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TUESDAY, MARCH THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER II THE MOUNTAINEER Published Ey THE WAYNESV1LLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County Vf. CURTIS RUSS i:1i nr MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN AsMieiafe Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Hndges, Piihlishtrs PUBLISHED F.VFFfY I i f - ! V AMI FRIDAY HAYWOOD fOI'NTY AND SERVICE MEN Onp Year Si-: Month- Olif Year , ib I H A. K' il.l NA i )i rsi i ii: N' ii i i i i a hi i .1 a One Year Six .1 s:i.oo I 75 $4,110 2 '.' t $4 SO :.o ul,.! ,11 ,1 !(,, iMr NATIONAL (tDITOfMAL- WjSSOUAllOrl in sow. v u; n ii. i')i7 Time To Think A l-ill .' ' i:.J A.-.;.-nilily by . scf I'.ai--.- i 'I. Mul! c, Ck-vclaini (.- mi iily. '.'.'inl'i ifr,,:t'- .i -!:: l,u.,r waiting per iinl in N'iiIIi ( '.i i i . 1 1 1 1 i I ii ' v. i'i-ii :i I j I i c 1 1 m jii lor Ihe issuance "I .i mat i ia:;'e license. 'I'd is lull is .'iiiu'.Iici .ilti i'Hil to makr couples think !:iii- mti:-i I. ol m.h i i.u'e ati'l have inure time I', run'cn., !..! uii M.e iiii-ainii!'. of 1 he hew 1 1 '!; t n .1. ,!i i 1 'I'heii- ..ii- ri !! l.it-- i'i-. 1 1 III m", waitin;' (.eii'pi! II - I ii -' !'i reas'V! il "a ( uiiple fi,ii!lii't i.i -1 Mm.' ; i ;r.S out. lhev are mil iUaiitie! I'm 'lie I, 'il', s'.i'e ul' lliall'inMlI'lV. We 1 1 -1 miii- '!.al efr;i penoil of w;iit- ih;- v. ii! 1 a ilvcliia- in ihe increasing UUlIlher h.i' 1 '' .'Ti n I laJeS- lliose made prac tical lv 1 a 1 the "spi.ii- ul' the- moment " Pleasure Boom V.'r read i ha I rr-o soendm:; is taper inr; oT sharply in Nov. 'oi 1: anil cm her annise ment centers where mnnev lor pleasure has Unwed freely m recent vears. It is sap I that il is. e;. ?;: ;.. :c r nr: a.'ai lod.'-in:; in lar-i- i'i':- :.(! '.oat entertainment spots are 1 Oe 1 . n - I'll- - i i ; 1 1 1 1 1 ir i a s '.' i ; i I a v . 1' is p'iin'i-'l oil l 'tsai the y,i,m in spend ir;' f'-r pjpani!-" 'ha' r.o-.v dec!inin,u has heen fc.i almost entirely hy surplus cash ac-euii-iii!a'.fi :,v Amine;. nr. during the war. While 'i is : rn ft '"or" 'to spr-ndm:1 will briny new problem-, to 'r'c who profiled by this at litmie cijcie i-.'j -'.' a.'l vii erisv rrinnev. on ihi- . h- 'le -ii ';ii'i thai )),. countrv is find iii'; i1:-. wav oil !-; O'.rirsal liviir'. Anv s.i.i'n of l hi: i n: ! i he v. !(' i!nr t.- ir: all. Hitler Alive Or Dead? New ru ibrl Ariolph Hitlej is living in .seclusion in a rcmo'e part of Argentina arc interentini; hut perhaps not important. Such rumors have been circulated from time to time since the fall of Berlin and probably will he circulated ajam and aain during future years. Doubtless many people in the United States and elsewhere believe the rumors have some foundation. It must be remembered that no authority which the world could rely upon with implicit faith has testified to the truth of the Nazi contention that the Feuhrer died in Berlin as the Russian armies battered into the city and took it over. Il is easy to believe, however, that Hitler either ended his own life or was killed in the final hours of the crushing defeat of Ciennauy. On the other hand, the evidence of his death has never been sufficient to convince nil intelligent Americana beyond any ques tion. They remember that for weeks and months before V-E Day there were predic tions that if and when Hitler saw that Ger many's defeat was inevitable, he would flee to Argentina by a German IJ-bopt or airplane held in readiness for his use in escape. Some of these predictions apparently had their origin inside Germany. It is recalled, of course, that the Argentine government was friendly to Germany dining the war. It is possible that Hitler still is alive and viewing at long range the miserable state of the German people whom he led to ruin and went to his death in some way as the Russian armies battered down his capital city while desolation. But it is the more likely that he the nation he had ruled with an iron hand was brought to its knees in defeat The Charlotte Observer. Confusing KING'S "X" THAT IS OliST if It. sw-s The cost of maintaining a single soldier in Germany or Japan now is five times more than the cost of- maintaining an occupation soldier alter World War I. After the latter it cost the taxpayers $1,939.98 including his pay, subsistence and equipment to keep a man in Germany with the army of occupation. Today, after World War II, the cost has jumped to an average of $11,280, including Kuh-.eqiieni payments '.o the soldier as a veteran under the GI Bill of Rights, but dues not include payments for administra tive overhead. This offers a big headache. What to do in l he wav of reducing these high occupation cost.s is being debated in Congress and with in the army itself. Two solutions have been offered by high army officials. One is that enlistments should be made only for a minimum three-year term, thus giving the army 27 months of overseas ser vice from each soldier. This would require inure recruiting inducements, than at the presr-nt, hut would cut the cost of a year's u.- Jpatiun duly nearly in half to about SG, iiOO per man. A holder solution held by some top army officers is that the army should be relieved of the responsibility of occupation altogether. In its j) lace then could be a small special ( oiistahtilary to police the occupied countries under the supervision of the State Depart ment. Relief for these countries now carried on the also could be taken over by the State De partment. On the other hand we read from reliable sources that proposed United States budget cuts for the army and government relief in occupied areas are likely to have serious af fects upon American Military government ac tivities in Germany. Later they may prove more expensive to the American people than coni iruiation of existing appropriations would be, according to officials in Germany. It is all very confusing, but naturallv comes "''-' lh,-v t'l,ll worship. On their " , . , ,. , .' rp, lirsl trip lhev were impressed and the question, who is paying for all this. I he on ,h(,jr lht.y ni.ld(? thoir dp answer is obvious, you and I and the millions i-ision They bought the top of a of other taxpayers are footing the bills, but what else can we do? So we go around in circles, making patches here and there in the ever increasing load this country has to carry. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Capital Letter Br THOMPSON GREENWOOD Would you like to tee the dial telephone system installed in Waynesville? ; J. C. Jennings: Yes. I would. I think it is better and faster ser- 1 vice." I John B. Smith: "Yes Where I've j ised it. it has been very satisfac i tory." Mrs. fay Toy: I think that the ..Ii.il system will come here within 11:.' next 10 years. It will offer some conveniences the public will en my, but fhere will be a numbe- a eivices they get now from oper itors that will be missed when thl imc comes." Lester Burgrin, Jr.: "Yes, 1 would. ,eiy much. I've used it and the dial system saves time and is more amplified." HERE and THERE By HILDA WAY GWYN I.asl summer among the hun dreds ol visitors who came our way were two who decided to cast their lot with us. Aside from the Ihe army budget as a military expense prestige of being artists recognized in then own fields, they have much to commend them to us as delightful people to know. So al low us to present Dorothy Fremont Gram, author, and her husband, Douglas Malcolm Grant. Artist. Ar riving here from New York, they drove out front Asheville in search of a permanent residence in West ern North Carolina they wanted warmth in their voices when they speak of their neighbors and the cordiality they have encountered we believe they have also found friends. Mrs. Grant told us that she does not think that outsiders write truthfully about the mountain peo ple that she has met none of the types she had read about "never have we lived anywhere that I fell closer to my neighbors and had the feeling that if some tragedy came they would see me through", t'j leave the city to live in the she said, and while our expert countrv they wanted a good com-fences may have been different. I munity an equitable climate a good place in which to paint and write- and a Catholic church, realize that we meet on the com mon ground of the fundamentals which count." hill ouL on the Howell Mill Road. on which they plan to build a home -in the neiintime rented an apart ment iiisl back of th'-ii- home site, vhi-n- the.', will live until their in, use is completed. Before coming to North Caro lina they subscribed to an Ashe ville paper and The Mountaineer and studied this section ... as .Mrs. Grant said, "you can learn a lot about a community from a newspaper." The Good Neighbor Mr. Josephus Daniels in a repeat editorial in his paper, stated that "the cordial recep tion given President Truman in Mexico last week shows that the Good Neighbor doctrine enunciated by President Franklin Roosevelt in his inauguration has flowered into an un derstanding and brotherhood between the peoples of these two neighbor republics." Mr. Daniels further pointed out that the Good Neighbor doctrine is embedded in the Atlantic Charier and it applies as President Roosevelt said, 'all over the world.' Mr. Roosevelt's enunciation of- it in his inaugural was hailed as a harbinger of better relations but they did not flower until ma rines were withdrawn from Carribean coun tries, the lies broken that held Cuba in a degree condage to the United States, and the United States repudiated its practice of Dollar Diplomacy and the Big Stick, according to Mr. Daniels. Now we would not for any reason attempt to rob Mr. Roosevelt of any glory which he j tleserves in the realization of the Good Neigh-1 bor doctrine put into practice with our neigh bors on the border, but we think Mr- Daniels . has not told all the story. He has left out 1 features of the recent story of Mexico, in which North Carolinians have great pride that is the part that Ambassador and Mrs. Daniels, had in spreading the doctrine of Good Neighbors during the years they spent as representatives of the United States in Mexico. They found all the things they were looking; for and from the Mrs. Grant has some roots in the state, for her father Francis Mur ray graduated from the University of North Carolina, and her grand- Th Capitol , WNC Progress We commend Congressman Monroe Red den again for his action in starting plans to speed up developments of Western North Carolina. The manner in which Mr. Redden has taken on his job in Washington to carry forward the progress of the district he rep resents has given the citizens of the area con fidence that he will get things done. During the campaign he made an effort to find out what the people wanted and since he assumed his duties he has bent every effort to organfze his plans toward getting aid from i the Federal government in completing the development of the, park and Western North Carolina projects. We all know it takes this kind of determi nation and interest to get recognition of local affairs through the federal agencies and from the start that Mr. Redden has made we feel confident that ia time ha will be able to see the developments realized. j? WASHINGTON Congress Really Streamlined? I Numerous Committee Meetings Harried Newsmen Have Doubt Keep Reporters on the Double 'Special to Central Press WASHINGTON After six weeks of the streamlined Congress. Capitol Hill observers are debating how much is really streamlined. On the critical side, harried newsmen are finding that they have more committee hearings to cover than ever. They are wondering if the new high-powered committee staffs are not the reason showing more speed than usual in arranging committee hearings. Thus, some say, committee work is not reduced it is only redis tributed. On the other side of the ledger, there seems to be a saving of legislative manpower fewer lawmakers conduct subcommittee hearings. Some complain that the effort to provide better talent in offices and committees to ease the legis lators' task is not paying off. "Professional" committee aides, especially, are asserting that patronage is dictating many appointments. The truth would be hard to find. Ii is true that many "politicians" are getting those jobs; but it is also true that when a "politician" han dles a legislator's "political" problems, he can devote his attention to what is supposed to be his major Job framing the nation's laws. Many legislators really are picking able re search men to help them and in general, the high powering of staffs is noticeable. , - THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT'S decision to support the prices of turkeys is expected to cost the government approximately 28 million dollars before the program expires next June 30. Officials admit that the government may have to buy ten million pounds of turkeys at 27.9 cents a pound to bring the national price to levels reflecting 90 per cent of parity. The government also will pay out some 80 million dollars this year to support potato prices. All told, the various support-price programs are expected to cost around 330 million dollars. The major fight has been on the decision to support egg prices. Some larger producers bitterly oppose the government s program but it is favored by small producers. , . " "' WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATOR ROBERT M, LTTTLEJOHN. who sold the Big and Little Inch pipelines for only $2,500,000 less than they cost the government, took a chance that paid off. He rejected the original 19 bids as too tow; called for new ones. He now confesses that if the second batch had been less favorable than those rejected "I fully expected the president to fire me." Uttlejohn. a former major genera, says his decision to turn down the first bids in the hope of doing better was similar to a decision he had to make during the "Battle of the Bulge" "it you're wrong, you're out." A hitch still may develop. The Justice department could quash the sale to the Texas Eastern Transmission corporation or the Federal Power commission could refuse to grant it a certificate of necessity and convenience. SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY R of Wisconsin, winner In the GOP primary over former Senator Robert M. LaFollette Jr was a Marine tail-gunner in the war but he claims he was not much of a marksman. McCarthy recalls that at one time tn men tn his company awarded him" a "plaque" for destroy- u sTuthmpMifiCc-nUt tr"" thn nyon to ln th Coconuts The senator says that when he was called to receive the "plaque " he was served with a formal "summons and complaint" by V Mr soap manufacturing concern which owned many of the coco palms in those parts. However. McCarthy commanding officer. Maj. Gen. H. R. Har mon, has this to say of him: "His Initiative and good Judgment determination and diligence have mad htm an unusually useful member of the section in which he served and his unfailing good nature and ready wit made Mm well-liked and tweeted by his associates. Senator ASSEMBLY NOTES Gordon Gray of Forsyth became the fath er of a big boy last week Gov. R. ' Gregg Cherry led the flight for that i 30 per cent raise for teachers, jmany of whom have been cursing i him for not doing it just when !thev wanted it done Things just I don't work that way in the Legis- lature A drive is on now to pre vent your paying aiaie nit-uino taxes on Federal income taxes. As il is now, you pay your State taxes on money you never see: that por tion withheld . . . A bill has been introduced to require certain safety precau tions against fires in hotels . . . The important work of the Legis lature 'appropriations, health, and teachers' salaries should be com pleted by the latter part of next week . . But don t looK tor man home for keeps until after April 1. . . JUST N coming nion IT i t'own-i or more f h : 1 dish. ioor ai n up (I the beer p;,, ,. inacnine in uhich ""tlJ to play fail . n One Mrs. Herbert Gibson: I think I .vould. It would moan an end to he party line which would be some advantage. ehonKp v,i ' K ' Uao in I ture. eyntfin,,. didn't dron ,,, .i.'N coin I. omiu piui .oainiso ...... c voice came back J ...e nave ui;, nickel kj will." Only th,-rl dld VJ tative real,,,, l)Kl, aljI 40 1,l,v' real J . . . o-unif doings! f.Yh -Althrt our.oia, josephus ru,j. 1 . nil wunoui glasses, anrti,. 'Continued paj( j 4$ I MONROE'S CREDIT It. L. Coin, Sr.: Definitely. The STUX ,s GOOD lial is a far better service, more j T THE LATJNDRY nodern. less conlusing, and a lime at her Col. Wewall Lawrence Fre iiont. who once lived on a rice il.-iiitation near Wilmington built irt Fisher during the War Be ween the States. Col. Fremont iraduated from West Point in the lass with General Sherman, but like General Lee when the test ame he sided with the South and while he held the rank of Capt. in ihe L'. S Army, he became a colo nel in the Confederate Army. Naturally his old classmate Sher man called him a traitor, but long after at a reunion at West Point, ihey drank a toast to a United country. Madison is repultd to hatf ed the steed and chargtJ back door to make histJ l lie Daughters of the By JANE EADS Revolution put a plaque, WASHINGTON The laundry side f lh(' l)uild"ig that comes each week to 2017 I. St. j at Monro,- ,.,, N W., now occupied by the Capi-1 ,ne nous "' Marti tal's ultra-exclusive Arts-Club, is ! bepl m' still marked for James Monroe. ' After his election ass Monroe lived there while he was dent of the United Stan Secretary of State under James forced to remain there i Madison" Madison used to hold his , ages to the White Him cahinet meetings here. The legend bV the fire set by the Br goes that during one of these ses- repaired, sions- in 1812 a sentry bolted Later the nous was oe into the room and exclaimed "The i Sen. Charles Francis British are upon us." lister to Great Britain fw Forthwith, Madison's horse was 1863, and by Dr .Clunk brought right into the hallway and , (Continued on Paji' When asked about when she started writing, Mrs. Grarit said, "Well my mother likes to tell the story about the time when I was eight years old that I pushed my doll in her carriage on the railroad track for the train to take care of, and announced that I was through with playthings and that I intended to write." She served as a yeowoman in the Navy during World War I and was one of the editors of the Uni ted States Naval Medical Bul letin. She was editor and publish er of "The Patter", a bi-weekly at Manliasset, Long Island, a com munity of around 1.2.000. She is author of "What Other Answer", "Margaret Brent, Adventurer", "War Is My Parish", "Night of Decision" and her 1947 contri bution is "So, You Want to Get (Continued on Page Three) COWARD ON THE TELEPHONE ISN'T TIMID ABOUT THE BILL writing case: " Phis one just arrival l prologue which ends witkl I butting his head i explained the baton H NEW YORK Noel Coward in i sometime Broadway prodv Hollywood had Clifton Webb and 'rest of the play lakes pb Leonora Corbett. in New York, his brain." Meyer is m read their lines for a radio version sidering liii nm a lullt of Noel's "Blithe Spirit' over the reader for such him telephone. He then gave bis orders ' stances, lor cuts and direction in a lengthy transcontinental conversation which kept the phone circuit open two and a half hours. Meyer Davis, wlm has the tern- erity to ask for scripts from play wrights, amateur or professional, called to report this strange play- John Murray Andersml duces Broadway shorn a the cellar antics ol Bill Diamond Horseshoe and I nesscs of Nicky Blair s where Olscn and Johnsxl (Continued on Pagtl GUo&Uhg a BaitA is as personal as choosinj. kuffci or a physician. Dependability, integrity, promptness arc efficiency all enter into the choice. But some thing more is involved; the sincerity of pose, the personal interest. That's why we're always plonsod whf one of our customers savs: "I chosu the National because it's so friendly." THE First National Ban ORGANIZED 1002 Member Federal Deposit Insitrnnrr Corporation Member rYnVrnl P
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