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THE WAYNES VTLLE MOUNTAINEER
(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, ALglSt
The Mountaineer
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NATIONAL DITOrIAI
S.S kccrn ATirki
Despairing Defeatism
The grave danger to this country on the
home front and as far as domestic prob
lems are concerned is the wide-spread spirit
of despairing defeatism.
It is bad. When people take this at
titude towards domestic conditions, economic,
social and political they are almost licked
before they start. It is time for aggressive
action to do something about conditions,
rather than give up and say it's no use. No
people can ever achieve recovery or stability
under a spirit of defeatism. We must have
faith and confidence in the American people
and the American way of life. And then to
try to do something to preserve the Ameri
can way instead of giving up in utter despair.
The Reidsville Review.
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HtlSJ ASSOCIATE
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944
(One Day Nearer Victory)
Milk
The figures released last week by the Pet
Dairy Products Company regarding the
amounts they have paid out to farmers for
milk during the past month and since the
first of the year give proof of how the dairy
ing interests are progressing in Haywood
County.
The sale of purebred Guernsey cattle held
here Saturday will help toward improving
the standard of the animals. With the op
portunity offered by the Pet Dairy Products
Company the prospects for a great future in
dairy production seems assured.
The generous gift of a purebred Guernsey
heifer to a Haywood farmer by the Pet
Dairy Products Company shows a fine
spirit of cooperation between the milk manu
facturers and the milk producers of this
area.
Then Use Cotton
We see that refrigeration of the jaw as
a local pain killer in dentistry may replace
other drugs, according to Lt. Comdr. J. S.
Restarski of the U. S. Medical Research Cen
ter at Bethesda, Md.
In experiments on 16 sailors and WAVES,
it was reported that 22 cavities were filled
using local refrigeration with a freezings
temperature of 1 to 2 degrees Centigrade.
No damage resulted. To prevent any pain
which might be caused by sudden change,
the temperature was lowered gradually.
We would like to make one other sugges
tion, that is the use of cotton in the ears
to drown out the singing of the "grinders"
as they get underway on cavities, and den
tistry could be termed "painless."
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Special to Central Press
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Compensation
Is "Sticker"
indmti
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Back-To-School
Movement
Those who have been old enough to work
during the two or three years before the
war is over, yet who were not old enough
to get in the fight will also have a readjust
ment period that will offer some serious
problems as pointed out recently in an edi
torial in the Christian Science Monitor, ex
cerpts from which follow:
"Social agencies are issuing sharp warn
ing against the false values absorbed by
youth working at high wages not only in
defense plants, shipyards, machine shope,
but in trucking industries and retail stores.
For youngsters wisely guided into positions
fitting their individual talents, wartime em
ployment is proving a sound safety valve
for energies requiring proper effects of high
paying jobs upon the younger generation
may be seen in efforts that 16- to-18- olds are
leading offenders in the nation's courts.
"Towns and cities owe much to the young
folk who leave classrooms to take up the
slack in wartime employment. Industries of
several states have officially commended the
young people for relieving the manpower
strain. But communities must find means
for directing the youngsters back into chan
nels of vocational training which they will
need in highly competitive postwar employ
ment fields.
"Newspaper headlines are beginning to
point to the wartime luxury role of 14-to-18-year-old
youngsters in $25-to-$75-a week
jobs. Getting postwar jobs will depend upon
training which youth is giving up these
days for the questionable advantage of in
flated wages.
"Somehow the younger worker must be
made to realize that the job that looms so
big from a wartime perspective will deterio
rate into just another routine position two
to three years from now if, indeed there are
jobs. This might be done by special schools
assigned the training of wartime workers
and returning war veterans hovering close
to or in the teens. Here is a home-front
problem requiring the most advanced type
of thinking before the war ends and leaves
the young people to fend for themselves in a
less hospitable business world."
In Memoriam
In the passing of Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson
editor of the Franklin Free Press, Macon
County and North Carolina have lost a valued
citizen. The North Carolina State Press
has lost an outstanding member of its pro
fession, who answered the call to carry on
in the great emergency and made an out
standing success of her job of editing a
weekly newspaper.
Mrs. Johnson was co-owner with her son
of the Franklin paper, and when he was
called into the service of his country, she
took over, edited and managed the paper
With the welfare of the community in which
she lived at heart, plus a sound business
policy she had given prestige to the paper
and gone forward with her son's work in
an admirable manner, which won her the
respect of the newspaper profession of the
State.
Gold Stars
Our casualty lists are continuing to grow,
and the number of Gold Star homes in Hay
wood County brings to mind and heart the
terrific price of this war. It is strange how
one can read of the lists of other areas, and
they are depressing, but when it comes to
our very own community and county our
deepest sympathies are stirred.
We are all rejoicing with the success of
the invasion in France, but it is with anxiety
that we watch the progress, for there are
hundreds of Haywood boys right now on
the front lines, exposed to hourly danger.
Some have already paid the supreme price.
Other names will be added to the list of in
vasion casualties. We may feel that we are
having more than our share of wounded and
killed in action, but we must remember the
large percentage of Haywood men who are
in the service.
Overheard at the bus depot: During a
discussion on girls, one soldier remarked:
"I like the shy, demure type myself. You
know, the kind you have to whistle at twice."
Wichita, Kan., Democrat.
All On A 10 -Day Pass
One of the most optimistic servicemen
we have heard of recently was the fellow
who was publicized in "The Mid-Pacific," of
Hawaii. . We knew that the World was get
ting to be a small place, but the conception
of the following GI beats everything yet, as
recorded in the foregoing paper:
"Somewhere in the South Pacific area, a
GI got a 10-day pass which he was supposed
to spend in Australia.
"He was one day late in returning, took a
terrific bawling out from his commanding
officer. When an explanation was demand
ed, he said, 'Sorry, sir, I woulda made it,
only we were held up one day in Chicago
on accounta bad weather.'
"A man of no little faith, he'd planned a
tight schedule. He hitchhiked from the
South Pacific to New Haven, Conn., on un
identified aircraft, spent a couple of days
with his wife and would have been back
on time if Chicago wether hadn't been un
cooperative. "P. S. He was fined $1."
We had the privilege during the
week of reading a couple of letters
written by the late Sgt. Bill Med
ford, gallant paratrooper, who paid
the supreme price in the progress
of the American forces in the great
invasion of France and was killed
in action on July 4. We asked per
mission to quote from them for
the very fine description of the
country. Few of us in Haywood
county do not have either some
member of our family or a friend
in that war theatre, and we felt
that the Medford family would be
glad to share Bill's letters with
you.
bald, and skewbald. They are pret
ty fluffy things when they are small.
The small ducks are also very pret
ty, as they run away from the
frantic old hen toward the nearest
pond. Running around inside the
courtyard may be also a baby don
key, or so. I caught one no larger
than a rabbit with great floppy
ears and picked it up in my arms.
i nen its mother followed me
around.
First are excerpts from a letter
to his mother:
"I can't talk about the war, so
I will describe the country to you.
In the first place the fields are
tiny and cut up by hedges and
ditches. They make a fence by
digging a ditch and pilling up the
dirt behind it, and sod and then
the bushes will grow in the loose
dirt. It makes a pretty good fence
and also it has saved my life sev
eral times since the moment we
landed. If English agriculture is
the father of ours, this Normandy
agriculture is its grandfather, and
about as backward as a grand
father's methods would be. They
have more of the same plants here
like ours than they do in England.
For instance, meadows are mostly
orchard grass and herds grass and
ike ours, are largely dotted with
daisies and narrow docks and large
plantain. Also there is small plant
ain that pigs like so well. Around
a barn lot will be fennell, burdock,
sweet weed, and stinging nettles.
"The French children are very
polite and like our candy very
much. They have had no sweets
for so long, that a lump of sugar
out of a K ration is wonderful to
them. They wear wooden shoes
which they call 'Sabonts'. I have
seen them with just their bare
feet stuck in them, but some stick
straw in and others line them with
a rabbit skin. The wooden shoes
seem very awkward, but they seem
to get around very well and are
very cheerful.
'Back in the Norman invasion
they took all their crops to Eng-
and and the weed seed probably
went along for the vide and so on
to America. Their orchard grass
s really orchard grass for it grows
eal high under the apple trees and
every man has an orchard. Also
very man has a cellar full of hard
cider in great barrels like tobacco
iers. Their pastures are mostly
red top with white clover and they
also have a red clover that stands
pasturing better than ours. Have
seen some pastures roan with red
clover and white in bloom. There
is bullrush in the low moist patches
and sheep sorell on the banks. A
big fern like ours grows in the
sand of the hedges and thev cut
t for bedding for the stock. There
"In the windows there will be
flowers of all kinds, but mostly
geraniums; up under the wide
eaves, will be seeds hanging, beans,
ioois ana an and peas, mustard.
onions and spinach. The only two
crops that grow here and not
at home are actichokes not the
kind that grows in the ground,
tho they have them also, but the
kind you eat the flowers. Also they
grow the hardy black fig like they
have in Georgia and South Caro
lina. There is one cron that thev
call Fene and the Eno-lior, oii
Broad Bean. Looks half lil
bean and half like English peas.
Believe it would grow at home and
be a welcome addition to our ear-den."
pare trie nation for a German collapse conauta r 1
major controversy and a great deal of laborious deta? SU' '
The controversy ia a States' Rights lam
have bobbed up In Congress la the last year o, 1 Vem
whether unemployment com..,' e I1
i t-..-. e rail zed or ahaJI remain .
VM'MK-"r"""- - - u now th..
hand or the states. u,
The battle over this Issue thr...
and Droloneed and maw i... kl
" j ta v HrriiM.
unemployment compensation lpm.i.n.
the German army surrenders. ""H
It also bids fair to hold up other demobilization an
conversion legislation since it Is ?eneraliv -J .. 1
" j tnat Oi.
ployment compensation quesUon should have the r,k. . 1
other r conversion matters. These latter deal uith ,u w,'l
of wamme plants to peacetime pursuits and the h; "XWvJ
nf rlnllars worth of govern men t-wneH ninnt. j 1 Of bjl
- t-.o.u ona surplus u
terials. Congressional leaders believe the surplus nmn 7
problem and general demobilization machinery can be u
Two entirely different annrorhe tr the .. ,
- - - . """iinoyment mJ
aailnn nwihlam hava Keen nruDant A V. n k - -.1
oawi.ii K'OTumi w uie oenate One i. .1
I. Ih. U-ilrnre hill urhih .. "c 13 COfJ
in i4iv miftv. iw. -"uiu auviuc tor direct federal
, j r - oij per week fnJ
charged war workers and J20 per week for service men pil
" -r " -ecu maximum Th.
v lug icvuiuiiicuuauvu vi un ociu&ie rosi-war committee
revolving iwui iu"u guaitunee uie solvency of state
ment compensation systems.
State unemployment compensation officials favor the Geo I
v.". v t"wfv icai wuuiu lead to federi
UOD OS suite Byobciius.
VICE PRESIDENT HENRY A. WALLACE, defeated h.
Harry T. Truman of Missouri tor renomination as President
velt's fourth term running mate, may be named chairman nd
of agricultural ppoducts in th post-war period.
Such an organization has been In the making since the
nauuua avuu wiuwvuw ev naiin opring-a, v a year ago It
Become on trcviuuiiy ui uie near luxure, ana uie Wallace appolnl
may be announced before the November elections.
There Is precedent for the vice president of the nation to hold
positions, waxiace nunseu served as head of the Board of Geo
Warfare until that organization was Incorporated into the r
Economic Aominiairauon, witn uo T. Crowley as its chief
live omcer.
The Wallace appointment lt considered a "natural" bv
Uon forces, who see In it a graceful way to move the former
culture department secretary out or the political picture. It ii
too, that the appointment will serve to salve the woundi
upon Wallace's backers when Truman tumbled him at Chi.
The International body, according to present plana would
permanent organization to supervise world production of buk
cultural commodities so as to avoid huge surpluses and coi
poor prices in tit post-war period.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, determined to avoid th cat
conditions caused when military surpluses were dumped on Um
ket suddenly after th last war, not only is planning
carenuiy ror pom-war surplus property disposal, but sp, rQf
aureaay w wjuwHiung wow uungs uiai are no longer I
needed. UMi
For Instance, unwanted aircraft and related parts War Uti
have been oUposed of at a high rat recently; horse
and mules which the Army found it didn't need lurVe been turij
off. to farmers and thousands of pairs of Army shoe diicol
unsuitable for certain military operations have been auction!
Muck of the surplus post-war property abroad la expected
sold on foreign soil, and much that remains In the United 1
probably will be shipped to European areas for disposal
The
Voice Of The Peopi
While
c the letters e-ivp nn o
realistic picture of rural France,
they reveal a great deal about Bill
His power of observation Viic
ability of expressing what he saw.
They also show how he loved na
ture and how close he had lived
to the soil. He saw France not
only in the light of the present,
but with its historic gackground
and gave a understanding slant to
the people who live in rural sec
tions . . . Haywood county lost
one of its leading young farmers
and stockmen and one of her finest
sons, with the passing of William
Medford, Jr.
Do you think that the majority
of mrii and women serving in the
armed forces overseas will vote in
the ro in in a election?
John I loyd "I think they will,
if they can get the ballots."
G. Stanley "No, I don't think
so. I think they are more interest
ed in the winning of the war than
they are in politics just now."
in India, I doubt if his
him."
Alvin
not."
. Ward-
Some
..in
is moss and mistletoe in the apnle Kt""j" "'""'''j soiaiers were
i. ., . standing on the edce of Mt V.n.
trees. The people are poor
want to talk a lot.
and
"They have the best dual purpose
cattle that I have ever seen and
they have a white face that are
mostly spotted, but some are
brindle. Their horses are Partlv
percheron and some other French
breed bay color. Have seen some
good thoroughbred colts. All in all
t is a beautiful land and I like it
better than Ireland or England.
But over it all there is an air of
slow decay. Something like the
post-war South in 1866-1880."
Then taken from a letter to his
young nieces, Margaret and Nancy
Noland, daughters of his sister,
Lucy:
"I will try to tell you girls about
life on a French farm. First, the
house is built of stone or adobe
and has its back to the road and
to get to it you go through a nar
row gate into a courtyard which
is enclosed by a square of house
barn all built together. ' How
would you like to live in the same
house with the horses and cattle?
All around and 'inside the court
yard will be chickens, ducks, calves.
colts and goats. All alone the
walls will be cages full of rabbits,
for they keep and eat more rabbits
because a rabbit will live and pet
fat on grass instead of grain like
chicken. The rabbits are everv
color, black, white, red, buff, pie-
Johnny Ferguson " think the
majority will, if they can just get
the ballots."
vius looking at the molten lava.
One of the boys remarked to his
companion:
"Looks hot as hell."
An Englishman nearby remark
ed to his companion: "These I don't believe they will get the
Americans have hppn overvurKevo kiii... 1
Robt. V. Welch "If their fam
ilies will get the ballots to them, I
believe they will vote."
Weaver H. McCracken "I think
the majority would like to vote, if
they can get hold of the ballots."
Bryan Medford "They will if
they get a chance to vote."
Grover C. Davis "I doubt if
fifty per cent of them vote. They
wouldn't if they were home."
Mrs. Whitener Prmist-
beblieve thev will: They
manv other thintrs tn thinl
just now."
W. R. fraud
they can get the
''The,
ballot."
TRANSACTIONS
Real Esta
(Re Recorded to Monty
Of This Week)
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ballots. You take m V nwn son nvp-r
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J. R. Morgan, ot ux
Burchfield.
Fred L. Safford. et ux
Killian.
Kenneth Anderson, a
Elsie Deale Anderson, to
coil or nv Helena RUJ
L. Dillard and Myrtle M'
R. L. Prevost, et ux
Fereuson.
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nr d..i.: iM to Rol
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dis.
Thomas E. Rd.
dred Eloise Adock
G. C. C larke, et u
Bnn
to Amos Hunter
et ux.
Accompanied by a
American major '
the sentry on guard at a
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M.i.r. "One American
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buck private " (o
iney weie , ,u
k f vorv eioroaJ-
formula,
thru tne same u
t: v, Jru-er asked it t'l
likely to be stopped af
Major: "Ijfs
Private: "Wen. '-'
time we are stop!
mind giving me r
fertilizer?"
p . ar
Husband: -My
some words, butln
mine."
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