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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

Bargains . sns'"s Saw INN MN,
Wood Working and Road Build
~ Machinery, Well Drilling Ma
lines. Gasoline Engines, etc.-R
P. JOHNSON, Wytheville, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

SPECIAL NOTICE-To all c..
I. Joes, Sailors, Marines, Seabees
and Merchant Marines: We will
buy your surplus clothing, shoes,
guns or anything of value.
J. & J. Store. 2-14-3tpd
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

WANTED-A man with fami-
ly to move to large farm as share
cropper. See or write C. 0.
Blevins, Crumpler, RID, Box %.
1-31-3tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
MARIA RUTHERFORD
VS..
ALRERT RUTHERFORD

aLDGN4 NJ 11C1CE O1CO
The defendant above named
will take notice that an action as
above entitled, the same being for
divorce on the grounds of two
years separation, has been COM
menced in the Superior Court of
Ashe County and duly verified
complaint has been filed and
summons issued which is return
able in the office of the under
signed on the 23rd day of Febru-
airy, 1916, when and where the
defendant is required to appear
and answer or demur to the COM
plant or the relief therein re-
quested will be granted.
This January %, 1942.
c. S. NEAL, Clerk Superior
Court. 1-31-4tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

FOR SALE-2 Registered Berk-
shire pigs, 5 months old. c. w.
Parsons, Todd, N. C. 2-7-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

FOR SALE - One Fairbanks
engine, 6 H. P. Also one Mead
ows grist mill. See Mrs. w. P.
Sturgill, Crumpler, N. C.. 2-14-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

WANTED-4-4 Hickory lum-
Der. Phoenix Chair Company,
West Jefferson, N. c. 2-7-2tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

EXPERT REBUILDING AND
UPHOLSTERING. ANTIQUES
AND OTHER FURNITURE. You
will be astonished at the change
we can make in your old furni-
ture! No matter how lumpy or
bunny your suite is, we can make
it look and wear like brand new
again! We do a superb job, start
ing with the bare frame, we re-
pair and refinish the woodwork,
and completely rebuild the furni-
ture.
We specialize in repairing and
refinishing antiques. Prices verv
reasonable. MORETZ UPHOLS-
TERING SHOP, BOONE, N. C..
Depot ST., H. L. Moretz, Manager.
2-7-2tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14
NOTICE

To Whom It May Concern:
This is to notify all persons that
I will not be responsible for any
debts made by my wife, Mrs.
Norma Kilby, Husk, N. c.
This the 5th day of February,
1916. NH
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

FOR SALE: 8-year-oId horse.
Will work anywhere; gentle. If
interested, see S. c. Watson,
Brentwood, N. c. 2-7-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14
Carolina Trains
Agent For S. A.

The good neighbor policy is now
going to give some concrete re-
suits because Andy Cardenas has
returned to his native Venezula
to become a county agent after a
years training in North Carolina.
He was one of eleven college grad
yates who were chosen from more
than 200 leading Venezulan stu
dents for study and training in
/ the United States.
First he studied the organiza-
ton of the Extension Service at
State College and then he spent
five months on the dairy farm
of L. H. Mckay near Henderson
vile, doing all kinds of dairy
and farm work under the direc-
ton of Mr. Mckay. During Sep
TENDER and October he worked
on farm in Benton County, In
diana, studying hybrid corn.
In recent months Andy was in
Union County under the direction
of Veteran County Agent T. J.
w. Broom and his assistants, w.
z. Smith and N. B. Nicholson.
While there Andy made a special
study of All club work and the
general crops and livestock grown
in that section. He attended the
National All Club Congress in
Chicago in December and while
in Union met with all of the
All clubs in the county, discuss
ing the work with the boys and
girls and telling them about agri
culture and customs in Venezula.
every year and I don't have to
take the time and expense of pre-
pairing a seed bed. I also don't
have to buy fertilizer every year
to get hay crops. I have that
time and money, and also the
land, to grow legumes for soil
building purposes.
''The string-roW method has
helped me increase tobacco yields.
The Soil Conservation Service is
due much credit for introducing
these new practices.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

FOR SALE - IS registered
Hampshire ewes and registered
ram, IL lambs with ewes and
rent to have lambs. If inter-
ested see or write Glen Kilby,
0turglllS, N. {. 2-14-2tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

FOR RENT-Sharecrop, 29 acre
farm, free two-room house on
place, spring water, pasture land,
10 acres to cultivate, see Attor-
ney Swanson, at w. B. Reeves
Bldg. 2-14-3tn
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-02-14

Reeber Kilby, .
Sturgills, N. c.
2-7-2tp
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-04-11

State farmers are being urged to
provide sufficient opcn-ground
sP7c" for pine trees to re-seed them
selves if the Tar Heel timber supply
is to tC maintained.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
HAPPY EASTER

In wishing HAPPY EASTER to everybody need remember the essential meaning of this most significant Christian holidays celebrating it does triumph after travail Pertinent is book entitled The Moral Teach ing of esus by Lord Lindsay of Brker Master of Baol College Oxford in which great stress is laid the foreghth of the fifth chapter of the Gospel Ac cordng St. Matthew "Be ye therefore perfect even Father which is in Heaven perfect Constant
 endeavor of Christians worthy of the attain perfection. Lord Lindsay comments Mora and social progress depends there being continual sue cesson of and prepared to accept the chal lenge Jesus teachings do than reasonably be expected of them and be better than laws moral codes demand" =
 So difficult the effort to translate the noble principles of Christian ethics into practice that at least one modern philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, serted contemporary society to act them immediately chaos would result However they demand
 more than the p-servce paid to them by persons whose entire way of life based the exploitation and op presson of other human beings As if to dramatize man. kinds revolt against the cantng hypocrisy of such reac tonares did the Irish people undertake the rebellion resulted in the establishment of the Irish Free State Sunday thirty ago? Are not today the herarchs who baten ignorance and superstition to- rnentng against the people of the Soviet Unon even as the world witnesses it's first peaceful Easter in six years? Dantes declaration that n His will our peace sounds ironc falling from the lips ot protesting Christians who have yet to utter
 lions of the Htlere slaughter of the Jewish people and of the barbarous lynchings of Negroes.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
MAIL BOX
 AGREES WITH COLUMNIST

To the editor:
 May I say amen to Marty Rich ardson's "It's Like This" for I absolutely agree with him verb atim. Yes, America and Great Britain, the two so-called leading Christian nations, are playing the hypocrite, pretending to be the champions of freedom, liberty and justice. Russia does not propagate Christianity, but believe that she practices it to a fuller extent than either America or England. Brit ain with her diabolical imperial ism is truly a menace to the peace of the world; and America, our country, with the bigotry and white supremacy theories, is also a men ace to the peace of the world. But one thing is certain: there is an end to all material things, the en- pires of antiquity, the Babylonian, the Media-Persian, the Assyrian, the Grecian and the Roman Elm pires all finally went down and so must the British Empire fol- low in their trail.
 Rev. M. C. McKenney, Everett
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20

Being in city that covers practically all phases of
 fe from every standpoint of living observing out. sider probably remark, Hartford has everything Let individual stay around few days to get and make observation and he would no doubt re- mark "What the Negroes doing?" My being now, q permanent resident of Hartford would answer ms question by saying Harfords small Negro business men are doing good job under their limited resources This same alert-minded individual would doubt question me further by asking Are the small Negro businessmen considered your leaders? My would regretully have to be- "NO". point would consider myself obliged to explain why, to this stranger My remarks point to, with pride in community are not demonstrating favorable characteristics of their profes- sons preach and teach unification, solidarity cooperation all the things that necessary to ob- tain feeling of security. These things are all truly great expressions but they from who shy away practcing what they preach then there doubt that arises in the minds ot the aymen or rather the the street..
 Any day might overhear the most simple minded individual remark Why can't these leaders get together and cooperate themselves for important civic needs ot our community" "Why fill up with that co-opera- ton stuff and they themselves won't practice it?'
 The little man. is awakening to Hartford's Negro Leaders, the time has you falterng or just stalling for tme?? If WHAT TIME????
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
THE NEGRO IN LATIN AMERICA
Don't Like Bing And Frank
By Harold Preece

Don't Like Bing And Frank
 Recently, a distinguished Salva- dorean musician, 40-year old Hum berto Pacas conductor of the San Salvatore Symphony lOrchestra in the republics capital, commented upon the popularity of the spiri- tual in his country while visiting within our borders. He said, that his people didn't care much for the Bing Crosby - Frank ISinatra swoon songs which our little bob by-soxers eat up. Neither, he said, did they go for the works of George Gershwin and Jerome Kern, preferring instead classical and semi-classical compositions.
 "Ah, yes, I know whom you mean," he said when asked about Crosby and ,Sinatra. "WeIl it is different with my people. They are not so keen on your jazz"
 MT. Paca, of course, knows more about his country and it's tastes than I do. But my guess is that his comment on jazz, also a Negro music form, reflects pretty much the attitude of the ighter-skinned upper-class Salvadoreans rather than that great mass of the people which likes spice as well as sugar in it's entertainment.
 Probably, the folk musicians of Salvador would like jazz if they had a chance to hear and learn it. Brazilian Negro musicians recog- nized jazz as being part of their own racial inheritance of music when it was imported from the United States. As I've pointed out before, these colored musicians practically monopolize Brazilian radio programs and they play American Negro jazz along with the Negro dance music of their own country.
 Wouldn't it be fine sometime if we could have an international festival of American Negro music from South Carolina to Salvador and from Maryland to Peru? May be, the language of each national group of musicians might be diff ferent. But not the meaning be- hind the language and expressed through the tunes.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
ARMY REFORMS

The editors of the CHRONICLE have hitherto re- served comment upon the Gillem Report of Board ot Officers on Utilization Negro Manpower in the Post War Army receive the most careful attention and study. -
 It must be the outset that the Gillem Report makes no recommendations which represent fundamen- departure from the policy of segregatng Negro per sonne Its planning envsages the develop
 broader base of trained personnel both officer than that which existed prior to World War IT." attain this objective, in line with the greater participation of Negroes in fields of endeavor closed to them and opened the result of the necessities of globa warfare the Giem Report "recommends that the War Department adopt promulgate and Implement the following policy:
 utilize the Negro manpover in the postwar Army scale than has obtained hereto fore an through the medium of installations and organi zations facilitate the development of leaders and effectively the of expand ed army"
 How the policy will be put into effect is carefully outlined Impementaton involves the organization of combat and service units not to exceed the maximum strength of infantry regiment Perhaps is thought will somewhat the obstacles to achiev the highest efficiency which the segregated 92nd Dvl- encountered during World War IT, Army officials might profit from the detailed technical discussion of the problems in the CHRONICLE articles by Samuel Perry Jr, who served with the 92nd in Italy More over the liberal policy of the First Service Command der Maior-Genera Sherman Miles; should likewise be carefully pondered Indeed it is quite evident that some of the study drafted by Colonel L. B. Wyant then co-chairman of the commands Public Relations Council early in the of 1945 embodied in the G1lem Report
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
MAGAZINE RACK
By Samuel P. Perry, Jr. (Continued from last Week)

Welliver further points out that
 the Regular Army and white of
 ficer personnel of the 92nd and eSd
 Infantry Divisions had little con-
 fidence in their troops in combat and endlessly cite alleged exam pies of cowardice and bungIing:
 have no hope that the situation can be improved and their racial preJudices have been exapeerated instead of softened by their work
 with colored troops" Colored in 1antry units, alleges Welliyer.
 were unable to undertake deter
 mined offensive action, failed to hold ground in face of enemy coun- ter cffensives sometimes conduct
 ed with very limited forces, their patroling was 1istless and there was no colored infantry unit of any size on which a commander could rely to carry out an as- signed task involving contact with the enemy" But, MT. Welliver ad- mlts that in the February, 1945 attack, there was Negro com pany in a battalion to the left. after advancing through several machine gun and mortar positions and repulsing a sixty-man counter attack was holding an exposed ridge, ahead of both its f1anking elements, with almost it's total original strength still effective"
 (What MT. Welliver did not know IS that the seemingly extraordin- ary brave company had been ac- cused of melting away in the in- itial attacks of November, 1944.)
 Perry: Invariably the officer per sonnel who complained of coward ice on the part of their men were those who were the least likely to lead the men in actual combat. Their prejudices were ingrained long before actual contact with Negro troops. They looked for faults and magnifed them, how ever small. It is significant that one of the white officers of my battalion accused the battalion commander of sending the men in to a position only because they were colored. In fact, he stead lastly refused to send his men in to the position in question and withdrew them. If the units were not able to perform the tasks set for them, then dS-3, not the men themselves, is to blame. After the initial attacks, the men of the dicision who had received expert infantry training, either at Fort Arizona or at an In fantry Replacement Framing Cen ter, had been wounded, killed, or were completely psychologically demoralized because of the incom- petence of the S-2 and S-3 staffs. The replacements were from units, air corps, the Overseas Replacement Training Battalion (composed of men crip- pied in training with the division n the states, who had been trans ferred out of the division in July and August, 1914, prior to the shipment of the division overseas), and from the IRTC). Some of the hadn't even fired rifle according to their records; others had had experience with an O3 or TT (but unfortunately 5e were using the modern MI rif1le); t was a motley crew that joined re organized rifle companies cooks, Iongshoremen, winch operators md what-not. So you can imagine he feeling of a combat rifieman, when ordered on a patrol with former cook or longshoreman-
 Gro be continued)
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
BOOK REVIEW

and the other folk lore giants
 throughout history. John Henry is a man, standing up and slug ging it out with his environment. The music, warmth, and humor are essentials inherent in all man. kind. Children and adults of both races will enjoy this unaffected and classic folk tale.
 MT. Shapiro has handled the ma terial with deftness and skill. Wisely he has not attempted to burden the fabric with the heavy tinge of race relations but un- consciously and in a subtle man. ner he accomplishes much more than the simple telling of a story. John Henry is the Negro at his best, courageous, strong, and pos sessed with unlimited possibilities. There is something tragic in his vain attempt to subdue the steam drill, and there is also the sad realization that the happy-go-lucky days are over and that he must adapt himself to changing events.
 Thus, to adults the conflict cen ters around the necessity for man to adjust himself to the new. Brute strength must be diverted into other channels and embrace the new. And so too, must the Negro For the children, this is a delight full story which they will enjoy hearing over and over again. They no longer have to adapt them selves exclusively to the admira- tion of Hercules, Paul Bunyan, or Sigmund, for they have a John Henry. Carmen A. Ramsey
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
JOHN HENRY AND THE DOUBLE JOINTED STEAM DRILL. By Irwin Shapiro. New York. lillian Messner. S1.75

DRILL. By Irwin Shapiro. New York: Julian Messner. $1.75
 Too often Negro children reach adulthood without ever realizing that their race is one which is rich in folk lore. The schools do not include these stories and po- ems in their curricula, and their survival is maintained by word of mouth and memory. This is the epic story of John Henry, nigh ty giant of a man who challenges a mechanical steam drill and wins. Thus, mechanical progress is tenn porarily halted by John Henry's feat, but even he realizes that massive machines will replace his brute strength.
 There is a rollicking rhythm which generates through the pag- es, the hum and vibrancy of life. There are simple refrains and verses which echo and repeat the thread of the narrative. This is a wonderful piece to read aloud, and the fine drawings by James Daugherty increase the dynamic effect. John Henry has no peers. His physical strength is legend ary. When he strides over the mountain the very ,boulders rock and groan. His wife, Pollie Ann, fully understands his mad obses- sion to defeat the steam drill, and can do a full days work along with the men when he falls i'll.
 This simple tale arose from the hna,-ts. If q nennle as Paul BunYan
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
PLAIN TALK
By John M. Lee

mark of a higher civilization, to
 persist.
 It would be we'll for those men
 who do not want racial equality
 in Washington to know that there
 are some of us who know what
 their leadership has contributed to
 historical truth. They have been a
 part of the world leadership that
 has made this the era of mass
 murder. Tn irs are the bloated
 bellies that stuck out proudly when
 the war was over as they pro-
 claimed the great victory for de-
 mocracy,-ad nauseam. On their
 heads will lie responsibility for
 the next slaughter of the inno-
 cents, for they are the ones who
 sire the United States policy of
 racial and dollar imperialism.
 There is great significance in
 the fact that only representative
 Martin of Massachusetts, leader of the Republican bloc had the courage to exert some effort in behalf of the amendment. Not an-
 other Republican voice was raised
 in defence of Democracy at home. Their action has given irrefuta'ble
 proof that the much castigated
 Southern reactionary Congressman
 have counterparts from every state in the union. The BiFboes and the Rankins rant and rave, and consequently are known by their works. minded Republican and Democrat representatives from the North, the East and the West use the more subtle, time-honored lodges to hold the line for white supremacy.
 As a case in point, the vote on the Powell amendment was on non-record basis. That means that no Identification of those who vot- ed for or against can be made. It is a smooth operation that will enable many of the representa- tives who voted against the meas ure to continue masquerading as stalwart champions of Democracy. This is not the first time there have been set-ups like this one on progressive legislation. Con- gress is a forum where compro- mise and manipulation have be- come the tools with which a rep must work if he wants to succeed. No doubt Congressman Powell knew his amendment wouldn't pass, but he wanted it on the record that he had tried. It will help in his campaign for re- election, and maybe, if he is sent pack often enough, one day he will De able to strike a telling blow for the people. l.
 Meanwhile, hate-ridden Wash ngton, D. C., is the point from which the UNO show is being di- .ected. You can hope for little, or you can hope for much, depending upon how much faith you lave in the mighty American dol ar. If the power of money can oring enduring peace, then we hall have peace. If on the other land, you are aware of the his orica1ly established fact that cap tai wealth and rich resources have l1ways served more faithfully the pursuits of war than they have he interests of peace, you will zee in the action of Congress on he Powell amendment a clear in- Iication that the master race the nv is still unresolved and stand / ng against all hope for world se- . urity.