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PAGE TWO ,(Ss?P.iyl gctfon) THE. WAYNES.VJW-E. MflXJTCTAJER The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 131 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County VV. 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 Six Months, In Haywood County One Year, Outside Haywood County Six Months, Outside Haywood County All Subscriptions Payable In Advance $2.00 1.25 2.50 1.50 Entered at the pust office at WayneHville, N. C , as Second Class Mall Milter, as provide J under the Act of March IS if, November 20, 1914. Obituary notices, remtlutious of reject, card of tluitiKfl. and all notices of entertainment for yrotn, uiil be chained lor at toe r.Ue of one cent uer word. NATIONAL EDITORIAL- ASfir AT ON ySHonh Carolino v-K TIU'RSDAY, MARC H I I. 1916 What A Price The llS-day-olil General Motors strike has been settled and 275,000 workers are return ing to the task of reconversion. Was it worth the price it cost may not be a question in the minds of the strikers, but it is with the public looking on. The estimated cost of the strike has been set at $1,000,000,000 in lost wages, sales, com misisons, and cut the automotive industry's production scheduled to one-sixth of advance estimates. Were the few cents an hour gained worth the loss? It was a high price to pay for so little returns, and looking on one cannot but wonder if it did not cost the workers themselves too much in time and money. A Good Reaction We wish that every country in the world would react to the suffering and horrors of war as the Japs have, if one is to take the following insertion in their new constitution as evidence of their change of heart ; which includes : "Resolved that never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of the government." Thus the people and not their parliament can declare war and it must be by the vote of the jm ople who will fight. They hope to rely for "security and survival upon the good faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world." They have set the world a fine example. It is a wise nation as well as a wise person who learns by their mistakes. Music From The Wires There's music these days along the country roads where the weather-grayed, splintery telephone poles march beside rail fences, along the valley pikes, over the sidehills and climb the brows of ridgelands. March is a month when the telephone wires sing their songs. Boys and girls on the way to country schools stop and listen to the music. There are many moods in the humming symphony. On clear, bright days the wires sing a cheerful song as if they knew that winter's hold on the land was broken. Their aria is high-pitched and filled with the tense ness of anticipation. The soprano strains hum a song of happiness, one wave of music succeeding another in joyous acclaim to shin ing sun and blue sky. Then with the change in weather, another movement in the synphony begins. As skies darken and storm winds blow the wires, song changes. Lower is the pitch and the altos and basses predominate. Cone for a time is the light-heartedness ; now there's a steady ominousness in the music. As one listens he can imagine that warnings are being flashed along from pole to pole, mile after mile, through the valleys and over the headlands. There is a scientific reason why the wires sing their songs. But that does not concern boys and girls who stop to listen. In teeming cities today there are men and women who may look from office windows at the blue sky and remember the days of long ago when they tramped along country roads to school and wondered what the music was saying. The singing winds tell a story a story of a nation that has harnessed its power to serve the needs of man. And now in the first month of spring their song is a requiem to winter and a joyous greeting to another season of birth and fruition. Richmond Times-Dispatch. On the streets of Utopia they have black snoTrV,,KhiQhj3oea.not jhowthe dirt ANew Top Foj Mgjn Street The district highway office reports that a project has been set up for resurfacing Main Street with sheet asphalt, recognized as the best material for a street such as Main street. Needless to say, we are glad to get the new surface, and we won't get it before its needed, as the street is getting worse all the while. In the report of the highway officials, we note the news article stated the work would be done in late spring or early summer. That is not a very convenient time, but then when is it convenient to hav.' Main Street torn up? The only time element we can think of that would be appropriate, is "the sooner the bet ter" regardless of the season. It Had Us Worried! The Chamber of Commerce had us worried for a while. No mention had been made since last spring for their annual election, and since the elections of the organization seems to be held later and later each year we were afraid that the 1946 election might run in competition with the May Democratic pri mary. There's too much fun afforded by a May primary to have anything else taking place that would divert the attention of Haywood citizens. The Chamber of Commerce has jumped the gun, however, and will stage their annual election on Tuesday, the 26th of March. At one time there was lots of talk that the organization was going to hold fall elections so the new officers would start off with the calendar year, and avoid the rush and hurry that comes with spring. By working by the calendar, a well-balanced program could be outlined during the early months of the year, and be well under way by the time Spring arrived. Travel Happy The following statement issued by the North Carolina Advertising Division should be a challenge to all resort centers in the state, for along with the good news it always carries a responsibility for those who serve the travelers to prepare to give them their best ; "The United States is travel happy, and the State Advertising Division is being swamped with vacation inquiries from all over the country. Most inquiries want information about hotels and other accommodations, and all of them want the State Tourist Pamphjiet. The supply of 100,000 copies recently published by the division is melting fast and a recorder will have to be made. One magazine adver tisement produced more than 1,500 letters. The division is attempting to persuade tourists to come early so as to relieve pres sure on facilities in July and August. Pattern For Aggression Because faith, hope and charity are so very important to the future peace of this world, Americans have been leaning over backward to give Russia the benefit of every doubt as to the ultimate goals toward which she is moving. We want desperately to believe that Stalin's intentions are not aggressive, that he is not deliberately trading upon our pacifism to get away with a program of imperialism at the expense of weaker nations who have a right to look to us for assistance. It becomes increasingly difficult to kid our selves that a nation indulging in flagrant, unabashed aggression is not an aggressor nation. Communists inspired, financed, directed sometimes trained and armed by Moscow create an internal issue against a non Communist government. Argument and ac cusations lead to disorders, and these in turn lead to insurrection. Stalin has a much simpler and equally ef fective pattern for aggression, that thus far has successfully invited appeasement by of fering no one moment at which we have to come to a decision. We have seen it in Poland, in Hungary, in Yugoslavia, in Iran. We are seeing it in Manchuria. Soviet troops, already present as the liber ators who came to dinner and never did get started for home, prevent government forces from putting down the revolt. They dpnt attack the government forces; they .merely sit down in the path, secure in the knowledge that the government troops won't dare attack them to get through. Meanwhile the Red revolutionists unham pered, set up a de facto government, declare their mutuality of interest with Moscow and another non-Communist nation .has bq come part of the Russian community. We don't like it. So what? We promised cnina to return aiancnuria to her. Are we going to fight Russia to do so? There is a lot of dyamite in this Soviet pattern for aggression, in view of the Atlan tic Charter and traditional American inter national policy. The Ridsville Review TheGoodOld Days'' Inflgyqpd if m! m, (fief'!"" :rht'':i'"E.WE:-:j at: jar ! r, ,?tei-t ahrra Pictured here is a Haywood motorist on the Pigeon highway (.') in the "good old days." While there has been excessive muddy roads this winter, few have matched scenes like this. Read Mrs. Gwyn's column on mud, right below, and you'll lind we have come a long, long way since the "good old days." HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Mud which Mr. Webster tells us in his dictionary is "soft wet earth," has been a prevalent stale in this neck of the woods all win ter. Rain and snows have kept the good earth of Haywood in a "soft wet" condition for weeks at a time and complaints have fallen about as frequently as the rains thick and fast but to no avail. For no one can control the weather and apparently no one could do any thing about the havoc the war had played Willi no work on our roads. Yet if we take the stale paper seriously we have been much better off up here in the hills where nature has given us a drain age system than they have in the low lands of Eastern Carolina. Schools there have been closed for weeks at a time on account of the fact that the school buses could no' travel, while up here our school children have only had a few days of unexpected vacations. Not so long ago we read in the Raleigh News and Observer that Sandy Graham, state highway com missioner said he used to hate wind, but recently he had begun to like it for it dried the muddy roads in Carolina. No wonder Mr. Graham has found comfort in the drying influence of the winds. From the accounts of trips made to Raleigh by citizens from every part of the state, wilh their pockets full of complaints, we are sure that he has had more mud tracked Into his office this winter than any other state official not even excepting the Governor. Did you ever stop to think in this day of good roads what "get ting out of the mud" ha.; meant to us here in the mountains? It has meant progress and accessibil ity to the things that lie over the ridge and beyond Mud spells iso lation and that is just what the old-timers i;i this section had to ondi'rc. We are confident that the pioneers came here during a dr spell in the summer and the mud plus the beauty of the scenery held them. Did you know that the movement in the state for good roads started in Western North Carolina? We did not, until an old-timer road booster told us that the initial organization for promoting good roads took place at the Langren Hotel in Asheville, attended by citizens from the western counties. This group did the ground-work for the North Carolina Good Roads Association which was later organ ized and started the movement for the great ribbon of concrete which traverses our state. It promoted and worked for the first state ap propriation of $50,000,000 in 1921 for good roads. Things have hap pened in North Carolina since then. It has been like a mighty stream gathering momentum, taking every thing in sight along with it and the farm to market roads might be described as the overflow into the byways and eddies. It is a magic story for the highways of North Carolina have brought wealth to the state and increasing prosperity. We do not mean to write about state roads, but Haywood roads, but we have to leave the county tto show they are part of a great system. Remembering the roads in rural Haywood county 25 years ago, when went to live in the Country, 14 miles from Waynesville, has tempt ed us this winter to feel that the' calendar had been turned back to those bygone muddy da,ys. Correct us, if we are wrong, but we believe that three road companies went broke in the four or five years the Pigeon road was under .construc tion. It cost more to combat the mud than those making the bids planned. Traveling in ihose'd,iys could be a great acjvenfiire. 'We recall once we came to a luncheon in Waynesville. We left J home around 9 o'clock in the morning. W drove in a car to Woodrow, and there caught a train, (the Sun burst Special), and in Canton we took a bus to Waynesville. We waited in Woodrow for the train .Ktt.Jn,PMM'.llJ)ti,1 But we did get to the party by 1:00 o'clock. Another time we tried to make the trip by way of the mud on Pigeon Gap when the road was under construction, but we were late for our engagement. The way that poor old T-model Ford would chuck and spin in a muddy rut positively aroused one's sympathy. There was so much wasted effort. Often the car did not budge an inch out of its path but would rise and fall back in the same old rut in an effort to get out Then you would have to climb out in the mud and get a neighbor to hoist a pole under your wheels or better still get his team to pull you out, before you could get going. vVhen we got sorry for ourselves for such hardships, the head of the family would remind us of what he en countered when he was growing up, and we would feel very un reasonable. There were no bridges over Pigeon River for many years, and you had to ford it around 15 times. But it seems that fording a swollen stream, even in darkness then, was not considered any more serious than pumping up a flat tire is today. When you stop to think of it with all the fun poked at Henry Ford and his T-models, they really did more to create the de mand for good roads than anything else In this country and elsewhere. For a Ford could make it when other cars failed to run. The first road improvement in Haywood county began shortlj after the turn of the 1900's and consisted of stretches of macadam, which were made of a layer of crushed stone laboriously put down in the road bed and pressed down with a huge roller drawn by eight horses. The first roads built, radiated out from Waynesville for several miles in different direc tions. Waynesville was the first township to vote road bonds in the county. Modern road building ma chinery was of course unknown and grading was largely done by hand with picks and shovels. But going farther back we are told that Main street before it had its first covering of bricks was a sea of mud when it rained, and it Was not an uncommon sight to see buggies and wagons stuck in a deep mud. We recall how the late "Uncle Dave Boyd" used to de scribe Main street after a hard rain. We think today with the pre-war surfacing worn thin on our farm to market roads, that life is hard, but just imagine what a trip in the early 1900's and before must have been. For instance a trip from Fines Creek to White Oak into the county seat or from the "head waters of the Pigeon" to Waynes ville and back. It is said that people who lived 20 miles or more from Waynesville, the chief shop ping center, figured on either spending the night in town or at a neighbor's when they planned the trip. It meant two days. Then we OF THE People Considering the world conditions today do you thjnk this country is demobilizing troops too fast? R. E. Connatser "There is a possibility that v.e are. We don't know yet what Rus sia is going to do." Mrs. Frank Ferguson "I am afraid that most people do not take in the conditions that exist in the world today. It scm? to me that we are discharging troops too rapidly." R. E. Sentelle "We need to maintain a strong army until we are in the clear. We don't know yet what the other big nations are going to do." R. W. Livingston "I am inclined to think we are demobilizing too fast. The psy chological effect of a large army on other nations is necessary at this time." Mrs. Clyde II. Ray "Probably we are in world affairs." view of C. C. Francis "It looks like we might be un less we can clean out ihe kinks in between times." W. Clark Medford "1 certainly do." Dr. II. O. Champion "No, I do not think so." J. R. Morgan "Yes, I have thought so for sometime." W. R. Francis "It would look from the present trend and general conditions that we have been discharging the men in the armed forces too rapidly. They are needed for service." understand that a lantern was a regluar part of the traveling equip ment, for you left before daybreak and you never reached home until after dark. When it was rainy horseback was the accepted means of transportation and the speed limit might be placed at two miles an hour. Merchants operated a four-horse team to haul their goods to the country stores. They would take produce to market and load up on the return trip with merchandise. These were exciting trips and fre quently right here within the bor ders of Haywood county such trav eling required food and camping equipment for the drivers and feed for the horses. Quite a con trast to the present fleet of fast moving trucks that haul berries, fruits and vegetables in season. leaving here in the afternoon with food to be served on breakfast tables in hotels in cities miles away. Yet we hear people, both old and young sigh for the good old days when people had time to live. Of course we admit there were many compensations back in that era. but we believe that cycles of time bring more good than bad to com pensate for the changing tides. As for mud, we are glad to leave it to the early history of the county and instead of grieving over trie picturesque mountain roads so close to nature on Haywood's gentle slopes, we look forward to the time when every mountain cove home is located on a well con structed highway. We hope to see Haywood completely out of the mud. AIR EXPRESS To facilitate the bulk movement by air express of certain products over Latin-American air routes, special commodity air express rates, representing reductions of 50 to 70 per cent, have been an nounced by Pan American Airways. The new rates apply to commodi ties such as fresh and frozen sea foods, live plants, cuttings and shrubs, fresh beef and beef pro ducts, fresh eggs, meats and poultry. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY f have You seeai a 7 r r StoRB FUNNY LOOKING I A ' NOTHM UNUSUAL. I J . STRANGER if UP UNTIL MOW BACK ROAD FOLKS jvjvjvr AT THB STARVATION RlCxBH STb&P 1 . . W.W ItflW Ifflrm fci Tom BflnilMBif POINTED PARAGRM By WALTER ALLISON Russia certainly Byrnes our mid night oil. Our home is very modest, but we do have running water in every room. The roof leaks. Very little can be said about a sport shirt. It's a short tail. What is This Country Com ing To? Headline. Waynes ville, sooner or later. Any lUn wood county child knows a report card is no honey when it's full of li's. Cluster Cobb, of Kentucky, was caught with 20 gallons oi moonshine Tuesday. Corn on the Cobb. Said the Haywood county farmer who found four eggs under his covers yesterday morning. "I must have pone to bid with the chickens last night." Any fellow can have a large following if he has a new white shirt lucked under his arm. The garage says due to the short age, they won't he able to give the bread a grease job. A new post-war mattress is about to be placed on the mar ket. Very timely, if it can quiet a restless world. . Just because the boys are com ing home with wider feet is not the only reaM; ing out. ii W a ne3v Many Speaker Washi,,,,,.., "c N ried. -"""UWU The more C,Uri.LT the Kuian 1, , " like In,,,.,,., ' ' ,0M . A PWIadelrtj, J nrnitm.,l i. l a To-su. .H been speakie bJ tor ih.... .. . : ftks. Til" tax oflict, L poll tax !,, ., ...r. them tl,,,(. ,lasn.;y U1 "ls House !, To many EuroJ looks like a dQ1 t Funny, so manvPji., tors sec the dm We thought the wb, them win, upi)ersjt( Many a WayneJ a "f roadster gt(j the mile. Landlord ripped snoulders and .i the OPA know y nign: his tailo. our rd Thp Wl . , "J II on a quiet March meet up wilh ed person SOUK YOU'RE TELLING By WILLIAM RITT Central Press Writer JUDGING by her woea in many parts of the colonial world, the name of that song in 1 1 1 lie changed from "There'll Always lie an England" to "There'll Always De a British Crisis." ; i r Revised proverb: "He knows on which side his bread WAS (not is) buttered." i t i The way we understand it, the shortage of butter will be come bitter before it gets better, i i ; Toward the end of the war, the Nazis were perfecting an ice bomb which would freeze anything within and miles. It seems M they could use it tb the chill un THEJl ! ! ! tsaDy sitters mj1 union headline.' WM they can pull a stui- Stone eating miam stroy Notre Domt news item. What's tail kind of church mora! The new mode ii' fashions emphasizes la figure. At last we'w suit those gals who i diet which didn't till Senator Vandenberg scnting COP's ernor Brickcr, WWASHINGl Senator Vandenberg Still I Wheatless Whiili A Presidential Possibility Won't Cut SupfJ Special to Central Press O WASHINGTON Despite Senator Arthur Vandenbrf statement that he is not a presidential candidate for M rule out an outside chance that he might win the GOP J nor that he would welcome it. Vandenberg has been catapulted Into the world delegate, and is the spokesman for one trend of W thought within his party. Oddly, he was helped along ministration he criticized vigorously for its doings on the I His pre-Yalta foreign policy address the late President Roosevelt that he u Van" a delegate to the San Francisco Subsequently, President Truman stt. London. Vandenberg could hardly forget die crowds at the Philadelphia GOP cot 1940, when he had a fair chance to a nomination that later went to the 111 Willkie. In Chicago four years later he was 1 the background by Governor IW years hence it might be different to s depending on the success of UNO he plays in it. hit? scrambrf among Minnesota's ex-Governor SlflS left wing" in world policy; Dewey, anj ft Ohio conservative and 1944 vice-prew If Stassen is beaten, if Dewey is out, and Bricker cs the waiting man in the hacVcironnri wnul,! annea.' Wl Vu,." i , nunm a.vtlUBM curiam. , whiskey and beer will not hurt the drinking public too n-tuiuine lo.thnsp n lh, 1rl, ,(-,, rfiotniuH snir us .' little in quantity but there will be enough to go around. Distillers use chiefly the best grades of corn and rye. added as a stretcher during the war. 'Thus, they figure' be hit too hard. There is a possibility, however, that spirits may be the whiskey output and the production of gin halted as it ing the war. Beer brewers say they expected a decreased deiM"1 brews after the war, so they, too, are not worrying n THE COMMERPP! the ladies' to know that . ..... . .iinj overs "en yiecious nylons are ni 6V," , stockingless legs are getting goosepimples from standing await the sheere.t h So Arthur Paul, diro'et,. th nf?w nf InternaH came forward with the figures. He said: Less than one f American nylons go abroad. In 1945, he said, only 354,000 of the 40,000.000 P1 America were diverted to foreign markets. THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW HOUSING PROGRAM 1,500,000 prefabricated homes in 1946 and 1947 is ? some tough sledding unless some prompt action is taken to Insure their construction. The reason: "Prefabs" are anathema in many I communities. "City Fathers" do not want them and bulldinir trade nni... -i t h.HId- " ing materials, are turning up their noses at them. nmWhT 8CreS of cltle" and towns have mfTd prohibit such home,. And unions contend they drtff Kncv nr Meg- th0VWnment is commit J " gency nroprnm .i ,rr-j . . Tm.rous "r readv fnr ZZ n'WWW noupuig. i. ready for . V"" wyatt, dynamic housln exnediter, is PFT7, ana communities t v-i ..- it thev dl " ui rnitivM inF ra t-t-i r. 1 1 n. De a ClAnh u.lfk it- - . . . th i. ,w , Ule leaerai government, because
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