Implicit Belief In American
Prowess May Be Very Costly,
Power Official Tells Kiwanians
Enemy Would Like For Us
To Believe We Are In
fallible, Lucas Says
“Ali people are patriotic, and all
believe in American principles,
which is right and just — but be
lieving in the super-ability of the
American nation may be extremely
costly to us as a nation,” John
Paul Lucas, of Charlotte, told
the Brevard Kiwanians at their
bi-weekly dinner meeting here
Friday night.
“Victory is bound to come,” is
the belief f most people, Mr. Lu
cas, who is vice president and pub
lic relations official for the Duke
Power company, told his intensely
interested listeners. “This is dan
gerous. and could be the means
of costing thousands or maybe mil
lions of lives ere the war is over,”
Mr. Lucas declared.
ine enemy would like for us to
believe that we are safe, secure,
and infallible, the speaker pointed
out, for in this subtle way the
average person may and probably
is being lulled into a sense of
near-false security, and every ef
fort is being made by enemy for
ces and American-haters to make
us believe just such a story.
A concerted plan of action, with
a co-ordinated spirit and a co-op
erative method, unified in thought
and action are necessary if the
American people are to see half
or more of their boys return from
the world-wide battle field un
scathed, the speaker pointed out.
What Japs and Nazis Want
Mr. Lucas said that the average
American had the general mis
conception that the “war will be
over by fall, maybe not later than
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Christmas, and for a certainty not
later than next year.” This, he said,
is playing exactly into the hands
of the enemy and is just what the
Japs and Germans would like for
us to believe. However, the speak
er pointed out, if we come out of
this world-wide conflict with a
minimum of casualties it will take
quick action, and a lot of it —
which means that there is a part
for every person, old and young,
to play in our ultimate and if ul
timate, quick, victory.
Able men who know Japan and
its people are of the proven opin
ion that the Nipponese are plan
ning for a three-generation war,
counting on the loss of millions of
men ere the conflict is over. And,
Mr. Lucas asserted, for every Jap
who dies there is bound to be a
cost in American life. If we are
able to go forward, make a quick,
intense war against Japan, it will
mean the saving of a minimum of
ten-to-one lives of our boys, the
speaker said, for every month that
Japan is allowed to continue her
training of men, of the countless
thausands of youths who are grow
ing up. and continue with their
preparedness program plus the
installation of the thought in the
Japanese people’s minds that the
“Rising Sun” is bound to triumph
in the end, a minimum of 5,000
more American lives will have to
be expended, perhaps more.
People Not to Blame
The American people as a whole
are not to blame for the present
state of affairs. Mr. Lucas said,
but we are and will be to blame
if this status is allowed to con
tinue. There has been inculcated
in the minds of the average per
son living in America that we are
entitled to a “more abundant life”
and that w'e are to have security
without obligation. The people
have been taught that there are
hand-outs without work, and the
government of America is so big
and so great that nothing can in
terfere with it in a material wTav.
Self-reliance has been injured in
America, and moral obligation to
the nation, to our neighbors and
cur community have been sadly
pushed into the background, the
speaker averred.
“Of course, you and I are pa
triotic,” emphatically declared the
speaker, “and so is the average
American—even the coal miners
about whom w-e have heard and
read so much in recent weeks,”
Mr. Lucas said early in his patriotic
speech. “Even the coal miners are
due sympathy for their belief in
what they think is right. They
have had severe pressure put on
them, from within and without,
and their minds have been
perverted by outside agencies —
but deep down they are patriotic
Americans,” he said.
Lag Will Cost Lives
“Every American must realize
that he must do what he is called
on, and do it now,” Mr. Lucas said,
“if we are to gain a victory at all.
and for every day we lag along, a
hundred to a thousand more
young men and boys will pay with
their lives.”
Mr. Lucas was a guest of J. M.
Gaines, manager of the local
branch of the Duke Power com
pany. Mr. Gaines also had as his
guests, E. H. McMahan and Chas.
Moore, of the Brevard Lions club.
Homer Harris, Jr., was a guest of
his father. Ernest F. Tilson and
F. Brown Carr, former members
of the Kiwanis club, were welcom
ed back as members by President
Paul Tindall. Patriotic singing for
the occasion was led by Keith
Pooser and F. S. Best, accompan
ied by Mrs. Melvin Gillespie.
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Indian Chaplain
FIRST INDIAN to be appointed a
chaplain in the U. S. Army is Lieut.
James Collins Ottipoby, 43, a na
tive of Fort Sill, Okla. A Co
manche Indian, he served in the
Christian Indian Mission pastorate
in Albuquerque. N. M. Signal
Corps photo. (International)
HARVEST DATA
ASKED TO SPEED
PLANSFOR 1944
Operators Of Threshing Ma
chines Requested To Send
Information To Board
Farmers of Transylvania county
who operate combines or grain
threshers this year are being ask
ed by the County U S D A War
Board to make complete reports
of acreages harvested by their
machines and the amount of grain
obtained, according to T. J. Wil
son. chairman of the board.
These reports, chairman Wilson
said, are needed in planning dis
tribution of feed and food crops
afhong processors, equitable ra
tioning of farm machinery, crop
insurance programs and withhold
ing of sufficient supplies of seed
for use in 1944.
“In the present critical agricul
tural production program, com
plete data on crop production is
essential to mapping of an efficient
plan of production and handling,”
lie said. “We are anticipating an
acreage of threshed crops in 1944
larger than ever before, and it will
take careful planning to get these
crops harvested and handled with
out losses. These figures also will
be helpful in setting up federal
buying programs for the purpose
of assuring support prices to pro
ducers.”
The acreage and yield reports
are wanted for the following crops:
oats, wheat, soybeans, peanuts,
clovers, lespedeza, rye, barley and
cowpeas. To be of most value, re
ports should be filed immediately
after harvesting season on forms
available from the county register
of deeds.
Under North Carolina law, all
operators of combines, threshers
and peanut pickers are required
to file an operations report with
the county register of deeds. Com
plete data from both commercial
and private operators is necessary
in order to give a State-wide pic
ture, the chairman said.
Sister of Local Man
Buried Last Week
Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning of last week
in Lexington for Mrs. Ruby Mc
Crorie, 37, who died suddenly the
previous Sunday at her home in
Charlotte.
Surviving are one brother, G. M.
Lookabill, of Brevard, and one
sister, Mrs. L. B. Castevens, of
Lexington.
Mrs. McCrorie had visited Bre
vard a number of times, and had
many friends here. Mr. and Mrs.
Lookabill and children attended
the funeral service in Lexington.
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WAACs Lose ‘A’ And
Net Full Rating In
United States Army
Washington — Congress com
pleted and sent to the White
House during the past week a
bill making the Women’s Army
Auxiliary Corps a part of- the
army of the United States.
The official name is changed
to “Women’s Army Corps.” The
members thus still will be called
WACs.
The bill says the Women’s
Army Corps and the Army Nurse
Corps shall be the only women’s
organizations of the United
States, but it specifies that
neither corps is a part of the
“regular” United States army.
Elimination of steel springs in
furniture saves 30,000 tons of steel
annually.
It is reported that stocks of most
rationed foods, together with pros
pective production, probably will
be adequate to maintain the pres
ent level of consumption until the
end of the year.
Tomato Juice Good
Source Of Vitamins
Tomato juice is a healtful drink
and, if properly prepared, is an
excellent source of vitamins “A”
and “C”, says Mrs. Cornelia C.
Morris, Home Economist in Food
Conservation at N. C. State Col
lege.
She suggests the use of fully
ripe, firm tomatoes of a bright red
color, which have been washed
and cut into small pieces, after
the removal of the core. To pre
serve the natural flavor and color
in the canned tomato juice, Mrs.
Morris says that knives of stain
less steel should be used and that
utensils of copper, brass and iron
should be avoided.
The conservationist advises that
one to two gallons of tomatoes
should be handled at the time and
that there should be no delay in
any step of the canning program.
The tomatoes should be precooked
at about 170 to 180 degrees Fah
renheit or, if no thermometer is
available, let the tomatoes simmer
until softened. They should not
be boiled.
Foreign consumption of cotton
has declined each year since 1939.
Consumption in this country has
increased from 6.9 million bales
to 11.2 million bales.
Approximately 20,000 tons of
barbed wire, made available for
military purposes, will be used to
meet a shortage of barbed wire on
the farm, the WPB announces.
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"CAMEL"
for the favorite cigarette
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Marines, and Coast Guard
is Camel. (Based on actual
sales records in Post Ex
changes and Canteens.)
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M. RI BUTE TO the Patriots of 76 is given far deep
er meaning when Honor is paid at the same time to
the Valiant of '43. We are proud of the 865 mem
bers of our own organization now in the armed
forces. Some already have fallen in action.
continue at their posts here at home, carrying on the
work of those who are away and meeting the in
creased challenge of service to production in Indus
try, on the Farm, and'in the Home.
“Electricity Is Vital In War ,.. Don’t Waste It!”
DUKE POWER COMPANY
Day Phone 116 Night Phone 16