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MARION, N. C., JULY 13, 1944
THE WOUNDED COME HOME
Last month a plane arrived in
this country from the British Isles.
It brought home a full contingent of
wounded, one officer, twelve men
and a Navy Seabee.
Several of the men were part of
the first contingent that went ashore
on D-day, including a paratrooper
who broke his leg landing, several
were wounded before they reached
the shore and others were hit by
snipers as they advanced in battle.
One of the paratroopers, hit by a
mortar shell six hours after be made
a safe parachute landing, was cap- i
trued by the Germans and later re- j
captured by Americans. Another!
had his broken leg set by enemy
soldiers but was liberated by an ad
vancing patrol the next day.
The stream of wounded begins to
flow homeward. The men will be
distributed to general hospitals clos- i
est to their places of residence as
soon as their condition permits. |
Here, it is hoped, they will recover j
from battle wounds.
Nobody knows how long the flow;
of casualties will last, or the num- j
ber of Americans who will come
home wounded. They represent
men who have suffered in the ser
vice of their fellowmen and they de
serve the consideration and prayers
of all Americans.
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WAR PRODUCTION IS VITAL !
If the defense of Minsk, like the.
defense of Cherbourg, is the best.
that the enemy can do then the Hit-j
lerites are closer to complete defeat1
than most of us suspect.
With such news from the fighting
fronts it is easy for the people of
the Allied nations to become over- j
optimisti.c Our own General Staff
has cautioned Americans not to ac-i
cept the idea that the war is won!
and they are right, because any
let-up will prolong the struggle.
Already, military leaders are call
ing for sustained production of
munitions, weapons and implements
of warfare. They know that this is
not the hour to cut off the pressure
that keeps up the flow of supplies to
the fighting areas. Now is the day!
when every American on the home
front should exert himself, or her
self, to the utmost in order to reap :
the greatest gain from favorably de-:
veloping oportunities.
HEROES ON EVERY FRONT
The news of the week has cen
tered around the fighting in Nor
mandy but we must not overlook
the intense fighting that has mark
ed the efforts of our soldiers to
wrest the island of Saipan from the
Japanese.
In the distant waters of the Paci
fic brave Americans are facing the
foe and they are exhibiting the
same courage that has marked our
fighting men in France and Italy.
In fact, there are no side-lines in
the two wars that we fight. There
are some fronts which receive more
attention in the newspapers and on
the air but we should not permit our
thoughts to be centered exclusively
upon one area.
NOTES AND COMMENTS
This is not the time to let-up on
the home front.
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Buy bonds regularly; the war
goes on even when war bond drives
end.
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Women, who want to serve the
nation, have opportunities at home,
as well as in the armed forces.
* * *
A vacation-at-home, recommend
ed this Summer to Americans, is
one substitute that costs less.
* * *
Religion is not a commodity that
one can buy over the counter at a
bargain price.
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Men on the fighting front are not
concerned with vacations; they are
trying to save their lives.
NAZI MANPOWER DWINDLES
The defeat of the German army
will be accomplished by the killing
of German soldiers. There is no
other way to break the military
power of the Nazis and it is imma
terial whether the enemy suffers in
France, Italy or Russia.
Recent news dispatches indicate
that the Allied armies are doing
some effective work on the German
army. The Russians report 150,000
slain and 75,000 captured in White
Russia. The Americans, in Nor
mandy, have buried 5,000 and cap
tured 50,000.
In Italy, since May 11th, the Ger
mans have lost around 100,000 men.
In addition to casualties inflicted by
the Americans in Normandy the
British have also punished the foe
whose total losses in the invasion
may total 100,000.
Certainly, the month of June was
not a profitable month for the mast
er race. Despite the fact that they
were on the defensive everywhere,
with the advantages that go with j
the defense, the Nazis have lost;
many more men than the United
Nations.
This is important because the'
Germans cannot match the manpow
er of the United Nations. While !
we, and our allies, bring up fresh j
troops in every-increasing number!
the Hitlerites seem to be scraping j
the bottom of their reserves. When i
they reach the end, the war will be i
about over, regardless of where the j
contending armies struggle for vie- i
tory.
From France comes information
that German units, fighting in Nor
mandy, have been identified as
"coming from Russia." This indi
cates, very plainly, that Hitler's cen
tral reserve in Germany is exhaust
ed, or he would hardly transfer
men from the eastern front where
the Red Army is on the move.
A WARNING IS USELESS
A demand is growing in Great J
Britain that the government warn
the Germans that if the robot
bomb is employed against England,
the Allies will systematically de
molish some 1,000 Nazi cities. i
The robot bomb, it is reported, j
flies through the air at random and
strikes targets that are impossible;
of selection. The British denounce
the Germans for using a weapon j
that blindly destroys without being j
subject to directional aim for mili- j
tary purpases. i
There is only one thing wrong
with the suggestion of the outraged j
British. There is nothing whatever,
to be gained by warning the Nazis.
The act would delight the Nazis,
giving them what they would consid
er as proof that the robots are caus- j
ing great and important military
damage.
If the Allies decide that the use1
of the robot bomb represents cal- j
lous destruction, regardless of mili
tary use, and that retaliation is ad- j
visable, then they should proceed to j
blast a dozen or more German cit
ies. This is the only language that j
the Teutons understand.
SAIPAN OPENS THE WAY
The importance of the capture of
Saipan can hardly be over-estimat
ed. It will enable us, in the words
of Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal, "to project surface and
air operations that will include the
mainland of Japan, the Philippines
and the greater part of the Dutch
East Indies."
It is well that the fleet has at- j
tacked Saipan because the Japanese,
in their Chinese offensive, have tak
en one of our airfields and, presum- <
ably, will be able to capture others.
The possession of Saipan will give
us compensatory bases with in easy
reach of Japan.
MAY SHORTEN THE WAR
The British Ministry of Economic
Warfare says that five years of ec
onomic warfare and bombing may
cripple the operational mobility of
the German armies this summer and
consequently shorten the war.
German-occupied areas are pro
ducing less than half of the Reich's
oil requirements and the recent
bombing attacks upon oil plants
have intensified the shortage. While
the Germans are expected to make
strenuous efforts to repair refiner
ies, Allied bombers will continue to
comb the plants as fast as they are
put back into operation.
Price control will be necessary af
ter the war ends; otherwise the de
mand for consumer goods will lead
to inflated prices as every American
tries to buy, at the same time, what
he has been waiting for.
What has become of the man who
said that the nation had plenty of
rubber for automobile tires and
enough gasoline for every possible
use?
Results from advertising are con
ctantly reported by those who use
The Progress but we are not sur
prised.
Vitaminizing On the Farm
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USE CARE IN BUYING
FARM REAL ESTATE
Growers should be particularly
careful in buying farm real estate
at this time because present land
values are based on what crops are
selling for now rather than in nor
mal times, say Extension farm man
agement specialists at N. C, State
College.
They point out that when a de
pression comes farm commodity j
prices drop first and lower than the
prices of the things the farmer has
to buy. Following the first world \
war prices of things the farmer
bought were relatively high for a
period of 21 years as compared with
prices of things he sold.
In the years 1934 and 1936 farm
commodity prices were up some but
the farmer had much less than usual
to sell due to drought conditions.
The beginning point in estimating
the value of a farm comes with a
careful estimate of what can be
produced under normal conditions
and what that production will bring j
at normal prices. A reasonable al
lowance should also be made for
poor crop years.
The specialists point out that the
family must live and that taxes,
fertilizer, labor, machinery and
other farm expense items must be
met every year from the proceeds
of th farm. After allowing for j
these necessary items, some idea of
the amount available for paying in-1
terest and principal on the farm!
can be had.
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Health and j|
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!"Beauty ... I
Dr. Sophia Brunson J
DENATURED GRAIN PRODUCTS
No one ever heard of pellagra in j
the South before the War Between j
the States. People sent their corn j
to water mills and had the whole j
grain ground into hominy or meal, j
Wheat was generally ground on the
plantation. The fine white flour
that is so generally used now to
make breads was not in such com
mon use as at the present time.
Every negro cabin had its sweet
potato patch near, and the families
all had gardens for summer and win
ter vegetables. The big orchards of
the planters supplied fruit for all.
The heads of the colored families
were privileged to plant their own
melons, of which they were very
fond.
It was the duty of the planter to
see that the colored folks raised pigs
chickens, and cows for their fami
lies. Decayed and yellowed teeth
among the negroes were almost un
known.
As time went by, after the Con
federate War, the corn meal was
bolted, that is the oil, minerals, and
vitamins were removed. Corn and j
wheat products were still the staple 1
articles of food in the South, the j
people were eating them as before, j
but their health was being impaired, j
The difference was this. The
■grinding (except in a few instan
ces) was done in the city mills. Fine
white flour was being turned out.
The bran and dark part of the wheat
were sold mostly to feed the farm
animals. You see, by taking out
the wheat germ and the proteins,
the white flour keeps indefinitely,
for the bugs will not bother it.
The same denaturing process was
resorted to with corn meal and grits.
You can eat it until you are starved
to death. Now they are claiming to
be enriching the grain products and j
putting back the vitamins. Don't j
you believe it.
In Canada they do not allow j
these chemicals to be put into their j
foods for they do not restore the j
valuable constituents that have been j
removed by milling. Neither can j
they be restored any more than you j
can put something into a sterile egg
to make it hatch. Formerly the rice j
that was raised and cleaned on the
plantations was unpolished. Now:
everything is removed from the rice
but starch and the people who
largely subsist on such devitalized
rice suffer from a disease like pel-;
lagra which is caused from under-;
nourishment. I
Some of the finest vitamins in the
world are manufactured from the
parts of the whole grains which have
been removed. The devitalized
starches are then fed to civilized hu
man beings.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What is the distance between1:
Saipan and Tokyo? j
2. How far must a bomber fly to
go from England to Russia? I
3. What is Moscow's estimate of
German casualties on the Eastern j
front? ]
4. What is "Task Force 58?" j
5. Who is Assistant Secretary of
State?
6. Has any President gone into '
office despite the fact that his op- j
ponent received a larger popular I
vote? j
7. What was the Luftwaffe's ;
greatest loss for a single day in the
Battle of Britain?
8. Who commands the Fifth |
Army, advancing on Florence, |
Italy?
9. How many decorations have
been won by Americans in the
present war?
10. What official, who urges the j
people to buy War Bonds, has not
purchased a single bond? .
(See answers on page 6) I
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Time and one-half for all work over
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Double time for work on seventh day.
Assistance provided to get a place to
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There are also a number of vacancies
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