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4 ' THURSDAY, MARCH l9 J Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER 1 V The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Vain Street Phone 137 Waynesvilte, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County 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 $1.75 Six Months, In Haywood County 90c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County , 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance Entered t the port ofllcs at WsynewlUs. N. O., u Second Class Mail Matter, aa provided under the Act of March (, 187, November 20, 1914.. Obituary notice, resolution! of respect, card ol thanka, and all notices of entertainments for profit, will be charged for t tbe rate of one cent per word. 'PBESS ASSOCIATION MATIONAL CDITORIA mn W ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942 Guest Editorial Hold Out Until Fall (Today's guest editorial is written by Frank Smathers, of Waynesville and Miami). If America can just hold out until after the Fall elections, maybe our pension and politically minded Congress will then buckle down to th grim business of winning this war. Congress knows we can not win this war working forty hours a week and observing all holidays, while our enemies work twenty four hours a day and observe no holidays. But, Congress can not afford to offend or ganized labor, when the elections are just six months ahead. Congress also knows that the wages of labor and the prices of farm produce must be regulated, and controlled if inflation is to be avoided, but, it would be political sui cide for Congress to offend both labor and the farmers when the elections are just six months ahead, ' So, while Congress apparently continues to play politics, devoting more thought and time to winning elections than winning wars, and showing more concern over the loss of their jobs, than the loss of their lives or their liberties; and while our President is appar ently content to make fine fireside speeches and lay down correct and courageous rules and principles for the settlement of all dis putes and the guidance of all classes and groups during this war emergency, the Japs and the Germans continue to pound Hell out of our land, air and sea forces. Haywood Novelties Moving Most of Haywood always looked on Japan as a far-away country, that meant little if anything either way to our every-day mode of living We knew from grammar school days that tea, silk, toys and novelties from there flooded this nation, but gave it no further thought. Not so many years ago, gifted craftsmen in this county learned to put different color ed woods together, and created what is now known as inlaid wood novelties. The busi ness grew, and demands exceeded all expec tations, and today, these novelties from Hay wood are shipped into every state in the union, and the sum total of pieces in the course of a year would read like box car serial numbers. Since the Japanese were specialists in the novelty field they saw the possibilities of these beautiful inlaid novelties hurting their souvenir business, so they planned to go after American industry or at that time, al most exclusively a Haywood industry one better, and give some competition. A thin paper was developed, and printed to imitate inlaid woods. This paper was then carefully pasted over ordinary woods, and gave the appearance of genuine inlaid, which found a ready sale in the cheaper markets. The Jap novelties are out of the picture now, and trinkets which once flooded the souvenir markets from foreign factories, are no longer to be had. Souvenir dealers are stocking heavily with genuine American inlaid woods. That means business for the plants in Haywood, and the continued flood of orders is the backdrift from the ill wind of the Pearl Harbor attack. The First Casualty This week the casualty list has come home to Haywood County. In every family in the county from which men have gone into the service has come the grim reality of war the awful toll it takes. From "missing following action in the per formance of his duty and in the service of hi3 country," was in part the message sent to the mother by the war department. Dallas Rhea Clark is the first name to be engraved on the list of Haywood County's contribution to the supreme sacrifice in World War, number two. We know there will be other names and that anxiety will be resting more heavily now in every home that has sent fighting men to the front. In the meantime while these men are giv ing their lives "in the service of their coun try", what are we doing back home? If we were called upon to start that journey from which no traveler has ever returned, could it be said in this critical hour that we were in "the performance of duty in the service of our country? More Sleep We have pointed out a number of good things that might possibly come out of the rationing of tires, despite how much we Americans may miss our former indepen dence, but The Atlanta Journal brings up another one as follows: "One of the effects of tire rationing will be the chance for Americans to catch up with their sleep. "It's all very well to talk about the de lights of walking, but few people will take a 10-mile stroll to a whoopee joint and then also have to walk back. There is going to be less gadding about, practically none, when the tires now on cars are finished. "One of our foremost national habits racing nowhere to do nothing may be cured. But just as many will have to learn to walk again, others must learn to sleep." SPRING TONIC Vim l XFtM f tO Bf IAIKIHO IN VI I M""" p - I HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN A Break For the West Glamourous bathing beauties on the beaches of Eastern Carolina and fishermen fighting game fish and the rolling sand dunes are being left completely out of the recrea tional attractions of the North Carolina ad vertising campaign this season. Instead the uplands and the mountains are being given the limelight all because of the changed advertising policy which is a direct result of the war. Western North Carolina is to have the biggest break in the state advertising since it was started back in 1937. During the past week Chairman J. L Home, of the state advertising committee, and President E. Gerry Eastman of the East man-Scott Advertising Agency, have been working out a new program for North Caro They are taking oh the suggestions of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, that "Americans, war or no war, are going to get their vacations and are going to try to make the most of them and they are urging them to come to North Carolina and see the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." While there is considerable uncertainty about the season just ahead, and there are definite reasons that would indicate that it might not come up to those of bygone days, it might hold some pleasant surprises for this section. Back to the state advertising campaign, it is said that those in charge do not expect any great immediate dividends from the $75,000 to $80,000 to be spent this year (re duced from $100,000) to advertise the rec reational resources. The ultimate objective is from another angle. If the advertisements run through sum mer periodicals brings a fair per cent of visi tors that will be fine. What the advertisers hope, however, is that those advertisements will be continued for the duration so that North Carolina when peace abides once more, will not be forgotten by the tourists and sportsmen. It is said thajt commercial ad vertisers lasped during the World War I, and had to built back from scratch, as their products had been forgotten, while others had kept up advertising. At any rate the West is getting a break this year, and we hope some of the readers who can't come this season will remember and include a trip here in the future. Conservation Checking rail freight movements, the United States Chamber of Commerce found that the biggest item of export from Wash ington is wastepaper, baled and en route to paper mills for reclamation. Newsweek. A word about the bravery of mothers in this column last week has brought us the following con tribution from a reader, taken from the National Historical Mag azine . . ... without stopping, we read the thing over twice . . . the human appeal . . , struck us as it had the contributor . . . for it expresses what thousands of moth ers might write to thousands of others . . , as the Johnnies leave from every hamlet and crossroads throughout this irreat land . . . for training camps . . . "JOHNNIE GOTTA GO" A Letter From One Mother To Another (By Mary Fort Colley) Dear Miss Mary: Well hits come and Johnnie's gotta go. At first it tuck my breath away and I just stood thar and stared. Johnnie wuz scared plum down to his shoes and his pappy had that look on him like he wuz flabbergasted. I seen what wuz happening and I said to myself, Miss Mary wuz right. Us women is got to take hold and carry this through. The lump in my throat hurt worser and worser but I said to Johnnie, Gee boy, I sho is glad I done a good job of raising you and you is fit and strong to help your Uncle Sam. We aint had much but what we had wuz cooked right and et right and we had grace fore every meal. That may not matter, but I think it does help a feller to digest his food better. So you gotta go boy. Well I'm glad. I said crying all inside. I kin help through my boy, the pride of my heart and I kin send him off feeling and knowing that our Army will feed him and clothe him better than any army in the world. All this time Johnnie weren't saying nothing, just setting thar a looking. Finally, Miss Mary, he looked at me with them big blue eyes and he said, Well, Mom, if you think I kin help and want me to go, I'm going and I'm gonna be the best soldier in Uncle Sam's army. You know, Mom, I never figgured you'd want me to go. And Pappy I'll carry them colors like you want to high, -wide and hand some. Git my things together Mom the time's come. You're ready and wanting me to go and I'm ready, and willing to go and this time I hope it'll be worth my trouble I mean the end of the war. And so Miss Mary my boy walk ed off. I smiled and waved but oh God how my heart ached way down deep. . I knowed I d done my part by being brave and I agree with you us women has gotta smile on the outside cause if we don't our men will be half-hearted and half fighters and not the kind that is needed. Pray for me Miss Mary that our loneliness, pappy's and mine, may be satisfied by keeping closer to Him who won the greatest victory of all Jesus Christ. Yes, Johnnie's gone but please God bring him back. Goodby, Miss Mary. You wuz right and I done my best like you said. Your friend, . Ella. We hear various reports about the season in Florida . . . Mrs. Charlie Woodard, who returned during the week from an extended stay at Hollywood Beach ... says that the season started very late . . . but that now there are a lot of people seeking sunshine down that way . . . from another recent visitor . . . we learned that the busses and railroads are doing: whale of a business . . . as most folks left their cars at home in the garages saving their tires for short trips about home ... in this fast changing era who knows what will happen ere June rolls around . . . certainly defense workers who are going seven days a week will have to have a vacation ... and in all the plants there must be many who will want to seek a restful stay in our climate. ... Briefs . , . Dr. Tom Stringfield at church in his accustomed place Sunday holding a reception of his own , . . folks so glad to see him about once again . . . Young La mar Hammett undoubtedly inherit ed the charm and winning ways of both his mother and father . . . . everybody searching around for a forgotten bicycle . . . even the young folks . .. who can't get the family car ... now resorting to a wheel "built for two" . . . Mrs. Ben Sloan in a new spring suit of a most engaging color scheme in plaids . . . Defense courses tak ing the place of parties . . . young matrons about town trying to work out plans for the duration when their husbands will be leav ing "in the near future" . . . the spring days sending the girls and women clothes hunting . . . for there is nothing like a new dress or suit . . . or hat ... to help one's morale . . . which needs bol stering up these trying times ,:, . . candidates and rumors -of candi dates . . . local politics gives prom ise of warming up . . . with the prospect of the first woman candi date in a good many years . . . the second, we believe, to run for a county office in Haywood , . . while on women and clothes . . . Mrs. Guy Massie has one of the most attractive combinations of color . . . an unusual turquoise dress with coat of British tan and hat in same shades . . . Voice OF THE People What would you suggest as the major project for the Chamber of Commerce this season? Dr. C. N. Sisk "I think the major project should be centered around efforts to get a synthetic rubber plant here in connection with the Dayton Rubber plant." James S. Queen "First, I think that the Chamber of Commerce should support the defense pro gram in every possible way. Sup pose we had to take care of several hundred persons who were evac uating from other sections, we would have to have an organiza tion to meet this emergency." Mrs. F. H. Marley "I think we should have more amusements for visitors. If we should have many this seasop, they will not find much to do, as they will be un able to take the scenic trips as in other years;-and some substitute must be offered." Mrs. Grady Boyd "We don't know what to expect ' this season. For all we know, we may have our hotels and boarding houses filled with refugees from the coast I feel that the Chamber of Com merce should be ready to meet anything that might ; happen, and that most of us had better steel ourselves to take what comes." Rambling Around By W. CURTIS RUSS Bits of this, that and the other picked up here, there and yonder. No doubt you have hea. If Uncle Sam is your unci. your aunt? Why "aunty" air craft. ., Not so long ago, a v lavman was rr.n.,!n.- ayB; pastor on the sermon the 1,1 just delivered to a ll.H morning congregation. ZlTH pened to be the coldest SuT1 the winter. "uaaij. The layman, in a critic!' , I suggested that Wea ' H tor fling more "hellfire" ! bench warmers. ThA nnatnt- o.nl. i .. r pnuKea his il' minute and then said: and will n..! put LflPrw ' practice sooner or later t, cold as it was this morning if V preached on the fires of hell half the congregation would have!? a temporary leave of absent '""i was dropped. Another Waynesville pastor J is known fnr Viic .-...,. . '"I told this to a group Xut J v..wvua meal; A traveling man walked cuuuwy store, and the ffitt Dointincr fn n ;."v on tne counter, said W. T. Shelton " Advertise. Let the people on the coasts know that we have a good safe place here to spend the summer. ' Chas. E. Ray, Jr. "To maintain the best possible balance as to in dustries, tourists and agriculture. To recognize that in general indus try can look out for itself; that agriculture here and elsewhere has behind it the most powerful pro motional forces ever set up to pro. mote anything in this country, that the tourist industry has only the Chamber of Commerce as its repre sentative, and that this summer as never before, the tourist indus try needs not ballyhoo so much as service agency. ' C. F. Kirkpatrick " I would em phasize the entertainment proi gram. Let us try to take care of the people who are interested enough to come here, and sell this section through them." Bill Prevost "My idea of the Chamber of Commerce is that its directors are selected by the citi zens it serves to carry out coii ceritrated action on vital measures for the country and its citizens. Those of us who are left here now, and those left in the future are going to become more and more concerned about our part in the war and our safety. As it stands now, we are confused. We need intelligent guidance now as never YOU'RE TELLING ME! -By WILLIAM RITT Ctntttl Press Writer MANY Japanese (it being a quaint old national custom) have committed suicide by leaping into the flery craters of volca noes. And those Nips who haven't will soon wish they had. i ' '. T Grandpappy Jenkins would look upon the Erst robin of spring with a less jaundiced eye if he didn't know it was the forerunner of the houseffy. . ' ! ! ! Suggestion for a wartime toast: "Come on, boys, let's go get a Nip!" ! r ! Emperor Hirohito might con vince more people that he's really a "Son of Heaven" if he weren't so busy doing the work of Satan. ! t ! Zadok Dumbkopt says all bur glars are dumb since, sooner or later, they succeed in breaking into the Big House. . ;'.!". ! -I'": the wise hitch hiker, if the horse and buggy succeeds the auto, will not hold up his thumb but a carrot for Dobbin. :;':'-.. ! f ' After viewing photos of Gen erals Yamashita, Homma and Terauchi. we must admit the Japs are consistent. They not only behave like gorillas but look like them. THE OLD HOME TOWN STANLEY WJf mister mayor. whilc tw clerk &mMmmm ... REACHN THAT RESOLUTION -THREE PAIItSWHeRE AS A Cf RUBBER HEELS HAVE BEEN TO WIT Art -iwrifflt AT LAST .. B c '"U nity cend rru me traveling man was foul nvarva onA : n 1 v, fmg me oppod nity of becoming a hero andfrf cents richer, threw his headWf .ci, lub Miiny oyster slide U the saucer, just as the storelJ "If you swallow it, youl doing better than the otw, who just tried to down the jJ uysier. " a Suip, and rJ restored to tne saucer. The (tori Keeper Kept ms fifty cents, VJ me uaveiing man lost hii W ior oysters. Even with the above yarnfrJ on my mind, I wish I had a J or so raw ones right now-am would not take fifty cents to i duce me to sink 'em. Several weeks ago I par in ft nrnffram nf tkn p.i.j ment office, in a demonstrate i how an applicant seeks eupli ment, oy giving a complete : of past experiences. j In an' off moment, in answs; a question, I said any type A ing would suit me. On mi thought this would have never M said if the application were uine. I would not report sociel anything. There is a question among (Continued on page J) What Made News Years Ago TEN YEARS AGO 1932 Chamber of Commerce holds nual dinner meeting in the room of the Methodist church, 250 expected to attend. Miss Carolyn Havnes, Iocs! wins debate at Mars Hill CoM ': Noon day short 30 minutes vices will be conducted here theater duriner Holv week. Mr. and Mrs. John N. Shoot: celebrate 42nd wedding ml sarv. . Boxiner and wrestling classesfj underway, with C. A. George, a fessional boxer-wrestler, free IpsRons to the boys. The first, real show of tne ter fell in this vicinity on MoN flvor Ann phildren are tn"11 therin toviod here in schools. Wnvnesville to be l"Mt ttinwn ag "fintflwav to the Smoky Mountains National M FIVE YEARS AGO 1037 changing land with park and j of council temporarily blocks way from Soco to theroK. i Sixtv trallons of white and a 1936 Ford are cug Balsam. . : Bitter Campaign expo A i;a,. etnrp llie" iv.: v.v. fai.tions O"! bIJIS KUUIllJf, UVUI il Five persons hurt in colli MM Connnok. Faulty wiring from po'e?1 LI . r i-t. V,nmP OH Diaze at uarreiu nu.. street.: rari Over 15,000 people131' wi Jn.fa hnrt we" pur iMi v. ucauiw Police arrest 8 over w eet- belore. we nave m -jj Red Cross, and CifJ preparing. But wnai T 1 V ...a o the WW",; Commerce, so let a' t V. 1 Airontnrs OrgI"K1. VUB1U VI . j 1 i- and wne J about our duty in this U i effort and keep w"'"- we may carry it on to y Mrs. J. M. J miSI on. MArfh Carolina ano 'J public realize that this ! J and sanest place i vacations."
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