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Fage 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street phon 187 Waynesville, North Carolina Th County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS ............ MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Editor Associate Editor W.' Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County ... ... Six Months, In Haywood County One Year, Outside Haywood County -All Subscriptions Payable in Advance .fl.60 76c 2.00 Entered at tha port ottica at WajTiewllU, K. 0., aa Claaa Mull Matter, aa provided uudtr to Act of March S, 187, Novambar iO, 1014. '.' ' . ' nhlriurr notlcaa. raaolutlona of impact, earda of than! and all Doticaa of nterUlnmenta for profit, will ba tor at tba rate of ona orut par word. North Carolina v4k PPjiS ASSOCIAnoJS NATIONAL EDITORIAL. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941 First Call This is our "first call" to the annual spring clean up week a preliminary which the mayor will shortly declare. We have been noticing of late accumulations of winter debris. This business of cleaning up is not only in behalf of an effort to improve appearances, but is a matter of hard boiled business. If we live up to the reputation that Carl Goerch gave us during the past year of being the "cleanest town in the state", will have to real ly work at the job. Let us all appoint ourselves a committee of one to see that every pile of unsightly debris and untidy vacant lots or for that matter premises about buildings and homes is re moved during the time set aside for this work. We have heard much agitation about vari ous beautification committees about the com munity, but they all seem a bit slow about taking off, but if each one will feel his or her personal responsibility in the matter we will have no need for a "committee". , Symbol "May the North Carolina be a symbol of Droirress through strength," President Roose velt said in a telegram read at the ceremonies incident to the commissioning of the great battleship named for this State. In the ser vice of America his wish for the North Caro lina should be accepted also as an injunction to the State itself. "A symbol of progress through strength' ' 1 l ' 1 "jff V, Ai-U r is a pnrase wmcn provides a goai iur ship and a State. Defense is not in battle ships alone. Strength lies also in the health and education, good living and good sense of people far behind any lines of battle. Twenty years ago North Carolina began a period of progress which was unequalled in the South perhaps in the nation. The State still moves in progress but other State? in the South and outside it hive at least matched its rate of advance. Now beside the symbol of the greatest ship, the State deserves a new energy in direction and in citizenship to be come a greater State. The defense effort in the whole land, to provide ships and planes and armies of train ed men, should be joined at home to create that strength in welfare, education, housing, health, all aspects of human decency, which behind all the arms and armies is the basis of all security. "A symbol of progress through strength." That is the ship. "A symbol of progress through strength." That also must be the State. Raleigh News and Observer On to Greensboro The Waynesville Township High School Band leaves today for Greensboro, some 60 odd strong, to compete in the state-wide music festival. Whether or not they are able to come out ahead against other bands and win a "superior rating" as they did in the dis trict contest is a question to be answered after they play tomorrow. But that has nothing to do with the fact that we home folks are proud of their record and accom plishments. As they take off today our best wishes go with them, and their director, We trust they come home with another "star in their crown", but if they do not we are still proud of our 20 months old organization. We do know this much in advance, if they make as much progress in the next 20 months as in the past, we are sure that they can com pete with any band in their class in the state and come out victorious. Lack of Training The fact that industries are begging for workers wfth certain skills, and yet a million men are asking for WPA jobs should bring home to the people of this country the impor tance of vocational training in our schools. It is said that in many of the areas where .defense programs are in operation, there are more jobless men than ever before hunting work. These conflicting facts are being brought out in various government agencies as they jstudy the effect of the bulging national de fense program upon the great army of job ' hunters, which in the economic tide are still begging for WPA jobs. Had these men enjoyed vocational training that is given the present generation in our public schools, the rolls would no doubt be greatly reduced. It is said that the number of jobs will reach a peak total of from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 during 1941 and 1942, yet on the other hand the government figures that there are 9,000, 000 men unemployed. The present condition of affairs should serve as an incentive to the rising generation to prepare themselves to fill a definite place in industry or other vocations, as the need for special training becomes more and more Traveling Officials If Governor Broughton keeps up the pace he has set during his first few months as gov ernor of North Carolina, he will be in the class of the Roosevelts when it comes to trav eling. The Governor seems to feel that part cf his duties is to sell the state of North Carolina to the outside world. We are inclined to think he is right. The petty routine of signing his name does not make a governor a far vision ing executive. It takes something else. It is said that Governor McLean Was the first governor of the state to start "travel ing", and he made many trips into the North and even spent his vacations in the Great Lakes section. This representing the state away from home is part of the trend of changing times, for with the great highways that circle this country and invite people to travel, the "in dustry of tourists" has developed. Governor Ehringhaus went up into Can ada and Governor Hoey also got about with thousands of miles to his credit. But Gov ernor Broughton has beat them all to date. He has been to Mexico, New York, New Or leans, to Fort Jackson, and to see Fort Bragg in the East and to Asheville in the West to see and talk to the teachers of the entire state. No longer are the states of this nation iso lated sections, they are part of a whole, and we feel that the governor, who knows condi tions elsewhere and how other states are meeting their problems, will make a broader and better governor of North Carolina. ' HOVOUCH IONGER CAN WE STAY OUT OF IT? i a' '. : ! I a i ' DtAL v ys N ...w .tpp- - '. .1 I I . if HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Another Easter has come and tone . . . we wonder if most oi us appreciated sufficiently the beau ty of the perfect day . . ". sunshine . and peace ... no dread of night coming on and what the darkness lives with his Grandmother . ' . . Mary Love in colored town? . . well, if you don't . . . you've missed something . . . there are a few cer tain jobs about spring cleaning , . . that Pete can do better than Colds A recent Gallup, survey reveals some inter esting things about "a common cold". The economic wastage was appalling, with 59 000,000 days front work lost. From the survey it was learned that more than 20,000,000 aduitsr or one in every four. Were victims of last winter's epidemic of flu and gripei. Colds, it seems are no respector of persons,, from the day laborer to the white collared executive, they are susceptible to the germs. Colds were slightly more common in small towns and rural areas, than in large cities. They were also found to be more common with women than men. While health authorities have been sure t&at colds are far more common among the poor than the well-to do, the figures compiled bear out this belief to some extent, but the differences are not so great as might have been expected. The results of the survey offer convincing proof that flu and colds can be written down as the source of more lowered physical ef ficiency, and greater economic loss, than any other illness on the American medical calen dar. m'ght biiner . . . the second Easter anyone we know ... for one thing sirpp Hitlpr started out to conauer his height is such that he has an lr'inne , . . we wonder what the almost impossible "reach" . . . see ing him reclining on a telephone pole about town . . . as no doubt you have, you would never suspect that he might be a philosopher . . . but he is . . . of the first order . . . he has a great way of reasoning things out ... and we would not dare try to fool him about anything . . . we have smiled more than once over bits of his conversation . . . as he worked for us recently . . . day meant to little children in Eng land , . . for even three thousand miles away . .: . the shadows reach vit . . . and only the very young can escape their foreboding ef fect . . .-' Isn't it strange how you can read account after account of con ditions in England , . . and they register in a way . . . but a word from someone you actually know . . . will impress you beyond meas ure ... in comparison . . , letters to Dr. Gladys Osborne ". . . from her husband, Dr, Dudley Smith these days are not so encouraging about affairs in England . . . Dr. Smith, orthopedic surgeon . ' . . is with the "American Hospital in Bri tain", t . . the "Institution located about 50 miles out from London . . . and financed by Americans with a staff made up for the most part of American doctors . . . his letters are of course all censored . . . recently a line had been neatly clipped out , . . but even so enough of interest concerning conditions gets through to give one a very renlistic picture of things ... he writes that the drone of planes go ing over the hospital is incessantly heard . . , these days . . . and that the dropping of incendaries has become so constant that each Doc tor at the hospital is required ever so often to keep vigil all night . . . as his turn comes around . . . these small incendaries are dropped by hundreds . . . by planes en route to some major appointment of de struction . . '. but not wishing to miss any opportunity to lay waste the land ... blaze their way with all possible danger to the English the incendaries Vtart burning at a very high temperature the in stant they strike something ... and the damage can be quite seri ous if not watched closely: . . . then another bad sign . . . is the fact that the American doctors who have served their six months period ... i ... i . a LananiAn rpnnrta ammiw . . . . io imyuiir uuinuui whir mh n THURSDAY, APRIL Priorities Offer Tough Problem In War Relief Voice OF THE People What do Spring? you like best about R. T. Boyd "Turnip Greens and see the grass grow green. Mrs. E. L. Withers "The flowers in the spring mean more to me than anything . else the season brings." Mrs. L. M. Richeson "The glor ious budding out of things." Miss Elsie McCracken "Putting away winter clothing and getting out fresh new colors is what I like best about spring." Fred Martin "Getting rid of a coal bill is one of the best things about spring to me." R. E. Sentelle "The interest and pleasure I get out of planting a good garden is what I like best about spring. " Rev. Pink McCracken "There . '1 i are so many gooo? uungs auout spring, but one thing I particular ly like is that it make the trout in my pool bite." Asbury Howell "I like to see the cattle go out on the green grass. I turned out 25 cows this week and it was certainly a pretty sight to me." V .; ' ; ' B. G. O'Brien "I like the warm weather." in getting passage -either on boat or plane . . Judging from the number of men between the ages of 21 and 35 who are being turned down for service and are unable to meet the requirements of the physical examinations, which are a part of the nation's peace-time conscription, American youths are not in such We met one enthusiastic person during- the week . . . Mrs. C. C. White . . . who has charge of sew ing for the Red Cross . . . the last quota for the local chapter calls for 28 dresses to be made . . . 16 for children . . . and 12 for women . . . all must be completed some time in May . . . Mrs. White does all the cutting of the garments . . . and has the material ready for sew ing . . ; but even iso they don't go like the "proverbial hot cakes" on a Bargain Day . . . she more or less has to peddle them over the tele phone . . . and among her special friends, before all the dresses are "taken" . , . it seems she was get ting a bit uneasy about this last quota . . . she called, among others, Mrs. G. F. Boston . . . and asked her if she would make a 1 dress . . . the answer . . . "Why 111 be de lighted" . . . and she sounded so agreeable about it that Martha took courage and ventured . . ." Well suppose I bring you out two dresses" ... whereupon Mrs. Bos ton said . . . "Bring six and I will be glad to make them all" ... and thereby put herself in the high production- class of . Mrs. Tom Stnngfield and Mrs. Sam String field . . . who have done their share and the other fellows in Red Cross sewing . . .: "Yes'm . . . Miss Hilda . . . my grandma can tell to the penny how much money I got on hand . . . and when I haven't got a cent'.'; . she knows that too . . and I can tell she knows by the way she treats me . . . everything's sweet and fine when I got the money ... . . . "you know I've been tfoftikirtg here lately of joining these prohibition ists . . . I have about eome to the conclusion that it pays to be one . . . you can save money and your reputation . :. . now you take on the other hand if you belong; to the other crowd ... you can't hardly stay out of jail nor keep a red cent" . .'.."You know one of the best ways I figure to save is to buy a: good piece of jewelry . . ": . you do that and you can't never sro broke . for there's always some fool with money that'll buy it . . .. . ; "I been figuring lately I'd' sorter change my ways hope someday to call Heaven my home . Fred A. Ferguson "We all feel rejuvenated in the spring and are reborn, so I like this phase of spring best." OPINIONS And '.'; COMMENTS .''' Of OTHER EDITORS SPARING THE NICKEL If Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, di rector of the United States mint, had not called it to out attention we would have plumb missed the nickel's 75th birthday last week. As part of the honors due1 this, one of the most useful of all coins, she divulged the fact that since the jitney was first minted more than 2,000,000,000 have been circulated. It is supposed this was quite ade quate but it does, seem strange that in the Course of three-quarters of D rVintllflT lifhan urn nnvt J fur I shore ' Millions for wars and preparations i for wars we haven't finished 1 rnnnfi'no vof lovirifv Ant vmvmMia but one thing . . . cer- bnlions for rplipf AnA nthov nw. tain . . . I ain't homesick yet" expenditures, we should have need- YOU'RE TELLING ME! By WILLIAM RITT Central Prtm Writer The British people are foml ef newspaper stories especially that daily adventure yarn, "The Defeats of II Duce." Maybe the bird was just turning pale at the thought that perhaps winter isn't over yet. Do you happen to know one tall This is the time of the year, says a nature note, when the sap- runs. That's why the manager sent him to the bushes he forgot to slide. Half a million disease rerms. claims a bacteriologist, can perch on the head of a pin. And Grand pappy Jenkins adds that he wishes tney would stay there. The reason we prefer spring is oecause it s much nicer to watch the leaves come out than down. Beards have become fashionable among French soldier prisoners in uermany ews item. So their jailors can't see them grit their leetnT A midwestern burglar success fully carted off a large bath tub. Even the police had to admit that he made a clean getaway. SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK & I I ' ; CL ,5H'faiAiu;trLA.ii.i &,::A X- UM UKE. SADDLE. m UBvCrlll V, BAjuc some. aw n f . va tm r-r 5iAAyu i niRT writ " .a Dw W Wa IV II I n I X, tU. -U MftrcAait. TUAY of BAEABAKSl ftMIIE.40 All " Hi Smih$omim By Charles p. s, Central Press Col While warmly commf charity to victims of ol conditions, State Secrel Hull wants it so syst to make it 100 per cerj ucoiuea vue xieu Lross, il the number of private! cies runs into the hunl ing each on its own Hull's idea is that they over one another, cluttJ job at which they all ml That's why, upon Ct ommendation, President recently named his thl tional committee to gij direction to the misctlj ganizations' efforts. The chairman is t Davies, American am Belgium until the Gert ran the country. Assaj him are Charles P. Taf nati and President Fi Keppel of the Carnegf tion. Besides funneling1 uei into tne right c committee will have c task of shaping the contributions for the b selectees' training1 cen home. ; This latter ma lief, in its strict sense. and Secretary Hull th tieiiumg to, to makf count up to a maximum! You don't get far'im sion of anything relatinj uvusnu siiuuuon an aeiensive preparation! running into the questiJ ties. Who Comes F Who's to be provided supply sources or tial facilities are skimpy? Its quite a problem tion with shipments abi gency-8tricken peoples oceans holler for mai stuff faster than we J it, and there's the eve ficulty of scaring up ei to deliver it in. It may appear that not be much of a puzzld deliveries of presents mestic selectees' encam Yet it may be, too. them. tt! ; . . "eve got at least ol priority already. Al uraj ority-ized in military af vor. Our flyers get thef at it, and pots-and-pani turers can have only wi it's left over, if any, to housewives with kitche Orcounre, I don't thi ority will be so interp deny cooking utensils t tees' camps, but it ma preted in a fashion to 1 various other things th cietiea would like to se Now, this is an cxtit possible illustration But suppose that tl fixers Were to say, "He ity outfit that seeks to i ties of cigarettes to ov Well, cigarette-makin part of bur productive of which we need fo purposes. Therefore, m ority to would-be reli tors' cigarette offering: lectees' concentrations.' No, I know it couldn1 Nevertheless, that's I of priorities. I Advisory On Of course, the new Keppel committee isn torial a setup as th Hillman Office of Prodi agement's priorities dij OPM division's decisioB date. The Davies-" outfit is only advisory. I honestly can imagi mandate barring cigi ments abroad, on the i cigarettes aren't a mil sity to the democraci against the Axis po"1 every square inch insid as are available ought 1 with shooting-irons, eJ cetera. I certainly ca the Davies-Taft-Keppe as advising charity not to send cigs to oi But I can imagine 'e against gifts for anytt solute necessities to Bri and China. Their mis to dope out schemes of , into the Axis-conquere without indirectly aidii aggregation. It would be a fine not cigarettes into occur" and Germans smoked e MARRIAQ Lewis Pless. of Wa; Weaveratte Parks, of , James A Singleton, ville to Mrs. Mollie Canton, route 1. Mnv & fellow has M in his fellow man by a confidence game. lust a couple of H fiirluntora for chfi nothing of what ve -i i,; Terra Kaon acute in this day of specialization. fine form as most of us had expected. -1 i . - .... uui, U OECONDS . . cause we ,nave . I 6 feet and 9 inches high . . . and dollars roU.-GreensH Pete . . . colored ... who stands
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