THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
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ROANOKE RAPIDS, NORTH CAROLINA
CARROLL WILSON, Owner and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the poet office
at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879
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YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
Three great youth organizations working
along the same general lines are the Boy Scouts,
the Girl Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls. The larg
est and, we believe, the oldest of these is the Boy
Scouts, which organization is now celebrating its
thirty-fifth anniversary. In that time the lives of
twelve million men and boys have been made better
and richer because of the contact.
The registered membership of the group is
now 1,800,000. All these boys are learning lessons
of citizenship, of kindliness, of conservation, of
love and appreciation of nature, and of many other
things which make for fine character.
NEED GROWS GREATER
Again the government is having to turn to
the civilian women of America.
With crisis after crisis in the war, a sizable
portion of the nation’s womanhood has responded
to calls from the American Red Cross, the Army
and the Navy, to help meet the nurse shortage by
conserving nursepower on the homefront and sup
plementing it on the battlefront.
But the responding portion still is outnumber
ed by those women who have not yet done enough
in answer to the plea. Unmet goals in home nursing
and nurse’s aide classes, a shortage of WAC hos
pital technicians, gaps in registration for new
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps classes prove that the
nation is justified in asking still more assistance
| from its women.
Registered nurses have gone into the military
I corps by the thousands — but there have been
1 hundreds of thousands of casualties. And many
1 thousands more nurses are needed in the Army,
I Navy, and Veterans Administration.
LET’S FIGHT WITH ALL OUR MIGHT!
By EDWARD N. SCHEIBERLING l
National Commander The American Legion
It is our purpose in The American Legion to
[stimulate national solidarity and teamwork, unity
[of action in every activity which will help to win
[this war completely and finally in every theatre.
■After that, we want orderly demobilization and
■adequate jobs and opportunities; the maintenance
[of individual freedom and the American way of
[life; the safeguarding of our nation from attack
[from any and every quarter; and an effective
[formula for maintaining peace.
We have demonstrated to the world during
[this tragic war the marvelous power of the Ameri
can people when they face a grave emergency.
The United States stands before the world to
day, as a nation which fights its way through,
without the inefficiencies so often attributed to
I popular government. We stand as a united people
of high courage on the battlefronts. We have shown
vast resourcefulness for unparalleled production of
the tools of war. We must continue to be as united
in protecting and strengthening our democratic
institutions; in seeing that they function for the
common good as a symbol of hope for free men
everywhere.
There is one reason, above all others, why we
have made the progress which we have in this con
flict. It is because the great body of the American
people — with few exceptions — forgetting all dif
ferences of racial origin, of religious beliefs or po
litical concepts, have made the winning of the war
their first order of business.
To the prosecution of the war, the American
people have given their young men and young
women; their resources and their most concerted
effort. Solidarity and teamwork explain both our
great productivity and the advance of our armed
forces on the opposite sides of the world. Solidarity
and teamwork have brought into bold characters
the outlines of Victory that were so dim after Pearl
Harbor.
We know now that we cannot relax our efforts
here at home, but rather, we must intensify them
to meet the urgent call of our military leadership
for more munitions and supplies, to continue the
splendid progress of our armed forces. Our un
interrupted endeavors for them must continue un
til the forces of aggression are completely routed.
We must now.resolve, as a people, to keep alive
and in full play this national solidarity and team
work. After the war is won we shall apply it in
solving the great problems growing out of this con
flict. At no time in the history of our country has
there been a greater call for unity of purpose and
co-operative effort, unity in speeding Victory;
unity in facing the vital problems of peace; unity
in preventing another of these world conflicts;
unity in preserving and giving new life to our pro
cesses of democracy and unity in safeguarding
these processes against the visionary theories that
seem to breed in emergencies.
Analysis, discussion and an exchange of opin
ion are essential in deciding the merits of proposed
methods of solving crucial problems. But we can
agree on broad principles and objectives. We look
for and expect unanimity of opinion on sound poli
cies and wholesome motives that are clearly under
stood. We must be vigilant that, in the adjustment
to the conditions of peace, no groups of our people
or sections of our country will gain special advant
ages, at the expense of the common good of those
who are absent in defense of our liberties. These
are among the foremost
aims of The American
Legion.
TOWN TALK
Miss Marjorie Hazelwood of Nor-^
folk, spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Haz
elwood.
Miss Elizabeth Fahey, of Wash
ington, D. C., and Y2/c Mabel
Young of Oklahoma, spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Fahey.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hudson were
called to Norfolk, Tuesday, on ac-if
count of the death of Mr. Hudson’s
mother, Mrs. Lucy Hudson.
Jack R. Hazelwood, U. S. N., is
spending a 30 day leave with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Haz
elwood, after spending 15 months
in the Southwest Pacific.
Miss Jaqueline Armstrong left
Sunday for Williamston where she
has accepted a position at Brown £
Hospital. W
Miss Adelle Salter, of Kinston,
spent the week-end with Mrs. Ruth
Johnson.
Mrs. Viola Hargrove spent the
wdek-end in Jacksonville.
Mrs. Mattie Witherspoon, Miss
Joyce Witherspoon, Mrs. Eddie
O’Donnell and daughter Patricia,
spent the week-end in Richmond.
Mrs. C. M. Overbay, Mrs. Frank
Hubbard, Mrs. Annie Roughton
and Miss Betty Ethridge spent W
the week-end in Baltimore.
Joe Fields and Woodrow Wrenn
spent the week-end in Scotland
Neck with Rev. and Mrs. Paul
Fields.
Misses Lucille and Doris Louise
Edwards, and Mrs. D. F. Edwards
spent Wednesday in Raleigh.
Lt. Daniel Edwards has been
transferred from Columbia, S. C.,
to Lake Charles, La.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Smith spent
last Thursday in Raleigh.
Lt. Sallie Allen, former nurse of (
the Roanoke Rapids Hospital,
visited Mrs. Bradford Browning
last week. Lt. Beatrice Anderson
of Fort . Bragg, accompanied her
for a visit.
Mrs. Edward Davis and Miss
Myrtle Wooten spent Saturday in
Rocky Mount.
Miss Grace Nance spent the
week-end in China Grove. *
Mrs. Claude Keene and Miss Sula
Williams spent the week-end at
Virginia Beach.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul H. Fields, of
Scotland Neck, were visitors in
town Tuesday.
J. D. Edwards, of Dayton, is
visiting his wife and parents for
a few days.
Miss Elsie DeBerry and Miss
Virginia Shell left Tuesday for At
lanta, Ga., for a personal inter
view and physical examination to
enter the Navy Nurses Corps.
Miss Mary Cole spent Tuesday
in Richmond.
Mrs. Everette Stainback has ac
cepted a position in Rex Hosspital
in Raleigh.
Mrs. w. A. Teele, of Richmond,
and son, are visiting her mother,
Mrs. B. J. Dunning.
Deaver Shell has returned after
a visit to Washington, D. C„ and
New York City.
Mrs. Mack L. Yonce left Fri
day to make her home in Savanah,
Ga., with her husband who is sta
tioned there.
Mrs. Irene Mumford, of Peters
burg, Va., spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Garner.
Sgt. and Mrs. D. L. Mills left
Friday for their home in Quanti
co, Va., after visiting in the city
for several days. 4
Edith A. Edwards, HAl/c, of U.
S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth,
spent the week-end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe L. Ed
wards.
Lt. and Mrs. Elmo Faison and
daughter, Vivian, Mrs. M. E.
Faison and Mrs. W. G. Lynch
spent Friday in Hamilton with
Mrs. Mollie Everette.
Miss Jane West, of R. P. I.,
Richmond, spent the weekend 4
with her parents.
Mrs. F. W. Jones had as her
guest over the week-end Mrs. O.
C. Page, Miss Hazel Page, David •
and Esters Page from Broadnax,
Va.
Parting is such sweet sorrow
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