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?ltr iflrattklitt }JrrB8 *Xt6 <?br Highlands iHnconiait FublUhed every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LXI Number five WEIMAR JONES, Publisher Entered at the Post Office. Franklin, N. C., as second class matter Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by in dividuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be re garded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertis ing rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." In compliance with the postal regulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months Three Months Single Copy ... ...ia.oo $1.00 80 05 Major Albright Says It FROM Raleigh comes authoritative support of ? this newspaper's suggestion that Macon County should take positive steps to encourage its return ing servicemen to stay at home. R. Mayne Albright, himself a returned service man, resuming his position as state director of the U. S. Employment Service, well says the very things The Press has been attempting to say. Major Albright, whose job it is to fit men and jobs together, points out the value of the returned serviceman to his home community; emphasizes small, local industries and service plants; adds a number of concrete suggestions; and. finally, touches On the importance of planning. A dispatch from Raleigh outlining Major Al bright's views follows: New local industries and service organizations should be established in scores of North Carolina communities if this state hopes to keep and utilize the services of many of its trained and valuable former service men, now returning home in increasing numbers, in the opinion of Major R. Mayue Albright, just back from military service and in his former position of state director of the United States Em ployment Service. Many North Carolina communities, even the smaller ones, have citizens who could, individually or in groups, set up small Industries, rural industries, or service plants, which cculd furnish employment to hundreds of returning service men. Even servicemen could form many such small industries, Major Albright believes, which would utilize their own services and those of other veterans or return ing war workers. A few industries which can be operated In almost any North Carolina community, using local labor and requiring small capital, are enumerated by Major Albright, as fol lows: Processing, dehydrating or canning poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables; peanuts, my beans and other vege tables; producing and developing stone, concrete, clay, glass, sand, and other such products; manufacturing tents, awn ings, mattresses shirts, (neckties, gloves, belts, shoestrings, and other garmentss; lumber, plywood, veneer, furniture novelties, caskets, Venetian blinds, wastebaskets, book ends, and other novelty q.nd souvenir items. Hundreds of such industries, developed on small scale, would make use of local raw products, adding immensely to their value, and bringing wealth into many communities, in addition to giving employment to many veterans, return ing war workers jind others. Otherwise, many workers constitute a possible drain on the community and taxpayers, by drawing unemployment benefits or servicemen's readjustment allowances, by re maining idle, or by migrating to other centers seeking remunerative employment. "The State Planning Board will cooperate with individu als In any communities in developing local industries," said Major Albright. "Our interest, in the U. S. Employment Service, is in developing jobs to use the workers we have and in making studies to determine the types of workers needed in local industries. Our local USES offices will co operate fully in promoting any such activities," Major Albright said. Mr. Sloan's Letter The management of The Press takes pride in the quality of the letters to the editor published in this newspaper in recent weeks, and of course it is indeed grateful for the kind things said about the paper. The primary purpose of an open forum such as the "Letters" column of The Press, however, is to afford an opportunity for the discussion of public questions. For that reason, The Press is particularly happy to publish in this issue a letter from Mr. W. N. Sloan. The fact that Mr. Sloan disagrees with a Press editorial is of minor consequence. The im portant thing is that he has chosen a vital public matter, discussed it thoughtfully and with con viction. and supported his argument with facts and figures. It is from such discussion that an informed pub lic opinion is developed, and more letters like Mr. Sloan's are invited. I 1 "? ? ? ? ? LETTERS ? ? ? PRAISES MRS. JOHNSON'S WORK ; Dear Editor: It was my privilege to know the late Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson personally. She was one of the very finest characters I have ever met. How loyally she stood for what her conscience said was right! Unflinchingly she fought for true democracy. Re i llgion was true service to her fellowmen. Her heart's desire was for the betterment of the children of the county. The last time I saw her she was sitting up in bed writing an editorial for The Press. She would, indeed, be glad, I'm sure, if she could speak, and tell you to carry on the great unfinished work. Truly, I like your timely editorials in regard to our returning servicemen ? and women; and also the same well applies to many, who so nobly did their part in many of the defense plants, making B-29's and atomic bombs. 1 Very truly yours, , MRS, F. E. MA8HBURN Gneiss, N. C. January 19, 1946. DISAGREES WITH EDITORIAL | Dear Weimar: I want to congratulate you on the fine work you are doing with The Press. I have become a cover to cover (if a paper had covers) reader, and greatly enjoy being brought up co date each week on the news of my home county. I have also enjoyed several of your editorials ? particularly the first one in which you greeted old friends and your home town and out lined what you hoped to do with the paper, and a more re cent one entitled "Gold Through Our Fingers". By my standards both were very fine. But now I must confess, regretfully, that I was brought to the point of writing to you by an editorial with which I com pletely disagree, instead of the ones which I liked so much. X refer to the one in the January 17 issue entitled "They Can't Explain Away Facts". It seemed to me that your editorial attempted to do just that. Some of the facts which you seemed to either deny or over look are: 1. Since last summer the army has brought home and dis charged approximately 5,000,OOO^Tnen. This is an almost un believably creditable record of accomplishment. It is much better than the army or anyone "else thought possible last summer. 2. The rate of discharge reached a peak of about 1,000,000 men per month. As there are only about 4,000,000 men in the army now, without a slow-down, it is perfectly apparent that in four or five months Generals MacArthur and McNarney would have been left to occupy Japan and the American zone in Germany by themselves. Present enlistment and induction under the Selective Service Law makes little more than a trickle. 3. Instead of hysteria among troops, public, and Congress being caused by vacilating policies of the heads of the Armed Forces, these same ? heads have been moved by the hysteria itself to make ever increasing efforts to discharge every soldier possible, and by Christmas, if possible, until at last the danger point was reached. 4. The War department has not admitted that, "It needs only 1,500,000" now. That is the next July figure. It is a rea sonable assumption that there is considerable difference be tween the need today and next July when conditions, we hope, will be somewhat more settled. 5. We are not out of the war yet. It is true that the fight ing seems to be over, but if we keep it that way our Army has a big job to do, now and for years to come. What it is do ing now is probably more difficult than, and just as important as, what it did when it had only to move forward and kill the enemy. 6. Although, as- you say, our civilian authority is superior to the military, it is the rankest folly to suggest that President Truman or Senator Hoey knows as well as Generals Elsen hower and MacArthur how many men we need to control enemies, not all of whom have yet laid down their arms. We have experts to give answers to technical problems. A very deplorable fact is that members of Congress so constantly dis regard the answers. And, finally, I think that you have been in close contact with public affairs too long not to know that statements by our Senators and Representatives are not very good sources of facts. They are too often made not for the purpose of giv ing someone the facts, but to play on the prejudices and emotions of us, their constituents. And too often they succeed. And now please forgive the tirade. Every now and then I get so hot that I boil over. And this criticism of the Army almost before it gets its bayonets dry, whether it comes from the public, from ill informed or insincere Congressmen, or from irresponsible members of the Army itself warms me con siderably., I am looking forward . to seeing you on my ynext trip to Franklin, although I don't know just how soon that may be. Sincerely, W. N. SLOAN, SR. Atlanta, Ga., January 19, 1946. ? Others' Opinions ? THINK IT OVER THE price of a man's life may be hanging in your closet. * In a chest in your attic may lie the decision as to whether a child shall live or die. The future of millions of men, women children is for sale . . . and the price of that future is one you and I can so easily afford to pay. These are the people who with their, lives and homes bought us the days and months and years of Time we had to have to win the War. Now we can buy them the days and months and years of Time they have to have to win the Peace. Does it seem fantastic that your old clothes, spare clothes, cast-off shoes, blankets, can be a factor in rebuilding this chaotic world? Think it over. Farmers cannot work the land without adequate clothing to protect them from the weather; children cannot attend school without warm clothing; women cannot go about the tasks of marketing without sufficient clothing to withstand long hours in ration lines; babies can not grow strong without clothing to shield their frail, under nourished little bodies from disease; the sick, the sufferers from pneumonia, malaria, scabies, the many illnesses caused by exposure and malnutrition, cannot hope to recover their strength without clothing, shoes and bedding. Cities cannot be rebuilt, factories cannot produce again, clflllzation cannot be reborn unlesb those who must do the work, have the clothing to give them the warmth of courage and hope. Together with our allies, the unlnvaded countries of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, we have contributed millions of pounds of clothing, sufficient to aid more than 25,000,000 vic tims of war overseas. We must do more, we must not forget other millions in most dire need. From Holland, Norway, Greece, Poland, China, the Philippines, Italy, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, comes the same cry? Can't you send more clothing? The Victory Clothing Collection being conducted on behalf of UNRRA between January 7th and list will help to fill this need. Kvery on* can give at leaet one garment, a pair of shoes, a piece of bedding toward the national goal of 100,000,000 gar* ments. You are invited to enclose a good will letter with your contribution of clothing a? an adventure In international friendship,? Marion Profveee, j. At V-J D*y soldier passenger traffic within the Fourth Serv ice command, covering the Southeast, totaled 8,007,295 trips, exclusive of the travel of _ in dividuals, parties and groups from one to 14 men. DEPENDABLE EFFICIENT Radio Repairing All Makes and Models WOMACKS RADIO SHOP (Over Reeves Hdwe.) When in Aaheville Stop at Hotel Langren Aaheville'a Largest ? Enjoy the 'talk of the town" foot i at the Langren Coffee Shop CONFIDENTIAL INCOME TAX SERVICE Don't Fail to Consult Us Before Sending In Your W-2 Farm. "We Advise You at No Cost" THE CLOSMAN COMPANY Waynesville, N. C. 114 Main St. - - - Room J - ? ? Phone 357 ?Also At? HOTEL CAROLINA, SYLVA, N. C. 39 Years Experience Qualifies Us To Assist Yon in Taking All Deductions and Saving You Every Dollar Possible. IT WILL PAY YOU TO COME TO OUR OFFICE ALL SERVICEMEN Whether you are a member or not, you are urged to attend the AMERICAN LEGION MEETINGS First and Third Mondays of Each Month 7:30 p. m. LEGION HALL American Legion Post No. 108 It takes a bit of time . . A Message To Our Subscribers Please bear in mind that it takes From 10 DAYS to 2 WEEKS to gel your name on the mailing list, if you are a new subscriber OR to get the address of an old subscriber changed SO If you are a new subscriber, please be patient if it is a week or two after you ' subscribe before you receive your first issue of The Press. And, if you are an old subscriber, please give us at least 10 days' to two weeks' notice of a change of address. That will be a great accommodation to us, AND it will insure you against missing an issue of the paper. Thank you ! THE FRANKLIN PRESS
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