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THE WaFNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER inuKMM, OCTOBER - ; " T " ' ' , . 1- i The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 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, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $2.00 Six Mouths, In Haywood County 1-25 One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 150 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance TiiIitcI ut the Ww at Wauwuvillv, S. C. as Second ( hiss M.ul Mutter, as pf.n ul. .! under the Aet of Marc h a, 18711, ,m,'ii,lR-r 1911. OoitUi.ry noti. e. resolutions of res,et t. rani of thaiiFS, ami u!l ntiiea of enteiU el.t for (fit. will be rluigril for at tl.e lilte of une enl nt-r word. NATIONAL DITOFIAl rtT ASSOC AT ON ' '- xNortb Carolina v4k Till KSDAY, (HTOIIKK I, UM-" The Chaplain ('apt. John H. Carper, discharKod chap lain from the army, and former pastor of Long's Chapel, Lake Junaluska Methodist Church, should have much to give- his con gregations of the future from the experi ences of the past three and half years. He lias been close to men in great emergencies. He has seen men die for their country and his understanding has been enriched. We look forward with interest to reading some of his experiences as a "fighting par son", for they will reveal how a man may serve his Master and men on the battle fields. Cooperation We are glad to note the growing interest of Tennessee officials and citizens in the proposed water level road from here to Newport. In this section we are especially interested in the movement as it is sponsor ed in Johnson City, with Fred Yearout, for mer Waynesville citizen, president of the Chamber of Commerce. It gives us confidence that the people in that section will get behind the movement, for Mr. Yearout knows both sides of the . question. Having resided in Haywood Coun ty he knows what it will mean to this area and now a resident on the other side of the mountain he knows that side and can like wise appreciate the complete picture of benefit to the entire area. A Large Figure We notice in the Sunday edition of The Asheville Citizen-Times that the casualties from Haywood County are listed as 8it killed in action. We wish to make the correction of this number for as will be noted on the front page of this issue the figures now stand at 110 Haywood men who have made the supreme sacrifice. We also wish to make another correction, the total list of casualties was placed at 478 and thva,too is incorrect, for the total list of thoskffied in action, missing, wounded and held as prisoners of war is 381. We do not wish either to get credit for more casualties than we have had, nor do we wish one man to get left out of the honor roll of casualties. We merely wish the record kept straight. We have taken pains to keep these records .'on file with dates and information about these heroes of Haywood county for we have felt that we were handling valuable historical lata that would prove of increasing value 'as the years pass. Volunteers l We were interested last week in learning "of Sgt. Walter Brown's ideas on the subject of volunteers in the armed forces. After liis 28 years of training men we have con fidence in the sergeant's knowledge of such matters. It stands to reason that if a man Volunteers he is deeply interested in be coming a soldier or sailor, henre he would jiaturally bring more enthusiasm to his work 'and greater application to the mastery of Ihe training and discipline. If men are needed to occupy Germajiy and Japan it would appear that these men who are anxious to serve would make better sol diers. On the other hand it would not inter fere with the proposed military training of pur youth, who might be trained here at home without being sent on occupational duties outside of the States. To make soldiers free and equal again by putting all peacetime services oh a volun tary basis for regular service should not conflict with a year of compulsory training for our youth. , The Outstanding Hero Western North Carolina sent thousands of brave men into the armed forces of the nation. They fought on every front and in virtually every battle of this war. They were to be found in every branch of the army, the navy and the marine corps. They filled every rank. f!ut this section's outstanding hero by the record is Sergeant Max Thompson of Dix Creek section, Haywood County. He is out standing because he received the nation's highest award, the Congressional Medal of Honor. He is outstanding also for the feat of raw heroism which he performed. To win the Congressional Medal of Honor Sergeant Thompson had to stop single handedly a German breakthrough. In halt ing the mass assault, he killed 23 German soldiers, wounded an indeterminate number of others and demeaned himself with all of the deadly destructiveness of a one-man army. The heroism which he exhibited was, in the stately language of the award itself, "above and beyond the call of duty." Haywood County will honor him fittingly. He is its very own. But all Western North Carolina has pride in his truly incredible exploit. We rejoice to know that this sec tion contributed such a hero to the war. Asheville Citizen-Times. HORRORS OF PEACE rjitty&$g&w . .rill Looking Toward the Future On every turn now as life is gradually swinging back to peacetime ways, with re strictions removed, it is interesting to watch the changes that are taking place. One does not have to read what they are doing in Washington, or in New York or Phil adelphia, to get the signs of the tide. One may read the signs of the times right here in Waynesville and in Haywood county. There is an optimism that is contagious. It is a kind of "growing pains." You note it everywhere you go. You hear it in all conversations. As people get away from war they are trying to catch a new vision of what they want out of life, of what they want to accomplish. You see it in the expansion of business and you note the optimism in transfer of property. It is noted in the interest that people from other sections are showing in owning property here. Every concern seems to feel that it is time to plan for a bigger and better future, to meet the general expansion of others as they build with a larger vision. HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Tourist Mecca Among the many highway projects being planned, waiting only materials and labor, is one for building a highway into the Smoky mountains over the southern route from Asheville, designed to lead through Balsam gap. It is part of the plan to com plete the Blue Ridge parkway and to con nect it with highways going into the Great Smokies. This area will become one of the big vacation and tourist areas in the world. It was on the way to that when the war in terrupted such a trend. The time was when anything comparable tq this meant a trip to Switzerland, obviously out of the question except for a very small percentage of Amer icans. This will be better than Switzerland, for there one had to do his mountain climbing with a rope and an ice axe. In the Great Smokies-he will do most of it with an auto mobile. It has always been contended by patriots that the Blue Ridge had more to offer than the mountains in other continents. Once the road is clear, hundreds of thousands of tourists will find that for themselves. The Charlotte Observer. This is newspaper week Maybe it doesn't mean much to you as a reader except that it is another week on the calendar but to those who belong to the field of news papering it is a week of taking stock in geenral. In this year 1945 it has special significance, for the future of the American press is giving editors a lot of concern all over the nation. As the business man is taking note of the chang ing times, so the editors are on the alert to keep step with the needs and trends in their commun ities. The course we take in this World of Tomorrow, which is now today has been blazed with antici pation and prophesy, it is still more or less a pioneer trial. As the "plot thickens," so to speak with a varied distri bution of news, for the radio is getting so it beats tlie papers to the big spot type of cover age and added soon will be the "illustration" of the radio news by television news papers will have keen compe tition certainly in the daily field. Confusing It looks like we are being asked by friend and foe for help. We are speaking of our national situation. On one side is England, made poor by the war she fought before and with us, and she is needing large sup plies, foods and materials. On the other is Japan who has ruined her internal economic system to fight against us, and she wants American credit to build back. Can we help both? Do we have enough supplies for both, since we too1 have been strained to keep the war going. We cannot afford to let the Japs starve. The war was fought for freedom of the peoples of the world. It would not be hu mane even if they do not deserve it. We must help them get in a position to at least operate their government and live. It might bring us more trouble in the long run if we failed to give them aid. We don't want to have a permanent job of occupation. On the other hand there is England, our friend, who has suffered long arid she needs everything we can spare. It looks like she should be .served at the first' table and if there are any left overs they may go to Japan. . . . Then to us comes the question Where is the weekly newspaper going to find itself in this fast moving streamlined postwar world? . . . How are we country editors and reporters going to meet the "One World idea?" . . . Right here in our own community we are con stantly adding new residents from cities and from distant areas. They are locating here permanently. The O. 1. Joes are coming back. They are not the same boys who left home. They are matured now with a wider vision of things. As all these new phases of small town paper problems come to mind, we find ourselves thinking about Benjamin Franklin. We are inclined to believe that he must have had a bumper crop of doubts when he launched his weekly The Saturday Evening Post. Maybe we are prejudiced. Maybe we are too close to the picture to get a proper per spective, but it seems to us that the greater the resources and means of distribution of spot news the radio and what not the more secure and more definite is the place of the weekly newspaper. More and more are its services dis tinct and personal. In the . first place we rparl re cently tHat half of the population of the United States is living in towns under 10,000 that would give around 60.000,000 readers for the country newspapers. Now we admit that the radio can tell these 60,000,000 all the big events happening in the world before the R. F. D. delivers the daily paper and we also admit that the daily paper can reach these 60,000, 000 before the weekly paper can But the radio and the daily does not bring the same personal and individual news that the country newspaper can. Few of us are famous enough to make headlines in a daily or news over a radjo yet we may make the front page of our own paper without even trying. The fact that a farmer on Jonathan Creek bought some purebred Here fords to add to his fine herd is news to us here in Haywood. It is front page copy. The fact that a local merchant has gone to New York or St Louis to buy fall merchandise is of in terest to us. These items would never nuke the daily along with such i'ems as the fact . that a socialite from New York had gone to Reno to get a di vorce from her fourth husband or that another Hollywood star had adopted a babj. We really are not concerned about how many husbands the lady from the upper crust is going to have or the adopted babies in Hollywood! They are rather far away from our daily, lives even though they make entertaining reading. Voice OF THE People What do you think is the greatest service a newspaper renders a community? Mrs. Kdilh P. Alley They give life to a community ;ukI progressive inspiration through publicity for greater developments." Just Odds and Ends of Wire D;,.i... i . RAMBLING AROti Earl Ferguson "By keeping the; public informed about what is going on in the community." Ralph I'revost : think the Waynesville Moun taineer i s doing an excellent job which could be done by other news papers in other communities. In ut her words we have a good exam ple right here at home." Joe Davis I'o report the news accurately Maintain a flexible attitude to i praise or criticism." Stanley Hrading ' i think there are two ways, first accurate and unbiased presentation of I he news, and second pointing out to Ihe public the possibilities and oppoi'l unities of their community." C. E. BROWN, school attendance ! through. officer, is getting a wealth of 1 Time wt human interest material from his ! becani work. This material would make an interesting book some day. He ' has already had some unusual ex-; periences, and the work only start-' ed this school term. The first I month of school was devoted to organizing the work and informing! prayer teachers and patrons, and only in the past week or so has he gone after the folks who ought to De in school. The results are very satisfactory. ROBERT HI GH CLARK, former electrician, just sent us the three V-J editions of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, which played up the end of the war in the fullest coverage we have seen. They used pictures from the start at Pearl Harbor right down to V-J Day, and on lop of that used bright colored newsprint, typical of colorful Hawaii. One interesting feature of the paper is their ultra-modern make-up. and on the front we noticed a line "Airplane delivery on islands other than Oahu." 1 "n. anrt UlM. .,,,J A tloath i,,ii?t wd.raeu to j in German; received, I held in tu. i, lsier was . Hie nearby ju-i ceiver. but ( ,u.r out of the huLNc a came driving Up ' , infm-m 11,.. i h.T ...V". lrn H JUM caned fru.. where he had hut ,'' .0 I'uwlt. r.(J ' luntr; '-' ai 1 "in .ml pv.ne rj Hi n, dill of an jiw He was told I' was later I, was his call that rea( ler home uui:nL. iol getting this friend The burial mtu,, poned until ii. ,.x were attended h; lt the call been i! la,i'd ininuies, he uould aDie to attend his mother all the It is a funny thing Often one meets a person who has a terrific superiority complex about a week ly newspaper. They seem to think it smart to look for typographical errors, as if the big dailies don t slip up too sometimes. Yet let em have a wedding or a death -and here they come. It suddenly dawns on them that their weekly paper is a most important medium through which they can secure a public announcement or in many cases a record to keep always Take such a small item as a birth notice . . . Many is the time wo have taken down our phone to bear, "We would like to give you a birth announcement . . . and would you please put in who the mother was before her marriage . . . you know she wants to save the clipping for the baby book" . . . "Yes, Junior had a birthday party. . ... of course I know it isn't much news, but I do so want a copy of it to save" . . . "Yes, we would like for you to give as much space to his death as you can, for the family would all like to keep the account" . . . "Yes, you know how brides are, they want to save everything about their parties for their bride's book, so I don't want a one left out . . . "Yes, I know there are already five for this week's paper, but you know I don't intend to gel married but once . . . "Yes, my son is home from Europe, please give him a special write-up . . . and on it goes . . . These requests arc weekly complied with . . . with interest and understanding, because the reporters and editors know the folks they are writing about, and are happy to co-operate . . . Now where in the world could you get such service except your own home town paper? And for these things we be lieve the weekly newspaper has the biggest chance it has ever had to hold forever a per manent place in the lives of the people it serves. Another thing we have noticed with interest during the 11 years we have been on The Mountaineer is, its widening of coverage. The Mountaineer does not serve only the town in which it is published. It Is a Haywood county paper and as the miles have lessened between the towns and the country by means of good roads and common interests of the people so has the service of the paper spread until it is no longer a Waynesville paper but covers a county. This has happened to weekly papers all over the country. Aside from the personal ele ment, take the county and town elections that are covered in a weekly newspaper. They really affect us more than the election of a U. S. Senator. These local men shape the pol icies of our local government. I). Iteeves Noland '.l,i I 1 1 lie IIk- Mounlaineer doill.:',. Major Cecil ISrown Sal', .iiinn Army "To keep ihe public informed about local matters and to uphold a hi'.'h standard of liviu;; and progress." Ciovcr Davis "I'd keep before the public the Ihin.L.s thai are necessary for the development of the community." Joe l!ose "A job like the Mountaineer is dninj.;. I think it is the best small town paper I ever saw." !'. II. Blaekwell "The greatest service a news paper could render a community uould he to be edited and managed just like the Waynesville Mountaineer. Commander Henry I,ee Uet ired. U. S. Navy "Reporting accurately the local news; a summary of world news; a summary of non-partisan local, stale and national political news; editorials on local issues; articles of scientific, historical and agricul tural interest; a section devoted to upbuilding and promoting the welfare of the local community." BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Esco Justice, of waynesvjlle, R.F.D. Nc 2, an nounce the birth of a son on Sep tember 27. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Allen, of Waynesville, R .F. D. No. 2, announce the birth of a son on September 28. Mr. and Mrs. Noland J. Reagan, of Way nesville, R. F. D. No. 1, an nounce the birth of a daughter on September 28. Mr. and Mrs. William Elsie Ens ley, of Balsam, announce the birth of a daughter on September 29. Mr. and Mrs. Woodiow Ledford, of Waynesville, R. F. D. No. 2, an nounce the birth of a son on Sep tember 30. Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon' Smathers, of Waynesville, R. F. D. No. 2, an nounce the birth of a son on Sep tember 30. Yet vc do not mean to mini mize the importance of a a strong national policy for the weekly newspaper, or the lack of knowledge of what is going on in the outside world, for our viewpoint is no longer iso lated, for this generation has seen the world But rather to show that the weekly news paper has a place all its own in our lives a place that can not be duplicated by any other publication. THE OLD HOME TOWN . !d U S Pj'nl Ofhce By STANLEY HEY LUKf! " sa ( NEVEIgMNCa JL)NIOE?,He 'rfi hpi?eTKET ff I won't NEEt it vwepe: pSSSUres- HOWARD CLAPP tells us this. incident, which surpasses any simi lar story we have heard to come out of the war. It all happened to Mrs. Clapp's brother, Lt. Sam Fowler, stationed in Germany. Several weeks ago. Mrs. Fowler, mother of Mrs. Clapp and Lt. Fow ler, became critically ill at her Winston-Salem home. The Red Cross at once notified Lt. Fowder of the illness of bis mother, yet no one at the r owier nome couiu learn whether the message ever got I! even funeral 'ay tium reach her bedside. t. WtATIIKR lliat the supreme le patience is the squad of 35 football i are getting read; fJ they ask such rapid as, Where's my knet have another shoe the tape for seen my helmet pun oo mo unm an! until the team lak my h, The Everyday Counsel By- REV. HERBERT SPAUHH, D. D. Are you a needier? I hope not. Few of those who are will admit it, but there is nothing more dis- stead of try in;: to pu up to the level uf achieve, tliev alien astrous to personal happiness than 1 down to their level. that unfortunate habit of picking, needling, finding fault, sticking verbal pins into the feelings of other people. Recently in this column we out lined a good method of dealing with these unfornates. There are four classes of them, each progressively worse than the other. 1. The first is the fault-finder. This comes as a result of looking for the bad instead of the good, for the faults instead of virtues. It is the result of a wrong atti tude. While the world is full of beautiful things, people with fine qualities, he does not see them be- cause he is not looking for them. I have yet to meet a man, woman, boy, or girl about whom something good could not be said. 2. Victims of an inferiority complex. This is usually acquired in childhood as the result of fault finding parents and teachers. In- ever tion new 3. criticising Ihiw and courage lc achievement. Those sulVennp of frustration. Here i: "mother-in-law" trouti Many mothers subcon: having their children them by marriage. Ii ! joicing over the u i have a new son or d: take the attitude thJ I lost one. Frustrated, j the aggressor usually ' and bitter words. I 4. Those who secri unholy delight in people, seeing them inflates their "ego'' self-importance. By ers distorted minds are drawing atnimil selves. Usually, if I lie mini (Continued on WASHING! Japan's Servile Attitude Part of Nip Philosophy Labor Departmer Inexperienced, I Special to Central Press WASHINGTON The docility with which Japan is total defeat and American occupation has been perplexml .m;i in xina.i.;nnfAn tt v,ftn'Tfir In exnerts Oil iniiv lam in vv aoiiiiig li,i I. iiii. ow, uL"i, - . philosophy and psychology Army and Navy men and officials who have lived in Japan. The die-hnrrt hnnsta nf tho Samurai-insnired Japanese limtn ,l,,-;rwllo,l In ,,,Vi ionaraH enrrv" nhl'flSeS On the Wl OUV UVVI1IOILU VV VU UV UWI lJ r , press and or. the rubbled street RhB miitoil hnasts. The enemy is please. He is aware that he thus far h the fate of Germany, which fougni w High quarters view Japan's hirn-abi natural reaction of a lorrmr turned against his master, stole tne - j...,ti,m hince. Japan went uii a ucauuvu n- x. c or rolp n the 11 10 reium to oci iumn-. at least is striving hard to give tna' , i,wv pynerts pom' L.. . ,,iiiiv to sometw nas oeen one vi something is force and P3 me now-puppet empci'. JAP AN jfijL JAPAN Japan , i : nrmp.l might. taieu oy ftrae . ai : - - h . no oi'An in wnsnittt'LiJii. - - nt of ti TlfiOn it In l ower, save for the die-hards, many of whom are 1 ari-kiri. m . .. wi.stic vet H LAoun uLALicns are none too cum department administration of Secretary Lewis c l rni votoi-ar. ,mlnn Innlor cnlH the WW cabinet 1 r;. i.: : " hi.boiied wni uppieeiate tne met tnat una i tfD-rani The same official pointed out that three of tne ' J uejiaruneni executives re an evwwii" j -- . 1n tna former insurange agent (Assistant Secretary Mor on cooDerativea (John Carson), all with scant eP matters. Itlti INAVK SCiJJ icr-' . jnto the Pacific by turning some of its mighty carne transports if the -"brass hats' will permit tj Carriers en rout to the Pacmc earuei ... - ean thousands of Marines In the days when the responsible for a great shipping snonage. hai In those days, hundreds ol cots were set up fortJ (usually used for storing planes), it- is travel but some persons feel that veterans s00nerj put up with almost any Inconvenience to Set no J 8 tasl t . u it t ... .ik.r wnrshiDS fT sul kl WUUIU U UUIKU1L lU IBB VU.' . "1 most of them carry so many crew memoes for .extras. A t propo51' Of course, the Navy has been hesitant aD0"()rbe gur makeshift transport system because they e guri1 riers and their planes will not be necaea i" On the Japs. . 0f $ However, the Navy now has about 100 carr a large number should be available for sucn Army plan are operating out of Japan.
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