PKsideBt in his r«venthj
report to Congress
: POtoted oup—**£tapplieB from the;
U«l*ecl StsAes have had an impor-J
taat part in the war effort of the'
/Oatted Nations.’* "We can place a
value in dollars and cents on thej
.. goods and services made avails-'
to our allies through Lend-'
iMse, hut we cannot fully ap-J
. praise the strategic value of the
•U we have given, beyond the’
fact that our Lend-Lease assist
ance definitely has advanc^ the
alHed cause on many battle fronts
^j^«lid brought victory over the Axis
^ that, much nearer. It is harder;
stffl to measure the value of the
naqlprocal aid we have received
our allies.
Under the terms of the Lend-
Lease Act, passed by Congress on
March 11,1941, the President was
authorized to permit the delivery
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i-.f a wide range of goods, products for all of 1941. Aid was then be-
and weapons and the rendering of, ing extended at a rate of more
many kinds of services by this' than ten billion dollars a year, or
country for the benefit of “the] about 15 per cent of the current
Government of any country whose, rate of spending on the entire
defense the President deems vital j I iiited States war program,
to the defense of the United' Expenditures of such magnitude
.States ” I justified, and the results
’ At the time the Act was passed,'of the Lend Lease policy of help
there was the possibility that by
putting the weight of. Amerira’.^
ecopomic resources fully behind
those countries fighting the Axis,
wt might assure defeat of the Ax
is without becoming infvolved in
war ourselves. 'The attack on
Pearl Harbor destroyed that hope,
but it served to emphasize the vi
tal importance of the Lend-Lease
program, which was immediately
.speeded up. The total value of
I.end-Lease aid for the month-s of
September, October and November,
1942, was four times the total fox
the corresponding three months of
1941, and nearly twice the total
NOTICE!
NOWTH CAROLIN.V,'WILKES COUNTY.
Having qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Mar>-
Wooten, deceased, I will, therefore, on the
Jane
27th bay of February, 1943
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at the hour of 2 o’clock, P. M.. at the premises of the
jLie Wooten, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the fol
lowing described personal property:
1 Piano, 4 Beds and Springs, 2 Wash-
stands, 2 Tables, 2 Dressers, 1 Chest of
Drawers, 1 Cedar Chest, Chairs, 1 Range,
ll Oil Stove and Heaters, 2 Clocks, 2 Kitch
en Cabinets, Dishes, Cooking Utensils.
other articles of personal property too numerous to mention.
This 23rd Day of January, 1943.
NORA WOOTEN MARTIN
Administratrix of Estate of Mary Jane WooUn, Deceased
jn^ to arm and supply our allies
as part of our essential war meas
ures have amply demonstrated the
soundnesss of the plan.
The billion and a quarter dol
lars devoted to Lend-Lease in 1941
was used to good purpose. Oui-
goods and services aided and en
couraged Britain and Russia in
their struggle with the Nazis and,
at the same time, the volume of
war orders served to build up our
facilities for producing weapons
and munitions before we were
faced by war itself. As these or-
(iers were channeled through the
Government, instead of being giv
en to variou.s factories directly,
we began to build the government
machinery for handling the far
more difficult war problems that
followed Pearl Harbor.
Military Items Top List
More than half Of all Lend-
Lease supplies exported in 1942
were for , military campaigns
against the Axis while British pi
lots in our planes have smashed ot
the Nazis on the continent. Other
tons of war goods and equipment
have gone to India, the Middle
East. Australia, New Zealand, and
to a less extent—because of the
closing of the Burma Road—to
China. The United States and
Great Britain between them have
shipped (but not always delivered)
over the Northern convoy route—■
to Soviet Russia during the pa.st
year, more than 3,000 planes,
more than 4,000 tanks, more than
‘'O.OO-) trucks, jeeps and other ve
hicles and hundreds of thousands
of tons of food, medical supplies
and other products.
Agricultural products, mostly
foods, exported under the Lend-
Lease program from March 11,
1941', to Cktober 31, 1942, were
$1,147,000,000. These
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kbphabt urges absentee
VOTING BE ABOLISHED
Honorable J. M. Broughton,
Governor of North Carolina,
Raleigh. N. C.
Dear Governor Broughton:
I am wfittag to you as a pri
vate citizen interested solely In
the success of democratic pro
cess and in good government in
our state. I am sending copies of
this letter to members of the Gen
eral Assembly and to all of the
newsp:iper3 of the state. I have
lived in the state for nearly twen
ty-five years and my children
grew up and were educated hert.'
I expect to spend the- remainder
of my life here. I have voted botn
the republican and democratic
tickets during my residence. My
son, Lt. W. P. Kephart, IT. S. N.
R„ was killed in action on Guad
alcanal last October in the de
fense of our liberties and to help
to establish freedom and justice
throughout the world. He and
other? like him have left it to us
to see that we do not allow the
Bill of Rights to be violated lor
any purpose, to see to it that we
begin right here to Insure com
plete freedom from some of the
abuses which develop In a demo
cracy and in effect violate our
Bill of Rights He fought and
died for sometMng that we do not
fully enjoy here in our own state,
particularly in our elections.
I ?,m urging you to promote
and support an effort to so modi
fy the Absentee Voting Law in
North Carolina as to make it ap
ply to men in the armed forces
only or to repeal it completely.
You are rlreadv familiar with the
reasons for abolishing it in the
primaries, w'itb the flagrant
abuses in elections in Cherokee,
Swain. Gmhain, Henderson
Stokes, Davidson, and
of other counties In the'state,
and with the outrageous irregular
ities in its use In my own county
of Watauga. In this county with
o. population of about 17,000 there
were approximately 1000 absen
tee votes, while in the adjoining
county of Caldwell with a popu
lation of over 32.000 there were
less than a hundred. It would be
futile reflection on your intelli
gence to recount the various
types of obuses wlitcb accompany
the application of the absentee
law all over our state, resulting in
actual violation of the Bill of
Rights.
In the last election my wife end
I found it necessary to be out of
the state on election day. In the
office of the chairman of the
County Board of Elections and in
his presence we filled out absen
tee ballots following his personal
directions, sealed and delivered
them to him on the spot. Upon
''.flTiiiiiim. -
Itui« : tat
purpose of opprovtag m> obq
report to the Soli Uonsem
Service and to discuss, srsys and
means that the District miglit
help farmers in attaining their
war production goals tor „ this
yoar, *
The annual report ahowa in
part that complete rconsenratton
plans have been prepared on 898
farms covering 29,138 acres dur
ing the yekr. This brought the
total number of eooperators to
H70 fanners with a total of 110,-
507 acres. On these farms, among
other erosion control practices,
there were: 14,172 acres of ap
proved rotations: 2'390 acres of
rotations arranged in strips; 1,-
239 acres of kudzu; 260 acres of
sericea; 6590 acres of terracing:
3976 acres of pasture treatment;
and 432,000 trees planted.
The members of the board
made plans to cooperate with the
agricultural war boards in each
county within the District during
the year in connection with their
food production goals. They also
made their equipment available to
all farmers who need it to carry
out conservation practices. This
equipment consists of Martin
ditchers, Martin hummers, and
drag pans for building terraces.
Members of the Board were
well pleased with the progress
made so far in spreading conser
vation practices among the farm
ers of the District, but ej^jressed
hope that since increased farm
production is so vital to the war
efforts, more farmers would prac
tice “conservation farming’’ as
one method of reaching these
goals.
The Board of Suporvlsors of
the District which comprises
Wilkes, Surry, Yadkin, and For
syth counties, is made up of Paul
SpeeV, chairman of the board, and
R. S. Burrus, representing Surry
county; Paul E. Church from
Wilkes county; C. H. Hutchens.-
secretary, from- Yadkin county;
and M. A, Hester from, Forsyth
county.
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larly important in helping to sus-|*'*‘'’*^
tain the civilian populations and ^®***'® °
armed forces of the United King
dom and the Soviet Union and
keep them in fighting trijn, yet
the volume of our food exports has
been small by comparison with
the amount-s we have reserved for
our own war services and for Am
erican civilians. Our Lend-Lease
shipments of processed milk prod
ucts. during 1942, were only 4
per cent of our milk supply, in
that period we sent abroad less
than one per cent of the meats
now under voluntary rationing,
except pork, of which we shipped
17 per cent, and about 12 per cent
of our total egg production went
abroad.
Benefits Not One-Sided v
But the benefits of Lend-Lease
exchange have not all been in fa
vor of our allies, by any means.
Damaged American warships and
merchant vessels abroad have
been repaired in friendly ship
yards. Many of the American
contingents sailing to the fighting
fronts travel in Mtish ships, and
British planes and warships pro
tect our convoys. Supplies and
service furnished to American ov
erseas forces include various ship
ping and supply facilities, foods,
uniforms, and other quartermaster
supplies that can be provided on
the spot and so save shipping
space.
Materials and labor to build air
dromes for U. S. air forces in
Britain and the building of troop
cantonments, bases, headquarters
and storage facilities have
sorbed a good part of the ByitiM
construction industry. Both A«»-:
tralia and New Zealand are straiijf
ing their domestic economy lb the
'utmost to sui^y our forces with
food, feoasii^, .transportation,, yrtool
' Ind Mltcn' ittiforaMi, and ' nthtt
equipment and supplies.
were not counted be-
alleged irregulajrities.
This points to only one thing.
They were deliberately opened
and modified after we delivered
them personally to the chairmaa.
No one who knows anything about
the Watauga story will question
the truth of this sOatement. That
such irregularities and fraud are
possible is enough to condemn th?
law and justify its repeal or strict
modification and limitation.
This is not a partisan contest
or is it propaganda. I have no po
litical ambitions and no axe '.o
grind. It is merely a matter of
citizenship. I submit to you that
no honest citizen or official
should be willing even to as much
os touch ?n absentee ballot ex
cept in the presence of a witness
of the opposite party. No one
should be exposed to the suspi
cion of tampering to say nothing
of the not uncommon charge af
opening., modifying, or forging of
such ballots. The present law
makes these things possible. I
contend that such safeguarding is
a practical impossibility.
You will agree, I am sure, that
this step in the direction of good
government is demanded of us in
support of the sacrifices of our
men in arms as well as our claims
of unselfish enthusiasm for free
dom for all people. I find It dif
ficult to become reconciled to the
loss of my son, but I will always
be fighting for. the .thlW'for
which he fought Will you -Join
me in the effort to dorrhdt an ob
vious weakness , In ouiy election
laws? If freedom is ^prth dying
foi' it is worth having “here at
home. there a bi| of tr«Mon
•h» anything else? .
' Yours ^c6roiS’,
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