THE EAGLE_ Published Every Thursday in the int* rest of Cherryville and surrounding Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 16th, 1906. in the Post Orti'-e at Cherryville, N. C„ untfer the Act of Congress March drd. lS'O- . FREuIThOUSER Editor and Publisher MRS. CREOLA HOUSER (Local and Society Editor.) Telephones: Office, 2101 — Residence, 2501 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: . payable in Advance One year -r -■—---.-$U50 Six months - Four months ------- Three months -,--- ~ NalteMi A4v*rtW«f Ripmnim** THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER .'iO. 1943_ PLEASANTER MARCH 15THS The best sign that something will he done about simplity ing income tax reports was the disclosure by The Associated Press that Washington's leading tax man—Chairman Dough ton of the House Wavs and .Means Committee—had to engage an expert to make out his September 15 return. It is a relief tc most of us, who couidn t make heads 01 tails of that September 15 tax blank, to realize that the man whos had most to do with inventing it agrees it is beyond un derstanding. For if Mr. Doughton himself had to call in an expert, the Treasury can hardly blame us poor laymen il the figures we submitted me out of line Another good sign is that Chairman Ceorg'e of the Senate finance committee, after viewing the Treasury’s proposed blank for our final repot l in March, sent il back to the Treasury with the recommendation that it be made more understandable. There are probably many new income tax complications in store for us. but it is encouraging to know that the men in the driver’s seat are beginning to talk about simplification. If the trend keeps us, there may be a March 15 in the distant future when vve will be able to figure out what we owe the government by common arithnietn instead of by pure guess work. LITTLE THUGS COUNT If we turn up the heat in our homes on a cold day. or leave an electric light burning over night, or drive the car a few more miles than we have to. the waste may appear so un sign iticant that it isn't worth a second thought. But actually it is just tiiose little tilings which may pre vent maximum war production. For We must think of such conservation in 'terms of the cooperation of millions of homes —not just ours. It is estiifiated, for example, that by a reasonably eco nomie use of coal for beating in all homes, there would be a saving of oVcr 20.000.000 tons annually; a 10 per cent reduc tion in domestic and commercial use of electricity would save ov'er 4.000.000 tans of coal and more titan TSmillion lamp bulbs, and a 10 per cent reduction in the use of manufactured gas would save nt'er 1.000.000 barrels of fuel oil. Right now the government is carrying on a conservation program .in which we ate urged to cut down oui use of coal, oil and electricity as well as of gas. tile telephone, water and oil items related to transportation. The facilities are the lite blood of war industry There cannot he too much policing or rationing of the use of these items, '.t is up to us to conserve them voluntarily. If we burn a little less light at night, turn down the heat a collide of degrees, only use the car when vve lrav'e to and refrain from making that long distance phone call we had in mind, that's about all there is to it for us. But to the indus try it'is a matter of production life or death. The Federal grv'( i nment has been spending millions of dollars building power dams, ostensibly for flood control, nav igation and irrigation—with electric power development by the government a “by-product” of such projects. Time has proved. boweVer, that the dams were primarily to create a gigantic government owned electric power system The flood in Oklahoma last spring exposed the fallacy of “flood control’’ as an argument for power dams. Kh'nor T. Peterson has an article in the Saturday Evening Post of August 21, entitled, “Floods are unnecessary.” Ac companied by Hugh H. Bennett, Chief of the United States Soil Conservation Service, Mr. Peterson toured the flood rav aged areas in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The outstanding point of his article is that water must be controlled locally on the land where rain falls, before it runs off causing erosion and floods. Control is accomplished in numerous ways—by count less little dams; by terraces that follow slope levels; by thick growing Vegetation in strip crops, always at right angles to slopes; by solid fields of farm crops that erect billions of tiny dams made of roots. These are but samples of the scientific practices which have proved wholly effective in preventing of floods by holding water where it falls. At the confluence of the Grand, Verdigris and Arkansas tiers, said Mr. Peterson, “the awful evidenre of the flood prompted me to ask why the $25,000,000 Pensacola dam on the Grand, which had been promoted as a combined flood con trol and power project, had failed so completely in controlling the flood the people of Oklahoma and Arizona had been told that the dam would go far toward controlling floods But the facts as brought out by such spokesmen as R. N. Graham of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce show that the Grand river furnished half of the 670,000-second-feet flood-crest at Mus cogee because, when the flood hit its Pensacola dam the res ervoir was practically fulL-the controversy boiled down to the proposition that it takes a full reservoir to produce power, whereas, it takes nr. empty reservoir to protect the lower val ley from floods. The Federal managers of the dam wanted to keep it full, so it could produce power when the flood came it was necessary to open the gates immediately and the raging Grand river produced a flood in its lower valley and in the Arkansas river as if there had been no dam at all.” Mr. Bennett explained that so-called flood control, which permits soil erosion, will fill all dams with silt so they will be useless in from 25 to 50 years. Ail Unbearable Team --— " PRE9ERVATJOW OF I *\ ‘PEMOCEACV f 4 per cent. If we are to make certain of winning ibis war within a reason able tirpe we have got to keep punching our hardest right now while we have the initiative in our hands. If we let the enemy catch his breath for one little moment the struggle can drag along interminably. Our soldiers provide the money to buy tin will do the punching if we will weapons with which to punch. To the Feopie of this Community: DRIVE DEPENDS ON YOU! Would you take a flee ride on a wounded soldier's back? That's exactly what you would be doing if you did not do your duty in the Third War Loan. U/AO Your idle ■ weight would lira loan b* b* him on the battlefield. Every civilian counts in this kind of war. Every civilian must make his energy and his dollars work for victory. Keep m mind that while our national goal in this drive is 15 billions of dollars, this money is being borrowed from you and you and you. You are. as an individual, the deciding factor as to whether we reach this goal. An extra $100 War Bond becomes an extra rifle, extra bullets and extra fighting power of every i type. THE EDITOR The Third War Lean is your loan. The securities on sale fit your purse. Check the one which is applicable to you and buy it lo the point of personal temporary sacrifice. Always keep in mind your sacrifice is only temporary because you do not give your money away when you “buy” War Bonds; you lend your money at interest. Your money is not even frozen. In the event of an emergency—and the record shows that Americans are not redeeming their Bonds except in the event of true emergencies—your Bonds are redeemable. The United States Government has never in its history repudiated a Government Bond. As further evidence of the strength of this country to guarantee repayment of your money, United States potential wealth amounts to $89,000 per capita. Even with the heavy current war expenses, our national debt is only $1100 per capita. Only a country like ours could make such a deal with its citizens: repay you with interest for a loan of your money to protect you and your family against enemies which would murder, rob. or enslave you. The number one “buy" for you Is the familiar Series E War Bond. Twenty-seven million American workers are buying Series E Bonds at the rate of $420,000,000 a month. Your Third War Loan duty is to buy at least one extra $100 Series E Bond above your regular buying. Buy more if you can. Keep these facts in mind about the Series E Bonds: They come in $25, $50, $100. $500 and. $1,000 denominations. They seU for 75 per cent of their maturity value. They pay you $4 for every $3 invested if held until maturity, which is 10 years from issuing date. You may redeem them at any time 60 days after issue without notice.at stated redemption values. Every Bond carries this redemption table. THIS WEEK WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. I). C.(NWN'S) —Although the new session ol Congress faces many gigantic tasks, so far congressmen have shown more interest in revising taxes than in any oilier one sub jects. This undoubtedly results ironi the interest in this subject shown by the “home, folks" who are said to hav'yc com plai lieu about the lax setup every time they got tile ear of a congress man during the congressional !‘t?C6SS. At the time congiessmen were preparing to return to Washing ton and making last-minute checkups of the sentiments ol their constituents, the constitu ents were busy trying to figure out the tax report which they were supposed to tile by Septem ber 15. It was therefore the sub ject" uppeimost in the mimic of most people during those last few days of having a congress man on the home grounds. There fore when the congressmen re turned to Washington they were full of that subject and immedi ately urged their friends on the mittees to hurry up and simplify House and Senate finance com the tax program. Consentiently, before congress had been in session a week. Menu tor George, head of the Senate .malice committee, and Repre sentative Houghton, bead of the House finance committee, went to work planning on planning 01 simplifications and asked the Treasury to help. What will re sult is still uncertain, Out one almost sure change will be the combining of the regular tax with the Victory tax. Although tlie Ti%asury seems to agress that simplification is in order, it is more interested in the passage of additonal taxation The President lias asked for enough additional taxes to bring in an extra 13 billion dollars next year, but statements by Sen ator George and Representative Houghton make it seem unlikely that taxes will be raised to that extent •— an increase of almost 33 per cent in the total amount of revenue now obtained through all forms of taxation. Mr. George predicts that live billion more is about as much as congress wih agree to raise through additional taxes. It also seems unlikely that new taxes will lie enacted before the end of the year, although they will be expected to apply to next year's income. Some plan for the mandatory purchase of war bonds is still in the wind, but the success of thp Third War Loan drive has made the Treasury cool to any forced savings plan. So long as it finds Battlefront of Sacrifice i Is Urged Upon U.S. Women to Aid 3rd War Loan Drive WASHINGTON, D. C-Thewomf«*Am«ic««• all-out to make a success of the Jhif4 War Loan “Ronir Attack” to the limit. For weeits uiey nave oe«u organPzng to do their share toward raising the Treasury , unprecedented goal of 15 billion dollars in War Bond sales to non-banking investors. In order to lay the groundwork for this intensive organiza tion far enough in advance of the drive, Miss Harriet Elliott, Associate F^fld Director of the War Finance Division, in chargeof women’s activities, made a swing around the coun try during July. Regional conferences were held m Atlanta, Dallas, San eranciscu, Cleveland and Boston. “Women have been called to the battlefronts of sacrifice at a time when their brains, energies and money are most needed, says Miss Elliott. " ‘Buv Bonds— bv sacrifice,’ is the order of the day. If every woman in Am.er ica would pledge herself to d° without everything she possibly can, and carry out that pledge faithfully, she would make a gen uine contribution to victory. All groups of women are active in the drive. Many cities and counties are conducting Door knocker canvasses and carrying out other promotional campaign# to see that every individual in these United States is reached to buy an extra $100 Bond in Sep tember. “It takes bench-to-bench, desk-to-desk, house-to-bouae, per son-to-person contact to put over the job,” Miss Elliott believes. United in this tremendous effort are women belonging to foreign origin groups of every nationality, Negro women, college girls, farm women, war workers, club wom en—professional. religious, indus trial, cultural, educational, pa triotic and social groups—in fact, women of every age, from every walk of life. THE QUIET CORNER That we may lead a quiet and peaeeaUe life in all Godliness and Mnnestv "—I T>m. 2:2 By REV WAITER K ISENHOUR Hiihlenite, N. C. GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES Perhaps few people realize the golden opportunities they have in life of doing goon Such op portunities are all aoout us. \\ e do not. have to hunt for them up ; and down the land, neither do we have to cross the seas and go into heather lands to tind them It is true that the heathen should huVe the Gospel, and we are to give of our money to support missionaries on the foreign held.-, and help send others there, lun we do not have l ' leave mu shores to do good. The fact is there are gulden opportunities for doing good at our own doors. Wherever we meet our l'ellowmen along life’s pathway we are afforded the opportunity of helping them. They need our helping hpnd. The tieids are broad and wide and tilled with human lives and souls and the need of help physically, , mentally, morally and spiritully i is everywhere manifested. Jesus i said, "’i'hc harvest truly is pI<• 11- ■ Leous hut the larorers are few | pray yc therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send ; forth laborers into his harvest."! Matt. 11:37. 38. ’L'his is a com mand we should no*, neglect. And as God sends forth laborers into His harvest tieids we should re it can gel smli record results ihrougli Voluntary drives it will lie hesitant to recommend any mandatory plan. ('ongressmen from the farm areas arc pulling on pressure to get additional help for the far mers either in the form ol man power and machine! > or in the form of subsidies. The desites of many farmers as well as their representatives were expressed by Jams G. Patton, president of the National Farmers Union,who asked for a billion dollars “to step up war food production by farm families who, through m> fault of their own, and contrary to their wishes and patriotic de sires, are now producing far be low their potential maximum ca pacity.” Many war industries also are complaining that they cannot give maximum production unless some plan is worked out where by it is easier fo them to get the giving serious thought to the necessary manpower. Congress is manpower problem and may yet decide to pass legislation for drafting men and women for war industries and for farming. But political experts here don’t an ticipate much action along this line until after the November election. aline that they need our support, therfore, we are under as much obligation to support them as they are to go. Ilelov'ed, it’s so. If men would seek to do good as they do to work evil, what a wonderful world this would he to live ill! Would it not be a mar velous ihing if eveiybody wouul he seeking and searching for op portunities daily to do good? We would not lind a beer joint, a liquor sioie nor a liquor distil lery, nor a seller of the cursed stuff, nor a drinker ol it through out the length and breadth of ilie land. We would not tind a jail house, a cliaingang, a peni tentiary nor an electric chair anywhere on the American soil, nor on earth, as for that matter. If eerybody were seeking every opportunity to do good and nor evil, there wouldn't be a diVorc • case Known, as husbands and wives would love each other, he true to their marriage vows ai.,t he faithful to each other throw?, i sickness and health, poverty ami wealth, tests and trials, accord ing to their sacred solemn m»r-A rittge vows, so long us iliey liw.^^P Amen. If everybody would use their golden opportunities to do good and not evil, we wouldn't tind sad hearts, broken lives, wretch ed homes, contused neighbor hoods, depressed nations and a waC-strickdn world. Instead of men and uulioiis preparing their great armies and munitions of warfare to kill ut'd slay eaeh other by millions, and to make battlefield* red with precious human blood and bring pov'elly and disease and awful suffering and want upon each other, and in the meantime send countless multitudes of immortal souls to hell, they would be blessing each other, giving a helping hand, one to another, thus saving the lies and souls of eaeh instead of de stroying them. ,Ah, this is an ev erlasting truth! Why can’t we see it ? Mere is niy motto: Do all the good you can. to all the people you can. BONDS or BONDAGE »lt's Up To You* bonds oven amswca “If they mean to have war, let it begin here,” Capt. John Parker cau tioned his 60 Minute men on Lexington Green, just before they fired “the shot heard round the world." Lexington Green Back the Attacl#Buy an Extra $100 Bend ’■:v-v Cxtcha, Dutchman, Dance, Frenchmen, Norsemen, now living under the Naai heel, remember their free dom and cheriah their lost memorials now re placed by the black swastika.