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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, J Pt 2 f. THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER The Mountaineer Published By -THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 191 Waynesvule, North Carolina Tk County Seot Hayvod Countg W. CURTIS RUS3 Editor ICES. HILDA WAY GWYK Associate Editor W. Cmtit Rasa and llarion T. Bridges, Pabliehwr PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County I1.7S Bix Months, La Haywood Ouaty c On Year, Outside Haywood County 20 Bix Months, Outside Haywood County 1.M All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Imtmtd U rat otBc t Wiraranlt. -V a. M Mag lubf, u inMN in4rr Act of Kn I. ISTt, t. 114 CfcHmrr MlWi, reolat1uu of ruict. care til otfc ! tntcrt&iuMat o nrfit. will be chart' aw at laa rata of ea not per word. NATIONAL EDITORIAL. SSOCIATION XrTwa CarfifiriauSk muAMaciAiajra THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1945 RATION POINTS LOST Now we are aware of the fact that wh n a country is at war emergencies arise from time to time that demand drastic changes. But even so we feel that the OPA made a bad move when they cancelled without warning ration points that thrifty house wives had been saving up. It was in the nature of breaking a contract. Now if they wished to cut down. say. on the amount of sugar in the future there would have been to our mind a much bet ter way than to have broken a promise. The confidence of the public must be kept even in w ar time. AFTER VICTORY, WHAT? We have faith that America will retain her democratic ideals after the war is over and victory comes, vet there are danger signals along the route to that much long ed for goal. We hear much about what the govern ment is going to do for the men after the war. Jobs are to be supplied. The gov ernment going "to try to hold down prices. These things are right and should be part of the American picture, but on the other hand we must bear in mind that the more we ask of the government the less freedom we will have. Too much government control might tend to destroy the freedom of the indi vidual to build anew after the war is over and "the right of ownership is more im portant than ownership itself." THE VOICE OF AMERICA Perhaps the following editorial from The Reidsville Review would not have im pressed us so much had it not been for the appreciative letters from the men in our armed forces who have brought to us what the news from home can mean w hen you are thousands of miles removed : The greatest newspaper in America is not published in New York. Chicago,' Phil adelphia, Boston or Los Angeles, or in any other great city. On the contrary, the greatest newspa per in America today is issued in some 10, 000 editions, fifty-two times a year, pub lished in some 9,500 newspaper offices in 7,500 different tow ns ard villages through out the United States and Canada which offices occupy a combined floor space far in excess of that occupied by the great Em pire State building in New York City plus that of the great Wrigley building, Chi cago. No, the best newspapers are not publish ed in our biggest cities. They do not oc cupy our finest buildings or operate our fastest presses. They are located in towns and cities of all sizes, in all parts of the country, and are edited by men of various capacities and diverse views. Theyare the voices ' of their respective communities, dedicated unreservedly to the common good, and speak the language of the every day men and women who maintain them with their patronage. We never drift far from home that we f not Welcome the home-town newspaper. It U the voice of America. ENRAGED? Apparently; nothing makes the Senate madder ' than .someone trying to keep it from" spending; a few million dollars. Ohio State Journal. r ' PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES The record of the Haywood County public health nurses as shown in the article written for The Mountaineer last week by Mrs." J. Rufus McCracken, supervisor of the nurses in the district health depart ment, should give us a very good idea of the splendid work that is being cttrried on by rhiz, department. In the schools, in the homes of the. re mote sections of the county this health supervision is carried on by our public health nurses. When we consider that we have two nurses to our 34,804 popula tion against the fact that one is recom mended for every 5.000 population, we should appreciate even more the manner in which these two have served the most needy cases, as well as hundreds of others. There is nothing .glamorous about the work of the public health nurses here in our county. Unless one makes it their business to find out they might not know of the comfort and aid to health these nurses give to hundreds f families, who might not have the benefit of medical care. They are teaching our people the gospel of good health. They are teaching them the wisdom of preventing diseases from developing and otten avoiding the spread of contagious diseases by recognizing them 1 in their early stages. If there is any doubt in the minds of a Haywood County citizen that this service is not needed we recommend that they visit the local draft board and check the num ber of men turned down on account of! physical defects, and we feel sure that all , doubts will vanish. MAGIC CARPET Voice OF THE People "Not coaaideriaf casualties aad separations caased ky the Armed Forcas. what tacriacea Bare we made, if any, that outweigh our material gains ia wages, price and other icnaaoea aad a higher standard of Iiiag7'( Queatioa suggested by M. G- Stamey). WWASHIKGTQ World" War Now Brings Twilight of theKings Dr. Tom StriagBeld "I don't think we at home have made any." Dr C. N. Sisk "The only an--wer 1 can ma we is 'none'." Mi Edna McKay "None.'' J. C. Brawn "Speaking a. a teacher 1 have gained nothing in salaries, hut only in experience." Linwood Grahl "I can't think of a single sacrifice that enuals what those in service are making." Mr. it, we fices." Cba.. E. Ray "As I see haven't made anv sacri- . Wilhelmino, Gorg r- c.i viijgn.i)(vy Special to Central Press m WASHINGTON The handwriting is on the wall so far crowned heads of Europe are concerned. You can mark a ft that moat will not return to thrones. The tip-off is in the diplomatically Impersonal term -regtt Normally, a regent is appointed to serve until an under age tt arch attains majority. But in World var 11 ine itnn puw-enui niJ and no one knows u Deuer man voige m urrece and ftlt Yugoslavia. Peter's throne has practically oeen puuea rrom under hin Marshal Tito and nia soviet supporter! Greece, the real precedent for Europe iS A regency has been set up. but fighting goe Ttlin V iriuauv ciirninairs rwiir Vjeoree dl Bnlisn DttCKing. I Mi domination are readv to orotest tha .11 of King H&aKon. wno in peace-lime na.J an n ably democratic monarchy. Ravages cf war J t:.-AH ornimhhnPB even there. It "? 3 b o- I pretenders to f rencn. tpaiusn and Ami I i")r-s thrones can be written off as Europe moves I ia wave or rauicaiisni aiiu uiuiar poiuitai mJ HERE and THERE Bj HILDA WAY GWYN J. H. Way "I don't think we have made any sacrifices," Mi. none." Mary Mock "Absolutely J. Yatet Bailey "We have not male anv." HITLER THE MYTH MAKER The following taken from an editorial which appeared during the past week in the New York Herald Tribune sums up Hitler and his fale statements to the Ger man people in a manner that manv his torians will not doubt record down the future years : "Napoleon it has been said spent the last years on St. Helena manufacturing the Napol eonic myth. Hitler never ceased to manufacture his own as he has gone along. They have btien many and various from the beer-cellar days on down, shifting with every wind of political necessity. "The first source of all Germany's mis eries, as the 'economic destruction and an nihilation of the Versailles dictate,' operat ing through a 'Jewish international world plot' succeeded so well that by 1933 Ger many had been reduced to conditions of 'permanent unemployment, ruined indus- i ew organization anil the number elitrjble save us a considerable shock. More than 10.000 Aus tralia:! irls, wives and sweethearts of U. S. service men now station ed in that war theatre, who ex pect someday to be citizens of ti.e fnited States have organized Wouldn't you have themselves into cluhs to study life hi the I mteci states. They plan to learr. all they can about the American way of life, in prepara tion of peacetime prospects. There are said to be several branches of the organization. In Melbourne a!oi c there are 700 members in I mated the club. In New Wales there I vehicles are members, and We have seer, 'c :r.uch sorrow come out of the war news, with out growing casualty lists., that it was heartening to get news, that while tinged with sadness held much hope. We refer to the release of the American pris oners hehi ry tne Japs tor nearly thiee year !'(.eu to nave watiheO tne laves of the tith Ranger battalion as they greeted the pnsoneis and set . their countrymen free. Think of ' the happy homes and the joy that came to the families of these men. Then consider how little hope these prisoners held as the weary months grew i.'.to years as they existed on starvation diet, watching their ni.iiies grow weak er day by dav. Then saw their comrades leave never to return, meeting sime mysteiious death. 1 Of those rescued :t is reported that nearly 100 were too weak to ; walk. Twip are said to have died , within sight of the American lines. , Their bodies were too wasted to stand the shock of rescue. No mattei whether these men won in, battle or not. they gave their best, and to us they are very special heroes. Their treatment at the J hands of the Japs should make us j realize as never before that the Japs must be conquered complete- ; !y. They must be bowed in utter defeat, lest they rise again in an-1 other attempt to strangle the world. We do not mean to preach the go-pel of hate, but rather to save the world from such treat ment in the future a.- has been Mr.. Edith P. Alley Tiisre gardmg any gains or losses civil- ians could never equal any sacri- fice made by the boy or girl in ; the service.'' Travel In Park Down 47 Percent Travel in the Park during the month of January totaled an es-ti- 262 persons in 1,662 this is 47 per cent less other i persons visiting this park than in an hes at e located in Brisbane, January. 1944. Of this number Perth an.! Adelaide. We like the I practically all (89 per cent! were spirit of these Australian girls ! from the local states of Tennessee who hope to become Americans, i and North Carolina. Of this num but, between us we hated to see bei approximately 36.' were mem 10. 0io American potential hus- hers of the armed forces, bands in this day of manpower; Travel is estimated by com par shortage lost to our own Ameri-' in actual travel counts made at We hope none of them . certain period of the month with na-k home waiting for actual counts made at correspond rn. I ing periods of the preceding year. can girls ha.i a gi their ret In la,-t .Sunday's column, by Nell Rattle Lewi.- in the Raleigh News ami Obsei ver. we found the fol lowing, contributed to her by a Mrs. Granville D. Voueht. of Ra leigh. Ir. the ongina! you may i ecal meted b' the Jans. Since wir.ing of Haywood oun i tv Day out in Honolulu, another try. prostrate commerce. Adolf Hitler i such observance ha been rep nt- i . i . i ed to us that was heid in Bam- thereupon took over, reinvigorated and re-b)iilpe Mil ( aroi Giani 1T.y,.ai. militarized this desolate nation, with the ' old son of Mr. and Mis. Linwood ijiahl. who with eight or nine otn high purpose of preserving both it and Europe from the 'Asiatic' and Jewish men- K... U f U: . Ilium. 1. net:, uui i in inr pt-i i ji m a nc r in uus mil- Township Hi student structive labor we were granted only years of peace, according to Hitler. the Torv tabby had been to London to visit the Queen, wnieh. of course, would never do in this world today. So slightly amended, the idea is: "Pussv fat. Pus.-y Cat, where have you been? I've been to Washington, Frank l'n I've seen. Pu-sv Cat. Pussy Cat. what did you do there? I chased Fala under the Presi dent's chair Now we believe that it would be a pretty good thing for Pussv to stay around the white Pvt. Ray Shoaf Now In The British Isles Pvt. Richard Ray Shoaf, son of G. Z. Shoaf and the late Meile Lee Shoaf. of Waynesville. has arrived somewhere on the British Isles. He was inducted at Camp Croft, and has been in the service for two years. He as stationed at Camp Wheeler. Ga.. for fourteen months, where he served as MP. Other training camps were: Fort Jackson. Camp Baikley. Texas, Camp Ellis, 111., and Station Is land, New York. His wife and small daughter are residing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Putnam, of Lake Junatuska. Six have had a reunion. In the group were forty boss from this community, all taking their boot tiaining at Bain- 'It is a phrase really superb of its kind i bridge eight were members of last vear s football team ot tne local high Carol's commanding i-r high school bovs voiunteei ed . Cat in the Navy and left thi area !a.-t ', for he has been exposed to public 55.5Jr HerrtAt-f Plnft I months, writes that Waynesville , House, if she can intimidate Fala, 7 .. . .. . notice enough of late. To our In Knplish Hncnital would nave anninnated her in 1920 had bom they not then been 'too weak officer played tackle last year on the Bainbridge team so he writes there was a lot of good football talk. We know it must mean much to these boys to meet so many folks from back home. Incident ally Carol writes that :t is so cold in Bainbridge. he believes it is nearer the North Pole than it looks on the map ami that he has had but then the main purpose of the myth is, j of course, to conceal the fact that it was Hitler himself who refused to 'grant Ger many more than six years of peace". In 1939 he gloried in plunging on into the war; today he cannot even admit to him self that he was the author of all the dis- nter whir-ri ho hu hrnno-ht rlnu'ii cm P,(.r. ' l . .. 1 . c .... 1 1. 1 .. . I TI . , ..... , , nis ursl i leans nil oieasiasi aim many. He began by annihilating Poland ; iike,i 'em. (to save her from the Russians), who' 4, f l"IIUlliji ll'MII vnc vji ecu."- Iaily News, written by Tom' he went on ' Bost veteran newspaper reporter. to annihilate the west, again apparently to Smith is the former Dollie Lee. save it from Asiatic Bolshevism; but when ! of Waynesville. stricken with in- . i-.., , i fantile naralvsis. and a patient he finally got around in 1941 to attacking ' f(li many months at Duke Hospit the real enemv of civilization, his original I al- Mr5 Smith made a wonderful recoverv and this winter has re Victims, due to the Strange blindness of ' turned to active life in Raleigh,; plutocracies and democracies, refused to ivhere ,e has made so many ' friends in her adopted home. She help him. They attacked him instead. greeted the guests calling at the mansion at the reception given by the new Governor and Mrs. Cherry, as part of the inaugural festivities. Softened "Mrs. Willis Smith, of Raleigh, had one of those Franklin Roose-; veit visitations about a year ago, S Sgt. Herbert Moore Plott, Jr., is a patient in an English hospital, according to advice re ceived by his parents, Mr. and .Mrs. H. il. Plott, of route two. notion of the htne.-s of things in this critical era he has taken up too much space in our daily pa peis that might well have been devoted to more vita! subjects. In fact Pussy Cat might be "sick er, n an tne Koosevelt nogs and , Sgt. Plott left Waynesville with "Ul l''rm 1,1 lne,r Places not tnat the National Guard in September w-e object to dogs, but we do like 1940. and has been in the Euro them in the JjacKground. Pean theatre since February 1944 YOU'RE TELLING ME! By WILUAM WTT Central Press Writer snowshoes, the thaw set in. S :4 irnents. In the Balkans. Soviet influence has J Queen Wilhelmino completely established, and Carol of RulrJ may as well stay in exile Belgian underground leaders are piqued 6ver retention of PrJ Pierlot and King Leopold's return is dououul. Hollands Q; .Vilhelmina is popular and may come back. The situation leaves Sweden and England just about the i sure-to-survive monarchies in Europe. THE MOVE BY SENATOR ALEXANDER WILEY (R 0fV ronsin to have tresioeni nooseveu k wim nun iu mime ma references the chairman and ranking minority member of the sJ te foreign relations committee is doomed to failure. Wiley is considering a resolution to implement his recommem lion, but it appears doomed in the committee itself. Practict every Democrat would vote against it as precedent-shatterinn embarrassing to the administration. The Wiley proposal which some day may bear fruit will, in opinion of observers, wait a long time before any report reaches ti THE MEXICAN AMBASSADOR. Francttto C&slillo Najd dean of the Washington diplomatic corps, went to London reed to help ' liquidate'" the League of Nations and its assets and aj back with five Paris hat boxes. After the conference was over, Najera boarded a plane for M and reportedly made a hasty tour of the Rue Royale's faskJ shops. As he climbed back in the big airliner, he carried five pf ball-weight hat boxes. Then he and his family left Washinra tor Mexico City to attend the wedding of his son. Observers guessed they may figure in his effort to put Med City on the map as a fashion center that the new Paris creatkj worn by ladies of his family may serve as models to stir the terest of his country's milliners. THE STAND OF SECRETARY ' OF STATE EDWARD STETTINIUS. JR.. in opposition to the Palestine resolution ii sharp contrast to that of his former chief, Cordell Hull. Hull told Rep. Sol Bloom (D.) of New York, chairman of ( House foreign affairs committee, that he had no objection to I i-soiuiiun cluing iui uiiresincieu iiiiniigraiiuii or jews 10 raoa War Secretary Henry L. Stimson withdrew his ob jection and the committee recommended House passage. Stettinius" objections, however, before the Senate foreign relations committee, considering the same resolution, blocked it. and the House rules committee lienied the House resolution the right of way. As a result, both resolutions died, to the dissapointment of miN of Jpws and liberals who anticipated approval in both th? How and Senate because of backing it had received from PresiilM Roosevelt and members of both houses Pali Reiolvl'i Cell N Jesus and the' Twelve HIGHLIGHTS "ON . THE SUNDAY SCHOOL" LESSON "So now he has reduced Germany to a state of death, devastation and suffering, beside which the 'economic' annihilation of Versailles and of 1933 must seem a paradise, now that his evil policies have worked out to their inevitable and terrible ! infantile paralysis, and the wife i , . , . . , , i of this illustrious capital city law end, he consigns the democracies to 'Judas; yer knows al) about an attack Bolshevism' and himself prepares to go I bch the President, has made 1 I.- l j . , ! MIOWII ctil I.I1CI li. C Kllllll. uuwii ugming a mucn rmsunaersiooa sui ferer for civilization. "Such is the myth, rounded, self con sistent, at total variance with every page in the black arid actual record. He be lieves it himself, maybe others even will believe it. And the strange thing is that in all probability as the years go by, as the thunders of the guns and the shrieks of the dying fade, plenty of people in Ger many will believe it and cause endless trouble again as a result." WITH ONE POOCH falling heir to J20.0Q0 and another get ting an "A" airplane priority, the phrase "leading a dog's life" has just about lost all its old mean ing. ; I i Well, you know, "every dog has his day." And this seems to be IT. ; i t Bliuard bound Grand pappy Jenkins soft he wished he'd converted from auto tire to skit. ; ; i jfeanwhile, Zadok Dumkopf complains that the day he finally learned the trick of walking on The man at the next desk says he went into a smoke shop to get some cigarets aad came out with a pack of reasonablt facsimiles. i t Author of a velum on magic soys it took him many years to write. Sounds like a difficult trick. ; j ; The speed of light,' w tro now told, is not as rapid m astronomers once thought ' But the motorist trying to get through on the green before it turns red will dispute that' THE OLD HOME TOWN v With the county commissioners, the county , board of health and the county farm agents taking on the job at this stage, we feel confident that the disease will be checked before any great damage can be done. bhe never was much of a Democrat, being the daughter of the late William Thomas Lee. to deride any Democrat. But being the wife of an exceptionally suc cessful man who must have clients in the big money, she does hear 1 things which are hurled at both ' the White House and Rooeevelt. Before Mr. Smith went as a dele-1 gate to the National convention in ' July she had recovered sufficiently j to make sure of just two things, j Her husband's attendance upon j the national convention ; her own j purpose never to say anything j very hard of Franklin Roosevelt. ! She was not made perfect throueh i suffering ; She already was per-1 feet. She just became a fellow sufferer. "And Thursday evening she stood in a receiving line at the I mansion, stood from beginning to end. Softened sentimentally, she was but strengthened by the pres idential perservanee." We read during the week of a : KNOW THINK : By STANLEY Ol TMT twaocs""- but do no pgfci i r NAME cm UlZif ANV beforc wi I v wkohc sice of -rue PES-. SLOOP FO I AX UWT SAISAM PEASOOV THE O-UOl By NEWMAN CAMPBELL (The Internationa) tmifnrm r on on the above topic for Feb- ury ii u Matthew 10-11. the Memory Verse being John 15:14, "Y are My friend. If ye do the things which I command you.") JESUS ' CALLED ' HU 12 'dis elplea to Him and "gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all man ner of disease." I wonder how many people can recite the names of the 12 dla ciples.' Here they are: Simon Peter and his brother Andrew; James and his brother John, Philip Md Bartholomew-Thomas and Matthew; James, 'son of Alphaeus, and 'Lebbaeus.j whose surname was Thaddaeus.. Simon the Cannanite and Juda Iscarlot Jeans sent the 12 out telling ttem to "preach, saying. The Wngdom of heaven' is at hand" They were to heal ' the , sick.' cleanse the, lepers, etc.. . no gold "er or even extra clothing, were to be taken, "for the work man is worthy of his meat." They' were, on nearing a town, 'to in cjulre "who In It is worthy." pos-' ibly where they. would be wel come., and stay I there Where they were not welcomed and en tertained, they were to shake the dust of that town from their feet. .u ucquaw punishment would be metedout.to.thes Inhospit able folk. Warns of Enemies V JMUS'W,nid:lHl3 disciples to "ware of men: "for they wul Uver you up to the councils." WJen this happened they should no thought as to what they it shall be given you ta that same hour what ye shall speak. For It not y that speak but the spirit wyour rather. which speakeU. in "And ye shall be hated of all mea for My sake; but ha that to U,. end shall smya. aJSL'?"" Pw-scuted In ty, Jesua told ths 12, "Be. into another." thIl.f.T1DOtthm whlch kl" th! S,..bl!t.Wnot ble 10 w "to dertro, both aoS body in hell," !JfT. Ju . asks. -and erthem shall not fall en the " without your rather ; - Tear y not, therefore, ye in mors yalua "than many rows." .im . m. i AltMfl that His toachlnn will not SRSf peace to those who believe,. 1t a swora. 4 It wui separate m Km "inil man'a fua hill they of his own household.'' & many times since then hu liglon separated and antigona I . . . ... t ilul yjfm ui uie same laum., . - 0lB v. LIIO... ' . taxeth , not his cross, t and id loweth after Me is not worttiji Me." .V . And "He that Hn his life ahaU lose it; and loseth Ms life for My sake find it." Believing and prt tag the wav of life of the S shall be rewarded no matter hard the road and what pn paid for the struggle.. Reward Would FoUoW Those who were good to ttf U'nnM k:tvinll "WhOtOCt shall give to drink unto one thu. rm m run Of O) waior only in wo aaruc - -j ciple,' verily I say unto yon shall in no wise lose hu rewari I TtM. .ntuwl. HrribeiJ 1 Matthew occurred, pro'rj earlier In rhrlat's ministry. Jl had been In prison for some m due to his criticism of Hm1 life with his sisUr-ln-law. W dias. k He may have felt di Ku ana loneuy. - j sent two of his disciples "J If Jesus really was the Me" or not. 4 Jesus answered him telline; them to report to JotiJ" things that were 1 being "The blind rclvetheir and the lame walkthe W are cleanaed. and the deaf Z the- dead ar raised up. poor have the gospel preacW" them. And blessed is he- wl ever snail not oe onenucu s Jesus then praised John t the peopleA. haying m IT "Among tnem mat r women. there hath 'not r" greater man .than John tM " Such men a John, and eventM r. Mriain te l own m man, wem - . censured and doubted. John , and they said. "He hath The Son cf Man came eating j drinking and they J"-" ieam or Me; rar ,. w lnwlw In Mi-- and Vt StlSU rest for your souhi. yX- is easy, ana ijr uuiu. - - - liAi4liUi UJitJtmfa JfyLdJa4a, JJ. )