THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
THE WAYNE3TTLLE MOUNTAINEER
7AZ Tv0 (Second Section)
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The Mountaineer
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THE WAYNKKVII.LK IMHNTIWJ CO.
Main Street Phone 137
Wayncsville, Willi Carolina
The County Stat id Haywood County
W. CURTIS HI SS Editor
MRS. HILDA WAY CV.'YN Assoeiale Editor
W. Curtis Russ ami Marion T liriles. Publishers
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At Last
We are viv. thai a: tin' trial ol' Dr.
Leon K. Meadows. Ini'iinr president of
Eastern Carolina Tcael.-rs 'oll.-j-v, is nver
Whether or not the man is guilty ol' the
charges made ayraiit.-'t liim. it is a relief
that we will not haw to tvad about him
any more, for he will hardly he news as he
serves three years nti-nre in prison.
In th light of the eoti id ion of Dr. Mea
dows for embezzlement, certainly any at
tempt now by the board to white-wash him
could not he for the best interests of the
institution he was once president.
We hope that the members of the faculty
of the college, some of whom are said to
have been ready for retirement and were dis
charged because of their so-called "dis
loyalty", will be reinstated.
Confidence
The post-war expansion program which
is being launched by the Champion Paper
and Fibre Company involving an expenditure
of around $5,000,000 should give the citizens
of Haywood County confidence in the future
of this section. The expansion will mean
an increased capacity of this manufacturing
plant in our county which has given employ
ment to thousands of our people.
One of the lines! tilings about the Cham
pion Paper Company has been its relations
with employes since th
established. The loyally
and employer ha-- been a
the best in underst:. 'ml;
and labor.
What The Champion
plant was first
of both employes
hining example of
r between capital
I 'a pin- and Fibre
Company has nieaui ;unl will continue to
mean to Haywood County could never be
estimated either in dollars and cents or in
terms of cooperative good will.
May the plant r..!itisiii' to grow and pros
per and likewise the good -will it has fostered.
Appreciation
It has been our pleasure on various occa
sions to recognize th" contributions made
by Charles K. Ray. civic leader, in the name
of the development of this section. Again
the urge to commend him for his unfalter
ing efforts in behalf of the proposed high
Ways and improvements in good roads in
this area.
On a recent business trip to St. Louis,
Mr. Ray took time out to go to Chicago to
visit Park officials and follow-up the pro
gram of North Carolina's needs from the
Park Service as outlined at the meeting
held here a few weeks ago attended by Park
officials and state leaders.
This follow-up contact was in keeping
with Mr. Ray's courage and patience usually
displayed when he is working in the inter
est of this community. His vision of the
potential possibilities of this section is
matched only by his willingness to bend
very effort to bring things to a reality.
Japan is getting ready for the sort of
company none of us like people who stay
and stay and stay!
One plant suggests that its girl employes
get jobs as cooks. Will there be enough
tan openers?
Government experts predict a big boom
'in Christmas shopping. Why did they have
to bring that up?
The curb on photographic film has been
lifted. . My gosh, we still have to use tip
our "ohs" and "ahs" on vacation snaps.
Speeding
It was more or less a miracle that no one
was hurt s the driver of the 1 9.'i7 Chevro
let made his flashing trip up Main Street
recently. This type of driver is not only ;
dangerous to himself, but to others on the
highway. There might hav ' been any
number of accidents during the short drive
from Kast Waynesville to the time the car (
wrecked.
Sometimes it would appear that it might
be a blessing in disguise if the wartime
speed limit of '.15 miles an hour might he
kept on indefinitely as a safety measure for
all. While it did slow down travel some
what, since peace has come we should not
be in as much of a rush as formerly.
In The Air
The National Safety Council has recently
reported that sixteen American air lines
have completed their 19-14 operations with
out a single fatal accident. Moreover, that
United Air Lines, Inc., was granted the
Council's special wartime Distinguished Ser-vice-To-Safety
Award for operating more
than three years and over 1,000,000,000 pas
senger miles without a fatal accident.
This feat of the United Air Lines should
certainly inspire "grounded" Americans for
this was accomplished during a time when
the airlines have been (lying more passeng
ers, mail, freight and distance than ever
before.
All of which brings to mind how much has
been taking place in the air during the past
few years, for it has been only a short time
since a trip by plane was considered a dan
gerous way to travel. The old feeling that
10 travel on me ground was me sal est way
will soon he out of date completely, for the
statistics are fast proving otherwise.
The building of airports will be an im
portant note of progress in all communities,
and we feel sure that in time the question
will be agitated locally and that a suitable
location will be found.
Jap Surrender
With the Allied armada in Tokyo Pay, the
United States begins its most critical mili
tary occupation in history. Unlike Germany,
the controlling of Jajan will be largely an
"American show", with plans and procedures
"made in Washington." United States tt 'oops
almost exclusively will garrison Japan's
home islands. In consequence, Japan's future
is preponderantly in American hands.
Will we succeed in uprooting from the
Japanese mentality, for all time, the desire
for aggression and conquest? What will
Japan's Government, industry, religion, for
eign trade look like two, three, live years
from now? Three basic factors, it is realized,
will determine the whole course of our occu
pational relations with Japan: General Mac
Arthur's own personality and judgment, the
Potsdam declaration, embodied in the sur
render terms now to be signed on the battle
ship Missouri, and that secret over-all policy
directive which has been carefully written
by top officials in the State, War, and Navy
Departments and solemnized by White House
approval.
Americans are just beginning to realize
the size of General MacArthur's initial un
dertaking. This includes the surrender of a
home army of 2,500,000 Japanese which has
never been defeated and contains a fringe
of fanatics schooled from birth to believe
their nation invincible. In such a situation,
some fighting could conceivably develop.
Our long-term undertaking is equally
: i. . ....
v-iitrcai, nowever, ana will be the real test
of statesmanship and vision. This comes
when General MacArthur and his advisers
begin to carry out the Potsdam terms and
their implementation as provided in the as-yet-unpublished
fundamental policy direc
tive. T - i . .
dctpana surrender provisions resemble i
those handed Germany in some points: The
Japanese Army is to be disbanded, war
criminals are to be punished, all conquered
territory is surrendered, war industry is to
be uprooted. But there are two striking dis
similarities : First, the Japanese Government
continues to exist and will exist to carry out
the orders of General MacArthur; second,
the Allies promise to get out of Japan as soon
as the specific surrender conditions have
been fulfilled.
Take these together, add the conditions
of a shrewd Japanese Government and a
gullible American occupation, and the Japa
nese "reformation" could be merely a facade
which would fall away, revealing the old
militarist Japan, when the last American
Warship had left Tokyo Bay some months
and probably years hence.
Postwar Japan will be an island nation,
small and Weak fey circumstance, but po
tentially xptosive by ambition and birth
rate. Can General MacArthur and his Wash
ington policymakers, with Allied assistance,
channel and redirect Japanese energies into
permanently peaceful paths? Christian Sci
ence Monitor. "v"r ' 1 " - r 15
WE HOPE HE LEARNED HIS LESSON
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HERE and THERE
Bj
HILDA WAY GWYN
" 'eliiioli,'nlnoar
Km- ol the J. ws
M old II,.!
And - on.' old ' hoes"
We ('ou t know the origin of the
alxo c i m. le. In, I v. e recall it. since
clnlilliood il.!v ami ol recent years
as we !..r. e viewed Hie rows upon
rows ol noes m .- imps lor repair.
taught people to take better care
of their shoes. They don I let em
run on needing repairs. Thry be
lieve in that stitch in time. Hut
it has been bad on feel. These
play shoes have ruined many a
woman's loot, so she will have to
wear bigger sizes and lower heels.
Maybe it will be a good thing alter
all," he said.
I he i i osle has i nine to mine! otten
Jin
as one
rhyme-,
ifllif
but oni
believ a
on lite
, ol our childhood's pet
( ild -hoes may seem a
siiloe. i on w liich to write,
e on -I arl it is simply un
b!e bow much can he said
"We have had as many as 1.000
shoes in one month to repair. It
takes at least one-third longer to
fix them today, because the shoes
are wearing out and the supplies
to mend are not so good, and the
rationed shoes have never hern up
to standard. They have not fooled
anyone, for they were bought as
such. I will be glad when it is all
over, for we have put some mighty
good work on mighty poor shoes.
Vou would be surprised how many
times we find tar paper or oil cloth,
where we used to lind leather
when you start in to repair," he
explained.
'.m.jt
ct.
lial'oiiiitg ol stiocs has brought
Ihein into none prominence as foot
wear than lhe, ordinarily come in
lor mil ihosc .'.lamps in Hook
Torre put more than a price tag
on I hen II made t hem rare arti
cles which it look more than money
to bu;. .
What really started us on this
train ol thought that has lead us
inlo asking many ipiesl ions, was a
story to tin' elVect that The Na
tional Shoe Manufacturers Asso
ciation is in tavor ol ending sho
"I have half soled one pair of
shoes in this town seven times. You
know people just bate lo part with
their prewar shoes, and you c-in't
blame them," said .lick Nichols,
who operates a shoe irpair shop.
"I naturally like to work on shoes
! i .ii loiniig not later i nan uci. i,
I while retailers are holding out for
1 Nov ember 1
It's a funny thing abouU old
shoes. They are so often kept for
senl imenl N sake. Take wedding
for women, hi the first place the
women are easier pleased than the
men and the second I like to work
on this type shoe belter. 1 never
have had to repair as many chil
dren's shoes as I hae in the past
two years. 1 guess tl-cic are two
reasons. Maybe l hey are rougher
on 'em than they used to be and
of course the shoes are not near
so good. I have worked on hun
dreds of shoes a month since ra
tioning started. It is funny hov.
white shoes have jusl gone mil.
We work on mole t.oi shoes than
any other color. 1 will certainly
be glad when it is all over, and
the shoes are made ol better ma
terials. I don't like to work on
poorly made shoes.'' Mr. Nuhols
continued.
Sh
iel s
Most brides never wear
I'.ul (hey w ill keep those
around the house until
ii.iii' a perfect nuisance.
recall how we hated to
i uin, a few years back. We
col our big toe in them,
them on
old lion
lhe he
We wel
pai l w . I
coulda 1
ncalicr coiiid anyone in our family,
lor '.be rising generation who have
woin io.it. is ' couldn't wear slip
tiers n. lib on in n pointed lines of
tintu.'c ll look us several years
bed :e ..e.oiihl per-uade ourselves
to lit cud tliein. One day during
a dr. e tic .-pring cleaning we watch
ed th. -Mi i url up in
fu; i'c. i .
flames in the
And
bahv
shoes. Mow a mother
n. especially that first
i:;.v be soiled, and the
lo th.
Tii.-s
Then the picture was not com
plete without Hie view point of
the man who sells them over the
counter, so we look ourselves to
consult a few dealers.
iocs tinned up. but that does not
keep them from bring among life's
trndoiesi souvenirs. The modern
method of Inning them covered
wiih metal is ;i ery pleasing way
lo pi ( serve t hem.
.'ow when it comes to just or
dinal'', ohl shoes, we. never dream
ed the.' would he so treasured Until
the .laps made their attack on Pearl
Harbor. Kvents followed in quick
succession, and the next thing we
knew m- weie deep in the res
trictions ol rationing. Leather was
needed for the great armies of our
country, so .substitutes must be
made tor the shhocs of civilians.
Then those old prewar shoes sud
denly became priceless. They be
gan to show definite signs of wear
ing out. Something had to be done
about the matter. We took our
selves to our shoe shop and there
we found that everybody else in
our 'community was having the
same experience. Dozens of shoes,
in every condition of '"wear and
tear ' greeted our vision. Those
prewar shoes just naturally stood
up under wear and weather and
the ones bought with a stamp us
ually had some weak spot so old
ones long discarded were hunted
out and repaired.
"People generally have respond
ed and accepted gracefully the shoe
rationing. The hardest thing lor
them to' get has been that they
cannot buy shoes and leave their
stamp books at home. Why you
know me, you know 1 will bring
the stamp into you'. . . 'You know
you would trust me,' they have
said. .. Maybe they were buying
for the entire family who had come
into the shop. This has been the
biggest problem we have had. The
people have taken the rationing as
such in a fine spirit," said Chas.
E. Ray.
"People have been mighty phi
losophical about the whole tiling.
They have seemed to realize that
THE OLD
"There are some women in this
town who thought they could not
wear a shoe tt)at had been half
soled, but they changed their
minds. I have put repairs on some
shoes as many as eight times. I
have patched 'em in every way you
can imagine," said Horace Duckett,
who has been in the business for
the past 25 years.
"But you know during the war
I believe that it has been easier to
please the women than the men.
Maybe it was because we have had
so much work to do, that we could
not turn things out always on time,
and the women have sweet-talked
us to get theirs done in a hurry,"
he continued.
-LOOKS LIKE
fJ?E-M.R FOvVU
"Another thing Ithis war has
r-n n 1 1 n i v , v i
Voice
OF THE
People
I)0 you think that along with
thins in seneral that real estate
prices have reached their peak?
Grayden Ferffuson-
thal they have."
-'Yes. I feel
M. O. Stanley "The returning
soldiers will have some effect on
i real estate values, but how much
and in what direction I am frank
to say I cannot predict."
A. K. Ward "I think surely it
ha-, but I am told every clay that
it lias not."
' I arl Ferguson "I would be
j afraid to say. for nobody knows
; what will come to pass during the
! next sear."
Ashury Howell "I might be
badly fooled, but 1 think it lias
reached the 1(P "
Jake I.ove "I believe real estate
iies have reached the top."
I
Noble Garrett "1 don t tmnK
the prices are as high as they are
going to be, for I believe there
will come a time when desirable
pronerty in this section will bring
moie than it does today. If I had
air. to sell I would not sell now."
! J. II. Way. Jr. "It might be
I best if the peak is reached at this
lime."
: Sam Oueen "I certainly do. I
1 don't see how it could go any
I higher."
('. N. Allen "I doubt it."
State College Hints
Keep sugar sirup on hand for
sweetening fruit drinks and iced
tea. It goes further than plain
sukar. To prepare, boil together
for 3 to 5 minutes equal parts
of sugar and water. Keep eover
ered tightly in refrigerator.
Add a little salt to froslings, pie
fillings, and puddings. 11 brings
out the sweet.
Chop dried fruits, combined
with nuts, moisten with honey or
corn sirup, and use as a filling for
layer cakes. Use strained honey
or maple sirup and chopped nuts
as an ice cream sauce.
When you do find sheets for sale
don't be stampeded by the mere
sight of them and snatch them
up. regardless. Look for a label
giving size, and remember that
"torn size" means the size before
hemming. Sheets which are too
short like blankets which are too
short are uncomfortable and are
necessarily subject to more strain
than those which are long enough
to tuck in firmly.
A good bath towel is one that
absorbs moisture quickly, and
doesn't hang on the rack soggy
and heavy for hours. That's the
bather's viewpoint and a very
sound one. But there are also
other factors to be considered
when you shop for towels.
Absorbency depends on the
amount of pile or looped surface
a towel has. The more pile yarns
to the inch the greater the drying
power. Long loops make for a
soft fluffy towel, but Snr good
wear too long loops are not ad
visable. Loops about one-eighth
inch long are considered a desir
able length.
it coudl not be helped and they
have grasped the situation. Some
times I think they have taken it
better than we who are selling the
shoes," said J. L. Carwile, at the
Toggery.
"There has actually been more
stamps than shoes through it all,
and people have bought more shoes
than they did before rationing. This
has been in part due to the poor
quality of the war time shoes and
in a large part to the fact that shoe
stamps seemed to burn in a per
son's hand. They just had to buy
shoes," said C. J. Reece, at Mas
sie's Department Store.
HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
-3 rwA A ssr
"
AT MRS SULPMUWO BRIMSTONES BOACVJS HOUSE'
THE NEIGHBORS ABE CONTRIBUTAIG iurnnrs
For SUNDAY CHNME . ..
The
Everyday Counsek
KKV. IIKKHKUT SPAVt.ll.
I- !).
Moral parab. sis will kill a man
jusl as sure as a heart attack: and
it will do much more t lan a
i heart attack it will send him to
! bel'
w ii h one ,,,
lllany e ,.
(ll'eils o i
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the ih , ;i ,
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winch 1 1 , i
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Tills
ions ij,,.
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.vlorat paralysis creeps up on
grM- -. n) n and women.
jVK" in inscious of it.
l ase auer case
come to this desk.
1 he pattern is so
I i lil.ar that it
w o u 1 d become
monotonous if it
were not so ler
ruving. Yet each
one thinks h i s
tii.-ob t,, ;
I line i , , ,
si u nci ,i,!i: ,
a I w t. y S 1U.;
in retiem,
Hook, in, i;
i.h'e v. g s
l;.s,s. i, .,
ill's! !. , l
but h. ;,.,:
-iv good
Lord.
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wom.-n. g ,.,
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it v.i:; he i,
al'..i'. -. i .,,
c'l i le.
For iM if
and spei i,,
I'el -o,l,',i ,r
Spaugh in (,
in which -in
a heig
!;f tiinl '.
problem.
iritnfM ' ase is dill ( rent .
T 11 10 Y A L L
START WHKN A .MAN t'OM
MKN'CKS TO KOKCKT ClOIX The
disease is no respecter of persons.
It lays hold upon the saint as well
as the sinner. Here are some of
the symptoms:
1. Neglect of personal prayer
and Bible reading. Failure to say
grace before meals'.
2. Breaking Un
church aft' in':.!.;
3. Cioless usi
personal and 'di
4. Sol ii. ink'
for liquor is .a on
into pel -entil ni n
fi. Negled of
habit of regular
of
S. .lay
1 1 o 1 to . "I
Hu 1
it :lee
for
relnt ion
ling can
ships. I'l oin now on ;
happen.
There are those who will lake
violent exceptions lo some of these
steps given above. Let me say
this. You have had expcrieni e
YOU'RE TELLING
By WIUIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
A NEW ALARM CLOCK, ac
cording to an item in the
Toronto Star, will start the
electric toaster going the in
stant the bell rings to awaken
you. What, no coffee?
lit
Those Massachusetts risher
men who caught two deer along
with mackerel and cod in their
nets now can tell a four-legged
fish story.
! ! !
The one that got away, no
doubt, was a bull moose,
i i j
Grandpappy Jenkins says he
has decided not to wait for
atomic energy so he's ordering
eoal. He has a sneaking idea
I distil.
i
winter may get here fir.nl
i i i
That new beer vhici
goes Bat. s.iys Bttchi
Dyer, spoils one good cj
drinking the stuff list.
! ! !
Zadok Dumkopf soyi tkj
method of transmitting rodi
grams via stratoplane rl
orettv hicih iust to disM
some low comedy.
i i i
The jcop, according
item, performs 50 ilifTeren
chores including, asks ua
at the next dofk. the bus
griping about low pro
prices and bad crop outlo
.ftfiA&WASHINGfl)
Labor Gets Ready
For New Demands
For Social. Setl
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON One of labor's prime post-war goals wiD
obtain social security or welfare funds finance,! by employers.
contracts are reopened or new ones negotiated in the future,
pronosition will rank hisrh among labor's demands.
The hie fro 1'nitort Automobile Workers' union already M
mulated a welfare or insurance scheme calling for employer
trihutions totaling three per cent of the insured workers I'l
earnings.
New York's recent three-week newspaper deli veryraer, s
clmmn.l larroh. frnm Pllfh a
demand.
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Wcrkeifl
rfmnnorl Viic ffial rnvnltv demand tO SlgB
...o- ,st,.ot o fo.e months aeo. no- a-X
41 II
local unions that the issue is not dead.
a t vtttt Tc a r.TrvTTTYK FEELING in
i rvrrt t h o f tMotvi nln vm PT t U'OIl't be BS tB
nredict nor will the process
converting to peace-time production H
and bring industrial chaos.
Materials for reconversion are
In fact, he pri
WPB chief Julius Krug.
John L. lewn they will be "running out of our ears
uueau ior lpuusuy on a
mean most of the unemployed will be quickly reabsorbed,
the "normal" two to Ken anr n half million unemployed.
p . . ,,1:0.1. view to'iri:
'-"J'feIso 13 t'AJIVL LCU tU lfcLIe H. Ilill.sillJ. it....--'-
tecting the nation againFt widespread unemployment, aa.
eminent is
production.
planning to keep controls over prices,
- r.,. ,..s. the focal point
V H.JV1J-C1-.UK liiKUHllU Uf JU'A.1 ' " , f,ri
t. . . - ...... ,,: nil in l
omciai American tug-of-war, wun one i.n "" 1 (oriisi
tual arrest and trial as a war criminal and the othe
a rallying point for the "new" Japan. miii:i
rr., . .. .. ...... It lilt On U'C
inose wno want to spare nis nie cuiuenu
.. . . ..... u rs s , 1 r r COt
japan snould be blamed tor sr.ari.int; uie 1 r h.,
peror, these people say. actually had no con.roi -
once they decided on world conquest. .n--.!ics!
Rliccia'o lifilatnH Di.lrnn intn the .Tall Wlr II".
its on
debate because the Soviet Union may deui.t .... t R.,ss:3
Hirohito is a war criminal. In fact, it is ki"" -wbteC'
.. . .... . . : Tanan WnO UH .,
iouk lavoramy upon leiusc elements m et
planning to set up their own government when l.
. . ...i,htvi:
THE WPB, BUSY WITH a thousand and one
sion problems, took time out the other day to lie P
America button up their war-produced clotmni,- ers0fts;
It announced "priorities assistance" for manu.ac.
eippers, buttons, buttonholes, hook and eyes
and
the anm
that it was postponing its proposed new price sc.
. . iT-.c.liir.rton
Not to be outdone, the OPA came out vvlth daIe for pi
THERE IS A STRONG BELIEF in a,..-r jdor,
Jonathan Wainwright. the commander-hero 01
assigned to aid Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the occ
pation of Japan. . ...
r?i,t tn ,1 v, o,tinn nf Wainv-'ripT
who was forced to surrender in the dark, early av
of the war and has been a prisoner of the Japan
ever since. - fairly weu
If Wainwrleht has been decently treated ana
still maintains his health, it is likely he will go to f
.... have m
i nome in the 6tates. it me japn . y,enl
there is little doubt but that it will go harder iw
have accorded him decent treatment
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