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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5,1945
BIBLE THOUGH!*
MORTAL MEN AND WOMEN OFTEN DISAPPOINT US AND
PROVE UNW'ORTHY, BUT GOD IS WORTHY OF OUR LOVE BECAUSE
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THE GOVERNOR AND UNEMPLOYMENT PAY
Governor Cherry in his recent appearance before a Con
gressional committee in opposition to the administration
proposed liberalization of unemployment benefits was moved
by something more than abstract state's right \yhich has
been a bone of contention for years and which spmetimes
means something a-nd sometimes doesn’t. We believe that
Governor Cherry had in view the welfare of the \worker
himself.
Of course, it sounds a little peculiar to say that bppos- i
ing a raise in unemployment compensation would be in the
interest of the worker who might receive this pay. \
However, it is our opinion, a.nd we gather it is the gov
ernor’s opinion, that the chief interest of the Tar Hbel
worker is in getting pay for the job he does as opposed to
getting pay for idle time. The North Carolina general as\!
sembly has provided that he shall be given assistance in a
layoff period but as the Governor points out that any in
crease above 50 per cent of the worker's average weekly
earnings would serve to encourage and increase idleness.
This same position was taken by Rep. Robert L. Doughton
before the governor had anything to say on the subject.
Everybody knows, or should know, that unemployment
benefits are not drawn out of thin air. The business of
paying them falls back on a combination of taxpayers and
industries, which means of course that in the final analysis
the worker who works must pay the worker who doesn’t
work. This is a fair deal only if the payments to the unem
ployed are kept within reasonable limits and below the point
at which workers would be encouraged to stay off the job.
We believe that the governor of North Carolina is in
terested in the worker in this state and we believe too, he
is interested in the work that is done. For it is upon work
done that all of us must live. You can’t make a state pros
perous with unemployment benefits no matter how high
you make them.
HOME BUILDERS VS. A FUSS
About the only thine: on which the War Production
Board, the Office of Price Administration and the National
Housing Administration—WPB, OPA and NHA, if you like
alphabetical designation better—the three government
agencies which have to do with housing control, are in agree
ment is that there is a tremendous demand for new housing.
As a matter of fact, one does not have to go to any
branch of the government to discover that truth. We have
but to look around us at makeshift arrangements, at the
want-ad columns of the newspapers where persons are cry
ing daily for places to live, to realize the country needs more
and better living quarters. Many persons put up with crowd- j
ed conditions in a good spirit during war time, but now* that
peace has come with its more abundant materials and what
we are told is a surplus of workmen, these home-hungry
folks think they are entitled to something better.
What is more, they are right, and they should not be
frustrated by some argument in Washington. As we under
stand it, the War Production Board wants to take the lid
completely off home building. It has already revoked con
trols over industrial construction. The Office of Price Ad
ministration urges the modification of controls but doesn’t
want them all torn down. The national housing administra
tion agrees that modification is all right but wants it ac
complished differently.
If we were called on to take sides in the argument, we .
believe that we would come nearer agreeing with WPB and
take off all the controls. This not only seems the sensible
thing to do but it is also the course advocated by the major
national business organizations They should have some idea ,
about what is the best stimulation for the nation’s commerce.
For the moment, however, we are only interested in !
.stopping this bickering ar.d allowing the would-be home- 1
builders the satisfaction of knowing where they stand. The 1
most unsound foundation for a home, building, or anything ;
else, is a fuss. !
Twenty-four war criminals seem to make up a mighty .
small crop from such a big war as we had. •
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Many congressmen won’t have time to unpack their bags
from their European junkets in time to get them packed ]\
again for Washington. i
Not only coal, but its outlook is also dark.
Stabilizer: Something that is used by airplanes and '
economic systems. I!
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A PRAYER
FOR TODAY
FOR THE FLTIRE
All 'time is an eternal present to
Thee, O Eternal Creator and Ruler
of the universe; and Thy plans for
mankind, include two worlds. We
pray that Thou wilt make us ready
for what \Thou art making ready
for us. In the splendors of a new
order of life, ruled by love and jus
tice, may we bear a worthy part.
Whatever the new day may hold
of deprivation and change and sac
rifice, may we meet it in the spirit
of those who seek to follow Christ,
even to a cross. Deliver us from fear
and panic and pettiness; and teach
us the eternal soul\ value. We would
not shrink from temporal changes;
for Thou, O Father, changest not;
and Thy love is constant in all the
mutations of life. Lift' up our hearts,
and our imaginations, and our pur
poses, that we may fee good sol
diers of the new day, wherein Thy
will may be done, and through
which Thy Kingdom may come.
Amen. \
LETTERS
CHANCELLOR HARRELSON
PRAISES SHELBY TEAM
Editor of The Star: y
Please add my name to the\ list
of those who are extending Con
gratulations to the coaches, play
ers, and others who aided \in
bringing victory to the American
Legion baseball team on last Sat\
urday night, '
The Shelby team deserves praise
from the whole state for its great
playing.
Pleased be assured of my best
wishes.
Sincerely yours.
J. W. HARRELSON,
Chancellor.
Wachovia Increases
Stock Four Millions
WINSTON-SALEM, Sept. 5 —
Plans for a $4,000,000 increase in
the capital funds of the Wachovia
Bank and Trust company were
approved by the directors of the
bank in a special meeting here
today and will be submitted to
the stockholders at a called meet
ing on September 20, according to
information released here by offi
cials of the bank.
When approved, the capital in
crease will be made through the
sale of 80,000 shares of new stock
of $25 par value. The sale price
to stockholders will be $50 a share,
and from the proceeds of this sale
$2,000,000 will be added to capital,
increasing it from $3,000,000 to $5,
000,000 and $2,000,000 will be ad
ded to surplus.
It was stated that when the
transaction is completed, capital,
surplus and reserve funds of the
bank would be approximately
$14,000,000.
In commenting on the proposed
issue of new stock, President^Rob
ert M. Hanes stated that for some
time the officers and directors
had felt the desirability of in
creasing the bank’s capital funds
in order that they might more
nearly keep pace with the rapid
increase in deposits. "Our depos
its are now around $270,000,000
and have increased over Jiuu.uuu.
000 in the past two years,” he said.
| The Everyday j
I COUNSELOR*
What did you do following the
announcement of the Japanese sur
render and the coming of peace?
August 14, 1945 is a new day in the
history of the
world. Some day
you will want to
look back and
recall how you
spent those hours
immediately after
seven p.m. when
the wonderful
news was releas
ed by President
Truman. Some
played w hile
others prayed.
REV. SPAUGH 11 has always
been a source of
regret to me that I am unable to
recall, and did not write down, my
thoughts and actions on Novem
ber 11, 1918. All that I remember
is that I was in the Army and that
we soldiers were very happy.
I don't think I will forget the
events of August 14, 1945, I was
just ready to sit down to the din
ner table when the great news
came. The doors of The Little
Church On The Lane were immed
iately thrown open, although one
door is open all the time. The can
dles on the altar were lighted. The
church bell was rung vigorously for
upwards of a half an hour. A
number of visitors came into the
church for prayer.
vine same toox place in oiner
churches to which hundreds went
I quietly for their own prayers of
; thanksgiving. Even in the wild
; downtown celebration, there was a
thoughtful and solemn undercur
| rent. \ A friend who was in the
midst of it reported that he fre
quently\ heard a remark that this 1
! was a solemn moment and that
men should be praying instead of
playing. He said that he saw one or
two actually kneel on the sidewalk.
Later in the evening I opened my
Bible at random to find these words
in the ninth\ chapter of the Book
I of Ezra: \
"And after al| that is come upon
us for our evil \deeds, and for our
great trespass, seeing that thou our !
God hast punished us less than our
iniquities deserve,',and hast given
such deliverance as this; Should
i we again break thy commandments
As I thought upon these words. I
i was struck with the application to 1
us in America. History is filled with j
the destruction of nations which i
have forgotten God. Germany is an
I awful example. We have suffered
: less than any of the other nations
. involved in this war. We have re
| ceived a great deliverance. There is
a new day of opportunity before ‘
; us.
I We have much moral and spiri
tual house-cleaning to do. Drunk
enness among men has increased;
among women much more. Immor
ality, vulgarity, brutality, lack of
politeness mark these days. Sab
bath desecration is so common
that the majority think nothing of!
it.
The world is looking to us for
moral and spiritual leadership as!
well as material leadership. We are
facing our big opportunity.. Our,
future depends on what we do with !
it. j
<JLiterar
Guidep6st
.h\, '!{'(;
By W. G. ROGERS
SELECTED SPEECHES AND
STATEMENTS OF GENERAL
OF THE ARMY GEORGE C.
MARSHALL, edited by Maj. H.
A. DeWeerd (Infantry' Journal;
$2.75).
Forty-eight selections, from 1938
to this year, from speeches and tes
timony by the Army Chief of Staff
are included in this important vol
ume, rightly heralded as an inval
uable source book in American mili
tary history.
If a general must be tested by
what he does. Marshall passes tri
umphantly now that the last ene
my has surrendered. But a general
is judged also by what he says, and
Marshall's -^ords are an Impressive
consistent ucord of his clear fore
sight into the danger threatening us
and of his single-minded purpose in
preparing for it.
Being Chief of Staff seems to
have been only a fraction of the
Chief of Staff's duties. Marshall
had to take time out to address
the Legions, Rifle and Ordnance
associations, colleges, historical so
cities. Chambers of Commerce and
the National Association of Manu
facturers, and furthermore to argue
for his kind of an army before sen
ators and representatives who, to
quote a couple of them, thought a
fellow who had to wear the uni
form very long in defense of his
country was "unfortunate” or ex
pected the general to stop every
thing while he cleaned out the
Pentagon.
Marshall's virtue appears to be
that he is an unromantic warrior
in time of unromantic warfare. He
led no charges, brandished no
sword, uttered no memorable rally
ing cri“s. He kept his head. His
business was conscription, train
ing, production, finances, over-all
strategy. Like his book, he is meth
odical; he's not glamorous but he's
effective; a marshal in fact.
Perhaps his most interesting
comments have to do with educa
tion. School books stress our vic
tories but do not, he complains,
admit the price we paid for them.
In 1898, he recalls, our troops sailed
for the Philippines with enough
small arms ammunition to last just
one day. We enrolled nearly 400,
000 men to beat British armies of
45,000 in the Revolution, and even
more in 1812 to beat a foe never
numbering over 16,000 in one place.
Luther A. Abernethy
Claimed By Death
LINCOLNTON—Luther A. . Ab
ernethy, 87, prominent farmer,
died Monday morning in his home
near Macpelah church, after a
long illness. The funeral will be
held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at
Macpelah church.
Formerly Mr. Abernethy taught
schools in different parts of Lin
coln county. He leaves two sons,
W. B. Abernethy, former sheriff
of this county, and L. F. Aberne
thy, and four daughters, Mrs.
Pansy A. Boyd of Washington, D.
C„ Mrs. L. S. Womack of Char
lotte, Mrs. Ralph Lohr of Lenoir,
and Mrs. J. C. Caddell of Orlando,
Fla.
The first national election re
turns to be broadcast bv radio
were those announcing the elec
tion of President Harding in 1920.
A
Merry-Go-Round
Resignation Of
Marshall Likely
By DREW PEARSON
(Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen Now On
Active Service With the Army)
WASHINGTON — If Congress
really looks into the Pearl Harbor I
disaster carefully it will uncover!
one of the most amazing detective.
stories in international diplomatic j
and military history.
Top officers who worked on the
Pearl Harbor investigation state
privately that despite all the po
lite eyewash about responsibility
in Washington, there is uncontro- j
vertable testimony that Adm. j
Husband Kimmel had concrete
evidence seven days before Pearl
Harbor that four Jap carriers were
unaccounted for. These turned
out to be four of the Jap ships
which attacked Pearl Harbor.
The fact that they couldn't be
located was so serious that Kim
mel indicated to his intelligence
officer, Capt. Edwin D. Layton,
that he was aware of the possi
bility that the Jap carriers might
be in sight of Pearl Harbor. Yet
Kimmel did onthing to check up
and ordered shore leave on Sat
urday, December 6. just as in nor
mal times. The facts are these:
Captain Layton had done an
outstanding job of intelligence a
gainst great obstacles. More re
cently he has directed intelligence
for the entire Pacific fleet with
equal efficiency. Layton called on
Kimmel on the morning of Dec.
1, 1941, and told him the Japs
had taken an unusual step. He j
told Kimmel the Japs had chang
ed all their naval radio calls.
Kimmel then ordered Layton to
analyze immediately the wherea
i bouts of the Jap fleet.
Layton put together all his se
} cret information, and reported
back to Kimmel on December 2
that he didn't know where two
Jap carrier divisions were.
ROUNDING DIAMOND HEAD
••What! You dont know where
carrier division I and carrier di
vision II are?" Kimmel asked.
"No, sir. I do not," Captain Lay
ton replied, "I think they are in
home waters, but I do not know
where they are. The rest of the (
units—I feel pretty confident of
their location.
Testifying before the secret na
val board of inquiry, Captain Lay
i ton continued: j
"Then Admiral Kimmel looked
at me. as sometimes he would with
a somewhat stern countenance
, and yet partially with a twinkle:
in his eye and said, 'Do you mean j
that they could be rounding Dia
; mond Head and you wouldn t know
it?’ or words to that effect. My j
reply was that, T hope they would
be sighted before now . . .
Diamond Head is the major
landmark right on the island 61
Oahu near the entrance to Pearl
Harbor. i
The officers who questioned
Layton didn’t understand what he
meant by referring to the twinkle
in Kimmels eye. and they asked
him if he felt the discussion had
been serious. Layton replied that
the question was absolutely seri
ous and that failure to locate the
four carriers was most important.
Later on, every day up to the
Pearl Harbor attack, Layton sent
reports to Kimmel pointing out
there was no knowledge of where
the missing Jap carriers were.
Layton also told Kimmel that 200
Jap naval calls had been partially
identified and that not a single
one was from a carrier. When
ships are on a combat mission
they maintain radio silence. Thus
it was known that the carriers
were up to something.
But Kimmel did nothing about
the warnings. He never sent out
a single plane from any fleet
headquarters to look for the miss
ing Japs. This was despite the
fact that Washington had warned
of a sneak attack from "Orange"
(the secret code name for Japan»,
which ftad never declared war in
her entire history of ruthless, un
expected aggression.
UNDER THE DOME
Admiral e-rme rung. iraninau
der </ the fleet, who put up such
a fuss for the gray summer uni
form for naval officers, now has
another secret sartorial ambition.
He is designing a gray-green win
ter uniorm for officers which
would replace time-honored navy
blues. A lot of other admirals
don’t enthuse over King's new
ambition . . It was King, who
during the height of the war,
went over Secretary Knox’s head
; to FDR and ok'd the new gray
summer uniform. Knox had ve
toed it on the ground that textiles
were scarce and civilian clothes
were already difficult to buy
The 13th Nazi criminal on the al
lied list of Germans to be prose
cuted is a cousin of the State de
| partment official who translated
; for Byrnes and Truman at Pots
dam. He is Gustav Krupp Von
Bohlen, head of the Krupp mu
nitions wnrks. His cousin, ‘'Chuck”
I Bohlen, is an able U. S. career
diplomat who speaks Russian flu
ently and has translated for both
! Roosevelt and Truman in talks
with Stalin. The Russians, who
know all about his family back
ground, consider Bohlen very an
ti-Soviet.
Most newspapermen who know
Gen. George Marshall have the
I highest regard for him. How
ever, when they read the army
board’s charge that he was partly
! responsible for Pearl Harbor they
j couldn’t help but remember two
cases where Marshall was also
woefully wrong with them . . . One
: was the day after Germany in-*
j vaded Russia, when the chief of
staff held a press conference and
predicted the fall of Moscow in
l a few weeks . . . Again, just a few
| days before Japan surrendered
^ Marshall held another prefc con
, ference in which he told how he
needed a tremendous army to tn
| vade Japan. This waa even after
Behind The
[ FRONT PAGE
By HOLT McPHERSON
Managing Editor
H. L. MENCKEN IN HIS SUPPLEMENT TO “THE AMERICAN
Language’’, in which he considers accretions of the past decade, belabors
the fad of recklessly using first names which he views as having reached
alarming proportions. He says he knows of little tom-tits not five years
old who speak to and of their parents and elders as “Bill,” “Jack”,
“Margaret”, "Florence”, etc. Radio announcers are, as he views it,
doing their pumpkin-headed best to help the movement along.
Now most of us see nothing so disturbing in knowing folks well enough
to call them respectfully by their first names, but the youngsters have
picked up the habit to the point of excess; witness the story told by
Senator Hoey of a recent outing here when a 10-year-old walked
up, slapped him a bit low on the because he couldn't reach to a
full back-slapping height, and said "Hello, Clyde!”
There was cause for proceedings by some one in that case, through
Senator Hoey, naturally enough, took none himself.
A LITTLE BIRD—WELL, IT WAS A BIG BIRD, COME TO
think of it—tells me that one of the ardent followers of Shelby's
baseball team is trying to arrange to give those wrist watches to
the boys as his gift, and if successful then the Legion will take
the money intended for wat-'-'s and equip each of the boys
with a new suit of clothes as icy depart for the world series.
The Legion truly honors itself in the way it is honoring the boys,
more especially in the provision of scholarships which is to be
a continuing purpose, according to Commander Willis McMurry
who pledges all profits from baseball to a community better
ment program.
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EDITORIAL PAGES ARE BEING SLANTED MORE IN DIREC
i.on of the sports pages of recent days as one editor after another has
taken occasion to congratulate their Shelby friends on winning ths
American Legion's national junior baseball championship.
"This should put a stop to the unfounded rumor that all they raise
up in Shelby is cotton and politicians,” says Bob Thompson in The High
Point Enterprise. “They raise baseball players, too. (All of which reminds
us of the time when Shelby's Clyde Hoey was governor and there was a
ball game between state officials and Catholic priests down in Raleigh.
The first batter was Bishop Haffey. Governor Hoey opened the gams
by pitching to him. With his long hair and longer coattails flying in the
breeze, the governor would up and cut one loose that nearly beaned the
bishop. Whereupon both the governor and the bishop were removed from
the game and church vs. state strife was avoided as the two settled down
in the bleachers to refresh themselves with a couple of cokes.)”
GOVERNOR ELLIS ARNALL GIVES PROPER EMPHASIS
to the part played by the Battle of King<i Mountain in turning the
Revolution and pointing the course of a nation ai he writ—
of “Dixie On the March" to say: There is a feeling through the
South that momentous things will happen in the postwar re
conversion period. Dixie definitely is on the march to a wider
recognition of Its status as an integral part of our common coun
try, to a new era of genuine prosperity, based on the realisation
of our dream of a stable industrial-agrarian economy.
“The heritage of the South is a rich one. with which the peopW
of the South sould become better acquainted. Here is the rea
cradle of American freedom. Here is where the revolution wag
won. on the battlefield of Kings Mountain. Here is where the
continental empire that is our nation had its Inception In the
grants to the: Federal government of the western empires of the
southern states.
“Here is where opportunity lies tomorrow, and the last remain
nlng frontier, the neglected and too long exploited South. We are
freeing ourselves of prejudices and foibles, and srikare Impressing
upon all the nation the inexorable proof of the interdependence
of all sections of our common country.”
A MEMORIAL IS BEING PROJECTED TO HONOR THE MEMORY
of the late Ernie Pyle, the G. Boswell in this war, in the form of
Journalism scholarships at Inclana University. It is something in which
Ernie himself had shown real I'rere.st before he died, making its realiza
tion a worthy memorial in complete good taste and worthy of success.
It is far more worthy of Ernie's memory than that vast park and ceme
tery which high-powered promoters projected in his name and had to
be called off by his widow who was offended by the garish purpose to
raise some S10 million dollars, to do something pretentious for as un
pretentious a guy as ever trod this earth.
This p.urpose to raise the standard of newspapertng through better
training is a rightful concern of everyone who values the usefulness of
an honest, courageous and sound press. It is something of which many
o: us have thought seriously in the hope that in this state and in the
South such stimulation to study and equipment might be encouraged.
The press could honor itself and its leaders in no finer fashion than by
thus helping assure that the business will be carried on by well-trained
hand.
1. L. PATTERSON IS RAISING STRAWBERRIES THESE
days out at his place, his vines yielding a couple of quarts daily.
It just goes to show what enterprise and initiative will do with
Cleveland land—I don't know what price fresh strawberries com
mand, but they couldn't be cheap at this season.
the atomic bomb had been drop
ped . . . General Marshall's resig
nation-undated—has been on
Trumans desk for some time. He
has long been wanting to retire'
to a colonial home he purchased
in Leesburg, Va., and if it did not
look as if he were retiring under
Pearl Harbor investigation fire,
he would leave right now . .
Both Marshall’s and Admiral
King’s resignations will be accept
ed before January 1 . . . Mac
Arthur’s resignation also may
; come at about the same time,
depending on how things go in
Japan. All three are over-age.
When storing cotton wash cloth
es, wash and put them away
without starching.
Two Injured When
Train Is Sideswipei
CLARKSBURG. W. VA.. Sept.
5—(/P>—One soldier and a locomo
tive engineer were injurea early
today when the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad’s National Limited
sldeswiped a troop train a mile
west of here.
Three cars of the westbound
limited and all five cars of the
eastbound troop train were de
railed.
About one-third of the fires put
out by municipal fire departments
;n the United States are put out
w.th hand extinguishers.
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