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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1945 THE HOSPITAL AND TAXES No voter, to our knowledge, has objected to the county ;wide hospital system because of the cost. In fact, there is no particular objection by anybody to the effort to provide adequate hospital facilities and we feel confident that the Saturday election will carry. Every registered voter, however, should go to the polls as the vote is against the names recorded on the books. There are about 4,600 registered voters, so the majority cannot start until half the number of 2,300 have voted. We hope that.the full 4,600 will vote for all four issues on the ballot because when bond investors bid for our bonds they are inclined to make their best offer if they know the obli gation is generally favored by the4axpayers Cleveland county’s bonded indebtedness is low. On June 30th of this year it was only $538,600. Of this amount $332,000 was for schools and the balance of $206,600 was for other purposes. There is scarcely a county in the state in as sound financial condition as Cleveland. This is true be cause we have had conservative and business-like man aereement. What tax increase will be necessary to take care of the proposed $500,000 bond issue? That will depend on the interest rate and the length of time the bonds run. We have reason to think the bonds can be sold to bear two per cent or less. It is probable that the hospital bonds will raise the rate about eight cents on the $100 valuation. An individual having a $2,000 tax valuation would pay $1.60 a year, or on a $10,000 valuation $8 a year. Whatever the rate increase might be, the total rate will be much below the peak years and certainly everybody is better able now, and more willing, than ever before to invest a few dollars annually in the health of our citizens. At present the county levies a rate of 2.8 cents per hundred county-wide for hospital charity. This should be sufficient to maintain for the present the charity work the hospital is called upon to do, but if the maximum of 5c main tenance tax becomes necessary, the increase from the pres ent rate for this purpose would only be 2.2c per hundred—a very small increase compared to the good the institutions will do for suffering humanity. -V ALL ARE INVESTORS The Seventh War Loan is coming to a close and it is gratifying to note that the sale has exceeded the offer by billions of dollars. In fact the over-sale is far greater than any of the previous six war loans, which indicates not only a healthy economic condition but also the continued whole hearted support of the people in the second war and we hope the last war. Everybody is an investor in war securities whether buy-( ing E, F or G bonds, treasury notes or whether they did not directly buy bonds of any designation. Men and women who work and look forward to the time when they retire on s :cial security are investors. Those who deposit their sav ings in banks and postoffices or invest in savings and build ing and loan associations, or any type of financial institu tion are actually investors in war bonds, whether they know it or not. The institution? and agencies, as trustees, have made the investment for them. The Unemployment Compensation commissions in the 48 states have nearly seven billion dollars in reserves in vested in government bonds, not to speak of the billions which employes and employers have set aside through the Social Security Act. The point we are making is that the American economy is so interwoven and interdependent between all classes and groups that the humblest citizen is of necessity an in vestor and therefore likely to be a well-wisher of our gov ernment. The future well-being of every citizen, be he a powerful executive or humble backwoodsman, is at stake in this war and the economy that follows. We must all sink or swim together. Fortunately, too, this government has determined not to let bonds drop in price a? they did following the last war. The financial center of the nation has moved from Wall Street to Washington and a fund has been created to avoid any effort that might be made to depress the price of bonds. We can confidently expect that war bonds and securi ties will not suffer the fato they encountered after the la& war and that the savings, social and economic security of Individuals, however humble or mighty they might be, will be carefully safeguarded. A NEW AND POWERFUL HAND A Daily Prayer In War Time FOR PATIENCE WITH NEWS Confessing that we are slaves of the moment, instead of steadfast servants of the deep today and the long tomorrow, we come to Thee, O Eternal God, with the plea that Thou wilt stabilize our spirits. We acknowledge our inconstancy and mercurialness. One day’s news sends our •spirits soaring in blind optimism and the next day’s news plunges us into deep depression. Bestow upon us new constancy and convic tion and purpose. Make us strong enough to endure the bitter and not to be overwhelmed by the sweet. In maturity of purpose, may we pursue diligently the path of loyal ty and duty, assured that the event is in Thy hand, and that the Judge of all the earth will do right. We crave the perfect peace that is promised to those whose mind is stayed upon Thee. May we even enter into somewhat of the vastness of Thy will, to whom a thousand years are as a day. Thus, with fixed hearts, we would be efficient soldiers in the world's great war for the es tablishment of righteousness. Our prayer is before Thee, in the name of the unfaltering Christ. Amen. If Today Is Your Birthday By STELLA Friday, JUDY 6—Born toaay, your loyalty and generosity are well known to everyone. You like to be contented and happy. Unless you can be in harmonious surroundings, you are incapable of adjusting yourself and doing your best work. Fond of art and literature, you naturally attract others of similar tastes. Thus most of your acquaintances will have alert minds and charming personalities. Although basically religious, you will not force your ideas upon others even though you yourself are devout. On the other hand awake to the need for mak ing a living in a commercially minded w'orld; you will cope with things as you see best. Although you are deeply interested in the welfare of others, and will do all you can to help them, you have the feeling that by becoming in fluential and successful yourself, you will be in a better position to help. You women are highly e motional and are apt to have more than one romance before you find the “one person!” You women are also likely to be a little more frivolous than is good and should learn to take life a li/tle more seriously. What This Army Needs Is More Bad Shooting GUNLOCK, Utah.—ort to cities. Meanwhile, Euro lean railroads are overburdened. Ex-Governor Lehman, therefore rent to see Stimson to point out hat the U. S. army had 80,000 rucks in Europe, and he wanted o borrow 50,000 of them for food listribution. Stimson listened briefly, but urned the subject to the political ituation in Europe. He seemed nuch more interested in whether lirrope could keep the peace, ap larently forgetting that people pith full stomachs are more peace ul than those half-starved. Leh nan got no definite answer, and till has been unable to get an .nswer from Stimson’s generals 7hev keep saying they need trucks or "deployment.” SRASS HATS IN HOT WATER. The same subject, plus other mportant matters, was debated in . secret session of the Mead com nittee last week. Present were epresentatives of UNRRA, the State department. War depart nent. Foreign Economic adminis ration. Treasury and Marine ommission. All got in hot water luring the three-hour closed-dooi neeting except the maritime com nission and UNRRA. Unpopular irass hat General Brehon Somer vell, who showed up with a small irmy of 60 aides, took the worst humping of all. Somervell admitted under ques ioning that the army has at leas! iO.OOO surplus trucks in Europe 'few York's hard-working Senator ilead then asked Governor Leh nan if he had been able to pick jp any of these trucks for relie] vork. ui nurse uo you wain. any :rucks?" asked Mead. "Do we a-ant them?" replied Lehman. "The trouble is we can't! get them. We can't seem to get | them released. I've got a tele gram from Yugoslavia here telling that one hungry Yugoslav city,! Sarajevo, has only three trucks to feed thousands of people. Why, some towns are starving, while they're burning the food just a few miles away in the same coun try because they can't move. A year from now the army will be begging us to take trucks. Then 1 we won’t need them. We want them now when they can save; lives.” Several senators quizzed Somer-1 veil as to why UNRRA hadn't re- j ceived the trucks yet. All the gen eral could reply was, “The War j department’s working on it.” After more discussion, Lehman, whose anger was rising, stodd up from the back of the room, looked I straight at Somervell, and said: "There’s all that surplus army stuff, especially in Italy. Why can't we get it?” Somervell hesitated. "We want to cooperate," he said lamely, "and we’re going to." GERMAN EQUIPMENT FOR diLNfcSfc" Ohio’s Bob Taft then took over the questioning. "General, you're planning to j arm thousands of Chinese troops.! They’ve been trained by German officers. Why don’t we use cap-: tured German equipment to arm j them? You must have a lot of it by now.” ‘T felt the same way about it at, first, Senator,” Somervell replied.! "But it would only ball up our, transport and create a lot of time wasting headaches if we tried to send all that German stuff to China. In the long run It will be cheaper and faster to send new supplies from here. Besides, we’d have to retrain those Chinese who’ve already been taught to use our equipment, and teach them to use German weapons.” Taft then moved in on Admiral Land of the Maritime commission, asked him how the Russians were able to transport war material on American liberty ships flying the Soviet flag without being attacked by Jap subs and aircraft. "Senator,” replied Land, "I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the Japs find out the inside story on that one.” Several senators then asked why our G. I. Joes were taking such a beating in France because of the unfavorable exchange rate. “Since when does the G. I. have to carry the burden of Inflation in France?" asked Michigan's shrewd Republican Senator Fer guson. “They don’t have to spend their money in France, you know,” re plied one of Somervell’s aides. “They can ship it home.” This burned the senators up. One demanded why the men who fought in Europe shouldn’t have a chance to spend their money and enjoy life now that the shooting had stopped. Ferguson asked what the army was doing to Improve the situation. Brig. Gen. Kermeth Royall re plied that the army was expand ing the post exchange in France so that men could buy everything, including gifts, at reasonable prlc-| Behind The FRONT PAGE By holt mcpherson I Managing Editor BY THIS TIME, I TRUST, THE VOTERS OP THIS COUNTY HAVE made up their collective minds to give the hospital bond issue the over whelming support in tomorrow's special edition that will make the thing a mandate from our people to furnish Cleveland hospitalization i that will distinguish it as it is in many other ways. If there is anyone whose mind isn’t made up to support this proposi j tion, and I hope there is none, I want to cite six good reasons why North Carolina—and Cleveland is an important part of the state with the obli gation to take care of its own part—desperately needs a. hospital and medical care program. This state stands ninth from the bottom among all the states in the tragedy of infant mortality, eighth from the bottom | in mortality of mothers at childbirth, sixth from the bottom in numbei ! of hospital beds (Cleveland is eighth from the bottom among the coun ties in that respect in the state, so figure that one for yourself) per 1,(XH population, third from the bottom in doctors per capita; at the ver; bottom in the number of men rejected for the Army for physical un fitness, far down in the scale in provision for competent care of mental end nervous cases. If the individual counties will meet their respective challenge*, a! I confidently expect Cleveland to do tomorrow, North Carolina would lift herself from this humiliating condition that burdens our present and our .future as well. The answer and the correction of those sad figures is in the hands of our people. THAT WAS A TREMENDOUSLY MOVING PAGE AD vertisement Lutz-Austell had in Wednesday’s Star to list the names of the 107 Clevelanders who have given their lives In defense of freedom's cause in the course of this war. "to the end that they shall not have died in vain, an appeal was voiced to GO NOW AND BUY BONDS. I hope everyone who was touched by the power of that appeal has done just that, and I hope the concern didn't stop there. Those who are to live In a better world because of the sacrifice of those men and others like them have now the obligation to w-rite that Roll of Honor in golden letters of service that, indeed, they did not die in vain. A lot of our good people feel that the county hospital program, dedicated to the alleviation of human suffering and the prolongation of hu man life, constitutes as fine a memorial as we ran erect to those who have died and to those who have given and are giving best years of their life to the nation's service. FORMER DEAN C. H. SULLIVAN, WHO WENT FROM GARDNER Webb to a teaching post in the physics department of the University of Chicago, writes that he misses Cleveland county and hopes to visit when he can because his affection for the college, the county and friend* endures. He reveals also that his brother, a captain with the Seventh Army, was seriously wounded in April in the drive across southern Ger many and is in such critical condition he may not live. Why the word was so belated in coming through Is puzzling him. RIDE-SHARING DEPARTMENT—LADY WISHES SHARE expense rid© to Washington, will help with driving, next week end. Also, a soldier'* dad wants an April, 1944, copy of Cornet magazine for an article about a dear friend of his lad. In Wartim* .—... ■■ ■» J~k *t~* WASHINGTON—A few political observers are pondering what may well become a phenomenon with out precedent in national politics: If Gov. Thomas E. Dewey 1s reelected Governor of New York by a decent majority in 1946 then two years before convention time there should be little doubt as to who the 1948 nominees for the presidency will be. All President Truman has to do to clinch the 1948 Democratic nom ination is give the party a reason ably good administration. It may be too early to judge, but the way he has taken hold in one of the most critical periods in his tory—and most important of all the way he has given some sem blance of unity to the Democratic party—is certainly an Indication that he is just the kind of leader the Democrats felt they so sorely needed. According to observers here, the New York situation isn't that clear. If Governor Dewey has to cross swords in 1946 with Sen. James M. Mead, who is believed to be eager for the governorship, he might very well get beaten. Some of Dewey's friends here concede that. But those same friends think the New York gov ernor has a big ace in the hole. If Sen. Mead elects to run for governor. Dewey can switch to the Republican race for senator. With Mead out of it, the Demo crats would be hard put to find a strong senatorial candidate, at least one strong enough to defeat Dewey. The New York observers say flatly there's none such in sight. There is, of course, the unbroken tradition that the G.O.P. never re nominates a defeated presidential candidate, but it Is hardly likely it would stand on precedent if it could see its way clear to pitting a winner in New York state, with its huge electoral vote, as well as an easterner with a midwest back es. Several senators quizzed Dean Acheson and Will Clayton of the State department as to who had fixed the unfavorable rate of ex change with the French. Both replied they didn’t know. Ac tually, President Roosevelt had done it .personally during the Casa blanca conference. Senator Tunnell of Delaware then asked Governor Lehman how much farm machinery UNR RA was shipping overseas. "I don’t want to mislead this committee,” Lehman replied ‘‘Percentagewise ii’s practically nothing, perhaps two or three per cent of our total production. How ever, we asked for 171,000 tons of food to feed Europe’s starving people. We’re getting less than 80,000. Now some people are com plaining because we’ve given them machinery to grow their own food.” ground, against a man for whom the heavily populated east would feel no sectional loyalty. The whole situation arises, of course, out of the death of Presi dent Roosevelt. Democratic politi cians here are positive that If fce had lived the 1948 convention would have been a dog-fight, witn the party split into practically all of those cliques and factions of which it is composed. Any effort on the President’s part to name his successor would have been fought fist and foot. That's all changed now. In the death of the greatest leader the party ever had, the tiemocTats have found another leader. Today they aren't giving a thought to 1948's nominee. That's all settled. The next play is up to the Re publicans. Taking another look at their cards, they are finding that Governor Dewey, with a winning New York vote in 1946 behind him. would be the biggest trump they have. New York off-year elections are always important, but never any more than 1946's may turn out to be. Myrtle Beach To Be Site Of Air Force Redeployment Move MYRTLE BEACH. 8. C„ July 6. —HP)—Approximately 300 officers and enlisted men will arrive at the 4 Myrtle Beach army air field early " in August to participate in a huge air force redeployment program. Col. Richard O. Harrell, Jr., base commander, has announced. The base will represent the half way mark between two wars for the veterans whose training per iod before shoving off to the Pa cific will vary from a few weeks ; to a few months. Many of the men’s families will accompany them and Myrtle Beach residents were asked to cooperate in finding housing and recreational facilities. Col. Harrell recently took com mand of the bases, succeeding Col. Gunn who has been reassigned. Production Cycle COVENTRY, England.—