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I 5 11 1 1 Hi THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 194 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 187 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS EdiUr Mrs. Hilda WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis. Ruas and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers " PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.76 Six Months, In Haywood County 90c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County - 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the port office at Wajmearllle. N. C. u 8oJ Olasa Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March I. 187V, November ie, 114. Obitrurv notices, resolutions of respect, cards of thanks. aa4 aJl mot ices of entertainment for profit, wtU. be chaired for ' tbs rate of wie cent per word. NATIONAL DITO W AJ - sHonh Carolina vv KS ASSOCIATIONS THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 1943 One Day Nearer Victory) W. T. Lee The death of W. T. Lee on Sunday morn ing took from the state one of the best known public figures in the bounds of North Carolina. When 21 he entered business in Waynes ville, and was still connected with some bus iness at the time of his death. Along with business, he took an active part in civic affairs of the town and county, and served Waynesville as mayor alderman and trea surer. Back in 1903 he was a member of a com mission to investigate for Governor Aycock the condition of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. He served 20 years on the State Demo cratic executive committee and success fully managed W. T. Crawford's campaign against James J. Britt for Congress in 1906. Mr. Lee served in the legislature in 1894 and again in 1910. Also in 1910 he was elected as nwjmber of $e state corpora tion commission'; jan 1 office; he held for 23 years. It was his 23 years in Raleigh that Mr. Lee made so many contacts that have fol lowed him down through the years since he retired. Characteristic of the lasting friendships he made while in Raleigh was evidenced last summer, when a visiting newspaperman from Raleigh made it a point to go out and see Mr. Lee because he had always been so considerate of the reporters while commis sioner. The visitor was a cub reporter when Mr. Lee first went into office, and down through the years Mr. Lee always found time to give the younger folks a bit of sound advice along with the routine news from hia office. His optimism even in recent months sur passed that of many a young man. Mr. Lee was friendly. He believed in friends, and made many of them wherever he went. And with his passing, these friends in every nook and corner of the state, will greatly miss one they admired. The Hospital Does It Again Citizens of the county should consider it a pride and joy to realize that the Haywood County Hospital has again been put on the approved list of hospitals by the American College of Surgeons, an organization repre senting some 13,000 leading surgeons in the United States, Canada and other countries. The 85-bed institution here has been oa the list for many years, and such recogni tion speaks for itself. Such honors are not just handed down. They have to be attain ed by hard and efficient work. Too Many -More To Come Through December 31, there had been 47,591 drivers) licenses revoked in North Carolina. Tha large percentage of these motorists laVjtheir license after being con vicited of driving while drunk. The drivers license system has been in forces In North Carolina for about seven years, which means that well over 45,000 vehicles on the highways have , been driven . by potential murderers during that period. Y.-.Thto' ia one law which ve hope the state V i A.:n tl..- 1 4.1.-.- vne the jerjrj V . More Sacrificing Coming Ever since America entered the war; the civilians have been warned time and time again that supreme sacrifices would be necessary in order that victory be ours. Many civilians have taken the warning with a smile, and contented themselves by saying: "The sacrificing can be done by the other person, and not me." Most all civilians agree that' sacrifices will be necessary, and at the same time, hope against the day when they will be forced to make any. Those who sacrifice most will enjoy the peace better. Those who have lived amid all the conven iences that modern science and the industrial genius of the world can provide, still have far more than many unfortunates in bat tle torn countries. Even with some present day inconveniences, we have far more than most countries, taken for grantecL Giving By Doing Without Because families of some Rotarians in other parts of the world are hungry, the Waynesville Rotarians will eat soup and call it a square meal sending the difference in the cost to the relief of the Rotarians in war-torn Europe and Asia. The treasury of the local club could stand a substantial check being issued to the re lief agency, but that would be just a stroke of a pen, and nothing personal, no self-sacrificing for every member of the club. By giving up a meal, the members will realize more fully the gnawing feeling of an empty stomach. The members voted to do this not as a publicity stunt, but for the joy of giving and helping and in the language of Rotary "Service above self he profits most who serves best." NEW HOG CALLING "CHAMP" Voice OF THE People How long do you expect to keep your New Year's Resolutions? Mrs. George Craig "Forever, I did not make any, thank good ness. "Mostest, Fustest" The opening weeks and months of the New Year will contain immense changes, and challenges, for Americans. Initial prep arations have been made ; the great reservoir of surplus civilian goods so thoughtlessly tapped in .the recent Christmas buying spree, is nearmgits end. So, while fighting on the battlefrontV is certain to take on an acceler ating temiio, the impact of shortages, ra tioning, taxes and other inconveniences it home will open new areas of sacrifice. There is not the slightest doubt these sacrifices will be taken in stride, for Amer icans take pride that, in their expressive phrase, they "can take it as well as dish it out," though, naturally, they prefer the lat ter function. Thus far, America in its mobilization has benefitted from two things: the experience gained in the first World War, and the ex ample of Britain in previously meeting many of the problems that have subsequently arisen in the United States. The machinery and probably all the machinery that will be necessary to ad minister the war effort is now at hand, but it remains to fit this machinery together so it works effectively. The requirement is to see the war effort not in, parts, but as a whole. The problems though seemingly separate and many are actually parts of one If the Army requires more men, it is not a problem merely of Selective Service, for it is likely to drain more men from indus try. And if men are drawn from war fac tories, it does not merely become a problem of industrial production, for if industry raises wages to attract the workers who will keep the level of production up, it will lure the farm helpers from the fields. And if farmers raise their wages to keep their workers, they must advance the price of their foods, and that is the beginning of inflation. So it goes, endlessly. Thus far the tendency in America has been to chase after fragments on the home front. The Chief Executive has been so absorbed in the military strategy he has not focused on the directives that would give . unity and purpose to the home front. Few would have had it otherwise. Mili tary needs have'been predominant, but now ' vast and potentially dangerous buying pow er has accumulated in the hands of wage earners, threatening inflation. The tax sit uation is confused and inadequate. The need for wider and better rationing is daily becoming more vivid. Morale tends to de teriorate as the people wonder whether hard ships result from official bungling rather than from inevitable consequences of war, It is time, now, to bring the home front , up to war with the war front. That is the first task of the New Year. It is intimately linked with the war front job, for it is the home front that supplies the "mostest" that the Army and'Navy delivers "fustest." Rambling Around By W. CURTIS RUSS Bits of this, that and the other picked up here, there and yonder. Christmas trees which were so scarce before Christmas have been plentiful on almost every street during the past few days. Some were in fair condition, while others were brown and needless. Difference of oninion: one man just walked into the office blowing his hands, saying it was turning colder and he was about to freeze. Within five minutes another walk ed in and voluntarily said: "I be lieve it is getting warmer outside." So there you have the old weather argument again. T. Weaver Cathey is making a good impression among agricul tural authorities of the state. How- ver, he hates to hold meetings n the eastern part of the state, when they get to talking peanuts and cotton, he says it gets him in hot water, because that is not his language. The story is told an a Haywood soldier who attended a big blow- nut during the Christmas holidays. During the dance intermission he . . . , i f :iL remarked to tne young iaay wim whom he had been dancing, but did not know: "Who is that ugly sap of an officer standing over there? Tie's the meanest egg I have ever seen. The sweet young thing replied: Do you know who I am? I am that officer's daughter." The Haywood soldier promptly shot back: "Do you know who I am?" She replied: "No." And with a relieved answer he sighed: "Thank heaven." On the homefront, the yarn comes from the couple whose baby was four months old. Husband: "It must be time to pet un." Wifey: "Why. dear?" Husband: "The baby has just fallen to sleep." raising. All onlookers must be skeptical. All tension must be electric All little waifs must be emaciat ed. All music must be special. All men when they die must leave a host of friends. Ml wives must be attractive. All the public must be general. All invitations must be cordial. All parties must be enjoyed by one and all. All welcomes must be warm. All authors must be brilliant. All movies must be colossal. All stamps must be beauties. All babies must be new. All decorations must be lovely. All brides must be blushing. All parents must be proud. All fathers must be young. All hopes must be high. All visitors must be prominent. All currency must be crisp. All collations must be delicious. All speeches must be stirring. All talks must be inspiring. All remarks must be brief. All comedies must be sparkling. All heavy rains must be deluges. All cirls must be vivacious. All performances must be bril liant. All approvals by crowds must be roared. All efforts must be painstaking. All patients must be rushed-to hospitals. All teas must be delightful. All large fish must be monsters of the deep. All boxers must be battlers. All times of peace must be pip ing. All solos must be rendered. All sopranos must be colorful. All success must be howling. All baby boys must be bouncing. All Boy Scouts must be alert. All balls hurled by pitchers must be sizzling. Stanley Brading "I did not make anv. because I have never believed in them. New Year'g res olutions usually make liars out of those who make them." Mrs. Fred Martin "I don't make them, as they are never kept anyway." Whitner Prevost "I try to do a good job every day, and did not make any." L. B. Simmonds, Pet Dairy "1 only made one, and am determin ed to keep it. I resolved to do mv nart to heln win the war. I have a lot at stake with my son in service, and believe me, I am Mine to keep this resolution until the war is won." mrs. jonn u. uu,via -tent of my resolutions this year were to keep cheerful, strong and brave during tnese uays ui I ll Strive u Keep mm. irauiuuv.. on through the depressing period." Mrs. C. C White "Vw never made a New Year's resolution in my life. Perhaps I'll start next year." f P 7?na "I exnect to Itltn. ... - 1 keep my resolutions the year 'round. I did not mane any umu would be hard to break." Mrs. Robert Hugh Clark "I did t mnlce anv because I knew I could not keep them." Mrs. Francis Garren "I hope to keep mine the year 'round." Mrs. Joe Liner "I did not make anv. therefore, I will not have any to break." According to many mailmen, if the free mail were withdrawn from the mails, there would be only about half as much to deliver. The coldest spot on Main street ;s at the intersection of Main and Depot streets. The wind seems to always be in a hurry to get down the hill. The broken pavement at the bridge near the Laundry is going to cause someone to bite their tongue someday, and what can hurt worse? Parents who once worried about their children being out after dark, are now having to send them to school before daylight. And this is the time of year that Christmas decorations look so sick, and out of place. What Made News Years Ago FIVE YEARS AGO 1938 Boone Brother buy Sunny Cove Orchards and plan extensive im provements. Steel bridge at Waterville has been sold to Cooke county. Seventy per cent of 1937 days had some sunshine. Attorney General of North Car olina rules that the Southern Meth odist Assembly be exempted from taxes. W. L. Lanipkin completes twenty-five years of service with the Letters To The Editor 5 LYNCH II) IN 1912 Editor The Mountaineer, I send you the following infor mation concerning lynchings for the year 1942. I find, according tn tho information compiled in the Department of Records and Re search, there were 5 I" rsons lyncn ed in 1942. This is 1 more than the number 4 for the year 1941, the same as the number 5 for the year 1040. 2 more than the number 3 for the year 1939. and 1 less than the number 6 for the year 1938. One of the persons lynched was dragged through the streets behind an auto mobile and body burned. Another body was dragged througli the streets behind a speeding automo bile to th? edge of town and hang ed from a cotton gin winch. In one case, the person was taken from the jail and hanged. There were 15 reports of instanc es in which officers of the law pre vented lynchings. One of the re ported instances was in a western state and 14 of the reported instanc es were in southern states, in la instnnrps. nersons were removed or fuards augmented or other pre cautions taken. In 1 case, a lynch ing was restrained by wives oi tne would-be-lynchers. In another case the sherriff dissuaded the mob. A Bell Telephone Company. Annual audit shows that Hay wood county collected 92 per cent of '3(5 taxes. First National Bank pays a six per cent dividend. Ice cream mix from Pet Dairy plant here being shipped to many points. J. E. Barr is named adminis trator of the Tennessee Valley Au thority Cooperatives. Post:War Boom Is Discouraged By Economists By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Columnist) WASHINGTON. Far frJ planning a Droeram r dous industrial stimulation iTu iwiuuii, quiie a few of uJ ing on schemes to prevent a it trdlaWe Unc They want prosperous times oil course, but they don't belifcVe 'tKJ anrlti .a amm..: W,WJ w "tnuiesce in ten or i dozen years of business delirium winding up in about a ir,.c.u. of gradual recovery from the nJ uuiiBi noos oi me initial decade That's been the and our last demonstration of & " " cuuugu mi oe remember J ed. That's one of the advanta-J that's pointed to in having wjj and- their aftermaths reMn.vi3 close together. In olden days tlJ i L 4.1... . 1 A mute ou iui, mm iney were jumt led. Then they got to be too fa frequent or too small-scale to V educational. Since 1918 until now though, has been iust Ahm, ideal interval, the economists reel Kon. The dope is this wars a curse; that isn't dis puted. iNevertheless, it's a spell o prodigious Droductive hpH; Everybody has a job, either as a j actual scrapper or as a produce! oi supplies for the sure-enough bel ligerents or maybe as a bureau crat. When it's over there's a m gap, while folk are redistributing inemseives. it they're human the will have skinned down to theil last nickels and will feel the ninJ for a bit. They'll fancy that the are in tne midst of the genuin coming depression, but it'll ho . brief one. in so far as thnt n., ticular installment of it's concern ed. Everything truly useful will have been consumed, for no con ceivable usefulness on earth. False Prosperity And the demand will be terrifiq ItH create employment, to sup) ply it. I It'll begin to look like prosperit for awhile. The half-starved-t3 death public will spend its smui change like fury. The little peewee of immedid post-war scarcity will lead into perfect splurge of popular require ments lor everything imaginably rolk will need it also. The troubli is that they'll overdo themselves finally running into debt and goinj busted. That'll be the boom ami that how it will frazzle out. if na-t hii tory's any criterion. But the boom will start sudden ly. Recovery will be blamed gr ual. At least, that's the sciential economists' calculation. Their notion is that an individui can't save up his resources for term of years, until he has quia an accumulation of 'em, am Pi THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY Man was arrested in Asheville last week for violation of the n-nsnline rationing law. Another in Charlotte is charged with hoard in coffee and giving a false re port. Uncle Sam's laws have some pretty sharp teeth. A column conducted in the Salis bury Post bv News Editor John W. Harden has recently collected from other North Cnrnlina news writers their nominations for a list of annarent "musts" in the way news is too often written. The list follows: A'l kises must be rant. All Autumn dav mut be crisp. All stairs must be rickety. All sneed must be alarming. All sobs must e heartrending. A1! nrnincts "mvcVi be fcnneful. AH gentleman must be elderly. AH heat must be intense. All warnings must be omlnons. All adventures must be hair- WHY PONTT YOU JOIH J Nfc THE MaRINSXANO . PICK ON SOMEBOOY J yi j4 Your size- fLee iwm,' --. Twe IM mm n W I -M thfl invest all in nowder and shot go out and massacre some preds tory neighbor and be otherwis than worse off for the-experiena They agree that it may be necel sary for him to exterminate sue a neighbor, but they insist that can't but be touffh on the econoa ics of the neighbor of the first pal the one who has to do the mai sacring. TV.,. nnn tlinf iViir. il? trim x ncjf aay tuab 1,111a 1.-1 v. v . countries as well as of individual! Their thesis is that a counts nVtitVi iinotfAioritv Viae h'lH t.fi DLl up a huge war debt, should figui not on a vast campaign of n tional spending on almost unlin post-war expansionists advocate! rr r J r- I Aeep lav i Keeping the lid on is their These boys are exceedingly can ful as to exoressine tnemseivw quotation marks. They realize tM . m . 11 ni I nn,icun I 11 tney ago, ineyn ue ..u -v.. taking an overly cautious AH the same, wnai mtj to discourage a post-war boom. mi . 4 rtf hurK U i neir game s w ,.i i 00 Prpsident Hardil iiui niaiwj no - ' called it, in normal fashion j tVio .nuntrv aegrees, as whcu w- - j young, with modern modification It's tendencv that's more e ir rm(rrAss than m bureaucracies. The bureaucrat are largely of administrative c 1.: j tv, ..ministration is L1UI1, i&lIU .... J cidedly reconstructive. -ongr, . on not J HKes tnmgs as mc - j constructive. And the new congr. ...411 k mstfa n than the ia-st 1 total number of 17 persons-4 w men and 13 Negro men-were from the hands of mobs. All persons lynched were N es. The offenses charged wer.. tempted criminal assault.l ; susj ed attempted rape, o, j sentence when jury failed towi upon the punishment on a rnu i The 'states in which lynching curred and the number in eacn m are as follows: Mississw.-"'-souri, 1 Texas, 1. Very truly yours, i(J( P. D. PATTERSON, rj Tuskegee Institute, America ia the only the people, have tl mess it op w ' 1 1 -
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