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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN HALIFAX COUNTY By Mail — $2. Yearly — In Advance ROANOKE RAPIDS, NORTH CAROLINA CARROLL WILSON, Owner and Editor Hntered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post office at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879 OFEICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES” ADVERTISING - PRINTING - EMBOSSING WHEN THE SOLDIER RETURNS Fighting men in combat zones give serious thought to the kind of a country they will return to and to what those at home are doing about the future. A clear understanding of what many of the men are thinking was given in a letter from Major General Robert S. Beightler to Fred I. Rowe, of Hicksville, Ohio, Chairman of the Market Develop ment Committee of the Associated General Con tractors of America. General Beightler is a former director of highways of Ohio, and at one time was himself a highway contractor. For three years he has commanded a division of men from every state in the union, training them in peace and leading them in battle. Their concerns are his concerns. From the battlefields of the South Pacific he wrote in Dart: “The soldiers must win the war to preserve their American society. This they are doing bril liantly, courageously and certainly. They under stand this mission. In so living and fighting, and dying, there men find their reward in the belief and expectation that the homes to which they return, and the life they left behind, when the victory is won, will be substantially like those which they left behind. “It would seem that nothing would be more reassuring to a soldier than evidence that all these problems, and these concerns of theirs, are being considered by their countrymen at home—now. Re move from his mind concern for the future and hk fight today will be devastating; his achievement oi victory assured. “The specific attack to the specific problem must be made by the soldier’s own townspeople his own neighbors, and his former employer. Evi dences of such local effort are already apparent ii certain American communities. This kind of plan ning strikes home to the soldier in a New Guines foxhole. Each soldier will feel that his countrymen are doing their full part to win the peace—just at he now does his full share to achieve the victory— if he sees that they are: * “Giving full and serious consideration to hi; individual problem, “Cooperating with state and Federal agenci^; for an overall solution to the problems, and not sit ting back and waiting for Uncle Sam to solve it, “Planning real work for him—not a dole oi charity, “Making bold, decisive, well-thought-througl plans for prosperous peacetime activities withir his community, industrially and in all other en deavor, to maintain the business and production Schools Open r ; ' t • ;- I "V« ■ : ^ <WNU8«nrlM) NjLasaea facilities of the community when war production is no longer needed. “Showing him that we are as determined as he that opportunities for unregimented, individual en deavour in the pursuit of happiness and securit shall continue to be his birthright as an Americai citizen. “Victory for us may bring with it bitter fruitf if this serious problem is not anticipated and plann ed for now. It is a collective responsibility, and help in solving it must be provided by every Ameri can community and every American himself.” (Reprinted from, The Constructor, April, 19J/JfJ NO TIME TO LET UP Today’s war is like a huge assembly line. The finished product may be a barrage blowing up enemy tanks or machine-gun fire smashing a coun ter-attack but the beginning is in some kind of factory. If the factory fails there isn’t any finished product and if the factory slows down there isn’t enough finished product. And if there isn’t enough finished product we don’t win our war so soon and we spend more lives winning it. The assembly part :>f the line is just as important as the firing part of the line. It’s one single process and every one is a soldier. We haven’t manned our factories, forges and foundries with soldiers and are not likely to do so. But workers, managers and owners will have to behave like soldiers if we are to keep the casualty lists down and get an early peace. Not all of them are doing: it. When bad news was coming they stepped up. Now that good news s in almost every day’s newspapers they tend tc et down. At least some of them do. People are leav ing war jobs in order to get what they consider peace jobs. Management in many cases is itching to convert from war-time to peace-time production. No doubt they feel safer so. But if enough workers and enough managers and owners make this shift the country isn’t going to be safe, because it won’t be able to finish the war. Such a failure is not conceivable. We’ll finish the war, all right. But the responsibility doesn’t lie on the other fellow. It lies on each of us: on labor to keep working in war jobs; on ownership and management to forget post-war opportunities until the Army and Navy don’t need their product any more; on consumers to go without some luxuries until they can be manufactured without harm to the war effort. The soldier isn’t feathering his nest to any noticeable extent. Why should the rest of us ? DISTOMO: SUCCESSOR TO LIDICE Lidice was destroyed in June, 1942. The n-ale inhabitants were butchered. The town was razed to the ground. The German authors of this act A boasted that they had re moved Lidice from the map. In fact, however, they made it immortal. And they made themselves immortal in infamy in the same way as * did Eratostratos, who burn the the temple of Diana at Ephesus, in 356 B. C., in order that his name might be , remembered. Ironically, \ enough, historians have spell ed his name in three differ ent fashions, so that it is hard to know which one to remember. It is odd that the v name Hitler can be spelled k so variously too. The civilized world accept ed this wanton act at Lidice a.s symbolical of that furer reutonicus which has found { its latest and most flaming expressions in Nazidom. But ' it is possible that few decent ovnootorl f Vio riprniQbO to repeat, again and again, „ the same barbaric stupidity, rhe decent folk were wrong. Since Lidice, there has been the village of Czech Malin, utterly destroyed, its inhabitants (women and ’', children included this time) urned alive. There has been he village of St. Ginggolphe, a France. And now, in July >f 1944, we must add the vil- - age of Distomo, in Greece; mother Lidice, after so many others. Herostratus, the temple 3urner, was content with his jne fiery crime. Let us re- | member Distomo, not as an isolated horror, but as anoth er strand in the rope with vhich Germany has tried to strangle all our world. Dis- * ,omo will be rebuilt, but it * s already immortal. How ong, how deeply, shall we remember those who made it so, and how they set about m it? How shall we spell their j aame? Carry Pood By Hand To Front \ Lines In Guam During the battle for Guam, hot :offee, sandwiches and cookies vere served twice daily to mem jers of an engineer unit of Major % General Allen Hal Turnage’s * rhird Marine Division serving vith assault troops. This food was transported as far forward as possible by truck, :hen carried by hand to the front 1 lines. The men also had field rat- » ions. The unit’s cooks alternated in carrying the food forward. They ivere Staff Sergeant William L. Slasor, of Lore City, O.; Sergeant C Lee M. King, of Lillington, N. C.; C Corporal Ralph C. Whitley, of Route 1, Roanoke Rapids; arid Private First Class Wilbur R. Smith of Cambridge City, Ind. On one of their food-bearing j trips to the front, they found one { of the engineers too busy working on the Japs with his rifle to drink his coffee and eat his sandwiches and cookies. - * Family Reunion 1 Held On Sunday A family reunion of Mrs. C. W. Johnson and sister was held^ Sunday, September 10, at .the John-^ son home, 728 Monroe Street. Those who attended the reunion were: Mrs. Elva Wicker, and children, Mrs. Lee Davis, Mrs. Ida Clements and son, all of Hopewell,, J Va., Mrs. Margaretta Wicker and* daughter Carol Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Joe McFarland of Roxboro, Mrs. Nellie Burnett and daughter of Tarboro, Mrs. Fannie Lassiter and children, Ryland Draper and dau-Q ghter of this city, and Mrs. Thur man Lassiter and children of Las ker. Moth eggs hatch more slowly in winter than in summer, often tak ing as long as four weeks in cold M weather instead of four to eight* days.
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