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March 5, 1942
ALMANAC
• AUSTfia. PBOUW rfv
“Strike while the iron is hot
MARCH
5— George Westinghouse
gets patent for air brake.
1879
6— Spaniards take posses
sion ol Hew Orleans,
1766.
7— Political rights restored
to Coniederate leaders.
1870.
8— Suspension bridge across
Niagara River opened
25 for use, 1855.
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8—Battle cf Monitor vs. Mer
0-—First words spoken over
telephone. 1876.
1—Lend-Lease bill signed
by President Roosevelt,
\ 1941.
rimac, 1862.
Merciless Killer
In the last year alone, tuberculosis
killed approximately 10,000 more
Americans than were killed in action
or died of wounds in World \\ ar I.
In all wars fought by this country
since 1776, with the exception of the
present conflict, deaths resulting
from military action or from wounds
received in action, totaled 244,450.
In the four-year period, 1937-40, tu
berculosis killed 254,668 of our citi
zens.
Civilian air-raid casualties in Eng
land during a ten-month period in
1940-41, when enemy air activity
was at its zenith, totaled about 36,
000. During a comparable period in
this country, tuberculosis took 50,
000 lives.
Those three illustrations show the
staggering toll taken by one of the
greatest bacterial killers. It is true
that immense progress in reducing
T. B.’s ravages has been made, and
medical authorities look forward to
a time when the disease will be com
pletely eradicated. But unless every
effort is made to maintain this prog
ress, the nation stands to lose hard
won ground.
War means that millions will work]
longer and rest less. Weariness and
exposure are two of T. B.’s most ef
fective allies. Every precaution, pub
lic and private alike, must be given
to controlling during the war period.
So far as the individual is concerned,
he should immediately see his physi
cian when any sympton of illness ap
pears. We must never slow the fight
against this merciless killer.
IF I Had Known!
By Ruth Taylor
We can no longer afford the lux
ury of post-mortems, but we cannot
ahord to ignore the lessons we saw
learned in blood and suffering abroad.
We cannot afford differing or dis
unity among our own people—the
thinking in terms of groups, the de
manding of special privileges, the
constant asking for special favors or
concessions.
This war can only be won by the
active participate n and all-out effort
of every one of us. There are no
longer any non-combatants. We are
all in it. Wars are won by all the
people, not by any one group.
How can we hold out for personal
advantages when we consider the
sacrifices being made by those who
are fighting to keep the enemy from
our shores? Their lives are laid down
for us, and it is up to us to put aside
differences and critical discussion of j
each other to get together and back
up our soldiers.
We cannot afford to be separated.
We have seen what happened abroad
when disunity entered. We have seen
what seeking after special privilege
cost. Thyssen learned it in Germany
when the monster his money had
helped create devoured him. The
French workers learned it, when the
trade union movemnt was dissolved
in France.
There is one paragraph quoted in
many papers today which I wish we
ill had to learn:
“What does that Frenchman—sol
dier, workman, politician or business
man—think today? Probably it's
something like this: T wash I had
been less greedy for myself and more
anxious for my country; I wish I had
realized you can't beat off a deter
mined invader by a quarreling, dis
united people at home; I wish I had
been willing to give in on some of my
rights to other Frenchmen, instead
if giving up> all of them to a foreign
er; I wish I had realized other
Frenchmen had rights, too; I wish I
aad known that patriotism is work,
aot talk; giving, not getting.'”
We must stand together. We can
not afford the luxury of standing on
our rights. We must work today for
a common aim, for the good of all of
us if any of us are to survive.
We do not want to have to say
“If I had known” when it is too late.
They Will Not Fail Us
By Baer, in Labor.
What must we do to win this war?
President Roosevelt answered that
question on Monday night. The point
he emphasized w’as PRODUCTION’.
Only workers can produce the needed
weapons of war. Editors, bankers,
lawyers, columnists can abuse the
workers, but they can’t take their
slaces in mine, or mill, or factory.
Dver 5,000,000 American workers are
oroducing planes, tanks, ships. They
have smashed all records and will
establish new records. The workers
are doing their part—doing it glori
ously—despite the calumnies of their
enemies.
The farmer, too, plays a leading
role in production. He must feed
America and a large part of the
world. Here, again, editors, bankers,
lawyers, columnists are not very ef
ficient. Nevertheless they abuse the
farmers with almost the same ferocity
they display toward the workers.
They hate to see the farmers get a
fair price for their products.
And, finally, our “boys” in the
trenches, on the seas and in the air.
Ninety-five per cent of them come
from the farms and the homes of city
workers. While their dads produce,
these gallant lads fight. Agains, edi
tors. bankers, lawyers, columnists are
not conspicuous. They remain at
home, safe and snug, growling about
taxes, abusing labor, criticizing the
farmers, and telling the President how
to run the war. But “F. D.” knows
who will win the war—the soldier,
the farmer, the worker. They will
not fail us.
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Troops in Iceland
Praise Red Cross
New York.—American Red Cross
workers in Iceland have won the
praise of service men stationed there,
: according to Bjorn Bjornson, Na
itional Broadcasting Company corre
jspondent in Reykjavrk.
“The American forces in Iceland
are loudly singing the praises of the
1 Red Cross these days, and well they
I might, for the showers of gifts which
The Red Cross has made available to
them,’’ he said.
"These gifts, however, are but a
small part of the work which the
Red Cross is doing for the men in
; Iceland. Among the items which the
! Red Cross is making available to the
forces here are pianos, radios, mo
i tion picture projectors, ping-pong
tables, games and amusements of all
kinds. The American Red Cross in
Iceland is doing a valuable service
for the forces here and is an import
ant factor in the high morale which
exists throughout every organization’’
he said.
Rendering Service To Reliable Principles
West's Junk Yard - Plymouth, N. C.
We pay market prices for scrap iron and
steel, copper, brass, aluminum and r.ubber
R. D. WEST, Manager
Wilson Street Extended Phone 218-3
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for cotton qrowers who insure their
next crop • - -the cost will be in Keep
ing with the actual risk of growing
cotton on each individual farm.
North Carolina cotton growers arc taking advantage of the oppor
tunity offered them for the first time this year to insure crop yields,
according to reports of county AAA committeemen. Through insurance
issued by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, cotton growers now
have a chance to insure their 1942 yields on the basis of 75 or 50 per
cent of their normal production during past years. The insurance is
available to anyone having an interest in a cotton crop. Production
which may be insured and premium rates are now in the hands of in
dividual producers. Deadline for making application is March 15.
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By THE RAMBLEB
The American Way—
Young men have been gathered in
to the armed forces of the nation
from every town and community
within the last few months to fight
with all their main and might
against encroachment on the rights
of the American people by foreign
aggressors. Industry has been tak
en from peace-time production to be
geared to war manufacturing. Money
has been taken from the channels
of commerce to be directed Into the
expense of war.
And why, some one asks, should
this be done? Well, the orators say
it is to preserve the American way
of life. Tlris includes retention of
freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, freedom of peaceful assembly
and freedom of worship. This war
is also to test the ability of the de
mocracies to rule and protect their
people in a world which seems to be
headed toward dictatorship.
But the American way of life
means more than certain American
ways of living. It means, in every
day language, a war to continue the
high standard of American living.
This standard Is sure to be lost if
this country should lose the war. In
place of labor unions, there will be
regimented workingmen slaving at
their daily tasks for only a pittance.
It means that industry will not thrive
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It means that commerce will become
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So what? Just this. The Ameri
can standard of living is pictured in
'old statistics that cannot at once
be dismissed from the mind, because
it stacks up very high against the
miserable lands that are ruled by
war lords and worshipers of power.
Today the United States has 43
per cent of the world's radios: 68 per
cent of the world's motor vehicles: 30
per cent of motor buses: 55 per cent
of motor trucks: 72 per cent of pas
senger autos; 50 per cent of tele
phones and 35 per cent of miles of
railroads.
Americans consume 65 per cent of
the world’s silk; Americans produce
30 per cent of the world's coal;
Americans produce 61 per cent of the
world’s oil: Americans consume 50
per cent of the world's rubber; Amer
icans consume 52 per cent of the
world’s coffee; and Americans have
34 per cent of the world's electrical
power fkwh.i.
All these things have Americans,
yet this nation has but 7 per cent
of the world's population and 6 per
cent of the world's land area.
In the United States there is one
radio to every 3.2 persons; one mile
of railroad for every 542 persons; one
telephone to 6 6 persons: and one
auto to every 4.4 persons.
Set these statistics down against
those of Europe, including Great
Britain. Prance, Germany and Italy,
which together have only one radio
to every 16.2 persons; one mile of
railroad to every 1,759 persons; one!
telephone to 35.9 persons and one
auto to 31 persons.
In these good old United States,
the average American works three
hours to pay for 10 gallons of gas.
Workers abroad have to work from
8 to 50 hours to buy the same quan
tity.
In the United States there are 33,
000,000 homes. A total of 24,450,000
homes are equipped with electricity;
95 per cent of these homes have elec
tric irons; 60 per cent have electric
washing machines; 66 per cent have
electric refrigerators: 56 per cent
toasters; 48 per cent have vacuum
cleaners; 33 per cent have electric
percolators: 10 per cent have elec
tric ranges; and 6 per cent have elec
tric ironrs.
So it is a revealing fact that the
people in this country are used to
most of the things that make life
easier and take much of the drudg
ery from the homes.
Americans being used to so much,
the dictators probably have conceiv
ed the thought that America is soft
and cowardly and will not fight. But
they will find that though a few
bombs scare people, a lot of bombs
make them mad enough to fight, and
when the Americans get into a fight
ing mood, they are not to be trifled
with.
It is up to the American people now
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to fight back with their labor, with
their lives and with their dollars to
assure the coming generation the
same blessings that they have en
joyed—blessings that this generation
did not fight for nor create—but
blessings that it is their duty to hand
down to others.
This American way has produced
gangsters; it has opened the way for
crooked politicians to corrupt govern
ment; incompetents have slipped into
high places; taxes are high and get
ting higher; food is to be rationed;
autos may be stored away and num
erous other things have been caused
by a slow-moving government based
on democracy, but everything will
come out alright.
Counting their blessings more than
their sufferings, the present genera
tions of Americans must fight to con
tinue the good old American way of
life.
For SMART Style*"
Appearance
Is Morale
MORALE requires that we main
tain our confidence, our calm, our
trust. But we must do more than
feel these things, we must look
them.
Our job is no small one — buying
a season's requirements for all the
family is more than making a wish.
We have done it successfully for
nearly a quarter of a century; We
hope to be able to continue it.
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MEETING
—of—
Board Of
Equalization
and Review
THE WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF COM
MISSIONERS WILL SIT AS A
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND REVIEW
ON
Monday, March 16
At the Commissioners’ Room in the Courthouse in the Town of
Plymouth at 10 o’clock A. M., for the purpose of examining and
reviewing the tax list of each township for the current year and
shall hear any and all taxpayers who own or control taxable prop
erty assessed for taxation in the county in respect to the valua
ion of such property or the property of others and shall equalize
the valuation of all property in the county and correct any er
rors appearing on the abstracts and for the transaction of any
other business which may come before the Board in compliance
with the Machinery Act of 1939.
Couuty Commissioners