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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-02-04
Fathers Soon To
Face Draft Call
New Move Intended To Shift
Men Into Vital War Jobs
In Near Future

Washington - The government
this week warned hundreds of
thousands of American workers
to expect no further draft de-
ferments, regardless of their
number of dependents-unless
they find more essential jobs.
It told men in 20 occupations
that, even though they have five
or six children, they must find
war-important jobs by Spring or
face induction. The "nonessen-
tiaI' occupations affected range
from bartenders to gardeners and
walters.
And Uncle Sam informed SO
kinds of businesses-from curtain
makers to tobacco vendors-that
their physical fit male workers
from Is to 38 will soon be doing
more vital work-or shouldering
Continued on Page ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-02-04
Principals OF
Schools To Meet
Next Thursday
To Discuss Commencement
Plans, RatiOning Registra-
ton And Other Work

A meeting of the principals of
the Ashe county schools will be
held next Thursday afternoon,
Feb. II at the courthouse at 800
o'clock, Superintendent ]. B.
Hash announced yesterday. AT
this time a number of important
matters will be brought before
the group and all of the princi-
pals are urged to be present.
Mr.. Hash said there would be
a discussion relative to registra-
ton for Ration Book II as well
as an outline of the brief educa-
tional course which is to be Civ
Continued on Page ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-02-04
Want Schools To
Report Seal Sale

Miss Ruth Tugman, chairman
of the tubercular seal sale, re-
ported yesterday that a total of
$261.57 was received from the
sale of seals with IL schools yet
to be reported. Miss Tugman
asked that these schools send or
bring in their reports so that the
contest might be decided and all
reports made.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-02-04
$4,000 Raised In
Drive For Funds
To Fight Polio
Quota OF $121 Is Far Exceed
ed; Good Response In
Schools

County Chairman Glenn Parker
announced yesterday that total
of $40O.19 has been raised in the
drive for funds to fight infantile
paralysis. This is far beyond the
quota which was set at S121.OO,
he explained and pointed out that
there are several schools yet to
be heard from. Those who have
not turned in their reports are
urged to do so at once.
Reports already turned in from
the schools show the following:
Continued on Page ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-02-04
1t. Quessenberry
Now Back In u. S.

1t. H. D. Quessenberry, who
has been in the Panama area for
several months arrived last week
end back in the U. S. and is now
stationed at Camp Van Dorm,
near Vicksburg, Miss.
Mrs. Quessenberry left this
week to visit him there. It.
Quessenberry, who was formerly
the assistant county agent OF
Ashe, has many friends who will
be interested to learn of his re-
turn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-02-04
n, C.. Income Tax
Man Coming Here

Joe Sink, of the N. c. Depart
ment of Revenue, will be in the
Clerk of Courts office in the
courthouse at Jefferson on March
and II to assist in the filing of
N. G.. income and intangible tax
returns.
Any single person with an in
come of $1,000 or a married per-
son with an income Of $4,000 is
required to file a return, Mr..
Sink pointed out.
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CONTINUED on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-01
WAR SPURS FTsH INDUSTRY

WaFtlnle needs have btlnulhLed
new Developments IN the flah n.
dustry IN the fields Of dehydFas
ton and canning Of iish not util.
lied previously for food. A partial
substitute foF imported feed has
BEEN found and poullEy feed has
been made from dogfah and shark
eaFeaaaes that formerly we're dis
carde6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-01
HENRY

power Of suggestion called up by
contrast.
The new character must not be
a grossly disguised or arresting
figure. Heavy boards, and SCARED
cheeks, and wigs and built-up
heels - a limp or a STOPPING Shout
der - these devices would not
serve. They would only invite
more attentive scrutiny. The new
character must be as normal a
fellow, as inconspicuous a fellow,
as might be contrived.
When I knew that the Bill
Stewart whom I had never seen
was to be the key opening the
way for the appearance of my
new character, did several
things. First, I settled to a study
of European affairs, because 1t
seemed obvious that I must be
a European, and a journalist If
that worked out properly.
Second, acquainted myself
with the manners and manner
isms of international journalists,
an easy task because they had
written so much about themselves
in recent years. I learned the
names of the people whom I
should claim as colleagues. I
dropped anecdotes and epigranls
into my memory.
And, third. I began to sketch
in. my mind the outlines of the
character who would be my execu-
toner.
The name OF Vaughan Dunbar
appealed to me when I read 1t
on the cover of q book which he
had published. The book was
some years old, q collection Of his
most important dispatches. They
were sound. but stiffish and alto
gether conservative. That was
what I wanted = and Vaughan
Dunbar, his name and such OF
his background as ] might need.
would serve my purpose. He
would serve them doubly well.
because, as far as ! could learn.
he was dead. He certainly was
not IN the United States.
(TO BE ContinuedD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-01
PRENTISS-DUNBAR
CHAPTER XIV
by MORRIS MARKEY

I had made Henry Prentiss, dur
ing that year, with all the method
tcal care which sculptor would de-
vote to a major work. I had begun
by writing down, after the fashion
Of q novelist, the full and complete
story Of his life an imaginary
life which began in a home Of
pampered wealth, and led through
many adventures, all amusing and
few even dangerous, to the quest
Of Idle pleasures on the Pacific
coast.
I carefully recounted his whims
and his idiosyncrasies. And I
drew, with all the skill I could
command, the presence which he
offered to the world: his physical
appearances, his interest, his hui
mors and his graces-or lack Of
them.
Then I set to work to bring
that character into existence: to
make him live and breathe, as
wildly and as strongly marked
as ! possibly could without going
to the length of caricature.
Polo was savagely difficult
part Of it. But must play polo
II ! was to enter fully and smooth
~ into the way Of life at Gull
Point. In the first place, I had
no natural aptitude for games,
because the struggles to keep alive
in my early years had left no
time for them. And certainly I
had no aptitude for a game de-
nnanding a high degree of horse
manship. Added to this was the
fact that I had always been left
handed, and already the polo as
Sociations were frowning upon
left-handed players because they
are source Of danger on the field.
I It required not weeks, but
months and months of hard, daily
schooling under the coach whom
I employed before I was good
enough to seek an invitation to
one Of the club games at the Rivi-
era Club. I never really enjoyed
q single moment of any of the
games that I played.
Almost fantastic luck played
into my hands, the only real stroke
of luck that ever appeared in my
slow pursuit of the plan. That
was when Fred West came to
California to play two or three
games at the clubs there.
My inquiries at Gull Point had
already put him among the people
I must know. and cultivate. And
/ could hardly believe the turn OF
fortune which made him an ac-
quaintance. II not a friend. even
before the time when / would
make my appearance on Long
Island.
It was an acquaintanceship OF
golden worth 70 me.
Perhaps IL would be well. here. TO
explain somewhat more clearly the
way IN which ] proposed 70 carry
uut my purpose = and at'the same
time rum no risk Of detection, or
the bleak humility Of capture.
Henry Prentlss would become q
fully active partner in all the life
o. Gull Point: an amusing, and
indeed an interesting addition 70
Ne idle life Of the community:
Nell-lo-do, not burdened with 100
mueh q bralns, generous. warm
81 nature, as obvious Is thou
fand e b. Kind II Ike commnni-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-01
III SERIAL STORY
7 AM A MURDERER
COPYRIGHT. ieA2.
NEA SERVICE. INC.

ties all over the world, and no
more mysterious than a shower OF
rain.
Becoming fixture within the
scene, he would become, so to
speak, his own accomplice. For,
after gaining an intimate know
ledge Of the pattern of life in Gull
Point and at Stone House, he
would be able to choose the mo-
ment and call the cue for the en-
trance of that second character
the executioner.
You will observe, I am sure, the
manifold advantages of the double
representation. The existence Of
Henry PrentiSs, his patent limo.
cence and harmlessness, would be.
come firmly established. When the
execution occurred, nobody On
earth would ever think twice
about good old Hank.
But, being on the inside as II
were, Henry ~Prentiss could choose
the moment Of the cir TX at will
He could bring on the executioner
in whatever shape the latter was
ultimately, to appear, at precisely
the right moment.
The executioner would vanish
when his work was done. but
Henry Prentiss, good old Hank
would still occupy his own ia
miliar niche in the society of the
neighborhood. Furthermore, he
would be able to follow" the course
of the chase for the eXecutioner
to know precisely how that chase
went, to learn instantly of any
mistakes that might have beer
made.
For more than a year I lived
at Gull Point without thinking
seriously at all of the executioner's
character, when, finally, the time
would come for him to reach the
scene.
Needless to say, I was quickly
invited to Stone House. I had so
immersed myself in the character
of Henry Prentiss that I could sit
with Norman Tinker or with my
sister, called Cynthia Merriwether,
and never suffer the least qualrn,
either of conscience or of fear.
I chatted many a time with
Norman Tinker. knowing well
that his life was in my hands,
and that I should dispose of it
when the fitting moment came.
I did not gloat. I felt neither I'M
holy Joy nor foolish anxiety. ] was
at work upon a job.
1t was not until Cynthia had told
her 10th tale Of Bill Stewart that
his name. his existence. swan into
my mind as the beginning of my
second character. the executioner.
OF course, the essential thing
In the arrival and departure Of
this character was that he must
appear with an immediate entree
70 Stone House; that his time upon
the scene must be as brief as
might possibly be managed, and
that no suspicion whatever must
fall upon him until he had nn-
ished his work, and disappeared
forever,
] saw. at last. Bill Stewart.
opening the door Of stone House
that retgibutiOn might enter IN.
The fundamentals OF the second
character had. Of course. been
integral Nth the creation Of the
iirst one. Henry Prentiss. FOR the
ffnpefsonaiion must reig upon
contrasts and upon ne iinmonss
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22

the erudite prelate destined 1t to be
a real liberal arts college Of sub
stantially the same general char
acter as the others, sectarian or not,
which have made our New England
"the schoolhouse of the nation"
From small local institution with
a dozen undergraduates Holy Cross
rapidly developed into a nationally
patronized seat of learning, open to
men of all creeds. The last avail
able statistics gave it some 1900
students in residence, with ninety
teachers comprising both clerics
and laymen.
On this June day of our second
year at war there will be no solemn
commemorative ceremonies on "The
Hill Of Pleasant Springs" to trans
late the Indian name of Package
hoag, where the college sits. NO
sonorous Latin orations will be pro-
nounced by learned lips; merely the
words of the Mass at dawn. For the
sons of Foly Cross, more than $500
strong, have gone forth to do bat
tie for their country. Some five hun
dred more are in the regular clergy
or in engious orders, serving as
chaplainS or in the healing arts. OF
the graduates and former students
of the past ten or more years, a
fair estimate is that about one IN
every two Of these former wearers
of the Purple Is in the nations uni
form. 1t Is record Of service OF
which all men, young or old, who
have ever caroled out 1.-THE Bells
Of st. Mary's" may be humbly
proud.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22
Substituting Mistakes OF Government

Steps taken by government agencies to
reduce food prices threaten the life of
the retail food distribution industry.
These agencies hesitate to tackle the in
flation problem at its roots where it
would affect one and all alike Failure
to establish an adequate tax and war fl
nancing program, temporizing with pres
sure groups, appeasement of labor rack
eteerS, political aspirations that take
precedence over the welfare of the ma
tion-all of these things contribute to
the rising cost of living. And it is the
merchant who must pass the accumulat-
ed costs on to the ultimate consumer. as
those costs are beyond his control.
Irrationally, the politicians, as they
witness their mistakes advertised on the
price tags of necessities, are seeking to
force food distributors to cover up for
them by establishing prices wholly out
OF line with costs.
The mistakes of food administration
in the war emergency cannot be kept
from the public by "cover-up' policy
which attempts to make retailers the
goat. Retail distributors have done a
magnificent job of carrying out price and
rationing controls, just as they have in
maintaining an efficient distribution sys-
tenn in the face of overwhelming hand-
caps. But they cannot and should not
be expected to subsidize the mistakes of
government.
Attempting to "roll back" or Greece"
retail prices before the cost of produc-
ton is controlled, is like trying to hold
back the tide by an edict that it shall not
rise.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22

wear, the food we eat, must be put with
in our reach by the distribution industry.
No service is more essential. Speaking for
the industry, David r. Craig, president OF
the American Retail Federation, has this
to say of merchandising: eve are essen
tial because we are the industry . q.
upon which the public must rely in order
to obtain the goods which it must have.
We do not know of any other way by
which the civilian public can get its goods.
The retailer is the quartermaSter to the
civilian population q. The real ques-
ton is whether the civilian population is
essential"
If the civilian population is essential,
then the industry which supplies it with
necessities must also be essential. Since
no reasonable person questions the need
for a hardworking, highly productive
civilian population in wartime, why should
the job which the merchant must carry
on be minimized? Why should the mer-
chants, in addition to feeding and cloth
ing us, be forced to argue the obvious
that efficient distribution of necessities
is as vital as an adequate supply of
necessities?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22
Less Food Next Year

New York states Emergency Food
Commission has recommended to Gov
ernor Dewey the substitution of SprOuted
soy beans for meat, as a war diet. Why?
Because we do not have enough grain for
both humans and animals, so the COM
mission believe that much of the animal
population will have to be liquidated, and
this will result in increased shortage of
milk, eggs, butter, lard and meat. Her
bert Hoover who made his international
reputation as an expert on wartime food
problems, predicts a 10 to IS per cent
shortage in animal feed during the next
year, because SO million arabic acres are
out of production as contrasted with
1912. We think we are facing shortage
realities now, when store shelves and
refrigerators cannot provide even the
limited quantities of many items which
rationing is designed to assure for each
of us. But the only reason we get even
what we do is because, by the grace OF
God and the weather man, 1912 was
bumper year. If it had been poor crop
year, or even normal, the granary OF
democracy would look as bare as Mother
Hubbards cupboard. We are perpleXed
and bedeviled about the food situation
because nine federal departments with
uI1oOlCOAOl1 NAo1lS1 NAOAA
know the facts, Won'tface them or think
we can't be trusted with them-or, it
could be, because they would prefer that
we should not draw differences as to how
the food problem has been mishandled.
But MI. Hoover points out that in view
of the greatest harvest and the greatest
meat production in history, although
only 10 per cent has gone to lend-lease
and rationing is supposed to have
reduced domestic civilian consump-
ton by 80 per cent, we are eat
ing up our SURPRISES and shall have less
to eat next winter than we have this
summer Acreage has been stepped up
by per cent. A bad spring already has
wiped out this anticipated advantage.
This years crop probably will be at least
IL per cent perhaps much more, below
the 1912 production that has proved in
sufficient.
eff the statistics are correct, and do
not challenge Them" says Mr., Hoover,
"then some bureaucracy is strangling the
flow of food from the farmer to the house
wife" That would not seem overstate-
ment, considering that eight independent
bureaus - Agriculture, OPA Lend-Lease,
B. E. w., Army, Navy, ManpoWer Commits
sion and WPB-must be brought into
agreement before any intelligent action
on food can be taken.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22
No Magic In Bureaucracy

New frontiers of accomplishment that
promise not only better living for us,
but for the peoples of the world, are seen
for the future by Robert P. Barbour, pres
ident of the National Board of Fire I'm
derwriters, if opportunity and rewards
are not denied and eff government keeps
it's hands out of business and industrial
enterprise that can be handled capably
by private citizens"
Speaking at the Boards 77th annual
meeting, Mr.. Barbour called attention to
warnings by Congressional leaders OF the
dangerous expansion of government by
bureaucratic edict and directive, and said:
"Only an informed and vocal public can
kill this unhealthy growth, which, in so
many countries of the world, has made
the individual little more than a cipher.
Let no one believe any government has
magic enough to give something Tor
nothing"
Mr.. Barbour cited a world trend TO
minimize the importance of the individual
and to magnify the importance OF the
state, with resulting loss of personal lib
erty and initiative. even in this coun-
try there has been growth of philosophy
that would have US believe we have out
grown the American way of life, that gov
eminent bureaus and uper-agencies can
plan for and direct the individual better
than he can for himself; philosophy
which tells young people that the oppor-
tunities that their forefathers enjoyed
have gone and that the government must
plan and do for them"
1t is healthy sign when business and
political leaders are alert to recognize
menace to freedom on the home front as
well as the battle front
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22
Views Of The Press

the first building of the College of
The Holy Cross was laid. Its founder
was the Right Reverend Benedict
Joseph Fenwick, second Catholic
bishop of Boston, whose diocese
then comprised all New England.
Appropriately he chose for the new
institutions inaugural the feast day
of st. Aloysius, patron of studious
youth. For the collegiate training of
the young men of his flock the
bishop summoned the priests of the
Society of Jesus, who already at
that date had a three-centurieS' -old
tradition of educational successes In
nearly all lands. The scholars OF
the simple black robe have now
added to the history of their order
another century of distinguished
teaching.
Although the college has sent
many of its most gifted alumni into
the Catholic priesthood, notably in
the region, It's graduates In the
other learned professions and in the
business world have been numerous.
Bishop Fenwick did not design 1t
as a seminary. With rare foresight
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22
GOVERNOR SMITH HOUSES
New York Herald-Tribune)

Mayor LaGuardia, in his an
nouncement of three more state
housing projects scheduled for
completion after the war, said in
the course of his description of
the program that one of the projects
would be named for former Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith-the only one
of the many groups, by the way,
which will take its name from a
person still living. This action seems
peculiarly fitting. Governor Smith
Houses will occupy the area bound
ed by Roosevelt, Madison, South and
Catherine streets. This particular
development will cost $13, Oo0,00o and
will provide living and recreation
space for $3.50 persons.
For many years this area has been
more or less blighte6, and in spots
it is dismaying in its unloveliness.
And yet 1t is rich In history and its
associations with our recent yester-
days. 1t is what might be called
"the AL Smith country" There, at
174 South street, Mr.. Smith was
born. His youthful comings and go
ings, his earl battles and his half
formed dreams of amounting to
something" all are connected with
that dismal but somehow vital Sec
ton. For many years, even after he
had attained considerable promi-
hence, Mr.. Smith continued to live
in Oliver street, part Of which will.
be included in the new housing
Governor Smith Houses" Is aptlJ
so called, a deserved gesture to oul
elder statesman, the most thor
oughgoing New Yorker Of them all
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22
Current Comment

I'm not interested in abstruse
speculations about the respective
merits of day and night bombing.
I'm a believer in both day and night
bombing, and that's what the Ger
mans are going to get remorselessly
and without respite for the rest of
the war.
-Sih Archibald Sinclair, Birth
aih miniter.
BY the end of the ummer, the
USAAF will be carrying its full
share of the bombing offensive with
the Raj
Maj. Gen. Ira c. Eaker, U. S. air
chief for Europe.
There can be no moral distinction
and there should be no legal dis
tinction between such men (axis
leaders, and common criminals con-
spring to murder.
Herbert Hoover and former Am
bassador in Belgium Hugh Glib
son, jointly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22

One of our Warmest week-ends of the
season, and which ushered in the sum-
mer season, found people making at
tempts to 60 to nearby shore resorts. AS
usual the Metropolitan newspapers had
pictures of the throngs on Coney Island
beach. The children are already getting
perturbed about their summer sWin1s.
Those cities and towns are fortunate that
have swimming ponds within walking
distance for the youngsters, or that are
convenient to bus lines.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-22

Bus services are being adjusted some
what in Waterbury. 1t was source of
hardship and confusion for many when
the runs" that took care of certain sec
tons on the outskirts and outside the
city limits we're discontinued. Some of
these discontinued runs are again in
progress, including the Bradleyville spur
and the Bradley avenue and Piedmont
extension run. The going was pretty diff
ficult for residents in these sections, or
rather the lack of transportation for 60
ing. The company is doing all it can to
make matters agreeable and give what
ever services it is possible under present
circumstances.