MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE Mcdowell publishing co., MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 S. E. WHITTEN, Editor and Prop. Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 MARION, N. C., OCT. 1, ,-1942 YOUR NEWSPAPER We who call this community j "home" find our first interests here. | We take pride in our community,! we share the joys and sorrows of I our neighbors in an intimate vein to be found only in the typical Am erican town. Service to our community and its people is the creed of our news paper. It is upon that foundation that it has been built. It brings to you an intimate, neighborly week-by-week history of our community that can be found in no other newspaper, for no oth er newspaper shares our interest j and concern in and for our com-j munity. It is because we bring you all the, home news, of people and things! which are your first interest, that our readers represent a great fam ily circle. The merchant or the manufacturer who would gain the interest and attention of this great family can find no medium to equal the eager, friendly reception with; which this newspaper is received into these many hundreds of homes, j That prestige which this news-; paper enjoys has been achieved through the years it has dedicated its every effort to the best interests of our community and our people, i In the year that lies ahead our am bition will be to improve and to grow, as we renew our labors for improvement and growth in all the j community. A SALUTE TO OUR SCHOOLS A salute to the schools of Amer ica for the magnificent job they have done in mobilizing their stu dents, their teachers and their com-! munities for wartime service! Their War Savings Programs—! emphasizing reasoned, voluntary and regular purchase of Warj Stamps and Bonds — have diverted j millions of dollars from unneces- j gary spending into vital production for our armed forces. Their classrooms and shops have trained approximately 2,635,000 workers for war industries since July 1, 1940. Their teachers, students and I parent organizations have register- j ed our manpower for war and have! put the gigantic war rationing sys-: tem into operation throughout the ■ country. j They have become more than ev-1 er community centers for learning,] for specialized training, for discus-! sion, music, entertainment, and for service. America's schools have gone to •war—but they have not forsaken their main business; teaching and learning. They realize that the time has come to take action that j insures the right of free education j to exist. i TWO-THIRDS CASUALTIES The Canadians, who made up five-sixths of the force that attack ed Dieppe, paid a very high price for the information and experience obtained. It is now revealed that 67 per cent of 5,000 Canadians were cas ualties in the heavy fighting that followed the large-scale raid. More than half of the attackers are re corded as missing, "which means dead or captured. In addition, there are 170 known dead and 633 wounded. This leaves 1,650, the total of those who escaped uninjured. The fig ures give us an indication of the difficulties and dangers connected with a "second front" in western Europe. We know very little about the re ligion df Russia but the Reds evi dently believe in defending Russia, which is more than some religious leaders in the United States are willing to do for their own nation. There will be no dictatorship in the United States so long as the newspapers maintain their freedom to report, inform, and to criticize. SHORTAGE OF MATERIALS REPORTED CRITICAL Commenting recently on the can cellation of the * Higgins shipbuild ing contract, Joseph W. Morrell, specialist assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, told a congressional committee that "there will be a good many other cancellations" be cause of shortages of critical ma terials. He listed shortages of brass, copper, rubber, nickel and added that every one of these criti cal materials "is so short it is hard to say one is more serious than the other." This statement should be read with that of Captain N. L. Raw ling, head of the Shipbuilding Di vision, in the Navy's Bureau of Ships, who says that the Navy has too many shipyards, or as many shipyards as it can use on the basis of the availability of critical mater ials and adds that "we aTe having considerable difficulty in maintain ing our present yards at the pres ent rate of production. They are not operating at maximum ca pacity." In spite of these statements, there are Americans who look on the scrap collection campaign as something of a pastime. They ap parently do not realize the enorm ous demand for critical materials and the necessity of securing ail available scrap in order to make possible the production that is nec essary to win the war. "STEP BY STEP" Secretary of State Cordell Hull recently called attention to the eleventh anniversary of the so-call ed Mukden Incident, which pre ceded the Japanese attack on Man churia. The first step in Japanese ag gression occurred on September 18, 1931, and, as the Secretary of State says, "The course of aggres sion there embarked upon was fol lowed by successive aggressions in Asia, Africa and Europe, and has led, step by step, to the present world conflict." What the eminent Secretary of State says is now recognized by most Americans. Nevertheless, it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to convince many of us that there was a connection be tween Japanese aggression in the' Far East and Axis aggression in Europe. The clincher was the fact that when Japan attacked the United States, Germany and Italy imme diately declared war upon this country. That the two powers had a full understanding to this effect is evidence enough of a conspiracy against the United States. It proves, beyond the shadow of doubt, that our naval strategists were right when, in 1939, they made public tables showing the relative naval strength of the Unit sd States as contrasted with the combined naval strength of Ger many, Italy and Japan. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN i The loss of Stalingrad, if the j Nazis beat down the stubborn de- j fenders, will result in some disar rangement to the Soviet defenses but nothing like a disaster will fol low. Two-thirds of the Russian front' has been relatively inactive in i 1942, with neither side apparently, ready to assume the risks and loss-1 es of an offensive along the whole line. The Russians are probably con serving their strength for what may lie ahead and the suspicion abounds that the Nazis do not de-' sire to commit their entire armed forces to a gruelling campaign that will proceed deep in the heart of Russia. Hitler's restraint in Russia is either the result of a man-power shortage, which seems a bit improb able just now, or the necessity of holding in reserve sufficient soldiers to meet any second front in wes tern Europe. NOTES AND COMMENTS The individual who postpones a good deed is not putting off a bad deed. ♦ * * The nation that furnishes the Japs with scrap, ought to be able to provide scrap for itself. » * * All things, no matter how old, come to the end of their usefulness and should give away to new de velopments. * * * Young men who leave McDowell County for active service should not be forgotten; a good way to show that you remember them is to send them The Progress. * * * Newspaper advertising ia the cheapest and most effective of all. It reaches everybody who is reach ed by every other kind of advertis ing and many who are reached by no other kind. War Harvest Food] MAT V0 Vol) H£A£W0M W? r - OH, We HEARD W0M TOM LA5T WEEiC HL'5 pEEri KOHOTW A 5EK0£ANTj EVERY TOWN NEEDS A GOOD NEWSPAPER "Let me read your newspaper and I'll tell you the kind of town you have." This terse quotation, credited to ! a business executive failing to be i impressed by claims on behalf of a | far-removed community in which | his company had indicated interest, (evidences, the degree in which the newspaper of today has come to be held as accurately reflecting the life which it serves. Later, this figure of business and i the institutions of the area in | finance was asked to expand his i statement. His reply is a matter ) of import to everyone who shares | interest in his or her community jand some important standards by [which it is judged by those outside jthe sphere of local interest or sen jtiment. "Show me a community that has | a live, aggressive newspaper, made possible by well-filled advertising i pages representative of local inter i ests, and I'll show you the town that is headed for growth and de [ velopment." I THANKS FOR HARVEST The Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1621 set aside a day of thanksgiv ing for their first harvest on Ameri can soil—a small harvest, but one that promised to keep them alive, and for which they felt grateful. Now in 1942 there has been 'grown in the United States the greatest harvest of all time, 13 per cent greater than the largest previ ous one, and we and our allies of the United Nations are assured of food while we fight otf the fierce predatory foe. Feeling like the Psalmist of old that "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord," a country town editor in Mississippi, Ltster Williams, suggested to the Secre tary of Agriculture a thanksgiving harvest observance." Secretary Claude Wickard immediately agreed and accepted the invitation to initiate the nation-wide thanks giving program with an address to be broadcast from little Tylertown, Misa, (pop. 1,400) on October 8. This obserVance period is to ex tend throughout the harvest season, and each community is to work out its own program. Churches, news papers and radio stations are ex pected to cooperate. "Somehow," wrote Editor Williams, "the tradi tional Thanksgiving day of no work and more food than a man can eat does not seem right during a death struggle like this war." So he reas oned that without loafing or stuff ing we should give expression to our thankfulness at the very time jof the abundant harvest Mr. Wick ard agreed. And the rest of us cannot fail to do so, too, if we on ce stop to think of what might have been if this year's harvest had fail ed.—The Pathfinder. TEN PER CENT FOR BOMBING The bombing attacks upon Ger many, which have been, so far, largely a British offensive, have ac complished considerable results, es pecially when one learns that the British have had only ten per cent of their air force available for bombing attacks. When the war began, the British concentrated on fighter planes to win the Battle of Britain. When they turned to the construction of bombers, designed to strafe Ger man places, one diversion after another caused a distribution of aircraft. Africa, Russia, the Near East and the Far East have required British aircraft. Every plane sent to these sectors retarded the bomb ' ing attacks upon Germany. Lucki ly, with U. S. aircraft assisting, the air force available for bombing at tacks is increasing at a fast rate. Two things you can do to hjplp win the war: Contribute scrap and Buy a Bond. i WAR RATION BOOK NO. 2 j War Ration Book No. 2 has gone ! to the printer and 150,000 books! will be ready for the day when ra-1 tioning to consumers covers a wid- i er range of products than it does! at the present time. The new book of coupons, one ofj a series of four, will be ready about j Christmas. It is designed to pro-! vide a ready means for rationing i any article or commodity, almost at i the instant the danger of a critical! shortage appears. It will contain! 192 coupons, eight pages, each j page of different color and each j ! coupon separately designated by! number and letter. At the present time, it is expect- j ed that the new books will be used ! for the meat-rationing plan which will allow consumers about two and one-half pounds of meat a week.1 The understanding is that every person will be given a book and if j they dine out, in hotels or restau-; rants, they will be required to sur render their coupons if they order, meat. It is explained that consumers will retain their sugar ration books and their use will not be affected by the new coupons. THE GLORIES OF THE HILLS j The invitation of a business friend to make a two-day motor trip through Western North Caro lina is not to be lightly regarded in this lean year of gasoline and tire rationing, and so I had the most agreeable of all sight-seeing tours, the pleasure without the incidental' responsibility of where to go, where I to stay and when to return. j The mountains, always beautiful,! are more so in this year of war than ever. Noble and awe-inspir- j ing as they ever appear, there is a calm serenity, and an immeasurable strength in their quiet repose that is invaluable to worn spirits in this, frenzied day of all our efforts! Na-' ture has seemed to outdo herself in I producing the lavish fruits of an abundant soil. Corn that would grace a Western prairie stands in! fruitful promise, cattle fat enoughj to animate the rings of a prize beef I show wade in grass knee deep. Ap-: pie trees stooping in gracious ac- j knowledgement to a soil and cli- ] mate that will not be denied, j threaten to collapse under their j fruitful burdens! And over all a; sky too blue to impart a sense of reality to the floating clouds whose white argosies drift towards far off harbors. Man has ever been knit to the soil in spiritual as well as physical kinship, and its fruitful beauty shall ever be an inspiration as well as a dedication to a full measure of love and devotion! With Europe torn and shattered by the colossal tread of a God of War whose hor rible might has been mechanized and lifted to the highest degrees of frightfulness, we gain courage and fortitude, comfort and inspiration i from the calm contemplation of the physical gifts and graces of this "Our Own Native Land"! With the song writer it is indeed ours to say— "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, For purple mountains' majesties, above the fruited plain. America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brother hood, from sea to shining sea!" — John S. Taylor in Greenville Piedmont. Trading at home will become popular as automobile tires wear out; smart merchants will seek methods to keep the habit going after the emergency expires. WE ARE NEVER UNDERSOLD STREETMAN DRUG CO. Night Phone 15—Day 57 WHAT YOUR NEWSPAPER Means to You in WARTIME Americans have never needed theiir newspapers more than now! They know that in its pages are the facts that they need to win the war . . . news stories,, editorials, advice on conservation, adver tising that tells the story of new govern ment regulations and aids proper buying! Read The Progress! Buy Bonds for Victory! The Marion Progress 125 South Main St. Phone 64 FIRST NATIONAL PANkT MARION. • N.C. W. R. CHAMBERS, President W. L. MORRIS, Vice-President J. N. MORRIS, Cashier W. F. GRANT, Assistant Cashier The World's News Seen Through The Christian Science Monitor An International Daily Newspaper is Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational ism — Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Bdston, Massachusetts Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year. Introductory Offer, 6 Issues 25 Cents. Name . 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