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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-13
WORK STARTED ON
GLENDALE BRIDGE

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North Wilkesboro to Jefferson
and the highway from Laurel
Springs to Jefferson are routed.
1t was pointed out that it would
have four-foot higher water le-
vel than was reached by tic flood
last summer and would measure
around q feet above the aver
age bed of the stream, and would
be much more permanently con-
Structed than others that have
been washed away.
Traffic will 60 on as usual over
the temporary bridge now. in use.
Work is also now going forward
on the widening of highway 16
approaching Jefferson and will
continue through the towns. Dur
ing the past week the Jeffersons
Rotary club asked highway Off
Gals to widen this much travelled
highway three feet on each side
instead of one.
A favorable report has been
made to- the request which will
most probably be carried out If
property owners are willing to
cooperate. .::..$
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foot mountain dominating the
town and the road to Asmara,
capital of Eritrea. .<.4t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-13
W@kG0SG SA0vE1H

Our own armament program,
after showing surprising vigCr
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Complete Defense

February 1922 has been designated as
National Defense Week and since. these
United States have been weak along this
line, as measured by some of Europe'S
threatening powers, it is but fitting that a
special week be dedicated to this. What
more appropriate time could be found than
this particular period which includes the
birthdays of two of Americas best known
leaders and presidents.
Since last spring when the U. S. launched
its big defense plan the program has grown
to such tremendous scale that it is esti-
mated that by summer, the monthly ex-
penditures should reach peak of around
$8OOOOO,0O0
Money is being well spent, but along
with this man-power must be organized
and trained in order to make our defense
complete. In keeping with this plan the
Ashe county post of the American Legion
will conduct registration of all ex-ser-
vice men of the county, to determine what
branch of service applicants can best be
used These registrations will be held on
Friday, February 81 in the schools of the
county where member of the Legion will
assist teachers in the work. The registration
which is purely voluntary in character,
will give the government true picture
of the ex-service men, and the ways they
might be used in the defense program, If
and when needed. The only way to have
an "all-out'' for defense is for everyone to
cooperate in every way possible in its
broad program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-13
Playing The Game

With the basketball season at its peak,
and the various tournaments at hand, we
ask, why basketball? Having once played
it, and now being spectator we can view
it in a dual way Perhaps there is no 9TH
err game more suitable to the average high
school students It can be played with
minimum of expense as far as equipment
goes, it gives excellent physical training,
envolves comparatively few changes of
physical injury to players, and is certain
ly game of skill and teamwork. There
are many other advantages to basketball.
From it a player may derive almost per-
feet physical coordination but what is
more important is the teamwork and
sportsmap must necessarily teach,
and these essential attributes for the
success at easure in life. More and
more in this Implicated civilization, men
are findin at they must work closely to-
gether. ood craftsmanship is an es-
sential al Of every good citizen; for in
life we nj play the game fair and square.
Coachs teachers and spectators have
much to doWith the development of sports
nnanship anen players. A referee who
fails to cal p6l on player is doing that
particular layer more harm than anyone
else. Officials 81 . game, like others, make
mistakes but player makes greater mis-
take by questioning their decisions. One of
The fine points Of the game is learning to
abide BIZ the decision OF superiors. One
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a brief address ). to the group
urged cooperation between the
various counties of the western
part Of the state in their efforts to
secure industries. 81 +5
'You must lay aside individual
self-interest," he said, land start
the promotion of Western North
Carolina as a whole and unified
section" - y
Mr.. Anderson urged the FORMS
ton of group such rs was later
set up, pointing out that locations
selected for industries must fit
certain basic~ re1uirenaents and
through such =, set-Mp the RAJ
leigh. and Washington offices OF
the division OF commerce and in
dustry would be able to get facIs
concerning these Basic require
gnents from each county and weed
out any which tail 20 meet the re-
quiremenss. '+s:a+-=eA.7ss
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Ashe BOttlenecks

Along with other new words and new
meanings given to old words, the term bot
tleneck has come into popular usage dur
ing the present war, and in connection
with Americas defense program. It is used
as one might imagine, as referring to.
something hard to get through, or as keep
ing an important factor bottled up.
Along with thousands of others we are
delighted to see progress being made for
the removal of some of Ashe countyS bot
tlenecks. Work was started this week on
the Glendale Springs bridge, one Of the
main avenues of approach to our county.
This new $55,OO0 structure which replaces
a temporary bridge built after the flood,
will be $50 feet in length, 40 feet wide,
with improved approaches that will elimi-
nate some of the hazards of curves. Accord
ing to the present plans this architectural
span across. New. River will be open to
traffic within the next six months, and
with it's five concrete arches of so feet,
should be~&able to. resist high waters and
the march of time. i.
To the state highway commission and
to WPA We extend thanks from the peo-
pie of this section for the quick action TAX
en- on this much needed problem.
Work is also going; forward on the wild
ening of the highway leading into Jefferson
and on to West jefferson. And the ever
wide-awake Jeffersons Rotary club has
submitted a retition asking that the road
be widened three feet on each side instead
of one This is looking ahead and we be-
heve that the highway department will see
the advantage of a 24-foot thoroughfare
over the present eighteen-foot highway
or the proposed increase of one foot on each
side.
AS pointed out in the petition, this sec
ton of the road is far too narrow for the
present amount of pedestrian and vehicular
traffic without even considering the future
growth!
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Ashe County Gets
$ll4,772.86 From
Social Security
$34, 9O2, O3O.74 Distributed In
North Carolina Through
December, 1910.

Raleigh, Feb. IL. Operation
of four major divisions of the So
cial Security Acts ten divisions
has resulted in the distribution of
$34, 902, 030.74 to individuals in
North Carolina through Deem
Der, 1910, it is shown in figures
released by Charles G. Powell,
Chairman of the N. G. Unemploy-
ment Compensation Commission.
!: Ashe county individuals have
received $114,772.86 from these
funds through December, 1910,
divided as follows: old age assis-
lance, SIS, 968,50; unemployment
compensation, $18,5h3.36; aid to
dependent children, 1892; aid
to the blind, $3,439. 20. ID,
These four major divisions, in
Guiding unemployment conpensa-
ton, old age assistant, aid to de-
pendent children and aid to the
blind, account for about 81 per
Icent of the amount distributed
through ten North Carolina So
cial security program divisions to
the end of the year. The other six
divisions are the five services
including maternal and child
health, crippled children, child
welfare, vocational rehabilitation
and public health services, and
old age and survivors insurance,
which is destined through the
years to become one of the more
important of the five major div
iSions.
Distribution of funds in North
Carolina through the four divi-
sions in three years for unem-
ployment compensation and 31s
wears for the other three have
been as follows unemployment
compensation, $16,792,820.20; old
age assistance, $12, ,506.71; aid
| to dependent children $4,795,9 O9:-
lie, and aid to the blind, $1,l44,-
t794.64.
L Broken down by sources this
1884, eO2, $780, ~ was fdrtIished, $f6s-
792, 5000 or 48.11. PEI, cent,&hy
North Carolina employers; S.
$50, f64.43,s or 24.52 per cent, by
the federal government; $5,02l,-
| 683. 81, or l4.39 per cent, by the
State Of North Carolina; $4,529,-
! 1929, or 1898 per cent, by the
hoo counties Of the state.
i, The unemployment figures do
mot include $378,040.59 paid to
FORMER N. C. residents, with wage
lcredits in the state, who received
benefits while living in other
Estates.
I This information; is supplied By
1.-THE public assistance divisions OF
1.-The state board of charities and
public welfare, the state commits
Ision for the blind and the re-
search and statistics division OF
1.-THE UCC. Mr.. Powell said. ID
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must be disciplined in order ever to be
able to discipline others
This year for the first time in number
of years the fine basketball teams of Ashe
county are sponsoring tournament right
here at home. The school patrons and the
general public should cooperate to help
make this success. Let's give our own
teams boost, go out to see them play and
encourage them to play good game.
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BALKAN EXPLOSION
is EXPECTED SOON

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foot mountain dominating the
town and the road to As1nara,
capital of Eritrea. s.<7s
South African British forces
meanwhile were reported by the
Middle East command to have
driven so miles into Southern
Ethiopia from Kenya colony,
threatening both Adds Ababa
and Fascist communications with
Italian Somaliland at the equator.
A Reuters British news agen-
Cyl dispatch quoting reliable
sources in Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
said 1000 German airplanes had
landed in Bulgaria up to Monday
and that most Bulgarian air
dromes had been taken over by
the Germans. ,, 4-.,t
Thousands of Germans troops
the dispatch said, have entered
Bulgaria from Rumania since
February: l. It was believed, also
that some tanks had been shipped
up the Danube. ..s Z
;. Germany warplanes on the
Eprowl over the Atlantic, hundreds
of miles from their bases, were
reported by the high command
Tuesday to have attacked British
occupied Iceland and sunk "mer-
chantmen totaling 24,500 tons
out of a British convoy 300 miles
off Portugal. ~. "
In the longest of these two
flights, informed nazis said, arm
ed reconnaissance planes dived
yesterday with machine guns
blazing on the British-held air
drome at Reykjavik, Iceland's
capital. In the second, the high
command said that the warship-
escorted convoy was completely
dispersed" and that, in addition to
the unspecified number. Of ships
sunk, four others were seriously
damage" .. ~
Italian bombers Tuesday. night
subjected Athens and its nearby
port of Piraeus to their first night
aerial attack of the war, shatter-
ing workers homes in the tene'
ment district of Piraeus and bury
ing civilians in wreckage. $
The attack, during which nc
bombs fell on Athens itself, fol-
lowed 48 hours of intensified Fas-
cist aerial attacks on Greek cities
and towns throughout the nation
including six cepters. said by the
high command to have been
bombed today. !"
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during the closing months Of the
past year, is slowing up, due to
strikes, bottlenecks and difficult
ties of supply and transportation.
Preventive legislation is, being
discussed, but official quarters
are reticent to recommend a
speed-up by force of law and
would rather continue with mo
raj persuasion.
The news from the Army, too,
is far from encouraging. 100000
men were expected to be in the
Army by this time, and while
Congressional circles are talking
of an army of 100000 by the
end of the year, they are faced
with the fact that only 100000
trainees have thus far been called
into service. g.
Selective Service officials re-
port that they can now supply the
Army with $500, 600 men within
ten days, but bottlenecks are
cropping up everywhere. Delay
in construction Of environments,
caused by the unexpectedly late
passage of draft legislation last
year, is said at Army headquar-
tiers to be responsible for delay
in most cases. In other quarters,
the blame is put on lumber
strikes, lumber profiteering. Ia
Dor shortage, restrictive: labor
practices and outright bsngling in
the War department. At@Army
headquarters IL is insisted, never
the-less. that 606, 900 trainees-win
be In service by July 4, and that
the difficulties are only tempo
rariiy and will soon be overcome.
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I2 ASHE VOLUNTEERS
WILL LEAVE THURS,

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who were re4Mfned aststin1esdue
10 physical condition.
! Each time the call has come for
young men Of Ashe county 70 an
swer the call to coiors there has
been sufficient number Of vol
unteers on the list and it had not
been necessary 20 dra3t any sincf
The military training -hiia was
passed. ,.,+..,.e.
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Science and Blockade

Science made it's first great contribution
to war with gunpowder. But since gun
powder can be used effectively only in
suitable firearms, science also had to de-
velop the iron and steel that were required
to manufacture muskets and cannon on
huge scale. To this day metallurgy re-
ceives much inspiration from war. BeSse-
mer steel was the direct outcome of the de-
f:ciencies of artillery as they were revealed
by the Crimean War Concern with the ex-
pansion and pressure of gases in guns and
the combustibility Of powder aroused in
terest in the laws of gases and other mat
tiers which seemingly have no relation
whatever to war.
But it is the British blockades of the
continent that have had an even broader
influence on the course OF industrial
science. In the eighteenth century Cont
mental Europe needed large quantities of
DYES, soap, detergents and bleaching ag-
ents to keep the textile industry alive.
When prices scared in ITS the French AGA
denny of Sciences offered prize for pro-
cess whereby soda could be made cheap
lv. Nicolas Leblanc won it and thus start
ed the heavy chemical industry. Though
we were not blockaded between 1914 and
1918, we were thrown upon our own re-
sources. We had to develop our own dyes,
optical glass, electric steel, synthetic rub
Der, medicines aluminium alloys and host
of other necessities British industrial re-
search Jagged before 1914. Afterward it
flourished as never before.
Germany owes much to her long-stand-
ing fear of British blockade. She encour-
aged Fritz Eaber to develop his synthe-
tic ammonia process SO that she might be
independent of Chilean nitrates, and Ber-
gius, Fischer and Tropsch to show her how
gasoline can be made out of coal. In sense,
she blockaded herself from the moment
that Hitler came into power; for it was he
who put her on rations in peace and
spurred on the chemists and engineers to
make her self-sufficient. Long before Po-
land was invaded her chemists had been
trying to change wood cellulose into cat
tie fodder, petroleum into an edible fat that
can take the place of butter, milk into
cloth. The garbage pail and the sewer have.
been sources OF raw materials for her in-S
dustrial chemists as far back as 1912. If
the Germans assumed leadership in metal.
lurgy, chemistry and some branches of
engineering, it was not to advance socie-s
ty as whole but largely to forestan the,
consequences Of a war Of their own seek
ing and Of an inevitable blockade that
would cut them off from the outer world. y
THE New York Umes).
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PLANS ARE MADE
FOR DEFENSE PLANTS

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son, members of the steering COM
mittee, DR.. Bostic of Rutherford,
Mr.. Green of Buncombe and Mr..
Scott of Ashe, together with Wal
ter Cartier of Marion, Mcdowell
county; Lewis P. Hamlin Of Bre-
ward, Pennsylvania county; E. w.
Brockman of Gastonia, CASTOR
county; Frank Alternately of Shell
by, Cleveland county; DIR. T.. R.
Burgess of Sparta, Allegheny
county; Jack Arledge of Tryon,
Polk county; J. Dale Stentz of
Waynesville, Haywood county,
and Jim Alternately of Lincoln
ton, Lincoln county.
J. T. Anderson, head of the Di-
vision of Commerce and Industry
of the state of North Carolina, in
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Supplies of potatoes and truck
crops for market during the first
half Of i941 are expected to be
larger than those Of a year ear-.
lier, says the U. S. Bureau q
Agricultural Economics.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
| letters to
The Editor
TO TIE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
THERE is no doubt that De-
- troit needs to do something
about its traffic accidents, but
abolishing left-hand turns. out
side of the downtown district,
will be of little help as long as
the people themselves do nothing
to help remedy the accident toll.
We need 10 enforce the law
prohibiting driving through
safety zones.
A man who pulls up along side
the car track and waits his turn
TO make a left turn without in
conveniencing traffic in the OPP
posite line should be safe in
making that turn when a clear
space comes, but as long as we
permit these wild-eyed gasoline
cowboys who are generally going
nowhere and are in a heck of a
rush 10 get there, to drive down
the car tracks without regard 10
the safety or rights Of others, we
will continue 10 have a mounting
toll of accidents.
While I'm on the subject of
automobiles. wouldn't it be nice
if the police found a way TO
break up this all-night horn
blowing.
Any one who lives near one of
these cute little all-night restau-
rants that give curb service is
certainly in for a restless nights
sleep. Unnecessary blowing of
horns at any time should be
stopped.
MRS. MADELEINE. LARGENT,
4102 Springle avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31

rode tiny horses, and in a foot
race across rice paddles shoes
were bound to be an incum-
brance.
COME OF the Pampanga lads
~ served with a strange char
acter who was General Lawton' S
chief of scouts, and whose story
must one day be embalmed in
film. His name was Young. He
was not enlisted and his back
ground was mystery. though
Lawton seemed TO know him
well.
He dressed in native garb,
sometimes went barefooted and
carried a Mauser, the weapon
of many Of the insurgents, but
never much extra ammunition.
It is said that when he needed
fresh shells he would disappear
in the bosky and return after a
time with a rebel bandolier,
usually bloody, indicating lone
hand foray on a rebel outpost.
He moved ahead of Lawton's
flying columns like ghost,
often taking rebel positions and
towns with his own small force
without waiting for the main
body to come up.
He was killed at the head of
his men while taking a bridge,
and his natives were stunned as
they had commenced to regard
Young as invulnerable. He was
the most picturesque soldier of
fortune of his time and the least
written about.
AS YOU may imagine, t h e
"A Macabebes were not at all
popular with the Tagals. In fact,
you could work up quite a bit
of rancor in the most peaceful
native OF Manila by just men,
tioning the name of the scouts.
They went back to their trad
ing and their weaving and Gull
tivation of rice and sugar after
the Aguinaldo revolution was
abated and were eventually sue
ceeded by the Philippine con-
stabulary and the Philippine
scouts, both of which we note
are included in the present
armed forces of the islands,
hereafter to be known as the
United States Army in the Far
East.
Copyright. 1871. King Features synd.. In,
Distributed by international News serviC
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
Sloan Sums Up

A LFRED P. SLOAN JR. summed up the auto in
dustrys against sudden curtailment of pro-
duction in few words in his recent report General
Motors defense output.
ANY reduction in the production of the automoye
industry cannot possibly result in any measurable
ceeration in the production of materials for national de-
Tense far General Motors operations concerned"
Mr.. Sloan said.
1T will in all likelihood result in the temporary
employment Of large numbers. The Is simple
The plants under construction by General Motors,
tia for producing the things needed for defense,
only just beginning to reach the point where they
absorb materials and employ workers All other plants
just being started"
And what he says about GIN be repeated for
Ford and Chrysler and other automobile makers. His
words should be weighed carefully by those in Wash
ington who would put Michigan relief.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-31
Shoes Indicate Advance
Of Filipino Fighters
BY DAMON RUNYON

WE SEE by the pictures in
the papers of the armed
forces of the Philippine Islands,
just added to our own estab-
lishment by President Roosevelt,
that the native soldiers are now
wearing shoes where shoes prop
erly belong-on the feet.
This indicates the tremendous
sartorial advance that has taken
place in military circles in those
parts since the first Filipinos
were enlisted in the service of
your Uncle Samuel.
That was quite Il spell back.
IT was when the American troops
we're fighting Aguinaldo's army
after the Americans had taken
the Philippines from Spain. The
Americans called Aguinaldo's
lads rebels.
Though when you come right
down TO it, they were doing just
what the Americans forefathers
did in Revolutionary times
fighting for their independence.
However. you know that when
this nation takes possession of
piece of land and any prior
occupants thereof set up a
squawk, those occupants are
rebels per Sc, and let us have no
nonsense about our forefathers.
\ NYWAY, the Americans who
"A were fighting Aguinaldo
found themselves confronted by
battle terrain of rice paddles,
jungle and twisting trails, with
which they were wholly unfa-
miliar. The army master minds
Of the period. decided that it
would be good scheme to mus
ter some native guides who
knew their way about.
They found not far north OF
Manila in the province of Pam
panga on the island of Luzon
where most of the fighting took
place, a people who spoke Ian
guage different from Aguinaldo's
Tagalogs and who did not fancy
the latter.
These people were quite will
ing to hire themselves out to the
Americans -in-the manner of the
Hessians of old, not only as
guides but as fighting men. They
wanted 10 shoot Tagals. So
young American lieutenant,
whose name eludes us at the
moment. enlisted a number Of
the Pampanga fellows in a COM
pany that became known as the
Macabebe Scouts, Macabebe be-
ing the name of a town in the
province.
Thus they became the first
natives Of the islands 10 be in
Quoted into the United States
service and they proved of great
value in showing the trails and
spotting the enemy.
They were issued the regular
equipment of the American
army, including shoes, but what
they did with the shoes was 10
tie them together by the laces
and wear them around their
necks like leather lavallieres. 1t
was somewhat shocking to the
military ethics Of their COM
mander until he discovered that
they could travel faster and
with a minimum OF noise bare
footed and that in any event it
did no good 10 reprimand them.
The So-caI1ed rebels were also
barefooted. except their officers,
who liked polished boots and