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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1143 THE NEWS-JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C PAGE SEVEN News Rfhtw V T )' MMI ywisM nun ins rib Wtw ' ' fey Suppose there weren't enough money to bring your child info the world? Ia a tearful, dejected letter, Pvt. R.'s wife told him she was going to have baby. There wasn't enough money to pay for medi cal care and hospitalization. Helpless, Pvt. R. appealed Id the Red Cross. In a few days he received word that they had assisted bis wife ia applying for emergency maternity and infant care. Suppose you were wounded, disabled, job leas and discouraged? A Marine Private, he was wooded in the South Pacific and discharged for dis ability. He want home discouraged at the prospect of maldng ha living again. Unable to take up his former trade, ia desperation he appealed to the Red Cross. They pat him ia touch with the proper agency he's doing well, now. Suppose your mother were ill and without funds? Seaman T. M. received word his mother was desperately ill and without money. He remembered advice he'd heard and went to his Red Cross Field Director who requested the boy's local chapter to arrange for care. They did. Now, anxiety lifted, Sea man T. M. is a better fighting man. Another example of your Red Cross in action. Suppose your son were taken prisoner of war? Imagine the anxiety of the parents of Pvt. E. D., who had had no word from him in months. The Red Cross sent a welfare inquiry. And then the International Red Cross reported that he was healthy and well, and was receiving regularly the American Red Cross packages that helped keep up his spirits. Your money gets the packages to him, r . Suppose you were dying for want of blood plasma? The shrapnel and fragments from a shell burst riddled Sgt. R. J. M.'s left arm. He was losing blood fast. A medical corpsman administered first aid and Red Cross blood plasma. Then they carried hint to the field station and gave him 8 more pints of i plasma. Without it, he would have died. , , Suppose you couldn't bring yourself to tell your family you'd lost your leg? He hadn't told them he'd lost his leg... Dad and Mom would take it too hard. But they were coming to see him in the hospital He appealed to a Red Cross worker to break the news for him. It was a tough job, but she did... and soon Mom was holding his hand while Dad was telling some funny things that had happened back home and Sgt, J. T. was smiling happily. The Red Cross can't do this work without your help! The actual cases outlined above illustrate just a few of the thousands of ways ia which the Red Cross helps our fighting men at home and overseas. But without your help there would be no Red Cross to do this humanitarian work. For the Red Cross is wholly dependent on the money that you and other sympathetic Americans contribute. And after three years of war, the work of your Red Cross is greater than ever. Think of the pain and suffering you can alleviate by your contribution and how roud you can he of your part in this heart-warming work. Won't you give all you fan?, KEEP YOUR RED CROSS JT HIS SIDE GW NOW- GIVE MOftE The Red Cress War Fund Drive Opens Today, March 1st Give! Give Prompty! Give More! This Official American Red Cross Advertisement Is Sponsored By Edinburgh Cotton Mills Dundarrach Trading Company Hoke Concrete Works Upchurch Milling Company THENE toy Paul Mallon JJ8 Released by Western Newspaper Unioa. PRESENT LABOR TRENDS j SPELL REAL DISASTER OUR TOWN, U. S. A. This is Our Town, U. S. A., just like many anoth er I suspect, and a rather astonish ing place right now for everyone in it. I should not say "astonishing" be cause no one is astonished at any thing these days. Its peculiar con-, dition is a chief subject of conver sational concern among its resi dents, although not yet recognized in public statements. It just seems to be growing into something no one understands. There is our plumber, for In stance, as good a plumber as there ever will be. His integrity shows in his work. When he fixes a pipe, you know it is fixed, which is per haps an unusual thing in itself these days. In the past year, there were only three days out of the cus tomary 365 in which his entire force of help appeared for work. They are making such high rates of pay that they can live comfortably (to the fullest of the liquor ration also) by working only half the time, and nothing can get them to work the other half. lie keeps 12 men on the payroll In order to get the six necessary for his business. I called the best bricklayer in Our Town to do a little job. He said he had gone out of business. His health could not stand the strain of trying to keep his troup of bricklayers to gether, as none wished to work reg ularly. FORCED OCT OF BUSINESS It was not worth the trouble to try to handle them because you could never get a job done. He opened, instead, an old blacksmith shop which had been closed for 30 years. Yes sir, our leading brick layer has become a blacksmith, a symbol of our progress. The hotel manager in Our Town Is a superior fellow, has had top ex perience in New York City, a pro gressive kind of manager who wants to make his food better, his place efficient and superior. He broke down trying to do it, and after a few weeks in the hospital is now taking a month's rest. His waiters made enough money to allow them to retire each payday and return, either rested or bleary eyed the following Tuesday or Wed nesday. His maids went off to the local war factory where they could make $30 a week and more stand ing around doing practically noth ing. Some days only one employee showed up. What has happened to Our Town? No one wants to work. No one who can lire otherwise wants the responsibilities of an employer. It is not a manpower question (the men are here) or an economic question involved in all those statistics the gov ernment bureaucrats wrangle about. It is a state of mind, a condition for which there seems a remedy. The elderly couple dowa the street finally got a man to wash their win dows Mas fall, but he wanted $8 a day tor that simple task and they could not afford it. The kitchen maids ask $30 a week more than twice as much as a soldier righting at the front and sometimes get it. But lake others they do not want to work, .as a group, and they in crease their salaries while cutting their hours of labor and their days off, laying off when they accumu late enough money to rest up for a few weeks. RUIN OF NATIONS Is this a war situation or a local phenomena! I think not. It is not a war question because it started long before the war. Indeed it is the same condition to which most authorities ascribe the fall of France and it ruined Communism in Russia. When conditions encourage people not to work, they natu rally will not work, and when a nation does not work it deteri orates and gives Us eminence to nations whioh are producers. A nation has no wealth except the product of its labors and when the production falls off, for any reason, it declines. But what bothers me is the future. The government is pledged to an inflationary postwar policy of high wages and high prices, thus con tinuing the conditions which are causing the unofficial institution of the three-day week, of work avoid ance and employer retirement. I know labor leaders who doubt that the union people in our war factories can be kept at their jobs after peace in Europe. I hear au thentic predictions of a breakdown in American production before Ja pan can be conquered. This is Our Town already. Will It soon be our country. The best possible nonpartisan au thority recently has made a check of inner union campaign trends and returned here with doubts that put even California and Washington in unsure categories. Mr. Roosevelt ia holding a good portion of the CIO,
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