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... PAGE TWO (Second Section) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER 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 Editor 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 Filtered at the post offire at Waynesville, N. C, as Second Class Mail MulIT, as (.rnwded utnier tlte Ai t ut March ti, lB7y, November SU, Uli. Obituary nutiies, refmliitinns of rspert, ran uf thaims. and all uf'U'.es u( f!.ltltaini!ie',t fur j.rufil, will be cl.aigej for at the rate uf one cent per Auld. NATIONAL DITORIAL WASSOCIATION North Carolina twl 'tJS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY. MAY 9, 19 1G Fruitful Years Tomorrow the members of the Haywood County Home Demonstration Clubs are hold ing their Spring Federation meeting. They will observe National Demonstration Club week and the program will include a review of the local organization and development of the work in this county. It would be hard to estimate what the home demonstration clubs and their activities have meant to the rural families of Haywood, jjhey have been far reaching not only in material things, but also in the more elusive things of the spirit. The clubs have helped the women to realize their ideals for better home making. The interests and aid gleaned through club work have aided them in giving their families more livable homes, better food and improved standards of living. We did not keep abreast of the rest of the state in this phase of work. We were years behind. Not until 19."3 under the ERA pro gram did the foundation of the present sys tem start. Miss Mary Margaret Smith, pres ent home agent was sent to the western part o the state and assigned to 20 counties in .canning projects. The work was in progress -om May to September. Then in 1935 she ws assigned to Swain and "Haywood under another program of a ten months period, paid by the state. In 1936 the full time horn demonstration program was launched in both Swam and Haywood by vote of the county commission ers. The Haywood commissioners were very smart not only in starting the work, but in retaining Miss Smith here. Under her guid ing hand from a few small groups we have a total of 18 clubs with 500 members, the largest group of organized women in the count v. Mother's Day We do not know to whom we should credit the following quotation but to our way of thinking there has never been a more com prehensive estimate of a Mother's worth than "God could not be everywhere and so He gave us Mothers." Mother's day is the one anniversary of the year which we cannot approach dispassion ately. We find ourselves submerged in the emotion of tender memories. We start with babyhood and go hand in hand down the years, remembering how she guided us when ve were too young to know the way. Then after childhood came the adolescence period and suddenly the years had swept by and we were grown and we had to make de cisions for ourselves, but we had her support and courage to carry us on. If we had her all the way to maturity and beyond we have in deed been fortunate, but if she has gone on ahead we have had our memories tucked away in which to find comfort. Friends come and go and often they are affected by our fortunes in life, but not so with our mothers. They are steadfast through all things and the more we need her the more she has loved us. She is the spirit of the home. When Miss Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, planned a Sunday school program back in 1914 with Mother aa the central theme to do honor to her "beloved mother, she little ' dreamed what a movement she had started, which has grown with the years to have a permanent place in the life of the American people. ,We -give honor on the second Sunday in May With th one supreme thought, that the mother' influence Is still the most potent in the range of human knowledge. From all walks of life people think of the power for 4food thier mother has been in In their lives. C. Of C. Banquet AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE! There have been many Chamber of Com merce banquets as the years have passed in this community. They have all held hopes of great things to come, but there was some thing about the program last Friday night that seemed to promise realization in a defi nite form. The program was well balanced, an enter taining and satisfactory mixture of fun and the more serious contemplation of current problems. The speech by Governor Brough ton offered much food for thought and gave an outsider's valuation of our section that gives us something to live up to. When the program is viewed as a whole, it all conies down to the fact that our section is now on the threshold of a change. It is going on everywhere. During the war period we temporarily laid aside certain develop ments. We did not forget them, we were merely consumed with other affairs. It was right. It was the only wait to meet pressing problems which the war had brought. Now the scene changes, and the curtain goes up on another tict. The stage is set. How we play our part and what we will get ; out oi it depends on us. nave we vision enough to catch the picture of the future as a whole and bring the climax to a glorious progress that will make the most of our ad vantages? Time alone can tell. Our Full Measure The response to the call for food by the Haywood County Ministerial Association should be heart warming to its sponsors as well as to the people at large. As we go up and down the streets and see the stacks of loaves of bread and whether or not we can always find just some special food to our liking, there is always an abundance. In view of this plenty it is hard for us to understand the need in the war devastated nations. "We must not fail", writes Presi dent Truman in transmitting to Congress the quarterly report of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and he further states : For our continued participation in obliga tion to others marks the fulfillment of a pledge and the discharge of a debt to those who, beyond the common sacrifice of life and material resources, endured the devastation and brutalities that we were spared. Con sicence alone demands that we meet the full measure of our obligation. But what is our obligation? Is it merely to give what we can spare without any dis comfort? We feel that all of us if we could only know the real need would gladly make a sacrifice for those who have endured so much more than we. S ,,r ismffl,,. Jmmm. -xW 1 wm I . I Voice OF THE People Would you approve of theH North Carolina legislature rais ins the salaries of teachers in the State? Ceoice I'lott "Yes, 1 lliink lhey should Ne raised." Crady Walker "I would approve for I know (hey an- underpaid i more lliiiii an.', oilier slate em ploy ee." Jim Knisht "Y" -. I would ap pi ove. William Medfonl "I am in favor of raisin;: 1 1 1 ai.il ; of the teachers. POINTED- PARAGW WALTER AUJSON Yes, sir! Every day in the week in il, is Mother s Day. ; m ., She's the CommuniliiiR: Gen eral on the home front from grandpa to the infantry. She has so many duties to per forin she lias to borrow I lie hands from the hall clock to help her. sh.. ,jn tl. . I '""1 !.. JHH HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN A Bright Prospect The picture of development in the South is a bright one according to Howard W. Odum, head of the sociology department at the University of North Carolina, who re cently told the nation's foremost social scien tists at a conference of key educators from 13 Southern States, that "the South has hardly begun to tap its immense reservoirs of resources or to use them for the enrich ment of its economy and its people." Dr. Odum pointed out that high in the catalogue of needs is an increasingly larger amount and more effective type of research and discovery through which the South's re sources may be developed and made available. There is also special need for skills and ways of using these resources more effectively and for giving all people equal opportunity to profit from use through an economy of abundance. Another great need, pointed out Dr. Odum, is for the South to re-discover the human worth of its people to re-discover and recog nize the personalities of the folk and to re capture the spirit of its Christianity and democracy through the good society which will develop and give equal opportunity to all its people. This re-discovery and development of the folk and the recognition of the immeasurable worth of the individual is in harmony with the new needs of an atomic age. In particu lar, 25 years of research in the South has shown this to be a supreme need. Unless this need is met, all the wealth and resources of the South will mean little. From the viewpoint of these eminent scientists it would seem that at the end of the South's rainbow is an honest to goodness "pot of gold." The scientists have made what appears to be a very fine diagnosis of our needs. Perhaps they had better go one bet ter and give us a detailed prescription of how to get results from the rich store of resources and people. A year after the fall of Germany we look about us and marvel al the eouraiie and bravery of lln.se whose lit ai ls will forever keep vigil over a while cross that marks a grave somewhere overseas. They may never visit the spot, hut it will be familiar and sacred ground to them. Daily we are filled with admiration for the way they lift up their eves and go forward with the routine of living. The world will forget in time, bul the mothers and fathers will always remember. He is still their son as much as if he were living in the llesh today, lie is with them always, in Hie rising of the sun and in the heauly of nature His material possessions are everywhere reminders in the home During the week we contacted a father, whose son was one of our first casualties- a mere hoy in his teens. We had never known the father before the day he handed us Ibal message which began, "We regret to Jell you" . . hut after he told us the slorv we were no longer si l ancers . , . and since thai day we have fell thai we were friends of long standing. We talked with a mother recent ly. It had been just a year. She had hoped, yet in her heart she knew what the final message would be. She told us of how she knew even before the message came. How she could not sleep the night be fore and was up early. When she saw the car turn toward her door, she told one of (ho members of her family, what it brought, even be fore the telegram was handed to her. thought of the things we three had planned to do togetlier became almost unbearable bul gradually the conviction became strone.ei and stronger that we must carrv on as he would have insisted we d. . So. today, The Daily Standard becomes a reality and we dedicate it to that son, Roy N. Kiuinolt, Jr., whose memory will through the years ahead he our inspiral ion to make of it the finest newspaper that can he published. II will be a newspaper devoted in its en tirety to community service; a newspaper that will exert its every effort to make Ccdarlow n. I'ulk County, Ga.. a heller place in which to live; a newspaper that will not he controlled by money, power or prestige, or by aiubilions lo ac quire them .hut by (he needs of Ihe people it will so earnest iy si rive lo serve. We. who will carrv on, will con tinue through Hie years and will ; miss Ins enthusiasm, ibe excep tional newspaper ability, the high ideals and inspirations, the courage l and strength which were combined io mane mis tan a newspaper man of rare qualities We were confi dent that under his guidance Hie Standard would go far. Now we can hut pledge ourselves, which we do, to do the best lo carry on exactly as he would have us do. In this conviction we give you, readers of The Standard, the lirsl issue of your dailv newspaper, and dedicate this and all issues to come, lo him, who will ever live in our hearts. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy N. Emmet. Yet both of these people are carrying on. They have not given up. They have faith. They have !ecn enriched by their heart break ing experience. Their smiles cov er their hurts and today we acclaim them as heroic as their sons who fell in battle. We hold them in the same respect. With President Truman able to keep only $4,200 of his $75,000 salary after payment of taxes and household expenses a small boy has more encouragement to grow up and be a hard-hitting outfielder. Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette. -..!... -j - One of the most readable papers that comes into this oflicc among our exchanges is The Cedartown Standard, which has grown from a weekly, to a semi-weekly, and on April 29, it became a daily. We have just finished reading the first issue. Hence you will see why our thoughts were turned on the fore going. We felt very humble as we read the dedication of this first issue which is explanatory. We pass it on lo you. We do not know either Mr. or Mrs. Knimelt per sonally, only through reading their paper. We are sure as you read the following, in which their story is told, that you too, will not feel that they are strangers, for through the bonds of suffering any lack of formal acquaintance is banished. It is the kind of thing that makes strangers friends. We ore sure of the continued success of their paper, and offer our congratula tions as we feel you too will want to do after reading the following; DEDICATION The Daily Cedartown (Ga.) Stan dard today becomes a reality, cli maxing sixteen years of hopeful planning. For the last half of those years, plans for the Daily Standard cent ered around our son to the point that time schedules to begin pub lication were first fixed, in family council, for the time when he would complete journalism train ing in college and then with the war, to the day when he would come home from the Marine Corps. It was he whose ambition, whose talent, whose love of The Standard and the community it serves, car ried us steadily forward through many a trying day when things looked too dark. An all wise Heavenly Father has decided otherwise. This lad of ours did not come back. There have since been days when wc tell U wm futile to attempt t plan ahead times -when the very Letters To Editor WILL THIS SKTTI, Ol'ESTION? ill : Editor's Note W. C. Allen, author of "The Story of Our Slate. North Carolina," and who has been active for about two years in bringing to light an apparent attempt to dis credit our Stale Flag and lo deny the authenticity of the Mecklen burg Declaration of Independence , has received a letter from Dr. K. W. Gudger. as follows: Dear Professor Allen: You have quoted Dr. Archibald Henderson in support of the Meck lenburg Resolves as rock-ribbed and genuine. I wonder il you have seen what he had to say on tin subject, as reported in the News and Observer of April .1. l!)4(i: "Dr. Archibald Henderson of Chapel Hill, historian and author, in a talk last night before the Kal eigh Chapter. Sons of the Ameri can Revolution, called attention to existing inconsistencies in the pres ent historical situation in Xoith Carolina. "Dr. Henderson discussed par- THE OLD HOME TOWN Kenneth BrowiiiiiK "Yes, I In uk it would be alright to raise the leachers alter the school bus drivers are laised. They arc the most underpaid of any group 1 now." Oral Yates "Yes. 1 am in favor of l.ii ill!1 the -alaries of Ihe teach ers cue hundred ht cent." R. I'. L. I!A 1(1. Ill "No I think I In", are paid enough. I would mil j lavor a raise in salary." ' J. It. Boyd "Yes, their salaries are Ihe lowest in comparison ol any other state emploved group." I . - I.. ('. Messer "If they start on Ihe schools villi (he bus thivcis I would he for a raise for the leach ers. but I Ihmk Ihe bus drivers should oiiie hi si when they are making any raises." Joe Sloan "Yes, I would ap prove a raise in salaries for the leachers. Due to the investment llie.v have in (heir education they are not paid enough as compared lo ol hers." !licularly the fact I hat the Slate Hag and State seal bear the date, j May 20. 1775. on which the Meck I lelihurg Declaration of ludepen ; deuce is supposed to have been i signed, and thai text-books in the j Stale's schools are divided, indefi j nite, and uncertain as lo the au i llienlicily of the declaration. I "The speaker recommended that j the Slale Legislature authorize an invest ie.-'i ion to ascertain whether j Ihe Mecklenburg Declaration ac tually was signed on that dale. If it wasn't, sonic one should remove I lie dales from (he (lag and seal; if il was, Ibe Stale should prohibit lexis in school hooks denying the fact. Dr. Henderson declared. "Dr. Clement Eaton, historian, endorsed the proposal, and a mo tion was made and adopted that Ihe Raleigh chapter, SAK, sponsor a resolution at the Slatewide meet ing here on April 13 calling for legislation on the Mecklenburg Declaration matter." This was sent me by a friend who is a historian of the modern type, and here is his comment: "I am enclosing a copy of the News and Observer account i April 5. 194tj of Dr. Henderson's talk alHjul ihe Mecklenburg Declara tion of Independence. My feeling about (his mailer lhal (he burden jof proof must rest upon those who asserl lhal there was such a docla jialion. and that lhey particularly I m'('(l lo produce contemporary j documents to prove their case I nless that can he done, and, as you know, I hat has never been done lo date, a controversy about the mailer ran continue to rage until the end of time." II seems to me that this ought lo prelty well settle the question. Sincerely jours, K. W. GUDGER , She never grumbles. The only raise she ever s'-es is when the window shades 140 She can do a week's wash before breakfast, and ban:: everything but (he dresser drawers. Her art at milking a cow has never been questioned. She could even get yarn from a Jersey cow. Her. biscuits are unsurpassed. That's what makes her sell-risiil''. in the morning. She makes the best cn'fee and ti 11;: 1 1 n 11 1 s von ever S.inka tooth into. cm h '""I'l.Cv si sl 1111:1-. i, ho,, Baked Potatoes Recent studies indicate that care ful timing of the baking followed by prompt serving is important for saving vitamin C in potatoes. Illi nois tests showed that overbaking results in considerable loss of the vitamin. Idaho tests showed that potatoes that stood in the kitchen for half an hour after baking lost 33 per cent of their uiiamir. n Those that stood nn hour lost 50 per cent, and those that stood 4 hours 'lost 100 per cent or all of the vi , tamin. bff"4 U i taw OH By STANLEY KJJJ, I ,1.1 . X HAP TO CO OOWAl rlSX-Zl ' lVy ".ii .Hi,. y TO WASHINGTON TO (Wi. JwMfoK' V VV&TV I filibuster some ) " mmj X' VAl WHE JOHNNrCAMEARXHW HOME ' ClE 'tVSSf'4' ' wmt mm She keeps her kitchen so mat and clean I he i 1 J i ' I lie'ch Cleans er I'll I lias to join tin' -1 II club lo 1 e dill. Lvcii lilt If Junior can 'I. sneak oil lo school with iiiu ic.oi cars. Mother will stand lor the Star Spangled II. inner, but not that! And fin I In 1 more. Mot her is 1 rigid on Hie .h'i) when ickuess luN home. ! j Cuts and braises are iiolhin:; j new to her. She's been in a nylon line before. 1 ...1 u'-ir mil ;Kl1'" l' "HiiJ " Hue,- ,ljirs ".'"Mil;!)) " ' ' ' ; ' 1 mine ,r":" i the JLAIM '. ' "I J' She can kcrp down expenses m "An von si'Kfi j'.uuu 1 1 m uii: iinn'iuu uiin ;n i LI a. Lilt UU YOU'RE TELLING By WltilAM flITT - Central Pi ess Writer IN BRITAIN, we read, they have established snail watching clubs. Watching a snail, wi; imagine, is no different thaa staring at the same spot for an hour at a time, ! ! ! The snail carries his house with him wherever he goes so he's staying at home even when he is out or a stroll. 1 1 1 Snailt are noted for their lack of tpeed but then no one hat ever teen a snail faint from ex haustion. ! ! ! A snail could never, of course, escape from an atomic bomb. However, the snail never dots anything iJ cause iin atomic tossed in its direct 1 1 The snai bis tj so it couldn't iicl in tile, even tin 1 1 . In France, utaili ered quilt a diliuj man to eal one sf great, though uimnf ! ! Snails wear M end of horns m their heads. This snail to remain loci house and at tlx possible visit harp look ,'isiti: rd Statehood for Alaska Faces Some Obstacles Changei Would M U:o spft .in.- Wtm Special to Centra! Press WASHINGTON Immediate action to 1;... state is urged bv Deleaate Joseph 1 beloved islands having a voice but no vob This is the hour. Here, there's new n. mile outpost has grown closer to us V.nv.ii portation and communications. Over there, the taste of military rule afar IVu bitter that even the few aeainst slatelif"-! 11" ....... t. ici.i.i,. ,,1 Sf r.M reign would not have l s I"1"1' Wm.Toii hn fi !;l:ili With l!S CI.13 fended by the constitution ' The new adherents who also fear the t form of government District of Columbia u iho nnnnl.irp The committee involved vstli Astir A ciihcnmmilt. r of 'llt' "lWl HfnriQ u'cnl In Hawaii t lie first sec for themselves. r:-t ..i.ly "J timent was. but also if. in t!:ir'1 President Truman the islands were re.x'v b They found a lot of 1 this territory (since 1900) a state. Impatiently, the committee awaited the r Peterson, of Florida, who is just hack fr. Central America. The six-man sub-iuuu ine for immp.tintA hokrlno-c Ttir nlhcr fii.o r,r.;,i r..,;nolnn were VtO' ti . , . . . . . .1 n-mfl nemy L,arcacie, jr.. or Louisiana, jaeas - ano ueorge f. Miller of California, ami 1.' 1 of Oregon and Dean Taylor of New York. at i tisn of Cl 1 '.M !i:lt.i' is u" s.i y eine: , I I.iwali. tr,it ,i.t-r altlW vi'.k'1' The r inci1 ti The sub-committee also unanimously Hawaii now meets the necessary reqim If IV.O Crtrt trr&ca .lruio nnt "V.'S t reasons seldom mentioned out loud. Some opposition will come from the N.ivv Navy department will admit this loi l ': ' commander-in-chief. Harry Truman, i""' Hawaii to the Congress in January 1 The fleet is a familiar sight in hie nnn ... . . l : l a t ;lnn 1 1 1, ' oc&aivc uuoui me isiauua. rtinn-'r"- . auiiV Harbor variety, certain Navy olhcers jiM that matter) say quick and more conin ls .if- ,J If Hawaii is not a state with the rieii.s hood. , (i, jpfci Now the argument, most effectively uJ and Army fears, is to stress that our oii.i" to the Philippines or the Mariannas. wm 8(f lne farther away from continental u HavJll'j Frnunrl mnv hn Iho holler The people o -,M c ...-j ' , K.iitl - tacked again, the civilian community coi" military, if organized as a state. , ,hai 1 The other whispered reason is t'11' ',.iu. cltll American might be elected to the ""- 1 ' States, the United States Senate. . met Proponents pooh-pooh this. They say. ,1 it ... ; n.veil ill ls'-' caliber of the men who have been sent ttie United State Congress has been i'nsl .