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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.—</Pj—Sgt. Rex
A. Leavitt, a Gunlock cowboy before
he entered the army, missed his
target by 200 yards with a mortar
on Luzon—ar.d blew up a Japanese
ammunition dump. Leavitt had been
firing at 18 different ranges under
directions from his company com
mander, and the latter ordered him
to return to his original target. The
Utahan misunderstood but as the
commander was telephoning him
about the error, the dump explod
ed. It kept exploding for three j
hours.
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{ The Everyday
jCOUNSELOR
I By DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
“Mental, or psycho-neurotic cases j
among returning servicemen call
for special and thoughtful treat
ment by civilians,” observed Cha
plain Henry L. Reaves of Charlotte.
N. C., who is as
signed to Army
hospital ship duty.
Y e s t e r day we
quoted some of his
suggestions with
regard to the
treatment of ser
vicemen being re
turned through
military hospitals
to civilian life.
“'The most im
portant rule to
REV. SFALGH remeinoer, ne
said, "is that
these men do not want tneir phy
sical and mental handicaps notic
ed; they don’t want pity. This is
particularly true of the psycho
neurotic cases”, he declared. "These
m&n who are out of balance men
tally, emotionally, and spiritually
are often some of the finest men
in the service. M. ny are energetic
men of creative and executive abi
lity. As a result of this, coupled
with battle conditions, their mental
and spiritual lives have been
thrown out of balance.”
For a number of years medical
doctors and psychiatrists have
known that these mental and ner
vous cases need treatment which
will draw their attention away from
themselves. Forms of “occupational
therapy” are used, which means
that they are taught to do physi
cal work with their hands and feet.
At the same time they must be
treated by others as if there was
absolutely nothing the matter with
them.
oucn menial ana nervous cases
-re by no means limited to the
military front. There are thou
sands of them among civilians.
They all have a common de
nominator, a common basis—men
tal, emotional, and spiritual un
balance.
Many of these cases start as chil
dren. Unwise parents who are ig
norant of the fact that a normal
human being is made up of body,
mind and spirit, which must develop
together, permit or encourage their
children to overdevelop one side of
their natures. There are parents who
consider bodily development most
important; others their mental
development; others their spiritual
development. In permitting one side
of their children’s nature to develop
beyond the other, they are planting
the seed for later psycho-neurosis.
Let this be an urgent appeal to
parents who read this to exercise
care that their children have equal
opportunity to, develop the three
sides of their nature equally. Our
hospitals are now full of casualties
of this unbalanced living, which had
their beginnings back in the homes
of yesterday.
Most psycho-neurotics are found
to be spiritually deficient. This isn’t
difficult to understand when we
realize how rapidly this nation had
drifted away from God when the
war broke upon us. The Bible says,
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all these
(temporali things shall be added
unto you.”
Balanced living is the answer for
the psycho-neurotic whether a ca-j
Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
“Tolstoy And His Wife,” by Tikhon
Polner, translated by Nicholas
Wreden (Norton; 2.75).
With things Russian very much
in the public mind at present, this
stirring account of the great nov
elist and moralist who lived in the
old Russia but won the indorse
ment of the new is very timely.
The book is much more, how
ever. It records the life of a ge- j
nius. Polner, friend of both count
and countess, is more interested
in the man than the penman. As
suming we know "War and Peace,”
"Anna Karenina” and the other
unforgettable novels and essays, he
gives a brief, rounded portrayal of
the young officer who had the re
putation of sowing wild oats, the
perplexed suitor, the husband in
flamed by hot passion and hot
temper, and the troubled philo
sopher who reasoned, from obser
vation of his own wealth, that pov
erty was preferable yet was unable
to break away from his riches un
til almost the end of his life.
Sonya Behrs was still in her
teens when Tolstoy, 34, married her.
It is long and arduous journey
from the early days when he wrote
that “each day I spend away from
you I worry and think about you
more vividly and passionately” to
the wretched time when he con
fided to his diary: "As long as I
live, she will be a stone tied with
a rope around my neck.”
Before the end came, the count
ess, fighting desperately to pre- |
serve for herself and children the
big estate created by Tolstoy the
novelist but menaced by Tolstoy
the practising Christian, would be
caught rifling his papers in the
dead of night.
/.KurnU tvmmknti in Vont h I
the writer eventually attacked or
ganized religion so rashly that ne |
was anathematized. In his personal
life he attempted to revert to a
primitive state.
He was compacted of contradic
tions. His relations with his wife,
whom he made in his own likeness
but could not make over in his next
succeeding likeness, was only one
example. He condemned money
wrested from the poor, but kept on ;
using it. He disapproved of chari- j
ty, but was fabulously charitable. :
He refused royalties on his plays,
but when the countess accepted
them, he took the money to succor
the needy.
sualty of the battle front or the
home front. This means restoring
the spirit, mind and body of a man
into their proper balance. And
remember the first place is God’s.
Brozil Adds 4 Ships
To Its Growing Fleet
RIO DE JANEIRO.—</P)—Brazil’s
navy has added 4 units to a fleet
which Naval Minister Adm. Arisi
tides Guilhem says has increased by
at least 60 vessels since Brazil went
to war in 1942.
The new ships, constructed in the
shipyards of Rio’s Guanabara Bay,
were the destroyers Acre and Apa,
and the submarine Chasers Rio
Pardo and Rio Negro.
They will Join a fleet which, ac
cording to Guilhem, has already
convoyed more than 2,901 ships of
fell nationalities in operations
reaching into the Caribbean and I
Mediterranean as well as along Bra
zil's coast. ;
i
^erry-Go-Round
G.I’s Suffering
From Unfavorable
France Exchange
By DREW PEARSON
[1,1, Col. Robert S. Allen now on
Active Service with the Army)
WASHINGTON — A significant
iff-the-record meeting took place
letween Secretary of War Stim
on, one-time Republican candi
late for governor of New York
md Democratic Governor Herbert
,ehman, five times governor oi
■Jew York, now head of UNRRA.
Lehman has been greatly troubl
'd about the danger of acute star
ation in Europe next winter, and
ears the United States will get
he blame. Actually, there if
ood in Europe; but it is unevenly
listributed • and difficult to trans
>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.—<JP)—Thi
British motorcycle industry htu
built 400,000 motorcycles for tht
military since the war began.
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your foot troubles may Boon disappear.
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] Webb A Son—Cleveland Drag Co.