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MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE Mcdowell publishing co., MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 5. 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., JAN. 6, 1944 SOUTH PACIFIC SUCCESS Major General Nathan F. Twin ing, commanding officer of the Thir teenth Air Force, operating in the South Pacific, praises the wonderful way in which the Army, the Navy and the Marines cooperate under Admiral Halsey. This is nothing more than Ameri cans expect. The rivalry between the services disappears in the front lines and it is unexpressed except in relatively safe areas. Gen. Twining says that the defeat of the Japanese is certain. "The on ly thing we don't know now is how long it will last," he says, but adds, "the Japs are slipping fast." The General points out that our strategy does not contemplate any island-to-island battering at the vi tals of Japan. He says we are push ing into position and "with bases es tablished fairly close up" we can work on them. "We can sink their ships and since they're a maritime nation, they won't be able. to keep going with their shipping destroy ed." HEAVIER AERIAL ASSAULTS The aerial war has developed tre mendously in recent months but there are indications that point to a much heavier assault upon our ene mies in the year ahead. The biggest war plant in the na tion is now ready to produce engines for army bombers. Located near Chicago the main building is large enougfe to house Willow Run and have room left for twenty baseball diamonds. The mass production of super bombers is also about to begin. The plant at Marietta, Ga., and other plants, will produce the huge suc cessors to the Flying Fortress at a T3te that would astonish Hitler. The 9,000 planes a month rate of production may not increase very much but the planes produced will be much heavier. They will trans port more bombs, longer distances and with deadlier effect. U. S. SUBMARINES AT WORK Sixteen submarines of the United States Navy have been lost since this country entered the wars now rag ing but three of them were not de stroyed by enemy action. The thirteen "overdue" ships rep resent a part of the fleet of under water warships that is sinking so many Japanese shins. These units leave ports for long cruises and no body knows what happens, except that they do not return on time. There is no publicity agent to de scribe the exploits of the submarines and their crews. They work silent ly, far from home, and out of sight. Only when the tabulation of enemy shins lost is reported do we realize what a valuable contribution they are making to the nation's war ef fort. BERLIN'S FOOLISH THREAT Evidently the aerial offensive is hurting: Germany more than some people think. This seems clear from the "Huns of the air" epithet hurled at British and American aviators by Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Jo seph Goebbels. The threat of the Berlin radio that military courts will deal with Anglo American prisoners "who are guilty of a serious breach of international law" indicates some cracking of Ger man morale . While it is extremely improbable that the Germans will invite retalia tion there is always the possibility that the Nazis will take vengeance upon those within their power. If unfortunately, the Germans adopt the Japanese conception of aviators, and execute American and British fliers, it will be up to the United Nations to exact a terrible penalty. We prefer not to think of such a scourge but, if it becomes necessary, we should not hesitate. Hitler's secret weapon is the dis cord that he can stir up among the jjeople of the United Nations. ITALIAN CAMPAIGN SATIS FACTORY. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Itaiking about the war in Italy, says j that the campaign has well repaid | all efforts. He seems to be satisfied I that the best has been done under i terrible adverse conditions of weath !er, logistics and terrain. Apparently, the commander of the -Allied forces considers that the cap j ture of the port of Naples and the j airfields of Foggia represent impor tant acquisitions. He feels that the men in the Fifth and Eighth Armies have been fighting superbly and takes much pride in the way the various Allied forces have worked together. The General and his assistants are conscious of citicisms launched by armchair strategists in the United States, who continually inform the world what should be done, with sidelights as to the why and how. The military leaders are dealing with an actual campaign which has to be run upon lines which are dif ferent from those that succeed only in glowing phrases on a typewriter, i HEAVY CASUALTIES AHEAD The happy illusion of the people of this country that they can whip j Germany and Japan without suffer ing heavy casualties is responsible ! for the warning from Washington, preparing the people for terrible bat tle casualties. The Associated Press quotes one j of the nation's highest executives as j I predicting that our casualties will j jump from 132,000 to more than { 500,000 in the next three months. This means extremely heavy fight- j ing is at hand. It also means that the enemy will be on the receiving end of some hard blows and that, come what may, the Axis casualty list will grow. ACCEPT THE RISKS OF PEACE The President's message to the people of the United States revealed high confidence in the organization of the nations for peace, after the war ends. j Mr. Roosevelt made it perfectly | plain, however, that there can be no i sure peace unless the nations are J ready to use force to maintain it. This is important. Any people I willing to pour out blood and treas-j ure, after being attacked, should be j willing to act prudently and intelli-! gently to prevent the attack. We assume all the risk when ag gressor nations seek to plunder the world. Is it too much to ask that we take some risk to maintain peace? DON'T WORRY! Don't worry too much about the people who insist that the world is more miserable than ever and speed ing to suicide. That is nonsense. Never be- j fore in the history of this globe have j so many people enjoyed so much as today, even in the day of the terrible war underway. The standard of health, intelli gence and goodness was never so j high. There are exceptions, good ! and bad, but the state of the aver age man, woman or child, all over the world, has never been excelled. THE SECRET SUB The liquor industry in America is sinking annually the equivalent of more than 200 boatloads of grain, 200 of fruit, and 13 boatloads of sugar. The more than 4,000,000000 pounds of grain and 165,000,000 gallons of molasses used in our al coholic beverages would provide ev ery one of America's 40,000,000 underfed with an extra loaf of bread and an additional quart of milk every day in the year. The daily $9,000,000 U. S. liquor bill would: ; Feed 1,000,000 Chinese refugee children for nine months. | Pay for 180 bombers at $50,000. i ! Completely train 600 military pi- • lots at $15,000. | j How long must this sabotage go j on? — Oneonta Messenger, South j Pasadena, Calif. I 7 CHILDREN'S CLOTHING \ ' j Manufacturers of children's cloth | ing have been given additional ma terials and manpower to overcome j existing shortages. The WPB has allocated 18,000,000 yards of cotton | fabrics for two million dozen items of children's clothing in the first quarter of 1944. Yarns for five thousand dozen knit underwear gar ments and 1,903,000 dozen hose have been provided. Special em j phasis has been laid on the prod^ic jtion of low-cost articles which shoiild j reach the retail counters in Febru : ary or March. I Motto for All-Americans: Unit led to Win the War and to Preserve :the Peace. j Sending The Progress to a rela j tive, at home or abroad, makes a year-round Christmas. Buy war bonds and Stamps. 16ll£5S IWD mm m <2»XL$ HffM 6 HeWlLLkKOW WHATi ng/Hfj irmM mm J UNTIL J0HHW I COW> H0*€ / pEFi?et I TACKLES tfeAT MiuHWOn AND 6UTT£(? I £ | When Johnny Comes Marching Home fH|* 1$ A )0& rOf. JOHNNV. HE'LL MOV HPio TO "' ir D R^'r Wtfwviq MtfAO PErr&t MIT UNTIL , JOHHHy CCtei Cl fi* NEWS HAPPENINGS FROM BOB'S CREEK On New Year's eve the young peo ple of the community and of Har mony Grove church were invited to a party and buffet supper at the home of R. P. Ball. Mrs. Sam Mar lowe and Mrs. R. P. Ball were joint hostesses. After the group had grown tired of singing and playing games, the guests were invited to come to the kitchen where a delicous buffet supper of weiners, cake, and hot cocoa was served. All of the guests had a very enjoyable time. Friends of Mrs. Charles Dayberry will be glad to learn that she is greatly improved after a recent ill ness. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Marlowe and family visited Mrs. Marlowe's moth er recently. Miss Lola Ball, who is employed in a chemical laboratory in Savanah, Georgia, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Ball, during the Chrits mas holidays. The family also en joyed a short visit from Mr. Ball's nephew, Sgt. Conley N. McKinnish, of the air forces. Mr. and Mrs. John Gilliam and family have moved to the Haney farm. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Wilson, of Alex andria, Virginia, and Pfc. Elbert Wilson, of San Diego, California, are expected to arrive here about the middle of January to visit friends and relatives. Miss Emma Marlowe, who is em ployed in Asheville, spent Christmas day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Marlowe. Conservation News By L. B. Hairr Setting tree seedlings in under stocked and cut over woodlands is a good way to help nature insure a future supply of timber, according | to C. B. Hogan, a cooperator of the j Catawba soil conservation district. In order to have the materials nec essary for the war effort a heavy de mand is being made on our wood lands. The better quality stands of timber are rapidly disappearing in localities and should be of prime im portance to the people of McDowell county. This is especially true since i a large percentage of the population j depend on the woodlands for all, or j a part cf, their annual income. In harvesting mature timber es pecially shortleaf and phite pine, which are valuable species in this county, it is advisable to follow the practice of leaving from three to five seed trees per acre. These trees should be selected and marked be fore the stand is cut and leave them scattered over the area. Only trees with a well developed crown and producing a large number of cones should be left for seed trees. If the area is protected from fire a new crop of seedlings will be produced withiin a few years. WHO KNOWS? il „1. How does our present army I compare with that of 1917-18? 2. How many men are in the Army Air Corps? 3. How many men are in the Na vy? 4. What is the aircraft strength of the Army and Navy? 5. How do munitions' output now compare with Nov. 1941? 6. Can you give approximate ton nage of merchant ships built in' 1943? I 7. How does lend-lease aid to i Russia compare with aid to Great j i Britain? / 8. What ocean-borne tonnage | leaves U. S. ports in a year? i 9. The Army pilot training pro-, gram turns out how many pilots a year? 10. Has the U. S. had above-aver age food production since 1940? (See "The Answers" on Page 7) OUR DEMOCRACY -by Mat NEITHER-SNOW-NOR-RAIN-NOR-HEAT^NOR GLOOMOFN1GHT-STAYS-THESECOURIERS FROM-THE-SWIFT-COMPLETION pBrnmPkmvPkttfuninuiMiwmrrri OFTHEIR-APPOINTED-ROUNDS. -QUO TAT/ON FROM THE GREEK MSTOR/AN HERODOTUS USED AS A MOTTO FOR THE U.S.POSTOFF/CE. On NOVEMBER 28,12^3, THE FIRST UNITED STATES POSTOFFICE IN THE COUNTRY WAS OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY AND POSTMEN ON HORSEBACK AND BY COACH BEGAN SERVING THEIR. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. Today, from postoffices in every city, town AND VILLAGE IN THE NATION, POSTMEN BRING OUR MAIL BY FOOT, BV HORSE AND CAR, BY RAIL AND SHIP AND PLANE TO OUR HOMES. ANP THE UN/TEP STATES MA/L, /.S ALWAYS /ZEAOY TO CAGGY MO&E AMD MO/SB OE THOSE CHE£/?FUt- LETTE/SS THAT Ol//S SOYS ALL Oi/E/S THE WO&l.r $££ EXPECT/SJG. Childrens Colds More than two generations ago—in grandmother's day—mothers first dis covered Vicks VapoRub. Today it is the most widely used home-remedy for relieving miseries of children's colds. And here is the reason . . . The moment you rub VapoRub on tne throat, chest and back at bedtime it starts to work two ways at once— and keeps on working for hours—to' ease coughing spasms, help clear con gestion in cold-clogged upper breath ing passages, relieve muscular soreness or tightness. It promotes restful sleep. Often most of the misery of the cold is gone by morningl That's why VapoRub is so good to use when colds strike. Try it! This Is No Time to Get RM of One's Bodyguard As long is you drive a car you still need the pro tection insurance can give. Automobile mileage has - been rationed, but driving hazard* continue. Why take the riak when a Farm Bureau "full coverage" automobile insurance policy can protect you so oompletely and at such a low cost with mu tual, user-owned* Insurance J. H. TATE, Agent Office: 32 N. Madison Phone 120-X FARM BUREAU MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO. Home Office, Columbus. Ohle FIRST NATIONAL MARION. N.C W. R. CHAMBERS, President W. L. MORRIS, Vice-President J. N. MORRIS, Cashier W. F. GRANT, Assistant Cashier HAVE YOU? A ROOM OR HOUSE TO RENT A HOUSE TO SELL AN AUTOMOBILE TO SELL A BICYCLE TO SELL ANY ARTICLE TO EXCHANGE ANY FURNITURE TO SELL ANY STOCK TO SELL Use The Progress Want Ads 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. 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