The Transylvania Times
Published Every Thursday by
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
THE NEWS
Estab. 1896
Brevard, N. C.
Consolidated 1932
THE TIMES
Estab. 1931
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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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1943
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving again! For what? We
can make an inventory of the good against
the bad. Shall we be thankful for health?
One’s health may be bad. Are we grate
ful for protection from our enemies? Well,
we are at war. Are we thankful for food
and clothing? Thousands are not well
supplied. True enough that many of us
rejoice in health, peace, and in relative
abundance; but riches and poverty, peace
and war are but incidents of life, like sick
ness and health. What counts supremely is
the fire of indignation against wrong; the
holy zeal to throw one’s self into a cause
for the betterment of others, a glorious
unselfishness on which the eternal heavens
rest.
We Americans have reason tor thanks
giving because even in plenteous supply
of all the needful things we have still alive
the spiritual fervor of youthful adven
ture; life still is more than meat and rai
ment; and our people, rich and poor, have
kept the flame of sympathy for other peo
ples brightly burning.
Thankful we should be for the spirit
of America and for what our country
means to oppressed people everywhere—
the light along the road. The open-hand
ed American, with much or little, is the
symbol of the quick, responsive sympathy
which breathes the essence of the spiritual
life.
To the Great Jehovah our thanks are
due for all His benefits, His mercy and
lovingkindness; but, above all, for His rev
elation of Himself as He walked among
men, hungry, homeless, despised, and re
jected, yet majestic in the enthronement
of abounding love for all mankind.
Let us measure our thanks by the gains
of the spirit rather than by bread and
meat.
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Shop Early And In Brevard I
The Christmas shopping season official
ly opens tomorrow in Brevard!
In response to a request from the Post
Office Department and demonstrating
their usual high sense of patriotism, Bre
vard merchants agreed to launch the Yule
tide buying season earlier this year than
they have ever in the past.
Postmaster General Walker has aptly
emphasized the fact since the railroads
and other forms of transportation are al
ready taxed to capacity, the mailing of
Christmas packages and greetings should
he done earlier this year in order to as
sure timely deliveries.
As this annual Christmas Shopping Edi
tion clearly shows, Brevard merchants are
well prepared to take care of the shopping
needs of this county and section. Of course
they do not have as much Christmas mer
‘ chandise and toys as they have had in the
past, but they have as much, if not more,
than can be found elsewhere. For months
they have been making plans for this sea
son. They have bought wisely and well
and invite your inspection. You will, we
believe, be surprised and delightfully so,
at the large variety of Christmas gift3 on
display here. You will be delighted, too,
with attractive decorations in the stores,
and windows and needless to state, the
street decorations will stimulate within
you a greater spirit of Christmas.
In addition to that, the merchants have
arranged for Santa Claus to make an of
ficial shopping tour here Saturday, to
greet the children and to distribute candy
to them.
For best selections, for good service and
reasonable prices, we urge that you do
all of your Christmas shopping in Brevard,
and that you do it early. Trading at home
this Yuletide season is the patriotic thing
to do . . . you will save gasoline and tires.
And don’t forget, you will be boosting
your town and your county. Dollars spent
at home remain here to work, while dol
lars spent away seldom ever come back
to help build up our town and county!
Start your Christmas shopping tomor
row! Make this edition Your Shopping
Guide!
Dr, Gallup Quizzes Britishers
The other day we were rummaging
around amongst the accumulation on our
desk and picked up a reprint from an ar
ticle in August Reader’s Digest such as is
frequently sent to newspapers. As we
started to toss it into the waste basket, our
eye caught a boxed item and we paused to
scan it.
What we read was, to say the least,
highly diverting. It had to do with a
Gallup poll. It seems that the indefatig
able Dr. Gallup asked the Britishers whom
they thought had made the greatest con
tribution to the war effort. Half of them
said Russia, 42 per cent said Britain, five
per cent named China and three per cent
said the U. S. A.
Now, we’ll admit that this question was
put in an awkward form. It seems to
us it should have been worded something
like this: “In what ratio do> you think the
Allied nations are contributing to the war
effort?” Still, it shows that not many
Britons are impressed with our contribu
tion to the war effort, now running around
a billion and a quarter in lend-lease aid to
keep Britain and other United Nations
fighting in addition to our expanding ef
forts as a belligerent in different parts of
the world. Also, the question was put in
such a way as to exclude judgment on the
decisive part that America must play in
this war if it is to be won.
But the query as put reveals that as a
nation the Britishers have forgotten those
black days after Dunquerque, when the
remnants of their army were thrown out
of Europe and F. D. R. without consulting
congress supplied them with arms to resist
what was believed to be an imminent in
vasion. In all of Britain’s history, that
was her darkest hour.
Many have wondered why Hitler didn’t
invade England at that time. Some guess
ed that he wasn’t ready to follow up his
smashing successes on the continent; oth
ers that he believed he could force the
British to sue for peace by intensifying his
“war of nerves.” It is also highly prob
able that der fuehrer knew if he pounced
on England he would have the U. S. to
fight, and if that is true the IJ. S. A. saved
the Allied cause in the hour of its greatest
peril.
A Real Challenge
“Food Fights For Freedom” has been
appropriately selected as the slogan for
the 1944 agricultural production program.
Food is not only a weapon that our arm
ed forces must have to win battles,, but it
is also an essential weapon that must be
furnished to preserve freedom in conquer
ed lands.
Demands for food in 1944 will surpass
ail former records and despite many
handicaps, our farmers are expected to
meet these demands just as they have al
ways done. Townspeople are expected to
raise their own food in gardens and every
one is expected to conserve, to save and to
share.
The 1944 goals for this county call for
increased production of potatoes, fresh
vegetables, corn, eggs, milk, livestock and
hay.
Under the able leadership of our farm
i officials, an educational campaign is to be
conducted in the county between now and
the first of the year.
To meet the 1944 goals, intelligent
planning is needed and all farmers are
requested to attend one or more of the
educational meetings that are to be held.
Transylvania farmers, we believe, will
do their part! Their assignment for next
year presents a real challenge.
The C. I. O. has set aside $700,000 as
a fund for “political education,” and it is
understood that it plans to spend $5,000,
000, if necessary, to put U. S. labor square
ly in politics ... to stop the right-face of
the Democratic party and force it back to
the crusading New Deal days.”
"PRE-WAR STUFF'
IF RUDOLF HESS is really as
nutty as a jay-bird—as claimed
in recent dispatches—what about
those other Nazi big shot, who
failed to get out while the getting
was good?
In an all-glass house where could
the owner hide the mortgage so
the neighbors couldn’t see it?
Canadian cows ate up $600 worth
of war bonds. Tragic—but just
supposing they had been ration
coupons!
A Philadelphia husband and
wife operate a street car as mo
torman and conductor, respective
ly. Though they make a fine team
their married life is a sort of ding
dong existence.
The Toronto Star reports sub
chasers torpedoing whales. Even
Moby Dick has discovered it’s a
truly global war.
A runaway pet kangaroo has re
turned to its Connecticut owner.
The hop back to Australia was
greater than it originally figured.
The chickadee, according to Fac
tographs, often hangs upside down
in search for insects to eat. Well,
that’s playing ’possum with a pur
pose.
Tin Buckets More
Wanted Than Rifle
It Would Appear
About a month ago, Jason Hug
gins at the postoffice inserted an
ad in the classified column offer
ing a rifle for sale. He got 27
replies and sold the weapon at a
satisfactory price.
A couple of weeks ago, the
Nickel Bargain House advertised
tin buckets in the same medium
and had 53 direct replies from
the ad, Mrs. Kitchen stated. She
also had a flood of responses to
j some clothing ads she ran last
week.
Washington, Nov. 24—Democra- j
tic National Chairman Frank
Walker may be replace<| sometime
soon by Leo Crowley, 'the presi
dent’s receiver in bankruptcy for
declining bureaus.
Mr. Crowley has a public rep
utation only as a banker, but he
has handled as much politics for
Mr. Roosevelt as any other line,
being regarded in the aaministra
tion, since the inauguration of the
new deal, as the democratic maes
tro of Wisconsin and Minnesota,
if not some adjoining states.
If you see Mr. Crowley come
into the democratic managership,
you will know Mr. Roosevelt is go
ing to make a race for it next
year again, despite all current
political portents and the sub-rosa
information passed through the
Democratic side of the senate that
he will not make up his mind
until May 1.
Offhand, you would figure that
Mr. Roosevelt would run only if
he thought he could win without
a nationally disunifying struggle,
and if a majority were certain.
Most Democratic politicians fig
ure it another way. They say there
is no other Democratic leader ac
ceptable to the new deal element,
and also no one acceptable to Mr.
Roosevelt.
Mr. Wallace was groomed and
has kept the administration hearth
for left - wingers burning, but
not brightly. He would be a weak
candidate. Ex - Justice Jimmy
Byrnes would not suit the leftists.
No one else has been allowed to
grow up to mention.
Some southern newspapers, in
editorials not nationally noticed,
have been asking:
What about Byrd?
Also, a Democratic Senator,
who made a political announce
ment about two weeks ago, receiv
ed from the midwest a lot of mail
asking the same question. There is
this about him:
A half spontaneous, half organ
ized (locally) movement is rising
in his behalf. He is the natural
candidate of the south, may well
become a sort of favorite son of
several southern states and thus
become a bulwark against the
Wallace element in the party at
the next convention, if the leftists
■ try to put over the V.P.
Furthermore, he would be ac
ceptable to many a national Re
publican leader as a vice presi
dential candidate, though he
could not, in the present booming
state of Republican affairs, become
a coalition candidate for first
place. He could probably beat
Wallace in a Democratic conven
tion, even packed with officehold
ers, but not Mr. Roosevelt.
The isolated public mention of
Chief of Staff General Marshall
has no political backing (his pop
ular backing is not yet measured,)
but Marshall would not be accept
able to the new deal element. He
is army, has never participated in
the socializing business, or in
politics.
All this adds up to the new deal
loyalists pressing Mr. Roosevelt
into a fourth term nomination,
even if prospects of his election
are not good. One other considera
tion substantiates this reasoning.
The only alternative would be
Mr. Roosevelt’s choice by Britain
and Russia to head the promised
“International organization” to di
rect world affairs, but with Dew
ey, or anyone not of Roosevelt
choosing in the white house, the
job would not be powerful. Stalin
and Churchill would run to the
white house where policies would
be made, not to Mr. Roosevelt.
From his standpoint, therefore, it
may be preferable to seek re-elec
tion, first anyway.
Mr. Willkie said in Wisconsin
that Governor Dewey could not
run because he promised. This is
true, yet practically all the rank
ing men of politics in both parties
in the east currently consider Dew
ey as almost a certain nominee.
Their reasoning is not hard to
follow. Ohio’s Governor Bricker is
now officially out seeking dele
gates, as predicted. The favorite
son movement (of which Mr. Will
kie also complained) is spreading
through the west from the eastern
Republican centers previously cited
in this column. The lion’s share
of the south (old Taft following)
is generally attributed to Bricker.
If you count all the rest for
Willkie, it will be only enough to
tie up the convention temporarily
by preventing Bricker or a fa
vorite son from getting a majority.
To the eastern leaders that means
Dewey certainly will be it.
Mr. Willkie can upset this ob
vious trend only by winning a
majority of primaries (30 of the
48 states do not have them) or by
tying up with the favorite sons
who he already recognizes as
against him. He has everything a
candidate needs, including finan
cial and publishing support, but it
can be readily seen that Dewey can
i win against him—without cam
paigning.
No boy shall die
because we failed
HOW would you feel if you knew
that one of our own boys died
because we in his home town failed
in our duty? Failed to back him up?
If he died for lack of
ammunition (it takes
half a cord of pulp
wood to make the ni
trocellulose for each
shot of a 16-inch gun).
If he died for lack of
a parachute (rayon is
made from pulpwood).
If he died for lack of medical
supplies (pulpwood makes cellulose
surgical dressings and the special
containers for blood plasma).
Let’s face the facts:
The shortage of pulpwood is acute.
And this is a pulpwood - producing
community.
Pulpwood is our war industry ...
just as important as the making of
planes, guns, or jeeps.
And cutting more
pulpwood is our re
sponsibility.
Let’s resolve today
that no boy from this
community shall die
because we’ve failed.
To that end, let’s pledge
a cord of pulpwood for every local
boy in the service. Your son? Your
brother? Your neighbor?
Will you back them up?...A cord
of pulpwood for each is little enough
to ask. Send in your pledge now.
PLEDGE A CORD
OF PULPWOOD
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CHAIRMAN, VICTORY PUIPWOOD CAMPAIGN
THE TIMES', Brevard, North Carolina
/ will cut-cords of pulpwood to bade up those boys:
Signed.
Address.
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