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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
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IRA B. ARMFIELD_Business Manager
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Winner of 1943 Awards for Bes^ Large
Non-Daily in North Carolina and Second Best
in Nation.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943
Give Generously . .. Then
Double It!
The Times makes this confident state
ment.
If the people of Transylvania county in
contributing to the National War fund will
make their gifts commensurate with the
need we will raise more than our quota of
$10,800.
For, assuredly, not before in the history
of the world have there been so many wret
ched and despairing people who need—
and deserve—a tangible expression of our
admiration and smypathy. These people
have experienced the horrors of war, many
of them are destitute, but they are not, and
will not be defeated. We should uphold
them in their resistance to aggression.
But these funds will be used not only to
succor victims of the war in other lands.
A portion of them will be used in behalf of
our lads held prisoner in enemy camps and
to maintain the morale of our fighting men
the world over. Families of men in the
service, children of parents in war work
and. divers social services will also share
in them. Seventeen groups €n all, each
charged "with a definite wartime task, will
receive a part of these funds.
Our people are being urged to give gen- 1
erously and, having done that, to double
it. We earnestly urge that action upon our
readers. Your dollars now will work mir
acles in shoring up the shattered structure
of society in war-blackened lands until de
liverance comes and at the same time
speed the day of Victory!
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A Praiseworthy Decision
The Times wishes to commend the unity
and enthusiasm with which the trustees of
Brevard College last week approved the
postwar expansion program submitted by
President E. J. Coltrane and which, if exe
cuted, will vastly increase the prestige and
usefulness of the local institution. In brief,
Dr. Coltrane proposed the erection of sev
eral additional buildings and the estab
lishment of a substantial endowment fund.
'“Now is the time to make definite plans
for the future,” Dr. Coltrane told the trus
tees in urging the revival and enlargement
of the campaign begun in 1941, which was
halted by the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor.
This action was suggested in a Times edi
torial last week, which was put into type
before the trustees acted and we are high
ly gratified by their decision.
As we endeavored to point out in that
article, the time for bold and resolute ac
tion is now.
In our candid judgment, friends of Bre
vard college and the people of Western
North Carolina have thrust upon them at
this time an opportunity that will never
come again. The young men of this coun
try are engaged in the most colossal strug
gle in all history, but the time will come
when they will return to peaceful pursuits.
Hosts of them will want to resume their
schooling, and we feel the victory they
will have won imposes upon us an obliga
tion to provide this schooling for as many
of them as we possibly can.
Dr. Coltrane and his associates have the
vision. Our young men and women have
the ambition. Brevard has all of the need
ed advantages. Now, let’s unite to raise
the money to exploit these prime essen-'
tials of an outstanding college!
Let The Buses Alone, Please
The Times is distressed over reports that
the Atlantic Greyhound Line is being ap
proached with the’ idea of leasing the Bre
vard-Hendersonville bus line by an indi
vidual or separate company.
The Greyhound has given this commun
ity excellent service for a number of years,
and has been a material factor in taking
care of our transportation since the days
when train travel over smaller branch
roads became more or less obsolete. At
the present the Greyhound people are giv
ing three round trips from Brevard to Hen
dersonville and connected points, and are
using a schedule that was requested after
careful study of our needs from a com
munity standpoint by a group of leaders
from the Chamber of Commerce. In addi
tion to meeting our passenger transporta
tion needs via Hendersonville, the Grey
hound is providing excellent equipment
and trained drivers which make for good
impression on visitors on their first trip to
Brevard, and is comfortable and safe for
our home people.
The Times believes it speaks for the
community when it requests the Atlantic
Greyhound to continue serving this com
munity in the creditable way they have in
the past, and thus assure us of adequate
land creditable bus service. We have no
quarrel with private companies or indi
viduals who wish to be of service to this
section, but experience has proven exclus
ively that such great outfits as the Grey
hound and National Trailways are better
fitted, and more desirable to give the ser
vice which is needed at this time when
auto travel is necessarily cut to the mini
mum for the sake of winning the war.
Italy To Declare War?
It is reported from Washington that
Italy will soon declare war on Germany
and associate herself with the United Na
tions in the effort to crush Hitler. It has
been made plain to Marshal Badoglio,
however, that this action will not relieve
Italy of any of its engagements under the
armistice.
Execution of the terms of the armistice
is the sole responsibility of General Dwight
D. Eisenhower, who is also in charge of all
Allied land operations in the Mediterranean
theatre. It will tax his ingenuity and that
of the Mediterranean commission, which
was set up to advise Washington, London
and Moscow on armistice policies, to frame
and execute policies which will enable
Italy to make her fullest possible contribu
tion to the war effort while scrupulously
observing those conditions designed to
make her impotent as an enemy.
Some of the commitments made by Italy
have already been fulfilled. Others will
not mature in many months. Meanwhile,
Italy having ousted Mussolini and repudi
ated his form of government, might so con
duct herself as an ally to placate the Fren
ch, Russians and others who now insist on
rigorous enforcement of armistice terms.
Certainly, it would seem that these peoples
would favor modifications that would in
crease Italy’s capacity to make war because
the Allies are in position to dictate the
peace treaty which will supercede the
armistice.
Still Persecuting The Jews
It is hard for one to understand the im
placable and relentless hatred with which
the Nazis regard the Jewish people. It
seems to be a mad obsession with them,
taking precedence over all other hatreds
—and the Germans are thorough-going
trulucent haters.
Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” is under vio
lent assault, which will not relent until he
and his henchmen are exterminated. And
yet they find time to terrorize the Jews.
Persecutions are now under way in Den
mark and a purge has been scheduled for
Italy. Hitler is reported to have ordered
all Jews in Europe cleared out before the
end of the war. Some idea of the ferocity
of the Nazi purge in Denmark may be gain
ed from the statement of a refugee arriving
in Sweden, who said that Jewish homes
were sacked and burned and both small
children and adults killed.
This is not only a good example of Nazi
brutality but of their arrogant presump
tion as well. Herr Hitler will have noth
ing to do with the government of Europe
after this war is over and those who do
control that continent will permit Jews to
continue to reside there if they desire.
UNHAPPY LANDINGS!
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News/
Behind
By BmjlMallqn
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 —The
congressional reception for the
treasury tax program was expect
ed to be discouraging—but not as
discouraging as it turned out to
be.
Economic Stabilizer Vinson was
scheduled to appear next day in
support of Tresury Secretary Mor
genthau. When he did not excuses
were made that he was not fully
prepared.
What he meant was that he was
not prepared to meet the sour re
jection Morgenthau had encount
ered. The administration obvious
ly needed more time to regain its
countenance.
The congressional committee at
titude is not hard to explain. The
Morgenthau plan seemed to lack a
convincing ring of either sense or
security. Indeed, it appeared to
have only a feeble political justifi
cation.
Mr. Morgenthau condemned him
self with his own argument. The
proposition he offered was simply
this:
The people have $25,000,000,000
of “excess spending money.” This
causes a dangerous threat to in
flation. We need to tax it into the
treasury. Then, almost in the next
breath, he said, “four-fifths of this
dangerous excess is in the hands
of people earning less than $5,000
a year” (that is, they earn four
fifths of the current national war
income).
Two breaths later, he proposed
tax increases not so large on this
class as on all other tax sources.
Indeed, his plan would have elimi
nated some of the smallest tax
ayers entirely. In short, he argued
for one thing and then proposed
another.
Any commentator must be driv
en to the conclusion that the plan
was proposed largely for political
purposes. The treasury knew well
that people do not understand and
analyze such matters thoroughly,
TO THE VICTORY gardener |
Jack Frost is no longer just a
whimsical, lovable character in
children’s fairy tales but an out
and out saboteur.
The world, says Hitler, will
some day be ashamed of the fall
of Mussolini. Ashamed that it
didn’t happen sooner.
The Nazis appear to be making
a political football out of II Duce.
Well, he’s got the build for it.
A science item tells of the
development of rust-resistant
but figure only how the taxes
might hit them personally.
Thus this scheme had the bene
fit of a popular appeal, even though
this appeal wore thin in the face
of the prospect that congress would
not enact it, as the treasury well
knew when the proposal was sub
mitted.
Even so, as previously outlined
in this spot, the income tax bur
den is already so heavy on all
groups as to furnish a proper ex
cuse for the rejection of the plan,
and it was the only one which the
house committeemen offered in
public.
This left the tax question in ev
en more of an impenetrable quand
ary than had been expected, what
to do?
Congressional tax-makers no
doubt will develop some idea of
their own, but there is hardly a
chance that any strong group in
congress will pick up Mr. Morgen
thau’s facts and go after those
whom he says are making four
fifths of the income.
In truth, the great bulk of war
time increases is going to what
was formerly the lowest income
groups. The incomes that have
doubled and trebled are those of
certain war workers, the lowest
skilled and unskilled labor, the
carpenter, etc., and special groups
of labor.
There is one way, only one, by
which these swollen war incomes
could be trapped. The people who
have the money are spending it.
A sales tax would certainly reach
^them.
It is not a tax on a class or a
group, however, but on everyone.
wheat. What this world really
needs, thinks Junior, is crust
proof bread. x
Radium, according to Facto
graphs, loses half its value in 1,800
years. Hmm—apparently not a
sound investment.
Total war loses attraction for
a Nazi when he begins to worry
about total defeat.
The way the impending football
season shapes up it looks as though
the Brenner pass is going to get a
lot more write ups than the lateral
or the delayed forward varieties.
It would also hit to some extent
those whose incomes have not been
increased much.
As related in this spot so often,
nearly everyone in politics is
afraid of the idea. Only two com
mitteemen spoke out for it at the
Morgenthau session. There will be
more but not enugh to cause its
adoption.
As everyone is reluctant to reach
for the money where it is, and as
the taxes are on other sources of
revenue are already about as high
as they can go (Mr. Morgenthau
concedes this), the possibility of
any tax legislation grows increas
ingly remote.
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THANKS...to the Chinese, who never had much,
but who at least had the guts to stand up to
the Japs for seven long years.
Thanks...to the Norwegians, who lost their
country but never surrendered themselves.
Thanks...to the Russians, who gave their lives
and homes and burned their factories and fields
to turn Hitler’s dream of conquest into a night
mare of defeat
Thanks to the British, who might have given
up but didn’t...to the Yugoslavs, who still fight
in the hills...thanks to all the freedom-loving
people in the world who gave us time to gather
our strength.
Make your thanks to all of these really mean
something...by giving generously to the National
War Fund through our own community war fund.
Seventeen war relief agencies have banded to
gether in this great work to make the thanks of
America mean something both abroad and at
home and wherever our men fight on land or sea.
For we owe thanks, too, to the young men of
America who gave up careers and good jobs to
do the job that has to be done...and to those who
cheerfully saw their lives turned upside down
so that their men could fight and build ships
and turn out tanks and planes and guns, all day
and all night
Because the National War Fund is combined
with our local united campaign, you are being
asked to give only once, this year, for all the
agencies represented by it. So add up all you
would have given to each, and then double the
total! There’s no better way to show your
gratitude.
Give ONCE
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fl United Seamen’s Service
War Prisoners Aid
I Belgian War Relief Society
I British War Relief Society
I French Relief Fund
I Friends of Luxembourg
M Greek War Relief Association
" Norwegian Relief
Polish War Relief
Queen Wilhelmina Fund
Russian War Relief
United China Relief
United Czechoslovak Relief
United Yugoslav Relief Fund
Refugee Relief Trustees
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Care of European Children
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WAR FUND
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