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DO YOU NEED A - - V ' ; RUBBER STAMP? “WE HAVE EM” THE EAGLE PUBLISHING GO. DIAL 2101 PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED AT Houser Drug Co. WE DELIVER PHONE 4771 AT THE MOVIES IN CHERRYVILLE SAT.—ONE DAY ONLY—AUGUST 19TH—THE MUSI CAL HIT—“TROCADERO” WITH ROSEMARY LANE, JOHNNY DOWNS—4 BANDS. STARTS LATE SHOW SUN. NITE. 12:02 & MON.-TUES. “TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR’1 WITH HARRY JAMES A BAND, VAN JOHNSON, XAVIER, CUTGAT ORC., GRACEIE ALLEN. Every scene is a frolic of h.rdi spirited hitafiry in '1 wo Girls and a Sailor" • with June Ailyson, Gloria DeMaven, Van Johnson and Jirnmv Gu.-aar* * FRI.-SAT.—2 DAYS AT STRAND—AUG. 18-19 m A Seen* from "Raiders of the Border"...* (ale of renegades of 'he Rio \ Grand*. Marring Johnny Mack Brown with Raymond Ha o Right in Japan's Front Yard, Too Five of the navy’s Helldivers re-form to return to their carriers after having blasted four Jap ships only 600 miles south of Tokyo, in the Bonin islands. During the assault U. S. planes sank at least 13 enemy ships and damaged 20 more. They also shot down 32 Jap planes. Washington, D. C. (N'WXS) — The most cussed, discussed, fear ed and sought after group in the many sided political fight that will be with us until November, will undoubtedly be the new Political Activities Committee of the ('!<■> union. The power of this group, vhich has become organized for righ-pres.sure politics during the ast year, was first brought to rubiic attention at the Democia :ic national convention. At that convention both Democrats and Republicans were surprised over :he almost dictatorial power wield ed over delegates by Sidney Hill man, the spokesman for the CIO group. Both Mr. Hillman ar.d other leaders of the CIO have a nation- • wide reputation for their commu nistic activities and communistic beliefs. They are the most left wing division of the New Deal, if they are considered a part of the New Deal at all. But their power at this time is unquestioned—a power which grows out of the fact that they seem to have control ov er several million labor votes and have a fund of $3,000,000 to spend on election activities. They are supporting the Dem ocratic ticket presumably because they consider it as “the lesser of two evils.” They have also found that the New Deal leders seem to respect the power of unions and are willing to give sympathetic an dienee to their pleadings. There is no doubt that the CIOs Political Activities commit tee will influence a goodly imm her of votes this year, but it is also apparent that any candidate who gets under obligation to this organization is in an extremely dangerous position. Whether Pres ident Roosevelt will be able to avoid such obligation and still ac cept the CIO support is a matter of considerable debate here. The political wiseacres here, who are willing to predict the outcome of the election for any one who will listen, seem to give Roosevelt the edge over Dewey. But even the most ardent Roose velt fans think Dewey might win if he would db one thing, namely: Pick his cabinet, make it the very strongest cabinet possible, and an nounce the names before the elec tion. In other words, they don’t think the name Dewey can take enough votes away from the Dem ocrats to win; but they do think the name Dewey, plus a four-star list of cabinet members who have won the respect of the nation, might do the trick. There has been considerable discussion here over the effect it would have on the election if the war with Germany ended before November. This has been a fav orite subject ever since Prime Minister Churchill made his fa mous statement about the possi bility that the war might end sooner than we have any right to expect. But when you hear the arguments presented by both sid es to show how peace in Europe would shift votes, about the only conclusion which can be drawn at this time is that this happy event might not shift them at all. Of course the end of war in Europe would take a lot of the wind out of the New Leal argu ment that you shouldn't change horses in the middle of the stream. But some analysts think the argu ment, “He won the war” would be an even more powerful one with the voters. On the other hand, with the President running for office in the role of commander in-chief of the armed forces, the Republicans point out that there would be a lot less reason to elect him on that basis if victory in Europe was an actuality. But since there is little chance that the Japanese phase of the Iwar will end this year, the Pres ident will still hold a powerful card In asking the people to let him finish the war job. ^ ^ 7,109 Workers In Essential Industry Is Now On File Raleigh, A ug. i0.;—Employer orders for T.lU'.i workers in essen tial industry .veer on file in the L'. S. Employment Service offices •_f the War Mu povvii Comlnis '.on. as of July amt fur the '.i« time the orders were clas s'lied a- to the manpower priority t apings of ‘.lie firms placing tne u der-. Dr. J. ;•!. Dorton. State MC director, announces. This figure is not comparable wit hthe number on this -compo site list, 14,949, at the end of June. During the month of July, Dr. Dolton explains list was all cancelled out and the orders are now being built up again to show priority ratings of the firms. The list is expected to approach in numbers those carried in June by the end of August, when the or ders will he renewed. The July .'11 list of 7,109 order., for workers includes 1,200 for firms with the A A manpower pn -orities rating, many of them saw mills and lumber plants, while some aie cotton textile mills pro ducing highly critical items, in ad dition to shipbuilding, munitions, machine and other plants. Plants with A priority need 198 workers, those with B prior ity have oiii.ers for 78 workers and those rated <! need 8,429 workers, while essential plants with no priority rating have in j orders for 2,198 workers. All of ■ these numbers ate expected to ! increase to an approximate dou j hie of the total by the end of Au ; gust, Dr. Dortoii said. CHURCH NOTICES First Presbyterian Paitor J. WALTER COBB The pulpit to be supplied by Dr. C. O. Groves, of Bishopville, S. ('. Dr. Groves was Supply Pastor of this church, just pre ceding the present Supply-ship. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb are in Mon treat for ten davs vacation. He j expects to be back in the piUpit ' and pastoral duties at the end of these ten days preaching the first Sunday of September. No preach ing service the last Sunday of August. Sunday School every Sunday at 10 A*. M. W. W. Browne, Supt. Last Sunday over $100.00 were ! raised of the Elders and Deacons. ' Fund for the Christian Re-Occu I pation of China. _ "gs HIir.T^ABALOO By LYTLE HULL A cotton gin nor spends so days in getting his machinery in excel lent condition and then it is ser iously damaged in a moment by nails or rocks in the cotton. Clean shavings make a very satisfactory hen-nest litter. j POSTWAR EMPLOYMENT Congress, and everyone else for | that matter, is much concerned— ' and rightly-—over the fact that the termination of the European1 phase of the war may find the | nation still unprepared to take up the slack in employment .which ! will be caused by war material cancellations and by mustering I out wai service men and women. Certamy industry (for a time . at least) will require supplemen tal aid in taking up this s*ack, no ; matter how great their postwar • turnover *nsy eventually become. The suppleme tal aid run t . on- i ;st, for the nost part, of •‘nr.t.’e work. But ine "male work' nee 1 not be of a wasteful nature. This ■‘made work” can be divided into i ‘ ree categories—that which is! ■essingly needed; that which is -cessarv but not pressing; and .hat which is desirable and should i be undertaken shortly after the j war only if the unemployment sit- ; nation demands. It will require he expenditure of billions upon i billions of dollars ami the labor of • millions of people to complete any j me of these categories. Every city, town and hamlet in | the nation has a worn out sUreet | r road; an antiquated school I house or a dangerous railroad ! crossing. There are great stretches <f river which need flood control systems; there are old, unhealthy -ewerage systems which empty in- | to rivers and harbors; there are reforestation projects which are far more necessary than the pub lic realizes; there is a contsant j need for more and better hospi- i :ais; slum clearance in many of iur great cities is of vital impor tance. One could enumerate these essentials and infinitum. Would a plan something like he following ttb feasible—each township to create a small com mittee which would ascertain and I catalogue its “public works" re- | luirements. First would be listed the Dressing needs- next the needs i ■vhich do not require haste; and last improvements which are de -irable but not essential. These list:-with approximate costs— would be sent in to a county com mittee to be condensed by it and then forwarded to a state com mittee. The state committee, corn nosed principally of business men and women who could be depend ed upon to show no district fav oritism, would inform a central committee in Washington what their requirements in men and money would be. A comprehen sive catalogue of all the various nojects decided favorably upon, ■ uld be kept up to the minute the central committee so that rftten inquiry from a job seek i;tone mason or carpenter or nmon laborer would bring in mat ion to the writer where dis for him were open. Local ■st offices would post local work ejects on their bulletin boards, either the federal nor the state ,ovei nments would be permitted to do more—in connection with '-he act of “employing”—than ten ler information as to employ ment opportunities. All projects .vould be bid for by . local com peting contractors, thus (as per f’W A) avoiding some of the pit falls of the WPA. Payment would be divided in some way between -tate and federal government. It’s all our money anyhow. If these catalogued lists were available by the time men and women began to be mustered out of the various war works, a meth odical absorption of labor would seem possible; and if labor was employed the industries and other phases of our economic life would laturally hum, and the white col 'ar worker would have his job. Without some such method the immediate postwar future may become chaotic. FOR— WATCHES DIAMONDS IDENTIFICATION BRAC ELETS And other FINE Jewelery at Reasonable Prices. Visit our Store. JONES JEWELERS BESSEMER CITY, N. C. Your FRIENDLY and HON EST JEWELER. Expert Repairs TELEFACT • GOVERNMENT SPENDING LESS THAN EXPECTED CAl YtAI ENDING JUNE JO 1943 ##i »7» eiUlON JUNf 10 1944 USD »107 1IUION I JUNI K 1944 (ACTUM) 004 »»’ UlllON The Farmer and War Bond Purchases by Charles W. Holman, Secretary The National Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation AMERICAN farmers have a great deal'more at stake in purchasing War Bonds than sim ply a patriotic urge to assist in financing the war so that it may be prosecuted to an early and vic torious conclusion. Modern \*.ar demands governmental expendi tures far in excess of those which may be met by current revenue receipts. This means Government borrowing. If a large part of this borrowing is through commercial bank additional inflationary spending power is created through the expansion of credit. On the other hand, if the borrowing is largely from individuals much of their excess funds are drained off. Hence, the pressure on prices re sulting Irom unusually large funds bidding for limited amounts of good:; and services is relieved, and thus inflation retarded. A tremendously increased agricultural production and some increase In average - prices received above those paid by farmers have raised the net Income of all United States farmers from the 1935 39 average of $1.7 billion to St>,3 billion in 1941 $9.4 billion in 1943, and an estimated $13.5 | billion in 1943. With available supplies of farm machinery re . placements and building ma terials limited, Agriculture has a fund available for either debt retirement, savings read ily liquidated for future pur chases of machinery, build ings, etc., or for present in vestment in land. A marked decrease in farm mortgages in recent years indi cates that much of this fund has been properly applied to debt re tirement. However, activity in land sales and a very marked in crease in land values demon strate that farmer! are probably diverting a large part of this fund into land purchases. From March 1. 1943, to March 1, 1944, average land values per acre rose 15 per cent, with the larger part of the rise taking place in the last four months of the period. The in* u-ease during this four-month pe riod was the highest on record, being 20 per cent greater than the average monthly rate of increase for the 1919-20 boom year. Aver agevalues per acre have increased more than one-third irt the past 3 years. In the 1916-19 period the rise was about the same. It appears that an overcapitali zation of probably temporarily high farm commodity prices is in process just as in World War I. Large mortgage debts incurred now, at high levels of income, will prove disastrous when both total agricultural production and prices fall. Land values are based on the net return to land. With the end of the war in sight and with the prospect that farm labor and other costs will require a relatively larg er return leaving the return to land less, the logical course for land values at present would ap pear to be downward rather than upward. Therefore, it appears that farmers would do well to in vest every available dollar, beyond that needed for debt retirement, in Government Bonds. These can be held against the day when neces sary farm replacements will be available and when farm land values will have become more stable. In this way the individual farmer may assist in hastening the day of return of his son, and also have capi tal available to help finance him in ventures of bis own choice. V. S. Treasury Department From where I sit... 61/ Joe Marsh Silas Clay Gets Mad at Women’s Hats r Silas Clay Is complaining that his wife’s new hat cost more i than a bull calf. "And I wouldn’t i mind it, if it was a hat,” he says, ‘•but all It is, is a small bow and a piece of feather." “It Isn’t the size of the hat that counts,” says Blvou Earp, reproachfully. "Well, what Is It that counts?" 1 asks Si, exasperated. “I’ll tell you what it )i counts,” says Doc. “It’s the lift that a new hat gives to any woman. It sort of picks up their spirits .. . boosts morale. Little things can do that. Like me lower in your buttonhole,” he says to Silas, “or that glass of jeer that you’re enjoying." From where I sit. Doe has given os a mighty good deflnl* don of morale. Important Uttlo things. A flower In your button* lole ... a kind word from a stranger ... a mellow glass of tseer with friends. Little things especially Important In these lays of strain. * O 1944, BREWING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, North Carolina Committaa Edgar H. Bain, Stala Director, 609 607 laeuraaca Bldg., Raleigh, N. C Ability and Responsibility XX7HEN a particularly tough and important job cornea * ’ along, it usually lands in the lap of someone who ia already doing a lot of other jobs well. People like this—who are used to getting results—aren’t too plentiful. They need to have both ability and a sense of responsibility. One alone won’t do—for ability can sometime* be misdirected, and a sense of responsibility without ability can lead to troublesome meddling. It’s men with this combination of talents who have been carrying a heavy load on the home front these past few years. On the farm and in industry they’ve been meeting—and solving—the difficult wartime problems of production. After the war is won, somebody must shoulder the equally big job of getting this nation back into peacetime production* of laying the groundwork for the better and more prosperous America we all want. This is a challenge, and an opportunity, for the producers of America—for the men and women who have a sense of responsibility and have shown their ability to get things done. General Electric Co., Schenectady. N. T, Hmt Hm Gwi.nl Ebctric ndfe fan—. "Ik. <4 AI-sM OxlMn" 10 P.W. IWT.NSC—"TK. WwU TtSay" awn, my mUii «.4I m. iWT,CM, »UY WAR BONDS GENERAL § ELECTRIC
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