THE EAGLE
Published Every Thursday in the interest of Cherryville
and surrounding Community.
Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 16th, 1906,
la the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of
Congress March 3rd, 1879.^_
PEED K. HOUSER_Editor and Publisher
MRS. CREOLA HOUSER
(Local and Society Editor)
Telephones Office, 2101 — Resilence, 2601
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Payable in Advance
One year _$1.60
Six months -
Four months_ «60
Three months
Hat'enel AdveMiiln# «*pre»enionv»
American Press Association
New York • Chicooo ■ Detroit • Pliilodelohin
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1944
WOMEN EXCEED MEN VOTERS
For the first time in history, the women’s vote is apt to be
greater than the men’s vote in the 1944 election. In 1940, ac
cording to the bureau of census, 360,000 more men than women
voted. In 1944 it is estimated the women's vote will exceed the
male vote by at least 600,000. This is based on population fi
gures and assumes that all soldiers will vote, which is of course
not the case. So it is probable that the female vote will be
even more important than these figures indicate.
There are many women in our country who never have
taken advantage of their right to vote. Is past elections the
percentage of total women voters going to the polls is from
10 to 16% less than the men who use their voting privilege.
But this year, because of the great interest in the war
among women, and because of the unusual importance of the
election, it is expected that women will go to the polls in great
er number than ever before. The next President will owe his
election to the women voters.
TARGET SHORTAGE
One of the most popular war production shortages is the
one recently announced by the navy department—a great
shortage of targets for U. S. submarines in the Pacific. Be
cause of the lack of Japanese ships to shoot at, the navy has
ordered a cutback in the production of torpedoes.
We hope to hear of an increasing number of shoitages of
this kind. We are looking forward to an announcei.uni of a
curtailment of anti-aircraft guns because of a seriou ri.-.rtage
of German planes, a decrease in the need for anu-iank guns
because of a shortage of German tanks and a dec ea.-j in the
need for parachutes because of a scarcity of plans which re
main to be invaded.
And most of all we are looking forward to the coming
shortage of targets for our infantry—a shortage of Nazi resis
tance and the clearing of the road to Berlin.
THE FOUNDATION FOR PEACE
Emphasizing that international trade is not an end in itself,
but is a means to the primary goal of “steady employment at
remunerative work yielding high living standards,” the Advis
ory Committee of the Committee on International Economic
Policy, composed of leaders in American business, industry,
education, religion and other groups, lays down some principles
designed to constitute a framework for the United Nations,
within which international trade can thrive. It says:
“The great expansion of world trade in the latter half of the
19th century was made possible by the extension of a network
of Treaties of Commerce and Navigation which may be said to
have constituted an accepted code of international commercial
law. They specifically defined the rights of aliens engaged in
peaceful commerce and assured to foreign traders parity of sta
tus with the nationals of each contracting party.
“In the period of aggressive ecnomic nationalism which
.preceded the outbreak of this war, many longstanding Treaties
of Commerce and Navigation had been replaced by short-term
agreements. The result was that national governments obtain
ed discretionary powers over the status of aline traders, and
dictatorial governments made the administration of law a mat
ter of arbitrary interpretation. The aline trader in practice
found that he had lost whatever rights he may have thought
remained to him under international as well as national law.
What is needed now is a single international Convention which
shall incorporate the general principle that aline traders shall
be entitled to receive the same treatment as is secured to citi
zens by their own country.”
Every American must take an interest in these matters
from now on.
1 SHORTAGE OR PLENTY
Government agencies have conducted consumer surveys
'<1 which bear out the general belief that at the end of the war
Vj American consumers will be in the market for every luxury
M and necessity in the book. Alarm clocks and garbage cans,
' * carpet sweepers and teakettles,. lawn mowers and frying pans
v* are but a few of the common articles needed. And it is pre
dieted that demand for refrigerators, automobiles, new homes
and even yachts will be insatiable.
If these surveys prove correct, the next job will be to fill
'the demand. Weather that can be done will depend upon the
' ability of American manufacturers and retailers to produce the
goods and distribute them at prices the people can pay. War
wages and material costs must be met and overcome, if possi
-? ble, by unprecedented operating efficiency.
* 1 Before the war free competitive markets pushed efficiency
•f up and prices down—and industry and labor prospered on a
sound basis. The simple truth is that after the war the coun
ts try must return to that system or suffer cronic shortages and
;* a regulated existence.
ftTJV MORE WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
i
Holiday Hint
ACY- /
,IT'r ABOUT TIME
'YOU GLEAMED
Those- Shoes !
«■ I
t7ii» lit
TOWN and FARM
* in WARTIME C i
toparadfcy OMICI OP WAS INFORMATION
REMINDERS
MEATS, FATS—Red Stamps
A8 through Z8 and A5 through
D6, good indefinitely.
PROCESSED' FOODS — Blue
Stamps A8 through Z8 and A5
through F5, good indefinitely.
Blue Stamps G5 through L5 be
come good September 1 and re
main good indefinitely.
SUGAR—Sugar Stamps 80, 31
and 32, each good for five pounds
j after September 1 and remains
good 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 States outside
the East Coast Area, A-12 cou
pons, good through September
21.
FUEL OIL—Period 4 and cou
pons, good through September
30. New Period 1 coupons now
good.
SHOES—Airplane Stamps 1
and 2, good indefinitely.
Milliom Trained For War Job*
During the past four years,
more than 13,300,000 men and
women enrolled in organized
training programs for war jobs,
Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the
War Manpower Commission re
ports. The training was pro
vided by agencies cooperating
with the WMC Bureau of Train
ing. Of this vast group, the
Food Production War Training
program, conducted through vo
cational agriculture schools had
3,035,566 enrollments. The Engi
neering, Science and Management
War Training program, given in
selected colleges, had 1,558,123
enrollments. The Training Within
Industry program enrolled 1,
375,767 supervisors who, in turn,
provided instruction for millions
of war plant workers. The Na
tional Youth Administration,
which is no longer in existence,
provided training for 772,756 per
sons, during 1942 and 1943 fis
cal years.
Veteran* Learn of Right*,
Benefits
Every veteran, upon being dis
charged, will receive a booklet
entitled “Your Rights and Bene
fits. a Handy Guide for Veterans
of the Armed Forces and Then
Dependents.” The. booklet wa
prepared by the ki.*:a,ning an i
Reemployment Admirvstration of
the Office of War Mobilization.
Nearly 2,500,000 copies of the
booklet are now available. ‘ Ve;
erans who have already been dia
charged will be able to obtain
copies from draft boutds, offi-.es
if Veterans Administration, l;S
ES or community veterans’ infoi
mation centers.
Ltiii Itsis Food Deliveries Drop
Meat, dairy and pouk-j pro
Hucts heao the list of fo ids for
the Allies, in the War Food Ad
ministration’s report of July de
liveries for shipment under lend
lease. These deliveries totaled
522,861,964 pounds compared
with 658,116.418 pounds in June
bnd 1,231,844,856 pounds in
July of last year. Exactly 187,
494,485 pounds of the July de
liveries consisted of meat pro
ducts, principally cured and froz
en pork, canned meat and lard.
More than 100,000,000 pounds
consisted of dairy and poultry
products, principally evaporated
milk, cheese and dried eggs.
Grain products totaled 80,984,
580 pounds; fruits and vegeta
bles, 38,537,436 pounds; fats and
oils, 38,260,249 pounds; sugar,
84,319,947 pounds; cotton and
fiber, 10,967,056 pounds; tobac
co, 9:18,439 pounds.
Cost of Living Remains Stable
The cost of living has risen
six tenths of one per cent in re
tail prices of essential commodi
ties, Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins reports. The figure is for
the month ended July 15, most
recent for which data are availa
ble. During the last year, Secre
retary Perkins added, average
prices of family living essentials
have risen 1.8 per cent, as com
pared with advances of 6 per
cent and 11 per cent in the yeais
ended July 1943 and July 1942.
Higher prices for fresh fruits and
vegetables were noted. Prices for
potatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach
and onions were up in July, but
there were large decreases for
cabbage, lettuce, and green beans.
Now You Can Draw a Bead on ’Em
If you have a few moments to
spare, you may begin to oil up
the family flintlock. WPB has
taken cognizance of the fact that
animals and birds are causing
widespread destruction to crops
and livestock all over the coun
try. The ban on the sale of am
munition to hunters will be re
moved temporarily in the near
future. Available for nimrods
will be 240 million rim fire car
tridges, 8 million center fire car
tridges, 8 million center fire car
tridges and 130 million shotgun
shells. Wolves, coyotes, foxes,
weasels, wild ducks, crows and
pheasants should not be told of
this regulation. Happy hunting.
Go-to-School Campaign Progresses
More than 40 national organi
zations — educational, economic,
social and civic—are supporting
the campaign to get employed
high school pupils back to the
classrooms next month. In 30
States especially organized cam
paigns are under way. Greatest
stress is being placed on the im
portance of having a well-edu
cated citizenry in the post-war
era and the hundreds of thous
ands of high school boys and
girls who have gone to work are
being advised by veterans and
others of the importance of pre
paring for the new era. In a joint
statement, Katharine F. Lenroot,
chief of the Children’s Bureau of
the U. S. Department of Labor,
and John W. Studebakei, U. S.
Commissioner of Education, said,
“Throughout the campaign we
are stressing the importance of
developing well supervised school
and-work programs in those com
munities where the labor supply
is tight and where the work of
young people is both needed and
Hpsirahle.''
New Ceiling Pricei on Brides?
Now life has no more surprises:
In Durban, South Africa, a man
was able to get himself a wife
by paying- her dad $88 in hard
ca^h plus seven cows. So what?
So, into the office of the Price
Controller there appeared a man
who protested that his prospec
tive father-in-law had jacked up
the price to $128 in hard cash.
The f-i-1 explained that increased
cost of living made it necessary
for him to boost his price. The
Controller allowed as how the
problem was beyond his province.
But, says Canada’s Wartime In
formation Board which reported
the incident, it proves that even
this primitive man could see the
solid common sense and useful
ness of price control.
Anzaca Meet U. S. Men’* Food
Australia and New Zealand
have supplied American forces in
me rucuic uaiuc iwnc Willi
000,000 pounds of meat, 34,000,
000 dozen eggs, 175,000,000 10s.
of fresh fruit and vegetables,
27.000. 000 pounds of butter and
55.000. 000 pounds of sugar up
to the beginning of this year, the
Commonwealth Food Control an
nounces.
Norwegian Laborer*
Undernourished
The food ration for Norwe
gians working in Nazi slave la
bor camps is so small the work
ers must have food sent to them
from their nomes, the Swedish
newspaper Stockholms-Tidn ingen
says in an article reported to
OWI. Attempts to get Norwegians
to sign up for ‘‘harvest work”
failed because all knew that
meant working on military forti
fications. Not one person signed
Army Can Field 50,000 Eall
The Army purchases annu
ally enough baseball equipment to
outfit 50,000 baseball teams and
100,000 softball teams; Lhe Na
y enough for more than 11,000
nd 22.000 respectively, OWI re
ports. The Army and Navy buy I
up about 00 per cent of all sports |
and game equipment produced in
the United States and, as a con
sequence, civilians can expect lit
tle or no increase for the present
in the amount left over for their
use. Last year the services bought
sports and game paraphernalia,
devoted to the use of enlisted
men, costing $38,000,000. Even
so, total new supplies represent
approximately one baseball glove
for every 17 men in the Army and
for every 28 in the Navy.
Ceilings Restored on Fiddles
That ancient fiddle which grand,
pa, bought and which you have
been hoping all along may prove
to be a Stradivarius has come a -
gain under price ceilings—if the
instrument is definitely worth
more than $100. (If its a Strad,
it’s worth thousands 1) At anv
rate, OPA announces that among
the several additional commodi
ties which have been brought un
der the maximum price regula
tion for used consumers’ goods
must be included violins, violas,
violincellos and string basses that
are more than 25 years old and
of a kind that sold new for more
than $100 at retail ‘‘This is
done,” OPA says, “because these
instruments appreciate rather
than depreciate in value after a
period of time and pricing for
mulas made for other types of
used goods do not result in fair
prices when applied to these in
struments.” Might be well to hold
on to the old fiddle, at that.
Round-Up
Wfd announces: I he total
value of farm machinery pro
duced (luring July 1944 was $73,
595,553, a figure which is 61.2
per cent higher than the monthly
average during the 12 preceding
months . . . Manufacturers of
corn pickers and hinders were
urged to speed up their produc
tion during August and Septem
ber so that corn growers will have
this machinery for the fall har
vesting season . . . American coal
mining machinery sent to Britain
is helping to raise the rate of
production of “strip" coal from
the current 10,000,000 tons a
year to 18,000,0000 or 20,000,
000 tons . . . Lumber stocks at
sawmills and concentration yards
totaled 4,118,083,000 board feet
at the end of the second quarter,
1944, the lowest figure since De
cember 1941 . . . Exactly 16,000
electric hair clippers will soon be
mude and the tinished shippers
will go to the armed services.
OPA summarizes: Chester Bow
les, Administrator, says, “Each of
us, each Government agency, each
industry, each labor union, each
group of farmers—and each in
dividual community—\vill have a
share in this enormous (reconver
sion) task . . . Since April 1943,
When the hold-the-line program
was issued, rents and retail pric
es for cost of living items have
been generally stabilized-show
ing a rise of less than 2 per cent
. . . I believe that full credit for
cost-of-living stabilization must
be shared with our farmers, work
ers and our industrial managers.
0
*HOW TO WM FRIENDS
Author of
INFLUENCE PEOPir
DO NOT CONTRADICT ABRUPTLY
Last night, after I crawled into bed, I learned some
thing all over again that I already knew'. And that was
about contradicting people. I learned it once more from
Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. And 1 want to urge
you to take a dip into that great book at least twice a year.
In his youth, Franklin liked to tell people where they
got off; to set them straight; to show them where they
w'ere wrong. He knew far more than the average man.
and when anyone made a misstatement, or kicked tacts
around, Ben wanted to tap him on the shoulder and say.
“Not a word of that is true. Now' listen and I’ll tell you
the facts.”
But after a time he discovered that people didn’t want
to be contradicted. Naturally they don’t. What you’ve
just said is precious to you and you don’t want to see it
shot as full of holes as if it were a descending Herman
parachute
Ben Franklin learned that if he wished to challenge an
opinion, he should wait awhile. And even then should
proceed with extreme caution. Here it is in his own
words;
“I learned to say that in certain cases, or circumstances,
his opinion would be right, but that in the present case
there appeared, or seemed to me, some difference. 1
soon found the advantage of this change in my manner;
the conversations I engaged in went on more smoothly.
The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procur
ed them a readier reception and less contradiction; I
had less mortification when I was found to be in the
wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up
their mistakes and join me when I happend to be right.”
He says this wasn’t easy for him at first, but that after
a time it became natural for him and then he says that
for fifty years no one heard a flat contradiction from
him! Think of that. This person w'ho, as a young man, was
always contradicting people.
In fact, he became such an adept in handling and work
ing w'ith people that he was appointed “minister plenipo
tentiary” to France. And there he won the French over
to his way of thinking by the same general policy that he
had learned when he was a young man—do not contradict
abruptly; and when you do contradict, or present the oth
er side of a question, do so with humility, using such
phrases as “it seems to me,” or, “I believe this to be. a fair
presentation of the facts.”
This is an exceedingly good idea for all who have to
work with others. Listen to what another has to say, al
though you know he is absolutely wrong. Then after a
time, at the first propitious moment, say that you can see
a great deal of truth in what he has said, but also there
would seem to be other facts which should be weighed. Do
this and you too will become something of a diplomat.
Washington, D. C. (NWNS)—
The first chapter of the history
of the postwar world is now be
ing planned at the four-power
conference being,held at Dumbar
ton Oaks, .'12-room mansion in
the outskirts of this city. The
purpose of the conference, which
will probably last for several
weeks, is to lay the groundwork
for the international enforce
ment of peace and to consider
the practicality of plans already
suggested for the relationship be
tween countries in the future.
The conference is being at
tended by representatives of the
four leading powers, tne Dinted
States, Great Britain, Russia and
China. Each of these countries has
ocered outline plans for a post
war world and, although there
is considerable disagreement a
bout details, the basic aims of all
of the plans are astonishingly sim
ilar.
It is not expected t,hat any
complete plans will come out of
this conference, since it is pre
liminary to conferences which
will be held with other nations
in the near future. It is expected
lltat ia definite., wroking plan
may be evolved at the later meet
ing which will he attended by
representatives of 30 or mote
nations.
Cure will be taken at the pre
sent conference to avoid any indi
cation, as suggested by Thomas
Dewey, that the four powers rep
resented intend to work out a
plan for world domination. Mr.
Dewey charged that in some of
Jt’he pnoposals offered by na
tions attending the conference
there appears to be “a cynical
indention that the four great Al
lied powers shall continue for all
♦line to dominate the world by
foice and through individual a
greements as to spheres of influ
ence.
" * lie fact that we four ” said
Mr. ttewey, “have developed ov
erwnelniing power as against our
en..'ii ies does not give us the right
♦ o iiganize ttie world so that we
fout shall always be ft>-c- to do
what we please, wlii»e the rest
of .he world is made subject to
our coercion. That would be
the rankest form of imperialism
Such a proposal would b> reject
ed by the American people.”
Replying to Mr. Dewey, Secre
tary df State Hull saiu, before
the conferences began, that Mr.
Dewey’s fears were “utterly and
completely unfounded,” "No ar
rangement,” said Mr. Hull, “which
would involve a military alliance
of the four major nations is
contemplated by this govron
ment, or, as far as we know,
by any of the other governments.”
Although Mr. Hull indicated the
present conferences were of an
entirely preliminary nature,
Chairman Tom Connally of tne
senate foreign relations commit
tee said that more conferences
will follow in which definite plans
will be agred upon. “We aim,”
said Senator Connally, “to have
a league of nations that’s a go
ing concern before the end of
the war.”
Congress is expected soon to
he asked to approve a plan, work
ed out by the President, for 'he
orderly discharge of the men ill
the armed forces when the war
ends. The President's plan is said
to be based on priority point
system whereby tne. men in tiie
armed forces would be given
points for the time they have
been in service, for foreign ser
vice, for the engagements in
which they have participated, etc.
Those with the most points would
he discharged first and replaced,
if necessary, by younger nun
more recently drafted. The Pres
ident’s suggestions may include
a compulsory military service law
to be enacted in time to enlist
younger men for the armies of
occupation which will be needed.
BUY BONDS