NSJWN IN COMMAND '
PRODUCTION UNLIMITED
THE EXAMPLE OF PLANES
Guns, planes. tanks, ship* and
other paraphernalia of warfare,
produced ia unlimited Quantities is
the American victory plan.
The appointment of Donald ft
Nelson, ae chairman of the new War
Production Board, in com piste command
of procurement mid production,
gives some guarantee that multiplied
and overlapping agencies will be
coalesced into a quick, decisive acting
Jjlhtrol of oar industrial program.
With war expenditures expected
to mount gradually to $6,000,000,000
a month, this production is a mammoth
undertaking. Some idea of the
magnitude of the setup ean be seen
from the fact that only *4,011,000,000
were actually expended in the
six months ending June, 1M1. During
the last six months of the past
year, defense expenditures amounted
to $8,822,000,000.
During' the next six months some
$17,178,000,000 will be used to pay
v for material and the total expenditures
for the fiscal year 1942, which
ends next Jane 30th, is estimated at
$26,000,000,000. In the following
twelve months this sum, according
to the President's program, will involve
$56,000,000,000.
It is impossible to attempt to estimate
the production of many items
of defense. Figures for the output
of airplanes are interesting. Four
years age tin aircraft industry was
producing around 100 airplanes a
month. This has been stepped up to
2S0, 600, 1,000 and estimates for December,
1941, are around 2,500 a
month, which is 30,000 a year, but
production must be doubled and then
tripled so that next December will
produce 7,500 planes and the following
December more than 12,000.
If this country is now producing
more than 30,000 planes a year and
Great Britain 24,000, the combined
output of the Esgliah-speaking nations
is ahead of Germany's 36,000
planes and Japan's 6,000. When
American production gets into full
stride, the democracies are expected
to double the number produced by
the Axk Powers and, if the war
lasts, to eventually triple the Axis
output.
We have used airplanes to illustrate
the msgnitude of the undertaking
by the United States. Similar
figures are applicable to other
items. Naturally, the full resources
of American industry must be mobilized
for the job and raw materials
must be ruthlessly seised when necessary.
With production in the hands of
an experienced man like Mr. Nelson,
who is thoroughly familiar with the
capacity of American industry, there
is every indication that the national
economy will be successfully geared
to Its stupendous war task.
HOW LONG THE WAR?
ONE WAY TO WIN
HOME FRONT MUST TELP
Many Americans wonder how long
the present war will last, exhibiting
aa inevitable tendency to grasp at
every rumor and report of trouble in
Germany aad coddling themselves
with disparaging opinions as to the
fighting qualities of the Japanese
aad Italians.
only when Axis soldiers are compelled
to face an overwhelming scperiority
of mechanised force. ISe
armies at Germany, Italy and Japan
have demonstrated an ability to win
battles when they have used superior
equipment against their enemies.
The morale of German and Japanese
soldiers is excellent when advancing:
in a victory march. It may
be something else again when they
are pitted against better equipped
fighting men and And themselves
blasted by an overwhelming array of
guns* planes and tanks.
When the soldiers of the United
Nations gain mechanical superiority,
there is little doubt as to the outcome
of the struggle. Americans
should realize, however, that this has
not been achieved except to a limited
extent in localized areas for a limited
time. We can watch for progress of
the Soviet army as it pushes back
German invaders and it is on this
front that we may first see definite
indications of a cracking of Nasi
morale.
All-out production for war in the
United States will entail hardships
upon the people at home but it is the
best way to save the lives of American
boys on the fighting fronts.
Every citizen must be prepared to
patriotically endure whatever the
Government asks. It is a small contribution
for those at home to make.
It should be a comfort, however, - to
realize that the cooperation of all
Americans, in minor sacrifices, will
assure the success of this nation and
enable our soldiers, sailors and marines
to accomplish their task at the
lowest cost. • * '
SEA POWER IN USE
JAPANESE ADVANTAGE
AXIS SUFFER IN AFRICA
Americans who wonder how the
Japanese have been able to launch
simultaneous invasions of Malaya
and the Philippines, while carrying
on ^ war with China, seldom stop to
thMk of the distances that most be
spanned by Japanese forces and
thereby fail to discern for forcible
illustration of sea power, exerted to
Its utmost capacity.
Spectacular bombing of objectives
/and the amazing destruction of British
capital ships off Malaya by torpedo-carrying
airplanes obscure the
widespread use of ships to transport
troops sad supplies to the points of
attack. While some of these ships
have been destroyed by the attacks
at planes and submarines, the losses
have not. been sufficient to prevent
the surprising landings in great
strength.
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Back of the-Japanese advances is
the almost absolute control at the
vital wsitaw Vy warships of the island
empire. How complete this is may
be seen from the readiness of the
Japs to -divide their flset into small
units, each containing battleships as
well as other vessels. This strategy
would invite disaster in the face of
enemy forcss of equal power and its
success demonstrates the inability
of British and Dutch warships
to challenge Japanese naval
v.
that inevitably flow from superior
sea-power, even in the comparatively
small confines of the Mediterranean
Sea. These advantages will be inevitable
as long m the vast bulk of
the world's commerce ie carried in
surface ships.
Eventually, the aerial age may
relegate surface ships to the limbo
at forgotten things but in this war,
despite the growing importance of
aerial warfare, the possession of superior
sea-power, which includes
warship#, merchant ships and bases,
has given the democracies their
chance for success.
The British fleet countered the
German army and assisted the R.A.F.
in thwarting Hitler's aerial superiority.
The Japanese fleet has given
Japan some spectacular early successes
in the Far East but our expectation
that the trend will be reversed
depends, in large measure,
upon the knowledge that some day in
the future, we will assemble predominant
sea-power in the Far East
Farmers Urged Speed
Up Machinery Repairs
Wljea President Roosevelt says
"Speed Up," he is talking to farmers
as well as ship-builders and munitions-makers,
says David S. Weaver,
Extension agricultural engineer of
N. C. State College. The immediate
job on the Farm Defease Schedule,
according to Weaver, is to invetory
farm equipment and make necessary
repairs to machinery.
"Most farmers let their repairs go
until spring," the engineer said, "bat
1942 is different. Equipment manufacturers
have been allotted a definite
-amout of steel. Whether this
goes into new equipment, or into repair
parts for good used equipment
now in farmers' hands, will be determined
by the orders placed now
by wise fanners who have gone over
their equipment carefully and planned
their repairs." '
Prof. Weaver says that local farm
equipment dealers generally are
ready for the Harm machinery repair
campaign. They have built up their
stocks of replacement parts. Priorities
have been issued for the making
of repair with the intention of making
usable moot of the older equipment
now on farms. ; !
"Remember," the Extension specialist
dseiared, "a hundred pounds at
repair may mean the saving of a
ton of steel. Why? ^One hundred
pounds of steel used for making repair
parts may mean that a one-ton
machine won't be needed. The other
1,900 pounds of steel can go into
tanks, guns and ships. War in 1942
is a lot different, and these little
points an big things to consider
thape days."
Weaver paraphrased Kipling's immortal
words by saying: "For the
want of a bolt, a machine was lost!
For the wan* of a machine, a crop
was lost! For the want of a cnop, a
soldier was lest! For .the want of a
soldier, a battle was lost! and, for
the w»nt at a hattle, a victory was
lost!"
Farm people of North Carolina are
in a better position to answer .the
tail for "Food for the Fighting For-cea"
because of the rural electrification
program which has been conducted
since 1986, says D. E. Jones,
Extension agricultural^ engineer at
the batter refrigeration redness the
bacteria oount in the milk.
If the farmer is a poultryman, he
couid um electricity for brooding,
lighting the laying house, pumping
water and grinding feed. An electric
brooder will raise the chicks cheaper
and with lees trouble than a brick
brooder or an oil stove. Then, too,
the chicks seem to grow off better
under an electric brooder.
With a garden heee and small nossle,
the- farmer mm irrigate the garden
from the electric water pump,
Jones pointed out. Thus, he will increase
vegetable production for home
use and for market. A thousand gallons
of water pumped electrically for
two cents will go a long way toward
wetting down a quarter-acre garden
patch.
EQUIPMENT
United States military authorities
say that to build an army, 250
pounds of cotton at* required for
each enlisted man, with frequent replacements
of clothing articles necessary.
HAS 7TH CAESARBAN BABY
Chicago.—Recently Mrs. John Dereski,
89, of Auroro, HI., gave birth
to her tenth child, the seventh consecutive
child by Caesarean section.
The condition of both the mother and
6-pound baby boy was reported good.
Almost every busy man knows the
importance of exercise and recreation
but few of them stop long enough
to put their knowledge into practice.
Inflation is a danger that should
be avoided but unless positive action
is taken it is certain to produce
another deflation headache in this
country.
The rewiards of neutrality are not
being praised in Norway, Denmark
and Belgium. J->"'
Words have meaning* to other
ears, BO be careful how you use them.
Cheap praise: A newspaper praises
itself.
Moat Ameritaas are too ignorant
to enjoy a two-hour address from an
expert, who can tell thsm what they
-do net'know,
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THE ANSWERS
1. More than *2,000,000,000 a
month.
2. WPA estimates: 3300,000.
S. No; the nation has the largest
supply of foodstuff on record.
4. Yes; 80 per cent baa come from
Malaya, now cut off.
5. Archibald Perceval WavelL
6. 70,000,000.
7. 3,760,000.
S. 75,000 tanks, 126,000 planes,
and 10,000,000 tons of ships.
9. 7,000 miles.
10. Germany is said to have 700,000
machine tools under 9 years of
age; the U. S., 520,000 under 10
years of age.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as Executor of
the estate of. Mrs. Bertha Joyner, daceased,
late of Pitt County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all penons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased, to exhibit than to the
undersigned executor, at Faraville,
N. C., en or beCora the 9th day of
January, IMS, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
parsons indebted to said estate Will
Thk the 8th day at January, IMS.
J. R JOYNER, Executor,
Mrs. Bertha Joynar Estate.
John B. Lewis, Atty. JMt|
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