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iarkfimt CEnmtty Journal
Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office Sylvc,, N. C.
Published Weekly By
DAN TOMPKINS
DAN TOMPKINS, Editor
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A good way to bounce this war right back into the
laps of Hitler and Tojo is to bring that old rubber.
We are not yet in position to put our toe to the
Japs and Germans; but we can use our rubber heels.
Bring 'em to the nearest filling station.
The yards, attics, cellars, out buildings and byways
have precious rubber?rubber that the government
sorely needs. Bring it to the nearest filling station.
Tip to boys and girls, individually and in organi7afirms
Do vou want to make a little money for your
club, your troop, your church organization? The
creeks, branches, and rivers of Jackson county have
hundreds of old tires and tubes that have been thrown
into these streams. Fish 'em out. The nearest filling
station will pay you a cent a pound for every pound
of rubber you deliver.
The rural*areas of America are bringing in the
rubber. The cities are falling far behind. Let's put
Jackson county in the forefront of the march of rural
America to the filling stations with rubber.
"O my prophetic soul!" The following is reprinted
from the Jackson County Journal of April 4, 1935:
"Sir John Simon, recently returned to London from
Germany, states that Hitler informed him that Germany
has an air force equal to England's own. Germany
seems to have armed and then announced that
she was going to violate the Treaty of Versailles, just
like she was already on the march before war was declared
in 1914, and just like Japan will have her fleet
half way across the Pacific before she declares war on
us."
MICA LOOKING UP
The mica industry in Western North Carolina is
expected to take on new life and to again materially
affect the economic life of this area, as well as to
again serve the vital needs of America. This expectation
is based upon developments that transpired dur
ing the past week end.
Time was when the mica business of Western
North Carolina, and especially of Jackson, Macon
and Mitchell counties, was, collectively, relatively
big business. The government permitted .it to languish,
even in the times of the highest tariff barriers
any nation ever placed upon the free flow of commodities,
by failure to care for the differential in
wage scales of India and of North Carolina, and by
other misunderstandings and malpractices.
Now, America again needs the mica from the
mica belt of the North Carolina mountains. The Japanese
invasion of the countries of the orient and in?
festation of the seas between, here and India have
forced the United States to turn its eyes backward
for a quarter of a century or more and to look to
North Carolina, as a source of mica that the army,
the navy and the air corps must have; a source where
there is no danger of the precious commodity being
^ sent to the bottom of the seas enroute from the mines
and where the operators and the miners are of Dutch
and British stock and have been Americans from prerevolutionary
times, and, hence can never be under
the spell of a Ghandi or other hindering or seditious
force.
And, glory be! For once, a government agency
did not choose bright-eyed, half baked, college boys
with degrees, a lot 01 theory, and nothing else; nor
yet representatives of big business, interested in doing
the bidding of their superiors in the realm of
economic feudalism, to place in charge of the im.
portant task of reviving the mica industry of North
Carolina. To the contrary, and contrary to what we
have observed to be the usual practice of government
bureaus and agencies in these times, some body had
the good sense to select real, God-fearing, common
sense, small town Americans, who really know the
mica business, know the people, the local conditions,
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THE JACKSON COUNTY JQURNA
the various mines and prospects, and are interested
first in serving their country by doing the important
job that has been entrusted to them, and doing it
quickly and well, and secondarily in rebuilding an
important industry for their mountain country.
That is the kind of men Mr. Burgess, Mr. Fortner,
and Mr. Graham Grindstaff are. They know what
it is all about, when they talk mica. The people have
expressed general gratification that these men have
been placed in charge of the affairs of the Colonial
Mica Company, which is a government agency and a
subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The Journal is of the opinion, however, that it
may be found wise to trust the judgment of these
men still further, and to empower them to make
small loans of money for operating expenses, to do
the head work that will be necessary in reopening
some of the best mines, wny noi maxe such lumio,
to operators of mines that these gentlemen believe
will produce the grades and classes of mica that the
government must have? Let them, who are men who
know all of the old mines, the quality and quantity
of mica that they have heretofore produced, and have
a reasonable opinion as to whether such loans would
probably be safe, have the say so? They would make
mistakes, occasionally; but the government has made
loans on less secure grounds, and, after all it is not
a question of money, but rather of getting mica. Such
a scheme, coupled with the plans that have already
been envolved, would get the mica. That, after all,
is what the government needs, and is the purpose behind
the whole procedure.
PACIFYING A CONTINENT
The Germans are building up wrath against
themselves by trying to pacify Europe with the firing
squad. Reliable reports from European governments
in exile state that half a million men and women have
been deliberately murdered by firing squads in the
occupied countries. Half a million patriots done to
death by the would-be masters of the world for adhering
to their own countries and their own ideas
of liberty and independence, rather than choosing to
belong body and soul to the German masters! Half
a million men and women! That is ten times as many
people as there are in the city of Asheville; or five
times as many people as inhabit the city of Charlotte.
Imagine the people of a city ten times the size of
Asheville being murdered by a nation that makes
pretense to civilization!
The latest atrocity, and one that has focused the
attention and the horror and repulsion of the world,
was that in which the town of Lidice, near Prague,
was literally wiped from the face of the earth. Every
adult male in the town was shot to death. JSvery woman
was taken to a concentration camp (and we can
imagine the kind of concentration camp). Every
child was removed to an educational institution (you,
reader, can guess about the institution and the kind
of education). And every residence, every business
building, every structure of every kind was razed to
the ground that there might be no more remembrance
of the town of Lidice, and its name was stricken from
all records.
This was the swift punishment that was meted
out, in addition to 306 other people who have already
been executed because the hated Hangman, the despicable
Reinhard Hydrich, met the death he so richly
deserved and the punishment he so justly merited,
when patriots, goaded beyond human endurance, assassinated
him.
The Germans charged that Lidice had harbored
the executioners of the Hangman, and the sentence
of total obliteration was passed and effected.
All this, Germany, is but piling up wrath against
Germany and all things German, that is coming. The
atrocities the Nazis have committed, in order to im11
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press tne worm witn irignwuiness, in oruer mj intimidate
mankind to submit to German mastery,
have the effect of strengthening the determination
of men and women to be free. Each atrocity is remembered
against Germany. "Whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap." The harvest time is
coming. The trampling of millions of feet of freemen
upon every continent and every island; the factories
belching forth aircraft and tanks; the shipyards
launching mighty denisons of the deep; thp secret
meetings and signs of men and women under the
oppressor's heel, all these are hastning the day of
reckoning.
Sometimes the Almighty uses men and nations
to bring His vengeance upon those who have brought
misery to His children. The wrath of God and decent
mankind is turned against the German nation Nothing
but complete ruin and utter annihilation will satisfy
that wrath. Nothing less would meet the ends of
justice. When Czechs, and Yugoslavs, Greeks and
Armenians, Poles and Danes, Norwegians and Dutchmen,
Belgians and Frenchmen are freed from their
present shackles and have the opportunity to mete
out justice and vengeance, they will realize that the
blood of the slain millions of their countrymen cry out
from the eround. And it were better for Germanv that
her people had never been born than that they should
have to face the wrath of these terribly mistreated
peoples. That is the reason why Germany, the race
that has usually proved brave soldiers so long as they
were winning, and have cried "Kamerad" when the
tide of war turned against them, will have to continue
to fight on and on, this time, even when all
hope of victory has vanished. Germany must fight
! on, if for no other reason, to postpone the day of
, wrath, a wrath that is piling up, day by day.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE t
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Having qualified as aaministrator
of the estate of Marcellus
Buchanan, Jr., late of the county p
of Jackson, State of North Caro- d
lina, this is to notify all persons t
having claims against the said t]
estate to exhibit them to the un- ti
dersigned at my home at Hen- S
dersonville, N. C., on or before d
the 14th day of May, 1943, or this
will he nleaded in bar of h
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their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
settlement. This the i
14th day of May, 1942. I
HARRY E. BUCHANAN, I
Administrator of the estate of I
Marcellus Buchanan, Jr., de- I
ceased. (6-18) I
FORESTER GIVES TIP I
ON HOW TO DRY WOOD I
A tip to farm people on a way P
to dry fuel wood in the shortest 11
possible time is offered by W. J. ?
Barker, assistant forester of N. i
C. State College. He pointed out |
green wood, and its failure to I
burn, is the cause of scores of 11
persons turning to some other
type of fuel.
"Fuel wood normally requires
from six months to a year to
season properly," Barker explained.
"Therefore, if the wood
is intended for next winter's
consumption, it should be cut
not later than this summer."
The Extension worker said
r*Prsnns nttemntine to speed
UiUV |-/ " * ? r W up
the seasoning of fuel wood
should understand the process
through which wood goes when
it normally dries out. -"The leaves
of a tree act as pumps," stated I
Barker, "and the leaves are COnIS
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QUINTBPIEIS
relieve misery of
CHESTClIOS
Mother?Give YOUR Child
This Same Expert Caret
At the first sign of a chest cold the
Quintuplets' throats and chests ere
rubbed with Children's Mild MusteroL
?a product made to promptly relien
the distress of children's colds and re
suiting bronchial and croupy coughs
Musterole gives such wonderful re
suits because it's MUKti tnan an oral*
nary "salve." It helps break up locai
congestion. Since Musterole Is used oi\
the Quints you may be sure you're using
just about the BESTproductmade!
IN S STRENGTHS: Children's Mild
Musterole. Also Regular and Extra
Strength for grown-ups who prefer a
stronger product. All drugstores.
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Inuously drawing water through
he body of the tree.
"To hasten the drying out
rocess, the trees can be cut
own and left untrimmed for
wo to three weeks. This cuts
he trees off from the source of
he water supply in the ground,
till, the leaves continue to
raw water out of the tree.".
Barker says this method of
arvesting timber will result in
> it's camels )
with me ON EVERY
run. rney have mm
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Camel cigarettes are "standard
equipment" with veteran engineer
Frank Dooley (left, above) and his
fireman, Bill Lyons, Jrn of New
York Central.
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1 War Causes Revival
| Of Home Dried Foods
I Something old yet somnhin?
new?that's the way Ruby SchoU
Extension economist in food con.
I servation and marketing atn.c
1 State College, describes the home
drying of fruits and vegetables. I
| An old-fashioned practice uiefl
' by earlier generations, drying
has been replaced largely
more modern methods of pre.
1 serving. However, war conditio^,
I are expected to revive this older
! art of saving food for out-ot
' season use.
I To refresh the memories o! 1
1 those who have employed thi,
method and to direct others v?ho
have had no experience wth
drying, the Extension Semct
i has just issued a new circular,
No. 232, "Home Drying of Frulu
land Vegetables.
i a free C?P^ ?* public*.
1 tinn rr>ov
?.v.w ov.v.uiru I rum tlO?l I
demonstration agents or by writ- I
ing to the Agricultural Editor
State College, Raleigh, a Penny I
postal card is sufficient.
Miss Scholz, author of the I
circular, points out that drying I
has a number of advantages
The product's weight is only one
fourth to one-ninth that 0f
fresh materials; there is a considerable
reduction in bulk;
storage is possible over long periods
without the use of can?
dryness equal to three months o(
usual seasoning. The trees I
should be left on the ground,
untrimmed, for two weeks in
the summer for all kinds of
trees, and three weeks in winter
for pines. After the "sappingout"
period, the wood can be
cut into lengths desired and I
handled in the usual manner.
The Extension forester's office
is urging that farmers pre- |
pare to use wood instead of other
types of fuel for their home
needs this year. This will help
to relieve war-time shortages of
trarisnnrt.flt.inn nf rnal and fuel I
oil. Farmers also can find a |
ready sale for surplus wood in
nearby towns and cities, Barker
predicted.
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