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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 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
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IRA B. ARMFIELD_Business Manager
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in Nation.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944
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Attend The Hearing!
Every citizen who is interested in the
welfare and progress of Brevard and Tran
sylvania county should attend the hearing
to be held before the State Utilities Com
mission at Hendersonville next Thursday j
morning at 10 o’clock to determine
whether or not the bus franchise between
Brevard and Hendersonville is to be leased
by the Greyhound company to the City
Bus company.
We are keenly interested in keeping
Greyhound because we want to see our
town and county remain on the map! We
are already off of the railway passenger
map and if the franchise is leased, as
proposed, we’ll be off of the huge national
Greyhound bus map, and we may never
get back on it again!
Because of the large amount of busi
ness that Greyhound is now doing and be
cause of the bright future outlook, we
cannot understand why Greyhound wants
to lease its Brevard-Hendersonville line
and, we are doubtful if they really do.
If, however, they are anxious to lease
we suggest that they lease to a Brevard ]
and Transylvania bus conrpany which can
be quickly formed and ^d^quate equip
ment provided. We have the buses here
in the county and the resources to operate
the line.
In the next place, if Greyhound should
really want to lease, and again we doubt
if that is the case, why doesn’t this great
national bus system just sell or give up its
franchise entirely? It has already leased
its franchise from here to Greenville and
the service that is being provided by the
lessee is not at all satisfactory or ade
quate.
On the other hand the National Trail
ways, through its Smoky Mountain divis
ion, is not only giving us good through bus
service, but is also providing an inter
urban bus service to the town and county.
If Greyhound actually wants to pull
out, and we repeat that we hope they
don’t, shouldn’t they sell the two fran
chises to the Trail ways?
These and other similar questions could
be discussed at the hearing. Transporta
tion is vital to the life and growth of our
community. Attend the hearing and see
that we do not become the victim of
selfish desires and scheming!
Prevent Accidents At Home!
We are impressed by the series of
safety advertisements that are being pub
lished in this paper by a group of local
firms and industries, and have been sur
prised at some of the information contain
ed in these messages.
They clearly reveal that in our midst
there is a master saboteur—striking swift
ly, fatally behind the lines, destroying
sight, arms, legs and lives.
Through his work last year, 460,000,
000 man-days were lost in the United
States, 102,500 persons were killed, 9,400,
000 persons were injured, many of them
permanently.
• This master saboteur is “Thoughtless
ness”— the thoughtlessness that leaves
stairways cluttered to produce dangerous
or 'fatal falls; that leaves pitchforks up
turned on which farmers can impale them
selves; that cause children to play in the
streets where they might easily be run
down by passing cars. He is the Axis'
jgreatest ally.
Sees 1944 As Good Year
We are inclined to agree with Roger
Babson that 1944 will be a good year for
| business, industry and stock markets in
this country and that the degree of “good”
will be partly determined by “when the
war in Europe ends.”
In his annual forecast, the famed econ
omist estimated that production will av
erage around 130 or about 12 per cent
below 1943 because of gradual conversion
from wartime to civilian needs; that the
retail sale dollar volume will be from 5
to 10 per cent higher in 1944 than in 1943,
but that physical volume will be down
about 10 per cent; that the pressure for
higher wages will continue throughout
the year with more wage increases and
slightly higher prices and that taxes will
be increased only a small amount.
“After Germany cracks there will be
no scarcity of labor,” Babson asserted and
predicts that the army will accept no more
recruits and will start demobilization as
soon as Hitler tumbles.
Building will continue in 1944 at about
the same level as in ’43 and the lumber
volume will continue to be reduced.
In regard to employment, Mr. Babson
observes that “men and women who left
employers in the lurch to get more money
or thrills may be left high and dry when
Germany falls, but that those who left to
enter the armed forces will have no
trouble getting jobs when they return.
Turning to the political world, the dean
•of the forecasters suggested that unless
Germany collapses before August, Roose
velt will be re-nominated and re-elected.
If that were to happen, he thinks the Re
publicans will select Willkie to run and
concentrate on members of congress. If
Roosevelt isn’t re-nominated, then he
thinks the GOP will pick Dewey. In the
House, Babson predicts a majority of Re
publicans and a slight Democratic ma
jority in the Senate.
In many respects, he believes the home
front will be harder in 1944 because of
scarcer goods, higher prices, increasing
transportation difficulties and other fac
tors. All of this, however, depends upon
how long Germany will last !
Goals For 1944!
It is generally agreed in military cir
cles that this New Year we are beginning
will be the decisive year of the war.
Although leaders of the armed forces
warn against premature expectation of
Nazi defeat, about four out of every five
government officials are confident that
German resistance will be smashed with
in 10 months and'many think it will take
place sooner.
Much heavier blows at Japan are in
the 1944 picture. If Germany should fall
early in the year, the pressure on the Japs
will be greatly increased.
To hasten rather than to prolong Vic
tory is the first duty of every individual
citizen. We on the home front must not
become too optimistic and we must not
relax our efforts. If we do, then a still
greater number of our boys will be killed
before Hitler and Tojo are smashed.
Therefore, we urge that every reader
adopt some of the following suggestions
as resolutions or goals for the New Year:
1. Invest every penny possible in
war bonds.
2. Co-operate to the fullest extent
with salvage and other wartime cam
paigns, as well as with rationing pro
grams and price ceilings, and there
by combat inflation.
3. Produce and conserve as much
food as possible.
4. Work harder and more effici
ently and co-operate with others.
5. Start making individual post
war plans and get behind the postwar
program for the county, which will be
announced soon.
6. Boost the boys in service ....
write to them often.
7. Extend sympathy to the fami
lies of those who will soon fall in
battle.
8. Discourage any threat of labor
strikes and all other conflicts that
might disunite our people.
9. Boost hometown firms and local
industries.
10. Give full support to the schools
and other institutions.
11. Preach and practice American
ism.
12. Qo to church every Sunday and
insofar as humanly possible, follow the
Golden Rule.
By RmjlMallon
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Year
end book-balancing:
A publisher has written that
my analyses of developments at
Moscow, Teheran, Moscow, Cairo,
and elsewhere the past few months
have caused some few of his
readers to slide into the conclu
sion that I am tending toward an
anti-Russian or anti-British policy
line, and that one irate reader, at
least, characterized my work as
un-American and unpatriotic.
Trying to submit to the public
factual data in the face of war
propaganda naturally entails dan
gers of misunderstanding both as
to my purpose and contexts.
In these excited days, it is not
unnatural for any of us to suspect
any other thoughts than our own,
or facts which conflict with those
which previously entered our own
minds, as unwelcome “propa
ganda.” With censorship and of
ficial propaganda necessarily guid
ing most public comment, it is
even more dangerous for anyone
to get too far ahead of the official
propaganda line.
Truth alone can justify such a
course, and it always comes along
sooner or later, in this instance,
rather promptly. Dissatisfaction of
Mr. Hull and our foreign policy
makers with the Russo-Czecho
slovaka treaty, negotiated by Mr.
Stalin immediately after Teheran,
proved more than the points made.
Indeed, Mr. Publisher friend
had forgotten my several columns
before Moscow urging and helping
to prepare the war for agreement.
Such misunderstandings are
due to lack of appreciation of
facts, of columning which I know
but never write. This column now
has just short of 300 daily client
newspapers, some 35 of which
were added (along with several
hundred weeklies) in the past
year, during the period of sharp
retrenchment of newspaper space.
Less than five papers quit, only
two of them large, one being pub
lished by a friend of Mr. Willkie.
He cancelled shortly after my
column in the fall spoofing Mr.
Willkie’s conclusion that swift air
travel made the world one and
reminding of the remaining dif
ferences of culture, economics,
race, religion, etc. In 15 years of
the column, this is the only client
to quit for a political reason.
These 300 papers represent ev
ery political viewpoint popular in
the United States, Farm, City, Re
publican, Democrat, Isolationist.,
Internationalist. It would be fatal
and foolish for the column to pre
sent the editorial line of any one
of them or group of them, be
cause that would automatically
exclude the rest of them and di
minish the business of the column.
It would be suicidal to present
an internationalist line or an iso
lationist line, because in either
case the number of papers pub
lishing it would be cut just about
in half, an Anti-British Anti-Rus
sian policy would leave me with
practically nothing.
So I am necessarily kept in the
groove of the facts, the groove
which I chose as my primary pur
pose, to hold so many diversified
newspaper elements as satisfied
customers over the years. If I
should wander from it even sub
consciously, I soon will be caught
up.
For that reason, I do not gen
erally answer the isolated criti
cism that I am this or that, criti
cism which necessarily must be
restricted to those who do not
know the situation in which I
work.
Comparatively few are these, but
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Your Poultry will thrive—and produce more eggs
when you provide them with Ful-O-Pep or Spartan
Feeds. Developed around scientific formulae, rich
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IF YOUR POULTRY isn’t up to par, call the
county agent for authentic advice regarding your
problems.
Farmers Federation
FRED MONTEITH, Manager
EAST MAIN STREET BREVARD, N. C.
DUST BOWL DAYS!
Is Your ^ ^
VACUUM on VACATION?
Take care of your vacuum clean*
er! It's going to be a long time
before you can get a new one
because the factories that used
to turn out these work-saveri
for woman art now turning out
weapons of wart life savers for
our men! So, for the duration,
treat your vacuum cleaner like a
friend of the family.
Here's How to Keep It Running!
• Empty the dust bag every time your
cleaner is used.
• Keep brushes free from hair and threads.
• Replace brushes if the tufts become
worn.
• Avoid running your cleaner over pins,
nails, coins or other metal objects. Pir**
them up by hand.
•Clean brushes and wipe off the other
attachments after using.
• Follow the manufacturer's instructions
for cleaning and oiling.
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