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TODAY'S BIBLE VEBSI V ;? , AM Miaitoh, tor he wiid, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are abaent one from another.?Genesis 31:49. Editorial Page of The Mountaineer TODAY'S QUOTAlJ When you have read the biW* J know it ia the H ard ef God hew,, S b,vf found it the key to your o?. J own h?PPH>??. *?? u*? Cold, Cold Facts. Just why the term "cold war" was ever applied to the Korean conflict is more than we are able to understand. In his press conference last Thursday, President Eisenhower pointed out that the Korean conflict is a fairly major war,, as he went on to explain that he doesn't at th'e moment see how universal military training could be started on top of the draft program needed for Korea. Oddly enough, the Defense Department on the same day announced that U. S. Battle casualties in Korea have thus reached 130, 321, an increase of 228 in a week. The break down shows 20,585 killed, 96,700 wounded, 13,000 missing. v A pitiful picture that will perhaps make cold chills run up and down many a spine. These cold facts fail to bear out that the con flict is a cold war, unless one means that the cold hand of death is stretching out and claiming so many Americans. Something To Consider Insurance commissioner Waldo Cheek made a statement the other day which should give us something to ponder and consider for a long time. He cited that liability insurance rates on motor vehicles carried a 15 per cent higher rate when the vehicle was driven by persons under 25. The insurance commissioner said that studies show the rate should be 69 per cent higher. That is nothing short of startling, because it indicates that drivers from 16 to 25 are responsible for the majority of accidents on our highways. And with that in mind, what better argu ment is there for competent driving instruc tions for this group? Down in Rocky Mount, where such a pro gram has been in force, the officers point out that the program has been extremely successful and well worthwhile from every angle. Something else to consider. Application Of Hair Brush Might End Matter Up in Toledo, Ohio, a group of 35 teen-age blue-j,eaned college girls raided a man's mil lion dollar dormitory in search for shorts. Sometime they took* the 29c ^rments with them, and with others pulled the underwear into shreds. It was the raids of last spring in reverse, when boys went into the girls' dormitories at many colleges. The application, in public, of the back of a hair brush to an appropriate spot of the anatomy might bring a halt of such a vulgar pastime. If college officials would resort to a childish type of punishment for such an immature stunt, this thing might be nipped in the bud. Certainly Worth Studying Now that we tue in the midst of the "sea son of public fund drives" it might be well to see the success being attained in Asheville and Buncombe county by pooling all their drives under the one group plan called the Asheville-Buncombe County United Appeal. The report for the first year shows the plan has met with success. In the first place, over $42,000 more than the goal was given. And since everything is allocated on a pre determined percentage basis, this means each fund gets more than originally set aside for them. In looking over the list of agencies includ ed as participants, we find them similar to those for which we stage individual cam paigns here in Haywood. The only exception we find is the absence of the polio fund, which we understand, makes it a national practice of not participating in general com munity drives such as the United Appeal. A spokesman for the plan used in Ashe ville, and similar ones elsewhere, pointed out the system "was adopted as a move to stem the tide of solicitation failures which spelled doom for our health, welfare and character building agencies . . . wisdom of this is now a matter of record, as the plan has proven successful." Leaders of our agencies here in Haywood would do well to get together, and give this matter of combining our efforts for charit able drives some serious thought. We havb a good pattern in our neighboring county to follow and it would not hurt to study the situation which could stand sonje modern izing. Judges Can Do Much To Improve . The Situation On The Highways Because of The Mountaineer's firm stand on the matter of highway safety, it was only natural that the editorial in the Stanly News and Press, under the above caption caught our eye. The editorial, so well put, gets our loud amen of approval: "Stern and certain punishment for those who violate the traffic laws has long been advocated by this newspaper, for as a near by editor said recently, "it is by now ... an accepted axiom that the certainty of punish ment is a greater deterrent to crfme thafrth'e severity of punishment. If that be true, then certainty plus severity should be an even greater restraint upon criminal tendencies." "A judge in a nearby city recently imposed road sentences totaling 50 months on six defendants for reckless driving. It is our guess that when the word gets around about what he is doing, there will be a noticeable improvement in driving habits. No person likes the idea of a jail or road sentence. "We are satisfied that the courts can do as much as any other instrument of law en forcement in improving the situation on the highways. Judges must visualize what could have happened when a driver violates the traffic laws, and punish him accordingly. Just because no actual damage was done does not mean that the next time, he or those in another car will be so fortunate. "We hope that more and more judges in the courts of the state will face up to their responsibilities, and act with judicial firm ness." Steady, Steady Growth The growth of our community has been steady, and at times, it might appear slow. But when the figures are down, the bare fact remains that the growth continues rapid. One proof of this is the report of building permits issued last year, as just announced, running about three times higher than the provious year. THE MOUNTAINEER Wayneavllle, North Carolina Mala Street Phono 1H The County Seat of Haywood County Published By THF. WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor Vf. Curtis Riiss and T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year : ? i ? $3.00 Six Months !?I ?1.75 NORTH CAROLINA One Year . ? ? $4.00 Six Months 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year $4.50 ;lix Months 2.50 Entered at the poet office at Waynesville. N. C.. aa Sec ond Claaa Mail Matter, as provided under the Act at March 2. 1879. November 20. 1914. MEMBER OF THSASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for re-publlcatlon of all the local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Monday Afternoon, March 2, 1953 They'll Do It Every Time M t. NM 0?w By Jimmy Hatlo oJW MOTORIST MOTES * HOW C4REFULLY T-IE MEOMMIC WORKS OM A JALOPY"" '4 -MAT GUY RCALLy TAKES RAlMS VvrrH "THAT G4R- -TREATS IT ^ ft? LI<E A aABy-TWlS IS TVlE h Llw PLACE TO RAVE /MIME r~*r^~ ^(.SERVICED-- ^JL -yit ' &UT MORSES AMD ^CARS COME ctfferemt SMADES, EM,PAL? ' I _ Cl - 'mey/take rr iasy! y HOW CX)ME>OUWER]|^ >, so Som-E iV ONE OVBR-TWE^py m T 2f we -n? rJasSKar -nT-1 /// // / i THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN 0S6i SACKToj LjPowtja Looking Back Over The Years 0 15 YEARS AGO Over $5,000 is being distributed to Haywood farmers under the soil conservation program. Ltitle Miss Barbara MeCloud of Asheville is visiting her grand mother, Mrs. T. W. Ferguson. * Miss Harriet Boyd visits friends in Knoxville. George BischofT, newly elected manager of the llazelwood Manu facturers, holds first practice. 10 years ago The Cruso Electric Member ship Corporation purchases the properties of the Hominy Power and Light Company in the area of Candler. Miss Mary Elizabeth Palmer is bride of Benjamin William Price. Mason Swearingen, formerly of Waynesville, holds important job with the United States Employ ment Service in Charlotte. Second Lieutenant Thomas E. i Bud) Blalock is graduated from West Texas Bombardier Triangle School at Big Springs. *5 YEARS AGO Baxter Jones of Bryson City, solicitor of the 20th judicial dis trict, dies of a heart attack. CarJ William Brock, Jr. is Hay wood's Leap Year Baby?born Feb ruary 29. Miss Meta Dicus is engaged to William W. Gordon of Sumter, S.C. Miss Helen Plott is married to Tech. Sgt. James B. Luckadoo. Miss Mary Quintan leaves for Fort Jackson where she is working with the Red Cross. Voice of the People Do you thiuk anything would pome of a meeting between Eisen hower, Churchill, and Stalin? Edwin Riggs ? After so many false alarms In the past when gov ernment heads met, I don't see how any good could come of such a meeting. If Russia is satisfied with the way things are going, why should she make a change? W. R. Milliard?I doubt if much good could come of it. World-wide peace must start with the people ?such as Heinz Rollman has out lined in his World Construction program. Dr. Dan Dantzler?I don't believe it will do a bit of good. But any thing is worth a try. Charles Miller ? With Stalin as one of the group, it is hopeless. Review Of Rollman's World Construction Bxclysivp to The Wayqesvllle MouritSlneer. ~~ COPYRIGHT 1953 BY H. W. ROLLMAN. AH rights reserved in eluding the right to reproduce this article in whole or in part in any form or in any language. digest of the forthcom ing rook "my plan for world construction" by 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 raising the standard of living ail over the world.) summary of previous chapters 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. We have shown an ex ample of what can be done, and how it should be done, in a typical ly underdeveloped country, Indo china. We cannot combat Communism with propaganda alone. There is one type of counter - propaganda fhat Nn be effective behind the "Iron Curtain" and that is an air-1 drop of consumer goods. Religion alone will not stop or prevent wars either. Every civilized religon teaches the same moral philosophy ?of the "Golden Rule", i Our government was created to | carry out the wishes of the people. But thru our own indifference we have lost "touch" with our Con gress. We expect them to do all our planning and thinking for us. The background and political as pirations of a typical congressman do not qualify him to make all our decisions regarding bur responsib ilities and position in world affairs. We, the people, must again take ' the initiative and instruct our Con gress as to the necessary legislation to insure world peace. The beginning of the popqlar movement began on Dec. 11, 1952, when several individual members of the Lions Club of Waynesville signed up for membership. CHAPTER X (Continued) Most of us, even though we are a hundred times better off then many people all over the world, feel we have very few things to live for, or occupy our minds or to make us happy, outside of our immediate family and our work. Even if some cynics say that we have only been born so that we are able to reproduce, that we have only been put in this world j to recreate life continuously, then I still say that in the process of j reproducing ourselves there is something more than just mere: numbers. The Creator cannot have possibly meant that we increase the world's population continuous ly just for the sake of quantity. j We must also think of the quality. It is a part of this quality that makes it essential that people have the proper health, the proper diet and a standard of living which will make them healthier in mind and body. And even should it be so that our main job on this earth is merely reproducing ourselves, then we still have to avoid wars, for if the next war will kill one hundred million people then we, in spite of the amount of reproducing which is going on, would not, fund amentally, be living properly, for the very simple reason that we might lose in one century more people than are being born. How ever, I do not agree with this thesis, and do not feel that a hu man life is on this earth only in order to keep on reproducing. There are higher, greater and more important duties which we as hu man beings have to perform. Our life ha sa purpose, and must have a purpose. Our life has an aim. and we must have aims. Being a member of WORLD CONSTRUC TION. being a member of a move ment which will improve the world as it has never been improv ed before, will give those members an incentive, an aim. a purpose in life such as we have never had be fore. If we start worrying more about the welfare of others, and less about our own petty problems, then only can we start to enjoy life and start really living. Only when we see that through our ef forts and through our sacrifices we will be able to help other nations, then we will get up in the morning with a more important purpose than just working for three meals a day and eight hours of sleep. It has been said, and this is com ing very close to the true figures, that half of the world's population goes to bed at night hungry! Obvi ously, anyone going to bed hungry does not usually worry about any thing else, since he or she can not have the strength or spirit left to do any kind of construc tive thinking or any kind of plan ning of any sort. But what about the other half of the world's popu lation, more than one billion peo ple, who don't go to bed hungry at night? Do they go to bed happy at night or not? Obviously, as we all know, even though they are not hungry, they often go to bed more or less unhappy. Now, let's think about 160 mil lion Americans who have eaten too much during the day, or at least many of them have eaten more during the day than is good for their health, and let's see whether they can be completely happy when they go to bed at night. I maintain that very few of them are really happy unless k come part of their life other people; unless, wh? to bed, they know they 1 intentionally or uninta hurt another human beia| ing the day, at least on have extended a helpinj someone either in their li amongst their friends ? bors. Fundamentally, peg to do sbmething that, by I standards, is good and k Doctors are in the enviak tion that during the tia (Continued on Page 3. & Letter To Editor MARCH OF DIMES CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL Edittor. The Mountaineer: Another March of Dimes cam paign has come to a close in North Carolina with, we believe, a satis factory success. Because of the unprecedented high incidence of polio in the na tion last year?more than 55,000 new rases, with a backlog of around 40.000 old cases still needing finan cial assistance ? North Carolina volunteered a goal of 30 cents per capita for the 1953 March of Dimes. Based on the 1950 census, this amounted to approximately $1,218. 000?the highest goal ever volun teered by the State. It is still too early to predict, with any accuracy, whether or not this goal has been reached. As in previous years, we received wonderful support from the State Press. I can hardly conceive of how greater cooperation could have been given to helping make our fund-raising drive all that we hop ed for. So, once again, we say: Thank you for your help. Sincerely yours, MRS. PHILLIPS RUSSELL - ??DiMrtae ut Oi'ganfatlBii ?fCMpel-mi^WJ-C: SCOTT S oCRAP BOOK By R.M. SCOTT r* I I dUlitlAH % OLRSftD * ? of DENMARK I WAS YKl I k flRVf MAM 1 K-lb OBSERVE . fc YMA< AM * * electric r CURRENT '? WOULD | ? MOVE A ?. MAflHtf. T K</?M} ' _ V , K^P DEVIL - PosYs Arf Y* ENTRANCE To A VILLAGE. KbRtANS V BUI EVE YlUfL ?... u.S... ... M.L IJ Pl^VArtP - \ i ?y AJtl 4tNii, w*o^? / BJtfilUW.-fcuBfc *#?*? ?AtfTOU*f, -to HgKLPf Aio$r! is riuxiy* COMl< A^AIH Out <0 JAIftttfiyi HUtKSKIlS DEPOT A PLA? or DLPoii< ro*. C, OOMI A ? JrfojMOJjtt. depot] - ?. ? PJ 1. - Rambling 'Round Bits Of Human Interest News By Frances Gilbert Frarier Have you ever stopped to consider how mum ti,^ one can use up on indecisions? Of course, there liafct is necessary to study over i stiuation and not give ^ but what we have reference to is minor decisions ,uch M ^ to wear, whether to have steak or ham for U. \nei or wi*t^ up those torn sheets or forget it and read a good story i, are dozens of other examples. We all know them We make up our minds, unmake them, shuff ? the fa^, hesitate, hum and haw, and then usually wind up by etihtf ing any of the things or doing them in a stampede. 0r ^ prodding at the last minute, we make our decision and i emerge from the fog through which we have floundered f, and find ourselves minus that ten-ton weight we have been ss under in doubt. How true! March isn't any too nice a month, but if, ^ much nearer April. Mr. Whissent had bought himself a brand new automufc equipped to the hilt with all the newest gadgets, accessory i he had never been accustomed. One day while driving in , city, he saw his old car (which he had traded in> driven by n The car, despite its year of service with its former own?, to be in perfect running condition, and a wave ot nostalgia ,< Mr. Whissent. His memory carried him back to the day he had home that car . . . ten years ago . . . How his wife and his i had shrieked with joy and hugged him in their excitement children had grown up and gone away now; his wife had her and her own interests. Then the light changed and Mr 1 in his shining new car, drove on . . . alone. The grass in the other man's field is always greener cially if it's hard to reach. Time was when any one who had been ill came back un lation looking pathetically wan and languid, and they were n? ly surrounded by inquiring friends of sympathetic unden But not today. If you have been a victim of the flu. you one of thousands and your ailment was of no particular in (to every one but yourself). Instead of kindly solicitations met, invariably, with the question: "How many shots didyoui and of what?" And your reply is immediately buried in an? of the horrors of the questioner's illness and his was a ti worse case. No, sirree, t'aint no fun to be sick no more. When day is done and shadows fill The open space that once was bright; And dusk slips in where all is still To help twilight turn out the light. Ah! then you know that soon you will Find peaceful sleep in restful night. jW&WASHINGTI MARCH OF EVENTS == i Motive Behind Iron Curtain Purges Puzzling Washington Kremlin May B* A?? To Lure Neo-Naiit, I Special to Central Press WASHINGTON?Foreign affairs experts in Washington ? loss to determine an overall motive for the latest ut purges behind the Iron Curtain. Although they know that anti-Semitism is one factor, it known whether the Communists are using the techniqua tot neo-Nazis in Get many or the Arabs in tin East. Experts point out that the purges seen aimed indirectly at the Soviet police force I chief, L. P. Beria, who once was con,!* lending contender for Premier Josef Stall* At the same time, it was believed that the lin's. charges of "medical sabotage" nuke nervous effort to safeguard Stalin's life The one major observation bv the digi experts is that the Soviet is using the'pu,P pel" to tighten up the fear vise on the p? the Kremlin sphere. ? # ? ? ? PAGE BOYS?Among the minor " -. .: _ - i? i.j ?,u i ? sr.ir'.e > I. P. Berio amvjfig l^rmuci tttic UIUCC HUiMCif ??- ? boys now serving the Senate and the House of Represent#* These teen-age youngsters have a pretty good deal Th* consists in running errands for officials of the Houses of C> and making themselves generally useful to the lawmakers they receive a salary of $285 23 a month and attend a specal for pages whic h gives them the equivalent of a high school The johs are popular because they enable the youngsters' elbows with the great of the nation They acquire a priceless' tion which cannot be duplicated. However, the joU ?'?' political. > ? FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN?Before he left the President Truman made his last social call at the Capitol to' the annual luncheon of the Missouri congressional delegation of Mr. Truman s visit a House member learned a oefinite W lesson. The newcomer?who remains nameless?was in the the private dining room where the luncheon was held wheni man's approach stirred up a commotion among sightseers ## employes. The fledgling congressman learned of the chief executives#! and eagerly prepared himself to see a United Staiei person Unfortunately, he's nearsighted and he daited his his pocket to pull out hia glasses. . Promptly, he was swarmed upon by three secret aer^"? pinned his arms and blocked his view They held him untd W dent had passed. The moral: Keep your hands in sight when* deng pf the United States is near. * * * * i 9 VANISHED "VANISHING" AMERICANS?Mayfl?w,r ' may not be worth a fig if the discovery of a Johns Hopkins university geography professor proves to be May correct. . |OO0d Or. George F C Carter's discovery of tools belong ng to people who inhablted'the United States 100.000 Tee w years ago could very well sink the Mayflower list . Carter chums to have found the tools near Sail Dieg'1 t0" i people lived in this country between the third and 'uur Periods. The university said Carter's evidence of vanishing disappeaieil lon^ {flf/irej|n- ****<^ | tw the gregteit arcntrowgical i5in^^^^^ias^^^*hs
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