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THE EAGLE Published Every Thursday in the interest of Cherryville and surrounding Community. Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 16th, 1906. in the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of Congress March 3rd, 1879. FRED K. HOUSER_Editor and Publisher MRS. CREOLA HOUSER (Local and Society Editor.) Telephones: Office, 2101 — Residence, 2b0l SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One year Six months -— Four months —-- — Three months $1.60 . .85 . .60 . .50 NiMwul AtfnftWai lipMMMN | / \ MEPICAN , Rt55 SSOCIATIDN W “ ' W " N«w Ym4 i Chhif i DihuH t AMmSi i PUfc THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1942 IT MAY HURT . . When the doctor says, “This may hurt for a few min utes,'’ most of us are able to grit our teeth and take what ever temporary pain may be administered to us. As we face 1943. with its fearful picture of total war on all fronts, it might be well to take a deep gulp and gird ourselves to stand anything during this year so long as it will lead to victory, peace and a better world after the opera tion is over. There is no doubt that it will be a year of many heart aches and dreadful suffering. But if we can keep our minds set on the outcome—if we can keep faith that each new in cision of the doctor’s knife is helping to remove the can cerous growth which would otherwise destroy our civiliza tion—we can look forward to 1943 as being the year in which we are going to get rid of a dreaded disease. HOW MANY READ THE BIBLE? The Bible is still the best lead book in America, but still it is not read by the great majority of people, a recent survey by tile Institute of Public Opinion, made at the re quest of the American Bible Society shows The survey, conducted on a nation-wide basis, found that only 8,500,000 of our adult population read the Bible regu larly and 35,000.00 admit they have not opened a Bible dur ing the past year The survey did show an increase in Bible reading result ing from the war. more than 4.000,000 people saying that they read the Bible more now than they did before Pearl Usually, in time of war, there is an increase in interest in religion. Whereas the extent of it cannot be measured entirely by a survey of Bible reading, this one factor is certainly an indication of our religious habits. Although the people in the country towns were found to read the Bible more than those in cities, the survey clearly shows that there is plenty of room for improvement in the time given to religious considerations in every part of the country. GIRAUD FOR DARLAN (Asheville Citizen) General Henri Honore Giraud was the first choice of Allied strategists as the man io lead t rench North Africa back into the fight against the Axis. No secret was made of this fact when a British submarine commanded by an American naval officer spirited Giraud from France and bore him to a ren dezvous with Allied officers. General Giraud is one of the few genuine military idols among his own people. He is an inveterate foe of France’s worst enemy. After his miraculous escape from a German prison camp he refused to have any traffic with Vichy. He is a soldier with bearing and an ability which endow him to lead all groups and all classes. In the tragic circumstances of Admiral Darlan’s assas sination it is both fortunate and fitting that a man of General Giraud’s caliber should be available to take his place. The American government has never undertaken to apolozize for its deal with Darlan, hut only the ghoulish would exult in the political implications of his sudden removal. The fact remains, however, that General Giraud will be a most welcome collaborator with the United Nations. He is the senior of General Charles DeGaulle and presumably will receive the allegiance with De Gaulle earlier pledged to him. Certainly it is a hopeful sign that the French Imperial Council acted with alacrity to install Giraud in Darlan’s of fice by unanimous vote. Our Darlan policy thus becomes our Giraud policy with out any interruption in the political-military progress of the North African campaign. General Eisenhower has praised Admiral Darlan for his square-dealing cooperativeness. He inds Giraud just as acceptable, nd the American people will concur in this opinion. In other words, our political arrangements in North Af rica continue on a basis of military-expediency, and we are still committed to the proposition that any permanent French government must be the creation and the choice of French men themselves. This should not be forgotten. The Imperial Council which named both Darlan and Giraud functions in Algeria, a political subdivision of France and not a colony. It has not arrogated any special authority to itself. As Secretary Hull has stated, the battle in Africa is still at a crucial stage, and nothing must divert us from a vnal victory. General Giraud is clearly aware of the broad dbjectives. “Only one thing counts,” he warns: “France and her empire; there is but one aim: victory.” He has spoken like a soldier and a loyal ally. . High Lights of 1942 ‘P8CLANATION Cf S0t*041TV * ALARMIM* MATl SUCCESSES FIRST PART OF YEAR ii: *4 --AND TUIfl SAM <OT MAP \MkQWAY 4l lus. HIM Cnoiamp amp Russia Also &ot mad tL h<^a" »*Ffwc. I &TIU. HOLDM* H»M cmbckI!5^ /v nk BAD NCWS FOB. WORLD — SANGSTta U. ig>. DR APT : bill we JON THE . •HAVE NOUS TOmT Bombed 'ho*MAm»ic 0WBnto Africa! Boston khomt cus FIRE TO6MC« PlCET: SCUTTLED Vou &o'. ??*** j [S4r I y<> i" m A<Sfci ) TODAY mad TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON Recently the people of New York city had a lesson in what it would be like to live without newspapers. Because of a strike of delivery men, 6,000.000 read ers had to so without the news or else be satisfied with a freak species of newspaper called Ever since Pearl Harbor, the people of New York, like those in all other cities, have read news papers more avidly than for many years before. They are eager to know the very latest developments in the war and on the home front. When their chief source of re liable news was suddenly cut off it was the same as though the government had adopted the po licy of the Nazi and said, “From now on you w'ill read what we want you to read.” For it hap pens that the newspaper. "PM” is probably the most devout organ in the New Deal in existence and the people had no other choice. JOBS.freezing An interesting sidelight on the newspaper strike was that; be cause of the absence of news papers, the people had no way of knowing what the strike was about and how long it would last. Actually, the strike itself was news of the first order—since it involved a new phase of labor de mands, which, if permitted to spread, probably could do more than anything which has happen ed yet to hinder our war pro STRIKE . new»paper* “PM.” gram. In addition to the usual de mands for higher wages, the un ion insisted that the jcfbs of all men wh,o deliver newspapers be frozen for the duration of the war—that employers be required to keep on all deliverymen even though the need of them, due to wartime curbs, no longer existed. Since the union knows that newspaper editions and newspaper circulation will probably be cut by government order, thus en dangering some of their jobs, it was the same as if your local gas station manger, when lie heard his supply would be cut 50 per cent, had been forced to agree to raise all wages and sign contracts to keep all of his men on for the duration. During a period of widespread unemployment such demands would still seem unfair, but when there are thousands of jobs in war industries Ibegging for men, it would seem criminal to permit hundreds more men than are needed to ride on newspaper de livery trucks throughout the war. VICTORY .... selfish Probably the men chose the week before Christmas for this strike because they knew it was the week that would hurt the newspapers most and might thus force a quicker and more favor able agreement. But by choosing that week in which the newspapers ordinarily carry more advertising than at any time during the year, they not only showed a total lack of interest in the welfare of their employers, but they also turned the public against them for deny ing them the suggestions on which they had learned to depend for Washington, D. C. (NVVNS) — Just what changes will be made in our nation’s rationing meth ors as a result of Leon Hender son's resignation as chief of the Office of Price Administration have not yet been determined, but there is little doubt that Lhe 1948 plan will be quite different from the one in force today. Although Mr. Henderson was one of the most hardworking and energetic men in Washington and was widely respected for his wholehearted effort to prevent in flation and to set up a plan for the fairest distribution of goods to the people, it is generally agreed here that his resignation at this time was advisable. In the first place, the reason I Mr. Henderson gave for resigning —poor health—was not given merely as a screen for covering up his real explanation. His I closest friends here say that he has been suffering for some months and is in real need of a rest. But. in addition, he has undoubtedly become very discour aged by tiie mounting criticism of his work which has come from j all sides. His biggest problem has been with congress and it is known here that the new congress was planning to make things even harder for him than did the 1942 session. Mr. Henderson believed planning- their Christmas shop ping. The stores also suffered as a result of the strike by being un able to guide their customers, through advertising, to the goods of which their supplies were plen tiful—which was of particular importance during this year of so many scarcities. While the strike was in pro gress, the newspaper “PM” show ed a picture of a group of the delivery men smiling and showing the V for Victory sign with their fingers. But it was obvious that they were using that symbol not for the purpose for which it is intended—to show a desire for victory in this war— but as a symbol of their expectation of winning soft births for themsel ves for the duration. DANCER.warning There is a general feeling in labor circles, as well as in Wash ington, that the newspapers have shown a strong anti-labor senti ment during the past two years. Whether this is true or not de pends largely on any individual’s personal feeling as to what is anti labor and what isn’t. But it is un doubtedly tru that the newspapers in general have opposed treating labor leaders like spoiled children and giving them anything they asked in order to keep them quiet. The newspapers have attacked the demands by labor which they considered unfair and they have attacked the strikes and threats of strikes which hve imperhiled our war production program. But it certainly isn't going to help any in labor’s relationship with the press to have one of labor’s prize exhibits of poor Sportsmanship take place in its own front yard. In addition to the inconvenience and problems created by this strike, it also should act as a warning to the public as to what union leaders can do if they are permitted to have enough power. In New York they demonstrated the^r ability to take away our freedom of the press to a greater extent than it could be done by any other method of censorship. that the success of rationing and | price control depended largely on rigid enforcement, but cong ress refused to give him the funds he considered necessary to do an adequate enforcement job. Some of his supporters say that, because of this refusal, the public has had to pay as much as eight billion dollars extra for the goods purchased during the past year., Others feel that no matter how much had been appropriated, it would still have been impossible to keep the cost of living from It was unfortunate that Mr. Henderson’s resignation came at the same time as the announce ment of the acute gasoline short age in the East, for many people connected these two pieces of news and concluded that Mr. Henderson was walking out on a problem that had become too hot for him to handle. The people in the East feel that gasoline situation, as well as most other sudden shortages, have been badly bungled by somebody in Washington. The greatest blame falls on the shoulders of the Office of Price .Administra tion although, in the case of the gasoline shortage, almost an equal amount of blame is aimed at Harold Ickes, who is in charge of the nation’s oil supply. Easterners have shown a wil lingness to give up all unneces sady use of their automobiles and realize the need for stringent gasoline rationing, but feel that o cials here made the present problem more acute by public an nouncement of the shortage be fore determining what they were going to do about it. Checkups showed that as soon as newspaper headlines warned easterners that “A” cards would probably be suspended, there was i a rush to the gasoline stations by j those holding “A” cards to get their tanks filled up before the ruling was made definite. Thus the gasoline stations, which were low on supplies, were soon dried up completely. it seems to be more apparent to the public than to officials here that “timing'” in announce ments of shortages and rationing plans is of the utmost importance. First they saw a sugar fa mine come, before, sugar ration ing went into effect, because the government issued a warning a bout the scarcity. That served as an invitation to hoarders to stock up. Then came the announcement that coffee was due for rationing and housewives immediately took this as a cue to buy a little ex tra fipffee. In the coffee situa tion it could hardly be considered a matter of hoarding—but if each housewife had tried to get one extra pound of coffee it would have doubled the amount needed by the stores of the country at a time when coffee was hard for them to get. If the government had begun rationing coffee as soon as the scarcity was apparent, people are informing their congressmen, everybody would have been hap pier about it. But letters that have been pouring into Washing ton from easterners, show that they consider the handling of the recent gasoline situation to be “prize boner’’ so far. With the Office of Price Ad ministration under a new chief, it is expected that immediate efforts will be made to remedy this situa tion and to begin rationing of Due Author of 4 Carnegie "How to Win Friends and i ” Influence People" QUARREL-BUT MAKE UP 0 Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine get about 30 letters a week asking how they are able to live such an ideal mar ried life. They are so devoted that one will not go into a play where there is no part for the other. It has cost them thousands of dollars, hut they have stuck to it. They were paid $75,000 for making the movie, “The Guardsman.” Metro-Goldwyn Mayer offered them $450,000 to make four pictures, but they turned it down. I met them on the Normandie, crossing the Atlantic, and I asked Alfred Lunt if he would tell me what magic oral alchemy lie had used to win the heart of such a charming lady. He hesitated, glanced at Lynn, and said yes. He was engaged to play in “A \oung Mans rancy. He had been born on a farm 35 miles from Milwaukee, and had come to New York to get ahead as an actor. This was his first big Broadway chance, and he was ner vous about it. When he went to rehearsals there was also in the cast an English actress by the name oi Fontanne. Allred Lunt thought this English girl the most beauti ful creature he had ever laid his Wisconsin eyes on. But he was too embarrassed to speak to her. Finally, the stage manager called him over and introduced him. Lynn was standing on a rickety, wobbly staircase which was to be used in the show. As Alfred Lunt advanced, his heart played a private little tune of its own. Then he tried to do something which is no less than extraordinary. He had been going to see romantic Euro pean plays in which the hero gallantly kissed the lady s hand and so this ex-farm boy tried it. He lifted her hand, he bent over, then missed his step and fell fiat on his face! The stagehands roared with laughter. But it didn’t kill his lo\e. The more he saw of her, the more deeply in love he became. Finally, one day as they were walking up Fifth Avenue, they came to 59th street where the old-fashioned cabs wait lor customers. He asked her to take a ride, and then and there, in a hansom cab clopping through Central park, he proposed. I asked them if they—the perfect stage copule—ever had quarrels. “Of course we do,” said Lynn. “Terrible ones—but we never let the day go without making up.” Quarrels don’t really matter. But the making up does. So if you have quarreled with somebody very dear to you, why don’t you try to make up today? Not tomorrow, but today! As the B'iblo says: “Let not the sun go do\vn upon your wrath.” SIX INCH SERMON REV. ROBERT H. HARPER The Glory of the Son of God. Lesson for January , 1943: John 1:1-14. Golden Text: John 1:14 During the first quarter of 1943 we have studies in John’s Gospel, which is unlike the other ,hree Gospels that are known be i ause of their similarity as the Synoptic Gospels. John wrote of the mystery of Christ’s Person— in answer to the question: “Who is Christ?'’ In tlie present lesson John writes of the Eternal Logos or goods before a scarcity lias al ready arrived. If this policy is adopted, it will probably mean that rationing will be applied to many additional necessities short ly after the first of the year. | Word of Cod. A word expresses thought and it oftimes reveals character. John truly calls Jesus the Word. For Cod’s perfect rev elation was more than mere words, it. was the Word clothed in fish and blood in Jesus Christ. Nothing could more strongly pre sent the divinity of Christ than John's statement concerning the Word: “In the beginning was the Word,” and the “Word was Cod.” “And the Word was mada flesh.” The lesson tells of th^ ministry of John the Baptist as the forerunner of Jesus. John came for a witness of the Light. For Jesus is also the Author of light, both natural and spiritual. Never was sadder statement made than that of Jesus: "He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” Most of his people rejected him. But they who received him received power to become the sons of Cod. The great lesson for us should be the wisdom of making sure that we received Jesus the Word, that we may live by the Light and the Power that are PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED AT Houser Drug Co. 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