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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ADVERTISING - PRINTING - KM Boss OH U P EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES THE IjAJttiESi N EWSFAl'EK IN HAUfAX COUNT* t>\ Mali — 1 early — In Advance ROA *.s »?vE RAPIDS, NORTH CAROLINA CAKKOLL WILSON, Owner and Editor ICntered as Ijecond Class matter AprU 3rd, 1914, at the post office at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 8rd, 1879 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON THINK OK DIE We Americans are good fighters all right. By winning a war we have proven that we can fight our way out of a difficulty. But now, with the atom bomb and other marvels of science, we are confronted with another and even greater dif ficulty: how to prevent another war which, if and when it comes, will probably blow most of us to kingdom come. We can’t fight our way out of this difficulty; we have to think our way out, and the next few years will show whether we are as good thinkers as we are fighters. A group of eminent citizens recently met in New Hampshire and issued a dec laration that the only way out is world govern ment — a world government with the power to make laws and force obedience to them by every one everywhere. They made out a good case, cue most iimcu cans are unwilling to admit the necessity of such a world government, first, because we are quite nationally attached emotionally to our own nat ional sovereign state above all others, and second, because to think ourselves into the idea of a world government represents probably the most difficult mental advance the human race has ever had to make. • It is no belittlement of the heroes of the bat tlefields to say that in a way it is harder to think than it is to fight. Most of them would understand that and agree to it. They had to fight or die. Now all of us, the heroes included, must either think or die. __ . FOOD AND PEACE It is time for us to get straight on a few facts. Congress, bumbling along in debate over its $550, 000,000 appropriation for the United Nations Re lief and Rehabilitation Administration, gives the impression that this is a big-hearted, gracious act of charity. It is nothing of the sort. The United States is already committed to that sum — for the current year, not next. We have promised it to the starving millions of the old world. The big debate will be over the additional sum of $1,350,000,000 for 1946. UNRRA has been - far from perfect, but that is beside the point. To organize a new agency now would be like fixing up a new fire department while a city is burning. General Eisenhower and all the other Americans who know the true situation have testified on the desperate need for food in the liberated countries. America’s lead in world affairs is vanishing rapid ly. It will vanish utterly ^unless we keep our word. * __4_ Here They Are! II <WNU Swnrlc*) ^ The winds of winter already blow across Europe. The months ahead will be hard enough even if food is supplied in full measure. Make no mistake about it; the people of Europe will not be the only ones who will die if Congress fails to act American boys will die too. They may be killec very soon in food riots. They will certainly be kill ed in a new war. For starving men cannot build a lasting peace. WILL FIRE JEOPARDIZE RECONVERSION? 9 The time is here for the final change-over to peacetime production. It will be a difficult period for most industries. Forward-looking companies are making plans now to avoid possible complica tions. One possibility to be considered is a plague of industrial fires. The present trend of fire waste in the nation is steadily upward. For the twelve months ending June 30, 1945, the total of $442,877,000 represents a 10 per cent increase over the corresponding twelve-month period a year earlier and a gain of 33 per cent above the losses two years earlier. There have been an increasing number of fires in plants essential to both war and peace. During World War I, fire losses likewise rose steadily, and after the war at an accelerated pace they continued their upward trend. By 1926 the national fire waste of $561,981,000 represented a 75 per cent increase over 1919’s losses and a 175 per cent increase over the pre-war year 1913. Manufacturers are under pres sure to get back into peacetime production. The very speed of their reconversion effort, plus shortages of materials, may cause them to overlook essential safety precau tions. Moreover, some' enterprises may attempt to utilize buildings unsuited for a new or different type of manufacturing process. Manufacturing concerns should take all possible steps to avoid fires in order to prevent interfer ence with peace-time production and a high level of employment. Thorough surveys of possible fire hazards are the first step toward eliminating dangers and safeguard ing reconversion projects. SERVICE WILL AGAIN RULE Chief among postwar changes in retailing will be the increase in competition as we settle back into normal peacetime living. This will offer a challenge to the retailer who has enjoyed a “seller’s mark et.” Only the enterprising, progres sive and alert retailers will sur vive to enjoy the prosperity which competent operation in peacetime brings. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Murphrey. and children, attender the Duke Carolina football game in Chapel Hill Saturday, and were week-end guests- of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parker Outman Selected Far mP Training Pvt. Thomas R. Outman, form erly of Route 1, this city, is one of four North Carolina soldiers who was selected for MP duty in the European Theatre and is no» attending the Oise Military Poliet* Training School at Romilly, 65 miles south of Reims, France. Pvt. Outman saw combat action with the Sixth Armored Division, parti cipating in the Central Europe campaign. Pie is now a member of the 438 AAA AW Battalion on duty at Nancy, France. Public Hearing t iContinued from page 1—Sect. A) will both control floods and create power, and that the proper thing for the government to do is to forget the power end of the pro ject and to build dry basin dams for flood control alone. The facts thus far presented by the U. S. Army Engineers are in contradic tion to the contentions of the pow er company, and the engineers also, say that flood control alone is ncr: economically feasible, but that flood control with power will give the government a substantial re turn on its money invested and also will be the means of provid ing cheap electrical energy which should enable Eastern North Car olina and Eastern Virginia to de velop tremendously. All parties interested in the mat ter who have viewpoints to pre sent have been requested by th^ District Engineer to submit these in writing in quadruplicate to the District Engineer at Norfolk at least three days prior to the hear ing on December 5th. THE ATOMIC BOMB STOPPED THE JAPS Chambers' m, Anti-Skipper Compound has stopped or pre vented skippers and in sects in cured meat for I 50 years. $1.00 package protects 600 pounds. Ask your neighbor or dealer. N. J. BODDIE THE HAM INSURANCE MAN Box 483 Durham, North Carolina fe a# ! SALE 1 I BABY S £ HIGH CHAIRS f to 8' g SOLID OAK — STURDILY * g gr I BUILT — WILL LAST A LIFE § to &» 8 TIME — ONLY A FEW LEFT 8 W as | REDUCED TO § g S ! *8.95 | S E. W. SMITH I $ 1027 ROANOKE AVENUE &
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