THE SYLVAHERALD
Published By
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sylva, NortnCarolina
The County Seat of Jackson County
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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, 1879, November 20, 1914.
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Shall We Share With Others
As we approach the Thanksgiving sea
son we are reminded by the call for help
from the various orphanages that we have
a privilege and opportunity to show some
gratitude tor our many blessmgs by shar
ing some of our food, clothing and money
with the less fortunate.
The various orphan homes in North
Carolina are bright lights in that we do
try to provide for the fatherless ones.
These homes Itave great burdens, especi
ally in these times of inflated prices, in
trying to provide food, clothing and shel
ter for-these hundreds of children. If it
were not for the generous donations re
ceived each- year at the Thanksgiving
season many of them would be forced to
close up. Even with this help those in
charge of the homes are sorely pres^d
to keep things going. Many of the homes
are running in the red this year. We
should all make our donations according
to our ability to do so and in keeping with
our most generous bles?ings which all
have received during the past twelve
months. If we do that then our orphan
tages can operate without feeling the
pinch of hard-times quite so much.
Let's open our hearts this Thanksgiv
ing season and really help provide for
these homeless, fatherless children. It is
only by the grace of our Father in Heav
en that our own children are not among
those now looking to others for help.
Competing With War
If ? even during the height of the war
? an entire division of men had-been
killed, and more than a corps had been
maimed, the nation would have been
shocked with horror.
Yet fires do that every year. It does it
on a piecemeal basis, of course. But that
does notjnake the total any less terrible.
Close to 11,000 lives a year are now giv
en to it through carelessness and ignor
ance. And the . toll of the maimed and
burned and crippled is about 50,000. Its
depredations are especially great among
small children, many of whom become
lifelong invalids. '
Early in October, the nation celebrated
Fire Prevention Week, as it does each
year. A vast amount of work was done
during the week to awaken the country
to the menace of fire, and to teach us how
fire may be prevented. But if the public
works on the "out of sight, out of mind"
basis, the Week will not bear full fruit.
Fire prevention, to be successful, must
be carried on day in and day out. It must
become a routine part of living in all
A Two-Way Street
Does the law of supply and demand
?eally control meat prices? Recent ^ L
vents have provided very definite evi-!
dence that it does.
During a late iour-week period, meat!
production increased by about one-fourth, j
as compared with the four-week season- j
al low reached in August. During-one of
those weeks cattle marketings were 351
per cent more numerous than in late Aug-'
ust, and hog marketings were more than!
50 per cent larger. There was no corres
ponding increase in demand. The result;
was a substantial drop in meat prices,'
running from one per cent to 17 per cent,!
and averaging about 7 per cent.
This, as one authority on meat mar-'
keting said, shows that livestock and meat |
prices are not a "one-way street." They
can and do move two ways?up and down |
?and the balance between supply anc;
demand determines the direction.
It is true of course, that meat prices,
like practically all other prices, are high'
by prewar standards, and are expected;
to remain high. Those prices, to quote the j
marketing authority again, "are neither]
the choice nor the fault of the produc-j
ers or the processors of livestock and.
livestock products."
According to government figures, the
average per capita income in this coun-|
try is'at nearly 2li? times the prewar lev-j
el. "Real income" ? that is, income mea
sured in purchasing power ? is nearly
one-fourth greater. That means that more
people with more money are competing
for meat. And, on top of that, the operat
ing costs of the farmers who produce
meat animals have risen greatly.
Meat moves in a free market ? and
the consumer ^ets the best price break
possible.
v Study In Contrast
Britain is providing still another ex
ample of the fact that socialization of in
dustry is hot the way to get greater pro
duction ? and that, in fact, it almost in
evitably leads to a drop in production.
A news itemfrom London in the Cleve
land Plain Dealer tells of England's grave
electric power shortage. Offices will be
allowed only a bare minimum of juice for
lighting and running machines; Shops
have been ordered to cut consumption by
oO per cent. Every kind of consumer is
affected. Along with that, homes and
places of business will be allowed only a
minimum of heat. In England electric
power is almost wholly produced by coal
burning steam plants.
The reason for this shortage of power
is the failure of Britain's socialized coal
industry to live up to production goals.
Output is many millions of tons under
the level that was forecast some time a
go. So rigid conservation of what coal
- there is has become unavoidable.
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^ The American coal industry is a study
in cqntrast. Except when shut down by
strikes, it has produced at high levels.
There i.as been nothing ever resembling
a coal shortage ? save when strikes were
in effect. Free enterprise, in othe rwords,
has met all our needs, where socialized
enterprise in other countries has failed.
homes and all places of work. It must be
as automatic as eating and sleeping.
When that is accomplished, fire's toll
of death and injury will be cut enormous
ly ? to say nothing of a property loss
which has been costing the nation more
than $700,000,000 a year.
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Food Patterns For The Future
By Raymond P. Chrisrtensen
U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics
Farmers have increased their ca
pacity to produce food to the high
est levels in United States history
and prospects are that they will
produce even more in the future.
What will happen to the market
for food products in the years
Ahead is one of the important prob
ems facing postwar America.
Tie problem poses some impor
tant questions. Will food produc
ion increase more or less than
population? What production
consumption pattern will be nec.S
;ary to enable us to make full use
of our expanded production ca
pacity? How can we meet tem
porary food shortages and sur
oluses that may develop? What
joes it all mean in terms of the
living the farmer can make from
Vs land?
During the 30 years before
World War II, food-output increas
d at about the same rate as the
copulation. Stimulated by strong
,var and postwar demands, produc
,ion increased even more rapidly
nfter the conflict began. ,
As the wartime shortages dis
appear, farmers will b. better able
?c adopt improved methods iO food
production that already have been
Ieveloped. x Further advances in
.echnology such as mechanization,
he development of improved va
ieiies ol plants and animals, and
oetter methods of ins ct and diss
ase control also will help farm
ers boost the.r output.
Over the longrrun, the prospects
indicate that food production is
likely to increase at least as much
,:s population if prices remain high.
Even if prices decline, production
probably would not be reduced
much. On most farms, a reduc
tion in output would mean 'larger
reductions in cash returns than in
cash outlays. The production met
hods that have raised output per
acre and per worker will continue
to be profitable for individual far
mers.
A higher level of food consump
tion than in prewar will be neces
sary in the years ahead to make
: ull use of our expanded produc
tion capacity. For example, if the
.jndency of food output to expand
it about the same rate as popula
ion .s resumed and if about the
^ame proportion of our food is im
)orted and exported as before the
,var, enough food would be avail
oie for consumption per person
'o average a fourth higher than
i 1035-39. This would be 15
>0*. cent above wartime levels and
u percent higher than in 1947.
High level production per person
ould mean greater satisfaction of
ood wants and more nutritious
di~ts than we have ever had. But
if we are to consume all the food
farmers are likely to produce,
changes in the production-con
sumption pattern would be neces
sary. Diets of Americans general
f ly would need to include more
I livestock products, fruits and veg
jetcibl s. Longtime trends toward
I more of thei? products would
have to be continued.
More Livestock Products
1 ? Such a diet would help absorb
I th<> expanded product on of Unit
| L'd States farmers. For example,
| dies of higher income families
| contain more livestock products.
! fruits and veg.t;bles and only
| slightly less of other foods than
| those of lower income families. To
j produce the average diet per per
son eaten in families with incomes
over $3,000 in 1942, 50 percent
; more land and 70 percent more
i farm labor would have been re
! quired than for diets of those with
incomes of less than $500. If all
the people in the country in 1942
j had h^d diets simlar to the higher
income group, approximately 30
1 percent more food would have been
' consumed.
Small shifts to more livestock
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products in place of "crop food*
! would readily absorb any expand
< ed food output. In the past, live
stock products have supplied only
| 40 percent ot the food energy, 60
percent of the protein and about
half of all the nutrients in our
diets. Production oi livestock pro- j
ducts, however, hi s taken nearly
i
, L'O percent of th. land and 75 per
cent oi' the labor farmers have
i used to raise the food we consume,
j These estimates include allow
j ances for byproduct feeds obtain
ed from grains and oil crops which
are fed to livestock.
A shift to greater livestock pro
duction would permit improve
: ments in American cliets. Live
' stock products have a much high
] er concentration of protein, min
j erals and vitamins in relation to
i energy content than do most food
j crops.
?Continued next week
HOSPITAL NEWS
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Gordon Laney of Bryson City
is recovering from an operation.
| Mrs. Jack Barnes of Tuckasei
! gee, a nurse at the Sylva hospital,
is recovering from an operation.
Mrs. Jim Smith of Tuckaseigee
is steadily improving.
| Mrs. Richard Young of Glen
, ville, in for treatment.
| Mrs. Alfred Lackey of Bryson
City, in for treatment.
j Mrs. Edward Bain of Sylva, in
for 'treatment.
Miss Vergie May Jones of Sylva
recovering from an operation.
Mr. Zollie Fox of Speedwell,
improving.
Mr. W. S. Enloe of Whittier, re
ceiving treatment.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Bryson, of Cashiers, a girl on the
14th.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smo
thers, of Cullowhee, a girl on the
13th.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Cicero
Page-Stone Ballet
Enjoyed By Large
Group At Cullowhee
The Page-Stone Bullet, official
ballet of the Chicago Opera Com
pany, presented in Hoey Auditori
um under auspices ol the Western
Carolina Teachers College Lyceum
on Thursday night, was thoroughly
Mudd, of Syi,**> PX. 1, a girl on th~
11th. ^
Born to Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Frank
lin, Jr., of^Sylva, a girl on the 11th.
enjoyed by a large and apprecia
tive audience. *
The ballet was the first program
of the Lyceum series of the col
It ge this season, and if this type
-<2f performance is any indication
of the future programs we can
expect some very worthwhile en
tertainment out at WCTC during
the coming months. Those who
missed Page-Stone *m ssed a nice
performance.
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Sylva Laundry
Announces
New Route Schedules
Sylva Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company
announces that the management with the co-oper
ation of the employees has established a schedule
of services which can and will be maintained.
These schedules have been planned so as to render
the most efficient services possible for our custom
ers and at the same time maintain a high standard
of work. These schedules follow below:
Route One
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MONDAY?Work picked up in Sylva, Dillsboro
and Dillsboro Road will be delivered on
Wednesday.'
TUESDAY?Work picked up on Beta Road, Beta,
Addie and Cope Creek wilf be delivered
Thursday evening and Friday morning.
Work picked up on Wednesday's delivery
will be delivered on. the following Sat
urday.
* Work picked up on Thursday and Fri
day's delivery will be delivered on the
following Tuesday.
Route Two
MONDAY ? Worl? picked up in Wilmot, Gate
way, Whittier, Ela, Bryson City, Chero
kee and Cherokee Road will be delivered
on Thursday.
TUESDAY?Work picked , up on Franklin Road
and in Franklin will be delivered on Fri
day. P
WEDNESDAY?Work picked up in East LaPorte,
Tuckaseigee, Glenville, ^Cashiers and
Highlands will be delivered on Saturday.
Work picked up on Thursday's delivery
will be delivered on the following Mon
day.
Work picke^Uup on Friday's delivery will
b^ delivered on the following Tuesday.
Work picked tip on Saturday's delivery
willN^e delivered on the following Wed
nesday.
? Route Three
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MONDAY ? Work picked up in Rhodestown, on
Cullowhee Road, in Webster and Cullo
whee will be delivered on Wednesday
evening and Thursday morning.
TUESDAY?Work picked up on Highway from
' Bryson City to Topton, in Andrews and
Robbinsville will be delivered on Thurs
day evening.
Work picked up on Wednesday evening
or Thursday morning's delivery will be
delivered on the following Monday.
Work picked up on Thursday evening's
delivery will be delivered the following
Tuesday.
Hospitals, Hotels and Tourists Homes
given daily service when needed.
May we take this opportunity to thank
each of our customers for his or her pat
ronage and we assure each of you that it
is our purpose to render better services
in the future. We invite others to try our
services.
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