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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER . f UO!J33S THE MOUNTAINEER Published Bv THE WAYNES VILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone 7 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W. Curtis Rus8 and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3.00 Six Months .. 1.75 NORTH CAROLINA One Year . $4.00 Six Months ' $2.56 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year $-1.30 Six Months . 2.90 Fiitcul at (he post office at Wiivnesvillt. N. C. 18 Sei-ond CUm Uf.ii H.ittrr, as I'tovi.lpii un.ler the A of Mjrch :!, 171, Nomnbcr i, lll. Obituary ii.itii es, resolutions nf respert. card thanlu, and nil ns'li.j of entrtiiinnipMt for pmfit, will tt charged lr ut th rt vi or aljil half .'ejjts per word. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The A9oi lateif press is entitle.! exclusively to the tine lor rt V'Jbi: alien (Jf all the l.wil news printed in this riewslNU)r. aj all At' news tlispatcfiea. sell NATIONAL t-DITOfUAL-. ASSOCIATION TUESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1947 Grandmother's Day The New Food Program A group of government offcials, ld by President Truman, have put before the Amer ican public the seriousness of the food situa tion in Europe this coming winter. They have appealed to Americans to save food, wasteless jaridqd jtbje difference to Europe, in an effo'rVto'rWlr bring about a permanent peace. ft is unquestionably true that America is the most wasteful nation on earth. Since we live in a land of plenty, we handle food care lessly, and often without thought that mil lions arc starving on the other side of the world. General opinions are that food will not be rationed again if America uses common sense in putting on successfully a food conservation program. President Truman and those map ping the program have called for meatless Tuesdays; and no poultry or eggs on Thurs day; save a slice of bread a day, and no bread served in public places unless requested by the customer. Thkrse are simple requests and certainly ones that we American can easily follow without any hardship. We Are Proud Of Them Last Friday night music lovers saw and heard two fine bands at the football game, when our own band and the Elizabethton, Tenn., bands played during the half. Again this Friday night, the Waynesville band will share honors with the splendid Canton band at a game in our neighboring town. The more we see of the high school bands, the prouder we are of all of them. Without the bands to pep up the fans as well as the competing teams we believe that football games would tend to take on the ap pearance of drabness and not the grand spec tacle of the fall that the large and well trained school bands make it. Governor Cherry has made grandmother official. He Has snatched a day Sunday. Oc tober 12 from a very crowded calendar to make it her very own. We are proud to see this recognition given one who has deserved it lor a long while. But the conung ot tnis day deserves a word ot caution. Don't be in too big a hurry to send grand ma a pair of easy slippers or a frilly white lace cap as a gift for the occasion. She is a whole lot younger than you think and doesn't spend all her time chaufTeuring the old rock ing chair. A bite of candy perhaps or maybe a set-up at the beauty parlor would be highly accept able, we think. Above all. don't think that her entire en joyment of life consists in sitting with grand children while their parents are cavorting about after their own pleasures. She loves her grandchildren it is true, but there is a surfeit of this kind of enjoyment even for a grandparent. Too. if her bent is along this line, every body knows that grandmother can more than earn her keep as a baby sitter outside of her own home. On this Grandmother's day let's see that she not only gets the tender affection which the governor has bespoken for her but let's also treat her humanely. She would like that Shelbv Dailv Star. A Newspaper Serves This is National Newspaper week, and following i custom of many years, newspap ers take the ne time in the year to give their readers a close-up of their business, an obli gation of the press. We .are printing today an editorial written by Robert U. Browsn, edi tor of Editor and Publisher, a trade journal. The title of his editorial is "Dedicated to Freedom." Not so long ago, in terms of history, a hom icidal maniac gifted with silvertongued ora tory drove his bloodthirsty hordes across Europe and succeeded in plunging the world into history's most devastating war. Indivkl ual liberties, freedom of all kinds vanished wherever his foot trod. The world will wonder, how could things happen in a modern civilization? The answer is simple. It happened be cause this man understood -one thing; con trol the press and communications facili ties and you can control thought: that ac complished, all democratic processes can be eliminated at will. There were some great newspapers in Ger many while Hitler was running an under ground movement, meeting in beer halls, de veloping his strong-arm methods. Hitler talked a good name; he promised much for the future; he persuaded some of those news papers to support him. Their editors agreed that his program was good for Germany, that a few liberties and freedoms would have to be sacrificed for the good of the country. When Hitler rode into power with the help of an uninformed electorate and an unsus pecting government there were still powerful j newspapers who could have exposed him and j his gang of cutthroats. But it was too late. Those last few who dared to speak out against him were quickly silenced. Their voices were added to the other newspapers and ra dio stations which became, merely the ampli fiers for his "wisdom." The American press will not forget what happened in Europe. Actually it did not need this example to be forewarned. A similar thing almost happened, and could have hap pened in this country if it had not been for the vigilance and fearlessness of some news paper editors. We're speaking of Huey Long, the poten tial dictator. He had Louisiana by the throat and was taking steps to silence opposition from the newspapers by taxing them out of existence when those papers won a costly and lengthy Supreme Court battle. No one knows what might have happened, how far Huey Long might have gone, if those newspapers had not been alert. Individual liberties are a cherished thing here which set this country apart as the mecca for oppressed peoples every where. And yet, these liberties and free doms are taken for granted by the vast majority of the people who are neither in terested nor vocal enough to recognize and fight the threatened encroachments on those rights. The American press is the medium dedi cated to that proposition. National News paper week gives us this opportunity to re dedicate ourselves once again to that pur pose. Freedom of the press is not an intangible prerogative granted to the owner of the print ing press. It is a guarantee to the American people. Freedom of the press belongs to you. It i jnerely exercised in your behalf by the existing publishers. It includes your free dom to read and hear whatever you wish, the same as it is your privilege to buy the liter ature you wish, to agree or disagree to praise or criticise the points of view expressed therein. Our newspaper is acutely aware of its re ponsibility to inform its readers on the im portant news of the day. Because all news items by themselves are not readily under standable or may have wider significance your newspaper also is aware of its responsi bility to analyze and comment on Buch news. Freedom and responsibility go together. Your right and duty to vote is interlocked j with your freedom to'speak. Your right to in- ' dividual happiness depends on your freedom to go anywhere, whenever you please And in j the final analysis, all individual freedoms rest on the first one your right to read and be informed. If your newspaper is restrained in any manner in its function of telling you what is going on, you have begun to lose your indi vidual freedoms. And the rights and privi leges that you enjoy as an American citizen will slowly but surely begin to crumble away. It is because of that your newspaper is a jealous guardian of all freedoms. Perhaps we are sometimes too petty in our editorial comment. Some of our criticisms and warn ings may not be warranted in the long run. But if mistakes are nude, they are honest ones honestly made in the effort to ward off the continuing onslaught against our Ameri can heritage, our precious individual freedom. 'Your Newspaper Serves Freedom By Serving You' Rambling Hound ks Of Human interest News Picked Up By Members -Of The Mmautaimeet Staff Next to Nature in Its natural state, there is nothing more beau tiful than to see it reflected in ail its glory. In the window of a prominent furniture store, a urge dresser mirror brings to the sight seer a panorama that defies de scription. Look for yourself. Some years ago, a freeze oeated Lake Junaluska with taiut ooveriirc f lee, and a few et M 4rawe ver to see the beau ty M. We got more than we Beeted iar naturally the water H flwriMwtfcM and the reflec Joae perfect that it was diffi cult to know where the land and water met Photographs taken that morning could be turned up side down and no difference (Continued on Page Three) VOICE OF THE PEOPLE After two months experience with them, do you consider park ing meters an asset to Waynesville? Capital Lettf Br THOMPSON PARKING METERS Around ; towns in North Carolina luivc Stalled parking meters wiiiiin u past eight months and mure ',. considering it. All cities ,!,, towns throughout North Carol,,, , sad America are burri.-n... i ,, parking problems and insi;,n , .' of meters seems the most .sen,i,;, way out. The trouble is th.r , communities' streets and parkin.; facilities were planned and i out when there were about halt . many automobiles as now. Charlotte is considering di,,, . a tunnel under one of its in;r drags and it has been nr,,,... .., that Raleigh dig under Fayettevtii. street, fixing it so that cars toward the capitol arounrk't, HlHsboro street, New Bern avem,, or Halifax street can go under ( itol Square and park under r . etteville street, garages and sen,, , stations' being provided underground. "in, ( 0 t ""HI Willi f 0 H lie i .H -he " "mint H.Ht. Il'l R. L. Lee: "I think they do pret ty well. The town should have had them a long time ago." MEET SOCIAL SECURITY'S I NEW BOSS By JANE EADS j 'First of Two Articles) WASHINGTON Oscar A. Ew ,ing, new administrator of the Fed eral Security Agency, is more con I cerned with seeking out- the causes of social evils than spending time and money binding the wounds. "If you only relieved a fraction of the suffering in getting at the roots of it, the result would be a great saving, not to mention the pay-off in human happiness," he says. In assuming with "unbounded enthusiasm" his responsibilities as head of the world's largest so cial service program, touching the (Continued on Page Three) W. H. Otto: small town." 'No. not for such a Walter Rathbone: "The parking meters are fine tilings. They're a good way lor the town to raise money for its expenses." ON THE VERGE You mm ,., know it, but virtually ever i,, in the South is on the ve,,,. bankruptcy. Just as snmp , city fathers. Expenses have increased in- mendouslv and revenue is ., standstill. Municipalities l,aw taxed all Quarters nnH hm ... ... where else to look. Meantime Hi, etate s. soiling in a tremendous sut!Buisof ash. The main trouble hew too is that too small a i . iloaof atate-eoUected funds go to the cities from which thev htafcen." All towns are having it tough, believe it or not, and many ot Tiiem are right now searehinp lor means of increasing their in comes. Towns-wanting to install meters ufil be interested in a new ne hat is Just out. Instead of hawing ne meter per car, this new gadget looks .after two cars one tparWng tt 4nont of it and one be kd. in other words, there are two meters -en each post. City officials who are interested in hJs -cost -saving system should Bti40uch with the N. C. League of Municipalities in Raleigh. In- stsaiatinn costs are smaller, and iBBtotommco, etc., is much less of On Ml'l" nrtI,j.l r" -ujei -'"Hi l-l.wr.,-. J (lltfl,,, ,i lul ui Of Relil x-Elation '' ( l,;,'lHe Fair '''"niianJ flean anj 'i:i:.vr (,LNs ''"" Hun, AslK '' ""''I'' h on i, ""' '' "ie grej l" ',( ll' ami polit A l!-'lnt!li adn, llls ""ut' is a b K'-Miulds clu, Hit place. , I'"-'. ;nil all ega b; k--l.ii,mfi m K' ,ll("ii' 'not tl l In Mde Lool IIUYAL BATTl -Pi'mliiiK S150,( ailvei Using flrra J Carolina on a utl turn, tuu agenciel "f Atlanta, whicl 1" ears and km nil as from Sui Cilletl of Chariot out to see who gel and the year foil! u innim; nut 'the made October IS I earn mi this busil per ear. THAT MAN VOGLER Since James B. Vogler of Charlotte, is oneof the few candidates who have .formally filed for an office come primary, time next spring, perhaps you would like to know something of this -fellow who aspires to suc ceed Charles Johnson as State MIRRORS HAKTFORD ClJ liesiilcnts here hi lliint; to keep the! their fruit trees. ImiI a lot of nurrJ trees The birds I bv t heir own imaf in, ii of the sun thai .Mined them I Howell Crawford: "I don't think so. Their disadvantages outweigh their advantages." Lee Davis: "I think the parking meters are an asset, more in the summer than at other times of the year. When the town traffic is so congested in summer, they pro vide parking space better than the old method. Financially, they are a Hood tiling lor Waynesville. Looking Back Over The Years FIVE YEARS AGO Seventy-five men will be called from this area under the Selective System for October. Miss Jennie Greer, who gradu ated from Brevard College in Sep tember, is now employed at Day ton Rubber Company where she is doing secretarial work in the of fice. Materials have arrived for mak ing "surgical dressings, according to Mrs. Ben Colkitt, chairman of the committee- from the Haywood Chapter of the Red Cross. Mrs. M. G. Hammett was honored at the regular quarterly social meeting of the Adult Union of the First Baptist Church. The occa sion marked Mrs. HammeU's birth day anniversary. I FIFTEEN YEARS AGO An agreement was reached last Jweek between officials and bond holders of the Suncrest Lumber ; company and officials of the North Workmen were completing a con- Carolina State Park Commission crete-silo on the Dellwood farm of J whereby a price of $600,000 will be Burgin Brothers, this week, as the i paid for 33 00 acres of land be- 9rMMm Ixport Trad Drying Up State Dspartmsnt Warns Europt't Reachint I v ' . I,, TEN YEARS AGO first step of a modern dairy Charles E. Ray, Jr., was recent ly named a director of the North Carolina Merchants Association. Mr. and Mrs. George Bischoff have returned from a fortnight s visit to Philadelphia. This afternoon the Girl Scout committee of the Woman's Club will entertain with a silver tea as a benefit for the Waynesville troop of the Girl Scouts. longing to the lumber company, which will be included in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Our townsman, Felix E. Alley, at torney, has been designated by the State Democratic Executive Com mittee to speak for Roosevelt-and the Democratic state ticket in 23 counties of the state. B. F. Hill, of Clyde, was held up and robbed Saturday afternoon near Hendersonville, of $43 and a watch. Thcyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo JiiV is IT? sew-(puff-puff) X ZrJriJr ) VOCTORI. WAS (PUFF) I THE DENTIST 'rL STALLED M A BOS-J KO( '''' ' But Get There C ' i"1 i him 11 mi 1 1 "2J I AMD SEE VVHflrTV vtXlU JUST HAVE TO J-S $ HAPPENS- r fftf! lfcrt lovatt i trt rof i'i pi 4 c tra Special to Central Press TV7"A8HINGTON Behind the gloomy statement Tf tnr Of State Robert Ix,vttt concerning Eul Wills wS the hard, realistic fact recognized by m that export trade is rapidly oryii Lovett told newsmen tnai we tlon is due to Lome to a head fM planners had expected However, VK : U Commerce department v jimu. vri -w j. i an niRi h huuai ucmia . r- Shipments overseas during Juljl cent below June and 1 per J war high recorded in May. Behtol that Europe's supply ol a0"1"", and little short of the MarshU Ina-. ...ill hun wj,o "... ..t- ,K, ilcl like to nave m ... u in operation as soon as possirae, mens r- , . vnnirin't be Dut into operation head off the crisis in wt i,mr t TTiTMRH-u rK f'OMlEBCE Is -a . -.. tn diminish the numner iafl:.r hOibad tempers caused by the nation aOolateBd traffic engineers suggested tnroup . .. . , ,.-lrr.l7Pd OUDllt -pwi aiwway ireeways anu . tiWs pOMibis solutions to the traffic janu u tbontMl cUon. of many u . 'Afixaewiieagag mai wose " . lnexpBj UwKperts -went on to pouu oui i..s -g yndironizinr traffic Ughts, one-way streets a r-j buy:houra could do much to Keep ' pllb . conference pledged itself to "mobilize P i oee'ptinff modern traffic solutions. DEMOCKAIIC LEADERS chiefs Hi ... ij,th .niiprcs.sior.al Uisinu j The eampaign between Republ.an csno i -ittcr and the labor-backed " laMad a "teating grouna '" Hartley law. nt uiAlij lAbor went all out to consohJati .t k. Al.t.it unit a s(i-l al.ta ivt" w.rl Xhan ftar the snooting wo torch by more than 17.000 votes. ted j Ta Republicans, naturally. gifu" '.-mti cratic oialms that Pennsylvania's .igni Th(y cj tiolaaabsd a withering pouuea. ,w howsd nubile suDDort for the laii-" .MUtie TOO liU. observers agree, rx-nioci Xunivan flr1 hack with the .eminoe' Republican one. , , . bgckor1 4 -STPAC-Democratlc publicity b" (M ,J fat ure-coiivenUon hurly-burly. ltl off u trvbi to fix the blame. Th keist Bhened to those which Jl In 1 Qli In thp WiStOIU-l Agl sa ".ATTi Jt! ALADOHTER IN MtXJt,0,",",ut A lAclala In vhins'ton report that ' , diH . 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