Newspapers / Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) / Jan. 13, 1944, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Watauga Democrat .An Independent Weekly Newspaper Established in 1888 and Published for 45 years by the late Robert C. Rivers. Sr. PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS Subscription Rates One Year ? $1.50 Six Months "5 Four Months 50 Outside N. C.. 1 year $2.00 Payable in Advance. Notice to Subscribers In requesting change of address, it is important to mention the OLD as well as the NEW address. R. C. RIVERS. Jr. - Publisher Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Re sp"<-t, Obituaries, etc., are charged for at the regular advertising rates. Entered at the pcstoffice at Boone. N. C.. as second class mail matter. ?"The basis of our government brim: the opinion of the people, the very first ob ject should be to keep that right. and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without gov pmmcnt, I should not hesi tate a moment to chooee the latter. But I should mean that every man should re ceive tliesc papers and be capable of reading them " ? Thomas Jefferson. THURSDAY. JAN. 13. 1944 NATIONAL SERVICE LAW I The President has called upon the nation to support the enactment of a national service law, designed to prevent strikes and generally speak ing to draft every able-bodied adult citizen of the country for an all-out home front war effort. The President, who had hesitated for three years to recommend a na tional service act. has now become convinced that it is necessary to bring the war to a speedy and vic torious conclusion. This is perhaps quite right, but it is obvious that the President, along with mil lions of other people, finds the ne cessary legislation quite distasteful, as there is a distinct difference in being drafted to bear arms and be ing required to work in private in dustry, even though one is contrib uting quite as much to eventual vic tory as the other. THE SOLDIER VOTE It is heartening to note that since the members of Congress have had a session with the folks back home, there seems to be increased eVidencc (hat a Federal law providing for a simple way for the soldiers, sailors and marines to cast a ballot in the elections of this year, will be en acted soon. For many years there has been such a crusade in the various states a for fair and equitable election laws, that it is growing exceedingly diffi cult for one to cast a ballot, unless he is right on the spot in his home precinct. In states where ballots can be made available only four weeks before the election it is mani festly impossible for service men in Australia, India, and other far-flung battle areas to receive their ballots and get them back home before the closing of the polls. In fact, as many states frankly admit, under the 48 different elec tion set-ups now extant, the soldier vote will be negligible. Regardiess of the state right issue, and other objections raised to Federal control of soldier voting, this corner is heartily for it, provided the propos ed enactment will guarantee all men serving in the armed forces the right to vote, and vote as they wish. That is one of the things they are fighting for, and if their rights are abrogated by a maze of four dozen highly complicated election laws, the uniform becomes a symbol of disfranchisement. Washington should see to it that every man in uniform is given a simple direct means of voting ac cording to his own wishes. Other wise they will return to a govern ment which they will feel they had no voice in electing. OLD TUBES NOT TO BE REQUIRED AFTER MARCH 1 Purchasers of tooth paste, shaving cream and other goods packed in collapsible metal tubes will not be required to turn in a used tube be fore receiving a full one after March 1, thp War Production Board an nounces. Out for a drive in her pony cart, an elderly lady managed to get in volved in some army maneuvers. As she approached a bridge a sentry stopped her. "Sorry, madam," he said, "you can't cross this bridge; it's just been destroyed." The old lady peered at it through her spec tacles. "It looks all right to me," she murmured. Then, as another soldier came along, she asked: "Ex cuse me, but can you tell me what's wrong with this bridge?" The sol dier shook his head. Don't ask ME, lady," he replied. "I've been dead four days." TODAY and TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON ? JOBS pledge t never heard o? George Gallow hui\ president of the Gallowhur Chemical Corporation of Windsor, Vt., until 1 read an advertisement of his headed. "Letter to a Fighting Man." In that letter Mr. Gallow hur made public a promise that, as soon as the war is over, he will not only re-employ the men who have left his company to go to war but will definitely employ 25 per cent more people than at present and those extra men wili be made up entirely of men now in uniform. In iiis letter on his postwar plans. Mr. Gallowhur also said that all em ployees would have a share, above their wages, in the profits of the company, all would have free insur ance benefits, hospitalization and free retirement benefits. Although I don't know Mr. Gal lowhur personally, it is easy to rec ognize him as being made of the pioneer type of stock who made this country great and who will put ; our nation on the road to perman ent prosperity after the war is over Our country was built by men who took chances ? by men who set goals for themselves and then let nothing interfere with achieving those goals. Mr. Gallowhur. many ( business men might say. has "stuck . his neck out" in making such a j pledge without first knowing what ' business will be like after the war. But in my judgment the only way wc can avoid a major depression when the war ends is for a lot more business men to "stick their necks out" in exactly the same way and then sec to it that these pledges are kept. ANSWERS protection I think that Mr. Gallowhur's pledge holds the solution to most of the major problems we will face as soon as the war is won. By promising ahead of time to hire more men he has given a sound answer to the problem of prevent ing postwar unemployment. By his promise to give insurance benefits to his employees, he has shown how the need for govern ment-sponsored social security can be eliminated. And finally, by offering his em ployees a share of the profits he has pointed the way for a logical solu tion of our nation's labor problem. That question of social benefits is i an important one these days, be-j cause there is already a bill in con gress calling for the expenditure of billions of dollars each year, to be raised by a heavy tax on payrolls, to give all kinds of "free" medical service, old age benefits and insur ance. There is no question but that the people of this country would much I prefer to avoid the big step toward socialism which this measure in volves. And the logical way to pre vent taking that step, and at the same time give the people more security than they have had in the past, is for industry to show its in tention of assuming the responsibili ty of protecting its employees against misfortune. PROFITS sharing Industry, I believe, should also give careful attention to Mr. Gal lowhur's promise to give his em ployees a share of the profits of his company. For it would seem now lhat the only way industry can loos en the grip which unions are get ting on workers is to offer the work ers something better than the unions offer them. If employees of a company are of fered an opportunity to share in the profits, there is every reason to be lieve that they would, from then on, put their loyalty to their company above their loyalty to a union. Unless industry does adopt some such plan, and announces it before the war ends, we are apt to have strikes in this country which will so paralyze business - that a depression worse than we have ever experi enced will result. Big business, as a result of its amazing war job, stands in better with the people today than it ever did in history. At the same time, unions, which have so interfered with war production, have invited the enmity of a large number of people. Thus, today, industry seems to have an unusual opportunity to assure its postwar prosperity, and the postwar prosperity of our na tion. by making it clear to labor that in the future it will share with stockholders and management in the profits which they all make as a team. Hillside Dairy Grade A Raw Milk Permit No. B. Telephone 44 BARNARD DOUGHERTY, Owner R. W. NORRIS. Manager. Your patronage will be appreciated. ABOVE THE HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL o?eataiTSsaafca=w??=i!=?=5?3S3i TO FEED THE STHAVING The senate foreign relations com mittee has requested the state de partment to work out a system for getting food to the people of Nazi occupied European countries. The system contemplates co-operation with Great Britain. Sweden and Switzerland and would be patterned after the plan under which food and other supplies have, for a long time now. been sent to Greece. These supplies would be purchased with private funds and distribution would ! be based upon agreements between < the belligerents "with rigid safe guarding of such relief so that no military advantage whatever may accrue lo thi civil populations of armed forces of the invading na tions." There would be the added understanding that if the enemy should in any way whatsoever take advantage of this procedure, the shipments would cease immediate- 1 ly Now it has been definitely proven ? by the Greek "pattern" ? that the lives and health of great numbers j of our allies can be saved without . helping the enemy; and to the or- , dinary American citizen ? with his I arms full of bundles on his way I home to a well-clothed and a well fed family ? it seems more than strange that something cannot be done to lessen the suffering of the millions of cold and hungry people who were our allies and friends un til the great Nazi octopus beat and starved them into submission. It is difficult for us ? who art upset by the butter shortage ? to grasp the full import of the condi tion of the people of the invaded countries. The following is from an article in a recent edition of the New York Herald Tribune, written by Madame Balsan, an American born lady who has lived abroad a great deal of her life and who is an authority upon piesent conditions in F ranee. "The weary, heart-breaking bread lines ? the empty stores ? the return home, having failed to obtain ra tions; the fireless hearth ? the cry of hungry children ? listless and weary from thei renforced day in bed ? kept there for lack of warm clothing an'l fuel ? the cough of the tubercu lin ? the terrible resignation of dy ing children. Has ever human mis ery been greater or more sustain ed?" Madame Balsan goes on to say i that 70 per ccnt of the French chil dren are tubercular or pre tubercu lar: that some children are becom ing blind from lack of vitamins and fats; that babies arc- being born of half tlit> normal weight: that every where there is starvation and semi starvation; that, "During the com ing winter months a whole genera tion of undernourished tubercular children will die if we send no sup plies." Norway. Holland, Denmark, Bel gium, France: it's the same wher ever the National Socialist Hitler and his Prussian partners in crime have set their hobnailed heels. There is a way for us to help and there are few Americans who would not join a movement which would save our friends without aiding our ene mies. But, as Madame Balsan says: "There is much sympathy in Wash ington for lifting of the blockade. but no action will be taken until public opinion expresses itself more forcibly in its favor." Cut-Over Lands Furnish Grazing Cut-over limber lands can t>e used advantageously to fill in the grazing gap between winter annuals and lespedeza. report research men of the State College t-spcriment sta tion. Tests at the animal husbandry farm near Raleigh during three years showed that beef cattle made an average daily gain of 1.21 pounds in the period from mid-April to the last of May. When the cattle were returned to the woods pasture for a two weeks longer grazzing period, the gains vwere very poor and irk some cases there were losses. The best gains IIIIIHIIIIHilllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII | came in the first four weeks, with three yearlings to five acres. The forage consisted chiefly of hard wood browse and native woods grasses. The State College forestry depart ment conducted studies or. ths grazed area and a similar ungraded area. Where the woodlands were grazed for approximately two months each spring for three yearn, the grazed land contained 83 per cent more young pines of G inches in height or more per acre than the ungrazed land. Boone Flower Shop Our Aim is to Please You. Cut Flower*. Potted Plants. Funeral Deeigns Phone 189-W 417 Grand BI?t imiMllllllilllllllllllfllllllllilllllHIlltlftlU. Qns I A NEW SERIES OF STOCK IN THE W atauga Building & Loan Association Opened On January 1, 1914 E ARE AGAIN offering a limited number of installment or savings shares in your local Building and Loan Association, for those who may want a safe investment, and who will at the same time want to build a home when business conditions justify new construction. These installment shares pay a divide nt of about 5 per cent if carried to ma turity, and are a fine investment. Despite the war we have had a good y ear, have paid our dividends as usv "?!, and have matured installment shares on schedule. When the war clouds pass away, we will, as we have in the past, plan to offer every assist ance to those who wish to build homes. Now is a fine time to take out your shares, and have a substantial sum paid on your home before the day when building materials are again available. We welcome your inquiries as to the Building and Loan method of saving, or home ownership.; T WATAUGA BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION W. H. Gragg, Secretary Bank Building BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA ?
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 13, 1944, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75