FAUE TWO (Second Section)
THE WAYNESITLLE MOUNTAINEER
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Interest Grows
Ir.u n-..t in the Homer I.. Ferguson Day is
v.!!.: thi'ouutiuut the county. The event
. i (.ronusf ol bvinn one of 'he most out
.;.!,., i if its kind ever si. .... in Haywood.
7;.o c'imniittees are working to make the
v:: : np.1' of credit not only to the man to
t...j;..i i-.). but also to the citizens of the
K t-rv cfl'irt is heiiiL, maue to present a
'...r.i.'u i.l recognition and entertainment
:.it will i eal to ?,Ir. p-rt;uson the deep
.! !:: in which tie is held bv his native
Longer Skirts
All limitations on women's clothing have
been recmoved by the Civilian Production
AnmiMstr:,tion and. tor the first time .since
April (j, 1!)4L women can have longer skirts
if the manufacturers make them and they
pi efei to buy them.
The CPA says that there should be no
substantial change in Fall or Winter styles
because the bulk of cutting garments for
Kail and Winter is over. However, there is
not h. in ; to prevent a manufacturer from
iii.n-.'iiuiU'ly producing new styles in the
mode formerly prohibited.
I'tider the abandoned order, dresses were
limited to a length of forty-two to fory-seven
inches, depending on size. Now, with a more
abundant supply of woolens, cottons and
rayons, the length of skirts may gradually
drop until they touch the floor-level.
The Editors Agree
We see that the twelve American editors
who spent a month in the U. S. occupation
zones of Europe under the auspices of the
War Department have agreed that the Amer
ican troops should stay in Germany as long
as there is any danger of another World War.
All 12 men supported the policies of Secre
tary of State Byrnes. They had some inter
esting comments to make on the Russian
foreign policy. One said it was "exasperat
ing," while another that the Soviet policy
"stinks."
Seven found a "defeatist" attitude among
the people of Europe, and another felt that
the word "discouragement" fitted conditions
better. They all agreed that Berlin was the
"most badly damaged of any of the big
cities," spiritually and morally, as well as
physically.
Our Forests
In America today we are finding out that
World War II took a tremendous amount of
our natural resources and that we are not
as rich in these natural assets after World
War II, as we were 25 years ago. We have
a big job to build back the havoc done by
the wartime cutting of our woods and forests.
While we were all glad to supply the armed
forces with everything they needed, the time
has come for certain areas in the South, and
North Carolina lies in that section, to tackle
the job of building back our depleted forests.
This can not be done in a day, but can be
accomplished if a definite pi -n is made and
each year some work is done toward a goal
of reforesting. V . yl
' Only through good management can this
work be done, and we must remember that
Nature will need assistance, in this rebuilding
program. V
Toward A Buyers' Market
The following taken from a New York
paper applies in many ways to what is taking
place right here in our own community with
the lifting of price control and will no doubt
be reflected throughout the nation during our
months ahead, showing how even in small
communities we are affected by conditions
elsewhere.
If one takes meat prices as . barometer,
what is happening in the local market indi
cates that supply and demand are gradually
adjusting themselves to one another. These
prices still remain rather far above the
i;overnment-imposed ceilings, which have re-1
cently been removed, but due to their re
moval the supply of meat has multiplied and
with its increase the consuming public is
showing a natural inclination to wait for a
buvers' market. In short, the combination
of a relative flood of shipments and a buyers'
strike of sorts is having its inevitable effect'
of inducing more and more dealers to com-,
pete for customers. As one retailer, who has
drastically reduced prices from the peak of
last week, has expressed it: "There is plenty ;
of meat. What we need now is customers." '
The same process can be discerned, or soon ;
will he, we predict, in other lines as the sur-1
plus of goods dammed up by price control
rushes to meet the surplus of purchasing i
power still remaining from the rationing of
the war years.
The process will not be without its inter-:
ruptions and delays, we can be sure. A fac-'
tor in the present trend, for instance, has'
been the recent strike settlements, particu- i
larly that of the truck strike. Other strikes
'ery likely will intervene to chill the prospect
like winter lingering in the lap of spring,
but that spring or, in other words, a return
to an economy governed by production and
the natir::l income (which can be called
interchangeable) will come eventually, we
have faith to believe, judging from the cur
rent early symptoms.
It is a truism that production is the an
swer to inflation production plus transpor
tioii. An end to the shipping strike promises
us more bananas, coffee and sugar, for exam-
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VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
Do you think the United States
will elect a Republican president
in 1948?
Capital Lett
Br THOMPSON CREENWqod
UNABLE; Senator J. W.
K.Tll,,.
is in Raleigh though not at his Imp Y"u
old home at 513 N. Blount street, ! thL-"nt'",hlrd of
wnicn may De reached by a tele-! p. i " lll;"iir.g
reui-ral I'm-..."
phone not listed in the directory
r. VV Burnett "I don't think so. 1 but recorded in the telephone of- ,u...i.. ? lu" 'hi
... , , fioc -c l:u """til t,.
I believe they'll wear themselves ' Ilces as Mrs. Josiah William
m.t in the next two years." i bailey, Sid N. Blount street
Hut tin-
tnonev
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iact ,h
I Senator Bailey is unable to sec h,....., ' lor 'hi
ii i Rrun "l hoilpve fhev will anyone or to talk to anvunc"nn .... , '""JOi Mi
NO HOUSE WITHOUT MOUSC;
NO THRONE WITHOUT "THORtJ
Sim
but hope they don't."
he cannot be reached at this tele-
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the
L. II. Wood "I don't know. I ; wik io anyone, not even by tele- in thai -V. IN
think it's too early to form an ! H"u"c !then .tT "1;N
opinion yet." However, his office in Washing-1 deed. ds al
I ton now manned by that former1 n
Mrs. Charles nurgin "i mink uukc looiDail t;reat, Kidd Brewer r r - "irrv C
they will." insists the senator is all right and lie-ilii
. ! will be right in there pitching when tor T iti tt!! 1
C. s. Kollins Yes, l Delieve me new Senate convenes Could tiv 111 'he
they will." ! be . . . 1 . l': v'otl'd for the
It might be added that Senator
,ney s" have hopes1
nowt
n n Rnll "I Ihink it will hp n.,;i.. ij ,.
- '""" J ait uueu is menially more ' tdin.li i "l"
a mistake if they do. I'd like to aiert than the average well sena ibiv h T "lheG
see Mr. Truman stay on." . tor in Washington. I . ore lhls gloon
iuw those
don't stay on the shelves long.
i Urniwiv l u.
GOING ALONG In this Conner. ,, . dVe anwN
tion, it should be reDorterl ih.t ' 'n 'anuan-
gram. True, there was disappoint- , young next Eastern N. C. senator 1 r rThe cJ
ment over the parade getting ln Washington, will leave here on k i Ala8azme so
in the court room was all to be 1 December 9 to accompany 200-odd i : , "n lh(f nuWe
rained out, but the brief program farmers to San Francisco for the 1 1' n tVarri,n. whj
desired in solemnity and appro- National Farm Bureau convention 1 l' u'a'i,hdJ
priate features. Armistice Day will i You can't beat him . . . I ... . V ures Btter
always be a day of serious contem-1
piauon 10 me American people. duinus Carl Goerch. editor of : -.ri,.i..
''fad it. Yuu will fj
Taie ani of u-
. , "-'mi
l'i'i)llehl I'.HO l.y li. I'. Ii..lu..ry
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
Time may soften the suffering in ! State Magazine and North Caro-
nidiiy ncans iui uiuse wuu iuugmiiuias lavorue gaaaDout, said the I LOSIXC phiid i
: and fell, hut nnr rpmemhrancp nflnthpp Hav lhl ha n,., "i,:i.- . ' " 1 'JP0Si
l "T , ' r .7 . j :. V " iniiming representative in thJ
the dav can never hp pntirplv sen- if k nwinn r num iiiiiu t:.i ... 111 m
. 0 .... uiu you eouicl nut tn u,,h
: arated from the sacrifices made, i ever hear of sueh a ihmo .,,,,1 6 JU
The American I.ppinn tnfinv ic vnn thinlf h r.niilH An ;t -e i , . '5l"s,s which
! ..v. uu ii, even ii ne. lougn ilnie nf ii
I ln.-)Hp nn nf Fathprc nf WnrlH War shnnM unnl . ' UI " laSt
' t ani einc rf Wm-M Wa tt Twr..., I ... , ''meiidnient vote.
I ' " J i i want to be able lo take off to
I there never be another generation Florida now and then and to go
iv.. , nnniiria tlhlnP anr ci FaHIi 1'...
OI Ol xJl in. 1 in
getting along in years now. I ought
Recently Hie Methodists here had
to give their pastor ;i leave of -absence
for one Sunday --hut know
ing the tacts in the ease, his con
gregation was happy to release
Hev. Paul Townscnd. He went
down to Hoheson county to preach
pie. and, in the case of other commodities, at ,,u' Huirch which was built near
, . - ., , lv one hundred scars ago on the
so does the consequent lifting of the embar- ,:,,,,,; , liis eramiiather. the
Rev. Jackson Townscnd. preacher-
s;oes at rail heads. As for sugar, the relief
will he retarded while the refineries wait for i planter, who donated the land and
. , , ,. e e , built the church himself for (he
wie uiiioauini; 01 uieir cai goes 01 li uoe sugar
neonle on hi
and catch up to their schedules of output, neighborhood.
But the housewife's patience seems bound to
be rewarded with respect to this item of her
place and in the
Services are now
held oiilv once eaeh year but on
that occasion a Home Coming Day
is staged and former residents of
budget and many more. Perhaps patience the area who live all over the V. s.
should be the national watchword in the cir
cumstances, especially on the part of labor,
which has shown too little.
return for the annual event. The
! policy has been for many years to
j invite a member of the Townscnd
.family to fill the pulpit on the
, lone Sunday the church is open.
p-, Rev. Paul Townscnd had preached
LnOrmOUS 0CIVingS tn( annual sermon for several years
,P1 , e . prior to his entering Hie Navv as a
The long-term savings of the American chupain. ,,,,, (hlrini! ,,u. four y,ars
people amounted to $150,000,000,000 at the ! he was in t he Navy he was unable
middle of 194t! and have probably increased'0 b' i"'S('nl is ""w " ""'v
,, , i- . i T 'surviving preacher in the family
since the nud-year, according to the Insti-conmt.,ion, so unkss tllore is a
tute of L.ife Insurance. minister in the rising generation of
The long term savings include (J. S. Sav-i Townst'mls- ''' v have a life-lime
;,. i i .ci Tt i -in ;,t :in-v r;l, is a beautiful
ings bonds, net kinds on life insurance poll-1 tradition to keep up -and we are
cies, savings accounts and net savings and ! sure that any church Mr. Townscnd
investments of individuals in savings and ' servrs in fll,l"'(' ui" c'ad
, ... to release him as the I
loan associations. , for ,hjs alnu;i .i(.ni(.(.
The report indicates that saving of indi-;
viduals reached an abnormally high level I
during the war and that the current trend ;
is more in line with normal savings prac
tices. With such a fund of savings, the aver-'
age American should be interested in any !
method of keeping prices down because the i
lower the prices, the more the money will '
buv.
church
We note that Helen Rannerman,
author of "Little Black Sambo,"
died in October at frer home in
Scotland. Little Black Sambo has
a charm for children hard to de-
Always interested in talking to'fto be taking it easy," said Goerch.
men in service when on leave and
furlough, we saw two sailors early
Monday morning, neat as pins in
their blue uniforms with their over
seas and service ribbons. We stop-
a sort of wistful look in his sharo-
blue eyes.
He started the State in the midst
of the depression. Now smoothing
alone on iinwarrls nf a 9n nnn ..I-,,.,
,7 7. " u Ior lne:lation, his magazine has made a
Mountaineer. We completed our ! f,,i c th -i,.k.,. ni ...-. u. ..
scribe. I'hey love the story of the I information about one of them-! theaeulty of being able to write
little black boy "dressed in a red j and asked how long his leave and interestingly about absolutely noth
coat, blue trousers, purple shoes. ! he. said' "Why- rm home for Sood, j ing.
carrying an umbrella, who lost all i ' . ..V T ... , . . I lowing down or not, Goerch will
his hnery to lour tigers, but who
came through to get his clothes
back and to eat 169 pancakes, made
with tiger butter." The story, so
recently learned ranks second as
a children's classic to "Alice in
Wonderland." Mrs. Bannerman
wrote it for her children A native
of Edinburgh, and married to a
surgeon in the British Army, as was
the English custom, she had to
leave her children in school in
England when she went with her
husband to some far corner where
he was on duty. Once when she
left thria to go to India in 1898,
she wrote Little Black Sambo to
amuse them. It certainly did, so
we are told, and millions of others
since that time. No Christmas list
is complete if small childreii are to
be remembered (and we pity the
person who has a Christmas list
minus the name of some child)
without a copy of "Little Black
Sambo." Since The Book Store was
added to The Mountaineer and sub
sequently went into business on its
own, it has carried dozens of copies
of "Little Black Sambo" but they
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
A THIRTY-POUND cabbage
has put in its appearance, ac
cording to a news item. It
would just when we can't get
corned beef for love or money.
By WILLIAM R1TT
Central Press Writer
cave ceilings and moved
. and then we realized he nn wptf 'v.m
the joke was on us-but we haven't j January, February, and into March
seen such spic and span uniforms ; reporting "Doings of the Legisla
ting the boys firsfe started their itUre," whether it happened to be
trek home from separation centers. anything or not. That was the
Any reference to Armistice Day
would not be complete without a
word about our high school band
We overheard several persona re
mark as the crowd gathered in the
court house . . . "How did we ever
ha patriotic meetings without our
baifia?" and we wonder ourselves.
Their playing of patriotic airs sets
off the programs and their sound
ing of Taps brings the final note
which signifies the meaning of the
day. We feel sure the original
sponsors of the organization are
continually gratified over the re
sults of their labors.
1933 springboard which developed
into the State Magazine. He hasn't
missed a session yet. And by the
middle of January he will be first
naming every member of the Legis
lature and vice versa.
Carl is probably the nearest thing
to "Ol Man River" we have in the
Old North State except the little
line to the effect that "He don't
say nothing ..."
KEEP IT A few daj
tier stopped at a local
The bellhop pointed
him. seized his
into his room all ve
course. Our traveler
JOLT The proposed State rural i ging into his pocket:
health program which is so badly found eight cents. Si
needed received a terrific jolt last sorry, but this is all u
week with the election of a OOPi (Continued OBM
The legislator will
than $2.50 per day for
and if he slays at U
(lie hangout, the
aixiut 5J.50. The sard
at the Carolina. If
risk a fight with tbd
might succeed incarrJ
bag up to the room
will cost him a quart!
be classed as a dead
will run him about
nguring conservative
back home will comd
"just passing throtl
there goes at least $3.
No one will be
for less than $8 per da
to send home. We pa;
tors, our lawmakers,
60 days. We should bd
ourselves! At Hie end
they get nothing.
This small pav doe!
courage fancy lobbyia
other one thing.
Another Remedy
The following by Ralph McGill in the
Atlanta Constitution turns the light on our
selves: "The farmer reads about the coal strikers
or the steel strikers on strike and says:
"D those strikers. They ought to be
run out of America. I am going to hold my
stuff off the market as long as I can."
"The business man looks at his huge inven
tories, which were $30,000,000 in August, and
says: "The labor unions and the farmers with
their parties and constant price increases are
running up my costs until I can't do business
or expansions. A plague on both their
houses."
The labor unions look at the business man
and the farmers and say: The farmers are
holding back their beef and hogs for higher
prices. What's the difference if I strike for
higher wages? Business is making profits.
Why should I bear down on the job?"
"That sort of thinking and division, is a
national sickness that is hurting us desper
ately. "People in the production business say that
labor productivity has gone down 34 per cent
while labor has gone up 100 per cent.
"All of us are familiar with men on jobs
who don't care whether school keeps or not
"We are sick nationally.
"The-only cupe is to go to work. It is really
quite .simple. Production Ijs the key to
national health.' There isn't any necessity to
go to the right or left There is a necessity
to go to work and produce"
i Judging by the noises in that
song about old MacDonald who
had a farm it seems he suffered
row a shortage of meat short
ages. ! ! !
Grandpappy Jenkins wishes
hose folk in China and Korea
would slop fighting long enough
to learn the news that the war
is over.
; j ;
An archeologist says prehis
toric man wag often nine feet or
more tall. No wonder he finally
got tired of bumping hi.s head
on
out.
! ! !
Now that Zadok Dumkopf has
hnally managed to buy a suit
with a vest, he has found the
garment so uncomfortable he
never wears it.
! ! !
Mont Carlo croupiers strike
for bigger pay. While fhey rake
in plenty of big dough it seems
it always belongs to someone
else.
! ! !
A New York mansion which
includes 30 bathrooms under Its
roof is proposed as a home for
the United Nations. At least it
would furnish plenty of hot
water for the diplomats to get
themselves into.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
., D CTA Ml CV
ZEB, IT WAS4T TH SAMF
"5 A '' USHTAWH THAT HIT TH'TWEE J
V C thatkn6ckei out pappv)
BACK PtOAO FOLKS , S7?UiLh.
it H a time ta be pAadicd
Sunday morning, when price controls on
but three items were lifted, it put the American
people on trial to prove that they are capable
C : J ,nnnmii' nnil'ticCS of
ui carrying uui suuuu Lv-uiium re letting
supply and demand govern prices.
We Americans are capable of carrying out
these sound business practices, just as
we think things through and do not get m
and alarmed. This is a time for caution-a
Dvnnlv What VOU
time tor lignting mnaiion. uu
must have If you think the price
we suggest you wait awhile.
Rank"
too hish
THE
First National Ban
ORGANIZED 1902
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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