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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
LfciiiiilHJ
Monday Afternoon, April 3, 1950
A Timely And Worthy Study
Would this community be better off with
a community chest, rather than the present
system of raising funds for worthy projects?
This is the question the Elks Lodge has
under consideration and study.
The question is a proper, and timely one,
and no doubt has been raised many times in
th minds of individuals of the community.
During recent years there has been a con
tinuous series of drives and campaigns for
public subscription. The projects were worthy
in every detail, and their only means of sup
port and continuation was through donations
given by the public.
Not only have the campaigns become more
numerous, but the time dmanded of many
people in staging the drives has become to
mean a big item of public service. -
Everyone realizes that the work must con
tinue; everyone also knows that it is going
to take 'the time of someone to organize and
go after the money.
The question now at hand, "is there an
taster, and hiore efficient way "of handling
orpanizfed charities?"
Legion Baseball
A campaign was launched , last week to
raise a minimum $1,500 to finance a Haywood
County American Legion junior baseball
team.' -
The organization of the team is significant
alone in the benefits it will bring to the teen
age boys who will be playing.
But aside from the obvious good it .will
mean to the county's .youngsters, one of the
points that impressed us most is this:
The campaign is being carried on cooper-!
atively by the American Legion posts of three
Haywood County towns Hazelwood, Wey
nesville, and Canton. - . . ' '
Judging from the history of American Le
gion baseball in this county, this poining of
hands is the results of two experiences.
Several years ago, a Hazelwood team was
formed arid entered in the Legion campaign.
It died after a single season.
In 1946, again an American Legion team
was organized, this time in Canton.
This, too, went through a single season,
then died. . . - .-.
The lesson the citizens of the three towns
learned was that no single isolated organiza
tion was large enough to operate an enter
prise as important as this one.
Out of this came 'the realization of this
fundamental truth: . ' -
To succeed, they had to join hands and
work together. . , v .
They did and they are.
At $1,500, this result of the Legion base
ball movement alone is a bargain.
They'll Do It Every Tim
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-Bits Of Human Interest News
By Frances Gilbert Frazier
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HENRY'S 8A6?'
KER-RECK-IT!
THEY'LL DO IT
EVERy TIME!
Looking BackOverTheYears
15 YEARS AGO
George Wilson of St. Petersburg.
Florida Is named professional for
the Country Club next season.
irtfanizeq chanties: : . officers were teachers assign pd tn
wouw.one big dj-iye covering fiverjTiarKanTbeen able- to counf all. the bal
Too Bad For Teachers
It is unfortunate that the teachers of North
Carolina have let their state organization
plunge headlong into a bitter controversy
over the election of their officers. The fact
that both sides have refused to compromise,
or bring about an early settlement 'of the mat
ter, is costing the teaching profession a lot
of much needed prestige. We hate to see it,
and shudder at the ultimate result of all the
reaction being displayed by the public
throughput the state.
We are happy the controversy was settled
on Saturday afternoon.
From over in Franklin, The Press in an
editorial says: "Ag'in It", and then explains:
At its recent convention the North Caro
lina Education Association called for yet
higher salaries for teachers.
We're ag'in it! And here's why:
When the convention adjourned, the teach
ers went home without knowing who their
otlicers were teachers assumed to the irth
Work is scheduled to begin soon
on the ball park at Hazelwood and
the erection of a grandstand which
will seat 500 people.
Waynesville -Chamber of ; Com
merce is sponsoring a "Try At
Home First" campaign.
Miss Vera Hosaflook is honored
at birthday party. '
10 YEARS AGO
-Easter bonnets are kept indoors
on Easter Sunday as four-inch
snow falls.
Workmen start tearing down the
Ftlmeb house one of the oldess
landmarks on Main Street.
The Soco Square Dance Team
has an engagement to appear at
Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh.
Miss Florence Griffith of llen
dersoiiville is married 1o Sam
Bushnell, Jr. of Waynesville.
5 YEARS AGO
Marine' Corporal Joseph Palmer
Is awarded the bronze star medal.
Red Cross War Campaign goes
$(501 over quota.
In our recent "Fifty Years of
Progress" edition, we all looked at
styles and manners of half a cen
tury ago. We wonder how the read
vs ot the. 2000th edition will
view the antics and customs, as
well as costumes, of today. The
progress of warfare has boon so
unbelievable it seems impossible
ihat anything else could be
thought up for the extermination
of the human race. On the other
hand, science has perfected cures
for almost all diseases and for the
promotion of life far beyond ex
pectancy. It seen as though it
will be a case of "survival of the
fittest" tet ween life and death.
We heard a clever one on the
radio the other nitht: "Spring!
when the boys are more gallant
and the sals are more buoyant."
. .;. - .;. .
There were five of them lined up
algonside of the sidewalk,; every
one identically alike as to color,
design and make; each car owned
by a different owner. So . . . when
the movie was over and the crowd
came out, we were a bit curious to
see" how each person would know
which automobile' was his. But
there Was no confusion and soon
each car was occupied and driven
off. Perhaps we were a bit disap
pointed . . but we wouldn't have
Guy Massie is serving as chair
man of the committee for the cloth'
iig drive for war victims.
Duke trustees allot $3,219
Haywood County Hospital;
to
The Farmers Exchange on the
Asheville road is erecting a ware
house 22 by 45 feet to be utilized
in their general business.
Capital Letters
By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD
ty drive be better than the many individual
drives as now staged?
The correct answer to these questions is
going to take a lot of time and study. Snap
judgment is not worth anything in this case.
We shall await with interest the decision
of the committee and the Elks Lodge on the
subject.
A Modern Post Office
If everything goes according to schedule,
Hazelwood will have a new post office build
ing within sixty days.
The details were completed" some weeks
ago, with )Rep. Monroe M. Redden handling
the papers in Washington for the new build
ing, and terms of lease.
New post .office buildings have been rather
rare slrtbe .tike war. Prior to that time, there
teemed to be a bumper crop of them through
out the nation. -
This new building for Hazelwood is being
built, and "tailor-made" for post office effici
ency, This will be a big improvement over
anything ever enjoyed by the patrons of the
Hazelwood office.
ballots.
Then it was announced that one of the two
candidates for president had been elected by
a margin of 14 votes. Later, an announcement
said that was all wrong; the other candidate
had won by a margin of 1!!.
Now it develops that one of the troubles is
the counters couidn"t read some of the bal
lots.. Yes, sir, we're ag'in raising teachers' salar
ies. ,..'.''
. Let cm' learn to write and count. first!
Important To Be Counted
Once every ten years Uncle Sam' makes an
honest effort to make an accurate count of
the citizens of this nation.
This census is important, since so meny
things hinge on the final tabulation. The of-
ficials figures are more important than just
for a Chamber of Commerce folder. It even
has to do with the number of representatives
in Congress, as well as many other phases of
government work, such as postal services,
and highway funds. ''. - ,
The count is important be sure that you
and ' your family is included.
MIRROR OF YOUR MIND
By LAWRENCE GOULD
Consulting Psychologist
when they were with stranger1.
This condition, known as "para
noia," may continue for years
with no visible deterioration of
intelligence or personality except
in the one field. Much more fre
quently, however, paranoid ideas
are symptoms of schizophrenia,
which if left untreated brings
complete mental disintegration.
Are babies today getting "new deal"?
Answer: Yes and I don't mean
, politically. Dr. Gustave F. Wein
teld reports in The Archives of
Pediatry that the answers to
questionnaires of forty-five child
tp,ecialists in Chicago showed "a
general acceptance of newer con
cepts of pediatric training prin
ciples" such as feeding jabi$ on
dimant' instead ol by the clock;
keeping newborn babies in their
mother's rooms; breast feeding
vhen possible for emotional rea
sons; postponement of toilet
trtining; fend abandoning the plan
bt lziin baby "cry it out" whn
ftiihtened or lonely,
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Art soma people
ens subject"?
: Answer: Yes. I have known
people who cherished insane de
lusions such as that they were
"possessed" by ejil spirits, yet
not only earned their living but
pert smart enough to keep their
beliefs to themselves, at least
Can surgery "unsex" a woman?
Answer: Not in itself, once she
has achieved emotional as well as
physical maturity. Neither meno
peuse nor the removal of the re
productive organs need deprive a
woman of her normal sexual re
sponses, and in cases where this
Eeems to happen, it is the result
of emotional disturbances which
existed beforehand and should be,
susceptible to psychiatric treat
ment. There's no reason .why,
because they are no longer "able
to have children, a husband and
wife who love each other should
not go on being lovers in the full
.sense."
COCONUT MILK The milk in
the coconut is more important than
the hard wooden shell which sur
rounds it. There has been too much
talk about the ,shell and not enough
about the milk. Governor Kerr
Scott was busily looking oil in the
distance while all the pro and con
arguments on the Board of 'Elections-
deal were in progress.
But it 'so hop'nen's that Candidate
Kerr Scott two years ago failed to
carry in the first Primary any "of
the tight counties piven the un
precedented aciion. and in the sec
ond Primcry.he carried only one
little. Clay.- Very interesting. :
AFTER THE PRIMARY Attor
ney Gtneral. McMuilun has ruled
that the "'State Board of Elections
must hold hearings in I he counties
involved before removing a mom
her of a local election board for
cause. For sonic reason which is
rather apparent it is thought that
these hearings will not be held un
til after the Primary on May 27.
Meantime, that old whipping boy,
thc SBI, Is being called into tlie
case to investigate "charges",- and
Attorney general McMullan has
been requested to make a study of
the situation. . j '
If the affidavits and charges are
available, why not start on the
hearings jimv? If they were sulTi
cknt to kick good citizens off the
local boards of elections, why are
they not suiTieient for a mere hear
ing? Why the delay? More coco
nut milk.
MISSING About two. weeks ago
Ray Reeve, whom most of you have
heard on the 50-station Tobacco
Sports Network describing football
and basketball games, was fitting
in his homo office here at WIIAL.
For some reason, he was rather
gloomy that day and remarked that
he felt he wasn't doing a good job
and had considered just "taking
off"., -
On Friday, March 24, he left
Raleigh to call on a network affili
ate in Fayctteville.' Last week,
when it came time' for him to go
to New York for the big NCAA
Tournament in which State Col
lege's basketball tsam was particip
ating, Reeve couid not be found.
C. A. Dillon, Jr., did the announc
ing -vWellv-' -but -people" everywhere
b?sdn calling in wanting to know
the whereabout of Reeve. Last
Sunday, he still had not tser.
found, and the police in a wide
area were called in on the case,
Ray Reeve built the Tobacco
Sports Network, which last fall in
cluded radio stations in VS., N.C..
S.C., and Ga., one of them being
the 50,000-wattcr, WSB in Atlanta
He's .short, fat. bald as an onion
and has light blue eyes. He talks
fast with a dinned Yankee accent.
He likes a good time, likes to "gnt
off with the boys", and has been
missing for a day or- two several
times, but the stations of the Net
work fear he is in trouble. Please
contact Fred Fletcher, WRAL in
Raleigh, .if jou learn anything
about his recent travels.
(Editor's note Mr. Reeve was
f,ound in Sarasota, Fla., on Satur
day in a hospital).
NOTES Although Frank Gra
ham's posters won't go on trees
and telephone poles, you will see
them in store and office windows:
"Frank Graham . . . Champion of
Democracy" t . , Willis Smith's
helpers are Using, ot .course, - the
slogan , "Mr. Smith is Going to
Washington" . . . Ttisht now. Gra
ham's strength Seems to lie in some
hig-votihg counties in the Pied
mont;: and strange to sr.y he seciiis
strong in conservative. Chai'lottt
. .. . Smith will spend 'the iiext sev
eral days in Charlotte and -environs
; . .Smith now seems to bo 'strong
est in the. ' mountain counties in
the Northeast, and in the east
central counties '. . .
... In a speech at Dunn last
Friday night, ' Sen.- Graham .'said he
is opposed to Comniunisiii, Social
ism,, and was never a member of a
Communist-front organtetiou after
it had been, -so- identified by the
U. S. Attorney General's' office . .'-.
... Recent talks of Reynolds,
Graham, and Smith sound as if
thoy all. stand for the same thinn
. . . or virtually tlie same thinr; . . .
and voters'-;niust''.'study. their rec
ords, not their speeches as can
didates. .
Voice
of the
People
BETTER COME HOME Con
gressman C. B. Deane will be in
ew York making a speech: next
week. He'd better come on back
to the Eighth District ;.ml 'el busy
at home, for W. E. Horner of San
ford is running like a candidate
who means business. He's scour
ing the territory from Union to
Leo and from Scotland to Wilkes.
Sen. Clyde R. Huey, not one to
let grass grow under his feet, has
let the folks know that he has op
position in Marshall Kurfees of
Winston-Salem. He's accepting ap
pointments in Washington with the
understanding that he will be in
Noith Carolina at that lime if
, How do you like your Brunswick
stew?
Mrs. II. t. Burnettc: With beef
and pork, carrots, onions and po
tatoes, salt and pepper and a bit
of sauce. But not much seasoning,
because it seasons itself. To make
jt.e Utile stroafcer, though, you eetj
add a little' Worcestershire, sauce if
you want.
II. -W. Thompson: I like it with
squirrel ''and chicken, but only a
little Reasoning.
Winsalo Hannah; Heavy on the
tfliiekftt;. pleaj-e, with some beef
preferably. And lots of seasoning.
Jane Liner: I
never make it,
really don't. So I
James Killian: With chicken and
beef, but very little seasoning.
D. F. Whitman. Here's the best
method I have found to make it:
Dice onions, add peppers and eel
cry, and saute the mixture. Then
'add ground beef, and saute this,
pork ribs and ducks until the meat
comes off the bones. Add salt, red
oerjper. b'ack pepper and vinegar
as it suits your taste, then tomatoes,
corn and beans preferably- fresh
if you're making it in the sumnjer.
Cook for six to eight hours, stir
ring constantly to prevent the iri?
ture from sticking to the pot'.""
About 11.000,000 persons in the
United States 65 years of age and
over, excluding institutional in
mates, had no cash income in 1948,
the Census Bureau reports. f
necessary. Congressman Deane
should do likewise.
SHELL GAME?
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1 -V t
Hill U-J
longer for two"7
"Uing back to '
that had bn bSfc
wrong purcha,, ;
Overheard: "tw.'"
week."
No perfect Fjer i,
er than he did l
church He as
f mug iroue ,.'
ing an adraonkhin1
daddy, ne proced
full Jenh.ofuit
himself in , he v.
world was his m
it gave us a sort f k..
to think how soon he J
h iio me uncertain!
world, and its mo
tions to be answered
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Food for thouthtM,
a restaurant ii(ln,J
tells him. lie is tot L
ue nuri.
Always let
Willi you: never to fcul
...
YOU'RE TELLING
By WILLIAM RITT
Centra Press Writer
A NEW violently-red petunia
has been given the rough-and-tumble
name of Fire Chief.
What's become of the gentle,
old-fashioned garden with its
Sweet Williams and pink tea
roses ? ." ' , '.'
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A judge rules that stabling a
rhorse in a bedroom is no proof
ol insanity. We'd like to hear
comment horn the horse.
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A good barbershop quartet,
opines the man at the next desk,
usually manages to work them
selves into a lather.
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, Now that. British atom scien
tists have managed to change
the color of diamonds by cook
ing them, we wonder if jewelry
I
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store counter slpa J
reaa: "uven Fresh."
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Parched New Yuhn
must wonder how tht
tion period ever jot u
or me ury tra.
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A Buffalo newt Don
a Dutchman there by M
of Bijleveld and dtscribeJ
a linguist. He'd have t(
pronounce his own msJ
Dowager Queen i
hand-made carpet, we
about to make a tour 1
and Canadian museums,
der if it's the same
George was called up i
ne was a little boy?
MASIIItlGT
MARCH OFEYENTS!
Wallace Settina Staae I Atom -Run Autont
For a Four - Way Race, v J AEC Deprecalii
Special to Central Press
TnPTASIIIXGTON-'Henry A. WaUace has, by his disavowal i
VV munlsm. set the stage for another four-party pred
race In 1952. This, of course, is predicated on the assumpti
President Truman, or some like-thinking "heir apparent
the Democratic candidate.
Political forecasters : now envision a Demoeratic-Repi
States Rights-"Progressive" contest with the last two conl
running far behind, but doing Detter man
Wallace's Chicago speech, mildly ri
Russia along with the United States, serf
tlce that the Iowan again intends w w
Progressive party, which got only a aw
of votes two years ago.
Thp former vice nresident has done Ml
rip the label of "Communist-bossed" trj
party. The Communists had to agree toM
'decision or seek another leader for the II
sive nartv. and thev feel that Wallace
only chance to split the left-of-center Deii
In the south, the states .iugm -armiTifi
.Timmv T?vmps. who is certain to
Hanru A Wnnrm npvt cnvprnof of South. Carolina. With
they figure to carry 10 or 12 southern
in dividing the right-of -center Democrats.
TVia PtnuMixoni triour th nmnw Satisfaction. TT.f
that with Wallace pulling from the left and Byrnes froro tt1
the Democrats are sure to be deprived of millions oi
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A ATrtMTf" kitTrocmno PiV ortino' chairman of til
V.nfrcrv rVrnimicemn hoe flnollv nH nfficiallV knOCKed 00
public belief that atomic energy is a cheap source of F1
autos and trains. ,. J
AT3r n t,o,u veon Irvine to a1"!
pfvncofiicu lur auiuc iuilc iia.v ww.. j .
public of the fanciful acceptance of atomic energy as
TfnurovAf thocA fkvAej A Tiatra lioitflt-pd tO COITie HgW A
v.. vivi) 411 V- vwv..
QM J;f llfAM't
PiUA hne An s til fflh1( He
energy probably can be used to power ships and PertiaP
of a new and radical design; but Jthat it's too ::
Iut.ai.cu iui aui.ua anu irauiB.
tu. u.i tj. on exnennier.il
marine eneine will he far onnno-h ntnnc this year to Pena
o w - n a
estimate of its ultimate possibilities.
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SCHOOLROOM "UNTRUTHS' Congress was
told tt
.,r ,.n ... i -t...n torture nan "
have "fostered isolationism and warned our outlook lot g 1
T Parte. o 7,jt I Aviation Researcn
Raid that "nnr Mui nt ,imrA Iflrpplv based On
vised for mariners tn wooden sailing ships 380 years s j
Ha v,f o ; rolatinnS SUbCOnw" 1
the maps Spread "untruth's" in this air age. "he
falsehood" they tell, he contended, is their "misrepres
continental relationships." ' .r)
,xj- u . . ... - ortnallv nearer "j
oo.ua uiai lor example, uoa Angeico m .
than "it is to Rio de Janeiro. Chicago, he added, is
Dardanelles than it is to the capital of ArgenUn
MAIL R.ATlTiatt' rircttw orain Vnll SOOn V.lM & ffl
cents for the traditional one-cent post Crd. '"
other higher mailing rates.
Congressional sources say that the,Smte a ur
to pass the House-approved bill Increasing
rates. The only question u) how long it will be
oerore the Senate acts.
iisnrman unn u. Johnston (D, soum
Hearings on the bill which would boost postal - wB1a
minion annually. If Johnston gets his way, u -
vu Kei uie nni to the Senate floor. , ,nvc
j Th o.ii....... .v. 5.t office 0ef
uuuiiiai.iauuu, wmcn claims uit heariP
using money, opposes Johnston's iove. uw
necessary because the committee eovtred me
last year. . , J: '