MARION PROGRESS
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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.
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The nation that furnishes the
Japs with scrap, ought to be able
to provide scrap for itself.
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All things, no matter how old,
come to the end of their usefulness
and should give away to new de
velopments.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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