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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER -!. .r ;...! : 5 t. i y j The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 13? Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Rush and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.75 Six Months, In Haywood County .. 80c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Bntend t th port office at Wnynenrlllt. N. 0.. u Srcoad OUm Mail Matter, in proiided under th Act of March I, 17, Koramber SO, 1114 Ohltuarr ooticea, resolutions of reepect. card of thaaka, aa4 all ooticea of enterUioment for profit, will be charged for at the rata of one cent per word. NATIONAL DITOrIAI 1 'A K!jT AOr!ATinkl North Carolina kJk PISJ ASSOCIATION j3l THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) Biggest Event of Week The biggest event of the week in North Carolina is the Hereford Breeders' Associa tion meeting in Haywood County, a county which is leading in the improvement of cat tle. The hope of the best prosperity is to raise on the farms that which can transport itself. Recent years have seen progress in more and better livestock. But we have only made a fine start toward the necessary goal. Raleigh News and Observer. Rural Electrification The Waynesville Mountaineer congratu lates the management of the Haywood Coun ty Electric Company that the company is "shedding light" and power by 1,075 users in rural districts. A dozen years ago no farmer in that county could use electricity. Rural electrification was made possible among the earlier New Deal policies and has added to happiness as well as furnishing light and power for the farmer and the farm er's wife. Raleigh News and Observer. Good News We noted with interest that the majority of the animals sold on the Hereford sale here last week were kept in Haywood County. We know of no finer way to educate the stockmen of our section than the holding of these sales in our county. The cattlemen have an opportunity to learn about good stock right here at home and it also serves another purpose. The sales educate the younger boys who some day will take their father's places on the farm to an appreciation of good stock and how it pays in the long run to breed the best on the market. . . . Taking Up For the Men The following editorial from the Christian Science Monitor shows that despite the fact that women haw entered the service and are doing work formerly done by men in ser vice, the men are loath to share alike in home duties, or at least they are still old fashioned enough to want to joke about it. The editorial: "Someone should immediately found a So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to G. I. Joe. As if the poor fellow didn't have enough to worry about just now the War Depart ment (believe it or not) has just issued a booklet of instructions for Joe on the mys teries of women. This booklet, 'Do You Want Your Wife To Work After the War?" has been published with the ostensible pur pose of giving G. I. Joe information that has been kept secret since the day the Sphinx was unveiled. "But its real purpose may be determined by revealing that one section of this sub versive pamphlet actually deals with the need for assisting wives to wash and dry dishes. "Can you imagine the effect on the boys, overseas just as they are beginning to dream of returning home. Is the War Department trying to slow down demobilization? "Drying dishes indeed. Why doesn't our military master of manners advise Joe to stand up firmly for his masculine rights? Let him -at least reject the tea towel and insist on freedom to splash in the dishpan." Scrap In Belgium How completely Germany scraps a country of all possible material that can be used to carry on this war that they started, was recently revealed when it was brought out that the Nazis had not left a church bell in Belgium. The church bells were converted into Ger man ammunition. Think of a country where the Sabbath morning could not be announced by the music of a church bell. Such desecra tion brings home to us anew the privileges that we enjoy here in America. It is im possible to us who live so far away, though our country is at war, to fully understand what it means to have our homes along the lines of combat fury. When we hear them ring next Sunday morning it might not be amiss to pause and offer a prayer of thanksgiving that though we are paying a tremendous price for this war, we still have much for which to be grateful. "SADDEST DAYS OF ALL THE YEAR" If You Need It Take the Prescription We have noticed that the returning vet erans from France and other areas of the European war theatre are not as optimistic as we Americans are about how long it is going to take to get Germany to surrender. We have talked to several and they all think we will be doing well to have things ended by the first of the year, whereas a lot of us think that November will see the surrender of the enemy. Private Ronald Monhki, an American sol dier in combat in France offers a fine treat ment for the Americans who are oo cheer ful on the subject, and who have been "sit ting up two nights in a row waiting for the war to be over." Pvt. Moshki tells of how he heard a pro gram over the radio from America explain ing that the idea was going around that the Germans were about ready to give up. The next day he was thinking so hard about the folks back home and what they thought that he was "nearly killed by a Nazf machine gunner." So Pvt. Moshki thinks it might be a good idea if those overly cheerful Americans back home "might come over here and sit in the d apple orchard." Pvt. Moshki might have something there. Maybe if we were in hearing distance of the great combat guns in Europe, to say noth ing of right in the midst of the firing, we might not be so optimistic. We must not forget that our men are still giving their lives on the battlefields of Europe and that this slaughter will continue until Victory is won. Dumbarton Oaks Conferees Would Avoid Power Politics urn to WPB Ta. o t . . opecidi to central Press WASHINGTON After two weok of intensive three western powers at Dumbarton Oak r,. llscuaii "in principle" on the part that the large ami "ce hlv In maintaining peace during- the Dost.u-ar iwer- J " " jcaia. Thar aiirh fa r.rparhinp' ap-rAAmonf L.n a 0 .v .w oeen r ., to the desire on the part of Russia. Great Bnta States to avoid the kin.-i r " and Agreement Now Just Preliminary led to two world wars within POlltlQ 7:...7 : a ""ration. "-"". oorne in nunj that tk. barton Oaks agreements . , tain only to the "technicr 4 organization to keep the 4 P' Rpfnre anv such organization hernmsi . . -. ,CaUy nrnvwl hv the manv little nation uuhir-h l,us' , - lar hJve to say as to the part they will play in thf nr., a after concurrence of these smaller nnwora tu .-. n the agreements. c must O It remains a long, hard road a road beset with Problems o Hi Our Loss--Their Gain We have heard a great deal about the doctor shortage on the home fronts, but on the other hand we have had glowing re ports about the medical services the men overseas and those on the combat lines are receiving. In the past when great battles were waged loss of life was multiplied tenfold because of lack of prompt and adequate medical care for the wounded. In the history of World War II there will be a different record. Even in the hectic rush of D-Day in France the achievements of medicine will go down along with the fighting forces and their heroic deeds. Within forty-five minutes after the first troops had landed on the shores of the beachhead of France, one correspondent re ported that a medical unit was on the job picking up casualties, while in the back ground a landing craft was being converted into an operating theatre. We have been told that during the first day twenty-two major operations were per formed by this medical unit. From the break of dawn until four o'clock in the afternoon the unit remained on the shores. Blood plasma had been landed and transfusions made from the mobile equipment. Fifty thousand American doctors are in the armed forces. Everyone of them is a trained expert at the business of saving lives. They are doing a noble job, and the casualties of this war and the condition of those wounded will forever be a monument to the achievements of the medical profes sion. .Another thing it might do well for us to remember is that the surgical dressings made right here in our own American Red Cross rooms are being used on the battle fronts. No wonder quotas have had to be increased to meet this critical period on the battling fronts. HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Did you ever stop to realize that a whole generation of Americans have passed through the draft board offices of this country during the past four years? We have been intending to write about draft boards for sometime. Like our doc tors who learn to know all our problems, the draft boards have passed on the personal lives of the men who have flowed like one mighty stream since back in Octo ber, 1940, when selective service was born and America began to mobilize. We all recall these "earth shaking days' back in 1940. We remember when our own National Guard unit was ordered to report to Fort Jackson in September of 1940. They were to be trained for a year. It was a kind of prepa ration "just in case" we got in volved (At least that was what they told the laymen). We remem ber, as you do, how the crowds gathered at the depot that day in September when the boys left, and how we all kidded ourselves that it was only for a while. It couldn't happen to America. There were many tearful eyes in that group that morning. The town gave them a big hand as they left. We have thought often since of that day, how those of us present might have felt had we only known what was to follow. We remember tell ing Lt. Joe Sloan, now in Italy, good-bye, except it was not lieu tenant then. One of the boys near by said gaily, "We'll be back in a year." Joe added, "I don't know so well about that." The selective service started its work that year. Then came Pearl Harbor which marked the end of the first phase and the beginning of the second. Our country was at war. It was going to fight a sec ond World War, but with better preparations than the last one. We had learned something from experience. We could reaa more clearly the handwriting on the wall than we did back in 1916. Al ready there was a fair sized army trained. But the armed forces de manded millions more and through draft boards of this country the mighty stream of men began to pour. It has been the job of draft boards to find manpower to keep our great armies and navy going in numbers sufficient to meet the emer gencies. Between us, they have had to wade through enough red tape in administering their jobs to confuse most of us beyond reason. Instruc tions have changed during the critical periods almost overnight. The office here, which we realize is typical, has a voluminous volume on regulations. It is in constant use for reference. Sometime the instructions have been released to the public while at other times they have been confidential. war. It has given us an under standing of what it takes to "raise an army" to fight, that we doubt we would have had otherwise. We have always enjoyed our periods of waiting when the clerks were busy with the men and their fam ilies. We have seen anxious moth ers coming to plead for their sons to stay until the crops were in. We have heard fathers tell how they needed their sons at home. We never doubted for a moment that the boys were not neeeded, and we always had sympathy both for the men and the board members who had to pass on them. We have seen boys, too young to grow up so quickly have to face the realities and cruelties of war. Yet we have seen them eager and willing to take on the job. We have seen them come in under eighteen and inquire how they could get in if their parents signed up for them. We have seen 18-year-olds registering, happy over the day they would go. Then there has been the happy-go lucky type who just as soon go for the trip to see something of the world and the adventure it might hold. Then there have been the serious youths, who knew they were laying aside their ambitions and would be counting time, until they could re turn to start life over again. Then there would come a father with a wife and little children. It is not surprising that they were usually depressed. They knew that they had a double responsibility one to home and country yet both must be defended and they had more to fight for in reality than the young boy just growing up. side, and not the smallest of these Is the fact that nri. tion is in the throes of formation during a political r In the United States. mp,1P . RUMORS AND PREDICTIONS as to the futur,. m duction Chairman Donald Nelson, now in China on a 1 mission, are flying thick and fast on the banks of the Potom'S It is considered almost certain that .the former SearToJ wi,uui i,w in v.vi uic & l icins again when h to the United States'. M Kelson's associates consider it highly probable that h n in government service in some capacity, however, and J that iill I Vi a a Ua ahina-tAri nlairinnr a . . , a. u.t.a& wi fajlll a gUC33lng 41116. finm antirA an er trocr that XT aIoah 11 atSV.aaw av.. ww ""OO" 'VWVH Will I fUldCe AT If J nrhA. .iimv.. fknr KrlAH ...:tt l- a - . . wkiici luiuuio oajr mai viciauu wui ue lenaered some foreiM norhflno that rf a rAtlntr a mha oan Anm n 1 His mission to China marks the second tima he has hn "foreign duty" by Mr. Roosevelt His first foreign asstgnrj ilia trip lu nussia isi year. ORGANIZED LABOR suffered a heavy defeat in the DtJ me oenaie oi me ueurge uiu lor post-war demobilization, i which was accentuated by the refusal of the House to liberal provisions lor empioymenr, ana jomess insurance during thel 10-peace iransiuun. In fact, a coalition of Republicans and conservative DemoctJ me House ways ana means committee, further restricted the government's role in post-war reconversion by slashing the t oiu practically in nan. Regardless of what action finally is taken on the bill by Cod a new attempt is expected to be made to enact more liberal J tion to take care of unemployed war workers AT LONG LAST the story's out. but Representative P Kilday (D.), Texas, kept it hidden a long while. Kilday, in of the House military affairs committee, which drafted the Sd Service Act, received his first draft classification and was electrified when he saw that he had been classed as a conscientious objector. But it was all a mistake, Kilday explains hurriedly His local draft board had erred slightly, but a Con gressional reprimand resulted in Kllday's reclassifica tion into 4-B. Draft Cmboi Conai We would like to take this op portunity to thank the draft board here for their cooperation with us on our weekly visits to the office to get lists of reclassifications and the names of the various quotas leaving. Most people do not realize what we Americans owe our draft boards. They have had a thank less job. We have an idea that they have had more kicking than praise from the public. They have given hours upon hours to working out the problems. They have had rules and regulations to follow, some of which the public, generally speaking, did not always under stand. They were given the re sponsibility of making up the quotas that have gone each month into our armed forces. These had to be filled, even though families were broken up. Our visits week in and week out have brought us very close to the We have heard them present their cases. Sometimes excuses have been mighty flimsy for defer ment. Once we heard of a woman who asked that her husband be de ferred so he could paper her house. Maybe she was allergic to the conditions of her walls, but Uncle Sam does not usually con sider such things as "extreme emer gencies," as the woman thought. This business of deferment is not new. We read recently that job deferments were a headache, even as early as George Washing ton's day. It seems that our Revo lutionary forefathers had problems of war production as we do today. For example from the archives of that period one can find a record where the Board of War recom mended to the Continential Con gress that eleven workmen employ ed by "Col. Mark Bird at his Can n6n and Nail Rod Works in Berks, Pa., be discharged from the militia in which they had been drafted be cause they have more extensive uses to the Continent in their em ployment as Artificers and as it is represented that the works must stand still if these workmen march out with the militia." We still have to have supplies and equipment. Now our war machine is built. But the task still remains to main tain it and keep replacements ready to take the role of the discharged men. Every type of person has gone into this great fighting ma chine. The draft boards have sent the men to induction centers where they have been distributed into the various branches of the service, the blood vessels of the might force that keeps alive the flow into the draft boards. Our draft boards have served as surely as those in the fighting forces. It has not been a glamor ous role, and they too have been under fire. Their work will not be over until peace is declared, even though the peak is passed. The work of the draft boards will continue until the last 18-year-old has been taken into the army and after. When that date will be if any one knows, it has not been made public. But even then the work will not be completed, for all the discharged men must report to their respective draft board offices for their final exit from the uni formed service of Uncle Sam. Sad to contemplate, but many will not return, but to those who do come back the draft boards will have the privilege of aiding our veterans. Voice OF THE Peopm Do you consider the towi ness essential or only indii Waynesvillf's future gnm fyrosperity? R. E. Connater-" th. essential that we have the business. I believe that if ville would spend plenty W it would become, not a first Gatlinliuvg." Mrs. C .1. Reere-"l thi essential and that we shoi more effort to pet the touni and to entertain them ' get here." Mrs. W. H. Burnett' that it is a rich field of oppj and it is up to us wheM we develop it." Dr. O. H. Champion -j Tnio-Vittr nice to have their "- :.nJ tion to business, e?pec;i what might be the dull season of the year. Mrs. Edith P. Alley- tho nrpsent time it is not el n, ;n,)iwtrial am Centinne To Buy War Bonds. Th! OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY I V -r NOW, NOWOTETr; CALM ) - VJI 1 r& YOURSELF- - ITS THE ) Ajg& . JV BK?OOM SALESMAN W M I THE GILS HAVE SEENi J'veVV tffe ly-w IM MONTHS ITSALL sSsij Avr1 S (o) fte J ON THE HOME SWEET HOME Ff? tural development.' in the itv. not only for the p n.ts. hut also for these lines." J. C. C,ahiha-" thinks 1st business is .v,.,.r;tv and that f spend money to fret them j i, th..n, New bl.x any community.' onlv for the development perity of Wajmesjii (, onth-p area ot 1 Carolina." Miss II-,-,,,,,-, Kirkl"n . , Tfc .....ti . thinK it is ideas wnicn , . iriiTOtn oi VeiOpiIieilL e- munity." of this section n-u- out the tourist bu helps a lot." James W. depend upon the t in the past think it is essent.a . ment of our con.mu it would be a di-ei a flu"'-. looked this oppo I
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