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(One Day Nearer -Victory) THURSDAY Scttton Two Page 2 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER . JITYP .l -fi-.'i:.-.:; m Hi'.4 The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING I'O. Main Btreet Phone 137 Waynesville. Nurtli Carolina The County Seal of Haywood County W. CURTIS KUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY CVVYN Associate Editor W- Curtis Riiss and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVEHY THURSDAY SUliSL'KlPTION HATES One Year, In Haywood County blx Months, In Haywood County One Year, Outside Haywood County Six Months, Outside Haywood County All Subscriptions Payable In Advance y.'. no I 2.) ho l.bll I nlcre.1 nl liir in. Class Mail ( 11 1 i . a I.. Nim nil.fl 'Ml. I 'I I I .,1 WauL-dllf, I , ;, ,,, !. I In A i I i.l M il I, Oliil llh r lii.l I. (-.. (-ilnt I all iiuth ts of t n! .'i i.i in. lilt 'it Ui.r 'ml ,.n ....i ,i i.t n,i,: i,i..i r .llllftl hjt t NATIONAL DITOIIAI J AccrsriATirMvt e Tlll'KSDAY. JI'NK 21, l!)l (One Dit.v Nearer Victory) A New Official Family Of the changes in the caliinet, none per haps will prove of more concern and inter est than a new Secretary of Labor, for .Miss Frances Perkins has been on the spot for the past ten years and drew much criticism to President Roosevelt for keeping her in the official family circle. Miss Perkins, while reported to be an ex cellent social worker, seemed in the minds of the majority of people to be a "misfit" in her job as Secretary of Labor. Her successor, .Imle Lewis !. Schwellen hach, ;i former New Ileal Senator from the State of Washington, seems to meet the ap proval of the public He will no doubt have t good sized job full of complicated problems in the unfoldiny of post war affairs in the nation. We believe from all accounts, how ever, that he will be able to handle the sit nation and keep things in hand much better than Secretary )' i i-.n. . Eat More Lamb Southern people as a rule are not lare eaters of either land) or mutton. It is per haps more or less a cultivated taste, but to our thinking there is no liner meat than a well cooked mutton roast nor anthill more appetizing than a broiled lamp chop. Just now with the Spring lamb market season in full swiny it seems a pity for all the pood lambs to be shipped out of Hay wood County to Jersey City and other dis tant markets. Haywood County usually hits a fairly good lamb crop of excellent animals. While we are not familiar with the Ol'A regulations as how these lambs may be slaughtered for home consumption it doesn't make sense to ship them away to packers to be slaughtered and then shipped back to out local meat markets. We do not want to encourage any "black market" of .native lambs, but if more of this excellent meat could be butchered and kept aH$nlfiit would certainly relieve the anxiety of home makers and those who are feeding guests in hotels and eating places. More Teachers Needed Teacher shortages are on the increase, according to the National Kducation Associa tion, and unless high school students of to day can be persuaded to adopt teaching as a career the schoolrooms of America will soon be too crowded for proper instruction. During the past four years there have been so many other fields of work, which have paid better salaries, with shorter hours opened to teachers that the National Asso ciation estimated that there were 10,000 vacancies last fall, with prospects for more this year. In addition to this situation there has been a million-and-a-half annual increase in the birth rate, observable since 1942, which will be something to reckon with along with the teacher shortage when these children start to school. In North Carolina the last Assembly raised the salaries of the teachers, and in some states single salary schedules 'are coming into favor, a plan which will pay . equally for equal talent, regardless of sex or grade taught. Yet on the other hand when we consider the shortage of teachers, the war has taught U8 the crying need of more and better edu cational advantages, so it is of vital im portance ta the welfare of America and our own state to encourage young people to be come educators if they show talents along this line. Hate Gets You Nowhere A social worker won cheers of 2,000 teen age students at a London conference on world citizenship when she told them they must "learn to hate." Without hate she does not think we can bring this war to an irrev ocable conclusion and build a decent world. It is simplification to personalize hate, making scapegoats of one man, or a dozen, making scrapgoats of one man, or a dozen, or a million, we are off the track. We must hate not men but things. Men are mortal, mere mouthpieces for the forces they are identified with. We doubt whether hating anybody is a sound basis for citizen ship in a nation, or the world. San Fran cisco Chronicle. Youth Responds High tribute was paid to the students of the Waynesville Township high school and for that matter to the students over the county by M. II. Howies, acting county su perintendent, of education, for their work in selling war bonds. This response Ifom tile American youth must have been nation wide. The United Slates Treasury has given a salute to the nation's school children. Since August, Hill, the bond purchases of school children have totaled $11)7,711,7:10. Kquip ment specifically purchased by school children and marked with the name of the school re sponsible includes 7,X(f ambulances, I lo hos pital service planes and 21!) fighter planes. This should be an inspiring thought in contemplating the future, for it shows even the potential American citizen, will have a huge part in the future ul that who this country is already conscious of their patriotic and civic responsibilities. Thirsty Prospect The sugar situation is not only going to affect the jam on your biscuit, but it will also take that soft drink out of your ice box, according to the latest reports about, t he scarcity of ( his item. The sugar shortage seems to be a rather complicated affair, which includes the fact that our government failed to oiler Cubans enough to induce heavy planting; the use of '.00.000 tons of sugar that went into the making of synthetic rubber; plus 2(i per cent greater demands by the services; plus strikes in Puerto Rico; plus a drought in Cuba, ac cording to Time Magazine. The total amount available for V. S. civilians compared to last year's U, 100,000 tons, will this year be less than live million. Then added to this, rationing has allowed over half of the year's supply of sugar to be used up in the first six months of 1015, which was before the peaches, apples and berries were ripe. This obviously leaves us behind with canning, and the soft drinks will have their share cut down. j This shortage of soft drinks will be a real hardship for the average American, who has formed the habit of quenching his thirst I from a pup bottle. Back Them Up! America's home front is being asked for proof of its strength, sincerity, and devotion in "winning the war" with Japan. This un spoken demand is coming down the gang plank with every battle-tried Yank as the Army's great re-deployment gets under way and the G. I.'s enjoy "stopover" furloughs. Realistic, matured, tough-minded veterans -poised between two great global battle fieldsare judging the civilian effort. And they are well prepared for this job. These are the men who have come home because they were able to "observe, evaluate and act" wisely and promptly in Normandy, the Ardennes, or Italy. One phase which will receive their close scrutiny is that of the discharged veterans. They will want to find out if their comrades are being fairly treated by government, business, and labor. Square dealing and plain talk they under stand. Wholehearted support of the Seventh War Loan, honest observance of rationing, stick ing to his war job where needed these are answers that John Citizen can give which will send the fighting men off to the Pacific fortified and revitalized. Wise homefront support of these magni ficent fighters guests of honor at this crucial period will speed the V-Day of to morrow. Christian Science Monitor. In Germany it's all over with but the shouting in Japan, but the shooting! The boy who woundn't pay a dime for a watermelon unless it was really ripe now has a son who is sucker enough to pay $1.50 apiece for anything the grocer gives him. Financial assets of Nazi leaders have been frozen, with only $30 a month allow ed for living expenses. How long will they need living expenses? "DOOMSDAY BOOK ' ' H'r'fmfU ATROCITIES HE HE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN "The I'ut ure l. Now" by Pierre Van I'nassen. author ul "(lays of Our Years which Appeared in a recent issue nl a popular maga zine is one nl the most fascinating articles we have read in sometime. It gathers the pasl. the present ial advantages, many of them of a permanent nature, do seem lo offer new fields lhal a quarter of a century ago were not known in this section. And speaking of material values, our own Main Street looks as if it might be get ling ready for that world of to morrow, with the old stores be ing renovated and the new ones being built that would indicate a bigger and better business develop ment right here. The "Future Is Now" struck our fancy in a rather persistent way that has come back time after time in our thoughts II should ser ve as a stimulant to a sluggish mentality, lor sad lo relate, the world is full of people who are waiting until tomorrow to make a new start. For the past and present are truly the future. We recall a quotation we had to learn in school under the guidance of Prof. W. C. Allen lhal has linger ed with us, tin author long since forgotten. "For our deeds do fol low us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.'' and the Inline all up in one : si ream I tried viewpoint that simply I lakes one aliin the way, with such speed that one is almost, breathless anil vel the author writes Willi such clarity that out' is in no sense contused The in spiration ul the article came from the question ot a young friend who asked "Is there ever going to he a world nl tomorrow'.' And w hen will il si art ' Tin ipieslinri Is one we have all been wishing In ask someone for we have heard so much about that "World nl 1 1 1 mo ri 1 1 v and we cer tainh have wondered when it will si ait We have had a vague im pression, just as you no doubt have bad. thai an exciling new world regime nigihl suddenly be launch ed At least thai is the way most people write of tomorrow, and the New World. As the author points out. "lew people, old or young, realize the obvious truth that the future is now No visible chalk line dcm.ircal ion exists between (he present and the future In I he presonl are mingled the dying echoes id the pasl and the firsl lusty ciio.. nt the nascent future. When our attention is called to the laet we realize lhal the World ot Tomorrow is being shaped right now Yesterday', restrictions are being let down and that "On" World", of winch the late Wendell U'illkic wrote about is no longer an abstract idea. Oceans are shrinking every day. We know lhal right lu re in Haywood county, when our hoys out in the Pacific-China-lturtna-1 nil ia theatres fly home in less than two (lavs The changes are coming aboul so fast lhal it is hard for us here to keep up with them As the author ex pressed it. "Obscured by the smoke of battle buried under the rubble While speaking of attitudes, we have been greatly impressed with the large number of Haywood men now returning from overseas and how they have reacted from their experiences. They are so modest about any heroics on their part. They want to give the other fellow all the credit. Of course one finds the opposite occasionally, but so rarely that it makes little impres sion one tries to forget il. Now, for instance, the men who have had comparatively sale spots, if there is such a thing in war, want to give all the credil to the fellows in I heir oullil. who have bad to meet the enemy face to face. If they have been in the ground crew in the air force, they insist they had a soft snap coin pared to the boys who How over enemy territory If they have been in the back lines of combat, they pay their respects to the men who have had to take it on the front lines. If they have been flying over enemy territory they shrug off the dangers they have encountered with a smile and try to change the subject. If they have fought knee deep in mud and lived in foxholes in the infantry, they pass the glory to their com manding oflicers. and if they have been oflicers they hand it to the enlisted men. If I hey have served in the navy they tell you how lucky they have been as compared to the poor devils in the army. And so it goes Their modesty only makes them more heroic to us, for we feel like saluting every man in uniform for the service he has rendered this country. The pilots could not fly without their ground crew support, the infantry could not fight without their hack anil ruins ot razed cities, new forms of life are emerging Their contours are hardly discernable, but we know they exist Yet there comes the depressing thought that technical miracles do nol always mean the advance of civilization nor human progress in matters of the heart The Ocruians are proof of this fad Hut. if we make hu manity the beneficiary of the tech nical advances of civilization, we shall never have to go back lo yes terdayand if yesterday means some of the atrocities of the past five yeais we fervently pray that we leave thai era forever out of history making in the future. The article which gave us so much food for thought also brought to mind the difference be tween the current viewpoint of the generation old enough to re call World War I and the youth just coining of age in the World War II era The youth today have known a flourishing and golden economic setup the like of which the world, which seems to be grow ing richer in money each day, has never known when jobs have gone begging and not people beg ging for jobs. The older genera tion is sure that history will re peat itself and they are giving the alarms, but the younger genera tion seems almost surprised at the mere mention that the golden era will fade as time passes How could they feel any other way, for it is all they have known per sonally, and we all judge by such experiences. They assume a kind of patient tolerance when we older ones sound a warning. They seem confident that the world of to morrow will be different, that the economic cycle will not come again. We would like to agree with them, but the shadows of the period ten years after World Yar I are too clearly remembered. THE OLD HOME TOWN - Yet we must admit that mater- Voice OP THE People Do you think legislation on peacetime military conscription should be settled now or deferred until after the war is won? E. P. Martin "I think we should wait until after the war to settle it. but 1 am in favor of compulsory military training.'' Mrs. Jack Taylor "I think it should be settled right now while the American people are still vit ally interested. Mrs. J. J. Eertfuson "I am in favor ol settling the matter right eh Curtis "I think it should settled at once and put in opera I ion " Mrs. Henry Foy "Yes, I ap prove of it right now if it is going to take Ibis type of military pre paredness and military training will be good for any boy." it. V. Welch "I think the mai ler should be settled at once." Mrs. Harry II. Luther "I think they should wait until after the war has been won, for fho draft is taking care right now. but I think we should have it." John Hoyd "I don't think we should delay getting military con scription for peacetime set up " T. ('. Morris "I think we should I start right now on the matter and I believe we should always have compulsory military training and ! have a big navy." Jack WorthinK'ton, U. S Navy "I think it should be at once, for I am afr aid that after the war is ! won people might forget how im- 1 portant this movement is." M. II. Bowles "All legislation I hat affects our national life should be deferred until the men in ser vice are home, so they can have a say so in settling the issue. They have been through the war and thev will know whether or not military training would have help ed them." TRANSACTIONS IN Real Estate Keaverdam Township W T. Payne, ct ux to It. F. Khymer. el ux. Alvin T. Smalhers, el ux to A 1. Smalhers, ct ux. W. II. Silver to N. II. Silver. Alvin T. Smalhers. el ux lo O II Wilson, et tix Arletha Watts, el vir to Walter Uevlin, ct ux. .John IJ. Smatliers to .J. I. Hall Clyde Township Hoii-A-Venture. Inc.. to If A Spears, et ux. Jonathan Clerk Township Waller Hannah, et ux to Wellha Ashby. Ivy Hill Township Oeneral Fie, et ux al to Hub ert W Martin. Jr. Pigeon Township Kmma Lee Keetes, et al to Paul Franklin Sheperd. et ux. Waynesville Township Bessie L. Abel, et al to (leorge A. Brown, Jr. et al. HayWood Home Building and Loan Association to Htifus Con arcl. Julius Sader. et ux to Boiling H Burress, et ux. White Oak Township Elizabeth P. Brady to John H. Smathers. line cooperation and the navy seems to be defending not only the sea but the land in this war. We like their attitude and we like to think of it as the great American Spirit that is leading the world today and will take its place in the World of Tomorrow By STANLEY ( NO-l FELL )( Hf S NOT AMENTIQNIN6 THE BOUNCES,) THROUGH A S DOOR AAAN AND TWO WAITER'S WHO ' ( Jk GLASS DOOW Uwepe vvRAPVEt? Af?OUNO HIM ' (SHAVE ;) . !'. J HE" ''FELL." THf?OUSH J I '"'"' ""r' , THAT poos y ' V? I Vv 1 y3& The ao(?nin after a aua a4iht- The Everyday Counseli -J5.V- KEV. HEHUEHT Si'AUCJH, jj. a What are you doing to cultivate your inner spiritual life? What are you doing to enable it to car- ry on profitably in the presence : of God after your friends and relatives have left your earthly remains in the cemetery? ' Thev wav so many people live . actively ami M, , research, l,nilne "" unlil the In,,,, ,,. ' nau pas.,1,1 """'k Asavu,' -!.- Wile ILi in er's studv ,,,,a he was readme V,"'1 Personal, devoti,,,,,. l,ife Hist,,,,' e ... I.,,,,; ,aU'r "'shop k,,,,,,,, ftohl a com ul ,, ,i urging thai h.. i,,i'".r A decade ,.,SM.(I , Or. Pfohl was ;,., , study and asked C'" and act one would think they ex pected to live! here on earth j lorever. I know j people won't even ; attend a funeral; j thev don't want ' to have to think ! about the inevit able. They won't make a will, be cause that com pels t h e in to Sit I wk . .,1 Pi ' ,m , ,.,Uil(. sonal devotional ' . replied. "Tl. I. ,,;.", . 'r"' Vears ,i)().d b succession The .;t ed the eight., v,. p I think about death. As if by keep- I ing one's mind away from the sub ject of death one could postpone or avert it! Bishop Kenneth Pfohl of the S o ii t h e r n Moravian Kpiseopal Church relates a very thought j provoking story concerning his predecessor in office, the late Bishop Kdward Hondthaler. Be fore being elevated to the Bishop's Ollice. Dr. Pfohl. the Pastor of the I Home Moravian Church in Winston-Salem. . C. was intimately associated with liisbop Hondthaler l fur many years. i Bishop Hondthaler was known ; to be a profound scholar and a diligent student. His mind was Or. Ptohl coiifi,,,,,,.,, hi; quesiron. MiIii,j 1(1 studying now i ,.lln(.ti sonal. devotional aays lie Will ,V(.r (l nr.snops rey ,,,.tain) fectionate n-huk,. and "I am studying the I, Lord. HOW can i BEJ "' 1 uo MM KNOW H we near I In- name J Han natron We ,ve J nan society Many u( read this are called I all of you ouuhi n, Jt. Yes. Hum (Uii Hf if we do nut kmm Him SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK T .: -'V-' y.- j"" . 4kl fer Pitted cuius; t r$CttAP5L KE -fowERof BABEL ARE OK A. PLAlK 50UH of BA.eyi.OK Po.iltE Barrel? oi A DoUBLE-BARREltP DIFFER FROM ONE AHOfHER ? One. is more otaKii' fttAK ftAE cfHER. Yttl MAM - EA.1LR. oF -fit AMAIOH RIVER 15 KI Llf1iE PRAHftA' rf MEASURES SIX To KINE IKCH IH lENftt JWASHINGTQ lobor Leaders Fear Post-War United Auto Workers' Loss of Many Union Members May Lose as High ai ty , Special to Central Press WASHINGTON Unemployment is only one of tlir ftai labor leaders as they contemplate reconversion The other specter is the prospect of heavy losses in union memberships as thousands of women, oklstna and normally outside the country's labor force, return to tlitir ho:ii The big CIO United Automobile Workers' union, headed by: Thomas, is a graphic example of this. The UAW, which dund war gained a membership of more than a already has lost heavily due to early lutl Now Thomas foresees the possible loss q 000 members workers who migrated lo I fvM from the textile regions of the south and areas, attracted bv the lure of highly Paia facturing jobs. Thomas insists that Detrol permanently absorb these wor kers and uw must not be forced to return to thfM wage occupations.'' If Industry and government oftii in'8 tle all sure, however, that the automobile ww industries can expand peace-time opnatioj the point of giving permanent empieyin 'extra 300,000. f . . R.J. Thomosj REP' ROBERT RAMSPECk'Td) of Georgia,' Democrats fflA Pnncp covo tVtot tAaiAM n.mon iri11 o-tVe mOf? atlcBtl the management side of government than any presldenJ In many decades.;. -- Ramspeck said the" president'seeks toput"the government efficient ODeratine ba;is eliminating waste and extravagP" this end Ramspeck has suggested that the president naD1"5 manager io sireamune government paper worn iu -basis found In better business concerns. " Such a man. Ramspeck told the president,' should receive $25,000 a year" And, said Ramspeck. MrTruman isjrf). Interested in the idea.' . -- - - ... - - , A tc a rrrrrMn tii it nroohlntrtim trial I'lrnl will D- ;j . rt .; f.iror.l R Stettin'"3. "..j I 1C3IUCIII X I UJO&J1 W 1 c mui - . secretary of state for some months to come despite recurre i mai ne win De removeo irom ni rugn omce ' vijsco conierence. ' . i'-J However, any summary dismissal of SUttinius. it is s1 1 construed as a reprimand for failure at ean ri--- utuuu ine aamimsiration could not anoru io " - it wishes to have the United States play its rart.in-j organization to maintain world peace. , - r or mis reason, it is now generally accepieu ... j Stettinius will be retained in the cabinet at least until tM J .. . neact "'l completed me task of ratifying tne unjiea r tion document, which Stettinius must steer through head of the United States delegation to San Francisco.. A Tvrrn rTTTmnn - . IIa I )'P ranks of divorced persons who have remarried afterD'vJ one of those six weeks' residences in Nevada where gjsM they get unhitched the easy way , SuPf" 1 In two decisions the high court ruled that each r , fctate has the right to decide whether or not it w" regard Nevada divorces as legal. The cases came up tribunals in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Now sons in sutes from Maine to California are wonderiD orLa Vfia decree will be chltenfd i- ,,J "Ul -I "- ''.ill I bWl.j,, Id A$ft fo6 I'M
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