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FRIDAY, FEBRu 4 itUTT-43CtMMi oectton) TUB WATNESVUXE MOUNTAINEER THE MOUNTAINEER Published By THE WAYNESVn.LF PRINTING CO. Main Strtet Phone 1.17 WayaesvJle, North Carolina The Couotj Seat of Haywood Ciitinly W. CUBTIS RUSS MRS. HILDA WAY OWYN W. Curtis Huss and Marion T Editor Asm iate Editor Bridge. Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COI'NTY A"fD SERVICE MEN One Yi-ar Six Months NORTH CAROLINA Out Y ar 'X Months I tr I Sllil V iK'fll L Ui'Jl.lNA Oik- Yeai Six .Mi):. . $3.00 l.7fi $4.04) 2 2.-, $4..'i0 2.0O (It,.1 NATIONAL CDITORIAL USOCIATION Carolina - IHU AU0CL FRIDAY. FEIiKUARY 7, 1917 On To Washington Today a group of citizens of Western North Carolina will be i;iven an opportunity to dis cuss plans with Secretary Knuj rcfiardinfj de velopment of the Park on the North Carolina section, through arrangements made by Con t'Te.ssmun Monroe Redden, who has lost no time in ;Cttinr thi:; matter before the powers that be. With fact:', and figures in hand the tjroup will be well prepared to present the matter and to shw that North Ciiiuhua lias not re ceived ion much development in the Park area in tho'past. We have the feeling that at last we are i;oi.in to et at the root of this matter and have an understanding as to North Carolina. There is one thinn of which we are certain, promises are not going to satisfy this group of Mountaineers who are telling their troubles to the Secretary of the Interior today. They left here with their fighting clothes, armed to the tilt, to get definite results and action. We have a feeling that they will bring home "the bacon" this time. Control With the ending of the Reynolds Founda tion fund winch has aided in a state-wide campaign waged against venereal the state of North Carolina is faced with a serious problem unies there are appropriations from other sources to cany on this work. There was a time when people shunned this subject and it was not mentioned in polite society, but now that the public has oeen aroused tu the staggering results of these dreaded diseases, there has been a change in attitude. It is no longer a "hush hush" matter, but one for open frank discus sion. The State Board of Health has asked that $350,000 be appropriated for a continuance of this work, but the budget commission failed to make a recommendation. Right here in Haywood county the figures which we obtained from the health depart ment might surprise you. There were ap proximately 18 cases of gonorrhea reported by the health authorities in 1946. There were around 25 cases of syphilis, which were treat ed from this area at the Rapid Treatment center in Charlotte during the past year. There were GO contacts reported to the county health department through branches of the armed forces, social agencies and ve nereal disease clinics. There were 842 blood tests for various rea sons, including those for venereal diseases during the past year, made by our health department. Often if a positive was revealed in the test, a second test was made to make fiure. There were approximately 180 treat ments given for venereal diseases in the two clinics held in Waynesville and in Canton. Venereal diseases not only cause death and sickness but its victims also often become a heavy cost to the public, with the support of the mentally and physically disabled, which become the responsibility of the state. It is much cheaper, if one disregards the other features to control the disease, which can be wiped out as shown by other sections and countries. It is said that it has been demonstrated in Russia and the Scandinavian countries that syphilis and gonorrhea can be wiped out and that recently down in Alabama they have done an excellent job of eradication of these diseases. 37 Years Old Today marks the beginning of the 37th annual observance of Boy Scout Week throughout the nation, with almost two mil lion scouts and adult leaders taking part. The organization now has over 65,000 units, and during the 37 years has had a total member ship of over 13 and a half million. Here in Waynesville, the Boy Scout move ment is not as active as it was sevei .1 years aj;o. This condition is no fault of the boys, nor the lack of potential members, but due to a large part a shortage of adult leadership. It takes a number of leaders for every troop, and unless there are trained leaders, there can not be active troops. This accusation is not directed towards any individual or group. It is just a circumstance brought about by the multiple of duties that one finds themselves in this fast moving era in which we are existing not living. On the other side of the picture, we do have here in Haywood, a number of men who have worked untiringly, and for many years, with the Scout movement. Through their ef f .its and guidance, the work has been kept alive, and many a boy has been able to reach new highs in scout ranks. The Scouts have as then- slogan, "Do ; good turn daily," and their motto is "Be Pre pared." The twelve points to the scout law are trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. Certainly any man who leads a group of hoys into living up to the scout law, motto and slogan, will have accomplished things that cannot be evaluated in dollars and cents. The boys so trained will perhaps never realize the full value of scout training until they in turn become leaders of other boys. It is a great challenge. It is a fine work, and an organization any man or boy can well he proud to be identified. What's The Matter? Government experts tell us that war spend ing is being cut back far more slowly aftei the second World War than it was after the first World War. After number one, spending dropped from a peak of $18,500,000,000 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, to $3,400,000,000 in the fiscal year in 1922, which was a slash of 81 per cent. There is another story of World War Two, the spending slash is only 62.8 per cent below the peak, if the President's budget stands. Outlays of the Federal government are to drop from $100,400,000,000 in the budget year ended June 30, 1945, to $37,500,000,000 in the budget year ending June 30, 1948. Post war costs of government are now esti mated at more than twice the level reached at the climax of the first World War. Spend ing for the next fiscal year demonstrates, we are told, how war saddles governments with permanent peacetime expenses. After the first world war, steps were taken quickly to reduce budgets. The 1922 budget of $3,400,000,000 became normal. But the spending at that rate was five times as high as federal budgets before 1914. That experience is to be repeated after the second world war. The first world war left the individual in come tax as a legacy to the Federal govern ment, but this tax was relatively mild after the postwar adjustment. I he second war promises to force the individual income tax to become a mainstay of Federal revenues necessary to support operations of big govern ment. What do you suppose the next world war will cost us? On the other hand do we de mand too much of our government? In the granting of these demands by our govern ment we are losing that priceless freedom of our pioneer tradition? Is our government becoming top heavy? These are questions that every thinking American citizen will find themselves asking, if thev dare face the facts. i VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Capital Lette By THOMPSON CREENWOod In coosideriiie tUe new budget, do you tMnk Congress should elve preference to tax relief or to re duction in the federal debt? C. X. Allen "I think the reduc tion of the national debt should come at this tune." W. A. ISradle.v I think the re duction of the federal debt should ome lust. ii fiuy Massie "1 expect the best ihing would be to balance the budget first and then if possible to reduce taxes." Whilener rrevost 'I am in fav ii' of cutting oir around one mil ion government employes and, axi s will then be taken care of." VENEREAL DISEASE When the Hcynolds Foundation elected to help Wake Forest instead of sufferers from gonorrhea and syph ilis it lifted from the coffers of the' State "oard of Health about $200,000 (income from $10,000,000) per year. Now y700,00u is being requested to roplace tU- amount. The $200. 000 went to 16 counties able tp match the funds ... and if the State goes into the program, it will cast around $450,000 for each year of the bieiinium . . . affecting all counties . . 10 per cent of ail patients at mental hospitaJs in the Stale are there because of syph ilis . . Like most of the other State de partments, the board of Health is asking for j monev th:m .. th. At.-i, . ud bv th,. , ,:1'lSi(H INPinrv. , , . did you kium lha, iwvwe ..as ,, , , ... IU lw I in areas u.,(, , I preppjideraiulj , CAntafe , I,,,,,,-, 1n( 15 l IA . ' w "j to ixt ctni These Chu,-,., ;your Stale li,,( o( ! ON T1IK si-OT I teachers ha, (,,,N ; I Graham, pr, ,i(t., : (Continue.! p Dr. U. S. Roberson "Personally, Aouhl like to see lax relief and a uuiiy tax enacted that would take are of the other." HERE and THERE Ky HILDA WAY fiWVN Tomorrow afternoon the Wom an's Club will give a silver tea at he Haywood county Library in ob servance of tne third anniversary ii county-wide service. The story t" this service is u very satisfact ory one. Often the public is Kiven in opportunity which they do not ippreciate. but in ihis ease they lave In the first year of the ser iee 1944 under the county sys eii. i before it was functioning to ts fullest), the circulation totaled 11,111 in 1045 2!),.r97 . . . and last ear it slopped up to 37,150 Hand-n-hand w ith our schools is I he .ounly library leading its support o the cause of education in our ounly not only with our children, Hit also with our adults who are ;eckinj! information .objects. on various Take fo rexainple the month of January, in (he Waynesville com munity alone, the circulation was 2,871, which docs not include the hundreds read at the hos pital, the teacher collections loaned out in the schools, and the 14 book stations. That small rock building on iMain Street is do lus a whale of a lot of business. Stop by Saturday and leave a bit of money (make it as liig as you like to help buv some needed books for a circulation that is mounting daily there is a crying need for more hooks. Stop and look over the l.ihrary and see for yourself. II would surprise you lo clro'p by some afternoon and hear the re quests thai conic over the desk the variety is as great as the colors in Joseph's coat from all ages. One afternoon recently, we give as an illustration which aelually took place . . exeepl we don't have space lo give all . . . I hero v.crt 108 books checked out with 71 Ir adults and 3 by chidlren . . , "1 would like some copies of poems by Riley for a Church program . "I would like a declamation for the l). contest at the High school" . "I would like some back ground and the period of Lorna Uoone ". "Please, could you give me tile address of the N. C. His torical Societv"" . . "lias I he New Atlantic Alonntly come in yet? I am reading the letters of Tom Wolfe." "I brought my hooks and these are the ones my daughter has been reading." ... "I want this book for iny DAI! paper . . "I'll YOU'RE TELLING ME! By WlttlAM RITT Central Press Writer FUR SHIRTS for men are the latest wrinkle Now the well-dressed mm will hardly he distinguishable from p.n'iait of old Daniel Boone i i i Lady Killers soon imy wear iruppy numbers woven hom the tur nl intikiJt. welt. .,, rjbljit I hut No : our, ,(.. .ounih pretty u)prr, ,i r i i t Baby Bunling'i not going to lik ir when the old man tuiuhat the robbit ikin for rtoiive(i'cii into i nifty bultoned-down-collur iob (or himself i t Thy city sJicker or the future will imitate the lonesome cow boy by 'lonning a pair of chims The only the C S arms. different will v.v.-. being that I. is i n his In the old days "wearing the hair shirt' meant iloiu ien.uice lint from now on it will hr the ro.v, ,' of ;l thitle Zcidok Ounikopf is ulrcudy planning lo tut clown his eld camel's hoir benny into o short ileeved optn al-lhe-lliroat sporti blouse. ;.rilnlpa,iy .hiil. ins thinks the fin riliin i, ,;, i) k hnl too expensive iu is (.ase ,.,, need one fashioned exclusively of Siilvf-i f,, hi .i.it i u, (.t a perfect match foi his beard. THE Just A Reminder We a.q.iin call your attention to the small boxed feature on the lower riiht hand cor ner of the front page of The Mountaineer. The figures have changed we regret to write. Instead of G opposite "Injured" the figure now reads ft. (This is being written Tues day). Have you had your car checked recently to sec if it is in good condition? Have you observed the traffic laws to the word? Have you been careless about keeping with in the speed limit? These laws were not made for the other fellow alone to observe, but apply to you and me. If we had had eight casualties during the war period from Haywood county in less than five weeks, it would have been a tragedy J yet it looks like we have hernm harrfonrt I to these traffic Casualties-unless tW hanr, !:"iw5Lh l!,ei' "ShU-Off-Our -Backs' . ! j trr' cur-r kweniy 1 to tOUCJl US. i men collected from Scouts "SCOUTS -OTfl THE W&WW& - v.- et-v:. D Ul L aitf GvF OR FEBRUARY 7-13. 1947 BO.V-SGOQT-fJ K..ar.'? 2;t000 ?ub Scou,s- y Suls Senior Scouts will observe IheS.ih anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7tli to I31h. Through their World Friendship M.LViU Boy Sco,,ts 01 America have given $M( in help Boy Scout overseas rebnii.l ii..;- e first year of their "Shyrtt-Off-Our-Backs" protect more case or twenty tons of Scout filiform aiid ei.ui..- yui nwiuis were coninnulefl in Srmi ... n The one bright spot on the records is the .1" brgBtef? opposite 4h t!l tqtM. j the llieial jNMter mrkiM the ;evMrt. ..n.09Vc K. J. Lilius "I think it would .ii- well to fire a million or a half nine of (jovermnenl employes and nit them to work. Too many people ii-e on the government payrolls hat .should be working, that would ,-ike care of a lot of tax relief and he budget could be balanced." buy it for the Library, if you'll order it." . . . "What's a eood new book? ... 1 liked 'In a Dark Garden' "... "I have kept this book nut over time, I think I owe Miuielhine on it." ... "I have been wanting to read 'Before the Sun Goes Down' . . . and this is the first time I have found it in." . . . "What's that book about the Sun ... or something about I'oxes?" ... "I always like your library exhibits." ... "I want to so through all these books on Psychology then I want to take out the ones I like best." . . . "You know, I get something out of every book I read, if I really read it." . . . ' Here's my registration card, I jot my mother to sign it lor I want 0 read a lot of hooks in here." .'. . Do you have a good encyclopedia n which I could look up Thomas iclison'.'" . . . "My teacher wants Hlue Kidge Billy'. ... "1 want 1 reading, so I can enter the Wo man's club contest.'' . . . "Do you have anything (on the history of I'lumbing. In the Rotary club we're wiving special programs on our uolessions." . . . "That book X got .rom you at the county hospital last week was good." ... "I need i collection of mystery stories." . . . "Curwood, 'Valley of Silent Men.' it is ill the hospital collec- ion. but we will bring it into the Hilary and you can get it here." . and on it went giving all the (Continued on Pago Three) I li MAIL OBUKR LOBBY GF.TS A PF.P TALK FROM LABOR PAPER By JANE FADS WASHINGTON Writing a let ter to your congressman is a right encouraged and freely indulged in by many Americans ... as old as Congress itself. Now the CIO News tells its read ers how to write a letter, urges that more Americans follow the custom especially more union members! It says: "You may think that your con gressman is the best man who ever came to Washington, or you may feel he 'shoulda stood in bed.' But regardless of your sentiments, you ought to write him and write frequently." Lettors from folks around the country, the no jjw firA tlio K,.. , 117... .l: ' rfl in irus.un.mon have , ment about iin)01SB "Your letter ,s me iews sas" .loi, swing the i-e,. JU1 ,, lots of others, n mafc a big impression The CIO ih,llkM!t most anti-lahor Con, "watch his sti n nl after letter comins j in opposition to his sl "And if he js on . undecided about a K those letters of m turning point m ,,, to your side. The importance oH is drummed our ( Continued im pJ WALTER PIDGKON HUNS INTERFERENCE FOR IRENE DUNNE NEW YORK Walter Pidgcon tossed the horde of bobby-soxers who hang around the Waldorf Astoria in their daily hunt for celebrities into a tizzy. They com pletely missed Irene Dunne com ing out directly after, she was hap py to note. Fraiichot Tone back to town for visit and picked up his friendship with Burgess Meredith after a temporary lapse . . . While sitting with Meredith at Cafe Society Uptown's ringside, the stage and screen star became ecstatic over the dancing of little Dorolhy Jar nac, a talented ballet youngster who bounces about to tunes sung by Roberta Lee. who background al a phone . . . The ehorood the story of each tun in eloquenth amusing cial moveniculs and gestures. "She's ven much Meredith insisted "Maybe she should tache." sueuesled W the young soiiwriln Ran into Eddie signs the dances for burlesque truupes. good humored pal anchine of Mm Icsque. edy edition of Gcorgi the serious ballet ICoiil iinii'd mi PI Ate on 9mfyotani PeUan at Qm Bank Whether you are just starting in lnw or have reached the top. Yoi are recognized as an imDorUmi Peri whether you are a young professional man nas just put up his shingle or an older' already established in the community: whei you have just received your first chock or h already climbed the ladder to a top positior When a good opportunity comes, it pa)' be well-known at your bank. You will th-n fVi-iM4l i j. . l - . i hfi F j.ij.cnuij' tuiitacis you maKc ai " National Bank. 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