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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, May Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER :- 191? The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street phone 137 Waynesville, N"rth Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor Mrs. Hilda WA GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County 11.75 Six Months, In Haywood County 90c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the (it ..ffiee at WayneBville, N C. Second 0lM Mail Matter, as ovided under the Act of Mrch I. 187. oember 20, 1D14. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, card of ttmnki. nd lU notices of entertainment for profit, will b chirged for t ibt rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL DITORIAL nOWLASSOCIAiiu .'"'North Harolino v4k PtlSS, SSOC 1 ATIONJPJ THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1913 (One Day Nearer Victory) Your Part The city fathers of Wayne-sville and Hazel wood are staging their annual clean up cam paign. The success of the week set apart for this purpose will not depend on the number of trips the town trucks make to and from the various sections of the com munity entirely. It will depend also on your personal cooperation in this annual effort to clean house in the community. More and more are towns stressing the appearance of their streets and the privately owned properties. They go hand in hand in health advancement and general progress. The town authorities are interested in the appearance of the community, and their pride in their town. They are asking that you show your interest in this effort to get ready for the summer season. It is an im portant campaign, even if we never had a tourist, for we ourselves enjoy living in a clean town. The scrap drive of last fall did a lot to get rid of useless rubbish about premises, now is the time to get rid of accumulation of the winter. Some of our citizens are guilty of care less habits that greatly detract from the appearance of the town, which brings the matter back to the individual responsibility. Don't worry about the faults of your neigh bors, just look in your own back yard and about your premises and see what there might be for the other fellow to criticize about your place. . Get everything ready at home before you try to run the other fel low's affairs. If we all tried this, we might wake up some morning and to our surprise find the town an immaculate place in which to live. Spring With the beauty of the Spring season, with Nature going about her business of decking out her children in summer's ward robes, it is hard to believe that men are at each other's throats bloody thirsty and kill ing in other parts of the world. While we have the vacant places in homes to remind us daily of the war and most of us have had to step up in many ways and adjust ourselves to new conditions, we are far removed from the turmoil of the war tension. It should help us to weave into our daily iives an element of calmness not possible in other areas. It should perhaps give us a better perspective of things in general. On the other hand we should be grateful for the even tenor of our ways and the great feeling of security and freedom we enjoy. It should help us, with our American way of living so little affected, be better Americans, and lend greater aid to all war effort, for in the midst of war, we here in the mountains, are certainly at peace. A Bright Spot We saw where one miner in a group of 250 employed at a mine in Pennsylvania re ported for duty despite strikes and John X. Lewis. "I have four sons in the service and I am willing to work," was his remark to the guard on duty at the mine. When none of the other workers put in their appearance, he finally returned home and worked in his victory garden. Broken Glass Versus Tires The large quantities of broken glass found on the streets of Waynesville have been brought to our attention by a visitor in town, who has spent sometime here. We join them in deploring this careless habit for which there is no excuse. It was pointed out that there was more broken glass on the streets last Sunday than ever seen by the informant at any time, which was no doubt due to extra careless ness over the week-end. Broken glass can be very dangerous to tires and the offender who, was so careless as to throw a bottle on the streets may be the very one to reap the effects of his dis regard for the consideration of others. It was an expensive gesture to the motor ist before the rationing of tires, but now it is nothing short of criminal to indulge in such carelessness. The visitor suggested that the city police take up the matter, and that perhaps it might be worked through the schools en listing the students in a campaign against throwing bottles on the streets and high ways. It might also be a fine work for the various civic organizations of the commun ity. The untidy habit of some of our citizens of throwing waste paper wherever they happen to be with no regard for the appear ance of the streets is bad enough, but when it comes to throwing glass, it is time for the city fathers to take notice and see that some action is taken against the offenders. BOTTOMS UP! 1 "if lb TsfiSose of 'i ' U I 'tl : ' X VICTOR IH WE 6A6 ill iUSfeA i, 5r' tzevMUd n ir i inaaciL jxw o Rambling Around Bits of this, that and the other picked up here, there and yonder. By W. CURTIS RUSS The best "Clean. I'p come out of the wa to do with a well kno.v'. who is now sewing h.- , firing hot lead at :!:.. Guadualcanal. During , brief lulls in fighting" , soldiers started a poki-r man so well known hi,.-.' ed" into the game against es. Hp tried ro u, r . . present conuiuuns lest knew he had Voice OF THE People In view el j would you approce any change ijbig check, so th? ! the 35 mile speed limit? join the fun. I i Ho inJ just He nun. way. When the dm ., ing had died, and th,. ed, the Waynesvill,- :: more than when he -' Fearing his luck w,, out again, he has:;i money to a relative - enough for safety and for the : struction.s to "put ':. Miss Mary Margaret Smith ''I would not approve any change, as, I feel that the present limit is a e one. ,. C. Jennings "I approve the mesent sneed limit. I think it is '-Mr conservation of tires. HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN .S. J. M"ii prove any (("I would not ap- change. I think the present rate is last enough 101 I he common run and slow enough for safety, and if necessary I veuld approve present limit." of enforcing "Hairpin Ingenuity" From kitchen to factory is but over the threshold in these days. Women are not only stepping easily from sink to assembly line, but they're adapting domestic wrinkles to mass production. Because a woman war worker remember ed how her mother used to keep hot dough nuts from sticking together, she was able to save thousands of man-hours in the manufacture of rubber rings for airplane engines. The rings were piled into boxes when they were hot and many stuck to gether. These had to be scrapped. Recall ing that her mother had put flour between doughnuts to keep them apart, this ingen ious war worker used pumice powder be tween the rubber rings. It worked, and all wastage was eliminated. Another woman in an aircraft factory de cided that eleven steps in the painting of strips of color on a tube were too many, "I could do it with this-and-this-and-this," she explained, blocking out three brief opera tions. She saved eight hours fyer plane by this short-cut. Men show more initiative in factory work, according to one employer, but women have more ingenuity. That's easy to explain. Ask any housewife. How did she manage to keep the family budget in balance? It took ingenuity! A little patching here, a little darning there, and plenty of fast think ing when friend husband brought someone home unannounced to dinner. And what couldn't she fix with a hairpin? Ingenuity is an asset on any job, and "ex perience: housewife" is nothing to apologize for in any employment office. Christian Science Monitor. Carl (ioercli once made tlie state ment that Waynesville was one "t the cleanest towns in North Caro lina . . . when we have heard any j criticism of the appearand' of the community, we have quoted Mr. ' (ioerch's comment with great glee . . . hut seriously speaking, per sonally, we would dislike very much to have Mr. Goerch visit this community right now in a check up to verify his statement. . . . Maybe it has been the high March winds that continued through April . . . but we doubt it . . . for we fear it has been plain carelessness on the part of our folks . . . we can not recall any time when we have seen more waste paper lying around ... a lot of unsightly rubbish found its way into the scrap drives last fall . . . but waste paper, we seem to have with us always ... it was thrown down deliberately ... or at least carelessly handled by some one . . . and there is no excuse for either ... of course it can be picked up . . . but manpower is not as plentiful as it once was . . . and it is certainly a waste of time and effort to have to pick up paper that should never have been thrown down in the first place. A Fine Choice The head of the Red Cross chapters throughout this country at the present hour should be men who have the confidence of the community, and who will give unselfish ly of their time and efforts. We note with pleasure that Malcolm Wil liamson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, has been named as chairman of the Hay wood Chapter. Mr. Williamson has already demonstrated his interest in the activities of the Red Cross. He was chairman of the recent war campaign fund at which time the largest amount ever asked from this section for the Red Cross was raised under his direction. Mr. Williamson is a worthy successor of the men who have headed the chapter in the past. On the eve of the Annual Clean I'p Week . . . sponsored by city officials of Waynesville and Hazel wood . . . we would like to ask the city fathers to take a look about their municipal premises . . . we are sorry to speak of such things, but in the industrial center of Hazel wood . . . there are spots of debris that really detract from the otherwise neat appearance of things. . . . How about you city fathers of Waynesville taking a walk with us . . . just as a means of demonstrating the carelessness of citizens ... or should we say, "exposing" them? ... let us stroll up Main Street . . . become paper conscious . . . and go to the en trance of the new driveway to (ireen Hill cemetery . . . we first invite you to look down the exca vation one door beyond Stovall's Five and Ten . . . Too bad, but it is not a very pretty sight . . . but there it is right in the heart of town, cluttered with waste paper . . . when you reach the corner of the Ray lot . . . past the Gulf filling station . . . more than likely it will be after some one has just eaten a lunch . . . we guarantee a good collection of waste paper . . . then on past the mayor's home . . . and here he might be embarrassed un less the waste paper has just been picked up . . . then as you continue things grow steadily worse until you reach a spot on the Gudger property now owned by the town . . . that looks like an editor's waste paper basket on press day. (If you don't know what that looks like . . . come in some Wednesday and we will gladly show you). Mustaches Our wars with Germany seem to be wars against mustaches. Last time it was Kaiser Wilhelm's famous handle-bars; now it is Hitler's scrubby brush of the sort first popu larized by Charlie Chaplin. Perhaps the trouble with Germany's lead ers is their mustaches. If so, the peace treaty might well require all Germans to clean off their faces. The United Nations will clean up the rest of the mess. Kanna polis Daily Independent Another depressing sight is the lot below the Masonic Temple, where the foundation to a de molished building stands . . . take a look . . . recently the grass is growing up and hiding some of the waste paper . . . we can tell you how some of it got there . . . we saw two nice looking girls between 10 and 12 years . . . throw liter ally dozens of pages from a com position book . . . we were glad we did not know them (for we would like to have spanked both of them then and there right on the street) . . . while we called them down for their lack of civic pride . . . we did not ask .their names . . . we did not want to know . . . we might be tempted to remember them by such carelessness . . . and we hope they realized the ex tend of their actions . , . after our remarks. It is not only the younger gener ation . . . but adults also who are guilty . . . recently we saw a wo man come out of the bakery on Main Street . . . with two children and a bay of cookies . . . she divided the cookies between them . . . and then threw the bay down on the .sidewalk . . . we admit that Mr. I'earce's "brownies" smell and taste so g I that you are ready to bite into them the minute they are passed over the counter . . . but please let's "not throw the bug down in his face" so to speak. Horace Ducket t "I think :: mile limit is all right." the the "It II'. Craideu Ferguson might save tires to lower the pres ent limit, but hardly enough to warrant the change. 1 hope that even after the war we do not re turn to the former limit. We have learned how much we can save in every way by the lower limit." Now this annual Clean-Up Week will not be a success if any of the spots we have mentioned are not cleaned up . . . this will take time . . . and time has become such a precious thing, not only to us here, but everywhere . . . the hours it will take to gather up the waste rubbish about the community will in a sense be a waste of time . . . since it should not have been necessary. A few years back there were containers on Main Street to take care of waste paper . . . we have heard that they were removed be cause the public did not make use of them . . . but even so, we would like to see them on the street again . . . and anothr thing we would like to see a penalty placed on throwing waste paper on the streets (maybe there is one, but if so, it is not enforced) . . . Can you think of anything that gives prop erty, whether home site or busi ness, a more untidy look than a lot of waste paper? You see people come out of stores . . . and they start eating at once . . . that is all right . . . we have no objection to their munching on candy, cakes, fruits or whatnot ... on the streets, even if Emily Post might not ap prove of it in her book on "Eti quette" (eating on the street is one of the privileges of a small town) , . . but we do object, as a citizen of this community, to the careless throwing of waste paper around the streets . . . often to below and find its resting place on the property of someone who would not be guilty of such disregard for the looks of their home town, or the property of others. The next time you are tempted to throw a piece of paper, no mat ter how small, on the streets . . . stop and think, 'Would I do this in my own yard', and we will bet you wait until you find a hiding place for it . . . Let us not only cooperate in the Clean- Up Week campaign . . . but let us form new habits . . . that will make next year's event an easy job . . . Let's live up to Mr. Goerch's good opinion. ,'. C. Moody "I don't believe it would save any more gas, but prob ably it would help our tires to have a lower speed limit." Mm. J. C. Brou n "I have been told that tires give just as good service at 35 miles as they would at a less speed, so I would not ap prove any change." a $501) war bond. and that $375 ua, ... money which sent 11,,.,' far ahead of the q'j.o :4, Salesmen have Li as hard as any one iri f ..,."' by the war. local : v. ; the following card l'i .... , ! man last week who i i ., schedule through h- r - j "I will call on you x subject to the following -( ) If I can get eiio,u :. ; one of those "C" card-. ( ) If my tires w .. . mileage to your tour.. () If the buses omnia- ;i.. i salesmen. I () If the trains are .,r j () If I get a place t., -'ay :n . ,-. ! hospitable town. Mrs. Caroline Ray ;- Mi K vz, pathetic towards newspaper pe(p'r She says she realiz-s the vn amount of hard work that is r. quired, in addition to the ruerti; anguish" that is requii ed. Clem Fitzgerald present limit is all enough." -"I think the right and safe J. H. Beach" Maybe if the limit of ,'15 mi'.es was kept it would be all right. I travel at that rate all And along that line of ;hoi;j';; Mrs. Gwyn, who occupies the u. joining column, as well as myself, nnds that a good place to relai after a hard day of "mental ar guish" is at the end of a hoe hand!-. Mrs. Gwyn is far ahead if m in getting her victory garden ap, out I am not downhearted. Provid ed I can get some cooperation froc A .U 1 I I .1 - - .1 the time, vet lots of cars pass me "e ou3 arm ueeues. anu invej .ho ....! nn,l ,.t .,f sicht 111 30ll1e 0t th'S K"0d Water. We! in no time." "e uml neeK ana ,U'CK gaiuens tnis year. Mrs. Gwyn is too modest to :r.v;v you to see her latest accomplish, ment in growing boxwoods, bs: they are worth seeing. She star ed tnem years ago, and is naw reaping the fruits of h r lata by setting them around in her ter raced flower garden. And you need not tell her so, but if your cow is hungry fj: some tender grass. I believe yrc can strike up a bargain with he: since some culprit or culprit-, bv. taken two lawn mowers from he: basement, leaving her with n: any thing to cut her gras. K. L. Withers "I think the present 35 mile limit is fine and I think we should hold to it for the duration." Letters To The Editor MAXY. MAW THAXKS Editor The Mountaineer: The splendid standing of North Carolina in the Second War Loan Drive is itself the ibest evidence of the wonderfully cooperative job ac complished by our newspapers and other news agencies. If anything, I believe newspaper backing of the campaign exceeded that given your wholly newspaper-sponsored and entirely successful Scrap Drive last year. Let me here express to you the appreciation of the War Finance Committee for your part in this important phase of the war. Congratulations on a job well done an assignment which when it conies again is assured of suc cess with your continued enthu siasm and support. Sincerely yours. JOHN PAUL LUCAS, JR.. X. C. Director of Information Second War Lan Drive. IV t: ne: there :.):i Lost His Money "Why are you so bitter against your uncle Nebuchadnezzar?" "He lost all his money right after we named a baby after him." AG A IX. MAXY THAXKS Editor The Mountaineer: As you know, the United States Treasury's Second War Loan cam paign in April was a complete suc cess. Final figures are not yet available, but it is now evident THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY J HEYi 5 1 KAfSEK, WHY ) , ,' rv r V f C DOrCYOO LOOK WMERE( A ) t f ( YOU RE SMOOTH' ? . ) - ( J V YOU HIT THE FULL ONFftil 6 W.9 ! BACK ROAt KXkS r ij JSl BACK ROAO KM-kS that the Fifth Federal Reserve Dis trict s quota of J '.oO milim; :j: sales to investors other than mercial banks has already h-v ceeded by fifty per cent. These excellent result- wen in large measure to the " support of the press. I wi-h. fore, to convev to you mv mi- cere thanks for the -operation that you an ganization gave thri. ! campaign, j Your generous a most helpful not on!;. j unprecedented anion::' ment securities but a' - , that wide distribution ' j essential to the eeon :i. ! of the country. Xh:'., i of the entire district i- yond our expectation- : ond Drive, and the sales was larger than i" it is quite apparent th a necessary for us to n-.i larger number of ir. i v ing the next campau'i Sincerely vour HUCH i Chairman, United S;;i'. War Finance Conn: Federal Reserve Di-i' - an:.:.; V -, - W i Editor The Mountai; I've been sitting r. 1 for over an hour i I two copies of the M I although the war j conditions worse; it c1' jhurt the quality f . iThe Mountaineer has ' : nie from getting too ing my fourteen m.v " - I Waynesville, and I '' this opportunity to ' jail that the Io'.in r:. ' I to me. I have recently b-' red to a new military " ' ment at Gatesville. T- v in charge of ail m:. work at the new a !::' ; Hood here; which wii'. -1 est military reservati n S. when it is complex Viily has been changed cj; j since I was transient. - for the past six mon'h-- prison work, dealing short and long term m oners. In my new wjtk iotK' We the C My r:i witn tary P- I -Continued on pag: 31-