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Thursday, decrmher liifc Y A NEVILLE MUIHYTAINKKK The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. i Main Street Phone 137 Waynesvrlle, North Carolina The County Seat Of Haywood County W CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS HILDA WAY GWYN . Associate Eiitor W Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Polishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $2.00 Six Months, In Haywood County .1.23 One Year, Outside Haywood County 2 50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance fl'lffii ut the pout office at WuyriMvllle. N (' . as So-m.,1 T'.M) Mail Matter, a. pruvidt.1 umk'i ti.? Arl of M.ir.ii 1, 1--7-J, N,.w-mWr ill. 4114. Oliitukry mJti8. resolutions f.f rm-ert. ciipI .if tli.iiiR. nnd Hi M i.f ilBrtni!iniiit 'or frafit. will Lw .i.aig.j lut at t.it rite i.i out ocnt per wold. ' IAL EDITORIAL- ASSOCIATION MATIOr in tr Vl III W JSttUAn THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 19 1" Slill In The Limelight It looks like Elliott Roosevelt can't jet out of the limelight. He couldn't even be elected to a church office without a lot of publicity. He was elected a vestryman in St. James Church on November 13, and 11 days later, the Episcopal Bishop of New York declared he was not in good -standing in the church and therefore was not eligible for the office. It seems, de3pite the Bishop's displeasure ttiat Brig. Gen. Roosevelt Mas in good stand ing with the church. He was a member, attuuled services and contributed to its sup port. It looks like a case of "giving a dog a had name." Now the facts come out in the open, and it seems that the Bishop was a little ha9ty, in that the vestryman-elect never accepted the appointment. Another Mistake We see so much about what might have happened if Hitler hadn't done this or that: Our attention was recently called to the fact that Htiler migh have had the atomic bomb itself if the persecution of the Jews hadn't driven the eminent physicist Lise Meitnes from Germany and permitted her to make her pioneering work available to the Allies. Now ight is also shed on the fact that the eight Nazi saboteurs who arrived here in might have got in a lot of damaging dirty work if one of them, angered by the Gentapo's brutal treatment of his wife, hadn't turned informer. Crime as the radio often keeps telling us doesn't pay. It was a lucky break for the world that Hitler didn't bother to take in the fact. A Disappointing Conference Despite frequent warnings concerning the limtied nature of the labor-management conference in Washington, despite the omens of futility which appeared during the latter stages of the. meeting, despite the long-term gains which may result from this attempt bring order out of the incipient industrial .chaos of America, the results of the confer ence are deeply disappointing. It is not that any one believed a magic formula could be produced which would end labor strife, but th. every one hoped for some tangible ac complishment, some body of fact or doctrine which might be applied toward the solution of the critical situation which now confronts the nation. 'This hope proved illusory ; on all the most vital questions there was enough disagreement on principle to prevent the con ference from making any concrete contribu tion to the present crisis. In certain intangibles it may well be, as many of the delegates have said, that real progress was made. The habit of conference is a useful one, and some of the committee reports give evidence that, despite disagree ment, there was an honest exchange of views which led to heightened mutual respect. This could be of incalculable value for the future, in the necessarily :slow development of . reasonable relations between labor and man agement The danger lies in the fact that the explosive qualities of the existing indus trial tension might destroy the long-term Igains of the conference and lead to a renewal of intransigence and suspicion on both sides. The labor-manageHient conference -cannot be written off as a total failure ; it may be hoped that ather conferences will follow, to build on the foastiasfJaidjn.Wjaahington. But, with regret, the public must turn to other sources for immediate relief from the perils of a showdown fight between industry and !abor-Nwyrk Herald tribune. ; Didn'tfailTicks Judge Eugene Anderson's alarm clock, like most war timekeepers, stopped. Having noth ing to fix it, he sprayed the little ticker with DDT intending to kill the time, but the clock started and'' is running yet Irwinton (Ga.) Bulletin. THE CLOCK STRIKES "ONE!" Buy Christmas Seals Each year there is a fine piece of work that is done through tlje schools and the public health nurses in the county. We hear little about it until the annual sale of the Tubercu losis Association when the Christmas seals are offered to the public. The campaign is one in which we should ail be proud and happy to participate. Wliile tuberculosis does not have the horrors it once had it has not been entirely conquered and many a suspect has been cured of symptoms through the funds derived from the sale of seals. With three-fourths of the money kept for local woijk, we should all feel that we may know at first hand the good our pennies do when we buy Christmas Tuberculosis seals. If you doubt us take a trip sometime with a county nurse to a tubercular patient or visft schools where under-fed children are supplied with milk through this fund. So in the Christmas rush, don't forget to buy these life-giving and life-saving seals. They Met the Test In this area where Nature is usually very kind utility employees do not have to prove their resourcefulness in emergencies, "but last week a severe test came, and they met it with remarkable ability and swiftness of action. With hundreds of calls coming in from all directions, and working day and night they gave temporary relief with astonishing speed. It was refreshing to learn, despite the in convenience caused by the storm that we are served in this section by such alert men who can rise to an emergency. We congratulate those who serve the pub lic for their fine response to calls and the extraordinary manner in which they relieved our storm inflicted problems. Eetter Roads The following from the Sanford Herald gives encouragement regarding our farm to markets roads which are of such importance to us here in Haywood county. State Highway and Public Works Commis sion is considering the possibility of "farming out" some contracts for betterment of county and secondary roads, and it appears to us that this is a good idea and one that would insure more rapid improvement of the State's country roads. The proposal was made to the Commission by the counsel for the Carolina Road Builders Association. Much of the work of resurfacing and build ing secondary roads hus in the past been done by the Highway Department's own building and maintenance crews, using ap propriations made by the General Assembly. Contracts for secondary and county roads generally have not been let to private con tractors but the work has been done, or is alleged to have been clone, by the department itself. It was pointed out in the proposal that contractors are now ready with materials, machinery and labor to take over under con tract a portion of the State's secondary sys tem. On the other hand, whenever the matter of building secondary roads is pre sented squarely to the Commission, there is always an alibi as to why it isn't done, and currently the albi is lack of materials, machinery and labor. We sincerely believe that Governor Cherry means business in his recent virtual directive to the Highway Commission to get busy and do something about the State's secondary road system. As pointed out before, this is a subject about which every recent governor has done a lot of speech making, with about the same results as usually come from a dis cussion of the weather. Recent state legislators have appropriated ample and sufficient sums to get genuine and noticeable improvement in the secondary sys tem, but at the end of every biennium, the story has been the same : the return of huge unused funds for this item to the surplus of the department, from whence sooner or later they tended to find their way into heavy construction. If the secondary roads are fanned out -io private, contractors, there will be some quick .results to the plea going up all over the State to improve , country roads and make them actual farm to market roads instead of mere ly fancy lines on a map. We ee . no . possibility of any harm being done by "farming out" this work. for. . trial .period. of a year, and the results of rsuch a farming, out .would be to giveJmjnediate.reT lief to a class of people and a section of high ways which the State Commission admittedly says itcanoot aid at this tipie. ' ' ) M-m Fwzsr. ?, 1 wsme r f7 j :v- i v y v f .""' , ft"!1 S ' l f- rut' 3 -6 HE HE and THERE HILDA WAY GWYN We trust that the snowstorm of ! fore normal stocks conic back, A last week is not proplvtie of the , gal could use a little pnint ;ind v inter which lies ahead. We have ' color up so she could net a very heard since childhood that when '.he flakes .".kk to h- limbs and 'wigs (in the trees ih. I it means a lot of snow. It' I here is any iruth in the old s:!vn'- we .ire in for a hard winter, fr the I! ihes stuck with tenacity and stubbomcss not often noted in these everything they !'. !l on seemed to miss nothing, not a leaf, i twly. or a v. ire. iid matter how line strung. it w::s so sudden. When ve uei.t to work on Tuesday tnornint; in a dull steady rain, natural stocking shade, but we doubt if the men wiil find much painting on a shLrt. It all counts p to how small the world is Just to think that a German paint er could eventually make il im possible to buy your husband a parts, to ' shirt right here in Waynesville And they 1 seems utterly out of the question Yet that is how it all happened -And according to the Association of Shirt Manufacturers the con sumer shortage will be felt for the larger part of 194o. So 1 cucts we which had lulled us to sleep the wives will have to keep sewing and mending on those old ran bag sub jects until the market in shirts picks up. night before' and awakened us the next rnornin.'.'. not hi n;; seemed far ther away from the rain-soaked ground than a blanket of snow, t Then without warning, as though in answer to an ' all clear" signal, (he snow came down in flaky ohalanxes am! before we had time 'o realie it. the world wa,s white ind soft lnokin" as f-n- as Mie eye ould see, and that sl:!h:'ss that is nart of a snow, fettled down on the town and the mountains around us. Instead of wadin.t Utruugh rain and nicking our way around mud pud dles in the s'nvts ,vc lushed through soft snow as we made our way up Main street toward home for lunch. It was a strange kind of a snow. It was deceh ing. !t fell so gently and yet like many a soft appealing woman, it had a si in-dug tongue that was ruthless in its fury toward man-made ,thii's. t lacked the joy of our usual first snow. Vv'e saw few children out hupny over its fleecy whilenes. M'e encountered only one person iyho va? frivolous "nough to throw a -nowball. One of our neighbors reported she tried to arouse us late Tuesday night to borrow some vanilla to make some snow cream, but that she 'ould not. awns en us. The dim '.'low from candle light and the slow warmth from a band fired stoker, which was intended to op crate through the magic of elec tricity are not. conducive to late hours, so our household was bedded down long before our neighbor wanted the flavoring, so we found when we checked the time. We were sorry not to have heard her for we had a fresh un opened bottle v e would have glad ly donated to the cause. But there was one very impres sive human element that counter acted Mother Nature's high handed wa.vs. The blacking out of normal convenie"- "cs of life was met with a surpr ..mg!y philosophical atti tude by most people. Maybe we have learned something from the war, after all. We didn't meet anybody who was too paintfully agitated over the broken, but tem porary, routine in living. They seemed to take it all as a nautral event, that couldn't be helped. But if old "Mother Holler, shakes out her feather beds'' again, with such vchemency. we will feel like count ing our pennies and consulting a time table on Florida schedules. Soaking of Christmas shopping Did you ever see as many people hunting shirts for gifts? It seems that this season a man's shirt Is a Very rare, ehd desired article, It is interesting to watch the ex pression, on the face of a clerk when you even ask for a 6hirt. They give you a surprised look as if you might have asked them for something that the shop never carried. They look at you as if (they thought you migh thave wandered in a grocery store by mistake 9T some other place where -you wouldn't expect to find a man's shirt. Any wife can tell you that her husband's pre-war shirts are In a serious condition. When you have turned collars and trimmed frayed cuffs a shirt naturally gets to a stage. .where it is likely to get ve . the most robust -man -down spiritually. We are beginning to think that the loss, of nylons dur ing . the war will be nothing m compared to the shirtless man fee We read a filler in some news paper this week we can t for the life recall which one . . . "Why not Warm up yesterday's joys and have them all over again'?'' Isn't that a nice thought'.' If today is not especially joyous, just step back in your life and collect the pleasant things en route, for we have all. had them. It might be a bad habit to keep up continually, for .we might become escapists from life, but as an antidote for a black moment, or a dull heart ache, it sounds like a fine prescription. A story we recently heard a vet eran from the Pacific toil shows' that there is at least one colonel in the army with a heart as well as a sense of humor. The private who had been too long out in the Pacific on one of those forgotten islands went to headquarters and got down on his all fours and walked dog-fashion to the desk of his commanding officer, barkins and pleading like a dog. The colonel took one look, left his desk, got down on his hands and feet and beside the private also barked and begged, and then said: "D . . you, get up, I want to go home just as much as you do." It had the de sired effect, for the private got up and left with a smile, cheered at least temporarily. Girls, have you noticed how much more room we have in our hangbags now that we no longer have to carry ration books, fo most M us have put up the sugar stamp book, knowing it would be a long time between drinks for that precious bit Of sweetness? We know it- must-be a relief on the veteran-; coming in. We have met any num ber in the. draft board office after they have gone through the routine reportig and are told to go to the rationing board for their books. They know about them before hand for usually their families had ex plained to them if they wanted to eat they must not neglect this item. One showed us his book just be fore the passing of the points and said, "I can't make heads or tails out of this thing. Do you mea-n to tell me that we have to have this book to get a pair of shoes. Voice OF THE People What was your reaction to the snowstorm of last week? Miss Edna McCracken (Ninevah Section) "We have no light even as yet and we could not dig the car out and my sister and I get to work the best way we can." Mrs. Robert Palmer "I thought it one if the most beautiful snows I had ever seen, but of course I didn't like the in conveniences. But it has made us appreciate electricity more than ever." Mrs. J. F. Abel "I must be in my second child hood, for I always get a big thrill out of a snowfall. To' look at the woods at the back of my house with the snow on the shrubs and trees is to me one of the loveliest sights I can imagine." Mrs. Crews Moody "I had dreaded the first snow of the season, for my associations during the past year with snow have been depressing. My son was killed in action last winter in a blizzard in Germany, but this soft falling snow came to me in com fort. It was gentle and it was not cold." R. M. Fie "It didn't bother me except for he lack of lights." Karl Ferguson "I have never seen such a snow in my life. I have never seen it dick and break down wires to such ::n extent, and of course it was a -iriat inconvenience." Mrs. M. G. Stanley "I always enjoy a snow vicarious ly, because I always like to see 'he children enjoy it, but after I found out the damage this time I was not so happy over it." Dan VVatkins "King winter spread his magic carpet over the land and we got up and found out that the d furnace had gone out!" (Mr. Wat kins stated that he quoted from a cartoon in the American Magazine). Kd Sims "For the first time in five years I was glad to see a snow, because I felt that there was no one whose work was so important that they could not take a day or -. two off and rest." Paul Martin "When I saw it coming down I said, 'Oh me," for I knew it meant trouble for electricians." GENERAL MARSHALL BACKS UNIVERSAL TRAINING WASHINGTON Gen. George n. Marshall said recently that the United States can become master if its destiny for the first time in ;ts history if it adopts universal military training. "Tt will present to the world an Tvailable power so great and so readily mobilizable," he said, "that it will discourage any plans to up set the peace of the world." Writing in the "United States At War" edition of the army and navy journal, Marshall said he believed ' he performance of America's eiti '.en army was the "most lasting monument" of World War II. Their bravery and heroism, he said, stemmed from their native cour age and thorough training. HON. SOLEMNITY TOKYO Among changes pro posed for Japan is a simplified style of imperial rescripts, still is sued in archaic phraseology diffi cult for the common people to understand. or some gas? Why this is as bad is the army." Now the boys won't have to worry. The airplane stamps have taken wings and those little red tokens which we prized bo highly may be put in the box with the Tiddlewinks, if you have lost the red ones, or the blue ones. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY F ? WA -&&-mrJ&e"fiM'M NUMBER SIX .fVr X Ss, y j &yi-j)'K TOSS A lumps 2)1 V, '3 Z STATION AOENT CAC KEYES .COM-CTS AN EXTRA UUMP- res - ' ' ' r The Everyday Counsel -Ry- REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. All who drink alcoholic bever ages, whiskey, wine, champagne, brandy, beer, ale, or anything which contains alcohol should reed this. It is the result of scientific investigation and is an accepted principle of the Alcoholic Anony mous, the most successful organ ization in iiie country, which deals with alcoholics: Continued use of alcoholic bever ages during the course of the years generally develops in the drinker an allergy to alcohol. This is not true with all drinkers but it is true with those who become habitual drinkers and those who become victims of the habit. He who is allergic to alcohol is in the same situation as the dia betic who is allergic to sugar or the hay-fever suf- 1 ferer who is al- J lergic to flower pollens, house j dust, feathers, etc. f 1111 nnu uii.ig.k - to alcohol must sJt" itr- therefore realize Wwtg3 sets in process all of the craving for c -is. i ui If If ft IVA tot the en- deaver to satisfy, which brings on drunkenness. My association with the group which promoted an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Charlotte continues to bring alcoholic prob lem cases to my desk. They all follow a similar pattern, and it is the same old story The victim may tin f . 6" iui weeks -"Jiiins 11, or two with,,,,, .. , . Then he feels U,a, strone enonoi. ... . , - oociiii altair p, sleeping demon of hah;, """"ler. and soon t n aicohalic ?pr(1 aw tin struael to sober up. 'PI mere are three th,. say to those of ou ufc ui tf'cunoiie beverages 1. Your use of allt)J lu.in exposes you to the v..6v. ui oecoming an al mm no is allergic ,J When you reach ti,,.- ,1 be allergic to alcohol J your me. livery case I diiunea nas commenced 4 arinjung. others who alcoholics will ten you thing. This is a (old fact. 2. If you arc alien-;,. recognize the fact that v alcoholic, and leave that 3 aione. 3. Will power alone break the chains of habi who have never suffered holism don't know what talking about when thev matter of will power. It J than that. It takes what holies Anonymous call the Power of God. If ilcoholic you will never plete victory by yourself have to lay hold on the God. YOU'RE TELLING M By WILLIAM RITT- Central Press Writer ZADOK DUMKOPP says his paycheck gets busted into tiny fragments so rapidly each week he's beginning to wonder if the boss isn't paying him off in atomic dollars. .' .' ! A motor car manufacturer says the value of the raw ma terial in an automobile is $24. Oddly enough, he means before '-and not after the collision. ; ; ; The Hungarian pengoe it down to 100,000 fo the dollar. In that country matching pengoes is'not gambling just a watte of tint. i I , Now archeologists have dis covered that the dawn of civili zation happened 2,000 years be fore the formerly accept Joe people who lived 6000 B. C. and 4000 B civilized, it seems, didn't know it, A naw radio set il weigh but half a pounij it it's only half as loud ! ! ! Ex-German soldiers, are forming football cl must seem strange to be kicking a pigskin, their neighbors around. i i t If the police deps adopts use of those ai balanced airplanes, the :the next desk wonders won't become known i coppers." .A4 1. 5 r Lt. Gen. Doolittle , h See Navy in Finish Fight Johnson Willing I .Over Armed Forces Merger Alom Conlrol Bill t. Special to Central Press WASHINGTON The capital is the center of anothe ci.n.Alnrf f thJ departmental scuffle tnts ume oeiween -Forrestal and Secretary of War Robert Patterson on the .... r n cinflf explosive proposal to untry me armea iorces ujiuw. . km -I Fcrestal touched off the opening round of the blistering i.i ....ihm. loitor tn Patterson denouncing famed 1 """k '6 . ..... ro thet WVTrSrxT James H. uoonuie a wumuny - . 1 V i tVKl m,iitrv affairs committee as "acrimomol 5s Tmfi- .i. h who led the first sk "Hi TnWn 'Mtii tor Hnification. He blal , mistakes of World War II on divergent c the Navy re .rguing sharply on the baj of the rdit for the victory Forrestai'a protest drew a cooi reoij . vi.i rvwniittle to the lerson. wuu tMcncu ,, . tr. reede to tne r- war mctimiuy wuoro .. .. . M niflcation debate higher level" than the "forum btfore tin committee. ,,,,, In a roundabout way. Patterson i W .f.i tnr th Utter suggesuon. j . . . ef no better place for the suDjeci io oe . Who will win out in the unification battle is still m oj .. . .......... r . t iwist some mgni ever, il is eviaeni, mat me t-ajr. - -- . . m officers and officials, wUl fight to the last ditch against i .any sort with the Army. rf d nA Many Navy men fear their service would be nun . . . . iotitv as a control or Army omciais, mus iobws 7 ocllinetonl oi me uiuteu oiaies, uui v.rc -r ,the Navy is fighting a losing battle, r ttt. .hirh Presidf REGARDLESS OF THS WHuW xi n'ster M man. Prime Minister Attlee amJ Canadian Prime m- c King issued on the discuasioas -on atomic bomD cu has its work to do in this vital field. t a ioi Senator Johnson (D) of Colorado, is ready, 10 'ic contra damping of the May-Johnson bill for na tional aw, con The Colorado senator, a stickler if or Congre. ( averyth'ing that the constituUon vested wnn ui t House, is emoarrassea over cnnigw - .. . j-ascui bill bearing his name would set tip a potentially i i . . I.-. mission. . h noi "1 To newsmen, Johnson is emphasizing tnai n till-that it was placed in his hands committee, wl as acting chairman or we nmiuuj dropped it in the Senate hopper. - pnzres' " -I never intended it to be the last word of Cong 'control atomic energy," Johnson satd. -estrict Johnson added that he would go along on'becofiMl . .i.. uMilon from ucv aeem necessary w prerni-w w . . i powerful body, directly responsible to o control cH ' CnAflll tnhnun mnfl to make UIB . , B'WI mly a temporary body. nui teas r.' tms, give Congress a new chance at appraising tn the Ught of development. . -rurther international -controls hold be J Re ,trp by that time, and what direction they Will dictate what la needed naUonally. Johnw believes. - - wh rewritlen J The senator said also that he wants the dui M rj....... ,,. i. . h under the sup I ., ... ....... . rm of Congre Thai It would be in the same category Mre MMit0(ia ad the JWtori ft e-
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