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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 19J Page 2 THE WAYNES VTLLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer f Published By ' THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County America's Destiny ALSO GIVING HIM THE SHIVERSf W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN 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.., ne Year, Outside Haywood County .. All Subscriptions Payable in Advance ...?1.5t 75c . 2.00 EnKnol at UK naut attic at Warnaarllla. If. 0.. U Claaa Hail Matter, aa proridcd under ttaa Act ( March I, Navamber 10, WW. Obituary notices, molution of reapact, carda of tnanka, and all notices of antartalnmaiiU for profit, wUl ba ahargad lor at taa rata of one cant par ward. VHorth Carolina v3k NATIONAL 6DITOKIAI THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942 "Come What May" We were interested in the answers to the recent question on "how the rationing., of tires might affect the tourist business for the coming year." At this stage none of us can accurately predict what the season will be like. The facts in the case point to certain results, but these should not deter us in making the most of our property and as usual making preparations for the tourist season. The upkeep of property in this emergency will be an investment, and every one shouuld make an effort to take care of their build ings and restore and preserve everything about their premises. To let property run down is the poorest investment one can make. So regardless of what the hand writing on the wall may indicate, make the most of what we have, with the view of pleasing the summer visitor of 1942. In fact it may be more important this year to make extra preparations than ever before, as those who come may stay longer than in the past, if they are pleased, and the , ranks may be f thinner. .. Walter Xippman delivered a memorable! address atrtbe annual mid-winter institute! of the North Carolina Press Association held! last week in Chapel Hill. He spoke with the voice of a prophet, and we wish that his words coyld be emblazoned on the minds and hearts of every American citizen. He referred to the present conflict as the greatest war in the history of the whole world and the first to involve every ocean and every continent, and all the navies and armies of the globe. He pointed out that the war this time must be completed and the enemy countries brought into subjection. Unless this is done America can never hope to return to a nor mal way of life. For if our enemies emerge from this war holding their conquests and with their military power intact, then even if we are not defeated and. conquered and enslaved we shall have to go on year after year arming to the teeth, conscripting our young men, devoting to the business of I war all our available resources. "Living that way year after year, always anxious, always on guard, always thr eatened, always armed, what would become of ourl personal and private lives?" asked Mr. Lipp- .man- '. Living in a world where there was no! peace we should be condemned, merely in order to survive, and let all the good things of life be devoured in order that we might at least have the strength to resist." "For twenty years we have been guided by our fears and our weaknesses and ourl Til Never Forget- HUMAN INTEREST STORIES ' CONDUCTED BY UNCLE ABE Voice OF THE People HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN We doubt if the Winter Institute . . of the North Carolina Press Association has ever had a more J 1 . - i. . - . uiwinuiiK UI lIIltCQOlVt! meeting dOUDtS. 1 think now We Shall be moved by than the 18th session held in Chapel our strength and our pride and our faith HiI1 la8t week V. there was so luh6 8haU seeing that it is ftST. news! THE AMERICAN DESTINY to become the papering, like everything else . .... invulnerable center of freedom under law, stands at the threshold of the the strong friend of all nations which live SlnS iiUt under law, the implacable foe of all tyrants, seems to color every phase of life the partner of all who resist them. ... the newspaper represents a It IS a great destiny. It IS OUrs not in sentiment and keeDine the morale the least because we have superior virtue, of the people uplifted your goal. There is one bright spot these days amidst all the war news . . , . mat arencnes our soul in darkness and confusion . . . and it is the arrival of the new 1942 seed catalogues ... they come like rain falling in a parched dessert true, they contain very little that is new . . . only here and there, a glorified form of some old favorite ; . . but we approach the season with new interest we glance at a colorful page . . . . with perfect blooms . . . we have hence, never grown any of that in our but because by the facts of our geography, iu -V ;t.8pon8lb ,y g ' ' ' we mU8t ttry B?me ... ... - " waF"Jlfelt on the part of the press in I year ... we can picture just how and the position Of our continent and the their effort to meet this situation they will look on our hUlside next July ... and aren't those new f angled marigolds that are adver tised to smell like a June rose . . a wonderful color? ", .. we wonder if we could ever grow larkspur like that ... and we must order some of those new "mums" ... we carefully turn the pages . . . often stopping to day dream . . . plant ing row upon row . . . that miracu great movement of the tides of historv wel- with the war the pivot of have come to occupy in the modern world S TT nits piace wnicn Kome m the Center Of her centred around the burning issues seas occupied in the ancient world. of the day . and after the au- Ti. i . u-j . . ,, ' thorities had each presented his " a ueuny. Ana tnough Once message . ... they all boiled down in our generation we have souirht to denv lnt0 one substance . ; the time it and to refuse it. it is th Amoripon has come . for American people and in the book of fate it is written that this destiny must now be fulfilled." For Your Convenience DaU W Day For a period of six weeks the citizens of this community were able to purchase their 1942 motor vehicle license plates here in Waynesville. The office was conveniently located in a central place to serve a large group. The rent for the office from which the plates were sold by a representative of the Carolina Motor Club for the entire six weeks period was financed by two business firms, O. E. Ray's Sons and Martin Electric Com, pany. As a matter of community service this generous contribution was made to the citi zens by these two firms. We take this opportunity to express ap preciation for the entire community. It kindles one's civic pride to live in a section where citizens show such unselfish neigh-borliness. Sterilized Tacks Potential Pedestrians A National Automobile Dealers Associa tion pamphlet recently revealed that there are 1,329 communities in North Carolina that must depend upon motor vehicles be cause they lack rail service. The pamphlet brought out the need of motor vehicles that cannot be replaced by any all round substi tute. It listed a total of 48,495 railless communi ties in the nation. Other startling figures were: 274 million passengers of motor cars annually; most of the 57,245,753 farmers using trucks for transport and .owning 38 per cent of the nation's passenger cars; 12,678,823 persons in small towns with no transportation facilities, save private cars; six of every 10 city cars used in going to work; new deiense plants accessible princi pally by motor transit; suburban areas de pendent on motor cars ; and last, the army with 29,867 motor vehicles' a year ago and a program for 262,950 next year. Theories are more apt to work if those who have them will. A fellow who sings his own praises doesn't draw a crowd. The sugar hoarder is a sour note in Amer ican life today. to use every facility they possess . . . they must sharpen their abil ities on the whetstone of reality . , , they must conserve as never before . . personal effort must be submerged into one great force to stem the emergency . . . to BBVQ 111. ImaiIa.. mA l. .....I.J i j i ' v. itcuuiii hi iuiiK accepted JJay by clay we Americans are cettinir matter of fact ... it made deeper into the war. Deeper iri the realiza- no d'.fferenpe whether an editor tion of what we face. It is right that we rtVZ"? snouia, out one writer has recently said, a11 fitted ,nt0 the same subject. "Don't let your curiosity get the best of vou. don't worry about the Droblems nf tha rmv We have recently heard of two ntil ri.A mi i 1 1 . - i iiiiiuaLeia in town in tuasiem and the navy. They will work them out, but Carolina . . . who refused to take rather look to your own Dart." part in Red Cross drives for war (vmraimiMAtii I 1 -.i 1 i 1. i i w .uiciii, JS auvismg tnat we snoum n war . v w po thut a go arjout our Dusiness quietly, save more have no brethren of such faith than we have ever thought of doing, prepare "y.L ' -.v. w, t i. - - i w tine Auv ihuio biiau uiey oui selves to meet any emergency work to do ... but we are truly glad that our greatest caDacitv. and nhnvo nil Viava our local ministers are like that confidence in the armed forces of the Unit- SK cu oiaic ivr u we QO our part here at KeeP your powder dry." . . home they will be adequate to meet any even tuality. .-' v V Have you ever had an experience mat literally made your blood run cold at the time and even after? . . the other night coming across the state on a bus . . we had just such an exhprlpnnA a, nni We have become accustomed to bakers P886"- after it was over . . t f1 their bread. ; We take p XZX " loi granted that manufacturers of canned might have been" . . . and they milk put sunshine in their product. Anrl we were exactly right .... it might . m ' . .. ... , . . . I h ova' luuim t ! no longer raise an eyebrow when our oramres MnT :. ":!""5 are beautifully "ripe" on the outside, and the climb up the mountain ... a horribly green inside. We know that science .If6' !n. the bk called out has had a hand in all of this in their dogged ". .' I the drivertopS, dmb out determination to eil&rd our hnltr . and the expression on hia face But we can't get over the surmise wa .md .tne Te' T00 ,n a i.. j , . - . . . 'to see one. wneei com- the other day, when a five-cent box of caroet pletely off . . , .nd all th v,u. tacks was labeled "sterilized" ready to drop out of the other . . . Wehave rpurl nfVin.,,. w .u. i ine nmses about what vo vIV wnn LUImpn I vnn Iji K n U i i . . . A.-i. .. . i - uoc iiappcucu an nour later mens, razor Diades and ground glass makm 8 curve around the moun made up part of their daily diet, but we did were n,ot.verv cheerful not know that such a diet had become so .entfoother bus. ; ? ."3 Common. jwe were runninir mora than n Perhaps the tack maniifflotiiraro .iw..r"". ; . there- was not one that trio liaf nf fofi i 7 OI eoropwmt irom a single mat the list of tactless" people is ever in- passenger ... we had come too creasing and are lookimr for a tipw murW c,ose to that deep chasm . . . from i. n . . . w - ' I nrk.Vk i i.. ior ineir products. Of course we know many people cram their mouths full of tacks when they have pull them out one at a time as needed with a magnetic ham mer, but we had never thought of a person "UU1U empty a naif box of tacks in their moum at once even caring or giving a thought about the tacks bein "sterflized". Wouldn't it help national economy and speed up armament progress if sword swal lowers could be persuaded to go on a diet of used razor blades ? Exchange. Your rnesa is as good as the other person's... How long In your opinion is the war going to last? C. N. Allen "From two to flv years." Miss Edna Hayes "If we finish the war as it will have to be done to insure American freedom, it will last at least until the last of 1945, and maybe longer." These little stonet keep groyj in interest and popularity .S i t i. . . "i' itnuut rum weeic 10 Week in mm inai art hJ and remarkably interesting ,1 accepted; these will be puWi.il L- 1 1 ...I.-. niun wnicn mty art ri kTr K-utumn, rr aynesvtlle, f "BOY BURIED ALTVEs "Boy Buried Alive For ThJ TTrrnr .wan iht kannn k.. 7i - w .vaCa UHiniK that. stAnmtkA flia- fAii - V ' - wu, pages I several of the larre dailv nn. in North Carolina, Georgia J o"ui vuviiiia, ana me lo(J mountaineer courier also carried story about the incident. It all occurred on January i 1920, and the setting was a tini car on the Keller sidine of tv- uuuurciii iHiuoajr, wnicn IS in East Waynesville section where M. O. Galloway now has saw mill. The boy was only eight vmI i . . oi a wnen ne was buried for d J. Yates Bailey "If the war lasts as long as six months it .will last four years, because the Allies can get in position to win the war in that time, and the Axis sowers will get organized so that tne mree nours m struggle will be prolonged." cinders, but the impression M (lingers on his mind and will coj Richard N. Barber, Jr. "I think tinue to so long as he lives. I the war will last until 1947 ori -The weather was bitter cold in? 1948, due to the fact that we will! this youngster was "bundled mf not have completed a two ocean I in about all the clothes that i navy prior to 1946 and will not I could manage to motivate undJ have gained navy supremacy in the I and the cinders were being haaW Pacific prior to that date. I would I in wagons and distributed mi like tobe more optimistic, butlprivate road nearby, and kid-lif the facts must be faced." I the tongue of the wasron wag a J vate seat for him to riiln tn Miss Elizabeth Henry "Some I from the car. - I times I am optimistic about the du-l But on one trip this bov diH J ration and others quite discourag ed, it all depends on what I have read that day in the newspapers." minds eye . ... and suddenly it is bed time . . . and those letters we had planned to write are still on our "best intention .list" . . . such ia the eternal fascination of a seed catalogue . .. . to a real dirt gard ener in the month of January. :'. . which no traveler turned. .... has ever re- Which reminds us of a conver sation we had with a young fel low who got on the bus in States ille . . . he was on his way back to the aircraft school in Nashville . . . where he was taking a course in welding . . . he was full of his work .... "I have an instruc tor, who tells us boys not ever to try to do as well as we did yesterday ... but to always try to do better . . . f or if we don't we'll never improve" ... and the thought cam . . what a marvelous motto for any job . . . better today, on to morrow ... or you will never reach The facts and figures prove that war tends to increase the rate of deaths from tuberculosis in every nation. Don't let that happen here! Do your part in the fight to eradicate the killer that is still the first cause of death for the people between the ages of 15 and 45. Buy Chrisistmas Seals now! make the round trip, and when cinders failed to come doi through the trap in the bottom the car. he proceeded to climh h, Mrs. Maoei Brown Abel "I be- side and start the avaWl leve that in a year the United cinders so the .hnvlpr on..u i, n i . ;lt it I u 111 states win nave wings unaer con-1 the wamna mil in a ... f O irOl, I TTnlrnntirn frt f ha Kai f(tn -J w aauav w aVjr tfltcif; W a vacuum in the cinders and whs" he stepped on the shallow ciiif it gave way and down into depths he plunged, th cindet G. D. Stovall "I think the war I covering him up. The only thit win be over m about two years. 1 1 that kept the youngster fi base my opinion on the present I smothering was in the fall. upply of Japan as regards food! head being pinned between M knees, thereby leaving a.-.-nuf vacuum into which air filtered I R. B. Davenport "I would say I The father did not misn hi m.f about two years. I think the ene-j son until lunch time and then M mies of this country will give outlgan to inquire as to who had ? of supplies by that time." I him last: no doubt them w ntb! o v ti ... . ;. I things circulating through ti Mrs. Sam Knight "I am afraid I fothoi.'. ms ,uJ. J- it. Will .flat: frrxm tiiA fv annn I. . . . . I manv nnnnairah a ninin . . . . ... t :,T" j .77. lu uc I nad been riding the tongue of t W.VCU UUU , . J .U l.J ,L. I. wwMw imu ocvil wie iw boy climb to the top of the coal a search was made, and after lit tening a faint call for help Irving Leatherwood "I really think it will last two years." and other materials." Mrs. Bonner Ray "I would say irom two to three years, because this country can not be prepared to end the war in much less time than that." Letters To The Editor THERG are no snakes in New Zealand, according to a natural history magazine article. Maybe that's because those Japanese 'chutists have not yet penetrated that far south. i i i People who keep then mouths closed live longer, says t noted medico. Hmm, tolks in the Axis countries found t hit out long sgo. ! ! 1 ; : Mea talk more In their sleep than do women.' Zadok Dumb kopf guesses that's because It's their only chance. : III V. An eastern university has es tablished a course on how to fish. heard. Immediately all nearby b 1.1 i 1 gan tne tasK oi digging the younf ster out, which only took a M minutes with all working to M limit. It happened that the youngs: was not seriously injured by avalanche of cinders but with 1 Editor The Mountaineer. thermometer well below the fr With the firm conviction, shared I " point, he began to chill as I know by yourself, that prayers I as the air reached him. sent up to heaven are as vitally I A doctor was summoned and o necessary to the nation's war effort I on his arrival and a compli check-up made, his verdict that another thirty minutes u(' this story would not have the ing that it now has. Of course this happened twenl two years ago and a lot has h pened that has dimmed the incidei in the minds of Waynesville res dents, but there will always renil a spot in the back of my mind w a horror of carloads of cinders. Now that same boy of twenit two years ago helps brine you n mountaineer each week. 0e none other than Marion "M Bridges. YOU'RE TELLING ME! By W1LUAM RITT Cehtrsl Press W ritei The baffled students probabl.v never Know wnemer iney rt cramming for an exam or are enjoying a vacation. ' . '':' The Dutch have pulled the nettest trick ol the war. They, have converted a score or more of Jap surface vessels into non rising submarines. J ". ; Proverb for 1942: People who live in wood and paper houses shouldn't try to set the world on Are. : s ! If the Dutch continue to sink many more Nipponese vessels the floor of the ocean will soon wear the label: "Made In Japan." SCOTTS SCRAP BOOI. By R. J. SCOTT y WJU10 NIL 7 rv www Yin.Ynu.- MCAMaVail, ! Witt, Fftewny wmjvi you I Oxi. M1MBBJU1 M nM,teAXUICA as bombs dropped from the ski may T make the sucreestion ttt an appeal from our President I all the children of our country ing them to Bray for victory wm I not be without bearing great fr Such a request made by President might be made somek as follows: - I "My dear Young Americans: J "We' need you f or the defetf of the U. S. A. I select yoaj service for the duration of the Your older brothers were m through draft boards, but I . you personally to show how bw we need you in this war for virf( and peace. J "You are officially exhorted I say a prayer a day for our 5 country. Because your hearts l pure and innocent, your Vnn are efficacious and will be Wn please God. I "AftAr w von fnrrprl into "i war, we worked as though M pended on work, but we must p; too as though all depended J prayer. Your older brothers . tnlra ram. 4V, Mf anr) nO'i call upon you to take care ofn second. Your job is just j portant, and this will make! real defenders of the United of America!" .1 If such a plan is not feasibly a national scale, then I respect make the atteeestion to the W ten of our community that list the powerful aid of the pw, of children, for of such is tht dom of Heaven. J Respectfuly and always si"" VINCENT J. MAHON1! 1 1
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