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THE SYLVA HERALD And Ruralite ^ Published By THE HCRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Main Street Phone 110 Sylva, North Carolina The County 8eat of Jackson County 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.?0 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 9, 1879, November 20, 1914. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, and all notices of entertainment for profit, will fee ckarged for at the rate of one cent per word. BIBLE THOUGHT , Ve are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost Ilia savour wherewith shall it be salted? Matt. 5:13. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, anow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing aa bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ? RU8KIN. * MYSELF ' I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know; | I want to be able as the days go by j Always to look myself straight in the eye, J I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, And hate myself for the things I've done. I want to go out with my head erect; I want to deserve all men's respect: But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and bluff and show. I never can fool myself, and so Whatever happens I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free. ? Author Unknown. V A FORWARD MOVEMENT f * f *?/ In keeping with the progressive and aggressive spirit of the business men and women of Jackson county our Chamber of Commerce is about to be reorganized and' become active in the work of building a greater Jackson county. For the. past year or two the commerce body has not functioned in the full sense of its scope of usual activi ties. This, however, does not mean that we have not been mindful of the work, but rather stresses the fact that most of our at tention has been in helping win the war as best- we can on the home front. The time that most of us have had outside of carrying on regular business under the handicap of manpower shortages, has been given to War Bond drives, War Fund drives, Red Cross, and other activities for financing the strug gle and bringing relief to our fighting men and their families. As the war goes into the final stage of victory in sight, we will do' no less toward helping bring this victory about, but we have also a further responsibility, and that is to see that Sylva and Jackson- county are better places for our returning heroes to live than when they went away to war. This is one thing that they are fighting for; we should not fail them. The Chamber of Com merce, through its progressive membership, can help greatly in bringing this about for boys as well as for our own good. Vote for the board of directors and then become an active member of the body. "ON TO TOKYO "?WITH PULPWOOD On entering Manila General Douglas MacArthur adopted a new motto, "On to Tokyo", as a sequel to his famous "I shall return". And every American thrilled at the thought that some day U. S. fighting men will march into the Japanese capital. But military experts say the hardest fighting in the Pacific war is ahead. War production at home will have to be maintain ed at a high peak even after the fall of Hitler to assure our victory over Japan. Thousands of tons of V-boxes, shell cases, bomb ringsy k-ration boxes, and blood plasma containers will be needed to supply our Pacific armies and navy as they advance on the Japanese home islands. And it will take thousands of cords of pulpwood to make these and many other military items available. For every cord of pulpwood we fall short of military needs ? if we should fail now ? some American fight- ' frig men -will suf fer or perhaps die. All of this does not mean that the war in Europe is over or that the need there has lessened. On the contrary the need has grown as American and Russian armies unite for what we hope is the final drive. What can we do to hasten the day of victory both in Europe and in the Pacific? We caa devpte every effort to getting out the pulpwood now to make sure that there will be no shortage of pulpwood war pro ducts at any time. INSIDE WASHINGTON Special to Ceneral Press WASHINGTON ? Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has given the first official word that the Russian winter offensive in the east and the Allied assaults in the west are in fact planned, co-ordinated offensives against Germany. Military observers for over a year have been unable to get any official confirmation that the three-power assault on Germany is, in fact, a combined military operation. At the big three meeting in Teheran, in December of 1943, it was announced that plans for a co-ordinated attack on Hitler's fortress had been worked out. Since that date, however, there has been no military activity to indicate that this co-ordination extended to the timing of military drives. Until barely a week ago, in fact, the view prevailed generally that Moscow was following the course of prosecuting an inde pendent military operation from the east. Some Washington sources privately voiced deep concern over the failure of Stalin to launch his winter offensive during the recent break-through on the western front. All doubt of the nature of the Allied operations seems to be dispelled by Stim son's remark at his most recent-press confer ence that "all these Soviet offensives reflect the constancy of the Russian effort, in co operation with that of the United States, Great Britain and other Allies, to bring about the complete defeat of Germany." THE WAR PRODUCTION BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT that the Renton, Wash., Boeing Aircraft plant will produce 200 Superfortressesa month by July is a hint of things to come for the Japanese as the war against Japan gains in intensity. Considerable emphasis is being given the production of huge bombers which will supplant smaller aircraft in the Pacific war. Army and War Production Board officials are particularly interested in the produc tion of B-29 and B-32 bombers. B-29 production figures have been a closely guarded secret but Army sources gave an inkling of the strength of initial striking forces over Tokyo when it was pub licly revealed that . . . Superfortresses took part in the first raid over the Japanese capital. War Production Boayd Chairman J. A. Krug parries all queries about overall pro duction by saying that "We don't want to give the enemy any information." While Boeing's Wichita, Kas., aircraft, plant has been the blue-ribbon bomber pro ducer, officials are constantly keeping a weather eye cocked at Omaha, Neb.; Renton, Wash., and Marietta, Ga., plants to make sure that manpower shortages, lack of ma terials and labor turnover are not permitted to hamper output. Clothes Rationing? Too Late! WHILE THE OFFICE OF PRICE AD MINISTRATION WISHES devoutly that clothes rationing had been initiated long ago when there were ample stocks on hand, the agency feels now that it is too late to start to ration clothing. Despite stock shortages, therefore, civilians can expect to buy with out resorting to ration coupons. The War Production Board and the Of fice of Price Administration are now con centrating on trying to discover some means of increasing civilian clothes production and cutting down clothing costs which have risen through the drop in production of less ex pensive clothing. To balance the discouragement caused by low clothing supplies the hosiery indus try predicts that nylon stockings will be more plentiful and better in quality after the war than they were at the time of Pearl Har bor. Furthermore, they insist that rayon hosiery will be more popular than before the j war because of the development of better,] high tenacity rayon yarn which will be turn ed into peace-time full-fashioned hose. Silk stockings are -not expected to be very popular in the post-war period. It is estimated that they will be worn by- only about 20 per cent of the women in#He Unit ed States after the downfall of <the Axis. News and Comment From Raleigh CAPITAL LETTERS By THOMPSON GREENWOOD OLEO ? After July 1 housewives may be able to purchase oleomar garine already colored, but this does not apply to hotels, cafes, and general eating places. Did you ever mix the coloring in oleomargarine Well, if you have, you will appreciate the move to al low colored margarine to be sold at the corner grocery. The dairymen and the peanut and' cotton and soybean oil folks had it out in the Legislature last week, and the dairymen ? after the House Agri cultural Committee gave them a slap. *n the face by voting favorably on the measure to allow colored margarine ? compromised, saying they would permit colored oleo for housewives. The oil oflks (oleo is made from varij ous kinds of oils, peanut, soybean, cot tonseed) accepted the compromise. Now it's butter vs. oleo. Take your choice. MEDICINE? ^Nothing will be done in this Legislature toward setting up an all-out rural health program in North Carolina. Plans originally call ed for a big hospital at Chapel Hill, broadened health services in the counties, State physicians, and so on. It won't be done. In the first place, Governor Cherry is not especially keen on the idea. You remember, he didn't touch on it very much in his inaugural address. In the second place, there isn't any money to get the program going. It is one thing to sit back and say let's no this and let's do that, but it's an other thing to find the money with which to do it. There is a feeling in the State administration that the Federal government is coming along with the rural health wprk.and that it is too big for North Carolina ? and that even if it were not too big there would be a duplication of services, if the U. S. is going to do it. Statements of this same flavor werev made in this corner when the Legis lature convened, but they are worth repeating. The activities of the State Board of Health will be enlarged, for this can be done without any great outlay of cash. But as for any big appropria tion for a "far-reaching health pro gram touching every hamlet from Manteo to Murphy", that's out. TEACHERS ? Any big raises above those recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission for teachers are out, too. Take it or leave it. There is a report that some teachers plan to resign at the end of the sixth month, or along there, if big raises are not forthcoming. Well, the late Rev. W. V. Brown, of Yadkin County, remarked one time that if he had ten million dollars, he would use it for the cause of the Lord. " He would take the money, he said, and hire as? many, ministers as he possibly could to quit preaching ? and he would then* give the rest of the money to those he couldn't hire to quit. Those who could be bought into resigning, he explained, were not fit to be preach ers anyhow. Chances are .that few good teachers will quit ? and those who do get out? well, good riddance. They will come straggling back after, the war. Here's hoping they don't get in again. $125? The monthly salary of an A-Grade teacher will be at least $125 basic pay? as com pared with $70 in 1933? but it will not be much more, i? any more. And remember this: GOV. CftDCKRY WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THE TEACHERS MORE? AND WILL, IF FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE. INSANE? Don't expect much money for work on asylums for the insane. Dfx Hill, for instance, about which I you have heard so much, HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SPEND THE $900, 000 SET UP FOR IT TWO YEARS AGO. Then what is the use of ap propriating more money? Much of the two-years-ago appropriation was for new biuldings, but the materials have not been available, and for labor, but who is going to work at an insane asylum when he can work anywhere else? ; ~ An insane asylum is no pretty tiling, nothing to wax poetic about, even if it is housed in a palace. NO ? If you have been keeping up I. with the Legislature, you have heard ' and read a great .deal about tearing.; up the Conservation and Development | setup, divorcing the Inland Fisheries ? and Game Division from its parent. I It won't be done. There isn't a chance in a million. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the pres ent setup apparently, but not enough to warrant a separation. MONEY ? The Advisory Budget Commission last fall recommended the expenditure during the next fis cal year $63,000,000 from the General Fund ($41,000,000 of this will go to j schools), and the amount expected to be taken into the GeneraL Fund for | the next fiscal year has been esti- j mated at about $65,000,000. The recommendations have been set within $2,000,000 of estimated ex- j pcnditures, Gov. Cherry says he won't permit spending more than is taken 1 in, so how can any big idealistic pro- j grams be undertaken ? unless we ! want to go in the hole again as we j did under Gardner's administration? ! FIGURES? Due to the fact that, much of this State's revenue comes \ fiom sales tax, intangibles, and in-; ccmes, North Carolina's income is f closely linked with the Nation's busi- j ness. We figure that we will nave , an income in this State of one-half i million dollars for every billion taken I in for the United States. Last year, | the Nation's income was around 150 fswillion, and this State's was 76 mil-, lion. .** The estimates for this year for the | Nation is around 130 bilHpn ? from ( January 1 through Deceml^r 31, the calendar year. But our S^ate oper ates on a fiscal year, which will be- \ gin July 1, 1945, and will gf> through June 30, 1946. So we can figure with the Nation from July 1 through De cember, but we don't kno\#fwhat our incomes will be from next January through next June, hence we have to | figure conservatively ? 65 ^ million seems about right. ' ? * | SO? So the State is not so well off as you would think. Those who come to the Legislature and do the most clamoring for money seem to the very ones who know least about it. STATE ? There is a move under way to make the heads of N. C. State College and Woman's College presi dents of their respective institutions. The measure was reported favor ably last week by the House Judiciary Committee. The bill is being fought | tooth and toenail by Josephus Danie^ and O. Max Gardner and other Great er University folks. It will not be passed as it is now written, and the Greater. University will go along much as it is for an other two years. t But the fact that the women and the N. C. State College folks had tne courage this time to suggest a move toward the breaking up of the Great er University shows a definite trend toward a disintegration of Gardner sponsored legislation? which has held tight since 1942. You will see some more signs of it as time goes by. FAVORS ? Agriculture Commis sioner Kerr Scott went on record last week as favoring- making Aubrey Williams head of the REA and Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce. Tney helped us in the depression days, says Scott, and we may need them again when the war stops. Lucky to B? Alive : flg. I Emm m ' BLOWN from the waist blister at a B-tt while oo a mission over Tokyo, Sgt. James B. Krantz, Hick* cry Point, Tenn., was pulled back Into the plane by crewmen after he had been suspended by one leg in his safety harness. He hung for fifteen minutes at an altitude of 29,000 feet. He's shown at a Pacific rear base hospital where be is re covering from froat bite. Army Air Forces photo. ( International ) FEBRUARY GARDEN NOTES (1945) The gardening season is here. Do t need to grow a garden in 1945? This question is capably answered by Sec retary Wickard who said: "Victory gardens are going to be^ just as important this year as they were last s year. Victory gardening* is more than a patriotic hobby, it is a wartime necessity and a vital part oi our food program. We should not forget that food is still a vital war weapon, and a powerful peace force That is why farm and city people alike are being asked to grow Vic tory gardens this year. "There is every reason to believe that food will be just as important a factor this year in winning the war as it was in 1944. To support offen sive military action on the global scale that our forces are fighting takes more food just as it takes mors ammunition. "Aside from the many practical reasons for continuing to grow Vic-* tory gardens this year, there is a lot of satisfaction in gardening. All of us, farm and city people alike, enjoy seeing things grow. And the time of greatest enjoyment comes when we sit down to the table to eat the foods we have grown. "So I hope that everybody who has access to a suitable plot of ground will grow a garden this year. "Though all of us can't dig for fox holes over there, we can still dig ? in our gardens over here ? for victory." ' All these statements were made betore the German Counter offensive. If they were made today, they would probably be more urgent. We also nfced to stress the growing of fruits, especially small fruits. Thousands of our farms have no home grown fruit. In most cases where fruit is not grown, it is not eaten and families are deprived of tasty and healthful food. JOHN H. HARRIS, Horticultural Extension Specialist STILES IN PACIFIC p S. 2-c Lloyd Stiles entered service July 14, 1944, and received his boot training at Camp ?Perry, Va. He is now serving somewhere in the South. Pacific area. Seaman Stiles is the son of Mr* and Mrs. John C. Stiles of Sylva. Before entering the service he was employed by the'Ford Bomber Plant ;n Detroit, Mich. Four hundred special corn demon strations: will be established in the Slate this year to show how com. may be greatly increased.
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