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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1944
Wanted- A Simpler Form
Our phone rang during the past week and
a feminine voice asked us it the paper could
not give some information regarding income
tax forms in a simple manner so that the
people in general could understand. In the
throes of trying to make out our own income
tax return we felt a deep sympathy for
her and her problems.
We admitted that if we could offer a simple
recipe for such complicated forms we would
be glad to tell the world, but alas, we could
give no such desired information. We sug
gested that she consult the deputy internal
revenue coloector who will be here for the
purpose of helping the public interpret this
confusing piece of governmental literature.
One reader has recently compared some of
the conflicting sections of the forms to the
explanation about the Pullman berths ? how
the upper became lower because it was high->
_er, while the lower was higher, because it
was not so high.
Frankly, some of the items in the form
are just about as complicating to us. It looks
like Congress has overestimated the Amer
ican public's ability to understand its sched
ule for high pressure taxes. It has been
suggested that if the members of Congress
had to go back home to their own districts
and act as deputy internal revenue collec
tors to help their constituents make out these
complex returns, there would be no doubt
that they would fly back to Washington and
in their confusion over the problem, at once
try to get the complications out of the forms.
Boy Scout Week
Will it be possible after this war ends to
create a world brotherhood among men, dedi
cated to peace, without sacrificing love of
one's own country?
Everyone acquainted with Scouting, which
this week celebrates its 34th anniversary in
America, knows that the answer is yes. The
Boy Scout organization is almost world-wide.
Patriotism and friendliness, and respect for
other men's religious beliefs, all are part of
the Scout Oath and Law. The World Jam
borees of Scouting were international gath
erings which might well set a pattern for
statesmen to follow.
Not everybody likes world brotherhood.
Adolf Hitler, on coming to power abolished
Boy Scouting in every occupied country. Yet
it continues "underground". Someday, along
-with free speech, a free press and un tram
meled religion, it will emerge from biding.
It takes better boys today to build a better
world tomorrow. The success of the Scout
movement, in America and in other United
Nations, proves that the principles of Scout
ing will triumph in the end.
Hundreds of the soldiers and sailors who
have been decorated for heroism in this war
were former Scouts. It is estimated that one
third of the officers and enlisted men in
Uncle Sam's armed forces were once Scouts
or Scoutmasters. Scouting will not have to
be "converted" after the war in the usual
sense of the word, for it is being carried on
in this country in a normal manner.
Since February 8, 1910, more than 11,
400,000 men and boys have been actively
-identified- with. Scouting in America, The
birthday anniversary will be observed in
every city and town in the nation and in
hundreds of villages and communities.
We join with the local Boy Scouts in ask
ing your support of this outstanding in
fluence In the lives of our boys today, who
will be our citizens of tomorrow. In help
ing carry forward this great work in our
community, we are building for the future.
Strmght Ticket
Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture,
has been mentioned as a potential candidate
for a number of oflLes. Some of his friends
have stated he might be a candidate for the
senate, or maybe for governor. Others that
he will enter the race for re-election to his
present post. He was asked by a friend at
the Jackson Dinner recently held in Raleigh
what he is currently running for and the
commissioner of agriculture at least left no
doubt in his friend's mind about his party
loyalty when he replied:
"I'm running for the kingdom of heaven
on a straight Democratic ticket."
William Allen White
1 he late \\ illiam Allen White had a unique
place in American journalism. He lived in
a small American town, and he wrote of his
own people, recording the events in their
daily lives, yet h-e possessed to such degree
the power to express the common needs of
all mankind in his reporting that the world
soon knew of Emporia and its editor.
He was a straight shooter, but his fair
ness and his sense of humor always took th?
sting out of his writings. He should ever
serve as an example and an inspiration to the
small town paper that should have ever be
fore it, the ideals of serving the community
in which it calls home.
While he became through the very human
quality of his writing a citizen of the world
and was at home with the great of this
earth, he was first of all a citizen of Emporia.
He looked tor the good and found it as
shown in the following from his writings:
"Every friend of my childhood is my
friend today. I have never had a major
quarrel with anyone, and I am not conscious
of having an enemy. No one ever tried to
do me wrong. No one ever betrayed me,
nor so far as 1 know ever tried to hurt me
or to swindle me. I have found humanity
good, with much more that was fine than
false."
His life blazed a new trail for the small
town paper, and today upon his passing, he
is acclaimed as the "greatest American edi
tor by many. He left the small town news
paper a valuable legacy, if we who edit them
will only claim it for our own.
Human Understanding
We have read a great deal during the
past weeks on the all vital problem of post
war planning. There have been numerous
theories put forth by various authorities.'
A recent editorial in the Raleigh Times pre
sented an angle that will have a large part
in the plans, yet i? seems to have escaped
many of the specialists now prescribing for
that era. \
The Times points out that a new world,
free and at peace would have been ours long
ago if money could have bought it, or if
muscle or scientific cleverness could win it.
The historic fact that we materialists can
not bring ourselves to accept is the inescap
able one that peace and freedom ? whether
on a personal world or world level ? are mor
ally and spiritually won.
The paper quotes a soldier as saying, "The
world is just one big goodbye", knowing that
things were not meant to be that way. There
arises the qeustion that has troubled many
of us: Why do peace and freedom so stub
bornly escape us?
We have proved that superior military
force can bring us victory. We have not yet
proved that military victory can ever bring
more than an armed truce.
This war demands, as the Times points
out, that we go beyond being experts in mili
tary production and strategy. We need to
be experts as well in the art of human under
standing and teamwork, which produce
sound homes and the sound industrial and
political structure of the new erar
We have drifted away on a high tide of
materialism from the moral and spiritual
moorings of civilization. So today we find
ourselves surrounded by suffering and death
? a world aching like one big goodbye, ac
cording to the soldier who is said to have
continued, "We need to make the world into
a big hello, but that will take something
brand new in a mighty lot of people."
We have shown that we can. organize our
nation into one powerful army almost over
night from a peace loving people, so we
should be able- to- r*store~mir moral stand
ards as well when it is over, if we start with
the right viewpoint and determination. Sure
ly the price we will pay before the war is
over will teach us some constructive ideas
on human understanding.
f
Our reputations are made by what people
say of us behind our backs ? William Feather
Magazine. <
"THE DAILY GRIND"
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HERE and THEB^E
By
HILDA WAY GWYN '
Since the men are being returned
home from the fighting areas many
of them broken in body, some never
to be fully restored again . . . new
responsibility comes to our gov
ernment. . . For the rehabilita*ion
of the men in service will demand
special care. . . A man broken in
body will also need much restora
tion of the spirit along w'th th~
physical. . . There will be need for
deep understanding . . ... morale
will have to be boosted for thes^
men who will have to build new
lives. . . Perhaps you read during
the week of the tour of one Charles
McGonegal, of North Dak^t-a,
World War I veteran, is making
to the army hospitals. . . If you
saw the story, you will not mind
reading it a second time, for it is
heart warming . . . and if you have
not it will bring a touch of human
intrrest that is refreshing. . . Now
this McGonegal is just an ordinary
American citizen . . . who is now
in Washington. . . No, he is not
there to confer with governmental
heads, merely on a mission of
mercy and morale. . . He m^y not
even visit the White House, but he
has a tremendous ta?k ahead of
him. . . He is going to give the pa
tients in veterans hospitals a new
vision . a new yardstick by which
to measure their lives. . .
Twenty-five years ago McGone
gal walked out of the Walter Reed
Hospital, a tall slim wond:ring
boy, facing life, with two bright
steel hooks, where hands should
have been. . . What could he do?
What would the years ahead mean
to him. . . What could he accom
plish with such a handicap? Th se
questions must have fairly eaten
into his soul. . . Now he comes back
to Walter Reed . . . and will go to
other hospitals to tell the fellows
who have "gotten theirs'* in World
War II, that there is a big chance
for them. . . He is going to -con*
vince armless veterans that they
can find a place in the business
affairs of tomorrow. . .
McGonegal was a mechanic be
fore joining up back in 1917, and
was wounded in France in 1918.
He had a compound fracture of
the skull . . . both knees splintered,
a foot fractured and both arms
were shot off just below the elbow.
Today he is a pilot with more than
300 hours flying ... a horse breed
er .. . he drives a car . . . shaves
himself . . . lights his own ciga
rettes . . , writes . . . uses a tele
phone and plays cards ... he can
do almost anything that a person
with two good hands can do. . .
Between now and April he will
tell the boys in five army hospitals
and two naval hospitals not to be
discouraged. . . They are now just
where he started 25 years ago, he
says . . . and right now they don't
think there is any sense in living,
but he is going to tell them there
is . . . and we have a hunch that
he will be able to put that story
over better than the most learned
psychologists in the land. . .
We see where the Kentucky Fed
ration of Women's Clubs has ask
ed ita State Legislature to place
framed copies of the Ten Com
mandments in all public school
class rooms. . . We liked the idea
. . , we hear a great deal about
juvenile delinquency these days . . .
and when we stop to consider all
the laws made by mankind, has
there ever been a set of rula* mora
comprehensive than those laid
down so many centuries ago? If
these commandments were learned
by the old as well as the young
today, and "written not with ink*',
as the Apostle put it, "but with the
Spirit of the living God; not in
tables of stone, but in the fleshy
tables of the heart," much of the
human ills would be eliminated . . .
the teaching of the ten command
ments in school would be reflected
in the lives of the pupils, and no
doubt if they could be engraved on
their hearts, many of the problems
of discipline would vanish.
We have heard of a good many
versions of dice throwing, but the
latest use is past all belief. . . We
see where dice are being thrown
in the psychological laboratory of
Duke University to study what the
Profissor in charge calls the "psy
chokinetic effect" ... it all came
about when a crap shooter turned
up at the University somet'me ago
and claim:d that by yelling, "Come
seven, come eleven" he got re
sults. . . So the Professor decided
to try him out and the score was
so good that it was decid:d to be
gin some studies along this line. . .
A summary of these appears in the
Jouranl of Parapsychology pub
lished by Duke University P^ess.
Now to our uninitiated m;nd, it
sounds like a case of glorified
wishful thinking, and not a psy
chological problem.
The following on Safety was con
tributed to this column during the
week, with the request, "Please
use'' . . .
"Here lies the remains of Percival
Sap,
He drove his car with his girl in
his lap.
Lies slumbering here, one Wiliam
Blake,
He heard the bell but had no brake.
Beneath this stone lies William
Raines,
Ice on the hill, he had no chains.
Here lies the body of William Jay,
He died maintaining the right of
way.
John Smith lies here without his
shoes,
He drove his car while filled with
booze.
Here lies Mary Jane, but not alive,
She made her car do eighty-five.
Speedwell News
By Mrs. W. C. Hooper
Pfc. Fred W. Bumgamer has
returned to McDill Field, Tampa,
Fla., after spending a 15-day fur
lough with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Bumgamer.
Mrs. Evelyn Jenkins and small
son, Tommy, left this week for
Camp Wolters, Texas, where she
will spend several days with her
husband, Pvt. Leroy Jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Conner an
nounce the marriage of their dau
ghter, Miss Carolyn to D. S. Press
ley on January 29th, in Clayton,
Ga. The couple are making their
home with Mr. Pressley's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Pressley, for
^^WASHINGTOU
Fight Over Renegotiation
Could KiH New Tax Bill
Japanese Thought Able to
Increase War Production
Special to Central Press
# WASHINGTON ? Do not be surprised ? or disappointed ? If there
is no tax bill passed at all by congress.
A battle Is shaping up over the measure that will at least delay
its enactment, but the fight has nothing to do, strangely enough,
with taxes.
The controversy is over the changes voted by the senate finance
committee in the war contract renegotiation law passed in April,
1942, and designed to recapture excessive war profits. The house
rewrote the law and attached it to the tax bill as a rider. Then the
senate rewrote the house Version.
Army, Navy and several government agencies were not pleased
With the way the house revised the law. But they are likewise less
Mtisfled "with "the senate's -work ? They -contend the ?
House Bill house action would punch a hole or two in it, J>ut
~ they add the senate's work would scuttle the law
Rewritten entirely. i,
By Senate So, if the tax bill carries with it changes in the
renegotiation law which war agencies feel would Im
pair their ability to recapture excessive profits, it Is entirely likely
President Roosevelt would veto the bill. That would mean no tax
bill at all at this-time. x
There is an added likelihood the president might veto the act. If
the bill, as finally passed, contains the finance committee provision
freezing the old age benefit payroll tax at present levels, it is likely
to meet with executive disapproval.
Finance committee changes which have aroused greatest adminis
tration opposition are those exempting certain manufacturers from
renegotiation. F<- - example, all makers of "standard commercial
articles" would be exempt and exemption also would be granted
machine tool manufacturers, retroactive to the time the law went
into effect.
A formidable array of legislators has announced opposition to the
measure as it now stands. Among those who have announced they
will fight it^to. the Upoit. are Senate Majority Leader Aiben Barkley,
and Senators Harry Truman, Hatch, Walsh and Robert LaFollette.
? ? ? ?
# AMIDST ALL THE TALK about manpower needs and increased
war production, the word "unemployment" has a strange sound. But
a litye-noted paragraph in a recent OWI report on curtailments of
war production had a portentous ring. OWI pointed out that the
shifting of production needs, although minor in relation to the whole
program, undoubtedly will throw some people out of work.
Is this the beginning of the end of the war employment boom?
Some employers think so.
OWI said that when some war production is curtailed, unemploy
ment is not likely to become serious so long as plants can shift rap
idly from one item to another. For instance, a tank factory recently
went back to making locomotives. *
? ? ? ?
# THE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION, in predicting
German war production cannot be increased to meet the crushing
attack to be launched against the Reich soon, pointed out also that
Japan probably can expand its output of materiel.
The Japs have passed their peak of' plant expansion but are be
lieved able to turn out more armament with present facilities by
intensive methods.
The Nipponese, formerly the world's greatest imitators, have ad
vanced technically and are now doing creative work of their own.
However, there is an optimistic note. The Japs have failed to
exploit their conquered territory and resources fully, principally be
cause of lack of shipping. None of the captured
territory has added materially to Japanese steel Nips Facing
making capacity- It has, however, provided oil for , g
the Jap navy. Shortage of
The size of the Japanese war machine is deter- Vitol Steel
mined directly by steel. Presumably after current
steel stock piles are exhausted the Japs will be in bad shape.
The FEA thinks Japan, if left undisturbed for 20 or 30 years in
possession of its conquered areas, might easily reach the front rank
of industrial nations. But mere possession of potentially rich coun*
tries, FEA points out, won't Incc^ase Jap war capacity and the
Allies Intend to make certain that the Nipponese are crushed long
before they can turn these areas into any real account
the present.
Ben L. Davis, of the U. S. Navy,
is spending several days with his
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Knight.
Mrs. Beulah TilleyNand daughter,
Bonnie, of Marion, S. C., are visit
ing relatives here.
Alvin Bumgarner left last week
for Greensboro, where he will be
gin work with the Gallimore Con
struction Co.
^ * NOTICE .......
NORTH CAROLINA,
JACKSON COUNTY.
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of Alex Conley,
deceased, all persons having claims
against said estate are hereby noti
fied to present them to the under
signed, at her home in Dillsboro,
N. C., within one year from the
date hereof or this notice will be
plead in bar of recovery thereon.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate settle
ment with the undersigned. ?
This January 29, 1944.
MARY CONLEY
Administratrix of the estate of
Alex Conley.
No. 16? Feb. 2-9-16-23 Mar. 1-8
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
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NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA,
JACKSON COUNTY.
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of W. T. Lewis,
Sr., deceased, all persons having
claims against said estate are here
by notified to present them to th#
undersigned, at his office in Sylv%
N. C.f within one year from th#
date hereof or this notice will be
plead in bar of recovery thereoik
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate settle
ment with the undersigned.
This January 5, 1944.
HUGH MONTEITH,
Administrator of the Estate of
W T Lpwix Sr
No. 16 ? Jan. 6ll2-19-26-Feb. 2-?.
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? Our Ofiee and Say . . . .
"I didn't know you could
do work like that"
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