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The Transylvania Times Published Every Thursday by TIMES PUBLISHING* COMPANY Brevard, N. C. THE NEWS Estab. 1896 THE TIMES 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the County, $1.50 Out of the County, $2.00 MEMBER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION PRIZES AWARDED TO THE TIMES Winner of 1943 Awards for Best Large Non-Daily in North Carolina and Second Best in Nation. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1943 Let’s Kill Rats! Farmers, merchants, industrial mana gers and all home owners in Brevard and Transylvania now have an excellent op portunity of uniting together in a county wide rat extermination campaign and of ridding their premises of all of these de structive little animals. Under the sponsorship of the county farm agent’s office, plans have already been made to conduct a two-day extermi nation drive throughout the county on No vember 4th. and 5th. and under the spon sorship of the chamber of commerce a two day drive to rid the town of Brevard of the pests will be held on November 8th and 9th. The plan that will be used is one that has proven to be successful in many other towns and counties in the state. It is a sim ple plan, but its success depends upon the full co-operation of every one. One family may kill all of the rats on their place, but unless their neighbors co-operate the rats on those premises may soon reproduce and migrate to less popi^^ed centers, thereby killing the effectiveness of the entire cam paign. All individuals are asked to do is to place orders for bait with the farm agent’s office. The cost is only $1.00 per farm. The bait will be packed in cartons and placed in paper bags with full instructions for use printed on the bags. Figures reveal that rats are very de structive and that they are dangerous things to have around a home or place of business or farm. Let’s every one unite to make this campaign a success. Kill your own rats; don’t wait for some one else to do it! Three Minutes Twice Daily One of the greatest personal crimes that individuals commit against themselves is “neglect of teeth,” and this neglect often times contributes to a score of other trou bles, such as those of the heart, lungs, and kidneys. Good teeth are essential to good health and it is therefore highly important for parents and schools to impress upon child ren the value of keeping their teeth in good condition and of giving them proper care every day. Judging by reports released by Dr. D. W. Dudley, state dentist who will conclude a five-week mouth and health program in the county this week, eight out of ten school children in Transylvania need some dental work now. “Children as well as adults should not only see their dentist at least once a year, but they should also take good care of their teeth every day,” he emphasized. Cleanliness of the mouth and teeth is the greatest of all prophylactic measures that can be instituted against dental decay, Dr. Dudley said, and explained that it only takes three minutes, twice a day to do that job. “The two main requirements,” he told this paper, “are to have the right tooth brush and to use it properly.” Dr. Dudley has been rendering splendid service in the county and we regret that his wartime schedule makes it necessary for him to go to another county before he has an opportunity of visiting all of the small schools in Transylvania. A Fine Selection We wish to commend the board of trus tees of Brevard college upon the selection of Mr. Edwin L. Jones, of Charlotte, as chairman of the board, and at the same time we want to thank Rev. H. C. Sprinkle for the fine service he has rendered during the past ten years in this capacity. Mr. Jones is eminently qualified to do an outstanding piece of work as chairman of the institution’s board. He is the mem ber of a prominent family that has con tributed a great deal to the Methodist church for many years. He is an excellent business man, has wide contacts and is a man of considerable means himself. Mr. Jones believes in progress and knows how to do things. On the eve of an extensive expansion program, we feel that Brevard college is fortunate in having such a man as chair man of the board. No More Blackouts? There will be no more surprise black outs in Western North Carolina, but civ ilian defense organizations are cautioned to be ready for any emergency. This announcement is in line with action j that is taking place on all of the battle fronts. The German blitzs and the power of the Luftwaffe are now becoming a thing 1 of the past and throughout the world the lights are being turned on again. In Russia, in Italy and in the Pacific the Allies are driving the Germans back and are turning on the lights in thousands of formerly darkened towns and villages. But as The Asheville Times aptly point ed out this week, there is still a vast area that remains in “darkness” and under the terrible heel of the German dictator. It will take time and lives to turn on the lights of peace and civilization throughout the world. Won’t it be great when we can say, “there’ll be no more blackouts?” Doing Business With Russia It is gratifying to learn that agreement in principle has already been reached on some of the key subjects that are being discussed at the historic conference being held now in Moscow between representa tives of the United States, England and Russia. The discussions, it is believed, center around allied plans for an early victory and postwar programs. Obviously Russia J is still clamoring for a second front, name I ly a front in France and it is also obvious to us that Russia is contending that she should acquire additional territory and should be given the control of Europe. Regardless of whether we like it or not, our representatives will have to give Russia much of what she wants and after all it seems to us that she is entitled to a great deal. In some respects it may be difficult to do business with Stalin, but we believe that he can be trusted. Still Improvable Under retiring Price Administrator Pren tiss M. Brown, and especially after Charles Bowles was made manager of OPA with authority to work his will, vast improve ment has been made in common-sense ap- j plication of rationing. Yet families and boarding houses in the millions will rise to applaud Dorothy Thompson’s recent declaration to this effect: it is almost im possible to invite a few persons home to a meal under the points system, but you can stuff yourself and your guests at a res taurant or night club. Sixteen points must cover meat, cheese, butter and cooking fats for one person. Or one person’s points will buy a pound of steak and a fourth of a pound of butter— if you can find the butter. Just around the corner, however, as Miss Thompson says, you can without points eat yourself into a coma, even though you do not touch the butter that under most city regulations goes thence to the garbage. Hence homes are depopulated more and more at mealtime, under rationing that is in truth “a hoax.”—Asheville Times. Rendering Great Service The teachers and school children in Transylvania are again rendering patriotic services. This week thousands of ration books have been distributed and during the past two weeks every school in the county has been conducting campaign of raising money for the United War Fund. By RujlMaugn WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Dear Jim: You raised an interesting criti cism of my post war expressions. You are correct in your deduc tion that I personally do not at tempt to live on the same principle of self-interest which I advocate for our foreign policy. The per plexing questions you raise are: “Can there be a reat deal of dif ference between individual mor ality and national and internation al morality? “Aren’t selfishness and greed at the root of most of our troubles of all kinds?” In my life, I have never found selfishness to be a wise policy. The man who practices such a principle in business or in human relationships will find people freezing him out. He will not get as far as a person who practices an even generosity of spirit I generally let tfye other fellow set the pace. Not all men will deal with me on the terms I most desire. I run into sharpsters, tricksters, imposers, just as you do, I suppose. In dealing with them, I am on my guard. I try especially to protect myself to the utmost. These are the considerations which lead me to advocate self-in terest for our war and post war policies. In international affairs, I find no one, absolutely no other nation, dealing on the basis I like best for myself. They are not wicked people, to me, they seem guided by necessi ties of their national situation. I Britain wants to keep and strengthen her empire. Russia wants her way of life to prevail. China’s wants for advancement are obvious. These wants are not founded upon the individual morality of the peoples in these countries. We cannot deal with them in a church but at a business table. In dealing with them, we can not surrender our wants entirely to theirs. We must have fair ne gotiation, to whatever degrees they are sharp, tricky or imposing, we must strengthen our resolution to protect ourselves. Yes, selfishness and greed are at the root of most of troubles of all kind, national and internation al. They caused this war. But we have selfish groups in our own midst, not the only one or the most selfish one, being as you sug gest, the occasional all-mighty above-the-law labor union leader. But do you recommend unsel fishness for employers in dealing with labor unions, or a “let’s-give in” attitude by this government to ward union demands? Why then should you advocate such a gov ernment policy in international affairs toward similarly self-inter ested nations? Class groups and nations first must be converted away from self interest before we can deal with them on the grounds you propose. You are wrong about one thing, the implications of your questions: “Do we need in this country to be reminded to look out for our own self-interest? Haven’t we enough of that spirit already with out having it urged on us con stantly?” Nationally, I think we have a kindly Christian spirit. If there is a disaster anywhere in the world, we rush to give help as no other nations do, whether it be a Japanese earthquake, saving Aus tralia, or what. We want freedom for India, for all peoples, we wanted disarma ment, took the leadership to estab lish it (to our own current dis may). There is nothing wrong about the spirit of this country. You are preaching the right sermon, but in the wrong church. You should be telling your vie.wpoint to the British, Russians, Chinese and other people of the world who need to adopt our spirit. They, not our people, need to be con verted to the way of life you and I both agree is desirable. But I am afraid we will have as much difficulty getting them to accept our philosophies of life as we would have to get the labor unions to drop their selfish class interest and adopt a national inter est viewpoint. Their leaders justify their own existence and their own salaries by concocting all man ners of reasons to justify selfish ness, and they will get those rea sons daily into your newspaper through speeches, statements and news developments. Foreign nations will even accuse us of being grasping and imperial istic while they themselves are practicing imperialism and are grasping all they can get. Re member when they called us “Uncle Shylock.” In such a situation, we must demand self-interest and din it daily into the ears of our govern ment and our people. There is no other way to offset propagandists than to confront them with the facts, not every once in a while, but every minute of every day, the facts of their own selfish attitude, their own imperialism, antagonis tic ways, cartels, their own riches of raw materials and world air and sea bases. Don’t lie about them. Don’t trick them. Don’t propagandize against them. Above all, don’t let us become embittered against them and become anti-British or anti Russian. Dispel their propaganda with truth. Expose their self-interest with facts. Don’t let them come jto believe their own false claims as nations do after these are re* peated sufficiently often. If we follow such a just course for a few years, perhaps we will have some nations coming to us on the ground we like to work on, the philosophy upon which we would prefer to deal with them. If they see they cannot get away with anything, that their old meth ods are useless, perhaps they too will see the wisdom of an unself ish Christian way of dealing for world betterment. I do not see any other hope of bringing them around to that sound basis of international re lationship. Producing for Victory . . . Back of our prodigious war effort is our adequate food supply. You can enjoy the best available at this modern cafe. Galloway’s Cafe PETE BIKAS, Owner Brevard, N. C. WE CLOSE THURSDAYS Varner’s VITAMIN WEEK ' Sherwood Cold Vaccine Be relieved of the misery of colds this winter. 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