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PAGE TWO THE NEWS-JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 13th. 1944 The News-Journal Hoke County News Hoke County Journal Est. January, 1, 1929 Est. May 15, 1911 By Paul Dickson By D. Scott Poole Consolidated November 1. 1929 North CArolinA l 'WIS S ASSOC IAI Id ' Published Thursdays At Rucford, North Carolina Subscription Rates:....... $2.00 Per Year In Advance For Servicemen $1.50 Per Year DOIGALD COXE, Editor-Manager Entered as second-class mail matter at the post otlice at Raefotd, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1870. Pulp wood Saves Starving Troops Every now and then there comes out of the combat zones a story of pulpwood's role in the war that means more to us than a carload of statistics on the uses of pulpwood for military purposes. Such a story was buried in a recent dispatch on the heroic stand of a small band of Allied troops on Hangman's Hill, just above embattled Cassino For nine days and nights this brave band, separated from the main Allied force, fought off Nazis while their comrades tried vainly to supply them with food, water, and supplies. But strong winds blew supply parachutes into enemy territory. The valiant soldiers were near starvation when one day a plane dropped two paper-mache gasoline tanks loaded with rations directly on their camp. Inside were enough K-ration units to give two to every three men. As a result the men survived and a few days later were evacuated. Not only were the gasoline tanks made of pulpwood. but the K-rations were sealed in pulpwood-made packets. Pulpwood has gone to war, but its function often is to save lives rather than to destroy them. OPINIONS and SENTIMENTS From Other Editors Synthentic Glamor From The Peoples Advocate It is less than five years since Wendell Willkie sprang full-blown from the head of the most ably contrived publicity campaign that has ev er dazzled America and became, overnight, the nominee of the Republican party for president. Until Time-Life-Fortune brought forth this wonder boy, not one man in ten thousand had ever heard of him. He was brought into being by the modern magic of printer's ink, and forth with bowled over such plans as the Republican party in 1940 could moblize And now, as quickly as he came, Wendell Willkie has returned to the limbo from which he emerged, to the vast mystification of the pundits who write of such matters, and who agi tate themselves over the radio. They plumb and delve and blast and excavate, seeking significance where there isn't any. There isn't any very profound mystery about it. There is little of political significance involved. The simple and apparent fact is that Wendell Willkie was just no glamor boy. He didn't measure up to what ordinary Americans want in their public figures. He had none of what, two decades ago, they call "it" and what these current times call "umph." It is simply that people just didn't like him. He neither looked nor sounded like anybody they wanted to look at or listen to. There can be no voter's quarrel with Will-kic-'s views. He had an assortment to suit every taste. Did the voter want to be rid of Roosevelt after these 12 confusing years, Will kie was for that. Did they want to get on with the war and have itdone with. Willkie was for that. Did they want to leave the world so it wouldn't get into such a mess again, but still keep America from too deep involvement, Willkie was for that. There couldn't be any quarrel with his pratferm. It was shapeil to suit everybody. If there was nothing wrong with the issues, the trouble must have been with Willkie him self. And therein probably lies the solution of the mystery the political commentators have made of his elimination of himself. Willkie has never had any personal magnetism, and when he stood up before a microphone, it was as if he had a sort of political halitosis. His voice was wrong, and apparently he was too stubborn to listen to the counsellings of his mentors until it was too late. Most radio listeners will recall what was the end of Willkie six or eight months ago. He was addressing the nation on an all-networks hook-up. Somehow the word "reservoir" got into his script. He pronounced it like the word had never been called before roughly "re zervwarh." He kept on and on with the word, seemingy fascinated by it ... . President Roose velt, at a press conference afterward, quipped about it midlv and Willkie publicly resented it. And so the end of Willkie. The synthetic political glamor boy who suddenly swept a cross the political firmament five years ago, as suddenly disappears. The moral to the Willkie story is simple: it takes more than printer's ink Stimson's Candor From The Peoples Advocate Thoughtful men and women will commend the Secretary of War for honest candor in his recent declaration that the Germans have simply taken the measure of Allied armies be fore Cassino and on the Anzio beachhead be low Rome. Allies armies have been stalled there for four months, and Cassino still blocks the road to Rome, despite the fact that Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, flushed with enthusiasm, announced three weeks ago that Cassino no longer existed. Thirty thousand young Americans, and as many men of other nations, have died or have been maimed on the road to Rome in these four months of, fighting that have gained noth ing. Or nothing beyond the killing and maim ing of probably lesser number of Teutonic youths. The Germans are defending, and the cost of war is always less to the defender. Materially, the cost of this stalemate before Cassino has been in excess of one of these billions of dollars that seem relatively unim portant to most Americans. Now that Secretary Stimson has dipped a toe in the unpleasant waters ef realism, and candidly admitted that we've taken a licking on that front, it might be well if he plunged himself into the muddled waters of the Italian campaign. He might do something about it. It is not in the nature of the American spirit to just admit defeat and let it go at that. Ik? might take a page of the Book of Lincoln, at least experimentally, and send somebody to the Italian theatre who might have other, and perhaps better, ideas of what is need to get past Cassino and Anzio. It is not unreasonable to assume that fault of defeat lies at the feet of Lt. Gen. Mark Wayne Clark. This general's name rolled rea sonably out of the loud-speakers of millions of radios and his picture, though not very dec oratively, embellished millions of front pages and magazine covers at the beginning of the campaign, and he was by way of becoming an other MacArthur or even another Hannibal, who once started toward Rome along this same highway. Clark, they said, would be in Rome by Christmas. Last Christmas, that was. Whether the removal of General Clark would improve matters in Italy is not for a country editor to say, of course. It may take some trying before there is found a man who has the solution to the riddle of German's defense. Lincoln relieved general after general until he discovered Grant. There must be somewhere a man among ten million in the Army of the United States who can unscramble the mess that has been made in Italy. At any rate, why keep Clark in command after the Secre tary of War has, with unaccustomed bluntness, admitted that ho has won a signal defeat? Retirement Vs. Resignation Between resignution and retirement there is probably a matter of retirement pension for Dr. Leon R. Meadows, whose application for retirement was approved last week by the Board of Trustees of the East Carolina teach ers College And, presumably, an end has been written to a chapter of educational his tory that reflects no material credit upon any body connected with it. Dr. Meadows retires instead of resigns, and technically he is with in his rights, since the Trustees, by two to one vote, have sustained him in the inquiry into his management of College money. Here is an ending, but not a satisfactory end ing to the chaptot. There is still unanswered, in the public mind, the question of whether there was misuse of a fairly large sum of public money. There has been no clear analy sis of the contentions of either side of the con troversy. Auditor's reports are fairly confus ing, even in their simplest forms, and the re ports adduced at the sessions of the Trustees have been far from simple. NOTICE! The filing time for legislative, county and township offices expires at 6 o'clock P. M., Saturday, April 15, 1 944, therefore all notices of candidacy must be in the possession of the County Board of Elec tions ly the expiration time, otherwise they cannot be accepted. Iloke County Board of Elections Crawford Thomas, Chairran 3 c News RfHND; i By RUL WaLLON ' Relented by Western Newspaper Union. BICKERING OVFR SOLDIER VOTES WASHINGTON. Mr. Roosevelt's quaint quest for soldier-vote advice among the state governors (mostly Republican outside the South; may have sounded off-hand like a big hearted attempt to be more than fair about this thing. But it did not so appear to the governors. Frankly, in the true political at mosphere of the congressional cloak rooms, the move also was recog nized as an effort to put the Re publican governors on the soldier vote spot, to make them shoulder responsibility for whatever vote the soldiers get, making Mr. Roosevelt appear to be the champion of the soldier against state and congres sional resistance. It did not work out that way. The governors apparently sensed what was afoot and gave him replies which left the only spots of the prob lem before his eyes, not under their feet. In effect, a majority told him they were going ahead with plans for state-voting of soldiers if the army and navy would co-operate in distrib uting the ballots, implying that both he end the congressional bill were of considerable importance to them. The depths of his resulting diffi culty is evident in the action of his congressional leaders. They held back the bill five days after its final enactment. This extended to 15 days his opportunity of musing over the governors' replies and making up his mind whether to sign or veto. HOW WILL THEY VOTE? Now the solitary truth of all this backing and pulling is that tie one actually knows much about how many soldiers are going to vote, or for whom. From Mr. Roosevelt's actions to date, you would judge he expects them to vote for him, and that more will vote for him if he collects the ballots than if the governors do. There is some evidence to sustain this belief, but nothing conclusive. I recently saw a letter from an officer in the South Seas who said 75 per cent of the officers were aiah:st Roosevelt, 65 per cent of the pri vates for him. It may stand some thing like that, although the army seems extremely critical of labor and left-wingers, who are the back bone of the fourth term movement so far. I do not know, and I cannot find any political authority here who even pretends to. Personally, I suspect more de pends on the army and navy gener als than on what kind of a law ap plies. If they actively go out and furnish ballots of any kind to sol diers and collect these, large num bers will vote: otherwise, no law will get in that vote in bulk. Perhaps the most important fea ture of the bill was an unobserved provision. It would restrict any serv ice officer or executive official- from issuing campaign speeches to sol diers, and forbid broadcasts spon sored or paid for by the govern ment concerning political argument or material. In fact, all news reports of politi cal speeches and activity would have to be divided even between all presi dential candidates entered in six , states or more The penalty for vio lations would be $1,000 fine and a year in jail. This would certainly hamper materially the freedom of fourth term campaigners in charge of soldier news distribution. INDIVIDUAL SPENDING' VS. GOVERNMENT SPENDING ' Some economic authorities and readers have asked how it would be possible to work out in detail the theory of "individual spending" as a replacement-tor government spend ing in a postwar program. There are a thousand and one ways. All the government would have to do would be to adopt this policy and then pursue it in all pos sible democratic ways. The development of methods to encourage private spending in slack business times, and discourage it in times of plenty, could rest primarily on taxation. Special allowances could be grant ed for constructive expenditures such as home building, home im provement and business plant ex pansion when the national income has dropped below a certain figure. Special extra taxes could go into effect, tending to retard boomlike businesses, when national income rises above a certain figure. In fact, the whole structure of in come taxation could be geared to promoting a balanced economic flow. The great spenders of the country are the great business firms. Their natural tendency is to expand with good business beyond their long range necessities and then wail at unused plants when business falls off. A wise government would get them into planning directly, in addi tion to tax lures. Government loan policies also could be adjusted to this purpose. If Jesse Jones and his RFC shut down on loans in good peacetimes, and entered upon them as slacken ing becomes noticeable, it would have a powerful effect. POOLE'S MEDLEY us a. sroTT poole Sumo fiirnicrs used to sow their oat crops in August. We did. And we never failed to make pood crops. We broke our coin Ian, I in the full and winter when we could, after sow ing wheat, and rye. In those ti nes we depended on fresh lands instead of fertilizers. We rested some of our lands each year, then made very good crops two or three years. We invariably planted peas be tween the corn hills on the same row. We gathered corn in October, picked peas for seed and to feed milk cows and n flock of sheep dur ing the winter. We led out fatten ing hogs on cooked peas, for a change. My Grammur taught me: Peas di stinct kernels; Pease taken in bulk. As twenty peas, and a bushel of pease. useful of creatures, but Nature makes brutes only. Never in the history of humanity were so many men to be known to have bowed down before our Heavenly Father as worshiped Him last Sunday a round the whole round world. Abbreviations should be follow, ed by periods, to complete their meaning. Cwt. means hundred weight. I;b. means pound. Let a period follow all abbreviations. Figures are set off in three-figure groups, units, tens, hundreds, thou sadns, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, etc. As this 100,000,000. The sixth place is millionth. The Federal Government is re sponsible in a way for the dis regarding of puncluation,, for they string out figures without any punc tuation whatever. No wonder people make mistakes for educated persons often are very careless about being correct in what they write. TIS First Rule in Arithmetic, Notation and Numeration is essential to know. Then come the fundamental Rules. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplica tion, Divison. Proper names should begin with capital letters, and so should pro nouns from proper names. I am not teaching, I am breaking the monotony of this mental effusion. The Gprmnns urn ctlll clanaVlar. ing Jews and Poles, and the world sianas agnast at such outrages. May the Good Lord protect us from these cruel monsters in human form. Religion and rpflnpmpnl makes men the kindest and most Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of The News and Observer, Raleigh, and "The Ramkatte Roaster" are out in advocacy of "The Leatflie of Nations." Would the people of the United States agree for all the other nations of the world to stand guard over them? Is that the Golden Rule doctrine? The United States is supposedly a Christian Nation, and it comes nearer measuring up to that stan dard than any other nation, I sup. pose, in the world. I am for a com plete subjugation of those recal titrant nations, which have no re gard for the rights of other nations, but we should prove to be superior to them, and act and live on a higher plane. As a rule, Mr. Daniels is orthodox in doctrine, but President Wilson adopted that idea as a sure-cure for war and his Secretary of Navy was inculcated by his chief, and accepted the thought as being funda mentally sound. All the nations of the world accepted the idea, and all, including Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia joined the League of Nations, except the United States of America. When the World War II had ac tually begun, the League of Na tions still functioned. Ger.nany, Japan, Italy, and Russia had been members of that court, and with drew. If the League of Nations was ineffective, impotent, because the United States refused to join, that is equivolent to saying the United States is mistress of the world, and this may lead to undreamed of troubles. The world may revolt, and may array Uself against its mistress. There is large acreage of good lands in Hoke County which will lie idle in 1944 and this should not be allowed. This world is near a general world-wide famine because of the global war, and people in war.torn countries cannot produce enough for themselves, and there are others who will not produce (Continued on page eight) i It's the Quality of leadership that makes Leaders mtum MI R ATLANTIC TIC shc (&( are the Leaders rwraa .BtmmHm ( MUlm. Cla-ltU. cfr f . MMI Orfa4 FERTILIZERS We are still in a position to furnish your requirements with Quality Fertilizers and can give you prompt delivery service. 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