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WII.1.1AMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA.
I W. C. MANNING
I Editor ? 1908-1938
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Tuesday, June 23. 19 i2.
Leader* Balk Full Cooperation
Numerous appeals have been directed to the
general public, urging everyone to cooperate
in the war effort, to support this movement and
that movement, gather up and deliver old pa
per, scrap metals, rubber, and to do this and
do that. Many millions of anxious souls have
gone the limit with their cooperation. Some
removed their aluminum from the cook stoves,
others snatched the rubber pants from their
young'uns, and still others have sacrificed un
beknowing to the general public in an effort
to do their part and more for the war effort.
But there hasn't been full cooperation on the
part of all. Some will not cooperate in any
thing and too many will cooperate only when
to do so means dollars to themselves. However,
there is another reason why many people have
not cooperate in the war effort after an all
out fashion. The reason is traceable to a feeble
leadership, an indifferent leadership, and a
leadership that apparently has been too much
interested in its own pleasures and in padding
its own nest.
Even while men were sacrificing their lives
as the number of ships sunk climbed and climb
ed beyond the 275 mark, the man in charge of
the eastern coast defense was enjoying him
self in a box seat at a race track in Belmont
Park Playing to the public, he averred that the
United States fleet would mop up the Japs in
the Pacific. But Mr Andrews, what about the
situation on the cast coast? What about the loss
of human life on the east coast? Instead of
bowing down and praying for divine guidance
in protecting human life and property, that
man was enjoying himself at a race track, his
presence approving one of the largest gambl
ing events of its kind in many years. That man
is not fit for the job he holds, and as a leader
he has failed miserably.
Turn to-your public, business, civic and ev
en"your religious leaders and you'll find a com
plete lapse in exemplary leadership. It should
be pointed out and well noted that there are
many in those groups who are doing every
thing in their power and sacrificing to the
detriment of their own bodies and minds that
the things we cherislj and respect might not
be wiped from the face of the earth, but there
are others who have had and still have a part
nership with crime, debauchery and shady acts.
Resigning his post in another state not long
ago, a minister said he could not carry on with
a deacon who beat his wife, another who bed
ded with a strange woman and still another
who spent his spare time at the gambler's ta
ble. Even in North Carolina, local and state law
has admitted it is too weak to combat debauch
ery around military camps. The liquor traffic
continues to demand gasoline, tire and sugar
allotments while common men who are striv
ing to carry on their legitimate businesses are
denied the necessities. Too many public offi
cials accept for themselves privileges and pleas
ures they so bluntly deny others.
When such a situation is allowed tr? ?vi?t
in the world can anyone except the common
herd to travel the narrow path and do the
things that ought to be done in the name of the
Almighty, humanity and country?
A life-long democrat, recalling the thievery,
the public payroll leeches and the rotten poli
tics in Raleigh, said if that is the leadership
he is to follow, he will quit the party. And who
came blame him?
For These Things We Fight
1. The Freedom of Speech and Expressior
?everywhere in the world.
2. The Freedom of every person to Worshij
God in his own way?everywhere in the World
3. The Freedom from Want?which translat
ed into world terms, means economic under
standings which will secure to every nation i
healthy peace-time life for its inhabitants -
everywhere in the world.
The Freedom from Fear?which translat
ed into world terms, means a world-wide re
duction of armaments to such a point and ii
such a thorough fashion that no nation wil
be tat a position to commit an act of physica
a against any neighbor?anywhere.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
" ' Suckert' Are Important Guy,"
Sayi An Observer Who Knout
So I'm a sucker, am I? Well, as long as I am
a sucker the country can be mighty thankful,
for the moment 1 stop being a sucker and be
come an active part of the armed forces of Am
erica, war will have come to the United States
on enemy wings.
I am a volunteer civilian observer of the
Aircraft .Warning Service of the U. S. Army,
a "sucker" to some of the folks on the outside
looking in. 1 spend hours developing "spotter's
neck' and "tower climber's calves" fnr nothing
?thank God. I froze during long night hours
last winter; I stood in soaking rain peering in
to weather listed as zero-zero; I spent hours
listening, for nothing, in weather when even
the birds were on instruments!
1 have reported the same old transports, the
same Army planes, the same Cubs and Wacos.
1 have worn enough clothes to start a rum
mage sale and often looked like one, those long
winter watches last February.
Some of the "temporary patriots" dropped
dill aftor :i toy Bill mn, T'll rlnn imth the
A.W.S., thank you, and here's why.
I like to feel I'm an important cog in the vast
machinery of America's defenses. Silly, isn't
it, but it's true. The minute I take over the
watch 1 become for a few short hours just that
important. I'm no longer a clerk, an editor, a
mechanic, a gardener or a minister. I'm an im
portant guy! Thousands of men and millions of
dollars worth of equipment are waiting for my
call to action.
Hundreds of thousands of wardens, fire
watchers, auxiliary police and firemen can
sleep peacefully as long as I am awake and on
the job, and my wife and little girl can go to
market, and to school, in safety as long as you
other spotters are on the job during the daylight
hours
At the "unknown address" in New York train
ed experts are alert for my phone call. I'm the
one the folks with the O.C.D. arm-bands de
pend upon. Their splendid training and hours
of study will never be called into action unless
some chap like me gives the word. Not an inter
ceptor plane of the Interceptor Command will
leave the ground in combat unless some spot
ter like myself gives the word. Why, I can even
get Generals out of bed in the middle of the
night, and be thanked for it.
If "suckers" can be that important and being
one means we never have to give that fatal re
port of Tnany '-multi-motor?veiy high?seen?
hazel one ontv?north east?five miles?south-?
I'll gladly be one for the duration.?From the
ubservation Post.
Tin? Mobilization Of Man Potior
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By Ruth Taylor.
The mobilization of man power does not
mean the taking of trained labor and moving
it from place to place where it is needed. You
and I, our families, our neighbors are all part
of the man power needed in this crucial hour.
The energies of all the people of the whole na
tion must be focused upon the one task of win
ning the war as quickly as possible.
This is an all out war. We must convert in
dustry from the production of consumer goods
to weapons of war?and that calls for men and
women to do the job. It means the shifting of
millions from peace time production to war
work It means that every last one of us has
work to do. ?
The call for man power does not mean work
ingmen alone. It includes all men and all wo
men. It embraces farmers, lawyers, trained bus
iness men. It means that women must take ov
er jobs to release men for the fighting forces
and for heavy war work. It means that women
must go into the factories, onto the farms and
into the offices.
Mobilization of man power is not a socializ
ed conscription of any one class. It is an evi
dence of the willingness of free men and wo
men to defend that freedom. Each and every
one of us must work. We must keep everlast
ingly at it, and then go right on. There is no
relief in a war. There is no time for alibis or
excuses, for shirking or stopping to argue over
what should or should not be done.
This is the war of every one of us. No one
class, creed or color can escape its full and equal
responsibility. We must mobilize as free men
or we will be regimented as slaves under a for
eign master.
Can any individual who shirks his or her
share face again the brave men who are fight
ing for us all over the world. As our armed
forces fight to keep the enemy from these
shores, to avert for us the devastation with
which the nations of Europe have been laid
waste, we must do our work on the battle line
of production. There is something each and ev
ery one of us can do. We must be ready to vol
unteer for service?for this is everybody's war!
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The Great Remover
It is stated that alcohol will remove stains
from summer clothes. This is correct. It will
also remove:
The summer clothes.
The winter clothes.
The spring clothes.
The fall clothes, not Ofcly from the back of
the man who drinks it, but from his wife and
children as well
Alcohol will also remove:
A good reputation.
A man's business.
A man's friends.
A happy look, on children's faces.
A prosperous man to a pauper's grave.
A man from the highway of heaven to the
road to helL?The Gideon.
VITAL TOOLS TO WIN THE WAR!
War Information Bom
Elmer Davie, 52-year-old news
paperman, author and radio com
mentator waa named head of the
Office of War Information by Preii
dent Roosevelt. The newly created
agency is a consolidation of ths
Government's Information bureaus.
Milk Production Holds Up
Well In Columbus County
?Milk piflductica-has, held up re
markably well in Columbus County,
despite the dry weather earlier this
spring, reports J. P. Quinerly, as
sistant farm agent.
Ways To Can With
Minimum of Sugar
Most farm homemakers have re
ceived their home-canning sugar cer
tificate, and have been allotted one
pound of sugar for every four quarts
of finished fruits to be put up. "This
may not sound like enough to some
people," says Mrs Cornelia C Mor
ris, Extension food conservationist
of N. C. State College, "but it will
suffice if care is used."
The Extension worker makes the
following sugar-saving suggestions
to home-canners: If you pack your
fruit hot in its own juice, you will
need much less sugar than if you
pack the fruit cold, then cover it
with sugar-and-water syrup. Re
member, sugar is not needed in
canning to keep food from spoiling.
But it does help the fruit to hold
color and flavor. By sweetening the
fruit slightly, and then heating it,
you can draw out juice from the
fruit itself?in many cases make it
unnecessary to can any added water.
For juicy fruits, usually it's best
In separate the riper fruits from
those less ripe. Then you can crush
the riper fruits, heat them, und ex
tract juice from them. Pre-heat the
leSS ripe fruit, wtiieh yet, fcaim mi
aside, in this juice. Add sugar to
sweeten slightly if necessary Pill
the jars. Make sure there if plenty
of juice to cover the fruit. Process
in a water bath.
Certaip varieties of peaches and
pears may not yield enough of their
own juice to make the canning li
quid You'll get more juice from
these fruits if you slice them and
add a little sugar before you pre
cook them. If there isn't enough
juice to cover the fruit in the cans,
use syrup to fill the jars?a syrup
made from one or more cups of su
gar to one quart of water.
?
For each automobile we are not
making this year we have saved en
ough tin to coat 1,000 cans in which
to put food for our soldiers and sail
ors.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina. Martin County.
As provided for in Section 2688
of the Consolidated Statutes of North
Carolina, notice is hereby given that
the Town of Williamston will offer
for sale at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash at the Courthouse
door in the Town of Williamston on
Monday, June 29th, 1942, the follow
ing described tracts of land in the
Town of Williamston. to-wit:
loi no. l: Being Lot No. 16 in the
Moore Field, adjoining Amy Purvis
on the West fronting North Street
78.8 and running back to two paral
lel lines South 41-45 feet East to the
dtyith^^^3(^feet^bein?^h^sam^
lead purchased from
Land and Improvement l
George Rice and Jane Rice at record
in Book E-l, page 112 of the Martin
County Public Registry.
Lot No. 2: Beginning 73 feet from
Broad Street on a street at the cor
ner of Lot No. 1 in Block B in the
Moore Field plot, thence Eaitwaid
ly along the line of Lots 1 and 2
about 130 feet to Lot No. 4, thence
Southwardly along Lot No. 4 to Jane
Rice's back corner, thence along
Jane Rice's corner about 130 feet to
a street, thence along said street to
the beginning, and being the tame
land purchased of H. M. Burns by
George and Jane Rice.
Lot No. 3: Beginning at the cor
ner of Pine and North Streets in the
Williamston Land and Improvement
Company, Moore Field running
Norm 42 degrees East 72.8 feet to
Augustus Purvis' corner, thence
along his line South 41 3-4 degrees
- ? . ... - - de
East 130 feet, thence South
grees West 72.8 feet to Pine Street,
thence North 41 3-4 degrees West
along Pine Street to the beginning
and being Lot No. 19 and being same
land purchased (rem Williamston
Land and Improvement Company on
the 24th of October, 1904, and re
corded in Book MMM, page 223, and
also being the same land deede to
Clarence W Ortffin hy W A rvitrh.
er, Trustee, on August 9th, 1941, of
record in Book C-4 at page 121.
This the 28th day of May, 1942.
TOWN OF WILLIAMSTON.
By J. L. HasseU, Mayor.
Coburn.
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KEEP YOUR
DR. PEPPER IS FOOD
IN LIQUID FORM
SOLDIERS OR WORKERS?THE
ARMY TRAVELS ON ITS STOMACH
WHEN ENERGY PICKS UP?
PRODUCTION PICKS UP
SHOULD YOU FIND THE COOLER
BARE?TRY, TRY AGAIN
^ * a* J WHEN YOU DRINK A DR. PEPPER
YOU DRINK A BITE TO EAT
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A BITE TO EAT
and Icaap a* cheerful
as wa can
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INGREDIENTS ARE RATIONED
But
All WE CAN MAKE
IS YOURS TO ENJOY
AT THE SAME OLD
PRICE
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TRUE TO OUR COUNTRY .. STEADFAST IN OUR IDEALS
our PLEDGE:
To place love of country before hope of profit...
. To cheerfully give our ton*, luafolks and val
ued employees to cLe colors when called .
... To buy, and encourage employees to buy, to
' " * i Var ? " ~ *
the limit. United States Var Savings Bonds and
Stamps, and to pay our full share of all just
... To bold fast to our ideal of quality in product
and of integrity in our institutions...
... To avoid waste, especially war-time essentials,
and to adhere rigidly to government regulations...
... To do what we can to charr up the nation at
It, 2 and 4 o'clock.
BUY UNITiO STATIS WAK SAVINGS
BONOS AND STAMP
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Low spirits and lagging energy will never win a war. Sweat and I
and toil and tears we must endure. But to endure them stoutly, we i
encourage high morale. Morale means aeal... spirit... hope...
confidence. It's strange how so simpk a thing as a bottle of Dr. I
can help. Yet it's true. This bit of extra energy between meads does help
definitely. Get your liquid biter..your morale improver...JOUr pro
duction stimulator at 10, 2 and 4 every day.
AT 10-1 ? 4 O'CLOCK
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