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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-28
Principals Met
And Discussed
Many Problems
Agreed Not to Allow Any Bus
to Leave Before 3:15 In
the Afternoon.

A large number of important
details relative to the opening of
schools were discussed at a prin-
cipals' meeting held last Thurs
day afternoon in Supt. J. H.
Hash's office.
In connection with school bus
es, it was agreed that no bus will
leave any school before 3:15 o.
clock each afternoon.
Enough Ashe county Fair cata-
logues were given to the princi-
pals to supply each teacher in the
county with at least one copy and
plans for entering school exhibits
were discussed.
Supt. Hash urged I'd. proper
care be taken of the school text
books and gave out schedule OF
book distribution.
Although some of the schools
are having difficulty in getting g
sufficient number of good school
bus drivers, it was unanimously
agreed that the new rigid require
ments are worthwhile.
"When you give one-fourth as
much time to securing bus driv-
ers as you do to getting good bas-
ketball players, we will have ou1
bus problem solved" Mr.. Hash
asserted.
Each principal agreed to hold
a district teachers meeting before
the opening of schools. !,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-28
West Jefferson
School Started
Monday Morning
Opened With Record Enroll
ment of 485. DR.. Arthur
Fox Is Heard.
NEW COURSE POPULAR

The West Jefferson school
opened Monday with the largest
enrolment in the history of the
school, Prof. B. H. Duncan an
nounced
He said there are 1865 enrolled
in the high school and 800 in the
grades, making a total of 485,
which is 8 more than the largest
enrolment of last year.
''It now looks as though we will
hit the 500 mark this year," Mr..
Duncan declared.
AS result of this suspicious
beginning, the local school is ex-
pecting to have the best year this
time of all. "The outlook is very
promising" the principal said.
DR.. Arthur Fox was the main
speaker at the opening chapel ex-
ercises Monday and the outstand-
ing evangelist delivered an in
spring message.
In connection with class room
work, Prof. Duncan said the new
commercial courses are proving
quite popular. Six different clas-
ses are being taught, tipping, bust
ness arithmetic, shorthand, book
keeping, business law. Miss Marie
Barrier is in charge of this de-
partment.
The new school bus, which has
been assigned to the Obids route,
is solving a rather serious prob
lem of transportation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-28
CONGRESSMAN IN TOWN
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

Congressman r. L. Doughton
and his son, Horton, stopped here
yesterday en- route home from the
big farm meeting in Boone. Con-
gresham said he was sorry that
he could not deliver the dedica-
ton address at the Jefferson
school tomorrow. II have got to
60 back to Washington tomorrow
morning and regret to miss this
OCCASION" he declared. He said
he planned to return this week
end and bring Mrs. Doughton
with him. eve will probably be
at home for week or two"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-28
AsHE COUNTY

is the air-conditioned section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
of the PARKWAY run through
the county
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-28

ASHE COUNTY NEEDS
large industrial plant, agricul-
turai departments in its high
schools, rural telephone lines, a
county recreation center. and
more hard surfaced highways.
Let's get them!
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Mrs. Wallace Speaks
For the First Lady

Of music and song, that replaced the
Inauguration ball, she wore gown Of
shimmering satin almost the blue Of
cornfowers.
To Mrs. Wallace hat is the especially
important item in her costume. She was
more concerned with the tilt Of the smart
black pill-box hat she wore Inauguration
Day than on the fit of her frock When
she substituted for Mrs. Roosevelt at the
last White House Easter egg roll, she
wore the same dress for her two appear
ances but changed her hat.
That Easter egg roll really gave Mrs.
Wallace a workout" in what democracy
demands of its public figures.
This event on Easter Monday is dis
tinct Washington tradition. On that day
the gates of the White House are opened
and children by the tens of thousands
come to roll their eggs and play on the
lawn.
Custom permits the younger ones to
be accompanied by grown-ups, and this
last time 1t seemed that nearly every
child had in tow several adults. The final
count of noses, $4,000, showed all pre-
vious attendance records broken.
In years past, it has been Mrs. Roose-
velts habit to broadcast welcome from
the White House portico and several
times during the day to come out on the
grounds and walk through the crowds,
stopping to talk to the children.
But this Easter week end there we're
two weddings in the Roosevelt clan
her niece and namesake was marrying
in Dedham, Mass, the Saturday before
Easter, and her son, Jimmy, in Los An
geles on Easter Monday.
Mrs. Roosevelt had planned to fly
back to Washington from Massachu-
sets in order to attend the sunrise Eas-
ter services at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier, her usual custom. But
she could not make connections and
that left Mrs. Wallace the task of greet
ing the morn with prayer in her stead.
Then Mrs. Roosevelt decided that on
Easter Sunday she would take a plane
for the West to see Jimmy married TO
Romelle Schneider Mrs. Wallace was
left to carry on in her stead at the
Easter egg roll-that welcoming speech
and those personal appearances.
Now, Mrs. Wallace is shy and hasn't
gone in for public speaking. And that
White House lawn is very big and can
hold lot of people. On Easter Sunday
Mrs Wallace conf1ded to friend that
she wished it were Tuesday right then.
But Monday came as Monday will and
Mrs Wallace in dark blue knit frock
with jacket was on hand to speak her
3O-word welcome from high up on the
portico, which is like broadcasting from
a second-story balcony.
Standing nearby to give smiling sup
port to Mrs. Wallace, who was as serious
as could be, were members of the White
House staff and Miss Malvina Thomp-
son, Mrs. Roosevelts secretary, and
Mrs. James Helm, the White House
social secretary. Afterward, escorted
by Boy Scouts and Girl Reserves, Mrs
Wallace took a short turn through the
crowd.
In all, it was stiff training for her
next task few days later-receiving
in Mrs. Roosevelts stead nearly 1000
delegates attending the White House
reception for the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. Mrs. Roosevelt was
away speech-making.
Evening star., 1941-05-18

had f1ourished in Argentina until large
group Of men got together to fight it,
forming Accion Argentina, a non
political, non-religious organization of
all classes of people.
Two women were asked to serve on
this committee. One of them was
Sonora Ana Rosa S. de Martinez
Guerrero. feminist leader who after
years of effort had been unable to enlist
more than 1000 women in the suffrage
cause. But within two months she had
enrolled $1,000 of her sex in Accion
Argentina. The cause appealed to them
strongly. and they became active
workers.
Many of the women's organizations in
the United States for years have been
fostering improved Pan-American rela-
tions, sponsoring college scholarships
for students from Latin American
nations and carrying on various educa-
tional programs.
All the women taking part in the good
neighbof movement stless the point that
the work they are doing is not directed
simply toward women in Latin America,
but toward broad Latin American in
terests involving men as much as
women. Language, welfare, health,
commercial relations, they point out,
are as much the concern of men as of
women.
Sent as Experts.
This Nation sends many experts to
Latin American nations to teach and
to learn about such matters as nutri-
ton, child welfare and recreation, and
those who are sent are nearly always
women. But they are not sent merely
because they are women, officials point
out They go as experts who are the
best qualified persons available.
Rockefeller in an address to a con-
ference Of women's organizations made
no effort to appeal to the feminine in
terests of his hearers but talked to them
as man to man. He appealed to them
to aid the United States in its efforts
to back up the good-neighbor policy
with sound commercial assistance.
He ard Miss Winslow both asked the
women to buy from Latin American
nations those products which do not
compete with United States goods, and
to help develop new markets for Latin
American foods, jewelry and other prod
uctS.
The power to direct purchasing habits
lies largely In women's hands," Miss
Winslow said.
Sonora Martinez Guerrero has re-
ciprocateo with a strikingly realistic,
basinesslike appraisal of the situation.
A woman of -cmarkable beauty, grave
eyes and dynamic personality, she said:
"The moment has passed for lyrical
expression of solidarity. The need
is for immediate and definite action.
American women, North and South.
must insist on lasting cooperation ex.
pressed first of all in adequate COM
mercial treaties. This is the one sure
way of defeating the forces Of totali-
tarianism, because although territory
can be defended by guns and planes,
democracy can be defended and pre-.
served only through the weil-being ana
happiness of its peoples"
Evening star., 1941-05-18
.Washington's First Trained Nurses

n Few people in this busy world ever
stop long enough to give even the
sslightest consideration to the value of
the professional woman nurse.
& Today there are thousands of nurses
IN Washington, plying their profession
1t all hours of the day and night, some
attending only ordinary cases of Illness
others waiting on contagious diseases,
where the most extreme precaution
must be taken not to contract or spread
the melady. Generally, 1t does not
seem to be the most pleasant vocation
one might select, and yet those engaged
in it certainly seem cheerful and happy,
and rightly they should be, for
admittedly it is glorious humanitarian
occupation, worthy of the loftiest COM
mendation.
Z Trained nursing, or scientific nurs-
ing, does not go back very far in the
District OF Columbia, and yet its start
In the United States pegan when
Florence Nightingale was but 16 years
of age, ii years before this wonderful
woman learned formal discipline in hos
pital nursing from the sisters of the
order OF st. Vincent de Paul, while
making tour of Egypt in the winter of
.lS49-50, and which knowledge, and that
acquired later, she so successfully ap-
piled during the Crimean War and SUBJ
sequently, and which identified her for
all time with this merciful work.
First Training School.
The first attempt to train or educate
o nurse to prepare her for her calling,
in the United States, was in the Phila-
delphia Lying-in Hospital and Nurses
School, which was opened in 1886. How
ever, this school seems to have had a
very brief existence, and the project
actually slumbered until 1868. when
a training school was opened in con-
nection with the Woman's Hospital at
Philadelphia. Subsequent to this, in
1873, scheme of general nursing, an
Evening star., 1941-05-18

Pan-American goodwill a m p G n.
Millions of women from the Great
Lakes to Cape Horn are thus united in
thousands of projects to promote under
standing and mutual assistance between
the men and women of the northern
and southern continents. Some of the
South American women enjoy the
freedom of the most modern constitu-
tions; some are voteless and live under
most of the restrictions of the Napoleonic
code, which made women's legal position
inferior to mems in nearly every respect.
Kept Out Of Business.
That code, designed to shelter women
and shield them from harsh contact
with the world, kept them out Of busi-
ness and out of all contact with govern
ment.
In some Latin American countries
today women are not allowed to work
unless they have their husbands per-
mission, and then their earnings be-
come the property of their husbands.
They cannot own property. In some
countries women cannot enter into
contract without their husbands con-
sent; they cannot be witness to will,
cannot be trustee nor a receiver.
Some countries, while permitting
husband to sue his wife for unfaithful-
ness, do not permit her to sue him for
the same cause. The father alone has
legal control over the children. Women
cannot enter the professions, no matter
how well educated; they cannot be ad-
ministrators of hospitals, asylums or
welfare institutions.
Some Of the Latin American countries,
on the other hand, are far ahead of
the United States in their treatment
Of women. Cuba adopted a constitution
last year which abolished all legal dis
ordinations against women, including
many which prevail in this country,
Mexico has put similar provision into
its constitution, but this measure has
not yet been signed and promulgated
by the President of Mexico.
Women enjoy national suffrage in
Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba and Ell
Salvador. and they will obtain it in
Mexico when the new law becomes
effective. Chile, Peru and Argentina
have granted partial suffrage to women.
Uruguay is noted throughout the
Americas for its numerous successful
women'S organizations 1t is charac-
teristic Of the women leaders of the
Latin American countries that they
have concentrated on building I'D Or
ganizations to promote public health,
nutrition, child welfare, recreation and
other types of social work, rather than
carrying on political campaigns to ad-
vance feminism. If they do this work
well. they reason, they'll get the vote
later
Miss Winslow, for all her long ex-
perience as suffrage agitator, says
that radical feminism is an outgrown
technique She believes the Latin
American women are right in their
belief that they get further by first
making contributions to the welfare of
their country.
One of the most significant movements
IN South America illustrates this tend
ency Of the women. Nazi propaganda
Evening star., 1941-05-18

idea of the training schools, was in
troduced In this country from Europe
and first established in the Bellevue
Hospital In New York City, and up to
the year 1883 there were SO such schools
reported ir this country.
Naturally, the Civil War was respon-
sible for the training of large number
of women nurses, nearly all of whom
volunteered their services. Undoubtedly,
chief among these was Clara Barton,
founder of the American Red Gross,
and today the foremost organization of
its kind the world over.
This fine woman who was at the head
of this body from 1881, when it was in
corporateG as THE Association of the
Red Cross" to 1904, when it had as
sumed its present name, was, indeed,
q near Washingtonian, having come to
this city in November, 1854, and with the
exception of few years when out of
the city on duty or resting up, she
resided here or in nearby Maryland
until her death at Glen Echo on April
u, 1912.
Like so many other people, Clara
Barton came to Washington before the
Civil War in order to secure employ
ment. Hei first job was teaching school,
but this she soon gave up when friends
secured copying for her to do from
the Patent Office. Sh. did this at home,
10000 words daily being her task.
At this time the Commissioner of
Evening star., 1941-05-18

annual report for the printer, and the
commissioner, being attracted by the
excellence of her work, appointed her,
in 1855, clerk in charge of confidential
desk at the salary of 81 400 year.
In this way she became the first
woman to receive an appointment in
the Government departmental service.
and we are told she made very good
one. But her Government position was
no more certain then than it would be
today, or seemingly so, at least, and
when the Buchanan administration
came into power and William D. Bishop
became the Commissioner of Patents,
she was let out of The service.
Improved Her knowledge.
But the separation thus enforced upon
her was not wasted, for Miss Barton
continued to improve her knowledge of
French, literature and art, before she
was reinstated, which was not long.
In 1861, when the war began, and the
9th Massachusetts, Volunteers from her
own State arrived in Washington after
their exciting encounter passing through
Baltimore, she left her desk, feeling
that her country needed her elsewhere.
But the patriotism thus demonstrated
was in sense rewarded, for she was
continued on the pay roll throughout
the war. g. fellow clerk named Edward
Shaw working overtime in order to keep
up her desk.
"All TIE summer came distressing
Evening star., 1941-05-18

kind, the Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety Is doing magnificent work. This
society, which Is private, non-sectarian
public health nursing body, was Or
ganized a little over IL years ago, It's
first nurse being Miss Ruth E. Mason.
Miss Mason remained with this society
for five years. An account of her ex-
perience here in her pioneer nursing
days, written a year ago, is well worth
repeating. She says:
ut was Al years ago the first OF this
present month that assumed the duty
of being the first nurse Of this splendid
organization under the supervision of
Miss Emily Tuckerman, the organizer.
My headquarters were located in the
Office of the Southwest Associated Char
tiles agent and were in the home of
poor epileptic widow and her three small
children who lived on K street S.W,
Washington.
II was to cover the entire Southwest
Of the city at salary of s25 and ex-
penses per month which was entirely
paid by Miss Tuckerman.
When weather permitted I did my
visiting by bicycle, walking when weather
was such I could not use the bicycle.
At that time the greater part of the
Southwest section was cobblestones and
distance to the extreme point rather
far.
"At the end Of five and one-half years
I was forced to leave the most interesting
work OF my life and seek to regain my
own health, which has been uphill
work"
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Women Are Helping Uncle Sam Make Friends

Uncle Sam Is counting on his women
folk for a lot of help in this business
of getting on friendlier terms with his
neighbors.
Sam himself can be a good neighbor
by lending money and giving help if
somebody starts scrap. But when the
neighbors store is on the rocks, the
women are the ones who must COM
mence buying there to help him out.
And for the social activities, of course,
Sam would be at a complete loss without
feminine aid.
Most women see a special reason for
wanting Nad-ism and Fascism defeated,
anyway. Totalitarianism takes away
their suffrage and the civil rights for
which they have struggled for genera
tions. Hitler and Mussolini put women
back in the inferior position they held
in past generations; Franco, even
before he won the Spanish revolution,
abolished women's suffrage.
Hope for Suffrage.
On the other hand, the feminists of
Latin America are expecting the present
emergency to leave them in a much
stronger position than they have been
up to now, provided totalitarianism is
defeated. Just as United States women
got the vote after the last war, the
Latin American women who are not
now enfranchised are hoping they will
get suffrage after this conflict is over.
Miss Minerva Bernardino, acting
chairman of the Inter-American Com
mission of Women, explains that in
wartime women are called into industry
and into social and welfare work, taking
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Bv Ruth Conan.

CThe stars Special News Service)
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the
Vice President, could write after her
name: "Pinchhitter"
Since the Inauguration she has been
getting lot of experience in doing just
that for Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt who
never yet has found enough hours in a
day to do all the things she wants to.
In pretty Ilo Browne Wallace the
circulation.
Unlike Mrs. John Nance Garner who,
as secretary to Vice President Garner,
didn't have the time or the inclination to
go about to teas and receptions, Mrs.
Wallace has q well-filled social calendar.
The Garners got up at dawn, went to
bed early and never went out at night If
they could help it. But Vice President
and Mrs. Wallace are not so adverse to
late hours, especially If the event has an
official or semi Official nature.
Mrs. Wallace is serious about her role
as second lady. She plays the part ex-
pected of her in a reserved, quiet manner,
careful to do the proper thing at the
proper moment. But one gets the i'm
preston she would rather be at home.
She is a very attractive woman Her
CRAVING brown hair, which she wears
softly waved back from her high fore
head, accents her large and expressive
brown eyes that can sparkle with merri-
ment. She is of medium height and has
to watch her figure.
In Mrs. Wallace's case there is truth
in the time-worn compliment: "She gets
prettier as time goes by" 1t is true even
since the Inauguration, and her friends
say "she has certainly blossomed out
since she first came to Washington"
That was back in 1888. The Wallaces
and their three children were living on a
400-acre farm outside Des Moines, Iowa.
Wallace has modern ideas in farming
that we're attuned to the New Deal and
President Roosevelt dealt him a place in
his first cabinet-as Secretary of Agri-
culture-the same his father had held
in the Republican administration of
President Harding.
And SO the Wallaces came to Washing
ton. In those days Mrs. Wallace wasn't
counting calories so carefully. She
pulled lovely hair severely back from
her round face. She wore spectacles
unbecoming to her. She didn't give
clothes much thought.
But political life makes pictorial de-
mands and her husband was becoming
increasingly important. AS one way of
doing her part, Mrs. Wallace began pay
ing attention to fashions.
She did an expert job. This spring
the Fashion Academy in New York
selected her as the best dressed woman
in public life" That's topping quite a
number of women important in Wash
ington official life who make a study
of clothes.
The award could be taken as an attri-
butte to her elegant but simple inaugu-
ration outfits. She selected that back
bone of nearly every successful wardrobe
the simple black dress-for the days
main events, the church services and
that important moment when she saw
the man she had married when he was
a reporter on his dads farm paper take
the oath of Office as vice president.
To the gala" theatrical ensemble
Evening star., 1941-05-18

candidates were minimum age Of 20
years, a certificate of moral character
and sound health and an elementary
education.
The presidents NJ the Washington
Training School for Nurses, from 1877
to 1902 included in order: DR.. Thomas
Antisell, DR.. j. M. Toner, DR.. j. T. john
son, DR.. D. Webster Prentlss, DR.. William
Lee, DR.. P. j. Murphy, DR.. H. j. Fry, Mr..
Henry F. Blount and Prof. Thomas
Wilson.
One of the earliest activities pro-
NOTED here for the purpose of aiding
the training school was loan exhibi-
ton given in 1881, which had for its
purpose "the establishing and maintain
ing school for the proper and free
education of nurses" and those at
tached to a speciaI committee men
toned in this connection were S. H.
Kaufman, Thomas Wilson, F. B.
MCGUIRE. Mrs. v. R. Hoxie, Miss Juliet
Emery. Mr.. B. Ogle Tayloe, Maj. Powell,
Prof. S. F. Baird, Mrs. S. H. Kaufman
nd G. Brown Goode.
TO-DAY there are thousands of trained
lurses in Washington and as equally
reat rumber of student nurses who
re long will become graduates.
The Federal Government in its various
medical branches employs many nurses
to assist in caring for its patients. The
same Is true of the District government,
which takes care of many cases finan-
cially unable to care for themselves
OF the other organizations Of this