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THE WAYNZSVJLLE MOUNTAINEER
The Mountaineer
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941
This Is Fire Season
All indications point to a bad fire season
in the mountains. With last year's open
winter, followed by a rather dry spring and
drier summer meant a five inch deficiency
in rainfall the first of the month.
Since the forests are powder-dry, a fire
would cause lots of damage in a short time.
Practically all forest fires start from two
causes & careless smoker or deliberately
set. Since both of these causes can be pre
vented there is no cause for fire loss in our
forests this fire season, which nature . has
done little to help keep down, '
Double Duty For
Motorists
Patrolman 0. R. Roberts hit the nail
squarely on the head last week when he told
a reporter of this newspaper that the im
portant thing to assure safety on the high
ways today is to look out for yourself and
also the other fellow.
The patrolman of this area voiced the sen
timent of the people in general, when he said
he was "alarmed over the increasing number
of highway accidents". Right here in Hay
wood there have been more accidents during
the past three months than during the first
six months of the year. This is enough to
cause alarm. ,.: : . '
We recognize the increase in traffic dur
ing the summer months, and traffic during
the fall has been higher than usual, which
tends to bring about an increased number
of accidents, but we believe that every motor
ist to be safe, will have to heed the advice
of Patrolman Roberts, and do double duty
in watching that is looking after your car
and the other motorists.
It will be far better to do that, then have
a doctor and staff of nurses watch over us
while they restore us to health from an ac
cident. '
The Sporting Thing
Much interest always centers around the
public drawings which are held every fall to
determine the hunters who get bear hunts
that are aufhorized and staged under super
vision of the North Carolina Department
of Conservation and Development.
This year when the results of the draw
ings were made known, it was surprising
to learn that all the hunts had gone to Can
ton sportsmen. To further add to the sur
prise of hunters from Waynesville and Sylva,
who were hopeful of getting one or two of
the hunts, was the fact that the alternate
names were also of Canton sportsmen.
It appeared that the ill hand of fate was
against all but the huntsmen of Canton.
These men from the industrial city were
as quick to sense that lady luck had smiled
their way as were the men from other sec
tions to feel their loss of not being drawn.'
The Canton men, being gentlemen and
sportsmen, and feeling they had no right
to take advantage of less fortunate - ones,
quickly offered two of their hunts to Way
nesville and Sylva men, and in addition, plan
to invite a number from these localities to
make up their party for the hunt.
That is sportsmanship at its best. It is
even better than bagging the biggest bear
in the woods.
It's fine to live In a section where such a
feeling exists.
The automobile is a great moral force; It
has completely stopped horse stealings
Exchange. . ' '
A Stronger Generation
All of Haywood is proud of the 100 per
cent "clean teeth" record of Cruso school
children.
" Such a successful program warrants them
In adopting the title of "Haywood's Health
School", and this newspaper offers congratu
lations to teachers patrons and students, as
well as the health officers who worked in
establishing the worthwhile program in the
school -oy.-:--y: :
Such programs are what it will take to
overcome the ugly record which draft boards
of the nation are experiencing when they
have to turn down so many young men be
cause they are not physically fit for service
Certainly this generation doesn't want to
go down in history as being a group of weak
lings, and the very program that is under
way in the Cruso schools will be among those
things that will spare us of such a name.
Another Step Forward
This newsnaner has alwava believed in
and supported the movement to have better
livestock In Haywood. In fact, we have had
so much about it in recent weeks, that at
times we were on the verge of feeling that
perhaps this was bcoming a livestock jour
nal, but we are still a newspaper, but believe
such an important movement as better live
stock justifies all space given.
" We would be doing the cause an injustice
if we did not voice an opinion about the
grand showing Haywood cattle made at the
State Fair last week.
The many honors won is just further proof
.that Haywood has laid the foundation for
becoming the home of the state's best live
stock, and to this end, we believe, every
citizen of the county will work.
"Good Times"
. Leon Henderson, price administrator, re
cently defined "good times" in terms relating
to business activity, but production, distribu
tion and consumption of goods are not the
whole of existence.
We liked the following definition that The
Christian Science recently gave of good times
much better: ' ... .
"Good times" are children skipping happily
to school or dancing .;'to the hurdy-gurdy's
tunes. "Good times" are the days when
you set off to work with a whistle on your
lips or a song in your heart. They are express
ed in the laughter heard above the subway
rush, the good-natured jostling of a football
crowd, by the friendly lamp that unafraid
waits in your front window to light your late
.return. :' ."
"Good times" are a united and purposeful
people joined in a deep and welling affection
for the things of daily democratic living
and a devout determination to preserve them.
"Good times" are the jokes about the govern
ment heard on the very steps of the federal
building. "Good times" are periods of repose,
full of inner peace the peace of those who
have made their decision and made it on the
side of right.
OLD KING "CANNOT
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Voice
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People
HERE and THERE
HILDA WAY GWYN
Ghost Of Virginia Dare
Florida has been making many .strides in
the past few years, and recently one of her
historians, Mrs. Katherine Lawson, claims
that "there was a native American by the
name of Martin de Arguelles old enough to
be married when little Virginia Dare made
her appearance." , :
But reports indicate that the North Caro
lina historians are not a bit worried over
the prospect that "Virginia Dare may not
have been the first white child born in North
America", as we have long been known to
claim.
Dr. C. C. Crittenden, executive secretary
to the State Historical Commission, is said
to have declared, "We have no quarrel with
Mrs. Lawson's research, because no respon
sible person in North Carolina has ever
claimed anything other than this: Virginia
Dare was the first child of English parent
age born in the New World."
'The New World was discovered in 1492
and in less than eight years the Spanish had
placed colonists in Florida. It would have
been strange indeed if there hadn't been
some children born during the 80-odd years
before the Roanoke settlement and the birth
of Virginia Dare," according to Dr. Critten
den.' : :
So it looks like we are pretty safe in keep
ing this long boasted "first" to our credit
in North Carolina.
A man recently walked a mile on his toes.
Probably his idea was to get as far away
from home as possible without waking the
baby Humorist.
We want to introduce you to one
of our native sons . . . who left
this county for the "other side of
the ridjre" . . . in fact went a long
ways from home up in New Eng
land j. . . but he is so blooming
modest about his success ... that
even his best rrienas nesnaie to
publicize it . . . we have been
threatening for sometime to write
about him . . . but when we have
ventured to ask him a few ques
tions1 . . . ' he would brush them
aside with such finality . . . that
they invariably spelled "Period"
and we stopped . . , but we decid
ed that we would have to get the
matter off our minds . . for we
won't be satisfied until we hand
Fred Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. A. Howell, treasurer of the
Kile and Morgan Company, of
Providence, R, I., a word of con
gratulation ... (so if we make
mistakes they will, be on the sub
ject's head for he refused to help
us) , we have known Fred all
our lives . . . as a youngster he
was no model of perfection . .
and often gave his teachers a pain
in the neck . but even when
they had to match their wits
against his, they liked him . . . he
has always had a forceful initiative
that was bound to earry him out
on the road to success ; . after
high school he went to work for
the Kile and Morgan Company . . .
in one of their subsidiary plants
here . ; . the old Kessawayne Lum
ber Company . . . which operated
n the Dell wood Road . . . all you
ol d timers will remember . . .
the deer plentiful , . for they
all brought iivthe bag limit of two
each . . . Mr. Plott traveled home
with several pounds of the vension
.. . . and we were among the lucky
ones to get a "roast" . . . we never
fasted more delicioas wild meat
. . . .you know how folks are about
things they are not -in the habit
of eating . . . it was a rare occa
sion in our family so we said noth
ing about the roast . . . it looked
like it might have been a piece
f choice Haywood beef V , ... until
remarks began to pass around the
table about how good the roast
... i . . . .
was . . . and then we tola tnem
what they were eating ... .'. .: .
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Rambling Atom
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By W. CURTIS EUSS
Bits of this, that and tie other
picked up here, there and yonder.
In view af the increased number
of motor accidents, what would yon
suggest to improve traffic condi
tions? r ' : i-
H. B. Atkins "Jail the drunks
and put on more patrolmen.";
W. Jarvis Campbell "To reduce
motor accidents in North Carolina,
I would say that every driver in the
state should drive at a safe dis
tance from the other fellows' car,
so that he could stop at a moment s
notice without fear of touching or
damaging the other vehicles on the
highway."
Albert Abel "I would say that
drivers will have to learn to be
more careful. This is not a matter
that you can get by the law, but an
individual responsibility that must
be impressed upon the public."
Richard N. Barber, Jr. "I be
lieve that all motor vehicles and
drivers should be required to pass
periodic rigid examinations by well
qualified boards of examinees,
which would be empowered to re
voke the licenses of those unqual
ified and require cars not in per
feet trim to be removed from the
highways."
J. W Cole '.'At present there
are too many 100 mile automobiles
driven by 40 mile brains on the
highways. How to improve this, I
am powerless to suggest."
Then the First World War came
on . . . his employers released Fred
. . , but they held his job for him
the 29 months he was in the ser
vice . . . for in a short while he
had shown them what he could do
. . . and his possibilities . . . he
volunteered . . . went to an officers
training camp . . . where he re
ceived a commission as second lieu
tenant . , . then in training at
Camp Jackson, now Fort Jackson
. . . then overseas to France .
where shortly after he was pro
moted to first lieutenant . . . then
the Armistice , . . followed by six
months with the Army of Occupa
tion in Germany . . ., then back . . ...
the Kessawayne Lumber Company
was in the process of closing out
operations here . , , and Fred
spent his time between Waynes
ville and Providence . . . the years
went by . . . he was promoted . . .
and he has steadily grown . . .
with his work ... he is now trea
surer of the company . . . for which
he started working for 25 years
ago . . :. (incidentally his younger
brother, Edwin Howell, whom he
took to New England with him,
after graduating from Brown Uni
versity, also went with the com
pany and is now vice president)
. . . Fred takes success as a mat
ter of fact . . . it has come to him
by hard work and constant appli
cation to business . . . and we are
glad that he still retains a soft
spot in his heart for this section
. . and we wouldn't be surprised
if someday he came back here
to live ...
Haywood hunters are famous
marksmen ". . . we have known this
to be true a long time . . . and they
can get their game not only in these
hills but in strange places . . . but
it's "a fur piece from here to Colo
rado" '. , . to go after deer .
but that is what Vaughn Plott,
well known local sportsman did
. . . he left here on September
25th, for a visit with his brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs,
R. E. Plott . . . and they proceeded
up into Colorado on a little "Bide
trip" of some 1,600 miles . . . here
they joined 4 others on a deer hunt
on government lands ." . . they
must have been mighty good shots
Briefs . . . Mrs. Arthur Meade
iust called us up to say she was
glad she was not asked about the
three books she would take to a
desert island . . . because she
would have had to take along four
. , . with a poem to boot . . . her
choice . . . her Episcopal prayer
book, a copy ,of James Whitcomb
Riley's poems, Vanity Fair, a copy
of Hamlet and Kipling's "If'
two of the most attractive pictures
we have seen in sometime are now
in the show case in Sherrill's
Studio . , . the small daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Wayne Rogers . . .
and Florence Ann Bowles, daugh
ter of Buck and Florence Bowles
. . . they were good subjects and
Mrs. Ensley did her best on both
pictures . . . while on the younger
set, did you ever see more per
fect duplicatioife of the likeness
of their good looking mamas than
in little Adora Prevost and Mar
guerite Russ? . . . ,
Main Street looks like winter,
and feels like summer . . up at
Beck's store in Balsam last week
we felt very much at home . . .
for a couple of placards we saw
. . i "Read the Balsam News in
the 'Waynesville Mountaineer" . . .
we expect to go sometime before
we hear anything more impressive
than Marian Anderson's voice in
"A via ' Maria!' ... Friday night
in Asheville . . . the Methodists are
in hard luck for their minister has
served them the four year Metho
dist limit ... (and unless some
special problem comes up for the
presiding bishop at the conference)
. . . and he goes on to other fields
. . . the church can't expect Preacher
Huggin's equal soon . . . it would
be asking too much of the Metho
dist bishop . . . Judge Frank Smath
ers had a birthday Saturday . . .
may he celebrate many' more.
The car buyer who picked out
a model at the old Madison Square
Garden in November of 1900 paid
six times as much per pound as
today's motorist, whose car costs
about 26 cents a pound, or less
per pound than butter out of a
tub. . :- 4
Lawrence Kerley "Stop all
speeding and teach people to be
more cautious. I think the speed
limit is too high in North Carolina,
and reducing this might help."
Jerry Rogers "First, ef"
every driver of a moto
should have a stricter ex '
than they have at present v,
each motor vehicle shoulo- ..
iuuy inspectea at least every three
monthsj third, law enforcement
officers should be more strict in
dealing with drivers. I think if
these three things were put into
force : traffic accidents would de
crease." -
Dr. Sam L. Stringfield "To en
force the speed laws."
Ned Howell 'More careful driv.
ing and a stricter enforcement of
the laws we now have."
" Norman Caldwell "I would sug
gest that the rate of speed be cut
down on the highways. Fifty per
cent of the accidents are caused
from speeding when the motors
get out of control of the drivers."
Public Yells As
New Tax Law
Jumps Prices
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist.
CONGRESS' governmental money-raising
experts are beginning to
get a powerful public reaction to
the new tax law effective since Oct.
1. . It isn't a favorable one, either.
Not that the levies provided for in
the law itself are so much adverse
ly criticized. It pretty generally
is recognized that Uncle Sam has
to have the money. The howl is
over the extent to which the law
has boosted prices, a great deal
more than enough to cover the
taxes decreed by it.
The average consumer undobut
edly knew that he'd have to foot
the bill for Uncle Samuel's require
ments, but he obviously resents
having to pay a lot more, too.
It's like this:
Suppose the tax is'so1 much per
ton of something or ner hosrshead-
ful, if it's a liquid. The government
collects it on that basis. The pro
ducer "pays exactly what's called
for. Then he passes his stuff along
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
IT MUST HAVE been a pain
ful experience for those proud
German generals to have had to
fight their battles among the
want ads. while the world series
was on.
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An area in New Mexico, we
read, experienced its ttst rain in
90 ye art. Ruining, no doubt, the
perfect record ol many a local
weather prophet.
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Junior, after another sleepless
night for the family, thinks Baby
Sister should be named at once
the season's No. 1 clamor lrL
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There is a shortage of razor
blades In Japan, according to a
news item. However, even a
By WILLIAM BTTT '
Central Praia Writer
bearded Jap wouldn't look Uki
Santa Claua to a Chinaman.
' I I I ..",..'.
No aaddet worda ol tongue or
pen than these "Plua 10 Ptr
Cent Luxury Tax."
ill
The Turk may bo the "sick
man of Europe," but In the Dar
danelles he seems to have a cure
all that too many of Us MelfV
bora would like to have.
Ill .
Grandpappy Jenkins thinks ho
knows what became of old Baro
Manchausen, the teller of tall
tales. Grandpap figures Munchy
must be working for both sidet
as official Estimator of Enemy
Losses.
r . ...
. e oi the cl
nave seen lately n i 1
automobile
ers who would lifc.
tegeof sucha.7Z
on their car as
tion against the rmU
crop of careless drfi
where we could a .1
""J DOC
When the war .
it . wasfrequentl ycZ J
of Nerves." Thi
nervAa ha . ""t;
but drifted to -AsmE
here in Haywood
women who are daily Q
-case of jittery 'J
The nerves of him.
women are getting
right now. We ofta ...
...6 uair ana thror
chin down on their chat."
re-read letters kmh;..
Orders of necessary
outputs essentials to the
of their business.
Some far-sighted pe J
..mB.c a gooa return oi
vestment by starting t
farm" to cater tti these o,
ed nerves. The humai
can just stand so rr.uefc.
w...c u.oiantrs li 100KJ if
breaking point is
x tt , . ' "
iarm operated on a scienti
and .within reason of the
man, would pay.
One of the best school J
come to our desk this seasJ
Lrabtree Hi-Life, a 13-pag
eographed paper, brim M
01 the school The
J ? j l . . . r-r-
eauea ana lar above the
school publication.
A caption on the fronton
"The best school in thebes
in the best state," This is
two, number two, and the
still stands so that's that
Jessie Bryson is editor.
assisted by M. B. Reeve
James, with Dick Lowe
manager, uara Dotson ft ,
itor ; . Billie Bryson socf, ,
with G. McCracken editlt
ports. Reporters are Mi
hyllisTBradshaw, Ben Dal
'avis, Leon Shafford, Pail
ora, ueraidine Messer, M
Hazel Justice, Martha fo
Mae Jones, Paul Clari,
Presnell and Betty Roger
It has been a long til
mention was made in the
about an election on the el
ments of A. B. G. liquor
the county. At one time
a popular subject, and
forth some heated argumer,
in the eastern part of
four counties that have
stores since 1937 have
whether or not the store:
be kept. The score is ti
Johnston and Vance cod
voters decided to abolish ti
stores, while in Bertie 4
ren counties the stores
tinue to operate. In Be
advocates of retention of ta
won by 27 votes.
The business that igsc
ern methods is doomed.
instance the egg industrf
would liavp - ever drear
eggs would be taken f
shell, thoroughly mixeo "!
to be sold by the pouw
later? That is what bea
flno nnii tWO-dav oi t
used, and when thawed,
they are actually betters
bought in the shell.
A .J it tmii nre one 01 tt'
who don't like the whiten'
you can buy just the !
visa versa. :
After being froze" 10
po-irs will keen for motw.
method not -only s'!!
Hoes awav with w ,
breakage, which every s
must figure in on
the Ke
lt's a fast changini j
for lunch I'U takes?
capsules and wait in
to eat
t - i,icBler. tacki
amount that he' PJ
haps a trifle
wholesaler, in "-
rotailer. also most W;
1.1. . jj;;nnol rakeoff.
er sells it over to
ultimate consumer. ,
But we icu. ji
fui He does it by the
pint or maybe V
These small
of the tax Pro0"1".!,
1, 2 or 3 or P"'"'k u
get trani. . j.
are inconvenient.
nickeroradimegett-
PercentaJ
Well, just on
doesn't mouni w 0
sum of money, W
8entaheckofape
increase. , .,., tV
For ihnce, rf
Kdent n" n.