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;, FAGE XWC TIIE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER THE MOUNTAINEER More Drunken Drivers Published ftv THE WAYNESVILLE' PRINTING CO. Main Street PhoBe 7H Waynesvllle, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS EUSS, -Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY dne Year. Six Months . One Year Six Months... HAYWOOD COUNTY $3.00 1.75 NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year . Six Months $4 or. $2.?5 $4.51) 2.50 hMerert at the post offke ul WjyretJville. N r . l dim. i)r..fii)-.l mltr tlx A ol lll'.t. b ' as Second CUb I s7, November uj,itn.,n in.tiie-,. les.tliitiui.s of respect, i niuk i.f entertjiiinieMt f..r prol;(. Mill b r "tt ir1 j, tj.ilf cents er word. r.l ot thjnki, and l; lurged fur dt h dU MKMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1'. A- i-ll -re. f ..'I H.e is e'ltit ed ri'-lusitrly to the im for r- I'M.tl tlPttlj LrillteJ 111 Ihi nawan.. NAPPNAUDITORIAL- TUESDAY. FEBRUARY I". 1948 The Facts An Encouraging Development Demand of motion picture exhibitors at their Charlotte convention this week for cleaner movies, including elimination of sex suggestions, is an encouraging development. There is abundant room for improvement, and crying need for it. Next to the public itself, the exhibitors can have about as much influence as anyone in effecting this reform. American morals are on low enough plane as it is. and movies which parade suggestive themes and scenes are not helping matters at all. Nor is the habit of portraying drinking parties, and there are few pictures that do not somewhere in the fihn emphasize high balls and occasionally even brawls. There are many who think that low grade movies are as degrading an element in lowering the morals of citizens as any influence that is exerted in that direction. Exhibitors may have been hearing front their patrons on this subject, and public re sentment of trends and demands for a clean up may be reflected in the stand taken by the Charlotte convention. Whatever the source the desire for better and cleaner enter tainment is wholesome, and Hollywood may ignore the demand, if it does do so, to its own peril in box office receipts. Why producers prefer degrading types of pictures is a mys tery. The American public will patronize de cent films justas generously as it will those that are in some respects disgraceful. It has demonstrated that more than once. It would seem that people who are in position to exert powerful and wholesome influence upon the youth of the nation would delight in doing so, instead of pulling it down to the gutter. The Henderson Dispatch. ' When baby Is asleep it is time to get up. Trotty Veck Messenger. The State Highway Department has an nounced that 934 persons lost their driving licenses in January for driving drunk. This figure is aoout 350 more than last January, which makes the news angle interesting. The first question to com" to one's mind-j on such a report, is why? There are two logical answers. Either there are more neonle drivine whil drnnlr or either the increased Highway patrol is catching more of them. We are inclined to think the latter is the cause. It is only reasonable to think that several' hundred more patrolmen are going to cover more territory and patrol more highway miles. The report from Raleigh did not sav, but we trust that each person convicted of driv ing while drunk did or will receive the maximum penalty of the law. There is no ex cuse for a person driving while drunk, and we feel that a judge should at all times give the maximum as provided by law. and forget aiiv other sentence. Jack Messer. and George Brown, used plain language in an interview to this newspaper last week regarding improving the school plants of the county. Mr. Messer. as county superintendent, pointed nut that blue prints and plans were leadv tor execution as soon as the monev is available. He pointed out needed improve ments that the average citizen, and even school patrons, would no doubt overlook. All this showed that the school officials know the tacts, and have gone as far as thev can until money is provided. On the other hand, George Iirown. county manager, cited the state laws, and showed that no building can be started until the monev is on hand. Further explaining the law. no county can borrow more than fiti per cent of the total amount of bonds retired dur ing the previous year. Since Haywood is so near out of debt, the retirement of bonds is at a low ebb, which means that borrowing part under the law is almost entirely out. The county can borrow only about $40,000 a vcar. under the present law. The two officials cited the facts, and as we said, in plain language. If the people of Hay wood want schools, and better schools, and present schools improved, there is only one way to get them, and that js by a bond issue voted by the people. Until that is done, the county officials are helpless to make more than routine improvements. The state nor federal government won't help, so it is up to the people. How To Check Inflation t B Havmitnd Moley) An experienced trader in commodities, who hesitates to speak in his own name publicly, points out that it lies entirely within the power of the administration not only to squeeze and reduce speculation, but to attack inflation on a wide and vital front. He says that if government grain buying could be as secretly managed as the stabilization fund in the Treasury, there would have been no such rise in commodities as has beei seen since September, and that in the next 3 or 4 months prices could be materially reduced. No congressional action at all would be needed lor such managed .buying. Just skill and secrecy m planning are necessary. The commodities trader pointed out that the government already owns 400,000,000 of the n()0. 000.000 bushels of wheat needed up to May or June. Why not halt buying for a while and enter the market only intermittent ly for the next few months? Over the period between now and June, only 20,000,000 bush els a month are needed. This amount could be secured without question and at great sav- 1 "CAY CABALLERO 1 liVflTl V r m m m mil m I & IX. l TUESDAY, FEBRu.'i dtYl; MIRROR OF YOUR NUNC y LawrENcp UllJf -utTered j,. that l..L; . planatjuu" and fuilu,,. your m-vo: deal." M, , an "inju.-ii, victims of sot-ia 1, whi1 only conn ; 1 s)cy v... -?n, i -w J -in Hi Is it clumsy people who have the most accidents' J. A. ill 1 Answer: No, says Dr. Flanders Dunbar in "Mind and Body." There are people who "tumble down stairs, fall off docks, bump into stone walls, slip on the ice, and scrape the fenders of their cars without damage to them selves or anyone else, although their friends sometimes wonder how they remain in one piece," while "deft, seemingly well-balanced men and women turn up repeatedly in the r.ccident wards." Anybody who is always getting hurt is probably a victim, not of clumsiness or bad luck, but of unconscious emotional conflicts. V, re young ref Rambling 'Round Bits Of Human Interest News Picked Up By Members Of The .Mountaineer Staff Can feeling unfairly treated grow to be a "complex"? Answer: Yes, writes fr'ranziska Baumgarten in the Swiss masu zine, Health and Welfare. If you blame yourself for your short comings you are likely to have an "inferiority complex." lint, par ticularly if you have at some time Crnvri.'ht U" K lnt F:it :i rp S vn 'Mr:, I e Inc. '.!!.!.. I'( J ji fiikatur many ul tr Uu .ty l , tiitm U-:.. trade or p huii.aniy the fau.t , they t because U touch with partly b, , , ural wi i, months ! .: have .. i, f'liurat tials. 4 ''.It! Ti.:sis . i.i 'up in liWO nl Wasn't il the taainii-. Hard Avon who --aid h.it s in a name. . ruse, en Well. au way il (! Mini as ihouyh the I'residcnt nl the 1 1 1 1 1 1 r I li'inoci als chose a nana that imi:!i! cause a slight uplil'tinK nl 1 1 1 - ( ,bios in political cinlc-. Ili name is Hoover 'I'atl. il dii please And what more Hepiiblie.in ( can ou li iid in sin naiiH fact ri'iuaiiis llial IIihuit Tall is a Democrat . . . ami a most Imal one. holt on her dour. Then came the hour of disillusionment. She was shown where the chain had been put on in reverse and even the slenderest lead pencil could have slipped (lie chain out of the slot. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE What part ol the world do you ; consider the most critical in re spect to chances of another war breaking out? Capital Letted By THOMPSON GRFHNWOO.O A .sudden stoppage of government buying, even though it is temporary, has a powerful effect on speculators. This was shown in late November, when a sudden rumor ran through the exchanges that the government would slop buying for the rest of the year. Prices dropped suddenly. The government's actions over past months have created exactly what the President de plored in his statement on the Republican anti-inl'kilion bill, namely, "speculation, slogan can (.i:t K li.,,, ,1., .,,! ...1, (;,"!nillt, A I I KM 14 IN I P 1 1 1 I I 1 I I I , U I I I I I I I M , 4.1 1 I V 1 V ' t lit 1 Throughout 1947 the administration lost lit- l 'AM i:.lS tie opportunity shortages and And lu re ie to acain on quot ations: "Where ignorance is bliss . . . " what a sliHine il is to lind out things. -A lovely l;ulv ol" our acquaintance has fjone to sleep every nielli for eighteen years secure in the belief that she was most closely guarded by a chain Like so many others, wo have: spent a lot of time searching the! intimation i sky for glimpses of blue that would I l!ul the J assure us of the sun's return to' duty. And so often we have found! that by looking up. wo see the' bright promise of clearing weather while on the summits of the inoun-' tains, heavy clouds bang low and 1 threatening. Perhaps that would; bo the wise thing to do . . . always look up when in search ol inspira tion. Kven though the clouds are I present, wo won't see thorn until- they make their presence felt. And (Continued on Pago Three) M. I he try . II. l-'el'K iisiiii: "Pale irea surrounding It line and at (iiun- NO'I'KS Throughi tin . North Carolinian governed by attorney s . are they won't be in lour years , Kaleij.'.! ers arc professedly sea Scott, recalling how li the inustv old Slate 111 I his ( ( ! - have been hill chances : 1 he colli i II 'I i I I o'j'ii elioid- ! red of Kerr ' ; m opl oil! i A'.'i i li It in ( I , do Co, S. I'. Connatser: pears to he as hot right now." "( tei iiiany a spol as ap- anv (low .nil area.'' Choate: "I'll,' I'alesti James IV. Iteed: ''Palestine. There is so 'uch going an there that anyone who wauls war will find it easy to stir up." Mrs. Louise Caldwell: "II an other war biM'ins. Kussia will be mixed in- it although J don't think it Will sl-nl re.'- I Paul I l anean ' k( y look area.'" Davis: "The east Mediter V reecf, Palestine, and Tur- liko tlu most critical IRRELEVANT CAMPAIGN" WIDE l! WASHING out that the supplv mosl actions.' administration lost lit- to proclaim the danger 4f i point victorious for presi- TON Semclinies the popular --Icl'.ii in a political I,-.. ,,0.,M. I 1 t .1.. I, it I, would fall short of the need. The Department j t)l(, ,.t.,.l(,' of Agriculture said that we could safely spare l-'or example, the .aaip;iign of 570.000.000 bushels. Government propaganda 1 1912 is lu's m""!i:,;i n (l 11,1 ,lu' ... , . i i j. x i widely - popularized ri mark ot did much tn draw speculators into the long ;Tnomas :,,- ,,,. i,,,,,,,,-,,,,,, Side of the market. jvii-e presidepn;:! c-iiHhihde. who The Department of Agriculture will deny Vu " ''" "'' (isjs that' its buying policies could have been al tered in tho past lew months to prevent the rise. It savs it had t4 buv and that the mag nitude of its buying was so inevitably had to rise. The Department will, however, lind il hard . to deny that the farm bloc would have en tered vchmcnt protests against real stabiliza- intersection lion. It would also find it hard t4) deny that -Main street, a valiant effort now to hammer the price of Medfoid I an wheat down would be politically injurious to pletoly dosiroyid : tin V Bradiex and I. a good five-cent cigar." Woodrow VV i I s o n Democrat ic candidate dent, won on the slogan "The Government has boon used too loiiJ for private and selfish purposes." Ho defeated Theodore Roosevelt, with "My Hat's in the Ring" as his slogan on the Progressive tick et. William Mow aid Talt. Hepuh lican, and Kugeiie V. Delis. Social Democrat . lloosevell campaigned on "Tho Now Nationalism" and coined the phrase "The Square Deal." War has j.;i en re i- lo many po lilical slogans. "He Kept L's Out ' ol War" In Ipi d w in Ihe ltlHi elec tion for Wilson. Warren G. Harding's "Hack to Normalcy ' helped put 1 he Repub licans in power in l!i2li. when he deleated Democrat .h.no-s .; (,; and the Social Di inijci at -'u", ih- V. Debs. "Keep Cool wit h ( 'oolidee ui-o-Cont nuiecl on Pa.-'e Thi ee Department wboll he beciinn missioner . To this Seol last week: "1 wouldn't kick on! Hathaway ("loss, Edwin Gili, Uruc" Kthoridgo or iiiiv olhci-s of Ihe ! Johnson crowd bee, in t I lay work ed for Johnson. However, il I be come Governor and learn lli.d em ployees whel her they weie for na or somebody else wi-eu'l .illend in lo their duties properly. 1 would Id Iheiii go." . . . J. A I. Hi oughlon rcmailied recently thai Kerr S nil's mi- iiouik -eiut nl for Go c i i a M-I e to le ( i lb( itacl e-t v. Inch has been ho : I S Senatorial li hi Ihe nun e re- miia! ion ai-oiuiil C;iili i Sipian i aiipoiiitiii.-Ht ( o- I i ' iy will havi at his n,.p Choi ty jy cray al , ol W I! I'uislead. p,, , M -dor ... It i-,'.' o publ. died i ;'ol h in. on ' I J lull II Ol,,;.. pi pair.ii .'ilea . Miami . pi 01 in n I i ' hoiild lllh-l -ll liic Cb. Would III i 'Aiirioii-'-; or Ml, ! P. i lo Ml. I a ill i 1 1 John U i l'l .1. I I AND "i I. ' Co I 1 1 nil-Ill '-. V IT: Looking Back Over The Years .(real that prices Plans Park la vr.Aits (.tl all bem.i -aado tained f i tends a number ol .it a birthday t o 1 1 ance M'.o: ot Dcpol lieu I TC 1 uross the Meet and her young party frocks are a bit li W open leal firm S97fi.Ii:-; of land in tin Pa from The Haven pany .Miss Coiiine si ; P- N Diivis insurance d lor :12.521 aires i k. Purchase made told Lumber com- Wawnlold enter- Mr. Truman's chances of winning more sup port in farming states. It must be admitted by Republicans, also, that they have shown no zest to hit the C4ist of living in the vulner able spot, which is the price of wheat. Meanwhile, the tom-toms arc sounded about speculation. And the Republican Con gress gave the administration its desired pow- i -pi ni t t in er to hit the distillers again. That curb, which j 1 hey 11 DO It JbVCry lime extends to .Tnnuarv 31. will no doubt be nn ... . . I . 7 . " . ,. ------ -r- i iH3ijMjj. yyu HAVfc oUCH V S43METhllKki 1 , , 'ill r V t s o OT ro-l- I ,T 4l-tc ciwcmn nf Crm- A iJAPiifrl sill-- f ri rAriml m -" .mii s--"sii,u.j.i sui i iii oho jsooivii ji v-voi- j (t'vcluvjo y.uLucy- i nr-i SOFT AND grcss. It saves little grain and is of doubtful constitutionality. But it is a safe way to di vert attention for a genuine attack on infla tionary grain prices. 10 YEARS AGO Side Camp of 50 men occupy Sunburst Camp. Trustees of Duke Summer School bold annual meeting. Miss Fi 'ench Morrow and Miss Hcrnice Harroll entertain with party at the home of Miss Harroll Girl Scouts give party to I)oy Scouts. Troop 2. f ashion note: Day skirts are still extremely short but afternoon a YEARS AGO Aircraft warning instructional meet is held al Court House. Miss Anna Medfoid. senior at Woman's College, accepts a posi tion with Glenn I. Martin Com pany. Maltimore I.I. Mary Francis and two nephews.. Sgt . Carl Francis and Sgt. Glenn Francis are serving somewhere in North Africa. Red Cross is asking Haywood for S4.000 in annual drive. 9f men arc for March. ' '. jami.u)iiuiiuy Ceo. V. Allen h-d in draft (junta llill l MM amm By Jimmy Hatlo Deserved Sentences, Down in Atlanta, a judge has sentenced lour teen-age boys for damaging more than 20 automobiles. The brakes on the ears were released and the boys watched them roll down hill to partial destruction. The sentence terms included: full payment of damages to the cars; must attend Sunday school and church every Sunday; must not leave Georgia or ride in a car except to go to church; must be at home by 9:30 every night. The boys are under two years probation and ; face three months in a county work camp if j any of the above vterms are violated. We have a feeling that before the two! years are up, that each of the boys will regret i many, many times that he ever had a notion of destroying property. SIG - GIVE EM A REAL yWcE me J - TREAT AND PUT tOM v-'W .cmp q, LSS' EL"-:AVX4.sf IIAy? )9 Vwar latest album REcoRosiM PlCklKkS OUT AHCE STACk; $ VLV 1,,7 TSSSov AND .YOU GUESSED IT' V?. LZT jUWASHINGTd Stole Deportment Workers j ATC-NATS MergorN Ponder Allen Appointment Alarms Novy.,AiilC Special to Central Press TTTASHV.VGTON The appointment of Ceorfo V Allen, Hij career diplomat who has worked next door to the J Union in the Middle East, to handle the "Voic of AmerK grain has many State department employes worried. Thev have been running the "Voice" their ow n way and. M in? to some reports, very satisfactorily However, they ff Allen may lop many of them off the payroll to make way fori who have worked in the area nrour,i w (Curtain and . been subjected tn . Russian propaganda. Actually. Allen was put on the jobprinWj the chance he would put up a b"tter arpaid more funds for the "Voice'- with wngre his predecessor. William Benton. However. Marshall wanted him also beaj felt that a diplomat with a pood hackd could do a more effective job in mertinf, has been described ast Ruvsian "lying", American motives in the Marshall Plan M foreign policy generally.; 9 NAVY DISAPPROVES The Navy'M up about the presidential air policy commj recommendation that its transwrt serfl merged with the Air Force's Air Transport Command One high naval aviator said. "It would be all right If tty1 let us have an equal say about management But they wont cause the Air Force is bigger and has a better 'in' at certa!r we'll be sunk without a trace " He cited the commission's own report In defense of NATS. cinrumiit reveals that the Naval Air Transport S.n-iot. " fourth of the airplanes and one-fourth of the personnel of ATC luur-nuns tne ton mdes covered by ATC. m WOODMNO MAY GET JOB The recent departure of 3 Secretary of War Har Wni.irin on ovtinil(-,l tout H has broueht rumor that mn, t.i or, o-nu nrt in the 4 lstration of the Marshall Plan The former Kansas governor said he was making the jourfl a "private citizen" just to "have a look around " However. ceded that he would weigh conditions as he found tlitin ag1 posals for aiii nn i.nviaifm&ii i t, ,.u,.n ninn "ivii,u All UI7 JUdlSitUII i 111- jj AddiUonally. Woodring said he would attempt to visit aHJ pean countries from Ttoiw tr. ii,,i mr-mru K 1 and Vienna, but would make'no attempt to penetrate tht tain" or enter Russian satellite countries Washington recalled that it was Woodring who appoint George C Marshall as Armv v,i,ff..trr r th iiiulest late President Roosevelt. In fact. Woodring was .rrtilH had the right man for tli HcrT ik fv,n . nno nzini he tlu1 to resign his cabinet nrwt im) rnR nr-,u,,l Mnrshill'l motion. TO GLAMORIZE DISIIWASHINO The Agriculture def-' hstl tackled perhaps its most difficult task. It hopes o convince the daughter of the American house- 0 -v. ., oisnwasmng la a privUege. not a Uiesoiae (jd It has thrown its vast reources at the problem the result of a 4-H club poll which revealed that , i rrls out of 12 consider Bcrubbing the family chin tl distasteful lob B . Agriculture is promoting uch in -hend at the W mead of the back" and "ue a tray to gave kitchen tfj' roraie a report ty trprtng OB it, glamorizaUon perfeffl0 It I
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