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THE EAGLE_ Published Eveiy Thur day in the interest of Cherryville and surroundins Community. Entered as Second Class Mail matter \uifust 16th. iat"; in the Post Office ill Chetryville. N C.. under the Act of Ccngrcss March 3id. 1879.____ FRED K. HOUSER ___ Editor and Publisher MRS. CREOLA HOUSER (Local and Society Editor.) Telephones: Office, 2101 — Residence. 2501 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One year Six months - -- - Pour nvnths Three months - - -- $1.50 .85 .60 .50 N«Nwul A4v«rMaiiif R iflffliffTfiSS i HJ&ifnfffFrf *IT"—jnl Nm r*k I CM€f I D«tr*ft i AtUmtm i PMU. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 194.] WONT YOU HELP, TOO? Somewhere on some distant • battlefield an American hoc. will be wounded in action todav. }{< may be your son. m the laughing tow-headed kid that lived in a house down the street. Remember? He will be brought to a base hospital where arnn end navy nurses, recruited and trained by the AMERICAX RED CROSS, will dress his wounus Other Red Cross workers' will speed his recovery. Somewhere todav an American service man is longing for home. He may be in bomb-scarred London—in far ..IT Australia—-in a Paeilic island—or on a North African e-er:. If he can, he will go to the American RED CROSS Club and there he will find crtertainment to relieve his mind of the thoughts that pass through the minds of home sick men. He may be at some distant outpost, fat removed from that RFC CROSS Club, but tonight or the next night, the RED CROSS will come to him. bringing him relief from the boredom and hoi tots of war. Somewhere today an American boy need? help. He may be at a distant domestic camp or base, on a ship at sea. or in an unfriendly prison camp. He may be almost anywhere Wherever he is there also is the AMERICAN RED CROSS. Even the barb wire enclosures of prison camps are no barrier to the RED CROSS Thus the RED CROSS serves the service men. Somewhere, every minute of the hour, every hour of the day. every day of the year, the RED CROSS is helping someone. Won't you help, too? Gaston county's quota for the War Fund drive for 194-1 is 42.6UU 00. This is two and one-half times the original quota for 1942. Friday a local RED CROSS representative will call on you. You can do your part by contributing, not a dol lar. but many dollars. Bi sure to do your part.' DRAFTING FATHERS Whether fathers shouid be dialled into the army is un doubtedly one of the most discussed topics of the day. both in Washington and in the American home. It is the consensus of opinion that this drastic step, which would break up thousands of homes, shouldn't be taken un less absolutely necessary and nobody seems to know just how necessary it is. «> Army spokesmen say that to have an army of over 10, 000.000 men it is necessary to draft fathers Others tigure, such an army could easily be built up without taking fathers. Still others think we would be bettei off to aim at a smaller army and be sure we have enough men left at home to produce war supplies and food. Before drafting fathers begins on a large scale, it would seem advisable that some regulations be enacted about de pendency. If a man's wife and children can be supported by private income ot by relatives they are of course not as de pendent upon the father as those families which have no vis ible means of support except the earnings of the head of the If it is necessary to break up homes, it would seem only common sense to take those men whose families can get along before taking those whose families would become public LEARNING TO SAVE Getting the money together to pay our income tax ha* been a major jp-oblem fur most of us. It has taken a lot of sacrif e. scrimping and saving. But after the first payment is made, we mav be able to find some satisfaction in having proved to ourselves that we an capable of saving such a large sum of money Many people who hav'e never been able to save a cent in the past have found that, when it is absolutely necessary, they are able to put aside a sizeable proportion of then income. After doing this it is unfortunate to have to hand it all over to the government. But if we can, as a result of income tax, make a habit of saving—and can keep that habit after the war is ov'er and income taxes are reduced—we may eventually thank Uncle Sam for teaching us a lesson which we would never have learned in any other way'. If. in the future, we can continue to save for ourselves as much as we are now saving for the treasury, our dreams of owning a new home, of retirement and of education for our children are apt to come true. THE INCOME TAX QUESTION No matter what happens in Washington about taxes—every tfne of us must make the first income tax payment due on March 15. It may be that the pay-as you-go plan will be adapted. It may be that part of the taxes on the 1942 income will be wiped otT the books or postponed. But whatever law is passed con cerning the payment of income taxes, there will be no excuse for failing to make the March tax payment. Because of the great amount of tax news coming from Washington, treasury officials are worried over misinterpreta tions by taxpayers who will get the idea that they needn't pay taxes until the matter is settled. For that reason, the senate finance committee felt it necessary to pass a resolution making it clear that no congressional action wirr affect the first tag payment. This Week in WASHINGTON Washington, D. C. (NWNS) — ••The thing that amazes me most about Washington," said a prom laent member of the govei nment. "is that in spite of all the tights, the confusion, the waste, the fast changing regulations and the many changes in personnel, we still seem to be gettin things done.'' That statement expresses a general attitude in \\ ashington. Practically everyone here is ex tremely conscious of the many muddled and complicated situa tions but they ate optimistic in the belief that >we can accom; lisn more, iu spite of muddling, than other nations can accomplish no matter how efficiently their war ; progi am is managed. Tile most dangerous fight, of ' the many pitched battles going ! on in .Vashinton, is that between I the army navy leaders against I the War Production board. As it j stands now the WPB has the up per hand in that it has been given. | power by the President to direct the scheduling of munitions out I put— a function which the war 1 and navy departments are con j vmeed should t>e given to them. I This right has reached tiie point, I said one military official, where | ciiairman Nelson of WPB will Ieithi i bt- forced to quu or U.e unde! secretaries of W5»r and navy air. Nelson, however, has indi cated that he has no intention of quitting nor of giving in to the army and navy—and he has strengthened the power of W PB by giving Charles Wilson, his ex ecutive ice chairman, practically the same powers as he wields him self. The army and navy are also battling with congress over the selective service Congress feels strongly that there is no need to draft fathers until all other a vailahie men have been drafted, anu u favors legislation to pro vide that no fathers in a state shall be called until all unmar* ried men under 38 as well as those without children are taken. There is also another battle regarding selective service being waged by the farm bloe which is pressing for legislation to pro vide that no more farm boys be. drafted until next January and] that farmers now in the army be released during the farming sea-| son Because of the critical shor-1 tage of labor in farm areas, the congressmen from farm states be neve such a regulation is imper ative and they also want the m.an power commission to rule that men cannot leave the farms to go into war industries without approval# of their local draft Action by both houses of the new session of congress makes it apparent that the members in tend to get the legislative body back in the driver’s seat of gov ernment and will no longer sim ply be "yes men" for the Presi dent. The most olbious example of this so far is congressional action to get rid of the $2o,0U0 limitation on income which went beyond his constitutional powers is, issuing this order in the first place and tney feel that even if a curb on large incomes is to be continued, it should be as a result of congressional action. It is expected that the greatest test of power, as between the President and congress, will come when legislation is considered to curb labor unions, to prevent strikes and slowdowns and to freeze labor’s wages. This is au mittedly a touchy subject which may be avoided temporarily, but it is apparent that the present congress is in no mood to make any further concessions to labor and. as soon as any new difficul ties flare up, a flood of labor regulation measures are apt to be introduced. i ABOVE <1* HULLABALOO Of the People, for the People, And by the People That is the most ini! art-ant | 'phrase in the English laij^uage I or in any other kingtr.gc. it o 1 wavs bad more food than it knew scribes a foini of-government tie . vised/ by our clever, farsighted | ! forefathers 150 years ago: pat j terned somewhat after the an I cient Greek and Roman democ I racies prior to their decay and ' their usurpation by minorities. Many of us. have known Com munists. Xazis, Facisi.- and Mon archists. Each will tell you that the poo; le ate happier under ■ i. form - government 1 oi.-r under any other. What people? The members of his party—or the great mass who are r.ot mem bers? i There is no question but that, members of the Communist party are happier now than they were j under the T’zarist regime Why i shouldn’t they be They u >w rule j 170 million people with a rod of iron—which is much more pleas ant than being sent to the mines j in Siberia for plotting revolu | tions But the Communist party i is made up of a tiny minority of ; Russia's vast millions. The Nazi party, and the Fascist paity also comprise small minorities of the population These parties are about as exclusive as a Fifth | Avenue club. I But. are tiermahvs minims I pier being bossed around b\ a lot of former tramps than they were being boss around by a lot of kings and emperors? Is the Ital ian more contented being looked ■ at through the nose by Muss and j his son-in-law Ciano, or by mem hers of the royal house of Sav I oy? Is the Russian moujik any i happier? We are told so by mem ! bers of the Communist party; but ! pre-war American travelers cer ■ tainly did not confirm this. I In our country the Democra tic party is at present in power. ! But the Republican has the same I' freedom and can enjoy himself (almost) as much as the Demo crat. It isn’t what you name your form of government that counts; it is how that government really functions. And any nation which is run acording to the judgment of one man, or one group of men, cannot afford the same oppor tunities for advancement and happiness as can a nation which is operated by the people for the people. The great fallacy of individ ual, or group, management of a nation lies in the principle that the citizen must follow on allot ted^ routine plan of living which submerges and destroys his own initiative. The result, in the long run, is a foregone conclus ion. The citizen loses all ambi tion and becomes a fixed cog in a wheel: the managers develop into what is known as a “ruling class”—and we are right back where we came from. Communism in Russia:. Nazi ism in Germany; Fascism in Italy—if they should continue for 50 more years, will develop into the same old type of auto cracy and feudalism which die tutorships have turned into from time immemorial. It could not be otherwise. Human naiim does not change over night, noi over a , century, nor over ten centuries; and all athe high-fal lutin dreams of the starry-eyed theorists about “all men being equal’’ if they will only “join t: with the Communists or the Fascists or the Nazis or some other like left wing philosophy— simply grow out of ignorance of what has happened so often in the past. If we in our country ever al low an overdose ot bureaucracy to obtain such a strangle-hold that ours develops into a one party government, we too will become a two-class nation—the masters and the servant^. SIX INCH SERMON REV. ROBERT H. HARPER Bible Teaching* Again*! Drunkennen. Lenon for March 7: 1 Sam uel 30:16 17; l*iah 28:1-4, 7; Galatian* 5: 19-21. Golden Text: lciak 24:9. The Bible often mingles illus tration with the truths it de clares; especially is this true of the woes it pronounces upon drunkenness, as in passages grouped in the lesson text. When the Amalekites had burned Ziklag and carried away many captives, including those tof David’s household, they cele brated in a great feast, with car ousing and drunkenness. Then it was that David and his wirriors fell upon them and in a great battle that lasted from twilight to twilight slew all their enemies except 400 young men who escap ed on swift camels The men of Ephraim were Valiant warriors but Isiah prophe sied their ruin because of drunk enness. Even debauched priests and prophets in Judah staggered with strong drink, erred in vision, and stumbled in judgment. The "works of the flesh,” con demned in the New Testament, include “drunkenness and reveil ings,” and the warning is given that such will prevent men from inheriting the kingdom of God. It is tragic now to see the mul tiplied liquor shops, but the pres ent lesson is aimed directly at those who patronie the shops. Let our sailors, soldiers, fliers, end all of us on the home front beware of that which does not mix with gunpowder, the gplit second of decision that will de termine life or death, or with the r|orale of a brave people. And we fight with the final objective the kingdom of God on earth. Id that kingdom drunkenness can hav'e no place . And ottr first concern is for the character and souls of our people. THE ENEMY ON THE HOME FRONT t Yt (' ”> ' v ■9 Army Signal Corps Request Short Wave Sets ATLANTA, La., Feb. 28.- 1 Rauio and Photographic amateurs'! have been requested to sell their short-wave communication anu motion picture equipment to a ( special purchasing mission of the j Army Signal Corps, Services oi Supply, headquarters Fourth Service Command announced to day. The radio communication equq . ment especially needed consists j of transmitters, ranging in pow-4 er from 25 watts to 450 watts j and covering various bands in i the short vdave range, as well as me corresponding types of re- j ceiVers and such radio compo-1 jnts as capacitors, resistors and installation material. Especially desired are audio-frequency and radio-1 requency signal generators and oscilloscopes, precision AC and DC oltmeters, ammeters and miliammetera and other equip- { ment for testing. In the photographic held the t Signal Corps see&s to purchase. motion picture cameras, amma- j lion cameras, projectors, souiiu | reproducing equipment, printer* i and film examining machines lot j both 16mm and 35mm motion [ picture film and film strips. Hign j speed still cameras will be pur-! chased as will certain high qual- j ity eyposure meters, filters, tri-1 pods and ferrotype plates. All! such equipment is neeued for j training purposes and operational j use. Used equipment will be pur chased if it is in perfect operat-1 ing condition or can readily be: repaired. The prices paid will, be set by a Signal Corps inspec tor; - fMosi having such equipment and Who wish to sell it to the Army are asked to write a briei description of the items, giving the name of the manufacture! and model type to Captain Nelson G. Craig, Signal Corps Procure ment District, 5000 »* issanicao.. •ivenue, Pimadet^ nia, Penn. The ' equipment itself should not be shipped until it is specifically re quested. IT’S NO. 14 FOR BUND BLOOD DONOR CHAMPION j JAMAICA, N. Y.—Life-long blindness is no obstacle to Miss Eleanor C- Judd's patriotism. Nominated as the champion blood donor of Greater New Yoi* early this year upon completion of her thirteenth donation since ■ 1940. Miss Judd is now preparing for her fourteenth contribution. Officials at the blood nans oi the Central Queens Red Cross state that "Miss Judd’s enthus-; iasm and co-operation are lessons in fortitude and courage tor ev- j eryone.” Miss Judd, a resident of near by Kew Gardens, has been blindt since infancy, but has neverthe-; less won Bachelor of Arts andi Master of Arts Degrees at George < Washington J University, is a! professional pianist, and an en-j thusiast of the theatre. She has no qualms about her blindness, stoically contends that "my blindness is my sight." Doc tors at the Iblood bank say that, she is an excellent donor, is phy sically betber-lthan-aVerage, sfnd only requires a paper cup of> water and orange juice before! and after her blood donation to maintain strength. Our First Acid Test—War Bones and War Taxes mfwmtin) *411600 h i. *NP , / *Aon0j You’ve Done Your Bit—Now Do Your Best C. i i i eojury D*p*Um*n% PRESCRIPTIONS J FILLED AT . ! Houser Drug Co. i WE DELIVER PHONE 4771 ! PROTECT YOUR AUTO WITH FIRE THEFT COLLISION INSURANCE W»pr«— ntlng THE TRAVELERS, Hartfoftt DAVID P. DELLINGER CHERRYV1LLE, N. C. THE BEST INSURANCE “ALWAYS ACCOMMODATING' Established 1907 SUBSCRIBE TO THE EAGLE
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