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HUGHES TO RETIRE JULY 1
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Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes has asked
permission of President Roosevelt to retire from the
Supreme Court on July 1; thus removing from active
public life one of the great figures of contemporary
American life. Coming upon the scene as a liberal Re- ,
publican, Mr. Hughes first attracted attention as
counsel for investigating committees in New York.
He was twice elected Governor of the Empire State,
and in 1910 was appointed to the Supreme Court by
President Taft, and the appointment was widely acclaimed
by the liberals. He resigned from the Court
in 1916 to accept the Republican nomination for the
Presidency of the United States, and saw his name
blazoned across the country as the President-elect.
But returns from California upset the calculations
of the political dopesters, and it turned out that
Woodrow Wilson had defeated him, and had been reelected.
Few men have ever had the highest office in
the world within their grasp, and had to drink the
bitter cup of disappointment. And few men could
have drunk it so gracefully. In 1921 President Harding
appointed him as Secretary of State, and later he
was returned to the Supreme Court, and was made
Chief Justice to succeed William Howard Taft, the
| only man who ever held the two highest offices in
this country, the Presidency and the Chief Justiceship.
Few men in our history have been more highly
honored than Charles Evans Hughes.
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WILHELMII II.
The death in exile at Doom castle in Holland of
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, and pretender to
I the ancient throne of the Holy Roman Empire, but
emphasizes the harm that can be done by well-intentioned,
good people, when their thinking becomes
befuddled.
Born with a withered arm, the fact seems to
have warped the wljiole of the life of this man, at
whose command millions of men marched, and the
world went through the bloody tragedy of four years
of war. Because he spoke the word for the invasion <
of France and Belgium, ten million men laid down
their lives. For years Germany and German rulers
had dreamed of the day when the might of Germany
would make her the mistress of the world; when the
Prussian idea of a superior and ruling race and nation
would become ' a reality, and Germany would
cause all nations and races to bow to the might of
Prussia. It was inherited by Wilhelm from his fa-,
vorite ancestor, Frederick the Great. He, ordinarily
a kindly man, was so obsessed with hatred of Britain
and of belief i n the destiny of Prussia to become the
ruling nation of the world, that, when the pretext
came, he spoke the word, and Der Tag had come.
Ruthlessly, wantonly, without regard for the lives
or rights of anv people, including his own, Wilhelm i
w V A A w
II hurled the might of the Prussian war machine
against the democratic nations of the world for four
vjng years. Men had thought that a large scale war
was impossible, that the peoples of the world had become
too highly civilized to admit of such a holocaust.
Treaties were treated as scraps of paper. The plighted!
word of the German government was thrown aside. I
The rights of other peoples and nations were held at
naught, and the Great War was in progress. It usher- j
ed in a new day for the world. A day in which treaties'
and the word of honor of nations were used but sis'
means to blind nations who still held to honor, until j
their undoings could be accomplished, as camouflage
v behind which to hide the intentions of ruthless and i
unprovoked aggression. And that day still continues,'
that debased ideal of international relations is still
the policy of the Axis nations, which are spiritual and
physical heirs of the Kaiser. After four years, with
the matchless diplomacy and far-seeing ideals of
Woodrow Wilson of a world freed from tyranny, from
greed, and from aggression held before, them, with
the armies of the allied nations and the United States
thundering at their gates, the German people realized
the plight into which they had allowed their
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gUYClXHHCiiV axiu v/iiv/ii ixuiov^i i/u vaiv nui iu}
and they spewed the Hohenzollerns from Germany,
Wilhelm fled to Holland, and there died, some twenty-two
years later, a lonely exile from his own native
country, which his misguided policy had brought to,
| the brink of ruin. i
But, the ink was scarcely dry upon the Armistice
when the German people began to lay their plans for i
the creation of a new empire, new war-machine,
ME JACKS*
new and greater air power,
assaults upon the peace of
processes and forms of g<
cunning were their first,
powerful weapons. Throbrought
many thousands, ]
American people to the be
of this country had either
them into the war, or had d
the basest of motives. They
whom didn't have sense er
damage they were doing to
pie and their institutions, n
complete turn-over of the t.
lulled them into complacer
that the only thing needed
will to peace. In the mea]
arming with all her migh
moment to renew her atte
and reshape it to her ends.
The ideals of Wilhelm
aany are essentially the ss
is that Wilhelm, with all h
*wi all his ambition to ir
these un-Christian ideas ir
enough, a very devout man
God. Therein he was vast!
Beast of Berlin who rules
day nearer to the complete
any man has ever been in
Hitler's god, if he has one,:
god, Thor.
Wilhelm superimpose<
upon his ideas of Christia
che way back to paganisrr
whole world to worship The
shackles of the German r
rights, no privileges in the
might suit the superior rac<
It is the same old war
same principles are involve
the fundamentals of dem
more prounounced, and tb
ing are infinitely greater.
Wilhelm died in lonel;
jf Germany march on fro:
we must remember that W
torius in almost every cor
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democracies were luneu u
Germany prepared. Now t
might to withstand the ass
the fate of Wilhelm and do i
he nor the German people >
war is over as they aid folio
oe annihilated. The Germs
in position so that they a
upon the free peoples of th
lesson.
Governor Proclaims This 1
As Fire Prevention Week
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In view of the unprecedented !
drought - i n North Carolina,
which has created an unusual
forest fire hazard, Governor
Broughton has proclaimed this 1
as fire prevention week. The 1
Governor's proclamation follows:
Proclamation
WHEREAS, the people of our
entire state have been deeply
concerned over the consequence
of this year's almost unprecedented
drought and are impressed
with the need of cooperative
thought and effort to
meet, insofar as is humanly possible,
the situation thus created; .
and
WHEREAS, the tremendous (
losses caused by forest fires dur- j
ing this period have been such i
as to cause grave concern on I
the part of our people and those I
particularly concerned with the
preseravtion of our forest re
sources, aim
WHEREAS, it is deemed important
at this tme that the attention
of the people of the state I
be called to the fact that about
69 per cent of our State's privately
owned forets land is '>
benefited by a measure of or- 1
ganized forest fire control un- '
der supervision of the State. On 1
this area alone fires, since the
first of the year, have burned
over some 470,000 acres of woodland
with damage estimated at,
some $800,000, The situation on ;
these areas without organized
protection is equally acute, and
represents many thousands of
dollars in additional damage.
By way of comparison, it is estimated
that forest fires in the
entire State during the whole
of 1940 burned over about 426,- !
000 acres and caused damage
of some $725,ono
The forest products industries jl
according to census and other ji
reports, rank third in impor- ,j
tance among the industries of ! i
our state, being exceeded only 1
by textiles and tobacco. And f
only the textile industry pro- j
vided more employment in 1939 <
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ON COUNTY JOURNAL, THURS1
with which to renew their
the world, and democratic
Dvernment. Cupidity and
and perhaps their most
ugh propaganda they
perhaps a majority of the
lief that the government
been duped into leading 1
eliberately entered it from
and their agents, many of
lough to get paid for the
i their country, their peoLOt
only accomplished this
hinking of the people, but
icy with the pacifist idea
to keep out of war was a
ntime, Germany was ret,
waiting the opportune
mpt to master the wond
II and the present Ger
ime. One great difference
is strutting as a war lord
laster the world, with a*i
1 his head was, strangely
, a man who had faith in
y superior to the present
Germany, and who is 10master
of the world than
all the tides of time. For
is the old, pagan, German1
i a mighty war machine
,nity. Hitler has gone ail
1, and would bring the
)r, and to be bouna in the
Totalitarianism, with no
; world except such as it
e to accord.
that Wilhelm began. The
id; but the assaults upon
ocracy and freedom are
Le danger of their prevaiiy
exile, while the armies
m victory to victory. Bui
rilhelm's armies were vicltest
for four years, 'nie
n slppr> t.his time, wline
~ ?n -?--7
;hey are mustering their
ault. Hitler might iook uc
some stocktaking. Neither
vill fare as well when this
wing the last. Hitier must
in people must be piaceu J
in never again Wage war
e world. We have had our
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for North Carolina workers than
the forest products industry.
Forest land represents . about
59 per cent of our state's total
land area, and only live states ,
in the Union have! a larger total
forest area which) should have
organized fire protection oy the
state than does North Carolina.
Only about 1 per cent of this
state's forest fires are caused by
lightning, the other 99 per cent
resulting from the acts of-man;
and
WHEREAS, the forest is one
of the most important of our resources
and its preservation is
especially timely in this period
of a national defense program;
?i it?ivf fi-?Q omor_
ana mat 111 view yi bu?
gency of problem^ created by
the tremendous losses through
forest fires, a conference was
held in the office of the Governor
of North Carolina on May
28th, 1941, for the purpose of
considering ways and means of
meeting this emergency; which
conference was attended b y I
members of the Board of Conservation
and Development,
representatives of the State universities
and its forest products
industries and railroads, and at
such meeting it was the consensus
of opinion that as a part
of the announced plan of action
in this connection the Governor
of the s^ate should issue a proc- I
lamation designed t0 bring the !
attention of the people of North
Carolina to the above condition, j
calling upon them for their efforts
and cooperation in responding
to the program designed
t0 meet the aforesaid emergency;
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NOW, THEREFORE, I. J. Melville
Broughton, Governor of
North Carolina, d0 hereby designate
and proclaim the week I
of June 2-8, 1941, as "Forest j
? * ? * -n
Protection weeK". i can uprn an
public officials, agencies of the
press and radio, the State's various
law-enforcement agencies,
schools, and the general public:
upon the American Legion, the
women's clubs and all other organized
groups whose objectives
ire a better state and a better
community, to lend your utmost
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>AY, JUNE 5, 1911
I QUALLA
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Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Andrews
called at several Qualla homes
last week. His text Sunday
morning was "Incline Your Ear
and Come Unto Me, hear and
Your Soul Shall Live."
They were dinner guests at
Mr. P. H. Ferguson's.
There was an all-night prayer
meeting a t Olivet Saturday
night.
Prof and Mrs. C. B. O'Brien,
of Berkeley, California, spent a
few days with relatives last
week. Mrs. O'Brien is the daughter
of Mr. J. W. Bird. His former
home was in Qualla, now of
Fortuna, Calif. On Thursday afternoon
a party of Bird relatives
made a trip to Clingman's
Dome. They had a picnic
supper at Mr. H. G. Bird's. Members
of the party were Mrs. C. A.
Bird, Mr and Mrs. W. E. Bird
and Chas. Bird of Cullowhee,
Mr. J. T. Bird of Sylva, Mrs. J.
M. Bird and Miss Betty Bird of
Bryson City, Mr and Mrs. Lawrence
Meyers of Murphy, Mr.
and Mrs. T. W. McLaughlin of
Whittier, Mrs. H. G. Bird, Miss
Margaret Bird and Billy Bird,
and Mr. J. K. Terrell. Although j
Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien have
crossed the Rocky Mountains
and visited many points of interest
in the U. S., they think j
the fine roads and beautiful'
scenery of W. N. C. are "grand,!
wonderful."
They took several snapshots, j
Besides the picture of the party
while on the Tower, one of Bee
Tree Ridge and other interesting
places where her father used to;
go to look after cattle in the j
days before good roads, when all
the surrounding counties herd(Continued
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efforts, not only during this
designated week but throughout
this year and succeeding years,
to the end that North Carolina
may keep her green woods
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ftreen. Let us iace mis lurest |
fire problem with courage and
with firm purpose?a fire that!
is prevented from starting is a
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Done at our Capital City of
Raleigh, this 31st day of May, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fortyone
and the Oone hundred and
sixty-fifth year of our American
Independence.
J. MELVILLE BROUGHTON,
(Seal) Governor.
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