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BIBLE THOUGHT
That we may be fellow-workers for , the truth. Ill St. John 8.
Only religion can kill war. There must be a new power of faith,
a new will to fellowship, a new dimension of understanding, and
only tthe very genius of the religious spirit can achieve these re
sults. Joseph Fort Newton.
Clock No. 2062
ART HOCKING of Syracuse, New York is no
mighty figure in the world of industry. He is
probably not known personally beyond his small
circle of friends. He is just one of the thousands of
employes of the Carrier Corporation. But Art Hock
ing has written a letter to his fellow employes that
deserves the widest circulation. Here it is :
TO MY FELLOW WORKERS ?
IN FACTORY AND OFFICE: '
Severs weeks ago my only son was killed in the war. Most of -you
know this but you can't possibly know how Hardy's mother and I
feel. That is, hone of you except Walt Gardner who just lost his
boy too.
Since Hardy's death I've been doing a lot of thinking. What I'm
trying to figure out is why so many of us are taking things for
granted and not doing all we can to help win the war.
Maybe it's because we keep hearing and talking about the war
lasting for years. That sort of thinking might keep anyone from
hurrying.
It could be that this long-pull stuff was why we lost almost half
a million minutes of production time last month through absence
and tardiness.
Anyway I'm fed up with all this talk about a 5 or 10-year war.
There's no sense to it. We can win this war quick. We've got to.
If we don't your boys will be killed like mine was.
So put those 5 and 10-year thoughts' out of your head. Finish our
refrigeration machines for the synthetic rubber program this month
not next. Keep our portable cold storage line going 24 hours a day -not
16 or 20.
Sure this means sacrifices. It's no fun to work the night shifts.
It's not easy to put 10 per cent of your pay into War Bonds. None
of us go for gas and fuel and food rationing.
But these are nothing compared to losing someone you love. I
know.
Please, please don't wait for the casualty lists to come rolling in.
Throw yourselves into high NOW.
Get going as though both the Huns and the Japs had to be licked
in 1943. Maybe they will be if we really try.
I suggest a new slogan for Carrier. Here it is Let's get it Over
quick!
I hope you won't think that I'm preaching. I'm not. I'm praying.
Yours truly, . !
Arthur Hocking
, , Clock No. 2062.
The nation is full of Art Hockings. Their num
bers grow daily as our fighting services come to
grips with the enemy on Guadalcanal, in North'
Africa, in the air and on the waters of this world.
girdling war. They are the fathers of those who die
for the republic.
Art Hocking is both a symbol and a rebuke.
He is a symbol of the heart-breaking sacrifice
which is necessary to the winning of the war. He
is a rebuke to those of us who are doing less than
our share.
If you are consuming more gas than is absolutely
necessary, think of Art Hocking and be heartily
ashamed of yourself.
If you are malingering at your job, giving much
less than your capacity in production, think of Art
Hocking and be remorseful.
If you are resorting to dubious devices to aid
your son in avoiding military service, think of Art
Hocking and remember that the sons of others
arc dying.
Art Hocking is the America that counts, the
America that deserves to be saved.
The Asheville Citizen.
Macon's Refunded Debt
"ITIZENS will note with interest the changed
status of Macon county's bonded indebtedness
brought about by the refunding of outstanding
bonds of $724,000. The market for bonds at this
time is high, and the financial statement of the
county which was presented with the official notice
and blank proposal required was favorable to the
- material reduction of interest
The County Commissioners and the county at
torney have done an outstanding service to the
people in accomplishing a saving of nearly $10,000
a year for the next twenty-five years in interest.
HOT WORK AT SHORT RANGE The Thompson ("Tommy)
sub-machine gun in the hands of a trained infantryman offers
formidable combination which can spell the difference In lire-power
yhen American troops clash with those of the enemy.
Press Comment
(We acknowledge with thanks
the receipt of a copy of the La
Verne Leader, containing the fol
lowing editorial. It was sent by
our long-time subscriber, E. D.
White, who has written several
articles on the history of Macon
county 'which we have published
from time to time. Editor.)
SOUTHERN COUNTY LEADS
THE "SCRAP"
Recently we published a brief
government release lauding the city
of Holyoke, Mass., population 55,
000, for turning in over a million
pounds of scrap, an average of 18
pounds per person. Mr. E. D.
White of La Verne, a former
resident of Macon county, N. C.
dropped in the Leader this week
with a copy of his old home town
paper, "The Franklin Press." In
this paper Macon county with a
population of 13,700 modestly an
nounced a total of 2,862,491 pounds
collected, an average of 180 pounds
per person. Macon county's mod
esty may keep them from being
featured in government releases
but 180 pounds per person is a
goal any county, or city or even
La Verne might well strive to
equal. La Verne (Calif.) Leader.
Clippings
"We are in one of the critical
and fateful hours of human his
tory," said Bishop Arthur J.
Moore, of Atlanta, Ga., recently.
"The furnace of life is hotter than
ever before. It is not an over
statement to declare that the world
of tomorrow will be determined
by the ideals we cherish, the goals
we seek, and the convictions we
.hold about mans about brotherhood,
and about immortality. . . . The
LOAN DRIVE BACKED
BY SENATOR GLASS
We reprint the following Asso
ciated Press release:
Lynchburg, Va., November 26.
Senator Carter Glass (D., Va.) one
of the first to assert we should
"lick hell out of Hitler," today
said the respone to the victory
loan drive will determine whether
America is behind the fighting men
who have gone overseas to do it.
"If we fail to support the treas
ury we will be supporting the
axis," said the 84-year-old senator
who was father of the federal re
serve system and secretary of the
treasury under World War Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson.
The Virginia senator emphasiz
ed the importance of wide public
participation as the soundest part
of war financing in calling for
support of the nine billion dollar
drive opening Monday the larg
est single piece of financing in
the world's history.
"The victory loan drive for nine
billion dollars," Glass said, "is a
challenge to all of us on the home
front. Either the country is be
hind its fighting men or it is not.
"The parade of dollars' from
citizens' pockets will determine the
answer. These dollars must be
converted, through loans to the
government, into guns, tanks, planes
and ships for our fcen on the
Women Prisoners Sew
Shirts For U. S. Navy
Raleigh, N. C. Women prison
ers at the female division of the
N. C. State Prison are turning out
some 39,000 shirts for the U. S.
Navy. "' j
This is the first war order to
be received by the North Carolina
Penal Department.
The women prisoners will make
the navy shirts instead of turn
ing out the clothing ordinarily
used by the 10,000 inmates of the
North Carolina Prison System.
Supervising the wprk will be one
of the youngest women wardens
in the country, Ethel Strickland, a
comely brunette, who has been in
charge of the Woman Division, as
the first woman warden in the
State of North Carolina for almost
a year.
It will take some 50 prisoners,
working with 36 sewing machines
and assembling and cutting instru
ments to manufacture the war
order. Their crimes range from
larceny to murder, with every
thing else thrown h.
Prison Director Oscar Pitts, who
heads up the the Prison System
hopes , that the Woman's Prison
contract will represent only a be
ginning of other war orders to
follow., utilizing some of the other
equipment to be found at the men's
division.
Pitts says that prisoners as a
whole are anxious to play a part
in the winning of the war. Capac
ity of the shirt plant will be some
35 dozen shirts per day.
Cloth for the shirts will be pur
chased by the North Carolina Pris
on Department from the Alabama
State Prison. So the entire manu
facture of the garments will be
by prison labor. '
Poet's Corner
healing of the world's woes will
not come through this or that
social or political theory, nor
through violent or ill-considered
changes in government, but
through the silent and sure process
of the Christian gospel."
Si. - IN SiiDlj.
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And Every Member of the Family
NUNNALLY, NORRIS AND WHITMAN
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Parker and Sheaf fer Pen and Pencil Sets
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fighting fronts. It is the greatest
.single piece of financing ever und
ertaken by any government in the
world's history.
"As one who has always had a
sincere interest in the banking
system of the country," the sen
ator added, "I know it is vitally
important that the greatest pos
sible amount of private and in
stitutional funds be invested in
these securities, in order to keep
resort to bank borrowing at a
minimum. The soundest treasury
borrowing is from member banks,
for in that way we will avoid lay
ing any foundation for currency
inflation. We on the home front
are not leaving comfortable homes
and risking our lives ; we can and
must enlist our dollars.
"If we fail the results can be
disastrous for all of us. I urge my
fellow citizens, without qualifica
tion, to purchase victory bonds to
the utmost of their ability."
(The now famous war sonnet
below was written 30,000 feet in
the air by. Pilot Officer John G.
Magee, Jr., of the Royal Canadian
Air Force on September 3, 1941.
He was killed last December in
England.)
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds
of earth
And danced the skies on laughter
silvered1 wings ;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined
the tumbling mirth
Of sunsplit clouds and done a
hundred things
You have not dreamed of wheeled
and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence, Hov'ring
there,
I've, chased the shouting wind along,
, and flung
My eager craft through footless
halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning
blue
I've topped the windswept heights
with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle
flew
And while with silent lifting mind
I've trod
The high untrespassed sancity of
space
Put out my hand and touched the
face of God.
Through pew steel alloy pro
cesses, Army Ordnance saved
enough nickel to supply the needs
of 46,000 heavy tanks and 17,000
75 mm. howitzers.
Michigan is the only area where
chickory is grown to any extent,
and coffee roasters are getting the
entire supply, anticipating the de
mand for mixing it with coffee.
TIDES
There are tides that roll against
our shores
Beating back the ships that are
our thoughts
And our intentions, when we try
to launch them.
Failing now, we look to future
years
To complement the lack in those
gone by.
Lest, resting on the oar or on the
shore
We miss our chosen port of
of destiny.
Seldom is it given mortal men
To know the course that has been
set for them;
So they lay their own, and be the
tide 1
At ebb or flow, set what sail they
have
And tack to wind and tide if it
must be.
Lucky one he is who sees his star
When tide and wind and moon
are all just right.
But luckier, perhaps, is he who
meets
Them all against him and, for a
while, is lost.
Then, torn by strain of will
against condition,
Finds himself.
John A. Johnson
Eden ton
1942.
A New Orleans drugstore gets
about 100 calls a day for alarm
clocks, has none for sale, and can't
get any more. Alarm clocks have
gone to war.
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