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THE EAGLE Published Every Thursday in the interest of Cherryville and surrounding Community. Entered h> Second Cl:i=» Mail matter August 16th, 1906. in the P<>st Office at t hci ryville, X. C.. under the Act of C. ngiisa March 3:d, 1879. __ l-'HEli K. HOUSER Editor and Publisher MRS. CKEOLA HOUSER (Local and Society Editor.) Telephones: Ollice, 2101 - Residence. 2.'0i SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One year _*---— Six months Four months Three months $1.50 .85 .60 .50 Ntidciui Advertising Representative New Yerfc i Oik age i Petrel* i A Neele I fUla. , THURSDAY. MARCH 11. 1943 FINE SPIRIT OF COOPERATION This week Oherryv'ille has shown another line spirit of cooperation when the Red Cross Drive almost doubled its quota. S M. Butler, chairman, called a meeting- of the Red Cross on Thursday night and plans were made for a drive to be put on Friday. March 12th. Early Friday morning each volunteer worker set out to cover the territory given them and each one was met with a fine spirit of cooperation from the public The drive proved a double success and when all tabluations was in and checked on. the quota was surpassed by 71 per cent. The quota set for Cherryville was S2.402.00 and amount collected was $4,112.74. This is just another one of the highly successful drive put across in Cherrvville. The Cherryville hoys who are in service should feel proud of the people at home who so liber ally gave to this good cause. THE RED CROSS. AMERICANS LIKE THE TRUTH Labor today is the most powerful single group in the nation. It can make or break the war effort. Labor leaders, by demanding their pound of flesh during the emergency, can bring disartrous inflation which would wipe out a half century of lijbor gains, together with the savings and standards of living of every man. woman and child in the country. Is it any wonder that Ca] tain Eddie Rickenbucker lias asked labor to make sacrifices along with the rest of us. forego e ravagant overtime demands, help to protect the working rights of men returning from war, cease disruptive jurisdic tional strife and make work tactics; are these things too much to ask of labor at a time when the country is fighting foi its life? They •certainly are not. The public agrees heart and soul with every word that Rickenbucker lias uttered. Those who attempt to discredit him as a labor hater, will hurt labor, because the words he has spoken were horn when he was near to death. Men near death think anil speak the truth. TODAY’S READING HABITS The war has brought surprising changes in tin- book reading habits of most people—with Bibles; cookbooks and textbooks showing the greatest increase in popularity Records of book sales compiled by .Marshall Field & Company, which can be taken as a fairly accurate yardstick of our nation's reading habits, also show a great increase in interest in children's books as well as in books about the foreign countries in which the War is being fought. There are many obvious explanations for these changes In the first place, people are reading more than they used to because of gasoline rationing and more evening's at home. ’1 he war naturally stimulates an increased interest in re ligion and the Bible. Rationing and shortages make cook ing books more necessary than e'<r before. Textbooks are being eagerly sought aftei by men who hope to get a com mission in the armed forces or to learn a war job. NO BREATHING SPELL Tlie C. S. Treasury department is now considering a plan for the sale of post-war purchase certificates which would give those holding them a priority on the first automobiles, ref tiger ators and other high priced items for which there will be a tremendous demand after the war. The purpose of the plan would he to start us all paying installments now on the things we will want later—and to insure post-war prosperity by building up enVnnious orders for manufacturers before they consider having a breathing spell between record wartime production and record peace time production. Although "breathing spell" is an innocent sounding phrase, it is quite profiable that it would be synonymous with “depression" if it were permitted after the war. To-keep the millions of men now employed in wartime industry working after the war. and to make room for the soldiers who must be given work as soon as they return to civilian life, it is imperative that our factories keep boom ing without interruption. Whether we do it by the purchase certificate plan or not. it is up to the public to dainand merchandise as soon after the war as it cun be delivered Washington. 1). (NWXS) "Wo wlro have lain in. . shell holes watching the skies l\u comber anil fighter plane help ! which failed to ai pear feel hitler ,iuoat|| the whole thing. In the army, acts less treasonable than this are punishable with death before a firing squad." That statement, issued by a group of American soldiers wounded in Africa ami now in the Walter Keed hospital here, following a walk-out of workers in a Boeing Flying Fortress plant, lias aroused the whole nation, as well as congress, to .demand hit mediate action to make strikes or slowdowns ■ subject to severe punishment’ for the duration ol Senator t’onnally. win. intro ducal a hill in the last session to outlaw strikes and then withdrew it at tlie request of the' While House when the unions pledged themselves to a no strike urgee mem, immediately i eiiuTemu ed i,is measure His hill | no ides nr army seizure of plants when strikes occur and calls for heavy panalties to i those involved No matter wluit action the President takes, unless he issues an eider, which is .just as stringent as tlii Comialiy measure, it is oxppc oil that this Pill will now lie enin-at ed. It is true that ■■the War l.ahe! board has delayed f.u ipany months in taking action on the demands of the .airplane workers for increased pay—and the un ion probably felt that the only way to get action was to create an emergency—but it is cleat from the J resent attitude of cong ress that this was the most un tortunate step labor lias taken since the war began. It is even considered probable that, tile President, who has >o fai befit over backwards to give in to label N demands, will now make no further efforts to restrain emigres.-, front enacting whatever stringent, legislation it deems ne cessary, If it b comes a ques tion of taking sides with the tinned forces or with labor, the President, like everyone else, will demand regulations to keep labor on the) joh. Although strikes, slowdowns and absenteeism among war pro duction workers hold the lime light here, the problems of help for farmers and taxation are con tinuing to receive great attention. One of the majoi problems on the farm front which must he settled quickly is whether to give farm ••is increased “incentive” pay meats for producing more crops or whether to permit price rises which would assure greater in come to farmers. In addition, .the plans for providing farm htbor are still considered inade quate and it is agreed that if farmers are to he expected to 'I'Ian for greater production a workable plan for supplying help must he offered at once. Congress’ worries over tax leg islation leave been increased by reports, of people being unable • o meet tlu-ir .March payments and a large number having bor rowed the money to make such payments. It is agreed that a pa\ as you go plan is absolutely necessary if the treasury hopes' to collect full taxes front the peo ple during 194.J—and congress I- agreed on enacting some pay as-you-go plan. Hut those who favor collecting taxes on 1P42 incomes in addition to pay as-you go collection on lPl.'j wages are becoming increasingly aware of the ' collection difficulties which this would Cause. For this rea son. the h’uml plan, which calls for the forgiveness of till 1942 taxes, is being given greater con sidt ration and it now seems in creasingly likely that by June we will be on a straight pay-as you go , basis with the. hist half of ,194 2 taxes erased from the ABOVEHULLABALOO' Representative Luce Starts Something Ilcp Clave Booth I.i'u. - new | famous "(Ilnbalnneyspeech- i quite apart from the soutuitiessj ov the unsoundnoss of ,ts ;m;H- | niellls -seems to have created a ! St*rIPs of l ev'erbera! tolls which) may vei y t onceivaMy stall he) nation on t )*.- voaii \vliie:i leads to, mute realist :e post wav thinking i Ameviea is air educated nation;'] bu; unfortunately oat schools (Jo, nut vequive of us ii thovtiliglt. knowledge of h.story; Hot even out- own history much less that of the vest of tit' world Pile tragic result is that we lack the groundwork essential to). esti mating the course of future ev ents, for we possess insult ieient knowledge of the vast upon which! to base our calculations. \\ e car | only guess! W hat. tor install, e. | has been the trend of the social i and political reactions following i the various major d'i.-t urhaiice.- > which have from time to tin > , upset the routine of our world'.' I What happened after the threat Plague? What happened after] the Thirty Years' war? All too often our answers to these questions are: "1 don't know." or 1 didn't get that far at school," or, "l have forgotten The same questions would not elect like replies froiii educated Europeans. Their answers .would eniinate from a thorough study of those subjects. That studs has been an essential to national sur vival. A nation literally could not exist for a hundred years, it its leaders were not thoroughly familiar with the fundamental lessons which history teaches. That knowledge has not been an essential over “isolated” here It has been a luxury—indulged inf alas by all too few. Kut after this war it will be a necessity for the reason that the rapidly im proving airplane will, from now on. impair our security and thus decrease our enviable isolation. We too will have to inform our selves about the known reactions of the human races. There are those anions ns — and would to Heaven thay ale right—who sincerely believe that this wat will purify the world as the Flood was intended to do. They visualise a permanent peace i on earth, a United States of the World, and other l'to| can con-' ditions to ‘ follow this current “baptism of tire " The average European, on the other hand, who bases his assumption upon his knowledge -of .2,000 years of his own history, believes that, war does not purify; that it simp- i ly adds complication to already complicated -conditions; that it1 breeds more and bitter hatreds and incentives to revenge- that it further confuses the chronic geo graphical and political controver sies whih past wars hav'e engcnd tred and he plaits for his future accordngly. America is lighting for a glori ous ideal: tin ideal which this very spirit will some day make a reality—“freedom’ in all its variations, for mankind. But our nation will not be present to par-1 i ticipate in the fulfillment of this ' i deal unless its people guard its merest.' tliroue'll the trials ami l ibuiations ot' mold than just Ills war and its immediate after math. War. aftei all. i> only an luitlt :t though a cruel arid de vastating' urn-: li 'is the eondi iui, v.iiiih maintain through rhe, vornial years <«1' peace tor which vo must continually plan and .•malty struggle. It is well to dream, for it is to he .!rearin'!.-, primarily, we owe he little civilization we have has far .acip.iizeri. Hut it is also ii.se- ulil.e we. battle toward the .•onsummat inn of these dreams ot ‘ut a re harmony—-to drop the an ■hoi- of "lessons of the past" to ■ •award of out Ship of State— just in .ase history should per ;evei e in it - nasty habit of re PtatiUK' itself: SIX INCH SERMON REV. ROBERT H. HARPER In th Upper Room Lesson for March 14: John 13: 12-20; 14:1 6 Golden Text: John 14:6 In the uppei room Jesus as a servant washed the disciples’ feet, hen said that if he, their Lord md Master, had washed their •'net, they outfit to wash one an 'her's feet. Some take this in . motion literally as in the foot .'ashing of a certain sect. The most regard the whole incident as teaching love and humility. Many gladly render lowly service '• lowly people But let not us -hiik from any service in Jesus’ Nothing worse could he said oJ one than Christ’s statement of the traitor whose presence man red the occasion. For nothing could be worse than breaking a circle of brotherhood. Soon Judas slunk away into the night before j Jesus instituted the Sacrament. I Beautiful were the words of comfort which Jesus spoke to the troubled hearts of the disciples. They believed in God, let them also believe in Jesus, and trust him. We cannot know all about the wondrous mansion of which Jesus spoke; it is sufficient that we shall have a place in the bet ter world. Xo “housing problem" will trouble us there. The blessed words of Jesus lifted the troub led thought of the disciple.- be yond their sorrowing world to on eternal one. When Jestis will eopie again, not even the angels' Know- it is enough that he has1 promised that he will come again 1 ond receive us unto himself. Consider the words used as the Golden Text. Jesus is the Way that leads to God. All we need to know of God we may learn through Him who is the Truth. And through the risen Lord we may have life more abundant— now and evermore. Taxp aver j ');*eavi <v. * Q-, < o :p "o A ,\A\ Church Attendance At Army Camps Atlanta, Ga.—Feb. 2S—Church attendance in the seven south eastern states, for a three month period just ended, totaled l.'dd.T. 422, according to figures re leased by Chaplain John O. l.ind quist, (Colonel), Chief of thi Chaplain Branch, Fourth Serviei Command. There were 20,00.0 services held, a large proportion of which were outdoors. This, it is pointed out, is the result of the Army chaplains taking the serv ices to the men when duties or other factors prevented them from attending a centralized service. Sacraments were admin istered on 15,740 occasions to 129.722 participants. Chaplains have officiated at 1,957 marriages and have baptized ■'109 persons, including infants. Hospital and guardhouse visits] numbered 19,000. Chaplains a! so visited 1.904 services, civilian; and military, other than those | conducted my themselves They : distributed 59.102 Bibles and Testaments, including those fur [ nishcil by tile government ami i smaller portions t lit nished b\ eiViliaii oi'uaivira! iot.s ; 7! 1 'tract's of rct.i;:i<uis subjects and eubiod soldi.-; i' readme by uis : iril tiling ds.Uld newspapeis and iaai'av.inos. Tin iv was a total »»i 1,071) |i; o-'essa-n ~ of to'Tig'iou. Those men nniUd, it; most eases, with a nearby or. .in.ehnreh ■'><; with their own homo church In their jmsiori'ul activity on military- I'-son tit ions, the chap lain-: were its miiiart with 2.non. I 27 not soils, w hile it; civilian coin eunities they lencli-d HMl,nif> pot sons. TRAFFIC COPS Allied. 11 mi., Africa -T: i > : tain t hey t\ etc . hessa tn the now me Gap otfensiy along a not i o Set on -pt troops. 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