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A i ,- Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer , Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS KUSS Editor mss htttia wav r.ffYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Rubs and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County . Six Months, In Haywood County ?1.50 76e One Year. Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entered t (be port office it WirnwrllU, M. 0.. M Beeowl C1M Kail Matter, aa provided under the Act of March t, 187, Morember JO, Obituary notice, reeolutiona of reepect. carda of thanks, and all noticea of entertainmenta for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. North Carolina i 'ma association : NATIONAL 6DITORIAL ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1941 Jackson County Reacts According to The Jackson County Journal, in a column long editorial, The Mountaineer "unwittingly published an editorial on high ways that might mislead the people." Inasmuch as the editorial did not please Tre Journal, they had an interview with E. L. McKee, of Sylva and gathered a lot of cold figures, which they used in their editorial, in an attempt to show that Jackson County had all but suffered for highway improvement during the administration of Highway Com missioner McKee. The Mountaineer read the comments of both Mr. McKee and his staunch supporter, The Journal, with much interest. And with out further comment from us at this time, we reprint in full, their remarks: "FACTS ABOUT THE HIGHWAY" ' "When I assumed the duties of highway commissioner, Jackson County had more mile age of unsurfaced State Highways than all the other thirteen counties in the district combined," said Mr. E. L. McKee, in an inter view, Monday morning, "And," added Mr. McKee, "Jackson County still has more miles of unsurfaced State Highways than all the other counties in my district put together.'" "During the period from July 1, 1931 to July 7, 1939, there was spent in Haywood county, from Federal aid construction funds, . the sum of $762,215.63; and in Transylvania $924,896. These expenditures were princi pally upon the construction of Highway 284 from Pisgah Forest to Waynesville, and ap proximately $200,000 more is now being ex pended upon the completion of that highway. While Mr, McKee has been in office, $95,000 from the same funds was spent in the com pletion of Highway 107, in Jackson County. And, 107, as surveys from time to time dur ing the past 20 years reveal, "is a highway that carries far more traffic than 284. Dur ing this period, and from the same funds, Buncombe received $1,134,533, and in the years 1939 and 1940, an additional .$400,000 was spent in that county. Macon got $907, 578, Swain $107,320, Madison $1,023,000, and Jackson a total of 809,715. In Waynesville, the commission spent $45,000 widening high ways, y From special appropriations for WPA par ticipation, Jackson got $73,747; Haywood $85,762 ; and Buncombe $192,281. , For street maintenance in municipalities, Jackson $7,000; Haywood $9,182; and Bun combe $45,260. The figures quoted above were compiled by the auditor of the State Highway and Public Works Commission in Raleigh, and furnished to the press several months ago. The Journal interviewed Mr. McKee on the subject following the publication of an edi torial in the Waynesville Mountaineer, and its republication in the Asheville Citizen, inti mating that large amounts of money have been spent in Jackson and other counties west of Haywood, that should have been used in those counties. The Journal is offering no defense of Mr. McKee's administration. He needs no de fense. The record speaks for itself. And The Journal has no idea of entering into an inter-county row in the west, just when all the west should be united. There is nothing to be gained by inter-county jealousies. At the same time, the record should be kept straight, in the minds of the people. Mr. McKee stated that the large expendi tures were for the completion of highways begun before he came into office in build ing -connecting links in those highways. This work was necessary, because a highway, like a chain, is no stronger than its weakest link, and through highways are of little value to through traffic unless they are complete all the way. Some counties, Mr. McKee stated, (Continued on page 8) Hobbies For Success 'Too igreat absorption in one thing will make you dull as well as selfish. Have hob bies," says Dr. James E. West in a recent Boys' Life editorial. "The man who knows only one thing in life is apt to be bored with life. If you are interested in aviation learn something about radio. If you like football get out and support the track team as well Life will be just that much more interesting for you. Whatever you achieve, your success will be fundamentally measured by what you yourself really are. If you have a rich, gen erous character, with many friends, and a warm interest in other people and a desire to be of service to them, you will be success ful." "For thirty years we in Scouting have been preaching and participating citizenship, We have been attempted through the Game of Scouting to attract boys. We have been attempting through a program of activities to develop skills, with the motto, Be Prepared, to develop citizens physically strong, men tally awake and morally straight," writes Dr. West. Exchange. "Old" In the Richmond County Journal we find an editorial entitled "Poor Old Benito," and it starts out with the words, "Old Benito." The editorial is about Mussolini, and it is anything but laudatory. We have no objec tion to its censure of II Duce ; in fact, we have pretty much the same notions about him, ourself. But what we do object to is that word "old". . Benito Mussolini was born on the 29th of July in the same year in which we were born on August 6th. That is a difference of eight days. So, anybody who calls Mussolini old is calling us old. The young whippersnapper editor in Rockingham or whipperflapper, if it be a female must be more careful. If a shoe has been worn three years, you can properly call it old. A tennis racket or an automobile is old at six, a cat or a dog at ten, a typewriter at fifteen, a furnace at twenty, a mattress or a couch or a sausage grinder or a cookstove at an indeterminate number of years. But a human being is not old at least, he doesn't like to be called old until he is actually tottering. Our suggestion to the editorial writer in Rockingham is that he make a resolution not to apply the word old to any man or woman short of, at the very lowest, seventy-five. Chapel Hill Weekly, "ONLY ONE MORE WVERTOXROSS ' - j-,,;.Hlg37i i in 3&tf4tjf - im-rVfaW. HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN A Rotarian's "iVo" The Rotary Club of Reidsville, N. C, is a veiy unusual organization. Ordinarily any group of a score or more of human beings is pretty apt to include one or more congenital objectors to any new thing that may be pro posed. The Reidsville club, however, has chosen one of its number to oppose any pro posal that comes up, not matter how worthy, on the ground that the group may act too hastily under the spell of misguided enthus iasm..' v' Such checks undoubtedly are oftimes salu tary. Freedom to oppose is part of the demo cratic system. On grounds of caution perhaps one should try even to appreciate the efforts of those Senators at Chicago who are trying to tie America's hands behind her back to an isolationist "peace" plank. Possibly some thing, too, can be said for the mossbacks who object to the cost of a new diving board at the town swimming pool or to spreading an awn ing at the wagon-yard for folks to eat their lunch under when they come to town on Sat urday afternoons. However, the job of being a civic club's "negative representative" is hot one that is likely to be relished. One is too readily re minded of the man who worked up his sales resistance to the point where he refused to accept his own hat from the check girl. Pos sibly the Reidsville Rotarians may fall back after a while on the wisdom of the wag who expanded a favorite maxim of Theodore Roosevelt to make it read, "Be sure you are right, then go ahead and ask your wife." Christian Science Monitor. It's amazing how much we can read ... merely to keep up with this fast moving world about us . . . or for the sheer joy of the enter taining features of a good piece of citation . . . (that is often a slice if life we recognize about us) . and only in a vague sort of way ecall very long after what we have read ... we may have gained im- essions of a kind . . . butunless circumstances revive them . , . they never crystalize into expressions .; ..'. and then in contrast from one short story or item . . , a sentence or two will stand out in bold relief in our memory , . . and will come back to us . . . recently we were reading some book reviews . . . which we always enjoy . . . for if one does not have time to read a number of the new books . . , that are constantly coming off the press . . . it is interesting to know their titles and have some idea of their contents i.-. ; we were attracted by Marv or Johnnv . . . "Well if SO and so got a certificate, it looks to me like you ought to be as smart as they are" . . . which all proves what a stimulation it is to find out how the -other fellow is doing the same job we are . . . which is the most perfect measuring stick for any kind of effort. . . We borrow two verses this week . . . in which the merits of nylon hose are expounded ... one verse by Margaret Fishback . . . and the reply, in the second verse by one Janet Delmonte ... the first verse appeared in the Oct.-Nov. Dupont magazine . . . "Said Dad to his expensive daugh- ter, ! These stockings made of coal and .' water,., .''': , .', With just a little air thrown in, Sound economical as skin. With summer here. I've coal to THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Latin America Offers Veru Tough Problem For Wallace Voice OF THE People What do yon think of Govern or Broughton'a change of Thanks giving in this atate to the third Thursday to coincide with the na tional date set by President Roose veltT L. M. Richeson "I must confess I prefer the traditional last Thurs day in the month." L. T- New, Jr. "I highly approve of the third Thursday for a number of reasons." Miss Jessie Herren "I do not think that it makes any special difference about the day, if we ob serve it in the right spirit. How ever, since the President has chang ed the date, I really think It better for all the states to have the same celebration." Miss Hester Anne Withers "I aDDrove of having all the states nWrva the same date, but I do not approve of the idea of com mercializing Thanksgiving." Mrs. Chas. E. Bay I think U the other states change their date, we should in North Carolina, but personally I will always prefer the traditional last Thursday. The weather is colder and it seems more like Thanksgiving." Fred H. Saunders "Personally, I see no reason to change the date from the old established last Thurs day." Miss Louise Campbell "I like to keep tradition celebrations on orig inal dates, but in this case I really think it is better to make the change. It is disturbing in many families to observe different dates, as those employed by the Federal government have one holiday and others would have another." Kiifn an interview with the English Toff , , y, ua lorn author Phyllis Bentley . on the , To knit -r own since we have air puuiitanuu ui ci VWB. . . . I AJ won annt-o " at an Air Raid headquarters in England . , . where she is doing her bit as an ambulance driver . it was such a human confession. We believe that more of the Ten Command ments and the Sermon on the Mount as well as the solemn warnings of the prophets, with out which our nation would have crumbled long1 ago, are badly needed now. Daily Home News, New Brunswick, N. J. Authorities on horses tell us that the eyes of horses are situated at the corners of their heads, and with this arrangement, the ani mals on the plains can kick their enemies ,8uch as wolves, without turning their heads. That explains, in part, how that "horsey" teacher we had in grammer school could detect us eating behind a book, without having to turn her head. "Indolence and energy are mixed in my nature . . ... If there were no financial pressure on me, Jt might be that I would do nothing .1 believe in pressure . . . not so much as to make one harried, but enough to keep one conscious of the passage of time and the need to accomplish." . . . now that last sentence is to us a very choice way of expressing the need for work in our lives . . . it makes one realize the blessings of having a definite purpose and the necessity of accom plishing certain objectives ... and also to those of us who struggle . . . outside of the hallowed circle of those who attain fame . . . it discloses the fact that even the genius has to work for what he gets. Our location in town being in such a vunerable spot . v . we have all kinds of requests ... and all types of beggars . . . asking for an unbelievable variety of things . . . one night last week our door bell rang . . . we answered it'.-, . and there stood before us about as unkept a person as we have seen in many moons ... "Lady, would you do me a favor?" ... v in that thick alcoholic stutter ... (you know what we mean) . . . and we said, "Gladly if we can" , . . "Would you please phone the law to come and get me? ... I ain't done noth ing . . . but I need a place to stay tonight" . . . we complied . . . first we phoned the police depart ment , . , . and they were out on some kind of a raid ... then while Chief Stringfield was getting in touch with one of his force . we called the sheriff's office . . and as a result both the city and county officers arrived to take care of the self -invited guest. . . We have thought a lot about the reaction of the joint meeting of the demonstration farmers and the 4-H club members held recently in annual session ... it impressed Us as being such a fine thing to have both the young and the old meet together . . . since both are engaged in the same line of work . . . we would bet our last cent . . . that more than one 4-H club youngster has asked . . . "Daddy, why didnt you get a certificate for being an outstanding fanner?" . . . and the boy or girl has also had brought home to them more seriously than ever before . . . what it takes to make a success of a project . . . and how perhaps they might have helped ... and we feel sure that some father or mother has said to "Said daughter to her stingy Dad, Now you look here, you old tight ' - wad, - - '.;. With water, air and coal to burn, There's still so much I have to : learn, 'Twould be a crime to waste my . ; time On things that Dupont's do so fine, So I will buy my nylon hose, And then you watch me catch the beaus." : The moon is approximately 240, 000 miles from the earth, a short distance as astronomers view things. Mrs. J. F. Abel "I approve of the pjan since President Roosevelt started it, and I feel that all the states should fall in line and make the change." '-. Thad 6. Chafin "If all the oth er states are going to have Thanks giving on the third Thursday, I think that we should observe the same date." Mrs. Felix Stovall "I prefer the old Thanksgiving date, and I do not approve of the change." There is a mile and a half of cotton cord in each 6 by 16 tire and all the cord used annually in tires would reach 3,000 times around the earth. Voting is compulsory in Peru for men up to the age of 60. YOU'RE TELLING ME! -By WILLIAM RITT Central Prtst Writer Having seen nothing but pictures of America's new soldiers sitting in tanks, scout cars and on motor cycles. Zadok Dumbakopf has begun to wonder what has become of our standing army. Iceland recently celebrated its 22nd year since it disarmed. All this talk of war seems to have left the Icelanders cold. The man at the next desk says contract bridge won't be a perfect game until someone invents a suit able shin guard. More than 3,500,000 cannot write says an item. However, the editor staring helplessly at his stack of mail says. he doesn't believe it. Things we never hope to see. A debutante frowning when a news paper camera hoves into sight. The bigger telescopes make more than 300,000,000,000 stars visible, Shucks, Joe Louis' right can do better than that. It is estimated that the coming out parties for New York debu tants costs an annual total of $8,- 000,000. What do they mean by "out" it's Dad who is out! SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK BylUSCOTT Leokajloo OkVuta IMVEffcA. MODERN WA.R. fAUK 450 YEARS CKANBUUUU FLOOD fMc FllLDS - -Wt MDWIOnMM AMD8fl f fHl WIMP, WlUJUL HVICY AK RCCIAU4U IM WIK.VU IS HIKE PAYROU-oP IKK H.Y. VkJl Cor5tRVMlo KPAJtfMEMT - m tttftesi oop - vfXrrl czues- m a. Toots Hunsuqf Dn ITT A Tif Central P ,1WM presidency, it's WnnuZ ""l the White House that B im Keeper-up of relations among all the p ican republics. Primarily we want our neighbors tn wo 1.1 . ginning to do under the fil mg bad. managment nn and some on theirs, too. uJ want, though. It's important Aiucxiuui uuuii, to nave the uub Buuiuem governmenU oi terms with one another ht . ii , . ,UU eiiuy ux ub, mey quarrel a themselves occasionally, n, principally up to Henry to n oui. nuy sucn unpieasantnesa may aeveiop. Our v. p. is delegated after this particular job U ne'S quite a Latin American! ciaust. no got interested neighbors 'somehow, studied intensively, learned to sDe&l ish (he'll need to acquire n guese likewise) and understanl new woraiy Latin temped much Detter tnan the averaw qui. That's their word for M Between spells of vice pr tial duty in the senate chamtJ expected that Henry will pa its to tne soutnern continent paid one to Mexico not Ion and it wasn't much of a juc Mexican political faction our embassy while he was That wasn't his fault, howevi was due to a row between cans themselves, and we haj to get a bit of the overflow, He Laughed It Off It simply was one of thosi puses mentioned above at tl liable to break out to the us, which it will be Henry's u to try to pacify. Indeed maj helped to pacify that one, Bided, anyway. Henry behavl mirably. He just laughed embassadorial stoning inste making a diplomatic incidei of it. That's precisely the way to get on with those 4 rial neighbors of ours. At this very juncture tion's starting to present itsel may call for plenty of Hi best guessing. It appears that the Axis are getting from Latin i large quantities of supplies greatly neel to go on with war against Britain. Britain lantic blockade Bhuts off tht Latin American source acros ocean, though it's said a litti ily portable stuff is transplat.j plane. Bulkier shipments, over, are ferried from the toast over the Pacific to thence to Vladiovtosk, through Siberia and Europeai sia to Germany. Britain's navy is too busy Atlantic and in the Meditera to patrol the Pacific and, we're supposed not to be war, our Pacific fleet can't To be sure, it s no secre we're opposed to the supply the Axis via the Pacific aw Russian route. And, so far United States is concerned, prevent it by a policy of expj bargoes. In fact, to a certl nt, though not wholly, wei it. But we can't dictate emkl to the Latin Americas not out making them perfectly ij and knocking our entire Pan- 'can good neighborly progw a cocked hat instanter. A4 Latin Americas show no sin an inclination to slap on ar bargoes. It's natural that shouldn't,"thejrwant that oun their surpluses. WelL.an alternative's sug tt's this; Let U. S. BUY K? Let the United States buy of those Latin American surfl leaving nothing to be sold xis aggregation. 1 Now Latin America does a few commodities that w in almost unlimited qnHH such as tin, coffee and s cellaneous tronical stuff. main, though, they produ tha pomm ttiincra that e how are we swing to buy 100 ner cent, dumping otfj 1 - Jm,llC cnases onto our uui -in competition with YanW duction? On nRwpr is that hand the whole collection 1 Britain. Yet if we did we P for it " " vv r - . . cnHt nt rnivinff out Latin 1 bodily, on top of defensive rt mnritima n-nA aviation 81" BuU, would be terrific Are to feed aa well as arm J"1 Isn't that a problem l Wallace to chew on? Thirty-five per cent of vehicles in New England ' A in fliti'na twtween -.r" I 26,000 populated. U L
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