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THE WAYNESV1LLE MOUNTAINEER
THE MOUNTAINEER
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Waynesrille, North Carolina
The County Seat of Haywood County
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W. CURTIS RUSS
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FRIDAY. MARCH 26. 1948
Our Band Steps Out
The Waynesville Township Hiyh School
band has been a pride and joy of the com
munity since it was originated. The band
has always made i;ood records, and has
steadilv gone forward in both the hearts of
the citizenship here, and the music world.
In recent district contests the band stepped
out with flying -colors, aided by the mixed
chorus, a co-companion in the musical field
of the school.
Both groups, under the direction of Charles
Isley. are among the community's most val
ued assets, and as they go into the state con
tests in several weeks, they can rest assured
that their patrons back home are "rooting"'
the limit and wishing them the continued
success they so rightfully deserve.
Less Noise, Please
The Highway Patrol is giving advance
warning that mufflers that are not working
perfectly on motor vehicles can get the own
ers into trouble if not corrected.
The patrol is checking on vehicles with
mufflers that have been "gutted" and give a
direct exhaust. The law provides for a pen
alty of a minimum of $10 and costs against
any one failing to comply with the measure.
Vehicles with mutilated mufflers can cre
ate untold noise, which proves a nuisance
anywhere.
Now that the patrol is being built up with
additional personnel, there is every reason
to believe that cars will be checked more
closelv than ever for mechanical defects.
Give It Back to the Penguins
With eight governments now laying claim
to parts of ice-covered Antarctica, it's time
somebody put in a word for the penguins.
As the only native inhabitants, are they to
have no rights of self-determination?
The penguins are a model community. Ex
cept for a few jealous spats at mating time,
they live in unoffending peace. It is a pity
that this last outpost of harmony must be
disturbed. But it seems that if there re
mains on this globe a territory to quarrel
over, however useless and ruthless it may
be, nations are bound and determined to
quarrel. Gastonia Gazette.
Don't Want MacArthur
General MacArthur intimated last week
that if the people "want him" to be a candi
date for president of the United States, he
might allow himself to run for the office.
However, he added that he was not making
any personal effort to help bring this about.
General MacArthur is a fine soldier, but
we do not believe the people want him for
president. The mere fact that a man is a
great leader on the field of battle does not in
itself mean that he would be a great leader
in the White House.
Our nation owes General MacArthur a
debt of gratitude for what he accomplished
during the war and in his endeavor to bring
order out of chaos in the Far East. .We do
not feel, however, that this debt requires us
to elect him president.
We have elected military leaders to the
presidency in the past Purely because they
were military leaders. The experience
hasn't proved altogether successful. The
St4te, Raleigh.
Our Patrol Cars
On Easter, Enjoy Your Church
W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
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Some months back, one oi our reporters
asked in the "Voice of the People" the ques
tion of whether Haywood citizens thought
Highway Patrol and police cars should be a
special color, so they could be easily identi
fied. There was a difference of opinion on
the question, both sides putting up logical
reasons for their statements.
The Durham Morning Herald recently had
an enuoriai on me, same siuujeci. puinuii w w
out that distinctively marked cars wowa.y-
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create a neaunier respect iot trtuiic Laws. ie
editor of The Herald presented a clear, con
cise issue, but we are frank to say, we cannot
wholly agree. Some how, we lean to the
present p'.an which is being used of having
the cars resemble civilian cars, except for the
state emblem on the side, and we feel all
police cars should have a similar marking.
The Herald said in part:
A new. distinctively marked police car has
been put into use by the traffic division of
the Durham Police Department.
And this newspaper again is reminded of
a subject on which it has been harping for
sometime. Why should not all such cars
used by uniformed policemen be distinctively j
marked''
The tendency now seems to be to disguise
the cars as much as possible so that persons
will be encouraged to break the law.
In highway patrol work, especially, the
preventative side of law enforcement has
been negelected to the detriment of safety
on the highways of North Carolina.
The idea does not seem to be to prevent
speeding or reckless driving or other viola
tions of the law, but to try to catch a few of
those who do break the law.
This may have a salutary effect, for the
time being, upon the one who has been
caught but it doesn't bother anybody else.
Certainly those who break the law should
be caught. But it is better to prevent a man
from speeding than to catch him afterwards.
With highwav patrol cars looking like the
rest of the cars on the highway there is a Rjts Of Human Interest News Picked Up By Members
tendency for the motorist to get the idea that of The Mountaineer Staff
the highways are not being patrolled, and
he governs himself accordingly. A State
newspaper some moths ago, commenting on
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MIRROR OF YOUR MIND
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At bigamist. gentroHy "worvwi"? 'iasj
Answer: I doubt it. The man
who is married to half-a-dozen
women nearly always is after
their money, and makes love to
them for purely business reasons,
while the chap who marries "No.
2" without divorcing "No. 1" but
doesn't make a habit of it is too
much afraid of women either to
defy one of them or to tell the
other the Uuth. A man with a
childish craving to be "mothered,"
married to a wife who nags him,
may be so strongly attracted to a
woman he believes will treat him
kindly that he will use any sub
terfuge to get her.
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Can babUt feel "nervous
tension"?
Answer: Even more than adults
in tact, it's in Infancy that the
seeds ol "anxiety" are planted.
"Tension" in a little baby does
not come from fear of anything
that anybody else may do to him,
for as yet he does not realize that
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In every Church the world over, men and
women pray together this Easter for the
eternal continuance of a world at peace, a
brotherhood of all men united by God.
VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
What "Easter Bonnet"
rrmember most vividly?
do you
Rambling 'Round
March has been a very peaceful j
little lamb for the past 25 days,
but in some ways, she is beginning
to ruffle her feathers and every I
one is holding his breath. Know
ing what a fickle dame March can
be, Easter may turn out to be al
most anything. But that won't j
stop all of us from hoping. !
Easter being right at hand, we
are reminded of something that
happened several years ago. A
miss of about six had been com
pletely fitted out in all new Eas
ter finery and could hardly wait
for the wonderful day to arrive
so she could join the paraders.
But alas and alack! When Eas
ter morning arrived, it had been
preceded by a seven inch snow
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the expansion of the highway patrol, wanted
to know where the patrolmen were. They
seemed to be scarce on the highways, noted
the paper.
They were probably around; but they
weren't noticed.
With distincticely marked cars, the high
way patrol could be much in evidence on the
highways nf North Carolina, impressing the
motorists with thtir presence, impressing
upon them that while there might be no
patrolmen immediately in sight there might
be one around the next bend in the road.
The effect would be a healthier respect for
highwav safetv laws with a consequent in-1 MILLION PEOPLE A 'take in the view of the nations
crease in safetv on the highwavs. YEAR NOW VISIT capital and vicinity from the top
' WASHINGTON MONT MR NT ! of the 555.5 foot monument.
' Designed by Robert Mills of
By JANE EADS Charleston. S. C, the obelisk was
WKHivmnv Th.. Wavhinc. i begun in 1848 by a committee
Those who have an ear for string music! ton Monument, opened to the; which had been formed in 1833
public in October, lHao. nau us zz- ........ .K
millionth visitor the other day. Justice John Marshall. Many
Nearly a million people a year iContinued on Page Threei
Tittefa&oa
Mountain Music
will converge on Maggie School Saturday
night for the third annual Old Time Fid
dlers Convention. Last year more than 20
bands entered the contests, and this year it
is felt that even more will be on hand.
The old time fiddlers produce a music all
of their own. The rhythm, the tone and tim
ing has never been copied by Hollywood or
any other place. While every effort has been
made to capture the strains of typical moun
tain music, Hollywood is still turning out
"svnthetic stuff ".
Mrs. Jack Elwood: "I remember
one Easter that 1 had taken the
flowers off of my winter hat and
trimmed a straw hat to awaken
Easter morning and find the ground
covered with snow. It was before
people wore spring clothes in win
ter time and 1 was embarrassed to
death because I was the only per
son in church wearing a straw hat.
Mrs. Jacque Coin: "Don't ask me
that. I always make my own Easter
hat with a little bit of yarn."
Mrs. Harry Marshall: "I never
wear a new hat at Easter. But I
remember one spring my sister
had a hat that I thought was beau
tiful and had a milliner copy it.
She was so provoked. The hat was
white straw with a high ostrich
feather in the back and beautiful
pink roses on the brim in front.
I'm wearing one now that's sixteen
years old."
Mrs. Joe Rose: "I believe it was
purple straw with pansies all over
it and 1 was at the age- when 1
began to feel like I meant some
thing to EaVter. I think it was a
borrowed hit at that."
Mrs. J. H. Howell, Sr.: "The hat
I had the second year I was in
Waynesville. It was a leghorn
trimmed with white lilacs and
faced with black velvet and had
black velvet streamers. It was the
tip-lop hat from Miss Hattie Siler's
and I bought it after looking at it
about two weeks."
Looking Back Over The Years
An Expensive Star
The average person would figure that
flags for use in the Navy would be a rela
tive small item in the national budget.
To the contrary, when Hawaii or Alaska
becomes a state, it will cost the Navy around
SI. 500,000 for new flags.
Pacific fleet headquarters estimates that
the Navy will have to replace the 149,895
American flags in ftve sizes, at a cost of $1,
307.706, and the 62,673 Union Jacks in four
sizes at a cost of $251,354. The Union Jacks
are the blue flags with 48 stars flown by all
United States naval vessels when at anchor.
The Navy, upon investigation, finds it will
be cheaper to buy new flags than to add to
the ones now in use.
This is just for the Navy alone the hun
dreds of thousands of flags owned by indi
viduals and private business concerns would
come in for additional expensive changes.
It all boils down or adds up to a rather ex
pensive star.
15 YEARS AGO hold rally. Meeting opens with
Arthur Francis, student of the banquet at Gordon and closes wfth
Waynesville high school, wins' a dance in the new Armory build
first place in the Western North ing.
Carolina --vocational agriculture Members of local hiking club
speaking contest held in Ashevitle. join Ashevillt hiking club for trip
Call is made for donations of 1 to Black Rock?
shrubbery for court house lawn, j Farmers in Cherokee county are
Members of Fi r s t Baptist , enjoying the benefits of electricity
church are asked to donate old from TVA.
gold and silver articles to be sold
lor the church.
Miss Ellen Louise Killian is
voted the most versatile girl at
Peace Institute in Raleigh.
Master Walter Taliaferro enter
tains friends on birthday.
Woman's Club hears address by
P. F. Stroller of Asheville. interior
decorator.
We read recently, and we believe, truly,
that there is no way to express shame in de
grees. One capable of shame cannot be
a little ashamed or greatly ashamed. How
ever Webster disagrees. We believe with
the writer, don't you?
Waynesville, we believe, has for the first
time seen a picket line in action. We appear
to be growing more citified.
10 YEARS AGO
Young Democrats of
district .
5 YEARS AGO
Trailway bus line opens station
in Hazclwood.
Haywood County Hospital to re
! ceive $7,211 from Duke Endow
j ment.
Point values on rationed items
i are changed. Prunes and raisins
I can now be sold without points.
Lt. Thomas Stringfield, U. S. N.,
is ordered to report for active
duty.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Price of
Cove Creek have four sons in the
service.
Master Jeff Reece is host of par
ty in celebration of his birthday
anniversary.
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Capital Letts
By THOMPSON GREENWOOD
LUlIN-UlKlJiiNCi mere are . in bni ,t nj
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many more nepuuncans in ixiiui i'tmmpin ruruu
iarouria man yyu van aimic a in'tte) pul-d
stick at, and most of them seem to j here in Ni.itiCn
De giruing meir ioms 101 a ie,u r n l(uinttJ
battle at the polls tnis year. ; voles (jdinif !t
This is a Democratic Male, but t'oiitmud K
the Democrats have srown reck- ! .
less in Raleigh and in Washington j LetfPrsll
through their lone vears nn tin- ! lltJ
Government teat. The Republicans
hope to take advantage of it.
Despite all that the orators of the
party tell you, being a Democrat
does not free a man of wrong-doing,
and the Democrats in North
Carolina within the past 20 years
have done things which have led
to many a shamed face even in the
ranks of the Democratic Party.
The Republicans, alas, ran into
a mes,s of ill luck in 1928 when they
carried North Carolina for Her
bert Hoover. He defeated Al Smith
in this area of the Solid South by
348,923 votes to 28S.227. They have
never been quite able to live this
down. i
In 1944, however, with war rag- 1
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Edilor '1'he Mud
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unless fiirn-rtcdrj
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Several monlii
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Pretident Mum on Wallace,
Dixie Revolt for a Reason
Trumon Hoi
Wounds Mo)
Special to Central Puss
TITTASHINGTON President Truman has set th
V policy toward the Democratic southern
and Henry A. Wallace's independent candidacy to
silent treatment.
The president's recent speech was conspicucni
mention of the Dixie rebellion and the Wallace diu
which would be political headaches, ai.d both of
threaten to break the party into splinters.
Mr. Truman dlaaDDolnted political observers by
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McGrath's implied appeal to m
his candidacy. His strongest ore
"nroirressives" of all parties to
No mention of the boiling; Sot
nrh. The strategy is reganW
uirinir nnthlnir to anUSOt.
president hopes the deep polity
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rr omrthintr more open is to
and the Democratic national erf
elected by the White Housf
little, if any, hope that
ltidnt Truman strategy is to alienate
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BOW FOR MARGARET Margaret Truman.
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milieu jaeirupvuiaii ucm ai-c". . ,
It happened when Miss Truman accompany
and the First Lady back stage at Constitution
Lehman DKr me lawer s wasmng " ftflIrf
The gracious., world-acclaimed opera star , u i
wishes from Mr. Truman for me iw
turned to Margaret ana, in reieicm
said : '
"Keep your fingers crossed for a colleague-
9 MUJiAKI IJLlWimu-A nscTlPfJ
on in the House over peacetime military con a
LwgJon, one of the most powerful iuuim- -
ing to rorce tne umt dim out 01 m
in
Pressvuro la balng brought on - v;illget
circles it is said mat one or i - - o-.erl
told the legion he is opposed to u " J A M
mously approved by the armed services co j
Aiwa (KJ, JUiapia, nas soiueo .t f itBBw
MassachusotU, and Majority Leader
diana, have taken no stand.
, of tW
In this presidential year, uaii haf(to
Oonrress. Most members hope they
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many of tht InUrnatlonal orSanizat'ollS. 0f F'
the post-war world to solve me urrer
thM Unttad Statas has underwritten
of their operatlnr costs, but it has i'
to say about how money should be pe" cllt,
Th .ituAtlnn la said to be particui" u
th Food and Arricultucal organization. f
ot.t ... - ii.. ..tinna have m'ot
Ita budt la tMitnir cut drastically the 11
Moa of Its personnel, Inoluding re"
v.TX, ..... where they "",:,,
iMWiiimM K nMd.r contract, encl . tbil!
hard to Are. This confronts American
lag a pay cut or find a nsw Job.
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