THE SYLVA HERALD Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, IsO.tn Carolina* The County Seat of Jackson County J. A. GRAY and J. ,\T. BIRD Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided un^ler the Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. In Jackson County /. $2.00 Six M.I:i Jackson County 1.25 One Ye u\ Ossicle Ja<..k.-><>n County 2.^0 Six Months. Oats;de J..jkson County 1.50 All Sub-captions Payable In Advance N firt <1 (y I fi F s s >oc: \ ?> THIS IS ARMY WEEK * A growing American responsibility in a postwar world, desperately in need of security and peace highlights the stress placed by the nation as it observes Army Week, this week, April 6-12^As we look back on a world that has struggled through two terrible wars within a gen eration, we realize that war has sapped this nation as other nations ol' much of its greatness and to have a third world war would be a lethal stroke. So a great ful nation dedicates Army Week this year to the' soldiers of two world wars. To those who made the supreme sacrifice we pause to honor, and to those who of fered their live#, yet were fortunate enough to return home, we are grateful for their patriotism, their courage, and service. 4>A Strong America is a Peaceful Amer ica" is an appropriate theme, we think, as our new peacetime army builds itself into a great unit for protection of this country. Coming on the heels of the end ing of the draft, "army week" is offering great inducements to young men to join the ranks to help keep up the 40,000 new - recruits needed each month for our na tion's security. These peacetime soldiers can do mueh to help build the peace for which two bitter wars were fought. Yes, let's keep America strong by see ing to it that our Army, Navy, Air Corps, and Marine corps, are kept up to strength. If we keep our forces strong we can re main a peaceful nation. MORE FOOD?LOWER PRICES The North Carolina Department of Ag riculture reports that North Carolina crops will be larger -this year, that the acreage will be some three per cent larger than for 1946 and will be near the peak level of 1942-44, when the nation was calling on its farmers to produce more food for the armed forces as well as civil ians.. Of course the yield will be con trolled by weather conditions. If we have a good growing season, big crops at lower prices can be expected. When the farm er's income is cut it has a noticeable effect on the general economic condition of the ^country. While the consumer is always anxious to buy his food as cheaply as pos sible he must remember that his salary is based on general conditions and if the farmer receives less for his crops then he {ias less money to spend in the depart ment store, the drug store and other places, and this will tend to weaken the buying power of the entire community. The world needs much of America's food but the trouble is it isn't able to pay for it. If we ship our surplus food over seas it will probably go as a gift, with our government having to bear the expenses which will in turn demand more taxes and this will be of little help in holding farm prices up. The farmer is usually the one to be caught first when a decline comes. ?? mSFASF.?'li>ri>^ (Submitted by the District Health Dept.) By Howard Whitman in Woman's Home # Companion Filth in the restaurants of America has reached the proportions of a national plague. It is an unpleasant, even disgust ing subject to write about. Like you, I would rather look away. But that may be one reason the situation is as bad as it is. We look away at our peril. More than twenty-five per cent of all the food produced in the United States is eaten in restaurants. Sixty-five million . people eat at least one meal a day in pub lic places. They have a right to expect freedom from disease. And even the sim ple soul who says, "We all eat a peck of dirt before we die; why worry?" would probably wince at the thought of a rat scampering through the flour bin. But it is more than squeamishness. More than aestetics. It is a matter of ill ness and death, of withering epidemics.! The United States Public Health Service' solemnly warns, "The amount of disease spread in restaurants is increasing . . . I ranging in seriousness from sickness of a few hours to sickness ending in death. Latest f,vv.res show 23,765 reported cases of foou-borne disease throughout the nation in twelve months?389 separ ate outbreaks and epidemics affecting from a few to several thousand people. Every day at least one community in the land is stricken, the Public Health Serv ice reports, by "disease dished up at ten dollars a plate or hidden in a ten-cent, sandwich." I've stressed the word "reported" above because it indicates a gross understate-, "mvrrrri fci ftfrof frei; \ five per cent of the disease caused by food filth actually are reported. Food assault and murder are among the most difficult crimes to trace. The article goes on to cite city after city where disease has broken out from food eaten in public places after rats.; cockroaches, flies, bugs, weevils, disease ; carrying employes and filth from the dish i water had contaminated the food. Some owners and managers, of public eating places are as careful as they can be and try to keep their food and service free from dirt and disease, but there are too few of this .type, the other thousands are careless and have little regard for the safety of the public health. It is this type of restaurant and other food handling op erator that the North Carolina State Board of Health is going after. The pub lic can be of great help to the Board in re porting conditions of the public eating places as the inspectors have more than they can do to keep a close check on these places. NEW WORLD FOR A NICKEL With a nickel clutched in their respec tive fists, two small New Yorkers went for a subway ride the other day. At least, Anthony (aged nine) and Marion (aged seven) thought it was a subway train they boarded. But as the train sped south through New Jersey, Anthony had "kind of a hunch we weren't going right." And when the Congressional Limited finally ground to a stop in Philadelphia and two bewild ered children were handed over to the police, Anthony's hunch was proved right. Of course, there was the aftermath of telephone calls and frantic parents, of fetchings and beratings and tears, but think of the wonder of finding oneself in an unsuspected new world for the price of a subway ride! A moralist might point out that a hu man race still close to infancy has board %/ ed the Atomic Express, bound for far and unknown destinations, when all it ex pected was a nickel ride in the familiar I environs of power politics. But we should j like to point out that, after ail, our two small New Yorkers were carried out of the dark labyrinth of their native city's underground to Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. Humanity will hardly blunder acci dentally into universal peace. But with faith as small as Anthony's nickel or a grain of mustard seed, it can sometimes catch an adventurous glimpse of a great new world to grow up to.?Christian Science Monitor YOU RE TELLING ME! Snapshots, we read, can now be de veloped in 50 seconds. However, it's a good wager that 99 per cent of 'em won't be worth even that little trouble. In demanding of the Big Four confer ence control of Germany's No. 1 indus trial region, France seems to have struck a Saar note. Announcing-that Greenland is not for sale, Denmark, apparently, plans to con tinue to keep that territory on ice. A New York restaurant, we hear, will specialize in soft, dreamy music and thick, juicy steaks. It's our guess the diners will be so busy they won't know what kind of music is being played. As he plied his snow shovel on March 21, Grandpappy Jenkins was heard to mutter the first day of spring should be called the infernal?no vernal?equinox. A cable from Tokyo says many Japs there wore green lapel ribbons on St. Patrick's Day. What are they trying to do, start another war? "FELLOW TRAVELERS" TTSk* Kv??rvilav i'oiuisellm ? %/ 3y RLV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. Impu! 's ch; be hishly danger ous. T; ty should bo crrefully we gncd, ii )? ). iLle before being! acted upon. The na.i.m was re- | cen'.ly shocked over * * t n e impulse slaying" in Alb: ny, New York of eight-year-cld Robert VWhrm r . He was murdered by lourteen-year oid Carl De Flumer. who confessed to District Attorney Julian B. Er way that he had strangled "Bob tbie" with a clothesline by hang ing. lie said that he did it by reason of . i! "impulse." M/ch of our .iuvenile delinquen cy is done ir. obedience to a sud den impulse to do something excit ing. A numuer ol these young peo ple with whose cases I have had ^connection, have admitted this, to me. We adul\s ir we are honest, can recall having had these impulres in our youthful days, and have yielded to some of them much to our -sorrow and regret. Unfortu nately, some of us have convenient memories, and fail to recall them. The modern diet of movie, radio and comic magazine thrillers has much to do with whipping up this desire for excitement in our chil dren. It challenges us to see that their time is occupied usefully and enjoyably, so that they do not fall victims to strange impulses. It also Former Non-Coms May Re-enlist With Rank Up To Tech. Sergeant 1st Lt. Thomas H. Suydam, Com manding Officer of the Asheville I Sub-Station of the Army Recruit ing Service announced today that there hv.s been a change in the pro visions governing the enlistment of former non-commissioned offi cers in grades based on their skill1 and experience. The change is a' provision whereby certain of these 1 former non-coms may enlist in | grades up to and including Tech- | nical Sergeant. Up until this time,! the highest grade a man could ob- ' tain under these provisions was Staff Sergeant. The grade in which a man will be enlisted will be based upon his skill and experience in the military occupational specialty he was trained in during his prior service. In order to take advantage of this reminds us as parents to see that cur homes are places to which our ( children like to come with their friends, and that we are there to greet thein. Many a boy or girl | wanders because the home is I empty. Father and mother gone. Where? That's one for you" to I answer. Life is a struggle between good / and evil. Impulses to do evil car ry on over into maturity. We are all subject to them in every age. But every impulse should be ex amined in the light of reason and' possible consequences. Usually we have time to do this, if we take it. The ways of God are not usually hasty. God cannot be hurried in His plans. How we need to re member that in our impatience. We have all read the advertising slogan, "Obey"that impulse." Be fore we follow it, we must be sure that the impulse is for good, will not violate the laws of God and man, will not injure ourselves nor others. From my own experience, I? have made more errors in haste than from any other cause. Many of you have done likewise. Before we obey those impulses which so often come upon us with great suddenness, it is the better part of wisdom to pause for thought and ask, what will be the conse quences of this act? offer the man must have been hon- I orably discharged on or after May ( 12, 1945 and meet all requirements , for enlistment in the Army. No man will be enlisted in a grade higher I than that held at the time he was discharged. The same provisions hold true in cases of former non-commissioned or petty officers of the Marines, CoaSv Guard and Navy. Lt. Suydam urges all men in terested in this offer to contact the local Recruiting Station located at Post Office Building, Asheville, for full particulars. It is not known how long this offer will be open, so prompt action should be taken by those interested. National 4-H Club Sunday will i be observed on May 25, with em phasis being placed on' the spiritual implications of the theme: "Work ing. Together For a Better Home and World Community." SCOH'S SCRAP BOOK by r. J. SCOTT PoPE made fifl FlNESf RIFLE BA.ftR.LLS for MORE <KAH K QUARTER. Of , a CtMfURY ? *tiMLY crry,? ( "/">V <s?BS?r) 'frtE Corn Borer MAS TrtlRfEEM A?<lVE PARAsKtS wtfa< ARt^lE DARK SPALLS IK <he milky way? ILOUDS oF ?oSMK ma?IR, OUST AMD FoR'ftE mosaics COVERING <?4e. dome of <Mt ?0NVtfc<0 OEL carmen hear MEXldO CKV? MAS RE<AIK0 ffs LUS<ER for 4mree amp OKE-HM.F C*m<URIES LOOKING BACKWARD ?v - ? From the Fllee of The Rurallte of 1& years ago The State Board of fclections has named Aaron Hooper, Dan Moore <*? and H. E. Monteith as members of the board of elections for Jack son county to serve both in the June primary and in the general election next November. Dan Tcmpkins was reelected' president of the Sy-lva Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting of the directors last Tuesday. Others to serve with him are John B. Ensley, vice-president; W. D. Warren treasurer, anti A. J. Dills was reelected secretary. #Hon. J. C. B. Eringhaus, candi date for the Democratic nominee courthouse* in Sylva on Thursday, April 15. At the last meeting of the Par ent Teacher association for this school year the officers for next year were named as follows: Mrs. D. M. Hall, president; Mrs. W. C. Reed, vice-pres.dent; Mrs. John Wilson, treasurer; Miss Sue Alli son, secretary and Mrs. J. F. Freeze, historian. Jackson County students who have won honors at W.C.T.C. dur ing the past quarter are Paul-Bu chanan, president of the Student Body, who has charge of all ten nis classes, Miss Willa Mae* Dills, president of the S'nubert Glee club and Guy Sutton, secretary of the Science club. Misses Nimmo Geisler and Winonah Askey spent last week end in Wayr.esville with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henrv. Mrs. Leon Picklesimer has re turned from spending two weeks in Waynesville with her mother, Mrs. G. W. Turpin. A CALL TO PEAYER "If my people, which are called I by name, shall humble themselves, I and pray, and seek my face, and ' turn from their wicked way** then will 1 hear from heaven, and will, I forgive their sin, and will heal I their land."?II Chonicles 7: 14 On Tuesday the 15th day of April at 8:00 p. m. a special prayer serv ice has been called, by the Wesleyan i Methodist Church at Glenville, N. i C. for the purpose of asking God rto intervene in our behalf against the beer, wine and whiskey that is ^flooding our land, and is ruining so many of our young people. We extend an invitation to all the people that lose God and the right, and bel.eves that God still answers prryer. to meet with us. And, if impossible to meet with us,' | call a special prayer service in ' your own Church or home. "There is power in united praying."?Matt. 'Signed: H. M. Moody. S. S. Supt. Mrs. E. E. Monteith, Sec. Bertha E. Stamey, Pastor Pfc. Raymond Green Visits Parents Pfc. Raymond C. Green, arrived last Friday from Merock Field, Calif, for a short visit with ^iis parents, .,Mr. and Mrs. Walter Green at Green's Creek. Pfc. Green left Monday to report to Hamilton Field, California. He expects to leave in a few days for Alaska, where he will serve with the Air Corps as supply man. Pfc. Green volunteered for serv ice in February, 1946. Sweet Potato Plants Postpaid Nancy Hall ? Porto Rican 200 - $1 500 -31.75 1.000 - $3 Pete Taylor Gleason, Tenn. Leave JLt TO U.S! ? When we re-sole your shoes?and do a complete relasting job ? they look and fit as "good as new." BLUE RIBBON SHOE SHOP Phone 114 . Sylva, N. C. Si - iiiiiIIM? IITTr? ?wiv Planning to go T 6IT THERE, oa ?h'? ???'? good/year TIRES Think of all those placet you've planned to go ? all tho? ilahto TQtt want to . addup to a lot of miles. You'll need the extra miles and extra safety you get with Goodyears. Extra mileage and extra safety built into every Goodyear tire by balanced construction. OIQ A fl Why not see us & I Di IU and ao Good Year to go larthotT^ c?h Pric * 600 x 16 Plus Tax (.OOD - YI ,\k) I IRIS CANNON BROTHERS Goodyear Store 8YLVA, N. C.

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