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PAGE TWO Jarkamt (Unuttty inurnal - * Entered as second class matter - at the Post Office SylVL, N. C. Published Weekly By DAN TOMPKINS DAN TOMPKINS, Editor National Advertising Representative New York . Chicago : Detroit ; Atlanta j Phila. PRESENTING A HEADLINE The Journal resents, in the name of the people of the mountains, a headline, a "scare head," in the Asheville Times, in which it was blazoned that the scrap drive is a failure, due to the "indifference" of the people. It is admitted that the headline was written with good intentions; that it was designed to prod the people into greater activity. But, we resent it, nevertheless. If the Times had been out in the country districts, he could have seen with his own eyes that the people are not indifferent. If every child in the schools, bringing junk to the school houses spells indifference, then the people are indifferent. From the farms, the homes, the barns, the woods, from abandond sawmills, from every conceivable place, the junk has been coming, with children to school. We have PQQn i* ^mino- in u/acrnnc in crn-PArt.5? in automobiles OLL11 XV Willing Ail IIU^VAiU, AAA WW J ? toted on their backs, piled into the school buses. We have seen little children dragging it down the roads toward their school houses. We have-seen them give their toy wagons and automobiles, cherished possessions. In their name, we resent the word indifference ai applied to the people of our mountains and the salvage drive. It just isn't true, out in the country. The other day we were in a sparcely settled rural community, from which 48 young men have already gone to the armed service of the country. Folks like that are net indifferent to any call their country may make in times of stress and peril. For shame to apply the term to them. , HATS OFF TO THE YOUNGSTERS! The Journal doffs its hats to the boys and girl* of Jackson county and of America for the magnificent work that they are doing in the Salvage Battle on the home front. With an example of unselfish devotion to theii country, the children of America are more aware o1 , the perils to which their country and their lives are exposed than are some of the grown people. At leasl they have thrown their youthful energies into the battle and it would frighten the war lords in Berlir and Tokyo if they could see the mountains of scrap materials that are piling up at the school houses ol America. The children are bringing large pieces and small pieces, steel, iron, aluminum, copper, rubber tin, every kind of materials that their country car use in the war effort. They are gathering it from vacant lots, from old mine shafts, from abandoned sawmills, from cellar and attic, barn and garage, frorr old garbage dumps and from the banks of streams and roads, from field and forest, from every available source, young America is bringing in the scrap It is coming on wheelbarrows, in trucks, in wagon* &nd carts, by boy power, bygoat power, by hors( power, by sled and on the sturdy backs of boys anc girls. The scrap is moving toward the school houses From there it will go to the foundries, and thence tc the munitions factories, the shipyards, the airplane factories, and from thence to Asia, to Europe, to Australia, to the Islands of the seas, and finally to Berlir and Tokyo. The fathers and older brothers of these boys anc girls are on the firing line, and never were soldier* and sailors and marines backed up more completely than are these of ours, by America's boys and girls. The country gave them a task to do, and they an doing it in a magnificent manner. That is preparing the way for the second front, about which we have heard so much; and is paving the way for the fina T+ i c fnr tViDCO Kniro rri^ld 4-V??4- fViniw nmin T IV/ i/Ul J jl u 10 ivi vnvuv wjf o UilU gll 10 UI1CII lilUll V^U Li 11 try is waging this war; and they are doing their part Democracy, it has been said, was born fighting anc must continue to fight to live. This truth is under stood by the boys and girls in our schools, and the] are in the fight. They want to live as free men am i *^ \ * _ THE JACKSON COUNTY JOURNA: ^ / /mfjn f -w?<?t Z~~"o0?~*rrMAI~M/4rc-^^^ backed ay our natural resources this ideal has produced america's great national assets : OUR INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH.. .OUR SUPPLIES OF FOOP AND RAW MATER/ALS OUR TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OUR BACKLOG OF SECURITY 26 BILLIONS IN SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, 124 BILLIONS of LIFE INSURANCE IN force , ! war bonds approaching a billion a month ALL TOGETHER. /TSPELLS :j, women. They are helping to preserve their heritage. > I The winning of the battle of salvage will be one of the i greatest victories of this war, and no small part will he due to the oatriotic efforts of the children of Amer ' ica. God bless them! FRANK BAILEY, JR. Jackson county has given yet another of her fine, k! young sons in the Battle for Freedom. While he was 1! not shot down from the sky over enemy held territory, ;! but rather met his death at Fort Benning, Frank ; Bailey died as much in the great cause as if he had ^ I met the enemy in the sky above Berlin or Tokyo. A volunteer in the army of freedom, this young man, who grew up among us here in Sylva, was a para-1 chute jumper, and was just completing his training 5 when his promising career came to an end, down in Georgia. The news of the death of this young man has brought sorrow to all of Sylva, where we all knew him. !,Yet, mingled with that sorrow, is a feeling of pride 11 that the sons of old Jackson county are there by the 1 hundreds, on the seas, in England, in Ireland, in Aus1 tralia, and China, on Bataan, in the South Seas, and in training at home in the camps, everywhere there is much to do and much to dare, that the world may be free, and that the liberties that our fathers bought for us shall be kept for future generations. Ii noilox; tVin nrronHcnn nf a PnnfoHordtp cnl s ?' 1 CL111\ UUll^J , uiiVx gi uiiuouii v/i u vuiiiv/uvim?w uv* * dier, and the son of a World War* veteran, comes of J; the breed that knows no defeat, that holds liberty more precious than peace or 'than life itself. He was ' serving in the arm of the service in which he chose F to serve. He died as brave men prefer to die, in the * line of duty, duty to country, duty to God, and duty ' to those who shall come after us. Did we say died? No, not dead! For those who give 1 their lives that men and women and little children ! can live and love and laugh in peace and security, in liberty and in the fear of God, are immortal "Greater * love hath no man than this, that he will lay down his ' life." And yet the passing of this young man brings home to us the fact that we are engaged in a war. Frank Bailey and his family have given all they had \ to give?the life of a fine young man. The rest of us * may not be called upon to make so great a sacrifice; but whatever the cost, we will pay it. l?as 1 "TflPl m If! I the Favorite Cigarette is Camel. ^0 BWB ! (Based 011 actual sales records in 1 FlRST IN THE ^ Excba?8es 8?d CameeM> ASK YOUR DEALER for SPlCIAl f SERVICE SERVICE MAILING WRAPPER 1 I ft L TRIBULATIONS OF SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD MEMBERS J "Lo, the poor Selective Service board member?he is damned if he does and he is damned if he doesn't," says George Draut, a staff writer for the Meadville, Pa., Tribune, in a recent article I of commiseration written after a personal investigation of the trials and tribulations of members of Crawford County Local Board No. 3, which has its offices at Meadville. "The pre-Pearl Harbor days, when there were more men who wanted to go than "were quotas to fill, have been, passed," this writer observes "and headaches have multiplied for the Selective Service board members." He specifies and comments: "They have long since found fVtoir Q P ] f, i V P tnai mey \;ai k j uiiw.A duties with them everywhere they go in the county, even after they step out of the Selective Service Board Headquarters. Curbstone* Quizzes "John Doe, a Crawford County j farmer, stops them on the street ! and tells them he doesn't know how he'll ever be able to run | his farm if his son, whose num; ber has come up, is called in the draft. They walk a few more | steps and Joseph Doe, who runs a small factory, stops them to I ask what he's supposed to do if i he wants to apply for occupa| tional deferment for one of his i men. They aren't even a halfblock away from the Selective j Service office, and James Doe I stops them. He wants to know I if his number is up yet arrd when | he'll go. "There are hearings after ; hearings on individual cases. "There are regular board meetings. "There are special board meetings. "There are surly registrants who damn them as 'persecutors' and refuse to listen to iron-clad regulations laid down by National Selective Service Headquarters and Congress. "There are 'dense' registrants who will have everything explained to them in detail. They'll nod their head in assent and say, 'I don't get it.' "There are registrants who will angle for every possible deferment clause in the regulations when their number comes up. m JJj AN ^01 WHETHER IT'S A CHANGE AND LUBR1 WE'RE i Whatever you drive, you can c every kind of service you'll neei A? ?? ? uon. we re ail set to keep yoi with modern service equipmer trained mechanics who know how to do each job right. Our special tire-sav- j ing services, for example, II include all the mechanical II adjustments so necessary to \ prevent waste of rubber. Our special gas-saver OLDSMC 4LL-R0UND, A ALLISON "As if this ordinary routine of Selective Service -business were not enough, the local boards are showered with anonymous letters and postcards. Every crank who ever wrote a letter to a newspaper or to his Congressman, now writes to the Selective Service boards. "The Selective Service board member is called nasty names and accused of everything under the sun, by these 'crackpot' writers who won't sign their 'names. "All of this, and the Selective Service board member still has to put in his regular working day in private business or industry to earn a living for himself and his family. "The wives who were left behind when their husbands went into the service aren't the only 'war widows.' The wives of the Selective Service board members can form their own 'war-widows' union. ?j 1:1-^ 4-^ _ n?i?? "Wouia yuu imc iu uc u ot-ieutive Service board member? "Not on your life! "I'd rather be drafted. "The hours are better? "And you get paid." I ^joDAY, THE AVERAGE FREIGHT TRAIN Ru PERCENT FASTER THAN IN 1920 AND CARRIE 40 PERCENT MORE TONS OF FREIGHT. i i$ HHOOHBS (Jor. EVERY FIVE TONS Of NEW STEEL THE RAILROADS USE, THEY RETURN TO THE A ml SERVM FOR ran ST WHPl I fllUUl PASSENGER CAR OR J 'CATION OR A COMPLE' \LL SET TO SERV rount on us for tune-up covers i f<>r the Dura- line mileage. 1 n on wheels? exactly accordi it, and factory- It will pay you t LL-QUALITY, ALLMOTOR C< NOTICI OF RESALE Under and by virtue 0{ an ecution issued by the Clerv the Superior Court of Jarv01 County, North Carolina unrip judgment entitled, '-Countv , Jackson vs. Long Heirs" a; ^ corded in Book 2 of Tax jJ?* ments, at Page 149, in the (w of the Clerk of the sUn3 Court of said County, i ^ the 26th day of October, 1942?^ 12:00 o'clock, noon, at the Cour House door in Sylva, North (W I I lina, offer for sale and sell \ I the highest bidder for cash 5 public auction, the lollop described lands: "? I A 15-acre tract as fully ^ scribed in a deed which is te. corded in Rook 46, at pv,. 549. in the Office of the Re?. I ter of Deeds for Jackson CounI ty, North Carolina, to which I deed and record reference is hereby made for a lull ar5 ' complete description ol said ' I lands. The above-described land wu I m sold on September 17. 1942, !ot the svim of $230.00. but an in. creased bid of ten (10> ? having been fii^d Cfr-: Hi sold to satisfy said iudpm re> I terest and costs. J d8men^- I I Jhis the 14:h day 0, H. L. HOLDEN Caro!"aJaCkS?n Miii 11 ns 56 | ^ She world's first eiectrjouy. ssfbsa- lighted train was run in the jsgk, united states, in 1887. SSOCIATION Of AMltlCAN IAIII0.H m, TR 3 jjj s. I LS ? I L TRUCK, AN OIL FE O VERIIA VL JOB E YOU! I every factor affecting Our repair work is d?n ng to factory specifications o come here for your regu a lubrications, too, becau# our mechanics a'wa^ inspect as they lubnc* * And they know h(jw thp mechanical c0 H 111CXA.V, 4Q ___ rections so compensate for wear, for Everything m Se SALERS I CAR SERVICE OMPANM
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