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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1944
Governoi Ut ought on
It is a high compliment to Governor J.
Melville Broughton that almost every county
in the state unanimously passed resolutions
at the county Democratic conventions held
last Saturday endorsing him for the Vice
Presidency of the United States.
It is hardly probable that such an honor
will go to any man living South of the Ma
son Dixon line at this time, but if such
a thing should be done, Broughton would
rank high among the possibilities. His
record as governor is an enviable one and
the outstanding part he has played at im
portant meetings all over the United States
has impressed people everywhere he has
appeared, with his clear thinking and force
ful speaking/
Governor Broughton is today not only a
great governor of a great state, but a na
tional figure, whose opinions are respected
and fine qualities admired over the entire
nation.
Of One Opinion
It has been interesting to check on edi
torial pages since General Patton spoke so
freely in favor of American and British
supremacy after the war is over. All writ
ers seem to be of one opinion. They feel
that as a fighter General Patton is tops, but
as a speaker and a diplomat he would get
a low score.
One writer pointed out that doubtless the
Indians would call the General something
like "Chief-Foot-in-the-Mouth," which would
certainly describe his efforts at speech mak
ing. It looks like he has a talent for "put
ting his foot in his mouth" when he starts
talking.
We are inclined to think that the remark
will not be taken seriously by the Allied
Nations, due to the explosion of the press
on all sides, evidence that the General does
not speak the mind of his fellowmen. We
can imagine, however, that the Germans
got a lot of satisfaction out of the boner
the General pulled.
High On the Scroll
Our thanks go to Dr. E. W. Gudger, of
Waynesville and New York, distinguished
scientist, for calling our attention to the
following editorial which recently appeared
in the Raleigh News and Observer:
North Carolina is proud of the primacy
as shipbuilder extraordinary and plenipoten
tiary gained by Homer Ferguson, president
of the Newport News Shipbuilding Com
pany. The motto of that company, which it
practices, is :"We shall build good ships ?
here at a profit if we can i at a loss if we
must ? but always good ships."
The Richmond Times-Dispatch in an edi
torial, "High On Virginia's Scroll," pays
a deserved tribute to Mr. Ferguson, but fails
to say that he is also high on the scroll as
.a native son of North Carolina. It is Vir
ginia's good fortune that Pigeon River (M
Ferguson's native county of Haywood) lacks
depth to carry big ships to the ocean. If
Haywood's waterways were as well adapted
to big shipbuilding as at Newport News,
the city of Waynesville and not Newport
News would claim Homer Ferguson as^not
only first native son but also as ftrst citizen.
It was from Haywood County that he went
to the Naval Academy.
Virginia and North Carolina share in
pride in his achivements. Wilson offered him
chairmanship of the Shipping Board and
all administrations have leaned on him for
counsel and service.
Family Week
We notice where President Roosevelt has
warmly endorsed the planned renewal of
"National Family Week", May 7-14, stat
ing that "the genuinely humanizing forces
of life are nutured in our homes." The move
ment is sponsored by Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish religious groups.
The President further stated that he was
glad to see the churches giving their special
attention to the home and stressing its great
spiritual values ; that the race has always
owed much to its family life; the genuinely
humanizing forces of life are nutured in
our homes. Our homes are outstanding 1
among the mainsprings of our striving up- 1
ward, among the wellsprings of our civiliza
tion. The spirit of home must by all means
be safeguarded ; the family sense of the na
tion must by all means be kept healthy and
vigorous, points out Mr. Roosevelt.
We trust that in the post-war planning
attention can be given to a more abundant
home life ? for in the stress of the current
emergencies, with its three groups of work
ers on night and day shifts in the course of
a twenty-four hour period, families in many
homes are like "ships that pass in the
night."
D-Day In the Garden
Victory gardeners of '44 will be no rookies
of the soil. They're seasoned troops with
"battle" experience ? veterans of *43, accord
ing to a recent editorial in the Christian
Science Monitor, which also has the follow
ing to say of these home front fighters for
food production goals.
They approach this Summer's campaign
with confident knowledge of the proper
strategy for a good harvest. They're no
longer novices to be beguiled by vivid seed
catalogues and alluring advertisements into
planting everything but the family tree in
a two-by four plot with sour soil.
In other words, the land troops are battle
wise today and ready for action, for the D
Day of Spring when they will tackle their
big objective ? 22,000,000 Victory Gardens
for 1944. An objective as important in its
way as an atoll in the Pacific, a war plant
in Germany, or Hill 660 in the jungle of
New Britain.
It's the kind of fighting that doesn't rate
a medal ? they haven't given the Purple
Heart for blisters yet. It entitles the parti
cipants to no uniform or service stripe. He
gets no mustering-out pay, and he won't
be the town hero when the war is over.
But he'll be there digging just the same
and something tells us that the approaching
battle for food will not be lost.
Invasion Jitters
Ere this appears in print, who knows, the
great invasion which is in everyone's mind,
may have been launched. Of course, the
government is dead right in keeping the
date a secret.
For us back on the home front, our job
is to carry on with the best courage we can
muster. We could not help the boys over
seas by giving up to a case of nerves.
We know the day will bring anxiety to
every mother, father, sister, wife, brother
and friends of the men overseas, who will
take part in the bloody conflict. No one in
America or in the countries of the Allied
Nations or even the enemy will escape suf
fering from its effects. The great invasion
will teach what is no doubt the hardest
lesson the world has ever learned from the
cruelties of war.
We heartily endorse the movement started
throughout the nation to keep the doors of
the churches and places of worship open
on the initial day of the invasion. If ever
the people of this nation should pray, should
be aroused to pray, and should feel the need
of prayer it will be on the day when this
bloody slaughter will start its inroads on
civilization.
We trust that there will not be a person
who can possibly get into a church in this
community who will fail to enter and offer
prayer for victory for the Allies.
Who knows ? little boys who won't teU the
truth may be our future fishermen and
golfers.
Even when one talks to himself he is
likely to say things that he shouldn't.
Every time you do an evil act the devil
is standing by to give you an encore.
Your quota in War Bonds is all that you
can buy.
It isn't freedom of speech that we need
but freedom from it.
'SPANISH STEW"
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HERE and THERE
By
HILDA~WAY GWYN
The late W. T. Shelton, of Way
nesville, who was widely connect
ed in Jackson county, was an un
usual personality. He was an in
stitution. He possessed the stren
gth of the great characters of old.
When his opinions once crystalized
he usually held to them with un
flexable tenacity, but he was never
hasty in his judgment. He always
took time to reason things out, but
when he made up his mind he rare
ly changed it.
While he was away from the
mountain section for yearly a quar
ter of a century, he was at heart
a mountaineer, a Tar Heel moun
taineer. His loyalty to his own
section held and drew him back
like a magnet to the hills he loved
so well. While a level-headed busi
ness man, he had much of sentiment
about him, as attested in his deep
affection for his wife, Miss Mattie,
and the pride in which he held the
house built by his parents. The
white house set back among the
larg trees was more than home to
him. It was part of him. The
land he tilled that had been culti
vated by his family before him was
a cherished heritage.
After working hard he retired,
but he had not lost his zest for
living, like many people who have
earned the right to rest. He en
joyed the privilege of living as he
had wanted to, which many of us
long to do, but few will ever rea
lize. He had often told us when
we have been with him in his gar
den, how he was spending his last
years just as he had planned, for
himself and "Miss Hattie." Dreams
came true for him in the reality of
living.
Few people ever stayed any
length of time in this section with
out visiting his gardens. Their
pleasure in viewing the extraor
dinary mass of blooming color in
gigantic specimens of his favorite
dahlias and glads, was matched
by his joy in showing them off, like
a fond mother introducing her off
springs.
We have often attended hearings
as he presided as a U. S. commis
sioner. He loved to hold them on
his lawn in the summer under the
trees. The scene was so peaceful
that often its contrast with the
offenders of the law almost came
as a shock to a disinterested list
ener. He made us think of some
patriarch of old, with his white
hair and strong face, as he sat in
judgment.
Mr. Shelton had no patience with
pretence. He had an uncanny way
of knowing the sterling qualities
from the plated values. He was
down to earth and he liked others
to be themselves. He will be great
ly missed and long remembered by
all who knew him.
"Seeing woman replacing man
in many an occupation^ starts a
fellow to asking for a rational ex
planation. What work did they do
before and who does what the wo
| men used to do ?"
We saw the above question in a
paper last week. We are quite
certain that the questioner will
' new see our answer, but we would,
like to give him a "rational expla
nation" of the situation. We say
he, because most any woman would
know the answer. We regret to
say that m some cases the work
they formerly did is not being done
today. It is being neglected. We
fear that much of the juvenile de -
linquency which seems to have
ripened into a very serious prob
lem, is the result of too many moth
ers working at new jobs. Now
don't get us wrong, just because
a mother works away from home
does not mean that she is not do
ing a good job of "mothering."
But in cases where she has no com
petent person to watch over, guide
her children and take her place,
neglect is inevitable. Children are
like flowers in a garden. They need
attention, as the flowers cannot
thrive without weeding, neither can
the children develop as they should
without discipline and training. A
mother cannot do this and stay
away from her children most of
their waking hours, without help.
As for woman's work at home,
there never was a truer saying
than it "is never done." Most of
us homemakers are trying to
streamline living in harmony with
the hectic emergency in which' we
are living. Many of us are leav
ing some of the evidences of a
more leisurely life, for after all
there is much to be said for sim
plicity of living. Dust in the com
ers, or the substitution of paper
napkins for linen ones will not
affect anybody's character, but if
Johnny disobeyed his mother and
it goes unnoticed that is a serious
matter.
On the other hand there are
thousands of married women who
are neither neglecting children or
leaving dust under the beds. They
are a type of modern womanhood
who can step up in their work and
crowd the 24 hours into a miracle
of accomplishment, and do their
home work. They can eat their
cake and have it too. There are
thousands who have left home for
their first job. They have answer
ed the challenge for manpower
shortage. We bet most of them
will gladly go back when the war
is over ad resume their old fash
ioned role as a "woman in the
home." Most women are at heart
natural home makers. They usual
ly get fed up after a time on ca
reers unless they must go on from
necessity or have that spark of
talent which must express itself
in some form of creative oiitjet,
or they have been deprived a
home through force of circumstah
ces and want to be a contributor
and not a parasite. We personally
feel that American women have
answered the call to service in a
very fine and competent manner.
They have entered the armed forc
es. They have donned overalls and
are taking the places of thousands
of men now in service. They are
enjoying a spree of economic inde
pendence . . . and they are helping
their country meet war production
goals. We feel that most of those
who have been uprooted from their
domestic routine and are now draw
ing salaries are tucking away some
money and planning to do "a mil
lion things" to their homes when
they replace slacks for house
dresses ... we think they will go
back without being permanently
diverted . . . and on the whole the
work they used to do is still being
done and a lot more extra we feel
is the answer to the question.
Letters To The
Editor
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Edit6r The Herald:
I want you to know I enjoy read
ing the Herald and I think your
paper is very interesting.
Yours truly,
Geraldine Jones.
Washington, D. C.
Sambo, a Southern negro, mar
ried Liza. Tn about two weeks he
came to the minister who had
"tied the knot," looking as if he
had lost his best friend.
Preacher ? What's the matter,
SamboT Aren't you happy?
Uambo? No, ypht parson. Ah
wants a divorce.
Preacher ? I'm sorry to hear that
Sambo, but you must remember
you took Liza for better or worse.
Sambo ? Ah knows dat, Parson,
but she's wuss dan Ah took her
for.
It is claimed that people will be
lieve anything if you whisper it
to them.
Paul Crosses Into Europe
HIGHLIGHTS ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By NEWMAN CAMPBELL
(The International Uniform
Lesson on the above topio for May
7 is Acts 15:36-16:40, the Epistle
to the Philippians. the Golden Text
being Phil. 3:14, "1 press On to
ward the goal unto the prise of
the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.")
YOU WILL remember that in
our last lesson we left Paul and
Barnabas in Antioch, preaching
and teaching the word of God.
But one day Paul suggested to
Barnabas that they "go again and
visit our brethren in every city
where we have preached the word
at the Lord, and see how they do."
Barnabas agreed, but wanted to
take Mark John with them. Pos
sibly you recall that Mark John
had left Paul and Barnabas at
Antioch, against the wishes of
Paid. Paul, therefore, objected to
taking Mark Johft, while Barna
bas insisted, and the two had a
?harp disagreement. It was finally
?ettled by Paul taking Silas with
and Barnabas taking Mark
John.
They came to Derbe and Lystra,
where a disciple named Timotheus
(Timothy) lived. His father was a
Greek and his mother a Jewess,
fcaul decided Timothy should go
with him, and so circumcised him,
went through several cities con
I firming disciples and establishing
them in the faith.
"Now when Paul and Silas had
gone throughout Phrygia and the
region of Galatia," they were for
1 bidden by the Holy Ghost to
preach the word in Asia. They
also tried to go to Mysia, "but the
Spirit suffered them not."
Pan) Has a Vision
They came to the town of
Troas, and there, at night, Paul
(had a vision. In his dream he be
held a man from Macedonia, who
prayed him, "Come over into
t Macedonia and help us." Maea
I donia was a region in Europe,
I and when Paul obeyed this vision
i he was taking the gospel to Eu
rope for the first time.
Paul and Silas then went to
Samothracia, next day to Neapo
lis, and from thence to Philippi,
chief city of Macedonia. Evidently
there was no synagogue in Philip
pi, but the Jews of the town gath
ered on the Sabbath by the side
of the river to pray. Among them
was "a ccrtain woman named Ly
dia, a seller of purple, of the city
of Thyatira, which worshipped
God." She listened to them and
was converted and baptized, she
and all her household. She asked
the disciples to come to her home
and stay there, and was "fco insist
ent that they did.
Now in Philippi was a young
woman who was possessed of a
"spirit of divination," by which
she told fortunes, and brought
much money to her masters, as
she seems to have been a slave.
She followed the disciples all
about, crying. "These men are the
servants of the most high God,
which shew unto us the way of;
salvation." It grew most annoy- [
lng, so Paul commanded the spirit ;
to come out of her. This destroyed j
her spirit of prophecy, and her
masters, seeing their livelihood
taken from them, were naturally
very angry.
They caught Paul and Silas,
drew them Into the marketplace,
and complained to the rulers that
these men were Jews, and were
teaching customs unlawful for
good Roman citizens to hear. The
multitude also rose up against
them, and the magistrates tore oft
their garments, beat them and
threw them tato the inner prison,
a vile place, and put their feet in
the stocks.
,At midnight Paul and Silas
prayed and sang in their dank
cell, and the other prisoners heard
them. Suddenly there was a great
earthquake, and the foundations
of the prison shook, the stocks
and prison door were broken open
and all the prisoners were freed.
Fears Prisoners Have Escaped
Waking out of a deep aleep, the
of the prison open, and concluded
that his prisoners had all escaped.
Afraid of whaA would happen to
him, he was getting ready to kill
himself, when Paul cried to him,
saying they were all there. The
warden was so touched that he
called for a light, then fell down
before the disciples and said,
"Sirs, what must I do to be
saved?" "Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house."
The keeper took them into his
own house, bathed their wounds,
and was baptized, he and all his.
He also fed them. When day came
the magistrates had a change of
heart and sent to the keeper to
free the two men and tell them te
go in peace. Paul, however, said,
"They have beaten us openly un
condemned, being Romans, and
have cast us into prison; and now
do they thrust us out privily?,
nay verily; but let them come
themselves and fetch us out.".
They did, too, coming to them and
asking them to leave the city.
We have very little room to
speak of the letter of Paul to
these same Philippians, when he
was a prisoner In Rome, probably
shortly before his death. Let OS
quote one thing:
"Let nothing be done ^hrougfc
strife and vainglory; but in lowli-,
ness of mind let each esteem each
other better than themselves,H.he
wrote. "? *
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WASHINGTON
Fear Too Few Tin Cans Made
For '44 Vegetable, Fruit Pack
Income Tax Simplification
Still Major House Problem
Special to Central Press
# WASHINGTON? The men who make the cans for canned vege
tables and fruits are concerned over whether there will be enough
of these invaluable containers this year to take care of a 1944 pack
which is expected to reach 303 million cans ? considerably above last
year's figure
Hence the War Production Board has the job of determining wheth
er some more sheet metal might not be allowed for the can industry
Steel is not as scarce as it once was. but there is a bottle-neck in
rolling mill facilities for turning out the kind needed by the can
makers. Something wtll have to be done if it develops
Allotment that the third quarter steel allotment for the can
, manufacturers will not take care of the heavy food
Of Steel canning needs in those months
Not Enough The nation cannot look to the glass industry for
help The glass business is working at capacity
turn out containers and is 25 per cent behind orders now
Whether an allotment of more steel would mean more steel-packed
canned goods on grocers' shells is problematical The military
services will take more processed foods this year than last, so it U
probable that the extra cans will be for overseas shipment.
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? CHANCES ARE THE HOUSE in reporting out the "G I bill of
rights"? American Legion -sponsored veterans' legislation ? will give
it a 1-A priority rating Representative John E Rankin of Missis
sippi, however, told the House the World War veterans committee,
of which he is chairman, will "make haste slowly* and report out a
bill the whole body can support.
"fJo member can tell when the bill will reach the floor for passage,"
Rankin declared, adding rather extensive hearings will be held before
it gets the committee's green light.
Brig. Gen Frank T Hines, chief of the veterans' administration,
has asked to appear on the legislation. Rankin said, as well as sev.
eral members of Congress and representatives from other veterans'
organizations
THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLE?
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