ELECTRIFICATION Federal funds loaned for rural electrification, or set aside for ap proved loans, show an all-tin?® to tal of slightly over 600 million dollars. PULPWOOD AIDS RED CROSS Packages made from pulpwood protect Red Cross equipment, nodical supplies and food in tran sit to the battlefronts. DDT There is a wonderful new insec ticide being tested by the entomo legists. It is derived from coal tar, salt, and alcohol. It’s called DDT for short. It’s real name i9 diehlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. TIMBER NEEDS LISTED National timber requirements for 1044 have been estimated to include 30 billion board feet of lumber and 14 million cords of pulpwool. AT THE MOVIES IN (CHERRYVILLE Thursday.Friday-Lester-2 Days-NOW STARTS LATE SHOW SUN. NITE 12:02 AT LESTER— “SHINE ON HARVEST MOON ”—Ann Sherdan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson. •* . \.fsantesii 5 IS AT STRAND—FRI-SAT —2 DAYS “BEYOND LAST FRONTIER”. “ ilcy Burnette in MON.-TUES.—2 Big Shows—‘‘THE MARINES COME THRU” and “WHISPERING FOOTSTEPS”. 8 Y MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine DEVELOP SENSE OF i RESPONSIBILITY Not long ago a friend was showing me some keepsakes of her childhood. One of them was a quaint white silk dress, scarcely more than 18 inches long, yet in the grownup style in which chil dren’s clothes were once made— a square yoke, waistline with sasli. and kick pleats in the skirt. "You must have looked like a tiny lady in that," I remarked. "And that s exactly how I felt," my friend answered. “When 1 came across this dress, not having seen it for 30 years, I suddenly had a vision of myself as 1 had looked and felt when I wore it. j In this flash of understanding 1 j knew that I had felt then as com- ! plete a person as j do today— j and just as responsible. Not that • I was a precocious child—1 was j no brighter than any other five- j year-old, but I knew what was expected of me and that I alone was responsible for my actions, i I didn't feel like a partial adult— I was a person.” Psychologists have been telling us for years that a child is a dis tinct Individual at each stage of | growth. My friend’s experience of reliving her five-year-oldness for a second provided proof from ac tual experience tTTat a child is cap able of accepting responsibility within the bounds of his know ledge of life. Since this is true, then parents should make the most of it in the character education of their children. Too many parents give a child an “out” every time he fails to live up to their cxpecta- | tions. “Bobby was too tired to i put away his tricycle," Mother1 will explain to an exasperated j father who has had to get out of | the car and remove the tricy-I cle f i om the driveway bet ore he i could put the car in the garage Occasionally, of course, it is true that a child is too fatigued to do an expected chore. In which case it would be better for Moth- 1 er to say, ‘Bobby, I can see that you are very tired. Come have ! your supper and I’ll put your tri cycle away sc Daddy won’t run into it ween lie drives the car in the garage.” But most of the time when a child fails to do what he knows is his own task, he is aware of his shirking. He doesn’t want to do it so he takes a chance on the con sequences. If he discovers that his mother will find an excusi for him, part of his innate sense of i esponsitility is lost. But if he finds out that the penalty for his failure to do what is expected of him is a logically unpleasant one (such as not being allowed to ride his tricycle for several days) the sense of responsibility, which had prompted him to do right and which he had disregarded, is jus tified in his own eyes and becom es an even stronger part of him Children learn much by trial and error. If this sense of respon sibility, or conscience, is discredit ed by repeated experiences of getting away with what they know they shouldn’t do, or getting by without doing what"They know they should do, they soon cease to put much stock in it. MORALITY FROM POSITIVE ANCLE At old-fashioned revival meet ings much of the time was taken up with confessions in which the sinner painted his past life as blacker than black. To many young sters who listened, fascinated by these recitals, the evil goings-on sounded more exciting than the sinner’s reformed life. Today we teach morality with a positive ra ther than a negative approach— we teach the child that happiness is a natural accompaniment of good conduct, faith in God, cheer fulness, putting effort into one’s work and being thoughtful of others. We don’t talk to him about forbidden things as if they were really more fun than acceptable behavior and then hope he will re frain from investigating them out of fear of the consequences. For we have learned that lives built on fear are unhealthy both men tally and physically. One proof of the workableness of this positive method is that it has done wonders in building up healthy appeties for nutritious food. Nowadays most children de vour heaping plates of vegetables instead of holding out for several ears of sweet corn, the only veg etable other than potatoes chil dren seemed to like a generation or two back. But can character education, as well, succeed by emphasizing the things to do rather than those to shun? We believe so. Even piety as it is taught today, is based on God's love rather than on His wrath. School attendance is en couraged on the basis of the in terests you’ll miss if you stay a way unnecessarily, rather than on the punishment you’ll get if you are absent without leave. And when have children liked to go to school as well as they do today? Honesty is not only taught as being the best policy, but dishon esty is shown as unworkable and stupid instead of as something wicked that clever people some times get away with. Boasting is unmasked as the resort of inse iure minds, but emphasis is put on teaching a child to listen to others as well as talk. Too much of the teaching of courtesy used to be based on telling a child that hi# lack of manners was a TODAY «md TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON ___ _d ADS .... farmv The catch-line “excellent spo, for a swimming pool,” in an ad vei t isement of a farm tor sale protialil .• attracts the intsiest of farm minded urbanites more than a a j other sales phrase, v I know when the classified ad vertisements in newspapers or farm Journals start me dream.irt:»; about a farm of my own, there is nothing which furnishes a better stage-setting for ray dream in,; than the • icture of a nice, cool, shady pool back of the house into which 1 could plunge after a hot day i.i (lit fields Tut such dreaming is rather rudely shattered, so lar as the swimming-pool backdrop is con cerned, .,y a book called “Fai m For a Living or Visa Versa,” writ ten by lauld Haystead, farm edi tor of Fortune magazine. For, according to Mr. Haystead, those lines about a swimming pool are an linintiot of farm lealtjvs for disposing of larms which have lost their productivity and are gener ally down at the heels. City suck ers, it has been found, can ie attracted by centering their at entinn on a Lute in the ground in stead of on vhe land itself -.malar tricks are, of course, used to sell real estate in cities aid towns. 1 remeir.be:- going through a row of little houses in a development where a ical estate man had successfully boosted pric es by $1,000 per house by install ing a gadget which proved irre sistible to all feminine visitors— an electric hair dryer. Aside from the occasional trick ery which may creep into classi fied ads, I imagine there are many people who find these small type, personalized notices about things for sale, help wanted and jobs wanted to be among the most interesting features of a newspaper or magazine. Some lead these eagerly in or der to find bargains and to find opportunities for themselves. Otli ers read them with a sort of a mill curiosity about other people' lives und problems. They glory ii picturing themselves living in the sumptuous estates described in the classified wonder about the tragedies that must have befallen the people who offer to sell all their household belongings, find drama in the adt of people who are making a frantic effort to better their position or find a more favorable niche in life via the “Situations Wanted’’ columns and enjoy peeping into the private lives of strangers by reading the personal notices like, “Harry, W want you to come home. Every thing all right now, S.E.b,” In many ways the classified ads are the most intimate part of a newspaper-—the part which is written largely by the readers in stead of the editor and is concern ed with everyday financial and personal problems GOODS .... ide». During this war classified ad vertisements under the heads of “Wanted’’ and “For Sale'1 have beeii a great help to many fami lis. In the newspapers in some towns the classified page has be come the first page to which readers turn. Through the classi fieds they have been able to find that secondhand refrigerator they need to replace the one that broke down, the bicycle they wanted to make it possible to get to work without using gasoline, the pres sure cooker necessary to put the Victory garden in jars for the winter, or any of a thousand and one other articles which ure unob tainable in the stores. In the farm and industrial areas where help is at a premium, the classified pages have played an important role in finding the few men and women who are still available for jobs. But we hope the interest in disgrace to his parents. Now man ners are presented as props to self confidence, as the means for making and keeping friends. Likewise the child who tells tales isn’t cured by shaming, but by being encouraged to relate the amusing, likable things about his friends. One reason why this construc tive method has its failures, as well as its successes, is that too often when seeking to inculcate pleasant and admirable traits we use less zeal than when combating the unpleasant and undesirable. Just as the world is faced with the problem of making peace ap peal to the imaginations of men as strongly as war has been gla morized by militaristic nations, so parents should work as tirelessly to make kindness, honor, cooper ativeness appeal to their children as they would strive to eradicate their opposites, cruelty, dishonor, selfishness, if these unhappy traits were to appear in a child’s character. _. 34 colored regittrants left here this Morning The 34 colored registrants list ed below left this morning for Camp Croft for preinduction phy sical examination at 7:30 a. m. James Haghes, Bessemer City; ,Richard Crawford, R-2, Cherry ville; Hasker Meredith, Bessemer City; Plato Gamble, Trenton, N. J. Howard Stinson, R-l, % Dallas; John Lee Brooks, R-2, Cherry ville; James Thomas Adams, R-l, Rings Mtn.; Garfield Campbell, R-l, Dallas; Johnnie Mack Lee Abernathy, R-l, Bessemer City; Melvin Mason, R-l, Clover; H. B. Roseboro, R-2, Shelby; Henry D. R. Bullard, R-l, Crouse; Hazel Lee Johnson, R-2, Cherryville; Tate Stockton, Jr., R-4, Lincoln ton; James Harmon Wright, R-l, Bessemer City; John Frank Adams R-l, Kings Mountain; James Wes ley Starr, R-l, Crouse; Henry D. Abernathy, R-l, Bessemer City; Avery Calvin Coolidge Webber, .-2, Cherryville; James William i.arnett, R-2, Cherryville; James Archie Little, R-4, Lincolnton; Alton Luare Harbison, R-l, Cher ryville; Howard Brooks, R-l, Cher ryville; William Clarence Lind classifieds, awakened by the war will not die with the war’s end. For, if the people in a communi ty support the classified page of their local newspaper—the page which they must write themselves —they will find ever-increasing enjoyment in it. Not only can it be used for selling and buying merchandise and real estate, but it has infinite other possibilities for development. Use it. if you will, to give your views on politi cal candidates, to suggest town improvements, to congratulate a well-known lesident on an anniver sary or for any other purpose where it seems worth a few cents a line to get your message in print. The classified page in most newspapers is usually thought of as a “Buy and Sell ’ page, but if the people wish it there is no rea son why it cannot become a pub lic forum as well. Pay your cash in advance and most any publish er who will permit you to use the Classified columns to try to sell your neighbors on free enterprise as readily as to sell your discard ed lawn-mower. -oa wrtHUAV :^?0 «ui#w*g MS«P bert Stinson, R-l, Dallas; Robert Theodore Williams, Jr., Lewis Alexander Feemster, R-l, Besse. mer City; William Lewis J. T. White, R-l, Bessemer City; Beau fort Wright, R-l, Bessemer City; Lagree Byrd, R-l, Bessemer City; James Lester Stevenson, R-2, Bessemer City; Richard Mann Cun ningham, Bessemer City; Thomas James Ross, Bessemer City. 15 COLORED REGISTRANTS TO LEAVE AUG. 2 AT 3:52 The 15 colored registrants list ed below will leave August 2 at 3:52 p. m.. for t amp Croft, S. 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