THE SYLVA HERALD
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BIBLE THOUGHT
By h umility and the fear of the Lord are riches,
and honour, and life.?Proverbs 22:4-.
Grant us, dear Lord, from evil ways
True absolution and release;
And bless us more in past days
With purity and inward peace.
Do more than pardon; give us joy,
Sweet fear and sober liberty,
And simple hearts without alloy,
That only long to be like Thee.
OUR INHERITANCE
Before the next issue of The Herald we
will have celebrated the 160th anniver
sary of the adoption of the Constitution
of the United States?September 17,
1787. Our Constitution is a sacred docu
ment wherein the truly democratic pre
cepts on which this great nation was
built and has thrived. The greatest of
all documents, the Constitution of the
United States, conceived in Christianity
and brotherly love by our forefathers,
gave birth to a true democracy with vis
ion ofveternal worth and complete free
dom.
On this, the 160th anniversary of the
adoption of this document which will
live on as we live by it, let us thank God
for the men who conceived it and the
spirit that led them in the penning of a
document ... in order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general Welfare, and secure the Bless
ings of Liberty, to ourselves and our
Posterity . . . ''Now, more than at any
time in our history, when some nations
are looking to us for help?others with
envy and fault-finding?let us be more
zealous in our rights as Americans and
in unselfish interest in those who need
our help.
HUNGER IN AMERICA
The veterans are streaming back to
college this fall?probably a 10 per cent
increase over the all-time high of last
April. What is taking them there, beside
Government money? What do they
want?
In many, probably in most, cases they
want training for jobs, economic advan
tage in a society where they fear that
boom may be followed by disastrous de
pression. In a few cases they seek escape,
a temporary snatching at the elusive
pleasures of yesterday.
But in some cases?and perhaps un
consciously in nearly all?they are driven
there by hunger. Not physical hunger,
but hunger for assurance, for meaning,
for security?spiritual as well as eco
nomic.
It may possible for their elders to
sink back on complacent assumptions,
satisfied that all would be well if it were
not for the ^arch-enemy Russia. It is not
possible for most of this uprooted genera
tion to take so self-satisfied a view. They
want the answers, and they're pretty sure
their parents don't have them.
This is an age-old phenomenon but it
burns with a new urgency in the shadow
of atomic destruction. And the very in
flux into the hard-pressed colleges holds
a corresponding promise?the promise of
education on a vastly expanded scale
aiming at independent thinking and co
operative living as well as professional
accomplishment. Americans who spent
$2,000,000,000 to develop an atomic bomb
had better wake to this greater need and
this happier promise?The Monitor.
In New York the ceiling of a barber
shop fell while a quartet was practicing
a song. That's the wrong way to bring
down the house.
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Special to Central^ Preu
WASHINGTON?The AFL executive
council, top governing body of the Fed
eration's more than seven million mem
bers, is expected to get two new mem
bers at its forthcoming Chicago meeting.
A couple of retirements are in order
and it is b^lieWd that Charles McGowan,
head of the boilermakers, and Daniel W.
Tracy, president of the electrical work
ers, will move in the vacancies.
McGowan and Tracy are long-time
close friends. They have worked togeth
er well in union affairs and will add con
siderable strength to the AFL council,
several of whose members have been in
ill health and inactive for many months.
Tracy served as assistant secretary of
labor under Frances Perkins, but resign
ed a little over a year ago and unmediate
ly was re-elected president of the elec
trical workers.
The latter union should have little dif
ficulty under the Taft-Hartley law. The
electrical contracting industry has been
free of major strikes for some 25 years
as a result of a joint union-management
council set up to adjudicate differences.
WORLD FOOD SITUATION TOUGH
ALL OVER?Europe has been brightly
spotlighted in the world food shortage
picture, but bare cupboards surround the
white circle as far as Asia.
The United Nations Food and Agricul
ture Organization's report on food pros
pects for the next year emphasizes that
scarcities reach round the globe.
UNFAO says things will not get better
for a long time.
Fear of surpluses by food producers
constitute one of UNFAO's toughest
problems. Producers believe shortage
of foreign exchange will reduce demand
for imports; that in any cake demand will
shrink when rehabilitation needs have
been met, or that synthetics will displace
many farm products.
Therefore, they hesitate to invest
heavily to develop new production for
export which may not pay off. Already
some producers?natural rubber, for in
stance?find their livelihood threatened.
RUSSIA ON THE BUILD?While piti
fully-lagging United States production
of freight cars retards a dozen key indus
tries, the Soviet Union claims that its out
put of railway cars now exceeds the pre
war level.
This information is contained in the;
current issue of the USSR Bulletin, a
propaganda booklet published by the
Russian embassy in Washington.
Another note on Soviet industry states
that the Russians are starting to make;
refrigerators, motorboats, rowboats and;
lifebuoys from a new plastic materials
of exceptional lightness weighing 1-20 as
much as water, 1-5 as much as cork.
According to the Bulletin, a ship built
of the new plastic can carry cargo 12
times her own weight.
PRJCE BATTLE?An open tug-of-war
is underway between the National Asso-!
ciation of Manufacturers and the CIO'
over prices.
Both organizations take to the propa
ganda mediums and state their case?>
NAM in its publication NAM News, and'
the CIO in its Economic Outlook.
Says NAM:
"Public resistance to present prices has
given the New Deal die-hards new life
in their campaign to control profits and
hence impose a managed economy on the
United States.
"Behind-the-scenes efforts have ac
celerated and centered on getting at prof
its through control of prices despite pub
lic denials by former OPA-ites that they!
do not foresee a return of that price con-|
trol body.''
The CIO wants:
"Establishment of a federal price inves-j
tigation board whose job it would be by:
use of public pressure and exposure of;
profiteering, to bring to light the reasons!
for current high prices. ,
"Re-establishment>>of price control and
rationing if this country follows*
Marshall plan for Europe, and if crop fail
ures develop because of floods in the
mid-west."
Crickets, according to Factographs, eat
more than their weight daily. No won
der ihey make music by rubbing their'
knees?their mouth is too busy chewing, j
That Senate war contracts probe could
not have been such a hot show. It didn't
produce a single hit true.
"FZR1LS OF PAULINE" ?
Football Practice Started At
WCTC With 70 Men Out
Coach Tom Young's WCTC Cata-}
mounts opened fall football drill
on Monday, September 1, with 70
men reporting for practice. Drill
was opened with emphasis placed
on conditioning, a major part of
training especially for new men
without previous experience.
Thirty-eight of the men report
ing were veterans of last year's
Western Carolina eleven, a team
which made a record in Catamount'
history by winning 6, losing 3, and
tying 1.
The Cats donned heavy gear on
the second day of practice and
light away began on application
of fundamentals. The squad has
worked out twice daily since be
ginning drills, stressing pass of
fense and defense as well as con
ditioning in the morning sessions,
and devoting afternoon drills to|
blocking and tackling, using both|
the blocking machine and live1
tackling and blocking drills. Coach'
McConnell, new assistant coach,
who is in charge of linemen, has
been working on- blocking in the
line.
Fair Scrimmage
On Saturday morning, Septem
ber 6, Coach Young put the entire
squad through a full two-hour
scrimmage. ~ The team made a fair j
showing after only one week of,
drills and at times looked very I
good. Timing , was thought by
Coach Young to be one of the main
weaknesses of the team. Out
standing line play of co-captain
Clark Pennell and alternate cap
tain Dan Robinson featured the
scrimmage session. Jim Bryson,
veteran tailback, was able to hit
pass receivers with accuracy, toss
ing two aerials for T. D.'s. one to
Mace Brown, who raced twenty
yards to score. The second was to
Bob Tate on the 10 and he went
over standing up.
Other stand-outs were Gene
Grogan, all-conference end last
year and one of the best defensive,
ends on the squad; Arthur Byrd, j
letter-winning guard last year,
whose blocking showed up veryj
well; Paul Monroe, who gave the
thrill of the scrimmage when he:
dashed 90 yards to score, a sopho
more who should show up well in
running this year; Jack Allison of
Waynesvillc and Bill Estes of North
Wilkesboro, both ends; Ralph
Humphries, Clayton Everhnrt,
Harry Jaynes, Ed Scates, all tac
kles; Von Ray Harris of Marion,
vvho was moved to fullback is
year in order to capitalize on nis
elusive running ability.
Open With Panthers
The Catamounts open the 1947
season by playing the High Point
Purple Panthers in Memorial Sta
dium at Asheville on September
on September 20, sponsored by the
Asheville Cosmic Club. This game
shapes up as one of ..the hardest
HOSPITAL NEWS
June and Janice Brown, twin
children of Mr. and Mrs. Celch
Brown of Bryson City, tonsillec
tomies.
Clarence Cornwell, Whittier,
recovering from an appendectomy.
Miss Margaret Frizzell, one of
the nurses at the hospital, doing
nicely following a tonsillectomy.
Baby Noah Woods, son of Mrs.
Clyde Woods, Whittier, in for
treatment. ^
Miss Christine Breedlove, Whit
tier, doing tine after an appen
dectomy.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Thomas
announce the birth of a daughter,
Jessica Enloe, Sptember 4.
and best games on the Cat schedule
for the season. The Cats were tied
by the Panthers at High Point last
season, a game which ended in a
6-6 deadlock when Curt McDon
ald went 90 yards to tally in the
latter part of the fourth period.
,The Youngmen will remember that
feat when they meet the James
coached team of which the same
McDonald is reported to be the
star this year. The game will prove
to be of much interest in all of
Western North Carolina because
of the number of WNC men on the
Panther team, as well as those on
the Catamount squad.
Tickets for the opening game in
Asheville will be put on sale
Thursday at Professional Drug
Store in Sylva, or they may be
obtained from Ralph Sutton, West
ern Carolina Teachers College.
Cullowhee. _These tickets will en
able purchasers to have grand
stand seats rather than the addi
tional bleachers which will have
to be erected for this game. Tickets
will cost $1.50 plus federal luxury
tax.
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Yard adjacent depot
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If it has served you long, careful service attention now will help
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He is an established, independent business man with a reputation
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There you have four more reasons why you should see your Hudson
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