THE EAGLE
Published Every Thursday in the interest of Cherryvillw
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
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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 0, 1943
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
■ Local merchants have made every ettort to secure a Stood
selection of Christinas .merchandise and we I'eliev'c this year
have as jrotfd an assortment as can be toumi most an\\\here.
VVe are fortunate to have so man; really line -tilts here at
home. Do your Christmas shopping now and shop with your
home merchants for a Merry ( hristmas!
LOCAL AIRPORTS
In readinp tin- editorials in other small town newspape.;s.
wo .no impressed t»>' tin- via at interest living snewn, coon h
the smallest town*. in tin- ne-d toi a local airport.
The air transpoit orpanizat ions have made our whole na
tion conscious of the lac t|lat plant- transportation ot both
passe nut-rs and freip'h.t will roach out into every corner of the
United States when tin war ends. The most active airlines
will, ot' course, he these from one hip: city to another, hut
just as there ar- his lines fan nibp out today f'om the cities
to every farm yillapc. ‘.’jitne\ plaives will undoubtedly do
the same thine' after the war.
For hoth fast fyeipht and Transportation,, planes will he used j
on a hupe scale. -lust How loop it will lu- In-fore all of the ■
public takes to the air will depend on the sateiy lactor. but
when over a million trained fliers come hack to this count i \
it seems almost certain that priv ate flyinp v\ i 11 pet oft to -t (
pood start as soon as i.ew planes can he built.
Realizinp that tin ah plane ape is upon us. the towns of tin
nation are pettinp ready for it t.y plahninp their airports now.
SHATTERING NERVES
As a result of the pipantie air raids on Germany. we should
soon know how much punishment the human nervous system
If we picture the effect it would have on the people ot
this town to have a few bombers come over every nipht and
drop block-1 listers on our homes, our stores and otii buildinps.
It is hard to iinapinc that we would he able to put up with if
for very lonp. The deaths and Tin- injuries would pet us
down, but the thinp that would probably do toe most to
shatter our nervous systems would be the lack ot sleep and
the constant fear.
The people of London took terillic punishmnet fot a few
niphts. but they will admit now that they couldn't have stood
it much loupe that they mipht have riven up if the Ger
mans had been aide to continue tln-ir niplit-after.-nipht raids.
In many (human cities the punishment doled out by the
Allies has been much pioater than was ever inflicted on any
city of Flip-land. In those pities the German people not only
suffer from the fear of bombs but also from the tear ot what
the Gestapo will do to thorn if they show sipns of weakeninp
under the strain
Jf the Allies Continue their heavy raids, and there is no
reason to think they wont, it shouldn't take very much lonp
er before German morale is entirely shattered.
Some people predict that the German phase of the war
will end by Christmas. W'c doubt if it can he quite that
soon, hut by Christmas we expect that the Germans will at
least he ready io admit that their defeat is inevitable.
UP OR OUT!
Months before Pearl Harbor the oil industry lealized that
war was inevitable. It set about mobilizin'! its resources
against the nation's call to aims. When war tame, the in
dustry— almost overnight - accelerated the production of mili
tary gasolines, including 1 bo octane aviation gasoline, super
lubricants and hundred's of other petroleum products critically
essential to the conduct of modern mechanized war. Thanks
to the foresight of oil men, every military demand has been
met, as well as essential civilian needs—to date.
Hut these same men now sternly warn that oil production
will not meet future essential needs unless prompt steps are
taken to adjust the price of oil to meet rising production
costs. Price is no longer merely a matter of 'academic dis
cussion. This country is running short of oil. Wildcatters
are not drilling, because the possibility of profit, or of ev'en
recovering cost, is ton scant to cover the risk.
Warnings of impending oil shortage and what to do about
it have have been sounded by many others besides representa
tives of tlie oil industry Typical is the comment of Colonel
Ernest 0 Thompson, member of the Texas Railroad Commis
sion. who says: “If the price of oil had been permitted to ad
vance on a parity with other basic commodities, 'wildcatters’
would have found oil and the anticipated 500.000 barrels a day
shortage would have been supplied. As it is." he concluded,
“crude oil is on a day-to-day basis—well to refinery to user.
There is no longer a surplus of stock in storage to draw from.”
Is it reasonable to expect the price of crude oil to remain
stationary? It will go up to meet cost of production or the
country will go without oil. If will be either up or out!
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’
FORTH COMlMCr
PARLEV OF
UNITED NATION? L - ‘ DERSI
ROOSEVELT,
CHURCHILL,
Stalin
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.:cnAP..' •
'AS HULLABALOO
By LYTLE HULL
KEEP THE POWDER DRY’
If any of us are iinunn.a on
uottuur all tin faint machin 'iy
and trucks and atiloinidiilos lit1
want or oyon need :— just as
soon as tho wai is over — we
had hotter stall a new set of fijur
ures. I'la- way wo like to think
IS- _ | hat we Will In'll (lermany
next sprino or sntmner (1!MH at
the veil latest, and that verv
soon thereafter tile new machin
ery will come rolling olf the as
sembly lines.
For the sake of the argument
:et us assume - and Hope mat
the .summer of j.'.W i will see
t lermany's finish, 'll' every fac
tory ' in the I'niled States started
immediately thereaflei to recon
vert to peacetime purposes, it j
would take six months, even in
normal times, before the output
would beam to become available I
—and for safety's sake let ns
estimate another six months be
fore our name is reached on the
waiumr ii m''
Hut every factory won't be
in immediately to leeonVert
For one reason we will presum
ably still be lighting; the Japan
ese, and. in addition to the vast
ly increased uuantities of mate
lial which we must set'll to the
Pacific lighting area, we will be
shipping huge amounts of mate
l ial—and food—to the devasta
ted portions of Km'ope and Rus
sia. and to China fop the Allied
armies attacking the Japanese
from the east.
Next we must take into con
sideration the fact that the rail
toads are "wearing out:" and
their load wilt not be materially
lessened until the Japanese are
I eaten Tht east-west, shipments
in fact will be multiplied to carry
war materials from the east and
central depots to the west coast
for shipment to the enlarged At
tied operations in the Pacific.The
west-east haul will he the iight
est.
Most big manufacturing plants
are also assembly plants. They
make some of the par's for their
output and buy the other neces
sary parts from other factories.
Some factories buy parts from
hundreds of others who have
no facilities for making these
i arts themselves One of our
enormous plants—now doing 100
per cent war work — is buying
parts from more than 20,000
smaller factories'. Before some
products —- automobiles for in
stance-—can leav'e the assembly
linos hundreds of parts factories
now converted to the manufac
ture of war materials. must re
convert and tret hack into peace
time production.- And where is
a.H tile raw material to supply
these thousands of plants H’oin'K
to suddenly spring from? he
wid have to "stall from scratch"
and make up for several lost
.ears. It can't he done instantly.
Miracles happen of course,
.■■lid may he some machinery will
he available for the spring plant
iii*>- of l'.i la, and more for IP Id
- -dependin'.: upon the ^course ot
: lie (ierman campaign and upon
the amount of material which,
will go into tin Japanese cam
paign alld to deva-iated Klirope.
And. provided the politicians
will keep their hands otl industry
and their noses out ol business;
and provided the men who make
the machinery are allowed by
their czars to work; ,,nd provi
ded the city folks get a little
hungry and heein to realize that
a farmer is a person who raises
food and is therefore necessary
nart of their comfort and should
he encouraged: and provided the
farmers thenlseives save some
iiinncv with which to liny said
machinery
This is not a very encourag
ing prediction and we hope it is
too pessimistic; hut at the same
lime it is safer to keep our ma
chinery out of the weather; to
drive slowly and carefully: to
Save money for a lone wait and
for new machinery; to raise veg
etables next summer and pre
serve them; and to pray for an
i ally victory.
Food For Freedom
To Be Discussed
"Althoujrh American farmers
are setttiiUr a new food produc
tion record this year, there is
still not oruniji'h food Vo sj11is 1 \
;tll the demands." says Dean I.
O Schaub. director of Apricul
rural Extension work at State
C'ollejie. "and since America's
food supply represents perhaps
tlie greatest potential weapon in
our lielit atrainst the Axis we
must produce more,’’
In outlininir the objectives to
lie accomplished, in the 11111
"Food Fights for Freedom" pro
gram which will he launched in
< Very count v in the State be
tween November 15-10. Director
Sehatth points out that it is up
Patient Castaways
l-'or two days this patrol bomber
row patiently waited to .be res
iled after their craft was forced
own at sea during a flight from
•eir Panama base. They were
-i-.-kcd up by a tanker after another
bane crew spotted them.
to our iH-ople to cooperate ill
every why possible, in the pro
duction of more of the right
kiml of food; to conserve this
food, and avoid waste.
"■•■The demand for food has in
creased from both civilians atrd
military hntiioriti.es. Civilians
ale doing mold work and have
more money than the;.' have had
in the past. Wo are taking new
territory front the enemy every
day This territory has been strip
red of e\Vrv vestige of food and
the natives are stalling. We
must feed them. ' linti! they can
again produce- their i wn. Dean
Schatib said
Foods-- Ameiican food can
be the deadliest wVipon of all.
I'lar.s for producing the right'
kind of food will be discussed at
a meeting held in November
when these in charge of the pro
gram in this section will draw
up the county plans. ■
Since the course ami length
of the war may depend on how
successfully we produce this
food, how willingly and widely
we share it. how carefully we
save it. how wisely no use it.
oven- per.-on able to produce' a
ingle item of food should coop
erate fully in this program.
Director Scltaub concluded.
VICTORY GARDENS
Victory gardeners still have
time to sow rye as a winter cov
er crop on all bare spots in their
gardens, says J, V. Lassiter, hor
ticulturist with the State College
Extension Serv'ice,
KEEP ON- • • •;
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WASHINGTON, D ('. (XWNS)
— In the background, behind
much of the voting .n congress
these days, can be seen strong
opposition by congress to a 1th
term for President i Roosevelt.
Although the President has,made
ao statement on the fourth term
issue, it. is assumed that he would
accept one. If he was going to
refuse it lie would probably have
indicated this fact before now.
The majority of congress, in
cluding many New Dealers, are
known to lie opposed to a fourth
term and this sentiment can be
seen in the growing opposition in
congress to legislation proposed
by the administration. Congress
men realize that they must han
dle this opposition with kid
gloves, for they do not want to
be put in the position ot inter
fering with the war program
Thus, although there is a good
deal of congressional feeling
the work done abroad by the
Office of War Information, the
j congress continues to provide
funds for that work, even the'
they are reduced because milita
ry leaders have testified that
lit work is essential to the win
mug of the war.
On controversies which are
purely domestic, things are teach
;ng the point where a recommen
dation by the alTnunisti atioil
seems to explain lather than de
crease congressional opposition.
I I) to Mill) congress gaineii the
reputation of being' a “rubber
stamp’ for the President, but
now it is quite the opposite
Two of the most outstanding,
examples of this change are the
tax hill and the farm subsidy
measure. On taxes, the President
{through the Secretary of the
Treasury, asked for 10 1 - Li bil
lions additional of taxes to be
enacted this tear. The house of
representatives, totally disre
garding the arguments of the
Treasury, voted taxes amounting
„o about one - tilth of the lee
• mmended amount and suggested
that the rest be raised generally
oy decreasing government expen
()n this subject. fTepresenta
iv'e Kobeit 1,. Iloughton. chan
nan of the' ways and means
ommittee which drafted the
new tax measure. said: “'Too
Heavy a tax burden is as great
1 danger to the nation as too
large a public debt
'The senate, although being
urged by the treasury to increase
taxes, is expected to follow in
the footsteps of the house. In
addition to tie argument that
cuts in government extravagance
Van offset the need for higher
(taxes', the senate also objects ti
| t he proposals of ihe treasury
; which would put most of the
{additional tax burden on business
i men instead of war workers who
I are earning more than they ever
•earned before as a result of the
Congressional opposition to
the administration is also clearly
demonstrated in its action to
end farm subsidies Although it
is evident that the elimination of
these subsidies would increase
food costs to the consumer, con
gress feels that strict control of
lood prices i- useless so long as
the adniiiiistratiin continues to
permit wage increases to dabor.
In opposing subsidies, congress
men repeatedly expressed lack of
confidence in the administration
of subsidies:. “Neither the people
nor this congress." said Repre
sentative Fulibright. Arkansas
Democrat. “believes that the
subsidy urogram can or will he
e fficiently or propel ly adminis
Ul]!ut behind this opposi
can be seen a glowing objec
lo providing large tunds for
administration which could be
used to political advantage in
the presidential election of 19-14.
It can be expected, from now
„n. that congress will show its
teeth whenever legislation is pro
posed to give the executive de
partment authority to distribute
money domestically or to increase
wages of workers.
Si**
Inch
Smiton
t REV. ROBERT H. HARPER T
CKri»t’» New Commandment.
Lesion for December 12:
Mark 12:28-34; John 13:34, 35;
15:10-14.
Golden Text: John 13:34.
Jesus had been questioned by
Pharisees, llerodians, and Sadu
ct.,.s—all trying to entangle him
and injure him in <ii< ministry—
then it seems one scribe wus so
impressed by the way Jesus held
his own that as a sincere seeker
after the truth he came with the
question as to the commandment
which is "tilst of all. And Jesus
commended rim for his spiritual
discernment.
In the discussion with the
scribe the .Master indicated that
to love is the supreme command
j and in the passages fiom John
he called love "a new command
ment." It is new in its emprasis
upon doing rather than upon not
doing True goodness comes in
doing good— not merely in ab
-tainim; from evil, doing wrong.
The source and ins; iration of
'ox i> Jesus, for lie said: “Love
me another; even as 1 have loved
\ou.” And it is distinguishing
mark of Christians— by loving
one another. s.iitl Jesus, shall
;. 11 men know that wt are his
As Jesus commands men to
love, it must be in their power
to love if they will, and with his
nelp. And to love him. we must
ohev him. “If ye keep my com
malidmen'ls. ye shall abide in
■nv love.’’ And to obey him is
not menial—it is serving aFriend
'•‘Ye are niv friends,” Jesus said,
“if ye do the things which I
command tree " Then may we
|ret love Jesus as our great Friend
'hat we shall lind onl^ joy and
happiness in soiVing him by sec.
■ ing our fellows. 1
COMMON COLD LOSINC
TO SCIENCE
A now poison mist blitzes the
cold virus in tho air, one of the
sulfas combats it in the nose
| and throat and now 1‘utulin.
jtecently discovered, may be the
l< ny sought cure t'oi out most
1 costly and prevalent ill. Read
| this fascinating scientific article
; in the December lath issue of
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Fart of Sgt. Edward Straube's
left foot was shot away at Ferry
ville, near Biterle, North Afriea.
At Halloran General Hospital,
btaten Island. N. Y., they are
building up his foot again. Sgt.
blraube, from Perth Amboy, N.
J„ buys War Bonds regularly.
Sgt. Bernard Rello, 22, of New
York, was wounded by snipers dur
ing the Sicilian campaign. His
grandparents live in Naples, and
he has a brother in the army.
Both buy War Bonds regularly.
Do you do as much?
Technician 5th Grade John A.
Wisniewski, 25, of Door, Mich.,
lost his right eye, three lingers
and suffered chest wounds from
shrapnel in the tight to capture
Tunis. He is now recovering at
Halloran and is a regular War
Bond purchaser.
Pvt. Bernard Ueidemann’s left
leg: will be two inches shorter
when he is discharged from Hal
loran. He was wounded by a Ger
man bullet during the operations
in Sicily last August. His home Is
Chicago. He has been In traction
since Sept. He’s buying bonds.
the nickname of Pvt. Milton Ue
berman, 37. of Brooklyn, t* "Clark
Gable." He was wounded in Sicily
last August and has been at Hal
loran since October. Every pay
day 112.5# la tak-n out for War
Bonds Llebermai. is buying. How
many do you buy?