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FRIDAY, MAY 21. 19-1K
Man Still Ahead
Woman may have gained equal rights with
men and they have certainly proved that they
are capable of doing a man's work in many
cases just as well as she might do, but even so
the confidence in the men seems to still be far
ahead in certain fields.
In a recent Gallop poll in this country, ((
per cent of those polled stated that they had
rather ride with a man driver and only 12
per cent with a woman. Could it be that men
are losing their chivalry, or were most of
those polled women ?
Merely A Suggestion
We noticed recently that a candidate for
governor in one of the mid-western states is
going to drop 150 pairs of nylons from an
airplane in hopes that they may fall into the
eager hands of prospective voters. The
would - be - governor may have something
ther-e.
Certainly from all the fuss that a woman
makes over the lack and the acquiring of a
pair of nylons, one is bound to come to the
conclusion that, if she happened to be lucky
enough to get the hose, she would never have
the heart to vote against such a generous
man. -
The time is short. Haywood candidates, but
the idea has great possibilities.
Another Industry
We offer our congratulations to Franklin
on the proposed establishment of the textile
mills by the Van Raalte Company, Inc., a
nationally known manufacturing company,
famous for their hosiery, underwear and
gloves.
The location of the plant is another recog
nition of Western Carolina by the nation's
manufacturers and will offer new fiflds of
employment and opportunity to the people
of Macon County. We can understand and
fully appreciate what the plant will mean to
that section, for we, too, have had additions
to our industrial life in Haywood county,
which have brought not only material com
pensation but also new and desirable citizens.
;s - I'i Your Vote
We are not trying to tell any Haywood
County citizen how to vote, but we are insist
ing and urging each and every one of voting
age to take advantage of the ballot.
It is your duty to your country to try and
put the best qualified man in each elective
office, whether it be local, state or federal
position.
' With the' unrest and chaotic conditions
which exist today in America, it is necessary
that everyone take a definite stand. The
ballot is the chief way in which the individual
can exercise his-influence for better govern
ment. The privilege of voting is one of the strong
est and most obligatory features of a democ
racy and when a person shirks this duty, it is
an act of disloyalty to their country. This
privilege of a voice in the affairs of our gov
ernment has been a vital factor in making
-America one of the great nations of the
'.world. The privilege of the ballot has fost
ered individual freedom.
When we fail to vote we have failed to
support our country.
A" Forward Step
President Truman is asking the traffic
chiefs to halt murder on the highways by
barring "nuts and morons" from the driver's
seat. His appeal to curb the nation's road
death toll now said to be mounting to the
equivalent of thre army divisions a year
was laid before the opening session at a re
cent meeting of the National Highway Safety
Conference.
We have often advocated the keynote of
the President's theme, hence we fully approve
his idea that is the need for uniformity in
state automotive requirements. He insists
that the system of minimum state license es
sentials be set up for the whole nation, ap
plicable to all motorists who drive across
state borders.
As the President pointed out this would not
be a move to encroach upon the rights and
responsibilities of the-states, and that Con
gress should not stand idly by if the toll of
disaster continues unchecked. It would be
a united effort to save life on the highways.
Alarming Signal
The defiance of the Germans in their trials
together with the recent seizure of 1,000
Germans suspected of trying to revive Hitler
ism would make us believe that Naziism is
not dead. We wonder if the Germans are
actually being educated to the crime of war
making with sufficient emphasis.
It is natural at this stage for most of us to
try to push the war away from us. We want
to look forward and forget the terrible years,
but when we read of the foregoing attitudes
and more recently the fact that families of
our American occupation forces have been
shot at in trains in Germany, if we think, we
are bound to be alarmed.
We have heard a lot about the re-education
of Germany in the post war plans. We have
often wondered just what is taking place in
the schools in Germany today. While the
thought is not welcome, it looks as if the best
plan would be to occupy Germany for at least
one generation before we could safely leave
the people to themselves. Surely in one gen
ertion a new ideal could be set up for the
German youth that would supplant the threat
of a revival of Naziism.
Goes To Semi-Weekly
Haywood County has a just reason to be
proud of its county newspaper. The Waynes
ville Mountaineer, and its progressive editor,
Mr. Curtis Russ.
Last week's issue of The Mountaineer an
nounced plans to become a semi-weekly, ef
fective Tuesday, May 21. This is indeed an
achievement worthy of congratulations. For
many years, The Mountaineer has been one
of the outstanding weeklies in North Caro
lina, both from the .standpoint of community
service and general excellency. Its coverage
of the news, plus splendid features, has been
the envy of many publishers in this state.
Now that Editor Russ and his staff have
decided to step-up to the semi-weekly field,
it is with great pride that the staff of this
paper highly commends and congratulates
The Mountaineer on this progressive step.
The citizens of Haywood County can justly
be proud of its paper and with the continued
support given the paper by its advertisers,
we are sure that The Mountaineer will grow
even more popular than at present. The
Marshall News-Herald.
It Paid Out
We notice that the governmental agency
The Home Owners Loan Corporation is going
out of business and is returning its capital in
vestment to the U. S. Treasury plus a mod
erate return. We recall when the agency
started right here in Waynesville. If we are
not mistaken it was operated from the office
of the late E. L. Withers.
Back in those days of the economic strug
gles of this country when hundreds of thou
sands of families were loosing their homes,
they had dreamed someday of calling their
own, this agency was inaugurated by the
government and changed a bleak and dreary
future into hope.
THE HOLC started two or three years
after the peak of the depression and helped
adjust back payment and started the loans
to families that eventually paid out. It is
said that there were more than 1,000,000
loans made during the period of the agency,
which not only helped would-be home-owners,
but also prevented the collapse of many
banks and lending institutions.
This alone would have vindicated the estab
lishment of the agency, but now with the
liquidation in sight, with no loss but money
made, shows how much the loans were
needed and appreciated.
We have heard the usually dumb rabbit
squeal in emergencies, but we wish some
naturalist would explain" to us how a weasel
goes pop.
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VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
Would you approve of the presi
dent of the United States serving
lor a ( year term and not be eli
gible for re-election?
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Mrs. Wallace Marlcy, the former
Jacqueline Cuulscn, native of Hull,
Yorkshire, England, who had made
a place for herself as a ballet and
tap dancer on the English stage,
and spent the greater part of her
life during the war in London, is
now making a place for herself
here. While she is too gracious
to dwell on Hie subject, we feel
sure like our returned veterans,
she is going through an adjust
ment period with our unfamiliar
ways of living and our American
expressions. We have an idea
however that her nostalgia for
England is softened by her sense
of humor and her own personal
happiness.
We arc sure that she will adapt
herself lo our ways in a most ad
mirable manner and become a part
of our life here first because she
is the adaptable type and then she
has so much charm, and beauty,
along with a keen sense of humor
and plenty of sense -to say noth
ing of being extremely fond of the
American she married
Growing up in England during
the war years she has learned to
accept changes and while Waynes
ville is far removed from London,
we are counting on her being able
to cope with her problems of ad
justment and find that she has
conquered all our strange ways of
living. As one example on which
we base our predictions with such
assurity . . . Once during a blitz her
company of 50 with 15 extra in the
orchestra, in New Cross Theater,
London, played straight through
while the buzz bombs went over
every two minutes. There were
only six people in the audience who
dared out that night. Two of the
Scottish pipers would play their
pipes and then leave the theater
while the performance was going
on to assist in removing the bodies
from the buildings near the theat
er .. . and while the comedian was
working the front of the stage,
shrapnel fell through the roof on
the back.
Mrs. Marley has been dancing
since she was six, and at the age
of 14 won professional recognition
when she carried oil' the honors in
an audition in London, passing the
professional tests. Six weeks out
of each year since 1940 she has
given to the ENSA (our USO) and
helped entertain soldiers in camps
in England
"Yes, history repeats itself. My
mother was on the stage and she
gave it up for my father, a chief
engineer, and even went farther
away from home than I. She went
to India with him to see his peo
ple," she said with a smile.
"The first blitz struck England
in 1941. I was living in a house
15 yards from a building which
caught fire from a bomb. It was
our first experience and it came
just before midnight. I was so
frightened for there was no shelter
Jndxk WASHINGTON
This Congress Very Cold
To Draft, Service Measure
Russians Have Own System
For Setting Up Airlines
' Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON Two phases of President Truman's three-point
national security program can bo written off now as dead for this
session of Congress.
Legislators won t touch peace-time conscription with any kind of
glows in an election year. So universal military training Is out
for the present.
Merger of the armed services probably would pass if it got to the
floors of Congress. But its opponents are fighting
t..i.iii u a delaying action, and time is getting short.
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in a merger bill has "cooled," but thers probably
is sufficient warmth left for the measure to be
approved.
But the Senate naval affairs committee wants
to have its say on any merger plan. Ths com-
1ja(8p mittee, following the Navy point of view, Is
liS?5f against it and is going to demand a chance to
noia nea rings wmon, oi course, win oe
VS "thorough."
v-iSttwi Meanwhile, the time for Conersss to take its
JlwiS; summer recess nears. It's doubtful if the action
contemplated on the two proposals can b com-
The Capitol plcted before the summer rscess.
THE SOVIET UNION has its own system of setting up com
mercial airlines. The Russians are going to provide the personnel
for commercial airlines they plan to sat up in Europe.
Arrangements already have been made with Poland and negotia
tions with Hungary are about completed. In each case, Russia
supplies the pilots, ground crews, operators and equipment. The
other countries, joining with Russia In the establishment of airlines,
furnish only the airfields,
Moscow's aggressiveness gives her a jump over other commercial
lines in the European countries. And, the fields are important to
any defense system in eastern Europe.
ONE OF JOHN L. LEWIS' favorite pattimes Is to needle the
soft coal operators about their "luxurious mode of life" and their
membership in country clubs. On a recent occasion, the gag back
fired. Lewis caustically asked Harry Moses, of Pittsburgh, United
States Steel representative in the coal negotiations, about his coun
try club memberships. Moses repliad:
"I belong to two country clubs, John, one at Lynch, Ky., and the
other at Gary, W. Va. They're both small outfits and the member
ship is 90 per cent miners.
"In fact, at the Gary club the champion Is a 22-year-old mlnar
who p'.ays 18 holes every afternoon after his regular
shift in the mines."
Lewis, who cats In the swank Carleton hotel and
smokes expensive cigars, quickly dropped the sub
ject of country clubs.
'A Miner
Who Golfs
Dally
IT TAKES A LOT OF LIPSTICK to keep the American -women
kissable.
The Civilian Production administration cays that they use about
470,000 pounds a year. This means 130,000,000 Individual lipsticks
are purchased annually by United States woman.
K. N. Barber "Yes, I think that
would be a good plan."
Dan Watkins "I would say 'no,'
for we might get a bad president
and we would have to wait 6 years
to have another, but with the pres
ent setup if we get a good one, we
will more than likely elect him for
a second term."
J. K. Morgan "Yes, I think that
six years is long enough for a man
to be president of the United
States. He would then concentrate
on his duties as President and not
on his re-election."
Grover C. Daviss "No, it all de
pends on the man as to how long
we want him to be our president."
Henry Davis "Yes, I would ap
prove of a six year term and that
he not be allowed to run for reelection."
Zeb Curtis "No, I would not
approve. I believe in getting a
good man and keeping him, or
getting rid of him in four years."
there in London. But as time went
on we got accustomed to them.
During the latter part of the war
we walked casually through the
streets as we heard a buzz bomb
going by. It sounded like a motor
cycle, but when the engine stopped
we looked up with concern to see
where it would fall. We called the
first robots, 'planes without pilots.'
They would usually come one at a
time in rel.i' s of ten," she explained.
"I doubt if you Americans could
exist on what we have to live on
even today in England What you
have for an ordinary meal would
be a feast in England. We would
have such food only on a very
special occasion," she said.
"Our food is still rationed so
closely that we have one ounce of
lard, two ounces of butter, 25 cents
worth of meat per week for eseh
person. No white bread, only
a brown greyish bread.' No fruits
or nuts, and only a pint of milk
every other day for two people,"
she continued.
"As for clothes, unless you did
some business with the-black mar
ket, you could not dress decently
or comfortably in England We
have 24 coupons a year, and it takes
18 to buy a coat," she commented;
"I was amazed 'at the conversa
tion of the women in America. It
was a shock to me. They talk and
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Capital Lett
By THOMPSON CREENWo
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HEARD AND SEEN Seven na
tional magazines have articles on
North Carolina this month . . . and
you can throw that bouquet to
Bill Shaipe, director of thi- Stalf
News Bureau . . . You can buy
nylons as many as three pairs at
a time. from a hosiery mill in
Siler City. Sorry we can't give
the name here, but it's a g. it
firm. Delivery by mail is about
three weeks . . . You missed a
honey if you didn't read Bob
Thompson's editorial (High Point
Enterprise) backhanding Governor
Gregg Cherry for his policy of
making appointees squirm before
announcing their reappointment .
There were so many Shriners in
Raleigh for two days last week
that the Wake commissioners pass
ed a resolution offering free beds
in the county jail to the visitors . . .
Charles Parker isn't going to take
that public relations job with the
State Highway Commission . . .
$3,720 per annum wasn't enough
money.
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RALEIGH IS TALKING ABOUT
The fine way Mrs. L. Y. Ballen
tine is helping her husband along
with his political ambitions . . .
The N. C. Dairy Products Associa
tion's plan to take to the air on a
state-wide radio network attacking
the OPA milk policies . . . The at
tack on E. C. "Deacon" Greene's
political ring in,Buncombe ... by
veterans. They are trying to beat
Greene's Man Friday Brandon
Hodges for the Senate, which
would lay the quieetus on his Lt.
Gov. plans . . . but can they do
it? . . . The fight in Raleigh and
Durham against Eastern Airlines
. . . They say it is almost impossi
ble to get out of Raleigh on their
planes . . . too much through traf
fic .. . The fine FCX paper being
put out by M. G. Mann, Jr., and
John Marshall, former city editor
of the Raleigh Times . . .'How the
Elizabeth City and Oxford bands
stole the show at recent events
held at Raleigh ami Wallace.
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JOKE That old joke about eain
pagain expenses made its appear
ance again last week. Although
the statements one before the pri
mary and another after are sworn
to,, they sometimes represent only
a small per cent of what was ac
tually spent by the candidates.
Since it is all a lot of booshwah,
Why run them at all . . . they tell
nothing.
' For ' instance, a gubernatorial
Candidate can spend only $12,000
. . . but many of them have spent
five times that amount in one way
or another . . . You aren't supposed
to spend more than the salary of
the office for one year.
The way to do get your friends
to spend the money in the race.
Report that you spent 1,875 . . .
and then within the next two or
three years repay the $15,000 your
relatives and friends forked out
for you. But be sure you repay.
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This is an American privilege enjoyed
by so few peoples on earth, that we
should exercise the right, and vote.
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