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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 THE WANESVILLE 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 EUSS....-4............:........-. - Editor Mrs. Hilda WAY GWYN.... .......AssociaU Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County..,...-. Six Months, In Haywood County ...... One Year, Outside Haywood County ... Six Months, Outside Haywooa iouniy.... ...$1.76 . 80e ... 2.50 ... 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered it the port of fie. .t Waynill.. N. C. Snma CUa Mall Matter, a provided under the Act ol Marcb I. Navember 10. 1014. Obituary notice, resolutions of reepect. card, of thank, and all notice of entertainment for profit, will be charced for at the rate of one cent per word. . .. - , MATIONAL EDITORIAL- MM W ASSOCIATION TO priss ASSOC LATXfijA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, '1942 (One Day Nearer Victory) The Year Ahead Every American worthy of citizenship in this nation today is facing the coming year with grave thoughts. The year offers many critical situations that will develop in rapid succession. We were interested in the Qallup poll of the past week in which the survey showed that the majority of the opinion that the first steps to set up peace machinery should be taken before war ends. Some felt that we should not worry about solving postwar problems, but should con centrate on winning the war first. Others believe that the two should be carried on to gether. In the survey it was also brought out that the majority are wanting plans made for postwar years so that the mistakes made after the First World War may be avoided. All seemed to agree that the peace terms of number one were a failure, and that this time the problems of peace must be thorough ly studied. c' One person interviewed in the survey ad vanced the idea that "we must await the outcome of the war to decide these things. Many changes may come before the war ends which would upset the plans made now." ' Any way you take it the year that lies ahead is frought with events so tremendous that even when they come it will be hard for most of us to comprehend their signi ficance. We must be prepared to take what comes and adjust ourselves to new conditions. Christmas 1942 Another Christmas with America at war has come and gone. There were definite signs of the changing times. There were no outdoor lighting effects as in the past. There was a decided leaning toward the practical side in the matter of gifts. While families were plucky about going about as usual, there was an undercurrent of sadness that pulled one along through the holiday season, but it was there to throw a screen on complete happiness, i Fewer persons came home to spend Christ mas in the community and fewer persons went out of town. Trains and buses were later than usual. The community on the whole was determined to take Christmas and they did, but despite the apparent gaiety, the fact that pur country was at war was not forgotten. . Uppermost in the thoughts of many gath ered about family tables with young mem bers, was the fact that next Christmas the circle would be broken more than this year, for in 1943 we expect to tighten up our belts and go after our enemies. This spirit was recognized at Christmas, whether it was voiced in words or not. The Crises Of Christianity In her widely-syndicated column of Sat urday release, Dorothy Thompson deals with the war as representing "The Crisis of Chris tianity." ' ;: : - . ' It is a favorite theme of hers. Often in the past she has discoursed upon this aspect of the world-wide revolution which is the mainspring and matrix of this wear. In this immediate instance, Miss Thomp son is writing appropriately to the Christian Christmas. , In the Thursday issue of The Wall Street Journal, the leading editorial is a discussion of "Christianity and this War," subject of the Christmas editorial in this newspaper issuing daily from the Capital of Capitalism. These are sermons from non-sermonic sources, preachments from the press and not the pulpit. They are all the more significant for that reason significant not only because of the source from which these discussions come as to Christianity and the war, but signi ficant, too, because they are so related, in respect to thought and time of expression. These are eminent origins, Miss Thomp son and The Wall Street Journal, for intel lectual criticism and comment of the first magnitude. Neither is, of course, professionally reli gious. Theirs are secular organs and theirs are minds of the laity, tall minds that, if not outside of the Church and of religious connections, are, at least, not crusaders for these spiritual institutions and interests. But theirs are honest minds and profound, and both have penetrating insights into the deeper and more hidden implications of this war..'"'. And both see it as involving the crisis of Christianity. Does the Church and its apostles of today see it with equal clarity of vision and speak of it as involving the destiny of the Christian religion with such positive voices as come from these important sources? It is commonplace to regard the war as primarily involving social, political and eco nomic issues. Whether men shall be free or slaves, whether they shall be regarded as human beings or as beasts, whether they shall have the right to live and work and worship and believe as they elect or as they shall be com pelled by cruel overlords, will be determined by the side to which eventual victory shall come.' But more important still, the most long reaching decisions for the world of man which are being made in this war are neither social nor political nor economic. They are moral and they are spiritual Charlotte Observer. Well, Maybe ... Maybe it is true that the fellow who laughs last laughs best, but then the one who laughs first sees the point quicker. ANOTHER 1913 WAR SONG "OXNS UP HERE and THERE HILDA By WAY GWYN The following was taken from the "Gab", the Greenville Air Base weekly newspaper . . . Wnile it was written for those in service it also offers a lesson to the civilian . . . who like the boy in service has no time to waste these days . . - What Might Happen Most of us are so Confident of victory that we rarely consider what might happen if the Axis should win the war. Maybe we are too confident. Perhaps if we thought more on the possibility of not winning we might be spurred to greater efforts in be half of victory. The following editorial which appeared in the Reidsville Review gives one something to think over: "If the Axis wins . . . you'll still be in a uniform whether you're a man or a woman or a child. And your immediate superior won't be a hard-boiled American sergeant. He'll be a Nazi gauleiter, a storm trooper, or a swaggering Japanese militarist. 'If America wins . . . you can be certain that your loved ones now in uniform will be back with you, working at their old jobs and enjoying life as only Americans can And to get that form of life you have to support your government now, by investing 10 per cent of your money in War Bonds "A good New Year resolution for all Americans is contained in the foregoing paragraph. During the coming year we will have to double our efforts." The alphabet has played an important party in the administrations of President Roosevelt, but never have the ABC's been studied so hard as during the past year, as we have tried to get all the gasoline we felt entitled to be rationed to us. Students Take Over We like the custom in the churches today of turning over the Sunday evening service following Christmas Day to the college stu dents home for their vacations. ', It not only serves as a plan of recognition to the student, but it also indicates to them that the church is looking to their leader ship in the future. The students with their training in their religious activities in the colleges have, an opportunity to grow spiritually as well as intellectually, and this program by them in their home church should give them con fidence in their ability to carry on. ... JUST BII.I, JONES "Bill Jones is dead." Bill Jones has just graduated from agricultural college. He was ambitious to put into action all he had learned about conservation of soil, better breeding of cattle, ro tating crops, because his dad's farm was in pretty bad shape. When the war came Bill enlisted in the Army. Bill went to the Philippines and the little town where he was bil leted was overrun by a horde of Japs. Bill fought as long as he could and then under orders, sur rendered. They tied his hands be hind him and a Jap soldier start ed to rape a white woman. He had torn her blouse off when Bill kicked hira in the belly, and three Japs waiting their turn rammed their bayonets into Bill's guts. This happened about the time you were inventing ways to get out of drilling because all that sort of stuff was darn nonsense and you knew it all after two weeks, anyway- ' . Bill Jones is dead. Bill was a football player who had prospects as professional coach at a good small college. Then came Pearl Harbor. Bill used some football language and head ed for town to sign up with the parachute troops. He did all right. Bill got action in an air raid enemy country. He hit the ground with a dozen of his palsl and faced to where their machine guns and grenades had landed near them. Fully equipped, thev made for a nearby farmhouse from which bullets were spraying like water out of a garden hose. Six of those machine gun bullets fairly cut Bill's legs off, but he lay on 'his belly in the mud and got two Heinies. "Of alt the damn fool luck." That was the morning you had such a bad hangover that all the other men in your section were bo busy covering up for yon that J;hey had to neglect their own work. Bill Jones is dead. Bill Jones was a boy who had an inclination for the ministry, but when the call came, Bill laid aside his Bible and Joined the Ma rine Corps. Bill wasn't much fun around the blanket where thev were shooting craps and he wasn't so hot at the beer drinking contests in the jukes, but he earned his sergeant's stripes before they sent his gang ashore in one of those new boats which land through the surf. The fist full of fightine souls charged a machine gun nest, and Bill had just taken careful aim and let go with a hand grenade when another machine gun caught him. Four bullets hit his head, but a Marine has four speeds for ward and no reverse, and Bill fell toward the enemy. Bill Jones is dead. Bill's dad had a lot of money. and when Bill wanted his own plane, dad bought it for him. Bill was a wild devil, driving a car out of all reason : and flying a plane the same way, and getting drunk too often. But he was the first man in his town to respond to the Air Corps' call, for fliers. Bill got into a dog fight over the English Channel. There were six German planes, but with a "Talleyho" Bill dived into the bunch of them. He got two before a third one sent a burst of bullets into his back that almost cut him in half, but he held on to the stick until he rammed the fourth plane and went down with, it locked in the flaming embrace of death. That was the afternoon you wrote that letter to Helen, leaving those reports unfinished on your desk, even though it slowed up that shipment of generators an other 24 hours. You know who Bill is: He's .i . . i ti your Drotner. Ana my Drawer, and the kid who batted flies to you on warm summer evenings back home. He's your sister's boy friend. He's the man in the bunk above you, and the guy who ship ped outlast week. Hell, you know who Bill is, Fellas. He's us. Can you waste time on your job, no matter how small it seems, when you know that Bill is out there right this minute, dying for you?" What Made News Years Ago TEN YEARS AGO 1932 Commissioners are urged to re tain county farm agent. England-Walton staged their an nual Christmas party last Friday night with over 1,200 Hazelwood- ians present. Assistant Director of Park Cam- merer, says general developments of Park will start in about a year, progress pleasing. Twenty-four students at Clyde make all "A's" in third month of school. Suncrest Railroad being removed from the National Park area.. Heavy rains in county, but little damage is done. James Harden Howell, Jr., en tertains the younger set with party at "Windover." Walls Novelty Company, wood working plant, moves into larger quarters because of increased busi ness. Rambling Around By W. CURTIS RUSS Pits of this, that and the other picked up here, there and yonder. Voice OF THE People Do you plan to make any Nete Year resolutions? Mrs. Ruth Beaty"Ho, I do not plan to make any New Year reso lutions, because! believe that each day we have to adjust ourselves to new conditions, as they present themselves." William L. Balentine "I rarely make New Year resolutions, be cause I do not believe in them, but on the other hand I do not approve of staying in a rut," ...Miss Ada Calhoun "No, I am. not planning to make any resolu tions, because I know that I would not keep them, arid I had rather not make them than break them." Mrs. W. T. Crawford ''I rarely ever do. So often on the spur of the moment and the spirit of the occasion, you make rash resolutions and fail to keep them. I think it is better to live from day to day." driai, One day during the dreary first of the week With lots Of .' the guess that if a T he fell had been snow insS? depth would have been t" Aeon R. 4.1..4. - e" fUr feel sure glad the weather a heart, even if jt was WB hsd Since the war there has noticeable drnn in ;. . eei" house-to-house salesmen. AsTr such a salesperson i, nuisance, because so many 0f7h J had a racket; or perhaps it mi 1 be that we're afraid they 4mSJ us in for a sucker. Usually 3 ... uu ming' not worth a whoop, that """""'5 "e nouse - to - KaiiJ ' i . .. ""'sazine sa esmen or sales adies, who often are 5 ing their wav thrm,K .L . , luua Ior S()me . . GDI ft Wnl son, whom we know, and have fidence in. Dr. R. Stuart Robernn"No, I don't plan to make any. I don't think there is much merit in a resolution that you wait until New Year's to make." Mrs. Kate Morris "I plan make only pne, and that will to be kinder to people." Mrs. S. P. Gay "No, but I have made them in the past. I have found that they often do not last, and there is no special time to make resolutions, for one can make them every day." Mrs. Gilbert Reeves "I rarely make them, for I am so busy liv ing each day and taking care of other people that I do not have time to think of resolutions." John V. Blalock " Yes, I do, be cause I feel that as long as we are satisfied with the present, we will not make, progress in the future. 1 think we should have an unrest that inspires us to make the next year better than the last one, for the longer we live the better we should know how, I resolve to be a better neighbor, a better friend and do more for my fellow man this year than last year." Dill Hannah (student at Belmont Abbey) "So, I do not plan to make any New Year resolutions. I will let the future take care of that." Real Estate TRANSACTIONS IN (As Recorded to Monday Noon Of This Week) Clyde Township R. H. West, et ux, to C. E. Brown, et ux. J. M. Henline, et ux to Claude C. Brown.. . Not lone O " JWUIlt I Hi OUr iha J supposedly selling magaZieS J pflf thot'o i.,tni i ' tI himself as doing here, and whej want nnvfhitioi u i . .: I it V.rLB "uumn't stars to listen. When they told him they .:. "c aKreea w take anythingtheir husbands' shirts sox, underwear, etc.. or anvtvJ in women's wearables, cosmetics-J c.c. giucenes irom the pantry! Another high-pressurp r,i-J salesman had a system of finding out the name of the people in thel next house to be canvassed, ani when the lady of the house cam2 io ine aoor ne d greet her as a long-l lost friend. Then he'd tell her thai Mrs. So-and-So next door had Sub J scribed and had highly recommendj ea ner as a good prospect. Ana when his customer stubJ bornly refused to come across with? a down payment on a subscription he'd act as if he was hurt. disaoJ pointed and almost insulted and! insinuate that the lady was noB what her neighbors thought her to be. One lady threatened to call the cops to him if he didn't gea out oi her house immediately. ETHICS It Wasn't in Waynes ville. A clothing merchant's son ask ed his father to define ethics. "See here, my son, I shall ex plain it to you this way. Sup pose a lady should come into store, buys a lot of goods and pays me ten dollars too much when she goes out. I discover it after she has left. Here, my son is wherel ethics 'comes in Should I or should! I not tell my partner," Da- Craft tree Township Joe Y. Davis to Dewey R. vis- ; Dewey R. Davis to Joe Y. Da vis.. ':-.', FIVE YEARS AGO ''1937' .,;' Women serve on jury in Hay wood county for the first time. Mrs. Ben Colkitt wins prize giv en for most attractive outside Christmas tree.. 300 children in community firet bags from community Christmas tree. : Salvation Army provides gifts' for 700 children in county. j Armory dedication and Presi- "i dent Birthday Ball will be j"in 1 -'' ' "' . . ' V affair. Urn North Carolina. Motorists without 1938 licenses I County Home Demonstration are liable to arrest. (clubs will study kitchens in 1938. Waynesville high school gym Babson predicts big business ranks as one of the best in. West--1 gain over last year for 1938. Iron Duff Township Bryan Chambers to Jack Cham bers. .. tvy Hill Township Mattie E. Ketner to Chas. D. THE OLD HOME TOWN --- By STANLEY: S4 SO 3 WjTS MY BISCUITS t fS lTr lffV LAP! I HAVBONIX ON T THAT NCW E;jnV t-" LEARNING BY INSTALMENT! Bobby was obstinate one day! and refused to say his lesson to his teacher, "But you know it quite well Bobby," protested the teacher. "Yes, I do so," admitted thej youth. "Then why don't you say ft to me then?" "Because, if I say it now youTE only make me learn something; else for tomorrow." SCIENCE A cameraman, working for the educational del partment of a film company, nwt an old farmer coming out of house. "I have just been taking! some moving pictures of life on! your farm." "Did vou catch any! of mv laborers in motion?" ask-l ed the bid man. curiously. "Sura I did." The farmer shook his he4 reflectivelythen said: "Science i a wonderful thing." HYSTERICAL A nasseneer inS an airnlane was far UD in sky when the pilot began to laoghl hysterically. J Passenger "What's the joke!! Pilot f'I'm thinkine of whaB they will say at the asylum when! they find out I ve escaped. RESOLUTIONS Just forpi them, you will sooner or later any way.: VICTORIOUS For the Allied Bulldogs, etc. NEW YEAR-1 Nations. Georgia! Howarl Ketner, et ux. Roy Manldin, et ux to ri,..' w CaAAis. et ux to Torfl Carver, et ux. Jonathan Creek Tow nship Davis Brown to Boone Brown. WaynesvUU Tmnship II. H. DeArmor to H. 00 TVelch, S. C. Welch. H to Frank Guy. . -uiA-ens before Wliy COUni me -""-. they are hatched when yoo count them beiore " laid.
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