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tea (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, J - . Page 2 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 18? Waynesville, 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, Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County 11.75 Six Months, In Haywood County 99c One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.60 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.60 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance BnUrad at tlx ixt office it Wnyiienvllle, N. O., u 8uoa4 aU Will Mutter, provided wider I tit Art of Mlrcb . 1(T. oinbr JO. mil. Obituary notice, resolution of reepert. card of thanka. aa Ul ootleee of entertainment for profit, will be charred for at the rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL SDITOUAL- IQQSSOCIATION It JL-zau yWec .North Carotins v9i mssAS$ociArir5j THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1915 (One Day Nearer Victory) Congratulations Again We again recorded with pride the fact that the Haywood County Hospital had rated the Approved List of hospitals by the American College of Surgeons. In this critical era with a shortage of nurses and doctors the operation of a stand ard hospital is a great asset to any commun ity. With a reduced personnel it has been necessary for all those employed at the Hay wood hospital to double up many times on their duties. In many communities nurses' aides, train ed under the supervision of the Red Cross, have relieved the shortage of nurses, but while effort after effort has been made to organize such a class in this community, there has not been a sufficient number of women with leisure time to make it feasible. Under these conditions Haywood county should appreciate the service of their county hospital and shoved give every possible sup port to its personnel. Will the Japs Try To Bomb Pearl Harbor Again? We are indebted to Robert Hugh Clark, of Waynesville, now of Pearl Harbor, for a copy of the "Pearl Harbor Banner," publi cation of the U. S. Navy Yards at Pearl Harbor. In pictures and articles it told the story of-what is being done in the way of repairs to our crippled fighting ships from the Pa cific area in the Navy yards there. One article in particular arrested our in terest regarding the possibility of the Japa nese making another attempt to reach our vital naval base. There may be those who will consider a second Japanese attack impossible, it was pointed out : there may be those who will scoff at the possibility of bombs again fall ing on the drydocks repair basin and anchor ages of Pearl Harbor, but it would be well to remember that on December 7. three years ago, it was exactly this attitude that made the Japanese attack successful. Slightly over a year ago the captain of the Pearl Harbor Navy yard warned the workers that a second attack on Pearl Har bor "is possible and probable." To our military leaders, it might seem highly ridiculous for the Japanese, who are faced with an attack at their doorstep and have inadequate force to meet it, to send carriers 3,000 miles to attack an enemy base. But the Japanese mind does not work like ours, it was pointed out The Japanese do not look at things the way the rest of the world does. What seems illogical to us may seem preminently logical to the Japanese. This is a well known fact and has been demonstrated time and time again in the Pacific war. It is said that every month in Japan the Japanese observe the. anniversary of the at tack on Pearl Harbor. Hugh posters bear ing the Imperial Rescript which declared that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor and was at war with the United States are nailed up for all to read. The idea of Pearl Harbor is associated with victory to the Japanese. It seems plausible that we must not as sume that a second attack on Pearl Harbor is impossible. We cannot afford to make the same mistake twice. J. T. Bailey Last week J. T. Bailey, of Canton, out standing citizen of Haywood County, sold his business and will take a rest. No definite plans have been announced by Mr. Bailey re garding the future, other than that he and Mrs. Bailey plan to spend sometime in Florida. Mr. Bailey, who came to Canton twenty five years ago, has been active in business, political, civic and religious affairs of his community and the county. A former mayor of Canton he has served as senator from this district and as repre sentative from Ilaaywood County in the North Carolina General Assembly. He serv ed several terms as mayor of Canton and was a member of the Canton school board for sometime. He has been active in the Civitan Club of Canton, has been an elder in the Presbyterian church for several years, and associated with Red Cross work and the county and Canton welfare programs. The service he has rendered both Hay wood county and his own town of Canton is greatly appreciated by the citizens of this area. Hoover On Religious Education "Not a religion that is merely a method of worship, but a religion that embodies a creed and a code as well. The young boy and girl must believe in those truths upon which our freedom rests, and they must have respect for the laws which must exist to preserve it," said John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investi gation,' in a statement endorsing the 14th annual observance of Religious Work. Mr. Hoover gave some startling figures about records compiled by the FBI. He stated that the arrests of 17-year-old boys has increased 27.7 per cent and 16-year-old boys 61 per cent during 1943. During the two years "past he pointed out that arrests of girls under 21 had increased 130.4 per cent. "As long as the boy or girl, man or wo man has no impelling motive for living in accordance with the law of God and the law of man," he continued, "all the work of community groups and law enforcement officers will not remedy the conditions." Parents must be aroused to the situation and he pointed out that "it. is their obliga tion to provide a way of life, a motive power that will impel the young men and women of America to choose the good instead of the bad in every department of their lives." HITTING HOME! 4 WASHINGTON HERE and THERE B7 HILDA WAY GWYN Plastering by B-29' Just a Taste, Tokyo! ' ruin IrOOgJ Plan to Land on JapJ Holocaust To Blast Island "Taking Up A Notch" The following from the Christian Science Monitor presents to our mind a fine descrip tion of the current needs of the American home fronts: The American people will loyally respond to the new tightening of rations. The Ger man drive has shaken them a bit, and at Christmas, millions. of them, thinking about friends and relatives at the front, came a little nearer to sensing what war means. There will be little disposition to complain about the re-rationing of some meats and vegetables or about higher point values. But there will be questions about certain methods OPA has adopted. To many house wives the cancellation of coupons which it had said or implied would be good seems a breaking of faith. People who rushed to cash coupons and hoarded supplies appear to have gained an advantage of the very kind the whole rationing program is sup posed to prevent. Perhaps the alternatives were worse. But the public can reasonably ask OPA to tighten its estimates of avail able supplies and not issue coupons that can't be cashed. Most Americans readily recognize that they can take up another notch in the war time belt Many of them did not celebrate Christmas quite as usual, but millions ap parently spent more money for the material trappings of their celebration, and the Na tion as a whole spent more on non-military goods and services in 1944 than it ever did in the biggest peacetime boom year. The theaters, movies and other amusements are notoriously jammed. Many folks on the home front are work ing hard, many are making real sacrifices but compared with their own men and wo men in the services or with other peoples nearer the battle peoples who have almost forgotten what butter, oranges, eggs and new clothes look like, but know well the sound of shells and bombs Americans have hardly begun to learn what war is. Such lessons as tighter rationing may teach will be cheap if they help Americans to value peace , more so that they resolve anew to join effectively m keeping it. Our military heads may have made some mistakes on the .Euro pean battle fronts, but we are get ting a bit fed up with the heavy bombardment of criticism we have heard on the recent situation in Europe on the home fronts. No matter how it may look to us here back home, we really don't know what conditions were over there, but we do know that those men of the First and Third Armies are just as anxious to end it all and get home as we are to have them, so we are quite sure it was not an easy job to outwit the German war experts. The following remark credited to Field Marshal Bernard L- Montgomery to war correspon dents in speaking of General Eisen hower might be taken to heart by the civilians back home, who are trying to fight the war from a warm comfortable fireside as well as the British; town for groceries he had Caro line to phone her aunt Adora Rayne to go along so he wouldn't miss rec ognizing his new family connec tions. Now that's the spirit of a real old fashioned kinsfolks com plex that is rather unusual in young people today, but makes us know that if Lt. Kilpatrick ever decides to make Waynesville his home when he has done his part in the great current drama in which he has been cast, that he can make a place for himstlf here with us. "It grieves me when I se un complimentary articles about him in the British press. He bears a great burden, he needs our fullest support; he has a right to expect it and it is up to us all to see that he gets it. And so I ask all of you to lend a hand and stop that sort of thing; let us all rally 'round the captain of the team and so help the match. No one objects to heal thy constructive criticism. It is good for us. But let us have done with destructive criticism that aims a blow at the Allied solidarity that tends to break up our team spirit and therefore helps the enemy. First Ladies always come in for their shart of reflected glory and fame when their distinguished hus bands by virtue of certain offices place them in the class of Number One Ladies. Now Mrs. Cherry has been more or less a private citizen keeping house back in Gastonia. uit when she took the place of Mrs. J. M. Broughton as First Lady of North Carolina, overnight we are all interested in what kind of a person she might be. We heard much about her husband luring the campaign, and she was in the background, but as she took part in the inaugural ceremonies, she became "big time news'' in Carolina. From all we can learn. Mrs. Cherry will be a gracious hostess at the Mansion and can take her place along with her hus band. She must have a lot in com mon with the women of the state, judging by the following we read i in the Raleigh News and Observer, "For Mrs. Cherry, who has not had a maid to help run a big house forj some time, the next four years will be a welcome rest from washing dishes and cleaning house. . . For the smooth working staff at the mansion with 'Uncle Dave' the veteran butler, still on the job to look after things, is one of the happiest anticipations at the mom ent for Mrs. Cherry." Now while many a Tar Heel woman may not envy Mrs. -Cherry the responsibil ity of being the State's First Lady, they will all be tempted to envy her freedom from dish washing for four years (much more than the pomp and pleasure of her official position.) We understand that the First Baptist church has been honoring a group of men in service on each Sunday and last week the First Methodist church inaugurated a list of ten to he honored each week. A letter goes out from the pastor to each of the ten the week they are so recognized and we are sure those letters will meet with response whenever they are received. Last Sunday at the Methodist church the following men were thus hon ored; Ben Atkins, Paul Blackwell, T. L. Biamlett, J. K. Boone, Rich ard Bradley, A. G. Boineau, Jr., J. H. Bryson, Oren Coin, R. L. Coin, Jr., and J. R. Carswell, Jr. We have head a great deal about the proper attitude we must as sume toward the returnees from overseas. In fact from time to time we have touched on the sub ject ourselves. Now we are learn ing from actual experience. We have found that these men don't r was reaied in Waynesville. I want us to treat them as set apart. was known around there before I They want to be treated as "regu-; joined the Army four yea ag0, lar fellows, in a natural way. They since that time I have seen quite want sympathy, but not the over- a iot of the worid a small portion flowing gushing variety. It would 1 of England, France, Belgium, and not fit in with their shattered r.eranv h.,t I'll .r tr TTnireH Special to Centra! Press - WASHINGTON Military circles regard the plastering thai To. kyo and the Japanese mainland have been taking from Americi' B-29 Superfortresses thus far as merely preliminary a auljjhurii iurt:uii.e ux unrigs iu curnc. T. i ,V. , ! U . I t A - . - 1-i . luimigiii. gcncioia turn men cuues, aunio Bpeamng xor me record have labeled the Tokyo bombings as "experimental." Results havj VuAn " Yr.rA ' tViav oair Kill- fr V. n . .' ..rill wA ... , 1 .w w.j m even Detttf because the holocaust that will be dumped on Japj, as the Asiatic war progresses is expected in tin, even to suipaaa me mry o me air aiiaCKS on Gr, many prior to u-uay. Tin i .1 M . - J .1, - : i ii iicii utrmiaiiy is ucieaieu, ail uvuuaDie air poj will be moved to the far Pacific to strike and sever the industrial' aim uausijui union jugular veins ui me Japanese empire. ,iw, me wi .nan cActtu w juiii ui me luiiuua uame or Japan n.i'ntltna l.n.rA aahaa V. Djfl.li a -J . 1 jicuivuvug uavo .ujuu uiaL ui i 1.011 biuuiJa vile May Will lanu with A ,,....-,,.... . 1 1 - . XT : Aiiiciivoiu un kilts onurea ui inpun. Until victory in Europe, the Japanese bombings will lncreaj gradually until Saipan-based B-29s eventually conduct round-the. clock offensives against Tokyo. Retaking of the Philippines v. provide more American bases as will the Japanese mainland iUell wnen lanaings are enectea tnereon. A!IIa4 Alltf kAmkn mn.. U - 'I K J .1 S. .4 A 1. . nuiLu tvuvii. uuiuua inajr ft; auucu iu me lury Ul Lilts war oveit Japan, Judging from effectiveness of rockets already used against the Japanese In military and naval operations. The clearest Indication of more devastating B-29 raids, however was seen in the co-ordinated air-sea attack last week on Iwo Jima Japanese air rjase istanu in me voicanos. TWO FACTORS are holding up issuance of WPB's long-awaited detailed plan for the relaxation of controls upon the defeat of Ger many. One obstacle is that OPA has not kept pace with the production agency in planning for V-E Day and does not have a corresponding program worked out yet for control of reconversion prices. Also, many OPA officials fear great difficulty In the price field once pro. auction curbs are removed. The other delaying factor is uncertainty over the extent of th V-E Day cutback. Many weeks ago WPB Chairman J. A. Krug estimated that the cutback would be 40 per cent; now he figure! about 35 per cent, and the Army is still lower. Probability now Is that Krug's detailed plan will not be released until immediately before V-E Day. THE POITED PALM has been moved out of Cordell Hull's offlci into the corridor at the state department, and those' who know tn taste and temperament of the young man who has succeeded him u secretary of state doubt that the palm will ever be restored to ill place of dignity. In fact, everything has been moved out of Hull's office, except tin grandfather clock and the historic old desk, while a crew of painten spent the last week redecorating to Stettinius' taste. That dynamic young man had hardly finished saj'ing, "I do," "So help me, God," when the painters moved in and Hull's furnish ings moved out. Stettinius will have a tremendous map of the world covering ont wall with a fluorescent light at its top a personal gift from Gen George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff. He also will have two tele phones a black telephone connecting with state department exten sions, and a white telephone connecting with the White House. Stettinius has pledged himself to follow Hull's policies and maybe he will, but the atmosphere in the secretary's office will never be the same again. - THE GOVERNMENT, much to Its surprise, has found a source of unexpected income in 10-to-40-yearKild nutchine tools lying about unused in Navy yards and plants, an apparently abandoned as out moded. A search la on for such tools now and a series of public auctions will dispose of them to Uio highest bidders. One batch of such supposedly useless tools of an cient make recently brought a bid of $25,000, raised at an auction to an eventual $35,000. Another sale of tools at Washington Navy Yard raised $286,000, although the tools were so encrusted It took blowtorches to clean them op, ."svy Find) .-prise Revenue nerves, for we are convinced that most of them have them regardless of their calm exterior. People can get nerves on edge here at home, so this reaction from combat should not be hard to understand. When these men come back home to fit ir.to civilian life we will have op portunities each day to show them our gratitude for the sacrifice they made for us, which will mean far more than a great passing show now. Letters To The Editor Sonv?here In Germanv Nov. 28, 1944. Dear Editor: States is the best place in the world to live and that's what the men are fighting and dying for to day. And also there are plenty of these men from Haywood county doing their sha-e in it. "Now to get to the point" When I read in the papers about strikes and people quitting then war jobs to work somewhere else well, all T can say is If for just one night these men could change places with one of the "doughboys here on the Seigfried Line" where he has to wade in rain, mud and snow up to his knees, not to mention the fifty bucks a month pay he gets, which probably also goes home Well, I don't think the men back home j would ever think of strikes or quitting their war work, and not The in-laws and family connec tions of Lt. Jimmy Kilpatrick. hus band of Caroline Rose, need have no doubts of his good intentions to be a regular member of the family. Lt- Kilpatrick is here with his wife and young daughter, Lynn, at the Rose home in Balsam for a last visit before "Uncle Same gives him a tour outside the Stes." He has been here only once sire; his mar riage and naturally has not quite mastered or catalogued his wife's kith and kin. For between the Smathers and the Howell clans, Caroline has what may be termed a "raft of relatives. Of course he met a lot of them but he ' was afraid to trust his memory, so when he made his initial shopping trip to U, K .-. .1 , If I, JA1H,,MJ UUV1IIK UVI1U3 U LIITV UllUClSbUUU. You probably don't even know Instead if they would do more who I am and it's just another i than their share to help the war headache for you to get another material get to the men over here letter from a boy in the service, and to the South Pacific we can but if it is possible I'd like for end this war in a hurry, you to put this in your next news, j I also have two brothers in the My name is Lester Hendrix, and ; service: James W. Hendrix THE OLD HOME TOWN ... By STANLEY C COOCDMT GST THft A(tM LOD6E 1 WEtL. I NEVER (lOADO'CRAHS UP TMrS J ISUPPE1? OOUU DO 4T-Wf U d T. STAIRWAY r f I 1 -rnju-rw Ct JUSTWAMTEO (Army) and now in South PacrfkJ and Clarence Hendrix (Navy) non in Iceland. In closing I would like to say "Hello" to all of my friends Waynesville, and keep up your good work, also if you have loved ones in the service, write to them often. Those letters are the best (Continued on page 11) - Voice OP THE People What is your favorite month ill the year and why? Roy Moseman "I would say 0f tober, because of the beauty of the coloring of the leaves." Mrs. Selinda O'Donnell August because it is genera sidered the hottest month year." ."I woulJ ally c i of the! Henry Gadd? "May is my fa'' orite month, because it is then that the flowers and growing things come out to life in full." Miss Faustine Howell "I wouH say January, because I like to ceW brate the New Year." T. L. Bramlett "I guess May my favorite month because my bit' thday comes then." V. C, Nobeck "I like the monffl of May because it is planting timej and everything starts to grow Hugh Leatherwood "May, JunH Julv and Arjmst all the trow fishing months are my favorites. J. J. Fr-rmui"l think thi May is my favorite, when the fio era start blooming and the grj starts growing. Albert j. MeCracken "I vgj say September, because my day cornea. that month " j Grady P. Ferrason ' k say October, because tit is "e'y too warm or too c4d." , bes L. an de, ha der.ee and Ike the pure Wand. their Ttle ( hny. kers & Portia ill. CI by t