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THE SYLVA 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 ilRS. CAROL THOMPSON ICRS. JOHN H. WILSON .... Publishers ... News Editor 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 a. 1879, November 20, 1914. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and all notices of entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. ? ? r .^North Carolina XPBESS ASSOCIATION Vl The Two Givers %Vho little gives, knows not the joy of giving; His shrunken soul the bliss of heaven foregoes For earthly gain; and daily harder grows His task ? thtTtask of QlVIWfl. Who gives^Vis all, and gives with spirit willing ? Yea, 0' ves himself, and mourns "a gift so slight," Shall find in sacrifice supreme delight, A heavenly joy the emptied vessel filling. ? George Henry Hubbard. $93,000 To Go General Eisenhower has issued a call for more ammunition and other material to use in his winter offensive against Germany. This, with the ever increasing casualty list of our own Jackson county boys, means that we on the home-front must put every dollar possible into war bonds in order to make certain that our fighting men lack for noth ing ? -.that they have all of the guns, shells, tanks and other war waging supplies they need, and also to hasten the end of the war and the saving of many lives. Jackson counterpart in furnishing the money for this purpose is $216,000.00 for cur 6th War Loan. To date we have bought $123,000.00 in these bonds. We have yet $93,000.00 more to buy. The 6th War Loan ends on the 16th and we will have to waste no time in buying that extra $100.00 bond if our quota is met. This county has always gone over its quotas in all calls for bonds and other war relief money. We don't be lieve our people will be satisfied unless this bond drive is met or over-purchased It is easy to buy bonds ... It is not easy to suffer and die on the battlefields. Pulpwood Wood Saves Lives Too Altftaaigh pulpwood makes most of the powder now being used to blast paths for our fighting forces to Berlin and Tokyo, pulp wood also performs many missions of mercy. Pulpwood can claim partial credit for the remarkably high covery of our wounded men. Out of each 100 GIs wounded in this war, only three die. That is less than one third of the death rate in World War I. Prompt treatment on the field or imme diately behind the lines is mainly reponsible far t fee saving of these precious 97 out of 100 lives. And this prompt treatment is made possible by pulpwood. Blood plasma, which has worked mir acles on every front, is packaged in paper made of pulpwodd. Every fighting man carries a package of paper-protected sulfa drugs and tablets into battle. A newly-de veloped surgical gauge, made of pulpwood, has stopped the blood flow of many a GI until he could obtain a doctor's care. All bandages, surgical dressings, surgi cal instruments, and first aid dressings are delivered to field stations in perfect condi tion because of special paper packing. Evert ambulances are paper-protected for over seas shipment. It takes fifty-two pounds of paper to wrap each one. . S& when you aire trying to decide wheth er or not to cutsfrulpwood' remembbr some boyTs life may^ depend on your decision. THOSE NAZIS are wasting their time developing robot bombs. If they had real foresight they'd be busy trying to invent a " space ship for the big getaway attempt. ! ! ! Rumors have Hitler and his intuition in Tokyo. Those Japs certainly seem to have run clean out of luck. Inside WASHINGTON J. s. Peace - Time Army Old Age Tax to Double Of At Least 500.000? On Jan. 1, Unless Special to Central Press WASHINGTON ? Rep. Andrew J. May (D) of Kentucky,' chairman of the House military affairs committee, believes that the nation's peace-time Army probably will con sist of 500,000 to 600,000 men. Army Now Comprises 8,000,000 This would be almost double our pre war Army, which numbered 302, 968 enlisted men and 23,192 officers on Aug. 31, 1940 ? its lowest point since World War 1. The Army now consists of approximately eight million men, while the Navy, according to Chairman David I. Walsh (D.) of Massa chusetts of the Senate naval affairs commit tee, has about three and a half million of ficers and meYi. May said he did not know how large a Navy personnel was being planned for after the war but that presumably it would be considerably larger than its previous peace time strength. MORE THAN 60 MILLION WORKERS should get ready for another? t&x increase Jan. 1 ? an automatic doubling of the old age pension payroll tax which, like the in come withholding levy, is 'deducted from pay checks. # A movement has been started in Con gress by Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R.) of Michigan to freeze the tax at present rates. But while Vandenberg has been successful in forcing through a tax-freeze provision in each of the last three years, his luck is in dan ger of running out this time. ^ The reason is that there is no revenue bill from the House on which to fasten a tax-freeze provision this year. And if one does come along, it may be an unimportant measure which President Roosevelt would not hesitate to veto. | In past years, Vandenberg has succeed ed in nailing tax-freeze riders on bills which Mr. Roosevelt could not well veto. Unless the tax is frozen at the present level, it will automatically become 2 per cent on em ployes and two per cent on employers on Jan. 1. It is now 1 per cent on each. ONE OF THE WAR'S EXPERIMENTS ? the intense effort to develop wooden air planes ? has fizzled as far as the Army is concerned. The war department just re-1 cently cancelled the last of its contracts fori plywood aircraft, although wood construc tion still is being used in gliders which are considered expendable. The Army had no -success with the ply wood planes. Its ibmplaint was that to make them structurally safe, the planes had to be strengthened here and there and "beefed up" to the point where they were overweight. Then, too, the surplus of light metals sounded the death knell for wooden military aircraft. One of the prime reasons for the Army's experimentation was the shortage of alumninum early inlhe war. WITH CIGARET RATIONING PRO POSALS tossed overboard by OPA Chief Chester Bowles and the War Food Adminis tration, biggest problem facing smokers to day is "When can we expect some popular brands?" There is plenty of tobacco to make more cigarets but manufacturers complain of labor shortages and lack of heavy cardboard ship ping containers. Meanwhile, because the .producers can not pay higher wages, their plant machines * stand idle and the public continues to face the biggest cigaret short age in history. Cigaret Shortage Continues Trade sources assert that until the man power situation is eased, the nation-wide pinch on smokes will continue ? despite well stocked tobacco warehouses and the desire of the manufacturers to boost production. Some women smokers are changing over to small briar pipes for their nicotine diver sion while others are "rolling their own " And cigarets, which retail normally from 14 to 18 cents a pack, are. bringing high prem iums in the black market channels, Chicago reports show them selling for 70 to 75 cents with like prices. " I ! t ? m ? That 15-year-old Canadian boy occused of swiping a locomotive probably had a tough time trying to find a mountain behind which to hide it. t f i ? ? ? Allied troops have captured Mussolini's favorite mountain ? news item. What was the name of the peak ? "Benito's Bluff"? Open Forum | To The County Board of Education of Jackson County. , Gentlemen: ^ We, the people of Upper Scott s Creek, would like to know why we Can t get better school bus service. There is no schedule whatever. The bus runs anywhere from 7:30 to 11:00 o'clock. The children back off the main highway have to leave home thirty minutes to an hour before day iight to be sure to catch the bus and some times dark as pitch and then sometimes have to stand in the rain and colql for two or three hours. One day the bus carried them down to school and did not return for them so they sent part of them home on the colored school bus and did not tell some of them they were to go on said bus and left them there to get heme anyway they could, and a dis tance of 10 miles for some of them. And as for the seventh grade of the Willets school they were just thrown to the wind this year. They would not have them at Sylva, and Willets could not take care~of'them so after Using quite a bit of school we got them in at Addie and part of the time they have no transportation and they have to walk up to five miles, hitch hike, ride the passenger bus and pay lor. it or stay at home, yet we say we have an efficient school system. It seems that some .pf .our school authorities thinft^hat it doesn't make any difference whether the children from the backwoods have the ad vantages of school that they are en titled to. Some of the greatest men of history have come from the back woods and the slums of the cities and they should have the same oppor tunity that their city brothers and i sisters have. Willets once had a four-teacher school ancf for lack of interest and srii'orcement of attendance laws the school went down and the teacnihg staff was cut to three teachers and Ihe school still went down and the nigh school bus 'began picking up children and carrying them to other schools which further cut the enroll ment; so off comes another teacher, Leaving only two teachers to handle seven grades, so the seventh grade became orphans and were literally pitched out the window, to root hog or die. Of course they were two little and insignificant to matter to seme people. So aXfer trying for some time to find a place the Addie school was kind enough to take them in but they have to get there anyway they can. It seems to me that since the school authorities have had since last May to make repairs for school buses and replace those worn out that there cculd have been some system worked out to get the children to school with out them having, to stand out in the cold and rain for hours. In the history of the Sylva High school. I had a daughter who went from Willets for four years and who wasn't absent a single day. Just how come? Well, we had people at the head of the schools that were inter ested in the welfare of the children and not just interested in pay day. Now, honorable board of educa tion, I want to see you get busy and get something done so that children will not have to hang around the highways in the cold for hours through these cold winter months, while your ?well-paid superintendent sits by in a cozy, warm room and draws his salary off the people. And' gentlemen, if you can't do anything, please tell us why and who Is to blame. I am, Yours truly, C. P. DIELARD. BARKER'S GREEK NEWS Mrs. Bessie Beek and daughter, Naomi, spent the week-end with Mrs. Beek's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Davis. Mrs. Walter Brooks and children were the guests of Mrs. Joe Messer and Miss Pauline Bradley Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Dillard Brooks and daughter, Myrtle, and granddaughter, Gayle Brooks, spent Sunday with Mr. T. B. Ginter and family. Mr. Frank Ginter was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradley Sunday. Mr. Ernest Bradley, who... is em ployed at Gastortfai returned Wed nesday after spending a few days here with his family. ? The Cottage Prayer service was held at Mr. and Mrs. James Messer's Sunday afternoon. Mr. Nelson Davis spent a few days at Pigeon River visiting Mr. and Mrs. Berton Hensley. Mrs. Nellie Bradley was the guest of Mrs. Lee Bradley Wednesday. The wrapper leaves of the cabbage are higher in vitamins than the head, ?ay Extension Service nutritionists. STATE COLLEGE HINTS TO FARM HOMEMAKERS By RUTH CURRENT N. C. 8tate College Many a good wash lady slights the job of rinsing and. then wonders why tne clothes don't look clean. Soap left in fabric may make it dingy, yel low or even brownish in streaks and may eventually weaken the fibers. Ideal for rinsing is an abundant supply of hot soft water. Home man agement specialists in tests have shown that rinse water about as hot as the wash water removes soap and loosens dirt most easily. Hot water has the advantage of softening fabric, opening the weave, and dissolving soap quickly. When clothes go from a hot wash water to a cold rinse, the fabric contracts and -may actually hold in some soap and dirt. Even lukewarm water is better for rinsing than cold water. Rinse until the water shows no trace of soapiness. A good kettle or pan put out of .service by food scorched on the bottom, can be a kitchen catastrophe in these kettle-short times. Though no treatment will make a badly burn ed pan like new again, many a pan that looks hopeless may be restored to use if proper care is taken iVi cleaning. First, let the pan cool gradually. Never pour cold water into a hot, dry pan. This is likely to make the metal buckle and leave an unsteady pan. When the pan has cooled, fill it half full of cold water and heat the water gradually to boiling. Baking soda added to the water may' help soften the burned material. After heating, scrape out loosened material, add more water to the pan, and repeat the heating process as long as necessary. PEACE Peace in our time, O Lord, To all the peoples ? Peace! Peace surely based upon Thy will And built upon righteousness. Thy power alone can break The fetters that enchain The sorely strickerr soul of life, And make it live again. Too long mistrust and fear Have held our souls in thrall; Sweep through the earth, keen breath of heaven, And sound a nobler call! Come, as Thou didst of old, In love so great that men Shall cast aside all other gods And turn to Thee again! Oh, shall we never learn The truth all time has taught ? That without God as architect ? Our building comes to naught? Lord, help us, and inspire Our hearts and lives, that we May build, with all Thy won rous gifts, A kingdom meet for Thee! Peace in our time, O Lord, Tc, all the peoples ? Peace! Peace that shall crown a glad new world With Thy High Sovereignties, O Living Christ, who still Dost all our burdens share, Come now and reign within the hearts Of all men everywhere! * ,j? * * ? John Oxenham.. pie for table tennis, Chinese check el's, and popcorn parties provides a wholesome atmosphere for those who might otherwise roam the streets. Protect wildlife as a forest asset. A few good den trees made for better squirrel shooting. ? ? TAKEN NOW FOR CHRISTMAS GIVING Nothing is more cherished than a photograph of some one you love. Make an appointment r today to give us plenty of time to make a hand some natural portrait. You'll be amazed and ? pleased with the results of our expert work. DONNAHOE STUDIO SYLVA, N. C.
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