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r. lltb, IfidA: ;j*v r.-v in pouncs ?,t%ilhtiii| Mondagpft sad Tkondaj« at Mortli Wi&wlMro» N. C IX 2. CAUSE and JULICB a HUBBABD PablWien SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year 11.60 ^ Months .76 Four Months 60 Out of th« State $2.00 per Year ■Mved at tha poet offlca at Nortl\ Wilkea. ten, N. C, aa aatited daaa matter mid« Act m Marek 4, UTt. MONDAY, NOV. 11th, 194(( ‘The Need Is Great. . General Pershing' spoke for all Ameri cas "when he asked the nation to support the Red Cross Call. Never has the Red Cross faced an approaching year of equal responsibility. These obligations for great er Red Cross service have arisen with the mobilization of a 4,000,000-man army, the increase of industrial production for de fense, and through the need for protec ting health in time of national emergency. In the next seven months 4,000 Red Cross nurses will be taken into active duty with the military forces. General Pershing pointed out. Already demands are being placed upon the Red Cross to expand its First Aid facilities to protect lives of work ers employed in the hazardous skills of the defense program. A project has been set into motion for the purpose of enabling Army and Navy surgeons to perfect blood plasma transfu- rdons which may some day be needed to save thousands of lives of men fighting in our defense. The Red Cross has embarked upon its busiest year of training American women in the bedside technique of caring for sickness in the home—a program that grow out of the appalling ne%4 for Compe tent help when the epidemic of influenza swept the country during the last world conflict. When we consider the great need for maintaining a high morale among the le gions off yonng men who will be mobilized for our defense forces, we are dealing with a Red Cross responsibility. Here again the Red Cross will work hand-in-hand w’ith i our military forces. Red Cross field direc tors located in military stations have been assigned the important task of acting as the connecting link between the men of our fighting forces and their families. As in the past, problems of economic and fin ancial nature will be met through the well- knit bond between the Red Cross men on duty in camps and post and the families of service men nationally covered by the net work of 10,000 Red Cross Chapters and branches. When we consider the Red Cross is repre.sented in an average of more than three communities for each county in the United States, we can realize the far- reaching efectiveness of this service. These are the things General Pershing speaks about when he asks every patriotic American to support the Red Cross. His appeal does not mention the important part the Red Cross takes in alleviating the sufferings of Americans stricken by the forces of floods, tornadoes, fire and other forms of disaster. The American Red Cross is now in its annual Roll Call for members. These mem berships are needed to help Americans in an hour of national emergency. Support is needed to strengthen our defenses. Mark those words, "our defenses,” for this is not an appeal for foreign war relief funds. Americans contributed promptly and gen erously to aid the war stricken when asked last May. This is an appeal to Americans for Americans. Each of us knows the need is great. Death Rate Drops Of the 24,069 persons •who died in North Carolina through September, this year, 3,669 were babies under a year old, figures compiled by the State Board of -Health Division of Vital Statistics, of which Dr. R. T. Stimpson is the Director, show. During the corresponding period oi 1939 there were 3,518 infant deaths, or 69 more than occurred this year. The to tal number of deaths during the first nine months oif last year was 23,951, this num ber being 118 lese than the 1940 toll. Through September of this year, there were 60,687 births reported by the Divi- Moa of Vitol l^tiMdcs, 891 in excess of the . figure tha" wine period, whicW ^fn^eddition te the babies nttder a old i^o^died through Se^iteittbe^ the^' we^ 1,036 wlio died what are ^termed prevwitable Iccide^ts, this nnmber being 14 fewer than thoa^. whose deaths were attributed to the same caui^ during the c^iresponding period of last year, So far this year, according to figures al ready compiled, seventy North Carolina children have died from the preventable disease of diphtheria, as compared with seventy-four last year, while.the pneumo nia total dropped from 1,730 to 1,628. Deaths from tetanus l(ockjaw) this year have numbered only nine, as compar ed with 22 for the corresponding period'of 1939. Homicides increased from 263 to 275, while suicides went from 220 to 226 during the periods compared. 'SrhoM ftlAi tUiU ^ t: aatloB in. cMlUn owiipstlofll Btiut te rAafisd^in Umm ocen- Vsttoiuu Jdin Oitiste, mMlitailst, ijwfjr i^rbsriini calls tQf|suir Wi wore 'fl-Al to (toMacs In soqHuWon; W« are Incrasaliig ttsj hi» jreaanii; jok than lia wonld ^ Meaning Of Signs Tens o(f thousands of North Carolina motorists do not know the meaning of the various types of warning signs which the State places alongside the highways. The three types of signs seen most fre quently are diamond-shaped signs, square signs, and octagonal or, eight-sided signs, all with black lettering on a yellow back ground. Diamond signs mean reduce speed. These signs are used where permanent physical dangers always require a reduc tion of speed for safety. Such signs may designate curves, dangerous intersections, sudden dips in the road, or narrow bridges. Square signs mean caution. These signs are used to draw your attention to road conditions requiring you to drive with ex treme care. For example, men working in the roadway, school zones or other places on the highway that require more than or dinary care on the part of drivers are marked by square-shaped signs. Octagonal or sight-sided signs mean STOP. Thuse signs are generally found near dangerous intersections sand junc tions. A stop sign means that you must bring your car to a complete halt. Slowing down is not enough. And after stopping you should use great care in entering the main road. Then, of course, there are round signs, which mean railroad crossings. Round signs always mean stop, look and listen. Even at crossings where the law does not require you to stop, good sense suggests that you stop. North Carolina’s accident rate could be •ite of bw tlMt TO ybf cent. We are bnlUlli^E ii fleOt aible 'to takb on anjr comiblnatlon of torcee wbJch mlgbt be 'arat agalnat It. Tnts meana a 70 per ^cmt increaae in onr fighting ahipa. Thla in tnm meana ezpanaion of our shlp^hard facilities. And. we are going t^bnild these ships taster than ever before.' 'riie- expansion of oar shipyard acttrltiee cads lor the' National Defense Adriswr CommiSelon to speed 'up the flow of materials ail down the nation’s production lines. The companies that pro duce armor plate must tarn it out fast eoongh to cover the ships’ frames as they are ready for it. The blast furnaces must Increase their production of steel to take care of the needs of the armor plate factories. The nation’s transportation lines must speed U'P the delivery of cool and iron for making steel. All along related lines the same Increase in tempo must prevail. This Increase In fleet power will mean even a greater increase In naval aviation. Plane factories must deliver thousands of fighting planes, observation planes, bombing planes, and the long-range naval .patrol craft. The engine manufacturers must be ready with engines to power those planes. They, too, must have their raw materials with which to work. The .planes need machine guns and the ships need big guns. In hundreds of plants, steel must be turned Into gun forgings and gun forging^ into gun barrels. In other plants, It must bte poured Into shell casings and steel jack eted bullets and the bullets crimped Into place. Men must be found to man the machines that make these component .parts of the Navy. In the Labor Divis ion, the National Defense Advis ory Commission already has thousands of men in training throughout the country. They are preparing to step into their place In the factories. Supplies of fuel oil must be ob tained and stored for the fighting ships, both at home and to the far flung bases thousands of miles away. Supplies of ’bP tane gasoline that give our fight ing aircraft superiority must be obtained and stored where they will be handy. This work'of,eS talning these supplies is being watched over by the Industrial Materials Division of the Defense Commission. While all this Is goivig on, the \rmy and the Navy must assem ble and train the man power rea dy to use these new defense weapons. The men must be select ed to fit the needs of the armed forces, but at the same time, men OB the bB|iEB«te and Tn-lte bog* demai^^at.^tbe Amir and gniiB, mlnlmixe 4>tBrt«reSSlPp^^^|« regalaiti day to day faait^|^ of our hoabiesa ^nrtem. -tNAara mast he dlitrlhut^ wbera will eatin tba laast co&gesttan, the fewest Unglea. Frle.es npyt he watched to see that no Items get 6nt of line and ^turh . the complex machinal^ of hoainesa. That It the function of the Price Stabilixation DlTislon. , - The Social Defenae . Program .. Providing ihi^ and ejothes, shelter and food for the vaatly Increased Navy and an Amy four times aa big as we have at pres ent is in itself a titanic job, throwing new demands on agri culture. For that reason the Agri cultural Division -of the Defense Commission is surveying the ex isting machinery for maintaining agricultural -prices, seeking to maintain parity between agricul tural and Industrial prices. To keep all this great effort from re-colllng into the lap ol John Citizen is the function of the Consumer Protection Dlvls- lonT The protect'on and promo tion of human welfare Is a vital and important -part of a national defense program. This is doubly true when the nation needs all the material and human resourc es available. The Consumer Pro tection Division will watch and analyze the price of consumer goods in shoes, clothes, and food, for example. It will be alert to bousing conditions, educational and health facilities in new com munities which may be develop ed for and -by workers around ex panding plants. It wlllj^nsure the protection of hijman welfare in a ‘total defense’ program where the well-being of an individual u equally important with the reduced materially, if every driver in thit state understood and heeded every high way sign erected by the State, Motorists must learn that diamond signs mean re duced speed, square signs mean caution, and octagonal signs mean .stop. And the .sooner they learn this, the safer they will be. A FEW DONT’S FOR HUNTERS (Reidsville Review) Many people would be alive today had all hunters been careful with forearms. Here are a few suggestions to prevent trag edies on hunting trips: 1. Treat your gun with the respect of a loaded gun. 2. Carry only empty guns, taken down or with the action open, into your automo bile, camp or home. 3. Always be sure the barrel and ac tion are clear of obstructions. 4. Always carry your gun so you can control the direction of the muzzle even if you stumble. 5. Be sure of your target before you pull the trigger. 6. Never point a gun at anyt’ ing you do not want to shoot. 7. Never leave your gun unattended unless you unload it first. 8. Never climb a tree or fence 'vvith a loaded gun. •' 9. Never shoot at a flat, hard surface or the surface of water. 10. Do not mix gunpowder and alcohol Careful attention to these rules of safety can be the means of avoiding tragedies that are all too common at this time of year. building tanks. of ships, planes and of Mn, WU .Cnrrdil: of UMt June 23 near Oepi^e 0. Mnde wm heard todar the Cirealt dourt trtal .of F. ..Williams on iBOtber of three children,''died of aaphyxiatlon froim . fames from the exhaust pipe of. Williams’ antomoblle, whl^ was parked in the vicinity of the Army camp, it was testi fied. Williams testified both he and Mrs. Carroll had - agreed on a ’’euicide pact.” Both were render ed unconscious from the fumes which entered the closed car through a robber hose attachpd to the exhaust pipe, he said. 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