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This may be partially offset by less consum er purchasing power or at least less of an inclination to spend. However, the general opinion is that buyers will fight for everything in sight. Irrespective of this, however, on their face, these stories about the great quantities of goods being withheld from the market to avoid taxes or for higher prices do not make sense. They do not make sense because few manufacturers can afford to carry huge inventories just to avoid a pittance of taxation or on the remote hope that prices will increase! at some mythical future day. For the most part, manufacturers are hardheaded busi- i ness men and are in business not for their health, not to outguess the market or to run from the sight of the tax man. They are in business to sell and deliver the goods they make under conditions as they exist. Moreover, in most instances they will not keep on piling up goods just for the fun of making them and for the fun of watching what! may happen in a highly conjectural situation. GET A SPADE Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, former commander of the American volunteer forces in China from all evidence is a brave soldier and has a keen military mind. That is why we read with interest his advice in a re cent interview for this nation to go underground as fast as possible as a defense against a possible atomic war. He even advocates putting the Pentagon building underground! though where in this world he is going to dig a hole big enough for it is more than we can see. “We’ve got 25 years t^ do a double job”, said the general “build for peace and burrow7 for war.” All that we are moved to remark is that if this is what victory for the freedom loving nations in World War Hj brought them for their trouble, they might as well have: lost the war in the first place. If citizens of these nations, supposed to have won the right to take in the fresh air of freedom through their j nostrils, are driven into h rabbit warren system ip the j bowels of the earth they may find their lung’s intake slight- j ly musty. Nevertheless, the General must be a very smart man. He certainly knows what the dangers of war are and if, after a look around the premises, seeing the atomic bomb and such, he decides the best thing to do is to burrow, who is to gainsay him? Move over moles. REAL LEADERSHIP Presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal by President Truman yesterday to General George C. Marshall as he retired as army chief of staff, position which he held throughout the war, serves to emphasize the kind of leader ship we had for our military forces in time of combat. This retirement to a degree parallels the relinquish ment o* command of Hie third fleet by Admiral William F. Hal.-ey, went over the side of the battleship South D o*h 'a~t w°ek. After a month’s temporary duty in Wns*M"«» MMH I1MH MM ■■ II II | The Everyday j COUNSELOR' By DR. HERBERT SPAUGH ‘The spirit of man is the can dle of the Lord ”, sayts the Bible. The truth of this Js illustrated in an old story, “The House of Many Lamps”. It tells of a little Church built in the 16th century by an aged duke who had ten beauti f u 1 daughters, whom he loved dearly. When they were small he watched them affectionately a t their play. After they grew to REV SPAUGH womanhood his devotion contin ued. When the time came that they wished to marry and make homes of their own he protested. It was with sadness that he saw them leave the ancestral castle one by one. Because of their love for their father, each year the daugh ters would return on his birthday. Then one year the circle was brok en and one of the daughters was absent because of the long journey required. Knowing she wculd be missed, she sent a band of music ians from her court to play for her father. But this would not comfort the old duke, who was much de pressed. Fearing that his other daughters might follow the example of the first, and leave him on his birth day, he planned to build a little Church so beautiful that all who came to worship there would be impelled to kneel in devotion the moment they entered the door. When the Church was finished, the duke brought all his daugh ters to see it. They were delighted and filled with admiration, but the daughter who h«d absented herself from her father's birthday, asked, “Where are the lamps for the Church?” The duke replied, “There will be no hanging lamps; each one who enters will carry his own. I have provided small brass hand lamps for everyone.” “But father, isn’t this queer” ex i claimed the daughter. “No, dear daughter,” replied the duke, "it is not queer. When my daughter is not around my board on my birthday there is a dark and lonely place. So, in the house of God there will be a dark and lonely place if all of his 50ns and daughters do not come to worship him at the appointed hour.” FX.r hundred years have passed since the beautiful Church was built, yet when the bell calls to worship, the village people still re spond, carrying their own lamps. The Church is always filled for no one wants his place to be dark and empty. The lights of the Christian gos pels shine only from the lamps which burn in the hearts of men. ■ For each of us there is an ap pointed place to shine. Is y/'jr lamp burning? EDITOR’S NOTE—Dr. Spaugh’s I new book, “The Pathway to Content ment,” will come from the press about December 1st. It is being published in response to the re quest of many readers, and con tains material which has appeared in this column. The price is $1.00 cJLlterar Guidep6$t ¥ J*9 WQ. A?„, METHINKS THE LADY . by1 Guy Endore (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $2.50). Of all the ingenious books I’ve read, this is the most ingenious. A novel is “just a tease,” says one character, and Endore seems to subscribe to that, for this is a monster tease. Again it’s remarked that some people go around the world to cross the street, and that happens here, too. I It happens to Mr. and Mrs. Spence Gillian. When the blurb writer asks whether the wife be trayed her husband, or stole, or murdered, it's not merely a rhetorical question; you'll rack your brains over the answer until you, get it, 10 pages from the' end. There is shoplifting, an unex- ] pected pregnancy, a murder. Gil- • lian is a psychoanalyst; his wife, though desperately in need of his, counsel, doesn’t get for he be-1 lieves, fondly, that out of an en-j tire world which is all mixed up, she almost alone is absolutely normal. Mrs. Gillian undergoes some I terrifying experiences, and you share them in a breathtaking way. | How much of it is true story, as; the author implies, I couldn’t say.. But certainly kleptomania, en-| cephalitis, Doppelgaenger, schizo-, phrenia, lagophthalmia . . . .which j means sleeping open-eyed . . . nev er combined before into such a j thrilling yarn. You, too after this,' will sleep with your eyes open. THE PORTABLE F. SCOTT FITZ- | GERALD, selected by Dorothy, Parker, introduction by John O’Hara (Viking; $2); THE PORT ABLE POE, selected and edit ed and with introduction by Phil ip Doren Stern (Viking; *2). These two “portables”, running to 60Q and 800 pages, set in type large enough to read in a handy format to fit the hand, are first i rate buys for that public more in terested in literature than in col lecting. They won’t look bad on the library table, but they’ll definitely adorn the mind. The Fitzgerald includes “The Great Gatsby,” “Tender Is the Night” and short stories. In the Poe you find short stories, poems, letters nad other prose. S. C. WOW Meet To Be Held In Gaffney GAFFNEY, S. C., Nov. 27—OP)— ; The annual state meeting of the j Woodmen of the world will be held here Monday, Tuesda. and Wed nesday of next week, with about 150 delegates attending. R. E. Miller of Omaha, Neb., vice-president of the National Camp, and W. C. Braden, also of; Omaha, national secretary will bei among the speakers. State officers will be elected at the Tuesday night sessio i. postpaid. Orders may be sent to' THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR, | Box 4145, Charlotte, N. C. Advance; ! orders will be autographed. The foresighted citizen who owns and holds a large number of Victory I ,Loan Bonds will be prepared to* take advantage of the new modern equipment industry has promised i for th« future. i If Today Is Your Birthday B» STELLA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 — Bom today, you are sone of those independent souls who must do as you want when you want it, or you become morose arifl unhappy.! Fortunately you have talents and good sense and others can usually follow yens- lead without disas trous resqjttS? In fact, those who let you goyour own way and fol low along behind are usually ablej to appropriate as their rightful share some of the wealth and fame which comes to you. In other words, you are a good kite for someone to tie a tail to! You have dramatic talents and should utilize them to their best advantage. You have a good mind, one you* must learn to use to its fullest extent. You seem at’2 to analyze your capabilities and thus make the best possible use of them all. In fact, you are the type of person who can make much out of little. Fortunately your sense of honor is keen and you will never intentionally hurt any one in your climb to fame and success. You will use your head to| outwit those less astute or less ambitious. But that, after all, is part of the battle for success in a highly competitive world. You are loyal to your friends. Those who go along with you all the way, wheth er the path be easy or rough, will share with you in the ultimate rewards. You will make enemies as well as many friends but those you know well leai> to love you, for al though you may appear stem and uncompromising, you are tender and kind. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY "HIS ABILITY TO REASON" Walter Lippmann in The New York Herald Tribune Our power and influence will endure only if we measure them truly and use them for the ends that we have always avowed and can proclaim with pride. We are the latest Great Power developed by and committed to the tradition of the West . . . That is the pole star by which we must set our course. At the center of that tra dition resides the conviction that man’s dignity rises from his ability to reason and thus to choose freely the good in preference to evil. We may claim without of fense that this inner principle of the Western tradition is not local, tribal, or national, but universal, and in so far as we are its faith ful servants, we shall, in learning how to use our power, win the con sent of mankind. Dwight L. London At Fort Oglethorpe Pvt. Dwight L. London, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan N. London, of route 1, Ellenboro, has arrived at the Port Oglethorpe, Ga., re distribution station at which he will receive' his new assignment. Pvt. London recently returned to the United States from six months of service overseas. Valparaiso, Chile, is the largest seaport on the Pacific coast of the American continents south of Los Angeles. Merry-Go-Round Medicos Battle Politicos On National Health By DREW PEARSON (Lt. CoL Robert S. Allen Now On Active Service With the Army) ~WASHINGTON—Just”aTf ew~min utes before word came of the par alyzing General Motors strike in Detroit, President Truman was asked at Ms news conference whe ther he was hopeful about the la bor-management conference wMch he had called in order to bring a new era of industrial peace. Tru man baffled listeners by replying that he was still optimistic. On the way out of his office, newsmen thought they found the answer to Truman’s puzzling cheerfulness. Hanging on the wall was a newly framed parchment making Truman a life member of the ’ Optimists International.” MEDICAL RAID There are politics in almost ev erything these days—even health. And behind the President's impor tant, progressive message to Con gress on national health appear to be some back-stage politics. The Hill-Burton bill now before the senate was eased out of com mittee, some senators suspect, in order to get in ahead of the Tru man health program. Most essential part of the Hill Burton bill is that it siphons off $375,000,000 from the federal treas ury and puts it largely under con trol of the so-called “hospital crowd,” namely the American Hospital association, the Protestant Hospital Association, the Catholic Hospital association, with their ally the American Medical asso ciation which did most of the be hind-the-scenes lobbying. Interesting fact was that the Hill-Burton bill lay quietly in the senate committee on education and labor until Sept. 6, when Pres ident Truman announced that la ter he was going to send a special message to Congress recommend ing a national health program. Until then, the authors of the bill, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama and Senator Harold Burton of Ohio (now Supreme court justice) had done little or nothing to push it. LISTER HILL WAKES UP But suddenly, after Truman’s Sept. 6 announcement, the medi cal lobby got busy. Putting the heat under Democratic Senator Hill, they arranged for him to co operate with arch-Republican Senator Taft of Ohio, and Jacked the bill out of committee over the protests of Committee Chairman Jim Murray of Montana. Senator Murray, who always has favored a national health pro gram, was put in an embarrassing spot. He favored several portions of the Hill-Burton bill, among them a survey of the country to see where hospitals are needed, and the general idea of a federal subsidy of $75,000,000 a year to states, communities and non-pro fit corporations to build hospitals where they are needed. But here is the chief Joker in the bill. This federal money is to be allocated not by the federal government which raises it, but by an outside council on which the American Medical association lob by and the so-called "American hospital crowd” would appoint a' majority of the members. In other words, the federal gov ernment, after putting up thej money, would have the privilege! of sitting by and watching private • institutions dole it out without | any authority over how the money was used. This is the same scandalous proposal which has raised such a furore in two other Tecent cases: d) the atomic bomb bill, which places control of the bomb's se crets in a committee of $l-a-year businessmen not answerable to the federal government; and (2) the federal aid bill for scientific research. It is also the same principle at ake in the U. S. employment rvice, whereby the U. S. gov nment puts up the money and the 48 states have the privilege of spending it — with all the lush political patronage that goes a long. Building up a local politi cal machine at the expense of the federal government is the fashion these days in Congress. Interesting thing to watch will be whether the senate now rushes the private hospital bill through, or waits to consider Truman’s comprehensive health program for the benefit of the entire coun try. SENATOR OVERTON’S OFFICE HELP Senator John Overton of Louis iana is a mighty liberal man when it comes to paying his staff, espe cially when they happen to be relatives. For some years both his daughters, Katherine and Ruth, were on the congressional payrolL Katherine got married and no longer sups at the public trough, but Ruth Overton still receives more than $2,200 a year. Senator Overton is also pretty liberal about time off for his help, especially when they are kinfolk. Recently Ruth had an enjoyable vacation in Cuba. Not so, how ever, for a tired mother of a hero ic serviceman, N$rs. Julia Kearns, who works in the senator’s office. Mrs. Kearns' son has Just re turned from two years overseas with the marines, where he was in many major battles including Iwo Jima. However, when it camel time for Mrs. Kearns to go back I to Louisiana to visit the boy she i had worried so much about, the seantor limited her to exactly one week, though the railroad trip a lone takes four days. FRANCO’S AMBASSADOR There is one ambassador in Washington whom both diplomat* and high officials art watching Behind The FRONT PAGE By BOLT McPHERSON Mmitni Editor CONCEDING THAT 1/30TH OF AN OUNCE OF U.235 HAS IN IT enough atomic energy to drive battleships around the world and that the peacetime use of this force may revolutionize our concept of power, yet even with such atomic energy at service the basic needs and principles of living and of human relations will likely not be changed greatly. The development, therefore, is, as one scientist put it, evolutionary rather than revolutionary; it might be well to look to experience of the past in creating Improvements for the future for in less than five years it is feasible that heat and electric power for whole communities and tremendous industrial installations may be drawn from atomic energy. The atomic age is here, and unless harnessed constructively it will be used so destructively that conceivably mankind will be wiped from the face of the earth if not the earth itself be destroyed and sent plunging afire through space. The “i” and “c” that end the word atomic might stand for “in chaos". In the current issue of Liberty, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was in charge of the atomic bomb research, says it is a mistake to speak of having atomic energy run your car, power your airplane, or send your motorboat across a lake, for it's impractical as we know it now. But it can be employed on a large scale since the amount of energy which can be concentrated in a pea-sized pellet requires at least a 50-ton unit which would have to be cased in walls of concrete many feet thick as shield against the radiation generated in the process of releasing atomic energy. The uses of atomic energy are infinite, but with our restricted ima ginations we cannot even guess at them today, states Qr. Oppenheimer. No one nation. Including our own, is responsible for what we know of atomic energy for the background of our present knowledge was supplied by scientists from every country of Europe and many elsewhere. It should result in new conceptions of national and international welfare for no nation can hope to hold a monopoly on a form of energy. “Our hope for the future," says Dr. Oppenheimer, “is to see this new form of energy as the peril, the challenge, and the hope that it really is. Here if we are wise, is a force we can apply to forge the peoples of the earth into a closer unity for in it they will see a new common danger, a new common interest, a new commonwealth. I hope we shall have the wisdom to use this new power.” CAMP CROFT IS CLOSING OPERATIONS IN JANUARY and that report it will be re-activated as Camp Byrnes appears to be totally without foundation. IT HARDLY SEEMS RIGHT THAT NOT A SINGLE SHELBY HIGH footballer made the North Carolina All-Star team for the Shrine Bowl game at Charlotte December 8, but that's not a reason to fall to support it as proceeds go to the crippled children's work the Shriners do so splendidly. Incidentally, too, it is a well-earned distinction that North Carolina has been selected as the first state In which the American Academy of Pediatrics will conduct a thorough fact-finding survey to determine the reeds of children in a post-war world that the medical mind may assume leadership in making available facilities with which those needs may be met. This important survey is to serve as a model for similar undertakings in every state in the union—failure to do it successfully in this state might delay the national program, importance of which is recognised by pediatricians and medics alike. North Carolina was chosen as the state for launching this movement because of the excellence of its pedriatie groups and the Tar Heel interest in child health—a very fine compli ment, indeed. OUR FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR, THE CHARLOTTE OR server, announces plans for a million dollar building program. AH over the nation newspapers are getting aet to catch up on long needed construction to be in readipess for the Job ahead; The Star, which got the Jump by building one of the last modern plants just before the war came on. is being visited every few days by newspaper publishers studying its efficient layout with the view to emulation, which is, after all, the highest form of praise. Good planning really pays off in building a newspaper as any other plant. more carefully than all the rest.: They are especially Interested In his health and his tenure of of- I fice. He is genial, roly-poly Brazilian j Ambassador Carlos Martins. Reason for the interest in Mar-! tins is not hts pink shirts or his lovely wife—though both are spec tacular—but because, if he resigns, the fascist envoy of dictator Fran co is likely to become dean of the diplomatic corps. At present Ambassador Martins! Is dean of the diplomats. He has served in Washington longer than any other ambassador, therefore precedes all others at dinners, and has the right to be their spokes man. Popular despite his pink shirts and passion for bridge, Mar tins has been a real friend ot the United States. Many people would regret his departure. But aside from personal popu larity, they would regret even more having Spanish Ambassador Juan Cardenas become dean of di plomatic and cook of the walk in the diplomatic corps. At present Venezuelan Ambas sador Diogenes Escalante is in line to become dean, but has been se riously ill; in addition to which a new Venezuelan president has just come into power. So it is doubtful if Escalante can remain active in Washington. That is why, with the exit of Brazilian President Vargas, State department officials are hoping that the new head of Brazil will keep Ambassador Martins in Wash ington. Seaton's Greetings CUNTON, 111.— VP) —Mrs. Ruth Barnett put an illuminated Christ mas wreath in an attic window. She reports it’s still there and still shining. She hopes it would hold out until Dec. 26. RAISE $1,631 IN SEALDRIVE The .sale of Christmas seals un der the sponsorship of the Cleve« land County Tuberculosis associa tion is moving steadily toward its goal, officials of this organization said this morning. After one week's campaigning a total of $1,631.30 has been raised. Of this amount Shelby business houses contributed $460 and Kings Mountain business houses $306. The rest came in from the direct mall campaign. Those who have received their supply of seals by mail are urged to return their remittances at the earliest possible date. FOR LOCAL USE Seventy-five percent of the funds raised locally will be used to fight tuberculosis in this county. The Cleveland County Tuberculosis as- if soclation has already a full-time worker engaged here and plans are being made for further organ ization against this disease. Sales of these little seals which people are asked to use on their holiday letters and packages and sale of bonds to business firms and individuals constitute the only way by which the tuberculosis as sociation finances its work. 'Theft' School Broken By Police MADRA8, India—City police de tectives .have broken up a “school” for training young hoodlums in the • arts of theft. Many of the “stu dents” were only five years old, and pocket picking was a favored course of study. A MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS NEW AND RENEWAL I represent three thousand (3,000) magazines, and can get for you any magazine on the market. I duplicate any offer made to you direct by the publish ers. Many magazines offer special gift rates - for Christmas. Let me tell you about them. 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