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THURSDAY, MAY 21 Page 8 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER On The Tar Heel Front IN WASHINGTON By Robert A. Erwin and Frances McKusick For some reason or other, Con cress has acquired the facility in recent months of keeping in hot water with John Q. Public, First it was the late lamented Congression al retirement or pension plan, which raised a nationwide storm of nrotest. and now it is gasoline rationing, with X cards good for unlimited gasoline for members of Congress. Like the pension plan, there are two sides to every story, and un doubtedly some Congressmen do have need for larger than usual easoline rations with which to con duct their official business. The people, however, are bitterly op posed to special favors for repre sentatives and senators, and so, as this is written, the shooting is dying down after blasts fired at Congress from all over the coun try. . North Carolina's congressional delegation is rated one of the ablest in Congress and consists of men who never have made it a habit to seek special favors for themselves. While Senator Josiah W. Bailey was absent in North Carolina, his wife went to the registration tables FIRE Windstorm Earthquake Rental Value Explosion Aircraft Hail Riot ' Motor Vehicle Smoke Damage Inuranctofityourpronat rtquirmnti L. N. Davis & Co. Beat Estate Rentals Insurance "Satisfaction With Safety" set up in the Capitol rotunda for members of Congress and their families and secured an A card. Senator Bob Reynolds has in troduced a joint resolution to re quire registration of labor organ' izations and to prohibit their em ploying as officers or agents peo pie whose integrity is open to question. , Under his resolution, labor groups would have to register with the secretary of labor and name their officers, with titles and sal aries; to disclose initiation fees, annual dues and assessments lev ied against members, limitations on membership, date and method for electing officers and so on. The measure would prohibit la bor unions from employing any one other than an American citi zen and would bar unions job-hold, ing to communists, fascists or mem bers of any Nazi Bund. Phone 77 Main Street booooOuLJ A bill of tremendous interest to farmers which was reported out of the house agriculture commit tee this week was one providing a two year extension for the max imum 2 per cent interest rate on Federal Land and Bank Loans. Representative Harold D. Cooley, a member of that committee, hopes Congress will pass the measure without too much delay or debate. "It seems as though money is plentiful enough at the present time for the land bank to be able to extend the time of these low interest loans, and thus help farm ers get a breathing spell," the congressman believes. He also said another advantage of the 8V4 per cent interest rate was that it brought down the interest charged by private corporations. "In some places, this rate of interest has been .entirely too high and unfair," Mr. Cooley said. He also remarked that twice before Congress had overridden the Pres idential veto on similar bijls. He does not know what Mr. Roose velt's attitude On the measure will be this year, he said. Gasoline rationing did far more than the tire shortage to lessen Washington's terrific traffic jams. There are much fewer cars on the streets here today than in years, and even parking lots seem to be suffering. Heretofore it has been so difficult to find a vacant space on " a lot for your car, and this Workers Won't Have Much To Say About New Jobs By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Columnist) LABOR'S TO BE parcelled out on a priority basis, beginning very soon. As chairman of the recently created War Manpower Commis sion, Paul V. McNutt will manage the job. The workers won't have much to say about their various assign- ments. They will go wherever Paul tells 'em to go. Rather peculiarly a good many of them want to get into the mili tary service but aren't permitted to join up because the manpower board needs 'em worse for indus trial production. They're conscript ed all right, but it's conscription for factory tasks and away from the army. The latter is the outfit they'd prefer to be mustered into, at a lot more personal risk and a great deal less pay. Plants, it appears, are numer ous enough and are -adequately equipped to deliver emergency sup plies in materially larger volume and at a decidedly swifter , rate than they're doing it now, but their managements can't get the skilled hands required to operate 'em at their maximum capacities. Employment of women is expect ed to relieve the situation 1 very much presently, but recruiting and organizing e'm takes a bit of time and it will take still more to train most of them at technical crafts, and time's at a fierce premium to day. Hence evolution of the idea to adapt priorities to the allocation of labor as well as commodities. Transportation Is Tough Transportation facilities are an other headache to emergency offi cialdom. It's pretty aggravating to have wartime products finished and ready for utilization, but piled up at shipping points for lack of means to move em to other places where they're in urgent demand. Building's a dickens of a prob lem, too. All our emergency industries have to have roofs over 'em, at least.. Our cities, where it's convenient to provide them, are entirely un prepared to assimilate 'em. They're generally "congested al ready. ' - There has been a certain amount situation usually was made worse, from the motorist's standpoint, by a lot attendant with a contemp tuous look waving you on down the street. . Hawaiian 'Pineapples' for Japs .. c s mimtmmmmmmMB mi ' ' fnrW" I. 11 immh ft . .. ..swwj- . fv, v e 1 ztd2t&m i , 'H I ' K in B'S' r SSZ U S Navy torpedo experts are shown working on some "gift" that may mean sunset for some of the sons of the Rising Sun, in a work shop of the submarine base in Pearl Harbor, The boys have . .personal interest in this dispute with the Japs. Hawaii is determined that , never again will it be caught unprepared. (Central Press) -L-J liiiiu.iMniil BAXTER C. JONES To The Citizens Of The TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT The office of prosecuting attorney, known as the Solicitor, is one of the important offices of the District. It is important because the Solicitor is primarily the guardian over the ad ministration of justice within the District, as well as a con servator of public and private funds in conducting the Courts in various counties of the District. The State's business is so important that the office is designated as an all time and full paying office, requiring the Solicitor to be available at all times to transact the State's business for the convenience of the public. Realizing the importance of these duties assumed by the prosecuting attorney, as a candidate for that office, I unhesit atingly pledge to the people of the District that I will, at all times, be available to discuss any public matter with witnesses or other interested citizens. I shall be diligent in the prosecu tion of all matters coming before the Courts, and shall carry that duty without fear or favor, and with equal justice to all parties regardless of their station in life. : -v; In the administration of the Courts, it shall be my purpose, if nominated and elected as your -, Solicitor, to arrange the trial docket, so as to accommodate the public and attending witnesses. For instance, a trial calendar should be made indicating certain days on which cases from various townships would be called for trial, doing away with the necessity of witnesses spending many days in Court awaiting for cases in which they are interested to be called. This procedure would save the tax payers thousands of dollars in the course of a year, as well as accommodating hun dreds of people who are interested, but who are receiving no pay for their attendance. These times are too serious to keep our working people from their work, either on the farms, in the work shops, or from the plants. The Courts are under no less duty to conserve our time, our labor and our money to win this war, than any other organization in the land. Democracy and Justice must and shall prevail throughout our land, and if I am your Solicitor, these principles shall go to the courtroom at every session of Court over which the Solicitor participates. My opponent for the office has now held it for three terms, a total of twelve years, which is four years longer than any Solicitor has ever asked the people to keep him in office, at a good salary, and is now asking that he have it for four more years. The Twentieth Judicial District is made up of the seven western counties, including , Haywood, . and for the past twenty years the Solicitor has been furnished from Haywood, and for the past ten years the Judge has been elected from this splendid County. This Primary Hon. Felix E. Alley, one of the great Judges of the State, is to be re-nominated by the District for an additional eight years. Would not our Democratic principles be furthered by nominating and electing the District Solicitor from one of the Counties other than Haywood, thereby giving the whole District represen tation?'. The Government's order limiting the use of automobiles and gasoline will prevent me from seeing personally the citizenship of this fine county, but this is briefly my message to you. Your support now and on through the day of the Primary, May 30th, and throughout my administration will be greatly appreciated. I shall repay you for your interest by being diligent and active in the enforcement of the law in your County Sincerely yours, BAXTER- C. JO WES Candidate For Solicitor of commandeering of their office skyscrapers and apartment houses and miscellaneous nonessential manufacturing plants, for govern ment occupancy, but it's quite a stunt to evict a whole urban popu- ation onto park benches to make room for Uncle Sam. Folks screech like fury at being chucked out. Some of 'era have leases and stand pat. Furthermore, while a 12-story hotel, a block square, such as the one across the street from where I'm writing, has a deal of floor space inside it, it wasn't planned to accommodate munition-making, and practically would have to be reconstructed for the purpose. That's where the time factor en ters into the equation again. A whale of a town, the size of New York or Chicago, can't be torn down and rebuilt, for the war emergency, in a hurry, and haste is the vital essential now. Besides, where '11 all our war workers in these industries be housed, with their families? Right around, in the neighborhood? No, no, that wouldn't do. As a result of the tearing down, nothing would be left but slums. Washington's an example of it. Congress itself is scared by conditions in the capital afraid of an epidemic that'll kill off about half of it, senators and representatives, included, due to overcrowding. Moving No Cinch You might say that tne populace could protect its health by moving. But, once more, we get back to the transportation proposition. How are these workers, with their flivvers put out of commis sion for the duration, to get from home to their jobs and back home again? Industry is solving the puzzle to some extent. It's doing it by moving its plants into the cities' outskirts and en couraging their workers to flock their homes around, in their vari ous neighborhoods. The industries are headquarter ed in what are known in Washing ton as "tempos" abbreviated from temporary. They're .hastily-constructed frame affairs, but pretty big, many of 'em, and combustible as kindlingwood, but beatable in winter and waterproof. The Urban Land Institute, an in dependent agency, in a recent re lease, predicts that this tendency, which it calls "decentralization," will continue. Its forecast is that it'll be cheap er for industry to operate and more comfortable for workers to live out in the sticks and that that's what they'll vote for from now on. The Institute doesn't contend that big cities will disintegrate com pletely, but it does guess that sky scraper days are over. 27 Applicants Get Grants From Rationing Board Twentv-seven applicants to the tire rationing board were granted their applications here during the The list included the fol lowing, as announced by the clerk of the board. Town of Waynesville, electrical maintenance. 2 truck recaps: Hayes Bryson, of Hazelwood, haulers of logs and lumber, 1 truck tire and 1 truck tube; Carr Lumber Lorn nanv. of Lake Junaluska, hauler of logs, 1 truck tire; K. W. Messer, of Cove Creek, minister and farm er, 1 truck recap; Wayne Rogers, Route 2, Waynesville, rural man carrier, 2 passenger recaps, and 1 passenger tire. H. S. Ward, of Lake Junaluska. hauler of feed and fertilizer. 1 truck tire and 1 truck tube; R. H. West, of Clyde, farm hauler, z truck tires, obsolete; Massie Fun eral Home, ambulance service. 3 ambulance recaps; Paul Caldwell, of Hazelwood, hauler of fuel, 1 truck recap ; Public Roads Admin istration, hifirhwav construction, 3 truck recaps; Underwood Lumber and Supply Company, hauler oi AAA lime and pulpwood, 2 truck tires and 2 truck tubes, G. W. Carver, Waynesville route 2, minister, I passenger tube and 1 passenger recap; Henry Francis, Waynesville, route 1, farmer, 2 truck recaps ; Martin Electric Company, Waynesville, electrical maintenance, 2 truck Young, of Waynesville K vice, 2 passenger Muse, of wf::..recap; P , transportation of empJ? 3 from work on a. J. y' to J passenger recaps. ProKl w t c I . nuevenson, Warn, farm hauler, 1 pa seZ Glenn McCracken, of f,!? 1. AAA sunervism. , 1 "0 recap; RufU8 Ruff' J route 2. Wo-; aI "l7tttrJ recaps and 2 truck tuwH wholesale food saleH senger recaps; Walter fi! I H of Clvde. far ,t- . & M , ' i trucktiJ farmer. 5 truck, "VeJ Schulhofer. m 1, Waynesville, farmer, & and 1 truck tube; Henry fial . "r 01 wood I truck Tecapsj J. C. BrownSi nesville. vocatinnoi .'-"'I teacher. 2 n... " -s 'capj, The thousands destroyed in a Michigan fireZI keep a pipe lit. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our .lo tion to our many relativa ,J xi lciius lur meir thoughtfula and sympathy in the mother, Mrs. Ellen Francis, jj we inaiiK mem lor the beaut flowers. THE FRANCIS FAMILY. A man in Asheville, N. C, has invented a machine which he says will pull up trolley tracks as easily as a dentist pulls a tooth. He wants to use it in the Salvage for Vtiocry campaign. Good news for you if you haven't a maid No maid service means more work for us! Save time, money, energy and help your things last longer with our reliable laundry service. Only the gentlest soaps and greatest care are used in wash ing your household linens . . . care that extends to shirts and clothing too! We call for and deliver. Waynesville Laundry Phone 205 3C Quality and Real Service, see These Firms! SAVE TIME SAVE MONEY Time to Cook with Gas the Perfect Fuel Economical Gean Quick Essotane Metered Service City o oonvtnlenc Inittlltd anywhtr Brading Gas Service Church Strtet Phon 202 Day Or Night TAXI SERVICE Day Phone 90 Night Phone 165-J Scott Reeves BUY WAR BONDS From Uncle Sam and Your Insurance From Atkins Insurance Agency 58 N. Main St, Waynesville RENT A SINGER VACUUM CLEANER For Spring cleaning. Rent by day or week. Your choice of hand or floor model. Phone 343-J. SINGER SERVICE Eyes Examined 'Glasses Fitted 125 Main Street CONSULT DR. R KING HARPE OPTOMETRIST ' Wells Bldg. For Appointment Telephone 2483 Canton, N. C. i FOOD PREPARED AND SERVED AS YOU LIKE IT CHARLIE'S CAFE A Modern Seating Place With the Open-View Kitchen Delicious Appetizing Regular Sizzling Breakfast Plate Lunch Dinner Steaks Sunday Dinner For Entire Family Pbone 196 Sec.1 Service Cleaners For Service First Satisfaction Always In the Basement of the Boyd BaDding Entrance through the Boyd Fnrnitore Store See The Mountaineer For Fine Printing Junaluska SuppK Machine Shop Phone 88 Specializing In Welding Brazing General Repair Garaere Work LATHE & PLANE8 WORK Join the IkpK Folks Here! Delicious food; and economic nrices are a . combination make everybody happy! CjS1 in and ioin the many ", finding NEW PLEASURE eating here! Green Tree P Room "Your Meeting Phone 9165
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