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THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday SIS Court Street Telephone 283-1 A. P. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear #1.50 Eight Month* 1.00 Six Months 78 Four Months .... .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION v New York City Entered at the Poatoffice at Loulsburg, N. C. as second > clan mail matter. BETTER PREPARED At a time when farmer^ cooperatives are being tested to the limit under the surge of war, it is a good plan for members to examine the stuff their organizations are made of, and how they were built in the beginning. .Co operatives that have been built soundly from the indi vidual farnier up, a yd have been properly manned and managed, are better prepared to stand the stress of7 these turbulent times than the ordinary business con cern. Members of such cooperatives are fortunate. Farmers had no such protection and hope in the other "world war. ? Dairymen's League News. 0O0 SERIOUS UNDERTAKING ? . ? ?? As the new year opens, statisticians, experts and housewives agree oh one fact. The cost of living is ris ing ominously. Cries for inflation, controls/grow louder. The "easy" way of paying for war by painless borrow ing is beginning to hurt. The best possible inflation control is taxation. This control has not been applied effectively. An additional inflation control is direct sale of war bonds to the people. The banks should receive much of the credit for successfully putting tens of billions of dollars worth of these bonds into the hands of the pub lic. Their efforts have helped/ immeasurably to stem the trend toward forced savings and resultant restric tions which the Treasury has been reluctant to impose. The Treasury hopes to raise the present figure of 23 million workers now investing an average of 8% of their pay in savings bonds, to a figure of at least 30 million workers setting aside an average of at least 10% of their earnings every pay day. This means, in the words of a spokesman for the National City Bank of New York, that: "The banker, by virtue of his psoition in tlie community, has a special responsibility for taking off his coat and getting down to work to make the financing a success." . ? However, no voluntary war bond program can possi bly be a success unless the American people evidence a willingness to turn from- a scramble for disappearing luxuries and put their money into a serious undertak ing. That undertaking is winning the war, and at the same time saving, the economic svstem by which we all live. / uuu ? - THERE /IS A DIFFERENCE Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, after returning from his gruelling experience in the South Seas and his inspec tion of fighting fronts, is the only man who has said what the American people needed?to hear in connection with production problems. In the newspapers and in the news reels he said that if the soldier's, could be transfer red from the hell holes they occupy on the battlefronts, to our factories, and if i the employes in the factories could be transferred to the battlefronts, production in .this country would double in thirty days. By the tone of his voice and his expression, you could see that he was disgusted with the Polyanna talk about workers at home being classed as filling '-'battle sta tions." " Captain Rickenbacker emphasized that nothing the people in this country can do will in any measure equal "what the boys on the battle lines are doing. They don't get overtime pay and they work day and night if nec essary. The people agree with Captain Rickenbacker.. Just because some of us wear "tin hats" at home, we don't want to become swelled up with the idea that we are filling "battle stations" ? Me are not. Battle stations are where the bullets fly and men are dying; where men work as long as there is something to do; where orders are obeyed; where overtime pay and profits are not an issue; and where the perpetuation of liberty and freedom for the individaul are the guiding stars. 0O0 FANTASTIC! , The better brains of the country have been drawn in to the war administration. Politics has to be forgotten when a burglar has a gun at your head. Domestic problems have been largely sidetracked in the public mind, as they have seemed superficial com pared with the war. Bureaucracy has run wild in Washington. The sim plest acts in family life have been made complicated is sues. One has but to read the requirements for cutting up a beef in order to comply with price , ceilings, to see how confused a local butcher must be. Running a groc ery or merchandise store has become a problem so com plicated that stores are going out of business by the. thousands. Instead of receiving cooperation "from gov ernment bureaus, everyone is threatened with a $10,000 fine or ten years in jail, or both, as the penalty for every failure to comply. The people are heart and soul for winning the war on the biittlefront. Boys from every family are there. We tare pVotid of the results they are accomplishing. The' v - U.S. Marine Corps photo On Guadalcanal three 'Marines cross a crudely bridged ravine in a four-by-four? "Jeep" to you. The little quarter-ton all-purpose army trucks, which your War Bonds help pay for, are able to trans port three fully equipped fighting men, tow a 37 millimeter gun, or serve as ammunition carriers. They have increased the mobility of our fighting forces beyond calculation, provided them with the flexible' striking power so essential in modern war. i ' SV. S. Treasury Department *. . ? 'people are also heart and soul for winning the produc tion an^l distribution problems on" the home front to back up our whole war effort. But they are beginning to' open their eyes' to waste and confusion and politics-as usual on the home front. The_siiuation has become fantastic and it is high time that thousands of bureaucrats who never raised a chick en, a hog, or a cow, and who never produced an article by manual labor, and who never maintained a payroll or sold a yard of goods, be replaced by men who know something of the actual problems of production and dis tribution. Let brains come to the top in domestic affairs a^they have in military affairs. Batlan Rou'^e; La., firemen, summoned to douse a burning auto, were urged to "save the tires and gasoline" by the owner, who was trying to get his tires off. 1 o A large portion of the warm water panfish produced in Feder al ?<ish hatcheries goes to stock farm ponds to provide local fish food. o Salvation lies in each of us giv ing earnest attention to his own problems. Do You Waste Gas? HASTE makes waste in food and fuel when you cook in a clotfd of steam in the mistaken idea that the cooking time is shortened Water boils at 212 degrees F., and no matter how hard it boils, the temperature is still 212 degrees. Violent boiling does not speed up cooking ? it only wastes gas. Im mediately liquid in foods starts boil ing, Jower the flame. Foods cook best at a simmer in a cpvered pan using as little water as possible ? and this requires half the gas. Ga is viial to the nation's \)frar effort, so homemakers are asked by the government to use it wisely. 1 100% Every Pay Day ' > John Grech, machinist em ployed by R. Hoe & Company, the Bronx, New York City, came to America in 1919 from the Is land of Malta where 12 of his brothers and sisters still live. John has been an American citi zen since 1924 and an employee of the Hoe Company for almost twenty years. During that time he saved part of his earnings and today Is Bring from them while investing mt hundred percent of his pay l|t War *Bonds every week. Co-operation between the Hoe Company officers and the In terna tioaal Association of Ma chinists ha* resulted in as oat standing record tor Orech's fd law fRttdupiviA w$IL tutor. 'U*S.fr dtmi Dfrlmft In Polish ghettos, established by Nazis, as many as 1,000 peo ple are forced to live in one house and single, rooms hold up to 13 persons The only affairs that interest; most people are the other fel low's. v Fliers Decorated ? ail London. Jan. 26. ? Distinguish ed Flying Crosses were awarded today to three United States air men of the Eighth Air Force. This brought U. S. Eighth air force" holders of the DFC to 4 0. An air medal for "exceptionally meritorious" achievements while serving on bombing raids was awarded Col. Frank L. Armstrong pilot, of Nashville, N. C. The Oak Leaf Cluster for ex ceptionally meritorious achieve men was awarded, Second Lieut. James B. Bullock, navigator, of Greensboro, N. C., who previous ly received an air medal. Lieut. BUllock is thfe son of Thomas Bullock, a former resi dent of Henderson. o ? GRADUATED Seymour Johnson Field,. N. C. ?Pvt. Charles B. Perry, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Perry, Sr., 804 South Main Street, Louis burg, N. C., was graduated this week from the Aviation Mechan ics' coifrse at this branch of the Army Air Forces Technical Train ing Command... At Seymour Johnson Field he studied airplane maintenance and repairs. ? From this school and others of the Technical Twining Command come an unending stream of soldier mechanics to "keep 'em flying." Most gradu ates proceed to tactical units of the Air Forces on fighting fronts throughout the world. A few are retained to instruct future stu dents. Pvt. Perry attended Mills High School. Before entering s'ervice at Fort Bragg on August 24, ? 1942, he was employed at Coop er's service station. Custom officials on the Texas Mexico border remove coffee stamps from rationing books of Americans who seek to import coffee from Mexico. o Fran,k Randolph of Bakersville, Route 1, has found that housing his poultry properly pays big dividends. * OUR DEMOCRACY r-WM* II in jF. COMMON SENSE THEN? J ?Siic ...ust call, not upon ?| c. Few ? (j'-it* upoi v &iit I QJp and kelp us ! L&ij ijour J sKoulders to tke tukoel ; ? b? He r kaue too muck force 5 tkav.+oo tittle ,o>kcu so ? ? Y <j tvat a;. objcct is ai stake. I f - THOMAS fi//V? M "COMMON S?MS?~ M/rre/j CURING rue gsvoiut/on . \ ; com mov r'.vsE now. % Everything the decent people of the world hope for depends on the courage and determination of the U. S. A. o Answering the telephone is the! one home job a seventeen-year- j old girl does with alacrity. 9 Diet for the purpose of reduc ing weight, when pursued by a determined woman, has wrecked many a pleasant household. o The demand for purebred live stock by Forsyth County farmers continues to increase steadily. ?I .* e/ ? ' ,< ^^E'RE proud of the fine work the Boy Scouts are doing, the time and effort and thcsuight they are putting into patriotic chores! They are exemplifying the high ideals and manliness which are the watch ( - words of the Boy Scout creed. The Boy Scouts of today are the fine men of tomorrow ? the : soldiers fighting the battle against the wrong wherever they find it. So, an admiring salute to you, Boy Scouts, from a grateful Uncle Sam! BOY SCOUT WEEK FEBRUARY 6-12 THE FRANKLIN TIMES rsk ;? ?au atmx'';* .. t t
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