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THE WAYNESV1LLE MOUNTAINEER
TUESDAY, MARCH ;
THE MOUNTAINEER Tobacco And ERP
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2f, 1914.
iH tl.i.irt it'itii. resolutions 'f renpert. far, I of tlunks, nd all
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TUESDAY. RCH 2. 1948
Tournament Season
The bluest local sports news at the pres
ei.t time comes from the basketball tourna
ments under way. Western North Carolina is
producing a larger crop of tournaments this
car than ever, with those for hiih school
teams naturally attracting: the greatest
ai'.iount of interest.
In the V. X. C. Cold Medal Basketball
louiiiament at Canton hiyh school. Haywood
county boasts the oldest consecutively playel
event ot tins section. Thirty-three teams.
bo s and un ls. from an area covering Hen
flerson to Graham counties competed for the
championship medals. Last week was the
l.'ith straight year the tournament was held.
A new Haywood county tournament, for 4-H
Club boys and skirls, will be played soon, and
there are a number of others outside the
county that will be entered by our hi t;h school
teams.
Naturally, it is the hope ot all the players
and coaches that they will become the touniit
ment champions proving to one and all that
they play good basketball at the school they
represent. This is a sport that practically all
hi;;h schools can sponsor, and is the only var
fitv sport at the majority of smaller schools,
thus making more intense their desire to win.
A tournament championship trophy is just
cause for a feeling of pride by all who are
associated with the winning school. It is an
honor that those who win it remember lor
many years.
In addition to the best scoring teams, there
is a big emphasis placed on sportsmanship at
Hie tournaments, and the teams that play by
the rules without complaint when officials
call decisions against them and show the
most consideration for others, also get spe
cial recognition. This helps teach a lesson
that applies in all fields of life. A tournament
audience is generally 'mm a wide area and
manv critical eyes follow the actions of those
who are trying to put the ball in the basket.
It is an opportunity for wider acquaintance,
for keen competition, rewards healthy bodies
and athletic ability, builds team play and
school spirit. More power to the tournaments.
Where Your Money Goes
"What difference does it make to me." you
may ask. "what happens in America's rela
tions with other nations?" "I haven't time."
you may add. "to bother about whether the
United Nations works."
Well, if vou think these things don't affect
you, you'll change your mind about March
13, when you pay vour income tax. For rough
ly two-thirds of every dollar you turn over
to Uncle Sam will go to pay for war past and
future.
And don't forget that a big part of your
high cost of living is made up of other, hid
den taxes you pay your federal government,
and two-thirds of those, too, are to pay for
war.
Here, roughly, is how your tax dollar goes:
25 cents for national defense for future
war. '
15 cents for foreign aid, etc. necessitated
by past war.
15 cents for veterans past war.
12 cents interest on the public debt due
largely to past war.
11 cents for reducing public debt past
war.
What's left of your tax dollar pays for the
cost of running your government, social wel
fare, conservation, the development of agri
' culture, etc. The granltlin Press."
The European Recovery Program, or Mar
shall Plan, includes among the commodities
America will furnish Europe tobacco. Since
tobacco is one of North Carolina's primary
cash incomes, both as a raw and manufac
tured product, and is one of Haywood coun
ty's largest sources of income, it is of consid
erable importance what Congress does to
ERP. Both Secretary Marshall and President
Truman have asked our national legislature
to pass the Marshall Plan as presented, but
the highly influential Senator Taft and other
leaders, in the interests of economy, announce
intentions of paring down ERP expenditures.
It is logical to assume that if ERP is cut
down, the shipment of luxury items, such as
tobacco, would be whittled on most. In other
words, the tobacco growing region must be
prepared to argue its case that its product is
one of the essential materials to the economic
recovery of Europe. Fortunately, there are
a number of good fighting points.
Tobacco is an "incentive" good. To people
in lands where food, clothing, fuel and all
consumer goods are in short supply, people
become depressed in their daily lives. With
tobacco offered for sale by their neighbor
hood merchant, a highly desired product, the
worker will feel the urge to make money
and produce goods in so doing in order to.
enjoy his pipe or cigarette.
Tobacco is an excellent source of income
to government, our own as well as foreign.
Taxes from tobacco sold to Frenchmen, for
instance, would help the French government
pay for machinery and seed which it will not
get an immediate return on. This is possibly
the main reason why Europeans are anxious
for tobacco to be included in ERP.
An adequate supply of tobacco would help
break up Europe's black markets. A carton
of American cigarettes still brings $100 in sec
tions of Europe where the product hardly
exists. If assured a fair supply, the market
value would fall and help bring native cur
rency to stability.
From the standpoint of returning interna
tional trade to peace-time levels, it is impor
tant that American tobacco be sent to over
seas markets, to countries which are used to
it and like it. Should U. S. tobacco supplies
be curtailed altogether, another source would
be developed; and when the trade doors were
opened after our markets become solvent
again it would be an added difficulty to in
terest them in Carolina. Virginia and Ken
tucky leaf.
Each region of the United States has some
product which will be marketed under the
Marshall Plan. Tobacco is one that can be
exported with no shortage on the home front,
it is one that America has as excess supply.
Not only because of its importance to the
economy of the producing area itself, but to
the best interests of Europe and world trade
in general, it is logical to believe Congress
will include tobacco in the European Recov
ery Program.
"TOO MANY COOKS!"
0,
MIRROR-OF YOUR MIND "cSJSSS
hrn.mV,. .... i
"b ' - UUI f:e"le tE(i
rowed it anyhow... J!
nave a vague bui ,!rT'
guilt wit:, nr. 'vJ
icm hoc;, l
almost any accusational
i.i-.u panic. And ilke
Liuiuien, wl' but
defense we ,a
less ol whether thw jV
tradicteach utt,er.
poitr
ICS
The Pisgah-Smokies
Scenic Route
At last Highway No. 276 has a dignified and
suitable name. The highway is known as the
Brevard Road, the Pisgah Road, the Wagon
Road Gap Highway and perhaps other names,
but now it is the Pisgah-Smokies Scenic
Route, which starts at Laurens, S. C, and
comes via Brevard. Waynesville, Soco Gap
into Knoxville.
As we have said time and time again, the
possibilities of this route for feeding motor
ists into this area are unlimited. It is jus,
a matter of building up this traffic.
Fortunately every town and city along the
route have shown a keen interest in the road,
and have pledged their cooperation to get
a program underway. Brevard has adopted
it as one of their projects for the year, while
the Knoxville Travel Bureau is interested in
its full development. Needless to say, this
community stands ready to do their part.
Before long we trust that the leaders of all
the towns along the route will get together
with a well formulated program and get
something underway before early spring.
Rambling 'Round
Bits Of Human Interest News Picked Up By Members
Of The Mountaineer Staff
The Mne-lookinu Iraiiir --lopped
in front of our oil ice ;iml i i ealcil
mild cxcili'inciil . . until one of
the stall' ch.v((i crod lh;:l Hio trailer
continued a takcl Tin n the dis
covery of iinoliH i' .mil -Oil another.
But the hinli tension u,i- lessened
when Mr. Carrel! came in to tell
vis that the content- ol Hie I railer
were a salesman - --aiiiplc
One keeps our eve on their
work and one on the street. Per
haps if they had another eye, it
would he directed toward the
sky. The reason for the street
heiiiK Riven such a scaniiinn is to
see if any sisns of moisture ap
pear. These days a fellow is al
ways a bit apprehensive of snow.
An article in a paper yesterday
save us very little assurance as
to March, as it advised a breath
less public that only four March
months had escaped snows since
the weather bureau was insti
tuted in Asheville in 1911.
And to make matters worse,
the worst snow storm on record
hereabouts was in March . . .
lfi inches. Brrrrirrrrr!
We heard about it yesterday and
i Continued on Page Three i
Answer: I do not believe so, if
the man is healthy-minded to be
gin with. There are several occu
pations, like arctic exploring, in
which men don't see a woman for
months or years, yet suffer no
serious mental consequences. But
a man who is abnormally depend
r ent -apon being "mothered" may
develop a neurosis if too long de
prived of feminine society, as
sometimes happened in the mili
tary service And some men who
believe that they will "go mad"
unless they can find a woman to
love them would have no trouble
if they used good sense about it.
i-v ... I
Does logic sometfcnes desert us
when we're put on the
defensive?
Answer: Ves, ofeserve two
French psychologists, .1. Meyerson
and M. Dambuyant. Being called
upon to face even an untrue accu
sation may drive us to something
like the famous argument: "I
(CopyritrU. 194S, Kint V'eture Sridk-aU, Inc.)
r
uoes Knowing p$ych J
make you despis,JJ
neighbors?
Answer: Exactly toe
The more one knows 0(T
nature and the. obstacW
surmount in learning to
CAlf tr fVit. rr,r. ,:. Ja
"V --!.". ementsotftJ
me, me less he is inclinejkl
spise or condemn those J
the task k l.i .1. 1
lookinp on In.- 1 , 1
- "vigriDorj
sea J
them, the psychologist
as frightened cm Wren,
uom iney can. and sometiojj
vl-uiiik ucyon.i txijecfaUn
VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
I What do you think of the Snuth
! em llovernors' stand i the civil
jiiKhts issue?
Capital Letters
By THOMPSON GREENWOOD
l.ee Itavis: l think Hood
South! rn Democrats should hack
tli! Maud of the Kovernors."
J it. Bovd. Jr.: "1 think the
:.. .. : 11, Tlw.v
j governors poMiion is nm...
j want undue consideration for the
I Saul h. "
j TVadtl fr
ALL SEVKN VYOMI'.X
IN CONGRKSS Alt i:
AGAIN CANDIDA I KS
By JAM: I ADS
WASHINGTON 1 he
women members of ('oi;: r
tossing their bonnets ini 1
attain ihi
n v ( ai '.
s i' v e 11
'ss arc
lie ring
elec-
Fs ""k
a r l a r
Mary Norton
M
Chase S 111 i 1 It,
H e p u hi iea 11 of
Maire. e ! ! r t e d to
1 he Hulls!' to
c o 111 p I e 1 r her
hie ha ncl s 1111
i'pired term in
June lllll), and
IV - elected to
-nii'ii-i'luiu ciin-
i.'1'e-.-os. is o II t
10 1 . i I 11 I i' a
seat in the Si n.it. .
She is compel ; ng
ace A. Hildivih. tin
again-t llor
im unibeiit
governor of Maine; S 11 m 11 e r
Sewi-ll, a former governor, and
the Kev. Albion I'. ISevcrage. in
I he Republican primaries June 21.
!-
I Mary Norton of New Jersey.
I dean of women members of Con
gress: and the first to he elected to
I Congress by the Democratic Parly.
I says she hail wanted to withdraw
from politics and get back into so
! cial welfare work.
Hut her supporters back home
1 wouldn't hear of it, sas Rep.
Norton, who has been in Con- ;
gross since 1925 and is now the
ranking minority member of the j
(House Committee on Labor. She
'says she guesses shell stick it out
for another term if elected.
Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of
Lowell. Mass , veteran woman
.member on the Republican side
HI the House, says she's also run
i (Continued on Page Threei
J VV. G. ltyers: "The southern op
1 position to tlii' civil rights propos-1
i als is premature. The national :
! Democratic convention is the prop- j
I er loruin to hear this issue. The
1 party has made the South, and this
j section cannot go to the Republi-j
leans for relief where civil rights is
Ian issue. The South must work this
out in the Democratic party.'' ;
i
i Dan W'atkins, Sr.: "I'm with the;
j governors 10U per cent." j
NOTES Ralph Howland, who
has been in charge of the Rafvigh
bureau of the Associated Press lor
a number of years and who wrote
that now-famous article which said
Governor R. Gregg Cherry has been
applying pressure to his appointees
to support Senator W. B. Umstead,
has been transferred to the Char
lotte office of AP as of Kebruary
2'.i. The transfer orders came be
fore he wrote the story . . . Gov.
Cherry has denied the pressure
charges, and so have many of his
appointees. J. M. Broughton, feel
ing he is weak in the ninth (Dough
Ion's 1 district, will spend more time
on organization and speeches there
during the next month . . . .Jim
Vogler. executive secretary of the
N. C. Food Dealers Association,
Mecklenburg legislator, and candi
date for slate treasurer, is having
one million books of matches print
ed giving his record, platform, etc.
imks a- if aiiJ
-"UTiior ij
! ... It now
. rlidatos 1 in
1 ""' l"'1" in their pi,
! Metier rural ,,m(K; a ,k
! school hou-c-liuii,!,,,,
the slate: more help for J
I niwn imamo- in le sUf
lii n.Kiioi-K .Thev.j
ing much aliom h u here eA
cans can do am giualing.ii:
ing Democrats ! nlt, stJ1(1)
valel.v of 1 lie .jpinion that
any Republican oin u in tht
dential election this vear.
were thinking pretty vwlJ
direction before Henry li
man, Leo lsae-im, won 'li
gressional scat Irani .Nil
Since then, they have bed
ing low. I )lr cs, they ilJ
the praises of the Demottl
ty at tin ir big niet'tings, ti
down in their hearts they b
(Continued 011 Page Tm
David I'ndei wood: "Civil rights :
I is a state issue and should be
j handled by the slates according to
i their own problems. I approve fully I
t of the governors' actions." 1
I Note - In last week s Voice of the j
I People question concerning ABC
stores, the W. K. Carter who was'
emoted is from Canton, and is not 1
Ithe W. E. Carter of Lake Junalus- i
ka !
'C I , . , , 1 n . I l ,.t' .,.....s ,,f ifi-iaiitnrl
land in California have been aban
doned alter underground wafer lev
els wen lowered by pumping from
10 and 2(1 feet to more than 250
feet
VI
Looking Back Over The Years
15 V P. A R S AGO
Miss Ila Green wins young wo
man's auxiliai' award in State
wide stewardship declamation con
test held by Baptist Woman's Mis
sionary Union in Winston Salem.
Hugh Mas:e is named superin
tendent nf the adult department of
the Methodist Sunday School.
C. A. George is training a group
of local boys lor the boxing and
wrestling tournament to he held in
Asheville.
It) YEARS AGO
Two hundred and fifty Baptists
hold all-day meeting here.
Schools reopen as measles epi
demic subsides.
M. T. Yamamoto, writer and lec
turer, discusses the Far East at
Rotary Club meeting.
Mrs Henry Davis anil small son
return from Orlando.
George Bischolf Is newly elected
manager of the Hazelwood Maru
facturers baseball team.
5 YEARS AGO
The Cruso Electric Membership
Corporation, an REA unit, pur
chases the properties of the Hom
iny Power and Light Company in
the area of Candler.
: Red Cross War Fund Campaign
1 is under way with Rev. M. R. Wil
liamson as chairman.
W. R Francis accepts position as
personnel director with North Car
olina Shipbuilding Company.
1 County passes bond quota for
1 February -S80.025 is invested,
j Mason Swearingen is holding im
1 portant job in Charlotte. He is in
charge of the United States Em
ployment Service office on South
Tryon Street.
They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
One Way-
it is computed that Americans pay more
lor government of all types than for food.
There once was a Congo tribe that got around
this by eating the tax collector. The State.
SSSSK 'f SSSK'f SKIIF
'SNORT SNORT 't UMiMM.'
ACKACKf 8LURP
vJSSSK' SSSK- HMM-
HE SAVS HE WHEEZES
'CAUSE HES GOTA LISTED
NOSE-BUT I THINK
he's part porpoise-
Poor Fellow
It was a Georgia youth who mailed his girl
two letters a day during a long stay out of
town and returned to find her married to the
postman. Labor.
A headline in a farm page says: "Kindness
to cows urged as important to output."
Something similar to the milk of human
kindness, we presume.
Multinle hirths seem to be the lad todav
i ; -- ; T I
with every edition reporting triplets or quids.
Y7 WhAts he 4
If a I O 1 r-M"-i k I
SW'ZSC? NOSE-BUT I THINK
7 MOREMOISE ) -.
-TUAvi A N 7 n-cAHcotjnnc wtuucjHiw
T I" SLUSH PUMP )l HABIT I GOT 7JSf J
' I el V XT ANEOUS 4 Tmul'
vtrJS. NX ! AND A RAISE Q
j WV,0 4'5 THE hatlo Lid f
Southern Revolt Worries ( Party Chieftain i
Democrat Hiqh Commancf Over Keyjordif
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON The Democratic high command U nwn
ricri hu th rphellion of the deeD south against President Tl
anti-Jim Crow proposals this election year than party chietiij
The worry is not only for the tradiUomlljl
ocratic states, where there is a threat
unpledged electors and a southern presw
candidate.' It is also for the key border m
Missouri. Oklahoma and Kentucky as wi
Compounding Democratic concern, of comi
the "left wing", threat of Henry 1 a.
matching the rebellion to the right tajhei
with the radical rebellion to the left'.. . J
' The south has rebelled before, especiallj If
the war years, but it all amounted w
more than a threat because the worm u
on and the tneme was all-out to.win Ui(
Mw hnivBver t MississiDDi." South X
rior.vrria.onri nnsaihlv Louisiana and)AW
might, in the opinion of many observeiji
..f tho.r throat tn secede the Democritu 1
Strategy in these states is to prevent either the P"1
COP candidate from getting the necessary electoral
m 1 v, v... tk.,..in v, r-Ytniro for Dresident up 1
- ...1 1 ,,irl rait one w
House or nepreseniauves, wnere eacn j
rr., :.,U1 Ko r-hnsen 11 tM
iiius i rvepuuiiciii iiugui voiitiv&u.jr . .
t-: 1 1 ...u tr! nf the nresiow
iiie uuiiierii uroiest. iiv-iiaiu auuuicni . -j ., ,m
. . ... . . . n,J return ivJ
mat mis wouia leacn uie pariy,a icoou.
where it belongs, to the south-"r' .
- .
i v . xirWirl through ft WH.'H
1 iiic tcicpiiunc uicija 1 aiuciuioii
'lURUU1. Par"V r -,...nhone-ff1
in oner, me improvements m irans-ucca.. .-r--
reduced costs and Washington's elevation 10 , ' thf (gdl
portance. where every public utterance may furnish 1 1
poiiLicai crisis nave mane una lopii" J
pants boys.T
11 iiimniiDiLiniii 1
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I
President
Truman
Before the warforeign" offices' in' Europe "and
'throu(H
. 1 . j , n .Ar, anRwer
oria renea pnmaruy upon mt mans. v. oreencj 1
,usually was sufficient for ordinary matters-i In em i ,
kwere used. Now it is the telephone . .-. hetwrt"'
r. The worst part, though is the difference in time t
lngton and the European capitals. Mia-aiieo.s.- - .m
reacn wasnington in me eany monuns. lv"
diplomat geU to work. If an answer is reauy "i
culty comes in locating officials in Paris, Lonaon v.
evening is at its height , . - roundof1
rs 1 i.i . .. ;o a whole rouu ,rl
parties and proceed directly to dinner on an empty
OLITICAL,T "FIX" ? The "censorship" charg s rn(J,
Oen. Douglas Mac Arthur throughout the war hae "
hi on the eve of presidential primaries in which m
en'ered. . , - . .'..piuifl
Some Wmihinp-ton nnlitlco see the incident aa a ..Mm
l. fw , hp Others w'
traversy is an inevlUble result of MacArthurs n.
military commander should have extensive conn-. -
.nt mmiemaA ftila nmnMand In war or DeSCe
wuB..ax.u w Ilia VUIIIU1WIU " ' " , I
The reporters accuse MacArthur of attempting .j,
mnuence uieir reports or nis occupanoo iw"-- ,
Japan by, in effect, separating them from tnei vn
nrailies. . " . t cetim
Thnt wnniri k. t h not "offort of the latest Mac-1
Arthur order that correspondents who trave mrneir rl
uan ao cays out of a six-montn perioa w... - w
house-hungry Tokyo. Thia would force the ne ft
Kwiimi iwcK u vne &LaLs wiuie vncj
lluxnisil rwms and.bUleta.