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yAOS TWO Harnett County Newt Established Jan. 1, 1919 ISSUED EVERY TTOB8DAY HENDERSON STEELE, Publislier SUBSCRIPTION RAliii One Year $1.10 Six Months Four Months -9^ Three Months Entered as second class matter ai the postoffice at Lilllngton, N. C. " CORRESPONDENCE This paper desires correspondence from all reliable sources interesting to the people of this section. We ash that the name of the correspondent be signed for the purpose of attest ing reliability. Watch the date on the label on yotir paper. If your subscription has expired please .send in your renewal at once. Advertising rates upon application THURSDAY. AUGUST 27, 1942 HAB^ETT COUNTY NEWS“-PttWWt«* at wmmstoa, N. o. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1942 BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS ANO STAMPS our readers, who would at once de plore the “uneducatedness’’ of the editor. But among the rank and file who always realizes that no one Is ever really educated till he or she at tains that high accomplishment of understanding the spoken words of high and low, rich and poor, there would assuredly be the commenda tion “that paper is so brilliantly con cise.’’ Well, there’s a lot to be said upon this subject, as most all folks agree, but the more we say the more we find there is to say, so If our readers will remember that this newspaper tries Us best to put across its mes sages in the best understandable terms, we’ll rest satisfied. OBSERVATIONS BY A COUNTRY SCRIBE Lillington again and was a ibit wor ried about my car parked all that I time on the street, with the doors unlocked, since 1 had a few personal belongings in the car. I wrote to your Chief A Police, Mr. W. F. Hockaday, Jr., and told him about my predicament. I also asked j him to forward the keys >o me should I anyone turn them over to him. I want Judge Duncan .Wilson of the Dunn.i^^ ygg eolumus of youi paper to ESTIMATING THE COST OF THE WAR Since the Goveinment reports ‘.late that the United States spent $1,190 each second during the month of .Inly, persons in the ordinary walks .if life can begin fo vision the huge sums that will be necessary for win ning the war. Although not all of .the va^t sum .pent in July went to meet uai needs, the greater portion of It did .\nd the end is not yet in sight. No doubt there will be larger sums spriit in other months to come. Per haps it wili be necessary to double it—who knows? But the cost of the war is not up permost in the minds of Americans just now. What paramouuts every thing else is that we must win the war. What it takes, we feel sure we have it or can get it. There Is a grim determination to see it through, and there is still firmer resolution. The News believes, to see that it stays tlirough -After this wai' is over, there will be no listening to the clamor of Ill- advised people to scrap everything that is now helping us to defend our way of life. Those w’ho shout for abandonment of organized might and the things that make it will get no apprec'iable audience or following. The .American people. 'ter this war is finished, will be so sick of the whole business of having to fight to make the world disturbers behave that they will demand an adequate Aim.v and Navy and .Air Corps. The p.-ogram that should have been con tinued in 191$ but was scrapped will no; lie discarded when the .Axis is beaten down Very little attention is given to carping critics who “view with alarm " the tremendous cost this war i« oringiug upon us. True-hearted .Americans are ready to give up every earthly possession, if need be, to car- ly on ihe fight to a finish. And it will not lie possible. The News thinks, for pacifists or isolationists or any others to persuade this Government to ca.s; away its fighting strength im mediately after the battle ceases. No matter what the cost of the war, what matters is the winning of It MANY JALOPIES SOON TO DISAPPEAR It will be safe to mark up another decrease in the number of automo biles in use. Already the disappear ance of many of the modern vehicles may be noted, but the sharpest re duction Is yet to be seen. With the passing of the summer season when a large portion of cars are used most- lyforpleasure, there will come apro nounced drop In highway traffic. The Jalopies will be stored away, either by force of necessity or because thoir “shoes’’ are worn past using. The powers that be tell us there will be no more new tires for the duration, so far as civilian use is concerned. That means there will be thousands upon thousands of car owners who cannot for love or money obtain the rubber cushions that make auto riding so easy and comfortable. As yet, there has been no plan devised whereby a satisfactory sub stitute can be provided for rubber tires Although there has been much talk about this or that substitute, there is no hope held out that any thing will be developed in time to save most of us from having to deny ourselives this modern method of transportation. Thus, when we speak of jalopies that are soon to disappear from the highways, it can be taken to mean not only the old model car that is so often referred to by that term, but the limousine as well. The big, fancy automobiles will be nothing more than jalopies insofar as their use is concerned. They will be Just as use less as the cheapest, oldest car. The butcher, the ibaker, the candle stick maker will be earless, but the banker, the broker, the big business man will be the same. The hard licks of war will strike all alike. The only persons able to ride will be those classed as “essentials,’’ and many of them not directly connected with the war effort will be dropped o-ut. What the State of North Carolina is going to do about Its loss from gas oline tax is something for the Legis lature to puzzle over. The highway bonded debt must be provided for In some way; and if the war is to last through a long -period of years, it is sonvething that will cause serious concern. Recorder's Court believes in the Bib lical doctrine of an eye for an eye,' a tooth *’or a tooth, and he even thinks It should 'be observed' further than the realm of physical injury. Automobiles being near and deai to the heart of theh- owners, the Judge feels that any damage done to a per-' son’s car should be repaired by the damage)’. Recently in his court Judge Wilson ordered a reckless driver to take a tire off his car and give it to the owner of the car he had wreck ed. And the Judge doesn't believe that’s stretching Justice too far. * * * The .News can see some evidence of the fact that the FBI i,s on the job. Until recent months the mall to this office was jamjued full of—yes, you guessed it—propaganda stuff. Now, thanks to Edgar Hoover and all of his aides, the unwanted staff ha,s almost entirely disappeared. Let’s hope it will be n pertnanent improve ment. * * * Negroes of Harnett county, taken as a group, are progressive citizens. They have their drawbacks, just as white people do, because there are some of the race wlio refuse to do better and be better. But fair-minded and forward-looking people will agree tliat the Negroes need and deserve en couragement in their good work. That’s why The News recommends to the Boai’d of County Commisstoners that the travel expense of the Negro farm agent be paid out of county funds. It will 'be all that the county will have to pay lo’U’at’d the services of the Negro farm agent. But, even aside from giving the Negroes their Just deserts, and viewed fi’om a cold blooded business pi’oposltion, it would be good business. * * * The late A. G. Rickman was one of Lillington’s most progressive cit izens. There are many among us who can testify to that fact. Too, he was 'generous-hearted; there are those who have reason to know it. In his passing the community has sustained a real loss. The sympathy of The News goes to his bereaved ones. * * * Agricultural officials in Washing ton are predicting a meal shortage in this country the latter pai’t of this year, and that tlie situation will be come acute in 1943. This may be hard for Harnett people to under stand when they think of the ap proaching hog-killing time. But thank Mr. Hockaday for his fine co operation. During the past week he w'atched my car every 'day and also was on the lookout for the keys. Since then I have been to Lillington and have got my car running again and I am glad to say it was Just os I I had left it. Sincerely and cordially Pvt. Pat Collins Well, I’ve done been inlghty ups-ot this inoriii' erbout what I said in the paper erbout Hitler’s plan for enslav in' Ibp noshous er the worl’ by kill in’ out the Intellec’als. Of course I kiiow.s that I ain’t iu no danger er bein’ on his target list, but plenty er my f’en’s would be, au’ I would sho’ hate thet. We jest couldn't stan’ no mo so we better show the paper-hanger how we kin fight. The Home Front Now we are doing what we said we would dio — We’re fighting the enemy wherever he is to be found, afloat, ashore, and aloft, on all the Seven Seas and in the far places of the earth. Our troops roared through the surf at Dieppe with their ibrothers of Canada and their cousins of Brit ain, and on that day our bombers were -over the Egyptian Desert, our planes were fighting the Japanese In China, our marine': were fanning out from beachheads iu the Solomons and our envoys were mapping grand strategy at Moscow. We are entering upon that time for which we have impatiently wait ed, a time in which we carry .the of fensive to our enemies. We do not have our enemy by the throat — U'Ot yet — but we have come to grips with him. The fight )’emains to be won, but the fight is under way. Homo Front Must Not Palter From now on, we here at home must redouble our effort, triple our 'vigilance in the tasks assigned to us. The soldiers who make good our beachheads in Asia and iu Eui'ope are upheld and supported by the unit ed efforts of all of us. Let one of us falter or fail and the structure which maintains our arms is weakened. The mechanism of the Home Front is n complex mechanism. Materials, production, disti’ibution, the system of rationing and of controlling prices, the program for salvage — all of these and much else,, too. combine to make the cogs and gears and wheels which keep us rolling. For weeks and months, now. it has An’ we bttter show 'im like Mr. Clark Gable is goin’ to show ’Im— been Inci’easingly apparent that one by learnin’ to be a gunner in er bomb er. He could git er eonunission an’ er fine uniform with stars an’ bars on hit, an’ stay outen the danger zone effen he wanted to, but this war ain’t goln’ tc be won by commission ed officers an’ recreation centers,— very vital part of this complicated ma chine is not working pi’operly. AVe are short of materials and that shoi t- a.ge becomes more disturbiiiely jp- parent every day. That sho’ tagi t- tends 'beyond the mere need f-o) c-'iti'i- ian restrictions. It is affecting the hit’ll be the men at the 'guns In the j armed services. A short while ago bombers thet’ll win this war—an’ hits . the War Production Board issued an time they wus all er glttin’ I'eady, an’ | order forbidding the use of rubber in NEEDED: A REVISED VOCABULARY This war has brought many things in the way of needs, among them the aggravating necessity (for newspa per people in particular) for a revis ed vocabulary to suit the terms ox pressing war activities and the var ious matters attendant thereto. So many times the words and phrases used, although they were picked from the well-known and well-worn Eng lish in everyday use. are not exactly what readers might expect and are not in fact sufficiently correct to de note the meaning of what it is in tended to convey. This newspaper joins with the Moore County News in wishing for the elimination of such words as “contact" and “evacuate”; or at least to curtail the use of them a bit so that when they are used they will denote “met with” or “moved out” and nothing more. We would prefer, in fact, to see used the terms which our so]die)-.s would invariably speak, such as “we I’an up against ’em” and “hustled ’em out.” We say the English language is well-known and well-worn. Perhaps that is not altogether true, except In part. The English language is not so very well known, but it Is probably correct to say it is well-wo’’n. Pact is. it is almost worn out — in some re spects. Take, for instance, the words “ob jective.” “group,” and “approximate ly.” This newspaper often uses these words, but what else would take their place? If we could get by with saying “that point” or "that place,” or “that bunch” or “that ‘crowd,” we might also arrive at a better under standing among our readers with “near about” for “approximately.” Then we would have a “run-in with the highly intellectual among FEW LIQUOR-HEADS AMONG SOLDIERS There has ibeen much discussion— and there’s going to be some more— about the drinking of liquor 'by sol diers in Uncle Sam’s Army. Cases here and there have been cited of small numbers of soldiers while on furlough taking on too much of the spirits and acting in a manner un becoming representatives of the best soldiers in the best Army of the best country In the world. You see, everybody eipeots so much of Uncle Sam’s soMlers that It sets hard against the grain when any one sees one of them acting the least bit unseemly. Soldiers in the Army today are expected to be “Just right,” not even a tiny speck of a flaw must be found in them. They must be what civilians expect of the most upright. But The News is prepared to be lieve that if the percentage of the four million men in the armed forc es who get diTUUk' were known, i‘ would ibe 30 small as to put to shame the civilian population, whose per centage of tipsters would no doubt run much higher. Uncle Sam is selecting, his fighting Inen with great care. He is taking no chances on their physical condi- tioi. They are examined carefully by competent physicians. They are as near perfect in that respect, we be lieve, as any group of man on earth. But as to their personal tastes, that is a matter that Is hai'd to de termine. If a few of them like their liquor, it would be almost impossible for examiners to find that out when turning them over for enlistment. Certainly, It would hamper the or ganizing o4 a Huge Army if every man who takes a drink of liquor were turned down by the medical examin ers. It can be depended upon, however, that the Army will not allow liquor’s use to hamper its progress. No drunkenness will be tolerated while a soldier is on duty; and' if It should appear to injure the morale of the enlisted men, even when off duty, it would be dealt with by measures about which there could be little doubt. ■When we hear anyone 'complain ing about soldiers drinking liquor, wg put it down as an Isolated case that has aroused the ire of some indi vidual or small group and not as something that is generally practic ed among the enlisted men. should be i-emembered that this coun ty has entli'ely too few cows and prac tically no sheep at all. County Farm Agent Ammons believes there is a lot that can be done about it. * * « Newspaper readei’.s will recall that some Congressmen have been quoted as saying that “no married men will be called into armed service,” one lawmaker even going so far as to de clare that the conflict will be ended this year. The fact that married men are already 'being drafted is proof that all congressional utterances can not 'be taken without the proverbial grain of salt, and about the same quantity of the savoring ingredient can be 'doused into the prediction as to the war’s end. * * * The News extends its congratula tions to Cashier R. E. Prince of the Bank of Fuquay upon the remarkable record of growth and service render ed by this favorably known financial Institution. The bank is now celebrat ing Its thirty-third anniversary. The friendly spirit exhibited by the Banik of Fuquay toward its customers an'd the public generally can be seen as the true reason for its growth, while its strict obsei’vance of sound bank ing principles is responsible for its trustworthiness. Cashier Prince and the officials of his bank may reason ably anticipate further growth in fu ture yeai’s. * * * Ma)iager L. H Beck of the Talley Bros. & Beck warehouses in Fuquay Springs has given a hint to Harnett farmers that the “high dollar” paid by his warehouses in former years will be repeated in 1942 with even more pleasing meaning. Indications are that the good Harnett tobacco will soar to great heights when the Middle Belt opens. The Talley-Beck wai-ehouses are popular selling plac es for farmers who know what good tobacco should sell for. we ought to be er prayin’ fer 'em. Things has done got so ser’ous thel we needs more ’an man kin do, we needs the great deliverer of Isr’el to lead us outen this worl’ sti’Uggle. lead us outen this tvorl’ struggle. God pity them thet kin go on in drunkenness an’ vice an’ net pay no mo mine to what’s goin’ on—with hell jest ei’i’ound the corner. Ontil we Christians git to the place whfcie we’ll git ergin sin an’ take our Stan’s fer righteouness, we kin expect the devil to stay on his throne, an’ we are helpin’ to keep him there. He’s er musin’ hisself with the pledge cards ev chui’ch members thet’s been unkept, an’ the church covenants thet’s been fergot, an’ the I’ecords er the church officials thet’s got worl’y in their jobs. He has his secretaries to make an’ keep copies of ever’thing in churches thet’s wrong — whiles we don’t keep no records on 'em at all— we Jist fergits ’em. But the devil has got all of our mis takes an’ tnisfits an’ he knows jist where to put his telHn’ blows. He ain’t paying no mine to what Hitler or Hlr- ohito is er doin’, they’re suitin’ him all right, an’ er running on schedule time. The only ones er worryin’ of him is them few thets i-eally tryin’ to live right, an' there ain’t ernough er them to give him much concern I’m er feai’- ed. LETTERS APPRECIATION Special Service Section Reception Center, Fotr Bragg, N. C. August 19, 1942 Editor The (News, Lillington, N. C. Dear Sir: , Recently I was visiting in Liliing- ton and had the misfortune of losing the keys to my car. The result was I had to come back to duty here at Fort Bragg without my car. I didn’t have any Idea -when I would be l)i Uncle Jason’s Tom come this mornin’ and sot down on the porch to smoke his pipe. HU peared like he had somethin' on his mine but he ididn’t say nothin’, jist sot and smok ed, so I astetl him what the news wus. He busted out laughin’, an’ laugh ed so hard he couldn’t talk', but pres- en’ly he get hit out. “Yo know Lou,” sez he, “thet we bought some goats las’ year to clean up er new groun’; well, they cleaned hit up an’ we give ’em the I’un er the pastur’ after thet. “Yestiddy we tole pii thet hit wus up to him to clean up the back yard, so unbeknowlnst to us he went to the pastur’ an’ got two er them ole Billys an’ turnt ’em loose on the yard whilst he took er nap on the porch. "Later, when ma come in from 'the garden she seed them goats er chew in’ up pa’s sweat shirt thet he had left on the line. She hollers an’ wakes pa an’ when he sees what has hap pened he makes er dive fer thet shirt. He gits holt er hit, an' the goats has got er better holt fer each has done swallowed er sleeve; they tries to pull ev way from pa an’ jerks him to the groun’, an’ when me and Bill comes In to dinner, them goats wus j still givin’ the rounds an’ pa er hold-1 in’ on to thet ole sweat shirt outil the grass wus flat as effen er pul verizin’ rollei’ had 'been over hit. Us bo;’S each got er goat by the hind legs, an’ got pa an’ the shirt onhitch- ed, but them sleeves wus gone, an’ thet draggln’ sho bruised pa up. “Whilst he wus hobblin’ to the house he come ei'crost his ole shoe string hat band, an’ he knowed where his ole straw hat had went. “Yo beys take them goats back to the pastur’, an’ don’t yo’ leave the gate open so they ken git out no more,” sez he. “Judle, please git here quick with my linerm^ts.” many military products, including cartridge clip boxes and gun grips. And last week WPB restricted mili tary uses of aluminum to “combat end-products f'Or field or combat use’’ iu order to insure that there will be enough aluminum for combat instru ments. Home Front Rallies For Salvage The shortage of matei’lals again emphasizes the need for saving ma terials and for salvage. You may be tired of hearing about salvage, you may be weary of collecting scrap— and yet we cannot close our ears to the crying need for salvage, we can not slop hunting out the scrap, with out risking failure and defeat. WPA workers, beating the back roads of the farm country and digging old rails from city streets have turned up 100,000 tons of scrap metal—44,- 90-0 tons of it in the form of steel rails. Scrap I’ubber, 454,166 tons of it, is moving to reclaiming plants at the rate of 4,000 tons a day. Iu Wash ington, the lure of ibrass bands and Hollywood screen stars set a pattern for “Scrap Rallies” to be held throughout the country. WPB*s Con servation Division announced plans (or a “Junior Salvage Corps” of school children — more than 30,000,- 000 of them — to conduct a nation wide, house-to-house sci-ap canvas lor weeks beginning October 6. And wltli local governments a proposal §0 that old cannon balls and cannon and the howitzers of 1918 may be scrapped to make guns and tanks and planes of 1943. Legion veterans have offered to give their own war relics —relics which, melted into the furn aces and refabricated in the arsenals, will help arm their sons to fight to day. All of these entei’prlses will help but they are not enough. Only if each one does his part will we have enough —barely enough—for our needs. WPB Oi-d^ Will Be Enforced At tills moment when our troops are fighting on world fronts and all of us ai-e caught up in united effort we caunot tolerate sly attempts to dodge the restrictions and the depriv ations most of us accept cheerfully. Th? pei’son who tries to dodge ration ing regulations, who tries to beat price and I’ent control, who thinks it smart to get illegally materials re- sei’ved for the armed forces — that person is a saboteur as surely as though lie had been landed on onr coast frotn a Nazi sub. The -record of the past few days .shows that such people are getting short shrift, lii San Fi’ancisco, a bank is stuck will) two partly remodeled buildings. intejHled for branch off ices, which must remain unfinished for the dui’alion 'bv WPB order. The biiildei’s began construction work on the buildings after WPB’s order stop ping civilian construction. In Massa chusetts, the owner of two filling sta tions may not receive any motor fuel until December 20 because he evaded gasoline quotas. F:ur California firms have had their supplies cut off for violating WPB Priority regula tions. We’re tough with such people, and we should be tough. Fortunately they are few. Most Americans observe rationing regulations and other re strictions patriotically. Sugar ration ing. foi’ instance, has produced only twelve prosecutions for violations so far. So far as sugar is coucerned, the Office of Price Administration be lieves we’ll get at least as much sug ar dui’ing the next thii’teen months as we’ve been getting — unless the shipping situation in the Carib'oean Sea worsens. Traiis|K>rtatioii Pi-obleiiis Next mouth a lot of feet are going to be stepped on, a lot of arms are going to ache. The Office of Defense Transportation says that by the mid dle of September the country’s local transportation systems will be carry ing the heaviest load in their history. Already these systems ai’e hauling loads about 40 percent greater than last year a-nd with the opening of school buses and ti’olleys, subways and elevated railroads and commun- ter trains will be even more crowded. A lot of us will be hanging onto stiaps, stepping back into the car, walking further to the bus stop and undergoing other Inconvience; no truce. Anybody who icmembers the las' war knows what happened to the cost of living when prices are not controlled. The last wai brought what the economists called “infla tion” and this inflation did tremend ous damage. In some countries it wiped out the life savings of millions and brought millions close to starva tion. In the U. S. A. the cost of liv ing rose so high that wages a ere not able to keep up with them. During the Iasi war, for iusiance, the mail order price for a pair of ov eralls lose from eighty-two cents to 52.96. Work clothing — overalls, jackets, dungarees, a'ork shirts, and pants — are au important item in the budget of every a’orking family and when they cost too much the result is real hardship. Last week OPA took steps to make sure that work clothes, this time, remained at reasonable levels. OPA saw that there was a situaii-ju in the work clothes industry which, unless corrected, might force an increase iii the prices charged tor work cloth ing by retail stores. OPA cut the maximum price of cloth going into work clothes — demins, jeans, etc , —and then reduced the maximum prices which may be used by manu facturers and wholesalers for tlii.'' clothing. WPB again urged homeowners in the East to convert their furnace^ fioin oil to coal if they can — and do it now. Aud ODT look control ov er all inland and coastal craft capable of transporting liquid cargo in a fui- ther effort to relieve the oil short age . . . WPB has started a program to reclaim millions of gallons of chemical solvents and oils. Those products are critially needed by our war machine and are being wast>: i now . . . and the Depariineiit of In terior is making it possible to harvest yucca from public lands — yucca, which grows wild and abundantly throughout the Southwe.'it. is a do mestic substituie for the hemp and jute fibers we used to get from th- far East. It can be used to make rope and twine, burlap and materials us ed in mattresses and iu upholstery . . . a loss of key men in coal mines to other war industries and the arm ed forces is limiting production and threatens to make it impossible for the mines to supply the fuel needed for war industry and essential civil ian uses . . . not to be opened until t'liristmas — OPA has exempted “trees, mistletoe, holly, ferns, plant.-^ aud ether green stuffs” from the pro visions of the General Maximum Price Regulations. Schools Get Under Way This Week Angler and LaFayeite schools will pry the lid off the 1942 session t.>- day (Thursday) when students once again return to class rooms. Slop auu t The Angler faculty is filled Imi s — hut ILaFayette wi!l open with two teacher- that’s war. ODT says that by stopping service on bws routes paralleliag street railways, by reducing the num ber of stops and cutting out unneces sary runs to outlying districts and by revising schedules, forty-two of the largest American cities will save rubber at the rate of almost 300,000,- 000 tire-miles a year and more than 12.000.000 gallons of gasoline. No ’Truce To Inflattou The fight to keep down cost of liv- the American Legion is discussing iug is a fight in which there can ice vacancies. Next Thursday LMilngten, Ben- haven and .-Vuderson Creek will lie- gin the new term. On September 10. the other five sehols in the couniy will open. Colored schools will start the new term on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Supt. Reid R»s states that there are 12 positions vacant In Haruet, schools. Angler is the only one of the larger schools having a full ro^- ler of teachers. LET US GIN YOUR COTTON Better Gins 1 The steel in one hand cornsheller ^ould make three 6-Inch sheila. Better Samples Better Turnout BECAUSE— Our completely overhauled gins are in tip>top shape and— CLEVELAND JOHNSON IS OUR GINNER TOP MARKET PRICES PAID FOR COTTON AND COTTON SEED Johnson Cotton Co. LILLINGTON, N. C. MACK JOHNSON, M^r. ilia
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