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THE WAWESVILLB MOUNT AINEES THURSDAY, DECEMBEa M V m - ' 1, . I ' . I I II Tiki ATI I Ml I ULllWMWm: The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVTLLE PRINTING 00. Main Street Pboiw 1S7 Waynesville, North Carolina Th County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County . $L50 Six Months, In Haywood County .." We One Year. Outside Havwood County MO All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entered at Om port offk at Wijrci , Jf. 0., mm Clua Mall Matter, aa provided man u ot I7t, Ma aw 10. ; bttuarr soticM. resolution of taaaaet, atnb af at aU aaticaa antartataaianU lor profit. (or at tba lata of ana cent Y S. will ka Nona Carolina i ' MtlSi ASSOCIATE NATIONAL EDITORIAL- ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940 Hail, Dayton Rubber Among the best news Haywood County has had in many years, was the announce ment Friday that the Dayton Rubber Manu facturing Company would establish a branch plant just outside of Hazelwood, with con struction work starting at once. - The citizens of the county, and Western North Carolina, are most happy to have this . strong and progressive company erect a plant . here and become a "citizen of Haywood." The company is not new in North Carolina, and reoords of their high standing and prestige in . their home city of Dayton, makes us that much happier that they are now to cast their Jot with us. Of course, the officials of Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company already know that Haywood is fast becoming an industrial cent er. The vast store of information made avail able to them by the local citizens working with the State Department of Conservation and Development, have already given them an insight as to what to expect of us here in Haywood. ., Today, more than 4,000 people who live in Haywood are on pay rolls of. industrial plants. Thousands of others derive their in comes directly or indirectly from these same industries. : The industrial growth in Haywood County has been steady throughout the year. In dustry here is diversified to the point that a slump in business in any one of the lines, does not cripple Haywood's entire industrial set-up. And while the types of industry are so dif ferent, there is among the industrialists, and others, the closest relationship and harmony, which makes this an ideal section in which to live and work. Again, we repeat; that Haywood and all of Western North Carolina are most fortunate in having Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company come here. They will play an im portant part in the industrial, civic and eco nomic life of all this growing section. We Pledge Our Suppor ti.. i Bve f wx w must not "sell or shoot fireworks in Haywood County or the towns therein," and the officers of the county and municipalities are adamant in their de termination to see. that the law is earned out to the letter. We want to give our wholehearted support to the officers and our pledge to stand back of them one hundred per cent in their errors tn pnforce the measure. Firawnrka are a nuisance and a danger. In the old days before prohibition of their use, there was rarely a holiday in any com munity throughout the country mat some child or adult was not injured in some way. Perhaps many years ago before the day of "night lights," there was some excuse for the attraction they held in their nasn across the skv at night, and for their "sounding shots" to break the quiet of the village. Now we have both light and certainly plenty of sound, and we don't need fireworks to supply either. We feel sure, however, that the officers will have no trouble with the children, for whom they are supposed to be made, so we advise them to direct their attentions to those nf oHnif vears. who have not arrown up. who will in most cases be more likely to "smuggle" them into the county. We have always been of the opinion that it was rather a barbaric custom anyway to celebrate the birthday of Christ. Certainly throughout the world today there is enough of "booming and thunderous sound," that is foreign to the teachings of the Prince of Peace, without the sputtering and fire from this form of supposed amusement. No Cold Hearts The mercury in Haywood County has twice this year dropped to 12 degrees. This may or may not presage a cold Christmas. In Western North Carolina, a touch of frost and a few snowflakes are embodied in our Christmas traditions, and holly and other evergreens, are more compatiable with our greatest holiday cheer than lilies and roses; they are mother nature's contribution to mi grate the rigors of our wintry Christmas - seasons. ';' But whatever else is cold, there is one thing that should be shocking at this season a cold heart. Many organizations and individuals, are now preparing to make the coming Christ mas happy for the unfortunate in the com munity. They are painstakingly seeking to reach all of these unfortunate ones. Can any prosperous man or woman sit down to a Christmas table laden with all that goes with Christmas cheer and be content without having contributed something to make' the less fortunate ones joyful on the day of days? Headache For Editors We have often commented before on the amount of propaganda that comes into the office of a newspaper, much of it under the guize of "news." Daily it seems to be on the increase.';': We said a hearty "Amen" to the following editorial which appeared last week in the Reidsville Daily Review. "If any person believed that war would bring a cessation or even reduction of the amount of unwanted material reaching an editor's desk he was sadly mistaken. Far from this being the case, the mails are filled with more of this material than ever, and a very small part of it ever sees print. "Waste paper baskets are groaning under the weight and strain imposed upon them. Nowadays every branch of government, every industry, every financial concern, and so on, seems to consider it essential to employ a publicity agent or publicity staff. "It means more money for the writers, for the paper companies, the printers and the post office, but it is only a headache for the editors, who cannot begin to read even a fraction of the mass that is being poured on their desks dafly." 4 Another Break In the recent travel article in the New York Times boosting Florida resorts, interesting side trips enroute from the North to the South were described. The title of the article arrested our atten tion at once, and we read througih to see if this section would share in the big boost given other areas which mark the highways lead ing South. We were rewarded and much gratified to find the following recommended as a side trip, "and the Great Smoky Mountains in' the Land of the Sky, America's newest and fast est growing playground." A t Least Encouraging Congressman R. L. Doughton in a recent visit to the state, expressed some encourag ing views on the subject of taxes for the com ing year, which will be well received by Tar .Heels. ; ; '' v;; The national situation with business on the upgrade under the national defense pro gram has a brighter outlook, and according to Mr. Doughton, "it looks as if some people will get a surprise when tax collections are totalled next March the 15th." Congressman Doughton, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, which has the -gigantic job, in cooperation with the Senate finance Committe, of working out the na tions tax policy, will get down to work on . March the 15th, when the income tax pay ments come in and the tax experts have some idea about the revenue. Mr. Doughton was of tlhe opinion' that "the people don't mind paying taxes so much now because they realize the need of national de- ' fense." . . Here and There -By- -HILDA WAY GWYN It doesn't seem to make any dif ference wat she does, fcieanor Roosevelt is a record breaker , . according to Newsweek she visited a department tore n New York City last week . . .. and spent 25 minutes . . and came out with . . . two evening dresses . . . one lapin wrap .- .' . two evening bags . . two teddy bears . . . one sleepy headed doll . .... one radio telegraph sienal set . . two sets of educa tional blocks . . vone game of Lotto . one doll in cradle . , ., one white Scottie toy dog ';..- . ne dozen sets of silk ties and hand kerchiefs . . . and three dozen pairs of Nylon hosiery , .... of course Eleanor does not have to couni the pennies . . and when she pays mor than she intended to for gift ... does noit have to stop and make a re-allocation of Christmas funds as we do . . , and we are auite certain that she has the right of way" in any shop , and there is no waiting in line . for : Durchases . . '. but how sue could make that many decisions in so short a time . . . is beyond us - .. . Imagine mever wasting a minute to just "look" ... which make us think thalt even at that we are afraid that she is missin something thalt we get from Christ mas. . . .. . We Jiked the suggestion made last week about the vendors of Christmas greens peddling their wares early ... .. . for we all know that we get more kick put of our Christmas decorations before the great. Day (than we do after . . . and that sweet woodsy fragrance of pine in a warm house '. . , . a powerful stimulus in arousing the fever of the Christ mas spirit . ; -. and those who sell the greens usually are making money to "buy Christmas" , . . and they would like it early .... . . so it should suit both . . . and there are dozens of wreaths bought some where at Christmas by the people of this community ,'..'., we recall thalt some years ago one of the women's clubs . . the Community Club ... . now joined with the Wo man's Club , . . sponsored the sale of evergreens , . . and for a couple of years it became a thriving holi day business V . and instructions to cut and trim the Itrees without injuring them . . , which is about as important as havkig the green n our homes . for we want fu ture generations to know the lux ury of Christmas greens. . .:. We would like to recommend to you for your own satisfaction of reading .... a-nd as a possible Christmas gift for some friend , . . Mark Twain in Eruption" . ; . . edited with an introduction by Ber- ard Devoto . . . since Mark Twain was one of our favorite authors ; . we are perhaps prejudiced to be gin with . . . having long since lost count of the times We have been a boy with "Huck and Finn" ... . the volume recently passed through our household en route . . . in a Christmas package .. . . but we snatched time to give 't at least a brief review , . . . we like its in formality . .. as it is a kind of table talk" . . , and the observa tions of Mark Twain ... as in all his books . , ..are filled with the type of humor . . . that will live forever . . it is so human and pungent v . . some samples are . "On the death of a publisher he had known" . ; My brtterness against him has faded away and disappeared, I feel only compas sion for him ... and if I could send bin a fan,' I would'." ... . another on a woman he evidentlv had strong feeling about . ... "I could never Jearn to like her ex cept on a raft at sea, with no other provisions in sight." Life Begins At 70 Tennyson at 83 wrote, "Crossing the Bar." Oliver Wendell Homes at 79 wrote, "Over the Teacups." ' nn , Between the ages of 70 and 83 Commodore Vanderbflt added 100 miUions to his fortune. Cato at 80 began the study of Greek-Ex. A college professor says that this civili zation will last 40,000 years. That's nice . and now what we want to know is when will it begin. The family skeleton used to be bidden in the closet . . now we find4t in beach pajamas, The followinsr from the Haiti mow Evening Sun brings another real ization of how much more deadly the present world war is than the last one . . . "It's a lorg way, to Tipperrary" will not have the same meaning to the present generation as it did Ito those in the Hast conflict . . ."The French Church f Notre Dame de France, in Leicester Square, London has teen wnvti by bombs, a war dispatch an nounces. . . . "Good-by Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester' Sou a re" so the song went in the first World War, when Alliedi troops were in the trenches and the main worry mw iviKs obck nome as how the ai tne Tront were faWno- Today in an older grimmer world .e vimuren me expectant moth. crs . . are retting Mia a. j upon them, and Leicester Square me ra song takes a along with the rest." . . . blasting Tk. . .. lunowing contribution to this week's column . . . should heln nT wi"ui unnstmas . u American way . . tk. - no way like the American Way 0f .iue; ... l can go to anv nS?IpIeSe-- 'n joSany political party I wish ; . .1 can vote .,. .iwoftiw,' r""'' ' ' ar.gM 'At ft$K ji Voice. ojj ke PeofUz Do you think we should take more dennue steps towards giv ing immediate aid to England? If so, in what manner? Dr. R. P. Walker "Yes, more ammunitions of war and financial aid." Mrs. J. Dale Stents "I am for giving England every possible aid, that we can without getting into war, and I would like to see that aid given at once." we should help all we can, but how to give aid is the job for states men, who have made a study of international affairs." Robert V. Welch "Yes, I am in favor of aiding England in every possible way with money and sup plies. I feel that rather han lose out, we had better get in the war ourselves." Miss Hester Davis "I have, al ways felt that we should do more for England, than we appear to be doing. I am in favor of doing everything we can, without get ting involved in the conflict." T. J. Cathey "Absolutely we should give them every assist ance possible, short Of man power. If that won't win the war, then give them what it takes." M.-G, Stamey "We have select ed the ablest man in America to meet the present crisis, which threatens our existence. I feed that he is meeting the exigence as speedily as can be done. However, I feel that every, step should be taken as quickly and continuously as possible to give England every aid within our power, short of man First power." Joe Liner "Yes, I approve of helping England in every way. They are our first line defense, and I think that all industries engaged n manufacturing- war supplies' should be put on 24 hour sched ules of work." Mason Swearengin "Lend every aid We possibly can. In fact every thing short of the desperation of war. I do not think that England needs man power, but we should make available all our industries," cry h SecretJ Grover C. Davis "Yes, I think Emmet II. Balen'tine rYes, I think we should furnish England with everything they need, but at the same time we should not weak en our own defense program." Blackie Bear WHILE SALLIE CAT SLEEPS Story 76 Bird hadn't seen a soul about the house,, and he thought that Aunt Liiidy and her boy Tom had both gone to town; but he was mistak en, for when he got around to the back of the garden he found boUh of them working around the bee gums. You know folks have regu lar two or three story houses built for the bees, these days, with a lot of little rooms in each story, so when the bees fill one room full of honey you can just take out one room full and put an empty back, and let the bees fill it. You don't have to smoke the bees to death with sulphur like your did before he learned You all remember how a bear loves honey. And you have heard a good deal about the times when Blackie had plenty of honey, tind of other times when Ihe got in trou ble while he was trying to get it. It had been a good while since Blackie had any honey, and so his sweet tooth was teasing him, and he said he just had to do something about it. "Go over to Aunt Lindy's house, Jay Bird, and see how her o-ranHfatkor- urae, i geiung aiong, ana how to fit the ,:.tlf, rooms for the see if all those cats are still there. bees to put honey in. Well, Aunt Maybe she has given some of them Lindy and Tom were teking out away since they got grown, for I these little rooms all full of honey dont see howshe could reed so and putting empty ones back in many cats, and I know there are their places when Jay Bird got not enough rats around her place there, and he was sure he never to keep half a dozen- cats busy haA u u,-. i;r catching them." Aft, kii. a( t.M ttH Jay Bird hadn't been about Aunt t u. A. j u u.. Lindy s place since he came back a, thov nniA ioira tn tnwn tnmnr. WaS V.X..T ik. t-lia surprised to see how - much there rfa(t till 8om other And IZa 2 if1 that a" f thfmwhat do you reckon is going to Tit f Pr "".V,1 happen tomorrow? Well here's ZZ. WaS n.fu" of what did happen. Aunt Lindy and L vl'lW , fhWere getl,nJg iU8t,Tom went to tow witto honey and as yellow as the sun. And that j--.!... a uT.-.i,i and Jocko Monkey and Jay licjr. n.,iU -By rura Rir1 in Aunt I ;A'. itu) trnt sweet as just loved nice rme near. - And grapes! The vines, were full of them, and they were so ripe that they were falling all over the ground. And sugar cane was ripe, too, and there was no cane at the house of, any body else. Then Jay cird new to the back norch to see if all the cats were there. No sir, there was just Sallie Cat right j nerseu, and she was fast asleep in the sun. Aunt Lindv must tiBvo given away all the kittens when they got to be big cats for there was not a one of them there. And now to look at the bee gums. Jay my opinion openly ... I read; see and hear what I choose . . I can vote for what and for whom I Please ... I have a Mbnstitntinnal r'ght of trial by jury . . . My mail reaches me as it was sent uncen 80rd ... My telephone is untap ped unless I am a Fifth Column jst ... I am protected against mlawful search and seizure Neither my life nor my property can be forfeited Without due pro cess of law . .". all of the foriroin- H)g makes the American Way worth living for and fightting for." . a lot of honey out of the three-story bee gums, besides a lot of nice juicy pears and some grapes and apples, while she was gone. And Sallie Cat was so sound asleep that she didn't even hear Blackie laugh when Ihe passed by the house and licked out his red tongue at her. (To be Continued) TRADE HAZARD When Mussolini sent his moun tain fighters to invade Greece, the town of Kastoria was the objective of his left. But when the Greeks turned 'the tables and advanced upon Koritza and took it Kastoria was, for the moment at least, saved. So was the American public from a sunburst of gags based on "Ital ians Take Kastoria" or "Greeks Give Italians Kaltorla," which would be just as humorous because some thing could have been said about giving Mussolini some of his own medicine. It looks now, however, as if the gag paragraphed will have to get on without this one. Baltimore Eevning Sun. i 'ikely He, Treasure Pase when heS' "should draft m e G men." " m1 a tYet sirce thig i, ,v which 8n.JL homa.ha7r:j?8l,W biH. the ouetV Salary meam T"! bill. wh,VK J8" to l "y- AithoUgh 2 4 hardly so vi,, ! tions f u v would o.j Pose, peoDlenuJ.1 I " "un ascussionofti it seemed anvui. ' 1 actment. tcl inecontextofJJr.il,,, rather he was thinking an intensive Duhli,;, removal of 3 income from ...71 (lrHP . l : m slacker monev" nt putittorrkforMti;i iwo moves, onj Pont n. i !. 1 '"I the last u,., j , d a,mQst J decades, would nnt u ... A regulable circumsj uuvernment must the present rearma man a public debt verymUch: mat 01 1914 or th. ; This fact points to need ecnhnmu it. nn .l j . Te w- nments of GommA desirability of taxation J teiaiy ior as much of tt preparation as possible With rof.nn. -i- . .. .... .wcicuce io uimiaiJ exemption on the Ion? issues which are expect come necessary next J Treasury Secretary M-J ance of a snag, except the securities of the FedJ and municipal governmci nave Deen made taxaU now. This is the fact tK, pal and state eovemmenti ihcm already hard pressJ enues, &;and to face an interest rates if the tax should be ruled out of tM The Municipal Finahcj Association has lately that American cities a ing short-term loans on interest rates in years, them paying on borrowinJ mon'.hs or less. This is tage not easily (riwTiun, also .be 'argue j .Jwt; tbe the more easily absorb I in such a period of hi rates. s To some conimunhif hi it her' rates, it would M advice t" mention that reduce their debt charge i-owine: less. In general, seems reasorable that tk have some compcnsaiicj form of. an understands Federal Government 1 them certain tax soure over'.appirg now exists. The national Treasury, will face some slight n interest rates, top, in oitii tax-exemption advantage hnnds. but this will be compensated in many creased revenue more working of the grad.uitd tax. and an incentive f money to work. Christia Monitor. STILL AT LARG Judge R. Hunt Parker PA it into Joe Calcot; mn.hinp kine. A smackinJ fine probably the lr?l handed out in Nortn wr- a twelve-month road set' will cm awfully hard f who, through bis industi rapacious little macninc., vij tn the lift Joe Calcutt undoubted coming to him. Ttiatw- both by his Plea o hi nast brushes with V while the slot machire 1 oi;.noH pontraptiott v :nv.nita nnit compels socl!e1 with their coins), the j tion of wealth ana l j- nt mnrx men as l always dangerous and nL by legal t..j Parker addressed to 'the anti-social eJJ Calcutfs operations, ana 1 onto say a most cunou. was this: ; , ... ...., that eve! knows that this bus built up by . tJ J tween crime and . v uinHicated. Rrine His Honor Pj accomPl.cesofleLegjsli Jrr tempt.' abasement oi 1"; corruptibilnyth is SXIU V ed on News. Zrers realise ,
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