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i i If '! ' (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, MARCH 25, lj THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Mmin Street phne 187 Waynes ville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Edi0 kin. Hilda WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County l-76 Six Months, In Haywood County 9ie One Year, Outside Haywood County Z-" Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1-60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the olfic. .t W.one.vUle. N C S .n4 OKum Mail Hitter. iwovl.led under the A.t of Hurt I. Nofemher 80. 1H. Obituary notice,, resolution at reue-t. crd. of ttuipki. nd lil notice, of entertainment for profit, .ill U ch.nted fof t ti.e rate of one cent per word. MATIONAL 6DITG!!A1 " 1 - North Cirelm,-! associaii'jm vi ID AO THURSDAY, MAKt'H 25, 1943 (One Day Nearer Victory) Heading Habits Every now ami then you notice some thing about the rea.liiitf habits of the public today. The record of book sales recently compiled by Marshall Fields and Company which can be taken as a fair yardstick of the country's reading habits, shows a great increase in reading. Children, it is said, are reading more today as well as their elders, than ever be fore. Books about foreign countries in which the war is being fought are said to have become more popular than at any time in the past. The Waynesville Public Library had the largest number of readers and largest cir culation in the history of the institution last year. The readers came from every section of the county. There are many explanations for these changes. People are not riding with gaso line and tire rationing. They are spending more evenings quietly at home. They have naturally turned to reading. With the war, there has been a stimula tion in the sale of Kibles, for people are more interested in religion. Cookbooks are said to be increasing in popularity, for with rationing of food, menus must be carefully planned, with the meat substitute ever in mind. Textbooks and specialized subjects are being sought, for with the training the men are getting in the army, and the many highly technical jobs that have been brought about by increased production, now open to the public in general, persons seeking em ployment are more studious. They must know their subject. So in refuge from the war we turn to books for both information and the pleasure they give us, as they open up new worlds to us in this hour of stress. They help to steady our nerves. The Old Gray Bonnet Lesser things have started a revolution. Let today British women hardly look up from their work. Only one new hat every three years, under the new quota ! Undoubt edly the Government held its breath. But nothing happened. The earth continued to turn upon its axis. The stars held firmly to the skies. The sun ran its accustomed course. It is, indeed, a new world. One in which men and women have become adaptable, more resourceful, more versatile. Only one hat in three years! Instead of shrieking in protest, the average woman today accepts the inevitable with fortitude and proceeds to trim it over so cleverly that no one would -ever know it was the same "inevitable" that she wore last year. In fact, it is doubtful if such an edict would cause very much more of a furor in the United States, what with bandanas, snoods, fascinators to save the day. The chapeau, you may have noticed, is not the formal creation that it once was. Indeed, a mere cluster of artificial flowers, affixed to the pompadour frequently becomes a hat to all intents and purposes. Or it may be a perky velvet bow or piece of fur. So if "coupon 55" suddenly becomes good for one hat for the duration, American women will probably take the news with the same calmness expressed by their Brit ish Bisters. The old gray bonnet will under go an overhauling, and come out looking like a new model. Men will still pretend to be amazed at the result Christian Science Monitor. Fires -J Our sympathy was with the city fire de partment personnel last week when the public tried to rush the grandstand, so to speak, at the scenes of the fires which occur red in the community. It must have been more than annoying for the firemen to have to push their way through the crowds in order to do their work, when the coast should have been clear for them. We recall not so many years ago when the city firemen attempted to educate the people to the fact that they were not wanted at fires. Their place was safely at home, removed from the scene of the conflagra tion. There are usually just so many persons needed to get a lire under control and the number of trained firemen in most cases is adequate. These facts have been told the public many times in the past, but apparent ly they had been forgotten. Another thing we are asked not to do, which seems a very natural thing, that is to start calling central and asking her as a special favor to tell us where the lire is, the minute the siren sounds. It is said that usually the switchboard turns to a lighted Christinas tree almost iinultauioiisly with the sounding of the lire alarm. Now when one thinks at all about the matter, it is a simple matter to under stand that central has no tune to bother with you or me. Her duty is to see that everything is arranged to aid the lire light ers. She does not have time to satisfy our curiosity. In the future think twice before you take down the receiver. In behalf of the public we feel that none of us has completely recovered from the explosion of last July, and that we are more conscious of what a fire can do than we once were, and that alarm brings it all back to us that night. Regardless of the friendly interest that may prompt us to visit a (ire, remember that we are not wanted, for we hinder, in stead of help. So the next time you hear the lire alarm, just sniff the air, to see that it is not your own house or your next door neighbor's, and then turn over and go back to sleep that is if you can under the circumstances. "SCRATCH ONE FLAT TOP" Rambling Around Bits of this, that and the other picked op here, there and yonder. By W. CURTIS RUSS Voice OF THE People Would you approve putting the men from 38 to 44 back in class for actire military duty? Mm. IV. T. Crawford "Yes, 1 would put every man in sight in the army and make short order of the war and pet it over." FIBRE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN I'ftul Martin "Yes, 1 would, for a large majority of them are suf ficiently physically qualified." Experienced and t.... . ners all tell you that this the ideal time to plant J? There are as many different ? to plant potatoes as there are rn front a ,.1 a k... . " " uut ail the time this week. And speaking of garde planting, the P.otuy e, I HM r nf:li! vy ai. iv. wiuiamsun, on "Garden Hint." "4 PI.,, t,;,.i. ...... i iwuun, ln thedl . .... .. V11 ,u r;avt den). ri . . , riain watermelons in t', (that's where trw. .. . If you fear a dry , ,on 1 it raur -if I. . ' '"1 rung, J ", ediJ potatoes. ( The I .n't si-lit (!( Hull 1 mi III : 1 1 it I mm;, how a rs can stai! one' ml i, litis soon I i i -1 ti i a i lie .1 succession nf thought. ing the week We rode Nutrition if any person in Haywood County fails to eat properly during the coming year it will be on their own shoulders, for with the county agents preaching day in and day out the gospel of the Victory Gardens and the health department now on our heels about nutrition, we have been given the warning. We would say that both are a silver lin ing in the dark war clouds. It means that we are going to pay more attention to our dietary habits. We once heard a well known physician say that "if people ate the proper food, the doctors would have little to do." The government is going to aid us in studying food values. We are going to be shown how foolish it is to cater to the whims of the palate instead of what our bodies need in the matter of nourishment. There might have been a time, not so distant when it fell on the wife to be con cerned more with the food supply than the rest of the family. The 1943 picture has changed, for with the war production plan, it will take the whole family to supply the labor and work that will go into the gardens and the conservation and preservation of foods. We are all going to make a close study of food values. We are not going to waste our energy in the hot sun this summer and over the sweltering heat of the cook stove canning unless we are certain of the value of the product and what it will mean in health giving essentials. The men in the armed forces are not the only ones in training in America. We are scheduled for training courses whether on the front line of battle or on the back line at home. Service If anyone in the audience at the Red Cross Rally at the courthouse on Thursday night had any doubts about the service of the American Red Cross either at home or abroad, they must have gone away with all doubts banished, after hearing Miss Jane Hashagen speak. Miss Hashagen brought the boy3 wound ed in hospitals far away from home very close, as she told of the needs of the boys and how the Red Cross took the place of their families as nearly as they could. The reports of the work of the local chap ter were gratifying and showed how much the Haywood County folks value what the Red Cross is doing today. w .1 i ay painted hy . . . ilur hchiml a ,vurt motherly soul on a bu.- - -lie ha.-, just lii'iif ht 'nei-.ell' a now n: ,ruit pan . . and she proceeded ,,, hei seal mate all about it . . . we In -came intensely interested in her joy of possession of that pan . . . we sec anil heat so much nf women in new jobs . . . that is was refreshing to listen to one whose thought found a world of their own in a home . . . it seems site had been wanting a large pan like she once had when the chil dren were little . . . and she had at last found cue . . . and believe us it was a mammoth afTair . . . It looked like it might pass for an army mess utensil . . . then she talked about biscuits . . . until we could see cascades of melted butter running down the sides of hose luscious brown ones that she would soon make in that very pan he held with such loving care . . . We wondered about her children . , . we have a hunch they are 'i way from home . . . and maybe hat pan was bought so that when i hey all came back again . . . she mild make those biscuits in the piantities she did when they were Hunger . . . and then have some left over for a cold supper . . . for that pan was not bought for the modern four bv four kitchen. If we have heard one person say "you know I wanted such and uich a thing to eat this week and I suddenly realized it was ration ed", we have heard a dozen . . . it is funny the things we can give up with a laugh . . . for there arc so many luxuries that we may miss hut wo will soon forget, but this matter of food is no joke. . . . It has been interesting to see that the city papers are carrying just as much about gardening and the necessity of preservation of food as the country papers . . . they say that cabbages sprouted on the tops of bomb shelters in England . . . and that "hands that swung the golf club reached to pick up the hoe" . . . and that "nimble fingers that danced over typewriter keys took on the task of weeding" . . . Who would have ever thought the lowly dried bean would have reach ed such a state of high prestige as it is fast attaining, comes to mind as we realize how they tear down your point system. With the blackout practice fresh in our minds . . . the following Air Raid Precautions may prove of interest . . . they are not original, but were contributed to us by a friend of this column . . . In case of an air raid alarm run like H . It doesn't matter where you run, so long as you run like H . If you're inside, run outside ... if you're outside, run inside. It is suggested that you equip yourself with track shoes, so you will experience no difficult in get ting over the people in front of you. Always make the most of air raid alarms: If you are in a bakery grab a pie. If you are in a bar grab a bottle. If you are in a movie grab a blonde. During air raid alarms, always yell bloody murder, it adds to the confusion and scares H out of the kids and the old ladies. If you find an unexploded bomb, shake it there might be something wrong with it. If an incendiary bomb should happen to fall in your neighbor hood, throw gasoline on it, you can't put it out and you might as well have fun with it. Always eat garlic, onions or limberger cheese before entering air raid shelters. It will make ou rather unpopular, but it will i linanate crowded conditions about you. Don't pay any attention to the air rani warden. If he doesn't get out of your way, knock him out. If you are a victim of a direct hit by a bomb, don't go all to pieces, remain where you were killed and you will be attended to presently We have never liked tile type of religion that was boundeil by the four walls of a church alone . . but the kind that walks in the by ways and is evidenced in daily liv ing . . . the following definition of Christianity had a strong appeal to us and we are passing it on . . In work, it is fairness; In society, it is courtesy; In business, it is honesty; In the home, it is kindness; Toward the weak, it is help; Toward the strong, it is trust; wicked, it is resis- Toward t.h tance ; Toward th giventss ; Toward tin gratulation ; I n ot her words way of life and the I'.est Way. This thing we call Democracy and for which we tight is based on the Ten Commandments, on the Sermon on the Mount and on the teachings of Jesus. penitent, it is for fortunate, it is enn- , Christianity is a it is incidentally, Chren Crorye" certainly would if it is necessary, but on the other hand if we have an army of H, 1)1)0,000 it will take somebody back hi me to furnish the supplies. Un-!.-s we have a well equipped army to fight, numbers will not matter i much.'' ('. F. Kirk put rick "No, 1 think htv i an do bitter work in defense plants and on the farms. Younger men make better soldiers." a ro onion, u-;ii j. ..... ......... u u.e j unri insure n irtw.t , . A oi. Someone wants to know k, cabbatre has a hen, l I " why a potato has ey, why corn has ear, it all beets me! You may be ah! and even bull free tioii is---can you Hut enough of flour a vegetable, ;i and lettuce get on . Carden no ea I '" r-il I glovf t?V el ir Vir ( 'h rist'i prove, if ill ai i "I not wool, I mar i a llnn-e Ihivkfll "Ye eii ii an- physically lit " if the Mrs. t.tnicaiid (Intlll "No, I would not approve, because I think a man of that age is more apt to consider danger and will not be as fearless as a younger man would be in lighting. I do approve of drafting them for de fense and other war work.'' i.oy C. If. M incite "I would not ap approve, because I think they can lind enough younger men." IV. F. Strange "I would ap prove of it, because 1 think they can take it as well as the younger wies. Mrs. J. M. Kcllctt"l would not approve, because generally speak ing I do not think they arc .physi cally tit, but I do think there are many branches of the service in which they could serve." If there is no devil, why does your car always stall at a busy intersection while that kind of cop is on duty? Love is blind and that's why tumbles into so many pitfalls. it Politics vs. War Hy FRANK SMATHERS (Written For The Mountaineer) It is easy and natural for one man to imagine himself the quali fied spokesman and champion of all men, especially when discussing and deciding what is best for man kind and his world. Today free Americans are not only blest but persistently blitzed with free advice and advisers, so one more self appointed guardian will not disturb the destiny of man or the harmony of his universe, hence this bold venture on my part. What the ordinary middle class man of Main Street thinks and feels about conditions and politi cians in Washington may be sum marized somewhat in this fash ion : For the want of a better defini tion and description, the man of Main Street divides politicians in to three general classifications: good, bad and indifferent. The lat ter two are in the majority, and it is they that are indicted. With lespect to the rank and file of la bor, agriculture and industry, however, the great majority of these are good, though many are easily and often misled. But the majority of the leaders of these man are not good, and they too are condemned. While all high school students know that Politics and War will not mix or work together, yet Washington politicians continue to think and play Politics all through the week but on Sundays they think of War and pray for Peace. No democratic nation can effec tively fight a war abroad and at the same time engage in a political civil war at home. Most of us hoped and expected our govern ment would, after Fall elections, settle down to the grim business of prosecuting this total war with out regard to politics, or any furth er fear of or favor to labor and farm blocks but. in that they have been rudely disappointed. Labor is still free to strike for frivolous reasons and rights, or for higher wages, which it does, and gets, far too frequently for the economic and military good of the nation; while farm blocks, with equal success, continue to terrorize and control Congress, and, as a THE OLD HOME TOWN IiWJ U'l h OWfc By STANLEY ? HEAPM' FOR W MULE STEAK S AiZo ahEAO, SHEsJ XQUICK'.: SB, MUCH TOO 5 WraNIXSNE) '-VJEN&5 rL THOSE MEAT-HurY BOARDERS 1 ' yP:JWf : rWTMeSCEO(iTHBl JY UVES EAyTOPi,Y Jn.. ' ail of People : ( dine to think of i . I bu iness is leper.. ' weather. Men hai ' . I good weather for preachers get lai e r j in fair weather, etc., ' the telephone come., tell what! the Weathi r at the switchboard of the window. M, i the telephone in bad weather stead ot visiting, m t!'::g ping. And speaking of p-Iephunes bad weather, those folks dim'tn the rain, but an electrical std means plenty of hard wrk, ... i- i. . i , wook wnen me electrical storm here, it put about 10 UlepJ out oi oruer. within a ,hortt repairmen were on the jub.mil tests and getting everything in to start pole climbing at They worked straight through til the wee hours of the next no ing. That is part of the urw and unheard of .service the diiI gets without knowing it. Of course wo can't -,n but maybe m a few months would be safe to piihlih in column the statement: "A town is a place where everjt calls the telephone olniv for when the fire alarm is sounded uncle bam is urging pm crops than ever before, and course, it takes North CarolirJ always get in the front tarda the records. This time amJ record for a crop is broken-l October the baby crop in d'J Carolina comprised the Iff number ever recorded in theSt with 8,937 being added tn theM lation. Lieutenant William Meq now serving in the Naval Ra told friends here this week when he returned to Waynes! he could tell them a little 4 about the ocean. He has coal ed hia training and goes into! sea duty. Last Friday three of the W heaviest men" called upon tie tioning board on the thirds the court house. A ftor pulliitf three flights of step, they i about breathless. Their case delayed long enough for M catch "their wind." result we have hiL'lu i and m wages for labor, and i")-'1 higher prices for food, as ft stoppages and slow-downs n production and transportation vital snnnlies to our Arufl fighters. Of course, all this can me one thing a longer war, 1 terrible sacrifice of prectoiu and wanton waste of B Anri fnr w' nt niimose is " . r - r suffering and sacrifice: "! know the shocking and H answer i simnlv this: " 5,1 selfish btouds and blocks, or pease the pique, whim, of jj cal greed of Washington M cians, now burning wun desire to win the Presidential tion of 1944." The results of last Falls tions have not stopped. Of slncWonorl nnlitical actin? Wnshinonn. hut. on the ri have ereatlv stimulated hancpd it Republican -4UCf hove nrtiof for El er successes, while defeat nnrntn !, ftti ch tfl ld UK a political frustration andH ation, wherein they sr'"' ctrllra nn.t nthor With WO1 than they fling at either publicans, the Japs or mans. It is just too bad that our' j ha romps-' fight the Japs and the 1 with their bare fists, du - (Coatiaaed f ' V
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