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PAGE SIX THE NEWS-JOURNAL..RAEFORD. N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943 Christian Flag Is Only Flag That Can Be Flown Above Sfors And Stripes 8-Cent Boost In Corn Price POOLE'S MEDLEY By I). SCOTT POOI.E In tl.e army, the Christinn flap, which is the same size as the nation al flag, is di pi .ve.l friu the chancel nf a chapel dunns religious services from a standard cf the same hicght as the nat'onal Hag. The national Has is placed to the "chaplain's right; the Christian flag to his left. It is never flown above the national flag The Christian flag i. white with a blue field in the upper lefthand corner and has a red cross in the blue lied. The Navy has a church penant, known as a "white pennant with a blue cross," which is the only flag flown from the same hoist above the Stars and Stripe-. The church pen nant is placed on every battleship and is flown whenever religious ser vices are being held aboard ship. It is taken down after the service. It is flown from the stern of the battle ship above the Stars and Stripes. Both the Christian flag and the church pennant have been in exist ence as far back as any army or navy man can remember. There has been cold weather and hot weather saice I can llrst remem ber, and 1 expect such conditions to continue I Letters To The Editor Dear Mrs. Dickson: I imagine that your readers would like to hear from the boys in the service during their various peroids of training, so I'd like to give them an idea of the basic training here at Wheeler which we must finish be fore being recognized a. Infantry soldiers. The boys are sent here to Camp Wheeler, the largest Infantry train ing camp, for 13 weeks. I'll give you an idea of the days routine for three days of this week. Tuesday, March 2, up at 6:30 to answer to revielle, fully dressed at 6:45. Breakfast at 7. Fall out at 8:15 with full field packs, an extra pair of shoes and rifle. We carry this equipment everywhere we go and total weight is 51 pounds. Be fore 8:15 our beds must be made neatly, our clothes arranged a cer tain way on rack, all shoes shined and lined under bed, floors swept clean, all trash out, everything dus ted and immaculately clean. We start out at 8:15, in a slight drizzle of rain, and hike to firing range 4 miles, where classses in firing, phy sical exercise, etc., are held until 12:30. We eat on field in mess kin and it is raining steadily. By 2:30 it is raining so hard classes are call ed off and back we march to camp through woods, the water ;ometimes above our knees. Back at camp and we thoroughly clean our rifle and all equipment before falling out in full uniform at 6:30 for retreat (lower ing of flag.) Wednesday, March 3. Same as Tuesday except temperature has dropped to 18 degrees. We march 5 1-2 miles to machine gun range where we crawl 300 yards through fields of briar and broomstraw, with real machine gun fire 3 feet over our heads. To stand up meant certain death. Everyone crawled. Very windy to eat out, leaves and dirt all in food. Nothing warm. Thursday, March 4. Same as Wednesday. Not so windy, still cold. We march 8 mi lei through woods on narrow road that is very much like the sandy read leading to swimming hole at creek. At t p. m. we get word that "enemy" is approaching so we start dlggiug in. Digging boles with shovels about the size of toys, varying in dimension from 5x x4 to 2 1-2x3x4, the larger holes be ing for machine guns. At dark we are ready, awaiting the "enemy", r,ll very quiet, no smoking. About 11 p. m., after thinking you are going to freeze, lying in theie fox holes, we are taken back eff the trenches 1-4 of a mile for supper whichcon sis's of 2 hot dogs, dreid peaches, brocoli, with sand and bread. We eat in complete darkness. D ( .ckpoolft.youf3-t At 12:30 A. M. no enemy appears : we start our march back to ramp, after covering up our trenches 4 feet deep. On our way 12 soldiers fall out from exhaustion. We reach camp at 2:30, walking the last hour in a heavy rain and sleet. This is the training we get for overseas. So I can't help but feel sorry for the fellows over there. And if v.-e live through it here, we should be in Tery good condition to sail soon. S ncerely, PVT. DEE AUSTIN; 3rd Bn. Co. A.. Car p Wheeler. Ga. Ceiling Slated Washington, Mai eh 5. The gov ernment prepared tonight to raise the ceiling price on corn from $1 to $1.08 a bushel, Chicago basis, as rep resentatives of feeder and feed proce sors asserted an acute short age of market supplies of the graint imperils the production of milk, beef and poultry products. Authniit ve sources which asked that tl.ey not be quoted said the Of fice of Economics Stabilization had decided to authorize the Office of Price Administration to naUe such an increa .e. The prospective new ceilings would be equivalent to par ity cn corn. Ceilings in other maikets would be designed to reflect normal differen tials from the Chicago base price of S1.08. The government at Washington has about concluded to send the idle to of cities to the country to help the farmers. It takes the most intelli gent cla s of people to farm. Far mers want no city riffraff to help them. I had my typewriter repaired by a man from Fayetteville, who came here because a gentleman in that city had heard me say I had a typewri ter I desired reconditioned. This man came, repaired the typewriter, and for a week or such matter it did well enough, but it jammed. I had a friend in town, who is ca pable of doing almost anything, put it so it worked at leaat three times, and one Saturday evening a man and his wife came to Raeford, and to our house seeking typewriter repairs to do, and I had him go over and put' my typewriior in the "pink of con dition." and if you ever saw a fool of a typewriter I now own such a thing. I bcod volume uiAds From Dept. Stores . "We are planning to continue to advertise merchandise items and ideas of value and interest to our. customers. We leel that such '.mer chandise advertising is of more val ue now than it has been at any time in the past. We have found that cu. -Miners are eager for informat on. We believe that advertising has a very definite mission from educa tional and informative standpoint. We are not now contemplating a change in our 1943 lineaye. This is subject to change because of factors which may be beyond our control. Preient plans call for normal use of 1943 lineage with more and more em phasis on the war effort." The following from a department store in Richmond, Va.. perhaps ep itomizes the general view: "Newspaper advertising wil be maintained, come what may. If we don't have merchandise to sell, we'll sell the store, war bonds, substitutes, self-service, etc." Four Boston stores indicated a pol icy of maintaining 1942 levels in ad vertising, with one announcing that increases had been orderd for the fir t and second quarters of 1943. The latter store indicated that it will depend on its ability to get merchan dise w hether it will spend the money on advertising cornmoditioes or to a larger extent in institutional adver tisng. Many other stores throughout the country reported similarly. CARD OF THANKS We are deeply grateful to our neighbors, friends and other citizens of Hoke, Robeson and Cumberland counties for their sympathy, kind ness and contributions on account of the li.ss of our child and home by fire recently. We are especially grateful for the contributions of the Men's Bible Class of the Raeford Presbyterian Church, Raeford, N. C, the Baptist Sunday School of Park ton, N. C, Presbyterian Church and Methodi.t Church, both of Parkton, N. C. MR. and MRS. JACK DAVIS. TO PREACH AT SILVER GROVE Rev. Hollis, colored, will preach at Silver Drove on next Sunday, Febru ary 14th st 4:00 p. M Everyone is cordially Invited. Please meutioa The News-Jrarnal when shopping in JUeferd, Fayette- Tille, Red Springs. Bay from ear WUtfyt Buy With WAR BONDS Washing machines and other household appliances are not avail able today. Manufacturers have converted their plants to war work. If you save today, however, by buy ing War Bonds, this money saved will start these factories rolling and put millions of Americans to work after the War to woo. I i rtTTTO Join the payroll Savingl pi in at your office or factory. Save defi nite amount every payday, ten per cent cr more of your pay check. Your pay check to Jay boys a pay day for tomorrow and ge'3 you $4 back for every S3 yju inv er:. Frank Staunton said in his column in the Atlanta Constitution about fifty years ago: Every time you ed cate a nigger you spile a field hand." Stanton wa not fair to the "cullod" people, but being educated in the truest sense never made anybody less capable of doing any useful work. than when I was a young man. For years after the Civil War the chil dren died in numbers .1 have known two buried in one grave several times. I was in Fayettevile a short while Monday, and I never visit that city without reminding myself of the Fayetteville I first knew. There wa; not a three story house in the town until sometime about 1875. Fayetteville lost much of its wealth in broken banks, broken rail roads, and sandwiched between was the civil War, which made a bad sandwich. However, the city has de developed wonderfully within recent year.'. The busses leaving the sta tion coming this way now follow the "truck lane" you have read so much about, and all along through the woods surrounding the city are new-houses. The old citizens of Fayetteville are plain as country people ever were. They are one clever set of folks. Schools Open Drive To Buy 10,CC0 Jeeps 'T'llE little jceo which Is serving 1 so nobly from Guadalcanal to Africi has become the symbol of the iiM'antie eilorts of m'ilMors of American school children in their War Savings program. Thousands of public, piivate and parochial schools soon will be dis playing a certificate of honor from Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., signifying that they have paid for at least one jeep by buying $U00 in War Stamps and Bonds. Countless others will be flying the Schools At War banner awarded to schools with AO percent pupil par ticipation in War Savings. Ten thousand jeeps and a hun dred bombers! This is tle new goal of America's schools as 30,000,000 children continue their Schools At War program under the auspices of the Treasurv Department and the U. S. Office of Education. Results so far in the program re ported by Dr. Homer W. Anderson, Associate Field Director in charge i - Battle Flags of the Schools of the education section of the War Savings Staff, are: More than 7,000,000 elementary and high school students from 30,000 schools have prepared special Schools At War scrapbooks fur state and local exhibits. War Stamp and War Bond pur chases mav reach a grand total of $300,000,000 for the school year. I have no idea of how we are go ing to get on farming in 1943, but I do know there has never been a time when farm work was more essen tially needed, and if there are not abundant crops made the world will go hungry. The United States will have ten million, eight hundred thou and of her own men to feed, and the armed assistance of the United Nations al- so to feed, for ours is the only coun try to produce foods. We' are the only nation who can produce more than it needs itself. The health department of the na tion, the state, and the county have done much for the welfare of the nnU nt th muntrv. There is much more happines in life now) Attention .... COTTON FARMERS For best results have your cot'onseed graded, delint- ed and treated with Ceresan. Tests made by the De partment of Agriculture show that yields have increas ed enormously per acre by this treatment. We have the most modern machinery for grading, delinting and treating cottonseed. We invite you to in spect this machinery while in operation. Absolute sat isfaction and increased production has been the result of this treatment. Hoke Oil & Fertilizer Company RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA Butch is on a Balanced Diet i Hi fcuiiea tant refd 7 Army regulation.. But we're beci4 that Butch will noa wy . without spilling spoonful! In tact, we .leotrio companies know just how ho feolt. W. Uvo same problem. Right now. we're beii4 cd on to balance good aervice and low, regulated rate. agi"t fast-ohmbreg costs and tremendously increased de mands for electric power. We're doing it, too. Filling all our war orders. Giving America far mora power than all the Ais countries com bined. Pushing production and up. ... And besides tfiat, we're balancing big plate of taxes. Dint get ' W knoW ,h4! eed wartime taxes. We're prouc' that business-managed electric com panies paid $620,000,000 in taxes 1 year. That was 23c out of every dolls you paid s-8o to focal and stst governments -I5c to the fedcrsili emtnent-enough to outfit 1,687, buck privates like Buteh. Now is it r'Mrble to make so mm power and n.ct so many taxes at th IT? ,mUmT Because of sound business letbods and long experience because en, women and management worked ngether as a tram. But while we're doing all this, gov mmtnt and municipal Power iysUmi .r not payint a Penny in federal taxet , help win the war. Shouldn't every one do his fullha r? CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY IKVST :' :vr"-Zl HI IONDI AHb SliUH Advertisers
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