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, 2501 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One year Six months __ Four months - Three months fl.60 - .85 _ .60 _ .60 NctteMl AtortMuf Rif. THURSDAY: OCTOBER 28, 1943 CARLTON COMMUNITY FAIR OCT. 29-30 Don’t forget to attend the Kiglvth Annual Fair at the Fail ton Club House Friday and Saturday of this week. Plenty o! exhibits and entertainment will be given the public each day. A door prize consisting of $5.00 war stamps will also be given each day. Bingo will be played. Hot dogs and lemonade and coffee will be served. The Fair each year at the Carlton is under the supervis ion of Mrs. Victor Stroup and she is to be commended upon the fine way she handles the entire program. The Fair improves from year to year. CREDIT DUE LOCAL MERCHANTS Probably no business has had more burdensome detad to comply with in carrying out rationing and price regulations, than have the retail stores of the country. Almost over night, their buying and selling methods were revolutionized, and their banking and book keeping greatly complicated. On top of that, they have faced a manpower shortage more serious than most businesses. Only the inbred ingenuity and determination of the American merchant could have met the impact ot such drastic changes, and at the same time maintained service to consumers. Official data appears to demonstrate that retail food dis tributors have fared worse and performed better than other more articulate and better organized groups. Chain food dis tributors are in a large measure responsible for holding the “Cost of Food Index" at a relatively low level compared to average earnings of United States labor. It is apparent from the Index figures that retail food dis tributors cannot properly be charged with "profiteering' and the Index may well indicate the justification for certain price adjustments, it is but fair to give credit to any industry that has made such a record as have the food stoics under such drastic operating- conditions as they must meet. MORE TIN CANS NEEDED Although a lot of. women are conscientiously saving all of the tin cans that come into their kitchen, the War Production Board claims that two out of every three cans aie still being thrown away. We doubt if the waste in our town is that great, but undoubtedly there are many tin cans used here which never do g>turned in. The government is making a drive to double the collection of tin cans and has set a goal of 400,000.000 cans a month. It may be difficult for some of us to realize how the few cans we use can lie of much use to the wai effort. But gov ernment statistic.-, show that enough steel is used in the till cans going into American kitchens to make 22.000 medium tanks or 000 destroyers. In addition, our nation is absolute ly dependent on the return of cans for its Vitally needed tia supply. It may he a nuisance to save tin cans and prepare each one for collection, but it is certainly a very small thing to ask of the housewife when it means so much to our war produc tion program. The government hopes to keep this collection on a Volun tary basis rather than require that tin cans be turned in in order to purchase new goods in tin containers. Gut from now on it will emphasize more than ever that throwing away u tin can is a decidedly unpatriotic act. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING We keep hearing that purchasing power in our nation this year is about 35 billion dollars in excess of the cost of alll goods available for purchase. Tn other words, it should work out that, before the end of the year, we will find that there is nothing onstore shelves on which we can spend our money. We can’t picture this happening and it probably won’t. The chief thing that will keep it from happening is the fact that a large part of that purchasing power is being put into war bonds. But when it is realized that purchases in November and December, because of Christmas shopping, normally amounts to one-fourth of our total annual purchases, it does seem ap parent that there will he practically no gift item* left in the stores by December 25th. If there ever was a year when We should take seriously that good advice about doing our Christmas shopping early, this is certainly the year. It is none too early right now to get your Christmas shopping started if you want to hav'e any choice. However, the one most acceptable gift item for this year will he available right up to Christmas in any quantity de sired. The Post Office assures us that there will be uo short age of war bonds. CHANCE FOR LABOR STATESMANSHIP If the people suffer a coal shortage this winter, the blame will have to be 'aid squarely in the lap of government and la bor, because the wage, labor, hour and price question is wholly in their hands. If workmen could only see it, they are under mining the very freedom they enjoy by forcing stricter gov ernment control of their actions in order to maintain coal pro duction—und production will be maintained. Only the mest foolhardy labor leaders will sanction labor trouble in the coal mines now. FASHINCTON. D. C. (NVVNS) —With all eyes on the Moscow conference, at which the foreign minisetrs of the Allied nations will attempt to formulate broad outlines for post war action, it becomes increasingly clear that our country, as yet. has no def inite postwar policy. It is true that congress has i spent many hours debating this I subject, but the resolutions pass j ed were so innocuous that they ; add practically no light to our ! stand. The house resolution, j passed after months of study, j "Resolved by the house of rep resentatives (the senate eonciir | ring) that the congress hereby I expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate interna tional machinery with power ad eiiuatc to establish and to main tain a just and lasting peace amongst the nations of the world and as favoring participation by the United States therein, through its constitutional proces ses ’’ j hat resolution would indi j cat# that the house does not fa vor strict isolationism following thr war, but it gives no indica tion of how far we would go to | ward subscribing to an . interna tional police force, whether we would lavor boundary changes and what methods we would pre ; scribe for dealing with the enemy I nations after they have been ! conquered. j The fact that President Roose ! Veit. Prime minister Winston | Uhurchill and Premier Stalin is sued a joint statement agreeing to permit the Italian people to j choose their own form of gov ernment after the Germans have been driven out of Italy indicates j that the Allies are more or less agreed on a pattern for dealing with “liberated-” countries, but it is obvious that such a plan would not be acceptable for the treatment of Germany and .Japan In our congress there is still a sizeable group which will work for a return to strict isolationism after the war while other meni bera will light for active parti cipation of our nation in sonu form of league of nations. Bui the majority in both house: would prefer not to take a defin. ite stand on the subject at pres ent—-and as the 1944 election gets closer they will be less in ecline.d to do so. However, tin i presidential candidates for 194-) 'will undoubtedly be forced tr give’ their views on our future international relations. The extensive debate in the Senate on the draft of father? is believed to hav'e done consider able good by putting the lime light on the large number of sin gle and married men without children who have been excused from military service because of government fobs or replaceable jobs in industry. As a result ot this, most draft boards will re consider those they have defer, red before taking many fathers. As a result of the strikes of coal miners, following the return of the mines to their owners, plus the four day strike of ship yard workers in New Jersey, the congressmen are once again talk ing about the need for stronger anti-strike legislation. Hut ibis subject has come up so many times without any strong action being taken that it is doubtful that any curbs will he passed now. Observers here see congress’ unwillingness to heed the will of the people by enacting more drastic curbs over labor as indi eating a dofinite weakenness in the working of our democratic processes. They point out that the demand for such legislation is overwhelming—that the peo ple would favor going so far as to draft labor for war work in the same way that our army is '>me group t-ocK-ey-.i theories. Ml An« i'-.us ther i greet v ,ifi ac < ’aim the t: that the 'm «t claim the tact that the Soviet government agrees with the British and American govern ments—in the joint statement of President Roosevelt. Prime Min ister Winston Churchill and Pre mier Stalin—to the right of the Italian people to decide upon their own form of Democratic government after the Germans have been expelled from their expelled from their country. It is not that we are particularly re lieved over the future of our newly acquired “co belligerents” —it is that the three great pew el's have concurred in the gieat principle for which Americans have fought and are fighting, and which they know to be the light principle. Much has been written about the “decay of Democracy,” and not so much about the “decay of Autociacy. ’ The story of the last, one hundred and fifty years would indicate that those who have Democracy “decaying” are mostly wishful thinkers among the Ideology Boys. There was no Democracy at the time our an cestors got mad—a century and a half ago — and won indepen donee for themselv'es and for 11s. Since then England, France, Chi na, iSouth America, Scandinavia and various others have tried out “decaying Democracy” and like it well enough to “stick.” Ger many tried it but but was stop ped in her tracks by a power hnngp ey group of ideologists tail ing themselves National Social ists (Dictators by any other name would smell as sour.V Rus sia—for quite a while now—has reportedly been leaning more and more toward the “decaying” theory of government: and the .Joint Statement of the three leaders would indicate—maybe— that the big boss of that country is going to concur in the princi ples enunciated in the Atlantic Charter. (This would surely give that great patriot Mr. Earl Browder a ■ nervous br.ea.Igl own.) The" right of the peqdb* to de termine the form of Weir own goWrnnient is the essence of | Democracy li is diametrically opposed to the theory of auto cracy which subordinates the will of the people. Stalin in agreeing with the former concept probably realizes that the world move ment toward popular freedom - a prinicple little practiced be tween the reign of Augustus Caesar and the Revolution and and made successful. in great part by the genius of George Washington (iconoclasts to the contrary notwithstanding)— call not he either blocked or. slowed down. And s« the Joint Statement takes on tremendous significance ; so tremendous, in fact, that if the principle enunciated therein is carried out to its conclusion, it may well prove to be one of the most lar-reaching pronounce ments of our day. St** Inch SfTftlOTl T KEY. KUDCKi n. MAKrtK T Bible Teachings on Abstinence (International Temperance 6un day.) Lesson for October 31: Levi ticus 101,2,8-11; Proverbs 31:4, 5; Luke 1:13-16. Golden Text: Judges 13:4. It may be inferred front in structions later given Aaron that his sons, Nudab and Abihu, were intoxicated wjhen they usurped the high oifice of their father and offered “strange fire” and were consumed in the flume that came forth from the altar. For God commanded Aaron that he and his sons should ab stain from strong drink as they went into the tabernacle to min ister. lest they die, and that a distinction be made between the ‘‘holy and the common, and be tween the unclean and the clean. Certainly nothing could be worse than a drunken minister in the house of God. In the counsel given King Lemuel it is said that kings and princes should not drink wine and strong drink, lest they “for get the law. and perv'ert justice'' They who sit in judgment upon others should be masters of them selves. The angel who promised Zach arias a son foretold that the son would not take wine nor strong drink, would he called great in the sight of the Lord,” be filled with the Holy Spirit, and return many of his people unto the Lord. The whole trend of the lesson Halloween Jitters ! TODAY and TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON TOTAL .... definition Wo now wo knowwhat total war It means people earning and spending' more money than they ever had in their lives — Stiles of fur coats, diamonds and silver hitting till time high More pleasure traveling than at any time in history — Race tracks, resorts, hotels, theatres and night cluhs over j (lowing with patrons— Millions of men and women having their work week limited to -10 hours or being hanlsomely paid foi overtime Labor unions having a held day and stopping production oor the slightest infringements of their “sacred" lights— People being taught that they are displaying great patriotism in bonds which will leturn them by investing their surplus income $4 for each $.'! they spend— .And our national legislators “solving” wartime problems with both eyes glued to the hallotbox Oh yes, we have sacrificed a few gallons of gasoline, we put up with taking lamh when we wanted beef on occasion, and we are unable to buv some of the luxuries We would like to have. lint there will be plenty of people who in later years will look hack on this war period as the easiest and most prosperous days of their lives. PROFITEERS million* At Pearl Harbor time, when President Roosevelt warned us about this being an all-out war with everyone of us in it, he painted a grim picture of what things might he like in this coun try. Kut now it is apparent that about the only “all-out” phase of this war is the all-out effort of millions of people to get rich before it is ov'er. In the last war we had a handful of profiteers in this war <10 per cent of the pim ple are getting a good profit out of it Consequently, although mos* of us long for peace and the re turn of sons and brothers from foreign battle fronts, many are is that total abstinence is the only safe rule in regard to bever age alcohol—if a man would in sure himself against drunkenness and the ruin of his service toward God and his fellows. In one of the old readers, belov'ed of a passing generation, a certain hoy read vears ago. “Doware of the first drink! The man who does this will never be a drunkard,” And through life he has follow ed that in junction— to his own sobriety and good. ENEMY AGAIN USES SIRENS In World War I our clumsy foes used glamour girls like Ma ta Hari to spy on us. Early in this war they switched to ugly agents hut failed. Now they're, trying the beauties again to gel valuable information. Read how the enemy works in the Novem ber 7th issue of The American Weekly The Big Magazine Distributed With The BALTIMORE rilNOAV AMFPTAN Lea Ye An Order With Your Newsdealer BONDS 0VER AMERICA * * • Early in the 19th cen tury a storekeeper and gristmill operator at Henderson, Kentucky, took to studying birds as an antidote for en nui and added much to man’s knowledge of ornithology. His name is a byword to this day. It is John James , Audubon. / .sik' John Audubon Keep On BockSig the Attack With War Bonds Only the knowledge of despotism, destruction, - killing, maiming brings U one to the surface of " Naziism. It has no place for gentle souls; only Himmlers, Schleichers, von Papens, Heydrichs. I dreading tin* economic let-down which will follow the war. They realize that the real sacrifice for tliem will come in peacetime when the government stops handing out money like a drunken sailor. Fortunately, in spite of the soft life we ale living at home our genius at mass production has made it possible for us to turn out war supplies at a fan tastic rate. Despite our lack of all-out war effort, we will prob ably produce enough to win the Hut it somehow seems terribly wrong when millions of Ameri can boys are going through lied on earth to preserve our country I hat so many at home should find this war so disgustingly pleasant and profitable. SPREE debt If it wasn't that our govern ment leaders fear it would lose votes for them, they would prob ahlv have agreed long ago to a work-army of all able-bodied cit izens not in uniform to he paid wages comparable to army pay and to work under army diseip .Sueh a plait would have really carried out the “all-out” war idea. It would have made unions powerless for the duration; it would have speeded production beyond belief, it would have end ed our manpower problems, it would have saved taxpayers hil lions of dollars now paid in ex cessive wages, and it would have taken all of the profit appeal out of the war. But instead of having us all share the hardships ui war — which \ a would nave been glad to do—our vote-blinded legisla tors appropriated hundreds of billions of dollars to make war a grand spending spiee for tbe working man aim nmiteil silen ces to those physically lit and un it' labor was being paid army wages, the cost ol this war would be cut at least in half. Then it could have been paid for as we 'rent along. But because of the government's insistence on ex cusing millions ot voters from sacrifice the Id.000,000 men in unitonn not only have to endure most of the hardships now, but will, upon their return, have to spend years helping to pay the debt created by the govei nmen. s approval ot enormous hand-outs to war-workers FIGHTER W hen a soldier or sailor Is sent ..overseas" a reserve food supply of b months must be set 'jo for him. The more men sent "overseas" the greater the tied for extra food. —BUY BONDS— PROTECT YOUR AUTO WITH FIRE THEFT ' COLLISION INSURANCE Representing THE TRAVELERS, Harttortt DAVID P. DELLINGER CHERRYV1LLE, N. C. THE BEST INSURANCE “ALWAYS ACCOMMODATING” Established 1907