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THE SUVA HERALD And Ruralite Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Main Street Phone 110 Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers HELEN A. HOOPER .. Associate Editor MRS, JOHN H. WILS0N Office Manager PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County $1.50 Six Months, In Jackson County 80c One year. Outside Jackson County 2.00 Six Months, Outside Jackson County 1.25 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and all notices ol entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. , North Carolina PPESS ASSOCIATION' We Thank Thee For the toil of our hands, For the task that commands us, For the field that is white Whose harvest demands us, J For the hope of the tuumph Of peace o'er the sword, For the Son of higfc Heaven, Our Saviour and Lord, For the crown that He wore, For the cross that He bore, We thank Thee, our Father, Yea, praise and extol; We thank Thee, our Father, Great God of us all! ? Unidentified A High Price , But Worth It In his radio talk Sunday night opening the 6th War Loan Drive President Roose velt said that the war is now costing the United States $250,000,000 per day. Al though we are accustomed to big figure^ when the finances of the Federal Govern ment are oahcerned, still $250,000,000 a day seems like a mighty big sum of money. It is a high price (thinking in terms of money alone) for victory. But victory we must have at any cost. Victory over an enemy such as we are fighting today is worth while at whatever the cost in dollars and cents. We are going to have to pay a terribly high j price for victory in the lives of our boys. Our money put in War Bonds now will help shorten the war, not only ending the $250, 000,000 cost but the saving of many precious lives. " As the President said, "we cannot all fight the enemy face-to-face, we cannot all produce the weapons and raw materials so vital to our armed forces. But there is one front on which all of us ? every man, woman and child ? can serve, and serve for the dura tion. We can all practice self-denial. We can all sacrifice some of our comforts to the needs of the men in service: and yes, even some of our needs to their comforts." The president said that "There is an old saying about sticking to the plow until you have reached the end of the furrow." He urges the citizens of the United States to apply that maxim to our method of conduct in this war. Jackson county citizens are urged to join the rest of the citizens of the nation in "plowing to the end of the furrow" in their war bond purchases during the- 6th War Loan drive. From past performances we are confident that our citizens will do just that. * $ Land Boom Periled Rural America By CLAUDE R. WICKARD, Secretary of Agriculture History is threatening to repeat itself in the farm land market. Another farm land "boom", closely paralleling the one that ended so disastrously after the last war, is building up in this country. B<Jth the price of farm land and the number of farm sales in many areas have been rising at about the same rate as in the last war. If this trend continues, Rural America had better watch out: One encouraging sign is that actual land prices haven't yet reached the high level of 1919-20. But still we can't say now how much higher these prices are likely to go because, in the World War I period, the high point in the land market was not reached until more than a year after the fighting stopped. It would be sad indeed if the Nation should witness another seige of farm land foreclosures, bankruptcies, and forced sales such as hundreds of thousands of rural families experienced after the bottom fell out of the land boom that accompanied the World War I period. For 13 hazardous years after 1920, land prices were- on the downhill trail. And that statistical fact doesn't begin to tell the full story of human tragedy and misery. Because when a wave of bank ruptcies hits a community, everybody suf fers ? lender and borrower, business and professional people alike. It will be particularly unfair for return ing veterans, who want to buy land, if they have to compete in an inflatecUland market. For them, or farmers either for that matter, to go heavily in debt on land prices bid up far beyond longtime earning capacity is an invitation to disaster. So my advice is: Don't buy land at in flated prices. Put your wartime income into sound investments, such as war bonds, so that you can benefit from that money in the years ahead. "Your Assistance Needed " Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, appealed Sunday for support of the Sixth War Loan, which began November 20, and especially asked civilians to sign up as workers in the drive in their communities. His message to all Americans follows: 4 'Your assistance is needed and the most important job now for the people at home is to make the Sixth War Loan a success. To make sure of final victory we must redouble and sustain our efforts, both here and every where. " "The fighting man still faces a grim task and he still urgently needs much food, cloth ing and battle equipment that must be bought. The money must be raised and our men on all the fronts depend upon you. "Contact your local War Finance Com mittee and join the home front army as a volunteer War Bond worker. "On behalf of your sons, brothers, hus bands and friends in thi^ great war theatre, I request that you do your part to see that the Sixth War Loan is oversubscribed vastly. "Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Supreme Commander of Allied Ex peditionary Forces." Swing Axe For Victory We hope woodland' owners and woods workers won't repeat the mistake of last year and waste their time cutting an over supply of Christmas trees. You may recall that after Christmas, 1943, thousands of trees cut for the holiday market had to be burned because they were not sold. The War Production Board pub licly deplored the waste of manpower, wood and transportation equipment. ' With so many of our boys overseas this year Christmas cannot be the same. What good can a tree by the fireside do these ab sent members of the family? But there are trees which will aid the war effort afrd materially benefit our fight ing forces. That is, if they are cut into the right kind of pulpwood. . Due to recent changes in military de velopments both in Europe and the Pacific, pulpwood products are in greater demand than ever befqre for military uses. Future Allied progress depends on a steady flow of pulpwood to the mills. And, incidentally, there is a surq market and a good price for pulpwood that meets mill specifications. It won't have to be burned after Christmas. YOU RE TELLING ME! JAPANESE sailors have at least this satisfaction: From now on their ships prob ably will be sunk so close to home they can swim for it. ! ! ! Hirohito to his admirals: "Congratula tions ? it took 'em nearly three years to catch you." f ?! t ? ? ? Plastic paper is now promised for the walls of the post-war house. If it has walls. ? ? ? ? _ ?wm.v.wtiwvt wnv. uiav.i\uui ailXJ KCCp XTlGTir lights on at night. Probably to show the world that there's still a little left of them. ! ! ! An eastern doctor runs movies for his patients in his waiting room. What, no free china dishes? r 1 i ? t ? The Jap navy, points out Grandpappy Jenkins, used to do its own hiding until the Allies gave it a better one. THESE WOMEN . . HER ONLY CHOICE Gregory D'AIcmIo "Sorry you don't like it, Ma'am. May I suggest a bond then, for a REAL foundation.** News and Comment From Raleigh CAPITAL LETTERS ^ By THOMPSON GREENWOOD OATS ? If you have ever done much farming, you know Fred Latham, breeder of fine corn and a long time member of the State Board of Agri culture. Mr. Latham is now 73 years of age, but he still keeps his 2,000-acre Hyde County farm top flight condition de spite labor troubles. This year he has a 20-acre field of oats, but these oats are not doing well at all. Some one called Mr. Latham's attention to this last week. "Well", said conser vationist Latham, "I really "planted them for my wild geese." The back of the Latham farm is bounded by the Pungo River. Down there last Friday afternoon 2,000 beautiful wild geese lazed about in the water, a flock of them now and then flopping over into the Latham oat field for a good feed. MEMBER ? Fred Latham is not now a member of the State Board of Agri culture. He probably would be, but Lindsay Warren, who is now U. S. Comptroller liked Ivan Bissette, of Grifton, a little better, stronger rec ommended Bissette to the appointers. Bissette, a big farmer and fertilizer salesman and Warren stalwart, is a good man. Latham will be recommended to Governor Cherry as a fine man for his State Board of Conservation and Development. Roy Hampton, of Ply mouth, is now the member from this section of the State. He will be in the State Senate, and will resign before he goes in. Hampton knows North Carolina conservationism as it now exists, but if there is a new man from the Roanoke area, Latham may be the one. GARDNER ? O. Max Gardner play ed a behind-the-scenes role in the Wake Forest-Meredith merger con troversy at Charlotte early in the week. He ... it is said . . . pulled some strong strings for the merger l?st week-end. If he did, chances are | he was for the merger for two rea sons. One, he was a merger man w Letter To The Editor Dear Editor: My friends and myself are very giad to get our home town paper, and know what is going on there; but what we don't like is all the girls get ting married. We are wondering if there are going to be any girls left for us when we return from the Pacific. Yours truly, T. G. TEDFORD Dear Seaman Tedford: We are very glad that you and your buddies enjoy the paper. Really tho I don't think that you should worry about there not being any girls left for you when you come home. You will find that the Ameri can girls are a pretty loyal bunch and we will be waiting when you fellows come home. Sincerely, HELEN HOOPER - NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS Dillard Wood^Vallejo, Cal. Mrs. Elba /B. Buchanan, Greens Creek. Pfc. Walter Cogdill, APO New York. Pavid F. Dills, Raleigh. James Brogden, Greens Creek. Mrs. W. M. Clement, Whittier, Rt. 1. S. Sgt. Thomas A. Barnes, APO New York. R. V. Brown, Cullowhee. Afden Coward, APO New York. Robert Eugene Coward, Cecil Field, when he was Governor, bringing State, the University, and Woman's College under one head; two, the Gardner-Webb College, old Boiling Springs school, is still under Baptist control, and the removal of Meredith fiom the scene would eventually add to the strength and prestige of Gard ner-Webb. This may seem a long r?nge idea. Well, it is. But Max Gardner is nothing, if not a long-run man. Smart as a horse trader's whip, too. STRIKE ? Wake Forest folks said after the Duke-Wake game that the Blue Devils made a lucky strike when tney halted the Deacons on ther five yard line in the early minutes of the football battle. If, they say, Wake had scored, the game would have been different. Well, mebbe so, mebbe so, but the difference was a good little school team against a good big school team. A losing team can do nothing right, while the winning outfit can do nothing wrong. That's football. It's hard to beat a lucky j strike, or a lucky streak. BACK ? Well, in about six weeks now Governor Broughton will move cut of the mansion and back to his old home across town. In will come Governor and Mrs. Cherry. They will have a merry old time of it rattling around in that house of ump teen gables on Blount street. There are around, three floors of it which they won't particularly need. Mrs. Cherry will have to spend purtnigh ?l] her tiipe asweeping and adusting of that place. NO. 1 ? To Governor Cherry will go license plate No. 1; and wherever it goes, the folks will say, "Lookie, there goes Governor Cherry". At least one State official refuses to get a low license. As Commissioner ol Agricul ture, Kerr Scott could have No. 15. But he won't have it, says It's silly, and his plate l^as just as large num- ; ber as yours, maybe larger. "I don't go in for such things", says Commis sioner Scott. Fla. Ray E. Cowardr-Ri^hmond, Va. Rev. Sterling Melton, Argura. G. E. Bumgarner, Sylva. Rev. T. F. Deitz,% Sylva, Rt. 1. L. C. Moore, Sylva. ?Mrs. J. A. ^loore, Whittier, Rt. 1. Capt. Samuel C. Allison, Manchest er, Tenn. Pvt. Vollie F. Lanning, APO San Francisco, Cal. Pvt. Volney U. Nicholson, St. Jo seph, Mo. W. B. Lusk, Whittier, Rt. 2. Mrs. J. H. Cline, Cullowhee. Dr. G. C. Nichols, Chester, S. C. Charlie Dean, Sylva. J. C. Shuler, Cowarts. Lewis Smith, Sylva. Dillard Coward, Sylva. Henry Bradley, Whttier. Boone Mathis, Argura. John Cathey, Whittier. Richard Sutton, Knoxville 15, Tenn. S. E. Varner, Brevard. M. M. Priceley, Speedwell. ' Percy Paikei, Ouldsboro, Mrs. Fred McKee, Webster. Edward * Bryson, Cullowhee. Joe Smith, Sylva. Roy L. Tritt, Norfolk 6, Va.. J. R. Ashe, Sylva. Mrs. Edna R. Case,' Jacksonville, Fla. r Charles E. Knight, San Francisco, Ca^ S. Sgt. Jennings Tucker,. APO New York. 1 Miss Hannah Cowan, Webster. i Alvin SuttQn, Berea, Ky^ This & That By HELEN A. HOOPER American boys are still laying down their lives in the war in the Pacific and the European theaters of war. Others are still interned in Japanese and German prison camps suffer ing more than we can visualize. Our big job at home now is to hasten the end of the war in order to spare more of our gallant fighters' lives and to free their imprisoned buddies, so that they may all return home. The cost must be great, after the European war is over the Japanese war will cost about four times as much, just in getting supplies to the front. It is up to each and everyone of us to help finance that cost by buying an other SI 00 War Bond right now. We can't refuse to help, any more than our men in uniform refuse to fight! NOTICE Having qualified as Executor of. the estate of John Lewis Phillips, de ceased, late of Jackson County, N. C.f inis is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said de signed, at his home, Sylva, N. C., RFD No. 1 on or before the first day of November, 1945, or this notice will bp pleaded in bar of tReir recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make settlement imme diately. - ~ This the 28th day of October, 1944. S. J. PHILLIPS, Executor of the estate of John Lewis Phillips, Deceased. Nov 1 8 15 22"29 Dec 6 NOTICE North Carolina Jackson County Having qualified as executor of the will of L. C. Gribble, deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them to be undersigned, at his home in Sylva 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 settlement with the undersigned. This October 19, 1944. T. LEE BUMGARNEK ? ? ? Executor of the will of L. C. Gribble Oct 25 Nov 1 8 15 22 29 I NOTICE 'North Carolina . Jackson County. V Having qualified as administratrix of the estate of Thomas O. Varner, deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them to the undersigned,, at her home in Whittier, N. C., within cne year from the date hereof or this notice will be plead in bar of re covery thereon. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment with the undersigned. This October 24, 1944. MRS. FAY VARNER, Adm. of the Estate of Thomas O. Varner. Oct 25 Nov 1 8 15 22 29 CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for the many acts of sympathy extended us dur ing our recent sorrow. We also wish to thank those who sent the beautiful floral offerings. MRS. r; H. MULL And Family AT FIRST M SIGN OF A Wm W "3*666 Cold PreDarations as directed N ? W MERCHANDISE Is Arriving Steadily Melvin Dingier, An Experienced Repairman, Will Check Your Watch Any . . . Wednesday or Friday DA VIS JEWELERS Kltz Theatre Building Phone tn
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