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THURSDAY. JANITap, fA'GEWO (Second Section) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER , . ,u The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE 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 $ 00 Six Months, In Haywood County 1 25 One Year, Outside Haywood County 2."0 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered lit the post offwe at W.e n. svi' . N C Sec.-.! Class M.iil Milter, us ir..u..-.l umler the Ait ,.( Mar. ti i, l-;u, Fuvember 211, 1 ll I 4 . 01'itui.ry n.iti.es, resolutions vt res-. t, ,;ir-i .( tii.a.K, ani all notices ..f enteitalnniei.t for ...fit . H! k il.aK'l l"t J' tlie rule of one rent per v. t l. NATIONAL EDITORIAL. IU jsgktLotjyLtnik North Cnruiino WISS ASSOCIATION Vi THURSDAY, JANUARY 17. 19 16 Ships The names of North Carolina landmarks have traveled around the world durin.e World War II on many of the famous ships. There have been 41 hearing the names of North Carolina cities, count s. waterways have served the navy during the war years. The largest of these as the battleship North Carolina. Then next in line was the lijrht cruiser Raleigh, and then friy:ites Ash ' ;Jle. Charlotte and Greensboro. One of the rarest of the navy's vsse'.s is the AKV-L, the Kitty Hawk, of whose type, there is said to be only two in existence. This ship, which is a combination aircraft carrier and cargo ship, commemorates the famous East Carolina landmark where the Wright brothers in 1913 made their first successful airplane trip. Albemarle, Bogue. Core- Croatan and Cur rituck sounds gave their names to naval ves sels, as did Onslow Day, Colington Island, in Albemarle Sound, and Nantahala, Pasquo tank, Watauga and Hiawassee rive,-s. Tar Heel counties which were used on cargo ships and attack troop transports were: Chatham, Stokes, Caswell, New Hanover, Lenoir, Alamance, Tyrrell, Duplin. Yancey, Union, Clay, Warren, Wayne, Bladen. Car teret, Guilford, Edgecombe. Granville. Hyde, Pitt, Rockingham, Mecklenburg. Harnett, and Iredell. We like to think of these names traveling around the world on ships at sea, for they must have been like a message from home to the bovs from North Carolina who served in the four corners of past few years. the earth during the County Roads The members of the State Highway Com mission seem to be making a lot of trips to Raleigh these days, despite travel conditions. We have an idea that pressure is getting pretty firm back home for most of them. Rural roads seem to be in bad condition till over the state. Schools have had to close be cause buses could not make their routine trips in some of the counties. We believe the prize for the most desperate situation should go to Commissioner Xux Watson of Forest City, who was in Raleigh this week to register his complaints. At a meeting of the commission he was credited with the following story: Watson said that the other day he went over to Taylorsville to discuss the road situa tion with some of the local citizens. At th" close of the discussion, he overheard tvo men talking in a corner of the room and he went over to join them. "I caught a fox on my place the other day first one I ever got, although I've been fox hunting for years," one of the men drawled. "How did you catch him,' 'inquired the other. "Well, we chased that fox all over my place and couldn't get up with him. Then we chased him to the county road; and do you know when the fox saw that road the sight of it scared him stock-still and our dogs ran up and got him." Now we haven't heard of any such catches in Haywood county yet. but we have heard that some of our rural roads are needing some work done on them. Knowing how difficult it has been to get ; things done during the past few years with . labor shortages, and of ten cases of people not even wanting to work, who might, we have sympathy for the State Highway Commission r for theirs has not been an easy job in keeping the roads repaired during the war years. If all our prayers were answered, there wouldn't be much hustle left in the world. , Congratulations It is with regret that Haywood county will lose Dean Colvard, who has been head of the State Experiment Station here. Mr. Colvard was doing a fine job. He has been responsible for organizing the work and starting it on a well-planned basis, which will show in the years to come, and reflect credit on his vision and foresight. in his new field we wish him the same success he has had here and in the new work he will no doubt have more opportunity for his talents. To the new director of the station ve also extend our best wishes for continued success, for Howard Clap) is no stranger to Haywood county folk. Serving the county as farm agent during the critical years of the war, he has shown us that he can meet emergencies and has a vision of things to be done, and the ability to put them across. Demobilization It looks like at this stage of the game it was easier for Uncle Sam to organize an army and navy than to disband them. While the last-planned schedules have been wrecked by bad weather, there have also been human agencies that have failed to function suili tieiitly to suit the men and their families. We see that General Eisenhower has again ordered that all men not needed overseas be returned to the United States without delay. We read so many conflicting stories about th" situation that it is hard to really feel that one knows trie truth. One story will sa" that it is shortage of ships, while another v. il say it i the strikes ami still another will chin 'hat for politic;. I r-asoiis not connected with the li'iuida'.ion of the war, are the real causes. It is pivhabiV true that no system of de'i.o'iihxat'on. however justly jihmm-l or (' fi"i"ntly exi'.'i.p'd coiiiil wholiy satisfy the millions f homesick men in the armed forces ouee (In. fa-h ting ended. Then there are the iVmiin s who ar impatiently egging the men on. If you hr.ve any doubts about this you n'ii':h' consult the Red Cross secretary at her i Hi: e on the third floor of the court house, who always has a case of some man wanting to get home. We do not blame the men or their families for wanting them home. Those who are not needed for the army of occupation deserve to come home. There is so much unrest in the country at this time, that any mass frus tration which can be avoided should certainly be passed up if possible. There is no doubt that there are many weak points in the re placement ' i r:: and the demobilization agencies otherwise the men would be moving l'ast-r. We seem to be in the midst of a mul titude of small civil wars in our country, which brings a disappointing element to the peace to which we had all anticipated. Schco! lunches We see that the proponents of legislation making the government's school lunch pro gram permanent have hope of its approval from Congress by next June ,30, when the I -.al year ends. If the legislation is passed, we are told, it will be the first time that t: e individual states have been able to make ! unite -plans for school lunch programs on the basis of federal assistance. Pending legislation would give permanent status to the program providing free school lunches for underprivileged children. Under the bill as it now stands $1,787,100 in federal funds would go to North Carolina the first :ca The state would provide an additional The state's share in supporting the pro gram is based en a comparison of its income with th" national income. As the bill is writ ten, states st'ich as New York would have to match the federal funds dollar for dollar, while North Carolina would pay a smaller sha re. Allocation to each state would be made on thc basis of the number of children be tween r, and 17 within the state and the state's need. As a result, a larger share would go to the South than any other region in the country. North Carolina would stand fourth in the nation, while Texas would top the list. i The program has suffered some confusion because appropriations were made on a year year to year basis and the states never knew how much they could count on until an ap propriation was made. While there are calls for so many things today, we trust that the hope for a perma nent program of financing school lunches will become a reality. We know right here in our own Haywood county schools what the school lunches have meant to the students. We could not imagine ever going back to the days when there were no lunch room facilities. They were a step forward and we look for ward to their permanency in our schools. In this county we have been fortunate in the personnel directing our lunch rooms and in the fine management they have enjoyed under the supervision of Mrs. Rufua Siler. CAN THEY SPLIT THIS "ATOM? HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN UecaliiiR the days of the flapper and the styles which came after CVui !d War I. we have been follow-.iii-: vi'h keen interest the chang ing tide of the women's styles "-penally the new incoming Spring novels. We have been afraid that history mii'ht repeat itself and that he pi!-id following World War II, alKlil !-ee so-ne of the crazy styles iL.ir i'i aleil that came as an after ualli of war back in the 1920's. .V'e have often wondered if the laiiot being nivcn the women had nihi a to do with the swing and lie da' h they made to completely evohi'.ionie styles. The boyish mil .li t! I he waistlines that struck ni.".'wh"!o between the knees and i.itin-al waistline, was to our way 1 Ilii.'.kirg the ugliest mode of !:vs.-.ii: ever affected by wonian ind. Maybe just getting the bal ot did come as a heady drought .ml they went out for change a utile too drastically. Perhaps the at i that this Spring finds the girls 'ressing with charm and dignity, .i.i.v iii part be due to so many uivin I been in uniforms, in service r in coveralls in war plants. They vant to become utterly feminine mee again. At any rate we like pie, unless lack of courtesy is for gotten along with the war. We ; know the past few years have been hectic years for us all. They have tried men's souls and tested their ! dispositions to the breaking point Yet actually there has been no rea son why good manners should have been replaced with rudenes-. There has never been any excuse for clerks in a store to make : prospective customer feel lhat he or she might be intruding, and that j the customer should wait until the clerks finished their Micial hour to Interrupt them long enough to meekly ask if they would sell them something. We saw a taxi driver take on two passengers, two : women with two bags during the i week. lie neither offered to help ! with the bags when they entered i the car or when they alighted at the railway station to which point i he had driven them, so we heard later. It looks like just ordinary oeurtesy would have compelled ' that man without even thinking j to take these bags. At any rate it I was poor business, as well as bad j manners. It is time to stop using j te war as an alibi for rudeness. Time is not so precious any more, that we can't afford to be polite j On the other hand there are plenty j of people who serve the public I who have not lost one bit of their j pre-war courtesy. Take l.inwood 1 Grahl, at thf post office--Wo have I been in long lines, waeing our If you have not up to this date ici n a reader of "My Day." we ad .ise you to put it on your daily list now, for at least the duration of he United Nations Assembly in London, for Eleanor Roosevelt, leloctde, is devoting her column to he meetings. She is giving side ines lhat are not getting inlo the regular reporter's stories. Her ver sions deal with the human side ha' is always of interest. We may '.! always agree with Mrs. Roose elt. in her policies on certain sub jects, but we are glad that she was named as represr ntative from this 'ountry, if for no other reason, ban she is the wife of President loosevelt. for he would have been happy for her to be there. turn. We have heard him asked dozens of fool questions, and we have seen him tired and weary, but never lacking in courtesy and there are others who make us real ize that those who lost their man ners during the war were merely looking for an excuse. Contributed to this column from the pen of Walter Yv'inciiell. iwho always hits the nail on the spoti. by one of our readers was the fol lowing Portrait of a Friend . . . "When things don't come out right We are borrowing from the col umn "Rambling Around Sanford," i verv spicy column in The San ord If"ralt! of Sanford. one of our -eadable exchange papers here in The Mountaineer office the follow in version of the definition of an aditor as written by a bright school 'My. whom the writer predicted woliol he sure to rise like cream o th top ... "I don't know how newspapers and magazines got into he wrrld. and I don't think God decs, for He ain't got nothing to eay about these in. the Bible. I think the editor is the missing link ve read of. and that he stayed in business until after the flood came tut and wrote things up, and has been pretty busy ever since. If the dite.r j!t a mistake, falks say lie ought to be hung; if a doctor aiake'- mistakes, he buries them: and people don't say nothing, be cause they can't read Latin. When the editor makes a mistake there is a big lawsuit and swearing and a ;i--e hut jf tno doctor makes a mis lake there is a funeral with flow ers and perfect siionce. A doctor an use a word a yard long without him or anyone else knowing what it means: but if an editor uses one ho ha-; to spell it. If the doctor goes to see another man's wife, he charges for the visit; but if the editor pees, he gets a charge of buckshot. Any college can make doctT-s t0 order, but editors have to be born." A LARGE OWL. according to a dispatch from Moscow, has taken up its abode on the build ing where the Big Three foreign ministers are staging their par ley. Just hanging around in case someone might want its advice ? Zadok Dumkopf points out that it may not be a coinci dence that both married life and prize Sghts begin with a ring ceremony. t i i If they have both forgotten to hang any mistletoe the i.ency moon 1$ over. i i i Now the state of Ohio wants an atom smasher. It's getting so nowadays that almost any THE OLD Now that the war is over and we have all become so ramnainn mir ! Pd. we will hnrdlv fart i,,f,.i without some kind of drive, we have a suggestion to make.' We would like to start a campaign for a return to good manners a re vival of courtesy. Maybe you might call it Observance of the Golden Hule. Maybe you might call It How to stay in Business. Maybe you might call it a drive to eliminate rudeness. At any rate it would be a drive to bring back into practice what was once only ordinary po liteness and consideration. We are afraid there will be permanent "black marks"-against a lot of peo- Voice OF THE I People ' Which do you think would be best for the country; a uniform hiph scale of wages and price of ; commodities or a low scale? .Miss i:Uiu McKay "Big scale." ! John iM. Queen "Low scale." .Mrs. VV. T. Hannah "I think the waj-'e scale should be in keeping I v.illi the conditions of living." Mrs. I. lira Kerley "I think a large scale of wages is better for '.lit morale of the people." J Robert W. Livingstone "I think : a big scale of wages and high price t onurodities are better for the j people in general. Then the gov ernment gets it back in more taxes and ti e psychological elfect on the ; l uijlia in general is good." Mrs. Edith Elley "I don't think cither exoenie is good lor the ' country i.s a .whole. We are the leading nation of the world. We ; Ii.im proved that in the war. So i v! .. can t we produce leadership i v. ho could agree on an equitable adjustment of labor and manage ment'.' i think if the Voice of the IVoiee speaks loud enough we can." Dr. Mary Michal "Personally I .'.mil I like neither, but a happy . a tiijin tnal Mll increase a gooo ,r i rew in tiie standard of living.' j T. I., t'.rccn ' I think that, we houbl try Li iiiul a middle ground he.l II h has ui be one, I think a-Uiei- u.i,;cs are better for the people." 5:r. Ton. Sti innfield "I think it , bot'o ! for them to be neither eh in the extreme or low. Both ie had for the people and the .-i.'.try. 1 an i not for inflation." .. C. She'iit Id "I think a high le with high price commodities betti r for the morale of the mle. They work better undei .e conditions." i he comes right in . . . When none of ..our dreams come true he is . . . lie never looks for your money except when you have lost it . . . He never gels in your way except to clear it for you . . . Nothing is more important to him than mak ing you important ... He is in your corner when you're cornered . . . He turns up when you get turn-downs . . . All he wants in re turn for his helping hand is your hankshake . . . He never insists on seeing you .... except when no body else wants to . . . He raps i your critics when they're wrong antl takes the rap for you when : they are right . . . The only way I he sponges off you is to absorb some of your troubles so you can i h ive strength left to fight the ! he bows out . . . You can do any thing you want with his friendship except buy it . . . Or sell it ... He makes you realize that having a real friend is like having an extra j life . . . All he asks of your frlend i ship is the privilege of deserving it. YOU'RE TELLING'ME! By WILLIAM RITT- Central Press Writer body that has a spare atom or two on hand has an Irrepres sible urge to bust it. i ; i That 98-year-old Civil war veteran who has just joined the CAR probably was just deter mined be wouldn't belong to any group made up of whipper snappers. ! ! ! The government has dropped 700 of its questionnaire. This just about turns the quiz busi ness almost exclusively over to radio. ! ! ! Beetles, according to a sci ence item, have no eyebrows. It must be difficult for a beetle to discover when another beetle Is really surprised. HOME TOWN By STANLEY Rtfii'ved U S P"t Office ItTSt,. fMTl SHAKE YEW LAZY BONETS I) WJ'I - I FETCH MP A PAIL On J VfS AI Nftlj'D BE SOPPY SStJmiffl ''jggttfJ S ,F You EVER BOUSMT -i-C fiAW-A fwji? cf real. (V27 rffCgiS LEATHgg SHOES fS ' BACK OAt FOLKS ' ( J .""... The rjveruuuy uursc By REV. HERBERT SPAUGII, I). ). Truthfulness and honesty pay off well. Would that more people could learn that! Time and again I see it demonstrated. The presi dent of a large firm told me that he instructs all of his salesmen to "tell the tiuth, and you won't have anything to remember. When you tell a lie you have to remember that lie, because you may be culled upon to repeat it." The other day a prominent Char lotte business man told me how he learned that lesson early in life, and has never forgotten it. As a young married man with a small child he took a position with a wholesale house as salesman in Western North lessop, and has another. Fortunate is I in life that h,... r.ess pay libera I am called up. character refer, dividuals. in,:, is there "Is he fill?" Many of you ize the truth o! ten. Practice e ed to all. espe: just entering ,; Learn the Icsmm saved many a la ache. I.a GUARDIA FOR 510,474 Charlotte for a one - month's trip with $100.00 ex pense money. In those days $100 went a long way While in Ruther ford t o n he at- NEW YORK sion of .,!()); ; F. H. La Ciua. commentator ;,; 000 a year i successor. May e: In the even! demise, his ui: cash paymein i. 0'il annually : Dining a Ion oilice the for:",. $77,128 into the or nearly ball , i.s eligible for. Vs tended a County fair wh,'l'e hc was I 2i i'W attracted oy a Others seemed to be making mon ey, so he put up his SI 00 expense money. Of course, he was the one to lose. In his dilemma he sought out the sheriff who told him that he had no legal protection, that he had simply gambled and lost, lie told the sheriff the truth, who said that he knew the house he repre sented and would advance him $100. On this he continued the trip. When he returned and cheeked in, he was. of course, $100 short. All during the month he had been inventing stories to explain h ae that $100 had gone; however, when his employer asked him about it. he decided to tell tiie truth ail related what happened. His employer was impressed with the straightforward s'ory and said. "I believe you are telling the truth when it might have seemed easier to you to tell a lie. I am going to raise your salary S25 a month and you can pay off this shortage at $10 a month. That will leave you $15 a month ahead as a re ward for honesty. Don't forget this lesson." My business friend, who has now reached the 70-year mark, tells me that he has never forgotten that a" s ,''... 7 .V. 3 j, 7 Vi j j vW Kj. Y A;.: A: r f i T - x- DEAR NOAH - IF f IMOIAN MAO W WAM .DOE- S IT NOLA HAYS - PlW DEAf-'' ' tOAH - IS I PH.L TICKLISH fc'JSlfi MPl MAC? Y TH aMAS 3lTUSV'Ll.r- P: Clothing Shortage Getting No Better 9n64tm WISH 1 1ST Not EnouaH To Meet If Special to Central Press WASHINGTON The clothing shortage is goinfr to d before it gets better. OFA Chief Bowles asserted recently government should have rationed clothing long npo. Now gram, with its emphasis on low cost items, is in real i falling apart. There just Isn't enough apparel to meet demands. War! by the hundred thousands are taking heavily of availati Moreover, production Isn't up to neectl Workers are slow in returning from til to these lower paid jobs, even though p' are fully reconverted to peace-time In addition, the government charra converters are holding- up production rc January 1 to take advantage of tax exo The public will just have to wait m; production again gets under way. t THE RED STAMP is due back soon, the meat rationing variety. It's coming do duty on letters at a two cent rate. appeared from this role early in the de.e: gram. A bill to reinstate it as legitimate Chester Bowles to move first class mail under one. within towns and cities has oassed the Senate. H ".re aJ5 believed virtually certain. ADMINISTRATION LEADERS have ceased -" Three" meeting at Potsdam the Potsdam conferral title is now the "Berlin conference." An Armv officer wouldn't like to venture the guess publicly, but ho suspects real reason is that the conference actually waa held 1 unmentioned German town called Babelsburg. For a time the Army's public relations officers and before the foreign ministers found it impossible to agree the Potsdam declaration said feared that columnists w On th nan.a fV, - .. - v ""- i me icai sue or ine meeting. I There only remained the obvious conclusion that the sil " uvgin rcicrnng 10 "The Tower or ui1-- " W V THE POSSIBILITY that James Forrestal mav resicn tlt-v t . . "...( U1 navy i3 only in the rumor stage. But a t cession is already under way. Ed Pauley, President Truman's reparations agent Tanon I. ln.4: 1 . v-r".., it-auuig Jn private discussion as a prolae strong congressional group is boosting Represea (D) of California, chairman of the House subcon. appropriations who is being supported by a sub--sional bloc. The Navy Is quietly interested in lonrnW the co prospective candidate on unification of the armed fort want someone aa adamant against it as is the present O REASON EEHIND President Truman's coordinating Klnlll. ..... t M.,.cu.BC1K;e umis or the nation are slowlv coming to Pearl Harbor investigations. It reveals considerable feuding in Hawaii between Army and Navy intelli gence on one hand and the FBI on the other. This lasted right through the dangerous days when spy combed Honolulu was a major spurce of Tokyo Four dSVS Yietnr Ta-l it.-. .. a. 1 n r- van nuroor me luypcu a uciween a "Mr XfnH" u i..,.. . . in former discussed in flower language code the disposition of" united States forces. The various types of flowers app ----- i types of warships. Without even they discussed United States Army strength and diploma"' pt, on a record, was turned over to the awj urgent plea for action, a ooi ntH the reF expressed the greatest intPret w u.tr to it n"1 day later December 7. It FBIJcontends that Immediate action would have the llayy 1th a tlp.0ff. Mil' e al Ti re; ' hat His. a.y lillM and aiatk, 'l NSIoJ - n 'r fcJ i'1-n, 'tr est: - illOUI 'lllli :-': L cure-. aayo: .-..see Th V.t for In lwi r stlC1 i live a'.'.ee ntial victiofi "lljt: telepl of
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