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FRIDAY. r PAGE TWO TSecJHd Section) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THE MOUNTAINEER Published By THE WAYNESVILLE miNTING CO Main Street Vhone 137 Viynpvil'.c, 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 TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY AND SERVICE MEN NORTH CAROLINA One Year Six Months One Year Six Months OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year Six Months $3.00 1.75 $4.00 2.25 $4.50 2.50 Entcrnl nt thr .st at V.ivi..-sV!!.. N '.. js S.-. .,il CkiM M.iil M.ilt.i. j r..i j.Ir-.l iih.lrr ll." A.I ..f M.ii.h .', 17, Novi-uilier tit. l!tl I. OI.it 111117 Mi.li.es. res.lut i,,ih all Hutu-- ot t-iit.-ii.tiniiiei.t f.-r j. rare t.l ..in- ;ti.. .i li.ilf ..-.. per u .,( r-- f , . nr.I .if Hunks, ilt.. nf;l, mil l.e .-Ii.iiri-.I (..r til the NATIONAL 6DITORIAL- MLASSOCIATION -l.e' North Carolina I rans ajsociaih FRIDAY, AHJl'ST 2. 191(5 What Is The Matter? Every profession and field of' work has its own peculiar problems. Take the trials of Patrolman Roberts and Jones. They are honestly trying to make the Haywood high ways safe for us to travel, but some of us will not pay the slightest attention to their efforts. As Mr. Roberts expresses it, why people had rather pay a fine of from $10 to $15 than put out from 50 cents to two dollars on Re pairs is beyond him. I'erhaps after a good number of Haywood drivers are hailed into court on violation of traffic laws, we will begin to have more re spect for the law. Only 2,000 Left We read in a recent copy of the Chapel Hill Weekly that of the 10,000 tickets offered for sale for the Carolina-Duke game, only 2,000 remain for sale "with 38,000 already sold, according to Vernon Crook, of the Univer sity's athletic office. There is no greater proof of the fact that Tar Heels are sports minded or of the keen interest in this classic athletic event, engag ing the teams of two of our great universi ties. This advance sale also shows that we have swung back into peace time design of living and that life moves on into a new era. When competition is carried on in good sportsmanship it is a' stimulating influence for both contestants alid the rivalry between Duke and the University is good for both institutions. If only 2,000 tickets are left in July, there are going to be a lot of disappointed folks by the time the leaves change their color in the fall. Trial And Error Included in the future highway plans for this district, is a straighter and wider road into Asheville. We have no objection to better roads. In fact, we need some new highways built in Haywood far more than we need a straighter road to Asheville. Right along this line of thought, The Char lotte Observer in a recent editorial, pointed out a concrete illustration of what we mean by "straighter highways." The Observer's editorial said: "Road build ers learn by trial and error methods. When the old highway between Gastonia and Kings Mountain was succeeded by a new, uphill and down, straightaway route it was hailed as a time saver and life saver. "The designers reckoned without the huge freight trucks that would crowd it, along with the automobiles filled with people try ing desperately to save another few minutes. The latest accident, while fortunately not fatal to those involved, is an example a truck between two automobiles reportedly stopping suddenly on a hill to avoid striking a car in front, spinning around and colliding with another car. "This stretch of highway is earning a bad name as a killer road. Some drivers, rather nervous over the prospect of just such an accident as occurred, take the old road in preference. It may require a little longer but that is considered better than having to take time out for hospitalization. "The long, straight road seems ideal but when it is uphill and down and crowded with fast cars and heavy trucks it may become a death trap." Marking The Streets All over Waynesville, workmen are paint ing oblong places on corner curbs in prepara tion for sign painters to letter the names of the streets. This is a project that will enable citizens and visitors to find their way around. The worst feature of the names being painted on the curbs, are careless motorists running into the gutter and rubbing the signs with the sides of their tires. Such motorists who deliberately do this should have to pay the full penalty of ihe law. Hazel wood streets need marking just as badly as Waynesville, and this newspaper looks forward to seeing similar action taken by the Hazehvood board at an early date. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY Sounds Like Too Much Midway We note the pre-war Western North Caro lina Fair will be revived this October in Hen dersonville, with promise of "a bigger and better fair than ever." The dates conflict with the annual Hay wood Livestock and Home Arts Show. This is unfortunate for both groups. The first publicity to come out about the Western North Carolina Fair seemed to play up the carnival midway, and grandstand races, with little emphasis on exhibits. Haywood County has had sad experience in the past in trying to have a big carnival and a "little" fair. This county has learned the lesson, and for that reason the Livestock and Home Arts Show are staged without carnival or midway In fact the record crowds attend on the merits of the exhibits and not for any other reason. Our Bloodiest Battle What was the bloodiest battle in Ameri can history? Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy in the first world war, who has just published his reminiscences of those days, has a surprising answer. Not I wo Jima, he says, as many would suppose, nor Gettys burg, but Belleau Wood. There in June and July, 1918, General Harbord's Marines lost 52 per cent in killed and wounded. At I wo Jima the losses were 39 per cent. The Con federates lost 40 per cent of their men at Gettysburg, and the Federals 25. Only one battle other than Belleau Wood in modern times, according to Daniels, sur passes the bloody record of Iwo Jima. That is Waterloo, where Napoleon lost 54 per cent of his army as compared with a British loss of 14 per cent. No wonder that Waterloo has become a symbol of complete and unalter able defeat The Reidsville Review. Admirable Attitude Jack Messer, county superintendent of education has for the past several weeks played a kind of game of hide and go-setk with his resignations and acceptances of teachers in the Haywood schools. It has been interesting to interview Mr. Messer on the subject. Even at the lowest tide, when it looked impossible to fill the required places in the schools, when resigna tions came in as fast as acceptances, he never seemed to lose faith in the fact that he would eventually have the number. Perhaps one reason has been that he knew that many other sections in the state were far worse off than the Haywood county school system, for the teacher shortage has been not a Haywood county problem, not alone a state problem, but also a national one. We admire Mr. Messer's attitude through the weeks of suspense, and trust that when the last school opens he will have his teacher supply to meet his enrollments. These By-Pass Highways We were interested in a letter written by a "citizen" of Jackson County to the editor of The Sylva Herald, in which the letter writer was concerned about highway travel, and "the threat of the Soco Gap Highway." Of course, it has been known all the while, that Jackson County never cherished the idea of the Soco Gap highway- Neither did Waynesville look with favor on the present highway that is being built from Lake Juna luska to Dellwood. We realize that any high way that creates a by-pass for a town is bound to hurt that town to some degree. Yet on the other hand, the through travel er, or those who want to skip every town possible, welcomes these by-pass highways. The average such traveler never stops in a town except for red traffic lights. The by-pass system is something we must take along with progress and our modern highway systems. Waynesville has its greatest job before her at this time in the matter of making the highway from the Lake to Waynesville so attractive that it will naturally draw travel ers this way. This is no time for fussing about progress. It is time to get, our best minds together and step out ahead of progress. J-ft tf ii? WiJi THE HEPSFNEE-DS TRIMWWf S LJW " you've trimmed it fourtmes J OOijk ALgEACjY THIS WEEK.' ...i.r vrw. feat mi iyhhuh Im "Mij m;m HmtWfV" VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Which foreign country do you think is the most interesting, and why? j VAN C. IIAVNES "The Naga Mill section, between India and nunna. Their civilization is very primitive, not only in farming methods, but in hunting and cloth nm. The people are small, but i.niy immense packs with the use nl head harness that fits over their . forehead." j A I. MARSHAL "The most beau til'ul visit I ever took was into Wales from Kngland. yrecii and rolling, a our Middle West." The land is little like in HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN MAKOAKET JOHNSON "Russia, I think. Not that I believe I would enjoy visiting there, but we recog nize that they are going to be such a world power and we need to study more about Russia." One of Ihe nicest summer spots we have seen this year is Kurry's I.oilne '; 1 1 -; t a niinule off I.ove Lane and annul I'ie.lil blocks off Main Street Vnti can suddenly leave t lie t raffic of way and Main S1 Stale Ilie,h I and find yourself out of I his world in the anionM trees woodsy frag- heart of the woods with that delicious ranee of nature. If one lias travel d a Ion;; way, one i- prepared for I his atmosphere, hill to get it on such short notice and with such special charm is unique in this part if civih vat ion. The Lodge is made if stone and rmr.;h lumber, the first ;tory of Ihe former and the second if brown stained wood A long cement porch, with pillars of rough ogs extendinu the full height and 'ength of the building affords an 'iiviting, spot to make one want to 'inger and when you enter the 'arge living and dining room com bined wilh its spacious fireplace, ane catches a feeling of complete oeace and isolation. The owners. Mr. and Mis Wendell l-'uiry, of Jacksonville, decided two years ago on a visit here to build Ihe Lodge, but due to war condil ions were un ible to ho! materials ami labor, and did not loiiiplele the huiMing until his Spring which has 14 bed ouins and is now open to guests. Don't take our word for its charm, but drive up and ask to sit by the 'iving room liie a bit. They will welcome y ou. Most of us I hi nk we are doing well w hen vvi manage to gel enough clothing for a season, hut Mrs. Nicholas Sim.ischko. Jr. iHulh I'm iieri ha., collided enough to last her two years. Ituth leaves today for New York, where she will spend a couple of weeks with Inn husband's family on Long Island before sailing for Germany where she will join her husband, C'apt. Semaschko, now serving as mili tary governor of the town of Ks slinger, Germany. Huth is natu rally all excited about seeing her husband, who has served for nearly two years in the Kiiropean theater. She will be the third wife to join their husbands in Germany lrom this section. In addition to her clothes she is taking only a few rugs, and a bath robe and some slippers, and hooks for her husband. Mer house is waiting already for her and a maid engaged -and for the hit ter's services about the price of a package of cigaretls - with two meals will he her wages. The (iei -inans ask for the two meals, which in a starving country are big pay. Capt. Semaschko should feel very much at home in Kurope. despite the fact that he is a native Ameri can, as his father who now lives on Long Island, was horn in Russia The elder Semaschko met his wife while crossing the Atlantic com ing to America, the latter returning home after two years of study in the German universities. Inci dentally Huth and her husband met while she was a student at Woman's College, Greensboro, anil he was stationed there. JAMliS V. SMITH "I would like to see more of Alaska. The plant growth there is interesting, and so are the natives and glaciers." JOHN WILLIAMS "Argentina. Ifs a combination of the East, the Middle West and Far West and Mexico, all in one. You have a sophisticated East, and in the West the wild Goucho country. Then in the South are the Indians, who still are very primitive." DAVID ROGERS "If I could travel I d like to go to Paris." Letters To Editor We had a rather funny eperi (Continued on Page Tluei-i cWASHINGT ( LARENCE W. MILLER Kditor The Mountaineer: i II is no small pleasure to read in I Ihe home paper that the children of Mr. Miller have given to the Metho dist ('lunch a set of collection plates as a memorial to their father in this one of his many services to his church during his long life. Shortly after the Civil War, Mr. Miller's father brought his family from al or near Wytheville, Va., to Cashier's Valley in Jackson County. Early in the 1870's, the family mov ed to Waynesville and occupied a bouse, on whose site later was built the Hyatt house which was later transformed into the Green Tree Inn between the shoe shop and the Massif Furniture Store. Grand father Miller died early but I re member "Grandma Miller," as she was called by my father's children, and sometime ago I described in 'he Mountaineer a small service that I. a 12-year-old boy, was privi ledged to do for her in her last days. Two of the four Miller brothers, l Continued on Page Three) Bilbo Probably Will Remain As National Capital "Mayor" House Lags Behind in Work,' May Long Delay Adjournment Special to Central Press WASHINGTON Despite the vigorous campaign in the northern press against him. Senator Bilbo "The Man" is coming back to Washington and the politically wise do not place much faith in reports that a move will be made to unseat him. Senator Johnson (D) of Colorado, chairman of the privileges and elections committee, has already announced thjaT his committee will take no immediate action on charges that Bilbo, by raising the "race hatred" issue, violated the law Johnson notes that neither the candidates who lost to Bilbo nor the Mis sissippi electorate have filed a complaint A Washington newspaper has started a cam paign to have Bilbo replaced as chairman of tin District of Columbia committee of the Senate. .- ; post generally designated as that of "Mayor" n i voteless Washington. But observers don't thin)-- ims win nappen unless oy some political up heaval. the Republicans should capture the Senati tliis fall. Incidentally, some realistic southern politicians believe that the campaign of certain columnists to oust Bilbo by the ballot did much to elect him It is known that one candidate personally ap pealed to these writers to "lay off" Bilbo. He argued that their attacks only fueled Bilbo's campaign fire in a state where outside Interference is resanted. ALONG BROATjj Walter Win(: J Stage Door: George Arliss made $040, nun , the U. S. That was hi:; :m at any rate. Compare him un Wm. S. Hart .... Arliss didn't queath a Veso to any Aim i n ,: charity not even to the Episcop.-, Actors' Guild, of which he once i,, president. P hooey . . . .Fred I hi!, brand at 52 enters a local M-ho:.: ,, music. Five years ago. not know ing a note, he composed a ,.t, Spiritual which was a smash hn So he decided to write an ope;. That explains why he is going to music school in a class with kid-. The reason author Michael Slr.ui . ipen name of an ex-Mrs. Jul, Barrymorel isn't listed in u, Social Register as Harrymnie i this: Stage names are not 1m,, Barrymore's real name is lii;l,, Mi . . v' v. ,' 'sst-m. M-l H """ h"i!iM.s ' II. in, . 1 'i'l'l Vi ol ill ' "' 1 I luster Two Little Girls in Blue: The lovely, blonde, middli -a.-i-d lady dispensing sodas at Nicholas' in Grand (Yiiiul terminal was once one of Ziegfeld's most c e 1 e h i- a I e d beauties. Her name is Doris Carlson Another bc.intv in the same Ziegfeld show i;.il department recently pun -based 114 E. 40th street (near (; T Terminal) for 8200,llM. In-r name: Polly Lux. The WashinstonKue - via;:; Washington still has 11,1)00 doll, .In ,"h" " lJrs d Hiiik twl'-d mttl "" liri''-. This Vl iliUts th, ""I rav 4, ll""' "ne dr.r l'lnljr l.raiKku, 'I- il In Neural ., "' lit , "H'tliir jjjj I" haw benu ' 1,11 "t lilt n It jImi is up "oiitmi llii-ir Ml" HsnaiJ bt.il N Hith -l); Capital Letts By THOMPSON GREENWOOD POTATOES Thousands of hush els of Irish potatoes lie rolling in the woods in Pasquotank and sur rounding counties, and the growers were paid for these potatoes at a rate of about $1.50 per hundred pounds. Due to the shortages of cars and strikes in distilling plants, which took the majority of Gov-, eminent purchases of this year's early commercial potato crop, thev could not be delivered. But they were bought, because in the early days of the war Congress passed a law guaranteeing the farmer DO per cent of parity on various crop- The Stegall amendment is what kept potato producers from losing their pants this year. Now, with all the millions nl people starving in Kurope, win weren't these potatoes fed to F.um peans, rather than to he permitted to rot? This is the reason: mo-l of these potatoes, harvested near the middle of the season, could hardly withstand a trip to New i York, let alone to Kurope. and then to all parts of Kurope. The government in June or 104.1 tried, as an experiment, to Iran--- .i I ' -l t ht-st in Bel in ,r,k, th I,,. . . I,, . - "i inn lllMff '-' I i'- -.'ilin urdr I ii" in'iiucd the si In Inili,,: taJ i, ih. ' pilalotJ lumped till hi- talk u IH'H' lis ud IN ruuidnt M I in. I uill; tha' .Oil. IllilV In I- ;,n I MiASTKRS --in- mi Y C. ecia -unnmT' Well, purl- h,i' it thai iiiuiiiilaiii.- nf Pn W'r-i imniia and i ,11 r ln;ri:illl! ,r,i Wake Ki'i'i'st. Dub 1 3 i i .ii u- hi here. Il th, ir ihniilN for .-iliiia ni.inni'.a- on M In II I he Mill m Sh.UMlif- like OH .lark, mid llii'! J Cullllllliwi li! If 1 ll 6k ii Senator Bilbo CAPITOL HILL OBSERVERS see little chance of adjourning for the summer and the coming campaigns until long after the pro posed adjournment date of July 15. Breaking a long-time precedent, the delay will come in theHouse instead of the Senate. The Senate is usually the chamber which finds it most difficult to tie up the loose ends and to stop talking. Now the House, already long delayed in action on the British loan, still has several other important bits of legislation to deal with. Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley had been hopeful of ad journment by July 20. He plans to keep the Senate in session with a series of three-day recesses until the House concludes. House leaders, though, are now talking in terms of an August adjourn ment More pessimistic members speak of September and Chairman Sabath of the House rules committee dejectedly guesses on October. ACTION ON LEGISLATION for the control of atomic energy within the United States probably win be delayed for a series of atomic tomorrows. Political observers see little or no chance that the House will take up the bill reported this week by Us mihtary affairs committee. They point out that, even if the House acts, a- conference fight looms in the Senate; a fight which may even spend itself in a legis lative dead end street with the adjournment of the 79th Congress late in July. ' , The Senate some time ago passed the McMahon bill, providing for outright civilian control of atomic energy. Then the House military affairs committee came along Atomic and shaved and sheared the measure to bits. The House amended the bill so that the president Measure is required to appoint at least one military official Hard Hit ts the atomic energy commission. It made it pos sible for the chief executive to appoint two such commission members. Then it rode roughshod over the Senate by empowering the Army and Navy to manufacture atomic weapons at the direction of the president. Authoritative congressional sources are certain that the Senate will not take the House bill. And the House is virtually certain not to take the Stuate biR 1 eoe bepxUii Boxed,... A safe place for your v:i1m:i1I's and over valuable in a safe plate. Vh:iu'n limited number of safe tit-pi sit lxx rent from the lumdretls uc v.viv lurfr The Friendly Bank pnoimh to nbt.nin. 11 aunears th"" nnl1. "-- ' will be available soon. W had 1 t 1..,, front Mi -link' OllWM CI Ul (JcUlE) 1U1 UK..1V him., i I the county, but we haw brvn W ' tVrv for- nnr CI I H nm CM S . 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