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4: u . '''-rAivi-. I -r THE VAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEE (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, I94 f t ' 1 tuntaineer - , :iV:J "i Warnc TA Ceitafy' CURTIS RUE: ned Bv lLE PRINTING CO. Paone 13"! North Carolina cif o Hayuood County .... Editor H BotJCM of etitruiamerit for rut of one oer-t pr wo.-ii. NATIONAL DITO.MA n1JCASSOCIATION THURSDAY, (One Day JANUARY 6, 1944 Nearer Victory) 1944 With the statement of General Eisenhow er's to the effect that 1944 will see victory n Europe, we start the New Year with high hope. We are saddened, however, by the price that we know will be paid in lives for this gTeat victory. Secretary Hull also seems optimistic over the fall of the Nazi. In the meantime we must realize here at home that victory may be in sight, but it is definitely not yet won. Between now and then our government will stage one of the biggest drives ever put on for the sale of War Bonds. We on the home front wiil have to "keep 'em flying and firing." During the month of January the Fourth War Bond campaign will be put across and the money derived from this sale will finance the battle fronts on our firing lines. No matter how much sacrifice we will have to make to buy our required quota, it will be safe and easy as compared with the men who are fighting on the battle fronts all ever the world. At this -critical time, no one should hesitate to answer this call when the leaders ask U3 to buy bonds. Adventures The last issue of a current magazine out lines some adventures for 1943. It was pointed out that we Americans are an ad venturous people and that we are in the habit of breaking away from the beaten paths and that we are ever on the lookout for something new to do. The following list of seven things were suggested to be tried out in 1944, which would be a splendid substitute for New Year's resolutions. Plant in your garden a vegetable which you have never grown before or tasted. Pay a friendly evening call on new ac quaintances whom otherwise you would prob ably not get to know very well. Show a personal interest in a boy or girl whose whole life can be influenced right now by a good grown-up friend. Learn to recognize by its correct name a bird or tree heretofore unfamiliar to you. Step out and take the responsibility of neighborhood leadership for something that needs to be done. Marriage By Proxy We see by the state attorney general's office that one unusual result of the war is the sudden interest that North Carolina girls and their sweethearts are taking in the legality of proxy marriages. The office claims that to date it has received some 20 separate inquiries pertaining to this method of entering the Holy state of matrimony. Some couples want to be married by means of the radio, while others wish to tie the knot by telephone. The attorney general, however, seems very firm in his idea3 on the matter, to date is reported to have given the same answer to each of the twenty inquiries, which is "No." He contends that there is no such provision in the State laws that would per mit proxy marriages. While it might prove to be a very economi cal way to enter the blessed! state, as there would not have to be any flowers or new clothes, we approve the position the attor ney general has taken. It looks to us like ah attempat to streamline the romance out of marriage. to strtr V - 1: MRS. HILDA WAY GWYX.. Associate Editor Curtis Buss and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers r rry about the fu jj:e contrary to cer J&rding to the latest ticians in regard to in the birth rate. babies over the nor- on birth records of PUBLISHER EVERY THURSDAY f SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year, In Ha wood County. $1.75 Six Months, In Haywood County 90c On Year, Outside Haywood County - 2.50 Six Months, Outsi le Haywood County 1.50 Ail Subscrip ions Payable In Advance Baterwj it U pul o(fK at W.jtij. N C . u Stcood Mali Matter, a p.-'i.tUrJ uulrr U.e Act of Miict I. l7i. joyaber 1. 1014. f rwt, card of tftanfca. aad profit, i!l lt uiiirKtd lor at uture C re is no n ;iureof the Ai tain recent th' reports from any temporary More than' 2.00$ mal expectancy based preceding years, were born in this country i from 1933 to 1943. We were surprised to learn that the num-! ber of births increased from 1933 to 1939 j were from 16.6 to 17.8 per 1,00 popula-' tion. As we all know the war influence has 1 shot up the record considerably. Due to this factor the rate had jumped from 20.9 per 1,000 population by 1942. When the j records are completed for 1943, according to j the statisticians, are rate is expected to j show a gain to 24 per 1,000. GOOD NEWS CN THE H'Z.' Honorably Discharged We have noticed an increase locally in the number of men who are being honorably discharged from the army recently, but were rather surprised at the large number an nounced by the War Department. Around 550,000 officers and enlisted men have been discharged from the army be tween December 7, 1941, and August 31, 1943, according to the War Department. Ap proximately 200,000 of the men are said to be over 38 years of age and were releas ed to accept employment in essential indus try or agriculture. The remaining were discharged on account of physical and men tal disability. In view of the need both in the armed forces and in the civilian production respon sibility, this is a wise move on the part of the War Department. A man discharged under these conditions should not feel that he has not served his country well, but that he is being placed where hv can best serve by the discharge. ( BOSS. (. AriOT 4, -( AJACAT'OHVA LUGGAGE" 4:.,. ' ' HERE and THERE HILDA By WAY GWYN mind. . . Not for lack of sincerity in well wishing, but lor tne very good reason, that we know, if we face the facts, that 1944 is not go ing to be an especially happy year, no matter how optimistic wr may approach the unfolding of the twelve months ahead. . . The rea sons are obvious. . . We feel that while most of us are not conscious of making -hem, we are all form ing New Year resolutions in our minds ar.d hearts . . . We know j that 1944 will be a critical year. ; We know it1 will contain a series j of historical events that will be I leu ngni n re in our own smau With the habit of the American people for ! world- In tke Past we have often questionea wnar. ine coming year New Years greetings. . . We j books." . . We know what Miss started to say Happy New Year j Eeaj has meant to the local . . . and then we changed our i Uhrarv urinir trvinir times , - - j o j ..... Unsold Trees paying the price of anything they happen to want at the time we were somewhat sur prised to see that in some of the large cities ! in the country Christmas trees, priced at three times their normal cost, failed to sell. It seems that speculators had been so sure that the war" worker and his money would soon part, that they felt that they could step up on the cost of the trees and it would never be noticed. In Boston it was reported that thousands of trees which had been shipped into the city "remained stacked outside of stores as if rooted in the sidewalks." In Los Angeles, trees that had been priced at $1.50 sold as low as 25 cents the last minute before Christmas. This may seem a small matter, yet it is significant of the turning at last of the public against the profiteer, because Christ mas is an extravagant time, and people often pay prices they would not at any other time of the year. It should serve as a warning to profiteers that "Americans have it in their power to stabilize the whole economic situation if they only exert themselves." might bring. . . But this year, the picture has been painted ahead for us in thf forming of the battle fronts that stream across the world. . . On the other hand we realize that we have had a year full of such happenings, and the reactions from such should have prepared us to tak? another one, far more momentous. . Y'et with all the anxiety we have lived through during the year past, when we compare the Unit a States with other countries we find that we have been greatly blessed. . . We have had no bombings h re at home. . . We have been safe and 'ave lived almost normal lives . . . We are told that there are six mil lion little childr:n in Great Britain, who do not even remember a nor mal Christmas. . . Consider the lives of the couniri-s where the Nazi have overrun. . . So our id; a of a wish for the New Year . . . is that you have grown in strength. That your ability to endure unex- when even keeping it open was hanging on the balance . . . what her supervision and advice have meant, and we add our approval to the choice ol the Progressive Farmer . . . and quote the follow ing from Nell Battle Lewis, taken from the Sunday edition of the j Raleigh News and Observer. . . "No nicer person than Miss Beal j lives in this State, and it rejoices 1 me to see her more generally ap- ! pr:ciated. Maybe, a native of New York State, she did come among us 1 originally as a sort of missionary, ' as one Tarheel suggests, since, like many of us down here, she knew 1 that North Carolina was a very 1 fertile fi.ld for library work. But,! if so, then we've never had a mis- i sionary so tactful and friendly, so self-effacing in her valuable work, I or one who fitted so easily and j pleasantly into our lif ?, Even i though she may have come to tforth ; Carolina at first just to make us ; more literate, I'm pretty sure she has wound up by liking us as a ) person of her discrimination nat- I urally would. And I know that those of us who know her and her j fint work like and admire her a ' great deal. We hope that by now j she feels herself one of us, because we'd be proud to claim her. We'd like to take such an excellent per- j st.n right into the heart of the ! Neighborhood which she i- helping ' so much." 1 jkiWASHINGIW Senate Control After 1944 I Four of 12 Now Debate Elections Still Is a Mystery Would Give GOP Majoi ' Special to Centrtl Press 1 WASHINGTON Who will control the senate after the 1&44 c tions is a deep mystery that only the ballot box can solve A!: , anything can happen. That's how close the senate control fit-h; a pears Ulcely to &e when the 79th congress is organized in Janwiv 1945. '' November s off-year elections, with the strong Republican u r. In strategic sU.es, forecast substantial gains in Republican tonal seats The terms of' 32 of the 96 senators expire next year. leav:r . 54 noioovers- ineii ucic .iu koi w u tv-jrciir rema. i . , . . . 1 1 . ... n i . ' Of the unexpired lerm ui me iaie . warren oaroour. New J Republican. The senate as constituted today has 58 Democrats. 37 Repub!. and one Progressive Up for election next year are 11 Republ: a.rd 21 Democrats, plus the New Jersey short tem now held by a Democrat. The Republicans should hold all of their 11 3414 w rile the only seats the Democrats are sure to ho!j are those in the solid south and Arizona and Nevd in the far west. I This means thai 12 seats are in debatable territory states which, : showed strong Republican trends in 1942. 1943. or both years, j Should Republicans take these seats and recover the New Jersey : seat, the senate score would be 50 Republicans to 45 Democrats M( one Progressive Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin. j The GOP must recover New Jersey and get 10 of the 12 dektablj seats to total 48. h&if of the senate. With La Follette voti with the Democrats, the senate then would present a tie for tf.e r.ext ; vice president to break. With La Follette voting on their tide the Republicans would have a majority of one. 1 GRAND OPERA j Newspapermen in Washington were pleased and satisfied with th ! way Admiral Chester W. Nimitz handled the coverage of the recent : Amencan invasion of the Gilbert islands. Prior to the invajio ; Nimilx ordered his commanders in the field to cooperate fully nit. j war correspondents assigned to the Central Pacific. Following tne successiui invasion, a newspaperman assignee to thj Navy put the following waggish tribute to Nimitz on the bull board in the Navy department press room: "Central and South Pacific theater. Chester W. Nimitz. man international dateline:, a Gilbert and Solomon pioduction; posit the last appearance of Hirohito in "The Mikado.' Also To assisted by Harry Kari in The Pirates'." COP Should Keep Sats Now Held SMALL ELECTRIC MOTORS are the major bottler-"' way of more new washing machines and electric ref:igeia'.o officials disclose. Reason they are tied up by the aircraft Alter an. you can 1 iow up production 01 pianes to mae washing ma'. h;nes." ore WPB expert observed. As a iesu!t. WPB his no encouragement for the house. :f when ihe will be able tj buy a new washing machine or r ki2 fer: jf Joe 1 1 THE WAR DEPARTMENT has disclosed the develo all-purpose, all-weather gasoline designed to meet year-r 1 equipments of ail Army ground forces vehicles from jeeps to tanks. All-Purpose, Specifications for the new gasoline insure maxi mum operational efficier.cy at temperatures ranging A"-Wea,r,ei from zero to extreme h-at. thereby eliminating the . Gasoline necessity of differentiating between summer and' winter grades. Slightly different requirements are fjperitied for fuel for use m extremely coid climates. mont of an und combat I MRS JOHN GUNTHSR, wife of the author-war correspondent,' was testifying before the house foreign affairs cornmittee in support of legislation to piomote the rescue of oppressed Jews in Europe As treasurer of the Emergeicy Committee to Save the Jews of Europe, she was appealing in a low voioe for congressional action to support the cause. Suddenly, the hearing room calm vas shattered by the clang of the house bell wt.ich notifies members that a session begins in 15 minutes. Startled, Mrs Gunther was brought up short. "I'm not stepping on a bell, am I?" she asked Chairman Sol Bloom, The We note with keen satisfaction that a number of writers are re- j calling now that American Labor ! un: r.s might well profit from a i study of World War I and its af'.:rmath. . . It has been pointed Yoke Of The People H'raf do you think wo a '(lhd'iii) evtnt 0 1943? the out that a larpp number of str ifes pected inconveniences and perhaps th?R alienated nublic sentiment and meet some hardships, will ' prove j helped cause a stror.s nost-war Save Your Car Every agency concerned with war pro duction and transportation is coming to realize the absolute necessity of keeping at least the irreducible minimum of passenger cars and trucks rolling. The Office of De fense Transportation and the Brookings In stitution have agreed thafT with respect to cars, this should not fall below 20,000,000. We have had no increment to the car supply for more than two years. The ODT esti mates that 1,000,000 automobiles were scrap ped in 1942, and that 1,500,000 will be scrap ped in 1943 and 2,000,000 in 1944. There remains a margin above the danger line, but the average car is now seven years old, and a quarter of all cars in use are ten years old or older. In these circumstances, Conservation and maintenance daily become more important. The National Conservation Bureau and the Natioanl Association of Manufacturers have done a real service in publishing jointly a little pamphlet adopting the comic cartoon method of approach with a minimum number of words to bring-home the importance of this message to the car owners and, especi ally, the war worker. It is called "If Your Car Could Talk", and points the lessons of regular lubrication, prompt repairs, tire conservation and slow driving in a graphic way which should do much good. Already a million copies have been distributed. Many million more could well be in the hands of America's motorists, too many of whom still do not realize that they are, as suh, also somiers in a total war. New York Times. that you can take it. . . That you can make sacrifices, if nects.-ary, with out them leaving a trace of bitter ness . . . and that in the end when the curtain comes down on 1944, no matter what state the world is in, you are a better, and a more cour ageous person. . . That you have met the tests the year has put upon you . . . and that you are a finer individual despite the conflict about you. In lighter vein . . . Leap Year is here again . . . and the open season for matrimony as proposed by women is in order. . . Acording to statistics, there are 4,000.000 un married women in this country be tween the ages of 18 and 25. . . During 1943, it is said that one girl out of every three married, either a war worker, a civilian em ployee of the government, or a man with a job. . . While the other two married men in the service. . . And only one out of the four remain in the single blessedness today. . . It is said that there has never been so large a percentage of sin gle youth, ages from 18 to 22 in the anny at on?. time in this coun try. . . We have noted since the advent of the New Year, numerous suggestions to the unmarried girls as to how to go about landing their choice. . . But we are inclined to think it is a personal matter, and what suits one case, would ruin another prospect . . . and between us, if the men only knew it, we wouldn't be surprised if the girls don't use more leap year tactics during the intervening years than perhaps the boys realize ... or maybe they do for all we know. reaction against labor . . . and the warning is being sounded now with no uncertain ton;s that history might repeat itself pleasant thought to dwell on the ; the fact that during the first nine months in 1942 there were 2,675 strikes in this country . . . and the number of workers involved in war industries alone totaled 480, 000. . . In 1943 it is reported the number has been far greater . . . and now with threats of new strik es in the air ... it looks like it is time somebody up in Washington took drastic action. . . If not, there is going to be a strong anti-labor movement that will take some of the high handed ways out of the Labor Unions . . . and incidentally bring about hard feelings that n;ed not have been aroused. . . There will be a day of reckoning when the men now serving in the armed forces come back to rebuild their lives . . . and we will have Mm. J. C. Welch "The last con ference of the four great world powers." C. Allen "I think the out- . It is not a 1 standing event was the recovery of Kussians at Stalingrad m which they drove the Germans more than 1,000 miles and within 30 miles of Poland." Mrs. Edith P. Alky "I wuiild ay the world conferences because they signify something diffe'ent than we had ever expected to nap-pen." the development of the Amorid Air Force to the point where til can send 1.500 nlanes over Gd man territory as they did past week." if. F. Swift "I think Churchill, Stalin. Roosevelt em ference was the biggest event the year." Dan Wathms "l think the cs standing event of the year was invasion of Africa and Italy." IV. H. F. Millar " think 1 outstanding event of 1943 was meetine of the Bie Four and thj agreement." Mrs. William Medf Russian offensive." I J. C. Patrick "The sinking a "The I tne battleship Scharnhorst." C'W E. Ray. Jr. ' I think the world conferences are the rr.ost irnificant event of the past y?ar and for second place I would ay to give an account of how we have lun things in their absence. . . THE OLD HOME TOWN Bill Pre vast "I believe I woi say the Guadalcanal campaign the outstanding event of the ye HEAP TH StrATC-i ) L"TM'iAST SESS'OS-mE J X WAS W&OfS CnlV C (9O PER CENT OF By STANLEY 1 We see where the Progressive Farmer has named Miss Marjorie BeaL secretary and director of the North Carolina Library Commis sion, the "Woman of the Year". Because "of her outstanding ser vice to the farm families of North Carolina in helping to provide every family of every coanty in the state an opportunity to borrow rood YEAM-HE 8i?OliHT OUT A Bill to set AM AODED STEEL "LATEi I ON TAPDAMCeCS ShOESl BUT IT VSlAS TO DEATH' 1 Rev. M. R. Williamson "The crease in the eenerosity of American neonle in their contrisf tion to the American Red Crosi to me the outstanding event 1 1943." (As ' V TO DFATH' J m , . v -: c s v- 1 TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate Recorded to wionaay Of This Week) Jonathan Creek TovnMp Crawford Jenkins, et a Hardy Carver, et ux. Waynetville Tovhip Xfoftr rtQllnivav of 11 Y tO Jones, et ux. , Josephine S. Thomas, et Moses Osborne, et ux. World War Veterans Lo Thaddeus L. McDonald, et MARRIAGES Hugh A. Matthews Burch, both of Canton. to Bay War Bonds and Stsf a ii .-. ff . it
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