MARION PROGRESS
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.50
Bix Months .75
MARION, N. C., JULY 20, 1944
PATRIOTS SUPPORT
RATIONING
The OPA is moving to tighten
control over ration currency by es
tablishing verification centers
throughout the country. These will
receive ration coupons, count and
examine them for counterfeits and
evidence of abuses.
It is admitted that ration banks,
which have attempted to do this
work, have been overburdened, but
several types of evasions have been
discovered and special efforts will be
.made to eliminate them.
i here are reports of the use of
counterfeit coupons, especially in
regard to sugar, which is in demand
for illegitimate distilling, and gaso
line, where the use of counterfeit
coupons has developed into a major
wartime racket.
The OPA will continue to require
endorsement of coupons, thus trac
ing delivery to a dealer and a scien
tific serening will be used to detect
bogus coupons. Deposits of coupons
will be checked to insure accuracy
and proper endorsement. If unen
dorsed, invalid or counterfeit cou
pons are discovered, the dealers will
be required to make them good.
While it is probably inevitable
that a nation with as many people
as there are in the United States
should have a percentage of chislers
and cheaters, the frauds and abuses
that have developed in the rationing
system are a reflection upon the
patriotism of the American pebple
as a whole.
We call attention to the new plan
for. the benefit of the people of Mc
Dowell county in the hope that it
■will serve two purposes: (1) En
courage patriotic Americans t o
abide by rationing regulations and
(2)discourage the small minority of
selfish, uncooperative individuals
from attempting to take advantage
of other citizens.
It is vitally necessary that the ra
tioning programs work effectively.
The success of our war effort may
well depend upon the proper handl
ing of available supplies and their
distribution upon a just basis. Ev
ery time an individual gets more
than his, or her, share, the war ec
onomy suffers, reserve pool is un
fairly drained and the possibility of
increased quotas becomes more diffi
cult.
Compared with the sacrifice and
privation of our fighting men, the
American citizen on the home front
has been asked to do very little in
this war. The Government has lev
ied no capital tax to finance the
struggles which, if successful, will
preserve and protect property
rights.
It" has definitely requested specific
cooperation in the use of certain
scarce commodities, establishing fair
and just rules for their distribution.
Certainly, the home front patriot
cannot do less than cheerfully co
operate in this respect.
REVOLUTION NOT IMPOSSIBLE
In addition to supporting the
fighting men at the front the people
of the United States have two im
portant tasks on the home front.
The first is to unite in support of
a peace, which in justice will punish
aggressors and offer hope of avoid
ing another great war.
The second is to maintain a do
mestic economy that will offer op
portunity to veterans to develop
normal lives after their service of
war.
There is not much evidence that
there is understanding of the prob
lems involved, much less their solu
tion. There is much to reveal sel
fish designs to profiteer out of the
nation's emergency.
Capital, labor, farmers and every
body else, might consider what will
liappen if this nation hatches anoth
er post-war depression. It is not
idle to suggest revolutionary chang
es in the American way which, be
lieve it or not, is enjoying a last op
portunity to produce results that
count in the lives of the millions
who constitute the nation.
SAIPAN A GREAT VICTORY
The campaign on Saipan has come
I to a virtual end, reports Admiral
| Nimitz, although isolated groups of
j enemy troops must still be exter
i minated.
j The capture of Saipan is a tre
Imendous victory for American forc
; es in the Pacific. It represents a
j bastion in Japanese defense struc
ture and gives us valuable bases for
| operations in three directions, in
cluding Japan, China and the Philip
| pines.
] Before the war the Japanese, and
| most military experts, thought such
ja victory would be an impossibility.
I Ships would not dare approach land
| based aircraft and, even so, the
; Japanese fleet was too strong for
• the American fleet, which would
| have to operate far from its base,
j The record of achievement at
I Saipan reflects the extensive work
i that has preceded occupation of the
! island. Stretching back to the
I United State vast construction was
j necessary and, in this country, the
'fleet itself had to be completed.
| The job has been well done, re
jecting credit upon all arms engag
jed, the United States of America
and the people at home, who have
jlent their hands to the tasks of war.
It also serves notice upon Japan that
her days are numbered.
POST-WAR EMPLOYMENT
The activities of the people of
the United States have been greatly
increased during the war emergency
and there are millions of Americans
working who never worked before.
When the war emergency ends,
there will be an inevitable slacken
ing of war production but it is hop
ed that some methods can be de
veloped to maintain economic activ
ity somewhere close to the present
scale.
Some idea of the problem appeal's
when we realize that there will be
about seven million discharged mili
tary personnel and somewhere
around twenty million war workers.
The employment of those who in
tend to seek work will be a consid
erable undertaking.
Obviously, there will exist some
thing of an economic cycle. The de
mand for goods will depend upon
the volume of employment and vice
versa. Undoubtedly, the initial de
mand will be tremendous, due to
shortages during war years and to
the fact that many Americans have
managed to save some money for
future spending.
"EACH MORN A THOUSAND . . "
Roses, pink, white and red! They
spill over stone wall and picket
fence; they climb porch trellis and
carpet vast banks along the high
road. In old and new gardens their
profume now fills the air. In homes,
in offices, bouquets of their loveli
ness brighten restful or workaday
corners, accent tables and desks.
Out across the United States the
hundreds of municipal rose gardens
—described by one authority as
"the finest and most efficient ex
pression in America of the park
spirit" — have begun their lavish,
long-season bloom, and will be vis
ited by thousands before the sum
mer is over.
This perhaps most loved of all
flowers may be found in every coun
try of the civilized world and is
praised in music, in poetry, and in
records that reach back to pre
Babylonian times, in some form it
thrives wild in every State in the
United States and is the official
flower of four States and the Dist
rict of Columbia. It is also Eng
land's national flower. In its long
and distinguished history it has been
the insignia of two royal British
houses and has named a civil war;
it has been carved into dome and
architrave; it has inspired civic fes
tivals. Famed hybridizers have
spent their lives developing the rose
j aristocrats of our gardens. No flow
er has ben more widely honored.
Sweetest of them all to most
! flower-lovers is the wild rose of the
roadsides. Whether Rosa Carolina,
prairie rose, or a wild rose of any
other name, it is a symbol not of
wars and fame but of modesty and
grace. Undaunted by rough hedge
rows and rugged boulders, it lifts
dainty stems above burdock and
bramble to flower into tiny pink
buds and wide-eyed single blooms
that appeal to man's love of gentle
ness and of their unstinted gift of
■ fragrance.—Christian Science Moni
tor.
FRIENDS
A friend is like an old song grown
sweeter with the years,
A friend is one who shares our joys
and wipes away our tears;
A friend will look for goodness in
everything we do,
A friend is one who knows our
faults, yet finds our virtues too;
I
A friend will share a crust of bread,
or help to lift a load—
Bapy are we who find a few good
friends along the road.
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Awaiting the Rider
(WNU Scrrio*)
NO ATHEISTS THERE
The following poem was reported
to have been found on the body of
an American soldier killed in Italy:
"Look, God! I've never spoken to
you.
But now I want to say 'How d'you
do?'
You see, God, they told me You
didn't exist,
And like a fool I believe all this.
Last night from a shellhole I saw j
your sky:
I figured then they had told me a lie;!
Had I taken the time to see things j
You made
I'd have know they weren't calling;
a spade a spade.
I wonder, God, if You'd shake my I
hand,—
Somehow I felt You'd understand. I
Funny I had to come to this Hellish
place |
Before I had time to see Your face. |
Well! I guess there isn't much more!
to say:
But I'm sure glad, God, I met You ;
today.
I guess the zero hour will soon be
here,
But I'm not afraid since I know
You're near.
The signal!! Well, God, I'll have to i
go.
I like you lots,—this I want You to :
know.
Look, now, this'll be a horrible j
fight:
Who knows? I may come to Your!
house tonight.
i
Though I wasn't friendly to You be
fore J
I wonder, God, if You'd wait at
Your door?
Look, I'm crying, me, shedding j
tears!
I wish I had known You these many ;
years.
Well, I have to go now, God. Good-:
bye.
Strange, since I met You, I'm not
afraid to die."
SCHOOLS OF N. C. LEAD *
IN SALE OF WAR BONDS
North Carolina led the entire na-;
tion in the number of war bonds
sold through the public schools be
tween January 1 and June 15, ac
cording to a statement received
here from Allison James, of Greens
boro, executive manager of the war
finance committee.
The public schools of thfe state
sold bonds which accounted for the
purchase of 280 airplanes at a cost
of $8,525,000, Mr. James stated.
: California was second with $4,
890,000, Pennsylvania third with
i $4,595,000, Texas fourth with $3,
j 705,000, and Michigan fifth with
i $3,350,000.
Buncombe county schools were
one of three units in the state to
pass the $450,000 mark in the sale
of bonds. The figure for this coun
ty was *$6G9,476. The other units
were Columbus county and Marion
elementary school of Shelby.
I
WEAPONS
Declaring that its monthly goals
of war material deliveries are not
, being met, the War Department has
j requested the WPB to exert "even
l more vigorous efforts" to increase
manufacture of weapons. Failure
i to meet schedules will delay mili
itary operations and will be "costly
i in loss of lives and in prolonging
| the struggle," declares the depart
ment.
The man who buys a bond is
|doing nothing for his country; he is
j merely taking out some insurance,
without net cost to himself, against
; losing his property to the Japs and
the Germans.
No minority makes permanent
gains through exerting pressure
upon the rest of the population.
No nation fights to the last man;
watch Germany and Japan.
NATIONAL FARM SAFETY
WEEK JULY 23 TO 29
Cicago, July 19.—The labor lost
through farm accidents in 1943
alone could have produced the na
tion's entire wheat crop for one
year.
The number of farm people kill
ed by accidents in America's first
two years of the war was greater
than the number of American fight
ing men killed on all battlefronts in
the same period.
These facts were cited today by
the National Safety Council in urg
ing nationwide observance of Na
tional Farm Safety Week July 23
29.
Purpose of the week is to focus
national attention on the need for
year-round prevention of accidents
that waste farm manpower and pro
duction vital to victory.
The Council and all agencies con
cerned with agriculture and farm
life have joined in sponsoring the
farm safety week, which has been
proclaimed officially by President
Roosevelt.
"Loss of life and limb by accident
among our farming population has
already reached an appalling fig
ure," said the President, "and the
risks have lately been increased by
longer hours of work and conse
quent fatigue.
"It is essential to our war effort
that this waste of vital farm power
be minimized in every possible way.
"I, therefore, request all persons
and organizations concerned with
agriculture and farm life to unite
in an effort, during this National
Farm Safety Week, to stimulate
among farmers a full realization of
the need for constant attention to
the old and familiar precautions
against the hazards of their calling,
and also to awaken in them a sense
of responsibility for the proper in
struction in rules of safety of the
young and inexperienced persons
now being employed on farms in all
parts of the country."
In endorsing the observance of
National Farm Safety Week, Secre
tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wick
ard and War Food Administrator
Marvin H. Jones pointed out that
prevention of farm accidents in,
this time of stress means more food
for freedom.
VICTORY GARDEN
Prepare now for the fall Victory
Garden. Play safe by producing
your own. vegetables, because war
needs must be met.
Victory Gardens are important;
suppose victory arrives and you have
no garden!
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