Industry May Be
Fooled
As thig column pointed out last
week. American Industrial pro
duction In many fields has shot
suddenly upward, even though
consumption has remained '~at
about the same level. Obvious
reason for the rise is the expecta
tion of big war orders from Eu
rope, plus' the supposition that
raw material prices are due to go
up and stay up. Manufacturers
have figured that they'd best buy
heavy stocks at once, while prices
are relatively low, and be prepar
ed for big business when Europe
begins calling for supplies.
But, going by some significant
recent indications, there is a very
good chance that the manufac
turers who have been planning on'
a major war boom taking place,
soon will be fooled ? and that the
"war prosperity" balloon may be
rudely deflated.
In the first place, it is a cer
tainty that our only major war
customers will be England and
France ? Bi'itania rules the wav
es, and the German merchant ma
rine has been almost entirely
driven to cover. Britain has been
preparing for this war for a long
time. She didn't say much about
it, but has been laying in abnor
mally heavy supplies of basic ma
terials for many moons. The re
sult is that considerable time
must go by before she will have
to face a shortage of any impor
tant material asset.
In the second place, the allies
must husband their slender gold
possessions. They haven't any
money to sperid foolishly. Every
penny expended must do two pen
nies' work, if possible. That
means Britain will exhaust to the
utmost the resources of that em
pire on which the sun never sets,
before she makes any big pur
chases elsewhere. And the British
empire (taking it for" granted
that her fleet will be able to keep
the trade lanes open, and hold
down losses from German subma
rine. battleship and air attack to
a minimum) is exceedingly rich
in almost everything that is nec
essary to the maintenance of a
country in either war or peace.
To a considerably leaser extent,
this is also true of the French
empire. Ar.d what the French lack
will, as long as possible, be sup
plied them by the "British.
The effect of l lie war so far has
been harmful to American busi
ness. England and her possessions
normally constitute our largest
single foreign customer. The
outbreak ut hostilities caused all
immediate drop in British im
ports from this country. Where,
for instance, we used to have a
fine stable market in England for
perishable fruit, that market has
dwindled? and. think some, in
the near future it may disappear
entirely.
There is one obvious exception
to this ? and the exception is
arms. If the embargo is removed,
we may confidently expect the
munitions industries to boom.
Britain is not able to produce ade
quate war materials, even though
all the resources of her great
manufacturing establishments are
today being given to supplying
her soldiers with the weapons
of destruction. If you have air
planes. rifles, shells, or marhiue
guns to sell, you have no need to
?worry about your future business
? you will probably receive more
orders than you can handle, if the
war goes on. But producers of
other materials cannot be sure of
a sanguine outlook as yet. And
those who are buying raw mater
ials on a big scale in anticipation
of sustained and growing foreign
demand, may be sadly disappoint
ed. The truth is that it the war
lasts long, all of Europe will be
practically out of gold, and won't
be able to buy here no matter how
great the need, unless this gov
ernment permits belligerents to
obtain American credit. And the
temper of Congress now is almost
100 per cent against that.
Where he applied triple super
phosphate to a 16-acre pasture at
the rate of 100 pounds to the
acre, Jason Spencer, of Ashe
County, has secured one-fourth to
one-halt more grazing than for
merly.
That Na2<?in<3
Backache
May Warn of Disordered
? Kidney Action
Modem l[f. with lta hurry tad worry,
?C th? kldaaja. Tbnr ara apt to bwomt
orw-uwd and fall to filter ixcm add
? impurltUa from tha llla-firing
headache. dl?mln?M. ap nlfhti.
'?? p*lM. ?wetllni? feel constantly
?*???. mil worn out. Other >l(n*
of kidaay or bladdr-r disorder ar? aoma
tuMS burn inc. scanty or too (roquant
or I nation.
Try ?oan'? Pill,. Dmn't help tha
kMneye to paaa o? harmful naa body
waate. They hart had mora than halt a
oaotury of public approval. Ara recom
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DOAN SPILLS
New Industry Conies to the South
Airv ivv shows new Johns-Manville plant at Jarratt, Va. Dedicated
by 1 -wis H. Brown, J-M president, (inset) in the presence of Gov
ernc James H. Price of Virginia and other state and Federal offl
.is, the factory will convert loblolly pine and other Southern
woods into insulating board used widely in modern building-.
Planned Dictator
ship
If anyone is still looking for a
sound reason for rigorously main
taining American neutrality, all |
he need do is examine the plans
now being made for expanding '
and changing the power and set- |
up of the Federal government if
we again go to war.
These plans are now about com- 1
plete. According to a review pub
lished in the Washington Times- ,
Herald, four great new divisions
! of government are proposed. The
first,- National Defense, would in
: elude all military affairs and
counter-espionage. The second, !
i Production, would include the I
j Agricultural Department, the La
| bor Department and social secur
| ity, and would "have sweeping ;
powers over the country's non
' military manpower. The third,
| Construction and Transportation
would control Federal public i
' works, all communications,- the
Power Commission, the Interstate
i Commerce Commission, the Post I
Office, Interior Department, etc.
The fourth. Finance, wouid in
clude the Treasury Department
and other government fiscal bu
! reaus, and would deal with banks, ;
trust institutions, insurance com
! panies. etc.
All of these divisions would be
i under the direct control of the
President, who would appoint
heir beads. The catch comes in /"
he plans (or giving the proposed V
lew divisions authority. And, ac
:ording to the news reports, this
authority would be virtually un
limited- Every business and every
individual in the country would st
:ome immediately under the full- e<
est possible official domination. g(
Labor would be virtually con- r(
scripted ? no man could change a 3l
job without permission from the st
government. The orders which 31
any business could accept would ei
be determined by official fiat. In- m
dustries' owners and executives tl
would be mere figureheads, who n
could do nothing save carry out
the orders given them by govern- a
ment. A dictatorship, complete in w
every detail, would be establish- 1 n
ed. | g
And this isn't all there is to "M J t]
Day" plans by a long shot. Com- b
plete government control and cen- j tl
sorshipj of the radio, the press, n
the rights of protest and assem- j
blage are envisioned. ; Elections h
could be deferred (f the powers- ?
that-be decided that the enter- ?
gency made it necessary. T
All tills and more is going to ti
happen if war conies to the Unit- |,
ed States. Gone will be democra- k
cy, gone our liberties. Could there r
be a stronger case for neutrality? e
Three new national forest es- t]
tablished since September 6 bring w
the total number in the United
States to 161, reports the U. S. I
Forest Service.
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As the New York Times ob- i
srves, "Though we have got us
1 to the spectacle of enormous
overniu^nt spending and to some
smarkabte' comparisons as a re-1
lit, it is none the less rather
artling to learn that on June
0, last, there were 920,310 civil
nployes on the Federal govern
lent's payroll ? 2,550 more even i
lan at the World War peak of
ovember 11, 1918."
This is one more reason why ,
bout 25 cents out of every dollar
e earn goes directly or indi- 1
sctly into the insatiable maw of ?
overnment. Our entrance Into
lie World War caused the num
er of government workers ? en
irely aside from those in the
lilltary forces ? to be doubled,
ly 1923, the number of employes
ad dropped almost to the pre
rar level. Then a slow rise set in,
rhich became a fast rise in 1933.
'here were 583,000 government
iix-eaters in 1932 ? and 718,400
n 1935. And where 824.259 wor
ers lived at the expense of the
est of us in 1936, some 920,310
at at a tax-supported table today.
Most startling of all is the fact
hat the number of government
rorkers seems to Increase regard
less of changes (or tfie better in
business conditions. The years
1932 and 1933, going by all the
statistics, were the worst of de
pression. But more than 150,000
additional people were employed
by the government In 1937, when
a comparatively high level of in
dustrial production was reached,
and the national income was sub
stantially greater.
As the New York Times also
says, "The Increase in Govern
ment employes is in some res
pects even more impressive evi
dence than total expenditures, of
the relentless growth of Govern
ment functions and of Govern
ment regulation and control." It
is not surprising that, in spite of
the highest taxes in our peace
time history, the Treasury is still
unable to balance outgo with in
come, and the national debt soars
to incredible heights.
NEGRO FARMERS ORGANIZE
The Negro farm men and wo- ?
men of th^ Bunn District were
called together Wednesday night,
by J, E. Tuck, Negro County
Agent to organize an Adult Far- j
mers Club. The purpose of this '
club is to plan the activities of
the farmers in that community to ;
raise their standard of living.
The officers of this club are: !
H. A. Clemon, President; Daniel
Nicholson, Vice-President; G. C.
Crudup, Secretary; John: Crudup,
Asst. Secretary; J. T. Conyers,
Treasurer.
They say an automobile invent
ed and built in 1903 is still run
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us on the highway every Sunday.
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