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till FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942 AM P6UK - ik Itigklimita ffinznttinn PnblUhedvery Thursday by The Franklin Pret At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL.LVI . Number"! Mrs. J W. C. Johnson and W. S. Johnon Publisher Entered at the Poit Office, Franklin, N. C, as second dais matter " SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ' -j'qq Eight Montha " n Six Months . Single Copy ' BIBLE THOUGHT Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage. Joshua 10:. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. Richter. Rubber Salvage ALL the scrap rubber extant in the United States has been called. The need is vital and imme diate, and the rubber is pouring in. The slow response from the homes of the county reported in this issue by the county chairman, J. S. Conley, to bring in their small articles may be part ly because the need has not been sufficiently im pressed upon them. Mr. Conley quoted an incident unA rr raAn wWp one of our aviators in an engagement in the Pacific was able to land safely in spite of 14 punctures in his gas tank. The rub ber lining had prevented leaking, and so saved him and his plane. The War Production Board seeks to bring home the need for rubber salvage in the following pointed paragraphs. The Army roll on rubber and fighting men walk on rubber, too Army shoes have soles and heels made of reclaimed rubber. Reclaimed rubber is made from scrap rubber. It takes about three quarters of a pound of this rubber to complete a pair of Army shoes. The fighting forces need your scrap rubber. Take it to the nearest filling station NOW! Because the Japs over-ran the lands from which we got more than 90 per cent of our rubber, we must be very careful of the rubber we have. One way of making our stock of crude rubber last as long as possible is to mix the crude with a per centage of reclaimed rubber from scrap. This pro duces rubber up to Army standards five old tires or 80 hot water bottles or fourteen 20-foot lengths of garden hose will supply the amount of reclaimed rubber used in the rubber parts of a 37 MM gun carriage. And the reclaimed rubber used in a fly ing fortress could be supplied by 20 tires or 320 hot water bottles or 56 20-foot lengths of hose. Guns and bombers will win the war. Help hurry them off the production line by taking your scrap rubber collection to the nearest filling station NOW! f How much junk rubber is lying around your house? How many broken water bottles and old overshoes and worn-out tires? Scrap rubber has a wartime job to do. Scrap rubber refined into re claimed rubber and mixed with crude rubber from our stockpile will help keep the wheels rolling to ward victory ! All the reclaimed rubber needed to manufacture the rubber parts of a pursuit plane could come from three discarded tires or nine 20 foot lengths of garden hose. The reclaimed rubber used in rubber parts of a two-ton Army truck could be refined from six tires or 96 hot water bot tles or eighteen 20-foot lengths of rubber hose. An old pair of four-buckle artics would provide enough reclaimed rubber for an Army raincoat and an in ner tube would yield enough for ten civilian gas masks. Get your scrap rubber collection to the nearest filling station NOW! The Price of Victory RITICAL happenings on all battle fronts, includ- ing invasion of our western shores by Asiatic enemies and our eastern waters by European ene mies, have brought the war much closer to our minds. From present indications it appears that the "Victory" we have been lightly using for a slogan or decoration will have to be won the hard way by us if it is to be won at all. Illusions about an early and victorious end to this "global war" are being swept away as victor ies mount on the enemies' balance sheet. The awful implications in case the British, Russians and Chinese fail to stop the progress of axis forces in Russia, Africa and China, are clear to us now if they have not been before. American supplies have helped but they have not turned the tide. It is cold comfort to know that the Germans and Japanese are sacrificing hundreds of thousands of their men to obtain their objectives. Our men are now perishing near our own shores as well as on distant fronts. The fallacy by which some Congress men were cajoled into voting supplies to the Allies on the promise that machines and not men were all they needed, has been shown up for what is really was. Now, Congress is voting sums past imagining in a frantic effort to provide equipment for our men THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE 1 i not. erejoi vano -mm sets mow use ww w-JSnSI (Cyst " ' tvnvsooMiin. mi sav to trrrno Sf f ''" . as they are sent forth to reinforce the beleaguered lines that have so far stood between us and the deadliest war machines of history. A second front in Europe becomes more and more a stark necessity. We dare no longer to under estimate the enemies' strength or endurance. We will pay the full price for victory. Press Comment KEEP 'EM WRITIN' (Asheville Citizen) It requires no Gallup Poll to de termine what men in the armed forces need most and like best : let ters from home. How often they write, "I don't need any more socks or cigarettes just now but keep the letters coming." The plea is almost universal. To the credit of the home fromt, it is not being ignored by the families and loved ones of the men in uniform. The letter-to-a-soldier (or sailor) question is most important of all when it concerns men on overseas duty. As in every army, American military mail has priority of de livery over most items of supply destined for camps and bases aboard. The growing number of these distant stations gives in as ed emphasis to the importan . of a new service soon to be inaugu rated by the Army, Navy and Postoffice Department. It is called "V-Mail," and is patterned after the British micro film postal system. It is to operate this way: The regular postoffices will turn over to the Army and Navy postal centers all V-Mail to be forwarded abroad. After the censor has inspected the letters they will be photographed on micro film at the rate of 2,500 an hour. The films, each one of which cajj carry hundreds of letters, will be shipped abroad and printed from negatives on standard-size photo graphic paper. Under this system the delivery of mail can 'be expedited and a huge number of letters can be shipped. It is estimated that twice to thirty-seven times as much V-Mail can be accommodated by one car rier as in the ordinary form. Al though the process will involve use of a uniform single sheet for microfilming purposes, the speed and efficiency of the system will make up for any incidental hard ships or inconveniences. Five mil lion sheets of V-Mail notepaper al ready have been sent abroad and large quantities will be made avail able to civilian letter-writers. V- Mail is the answer to the soldier's prayer: "Keep 'em writin'." Poets Corner (In appreciation of the poem of James W. Elliott, of the Veteran's OCC Camp of Coweeta Experiment Station.) (To WoHd Wr No. 1 VmM) WE REMEMBER YOU Amid the roar of bombs today, We watch oar youth go march arway. Our hearts are heavy now with care For turmoil greets us everywhere, And we forget sometimes the past In the present lay that flees so fast, But let us pause and tribute pay To the stalwart soldiers of yester day, To those who in our midst remain Who've also suffered hart and pain. With deep respect and honor too We're proud today to remember yarn I REMEMBER LIDICE Oh ! Hearts of men forget it never, Remember! Keep it alive forever. Lidice destroyel! Never. Here let the nations raise mem orial arch ; Here set aflame a lamp of living fire; Here let the sound of feet, for ever on the march In pilgrimage, be heard - and so to .son from sire Be passed the sacred word : "Re member Lidice." A.L.S. Highlands, N. C. PLEDGE TO AMERICAN EAGLE "Of old sat Freedom on . the heights. ..." O, great American bird, Poised, immortal, on thy crag - -Thy battle cry is heard! Below thee, mighty armies march ; And great ships ply the sea, As up the rivers of the air Thy bird-men soar for thee . . . Freedom ... Wide-winged and high breasted, Clear eyed, crown-creasted - - Freedom . . . Never shall thy wings be bound, Thou shalt not captive be Ah never, from thy crag look down. A bird of tyranny I Bess H. Hines Elfijay By HAZEL AMMONS Several people from this com munity attended the decoration at Mt. Grove Baptist church Sunday, June 14. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buchanan was visiting relatives in Clayton, last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. EJdon Coggins an nounce the birth of a daughter, Olivia Lucille, on June 7. Mr. and Mrs. Kerma Holland and son, LeRoy, visited Mrs. Hol land's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Young, recently. Mrs. Betty Clay visited her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Mincey recently. Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Higdon spent the weekend with Mr. Hig don's mother, Mrs. Lula Higdon of Higdonville. Misses Hazel and Sara Ammons visited their sister, Mrs. R. L. Ray, of Franklin, June 14. FQBAICTORY m r I BUY UNITED STATES WAR i m !BONDS AND STAMPS This and That By FRANKIE MACON Seventy gallons of gasoline will drive your car 1000 miles. Seveinty gallons 'xf gasoline will keep a fighter plane up one hour. A Fly ing Fortress burns up a gallon a mile just, cruising to Tokyo or Berlin. Don't growl about the gaso line rationing. "How much do you think France would pay for an other chance?" Our soldiers and .sailors can take it; let's show them we can give it. 1 nearly sold my shoes yesterday. I had 'em half-soled. I'm sorta like the colored boy "Ah ain't ready to go, hut Ah is ready to go UNREADY." The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. Some men never do anything on time except quit work. After reading that it was Cap tain Doolittle who raided Tokyo, the Japs are probably hoping that future raids won't be led by Cap tain Domuch. Another good way to bomb Tokio would be to give Wrong-way Cor rigan a plane-load of bombs and start him out for Berlin. A German scientist has suggest ed a scheme for improving Ger many's climate by changing the flow of the warm Gulf Stream. Never mind, the Allied bombers are making it hot enough in Ger many. "I had no shoes And Complained Until I met a man Who had no feet". An Arab Proverb. Ford Frick points with pride to the fact that no baseall umpire has ever been convicted of a fel ony. Is this just another evidence of the laxity of our courts? A military critic says that our war plans are not sufficiently elas tic. A newspaper article says there have been seven unsuccessful at tempts to shoot Mussolini. Some body ought to give lessons in markmanship to those Italians. It took a world-wide war to do it, but we know the location of Khabarovsk and Rostock. Goering complains that .the weather has- been against the Nazis. Adolf will doubtless remedy that by ordering a better brand of weather for next winter. The war experts'" tell us that we shall have invicible fighting force in 1943. The only trouble is that the contrary Japs and Nazis in sist on fighting in 1842. It's mighty fine to boast that we can take it but wouldn't it be lots more fun to dish it out? It is estimated by the experts that our war efforts will cost more than one billion dollars. This will be the most expensive thing that ever bore the "Made in Japan" label. Dr. James R. Angell says that this war must be the last one in the world. He evidently forgets that we fought 'The War to End Wars" just twenty-five years ago. Jewelers report a scarcity of materials for making costume jew elry. If it's not too expensive, may be something of a semi-rare na ture could be made of rubber bands. Mrs. Manual Ashe and children, and Miss Lula Ammons of Willets visited Mrs. Ashe's mother, Mrs. Ann Ammons, last week. Miss Nannie Ammons is visiting her sister, Mrs. Kermit Rogers on Buck Creek. Wood Franks and Cline Stewart of Erastus, visited relatives on El lijay recently. Show Your Colors The Fourth reminds us of our duty to display our colors at home while our men are fighting under the flag, and for all it means to all the World. MACON FURNITURE COMPANY THAD PATTON, Owner Your County Paper . . . Carries Home News To Macon Men In The Armed Forces In The U. S. A. And Overseas To Macon People In Practically Every State In The Union To Those Who Arte Working Away From Home And To .Those Who Have Moved Away THIS NEWSPAPER COVERS MACON COUNTY It is a welcome weekly visitor into every com munity and is read in nearly every home To The People of Franklin . . ... During the next week the following young people are completing a two weeks' drive for subsoriptions: Please give, your sub scription to one of their VIRGINIA BRYANT BETTY HORSLEY CLELL BRYANT MARION CARR LANE PORTER YOU CANNOT AF FORD NOT TO TAKE YOUR HOME PAPER IN TIMES LIKE THESE! 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