MARION PROGRESS
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MARION, N. C., FEB. 3, 1944
LOAN YOUR MONEY TODAY!
The nation is now attempting to
borrow $14,000,000,000 from its
citizens, with individuals as distinct
from banks and corporations, asked
to provide $5,500,000,000.
Confronted with the necessity of
waging two tremendous wars, across
vast ocean spaces, the expense of
warfare reaches fantastic propor
tions.
It is not too much to expect that
the patriotic response of the people
of the United States will likewise at
tain fantastic proportions. This
means, of course, that every indi
vidual must make a special exertion
to support the financial structure of
the nation.
The expenses of the war will be
much more than any amounts that
can be secured through taxation, re
gardless of how many new levies
Congress decides to levy. To bal
ance the books of the nation, as a
going, solvent concern, it is vital
that the people lend their money to
the government.
It is not much to ask the tempor
ary use of some money, with the
government paying interest on the
loan. In some countries there has
been no such procedure. The dicta
toral governments ruthlessly confis
cate property and funds, taking
what they need without regard to
the ownership of individuals.
"Let's All Back the Attack" by
investing all we can in War Bonds
during the 4th War Loan Drive.
YOU SHOULD DIRECT YOUR
LIFE
No individual reader of The Pro
gress should get the wrong idea as
to his or her importance in regard
to the affairs of the world. The fact
is the progress of the human race,
when viewed through the centuries,
reacts very little to the efforts of
any person.
Nevertheless, the individual is
charged with the responsibility of
self-development and under most of
our thinking, has an obligation for
improvement that is transcendani.
The idea that anyone of us has the
right to absolutely disregard the ef
fect of our acts and thoughts is re
pugnant, both to the ego of the indi
vidual and to the religions that we
espouse.
With this in mind, the reader
might take time to check upon his or
her past development, to seriously
question the value of some activities
now engaged in and to redirect the
energy that is expended in what we
call life. How much of our time is
given to frivolous enterprise or dis
cipated in undertakings which, if
accomplished, are not subconscious
endeavors toward a goal which, if at
tained, will leave in us new strength
and abiding virtues that sustain the
soul.
McDowell county owes much to
public spirited men and women who
serve their nation without pay on
the home-front. We can't name all
but every citizen can, and should, ex
press their appreciation personally.
Participants in the war loan drive
give their government nothing; they
only lend some cash in order that
the government may protect them
and their property, at the cost of
other men's lives.
The survivors of the men who died
in battle will demand an accounting
of the folks at home when they re
turn from the wars.
It is about time to make up your
mind to plant a large-sized victory
garden—it will benefit you and your
country.
Success comes to the individual
who is willing to put everything be
hind an undertaking, regardless of
risk.
Total war means that every per
son on the home front puts victory
first.
FOR WHOM THE SPRINGTIME
WILL NOT COME AGAIN
In a few months all the loveliness
of the Kansas springtime will flood
! trees along Turkey Creek and the
| prairies to the westward, but "Bud
I ry" Weide will not see it. A brief
| telegram from the War Department
| closed with finality all hopes of his
j ever seeing it again. The message
; stated that Staff Sergeant Elvin G.
| Weide was killed in action while
serving as a tail gunner on a Flying
i Fortress over Greece. He was only
j twenty. Twenty springtimes, and
!then no more.
j In nearly every community some
[ such loss is bringing the war harshly
I close to home. Farm people have
closer ties with one another than the
rest of our population. They feel
more keenly what happens to their
i neighbors. They remember. The
14th War Bond campaign isn't some
j thing that has to be sold in the Tur
! key Creek neighborhood. That isn't
necessary. It is regarded simply as
' the way folks can show how they
feel about a brave and fine boy.
; We believe that is the way that
i buying of War Bonds should be con
sidered. Everyone knows, by now,
that they are a good investment. But
I they are much more than that. They
represent one way by which we can
add our lesser part to the last full
measure of devotion of these others.
Our stake is the same, a world in
which future Americans will be se
: cure. We shall get back what we
put in, with interest. They cannot
get back what they gave—their lives.
I Humbly, and unstintingly, let us
; make our fair acknowledgment to
them—for whom the springtime at
home will not come again.—Country
Gentleman.
JAP LEADERS UNDERSTAND
There are increasing indications
: that Japanese leaders recognize the
i probability of defeat and that they
' are greatly concerned with what will
happen when the United Nations are
able to turn their full resources to
the Pacific war theatre.
The Japanese, it will be recalled,
took advantage of the last war to
make considerable gains in the Far
East. The stage was set in 1941,
according to Tokyo leaders, for the
empire to follow the same course in
the present struggle.
Here was what seemed like a
great opportunity. Great Britain
was fighting for its life and the Unti
ed States was committed to support
the antix-Axis groups in Europe.
Russia was being heavily pounded on
i and a separate peace with Germany
was possible in the Japanese view.
Consequently, the Japanese made
their plunge, launching the treacher
ous attack upon Pearl Harbor while
professional negotiators conducted
farcical parleys in Washington. For
about a year the Japs had things
their way but the United States, de
spite involvement in the war in Eu
rope, has been able to strengthen its
forces in the Pacific and to recap
ture the outer fringes of the fruits
of Japanese aggression.
The Japanese war-makers know
what is going on in the war theatre,
regardless of what they tell their
people at home. They know that,
even today, their forces are unable
to protect the farfiung islands and
that tomorrow it will be a question
whether they will be able to safe
guard the home islands from invas
ion.
German resistance will end when
German manpower wears out; this
will happen when the casualty lists
grow larger.
Advertising must be a good thing;
there are so many successful busi
ness men who say so.
To the People
of this Community
KILL OR BE KILLED
United States Marines paid the
stiffest price in human life per
! square yard for the capture of
Tarawa, vital Pacific outpost.
It was kill or be killed. Your
boys did not
flinch when they
ran into the
deadliest fire
power along the
beaches of this
important Gil
bert Island
stronghold.
This assault,
bloody and cost
ly, is one of the many which must be
made before Tokyo and Berlin are
pounded into dust and ashes.
Whait are you doing to back up
the boys? Remember these are
boys from this very community,
perhaps from your very home. Any
home in your neighborhood which
today does not display the treas
ury's red, white and blue 4th
War Loan Shield proclaiming "We
bought Extra War Bonds" is not
backing the attack. Every Extra
War Bond you buy becomes a di
rect fighter against Japan and Ger
many. If you could but see one
man die on the battlefield, you
would not count the cost of your
slight sacrifices to buy« Extra War
Bonds to make each succeeding as
sault less costly in the lives of our
boys.
You can't afford NOT to buy Ex
tra Bonds in the 4th War Loan if
you would help these boys.
THE EDITOR.
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We are asking one and all to sub
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possible. Monday is the time, while
Tuesday is late enough. We cannot
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Last minute deaths, accidents, etc.,
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Don't call us on Tuesday and ask if
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Our readers are entitled to get
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to do our best to get it to them on
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with us. Give us your copy early.
If you have it ready on Saturday,
submit it. Give it to us on Monday
if possible. All copy has to be set
up into type, proof read, made up,
printed and mailed.
RAYBURN ON "SOB SISTERS"
Speaker Sam Rayburn says some
thing when he urges the women of
the nation not to be "sob sisters af
ter the war saying that the poor peo
ple of Germany and Japan had noth
ing to do with this."
Just as certainly as the sun rises
there will arise a vocal minority in
the United States, when peace is
concluded to defend the enemy peo
ples and to say, "forget and for
give," basing their argument upon
what they consider eminent scrip
tural authority.
What the fantastics will overlook
is the necessity of punishment, not
as revenge, but as a deterrent to
some other self-deluded "master
race" in the future. It is vitally
necessary to the future peace of the
world that the Germans and Japa
nese people thoroughly understand
that aggression, under any pretext,
does not pay.
ABOVE 2,300,000 MEN IN
U. S. ARMY AIR FORCE
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 28.—-The
U. S. army air forces training com
mand made public last night hither
to confidential statistics on the train
ing which has produced manpower
for the "world's greatest air force
now numbering in excess of 2,300,
000 officers and enlisted men."
The announcement, said the train
ing command headquartered here, is
the first of its kind authorized by
the war department since Pearl Har
bor.
The figures show that 100,799
pilots, 20,086 bombardiers, 18,805
navigators, 107,218 aerial flexible
gunners, and 55,891 ground and air
combat crew technicians were grad
uated from the command's nation
wide network of flying and technical
schools from Jan. 1, 1939, to Nov.
30, 1943.
The command trains all AAF per
sonnel, including pilots, bombardifers
nevigators, gunners, and 65 differ
ent categories of technicians.
Approximately 29,000 training
planes of all types, a major air force
in itself, are used by the command.
TO CORRESPONDENTS
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foolish or arbitrary rule, adopted
out of curiosity to see who sends in
the news. We wish to publish all
the news that we can get, but it is
a dangerous thing for a newspaper
to print items that are unsponsored.
The need for this rule has been il
lustrated many times. An editor, in
a rush hour, will print some item
that has come to his desk without ob
serving the absence of a name.
Very often, it is all right, but too
often, it is all wrong to subject oth
ers to unpleasantness by printing
false news about them; this is the
great cause of the rule that has been
universally adopted by the press.
So, to all our readers, we say:
Send us the news, but we add, sign
your name, not for publication, but
for identification. We will not pub
lish the names signed to these news
items ,neither will we publish items
sent in without the name of the
author.
ACCIDENTS AND WAR
Industrial casualties between
Pearl Harbor and January 1, 1944,
aggregated 37,600 killed, 4,500,000
temporarily disabled. The dead are
7,500 more than the military dead
and the disabled are sixty times the
number of military wounded and
missing. The figures are released
by the OWI.
V-MAIL
Because air mail facilities are tax
ed by overseas operations, the Navy
urges the public to use V-mail to
write personnel overseas and indi
cates that other air mail service may
have to be discontinued. V-mail re
quires less than two per cent of the
space and weight of regular mail.
Lecturer (who has spoken for two
hours) : I shall not keep you much
longer. I am afraid I have spoken
at rather great length. There is no
clock in the room and I must apolo
gize for not having a watch with me.
A voice: There's a calendar be
hind you, Mister!
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TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
(By Substituted Trustee)
Pursuant to the power and au-!
thority contained in a certain deed
of trust dated the 1st day of August, :
1934, executed by Wash Copening
and wife Masline Copening to C. S.
Noble, Trustee, which deed of trust,
is duly registered in the office of the
Register of Deeds of McDowell j
County, North Carolina, in Book of j
Deed of Trust 46, page 271, secur- j
ing a certain note payable to Home
Owner's Loan Corporation, default
having been made for a period of
more than ninety (90> days in the j
payment of said note as provided :
therein and in the performance of j
certain covenants set out in said
deed of trust and demand of fore
closure having been made by the j
holder of said indtbtedness, the un
dersigned Trustee, having been sub-j
stituted as Trustee, for C. S. Noble, ;
said substitution being duly recorded
in the office of the Register of Deeds
of McDowell County, North Caro- j
lina, in Deed Book 89> page 605, will !
offer for sale at public action to the
highest bidder for cash at the Court
House door in Marion, North Caro- \
lina at 12 o'clock noon on the 9th
day of February, 1944 the following
described real estate, to-wit:
All that certain lot, tract or parcel
of land situate, lying and being in '
the Marion Townshin, County of
McDowell, State of North Carolina, .
and more particular described and
defined as follows:
All those two certain lots num- 1
bered 14 and 15 in Block 9 of the
Mt. Ida Park addition to the Town (
of Marion, N. C- aT1d being more par- ;
ticular described as follows:)
Beginning on a stake located on
the Northwest corner of Block No. 9
which is also at the intersection of
Henderson Avenue and Ridley
Street located in the Mt. Ida Park;
addition to Marion and running
along the South edge of Ridley
Street with the line of Lot No. 14,
East (5 deg. var.) ' 109 feet to a j
stake; thence South (5 deg. var.)
50 feet to a stake; thence West (5
deg. var.) 109 feet to a stake on the
East edge of Henderson Avenue;
thence along the East edge of Hen
derson Avenue North (5 deg. var.)
50 feet to the beginning. And be
ing the same lots conveyed by E. M.
Crawford to T. Croom Calicutt on
September 25, 1917 and recorded on
November 6, 1917 in Deed Book 52
at Page 551 in the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds for McDowell County,
N. C.
Further reference is hereby made
to a map of the said Mt. Ida Park
addition to the town of Marion, N.
C., which is recorded in the afore
mentioned Register's office. And be
ing the same property conveyed by
T. Croom Callicut, by deed to Wash
Copening and recorded in Deed
Book 79 on Page 581, on July 17,
1934, in the McDowell County Deed
Records. Being the same property
as shown on plat thereof prepared
by E. M. Crawford, surveyor, on
July 2nd, 1943, which said plat is
now on file with the Home Owners'
Loan Corporation.
The nurchaser at this sale will be
required to make a cash deposit of
5 per cent of the purchase price to
show good faith.
This, the 8th day of January,.
1944.
R. PAUL JAMISON,
Substituted Trustee
Proctor & Dameron, Attorneys.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina
McDowell County.
In the Superior Court.
Paul 0. Thomason
vs.
Bertha C. Thomason
Take notice that, under and by
virtue of an order of the Superior
Court made and entered in that cer
tain special proceeding entitled Paul
0. Thomason vs. Bertha C. Thoma
son, the undersigned Commissioners
will, on Monday, the 14th day of
February, 1944, at twelve o'clock,
noon, at the courthouse door in Ma
rion. North Carolina, offer for sale
to the highest bidder, for cash, that
certain tract of land lying and being
in McDowell County, North Caro
lina, and more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning on a rock on the North
side of the Road also Melton's cor
ner, and runs N 13 E 72 poles fol
lowing an old marked line in high
way, and runs thence S 57 E 28
poles with the highway to a stake;
thence S 58 E 52 poles with the high
way 52 poles to a stake; thence S 59
E 54 poles with highway to a stake;
thence S 78 E 12 poles with the
highway to a stake; thence N 82 E
17 poles to a stake in the highway;
thence S 56 W 20 poles to a stake in
the road; thence S 75 W 24 poles to
a stake in the road; thence S 76 W
21 poles to a stake in the road;
thence S 64 W 4 poles to a stake in
the road; thence S 41 W 8 poles to a
stake in the road; thence S 61% W
3 Vz poles to a stake in the road;
thence N 3 E 2 poles, crossing a
deep hollow, to a small pine; thence
N 47 W 8 poles to a stake in the
old road; thence N 20 W 36 poles to
a stake at the top of the hill; thence
S 82 W 20 poles to a stake in the
road; thence N 85 W 4 poles to the
Beginning, containing 25 acres,
more or less, and being described in
Deed Book 80, at pages 368 and
369, of McDowell County Deed Rec
ords.
All bids are subject to confirma
tion by the court.
This the 13th day of January,
1944.
ROY W. DAVIS
E. P. DAMERON
Commissioners.