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* WEDNESD'Y, FEB. 28, 1945_
THE KILOWATT-HOUR TAX
The kilowatt-hour tax on electricity, proposed by Johr
W. Clark, Franklinville manufacturer, as a means of sup
porting the University of North Carolina has all sorts o
complications, some of which we hesitate to mention foi
fear of being accused of being a part of the power trust, ii
there is such a thing. Nevertheless, before this proposa
is either laughed off or accepted, it deserves to have sorrn
questions asked about it.
Although Mr. Clark says this idea is just something hi
conjured up on his own hook without discussing it witl
others, there is nothing new about the suggestion. A kilo
watt hour tax has been proposed ma-nv times before. Bill
have been introduced in the North Carolina legislature carry
ing this feature but thus far they have not gotten very far
Of all forms of taxation, according to our understand
ing. this levy on the production of power plants is regardei
as the most vicious by industry generally and would bi
feared the most if anybody had an idea that it would b
given serious cuiisiueiciuun.
This kind of tax is regarded as dangerous by business
and industry because it is a direct levy on one of the es
sential requirements of their operation. Those who wouk
levy such a tax might think they were levying it against s
natural resource of the state, namely its water power, whicl
they would point out should ever remain a vested interes
of the people. The taxers might be right about the state's
inherent majesty with respect to these great natural asset:
but they would be blunderingly wrong if they thought th<
tax load would be borne by them. The tax would be a direel
levy against the production of our industries, a pretty bis
one at that, for ki’owatts mount up fast—as anyone whc
gives the matter a second thought can see.
So many millions of kilowatts are required to process s<
much cloth, yarn or what-have-you. The seemingly trifling
and insignificant tenth of a cent which the state would levj
against each one of these kilowatts would have to be charg
ed in with the cost of the goods and there you have the
trend towards inflation again. If we consider the million:
upon millions of kilowatt hours of electricity consumed b\
our factories, homes. 'Vu dues sand otherwise in North Caro
lina, then we get an idea of what a charge such a tax would
be against our output. How much chance do you think this
sthte would have of attracting new enterprise to this state
by flanging thi sledge hammed over their heads?
\ Another V mg, too. What would be the policy of the
state with respect to the great power production of TVA
government plants? We hardly see how the state, as sov
ereign as it might be. coubi lay a taxing hand on such a one
of Uncle Sam’s pet chiilun.
No, we don't think Manufacturer Clark’s taxing project
will be adopted without some argument, even if it is for sc
worthy an end as maintaining the University of North Caro
lina. All in all, it just reminds us that there are very few
new things under the sun when it comes to taxation and
most of them have their weaknesses.
-v
IN THE BOX SCORE
A few days ago reference was made to the low death
rate from pellagra in North Carolina as being a cause for
gratification. Now it comes time to congratulate ourselves
on the low general death rate.
Vita! statistics released by the state board of health
show a death rate of 7.9 in 1944, two tenths of a point be
low the all-time low of 8.1 for 194". Our birth rate was the
highest for any year since 1929 with one exception. In
short, our children are being born faster and we are dying
slower which seems to speak well for the preservation of
the race.
But there is one thing we would not forget while we are
rejoicing over this manifestation of the liveliness of our
people. That is the fearfully high proportion of our men
who were turned down for the draft on account of physical
defects.
We cannot explain these away by referring to birth
find death rates. They are the final figures in the box score
of living it is true. But we also want to look at the “At
Bats’’ and the “Hits.” There is such a thing as hanging
around on this globe of ours without much vim and vigor.
In such a ease usefulness is lessened proportionately.
We are pleased enough at the count in births and deaths.
Now it is up to us to see to it that in the space between
those two there is a maximum amount of health and hap
piness.
-V
With the state prison department losing 27 prisoners
In the course of two days, we would say that its manpower
problem may be getting critical too.
—-V
There seems to be plenty of points to this argument
that foods are becoming scarcer.
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEER NURSES
I
A Daily Prayer In
War Time
FOR COMPASSION
While war rages over the world.
. O Lord, may our hearts remain
1 serene and steadfast, and estab- j
i lished upon the firm foundation of
Thy father care. Deliver us from all
meanness of mind and from the
» hurt of hate. Lift up our hearts to
fellowship with Christ's own spirit
■ of compassion, even toward our
■ enemies. In the dreadfulness of
: war. may we be delivered from all
■ ignoble passions. Make us brave in
, action, but pitiful in victory. So
shall we conquer our own souls, as
well as our misguided loes: and
be ready for a peace animated by
the Spirit of Jesus. Amen.
WHATOTHER
PAPERS SAY
MARCH
(New York Times)
Here comes March, and high
time it is. too. March isn't Spring,!
but it isn't the depth of Winter i
either. March brings a break, a,
I; change, a let-up in the pressure
i that has been on, this year, since
i early December. March brings April, i
! and violets and Spring.
March is more than a month. It
is a frame of mind, a state of the
1 emotions. It is traditional to re
1 gard March with suspicion, to think
, of the whims of March weather, the
i temperamental tantrums, the coid
i rain, the wind, the soggy thaws.
I the warm mornings that chill off
j into raw afternoons and icy eve
I nings. March is all of that, and
] more. Admit it. and still March will
! be welcome this year,
i The willows will turn amber at ;
, the tips, promise of the green that <
! will soon follow'. Maple buds will i
i fatten, and sap will ooze from the i
! Winter's wounds. Skunk cabbage i
I will open its well-sheathed bios- i
I soms in the icy swampland, prim- ;
i itive and purple in its fetid invi
tation to the earliest insects. Wild
■ strawberries will splash their pris
i tine green of new leaf where the ;
j heightening sun warms the hillside. ]
Mint will freshen at the edges of
i little streams that creep from the
; boglands toward the lower valleys. (
And on banks that catch the full
I force of the sun there may even be .
j the golden' dappling of coltsfoot,;
blooms before the month is over. ‘
This Winter has been a long haul
with a cold load, and the creak of !
j snow, the shimmering glare of ice !
! has long been under fopt. Janu
ary gave us no customary thaw...
! February has specialized, as usual, .
| in snow. But here comes March, .
I the month of change, the time of .
j the Spring equinox. For once.
I "Welcome” seems an adequate .
i greeting.
leYTers
McCRAWLEY SEES FREE
ENTERPRISE ENDANGERED
To The Editor:
Free enterprise or private en
terprise, which ever you please to
call it, has made America great and
will make her even greater if let
alone. But we have people in this
country, and some of them in high
places, who if not checked are
determined to destroy free or pri
vate enterprise, and change our '
American way of living, and set up 1
in its stead a Socialistic or Com
munistic form.
The term, "Free enterprise”, sim- 1
ply means that every individual has 1
the right to engage in business — I
large or small for themselves, and j •
If Today Is
Your Birthday
By STELLA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
—Born today, you are more of a
dreamer than an active doer. Quiet
and reserved, you are seldom the
type who demands the floor in or
der to be heard. However, still
water with you runs deep and you
are inclined to have very decided
and determined ideas. You often
■surprise those who do not know
iou too well, by the fire and force
of what lies beneath your calm •
rxterior: Although you are deeply
iffectionate, you will reserve your
ove for the few to whom you arc
tloselv devoted. It is likely that
* ou will fall deeply in love once
n your life and if this romance
mlminates in marriage, you will
rave a very happy home iife. On
he other hand, if your love is not
eciprccated. you might never
narry, preferring to take no oneI
■ather than a substitute for your
deal. You are fond of life in the
>pc-n and will enjoy close com
nunion with nature. Something
jf a student and bookworm, you!'
:an get a great deal of enjoyment!
nit of reading and often seek the1
jothpanionship of a book rather,
han another person. Don’t per- '
nit yourself to become a recluse.
LEAP YEAR S FEBRlARY 29
-If your birthday comes once;
'very four years, then you will have :
our characteristic talents which j
fill cr>f vnn onorf fi-nm thnefi Knm I
'n either February 28 or March 1.
fou will have a charming person
ility; will be a natural leader of,
<thers; a fine public speaker and
iftentime have the gift of mimi-1
ry. Your personal magnetism is j
musual and you might even have
he qualities of magnetic healing!
n your touch. Self-confidence j
ind self-assurance are an integ- i
al part of you. You enjoy trav- j
ding. Try to be a little more
•elf-analytical and less critical of
ithcrs.
0 operate that business in their
>wn way and manner so long as
hey do not interfere with the
ights of others. The term has been
io battered and blasted by the foes
)f business, that its meaning has
timost been distorted. But I think
1 very good definition for the term
s contained in the following lines:
rhe pow:er to choose the work I do,
ro grow and have the larger view,!
ro feel and know that I am free,
Co stand erect, not bow the knee.
ro be no chattel of the state,
3ut be the master of my fate,
ro dare, to risk, to lose, to win,
ro make my own career begin.
ro serve the world in my own way,
ro gain in knowledge day by day,
■Vith hope and zeal to climb, to rise,
rhat’s what I call Free Enterprise.
S. C. CRAWLEY,
itoute 4, Shelby, N. C.
Pfc. Jack Champion
Is Cited In Italy
Pfc. Jack E. Champion of 903
South LaFayette street, has been
■ited by the 350th •‘Battle Moun
ain” regiment of the 88th "Blue
Devil” division and awarded the
Jombat Infantryman badge for ac- !
ual participation in combat a
jainst the enemy with the Fifth
3rmy in Italy.
Literary
GUIDEPOST
By W. G. ROGERS
• WARSAW GHETTO”, by Mary
Berg tL. B. Fischer; $2.75); "NO
TRAVELER RETURNS," by Henry
Shoskes. edited by Curt Reiss
iDoubleday, Doran; $3.50).
"No Traveler Return*'* is sub
titled "The story of ^Hitler's great
est crime,” and so it promises to
be hair-raising, breath-taking, skin
prickling. "Warsaw Ghetto” is sub
titled "a diary,” without one super
lative, unpretentious; might be in
teresting, might not be.
The^ are about exactly the same
thing: the r.ine-miie-square ghetto
which the German government bru
tally forced upoiTJews in Poland's
capital in November, 1940, and ob
literated, even more brutally, in
April, 1943 .
The principal differences are in
dicated substantially in the titles.
Shoskes bedecks his account with
what might be called the maga
zine touch, makes his villainous
Nazis blacker than black, spills
more blood than a body can con
tain, kills his victims not just once
but maybe once and a half . . . like
Dryden’s rampaging hero who slew
his enemies thrice.
Where Shoskes overstates, Miss
Berg understates. Some readers
may welcome the spice in Shoskes,
but I found myself more persuad
ed by Miss Berg.
Actually, both books assert that
one of the great riddles of our
time is the democratic peoples’ he
sitancy about telling Hitler, in
words he would understand, to stop
siaugntenng Jews.
There are many areas of agree
ment, and even of similar If not
identical observation. Both writere
tell of Gestapo agents who pulled
out Jews’ beards by the roots; of
mercenary Latvians and Lithuan
ians who shot down Jews for fun;
of theaters, cafes, schools, make
shift rikshas, the horse-drawn
trolley and that unsavory pair,
Cohn tor Kohnt and Heller; of girls
obliged to strip and dance for the
Germans; of children shot to
death; of janitors mopping up the
blood spilled in the streets by the
Nazi masters; of the suicide of
ghetto mayor Adam Cserniakow.
Shoskes . . . and Reiss . , . are
more diplomatic, Miss Berg more
blunt. She recalls frankly the num
ber of Poles who were anti-Sem
itic. She praises the Russians.
Shoskes offers, however, a fuller
account of the last battle in the
ghetto . . . which Miss Berg had
already left on her way to America.
Prepare For Action
On Nurse Draft Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 —</P)—
The house rules committee has
paved the way for prompt house
action on a nurse-draft bill.
Advised that more than half a
million servicemen now are in hos
pitals, with the number mounting
at the rate of 1,600 daily, the com
mittee approved for house consid
eration probably Friday a bill writ
ten by the military committee in
response to the President’s re
quest for such a draft law.
The legislation would make lia
ble to induction all unmarried
and qualified nurses not under 20
nor over 44 years of age, with em
phasis on inductions being placed
on graduates of the student nurse
corps.
Merry-Go-Round
Gardner, Says
His Board No
Rubber Stamp
By DREW PEARSON
(Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on
Active Service with the Army).
WASHINGTON — Though de
bates of the War Mobilization
board are secret, it has been be
lying all predictions that it would
be a rubber stamp for the Army
and Navy. Those who have sat
on the inside say it sometimes
asks Gen. Lucius Clay to leave so
it can discuss war problems with
out army domination.
Its backstage debates on the
work-or-fight bill were especially
significant. Much-loved ex-Justice
Jimmy Byrnes requested the War
Mobilization board to endorse the
May bill. But there was immedi
ate rebellion.
“I'm sorry I can’t go along with
you on that, Mr. Justice,” observ
ed forthright Eric Johnston, presi
dent of the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce. “It hasn't worked out in
England and I don’t believe that
compulsory labor will work out
here.”
Johaston then proceeded to give
a comprehensive picture of his ob
jections to the work-or-fight bill.
“I am against it for the following
reasons,” he said. "One, the Army
has continued to dump its war
contracts into No. 1 labor areas.
It has dumped its newest plane
contract in San Diego, the tightest
labor area in the United States. It
will have to hire 8.000 more men
and you can’t get 8.000 more men
in San Diego. This new contract
means more schools, more sew
age, more housing and there are
plenty of other areas not overload
ed with war work.
WASTEFUL LABOR HOARDING
second, cumiliucu uumuvww.
“the Army has made no real effort
to get rid of cost-plus contracts.
These contracts mean labor hoard
ings. Management doesn't have to
worry about the cost and doesn t
care how much money it spends
on labor.
“Three, there has been no real
effort to conduct a manpower pro
paganda campaign on a national
scale. We have had local ballyhoo
campaigns in Allentown, Pennsyl
vania and Newark, New Jersey but
those cities are already saturated
I am convinced that there are
enough patriotic people in the
j United States who will be glad tc
take jobs in various communities
and that we can find them if we
I conduct a nationwide educational
, campaign.
•■Four.’’ Johnston went on, “the
I gdvernment has got to tell the
I public the truth. We've got tc
quit saving the war is about over
When Winsteja Churchill comes out
as he did last summer and says the
j war will be over in 1944 or wher
General Eisenhower says the same
! thing, naturally the American peo
! pie believe them. We heard testi
; mony yesterday of our tremendous
! losses. If those are the facts the
l American people should know
I them. They are able to face the
facts and they will work harder i!
they are informed. "If certain
West Coast navy yards are full ol
damaged ships, then the Americar
public will be glad to get more men
to repair those ships.
“Finally,’’ said Johnston, *’w«
must strengthen the war manpowei
commission. We've got to give 11
more power to enforce labor rul
ings. We should give it power tc
go into a plant and survey whai
labor is being used, and then en
force its rulings to prevent hoard
ing. Until those things are done,’
Johnston concluded, "I am againsl
the work-or-fight bill.”
Johnston found considerable
support for his views. It came
from farm groups as veil as laboi
and industry on the War Mobili
zation board.
At the end of the meeting, horny
handed Jim Patton of the Farm
ers’ union said: “I'd like to ask
for an executive session.”
11US wao a j ui
ing the representatives of the
Army, the Navy, and the adminis
tration to leave so board member:
could talk privately. After th<
Army and Navy bowed out, Pattor
said:
•'What I want to know is: Are
the members of this board goins
to be a bunch of rubber stamp:
and stuffed shirts or not?”
"Certainly, were not,” repliec
ex-Goverrtor O. Max Gardner o!
! North Carolina, chairman of the
board.
Since then the board’s member:
| have lived up to that statement
I They have been no rubber stamp:
I for anyone.
UNAMERICAN DEBATE
Last week was not the first time
Mississippi's Rankin, now dubbe-c
"titular leader of the RepubHcar
party,” has approached a neai
fist-fight with a colleague.
Rankin and Representative Eih
anuel Celler of New York nearlj
came to blows in the house lobbj
not long ago Just after Rankir
delivered a blast against Jewish
dentists and physicians.
Celler had charged that the Am
erican dental association was seek
ing quotas for Jewish dental stu
dents. Rankin Jumped up to com
plain: ‘‘I am tired of the gentle
man from New York raising th<
Jewish question in the house.”
He defended the dental associa
tion, charged that Jewish physic
ians were making a racket of civi
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Behind The
FRONT PAGE
By Bolt McPherson
Managing Editor
“NOTHING IN LIFE IS MORE DIFFICULT FOR PEACE-LOVING
people to bear than war with all its grim horror, its unending trial of
sorrow, its disruption of homes and its utter waste of life and property,”
says a friend vitally interested in success of the Red Cross. “Yet the
people of this nation are in the fourth year of the world’s most horrible
war.
“Each day more blue stars in service flags turn to gold as this son,
that brother or that father falls on a distant and unknown battlefield.
Each day hundreds, or thousands, of men are carried back to hospitals
with grievous wounds. Each is a member of some American family.
Thousands, yes millions, of American men in uniform are tired beyond
belief of battle, and homesick for home and family. Yet they know they
must keep right on.
“There is not one of us but would give everything to lighten the
burden of sorrowing families who have lost their men, or calm the fears
of those whose men have been wounded. We would give all we could
to ease the pain of the injured, or still the homesickness in those who
must fight on.
“Tomorrow, as the American Red Cross opens Us campaign for funds,
we can do our share in lightening the burden of sorrow, in calming the
fears, and in easing the pain of the wounded.
“The American Red Cross was created just for that purpose and
through its channels of mercy we can do most for those who need our
help.
m
“The Red Cross is at the front keeping alive the atmosphere of home
for the men who are fighting; the Red Cross is in the hospitals cheer
ing the wounded and sending messages to anxious and fearful relatives;
the Red Cross is sending blood plasma and surgical dressings to save the
lives of American youth; the Red Cross is here at home to aid and assist
families in distress.
“This is your Red Cross and through it you can do your share la
human kindness and blunt somewhat the horror that is War.”
THE WIFE OF A SERVICE MAN NOW STATIONED IN
France has been able to send him all the various things he has
asked, but his request for a camera has her stumped so that she’s
appealing to this family of readers for one she can buy. Who’ll
furnish it?
WHEN ‘‘SKEETER" BURNS. SECRETARY OP THE NORTH
| Carolina Building and Loan League comes here for a dinner tonight.
I there'll be an important and interesting presentation of the G. I. Bill
j of Rights 'Serviceman's .Readjustment Act of 1944) which is haled as
| the most significant and far-reaching piece of Veterans Aid legislation
to become law. It includes provisions in which building and loan men
; ar>d bankers see probability of the most extensive home purchasing this
1 country has seen.
Lowery Austell, of the Shelby Building and Loan, handed me the
| other day a pamphlet of questions and answers on the subject that
j showk the loaning agencies right on their toes to assist the returning
I GI's in the dreams of home ownership.
In fact, that field offers perhaps the most likely development of
; immediate residential construction here, although some hardship cases
‘have won approval in recent days. There is, of course, the possibility
that war work expansion may require provision of some housing on a
considerable scale, but the GI's seem to offer best prospects of home
, construction at the present time. Tonight s presentation should bring
information that will be continuingly helpful in that direction.
I GOT A TREMENDOUS THRILL THE OTHER DAY OUT
of the announcement that m.v old friend and fraternity brother,
Norwood Carroll. who was taken prisoner by the Japanese at
Manila in early 1942 when he was unable to get his family away
because a third youngster had Just been born, had been released
from the Santo Tomas internment camp. Now it develop* that It
was his young son of the same name, the child's sister and mother,
but Norwood’s own name hasn't shown up. It may do so yet. I
trust. The last message to come through was In September—earlier
there had come a message from Norwood that the family was
together in Santo Tomas—when a cablegram to his mother
through the Red Gross bore the baby's name which was con*
strurd as designed to let his folks know the child was living. It Is a
fearsome thing, and yet one can’t help hoping that somehow
friends and loved ones, with help of the Red Cross buoying them,
will come through the ordeal safely.
service rous; sain mcy preaorm
j nated in veterans’ hospitals. Ran
; kin went on to hurl the personal
j charge against Celler that he was
; a major cause of nnti-semitism in
i this country.
Three times during Rankin's
harangue, Celler arose to term the
Mississippian's words "false,'’ ’'un
fair,'’ and ’outrageous.”
But in the house lobby, shortly
after the speech, Rankin began
biue-penciling the transcript, cut
ting out not only his words, but al
so Celler's.
"Don't you cut my remarks out
of there,” protested Celler. “I
want iny remarks to stay in."
"Keep away from me,” grawled
Rankin. “This is my business, not
yours. You act right on the floor
and wp won't have any trouble.”
Celler started to protest again,
but Rankin shouted: "Now you
stop looking over my shoulder,”
and arose from his chair threat
eningly.
Celler warned that he would
lectify anything Rankin cut from
the Record, and stalked off.
NOTE—When Representative
Michael Edplsteirf of New York
replied to one of Rankin's out
NORTH CAROLINA.
CLEVELAND COUNTY.
Under ajid by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Cleveland County,
made in a civil action therein pending
entitled ‘County of Cleveland. North
Carolina, versus C. E Crow, et al”, the
undersigned, who was by said order ap
pointed a commissioner to sell the lands
described in the Complaint, will on the
9th day of March, 1945. at twelve o’
clock. noon, at the door of the Court
house In Shelby, N. C., offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash, but sub
ject to confirmation by the Court, a
certain tract or parcel of land lying and
being In No. 10 Township, Cleveland
County, North Carolina, and more par
ticularly described as follows:
That said three (3) acres of land
located in the County and Township
aforesaid, adjoining the lands of Tom
Webb estate, W. C. Edwards, Lorel
Hoyle and Lester Bradshaw. The said
lands being the same as that left by
Lum Crow, deceased, and owned by and
in the possession of the said Lum Crow
for a long number of years prior to his
death.*
This the 6th day of February, 1945.
HENRY B. EDWARDS.
Commissioner.
4t Wed. Feb. 7 1945 c
i bursts lour years ago, he be
came so excited he died of
heart attack as soon as he left
the house chamber.
—
One-Legged RAF Man
Is Death To Nazis
LONDON —(&)— A one-legged
night-fighter observer who "ar
gued his way into the R. A. F."
has helped to shoot .down two—
probably three — German planes
over the Continent since D-day.
Flt.-Lt. 8. H. J. Elliot, of Rad
lett, Hertfordshire, had a leg am
putation when a boy, but wa*
determined to fly. He was eventu
ally accepted after many medical Jk
boards, and when the invasion of ^
France came was flying with the
County of Middlesex Squadron,
one of the R.A.F.'s most famous
night-fighter outfits.
"Elliot is a mgn of whom we
all have tremendous admiration,”
said a colleague. "He got himself
into the air by sheer persistence. ’
commissioners re-sale or
REAL ESTATE
Pursuant to an order of RE-BALE in
Special Proceedings No. 2743 and entit
led D C. ELLIOTT, and others vs.
LEONA WHITWORTH WRIGHT. and
others." the undersigned Commissioner
I will oiler at public sale at the Ceurt
| House in Shelby, N. C, on
MONDAY MARCH 12, 1945
at 12 o clock M., or within legal hours,
the lollowing described real estate:
Situated In the northern part of the
City ol Shelby and situated just east ol
the Shelby Hospital property, and boun
ded as follows:
BEGINNING on a stake on the East
Side of First Street where It Intersects
with the North side of Highland Avenue,
and runs North 67 3-4 East 200 feet to
a stake, cornor lot No. 139; thence
North 22 1-4 West 160 feet to a stake;
thence South 67 3-4 East 200 feet to a
stake on the East side of First Street;
thence South 22 1-4 East 160 feet to the
BEGINNING.
No Part of this property Is to be con
veyed to any member of the colored
race.
The bidding will begin at 61260.00.
TERMS OF BALE: CASH.
Purchaser to pay all 1945 taxee.
Thle 24th day of February, 1945.
L. T. HAMRICK. Commissioner,
HORACE KENNEDY, Atty.
Feb. 26—March I
TiUyytliJ PITTEB
DR. D. M. MORRISON
OPTOMETRIST — EYE SPECIALIST
Royster Building
SIIELBY. N. C.
— OFFICE DAYS —
Monday. Wednesday and Saturday—8 A M. to 5 P.M.
Tuesday and Friday—8 A. M. to 12 Noon
GLASSES REPAIRED LENSES DUPLICATED
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