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THE SYLVA HERALD And Ruralite ^yblished ^y~T THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Main Street , - Phone 110 Sylva,' North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County : V J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers MRS. CAROL THOMPSON News Editor MRS. JOHN H. WILSON 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 nolices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and all notic>* of entertainment for profit, wiiK fee charged fot at the rhte of one cent per word. North Carolina PPESS ASSOCIATION \) Another Year Passing On Old 1944 will soon pass on into history, and in doing so will leave us a new, clean year to start all over again. What we do with it is up to each and every individual, and as a- nation. Right now we all hope to see the new year bring the war to an end, especially the war in Europe, remoteness, if nothing else, holds out little hope for the end of the war with the Japs any time soon. But if we all work hard, produce and buy war bonds as we must the end of the war will come much sooner. Probably not during 1945, because we let down too much in 1944. ^ With all of our mistakes in 1944 it was, on the whole, a good year. Jackson county people can feel proud that they have meas ured up to and answered every call with more than they were called on for. Three big war bond drives were conducted during the past twelve months with each going over the quotas set The Red Cross drive. United War Fund drive and all the other calls for mone^ and time have been responded to with full support and patriotism by our citizens. Our farmers have dorte a big job of food production, and in the meantime, have cut and hauled in much pulpwood to feed war industries with the supplies they need. The women and children have done their part in all this work.- They can be counted on to always do so. However, 1945 . is going to require the utmost from everyone if we do our share in winning this war. The pr.st few days has- brought to us the realization in plain truth that we are fighting a powerful, and cunning enemy. Not only in Europe, but in the Pacific also. American has taken on two of the most powerful military nations of the World. How can we expect^to^ win , with a push over? It isn't beingdone and it will not be done. It is going to take the com bined effort of our armies, coupled with, the utmost on the home front. Our fighting men are giving their all to win this war, nothing less than the best we have can in a r small way match what they are giving. We should resolve now to do everything we can next year to help our armies bring us victory just as soon as possible. We can begin to appreciate the kind of weather our boys are living through on the Western front these past few days. The sun has not shown out for almost a week, with rain and fog shrouding the mountain tops most of the time. However, it is not as cold with us as is reported from the battle front. The freeze of last week, however, softened ? the ground and with all the moisture the dirt roads are becoming almost impassable. Most farm work, log and pulpwood hauling is at a standstill. Nearly 400 persons in the nation met accidental death during the short Christmas holidays. The greater percent were from traffic accidents, some caused by icy high ways. ! With the great movement of the human, population of the nation over the week-end holiday, using trains, buses and* .private automobile, it is a wonder there were not more ^cidents. Over 200,000 people moved through the union* station in Washington within 48 fyotafs. I&any trains carried 1200 and 1500 passengers, buses were loaded just as long as one more eould be packed in ? we know for we were in the pack ? extra trains and buses were operated and still they were crowded. Freight trains and troop trains were moving over the main lines at the same time. Our hats are off to the railroads for doing such a tremendous job so well. Inside WASHINGTON Special to Central Press White Not Forceful Enough? BATTLE LINES ARE BEING DRAWN for the .out-all struggle to determine which faction will control the Republican party in the Senate. in the critical years ahead ? with President Roosevelt riding high on his fourth -term victory. The Senate Republican conference ? composed of all GOP members of the upper chamber ? will elect new leadership when the 79ih Congress convenes on Jan. 3. That means the end of the acting minority leader ship of miid-mannered Senator Wallace White of Maine, who succeeded the late great minority leader, Senator Charles Mc Nary. I White, whose forcefulness has been questioned even by his friends, may be suc ceeded by either Senator Robert A. Taft of /'Ohio or Senator Arthur . Vandenberg of ^Michigan. Taft, a Republican conservative and pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, wants the job". Vandenberg, likewise conservative and "pre-isolationist^'^is-iiot keen for it. But the backers of either meet stiff opposition from the growing ''internation alist" wing of the Republican party: the wing that roared with Wendell Willkie, and in the case of Senator Joseph H. Ball of Minnesota supported Mr. Roosevelt in a party bolt over foreign , policy. These "internationalists" feel hope for their party lies in "world mindedness." j This new group would like to see Senator i George D., Aiken of Vermont the minority leader, or his collegue from the Green Mountain State, Senator Warren R. Austin. Both are champions of the administration's foreign policy. The GOP "New Dealers" probably will not win. ' ' x PARTICIPANTS in the recent "bond fir?/ movement ^by Miami's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft corporation employes are requested by the treasury department to send in the serial numbers of the bonds they gleefully tossed into a blazing bonfire. The treasury wants to scratch the numbers off their books. A spokesman added: ! "It's .everyone's own business what he does with his bonds and it's his affair if he wants to use them for bonfires or wallpaper, but we don't encourage this sort of diver^ sion." - \ \ THE DEMONSTRATED WILLING NE^S of American industry to cooperate in a program of planned economy is perhaps the greatest single encouraging factor for prosperity in the postwar period. Business leaders have shown, as never before, their belief in the principles of a full employment , economy, based on high wages and low j taxes, with a resultant high income fori United States job-holders. Private organizations, sponsored by va rious leading business groups, have been busily mapping out ways and means of achieving a goal of from 55 to 60 million workers profitably employed, - A plan is under way to promote foreign trade to the point where the United States will export 10 billion dollars' worth of goods and services annually, and import 10 billions. Government experts hail this phase of the post-wan economic program as a healthy demonstration of American industry's reali zation and adoption of the economic theory that prosperity and a high standard of living in this nation depends upon similar condi tions in other lands. THAT JAP war prisoner who told his captors he wanted to become an honorary member of the British empire now knows what it feels like to be blackballed by 500, 000,000 people. f r ? A hunter in Pennsylvania shot a rabbit, then. dropped his gun, stunning another. Sounds like Commando tactics. ! ! ! -A new kind of putty will spread like tar and has the resiliency of rubber. Now, don't tell us we'll have tire punctures in that wonderful post-war world! t ! Within five years after the war, it is predicted, there will be at least 1,000,000 privately-owned planes in the United States alone. Keeping up with the Joneses will really mean UP. ! ! ! What, asks a reader, is the plural of scis sors? That sort of question, retorts the man at the next desk, is shear nonsense. ! ! ! So his hog could qualify for a livestock show prize a midwestern lad. walked eight pounds off it. Gosh, how many ration points would that be? THE OLD HOME TOWN ?*****? om? gy STANLEY t ' HMUJI H * News and Comment From Raleigh CAPITAL LETTERS By THOMPSON GREENWOOD WEST ? If nothing goes astray, you may expect a man from one of the mountain counties to succeed Oscar Pitts. There is a good chance, how ever, that his place will be filled by two men ? one from the west and the other from the central area. HARDEN ? John Harden, Gregg Cherry's secretary, did not work hard to get the palce. In fact, he would | have kept, -his position with the | Greensboro Daily News if the Cherry I folks hadn't pleaded with him in va I rious ways. John will make Gregg a good man. Ho bus a way of talking that makes you think he is telling you the truth straight from the sky. Harden is smart and has 22 years' ^experience working with newspapers. Although a solid sort of fellow, he has his other fjne qualities, too, as the following episode will show. ? Last summer at the press conven tion at High Point Harden proved himself a good sport and a man of great constitution. After working urtil 2 'o'clock inf the morning on his paper, he caught the mailman to High Point, had a steak and a session hot air with the. boys, and then ^y>ught the deliv^rytruck back to Greensboro at 5 o'clock so that he could catch a nap before interviewing some important guy at 10:30/ BILL ? Even tho the State passed an amendement giving the Legislature authority to set up a salary for the Lieutenant Governor, this will not i apply to L. Y. Ballentine if he is sworn in before the salary is raised. There 1 is a law to the effect that fciis salary can't be changed ? either decreased or increased ? after he takes office. So, the Legislature will convene on January 3 and pass a bill creating a salary of around $3,000 per year for ihe Lieutenant Governor. Ballentine will be sworn in the next day and everything will be all right. If you remember, the last thing Governor Hoey did before moving out in 1941 was to recommend salary raises for several State officials. This was done, they were sworn in, and everything was hunky dory. Our Lieutenant Governor should receive at least $3,000 per year. As it now stands, he gets only $100 more than an ordinary legislator ? or a total of $1,400 for his four years in office. That's awful, and further more, if the Governor asks his ass is , V tsnt tb attend a meeting in California, say, nfe has to pay his own expenses out of that $1,400. So you adopted a good amendment ? if it is not abused. DINNER ? Goverhor and Mrs. Broughton had the Raleigh scribes ? the rfbwspaper guys and gals ? around at the Mansion one evening last week for a feed. Everything served was from North Carolina, exefept the salt, pepper, sugar, and Jcoffee. They served oysters on the halfshell, quail oil toast, baked ham. sweet potatoes, .buked corn, pickled peaches, turnip salad, apple pie, ice cream, corn sticks ? and that's all. Mr. and Mrs. Cherry will have to get a move on to beat the Broughton as hosts. SILVER ? Speaking of dingers,' there is a campaign on here in Ra- I leigh to raise about $1,400 to buy a let of silver for Mr. and Mrs. Brough ton ? Oscar Pitts doesn't have a thing to do with it apparently. Harry McMullan, Attorney Gen eral, and Gurney Hood, ar^ running N show. Hood, appropriately enough, is the treasurer of the outfit. So if you want to contribute to the fund, send your money to' him. CUT ? John Umstead has started a campaign to cut useless expenses in the Legislature. Tbe only thing , wrong with his effort is that it comesJ about two years late^Tor^ifts^ano^, ] the House had 18 sergeants -at- arm s^ each paid ,$4.50 per day to do nexKtcK nothing. reports that 16 HousflT committees had full-time clerks, hut these committees received less than eight bills each during the entire session. Umstead, who estimates that $7,500 was wasted through petty political appointments, is very, very conser vative. OLD STUFF ? This thing of giving ex-legislators, nieces, nephews, and girl friends jobs during the Legisla ture is nothing new. Incidentally*^ 1923 seven newspapermen ^^Ivere clerks to committees, if memory serves correctly the old timer who reports it, and at one time a news paper fellow was clerk to two com mittees. ! | BONUS ? State employees are now receiving a bonus, but the last one came with the December payroll. So ? unless the Legislature gives new life to the bonus or makes it part of the basic salary, as is. likely, the white collar workers will have it hard in the future. RITZ THEATRE SYLVA, N. C. NIGHT SHOWS 7:00 and 9:00 P. M.? MATINEE Ssaturday? LATE SHOW Saturday 10:30? ADMIS SION, Children Under 12 Years, 12c; Adults, All Seats, 35c ? TAX, On Children's Pass 2c; Adults Pass 6c. THURS.-FRI., DEC. 28-29 I LOVE A SOLDIER PAULETTE GODDARD, SONNY TUFTS SATURDAY, DEC. 30 ? TRAIL TO GUNSIGHT JOHNNY MACK BROWN Late Show 10:30 ? MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM A. G WYNNE, D. COOK LETTER TO THE HERALB The following is a letter we have received from Cpl. Cary R. Snyder, son of Rev. and Mrs. George Snyder, of Beta. Cpl. Snyder is stationed at present in Nashville, Tenn. The let ter did not arrive in time for last week's issue but we feel its message ir timely enough to run at this time. The Sylva Herald, Sylva, N. C. Dear Sirs: We have nearly reached our third Christmas seasop since our plunge into World War II. Isn't it a shame that to celebrate the birth of One so precious we have to have such chaos and life-taking troubles so show Him how we truly feel. I think that everyone of us want this war over and will do anything to get it over. All we must do is draw the most powerful weapon man has ever known. We have one so powerful that nothing can prevail against it. Let's start the New Year off with it and see what it will do since we have tried everything else and it has fail ed. All one has to do is fall on his knees and lift his eyes to Him and cpen our hearts to Him. Just pray and it will work. Try it. I'd love to send the best of Christ | % mas Joys to all of our friends at home or wherever they are. May the ] coming year bring the victpries re ! quired for tJhe return of all the loved ones who are striving for those vic tories in many foreign places on the Globe. ^-May God bless and protect you till He's ready to take us home forever. I realize that he has taken some whom weMpved and our loss Ik,, Heaven's gain, iipt's plan and strive to see them in a iWA happy reunion up there. * Maybe, this seems Vather remote from its origin, but vbu Joes who j will see this know hmv it is and and what I mean. I hope others will see ' tnrought it, too. Sincerely, CPL. CARY R. SNYDER CLASSIFIED fttrERTISING FOR QUICK RESULTS ' CARDBOARD in six colors, 22 by | 28 inches, only 5 cents a sheet at I The Herald Office. LEGAL BLANKS of every descrip tion on sale at The Herald. ! 4$$R RENT ? STEAM HEATED | ROOMS. WEEKLY RATES. SYL |\ A HOTEL. | Oct 4-tf tHARM-KURL PERMANENT AwAVE 59c Devour own permanent with Charm jKurkkit. Easy to do, absolutely | harmless. Requires no beat, elec jtncitjf or machines. Safe for every | type o*?hair. Praised by millons in jcludimg June Lang, glamorous movie I star./ EAGLE STORES COMPANY Nc\f 8 to Jan 10. "iyV taxi fare from Sylva to Franklin, / Waynesville, Bryson City or Glen A'ille is $5.00. Jack Hall. Dec 6-27 ? $50u Reward for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the person that placed two pints of whis key in my car on Friday night, Nov. 3rd. Jack Hall. Dec 6-27 I WANTED ? Boxwood Prunings. Get | my prices before you sell. O. V. Cagle, Greens Creek, N. C. Oct 18tf f FOUND ? Diamond ring, Saturday | in Sylva. Owner may have by giv ing full description and paying for this ad. J. B. Sutton. DON'T BE A "BAREFOOT BOY!" IS Bring your worn shoes in to us for new soles, heels and complete rejuvena tion. BLUE RIBBON SHOE SHOP
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