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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER JFfSDAT.JcJ PAGE TWO 'in ;i i 3 .1 THE MOUNTAINEER Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO Main Street I'hone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Kdilor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Kdilor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Undoes, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY AN!) SFItVICF. MEN One Year Six Months One Year Six Months NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year Six Months $:(.()() 1.75 $4.00 $4.50 L'.rl) Kutrrrd .it Hi" I "Hi. . it W . M.nl M.iiln. ..- v t .! i .NiimU-r -.'i. I; 14. OtfitllUIV IKilii -S. IrsolaM' .MS il all Untie--, til rhfrl t.lll.lllrlil ti'l l.i rule ul ulie jrul a lull ii-uls j i ...ii! I 1,1 II,., 1,1- II,. I li.il)-.! ... .1 tl.f NATIONAL DITORIAL Nanh Carolina WliJ AS5CCIAI Tl'KSDAY, MAY IS. )( Sight Seeing There appears to lie a more extended serv ice for sight seeing in this sec! ion than even before the war period, which we feel sure will prove of convenience and pleasure to our visitors. Many persons who drive in their own car and come from a flat counlry ilu iml like to take their own vehicle on mountain sight seeing excursions, being so concerned with the driving that they do nt r t the proper or expected enjoyment out of the scenic points. We trust that this service will prove of equal profit and benefit to both t ho operators and those engaging the services, and will at the same time give many a visitor a thrill over our scenic beauties Hint I hey might otherwise miss. Why Production Lags The following from the Christian Science Monitor points out some weak points in our unemployment compensation laws in the fol lowing: A serious question lias arisen in the minds of businessmen generally as to whether the in-many-ways admirable unemployment com pensation laws of the 18 States are not large ly responsible for the tremendous lag in American industrial production. While American industry today is begging for workers, millions are drawing compensa tion. The record attendance at racetracks and ball games, and the greatly increased race-betting totals, indicate the extent of the leisure. Some of the money spent, of course, conies from the taxpayers. Why are people being paid unemployment benefits when the newspaper help-wanted columns are offering thousands of jobs every day and the burden of every interviewed em ployer's complaint is, "I can't get help?" One answer seems to be: "l'ecatise of faulty employment security laws, plus in adequate administration." Four Remedies A. F. Colley in the New York Times sug gests four choices in dealing with the prob lems of strikes and the disputes that are centering around labor. They include the fol lowing which sound as if any one of the four could settle the great unrest, if they were only applied to the situation. America has several choices before it in dealing with the proble m oi strikes and labor disputes in which the public interest is in volved : 1. Outlaw strikes, suppress unions and force compulsory arbitration of disputes by the government. This would he pretty close to the German and Italian Fascist solution. 2. Take over and run permanently by the government the great industries and the railroads, making a deal with the workers and making1 it clear that they can't strike against the government This would be the Socialist or Communist solution. 3. Sweat out the strike and simply let the nation suffer until the unions and man agement get together. This is the old Amer ican way. 4. Make the unions and management work out a wage plan tied to the profits and losses of the industry, thus turning a basic conflict of interests into a basic identity of interests between the workers and the capi talists. This should be the new American way. Pays Its Debts "BEST SELLER" The North Carolina Rotarians presented a flag of Finland to replace banners de stroyed during the war. It was a fine thing to do. This gift may emphasize, though not so intended, appreciation of the fact that Fin land was the only European country which did not repudiate the debt it incurred to the United States during and following World War I. North Carolinians believe in debt-paying. Raleigh News and Observer. Decline Ther is no guarantee against the breaking of a rule, but there is on the other hand an organized order that comes from laws and regulations that would never otherwise exist. The decline in the number of traffic ar rests by the city police should be proof to the town officials that their traffic regulations, backed by enforcement are contributing to improved conditions on Main street. The fines may be small, but few of the same offenders will come back after paying that first fine. In other words like wayward children who have to be disciplined the public will obey if the authority makes an effort to make them. Entertainment For years we have heard and also recog nized the need of local entertainment and of the lack of amusements in this section. We note with satisfaction the announcement that we are to have a stock company, The Waynesville Players, who will be here for the peak weeks of the season. Maurice Geoffrey, director of the Players, comes with high credentials and has a back ground that should offer a guarantee of ex cellent performances. It will indeed be a pleasant novelty not to have to go out of town to see a legitimate stiige production but to be able to see a good show right here at home. We trust that the Waynesville Players will have not only the support of the visitors, but idso our own people who are seeking entertainment. Bread Who would ever have thought that the commonplace item of food a mere loaf of bread even though it is the staff of life, would ever have assumed such importance on our shopping list as it has today? After watching people buy bread during the past week and likewise walk away with out any, we are inclined to believe that a plan under consideration by the government for rationing wheat flour and bread down to the retail level has a great deal of merit and would provide all concerned a fairer chance at their share. To make provisions of rationing down to the individual consumer would certainly solve the problem in the most popular manner. Of course the ideal plan would be to culti vate a conscience about the matter and put the people under an honor system of ration ing. After hearing one of the clerks in a local grocery store tell of a woman who walked out with seven loaves of bread, we fear that there will be some bread "pigs" like there have been in other scarce article fields, while many will go home with no prospects for toast for breakfast. With bread limited to 75 per cent of the normal sales there will have to be a differ ent distribution we fear, if all persons get their share, unless the bread buyers develop a conscience. Shopping today is a strenuous routine, and the "early bird certainly catches the worm," but there are many persons who work today who cannot be on the jump dur ing certain shopping periods and it works a real hardship on this group when those who are at freedom descend and rush in and carry off the lions share. We understand from the press and the veterans returning from overseas that Great Britain and the other countries used a pretty strict bread rationing system so we may have to resort to another coupon, if the current wheat crop does not yield enough for our selves and our neighbors across the seas in the lavish American fashion to which we are accustomed. A news correspondent says Belgium is recovering from the effects of the war faster than any other country because the inhabi tants have buckled down and gone to work. How old-fashioned of them! The number of things a woman can carry in her purse is not so remarkable as the number of things she can hold in her mouth while she hunts for something in her purse. Work hard and save your money, then some day you will have the privilege of hear ing your neighbors call you a conservative old moss-back." iViv rC '' ' I VOICE OF THE PEOPLE I Do you like jingles advertising I products over the radio, or do you ! think other forms would be more I effective? MRS. J. COLVIN BROWN "The MveruKe jingle to me is silly and to lie effective a jingle has to iiii;iht tfood." be C. C. FERfU'SON "1 never listen to them, for 1 don't like I hem." HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN "Yes, we did have '.Mill pounds of suf'.ar . . . Sin i hut it is all jmiio" . . . Yes. we did have some lard, hut it was suld as fast as we could take it out of the cartons" . . . current scraps of conversation fa miliar as tin- iinuum:1. sunrise . . . Just too had if oil have used your last spoonful of suvar . . . or had your last hot ImmiiiIs . . . Hut it is happcnini! in the best of families . . Hut the biwst and tallest tale we have heard In way of the I'.iape vine mule is the following ... it acluallv happened in one of the county's largest .stores . . . The iiiauac.er saw a crowd Catherine; . . . It f'rew like Jack's beanstalk . . . until it extended tar out into the street. Not knowing of any cher ished article lor sale he asked the clerk at the crowded counter what it was all about . . One of the would-be-customers spoke up . . . "We are waiting for chewing Hum" . . . but the manager replied . . . "Sony, hut we have no gum to day" . . . and the clerk corrobo rated the manager's statement. But the crowd seemed unwilling to leave, but after a time it thinned out . . . Then a truck drove up and unloaded two boxes of chewing gum . . . Somebody had seen them loaded on the truck at the railway station, and the news had spread like a contayious flame . . , The manager slid lor a lime he was quite unpopular, not having known of the prospective arrival of the gum he had innocently given out what proved to he a false statement. The employes of The Moon taineer, who have watched the present hook store grow from a mere handful of legal notices, and cardboard paper for sale, felt a great pride omd certainly the own ers should), in the opening on Fri day night in the new quarters. The (look Stoic is the town's latest coiy.ribulion to belter shopping here at home, the stock having outgrown the quarters in The Mountaineer office. Now with more space for the fast growing stock a larger supply of items car ried by such shops will be avail able. The business man ran find just what he wants and if it hap pens not to be in sotck it can be ordered on short notice. The hos tess ran find lovely party accessor ies. We know of one hostess who had bought up a large supply of bridal party appointments, and found much to her surprise that the local shop had much more at tractivte items than her out-of-town shopping produced. And there are books for all ages, the most acceptable gilt to our mind to be bought for the amount of money involved . . . and the sta tionery is beautiful . . . But don't take iur word, go shopping and see for yourself. week II was good to talk to the former Haywood county farm agent who did such a fine job here vilh our 4-H club hoys and our farmer Major Keitzel spent 25 moiihs in the European theater and ;i re turned to the States in March of this year, plunging almost at once hack into his work, which ha.-, taken him into a larger lield . . the State Extension service . We enjoyed hearing him tell of the meeting of the three Haywood farm agents in Europe, who bad worked together back home . . Wayne Corpening, Jack Lynn and himself . . . The war having given each a brand new experience. John like most veterans, and mots civil ians at that I is confused out con ditions here at home, and also dc pressed over the attitude of Mm average striker . . . and what this attitude will eventually do to America. We saw two little girls this week with their faces glued to the win dows of the bakery, gazing with admiration at the cakes in the u in flows decorated by llic Whit man boys, sons of the owner, who are associated with their lather. V. could readily understand why the sioppeu ior we uo nie same limn.' practically every time we pas.. The yellow cake with the fruit in such perfect shapes and coloi fascinates us The little girls jti-.t couldn't agree on which was ilu prettiest. One was sure the cake with the umbrella was the love liest . . . One cast her vote for Ilu hunch of roses cake, bul the third one was completely taken over with the fruit basket effect to which we are partial. We hope the manager keeps those c; kes in the window a long time, for they add such a professional and artis tic touch. Then when you look in and see the empty bread case, where the loaves were, belore tin s were sold out prior lo your .in nal somehow the sheer beauty of the cakes seem to salve your di-ap pointment. HERMAN FRANCIS "No, 1 don't like them. I think the time and money spent on them could lie tived more profitably." WHITMAN "I like the advi i lising jingle, for they add pep and I get a big kick out of them." lilt. I II. S. MATHERS "I don't Inink much of jingles, especially ul I he soap ad." TOM I. EE "No, 1 do not like ad ei I r ing jingles. 1 wish they would I. ike them off the radio." John Reitzel war, in town this Flight Stewardess Tact and poise are two attributes, perhaps above all others, winch a girl must have to be a succerj as a flight atewardess. Sometimes, when an applicant is being inter viewed for such a job, the examiner will suddenly ask Uie girl an em barrassing question. If she (lusters easily, she won't make a good stewardess. Metal Corrosion Corrosion causes an annual loss of an estimated 24 million tons of iron and steel in buildings and other applications not adequately cafe guarded by coatings. Fertility Determines Survival All civilizations, including our own, move, survive or disappear along with the fertility of the soil, without which no nation can endure. THE OLD HOME TOWN - By STANLEY 2ZfORAPT. YOU VAfiMWTj i ' J Y7 KEEP A-JOs" ZJtL I dipmtsee you A-jygl lucifer--- ' PUT TH'CASH O ) 9mjCA))) Jtt HE MISSED SMmm0ffc OAt folks "r WmMMf' NO'S ALE 'ur lfW rfM tman. . won mom rm ,, Letters To The Editor "A AVNESV II.I.E CITIZEN" Editor The Mountaineer: I have just read your Friday paper, June 7, which I enjoyed vcis much. I must, however, point to one '.rave error in your article per taining lo me. The article-inquest inn said a former Waynes ville man. I do not know where I his former Waynesville man start ed as 1 consider both Waynesville and St. retersburg, Fla., my home. II is true my holdings are very there, but 1 do happen to blade of grass or so. insurance and government etc., are marked Waynes N. C. and St. Petersburg. I'la., as my home address. I sincerely hope my many friends in Waynesville will not think I have deserted them by your ar I icle. To tnc, Waynesville is the best town in the United States, and the people, well until another Hubert K. I.ee and Thomas Jefferson come along, the Waynesville people are lops for my money. W. N. PURCELL, 211 II Lake View Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida. Soiar Eclipses While a total eclipse of the sun takes place somewhere on an aver age of every 17 months, countless millions of persons have lived and died without seeing one. No total eclipse was seen in London, for ex ample, between 1115 and 1715, or during a period of 600 years. -mail have ji My paper, ville. ALONG BROAD By Walter Winch Tales of the Town : wi n,.,. , ... . ti i. , 111 In Sardi s a wise euv was mm. I Ml,li' i Vn , menting upon the way in which ac . 1 rnJ nnuc ufeUlv nictnrp of er,mo r,.., f 1 "' His ..i T bles looked dwarfed compared to Mrs. Roosevelt in their midst. "That's nothing," said Merry Mac McMichael, "to the way she dwarfs some people who aren't even in the picture." When Queen Hilhelmina was in the United States during the war she made a tour of inspection at West Point . . . The boys had been drilled for days, and every detail of protocol was carefully sutdied except one ... No one informed the band which number to play for Her Majesty's entrance, and the leader chose one of his favorite numbers without thinking of the occasion . . . So, as the signal was given for the Queen's entrance iwith every soldier standing rigid ly at attention), the band broke into. "The Old Cray Mare, She Ain't What She Used To Be." en'--'untcis ",; a play." -l even ,. , A group of editors were discuss ing the pros and cons of the OI'A, "The NAM is right" said one. "After all. they've got business ex perience that money can't buy." "They've also got lobbies," snapped a cynic, "that money can." The intelligentsia: The career of Booth Tarkington is a lesson to page-struck neophytes. In the first five years of his writing apprentice ship, the two-time Pulitzer Award winner earned the vast sum of $22.50 . . . Dorothy Thompson will also col'm for a weekly . . . Louis Fisher, who auth'd "A Week with Gandhi," is flying to India to visit him . . . There's a sizzling feud on between novelist James T. Far rell and book critic Sterling North. . . . Dr. Harold Urey, atom bomb scientist (one of the important ones) will betcha we have an atom bomb war in less than 5 years, if the powers don't agree soon . . . Well, gooin - bye - bye, all! S'been nize columning about you. Th' Sln hn, HTl l.." still inurtur Hei fide lit Irojl 4 ti!J-j The OPA situation summed up: It's a question of whether the prices will be held down or the people held up. The Funnies: Alex Woollcott and Heywood Broun walked out on a new flop one night ... As he left his row "A" pew, Alex bent over to pick up a flower that had fallen from a bouquet on the stage . . . "Don't you know it is bad luck," chided Broun, "to take flowers from a grave?" . . . Percy Ham mond once critiqued a big show failure: "It is the first time in the atre history that an audience ever suffered from stage-fright." Author Somerset Maugham points out: "All is grist for a ("tation 'Di'.v: llnr .1. :'in and d, women w,ti W,ll fllOtllri,,!, Kal looking iur J lll.iL.. 1 T '"'I UllUgh-iJi ' "n: He ,it emicriy (),-,p(.ri "atl iijjj end lit the u.k's J!i "r,,(l . AiJ wiiiks It I,,,.,,,, , Sl"' lias Minim,,, sl"' Iws Mirm-I,(K "'cm : it,. ,t Mowawav under h Nhicm-i u 'H''' ' and kn:J mey ,n,.r Iiv' "ii them. One une s kiioHleiinf all one's intellect """'l' JiM one' The Times' Rrrj Darnell, reported j I've in hum. that war between AmJ I hey believe that give thrill an oppj rvaism . , n, Allies knock nppiirtiinin kniifj Will R,efR Ufn didn't knew it a fair. The speake ous in peddling bi: of the foreign bci rose to leave 'in , himself annnuiMf speaker uho woul on the crying nee. Rogers turned aiiiil listening to those J I have come to thj what this country! blood and what 1 air." With thai he Photograph! Much valuable done with the grei in planetary obsei last close approach ings of the plar.et photographs were i these with the aid plates. These are interpreting the changes that are el place on the surfaj A Few Words of Caution To Vetenonl About G. I. HOME LOANS No returned Service Man need rush into home buying; or htiildin?. Government Guarantee up to $4,000.00, as provided in the (il E Kitfhts, extends for a period of ten years from the end of the war- That means that ample time is available for careful trading r nl'inninir ,,.,'11,,,,, Kf.i f 1U Jnr, f! 1 1 ) l-l n tCC. Olff J lr" 'iniiifi uiiiuul iij.iiik any uenein ui nit: vjw,m vm,, is Go Slow. Bear in mind that every penny involved in tin' l1'0'1'' construction of a home will eventually come out of your nv I1'' assure value for vonr mrmev and Inner flmo satisfaction with "l13'f,e1 choose, don't let haste dictate your decision. Some Veterans wlioaiet rarily having to live in unsatisfactory quarters may become onthu the possibility of home ownership and are apt to "Kite off tlu' can chew." Don't overreach yourself. Our experience conviin - any Home Buying Program which requires more than 1'0 to your normal income is unsound. Gaue vour ownership proK1'"11 income and circumstances. Don't endanger your future by uu) your mean3 at this time. J", pcf ci by 17Ue QrtendUf. Bank" The First National Bat ORGANIZED 1902 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member We Have Lock Boxes To Rent Federal H
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