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Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY lo, n The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 1S7 Waynes ville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oae Tear, In Haywood County .$1.76 Six Mentha, In Haywood County 0c ae Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.54 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Kmttnd at the post office at Wajiiwille, N. 0.. aa Seeoaa Olaas Mail Hatter, an provided under the Act of March S, l7t, Noreaiber t, HI 4 Obttaary aotioea, resolution u4 reie.t, card of tkanka, and 4 nuticaa of entertainment far profit, will be charged lac at fea rake W ane cefit por ward. NATIONAL DITOf alAI AffAr-IATinil 1 mai- I North Carolina x.-l THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911 (One Day Nearer Victory) Wanted-A Simpler Form Our phone rang during the past week and a feminine voice asked us if the paper could not give some information regarding income tax forms in a simple manner so that the people in general could understand. In the throes of trying to make out our own income tax return we felt a deep sympathy for her and her problems. We admitted that if we could offer a simple recipe for such complicated forms we would be glad to tell the world, but alas, we could give no such desired information. We sug gested that she consult the deputy internal revenue coloector who will be here for the purpose of helping the public interpret this confusing piece of governmental literature. One reader has recently compared some of the conflicting sections of the forms to the explanation about the Pullman berths how the upper became lower because it was high er, while the lower was higher, because it was not so high. Frankly, some of the items in the form are just about as complicating to us. It looks like Congress has overestimated the Amer ican public's ability to understand its sched ule for high pressure taxes. It has been suggested that if the members of Congress, had to go back home to their own districts and act as deputy internal revenue collec tors to help their constituents make out these complex returns, there would be no doubt that they would fly back to Washington and in their confusion over the problem, at once try to get the complications out of the forms. William Allen White The late William Allen White had a unique place in American journalism. He lived in a small American town, and he wrote of his own people, recording the events in their daily lives, yet he possessed to such degree the power to express the common needs of all mankind in his reporting that the world soon knew of Emporia and its editor. He was a straight shooter, but his fair ness and his sense of humor always took the sting out of his writings. He should ever serve as an example and an inspiration to the small town paper that should have ever be fore it, the ideals of serving the community in which it calls home. While he became through the very human quality of his writing a citizen of the world and was at home with the great of this earth, he was first of all a citizen of Emporia. He looked for the good and found it as shown in the following from his writings : "Every friend of my childhood is my friend today. I have never had a major quarrel with anyone, and I am not conscious of having an enemy. No one ever tried to do me wrong. No one ever betrayed me, nor so far as I know ever tried to hurt me or to swindle me. I have found humanity good, with much more that was fine than false." His life blazed a new trail for the small town paper, and today upon his passing, he is acclaimed as the "greatest American edi tor" by many. He left the small town news paper a valuable legacy, if we who edit them will only claim it for our own. Our reputations are made by what people say of us behind our backs William Feather Magazine. t Today's specials: Running Water, S. D., and Hot and Cold, N. C. Straight Ticket Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture, has been mentioned as a potential candidate for a number of offices. Some of his friends have stated he might be a candidate for the senate, or maybe for governor. Others that he will enter the race for re-election to his present post. He was asked by a friend at the Jackson Dinner recently held in Raleigh what he is currently running for and the commissioner of agriculture at least left no doubt in his friend's mind about his party loyalty when he replied: "I'm running for the kingdom of heaven on a straight Democratic ticket." "THE DAILY GRIND" Boy Scout Week Will it be jiossible after this war ends to create a world brotherhood among men, dedi cated to peace, without sacrificing love of one's own country? Everyone acquainted with Scouting, which this week celebrates its 34th anniversary in America, knows that the answer is yes. The Boy Scout organization is almost world-wide. Patriotism and friendliness, and respect for other men's religious beliefs, all are part of the Scout Oath and Law. The World Jam borees of Scouting were international gath erings which might well set a pattern for statesmen to follow. Not everybody likes world brotherhood. Adolf Hitler, on coming to power abolished Boy Scouting in every occupied country. Yet it continues "underground". Someday, along with free speech, a free press and untram meled religion, it will emerge from hiding. It takes better boys today to build a better world tomorrow. The success of the Scout movement, in America and in other United Nations, proves that the principles of Scout ing will triumph in the end. Hundreds of the soldiers and sailors who have been decorated for heroism in this war were former Scouts. It is estimated that one third of the officers and enlisted men in Uncle Sam's armed forces were once Scouts or Scoutmasters. Scouting will not have to be "converted" after the war in the usual sense of the word, for it is being carried on in this country in a normal manner. Since February 8, 1910, more than 11. 400,000 men and boys have been actively identified with Scouting in America. The birthday anniversary will be observed in every city and town' in the nation and in hundreds of villages and communities. HERE and THERE HILDA By WAY GWYN Human Understanding We have read a great deal during the past weeks on the all vital problem of post war planning. There have been numerous theories put forth by various authorities. A recent editorial in the Raleigh Times pre sented an angle that will have a large part in the plans, yet it seems to have escaped many of the specialists now prescribing for that era. The Times points out that a new world, free and at peace would have been ours long ago if money could have bought it, or if muscle or scientific cleverness could win it. The historic fact that we materialists can not bring ourselves to accept is the inescap able one that peace and freedom whether on a personal world or world level are mor ally and spiritually won. The paper quotes a soldier as saying, "The world is just one big goodbye", knowing that things were not meant to be that way. There arises the qeustion that has troubled many of us: Why do peace and freedom so stub bornly escape us? We have proved that superior military force can bring us victory. We have not yet proved that military victory can ever bring more than an armed truce. This war demands, as the Times points out, that we go beyond being experts in mili tary production and strategy. We need to be experts as well in the art of human under standing and teamwork, which produce sound homes and the sound industrial and political structure of the new era. We have drifted away on a high tide of materialism from the moral and spiritual moorings of civilization. So today we find ourselves surrounded by suffering and death a world aching like one big goodbye, ac cording to the soldier who is said to have continued, "We need to make the world into a big hello, but that will take something brand new in a mighty lot of people." We have shown that we can organize our nation into one powerful army almost over night from a peace loving people, so we 'should be able to restore our moral stand ards as well when it is over, if we start with the right viewpoint and determination. Sure ly the price we will pay before the war is over will teach us some constructive ideas on human understanding. Since the men are being returned home from the fighting areas many of them broken in body, some never to be fully restored again . . . new responsibility comes to our gov ernment. . . For the rehabilitation of the men in service will demand special care. . . A man broken in body will also need much restora tion of the spirit along with th:' physical. . . There will be need for deep understanding . . . morale will have to be boosted for thes1 men who will have to buiUI new lives. . . Perhaps you read during the week of the tour of one Charles McGonegal, of North Dakota, World War I veteran, is making to the army hospitals. . . If you saw the story, you will not mind reading it a second time, for it is heart warming . . . and if you have not it will bring a touch of human interest that is refreshing. . . Now this McGonegal is just an ordinary American citizen . , . who is now in Washington. . . No, he is not there to confer with governmental heads, merely on a mission of mercy and morale. . . He may not even visit the White House, but he has a tremendous task ahead of him. . . He is going to give the pa tients in veterans hospitals a new vision ... a new yardstick by which to measure their lives. . . doubt if they could be engraved on their hearts, many of the problems of discipline would vanish. We have heard of a good many virsions of dice throwing, but the latest use is past all belief. . . We see where dice are being thrown in the psychological laboratory of Duke Univtrsity to study what the Profissor in charge calls the "psy chokinetic effect" ... it all came about when a crap shooter turned up at the University sometime ao and claim; d that by yelling, "Come seven, come eleven" he got re sults. . . So the Professor decided to try him out and the score was so good that it was decided to be gin some studies along this line, . . A summary of these appears in the Jouranl of Parapsychology pub lished by Duke University Press. Now to our uninitiated mind, it sounds like a case of glorified wishful thinking, and not a psy chological problem. jWWASHINGTO! I pone Thought Abl. J I Increase War ProdJ Twenty-five years ago McGone gal walked out of the Walter Reed Hospital, a tall slim wondering boy, facing life, with two bright steel hooks, where hands should have been. . . What could he do? What would the years ahead mean to him. . . What could he accom plish with such a handicap? These questions must have fairly eaten into his soul. . . Now he comes back to Walter Reed . . . and will go to other hospitals to tell the fellows who have "gotten theirs" in World War II, that there is a big chance for them. . . He is going to con vince armless veterans that they can find a place in the business affairs of tomorrow. . . McGonegal was a mechanic be fore joining up back in 1917, and was wounded in France in 1918. He had a compound fracture of the skull . . . both knees splintered, a toot fractured and both arms were shot off just below the elbow. Today he is a pilot with more than 300 hours flying ... a horse breed er ... he drives a car . . . shaves himself . . . lights his own ciga rettes . . . writes . . . uses a tele phone and plays cards ... he can do almost anything that a person with two good hands can do. . . Between now and April he will tell the boys in five army hospitals and two naval hospitals not to be discouraged. . . They are now just where he started 25 years ago, he says . . . and right now they don't think there is any sense In living, but he is going to tell them there is . . . and we have a hunch that he will be able to put that story over better than the most learned psychologists in the land. . . We see where the Kentucky Fed ration of Women's Clubs has ask ed its State Legislature to place framed copies of the Ten Com mandments in all public school class rooms. . . We liked the idea . . . we hear a great deal about juvenile delinquency these days . . . and when we stop to consider all the laws made by mankind, has there ever been a set of rules more comprehensive than those laid down so many centuries ago? If these commandments were learned by the old as well as the young today, and "written not witn inn, as the Apostle put it, "but with the Spirit of the living God; nqt in tables of stone, but in the fleshy tables of the heart," much of the human ills would be eliminated . . . the teaching of the ten command ments in school would be reflected in the Uvea of the pupils, and no The following on Safety was con tributed to this column during the week, with the request, "Please use" . . . "Here lies the remains of Percival Sap, He drove his car with his girl in his lap. Lies slumbering here, one Wiliam Blake, He heard the bell but had no brake. Beneath this stone lies William Raines, Ice on the hill, he had no chains. Here lies the body of William Jay, He died maintaining the right of way. John Smith lies here without his shoes, He drove his car while filled with booze. Here lies Mary Jane, but not alive, She made her car do eighty-five. Voice OF THE People Fight Over Renegotiation Could Kill New Tax Bill Special to Central Press WASHINGTON Do not be surprised or disappolnted-u 1 is no tax bill passed at all by congress. A battle is shaping up over the measure that will t least w. Its enactment, but the fight has nothing to do, strangely aw with taxes. The controversy is over the changes voted by the sermta tw committee in the war contract renegotiation law passed in a XM2, and designed to recapture excessive war profits. Th kf rewrote the taw and attached it to the tax bill as rider. Thea? senate rewrote the house version. Army, Navy and several government agencies were not nu with the way the house revised the law. But they are Ukewi&fi? satisfied with the senate's work. They contend tU m:u rimiM ns-tinn would niinch a hnl . nova tun wu in V.. AJk tk. m - .. . j ..... Rewritten .,iMi " M 4.4. Ml V.. J , . . C 4. Cn If th tAX hill CArriM uritK it . V. .. - F " -"aiges m l renegotiation law which war agencies feel would iT pair their ability to recapture excessive profits, it is entirely i, Dmolrlont RArvapvplr wmilrl vpfrt th hill. That urul4 ' a - - uirnn no ti, bill at all at this time. There is an added likelihood the president might veto the act ! At. kill n An.n n n .... , wl Anntainn th. AmanstA . . freezing the old age benefit payroll tax at present levels, n is to meet with executive disapproval. Finance committee changes which have aroused greatest adminia irauon opposition are uiose cAcmpuiig wruun manuracturers frga, renegotiation. For. example, all makers of "standard commerciu articles" would be exempt and exemption also would be grant machine tool manufacturers, retroactive to the time the law ea into effect. A formidable array of legislators has announced opposition to tin measure as it now stands. Among those who have announced thn will fight it to the limit are Senate Majority Leader A I ben Barklnj ana oenaiura furry iruiiuui, ntntu, maun una rcooerr. LAFtllttt AMIDST ALL THE TALK about manpower needs and increai war production, uie woni "unempioymenr pas a strange sound a little-noted paragraph in a recent OWI report on curtailmentj i war production had a portentous ring. OWI pointed out that th shifting of production needs, although minor in relation to the whej, program, undoubtedly will throw some people out of work. Is this the beginning of the end of the war employment booa Some employers think so. OWI said that when some war production is curtailed, unemploj. ment is not likely to become serious so long as plants can shift raj, idly from one item to another. For Instance, a tank factory receaty went oacx 10 ma King locomouves. a O THE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION, in precncUnt German war production cannot be Increased to meet the crushinj attack to be launched against the Reich soon, pointed out also thn Japan probably can expand its output of materiel. The Japs have passed their peak of plant expansion but art b lieved able to turn out more armament with present facilities kj intensive memoes. The Nipponese, formerly the world's greatest imitators, har U vanced technically and are now doing creative work of their en However, there is an optimistic note. The Japs have failed ti exploit their conquered territory and resources fully, principally cause of lack of shipping. None of the captured territory has added materially te Japanese steel making capacity. It has, however, provided oil for the Jap navy. The size of the Japanese war machine is deter mined directly by steel. Presumably after current steel stock piles are exhausted the Japs will be in bad shape. The FEA thinks Japan, if left undisturbed for 2 or JO yean I possession of Its conquered areas, might easily reach the frost rut of industrial nations. But mere possession of potentially rtca coo tries, FEA points out, wont Increase Jap war rapacity aad tat Allies intend to make certain that the Nipponese are crushes k before they can turn these areas into any real account Nipt Fachu Shortage W Vital Steal war in the think so." Pacific and I still Grayden Ferguson "It is mere ly part of the routine of war and I still believe we have a long way to go." Lee h. Scruggs "1 think the events in the Pacific are fast short ening the war." that we have at least two M years in the Pacific." Letters To Til Editor Chrcs George "No, definitely. I figure we will have a long way to go before final victory." C. L. Edmonds "What has hap pened is encouraging, but I think the war will last a long time." Have recent events in the Pacific war theatre changed your mind as to the length of the wart J. C. Patrick "Yes, they have. The progress made in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands will open a way into the Philippines and then a way to Tokyo." Paul Martin "No, Mam, I have always thought it would be a long II. L. Coin "No, they have not, for the reason that the supply lines of Japan are shortening while ours are lengthening. We have not yet met the full strength of their fleet, which we will before the war is over." Adjutant Cecil Brown "No, they have not changed my ideas. I feel that the events are- just part of the regular fighting." J- R- Boyd "No, not one bit, because we haven't won anything yet worth any great importance." Clayton Walker "Ho, they have not, for I feel as I always have THE OLD HOME TOWN . Bv STANLEY i. i mu l . ji j iiu i ii u ii Lji - ' 5 KY & 'IT I NAW.! SOOp --"THATS NOT HER LUNCH . ! j"Vv-A"'V',1 BOX. TMATS IH GLAMOR KIT-Rre COPE --EL80W AND HAND LOTiau.. V ,j? KY 3 SfSn4T I NAW! GOOP - -THATS NOT HER LUNCH I 4,JV?sI-"V'fl BOX.' THATS TH GLAMOR KIT--FACB 5 JTV1 5 4til?'s-lOPe""ELaOWAN, HANt MOTIONS.- TM& EARLY MOWNWe SHIPT Tr" LIKES MOUNTAIN FEB England, Jan. 10, 1344 Editor The Mountaineer, Just a small letter of appred tion which I sincerely know whole staff deserves and for splendid papers you have us. And speaking for all theM who are over here, we r greatly pleased and want to n our thanks to the whoie sun The Mountaineer. My mother, Mrs. H. L. Wrifj has been sendinsr The Mountain since March, 1943, which I kj received in Africa, Italy and Eel land, and am always looking W ward to the next paper. I am very glad the boy writing to The Mountaineer M tell how much t.hev enioy the and at the same time sh"winetM appreciation. Sincerely yours, Pvt. Robert H- Wrijfht. CONGRATULATIONS Publishers of The Mountaineer, Waynesville, N. C. Please accept my sincerest W citations on the double honoi was conferred on you by the N Carolina Press Association you received first prize in genff excellence for your Sylva PJF uesvuie paper. , a r I-:- !4L fn tllll fl a rejoice wiui Jim -mprirfrl ropnirnition that BM V to you. With kind-st greetings, I Gratefully yours, Rev. A. F. Rohrbacner. When has a man four handt TT IICH I1C ' jM What is it that has four lep.1 foot, one head and a body w eyesi a. a oea. J an ! j.tnr moat SWTI ff UCII IS a UUVWi .J A. WrlMl rin is OUt Of Pn (patients). , mm BACRmfi
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