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THE EAGLE Published Every Thur.-dav in the interest of Cherryvii* * 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 . - $1.50 Six months Four months Three months Matiaaal Advertising MpmaalaHvi THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1943 FACT—NOT FICTION One of the points stressed by the five senators who visited the world's battlefronts last summer was the fact that the United States furnishes most of the oil for the fighting ma chines of the United Nations. To fill these war requirements, oil for our domestic needs has been sacrificed. Either we must discov'er and produce more oil in this country or our domestic or war needs will suffer dangerously. The decision is not left to the oil industry. The increased cost of “wildcatting” runs headlong into elaborate anti-in flation schemes of government agencies which decide whether % inelastic price fixing rules are more precious than oil. But ' our motorized nation cannot run on low prices without gasoline The oil industry has asked for a very modest increase in the price of crude oil which would mean an increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline of about one penny. There is j^frttle question as to the choice which would be made by ^koline starved motorists and cold home owners if they were crease in the price of gasoline would admittedly breach the given the opportunity to choose. Of course ev'en a penny in line against inflation—if there is a line to breach. THE OPA PROGRESSES—BACKWARD “A blurb recently emitted by the OPA with intent to shamo complainers about rationing,” says the Portland, Oregonian, “tells us that our forefathers did dithout sugar until the thir teenth century, without buttered bread until the fifteenth, without potaoes until the sixteenth, without coffee, tea, and soap until the seventeenth, without gas, matches and electri city until the nineteenth. A common comment on this record is that our forefathers also* did without the OPAH’ - • Our forefathers also did without false teeth, safety raiors, patent toilets, and thousands of articles too numerous to men tion. They didn’t have department stores, chain stores, milk in bottles, canned food or bath tubs. Kddie Rickenbacker starved on a raft for nearly a month and still lived to tell the tale. But is that any parallel we should seek to follow? If our national economy has created shortages, at a time when surpluses are needed, we can do without as our forefathers did if necessary. SOY BEANS Rise of the soybean in the United States has been one of the most spectaculat in the agricultural field. In the early 1900’s only a few thousand bushels were grown on scattered farms as feed and fertilizer. Now the crop covers more than 10 million acres, with the 1943 production exceeding last year 200 million bushels by approximately 7 per cent Soybeans, centuries old even before the Pyramids began rising from the sands of Egypt, came to America from China in 1804. They were tossed aboard a United .States bound sail ing vessel as emergency food for the crew, says the National Geographic Society. The first written record of the existence of these beans was made in 2838 B. C. by a Chinese emperor. In parts of China thye hav'e been both meal and milk. This “Chinese Cow”—as the soybean is often called—has nourished children f<5r centuries. The “milk”' extracted by a simple process of soaking and boiling the groundup beans in water, is rich, creamy, and high in food value. In the United States soybeans are fast becoming one of the nation’s most valuable relief crops. As steaks and other meat bcome scarcer and point values higher, the unrationed soy bean may volunteer for butcher-shop duty. Although its flavor is decidedly different from that of steak, its protein value is more than twice as great. Rich oil from the soybean goes into the making of marga rine—to help relieve dwindling stocks of butter. The “eat more cereal” campaign may get another lift when soybean products are added to breakfast cereals this fall. Consumers will also be able to buy soybean flour soon. Norepol, a synthetic rubber made from this versatile bean, may appear shortly in shoe heels, gaskets, and fruit jar rings —and the day may not be too far distant when rubber-hun gry American motorists may ride on soybean tires. Millions of pounds of soybean flour and grits go as lend lease to relieve war-restricted diets in Allied countries. Uni ted States Army K rations include soybean flour in their bis cuits. Plans are underway for a rapid feeding program in re-occupied countries where high protein quick build-up foods will be necessary. Native foods of the various countries, as macaroni, spaghetti, minestrone—a favorite soup in Southern EuroDe—cheese sauces, and various other foods will be forti fied with soybean products. Germany recognized the food Value of this nourishing bean bv piling up tons and tons years before the war. German officials boasted that without the soybean to bolster the army’s breadbasket, the “blitz” on Poland would not have been suc cessful. Commercial outlets for soybeans include paints, varnishes, and glues. Some of the sizing for women's hose—the stuff that makes them wash and wear better—is made from soy beans. Automobile industries have made horns, steering wheels, and gearshift handles from soybean plastics. Fuselages cast from soybean platics, have also been used experimentally. 1 Lecithin, another product of this many-duty bean, is used as .. !..,i"mlizer in ethyl gasoline.—Gazette. RATION REMINDER GASOLINE—In 17 East Coast states ,A8 coupons are good thru February 8. In states outside of the East Coast area A8 coupons are Rood through November 21 and A-9 coupons become good on November 22. FUEL OIL—Period 1 coupons are good through January 3. Period 2 coupons become good November 30. SUGAR—Stamp No. 29 in Book Four is good for 5 pounds through January 15, 1944. SHOES — Stamp No. 18 in Book No. 1 good for one pair Stamp No. 1 on the “airplane” sheet in Book No. 3 good for one MEATS, FATS—Brown stamps G. H, J, anl K good through Dec ember 4. Brown stamp L be comes good November 21 and re mains good through January 1, 1944. PROCESSED FOODS — Blue stamps X, Y and Z good through Nov'ember 20. Green stamps A, B and C in Book Four are good through December 20. Mutt Report Foreign Holding* All Americans owning any foreign bonds, or $10,000 or I more in any foreign property are 1 required to report such holdings on or before December 1 to their nearest Federal Reserve Bank. Practically every type of proper ty must be reported—real es tate holdings, cash assets, foreign currency, foreign securities, in terests in foreign organizations, patent and trade mark agree ments and contracts Order can be restored more rapidly, as ter ritories are reoccupied, if milita ry authoriies have such informa tion at hand, states the Treasury Department. All information will 1 be confidential and will be avail I able only to accredited represen I tativ'es of the Treasury. Simplify Ga* Rationing All “B” and “C” gosoline coupons issued after December 1 will be worth five gallons each compared with the present value of two gallons each for coupons of those types in the East and Midwest and three gallons in the Far West. This means that ‘B’ and ‘C’ books will contain few er coupons than in the past, but each coupon will be good for more gallons than before. N'o in crease in the amount of gasoline allowed is involved. Farmer* to Get Batterie* Approximately 20 perecnt of the fourth quarter production of flashlight batteries will be dis tributed to farmers, according to WPB. This makes enough for about normal rural consumption available through farm outlets. Fertilizer Outlook 'American farmers will have more nitrogen and slightly less potash in the 1943-44 ‘fertilizer year,” than they had in the pre vious year, according to testimo ny of WPB officials before a senate subcommittee on agricul ture and forestry. Farmers should have four tons of nitro gen for every three they had in last year, according to present indications. WPB is endeavoring to make additional quantities of potash available for agriculture in 1944-45. _ More Hosiery For Children Production of infants' and of children’s hosiery will be stepped up shortly s a result of priority assistance 'given to rrymufaci turers for procurement of neces sary yarn. The WJB action was taken as a result of a failing sup ply of children’s and children's I stockings. - 3* SCRAP DRIVE TO CONTINUE ‘lHhe IVMUnry ‘Scrap Bunk' Drive, sheduled to end Novem ber 16. has been continued in definitely. H. M. Fault, director of the Salvage Division of WPB said: “As long as the war lasts, there will be a continuing need for iron and steel scrap to keep the mills well supplied. The col lection of iron and steel scrap from all sources must be a con tinuing operation.” Manpower Head Praise* Farmer* Assurance that farm men and women are occupying key posi given by Paul V. McNutt, chair tjons in the war effort has been man. War Manpower Commis sion. “When the history of this war is written,” he said, "1 am certain that much of the credit for victory will go to the men and women of our rural districts Certainly in no war has the pro duction of food played so vital a part and certainly no group has rallied behind the war effort with more eagerness and devo tion. We of the War Manpower Commission have done every thing in our power to maintain the nation’s agricultural labor force at top capacity. Everv ac re of land that can be planted brings victory so much nearer.” New Use for Farm W»it* Peanut shells. ground corn cobs. and similar waste of agri cultural materials have been of use in cleaning engines valves, bearings, pumps, and other ma chinery and metal parts, the De partment of Agriculture has an nounced. The new use has been found by scientists at the North ern Research Laboratory at Peoria. 111. Several hundred tons of ground corncobs are now be ing used each month for burn ishing metals and cleaning war START CONSUMER SURVEY machinery. Census enumerators expect to visit 7,000 households in a nationwide survey to determine the availability of 115 types of goods. As a result of these stud ies the Office of Civilian Re quirements will have information from consumers to aid it in car rying out its function of main taining an adequate supply of necessary civilian goods within wartime limits of manpower, ma terials and manufacturing facil jties. I Movie* For American Troops The U. S. Army is well on its I way to having motion picture ^equipment everywhere in the* world that it is needed by its troops. Movies are shown 125 times daily for U. S. troops in Aleutian outposts, according to the War Department. There are 63 projectors on the island chain ! one on each occupied island. A continual flow of flints have been shown during the past five months. ARMY SAVES ON FOOD BILL A saving of 1 1-4 cents per person per meal might seem triv ial to a housewife feeding a fam ily of four, but in an infantry division of 15.000 men it adds up to a striking total. In one divisi on $83,767.25 was saved over a five months period by food con servation measures, it was said. How Address Merchant Seamen Recause letters ^rom home are as big a factor in maintain ing morale of merchant ship crews as they are with soldiei's, bluejackets and marines, the : War Shipping Administration | has relaxed regulations to speed movement of mail. A seaman in a foreign post mav advise his fam i 1V and friends how to address ABOVE THE HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL INTERNATIONAL lineups It seems to some Americans that the almost violent agitation now going on for postwar allian ces, treaties, agreements and commitments, is a bit hurried if not premature. The war isn’t over yet—it may be a long time before it is. Many changes of attitude and thought can occur before Germany and Japan are defeated. There might ev'en be changes in the present military lineups. There already have been several in this war and there has seldom been a long war which involved seeral na tions, or factions, in which the original military combinations have remained unchanged. International alliances and treaties are made for reasons of expediency and self-interest just as combinations in farm or ganizations or business corpora tions or labor unions, etc., are created; for mutu&l protection or for trade reasons or often for puroose of aggression and ac quisition. The alliances nowbeing so hurriedly urged have—gener ally sneaking—an “offensive-de fensive” purpose in view; aon aggressive nations in joint agree ment to defend themsleves as against aggression even if they have to take the offensive to do so. The objective is laudable, and practical to a certain point; but, as has always been the case, such an alliance will remain in force iust so long as the signatories find their participation expedient and beneficial. Circumstances al ter cases—necessities create these international agreemnts — and changd conditions break them up Any international “concordat" which will be effective for any appreciable length of time must contain a fundamental plan more brilliantly conceived and thought fully developed than any of the thousands of such agreements heretofore created In the long course of human history. One of the cleverest and most potential ly effective peace-perpetuating plans ever devised was the League of Nations. And yet there were 17 wars fought upon the earth between the end of the first World War and the beginning of the second, World War. None of these were global wars, but in toto they caused the deaths of literally millions of people. Check on How Many Fighters You Feed Now that a “Food Fights For !■ reeUoiu ' campaign is being in augurated in every county in .soith Carolina, looking to max imum production and conserva tion ol food in 194-1, it is a good lime for growers to check on what they did this year. an interesting method of do ing this is to compare the food soid trom your farm with the am ount which is consumed by a lighter in the armed services, for example, a farmer sold 37 nogs weighing 8,140 pounds on foot. Since a hog cuts out about tliree-iourths net meat, the far mer had furnished 0,105 pounds of net meat with which to feed the fighters. Now, a fighter eats about one pound of meat a day. So, if we divide the 6,105 pounds of meat by 365 pounds, the amount one soldier will eat in a year, we find that the farmer furnished enough meat for about 17 soldi ers for a whole year. If you are selling eggs, just divide the number of eggs you sold this year by 365, because soldiers averae about one egg a day. Every time you sell a case of eggs, you are sending another soldier, sailor, marine or airman enough eggs for 1944. The dairyman will also he ab le to easily ifigure how many sol diers he is supplying with milk, because the average soldier gets about one pound of fresh milk a day, either as fresh or evapora mail to him by including th® name of his ship jn the letters enclosed in envelopes, but not on outside envelopes. To address a seaman, this form should be used: first line, seaman's name; second, name of his ship: third, •‘Care of Postmaster”; and 4th, New York, New Orleans or San Francisco, according to the coast from which the addressee sails. Return address should appear in upper left corner, and name of steamship line in lower left corner. SHOP AND MAIL EARLY The public is urged to com plete its Christmas shopping in this month and to send a{l pack ages destined to other cities, whether by parcel post or ex press, before December 10. Ear ly Christmas shopping and mail ing are necessary this year to en able satisfactory handling of the extra Christmas load, Jos. H. Eastman, director of the office of Defense Transportation, said. “Remember.” Mr Eastman ad ded. “that the best gifts for this wartime Christmas are War Bonds or Stamps.'' STEP UP TRUCK PRODUCT'N A four fo|d increase in the 1944 civilian truck production program has been announced by the War Production Board. So important is this program that it has been given priority rating equal to aircraft and high octane gas. Provisions are also made for the production of replacement parts for civilian use. In spite of the four fold increase, the new goal of 123,492 trucks is still far short of the pre-war produc tion of approximate!v 700.000. TO STORE MEAT FOR SPRING A wider variety of rationed meats wi]l be available to the housewife during the low ebb of meat production next spring un der a rationing plan recently announced by OPA. Meat whole salers will be loaned points to (ill their storage freezers with veal, lamb, mutton, and the low er grades of beef between now and mid January, the peak period of meat output. URGES FARMERS CUT TREES Harvest of war-needed lum ber and other wood products of the lay.out),000 acres of pro ductive woodland on farms can be sharply increased without danger to the future supply, ac cording to the Department of Agriculture. If farmers would consider' iarm woodlands and farm forests as cropland, and ery year carefully cut selected trees that are ripe for harvest, they would be surprised at their returns and they would certain ly aid the war effort,” II. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Cob seryation Service said. New Mending Bujletip Available A new edition of the wartime bulletin, “ABC’s of Mending’’, has recently been issued by the Department of Agriculture. The booklet gives directions with il lustrations for mending household fabrics and furnishings as well as clothing. Skillful and prompt mending is encouraged because the longer any fabric can be made to last .just so much is the burden lightened on civilian goods production. A copy of the booklet may be had by writing to the Office of Information. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. CANNED LUNCHEON MEAT Consumers will be able to buy more canned luncheon meat during the coming year, accord ing to the War Food Administra tion. Canning of this product is encouraged because it prevents waste of good bits and trimming of meats at n&cking piants. TEMPORARY FOOD RATIONS Service men on leave can get temporary food rations without the form usually furnished by the arfmed services, according to OP A. In anemergency, application may be made on forms available at local ration boards. REDUCE CHRISTMAS LIGHT’G The American people have been asked by the Office of War Utilities to confine Christmas lighting decorations to Christmas trees inside private homes. Sav ing of electricity will mean di rect saving of fuel, manpower to I transportation, and materials. Bonos oven America * * * Lest than 100 people live in Santa Claus, In diana, but each year the postmaster sends out more than half a mil lion Christmas cards and packages. Nearby is a granite statue of Santa Claus, dedicated to children of the world. Santa Claus' Post Offico Keep On Backing Ike Attack With War Bonds iln the Nazi alave coun tries of Poland, Greece, Jugo-alawa littla chil | dren atarve to death, the P older and atronger one* are aold into alavery where they can live but a few aad years at the moat. TRAPPERS SUPPLYING NEW, VITAL NEED lliusirntim reproduced bu permDso.n of I’ullMieli-bbl <J M. Depot. America's iir.;;ner.> - -including theyoung Siers and lire women who are cturying on far ab e-it sons, brothers and huabmnda- - nuiy nt, tfully sn.he w:ih pride as they 1 cep tin- ■ ;ilsin's uaoiu.es g'/ng. For the product • • the r endeavor, lur, is playing a new role P-lay. V- v. valued ns a source rf i-r., rc.e am! article of high fashion *n4 warmth. fur is now doing its part in oul i,■ e.i rial: Sam's Arctic lighter*--*-? , ,at the'- ii.av iKtter withstand the rigois . I ci.-l. .'ii i e\: mple. pariia hoods t >■: I'.'e uniforms > i ot’l ski troopers isee ill'J-.'. iri.liont - re among the items Yihi«c pf .I.u t.on depeids upon the output «\ leg i iniitr. trap.mes. Also tile fur Ve.-ta i.e the men who sail war traps through’Northern waters. Vi ith incri-ased aueniain being paid to materials for w arm el.iili.i furs are becoming more and mure important to a lighting victory bound America. The raw lur crop is here—along lbs streams, m the woods and fields —literal:;.' waiting to be taken. Practically no invest ment is required—only some traps the effort needed to run the trapiir-. / .mi as lor the efl'mt. if desired it can : r limited i ■ spare time—a feature wha i lils in beautifully with either school Urn t nr liuusew lie’s daily routine. ted milk. Dining' the week Die lighter consume.-- about one pound of butter. 5 pounds of potatoes. f> pounds of fresh and canned veg etables. I 12 pounds of toma toes and citrus fruits, and 2 pounds of other fruits. BROILERS - Poultry growers should not buy chicks for broilers until the feed dealers can assure them of an adequate amount*of feed. T. T. Brown, poultry specialist at State College, advises. HOGS It is most important that hogs receive a good mineral mixture while they are “hogging down" soybean and peanut fields. If no bone meal is available, use 10 pounds of ground limestone and 5 pounds of salt, says E. V. Vestal, Extension swine special ist, at State College. irr IVb COAL WARM MORNING HEATERS CHerrwiPe Tee Me Fuel Co. QUALITY—SERVICE APPRECIATION Phone 3231 In PEACETIME, the more Long Dis tance calls you make, the better we like it. But today our ambition is to get all essential calls through fust. Yet the war has choked the w ires with messages so that often we have busy circuits. When that happens, it will help if you will cancel your call altogether, if it isn't really Important. If you can't do that, the operator will aay,“Pfeose limit your call to 5 minutoi." 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