The Transylvania Times
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Brevard, N. C.
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1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943
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The Battle Is On!
The battle of dollars is on! This
morning an army of volunteer workers is
launching an attack right here in Brevard
and Transylvania to sell at least $432,000 j
worth of war bonds during the Third War
Loan drive that ends September 30.
These patriotic workers are on the job
for Uncle Sam. They are not working for
themselves. They are to be commended for
performing a vital service to the war effort
and for their country. Every person whom
they call on should appreciate this fact,
and should be ready to buy at least one
bond.
We have a huge county quota to reach
this month and unless you, and that means
every reader of this paper, does his or her
part, we may fall short. That would indeed
be a tragedy after our county has made
such a wonderful record in the past. It
would certainly make all of our twelve
hundred boys in service feel badly.
The county chairman, members of the
war finance committee and many other
persons are doing their part. An extensive i
campaign program has been arranged and |
there is no reason why we should not go
over the top.
All of the farmers in the county will
be given an excellent opportunity to buy
at the bond rallies that are to be held in
all of the schools. They will enjoy the en
tertaining programs to be featured at each
rally. Plan now to attend at least one rally
and go there prepared to buy bonds!
Show your neighbors that you are patri
otic.
To Mr. John Eversman and the talented
musicians and singers who are contributing
their time in providing these entertain
ments, we extend congratulations.
On to Victory with War Bonds!
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Look In Your Mirror!
Just as the boys on the battlefronts I
did not take a holiday, a majority of the j
people on the homefront here and in the |
nation observed Labor Day last Monday j
by “laboring,” by working for Victory.
One of the most impressive Labor Day
messages that we have seen in years was
published a few days ago by the McGraw
Hill Publishing Company and it is such a
classic that we are reprinting it below with
the suggestion that you read every word of
it. Entitled “Look In Your Mirror,” the
message is as follows:
Ever since the first LABOR DAY, ar
tists have been drawing pictures, around
this time of year, showing “Labor” with
a square paper cap and “Capital” with a
silk hat.
That sort of thing distorts understand
ing, because it keeps alive a point of view
that belonged to the days when the power
of industry to create better living for all
was not understood.
We need a new kind of Labor Day
illustration . . . one that treats the first
Monday in September, not as a lull in a
battle between old fashioned symbols, but
as a day in celebration of the dignity of
earning a living.
Perhaps there will never be a better
illustration for Labor Day than you will
find in your own mirror . . .
Your own reflection will show you
where capital and labor meet, in the new
world which has been created by the in
dustrial progress that has occurred since
Grandpa founded Labor Day.
Labor is easy to understand. It means
work.
But it’s hard for most people to think
of themselves as being capitalists.
The only difference between capital
and work is time.
Work is what you do today.
Capital is what you have left over from
work that was done in the past.
For instance: skill is capital, because
it is something gained by past work that
helps make today’s work more effective.
Machines are capital, because in them
is stored up the work of the past, waiting
to make today’s work more effective.
Money is the means of swapping capi
tal.
Your life insurance policy is an ex
ample of this, because past work has been
stored up in the form of dollars. As long
as the policy-holder can work for himself,
those dollars are used to help others do
work (because the insurance company in
vests them). When the policy-holder can
no longer work, the dollars come back.
Every man who develops skill, tools or
useful property beyond what he spends in
living is part worker, part capitalist.
Every man who reduces the amount of
his work, either through loafing on his own
dough, or slowing down, or opposing ef
ficient machines, or striking, directly re
duces the rate of industrial progress and
good living for himself and all Americans.
When the war is over, every man who
keeps his money in a sock, or bank vault,
will reduce the amount of work that can
be done.
Right now we have lots of money but
very little time to make the things people
buy.
After the war, we will have the time
and ability to produce much more than we
have ever had before, because more people
will have stored up new skills.
We will have much more money, too,
but let’s not forget the people who make
products must have money as well as the
people who buy them.
You may have savings after the war,
but unless your money buys something it
cannot create jobs.
Your savings cannot buy anything until
it has been produced. What’s more, you
won’t spend your savings except for better
things.
In order to produce improved, post-war
products for you to buy, the factories must
have almost as much money as you spend
—through your government—on changing
them over to war goods.
We don’t know how much money all
the factories will need, but we do know
that it takes many millions of dollars to
run just one automobile company for just
one day. That company must run for many,
many days without any income before you
can spend your money for a car.
We have given the name “Seed Money”
to the money that is saved from past work
to buy machines and factories that produce
new jobs.
Thus “Seed Money” is just about the
most basic thing in the good living of
everybody.
We think it is harmful to every Ameri
can when an individual, or a company,
misapplies “Seed Money,” or keeps it in
useless storage at times when it should be
spent for improvement in machines, meth
ods and products.
'We also think it is harmful to every
American for “Seed Money” to be con
fused with profit that is not used for im
proving machines and methods, when tax
laws are written, because “Seed Money”
is the source of jobs.
Now is the time for men who work at
machines to get together with men who
work at desks to use the tremendous bene
fits of America’s great industrial might in
a way that will bring better living for all.
Long Way To Go
With the invasion of Italy now well
underway, it appears evident that the
third partner of the Axis is groggy and
may be knocked out of the war before
Christmas.
It is also evident that the Allies are
getting ready to strike at other points on
the European continent and that around
the-clock bombing of war centers in oc
cupied countries and in Germany is weak
ening the senior member of the Axis de
stroyers. On the Russian front, the Reds
are continuing to march forward.
We should not, and we must not be
come over-optimistic. Over-confidence is
dangerous. Many battles are lost as a re
sult of it. We must keep working, produc
ing and fighting for Victory! Over-opti
mism might mean a greater loss of our own
men.
INVASION POINTS
THEm_
By FkULMALLGN
Washington, Sept 8—The antics
of vying officials on gasoline ra
tioning have now risen to the
fabulous stage.
A joint OPA-Ickes announcement
has been issued in a very grave
tone “lifting the ban on pleasure
driving,” but not lifting it.
The announcement pictured Pe
troleum Poobah Ickes as getting
together with Prentiss Brown of
the OPA for the first time, in
serious determination to ease the
restrictions on Eastern motorists
as promised repeatedly during the
past two months.
No one needed to read the word
ing very closely, however, to see
that the ban was not lifted but
was left still in effect, and the
officials merely put motorists on
their honor to obey the instruc
tions. In short, all they did was
to stop legal enforcement.
But enforcement already had stop
ped. Instances developing through
out the East since the August 15
gas equalization rationing was an
nounced. showed clearly that en
forcement had not only broken
down but was non-existent.
All that Messers. Ickes and
Brown did then was to bury a
ghost already long dead, but to
bury him above ground where
everyone could see him and to
put everyone on his honor not to
look.
i ms is me latest out Dy no
means the strangest of the confus
ing anomalies which officials have
displayed on this subject.
A month ago, it was practically
officially promised that gas ration
ing coupon values in the East
would be increased.
On July 29, President Gottlieb,
of the New York Automobile club,
announced “on unquestionable
authority” that the ban on pleas
ure driving would be ended and
the value of “A” coupons would
be increased.
Mr. Brown hinted at the same
time, August 4, after a conference
with his chief assistant, Chester
Bowles, saying Eastern motorists
could look forward to action next
week on the pleasure driving ban.
The East-West equalization pro
gram was announced August 13,
but failed to live up to either pro
mise and, in fact, did not even
propose “equalization” between
the Mid-West and the East, which
was the reason for its promulga
tion.
The explanation of this stupefy
ing series of deceptive public an
nouncements apparently was that
Messers. Brown and Bowles, on
one hand, wanted to give the pub
lic more, and Mr. Ickes kept re
sisting them at every turn.
A common supposition in the
oil trade is that Mr. Ickes was
subsequently told from the White
House that this nuisance scrap
ping should cease and that some
solid basis of agreement should
be worked out to help the motor
ists as much as possible.
Apparently this new ban-lifting
that-does-not-Iift is the result. If
it satisfies the White House, it
can hardly satisfy anyone else.
The oil industry suspects this
elaborate ghost burial was staged
to clear the way for tightening
enforcement in the Mid-West and
Southwest. Not a single complaint
has been received from those areas
by motoring authorities here since
their rationing started, a fact they
accept as proof that everyone out
MACFIE’S DRUG STORE
there seems to be getting enough!
gas from some place. The Ickes-1
Brown announcement plainly in
dicated this purpose when it said: |
“Energy and enforcement effort
XXX will now be turned to X
X X gasoline black market opera
tions.”
But there is another curious
angle. Mr. Ickes wants to raise
the basic oil price 35 cent per
barrel to increase production and
has appealed to Judge Vinson to
allow him to do so. His application
was not piade public, nor was the
exchange of letters between Brown
and Ickes on the subject.
It is known Brown has resisted
the increase and some of his
associates have been caustically
chirping behind their hands that
something is the' matter with oilj
production other than prices. They j
suspect some oil producers may
THE TREASURY department in
Washington has announced that
there is a shortage of $10,000 bills.
Gosh, that must be right—we just
remember not having seen one in
ages and ages.
Zadok Dumkopf is staging a
little home coming party at his
house tomorrow. His shirts are
coming back from the laundry.
The Allies’ “No Sanctuary”
declaration didn’t upset Fatso
Goering. There just weren’t any
neutrals with space enough in
which he could hide, anyway.
The weasel, when frightened,
sneaks away to cower in his
hideaway. Hut, unlike the Nazis,
he doesn’t dignify it with the
name “fortress.”
It’s agreed that time is on the
side of the Allies but that’s no
excuse for any of us to have a
lot of time on our hands.
That new liquid which scares
off sharks couldn’t by any chance,
be just plain castor oil?
Two Argentine editors have
have adjusted oil production to
further their own demand for the
price increase.
Only one thing is sure in all
this amazing mass of official pub
licity. It is that officials have been
neither frank nor convincing any
where along the way.
Gas use by motorists can be cut
to any degree necessary to meet
the demand of our armies, but.
if officials who know the facts
of production, distribution, and
stocks, and censor these from the
public view, cannot agree them
selves and lay down a frank,
straight-forward policy, how can
they expect public observance?
No one can stand firmly behind
a man with St. Vitus dance.
agreed to settle their argument
in a duel with sabers. Imagine
journalists being so dumb they
don’t know that the pen is might
ier than the sword!
Masons To Confer
The 2nd Degree
The Dunn’s Rock Masonic Lodge
will confer the 2nd degree at the
regular communication to be held
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in
the Lodge Hall on Broad street, ac
cording to announcement by mem
bers.
The Worshipful Master requests
all members to attend and extends
a cordial invitation to all visiting
Masons.
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NORTH CAROLINA
The school bells are ringing again—call
ing North Carolina’s youngest generation
back to the job of learning to be good
and useful citizens. We’ve all come to
think of a good education for our chil
dren as the natural birthright of young
Americans—but building up and admin
istering a school system as fine as North
Carolina’s is a gigantic task.
Nearly 900,000 students are enrolled
each year in North Carolina’s schools
and colleges. There are 4,111 primary
schools, 990 secondary schools and 52
colleges and universities. The range of
studies runs from kindergarten games
through the three “R’s” to the most
advanced scientific and sociological re
search. Thousands of teachers are
devoting their lives to this work—and
to them goes much of the credit for its
success, as well as to the administrators
of each institution, to local and county
school boards and to the Office of Super
intendent of Public Instruction.
We of the Greyhound Lines take the
same pride as all other North Carolinians
in our State’s educational achievements.
We know that our own organization is
aiding the school system both with tax
support and transportation service.
Those of us whose children are benefit
ing directly from the splendid schooling
afforded them feel doubly proud.
In wartime even more than in peace
time, the things that draw us all together,
that unify our efforts, that make us good
neighbors in every sense, are the things
that count most heavily. Both good
education and good transportation have
decisive parts to play in shaping the
present as well as the future of North
Carolina in the post-war world.
GREYHOUND TERMINAL
MACFIE DRUG STORE 2 West Main Street
Telephone Number 5
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