fllURSPAY, JANUARY 6, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory )
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
18 Billions Spent By
overnment In 1943
1 Amoral povernment srent
Lr,'1 nu'iiey in the 365 days of
n4i -ban it did in all the first 15U
ears "of ne nation's existence.
Thl 1943 total of approximately
c pu muO.OOO embracss war costs
f over $82,000,000,000 or rough
, fM 000,000 every 24 hours,
25 j'oi ',000 of it for war.
prom the establishment of the
ft.asiry in 1789 through June 30
yg ciu re are no good figures on
comparatively tiny costs of
776 -17S9), aggregate governmen
,1 expenditures amounted to $87,
nn 0(ii 000. Up to last Dec. 31
ky totaled $247,200,000,000 or
,s, than three times the amount
pent n this second year of total
tar.
Costli nt period of World War I
raJ tl e 1918-19 fiscal year when
t,( government paid out 18,B00,
00 000. Average daily spending
uring 1343 was some $21,000,000
Tester than the total amount spent
the period 01 17a-l8iz.
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This year's record spending
nearly $32,000,000,000 above that
of 1942 saw a new record, too of
federal income. The $34.")00,000,
000 garnered into the till $31,
900,000,000 in taxes is more than
double last year's $16,4io,000,000
and includes $3,500,000,000 taken
directly from paychecks during the
first six months of pay-as-you-go
operation. The 1943 receipts were
$3,500,000,000 above official fore
casts. The national debt, mounting
steadily throughout the year until
this month, jumped from $112,
471,000,000 on December 31, 1942,
to a high of $170,420,000,000 three
weeks ago. Payment of some
$400,000,000 in maturing treasury
notes, however, together with more
than double that amount of tax
notes tendered in payment of third
quarter taxes pushed the figure
back until nearly month's end. Net
increase in the debt for the year
will be about $57,500,000,000.
Hit Peak in November
War spending, at a rate of less
than $6,000,000,000 a month last
January, hit a peak of over $7,
500,000,000 in November. .Although
there was some slackening this
month, the figure is expected to
""nnt nen'm with the new year.
Travel In Park
Shows Increase
For December, '43
Compared with December, 1942,
travel in the park during Decem
ber, 1943, show.d a great increase.
It will be remembered that Decem
ber, 1942, was the first month of
gasoline rationing, and there was
practically no travel to this park
during that month.
During December, 1943, an esti
mated total of 5,912 persons, in
1.740 vehicles visited this park, as
compared with an estimated total
of 2,684 persons, in 818 vehicles,
during December, 1942, an increase
of 120 per cent.
Twenty-three per cent of the to
tal visitors came from other than
the states of Tennessee and North
Carolina, 21 other states being
represented.
Travel is estimated by compari
son of actual travel counts made at
certain periods of the month with
actual travel counts made at the
corresponding periods of the pre
ceding year.
MICH TIMBER SEEDED
More than :il billion board feet
of timber are needed in 1944 from
the U. S. forests to supply forest
products needed for war materials
and essential civilian uses. Every
foot of timber needlessly burned
reduces the supply available far
war and for the reconstruction
days of the cominj peace.
HONEST INJUN!
LAFF-A-DAY
Copt. 194 V King Failures SymWitr lot . WoiM rights iwrrwj
"Take off those nylon stockings!
1'
Tour electric bill may be more
but electricity costs you less!
That's what the professors call a "paradox"
it sounds screwy but it's really true.
If we say simply that the price you pay
for electricity today is only about half what
it was fifteen years ago, you don't believe us.
You figure that we're wrong because your
electric bills are about the same now as they
were then or even a bit bigger, flow eon
electricity be so much cheaper?
Like most folks, you forget all the electric
appliances you added over those years. You
were building up your use of electricity while
our rates were coming down. The more you
used, the lower the rate you earned. But even
though the present price is a lot lower, you're
using a lot more electricity.
That's the way it is. Honest Injun!
Today, the average American family gels
about twice as much electricity for Us money as
it did fifteen years ago.
What's more, while war has sent many
other prices soaring, the price of electricity
has 6tayed at low pre-war levels thanks to
the friendly, experienced men and women
who serve this company and serve you.
But even though electricity is cheap, and
unrationed, piase don't waste it.
Carolina POWER & LIGHT Company
"Report to the Nation," news program of the week, every Tuesday evening, 9:30, E.W.T., Columbia
tsroaacastx g sysiem.
State Is Leader
In War Records
Crittenden Reviews Activi
ties of Department of
Archives and History.
Kditor's Note This article by
Dr. Q. C. Critti mien, secretary of
the State Department of Archives
and History.
During the year 194:t, the State
Department of Archives and His
tory (formerly the North Carolina
Historical Commission) has sought
to do its full part in the war ffort
The program for collecting war
records, begun in 1942 with the co
iperation of the Office of Civilian
Defense, has been pushed through
ut the State, and collectors of war
ecords have been appointed in 97
if the State's 100 counties. Nearly
0,000 soldiers' letters, posters,
lewspiipers, camp in wspapers, bul
letins, recordings and addresses,
;crapbooks, photographs, individ
lal service records, and other ma
dials on the State's part in this
greatest of all wars have been
irought together -and the work
uirdly has begun. North Carolina
s the only State in the South, and
me of a half dozen states in the
ntire nation, conducting a broad
rogram in this fuld.
Many Visitors
For the large numbers of ser
icemen who come to Raleigh on
ve: k i nds from ('amp liutner,
l imp Mckall, Fort Hragg, Seymour
lohnson Field. Camp Davis, and
ither military and naval reserva
ions, the Hall of History (State
Historical Museum) has been kept
pen on Saturday and Sunday aft
rnoons and on holidays. During
he year, more ban 25,000 persons,
nainly men and women of the
irmcd forces, have visited the Hall
if History.
A new large scale program of co
operation with other State depart
ments in the disposal of useless
records has been launched. Under
he act of 1939, such disposal can
le made only with the consent of
the custodian of the records and of
the Department of Archives and
History, upon authorization of the
Council of State. During tYf year
a number of departments have
'aken advantage of this procedure
to get rid of worthless records
which were cluttering- up their
space.
On the other hand, every effort
has been made to save valuable
materials, and sonsiderable quanti
ties of these have been transferred
to the department from other State
departments and also from several
f the counties.
Publications
The publication program has
been carried on by issuing four
numbers of the North Carolina His
torical Review, various pamphlets
ind leaflets, and particularly the
records of the Moravians in North
( arolina. Volume VI, covering the
yi-ars 1793-1808. Giving the his
tory of the Moravians in Wachovia
from the beginning, all six vol- j
urns of this latter series have been
edited by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries of
Winston-Salem, archivist of the
Moravian Church in America,
Southern Province.
Members of the department have
continued to play a part in na
tional historical activities. During
the year Dr. R. ,D. W. Connor,
chairman, served as president of
the Society of American Archivists.
Book Review
Ky FRANCES FKAZ1ER
Stuff Writer
Have you read "The Great
Smokies and the Hlue Kiilge?" If
you have not, by all menus get a
copy and read it now. This book
is edited by Roderick I'eattio and
i published by Vunguard Press. It
lis made up of chapters contributed
by Donald Culross l'eattie, Alberta
I'iersou Ilannum, Edward S.
Drake, Ralph Krskine, all of whom
have been captivated by the magic
mountains: Arthur Stupka, John
J neon N iles mountain ballad ex
pert and Dr. Henry Sharp of
Harnard College, Columbia Univer
sity. There is no doubt that the writ
ers feel the beauty and wonder of
the Smokies for they have put
forth their earnest elf or is in por
traying the glories of the moun
tains. Alln it.-i Ilannum, in one of tier
rhapli'i's, expresses i. most cllec
tively os she ui'tes: "All the
senses jr '"' lulled a - you look,"
which is a pn (Vet 1 i i iption of
the soothing hen "'y ir 'he Smokies.
She also gives us, in hei long
chapter on "The Mountain Peo
ple," some of the most delightful
things ever written about these
mountains. Mrs. Ilannum took the
diary loft by a man named Jacob
Carpenter in Altamount, N. ('.,
quoting entries and using her own
tore of knowledge and sympathy
to expand upon these entries.
To those .'ho 1;, near enough
to thoroughly enjoj and appreciate
the wonders of the Smokier, one
of the most beautiful descriptions
of seasonal glories of the moun
tains is found in one of the chap
ters written by Donald Culross
Peat tie. He writes: "In October,
the brilliant colors march up the
mountain side like an army with
banners flying. As far as the eye
can see, Persian carpets are
stretched out under the autumn
sky."
"The whole' book is, indeed, a
come-on. The writers well know
that, one visit makes a friend for
the Southern Appalachians," writes
the reviewer, Alfred Mynders, of
the New York Times. So highly
does the New York Times think of
"The Great Smokies and the Blue
Ridge" they have given almost a
full page to its review.
The volume is 350 pages long,
each page crammed with interest
ing, entertaining and enjoyable
facts.
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