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PAGE TWO (Second Section) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER ;1 i" j' ) 1 r t t r The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 131 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN . Associate Kditor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $2.00 Six Months, In Haywood County 1 25 One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered at the port office at Was'nesrllle, N. C, as Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Ail of March i, lt7U, November Su, 19 14. Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, card of thanss, and 11 notices uf entertainment for profit, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. NATIONAL DITORIAL SSOCIATION S'Honh Carolina viV THURSDAY, MAY 2. 19-lfi Back Again We are pleased to see that farm tours are coming back, and the farmers in the county and other interested citizens will have an "official" opportunity to observe various agri cultural practices in the county. The alfalfa and Ladino clover tour on Saturday we trust opened the farm tour season. We recall the farm tours that were en joyed before the war and what a stimulus they were toward better farming practices as well as home improvement. We welcome the return to this feature of the farm program. Who Will Take Their Place? Compulsory retirement looms for 70-year-old State employes and teachers as a result of a mimeographed letter received last week by the heads of State departments, agencies and superintendents of administrative school units. It was pointed out that "if department heads desire to keep any of these employes they must give an extra good reason and must show that the employe is essential and cannot be replaced at present by a younger man. It is estimated that around 500 teachers in North Carolina will be affected by this order. This offers a serious problem, with the teacher shortage now so apparent in every community in the state. It is another bit of proof that higher salaries and more inducements must be offered in the teaching field, for as the-older ones retire from present conditions it would seem that there will not be enough new converts to the teaching field to meet the demand. Consider, Now, The Pasture It may be our Imagination, but it semes to us that we have never seen the pastures of our Haywood farms quite so green quite so early in the season. Pastures in this county are a big asset, and with scientific farming have been greatly improved during the past few years. The part that the pastures play is a big one, not only to the farmer, but to others which is shown in the following editorial from the Christian Monitor. America's untilled acres these days are teeming with four-legged life as vast num bers of cattle are being turned out for graz ing. While this activity gets but a few lines in country weeklies and seldom finds its way into big-city newspapers, the annual renting of pastures to livestock operators has a very important bearing on the economic life of the United States. For a nominal sum, the cattle owner is enabled to feed his herd economically through the summer and ready it for fall marketing through an intensive grain-rationing process, thereby achieving maximum poundage at minimum cost. Nor is the practice confined to those who make a business of buying and selling livestock. In this era of diversified agriculture, almost every sizable farm has its grass, tact where a dozen or so cattle are pas tured, and they go a surprisingly long way tow&fd augmenting the country's meat supply. i Because it doesn't produce bumper crops - j of corn or wheat, the pasture, to the layman's ' eye, may seem a "frozen asset." But this is . far from true. Through feeding millions i t! of cattle, it indirectly provides employment for hundreds of thousands, from packing house, tannery, and shoe factory workers down to the village cobbler who repairs foot wear. The pasture is a little noticed but indispensable part of .our economy. May It i never be plowed I ynj' ' .-i V-;. - f 1 li Gas On Sunday . We are gratified that the gas station man agers have complied with the request of the Merchants division of the Chamber of Com merce and at least one station will remain open on Sunday. V, tth the four, Sims Tire & Battery Service, Howell's Esso Station, Gulf Service Station and Underwood Sinclair Station, alternating it should not be a hard ship on any of them. I'rohably others will join later. There are going to be too many visitors enroute to and from the Park who will travel this way, for the town to have all facilities closed. We hope now that the four have set a fine example of cooperation that others will join in and the alternating system will make it still easier on the group participating. Year-Round Fair Last week Governor Cherry approved the project to convert the North Carolina State Fair from a six-day farm exhibit to a perma nent state exposition, embracing all phases of North Carolina governmental, agricultural and industrial activities. The idea is to have a year-round display of the activities and products and to use the place periodically for livestock shows. The long-range goal of the State's farmer leaders is the conversion of the State Fair which will eventually contain a coliseum, a memorial building and a sufficient number of other buildings to house extensive exhibits. The project would cost $3,000,000. It looks like a fine set-up, for anyone who has ever visited the state fair knows that the money expended on the carnival features could be put to some permanent good, and is usually overcome with the expense of stag ing such an event for so short a time. It sounds like a splendid way to offer to the public what North Carolina is, through its products, and would be a vast improve ment on the old mid-way type of fair, where the entertainment features appear to have precedent over the worthwhile and informa tive exhibit. Longing For Peace The following excerpts from an editorial passions for war than the passions for peace,' Christian Advocate sounds an encouraging note at this time. " 'If you say it is easier to mobilize the passions of war than the passions of peace,' said Senator Borah in speaking for the Peace Pact, "I challenge the proposition, I say the most searching, universal and profound pas sion in the human heart today is the passion for peace. If it is organized it will control in international affairs!" "This observation by our great senator years ago is most encouraging today with the world wide effort of the United Nations to win peace and security so much desired. Everyone knows that a more determined ef fort is being made than ever before. As the spirit of the Prince of Peace more and more dominates the thought of the world, the age old conflict of cruelty, blood and death be comes more and more abhorrent. "Leaders in education and labor as well as the leaders in the Christian church strive for peace in their pi as for peacetime conscrip tion. The foreces of our Christ are being mobilized for peace and security. Wallace Was Right? About the time of V-J Day, when most people thought that millions of men would be looking in vain for jobs, Henry Wallace said there would be 60 million jobs for peace time economy. He was put down as a dreamer. Was he? According to a survey just made by The United States News, there are already around 54,000,000 persons em ployed in civilian jobs. That number, ac cording to the magazine, is expected to rise to above 58,000,000 during the next year. In civilian jobs in early 1947 will be about 58,260,000 workers, the publication states in its current issue. That is 13,000,000 more than were employed in civilian jobs back in 1939. In military service will be 1,800,000 compared with about 3,300,000 at present. Thus the total number of persons employed either in civilian jobs or in military will be an estimated 60,000,000, on the basis of activity now expected for the first half of 1947. Gladstone Williams, Washington corre spondent of The Atlanta Constitution, quotes the above statement from The News and comments : Wallace's dream of full employment be comes an early prospective reality. The scoffers no longer scoff. Those who reviled him and sought to ridicule his figures now have cause to regret their words. The Secretary of Commerce becomes a prophet not without honor. What threw the doubters off in their estimates .of the situation was their entire failure to give due credit to the resourcefulness of American industry. Raleigh News and Observer. . ' .- TIDAL WAVE THAT DIDN'T DEVELOP ! Voice OF THE People What do you think of Truman's record the first year as president of the I'nited States? POINTED PARAGRAj WALTER ALLISON April weeds. showers brini.', forth May You don't have to know peo ple to have had eonneetions. Have you ever tried iu keep a a sport shirt tuekej in? K. I.. Prevost "First he advo cated loo many things and asked ConKi-ess for too much. He should have had his program in mind, hut should not have tried to get it all started at one time. He should have tin i It step hy step and he could have gotten Congress to go wilh him. As it was some I to put on the roof first, others wanted to build the il ion." W. fi. Byers "He has made a wonderful record against many odds - inclding the opposition of nieinhers of his own party, who presumed to know more than he or Iciici . 'd Kisenliower about eondi i ions. HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN We see where five of the New England Stales, New Jersey and parts of New York and the Chicago irea have inaugurated daylight saving time, starting at 2 a. in. Sunday. We sincerely hope that we don't have to return to that war-time schedule in North Caro lina or here in Haywood county. We are definitely against such a "reconversion" of time, even though our vole would not affect the change. In the first place we don't believe it is a saving of lime, it merely stretches it. 1'ew people go to bed by the clock, strictly speaking, most of us want a cer tain amount of ' night life" before we retire. To our way of thinking daylight saving time al this season is merely another way of having less sleep and rest, and iu reality no actual saving of electricity. There seems to be a lot of con fusion in places trying to make the change. We see that one town, a county seat in Illinois, voted to have daylight saving lime, while the county voted otherwise and wanted the clock in the courthouse to keep standard time. If anyone wants more daylight we suggest that they get up one hour earlier in the morning and run their own private lime schedule. In fact the "top of the morning" is the best lime of the day to get an extra hour's work at home, rather than at the end of the day. We understand that Mrs. Jack I.ynn will soon join her husband. Col, I.ytm. in I'urope for a stay of a year or so. Jack, we hear, has a most important job of organizing agricultural programs in Germany. Aren't the wives and children of the men in occupied areas going to have an interesting time, as they join their husbands and fathers overseas' It seems that the gov ernment is not making any promis es about luxurious living ouarters. and on the contrary is preparing those who go lor the worst. They ale being warned that even ordi nary necessities in America will not he available in Kurope. Hut who would mind that for a few months'' It sounds like a wonder ful adventure to us to visit trange countries Their position will be quite different from the foreign wives coming to America to live. Our American wives going over seas know they can come home, their sojourn is only a temporary interval in their lives, and there is America to welcome them back, but the foreign wife of the GI must take a permanent view point. We get a big thrill out of what it will mean to the children and the educational opportunities, they will receive it properly directed by their parents. A new language to learn first hand in the country where it is spoken. Then it will be worth all the geography lessons they would have had in schools in America They will also learn his tory that no doubt they will study later in book form in rhouls in America. For these things, all their lives these children will have a broader outlook on life. Speaking of children and schools. Recently 500 school c hildren visited Governor Cherry in his office in Raleigh. As each group passed through to shake his band the Gov ernor asked the teachers to pick out five students, as he wanted to ask them some questions which in cluded: What township do you live in? Who is your county's member in the legislature? Who is sberifT of your county? Who is your Congressman? Who is your clerk of the court? Name five governors of North Carolina. (And he gave them the privilege of starting with none oth er than himself.) In virtually all cases the children missed prac tically all the questions. There was one exception. He was a newo boy from a negro school in Elizabeth City. The prin cipal of the school had been asked as the white teachers to select S students. The first student missed the answers. Then the principal asked the Governor to call -oik a certain boy. He answered wilh surprising accuracy He missed only one question, he gave the dale of the Mecklenburg Declaration as May 19 when it should have been May 20, land thai was not sur prising, for he may have kept up with all this recent renewed argu ment on the subject i. As the negro students filed out I he princi ple stopped and told the gover nor he though the bo could answ- his questions 145. for he hail an 1 Q After reading 1 he story, thought what a splendid lime the teachers in our schools to in the political campaign, velous opportunity to make we for lie 1 1 1 iir-les- son in local government something practical, which otherwise might be a dry subject. Maybe the teach ers are doing this very thing, for all we know they may. They might try out the governor's questions and see how much their students knew about local affairs. Here we go again on the l'ageant of the Cherokee's. Is'very lime we see where they are recalling some historical event at some point in the state we get all worked up over the golden field of material we have right here in these hills, which we are letting remain dormant We see that the story of Flora McDonald is to be dramatized in a pageant at Flora McDonald Col lege in the home town of our own Marjorie Huclianan, home econo mics teacher, in our local high school. Of course we have to ad mit that the story of our pioneers and (he tragic history of I he Chero kees lack the glamor ot this Scot tish lassie, who defied the Fnglish warrors and befriended young Kufus RatclirT 'Personally, 1 think the job has been a little too lug for the man, otherwise be could have been able to carry Congress along wilh him better than he I'. C. Wasenfeld "Considering all In he ha had In contend wilh, i done mighty well." George A. Brown, Jr. tough place to fill and e has dune mighty well." C done what .N a very he had 1 think 'He had I Ihink he has Even if there wasn't a lumber shortage. Monroe Hedden's plat form for Congressman would still be rock-hoitom. Why not deylieht saving I time! It's about the only thini; a person can save nowadays. We don't believe il, bill a fellow ; over iu the Smokies says he killed j a rattler last week with seven Iml I tons and a couple of hooks and I eyes. No doubt when a hot dog man leaves Hie army he's mus tard out. failed to cooperate wilh bis pro gram." Col. .1 Harden Howell i think lie has done as well as any other man could under the circum-slances." .1. It. I'.oyd "I would say lhal the year was not as f.iwirable in the ending as il was in Hie beginning." Mrs. Stanley hruding "lie step peel into a vers dilliciilt job, but I wish lhal he would he a little more decisive, even if his decisions turned out to he wrong." One scarce loafer' lor ;i He,,,, ,,)d ' k-Vu OllsiiJ U''M1-Si, U.ilk, ,1 ,,, . , ;"'l as' eel t!"?'' a lu,ui,.. ' "1 Allen "I think good job considering to face." (' V. Nobeek "He has advo- caled Ihings that should have been enacted into laws but Congress prince Charles F.dward Stuart. After serving for live years in the jail in the 'Tower of London the young heroine, following many ad ventures, found peace in the Cape Fear seel ion of our stale. 'Then too we have to admit that the his tory of our state started in the Fast and moved West, yet we can make claims with the trail of De Soto through the Smokies at a very early period, which would come in the Cherokee pageant we want so much to see become an annual event either at the reserva tion or Western Carolina Teachers College. We always did like to see fresh paint go on a building and it is wilh real pleasure that we note the city hall is being freshened up. The building may hold some pres tige hy its age, but even so it is not old enough nor does it possess a style of architecture sufficient to give it any distinction. It is just a drab old brick building like one sees in any crossroads in America. 'The coat of paint is covering a multitude of scars and will no doubt rejuvenate the old shell until il lakes on a look of respectability II just shows what magic can be found in n can of paint. THE OLD HOME TOWN YEAH, MYKIO STILL WANTS TO Sir A CIC(JS TISHT (?OPE WALKER" - -1 TELL HIM ITS TOO tAN6EI?OL)S--ONe 3LIF" AMt ITS CURTAINS- TH& COMPANYS OFFERFB HIM A &OOt JOB WOK.'MiS WITH ME - - - By STANLEY E i i y TH& COMPANYS OFFERFB HIM A &OOC f . JOB WO..-.'A.!J7 WITH ME - - - y SAJLgr coy t KPa nrnm fWMCAT fc wonu van iimiiiii SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK IIS By R. J. SCOn )Ur'MMMrff Dtl&AM V YiME. 1H FRANCE. MDE A M AC YHEAfplCM. SHOWS By Hitm; YrttiB fKCis BirtiHD FANS - Bu Peepholes f IM Yhe fahs I EMABLED -The lADlLSl Yo VIEW YHE VH01.L I PtftFoBMAMCt. ' 3 U5tt Razor? A4 EARLY AS ISOO B (ester) WHO WM YrfL Second Persok Yo FLY ACR.OSS YI I-h;ush CH AHULL f HAAAJtf UlM8y, ah amuucam CLV SWEDEH.HA.S "U" FOR. MORE. THAN ZO 7 LARS wef HO POVYIR. EUCEPf "fitfcT PKODUCtD Br CHANGES in BARomeTric pRWURl 0ftt. AcTMoSPKtfct a Kiv I. n, 1 1.,.,;, "'"n. ii, I,,,, hoi.,,., A fllm h . . I "'"lK ""-I rJm J reader . 1 I i.i- " n,f in uiiar). li i n i-l , parkuii '"'Iitn in k,. Nut "' '" mishti I'Mtllllg luf "ia com,- Sud. alii.- will Mri )mie -onr 'ic.-in .. . u t ll I 1 1 ' V 1 11 1. ... 1 "Ml I replicl Hie ,,1Hr I We hope JuhiiLI,, nuiii ins u-mm uhiit Aslievill.-. ,-vin it,uu,t I" tile .in- juain t lu ll' ?U1 iJ Looks like , Ibis sueel Mini i Stntai li.iv. I ii V ft YOU'RE TELLING W By WILLIAM RITT - Central Press Wiiter A PARIS DESIGNER has in troduced a wrought iron um brella. Don't tell us they've re pealed that natural law that metal attracts lightning! i i i One advantage about an iron umbrella is that it's so heavy a thief wouldn't bother to swipe it. i i t Now it's the city slicker who Is trying to buy a golden brick off the farmer, says Zadok Dum kopf a golden brick of butter, i ; I A bottle of home-made gun powder exploded in the hip pocket of a Los Angeles resi dent, hospitalizing hi like the guuj ulj diji 111 bit lull i r Now that ill Hnk races will be limit b to hmsh we may Hfict "They're at the foil-J up!" i King Guitav of SJ pears very secure in kaJ parently h wields hu ably as he does o Mail in A new type houae kl closely resemble 1 1 Not a bad idea, nyii the next desk, li Id with it. Who'll Pick Up Reins Of John L. Lev. is? No logical M Groomed hi Special to Central Press m WASHINGTON The United Mine Workers hi! 1 "one-man" show and burly John L. Lewis is that man politicians, Lewis has no groomed successor. Observers of the 1946 coal waee negotiations, still injl though Lewis has called a nationwide walkout, hsveoct: snare moments snpculat ino' on the interesting issue of A into the great "John L.'s" shoes when he lays down tlteOI In the course of the conference's public sessions, u- the rostrum a dozen of his district pw UMW's international officials ami t. aides. Aftffr InslHno thpm -ill OVer, ObSePe lv arrived at these conclusions If Lewis were to need a siu'cessor it probably would be neat. leasanl ff tary-trcasurer. Thomas Kennedy, w ant governor of Pennsylvania If at some distant dale a ne' Off. John L. Lewis to come from the ranks oi uisaw most likely candidate at present Titler, of Beckley, W Va, r trict 29. Titler displayed the nearest apF I.e.llllll.S "" nts. Lewis technique. In llifl IIUA ft caneyt ami Wlionln sn iST.nniie! UMW official lacks the polish and finesse of Uu developed. BRASS HATS IN THE NAVY department still ; will win the battle to scuttle or shelve pending lr'1!'1" Cfltlon nf thA nrmo.1 frrtta EV,- ...uil- .u. . : 11.., l.-.n,! ailJ it 'F With Prptoiilttnt T.ir.r.'a cmnnil Dip AnllV UValJP '' 1 bill through Congress. However, the Navv lobbv has been workinp fe llas succeeded in keeping the bill bottled up 13 months. Top-ranking Army officers admit there is a P1'1 measure will be delayed until Congress n-c -s-es W that happens, the Navy will have obtained its 1 Hon and there will be little prospect of an e uh niS' 'I is ADMINISTRATION LEADERS on Ca.it"' H'1. iimiseic ovpr me prospects ot tne nruisn . wl una a guuu criance oi approval, piuu.i..j AnU . . Jt. . ,.! ( gin. inai was ai nrst preuiciea. .rstfc There Is strong opposition to the loan, hut ".'.to!. ston or the proposal is helpful rather ma" '" b w They point to recent endorsements of Hie '"an j; ments of the nation's business life and from at lts organization. Latest indications are that House Republics" organized front against it. ' THE ACTION OF WISCONSIN'S Progress " , tiOP after 12 years of Independence was assure the re-election of "Young Bob'- I-""'1" year. He was regarded as certain to win. Tk. t-. - i thp tei"" me r-rogressives action loons io" , j nominate a Republican candidate for P1" In 1848. g h When the convention tomes, the forces of fcr" Governor Stassen of Minnesota, Senator Ball ot rf , nesota. Senator Morse t Orejon, Senator A Vermont and LaFollette will be drawn "f"- fight to wrest party control from the "old P nhMrvAM iv. nnh mstv oe .. , for president; that he may wind up a vice-PI2Lf that ha rvrtnlnl wilt K uort nnwerful. ou, dominant figure in the Progressive party fouW aUter Fighting BoblUFoUeUe,
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