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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, MARCh Page 2 THE VVAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE VVAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS KL'SS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Ru.ss and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.75 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 Hntered at the post office at Waiieaviilp, .V O., at 9eooo4 Uku Mail Matter, an provided under tlie Act of Marcta I, 187, Nmabtr lu. It l. ObiUaary Mticee, resolution? of reg-t. card of thank, tad aJ utiew of MiteruimBeat fr profit, will b chjtnred lor at tfce rate ( ant oent per word. NATIONAL DITO..IAL n ai 1 .m- k .North Carolina v3k MISS ASWC1AIKJK51 THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) Within Prison Walls The war effort made by the 3,000 inmates uf San Quentin prison, despite the stains of sin on their lives, should as far as outsiders are concerned soften our condemnation of them. They have made cargo slings, submarine nets and assault boats. They exceeded their Third War Loan bond quota by 900 per cent. With no more cash for the current bond drive, it looked as if they might fail to meet the obligation, but according to the warden, they have found a way, a substitute for money with which to buy bonds. They are pledging three fifty-gallon bar rels of blood plasma for the Red Cross. Curfew Law We read with interest a recent letter to the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in which the writer urged a curfew law for all school children, so that by 10:30 or 11 o'clock they would all be off the streets in bed at home. The writer stated that in his vicinity chil dren from 10 to 17 started out directly after sunset every night in the week, and stayed as long as they liked. There is much to be said for such a law in view of the increasing amount of juvenile delinquency reported throughout the coun try. To keep children off the streets at night after a certain hour, would no doubt keep many an idle youth out of trouble. Of course in this day when hours are wide open, it would suggest the tyranny of the Victorian age to most youngsters, who might rebel at such a restriction as being hopeless ly outdated. Win War Units By Cutting Pulpwood Minimum production requirements for de ferment of farm workers have been doubled by Selective Service headquarters in Wash ington. This means that 16 full war unts, instead of 8, are necessary to qualify as es sential agricultural workers entitled to de ferment. Farm workers who are below the 16 mini mum now have an opportunity to add to their essentiality before the farm season gets in to full swing by cutting pulpwood. Pulpwood production is specifically listed as an essential occupation in Activity and Occupation Bulletin No. 7 issued by Selec tive Service headquarters. Fifteen cords of pulpwood are equal to one war unit, and ag ricultural workers may earn for such units under present regulations. As Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, has indicated that there will be a prompt review of all agricultural defer ments, there is no time to be lost. A delay until the farm season offers full opportunity to earn all the war units required may be too late. Pulpwood not only can be cut now. It should be cut now. The military services need all that can be produced to provide and package supplies and equipment for the men overseas. Prove you are an essential war worker by cutting a cord today. Forward looking architects, we under stand, are working out plans for a garage with a home that folds into the door. Arkansas Gazette, f Red Cross War Fund Maybe we are overly optimistic. Maybe we are so completely sold on the idea our selves that we cannot be a fair minded judge in sizing up the situation, but the call for funds for the American Red Cross this month needs no selling to those who are go ing to give their money, according to us. From all parts of the world since America entered World War II, the men in service have been writing their families of the ser vices of the Red Cross. Even at home we turn instinctively to the Red Cross for any aid we wish regarding our boy3 in the ser vice. We know that the Red Cross will leave nothing undone to grant our request. There are too many of us who have fjad actual contact with the humanitarian ideals practiced by the Red Cross not to put this drive over with enthusiasm and speed. When we give to the Red Cross we are giving comfort and courage to that boy out in the Pacific, to that soldier in Africa, to those fighting in Italy, for we know that side by side with them the Red Cross work ers stand ready to give any and every aid. We are not going to suggest that you give until it hurts to this call for the Red Cross. We feel that we know your answer. You are going to give so generously that our local goal will be reached long before the end of the campaign period. Such is our faith in the Red Cross and in your appreciation of its services to mankind. "YOUR MOVE!" AiWASHINGTiy Record-Breaking Production Of Ships, Planes This Year Jap Meet s R Clash With U 5 Q Rel, Special to Central Press t WASHINGTON Looking ahead into this new y..a Washington can promise the American people eo.-.t;;. breaking production of planes and fighting ships, at 1 amount of food they had in 1943. and at least a slight tight supply of consumer goods. Th. heaviest accent On War DTOduCtion the thirri full vear of conflict will be that on Dlanes an t ..f.r'ltr which will account for about two-thirds of all battle n.dr.uraj Olanoa are evnerfAft tfl rerh ft Tftte Of 1 O HOO. in nrl . . " 'l i uu.u . - w, lanion , for a 120,000-a-year total, compared with 85 to 86 thousand Z Artillery ammur ition and h,' '"'"git tad HERE and THERE Army Base Building Near End made in 1943. truck production will be up. HILDA By WAY GWYN Stricter Rationing During the past week C. W. Kitchen, deputy director of the Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, announced that civilians will have to manage this year to eat with 43 per cent less canned fruits and 19 per cent less canned vegetables than last year. The supply of the first, comprising twelve items, will be limited to 17,000,000 cases and of the second, comprising fourteen items, to 104,000,000 cases. At the same time there is a warning re garding a meat shortage. With the record food productions asked these figures would not appear consistent, but the lend-lease shipments to the Allies and the mounting needs of the armed forces are continuing to drain food from the dinner tables of the civilian at an increasing rate. Most of us eat too much as it is, so cer tainly in this area we have no cause to get alarmed, for the majority of housewives in our county stated that they have been but little inconvenienced by the rationing of food. Farmers Versus Draft Ere this appears in print the matter may be settled, but at the time of writing it is a burning question, that of requiring farm production of 16 war units ier farmer for draft deferment. North Carolina is putting up a vigorous fight against new National Selective Ser vice regulations. The fight has been taken to Washington by Agriculture Commissioner W. Kerr Scott, the assistant commissioner, Harry Caldwell, master of the State Grange, and others. It is claimed that if the requirements are not amended 60 per cent of Class 2-C men from North Carolina farms will be drafted and that the farm food production will be reduced even more than 60 per cent. W. Kerr Scott is asking that the present 12 unit requirement be upheld "at least for North Carolina." Mr. Scott argues that the new require ments are "unfair" to sections where to bacco, cotton, truck crops and peanuts are grown since these crops necessitate hand cultivation. He feels that a standard unit cannot be required for labor deferment throughout the United States without work ing "irreparable injury to at least one-third of the farmers of the nation." A survey recently completed by the State Department of Agriculture of draft -age farmers in North Carolina shows that there were 34,771 draft age farm workers classi fied as 2-C and 43,066 classified as 3-C. If these men were drafted into the armed forces, the department estimates that a large number of the 296,620 cultivated tracts of land in the state could not be farmed this year. We hear on all sides that the labor short age will be more acute this year than last, which stands to reason, yet our food pro duction goals are going up. From the face of things it would appear that the deferment of the man who handles the plow will be a necessity if crop and food quotas are to be reached. Some weeks we have many sug gestions offered by readers and friends about what to write in this column. This week we had a half dozen ideas advanced, but we had to turn them down. In fact, w; practically had a "column" writ ten, but we could not get the Red Cross War Fund drive off our mind, so we took the unfinished copy out of our typewriter, and folded it away for another week. It will have to wait. We feel so strongly the urge to add our bit to the great cause of the Red Cross and its present call for money to carry on its work . . . that we are dedicating this space to the War Fund campaign . . . and are giv ing snatches here and there from appeals . . . for your contribution. A man who wouldn't lie to a woman has little consideration for her feelings. Scut tlebutt News. There are now eleven million men in the service, yet the army, or the navy or the air corps, or the ma rines, may mean more to most of us because of one certain person serving with them. "Through every dreary day you are buoyed up by thoughts of him. The long lonely nights are a little leas lonely when you can read his letters, see his picture upon your bedside table. And yet there is so little you can do for him. If only you could be sure of helping him, when he needs you most. But you can be sure, for you give to him when you give through the Red Cross. Wherever he may be stationed ... in camp or abroad ... in desert, in jungle or icy waste, the Red Cross is there. Your Red Cross is there with coffee and when he finishes a long exhausting march. Your Red Cross is there when he is lonely and lost in some strange city on leave. Your Red Cross is with him, well or wounded. The blood you gave goes to him, thanks to the Red Cross. Wherever he is wherever he may go, he will never be out of your reach. For you gave to him when you give through the Red Cross " "Is he slogging along some mud dy road ... or huddled beneath a leaky tent? Do you see him now, thirsty beneath a broiling sun? Or is your boy fighting a wintery blast in the land where winter never ends? Yes, millions of peo ple worry tonight for the men in far-off but not forgotten lands. But if your heart is sick with long ing for some special boy, remem ber and find comfort, wherever h? may be in the frozen wastes of Iceland or the jungles of New Guinea, you can reach out and give your boy some little comforts that speak of home. He will sleep be tween sheets when he gets his fur. lough, in a town ten thousand miles from home . . . thanks to you. Even should he be a prisoner of war, he won't be condemned to live on alien bread. For wherever the Red Cross can reach him the Red Cross will send him a carton of food, the kind you used to give him at your own table. The Red Cross is your blood and bandages, the sweaters you knit and the gifts you pack. And the Red Cross is your money too. This year when your Red Cross has a bigger job than ever before to do. This year when your Red Cross is serving your own sons in every corner of the globe, this year you will want to give more, more of your time, more of your work, the blood from your heart . . . and more of your money to help the work go on." go on. There are no drugs for wounds no drugs can heal . . . the except a mother's touch . . . and that is where the Red Cross your Red Cross comes in." "Every year you have given to the Red Cross , . . willingly and with a free h art. You helped mil lions of people when the floods struck . . . when earthquakes came , . when famine devastated some far-off land. It was your habit to give . . . the great proud habit of thirty million American families . . . proud that they could give . . . proud of the great Red Cross, that made the giving worthwhile. But this year it is going to be different. When you dig into your pockets and purses it won't be just your "regular contribution." This year it is your own boys the Red Cross serves. Eleven million of them in every land from Sicily to Chung king ... on every ocean and in every sky. Stop and make the appeal a per sonal message. "Could you rest content if lack of funds prevented one single pint of that blood Trom reaching its goal, from saving a life? "Could you sleep easy if but one American boy, your own son per haps, should lack some comfort the Red Cross might have given him? Would your conscience be clear if some prisoner of war failed to re ceive his weekly Red Cross food carton. You know the answer. Of course you do. There is only one Investment in humanity . . . and Give to the Red Cross." Production of equipment for the ground r uc icuuicu ill xp-a-a, cb.ivi Ulllg 10 plan ajJ Cftj. J linn rtt A r-m r haBAi u nil lnet.llalinn. MV.l V. '"J .trv. UWUUailU113 Will 100' a third of the 1942 rate because most of now has been done. As tnA Ih. uttt. ffVut anminlrilinn n ..... . . . . . . .v.. ..Jit -I . . . 1 1 ,, j . . . OieiS in 1M wui cqiuu ii-iiimuiiiui mm quaiiuiauvely tht m . . i i i . i- i . i i , .. 1 Of wnen Americana renuuiieu me uesi eu people in ifte world will be slightly less meat, butter, cheese, canned fruits nd J laoies; dDOUl me same amount oi nma mint, more eggs, poult,, farm.. bwmI nntfltivfl pirn, fruit an.l rr.a1 ' The WPB has promised that any time critical metal become able It will be turned over in 1944 to civilian uses. Elect washing machines and mechanical refrigerators, have been proT In strictly limited production this year and the WPB office of requirements Is expected to do something about t! ? lack UUVM. A w AS SHIPS OF ALL TYPES slide down the ways and w. United States Navy In unprecedented numbers, American premacy in uie rauut ocvumea more maraea day by day Refusal of the Japs to come out for a major engagement i main ueeuB iuls uerveu 10 ug uie American navy, gven tin authorities admit there could be no major engagement without J losses on puin siucs. Thus, under a building schedule that allowed for losses that J not occurreu, uie nuvj nas cxpanaea i aster man exsecUd Japanese, of course, are probably building, too, but expert J uiey can duiiq, launcn ana commission com Dal ships as (ait united siaies aoes. The Jap high command must know this, but apparently u beJ w uu tuiymiuB nuuui iu jneanwnuo, uie American neet U ltd lor uie nnai. Dig anow-oown Dame any place any time. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. the Office of Price Admlnlstratios I in quite so Dad wim uie people as it was some Ume back. Price Administrator Chester Bowles himself is authority for vvnuc me (tuuuc suu oisuH.es rauoiung, Bowles Siyi ll beginning to ask itself what conditions would be without rettrictJ of any kind. Complaint against rationing are on the down-p cut man compiauung aooui prices nas gained. . The Voice Of The PeopU In view of recent events in the Pacific do you think there is any possibility that ne might finish the war with the Japs before the col lapse in Kurope? Mrs. With I'. Alley --"No." Mrs. Ruth Albright Beaty "I don't belii'Vi it would be possible." Robert Boone "I don't much be lieve we will. We seem to bp. mov ing slowly in both areas." Tom Campbell, Jr. "No, I don't think so. because there is s0 much to do before the real fighting starts in the Pacific. We have only done SCOH'S SCRAP BOOK 4T, Lived ok for t a. 60'foorf WKltotH" fftv it m K,10KM. REPUBLICAN ONVEN'f'lOK HUD m NiUPUPXlA. IU i856, MP JoMN C. FRlMOM-ffoR By R. J. SCOTT YfitRtS N0f E-MOlM v -i . . .-: Ii MULM1C PRIStrfri IH-fKt WA.-fi.RS OF MA.MY AF 4tE FAMOUS X I LsJ& SOliI". tucfmc oatOH4 Bejuamm NtAMiaMC B.oPt--fTato AiHocas. m THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY "When a man is hit in battle, he gets the best of care. No effort, no expense is spared to save our wounded boys. But there are some wounds n odrugs can heal , . . the wounds that come from loneliness, from being far from home . . . the wounds that come from worry . . . the wound of missing you until his heart breaks and he feels he can't Back The Attack Boy War Beads Ami Stamps. 1 r7 r. : r- 1 YOONS MAN- VOURE WOkin5 on TOO L J I MANY FRONTS --LAST NIHT I FOUND r J AN INVASION ANt SOME MARMBS I S tS! IN MY TOBACCO CAN -ANt NOW ITS J III I A MACHINP SUN ANt A JEEP HIKE S hm? II I IN MY BKEAKFTo eTHEHOrSV I , -5 - a little naval fighting so we have yet to fight on land' (irover C. Clark "Y., thire is a chance that we considering now s'w vj it: be moving in Europe.'' Linwood (Jrahl " bt'hevi if the Pacific command had half of what they .should M in the way of supplies and me: would have already whippe: Japs. If half of the men am plies being sent to England out in the Pacific 1 h. lii ve tkl in that area would soon be Theodore McCracken -"Ne not." O. II. Shelton "Yes, I thia might, if what we roai m the papers is true." W. L. Hardin "My opul that it is possible arnl if the; the wav open to Chim. m.1 is possible." A lvin Warrl "I don't hW idea when the collapse will place in Europe, but I th:nk whip the Japs in rJ4lJ. TRANSACTIONS B Real Estati (At Recorded to WW Of Thin H'' Beaverdam Ti nship Thurman Starmy t Mi' Stamey. Elize Grooms, et uu Parris. Fines Creek Town-Mf Harley Haynes, et ux w E Haynes. Pieeon To nship L. W. Garner and Arthur 1 er to Dehas Gamer and ner. TAwnflhil waynesvnie i Mrs. Berdi Turnipseed. , y. M(,orc BIRTHS r Y. Prb inr. ana uu--'- ,g Waynesville, R.F.D. No- , ce the birth of a daughter home on Feb. 3rd. Mr. and Mrs. cj tne J waynesvaie, ""-"--ti. it a daughter on Feb. ZD home. Prof, and Mrs. JjUl of Waynesville, R--u-' & fh. hirth of IIUUIIV9 , . at their u"- Feb. 27th Mr. and Mrs. Elmer IjJ3 Waynesville, announ a son on Feb. 22nd.
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