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THE WAYNES VTLLE MOUNTAINEER
The Mountaineer
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Waynesville, North Carolina
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL-
North Carolina i
'prtss association;
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1943
(One Day Nearer Victory)
The Summer Of 1943
Each year when the first siRns of Sprint,"
are in the air the subject of the tourist
season comes into local conversations. It
seems to be a natural gesture at this tima,
for each year is ma .-keel by wishful thinking.
Sometimes th. projects of record breaking
crowds come true, and again the seasons
have been only fair.
This year due to obvious reasons the topic
has been slow in warming up the gaps of con
versation. Now that it has been launched
it is fairly taking the lead, war or no war.
People have suddenly aroused from the
thoughts of war to the fact that summer
will be here again, even if the armies of
the world are at each other's throats.
The weather will still be hot in Florida,
and other Southern and Western states.
People who can afford a trip away from
home, and there are a surprising number
left, we are told, will begin to think of tak
ing vacations in cooler climes.
We have heard a lot of optimistic talk
during the past week on the subject. The
majority seem to feel that the season will
be even better than last year. They feel
that people were stunned in the summer of
1942. They gathered their courage about
them and were prepared to endure for the
duration. Now they are getting jittery and
feel that the end of the war is so far away,
that they must have some relief. They
cannot wait until the end for a trip. They
must seek relaxation in some resort that
is away from war industry and army camps.
Another thing when their cars were limit
ed in use by the rationing of gas and tires
they were at a loss as to how to get where
they wanted to go. During the past year
they have learned that there are many
ways to travel. They have taken to trains
and buses and have found that they get
one to a destination with surprising ease
and comfort.
Seaside resorts should riot be as attrac
tive to the public as in years gone by. They
are too convenient to the approach of the
enemy. Floridians, our best summer cus
tomers, are reported to be tired of nightly
blackouts and the constant roar of planes
overhead. They want to get away from
these reminders, at least for a time.
Workers in defense plants have been go
jng at high pitch for many months. They
are bound to be getting keyed up to a break
ing point, where a brief rest will be imper
ative to make it possible for them to carry
oo. They have the money to take a vaca
tion and leave their work, and they will want
a place far from the maddening confusion
in which they have labored.
Despite the crowded centers, despite con
gestion in camps and war defense areas,
life here is still untouched to a great extent.
These mountains offer an ideal spot in which
to nurse frayed nerves back to normal and
get breath to start all over again in the
top speed of industry.
Most people, we fund, are looking forward
to a good summer season in 1943 in the
mountains of Western North Carolina.
The fellow who always wants to run
everything probably will balk at the lawn
mower this spring.
With restaurants on the rationed list,
folks will have to swallow their pride and
whatever else they can get.
War workers can work all night and sleep
all day and still find their place in the sun.
A Needed Improvement
We note that the town officials are build
ing a second driveway around the cemetery.
This has been needed for several years, and
now with the acquisition of additional prop
erty there is sufficient room for the new
driveway.
We also note the high red clay bank that
is revealed by the cutting down of the
highway on the hillside. We hope that the
beauty of Greenhill will not be marred long
by this stretch of "naked dirt", and that the
city officials will start planting "cover crops"
at once, so that the driveway will not stand
out as an unsightly mark on the otherwise
green slope.
"DARKEST AFRICA!"
FEET!
A Pat On the Back
North Carolina was among the first five
states in the Union to reach the quota set
by the American Red Cross in the recent
War Fund Drive. The others were: Vir
ginia, Maryland, Mississippi, and our next
door neighbor, South Carolina.
We can rejoice not only in a state-wide
record, but also in our own local and county
drives which went over the top. Those in
charge of the drives deserve special recog
nition and the generosity of the contribut
ing public should also come in for a good
.share of commendation.
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Rambling Around
Bits of this, that and the other
picked up here, there and yonder.
By W. CURTIS RUSS
Voice
OF THE
People
What suggestions do you have
to make regarding a community
ride clean up campaign?
Mrs. Jimmy Boyd "I think it
is up to everybody to clean their
own premises and then we would
have no problems."
Mrs. Fred Campbell "I think
the street department does a pood
job of keeping things clean and
after they do their part it is up
to the individuals in the community."
We Shall Hate Or
We Shall Fair
We have not liked the idea of making
our motive for fighting hatred of our enemy,
but rather hatred for the principles they
represent. In view of this sentiment we
were interested in an editorial in the Ral
eigh News and Observer this week, excerpts
of which follow:
"We shall hate or we shall fail" is the
sentiment attributed to Stout, chairman of
the War Writers Board. Is he right? Must
men be burning with the passion of fiery
hate of men they are fighting to deliver
blows that will bring them victory? Not
according to such noble chieftains as Robert
E. Lee, the eternal pattern.
"A writer in The Presbyterian Guardian
quotes Stout's dictum and then quotes the
words of Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount:
'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,'
but adds that 'it is difficult to see how we
can hate the evil Nazi philosophy without
hating the evil men who have developed and
are supporting that philosophy' and after
saying, 'We must not have personal hatred'
and 'there is little hatred of Germans as
such' seems to veer over to the Stout theory.
He writes.
"In a sense Stout seems to be right. We
are fighting against a monstrous evil which
we hate. In order to overcome that evil
we must kill men who support that evil.
Yet Jesus said 'Love your enemies.'
"To hate our fellowman with a bloody
thirsty vengeance because of what he has
done to us or to our friends is contrary to
the Law of God. But to hate men because
they hate God is not wrong. The psalmist
said, 'Do not I hate them that hate thee?'
He was grieved with those who rose up
not against himself but against God. The
Fascists have defied God and seek to de
stroy His Kingdom. For the sake of God,
then we must hate or we shall fail."
Coming Back
The alarm clock is coming back! The ban
placed some months ago on the manufacture
of these noisy sentinels for late sleepers has
been lifted.
The reason? Workers in war plants need
them.
Absence of these time pieces is found to
have been one of the major reasons for
absenteeism in these industries. "By the
thousands," it is reported, "they have been
writing the government" for alarm clocks.
Employes oversleeping have, when they
finally did awake too late to report for duty
on time, turned over and kept at it. You
know how that is, no doubt!
The country, in the meantime, needs a
device for another type of drowsiness, some
signal that will blare its alarm into dull ears
of multiple peoples of America and arouse
them as to the perils involved in this war,
to stimulate them to more active and con
scientious service for their country in this
hour of its dreadful travail, and to awaken
within them the utmost of their consecra
tions and devotions to the nation's destiny.
In this respect, too, there are millions
upon millions of late, and unaware sleepers
upon whose consciousness has not yet been
registered the sirens that sound their warn
ing or the trumpet that calls them to their
posts of duty. Charlotte Observer.
We have always hail great re
spect for the Salvation Army,
especially since we have known of
the work done, by Adjutant Cecil
Brown and Captain Thelma Col ton
. . . and now after attending a
wedding last week at the Mountain
Citadel of two of the workers, we
are more deeply impressed with
their sincerity of purpose . . . We
have never witnessed a more sacred
binding of two lives ... we over
heard one of the visiting digni
taries say that they did not know
of a Salvation Army marriage that
had gone on the rocks . . . and we
don't wonder . . . After listening
to the vows they take ... as they
enter the Holy State . . . they do
not marry lightly ... we wish that
all young people about to take this
most important step might have
heard the officiating minister speak
of home and what it should mean.
Later in the evening we had
occasion to discuss the work of
the Salvation Army with one of
the workers from a large city . . .
her clear eyes gave one the im
pression of a serenity of living
that renewed one's faith . . . We
spoke of the good deeds of the
organization and how it touched
lives that were often forgotten by
the churches . . . and her answer
was, "Yes, we like to hear such
things said of the Army, but on
the other hand we feel that it does
us good to meet rebuffs . . . When
we have things thrown at us when
we are preaching to crowds on the
streets we feel that it is good for
us . . . for we must never be too
completely satisfied with our ef
forts . . . You recall the warning
that Jesus gave the Pharisees . . .
'Woe unto you, when all men shall
speak well of you, for so did their
Father to the false prophets' . . .
We have thought of this verse
from Luke many times since . . .
we all need encouragement at
times, yet we need chastiement too
. . . to keep to a certain high
standard of worthwhile things we
must ever strive . . . self satisfac
tion means stagnation . . . stagna
tion means deterioration ... so
summing it up ... we should be
grateful to our critics . . . and who
every tried to do anything in life
. . . without raising a crop of them
in their path?"
We have written from time to
time about how The Mountaineer
has stepped out . . . and is now
traveling around the world . . .
we are sure that never in the
nearly 60 years of publication of
the paper has it reached so many
people in so many Strang places
. . . We would almost be willing
to make a bet that there is not
another weekly paper in North
Carolina that can boast a subscrib
er who wants the home paper so
much that in addition to the regu
lar subscription rate he pays $1.50
a week for postage on a single
issue so that it reaches him by air
mail at his post out of the country
. . . just about as regularly as if
he stopped by the post office and
took it out of his box . . . Believe
it or not . . . such is the case . . .
It's a swell compliment to the
paper . . . but we think it is also
one to the subscriber, who has that
much loyalty and interest in his
home town community.
One of the youngest men in town
is T. L. Green, even if he might
be able to qualify as the veteran
of the Haywood County Bar . . .
he is still going strong . . . We
met Mr. Green Saturday morning
in the office of the draft board . . .
he had just climbed the stairs and
was a bit out of breath . . . No
doubt you know from experience
how he felt from climbing those
very stairs . . . for since the ra
tioning board and the draft board
are housed on the third floor of the
courthouse, practically everybody
has made the trip up . . . Mr.
Green' was protesting against the
stairways in his life . . . As a
member, of the draft board he
climbs two flights very often . . .
he has two stairways to his office
on Depot street and to leach his
office from his home he has a hill
to go down and another to climb
. . . so his days are spent going
up and down.
Briefs . . . When Rev. Mal
colm R. Williamson sets out to do
a thing, he does not call it a day
until the job is finished . . . Proof,
take the Red Cross War Fund
Campaign . . . $4,000 is a lot of
money to raise in a community
of our size, even counting all the
territory covered by the Haywood
Chapter . . . but he stuck to it
until the last dime, and then a bit
extra, was turned in . . .
Monday morning, a crowd gath
ering in front of the courthouse,
as the voice of Deputy Noble Fer
guson sounded forth in auctioning
a car that had been turned in last
fall by the officers when it was
captured with 10 cases of bonded
beverages . . . the car brought $53
. . . of course minus its contents
when captured . . . Just suppose it
had still contained its liquids as
seized by the officers . . . What do
you suppose it would have brought
in this thirsty world?
One of the loveliest things we
have seen in the way of flowers
was the amarilys at the Methodist
church Sunday morning grown by
Hugh J. Sloan . . .
We understood when Donald
Dunham left here last fall he said
he might not be back to open the
Dunham House this season . . .
it would depend on the prospects
for the 1943 summer . . . and his
caretaker was not to touch a
flower bed or the garden until he
wrote him in the Spring . . . we
notice that the flower beds have
been spaded up . . . and the garden
is being put in readiness to plant
. . . Which must mean that the
Floridians are coming up in good
ly numbers.
Traffic Officer (to timid driver
who, obeying directions from the
back seat, had entered the wrong
end of a one-way street) Hey,
you, where are you going? Pull
over to the curb.
Woman (in the rear seat)
That's right, officer. He's been
speeding all day, and I knew he'd
be arrested. It just serves him
right.
Traffic Officer (with a sympa
thetic look at the scared driver)
Your wife?
Driver (nuekly) Yes.
Traffic Officer Drive on, brother.
('. i. Russell "I think the first
step would be to appoint a good
committee to have full charge and
let the suggestions come from
them."
t t.,
O. . Shelton "I would recom
mend that everybody start at home
first and clean up their place, their
dogs, their cats and their chickens."
Travelers from other
f hi PAiintrv tan' j
ctill hQO u - '.
-j.. ..o mucn oi th,. tk
wwra areas nave ar
learned to do without.
One native of Hanv,,, i
i i i "j
last, wee was surpi
chewing gum on the
a number of stoi.-s
startled almost beyoi
find candy.
Another native of n
in. a congest,-j Jefer
ica was ainazeu to ti'd that
did not have to ,m, him,
around and shove an.! I( ,
ing places to get .-e., , " '
Orta man . U .
man v lit) '"l l
able time in a war .,
and enjoying his favoi
which have not been
where he has been.
Another tells with
only one plane passeu
his mother's one day
He is here for a re-:
in a section where
of planes stay ove
24 hours a day.
A returned Haywood ,n m
waicu i.. it- iciti i rial l-eop,. j,
greeted each other en '.he sti.
a signt almost unheanl of
he has been. He eomduded
remarks, by saying: "And pt
M,lt nave ume to VIMt
friends what a fine thine"
is baj
"'ite fix
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Dr. ('. N. Sink "A community
wide clean up campaign should
have a three-fold purpose, namely:
for esthetic reasons; from a nuis
ance standpoint; and for disease
prevention. From the esthetic
angle all unsightly rubbish of all
kinds should be removed from
premises. From the nuisance
standpoint, all garbages should be
kept in cans, which are emptied
and cleaned regularly each day.
Also chicken, dog and cow lots
should be kept clean regularly.
From the disease standpoint, all
cow, chicken and dog lots should
have the manure moved and spread
on the land at once. During the
fly season this should be done each
week to prevent fly breeding.
Stagnant pools should be filled or
drained and gutters should be
cleaned and barn and cow lots
cleaned. Every barrel or vessel
that holds water should be remov
ed or emptied and placed in a
condition to avoid refilling, to pre
vent the breeding of mosquitoes."
Mrs. F. H. Martey "First, I
would move some of the signs on
the sidewalks in town."
Mrs. IF. T. Crawford "I would
suggest that we try to arouse the
public through the school children.
I have even heard that some of the
merchants sweep their trash out on
the streets."
Guy Massie "I think everybody
should start at home and then
there wouldn't be much to do in
a community-wide campaign."
e wmni 10 two llavueej J
Saturday one had just mural
ii win new i.oik, and the othf
irom noriua. Their reports
conumons were similar, and ttj
lauded the many advantages
th: iffirn f.tf 1. I .i
v....,.. i. dcjuihi anytningl
iiuuneiiy man ior the I hamber
Lommerce could supply.
THE HUMAN SOI L O.V fjrl
Recently we had lunch with I
man who is an outstanding J
cess as a sales manager. He 1
taken an old organization thati
in a i ui, aim wunin a yea
through the force of his dynam
personality, he has tripled
business. And he has done tlJ
in the face of war restrictions a
n!AIi: Til i
(luuuucs, me man nas sera
thing!
Always interested in the hiddl
powers mat motivate men, we a.-l
ed his secret.
"One day," he replied, "I
an experience that has influen
my entire life. In the office of i
executive in whom I was calling!
saw a framed motto which real
" 'They told him it couldn't I
done, but the poor fool didn't I
lieve them and went ahead il
did it'."
Enthusiasm is a powerful
both in peace and war. We
more ot it right n w in our i
effort. The great Marshall Fod
who led us to victory in the fill
world war once nnde 'his sUi
ment: "The human soul on tire I
man's greatest weapon."
Robert Pearce "I think it would
be well to ask the civic organiza
tions to sponsor the movement and
let the town officials help."
J. W. Killian" have no ob
jections whatever as I like to see
the good work go on. The first
thing I would like to see done
would be to teach the public not
to throw papers about."
Sign seen 0n the rear of a bi
cycle: "Motorist, don't hit me! You
may be on one yourself soon."
Friend Did they take an X-ray
photograph of your wife's jaw at
the hospital?
Husband They tried to, hut they
could only get a moving picture.
Teacher Junior, give me a sen
tence using the word "diadem."
Junior People who drive over
busy railroad crossings without
looking diadem sight quicker than
those who stop, look and listen.
With a bucket of water is the
best way to go to blazes.
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A HINT FOR YOUXC MOTHEi
A thermometer is unneeess
when sriving babv a hath. If S
baby turns red. the water is
hot; if the baby turns blue,
water is too cold : but if the btl
turns white you will know that I
needed a bath.
The major menaces on t"e bfl
ways are drunken drivine. vwm
trolled thumbine- -.nd indkd
nate snoonine. 1" put it hrieti
hie, hike and hug.
Two men worked side hy -i1
a War Production JS..;irl offirtl
Washington. Thev never sH
hilt tnfh urntnViixl tl. other. P
man quit work dail at I ''f'1
The ntllpr toiler! on till 0 "V
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Some months nassed.
Then :
harder workinu- of tin
proached the other.
"I beg your pardon." he
"Do you mind telli.ig "'' hoff 5
C.lpnrt lin vnnr u'nl k t-vel'V tiay I
4 o'clock?"
"Not at all," said the other El
"When I come to a touph r!fC!l
rlotoil T m.rb ;t 'R, ', r to Ccl
mander Smith.' I fiirure that,l
an outfit as large as this, there I
sure to be a Commaniler j
And I must be iljrh; wnei
those naners comes buck to nw
The harder worker -tar'edttj
move his coat.
"Brother," he said, '
action. I'm Command
!parel
GOOD NEWS
A young man v .it
while waiting in the
for his girl friend w.i
by her mother, whv
pointed question:
"Young man, are y
honorable?"
To which the star'
plied, "Good heaven -choice?"
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Robinson, both of Canton.