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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER 1 r PAGE TWO (First Section) THE MOUNTAINEER Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO Main Street Phone 137 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 r VERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY AND SERVICE MEN One Year $300 Six Months 1-75 NORTH CAROLINA One Year Six Months $4.00 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year $4.50 Six Mont lis 2.50 Knt.Ti J :it the vot office at Waynesv ille, N. ('.. as Ser.m.l II. ins Mail Matti-r, .m jjrm i.le.l uui-r ilie Ait of Mur.h 2, 17K, N.-vemher 1WH. Oliitwiry Notices, resolutions of respect, runl of tli.inks, an1 nil ii. .tit eh ..f enterlaitiliieiit for profit, Mill tte oli.utje.l for at tlie r.iie o' one .out a li.ilf cents per won!. NATIONAL 6DITORIAL ndej&CASSOCIATION -IX-WjW "I" ' snanh Carolina kA Tl KSI) AY. OCTOBER S, 194G Too Much Can Happen After reviewing the biennial State budget, the Raleigh News and Observer points out that it has been apparent to thoughtful ob servers of the state government and state finances that the business of the state has grown to such a point where it has become impossible for either its revenue or its ex penditure needs to be anticipated. It was explained that the impossibility of the task is due to a number of factors, the most important of which is that both the State's revenues and its needs are dependent largely upon the economic conditions of the country as a whole. In recent years eco nomic conditions have been subject to rapid fluctuation and that situation may be expect ed in the future. The Budget Commission two years ago met as the present commission is now doing and gave its best attention to the problem in hand and arrived at estimates which it regarded as reasonably accurate, the Observer further pointed out. It predicted general fund reve nue of $65,000,000 and highway revenue of $34,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June oO. 1946. Actually the general fund collec tions were $90,000,000, 38 per, cent above the estimates and highway fund collections totaled $55,000,000, 61 per cent above the estimates. The point is that the State's revenue can go down as quickly and as sharply as it has gone up. When this happens the State is liable to find itself with an unexpected deficit rivaling the unexpected surpluses of recent years and a surplus is much easier to handle than a deficit. Heads of departments are being called upon to make their requests through June 30, 1949. It is not surprising that some of them seem unreasonable. But the sad part is that it is impossible to say what will be reason able 33 months from now. As the Observer put it, "there is no prob lem deserving more serious or earlier atten tion at the hands of the budget commission. Is there a bank or a private corporation any where which would be willing to have its board of directors meet only once every two years? And yet that is how the State's larg est business, the State itself is now operated. It looks, with the tempo of modern living that North Carolina will have to change its meeting dates and have these all important items of our State's bookkeeping system given attention more often. Haywood Youth The part that the teen-agers are taking in the Haywood County Livestock and Home Arts Show is one of the most encouraging and inspiring features of the event. These young people have caught the vision of what can be done with education and scientific methods of doing things. They are building toward a better county and a better standard of living. The older generation need Viot fret itself for fear the progress which they have started will be halted by the rising generation. They have accepted the challenge" with signs on all sides of abil ity to carry forward the program with in creasing success. Our hats off to the 4-H-FFA chapter mem bers and the home economics classes in our schools. We also would like to give a glad hand to our county high school bands, for they are doing "a splendid job. ' Even Better ONE SUPPLY THAT SEEMS INEXHAUSTIBLE Ever since the announcement of the re vival of the Livstock and Home Arts show Haywood county folks have been looking forward to the 1946 event. It meant a lot of things, perhaps one of the biggest was that we were turning back to pre-war customs and life was going along normal lines. We all expecteu great things of the show, for we knew by the hard work that those connected with it had been putting out, the event would be worthwhile, but we had not counted on quite the huge success that has marked the opening' events. No detail has been left out bv the sponsors. It is complete in every way, and the exhibits have far surpassed anybody's anticipation. The crowds attending prove beyond doubt the appreciation of the public. No native or adopted citizen of Haywood could view the exhibits of livestock, home crafts and manufactured products without feeling great pride in our well balanced county. May the 1946 show be the beginning of many more in which Haywood folk can get together and show each other what they are doing and the progress that is taking place within our county. County Roads We read with interest that emphasis on road work in North Carolina will continue to 6AL0CEV,B0T ' (I VOICE OF THE PEOPLE J I What do you like best about the autumn season? ! Charles W. Balentine: the change of scenery." "I like Mrs. O. R. Martin: "The cool mornings and nights and the warm sunshine in the middle of the day and of course the turning of 'the leaves." Robt. Gibson: "I like the color and it always seems to me there is a peaceful feeling that comes at this season that we do not have at any j other time of the year." Dr. N. M. Medford: "The color in the forest and the crisp fall morning and always the anticipa tion of getting into the woods." F. C. Wagenfeld: air and the foliage." "The bracing HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN Like most people throughout the recent e nave Decn greauy con be placed on county roads through the 1947-49 world, w biennium. Highway Commissioner A. H. t'c'rr,'(l "vcr the outcome of the , ... 1 Nuernberg trial. We have often Graham has assured the Advisory Budget I n,ht f vch.-.t wiiiis Smith, nres- Commission in presenting a request for $104, 621,000 to be ppropriated from the highway funds during the biennium. Of this amount $25,000,000 was included for maintenance and construction of county high ways, as compared to $12,500,000 for State highways and $12,500,000 more to be spent on improving county roads. This will be welcome news throughout North Carolina, for the rural roads during the past two years have offered a problem in practically every county of the state. Here in Haywood we recall how travel was inter rupted during bad weather and that school buses could not make their routine routes. While we all wish to see our state high ways in a fine state of travel, we have too many people here who live on our rural roads not to keep them in condition to travel at any season. ident of the U. S. Bar Association, who visited the trial, told us "the object was to show the European countries and the world, the jus tice of a democracy as shown in a trial by jury." Since the sen tences have been handed down we have been afraid to pick up the morning paper, for sequels which might follow after it was an nounced by some of the attorneys that the 18 convicts might file ap peals. As this is being written nothing new has come from the prisoners along this line. Stalin Expects Peace Prime Minister Stalin is making the front pages of half the world's press with his state ment that there is no "real danger" of a new war. And half the people who read his opinion will bay, "The re! See! Kussia doesn't want war." And half will say, "Pooh! He is only trying to put you to sleep." Actually, what Mr. Stalin says is not deci sive on this question. What he does can have more bearing. But what he does may be determined by the Pilotburo. And what that fourteen-man dictatorship determines shall be Russian policy can change overnight as the acrobatics of party-line followers has frequently advertised. It would be possible to read a new nuance of policy into the Stalin statement. For last May Day he was sharply warning Russians of a plot of "international reaction" and "cap italist encirclement," and now he declares that the "ruling circles" of Britain and Amer ica will not be able to "create a capitalist encirclement" of Russia. And the general trend of the latest statement is more friendly. But it would mean more if Russia were not so actively pushing its own national interests in every corner of the globe by diplomacy, by economic pressures, and by armed power. It would be folly to bank on either set of words as sure signs of what Russia will do. Indeed, one of the root difficulties in rela tions between Russia and the Western democ racies is the feeling that Moscow cannot be trusted. As a matter of record Russia has fulfilled some of her obligations to the letter. But other pledges have been broken. So in America today many people are saying, "What is the use of trying to reach an agree ment? It won't be worth the paper it is written on." As a matter of fact, few nations depend on the promises of other nations. The good re lations between Britain and America do not depend on treaties. It is not a pact with Russia that is needed; it is some arrangement which will be to Russia's and to America's interest to carry out. Christian Science Monitor. We do not want to be hard hearted, but we believe that any deviation from the sentences, with the exception of allowing the plea of Jiull and Field Marshall Keitel for execution by a firing squad rather than hanging, would be a world tragedy. These men have brought too much sorrow, and not alone for their own sins, but for the example to others, they should be punished. We were much interested in what Judge John J. Parker, N. C. lawyer, and alternate American member of the International Military tribunal at Nuernberg had to say since his Dan Watkins: "I like it best be cause it brings the hunting season." story during the week told by Iiyndall Cobb, son of the late Dr. Need ham Cobb, one time pastor of the Baptist church here. Mr. Cobb, now a resident of Orlando, Kla., where he and his son, Tyn, Jr., have a large printing company, is a former newspaper editor. He once published the Shreveport Daily Journal of Shreveport, 111. He had a very bright reporter, who in the rush of beating deadlines, often grew careless (as most of us do) in his sentence structure, but he could always get in the last word with the copy reader. He once wrote . . . "Harold Jones, eight-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Jones, of West Stephenson street, was seriously hurt in the West End in a fall from his bicycle" . . . The copy reader wrote the sentence as it should have been and put the original copy in the reporter's typewriter with the Tin- many things that the world may Ration: "which is the west end of learn from the trial. It has been the son of Mrs. Jones? . . . the re more than a mere trial of the de- porter, when he returned, added fendants charged with crime. It the following . . . "The West End has been an autopsy of a totali- of Mrs. Jones' little son is the end tarian state, and it: disclosed the the Son sets on." course of the disease which led to the enslavement of the people of The Haywood County hospital, a great nation and its ultimate which is having such hectic days' downfall. For the future peace of I with its over-crowded mnrprnirv the world, it is important that those ward has nothing on St. Patrick's who have committed crimes of such , hospital out in Missoula, Mont., magnitude be punished and their ! judging from a news item from personal accountability established. that area. The hospital sent out It is important that this be done I a hurry call recently for orange judicially;, and it is important that I and peach crates when 38 w it be done by the cooperation oi'born infants descended on ft riur a number of nations acting in be-! scry which was equipped With nan oi worm commumy wtiose regulation cribs for only 12 babies, wnose laws nave neen violated. ALONG BROAD By WaJter. Wi inch Reason Russians so cocky lateh is they allegedly have cosmic ra bombs. Plan inviting America-is and other nations to a demonstra tion of the new weapon in their "war of nerves." . . . Insiders un impressed, claiming we have a weapon that makes the Atomb ob solete. . . Senator Bob LaFollette may head a non-gov't committee to study all phases of modernizing the federal gov't. This new outfit will be financed by wealthy citizens some of whom held high gov't posts during the war. return to this country. Speaking at the Federal Bar Asso ciation in Washington, he stated that "the trial of German leaders showed that the Second World War was not the cause of the ruin of Germany. The records made in the trial shows that the war was not the cause, but an incident of the ruin which had already come upon the German people as a result of their leaders against the moral order of the Universe." He further stated "that there N. Y. Novelette: The ABC net- work had a correspondent in Tokyo nis name, joe Julian. . . He went to Hiroshima to do a broadcast months after the atomb fell a Julian walked along rubble-strewn streets he met a man on a bike who introduced himself. . . 'Tin the Reverend Tanlmoto," he said . He was of great help to thP broadcaster in getting material etc . . . A year later Julian (who is also an actor) fdund himself job less. . . Last wek, while wander ing about Radio city he was spot ted by the 'director- of the John Kersey-Hiroshima broadcast. Jul ian was engaged to read one of the parts. . . It was the role of the mi anger J "le Kv. Tan: """ ma; as w. ... : f sonallv ,i - wh" ,he d he is so v White H., . l' t..t,, " ; unmans , r ru-publK-ar.s ;n IOM-ivn n..i. - 'mm (;p:,j . American L,j . lu'eign polio Plaining it Mr. Peron Mandl s Austrif "Ported in! . rnlll His l'fidiauons for a j.r.,1 7U "Wper cy - mca. .. A fin ;ir i...... . . as.M-is io purd Y'u,i""n and niaclJ J- British and Japan nut timing u ueaiea like suJ( power. Cap ital Lette By THOMPSON GREENWOOD uuiw i iwiuesi- uie nation in prmliif working Democrats in the State lor pic-klinu . Mui is Mrs. B. B. Everett, Palmyra farm ' consls 3,0 liw wl woman and vice-chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee. Although definitely not the Eleanor type, she has what it takes for Democratic women of this sec tion of the land. CURIOUS am curious about that Dower- Clinton P Anderson Most small cities are experiencing an in creasing number of costly fires these days. Not only are they expensive but they in crease the housing shortage. Have a care for those who hope to rent a place this winter and don't , get in the competition to rent apartments. Carelessness is expensive. OntiA WASHINGTON Livestock Ceiling Prices X , Batter Diplomatic Service Boost Now Seen Possible ( t To Be Slow in Attainment Special to Central Press WASHINGTON There is a good chance that Secretary of Agri culture Clinton P. Anderson may boost again the ceiling prices on livestock if the meat shortage continues for any length of time or becomes more acute. Such, action by Anderson would force OPA to raise meat ceiling prices at all levels of sale, thus adding more millions to consumers' annual food bills. Although OPA Boss Paul Porter has declared that there will be no upward revision of meat prices, there is nothing he can do if Anderson de- a cides to hike the livestock ceilings. i lie new riiw iumrui enipuwora uie sec retary of agriculture to raise ceiling prices when- i ever he finds ithat existing price levels impede production. Anderson could act merely by ruling that the present livestock prices have cut meat output. v OPA must carry out within 10 days any recom mendation on food prices made by the secretary of agriculture. An derson used this power to set the present livestock ceilings on Aug. 28, although OPA argued for lower prices. Government officials say that there is virtually no chance for restoration of meat rationing. They point out that Anderson would act to accelerate production by raising ceilings before ho would allow the return of a war-time type of rationing. DON'T LOOK FOR ANY SENSATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS In the United States diplomatic service 'as a result of the newly-enacted bill to increase the pay of foreign service officers and to provide other reforms. Like other legislation affecting the diplomatic service, it will prob ably take years to show up In concrete results. This was also the case several years ago when the diplomatic and consular services were united and a foreign service officer could hope to rise to the rank of minister. Aside from the question of more pay, there is still the matter of manpower shortage. Foreign service officers are not made overnight and, with new embassies and legation opening up all over the world, the department is hard put to it to find able men to do th work. Moreover, smart companies eager to regain a position in foreign trade are bidding against the state department for qualified personnel. Then too, Congress, which, has never been willing to put United States envoys on .the same footing with those Of foreign powers, was quick to retrench on -this year's state department appropriation. The constant grumble heard around the state department is that Congress will spend any amount to prosecute a war but is niggardly when it comes to spending money td maintain the peace which is the principal job of Secretary James Byrnes' organization. IF THE NEW FASTER-THAN-SOUND PLANE proves a success in its coming tests at Muroe Dry Like;- Cal.. -this fall many of to day's bombs will be outmoded. SupertonW ctaf t will require weapons and bombs of radically different design. The Army, already recoghizWg this; development, Today's has undertaken intensive studies at the Aberdeen, R Md Proving Ground where data; is to bfl compiled , Bornbi which would give the new planes, full tactical ad- ' Outmoded? vantage. - - For instance, traveling at a rate of 750 miles per hour, such bombs would havi to be laid down WW mueh more accuracy, would need to fall faster, present less wind resistance' and be-more sensitive. Gun nery, too, may undergo vast changes since a fighter has just a split second on hut target wherVgdlrtg ar0cn'peedY1' " .'"..... - Getting away from such serious i contcmrjlations which .it iimns dm get us all down ... We heard a t,rivt'n tootn brush which will soon oe on me maiKet. Will you have to grasp the handles and walk be hind it. or can you jump on it and iide? Elmer C. Adams in Detroit News. LOSING? They aren't saying much about it, but several Raleigh big-wigs fear that the Republicans will take over Congress in No vember, thanks largely to Truman bungling and Wallace balking Agricultural leaders say that Wal lace is well-off, has made more than quarter-million dollars in the past 10 years in hybrid corn. CROP TALK M. G. Mann. Carolina cotton co-op manager, says that cotton will go to 50 cents per pound if left alone. Remember 1919-20? ' : N. C. whose corn crop ran only 1 per cent hybrid varieties in 1941. planted 12 per cent hybrid this year, and would have gone higher, but no more seed available. N. C. average yicm mis year: ZD nusneis . Winston-Salen: per acre . . . against 18 in 1941. ,mv a ndf u Three new cucumber-pickling : present. This projp plants arc being constructed in this political power in tha I state, which now ranks third in (Continued on P; STLUKNTTKU roach Kah'ich that rural schools aiv -h iun quotas of trachi instances, 1046 high ates are units lirom look after the child whoso board member firinfi almost tot; the "good old dais almost impossible to ers. Serves 'cm risk! Many of the hack-l ers oi incsc commm ways know so iduc "propah allitudes , cesiums" than thus? now have a woiuiir! Ui see w hat Ihey can poor children! THE YOUNG 0NESj Democrats arc expects Greensboro or Wrie: on October 11-12 to ganizalion a iimch-nJ the arm. At a comvi ReapUncf the. ctf&ii--- 9. "7Um 'Vnriav nnr) tnmnrrmu cpvpm hundred head f cattle will be shown at the 3rd Annual Livestol Home Arts Show. These cattle would not ha' in Haywood had it not been for the hard work years ago in starting a program for better cattle county. tu,- ; a t v, ort it nlaved in helpin; a ma udjm ia yi uuu ui tut - r better cattle to Haywood. The results are j i cQH thp fondest hopes- iuiuwii, cum nave aui aoovv .- What has been done in the past is an indication will be accomplished in the future will do its part. ar.c First National Ban f If J ORGANIZED 1902 ; Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member Federal Reseti
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