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Pklt 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By ' THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING 00. Main Strtet Phon 1OT 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. Bridget, Publishera PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County Six Months, In Haywood County , - 78 One Year. Outside Haxwood County ., . 2.0 Al( Subscriptions Payable in Advance VmrH mt thm nnat nffis mi WaTBaarllla. M. O.. U I Olu MU M ittcr, u proHdml muter th Ao el Muck t, 1811. Mowmtwr 10. lU. ebituur notlcM, raaoltitiona of iwpct, Wto ot thanks, ad all not lew of oUrtalnmtnU for profit, will bo obugod lor ot tb rat of ono ot por word. 'North Corolina i L AmvCIATK vHorUi Carolina t4t MjJ AlSOCUTlOfTg CCC Ranks Diminish To us one of the most worthwhile adven turea in solving modern problems in this country wa the CCC Camp. 7 It served so manv Durooses from many constructive angles..: ,y v. But there, are new problems that. ; are changing the needs of the country. Last week it was announced by the director of the CCC's , that 246 camps were to be closed, Three reasons have brought about the cut; one many of the OCC youths have found employment in industry; another, they have gone into our great peace time army; a third, a $33,000,000 cut in the OOC's appropriation last year made it ne cessary to close many of the camps. The training received by the boys in the camps and the work they did in our national forests and parks will be a permanent me morial to this project of the New Deal. NATION n s n vjAv a 111 I l Ift..J AL EDITOR! Al SSOCIATION THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941 Welcome Masons This week-end will bring Masons from all over Eastern America here for the 7th annual summer meeting in Waynesville. This community has learned to look for ward to the coming of the Masons in the summer like a child towards Christmas. Their coming brings to us some of the most talented and progressive men of the East, and while their stay is usually short, we have always found that our brief contacts with them were more than worthwhile. Best of wishes for a successful session this year, and the many, many years to come. The Dellwood Road The urgency of immediate action on the part of the highway commission in moderniz ing the five miles of No. 284 from here to Dellwood is of paramount importance not only to Haywood but to the Western part of the state. The paved road to Dellwood served its purpose at the time it wag built, about 20 years ago. Since that time travel has chang ed, both in speed and volume. The road' is not adequate to present needs, and the In Native Manner We can't get away from our traditions in this section. It makes no difference how many city improvements and modern changes we try to make, the average tourist will al ways like us in "our native traditions" best. Look how the fame of the square dance has publicised this section. It is one of the most popular forms of entertainment we have to offer the visitors, and they like it. It is typical of the country, as they like to think of it. More and more are all American towns becoming built on the same pattern and more and more are people in widely sepa rated sections of the country patterning their lives along the same manner. So let us dig up , the past for very good business reasons and put it on the market whether it's "swing your partner" to the tune of our peppy mountain music or an old quilt pattern like Grandma used to make. Don't discard these things of the -past, but bring them out with streamlined methods of salesmanship. There is nothing unusual about it. Take your own experiences, when you visit a cer tain locality, ,you seek out the shop "to pur chase souvenirs that will be. distinctive of the community from which they were bought. Pleasure And Profit 3 XTOLD VOUTErt VBM AGO VtXJ'O H DID GET WDOrW fcJ gV ; AS MDU KEPT SCRUB USTVQr g pL'T W (Another of a series of cartoons on purebred stock, furnished this newspaper by Joe Rose). dangers are too great to not1 remedy at once.- The highway commission is aware of the importance of this road, and we feel will come through with a modern road in short order. ' HERE and THERE HILDA WAY GWYN One of the finest things we have ever had contributed to this coir umn by a reader is the following .'. . "I am an American" . . .a creed for today by one R. L. Duffus .. we regret that we do not have space for the entire article but only in part. . . . : : First Place Again Haywood county stepped into first place again, when the census bureau finished checking the farm increase and decrease in the state for the past ten years. Haywood had the greatest per cent of increase of white farmers during the last decade, with a total of 993 white farmers, or 46.9 per cent. Dare county had a decrease of 26.8 per cent. The report shows that Haywood had 3, 109 white farmers in 1940 and 10 negro farmers. The state reported 218,008 farmers for an increase of 7.5 per cent over 1930. The distinction of Haywood taking the lead- again in this particular phase of the census, proves beyond a doubt the general trend in this county that we are bcoming more of an agricultural county every year with good farmers studying modern meth ods of doing even a better job. Not In Hay wood It is said that wedding bells rang more often in the United States last year than ever- before in - the nation's history. This may be true, but there is another story in Haywood county. The revamping of our marriage laws two years ago by thefGeneral Assembly while a commendable change, has not been fully ac cepted by those contemplating taking on the Holy bonds. It is to be hoped that ere long our neigh-J boring states will pass similar heeded legis lation and that there will be no inducement to leave home to get married. The Census Bureau reported last week that there were 1,500,000 marriages cele brated in 1940. Two reasons are given for this new record, better economic conditions and population growth, with the Selective Draft also a boon to the marriage license bureau. - V " "I am an American . . . The things I shall say about myself may seem at first to contradict one another, but in the end they add up ... I am almost recognized at once wherever I go about the world , . . some say it is my clothes that give me away . . . some say it is my way of talking . . . I think it is more than that . . . I have an unusual history . my an cestors came over in the May flower , . . they else came over during the hungry forties of the last century . . . in the hopeful eighties, in the troubled ninties . . . or came five years ago and have just become a citizen . . . . name any .race . . . I belong to it . '.'. . I have been around . . , I have seen the earth, but now I am an American , . . I or some one for me, bought my share of Amer ican at a price ... I have known hardships, sickness and danger . . I could not be held within the limits set for me by kings and lorlings on the other side of the water . I pushed forward . , . I hunted far beyond the mountains V:i . I re turned and took my wife and our brood and our wagons over . . . . the life I lived shaped me into a new kind of human being. . . . A" , . ...... . A Drunk's Picture A judge in Minnesota is urging the old fashioned whipping post for those convicted of driving while drunk. The humiliation of getting a thrashing in public would be lots worse than a fine and having the drivers license revoked. Even worse than a short road sentence. On the other hand, this newspaper would welcome the opportunity of publishing the picture of every person in this county con victed of driving drunk, in order that the public to whom he was a menace, would see exactly. what he looked like and, report to officials if he were ever seen under a steer ing wheel again. The safety division of the state highway department could well afford to provide the printing plates and take the space in the newspapers for them. The spotlight, of publicity would do much towards curbing some of this drunken driv ing. . . : ! H Highway Deaths - Figures from the National Safety Council showed recently that this state ranks sec ond in the nation in the percentage of in crease in highway deaths. At the end of the first five months of the year, North Carolina had an increase of 48 per cent of fatal accidents. The national average was 17 per cent, while the only state ranking higher than North Carolina was Washington with an increase of 73 per cent. " '. ' "'' Arkansas and Delaware were the only -states during, this period that had an in crease of more than 40 per cent. Thirty. nine states showed some increase while nine had a decrease. The record is an alarming one and shows there is drastic need for a remedy for the situation. At the end of the six months period the State Highway Safety Division officials will be furnished with an analysis which will tell what kind of accidents are increasing, when and where they are occuring and what seems to be the cause. On this analysis the officials are hoping to work out something that will aid in reducing the highway deaths in North Carolina. A Sure Sign You can tell when a man doesn't Know the facts. He uses more postive assertions as a substitute. Buffalo New9. 'I have not loved arrogant au thority ... I have not respected any man because of the accident of birth ... . I have judged my fel lows by what they were and what they did ... in my struggle with this continent, out of my dreams, out of my grief, out of my sins, I have laid by a great store of memories . . , they are a part of What I am . . . no torrent of words can tell of them . . . but no new world, no new order in the world can wipe them out . t . I remember great men and great deeds ... I remember great sayings . . . but I remember, also, sayings that were never written down and deeds known only to a few . . the pio neer greeting his wife as he came in from his new cornfield in the dappled shade of ringed and dying trees . . . the strong urge of dis cussion in remote crossroads . . . the young man in Georgia or Ohio . kissing his mother good-bye to enlist . . . a Mississippi Negro . . a Texas cowboy ... all man ner of men and women planning . . working saving .... seeing that the children had better school ing than the parents ; . . reform ers crying out against corruption . dreamers battling against the full tide of materialism. . . , dom is not a lie . . . the brother hood of man is not a lie. . . the kindly help given by neighbor to neighbor does not rest on a lie . . . challenged ... they are none the less true . . . I am an American . . I cannot let the Challenge drop . . . I cannot say I am not as other men and their tribulations do not concern me . . . I cannotjsay, I am free . .' . let others be slaves for all of me . . . I am an Amer ican, and the inheritor of this continent . . . . but the deed of gift was not handed to me with out. a codicil .... what was won by courage must be kept by cour age ... what was won in pain may have to be defended in pain . . . .: what was achieved cannot be en joyed without new achievement. , . "I cannot rest upon my memo ries ... I shall make new and proud memories for my children .. , ' I shall say to tyrants . . ,'as they said, 'Stand aside' . . . over vast prairies . . , beyond loftier moun? tains than my pioneer fathers crossed . . . I see a new vision . . . all who struggle anywhere for liberty are my countrymen. . . . and no spot where blood has been shed for conscience sake is for eign ground to me . . . 'these truths we hold to be self evident' . . .. . . what was proved three Centuries ago . . . a century and a half ago . . . three-quarters of a century ago . . . is not the less true now . . . shall men stand straight and proud, manful and just, cour ageous and tender .. . building and sharing on but one continent and for but a little time . . . I am an American . : . I say no. ... "After the years . . . the cen turies .. . I begin to know what it means to be an American.'' , .v. The foregoing appeared in the magazine section of the New York Times on May 18 . . . and to us expresses in an impressive way v. what it means to be an American today. , . . . Cherokee county is the most western county in the state, which borders on Georgia and Tennessee. "I remember all these things , they help to steady me when I lie awake at night . . . these are my people that have said and done these things . ... I am an Amer ican ... I am of one race and of all races . ... I am heir to a great estate . . .1 am free and i i i .i . . uouim la me wneet 01 a great re sponsibilty ... I turn . . . I look back across the ocean ... are they not my people, too, all of them? . . have we come so far, done so much, suffered bo much, hoped so mucn . . . and does it mean noth ingT . . . is this New World to be come on Old World! ... I am an American ... I say, N6. . . . On this continent, in God's good wiim was Drougnt iorth a new nation, conceived in liberty and ded icated to the proportion that all men are created equal . . . free- North Carolina furnished 92.B10 men for service during the World War. , Baruch Urges Economic Warfare Against Germany By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist. BERNARD M, BARUCH, who managed our war industries during the last world conflict and proba bly knows more than anybody else in the United States as to the best system of running them in such emergencies, wants ns to open up anticipatory hostilities against Ger many and to begin em ght now, It's commercial hostilities that he advocates, however not ne cessarily the military, naval or avi atorial kind. Specifically, what he suggests is the creation of an Agency of Eco nomic Warfare to initiate and de velop whatever international bar gaining policies may be essential to outmaneuver the Nazis at their own game of exclusive agreements, subsidies and battering. Moreover, he's listened to respectfully by many prominent businessmen and folk high in the government, Pres ident Roosevelt included. i The scheme has an especial ap peal to Pan-American interests, for it's into the various territories of the southern neighbors that Nazi' land is sure to direct its first and most energetic commercial drive if it completes its European .con quests or arrives at a satisfactory ( to itself V negotiated peace. In fact, it already is proposed that, in connection with Bernard Baruch s plan (and maybe as its mam item), an All-American Trad ing corporation will be vitally nec essary to handle business transac tions of every sort between our western hemispherical republics and also between them and the rest of the world. The argument is that itll be to our joint advantage, that both we and the neighbors will like it and that it will be a success from the very jump. If the program's adopted and works, as per prediction, it'll be an excellent; thing to have in opera tion, ever tf Herr Hitler's licked. leaving Jaim in no position to real ize his undoubted western hemi spherical ambitions. If Hitler Wins Abroad And if, by chance, he should win on his own side of the Atlantic, the fan-Americas would be economi cally intrenched against him in ad vance and he'd have an uphill fight to break into - 'em commercially. But if he did become commercially formidably established in their midst, it generally is accepted as a AT LONG ! LASH -- 1 - m an , f'" .s.r-ril i T1ATT" 9 -lc THURSDAY y Voice OFTHJJ If fni. had your choice ot75 . 1 nom. is k,, of the country would J0 Mary Ashworu7B,i would chose the Piedm J of this state." 0,1 W. A. Bradley "jujt to the. Haywood county k rnnlH Mf V ua -v. egh. I like the socij ..a rengious atmospher.' city, and I also like the i J. W. KilIUi.T .. 1 Eastern shore of MaryuJ J. Harden HoweU-jfii Northern Texas." Mifia IT 1 . would select C,Kfnm;. . 1 choice and somewhere ij ..Kiaiiu s my second choit D"- N. M. Medford"I0 leave western North Carola I would take Hendersonvffle town. Robert Hugh Clark-"! I'd take Florida." Ida Jean Brown "CalifoJ Mrs. E. T. Duckett-"rJ some town in Pennsylvania. MARRIAGES Kenneth K. WinnalL of ter, Pa., to R. Carmel Sel Montgomery, Ala. James W. Kline, of Dkl to Eleanor Marie Listen, of HI. Goal Fish, of Lmt S. Minnie Fisher, of Clyde. foregone conclusion that dertake to become so pol next. Not only would that tJ for us, in the United States, take it that it would be rJ for the republics south of That they're no wish to manized'is the inference dd the state department from al recent news items iron rection. aii thi TVTqtio ova VtiTcior ffinn else in Argentina, under tion of Edmund von Thfl fhori" omtinenrfnr in RnpnOS It s understandable; tney - T 1 T . 1 1.. menta fVipro TfipVre 1101119 southern .Brazil aiso, t.imp nim flipv became Streperous, but President squelched 'em sumniar they've stayed subdued The Argentinos dont s much foolishness, ; either. tVo lnf war when I lived i trouh and the government deeHel Here in tne unttea owves, Rprsrfnff. havill? ed into a pest, we sent i The Argentinos weren i ttiof fKov mnmditsd their an toTonif in flip RlO de U They haven't marrooned A- dor von Thermann yei. tKpv aoDointed . l.'lfAl or congressional invesuS- ilar to our Dies committee, into undemocratic ti...- tittle lafpf- hP Nazis 1 yanked down from over "I solate, during an demonstration uf Cordoba. . HTt TTnunmv ODened a Vnnlrpp and other hpmisnhprical Warshippin" event of art attack on UJ Americas, and urged w f a! Am Oil IE. Such happenings dont 4 i ovpr v Dro-rai'i uw, DroDasranda talk.; ProDasand !' mat tne prui6"-- j T.i-pttv well w.UuSu, .o r , j n m;Hpt. for 15 FH mercial attache oi " C onhoecv in IW" under Nazi-aom, - i a well-worked-out f American international some oi ure nr- mij it, but otners- i s ones wouiu oe 'r , th mar). wouldn't like that. Anyway, advises us not wan "'"".v., . i i inn 01 ' into economic wn 1 it's an easy j"--in. . 'em 'em for com by little off let's tion's drive while dulge Mr. Jr.. birth July r. j BIRTH ANN0Uf',J r. and Mrs. .Sjajy of Waynesville, , of a daughter, the 9th at .n- The state three ;n.c are: The ?rrc "Old North", and tw
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