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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER iHE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street "" Phone 137 Waynesville, 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.. ..fl.75 Six Months, In Haywood County : 0c One Year, Outside Haywood County .. 2.50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the poet office at Waynesville. N. C. a. Second Claaa Mail Matter, aa provided under tlie Act of Marc- I. November tu. 1914. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, card of thank, and all notices of entertainment for profit, will be chanted for t the rate of one cent per word. ' . ' : " ' - MATIONAL cDlTOWAI "Vf ASStJL Al IV-JIV llll I fata. 9 sStiorxh Carolina pnss association jpj THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942 (One Day Nearer VictQry) What Will War Do To America? An article in November's Harper Maga zine gives one of the most far reaching out lines of what the war will do for America that we have read. In the opening para graph the author sets forth that there are two things about this war that all Ameri cans take for granted. The first is that we shall win it. The second is that we shall have to make the greatest national effort in our history to achieve victory. To foresee what the war will do to America we must, therefore, keep these two assumptions in mind. We must first consider just what has to be done to win the war. Then we must consider what our victory will do to us and the rest of the world.-. f The national effort required to win the war, so the article states, has already revo lutionized the American way oH life. We have only to look about our daily lives right here in Haywood county to know that this is true. We are all living by a more com plicated set of rules and regulations than we dreamed could happen even a year ago. To see what may be in store for us we have only to look at some of the other coun tries, Australia, Canada and Great Britain. They are sacrificing certain liberties to win the war, and we are doing the same. Some of the definite things that will hap pen to American are pointed out in the article a3 follows: The war will abolish most unemployment. The war will make it necessary for Amer ica to feed and reequip most of Europe and some of Asia. The war will whittle away some .of the recent gains of labor. The war will give the United States a self-sufficient economy. The war will increase the power of the administrator at the expense of the profes sional politician. Our new army in peace as in war, will remain our most powerful pressure group and the reservoir from which our next gen eration of leaders will come. 4 The war will bring compulsory military training here to stay. The war will give American air power control of the skies of the world. The war will create a new spirit of na tionalism in our people. What Are We Like? Now that this country is being brought closer to other nations by the present war, . we are becoming more interested in the peo ple whom we are fighting with "as well as those whom we are fighting. In turn they are curious about us. , We were interested during the week to read a list of books that had been compiled by the authoress Pearl S. Buck, and other Ameri can book critics that would best tell the people of Asia what the American people are like. The list included: Huckleberry Finn and the adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ; Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sand burg; "The Flowering of New Engand," by Van Wycke Brooks; "Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis ; "Main Street," also by Lewis. "The Folks" by Ruth Cuckow; "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman; "My Antonia" by Willa Gather; "The Yearling" by Mar jorie Rawlings ; "The Rise of American Civi lization" by Chas. A. and Mary Beard; "The Epic of America" by James Truslow Adams ; "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck; and ''Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. We were relieved that though "The Grapes of Wrath" was included "Tobacco Road" was left off. We imagine, like other such lists, most persons would make additions and subtractions to the list. "SAW DUST CAESAR" Protect Machinery The Southern Planter in a recent issue warned the farmers about protecting their farm machinery and not leaving it out to the mercy of the Weather. It pointed out the fact few types of new farm machines will be available another other year, but that repair parts appear to be plentiful. - Present implements will have to carry the load of increased farm production in 1943, so every care should be given the supply on hand. The advice is "Don't wait until you want to use a piece of machinery before condi tioning it," which should be timely in war or peace. Tools should be put under shelter, and all metal parts iled'to protect them from weather. . ,... .. Further advice was given about utilizing the rainy day for checking over the equip ment and making minor repairs and order ing new parts. Equipment that isn't worth repairing and protecting from the weather should be sold for scrap, it was pointed out. r SsyWAr vJUEN IN ROMf DO AS a m ' TVrl UU'. liggjaj o HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Much In This Name We heartily endore the sentiments of Nell Battle Lewis in one paragraph of her column "Incidentally", which appeared in last Sunday's Raleigh News and Observer as follows: "Across the bottom of one of the pages of the curent Reader's Digest is this sentence in black-faced type 'Help defeat Hitler by calling him by his right name, Schickel gruber'. On the surface that may seem silly, but I believe there's something in it. ''Can you imagine a world-conquered by the name of Schickelgruber? Neither can I. Schiekelgruber is definitely a deflating cognomen. Hitler might be ranked with Alexander and Napoleon and Caesar but Schickelgruber never. "The suggestion carried by the Schickel gruber is that of an entirely commonplace individual in fact a rather ridiculous one. Psychologically The Reader's Digest has something in that idea, and I pledge this column to its support." We Should Be Proud We have every right to be proud of our Haywood County boys who have made such outstanding records in vocational agriculture under the guidance of their teachers, who deserve to share in the recognition of the boys who have been their students. Out of the twelve boys who won Ameri can Farmer degrees from North Carolina at the National Future Farmers of America convention at Kansas City last week, two of the boys were from Haywood County, Edd McCracken of Fines Creek, and James Boone, of the Pigeon Road. In addition to these boys Sam Arlington, State Star farmer, who is now a student at State College, was among those who attended the convention. There is not only pride of the moment in the achievements, but confidence in the future, for it will be their generation who will have to build back a country torn by the damages wrought by a war. Might Be Overlooked After reading of a friendly contest by two well known citizens of Lenoir, we won dered if keys had been overlooked here dur ing the past few weeks since the scrap drive started. The Lenoir citizens started seeing which one could collect the most keys. Boxes were placed in public places where patriotic. citi zens could drop their old keys in, and at a definite time both boxes were opened to see which was the winner. We thought it was an excellent plan. I know that it has long been a custom for the thrifty person to save every key that came around the house, ' one way or the other. But, seriously speaking, how many of the keys ever work? It seems to us that after saving them ourselves over a long period, we have never yet had one of the things to fit another lock, other than the one it was intended to fit. We want you to join with us this week in honoring the State Guard unit . , we doubt if the public in general knows how much real honest to goodness work and drilling the me nare taking in their workouts at the armory . . . but, of course, we have proof of how our local men rate . . . because of the fact that Colonel J. Harden How ell is now in command of the Sec ond North Carolina Regiment and that Major W. A. Bradley, for mer captain of the local unit, is now in command of the 8th Bat talion . . . the" State Guard units e. steadily gaining prestige in North Carolina, as well as in the communities that are lucky to have the groups . . . In the past when it was necessary to call out pro tection for strikers and disasters . . the National Guard was on hand . , . ready to go . . . but now the National Guard has gone . . . and for how long, no one knows , ,. When they were called to active duty .-, ... the state was left without any defense force . . . such a thing is not advisable in times of peace ... much less so m days of warfare. We have been oblivious too long in America of what others were doing. . . , Every time we think of Pearl Harbor . . . it is with a terrific shock to realize that such danger lurked so near . . . and yet this country had been so casual . . . that the attack was not anti cipated. ... Before peace is writ ten into our lives again in America . with our armies concentrating on war ... we nave no surety oi safety from internal troubles . after we have been aroused . , . we should know by now that any thing can happen. ... A group of armed forces at home is a neces sity , . ", a wise precaution . . . a type of preparation . . . that should give every citizen a feeling of security ... in our observation . outside of the army . there is no group of war effort taking their time more seriously (. . . if you don't believe us ask one of the State Guard "widows"). Col. Howell, who was the main speaker at the barbecue supper given by the local unit on Friday night , . . told the guests some in teresting facts about the State Guard . . . Col. Howell said in part . . . "When the National Guard was called into service in 1940 . . . the state was left with out any interior protection . . . The Legislature of 1941 provided for the organization of the State Guard ... They evidently thought the National Guard would be back home before the State Guard could organize, as only ?dU,uuo was ap propriated for the biennium, ?15,- 000 for each yar. - Equipment ne cessarily had to be cut short . , as will be noted by the length of these blouses," explained the Col onel. "As soon as the Legislature pro vided the authority, 40 companies of fifty men and three officers were organized and activated In the state ... The state furnished the uniforms and the government the rifles. The rifles have been taken up and sent to the Chinese and now we are armed with shot guns and three sub-machine guns for each company," said Colonel Howell. deDendentlv. At that time the state was divided into eight bat talions of five companies each. Each battalion was commanded by a major, with one first lieutenant as adjutant, a second lieutenant as supply officer . . , and a sergeant major, an enlisted man, At the same time two regiments were set up, but these did not function." In September of this year, there was another setup. This provided for a brigade commander, with a full staff of officers. Two regi ments with a colonel commanding each, lieutenant colonel as execu tive, with a captain as adjutant, service company, which wouia also operate as a gun company. Prior to this there had not been any medical unit, now each regiment has a medical unit with a lieuten ant colonel, a major, and captain, with enlisted personnel ... the State Guard now consists of 40 rifle companies, two headquarters and service companies . . . and two medical units, totaling approxt mately 2,200 men," said the Col onel. Rambling Around Bv W. CURTIS TJTTcq , Bits of this, that and the other picked up here, there and yonder Voice OF THE People Granting that more of us feel 3V a,re - ..... . . . I I. n P Sn nmnn. the need of additional Knowledge, what subject do you regret that M yon did not study more thoroughly weat'y stacked in the sted . , v were three Thomosnn ...r Oliver H. Shelton"! would like .but ... vuu to know more about the Jvngiisn , a : we mtie pjJ language." . .. 7 ' . " s'"1 720 J '"" now stop and .j n..-t- u-w j.ui t j that out 12 bnll. . studied mathematics more thor- ,: the e"i of oughly. It would have been great help to me in business." Wayne Rogers "English. It , Thfe fun ca" be regula:, js one subject that I did not like f'owetr an that rat, id I regret that I did not study ne" ne Japs are in vie : "f." opened to the h. was one and 1 rei it more. J. R. Reeves -"Most boys do not like written work, and I am sure that I did not do as much work in English as I should have. The young person so often does not realize the importance of good English." Mrs. Sallie Lou Justice "If I had it to do over again, I would study everything more thoroughly and take advantage of every opportunity." Mrs. Harry Rung "English, for I feel that proper speech is the most important study in after life for people judge you more by this than anything else." Miss Evonia Howell "I regret that I did not study more history and geography, for both would be such a great help today in under standing the current events." Miss Kate Phillips "English, as I think that is the subject that should be stressed more than any other in our schools." In speaking of the recent pro motions Col. Howell said . . . "I do hot know whether the people of Waynesville have ever thought of it, but in all my connection with the guard of this state, I have never known one company to have fur nished so many officers . Actually there has been so many officers go ing out of this company, that they do not now have pants for the enlisted personnel. First I went taking with me Captain M. H. Bowles and Paul Davis, then Ma jor Bradley, taking with him Ralph Prevost as adjutant and Willard Moody as sergeant major, When this company was transferred as the headquarters and service com pany, it became my perogative and duty to name the officers . . . I now introduce to you the new officers of the local unit . . . Lt. Frank Byrd, the new captain, 2nd Lt. Ben Sloan, is now first lieutenant and Sgt. Roy Ruff, sec ond lieutenant." In case you were not present, you need have no doubt as -to the popularity of Capt. Byrd or Lt. Sloan and Lt. Ruff . . . the ovation they received showed the high es teem in which they are held by the men of the local unit. In closing Col. Howell paid a tribute to General James W. Jen kins, commander of the State Guard ... saying in part . . . "He is a gentleman of the highest type. A soldier from the ground up and of tried and proven ability . . . I would be glad to serve Mrs. Bon Atkinson "I would say English. I think that every one' should have a good course in English. When you are out in the world people judge you by the Eng lish you speak more than anything else." Jack Messer "I regret not tak ing more vocational training.", J. C. Brown "There is so much that I wish that I had studied, that I would like to go over again and concentrate on all of my studies. I would like to recall the wasted hours. I believe on sec ond thought I regret not studying English and history more thoroughly.": HORSES To save gas and rubber, more than 125 saddle horses are being used by Indian service extension employees on at least 14 Indian reservations in this country. under him in any capacity . I assdre the people that they need have no fears as to the ability of the guard to meet any situa tion." v . . and such a compliment by a veteran of World War No. 1, who was in the thick of the fight 25 years ago is not an idle remark. Anyone present at the supper at the armory could not have failed to have been impressed with the State Guard . . . but between us . . . we were also keenly interested in the new recruits, high school boys, who had drawn K. P. as their initial duty . . . and if they step around on other duties as they did in serving, we predict that some day there may be a general among them. - THE OLD HOME TdWN By STANLEY "The purpose of the guard is interior defense. No one knows what may happen, there may be interior trouble, but we believe the time for parachutist has pass ed. The guard is here as a guar antee that the principles of a dem ocratic government for which our men are fighting will be here when they return. . . Prior to Decem ber, 1941, each unit operated in- JP YOU OONT SQUIRM i-"" ( w Your chair those - ',- ,- S PANTS VNIU. LAST OUT 0 THIS SESSION Of THE --3 -l L N. CURT-ANrNEli.HAVE---g VEM RE-TgEAPEP BY ) Sj 55 ,-SRAN& JURY J , . I I I OH THE HOME FRONT : r -a-.-il.i- . ii . Not Telow like I the armory. since thi m. . I o have I had tk 1 took last ith4 a guest of the Stat, fl eir bonntif.,1 1 Captam Frank Bl Lieutenant Ben Ril I saw first ...j" T so muck were guns ltlGrmimnni.. J. iai ,,'"UK"l 01 death realize that tv, 1;.., : "r, end cfl Lieutenant Sloan tried J ..cw Kuu recently, and said minded him of turning g hose loose on iha ci .1 SO fast did the lead fly froJ that gun, however, but sincj members of the State Guar! 8" " snoot tne lead-eatinj aiuunu neie, mere is no use into detail in this column. Backing: ud the there are rows nnH m. n A - VT0 Vi US barreled shot guns, of thl guage varietv. The st-t. I keeps more than a thousand 4 of ammunition on hanrl no military secret, but whl is kept, and how to get to something that Uncle Sam d hcers of the State Guard under their hats. After Cast in c a Dartimr the mean looking barrel 01 machine gun, I was shown ii supply room, and Captain proudly opened a new sh of modern chow kits neat lined plates, with division! them, that keeps the peas arl tatoes from mixing into hash a soldier has been served, All the knives, forks, spoonl cups are coated in parafin. away ready to go on the fieldj the company. Canned gool every variety are stacked shelves, to such an extent housewife would turn green envy to see how these keep their pantry. Out in the clothing supply there is an outfit for eight men. The company now hi men and can use the first that comes in and are accept The men enjoy their work State Guard. They have loj fun, and learn things aboul military world they would know otherwise. Many members are now m serviceJ have found the experiences a every Tuesday night at the an has helped them since tney started in for Uncle tam. The State Guard works They play nara. i And they certainly beliej good food, xney re " last Friday night when thef x.j (.:anl. rlnwn to I a banquet of barbecued CM and au trimmings. If you lack rhythm in your VoKr Irn'nw. left from auu "(tMV , i .L .-ii ; en down; 11 win pay w ., ,:J m i : 4- o if nn luesuay iugnw ,i a whfle, and shunie y-;i time With those State Guard Lane Arrington Gets Honor At Cullowhec Lane Arrington, son of Mr Mrs. Lane Arrington, W., cently elected a council J representing third floor son Hall, at Western Ca- Teachers College. Cou"I bers are officers of the government, and have f bilities in connec bon ing .the niles of .the committee on their floors. . ; hich At the meeting m ment body .under the leafle c Dean W.E. Bird set UP tne ing rules to be observed jy 8 of the dormitory: L'S" ini outatlloock, of noise Delo,c. ."vine or f student caught dnnb , college men " t thia and to tneir "" t 2.000 English won, ployed in ium lumoer
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