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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
EXECUTORS NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

Having qualified as Executor of
the last will and testament of
Mary Lyall, late of Ashe County,
North Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present them to the
undersigned for payment on or
before the 18th day of February,
1915 or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immedi-
ate payment to the undersigned.
This February Is, 1914.
J. D. Burgess, Executor of
Mary Lyall, deceased
2-24-6T
WAR BONDS vital investments
for a future Free World.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

FOR SALE: The D. P. WEIGH
farm, of approximately fifty acres,
located about 27a miles west of
Warrensville, with good seven
room house, and electricity.
Write to Carl H. WEIGH, 1904 N.
Lexington ST., Arlington, Va.
3-9-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

WANTED by April 1-Experi-
enced married man, small fami-
ly preferred, for dairy farm.
Must be good mixer, reliable,
sober and operate tractor. House,
milk, potatoes, wood and priv
ileges. $4,000 monthly. Write at
once. Bradley Spencer, Fauna
Farm, Honey Brook, Pa.
2-24-3tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

Having qualified as Admins
traitor of Charlie Neese, late of
Ashe County, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate, to
present them to the undersigned
on or before the 26th day of jan
uary, 1915, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their, recovery.
All persons indebted, to said es-
tate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This January 26, 1914.
Fred Brooks. Administrator
Of Charlie Neese, deceased.
2-3-6T
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

TYPEWRITER and adding ma
chine service. Factory trained
Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Deal Typewriter Exchange.
CO The Skyland Post. tt
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

LOST-Men's leather coat, zip
per front, in West Jefferson. Re-
ward if returned to Skyland Post.
3-9-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

FOR SALE-Sequoia Seed po-
tatoes. See w. M. T. Miller, Ma
than's Creek, N. G.. 3-2-3tpd.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
RATES

FOR SALE-One half ton Ford
pickup, good mechanical condi-
ton, and good tires. See James
V. Kearney, Crumpler, N. c.
3-9-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

FOR SALE-V-8 Pickup, good
mechanical condition, good tires.
See Kay Dixon, Crumpler, N. C..
3-9-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
NUTICE OF SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
VIRGINIA ELLER BARE
VS..
ROGER G.. BARE

The defendant above named
will take notice that an action as
above entitled, the same being
for an absolute divorce on the
grounds of two years separation,
has been commenced in the Su-
perior Court of Ashe County and
duly verified complaint filed and
summons issued which is return
able before the undersigned on
the 18th day of March, 1914, when
the defendant is required to ap-
pear and answer or demur to the
complaint or the relief therein
will be granted.
This February %, 1914.
c. S. NEAL, Notary Public
2-24-4T
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

FREE! If Excess acid causes
you pains of Stomach Ulcers, In
digestion, Heartburn, Belching,
Bloating, Nausea, Gas Pains, get
free sample, Udga, at Ray Drug
Company. 1-13-10T
WANTED repair and rebuild
typewriters, adding machines.
cash registers, sewing machines.
and clocks. Send your machine
to me at Lansing. w. C. Harrison.
1-13-10Tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

FOR SALE-150 bushels of Sc
quota seed potatoes. Oscar Farm
er, Wilbar, N. C.. 3-6-1tpd.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

Cpl Robert E. Cheek, Qeft) and Sgt. Lesley Cheek,
(rght) the of Mr. and Mrs L. NJ Cheek of Idlewd
Robert who has been in service for three years.
where in Italy Lesley who is stationed in Richmond
has been service July 1913 Both boys like their work
very much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
A Tip for Toto

A lawyer of Hays, Kansas, was
fond Of bird shooting-so fond of
1t that he used to blaze away at
hundreds on the chance that sooner
or later he would hit one. Being
poor shot. he rarely did, although
he nearly always got the bird on
returning home empty-handed.
Then one day he got the answer.
BY his own admission, which he does
not seem to regard as self-incrimi-
mating. the lawyer now attaches
himself to various good shots of the
neighborhood and hunts with them.
He finds it much easier to watch
them than small elusive birds, and
hardly ever misses firing his gun at
the same time they do. He prompt
ly puts in claim for half the game
killed, citing as his legal authority
an extremely ancient doctrine, the
law Of averages. This beats the
somewhat related Toto plan of
claiming the works. because the
lawyer actually gets all the flyers
he alleges he has shot down. There
is only one fly in the ointment; an
alarming shortage of available
sportsmen around Hays is expected
any day now, and it will be beyond
the power Of the Kansas game COM
mission to restock the region, even
If Barnum did remark that there
was one born every minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Heroes of The HUMP

For sheer daring, as an example
OF the way in which brave, resource
full and energetic men can overcome
obstacles of an almost insurmount-
able kind, the war offers no more
impressive story than that of the
Army Air Transport Command in its
operations from Assam in Northeast
India to the landing fields of Yum
nan in China 500 miles away.
When Rangoon fell to the Japa-
nese early in 1912, China's last link
with the Allied world-the Burma
road-was shattered. From then on
up to the present day the only sup
ply route to the armies Of Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek and to our
Fourteenth Air Force has been
through the perilous skies over ''the
Hump" the worlds most difficult
and dangerous airway, the formi-
dable mountain barrier rising from
1900 to $4,000 feet between Assam
and Yunnan.
As revealed the other day for the
first time, the story begins with a
small group Of bold young airmen
who risked their lives to pioneer the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

matters relating to war operations,
means Of communications and the
mechanics Of getting ballots to and
from our armed forces in all parts
of the world.
Secretary Stimson and Secretary
Knox neither advocate nor oppose
any particular plan, but 1t is plain
from their statement that leave
it-to-the-States procedure will not
do for large-scale voting in the serv-
ices. If there is to be such a vote at
all, there will have to be a system
which the Army and Navy will be
able to handle with as little trouble
as possible. Senator Lucas has a
bill in readiness to set up Federal
commission to prepare standard
ballots and administer their distri-
button. after which - in fllled-in
form-they would be turned over to
the States. It remains to be seen,
however. whether this proposal. or
some modification of it. will meet
the objections of those who have
raised constitutional questions over
any possible surrender of State pre-
negatives in elections.
All things considered. even under
the best Of conditions and the most
simplif1ed procedure, there appears
to be no easy way of handling the
service vote. The War and Navy
secretaries leave little room for
doubt on that score; no matter what
plan may be devised. they say,
exceptional returns cannot be guar
anteed. The point is worthy of en-
phasis because of the widespread
impression to the contrary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

sky trail over this barrier. At drst
there were only q few planes. and
some OF them went out never to come
back = unarmored transports shot
down by the Japanese or caught in
treacherous air pockets and sent
crashing into some snow-covered,
God-forsaken peak. Today, as a re-
suit OF this pioneering, there are not
Just few planes but great fleet of
them. OF all the Air Transport
Commands projects, "the Hump" is
the biggest. AS one reporter has
described it, 1t operates on a larger
scale than any three American
peacetime airlines combined, and in
all kinds of weather, morning, noon
and night, 1t sends out more flights
from Assam than come in and out
of LIZ Guardia Field in any single
day. Perhaps the best statistical
measure of its accomplishments is
the fact that now, with its big four
engined transports, it is delivering to
China a greater monthly tonnage
OF equipment-gasoline, small arms,
aviation motors, bombs, artillery,
jeeps, trucks, etc.-than ever went
over the Burma road, which means
something like $4,000 tons a month.
But statistics can at best give only
half-picture Of the character of
this project, for the men engaged in
it are carrying on in a malarial coun-
try against conditions that would
try the souls of even the most self
denying. Scores Of them have been
lost with their planes, and because
the Japanese, the weather and the
mountains are still there, scores
more may 60 the same way. Yet the
big transports will still get through
to China in increasing numbers and
with increasing loads until the day
comes when other roads are opened
and "the Hump"-now so vital
life line-can be abandoned to the
winds and the storms forever raging
over 1t. Meanwhile, a great piece OF
history is being written there by
Americans Of whom all America can
be proud and from whom all Amer
lea can learn something about duty
and about what 1t means to give.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

at any cost. And Jesus defied the
customs and castles of His day and
frequently stepped aside to aid spe-
cific cases Of individual need. At the
last He illustrated Gods concern for
us by the hyperboles of the fallen
sparrow and the numbered hairs.
Many maintain that individual
battles Individually often are lost,
but the war (the human race) will
be won. And though that is ulti-
mately true, yet it is not intended
only so!-for our finest instinct il
for the preservation of the individ-
ual even here and now.
This Christian philosophy is in
herent In our present military strug-
gle in which we find totalitarianism
with its disregard of the individual
joined in mortal combat with de-
mocracy, whose genius rests on con-
Germ for individuals.
III.
When one asks, is it just? and are
we responsible?, the answer, If one
will give 1t from the vantage point
of self-interest, is no. OF course, 1t
is not just, in the sense that all
things are working together for our
personal qualification, comfort or
happiness. And If we insist on judg-
ing the war (or our family relation
ships, business partnerships or any
other social contacts) from that
point Of view, then there is no other
conclusion but that they are uncom-
. Portable, unhappy-and unjust!
But If man is to find his true
self, 1t can be only as he loses him.
self in his family his community,
his church, his business, his coun-
try and his world. BY Gods i'm
mutable law it is written that the
selfish person who tries to save his
life, loses 1t; but that he who loses
1t for others, motivated by the love
OF Christ, finds it.
Life was cruelty unjust to Jesus.
He had moments of rebellion and
prayed that He might be spared the
awful agony. But the immediate
tragedy of His death was to be
TRANSPORTED by the final victory of
Gods love. Therefore, Jesus put
aside any personal desires to es-
cape his unjust fate and, serene in
faith, he said: Nevertheless not my
will, but thine, be done"
Observation-Disclosures is good
word for soldier and civilian, lay
man and cleric, today as we face
unpleasant tasks but work for the
flnal triumph Of Gods will and the
establishment of His peace,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
The Service Vote

In their joint statement on the
subject, Secretary Stimson and Sec
rotary Knox have made it clear that
the States and the Federal Govern
ment must get together on some
uniform and simplified plan if Army
and Navy personnel are to vote in
large numbers in the next presiden-
tlal election. AS matters stand to-
day, the whole problem is being left
to the States, with each State max
Ing its own provisions for absentee
balloting. But even in ideal circum-
stances, even if every State acted
promptly to give its citizens-in-serv-
Ice chance to vote, such procedure
would create an administrative task
too complicated for the Army and
Navy to handle.
In the first place, as the Stimson-
Knox statement points out, absen-
tee balloting systems are as diverse
as the forty-eight States and the
Army and Navy, burdened with the
job of waging war, would find it
virtually impossible to administer
them properly so as to cover the
millions of voters now in the armed
forces. In the second place, largely
for reasons of security, much Of the
information required of absentee
voters could not readily be given to
the States-such information. for
example, as the military addresses
of servicemen. These are but some
Of the complications; others involve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Is 1t Just?'
Anssver to a Soldiers Question
By the REQ Hotoard Stone Anderson, D. D.,
Minister, First Congregational Church.

If you were a minister and the
following letter came to you, what
would you reply?
Dear Pastor:
Here I am, about to be sent
overseas with my outfit. My wife
has had to leave our new home to
live with my parents, where our
son, whom never have seen, has
been born. Now she must live
half life. while I go to some for
eign land, fight, kill and perhaps
be killed, to help right wrong in
which am not conscious Of ever
having share. I want to do my
full duty, and so does my wife.
Her letters are full of love and
courage. Somehow, my thinking
is all mixed up. Today, perhaps,
am bit in the dumps, and the
littleness within me is coming to
the surface. Answer me, please,
for my quandary Is shared, / be-
lieve, by millions of young men.
Is it just?
This letter confronts us with three
of the sorest problems Of our lives,
namely: l. The problem of evil: 2.
Does God care for individuals? and
3. Do we have individual RESPONSE
bility?
Some say that the presence of evil
In the world challenges Gods ON
impotence. Others maintain it even
denies or refutes His omnipotence.
For it is our Christian faith that
God does not need to permit evil,
If He should choose by divine fat to
abolish it.
Our answer is that God has pro-
jected His creation and children on
the basis of free will, which, inev-
itably, introduces errors, disasters,
pain-evil! Life, then, must be
understood as great schoolroom
in which we learn slowly (some not
at alb and painfully.
AS compensation we gain in
sight into the uses of trouble. Just
as the widow Of Francis Peabody
wrote to Dean Charles w. Gilkey
this tribute to her husband who
had died terribly of cancer: "Fran-
els had faculty (Which God has
given to us ALL but only few are
able to use it, Of taking that which
was ugly and tragic in itself and
Transforming it into something holy
and beautiful"
II.
When we face the question of
whether or not God cares for indi-
viduals, we have these two reassur-
ing guides. First, we do. Second,
Jesus did. Our truest impulse is to
respect and conserve the individual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Reading Survey

"A clue 10 the enect which the war
Is having upon American civiliza-
ton may be discovered in the annual
survey Of the hundred and twenty
photographic establishments en-
braced in the American Library
Association. released for publication
last week.
People, 1t is suggested by the re-
port, are reading less. but better.
Fewer books pass through their
hands, but 1.-The reading which has
lost It's popularity is the thistle
down kind-light novels and non
fiction read purely for entertain
ment." The quality of the Nations
literary choice lis improving"
This does not mean, necessarily,
that there is growing thirst for
practical" literature. AT the be-
ginning Of the war. demand scared
for books on job-training and con-
version to industry" but the trend
now is back to normal" Sustained
interest In technical, subjects which
require research is chronicled in all
parts Of the country. Likewise, a
boom is noted in enthusiasm for
world activities, not only in war
news, but In international politics"
Most significant Of the ALA ind
ings, probably, is that: Calls for
books OF nonfiction dealing with the
war exceed all other demands" The
report specifies:
Interest in postwar planning and
postwar conditions is growing Stu
dents, businessmen, club members
want concrete information on such
questions as Unemployment to avoid
postwar depression, race relations,
legislation for social and economic
security. Interest is economic
rather than political and is .
based on personal considerations.
Parents worry about sons released
from the armed services and faced
with a choice between continuing
their education or getting suitable
jobs Businessmen are studying the
use OF plastics and new industrial
shortcuts which may have peacetime
uses. Householders are reading
about new architectural developments
and housekeeping devices, to prepare
for the time when they may again
plan for new homes.
In other words. the American pub
lie is projecting itself into tomorrow.
That is another way of saying that
the people of the United States are
anticipating new world-some-
thing, perhaps, like "the fine, pretty
world" of Percy Mackaye's play; a
very real world. but happier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Anonymity FaiIs

IL mas been a little more than
week since high official''-now
widely identified as General Mar
shall-denounced the taking over
OF the railroads by the Army and
the steel strike as having prolonged
the war against Germany at
potential cost of hundreds of
thousands of needless American
casualties.
This statement-issued anony-
mously-has been grossly distorted
and misinterpreted by those who
have taken public exception to it.
In Senator Wheeler's estimation it
was a "vicious" charge made against
labor. Many of the more vociferous
union leaders have denounced it
as a smear" attack and as an
attempt to discredit labor in the
eyes of the American people. The
magazine Labor, official organ of
the incorporating railroad brother
hoods, accuses the White House of
putting false whiskers" on General
Marshall and dragging" him into
the rail wage controversy.
All of these comments are far
wide of the mark. Actually, accept
ing as correct the, identification of
General Marshall as the official
spokesman, he was not concerned
with the merits or otherwise of any
labor controversy. He was not seek
ing to smear labor and there is no
reason to believe that he was being
manipulated by any one at the White
House or elsewhere. What did con-
Germ him was the stark and ugly
fact that at most critical stage
of the war the Army had been
obligated to take over the railroads
and thousands of steel workers had
gone on strike. He believed that
this would retard the day of victory,
for reasons which he is qualified to
Judge, and it was this result-not the
issue or the personalities involved
that induced him to speak out in such
vigorous fashion. To be sure, some
labor leaders and some politicians
say that strikes and threats of
strikes are no obstruction to the
prosecution of the war. But they
will not win many converts,
especially when no less a labor
authority than the president of the
Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers notifies strik-
ers at the Cramp shipbuilding yards
that any man who fails to return
to work at once will be aiding the
enemies of our union and our
country"
The plain fact is that strikes, be
they great or small, do interfere
with the prosecution of the war, and
no reasonable person will dispute
1t. Nevertheless, as this episode has
clearly demonstrated, there is little
to be gained and much to be lost
by attempting to direct attention
to this fact through the medium of
an anonymous statement. If it is
an extemporaneous statement, as
this one was, it is subject to all
kinds of distortion. And the author,
desiring to remain anonymous, can
do nothing to put the record
straight. Furthermore, if the maker
of such a statement is of real
prominence, it is virtually impossible
to keep his identity a secret. The
name will leak out, the prestige of
the maker may suffer, and some
of the effect of the statement will
be lost. When any condition, labor
dispute or anything else, is delaying
or threatening to delay victory in
this war, a responsible official ought
to feel free to say so-and to put
1t on the record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Fifty Million Children
Prom the Halifax Chronicle

We in Canada worry, and rightly so,
over the increase among us Of juvenile
delinquency. But too rarely we stop to
consider the situation in occupied
Europe, where schools are closed, where
children have been starved into sullen
insensibility and where ordinary moral
values have, in consequence, ceased to
exist. There are 100000 of such
children-and these are they who should
be the future leaders, technicians, artists,
scientists and workers of the Europe to
be. Their present condition is one of
physical, moral and spiritual degenera-
ton. Here, then is still another
task which will fall largely upon the
shoulders of the peoples of this conti-
nent to undertake. Committees alone,
however active and competent, cannot
do the whole task. It will need a great
deal of sympathetic understanding on
the part Of all Of us-and a good deal
Of sacrifice, too before the whole sum
Of the ravages Of the Nazi regime can
be repaired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Coming True
From the Hutchinson Herald.

From the Hutchinson Herald
1t wasn't just ballyhoo, after all. Re-
member last summer when everybody
was being asked to buy more War
Stamps to build a new aircraft carrier
to be called the Shangri-la2
Most of us thought the Shangri-l
idea was just a gag, a clever talking
point, and didn't suppose a carrier by
that name actually would be built. But
a news item from Norfolk, Va, this week
tells about an explosion aboard the UNI
completed plane carrier Shangri-la."
Now II only the second half of the
sales talk comes true! That new carrier
was to DO built, remember, for tho ex-
press purpose Of bombing the daylights
out q Tokio.