THE EAGLE
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Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 16th, 1906.
in the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of
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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
<lri*flted bi*t congress^ instead
of listening to the people, is be
ing led by labor pressure groups.
These observers point out that
a good test of this will come up
when congress considers tax leg
islation—whether it will pass a
sales tax oer the opposition of the
Labor union# or whether it will
excuse labor from taxes and re
strict the tax law to new levies
on the high income group.
ABOVE ^ HULLABALOO
THE JOINT STATEMENT’
Tla- fundamental causes of all
wars are so many, so varied and
so confused that even history
never really settles the argu
ments which these pher.i n ena
give birth to Each contestant
elites its ovvu history and draws
its own conclusions. Whichever
side one is. on. rs of course, the
right side.
Probably the most sincere and
certainly tin* most unselfish con
testants in this war and in the so
called First Woiid War. have
beeu the Americans. 'Ibe tignt—
insofar as they an- concerned—
is to preset ve and tu further the
principles that the light to rule
belongs to too people and nut to
- me individ .1 i r to >'>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**
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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
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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.
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