THURSDAY, FEBRUa
PAGE FOUR (Second Section)'
THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
Capital Letters
By THOMPSON GREENWOOD
NO PRIVACY This thing called
privacy is rapidly becoming a thing
of the past, what with transparent
plastics, glass dresses, and cello
phane. Now your State Board of Ilealtii
enters the picture. Nothing is he
inn said about it at this time, but
Siill is now making plans for an
x-ray project ''. Iiich does away with
what little privacy we have left.
It's a good thing, too. Those State
ph sieians are now transforming a
big trailer (about the size of a rail
road car) into a traveling x-ray
room, and before long it will pull
out of Haleigh and the show will
have begun. Other trailers will
come along within the next two
ears.
Kvcntually. every person living
in North Carolina will be x-rayed!
Your internal picture will be on
till'. Since there are about 3.3011
000 people in this slate, and more
coming all the time, you can sec
what a task this is that the Board
of Health has set up for itself. Of
course, once they get everybody,
liht on down to the newcomers,
they can keep up with some re
laxed effort.
industry than his successor might
be. Dr. Reynolds only wants to
protect the public, George, and so
do you. If you and some of the
others will work along with him,
satisfactory standards for milk can
he a! rived at without too much
trouble.
DIAGNOSIS X-ray pictures
arc tl" backlog for successful diag
nosis ol many diseases, they say
I'or instance, vou can t ike one ol
these skin tests I'or tuberculosis,
and the test may show you have
it. and worry ou to death. In
ol her words, the test will ive a
positive reaction sometimes when
a- a mat 1 ir of fact vou don't have
a particle of tuberculosis. How
ever, an x-ray picture tells with
finality.
Well, they will he around to sec
ou one of I hese da s. Here's look
ing through you!
COIH.K One cool SI .000.001)
worth of Coble Dairy Products
slock will be sold to residents of
North Carolina within ihe next six
months y an investment hanking
linn. George Coble is planning
to expand all over the South and
to nave a mure concentrated pro
gram right here in .North Carolina
That's why many of the small
operators are so scared. They
know George Coble and they are
not too young to recall what hap
pened to small tobacco business
who wouldn't join up with James
1!. Duke wncn he was forming hi
giant.
The small plants are fearful land
well they mii;ht be that Coble w
gobble them up by purchase or bv
competition. If you have confi
donee in George Coble, you'd bet
ter keep an eye on that stock when
it is issued.
FOKTIW'ATE The talk around
Haleigh is that Charles Ross, who
was rather unceremoniously moved
out of the State Highway Commis
sion last summer after years and
years of back-breaking toil and
valiant service to the people of
North Carolina, feels mighty happy
about the whole thing now.. He's
now working along with the men
who supply the material for the
roads, and there certainly should
be a good future in that, while the
oflicials in the Highway building
are sweating it out over this next-to-impossible
road situation. Rosjs
and the contractors should have
plenty of business while Cherry,
Graham and the others have plenty
of worries.
UROTHKR Not so well known
throughout the State as Charles
ioss 'who is now practicing law
i l.illinglon and Raleigh) is
Jeorge Ross, his brother who was
n that hot race with Congressman
Unrein a few vears hack Thi
states veteran markets vnwiaii.-
eorge recently completed an ar
icle on cotton which is attracting
Hide attention. Carried by the
Charlotte Observer, this article is
reearded as "nnn ,f fi,
"reatments of the cotton subject
that 1 have read." This comes
trom M C. .M;inn. Honor;.! miiiinr
of the V C. Cotton Growers Asso
ciat ion.
Within the next few weeks, the
piece will appear in several publi
cations, so you want to keep an
eye peeled for it.
WACHOVIA - The Wachovia
Bank and Trust company of Ra
leih recently came to the rescue
of hundreds of students at State
College who are wandering over
Raleigh looking for rooms. The
Project is a little unusual. The
bank is lending the money to the
new Slate College Foundation, Inc
and this foundation will erect the
dormitories for the college. The
whole thing has the approval, nat
urally, of the Council of State
Now similar projects mav be at
tempted at Greater University of
North Carolina units at Chapel
Hill and Greensboro.
ASIDE TO COBLE George,
people are talking about some of
.our political wishes. Better stick
to your dairying, for you know that
business. Anyhow, Dr. Carl V.
Reynolds, head of the State Board
of Health, is no harder on the milk
May Warn of Disordered
Kidney Action
Modern life with its hurry and worry,
IrTfular habits, impropfT eating ami
drinking iis riak of exposure and inf.c
t inn throws heavy strain on the work
of the kidneys. They are apt to become
ovrr-taxed and fail to filter excess and
and other impurities from the lik-giviug
blood.
Vou may suffer nagping backache,
hradache, dizziness, getting up nights,
I g pains, Bwelling feel constantly
tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signs
of kidney or bladder diaord' r are some
times burning, scanty or too frequent
urination.
Try Dnan's Pills, fioan'a help the
kidn'-ys to pass off harmful excess body
waste. They have had more than half a
century of public approval. Are recom
mended by grateful users everywhere.
Ask your neighbor!
ANOTHER The Wachovia will
soon be tied to another public proj
ectand this will afTect all the
people of the state. No announce
ment can be made of this right
now. but you should hear a great
deal about it before summer The
usually-staid Wachovia is appar
ently becoming more agile all the
time.
JOHXSOX The matter of this
multi-billion dollar to Great Britain
is a hot subject in Washington this
week, and this naturally focuses
attention on State Treasurer Char
he Johnson, regarded as a candi
date for governor.
As you may recall. Johnson vig
orously opposed the loan at the re
cent meeting of the N. C. Citizens
Association. Copies of this speech
have been sent all over the nation,
and it is being quoted rather ex
tensively. Whatever may happen
m Washington. North Carolina bus
iness men feel that Johnson is ex
actly right in opposing this coun
try's carrvini? Cif.il Hi-itoir,v r.
j,cial ball throughout the world, rc
I eeiving no credit and little else
j from I lie transaction. Suppose vou
know that G. B. still owes US huge
sums from the last war.
j GHADY- Haleigh officialdom got
a hdihI look last week at Grady
Cole, corny and popular radio man
on WBT in Charlotte. The folks
Dancing Eyes
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THE EYES HAVE IT, as anyone can
see, and Hollywood starlet Angele
Green admitted that she was more
than passingly serious when she
flew from the Coast for a "date"
with Howard McVitty of Garden
City, N. Y., with whom she is shown
dancing. (international)
DR. GRAHAM TO SPEAK
ON ATOM BOMB CHANGE
CHAPEL HILL President Frank
P. Graham of the University will
speak on "Universities and Scien
tific Mechanisms in the Great
Transitions of History from the
Compass to the Atomic Bomb" at a
convocation of faculty and students
in Memorial hall here Wednesday,
February 6, at 11 o'clock. The pub
lic is invited. The general convoca
tion is one of three scheduled for
the winter quarter and was called
at the joint request of the Asso
ciation of Carolina Scientists and
the president of the student body.
Mystery Of Missing Hosiery
Also Mystery To Government
WASHINGTON Mystery of the
missing hosiery is puzzling not only
millions of queue-weary women
today, but government authorities
as well.
They know part of the answer,
but not the complete one.
They do not xnow how much
of the nylon production today is
being diverted to the "black mar
ket." They do not know at the mo
ment how much nylon hosiery is
being exported to foreign coun
tries. They do not know because the
industry no longer operates under
government priority regulations
these having been dropped some
months ago.
They do suspect that a substan
tial "black market" exists, but
without government control over
production it is difficult to trace
and uncover.
Investigate Exports.
Rumors that large quantities of
nylons are being exported and sold
at fabulous prices in foreign mar
kets are now being investigated by
Civilian Production Administration
authorities.
If it should be found that this
exportation is of such proportion
as to endanger domestic supplies,
the CPA has authority to bring
about adjustments in the distribu
tion of supplies.
Meanwhile even rayon hosiery
is at a premium because rayen
thread is reverting to its normal
channels of manufacture in other
lines of goods and is also being
heavily requisitioned for lining
materials now in short supply.
It was presumed that rayon
in that section have had and still
have their road troubles just like
the rest of us. Grady whipped his
farm listeners to a white heat 'no
difficult task, roads being what
they are), and they had a big mass
meeting in Charlotte. Then moved
on to Raleigh to talk to the Gover
nor. Grady found it impossible
to be in a bad humor, and the meet
ing was exceedingly pleasant, with
Governor Cherry and Cole ex
changing cracks at each other.
Raleigh people, who seldom have
an opportunity to hear Grady and
don't have anyone in Eastern North
Carolina who will approach him.
were mightily surprised and
pleased at the wholcsomeness of
the whole thing. They didn't take
Grady too seriously, which suited
him all right, for he cleared over
$30,000 in 1945 Kolorbak, Choco
lettoos, Bromo, etc., for not being
taken seriously. Go into WBT
any morning around 5-7 o'clock
and you find Cole in various stages
of undress drawling into that mi
crophone in a half-asleep voice.
NOTES A new business has
been established ?) in Raleigh, Ihe
Daily Reminder Service. For $3.00
a year, this setup will remind you
of birthdays, anniversaries, and
other special events. A letter is
mailed one week in advance, then
a phone call the day before the
event. If the enterprise is suc
cessful, a wake-up service may be
included ... A Chicago newspaper
recently ran an article on a girl
who said she cleared $1,000 in one
week selling books (reference, etc.)
in North Carolina in December . . .
R. Davenport (Greenville, N. C,
man who got loans at five per cent
and let the money out at 10) is
being tried in Raleigh and a few
big Eastern N. C. money men may
be involved before it's over.
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hosiery production would taper off
gradually as nylon manufacture
increased. But this didn't happen,
and there has been this gap be
tween leaving nothing for the poor
American woman but the discour
aging and ever-present sign: "No
Hosiery Today."
Another - snag that has caused
temporary postponement of the
promised avalanche of nylons is
the necessity of converting hosiery
machinery. A much finer gauge
is required for the weaving of
nylons than rayons.
Before nylon hosiery came on
the market, and even afterward,
silk hose made up a large part of
the total hosiery supply. Today
raw silk is just beginning to trickle
into the country.
Request has been made for the
release of 8,000 bales of silk now
in the government stock pile, and
the first shipment of silk from
Japan is said to be on its way
here.
Eventually, this wtit go into
manufacture and contribute con
siderably to relieve the situation,
and perhaps help to build up even
an abundance of supply.
Present estimates of nylon pro
duction are 30,000,000 pair a
month. Eventually probably with
in two or three months this
should bring an end to the hosiery
shortage, according to current pre
dictions. This seems reasonable to as
sume, since the potential market
of women hosiery buyers those
from 15 years and up according
to Bureau of Census figures, is
52,600,000.
Normal hosiery production per
Clyde L. Smith Is
Promoted in Japan
WITH THE KTH ARMY, OSAKA,
JAPAN Corporal Clyde L. Smith,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert E. I
Smith of Clvde was recently pro
moted to his present grade in the
transportation section of the 367th
Field Artillery Battalion in the
98th Infantry Division.
The 98th, a part of the Kighth
Army, is occupying the large in
dustrial center of Osaka in South
ern Honshu.
Before entering the army in
March, 1943, Corporal Smith was
engaged in farming for his father.
DR. W. KERMIT CHAPMa),
DENTIST
OFFICE IN BOYD BUILDING
PHONE 363
WAYNESVILLE. N. c.
month, taking tne month of Sept.
1941, as an example, is roughly
3,000,000, including all kinds of
hosiery.
Therefore, it seems logical to
conclude thai with production :
stepped up to 30.000.000 pair of
nylons a month, plus the added I
production of silk and other type
hosiery, the hosiery pipe lines,
should be filled in a coniparlively I
short time and the supply normal
again.
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Rfoe IrOeadaclhies for the Farmers
Once more the farmer is being asked to break
all food production records. To plow more acres,
feed more livestock and harvest more crops than
ever before. He is being asked to do this so that
America may continue to feed and clothe the needy
throughout the world, as well as our own folks at
home.
To carry out this job the farmer must have tools
of production. Most of those he owns have taken a
terrific beating. They can't be tied together much
the heart of food production.
In the teeth of this situation, the farmer ran into
a strike in the steel industry a strike which hit at
heart of food production.
When the steel plants shut down, manufacturers
of farm machinery and equipment, farm trucks and
tractors cannot get steel for their products.
This year the farmer won't receive as many of the
replacements he desperately needs. He'll fight
ahead with his old, broken machinery trying to crack
another production record, but the cards arc stacked
against him.
All this means more headaches for the farmer
loss of vital food production, and a bad dent in his
pockctbook.
Facts Too Frequently Omitted
The steel strike was called by the United Steel
workers of America CIO, which insists on a wage
increase totaling $166,000,000. The U. S. Steel Cor
poration has offered a wage rise which if ap
plied throughout the industry would amount to
$135,000,000.
Steel workers arc already among the highest paid
wage-earners in America. Before the strike their
average earnings were approximately $1.16 an hour,
$9.2G a day and $46.32 a week on a forty-hour
week. The U. S. Steel offer would have given them
about $1.31 an hour, $10.46 a day and $52.32 a
week. But they refused it, and accused the steel
industry of conspiring to ruin the union with an
offered wage increase of $25 a month, the highest
increase in the industry's history.
The strike is a direct violation of the contract
between the union and the steel companies. The
union wanted a long-term contract and got it. The
union agreed not to strike during the life of the con
tract. Yet, the union struck on January 21.
Fighting for a Way of Life
Farmers have a big stake in continuous steel pro
duction. They have an opportunity to say what they
think about unchecked labor monopolies which bring
to a stop the nation's recovery efforts, through ex
cessive wage demands which could only add to infla
tion and cause soaring prices.
Not until enough of them protest unfair, dicta
torial actions and urge proper safeguards against
arrogant, heedless union leadership and one-sided
labor laws will the country get back to sane, profit
able production where everyone works together
toward a better standard of living.
American Iron and Steel Institute
350 FIFTH AVENUE, NEWYORK 1, N. Y
95 PER CENT OF THE WORKERS IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY ARE EMPLOYED BY ODR COMPANY MESIBEKS
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