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* TUESDAY, NOV. 27, 1945
’ stupidTalk
There has been some unjust and stupid talk in connec
tion with the shortages of merchandise on counters during
this holiday period. We refer to the allegation, carried
glibly on the tongues of gossipers, that manufacturers are
making goods but holding back supplies until the year end.
either because taxes wili cut less out of their 1946 profits,
or because they nope for higher prices.
Contrary to this rumor, an article in Business Week
reports that inventories will be shorter than ever for next
spring's sales. 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"<rtr,1 he will retire from 45 years service in the navy.
Of all the fuming the United Nations are doing over
what to do with victory, now that they have it, not a single
one will question the efficiency and methods by which it was
accomplished.
General Marshall, Admiral Halsey, just as true as any
soldier or sailor under their command gave all that they
could for their duty in its hours of need. They withheld no
energy and spared not themselves in their trusts.
Both have earned theit rests. We join with Americans
everywhere in applauding them as they move from the
world’s stage after enactment of one of its most gripping
and dramatic scenes
Bevin urges big powers to put cards on the table, says
a headline. The main trouble with this is, they don’t know
how many aces each other is holding.
The main point in the meat situation is no longer in
your ration book but rather where are you going to get it.
»»MH »»»>«» 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.
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