put this
money into bonds when he con
templates the national necessity
and his personal duty in it.
The slogan is “Back the Attack.”
This is to be the final attack, we
must make sure. It is to be the
big drive which will crush our
enemies and the duty assigned to
any man, who has a dollar or can
save one, is clear. It may be his
last chance to do his duty, a
profitable duty.
It is not often that a man is
confronted with a proposition
which is at the same time neces
sary, profitable and patriotic. Ev
ery citizen has this privilege in
this current bond campaign.
This is your country and you
should be a stockholder in it, as
big a stockholder as you can.
The snapping turtle is believed
able to eat only when submerged.
E.M. DINGS, M.D.
BREVARD, N. C.
Medical Bldg.—Asheville
IN BREVARD
Tinsley Bldg. Next to Bank
Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat
GLASSES FITTED
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A Change In The Management of MulVs Market
I wish to announce to my friends in Brevard and
Transylvania county that I have recently leased
the Mull Market and assumed charge Monday
morning. This market is fully equipped with
modern appliances for preserving meats and
has well established contacts with sources of
supply, which is very important at this time
when certain varieties of meat are hard to get.
Long dealing as a butcher with the people of
this section has fully acquainted me with their
desires and preferences, and it will be my firm
purpose and constant endeavor to serve them
in a manner that will merit their continued pat
ronage and good will. In this ad are listed a
few opening specials that should appeal to all
housewives.
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AT MULL’S MARKET
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BACK THE BOYS ON THE BATTLE FRONTS
BUY WAR BONDS
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