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Wednesday, June 10, 1942
Open Letter To Senator Bailey
/rvx,,,, Tn Poneressman Clark)
!\ In
making an appeal to you ior con(aideration
for the people of my county,
1 suppose that I show poor taste when 1
open my remarks with a reminder of the
more than special consideration shown
; you and your candidacy by our voters no
longer ago than the Democratic Primary
on May .?>0.
On that day our voters paid you the
signal honor of giving you the biggest
majority of any man on the ticket, and
although your total vote was only 1450, it
was 121 votes greater than our second
most popular candidate.
:f We realize that under normal conditidhs
not too much can be expected for a
f county where the voting strength is this
light. But we know that we need not reI
mind you that these are not normal
times.
What we have in mind, Senator, is a
statement credited to you in the Sunday
is&pe of The Wilmington Star-News in
which you and Congressman Clark were
conferring with the thought of seeing
wliat could be done about securing facilities
in Wilmington for the construction
P of wooden barges for inland waterway
tj traffic.
SNow, with no thought of detracting one
^ cubic from the stature of our neighbori
intr citv?even if we could?we do want
to point out that Wilmington has now
reached the point of super-saturation, so
far as her further ability to assimilate defense
industries is concerned. At Southport,
and at other points in Brunswick
county, we are still waiting for the first
fruits of defense industry.
And so it is with the kindest feeling in
; the world, Senator Bailey, that I invite
you to investigate the possibilities of
barge construction at Southport, or at
some other point in our county. When you
do you will find: 1. That this is no
strange business for the men in our section;
2. That certain facilities already
exist for construction of barges of the
type under discussion; 3. That you will
find raw materials, skilled labor and
transportation facilities that will permit
you to present to your colleagues a proposal
for a project in your state that will
be able to produce in the finest tradition
of our war-time effort.
Fire In The Forest
Writing in the American Weekly, Sec[retary
of Agriculture Wickard points out
that fire in the forest is a definite menace
to the war effort. "This year," he
says, "the wolf of forest fire has more
nower to do harm in the United States
than ever before.
"For many years fires have burned
over an average of around 30,000,000 acres
of forest land annually. Year after
year experienced foresters have placed
the estimate of property damage at $40,000,000.
Few if any years have gone by
without some lives being lost to "forest
fire. And the toll of death and suffering
among wild animals, birds and fish; oi
destruction of the soil, and of constant
erosion has, of course, been incalculable.
"This year, in addition tc the capacity
to exact a similar toll, forest fire could
slow down the nation's production for
war; it could interrupt the flow of aircraft,
tanks, shells, ships and other fighting
equipment for the United Nations and
their fighting men."
A vast amount of timber products goes
into fighting arms. A modern battleship
for instance, requires 500,000 "board feet
of wood. Steel cargo ships require as
much as 700,000 board feet. A bombing
plane cased for shipment requires 15,00f
board feet, which is about as much as is
used in a six-room house. Any number oi
war materials are made in part froir
wood pulp.
So our forests, in addition to being i
priceless natural resource, are of vital im
portance to the war effort. And thos(
forests, when the height of the dry season
is reached, become virtually explos
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ive. Power lines, railroad tracks, hig
ways, and water supplies often r
through our woodlands. One match cot
, start a disastrous fire which would
felt in the far comers of the world,
t diminishing supplies to our troops.
Be rigorously careful in the wooi
Scrupulously abide by every regulati<
Don't complain when forest areas s
i closed to travel?that is often a nec
I sary precaution. The defense of Americ;
I magnificent resources of timber is part
National Defense.
Battle Of Production
"The battle of production has be
. won," wrote Paul Mallon recent
"American industry went over the top
April, out of the preparatory organizi
phase, and into the great American stri
of mass production which no one c
I?....i Vi'Atn nniv nn fhe ni
UIJIUI1 tlllv ? ilCI V. X IVIli UVII ...v r _
duction line on our charts will go neai
straight up."
That is an incredible achievement, ai
it takes incredible statistics to describe
In April, our war production was at t
i rate of $40,000,000,000 a year. The Ju
j rate will be about 25 per cent great<
' And by the end of this year, the eco
omists confidently predict we will be pi
during at the rate of $70,000,000,000
year.
In time to come, many a learned bot
will be written telling just how priva
industry did this job?a job which is u
precedented in world history. Two yea
ago we were totally unprepared for w?
Today We are out-producing natio
which devoted most of their resources
getting ready for war, for a decade
more. In Mein Kampf, Hitler says tin
and time again that the democracies a
I weak, spineless, unwilling and unable
fight. The Japanese also pinned abunda
faith on that supposition. This countr
along with the other United Nations,
showing Hitler how tremendously wroi
he was.
: American industry has done far mo
than turn its plants from the products
of the necessities and luxuries of pea
to the production of the instruments
war. It has boldly pioneered new tetfhi
ques. It has thrown old production pr
judices to the four winds. It has work<
on the basis that nothing is impossibl
The skeptics said, for instance, that tl
assembly-line principle could never 1
successfully applied to the manufactu
of fighting airplanes. FOrd, Boeing, Co
solidated and other plants have prov<
otherwise?in Seattle, San Diego, Willo
Run and elsewhere some of the fine
military airplanes the world has ever se<
i are being made almost as swiftly as a
tomobiles were made in the old day
Skeptics were certain forecasts of tar
production were fantastically high. Chry
ler and other makers, to the contrary, a
today well ahead of the forecasts and a:
going farther steadily.
All over the country plants, little ;
well as big, are setting new productu
records in a hundred war-material field
Deiavs still occasionally occur because
lack of materials, labor difficulties, ef
But those delays grow fewer.
There is only one dark spot?mercha
ship output. The ship-biulders have doi
an excellent job in the face of staggerii
technical difficulties., but the fact r
mains that United Nations' losses a
somewhat ahead of replacements. F
some time delivery of steel plate was b
hind schedule. However, existing yar
are steadily upping their output, ai
some gigantic new yards, on both the A
lantic and Pacific Seaboards, will short
go into operation. In this as in other w,
fields, some revolutionary changes a
taking place in production methods.
; the last war, it took close to a year
' make the 8,800-ton Liberty ships we us<
' then. A Portland, Oregon, yard recent
produced a 10,800-ton freighter of tl
standard type we are building now in (
days. And it is believed certain that st
I faster production will soon become coi
monplace.
The warship building program is r
ported ahead of schedule. Special ei
1 phasis is laid on the production of tl
destroyer's which are needed for conv<
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> uuucd, ?iiu ior protecting siups-ui-wie-ni
, in naval squadrons. And the U. S. su
; marine fleet is growing satisfactorily.
> Not until the war is over and the i
f formation is of no use to the enemy w
> it be possible to tell the whole story
5 America's production effort. What C(
f be said now is that no nation or group
i nations ever did so much in so short
period of time. At the end of the l?
i year, Von Ludendroff wrote, in bitter a
. miration, that the United States und<
> stood how to wage war. The cold prodi
. tion figures show that the United Stat
. understands it better still today.
THE STATE PORT 1
33 THE HOME
s FRONT
is. ?
The modern soldier stands at
ire the apex of a pyramid, a human
es- pyramid. He is placed there by
a's the arms aiid hands and backs
! and shoulders of the many who
stand beneath him, the many who
supply him with food and clothing
and weapons and ammunition.
Probably everyone has seen
some version of the human pyramid,
it's part of the routine of
en circus gymnasts. Soldiers some.
_ times form pyramids to surmount
'7- high walls and it is in this manin
ner ? but on a vastly greater
nr scale?that we shall top the wall
of victory.
d6 We have been reading a great
an deal recently of the tremendous
?0_ air raids with which our British
,jy allies smash and smash again at
the strength of our enemies. In
connection with one of them, the
id first great raid on Cologne, the
jt. British pointed out that while 6,t
000 men?pilots and bombardiers
and navigators and machine gunne
ners?manned the 1,000 bombers
if, sehc over Germany, an army of
fully 10,000 additional soldiers
fiad made the raid possible. These
'O- were men who never left the
? ground?mechanics and meteorologists
and staff oficers and all
the others who make up the com3k
plex organization necessary beta
fore a single squadron may take
off to fight,
n- Now this striking fact is as
rs true of ar)y other combat force
as it is of the Royal Air Force,
' behind every fighting man stand
IIS others who serve his need.
i. Everybody Has A Part
Nor is that the end. The end.
or the bottom, the broad base, is
de made up of everybody at home.
A bomber flies because ore has
le been dug from the earth and reto
fined into aluminum, because
skilled men have taken this aluminum
and fabricated it into wing
y, and fuselage, because other skillis
ed men have made guns and
bombs out of steel and still other
skills have produced powerful
engines and uncannily accurate
re instruments. A bomber flies because
its crew has been fed by
)tl the labor of the farm and its
ce crew clad in the produce of the
field fashioned into clothing by
the labor of the factory. The
U- stock of the soldier's rifle traces
g_ back to lumberjacks in hardwood
, forests, its steel barrel to the virgin
iron of the Mesabi and the
e. junkman's scrap heap. And in berje
tween are innumerable hands, each
giving something and passing it
je along until finally the finished
l*e weapon reaches the hands of the
n_ fighter who stands at the pyra-1
. mid's apex.
It is because we must maintain
W this human pyramid of total war,
because we must support our
fighting men on far-flung fronts
-n with all we have, that we have
U- inaugurated the manpower mobili,g
zation program. If we are to have
' more and better weapons for our
more and better soldiers and sails'
ors?and that's what it takes to
_e win?then we must see that everybody
does a job of some sort
16 and does the job for which he or
she is best fitted.
wr.i? . ? 1
ag were majting progress. A few
days ago War Manpower Commission
Chairman Paul V. Mcfg.
Nutt released figures of the Unit?
ed States Employment Servicp
showing that a growing army of
,C. physically handicapped men and
women is taking a place in war
x production. "Performance records
of handicapped men and women
le who have been hired in war industries,"
said Mr. McNutt,
show clearly that in many occupae"
tions they produce as efficiently
fe as the physically normal worker."
or Can't Waste Manpower
We cannot afford to waste
e" manpower nor can a nation fightds
ing. for the freedom of all perY(j
mit discrimination against any
group because of race or color or
y" creed. The President's Committee
Iy on fair employment Practice, which
ar has been hearing complaints that
Negroes weren't being trained to
meet the shortage of shipyard
In workers in the Southeast, has
{.q called on educational authorities
. in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina
]y and Florida to set up training
courses for colored workers "in
- all major shipyard occupations."
Face Shortage Of Materials
ill Because we are pouring everyn_
thing we have into the war effort
we are faced, with oortages in
vital materials, shortages which,
e- according to WPB's Division of
T1_ Materials, will grow more serious
as the war progresses. This has
meant and will continue to mean
uy iwo auu jcsa iur uie civilian, wia<?ne
spread substitution, and an Increasing
necessity for getting
b- scrap metals and other materials
back to the processing plants.
That last necessity, more than
~ ever before, indicates a sparetime
ill job for each of us. WPB s:iesses
of the urgent need for civilian col'ection
of scrap, especially metals
and old rubber. Only by scraping
of the bottom of the barrel shall we
a have enough for victory. This was
, true some months ago?today it
is a matter of pressing, imme d
diate, continual need. Unless we
5r- get in the scrap, furnaces will
lc_ grow cold, and cold furnaces can
lose wars.
?s Song To Be Of Destruction
The U. S. A. is going to have
PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C.
less melody so that our aviators
may sing a song of destructior
over Germany and Japan. A re
' cent WPB order stops manufac
1 ture of almost all musical instruments
in order that more guns
may be fired, more bombs drop
ped. The 15,000 tons of war mat
erials which went into pianos
saxophones and other musical instruments
in 1940 would have supi
plied the iron for 11,500 6-tor
Army trucks, steel for 83 mediuir
tanks, brass for 49,000,000 rounds
of .30 calibre ammunition, coppei
for 500 155-MM. field pieces
aluminum for 40,000 aircrafl
flares.
We're going to get along without
any new carving sets, per
and pocket knives and manicuring
scissors.. WPB decided they were
not necessary in war-time, ordered
their production stopped aftei
June 30. WPB also cut, and sharply,
manufacture of tableware anf
other cutlery.
Here's what the saving means
in terms of metals and materials
badly needed in the fight for freedom?6.000
tons of iron and steel
2.000 tons of stainless steel, 60C
tons of copper alloy and smaller
amounts of nickels, chrome, rubber
and plastics.
Now Allies Help tTs
The U. S. A. has put more materials
and finished products into
I the United Nations pool than any
: other of the democracies, because
| we have had more to give. We've
sent and are sending vast quantities
of weapons and supplies tc
our allies in the form of lendlease
shipments.
Now, however, the adventure in
cooperation is working both ways
? we're getting help from these
aliles as well as giving it. LendLease
Administrator Edward R,
j Stettinius, Jr., the other day disclosed
that the British are feeding
our troops in Northern Ireland,
furnishing them with supplies
and building their camps
and that Great Britain also has
turned over much military equipment
to us, including a complete
gun factory.
Russia has sent us valuable
data on building tanks and technical
experts on explosives ?
i Australia is servicing our forces
! in the Far East. American war|
ships are being repaired in Britl
ish ports just as British warships
I are repaired in American shipi
yards, and American airplanes arc
supplied at Australian airdromes.
It's one for all and all for one in
the fight to lick the Axis.
800 Plants Join War Drive
More than 800 plar.fs now are
operating under the War Production
Drive program . . . WPB has
| a special committee investigating
the possibilities of cargo planes
j for swift, long-range transportaj
tion ... All typewriter produc
tion will eng early next autumn
when enough typewriters will
have been made to take care of
Army and Navy needs for two
full years . . . The Office of Price
Administration reminds you that
if you're still looking for a war
ration book or a sugar purchase
certificate the place to apply for
it is at your local War Price and
Rationing Board?not the school
house where the original registration
took place . . . OPA urges
Eastern motorists not to try to
use up all their gasoline quota
but to try to stay under it, if
possible . . . And once more advises
home owners on the Atlantic
Seaboard and in the Pacific
Northwest whose furnaces burn
oil to convert to coal, if they can
. . . WPB has ruled you can't get
new telephone service unless you
are in war or essential civilian
work and can prove that without
the telephone installation you
can't do your job properly . . .
Rubber is in the news again in
these ways?styrene, one of the
chemical compounds used in artificial
rubber, has been brought
under rigid WPB control ? A
plastic substitute for rubber hose
has been developed for use with
air raid stirrup pumps? Sale of
rubber lit'esaving suits has been
restricted to cargo ships and
tankers . . . Canned citrus fruits
and citrus juices have been taken
out from beneath the price ceiling
and cat and dog foods have been
placed under it.
WASHINGTON
LETTER
WASHINGTON, June 10.?Not
even the possible bombing of the
American mainland as an aftermath
of the enemy assaults on
Alaska can district the public attention
from the impact of war
regulations on their everyday
lives. Perhaps actual bombardment
of our coast cities mav hrinp
? ? o
about a change, but the mere
threat apparently is not diminishing
the resistance to the proposed
broadening of government rationing
edicts. Responsible government
officials are profoundly disturbed
that more attention is accorded
the question of adequate substitutes
for rubber than the graver
problems of an aggressive war.
The gasoline and tire rationing
problem is so deeply stained with
political coloring that it is difficult
to determine the true facts.
A aeries of hearings are underway
here this week before a Senate
committee for the purpose of
j clearing away the fog. Conflicting
statements have been issued by
governmental agencies as to the
need for rationing these products.
Legislators coming from oil producing
states, particualrly in the
' West and South, claim that a
I - NO'
> Almost everyone in town ht
Keziah admit that he's a pretty g
, ting along with all kinds of dum
" ially horses and girls." He may
l the nags and the gals, but on S
I learned that his charms do not I
' breast of an aligator as one gns
wrist . . ! Rembert. Hewett, who
t an army private in World War
in service, this time as an appr
, | the U. S. Navy.
; One of the most talked-about
' year is coming Monday and '
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. I Amuzii. It is Charlie Chaplin's 441
, j tor," and it ought to be worth
II other reason than that Paulette
j. . . The world's champ returns
' ling in Wilmington Friday night
.! dos, the Golden Greek, grapples
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11 nation - wide gasoline rationing
I regulation wil force oil refineries
, to shut down or pour gasoline into
the ground. Federal rationing
ofticials, on the other hand, in,
sist that restrained use of gasoi
lino by the general public is also
designed as a tire conservation
j method. It is generally admitted
| that rationing along the A'lantic
seaboard has been brought about
1 by transportation shortages due
largely to the sinking of oil tankers
by enemy submarines.
The attempt of the rationing
!. officials to impose restrictions on
j all states irrespective of the avail!
ability of gasoline has struck
j politic! snags. Many lawmakers
! seeking re-election frankly concede
that the resentful public
may take their revenge out on
j incumbents although the rationing
i j is controlled by the administrative
wing of the government. Not
i to be overlooked in the political
aspects of the situation is the
] pressure from state governments
I whose revenues are vitally affect'
ed by gasoline rationing. Kunj
dreds of millions are collected in
i taxes by these commonwealths
| for the. support of schools and
' other state functions. It will be
i; noted that many states leading
j the fight against nation-wide ra!
J tioning tave a large tourists'
business. For instnce. Michigan
revenues from this trade amounts
to about 5400,000,000 annually and
Florida has a similar stake to
say nothing of California's tremendous
volume.
1 The ancient controversy of the
{state versus the central governj
ment came to a head again this
I week when the powerful House
I Appropriations Committee recom!
mended that jurisdiction over the
administration of unemployment
i benefits be transferred from the
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,'ood hand at get-! county fans on h
b animals "espec-1 We hear tell
be a whiz with J palace in town s
aturday night he regarding the fu
affect the savage Beach for the sui
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The Great Dicta- ten.
seeing?if for no A lot of folks
Goddard is in it along without a
to the u restling j finding out now
. when Jim Lon-! theatre building t
with Bibber Me-i week.
'JFederal Social Security Board to
; i the commonwealth's agencies. It
j is the first definite move by the
states to prevent the extension of
Federation. While the House
action is just a beginning of an
| organized movement to prevent
the pushing of Uncle Sam's arm
; into what are essentially state
I affairs, it may have far-reaching
J effects. Because of the national
emergency the state officials are
i not asking for the return of em|
ployment offices to their control,
! but they want them restored
after the war. The more prosperous
and densely populated commonwealth's
have built up huge
reserves and do not want the Fed|
eral government to take over the
1 funds or their functions. Ad[
vocates of central government
theories are working hard to have
the Senate wipe out the House
action. State officials are carrying
[ on their war to ward off the
Social Security Board influence.
With the prospects of bombing
stepped up by Japanese attacks
on Alaska, the government's part
| in providing fire insurance beI
onwico innrenainelv imDOrtant. The I
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War Damage Corporation, recentily
established, has completed arrangements
for the fire insurance
industry to act as fiduciary agents
in writing policies of protection
against enemy attack. Blanket j
protection now in force will ex- j
pire by law June 30. A person de-}
siring such protection may make :
application through his local fire
, insurance agent or broker. The
necessary manual of rates, rules
'and regulations and application
blanks will be distributed on or
about June 20. Policies will be issued
for a 12-month period to
cover physical loss of real and
j personal property which may reI
suit from enemy attack or action
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some Southport and Brur^T
and for that one.
that there's to be another <v
hortly ... Nothing definite >
ture of the pavilion at
timer months . . . Several Song,
aking arrangements t.. ,,-e
they have in the past . , .
itil the* local talent recuperatt!
w whether there'll ho a t
i summer or not . . . Eut vcm,
ibject, it might be well to afa,.
om Oak Island really is 3 ^
who thought they couldn't
morning and afternoon dope at(
that they can . . . The
ook on a new coat of paint this
of our own forces in rejj;
enemy attack. Blackout, sabotaw
capture, seizure, pillasr. lootin.
use and occupancy, rent, r ..j
value, or other indirect |oss *,
consequential damage will cot ?
covered.
N. C.Bird Booh
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RALEIGH. ? An official,
thentic and comprehensive to*
on birds of North Carolina ?the
first to be issued since 1919-iui
be ready for delivery in Ju;.
Commissioner of Agriculture IV.
Kerr Scott, announced today.
Authors of the book. Birds o<
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ley, H, H. Brimley and T. OiUvt
Pearson, nationally-known or %
logists.
The" publication, sponsors
the State Department of Agriei.
ture, will cover 440 pages, inrk;.
ing 20 full-page color plate* :*
full-page black and white phta
and 140 text figures of individual
species.
Itfore definite improvemerit trij
be noticeable shortly in consume
demand for farm products, topor.t
the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
Although the Cleveland Cuur.tr
terraing unit is working a! full
time, demands for its services ar>
greater than can be cared for reports
Assistant Farm Ag-nt HM.
Stamey.
Teacher: "I went. Thst'i
wrong, isn't it?'
Pupil: "Yes ma'am.'
Teacher: 'Why is it wrote"
Pupil: "Because you ain't rat
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