THE SYLVA HER AD
And Ruralite
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When we saw. this week's issue of the
Rotary Bulletin, we thought of the many
things that people in Sylva are doing with
out fan-fare or publicity. It seems that the
Rotary club has a good share of these
men. We thought it would be of interest to
all of you, to see what the members of Sylva's
Rotary Club have been doing.
National War Fund
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This gigantic national endeavor, the';
second of its kind ? to raise,, $250,000,000
will soon be under way. It will give each of
of us an opportunity (1) to help our neigh
bor, (2 ) ' to help our fellow countryman, (3)~
to help our fellow allies. Let's not give until
it hurts; let us give until it stops hurting.
Raymond Sutton and Bob Ariail will lead the
Jackson County drive. Hats off to these
Rotarians for accepting the leadership of
such a monumental task.
-Lest We Forget
Did you know that Rotarians TorrTCbx^
Lyndon McKee, Ty Hunter, Scroop Enloe,
Ernest Bird, M. D. Cowan and Claude Allison
have been serving faithfully and without
fan-fare as trustees of the Harris Communi
ty Hospital for about 15 years?
A Bouquet
Orchids to Arthur Weidlich for promot
ing the program on Forest Conservation,
Sept. 12, 1944. It was interesting as well as
instructive.
To Our Rotarian Doctors
. Thank you for staying upon the firing
line of our home-front: Doctors Charlie
Candler, Delos Hooper, Grover Wilkes, and
Wayne McGuire. In spite of the fact that
- you are getting beyond the period of active
service you continue to serve. But this is
the true spirit of Kotary. Bravo!
Crippled Children ,
Touched by the helplessness of little
children whose bodies have been unfor
tunately twisted by accident or disease, Ro
tary has loosened the purse-strings of many
people, moved the skilled hands of surgeons,
and restored to broken-hearted mothers and
fathers faith in the brotherhood and good
will of man to man; and, to the child self
confidence, so essential to happiness and
success. A round of applause to Claude Al
sion and those who have assisted him.
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"Watchman, What Of The Night" ^
Approximately fifteen million men have
sacrificed all of the good things of their lives
in order that the good American way of liv
ing continue for the one hundred fifteen
million who remain at home. Those men
have submitted themselves to discipline and
have given up their individual independence
to preserve the common independence of all.
Some of them are on battle stations, cold,
wet and exhausted. ? Some are at sea where
the hazards, normally high, are greatly mul
tiplied by war. Some are in submarines
subject to a ninety-seven per cent risk of
life. Some are in the air under a ninety
four per cent risk of life. Some are in enemy
prisons, abused, hungry and in danger of
both mental and physical sickness. Some
are~Ttl^with-malai:ia, Tulagi Rot and other
baffling diseases. Sbme are painfully and
horribly wounded, living, but living in dread
of a handicapped future. Many have died.
Many of the living would welcome death.
Where are you and how have you fared?
Look around you. Home with your loved
ones. Warm, dry and growing fat on the
comforts that those men are buying for you.
Every pleasant thing in your life is being
bought by them. They are paying with
blood, sweat and suffering. You do not owe
them "SOMEthing" ? you owe them
EVERYthing."
,
The finest privilege of American citi
zenship is one's RIGHT to exclusively enjoy
one's own small part of God's good earth and
that RIGHT, too, is being perpetuated for
you by the men in the Armed Forces of
America.
They are doing a swell job over there.
What are you doing over here? THEY are
winning OUR war. THEY are making YOUR
lights, comforts and pleasures both perma
nent and secure.
\ THE UNITED AVAR AND COMMUN
ITY FUND is the one agency offering you,
ah opportunity to express* your appreciation.
Oply through it can you prove your grati
iuded to your numerous benefactors. Don't
be generous? just do ? your simple duty.
Don t be self-righteous? just be% humbly
grateiuL Don't ..give until it hurts? giving!
can't hurt. The more you give, the better
you feel. Your bed will be-softer; your food
will be tastier; vour home will- be warmer;
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your affairs will' prosper, when you have
done ALL THAT- YOU CAN DO to alleviate
their suffering; to share with them a little
of what THEY are making possible for YOU.
There is no standard unit by which to
measure your obligation. Your best is in
adequate. Less than your best is shameful.
Presidential Campaign Will Bring Return
Of Roorbacks Says Coronet
The forthcoming political campaign will
no doubt unearth a string of the same mali
cious mud-slinging .that has dogged every
political candidate since Washington's day,
according to an article in the October issue
of CORONET ^magazine. And it's a good
idea to get an idea of how these roorbacks,
as the rumors are called, originate and how
they are scotched.
Some historians contend that Washing
ton started the two-term tradition because
he refused ? to endure, four more years
of gossip-mongering such ''as could scarcely
or a common pickpocket,1' to quote his own
words. Health, sexual irregularities, reli
gious hereSy, mixed blood, drunkenness and
^business dishonesty head the list of popular
subjects for these whispering carhpaigns. ,
Perhaps the most tragic incident connect
ed with such low campaigning was the death
of Mrs. -Andrew Jackson, directly traceable
to a breakdown brought on by publication
of the story that she and the General had
lived together for years without benefit of
clergy. The truth was that the Jacksons,
before their marriage, were improperly in
formed that Mrs. Jackson had been divorced
from her first husband. The error wasn't
discovered for years, but after it was, they
were promptly remarried,- according to
CORONET/
kji wooarow Wiison-it was whispered
-villainously that he was estranged from his
wife, that he was not the father Qf some of
his- children and that he kept a ?mistressj.n
llxj White Iluuse. Evotl these^serious charges
paled, however, before those publicly aired
about his successor. Warren G. Harding. A
public made credulous by the Teapot Dome
and other political scandals of the Harding
administration, lapped up THE PRESI
DENT'S DAUGHTER, a book in which Nan
3ritton charged that Harding was the fathtr
of her child, Elizabeth Ann, and confessed to
a long series of assignations with the Presi
dent, some of them in the White House it
self. C. A. Klunk of Marion, Ohio, refuted
the stories in THE ANSWER TO THE
PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER, and Miss Brit
ton lost a $50,000 libel suit against him, says
CORONET.
Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith
among accused of drunkenness. Teddy
Roosevelt instituted, and won, a friendly
libel suit against a small paper in Michigan
that had printed the rumor, to vindicate
himself. Smith denied that he ever was
drunk, as charged, at a New York state fair
and, in a remarkable article in THE AT
LANTIC MONTHLY, answered the charge
that he would be unduly influenced by the
Roman Catholic Church if elected President.
Wendell Willkie was the intended vic
tim of the first important 1944 roorback
when C. Nelson Sparks published ONE
MAN ? WENDELL WILLKIE, containing
a letter supposedly written by Harry L. Hop
kins to Dr. Umphrey Lee, President of South
ern Methodist University. The letter, pur
porting to show that the White House ex
pected that Willkie again would be^the Re*
publican candidate and that he would not
oppose the Administration's policies vigor
ously, was proved to be an absolute forgery,
CORONET relates.
So think twice before you accept any
stories about the Presidedrtt's health being
impaired or about the Russians using lend
lease butter to grease their boots, or about
the First Lady being booed in New Guinea.
They're all just roorbacks, concludes COR
ONET, attempting to blind you to the nature
of the important issues of 1944.
""WAR EVERY , . . .NTY-FIVE YEARS
News and Comment From Raleigh *
CAPITAL LETTERS
By
THOMPSON GREENWOOD
MEETING? That ^meeting which
the - Democrats had in Raleigh last
week was highly praised by, those in
the political who's who' in this State.
W. B. Umstead, chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, is
receiving most of the plaudits for the
good attendance and the sweetness
of the old "thing.
It did a lot to heal the primary
wounds. It was the first time such
a thing had be en_ done, and it will be
repeated in other election years. You
probably know that some old sores j
are still standing from the 1940 Pri
mary. If such a meeting had been
held in the fall of 1940, this would not
be the case.
Now if the Demos will just hold
their b convention after the Primary
in the future, ill words will died in
pleasant concourse.
LABOR ? Last Friday, the U. S.
Commissioner of Labor statistics sent
a wire to the N. C. pepartment of
Labor. He said, that factory labor re
ceived a weekly wage of $16.13 and
r.n hourly wage of 44.8 cents in July,
1932. In July, 1944, the average
weekly wage of .factory labor was
$44.52, and the rate per hour was
101.9 cents. This information will
likely be used by the Democrats in
their appeal for the labors vote.
FRIEND ? One afternoon around 5
o'clock last week Governor J. M.
Bioughton went walking slowly over
the capitol grounds, going to his of
f.fer from a speaking engagement uut
at State College. Although tired and
obviously in a hurry to get back to
his work, he saw a, Negro friend of i
his, stopped, shook hands with him,
talked with him there for 15 minutes, j
As the Governor walked away, -the
Negro tipped his hat in the old South
ern cobn manner. It will be a long
time before the colored race will have |
St. John's Catholic Church
Schedule of Masses
Waynesville, every Sunday 11 A.M.
Bryson City, every 1st Sun., 8 A.M.
Franklin, every 2nd and 4th Sunday,
8 A. M.
Murphy, every 5th Sunday, 8 A. M.
Canton, every 5th Sunday, 8 A. M.
a better, truer friend than Governor
Broughton. This little talk on the
grounds was not important except in
the way it high-lighted Governor
Broughton's true democratic spirit.
FRIENDS ? State jobholders who
conscious are bothering them over
comments made and votes cast last
last Primary and in other years are
feeling just a little nervous as Janu
ary I approaches. They should not
feel that way; really, they should not.
Tf they made statements ^yhich Slight,
be construed as being in opposition to
personalities and policy which will
take over next year, they should have
the manhood to stay with them. No
body should have a desire to serve
with men who do not have the same
ideas about matters that he does. Any
way, they are sending their friends
to friends of the new administration
so that a word may 15b, said in their
behalf. Bunk.
AMENDMENTS? Wa-tch out for
those amendments on November 7.
There is divided opinion on them, but
virtually everybody agrees that most
of them are good, especially those
placing the Commissioners of Agri
culture, Labor, and Insurance Qn the
Council of State.
However, for some reason the State
Democratic Executive Committee is
not playing a part in the passage of
the amendments. There is & rumor
to the effect .that thumbs are down on
at isaot on(rei them? Uruughlhl^ may
not be true. ??
?
But four years ago one of the main
things the Committee did was to urge
passage of the amendments. This
time it is playing hands off, claiming
it has hard enough time\attending to
straight Democratic business to get
tangled up in something on which the
Democratics can't agree.
Cherokee, every 3rd Sunday, 8 A. M.
Sylva, every 1st Sunday, 8 A. M.
Welch Cove, every 1st Sunday (CWT)
11 A. M.
Pantry or attic is usually superior
to cellar, because cellars are often
damp.
BLIND MARINE AND WAVE BRIDE
BlINDID ON BOUOAINVtlli by a Jap sniper's bullet, Marine Pfc. John
Gilbert Corrie, Salem, 111., talks v. lih his WAVE bride, Elvira Consoli,
West Haven, Conn., at the Philac /.iia Naval Hospital. They were mar
ried 14 weeks after Elvira was assigned by the Navy to help Corrie
adjust himself to. blindness Official U. S. &avs i Internntionnl*
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This & That
By
HELEN A'. HOOPER
The annual dinner given by the
Methodist Church last Wednesday
right,, closing the year, was a great
success. There were over a hundred
rr embers and guests present* to enjoy
the delicious, meal and the program
that followed.
The Spirit of Christmas has invaded
Svlva in the past two weeks. The
crowds usually seen in the Post Office
during the Christmas rush, are there
now standing in line to get their ovei>
sca.g boxes mailed. Most people have
learned by experience that it is safer
to have the boxes, weighed before
tying them, but still there is a lot
of shuffling, packages .of cigarettes*
tdlcum powder, ? etc., are shuffled
abound with the hopes that by some
miracle ^all of the gifts can go back .
in the box and still weigh less. All
of us are discovering that five pounds
ii hot so much. October 15, the dead
line, is not far aWay, so don't - let
"him" feel forgotten on Christmas
because you neglected to mail your
package. ?
Sylva -has always had just reason
to be proud of the work done for the
Red Cross. Now the work is so far
behind that we are in danger of los
ing the reputation that we had. There
are piles of material stored in the
Methodist Church waiting to be fin
ished, and thg. surgical dressings will
have to be sent back unfolded unless ?
something is done soon. * The fact
that there is no place to work is the
problem. Mrs. Dan^Allison is mak
ing an appeal in behalf of the Reu ' \
Cross for a room in which th's work
can be carried on. Anyone who has
a vacant room or a suitable place
where thiswork can be done is urged
ia^allow the Red Cross to use it.
Sylva Is-- headquarters for Dillsboro,
East LaPorte, "Cuilowhee and Cash
iers. Let's not let this material lay
idle any longer. Surely someone has
a vacant room that would be suit
able for this work. Our boys are
needing surgical dressings now as
never before.- Let's not let them
down, we never have.
NEW 'SUBSCRIPTIONS
Howell Green, Greens Creek
T. C. Ledbetter, Cullowhee
Mrs. Nellie Henry, Newport News,
Va.
Miss Mabel L. Wilson, Lyons, Col.
Mrs. Shuford Paxton, Savannah,
Ga.
Pfc. Robert L. Sutton, C'o PM.,
New York.
Elizabeth Warren, Belmont.
Miss Josephine Johnson. Svva.
? JrO: Buiil^Ltrner, Whittier.
W. E. Bird, Cullowhee.
David M. Hall, Jr., Chapel Hill.
Anly Lee Parker, C|o FPO, San
Francisco, Cal
Mrs. Ernest Jamison, Jr,, Sylva.
Mrs. T. C. Bryson, Jr., Sylva.
H. J. Beasley, Sylva.
Mrs. Etta Davis, Webster
Miss Lou Eva Deitz, Taylor, S. C.
Mrs. Roy Kirchberg, Sylva
Mrs. H. C.fl Lawrence, Morristown,
Tenn. ,
A. J. Dills, Sylva.
Mary Katherine Monteith, Raleighu
Tilghman Bass, Sylva.
John Lewis, Darrington, Wash.
Mrs. Glenn Mobley, Dallas.
Wallace W. Deitz, Cjo^FPO, San
Francisco, Cal.
Cpl. Wm. L. Cowan, C|o PM," New
York.
Mrs. Nelson Parrish, Sylva,^ r -
John Henry Half, Greens Creek.
Lt. (jg) C. R.' Cowan, C|o FPO,
New York. }
Mrs. J. R. Messer, Whittier.
Cpl. Robert L. Seago, Tanopah,
Nev.
Mrs. Wilma S. Mull, Whittier.
Mrs. W. P. Kitchen, Whittier
Mrs. Bella Watson, Sylva.
S. Sgt. Thomas A. Bradley, C|o P.
Mm New York.
Lee^Bf?41ey, Whittier.
Fred Nicholson, Sedro Wooly, Wash.
Mrs. Jack Queen, Sylva.
R. O. Higdon, Gay.
Mrs. George Laws, Wliittier.
R. L. Dillard, Sylva.
_ Dempsey Cabe, aGy.
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Watson wish to
express their thanks to Mr, and Mrs.
W. B. Lewis for the kindness shown to
them during their gickness in the way
.hey left home and helped with their
:anning and bringing friilk and sup
plies to them. Thanks also to Mrs.
Purina McFalls for helping with
;nnning.
MR. And MRS. DAVE WATSON
The addition of calcium arsenate to
itandard blue mold sprays is effec
ive in reducing flea beetle popula
.ions in tobacco plant beds.