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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
Laurel Fork News
By Wade Key

A meeting will be held at the
Laurel Fork Mission, on Sunday
afternoon, at 800 o'clock, when
Rev. Stanley Wheeling, of Balti-
more, Md, will be present.
Mrs. Fred Johnson and small
son, Freddie, visited her husbands
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. John
son. over the week end.
Mr.. Thomas Cox has recently
returned to his home.
Mrs. Cora JONES returned home
Sunday, after spending several
days with relatives in the Fair
Plains community.
Mr.. Daniel Brown, of Halls
Mills, was business visitor here,
Saturday.
Mrs. Odell Key has been i'll for
sometime here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Cox and
family visited relatives and
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PRESIDENT ASKS
FOR WORLD PEACE

CONTINUED from page onel
years on the organization of an
international agency to maintain
peace.
Mr.. Roosevelt stressed, too, the
non-partisan approach he said
there had been both in the admin
istration and congress to the
whole question, and praised the
four Republican and four Dem
ocrat senator's members of the
foreign relations committee
who have conferred with Secre-
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IN MEMORIAM
CHARLES l.. DUNCAN

In memory of our dear husband
and father, Charles L. Duncan,
who died February %, 1914.
So sad and sudden was the call,
A bitter grief, shock severe.
1t was to part with one so dear;
A light is from our household,
gone,
A voice we loved, is still.
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
Wife and Children.
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REVIVAL BEING HELD

Revival services are now being.
held at the Church of God, Red
dies River, conducted by Evange-
list Charles "A. Keys, Jr. The
service starts at 800 o'clock each
evening, and the public is cordial
ly invited to attend.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends for the kindness and help
during the illness and death of
our brother and uncle, Fletcher
Sawyer. Also for the beautiful
flowers.
Ulys and Hattie Sawyer,
Frank Sawyer, Mrs. Worth
Goss, Mrs. LYDIA FISHERMAN,
Mrs. Walter Vanover, and
Mrs. Lon Andrews.
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FARMERS ARE URGED
TO FIGHT INSECTS
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lite dust 5000 cryolite and 4O4o
of carrier as tale, clay or sulphur:
but not lime) or use a rotenone
dust. Start busting first week af-
ter beans come up and dust every
7 to 10 days, depending on beetle
infestation and weather condi-
tons"
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Avery Elliott, 10,
Dies In Penna.

Funeral service was held yes
terday morning at HOO o'clock,
at Roaring Fork for Avery Elliott,
10, of Kirkwood, Pa, formerly of
this county, who died at his home
on Sunday, May %. Burial was
held at the Farmer cemetery.
The deceased, who was employ
ed at Naval base, is survived by
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. M.
Elliott, and the following brothers
and sisters: Carrie, Chessie, J. c.,
Glenn, Robert andsH Howard Elliott
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
Classified Ads

FOR SALE-One pure bred
Angus bull, with papers, Ia
months old. Price $4,000. IF in
terested, see or write c. B. Jones'
Lansing, N. C.. 6-1-4tKs
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tary Hull on the subject. One of
the difficulties of the League of
Nations, he remarked, was that it
got involved in partisan politics
in this country.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01

FOR SALE-Spinet Piano. On
ly 81 inches high in beautiful
mahogany finish. For price and
full descriptions, write or CALI
Garwood Piano Company, Wilkes
boro, N. G. 6-1-4Tp
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friends in the Maymeadow COM
munity, Sunday.
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ASHE GIRLS GRADUATE
FROM LEES-McRAE

Final graduating exercises at
Lees-McRae College were held in
the college auditorium on Mon
day morning, when the principal
address was given by R. E. Kell,
manager of the Grey Hosiery
Mills, of Bristol, Virginia.
At the commencement exer-
cises the Reverend Thompson B.
Southall, pastor of the Banner
Elk Presbyterian Church, deliver
ed the invocation. Special music
was rendered by the Lees-McRae
choir, after which diplomas were
presented to the graduates.
Among the graduates were three
Ashe county girls. They are Mary
Louise harrington, of Wagner;
Katherine Greybeal, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Greybeal,
of Fig, and Norma Virginia Jones,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Austin
Jones, of Clifton. Miss GRAPHICAL
and Miss Jones are graduates of
High School and maj
ored in medical secretarial work.
Evening star., 1944-04-01

have previously indicated. 1t now seems
that they include not only airborne
forces, but also ground troops, which,
under Gen. Wingates immediate COM
mand, have made their way overland
from the Chindwin River to join
the airborne elements in the Katha-
Indaw area. Probably the entire per-
sonnel of these forces has been trained
under Gen. Wingate's personal direc-
ton, according to system worked out
by him. This system has been largely
responsible for the successes gained in
jungle fighting by Allied troops against
the Japanese, who were formerly so
superior in this type of warfare.
Aside from this special training and
the very great influence of his personal
leadership, the key to Gen. Wingate's
system of jungle flghting-as pointed
out by Charles j. Rolo in his recent
book, "Wingate's Raiders'-is his entire
dependence on air supply. This enables
the troops to ignore the possible cutting
of their ground communication to ad-
vance through virgin jungle and to ap-
pear Unexpectedly at key Japanese sup
ply and communication points.
The japanese, on the other hand,
have to be more or less dependent on
land transport, since their air force is
not equal to a big job of air supply.
Incidentally, this fact will probably be
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Home-Front Casualties

They happen every day, all over
the country. Considered individ-
ually, they are so common that most
of them fail to merit even a line of
type in the newspapers. A man
falls and breaks his leg; a woman
cuts her hand in the kitchen; some
body is run over by truck or trolley;
a worker is injured in a factory; a
traffic collision sends three or four
persons to hospital. Such things
have become so much a part of our
Workaday world that we seldom give
them second thought. Yet, when
we add them all together, what big
story they make-a story of enor-
mously valuable time lost, of ma
tional energy cut down. of bodies
needlessly manned. OF personal
tragedies that little caution might
easily have averted. of an army of
dead whose graves are a monument
not to a malignant and inescapable
fate but to sheer human careless
ness.
AS expressed statistically in report
just issued by the National Safety
Council, these home-front casualties
in dwelling place and factory, on
highway and farm-amount to
yearly toll throughout the country
of 100000 persons killed. 350,000
permanently disabled and 8,500,0O0
temporarily injured In addition,
they represent an annual economic
loss of five billion dollars, and from
production standpoint they mean
a waste of 350,0O0 900 man-days of
labor, or the equivalent of the time
needed to build 100000 light tanks or
1880 heavy bombers. They mean,
too, an extra yearly burden of almost
100000 patients upon the hard
pressed medical and hospital facili-
ties Of the Nation. They mean, in a
word, 4 reckless and avoidable
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Constantine Br01Vn

Der Of Germans into their postwar
setup Immediately recalls their expert
ence that prewar Poland had quite
enough minorities to deal with. They
had large numbers Of Ukrainians,
Ruthenians and Jews, not to mention
Ldthuanians and Germans It would
prove impracticable to increase this
patchwork.
In any case, the irreducible demands
OF the Polish government rest on the
independence of Poland, regardless Of
territorial changes Unless Poland re-
tains her sovereignty, untouched by
Quisling influences, she knows she cam
not survive between two large states
like Germany and Russia. It n to be
recalled that Poland Is the only country
which has spawned no Quisiing, dur.
ing this period Of German occupation Of
many countries.
Washington diplomatic obseryers
studying the various points in the Polish
Ambassadors note to the State Depart
ment concentrate their attention on thu
portions which reject any slegestion
that the Polish government in exile
expel cabinet members whom the RUS
SLAMS deem "reactionary" and anti
Russian.
For. while the British have long be-
heved the Polish government in exile
would accept no such demand, the state
Department seems to have maintained
hope that the Polish government In
London could obtain . resumption OF
relations with Russia by oustine its
anti Russian" members. Now. how
ever. this notion should be blasted. oncs
and for all. ~'
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ments. He declares quite frankly:
TT Is just not true that good archi-
tects can come only from the ranks
of the private architect; it is equally
false that because an architect is
part of Government agency his
architecture must be bad"
The average citizen, however, may
not care very much where the de-
signs are made-whether by public
or by private agencies. His demand
already is apparent What he wants
must be reasonably "good-looking,"
conveniently livable, economically
sound, durable and serviceable as
a home. The majority of Ameri-
cans have become accustomed to
Government Intervention. If they
are to prefer "our system of free
enterprise" in housing after the war,
those architects for whom Mr.. Eggers
speaks must furnish at least part of
the leadership and the cultural
dynamic needed.
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do himself a lot of good, however bv
coming into the State during May.
AT most, according to the Republican
organization leaders. there will be only
three or four dyed-in -the-wool WiIlkie
adherents In Indiana's delegation of
70. Mrs. Grace B. Reynolds, Republi-
can national committeewoman and the
Willkie campaign manager in Indiana,
will be one. Another will be Repre-
sentative La Toilette Of the 9Th dis
trict. And probably one or both Of the
district delegates from Mr.. WILKES old
home district, including Rushville.
Outside of these, the delegates will be
lukewarm. If not actually hostile. to
the Willkie candidacy.
several reasons are given by the Re-
publlcans for their attitude of hostility
toward Mr.. Willkie Indiana Republi-
cans take their politics seriously. They
40 not really consider Mr.. Willkie a
Republican. They always knew him as
Democrat when he lived in this neck
OF the woods. Mr.. WILKES voting resi-
dence has been in New York. This NAV
help Mr.. Willkie in the East, but it
doesn't in Indiana. Thirdly, they in
sist that Mr.. Willkie has followed too
closely the policies of Mr.. Roosevelt to
suit them. And while they do not speak
OF this angle, Indiana was in the past a
hotbed of isolationism and under the
surface today the old feeling continues
to run. Mr.. Wilkes ideas regarding
foreign policy run into a stone wall in
many parts Of the State.
X X
Already there is a good idea about
who are to be the delegates to the ma
tional convention from Indiana. This
Is necessarily so where the organiza-
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DaDid Laurence

forces gave q great account Of thsr-
selves In conjunction with ground troons
IN Tunisia. This can be done arain
and again.
What might be asked in a hro.d
sense, however. is whether too much
sllne ana material has been expended on
!araway or strategic" air bombing OF
targets from Italian bases and not
enough In sorties close to the troops in
the neld. Latest reports indicate mora
ana more sorties now are being execute
90. very much as happened In Tunisia.
also IL may be supposed that air power
couid nave been used persistently in
uie iast lew weeks to destroy supply
oepots behind Casino and all COM
muncations. Maybe that's the lesson
we nave learned. Certainly the appar-
entv Tree movement Of German re.
,niorcements against the Anzio beach
mead and the frequent use of NaJ .ir
power to attack our troops there raises
questions as to how closely the Anzio
Deacnnead has been supported by DIR
tactical air forces.
ms Is illustrated by q United Press
olspatch In the last "A hours from Allied
neadquarters in italy which saws:
Inc Luftwaf1e continued to throw
sizable bombing forces against the
Anzio beachhead, and it was revealed
mat about 40 enemy planes took nart
IA the raid Wednesday during which
NaA bombs wrecked an American hos-
pital area" ''o'-
Italy, however, is not a major front
Oul man purpose there Is to absorb The
energies OF a certain number of Nazj
DIVISIONS In due time, the public win
see tne Italian campaign in its true per.
spective and as constructive contribr,.
ton to the overall victory.
Reproduction RIGHTS Reserved,
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squandering of our human resources
at q rate considerably in excess of
the number of dead and wounded in
our armed forces, and at a time
when the proper employment and
conservation Of our manpower Is a
matter of crucial Importance.
That such waste can be controlled
and reduced is clear from the results
already achieved through the pre-
vention program begun in the latter
part of 1941 when President Roose-
velt called upon the National Safety
Council to organize and lead a con-
certed countrywide anti-accident
drive-the first of it's kind in our
history. Since then. deaths from
mishaps Of all types have declined
7 per cent and the rising trend
in industrial fatalities has been
stopped, despite per cent increase
in the number of man-hours worked.
In 300 shipyards covered by the pro-
gram, for example, the accident fire.
quency rate dropped 1853 per cent
last year under that of the year
before, while in plants manufacture
ing explosives the drop amounted to
Is per cent. A long list of similar
statistics can be cited to show how
well and effectively the council has
operated, but the council itself is
far from satisfied A vast amount
OF work-involving closer co-ordina-
ton of local. State and national
safety activities and a greater
awareness of the problem on the
part of the individual citizen-still
remains to be done before the pres
ent annual toll Is cut down to
satisfactory level. Meanwhile, the
collective carelessness of the Nation,
when looked at as a whole, shapes
up into nothing less than a ghastly
tragedy, which seems all the more
ghastly because so much of it is the
product of it's victims own lack of
foresight and common sense.
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Postwar Architecture

The end of the war, when finally
1t Is achieved, almost certainly will
release a tremendous demand for
new homes for the people of the
United States. It has been estimated
that one family in every three
already has expressed an interest in
improvement in conditions of shelter.
A similar development arose during
the conflict of 1914-1918, but the
results were less congenial than had
been expected. The question now
is: What practical and esthetic
guidance are architects prepared to
give the public when new postwar
housing programs, private as we'll
as Federal or State endowed are
launched?
Such an inquiry almost inevitably
creates more issues than it solves.
For example: Otto R. Eggers, writing
In the March edition of the Journal
OF the American Institute of Archi-
tects, discusses "a growing schism
between architects in private prac-
tice and architects in Government
agencies" and urges both groups to
look out upon the future from
somewhat higher elevation" than
that of their respective selfish con-
Germs. The principal difference
dividing the profession, it seems, is
rivalry for steady and lucrative
employment. "A specter" in the
form OF. mo job at all' allegedly
disturbs the mind of an architect
on the Federal payroll whose work
after peace is restored may be done
by another designer not so situated.
The dreaded threat then is to be
discovered in the expected trend
back to independence of Government
management and control. Mr..
Eggers proposes an increase of con-
fldence in "the American way of life"
when he writes:
The private architect is an i'm
portant part of our system of free
enterprise, Wherein free enter
prise prospers, this country will
prosper; what weakens free enter
prise weakens the fiber of this
country.
But Mr.. Eggers does not contem-
plate any campaign to persuade his
brethren to avoid Federal engage
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G0AM Lincoln

1lon mas much to do with their selection
me state will have seven delegates at
large. Usually the candidates for Sem
ator ana Governor are included In this
ASC' ana also the national committee
man and committeewoman. The sitting
senator, willis, undoubtedly can have
pace In the delegation If he wishes.
Representative Halleck, chairman ~
the Republican Congressional Camnairn
committee, II he is not DELEGATE from
MS own district, may be a DELEGATE at
large. There is talk, too, OF nlacing
former Senator "Jim" Watson On tbs
delegation. va 'A'
MIR. Halleck placed Mr.. Willki. IN
nomination at the 1910 conyention-and
dld a real job for him. The two men
however, no longer see eye-to-eye In
deed, what has happened to that friend.
ship is typical of what has hannened to
Mr.. Willkie in Indiana Republican
circles. Joseph Daniels. a nroninent
lawyer and Republican leader in MARION
county 'Ind1ana), tried to get the State
failed. D"'
*
AS OF today there appears to be more
sentment among Hoosier Republicans
Ior the nomination of Gov. Dewey of
New York or Gov. Bricker of Ohio than
Tor other presidential possibilities. with
the preponderance Of sentiment leaning
toward Gov. Dewey, although Gov.
Bricker Is better known here and will
come into the State to speak before LONG.
Some Of the leaders are talking about
a DeWey-Bricker ticket. They take it
for granted that Gov. Bricker would
accept the vice presidential nomination
IL ne fails to land first place.
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Meadow Pond in April

Small meadoa0 pond, has April come
this time
When mallardS cradle on your breast?
What neUS
HGOe they brought back from some
magnolia cline,
Their Doices bright NTH intersteUar
Die1US?
What are the 1Uhisperinos of sedqe and
nldllo1O
Still dreaming deep beside your silper
brim?
Sheltered by rolling slopes, silent and
tallolD
What can you knoD of sprinqtime's
interim?
crystal and cool and din,pIinq in the
rain,
You piston moss and mater huacinth,
The 1e10eled dragonfy and sculptured
crane
Yelled 1Dhere the osiers make
labyrinth.
What precious destinies haze you
rehearSed
That you should be aDare OF April
first?
CosETTE MIDDLETON.
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organization

porters. He carried Indiana in 1910
against President Roosevelt with a lead
of $4,000 votes. He is not a man to
laugh off. Next to the President, he is
the most widely advertised man in the
country.
So Mr.. Willkie is a problem. The
Republicans here are watching with in
terest what will happen to Mr.. Willkie
IN the Wisconsin and Nebraska pri-
maries. during the coming two weeks.
They intend to send an uninstructed
delegation to the national convention.
The delegates themselves are not chosen
in primary elections, but in district
caucuses and in the State convention
which meets June l. Under these cir
cumstances, the prospects for Indiana
support in the national convention are
anything but bright. Mr., Willkie might
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Service Vote Law

In deciding not to veto the Serv-
ice vote bill, which he once described
as fraud" the President, in effect,
permits that much-debated measure
to become law by default.
All things considered, Mr.. Roose-
velt's decision was wise one. The
law in its present form certainly
falls far short of the ideal. Yet,
assuming cooperation from the
States, it very probably may prove
to be a better measure than that
now in effect, under which, as the
President himself points out, only
about $4,000 service votes were
counted in the congressional elec-
tionS of 1912. The bill which be-
came law last night permits service
personnel overseas to vote the short
Federal ballot upon two condi-
tions: Cd They must have applied
for a State ballot by September l
and failed to receive it by October
i. (2) The Governors of the States
must certify that the use of the
Federal ballots Is authorized by
State law.
The Governors of nineteen States
have indicated that the Federal
ballots probably would be recognized
in their Jurisdictions. Nine addi-
tional Governors have been nom
committal, while the remaining
twenty have said the Federal ballots
would not be authorized. On this
basis, and again assuming earnest
cooperation from the States, it
seems likely that a substantial num-
ber Of the overseas service personnel
will be able to vote If they want
to do so.
Despite the various claims pro
and con, there actually has been
little dependable information bear
ing on the real extent to which Serv-
ice men and women are interested
in the Federal ballot controversy,
and this uncertainty has underlain
some of the opposition to the re-
quirement that the service voters
must make formal request for bal
lots. There would seem to be little
merit to this opposition, however,
for any service man or woman who
is not sufficiently interested in vot-
ing to apply for a ballot will not be
deprived of a valued privilege If
denied a vote.
The real problem involves those
who want to vote, and who may ap-
ply for ballot without receiving it.
AS the President has pointed out in
his temperate message to Congress,
the responsibility of dealing with
this situation is left to the States
by the new law. If the State officials
fail to get ballots to those who want
them and also fail to validate
Federal ballots, they and the men,
bers of Congress who voted for the
bill will have to accept the conse-
quences. This is their responsibility,
and theirs alone.
Evening star., 1944-04-01

1elt by them more and more keenlv
from now on in their operations on
the Assam frontier)
1t seems likely that Gen. Wingates
methods were about to bring results of
far-reaching nature, and they NAV
yet do so if his subordinates prove able
to carry on his work without him. But
IL IS cruel blow that has taken Gen.
Wlngate from us on what might well
be the very threshold of victory.
he was fast becoming a legendary
ngure IN the British Army and has been
most frequently compared with Chi
nese" Gordon and T. E. Lawrence. To
this writer's mind, his attributes of
soldierly character and particularly the
stern Christianity which has led to his
being called Sword and Bible Cen
eral are even more strongly reminiscent
OF Brig. Gen. John Nicholson, who won
MS 1ame on the grim northwest frontier
and, like Gen. Wingate, met an untimelv
death at the storming of the Lahore
Gate at Delhi during the great mutinv
of 1857
Gen. Nicholson was IS when he died,
Gen. Wingate 40. Both Gen. Nicholson
and Gen. Wingate had a flair for
strange races" OF Gen. Nicholson the
frontier tribesmen used to say "the
tramp of his war horse could be heard
from Attock to the Khyber." One could
well imagine a similar remark being
made OF Gen. Wingate had he lived in
those days.
OF Gen. Wingate. Mr. Rolo writes, "He
burns with bright flame that flares
all around him; in desperate situations
he is sustained by chilly ferocity that
demands and obtains the impossible of
himself and his men," Almost exactly
the same things were said of Gen.
Nicholson by his contemporaries.
1t is too soon to estimate what the
effect of Gen. Wingate's death will be
on the operations he had planned and so
brilliantly initiated. The officers and
men whose love and loyalty he had
gained will be the first to avenge him.
But when one man has devised and
put into operation an entirely new
system Of warfare the sudden removal