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TODAY'S QL'OTJ There W uu man >UddrM I TL\V:"V"" Editorial Page of The Mountaineer \ death ot hb aaiata.?Haaliui. !??:?? ? ~ - "Linger Longer" Can Prove Profitable The slogan of the Western North Carolina Highlanders of "Linger Longer" has far greater meaning that it might sound on the surface. The slogan also has real importance to this area, because it actually means more tourist business. There are some who argue that the tourist season will always be confined to June, July and August. And they are just as right as right can be as long as we make that our season. The tourist season can be extended here by a little effort and lots of promotion. Florida is no longer making their state a winter resort. They are going all out pro moting their state as a year round vacation land. Their program) will not materialize overnight, any more so than ours will. By a consistent campaign, and promotion di rected right it will bring longer seasons and added dividends. ? ? ? in A Fitting Program called r or Unless something unforeseen happens, the State highway commission will award a con tract for seven miles of the Pigeon River Road on February 24th. This 7-mile link will be from Cold Springs to the Tennessee line. That is a pretty rugged section, with lots of rock and heavy grading, but will open up a section that has scenic views which are literally breath-taking. It is not too early for the local Chamber of Commerce and others to begin making plans for some type of simple, yet impressive observance of the beginning of work on the project which has been uppermost in the minds of Haywood people for many, many years. In fact, it all dates back to 1921 ? 32 years ago?when the project was included in the master plans of the state highway system. In planning for the observance of the breaking of ground for the project, we feel it would be fitting to have some Park offic ials on hand, because this new road is going to open up the eastern end of the Park in the Cataloochee and Big Creek areas. And both of these areas are little known to the ?"afferage citizen, because at present they are so. hflMt Uweacb. [ With the letting of the contract just about five weeks away, it is time to get things in readiness for the beginning of work on Hay wood's number one road project. Youthful figure^?Something you g?t when you ask a woman her age.?WOW Magazine. The office cynic's wife has found a book on child psychology very helpful. She uses it as a paddle.?Portland Express. THE MOUNTAINEER tlaynesville, North Carolina Main Street Phone 101 The County Seat of Haywood County Published By THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W. Curtis Riiss and Mari?,i T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3.00 Six Months 1.75 ? NORTH CAROLINA One Year $4.00 Six Months 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year ... $4.50 Six Months _? 2.50 Entered at the post office at Waynesville. N. C.. as Sec ond Class Mall Matter, as provided under the Act of March 2. 1879. November 20. 1914. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for re-publlcation of all the local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Monday Afternoon, January 26, 1953 The President Goes To The Right Source For Help Many a pastor throughout the world will find a timely sermon subject in the recent actions of President Eisenhower. When Mr. Eisenhower called his cabinet members together for the first time, several days prior to the inauguration, he opened the meeting by having Governor McKay, secretary of Interior, offer a prayer. The meeting was in executive session, and no visitors were present. The news of the inci dent leaked out several days after the meet ing. Tuesday as the President began his in augural address, he veered from the text of his prepared speech to first read a prayer which he had written just a short time be fore he stepped out to take the oath of office. The sincerity, the tone, and his attitude gave his listeners to know it was not being done for showmanship. Perhaps no one ? except possibly former presidents Truman and Hoover ? realize the great task which faces President Eisen hower. The new president realizes what a task he has and is seeking Divine guidance. A commendable attitude, and certainly the right source to go for help he will need. Good Promotion Pays Off The Cherokee Drama last' summer contin ued to break all attendance records for out door dramas, as more than 141,000 people paid to see the outstanding presentation of Cherokee history. This coming season should see a duplica tion of last year's record, because of the sev eral added attractions which were not avail able last season. One of them is the authen tic Indian Village, which is destined to at tract a lot of visitors. We feel the directors of the Cherokee His torical Association are wise in adding new attractions and constantly improving the drama. In this way the drama will continue to draw both new and old business. And from the 1952 records, even 141,000 people is a sizeable audience, and no doubt a profitable one at that. A Good Investment It was about 1908 when the county com missioners bought the 135-acre farm in Pi geon for the county home. The commission ers, Asbury Howell, Milas Noland and Dray ton Henderson, paid $10,000 for the farm. Then they began work of the county home. When they had finished they found they had spent exactly one dollar less on the building than the farm?$9,999. Today the farm would bring in excess of $100,000 according to those who know land values. Not a bad investment for the taxpayers of the county. Road Network Changes Travel Habits Back in 1949 when Governor Scott began talking of a program of paving 12,000 miles of secondary roads in North Carolina there were many people who hooted at the idea. Some felt that the 12,000 mile goal was a fantastic figure, and could never be reached. The average rank and file person however had hopes and expressed it thus when in 1949 they voted for the 200 million dollar road program. When December 31 of 1952 rolled around, the state found it had added 13,569 miles of paved roads to the system during the four years of Mr. Scott's administration. This figure does not include resurfacing or widen ing. This is a notable record, and one which has changed the traveling habits of the citi ens of the state. Voice of the People A bill was recently introduced into the North Carolina Legisla ture to lower the voting age in this state to 1H. Are you In favor of such a proposal? Frank James, Jr.?Yes. Henry Gaddy?Yes. Willard Medford?No. Felix Stovall?Yes. C. C. Weatherby?Yes. T. C. Holt?Yes. Joy Smathers?Yes. W. T. Stiles?No. Lonnie Lyda?Yes. Ilcnry Francis?Yes. Harry Liner, Sr.?Yes. I JUDGMENT OF PARIS <0^ 4 Looking Back Over TheYears 15 YEARS AGO C. D. Ketner returning from an extended trip through Florida re ports business exceptionally brisk. I.ittle Miss Betty Ann Howell celebrates her third birthday with a party. Mrs. Whitener Prevost goes to Mt. Holly to visit Miss Bobbie Jean Truesdale. Mrs. Hubert O'Donnell of Kai eigh is the guest of her mother, Mrs. L. E. Perry. 10 YEARS AGO i R. B. Davenport is elected presi- 1 dent of the Chamber of Commerce.; Rotarians pledge support to county-wide library for Haywood. Hiram S. Wilburn graduates' from the Curtis Wright Technical Institute in Los Angeles. Mrs. Donald Hyatt of Newport News christens the SS George E. Radger as it is launched. 5 YEARS AGO Miss Peggy Dock is awarded $100 scholarship by the Beta Sig ma Phi sorority. Beta Sigma Phi plans ball for polio fund. Danny McClure wins eighth an nual declamation contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. J. H. Howell, Jr. entertains a small group of children in honor of her daughter, Carey, on the oe ca ion of her fourth birthday. Review Oi Rollman's World Construction Exclusive to The Wa.vnesville Mountaineer. COPYRIGHT 1953 BY H. W. ROLLMAN. All rights reserved in cluding the right to reproduce this article in whole or in part in any form or in any language. DIGEST OF THE FORTHCOM ING BOOK "MY PLAN FOR WORLD CONSTRUCTION" B* HEINZ W. ROLLMAN. FOUNDER OF "WORLD CONSTRUCTION". ("World Construction" is a popu lar movement designed to give im petus to the formation of a con structive program by our govern ment in order to establish world peace thru raiding the standard of living all over the world.) The early portion of the book explained the causes of wars in the past. These causes are misery and want on the part of 95% of the world's population. Commun ism despite its rotten philosophy is able to take advantage of this misery. It is not difficult to de termine the needs of the under privileged people throughout the world in order to raise their stand ard of living to the level we have achieved. The opening portion of Chapter VI showed a typical example of how we could approach the prob lem of starting the production of basic commodity in a typically underdeveloped country: The pro duction of steel in Indo-China. CHAPTER VI (continued) The initial beginning is most definitely the hardest. But once we have the beginning, our faith in our own ability to improve world conditions, and especially the faith of all human beings in a brighter tomorrow will have changed. We will achieve something that can not be expressed in terms of mil lions of tons, or in millions of dozens, or in millions of pounds, or in millions of dollars. There will develop that certain "spirit" which you see every day all over the United States. There will de velop that certain spirit that can really move mountains. In addi tion to our technical advancement there will come to us the much more important, the murh greater advancement, our spiritual ad vancement in every direction. A spiritual advancement based not nn faith alone, hut also upon visual proof of our ability to do good on this earth. But let's go back to our steel plant in Indo-China. Obviously it would do no good for the U. S. Government to loan money to In do-China to build a steel plant un less there are people in Indo-China who can run that steel plant. And who would be more qualified to teach them than steel-plant special ists from those countries where steel is being produced today? People from Sweden, people from England, people from the United States, people from all these great and capable ateel producing coua i tries all over the world. We know that the people in Indo-China can , eventually make and use steel and we know where they can get the knowhow, namely, from the peo-' pie who know. But naturally, the people who know, when making available their knowledge or their services would want to be paid for it. That is very logical and not more than proper. It is also logical and proper that the recipient of knowhow will pay, and be glad to pay. for this knowl edge and the services received.; Agreements of this kind have been made by the thousands be- j tween American manufacturers I and manufacturers in other for- j eign countries, but the total ex tent to which they have been have been fewer drops than j enough to fill the bottom of the tremendous world bucket. The! method of setting up technical "knowhow" arrangements has | been pioneered 1 Even under the most unfavor able economic and political condi tions the world can possibly im agine, foreign manufacturers and \meriean manufacturers have shown that they can live peaceful ly together, even in a fighting, un stable world. It has been also prov ed that the cooperating firms de velop a strong friendship for each other, since none dominates the other. We are not a country of people who want to dominate the world, for if we had wanted to. we could have done so long ago. Instead of dominating the world it is we who have progressed and desire to live by the "Golden Rule". Let's return to our example. We know that Indo-China can start a steel plant with American finan cial aid and also with some Indo Chinese money invested. We know Tnrio-China has the man power to build this plant. We know that we have an abundance of knowhow in llii.s country to make this plant run just as efficiently as do the steel plants in the United States. It is conceivable that the terms which would be worked out with Indo-Chiua for the steel plant might vary greatly with the terms under which a loan would be ex tended to Spain to build a tractor factory, or to India to build road building machinery, or to China for a shoe factory, or to Burma for a flour mill, or to the Middle East for dams, or to Paraguay for a diaper factory. It is of the utmost importance that wq see those projects in the simple form in which they really present themselves when stripped down of fancy economic phrases and explanations. The success of WORLD CONSTRUCTION, don't forget, is not depending upon a few top international economists who know all the answers, but the success of WORLD CONSTRUC TION depends on the common peo ple. vou and me, all over the world who have to have the simple facts presented in an understandable manner. And the simple fact is that all development, as I have ex plained before, relies upon wealth in the ground, fresh air, sunshine and water and labor, labor and more labor. If you put all these things to gether and add to that the Ameri can spirit, then you have America. With these same basic factors you can duplicate the American stand ard of living all over the world. Now. where do we stand at this time? We agree that the wealth is there, the labor is available as well as the knowhow. We have found a way to do the initial financing, but simply knowing all of this, will not bring us one inch closer to our goal. We still have to establish the ways and means to do all of this in a practical way. or what good is the best theory, what good are a million theories without action, lime >f4 II. S I?mI Ofttt By Jimmy Hatlo I JT?IE POOR COUNTRY COUSINS HAVE DISHES WITH CHIPS BUT THE /MEALS THAT THEY F* SERVE ARE TERRIFIC .OUST PIPS- L W hope we've ear enough \ CURS AMP SAUCERS TO J?* L"*n - rr- > ';--v*.;; I Ifz]ur -TWE sMoarys-WiTM CHINA THAT JUST CANT BE BEAT? ss GIVE VOU PLENTY OF SERVICE " - , BUT N07VIIN6 TO EAT// < mm scon's SCRAP BOOK niVfwMftd \ \N V suRf*a. , X ,n A _ of witAum r~ lj*?Y*r -lo KS uORL \ V /RJr, V X is 4.000 / V* \ MILU. / ? r /"r* a i L Hear I Do PioPll <MX ( I lOuKLR VilttH PMOHIM^ I , i-OK, DiSUMCL. I j ? 1:1 Vis. rtt loh<5to. -fl(L DBrfXHCl -<il LOUPtft JlllY <AIK. ?| ? U /mV 6 wops dr tluvY koRsi- M ' KA-I.v WltlC* KA.IMUCK VJ WoMtK sVIA*. TURIHm 1^1 DAY fB MA.KI l?au*< RILUOW4 I#J K\ KlW. (OMKI 1U*<USTM> (VI By R. J. SCOn DAMASCENE, A k MMWE OR IMKARKAHT Of DAMASCUS ? fci DAMASCENE io DtCOftAtL, H PECULIAR V MARK I He; ? ?M ?J? .?A _ Rambling 'Roum Bits Of Human Interest News?, I By Frances Gilbert Frazier Recently we were asked to give our idea of the J cieht we could remember. Although tt happened m ? there will always remain indelibly stamped upon our* event of breath-taking beauty. We had left New York's North River pier enrouU tM l i., on ,he Clyde Liner Comanche. As we swung uut into the open sea, the sun began slipping down belo* M As we watched the last tip disappear into the sea, ?, and then crossed to the other side of the ship just m-J the first curve of a full moon, slowly rising, seemtim 1 blue-green ocean. The white-crested waves as we pli*! the water the afterglow in the west and the majestic M the moon shedding its glory in shimmering path, u we will never forget. We wonder if it wouldn't help if unkind remarks J repeat performances, the first to be done before the M spoken. ? Little Johnny and his next-door neighbor, Tommy uer? conversation as they discussed the political events of Tun ary 20th. "It seems to me," Johnny was saying, "that they ( too much in one day." "Uh huh," agreed Tommy. Then after a seconds eg be added: "I guess they thought they'd better hurry wouldn't have another chance for twenty years." Overheard in passing:: "Wasn't that coat F.die just awful? It looked like one you used to have." Nostalgia again. Winter in Florida 'way back when: Our ling home just a good heave from the St. John's River; kitchen with its equally huge coal range that was alway whose warmth extended to the adjoining dining room T1 "sitting room" with its wide-mouthed fire-place and the roa ling fine that sent shadows dancing on the walls and w* place of day dreams and of far-away places. From but rooms were doors opening into a wide hall that, when ? doors was opened for exit to the upper rooms, resembb way the tip-most point of the North Pole. A scurried n stairs and into the bedroom where another fireplace sea fcrting rays. And then ker-flop into the middle of a feat# deep, deep sleep. What! No open window! Friends, that ri the icy hall put enough cold air into the lungs to last alli Another memory: The big pantry off the kitchen ?u rose from floor to ceiling, and every shelf stocked full g with shining jars of fruits, vegetables and other home-w cies. Those commodities that had to be purchased were! ens, not singles. Feathery clouds trimming the caps of the mounUi action and more action? And what good does it do to be so cautious that one does not dare to under take anything new. The pioneers of this country, the great labor lead ers of this country, the great en gineers of this country, have dared not only new, most of them lui much as their lives. 0 we have shown, since (Continued on Pi Sniiie. WASHINGI MARCH OF EVENTS = Mishops to Big Planes I Wintry CondHi Due to Rough Weather? I As Major Cral Special to Central Pres.* WASHINGTON?Pentagon officials, who are getting mi from Congress over the recent series of Air Force pis* believe the key to the tragedies might be the lack of coU flying experience. Most of the crashes, which have claimed over 300 lives, w Alaska and the Pacific Northwest?and virtually all of thenl in poor flying weather. The Planes concerned1 are the Fairchild C-U9 Flying Ea Senator Robert A. Taft the Douglas C-124-Globemastcr Both) several years have proved themselves ml Air Force officials think that cold-wed tenance, as well as the lack of expert chief clue to the accidents. This is true of the squadron of C-119s which * in Florida for several years. Maintenance changeover for the huge? should include a change in hose and cat tions?as well as a different type of Ink ? ? ? ? ? SENATE LEADERS Senator Ruled decision to accept the majority leaderd Republican-controlled Senate of the 83ri means he will be obligated to fight of all measures advocated by the ? flflminist roMnn Thus the Ohioan will retain his prestige as Number On?l ?but has given up much of his independence. He nisy *1 ously against an administration proposal behind closed <M public debate he can rarely take an opposite view. Southern Democrats, with some support (rom the more c* northerner*, will rally around Senator Richard Russell m * Russell is most likely to hold a post similar to that of Sd In Democratic-controlled sessions of the past. The Georgia be minority leader, but he will be most often consulted on* the southern Democrats attempt to make their party more tlve than it was in the New Deal-Fair Deal days. As such, the southerners hold a ruling hand and the nortla wing of the party will be in a minority position for the since 1932. ? ? ? ? 0 VITAL STATISTICS?The average congressman see"11' ting younger all the time. Statistics show that while the1 of senators and representatives in 1948 was 54, and in 1?* it will be only a bit more than 52 in January In the next Congress, the average member of the Hous few months under 52-years-old. In the Senate, the ff^re u The .youngest member of Congress will be Republican R* C Wampler, 26, of Virginia The oldest will be 85 >t?r * Theodore Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island. ? * ? ? 0 I'NION MAN Marfin P. Durkin, the next secretary be the ftgit union man to serve in a President s cabinet s'1* Not since 1930 has a labor man been named to the chu official family. Then, President Hoover appointed Willi*1]"' former vice president of the Brotherhood of Railruad Ti? ?erve as Labor secretary. Prior to Doak's appointment, two other union men h*'1 Labor department. They were. William B. Wilson, first* labor after the department s creation in 1913, and J*""1 who was named in 1921 by President Harding. ? ? ? ? ? VAULTS?All the nation's gold bullion cached at Fort is no safer than the United States Constitution and lh? of Independence. The makers of the vault to protect the priceless ' " documents devised both the Fort Knox and the charter p, vaults to withstand severest tests. The 50-ton vault In the National Archives building. ?" In fact, was built to hold up under atomic blasts and was given what might bs called a "live ammunition" test"' ing of Hiroshima. I
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