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Thursday, Jan PAGE TWO Second Section THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER 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 GVVYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County J 2 00 Six Months, In IIawood County I-2.J One Year, Outeide Haywood County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 150 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Ei.rcre I jt the part off:, r .t W..i .r, N ( . j s. . . r 1 CI . s- M.ill M ,lt, a, (.fAl.I. i w.l V ' I M : I" -'. I-."-'. S .1.11,'j. r z". UK, nhitui.ry n.,ti.., rt-f luti' ii ol r.- ' :. ti'l ii-i.i eMwUirai." ii' I .r i.r..fu, ... Li.fr :. te uf one 1 . t .-r it.. ,M . f ti... r.. u:..1 NATIONAL DITOR!AL "vi a nr i at om Konti Carina No THURSDAY, JAM'AKY 2 J. 1916 Sound Advice At a recent meeting in Raleigh of their emergency housing commit''-'', Clarence X. Walker advised Raleigh to "trarshal to con trol the inflationary price of existing and newly constructed housing." It was pointed out for the jruod of the community that it is essential that prices of residential real estate he held down. A home is a permanent investment, and its price should he based on "long range true values." So the National housing agent told the folks in Raleigh, "if the price is too high save your money and buy a tent." That is pretty sound advice, fur we all know that the present high lev-.-l will not last. Three will be a rainy day to blot out the su:i ;hine of the sky-high prices. There is still another wry good reason why no community should want to get its prices up too high, and c.-rtaiiiV' we hould not in this area. We are looking to a neat imp tu; of growth in this '. 1 iaii. -v people are coming in anil w do not want to frighten them oil" before they have time to look around and enjoy what we have to oli'er by being' completely sunk with the high cost of a potential home here. Congratulations We take pleasure in congrauiling Miss Add'e Mae Cooke, owner a.'rl editor id The Cherokee Scout on her new building in Murphy, into which she moved her plant last week. Miss Cook, who came to Western " rth Carolina and bought the Murphy paper, formerly edited a paper in the East; rn section of the State. The building is constructed of flag stone, quarried near Andrews with the inner emails ( f field stone and concrete, and in the front .office the floors are of marble from the Colum bia Marble Company of Cherokee county. Miss Cooke edited a successful paper in Gates county before coming to Murphy where she is continuing to do an excellent job as editor. Realizing the opportunities offered in Murphy, Miss Cooke entered the field as a newcomer, who soon made a place for herself in her adopted home. She has won the confi dence of the people of Murphy and surround ing territory and is giving them a first class newspaper. We extend our congratulations and best wishes for her continued success. Health Insurance We see that an unofficial tally of one-fourth of Congress on President Truman's proposal for a national compulsory prepaid "health insurance" system showed an approximate seven-toTfour opposition. The tally was made from an informal poll the Associated Press conducted among mem bers of the House and the Senate just before Christmas recess on the question : "Do you favor President Truman's pro posal for a national prepaid health insur ance plan to be financed by additional social security taxes and by general government revenue?" One hundred and forty-one ballots were re turned. Of those, 76 voted "No," and 43 voted "Yes." The vote would indicate in some measure public opinion in general at this time. The American Medical Association which claims a membership of 125,000 doctors is strongly opposed to the proposal for a prepayment plan, that would be financed by taxation and administered under Federal law. Some form of socialized medicine seems to be definitely on the way, though the President last No vember in his speech recommending the health insurance denied that it was a form of socialized medicine. Tiger Catfish The following from a recent copy of The Pathfinder will be of interest to Haywood county folks as they know well and are proud of the "fish expert" to whom the story re fers : "'A mess of catfish is a tasty dish for a man. And perhaps vice versa. The sheatfish. a monster catfish, is big en ugh to dine on humans. Fish expert E. W. C.udgor describes it in Scientific Monthly as growing to 10 feet in length, with 18-inch jaws. Rare these days, sheatfish were common in Kuropean rivers two centuries ago and widely credited with an appetite for humans. Its South American cousin, nearly as feared by Amaxoti Indians.. I':.-h Story? Sheatfish have been gobbling up swiming ducks, wading Cudger says one could devour lie thinks the reputation of the fish for eat ing adult humar.s springs from anglers' yarns about what they found in the monsters' stomachs. Reported finds include whole children, men's heads and hands, a woman's torso and a purse of gold coins. Gudger's theory: (1) Catfish are- scavangers; (2) especially after wars, human corpses are not uncommon in European rivers. FEET OF CLAY .. hi- fr - ' ,-s y v ' bi seen lambs. a small cnno. ' " k Si'W 1 Voice OF THE People r x. I J ! Owins to the crowded condition! I of stale instittuions would you ' f.nvnr the state buylnr the U. S. Hospital at Camp Butner and slml Uir institutions? j : !.;wr nee B. Leatherwood Yi' because I think we need The ITT A CI nvvryuiiy uunst By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, I), D. ho-pita! facilities." Charles Yes " Ra K. I.. Prevost 11 it is in the mature judgment i.f the men in charge of these in Mituiiens that care for the unfor tun;.ie in our state that it is best to buy these tamps I think it -heuld be done, and not for any poll! '(:! reasons." C-Vn-vr II. Shelton I would approve of the fur: liiivf of such buildings since ar" neeilcd." j. n. The Other Side HERE and THERE HILDA WAY GWYN V or scan - I I'.ould favor buying such r.y .is our stale institutions . il:'A extra facilities to take if the people." Ctiv Massip- !nk Not so long ago we wrote about the prob lems of demobilization and as we recall we approached the subject with a touch of criti cism, stating that it seemed easier for the government to get an army going than to de mobilize it. After reading General Eisen hower on the problems of demobilization we have changed our attitude. We guess most civilians and CI's too are guilty of lack of realization of the deep re sponsibilities of the armies of occupation. We are weak along this line, and would no doubt be tempted to make the same mistake we did back in World War 1. We lose sighl of what it means to keep the countries under control after they have been defeated. We also have lost sight of the fact that demobilization had been carried forward with such speed that it was far ahead of its intend ed prom-am. As General Eisenhower pointed out if we continue shipping men home at the rate we reached during the last few months about April we would have nothing left but a woefully inadequate number of volunteers we would literally be "run out of an army." As ho further pointed out. "there is actual ly no change in policy, we have merely reached a point in the pursuance of our plans and policies which we knew we would face when it came." On second thought it hardly behooves the civilians who arc (Maying the joys of peace by a continued state of striking to open up any criticism of the armed forces. It is really a case of the not calling the kettle black. Who Got The Bacon? There have been so many interpretations about which country got the best of the Moscow Conference that it is hard to decide the net result. Not a few Americans say Secretary Byrnes lost everything except his pants to Molotov, while others assess him as coming away with the bacon. Samuel Graf ton tells us that according to The Manches ter Guardian, Britain feels it. was shorn. How? An agreement was made that the trusteeship of Korea should end in five vears. Why? The British "are fearful that the clause may stir the Burmese and all Far Eastern colonies for a commutation of their own term for five years." Mr. Grafton thinks that, coming out of the conference as losers, the British may resort to old-fashioned meas ures which he describes as follows: They try crude moves against the Jews to win the support of the Arab world; and they descend upon Siam with a demand for special rights and for war reparations of up to l.oOO.OOO ton nf i-iVn Ai-.-fV, ,u:i. o that fur a hope to feed the starving in their own Burma !(1''',utkian "n ,hc subejet of mint and India thus easing their own colonial ZL problem. We, who are not dislocated by "f 'earned physicists. Then the having colonial interests try to get the Kcn,utk Pai)tr asled "why bring Siamese reparations scaled down ; we emerge ZLT a.s the friends of Siam. trapping in Virginia. The Louis- The New York Herald-Tribune in an edi- vil!e papt'r fu,lnpr rubbed it in torial sensitively feeling out the new position, : TLTTZ murmurs meaningfully that British and one hand and a skunk trap in the American interests in Asia are not identical '' other- Afler reading the amusing and that it is not reallv necessary for us to : a.rRun,ents- vve nave decided that act in unison with Britain in thenar East i llt uur interests lie in profitable trade, which ! edio"ais that because of the timei require a free and developing Asia; Britain's 1 have had to be so Problematical interests lie (or she thinks they do) in sub- j we hear frTuwe source. . naieign ,ews ; are roany neading into a aflSf I It.t.AM.... . mnn nI 1 ... . jju vu.icivei. There v?s a lot of jokin at the bcLMin.inq of the war about flirls and : - oun-i l.ciies yetting intu-uni-fonn. but they have evidently made uood for we see that the V.':.c the Waves and the Women Mai iitc- are to become a perma nent part of the army, nasy and marine co:as. There will be no peacetime Spars or Coast Guard, however. I mler the existing laws -.wirtimc o'"janiat ions are abol- :-hoo! six months alter the end of the omeiveii! v. hut hi'h official of 'he ihree services stated luriiv "ic cek that the women had don Mich a good wartime job that at least a n. I? lens of all thn-e will hi kept. Major Ceneral Wiilai'd S". ''.'Oil. chief of army personnel, top ' 1 1 i nu bet ore the Senate Military UTairs committee on demobi I ia- non. said in part, We fullv 'X- peet to have a smai! group of worn in in both the permanent and nterim army. Women have floni I very outstanding and gland job in the war. We have found that often one woman can do the work of two or three men in certain jobs Take a bow girls. We here in Hay wood county salute you all. because wo nave nad some ot our very finest girls in your groups. Wini fred Itodgers. Helen Plott, Helen Medl'oid. Hilda Moody Leather wood to say nothing of the part our nurses have played, with the I'lott iisters. and !.t. Man-. Francis. In connection with (he war and wom en, we must not foi ( t cither the service that Betsy I.ane and Mary Quintan have playi d in the work of the Ked Cross overseas. The Courier-Journal of Louis ville. Ky.. h is always been of spe cial interest to us. We rarely see a copy, but v e never fail to read anything wo si e (.moted from its paws. It's recent editorial en eoimter wi'h (hi- Hichmond Times Dispa'ch has been little off its usual editorial depths, but has of tc ied a world of humor. The Rich mond Times-Dispatch made the ar rogant boast in October that Vir ginia led the South in skunk trap ping in 1944. The Kentucky paper chose to regard this as a rather dubious honor. The Richmond paper came hack with the inquiry as to the number of skunks still above ground in Virginia and also went on to ask why Kentuekians dank mint juleps through a straw. And further added that this pro fanation of the sacred julep was doubtless the cause of the report that Kentucky was going dry faster than any state in the union. The Courier-Journal waited until Jan. 14 to make its reply to that stat ing that the delay was due to the natural objection of discussing mint iulens out of msenn gi l to our eencrositcv and f. ime others to see that v,e don t u hog the market. Ona bright ; about the picture is thai ec'g cheaper and cheese unrationed more plenttiful and wind im.ie could anyone want next to meat - it would be a wise plan itue more space is emmodate the people, is a problem at this i i IV IU'P.1 '". Sr-(.tcher I ticnk ii would be a good !! If.n! irr:s are of a per i.t lire." One of the most stirring eam pies of real patriotism we l.avr heard in sometime is the re.: lie; of the widow of Manuel Qu.ve i former president of the I'hi'ip pines. Last fall the Philippine Con gress voted her a monthly pension She sent back the first died: v.i'ii a note and her reply . . ( !( ! that on account of count less v.h o a and orphans, 1 should wai e co' lection tit a pension. I cannot in good conscience reeei o e0v . ;). ment assistance when so many of children are not taken rare m. I know that if I accepted il I would my less fortunate sisters an i 'he. not be keeping failh with the . v-,-ory of my belo.ed liusi)-n.l." C in'! you imagine the glow of v.ai're'i, and affection this letter crea'ed among the Filipinos, who have suf fered so much during the war. In this day of pushing to get every thing in sight, which seems to be the motto of many, it i refi ing to know that there are pi h ft like this Filipino woman, lor we are sure that she has suliera ! . :c: material losses and that her s'and ard of living has been "real';, reduced. . I. " Yi oei 1 )r. .!. ISoyd- s . '.'. e so i w have to 'ii Id favor have more buying such There is new hope and new op portunity each new day for those who will grasp them. It is well known that a godoT night's sleep citen changes one's attitude com pletely towards life. The burden which seems so heavy, the situa tion which seems so confused, as sumes different proportion in the morning. Many of you can remem ber as children, how at night when you were sick or tired your mother tucked you in bed and said "Go to sleep now. It will all be better in the morning. God bless you." This experience is but a foretaste and a symbol of the whoie new life which comes to man when he accepts member ship into the di vine family. Wist- 4 fully Louisa Tark- ington has writ- a lac t.utj i in liv ft k w mm' "I played w:., rat but a child, hUhv ties I piled: lint ,, ' my miner saal i,,' uai s lime to over book:;? ! glad! "iil! like a sweel . , father ss'd Ki ''"' 1 Witt , ill wan, io win Ah Divine. With .v,.j',1. waste and )iei.,np: y ifliu Miiuiy. , -. , I played wit: : I' The I,,- ;ha, I smothered i' I dulled it. ;d n(i; I Yet my Fat!; .... aj(j try' it again ' I'. McCraekcn out I aoprovo of buying such n.es and buildings, As pres .' (he North Carolina State Health group I recommend- por -liase of such camps ii' World War 1. in 1919. ni eded them at that time." 'e h Leatherwood ' - 1 . mi Id approve, for I hap- ' " I' !" in a position to know '. !.;(!" more .space is needed." ( el; pj-sc: The big difference between a gossip and a tombstone is that the latter has a good word for a man when he's down. meat shortage that will outrival any wartime rationing era be cause the meat strikers are trying to follow the crowds in Industry. Well, it won t be rationed this time; but we will be on our honor, so to speak, not to be pigs in our effort to stock upn pigs and beef. In other words the government There is ha'-dly a w but some youm; veto: ' m who is starting his married life d... ,: ask, "Mrs. Gwyn. do ; u ;,;., where I could find an I :n m' or a small house?" We ar ry conscious of a housing shortage here, but our local problems are nothing in comparison v.i!' ,,! .r sections. II is reported that a' State College some of the ' " - are just giving up the id a of fur ther education because thev can"! find places to live we should have said a room In which to keen house. There is a total of 210 married veterans at State, witli the prospect of 200 more in March They arc living in attics, basements and anywhere they can find. They all haven't been as lucky as Car rol Louise Bell Thill ips and her ex-pilot husband. Lt. Fred Phil lins Carroll Louise saw a nice looking house and just took her couranc and went in and begged the owner. who had never rented a room to take her in. At the Universitv in Chapel Hill there are over 4 000 students, and by March there will be 5,000 and next September 6.000. The dormitories are filled and en- less a student can handle his hous ing or roofing problems he can't enter the University. The students are not taking short courses, but are returning after one to five years in the service and are a hard working, serious lot, according to of the University. We ment i membe ..eckly ire glad that the govern Eoing to honor draft board is. Having done a steady coverage of the draft board ir.ro Hie first draftees loft a ;: .vfu! ci oud standing on the o-nrshoiiM- hank, back in 1942. we e-e familiar with the hours that It. To.:;, M. Green and Graydon Fermi on have put in around that :oi;; i able in the office up the two s of long si airs (just climb en: if V'U don't believe they were l.'uill o-pccially for us Moun . .one.. rn. Thcv have gone over and '.. i- the h'Midreds of files listen- i. ! to reasons why deferments diouhl he made. Many were legili n He for the home front hirl t line, ion as well as the battle '"''' '''it it was not always an ' ' i!i;nl to decide just where to eraw the line. So much pressure " brought to bear and to make ."ii l-.cme.si effort to conform with 'he sileetive service laws against the facts presented often offered headaches. They have received no m-.vv for their services, but taken a lot of "back talk" from dis gruntled parents, etc. The public in eeneial may not know of their grind, but they do up in Washing ton, as evidenced in the honor to he shown them. We take pleasure in adding our bit to the laurels '-liven by Uncle Sam. ten: "I wish there was some won derful place. Call ed the Land of Beginning Again, Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches And all our poor sel fish grief, at the door. Could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, And never put on again." There is just such place at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. John Btinyan in his immortal '-Pilgrim's Progress" portrays Christian rolling ail of his burdens off at the Cross and standing up straight and free in the new life for the first time. St. Paul writes about that in the sixth chapter of Romans. The whole book tells how a man may reach this new life by faith, accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. Membership in the divine family, becoming a son of God. is a gift which must be received by per sonal choice. But there those who have entered the divine family, and then like the Prodigal Son have wandered away into the "far country." Jesus related that par able to show that they too may re turn to the Father's house and reecive a welcome and forgive ness. A correspondent sent me a news paper clipping by Chaplain Frank M. Thompson, "The Land of Be ginning Again." in which he quoins a little poem "Try It Again" by Robert Freeman, which reminds us that there is always a welcome for the returning son or daughter in the father's house. i Farm j o3 QUESTION: what advisable to im,, t. uie pa1 Hire i; j r.fesu- icr weeiis. oi:.,,,,., WJ egUL:H01! AN SWF. lowed to dl-taslin;t i,e od' ;-uci ar.-iH before milkin leading dairy . College Fxte.; should be alio? tation alter mi l' par hen; at 3 c-af s;.ys J, ! '(I K QUESTION: What m.ans of l:er;.:::- na; becoming : tah .' AXSWF.R: Can meats, s.ivs .-a, j,. State C'llice k aie ft: agent, who w. Hadst Oil iOOU I l .'s 's a for her su: ..a a,a QUESTION: take to ik v elo.i ANSWi',,!: . of careful cm quired to I in a hybrids, sa.v s i ;hc Slate C'okr. l.on. The !e i i a! co1 program in , h Can its infancy. Dr. Moore 1946 is just i lie sixth ; state-wide h !)i-;d unite: i: brie ll"!t :-!irc ei;' l. . H. P Espt: Pearl Harbor Probe Bedy May Get Paid Legal Staff U. S. Army Air d To Equol British Sea Shell Echo Still another of the cherished be lt' fs of childhood has been punc tured by the advance of science. This one is the theory that when you held a sea shell to your ear yen are listening to the ocean's roar. Actually the sound you hear is a sd; e'.ion of certain tones from the general noise which is always pres ent in our everyday life, and an ech.oir..; of these tones by the sea she'd due to its size and shape. TV, a TVnfiwnn . TTT1 ""ui aays: vvnere you find sand ln 0lnf?r words the government' on a slippery sidewalk, there you find a irood ' won 1 be demanding those one-1 i i ' fc I time . nrocinna nj u neignDor. r . f iu -i 1 our meat buying, but it will be up J THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY Specie! to Central Press 9 WASHINGTON Inside sources report that the Pearl E vcstigating committee wilt accede to the request of &: Ferguson (R.) of Michigan, that it pay a fall time k legal staff. Former Attorney General William D. Mitchell Asod Gerhard Gcsell and their aides worked withe at psv : nounced their resignation and will step down as cn'asn attend to their rccular in Ferguson has emphasized the committee has plenty J lett out ot its S25.000 appiopnr.tion to yers, and that when the moiiev still o.: gone, it would be a simple in.iiur toa Numerous Othpr mmmilto nwmtwli tr v vt m around t0 Ferusn's u'ay of thint i NOW THAT BRITAIN has acid 4 $4,400,000,000 American linn ferns til .strati An Jiqo i;i.-ot. . - v.. w , , i4uo 4UtLiai.t;ii tl V P. ii in v.aii.)-"' it to the American public and parti&l ongreBg. Thev think the lattpr tacU mav be by British approval also of Eretton Wooe Sen. Ferguson international pool of he'p ur ecw: troubled nations. As i the matfer is put before Congress through a mss: president Truman, a campaign will probably be conduSK the idea to the public. THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORrS. mcairf set to equal or better any flight record set by Great Brit: other power during the next six months or a year least that is the hope of Gen. H. H. ArnolJ, who s soon as chief of the Air Corps. Great Britain has been F tor months to set new long-distance and speed records. Britain soon will nttorv,r,t t .. t .n,inn tc t, about 10 nnn mil,,., . , . ,., mii ft- a . s. I , KVSir PlfiHT TVS BAS5MEAIT AN& SHOWEI? NOWWXI.YOU BEL'EV'E ( - YOI ME7 - - TIAT WAS MOT ( THE gggpl OUR CAT SCRATCH N6 J TAKE A frrW nk KV WHTt'wMi TWPIgAT. fci OQMJ mown W"'JQJ !wilN(N AM Ai?SUMrNT THE wm atlempt to fly non.stop from u rV wl 10'00 miles' t0 the cent mark set s-w uupaii aiiu wflsn ntrrAn 11 i ' According to best information, however, the Unit7! Stats vlAns wmcn can top the 10,000-mile mark by 5.W miles. Also, Arnold's boys soon will make an . n it : ouu-mile-per-hour record set recently by a British jet pi J!,0N(lRESS ALWAYS MANAGES to come u? witli humor. For instance: A pinup picture of a Hollywood lovely was displayed int oerore it adjourned. Senator O'Mahoney (D) of WW,r,ino- hMH nn in t 5 bathing SuifCtreSS U&rth& HolUday, showing her clad in id Ofl t ,r u pmce something In the record sa-a n ts rrom Yank mflP-nin0 -u.. fjrt am It fyrr V-.i hub. tZl i magazine and about basic suggests nave for improvement of the United stub Armv." artieiP , T1, howw. that O'Mahoney was talking Mticle printed on the other side of the picture. forV THE HOUSE, the lower chamber applauded ..s:s:rdid not make- Everyne a&reed u prd'l6 Graham (R) of Pennsylvania, was ol THn.?.mlke. speech whn he reached the well terrunted Z, ,'. rore he C0uld bee'n he as in S wyf qUeStlon ,rom on o the member. jv Cr' ti!? bf.nged and the Pennsylvanlan was info w P, en,au time has exolred h!Ttt but ' a monfenl, Graham glanced at the S iticea the House and. deeior.. ' 6 . tWnk tlUs wa the greatest speech I ever made."
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