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THE Roanoke Beacon Washington County News PI P.5 isfil I) 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 office in Plymouth, N. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. and ✓''^Nonh Carol / PBESS ASSOC; August 20, 1942 "Much UK' iif a coach makes us lose the benefit ot our legs”—Seneca AUGUST 20—Concfress approves ban VtC’C* r* cn Chinese immigration, ■vX.^C 1888. C] Sl -Lincoln-Douglas debates begin, 1358. 22—V/. T. Kendall swims Ni ~**7 Vv agora River, rapids in ^ cork vest, 1886. ,23—First steamboat makes trip from Buffalo to De troit. 1818. 24—Massacre of St. Bartholo mew. Paris, 157Z _ 25—Treaty cf peace. U. S. FyTu - Germany. signed in ‘Be r 1m. 1921. 26—Woman ~ off rage amend < ment goes into effect, _ 1920. One Acid Test Of All Values \ war is won only when the last shot has been tired. Wars are not boxing matches, where victory may go to the fighter who wins the most rounds. Only a knock-out counts in war. and it is important right now that we realize this truth. One reason it is important that we realize this truth about war is that our enemies today are making prog ress Tods our enemies seem to have won another round—but they; have not won a war. A second reason I for emphasizing the fact that only | the knock-outs count in war is that it will make us work harder. We, too, have won a round or two recent ly—won them with the good right fist of war production. But we can not sit back- a round won isn’t a victory gained. Last month, for in stance, we built 71 merchant ships— 790,300 tons of hulls to carry our supplie.- and weapons to the world fronts. 1 hat is a record; that is more shipping than ever was launched before, in a similar period. It is not j however, enough; not enough to meet the President's goal of 8 million dead- 1 weight tons of merchant ships this year. We must be in there fighting every [minute, we must carry the fight tc our enemy, we must crowd him against the ropes we must slug him j to 'he canvass until he can not rise [again. \nd tc do this we must kee(. j uur balance. Balance to a natior I engaged in total war is as import an i as balance to a prize fighter. \Y< j must preserve a balance among the [ air force, the ground force and navy We must balance our output of wea pons and equipment against the ships we must have to transport them. We must balance our output of aun' with our production of am munition. We must make sure there are engines for our airplanes anc propellers for these engines to drive We must balance against our mili tary needs the necessities of our ci vilian economy —we must provide housing and fuel and clothing fot our home-front workers, we must make certain there is farm machin ery to get in the record crops with which we >hall feed not ourselves alone but our friends and Allies. In this war we are fighting there is one acid test of values and this is it: How hard can it hit the enemy or how much can it contribute to hitting him.' If it cannot strike a blow for us or help us to strike a blow we can do without it— whatever it may be. -<S> New Aluminum Source Reported Total war requires everything we can scrape up to feed its endless needs Just as we reach into the home for deft hands and alert minds to serve the machines which make our weapons, so we must reach into heretofore untapped repositories of materials Last week we saw how foreign silver now is being reserved for war production. This week brings word of a virtually new source of aluminum—that metal without which wre cannot hope to produce the air strength necessary to beat our enemies. The Advisory Committee on Met lls and Alinerals of the National Aca demy of Sciences has recommended to the War Production Board pro cesses for making alumina—the basic material of aluminum—direct from clay. Aluminum in its primary state is the most plentiful of the metals—it is almost everywhere. Be fore the war there wasn't enough de mand to justify exploitation of low grade suurces. But now all this has been changed -now we are overlook ing nothing which may give us met als. Last sear Americans were buying more household gadgets and applian ces than they had ever bought be fore, even in the boom years before the 1929 crash. But since Pearl Har bor. although our incomes have grown larger, we have been saving money. Savings Rise 70 Percent The war did not bring a time of tree and easy spending to the aver age American city family, the gad gets we used to spend our money on IT'S NOT TOO EARLY To Start Thinking About STOVES & HEATERS WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF WILSOH WOOD HEATERS and COLE HOT-BLAST Coal STOVES Also Many Other Types and Makes, Including Small Wood Heaters Ail Sizes at Reasonable Prices! Stove Pipe - Elbows - Reducers Dampers - and Other Necessities GET THEM NOW WHILE OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE NORMAN FURNITURE COMPANY Water & Washington Sts. Plymouth, N. C. Complete Line of Mebane-Koyall Mattresses and Springs Religious News „ and Views By Rev. W. B. Daniels. Jr. Book of Faith— It has fewer words than the aver age daily newspaper. It contains less reading matter than you would find in 10 pages of a magazine. Yet is is a book that has portance to the his tory of Christianity and the world. We have reference to the Gospel of St. Mark, the earliest of the four gospels. The gospel was written by John Mark, who was a \WSm adWIfollower of the apostle St. Peter, and much of his book is based upon information given by the "Prince of the Apostles." This, St. Mark was able to portray many events and in cidents in the life of our Lord with freshness, vigor and lifelikeness. St. Peter was. of course, an eye-witness to many happenings of Christ's earth ly life, and gave to Ills evangelist friend a warm and personal descrip tion of these events. According to most scholars, the Gospel of St. Mark was written about 70 A. D. and was the first of the gos pels to be composed. Both St. Mat thew and St. Luke used the Marcan gospel as a source for their writings about Our Lord's life and ministry. Thus, the gospel of St. Mark is not are lacking. But it did bring a big increase in war bonds and taxes paid—something which will help all of us when the war is over and we begin to rebuild our lives. The sav ings of city people, according to the T. S. Department of Labor, have been about 70 per cent higher in 1942 than last year. Families whose 1942 incomes did not change saved half again as much in an average 1942 quarter as during a similar period in 1941, while those whose incomes had grown saved an average 57 per cent of the enlarged income. These savings help keep down the high cost of living now, help us fight the war when they are translated into war stamps and bonds, and will help those of us who own them after the war. The Task Before Us "We who have received front the preceding generations the priceless fruits of the centuries-old struggle for liberty, freely accept today the sacrifices which may be needed to pass on to our children an even great er heritage. "Our enemies confront us with armed might in every part of the globe. We cannot win this war by standing at our borders and limiting ourselves to beating off attacks. We shall send all the aid that we can to our gallant allies. And we shall seek out our enemies and attack them at any and every point of the globe at which the destruction of the Axis forces can be accomplished most ef fectively, most speedily and most certainly. We know the magnitude of the task before us. We know that its accomplishment will exact unlimited effort and unfailtering courage. How ever long the road, we shall press on to the final victory. (’oidell Hull, Secretary of State. Post-War Thinking Is Already In Order It is well that we think now and then of what will come after the war and make such pains as we can for that time, both as individuals and as members of a community of nations. Next week—Friday, August 14—is the first anniversary of the master plan for a better world after the war has been won, the plan set down by President Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Churchill of (Ireat Britain in the Atlantic Charter and since accepted by all the twenty-eight nations fight ing with us against the Axis tyrants. What this charter says is that the United Nations intend to build a world in which free peoples may live in peace and a world in which these nations may trade freely, the one with the other. This would mean a world loyal to the ideals of those “Four Freedoms ' named by Presi dent Roosevelt freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. -® Steel freighters whose keels were actually laid after the attack on Pearl Harbor, within three months were completed an carried the bombs across the Pacific which helped to win the Coral Sea Battle in May. The new steel used in those freighters or in those bombs was made partly from scrap collected in this country only a few weeks or months before the battle Qet your scrap in the scrap . . .1 only important in it.- own right, but j as a source of othei books of the ' Mew Testament. This early account of Christ's life and work was written within a gen eration after the death and resurrec tion of our Lord. II is a book that reflects the zeal and enthusiasm of the early church, the challenging courage and faith of the first Chris tians. St. Mark does not waver or quibble as he throw s down his liter ary gauntlet to a pagan, unbeliev ing world, for the first words of his book are these The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." St. Mark bases his book on the soul-stirring faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and with that foundation of faith he has given to the Christian world a vivid and poignant story of its Lord and Saviour. Remember— “That the true calling of a Chris tion is not to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things in an ex tra ordinary way Thought for the Day— Holy, holy, holy. Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory; Glory be to thee. O Lord Most High Amen.” NOTICK OF SALK Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an order of the Su perior Court of Washington County entered on the 17th day of August. 1942. in that certain tax forclosure proceedings entitled. "Cymera Fa gan vs. Ella H McDonald, widow ot John McDonald, and others", the un dersigned Commissioner will on the 26th day of September. 1942, at 1 twelve il2) o'clock Noon, at the Courthouse Door of Washington j County, in Plymouth. N. C.. offer for j sale, at public auction, to the high est bidder, for cash, the following described real estate, to-wit: One certain house and lot situate on Washington Street in the twon of Plymouth. N. C.. being tire house and lot formerly occupied by the late John ■ McDonald and wife. Ella H. McDon ald and family, and known as the John McDonald house and lot. A deposit of ten 110 > per cent will be required at the time of sale by the last and highest bidder to show 1 good faith. ! This August 17. 1942. HUGH G HORTON. a20 4t Commissioner. DR. C. W. BAILEY Rocky Mount, N. C. Announces the removal of his office from over Rose Drug Store to the new Professional Building 147 North Main Street Practice Limited to Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat. ! Office Hours: 9 to 5 Telephone 1171 __I 66 » 4 # Keeping cars on the road de spite illr ttriitr rtiblicC - ilualio/i, id a vital prohleni. It is so vital that our entire sales and service or ganization i* working day and night to equip and train Esso Dealer* to render this remarkable new tire service. Thousands are ready now. Others are being added lu the list every day. Ask the Esso Dealer in your neighbor hood to explain ibis important new service. ThU is the Tire Life indicator—purl of the neve Esso Dealer Service* It gives your tires a new lease on lifel New &so DeulerTire Service helps you get amazing extra mileage How would you like to discover that your present set of tires con* tains far more mileage than you may have thought possible even with the best of rare'/ This i« not an idle question. Back of it is a new and scientific method of increasing life life. Testa have already been made at a number of Esso Dealer stations. In 16 out of every 17 cases car owner- were literally amazed at the ex tra mileage their present tires could deli ver. The chances are that you can get a lot more mileage too. See the Esso Dealer in your neighborhood. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY Z ZZZ. m Let’s blast Japan—and Germany—and Italy—with the chain lightning of destruction that can be built from the scrap in our cellars, attics and garages, on our farms and in our places of business. Scrap iron and steel, other metals, rubber and waste materials. It will all be used to make tanks, ships, planes and the fighting weapons our boys must have. It is needed at once. Sell it to a Junk dealer—give it to a charity or collection agency—take it yourself to the nearest collection point—or consult the Local Salvage Committee... If you live on a farm, and have found no means of disposing of your Junk, get in touch with the County War Board or your farm implement dealer. Throw YOUR scrap into the fight! & ' This message approved by Conservation Division WAR PRODUCTION BOARD Th* ud»«iHitman) paid for by the American Industrie! Salvage Committee (re fit eimnting and with fund* provided by group! uf tiding industrial concerns). iVNK NEEDED FOR wa~0 *'»• or »„ Plfl ^s^SbSsES? strain inh. „ ,K,NG MTS-Un-Z ----- -X»UU11 sOaifi1^to®<|!f,NC FATS-wi*^ ~ -^KDI° <■»»* **<>• LOCAL SALVAGE COMMITTEE— W. V. Hays and H. H. McLean, Co-Chairmen Dial 213 6 or 238-1
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