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If, ..If, (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER cm mi km V; l!.- 1, $ i .t r ? I 'I The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESV1LLE PRINTING CO. u c Phone 137 Ham Street Waynesville, North Carolina Tie County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS -T"-T?K Mm. HUda WAY GWYN Assocwte Editor W. Curtis Rusa and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County U6 Six Months, In Haywood County - wc One Year, Outside Haywood County Six Months, Outside Haywood County...- All Subscriptions Payable In Advance gntered .t the pet office .t W.tIU, N. C Sjoond OUa, limit Matter, as ioided under the Act of March I. !. Worember to, 18 U. Obituary notice., resolution, of U .-Ucm of entertainment for profit. wiU be charged for the tuU of one cent per word. N ATI ON AL D ITO Rl A J tl 1 JS-fUUM Nonh Carolina vJs mSS ASSOC lAriONVJ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 (One Day Nearer Victory) Facing Facts There was a spirit of reality about the annual meeting of the Haywood County Demonstration Farmers and the 4-H Club members which was held here on Saturday. They realized conditions that faced them this year and possibly the years ahead. The talks were marked by a practical conception of the situation. There were no visionary theories offered to solve the problems, but there were ways and means suggested by which the problems could be met in definite results. There were no high sounding generalities. Facts, as they are, were presented and met with practical recommendations. If the way the Haywood County farmers and their children are taking on the respon sibilities of their part in the war effort is any indication of what is taking place throughout this country, the armed forces need not worry about the support they are getting back home. The rural citizens are coming through with production goals. The adults led the way, followed by the youth of the county. One young girl made the suggestion that the 4-H Club members organize into community groups to help on neighborhood farms. The consciousness of the other fellow's need was also brought out forcibly as the group planned to keep every tractor, every plow and every piece of farm machinery busy during the planting and growing sea son. If not in use on the farm of the owner, they will be going full tilt on that of some one not so fortunate as to own that parti cular piece. Plans were made for the same courtesy in exchange of labor. There was the larger vision of service to render one's country, to meet the county's production goal, rather than any selfish plan of getting one's own work done, and forgetting the other fellow and his needs. Over The Top Again We have often commented that the citizens of this area were the most generous to be found anywhere. Let any worthwhile move ment be launched, and nine times out of ten they will go deep into their pockets and give until it hurts. We have reference this time to the gen erous response that met the recent infantile paralysis drive. We like to feel that a num ber of things went into the money donated. We like to feel that sympathy for those who need help, inspired the contributions. We like to feel that the splendid work done by the doctors in recent years in Haywood County in the clinics has educated our people to what can be done along this line. We like to feel that in recognition to the services of a great President, himself a suf ferer from this dreaded disease, the hearts of our citizens were touched with gratitude -and generosity. Written by Santford Martin, this editorial in the Winston-Salem Journal won the $100 beat editorial prize of the N. C. Press Asso ciation contest this year: The Last Sacrifice The Legislature of this State soon will face a problem which no other North Caro lina General Assembly ever has been called upon to face. It will have a thirty-one-million-dollar surplus on its hands. . In dealing with this problem, there are some things we hope it will not forget. One of these is that the people of North Caro lina are in dead earnest about this war. They know that this is not just another war. They know that we could have lost any other war which we ever have fought, since the Revo lution of 1776, and still could have made a reasonable peace with our enemies and re tained our independence as a nation. But this war is different. If we lose this war, the United States will be taken over by the Germans and Japanese, just as the Nazis have taken over Poland, France and other European countries which they have con quered, and just as the Japanese war lords have taken control of the Philippines and other territory which their armies have overrun. We won't be able to make a reasonable peace with a victorious Hitler and Hirohito. If we lose this war, we and our children will be slaves working for the "master races" of Europe and Asia. This is a war for survival. Either we win or we die. The people of North Carolina believe in the American way of life strongly enough to suffer for it, and, if necessary, even to die for it. Unfortunately, there seems to be confu sion in some quarters over what the Ameri can way of life really is. Some say it is the New Deal ; others think it is the Old Deal. A vast majority of the people of North Carolina are Democrats. They have voted overwhelmingly for the New Deal in three Presidential elections. But they know that the American way of life for which we are fighting now is neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal. It is the right of the people to have either or neither, if they desire. They know that the American way of life is not a static economic, social and political system. It is the freedom of the people to change things by orderly processes. It means the rule of the majority and full respect for the rights of minorities. It does not mean that the majority always will be right, but it does mean that the ma jority always shall be free, even to make mistakes. It does not guarantee happiness, but it does guarantee freedom to pursue happiness along any road where men believe happiness may be found. It means the right of every individual to worship or not to worship God as his own conscience may dictate. It does not recognize caste or class, or that the accident of birth gives any man or group or race the right to rule other men. It recognizes the dignity of personality and man as a free moral agent, and under it has thrived for more than a century and a half the only government in the world which ever has dared officially to proclaim that all men are created equal. Because they are determined to retain these great freedoms, guaranteed to them by the Bill of Rights, the people of North Carolina are willing to make every sacrifice necessary to win this war. If the Legislature keeps faith with our people, the first bill passed by it will be one to require that most of the huge surplus in the State Treasury shall be invested in Unit ed States War Bonds. But while the Legislature is thus contri buting to victory on our battle fronts, it .should not forget the home front. If our democracy is to survive, there is a mighty army on our home soil, no less than on for eign soil, which must be supported. This army is composed of over 23,000 teachers and more than a million children in our pub lic schools. If we fail to equip this army for the forward march on the home front, there can be no lasting victory for democracy in North Carolina on any front. It is as true today as when James Madison said it, thai; "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or both. People who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives us." The State's biggest business is the school business. The best investment North Car olina ever has made is its investment in that business. We believe in economy in governments. But failure to maintain an adequate public school system is not economy. It is wanton waste of our most precious assets. Certainly no one can claim that our State school system is adequate, so long as North Carolina teachers are among the poorest paid in the nation, and so long as our chil dren have a shorter school term than the children of 41 other states enjoy. Length of the school term is vital. Edu cational authorities are agreed that the most important single thing in a school program is the number of days in school. The plant and equipment, the teachers, the curriculum and everything connected with the school may be of the highest type, but if the child "SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME" HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN This is a .small world when we measure it by human relations . . . and experiences . . . little did M. G. Stamey think that his classmate Frank Armstrong, of Wake Forest College . . . would someday make World News . . . and drop the first bomb over German soil from an American attack in a Second World War . . . but such is the strange wuy of fate . . . Col. Frank Arm strong, graduate of Wake Forest in the class of 1925, left college and taught school for three years in Selma ... but the role of peda gogue was a bit too tame for the star athlete . . . there was not enough excitement for the future chief of the American Bomber Com mand in England. . . In 1028 he joined the U. S. Army Air Corps ... he soon gained wide recognition as a pilot of safety an' ability ... for a time he piloted Admiral Byrd over the country . . . In November, 1935, he was award ed the Distinguished Flying Cross medal for performance in the Pana ma Canal Zone . . . and in August of 1942, he was awarded the Silver Star for his part in the American Haid on Dieppe, France . . . but to M. G- Stamey, he's still the big shot on the Wake Forest football team that beat Carolina four years in a row . . . the Colonel admitted himself, before a group of Wake Forest students in December, when home on leave, that "the tactics and techniquts he is employing in this war were learned at college playing football'" ... as Mr. Stam ey says . . . "You could always de pend on Frank doing the unexpect ed . . . evidently Hitler would agree with our local citizen. . . Official And Tiely Information Oi Rationed Items j i X.X-TJI and data on fil in the afiir . as eompuea - - - " "W nesville Rationing Board, by ths community service Rationing At A Glance .,r,.hnv in Havwood County ia affected hv here are dates that should be remembered: Coupon Good For ratioi 3 Gals. Each Commodity ew, Rtamn 17. Book 1, 1 pair niine "A" Coupon No. 4 First Tire Inspection, amo a First Tire Inspection, Auto "B" and "C Sugar Stamp No. 11 3 Pounds Coffee SUmp No. 25 1 Pound Fuel Oil Coupon No. 3, Class 1 9 Gallons Fuel Oil Coupon No. 3, Class 2 90 Gallons ''Pi Jui Mm. Mat. Mar. Mu. Canned fruits, vegetables, sale suspended Issue of point system rationing book No. 2 Point rationing, canned, dried, frozen foods Meat rationing, point system, probable date Voice OF THE People Who is your favorite news com i en tat or? Well girls, have you decided how you are going to ration out your shoe ration numbers ... it will be an interesting problem . . . now if you stocked up last summer, dur ing the season . . . and better still, if you looked into the future . . . and along toward the tale end of the summer took advantage of the sales, of white and summer shoes . you are sitting pretty (or per haps we should say, walking pret ty) .. . but in case you made your old ones "do" last year ... on ac count of the war, etc. . . like some of the rest of us . . . you are just in plain hard luck ... of course no one will have to worry about dress shoes and evening slippers much these days .... those old silver or gold ones, which ever the case may be, will have to stay at home if they can t step out . . . when the occasion comes and they are need ed .. . one thing, it is going to be smart to wear old shoes . . . even the loafers the school girls wear, which they seem to like best when they are unpolished and scuffed up, will have a sensible look ... of course with walking also in vogue, we are going to have to resort to the shoe shop for repairs more than we ever dreamed . . . from what we can gather the favorite past time of the week-end among the feminine population was hunting up last year's models in shoes ... we heard one mother with a teen age daughter say she had already plan ned to turn her tickets over to her daughter. . . Governor Hroughton uml .Mr. Jo sephus Daniels have written a joint letter to the North Carolina Ship building Company of Wilmington, asking that a Liberty Ship be nam ed in honor of Thomas W. Bickett, governor of North Carolina during the first World War . . . being of the generation old enough to re member how Mr. Bickett took the role of war governor, we want to add our small vote to the recom mendation ... he inspired both the civilian and the armed forces in )ur state. . . There is something about a uni form that seems to get people who wear them . . . they appear to have great pride in them . . . and they are as a usual thing more becom ing than their ordinary civilian clothes . . . but we bet there is no buck private or high ranking offi cer any more proud of his uniform than Lamar Hammett, young son of Uev. and Mrs. Hammett . . . who is wearing the uniform of a soldier in rncle sams Army these days . . . as Lamar explains . . . "Now my coat, my mania made it out of some cloth" she bought . . . my pants, they came trom bears . . . and my belt, it was made at the shoe shop, out of pure leather." We see where ( 'ongress has its first glamor gal ... in the person of Mis. Clare Iioothe Luce, new Republican member from Connecti cut . . she is rich and famous as well as good looking . . . author of the plays . . . "The Women" . . . and "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" . . . she came from Hollywood to Wash ington for the opening of congress . . . she went to the movie capital to write for a picture on China in the war ... in which assignment she is said to have been the choice of Madam Chiang Kai-shek . . . she has leased a $1,000 a month apartment in the Capital . , . and is a gracious hostess . . . now don't you know she will make some of those old boys sit up and take notice? ... but they say that those in the gallery (we presume some of the wives) are also very much interested in this fair addition to Congress. K. N. W'i'xl "Kaltenborn is my favorite news commentator. He is fearless and lets the chips fall where they may." Minn S. A. Jones "I would say Lowell Thomas first and Cesear Seachinger as my second choice." . Phelps Brooks "Well, there are so many, but I think I would say Lipscomb in the newspapers, and Mel Allen over the Columbia system on the radio." .fiss Stephanie Moore ''I would say F.ric Sevareid is my favorite." L. iV. Davis mv favorite." 'Gabriel Heater is Rev. W. L. Hutch in a "Gabriel Heater, who comes on at 9 o'clock over the Mutual networks, is my favorite." Mr,. Chris. E. Quinlnn "I read Raymond Clapper is the newspa pers and I like Ed Muri-ow over the radio. Aprj Rationing of shoes took the light of all rationing newj tvoolr hnvovai. rn. 1 " Bcucittl cony heard from consumers anj J chants all agree that under 1 present plan of an average of tki pairs per year for each pa, win nut worn, sucn a hardship, I Stamp No. 17 from War hJ ing dook une is to be used T - r-1 1 ! , June 10m lor each pair of iU bought. The stamps are tni rable for any member of a fiji The local board spent couJ aoie iime me past week oil pleasure driving rules and nj In conference with ministem the district Thursday night, board made each minister an officio member of the bonrrf ruled that it would be left to J minister to determine what was essential religious meeting advise members of their reepectj congregations as to what meea they could drive their cars This is a similar Drocerlnn has been used in other nlaJ The board felt that no onel could be made to justlv a all churches, as their service) fer in relative importance to work of each congregation Members of all churches an be notified by their pastors u the meetings they can use M cars, and the board will abide all such rulings. The rationiu fice cannot tell members H meeting can be driven to. sa that information must cornea the pastors. ;. r. intt- ni. V favorite. oYlo k." -"Gabriel Heater is He comes on at 9 is not there, these are of no avail. We cannot even claim to have democracy in education, when three-fourths of the children of our Commonwealth are denied the ad vantages of a nine months school term which the other one-fourth enjoy. If democracy means anything, it means equality of opportunity. Charles B. Aycock, North Caro lina's . greatest Democratic leader of the last half century, put it right thirty years ago: "Equal! That is the worJ," he said. "On that word I plant myself and my party the equal right of every child born on earth to have the opportunity to budgeon out all that there is within him." If "equal" was the word then, it ought to be the word now. There are a thousand sacrifices we should make to win this war before we place our little children on the altar. The last sacrifice should be the public schools. Mis Mary Mrdford "I would 4ny Charles Collingwood. I also like Gabriel Heater." .. v. .'if)- "When Elmer Davis was on the air I liked him and now I guess Kaltenborn is my favorite." Junior Dad, what was your great ambition when you were a boy? Father To wear long pants. And I've had my wish. If there is anybody else in this country that wears his pants longer than I do, I'd like to see him. ' Life was very hard, thought the sergeant as he went around in specting the rifles of a very raw lots of recruits. As he peered down the muzzle of one weapon he could hardly be lieve his eyes. "And what's that oil in the bar rel for, me lad?" he bellowed. The guilty one was scared, but replied hopefully: "Well, sergeant, I thought it would help make the bullet come out faster." "Your hair will be gray if it keeps on." "If it only keeps on I don't care what color it becomes." Rastus "What did de doctor say is de matter wid you, Liza?" Liza "He says I'se suffering from acute indiscretion." V. S. WARTIME DOLLAR Only 4 cents of every Govern ment dollar appropriated for 1943 44 will be spent for non-war pur poses. The remaining 96 cents will go to pay war costs and interest on the public debt THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY Highway patrolmen and cil lice have pledged their coopeia in enforcing the pleasure drhj law. Several citizens notified board of violations that wen ing made. The most common, the number of motorists that parking their cars on back sm at night when not up town on ness. Police and patrolmen be on the lookout for all such lators in the future and have instructed by the board to 4 tion any person suspected of lating the pleasure driving The officers will not take ratio! books, but will turn the nam violators over to the board will act on all cases reportedi Patrolman O. R. Roberts the board that people werel erating satisfactorily here, commended them for their m "The regulation is being td out far better than in manypt I have heard of," he said. Sam L. Freeman and Spill McClurp. hnr.h rjYi drivers cited before the board Fridaj violation of the regulations. were civpn Hue wnrnin?. snl under Drohation. All pasolint pons will be revoked next tia violation is reported, they told. Freeman wn hrnmrht 0 speeding, and McClure for H ing passengers for pleasure. hoard nrarnoif friaf ta.X &' must ascertain passengers' P1 before hauling them. IM SCNUN JOMr4NVA IftJ TUB ItOnCt MS CAfl WE AW ONE-AMP IF He &OES TO KELANO HB CAM WEAK ALL. cm CM AT OWCC - THBV NtST 1 jjAATNVWVwr I J called week to take a passenger k When the driver reported d place, he found the P8 I - , l was drunk. The driver leu rather than risk having all line coupons taken away. The case against Faul A son for speeding was held later date. I Certificates for the puH ! i.:i fronted PI Marcus and Rev. A. F. Kohrtl for the purchase of new nLn klo ri huV fore purchase warrants exp'l obtain certificates from w Persons holding rt'fi grade three tires finding : t are not available, should recap. Tires and tubes grntrf week: : tM Jess Sutton, Lake " . 3 grade 3 P"" 0 (Con tinned on P' A
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