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The Charlotte Labor Journal AND DIXIE FARM NEWS M2 South Cottar* Street—< PHONE Floor) 11. 1M1. at 10* Paw Office at N. 0. AW or March I. in* W, M. WITTES---.Editor am CLAUDE L. ALBEA....Auoodoto Editor CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940 Every Day Is FLAG DAY LOCAL POLITICS BEGINNING TO SIMMER City politics, now that the county and state primaries are over, are beginning to “simmer,” and from now on the ground work for next year’s election will be mapped out, and the fac tions may very nearly be defined by their votes from now on. One very wise move was made when James Armstrong was made City Manager, and if given time, and a free run is going to make us a good one— Regardless of criticism Charlotte has a good set up at the present time, but you cannot tell what will happen be tween now and next May. NATIONAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGN ON ITS WAY With Wallace as Roosevelt’s running mate, and much dis sension as to the former, the November election promises to be one of great interest. Charges and counter charges, attacks on the New Deal, personalities, etc., will all be used as ammunition. Everything from near Communism, on one side, and Capitalism on the other, is already as campaign propaganda. But, The Journal believes both the Democratics and Republican nominees are 100 per cent for Americans. SftWK WITOJS& I Blind Doctor Is Carrying On Continues Rural Practice For 25 Years; Wife Acts as ‘Eyes.’ WADLEY, ALA. — Twenty-five yew* ago Dr. Thomas Clack, a country doctor, laid to hit wife: “We might ai well face it I’m blind.” “What will we do?" the asked. “Keep on practicing medicine. You’ll be my eyes.” Since that time Dr. Clack haa slapped the breath of life into hun dreds of babies he has never seen, and never will see. He has minis tered to hundreds of persons in this east Alabama community, persons who are but voices in the dark. Today he is in his sixties, and still practicing medicine. Mrs. Clack is his “eyes.” Wife Constant Companion. In the 28 years he has been blind, she has been away from his side for only one 24-hour period. That was when a relative took him to a medical conference in Montgomery. She is by his side every hour of the day and night When he gets a call, she goes with him. She sits by the side of the patient’s bed, while he talks to the patient and gets the case history. He has a delicate sense of touch and can diagnose the patient's wounds with his finger tips. But his “eyes” takes the temper ature, tells him the patient's color and how the sick person's eyes look. Then the doctor comes to a conclu sion regarding the ailment. If it's an emergency case, requir ing surgery, he tells her what in struments to select and how to use them. Mrs. Clack's first surgical test came shortly after her husband lost bis sight. A four-year-old child had been playing with an ax and suf fered a severe laceration of the hand. “I'm sorry.” Dr. Clack said, feel ing the wound. “The finger will have to be amputated.” His wife hesitated. Dr. Clack be gan to tell her what to do. ( “Give her this anesthetic. Boil water. Bathe the hand. Pick up this knife. Be sure the water is hot enough to kill all germs. Take the knife, and ...” • First Amputation Successful. Mrs. Clack gritted her teeth, swayed slightly, but she obeyed his instructions. The operation was a success. i/cwtuiuuiiivii waa uccu uic aetrei of Dr. Clack’s success. He had tq, have it even when he entered the medical profession. He did not graduate from medical school until he was 35—an age when moat physi cians are well launched on their ca reers. He began practice at Abanda, in Chambers county, and three years later lost his sight. It came sud denly, after 'a series of hem orrhages. • Those were the horse and buggy days, so Mrs. Clack hitched up the horse and drove for Mm. When the afromobile came into use she learhed to drive. By now she was his “eyes” all the time, and she had to go with him, night and day. In the evenings, his “eyes” read to him from magazines and medi cal journals, thus enabling him to keep pace with the latest trends in medicine. He was one of the first doctors In the state to use sulfapyridine successfully in the treatment of pneumonia. Kodiak, Alaska, Becomes Rapidly Growing Place SEATTLE.—The renaissance of Kodiak, 140-year-old western Alaska town, has more than doubled its pop ulation in recent months and pro duced an embarrassing obstacle to future expansion. W. J. Erskine. president of the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, ex plained here that much >f the land adjoining present >_ citj limits is owned by “squatters,” who refuse to give up their property. Until the problem is solved the town's builders are concentrating on a residential district inside the city limits to the fullest extent. One firm is building 10 new homes of four to six rooms each. At present Kodiak probably is one of the busiest spots on the North American continent. Construction of the United States naval base sent hundreds of workers there, swelling the population past the 1,000 mark. Patronize Journal Advertisers Tree Planting Nears 2 Billion CCC Program Far From Finished, According To Director. WASHINGTON. — More than 2.000. 000.000 trees will have been planted by the Civilian Conservation corps when enrollees complete their 1040 program, according to James J. McEntee, CCC director. The 1040 program includes the planting of 200,000,000 trees to re forest public lands and 100,000,000 seedlings and young trees on ero sion control projects, he said. Most of the CCC’s reforestation plantings are planned and supervised by the forestry service, while the soil conservation service supervises plantings on erosion control proj ects. Interior department agencies supervise planting in Qther areas. Michigan in Lead. About 1,800,000,000 trees already have been planted. Michigan led with 419,000,000 trees, followed by Wisconsin with 328,000,000. Other high states were New York, 171,000, 000; Louisiana. 152,000,000; Missis sippi, 110,500,000; and Minnesota, 93.000. 000. “The Civilian Conservation corps, working in co-operation with federal and state conservation agencies, is making a dent in the national tree planting job," McEntee said. “An enormous amount of work remains lo be done if the nation is to restore the millions of acres of barren and only partly stocked forest lands pri marily suited to the growing of tim ber. “These lands have been so exces sively cut over and burned over that they will not renew themselves through natural reproduction. Fed eral conservation authorities state there are some 138,000,000 acres of treeless or only partly stocked lands which might well be producing some human benefits. Permanent Investment ‘Tree planting is a permanent in vestment for the future. Over the last seven years we have been plant ing trees for reforestation purposes at a rate slightly in excess of 250, 000,000 trees annually. To maintain this rate it was necessary for the corps ^o increase the capacity of tree nurseries, to collect millions of pounds of seeds and hundreds of thousands of bushels of cones and tree nuts to aid in the growing of trees at nurseries. The nation is now geared to plant between 250, 000,000 and 400,000,000 seedlings an nually for an indefinite period in the future. About 1,000 trees are planted per acre. 1 At DeWITT’S 33 Rockne $QC 34 DeSoto £<« QC Airflow _JpAJ/O 35 Dodge ( 1 AT Coach ..ipiyO 36 Chrysler Touring Sedan _ 37 Plymouth Coach _*P«J / 3 38 Plymouth Tour- ^yj ing Coach _ip^* / O 37 Chevrolet .Tour- *AAg ing Sedan _«P«3*/0 DeWitt Motor Co. DeSoto — Plymouth 428 W. 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Oh, where have I heard that one before? But that is practically all the local news. Our official readings give us 96 and 98 degrees. Our thermometer at street level went up to 120 in five minutes and we pulled it to the rear of the office before it would have ex ploded. Now you should be able to sit back m your twig arm chair, and enjoy life up m the Skyland, after reading that little piece of news. Our Central Labor Union Presi dent, Brother Scoggins reported that he had visited you in the hospital, at our last meeting. Your better half, the Go-getter, also reported to me, and I promised that young lady I would see you at the hospital. But the usual procrastination overcame my good intentions, as you know I did not get to visit you, and anyway, you know my horror of hospitals. Hos pitals and funerals get me down. I can say that, now I know you are about ready to take up the printing stick again, to try to better your fel low man’s bread, butter and new model automobiles. The Central Labor Union voted to hold their meetings, beginning Sep tember first in the new Labor Tem ple at 309 E. Trade St. With a nice large sign on the outside of this building, straight across the front, ‘American Federation of Labor,’ the move should be a progressive one for Charlotte’s ever-growing conservative branch of the labor movement. You would have been delighted to hear the honest discussion we had last Wednesday in the meeting of the Central body on the subject—‘Preven tion of Strikes.’ It was wholesome to get the debate from so many different fields where our locals hold jurisdic tion, all in apparent agreement as to the subject matter. The arguments all were for prevention of strikes, and means to further this so worth while aim. You would have been proud of your honorary membership in the Central Labor Union, if you could have attended this meeting. We are waiting for your return with all ouir hearts. Our best thoughts are with you. Yours in Comradeship, WM. S. 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