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
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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.
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THIS IS ARMY WEEK
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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
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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."
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LOOKING BACKWARD
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From the Fllee of The Rurallte
of 1& years ago
The State Board of fclections has
named Aaron Hooper, Dan Moore
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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.
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look and fit as "good as new."
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