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THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1M1 PACE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN TOTAL VICTORY TOTAL EFFORT . . it President Tells World .Objectives Of The United States Warning that sacrifice and in convenience lie ahead for all, Pres ident Roosevelt Saturday night made a "total victory" over the dictators the objective of an Amer ican "total , effort," . unflaggingly sustained, to place the implements of warfare in the hands of na tions resisting aggression. "You will feel Uc impact of this gigantic effort in your daily lives," he said in an address be fore the White House Correspon dents association in Washington. "You will fee! ' it in a way . that will cause you many inconv.en ienccs." ' No Profiteering The nation must be. prepared . for lower profits and longer hours of labor, he said. The arms program must not be obstructed by "un necessary striken" The idea of "normalcy" and "business as usual" must be abandoned. There must be "no war profiteering." And, he hailed the passage of the lease-lend bill by congress as 4 decision ending "any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging iis to get along with the dictators; the end of comprcK mise with tyranny and th,c forces of oppression." The address was one of the pres ident's most vigorous utterances, a speech bristling with determination to eliminate niazism as a world force, and dedicating the material and industrial resources of the country anew to that purpose. World-Wide Audience From the ballroom of the Wil lard hotel, his words went out, not. only to the people .of this country by way of all the big net -"works, but by short wave in 14 languages, including those of all the German-occupied nations. ! As the president ispoke, he stood between two flags the American flag and the blue flag that sym bolized the highest office in the land. He was frequently interrupt ed by applaus,e, and particularly when he said that arms produc tion should not be obstructed by "unnecessary strikes" or ".by short sighted management." Here Today Gone Tomorrow HARTFORD, CONN., No single catastrophe the Great-Grandmother at 48 1 r r : 1 1 ;T V c f A great-grandmother at the age of 48, Laura Bowen (center) proudly holds her great-grandson, three-weeks-old Gerald Horton. With Mra. Bowen is her daughter, Lucy Horton, 32, and Mrs. Horton's son, Luther, 17, father of Gerald. The group are all from St. Louis, Mo. Co w ee The Snow Hill Methodist church is beginning a series of prayer services Friday, March 21. They will start at 7:30 p. m. The Sunday school convention will be h.eld Sunday, 'March 23, at the Kot Creek church. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Smith and daughter of Cullowhee spent the week-end among relatives here. Mr and Mrs. Harry West, of Candler, visited relatives Sunday. Ralph Shelton, who is employed in Ashevillc, spent Sunday with his family. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Leatherman celebrated their 25th anniversary March 12. . :V1'1.. . . . A shower was given to Mr. and Mrs. J.udd Duvall at the home of Fred Lowe Wednesday, March 12. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hurst was iven a shower at the home of D. T. Alien last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Feck an nounce the birth' of a , son March 17, at their home at West's Mill. We are , glad to 1 say Mr. Paul Potts and Luther Raby who have been sick, are improving. Join Now Potts' Burial Ass'n. Protect Thm Wkole Family Fine Solid Oak CaakeU Office Ore Pendergntea' Store JCOLDS 666 To relieve Misery of LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUCH DROPS RtA-Mj-TUm"- Wonderful Liniment Try' This Week In Defense Congress passed and the Presi dent signed the Lease-Lend Act. The President sent a request to Congress for $7,000,000,000, to fi nance the Lease-Lend' program. The Budget Bureau, recommend ed that the President be permitted to'-transfer up to 20 per cent of the funds for any -specific item to any other category, so long as transfers did not increase any category by niore than 30 per cent. In addition to empowering the President to make available to other governments defense mater ial and equipment, the Lease-Lend Act also provides that the powers granted, unless revoked earlier by concurrent Congressional resolu tion, shall end June 30, 1934; that the President report - to Congress at least every 90 days on the op erations under the Act ; and that repayment to the United States by other: governments niay be made in any way the President deems satisfactory. - Naval Expansion - Congress passed t,'le fourth sup plemental national defense appro priation act providing $1,533,500,000, United States last year approached f which $33000 will go ' for the daily average of almost 100 lives lost in automobile accidents, according to a new booklet en titled "Here Today " just issued 4y the Travelers Insurance V com pany. The booklet is the eleventh in a series issued annually, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts about accidents in which 35,000 persons wer.e killed . and more than 1,300,000 others were injured in 1940. Automobile accidents, on an aver age day last year took twice the number of lives lost, in the Kenvil, N. J powder blast, three-times the toll of the Georgia-South Carolina hurricane, and four times that of the ' Little Falls train wreck or the Lovetsville. airplane crash, the report says. The number injured in traffic on an average day ex ceeded the total casualties of the Lt major disasters -of 1940 com bined. "If fatalities make news," the booklet points out, "then the na tion's traffic death toll is the ban ner headline story 365 days of every year." Nantahala National Forest Did vyvA That Friday, March 21, is Arbor Day in the State of North Carolina. ' ,Tke superintendent of public in struction each year issues a pro gram for its observance by the school children of the State in order that they may be taught to appreciate the true value of trees . and forests to their State. Arbor Day originated and was first observed in Nebraksa in 1872. . The plan was conceived and the name "Arbor Day" proposed by J. Sterling Morton, then a mem ber of the State Board of Agri culture, and later United States Secretary of Agriculture. Arbor Day was first observed in North Carolina in 1893. The present law was enacted in 1917. The United States Forest Serv ice is probably the largest single Agency in the State of North Carolina active primarily in the Dronaeation of trees. With its 800,000 acres of timberland com prising the Nantahala, Pisgah, Uharie and Croatan National For est, it is actively engaged in growing trees on a mammoth scale. Truth crushed to earth will rise again and the crushing and the rising conetitut continuous performance. a naval base in t uerto Kico ana $4,700,000 for liarbor r improvements at Guam. ' The President asked Congress for an additional emergency naval ap propriation of $3()0,(aX),000, of which $133,000,000 would be used for ac quisition' of guns and ammunition and $63,000,000 for 12 more, fleet auxiliary cargo ships. Defense Plant Expansion The War Department dedicated the $44,100,000 smokeless powder plant at Radford, Va., which is one of a chain of 40 munitions factories. . The Ciovernnient awarded $44, 400,000 for expansion tr construc tion of other defense plants, and OPM Director Knudsen reported the British (ioverriment financed' expansion of 61 plants, the United States, 302 plants. Labor Supply OPM Director ' General Knudsen reported that between May, 1940, and January, 1941, 1,445,000 addi tional persons were working in nonagricultunal industries. To find several million additional workers needed for the balance of this year, OPM asked defense indus tries to call on Government em ployment agencies. Federal Security Administrator McNutt announced an intensive one-month drive to register the Nation's potential defense workers at State employment offices, be ginning March 15. An appeal is be ing issued to every unemployed worker in the country, and to those persons with urgently need ed skills which are not being iised in their present jobs, Mr. McN'utt isaid. Defense Housing The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill authorizing a $150,000,000 . expansion in the de fense housing program, in addition to the $150,000,0000 authorized and appropriated in the la-st session of the 76th Congress The Army President Rooisevelt called for the observance of Army Day on April 7, and the War Department estimated the : present strength of the' Army at 1.003,000 officers and men. ' Aviation The. OPM announced that during February 972 airplanes were de livered by manufacturers to the Army and Navy, British and other governments and commercial air planes, as .compared with 1,036 in January and 799 in December. .The lower total resulted from fewer days in the month. OPM Director Knudsen said that during 1940 domestic airlines were at. their highest .efficiency-and said the airlines would continue to re ceive motors, propellers and other replacement materials. WPA And Defense WPA inaugurated a 48-hour week on defense construction projects mainly airports, : access roads and more than 3900 buildings at Army and Navy posfcs. The change af fects approximately 200,000 work ers, ' causing increases from 20 to 60 per. cent in the average work week. Defense Labor Strikes The Labor' Department reported strikes and labor disputes in Janu ary, numbered 220, an increase of 60 over December, 1940. There wer.e oj.uuu workers involved in the strikes compared with 40,000 the previous' months, the Bureau said. The OPM Labor Division an nounced settlement during the week of 13 strikes br threatened strikes in defense industries. Health, Welfare, Morale The-Red Cross advised the Army it would purchase up to $1,000,000 worth 5T equipment for Army and Navy , recreational camps and the WPA. announced it will extend its Library Service in the defense cen tres. The War . Department an nounced creation of a new Mppftle Branch of the Army ranking equal ly with other branches. The Public Health Service established a spe cial training school for physicians, .engineers, nurses and laboratory technicians at the National Insti tute of Health, Bethesda, Md. 000 an uM0cc-fv' c r-r MILES ;-NFj; LONG ON TMI IGREATP1AI 7 ttrtCM KffJ IJY7H "k.. 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