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VOL. LVI . Number 9
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BIBLE THOUGHT
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"We beseech Thee to teach mankind to live together in peace
Nu man exploiting the weak, no man hating the strong,
Each race working out its own destiny,
Unfettered, self-respecting, fearless."
Lesson In War
THE largest geography-history class ever as-
sembled in the history of the world heard a
thirty-minute lecture last Monday night by one
qualified to teach it. At this time the radio made
a supreme demonstration of its place in the field of
world education. Again the President of the Unit
ed States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, taught his listen
ers by a presentation of knowledge and truth that
could not be misunderstood.
The topic of the lecture-lesson was War World
War total War this War.
Whether or not all the members of the class had
a map of the world spread before them as the
teacher had previously requested, they could not
fail to learn and understand. Those who could:
not sit in the first division of the cla&s had op
portunity for "extension courses4' later re-radioed
in many languages to peoples of other races and
tongues. The lesson was equally vital to all and
of supreme value to multitudes. Morning news
papers carried the text to the privileged few who
still enjoy that symbol of civilization.
Furthermore, the words and meaning- although
geared to the attention of the great and mighty
who measured the weight of every word were
clare and plain, so that even the unlearned and the
children could understand.
The "territory" covered in this half-hour class,
included "the heavens above, the earth beneath and
the waters under the earth." Historically the lec
ture started with George Washington at Valley
Forge in 1777, included the islands of the Pacific
and Douglas MacArthur in 1942; reviewed present
cataclysm and cleared the atmosphere of lies and
false propaganda. It contained no appeasing
phrase, no "comfort to the enemy." Neither were
pain killers administered when the teacher applied
the rod of his barbed words to the stupid, the false
and the evil of his far-flung class. He did not
spare the brave or the cowardly. He used both
the methods of parallel and contrast.
He outlined a broad program for the attainment
of victory and a permanent peace after present de
feats and shortages and shortsightedness have been
overcome by work, production and united action.
He spoke for America "and Americans. These were
his closing words :
"The United Nations constitute an association
of independent peoples of equal dignity and im
portance, dedicated to a .common cause. We share
equally and with equal zeal the anguish and awful
sacrifices of the war .... We have unified com
mand and cooperation and comradeship.
"We Americans will contribute unified produc
tion and unifiied acceptance of sacrifice and of ef
fort .... '
"We of the United States are agreed on certain
broad principles in the kind of peace we seek ....
disarmament of the aggressors, self-determination
of nations and peoples .... and freedom of speech,
freedom of religion, freedom from want and free
dom from fear.
" 'These are the times that try men's souls.'
"Tom Paine wrote those words on a drum-head
by the light of a campfire .... And General Wash
ington ordered that these great words be read to
every regiment in the continental army and this
was the assurance given to the first American
armed forces :
" 'The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis shrink from the service of their
country ; but he that stands now deserves the love
and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like
hell, is not easily conquered ; yet we have this con
solation with us, that the harder the sacrifice, the
more glorius the triumph.'
o spoke Americans in in the year 1776.
"So speak Americans today."
"Planes And More Planes"
THE grave disasters we and our Allies have suf
fered in the Pacific can be laid to but one thing:
lack of supplies and equipment, and a terrible in
feriority in airpower. In the Philippines and Ma
layan campaigns Japan's control of the air has
been almost unquestioned. Mere handfuls of All
ied planes have gone into action against veritable
swarms of enemy planes. The Allied pilots and
ships have given a magnificent account of them
selves, but in the long run the very weight of num
bers wins the day.
That is what we are working for now to gain
for ourselves and the United Nations the vital
weight of numbers in planes, in ships, in guns -which
is essential to victory. Everyone who has
actually seen action in this war reports that the
Jap planes are slower, frailer, poorer-armed than
ours. The British report that, palen for plane,
thev have no doubt of the R. A. F.'s ability to out
do Goering's Luftwaffe. The task is s4wply to
produce enough equipment, and transport it to the
fighting fronts, to overcome the great numerical
supremacy the enemy posseses.
That will not be done in a hurry. Churchill has
said that at least another year must pass before
it will be possible for the Allies to effectively take
the offensive. Other authorities plan on a three
to five-year war. It will be hard and costly to re
gain positions the enemy has seized in the Far
ast, inEurope, in Africa. The factories of Ameri
ca have been given a production job which is un
precedented in world history. They have accepted
that job without reservation.
This country is building planes which reliable
experts say are unsurpassed anywhere. The war
has made it plain that the bomber is the most ef
fective offensive weapon any nation can use, if lit.
is adequately supported with sea and land power.
The United States airplane production schedule in
volves a very high proportion of giant four-engine
ships of the Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24
types. It is those ships which the Dutch have used
so effectively to harry and destroy Japanese ship
ping and military concentrations. To quote Time
once again, "It has already been established that in
building the heavy bombers with which air power
strikes, the U. S. is far and away ahead of the rest
of the world." And the rest of the world combined
cannot equal our potential bomber production ca
pacity. Industrial News Review.
Press Comment
(Jackson County Journal)
Perhaps the burden of the war
has fallen more heavily upon the
small town newspapers of the coun
try than upon any other class of
business. One of the sure founda
tions upon which Democracy rests
is a free press. And, we are per
suaded that the country press of
America remains more nearly free
to express the ideals of its readers
than anv other section of the
newspaper field.
So far, the blow to the news
papers has been heavy. Because
of the fact that automobile plants,
radio plants, refrigerator plants and
other industrial establishments have
been turned to the manufacture
of implements of war, the great
volume of advertising from these
sources has dried up. On top of
that, the local advertising in many
parts orf the country has been
drastically reduced. Add to that
the fact that the cost of paper,
ink, metals, and other necessary
commodities for the operation of
newspapers has greatly increased.
and we are face to face with a
real problem of survival for many
of the papers.
This has come at a time when,
if ever in the history of our .nation
the newspapers are needed to hold
aloft the torch of freedom, they
are needed now.
It is a problem not only for the
papers but for the nation. One
j partial solution would be for the
I Government Printing Office to stop
printing envelopes for business and
professional people, and return this
business to the local printers
where it should be done.
Letters to Editor
Dear Editor :
On Monday, I usually get up
earlier than any other day, be
cause the Press comes early on
that morning.
I was disappointed this Mon
day morning because it was not
here. . . . Please see how my sub
scription stands and if that is, the
trouble I can remedy mat. some
times the news is a cause for joy
and again it may be sad tidings,
such as the passing of Prof. BiH
ings and others in recent months.
On Sunday the 8th, around 10
a. m., I came into the lobby of the'
hotel and found Lester Arnold,
Fred Murray, and VirgH Watkins
waiting to visit with me, and then
in a few moments Billie Parrish
came in then shortly Jim Mozeley
showed up. Quite a reunion of Ma
con boys, all of them looking well
and it was a pleasure to see them.
I hope others from there who are
up this way wiH come to see me
at the Lee Hotel.
Norfolk is very much on a
boom, and badly overcrowded.
When the present contracts for
homes have been finished, there
wiH have been erected 24,000 new
homes in two years. Electricians,
carpentert, painter, plumber or
one skilled along any line can al
ways get a job.
Regards to everybody,
Charles O. Ramsey
Hotel Lee
Norfolk, Va.
Poet's Corner
WE BREAK NEW SEAS
TODAY
We break new seas today
Our eager keels quest unaccustomed
waters,
And, from the vast uncharted
waste in front,
The mystic circles leap
To greet our prows with mightiest
possibilities ;
Bringing to us what?
Dread shoals and shifting banks?
And calms and storms ?
And clouds and biting gales
And wreck and loss ?
And valiant fighting times?
And, maybe, Death and so the
Larger Life !
And, maybe, Life Life on a
bounding tide,
And chance of glorious deeds;
Of help swift-borne to drowning
mariners;
Of cheer to ships dismasted in the
gale;
Of succor given unasked and joy
fully; Of mighty service to all needy
souls.
And, maybe, Golden Days,
Full freighted with delight!
And wide, free seas o,f unimagined
bliss,
And Treasure Isles, and Kingdoms
to be won,
And Undiscovered Countries and
New Kin.
John Oxenham.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pitts of
Brevard, announce the birth of a
son, Edward Eugene, on Sunday,
February 8, at the home of Mrs.
Pitts' mother at Dillard, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Deitz of
Cowee, announce the birth of a
son, Levon Webber, on February.
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A daughter, Katheryn Elaine,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Mashburn at their home in East
Franklin on February 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Paul An
gel announce the birth of a
daughter, Helens on February 5.
On February 8, a son, Leonard
Burnett, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Paul Arvey at their
home in Nantahala township.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Grady
Ramey, of Prentiss, a daughter,
on February 18. z
Mr. and Mrs. James Raleigh
Guffie of Cartoogeehaye, aanounce
the birth of a son, Charles Robert,
on February 9.
A son, Jimmy Lee Anton, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. James J.
AMcClure, on February 20, at their
home at Gneiss.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Bates of
Cowee announce the birth of a
daughter, Mary Manice, on Feb
ruary 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry White of
Cashiers announce the birth of a
daughter on February 19.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Houston of
Franklin announce the birth of a
son, Lindy Max, on February 1.
Mrs. Houston will be remembered
sa Miss Shirley Duvall.
Call for Republican
Convention
The Republicans of Ma
con County will meet in
convention March 14, at
2 p. m., to elect delegates
to the State Congressional
and Judicial Conventions
and to transact any other
business that may proper
ly come before the Con
vention. Let's have a full
attendance.
J. H. DEAN County, Chm.
RAY SWANSON, Sec.
(Political Adv.)
Esso Dealers1 air oaunes
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have been checked for
accuracy
YOUR ESSO DEALER
can and will help you to make
your tires last! He knows that
tires 30 under-inflated rob
you of one-quarter of your pos
sible mileage. One mile in four! And a recent check showed
that nine out of every ten air standards are inaccurate!
So your Esso Dealer has had his air gauge rested and, if nec
essary, adjusted to give the exact pressure needed. Further, he
has a special chart showing the car-maker's tire pressure rec
ommendations for your car. And he'll be glad to give you a
ready reference memo card, which shows proper pressures for
your tires, both front and back.
Here are other services that lengthen tire mileage:
SWITCH WHttU IV HIT 1,000-3.000 CHICK Wm AIMMMSNT WHOM-
MUSS. If you have no (pare, move CAUV. Watch for uneven or sporty
front tires straight back and shift wear. Tires out of line literally
rear tire to opposite sides in front. drag sidewise at every revolution-
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REPAIR SMALL CUTS. Even a tiny cut KU WMtkU AMD TttM M SAlAMCt.
can work right through and ruin Whenever tire and tab are re-
a tire. Hare tires examined fre- moved from rim, have wheel bal-
quently and repaired. anced again to avoid uneven wear.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: I ' V
1. Refrain from high speed driving.
J. Accelerate and brake slowly. 5Lwl 1
3. Avoid scuffing against curbs. Smmtti J
4. Never drive on a flat. aiTRRRj
5. Don't get oil or grease on tires.
A. Let your Eats Dealer check tire
p features at least once a week. ' '
or is AMMUNtnoM . . . iki it wiMiY i m,Timuu!)I!?Li Toll
to prevent damaging tin bead or
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