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THE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina The Roanoke Beacon is Wash ington County’s only newspaper It was established in 1889. consoli dated with the Washington County News in 1929 and with The Sun in 1937. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance) One year_$1.50 Six months_ .75 Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request Entered as second-class matter at the post oSice in Plymouth N. C., under the act of Congress jf March 3, 1879. March 26, 1942 almanac "A $oft answer tvnicth away wrath” — Bihle MARCH s 26—First street railroad, Bos J ton to Cambridge. 4- opened 1356. 27—Yugoslav-Axis pact repu diated, German invasion ■(‘k> follows, 1941. L 28—Ponce de Leon starts first Honda boom, 1513. K*29—Providence. R. I attacked by Indians. 1676. t36—Alaska purchased from rv. Russia, 1867. 31—Commodore Perry ob tains first Japanese com APRIL 1—April Fool's Day; Dela ware secedes from Penn* __ sylvania, 1691. Fight the Axis; Not Each Other A great section of American pub lic opinion is being whipped into a lather of hysteria directed at what is commonly called "labor" as a direct result of mass misinformation coupled with a vicious type of propaganda. It is reflected in the recent wide spread attacks on labor Wgoneral at the very time production output of the nation is reaching the highest level it has ever attained—and this without the aid of the great automo bile industry, which is still engaged in its huge conversion task. The furore is caused by extremists in both camps of two widely diver gent schools of thought, cunningly encouraged by paid agents of first one high-powered group and then an other, not the least potent of which no doubt are financed by Hitler and Hirohito. There are faults and evils on both sides which are being harped on and exploited: and the fact that a large number of gullible commen tators and editorial writers have fall en for the line of guff handed out is little credit to their emotional stabil ity or reasoning; because those who take the time and effort to inform themselves about both sides of the controversy easily see that while there is something to be said for each of the contending forces, this partic ular time probably is the worst pos sible to emphasize and air the dif ferences existing. Briefly review such facts as are available: Every index generally ac cepted as reliable indicates that the production of war materials is at last reaching impressive proportions, by far greater than anything we have ever done in the past; 40 per cent of the nation's war plants are oper ating 160 hours or more per week (there are only 168 hours in 7 days); 75 per cent, 120 hours or better; 10 per cent, 60 hours or more; and the average war employee works 48 to 50 hours per week. According to the United States News, certainly no friend of labor, which runs a weekly “box score, showing number of strikes and workers affected, w?eek be lore last—'when these attacks were “spontaneously” launched — there were only 6,681 striking workers in all lines of industry out of an esti mated 7,000,000 union members in the nation, the lowest total we re member it publishing in the last three years. Comparatively few of these were engaged directly in war work, but there were 8 men listed as on strike at a tank arsenal. Consider the statements of top' men in the war industry: Tom Gird ler, who recently became head of Consolidated Aircraft, and who is generally regarded as the greatest “no-quarter” enemy organized labor ever had, last week expressed him’ self as highly pleased with the 40 hour week and the product ion record! at his plant; Glenn L. Martin, head of another of the largest airplane plants, stated that the aircraft in dustry does not want the 40-hour law repealed, that there had been no work stoppages since December 7. and Donald Nelson, responsible for the production of all the war ma terials in the country, asked Con gress not to undertake revision of the work-week laws at this time. War materials^ are our greatest need at this time, and the workers in the factories are the only ones who can produce them. At a time when they are getting impressive results, why the sudden hysterical demand —outside the war industry—-for up setting the present trend of steadily increasing production5 Most of the agitation for mon keying" with labor legislation during an election year is inspired by four groups: labor-baiting Congressmen from non-industrial sections who are either up fur reelection or after pub licity; selfish industrialists not en gaged in war work who see in the war an excuse for invalidating all laws beneficial to labor; subsidized newspaper writers and commentators who are known to “see red" when ever the words “organized labor” are mentioned, as well as a few who are honest but, we think, misguided or intellectually too lazy to inform themselves and do their own think ing; and, last but by no means least, enemy propagandists who are capi talizing on the opportunity to “di vide and conquer." Some of our patriotic parents are writing Congress and the press, cit ing the fact that they have sons in the service as a reason for advocating this or that restrictive legislation against labor. Apparently they have not considered that 90 per cent of all the men in the armed forces come from the homes of laboring men and farmers; and that practically every workingman has a draft number and is just as liable to wind up in the Army or Xavy as anyone else. There has been no blanket deferment of la bor, as these letters would indicate, and the number of men temporarily excused from mi}iia:^^ervice due to being engaged in essential work is very, very small—and growing small er daily. Certainly, the son of the average laborer in the Army is loved by his parents just as much as is the son of the average farmer, doctor, lawyer, merchant, or any other per son; and the average of liis patriot ism is no whit less than that of any other group. Consider the purchase of Defense stamps and bonds through the payroll savings plan, for example. This is not to say that organized labor is perfect, by any means. The unconscionable rates charged as "ini tiation fees" by some unions con stitute unadulterated racketeering. Legislation is needed to make labor groups civilly liable in order to curb excesses instigated by irresponsible leaders. And there is as much ob ligation on the part of labor to live up to the terms of a contract as there is on the part of the employer, which fact should not be lost sight of. We are becoming confused in our thinking as a result of listening to the extremists. There is a reason able middle ground where these dif ferences can be ironed out, at least until the main battle against the Axis is won. Sacrifices and concessions are demanded no less of the laborer than of the capitalist, farmer, mer chant, professional man, and even politicians. We may as well get that idea through our heads, because if we lose this war. then we will have L BLENDED RESERVE $1.00 $1.951 GUAM PINT I 86.6 PROOT 75% CRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS m * j GOODERHAM i WORTS, ITO., PEORIA. III. TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE ...-rooeusv' TOWV— I'Ll. OKTACOUNf T( n TOWwORRiJW. TORDEEENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS I‘V\ Form I)SS 225 —-From the Detroit Free Pres*. The Weekly Publishes History That Counts— Printed below is an editorial we hope every reader of the Roanoke Beacon will read through in its en tirety. It sums up the attitude of one weekly newspaper writer toward the printing of war news, and it is an attitude to which we subscribe just 100 per cent. Written by Ed mund Arnold in the Frankenmuth (Mich.) News, it might well have been written for us and for Plymouth, as well as for his home community. Substitute Plymouth for l-'ranke muth. Beacon for News, and the fol lowing is our declaration of princi ples for the duration of the war: The headlines of this issue of the News are little different from those of any previous week. Right next to us there is one about the new post office: over a couple of columns is one about the Wheatride tubercu losis sanitorium: down a little lower is a feature on coffee making. Contrasted with the streamling black banners on metropolitan dailies, this may sijeiTi insipid fare. Where others shriek the dramatic terror of war, we shall tell the simp ler tale of homes and everyday life. While they tell in martial accent of swift movements of destruction, w'e shall tell in calm the slow labors whereby men and women here are moving in a consecration of construc tion. This is no ostrich-like dismissal of war by refusing to recognize it. We are in the midst of a terrible struggle to see whether a nation conceived in liberty can long endure. The sacrifices that this country must and is mak ing, will be made and are being made by this community, too. When such a sacrifice means the letting of Frankenmuth blood and the loosing of Frankenmuth for the past 35 years. As it directly affects Franken muth shall we record the war. Oth er, abler journalist shall chornicle the swift march of the juggernauts of slaughter: other, keener pens shall enscribe the history our nation must write. Ours is the task—the ONLY one w'e can do: the one WE can do— nothing left over which to have dif ferences of opinion. Put first things first: the war we are engaged in is against Germany. Japan and Italy; not against each other. of recording the history of one small village. That we shall do. And when this struggle is over, I that history that we’ve written will not be one to be lightly dismissed as trivial. For war will be fought: treaty will be signed and war fought again. Tojo. Konoye. Hirohito will rise and die and other aggressors will usurp their place in history. Roose velt, Hull and Marshall will resist, but the torch will be handed down to other heroes as yet nameless. But babies will be born; homes | will be built; marriages will be made -Infants will be baptized: children will | go to school; youth will grow into man's estate. Rains will fall; crops will grow: men will harvest them. These things will go on and on. The ; simple tale of these doings will never be broken. This, then, is the history that will i spell the greatness of a nation: these are the tales that, spring from the soil of America and make it - hallowed ground. ! Statesmen and generals, warlords I and politicians, battles and strate : gems—these never make history; they merely mar it. The real history of a nation, of a people. of An ideal, is written in ja loving home, an upright com merce and an uncompromising j church. This is the history we propose to write during the black months that ; lie ahead. -•}■ Tilings To \\ atch For In The Future Dog-food in dehydrated form, al though many thought it couldn’t be done; ducking the tin-can ban. one brand is out with a non-metallie con tainer for the dry variety that looks just like the cans formerly used . . . A new ice tray for refrigerators, with individual, removable, plastic com partments for each single cube of ice . . . Plastic bugles, trumpets and trombones are reported having been perfected in the musical instrument industry, but production is deferred for lack of plastics—no savophones, though . . . Blackout innovations in | vade the nursery, via a -wartime dia per equipped with phosphorescent strings, which eliminates pins and (also helps do the job in the dark (no I more need, as that old song-title gag ! went, to “Feed the Baby Garlic So | We Can Find Him in the Dark”) . . . I Yeast in powdered form, so it can - be packed in sacks, saving the tin foil traditionally used. See Our Display Of High Grade All Wool Rugs They are now going at special prices. Buy while the stock is available. NORMAN FURNITURE COMPANY Water & Washington Sts. Plymouth, N. C. Complete Line of Mebane-Royall Mattresses and Springs Rambling ...About By TUE RAMBLER The Road To Success— The road to success is. for the most part, the same road that it always has been. There are the same penal ties for the inefficient, the same re wards for the competent. There are the same obstacles and the same opportunities, the chief difference being that there are today more op portunities. As the evolution of so ciety proceeds, more events of ser vice open up, more needs must be filled, more people must be supplied with new and better things. The old adage “prepare for oppor tunity. it will knock at your door only once" has probably never been strict ly true. I come knocking to most people again and again. But the things may not be right, and it slides away, unrecognized or ungrasped. It seems to be the “knack" and not the “knock" that is too often lack ing. Did you ever hear of the success family? The father of success Is work. The mother of success is am bition. The oldest son is common sense. Some of the other boys are perseverance, honesty, thoroughness, foresight, enthusiasm and coopera tion. Get acquainted with the "old man" and you will be able to get along pretty well with all the rest of the family. The man who wants success and who grasps principles can success fully select his own methods. The man woo tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. Columnizing— Here is what a columnist wrote in his January I issue: In 1492 Columbus crossed The ocean blue. Which is more than You can do In 1942 Shell ’em— SoMier: "Sir, the enemy are in front of us as thick as peas.” Officer: "All right; shell 'em.” Victory Ahead— The Rambler holds that world freedom is the key to all future hu man progress; that no people can be Tree while another is in bondage; :hat the war aim of World War II is ■he freedom of all the people. The Rambler proposes that all pri vate interests be immediately subor Hnated; that all prices be rigidly controlled; that all profits be rigor ousiy limited; that all industry be promptly drafted for the war; and hat all man and woman power be mobilized for victory. The Rambler stands ready with the people to face the moral guilt caused by appeasement: to share responsi bility for complaisance; to banish complaisance and keep up with the new's; to subject conduct to search ing self-criticism; to help the victory QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOSVIACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID Free BookTellsofHomeTreatmentthat Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing Over t wo million bottles of the WILLARD TRE \TMEN T have been sold for relief of symptoms of dist ress arising from Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers due to Excess Acid — Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomach, Gassiners, Heartburn, Sleeplessness, etc., duo to Ex-ess Acid. Sold on 15 days’ trial 1 Ask for “Willard's Message*’ ■which fully explains this treatment—free—at ARPS PHARMACY offensive that starts soon because in modern war the only successful de fense is offense. The Rambler realizes that America I has never lost a war—but neither have the Japs. And the Rambler realizes that America can lose this war—but it must not. No Weather Reports— When the government issued orders lo eliminate the daily weather re ports in newspapers to prevent infor mation reaching the enemy, editors were caught in a jam and they didn't know what to do. The weather editor of the New York Evening Post wrote: "Weather Will Continue." The Carson City iNevada) Chron icle carried the following weather report recently: “(For Allied read ers only) Because of war conditions the government has forbidden the publication of weather reports, but just between the two of us itay owedsnay ikelay ethay eryvay evilday astlay ightnay.’’ Sabotage— Defense counsel to arresting officer who was testifying at a trial in court: “But if a man is on his hands and knees in the middle of the road, does that prove he is drunk?" Witnessing officer: "No. sir: it does not: but this defendant was trying to roll up the white line." BABY CHICKS — LARGE HUSKY Chicks. N. C. and U. S. Approved. Hatches Tuesdays and Fridays. PHONE 307-6 Windsor, N. C. LANCASTER’S HATCHERY 90 YOUR EASTER SHOPPING AT HATFIELD'S New stock Men’s and Ladies' Shoes, Men’s Felt Hats, Men’s Dress Shirts, Men’s Dress Pants, Men’s Ties, Belts and Suspenders, Ladies’ Hosiery. We Have Also Received Our Spring Line of KEDS for Men, Women and Children 0. D. Hatfield & Co., Creswell, N. C. 5 big n K from USj STOP! Don't Throw Away That Old BICYCLE OR LAWN MOWER Bring Them To Us for Repair. All Our Work Is Guaranteed. Prices Reasonable WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE Cucumber Seed Are Here Gel your cucumber seed ai once. They should be planted belwen April 10th and 17th. Call at the plant on Brinkley Avenue or at Blount's Hardware Store in Plymouth. C. C. Lang & Son, Inc. BRINKLEY AVENUE PLANT PLYMOUTH, N. C.