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Official Organ of Murphy and Cher okee County. North Carolina. I* CRUSHED EVERY THURSDAY Kntered in the Past Office at Mur phy. North Carolina a.s second class matter under Act of March 3. 189? \ i. tor C. OlinsUsl Kditor-Publlshrr C arl B. Stansill llusiness .^Liiuecr W. I*. Kly the Associate Editor Rirlor^ Meroney Social Editor St'BSt K1PTION PRICE 1 Year, in North Carolina. . , $1.50 G Mos.. in North Carolina 75 1 Year. Out of State 2.00 Payable Strictly In Advance CY.uU >f think-, tributes of respect* by individuals, lodges, churches* or iginations or will be rc i. rd d a.s advertising. Such notices; v. >11 be marked ' .idv." in compliance, v.. h (KXstal regulations. RUBBER MONEY Uiibbo" money mutation dollar that It retched and shrank us-] > ' ??> bo . Id .it country fair-. You h is 11 on- and p sscd it out to ir friends a. a joke. I'oday ruloer money is no longer >ke. it'.i a .inn reality. Good L? bills ire shrinking not in >i/.e, but ;ii value. They won't buy as much as they ad 1. yea:. Accord ant o -.mi: report*. they won't buy ; s much next year as they do now. The inflation : .it Congress talked . bout md ihd little to prevent Is here. As a resul Uk* housewife who l k $10 to market las spring to buy ? k ~ food for her family is find ing hat $10 i- no lor her enough. J. i Inow. In the months to come ? needs Sll.l'ti to et the same }?'.?? may need even more. Prices are i .iing up. a penny here, a dime there, tt.t-k after week. Govrnment surveys show that I'urk chops. for example, jumped 12 < ,.ii> a pound in the last six months: i soared from 29 cents a dozen in March to 45.9 cents in September, 'j . xnles have already gone up 30 jji :? cent in contrast to their 25 per t nt rise during the World War pe I UKi. Pacts like these bring home the iu.-nace of inflation. It strikes at ev erybody's pocketbook. It hits the l.irmer as well as the wage earner. Hip housewife as wel las the indus I : ialist. And. with every passing month, it's going to hit them harder, unless ( C. ingress gets busy and passes ef- ' fi-ctive control legislation to put on j the brakes and check the trend. ALL IN SAME BOAT The recent announcement of a i j ;>&tic automobile suggests that the i lime may not be far distant when: ( :v. will be made entirely of pro c!'.tcis grown on the farm. When that h.ippens. harvest time may come to lfean a bumper crop of limousines. The idea is not so fanciful as it l-iifeht at fir.- appear, for already Many farm products are changed in-! t ) industrial articles. Though the i i auic of research casein from milk] 1 tomes wool and also a plastic ma- 1 I rial. Corn is used in making glyce- ; i'ii.'s and dry ice. cornstalks in mak i . : paper. Sugiar cane goes into I., aiding boards; soy beans into i int. enamel and linoleum. One 1. rge ehemical company alone buys 1 ? million pounds of cotton. 36 mil ! >n pound 5 of cotton llnters. and 36 i llion bushels of corn from farmers ! ch year. As industrial research i rids new uses for farm crops, indus l / will depend more and more on ; .rlculture as a source of raw ma t rials. And agriculture, in turn, will de ; ad on industry for more inventions M.e radios, telephones and labor : . ins machinery that have made the farm a much pleasanter place l live than It was a generation or tv. a ago. Because the two groups provide 1! rkets for each other's products, tli ? prosperity of the one depends on 1!i other. Past experience has shown that when industry is making mon ey. agriculture is making money, tc I 'acts like these prove that here in America, we've all git a stake in c . h other's future. We may work it' different parts of the country at {".ffcrent Jobs. We may have differ ent likes and dislikes. We may be divided into various groups ? indus trial employees, farmers, doctors, lawyers? but in the long run we're THE "TWO-PIECE LOOK" j Whether it's an eveni.13 frown with skirt falling in graceful elegance to the floor, or a street-length afternoon frock ? it's the "two-piece look" that's top fashion today. The tunic, so popular this season, gives it to the pearl grey dinner gown with its slit skirt and silver studded coral belt. The other New York creation, an afternoon dress, grey-green in two tones, has smoothly fitting jumper top with side lacings, and a tacked skirt. a.', in the same boat. And today we've all got to work together to solve our common profc- ? lems. We've got to work together to cheek inflation, finance defense, pre- I vent unnecessary government con trols on our freedom ? -in short we've j all got to work together to insure our ! continued prosperity in the years to | come. PRIORITYON DEATH Whi-e we are on the subject of the National Defense Program and the f effect of priorities, we refer to the ( report of Mr. W. D. Townson, well . known mortician. Mr. Townson has just returned from the National Funeral Conven- j tion lyes, they have such things) ; in St. Louis, and reports that tile outlook for those in his profession is very dark indeed. There was a time says Mr. Town- , son when a person could have al- ; most any kind of a funeral he want - 1 ed? provided, of course, that he had j tiie nscessary money. But now, it, doesn't make much difference if he's ! a Croesus. He can't have any bet- : ter funeral than a pauper. The reason, it seems is that the ; more expensive caskets are vital to < the defense program. Copper, bronze, and other metals which make such handsome coffins also make hand some guns. Gloomy because of the effect on his business. Mr. Townson was re minded that the American people could revert to the use of the old l fashioned wooden kimonos, as the j ligneous casket are sometimes called. "We could." he frowned." only we ! can't get handles, and we'd have to train pallbearers to get along j without them. I All of this started us wondering i just how one would get one's fin ; gers under a coffin, lift it. and car ry it safely to its final destination without some mishap. But then, we aren't trained pallbearers. Perhaps the Federal Goernment, in a cooperative mood, wil h'orm an Adult education project, which will travel from state to state in structing prospective pallbearers in the new art of carrying handleless caskets. Or, maybe they'll make rope "cradles." j HAROLD THE ICK Sitting in a swivel chair on the fourth floor of a massive gray lime stone building in Washington, scowl ing out on the little triangular plot Iof grass across the street, is Harold the Ick. He is scowling because some un .-uspecting Government Clerk Is I about to v.'ilk on his lawn. When the Government clerk does walk on the lawn, Harold the Ick will scream loudly and dispatch a corps of his U. S. Park Policemen to the scene and order an arrest made. II no Government worker walks on his laivn. Harold the Ick turns to other things, such as reading the paper. This usually makes him very angry indeed, as the press very sel dom says anything nice about him. As a matter of fact, so uncompli mentary is the Press to Harold the Ick's high office, that this worthy, but somewhat misplaced gentleman often slams his door and fumes for the rest of the day after reading the publicity he so graciously has been afforded. When lie has read a column by Mr. \ Westbrook Pegler. the Ick is said to tear out large chunks of his hair, and it hjs been noticed that he can not afford to keep up this practice very long. Once in a while, when things get loo dull, Harold the Ick decides to , vent his temper on John Public. He I has a very fertile imagination, and ! dreams up things like gas shortages. Of course, John Public gets sore atout these things sometimes, and has his Senator make an investiga ! tion. The investigation of Harold's gas oline shortage made him even more I angry than usual because it showed I that there was no gasoline shortage | at all. ' At present, the Ick is idle again. and in that mighty mind of his are . ambitions of becoming the govern ment's czar of hydro-electric power. The Ick will be given ? if his plans I materialize ? $200,000,000 to "buy ' out'' any power companies he likes. As the plan stands now. the Ick's ' purchasing wouid be confined to the ? northwest. But then, it is very hard to tell beforehand Just where his ; ambitions may turn next ? maybe to , this section. In Western North Carolina, hydro ; electric power is important. Already, much of the potential reserves have been harnessed, and still there exists such a shortage that the Office of Production Management hac order ed a blackout of "unnecessary" uses of electricity. j There can be but one result of the . shortage ? more power dam.;. The i "usually reliable sources" say anoth er T. V. A. dam is to be built between Murphy and Andrews. It is also said that other dams will be thrown up by private power companies. Right now, we don't have to wor i ry about much more than the ex isting shortage. We know it exists. i STRAIGHT FROM NEW YORK Those "Good Old Days" Great Aunt Matilda loves to "liark ' i back" to the days when she was i young and she and Uncle Ezra had [ "gone west" to new land. "Those ' were the days," she said the other , ' evening, sighing deeply and letting | her knitting rest in her lap for a I moment while she looked with dim : blue eyes tack into the long ago ? Past. And then, taking up her knitting i again, she explained. "We didn't I have all those gimcracks you girls ! now -a-days think you couldn't get j along without. Those fancy vacuum I sweepers . . . and automobiles to go j gallivanting around the country in! . . . and electric refrigerators bis j enough for a >y>?rriine house. We i did very well putting our butter | down in !> well. "We didn't have any of these new fangled things. But there's one thins we did have that's more important ! lhan all of them put together. We j j had hope and we had freedom. Those ! were the good old days when I | America was great and we knew that, | if we worked hard enough and pul j our money in the bank, we'd be all I i i iglit when the rainy days came." "But, Aunt Matilda," I answered, ' America is still great. Greater than) she has ever been. And today we have hope, too, as well as vaccum rleancrs . . . and you must admit ! they do get all the dirt up even from the corner and from under the bed." "Hope for what?" Aunt Matilda wanted to know. "What kind of hope I do you have?" "Hope for a better time iand a bet ter world with opportunity for more people. You talk about the good old days. Well, for us. the good old days But if and when we get all the I power we need; and If and when Harold the Ick is made Czar of Power, who can tell but what he will declare another imaginary shortage? All of us who want to avoid such 'an eventuality should write our friends in Washington and persuade them to walk on the grass in front of the Department of the Interior. That would, temporarily, at least, divert the Ick's attention. aren't Rood enough any more. We're looking ahead to the co?d new dj>N that arc possible <n u country Uke this with its fertile farms and wealth of o tlier resources, and the greutPst industrial system the world lias ever known. Here free mon have speeded up defense production as much in .1 single yoar as Hitler did in six wit', his regimented economy! "Perhaps a few years a:;o during the depression when production was at a low ebb. people had some n a*on to sigh for the good old days. But the America which the reformer;; siid then was washed up <md through has found herself once more. And. Aunt Matilda, that America today is astonishing the world. "When this depression is over. le-. this same capacity to make things be devoted to the production of pejee-time commodities and let those commodities be sold in the tra ditional American way to the people who need them, and no one will even think of the good old days aaain. Even you. Aunt Matilda, will be too busy enjoying the good new ones:" BITS O' BUSINESS Tne furniture business is going strong ? for the first eight months of the year 22 per cent ahead of 1940 pace, and with final quarter expec tations to be even bigger . . . Military tanks, an industry that wasn't even in existence 18 months ago in this country, by the middle of 1942 will be a "billion-dollar" in dustry ? it's now producing at the rate of $25,000,000 worth a month, and is scheduled to double that by this year's end. double it again In the first half of '42 . . . Standard equipment on one of Uncle Sam's battleships includes about 100 typewriters? to say noth ing of some 60 filing cabinets. 20 add ing machines and a pair of cash registers! . . . Banks are combing the woods for new tellers? as fast as they get them trained defense plants grab them for paymasters . . . One of the country's largest van ity-case manufacturers found it easy to switch his machinery over to mak ing shell cases ... . America's Most Popular Console Radio! 94.50 COfAE tARlY ... Quantity limited I EXQUISITE New Beauty! Glorious New Tone! Thrilling New Power! Sensational Philco Features! New Double I. F. 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