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AWAITING DAY OF INVASION
Will it 1 e nil
will that flash name
tought tin all minds
as we all wait the
final battle for Ian
Only a small
The civilian sweats
hut in his own !asn
he goes about the
vanning and as at- j
that load ot i'1'.a.'
abroad the e.i \ I ha n a
lock, eleven o’clock, six o’clock—when
■ : that the invasion has begun. With that
. .lay , each hour is a little more strained
.a.-a emem that the opening gun in the
luts begun.
dial of men know the day and the hour,
with them. Not lit the soldier's way,
P - a though: uppermost in his mind as
:|., |mititie. as he sees the seasons ad
laxe'. the ration points, or waits for
f.,t■.■news from those who are
: , ndei goes an ordeal that is all their
MEAT SUPPLY
We weir g!
was; wi.Rinp t'<> <:
it was found 11
till the neeils
billing tills
cut down slit;!;:
hardly worth*
But tills I
who l(link that
tubing urlitu a:
inveiumg dim
It IS ailla/u'l
al.road, tee.
he aide In ;|U
1 i e l a. t'
faith ii " 1 I
at ;he Office of Price Administration
• v. nil ad meats except heel' when
a at; ample supply of uthei meats to
u population.
mpnitaiu whether civilians have to
, nd u nipt ion nr Whether they don't,
au ra with the war itself that it is
■ | ■ \ does a'li'Wei some of the critics
t in arc engaged ill munufac
la- people in order to make them
i nirm was creating shortages or
,i| huildiiig up the home trout
.. aid; do would lie 'o permit an in
,1 riioi iiious. qnanf it ies of food
nee- tie liest food any soldier of
, o;' a u,a or manpower shortage
ad the food they can eat.
.. if,, h aid give us even greater
,!.i .1; ;he in paries of production
a ..ft. w i on peace comes again.
MOKE WACS NEEDED
Proha'iu . li e n
has . he ell that . a : - ■
needs hundred.- - 1
difficult '
I he "re'a.- ..id un
the enlistment of v
idea of drafting v...
below the minimal!
— 18 or u\. i i
to the pi of a n
be inter, "led a
mg ill an nllVi
itant to change Ji.a
The chief murid
in offices, factories,
of employment is s
which way to I uni.
peal seems so fa r t.
of the United Slate
a a;-i■, nting of all enlistment campaigns
a .i[ i, tiie- V\ Aid Idle army has said it
. ds -..•; additional Women for noiu
a.ai 11,,' mi niliei o f fathers drafted can be
d : i -a .in.■ i: Join op. Ii.nl it seems to he very
a. ai.;e tt,nmnei of women to enlist.
; j i; a t-i nf-t-ii claimed. Polls made
t i .Vi I/., in..unity of the fairer sex favor
i.mt'ii and a large number even favor the
.a. out \ ’miliary enlistments still are far
, limit a. include gills just out of school
,• i . a -uje! .'d and inav he the answer
• , ■ ! -ok Mae foi he I first job might
VsAi v.aeiva alter she has been Work
1, a : w. >t-ars -lie will he more hes
•\ay of life.
is that the'' .damurid for feminine assistance
restaurants, schools and every other place
, great that a voting woman doesn't know
And -omeliow the Rosie the Riveter up
hove a greater attraction than the uniform
THE NEW ORDER
This war, Ma? most costly in history, with its constant
threat to stable prices ami civilian supplies, should have taught
the country the necessity of an efficient retail distribution
system No other nation the size of the* t inted States has a
distribution system remotely comparable to ours for efficient,
low-cost consumer service.
American retailing lias made its greatest advances so far
as scientific operation is concerned, within a comparatively few
years. Its development would have been far slower but for the
pioneers of the business who founded what have come to be
known as chain stores. The chain stores deserve most of the
credit for es tab lulling the high volume, low-cost technique of
today’s merchants.
IS t range as it may seem, tlie* chains were forced to develop
mass distribution in the face of almost continuous political op
position. Even now. after the improved system has demonstrated
through more than two years of chaotic war conditions, that it
is instrumental in maintaining price stability and an equitable
flow of good- to every far-flung eortier of the nation, attemps
are still being made in legislative halls to handicap it through
special taxes against chain strores. A few weeks ago such a bill
was submitted before tfie New York state legislature. Short
sighted politicians are agitating for similar proposals in other
states.
There is one certain way that post war unemployment
and depression can lie assured, and that Ts by crippling distribu
tors responsible for passing on to the people the tilings produced
in the factories and on the farms. Those who work against ef
ficiency indistribution are working for unemployment and high
living costs. t . rmsftaMMAd■»
Swastika With a New Meaning
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NWNSj
Hitting at what he termed the j
“smugly optimistic assumption of i
assured victory" held by civilians,
Robert Paterson, undersecretary :
of war, said that the hardest part!
of the war is yet to be won and :
that the growing complacency of
the people must end.
His sentiments have been voiced
by many other military spokesmen
here who see real danger in the
growing disinterest in the war I
among civilians. This disinterest, j
they point out, is shown by the
movement of men away from war
jobs, by decreases in enlistments
in the armed services (including
the problem of getting women to
enlist in the WACs and WAVH,
by the decrease in the number of
Victory gardens planted, by in
creasing talk about postwar plan
ning almost to the exclusion ot
the war itself, by the growing po
litical-mindedness of congress, by
efforts to put ail end to wartime
legislation such as the wage sta
bilization act, and the emergency
price control act, by increased
spending of money tor luxuries,
by an increase in the number of
war bonds being cashed in, by the
growth of black markets, and by a
hundred and one other things in
which the people take the attitude
that the war is "in the bag and
it is time to get back to normal,
peace-time living.
To combat such attitudes, army
navy and war production leaders
are pointing out that the nation
faces a manpower crisis greater
than any experienced so far dur
ing the war, that there is grave
danger of inflation unless our na
tional spending spree ends, that
the threat of food shortages has
in no way been lessened, and that
i invasion plans may be imperilled
i unless the people in this country
I get back the spirit they had after
| Pearl Harbor.
i .Urging congress to pass a draft
j law to assure 1,400,000 replace-'
ments for men who must be taken
from war jobs for the armed ser
vices this year, Secretary of Navy
Knox, Secretary of War Stimson
and Admiral Land of the maritime
commission issued a statement in
which they said; “False public in
terpretations of what are only lo
cal victories on the perimeter of
the enemies’ strongholds may in
deed imperil victory when we
thrust at the foe’s heart. Someone
must step up to the bench, the
lathe and the desk of every war
worker who leaves to fight for his
country.”
In spite of their pleas for a
national service act, it is not con
sidered likely that congress will
pass such a’ measure. This was in
dicated when the house military
committee recently dropped con
sideration of a bill to draft 4-Fs
for war jobs. Although the com
mittee said that such an a-*t seem
ed unnecessary because the great
majority of 4-Fs are in war jobs
already, many news analysts here
feel that congress, because of po
litical considerations, will try in
every way to avoid passing any
additional “drafting” legislation
because of the possibility that it
would be unpopular with the pub
lic.
Since most everyone is in
agreement that the needs of the
armed services must be filled, it
seems evident that drafting of
fathers over 26 will again have to
be speeded up if congress refuses
to pass any “draft labor” legisla
tion. The only other possibility
is for the War Manpower com
mission to test its power to draft
labor without further legislation.
TODAY !
tad
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
MORONS .... radio
lietore leletision arrives in full
force. it seems tu me you and 1
and tne suine hundred million
other adult." of the unseen audi
ence ought to explain to the
In oaueast i ng people that they are
wrong in assuming that we are a
nation of morons.
It is the common understanding
among the self-styled super-intel
lects who prepare our radio fare
that our average intelligence is
that of a Id-year-old child—and
practically all programs, particu
larly the advertising spiels, are
written with the ld-yeat-ohl ap
peal in mind.
In older that television, which
can he a great educational anti en
tertainment vehicle, does not suf
fer from the same misapprehen
sion. a is time that we admitted
that we respond to namby-pamby
radio ad\ert ising, not because out
minds are only halt ,t row n up.hut
because we listen wi.li only half
of our minds.
\\ e should let the who people
know that. because the average
program is far beneath our aver
age intelligence, most of have long
found it necessary to read books,
play cards, converse with friends
or engage in some other occupa
tion while listening to the radio.
We learned early in radio history
that tne shows coining over the
ether were not solid enough to
warrant more than a fraction of
our attention.
TELEVISION . . danger
Those radio people who have
now tinned to euiieueLiiij* me
ideal recipe for television prob
ably are under the impression the
added ingredient of eye-appeal
is all that is needed to keep us
enraptured before our receiving
sets day and night.
Hut it seems to me that tele
vision can turn out to be the
greatest Hop in entertainment his
tory, after the novelty of it has
worn off, unless the program pro
ducers are convinced ahead of
time that we have a smattering of
intelligence and will lose interest
unless they offer us Something
more substantial than the ordin
ary radio program.
This matter of eye appeal can
work two ways. It can gain a
greater grip on attention if it
gives us something worth opening
our eyes over, but it can also
I throw the limelight oil the inani
ties of radio. Radio can insult out
intelligence through the single
channel of our auditory nerve
hut television is equipped for a
doolde-hui i eh d insult.
He can only hope that the tele
vision experts will awake to the
fact that the willingness of the li!
year old to watch and listen to
anything called entertainment
| won't work for long with the ad
ult population. Most of us have
never been satisfied with radio
and we're apt to he even more
critical of television
INFLUENCE . . lazinesi
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LAUREL
ELVIA
ORAHAM
MELTON
New York, N. Y. — LOVE AT
FIRST FORECAST. This is for
the record: I love the new weath
erman. 1 do 't know him, but that
doesn't make any difference; he’s
a man alter my own heart.
Now some go for Sinatra—and
that's strictly Okay, but this man
who gets my rave isn’t in the
groove for only one mood—he's
on the beam for solid, aiound-the
clock consumption
Ah! What a man! He's diff
erent! He's sensational! He's rev
olutionary! He's something new
under the sun and moon and cu
mulus clouds. He’s a combination
of poet and realist. In his veins
there runs real human blood in
stead of ink with which to draw
those Inch-pressure, low-pressure
urea lines on graphs and charts,
And in his mind there dwells the
realization that with our weuthei
we want to know whether . . .
well, all sorts of things . . .
This rhapsodizing was sparket
I official weather report which read
into life when that man issued an
official weather report which rear
"Moonlight and warmer.” Honest
[hat's what it said!
Cosh! had the staid, super
caul ions. practically enigmatic, 7a
year old F. S. Weathei bureau
gone berserk! Or had some May
merry young apprentice, given toe
uucli responsibility, thumbed his
nose at tradition and let loose an
unorthodox report?
.\ope. .\either of these tilings.
File answer was Donald ('arm
eron, aged .ii), veteran of ‘I'l years
fil'd now chief forecaster for the
Southeastern United States.
It seems that Donald Cameron
lias held the idea, for a long time
that, weather reports ought to in
form us of what weather to expect
fall it—humanizing forecosts. He
heorizes (and rightly) that most
people don't care much about what
degrees of temperature and hu
midity are about to happen—they
want to know what they are going
to feel.
Hallelujah! and at last! after
75 years we've got one weather
man (may his ilk grow fast and
flourish) who realizes that “fair
and warmer” doesn’t tell us much
That “increasing cloudiness” does
1 have saiu that we are not a I
nation of morons, but I can see
that if television as well as radio
treats us as such we may event
ually reach that status
For although we may resist
mentally against listening to the
worst programs, we are often ex
posed to them, and, like bad com
pany. they leave their influence.
Out of sheer boredom we are apt
to tune in on the installments of
a poor program in the same spirit
that many of us, with hardly any
perceptible interest, turn eueh day
to the comic strips in the newspa
pers to see what the pen-and-ink
characters are up to.
Hut if the great forces of radio
and television are used primarily
to appeal to the lazy part of our
minds, the part that doesn't think,
there is no question that in time
our gray matter will become flab
by. Picture magazines, comic
books, digests of reading matter
and moving pictures all attempt
to give us entertainment or edu
cation with a minimum of mental
effort. Perhaps all we need to re
lax permanently into a moronic
mental state is a couple of long
winters of ’teen-age television.
not give me the low-down on
whether or not to tote my umbrel
la along’ or hopefully (and usual
ly mistakenly) leave it at home.
That “clear and colder” can mean |
anything from a moderate winter |
day to one where a bitter wind |
has me jiving grooves in my tooth i
enamel and wishing for an anti->
freeze solution for the marrow in i
my bones.
WEATHER, WHETHER, AND
WHOOPS! Donald Cameron gives
us real hope for the inline, lie i
lull ot possibilities. Of course lie s
starting relorm, or rather —ex
pansion—-in a mild way. At this
lime when he perks up with his
‘•moonlight and warmer'' predie-1
tion, who knows maybe he has i
wonderful plans for later when j
such a bulletin will read: “Moon-j
light and warmer; too nice.to go i
to the movies or to sleep early.
Really special. Maximum ellect
iveliess the hours 10 till 1. Don't
miss them."
Now everyone knows what a
little hit of moonlight can do! Hut
mostly it’s accidental. Think how j
marvelous if one could count on
it or build strategy around it. I
Think of lovelorn maids, bashful
swains, and despairing, spatting,
spouses.
If this moonlight stuff leaves
you cold (and there are those it
does, and jeepers I feel sorry lor
them even if they don't know what
they’re missing) there are lots of
practical advantages too. Like
knowing what to wear. when.
Instead of that hackneyed, un
informative “warmer"—Cameron
plans to add phrases like “fairly
comfortable” or “uncomfortable".
See what a help that will be! And
I can imagine a time when hep
forecasters might say: “Sticky
hot and how! Wear as little as
the law will allow.”
At piesent, for week-enders,
our new friend will not limit him
self to "cloudy and warmer” but
will add: “a few light, puffy clouds
with probable clear weather ahead
Sometime soon the advice might
might go like this: "Swimming,
fishing or picnic hour's'.' Go ahead,
gamble on short, light showers."
Or like this: "To go—or not to
go? If rain will spoil it — save your
Why doggone! I can foresee
the time when we’ll all be reading
weather reports with delight—for
both information and entertain
ment People will turn to that por
tion of their newspaper with all
the enthusiasm and anticipation
they now exhibit over baseball
scores or what comes next with
Buck Rogers and Fiat-top.
And as for results: romance will
flourish, frayed tempers and disap
pointments be staved off, new
clothes kept unruined, goosepimp
les abolished-_the list is. endless!
So now you know why I love
the weatherman. I’m convinced
he’s got something!
WOOL
| The value of the wool clip makes
j up about one-third of the profit
from the farm flock and hence it
should .receive special care, sug
gests H . M. Stanley, Extension
animal husbandry specialist at N.
C. State College.
4-H
A new 4-11 contest, whose
chief objective is to prevent soil
wastage and deterioration by
practicing approved methods of
protection and conservation, will
be known as the "National 4-II
Soil Conservation Contest.”
I
J
Conservation
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R. J. SEITZ
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H. I). Ftonef.erger, Gastonia,
plans tu establish a two'acre seri
t'i;i meadow strip on bis farm lo
cated neat Bessemer City, lie has
the seed ready and just as soon
as the strip is graded by the coun
ty unit, lie will sow the meadow
to eomplette the water disposal
system. This meadow strip will
also he used l'or perennial hay.
Terrace lines were staked this
past week on the following farms
to he built by available farm
equipment and the county terrac
ing units: X. M. Carson, R-l. Cas
tonia; Walter Oates, R-l, Casto
nia; T.R.E Oates, R-l, Castonia;
Ernest Pearson, R-l, Castonia; F.
F. Allen, R-2, Bessemer City; W.
W. Rutled.ee, R-l, Dallas; and,
M. A. Stroupe, Cherr.vville.
Miss Martha Torrence, R F 1),
Bessemer City, has been realizing
some splendid grazing from a two
acre field sowed with a mixture of
small grains and ryegrasses for
grazing. A notable increase in
milk production has resulted and
she plans to follow this ypractieve
.1. M. Robinson. R-.1, Gastonia,
turned a tine crop of vetch undei
and is following with cotton. Tim
is a splendid practice before cotton
or corn in increasing crop yiehb
1„ A. Thornburg, High Shoals,
received shipment of 1000 kudzti
plants this week and planted ap
proximately two acres of steep
of steep land to be used for per
ennial hay.
\V E. Brewer, R-l. Dallas, re
cently ordered some borax for 2
i acres of alfalfa on his farm. He
plans to apply about 25 pounds
per acre, to stimulate the growth
arid increase the quality of hay
cut.
NITROGEN
Twenty thousand tons of the
May production of ammonium ni
trate have not been requested by
the fertilizer industry and it is
Uoubtful if .1 utie production will be
taken, say Washington reports.
CORN
About 2 pounds of nitrogen
will give an extra handful of corn
Extra fertilizer for the corn crop
is one of the quickest methods of
solving the feed shortage, say the
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HELP FEED AMERICA FRtJIT
Our Government asks every family
in America with available space, to
grow some Fruit and help in the War
effort. Home Owners are urged to
grow more fruit. Fighting men, our
4-iui^o, auu me un uie r.ume
front need the vitamins, minerals, sugars of fruit for health
and strength.
Let me rfrtow you how you can plant now—enjoy delicious
fruits amuzingly soon—increase the value of your property
—help hurry our Victory. Call me. No obligation.
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W. R. CARPENTER
Cherryville, N. C.-Route 2