THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i,
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NATIONAL 6DITORIAL.
ISSOCJATION
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945
A Strange Flight
A rather unusual priority was granted last
week by the State Department. A C-45
transport plane left this country for Mar
seille, with 24 queen bees and 2,000 work
bees to replace bees in the Rhone Valley of
France which were systematically destroyed
by the Germans.
The bees were the gift of an anonymous
American donor, who arranged the flight
when he learned that lack of pollenization
threatened the French food supply as well as
the floral and perfume industries. The queens
traveled in separate cages while the workers
assembled in a compartment above them.
The need for this gift from America shows
what a thorough job of devastation Hitler
and his misguided followers wrought.
Ve Need Them
We know that it is a big and endless task
to discharge the large number of men now in
service, but we would like to see more of the
doctors released for the benefit of the civil
ians. The need for the doctors in the armed
forces now that the war is over and the men
are in hospitals cannot be so great as during
the combat period.
We understand that there is one physician
for each 165 men in service while in private
practice one doctor has to serve on the aver
age of a thousand people. In North Carolina
it is reported that we have only one doctor
to each 2,100 people in Haywood the aver
age exceeds 3,000.
Right here in our own community our doc
tors have been overworked during the emerg
ency and it has also been hard for the people
to get needed medical service. It was under
standable during the war, but the machinery
that is responsible for the discharge of the
doctors seems to be moving very slowly ; and
we trust will be speeded up in the near
future.
Reorganization Bill
In the current issue of "We The People"
is reprinted a speech delivered by Comptroller
Lindsay C. Warren to the Congressional com
mittee considering the bill for the reorganiza
tion of the executive departments. We wish
that we had space to give the points made by
Mr. Warren, for every thinking American
has at some time or another felt that our
government machinery is top heavy with
overlappings.
Just as in the business world certain
methods become obsolete, so they do in .gov
ernmental affairs. He cites some of the dupli
cations of agencies in astonishing numbers.
For instance there are at least 29 lending
government funds; 34 wildlife preservation
agencies ; ten construction organizations ; 28
welfare agencies ; and 65 gathering statistics.
We admit that they have given jobs to
countless thousands, but the taxpayers are
now due a break, and like Mr. Warren we feel
. sure that our government could function with
even greater ease and flexibility if it had a
thorough overhauling.
In some cases he advises that agencies not
be abolished but merely transferred. Take
the matter of federal lands. It is said that
the government owns one-fifth of , the United
States, yet nowhere is there ;a central record
inventorying of this enormous resource. New
lands are bought by some departments while
other lands are declared surplus by others.
While the task overcomes us with its enor
mity we believe that it could be done, and
trust that enough pressure will be brought to
bear to bring it to pass and enough states
men, not politicians, to have charge of the
reorganization.
Number Nine
We are sure you saw her picture in the
rows of women prisoners being held by the
Allied nations in Germany on trial for their
inhumane and cruel treatment of those in
terned in prison camps in that country.
If there was no other indictment against
Hitler than the development of the criminal
instinct among his people, his name would
be dark enough in history. When the Nazis
taught their women to treat human beings
as Irma Grese, labeled number nine, in the
pictures of the women war criminals, they
proved they had sunk back into savagery.
We note that North Carolina, Ohio and
Georgia were brought into the trial by the
defense council, who argued that even in
civilized America, a leader of civilization, one
found flogging of prisoners. We were glad
to see that Governor Cherry denied that such
had taken place in many years in North Car
olina insofar as he knew. Waren II. If.
Wilson, of Central Prison, who has been in
prison work since 1925 said he knew of no
case where a prisoner had been flogged.
But never in the history of the state, has
such brutality been practiced towards crimi
nals that the Nazis have dealt out to innocent
people.
STEWING IN OUR. OWN MUICE"
Timely Proopsal
The proposal of State Treasurer Charles M.
Johnson, made in an address to the North
Carolina Association of County Accountants,
that the General Assembly surrender to the
counties the function of dealing with purely
local matters, is certainly not new.
Very few high school boys or girls, to say
nothing of adult visitors, have ever visited
the House or Senate without getting the
same idea.
But Mr. Johnson proposes to do something
about it. The Constitutional amendment he
advocates would undoubtedly be approved by
the people, if it ever was submitted to them
by the General Assembly. That will be the
difficulty and, in approaching that difficulty,
Mr. Johnson shows that he has benefited by
his long experience in such matters. He
waves no red flags and does not mention re
ducing the powers of the General Assembly.
That would never, never do. Instead, Mr.
Johnson proposes that the General Assembly
relieve itself of the "burden" of dealing with
purely local matters. Such duties are a bur
den, but the burden has been rather cheer
fully borne in the past.
The News and Observer hopes Mr. John
son succeeds where others have failed. If he
can keep the emphasis on the word "burden"
he may do so. There is no question but that
the reform is long overdue. If the State
Treasurer can get his proposed amendment
adopted by the 1947 General Assembly he
will deserve the thanks of a grateful people.
The Raleigh News and Observer.
Kentuckian vs. Virginian
(The Savannah Morning News)
What the Governor of North Carolina once
said to the Governor of South Carolina has
always been a matter of debate, but what a
Virginia newspaper editor and a Kentucky
scribe are saying to each other these days is
crystal clear.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in a recent
outburst, expresses a deep-seated weariness
over what it declares is the harping by the
Richmond Times-Dispatch over Virginia's al
leged "superiority" over other states par
ticularly Kentucky regarding sundry mat
ters, including the subject of skunks!
The Richmond daily, it seems, recently
boasted that the Old Dominion "led the entire
South last year in the trapping of skunks
that, to be exact, 99,705 were put out of com
missionwhich is a matter of extreme sur
prise to at least one Georgian who never
dreamed there were so many in Virginia !
The Kentucky scribe is especially incensed
at the Virginia editor's charge that the Blue
Grass State is indifferent regarding the fact
that she has only "one and one-fifth" of a
senator in the upper house of Congress now
that "Happy" Chandler has been made a big
league baseball czar. Whereupon the Courier
Journal comes back with the observation that
Virginia has only one senator in Congress,
inasmuch as Senator Glass is incapacitated
and hasn't answered a roll call in more than
three years.
Which prompts the Old Dominion scrivener
to retort that maybe that is true, but that
for heaven's sake he wishes Kentuckians
would quit drinking mint juleps through a
straw!
And, so it goes. What both fellows need
is to come down here this winter and thaw
out their spleen in the springlike sunshine of
a state that really is superior !
With no thought of getting involved it
reminds us of the old saying "That North
Carolina is a Valley of humility between two
mountains of conceit, Virginia and South
Carolina.
May we suggest that the Allies leave ai
least one spot in Japan where the next Big
Three meeting can be held?
6 tftWv. -el GOING TO BLOW UPTHE. 1 SL ti
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HERE and THERE
Bj
HILDA WAY GWYN
Have you ever had a thing on
your hi it id and the more you
'bought about it the stronger your
convictions and sentiments grew,
until you reaehed the state where
you simply had to air out your
views. Our subject is thread bare
-worn out. We are all tired of it
-War. Yet no matter how we
feci it is still a vital subject, and
please don't stop reading if you
have gotten this far, because be
i ore we linish you may agree with
us. We may have been thinking
don.! the same line that you have.
Perhaps it we had not interviewed
mil written about hundreds of
laywood county boys who have
erved all over the world we might
not have such strong feelings on
the subject, but we huve and we
would like to preach a sermon from
(he housetops of American homes.
We don't want another war. In the
i ace of history that is a big order.
'I may be inevitable, but if it is
let us be prepared.
We have watched the reaction
of various groups during the few
short months since our enemies
in i ( m!eiv;l. and it seems amaz
ing how quickly they have forgot
ten in some instances. We noted
the action taken last summer at
Lake Junaluska by the Methodist
women. We have tried to get
i1. hat many term a Christian atti
tude about war. Hut we came
back to the same old starting point.
We never want to live again in a
counti.N that is not ready to fight,
it' the isMie is forced upon us. We
don't hke I lie idea of inoculating
tiie youth of our land with the
military spirit, but this is not nec
esj.;:iiv in a year of compulsory
military training for our youth.
Let it be taught as a preventive
measure, a means of preparedness
thai will keep other nations at bay.
.i we inu-l be a bully to the other
nation., of the world to keep them
..i pe.i.e with us through a power
ful lighting peacetime ready to
l.ght org animation, then let us stay
ua.dcd to the hilt. It is better
to keep other countries afraid of
us as a combat enemy, than sacri
fice the lives of our young man
hood. When we consider that
over 250.000 gave their lives dur
ing the recent war and the homes
ilial have been broken up in Ameri
ca alone, we must realize that this
should not happen again soon. Is
there a mother in America who
would not rather have her son
take a ear of military training
than someday be drafted for ac
tual combat.' We don't believe if
she thinks the thing through that
one could be found.
Perhaps if Admiral William F.
Halscy. home from the wars, serv
ing with the 3rd Fleet, had not
been so emphatic we would not
have used this column to air out
our feelings on the subject, but
his words were like a spark set to
dry kindlings in our mind and
heart, for you recall that when he
arrived in California his greetings
to America contained in part:
"Peace must be a military one
if it is to last. This is what we
have dreamed of, hoped for, fought
for, and prayed for to return
home again knowing that our
enemies have been vanquished.
But let us not forget that to be a
lasting peace, it must be a military
peace. Enemies are born and
made. The United States must
vigilantly guard itself against ag
gression, yet cooperate to the ut
most in perfecting a world organi
zation which will function with
smoothness, efficiency and certainty."
We have watched with interest
how President Truman took over
the reins of our government and
whn he recently advocated uni
versal military training, we felt
greatly relieved, because we were
confident that our government was
in strong hands. We like the ur
gency with which he is appealing
for military training. We all know
that the next war will be a quick
one, and that we will never again
have the "luxury of time" given
In either one of the World Wan.
Our geographical security is gone
for the robot and other type bombs
could penetrate to the heart of our
country.
We are fully aware that it is
not the ideal spirit of the Chris
tian to be suspicious of the other
fellow, to watch him as a poten
tial enemy, but when one genera
tion has lived through two world
wars, certainly some lessons should
be learned. A great many things
in this mortal life are not ideal,
but we have to face them and work
them out with reason and practi
cal solutions.
We do not have to go to any
foreign country to get our starting
point. Right here in our own com
munity we have churches. We
have two on our main street. We
are not Deiiitung tne extent oi
their influence, but if it extended
far enough we might not need a
police department. Yet we would
not live in a community that did
not have churches. Our police de
partment enforces laws that should
not have to be enforced, laws re
garding honesty and decent living.
But it is necessary to have such
a department for the protection of
property and life in our commun
ity. If it is necessary in a com
munity, where we know each other,
where we live close together,
speak the same language and
should have an understanding, how
much more urgent is it that we
keep some defense against those
of other nations.
Our government has its courts.
its laws, we would not live without
this protection, and the time has
come when we must stay prepared
to defend our rights against world
aggressors. We can t get around
it. America will have to stand
ready to protect herself when the
next bomb of war explodes.
We honestly believe that in view
of the facts that the only way to
be prepared is to have compul
sory military training. Let the
other nations of the world know
we are ready to fight. It is merely
a case of locking the barn before
the horse is stolen. It will be
much easier for a mother to have
her son trained for military duty,
than to have him plunged suddenly
into war unprepared. We will al
ways believe if we had not grown
so soft after World War I, and
had maintained a big army and
navy we would not have been
drawn into the last fight. You
hear people argue that compul
sory military training denies the
traditional American ideas of
liberty and democracy. The ob
ject of such a program would not
be to train professional soldiers,
but to train peace abiding citizens.
who could become soldiers more
quickly and efficiently for such
training if they needed to. Or.
the other hand the reason for mili
tary training would be a simple one
Voice
OF THE
People
What would you suggest for a defi
nite war memorial to serve this
community?
Clyde Fisher
' I would like to see something
on the order of a YMCA estab
lished as a war memorial in this
area."
William Medford
"I would prefer a community
building with a plaque inside bear
ing the names of the men in this
section who had paid the supreme
price."
W. A. Bradley
"I would like a community house
that would serve the community,
something that everyone would enjoy."
Miss S. A. Jones
We shrould have a centrally lo
cated park, which would make a
fine memorial, with recreational
facilities, a game center, rest rooms,
for the benefit of our own people
and visitors."
W. F. Swift
"If there is sufficient money I
would like to see some public
building erected, but if the funds
are not enough I think some me
morial monument would serve."
Dr. Sam Stringfield
"I am in favor of a memorial
in the community, but I think we
should wait until things settle
down to take definite action."
T. L. Bramlett
"Some kind of recreational and
community center would to my
mind he the best memorial to our
box s."
M. II. Bowles
Something in the nature of a
community building, with a room
set apart and designated as a his
lorical room which would contain
not only relics and data of Hay
wood county's part in World War
II, but the entire historical background."
L ,. Davis
"I think some community build
ing in memory of the veterans
would be the best memorial."
II. II .Holt
"I would like to see a memorial
i hat would serve the people of the
community, and the county as well
as the boys who came back. What
this should be would to a large
extent depend upon the amount
of money, whether it would be a
playground or building."
to guarantee the safety and free
dom of the United States against
potential aggressors.
Personally we don't believe that
a year of military discipline will
hurt any boy. On the contrary
we feel that it would be of great
benefit to him. We have only to
recall the improvement in the men
who have gone through basic train
ing during the past few years to
realize that it does not hurt them.
When President Truman said.
"Peace must be built on power,"
he hit the heart of the situation.
We must start at once to show the
world and its would-be-war start
ers, that we intend to keep our
array and our navy in top notch
condition.
Perhaps mothers who know that
we do not have a son of our own
might feel that we did not under
stand. It is because of the hun
dreds of other mothers' sons whom
we have interviewed that we have
been given such strong convictions
on the subject. This war has come
close to us in our work. As we
have labored over casualty lists
the meaning of war has come home
to us. Let us never be found
sleeping for another Pearl Harbor
surprise.
PEOPLE OF BRITAIN FACED
W ITH BREAD RATIONING
Unless the paralyzing dock strike
ends quickly, Ellen Wilkinson,
minister of education, predicts that
Briton will face bread lines of ra
tioned bread.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
f.( WE WON. -MAWI USEOTHATJ f HE WAS
S. SWELL TOCK KICK DAD UuePeeFO
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; V BET DAD WILL BE J' "
JUNIOR PUT THE SALVE WHERE THE MOST GOOt -
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Just Odds and Ends of NVws Picked l'p
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JOHN SENTELI.F- brought in a
bouquet of apple blossoms Monday
morning which he had picked from
a tree in the Bethel seel ion. Seve
ral other trees pve small gieen
apples on thi ! k reported.
It seems that n lother nature
has gotten a)', l ' -o up on seas
ons, as well as . . e women, who
will wear a heavy mr in the sum
mer, and turn to thin garments
when the mercury drops below
freezing.
THE DAYTON HL'BHKlt flag
pole is in direct line with the
center of the highway leaving Ilaz
elwood. Next time you drive out
that way, just take a look the
pole is squarely centered with the
highway line, and when the flag
is being blown by a still' breeze it
makes quite a picture.
A RETURNING soldier tells this
yarn about an army cook. After
whipping up orders of fried eggs
for three hours, lie sat down, lit
a big black cigar and started oil'
a letter to his girl, thus:
"Darling: For the past three
hours s.iells have been bursting
all around me ..."
from his int..,..,...:
must be a, . M
T lodges are
members in-,,,,, ,. . 1111
i me church. JlHl
Mr. Jenkin. i,a, m
the nun. "?(W
bridges. . and
A DISTANT RELATIVE
across a copy of th
ls Paper m
n.oie recently. h(,n h -j
saw it in . I "ul
. " '"""e where r-
wiuiu a!)(,Jt
ago, and like
lives that mov
eieven
'""it aitant
MIMOSA trees do th: ivo in this
community. All the wuile we
thought this altitude was too high
for them and that Morgan! on. the
Mimosa center, was about as tar
west as they grew. There are
several in llazciwood. and perhaps
in WaynesMlle. Early frosts in
the spring sometimes get their
buds, but most of the time they
bloom in profusion.
HORACE SENTELLE brought
in an article ,y Ilev. Millard A.
Jenkins, a former Baptist pastor
here in fact he was here 52 years
ago. according to .Mr. Scntelle. He
is now a resident of Texas, and
track of each other
PAINT. Pa7vtTI7.
.. u"u ii ore u
for two 1,.-
ion r.h" . r. rmers
... . u'"igs at tne A
We have nushcH i, 1
"f , dl u,r,t's 'I loot.
" , "UU1U Shoved out
ermei. nuvu-HT the have
J ,' ",L J",J cleaning
not eoua ih-.t ,. i. . i
, ' "men i
got Monday afternoon, uhen
mg near a painter m a lo ,
as ne fell from Ins lugh pMc
u'u""u a fiaiiuii of paint
U'iivn't hi.M i
. uiu mat uas thi
h. ..uuei oi unite paint
J "'"K lime. Two mi
ueiuie me paint lell. I as
uig right on the ut uiiere
rt hew I
NEW CARS are attract,-,
more interest ihan the a
person imagined. A s.adv '
1 1 1 i 1 1 , . . i .. i.. . .. .i
....... u uu.hu me new Fori
u.,oa nere last week, and
Ihis week, scores of others
their inspection. Most of the
ft.cial express. ons were like tl
a small boy Pitching an
hr-f.l i w.. .1 ..;
... ...... , hi away m a nej
- someoay. brother. I tu
own a ni w car."
The
Everyday
Counselo
-By-
REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
Although the war has officially
come to an end. the discharge of
many men who have been in the
service for a long time is requir
ing the enlistment and induction
of new men to take their places in
order to maintain our military es
tablishments and armies of occu
pation. While returning servicemen are
going to have some difficulty in
adjusting themselves again to civil
ian life, these new, men going inlo
the military serv ice will also have
their problems ol adjustment.
As a former serviceman. I would
like to make a present to each
young man ( i'..'iig the military
service who w. nt" me in care
of this nowspap. . .K ing his name i
and address an! ( .closing three j
cents' postage. I
At the beginning of this war, I
the American Legion, composed of I
veterans of World War I, real
the difficulties which confrJ
them when they entered rail
helpful infd
t i o n concel
the customs
military sel
E v e n civ
ould follow
service, prej
a lit! Ir hnnk
bnet lorm i
of the "Do's'
Den ts" foi
service man
well as oi
suggestions with p
from some of thes
printed below:
"Do obey the orders of vol
licers . . . Do alue the tradi
of vnur outfit ... Be carefJ
i Continued on Paso Thref
t':Tli"'?g.
of these
j Excerpts
AfcWASHINGTOI
Battleship Versus Carriers
Still Divides Our Admirals
Oil Industry Wage Increo
Offer Now Seen Premofu
James Forrcstal
Special to Central Press
WASHtWITOM- AlthniKrh tho prenrpst nilval BJI in hlJlofV
. . r V, ...fhmthe Nil
now over, an aimosi nercer Dame is oemg iouriu
department between the advocates of carrier-based air por
the admirals who cling to the superiority of the battleship
While there is no question of scrapping either type of ship
volved rhprp is a definito fpptin amone older admirals that
nnuuor chn.ii. i Ko t t .minri rii-pu . inniich t . rather than carnei
t. j. tA .. it M'.n he 10 years Wf
L ia esLinidLcu ciiexi it ...
S&k the brass hats old Navy style-can be wwi
Tl out of the service through retirement or flel
S ... ; (hP SftUtl
In the meantime they win rernam i
and run the Navy according 10 mm
M,mi t-n.iiti, pst.i Wished command ol a
. i f nffiwrs v.ho rose
uesiup as toe gieai gvi m t
their ambition after years of work on
vessels. , y
Wkii. ;tt,. ...-ill admit it publicly.
. ..... ..... aJmiraf
is a pronounced rift between me
who are also airmen, and the old-line oJk
reached their peak by achieving tie
battleships. ar ,
The up-and-coming admirals. ' -
stered by their champion. Navy oe , ju
V. Forrestal, who is already on record as saying that
napolis man of the future must take air training if he w&
along in the Navy.
M
LEADERS IN THE OIL INDUSTRY, shortly after tht W
of the CIO oil strike, conceded privately that they mad'
take in jumping the gun and offering a lo per
to workers. ..mtii
They admitted that in jumping the gun on CIO wag i 8 J
th ri iumoi, ; xo, i r;ti from their viewpo" k
ways. , by li
In the first place the oil magnates later reah zeo i
voluntary action they put a Boor under the negotiati
anteed from the outset that' the union would be 6ivendemin(j.
of somewhere between 15 per cent and its 30 per cen
In the second place they found that tne io i gui
coming in advance of the union's demana, aboV
for a 30 per tent increase or some figure apprec'a i
company offer. soning
Labor experts privately endorse this industry rea
, stuart Syf!
SHUKTLT AFTER THE SENA lei coniti- ei
as the big boss of the surplus property disposal J 0 d
, , : . . ii, rt New 1
oromer-in-iaw, James (jerry) waaawui"'
of his chief assistants. , ,nt azetf
Wadsworth will be deputy administrator for cibh
This means that he will be in charge of aPPllcaU0 u M dW0!
state and local agencies for surplus war goods a . vtterM
of such goods to hospitals, institutions, small it
"Jerry" Wadsworth, incidentally, is me sun ' -tlBdiJif
veteran congressman, James vv. wauaww-t
ln the Republican rank.