THE EAGLE
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and surrounding Community.
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, AUGUST 10, 1S44
20,000.000 NEW FRIENDS
In addition to the sizable quantity of food which is added
to our nation’s larder by Victory gardens, this samble of farm
ing tasted by 20,000,000 families may do even more perma
nent good in giving people in general a greater appreciation
of the problems and headaches of the professional farmer.
After spending hours and hours of hard, physical labor
preparing the soil and planting, only to find that their efforts
are often entirely fruitless because of the invasion of some des
tructive bug, or because it rains too much or doesn’t rain enough
the Victory gardener cannot help but feel genuine admiratioB
for the man who, year in and year out, manages to eke a liv
ing from the soil.
After this, when proposals are made to help out farmer*
who have had their crops destroyed by unseasonable weather
or who, because of an extra good season are unable tc di°r's«
of their crops they will want relief.
PICKING X-DAY
It’s hard to know whom to believe.
One day Mr. Churchill intimates that the war may end al
most anytime and the next day Secretary Stimson makes it clear
that he has no such expertations. Both made their statements
following a visit to the front.
Probably it hinges on so many unknowns that even these
informed gentlemen are not in a position to predict the time
of victory with any degree of accuracy. If we took a pool on
the subjeit “When do yoo think the war will end?’’ amony 100
people who only know what they read in the papers, and then
took a similar poll among 100 top war officials, the chances
are the degree of accuracy would be about the same.
We recently heard the opinion of a supposedly informed
Russian who, after analyzing the situation from all angles, fi
nally came to the conclusion that the European war will end
on October 20 of this year. For people who want to be spe
cific, even if they are wrong, that might be as good a day as
any on which to place your money.
AS TO SCHOOL OPENING |
Regardless of the warning and admonition of Dr. CARL
REYNOLDS, State Health Officer, public school authorities in
some counties are preparing to proceed to open for the Fall
sessions within the next two or three weeks. /
It is inconceivable that such risks should be taken by
bringing these children into crowded school rooms when there
is so much evidence that this disease is contagious and, there
fore, such a ruthless gamble will be taken with a more rapid
spread of this malady among those of youthful age.
In some counties the custom has been to open rural
schools for a while in summer, then close them up during cot
ton picking time in order to give the farmers the benefit of
their labor at this critical work interim.
But whether August or usual September dates are being
booked for the re-openings, it is incumbent upon all school au
thorities, both rural and urban, to abide the decision of the
public health officials whose warnings should take precedence
in all such cases.
The matter is in the hands of the city and county school
boards and theirs will be the responsibility if some untoward
result should ensue from violating the judgment of Dr. Rey
nolds.—Charlotte Observer.
I
HANDOUTS OR FREEDOM
The farmers of this country rank among the most abun
dant food producers in the world, and they are noted for their
independence. They have developed cooperative marketing or
ganizations that “talk” for them in matters of distribution,
wh\le they concentrate on production. These farmer-owned
business organizations reflect the view of farmers.
Recently, Ernest C. Strobeck, secretary of the Dairymen's
League Cooperative Association, said of subsidies: “An under
standing of food subsidies requires at the outset a determina
tion of the kind of government that we want. D’o we want a
government supported by its citizens—a government, for and
by the people? Or, do we want a government to which every
one lookB for handouts and detailed regulations of their every
day lives?”
Farmers have been forced to accept subsidies, although
they continue to oppose them in principle as a threat to the in
dependence of everyone. They are frank in their belief that
higher prices for farm products when necessary are preferable
to living at the whim of government authorities. The country
is fortunate to have that kind of farmers.—Gazette.
FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
It is worth remembering that the freight traffic on the
railroads of the United States in 1943 was nearly twice that of
the peak year of World War I in 1918, while passenger traf
fic was more than twice as great. The 1943 record was hand
led without the prolonged congestion and delays of the first
world war period.
And, mark this down! The 1943 job was done with one
third fewer locomotives, one-third fewer passenger cars, one
fourth fewer freight cars, and with 600,000 fewer men.
Campaign Oratory
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VOTERS'
TOWN and FARM
• in WARTIME (*
tolMrad by OFFICI OP WAR INFORMATION
REMINDERS
MEATS, FATS— Ked Stamps
A8 through Z8, A5, B5 and (_,5
good indefinitely.
PROCESSED FOODS - Blue
Stamps A8 through Z8 and A>
through F5 good indefinitely.
SUGAR—Sugar Stamps 30, 81
and 32, each good for live
pounds indefinitely. Sugar Stamp
40, good for five pounds of can
ning sugar through February,
next year.
GASOLINE—In 17 East Coast
States, A-ll coupons, good thru
November 8. In Sttaes outside the
East Coast Area, A-12 coupons
good through September 21.
FUEL OIL—Period 4 and u
coupons, good through Septem
ber 30. New Period 1 coupons
now good.
SHOES—Airplane Stamps 1
and 2, good indefinitely.
Farm Inflationary Sign*
Elements that might contribute
to inflation continue to be seen
at The end of the second quarter
of this year as compared to the
end of the same period last year,
according to data made available
by the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. Demand deposits in
country banks, consisting largely
of checking accounts, were up 28
per cent—an increase partly ac
counted for by large deposits of
Government funds. These check
ing accounts would be inflation
ary if used to bid up the price
of land and scarce goods. Anoth
er inflationary sign is that aver
age per acre value of farm real
estate as of July 1 was up 15 per
cent over a year ago. For the
quarter, cash receipts from farm
marketings were up six per cent
over a year ago and prices paid by
farmers for the 'things they buy
—including interest and taxes—
were up five per cent. The only
non-inflationary factor, more
than offset by increased receipts
from farm marketings, was a de
cline of one per cent in prices re
ceived by farmers.
This One For You Kids
More low cost candy and better
price control for candy are two
of the aims of the Office of Price
Administration in setting up four
new advisory committees of can
dy manufacturers. Just in case
you kids are interested, these
manufacturers represent “gener
al line candy,” “candy bars,'’
“package goods’’ and “wholesale
candy.”
Potato Prices Up 90 Cents
To compensate for a substan
tial reduction in yield due to
drouth, OPA has increased max
imum prices of potatoes at the
shipping point during August 90
cents a hundred pounds in 16
states—increasing retail cost of
potatoes grown in these states
about one cent a pound. The in
crease was granted for potatoes
producel in Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and
ilei’tucky.
rirea for Farm Vehicles
Because farm vehicles must be
kept in seivxce, they mu- bo
equipped ' ith used truck tire., if
available, as well as with used pas -
senger tires, OPA announces.
Storiee of Two Harvest* I
Many of the German prisoners i
of war captured in Normandy |
have volunteered to help wit.i the
Harvest in Great Britain, accord
ing to BBC broadcast repotted to
the Office of War Information.
Inexperiencel workers are paid six
pence a day and experienced
workers, one shilling. The broad
cast also reported a story about
the harvest in northern Italy,
where the facts were quite differ
ent. Italian patriots drove the
German occupation troops from
me village and captured the en
tire harvest, which was all ready
for shipment to Germany.
(J. S. Government Manual
The Summer 1944 edition of
the “United States Government
Manual,’’ official handbook of the
Federal Government, now being
printed, gives the name and func
tion of each Federal agency, both
“emergency’’ and “old line.’ The
manual may be bought for $1
from the Superintendent of Docu
ments, Government Printing Of
fice, Washington 25, D. C.
Reclaim Quarter of Million Men
Treatment of syphilis is res
ponsible for the presence in the
armed forces of 125,000 men who
otherwise would have been unfit
for service, and for making 140,
000 others available for service
unless otherwise disqualified, the
U. S. Public Health Service re
ports. Among the first 15 million
Selective Service registrants giv
en blood tests,, evidence of syp
hilis was found among 720,000.
Selective Service boards, State
and local health departments, Ar
my and Navy roopei\.teci ill trac
ing, treating and inducting infect
ed registrants.
School Teacher Now Cadet Nurse
After seven years teaching ul!
giades in “the little red school
house,” Rita Turner, Linn, Mo.,
took her opportunity to get help
in achieving her life-long ambi
tion to become a nurse by being
among the first to enlist in the
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps. The U.
S. Public Health Service says at
least (10,000 more cadets are need
ed this year to meet requests for
hospital personnel.
Want Consumer Price Lists
Large-scale distribution of four
to five million consumer price
lists is needed in connection with
a campaign to “sell retailers on
their stake in price control,” de
clared the Consumer Advisory
Committee to OPA in protesting
against substitution of a plan of
posting community ceiling price
lists in retail stores. Shoppers are
too hurried or too timid to ques
tion prices in the presence of
other shoppers who may be wait
ing, the committee said. Informed
shopping, the advisors believe, “is
possible only when consumers
have studied their ceiling prices
at home.’'
Asks Complete Social Security
“Tve will not have a just sys
tem of social security until all
workers, no matter what their em
ployment, are covered,” Paul V.
McNutt, Federal Security Admin
istrator, declared in connection
with the announcement that on
August 8 the Social Security
Board would begin to pay off on
its one millionth benefit in force
under Federal Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance. The beneficiar
ies are a war-worke’s widow, Mrs.
Mary Kck Thompson, Parma,
Ohio, and her two children. Mrs.
Thompson’s husband and his em
ployer each had paid $145 in pre
miums. Benefits now amount to
$58.49 a month and may total as
much as $15,182.83. Although 12
million farm workers and eight
million other types of workers
:ot now covered by social seeur
ty benefits, the Social Security
ioard has recommended to Con
gress that coverage be extended
o all these groups now excluded.
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•HOW TO WIN FRIENDS and
YOU CAN STAND ANYTHING
Author of
INFLUENCE PEOPLE”
I Thirty years ago a young married couple moved out on
the Mojave desert and started in to make a living off 120
acres of sand and alkali- When they moved in they had
three wagon-loads of furniture, farm implements and
equipment. They worked hard for three-and-a-half
terrible years, and when they moved away from that dis
couraging land they took with them only two wagon
loads. They were both discouraged; they’d been de
feated by the desert. Then the wife said:
“If we can stand this, we can stand anything. Now let
us try something else.
I They did and they made a whacking success of it. For
that desert-stranded couple were Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Knott, proprietors of the famous “Knott’s Berry Place,’
; near Los Angeles.
There is great help in this philosophy: the thought that
you have stood the worst, and that you need not be afraid
what is ahead.
Once, while living on the desert. Walter Knot walked
20 miles to a mine to apply tor a job. He got the job; at
two dollars a day.
The place they opened was off the main road, in fact
it took an Indian tracker to find it; here from a little
roadside stand they sold berries. But they sold the best
berries that were to be had. They raised ’em and they
sold ’em. By this time there were four children who pitch
ed in and helped grow the berries, and helped sell them.
They had a hard time, but one thought supported them;
they couldn’t go up against anything harder than they had
expereinced oil the desert. So they kept “berrying" a
way. This was in the year 1S)2(); 2.2 years ago.
Their mousetrap worked. People began to find their
way to it.
i.iwt iho ih*nression swooned down, the Knotts
bought ten acres of land to raise berries on at $1,500 an
acre. Two years later it was worth $300 an acre. But
they remembered their Mojave-born philosophy and kept
on working, and finally paid off—during the depression
_the excessive debt they had piled up by buying the land.
Ami this philosophy, put into effect, will make a suc
cess in some degree of almost anyone: ‘‘If we can stand
this, we can stand almost anything.”
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