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As To Sacrifice
A few day* ati? Congressman Hat - 1
ton Summers of Texas, addressed
the House uf Represntativc.. on the
need of more McttOce
My C rod" lie shouted, am we
going to !et the hope of the ages .
perish fiom tilts earth because of our |
UnWGi'ihiuI&o ? BeC*iUt- At-. as did'
France. ills is- upOfl business vs !
usual?"
Congressman Stunners" words
were meant for the nation-at-large
Truth is. they apply chiefly to Coll- i
grass ? and to a few Labor Union |
Ittdsss.
Congress i* .still playing politics: |
still prating of sacrifices and sav- .
ings for tile other fellow. It is still
voting millions of dollars in appro
priations that will not help us win
ttie war but will help the members
win Uie coming elections.
At the same time, some Labor
union leaders ?happily they are few.
but they still are far too many? re
fuse to work on holidays or Sundays]
without double pay. Once again pa- I
triotism clashes with doMars ? and 1
once again, patriotism come, out a 1
bad .second best
Let's take up the Congressional de
mand for more sacrifices i by you and
me>. Just what has the average Con
gressman or Senator himself given
up?
Has the august U. S. Senate
abolished the barber shop, where the
law givers can get their thinning
locks trimmed, and dosed with
tonic", their faces matsaged. their
hands manicured and even their
shoes sliined, all free to them, but at
the expense of the tax-payers? If so
we haven't heard of it
Have they st ipptd the a ipropria
ticn to buy tht r.selvi .-. hot:'ed water
fo.- drinking purprtvs? You know
i.iey liave n~.i In< scUn tally w won
rfe just how mi..: of them buy wa
ter for use in their own homes.
Have either Senators or Repre- j
sentatives moved to redi.ce the trav
eling allowance., that were made
back in the days when trips had to
be made on horseback, or by carriage,
with many overnight stops? Just try
and get them to do it.
Have thov moved to abolish any of
the totally unnecessary committees ;
such xs the one on "Ventilation and '
Acoustics." which perform no service. 1
but which call for appropriations of
.several thousand do'lars each foi 1
lerical. secretarial and Janitor ser
vice which total less than one full
working day per year?
Have the maiority of them given i
anything a' ill to *r.f> nation excep'
up service? Docs any one doubt that
too many af them regard .vianing i
'.he war as less important than win
ning another term?
Truth is that a lot of the gentle
men in Congress would be of more ,
real value to the nation in the mlli- ,
?tary service. It also is sadly true that, j
based on sheer ability alone, there
are a lot of them who would never
All commercial British greenhous
es producing crops for sale have
been ordered to produce tomatoes
exclusively for at least si* months
of the year.
Catholic Services
Waynesvllle, every Sunday 11:00
?. m.
Bryson City, every 1st Sunday
8:00 a. m.
Franklin, every 2nd and 4th Son
day 8:00 ?. m.
Cheroke*. every 3rd Sunday 8:00
a. m.
"Murphy, every 0th Sunday 7:00
A. VL" (C. W. T.)
8tncerely yours.
8A7. A. F. Hohfbachcr
win commissions -or even a corpo
ral-* stripes.
As to the labor situation: we have
conflicting statements. President
calls (or 24 hour a day production,
?even days a week. But the new Pro
duction Chairman announces that
it Is not yet necessary to stretch the
40 hour schedule.
How the Chairman can reconcile
hus statement with the fact that de
fense plants are crying for more men.
?ind that the 40 hour schedule means
overtime piled upon overtime, is dlf
. ficult to understand. Of coursc.
I 'hough, the increased coat of the
1 ivertlme must be met by the taxpay
I ers. and equally of course, taxpayers
don't matter much .because they
aren't organized .and don't vote as
a solid block
It will be recalled that in Franc-.-,
too. the politicians refused to anger
orxun-.itu louui Sy with
the 40 hour week. You know what
happened to France
You can bet all the tea in China
that there is no 40 hour week amon;;
Nazis or among the Japs? and
thus far they've been doing entirely
too well. There is no 40 hour week
in the armed forces, either? and they
will d" il Iright. too of the men in the
plants b.u k them up.
Rcccr.t demands of .some La'uo.
Union Leaders for a general wage
increase of SI per day. with all the 1
usual trimmings ior overtime and .
Sundays and Holidays, brings back
le old question of why the man who
makes a gun should be regarded as
any better than the man who car
ries one.
If it weren't for the latter, the de
fense maker, safe in his factory,
?spending his spare time with his
family, would find himself working
for tile Axis ? and lie would not be
saying how long he would work or
be saying anything at all. except "yes
for how much, either. He wouldn't
sir." Slaves who say no to Hitler
don't live long.
Unless all of us get together
and work as one man. the nation
itself may not live, either. Bitter as
the pill may be. we must swallow the
bad medicine that, thus far. (barring
Gen. MacArthur,> we have taken a
bad licking.
We on the home front ? the small
business man. the farmer, the 'white
collar" worker toil far more than 40
hours a week, and then worry many
additional hours through the nights,
wondering, not about how to boost
the pay check, but how to make ends
meet.
It is high time '.hat Union Labor ?
its comfort and wages protected by ,
men getting less in a month than I
many factory workers earn in a week. '
taking in. And it should give without I
greed.
The best way to stop sky-rocketing '
prices is to stop sky-rocketing wages. |
The early thirties were proof positive '
that prices are controlled by the
amount of money in '.he hands of
the buyers. Those making the laws
should remember that there are mil
lions o fus who do not get paid un
der a union scale.
When this writer came out of the
army after World War 1. and went
back to his job on a Washington
Newspaper, he found the negro jani
tor wearing a $20 silk shirt, and the
elevator man sporting a S75 suit.
The "white collar" editorial workers ;
either couldn't afford, or were too j
smart to waste money on such glo- <
rious raiment ? but conditions did
not serve to make them happy. They
were so discontented, in fact, that
they got busy and formed a union of
their own.
Tnat union got a lot of pay raises,
too. He it said to the credit of news
paper men. however, that the union
was largely abandoned because ? as
is often the case ? those In control
were believed to be turning it into a
racket.
1 Rackets are never excusable, but
at this time they should be stamped
out as thoroughly as one would
crush the head of a rattlesnake.
There must be no class distinction;
no special privileges, no pampering ?
and especially no pampering to win
votes.
If we are to win this war. it must
not be a question of how much we
can get. but rather of how much we
can give!
The foregoing does not apply to
nil union men, or all union bosses.
Most of them are as patriotic ? as
unselfish as you or I. But "most"
isn't enough.
We need ? must have ? 100%.
Read The Want-Adsi
Doctor, Heal Thyself
In the morning's mall was a big
mantla envelope from the Treasury
Department, in Washington The
contents .entirely serious in intent, i
cause the thinking reader to laugh
a little- and maybe cuss a little
The chief enclosure was a publicity
| mat. For the unitiated i'. should be
I explained that a ' mat" is a form
from which metal can U- cast for
Reproduction in newspapers.
Cast and printed, this mat would
read as follows:
Washington. D. C ? The follow
ing table issued by the Treasury De
partment is intended as n savings
yardstick for the average income
earner. It suggests how every one of
the 48.000.000 employed persons in
the United States may participate in
the war effort through th? sy?ten:at
ic purchase of Defense Savings
Stamps" |
There ate a couple more para- i
graphs of sales talk 1 as if anybody i
needed that' and then comes a table j
showing what each person should j
save and invest, according to his '
wages. Persons earning from S5 to
S10 a week, for instance, are advised !
to save 25 cents for stamp purchases.
Tho.t>- earning from $10 to si 5 j
should save and invent 50 cents:
for those earning from $15 to $20 the
amount is 75 cents.
Those earning from S40 to $50 j
weekly, which hits most of the dam
workers in this section, arc advised I
to put $4 weekly in Defense Sumps. I
We'll bet the chap who worked out [
that table never has had to worry I
much about supporting a family. ? or |
even himself.
With living costs what they are.
the worker who earns only $10 a
week isn't going to be able to save
25 cents, or even ten cents, unless
he lives at home and somebody else
is keeping the pantry stocked.
The worker who makes $40 a week
might possibly save $4 tor Savings
Stamp purchase (some weeks) were
it not for several important facts.
One is that such a worker probably
has a family for whom food and
clothes cost more and more. Another |
is that, in this section at least he has i
been making such wages for only n I
short time and is in debt because of !
the long lean period that went be- I
fore.
Finally it is utterly impossible for !
any wage earner to set a side a cer- ,
tain amount every week, because no
two weeks are ever the same. One
week may be fine. Next week, he
may have to call the doctor every j
night, and buy a lot medicine. Or |
go to the dentist. Or spend for some- '
thing else that won't wait.
The absurdity of the whole plan '
is topped .however, by the waste of .
money spent sending it out over the
nation. Counting the cost of postage
and materials, the cost of printing,
and high cost of time of the various
big and not-so-big shots who prob
ably had to give their O. K. before
the plan came out of the meshes of
Governmental red tape, every pack
age that went in the mails probably
cost well over 25 cents. Since there
are more than 10.000 newspapers in
the nation that's a rather heavy out
lay on son- .'thing that can never
click.
Til is continual hammering away
j through the mails by Government
' press agents who sliout "Save ? Save
I Save!" Ls getting tiresome. Editors
I are consteutijr reminded to save pa
per." yet not a week passes but that
! this newspaper receives at least five
pounds of publicity that goes straight
to the waste-basket,. When you re
member that the same thing is hap
' pening in 9,999 other newspapers,
that's a lot of paper.
What is happening in Washington
is also happening in Raleigh? and
probably in all the other State Cap
ltals. Every State has its bureaus,
and practically every one of them has
Its press agent who writes at great
length (and with great tiresomeness)
about how good that particular bu
reau has been, now is. or will be.
No figures are available in this of
fice to Show what all this costs in
salaries as well as materials, but you
can be very sure that it is plenty.
Politics plays a part in most bureau
jobs, be they state or national ? and
political jobs usually are "fat."
There is no rule for salary ranges,
either. For instance, a project mana
ger for the TVA. recently stationed
in Murphy gets as much pay as dcas
General MacArthur. Several other
TVA officials actually get more!
Is that fair?
hUL vO so* ?i?c> to the original
subject? that of savings? It might
he a good thing if the Government
started a little self -treatment. Just
by way of setting a good example
o
Let's Go!
A famous general < Napoleon we
believe' once said: "The best de
fense us a strong attack." Every dis
couraging report that comes over
the radio proves huw right he was
and is!
Hitler and the Japs have consist
ently followed that principle. The
I grave losses that the United Nations
have suffered may be laid, in large
part, to the once common belief that
it would be possible to wage a defen
sive war. and still win.
Prance pinned her faith on the
Maginot line, which her military
leaders said was impregnable. En
Buuiu oAtu iiie same tiling uuoui, Sin
gapore. In the early days of the war.
too. England talked about bringing
Hitler to his knees by use of that
classic weapon, the blockade
At one time Russia also based her
hopes on th defense qualities of her|
so-called Stalin line ? and saw that
line crumble as if it were paper be
fore the mechjnizcd forces of H:tle.\
Not until the fine Russian troops
took the offensive was the legend of
Nazi invincibility shattered.
Here in our own country, too many
of us have been defense minded. '
instead of "war minded." We pointed
to the great natural barrier of two
oceans. We pointed to our latent
power, and we thought? even boast
ed ? that no nation, least of all Ja
pan. wo old dare to attack us.
And so. two decades of defensive
wishful thinking ? two decades of In
action. of avoiding unpleasant truths,
and o flistenlng to filth columnists
and to Linberghs. and Wheelers and
otliers for whom we have no name
that is fit to print ? -those two dec
ades are now "paying off" In a grim
series of debacles.
We are changing our views, fast.
The blueprints are being made for
taking the battle to the foe. We are
beginning to realize what every foot- 1
ball player knows ? you can't win |
unless you are carrying the ball. j
And, so at last, we are on the
march for the goal. There may be
times when we are thrown for a
loss: but we are not going to surren
der that ball!
Where we shall strike first no ky.
nun may say We do know, how
ever. that we must go through a
tough line of scrimmage. Every foo
of ground Japan has taken must be
won Hick with blood and death.
There must be- and we lvopesoon?
air attacks on Japan: on her indiw
trial areas, on her homes, on her Im
perial palace.
Africa, where the Nazi forces iw
der General Rommel have retakua
much of the lost ground, must be
placed firmly under Allied control,
to protect our supply routes.
Finally, most military authorlUe?
are certain, there must be an Inva
sion of Hitler's Europe He must be
beaten on his home grounds.
It is not only possible, but probable
the experts tell us. that the war wUl
last five years or more To recaptur*
the lost positions will be slow. cn?ti?
and tortuous Job.
But It will be done.
Meanwhile. Quit grumbling about
shortages, high prices and high tax
es. Tilings will get lots worse beforr
they begin to get belter But remem
ber?
"If Wtnter comes -can Spring k
far behind ?"
"Staar Faae*"
Gtrnian occupational iuUiotIUk.
impotent against the passive react
ance of Luxembourg, liare "aliod Uk
people of this small, occupied ooua
trv "Stone FV? L&xe2nbougcxs
were quick to make an honor of tile
Intended insult. The editors of ttae
small, yellow -and -green underground
pamphlet which circulates to U?
country now sign their articles
"Stone Pace."
Mare M(s
As a result of Increasing sabotage
agatost German trains p? tot
through Czechoslovakia* the number
of police dogs attached to the rail
way police has been greatly Increase*
by the Nazis.
Swedish Usteas
A Swedish paper reports that a
sample poll taken in Sweden indi
cates that ten times as many people
listen to British radio propaganda as
to German broadcasts.
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IT'S YOUR DUTY
IT'S YOUR PRIVILEGE
"It is not a sacrifice ... to buy more Bonds.
Rather it is a privilege."
? President Roosevelt
Yes, it is a privilege ? the privilege of free peo
ple to come to the aid of their country in its hour
of grave need. You are not told to give ? you are
invited to lend. This bank is helping sell Defense
Bonds without profit.
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