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THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941
By The Rocketts Red Glare . . .
Independence Day is a serious affair this
year. Not in a long time have we Ameri
cans been brought to So keen a realiza
tion of the unique quality of the life that
this country is privileged to enjoy. So
“Fourth of July celebrations” and the tra
ditional “shootin’ off firecrackers” are
likely to yield first place to measured con
sideration of the real meaning of American
independence.
It’s interesting to notice in this connec
tion that the actual material needs of our
defense program are making it necessary
for all of us to “fall in step” .with this new
approach. For the United States is “keep
ing its powder dry”—not shooting it off in
discriminately to advertise a national holi
day.
In New York City, for example, report
ers discovered that all but a tiny portion of
the pyrotechnical output of companies in
the field is now being devoted to the na
tion’s defense program. Fireworks com
panies are making signal lights, smoke
bombs, hand grenades, trench mortar
shells, and various other flare and explo
sive devices for our armed forces. Further
than that, we are reminded that most of
the rest of the world is on fire when we
learn that imports of firecrackers from
China, main foreign source, have been vir-
. tually cut off.
“No time and few materials for fire
works—we’re working 24 hours a day for
the army and navy,” says one big com
pany. Like many other companies and in
dustries who have turned away from
peacetime products to go “all out” in the
national emergency, the fireworks folks
are putting the welfare of the whole coun
try first.
And that’s the best possible insurance
that there will be a real Fourth of July to
celebrate when the present emergency has
passed I
Health Is Part Of Defense
In the present defense program, indivi
dual stamina is required not alone of the
man in uniform, but also of the man back
of the lines who provides him wdth the
equipment he needs. And American indus
try is safeguarding the health of its mil
lions of workers through steadily expand
ing plant health programs, as a survey of
industrial health practices conducted by
the National Association of Manufacturers
discloses.
More than 2,000 companies replied to
the survey, directed by the noted author
and medical consultant. Dr. Victor G. Rei
ser. The following were the most salient
facts established by the returns:
1. Industrial health programs—long ef
fective in one form or another in most
large American companies—are being in
creasingly developed in the smaller p.ants
of the nation.
2. These programs have not only
brought about improved labor relations—
partly, perhaps, because physical examina
tions have “put round pegs in round
holes”—placed men in jobs to which they
are physically geared.
This comprehensive surv'ey on indus
trial health practices yields a fund of val
uable new information that will aid all in
dustry and the nation as a whole. Ameri
cans can take comfort in the fact that, just
at this time when extraordinary 'phy
sical demands are being made upon in
dustry in connection with defense, indus
try has reached its hjghest pitch in the
field of health practices and gives every
evidence of continuing to move ahead to
new highs. ,
Some telephone company should merge
with a frigidaire manufacturer and pro
duce a comfortable weather phone booth.
—Life.
Ruthlessness Triumphs Again
Provided John L. Lewis does not repudi
ate the Mediation Board’s findings, the na
tion has been saved from a coal famine and
a shutdown of defense industries by the
Southern coal operators accepting the de
cision of the Board which wiped out the
long-established differential of 40 cents a
day in wages between Northern and
Southern coal mining.
Wages have always been less in the
South than in the, North because of the
cost of living and other conditions. Such
differentials exist in virtually all lines of
industry, and in the case of coal it was
about the smallest of any.
What this decision will do to the South
ern coal industry remains to be seen. The
Southern mines were paying $6.60 a day:
they will now be raised to $7.00, the same
as the Northern mines. The previous dif
ference of 40 cents a day was largely need
ed to offset freight rates which were
necessary to haul the Southern coal longer
distances to Northern factories to compete
with Northern operators in those terri
tories.
Under the abnormal conditions of the
moment, the imperative demand for coal
may keep up production in Southern mines
even under uneconomic wage differen
tials. But when anywhere near normal
conditions return, the Southern coal min
ers may well find that the arbitrary de
mands of their leaders, enforced under
threat of stoppage of coal supplies to de
fense industries, will lead to the closing of
many Southern mines and the unemploy
ment of countless thou.sands of Southern
coal miners.
Labor leadership which, under threat of
Absurdities
IHT NICH6LS, et •!.
[RBEATSRIDE
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By DWIGHT
lO, N.
SNAKE
Outstanding amoni^ the freak
news items of the Week was that
of the hitchhiking snake.
A car from the 'Blue Ridge
country parked on Main street
Saturday and a long iblack sn?ke
lazily crawled off the spare tire
on the back.
Presumably the snake, which
wanted to come to the town it
had been hearing so much about,
had beaten a ride from the un-
auspecting motorist.
FROM KNOP SACK
We herewith borrow two items
from the Knap Sack, publication
of the Boy Scout Camp Lasater
and edited, by Bob Harris, of El
kin:
“An oyster met an oyster
And they were oysters two.
Two oysters met two oysters
And they were oysters too.
Four oysters met a pint of milk
And they were oyster stew.”
«r ▼ho got in flnaneUn;
s; thh chui^
hablB4:^th hia ipiy. tsw:
, s^ethlhc
done ebont^ It. She
cklled a meeting of all the breth-
em of means to be held rt her
house. She. bad some very old
wine and she thought it would be
a good idea to serve it as a hind
of stimulant which she hoped
would open the hearts and pock-
etbooks of the men who could
furnish the cash.
She served some of the wine,
which she called punch, the first
thing. In a few minute; one of
the men rrose, said the church
was behind $500 with the preach
er’s pay and that the thing to do
was to make up the money right
there. He said he would give
$100. The next man arose after
the second serving of “punch,”
made a glorious brlk and said he
would give $200. After the third
serving the kingpin of the entire
community, the wealthiest one,
arose, made a wonderful talk,
said he had been blessed with
wealth and that he Insisted that
he be allowed to pay the entire
$500.
Punch was served again as a
tonic tor celebration and the
preacher, who had made the mis
take of being present and enjoy
ing the refreshments, arose and
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London, Wednesday, July 2.—
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
British middle eastern command-
er-in-chlef whose desert armies
drove tbe ltalians deep into Libya
before being forced back by the
German®, today was transferred
to India, exchanging posts with
Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck who
is almost unknown to the gener
al public,.
- This surprise military shakeup
which stunned Britons was Inter
preted variously as evidence that:
1. General Wavell had been
shelved because of the German
break-through in Liby.-. and the
los® of the Greek island of Crete,
■The Lord gave us two ends.' a'^er a rousing talk said he didn't
1 UC OUlU wo O , *1. 1 1 j
one to sit on and other to think ,^^e lousy old money any
2. That General Wavell wa.s be
ing sent to ready British Indian
legions to defend that vast part
of the British empire against a
possible German attack through
Russia and Iran.
General Auchinleck, a tall 57-
year-old Scotsman, is not well
known to the p>ubllc despite his
successful work in directing the
British atuck on Narvik, Nor
way, his organization of English
coi stal defenses, and long career
in India.
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and try
sacrificing the nation’s safety,, forces dis-
GOIXG IN nKd.E.S
It is difficult to reconcile all
that is going on.
The Federal Power con. =s-
sion says there is a shortage of
electric power in several areas,
including North Carolina and the
shorUge that is supposed to he
is described with badly sou’iding
adjectives. Sharp curtailment was
location of the normal functioning of an
industry, can only bring disaster for that
industry and its workmen when the crisis
which permitted such ruthle.ss practices,
has passed.
The small mine operators and the work
men will be the ones who suffer most when
the normal laws of supply and demand
again begin to function. In the meantime,
the public pays tribute to greed for power.
Can’t Swallow Own Medicine
At the recent meeting of the American
Medical Association, Doctor Nathan B.
Van Etten, the retiring president of the or-
ganizati(4^ urged medtiJiH profession
to defend its policies against criticism by
authorities whose mental processes seem
to have been influenced by Moscow and
Berlin.
“Some esteemed persons,” he said, “have
admitted that freedom to choose a doctor
was quite right for themselves as they car
ried their arthritis to Philadelphia or Bos
ton ; their surgery to outstanding opera
tors, and their eyes to the best ophthalmo
logists. Their denial of the value of free
choice applies only to other less fortunate
people. Mass medicine is wonderful for
everybody except themselves. They would
prescribe, but cannot swallow their own
medicine.”
The agitation on behalf of socialized
medicine is a difficult phenomenon to un
derstand. It will be remembered that
asked on the part of c.vili; n us-
ers.
Stanley Winbonrne. state utili-
tie.s commissioner, says that U no
such thing as a shortage in North
Carolina and people have abso
lutely no cause to worry.
Over in Tennessee, where wi
had been t?ugbt to believe every
thing was electrified, they say the
situation is “acute.”
At the .same time that a driv
to collet-l old aluminum pots and
nans was being organized out of 4 040 ,-cre- more than the 10
* . »
Washington comes the news that
the army hrd ordered great quan
titles of aluminum cooking ulen
sils while we were being led to
believe all aluminum was needed
tor airplane works.
In North Carolina there is a
great drive to produce food and
teed. Meanwhile the farmers are
,"sked to vote on wheat crop re
duction and how!
One government agency tellp
how nice it i,s to go certain places
for week-end trips and Harold
Ickes says cut oait Sunday pleas
ure driving to conserve gasoline.
So what ?
Are they going to ask us to
put electricity in bottles and save
it up for defense?
Let us get up a defense pro
ject, hack the srved electricity
lip some mountain cove and con
serve it.
GROW YOL’R OWN C.4R!
Henry Ford envisions a day
‘only a few years off” when a
farmer will grow most of the ma
terials going into his automobile
or truck. “We will soon have m
experimental bbdy ready at our
plant made chiefly of plastics
Shortly before the last election both Presi- from manufac"^
dent Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie came
out squarely against it. The figures show
that, under private medicine, the standard
of health in America has become the high
est in the world—and that was true long
before war brought disease and pestilence
to Europe. Especially noteworthy pro
gress has been made in extending first-
class medical and hospital service to per
sons of small means.
The drive against private medicine,
therefore, must be largely judged as part
and parcel of the drive against private en
terprise in all fields—as part of the drive
to bi’ing about some form of state sociali
sm here. In this drive, the welfare of the
people is given little consideration. Its
most aggressive backers are men who seek
political power and political advantage.
Everywhere socialized medicine ha.-:
been established public health, standards
are lower than in this country. That is
fact—not theory. When the medical pro
fession fights regimentation, it fights for
all the people.
Nazis now are making an ersatz meat
from wood. It would be amusing to hear
a Berlin gourmet call for a steaked plank.
—Omaha World-Telegram.
Of course, with no more Sunday driving,
there would be no more Sunday drivers.
They can, however, go back to changing
seats in canoes.—Detroit News.
The most fatal place to take the wrong
side is on the highway.—Greensboro DaiK
News.
UUin
grown.” the motor car manufac
turer declared in an interview.
“Thie plastic body will be sev-
eral hundred pounds lighter and
will be a. better body.’' Mr. Ford
went on. “The field cf plastics is
almost unlimited and we’ll see
them made more and more in
houses and offices instead of
wood. Many new material;, which
be made from last - growing
plants, will aid in conserving min
erals in years to come. A ffrra
boy ought to be able to fill his
pockets full of seeds and make
himself a good living from
them,” he declared.
WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT DAY
The story is told of the preach-
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Cantaloup Crop
To Top Records
Raleigh, July 1.—North Caro
lina cantaloupe producers expect
to harvest their Irrgest crop on
record this season, Russell P.
Handy, junior statistician of the
State Department of Agriculture,
reported today.
A production of 722,000 crates,]
27 per cent above last ye^tr, wa.s
indicated in the June 15 .summary i
of the Federal-State Crop Report
ing Service.
“Of significance i.s the trend
in cantaloupe acreage in the State |
which lias gradually increased 1
since 1940. The increase in pro
duction over last year is due pri-1
marily to the larger acreage '■
planted for harvest plus a small j
increase in yield per acre.
“The 1941 crop will be harvest
ed from an estimated 8,500 acres
or 1.400 more than last year and ;
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ELECTRIC
APPLIANCES
too, have changed!
Your old appliances and the new streamliners have one thing
in common: they were originally designed for the same tasks.
But the horseless buggy, like the present car, also ran. The
electric refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, and other appli
ances are today doing much more for much less in operating
cost. And, of course, prices are much lower than they used
to be. It’s hard to appreciate the difference unless you see
it with your own eyes. ILyou don’t believe it, just browse
a little while in the Electric Appliance Department of your
favorite dealer next time you come down town. You’ll be
surprised!
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