The Transylvania Times
Published Every Thursday by
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Brevard, N. C.
THE NEWS THE TIMES
Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
Consolidated 1933
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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Winner of 1943 Awards for Best Large
Non-Daily in North Carolina and Second Best
in Nation.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1943
Help Prevent Fires!
This year more than ever before, the
observance of National Fire Prevention
Week from October 3 to 9 should com
mand the united and zealous support of
our entire citizenship. With our nation en
gaged in a major war that is taxing our re
sources and calling for uninterrupted pro
duction, the object of the observance is to
urge upon our citizens unceasing vigilance
against the fire hazard. An indispensable
servant of mankind, fire is at the same time
a ruthless destroyer.
It is a striking fact that last year 150,
000 fires were started by careless people in
forests and woodlands. The resultant
damage was sufficient to build two Flying
Fortresses a day! This alarming toll should
convince campers, hunters and others who
venture into the forests for sport or to work
of the need of exercising at all times the
utmost care. During the same period,
thousands of homes and other structures
were consumed, which today it would be
very difficult if not impossible to replace
on acount of wartime scarcities and restric
tions.
The town of Brevard has not experienced
a major fire during the past yeafh This we
ascribe to the fact that our people are be
coming more fire prevention conscious and
the efficiency of Chief John Smith and his
volunteer fire fighters. In behalf of the
citizens of the town, we thank them for
their exertions. Besides the actual saving
of money, it speaks well for a town to have
a low fire rate loss.
All property owners in Brevard are urg
ed to get ready for the inspection by the
department next Monday. Buildings should
be gone over beforehand with an idea of
locating and correcting any condition that
might cause a fire. Remember, a tiny spark
can start a conflagration, so property
owners should do their utmost to eliminate
every possible hazard.
An Unbeatable Team
The slogan for National Newspaper
Week, which will be observed throughout
the nation October 1-8, has been chosen to
emphasize the partnership that exists be
tween a Free Press and a Free People.
The slogan, “A Free Press and a Free
People—An Unbeatable Team,” stresses
the fact that freedom of the press belongs
to the people and not just to newspaper
people.
History reveals that people remain free
so long as they have a free press and the
history of America proves that a free press
and free people have accomplished mir
acles . . . miracles in improving the general
standard of living of all the people . . . and
in this war we are proving to the world that
we are “unbeatable.”
In the dictator nations, the first thing
that those in power did was to seize control
of the press, and started to give the public
propaganda instead of facts. Then they
took away the right of free speech, of free
dom of religion and freedom of assembly.
Freedom of the press is the very heart
and soul of Democracy. It protects the
American people by keeping them inform
ed about what all elected officials are do
ing and what they plan to do. Since ours
is a government “of the people, by the peo
ple and for the people’', the public must be
informed. In that way they can make an in
telligent choice at the polls and may pro
test to Congress.
If there were no freedom of the press in
this nation, there would be no institutions
of true education. When the newspapers
are free to print the truth, ministers are
free to speak the truth. As long as the
press is free, the people are free to organize
for protection and for furtherance of com
munity interests. In Germany and Italy, a
ban was placed on all civic clubs.
A Free Press and a Free People work
hand in hand in the promotion of progress.
The newspaper and this one in particular,
boosts the schools, the churches, civic
clubs, chamber of commerce and all
worthwhile movements that are for the
common good and general welfare of the
commuirty and area that it serves.
It has been aptly said that wherever one
finds a wide-awake, progressive town there
he will find a live, alert and progressive
newspaper and that wherever there is a
dead newspaper, there’s a dead town.
A newspaper is the mouthpiece of a com
munity. Community service is one of its
primary functions.
During National Newspaper Week we
urge our readers to re-affirm their belief
in the freedom of the press and their re
solve to keep it that way. During this
week we are re-dedicating ourselves to do
ing everything possible to merit its preser
vation and to pledging ourselves to render
still greater service to the community.
Fighting On The Home Front
In commenting- on the observance of Na
tional Newspaper Week, Chairman Donald
Nelson, of the War Production Board, re
cently made this significant observation:
“My experience in the past two years
has fully confirmed my belief that the
American people will cheerfully do what
ever is asked of them in this war effort,
provided that it is fully explained to them,
and they are convinced that every one is
being treated fairly.
“It is obvious that a free and intelligent
press is vital to the continuation of that
kind of understanding. Because the chan
nel is free to criticize wherever criticism is
needed, it has been possible to organize
this country for war production with a
minimum of arbitrary controls and a max
imum reliance on voluntary co-operation.”
We are convinced that explanation is a
true and accurate one and we believe that
our own experience here in Brevard and
Transylvania county will prove this to be
correct.
In all homefront war programs, we have
felt that it was our patriotic duty to devote
every resource of this newspaper to giving
a full explanation and to making an urgent
appeal for voluntary co-operation.
A survey shows that since Pearl Harbor
i we have given a great deal of space in the
ad, news and editorial columns to war ac
tivities, and that we have secured sponsor
ship for many pages of bond and other war
time advertising.
We have backed the rationing, bond,
victory garden, scrap, conservation and
other war effort programs one hundred per
cent. We have and will continue to go
“all-out” for Victory by encouraging local
efforts to conform to the adjustment neces
sary to wartime living. We have tried to
do a big job in educating the public to the
importance of sharing, working, giving and
co-ordinating all attempts with the final
purpose of Victorious peace in mind. We
have promoted Americanism. We have
published and will continue to publish all
of the news we can possibly get about our
men and women in service.
It is a pleasure for us to fight on the home
front for Victory and for a lasting peace.
Industry Gone To War
Despite wartime operation difficulties,
the cigarette industry is really doing a
magnificient job of production, and we are
elated that our people are able to supply
the manufacturers with adequate supplies
of quality paper so that this production will
not be thwarted because of a shortage of
this essential material.
Because of the stress and strain of war,
cigarettes are more essential today than
ever before. Our armed forces must have
them; civilians and other war-workers
must have them; and all of them are look
ing to us and to other manufacturers in the
industry to supply them.
Today production of cigarettes has brok
en all previous records, and on the other
hand demand is still greater than supply.
All of which means that every person in
the industry must continue to work just a
little harder*and a little more efficiently.
To the industry as a whole, we take off
out hats! It has certainly gone to war.-—
The Echo.
THE'
By BujlMallon
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29— Mr.
Robert L. M. Parks, Editor, Au
gusta Chronicle. Dear Mr. Parks;
I liked you open letter criticiz
ing my postwar views, and appre
ciate the statement that you con
sider my column “refreshingly
frank and singularly free of shal
low nonsense.”
At any rate I can agree with
you thoroughly in the final thought
expressed in your letter;
“This is the time for straight
speaking and straight thinking,
no one needs pull his punches or
hide his opinions in enforced si
lence.”
In that spirit I would like to
sift the position which you have
taken. You hold that if we keep
our armaments, we express dis
trust of the rest of the world and
that we should go into the peace
conference in an open hearted
manner, and if we fail to, we will
promote another war.
I do not distrust the other peo
ples of the world. I know them as
I see them expressing themselves
in their actions, and I do not con
sider them much different from
the Americans I see around me,
as far as their human instincts
are concerned. Everyone here and
abroad wants to get ahead him
self, advance his position, or at
least make it secure to the utmost
of his ability. So do all* nations.
You say;
“We should not like to go to the
world bargain counter to engage
in trade with a pistol protruding
from our hip pocket,” adding, “we
would promote another war by
our very arrogance and pistol
toting proclivities.”
No one in' this country wants to
go swaggering in quite that way,
although if anyone else is going
to have pistols there, or near, we
would, of course, want the big
gest, nearest.
But the presence of a pistol
does not mean war. The Augusta
citizen who has one in his home
does not keep it there to start
a war.
Laying pistols aside, where did
you get the idea that the world
peace table is going to be a bar
gain counter? Bargain for whom?
I have not heard of anyone offer
ing to give anything away. I have
not heard of even any cut rates
being offered.
The peace table will not be
as you describe it. Statesmen don’t
carry either pistols or bargains to
international conferences.
That peace table will actually be
more like a business conference
table in this country. Around it
will be gathered highly competi
tive statesmen in charge of the
governments of the world, deal
ing in the biggest business in the
world, each trying to get ahead of
the other.
No business man goes into such
a competitive business conference
in Augusta or Washington in an
open-hearted, big-handed way, if
he does, he knows he will soon
lose his shirt and cease to be a
business man. If he tried it, you
would wonder how he ever got to
the position he occupies.
The thing that gets me is that
you never hear the Russians or
British urging such an attitude on
their statesmen. Generally, right
now, you hear their people or
statesmen complaining because
they are not getting enough from
us.
But let us blind ourselves to
that and assume, as you erron
eously might, that everyone came
to the next conference as you
want us to be, at least as far as
armaments are concerned. Have
you forgotten so soon what hap
HIMMLER, rough-handed boss
of the Gestapo, is made No. 3
Nazi. Doc Goebbels, the propa
ganda chief, who remains No. 4,
by now ought to believe that old
saw about actions speaking louder
than words.
Grandpappy Jenkins was so
busy scanning the war news that
he let Sept. 1 come and go
without ordering an oyster stew.
The kids still won’t believe Dad’s
story that his after school snack
was a piece of thickly buttered
bread, generously sprinkled with
sugar.
Shakespeare certainly was a
dandy prophet. He reported al
pened at Pearl Harbor? And to
France?
The Japs came to our disarm
ament conferences all the while
hiding pistols under the bed at
home. Hitler had so many pistols
buried so deep that neither
France, Britain, nor America had
the slightest idea of his massive
superiority (and incidentally, he
himself did not begin to know the
size of the hidden Russian arma
ments, as his generals, and, in fact,
our own, thought Russia could be
conquered in 60 to 90 days.
Trust? This war started with
secret armaments in a world which
we thought was policed securely by
the Democratic fleets. We nearly
lost because we were caught flat
footed on that erroneous ground.
You say my ideas would “with
draw us into a sort of armed iso
lation, arming ourselves strongly,
taking possesion of a chain of out
lying bases, and settling back be
hind our fortress to enjoy a long
most 400 years before the Nazis
began shooting down helpless
Danes that there was something
rotten in Denmark.
New England school boys are
doing their bit helping harvest
crops. We’ll wager, though, that
they draw the line at lending a
hand with the spinach patch.
When he has to travel to and
from his office by bus or street
car the tired business man may
also be a tireless one.
With some colleges reduced to
building their football teams
around kids in their mid ’teens,
Junior now has hopes of becoming
an Eagle Scout and an All-Ameri
can the same season.
and definite era of peace and
concord.”
I do not want to withdraw any
where. I merely want to profit by
our mistakes which should be
fresh in our minds.
The bases are absolutely essen
tial for our protection. Everyone
knows that. Therefore, me must
have them.
We already have leases on a few
of them. We cannot afford to lease
our security from others any more
than we can depend on a navy of
battleships leased from others.
A nation can survive in this
world only if it is strong morally,
economically, and militarily. The
stronger we are in all these ways,
the better.
Lawns
Fall is the best season of the
year for seeding lawns, says L. G.
McLean, horticulturist with the
Experiment Station at State Col
lege.
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A Personal Message
To My Friends
I feel that my country needs my services in this crucial
period and have, therefore, volunteered for the duration.
I am entering the U. S. Navy as an Ensign, and reported
for duty on Sept. 28th.
I wish to express to my friends and customers of Bre
vard and Transylvania County my sincere appreciation
for the business they have given me in the past and to
solicit a continuation of their business for my associates.
During my absence, the business will be managed by my
brother, Tom Varner. The prescription department will
be in charge of a competent and experienced Pharmacist.
1 feel that Varner’s Drug Store will continue the policies
which with the patronage of our loyal customers has
brought us a gratifying measure of success and increasing
good will.
When we “get ’em licked” I hope to be able to “hurry
back” to my business and continue to serve my loyal
friends and customers.
Again assuring you of my appreciation of your patron
age, I am,
Sincerely yours,
S. E. VARNER, Jr.
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