THE SYLVAHERALD Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the post office at Sylva, N C , as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 1379, November 20, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. In Jackson County $2.00 Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25 One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.5U Six Months, Outside Jackscn County 1.50 Ail Subscriptions Payable In Advance , i _*??" "? /-^Nv/n|l f ?< :,r ? v "? / Ifcl.M. .'ON No Cause For Alarm Although increasing numbers of polio cases are reported from the central part of the stale, and two cases have develop ed in Jackson county, there is no cause for_undue alarm on the part of our citi zens. It is hardly likely that Polio will 'break out here in an epidemic form. How ever. strict compliance with health de partment rules and recommendations are essential as a precautionary measure, and better insurance that we will not have an epidemic of the disease in Western North Carolina. Every man, woman and child should do their utmost to follow health rules in our fight against this crippling disease. Cooperation Needed We realize that the removal of the pas senger trains on the Murphy-Asheville branch has up-set a long established method for handling the mail in this area, and that a sudden and complete change- in this system has caused head aches all along the line. All classes of maii\4?ave been delayed, and other incon veniences caused to the public. Sylva now has oAly two out-going mails daily, about three n^ours apart, leaving the peo ple without a ivnethod of dispatching let ters and other'1 important mail over a period of 21 hou^rs. In talking with J. B. McGee, superintendent of railway mail service out of Gfreensboro, our local post office found littlle evidence of concern on his part about tlj|ie matter. He is said to have called the, offices along this line "Little One Ho^se Offices, whose post masters do not know that the World was not made in one day." In other other words, Mr. McGee considers the post offices in Western North Carolina, serv ing as outlets for mail for some 200,000 citizens, do not deserve as good attention on his part as his "big, two-horse" offices in the Piedmont. We feel that a PUBLIC SERVANT, receiving his living off the taxpayers of this area as well as the Pied mont, should be right in there fighting for the restoration of adequate mail serv ice on this line just as quickly as possible. This would certainly breed better feel ing on the part of the "one horse" office patrons toward public servants like Mr. McGee and the World's Greatest Postal System which he represents. A TIP FROM AUSTRALIA v The restoration of peacetime price and rationing control apparently will be a major campaign issue in the forthcom ing presidential election. If it is, the peo ple of this country, whether they realize it or not, will be witnessing a debate over the future pattern of government under which they are to live. Permanent price and rationing control mean inexorable extension of centralized authority and the final adoption of the socialized, state, whether it is called that or not. Aside from the danger to personal lib erty and other philosophical considera tions, price and rationing control, from a practical standpoint, is a demonstrated failure. In every country where it .has boen tried it has led to shortages and hardship. When prices are arbitrarily held below the supply-demand levels of the free market, people will not produce. Legitimate distribution channels are dis rupted by black markets and the police powers of the state become increasingly brutal if order is maintained. The ex panding bureaucracy of OPA and its kan garoo court methods which were nipped ? in the bud at the end of the war should serve as fair warning of what can be ex pected if the system is re-established. American consumers are getting bet ter service at lower relative prices in the " light of existing conditions without OPA Berlin: Next Moves ! Now that Moscow has acknowledged that Russian policy?not technical dif ficulties on railroads or highways?is responsible fo? the Berlin crisis, the world watches intently for "next moves" by the western powers. What will these include? Another note lo Russia is possible. An appeal to the United Nations has btcn discussed. A physical test of the Soviet blockade of land routes and water ways?while the air lilt goes on flying cuai and iood into Berlin?is mentioned. But these are onlv the more obvous %/ steps by which the western po wers might step up their pressure lor a lifting of tne Soviet blocKade. Little or nothing is be ing said, for example, about organization 01 economic pressures on Russia, which so badly needs machinery and other capital goods from western sources. indeed, tne Marshall Plan iias been developed in such a way as to facilitate rather than cut .tiaae relations between East and West. This is because for a paciiication of Europe the development ol this trade is essential. America s aims have been to help Europe back toward prosperity and peace, to hejp it avoid a showdown witn Communism which might lead to war. But if Russia insists on loreing a showdown, the objectives oi Europe's self-help program and Ameri can aid may logically be moauied. None of us in the western countries can look complacently on such a pos sibility. But it may be-useful to remind ourselves that the weakness in our Berlin' . position, of which we hear so much, is chiefly local. Moreover, in addition to the worldwide pressures, both economic1 and diplomatic, which the western pow-' ers might marshal against Russia, there| .are other influences working 011 the side1 of the western powers. J A very important one is the effect which Russian behavior at Berlin is hav ing on the German people. From the western zones of Germany gifts 01 'food are pouring into Berlin, expressing a feel ing of unity among Germans which evi dently has been heightened by the Rus sian blockade. Despite tons of Russian propaganda about the western powers' alleged aim of dividing Germany, the German people, both in the western zones and in Berlin, within the eastern zone, are identifying themselves by action with present west ern efforts to beat the Russian blockade. This is a comradeship which the Kremlin cannot have intended to credte. It may occur to Moscow, in the light of this development, that to win Berlin and lose the German people would be a Pyrrhic victory. : In view of tne tone as well as content of the Russian reply to the American, British, and French notes protesting the blockade of Berlin, the very next move of__the western powers must be to in crease the capacity of the air lift to Ber lin. Additional Russian-devised dangers to aviation through the air corridors to Berlin, and around western powers' air fields in Soviet-controlled territory, must be prepared for. Meanwhile, inquiries as to the state ment in the Russian note that Russia \yould "if necessary" supply food to Ger ijjSJis in the western sector of Berlin ought to be pressed. It was originally assumed that food for all Berlin would be available from the eastern zone. In deed, the economic unification of Ger many forecast exchange of food from eastern Germany for industrial products from the other zones. One other immediate task faces west ern diplomacy. It is to make quite clear that the western powers' "violations" of the Potsdam and Yalta agreements of which Russia now complains have been mainly efforts to apply the principles of these agreements at least in the areas controlled by the western powers, since it proved impossible to obtain Russian cooperation in ^nv broader application of them.?Christian Science Monitor. _ " " tl' 1 ? than they ever did with it. Congressional investigations 'have shown that retailers' profit margins are less now in the free market than they were in the controlled market of OPA. Moreover there are no shortages of necessities. America is not the only country that has been faced with the price control is sue. Australia recently defeated by a heavy majority vote an attempt by the Central Labor Government to write price control as a permanent power into the Federal Constitution. An observer point-1 ed out thart 'The Australians do not want' permanent centralized Federal Govern ment control of thei^r ^norm^^ffairs.M The Everyday Counsellor By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. 0. What do you do alter you have signed your name with a pen to a letter, er.ee.; o. other document. Perhaps you use a blotter if you have une a*. hand. Perhaps you search f.?r a blotter, perhaps fum ing wh.le the ::*.?* d.io>. The late LV. Hubert E. Spec: is said to h..ve u*'eJ these lew moments i'cr pr:.yer. Wh:-t an excellent id?.. .Ml o. - u'.:.;t to pray more rhm vv u . Ma. y uf us ought to pray but don't :ir.d khe time: vre .re '..usy . boa: other things. Why try I2r. Specr'> mi thou? Prater V; .a! i ) mrn's hrppi re s : :?.! conununiup. with Gd. Wit., i". prayer t.i^: _? ci'n be no :v p;!incrs and c? r.tcntment. Op.: o. our moot beautiful hymns is that oy James Mo.n ^ mo-y; "Pr. ycr is t ie sincere re s.re, Uttered or unexpressed: The motion of a hid den fire. That trembles in the breast. "Prayer is the burden of a'sigh, The falling cf a tear. The upward glane ng of an. eye When none but TIMBER TALKS By W. C. HENNESSEE I wonder if we know that here in Western N. C. there are, 223 mountain peaks, 5,000 or more feet high, 4y or these being above 6,000 fett. The reg.on is traversed by a network of modern roads that{ are enclosed'on both sides by large resources of hardwood timber. Western North Carolina's many forests atford a treasure land ofj r ch shrubs , wild flowers, fishing and recreation facilities. The Grea: Smoky Ml. Nat. P.irk is a vast playground tor hundreds of thou -? srnds of '.annual visitors. Tlie j Smokies run through the Park for seventy-one miles, with sixteen peaks reaching an altitude of 6*000 feet. Adjacent to the Park are National Forests and State Forests so extensive and so correlated that1 together Western North Carolina' comprises cne of the largest rem-| nants of American Wilderness. While traveling^ over these vast' and beautiful areas this summer j be careful with fire. Let's do not? spoil w.th fire, that which took' nature years to grow. LET'S KEEP JACKSON COUNTY) GREEN! I Glenville Lodge No. 551,: A. F. & A. M. Announces Change In Meeting Dates J. Sam Bryson, Worshipful Master of Glenville Masonic Lodge No. 551, has announced a change in tr.e regular meeting time of the. 1 :dse. In the future the Lodge will meet each 2nd Saturday and 4th ? Friday evenings at 7:30 o'clock.1 AH visiting Masons are cordially invited to attend. ! North Fork Ranch Week-End Guests Mr. and Mrs. Roy Felger and daughter, Beverly, of Miami, Fla.t and Mr. and Mrs. William Rank ing and daughter. Mary Jean, of Miami, Fla? and Uniontcwn, Pa., .arrived last week to be the week en ci guests o: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Mathews at North Fork Ranch m the North Fork community. FO SING AT WGTC (Continued from page 1) oraterio work, has played leading opera roles, including a role she created?in Benjamin Britten's "Paul Bunvan"?and has made made many tolk-song records. She has appeared before Princess ?Juliana of the Netherlands and at national conventions of the Daugh i ters of?ffte American Revolution. I ? of which her mother is national vice president general. i Miss Van Wey was born in Ros | man, which was founded and j named by her father. After being I graduated from Salem college with a Bachelor of ^fc^sic degree she started seriously collecting and singing folk songs, particularly | Creole songs and Negro spirituals. I Her program Thursday night i will include North' Carolina folk , songs, Ohio river valley folk songs, : South American folk songs, other songs in the folk song medium, Creeolee songs of Louisianan, street cries set to music, and Negro spirituals. KBRALD WANT ADS God is near. "Prayer is the simples: form of j speech, That infant lips can try;) Prayer, the sublimest strains that leach The Maje?ty en high. ?Prayer is the Christ.an's vital breath, The Christian's native air; His watchword *.l the gates o, death; He enters heaven with prayer. "Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice. Returning iVom r.is ways: Wnile angels in thur >o:igs re joice. And c.'v. "Behold. he pr; vs." ? "Oil Thou, by \Vh?m we come to God. Tne L:;e, Tne Truth, tne Way! Tne path e.\ prayer Thysell' rat trc.d; Lord, teach us now to pr:?y." Pi : ye.* 'was the .?cv.ivc othe ;:.;w?.:- which Jesus Cnrist display ed on earth. It is recorded that frequently He turned as.de lo commune in prayer with His Heavenly Father. He prayed pub lically among these people -whom , He served. St. Paul wrote, "Pray without ceasing ... in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace o.' God. which passe:h all i Ix'/erstanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Prajer U 'the breaking of the soul. It is as vital to spiritual life as air in the lungs is to physical life. Don't be too busy to pray. If ycu are, you are busy- about the wrong thing. Next time you sign your name to a letter, let the ink dry while you pray?perhaps for the one to whom you have just written? perhaps for a member of your family, a friend, for our nation in its time of great opportunity?per haps for your own needs. Our ?xperienca and equipment will quickly enable us to advise you, without obligation, about the condition of your tires. In case you need a new tire, we will show you a MOHAWK ? the quality tire that costs no more/ This modern, attractive tire has a carcass that's supmr-strong for protection against road hazards. Remarkably resilient, too?it insures a softer, smoother ride. And you can't find a tougher tread than Mohawk's. That's why we say you get:? 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